We are pleased to announce the results of the Sentinel Literary Quarterly Poetry and Short Story Competitions for October 2011 judged by Todd Swift and Adnan Mahmutovic respectively.
The winning and commended works listed above will be published in Sentinel Champions #10 in May 2012.
Entry fee: £5 per poem. Enter as many poems as you wish.
All winning & commended poems will be published in Sentinel Champions #9 in February 2012.
We are exactly 10 days away from the publication of the Identity issue of Sentinel Literary Quarterly guest-edited by Caine Prize for African Writing winner and author of Voice of America, EC Osondu. We shall be publishing this magazine online as usual, but will have a print version available as well for those who prefer good old paper between fingers, and to keep it in their bookshelves. Don't forget to visit www.sentinelquarterly.com on October 31st. If you would like to be notified by e-mail when this publication goes live, please subscribe our free e-Newsletter.
The French Literature Issue of Sentinel Literary Quarterly will be published in January 2012. If you have not submitted your work to this issue, you may do so before the 30th of November. The French Literature issue of Sentinel Literary Quarterly marks a return to print publication of our magazine. The online magazine will still be available free-to-read but will only contain some of the materials that appear in the print version.
For previously unpublished poems in English language up to 50 lines long, on any subject, in any style. Poems entered may not be under consideration for publication, or accepted for publication elsewhere.
Contact: Send poems with Cover Note or Entry Form with Cheque/Postal Order in GP£ only payable to SENTINEL POETRY MOVEMENT, Address: Unit 136, 113-115 George Lane, London E18 1AB, United Kingdom.
The closing date for the Sentinel Annual Poetry Competition 2011 has been extended to 15th November 2011.
Prizes: £500 (1st), £250 (2nd), £125 (3rd), and £25 x 5 for High Commendation.
All winning and commended poems will receive first publication in Sentinel Champions in February 2012. Published authors each get a free contributor's copy of the magazine.
We hope that this extension will make it possible for more people to enter.
The Bees is Carol Ann Duffy's first new collection of poetry to be published since she was appointed our Poet Laureate in 2009, in succession to Andrew Motion. It's also her first since Rapture, the ecstatic sequence about the rise and fall of a lesbian love affair which won her the T S Eliot Prize in 2005.
The Bees is not so ruthlessly focused but it has nonetheless been artfully organised around the bee as a symbol, boasting a cover honeycombed in gilt around a glittery bee. The book begins and ends with specific poems about bees and there are others scattered here and there, such as, for example, a lovely riff on Book IV of the Georgics, Virgil's Bees, which she wrote in response to the 2009 climate change conference in Copenhagen. Throughout, bees stand for endangered nature - and they appear glancingly in the book in other poems, as do allusions to flowers, pollen and honey.
For poems on any subject in any style up to 40 lines long.
Prizes: £150, £75, £50, £10 x 3.
Fees: £3 per poem. £12 for 5 poems.
For stories on any subject in any style up to 1500 words long.
Fees: £5 per story. £9 for 2 stories, and £12 for 3 stories.
Barbara Smith lives on Ireland's eastern seaboard. Poems recently published, or pending includes: Riposte, Electric Acorn, Ireland; nthposition.com and The Coffee House, UK; Garm Lu, Canada; Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, US and TMR, India. Essays recently published include west47online and VirtualWriter, Ireland. Smith has published two volumes of poetry: Gnosis and Poetic Stage; the latter enjoyed moderate success both inside and outside Ireland.
making it easy to peel them later.
Moore's medley of almanac songs.
brings her four green fields down the years to me.
long broad knife and leave them by for dinner.
1. Roosters, Queens - types of potatoes currently grown in Ireland.
2. Moore's Old Almanac - an almanac giving tides, moon dates and other info. useful to farmers.
3. Four green fields - an Irish Ballad.
builders and roofers all tumbling after.
No call was made; they just came.
one side street, one city.
King of May, son of the silent scream.
6 feet below the earth you once walked upon.
but that is the risk we take for being honest.
Are you with Neal now or is there another?
Damien Fehrenbach is an American studying in the UK. He attends Bournemouth and Pool College while currently living in Sway.
Enter Sentinel Literary Quarterly Poetry & Short Story Competitions, run every 3 months. £610.00 in total prize fund. Enter competitions now.
to learn to burrow in the dark.
against my ribs I knew I couldn't do it.
locked inside the tunnels of the mind.
in a squeak of rubber shoe.
but where the loneliness begins.
to make a sleeping platform.
everything done to let in light.
You are welcome to the Sentinel Competitions Bulletin, May 2011. We are aware that although we publish all our competitions results and judges' reports online, not all of our competition entrants use the Internet. We have now made a decision to make our competitions bulletin available not just online but delivered to you through normal post. This way you get to know the results and also get the link to the judges' reports online. If you wish to receive the judge's report in the post, please send us a stamped, self-addressed envelope and we will be happy to send it to you.
Once again it gives us great pleasure in announcing the results of the Sentinel Literary Quarterly Poetry and Short Story Competitions. From the feedback we have had from the adjudicators Jude Dibia and Andy Willoughby, the overall standard of the entries this quarter were particularly high. Willoughby who judged the poetry competition had to ask if we could have 10 commended poems selected for publication in Sentinel Champions instead of our normal 9 as he found it difficult to cut the number down any further. This is a great testament to the contribution our competitions are making to the creation of new literature.
This quarter, our three Highly Commended stories are: "If" by Ina Claire Gabler, "The Mackwater Seam" by Brindley Hallam Dennis and "Having a Cigarette" by Anne Wilson.
The Third Prize of goes to "Are we there yet?" by Andrew Blackman. The Second Prize goes to "Colouring Matthew" by Bruce Harris and the First Prize has been won by "MRS. MACKENZIE'S SECRET" by EILEEN HOON.
This quarter, our Highly Commended poems are: "Kaleidoscope" by Ayoola Oyeniyi, "Death in Inverness" by Bruce Gardner and "Jackie Scribbles falls again" by E.K. Wall.
