Leeds Rhinos 4 Hull 30 - Hull hand round one drubbing to below par Rhinos
Once hostilities began for real, the feel good factor which Leeds Rhinos had built during the phony war of pre-season was quickly demolished.
Rhinos have become notoriously slow starters over the past four seasons and in three of them they have continued in a similar vein for most of the season.
If that is the case this time, it is going to be a long year.
Hull,having recruited strongly over the past few months, particularly with big forwards from the NRL, were always going to pose some difficult questions for Rhinos in round one, but the least Leeds hoped for was to be competitive and, if they didn’t win it, to make it close.
It was neither. In front of a 19,500 crowd, Hull were too good in all departments and the final 30-4 scoreline was embarrassing for the home team.
It was similar to their poor effort in the first game of last year – a year ago to the day – when they were thumped at Warrington Wolves, setting the tone for a dismal campaign.
After a relatively good start, Rhinos lost their way and went from 2-0 adrift at the end of the first quarter to 16-0 down by the break – and it would have been even worse but for some uncharacteristically wayward goalkicking by Marc Sneyd.
Two of Hull’s three first-half tries came after Leeds’ captain Stevie Ward had gone off and with Mikolaj Oledzki also being replaced, their lack of size and power – against big opponents – was obvious.
Ward returned in the second half, but Oledzki was off from the first quarter until midway through the last.
To add considerably to the home team’s woes, Konrad Hurrell went off for a head injury assessment and did not return, so second-rower Alex Mellor had to make his debut in the left-centre and Leeds played with 15 men for most of the match.
They were already up against it without Ava Seumanufagai, who failed to recover from a knee injury suffered in the pre-season win at Wigan Warriors two weeks earlier.
He was a big loss, leaving new signing Matt Prior too much work to do.
Rhinos didn’t help themselves. The first points in each half came through a penalty goal after a high shot by Prior.
The one after half-time was compounded by some backchat which carried Hull 10 metres further upfield and into kicking range.
The penalty count was four-two against Leeds at the break and finished 11-five. Rhinos managed to miss touch with one of those they did get.
Leeds do have players to come in, alongside Seumanufagai. Hooker Kruise Leeming will give them a boost and Dom Crosby can add size up front and specialist winger Tom Briscoe will allow Harry Newman to move into the centre where he’s more at home.
But, on this very early evidence, Rhinos have a lot of work to do in all areas – discipline, last-tackle plays and defence against big men, in the middle and out wide.
Rhinos got over Hull’s line inside four minutes, after Jamie Shaul conceded a scrum for not making a serious attempt to play-the-ball, 20 metres out.
Cameron Smith, who was one of the few Leeds players to have a decent game and Luke Gale worked the ball to Jack Walker and his superb pass found Ash Handley, but the winger was held up by Ratu Naulago.
That sparked a skirmish, but referee Ben Thaler was content simply to tell both sides to get on with the game and, on the last tackle, Rob Lui linked with Rhyse Martin, but his final ball went into touch beyond Harry Newman, who had over-run the pass.
After a knock-on by Martin in the first set, it was all Leeds until the 15th minute when the visitors received back-to-back penalties and Sneyd took the two from the second of them, for a high shot by Prior on Josh Jones in front of the posts.
Hull’s first try was a spectacular effort, five minutes later. Gale’s kick was taken by Naulago, who should have been pinned down near the visitors’ line, but got past Handley, then Hurrell and Carlos Tuimavave was on his inside shoulder to take the pass and just out-pace a desperate effort from Leeds’ winger.
Surprisingly, Sneyd missed with the conversion attempt.
Smith got under Manu Ma’u to prevent him touching down on 26 minutes and the right-side defence rode to the rescue in the same set, shoving Josh Griffin into touch close to the flag.
Hull were turning the screw though and they doubled their lead when Shaul and Jake Connor kept the ball alive in midfield and the latter drew full-back Walker before sending Naulago in.
Sneyd hit a post with his kick, but Hull received a penalty in the set from the restart and Andre Sevelio exposed the defence before putting Josh Bowden in. Sneyd landed the kick and Rhinos were 16-0 down, with seven minutes remaining in the half, having conceded three tries in 13 minutes.
They did go close to pulling some points back when Brad Dwyer had a go from acting-half, but grounded the ball short of the line, video referee Liam Moore confirming Thaler’s call of no-try.
It was a similar story at the start of the second half when Gale tried to twist over. A try then might have made it a contest, but Sneyd’s second penalty goal extended Hull’s advantage and Rhinos never looked like getting back into it.
Another penalty made the gap four points on 52 minutes and when Hull got their fifth penalty in quick succession they didn’t bother with the two.
Sneyd, Connor and Shaul moved play right and Naulago touched down for the black and whites’ fourth try.Rhinos managed to avoid a whitewash thanks to a try by Handley with 16 minutes left. Encouragingly, it was a set move off a scrum, Gale, Ward and Walker handling across the line.
Leeds then received their first penalty of the half and Handley dived over again, Gale, Lui and Walker having been involved, but video ref’ Moore overruled Thaler and said no try, for a foot in touch.
Ma’u was held up over the line in the closing stages, but Hull finished with a flourish when Shaul went through from a pass by Savelio and Sneyd landed his fifth goal.
Super League is supposed to be an elite, professional competition, but it does look two-bit at times.
There was a clear colour clash between Rhinos’ home kit and Hull’s – which may have been the reason for the Ligi Sao passing straight to Gale early on.
Leeds came out for the second half in their away strip.


text: 6/15/2021 Prev Next Email Share × Share On: By: Mark Hamstra, Contributor, US Chamber of Commerce Beginning in August, the Small Business Expo will return to live in-person events, aiming to bring along new best practices that were learned through virtual events. — Why it matters: Businesses are eager to return to face-to-face networking, although they remain cautious about their safety.Some conference organizers are confident that precautions will keep their attendees safe, while others are relying on hybrid or virtual events.Nearly nine in 10 events were canceled, postponed or held virtually last year. Businesspeople are eager to get back to having face-to-face meetings as traditional conferences resume with a focus on in-person —versus virtual — gatherings. “We are obviously super excited about getting back to live shows,” said Zachary Lezberg, founder and CEO of the Small Business Expo, which holds regional conferences around the country for small businesses and entrepreneurs. In March 2020 as the COVID-19 pandemic took hold, the Small Business Expo canceled all remaining conferences for the rest of the year and hosted virtual events instead. This actually enabled the company to expand the reach of its events, Lezberg said. “Instead of doing what a lot of companies did, which was take a step back and slow down because of COVID, we actually sped up,” he said. “We decided to use this opportunity to our benefit, to try and expand quicker and get in as many cities as possible.” The company ended up staging 45 different virtual shows — more than double the number of in-person events it held in 2019. This year the Small Business Expo series is returning with 15 regional in-person events beginning in August, and Lezberg said both the conference and the attendees are ready to return to business as usual. “We’re trying to promote normalcy in our shows,” he said. “Obviously we’re taking the safety precautions that the CDC and the local ordinances recommend, but we want to actually promote networking. We want to continue to help small businesses get back to business. They’ve been through a very, very rough time for nearly 18 months.” The International Congress and Convention Association reported that out of 8,409 planned events for 2020 that the ICCA examined globally, about 14% were canceled and 44% were postponed, and another 30% were conducted virtually. The rest were either unaffected (9%), hybrid virtual/in-person events (2%) or relocated (1%). Conference organizers are eager to get back to hosting in-person events because of the revenues they generate, ICCA said. [Read here for what experts say on networking the right way.] Bringing best practices from virtual events to in-person conferences “In the future, meetings are likely to include elements and best practices from virtual and hybrid events,” said Senthil Gopinath, CEO of the ICCA, in the report. Lezberg said he expects that some Small Business Expo attendees may still be cautious about coming to live events, and it’s in the process of formulating a plan for telecasting its workshops and seminars. As far as the content of the presentations at the Small Business Expos, he said presenters have been told to steer away from pandemic-related topics and focus on the tools small businesses need to be successful going forward. “I feel personally that people are just sick of hearing about COVID,” he said. “We’re trying to get businesses back to the way they were and focus on the things that they need to learn about, whether it’s marketing, how to build an e-commerce store, how to drive more customer loyalty and things