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So, is now a good time to buy European stocks? You bet. Despite lingering financial turmoil, doubts about the euro zone's sustainability effectively have been put to rest. European companies are awash in cash, and many are positioned to benefit from growth beyond their borders. Not least, their shares are cheap, even though the Stoxx Europe 600 index has risen 15% this year, to a recent 280.95. Some investors think they could rally more than 10%, and perhaps as much as 20%, in the coming year.

The Stoxx Europe 600 index trades for 11.5 times 2013 estimated earnings, compared with a price/earnings multiple of 12.5 for the Standard & Poor's 500. European equities have sold at a discount to U.S. stocks since the 1980s, but the gap has widened in recent years because of heightened political and financial risk. Stoxx 600 constituents yield an average of 3.8%, nearly double the 2.2% yield on the S&P, and almost triple the coupon on 10-year German bunds.

This has been a winning year for many European companies. Take fashion retailer Inditex ITX.MC -0.4768497154283956% Industria de Diseno Textil S.A. Spain: Madrid EUR32.35 -0.155 -0.4768497154283956% /Date(1490398528000-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 2143665 P/E Ratio 33.96807328964266 Market Cap 100823687444.366 Dividend Yield 0.9891808346213292% Rev. per Employee 152505 More quote details and news » (ticker: ITX.Spain), whose shares have rocketed 67%, spurred by a unique business model that has delivered consistent earnings growth. The parent of the Zara chain trades for 27.5 times next year's expected earnings, which isn't cheap, but its earnings record makes it hard to bet against.

European stocks have done well, in part because companies are in excellent financial health. They took advantage of the recession to clean up their balance sheets, cut costs, trim capital expenditures, and hoard cash. Stoxx Europe 600 components boasted cash and equivalents of 596 billion euros ($790 billion) at the end of 2011, according to ThomsonReuters Eikon. That was up from about €540 billion in 2007. Corporate earnings are forecast to rise between 5% and 10% in 2013, aided by a weaker euro.

THE STOXX EUROPE 600 is dominated by banks, health-care, and industrial companies. Less than a third of index components have net debt, which means Europe's corporate finances are in far better shape than the finances of many European governments. Shareholders are likely to ratchet up pressure on companies to put their cash to work, which could lead to more capital spending, an increase in merger activity, and more stock buybacks and dividend payments. Stepped-up spending, in turn, could help grease the wheels of Europe's economy.

But financial muscle alone isn't enough to unlock value. "If equity markets in Europe are going to give you a decent return next year, it is going to have to come from multiple expansion," says Dominic Rossi, global chief investment officer for equities at Fidelity.

Price/earnings multiples have improved since the summer, when the European Central Bank took action that finally persuaded investors it had the determination and ammunition to tackle the euro-zone sovereign-debt crisis. ECB President Mario Draghi pledged in July to do "whatever it takes" to save the euro. Those were the words that markets were longing to hear.

Europe's political risk has diminished but hasn't disappeared. Greece's economy is a shambles, but each time the country has gone to the brink of disaster, a face-saving resolution to ease its debt burden has been found. Spain continues to resist a rescue, even though the ECB has drawn up a suitable mechanism to provide support.

France also is a cause for concern. Credit-rating agencies have stripped the country of its triple-A rating over worries about its competitiveness. The government urgently needs to reduce dependence on public spending. France's troubles are exemplified by the plight of car maker Peugeot UG.FR -1.048951048951049% Peugeot S.A. ADR U.S.: OTC USD19.81 -0.21 -1.048951048951049% /Date(1490307603000-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 5030 P/E Ratio 9.263935652824541 Market Cap 16116580862.6412 Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee N/A More quote details and news » (UG.France), which has been strong-armed by the government to keep open factories to preserve jobs, despite overcapacity in the European auto market. Peugeot disclosed earlier this year that it is losing €200 million a month. Its shares have fallen almost 50% in 2012.

GERMANY IS EUROPE'S standout economy, an economic engine firing on all cylinders, fueled by demand for exports. Industrial production is strong, and unemployment is low. Frankfurt's blue-chip DAX index is up 29.5% in 2012, the best-performing market in Europe. With no sign of demand for German goods slowing, the shares could have another good year. Chancellor Angela Merkel is almost certain to win a third term in office in September, another plus.

While many European economies stagnate, European companies could benefit in 2013 from accelerated global growth. The global economy is forecast to expand by 3% to 3.5%, driven by a broadening recovery in the U.S. and the resumption of turbocharged growth in China after this year's more sluggish performance. "If we don't get an improvement in the U.S. and Asia, European equities would be much more vulnerable," says Dorothee Deck, European strategist at Absolute Strategy Research in London. Failure by the U.S. to resolve fiscal-cliff issues also would be a blow.

Companies with substantial exposure to international markets, such as luxury-goods maker Richemont (CFR.Switzerland), drug maker Novo Nordisk (NOVO-B.Denmark), and chemicals producer Bayer BAYN.XE 0.6240793522126054% Bayer AG ADR U.S.: OTC USD115.445 0.716 0.6240793522126054% /Date(1490394000000-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 101822 P/E Ratio 19.012994285149624 Market Cap 100837922675.891 Dividend Yield 2.483866776387024% Rev. per Employee 448110 More quote details and news » (BAYN.Germany), all of which generate more than 60% of sales outside Europe, could outperform. They also could get a boost from a weaker euro, which would inflate earnings denominated in other currencies. The common currency could drop 10% in value against the dollar next year on Europe's likely recession.

Some domestically focused plays could do well, too. "On a bottom-up basis, there is still great value out there," says Dean Tenerelli, manager of T. Rowe Price's European Stock Fund in London. His picks include media companies Mediaset España Comunicacion TL5.MC 0.8499787505312367% Mediaset Espana Comunicacion S.A. Spain: Madrid EUR11.865 0.1 0.8499787505312367% /Date(1490398528000-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 520589 P/E Ratio 22.38679245283019 Market Cap 3995153060.43148 Dividend Yield 4.191880657395702% Rev. per Employee 773185 More quote details and news » (TL5.Spain) and M6-Metropole Television MMT.FR 48.1152336517811% M6-Metropole Television S.A. ADR U.S.: OTC USD20 6.497 48.1152336517811% /Date(1375938000000-0500)/ Volume : 15670 P/E Ratio 15.03872471614407 Market Cap 2808432751.6206 Dividend Yield 4.760425% Rev. per Employee 604709 More quote details and news » (MMT.France).

European cyclicals look more attractive than defensive issues, with sectors such as autos and auto parts, and media, likely to benefit from higher profit margins. Luxury goods, too, have promising prospects. Telecommunications and oil and gas companies could face head winds, however. Opinions are divided on financials, although insurers are expected to outperform banks as bond yields start to rise.

Barron's recently combed the Continent for companies undervalued on a historical basis, with exposure to fast-growing international markets and minimal downside risk. We found 10 that fit these criteria and offer decent dividends that seem stable. With the exception of Enagás ENG.MC 1.1324736225087926% Enagas S.A. ADR U.S.: OTC USD12.9399 0.1449 1.1324736225087926% /Date(1490394001000-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 925 P/E Ratio 13.40366687383468 Market Cap 6180824670.76087 Dividend Yield 4.484980563991994% Rev. per Employee 980757 More quote details and news » (ENG.Spain), the Spanish utility, all are large-cap stocks. Here's a closer look at our 2013 picks.

Volkswagen (VOW3.Germany), the German auto maker, enjoyed a bumper year in 2012, and 2013 could be a repeat. The shares, which finished on Friday at €171, have rallied 48% since the start of the year, but still trade for only 7.2 times forecast 2013 earnings of €23.87 per share. Rival BMW BMW.XE 0.7221954742416947% Bayerische Motoren Werke AG Germany: Xetra EUR83.68 0.6 0.7221954742416947% /Date(1490398501000-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 1565883 P/E Ratio 7.939278937381404 Market Cap 54308078340.7998 Dividend Yield 4.182600382409178% Rev. per Employee 754941 More quote details and news » (BMW.Germany), which also is in high gear, trades for nine times next year's estimates.