The Third Prize goes to "Darling Sleep" by Tabitha Joy. The Second Prize goes to "The World is Flat" by Catherine Edmunds, and the FIRST PRIZE has been won by "THE LIVING BUSINESS OF A BADGER" by ELLIE EVANS.
The Winners and Highly Commended writers in fiction and poetry plus 10 other Commended poets from the January 2011 competitions will be published in Sentinel Champions #7, in August 2011.
The Highly Commended Poets will each receive a signed copy of The Wilds Anthology edited by Andy Willoughby and Bob Beagrie.
Congratulations to all the winners and commended writers.
Subject: Poems may be on any subject or style and MUST NOT have been previously published, posted on a website or blog. Poems posted on members-only writing groups for workshop purposes as part of the creative process are not deemed to have been previously published.
Length: Maximum 40 lines per poem.
Prizes: First: £150.00, Second: £75.00, Third: £50.00, Highly Commended: £10 x 3.
First Publication: The three winning poems and three highly commended poems will receive first publication in Sentinel Champions – Selected Poems & Short Stories from the Sentinel Literary Quarterly Writing Competition Series. (This magazine appears in print and eBook formats) Up to 15 poems in total, subject to quality, from this competition will be published in Sentinel Champions Magazine in February 2012.
Competition Administration: Sentinel Poetry Movement.
1. You may enter as many poems as you wish with the appropriate entry fees.
2. If you win one of the prizes in this quarter's competition, you will NOT be prohibited from entering next quarter's competition.
3. Judges read the poems without any indication of the identity of the authors. If the same poet wins more than one prize, in the interest of fairness we WILL award it.
4. The decision of the judge is final, and no communication will be entered into.
5. If on the advice of the judge, the quality of entries is too low to produce worthy prize winners, or any other legitimate reason beyond our control arises which may affect a fair completion or conduct of the competition, we reserve the right to cancel the competition and refund all entry fees immediately by the same method we have been paid.
6. We reserve the right to reapportion the prize money if necessary in the interest of continuity as an alternative to cancellation of the competition.
7. If you would like an acknowledgement of postal entries, please enclose an SAE marked "acknowledgement".
9. If you would like to receive the Judges' Report in the post, please enclose an SAE marked "Judges' Report SLQ Poetry July 2011".
10. All prizewinners will be notified by post or e-mail within 7 days of the announcement of the results. These notifications will be accompanied with a prize claim invoice.
11. By entering this competition you provide some information such as your address and e-mail address which may be deemed personal information. These will be processed according to the data protection act 1998. We will never pass on any detail you provide in the course of entering this competition to a third party and we will never sell your data to anyone for marketing purposes.
12. By entering this competition you agree that we may contact you by e-mail or post via our newsletter with the results of the competition, the adjudicator's reports and information on future competitions. You may unsubscribe from the newsletter at any time.
Subject: Stories may be on any subject or style and MUST NOT have been previously published, posted on a website or blog. Stories posted on members-only writing groups for workshop purposes as part of the creative process are not deemed to have been previously published.
Length: Maximum 1,500 words per story.
First Publication: The three winning short stories and three highly commended stories will receive first publication in Sentinel Champions – Selected Poems & Short Stories from the Sentinel Literary Quarterly Writing Competition Series. (This magazine appears in print and eBook formats) Up to 15 stories in total, subject to quality, from this competition will be published in Sentinel Champions Magazine in February 2012.
Judge: KACHI A. OZUMBA, award-winning author of Shadow of a Smile.
14. You may enter as many stories as you wish with the appropriate entry fees.
15. If you win one of the prizes in this quarter's competition, you will NOT be prohibited from entering next quarter's competition.
16. Judges read the stories without any indication of the identity of the authors. If the same poet wins more than one prize, in the interest of fairness we WILL award it.
17. The decision of the judge is final, and no communication will be entered into.
18. If on the advice of the judge, the quality of entries is too low to produce worthy prize winners, or any other legitimate reason beyond our control arises which may affect a fair completion or conduct of the competition, we reserve the right to cancel the competition and refund all entry fees immediately by the same method we have been paid.
19. We reserve the right to reapportion the prize money if necessary in the interest of continuity as an alternative to cancellation of the competition.
20. If you would like an acknowledgement of postal entries, please enclose an SAE marked "acknowledgement".
22. If you would like to receive the Judges' Report in the post, please enclose an SAE marked "Judges' Report SLQ Poetry July 2011".
23. All prizewinners will be notified by post or e-mail within 7 days of the announcement of the results. These notifications will be accompanied with a prize claim invoice.
24. By entering this competition you provide some information such as your address and e-mail address which may be deemed personal information. These will be processed according to the data protection act 1998. We will never pass on any detail you provide in the course of entering this competition to a third party and we will never sell your data to anyone for marketing purposes.
25. By entering this competition you agree that we may contact you by e-mail or post via our newsletter with the results of the competition, the adjudicator's reports and information on future competitions. You may unsubscribe from the newsletter at any time.
Poems must be in English Language on any subject or style with a maximum length of 40 lines. Open to every poet in every country. Poems entered must not have been previously published, posted to a website or blog. The poems must also not be under consideration for publication anywhere.
First Prize £150.00, Second Prize £75.00, Third Prize £40.00. Two Highly Commended Poets will also receive £10.00 each. [The three winning poems and the two highly commended poems will receive first publication in the Excel for Charity website.
£4.00 for 1 poem, £7.50 for 2 poems, £10.50 for 3 poems, £12.50 for 4 poems, and £14.00 for 5 poems. [A third of all entry fees goes to the charity Lupus UK] All 5-poem entrants receive a FREE Sentinel Champions #4 e-book courtesy of Sentinel Poetry Movement.
Judge: JIM BENNETT, Managing Editor, Poetry Kit (www.poetrykit.org), author of over 50 books including Larkhill, The Man Who Tried to Hug Clouds, and Bold Street.
