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Get Rich or Die Tryin' (2005) Soundtrack
Get Rich Opening Logos
Sha Money X.L., Derek Prosper and Kenyatta Beasley
I'll Whip Ya Head Boy
50 Cent - Get Rich or Die Tryin' (Music from and Inspired By the Motion Picture)
Opening credits
50 Cent, Young Buck - Get Rich Or Die Tryin'- The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Steve Prempeh, Marc John Jefferies and Rhyon Nicole Brown
I Feel for You
Chaka Khan - Epiphany: The Best of Chaka Khan, Vol. 1
Marcus & his mother are first introduced
9mm Goes Band
KRS-One and Scott La Rock
Steve Prempeh, Marc John Jefferies & Rhyon Nicole Brown
Marcus is recording
Uncle Deuce's Rap
Scott 'DJ Rectangle' Kluesner, Joseph Pierre and Jim Sheridan
The Bridge Is Over
Scott La Rock & KRS-One - Memory of a Man and His Music
I'm Dangerous
Craig G and Sha Money X.L.
Scott La Rock - Memory of a Man and His Music
Beastie Boys - Licensed to Ill
I Can't Live Without My Radio
LL Cool J - All World: Greatest Hits
9mm Goes Bang
Boogie Down Productions - Criminal Minded
Bleu Davinci ft. Azure
Pass the Dutchie
Musical Youth - Dancehall 101, Vol. 3
Frankie Beverly and Maze
Gotta Get Out Of Hell
King of NYC
Michael Miller and James 'J2' White
Scott "DJ Rectangle" Kluesner, Joseph Pierre & Jim Sheridan
Fight for Your Right to Party
Craig Curry aka Craig G & Sha Money XL
(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party)
Beastie Boys - Def Jam Recordings - Let The People Speak
Lloyd Banks - Get Rich or Die Tryin' (Music from and Inspired By the Motion Picture)
Roy Ayers - Straight Outta Compton (Music from the Motion Picture)
You a Shooter
Mobb Deep - Get Rich or Die Tryin' (Music from and Inspired By the Motion Picture)
Mobb Deep, 50 Cent - Get Rich Or Die Tryin'- The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Window Shopper
They Callin' Me Handsome
I'll Be Around (Whenever You Want Me)
The Spinners - Dead Presidents, Vol. 1 (Music from the Motion Picture)
Best Friend (Feat. Olivia)
Eeany Meany Miney Mo
I Don't Know, Officer
50 Cent, Lloyd Banks, Prodigy, Spider Loc, Ma$e - Get Rich Or Die Tryin'- The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Good Life (featuring Azure)
Bleu Davinci
I Want My MTV (Theme)
Hustler's Ambition
Tony Yayo - Get Rich or Die Tryin' (Music from and Inspired By the Motion Picture)
Spider Loc - Get Rich or Die Tryin' (Music from and Inspired By the Motion Picture)
Spider Loc, 50 Cent, Lloyd Banks - Get Rich Or Die Tryin'- The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Lloyd Banks, 50 Cent, Young Buck - Get Rich Or Die Tryin'- The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
When Death Becomes U
M.O.P. - Get Rich or Die Tryin' (Music from and Inspired By the Motion Picture)
M.O.P., 50 Cent - Get Rich Or Die Tryin'- The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Have a Party
Have a Party (feat. 50 Cent & Nate Dogg)
We Both Think Alike
50 Cent & Olivia - Get Rich Or Die Tryin'- The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Don't Need No Help
Young Buck - Get Rich or Die Tryin' (Music from and Inspired By the Motion Picture)
Born Alone, Die Alone
Talk About Me
4 in the Pot
Orry E - 4 in the Pot - Single
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Home / world / Australian PM loses popular support: Poll
Australian PM loses popular support: Poll
It was found that 46 per cent of respondents identified Morrison as their preferred Prime Minister compared to 38 per cent for Albanese.
IANS | Canberra | November 15, 2021 4:00 pm
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison.(photo:Instagram)
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has lost ground as the nation's preferred leader, a poll has revealed.
The latest Newspoll, which was published on Sunday night, revealed that the leader of the opposition Labor Party, Anthony Albanese, has closed the gap to Morrison, reports Xinhua news agency.
It found that 46 per cent of respondents identified Morrison as their preferred Prime Minister compared to 38 per cent for Albanese.
It is the tightest gap between the two since March 2020 and marks a major turnaround from February when Morrison led 61-26.
The poll of 1,524 voters was taken in the wake of Morrison's appearance at the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow where he committed to a 2050 net-zero emissions target.
Albanese has been a fierce critic of Morrison's signature climate policy, describing it as a "scam" that lacks detail.
The Labor leader promised that he would release his own climate policy before the end of 2021.
According to Newspoll, Labor leads Morrison's coalition 53-47 on a two-party preferred basis, a slight swing in the government's favour from 54-46 at the start of October.
Thirty-eight per cent of respondents said they intend to vote Labor as their first preference at the next general election, which is due to be held by May 2022, compared to 37 per cent for the coalition.
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describe('osdAuth', function () {
    var user, $http, $rootScope, OsdAuth, OsdAuthUser, OsdAuthConfig, CURRENT_USER;