Volkswagen shares could advance at least 20% in the next 12 months, as demand for new cars is boosted by a broadening economic recovery in the U.S. and more growth in China. The company's global footprint helps mitigate the impact of a weak European market.

Volkswagen has 12.6% of the global auto market, selling one of every eight new cars, and its share is growing. Sales are forecast to top €200 billion in 2013. With a stable of brands including Lamborghini, Audi, and Skoda, Volkswagen is exposed to the more profitable premium-car sector, and trucks. Operating profit margins will slip this year due to write-downs related to the purchases of Porsche and truck maker MAN, but the company's scale gives it leverage to improve profitability in 2013.

Don't write off BMW, either. Since Barron's wrote a positive piece on the shares in the fall (see European Trader, Oct. 29), they have risen 19%, and could add 15% next year.

European Aeronautic Defence & Space (EAD.France) scared investors this year with its aborted attempt to merge with BAE Systems BA.LN -0.06377938407337666% BAE Systems PLC ADR U.S.: OTC USD32.905 -0.021 -0.06377938407337666% /Date(1490393999000-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 39437 P/E Ratio 21.422526041666668 Market Cap 25913513763.979 Dividend Yield 3.798146178392342% Rev. per Employee 319212 More quote details and news » (BA.U.K.). But rich rewards could be on the horizon. Its Airbus unit has a huge backlog of orders, and EADS plans to remodel its governance and ownership structure in the first half of 2013, reducing the influence of the French and German governments. The stock's public float will increase to about 70% from a current 50%.

The company also plans to buy back up to 15% of its shares at a cost of about €3.35 billion, which can be funded from its cash pile of more than €11 billion. If the buyback were to take place before year end, 2013 estimated earnings per share would be enhanced by 15%, and 2014 earnings, by 16%, according to analysts at Société Générale. The bank has a price target of €38.

EADS shares closed on Friday at €29.99. The stock trades for 11.4 times forecast 2013 earnings of €2.62 a share, well below Boeing's BA -0.8123660160216631% Boeing Co. U.S.: NYSE USD175.82 -1.44 -0.8123660160216631% /Date(1490389361382-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 2264011 AFTER HOURS USD176.23 0.41 0.23319303833466046% Volume (Delayed 15m) : P/E Ratio 22.983006535947712 Market Cap 106913513016.98 Dividend Yield 3.2305767261972473% Rev. per Employee 628379 More quote details and news » (BA) P/E of 15.

Rio Tinto RIO -1.1855794822163077% Rio Tinto PLC ADR U.S.: NYSE USD40.84 -0.49 -1.1855794822163077% /Date(1490389279416-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 6277920 AFTER HOURS USD40.97 0.13 0.31831537708129287% Volume (Delayed 15m) : P/E Ratio 16.913774538225795 Market Cap 56298088809.5435 Dividend Yield 6.161635651322233% Rev. per Employee 657568 More quote details and news » (RIO) is poised to benefit from China's increased appetite for natural resources, as its economy reaccelerates in the first half of 2013. With new Chinese leadership in place, stimulus measures could boost demand for iron ore, a key ingredient in the production of steel.

In addition, the Anglo-Australian miner is on track to bring into production Mongolia's Oyu Tolgoi mine, which is expected to produce 450,000 metric tons (496,040 U.S. tons) of copper and 330,000 ounces of gold annually. Cost cuts and the finalization of asset sales in 2014 will help offset capital expenditures and aid free cash flow.

Rio Tinto is forecast to earn 3.44 pounds ($5.56) per share in 2013, up from an estimated £3.03 in 2012. At Friday's $56.54, the American depositary receipts trade for 10.2 times forward earnings, cheap versus rivals BHP Billiton BLT.LN -1.170515659601392% BHP Billiton PLC ADR U.S.: NYSE USD31.24 -0.37 -1.170515659601392% /Date(1490389320758-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 1891138 AFTER HOURS USD31.24 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : P/E Ratio 33.824166305760066 Market Cap 32844136134.2901 Dividend Yield 5.121638924455826% Rev. per Employee 520793 More quote details and news » (BLT.U.K.) and Anglo American AAL.LN -0.857106306767302% Anglo American PLC ADR U.S.: OTC USD7.75 -0.067 -0.857106306767302% /Date(1490394003000-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 275216 P/E Ratio 13.522945384749608 Market Cap 21937197377.9096 Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee 265380 More quote details and news » (AAL.U.K). In the next 12 months, Rio Tinto's shares easily could add 20% in value.

Roche Holding (ROG.Switzerland) can outperform peers in 2013 as investor focus shifts to new products and away from macroeconomic troubles. The pharmaceutical company had positive results in 11 of 14 late-stage clinical drug trials this year. It also brought several new products to market, including Zelboraf and Erivedge, for skin cancer, and Perjeta, which strengthens its portfolio of breast-cancer medicines. Roche has a young product portfolio and the lowest patent-expiry risk among leading drug concerns, which augurs well for future growth. Nor is competition from biosimilars solidifying as quickly as expected.

Roche closed on Friday at 186.60 Swiss francs ($203.42). The stock trades for 12.4 times future earnings, below the sector average of more than 13 times. Roche is expected to earn CHF15.08 per share in 2013, up from a forecast CHF13.57 in 2012. Sales next year will be just shy of CHF48 billion.

Roche yields 3.6%, but analysts anticipate a special dividend in the next few years. The company, which paid specials in the past, is expected to move from a position of net debt to net cash in 2015. Credit Suisse rates the stock at Outperform with a price target of CHF223.

WPP WPP.LN 0.7300672430355427% WPP PLC ADR U.S.: Nasdaq USD104.86 0.76 0.7300672430355427% /Date(1490389200428-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 107246 AFTER HOURS USD104.9062 0.0462 0.044058744993324434% Volume (Delayed 15m) : P/E Ratio 14.949460388064383 Market Cap 26915852577.1979 Dividend Yield 4.342756055693306% Rev. per Employee 151135 More quote details and news » (WPP.U.K.), the advertising and marketing giant, is growing steadily due to its geographic exposure and presence in digital channels. In the first nine months of 2012, revenue from digital businesses was up more than 7% year-to-year. Digital advertising is growing rapidly in mature markets such as North America, where more traditional forms of advertising are declining.

WPP, whose brands include Grey, JWT, and Ogilvy & Mather, also has market-leading positions in China and India. The company could earn 78 pence per share in 2013 on forecast revenue of £10.75 billion. Its shares, which closed on Friday at £8.90, trade for 11.4 times forecast earnings for 2013, well below a historical average of 15 to 16 times earnings.

The advertising industry traditionally has grown through acquisitions, but consolidation looks to be slowing. That is freeing up more money for dividends and share buybacks. "This is a high-quality business with high returns and good growth prospects, trading [at an] attractive valuation compared to the long-term history and the potential of the business model," says Matthew Siddle, who manages the Fidelity European Growth Fund and owns shares. Bernstein Research rates WPP Outperform, with a price target of £10.50.

LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton (MC.France) is a smart play on burgeoning demand for luxury goods. The industry has shown resilience in a difficult environment, and could continue to do well if the economic recovery in the U.S. broadens and fast-paced growth in China continues. Through the first nine months of 2012, LVMH reported 22% growth in sales, including 10% organic growth, due to strength in Europe and Asia, and a pickup in the U.S. Its sought-after brands include Louis Vuitton, Donna Karan, Bulgari, Christian Dior, and TAG Heuer.

Sales are expected to reach €27.93 billion in 2012, up from €23.66 billion in 2011. Operating profit could approach €6 billion, and free cash flow, almost €3 billion. LVMH shares ended last week at €140 and trade for 17.6 times forecast 2013 earnings of €7.97 per share. That multiple is in line with rivals like Richemont, which owns Cartier. LVMH yields 2.1%, having hiked its payout last year. Analysts at Nomura think shares could rally to €165.