like that.” Obviously we’re taking the safety precautions that the CDC and the local ordinances recommend, but we want to actually promote networking. We want to continue to help small businesses get back to business. They’ve been through a very, very rough time for nearly 18 months. Zachary Lezberg, founder and CEO, Small Business Expo In fact, the Small Business Expo has added a new component to its shows for 2021 focusing specifically on e-commerce, based on the increased demand for online ordering that escalated in 2020. The pandemic has also prompted the Small Business Expo to become more digitally focused and incorporate more features into its mobile app, including digital show guides and social media feeds. The shows will also now feature touch-free registration and contactless business card exchanges. Attendees can register using their phone, and then scan a QR code to print their badge, or use the badge that will be housed in the app, along with the built-in-scanner, to exchange contact information with other attendees using the app. “There are a lot of cool new technologies we’re able to take advantage of that actually help promote the safety precautions, and that also make it easier for everybody,” said Lezberg. “The break we had from doing the live shows during COVID gave us the time to get those things ready.” The National Confectioners Association plans to bring back its in-person Sweets & Snacks Expo with almost no changes from the way the event was previously held. — National Confectioners Association Pandemic-informed business insights to ‘help attendees navigate shifting retail landscape, evolving consumer needs’ Meanwhile, the National Confectioners Association is bringing back its Sweets & Snacks Expo this year with almost no changes from the way the event was previously held, said Christopher Gindlesperger, senior vice president of public affairs and communications at the NCA. The Sweets & Snacks Expo is scheduled for June 23 to 25 at the Indiana Convention Center in Indianapolis. “If anything, the virtual-centered lifestyles we’ve all experienced this year make our industry even more excited to come together in person,” Gindlesperger said. “The Sweets & Snacks Expo won’t have any virtual components this year because we are confident that we can host a safe and successful live event with our partners in the city of Indianapolis.” Gindlesperger said that after the cancellation of last year’s show, the association’s manufacturer members are eager to showcase two years’ worth of product innovation in person to potential buyers. “There is a significant amount of pent-up demand for in-person events and engagement within the industry heading into the back half of this year,” he said. The association added a Supplier Showcase to the event that’s scheduled the day before the Expo opens. The Supplier Showcase is designed to connect the association’s supplier community with their manufacturer partners. Unlike the Small Business Expo, which Lezberg said will steer away from pandemic-related content in its educational presentations, Gindlesperger said the Sweets & Snacks Expo will offer a variety of education tracks designed to provide insights into the impact that the pandemic had on the industry, and to “help attendees navigate the shifting retail landscape and evolving consumer needs.” Education session topics will include consumer and shopper trends, retail and category trends and business disruptions, he said. Gindlesperger said the Expo is expecting more than 450 exhibitors, along with thousands of retail attendees representing about 1,800 banners across multiple classes of trade. Not all trade groups have embraced the return of in-person events, however. The National Association of Chain Drug Stores, which canceled its Total Store Expo conference last year but had been preparing to stage it live in Denver this August, recently said it would instead transition it to a virtual event. [Read here about 7 smart tips forlivestreaming your event.] “The current realities of the COVID-19 pandemic and the travel policies of many NACDS members dictate that in-person conferences remain impractical for the immediate future,” said Steven C. Anderson, president and CEO of NACDS, in a statement. The association pledged to provide 100% refunds to members for all attendance fees already paid.

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What does Renee Zellweger’s face have to do with my getting married?
Nothing. And everything.
On the off chance you’ve missed the approximately 24,372 (make that 24,373 now) articles, blogs, and tweets on the subject, actress Renee Zellweger made the news recently when photos of her taken at the ELLE Women in Hollywood Awards revealed some changes to the 45-year-old’s visage. Zellweger, most famous for her turn as the title character in the Bridget Jones movies (personally, I thought her most fabulous in Chicago), has been out of the public eye for much of the last four years, and her recent appearance–in all senses of the word–has lit up the internet for days with speculation (and castigation) about the reasons behind her altered look. I’ve hesitated to throw my hat in the ring (it protects against sun-damage, you know), but this FsFTB is ready to lay a few things bare.
Two thoughts. The first (A) is about perspective, in a fairly literal sense. As someone who has been in front of a camera a fair amount, having performed for much of my life and taken up modeling in my later years, I can see that some of the apparent differences in Zellweger’s appearance are quirks of lighting and angle, combined with the fact she’s wearing minimal makeup. The one shot that is getting the most airtime, the one in which folks are exclaiming she looks “unrecognizable,” is simply an unflattering picture. In other recent photos, some taken at the same event, she is recognizable. Yes, her eyes appear a bit wider, her brows less sculpted, and there are some crow’s feet in evidence, but she looks fine.
As a photographer friend of mine has pointed out, our bodies are living matter in motion, our faces and expressions dynamic and ever-changing. A photograph, in contrast, captures an isolated moment, one second of stillness in a lifetime of movement. Sometimes the result is an accurate reflection of reality; sometimes it is idealized; and sometimes it’s just…not. Most of us have had a picture taken that surprises us, and whether you love or hate that photo depends on the nature of the surprise: did the photographer catch a moment of heightened beauty–a just-right tilt of the head, a bold, happy laugh–or click the shutter the second your lip curled sideways and your left eyelid twitched shut? Even stunningly beautiful people take ugly pictures. Ask someone to follow you around and take 50 random photos as you walk, laugh, sing, etc., and see if there isn’t at least one that makes you say, “I don’t look like that!”
Yes, you do. Or at least you did during the split second the camera caught your mouth half-open and that weird shadow bisected your face, making one nostril look like a black hole.
Not to mention that so many of the “It’s so shocking!” comparisons show Zellweger’s recent photo next to ones taken of her six and eight and ten years ago. Seriously, do you look the same as you did ten years ago? If I put a picture of myself from ten years ago next to a current photo, my first thought is, “Hey, gravity works.” My second is, “I look happier.” Most days I consider that more than a fair trade.
So that’s (A). (B) is more complicated, and more important.
(B): It’s her face.
It’s nobody else’s business what Renee Zellweger does or doesn’t do with her face. If she wants to get a 3-D tattoo of a monarch butterfly appearing to land on the end of her nose for all of eternity, she can. I can’t say I, personally, would find it an attractive choice. But it’s her face.
Why am I obsessing about this? Because gravity does work, and quite well, in fact, as I can scarcely forget when every bridal magazine and wedding website flaunts the smiling faces of blushing young brides, with their taut, smooth skin and well-defined chins. I’ve been toying with the idea of whether–before we pay lots of money for lots of wedding pictures–I might want to do a little something to counteract its forces. I’d like to think that if I decided I wanted a little Juvederm or a laser peel or some other cosmetic boost to my forty-something face (and confidence) before my wedding day, my friends would shrug and say: it’s her face. But I’ve heard people not only express shock and anger at the pressures society places on women like Zellweger to maintain an impossible ideal of eternal youth and beauty–a fair target of their wrath, and a concern I share. I’ve heard just as many criticize and judge Zellweger herself for, as they see it, caving to those pressures. It makes me wonder what kind of censure or disappointment I–whose ability to be competitive in my profession does not, thank god, depend on the definition of my jawline–might engender were I to make a similar choice.
Why can’t I–she–we–just grow old gracefully? Believe me, I want to. I want to accept my aging self with all its puzzles, pleasures, and idiosyncrasies, physical and otherwise. But what do we mean by “growing old gracefully,” anyway? Does working out regularly fall within the parameters of “graceful”? What about hiring a trainer? If your motivation to get fit is as much about maintaining your youthful figure as it is maintaining your health, is that a little less than graceful? What about wearing sunscreen, or dyeing your hair? Using anti-wrinkle cream? Getting a chemical peel? An injection? Liposuction? An eyebrow lift or a tummy tuck? Where exactly does one cross the line from aging gracefully, to tripping up occasionally, to full-on fisticuffs minus concern for health or dignity?