Complete Entry Form, or make up a Cover Note with your name, postal address, e-mail address, telephone number (Optional), and the titles of your poems.
You may enter as many poems as you want.
The decision of the judge is final, and no communication will be entered into.
For transparency, Eastern Light EPM International makes it clear that the primary aims of this competition are to raise money for the charity and to honour the winning writers. The prize money is expected to be generated by the entry fees. In the event that there are too few entries to pay the prize money from the entry fees after a third has been earmarked for donation to the charity, we reserve the right to either reapportion the prize money or refund all entry fees to the entrants by the methods they paid for their entries.
Postal entries must be received by 30th June, 2011.
Online entries must be received by midnight 30th June 2011.
Poems will not be returned, please don't send your only copy.
When you enter the competition we will invite you to join our mailing list so that you may receive updates on this and other competitions. Joining the mailing list is optional. We will never sell your details to anybody for research or marketing purposes.
Winning and Highly Commended Poems and Short Stories from the Sentinel Literary Quarterly competitions are usually published in Sentinel Champions magazine which appears in paperback and in eBook formats. The magazines also feature interviews with our champions.
Visit www.sentinelpoetry.org.uk/champions to review our catalogue and buy a copy of the magazine for yourself. Subscribing to Sentinel Champions is a brilliant way of supporting Sentinel Poetry Movement.
The Ted Slade Award is given annually to a person who is in the opinion of the selection panel has given unstintingly of their time and efforts over many years to promote poetry to a wider audience. Nominations for the award are made by members of Poetry Kit, and the selection is made from suitable short listed nominations, by an appointed selection panel.
Jim Bennett, who is a poet and Chair of Selectors, said, "Peter Finch has had a long and distinguished career, not only as a poet, but also as editor, critic and in recent years as Chief Executive of Academi, promoting literature. Peter has been an inspiration for many years and this award is given to acknowledge the tremendous contribution he has made to poetry.
Ted Slade was the founding editor of The Poetry Kit, in every respect it was his vision and determination that saw the site grow to become one of the most visited poetry related internet sites in the world. This was done with the ethos of providing a service for readers and always putting their needs first when developing the site. For this reason Poetry Kit does not accept advertising or sponsorship and is run and funded by poets for poets. For all his work Ted received no official thanks and no payment, he did it because it was necessary and if he had not done it others with less integrity might have.
Ted died suddenly in 2004, and we always felt that we wanted to find a way to honour his memory and so we introduced an award in his name which is given to a person who has given their time and energies over an extended period to ensuring the continuance and development of poetry,. This will include people who have kept poetry as a presence in an area or community. Those who have pursued a poetic vision through a magazine or regular reading events. Those who have developed other media to explore its poetic use or have published poets who could not have otherwise found an outlet for their work.
All recipients of the Ted Slade Award are acknowledged for their endeavour and dedication in the promotion of poetry. Without such people many of today's well known poets would not have had the opportunity to find a platform, develop their skills or find an audience. Recipients have their name entered onto the award and this will soon be on permanent display in a library in Liverpool.
Peter Finch is a poet, critic, author and literary entrepreneur living in Cardiff, Wales. He is Chief Executive of Academi, the Welsh National Literature Promotion Agency and Society of Writers. As a writer he works in both traditional and experimental forms. He is best known for his declamatory poetry readings, his creative work based on his native city of Cardiff, his series of books on Wales, and his knowledge of the UK poetry publishing scene.
He is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Architects of Wales (RSAW), a Fellow of the English Association (FEA) and a Fellow of Yr Academi Gymreig / The Welsh Academy.
In the sixties and seventies he edited the ground-breaking literary magazine, second aeon, exhibited visual poetry internationally and toured with sound poet Bob Cobbing. In the eighties and nineties he concerned himself with performance poetry, was a founder member of Cardiff's Cabaret 246 and of the trio Horse's Mouth. This was work with props, owing as much to theatre as it did to literature. In the new Millennium he was worked on psychogeographies and alternative guides to his native city of Cardiff. The city has become his obsession.
Today he is much in demand as a reader as well as a lecturer at festivals and venues up and down the country. You can get into Finch's performances. There's little deliberate obscurity. His talks on Cardiff and how it is with urban living are always entertaining. In addition to the readings Finch also delivers a number of presentations on the poetry publishing scene (how to get yourself published - a demystification of the arcane world of books, magazines and the internet), on the history of sound poetry (which features histrionic performances of dada texts and the playing of numerous historical recordings), on the writing of short fiction and on the history of the small press. He works with schools and has led young people's writing squads in co-operation with local authorities.
From the early seventies until the late nineties he was treasurer of ALP, the Association of Little Presses. Between 1975 and 1998 he ran the Arts Council of Wales's specialist Oriel Bookshop in Cardiff. In 1998 he took up his current post as Chief Executive of Yr Academi Gymreig/ The Welsh Academy - the Welsh National Literature Promotion Agency and Society for Writers.
Peter Finch has published more than 25 books of poetry. His latest is Zen Cymru, published by Seren Books (April, 2010). His other titles include Food, Useful & Poems For Ghosts (Seren) and Antibodies (Stride). His The Welsh Poems appeared from Shearsman in 2006. His Selected Later Poems was published by Seren in November 2007.
His prose works include a number of critical guides including How To Publish Your Poetry and How To Publish Yourself (Allison & Busby) as well his famous alternative handbooks, guides and literary rambles, Real Cardiff , Real Cardiff Two and Real Cardiff Three (Seren). With Grahame Davies he edited the anthology The Big Book of Cardiff (Seren). He is currently editing titles for Seren's Real Wales series and has published a book that takes in the whole country - Real Wales.
Nerys Williams's essay on Finch's work appears as Recycling the Avant-Garde in a Welsh Wordscape in Slanderous Tongues - Essays On Welsh Poetry in English 1970-2005, edited by Daniel G Williams and published by Serten, 2010.
