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Kentucky football falls in opener at Auburn after series of late mistakes
If Kentucky is to become a legitimate SEC East contender this season, there is work to be done.
The Wildcats kept things close against Auburn for three quarters before the Tigers scored 14 points in the fourth quarter for a 29-13 win.
Kentucky appeared on the verge of taking the lead just before halftime when sophomore running back Chris Rodriguez pushed the pile into the end zone on a goal line carry, but officials ruled him short of the goal line and a replay review upheld the call despite replays appearing to show most of Rodriguez’s body in the end zone.
Two plays later, UK quarterback Terry Wilson threw an interception on the goal line to keep the score at 8-7.
A Wilson fumble on Kentucky’s first drive of the fourth quarter set up an Auburn touchdown drive for a 22-13 lead. On the next drive, 2019 Ray Guy Award winner Max Duffy was stopped well short on a fake punt attempt. Two plays later, Auburn quarterback Bo Nix threw his third touchdown of the game to put the score out of reach.
Freshman wide receiver DeMarcus Harris lost another fumble with UK driving for a late touchdown that could have set up an onside kick attempt in the final minutes.
Here are three takeaways from Kentucky’s season-opening loss.
Terry Wilson rusty as expected
In his return from a season-ending knee injury suffered last September, Wilson started the game strong but at various points throughout the afternoon looked like a quarterback that had not played in more than a year.
He completed 24 of 37 passes for 239 yards and one touchdown while gaining 42 yards on 13 carries, but Wilson made several critical mistakes.
"There’s a lot to build on there," Kentucky coach Mark Stoops said. "There’s a lot he can do better, but I think the turnovers were a big piece of it for him. That’s hard to simulate that in practice."
After the controversial replay, Wilson threw an interception in the end zone that was returned the length of the field for what would have been an Auburn touchdown if not for a targeting penalty during the return discovered on review. When Kentucky had the chance to tie the game at 15 in the third quarter, Wilson threw the ball away on a two-point conversion attempt. His fourth-quarter fumble set up the sequence where Auburn took control of the game.
As Wilson plays more, he can be expected to fix many of the mistakes that could be attributed to rust Saturday. There are no easy games in a 10-game SEC schedule, but back-to-back games against the Mississippi teams could provide a better opportunity for Wilson to find his form.
For now, freshman Beau Allen is the biggest threat to Wilson’s playing time as long as Auburn transfer Joey Gatewood’s status remains uncertain. UK is still awaiting a ruling from the SEC on whether Gatewood can play this season.
Finishing a problem
Each of Kentucky’s first four drives reached Auburn territory, but only one resulted in points. UK had four drives of at least nine plays that did not result in points.
Yes, the drive that reached the goal line at the end of the first half probably should have resulted in a touchdown if not for a missed call by the officials, but Kentucky still had two more plays after Chris Rodriguez was incorrectly ruled out of the end zone to score and came away with no points.
Red-zone struggles were frequent topic of conversation for the offense in preseason practice. Nothing from the opener alleviated concerns about an inability to finish drives.
Wilson shaking off rust should help in the coming weeks, but if Kentucky is to make a serious challenge for the SEC East it cannot leave as many points on the board as it did at Auburn.
As for the fake punt that essentially ended Kentucky's chances of a comeback, Stoops said the call for Duffy to read whether or not to scramble for a first down had been made on the previous drive that ended in Wilson's fumble. A miscommunication among the coaches led to Duffy believing he was still supposed to make the read on the next drive despite Stoops wanting to punt down 9.
"That’s not on Max," Stoops said. "That’s on me, that’s on us. ... I shouldn’t put that on Max. That’s my fault. I got to take that off with my special teams coach prior to Max going out there, take that read off of him."
Auburn shows what Kentucky is still missing
Any team in the country could use a wide receiver the caliber of Auburn’s Seth Williams, but his domination of a strong Kentucky defense pounds home what is still missing from this UK roster.
Williams, listed at 6-foot-3, 211 pounds on Auburn's roster, caught six passes for 112 yards and two touchdowns. His fourth quarter touchdown over tight coverage from Kentucky cornerback Kelvin Joseph was the type of jump ball play offenses with an elite receiver can depend on.
"They have a wide out that’s an absolute monster," Stoops said. "He’s hard to matchup with, and what they do. It’s hard in certain situations it’s hard to double him. ... Made two incredible catches. I think there’s critical plays, critical moments, and then there’s some great individual efforts as well. You have to credit them on that one and certainly Seth.”
It is a similar weapon to what Ahmad Wagner brought to the UK offense a year ago, but none of UK’s young receivers have emerged as a consistent downfield threat as of yet.
Perhaps sophomore Bryce Oliver, who was did not make the trip due to undisclosed reasons, will be that player when he returns to the field. Former Louisville Male star Izayah Cummings, who made his debut at Auburn, has the size to develop into that player but needs time.
Senior Josh Ali is clearly Kentucky’s top receiver, but he lacks the size to make the type of jump ball catches Williams did Saturday. Finding someone who can provide that safety net to Wilson is essential for the passing game to reach its potential.


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Lot 8072. A massive archaistic yellow jadeite vase, Late Qing-Republic period. Estimate US$ 30,000 - 50,000 (€27,000 - 45,000). Photo: Bonhams.
The heavily carved vase of flattened baluster form, crisply decorated on each wider side with a taotie mask flanked by stylized bird heads and all above pendent lappets incised with key-fret, one side further embellished with two chilong carved in high relief clambering around the neck and shoulder of the vase and highlighted with exceptionally vibrant apple-green inclusions, the neck with further archaistic scrolls and two mythical beast heads suspending loose-rings, all polished to a high gleam, wood cover and stand. 11 7/8in (30.1cm) high
Provenance: The Joanna Lau Sullivan Trust
Bonhams. CHINESE WORKS OF ART, 11:00 EDT - NEW YORK

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Bill Walker was a black actor best remembered for his role as Reverend Sykes in the 1962 film To Kill a Mockingbird.
At the start of his acting career in 1946 he was relegated to roles as domestic servants.
When elected to the Board of Directors of the Screen Actors Guild in 1952, he and Guild president Ronald Reagan reported on Hollywood's bias.
No significant improvement occurred, so Walker continued to lobby.
He joined with the NAACP in 1963 to add a non-discrimination clause to the Guild's theatrical agreement.
In 1972 the Guild formed the Ethnic Minorities Committee and Walker became a founding board member.
Learn more about Bill Walker in his papers at UW's American Heritage Center.

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Quincy dishes a brand new song which he calls “Asa”.
Quincy is one rapper who knows how to get the blood pumping with his lyrical flow and style. The indigenous hip hop star always thrills each time time he comes through with a brand new song.
He’s out now with a new stunner, one which he calls “Asa”. According to him, the song is taken off his soon to come project “Weekend Muzik”. The new offering does it for us, and the rapper is stunning on it.
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Everybody’s been listening to it and trance and house DJ’s have been dropping their tracks in sets for years now but surprisingly it has taken promoters a long, long time to catch on and finally book some of these progressive trance artists to perform in South Africa. It’s no secret that the Cape Town outdoor party scene has been dominated by full-on, balls-to-the-wall psytrance whilst clubs like ESP in Joburg have favoured the club trance and house sounds of Europe.
