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Friday, August 15th 2008, 12:52 AM

Rejecting a plea deal that would have ended his legal nightmare, a Queens man jailed for 14 years is insisting on a trial to prove he's innocent of murder - even at the risk of landing back behind bars.

"Physically, I can hardly stand up now, but standing up for the truth, for me, is more important than my freedom," Kareem Bellamy, 41, said Thursday. "If God wants me back in jail, that's the way it would happen."

A judge threw out Bellamy's murder conviction and ordered a new trial in June after his lawyers produced a taped confession by a man claiming to be the killer. Several key prosecution witnesses have recanted their testimony since Bellamy's 1995 trial.

Bellamy could have closed the case Wednesday after prosecutors offered to release him on time served if he pleaded guilty to manslaughter.

But Bellamy refused, saying he didn't kill anyone.

If convicted again, Bellamy faces 25 years to life in prison.

Prosecutors are appealing the judge's decision to overturn the verdict.
Kareem Ballamy hugs mom, Geraldine
Kareem Bellamy hugs mom, Geraldine.
Bellamy was released from prison Thursday after Queens Supreme Court Justice Joel Blumenfeld granted him $150,000 bail.

"This moment right here is one of the happiest of my life," Bellamy said, emerging from the back door of Queens Criminal Court.

"Words can't express how happy I am," said Bellamy, enjoying an afternoon thundershower. "I can't believe I'm walking out of here without an escort."

Bellamy smiled, showing off a gold-capped front tooth, and pumped his fists in the air as he hugged his relatives and lawyer Thomas Hoffman, who never wavered in their belief in his innocence.

From the start, Bellamy has insisted he had nothing to do with the 1994 fatal stabbing of James Abbott in Far Rockaway, Queens.

In a rare move, Bellamy's bail was posted by his pro bono investigator, Joseph O'Brien, a former FBI agent and author of bestselling mob book "Boss of Bosses."

"I felt strongly about it. He shouldn't have to spend another day in jail," said O'Brien, who put up his retirement condo in upstate New York to secure the bail. "It's the right thing to do."

Bellamy's dad, Howard, called the judge an "angel from heaven."

"I'm happy he had the heart and consideration to do this for my son," he said.

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FFWN: 9/11 perp Harari reported dead; US arms & trains ISIS to fight ISIS

US False Flags

1) 9/11 perp Mike Harari reported dead at 87  http://www.veteranstoday.com/2014/09/22/harari-dead/
2) Former CIA: Sandy Hook and Boston bombing obvious false flags  https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=CYPrt4Hr8BI

3) Wolf and Fetz do Sandy Hook on "The Power Hour"  http://www.thepowerhour.com/schedule.htm

Election Fraud in Scotland?

4) Proof Scottish vote was manipulated  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbJif7vISQg

5) No exit polls for Scottish referendum

False Flag War on Iraq & Syria

6) US carrying out vast majority of air strikes in Syria http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/24/world/middleeast/us-is-carrying-out-vast-majority-of-strikes-on-isis-military-officials-say.html

7) Weeks of U.S. Strikes Fail to Dislodge ISIS in Iraq http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/23/world/middleeast/isis-iraq-airstrikes.html?_r=0

8) Israel shoots down Syrian jet over the Golan Heights http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2014/09/23/dd6e2df2-4306-11e4-b437-1a7368204804_story.html

9) Syrian rebels (ISIS) said to control most of border with Israel

10) Al Jazeera ridicules beheadings as Hollywood theater http://english.alarabiya.net/en/media/digital/2014/09/05/Al-Jazeera-ridicules-beheading-of-U-S-journalists-as-Hollywood-show-.html

11) NY Times: Iraqis know "Islamic State" = CIA & Mossad http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/21/world/middleeast/suspicions-run-deep-in-iraq-that-cia-and-the-islamic-state-are-united.html?_r=0

12) Anti-ISIS Iraqis protest US invasion of Iraq http://www.live5news.com/story/26583014/iraqis-protest-us-campaign-against-isis-terrorists

13) UN Ambassador admits plan is to topple Assad  http://www.hangthebankers.com/us-ambassador-to-un-admits-the-plan-is-to-overthrow-assad/

14) CIA training ISIS while combating ISIS http://www.davidicke.com/headlines/cia-is-training-and-at-once-combating-isil-former-cia-contractor/

15) House approves plan to train ISIS to fight ISIS http://www.infowars.com/house-approves-plan-to-arm-and-train-isis-to-fight-isis/

16) US attacks cell in Syria said to plot against the West http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/24/world/middleeast/us-isis-syria.html

17) The Islamic State of . . . . Saudi Arabia!

