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California parents sue over grade school yoga
By Marty Graham
SAN DIEGO (Reuters) - The parents of two California grade school students have sued to block the teaching of yoga classes they complain promote eastern religions, saying children who exercise their choice to opt out of the popular program face bullying and teasing.
The Encinitas Unified School District, near San Diego, began the program in September to teach Ashtanga yoga as part of the district's physical education program - and school officials insist the program does not teach any religion.
Lawyers for the parents challenging the yoga program disagreed.
"As a First Amendment lawyer, I wouldn't go after an exercise program. I don't go after people for stretching," said attorney Dean Broyles, who heads the National Center on Law and Policy, which filed the suit on Wednesday in a San Diego court.
"But Ashtanga yoga is a religious-based yoga, and if we are separating church and state, we can't pick and choose religious favorites," he said.
The lawsuit is the latest twist in a broader national clash over the separation of religion from public education that has seen spirited debate on issues ranging from the permissibility of student-led prayer to whether science instructors can teach alternatives to evolution.
The lawsuit, which does not seek any monetary damages, objects to eight-limbed tree posters they say are derived from Hindu beliefs, the Namaste greeting and several of the yoga poses that they say represent the worship of Hindu deities.
According to the suit, a $533,000 grant from the Jois Foundation, which supports yoga in schools, allowed the school district to assign 60 minutes of the 100 minutes of physical education required each week to Ashtanga yoga, taught in the schools by Jois-certified teachers.
Broyles said that while children are allowed to opt out of the yoga program, they are not given other exercise options.
"The kids who are opting out are getting teased and bullied," he said. "We have one little girl whose classmates told her parents are stupid because she opted out. That's not supposed to happen in our schools."
Encinitas schools Superintendent Tim Baird said the suit was unfounded and that the district had worked with parents who had concerns as they developed and implemented the program.
"We are disappointed by the suit. We thought we had worked well with the concerned parents and had resolved their concerns," he added.
Encinitas resident Dave Peck said his law firm had offered to represent the school district for free but was turned down and is now working with parents who support teaching yoga in schools. He called the lawsuit "a tortured attempt to find indoctrination where none exists."
"There is really no dispute as to the physical and mental health benefits of the yoga program - teachers and parents throughout the district have raved about noticeable improvement in the students' focus," said Peck, whose children attend Encinitas schools.
"We reject the argument that yoga poses constitute the practice of Hinduism as both a matter of law and common sense. There is absolutely nothing religious or spiritual about the classroom instruction," he said.
(Editing by Cynthia Johnston; Editing by Mohammad Zargham)
Source: http://wkzo.com/news/articles/2013/feb/22/california-parents-sue-over-grade-school-yoga/
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Thursday, February 21, 2013
Answers could have big impact on NFL draft stock
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) ? Barkevious Mingo is ready for questions he will face this weekend in Indianapolis.
Seemingly every NFL team at the annual scouting combine will ask about his relationship with former college teammate Tyrann Mathieu and whether he ever hung out with the troubled cornerback.
The answers could make as much difference in Mingo living up to his projection as a first-round draft pick as his time in the 40-yard dash. So the LSU star has left nothing to chance, carving out time to prepare for the 15-minute interviews.
"It's one thing that all the guys that came out from LSU are going to face," Mingo said during a telephone interview. "We know what kind of guy he was and we're always going to be there for him."
Interview training has become an essential component for draft hopefuls. Most, if not all, of the 333 players expected to arrive in Indy for the combine have been instructed in how to answer coaches and general managers properly.
This year, the questions run the gamut.
Running back Marcus Lattimore is trying to prove he can return from a gruesome knee injury. Mathieu, a cornerback, and Da'Rick Rogers, a receiver, both were booted off the teams they intended to play for last fall after failing drug tests. Linebacker Alec Ogletree will have to answer for a series of problems that included a suspension for violating team rules early last season, and linebacker Manti Te'o will likely contend with the girlfriend hoax all over again. And those are just the big-name guys.
Lee Gordon, a former television anchor, runs a training program for Athletes Performance, whose client list includes Mingo and Lattimore. His advice: Be appealing, believable and accentuate the positive.
"We tell them up front that coaching you on this is similar to tackling techniques and the things you do on the field, but you have to be yourself," Gordon said. "You can't be fake or people will see right through it. What we do is give them a chance to see the media and the (team) interviews as a business opportunity."