But as the old cliché goes ‘you can’t keep a good man (or woman) down’ so likewise, good dance music is good dance music; you can’t ignore it forever. Thus in something of a watershed year for the progressive trance and psy-tech movement, suddenly we’re being spoilt with a whole bunch of quality artists scheduled to rock our shores this party season, both in Joburg and in Cape Town.
Two such artists are Audiomatic who will be performing here in December – Cape Town and Joburg gigs – and Symphonix who is booked alongside Neelix for mid-January in Cape Town.
Benjamin Halfmann aka Audiomatic has been around since the first wave of progressive trance producers back in 1999 and this laid the foundation for what has proven to be a successful career as both DJ and producer. Here’s his story…
As someone who has been involved in the progressive trance scene for many, many years, what pleases you most about where it is today?
It’s great to see how established it’s become in so many countries all around the world. Even better, it has become a huge international network with so many people traveling and being connected. Today the biggest events have a very professional organizational standard and tens of thousands of visitors but still there are so many underground parties, as well.
So you don’t miss the ‘good old days?’
Honestly, I do not miss anything – I’m thinking forward rather than backward!
You started DJ’ing in 1999. This was when the progressive trance sound first started to develop – did you always DJ prog-trance?
I was enthusiastic about Progressive from the very beginning, so when I started DJ’ing, I played this kind of sound. It was the time of the first big Progressive avalanche in Germany, so it was acts like Atmos, Intact Instinct, Noma and Haldolium that had a strong impact on me.
You were telling me you produced your entire first album, ‘Multiplayer’, on Fruity Loops. How would you say your sound has changed from those first releases to where you are today?
In 2006 I eventually switched to Cubase and there have been several quantum leaps with regard to the technological possibilities. Today a song is made up of way more audio tracks. I can also use more VST instruments and effects than back then. In this way, my sound has become richer and even more melodic. Also, when I started producing, I did not have any idea about music theory or audio engineering but have since gained a lot of experience in these fields and of course this is very noticeable in the music, I feel.
Since you grew up on Heavy Metal and AC/DC one would think you’d be making dark psy or at least much harder music…
For me, it just feels like there is more space for the single sounds in music below 140 IDM. In fact, I’ve become interested in music much slower than Trance. At home, I listen to a lot of Progressive & Tech House at the moment. I’ve also started a side project for this kind of music, using my actual name.
With Germany so strong on the progressive side of trance music, what do you think of all the Israeli artists (normally better known for full on trance) such as Ace Ventura, Rocky etc.?
I think it’s very good that these guys have forged their own sound. Some years ago, there used to only be the German and the Scandinavian Progressive style. Today, there is much more variation! I think Serbia and Greece have also developed their own Progressive sound, as well.
Which producer before 2001 do you wish was still making trance music?
Intact Instinct! I was definitely influenced by the music these guys produced back then. I would really love to hear a modern Progressive track from them.
And new breed producers that impress you?
Phaxe & Interactive Noise! Phaxe has a knack for melodies and I like the way he includes elements of House and Techno in his tracks. Interactive Noise is less melodic, but he really knows how to combine elements of different genres, like Progressive, House, Techno and Electro.
Which one trance track of all time do you wish you had written?
The very first Progressive track that became a giant hit and a great influence for many producers: Atmos – Klein Aber Doktor!
What’s your favourite Audiomatic track of all time?
At the moment, I would say Windows of Our Soul from my recent album Weekend Society. I think it’s a very emotional track. Also, I used my own voice in a track for the very first time, that’s still very special for me.
Brothers Sirko and Stephan have been DJ’ing progressive beats since the formative days of this music style. They’ve also paid their dues throwing many events, the most notable of which is the Tshitraka Project Open Air festival, which they sadly had to discontinue once their artist careers took off. Dedicated disciples of progressive trance since the beginning theirs is a sound that remains true to the roots of psychedelic progressive. Here’s what they had to say…
You grew up in a town called Schwerin. Sounds like a swear word, what’s it like there?
It’s a sweet little city with heaps of lakes around, quite picturesque and rather quiet. There is a local electronic music scene here with some clubs and regular events around though it is not exactly super popular throughout the country. Still, Schwerin is located right between Hamburg and Berlin – which is to say, the surrounding area turns into a huge adult playground once the festival season is on!
Being brothers did you both discover Trance parties together?
Yes, we started spinning records together in 1998. That brought us to Trance music and that again grew into organizing parties. We actually went to our first trance party in 1999.
As brothers have you ever found yourselves competing with each other since you must spend so much time together?
Surprisingly enough, we have never had serious trouble getting along with each other! Actually we found that we complement each other very well. We might have some differences but we are still on the same vibe.
Symphonix is known for lush sounds, warm melodies and deep grooves. What’s the ideal set time for you at an outdoor party?
Easy question… it is the afternoon at any outdoor party or festival.
Germany has always been at the cutting edge of electronic music, specifically Berlin. What’s the most current sound right now that impresses you?
It is quite an interesting phenomenon that the popular Berlin Techno sound is getting deeper and deeper. That goes for the trippy Minimal stuff as well as for the rather fast and hard big-room Techno music. Subtle melodies and pad sounds can now be heard where there used to only be simple chords before.
Your visit to South Africa will be your first. Have you heard much about our country?
Of course, South Africa is a hot spot on the Trance world map! There is heaps of good music coming from there and we’ve met a lot of Trance travelers from this country during our journeys around the globe. So yes, we are very excited to finally go there!
And lastly… shout outs to anybody?
The Usual Suspects are heading to South Africa to prostitute the Wild Life!
Where to catch them live in South Africa this summer:
JHB: Thurs, 15 December – ESP Nightclub
CPT: Fri, 16 December – Venue TBA
CPT: Sat, 14 January 2012 – Outdoors


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Today, I woke up to the sound of our neighbor’s electric chainsaw as he was cutting an old tree that collapsed after Sandy. We have been seeing a lot of fallen trees in the neighborhood. As I am writing this post, I hear the sound of other chainsaws coming from a distance. I feel lucky that we did not loose a tree or had serious damage to our home.
My morning began with baking a batch of bagels that was actually due on Oct. 15 for TWD. At the time, I was very busy at work and could not spare time for baking. It was time to catch up. I prepped the dough for the bagels yesterday afternoon and kept the dough in the fridge overnight. Preparing the dough was trivial, very much like preparing bread dough. One thing that surprised me was that the recipe called for some black pepper for the dough. This morning, I shaped the dough into ten little chubby rings, boiled them in water for 3-4 minutes and baked them as explained in the book.
To my surprise, the whole operation was rather easy. I used caraway, poppy and sesame seeds, and coarse salt as topping. The bagels are surprisingly chewy and quite delicious with a slight black peppery taste. I think they are at least as good as the ones we get from a little bagel shop we walk to some weekend mornings. David and I enjoyed these bagels for our Sunday breakfast, and I plan to freeze some for later.

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Fri, Jul 28|
2nd Annual Southern Soul Blues Fest
Join us at Ball State University at Emens Auditorium to listen to some great Blues music during Muncie Homecoming Festival
Time & Location
Jul 28, 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Emens Auditorium, 1800 W Riverside Ave, Muncie, IN 47306, USA
About the event
General Admission Tickets $25 VIP gold circle $40 Pre-sale tickets go on sale June 21.
Buy your tickets at the box office or at Ticketmaster!