    beforeEach(module('osdAuth'));

    beforeEach(inject(function (_$http_, $q, _$rootScope_, _OsdAuth_, _OsdAuthUser_, _OsdAuthConfig_, _CURRENT_USER_) {
        OsdAuth = _OsdAuth_;
        OsdAuthUser = _OsdAuthUser_;
        OsdAuthConfig = _OsdAuthConfig_;
        CURRENT_USER = _CURRENT_USER_;

        // Mock the $rootScope to catch events
        $rootScope = _$rootScope_;
        spyOn($rootScope, '$broadcast');
    }));

    beforeEach(function () {
        user = CURRENT_USER;

        $rootScope.$digest();
    });

    it('should return to logged in user', function () {
        expect(OsdAuthUser.getUser()).toBe(user);
    });

    it('should fire event when setting user', function () {
        OsdAuthUser.setUser(null);

        expect(OsdAuthUser.getUser()).toBe(null);
        expect($rootScope.$broadcast).toHaveBeenCalledWith('osdauth-user-updated');
    });

    it('should report authenticated state', function () {
        expect(OsdAuthUser.getUser()).toBe(user);
        expect(OsdAuthUser.isAuthenticated()).toBe(true);

        OsdAuthUser.setUser(null);

        expect(OsdAuthUser.getUser()).toBe(null);
        expect(OsdAuthUser.isAuthenticated()).toBe(false);
    });

    it('should output groups using key defined in config', function () {
        var userGroups = user.groups.map(function (group) {
            return group[OsdAuthConfig.config.groupKey];
        });

        expect(OsdAuthUser.getGroups()).toEqual(userGroups);
    });

    it('should check if the admin has access to anything', function () {
        expect(OsdAuthUser.isAuthorized()).toBe(true);
        expect(OsdAuthUser.isAuthorized('guest')).toBe(true);
        expect(OsdAuthUser.isAuthorized('admin')).toBe(true);
        expect(OsdAuthUser.isAuthorized('asdfasd')).toBe(true);
        expect(OsdAuthUser.isAuthorized(['asdasd', 'asdfasd'])).toBe(true);
    });

    it('should check if a user with no groups has access to things', function () {
        var temp = angular.copy(user);
        temp.groups = [];

        OsdAuthUser.setUser(temp);

        $rootScope.$digest();

        expect(OsdAuthUser.isAuthorized()).toBe(false);
        expect(OsdAuthUser.isAuthorized('guest')).toBe(false);
        expect(OsdAuthUser.isAuthorized('admin')).toBe(false);
        expect(OsdAuthUser.isAuthorized('asdfasd')).toBe(false);
        expect(OsdAuthUser.isAuthorized(['asdasd', 'asdfasd'])).toBe(false);
    });

    it('should check if a guest has access to things', function () {
        OsdAuthUser.setUser(null);

        $rootScope.$digest();

        expect(OsdAuthUser.isAuthorized()).toBe(false);
        expect(OsdAuthUser.isAuthorized('guest')).toBe(true);
        expect(OsdAuthUser.isAuthorized('admin')).toBe(false);
        expect(OsdAuthUser.isAuthorized('asdfasd')).toBe(false);
        expect(OsdAuthUser.isAuthorized(['asdasd', 'asdfasd'])).toBe(false);
    });
});