I’m not considering going under the knife, and honestly, even the idea of Botox freaks me out a little. I’ve never had anything beyond a basic facial, and I’m still debating whether I ever will. But I was deeply disturbed by the responses to Zellweger’s photos. In her profession–as saddening and maddening as it is–getting work done is often a savvy business decision. The fact I hate that does not make it any less true, and condemning her for “selling out” doesn’t solve the real problem. It’s particularly distressing to me that some of the same women who fight for a woman’s right to make her own decisions about her uterus are equally quick to tell her what she can and can’t do with her face. I know the anger comes from a good place–a desire for a better world, a world in which women are treated as whole humans. And it’s true that when women like Zellweger take dramatic measures to prolong the appearance of youth, they perpetuate unattainable and unrealistic ideals of beauty and perfection, distorting our idea of what a real woman’s body or aging face looks like. Those distorted ideals are genuinely damaging, and I, too, have wished more celebrities would allow themselves to age naturally, be role models, and reduce the pressures on us all. Perhaps if they did, eventually, we’d rid ourselves of those unattainable standards altogether.
It’s a beautiful dream. And it is a lot to ask.
Yes, women in the public eye are role models, whether they like it or not. They have power to inspire change. AND they are also individuals with agency, and if I’m going to argue that a woman’s body is her domain, then her face is in country, too. On the one hand, I would love it if women in the business of beauty would take a stand to create a world where real, natural beauty was accepted and admired, aging faces and bodies respected and revered. On the other hand, I don’t think I get to insist that Zellweger sacrifice her right to make choices that might extend her career or bring her more confidence as she navigates a world that’s less than welcoming to the middle-aged. Feminism is about choices, and…it’s her face.
The problem is not her face, or mine, or gravity. The problem is that we live in a world in which women are dismissed if we aren’t youthful, thin, and beautiful, and shamed if we take too many (obvious) measures to become or remain so. Our faces and bodies, far too often, are battlegrounds, political pawns, fodder for the next news cycle. They are regulated and legislated. The least we can do for one another is to refuse to add to the daily barrage of messages that declare our bodies are not ours to determine. The least we can do is claim our bodies, our faces, our crinkly crow’s feet and wise smiles, for ourselves.
It’s a gorgeous, sunny autumn afternoon, perfect for a walk. Now, where did I toss that hat?
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I’m happier now at 41 than I’ve been in years. I’m with you; let’s enjoy those sunny walks when we get them. I’m always up for an excuse to wear a cute (skin-protecting) hat. Also, did you see Russell Brand’s response to the Zellweger-facegate? Hilarious! (Takes him about 30 secs. to get to it.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CugXPmLGfP8&noredirect=1
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Ha! That’s great- thanks for sharing it. And yes, I think the 40s are pretty fabulous!
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Everyone knows someone with Omicron and did the Wellington protest achieve anything?
Is NZ doing enough in regard to Ukraine/Russia?
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An owner of an adorable cat and a mama hen recorded a hilarious video that has gone viral on the internet like wildfire, tickling the funny bones of netizens.
We really love our furry pets and want to hang out with them a lot. The funny things they do make us smile a lot. Sometimes, we film the funny antics they do so we can watch the videos over and over.
Similarly, the owner of an adorable cat and a mama hen recorded a hilarious video that has gone viral on the internet like wildfire, tickling the funny bones of netizens.
The adorable clip showcases a mama hen who becomes puzzled upon seeing the cat sitting among its chicks. The hen stares at the feline repeatedly and waits for it to move, but the stubborn cat remains seated with the little chicks as if claiming them as its own. Surprisingly, the chicks also seem to accept the cat as their mother and don’t recognize the actual mother hen standing in front of them.
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Soft Shadows in Hard Places
Saturday, August 11, 2007
Welcome to "Here and Now" in the 8th month of its second year.
We have a lot of good work this time around, poems from 15 poets as well as several pieces of my own. Most of the poets you will read here this month you will likely not have read before. I hope you share my sense of discovery as you read them for the first time.
My bookstore haunt this week was especially successful, leading me to several poets new to me who are now on my list of favorites.William D. Barney is one of those.
Barney, a retired postal worker and former president of the Poetry Society of Texas, moved to Fort Worth, Texas in 1928 and has been writing poetry since, serving as Texas Poet Laureate and receiving numerous awards, including being handed the Robert Frost Memorial Award by Frost himself in 1962. In addition to his own eight books of poetry, he has been included in numerous anthologies.
This poem is from his ninth collection, A Cowtown Chronicle: William Barney Poetry, published by Browder Springs Books in 1999. He was 80 years old when the book was released, so I don't know if he's still active.
Canticle for a Cutting Horse
Dun as an oak leaf dead, triggered and taut
upon wind is the mare, the palomino.
She dances upon tanbark, a ballerina, a blade
of exquisite balance;
her flesh is a furious woman,
a blend of desire and dissent, and of power
and delicate motion;
chastely the saddle begirds her,
and the rider bestride bends like a whip
as she pivots.
Relaxed in her sensitive step, patient yet
wholly alert, the mare,
the palomino, walks the tight-rope of the
Shall I say she is merely animal, creature of
instant, instinctive precision,
the flower of bestial blood?
She is spirtuelle, she aspires toward flame,
to the fools' fire in dark pastures.
Her skin is pumpkin smoke,
a smoldering satin, the dust of an evening
In her sleek strength the mare shall, as men,
but in her responsive heart let her rejoice.
She is poised as a fencer's foil,
she stalks her prey like a tigress;
like a spider she weaves the kinetic web of
she throws her great breast as a shuttle.
Make her a symbol for mind, a talisman
in her tawniness
for any who praise pursuit
of the quick metaphor, the well-cinched
word, the honest, honorable tone,
the summer within the seed.
Make her a ballad seeking right speech,
a strophe kindling to song,
Yet none of these you make her.
She herself is sufficient, the palomino,
the perfect, the slim-legged mare;
leave her to the high mesas,
to the rust-rimmed llano, her proper
stage, let her dance
her tango of intricate measures.
Nothing shall match her image, nothing
shall rightly encompass
her competence, her brute beauty.
It is the question of the day and, I'm sorry to say, probably the next several years. Having stupidly gotten ourselves involved in an illegal, immoral war, how do we get out less stupidly and more morally than we got in.
the question that confounds us
once in the
to get out
Julia Alvarez was born in New York City, but spent her early years in the Dominican Republic. She has been a scholar at the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference and has won an American Academy of Poetry Prize, and the Jenny McKean Moore Visiting Lectureship in Creative Writing from George Washington University.
This is the title poem from her first collection of poems, Homecoming, published The Grove Press in 1984. Alvarez is another of my finds from last week's used book foraging.
When my cousin Carmen married, the guards
at her father's finca took the guests' bracelets
and wedding rings and put them in an armored truck
for safekeeping while wealthy, dark-skinned men,
their plump, white women and spoiled children
bathed in a river whose bottom had been cleaned
for the occasion. She was Uncle's only daughter,
and he wanted to show her husband's family,
a bewildered group of sunburnt Minnesotans,
that she was valued. He sat me at their table
to show off my English, and when he danced with me,
fondling my shoulder blades beneath my bridesmaid's gown
as if they were breasts, he found me skinny
but pretty at seventeen, and clever.
Come back from that cold place, Vermont, he said,
all this is yours! Over his shoulder
a dozen workmen hauled in blocks of ice
to keep the champagne lukewarm and stole
glances at the wedding cake, a dollhouse duplicate
of the family rancho, the shutters marzipan,
the cobbles almonds. A maiden aunt housekept,
touching up whipped cream roses with a syringe
of eggwhites, rescuing the groom when the heat
melted his chocolate shoes into the frosting.
On too much rum Uncle led me across the dance floor,
dusted with talcum for easy gliding, a smell
of babies underfoot. He twirled me often,
excited by my pleas of dizziness, teasing me,
saying that my merengue had lost its Caribbean.
Above us, Chinese lanterns strung between posts
came on and one snapped off and rose
into a purple postcard sky.
A grandmother cried: The children all grow up too fast.
The Minnesotans finally broke loose and danced a Charleston
and were pronounced good gringos with latino hearts.
The little sister, freckled with a week of beach,
her hair as blonde as a movie stars, was asked
by maids if they could touch her hair or skin,
and she backed off, until it was explained to her,
they meant no harm. This is all yours,
Uncle whispered, pressing himself into my dress.
The workmen costumed in their workclothes dance
a workman's jig. The maids went by with trays
of wedding bells and matchbooks monogrammed
with Dick's and Carmen's names. It would be years
before I took the courses that would change my mind
in schools paid for by sugar from the fields around us,
years before I would begin to comprehend
how one does not see the maids when they pass by....