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Couple elope from Ireland to Glasgow in this romantic and sunny city elopement.
Treasa and Robert have now been officially married for a week now. Congrats guys! We could not have been more honoured or happier to have spent a few hours with you all capturing these photos.
This story goes back a year or so when I captured some maternity photos of Treasa’s twin sister Ciara (have a peek at them here). I was so happy when Treasa got in touch with us through seeing those photos and other city elopements we have captured. We loved being in on the secret wedding, helping with anything and getting involved in the excitement of it all leading up to the day. We also adored catching up with Ciara and Brian again and meeting adorable little Samüéil. I just couldn’t get enough of that smile!
When the wedding day did come around last week we could not believe how lucky we got with the weather as thunderstorms were looming around us and in the forecast BUT we avoided it all.
We met up with Treasa and Ciara at Ciara and Brian’s flat in Dennistoun where I Chantal spent time with the girl getting ready. I adored being able to use the beautiful tenement flat and the stairwell for some pre-ceremony shots and bridal portraits. Nothing quite beats a tenement flat for amazing light and they have so much charm. Once we caught up with the boys at Montrose street for the ceremony and Treasa walked down that aisle to meet Robert it was clear to us right away just how in love they are which never EVER gets old to see and capture. Along with being head over heels in love they are such a happy and fun loving couple. We had such a great time walking around Merchant city and Glasgow Green snapping some shots, including stopping for an ice cream cone.
Enjoy some of our favourite snaps below including a slideshow. If you wish to see more of our past city elopements scroll to the bottom and follow the links.
Would you like to see more city elopements? Follow the links below
Sabina and Sean Elope to Glasgow from Canada
Marcus and Donna’s Secret wedding
Thanks to the amazing Sophie from I Heart Flowers for creating such a beautiful bouquet and button hole

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HARPER’S NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE.
VOLUME XVIII, 1859.
. . . . When Burns was toasted in Washington, in those days when Liberty wore a red cap in France, the commissioners of his Majesty’s realm put him down.
Such matters did not concern an Excise officer; he must stick to his gauging.
But in our year of 1859—a hundred after the day the poet was born—in a palace of glass and iron,
whose magnitude and riches would have startled all the Georges as much as they would have startled
Tiberius or Nero, a poetess, in the hearing of ten thousand applauding people, sings thus of
“The God-made king
Of every living thing.”
(Rather extravagant this; but the reason gives poetic sanction.)
“For his great heart in love could hold them all.”
And then afterward:
“But when begins
The array for battle, and the trumpet blows,
A king must leave the feast, and lead the fight;
And with its mortal foes—
Grim gathering hosts of sorrows and of sins—
Each human soul must close.
And Fame her trumpet blow
Before him; wrapp’d him in her purple state;
And made him mark for all the shafts of fete,
That henceforth round him flew."
—"Must leave the feast, and lead the fight" is good; but did he?
And yet there is sweet, redolent wail in this half-heroic ode of Miss Isa Craig.
You have seen it, of course; but shall we not put down a stanza or two more, were it only to give our tribute to the Scotch
“Though he may yield,
Hard-pressed, and wounded fall
Forsaken on the field;
His regal vestments soil’d;
His crown of half its jewels spoil’d;
He is a king for all.
Had he but stood
Had he arrayed himself in
Against temptation’s darts!
So yearn the good—so those the world calls wise,
With vain, presumptuous hearts
“Of martyr woe
A sacred shadow on his memory
Tears have not ceased to flow;
Indignant grief yet stirs impetuous breasts
To think—above that noble soul brought low,
That wise and soaring spirit fool’d, enslav’d—
Thus, thus he had been saved!
“It might not be!
That heart of harmony
Had been too rudely
Its silver cords, which any hand could wound,
By no hand could be tuned,
Save by the Maker of the instrument;
Its every string who knew,
And from profaning touch His heavenly gift withdrew.
His country fain would prove
By grateful honours lavished on his grave;
Would fain redeem her blame
That he so little at her hands can claim,
Who, unrewarded, gave
To her his life-bought gift of song and fame!"
Who is Isa Craig?
It is not often that fame is achieved at a sitting; and yet the news-writers tell us that the poetess
made up her memorial ode out of an evening’s labour. To speak plainly, we do not believe it.
The poem, though good, has none of that impulsive, illicit outburst which betrays the inspiration of the moment.
It is both too good and too bad for an impromptu. It has the heroic look of
armour that has been polished, and none of the homeliness of those deep but
death-strokes which are made with homely weapons.
Yet Isa Craig, with those who knew her, had reputation before.
She had written and published already a volume of poems—ecce signum:
She sat upon the shore,
And looked defiance from her hundred guns—
When France and England’s warrior sons
Came the blue waters o’er.
‘Twas harvest in the land—
Mid peaceful farms and piled sheaves,
And clustering grapes and autumn leaves,
They leaped upon the strand.
To meet the foe they rushed;
On Alma’s slopes they trod the vine;
Each drank the fiercely mingled wine
From death’s red vintage crushed.
Before her granite walls
They came, and back her proud defiance hurled;
And their proud boast rang through the world—
“Oppression’s strong-hold falls
The storied times of old
With battle and with siege are rife;
But this prolonged, gigantic strife
Mocks all that hath been told.
Immortal fields of fight
Those fiercely leaguered fields surround;
Each spot a bloody battle-ground—
River, and vale, and height.
There is more; but this is enough to show what the Burns poetess had written before.
There was popular rumour that Professor Aytoun would
be a competitor, and that he would win the honour. His friends
deny the impeachment. You know what his Scotch “Lays” are, and
therefore you know his ability. . . .
No. 1942, JAN. 14, 1865.
Duchess Agnes, &c. By Isa Craig. (Strahan.);
A review by Gerald Massey.
WE took occasion to quote a lyric full of suggestive sweetness, by Miss Isa Craig, on the wedding of the Prince.
Miss Craig now presents us with a book of verse which will certainly give her a place among the sisterhood of living singers, whether or not she may win and wear a wreath amongst those who live for aye.
The book contains much better poetry than the Burns Ode, which was considerably strained and flamboyant, and really unnatural to both subject and writer.
Here is a fine image:—
But when begins
The array for battle, and the trumpet blows,
A King must leave the feast, and lead the fight.
And with its mortal foes,—
Grim gathering hosts of sorrows and of sins,—
Each human soul must close.
And Fame her trumpet blow
Before him; wrapped him in her purple state;
And made him mark for all the shafts of Fate,
That henceforth round him flew.
But it is especially inappropriate when applied to Burns. He fell, poor fellow, because he did not make any such noble fight for it!
The exaltation of the image only leaves us more depressed as we think of the sad reality.
Miss Craig fails when she would "have at the sublime"; she succeeds and is often very happy when content with that golden mean which is natural to her.
Her Muse is not a grand lady; has nothing of the heroic about her—that is, the heroic according to the popular ideal.
She is not gorgeous, nor fantastic, nor full of flame, but a homely, hearty little gentlewoman, meek of aspect, simple of speech, gravely glad, serenely bright, full of quiet life and kindly sympathies.
Her poetry is best when most true to these natural qualities. A drama, for instance, was far beyond the great-hearted little woman's reach.
The heart may be big enough to embrace the world and yet the arms too weak to bring home for us a single sheaf of bound-up human characters.
