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Posts Tagged 'books'
Attention Span 2012 | Anselm Berrigan
Dana Ward | This Can't Be Life | Edge | 2011
Sure it can.
Anne Boyer | My Common Heart | Spooky Girlfriend | 2011
Totally opened up when I read it back to front, which set me up more acutely for the logics of its arrangement. The voicing structures morph under their surfaces in all these odd ways.
Hoa Nguyen | As Long As Trees Last | Wave | 2012
As the dude in Masked & Anonymous said, "sometimes it's not enough to know what things mean. Sometimes you gotta know what things don't mean"
Joe Brainard | Collected Writings | Library of America | 2012
"Everything that has ever existed has been reproduced in miniature by someone, at sometime."
Leslie Scalapino | Way | North Point | 1988
Read this along with The Descent of Alette (A. Notley) and Douglas Oliver's The Infant & The Pearl in the late fall. All long poems coming out of the $$-bleak mid-late eighties. Major shit. Condescension-free ambition for the work to be large.
Fred Moten | B Jenkins | Duke | 2009
The last time I did one of these lists I put this book on it. But I keep reading it and reading it, probably more than anything else in the past few years, and every time I open it up again, it totally opens up again. So there's that.
Maged Zaher | Thank You for the Window Office | Ugly Duckling | 2012
The main reason I'm doing this list is because I'm reading this book right now.
Lunar Chandelier Press
Lunar Chandelier has put out books by John Godfrey, Toni Simon, Lynn Behrendt, Vyt Bakaitis, and Joe Elliot since it started up in 2010. High quality reads and objects. No bullshit, no program. You can tell the work is cared for.
Camille Roy | Sherwood Forest | Futurepoem | 2011
Dynamic diction triggering layers of invitation. Makes me want to write.
Mary Burger | Then Go On | Litmus | 2012
Lent this to someone who won't give it back.
Murat Nemet-Nejat | The Spiritual Life of Replicants | Talisman | 2011
I put down something about this book being a total breakthrough for the present art, on the levels of feeling bringing about events and speculative sensory observation, and that's the way I feel about it.
Arlo Quint | Death to Explosions | Skysill | forthcoming 2013
Wrote about Quint for the Boston Review not so long ago. Now his first book should be out sometime soon. The thing I'm wanting the most to be in the world. I love listening to Quint's work.
Michael Robbins | Alien Vs. Predator | Penguin | 2012
The only thing this book is missing is a Tebow moment, and maybe a podcast on betting lines with Cousin Sal.
Corina Copp | Pro Magenta/Be Met | Ugly Duckling | 2011
Fabulous propulsion.
Note: all of Kevin Varrone's baseball poem Box Score: An Autobiography is amazing. There's a chapbook, but I can't find it, because some kid hid it somewhere.
Anselm Berrigan's contributions to Attention Span for 2010, 2009, 2007, 2004. Return to 2012 directory.
Attention Span 2012 | Matvei Yankelevich
Sergio Chejfec, tr. Margaret Carson | My Two Worlds | Open Letter | 2008
I just found out about Chejfec at the ALTA conference this October, and am very pleased. This is a writer's writer, translated by a translator's translator. I strolled through this "novel" as slowly as the novelist recounts his walk, feeling each comma as a cobblestone in the park of prose. It's a beautiful, understated work; likewise the translation.
Paul Stephens, Jenelle Troxell, Robert Hardwick Weston, eds. | Convolution No. 1 | Fall 2011
This magazine, the magazine of my dreams, situates itself in the trajectory of the Evergreen Review (of the 'Pataphysics issue), The New Freewoman, and The Little Review. But it's an update to something modern, beautifully produced, designed to enhance thought. This issue, if you can find it, has weird stuff on Duchamp, a Bob Brown reproduction, a fascinating essay by Nancy Tewksbury on Xu Bing, an interview with Charles Bernstein, a cool manifesto on "Patacriticism by Paul Stephens, and some really cool looking essays and art that I still have to get my head around. The editors have an incredible vision for what a magazine could be. It may be a little too hip in places (slight pieces by Sarah Crowner, Craig Dworkin); but it's super relevant for the moment and engaging as hell—both conceptually and materially—to sit with and thumb through.
Steven Zultanski | Agony | Book Thug | 2012
This is a long lyric poem, a kind of sur-literal autobiography, from the author of Pad and Cop Kisser. My blurb couldn't fit on the back of the book, nor even here, so here is just a part of it:
In a manner that parodies and surpasses the lunacy of American pundits, Zultanski leads us on a mathematical journey into the volume of humanity's tears and saliva exchange in kisses, and the square-footage of breasts and pet-intestines to explore the Markson-esqe, Mobius sociality of the solipsistic self. […] Call it conceptualism, lyricism, the new literality, or agonic financial planning—whatever it is, Agony is not for the faint of heart.
Thom Donovan | The Hole | Displaced | 2012
Through epistolary poems and lots of back-matter (responses, essays, etc.) Donovan engages some current issues raised (very differently) in conceptual works. There's actual poetry in this, taking up the bulk of it even. I love the whimsy of Michael Cross's design and the way all the design choices support the process of digging the book as one digs a hole in the ground.
Alan Loney | The Books to Come | Cuneiform | 2012
This is one of the best books I've read about books—the reading of books, the making of books, the distribution of books, the hoarding of books, the etc. of books. The writing is precise, modest, laconic, easy. The thoughts are useful, provocative but without pushing any buttons. If you can find the earlier first edition (hard-cover), that'd make it even better.
Fred Moten | Hughson's Tavern | Leon Works | 2008
This summer, I finally got this book and was very glad I did. Read the music. Note: it's a thinking music.
Matvei Yankelevich's contributions to Attention Span for 2010 and 2007. Return to 2012 directory.
Attention Span 2012 | Brian Kim Stefans
1. Alain Badiou | The Rebirth of History: Times of Riots and Uprisings | Verso | 2012
2. Perry Anderson | Considerations on Western Marxism | Verso | 1976
3. Ian Bogost | Alien Phenomenology, or What is it Like to be a Thing | Minnesota | 2012
4. George Berkeley | Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous | Hackett | 1979 [1713]
5. James Warren | The Presocratics: Natural Philosophers before Socrates | California | 2007
6. Mikhail Bakunin | Statism and Anarchy | Cambridge | 1990 [1873]
7. Quentin Meillassoux | After Finitude: An Essay on the Necessity of Contingency | Continuum | 2010
8. Tiqqun | Raw Materials for a Theory of the Young-Girl | Translator/publisher unknown | 2001 [1999]
9. Ring T. Cardé and Vincent H. Resh, eds. | A World of Insects: The Harvard University Press Reader | 2012
10. Kathy Acker | Blood and Guts in High School | Grove | 1978
11. David Chalmers | The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory | Oxford | 1997
I don't have time to annotate all of these, but basically I'm just doing a lot of reading in idealist philosophy (inspired by the Speculative Realists' desire to imagine a metaphysics in a pre-Kantian fashion and Badiou's call for a controlling "Idea" in future political activism or protest), pre-Marxist (or co-Marxist) political theory, and cognitive theory (including that of animals!) in terms of its possible relationship to Speculative Realism (otherwise known as Object-Oriented Ontology). The Acker book might seem random in that context, but I assigned it for my Experimental Fiction class and haven't read it yet.
Brian Kim Stefans's contribution to Attention Span for 2011 and 2003. Return to 2012 directory.
Attention Span 2012 | Amy Evans
The first section is anthologies, letters and art/performance work. The second is single author poetry (collections and pamphlets).
Peter Hughes, ed.| Sea Pie: A Shearsman Anthology of Oystercatcher Poetry | Shearsman | 2012
Harriet Tarlo, ed. | The Ground Aslant: An Anthology of Radical Landscape Poetry | Shearsman | 2011
Kenneth Rexroth and James Laughlin, ed. Lee Bartlett | Selected Letters | Norton | 1991
ifpthenq, illustrated by Simon Taylor of Joy As Tiresome Vandalism | Top Trumps: 34 poet playing cards ("inspired by City Lights edition") | August 2012
Robert Duncan | Poems 1952: for Jess [facsimile of a chapbook hand-made by Robert Duncan] | A shuffaloff / Eternal Network Joint (149 copies) | 2012
Robert Duncan, ed. Michael Boughn and Victor Coleman | The H.D. Book | California | 2011
Ana Cavic and Renee O'Drobinak | Myopic Violence: Poetry exchange/intervention between the Ladies of the Press | Pamphlet of faxed drawings and poetry created during lunch breaks at the office, contribution to Maintenant series event at the Rich Mix, Brick Lane, London | March 30, 2012
Richard Parker | The Traveller & The Defence of Heaven | Veer | May 2012
Jeff Hilson | In The Assarts | Veer | July 2010
H.D. | Notes on Thought and Vision & The Wise Sappho | City Lights | 2001
Lisa Robertson | On Physical Real Beginning and What Happens Next | above/ground press | April 2012
Michael McClure | Rain Mirror: New Poems | New Directions | 1999
Michael McClure | Plum Stones | O Books | 2002
Geraldine Monk | Lobe Scarps & Finials | Leafe | 2011
Luke Roberts | False Flags | Mountain | 2011
Marcus Slease | Godzenie | BlazeVOX | 2009
[Justin Katko], Megan Sword, Timpani Skullface | SUPERIOR CITY SONG | Critical Documents (100 copies) | February 2012
Michael Palmer | Thread | New Directions | 2011
Tim Atkins | Petrarch | Crater Press / Crater VI | August 2010
Kenneth Patchen | Selected Poems | New Directions | 1957
Denise Riley | Selected Poems | Reality Street | 2000
Gregory Woods | We Have the Melon | Carcanet, 1992 – and looking forward to reading: An Ordinary Dog | Carcanet | 2011
Timothy Thornton | Jocund Day | Mountain | 2011
Bill Griffiths | Durham & Other Sequences | West House | 2002
Sophie Mayer | Kiss Off | Oystercatcher | 2011
Tom Pickard | Hole in the Wall: New & Selected Poems | Flood | 2002
Tom Pickard | Ballad of Jamie Allan | Flood | 2007
George Oppen, ed. Michael Davidson | New Collected Poems | New Directions | 2002
Lisa Jarnot | Black Dog Songs | Flood | 2003
Ulli Freer | Recovery (Incomplete) | Rot Direkt | 2011
Sean Bonney | Happiness. Poems After Rimbaud | Unkant | 2011
Simon Perril | A Clutch of Odes | Oystercatcher | 2009
Carol Watts | When blue light falls 3 | Oystercatcher | 2012
John James | Cloud Breaking Sun | Oystercatcher | 2012
Tony Lopez | Works on Paper | Crate Press / Crater 15 | 2011
Edith Sitwell | "Some Notes on My Own Poetry" | in Collected Poems | Duckworth Overlook | 2006
Amy Evans is the co-author of Viersome #01 (Veer, 2012) and the author of Collecting Shells (Oystercatcher, 2011). This year, her work appears in Women's Studies Quarterly and the following forthcoming anthologies: Dear World & Everyone In It: New Poetry in the UK (Bloodaxe); Sea Pie (Shearsman); and In Place of Love and Country: Poetry at the Pound Conference (University of New Orleans Press). She is co-editor with Shamoon Zamir of The Unruly Garden: Robert Duncan and Eric Mottram, Letters & Essays (Peter Lang). She lives in London.
This is Amy Evans's first contribution to Attention Span. Return to 2012 directory.
Attention Span 2012 | Alan Felsenthal
Lisa Jarnot | Robert Duncan, The Ambassador from Venus: A Biography | California | 2012
Nate Klug | Consent | Pressed Wafer | 2012
Chris Marker | Letter from Siberia | film | 1957
Thomas Meyer | Kintsugi | Flood | 2011
Amanda Nadelberg | Bright Brave Phenomena | Coffee House | 2012
Charles Sanders Peirce, ed. Nathan Houser and Christian Kloesel | The Essential Peirce vol. 1 | Indiana UP | 1992
Ariana Reines | Mercury | Fence | 2011
Mary Ruefle | Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures | Wave | 2012
Rusty Morrison | After Urgency | Tupelo | 2012
Louis Simpson | At the End of the Open Road | Wesleyan | 1963
David Foster Wallace | Infinite Jest | Little, Brown | 1996
Alan Felsenthal edits The Song Cave with Ben Estes. They have edited the forthcoming A Dark Dreambox of Another Kind: The Poems of Alfred Starr Hamilton.
This is Alan Felsenthal's first contribution to Attention Span. Return to 2012 directory.
Attention Span 2012 | Minal Singh, Kaveh Bassiri, and friends
Jerome Rothenberg | 25 Caprichos a partir de Goya | Calamus Poesia
Mark Liedner| Beauty Was the Case that They Gave Me | Factory Hollow
Joshua Edwards and Van Edwards | Campeche: Poems & Photographs | Noemi
Kim Gek Lin Short | China Cowboy | Tarpaulin Sky
Mary Jo Bang, trans. | Dante's Inferno: A New Translation | Graywolf
Gina Abelkop | Darling Beastlettes | Apostrophe
Sommer Browning | Either Way I'm Celebrating | Birds LLC
Roger Sedarat | Ghazal Games | Ohio
Julian T. Brolaski | gowanus atropolis | Ugly Duckling
Andrea Rexilius | Half of What They Carried Flew Away | Letter Machine
Loren Erdrich and Sierra Nelson | I Take Back the Sponge Cake | Rose Metal
Caroline Bergvall, Laynie Browne, Teresa Carmody, and Vanessa Place, eds. | I'll Drown My Book: Conceptual Writing by Women | Les Figues
Julia Bloch | Letters to Kelly Clarkson | Sidebrow
Rebecca Lindenberg | Love, An Index | McSweeney's
Brandon Shimoda | O Bon | Litmus
Tomaz Salamun | On the Tracks of Wild Game | Ugly Duckling
Matthew Henriksen | Ordinary Sun | Black Ocean
Dan Magers | Party Knife | Birds LLC | #
Eric Baus | Scared Text | Center for Literary Publishing
Raúl Zurita | Songs For His Disappeared Love | Action
Joshua Corey and G.C. Waldrep, eds. | The Arcadia Project: North American Postmodern Pastoral | Ahsahta
Dot Devota | The Eternal Wall | Cannibal
Héctor Viel Temperley, trans. Stuart Krimko | The Last Four Books of Héctor Viel Temperley | Sand Paper
Joyelle McSweeney | The Necropastoral | spork
Frances Richard | The Phonemes | Les Figues
Joseph Harrington | Things Come On: An Amneoir | Wesleyan
Dana Ward | This Can't Be Life | Edge| $
Farid Matuk | This Isa Nice Neighborhood | Letter Machine
Noel Black Uselysses | Ugly Duckling | *
Anna Moschovakis | You and Three Others are Approaching A Lake | Coffee House
These titles were selected by
C. Violet Eaton
Chris Martin *
Douglas Hahn #
Jared White
Kaveh Bassiri
Mary Austin Speaker $
Minal Shekhawat
Robert Alan Wendeborn
Carrie Murphy
Rosa Alcala
Russel Swensen
Sara Nicholson
Steven Karl
* Microreview of Noel Black's Uselysses (Ugly Duckling) by Chris Martin
A much anticipated full-length debut, Black's book enfolds libraries within its wings, which flap about on sonar-taut lines. It's a book of friendship and derangement, hope and domestic adventure. It concludes with the New Narrative's newest classic, "Prophecies for the Past," which Kevin Killian called "the sort of reading experience they must have invented poetry for." And Noel wrote that shit in prose.
Chris Martin is the author of American Music (Copper Canyon 2007) and Becoming Weather (Coffee House 2011).
# Microreview of Dan Magers' Party Knife (Birds LLC) by Doug Hahn
Party Knife's poems are boiling with dark humor, quiet rage, and poignant sadness. They weave the conscious and unconscious with an Ashberian intensity that verges on schadenfreude, but in the end we glimpse the everyday sublime. On the surface level, these poems are very funny and very bizarre, but they are also fine examples of poetic form and do indeed have a profound overall meaning—this is what makes the book special to me: in a world filled with either self-important or glib post-MFA projects, here is a poet who excels at both entertainment and instruction. On a more personal note, I worked and lived as a poet in post-9/11 New York City for many years, and this is a book that embodies the artist's experience in that horrible and amazing place in American time.
$ Microreview of Dana Ward's This Can't Be Life (Edge) by Mary Austin Speaker
The book that I anticipated most this year is Dana Ward's This Can't Be Life, published by Edge Books. Typing Wild Speech, Dana's excellent chapbook, is included here in full and bowled me over just as much as it did the first time I heard him read from it. To hear Dana read, or to read him on the page, is to hear the unflinching inner monologue of someone who prizes social interaction as much as the drive to make art and is as exploratory in each endeavor. "Take for instance the notion of 'poet.' I've allowed a lot of myth to hold sway over how I perform that for myself. . . . How to be 'poet,' 'partner,' 'good friend,' on & on. How resolve all this practical alienation," he writes, fully aware of both the banalities (with which he quickly dispatches) and the moral consequences of asking such a question. It's brave, totally compelling writing, and beyond that, it is joyful and anxious and stylish and very, very smart.
Mary Austin Speaker is the author of the chapbooks The Bridge (Push Press, 2011) and 20 Love Poems for 10 Months (forthcoming from Ugly Duckling); a collaborative play, I am You This Morning You Are Me Tonight, written with her husband, poet Chris Martin; and the forthcoming full-length collection, Ceremony, due out in 2013 from Slope Editions.
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Attention Span 2012 | Benjamin Friedlander
Matthew Cooperman | Still | Counterpath | 2011
This year I began reading Walter Savage Landor's Imaginary Conversations. In one of them, Landor has Michelangelo say, "In our days, poetry is a vehicle which does not carry much within it, but is top-heavy with what is corded on." Cooperman's Still yields a retort: "Counterpoint: never the vessel for what's inside, it's tidings of thought and who's drinking with you." Which sums Landor's appeal as well as Cooperman's own, since the play of voices (or really, pronouncements) in Landor's prose owes all to its ease and flow, a conviviality of form. Cooperman, for his part, has mastered the secret of the list poem—a cording on of things that drift by. His details are keepsakes, not provisions. There's no stopping to unpack along the way—interiority is a given, but for ballast alone. Meanwhile, the movement forward is incessant, and speedy when needed, even when the vessel grows top-heavy.
Aris Fioretos, trans. Tomas Tranaeus | Nelly Sachs, Flight and Metamorphosis: An Illustrated Biography | Stanford | 2012
Because of her Nobel Prize—and Holocaust connection—Sachs's first Schocken collection, O the Chimneys, was the only book of poetry in our house when I was growing up, which means I came to her in the order of most readers before 1980: prior to Paul Celan. Since the order of reading is a chemical process, transformative and irreversible, I count myself lucky for finding Sachs first, undimmed by comparison, and then Celan in light of her. That said, my knowledge of Sachs remained pretty thin over the years. This thick description, produced by the editor of the four-volume Werke (which slipped into print in 2011), gives us a poet celebrated and forgotten before we really learned—by way of Celan—how to read her.
Lawrence P. Jackson | The Indignant Generation: A Narrative of African American Writers and Critics, 1934-1960 | Princeton | 2011
As it happens, two of the poets most important to me—Robert Hayden and Gwendolyn Brooks—belong to the generation in question, or began there, so I was overjoyed to find a book so rich and readable on those years, which literary histories generally pass over as mere interval. And certainly the Harlem Renaissance and Black Power eras are more exciting. They're also more copiously understood and documented—or were. I hope Jackson's sequels and prequels are under contract.
Henry James | William Wetmore Story and His Friends | Grove | 1957, original edition 1904
Written for money, with much complaining, and little respect for its subject, the Storys, whose children urged on the task, this lapidary account of expatriate life in Italy is far more enjoyable—and more peculiar—than its neglect ever led me to expect. If I'd expected anything: I was hunting down a reference and couldn't stop. The fretful syntax is typical of late James, but how strange, if not comical, to find it in the service of so pedestrian a genre: the two-volume Victorian "Memoir," told through letters and diaries, with brief stretches of narrative to carry things forward when the documents tucker out. As a rule, these books have an honorable plainness, setting forth the facts to speak for themselves. But how could such an approach do for James? Investing discretion—that most sociable of virtues—with an antisocial charge, he dulls the shock to a stimulating burr, brushing us with the velvet he draped around his kind.
Paul Legault | The Emily Dickinson Reader | McSweeney's | 2012
Every Emily Dickinson poem reduced to a single line. These are often wisecracks, material for the back of a class (zombies, really?), but the rest has an acuteness that puts scholarship to shame. And the whole has a destructive ambition worthy of its subject—though Dickinson's ambition was of course trained higher. But she too relied on the reductio ad absurdum, and she too was given to wisecracks (some of which, drum roll, are now recited in class).
Haki R. Madhubuti | YellowBlack: The First Twenty-One Years of a Poet's Life | Third World | 2005
The segregation of taste that our warped institutions promote, with our unthinking help, has kept me for too long from appreciating Madhubuti's importance. Which is all the more revealing—and mortifying—when I recall my high school enthusiasm for Don L. Lee, as Madhubuti was known before 1975. This book is very much Lee's story, a tale that rivals Iceberg Slim or Michael Gold in its pulp power. And that would be enough! But it's also Madhubiti's tale, which means the story is told with a wisdom pulp only achieves in the hands of a Dostoevsky or Richard Wright—shaped with a gentleness all Madhubuti's own.
Denise Riley | Time Lived, Without Its Flow | Capsule Editions | 2012
My childhood was a study in parental mourning, with methodical care preferred to expressions of grief, analysis to elegy, perhaps because the quickening of the mind was how grief was let go, temporarily—interest forgetting its struggle with depression. I wouldn't presume to say the same is true of Riley, only that this remarkable book (not a memoir; a record of interest in one aspect of mourning, its temporality) sustains its care so methodically, grief itself is moved; not to tears, but a clearer perspective.
Lisa Robertson | Nilling: Prose Essays on Noise, Pornography, the Codex, Melancholy, Lucretius, Folds, Cities and Related Aporias | BookThug | 2012
The dependence of sense on the senses has never been more evident to me than in these essays, which let loose the mind in a world of color and perfume, texture and sound, a world so dizzying, only words can comprehend it unstunned. Making comprehension itself a sensual experience, interrupted now and again by a pang: how dull my own words feel in comparison.
George Saintsbury | A History of English Prosody: From the Twelfth Century to the Present Day | 3 vols. | Macmillan | 1906
Marianne Moore gave Saintsbury two places in her ideal library, as many as Coleridge, more than Plato. So why not, I thought, and requested these volumes from storage. Soon enough, the need to mark passages overcame me, and I acquired a set of my own: age-softened library discards, which I can't take to bed on account of their smell. How pristine, in contrast, the prose. Bright and liquid as a stream, bubbling over the pebbles of opinion. Which do make for a slippery footing. Better, perhaps, to reach down and take away a charm, cutting one's own path through the history of verse. Returning, of course, when thirsty.
Gertrude Stein, ed. Logan Esdale | Ida A Novel | Yale | 2012
Stein's fictions are her flyover states, with Ida my preferred hub. This "workshop edition" (a corrected text with drafts, letters, related pieces, and reviews) took me out of the terminal, into the city. A destination after all!
Rachel Zolf | Neighbour Procedure | Coach House | 2010
There is a madness in thinking the problem of Israel and Palestine can be thought through or sorted out, a philosophical conundrum or puzzle of language; and there's a despair in thinking that reason has lost its right, leaving all to violence. In Neighbour Procedure, Zolf chooses madness, but yields to despair her suspicion that reason never had a right—only a discourse of ruins, monuments and counter-monuments to hope.
Benjamin Friedlander's contributions to Attention Span for 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003. Return to 2012 directory.