Obviously, the advice deviates greatly from player to player.
For instance, Gordon suggested Lattimore explain to teams that he will be ready on opening day, if that's what he truly believes, and to provide supporting medical evidence to prove it.
Some don't need as much training as others, though everyone seems to benefit. UCLA running back Jonathan Franklin, another of Gordon's clients, worked as an intern in the Los Angeles mayor's office and filmed a teen reality show in which he was depicted as a role model for inner-city children. Going through this program, though, gave Franklin a different perspective on how to handle things in Indy.
"In the mayor's office, it's more about helping people and saying things to give people hope where you help them believe things are going to happen. Sometimes it takes time. So in the mayor's office, you have to speak more patiently," Franklin said. "Here, you have to be more aggressive and more hands on and let them know you're going to be the man."
All this coaching has made things infinitely more difficult for the teams to sort out.
Over the years, Bill Polian, the architect of four Super Bowl teams in Buffalo and two in Indianapolis, grew so wary of these "coached" answers that he changed the way the Colts did business. Instead of asking the questions himself or having other front office personnel or coaches conduct interviews, Polian used a psychologist who could immediately tell the difference between honest answers and scripted ones. If the person believed the answers had been programmed, the order of the questions changed.
Even today, Polian is skeptical that teams will get the answers needed to make the right choices.
"I wouldn't put any stock into the answers they give you. You know it's spin. I'm not saying they're not being truthful, but you have to go through it and figure it out for yourself," he said when asked about the responses from players with drug issues or criminal allegations in their past.
He later added: "It's not like what most people would think of a job interview. Here you have agents and advisers involved, and the agent's idea is 'Let me give you as little information as possible about this kid until the draft.'"
Breaking down that information is entirely up to the teams, and that's not the only thing that has changed about the combine.
Over the past decade, NFL officials have moved media interviews from hotel hallways to podiums. Hundreds of reporters are now credentialed to cover the event as opposed to the dozens who used to show up 15 years ago, a scene Te'o might have to contend with this weekend for the first time since the hoax story broke.
This year, the league will introduce a new measuring tool -- the NFL Player Assessment Test, which has been billed as a compliment to the Wonderlic intelligence test. Polian described it as more of a personality test than a psychological examination but acknowledged most teams have been examining the personality traits of draft hopefuls for years.
What else is different?
The lessons Gordon gives on social media, the same medium that turned Te'o from a national inspiration into a national punch line.
"What we do is have interns go find out who we'll be working with and try to friend them, and usually about 85 percent of them will say yes," Gordon said. "We'll tell them we're all real people with real pictures and then we'll show them how easy it is to get access to their life and their world. We'll tell them that people are truly disguising themselves as other people, and if you don't know them to defriend them because regardless of who it is, these people can see your pictures and all that stuff. We explain that these NFL guys, they know everything. So we tell them to clean it up before it's too late."
And he does mean everything.
While the stories of Mathieu, Ogletree and others have been well-documented over the past year, it's not just those players who will face questioning this weekend.
"I've been asked that already," Mingo said. "He knows he messed up, he made it harder on himself. He'll be prepared for it (the questions)."
Just like all the other pro prospects this weekend.
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Brown University researchers build robotic bat wing
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] Researchers at Brown University have developed a robotic bat wing that is providing valuable new information about dynamics of flapping flight in real bats.
The robot, which mimics the wing shape and motion of the lesser dog-faced fruit bat, is designed to flap while attached to a force transducer in a wind tunnel. As the lifelike wing flaps, the force transducer records the aerodynamic forces generated by the moving wing. By measuring the power output of the three servo motors that control the robot's seven movable joints, researchers can evaluate the energy required to execute wing movements.
Testing showed the robot can match the basic flight parameters of bats, producing enough thrust to overcome drag and enough lift to carry the weight of the model species.
A paper describing the robot and presenting results from preliminary experiments is published in the journal Bioinspiration and Biomimetics. The work was done in labs of Brown professors Kenneth Breuer and Sharon Swartz, who are the senior authors on the paper. Breuer, an engineer, and Swartz, a biologist, have studied bat flight and anatomy for years.
The faux flapper generates data that could never be collected directly from live animals, said Joseph Bahlman, a graduate student at Brown who led the project. Bats can't fly when connected to instruments that record aerodynamic forces directly, so that isn't an option and bats don't take requests.