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Amazon derives many of its sales (around 40% in 2008) from third-party sellers who sell products on Amazon.[129] Associates receive a commission for referring customers to Amazon by placing links to Amazon on their websites if the referral results in a sale. Worldwide, Amazon has "over 900,000 members" in its affiliate programs.[130] In the middle of 2014, the Amazon Affiliate Program is used by 1.2% of all websites and it is the second most popular advertising network after Google Ads.[131] It is frequently used by websites and non-profits to provide a way for supporters to earn them a commission.[132] Amazon reported over 1.3 million sellers sold products through Amazon's websites in 2007. Unlike eBay, Amazon sellers do not have to maintain separate payment accounts; all payments are handled by Amazon.[citation needed]
As it stands today, Amazon employs more than half a million people, more so than any other technology company in the country and second only to Walmart in the US. But the eventual result of its investments in robotics and AI is that technology's biggest and fast-growing workforce could see that growth start to slow and, perhaps years down the line, even shrink as robots tackle ever more complicated tasks. In the process, the company may develop robots for use outside its fulfillment centers. Amazon has already changed how we shop and, by extension, how we live our lives. Its next big step could be changing how we work.
Fitness guru Billy Blanks entered American homes across the country when he introduced his Tae Bo workout. The creator of the martial art known as Tae Bo, Blanks sought to teach people how they could get more physically fit, be more confident, and do so from the comfort of their own home. The Tae Bo workout has revolutionized the way people get their exercise and provided millions of people access to an easy and effective martial art that they can learn through instructional videos.
Some workers, "pickers", who travel the building with a trolley and a handheld scanner "picking" customer orders can walk up to 15 miles during their workday and if they fall behind on their targets, they can be reprimanded. The handheld scanners give real-time information to the employee on how fast or slowly they are working; the scanners also serve to allow Team Leads and Area Managers to track the specific locations of employees and how much "idle time" they gain when not working.[183][184] In a German television report broadcast in February 2013, journalists Diana Löbl and Peter Onneken conducted a covert investigation at the distribution center of Amazon in the town of Bad Hersfeld in the German state of Hessen. The report highlights the behavior of some of the security guards, themselves being employed by a third party company, who apparently either had a neo-Nazi background or deliberately dressed in neo-Nazi apparel and who were intimidating foreign and temporary female workers at its distribution centers. The third party security company involved was delisted by Amazon as a business contact shortly after that report.[185][186][187][188][189]
Amazon, with its unfettered access to troves of valuable consumer and seller data, came upon a rather interesting business model around 2009, when it launched a private label division under the name AmazonBasics. It started first with the items the company noticed people most often purchased without thinking too hard about the brand name, like batteries and HDMI cables. But as The New York Times reported this past summer, this proved to be a way to fast track a fledgling product category into a massive money-making top seller — AmazonBasics' AA batteries now outsell Duracell and Energizer on Amazon.com after just a few years.
When it comes to which shopping holiday will save you more—Black Friday vs. Cyber Monday—for years, Black Friday dominated, a tried and true tradition for many deal-saavy families. However, as retailers have rolled out sales on Thanksgiving (and even earlier) and more people have gravitated to online shopping, Cyber Monday has become a big draw for those who want to forgo the early wake-up call and long lines, and shop from the comfort of their couch.
But Amazon has been testing its drones for years and performed the first public demo delivery in the US last year. Meanwhile, it continues to submit outlandish patents about its vision for the future of drone delivery, including one for a self-destructing drone that disassembles itself in an emergency and a delivery drone mothership of sorts that would act as a city's central hub for package-carrying UAVs.
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You already know you can save big on Amazon Prime Day 2018, but with these Amazon shopping hacks you can save even more. When you shop through RetailMeNot, you get $10 cash back on orders of $100 (or more) on Amazon. Another excellent way to save every day, not just Prime Day? Download the Honey app, which automatically searches and applies discount codes at check out and gives you points every time you shop online (once you accrue a certain number of points you can cash them in for a gift card).