18) Khamenei goes viral  http://khamenei.ir

 19) Legal scholars blistering critiques of Obama decision to bomb ISIS in Syria http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2014/09/12/prominent-legal-scholars-critique-obamas-decision-to-wage-war-against-isis-without-congressional-authorization/

20) Syria 7th Muslim nation bombed by Obama http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/26036-focus-syria-becomes-the-7th-predominantly-muslim-country-bombed-by-2009-nobel-peace-laureate

21) "Peace laureate" Obama stocking up on nukes, preparing WWIII http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/22/us/us-ramping-up-major-renewal-in-nuclear-arms.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&version=LedeSum&module=first-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=1

22) Seal says,  "90% of the troops do not support Obama" http://www.infowars.com/former-navy-seal-over-90-percent-of-troops-do-not-support-obama/

23) Russian bombers buzz Ukraine and Alaska http://freebeacon.com/national-security/russian-nuclear-bombers-buzz-northern-europe/ White House breach

24) Israel sending message to Obama? http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/09/22/us-usa-whitehouse-security-idUSKCN0HH29R20140922

25) Florida county has eight $18 million Apache attack choppers  http://wearechange.org/florida-county-need-eight-18-million-helicopters/

26) US school districts given free machine guns and grenade launchers http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/318-66/25941-us-school-districts-given-free-machine-guns-and-grenade-launchers

27) Cannot wear American flag tee shirt to school in California  https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/on_the_front_lines/ninth_circuit_stands_by_its_ruling_that_it_is_unsafe_for_california_student

Odds & Ends

28) Nicole Kidman's father dies amidst scandal  http://www.neonnettle.com/news/1081-nicole-kidman-s-dad-dies-amid-aussie-paedophile-ring-scandal

29) Clemson mandates student sex survey http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/340-187/25936-clemson-university-requires-students-to-disclose-number-of-sexual-partners-or-face-disciplinary-action

30) Will ET Be Here Soon? NASA Brings Scientists, Theologians Together To Prepare http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/22/nasa-astrobiology-alien-search_n_5860714.html?utm_hp_ref=weird-news

  1. Israeli secret intelligence service fighting international secret intelligence service for the oil and the gas of the Muslims people, slaughtered by millions

  2. Here is a review I posted on Amazon about one of Phil Marshal's books (I had sent you an earlier version, which I corrected).

    "Is it possible that Marshall was killed precisely because he was touting the "official" conspiracy theory they want us to believe, and taking out an "insider" would influence people to think he was too close to the truth, making them believe the wrong plot? In other words a false flag murder, to cover up a false flag event? You never know in the crazy world of black-ops and 911. I prefer to think he was a brave man who was onto something new and big, something that had to be kept hidden.

    However, he was wrong about many things. No planes ever flew into any buildings on 911. Aluminum tubes don't bring down steel and cement buildings, and no skyscraper in history has ever fallen down from fires (many with much more severe fires in the past).They were missile-drones or missiles cloaked in holographic\ cloaking technology. Read the work of accomplished pilot John Lear, and many others on Youtube. Please do the research before labelling the "no-planers" as nutballs.

    As far as collapse goes, the buildings were dustified by mini or micro nukes, planted by a Rogue Secret Shadow Government of Neocons\ CIA\ Mossad\ Saudi Intel. I myself did not believe any of this one year ago but the evidence is overwhelming for anyone willing to do the research. The best research has been done at veteranstoday.com by Preston James, Gordon Duff and Prof. James Fetzer with the help of Dimitri Khalezov and Russian Intel dumps provided by Edward Snowden.

    Philip Marshall, as a former CIA operative either purposely published the wrong things, or sincerely believed many of the wrong things. I hope it is the latter, and that the reason they killed him was that he was about to publish new information very different from what he had previously written. At least his death would have served a higher purpose than that of taking him out to make people believe the "official" plot. "

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The Pac-12 vs. the SEC

Oregon and Auburn squared off the national championship last season. Photo by Kirby Lee-US PRESSWIRE

EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the sixth installment of our 24 Hours of Arizona Football Blogging — one post at the top of every hour. Keep checking back at TucsonCitizen.com through Friday at 11 a.m. or follow the entire series with the “24 hours of blogging” tag.