"We can't ask a bat to flap at a frequency of eight hertz then raise it to nine hertz so we can see what difference that makes," Bahlman said. "They don't really cooperate that way."
But the model does exactly what the researchers want it to do. They can control each of its movement capabilities kinematic parameters individually. That way they can adjust one parameter while keeping the rest constant to isolate the effects.
"We can answer questions like, 'Does increasing wing beat frequency improve lift and what's the energetic cost of doing that?'" Bahlman said. "We can directly measure the relationship between these kinematic parameters, aerodynamic forces, and energetics."
Detailed experimental results from the robot will be described in future research papers, but this first paper includes some preliminary results from a few case studies.
One experiment looked at the aerodynamic effects of wing folding. Bats and some birds fold their wings back during the upstroke. Previous research from Brown had found that folding helped the bats save energy, but how folding affected aerodynamic forces wasn't clear. Testing with the robot wing shows that folding is all about lift.
In a flapping animal, positive lift is generated by the downstroke, but some of that lift is undone by the subsequent upstroke, which generates negative lift. By running trials with and without wing folding, the robot showed that folding the wing on the upstroke dramatically decreases that negative lift, increasing net lift by 50 percent.
Data like that will not only give new insights into the mechanics of bat flight, it could aid the design of small flapping aircraft. The research was funded by the U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research.
Inspired by the real thing
Bat wings are complex things. They span most of the length of a bat's body, from shoulder to foot. They are supported and moved by two arm bones and five finger-like digits. Over those bones is a super-elastic skin that can stretch up to 400 percent without tearing. The eight-inch robot mimics that anatomy with plastic bones carefully fabricated on a 3-D printer to match proportions of a real bat. The skin is made of a silicone elastomer. The joints are actuated by servo motors that pull on tendon-like cables, which in turn pull on the joints.
The robot doesn't quite match the complexity of a real bat's wing, which has 25 joints and 34 degrees of freedom. An exact simulation isn't feasible given today's technology and wouldn't be desirable anyway, Bahlman said. Part of why the model is useful is that it distills bat flapping down to five fundamental parameters: flapping frequency, flapping amplitude, the angle of the flap relative to the ground, the amount of time used for the downstroke, and the extent to which the wings can fold back.
Experimental data aside, Bahlman said there were many lessons learned just in building the robot and getting it to work properly. "We learned a lot about how bats work from trying to duplicate them and having things go wrong," he said.
During testing, for example, the tongue and groove joint used for the robot's elbow broke repeatedly. The forces on the wing would spread open the groove, and eventually break it open. Bahlman eventually wrapped steel cable around the joint to keep it intact, similar to the way ligaments hold joints together in real animals.
The fact that the elbow was a characteristic weak point in the robot might help to explain the musculature of elbows in real bats. Bats have a large set of muscles at the elbow that are not positioned to flex the joint. In humans, these muscles are used in the motion that helps us turn our palms up or down. Bats can't make that motion, however, so the fact that these muscles are so large was something of a mystery. Bahlman's experience with the robot suggests these muscles may be adapted to resist bending in a direction that would break the joint open.
The wing membrane provided more lessons. It often tore at the leading edge, prompting Bahlman to reinforce that spot with elastic threads. The fix ended up looking a lot like the tendon and muscle that reinforce leading edges in bats, underscoring how important those structures are.
Now that the model is operational, Bahlman has lots of plans for it.
"The next step is to start playing with the materials," he said. "We'd like to try different wing materials, different amounts of flexibility on the bones, looking to see if there are beneficial tradeoffs in these material properties."
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Share ] Contact: Kevin Stacey
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401-863-3766
Brown University
PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] Researchers at Brown University have developed a robotic bat wing that is providing valuable new information about dynamics of flapping flight in real bats.
The robot, which mimics the wing shape and motion of the lesser dog-faced fruit bat, is designed to flap while attached to a force transducer in a wind tunnel. As the lifelike wing flaps, the force transducer records the aerodynamic forces generated by the moving wing. By measuring the power output of the three servo motors that control the robot's seven movable joints, researchers can evaluate the energy required to execute wing movements.
Testing showed the robot can match the basic flight parameters of bats, producing enough thrust to overcome drag and enough lift to carry the weight of the model species.