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Arcia sent back to Triple-A after Major League debut
MINNEAPOLIS -- Oswaldo Arcia's first trip to the Major Leagues was a brief one.
Arcia, ranked as the No. 93 overall prospect and as the Twins' No. 5 prospect, was recalled from Triple-A Rochester before Monday's game against the Angels but was optioned immediately after the game. Arcia took the place of Wilkin Ramirez, who was placed on the paternity list on Sunday, but will rejoin the Twins on Tuesday.
"It was fun to watch him walk to the plate, but he'll get plenty of opportunities if he continues doing what he was doing in the Minor Leagues," Twins manager Ron Gardenhire said. "It's just one of those things where we brought him up here for a reason to get an at-bat and help us for a game or two."
Arcia, who started in left field and batted seventh, wasted no time getting his first big league hit, as he singled against Angels right-hander Joe Blanton in his first at-bat and reached second on an error by right fielder Josh Hamilton.
"I was very content," Arcia said through translator and Twins bullpen coach Bobby Cuellar. "I was looking for a good pitch to hit, and I hit it."
Arcia ended up going 1-for-3 in his debut but dropped a fly ball in the seventh for an error and was replaced by Aaron Hicks in the top of the eighth inning.
Arcia, 21, said he was notified of the decision that he would be called up to the Twins by Rochester manager Gene Glynn on Saturday after the Red Wings played in a doubleheader. He added that he told Gardenhire he was willing to play wherever they put him, even though he's mostly been used in right field throughout his Minor League career.
"I told him I was ready to play wherever," Arcia said before the game. "Left field, center, right -- I played all of these all the time in Venezuela."
Gardenhire added that Arcia was originally slated to start at designated hitter, but Josh Willingham came in feeling sick, so Willingham was out of the lineup with Arcia getting the start in left. Ryan Doumit started at DH.
Arcia, who was the organization's Minor League Player of the Year last season, was off to a hot start at Triple-A, hitting .414 with three homers, two doubles and eight RBIs in nine games.