Oregon vs. LSU is the premier game of the glorious first week (aren’t they all?) of college football, picking up where last season left off.

The SEC vs. the Pac-10 … or, as we should say now, the Pac-12.

The conferences don’t often play against each other, magnifying the bragging rights for each such matchup. Last season’s BCS national championship game between Auburn and Oregon was the first time the leagues had played in the postseason since the 1989 Freedom Bowl.

Starting with the 2000 season — isn’t that a large enough sample size? — there have been a smattering of regular-season meetings, including five pitting ranked teams against each other (plus the BCS title game).

The biggest regular-season game, by the rankings: No. 8 USC at No. 6 Auburn to start the 2003 season. The Trojans won 23-0 and went on to win the AP national championship.

This week’s game is bigger: Oregon is ranked third, LSU is fourth.

Who has fared better in the head-to-head matchups between the leagues?

Probably to the surprise of those in the South, the correct answer is the Pac-12.

There has been a disconnect between perception and reality when it comes to the two leagues. They have met 22 times since 2000, with the Pac-12 winning 12 of them.

Let’s look deeper.

The SEC was favored to win 13 of those 22 games … but won only nine times as the favorite.

Overall, the Pac-12 is 14-6-2 against the spread in its last 22 games against the SEC.

Head-to-head or against the spread, the Pac-10 comes out ahead.

Here is the breakdown of those 22 games:

Year Matchup Result Spread
2000 No. 3 Alabama at UCLA UCLA, 35-24 Alabama by 7
2001 No. 17 UCLA at No. 25 Alabama UCLA, 20-17 Alabama by 2
2002 Auburn at No. 19 USC USC, 24-17 USC by 7
2002 Mississippi State at No. 15 Oregon Oregon, 36-13 Oregon by 13
2003 No. 13 LSU at Arizona LSU, 59-13 LSU by 11
2003 No. 8 USC at No. 6 Auburn USC, 23-0 Auburn by 3
2003 Oregon at Mississippi State Oregon, 42-34 Oregon by 3
2004 Oregon State at No. 4 LSU LSU, 22-21, OT LSU by 18
2005 No. 5 LSU at No. 15 Arizona State LSU, 35-31 ASU by 1
2005 Arkansas at No. 1 USC USC 70-17 USC by 30
2006 Arizona at No. 8 LSU LSU, 45-3 LSU by 15
2006 No. 9 Cal at No. 23 Tennessee Tennessee, 35-18 Cal by 2
2006 No. 6 USC at Arkansas USC, 50-14 USC by 7
2006 Washington State at No. 4 Auburn Auburn, 40-14 Auburn by 14
2007 No. 15 Tennessee at No. 12 Cal Cal, 45-31 Cal by 6
2008 No. 18 Tennessee at UCLA UCLA, 27-24 (OT) Tennessee by 7.5
2008 No. 3 Georgia at Arizona State Georgia, 27-10 Georgia by 7
2009 No. 11 LSU at Washington LSU, 31-23 LSU by 17.5
2009 UCLA at Tennessee UCLA, 19-15 Tennessee by 8
2009 Arizona State at No. 21 Georgia Georgia, 20-17 Georgia by 7
2010 No. 7 Oregon at Tennessee Oregon, 48-13 Oregon by 10.5
2011 No. 2 Oregon vs. No. 1 Auburn Auburn, 22-19 Auburn by 3
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Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Love by Eavan Boland

Dark falls on this mid-western town
where we once lived when myths collided.
Dusk has hidden the bridge in the river
which slides and deepens
to become the water
the hero crossed on his way to hell.

Not far from here is our old apartment.
We had a kitchen and an Amish table.
We had a view. And we discovered there
love had the feather and muscle of wings
and had come to live with us,
a brother of fire and air.
We had two infant children one of whom
was touched by death in this town
and spared: and when the hero
was hailed by his comrades in hell
their mouths opened and their voices failed and
there is no knowing what they would have asked
about a life they had shared and lost.

I am your wife.
It was years ago.
Our child was healed. We love each other still.
Across our day-to-day and ordinary distances
we speak plainly. We hear each other clearly.