- It was too late, or early, to be wise -
The sun was coming up beyond the amber waves
of cane, the roosters crowed, the band stuck up
Las Mananitas, a morning serenade. I had a vision
that I blamed on the champagne:
the fields around us were burning. At last
a yawning bride and groom got up and cut
the wedding cake, but everyone was full
of drink and eggs, roast pig, and rice and beans.
Except the maids and workmen,
sitting on stoops behind the sugar house,
ate with their fingers from their open palms
windows, shutters, walls, pillars, doors,
made from the cane they had cut in the fields.
Martha Galphin returns with this poem on a solution to the communication failures of lovers. Martha is a regular on the Blueline Forum's poem a day workshop, so I get to read a lot of her poems.
Now That We Are Dead
Now that we are dead
can we talk to each other?
I felt as if ...
continue in force
for a period
of five years
from this date,
five year terms,
unless and until
"by one year
....as if it had
Pain spoke, and there
were times when
I didn't want to stay.
But I could not write it,
sign it, nor say it.
Could not give notice.
I hadn't anger to fuel
such an untruth, just
sadness and bewilderment.
No, you weren't that way;
you didn't speak legalese.
But I felt....as if
I were in the courtroom.
Sometimes you ridiculed me.
A good man,
an honest man,
an intelligent man
you loved me,
you loved the children,
you provided for us.
But....what happened to us?
May I ask you something?
Do you think....
now that we are dead,
we can talk to each other?
Here's another poet I'm ready to add to my list of favorites, discovered in my used bookstore foray this past week.
Wendy Barker has a Ph.D. in English from the University of California at Davis and currently teaches English at the University of Texas at San Antonio. She is the author of Lunacy of Light, a study of Emily Dickenson, and another book of poetry, Let The Ice Speak. I've never met her, but would certainly like to someday.
This poem is from her book Winter Chickens and Other Poems, published in 1990 by Corona Publishing Company of San Antonio.
Cub Scouts and Yellow Corn
We figured they might run out of food
by the time our turn came,
but no, a drumstick and wing, skins
crackling fat, and bright yellow
ear of corn on styrofoam plates.
Award night for the Cubs
at Braun Station elementary School.
Neckerchiefs folded, sleeves pressed crisp,
the members of Den 4 have earned
their transformation into bears,
Den 6 into wolves, small white teeth
stripping the rows of corn.
The boys have not grown fur, only
tufts of hair that poke
and tangle under their caps.
No more woods in this neighborhood.
The few cedars left will be cut down -
rough, shaggy tree, they don't bend
to garden plans. This past summer
a bobcat came through these hills,
maybe driven down by the drought,
killed a Golden Retriever.
When he last raffle ticket has been drawn
from Frank Vargas' blue and gold cap,
we scrape back our chairs,
drive home in the cold blue night
with our boys who are wolves, who are bears.
We ask if their homework is done
before we make sure the dogs are in,
before we turn out the lights.
We sleep on clean sheets
and dream of corn - fields, miles
of corn, stretching, chattering
under the moon, tassels spilling
feathery, yellow fur.
I felt myself in need of some comfort food earlier this week, so I went down to the supermarket and picked up one of those Wick Fowler 2-alarm chili packets. I made up a big pot of it in the afternoon while Dora was at work, then ate about half of it before she got home.
The result, in addition to major heartburn, was this poem.
I like food
I like food
in a bowl
I'll even go
cream of wheat
about a thick
this is real
of that foo foo
stuff you get
on a plate,
with some kind
of green weed,
I mean real food
that I can
cup in both hands
and bring up slowly
to savor the flavor
vapors that rise
up curl around
the sides of the bowl
to waft gently
into my nostrils
activating all my
taste sensors even
before the first
spoonful is blown
cool then sipped
what I'm saying
if it's in a bowl
I'll like it
and come back
Now, part 3 of the continuing story of Giraffe On Fire, the poem by Juan Felipe Herrera from his book by the same name.
Newcomers to the story can refer back to last week and the week before for parts 1 and 2.
Giraffe On Fire
Hold up the right corner of the sea, pleated. Lift it and find pleasure
snoring, cut open by crystal and stone. Look down at your shadow by the
sands, by the gilded whiteness of your legs.
a wrapped hydrogen scarf, an ink cactus stuck to the dry galaxy below the
sky veils. Touch down. Come to the ground, the talc, this desert - peeled
and washed by distant clouds? The perfume is solar. My nakedness is
simplistic. As the sleeper searches, I find America rising on his back,
mottled, brownish. Above the water, the stone folds, clutches itself, peeks
through holes and rivets. We are playing. All of us, then just one. The sand
has been swept with a wide brush. The girl - pensive as she lifts the folds of
the water. One hand. One arm and on the other the conch shell waits.
I know the stone is the secret. The secret in the shut mouth. When I was
five I cut my fingers. I cut off my thumb. I delivered ice on the back. Wolves
sang from the mountains. Julian, the violin man next to us, in the Mexican
village paced his floor. Julian knew his wife, Jesus, was shaking and another
man was raising her hair.
Bernard Henrie lives in the Mojave desert and can be read frequently on the Writers Block workshop forum using Mohave as his screen name.
Bernie says his fish poem was inspired by Mark Doty's poem, A Display Of Mackerel which begins: They lie in parallel rows,/on ice, head to tail,/each a foot of luminosity/barred with black bands,/which divide the scales/radiant sections/like seams of lead/in a Tiffany window.
Not Enough to Say They are Green
Fish flip as though writing calligraphy,
currents buoy their gills as they swim
in water that must all look the same.
Their green idleness, their stillness eerie
like a body placed in a receiving room
or white statuary in a closed museum.
They are fish Buddha. Their reclusion
is not possible to express in words.
Their capacity for vast indifference
is thrilling. Date and time mean nothing.
When we return home from waterfalls
they circle in vast cascades of space.
Fish fountains and fish tanks
are the same to them as the Black Sea.
They are overlooked as parents overlook
a nearby child that has stopped his play.
In their scornful serenity they float
know nothing and have nothing to forget.
In the preceding weeks we've gone from the beginning through part 5 of the anti-Vietnam war poem The Teeth Mother Naked At Last by Robert Bly.
The reason I wanted to do this poem has nothing to do with Vietnam (on that subject, I find Bly's thinking shallow and simplistic), but, instead, on the applicability of much of the poem to our new war. And, of course, because it's a great poem.
This week we finish it.
from The Teeth Mother Naked At Last
But if one of those children came near that we have set
came toward you like a gray barn, walking,
you would howl like a wind tunnel in a hurricane,
you would tear at your shirt with blue hands,
you would drive over your own child's wagon trying to
the pupils of your eyes would go wild.
If a child came by burning, you would dance on your
trying to leap into the air, digging into your cheeks,
you would ram your head against the wall of your
like a bull penned too long in his moody pen.
If one of those children came toward me with both hands
in the air, fire rising along both elbows,
I would suddenly go back to my animal brain,
I would drop on all fours screaming;
my vocal cords would turn blue; so would yours.
It would be two days before I could play with one of my
own children again.
I want to sleep a while in the rays of the sun slanting over
Don't wake me.
Don't tell me how much grief there is in the leaf with its
Don't tell me how many children have been born with
all those years we lived in St. Augustine's shadow.
Tell me about the dust that falls from the yellow daffodil
shaken in the restless winds.
Tell me about the particles of Babylonian thought that
still pass through the earthworm every day.
Don't tell me about "the frightening laborers who do not
The mad beast covered with European hair rushes
towards the mesa bushes in Mendocino County.
Pigs rush toward the cliff.
The waters underneath part; in one ocean luminous
globes float up (in them hairy and ecstatic men);
in the other the Teeth Mother, naked at last.
Let us drive cars
the light beams
to the stars....
And return to earth
and live inside the drop of sweat
that falls from the chin of the Protestant tied in the fire.
A very useful thing about the poem-a-day workshop on th Blueline Forum is that it forces us to write something everyday, whether we want to or not. Sometime we strike out and sometimes we hit one over the fence, but every day we go to bat.
Since everyone else is writing a poem a day, the workshop allows me to read new poems everyday, poems written under the same production pressure as my own. Lots of times, I find my inspiration coming from the new poems others are writing.