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In a playoff push where every match is a must-win for the Columbus Crew, the team could not muster a goal in a 1-0 loss to the Seattle Sounders that saw the visitors play with 10 men for 83 minutes.
For the Crew, the man advantage did not lead to much of an on-field advantage, and afterEddie Johnson gave Seattle the lead in the 15th minute, Columbus could not answer.
"Sometimes it's tough to play games like this because you think that when you're a man up, you don't have to work so hard," Columbus head coach Robert Warzycha said in his postgame press conference. "You assume everything is going to be given. Well, you get punished."
Midfielder Justin Meram, who created several opportunities for the Crew but – like so many others on the squad – could not finish, said that the red card didn't give Columbus much of an edge at all.
"They packed it in, and you're kind of pushing for the goal right away, especially after they score," Meram said in the locker room after the match. "So the whole dynamic of the game changes. You're just pushing forward the whole game instead of maybe keeping it and moving side to side. It's not as easy as most people think."
For Warzycha, the lack of goal scoring was a result of poor decision-making, and the coach said that his team should have put the match away multiple times.
"We weren't playing smart," he said. "Everybody wanted to score a goal. That's what usually happens; you play a man up and everybody wants to take a chance, everybody wants to score a goal and doesn't see the play that is probably in a better spot. We had some chances that we could have scored. On these chances, we need to score. It's as simple as that."
Meram said that the players' attempts on goal came not out of selfishness, but from an effort to find the goal the team needed.
"Everyone is trying to help out, but sometimes there's a smarter pass than the shot. I think on a couple of chances if we had made a smarter pass, we could have been successful," he said. "But guys are trying their hardest out there, and I can't give enough credit to the guys for working so hard."
The loss keeps the Crew eight points out of the final Eastern Conference playoff spot, currently occupied by New England, with only eight games remaining. While Warzycha was not ready to say that Columbus' playoff hopes had slipped away with the loss, he summed up the team's feelings after the match.
"This is probably the one that's going to hurt the most," he said.
"Honestly, being up a man for [83 minutes], we just have to be a little more patient and finish our chances. It's as simple as that."
Andrew King covers the Columbus Crew for MLSsoccer.com.


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My Transmog: Hunter Edition
It seems like hunters, and mail users in general, have a great selection of amazing tier sets and re-colors to choose from. Here are a few of mine. While I'm not using it. I collected the season 4 PVP set (pictured above). … Continue reading