A paper describing the robot and presenting results from preliminary experiments is published in the journal Bioinspiration and Biomimetics. The work was done in labs of Brown professors Kenneth Breuer and Sharon Swartz, who are the senior authors on the paper. Breuer, an engineer, and Swartz, a biologist, have studied bat flight and anatomy for years.
The faux flapper generates data that could never be collected directly from live animals, said Joseph Bahlman, a graduate student at Brown who led the project. Bats can't fly when connected to instruments that record aerodynamic forces directly, so that isn't an option and bats don't take requests.
"We can't ask a bat to flap at a frequency of eight hertz then raise it to nine hertz so we can see what difference that makes," Bahlman said. "They don't really cooperate that way."
But the model does exactly what the researchers want it to do. They can control each of its movement capabilities kinematic parameters individually. That way they can adjust one parameter while keeping the rest constant to isolate the effects.
"We can answer questions like, 'Does increasing wing beat frequency improve lift and what's the energetic cost of doing that?'" Bahlman said. "We can directly measure the relationship between these kinematic parameters, aerodynamic forces, and energetics."
Detailed experimental results from the robot will be described in future research papers, but this first paper includes some preliminary results from a few case studies.
One experiment looked at the aerodynamic effects of wing folding. Bats and some birds fold their wings back during the upstroke. Previous research from Brown had found that folding helped the bats save energy, but how folding affected aerodynamic forces wasn't clear. Testing with the robot wing shows that folding is all about lift.
In a flapping animal, positive lift is generated by the downstroke, but some of that lift is undone by the subsequent upstroke, which generates negative lift. By running trials with and without wing folding, the robot showed that folding the wing on the upstroke dramatically decreases that negative lift, increasing net lift by 50 percent.
Data like that will not only give new insights into the mechanics of bat flight, it could aid the design of small flapping aircraft. The research was funded by the U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research.
Inspired by the real thing
Bat wings are complex things. They span most of the length of a bat's body, from shoulder to foot. They are supported and moved by two arm bones and five finger-like digits. Over those bones is a super-elastic skin that can stretch up to 400 percent without tearing. The eight-inch robot mimics that anatomy with plastic bones carefully fabricated on a 3-D printer to match proportions of a real bat. The skin is made of a silicone elastomer. The joints are actuated by servo motors that pull on tendon-like cables, which in turn pull on the joints.
The robot doesn't quite match the complexity of a real bat's wing, which has 25 joints and 34 degrees of freedom. An exact simulation isn't feasible given today's technology and wouldn't be desirable anyway, Bahlman said. Part of why the model is useful is that it distills bat flapping down to five fundamental parameters: flapping frequency, flapping amplitude, the angle of the flap relative to the ground, the amount of time used for the downstroke, and the extent to which the wings can fold back.
Experimental data aside, Bahlman said there were many lessons learned just in building the robot and getting it to work properly. "We learned a lot about how bats work from trying to duplicate them and having things go wrong," he said.
During testing, for example, the tongue and groove joint used for the robot's elbow broke repeatedly. The forces on the wing would spread open the groove, and eventually break it open. Bahlman eventually wrapped steel cable around the joint to keep it intact, similar to the way ligaments hold joints together in real animals.
The fact that the elbow was a characteristic weak point in the robot might help to explain the musculature of elbows in real bats. Bats have a large set of muscles at the elbow that are not positioned to flex the joint. In humans, these muscles are used in the motion that helps us turn our palms up or down. Bats can't make that motion, however, so the fact that these muscles are so large was something of a mystery. Bahlman's experience with the robot suggests these muscles may be adapted to resist bending in a direction that would break the joint open.
The wing membrane provided more lessons. It often tore at the leading edge, prompting Bahlman to reinforce that spot with elastic threads. The fix ended up looking a lot like the tendon and muscle that reinforce leading edges in bats, underscoring how important those structures are.
Now that the model is operational, Bahlman has lots of plans for it.
"The next step is to start playing with the materials," he said. "We'd like to try different wing materials, different amounts of flexibility on the bones, looking to see if there are beneficial tradeoffs in these material properties."
###
Editors: Brown University has a fiber link television studio available for domestic and international live and taped interviews, and maintains an ISDN line for radio interviews. For more information, call (401) 863-2476.