Thane Zander wrote a very good poem last week, a remarkably good poem, one in a series of very good poems he's been writing daily for some time now.
His poem, touching on the subject of global warming, led me to this poem, not so much about global warming itself, but more about my perplexity at how, given incontrovertible scientific evidence, the fact of global warming continues to be denied by people who seem otherwise intelligent.
the most knowing
that it is real
that it is just
that it is the product
that in the end
the works of man
are at risk
the most unknowing
because of politics
because of debts
owed to the profiteers
because of in-
that shame a
because of desperate
to the pleasures of
in the end
will not allow
that this earth
and the universe
that surrounds it
can get along
Now, the poem from Thane Zander that triggered my poem. Although Thane wrote this poem before I wrote mine, he gets the last word on the subject, mainly because his is a better poem than mine.
The Glacial Degradation Theory
You sit at your work desk
as the day rolls on
the light of electric glow
as the heat
melts your mood
the lady in Pink
onto a computer keyboard
designed for soft touch typing.
You drive home air con on
the heat of the traffic
the steering wheel sweaty
from wringing wet hands
the day wanes
and glaciers survive
to live another eon, ancient
the last podocarp forest
as global warming
crumbles under the weight
of oxygen regeneration
the ladies inside
for children thirsty.
Sea levels rise and fall, the tides
the wash eroding beaches
on houses moved to sate owners
to provide air con and sweat
to changing changelings
a glacier growing
is both fact and myth
a recycling event from eons old.
John Ashbery was born in 1927 and, over the course of his years, has won nearly every major American award for poetry. He is recognized as one of America's most important, though still controversial, poets.
This poem is from his sixteenth volume of poetry, And The Stars Were Shining published in 1995 by The Noonday Press.
Just For Starters
Charges about this unhappiness:
They would run out and stay a minute,
exhibit the requisite stinginess,
roll up in a blanket.
That's how they and she looked to you and me.
But, of course we were vendors of a sort,
tied to no actual drift, and so
when it became poorer and spoons were put up for sale
we stood in our back alleys, chagrin
painted brilliantly on our faces.
I don't know what got me to write this poem
or any other (I mean, why does one write?),
unless you spoke to me in my dream
and I replied to you waking
and the affair of sleeping and waking began.
No matter how hard I try
I can't get back on the tricycle.
Look, a fish is coming to save us.
A sail nods gallantly in our direction.
Maybe unimportance isn't such a bad thing after all.
Blackbird Bye Bye, the first book of poetry by April Bernard, won the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets.
This poem is from her third book, Psalms, published in 1992 by W. W. Norton & Company.
Psalm of the Spit-Dweller
The wavelets hot against my toes, the distinctive smell: of groper,
washing bloated carcasses along the sand
Where the log has charred from beach fires, where the grass
has scorched from sun, and the dogs that trotted down the line
together and they said last year they age a baby
White fish jump frantic into the air, white terms dive frantic
upon them, lozenges of white deserting their elements
Come down upon me now, O wrath implicit in that wall of black
that looms quickly, almost comically, from the north:
But now it is like a lid closing over the greasy white
and snow-blue eye
of the sky: the lid will close forever
But the wrath is plain, unamused, as is apparent
once it has passed,
and the spit is two miles shorter than two ours ago
Meanwhile, crazy cottages stuck like bird houses above
the shifting sand
tell their own Pentateuchal comedy, as it will
someday also please the storm to laugh out loud
Here's Gary Blankenship again, with the next in his series of poems inspired by Allen Ginsberg's Howl.
After Howl IV
Wish You Were Here
who vanished into nowhere Zen New Jersey leaving a trail of ambiguous picture postcards of Atlantic City Hall,
- Allen Ginsberg, Howl
under the boardwalk
down by the sea
when we play
all the lines in the penny machine
the monkey appears
to spin the prayer wheel
for the bonus round
the world's largest ball of string
largest bat and ball
(left over from a VFW parade
urging a boycott of RJ Reynolds
for selling smokes made
in communist Albania)
for 50% off
two for one
another for a penny more
six for five
a baker's half dozen
a group of preppies
sneak under the boardwalk
with a handful of French postcards
half pack of Kools
Mark's hard cranberry
as I hit the jackpot
while you pray
for a bonus round
We haven't done Langston Hughes in a while. Here's a remedy to that, two poems from the book Selected Poems of Langston Hughes published in 1987 by the Vintage Books division of Random House.
She was young and beautiful
And golden like the sunshine
That warmed her body.
And because she was colored
Mayville had no place to offer her,
Nor fuel for the clean flame of joy
That tried to burn within her soul.
Sitting on old Mrs. Latham's back porch
Polishing the silver,
She asked herself two questions
And they ran something like this:
What can a colored girl do
On the money from a white woman's kitchen?
And ain't there any joy in this town?
Now the streets down by the river
Know more about this pretty Ruby Brown,
And the spinster shuttered houses of the bottoms
Hold a yellow girl
Seeking an answer to her questions.
The good church folk do not mention
Her name any more.
But the white men,
Habitues of the high shuttered houses,
Pay more money to her now
Than they ever did before
When she worked in their kitchen.
And a second one from Hughes. He does tend to make you want seconds.
Roland Hayes Beaten (Georgia: 1942
Sweet and docile,
Meek, humble, and kind:
Beware the day
They change their minds!
In the cotton fields,
Beware the hour
It uproots trees!
West Virginia poet Sara Zang is back with us this week. She posts on The Peaceful Pub, which I visit every week or so, on the lookout for good poems like this one.
I wear the night
like a shawl,
Star fringed and misty
it settles over my shoulders.
raises a graceful head
I open my basket
of wine and cheese
How comfortable this communion
with the willow,
the meringue moon
a just dessert
Photo by Chris Itz
I started going through some old stuff the other day and found a bunch of crappy old early poems begging to be to worked on (I almost said "fixed," but I not sure that's possible).
This poem, like the one I used last week, was originally written forty years ago after returning from military service. Both the poem last week and this one have been retitled and extensively rewritten.
graze their sheep
in the afternoon sun
as men in the village
in the shade
of a large banyan tree,
the murmur of their voices
drifts through the silence
of the dusty street, whispers
on the weak desert breeze
I went used book store shopping again and picked up Neither World by Ralph Angel. The book was published in 1995 by the Miami University Press.
Angel teaches in the writing program at the University of Redlands in California. He has published in numerous journals and magazines, including The American Poetry Review, The New Yorker, and Poetry. He also published a previous book of poems, Anxious Latitudes. His awards include a Fulbright Fellowship, a Pushcart Prize and Poetry magazine's Bess Hokin Prize.
This is a poem from Neither World.
Summer has its way
around here. People kind of
cave in, weary
with the certainty of nighttime,
how it draws even these last
illusory shimmers of tropical ice
into its own oblivion.
And all the flowers
have withered away. The animals
too, are forgotten.
Now the pavement
keeps getting hotter.
City lights churn.
And out in those parking lots
and behind iron doors
your neighbors stare into their
billion broken mirrors.
perhaps to blame them,
to give them all new faces,
the ones you've painlessly
selected-brisk and cheerful-
until each prisoner's
freed from his imagined
demands and all your hope
becomes your nature, out
among the lush foliage
of the future.
A desire to be noticed
perhaps, by the old guy
who rants in the stupid
glow of his icebox,
to show your scars
to the scowling landlady,
of lifting the lid of the dumpster,
to point them out,
to brush them aside with a laugh
and a wave of the hand
for the boy who
wanders these rooftops
each night, envying everyone
who can walk well enough
on the ground, even though
they're obvious and ordinary
what you'll finally speak of
does not belong to,
and longer resembles,
I like the rain, but not so much the aftermath
defoliate and pave
I keep pushing
and the damn grass
just keeps on growing,
right behind me,
of waiting until
it's out of my sight
and I'm back
in the house
with a cold Carta
the lesson is
the wages of rain
is sweat on a job
that will almost
need to be done
time to mull
the advice of the good
General Curtis LeMay,
by the better minds
of his time, but then
none of his critics
ever had to face
the jungle that is
my backyard -
the poor general
had the right solution,
he just never found
the right problem
I've been missing my weekly shot of Bukowski. Here's my first step in catching up.