And yet I want to return to you
on the bridge of the Iowa river as you were,
with snow on the shoulders of your coat
and a car passing with its headlights on:

I see you as a hero in a text —
the image blazing and the edges gilded —
and I long to cry out the epic question
my dear companion:
Will we ever live so intensely again?
Will love come to us again and be
so formidable at rest it offered us ascension
even to look at him?

But the words are shadows and you cannot hear me.
You walk away and I cannot follow

This poem is taken from Eavan Boland's collection, In a Time of Violence (1994). It's a widely anthologized poem and appears on the Leaving Certificate syllabus here in Ireland. Boland is a highly acclaimed and published poet and often writes on explicitly feminist themes. In 1980 she was a co-founder of Arlen Press, an Irish feminist Press. Her most recent collections Outside History (1990) and The Lost Land (1998) explore the place of women in the past, particularly a past of violence and loss.

I love this poem because of the way it effortlessly weaves myth and the quotidian to achieve a sort of equipoise between the personal, the historical and the philosophical. You will recognize the allusion to Book 6 of The Aeneid by Virgil, where Aeneas visits the underworld and meets the ghosts of his former companions, who are both pleased and frightened to see him. Their failure to properly communicate highlights Boland's motif of separation and loss, as well as the failure of language to fully recreate experience. The poem is addressed to Boland's husband and captures beautifully, I feel, that pining for a fleeting moment of emotional intensity, call it love, happiness, joy.

It reminds me also of an anecdote related by Anthony Cronin about Samuel Beckett: He was visited in Paris by some friends and they decided to take a stroll through Le Bois. It was a fine spring day and each one was trying to outdo the other in extolling the beauties of the flora, the weather, etc., until one finally blurted out, 'it's a great day to be alive', to which Beckett responded, 'I wouldn't go that far now.' The conversation then turned to remembrances and one asked Beckett whether he was ever happy; he replied, 'O yes, I remember it very well, it was after lunch on April 13th, 1961, when I was taking a constitutional not unlike this one and I was suddenly suffused with an unbearable joy.' All joking aside, I think Boland's poem meditates poignantly on such effervescent moments.

John Griffin is the editor for Tuesday Poem this week. He lives and works in Ireland.

Take time to visit the other Tuesday Poets in the live blog roll in the sidebar.

Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Dad Aubade by Terese Svoboda

Worry, a kind of aubade
where the lover, mornings,
doesn’t leave, she’s dressed,
her shoes are tied but.

I stretch my face Dad-
like, Dad’s in my huff
and sit-up puff. Why
worry? He’s only dizzy.

I shower it off. All night
I’ve hammered doors shut
with my heel—I’m going
to do better tight-chested?

I telephone him and love
is what I tell him, and he
laughs like it’s a lie and says
It’s too early to call.

It seems only appropriate, since we’ve just passed Father’s Day in the U.S., to offer a Dad poem from the States. Terese Svoboda is a prolific and surprising writer, comfortable in both poetry and prose, with an Iowa Prize in poetry, O. Henry prize in fiction and a Pushcart Prize in non-fiction among her many accolades.  She’s published a dozen books; this poem is from her recent collection Weapons Grade (Univ. of Arkansas Press, 2009).

There is much to admire about this poem. At its centre is a speaker trying to resist an obsessive worry for her father’s health, given a recent episode of dizziness, a resistance whose failure makes the speaker’s concern that much more powerful.

Svoboda engages playfully with the tradition of the aubade, a dawn poem that typically centres on the parting of lovers. Worry, she writes, is a kind of aubade, one that refuses to do its work. It seems an appropriate title for the poem, given the emphasis here on love, worries about (final) parting (which despite the speaker’s fears may also not come to pass anytime soon), and, towards the end, distance.

Sneakily, the poem seems less about worry than about the father-daughter relationship that worry brings to the fore. I particularly admire the economy of the final stanza, which reveals much about that relationship and about such relationships more generally—the distances that parents and children are apt to see differently on their opposing ends of the phone line.

I’m generally wary of poems that conclude with action and speech because these often depend on situation, on drama, rather than on an engagement with language. But Svoboda’s use of language and tone here is expert; it is not the drama but the several connotations of the father’s words which carry the day. The engagement with language, the play with tradition, and the complexity of the feelings make, for me, the expertise of this short poem something to strive for.