Here is no power for adequately dealing with problems such as have rent humanity as with devils in the dark, and perplexed the subtlest thinkers who stood in the fullest and clearest light;—no stern strength capable of grasping men in mail and feeling the life underneath, wielding the raging mob, mad with ignorance and superstition, or stripping cloak and cowl from wily, plotting priests.
The feminine plea may be urged, that the drama is a very little one.
So it is. And if we were sure the writer had not set her heart upon the
bantling—was not especially proud of it—we might find a word or two in its favour. There is one direct glance of dramatic insight well conveyed in the scene where the
Duchess Agnes, with her heart sinking and her life running away from her at prospect of parting with her
husband,—who leaves her surrounded with perils, can look a look so full of love from out her suddenly-emptied life as shall make the Duke exclaim
Thanks, Agnes, for that look of full consent.
Whereas her heartstrings are cracking to hold him fast, and his going means literal death to her.
Also, there is no lack of felicitous lines that show the genuine poetic touch.
And, with all its weakness, the drama does succeed in holding up, with piteous appeal, the frail form and patient face of the doomed Duchess, as of a lily bowed and broken in the storm.
But, turning to the minor poems, we shall there find Miss Craig doing more justice to herself and her subject.
Here, for example, is a little lilt that suggests a story and makes a music of its own:—
NEVER TO KNOW.
One within in a crimson glow,
One without on the fallen snow,
Never to know
That one looked out with yearning sighs,
While one looked in with wistful eyes,
And went unwitting.
What came of the one without, that so
Under the stars and under the snow
His journey ended!
Never to know
That the answer came to those wistful eyes,
But passed away in those yearning sighs,
With night winds blended.
What came of the one within, that so
Yearned forth with sighing?
More sad, to my thinking, her fate, the glow
Never to know
That for a moment her life was nigh,
And she knew it not and it passed her by,
These were two hearts that long ago—
Dreaming and waking—
Each to a poet revealed its woe,
Wasting and breaking;
Never to know
That if each to other had done but so!
Both had rejoiced in the crimson glow,
And one had not lain 'neath the stars and snow
In the following lyric, entitled 'These Three,' we meet the writer in the happiest vein.
If read once or twice over, the stanzas will, we think, be found to possess a sort of Wordsworthian womanliness, very sweet and pure and
good—a bright, still glimpse of beauty like that of the modest wayside pool, which, in its retired fashion, reflects a little bit of clear, blue
No viewless angels by our side,
With wings, but women sweet and good;
"These Three," indeed, with us abide,
True types of womanhood.
Yea, I, in turn, have reached a hand
To each one of the blessed three,
In one fair group, I've seen them stand—
Faith, Hope, and Charity.
My Faith hath misty hair,—and eyes,
You cannot fix their changing hue,
But all the world within them lies,
And all the soul looks through.
Her voice doth make divinely sweet
Each song of sorrow which she sings,
And saddest wisdom fills replete
With heavenly comfortings.
My Hope is ruddy with the flush
Of morning joy, that keeps its place,
Though day has darkened, and the rush
Of rain is on her face.
Her clear eyes look afar, as bent
On shining futures gathering in;
Nought seems too high for her intent,
Too hard for her to win.
My Love hath eyes as blue and clear
As clefts between the clouds of June,
A tender mouth whose smiles are near
To tears that gather soon.
Her best and loveliest she takes,
To light dark places;—wastes of life
She sows with precious seed that makes
All richest blessings rife.
Faith, when my soul in darkness dwells,
Shall sing her song throughout the night,
For each new effort life compels
Hope's clasp shall nerve with might;
Love shall divide each grief of mine,
Share every joy thus doubly given,
With each in turn life grows divine,
With all it tastes of heaven.
The writer's genius, as we have indicated, is not at all dramatic; yet she has dealt, not unsuccessfully, with one of those misgiving moods of mind which came over Luther in his dark and painful moments, after he had cut himself adrift from the anchorage of Mother Church. We are told that he and his Wife Kate were walking in the garden one night when they noticed the stars shining with great splendour. Singling out one, Luther said,
"What a brilliant light! But it burns not for us."—"And why are we to lie shut out of the kingdom of heaven?" said
Catherine.—"Perhaps," said Luther, sighing, "because we left our convents." This life-passage the writer has rendered with more grip than
MARTIN AND KATE.
O Kate, my Kate, these crooked Hebrew letters
Are wriggling through my
Cramps hold my fingers in their devil's fetters
With crushing grip of pain.
Give me your hand, Kate! Come into the garden,
And sit beneath our vine;
Smoothing the cramp-knots as they twist and harden
With those soft palms of thine.
A flask of wine and my old lute bring hither;
And in the evening calm,
Tasting God's goodness, we will sing together
My own triumphal psalm.
Good is our God! good all his gifts transcending,
And yet this ghastly doubt—
As with the smoke of torment never ending
The stars are blotted out.
O Kate! my Kate! again my soul is sinking
Into the pit of pain;
'Tis writ in mockery—see those star eyes winking—
"God's kingdom doth remain."
Yes, it may be, because our convents quitting,
We vowed, and did not pay,
That in the outer darkness we are sitting,
The heaven-gates closed for aye.
Shall we return? shall they from prison driven
Out into God's free air,
Back, because blinded by the light of Heaven,
Return for refuge there?
God is our trust; His word of truth we cherish
Through doubt and fear and
Down, Satan, down, even though His Word should perish,
"His kingdom doth remain."
poems have the delightful characteristic of brevity—"an excellent thing
in woman," or man either, especially for lyric poetry!
Perhaps the two finest things in the book are a couple of idylls, entitled, respectively, 'Pleasant Place' and 'Brothers.' Both are beautiful; each tells a story clearly, briefly and unaffectedly.
The first has in it some quiet, clever portraiture of two ladies, pleasant in its nature as the poem is in name.
We like also this sketch of the new parson of the Kingsley sort:—
The Sunday Herbert came
And stood among them, in his father's stead,
With a new heavenly message, his mere voice
Went nearer to their souls than any words
With meaning new and strange. But when at length
He named his father, all the people looked
In trouble to Squire Aubrey, where he sat,
And down the squire's red checks the round tears rolled,
And all the congregation wept at this.
The six old women from the almshouse wept,
And then the village mothers, and the girls,
And something—what, they did not seek to know—
Made John and Giles soft-hearted, that they stept
Through the old churchyard, with their thick-nailed shoes,
Lightlier and gentlier at their hearths that night
Stroked down the little heads.
The advent this,
Of one who followed in his Master's steps,
Christ's faithful soldier. But not thus are won
His daily victories; the spirit sword
The breath of some heroic soul may sweep
A space of heaven clear at a single stroke,
And set souls free to conquer; yet again
The powers of darkness rally; and the light
Pours upon eyes that see not, and the voice
Enters the ears that will not understand.
And so they murmured: "In his father's days
We never heard such things. It we were sick
He gave us physic, or mayhap good wine;
Now we are told that if we ache or ail
Tis mostly our own fault. 'Tis blasphemy,
'Tis flying in the face of providence,
To say God sends no sickness save we sin;
And that all illness is a sign of ill,
Of something done against the will of God,
Or left undone that He would have us do.