Until recently Peter Finch compiled the poetry section of Macmillan's annual Writer's Handbook. He continues to write the self-publishing section for A&C Black's Writers' & Artists' Yearbook. He is a book reviewer and writes articles on Cardiff, Wales and the business of poetry. His poetry and criticism is widely published in magazines and anthologies.
THE POETRY KIT - http://www.poetrykit.org/ The Poetry Kit is one of the worlds most visited sites dedicated to poetry. Provides links to resources for poets across the world.


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top-stories, BOMADERRY HIGH SCHOOL, lawn bowls, karen murphy, australia, retirement, shoalhaven heads, commonwealth games
IN terms of lawn bowls in Australia, few, if any, can rival what Shoalhaven Heads product Karen Murphy has achieved on the greens. So it came as a big shock recently when the 44-year-old decided to call time on her international career, effective at the end of the 2019 season. "My first thoughts of retirement came after the 2018 Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast, which were such a big event," Murphy said. "The end of that event, which coincided with mum being sick, saw me take six months away from the sport. "I thoroughly enjoyed my time away from the sport and came back refreshed and determined to succeed again. "But after getting that taste of what life would be like without bowls, as well as losing a little bit of that drive, I decided it was time to try something different - as I'd been playing in the green and gold for more than half my life." The first person the Bomaderry High School alumna told was Jackaroos coach Steve Glasson, before announcing it at the Bowls Australia's 2019 Hall of Fame and Awards Night. "It was really important that I went out on my own terms," she said. "Everything has to come to an end and I've been hugely fortunate to have represented my country for the past 23 years - not many people can say that. "To finish with two international tournaments on home soil seemed like a really fitting way to end my Jackaroos career." Those two tournaments are the 2019 Multi-Nations (November 18-24) and World Bowls Challenge (November 29-30). "Both the Multi-Nations and World Bowls Challenge, which will see us take on the top bowlers from all around the globe, are really exciting events," she said. "I'm going to make the most of the next few weeks, especially being able to play in front of all my friends and family. "All the Jackaroos girls have already said they plan to send me out a winner, which would an amazing and emotional way to end my career." Although Murphy, who is already the most capped Jackaroo in history (646), looks back on her career, which includes a Commonwealth Games gold medal and four world championship gold medals, is over the moon with what she's achieved on the greens, it's not what she considers her greatest achievement. "All the achievements in my career are great but the thing I'm most proud of is the legacy I'm leaving behind," she said. "I came into the sport as an 11-year-old when lawn bowls wasn't cool and not many young people played, but now there are countless girls playing our sport - I'd like to think I'm a trailblazer who inspired young girls to play our game. "Women's bowls in Australia has never been in a healthier spot, with us being world number one for the past 11 years - our depth is amazing and I'm leaving the sport in great hands." Although Murphy, who's been blown away with the messages of support since her announcement, will be finishing up in the green and gold, she will still be playing for the Sydney Lions in the BPL, NSW and Cabramatta on the national scene. On top of that, Murphy, who will also commentate matches and continue to run clinics, will work as co-chair with para-swimmer and OAM Matt Levy as the co-chair of Commonwealth Games Australia's athlete advisory group. "I'm really excited to be working on the committee and helping the athlete's voices be heard, especially in both netball and bowls - which are two of the main sports I'll be concentrating on," she said. "It's a great program that has been developed to help athletes perform at their best and I feel very honoured to be put in this position." While she is excited for what the future holds, she knows she will miss her Jackaroos family. "There's nothing quite like pulling on that green and gold jersey and competing for your country, especially in a team environment," she said. "That international rivalry is something I'm sure to miss, so I'm going to make the most of these new two competitions and try my hardest to go out with two gold medals."
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Karen Murphy opens up about her decision to retire from international bowls
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Shoalhaven Heads product Karen Murphy in action for the green and gold. Photo: BOWLS AUSTRALIA
IN terms of lawn bowls in Australia, few, if any, can rival what Shoalhaven Heads product Karen Murphy has achieved on the greens.
So it came as a big shock recently when the 44-year-old decided to call time on her international career, effective at the end of the 2019 season.
"My first thoughts of retirement came after the 2018 Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast, which were such a big event," Murphy said.
"The end of that event, which coincided with mum being sick, saw me take six months away from the sport.
"I thoroughly enjoyed my time away from the sport and came back refreshed and determined to succeed again.
"But after getting that taste of what life would be like without bowls, as well as losing a little bit of that drive, I decided it was time to try something different - as I'd been playing in the green and gold for more than half my life."
The first person the Bomaderry High School alumna told was Jackaroos coach Steve Glasson, before announcing it at the Bowls Australia's 2019 Hall of Fame and Awards Night.
"It was really important that I went out on my own terms," she said.
"Everything has to come to an end and I've been hugely fortunate to have represented my country for the past 23 years - not many people can say that.
"To finish with two international tournaments on home soil seemed like a really fitting way to end my Jackaroos career."
Those two tournaments are the 2019 Multi-Nations (November 18-24) and World Bowls Challenge (November 29-30).
"Both the Multi-Nations and World Bowls Challenge, which will see us take on the top bowlers from all around the globe, are really exciting events," she said.
A young Karen Murphy. Photo: BOWLS AUSTRALIA
"I'm going to make the most of the next few weeks, especially being able to play in front of all my friends and family.
"All the Jackaroos girls have already said they plan to send me out a winner, which would an amazing and emotional way to end my career."
Although Murphy, who is already the most capped Jackaroo in history (646), looks back on her career, which includes a Commonwealth Games gold medal and four world championship gold medals, is over the moon with what she's achieved on the greens, it's not what she considers her greatest achievement.
"All the achievements in my career are great but the thing I'm most proud of is the legacy I'm leaving behind," she said.
"I came into the sport as an 11-year-old when lawn bowls wasn't cool and not many young people played, but now there are countless girls playing our sport - I'd like to think I'm a trailblazer who inspired young girls to play our game.