Deutsche Post (DPW.Germany) could rack up substantial gains in the next 12 months due to the performance of its DHL parcel-delivery unit, the company's key profit driver. DHL controls more than a third of the Asia-Pacific market, where its revenue is growing at a double-digit pace. Progress was bumpy in the third quarter, but could be back on track in 2013, fueled by growth in China and the U.S. DHL also has a strong foothold in the logistics market in Europe and the Americas.

The company's mail business in Germany continues to generate healthy profits, despite declining volume. The shares, which closed on Friday at €16.62, trade for 12 times forecast 2013 earnings of €1.39 a share, up from an estimated €1.28 this year. Competitors, meanwhile, have their hands full: Fedex FDX -0.5655690047042655% FedEx Corp. U.S.: NYSE USD188.12 -1.07 -0.5655690047042655% /Date(1490389321099-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 2800165 AFTER HOURS USD188.33 0.21 0.11163087391027005% Volume (Delayed 15m) : P/E Ratio 26.683687943262413 Market Cap 50298583694.458 Dividend Yield 0.850520944078248% Rev. per Employee 342679 More quote details and news » (FDX) is restructuring its express operations, and United Parcel Service UPS -0.5679129200189305% United Parcel Service Inc. Cl B U.S.: NYSE USD105.05 -0.6 -0.5679129200189305% /Date(1490389342381-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 2432805 AFTER HOURS USD105.1 0.05 0.047596382674916705% Volume (Delayed 15m) : P/E Ratio 27.14470284237726 Market Cap 91396591728.7462 Dividend Yield 3.160399809614469% Rev. per Employee 139406 More quote details and news » (UPS) is trying to complete the drawn-out purchase of Dutch rival TNT Express (TNT.Netherlands). Deutsche Post's stock could hit €20 in the next 12 months. The company yields 4.2%, another reason it could deliver for investors.

Vivendi 0.2438363587103766% Vivendi S.A. ADR U.S.: OTC USD18.5 0.045 0.2438363587103766% /Date(1490394001000-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 58890 P/E Ratio 18.003114052160374 Market Cap 23872446440.0892 Dividend Yield 2.3351351351351353% Rev. per Employee 588260 More quote details and news » (VIV.France): A strategic review of Vivendi's operations could unlock value in the next few quarters. The French media and telecommunications giant likely will sell Maroc Telecom, the Moroccan incumbent, or GVT, the alternative telecom operator in Brazil. GVT would fetch more -- up to an estimated €8 billion. Proceeds could go toward reducing debt and buying back shares. A €4.4 billion buyback at €18 a share would make the stock worth €19.70 per share, according to Credit Suisse, which rates Vivendi Outperform with a €19.10 price target.

Vivendi is trading for €17.01, or 8.6 times forecast 2013 earnings of €1.98 per share, in line with rival Bouygues EN.FR -0.12987012987012986% Bouygues S.A. France: Paris EUR38.45 -0.05 -0.12987012987012986% /Date(1490398518000-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 673069 P/E Ratio 18.30952380952381 Market Cap 13646233297.3362 Dividend Yield 4.161248374512354% Rev. per Employee 264174 More quote details and news » (EN.France) but more expensive than France Telecom (FTE.France). However, Vivendi, which owns French telecom SFR, has other business lines. It owns a large stake in Activision Blizzard ATVI 0.6970069700697007% Activision Blizzard Inc. U.S.: Nasdaq USD49.12 0.34 0.6970069700697007% /Date(1490389200432-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 5508323 AFTER HOURS USD49.3 0.18 0.36644951140065146% Volume (Delayed 15m) : P/E Ratio 111.27976257900818 Market Cap 36930723093.4252 Dividend Yield 0.6107491856677525% Rev. per Employee 696771 More quote details and news » (ATVI), which has launched some of the top-selling games in North America and Europe. Its Universal Music Group is releasing albums from artists such as the Rolling Stones and Rihanna. Even if a share buyback doesn't materialize, Vivendi still offers good value after underperforming in 2012. Its 5.7% dividend looks secure.

AXA (CS.France) shares have climbed 33% in 2012, to €13.37, but at 6.8 times next year's expected earnings, they still look cheap. The large insurer is expected to earn €1.98 per share in 2013, up from an estimated €1.84 in 2012. Shares could rise to €16 or more in the next 12 months if the company can deliver on its strategy to be more selective about opportunities in mature markets.

AXA is looking to expand its more profitable life-protection business at the expense of traditional savings products, and is concentrating on margin instead of volume in property and casualty. Operating in unfavorable markets has hurt its financial performance, but it looks to be better positioned now. Among insurance peers, AXA also offers the best dividend yield at more than 5%.

Enagás ENG.MC 1.1324736225087926% Enagas S.A. ADR U.S.: OTC USD12.9399 0.1449 1.1324736225087926% /Date(1490394001000-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 925 P/E Ratio 13.40366687383468 Market Cap 6180824670.76087 Dividend Yield 4.484980563991994% Rev. per Employee 980757 More quote details and news » (ENG.Spain): There is nothing sexy about this Spanish gas utility, which generates just about all of its earnings domestically. Yet, despite the country's financial straits, Enagás profits rose 3.9% in the first nine months of 2012. Sales are expected to rise to €1.3 billion in 2013 from €1.2 billion this year. The company had €3.42 billion of debt as of Sept. 30, but its credit rating is higher than Spain's sovereign rating. Shares, at €16.20, trade for under 10 times forecast 2013 earnings of €1.67 per share. Enagás, which has a market value of €3.87 billion, offers a dividend yield of about 5%.

T. Rowe Price's Tenerelli says Enagás' business isn't economically sensitive. He reckons the stock could trade for 11 to 12 times future earnings, and be worth just shy of €20.

EUROPEAN POLITICS and poor economic news have unfairly depressed the prices and P/Es of some of the Continent's best companies. As Jim Moffett, chief international strategist at Scout Investments, says, "We are looking for good companies in bad places."

Europe obliges on both counts.


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Below are the latest Draft Report Card grades for each team from 2005-08, which are explained in detail in the 2010 Prospect Handbook. Grades are based solely on the quality of the draftees signed, and not on the number of picks added/lost through free-agent compensation, the amount of money spent, whom the players may have been traded for or unsigned players who became prominent.

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Giants A A A C 3.50
Red Sox A C+ B+ A 3.50
Rays B A A C+ 3.38
Diamondbacks C B A A 3.25
Dodgers B+ B A C+ 3.25
Tigers B A C+ B+ 3.25
Marlins C A B B+ 3.13
Rangers B+ B+ B+ C 3.13
Reds B+ B C+ B+ 3.13
Braves C A C A 3.00
Phillies B B A C 3.00
Twins B B C A 3.00
Orioles A A D C+ 2.88
Athletics B C B+ C+ 2.75
Brewers B B D A 2.75
Cardinals B C C B+ 2.63
Padres B C B C+ 2.63
Yankees C C A C+ 2.63
Blue Jays C B B C 2.50
Pirates A F C A 2.50
Rockies B C D A 2.50
Nationals D B+ D A 2.38
Royals B B D C+ 2.38
White Sox A C D C+ 2.38
Mets B D C C+ 2.13
Indians B D C C 2.00
Cubs B+ C+ D F 1.75
Mariners D C A F 1.75
Angels D D C+ C 1.63
Astros B F C F 1.25
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I did have an argument with someone who stated, as if it were an incontrovertible fact, that WALL-E was just a rip-off of Short Circuit. The person with whom I was arguing had not yet seen WALL-E, and had never seen Short Circuit. I had seen both movies, and explained that as near as I could tell, the only thing they had in common is that they both starred robots that had tank treads, and two cameras for eyes.

The other person’s rebuttal was to look at me like I was equal parts naïve and crazy, and say, “Yeah, but still.”

You might say that I won the argument. I’ve certainly said that more than once, but sitting here just now it occurred to me that I’m still irritated about the argument, while the other person has probably forgotten that I even exist. I ask you, is that “winning”?