Amazon.com's product lines available at its website include several media (books, DVDs, music CDs, videotapes and software), apparel, baby products, consumer electronics, beauty products, gourmet food, groceries, health and personal-care items, industrial & scientific supplies, kitchen items, jewelry, watches, lawn and garden items, musical instruments, sporting goods, tools, automotive items and toys & games.[citation needed]
In one brief keynote, the company announced a car infotainment device, yet more updates to the standard Echo speaker and Dot line, a subwoofer, a set of stereo amplifiers, a Chromecast Audio competitor, a smart wall clock, a smart plug, and a super-powered Slingbox-style device for over-the-air programming. Oh and lest we forget, Amazon also made a microwave with Alexa built in, using it as a model to start competing with companies like KitchenAid, LG, and Samsung by making Alexa the go-to voice assistant and AI hub for household appliances. In addition to building its own devices, the company also invests in startups through its Alexa Fund to scout new and promising entrants and product categories, and it's acquired quite a few of those companies — including security cam startup Blink and smart doorbell maker Ring — to ensure it has every corner of the smart home covered.
Shop according to product. Woroch urges shoppers to wait to buy winter apparel and accessories until closer to the holidays or in early January. "Toys are best to buy in the first two weeks of December, based on price histories," she says. "Gift wrap, decor, and other seasonal merchandise like pre-lit Christmas trees are a better buy after the holidays."
On January 22, 2018, Amazon Go, a store that uses cameras and sensors to detect items that a shopper grabs off shelves and automatically charges a shopper's Amazon account, was opened to the general public in Seattle.[54][55] Customers scan their Amazon Go app as they enter, and are required to have an Amazon Go app installed on their smartphone and a linked Amazon account to be able to enter.[54] The technology is meant to eliminate the need for checkout lines.[56][57][58] Amazon Go was initially opened for Amazon employees in December 2016.[59][60][61] In August 2018, the second Amazon Go store opened its doors.[62][63]
If your new dress doesn't fit right or a gadget arrives broken, Amazon accepts returns on most sales within 30 days of delivery. In general, third-party sellers offer the same policy, although you'll usually have to pay for return shipping to the seller unless the seller advertises free returns, whereas Amazon often provides a prepaid shipping label for its own returns. The cost of the return may be subtracted from the refund if the item was returned for some other reason than Amazon's mistake.
The Amazon sales rank (ASR) provides an indication of the popularity of a product sold on any Amazon locale. It is a relative indicator of popularity that is updated hourly. Effectively, it is a "best sellers list" for the millions of products stocked by Amazon.[134] While the ASR has no direct effect on the sales of a product, it is used by Amazon to determine which products to include in its bestsellers lists.[134] Products that appear in these lists enjoy additional exposure on the Amazon website and this may lead to an increase in sales. In particular, products that experience large jumps (up or down) in their sales ranks may be included within Amazon's lists of "movers and shakers"; such a listing provides additional exposure that might lead to an increase in sales.[135] For competitive reasons, Amazon does not release actual sales figures to the public. However, Amazon has now begun to release point of sale data via the Nielsen BookScan service to verified authors.[136] While the ASR has been the source of much speculation by publishers, manufacturers, and marketers, Amazon itself does not release the details of its sales rank calculation algorithm. Some companies have analyzed Amazon sales data to generate sales estimates based on the ASR,[137] though Amazon states:
I do not like the security of this apps. By default any one in my home can just open it up and start buying things on my account. I would like it to just add things to my cart on the TV and them buy on "My" Computer or "My" phone. I know you can setup a PIN for "videos, purchasing and certain types of content".But, you then need to enter the PIN for $0 videos. Also, anybody with access to the Fire TV remote can just install the apps and start buying things, no pin, no password, just because you have a Fire TV setup on your account. Amazon you need to have a separate PIN for Buying videos, parental control (ratings), Apps and Shopping. And by default the app should setup a PIN.
Cyber Monday generally means more retailer-wide discounts, rather than product-specific ones that pop up on Black Friday, says Novickis. But occasionally, the specific products that do get marked down on Cyber Monday are serious steals. "If a merchant stocked up on a product for Black Friday and then it didn't sell as well as expected, there could be a deeper discount on Cyber Monday," she says.