"Women's bowls in Australia has never been in a healthier spot, with us being world number one for the past 11 years - our depth is amazing and I'm leaving the sport in great hands."
Although Murphy, who's been blown away with the messages of support since her announcement, will be finishing up in the green and gold, she will still be playing for the Sydney Lions in the BPL, NSW and Cabramatta on the national scene.
On top of that, Murphy, who will also commentate matches and continue to run clinics, will work as co-chair with para-swimmer and OAM Matt Levy as the co-chair of Commonwealth Games Australia's athlete advisory group.
"I'm really excited to be working on the committee and helping the athlete's voices be heard, especially in both netball and bowls - which are two of the main sports I'll be concentrating on," she said.
"It's a great program that has been developed to help athletes perform at their best and I feel very honoured to be put in this position."
While she is excited for what the future holds, she knows she will miss her Jackaroos family.
"There's nothing quite like pulling on that green and gold jersey and competing for your country, especially in a team environment," she said.
"That international rivalry is something I'm sure to miss, so I'm going to make the most of these new two competitions and try my hardest to go out with two gold medals."
This story Murphy opens up about her decision to retire from international bowls first appeared on Illawarra Mercury.
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Psychiatrist and sociologist Tom Cottle talks with people about family issues and problems such as mental illness, healing, adoption, incest. (Program moved to commercial television in June 1982, produced by WCVB-TV, Boston.) Series release date: 1980
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McMurdo Station Expansion Relies on Coast Guard Heavy Icebreaker
USCGC Polar Star (WAGB-10) off McMurdo Sound near McMurdo Station, a United States Antarctic research center in 2018. US Air Force Photo
WASHINGTON, D.C. – For the next several years, the Coast Guard's only heavy icebreaker will lead the annual Antarctic resupply mission as the service develops its new class of icebreaker.
Called the McMurdo Breakout, the Coast Guard's heavy icebreaker, USCGC Polar Star (WAGB-10), starts the journey to Antarctica every year at the end of October or early November. Once there, Polar Star breaks a channel through the sea ice so resupply ships can reach McMurdo Station, the National Science Foundation's 164-acre research facility perched on the volcanic Ross Island in the Ross Sea.
In about a week, Polar Star is expected to leave drydock in Vallejo, Calif., return to its homeport Seattle for some final preparations, then in about a month, depart for the McMurdo Breakout, Lt. Cmdr. Stephen Brickey, a Coast Guard spokesperson told USNI News.
Typically, the breakout involves a fuel ship and a container ship – a lifeline arriving once a year with the material needed to keep the station and field research operating for the year, said Scot Arnold, a senior advisor for the National Science Foundation's Office of Polar Programs. Arnold was speaking recently at the American Society of Naval Engineers Arctic Day 2019 conference.
"The Polar Star, it clears a channel for the two ships," Arnold said. "You have to have the heavy icebreaker there to clear ice. It can be up to a 70-mile channel."
When all turbines on Polar Star are running, the icebreaker is an incredible machine, said Capt. Michael Davanzo, the Coast Guard's chief of Cutter Forces, at the Arctic Day conference. The problem with Polar Star is it's more than 40 years old and a challenge to keep operational.
In April, the Coast Guard awarded the $745.9 million contract to build its first of three planned Polar Security Cutters, the new class of heavy icebreaker to replace Polar Star. The Coast Guard expects delivery of the first PSC in 2024.
"With Polar Star, our goal is to keep the cutter running through the delivery of the second PSC and to do that we have to do a service life extension which we think will take three to five years," Davanzo said. "We have to try to do without missing a mission down to Antarctica."
Weather conditions in Antarctica and the expense of sending ships to the bottom of the world give the Coast Guard and the National Science Founding one chance at making the annual resupply mission. The McMurdo Breakout is timed for the height of the Antarctic summer at the end of December when high temperatures barely rise above freezing, but the sea ice can be broken, Arnold said.
The fuel tanker arrives with close to 10 million gallons of a special fuel mixture designed for use in Antarctica. The container ship arrives with bulk goods such as food, scientific equipment, vehicles and other material.
This year, and for several more, the container ship will also deliver the construction material used to build a massive new $355 million research facility that will fold the activities performed in 104 buildings into a condensed campus of six main structures, Arnold said.
Aerial view of McMurdo Station, which sits along the shoreline of Ross Island, a volcanic island in the Ross Sea. National Science Foundation photo.
Called the Antarctica Infrastructure Modernization for Science project, work is starting now and is expected to finish in 2026. Weather conditions limit the construction season to between October and April. Then the long, frigid Antarctic night sets in, halting outside work.
Antarctica's weather conditions also create a logistics challenge for such a large construction project. With supplies arriving once a year, in the middle of the construction season, Arnold said builders have to collect supplies a year ahead.
"We're collecting materials now for the '20 season. They'll be put on a ship and delivered to Antarctica in January," Arnold said.
Without the Coast Guard's heavy ice breaker, though, these supplies can't reach McMurdo station, which would severely delay the carefully timed build. As sections of the new facility are built, work will migrate into the new structure. Crews will then demolish older structures, which in some cases are standing in the way of the project's final sections.
Once the materials arrive, the builders only have enough time to unload the ships and move most of the material to a storage field. When the construction season ends in April, the team will start sorting and prepping next year's building supplies.
"It gets off-loaded then dumped because we don't have the space to go through everything nor the manpower, so it all goes to a central receiving field," he said.
When finished, the new McMurdo station will save the National Science Foundation millions of dollars in operations and maintenance costs while also improving the living and working conditions for staff, with a relatively open and flexible floorplan to accommodate future research projects, Arnold said.
"It's basically taking our old facilities, which have been around, in some cases since the fifties, from what really represents more of an expeditionary type construction, and bringing it into the future, for the next 50 years," Arnold said.