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It's that time again … yep, I am talking about my birthday. Another year older and all that jazz. Happy to be alive and such but the getting older not so much. Father Time and I have a love/hate relationship.
I know it shouldn't be about gifts but I do love them so! Hi, my name is Jennifer and I love gifts, lots and lots of gifts. Big surprise. My birthday was a couple Fridays ago and I spent it going to a second job interview while also doing nothing. On the positive, I did not cry hysterically and mope in the bed. I'm known to do that. This year hasn't been what I expected but when does life ever go according to plan? Seriously.
Let me tell you what did go according to plan, these cupcakes. In my Dave Chappelle voice, "It's rich, bitch!" Can you tell I watch alot of tv? I do, I totally do. I own it.
The cake portion is dark chocolate and moist, great flavor. When coffee is added to chocolate you know it's going to be a great thing. The next step in this "wasted" glory is dark chocolate cheesecake filling – thanks Kraft Philadelphia Dark Chocolate Indulgence! Finally topped with a Caramel Chocolate Ganache. Oh. Em. GEEEEEEE. This Ganache is the Holy Grail of Goodness and possibly "diabeetus".
Cooking Fail alert! The caramel the first time was cooked too long so when I added the cream it turned into a "hard crack". I lost a good whisk to the Hard Crack Tragedy of 2012. RIP. Cooking on electric sucks at times. Feels like Goldilocks trying out the three bears' porridge; "It's too hot", "It's too cold", and sometimes I get "it's just right."
Chocolate Wasted Cupcake is worth all the trouble and then some since the taste had me talking in tongues and exclaiming to myself, "damn, I'm good!" Modest Mouse that's me. 🙂
So to all my fellow Virgos, "Happy Birthday!"
Chocolate Wasted Cupcakes
Makes 12
Chocolate Cupcakes
Adapted from Sweetapolita Classic One Bowl Chocolate Cupcakes
3/4 cup all purpose flour
3/4 cup granulated sugar
1/4 cup dark cocoa powder ( I used Hershey's Special Dark)
3/4 teaspoon baking soda
3/4 teaspoon baking powder
3/4 teaspoon Birds Custard Powder (if no custard powder, cornstarch)
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 ounce Unsweetened Chocolate, melted
1/3 cup sour cream, room temperature
1/4 cup plus 1 Tablespoon brewed coffee, hot
3 tablespoons vegetable Oil
1 egg, room temperature
1/2 tablespoon Vanilla Extract
Directions: Preheat oven to 350. Melt your unsweetened chocolate in microwave. Line your cupcake/muffin pan with cupcake liners, set aside. I typically set my microwave to power level 5 aka 50% and start with 1 minute and 30 seconds and increase by 10 seconds until melted. Sift all the dry ingredients together into a large mixing bowl or your stand mixer bowl(Flour to Salt). Add all wet ingredients to dry mix and mix/blend with your mixer until incorporated, approximately 3 to 5 minutes. Place batter into the cupcake liners; fill the batter half way. Bake cupcakes approximately 14 to 17 minutes. Once you start smelling Chocolate goodness check them to see if they are ready. I use the toothpick trick to test my cupcakes. Let the cupcakes cool; approximately one hour to one-half hour.
Whipped Chocolate Ganache Frosting
Recipe from The Boy Who Bakes
8 ounces of dark chocolate (60-70% Cocoa Content), chopped
3/4 cup heavy whipping cream
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1/8 cup water
1 tablespoon light corn syrup
1 cup unsalted butter, chopped/cubed
Directions: In a large glass or metal bowl (heatproof) place chopped chocolate and set aside. In a small saucepan add sugar, corn syrup, and water. Cook until it starts to bubble or registers 350F on candy thermometer (5 to 8 minutes). Remove from heat and let cool for one minute. While stirring the sugar syrup mixture add the whipping cream and stir for additional two minutes. Pour caramel cream mixture over the chocolate. Let the chocolate melt; approximately 5 to 7 minutes. Stir caramel and chocolate together until mixed well. Using either your hand mixer or stand mixer whip butter into the chocolate caramel. It should resemble mousse; a light and airy texture. If you can't get that airy texture place the ganache creation to the refrigerator for at least 30 minutes and then try whipping it to get that mousse like texture.
Assembly of Cupcakes
1. Core the center of cupcakes out. Keep the cored pieces to either use as garnish (cake crumbles) or just add it back to the cupcake once you pipe the cheesecake filling into the cupcake.
2. Take the Philadelphia Dark Chocolate Indulgence and place into a sandwich bag. Snip off a corner and pipe the cheesecake filling into the cupcake.
3. In a large pastry bag with your favorite tip add the whipped ganache and pipe onto the cupcakes. Voila! Serve promptly or refrigerate until ready to eat. These cupcakes will need to be refrigerated!
Notes: Room temperature sour cream. I simply take out the measured sour cream and set on counter 30 minutes prior to baking. Room temperature egg – I place egg in hot tap water for five minutes prior to baking.


text: Famed Latin American chef and food historian Maricel Presilla shares her favorite dishes and cooking techniques with Sara. Her Zucchini Cuban-Style Cherry Tomato Sofrito with Almond Cacao Picada is vegetarian, but satisfying enough for die hard carnivores. A thick and hearty Mayan Turkey Stew has the unique taste of tomatillos and tortillas on the side. And Maricel's signature Braised Pork with Greens features the best of Latin American cooking!


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Tuesday, August 26, 2008, 22:26 - Ancient Greek Language, Software, World History: Ancient, Medieval & Modern, MythologyJust added:
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Greek and Roman Gods and Goddesses: a Memory game
I only had enough room for the main deities. Conveniently enough, there were twelve "spots", just enough for all the Olympian gods. The original Greek names and the Roman equivalents are included. Perhaps some students will find this useful.
See also:
Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome


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I am in desperate need of advice here. I had another local blogger Copy & Paste an entire post of mine yesterday. What she didn't and still does not realize that several links in my post linked to previous posts I had made - this caused a pingback letting me know she did it. This is the 2nd time this has happened with her and I know that there have been other copy&paste posts she has made that I haven't caught. The problem is that we are acquaintances here in town - both pretty well known and this will likely be the straw. Do I let it go to maintain peace or do I say something? I am INCREDIBLY irritated and need some advice. What would you do???
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I'd send her a message instructing her to credit you for your posts. She shouldn't be stealing your content without acknowledging you as the author and providing a backlink to your blog.
This site has some really good tips for when someone steals your posts. You can report this to the person's webhost and they can be shut down if they don't remove your content.
I would definitely say something. I know it's hard but if you're putting in the work to create posts and all she does is copy / paste that's just plain wrong. Suggest that maybe she can be a guest blogger on your blog and you can do the same for her as long as you are credited for her work.
I'm sorry you have to go through such a sticky situation. Let us know how you resolved it. Good luck


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Press Release
At the 2012 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards, IDW Publishing collected three of the prestigious awards, acknowledging the leading publisher for its team of terrific creators and editors. The range of awards included Best Graphic Album – Reprint, Best Short Story, and Best Archival Collection/Project Comic Books, showcasing the company's array of achievements.
Debuting with phenomenal success at last years San Diego Comic Con, WALTER SIMONSON'S THE MIGHTY THOR ARTIST'S EDITION was praised with an Eisner award for Best Archival Collection/Project – Comic Books. This astounding edition collects scans of Simonson's personal original art and is edited by Scott Dunbier.
Fan-favorite creator Darwyn Cooke's, THE MARTINI EDITION, thecompilation of THE HUNTER and THE OUTFIT graphic novel adaptation series of Richard Stark's Parker, received two awards for Best Graphic Album – Reprint and Best Short Story for "The Seventh". Cooke won the 2011 Eisner for Best Writer/Artist for THE OUTFIT, and THE HUNTER won the 2010 Eisner for Best Adaptation from Another Work. The third installment of the acclaimed series, THE SCORE has just launched and is now available for sale.
About IDW Publishing
IDW is an award-winning publisher of comic books, graphic novels and trade paperbacks, based in San Diego, California. Renowned for its diverse catalog of licensed and independent titles, IDW publishes some of the most successful and popular titles in the industry, including: Hasbro's The TRANSFORMERS and G.I. JOE, Paramount's Star Trek; HBO's True Blood; the BBC's DOCTOR WHO; Nickelodeon's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles; Toho's Godzilla; Wizards of the Coasts Magic: The Gathering and Dungeons & Dragons; and the Eisner-Award winning Locke & Key series, created by best-selling author Joe Hill and artist Gabriel Rodriguez. IDW is also home to the Library of American Comics imprint, which publishes classic comic reprints, and Yoe! Books, a partnership with Yoe! Studio.
IDW's critically- and fan-acclaimed series are continually moving into new mediums. Currently, Jerry Bruckheimer Films and Disney are creating a feature film based on World War Robot, while Michael Bay's Platinum Dunes and Sony are bringing Zombies vs. Robots to film.


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Maine soldier killed in Afghanistan
Soldier born in Houlton
A soldier who was born in Maine has been killed in Afghanistan.
Sgt. 1st Class Aaron Henderson, who was born in Houlton, died from wounds he received when an improvised explosive device exploded while he was on patrol.
"This is heartbreaking news, and my thoughts and prayers are with SFC Henderson's family," said Maine Rep. Mike Michaud. "This tragedy reminds us of the dangerous conditions so many deployed Americans continue to operate under overseas. I know the greater Houlton community and the entire state of Maine will come together to offer support to SFC Henderson's family during this incredibly difficult time. He was part of a Special Forces group that has a long history of defending our nation, and his brave service on behalf of us all will never be forgotten."
Henderson served with A Company, 2nd Battalion, 5th Special Forces. He suffered a double-leg amputation on Sept. 12 and died from his injuries on Monday.