At The Edge
a smoky room at the edge, it's always
been a smoky room at the
the edge never goes away.
sometimes you understand it
sometimes you even talk to it, you might
say, "hello, old friend,"
but it has no sense of humor, it slams you in the
"this is a serious business, I’m here to
kill you or drive you mad."
"all right," you reply, "I under-
tonight this room is smoky
and I am alone
listening to the silence.
I am tired of waiting on life,
it was so slow to arrive and so quick to
the streets and the cities are
love is on the damned cross
and death laughs in the back
at the edge, the edge, the edge.
it's so sad: the flowers are still trying
to please me,
the sun shouts my name,
but my courage fails
as the animals look on with large
this smoky room.
a stained rug.
a few books.
a painting or two.
a broken chair.
and empty pair of shoes
a tired old man
I had some stray thoughts last week, driving downtown to one of my coffee hangouts, resulting in this poem.
I'm much better
at other things
this is what
I do now
this for nearly
I hardly ever
of those other
Well, we've come to that bridge and it's time to cross it.
Thanks for stopping by. Come again next week.

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Year 5 – What Is The American Dream?
Through our class novel ‘Twist of Gold’ by Michael Murpurgo, pupils have been learningabout the impact of the Great Famine, which led to the mass migration of Irish people to the USA. In search of answers to our class project ‘What is the American dream?’, pupils researched information about The Statue of Liberty.
In class, we have been discussing if the symbolisation of freedom and democracy, has been achieved by those in search of the American Dream!
Through Art and Design, pupils recreated the Statue of Liberty’s iconic features. After they took still images of their peers in pose. Finally, through the development of line drawing and shading skills, pupils created self portraits.


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Overview of the Holle Baby Food Toxic Heavy Metals Class Action:
- Who: Maria del Carmen Vasquez de Maldonado has filed a class action lawsuit against JSG Babyfood LLC.
- Why: Vasquez de Maldonado claims JSG is misleading consumers by not disclosing that its Holle and Holle Organic branded baby food products contain toxic heavy metals.
- Or: The class action lawsuit was filed in federal court in New York.
JSG Babyfood LLC misled consumers by marketing and selling Holle and Holle Organic branded baby food products containing toxic heavy metals, according to a new class action lawsuit.
Complainant Maria del Carmen Vasquez de Maldonado claims that JSG does not list heavy metals in the ingredients of its baby food products or warn consumers of their potential presence. She also claims that, rather than being honest about the presence of heavy metals in its baby food products, JSG instead advertises on its website that its baby foods are “lead-free” and have “no detectable traces of heavy metals”.
The presence of heavy metals in JSG’s baby food products was discovered in December after lab tests ordered by the New York State Attorney General’s office, according to the class action lawsuit.
Holle Baby Food Test shows all samples positive for heavy metals
Vasquez de Maldonado says all 18 Holle baby food samples tested came back positive for various levels of heavy metals, including cadmium, lead, mercury and arsenic.
“Not a single sample from the defendant contained heavy metals,” the class action lawsuit states.
In response to the findings, the New York State Attorney General’s Office told JSG that it should remove claims from its website and marketing materials that its products contain no heavy metals.
Vasquez de Maldonado claims that JSG knowingly misled consumers about the presence of heavy metals in its baby food products because he knew they would be “unwilling to purchase baby food containing toxic heavy metals.”
“Defendant capitalized on the desire of Plaintiff and Class Members to purchase safe and wholesome baby food for infants and children,” the class action says.
Vasquez de Maldonado alleges that JSG is guilty of breach of express warranty, fraudulent concealment and unjust enrichment and in violation of General business law in New York.
Plaintiff seeks a jury trial and seeks an injunction as well as monetary, statutory, treble and punitive damages for herself and all class members.
Vasquez de Maldonado wants to represent a national class and a New York underclass of consumers who have purchased Holle and Holle Organic brand baby food products contaminated with toxic heavy metals.
A similar class action lawsuit was filed in January against Plum Organics over the baby food maker’s allegations did not disclose that its products contained high levels of toxic heavy metals.
You may be eligible for a examination of legal claims under the following circumstances if you have a child who has consumed baby food contaminated with toxic metals and has been diagnosed with autism, another neurological disorder, or cognitive impairment (links to paid content d ‘a lawyer).
Plaintiff is represented by Jason P. Sultzer, Joseph Lipari and Daniel Markowitz of Sultzer Law Group PC; David C. Magagna Jr. and Charles E. Schaffer of Levin Sedran & Berman; and Jeffrey K. Brown of Leeds Brown Law, PC
the Holle Baby Food Toxic Heavy Metals Class Action Legal Action is Vasquez de Maldonado vs. JSG Babyfood LLCCase No. 1:22-cv-01920, in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York.
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Fubo Hill (Wave-subduing hill) is about 2 km to the north from Elephant Trunk Hill on the bank of the Li River. Another Karst feature, half of it stands in the river blocking part of the waters flow, which gives the hill its name. A legend says Ma Yuan (14BC-49AD) from the Eastern Han Dynasty (25AD-220AD), also called General Fubo was passing and threw the pearls he was carrying into the river; hence the hill was named in his honor.
The hill rises 213 meters, is 120m long and 60m wide.
When exploring the hill, there a number of different attractions for visitors to see. At the foot of the hill is the "Pearl Retuning Cave" which opens up over the water. This cave has many ancient carvings and inscriptions from famous Chinese through the ages. It also includes the "Thousand Buddha Cave" which contains hundreds of excellent carvings of Buddha over three levels and a famous self portrait by the renowned artist Mi Fu (1051-1107), whose works are very rare.
Also in the cave is the "Sword Testing Rock" which hangs down from the roof, stopping only 3cm from the floor. The rock gets its name from the legend that General Fubo tested his sword upon it.
There is a lovely Cloister and a tearoom built on the eastern side and a pathway leading up the hill. About halfway up the path you can rest and get a nice view over Guilin and the river from the Tingtao Pavilion. From the western side you can climb to the top of the hill passing by the Kuishui Pavilion on your way.

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Travelport president and CEO Gordon Wilson on Thursday morning told investors that while negotiations were ongoing, “We think a large majority of our business with International Airlines Group is going to end up in this private channel. What may change is the flow between revenue and commission. It may well be that the revenue doesn’t change that much but the commission might because of the way BA are structuring these individual deals with agencies.”
Adopting the private channel allows TMCs to shield clients against a British Airways/Iberia surcharge that took effect Wednesday.
Wilson said the airline company is “seeking key agencies to engage with us to enable non-surcharged content in exchange for different booking fees and potentially also different levels of commission or rebate that we pay to those travel agencies.”
Wilson described the targeted agencies as corporate travel specialists operating in Spain and the United Kingdom. He noted that American Airlines encouraged U.S. agencies to book its partner IAG carriers using the AA code to avoid the surcharge. While Wilson said IAG could push the model elsewhere in Europe, he did not see it spreading to Asia or Australia.
BCD Travel on Tuesday indicated it expected Sabre and Travelport to follow Amadeus in agreeing to the private channel arrangement.
Mimicking similar announcements by American Express Global Business Travel, Carlson Wagonlit Travel, HRG and others, BCD Travel said it signed a “multi-year deal” in which BCD was “strongly committed” to working with the airlines and technology providers “to determine how new technologies and distribution capabilities can be implemented to improve the travel experience for mutual clients and travelers.”
BCD also noted that it was “committed” to retaining the benefits of traditional distribution. That includes “the ability to shop from among multiple competing offers.” BCD Travel also “will continue exploring the option of GDSs providing a viable NDC solution.”
According to a Sabre spokesperson, “We want to reassure our customers that we are urgently working to sign a technology agreement to obtain BA/Iberia content through the Sabre GDS. Once in place, agencies will need to speak directly with BA/Iberia (or BA/Iberia will contact agencies directly) regarding commercial options to access this content. Our driving goal has been and continues to be a balanced solution that provides benefit to both BA/Iberia and our agency customers.”


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A new art exhibit called “Images of a Legend” opens this week in the city of Arras in northern France. Focused on France’s most recognizable historical figure, the exhibit aims to paint Napoleon Bonaparte as the military leader single-handedly responsible for rebuilding France after the French Revolution.