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Maine Collected

Contemporary Selections from the Permanent Collection

June 12, 2015 – March 26, 2016

Maine Collected features selected works by living artists connected to Maine from the Bates Museum of Art’s permanent collection. The collection has significant strengths in Maine art. This exhibition includes work in most media and in a wide variety of themes and styles, many of which have not been on view in the museum previously. Artists in the exhibition: Karen Adrienne, Ahmed Alsoudani, Jonathan Bailey, Lucinda Bliss, Jonathan Borofsky, Alan Bray, Amy Stacy Curtis, Susan Dewsnap, Sean Foley, DeWitt Hardy, Paul Heroux, Charlie Hewitt, Anne Harris, Alison Hildreth, Frances Hodsdon, Tanja Hollander, Eric Hopkins, Frances Hynes, Dahlov Ipcar, Yvonne Jacquette, Pamela Johnson, Alex Katz, Donald Lent, James Linehan, Anne Lofquist, Fred Lynch, William Manning, Rose Marasco, Marjorie Moore, Elke Morris, Joseph Nicoletti, Olivia Parker, Dennis Pinette, William Pope.L, Abby Shahn, Wally Warren, Katarina Weslien..

This exhibition is a companion to the adjacent Synergy Space exhibition, The Painter of Maine: Photographs of Marsden Hartley, and Points of View, the photography exhibition in the Upper Gallery. Together, these exhibitions expand upon the themes in the museum’s exhibition in Director’s Cut; The Maine Art Museum Trail at the Portland Museum of Art, which includes photographs of Hartley, art from Hartley’s circle, and work by contemporary artists connected to Maine.


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Jack Keigwin '59 gave to restore Lake Andrews and create amphitheater

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Jack Keigwin '59

Jack Keigwin ’59 hitchhiked from his home in Northborough, Mass., to campus for his first year of college. Raised by a hard-working aunt who toiled in a shoe factory into her 70s, having suffered the death of his father just weeks before arriving on campus, Keigwin was uncertain about his future and whether he should even be away from his younger brothers.

But he soon found “solace on the Bates campus,” he says. “I learned a tremendous work ethic. My Bates experience fostered a sense of responsibility, not only for my own being, but for the welfare and benefit of other people as well.”

To repay the gift that Bates made to him four decades ago, he and Beverly gave to restore Lake Andrews and create the Florence Keigwin Amphitheater, named for his aunt, and the Marjorie Burgoyne Walk, named for Beverly’s mother. [More…]

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No. 14 SB Prepares for Busy Week; ULL, UTSA and Kansas

Baylor will play six games and six days beginning wit DH at Getterman Stadium Tuesday at 4 p.m. vs. No. 17 ULL

April 21, 2014

Game Notes for ULL & UTSA

WACO, Texas - The No. 14 Baylor (32-10, 6-4 Big 12) softball team begins its busy week with a televised doubleheader against Louisiana (33-7-1) Tuesday at 4 p.m. and will play on the road at UTSA Wednesday at 6 p.m. before playing host to Kansas for a three-game Big 12 series Friday-Sunday.

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Heather Stearns' 1-hitter lifted Baylor to a 2-1 win over UTSA Sunday afternoon in the final day of the Gulf Coast Classic.

The Lady Bears are coming off a series win at Oklahoma State where they dropped the opener Thursday before two consecutive run-rule victories over the Cowgirls Friday and Saturday. Jordan Strickland highlighted Baylor's weekend with four home runs and 12 RBI. She homered twice in consecutive games in BU's Friday and Saturday.

Baylor will try to avenge a loss to Louisiana Tuesday in a doubleheader scheduled to be televised on Fox Sports Southwest for Texas, Louisiana and Arkansas viewers. The games will also be televised on Fox College Sports Atlantic, and the state of Oklahoma will get game one on FSSW Plus.

The Rajin' Cajuns defeated Baylor in a slugfest Feb. 28 at the Gulf Coast Classic Tournament in Gulfport, Miss. The Lady Bears trailed 9-2 before storming back, and BU had a chance to win with the bases loaded and two outs in the bottom of the seventh, but came up short. ULL comes into the DH ranked No. 17.

UTSA (20-26) will play host to Baylor at 6 p.m. at Roadrunner Field; The Lady Bears and Roadrunners also faced each other at the Gulf Coast Classic where BU's Heather Stearns one-hit UTSA helping Baylor take a 2-1 win March 2.

The Lady Bears will then play host to the Jayhawks (29-16, 3-6 Big 12) Friday at 6:30 p.m., Saturday at 3 p.m. and Sunday at Noon. Saturday's game will also be televised on Fox Sports Southwest.

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How ancient collision shaped New York skyline

One World Trade Center

Tower One of the new World Trade Center in New York was completed last month and at 541m, it now stands proud over Manhattan, the highest skyscraper in the western world.

It is a beacon of hope on this classic skyline, a symbol of modernity and a glimpse of the future. But this gleaming new skyscraper actually has roots in a long-lost world; Tower One, like all of the other skyscrapers in New York has its foundations in a past world.

Skyscrapers seem to dominate this part of New York, but look a little closer and you can see very clearly that they are actually clustered in two distinct areas: Downtown, the financial hub of this great city, and Midtown - the home of the Empire State Building.

Image caption Fragments of the lost land of Pangaea are now stranded in the metropolis of Manhattan

To understand how this modern skyline came to be and why these tall buildings cluster as they do, you need to look downwards instead of up.

Prof Iain Stewart, a geologist at Plymouth University, has been getting down and dirty in the foundations of skyscrapers in New York for Rise of the Continents, a new geology documentary series on BBC Two, and it is here that the clues to understanding New York's ancient past become clear.

"New York's skyscrapers are built in two distinct clusters for a very good reason, one that is buried beneath each one of them," says Prof Stewart.

Below the busy streets of Manhattan, amongst the foundations of these giants, Prof Stewart was hoping to spot a seemingly innocuous grey rock, known as the Manhattan schist.

Charles Merguerian is a professor of geology at Hofstra University in New York and an established expert in this schist and its role in New York's history. He told the programme that "geology totally controls the skyline of New York, in that the higher buildings are always found where the rock is close to the surface".

As Prof Stewart reiterated for the programme: "It's the minerals in these rocks that are really key to understanding the conditions under which they were formed. Like in a car where your various instrument clusters tell you how it is working, minerals tell us how the rock was formed, particularly at what temperature and depth."

Image caption The island's skyscrapers are clustered in the financial district (foreground) and Midtown (top right)

The minerals in this rock can provide clues that help explain the shape of Manhattan's skyline, but also reveal the story of America's long lost history.

Prof Stewart was keeping an eye out for a mineral known as kyanite, a beautiful blue specimen commonly seen in the Manhattan schist. "Kyanite is a key mineral to identify, we know it only forms at very deep depths and under extensive pressure," he said.

"It's like a fingerprint, revealing a wealth of information."

The presence of this mineral reveals that the Manhattan schist was compressed under incredibly high pressure over 300 million years ago.

The schist formed as a result of two enormous landmasses coming together to form a supercontinent, known as Pangaea.

This giant continent was made up of all the land on Earth, and at this time present day New York would have been very close to its centre.

As the two landmasses converged, the rocks at their margins were pushed together like an accordion, forcing mountains upwards. The Manhattan schist was buried 13km beneath this new mountain range.

"The minerals give us a very clear indication that these rocks were formed at great depths at the bottom of a mountain range," says Prof Merguerian.

Prof Stewart explains: "The former mountains of New York probably achieved heights similar to what we see in the Himalayas today - it's incredible to imagine mountains 15 times higher than the highest skyscraper on the skyline today." Being buried and compressed under such a vast mountain range has made the Manhattan schist an exceptionally hard rock.

The supercontinent that once embroiled New York was eventually ripped apart. 100 million years later, the component parts of Pangaea began their long and arduous journeys to become the continents we see today.

After this split, fragments of the lost land of Pangaea were left behind, now stranded in today's modern metropolis of Manhattan as very hard schist.

Walking through Central Park, you will see children playing, couples sunbathing and families picnicking on rocks protruding through the surface of the park.

These rocks are Manhattan schist, part of that ancient supercontinent, fragments of Pangaea left behind when the continent split. They are just glimpses of what is below the surface in abundance in Downtown and Midtown.