Bryan Walpert is the editor for Tuesday Poem this week. He is an award-winning poet and short fiction writer. An American-born NZ citizen he lives in Palmerston North, New Zealand, teaching creative writing at Massey University. He has published Etymology (Cinnamon Press) and Ephraim's Eyes (Pewter Rose) and blogs when he can - especially on a Tuesday.

Take time to visit the other Tuesday Poets in the live blog roll in the sidebar.

Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Nuptials by Bill Manhire

Take back your heart,
that tattooed star. Take back
take back: your this and that, your pale guitar.

                                 Only my harmonica
                                 knows who you are.

Take back the light on the water;
also the body, scar after scar.

There is a list of things -- the words
you might have said, etcetera --

long bridge and sky,
the single car,

each syllable and step, particular,
the near and far --
and oh, take back the traveller.

                                  I have this paper music.
                                  I have what remains.
                                  I have what is muscular.

Light in your eyes, beloved,
like air in a mirror. Take back.
Take back. The bride is leaving America.

                                   Only my harmonica
                                   Knows who you are.

Bill Manhire was NZ's inaugural Poet Laureate, and has received the Prime Minister's Award for Poetry. He directs the International Institute of Modern Letters at Victoria University of Wellington and has produced a number of collections of poetry.

Bill Manhire has been regarded for some time here as a cool, ironic poet. He confesses to putting up 'lyrical foliage' when he writes - preferring privacy - but it is clear that the past two poetry collections have shifted into a warmer, more personal clearing.  'A man in a boat/rowing across the last half mile of twilight' is a line in one of the most moving poems ever about the death of a friend and about being a New Zealander. It is called Opoutere.

Bill likes to take readers to that place where he believes poetry finds its true voice - not in the  places we used to find it amongst lofty language and themes - but rather in the directness of music or casual conversation or a sign on the door of a hotel. Even at the very point where language peters out ...

The word 'etcetera' can make an appearance in Bill's poems and so do words like 'la la la'. He's not averse to rhyme, and there are often echoes of skipping rhymes, drinking songs and lullabies. Some of the poems in his latest collection The Victims of Lightning [VUP], where Nuptials can be found, are collaborations with composer Norman Meehan.

Bill's poetry has been called 'the anti-lyric lyric' and yet the truth is the banal is rendered significant (or at least provocative) - and sometimes moving and beautiful - because Bill hooks it and plays with it as one would a fish on a line: pulling it in, letting it out, pulling it in, until there it is on the deck beside you: brilliant and flapping. Or dead - with a mischievous look in its eye.

There are exquisite images in his poems - look at that 'tattooed star' of a heart, and up against Opoutere there is a ladder that 'longs to be lifted'. And yes, there are hearts in his poems, more than you'd think, and often guitars, and moons and wrists and children ... always have been.

Thirty years ago, Bill was my tutor in one of his early under-grad creative writing classes. I will never forget a poem he published back then called Declining the Naked Horse. It made us laugh, we who  lived in cold Aro St flats and debated oxymorons and knew our Coleridge from our Plath. We repeated Bill's poem in the Student Union cafe over hotdogs and chips. Was this a poem?  Really? Really?

My friends studying law and medicine thought not - dismissed it as fakery: an equine Emperor's new clothes.  Those of us who tapped away on typewriters composing imagistic confessional things in the middle of the night, went off excited and tried to write something like it. We failed of course. Who could beat a naked horse coming into the room?

Nuptials is published here with the permission of Bill Manhire. More of his poems here.

Mary McCallum is this week's Tuesday Poem editor. She is a NZ novelist, poet, creative writing teacher and bookseller. She completed her novel The Blue at the International Institute of Modern Letters where Bill Manhire is the director. She has doubled-posted Bill Manhire's Nuptials this week on her blog O Audacious Book. Do check out some of the other Tuesday Poets in the live blog roll.

Tuesday, June 8, 2010

The Blue and White Tablecloth by Carolyn McCurdie

Should we throw it away?
Your fingers rub at a stain by your plate.
Not a stain. It's a hole,
and I could mend it, but won't.