He tells us too we may escape the sin,
But never can escape the punishment;
His rather preached another God, who said
' Repent and be forgiven.' "
Thus they warped
The message from its meaning, straight and true;
For as the father, so the children lived
In the old forest hamlets, underneath
The cliff that walled the river, underneath
The long dank dripping of the rainy woods.
The houses looked like clusters of white nests,
Hanging mid foliage; but these human nests,
Damp and unwholesome, nursed the serpent pain
To gnaw the bones of age; and poison heaps
Festered without, and when the sun was hot
There you might see, like evil genii rise,
In smoke, fierce fevers, drinking up the blood
Of fathers and of children.
Our plague, " was still their cry, not take away
Our sloth, our ignorance, our unbelief—
Yet Herbert never falters in his work,
Nor ever slackens; grudges no high thought,
Brought down and meanly clad for common use;
Thinks the thought highest which can lowest reach,
To raise the lowest, holds the highest task.
These idylls show power of a real workable kind, such as can put a shoulder to the
wheel—does not merely sigh in song about life, but will give us something of life itself, helpful to all who live, and think, and suffer.
Miss Craig has not surpassed that poem of the two 'Brothers,' with its dreary picture of the desolate chamber of death; the husband sitting all night long beside his dead wife, and the boy watching, at times, from the corner where he
The boy awoke
And saw him sit there; slept, and woke again;
And there he sat and loomed out of the dark
Until he seemed a giant to the child.
The chequered moonlight fell across the floor,
Leaving the death-bed curtained by the dark
And awful mysteries of life and death,
Confused, impenetrable, undefined,
Hovered about the boy, and he would fain
Have called upon his father in the night,
But that he seemed a portion of the dread,
The unappeasable, appealless fate
That held him, and should hold him ever more.
Then he bethought him of his prayer, and said
"Our Father," and so slept until the dawn.
And in the faint dawn he was sitting there,
Who never once had drowsed nor drooped his head
Nor groaned for any anguish of his soul—
But when the morning sun looked in, he rose
With sweat-drops on his forehead.
We have quoted sufficient to prove that Miss Craig's poems are far above the average, and possess such kindly qualities as will carry them home to many who do not live by the sensational alone, but appreciate true feeling, however
shy—beauty, however subdued. Such readers will give the book a place, not with the great masters of song, but with the humbler singers whose
—songs have power to quiet
The restless pulse of care,
And come like the Benediction
That follows after prayer.
21st January, 1865.
DUCHESS AGNES, &c. By Isa Craig,
London: Alexander Strachan. (Pp. 228.)
is a drama in three acts, written very carefully, and displaying
much of quiet thoughtfulness which charcaterises all Miss Craig's
poetry; but it is only dramatic in form, the real life and spirit of
the drama being awanting. The scene is laid in Bavaria, about
the middle of the fifteenth century; but there is no attempt to
represent the manner and fashion of the time or country. Agnes
is the daughter of a barber-surgeon, and enamours Duke Albretch, the
son and heir of the Grand Duke of Bavaria, who marries her.
The superstitious notions of the age ascribe the potent influence of
Agnes over the young Duke to witchcraft, and through the
machinations of her enemies at Court she is at last tried and
executed as a witch. Miss Craig has undoubtedly told the story
with taste and feeling, nor would it be difficult to point out many
passages where the passions of her characters are displayed in
eloquent and even in poetic language. Still we cannot consider
it a success, and we turn from it with pleasure to the numerous
short poems which fill up the greater portion of the handsome little
volume before us. Miss Craig appears to us to be exceedingly
happy in many of these, particularly the very short pieces, where on
thoughtful idea is often expressed in choice and very beautiful
language. Sometimes she slips into depths rather beyond her
reach, and her endeavours to buoy herself up by inflated words are
rather ludicrous; but this is not often, and hardly ever in the
short poems to which we have referred. We give the following
as a fine specimen of Miss Craig's best style:―
A glimpse of the river. It
Through the stems of the beeches;
Through the screen of the willow it shimmers
In long winding reaches;
Flowing so softly that scarcely
It seems to be flowing―
But the reeds of the low little islands
Are bent to its going;
And soft as the breath of a sleeper
Its heaving and sighing,
In the coves where the fleets of the lilies
At anchor are lying.
It looks as if fallen asleep
In the lap of the meadows, and smiling
Like a child in the grass, dreaming deep
Of the flowers and their golden beguiling.
A glimpse of the river! It glooms
Underneath the black arches;
Across it the broad shadow looms,
And the eager crowd marches;
Where, washing the feet of the city,
Strong and swift it is flowing;
On its bosom the ships of the nations
Are coming and going.
Heavy laden, it labours and spends
In a great strain of duty
The power that was gathered and nurst,
In the calm and the beauty.
Like thee, noble river! like thee,
Let our lives, in beginning and ending,
Fair in their gathering be,
And great in the time of their spending.
The lovers of poetry will find many musical and thoughtful stanzas,
equal to the above, in Miss Craig's volume, which we heartily
Pall Mall Gazette
17th August, 1874.
"Songs of Consolation." By Isa Craig Knox (Macmillan and Co.) In
these verses Mrs. Knox reminds us occasionally of Miss Rossetti,
some of whose sacred lyrics are among the most distinctly original
that have appeared in our day. It is one of the most difficult tasks
to give new life in verse to familiar themes. Strong emotion
produces occasionally a striking freshness and even originality of
expression, and this accounts for the fact that several of our best
hymns have been written by men who have no claim whatever to the
title of poets. When this fervid emotion is combined, as in Miss
Rossetti's case, with a fine poetical instinct, the workmanship,
apart from the theme, has an attraction for all lovers of poetry. We
do not think that an interest of that sort will be felt for these
"Songs of Consolation;" but there can be no question that they are
generally very superior to the mass of respectable religious verse.
Few of the pieces can be called in any degree commonplace, and in
some there are traces of genuine feeling expressed in the simplest
and therefore most appropriate language. This is no proof of genius,
but it is evidence of culture and good taste—advantages which are
far too uncommon among versifiers to be passed without comment.


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A few of us on Twitter and Blogaloreans list were discussing about what we can do about this Ram Sene issue and an idea struck us, in order to challenge the various threats from Mr. Muthalik and Ram Sene what we should do is dare him. He threatened us against celebrating valentines day, we want to challenge him by having a mass valentine’s day celebration.
An actual event started taking shape since then. A Free Hug campaign on 14th Feb 2009 in Bangalore. We would be out in groups offering free hugs to the people of Bangalore, carrying placards like, ‘Happy Valentines Day, I love you, Hug me, ‘Public Display of violence is not part of Indian culture’ etc. (The more and the more creative ones, the merrier) Exact venue and time not yet fixed but we’ll keep you posted.
My appeal is to all the girls, women, moms, grand moms, sisters, daughters, girl friends and wives alike to join us in this campaign. (Pardon me for making this appeal to girls only, but I trust that men would certainly be there in support of this)
We have to understand that looking at the present state of affairs, we cannot afford to be scared of hooliganism and sit at home. I am not saying we have no reasons to fear, of course we have, because the situation is indeed very scary and hopeless. Multiple incidents of violence have taken place thereby terrorizing women not just in Karnataka but all over India, yet no one has been punished. Clearly, Ram Sene is just an ice berg we see and we can only shudder for a moment at the thought of what might possibly be lying under.