Article Keywords: Coast Guard Cutter Polar Star, McMurdo, National Science Foundation, Polar Security Cutter
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Maytag dishwasher- Model # WU 502 serial # 145 192 EP- 03 series Water builds up in the bottom of the dishwasher, does not overflow but will not go down. Nothing appears wrong in the drains. Dishwasher is connected to the kitchen sink drain. Tried a seperate rinse cycle but did nothing to eleviate the problem just made the water rise a bit but still did not overflow out of the washer. This washer is old and I cannot find the manual that came with it.
I have a Bosch dishwasher model SHU66. Clean water slowly pools in the base when the dishwasher is not in use. We need to drain the DW every 12 hours or water will overflow onto the floor. Is this an isue with the Water valve assembly on the dishwasher?
My Bosch SHX46A dishwasher keeps filling up with water and won't stop. The water just keeps coming up through the bottom. It will drain fine, but after the cancel drain sequence, water just keeps coming up, overflowing the tub onto the floor. I had to shut off the water.


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The first menstruation: Wayuu mysticism
Category: Latam
The menarche or first menstruation means a huge physiological change in a woman's body, but also a big event with a lot of myths and beliefs depending on the culture. Generally, this moment is the farewell of childhood and the beginning of adult life.
The Woman Post | Ana María Betancourt
Leer en español: Descubre el ritual wayuu sobre la primera menstruación
In the Wayuu culture, a native community of northern Colombia and Venezuela exists a cultural tradition named 'el encierro' for the girls' first menstruation. This ritual prepares the young girls for women's life following the Wayuu Women's protocol guidelines, and for marriage.
Wayuu people believe that if they follow the 'encierro' instructions, the woman would never have any fertility or menstruation problem (menstrual cramps, polycystic ovaries syndrome, endometriosis, etc).
Estercilia Simanca, a Wayuu writer, says that "the 'encierro' it's not confinement, it's a room (or rancho, as we say) for the girl, with a wood and cactus fence around to keep her separated of everybody else. She can't be seen for anybody but, the woman who's teaching her the Wayuu Women's Protocol".
There's a hammock away from the floor in that room, where the young woman stays all day. She only stands up at night or if she needs to relieve herself. But she doesn't need to go to the restroom a lot of times a day because she's not eating and is only drinking 'brebajes' to "debug the child's spirit inside of the body", says Simanca. They only know that the spirit it's out of the girl's body when she stands up and vomits because she gets dizzy. Throwing up is the child's spirit and rebellion.
Also the ritual it's a preparation for marriage because "girl's skin gets whiter and she gets prettier to meet her future husband", says Vicenta Siosi, Wayuu writer. The skin bleaches because she's away from sunlight, she gets thinner because of the 'brebajes' and food prohibitions (she can't drink milk, eat meat, or consume something with sugar or salt). Also, her hair is cut until her ears' length to make her feel ashamed so she wouldn't want to be seen.
The young woman takes a cold shower in the early morning during the 'encierro' "for a strong character, so she's not going to smile to every man, and the man who pretends her will not be coward because he will see that she´s strong", says Simanca.
These are some of the teaching knowledge during the 'encierro':
Public behavior
When to talk or stay quiet
Wife and mother´s role
The girls know about the 'encierro' and the menarche since they are little, so when they have their first menstruation, they will tell the closest woman of the clan to live the' encierro'.
The ritual is fundamental for Wayuu´s culture and social organization since it determines gender roles and behaviors in the community.


HAGERSTOWN - Joseph Wolfe said he didn't want to be overlooked this year by Santa, so the 7-year-old took matters into his own hands.
As children gathered around Santa during the annual Christmas tree-lighting ceremony Monday on Public Square in Hagerstown, Joseph, wearing a hat that said, "Tiny Elf," muscled through the crowd to let his holiday wish list be known.
"I asked for a FurReal Pony," Joseph said. "I tell (Santa) every single year. But what do I get ... Something different."
The smell of hot chocolate filled the air as high school bands played Christmas music. Roughly 300 people who attended the event bundled up to stay warm in temperatures that hovered around 40 degrees.
"It's a fantastic way to kick off this holiday season," Mayor Robert E. Bruchey II said. "It's great for the kids and to have people come downtown."
Nicolette Totschek, 12, of New Mexico, said she was in town to attend the funeral of her great-grandfather.
Despite the three-day drive and solemn circumstances of her visit, she said Hagerstown's tree-lighting ceremony offered a nice change of pace.
"It's freezing, but I think it's cool," she said. "We get to see Santa and all that stuff, and the tree."
When the tree-lighting ceremony finished outside, revelers walked a half block down South Potomac Street to attend Hollyfest at The Maryland Theatre.
Hollyfest is a separate annual holiday event that features live Christmas music and other acts. This year's event featured the Smithsburg High School Orchestra and The Dean of Magic.


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Oh the humanity
Posted by: mashkenaz | November 7, 2011 | No Comment |
In 1937, an announcer for WLS Chicago — Herbert Morrison — was in Lakehurst, NJ to cover the arrival of the Hindenburg airship. It had just completed its first year of service and had successfully returned from Europe. American Airlines hired the Hindenburg to shuttle passengers from Lakehurst to Newark for connecting airplane flights. It was when they were trying to dock into its mooring tower that people began noticing gas was leaking. There was little time for reaction as the dirigible caught fire midair and exploded as it hit the ground.
Not only was this event significant as a huge disaster in our history, but it also served as the first time pre-recorded material was broadcast over a radio network. Morrison's emotional description of the Hindenburg's final moments was played and replayed over and over again. His recorded track was put to film to create newsreels that moved the catastrophe from people's imaginations to actually being there while it happened.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9d0zy_iwbDs The Hindenburg explosion with Herbert Morrison talking – from The Federalist Party
Watching the newsreel footage with the aural experience is much more effective. Try watching this next video with no sound. It's horrible to watch, but it doesn't stir the emotions that Morrison does through his experience.