And it is these fragments of very hard rock that provide the perfect foundations for New York's highest buildings. Where Manhattan schist can be found very close to the surface you can build high, and so Downtown and Midtown have become home to Manhattan's tallest buildings.

Image caption Kyanite only forms at depth and under extreme pressures

Elsewhere the ancient continent has been eroded away, the ground cannot support such skyscrapers and the buildings are much lower in height.

"Geology totally controls the skyline of New York in that the higher buildings are always found where the rock is close to the surface," says Prof Merguerian.

Tower One of the World Trade Center is the most recent icon in New York's majestic skyline, a skyline that has become a symbol of the modern world despite its origins being rooted in a long, lost world.

"It's amazing to think that the modern city of New York has essentially been controlled by geology below and all that started with the construction of Pangaea," says Prof Stewart.

Discover more about the lost world of Pangaea and how it has affected the way we live today in Professor Iain Stewart's new documentary series on BBC 2, The Rise of the Continents starting on June 9th at 9pm. Episode 3; The Americas will air on June 23rd.

Image caption The Manhattan schist protrudes through the ground in Central Park

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Memorable Novembers on the Oregon Coast

Covering 180 miles of Oregon coast travel: Astoria, Seaside, Cannon Beach, Manzanita, Nehalem, Wheeler, Rockaway, Garibaldi, Tillamook, Oceanside, Pacific City, Lincoln City, Depoe Bay, Newport, Waldport, Yachats & Florence.

Secrets of the Season

Memorable Novembers on the Oregon Coast

By Andre' Hagestedt

November storms mean wild sights like this: huge amounts of bull kelp washing up (photo Tiffany Boothe ,Seaside Aquarium)

(Oregon Coast) - When November rolls around, it always brings me back to some of the more eventful times I've had goofing around the coast - and just how varied and full of surprises the region can be. Especially those days of discovery, when I’d just begun exploring the Oregon coast in incredible detail, just before and during my excruciating, painstaking documentation of every single beach access, bar, restaurant and whatever else. These were times when the idea of bouncing around the beach at anything but summer was still a bit odd to me, and I was slowly making that epiphany that the coast and its weather had a lot more than met the eye.

It was, of course, a time of numerous adventures as well.

The first time I discovered the coast's wild mood swing surprises was in 1991, a trip that is now, in retrospect, a rather melancholy and bittersweet memory. My mother and I went to Lincoln City sometime just after Halloween and spent the night in a suite with a gorgeous ocean view. Being a landlubbing Salem guy at the time, I figured November meant nasty weather on the beach. Wrong. I was awed to discover bright, beautiful days, although they were quite cold and windy at times – but not all the time.

Lincoln City on a cold but beautiful November day, 1991

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Still, the sunsets were amazing, and I spent considerable time just shooting pics of the intense colors. Oddly though, my mother was tired the entire time and I don't remember ever wandering the beach with her. I even tried dragging her bar hopping with me, which she was actually quite intrigued by (me too, as it was hard to imagine Mom in my wacky nocturnal environment). But she wound up nodding off into a deep sleep, and I amused myself with a horror movie festival on TV that was still running a few days after Halloween.

The next morning, Mom dragged me shopping at the Factory Stores @ Lincoln City. She found a small, stuffed bear she loved; and in her sometimes-kooky manner, she purchased it, gave it to me and told me to give it to her for Christmas. OK. Whatever. I laughed at this quirk then, and I still laugh at it now.

A few months later, she discovered she had leukemia - and would pass away later in the year. It would be the last really good memory I'd have of her as a seemingly healthy person. It turned out this was why she was so fatigued in that November trip.

Wondrous moments just north of Florence

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On a more pleasurable note, such pleasant weather surprises hit home in early November of 1996. My girlfriend at the time, Kathy, and I cruised the winding, twisting road around Heceta Head Lighthouse and Sea Lion Caves under amazing, cloudless, blue skies and almost balmy temperatures. I felt like I was in another world. I had no idea the coast could be like this so late in the year. The whole thing was quite ethereal, traversing those twisted stretches of highway, under direct sunlight, as ocean vistas appeared and disappeared between rolling hills and glimpses of the beach.

In November of 1997, Kathy and I spent the weekend in Newport. On the 30th, a grey, overcast day, we ventured out into the ocean aboard the fabulous Discovery Tours cruise. These are too much fun - and not just because I couldn't stop doing an impression of Leonardo DiCapprio in "Titanic" by standing at the tip of the boat with my arms outstretched. We spotted whales, whales spotted us, and it was a load of fun learning to get your "sea legs" in these bouncy conditions.

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We simultaneously giggled about - and felt horrible for - some woman who got seasick immediately. The poor lady had announced to employees she was a writer doing a story on the tour for some publication. Ouch.

We felt lucky we didn't get ill. But at one point, we realized we didn't feel that great either and had to quit moving around for the last 30 minutes of the cruise. That's karma, I suppose.

The next day was December 1 and extremely sunny. But most importantly, to me anyway, was that I'd always wanted to be on the coast in December. I was as delighted as a little kid over this goofy detail. The bayfront was hopping full of people, it was windless and relatively warm, and it was the first time I noticed the smell of fish processing activities there, which can sometimes be hideous.

Stormy Manzanita

Some of the starkest differences in weather I've encountered were in 2001. By this time, I was editor of a publication called Oregon Coast Guide, which eventually morphed into BeachConnection.net via a long string of stages. I went over to Manzanita to hang with my pal Molly, a close friend who worked for Nehalem Bay Winery. It was the night before Thanksgiving, and for some reason we stayed up late, drinking ourselves silly, and told ghost stories by candlelight, while a sizable storm pounded the roof. Poor girl: she went off to bed spooked.

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The next day, I slowly drove down to Salem to join my dad for the big feast. Somewhere about the Three Capes Tour, a mighty storm hit. I tried stepping out at the parking lot of Cape Kiwanda to get some photos, but not only did I have to fight my car door in the fierce wind, but I had to battle the wind and a wall of nearly horizontal rain to even stand up. One gust shoved me back to my car. I took that as a sign, gave up and drove off.

Molly's dog struts around Hug Point in 2001

Not even a week later, I visited Molly again, and with her dog, we wandered Hug Point (south of Cannon Beach) in windless, cloudless conditions and temperatures so warm I almost removed my shirt. Freaky.

Also freaky: we discovered some bizarre, prehistoric-looking bug lurking in one of the sea caves of this placid, late autumn strand. I think we both ran squealing in horror.

Less than 20 minutes later, we encountered tremendous rainsqualls near Seaside as we drove northward. By the time we got to Fort Stevens and the always-intriguing Wreck of the Peter Iredale, it had cleared somewhat. We were able to climb around the metallic skeleton of the ship under cold, overcast skies and occasional drizzle.

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It was as if the Oregon Coast was somehow aware of its own reputation for moody weather and reluctant to give it up. Now, I look back and wonder if it wasn’t trying to teach me a little something about its schizophrenic nature.

Other Novembers still stick in my mind for one reason or another, as if mystically this time of year has wacky alignment of the stars that manages to tweak with me in some way or another.

Hug Point on that ethereal day

One year, I remember an especially ethereal time at Hug Point, with the failing light casting a dim glow on a really low tide and nearly still waves, all under pristine blue skies. It looked just like summer, but it felt like November.

Last November, I stayed in Arch Cape for a few days and then drove back home to Portland on a stormy night, only to discover I’d left my power chord for my laptop back at my friend’s pad. I had to drive back at just before midnight, dodging falling branches and giant sheets of rain along a very dark Highway 26, just so I could finish an hour’s worth of work. I arrived around 1 a.m., droopy-eyed, and stayed the night again in Arch Cape. The next day was, of course, paradoxically pleasant and still, but I had to get back to P-town.

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The rest of the month I remember battling a nasty cold that I’d caught from the woman I was dating. I was in the transition of moving down to Newport for a while, living there part time and Portland the rest. There were some massive, potent storms we dealt with at that little house in Nye Beach that month.