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"In the second edition of The U.S. Congress, Donald A. Ritchie, a congressional historian for more than thirty years, takes readers on a fascinating, behind-the-scenes tour of Capitol Hill, pointing out the key players, explaining their behavior, and translating parliamentary language into plain English. No mere civics lesson, this eye-opening book provides an insider's perspective on Congress, matched with a professional historian's analytical insight. After a swift survey of the creation of Congress by the constitutional convention, he begins to unscrew the nuts and pull out the bolts. What is it like to campaign for Congress? To attract large donors? To enter either house with no seniority? He answers these questions and more, explaining committee assignments and committee work, the role of staffers and lobbyists, floor proceedings, parliamentary rules, and coalition building. Ritchie explores the great effort put into constituent service-as representatives and senators respond to requests from groups and individuals-as well as media relations and news coverage. He also explores how the grand concepts we all know from civics class-checks and balances, advise and consent, congressional oversight-work in practice in an age of strong presidents and a muscular Senate minority."


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Starting or joining an investment club used to mean a lot of red tape, legal paperwork, and time-consuming meetings. Up until now, traditional brokerages avoided the investment club model at all costs because they weren't as profitable as their individual accounts. With the current state of the market and the rise in social media usage, we think it's time for change.
At Voleo we strive to make it easy to start and manage an investment clubs.
Two heads are almost always better than one. Nothing seems as intimidating when you're with a group of people you know and trust. That's the idea behind our social investment clubs. You have the freedom to create a club with people you're comfortable with, make group-based investment decisions, and watch your money grow together.
For those with minimal experience, investment jargon can sound foreign. Voleo provides a variety of resources - including our app features, social media, and blog - dedicated to demystifying stock investing, so all of our users can feel comfortable and informed when making investments.
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Elise Partridge's Hyper-Realism and Naming the Unknown
To read Elise Partridge's 2002 collection Fielder's Choice is to enter a highly-tuned world of memory and perception. The poems are precise, guided by observational skills and a lifetime's worth of knowledge that transform even distant memories of childhood into something much more certain and accessible than what many readers may experience when recalling their own childhoods. Similarly, Partridge's observations of nature are encyclopedic in their attention to detail and naming. The natural world that Partridge represents in these poems is not impressionistic, but is instead rendered scientific, knowable, able to be mastered. Even the collection's opening poem, "Everglades," which trains its attention on the submerged, fleeting things of the wetlands, ends with an appeal to the practice of naming: "A bird swaying on a coral bean / sang two notes that might have been 'Name me' " (ll. 14-15). Yet what I find most interesting about these lines is not the poet's knowledge, which extends to the coral bean, nor her desire to know the name of the bird, which she cleverly suggests is the bird's desire to be named, but rather the subtle anxiety she seems to experience when confronted with something that resists identification. It's as if these extraordinarily detailed, taxonomic poems carry within themselves an awareness that every experience contains an element of the unknown and the unknowable. Even the most observant poets must, in the final analysis, stand before a horizon beyond which they cannot see.
A good example of this tension between mastery over nature and the impossible horizon of knowledge comes in the collection's second poem, "Plague." Following immediately after "Everglades" and its explicit appeal to naming, "Plague" begins with a catalogue of medicinal herbs: "Heal-all, yarrow, alum root, / sweet annie, angelica, hazel shoots" (ll. 1-2). To this list are added "Lemon verbena, spearmint beds, / feverfew blooms nodding heads," "a spray of Solomon's seal," and "magenta balm, white chamomile" (ll. 7-8, 18, and 26). In all, Partridge names nineteen specific plant species, telling us that they are "herbs renowned for healing power" (l. 6). The herbs' medicinal properties compliment the poem's title, which emphasizes illness and suffering, and the poet's ability to recognize each plant species—even if only by their common names—suggests that she knows something about how to use them against the plague. And she does indeed understand the practical use of at least one of the plants, as she makes clear when she writes: "Medicinal ferns were brewed for tea / to soothe sore throats, cure pleurisy" (ll. 29-30). The impression this encyclopedic approach gives is of a poet who moves through the natural world as an omniscient observer. She knows the names of every plant she sees, and she knows how to transform these wild things into wholesome teas, medicines, and cures.
But "Plague" is not a poem about what ails the human body, for the poet's attention is drawn to a mass of caterpillars as they crawl through this abundance of medicinal herbs, their jaws hard at work consuming lambs-ears, red root, and jewelweed. Driven by hunger and eating everything in sight, the caterpillars occupy a menacing place in the poem, yet the care with which Partridge observes their eating renders them beautiful:
Two pinks caught my eye. I bent down.
Caterpillars were going to town
on a faltering stem, bodies slung
underneath like sloths'. The feet clung;
the heads chewed. Four gnashed a meal
under a spray of Solomon's seal
whose white drops quivered. Paired prongs,
the front legs worked like icemen's tongs
curving to stab. Rear-guard pylons,
flat-soled, gray, dutiful cousins,
helped shiver along the elegant back,
blue-and-red pustules edged with black. (ll. 13-24)
How are we meant to feel about these creatures as they consume a landscape full of life-giving herbs? One way to read the caterpillars is as the very plague the title references, a plague with the potential to destroy the plants altogether. Partridge makes this point clear when, at the poem's conclusion, she anticipates their metamorphosis into fully-developed butterflies who will "alight on fewer, finer legs / and discharge an arsenal of eggs" (ll. 49-50). The implication is that this spray of eggs—figured here as "an arsenal"—will spell ruin for the herbs that are catalogued throughout the poem. They will multiply the number of larva, which will in turn eat their fill until the landscape is left barren. And yet, for all the potential destruction the eggs represent, the caterpillars are doing exactly what they evolved to do. They consume the herbs, and in so doing, they transform themselves into butterflies. There is great mystery and beauty in this process, and the fact that the garden itself is an integral part of the metamorphosis serves to complicate the disgust one may feel toward the poem's "plague."
The extent of Partridge's ambivalence toward the caterpillars is thrown into relief by "Phoenixville Farm," the poem that follows directly after "Plague" in Fielder's Choice. Partridge uses "Phoenixville Farm" to align her sympathies with one side of a starkly-drawn contrast between the artificiality of the subdivision where she grew up and the more rustic, natural setting of her friend Anne's farm. Her sympathies are clearly with the farm over and against the controlled, disciplined, and supremely boring subdivision where "the change of seasons was marked by switching off / or on the central AC's monotone thrum" (ll. 17-18). The farm provides her with access to a much more diverse and exciting environment, where the presence of foxes, hornets, spiders, bats, raccoons, and other critters stir within her a desire to escape the constraints of suburban life. When her parents come to pick her up after a sleepover at Anne's farm, Partridge imagines herself undergoing the very sort of metamorphosis that threatens the medicinal herbs in "Plague":
Some day, some day---we'd each spin sleeping bags,
doze for six weeks, thrust, gnaw, unkink striped wings,
try out our newborn feelers, lurch to Anne's farm,
bathe in dust puddles, lay eggs, and worship weeds. (ll. 50-53)
This closing metaphor bears a striking resemblance to the metamorphosis described in "Plague." Not only does Partridge figure her escape from the suburbs as a transition from larva to pupa to imago, but one of the central acts she will commit after emerging from her chrysalis is to follow the example of the butterflies in "Plague" and deposit her eggs among the weeds. Her desire for liberation is very much tied up in questions of seasonality, transformation, renewal, and reproduction, all of which are given a positive gloss within the context of the poem. Yet read alongside "Plague," the metaphor that concludes "Phoenixville Farm" unsettles any easy interpretation of the "arsenal of eggs" that the former poem's butterflies will discharge throughout the herbs. If the caterpillars are symbols of destruction in "Plague," they represent the potential for freedom in "Phoenixville Farm," and it is in the contradiction between the way these two poems represent metamorphosis that the horizon of Partridge's knowledge appears.
The plants and animals that demand so much attention in "Plague" and "Phoenixville Farm" may be named and described, their life cycles and practical uses understood, but the larger questions of interdependence, metamorphosis, liberation, death, and beauty are left unanswered, perhaps because they are unanswerable. And perhaps this is the point of Partridge's hyper-realistic poetics. By training her eye on the fine details of her surroundings, and then expressing those details with clinical precision, Partridge exhausts the mundane and positions her readers before the ineffable. It's almost as if every meticulous description—every act of naming—moves us one step closer to what can never be ultimately known. And it is the stubborn presence of the unknown that makes her poems worth returning to. Like the bird that cries, "Name me," at the conclusion of "Everglades," Partridge invites us to name the unknown in her poems, knowing full well that no mastery and no knowledge will ever empower us to do so with finality. Yet the attempt yields its rewards, training our attention as it does on those qualities of being that transcend certainty and give rise to what must always be rediscovered anew.
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This collection contains one dummy and one piece of preliminary artwork for If I Were Captain, written by Louise Lee and illustrated by Richard Floethe. If I Were Captain was the first book on which the couple collaborated and was chosen as a Junior Literary Guild Selection.
[Description and date of item], [Box and folder number], Louise Lee and Richard Floethe papers, 1956, Free Library of Philadelphia, Children's Literature Research Collection.