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Unstoppable Danny
He dances with his bike, leaps from rooftops, balances overhead on the edge of precipices. Millions of viewers watch his stunts online – making Scotsman Danny MacAskill the world's most successful trials rider
The sky is a steely grey, the fortress glowers forbiddingly, the wind whistles through the ravine and around the turrets of Dunvegan Castle on the Isle of Skye. Scotland's oldest continually inhabited castle is surrounded by a wall barely half a meter wide. No person in their right mind would think of walking along it. Danny MacAskill uses it as a cycle path. He approaches on his bike, bunny hops up onto the stones and balances on his rear wheel, dancing. A wheelie on the edge of a 20-meter drop.
Danny MacAskill and his trial bike seem to form a single entity, regardless of the terrain. He cycles up trees on his bike, jumps against walls, rolls along rails that are barely a hand's breadth wide, does spins and flies from rooftop to rooftop. Even watching his hair-raising stunts, which can be found on YouTube, is enough to spark an adrenaline surge. His bicycle tricks have made him famous; he is recognized nearly everywhere, fans ask him for autographs and selfies. "No problem, where are you from?" he asks, chatting to everyone, taking time to listen. The 30-year-old Scot, 1.76cm tall, reddish beard, woolly hat, is authentic, likeable, very down to earth. He lifts a young boy onto his saddle and carefully pushes him across the courtyard of the ancient castle. A thoroughly nice, ordinary guy. But when it comes to cycling – well, that's when you get to see a different side of Danny MacAskill.
I don't have a coach. I just ride as often as I can because I love it
At a dizzying height he balances first on both wheels, then on one, on the narrow castle wall – with no form of safety harness. Suddenly, he stands motionless and lifts his back wheel effortlessly. How can he do this without falling? Without breaking every bone in his body? Danny spent half his childhood on a bike. And today, when he cycles along the castle wall, he simply imagines that he's riding along the curb outside his parent's house. "That's even narrower, and I can do that in my sleep," he says. "I'm not crazy. I consider risks carefully. For me, driving feels far more dangerous."
Daniel Hamilton MacAskill grew up in Dunvegan, a small village on the west coast of the Isle of Skye in the Hebrides. He and his friends used to collect old fishing nets on the beach; for days, the children would carry them up to the MacAskill's garden. They hung the nets between the trees and tried out their first jumps, which became increasingly daring. Somersaults from a height of seven meters, from the treetops, from the roof of the house – and always landing softly in the nets. The neighbors became used to the sight of kids flying high above the hedge and tumbling from trees. Those were the days before he had a saddle underneath him. "It must have been a strange sight," muses Danny. A neighbor says: "He was always a hyperactive child and kept us on our toes." His mother, Anne, was never really concerned about her son when he set off on one of his acrobatic cycle jaunts. "Daniel only had to tell me if he was going north, east or south. That was enough. I think today's children are greatly overprotected."
Now, Danny is more likely to worry about his mother, who has just set off on the Mongol Rally 2016, around 10 000 miles from England through Mongolia to Ulan Ude in Siberia – in a 23-year-old Renault van. Anne, 68, and her best friend, Kay Simpson, 70, are the rally team The Gallivanting Quines. A lust for adventure definitely seems to run strong in the family. Danny's sister Margret Ishbel is two years younger and has a bit of a reputation on the island for her wild lifestyle, which has earned her nickname Maggie Mayhem. She travels around the world, working on the yacht of the Emir of Qatar from a while, then doing a stint on a North Sea oilrig. "I never knew that you could do things like that with your wee bikes until I saw the videos," she teases her big brother later at supper. "I'm a professional athlete!" Danny replies. Maggie raises an eyebrow. "Ok, I hate training," adds Danny. He does not follow a nutrition plan, doesn't have a coach. "I just ride as often as I can because I love it."
That leaves his father, Peter, 72, an unruffled man who runs The Giant Angus MacAskill Museum next to his home. The exhibition is dedicated to a distant ancestor of the clan, the eponymous Giant MacAskill, who according to local lore was 2.36 meters tall and so strong he could drag a thousand-kilo anchor around behind him and toss it at his enemies. "You see, I'm probably the most normal member of this family," says Danny with a grin.
Relatives gave him his first bicycle when he was four years old. He and his friends started riding off-road, they tried out their first stunts, raced to school in the morning. When he became a teenager he was given his first trials bike, which has smaller wheels and only one low gear which allows it to speed up over short distances and lift off. Danny immediately claimed the entire neighborhood as his practice ground: on his bike he jumped over steps, fountains, bins, phone boxes, railings, trees. The village policeman confiscated his bike for six weeks. "That really messed up the summer holidays," recalls Danny, "it was a tough time." After finishing school, he moved to the mainland, first to Aviemore and later to Edinburgh where he worked as a bike mechanic. After work he would take to the streets and ride, balance and hop along practically anything he encountered – every day, every evening, for hours on end, and always with his headphones in his ears. His pal Dave Sowerby followed him over a period of several weeks, and videoed his tours.
On April 19, 2009, the two uploaded a film of Danny's best stunts to YouTube and went to bed. The next morning, Danny woke up to discover he was an internet star. The 5:37-minute clip had gone viral, was being shared on Facebook, the BBC broadcast it, the New York Times wrote about it, Lance Armstrong twittered it. To date, some 40 million people have clicked on the film. It was a completely unplanned breakthrough, and one which set Danny's life on a new trajectory: Red Bull signed him up, the camera maker GoPro and several bike companies now sponsor him, including the Californian company Santa Cruz, the Porsche of mountain bike makers. Danny MacAskill shoots commercials for Volkswagen and now makes a comfortable living off his biking artistry and stunts.
He has been called a "YouTube millionaire" in the media, a description he finds exaggerated. "I wish it was like that. But it isn't, and money doesn't really drive me." He shares a flat in Glasgow with six friends; the group also work for him, help him with his productions. Two of his flat mates are themselves world-class riders: Ali C, Duncan Shaw and Danny go on tour together as Drop and Roll, primarily performing in Europe. The crew demonstrate their bike skills and stunts at festivals, they couch-surf in friend's flats or in their tour bus. Rock stars on wheels they may be, but not millionaires. "I still feel like the guy from the bike shop," says Danny.
His stunts make him the toast of orthopedic surgeons
Guy like Danny are the embodiment of a new generation of extreme athletes. With perfectly produced and presented videos and increasingly hair-raising stunts they are continually pushing the boundaries of what's possible. They aren't interested in competitions and best times, but in garnering the most clicks online. The more, the happier their sponsors are, securing the athletes' status as advertising icons. However, to achieve this, they have to perform increasingly risky stunts to remain in the spotlight. Some have paid the price with their lives. Criticism was recently leveled at Red Bull when several extreme athletes died attempting to set new records. "I don't feel under any pressure," says Danny, "in fact, I'm the one putting pressure on myself." Without the sponsors' help, everything would be more difficult. "I am grateful that riding a bike pays my bills."
There has been a price to pay for this kind of success and recognition: Danny has had surgery four times, has broken his left foot three times, his right one twice, his left meniscus is torn, a screw keeps his right wrist in place. His left clavicle has been fractured three times, his elbow has been patched up. Most recently, a torn disc and an operation on his back in the U.S. put him out of operation for a year. "I have a ton of anxieties and fears," admits Danny. However, the moment he gets on his bike, he switches everything else off. "Fear just paralyzes you, it blocks you – and that's when accidents happen." Although he almost never takes part in competitions, he is considered one of the best trials bike riders in the world. "There are a dozen guys who are much better mountain bikers than me," says Danny.
He has a different explanation for his success, his appeal to bikers and the mainstream alike. His videos aren't just about biking. They tell an engaging story that goes beyond the pure athletic skill. "I often research for months until I come up with a good idea and find a special spot," he says. Like the forgotten town of Epecuén in Argentina which he rode through. Or his very distinctive take on the seaside – over the rooftops of Las Palmas. He reinvented the bunny hop, which is a classic jump maneuver on the bike, at Hugh Hefner's Playboy Mansion. He conceived and created a journey into the imagination of a child in a video called Imaginate, which is set amongst gigantic toys and was shot in an old warehouse in Glasgow. "Some scenes and stunts I do 200 times until I'm satisfied." In moments like these, biking ceases to be fun and becomes hard work – even for Danny MacAskill.
In the evening, he performs his last hop, down from the wall of the old castle. On the way home he stops in front of a fishing and hunting shop in Dunvegan. "This is where everything started, these are the traces of my first attempts," says Danny and points to an old flower trough. A few chip marks are still visible in the stone. He spent hours, days bouncing off this trough, trying out jumps, twists and moves, and ended up on the ground in front of it umpteen times.
It is raining, the owner of the fishing supplies shop comes out and waves a greeting. Back then, Danny often got into trouble because of the damaged trough, now the islanders are proud of "our Daniel". Even the policemen want to take a selfie with him. "For me trials biking is like a game without boundaries," says Danny, as he hops along the edge of the trough on his back wheel. He can't help it – he has to ride, play with his bike. His pulse at 150 beats a minute, good music in his ears, hopping, dancing and flying is how Danny rolls through the world. Preferably alone, preferably at night. Through the city, behind buildings. This is the moment everything flows. "This is what I live for," he says, for the feeling that he experienced as a child when he first left the ground and flew on his bike. Then everything is like it used to be – except that now a couple of million people happen to be watching him.
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Ever have this happen?
I have.
My kids have killed three tape measures in the past year and it's getting old. Really, really old.
Oh well. Time to bundle up yet another pile of measuring mess and haul it out to the trash, right?
Wait! Don't toss that!
Tape measure metal is a cinch to cut with regular scissors and is loaded with all the organizery-measury goodness that's all over blog land right now.
I used mine to dress up the fronts of some temporary shelves I have in my bedroom-turned-impromptu-sewing-station.
I didn't want to mess with painting these shelves with the whole 'they're temporary' thing. But some extra color helps a lot.
Here's the finished product:
Oh, and did I mention how handy it is to be able to measure fabric and ribbon on the fly?
I just hold up my yardage for a quick and accurate measurement.
Love that.
Here's a few tips for anyone wanting to dress up their own shelves:
1. Be careful! The metal cuts easily with scissors, but the edges are sharp. Go slow, wear gloves and you'll be fine.
2. Remove the measuring tape from the container by either unclipping the yellow portion from the blue tab or cutting it away using regular scissors.
3. Use a strong adhesive like E-6000. Craft glue, hot glue and the likes won't cut it. And don't fight the natural curve in the metal. You're not going to flatten it out so don't try.
4. The easiest way to glue these is to remove the shelves from the the wall (if possible). I ran a generous bead of E-6000 down the board and used duct tape to keep the tape measure from shifting while it dried. Again, don't try and flatten the metal—just keep it from moving.
4. For the first shelf, I cut a piece from the very end of the measuring tape and glued it to the left side.
The next morning I started at the beginning of the tape measure and glued it along the front and right side.
For the remaining shelves, I measured the sides and front of each one and cut a single piece of metal tape. I glued the fronts of the shelves first and allowed them to dry overnight.
Then I carefully bent the tape measure around the corner and glued it to the sides of the shelves. Again, duct tape kept everything in place while it dried.
Super easy and cheap.
So …
Busted tape measure?
It's What-Not-To-Toss this weekend!