When the light shines through it, you notice
the thinness, and soon, here and here, more holes.
And see how the blue lines are worn
by the pull of connection

from my side of the table to yours,
by paths of conversation,
of passing gravy, salt.
How many years have we stood

pegging it out,
watching its white,
its snap, salute blue
kick high, swing, kick,

touch toes with the blue-white of sky?
This is the one that still drapes
fresh air across our table,
that smiles a picnic invitation

of lettuce from the garden,
apple from the tree.
Of course we should throw it away,
but on the days when it’s just me and you,

we bring it out again and laugh
at how silly we are.

Carolyn McCurdie

Thanks to Carolyn McCurdie for letting me use one of her poems for this week's Tuesday Poem.

Carolyn is a Dunedin writer who has published a novel, 'The Unquiet,' (Longacre Press, 2007). This poem is typical of Carolyn's crafted style of poetry. Her poetry quietly, assuredly, draws you into the story it is telling with an alluring lyricism.

It was hard to choose which poem of Carolyn's to use - she has written so many fine poems. In the end I chose this one because it is a favourite of mine and effortlessly demonstrates the attractive musicality and patience that all of Carolyn's poetry harbours.

I love the way this poem seamlessly relates an ordinary episode in a way that at the same time alerts the reader to the deeper issues of life - in this case, relationship, age, time and constancy.

It reminds us of what is most important in life; the relationship between two people that through 'the pull of connection' has weathered knocks and has survived, and goes on surviving.

It may be considered an old-fashioned concept for the 21st century - a faded, worn, blue and white table-cloth on a table - but this is a table-cloth that has 'snap' and has been seen to 'touch toes with a blue-white sky' as it flies in the face of a more modern, designer-label world. As such, it epitomises the essence of sustainability.' Kay McKenzie Cooke

This week's editor is Kay McKenzie Cooke a Dunedin writer who has had two books of poetry published; 'Feeding the Dogs' (Otago Univ. Press, 2002) and 'Made For Weather' (Otago Univ. Press, 2007). Visit her Tuesday poem 'some time' and others by the Tuesday Poets (look in the sidebar on the right for links).

Tuesday, June 1, 2010

Midnight Sonata by Rebekah Tysoe

Con Brio
Inert, the shadows fall, almost
loud enough to break
the pale silence of the street.
Rustling, light drips between
clumps of leaves, a sluggish beam
skirts lazily
that dark cliff between road
and pavement
before clipping in
jaunty moonbeam style
back to the blank black-rimmed hole of
at the top
of the lollypop lamp-pole

Know the bogey-men hiding
With the growl of motor-engines in their throats
See the creep as the wind
Rattles the ancient rheumatism of the trees
And stomp their feet in the shadows
In every electric pumping heartbeat
The glisten
Sharpen their knives
And gape their mouths
Nibbling the toes that enter the darkness
And beating with withered twig fingers
On window panes
Hungry, Insatiable
Lingering long lascivious nights
Beneath the metallic glow
Of Lamplight

And so
Malignant clouds
Snuff out the eyes of the
Night, the cold blue city heartbeat
In edgy jazz
Saxophone rhythm
streetlamps glitter
shadows skitter, feigning
unrest, People, half themselves, walk

Rebekah Tysoe is a second year student studying for a Bachelor of Communications at Massey University. She has previously had her work published in JAAM and she had this to say about her poem:

"This is a poem I wrote about being afraid of the dark. It's in musical terms, moving through the parts of a Sonata like a classical piece. The first Con Brio means with spirit, the next Adagio means at a walking pace, and the last Rubato means broadly. "

Midnight Sonata is published on Tuesday Poem with permission from the author.

Bernadette Keating is the editor of this week's Tuesday Poem. She is a third year Bachelor of Communications student who writes poetry and occasionally blogs about writing and art. She lives in Wellington, New Zealand.


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Friday, June 29, 2012

Quilt Show

If you can get to the Crazy Quilters of Cape Cod Quilt Show tomorrow (Saturday) do so! There's a lot of great quilts there, something for everyone's taste!
Here's a sampling, starting with this Postage Stamp Quilt made by Linda Creed! That's a lot of tiny squares!

This next one was made by Susan S. Berteaux for a wedding gift!

Cynthia Macdougal made this labor of love!  That's a lot of tiny circles to appliqué!!  The pattern for this one was in a Fons and Porter Magazine.