Stormy waves sneak up Nye Beach, November 2006

And now I ready myself for Thanksgiving dinner at a castle on the Oregon coast. I’ll be at the Arch Cape House celebration, which promises to be extravagant. This year, it’s the first I’m not spending with my dad or brother, but instead various coasties I’ve come to love as dearly as family members. I’ll later hit the bars to drink with them – and whoop it up with all those former coasties who come back to the coast to visit their families, but beeline it for the bars to avoid them later in the evening.

This website boasts it’s the teller of plenty of “beach secrets,” and that’s another T-day tradition that is indeed a bit of a secret, but not a beachy one. It’s kind of universal. And I’ll be at various watering holes along the north coast to help keep it alive.

We’ll see how much of it I remember.

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D Sands Condominium Motel, Lincoln City. Free, fresh baked cookie upon check-in is just the start. All rooms beachfront and up against Lincoln City's most famous stretch of beach: the D River. Each room comes as a suite or mini-suite, and has a kitchen and balcony or patio. Some w/ gas fireplaces, while all have a DVD Players; movies to rent come with free popcorn. Heated indoor pool, a spa, and this fabulous beach is lit at night. Rooms sleep from two, four to six - including a deluxe fireplace suite. Gift certificates orspecial occasion packages. www.dsandsmotel.com. 171 S.W. Highway 101. 800-527-3925.

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Lincoln City Vacation Homes Something for everyone: smaller homes with a view to a large house that sleeps 15. All are either oceanfront or just a few steps away – all with a low bank access and fantastic views. Most are in the Nelscott area; one is close to the casino. You’ll find a variety of goodies: fireplaces, multiple bedrooms, dishwashers, Jacuzzis, washer/dryers, hot tubs, cable TV, VCR, barbecues; there’s a loft in one, and another sprawling home has two apartments. Pets allowed in some homes – ask first. Each comes with complete kitchens. Most have seventh night free. Prices range from winter $85 to summer $230 per night. www.getaway2thecoast.com. 541-994-8778.

Inn at Cannon Beach. Beautifully wooded natural setting at quiet south end of Cannon Beach. Great during winter storms with a new book by the fireplace – or when the sun is out for family fun and beach strolling. Handsome beach cottage-style architecture. Lush flowering gardens and naturalized courtyard pond. Warm, inviting guest rooms. Continental buffet breakfast. Warm Cookies. Family and Pet Friendly. Welcome gifts. Smoke-free. Complimentary Wireless Connectivity. Wine and book signing events. 800-321-6304 or 503-436-9085. Hemlock At Surfcrest, Cannon Beach, Oregon. www.atcannonbeach.com.

The Ocean Lodge. There will not be another property built like this in Cannon Beach in our lifetimes. Rare, premiere ocean front location; handsome, dramatic architecture and tasteful, fun (nostalgic) beach interiors. Overlooks Haystack Rock. 100 percent smoke free. Imaginative special occasion packages. Massive wood burning lobby fireplace. Library w/ fireplace, stocked with impressive book collection. Pet and family friendly. Lavish continental buffet breakfast. In-room fireplaces, mini-kitchens. Jacuzzi tubs in select rooms. DVD players, complimentary movies. Morning paper. Warm cookies. 888-777-4047. 503-436-2241. 2864 Pacific Street. Cannon Beach, Oregon. www.theoceanlodge.com

Prepare for Freaky, Creepy Mole Crabs on Oregon Coast Beaches The little critters make the tideline bubble and feel really weird as they run across your feet

Watching Transformations of Oregon Coast Beaches Seasons change and so do beaches, revealing different sides and a variety of eye-popping sights

Structures Found on Oregon Beach May Be 80,000 Years Old - They are the remnants of a forest apparently 80,000 years old, found at Hug Point

Day or Night Mysteries and Merriment on Oregon Coast It's more than just nightlife that comes to life, but the beaches offer major opportunities

Oregon Coast Travel Site Goes Wireless Provides Lodging Reports - Oregon Coast Beach Connection now has mobile lodging and dining listings, along with weekly lodging availability reports

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For over 80 years a favorite of Seaside visitors. 51 oceanfront condos, individually owned and decorated. Suites for couples, small apartments with fireplaces and kitchenettes, one or two bed family units with fireplaces, kitchens and dining rooms. Oceanview cottages sleep anywhere from two to eight, w/ two bedrooms, some with lofts, fireplaces and kitchens. Heated outdoor pool, enormous grounds w/ picnic tables - all at quiet southern end of Seaside.

Lincoln City’s only resort hotel built right on the beach with all oceanfront rooms - nestled against a rugged cliffside overlooking a soft, sandy beach. Dine in penthouse restaurant and bar, for casual meal or candlelight dinner. An array of seafood specialties, juicy steaks and other Northwest favorites, including decadent Sunday buffet. Rooms range from bedrooms to studios to 1-bedroom suites with microwaves and refrigerators to full kitchens. Also, wi-fi, spa, saunas, exercise room and year-round heated swimming pool. Kids will love the game room and easy beach access. Full-service conference/meeting rooms for that inspirational retreat; extensive wedding possibilities.

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Newly renovated, 30 upscale rooms, on north end of Lincoln City, close to everything. Spa-like feeling, w/ luxury linens & robes, pillow top mattresses, flat screen TV's, granite counters and more all add to pampering. Oceanfront and ocean view units w/ gas fireplace. Hot Tub units. Romance packages. Luxury Room for every budget: meeting and wedding spaces too.

Condo-hotel that offers the amenities of a fine hotel, but also includes ownership of a vacation home on the north Oregon coast. It is a unique opportunity, as condo owners have an opportunity to share in the revenues of their unit. All have either spectacular, nearly aerial views of the ocean and city, or they gaze out at the lush forests of the coast range mountains. There are private balconies in all rooms, which come as studios or units with one bedroom or two - as large as 850 square feet. Each is fully furnished. $189,000 to $449,000, (with most in the $300,000 range.) When owners are not using their units, they may be rented out as hotel rooms, and owners may share in those revenues.

20 gorgeous homes sleep up to 18; doubled that with some side-by-side homes. Some pet friendly. Cottages to massive homes; new oceanfront to renovated historic beach houses. All over central coast w/ Lincoln City, Otter Rock, Boiler Bay and Nye Beach. Long list of features, including barbecues, large decks, antique furnishings, wood stoves, gas fireplaces, hardwood floors, Jacuzzis and hot tubs. Most have movies, music, books. Gift basket w/ goodies in each

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Neptune State Park - Intriguing Cliffs, Wild Beach Colors
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Keep on walking south and you'll find this intriguing and wild cliff hovering over the seashore here. Little pathways into the grassy areas dart in and out of the difficult rocky slabs that create one obstruction after another, where large boulders create annoyingly intense trudges over huge, bulbous shapes. Still, it's a non-stop trip of discovery worth making.

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At the very northern end of town, between the casino and Road's End State Park, look for the sign pointing to NW 50th amidst the placid neighborhoods. Follow that to its end, where it meets NW Jetty, and you'll find an abandoned gravel "driveway" which winds its way down to the beach. Along the way, there's another tunnel-like path that looks a little like the famed Hobbitt Trail (see Yachats to Florence Virtual Tour), although that doesn't seem to lead anywhere.

Down on the beach, it's the only access for about half a mile in either direction. There are some interesting rock features here created by a crumbling cliff, and the sand is pristine and more than a little pleasant.

The second shot shows the same place several years later, spotlighting erosion of these structures.

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Egmont Key, Florida

Egmont Key is a barrier island located south of Saint Petersburg, Florida at the mouth of Tampa Bay. It is an island with an oddly compelling history and is accessible only by boat. Private excursion boats leave from Pinellas County and Manatee County to take you there if you don't have a boat.

Egmont Key is a State Park and a Wildlife Refuge. It can get very busy on weekends and holidays, but during the week is a very quiet place. It is not a really large island, but is plenty big enough to keep you busy exploring all day and wanting to come back for more.

Egmont Key Beach

Egmont Key Beach. The Sabal palms are dead because the Gulf of Mexico is slowly eroding the beach. Sabal palms are not able to live right out on the beach so close to the salt water. These palms used to be in the interior of the island. The island is now about half the size it was in 1900.