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AI War 2 is out now! Get it on Steam today!
So far I've beaten two bosses and have lost only two heroes. i still have on of the heroes that you get from the start. Yes the game is punishing. Yes, RNG MAY ruin your run. However, you can flee at any poin of a run, saving your party from death (which may be wise sometimes).Maybe I'm just stratigically so much better than the average player that I don't notice the high difficulty problems that other players have.So far I have NONE problems with the difficulty of the game, eevrythign is fine and th egame is meant to hard and punishing. It's the same with Dwarf Fortress. the game jsut throws everything that is nasty and ugly and unfun at you but for some reason does this in a way that all this stuff still is fun to play.
right after you've finished your first real dungeon run
if you play on an older save, maybe you need to start a new one (I did anyway).
From what I've seen in videos of the game recently, this is no longer the case.
Yes, it's a roguelike and it's supposed to be hard, but this game is literally stacked against you and can wipe an entire party without you really having any kind of input on it. That is ridiculously frustrating and really unfair. That's what really murders the enjoyment in this game.


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- Anne Lamott, Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith
My Brain now became Mommy Brain. It wasn't pretty. Sure, the Heart was thrilled. Thrilled! The Brain? Not so much.
Sometimes I have a glimmer of my old Brain. I walk into a room and remember why. I go to the store and actually buy what I went there for. I figure out how to assemble my baby's wagon. I answer my kindergartener's question - correctly! - on how our circulatory system works.
I turn a phrase.
But then I forget to put my son's homework in his folder. I can't find the new pair of tights I bought for Sage's dance class, which I've also forgotten to re-register her for. The baby? I haven't left him anywhere. Yet.
My Brain is still there. I know it is. It's just overworked. Overwhelmed. In need of Omega-3.
I promise to do better. I know there's only so much Elmo and My Little Pony and Bob Books you can take. I need to do the crossword puzzles every day. Start listening to NPR. I vow to get more fresh air, more exercise. Brain? I really, really need you.
I miss you, old friend. I miss you.


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A knotty freedom of information question surfaced during the past few days, and it touches on a subject that needs a legislative review.
A knotty freedom of information question surfaced during the past few days, and it touches on a subject that needs a legislative review.
That would be the issue of whether a private company providing services to a public agency is subject to the Arkansas Freedom of Information Act and, if so, to what extent.
The subject came up when a Jonesboro Sun reporter on Friday asked Chad Niell, chief executive officer of Tiger Correctional Services, to provide information regarding its monthly sales and profits under a contract for jail commissary services with the Craighead County Sheriff's Department.
"That's none of your damn business," responded Niell, who may still have a burr under his saddle over perceived ill treatment by the newspaper during his recent unsuccessful bid for the Republican nomination for state senator in District 21.
However, the question of whether Tiger must provide such documentation is not clear under the FOIA. The open records provision in the law defines public records as those kept "by a public official or employee, a governmental agency, or any other agency or improvement district that is wholly or partially supported by public funds or expending public funds."
Note the use of the term "public funds" rather than "tax funds." In this case Tiger's revenue comes from jail inmates, not from the Sheriff's Department, and, in fact, the company pays a sales commission of 30 percent to the department. That at least creates some room for argument, and Tiger's attorney contends that the law doesn't apply here.
Two state Supreme Court decisions and several attorneys general opinions would seem to take the opposite view.
The first Supreme Court case involved The Sun, though it dealt with public meetings rather than records. The qualification in that provision is the same, though. The case was North Central Association of Colleges and Schools v. Troutt Brothers of 1977. The high court ruled that the private nonprofit organization's meetings were subject to the FOIA because, among other things, it was supported wholly or in part by public funds.
A 1985 case, Rehab Hospital Services Corp. v. Delta Hills Health Systems Agency and Flener, said much the same thing, even though the funding involved came mostly from the federal government.
Both cases are used in several AG opinions, all of which indicate that a private entity that receives public funds and carries on public business may be subject to the FOIA, at least to some extent.
The key question, according to the Arkansas Freedom of Information Handbook, is whether "there is a symbiotic relationship between the private entity and the state or local government, such as when the private entity receives public funds for the general support of activities that are closely aligned with those of government."
In this case Tiger has a contract to provide jail services that had previously been handled by the Sheriff's Department.
The question would probably be moot if the department were receiving regular sales and profits reports because those records would clearly be subject to disclosure. But apparently jail administrators are satisfied with the monthly check they get for 30 percent of sales. Sheriff Marty Boyd told The Sun that he believes the jail is being paid fairly and that he could get more information if he asked. Any private entity doing business with the government should provide regular reports.
The need for legislative review is apparent because of the increasing number of private entities that are becoming entwined with government agencies. If Tiger's attorney is correct that none of its records are subject to public review, that raises the question of how far that interpretation could be stretched. If, for example, a private agency were contracted to run the jail, would all jail records then be private?
In 2006 Arkansas State University entered a contract with a private search firm to take applications for its first Jonesboro campus chancellor. The plan was for the search firm to keep the names of all applicants secret until sorting them out and producing a list of finalists. That would circumvent the state law which requires disclosure of applicants' names for such a public position.
Various news organizations, including The Sun, objected. The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette threatened a lawsuit, and the search firm pulled out.
This private-public question is not a new issue. For many years the state's top universities have used private foundations to help fund athletic and academic functions. The foundation may provide funding to supplement a coach's salary without any responsibility to disclose the terms or amounts, and sometimes the foundation is paying far more of the tab than the university.
That practice has become controversial in the University of Arkansas' Advancement Division deficit and other troubles. The division regularly receives supplemental funding from the UA Foundation but got in trouble when it went $4 million in the hole over two years.
The budget of the Advancement Division is so intertwined with the private foundation that auditors have had trouble sorting out exactly what happened and who was responsible.
In a recent opinion piece for the Democrat-Gazette, John J. Watkins, emeritus professor of law at UA-Fayetteville, urged that the Legislature address the foundation-public interest issue. Watkins is the author of the definitive book on the Arkansas FOIA, and his work is cited often in court cases and other legal opinions.
The review should apply to all private entities doing business with public agencies.
Roy Ockert is editor emeritus of The Jonesboro Sun. He may be reached by e-mail at email@example.com.


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These books were purchased during an author event last week. I wasn't familiar with all the author's there but each of their novels peaked my interest enough for me to want to check them out.
The Iron Thorn by Caitlin Kitteredge
In the city of Lovecraft, the Proctors rule and a great Engine turns below the streets, grinding any resistance to their order to dust. The necrovirus is blamed for Lovecraft's epidemic of madness, for the strange and eldritch creatures that roam the streets after dark, and for everything that the city leaders deem Heretical—born of the belief in magic and witchcraft. And for Aoife Grayson, her time is growing shorter by the day. Aoife Grayson's family is unique, in the worst way—every one of them, including her mother and her elder brother Conrad, has gone mad on their 16th birthday. And now, a ward of the state, and one of the only female students at the School of Engines, she is trying to pretend that her fate can be different.
Everybody knows Cate Cahill and her sisters are eccentric. Too pretty, too reclusive, and far too educated for their own good. But the truth is even worse: they're witches. And if their secret is discovered by the priests of the Brotherhood, it would mean an asylum, a prison ship—or an early grave.
Dark, urban fantasies come to life in the newest collection of Steampunk stories, Corsets & Clockwork. Young heroes and heroines battle evils with the help of supernatural or super-technological powers, each individual story perfectly balancing historical and fantastical elements. Throw in epic romances that transcend time, and this trendy, engrossing anthology is sure to become another hit for the fast-growing Steampunk genre!This collection features some of the hottest writers in the teen genre, including: Ann Aguirre, Jaclyn Dolamore, Tessa Gratton, Frewin Jones, Caitlin Kittredge, Adrienne Kress, Lesley Livingston, Dru Pagliassotti, Dia Reeves, Michael Scott, Maria V. Snyder, Tiffany Trent, and Kiersten White.(
I won this from Stuck In Books. I haven't finished Delirium but Kat has and was excited when this came. It got rained on a little but is in great shape !
Lauren Oliver delivers an electrifying follow-up to her acclaimed New York Times bestseller, Delirium. This riveting, brilliant novel crackles with the fire of fierce defiance, forbidden romance, and the sparks of a revolution about to ignite.
Tell us what is in your mailbox !


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Spain Study Abroad Program in Spring 2012
SPAN-S 229 Spanish Culture & Civilization (3 cr.)
(online, open to all students, 11-day trip to Spain in May)
Deadline to apply is Friday, Nov 4th
See details of the program (updated on October 28th) and Starr Jordan Scholarship Guidelines
Applications will be accepted past the deadline if there are still spots available
Maximum number of participants is 12
Listen to the recording of the Oct 19th information meeting by visiting http://breeze.iu.edu/p6e1uuyzo0l/
Questions? An online Q&A session will be held.
Date: Wednesday, Nov 2nd
Time: 9:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.
Place: Online
- Go to breeze.iu.edu/spain2012
- Click on 'Enter as a Guest'
- Write your name
- Click on 'Enter Room'
For more information, please contact Prof. Simon, email@example.com


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Enhanced Pride of America Sails in Hawaii
September 30, 2013New suites, single staterooms addedBy: Marilyn Green
Guests will experience new suites on the Pride of America // © 2013 Norwegian Cruise Line
The 2,124-passenger Pride of America, Norwegian Cruise Line's dedicated Hawaii ship, is now sailing with extensive enhancements. Pride of America recently completed a $30 million refurbishment that includes new suites, studios for single travellers and inside staterooms.
The 24 new suites on Deck 13 have premium custom furnishings, fabrics, carpets and elegant bathrooms. Two are 566-square-foot Owner's Suites that sleep up to four people, with a spacious bedroom, a separate living room, 1,200-square-foot balconies and bathrooms featuring custom mosaic tiles. The others are Penthouse Suites, including two Deluxe Penthouse Suites with Large Balcony, ranging from 363 to 459 square feet and sleeping up to six guests. There are connecting doors to the Owner's Suites that allow a party of up to 10 passengers to be accommodated together. Suite guests have dedicated butlers and concierge, Tranquility mattresses, Lavazza espresso makers, Elemis bath products and private dining for breakfast and lunch.
Four 100-square-foot studio staterooms, introduced on Norwegian Epic, have been added, but there is no common lounge for them. Four inside staterooms also were added to Deck 13.
"Pride of America offers a unique and extraordinary vacation to four of Hawaii's most popular islands, and these new suites elevate the guest experience on this one-of-a-kind vessel to a whole new level," said Kevin Sheehan, Norwegian CEO.
Flat screen televisions were placed in all accommodations during the refurbishment and the fitness center was upgraded; Wi-Fi access is now available throughout the ship and carpeting was replaced.
A new Brazilian-style steakhouse, Moderno Churrascaria ($20 fee), was added to the restaurants onboard, and Lazy J's has been made into a signature Cagney's Steakhouse.
Pride of America is the only U.S.-flagged large cruise ship sailing a seven-day Hawaii itinerary departing from Honolulu every Saturday. Ports of call include an overnight in Kahului, Maui; Hilo and Kona, Hawaii; an overnight in Nawiliwili, Kauai; and an afternoon cruise past the Napali Coast.