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Sunday, February 10, 2013
10 Things To Know About The Northeast Blizzard
buried cars
See my car in the foreground? Me neither, 'cause it's buried in snow.
Sam Schepise
Sam Schepise braves the wind and cold to photograph the sunrise Saturday, Feb. 9, 2013, near Newtown, Pa. A behemoth storm packing hurricane-force wind gusts and blizzard conditions swept through the Northeast on Saturday, dumping more than 2 feet of snow on New England and knocking out power to 650,000 homes and businesses. Airlines scratched more than 5,300 flights through Saturday, and New York City's three major airports and Boston's Logan Airport closed. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)
Mr. Snowman
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Essex Street Promenade Salem, MA
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Snow Covered Cars
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East Boston
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Main Street Clinton, CT
Clinton, CT looking west on Main Street at 6:48am Saturday February 9,2013
Market Basket, Burlington, MA
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Snowed In and No Place to Go
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Harvard Yard
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Snow Fun
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Harvard University--bird's eye view
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Tape Measure Homer
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Old Town Hall at Derby Square, Salem, MA
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Digging us out
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Norwich, CT Superior Court
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Snowed in!
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The frozen Charles River
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Nashua, NH 2-9-13 After Nemo
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Max sees his neighbor Sven.
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Concord, MA
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Nashua, NH 2-9-13 After Nemo
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Perspective of depth
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Long Island Pup
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New Haven, CT
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Downtown Salem, MA
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East Boston
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Boston Post Road Clinton, CT
Clinton CT East Main Street 6:48am Saturday Feb 9, 2013
Bailey HAD to go!
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A pedestrian uses skis to travel through the deserted snow-covered streets of Boston early Saturday, Feb. 9, 2013. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
Cambridge, MA
<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/hp_blogger_Pierre R. Berastaín"><img style="float:left;padding-right:6px !important;" src="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/contributors/pierre-r-berastain/headshot.jpg" /></a><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/hp_blogger_Pierre R. Berastaín">HuffPost Blogger Pierre R. Berastaín</a>:<br />Trapped inside? Cambridge, MA By Pierre Berastain
Heavy Wet snow and Trees
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Plowed out
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Harvard Divinity School
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Cleaning up after the Blizzard in Sterling, Massachususetts
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Natick, MA
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Flying over the storm
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Anybody up for turns?
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Max in the snow.
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Max playing.
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Nature's Graffiti
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Jordan
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A man walks past snow covered cars in the South End neighborhood of Boston, Saturday, Feb. 9, 2013. The Boston area received about two feet of snow from a winter storm. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
Bobcat Visitor
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10 Things to Know about the big storm
Payloaders clear snow from the Long Island Expressway just west of exit 59 Ocean Ave where several cars and a truck are abandoned after a snow storm on Saturday, Feb. 9, 31, 2013, in Ronkonkoma , N.Y. (AP Photo/Kathy Kmonicek)
Payloaders clear snow from the Long Island Expressway just west of exit 59 Ocean Ave where several cars and a truck are abandoned after a snow storm on Saturday, Feb. 9, 31, 2013, in Ronkonkoma , N.Y. (AP Photo/Kathy Kmonicek)
A group of men help push a sports car up a snow-covered street in the Old Port section of Portland, Mane, during a snow storm, Friday, Feb. 8, 2013. The storm is expected to dump up to two feet of snow on the region. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
Riders wait in a bus stop where color-tinted windows collect snow during a storm, Friday, Feb. 8, 2013, in Portland, Maine. The National Weather Service says a blizzard warning is issued Friday evening for the southern coast. The forecast calls for up to 2 feet of snow and winds gusting to 50 mph.(AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
1. MORE THAN 650,000 LOST POWER IN NEW ENGLAND
Even the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant in Plymouth, Mass., had to shut down and turn to backup generators.
2. GUSTS HIT 82 MPH, BUT OUTAGES COULD HAVE BEEN WORSE
With leaves gone, damage to power lines from falling branches was less than it might have been.
3. AT LEAST SEVEN PEOPLE HAVE DIED
The deaths include three in Canada and an 11-year-old boy who died in Boston of carbon monoxide in a running car as his father tried to shovel it free.
4. MORE THAN 3 FEET OF SNOW FELL IN CONNECTICUT
Maine and Long Island recorded 30-plus inches, with Massachusetts and New Hampshire not far behind.