The water around Egmont Key is particularly beautiful, especially during the spring and early summer. Snorkeling is popular around the submerged remnants of old Fort Dade. There are no cars on Egmont Key, and camping is not allowed.  Of course, there are no hotels or other accommodations on the key. You'll find plenty of hotels and beach resorts on nearby St. Pete Beach or Anna Maria Island.

How To Get to Egmont Key

 Tour boats operate from Cortez, on the south side of the bay, or from the Pinellas beaches. It's easiest to access Egmont Key from the St. Pete beaches area. You could even take a kayak on a calm day if you are an experienced paddler. I wouldn't recommend kayaking to Egmont for beginners unless accompanied by an experienced paddler.

Tampa Bay Ferry of Hubbard's Marina on St. Pete Beach leaves from Fort Desoto. This is the ferry I've used. Visit their website at: http://www.hubbardsmarina.com/egmont/.  This is the least expensive way to get to Egmont.

Adventure Cruises - Captain Ian operates offers daily trips to Egmont Key aboard his 40 foot, 49 passenger boat. The boat leaves from the Corey Causeway (the Pasadena Avenue approach to St. Pete Beach). Capt. Ian also offers trips to Shell Key, sightseeing trips, dolphin watching, and Egmont Key snorkeling trips. The Egmont Key trip is a 4 hour excursion. Snorkeling is optional.

Tropical Island Getaway tours leaves from just south of John's Pass Bridge and their website says they also depart from the Cortez docks in Bradenton. Call to confirm that. They have quite a few different boat tours to choose from. Check out their website at http://www.tropical-island-getaway.com/

Dolphin Landings Charter Boat Center has a dock on St. Pete Beach behind the Dolphin Village Shopping Center. Visit their website for more info. We take sunset sailing cruises with Captain Dan now and then and enjoy them very much.

Photos of Egmont Key

Tampa Bay Ferry to Egmont Key

The Tampa Bay Ferry leaving the dock at Fort Desoto. Egmont Key can be seen in the distance.

Typical Egmont Key Beach

A Gulf beach on Egmont Key.

Brick road on Egmont Key

The old brick roads used by the soldiers on Egmont Key are still in pretty good shape. A citizen's support organization called the Egmont Key Alliance spends a lot of volunteer time and donated money to help keep up the park and the historical relics that make it so interesting.

Shady palm hammock in interior Egmont Key, Florida

The shady interior of Egmont Key offers plenty of nature to enjoy.

Remnants of the Fort on Egmont Key, Florida

Remnants of the fort. Feel free to climb all over and explore.

Egmont Key Lighthouse

The Egmont Key Lighthouse is a working lighthouse. You can see the light flashing from just about any beach in the area at night.

Places to Stay Near Egmont Key

Egmont Key is a great day trip if you are staying on the St. Pete Beaches. St. Pete Beach has plenty of accommodations right on the beach, including major hotels like the Don Cesar, Trade Winds Resort, Howard Johnsons, Holiday Inn & Suites, Post Card Inn, Florida Dolphin Motel, the Sirata Beach Resort and a host of others.

Gopher Tortoise at home in her Egmont Key burrow.

Gopher Tortoise at home in her Egmont Key burrow with a view of the Gulf.

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Urban Decay has out three zippered palettes for Holiday 2012 that are great for gift giving, or for yourself. Each includes  a few limited edition shades. I grabbed the Fun Palette, since I liked its mix of colors.

The palette comes in a zippered bag:

Urban Decay Fun Palette

Inside are 6 eye shadow shades in Maui Wowie, Deep End, Sellout, Fishnet, Stay Dog, and Freakshow.  There also is a mini lip gloss in Lip Junkie.

Urban Decay Fun Palette Inside

The lipgloss is hard to get out of the case, despite there being  pull ribbon for it. It also was nothing real special to me and had a fairly strong fragrance of I think mint and vanilla. But I didn’t buy this for the lip gloss. I got it for the shadow!   Here are swatches of the shades:

Urban Decay Fun Palette Swatches

Something I really like about Urban Decay is that they blend pretty well without getting muddy looking, so you can take bright shades and make them look much softer if so desired.  For example, here is a daytime eye look with Sellout on most of the lid, Stray Dog blended at the outer third and crease, and deep end blended just along the lash line and at the outer corner, along with a bit of liner from the new Urban Decay Ocho Loco Set. Since I am getting older and am starting to wrinkle (blech!), I think well blended looks tend to suit me a bit better than super bold ones, yet I like to get a bit of brighter color.

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By Kelly Hushin

I fell into this whole hair business rather unexpectedly. Sure, I’ve been “into hair” for a long time. I can remember being about 13 years old when for the first time I experienced a “grown-up” hair treatment. I can see myself sitting there in my kitchen at the table with a cap on my head, my mother hovering over me with that ominous silver needle, ready to pluck out strands for a makeshift highlight job. Inevitably, anytime we did this it would result in a screaming match: me getting jabbed in the scalp (accidentally) with the needle and Mom trying to move my head every which way to get the best angle.

Looking at this picture eerily reminds me of the fingers-on-a-chalkboard like effect that the sound of pulling each strand through each hole gave me. In retrospect, the resulting color was rarely worthy of the process. But at the time, it became a necessary evil. I couldn’t simply go to school with boring hair, could I? And there was not money to send me off to the hair salon every two months for touch ups. Thus we endured. I in the pain – and sometimes botched color – and Mom in the agony of the whole process.

Today, well – today it’s a much different scene. I have had fallen into a wonderful fortune of hair treatment whereby I rarely go two months without a color treatment, I have had many popular celeb cuts, I have more hair products than I ever could have dreamed about and I have met some of the kindest, most talented hair professionals in one of the biggest and creatively prosperous cities in the world. So how did I get here? Well – as with most things in life, I sort of fell into it. As someone who had always had a passion for the beauty industry and happened to also enjoy writing, I was connected to BeautyNewsNYC and soon found myself contributing articles to the hair section. This was about a year and a half ago. One thing led to another and here I am, the section’s editor. So what, you ask? I’ll tell you.

After a solid year of experimenting with new hair products, visiting new salons, trying new styles and interviewing experts, a new website has come along in need of someone just like myself – and targeted for someone just like yourself: someone looking for the perfect product, best cut and wildest color in the Big Apple (or other cities for that matter)., the hair salon component to CitySearch, is all about “where you get your hair did.”

This stylish look-book of sorts is designed to showcase the best work of hair stylists and colorists who can display their work through the site by submitting photos of their clients. It also allows users to upload snapshots of themselves after receiving a super-trendy cut or color.

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That’s me – hair looking particularly blonde – though that’s always changing!

I’ve been chosen as one of MopShots’ “Dictators.” Several other hair-savvy females across the country, along with myself, have the ability to view these snapshots submitted by users and review them. We are the consultants who will tell you whether your hair really is going to be the next chic Posh do, or the next Amy Winehouse disaster. Dictators like myself will look at the photos and select which ones will be featured on the site based on what trends we think are the most hip.

In short, this website will be yet another venue for all you BeautyNewsNYC devotees to get even more advice about what’s hot in hair. For those of you really devoted to hair trends, you won’t be able to get the same in-depth coverage you get here. But it’s certainly a fun addition to your daily blog checking. I suppose I should thank my mother for enduring those many wretched days in the kitchen and the resulting chaos when I hated my hair. It seems that was the start of a hair journey I had no idea I was beginning.

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James Lawton: Golf has to learn that television must come second

Because of its glorious, self-sustaining format and the quality of some of its most competitive figures, the Ryder Cup yesterday survived the most desperate exploitation by its organisers.

So appalling was the decision to take the event to a Welsh valley at such a late date and a course ill-equipped to deal with rainfall that would have been comfortably absorbed by one of Britain's superb links courses, it would be nice to imagine that the game has learnt an important lesson.

However, it is still hard to be sanguine about the instincts of a world which has become so consumed by the need to grab money – and satisfy the TV paymaster. Indeed, when the people who had paid the standard price of £130 for the Sunday action, were locked out of the course before watching not the climax but the third of four days, it was hard to forget the origins of sport's subservience to the god of money and TV profit.