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Award winning Mulanah Gardens Bed and Breakfast Cottages is set in idyllic and well-sculpted gardens within 200 acres of picturesque rural land 18 kilometres outside of Kingaroy, in the heart of South Burnett. The owners and hosts, Lindsay and Rhonda Kath, have created a beautifully landscaped garden, which is the setting for two luxury, well-appointed cottages, where you will be encouraged to relax and pamper yourself.
While staying, you can take advantage of the billiard room, outdoor chess or luxury packages, which include Swedish massage, local produce hampers, or a Honeymoon Indulgence package. Your hosts will even order and collect meals from one of the finest local hotels, so you don't have to leave your cottage. They are able to put a perfect package together for your needs. Just ask!
After an experience - you can also explore the South Burnett, home to natures own Bunya Mountains and two of Queensland's biggest inland waterways, not to mention some of the most scenic agricultural countryside in Queensland.
Due to current health advice on social distancing, please contact the business for the most up to date information regarding opening times and services.
Self-contained kitchen and living area. Separate bathroom with spa, as well as a bedroom with queen size bed and sofa bed. Other facilities include wood fire, air-conditioner, television, DVD player, stereo and gas barbecue on the veranda. Very private and luxury at its best!
Self-contained kitchen and living area. Romantic bedroom setting with wood fire, air-conditioner, television, DVD player and stereo. Queen size bed and spa overlooking panoramic views. You can enjoy these surroundings with the complimentary port, or with an outdoor barbecue in a peaceful setting. Private and luxury at its best!
Note: Information on listed products and services are provided by the operator and were correct at the time of publishing. Rates are indicative based on the minimum and maximum available prices of products and services. Please visit the operator's website for further information. All prices quoted are in Australian dollars (AUD).


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Cheesy Spinach and Spaghetti
If you're looking for a change of pace from the usual spaghetti with tomato sauce, look no further than this family favorite. This hearty casserole, a combination of cooked spaghetti, spinach, sour cream, milk, an egg and two kinds of cheese is a family pleaser. The recipe calls for frozen chopped spinach, which you simply cook and drain well, making it particularly simple to prepare.
The casserole is a wonderful meatless entrée. However, cooked and cubed chicken breast meat or chopped ham can be added for another variation. A can of quartered artichokes or sautéed mushrooms also are nice additions. Complete your meal with garlic bread and a fresh fruit salad. Or, take this make-ahead casserole to your next covered dish dinner.
Pour mixture in a baking dish that has been sprayed with nonstick cooking spray. Top with remaining cheeses and bake for 30 minutes, until cheese is melted and top is lightly browned.


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Karen Teel
Associate Professor, Theology and Religious Studies
- Ph.D., Boston College, Theology
- M.A., Boston College, Theology
- B.A., Gonzaga University, Psychology and Religious Studies
Karen Teel, PhD, has been a member of the Department of Theology and Religious Studies since 2007 and an affiliated faculty member with the Department of Ethnic Studies since 2013. Her courses in Christian and, more specifically, Catholic theology invite students to consider biblical, historical, and contemporary - especially liberationist - perspectives on the essential beliefs of Christianity. Dr. Teel's current research and teaching endeavors emphasize theological engagement with the problems of racism and white supremacy.
Scholarly Work
At present, Dr. Teel's primary research concern is to bring Christian theological anthropology (the study of what it means to be human, in Christian perspective) and Christology (the study of Jesus) into critical, creative engagement with the ongoing problems of racism and white supremacy in the United States and beyond. To this end, she often works with contemporary theologies from traditionally underrepresented groups, particularly black and womanist theologies, as well as with literature from relevant fields such as critical whiteness studies and critical race theory. In her book, Racism and the Image of God (2010), she engaged the works of womanist (African American feminist) thinkers to begin developing a theology of the body that compels Christians to resist injustice, particularly the sin of racism. She is now writing a book entitled The Unbearable Whiteness of Jesus. Some of her recent work appears in two chapters, "What Jesus Wouldn't Do: A White Theologian Engages Whiteness" (in Christology and Whiteness: What Would Jesus Do?, edited by George Yancy), and "Feeling White, Feeling Good: 'Antiracist' White Sensibilities" (forthcoming in a 2014 volume also edited by Yancy).
A secondary, related interest for Dr. Teel is Christianity's contemporary global situation as one religion among many. She hopes that the Christian beliefs in Jesus and the Trinity can encourage Christians to encounter genuine religious differences with joy and grace, and to honor truth in all religions. This was the subject of her article, "Christianity as Closed Monotheism? A Contemporary Catholic Approach to Interreligious Dialogue," which appeared in the Annual Volume of the College Theology Society for 2011.
Dr. Teel is an active member of the American Academy of Religion, the Catholic Theological Society of America, and the College Theology Society.
Areas of Interest
Dr. Teel's courses immerse students in diverse Catholic and Christian perspectives on essential beliefs of Christianity, such as God as Trinity, Jesus as savior, and the human person as the image of God. Students study foundational articulations of Christian faith, including the Bible, and encounter various contemporary perspectives. In Dr. Teel's courses, liberation theologies are prominent, especially black, womanist, and feminist theologies, and other critical theological engagements with racism and white supremacy.
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The New York Times is hosting a bit of a debate, with views from folks like Penn Jillette and Jason Torpy, as well as frustratingly misguided writers who prefer unsolved religious mystery.
It's worth the read, if only to reinforce how good the quality of some of the thinking and writing is here at FtB. So go, comment at the Times, and tell them Cuttlefish sent you.


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On January 18, Australia signed a defense treaty with former colonial power Britain designed to further boost cooperation on military and security issues.
Australian Defense Minister Stephen Smith said the treaty was designed "to underpin the ongoing strategic and practical cooperation" between the nations, as well as to reflect their historical relationship. It will see the two countries share information, technology, policy and personnel in a bid to minimize costs, as well as strengthening ties in the fields of cybersecurity, defense reform, equipment, and science and technology.
Smith said the idea for the accord had arisen during Australia-U.K. ministerial talks two years ago, to ensure all "practical cooperation measures, arrangements, protocols, and memorandums of understanding that we have … be put under a broad strategic framework".
He described the Defense and Security Cooperation Treaty as "deeply significant," adding that the relationship between the two countries "has always been first class".
"It reflects not just our history, but also our closeness and our desire to work even more closely in a practical cooperation sense, whether that's on strategic matters or procurement and acquisition matters, into the future," Smith said.
British Defense Secretary Philip Hammond said the treaty gave the allies a framework on which to build on their existing high level of cooperation.
"As we draw down from Afghanistan … we need to think about how we maintain levels of interoperability with each other," he said. "Secondly, we all face budgetary challenges over the coming months and years, and looking at how we manage our fleets of vehicles, aircraft and ships and how we procure our equipment, we need to get the maximum leverage from our dollars and pounds."


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Girl Scout Testifies Before Congressional Panel on Dangers of Cyberbullying
Girl Scout Dominique Napolitano testified before the U.S. House of Representatives Healthy Families and Communities Subcommittee on the issue of cyberbullying on Thursday, June 24, providing legislators a teenager's perspective on the increasingly widespread practice.
"Cyberbullying is not just a phase or behavior in which kids will be kids," Napolitano told the panel chaired by U.S. Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY). "Cyberbullying poses serious consequences to the health and safety of all children."
Dominique was among a core group of Girl Scouts who helped develop LMK, a leading online safety Web site developed by Girl Scouts in collaboration with Microsoft's Windows division. The site is unique because it is designed to cover such topics as cyberbullying, online sexual predators and cybersecurity from the perspective of young people. Twenty-three Girl Scouts working with Internet safety expert Parry Aftab have developed the online safety tips and advice for parents and young boys and girls.
In addition to Dominique, the panel heard testimony from syndicated talk show host Dr. Phil McGraw, as well as Aftab, who contributed to the LMK Web site, and educators from around the country.
"I know from my experience that kids don't always think that adults understand their issues or get technology," Dominique said. "So we need to empower youth to take this problem into our own hands and find solutions that work for us. I feel that I've had that experience through Girl Scouts, my youth group, and in school, but far too many kids don't get that chance."
Her testimony drew media coverage in newspapers and television stations. A story appears in the Boston Herald, and Dominique's testimony is available on YouTube.
You can also check out photos of Dominique at the hearing at the Wall Street Journal.
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Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies
What is MEIS?
Program Description
The Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies (MEIS) Program at CSUN is a new interdisciplinary minor established in 2013. It offers courses in the languages, histories, religions, cultures, sociology and politics of Middle Eastern peoples. It also seeks to enhance students' understanding of Islamic cultures and the Muslim communities both internationally and within the United States.
In addition, MEIS provides an academic home for the study of the intellectual, cultural and material conditions that have shaped our current understandings of and relationships with the Middle East and Islamic societies. Among the primary beneficiaries of this program are students interested in becoming scholars, journalists, translators, interpreters, diplomats, businesspersons, negotiators, and personnel in foreign offices. Some of the courses in the MEIS program satisfy General Education (GE) requirements or may be used as electives in several majors.
Through offering the minor, sponsoring courses, organizing conferences, film and lecture series, MEIS brings together interested students, faculty, and Middle Eastern communities in larger Los Angeles.