But it is upon us women to face the fear. Sure the State need to act, sure mindsets need to be changed and culprits need to be brought to justice but before we ask for all that let us ask ourselves what are we doing to assert our rights? A very old saying goes, “God helps them who help themselves.”
It is high time we take things head on with these attackers, look straight in their eyes, dare them and stand unshaken when attacked instead of running away in fear. Unless we stand up for ourselves no one would help us. So let us be out there giving a strong message that no one can threaten us and snatch away our rights. We will fight it out till whatever it takes.
- If you are a woman who feels sympathetic towards the Mangalore pub incident victim, join the free hug campaign to break the gender barrier which some undemocratic people are trying to enforce.
- If you are in a relationship, and intend to celebrate Valentines Day, come celebrate it with us to make the statement that you are not scared of a few hooligans.
Let us do or die.
For details keep following this space or write to me, samyukta[dot]basu[@]gmail[dot]com

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Chris Scott, chief meteorologist at the Weather Network, says he is expecting widespread warm weather this summer for most of Canada with near-normal or above-normal temperatures.
However, Scott said the country is not expected to see the extreme levels of heat that it did a year ago. Instead, he anticipates the combination of heat and humidity paired with an active jet stream pattern will result in stormy periods across the country.
In southern and eastern Ontario, multiple heat waves are on the horizon, excluding the northwestern region of the province. That heat will be felt in Toronto, London and Ottawa.
At times, Scott said cooler periods will lower the temperature and offer periods of relief from the heat. With a mix of heat, humidity and several cold fronts spanning the region, the Weather Network is expecting a stormy summer in Ontario.
These storms are anticipated to range when it comes to rainfall totals with many areas forecasted to experience above average precipitation. Meanwhile, Scott said some nearby places could remain entirely dry.
“Overall, though, we expect a favourable season for agriculture and numerous sunny days for enjoying outdoor activities,” he said.
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Max New York Life Insurance has reported a twelve-fold jump in net profit at Rs283 crore for the 2010-11 fiscal from Rs24 crore in the year-ago period
Private insurer Max New York Life Insurance has reported a twelve-fold jump in net profit at Rs283 crore for the 2010-11 fiscal from Rs24 crore in the year-ago period.
"In spite of significant challenges in the market, we responded extremely well and demonstrated superior all-round performance... While Max New York Life recorded 20 per cent growth in gross revenue, profit increased 12 times," the company CEO and managing director, Mr Rajesh Sud, said in a release today.
"We also performed well on other parameters like sum assured increasing 26 per cent and assets under management crossing the Rs13,800 crore mark, recording a growth of 37%," he added.
In addition, the company's total revenue for FY 2010-11 grew almost 20% to Rs5,812 crore, with new business premium collections increasing 11% to Rs2,061 crore and renewal premium recording a growth of 25% to Rs3,751 crore.
Max New York Life Insurance is a joint venture between Max India and New York Life International, the international arm of New York Life, a Fortune 100 company.

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VARIOUS groups on Friday, October 25, led by the Ayala Multi-Purpose Cooperative (Ayala Coop) kicked off “Be Juan Para Sa Kalusugan” which seeks to provide nutritious fortified meals for hundreds of children across Pampanga and Bataan.
Ayala Coop and Ayala Foundation partnered with Laus Group of Companies, Levy P. Laus Foundation, Inc. Corporate Guarantee, MTL Foods, Victory Liner and Rise Against Hunger Philippines for the meal packing activity participated in by hundreds of volunteers at the LausGroup Event Centre in the City of San Fernando.
The whole day volunteerism event aims to pack scientifically fortified rice with soy, dehydrated vegetables and other nutritious ingredients in 7,560 sealed pouches designed to feed 490 grades three to six children from seven barangays in the second district of Pampanga and 300 school kids from Bagac Elementary School in Bataan.
The health status of the beneficiaries will be monitored with the help of Rise Against Hunger Philippines, which will supervise the feeding program together with school partners.
Ayala Coop vice chairman and Ayala Foundation president Ruel Maranan said that “Be Juan Para Sa Kalusugan” signifies the groups recognition of an important concern in the country, which is health and nutrition.
“Investing in nutrition is one way of investing in our people and their future,” he said.
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Farming will have to embark on rapid and deep change over the next few decades. Rod Oram looks into the options and challenges facing the food production sector.
All the big opportunities, threats and challenges for New Zealand farmers were investigated at a protein conference in Auckland this week. While analysis and views varied widely among the 200 delegates, five broad themes emerged. They begin to point to a better future for farmers in economic, environmental and social terms.
First, food and farming must evolve massively to deliver big increases in the volume and nutritional value of food, and big improvements in the efficiency and environmental performance of food production and farming the world needs.
Second, we humans will need a vast range of solutions to achieve those huge goals. Some will be new technologies such as growing meat in factories from stem cells; some will be changes in consumers’ choices such as eating less meat and more plants; some will be conventional foods from unconventional sources such as plant-based meat and dairy products; and some will be big improvements in existing farming practices and systems such as focusing on rebuilding the health and fertility of soils.
Third, we will likely see many consumers, food manufacturers, farmers and agricultural sectors blend many of those solutions. This is a common theme of many recent investigations of the global food challenge, such as the EAT-Lancet Commission which sees a continuing though reduced role for dairy and meat in diets. But only if farmers substantially reduce the damage those products do to ecosystems. There will, of course, be others who fiercely defend narrower views, such as an end to animal farming, or saying every diet must have meat and dairy to meet a person’s nutritional needs.
Fourth, such huge innovation in food and farming is essential and inevitable. That will require rapid and radical change over the next few decades. Some individual farmers will fiercely defend their traditional practices or reluctantly agree to only minor change. But no nation can afford to take that approach. For the sake of the health of its environment, population and economy it will have to embark on rapid and deep change. That’s even more essential for countries like ours for which food and farming are key parts of the economy and society.
Fifth, leaders are emerging on all these issues. Some are established leaders in currently conventional food and farming practices who are pushing for reinvention; others are deeply experienced but lonely voices pushing back against existing practices; and others are coming from very different sectors, such as venture capitalists deploying their business skills to help create cellular agriculture and other radical new technologies. While the status quo is being massively defended by companies, associations, lobbyists, politicians and other conservative forces, the tides of inevitable and essential progress will overwhelm them sooner rather than later.
The revolution is already underway
To elaborate on these themes, here are some highlights from the ProteinTECH conference this week:
Worldwide over the past few years alternative protein companies have attracted US$2.2 billion in investments, with 95 percent going to plant-based products and 5 percent to cellular agriculture, said Michal Klar, chief executive of NZ-based FFN Ventures, an investor in and adviser to such companies. Meanwhile, conventional food companies have paid some US$10b to buy such startups to acquire their technologies.
Perfect Day, a US company pursuing cellular technology to produce components of milk such as whey, has attracted investment from Archer Daniels Midland, one of the world’s largest grain traders. “Perfect Day doesn’t attack dairy because it wants to be an ingredients producer for the dairy industry,” said Barnett Sporkin-Morrison, a US agricultural economist.
Fonterra sees some potential for plant-based proteins to be complementary to dairy proteins and blended with some of them, Jeremy Hill, Fonterra’s chief science and technology officer, said. To explore such possibilities it recently invested, for example, in the US$90 million venture capital fund raising by Motif, a US biotech company.