But not everyone is quite so enamored with the bicorne-wearing emperor. Two centuries after his death, many wonder if he should be remembered as the hero he is so often portrayed as in paintings and textbooks, or if the title “ambitious warmonger” would be more appropriate. Regardless of opinions, his lasting mark on France is undeniable, physically, legally, and politically.
“Napoleon embodied… the ‘Myth of the Savior,’” says historian Xavier Mauduit. This ‘Myth of the Savior,’ according to Mauduit, is behind the ruling style of all French political heroes, and explains the take-charge, man-of-the-moment attitude of France’s favorite leaders, from Charles de Gaulle to wunderkind Emmanuel Macron. “There [are] now French presidential elections focused on one person who can fix everything,” continues Mauduit, who claims that this attitude is a large part of France’s political legacy left by Napoleon, and one we should keep in mind as Macron finds his footing in his new presidential role.

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||Syndicated columnist Robert Novak is co-host of CNN's "Evans Novak, Hunt & Shields," as well as "Crossfire." He is providing exclusive convention analysis for CNN.com.|
Robert Novak: Big win eludes Gore in final presidential debate
ST. LOUIS, Missouri (CNN) -- Democratic presidential nominee Al Gore was clearly looking for a home run in Tuesday night's final presidential debate against his Republican rival George W. Bush. He didn't get it. And although he did knock out an extra base hit, he doesn't get credit for it because of his pyrotechnics.
It's as though a batter kept slugging hits all the way to the wall, but before and after danced around home plate. In baseball, the hits would count anyway. But this isn't baseball. It is politics, where style is as important -- perhaps more important -- than substance.
If the first of the three presidential debates was about whether Bush could stand up to so feared a debater as his Democratic opponent, the third debate was all about whether the vice president could compensate for his disappointing performance in the first two contests.
Gore appeared to win the first debate on points, but was the real loser
thanks to his on-camera behavior: sighing, grimacing, rolling his eyes when
Bush was talking. Widely criticized for his condescension, Gore restrained
himself to such a level of passivity in the second debate that Bush actually
won it on points.
So, with Gore falling in the polls (and in critical battleground states), the third debate was crucial for the vice president's campaign. He had to restore his aggressiveness while not reverting to his obnoxious behavior of the first debate.
He was only partially successful. In resuming the offensive, and again
winning easily on debater's points, he did manage to keep a straight face while Bush was speaking -- though with obvious effort.
But the sight of the vice president in full battle array (or "Gore being Gore" as his advisers put it) is not a pleasant one. He interrupted, tried always to get the last word, spoke when he wasn't supposed to, repeatedly broke the self-imposed debate rules -- especially by asking Bush questions -- and even walked into Bush's space at one point to menace him.
Whatever such conduct has to do with being president of the United States, it has a lot to do with the "swing" voters who will decide this election. Most people who really care about the issues of taxation, government spending, as well as Social Security and Medicare have made up their minds.
The floating vote -- probably between 10 percent and 15 percent of the
electorate -- care more about character. They may not have been all that
pleased with Gore rampaging around the stage in St. Louis.
But Gore did shove Bush off balance. Anybody would be off balance trying to deal with "Gore being Gore." Analysts who complained that Bush's droll wit and cool demeanor was gone in the third debate might wonder how they would handle Gore wreaking havoc.
The early polls indicate no significant movement of support in either
direction. If that trend holds, the debate constitutes a defeat for Gore.
His hope is that the post-debate commentators will convince American voters
that he really dealt Bush a serious blow.


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Erra announces new lineup, records new EP
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Have fun wasting $20,000 producing this EP on a no-name band going nowhere on even Youtube let alone anywhere
They may have to bump this news to the 'more news not displayed below' page due to lack of interest and original commenting.
Saw the singer at a Thy Art Is Murder show one time bragging to the band about how hot his girlfriend got.
Alright. I'm aggravated. My friend lives in the opposite room and he just became brilliant at attracting the ladies. He tried so hard to get laid for 2 yrs. and it never once worked. The guy discovered the Master Attraction website (Google it) by Jake Ayres. All he's doing now is banging women. He's always having the ladies back and I can't help but hear it, which is gross and I wish he had not discovered that site.
This band is ten times more talented than parkway
I just can't get into this bands clean's singing. The rest is great, but idk I'm still willing to give these guys a chance -Adam
I Think this band only made 10K on they're last album.
This band is really good, I'm digging the cleans too which is really unusual for me. I'm just glad to not hear a chipmunk haha.
great band. not too many people think so, but looking forward to their ep
erra is amazing, I'm surprised by all the hate
band rules I second the comment above about enjoying the clean vocals, which is a thing I don't usually enjoy
Dont like the clean vocals but the dudes are legit.
Really dig their albums! Saw them live and they absolutely sucked was nothing like the albums and their old vocalist couldn't hack it on stage. Very let down, hopefully the additions will be better.


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The potential importance of this knowledge to gynecology, family planning, and birth control is obvious. Shane marked it as to-read Mar 02, Surgical confirmation was found in ninety-five of the one hundred and two cases.
Blueprint For Immortality: The Electric Patterns of Life by Harold Saxton Burr
Jacob rated it really liked it Jul 24, So a rabbit was stimulated and nine hours later was anaesthetized. But a crude analogy may help to show what the fields of life — L-fields for short — do and why they are so important. Barbara Robinson marked it as to-read Jun 06, Burr was a great pioneer!
Please correct the highlighted fields Its molecules and cells are constantly being torn apart and then rebuilt with fresh material from the food we eat. When one day she saw them rising rapidly, she knew that ovulation was imminent, and went to her husband.
Harold Saxton Burr – Blueprint for Immortality
hlueprint Burr discovered that all living things – from men to mice, from trees to seeds – are molded and controlled by electro-dynamic fieldswhich could be measured and mapped with standard voltmeters.
This remarkable discovery has great practical implications. Spiros Kakkanas marked it as to-read May 03, Now the mystery has been solved: I read the article with rapt attention and interest because I have been working on similar subject. Nouria Vandermeulen marked it as to-read Dec 23, Similarly, a ‘battered’ L-field – that is, one with abnormal voltage patterns – can give a warning of something ‘out of shape’ in the body, sometimes in advance of actual symptoms.
Their discovery is of immense significance to all of us. Chance Cardona marked it as to-read May 04, Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine.
He conducted numerous experiments with Dr. This book is not yet featured on Listopia. Burr for such enchanting research. Burr decided to examine the electrical properties of cancer-susceptible mice to determine if the voltage measurements would change during the initiation and growth of cancer tissue.
But what do I major in? And, for the first time, they showed that the movement of ovulation can accurately be determined electrically.
For numerous measurements of female L-fields have revealed that some women may ovulate over the entire menstrual cycle, that ovulation may occur without menstruation, and menses without ovulation. Burr was a keen amateur painter of waterscapes and landscapes. A longed for – and much loved – child was the happy result of this application of Dr. Comments Manolo October 13, Very interesting article!
But a crude analogy may haorld to show what the fields of life – L-fields for short – do and sadton they are so important.
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Lacey marked it as to-read Jun 04, Harold Saxton Burr, Ph. We assumed, then, that variations in the subsidiary fields would be reflected in variations in the flow of blyeprint in the whole system – as we had found in ovulation and malignancy. When we meet a friend we have not seen for six months, there is not one molecule in his face that was there when we last saw him, yet we still recognize our friend imjortality his ongoing reconstruction has been performed according to the patterns of his unique field.
Its molecules and cells are constantly being torn apart and rebuilt with fresh material from the food we eat. From to the late ‘s, he published, either alone or with others, more than ninety-three scientific papers. Duke marked it as to-read Jun 06, Something like this happens in the human body. Something like this happens in the human body. Earlier biochemistry studies had suggested that — through the direction of DNA — molecules become information systems.
It is not an accident, nor chaos. Gareth marked it as to-read Aug 10, During all phases of the healing process, gradient measurements could be made to show the body initiating various functions pertaining to wound healing.
Thanks for telling us about the problem. The following excerpts are taken from Blueprint For Immortality, by Dr. Kanti Mohan Pandit February 22, I read the article with rapt attention and interest because I have been working on similar subject.