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Earlier this year, with the sudden liquidation of Bluehat Group, Catalyst Global seized the opportunity to reassess the way they offered licenses in the UK. After a competitve tender process involving applications from some of the UKs most well-known team building and training companies, Catalyst Global has awarded two companies in the UK rights to distribute their products, Teambuilding.ie and Team Challenge Company.
"We were impressed with the level of applications. It was a tough decision," said Guy Baker, CEO at Catalyst Global. "We were looking for established companies with a high level of integrity, with an established client base and extensive knowledge of and passion for the power of team building. "
Teambuilding.ie has held the exclusive license for Catalyst Global in Ireland since 2011 which has now been extended to the UK, including England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Under the new agreement, Teambuilding.ie will be selling and distributing all 174 award-winning Catalyst Global products, to these markets.
In 2016 Teambuilding.ie delivered more than 500 events for internationally renowned organisations, including Google, Jaguar Landrover and TE Connectivity.
"It was natural for us to select Teambuilding.ie. They have a proven track record, having held the Catalyst Global license for Ireland since 2011. They work consistently with internationally recognized brands, as well as, having great solutions for smaller companies. Their team are already well versed in selling and delivering our products." said Baker.
David Bassett, Managing Director of Teambuilding.ie, said
"We are delighted to be expanding into the UK with our new Catalyst Global partnership. The Business Tourism industry in the UK is valued at over £9 billion, which we understand is forecast to grow. Our established relationship with Catalyst Global helps us to create exceptional experiences that our customers remember forever."


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There is one more way to convert the larger bolt face to a small rimless cartridge head.... Leave the face alone and simply mod the extractor (as I have mentioned before for the 7.62x39mm to 5.56mm change.
The modified extractor not only grabs the smaller diameter rimless brass but it also shoves it sideways slightly upon extraction into the ejector. No need to mod the ejector either.


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adwrighty brauchte ein neues Anderes Design und hat einen Wettbewerb auf 99designs gestartet.
Aus 107 Designs von 38 Designern wurde eine Gewinner gewählt.
I'm a marketing professional based in Sydney, Australia. BrandHabits.net will be my personal blog. The blog will feature posts on a range of topics from brand strategy and positioning, to design, online marketing, social media and marketing trends.
BrandHabits is my term for what successful brands deliver to their customers day in and day out. Like Apple's commitment to design and their focus on the design community, Southwest Air's habits that form part of their exceptional customer service, and Virgin's habits of always delivering a somewhat indefinable sense of fun.
BrandHabits are the good things that I'd advocate people who read the blog to do. Things like:
- Place the customer at the heart of your brand and marketing strategy
- Create expectations that you can fulfill (and more)
- Constantly learn from and re-evaluate your marketing by getting business and customer feedback.
The target audience will be other brand and marketing professionals. A network of past and potential future employers. Professionals from the likes of Wolff Olins, Landor, Interbrand as well as Digital Marketing professionals. It's a potentially global audience likely to hail from New York, San Francisco, Chicago, London, Sydney and Singapore. These are the origins of some of my followers on Twitter.
They'll visit the blog because they'll expect to find commentary and opinion on latest marketing trends as well as observations on brand strategies / design.
Deliverables (photoshop files):
1 x logo
1 x header image – 920 x 180 pixels
I'm looking for a logo that I can use on other elements, such as buttons, documents etc as well as a header image for the blog – 920 x 180 pixels.
The blog is on Wordpress using the Vigilance template by Drew Stojny. http://themes.jestro.com/vigilance/
My goal for the design of the logo and the blog is to be simple and fresh. It should feel contemporary and convey the passion that I have for the topic I'm commenting on.
Typeface will be important. I like smooth, clean and bold fonts that standout well and can hold their own in a cluttered environment, not add to the clutter.
Favourite colours are blue, silver, black, white, yellow and orange. Yellow or orange combined with black is a favourite of mine, but the cleanness of blue / silver and black / white is also appreciated. I'm open to any of these combinations. Keen to explore ways to convey the concept of habits and passion for brands.
I'm excited about this project, so please expect lots of feedback and ask lots of questions if necessary.


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Debate has ramped up over whether women should spend their days in college finding a spouse or focusing on education. But is the answer both?
College - a time for growth, learning and expanding your wings. That's the idea. But is it also a time for women to marry? Susan Patton, an author on marriage advice, said colleges and universities are places where you're supposed to find your spouse, she said in her column for The Wall Street Journal. "College is the best place to look for your mate," she said. "It is an environment teeming with like-minded, age-appropriate single men with whom you already share many things. You will never again have this concentration of exceptional men to choose from." But even if a woman isn't interested in marrying during her 20s, it's important for her to keep in touch with the men she meets during her college years, Patton wrote. "You may not be ready for marriage in your early 20s (or maybe you are), but keep in touch with the men that you meet in college, especially the super smart ones," she wrote. "They'll probably do very well for themselves, and their desirability will only increase after graduation." Lisa Endlich Heffernan of The Atlantic doesn't think women should necessarily focus on finding men to marry while in college. She said a woman with control of her life will have a happier marriage. "Young women should not be scared into action based on a worldview from another era that does not square with today's facts," Heffernan said. "In reality, it is the college-educated woman who is the prize. Her husband can earn a higher level of income, a healthier life, and longer marriage." Heffernan said seeking out a marriage partner in college and ignoring education is something of a previous generation. This may be true, according to the New York Times, which said that women used to be forced into choosing between education and a husband. The Times said about 55 percent to 59 percent of white women who graduated from schools had never married, while 7 percent of those who didn't attend school had husbands. Now, though, college graduates are more likely to marry each other, according to research. And the Pew Research Center recently found that wives have more education than their husbands. Both of these findings show that a woman can get their education and still find someone to marry. "It used to be more common for a husband to have more education than his wife in America," Pew said. "But now, for the first time since Pew Research has tracked this trend over the past 50 years, the share of couples in which the wife is the one 'marrying down' educationally is higher than those in which the husband has more education."%3Cimg%20src%3D%22http%3A//beacon.deseretconnect.com/beacon.gif%3Fcid%3D146535%26pid%3D46%22%20/%3E


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August can be a rough time to get in your colorist's chair because everyone's on vacation. Whether you're keeping up with grown-out Summer highlights or are battling some gray roots, you might be waiting a while — but no one has to know that. Here are some options that don't require plastic gloves, a baseball cap, or a wig:
- Change your part. This is an easy solution to many hair dilemmas. If you have highlights only on the top of your head, it can end up making your hair look darker — but the roots will look less severe.
- Spray on some hair powder. Usually used like dry shampoo, Bumble and bumble Hair Powder can also touch up roots. Tip: most blondes will actually want to use the white shade, not the "blondish" one.
- Use a wash-out color product. ColormarkPro is a marker-type product made to cover gray roots. In a major bind (like, your colorist's work visa got revoked and you're getting married tomorrow), try regular brown or black mascara to cover gray on black hair. Blondes and redheads can try Frederic Fekkai Hair Mascara


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PORT JERVIS �— The state Department of Environmental Conservation is taking emergency action to stop a plume of oil snaking through parts of the city toward the Delaware River from the Roundhouse brownfield site on Pike Street.
PORT JERVIS �— The state Department of Environmental Conservation is taking emergency action to stop a plume of oil snaking through parts of the city toward the Delaware River from the Roundhouse brownfield site on Pike Street.
On Wednesday night, the city held a hearing to inform the public about the status of the city-owned 8.67-acre site at 100 Pike St., contaminated with more than 10,000 gallons of diesel fuel and other petroleum products from the old Erie-Lackawanna Railroad when it was used for refueling and repair operations.
John O'Mara, regional engineer for the DEC in New Paltz, said the state plans to build an "interceptor trench" as soon as possible to stop the oil from migrating further off-site and cost "is not one of (their) concerns."
The statement from O'Mara didn't sit well with the Common Council.
"Half the council fell off our table," Councilman Gerald Oney said.
The city's environmental lawyer, Carole Gallagher, said the old underground slick is very slowly meandering its way south and southwest toward the Delaware River, about one-quarter mile away. It would take at least 20 years before it reached the Delaware, engineers estimated.
In June, Gallagher said the DEC notified the city that it was responsible for about $164,000 they had spent maintaining the site, They also told the city they were going to clean the site and make the city pay for it, Gallagher said.
In November 2010, the city had a ribbon-cutting to introduce an oil recovery system designed by a city consultant, Chazen Cos. The city received a $200,000 Brownfields Cleanup Grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in 2004 to clean the site, but the project stopped in February because of problems.
Chazen representatives Russell Urban-Mead and Kevin McGrath said problems stemmed from limited money allotted to the project and time constraints to get it up and running. Among them: Pump-wells to draw the oily water out were put in improper places, flooding from Hurricane Irene damaged the site and a thick sludge built up on filters. A system to fully remediate the site could cost up to $6.5 million, said McGrath.
Gallaher said the plume reaches underneath Thompson and Lumber streets. Near the Roundhouse site, the oil can reach up to 4 feet thick.
O'Mara said he couldn't put a specific cost on the trench but was willing to work with the city after it was installed. The city has applied for a $1 million federal grant to help clean up the site.
In the meantime, the O'Mara said the DEC plans to proceed.
"We'll stop it. Understand, the work will get done and someone will be held responsible," said O'Mara.


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Mandy Moore
Class of 2011
Major/Minor: Psychology, Behavioral Neuroscience/Chemistry
Hometown? Bear, DE
High School? Hodgson Vo-Tech High School
Favorite Class at WC? Medical Ethics: It got me thinking about a lot of problems in health care that I had never taken the time to think about it before and was really interesting.
Recommended Professor? The entire psychology department: They make class fun and interesting! You actually want to go to class!
Most Memorable Experience as a First-Year Student? I think my most memorable experience was playfair. Who wouldn't love running around on the green?
If I Could Be an Animal? I would defiantly be a Panda! I love them and Manda Panda has been my nickname for years!
One Thing You Shouldn't Forget to Pack? Pictures of family and friends.
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- Blog: Confessions of a Psychology Nerd