Such new sources of protein are finding growing acceptance from a broad range of the public. For example, in the US 86 percent of people who had tried the likes of plant-based meats were neither vegetarians nor vegans, said Thomas King, chief executive of Food Frontier, an Australian consultant to such new producers.
Here in New Zealand, one in 10 people don’t eat meat, one in four are reducing their meat consumption, one in seven households had tried vegetarian food in 2017, and one in four had done so this year, according to a recent survey, said Bennie Hendricks, executive general manager of Life Health Foods International, an Auckland company which is the largest supplier of plant-based meats in Australasia.
Back in 1992, New Zealand signed up to the UN climate framework at the Rio Earth Summit and our regional councils committed to improving water quality, said Guy Salmon, one of our leading environmental advocates and practitioners. But since then our performance on climate and water has got far worse. “Fixing water is very expensive and very hard. De-intensification and diversification will be necessary. I think it’s going to be divisive, urban versus rural. We need a national diversification and transition plan.”
Some of the opportunities for farming diversification were laid out by a number of speakers. Two were Thomas Sowersby and Gert-Jan Moggre, food innovation scientists at Plant & Food Research. They were two of the authors of the Crown Research Institute’s report last year on the horticultural potential for New Zealand in playing to these new trends.
It concluded: “The opportunity for New Zealand is in manufacturing high-value plant protein foods, sourcing ingredient streams from trusted sustainable and diversified production systems that meet our future climate change challenges, and delivering premium products into the ‘flexitarian’ diets of our international customers.”
Red meat has opportunities too to play to these trends if it takes a holistic approach. For example, the Omega Lamb Project is one of the industry/government ventures in the Primary Growth Partnership. Aimee Charteris, the lead animal geneticist on the project, described the 10-year journey to select and breed ewes and lambs that are healthier and produce meat with superior flavour, texture and health benefits to humans, sold under the Te Mana brand. To get to that desirable point, though the project’s farmers and scientists also had to work on the plants that feed the sheep and the soils that feed the plants. “Happy soil, happy plant, happy lamb, happy human,” she said.
Phyllis Tichinin, a soil scientist, also gave a challenging presentation on the urgent need to shift from chemical to biological systems for farming. “I teach people how to grow food that heals people and the environment.” For more details, please read this three-part series she has written on the Pure Advantage website.
Where is the vision?
But despite some common ground there were still some great tensions running through all these themes in the conference. Even clearer was the absence of national conversations we must have to establish goals, shape strategies, develop programmes, invest resources and begin work on our food and farming future.
Above all we’re missing as a nation a greater vision and mission. This absence, and the solution to it, was best articulated by the last of the 21 speakers – Daniel Eb, a farmer who also runs Dirt Road Comms, a rural communications business.
First, he described the big, audacious goals of Memphis Meats, a US cellular meat company with an ambition and vision typical of our new competitors. “Cultured meats will completely replace the status quo and make raising animals to eat them simply unthinkable,” according to Uma Valeit, its chief executive.
Then he described its values – progress, disruption and rationality; and its community of highly aware consumers, and the social communications channels they use.
Next, he described our goals as a food producing nation: “Supply the world’s finest, most sustainable meat and milk products to 40m global customers”; our vision – natural, sustainable, health; and our community – “commodities for the majorities” and “fledgling niche brands and a food systems community.”
But he said that goal was nothing more than a product statement, not a call to action; the values raised too many problems without solutions; and the communities were weak and inward looking.
Eb suggested instead our goal should be to “save the world by pioneering a new food system built for human and environmental resilience in the face of climate change”; our values kaitiakitanga (guardianship), turangawaewae (a place to stand) and leadership; and our community “5m Kiwis and our global advocates.”

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In our MKE Music Rewind series, we revisit notable Milwaukee music that was released before Milwaukee Record became a thing in April 2014.
The first out-of-town destination I drove to after receiving my driver’s license was a little indie record shop about half an hour from my rural Ohio hometown. In 2001, it was the nearest place, to my knowledge, where I could find actual, physical copies of the albums I’d pieced together from MP3s posted on Geocities-hosted fan sites.
There, at Side-One Records in Richmond, Indiana, I found a haven for building a collection of music that would become the soundtrack to my teenage years. Every other week or so, I’d rev up my 1988 Toyota Celica and putter down meandering, cornfield-lined roads, crossing state lines to arrive at my favorite record shop. After a while, the shop owner, Willy, and his employees got to know me, familiar with my timid “hello” as I walked through the door, making a beeline to the punk/emo section. They’d give their nod of approval to my latest purchases and pass along recommendations, and it felt nice to have this small connection coming from a town where I felt so isolated in my musical interests.
On one of my visits, Willy sauntered back as I was browsing and plucked a CD from the new releases section: the Benjamins’ The Art Of Disappointment. I’d never heard of the band, but the album was released on Drive-Thru Records, and, back then, that was good enough for me. I added it to my stack and as soon as I hopped in my car and painstakingly peeled off the jewel-case sticker, I threw the disc in my car’s cassette-to-CD adapter for the drive home (an incredibly 2001 thing to do).
From the first cymbal clangs on album-opener “Couch,” I was hooked. Though I’d never had a boyfriend to that point, I felt the longing of that empty side of the couch born from a breakup. I imagined myself as the Manic Pixie Dream Girl singer-guitarist Jay Stys chirps about in “Wonderful” and simultaneously air-guitared along with the riffs. I happily joined in on the Buggles-esque “whoa-ohs” during the chorus of “Sophia on the Stereo.” My drive home from Side-One that afternoon felt a lot more colorful than the drive there. The album traveled with me most places after that.
The CDs with the heaviest rotation lived in my car’s visor sleeve for the easiest access—and for the majority of 2001, that’s where the record stayed (along with that of another relatively recent release from a prominent Milwaukee band: The Promise Ring’s Very Emergency). It came with me to my job at our local park’s concession stand, softly jangling from the boombox speakers in the background as I served up twist ice cream cones and counted penny candy for the kids making pit stops during afternoon bike rides. It fuzzed through my headphones as I rattled off cryptic away notes on Instant Messenger. It played as the soundtrack to aimless joyrides through the countryside, wielding the freedom of a new driver’s license and a car of my own but with no place to go. It was a damn good teenage summertime record, all bright and shiny with fuzzy edges, filled with catchy melodies, crescendoing choruses, and even a lyrical shoutout to Molly Ringwald, to boot. I often played the album for any passengers in my car to help find common ground—the music was accessible and head-boppy enough for my Top 40-leaning friends with just enough guitar crunch for my punk-loving pals. To borrow lyrics from the album’s “Sophia on the Stereo”: “It sounds like lazy summer Sundays / It sounds like something that we both like.”
Relatively, the Benjamins hadn’t existed as a band for long before catching their break. They formed in 1998, released their Bordering On Boredom EP in 1999, did some occasional touring, and caught the attention of Drive-Thru Records while opening for Milwaukee’s Citizen King, who’d scored a hit the previous year with their song “Better Days (And The Bottom Drops Out).” They signed a record deal with Drive-Thru in 2000, and the following February (February 27, 2001, to be exact), The Art Of Disappointment was released. Almost immediately, the band set out on tour, supporting bands such as Reel Big Fish and Sum 41, and landing a slot on that summer’s Warped Tour. Their power-pop sound never quite fit in with those of their tourmates, and the breakneck schedule and waning support allegedly took a toll—they disbanded before the end of the year. As such, I wasn’t able to see them play live, and though that album had a place close to my heart, without followup efforts, it was shuffled to the back of my CD book and somewhat forgotten in my ongoing quest to devour all new music that came my way.
