30 Days of Poetry Audio reaches ends and Dom has the last word. With some help from Yeats.

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Cruellest Month #30: The Second Coming

I like most my age had some reservations about how well Jessica had been prepared for an around the world sailing attempt at the tender age of 16 years old the same age as my own daughter. Always great to be proved wrong by the younger generation and Jessica has certainly done that. Currently Jessica is sitting in 10 meter breaking swells with strong winds waiting for a break in the cold fronts marching through the Souther Ocean so she can get around the bottom of Tasmania and head home up the eastern sea board

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Jessica Watson

It looks like Turnbull now has the numbers to regain the leadership of the Liberals. I would be surprised if there would not be some Abbot supporters that are losing faith in his ability to win government and they are switching back to favouring Malcolm. I may even change my vote and vote Coalition again if he is the contender for PM.

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Turnbull for PM

AFP – Honda Motor Company’s luxury vehicle division Acura announced Friday a recall of some 167,000 Acura TSX models to replace a power steering hose that could lead to a “smoke or a fire” hazard.

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Honda recalls 167,000 Acura TSX for possible fire hazard
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AP – Battered by a tidal wave of loan defaults, mortgage finance company Fannie Mae is tightening standards for the adjustable-rate and interest-only loans that fed the housing boom and contributed to the bust.

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Fannie Mae tightens lending standards
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Sherie Rene Scott’s “Everyday Rapture” is a smashing little show that reminds us of why so many of us keep going back to Broadway, even though it’s broken our heart so many times.

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Theater Review | ‘Everyday Rapture’: Sherie Rene Scott: Semi-Star From Kansas

Reuters – A lawsuit blocking publication of a purported “sequel” to J.D. Salinger’s classic novel “The Catcher in the Rye” will be reconsidered in federal court, but Salinger’s trustees are likely to prevail, an appeals court ruled Friday.

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J.D. Salinger copyright case to be reconsidered
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2009 Viewer’s Choice Winning Image by HCJames © HCJames with permission to About.com, Inc. May is National Photography Month!!! Every day in May there will be a new “photo of the day” posted in the spotlight photo location. Images chosen will also be saved in a “photo of the day” image gallery

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May is National Photo Month – Time For Our Photo Of The Day Competition

And we’re back. Please note: this podcast, if you haven’t figured it out, is profane and not safe for consumption by children or animals. Or sentient creatures of any sort

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Your Weekend Justice #64: Funk Hamlet

Each day in April we have featured one or more of groups that are seeking volunteer photographers. Today we wrap up National Volunteer Month with Central Scholarship Bureau and Friedman Place.

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Featured Volunteer Opportunity – Central Scholarship Bureau and Friedman Place

30 Days of Poetry Audio reaches its penultimate evening with my last word on the subject: “Dies Irae.” Hope you enjoy it. You can download it directly here and a unique feed is here

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Cruellest Month #29: Dies Irae

Okay, call me a coward if you must, claim the election was rigged, none of your negative thoughts matter to me tonight. Yes, I could have called a single winner but with only a 1% margin even I would want to call for a runoff and frankly I’m too tired to spend yet another month fending off negative commenters, spammers and interview requests from people with negative agendas. That’s why I’m calling the election of the 2010 Poet Laureate of the Blogosphere a tie with the winners being Robert Lee Brewer and Sina Queyras .

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Poet Laureate Of The Blogosphere 2010 A Tie!

Humanity, if we were of but one mind, could accomplish anything. If only the world shared the same grand vision, men would fight no more, women would never be afraid, children would never be hungry and old people wouldn’t die alone.

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Collective Intelligence Or Something Sorta Like It

Makes me lol that a “Nth West Iron Ore Alliance” consisting of Atlas ,Brockman and Ferraus have got “permission” from the ACCC to collectively negotiate for rail access to BHP ,RIO’s and Fortescue networks in W.A. (Fortescue endorse the group because they want access toBHP ,RIO’s network). BHP and RIO have time and again stated that the networks are at capacity (yeah like they want to let them on anyway) and all this does is make it easy for them to give a collective “NO” once instead of 3-4 times.

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Railway Alliance, what a Joke!

AP – Eastman Kodak Co. said Thursday it posted a $119 million profit in the first quarter in contrast to a large loss a year ago, lifted by inkjet printer sales and a settlement deal with Samsung Electronics Co

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Kodak posts profit, but misses view, shares tumble
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In Photos: Lou Reed’s Metal Machine Trio @ Royal Festival Hall, London

April is National Volunteer Month and About Photography wants to make it easier for you to participate. For the past month About Photography has been collecting information on organizations seeking volunteer photographers.

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Featured Volunteer Opportunity – Kaufman Center

Reuters – It’s easy to see why Donald Margulies’ two-hander “Collected Stories” is receiving a Broadway revival, the drama’s third major production since its 1997 premiere featuring a pre-stardom Debra Messing. This literary variation on “All About Eve” contains two meaty roles for actresses in its portrait of the shifting relationship between a celebrated fiction writer and her young acolyte.

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Lavin riveting in revival of "Collected Stories"
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30 Days of Poetry Audio continues with some more Yeats, read by your friend Dindrane. It’s “The Mermaid.” You can download it directly here and a unique feed is here .

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Cruellest Month #28: The Mermaid

Reuters – From its opening moments — when three giant blind mice make their way onstage tapping their canes — it’s clear that Lucy Pebble’s “Enron” is not going to be a standard theatrical docudrama. This scathing depiction of one of history’s most egregious examples of corporate malfeasance whips out every theatrical trick in the book to get its points across. But for all its undeniable inventiveness, the play is curiously uninvolving.

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"Enron" long on style but uninvolving
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Investor’s Business Daily – Shutterfly (NMS:SFLY), an e-commerce firm selling digital photo products, narrowed its Q1 loss to 18 cents a share, 6 cents over views. Sales grew 27% to $46 mil, above estimates. It sees a Q2 loss below views.

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Shutterfly
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Event Dates: 7 May 2010 A few standing released. Call 020 7388 8822 to book. The best lecture you ever had, but all splintered and haphazard, like the popular children’s magazine of knowledge, Look and Learn.

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Robin Ince’s School for Gifted Children May Ball – Module One

April is National Volunteer Month and About Photography wants to make it easier for you to participate. For the past month About Photography has been collecting information on organizations seeking volunteer photographers. I have prepared a list of organizations needing photographic help, when they need it, and what type of photography they need.

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Featured Volunteer Opportunity – New Jersey Tree Foundation