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The reply from the corporate executive lounge was chilling. The only thing impossible was pre-empting the popular Bill Cosby Show. The rest, some might say, was pretty much inevitable.

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Nolito is honoured to be playing alongside the prolific Sergio Aguero at Manchester City.

Spain striker Nolito has made a fine start to his City career, scoring his second and third goals for the club in Saturday's comfortable 4-1 Premier League win at Stoke.

But it was still not enough to command the headlines as Aguero continued his flying start to the campaign with another double to take his tally to six in three games.

"Aguero is one of the best players in the world and I'm very proud to work and play with him," Nolito said. "I hope he keeps scoring to help us this season.

"I feel very good here. It's only been three games and I'm still settling in, but I feel fit and I just want to keep working with the team.

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City supporters at the bet365 Stadium chanted their support for goalkeeper Joe Hart and playmaker Yaya Toure, who were again both omitted by boss Pep Guardiola.

But they were even more vocal in their appreciation of Guardiola, whose development of the team is gathering momentum.

Following on from their impressive win at Steaua Bucharest in midweek, City were at their most fluid in the first half, with the rejuvenated Raheem Sterling again impressing.

The lead came in the 27th minute as Aguero, not perturbed after two misses in Romania, stood up to take a penalty after Nicolas Otamendi was held back by Ryan Shawcross. He headed a second after 36 minutes.

Stoke were denied a penalty before the break after Aleksandar Kolarov felled Joe Allen but did get one early in the second half when Sterling was adjudged to have impeded Shawcross by referee Mike Dean.

Both of the penalties given underlined a new determination to clamp down on pushing and holding at set-pieces this season, but while there was no doubting contact for the Otamendi spot-kick, the second award seemed harsh.

Bojan converted and Stoke went on to have a good spell, but ultimately they could not take advantage of a dip in City's intensity. Substitute Nolito eventually wrapped up victory, with the 29-year-old netting two goals in the last four minutes.

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By John Campbell

Aidan O'Rourke, a 2002 All-Ireland winner with Armagh, is the driving force behind a major initiative aimed at raising funds to help combat cancer.

In tandem with James Daly, who was manager of the Orchard County's ladies football team for four years until he stepped down last Sunday, O'Rourke is currently immersed in organising a special challenge game in honour of Daly's wife Ann, who passed away last year after an eight-year battle with cancer.

Both O'Rourke and Daly have a long association with the Dromintee club, which will be hosting the match between Ulster and the Rest of Ireland on Saturday, October 3.

Already many of the top lady footballers in the country have made themselves available for the game which is attracting huge interest within the province.

"Ann gave magnificent service to the GAA and she is sadly missed," said O'Rourke. "For his part, James has helped to bring ladies football in Armagh to a new level and has plotted considerable success for the county. It is only fitting that we should remember Ann and this match I think will be a fitting memorial."

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Armagh ladies team skipper Caroline O'Hanlon is among those who has thrown her weight behind the initiative.

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Is This Any Fun?

Emersonian Pragmatist and Prescient High-Low Cultural Critic Richard Poirier Believed That Reading “Dense” Literature Was Like Manual Labor, or Having Sex

Discussed: Grad-School Lingua Franca, Fiery Jeremiads, T. S. Eliot’s Romantic Troubles, Pernicious Meanings, The Dismissal of Linguistic Skepticism, Damnation by Éclat, Bette Midler, The Metaphysics of Sexual Commerce, Heavenly Blow Jobs, Delicious Catty Streaks, Grief That Teaches Nothing

I. Getting to Know Dick

When I signed up for Richard Poirier’s seminar at Rutgers in 1996, it was out of obligation. As an American-literature grad student (“Americanist,” in grad-school lingua franca), I was expected to take Poetry and Pragmatism—a course decisively bound to the modernist project, with a syllabus that included William James, Gertrude Stein, Robert Frost, and Ralph Waldo Emerson—even though I had come to graduate school to study the works of the early settlers, fiery jeremiads and captivity narratives, sentimental novels and transcripts of witch trials. But the ethos of the Rutgers Americanist demanded I expand beyond my specific interest zone; since there was so little American literature, we were expected to be fluent in all of it, from Winthrop to Updike.

I do not think Dick—everyone referred to him as Dick—particularly enjoyed teaching our class (named after his 1992 book, Poetry and Pragmatism, also on our syllabus), though he was a bit of a ham. He had the weary, bemused quality of an old vaudevillian during his final run. I was also not any kind of teacher’s pet. That role was assigned to a vapid yet good-looking boy who left the program to go to law school after completing his MA. While his student, I didn’t really appreciate Dick’s genius. I grew frustrated when he went on tangents, and kept a tally sheet of his favorite detours: King Lear, Balanchine, The Equalizer, speculation or specious facts about the sex lives of writers, some of which turned out to be true (“T. S. Eliot couldn’t give it away!”). There were flashes of brilliance, to be sure: a charged passage of Stein’s “Melanctha,” Wallace Stevens’s poem “Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction,” incredible readings of Emerson. Once we talked for an hour about the word impudent in Emerson’s essay “Experience”: its punishing, punning, sexual overtones (the root is pudendum, Latin for “that of which one ought to be ashamed,” commonly used to refer to the vulva). The sentence in which it appeared—“The grossest ignorance does not disgust like this impudent knowingness”—might as well have been a motto for the class.

As it turned out, mine was the last graduate seminar Dick ever taught; he semiretired soon after to concentrate on his other activities, mainly the journal Raritan (now edited by Rutgers historian Jackson Lears). When Dick died, in 2009, I found myself recalling him fondly, and I started reading more of his work. By then I had left academia, but the lessons I found in Dick’s work apply more to me now, as an independent scholar, than they might have if I had stayed. Dick insisted, “Writing must not be simple. Yet most commentators on the literary, political, or cultural matters treated… give every impression that writing is somehow easy, that words can somehow be set into place and counted on not to move.”Words for Dick were wonderful yet slippery, multivalent, gateways to all kinds of allusions and illusions. Elsewhere he wrote, “Literature is now the process of telling us how little it means.” But he was gently joking, as no one held the literary in higher regard than Dick, though no one was also more willing to puncture categories—Dick was prescient in the ways he anticipated the invasion of popular culture into high critical discourse and the ease with which he wrote about the most complex works, past and present, without jargon or cant—to challenge authors, and to try to find the proper place for the works he loved, literary or not.

II. Neutrality Is Power

Richard Poirier was born in 1925, a working-class kid from Gloucester, Massachusetts, the son of a fisherman. He served in the army in World War II, then attended Amherst College on the G.I. Bill (where Robert Frost, whom Dick claimed “knew more Latin than Eliot and Pound put together,” was a member of the Englishdepartment faculty).He did his graduate work at Yale (under New Critic Cleanth Brooks), at Cambridge (under the formidable F. R. Leavis), and at Harvard. He describes his time teaching at Harvard in the last chapter of Poetry and Pragmatism, a chapter called “Reading Pragmatically: The Example of Hum 6.”

“Reading Pragmatically” is an excellent introduction to Dick’s literary theory, which he would likely call “a plea for reading.”

Reading can be a civilizing process, not because the meanings it gathers may be good for us—they may in fact sometimes be quite pernicious—but because that most demanding form of writing and reading called literature often asks us to acknowledge, in the twists and turns of its language, the presence of ancestral kin who cared deeply about what words were doing to them and what they might do in return… Good reading and good writing are, first and last, lots of work.

The natural clarification is what is meant by “work” here. In Dick’s mind work is what writers do, what readers do, what critics do, and what piddly little graduate students must be taught to do. “Do your work, and I shall know you,” he would bellow, quoting Emerson’s words from “Self-Reliance,” sometimes hitting the seminar table for emphasis.

One of the goals of “Reading Pragmatically,” and of Dick’s work in general, was to revise the lineage of post–World War II literary theory as well as to make criticism a more rugged pursuit.

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Lisa Levy is a writer in Brooklyn. She blogs at deadcritics.com and tweets at RealLiveCritic.

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