5. IT WAS ALL TOO MUCH FOR THE POSTAL SERVICE
"Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers..." was canceled when New England delivery was halted.
6. AIR TRAVEL IS COMING BACK
Flights started landing at JFK Saturday morning, and Boston's Logan hopes to open partially by 11 p.m.
7. WHERE SNOWMOBILES BECAME RESCUE VEHICLES
Despite warnings and highway closings, hundreds of drivers were stranded on Long Island.
8. HOW SANDY VICTIMS WERE HIT AGAIN
Staten Islanders without power had only a tent shelter and tarps for protection.
9. NBA ROAD TRIPS WERE EXTENDED
The Knicks were stuck in Minnesota, the Spurs hunkered down in Detroit and the Brooklyn Nets took the train home from Washington.
10. YES, MICHAEL KORS WORE UGGS TO FASHION WEEK
"I came in looking like Pam Anderson," the designer joked after trading up for black leather boots in New York.
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Thursday, February 7, 2013
The Next Big Thing: A Literary Q&A Chain-letter? sorta Miles Writer ...
So a few weeks ago, my poet friend and co-press mate Nancy Flynn tagged me in The Next Big Thing, which she aptly described as ?six degrees of separation meet a literary chain letter.? The idea is that you answer some interview questions and post them to your blog and tag some friends of yours who will do the same the following week. Below are my answers to the questions about my recent book of poems ?Departures.?
What is the title of the book?
The title is ?Departures.?
Where did the idea come from for the book?
Initially, the idea was to just put together a manuscript of poems and submit it to a few presses and see if anyone would bite, so to speak. I had a bunch of poems written, some of which had been published in a variety of places, and so I figured I had enough material to put together a small book.
What genre does your book fall under?
It?s a book of poems. Most people would say they are very short poems, no epics here.
What actors would you choose to play the part of your characters in a movie rendition?
I like the fact that this question doesn?t really pertain to my book, since it?s not a novel or short story with characters but a book of individual poems. Although, I suppose one could take the voice of a particular poem and imagine or bring a character into being based on that voice. Anybody out there interested in making a poetry video?
Oh. What actors? I have no idea. But I suppose if an actor had to play me, I might say James Franco, who played a wonderful Allen Ginsberg in the movie ?Howl.? Then again, I?ve been told I resemble Ray Romano, so there might be a role for him as well.
What is the one sentence synopsis of your book?
This is where I?ve been, and now I must be leaving, heading onward, ever onward.
How long did it take you to write the first draft of the manuscript?
The individual poems were written over roughly a four-year period. I didn?t set out to create a single manuscript with a single theme in mind, but rather looked at what I had and selected what I thought was my best material.
Who or what inspired you to write this book?
After several years of writing poems and having some of them published, I felt my writing undergoing a gradual change in direction in terms of my own developing voice as well as themes that I was beginning to explore. So I gathered up what I had and looked at the result. And that?s actually where the title for the book came from. I could see a sort of departure on several different levels; a thematic departure that was probably connected to certain changes in my personal life as well. Also, as a writer, I felt that I?d arrived at a place where I didn?t have much left to say in the way that I was used to saying things, if that makes any sense at all. Hence, the last poem in the book, ?Early Departure,? hints at themes that began to occupy my imagination more and more, such as the looming presence of history, both collective and personal family history, and our sense of individual identity, themes that are more urgent and pressing to me at this time in my life.
What else about your book might pique the reader?s interest?
Well, the devil and a vulture make brief appearances, and there are a few poems dedicated to some dear literary friends who have had a big impact on my life.
Is your book self-published or represented by an agency?
It was published by Burning River Press, a small press based in Cleveland, OH run by Chris Bowen.
My tagged writers for next Wednesday, February 13th are:
Bree?(poet, author and small press publisher extraordinaire)
Sarah Marcus?(Sarah has a forthcoming book, ?Backcountry? from Finishing Line Press)
John Dorsey?(legendary underground poet and screenwriter, John has a new book, ?Tombstone Factory,? forthcoming from Epic Rites Press)
Mike DeCapite?(author of the underground Cleveland classic ?Through the Windshield? and more recently ?Creamsicle Blue? and ?Radiant Fog? from Sparkle Street Books)
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Source: http://www.mileswriter.com/2013/02/the-next-big-thing-a-literary-qa-chain-letter-sorta/
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