Fast forward seven years. In the summer of 2008, I moved to Milwaukee from Ohio and was settling into my new life on the East Side. My George Costanza-level stuffed CD book made the move with me, and one day as I was paging through the albums that defined my youth, The Art Of Disappointment jumped out at me. Wait…weren’t these dudes from Milwaukee? It had been a number of years since I’d heard the album, and—as I fired it up after all that time—rather than catching up with an old friend, it was more like visiting a friend’s hometown and understanding them just a bit more deeply. Suddenly, I knew exactly what a “Riverwest Creep” was, and I could picture that old green “Couch” in the den of some dusty Upper East Side bungalow. I related to the angst of being a young 20-something who’s “not getting any younger” in the Upper Midwest—just slightly different than the angst of a teen in the Midwest I grew up in. Turns out, I was introduced to Milwaukee years before I’d ever stepped foot here, the Benjamins acting as a gateway band to my discovery of the local music scene I’d soon immerse myself in. The album I’d listened to countless times as a teen in rural Ohio took on new life in my new city.
In 2014, the Benjamins briefly reunited to record a five-song EP, Back On Track, and that same year I was able to catch one of their reunion shows at Turner Hall, essentially closing the circle on that piece of my musical past (I can still feel the morning-after throat scratch after that night’s singalong). My tastes have evolved and changed since I first heard The Art Of Disappointment just shy of 20 years ago, but I still put it on from time to time and soak up the nostalgia. It’s fun to think back on 16-year-old me playing this record on loop, completely unaware that she’d one day live in the city they alluded to in their lyrics. Even now, it sounds like lazy summer Sundays. It sounds like something that I still like.


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Recently, NIBCO was asked whether or not 2" and 3" press fittings can be crimped in temperatures as low as 10°F.
The short answer? Yes, they can. The NIBCO® Press System® is rated at 200 PSIG over a temperature range of -20°F to 250°F, however the real challenge is testing your system for leaks at such a low temperature.
Testing Your System For Leaks
Before we get into any specifics, let's talk about testing the system for leaks. There are two ways to make sure your system is free of leaks: testing with water or with air. At such a low temperature, you will have problems with the water freezing, so you will probably have to opt for air testing. For more information on testing your system for leaks, view Press Fittings and Valves: How to Detect Leaks.
The EPDM Seal Needs to Relax
With the NIBCO Press System, a watertight joint is formed between the EPDM seal and the crimped fitting or valve providing a permanent connection. However, in freezing temperatures the EPDM o-ring will have a hard time relaxing to create that seal. Think of it like taking something frozen and trying to bend it - the cold will create too much stress for the item to relax enough to be bent.
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- Press Fittings and Valves: How to Detect Leaks
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Without these numerous factors that vary vastly among different colleges and universities one simply may not assume every student that finances a loan goes into long term debt. College admission may be a hard decision when it comes down to price. Many other students fail to attend their dream school due to the financial struggle. Ultimately there are students that pay the full price for admission no matter what the cost just to attend their dream school. To many students college is worth the price for admission.
According to Anya Kamenetz in the article “Generation Debt,” young people of today are struggling with high debt due to high educational finances and this is preventing them to move on as responsible adults. College tuitions are too high to pay that young people fall into applying for student loans, and have significant credit card debt with high balances. Most students are using their credit cards to pay for their college expenses and student loans; even their paychecks are being used to pay for college. I agree that many young people held back in becoming a full adult which they are doing everything they can just to continue their education. Even if it means to continue living at home with parents just to make ends meets and not being able to step in the “fully adulthood.” In other words they, are prolonging their adulthood just to be able to go to college and be able to fully
When they go to start the path of finding a career, they find instead piles of debt from their education. So many student borrowers are falling further and further behind in their payments, postponing purchases of cars and places to live, or putting their social lives on a shelve. Jason Delisle, who wrote the New America paper, “blames skyrocketing graduate school debt on changes to federal loan programs that essentially allow grad students unlimited borrowing. The more students can borrow, the more schools can charge.” Americans almost universally believe that a college degree is the key to success and getting ahead—and the data shows that, generally speaking, college graduates still fare far better financially than those with just a high school diploma. But for those who are saddled
College that is, families of all sizes are reconsidering where they send their children. Why? Some may ask this question its due to the rising cost of the tuition. People of all walks of life except for the richest find it hard to pursue post secondary education out of fear of falling into large amounts of debt that will haunt them for the rest of their lives. Examples are being made around the
According to the last recording of student loan debt, the total amount of the United States student loan debt is roughly one and a half trillion dollars (A look at…). Statistics like these present the urgent need to resolve the major financial issue of student loan debt. Solutions have been given by many people to solve this issue but most solutions fail. The main reason behind student loan debt is falling to far into debt to the point where it is almost impossible to come back. The origin behind all of this is a lack of a student loan amount cap.
College, unfortunately, is very expensive; However, in America we have many options for students to pay for their education, almost all ways of paying tuition put students in debt. A chart that uses information from The U.S bureau of labor statistics shows that “The bottom quarter of earners with a college degree don’t make more money than the average high school graduate.” If someone is getting put in debt
Many have talked and noticed how expensive it is to go to college. Almost everyone can see that the price of a college education will only continue to rise. Also, many are starting to worry about how they will be able to afford to pay for their college. What if college
In America, college costs have been growing at a rate faster than inflation for over a decade. The resulting student loan debt, most of which belongs to young people aged 22-40, is causing a lot of trouble for the whole economy. The average college student is graduating with $32,000 in student loan debt . Not only do they have to pay this back with interest, it affects them in other areas of their lives. Debt forces students to postpone life in several key areas including buying a house, getting married and saving for retirement.
A college’s main sours of revenue in tuition money which as previously stated, is four hundred percent more expensive than twenty years ago. People who are seeking the traditional path into the work force are forced to pay these crazy high prices and are enticed by a pretty residential life and the thought of new found independents. The reality of student debt have not set in yet. Student debt is at an all-time high with an average of 29,000 dollars per student. Because of the tradition of going to school and the amazing residential lives, it can be easy to recognize the severity of the situation you are putting yourself in.
Drowning in Debt: What are the Consequences of Student Loan Debt in the U.S.? Student loan debt has a big impact on students decisions, student debt influences a lot on how they spend their money. American Student Assistance (ASA) recently made a survey, with this survey they found out that the Students with loan debt are postponing important decisions in their lives. Many of the students that participated in the survey are waiting to buy a home, get married, have children, save for retirement, and some of them haven’t been able to enter the career field that they wanted all because of their debt. Student loans were created to help out students who want to go to college by giving them money that has to be paid back.
In today’s worldwide economy, there is a high demand for the best-educated post-graduate students in our industry. Hundreds of thousands of intellectually savvy students cannot afford to go to college, and those that can leave school with a colossal debt that haunts them for years after. As stated by presidential candidate Sanders, “That shortsighted path to the future must end. I will fight to make sure that every American who studies hard in school can go to college regardless of how much money their parents make and without going deeply into debt. This isn’t a radical idea.” We see worldwide that this burden of debt has hindered society for too long.