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© Ballingarry Church
When James Enright was appointed as parish priest in 1851
he was in America raising money for the building of the church in his
then parish of Askeaton. He started building a new church in Ballingarry
but was moved onto Parteen in 1874 before the church was finished. Timothy
Shanahan supervised the completion of the new church in 1879 after he
had succeeded Fr Enright as parish priest.
© Altar in Ballingarry Church
Fr Ronald Costelloe restored the church in 1991. The spire
of the church can be seen from miles around. On the inside doors of the
church, there are stained glass panels of St. Patrick and St. Ita to commemorate
the 100th birthday of Archdeacon Patrick Lyons in 1993.
© Plaque to Rev. Downes
Inside the church on the right there is an altar and stained
glass window to the Immaculate Conception. There is also a statue to Joseph
and the child that was donated by the Murphy family. On the left there
is a stained glass window of the Good Shepherd that was donated by James
and Mary Moore. There is a stained glass window of the Blessed Sacrament
that was given by Fr Costello and a window of the Crucifixion given by
Austin and Peg Glorney.
On the right of the main altar there is an altar to Our Lady. The sons
of John Neville donated the stained glass window to his memory in 1896.
On the left of the altar there is an altar to Sacred Lady and there is
also a stained glass window that is to the memory of Hanora and Mary Bennett.
There is also a chapel to the Blessed Sacrament and a shrine to Our Lady
of Lourdes that was given by the people of the parish in 1991.
© Side Altar and Stained Glass Windows in Ballingarry Church
Buried within the church is:
Downes, P.P. 1894-1901, Died September 10 1901, aged 63
Buried in the grounds of the church are:
MacNamee, P.P. 1982-1988, Died December 22 1988
Thomas Wall, P.P. 1936-1956
Patrick Lyons, P.P. 1956-1982, Died Jan.1 1999, aged 106
Fr. Ronald Costello, P.P Ballingarry 1990-2004 , Died March 5th 2004


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text: Human beings were created with limitations. From dust we came, and to dust we will return. This was by design, so that in our lifetimes, we would grow into a holy dependence on God. So often it is easy to run from weakness and replant when life gets hard. Jesus, however, wouldn’t have traveled farther than 100 miles throughout his ministry. There is something sacred to growing where planted and learning to call on God instead of restarting. So much joy and peace can come in embracing limitations and growing a sacred, desperate need for God.


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Boulder County to phase out GMO crops on public land
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BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — Boulder County officials have decided to phase out the growing of genetically modified crops on public land.
Farmers who lease the land from the county will be allowed to plant such crops next year but will have to stop using the public land for GMO corn by the end of 2019. GMO sugar beets will need to be phased out completely by the end of 2021.
Farmers have argued that independent scientific research on the issue should take place before deciding to phase out crops. Commissioners said, however, that research could be done concurrently with a phase-out.
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With 2017 soon coming to an end and a new year on the horizon, this is a great time for social media marketing companies to consider how social media marketing has progressed this year. Some significant trends have developed, while others have faded out.
If your company offers social media marketing services and you want to get a head start on 2018, be sure you are already making the most of this year's main trends.
- Live Video - Video has always been a draw in any kind of online content. Video now goes even further, offering popular live streaming content on sites such as Facebook and YouTube. Since its beginning in 2016, nearly half of all social media marketing services have experimented with video and based on the positive results, this will continue to be a hot marketing activity.
- Ecommerce for Social Media - Facebook has become one of the most preferred platforms for advertising because of the rise of social media. To expand on this idea, social media marketing firms can now sell directly from their ads on these platforms and see success. Users familiar with this type of advertising are increasingly looking for easy ways to find and purchase products quickly from their social media accounts.
- Instagram - Every social media marketing company knows that Facebook is king of all things marketing. Yet right behind it is Instagram with ecommerce, video, and expiring content. It is quickly positioning itself above Snapchat, which is disappearing.
Snapchat initially introduced expiring or ephemeral content, which is content like images and videos that are only viewable for a short period of time. This is now instrumental in getting user attention faster than ever before. This idea is growing quickly and has been adopted by Instagram. Because this has been so successful, expiring content may be something your social media marketing firm wants to consider to obtain more followers.
Audience Lines Blurring
Social media has become such an important component of the Internet as a whole that the lines between social connection and various user groups have started to blend. The Internet is more connected than ever with more users adopting social accounts and using them alongside many different websites. Audiences are getting older as users age; however, using social media is easier and more normal for everyone in today's world.
Social media marketing using brand influencers such as notable names and faces is also on the rise. Brands are marketing very successfully to those who follow these influencers, thereby gaining followers and increasing their sales as a result. Today’s popular social platforms make influencing easy.
Your social media marketing company may be managing more accounts in an effort to effectively spread content and advertising since automation is becoming more widely used. Development of automation software is growing as demand increases. Marketers such as you are always looking for ways to do work more efficiently with more with social media.
This year has been a big one for social media marketing services, with many newer trends developing or taking a firmer hold. Going into 2018, your social media marketing company should explore the ways you can implement these important trends into your social media marketing campaigns to remain competitive. While there are always new trends developing, many of them come about from audience response to existing trends!


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Ottawa has experienced a wave of media headlines profiling multiple violent crimes in our downtown core in recent weeks.
Based on these stories alone, one might think Ottawa is a dangerous place to live. The reality is that our communities have no clear picture of the crime problem. Where knowledge and evidence should inform action, there is a frustrating lack of reliable data from the city and the Ottawa Police Service regarding crime rates in our neighbourhoods.
Ottawa can do better. The Police Services Board is meeting at the end of the month to review the 2017 departmental budget. It has an opportunity to increase funding of the police service’s data capacity, in order to produce better information to direct policing action and to make reliable neighbourhood crime data available to the public.
Over the past two years, the Lowertown Community Association embarked on a mission to try to answer residents’ questions on the crime problem: Is crime in our neighbourhood increasing? Our search for reliable crime data initially brought us to the ByWard Market Safety and Security Committee and Crime Prevention Ottawa, neither of which had access to data on actual crime rates in our neighbourhood.
We then turned to the most logical place for crime numbers: the police.
The Ottawa Police Service directed us to two data collections available on their website; both are seriously flawed. The Crime Mapping Tool shows police calls-for-service from the public and displays them on a city map for the previous 15 days. The tool itself is preceded by a page of disclaimers explaining why the data are unreliable. The section of the map covering Lowertown is always crowded with icons, making the area look like a hotbed of crime. However, many of the calls-for-service are reported more than once, and some turn out to be of insufficient severity to actually open a police file.
The other tool, Crime Stats, is aggregate crime data for the city and apparently goes back five years. But the posted data only cover a one-year period and are grouped by ward, not neighbourhood, making it difficult to follow community level issues from this website.
In July 2015, members of the Lowertown Community Association gave a presentation to the Ottawa Police Services Board on the need for open, reliable crime data at a neighbourhood level. At that time, the board indicated its support for proactive data release, but did not commit to a timeline or specific actions. The association then submitted a request to the police through the Freedom of Information Act and paid a fee to have neighbourhood data processed. On receiving the release for 2009 to 2014, we believed we finally had a reliable picture of crime in the area. Unfortunately, our confidence was seriously undermined when we received this year’s updated data release for the years 2009 to 2015, which restated the numbers for all crime categories back to 2009.
The new stats do not add up.
In some categories, there are significant discrepancies between the original and the restated numbers for 2009 to 2015. How can numbers from the same year change by more than 30 per cent between reporting periods? When we followed up with the OPS, it stated that the geographic boundaries defining neighbourhoods are not consistently applied by officers entering the data and that the location of an incident is not always entered correctly.
The police engaged in some “quality assurance” work on their data, which resulted in shifts in the numbers. They further stated that they are realigning some of their crime categories to be more in line with Statistics Canada reporting, and some categories may have been redefined or collapsed into others.
Do these explanations account for such significant discrepancies? Will next year’s release produce new revisions that again change the entire portrait? The city and police are capable of better work than this. Chief Charles Bordeleau should commit to improving the collection, analysis and release of reliable crime data and city council should commit the necessary funds in the 2017 budget to allow for this.
How else can we make informed decisions about the future of our communities?
Liz Bernstein is president of the Lowertown Community Association, a volunteer-led community organization representing the interests of residents of Lowertown. Twitter is @mylowertown