Biography/History
Richard Floethe was born in Essen, Germany on September 2, 1901. He studied art at various schools in Germany, including the Munich State School, the Dortmund Art School, and the Bauhaus in Weimar. After completing a mural for the International Exposition in Cologne, Germany he immigrated to the United States in 1928. Once in America he worked as an industrial designer, book illustrator, and from 1936-1939, as the art director of the New York City poster division of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) art projects. Floethe later taught at The Cooper Union in New York City and at the Ringling School of Art in Sarasota, Florida.
Louise Lee was born on March 13, 1913 in New York City. She studied drama at Columbia University and the Neighborhood Playhouse Studios. Louise and Richard married in 1937, at which time she was already an accomplished children's author. After their marriage they began to collaborate on children's books, publishing their first book together, If I Were Captain, in 1956. If I Were Captain was chosen as a Junior Literary Guild Selection. They traveled around the world and often went sailing in their yacht. These experiences heavily influenced their work, which often explored different cultures and maritime activities. Richard designed or illustrated over a hundred books, including twenty-three written by Louise.
Richard won the limited Editions Club International Contest for best illustrated books for Tyl Ulenspiegl (1935) and for Pinocchio (1938). He also won the Limited Edition Club, American Institute Graphic Arts award for English is Our Language (1950). As their son Ronald began to make educational films, Louise wrote the film scripts and assisted with editing. She won the Birmingham Educational Film Festival award and the Golden Babe award from the Chicagoland Film Festival, both for "The Beekeeper" (1976). Louise Floethe died on August 6 and Richard Floethe on September 30, 1988, in Sarasota, Florida.
Falk, Peter Hastings. Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: 400 years of Artists in America. Madison, CT: Sound View Press, 1999.
"Louise Lee Floethe (1913-1988)," Contemporary Authors.
"Richard Floethe," RichardFloethe.com, accessed January 5, 2012, http://www.richardfloethe.com/About_Artist.html.
"Richard Floethe (1901-1988)," Contemporary Authors.
This collection contains a dummy and one piece of preliminary artwork for Louise and Richard Floethe's book If I Were Captain.
It is housed in the same box as the Marcia Brown papers, the Emma L. Brock notes and illustrations, and the Joseph Rous Paget-Fredericks dummy.
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The DTI sponsored Foresight Study published on the 22nd April 04 took on board the likely consequences of continuing lack of investment in coast defences. CCAG has, for some years, been raising awareness of the abject folly of this Government's do nothing approach to coast defence.
I now feel totally vindicated in pointing out to Elliot Morley and his department the huge disservice they are doing to this nation in coast defence terms. Their lack of judgement, foresight and policy (including their instrument for exclusion – cost benefit and point score) will ultimately cost us the taxpayers many many millions of pounds more than it need or should. Indeed I would contend that the current DEFRA stance is irresponsible in the extreme.
It does rather beg the question: Is it Ministers ignoring sound Civil Service advice or is it the Civil Service ignoring the needs and requirements of the people and giving their Ministers seriously flawed advice? Either way they are both culpable jointly or severally!
They are quite simply derelict in their duty of care and protection of the people. Particularly whilst in the full knowledge of the likely effects of global warming, its effect on weather patterns and glacal rebound; the combined effects of which, according to the experts, will raise sea levels in the south east by some 5-6mm per annum. So by 2024 we can expect a sea level some 100-120mm higher than we currently enjoy.
I am told the effect of this rise on wave height and intensity could be disasterous. Yet we have a Government department, DEFRA, burying their head in the sand of criteria. Their only answer seems to be to comission a report and then another report then reports on reports all of which costs huge amounts of OUR money. Money which would be much better spent actually doing something constructive rather than just covering their backsides.
There will shortly be a new Shoreline Management Plan (SMP) for this area. I am willing to bet it will be pages and pages long, have cost many thousands of pounds to produce, will use all the latest buzz words ie. Sustainable, Sustainability, Natural Equilibrium,Holistic etc. whilst recommending precious little be done. Then the Minister whoever he or she may be can continue to do nothing and point the finger of blame at the SMP.
In my letter to Elliot Morley of the 23rd November 2003 and in previous postings on this site I have spoken of the financial and economic consequences of spending too little on coast defences in the short term. Every day nothing is done so the problem gets worse and becomes more difficult and expensive to address.
There can be no sound economic justification for not building some defences now. Delaying the solution will cost the taxpayer infinately more.
It seems to me that Ministers and civil servants alike seem to forget that they work for us not us them and as taxpayers we require a more cost effective and sensible approach in the way in which they spend OUR money.