Newsreel footage from the Hindenburg crash without sound – from AlbusPercyDumbledore
Even this next video — from a Universal Pictures newsreel — doesn't bring about the same pathos to its audience because it lacks true emotion. There is music playing and a very professional announcer, but it sounds just like a movie. It doesn't make the viewer feel like they are there, experiencing the explosion as it happens.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PfSn7szlBE Newsreel Footage from Universal Pictures – from LBfan0685
While the Hindenburg's crash was a great catastrophe in our history, the death toll was surprisingly low. Of the 93 people aboard, only 35 people actually died — along with one person on the ground. Many jumped out or were pulled to safety in time. The newsreels of the time were somewhat inaccurate — over-emphasizing the death toll. Nothing can compare, however, to the strong emotional appeal Morrison makes through his recorded broadcast. Radio would never be the same, and it's easy to see how powerful television would become in news making and news telling in the future.
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Q: Hide/Reorganize Badges on Profile As badges are usually for positive behavior (or even consolation - Tumbleweed Badge), it would make sense that we be able to display them on our profile as we like.
There may be a few legitimate reasons for this such as bringing focus to badges we choose (which could be a implemented as a type of custom sort) or "removing" (hiding) badges that we do not want others to view on our profile.
For example, I certainly would consider some tag badges more important to me than others. Or, if someone for any reason does not want a badge visible, say Fanatic, they shouldn't have to avoid earning the badge to shape their profile.

A: It's always been about producing high quality content first; Badges aren't designed to be the focus of the site. All badges encourage good behaviour, badges like Peer Pressure and Disciplined are there to promote good content.


Bandipora, Oct 02: Bandipora Youth has been selected for US based Fermilab Scientist Visiting Long term Fellowship for his outstanding performance.
Earlier he had qualified all national level exams which include GATE, CSIR-NET and BARC (first time in 2012 and second time in 2013) to work as a Nuclear Scientist at Bhabha Atomic Research Center (BARC), Mumbai. Apart from DRP fellowship in medical and radiation physics, he was also offered Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) Fellowship in 2012 and again in 2013 to pursue PhD at BARC, but he gave up all these options with the only hope that he will one day work on the newly discovered "Higgs boson" at the LHC. He became joyful when he got an opportunity to work at International Centre for theoretical Physics (ICTP), Italy in 2013.


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B.A.D. Offical
'Revelation Highway' might just be the best slab of Hard Rock you'll hear all year and really recaptures the classic sound of the band with a subtle modern twist.
Mark Rockpit, therockpit.net
April 27, 2017 Category: Category 1, Press Release
Babylon A.D. is pleased to announce founding member and guitarist John Matthews is back in the band line-up. He is currently recording on the new forthcoming album "Revelation Highway" and will also be performing with B.A.D. on all US and European tour dates. We are excited with the outcome of the new album and look forward to its release this fall.
Danny De La Rosa is currently not in the band and will not be part of the new record as he is putting his efforts into writing and recording new solo music.
We would like to thank Danny for his last 28 years of commitment to the band, outstanding musicianship and brotherhood… We wish him well with his future project.
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ENIGMAS AND ETERNITY: THE FILMS OF ALAIN ROBBE-GRILLET
SAN FRANCISCO, 4 DECEMBER 2008 - Both famous and obscure, Alain Robbe-Grillet was a profoundly unique French filmmaker and postmodern novelist. Though best known for his screenplay for Last Year at Marienbad, he was also a director. Much of his work deals with memory, eroticism, fantasy and dreams. Beginning this evening the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts presents four of his directorial efforts (plus Marienbad), all of them rarely seen in the U.S.
In Robbe-Grillet's enigmatic first film L'Imortelle (The Immortal Woman, 1963), considered by many to be his best), a melancholy professor meets a beautiful and mysterious woman who may or may not be involved in a white slavery ring. After a passionate but brief encounter, she disappears. His subsequent search for her through the streets of Istanbul is a maddening endeavor, as the locals inexplicably deny ever having seen her
The Immortal Woman, 1963
Directed by Alain Robbe-Grillet
Cinematographer: Maurice Barry
Cast: Françoise Brion, Jacques Doniol-Valcroze, Guido Celano
Trans-Europ Express, Robbe-Grillet's most accessible film, combines realism and fantasy with uncharacteristic humor. An author (played by Grillet himself), considering ideas for a film while riding the Trans-Europ Express, dreams up a sordid melodrama of gangsters, drugs, and bondage. When a gangster (Jean-Louis Trintignant) shows up aboard the same train, the author's fantasies come to life. Full of mirror images, distortions of reality, duplications and titillating scenes featuring nude women in chains, the film makes no pretense of having a conventional narrative.
Trans-Europ Express, 1968
Cinematographer: Willy Kurant
Cast: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Marie France Pisier, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Nadine Verdier
Eden and After, 1970 is an erotic and labyrinthine tale of murder and vampirism, this film is set somewhere between the fictitious landscapes of the Marquis de Sade and Lewis Carroll. In Café Eden, a group of bored students engaged in a series of baroque parlor games is visited by a mysterious stranger whose presence evokes new menacing fantasies.
Eden and After, 1970
Cinematographer: Igor Luther.