Sherri Delmonico made this multi colored quilt!  I love the use of the orange in this one!
Eileen Crawford's made this quilt for her Granddaughter, Grace, using a pattern from Kaffe Fassett's Glorious Patchwork book.  I just love his fabrics!

More tomorrow!

Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Quilt Show Raffle Quilt

This is a picture of the quilt that will be raffled off at the Crazy Quilters Quilt Show this weekend!  I know I'd like to win it!
There's going to be about 200 quilts at the show, so get there if you can!

Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Quilt Shows!

Marie Spadaro is having a show at the Old Selectman's Building in West Barnstable on Thursday, June 28, to Sunday, July 1.  Stop by to see her quilts!  For more information go here.

Crazy Quilters of Cape Cod

FRIDAY, JUNE 29, 10 -4
Sue Latus - fast, fun pineapple block
Mary Barry - hand pieced bow ties
Nancy DeVere - pillowcases
Jackie Johnson - felted, wool penny rug
Anne Vogel - narrow, window-pane technique
Nancy Rupert - tortilla, corn and potato fabric bags
Mary Ellen Streeter - no batting, no quilting tablerunner

for more info go here.

Saturday, June 23, 2012

Debbie's Update

Right outside the front door of Tumbleweed, in the wisteria, is a bird nest with three baby robins in it!

They are adorable!  Standing at the cash register is the best view and is quite entertaining.  The Mom and Dad are constantly swooping in and out of the nest to bring food and you sometimes feel like you need to duck when you catch their movement out of the corner of your eye.
 Speaking of new babies, Debbie Zeida is now a Grandmother!  James Paul Symes Zeida was welcomed into the world on 6/21/12!!  This is one of the quilts that Debbie had ready for him!
Everyone in the Zeida family has the "Red Sox Fan Gene" in a big way so this quilt is perfect for him!

 Meanwhile, back at the shop Debbie's students have been busy in classes!  Toni made this double wedding ring block and had it framed for a gift!

Barbara Winiaski has been piecing away and getting things done in Jo Morton Club!

What a difference a border makes!!

Mary Ellen Streeter made this stripy Jo quilt!

Kelly Littleton-Wisse finished this one!

Kelly also made a bright colored one!

Monday, June 18, 2012

Ellie brought in this quilt top to show us and also to pick out a border.  Some child is going to love this!
Charlotte had this finished wallhanging to show everyone in Studio Club last Thursday!

 Kathryn bought 1/3's of a "bunch" of floral Westminster fabrics - here's what she did so as to not waste even a scrap of fabric - she made giant hexagons for one quilt, she made yo-yo's for second quilt and she cut 2 1/2 inch strips for a pattern she saw in a jelly roll book!
Willie participated in the 2012 AQS Mystery Quilt and here is here result!  Mystery solved!

Wednesday, June 13, 2012

Mary Parker made this gray and yellow quilt!
It was a mystery quilt she did at a Herring Run Guild Getaway Weekend!

Sue Higgins showed us this quilt she made using pink and orange fabrics!

Sue also made this pink and orange quilt sashed and bordered with white!

Here's Liz Halloran standing at the top of the quilt she made!  It's from Diane Hire's book.

 Mary Parker made this one block wonder in greens, in addition to the gray and yellow one shown above.

Wednesday, June 6, 2012

Hoffman Challenge Exhibit!

We have Hoffman Challenge quilts on display this month!
We will have them until June 27, so be sure to come in and see them!

After they leave Tumbleweed the quilts will be on display at the Crazy Quilters of Cape Cod 2012
Quilt Show.  The show will be at the Falmouth High School on Friday, June 29 from 10-4, and
Saturday, June 30 from 10-3.
For more information about the Quilt Show, click here.

Tuesday, June 5, 2012

Paula Tuano finished this bright quilt and showed us Thursday during Studio Club!
Lynn Conroy is busy!  She's working on this round quilt,

and this quilt!  What fun!!

Dottie Long made this quilt in a Bits 'n Pieces class with Willie - the quilt is for her granddaughter, Molly!

The quilt was quilted  by Tricia Wolski.  She finished sewing the binding on in an Open Sew Class with Carol.

Saturday, June 2, 2012

Harry Potter

Connie Tessier brought in this AMAZING quilt that she designed, made and also quilted!
All of the blocks were individually designed and paper pieced by Connie and each column represents one of the Harry Potter books.

She has a website here where her patterns are available!


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