Cast: Catherine Jourdan, Pierre Zimmer, Richard Leduc, Lorraine Rainer
Though ostensibly both a mystery and a love triangle, Alain Renais' 1961 realization of Robbe-Grillet's scriptL'Année Dernière à Marienbad rejects Hollywood's vocabulary in its investigation of memory and perception within a palatial hotel in Marienbad. Often freezing the characters in tableau-like positions, Sacha Vierny's fluid camera defines three-dimensional space by gliding around the characters and through the rooms of the hotel, focusing as much on the ornate architectural details as the characters themselves. Like a Cubist painting, no one point of view can be determined, no linear narrative determined, creating a sense that all events are taking place in shared memory
Last Year at Marienbad, 1961
Directed by Alain Resnais
Screenplay: Alain Robbe-Grillet
Cinematographer: Sacha Vierny
Cast: Delphine Seyrig, Giorgio Albertazzi, Sacha Pitöeff, Françoise Bertin
Shot on location in Czechoslovakia, L'Homme qui ment (The Man Who Lies, 1968) is the Kafkaesque story of a soldier, who after supposedly being shot down by the Germans, recounts his story as a French Resistance fighter, though he may actually be a traitor. Exploiting the sympathies of the townspeople (and the local women) the protagonist invents his own character and past as he goes along. Featuring no shortage of erotic scenes, including a voyeuristic depiction of a lesbian affair between a maid and her sister, and a typically obscured narrative, the film garnered Robbe-Grillet an award for Best Screenplay at the Berlin Film Festival.
The Man Who Lies, 1968
Cast: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Dominique Prado, Sylvie Bréal
Born in Brest in 1922, Alain Robbe-Grillet studied mathematics and biology before turning to literature at the age of 30. His novels gained worldwide recognition for the French literary movement known as "Le Nouveau Roman" or "The New Novel." At 40, he carried his exploration of unorthodox narrative structures into a parallel career as a screenwriter and director. Winner, with Alain Resnais, of the Golden Lion in Venice in 1961 for L'année dernière à Marienbad (Last Year at Marienbad), he subsequently directed eight features. Robbe-Grillet lived in seclusion in Normandy until his death in February of this year at the age of 85.
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HTC 8X Review: Starting Off on the Right Foot
November 7, 2012 by Grant Hatchimonji Reads (36,763)
Ratings Breakdown (1-10)
Service, Warranty & Support
Rating 1 to 10, top score 10
In This Review
Beautiful build
Good display
Forgettable camera
Battery life just OK
The HTC 8X is a fantastic start for Windows Phone 8, bringing a suite of premium features to the table to support the brand-new OS.
These days, when people think "Windows Phone" they may think Nokia, given the Finnish company's deal with Microsoft to run its mobile operating system on all of its phones. But it may actually be HTC that takes "Best In Show" among the first wave of Windows Phone 8 devices with its flagship 8X handset.
Everything about the HTC 8X has "premium" written all over it, from its slick build with its gentle curves to the 1.5 GHz, dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 processor. From its Beats Audio to the 4.3-inch, 1280 x 720 resolution, 341 ppi Gorilla Glass 2 display. And, of course, the brand-spanking-new Windows Phone 8 OS.
Unique builds are kind of the name of the game with Windows Phone devices, and the HTC 8X is no exception. At its thickest point, it's 0.39 inches thick, but given the way the phone's rounded back tapers towards the edges, it actually appears to have a much slimmer profile. And given the fact that it's a slightly larger phone, what with its 4.3-inch screen, one would expect it to be on the heavier side, but it's relatively light at 4.6 ounces.
Much like the rival Nokia Lumia models, the 8X has a unibody design, meaning that the casing can't be taken off and the device's battery is not accessible. But also like the Lumias, the SIM card is handled by way of a small pop-out tray on the upper right-hand corner of the phone; unfortunately, it requires a small (included) key to do so, which makes it more of a hassle.
Aside from the gently rounded back, part of what makes the 8X such a pleasure to hold in the hand is its matte finish. That being said, the thing is basically a magnet for all manner of dirt, dust, and smudges, but it's a shortcoming I'm absolutely willing to bear given how good the phone feels in my hand. The screen also looks great, given its Gorilla Glass finish and the way the edges of it are flush with the body of the device. There's barely any bezel to speak of, and it adds to the sleekness of the 8X.
In fact, while it may not be flashy or have a bizarre, stand-out design like some of the Lumias, the 8X is definitely still stylish. Its bold color gives it some personality (this particular model was somewhere between blue and purple, but it's also available in black, red, and yellow) and the matching colored trim on the device's receiver grill catches the eye.
The 1280 x 720, Super LCD 2 display on the 8X looks solid and colors are especially deep and vibrant, a perfect fit for an operating system like Windows Phone 8, which is all about colors and lively themes. As a joke, one of my friends recently changed the color scheme on the 8X to bright pink and I was so astounded by how much it popped and how great it looked that I…well, I left it like that.
Its sharpness is definitely up to snuff as well, with an impressive 341 ppi density. The edges of the tiles look perfectly smooth, even when looking at the screen up close. I've dealt with other Windows Phones that have grainy, pixelated displays, which is just a nightmare on an OS like this; the flaws become immediately evident when you can see the individual pixels on the edges of all the tiles on your home screen.
The display's brightness isn't quite as impressive, however. On maximum brightness visibility is just good enough, but that's a bit of a drain on the battery that you're probably going to want to avoid. As soon as you go any lower than max brightness, the screen is just too dark to go unnoticed. For the sake of your battery, you'll probably opt for the auto setting, but it dims the screen to the point that most users will probably be left wanting.
Other Buttons and Ports
The buttons, which are the same color as the body, are low-profile, allowing them to blend into the edges of the phone (though perhaps this isn't the best idea, as they can be a little frustrating to press at times). The power/standby button is on the top edge, while the volume rocker and dedicated camera button are both on the right side.
Other than that, the only other keys are the standard capacitive ones (back, home, search) right below the display. There is also a single speaker on the back of the phone towards the bottom, and the only ports are headphone jack on the top edge and a micro USB port for charging centered on the bottom.
The 8X has a front-facing camera for video chatting, which is located in the upper left hand corner of the phone right next to the earpiece, as well as a rear-facing camera that's centered on the back of the phone. That's probably my only issue with the design of the 8X: I wish that the camera lens was recessed or had a slightly raised ring around it to offer some protection for when the phone is flat down on a surface. That way, the lens wouldn't get scratched up so easily; I have an HTC Trophy and the camera is basically ruined because, like the 8X, the lens is flush with the surface of the phone and is quick to get scratched up the moment I set it down anywhere.
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