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People attend a meeting on Saturday where Sen. Dick Durbin, Rep. Luis Gutierrez and a delegation of elected officials from Mexico discussed citizenship initiatives. (CBS)
CHICAGO (CBS) — Congressman Luis Gutierrez, Senator Dick Durbin and a delegation of elected officials from Mexico met in The Loop Saturday to discuss efforts to encourage U.S. citizenship for eligible Mexican nationals.
WBBM's Mike Krauser reports.
Sen. Durbin told the delegation at the Union League Club that when he travels outside America, people ask him about President Donald Trump's effect on America. He said he usually mentions some of the troubling policies his administration has implemented that redefine criminal activity.
"When it reaches this level, it's not about security and safety. We know what it's about, it is about deportation," he said.
Deputy Secretary of Foreign Affairs Carlos Sada Solana, Zacatecas Governor-elect Alejandro Tello and Sen. Armando Ríos Piter led the delegation that included more than a dozen federal and state officials from Mexican political parties. Congressman Gutierrez addressed the group mostly in Spanish, but did have some words to say in English.
"Together as a community, we're going to defeat this ugly xenophobia," he said.
The Mexican delegation is currently planning a major initiative to promote U.S. citizenship for eligible Mexican nationals living in America.


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1974 (busing).
The four decades since 1974 have washed away memories of a year that most wanted to forget even then. Still, 1974 was a monumental year not just in America's history, but in Boston's, and it should not be forgotten, ever.
It was a year when the fabric of society was strained to its tearing point.
1974 was the year that the city was compelled by federal district judge W. Arthur Garrity Jr. to implement busing. It hit the city like a ton of bricks.
It is very hard today to recall the anger, fear and violence that busing brought, deep and pervasive though they were at the time. Adults stood out daily to protest the arrival of children at school. Motorcycle convoys of police escorted buses every morning. Racial tensions ran very high.
The ruling found its origins in a 1960s-era Massachusetts law that ordered the state's schools to desegregate or risk losing state funding. Then, in 1972, a group of black parents filed suit claiming that Boston's school system was unconstitutionally segregated.
"Just hours after Boston's schools had closed for the summer on June 21, Judge Garrity issued the historic ruling that had taken him a year to decide. The Boston School Committee had, he said, 'knowingly carried out a systematic program of segregation affecting all of the city's students, teachers, and school facilities and [had] intentionally brought about and maintained a dual school system,'" reported a 2000 Harvard study on the busing crisis.
"He knew there was going to be a lot of opposition," Brian LeClair, Garrity's law clerk at the time of the ruling, said in a Boston Globe interview earlier this year.
The impacts of Judge Garrity's ruling were immediately felt.
Eight-year-old Michael Patrick McDonald had his own perspective on this. As a white kid living with his mother in the Old Colony housing project in South Boston, he had a ringside seat to the turmoil he saw in his neighborhood. In 1999 he sat down to write an account of the times in his book All Souls.
When the motorcade had passed, everyone lingered on street corners in the project talking about "forced busing." It was going to begin in the fall, they said. They all seemed to know it was going to happen, but win or lose, everyone believed in going down fighting. I saw neighbors talking, people I knew had grudges against each other before. In the following days, I even saw people who were from different parts of Southie getting over their differences to talk about the busing. Mothers from City Point talking on Broadway to mothers from the projects. I couldn't believe it. The whole feeling in the neighborhood was changing. Before long, we kids could cross any turf line. We were united. Some said it was the communists who were making this happen. Still others said it was rich lawyers, judges, and politicians from the suburbs, and that it had nothing to do with the blacks, that they didn't want to come to Southie any more than we wanted to go to Roxbury. In the end it didn't really matter who we were united against, as long as we kept up our Southie loyalty.
To comply with Garrity's order, Boston decided to start by integrating the predominantly black Roxbury with the almost entirely white and equally poor South Boston. From today's vantage point, it's hard to image two neighborhoods less likely to integrate successfully. Furthermore, it has been asserted that they were two of the worst performing schools in the district, so what benefit would be derived from conflating them was unclear. The anger that emerged in the largely Irish working-class South Boston swelled and the mix proved toxic. McDonald remembered this.
Some of the neighbors raged against "the niggers" more than ever before. But others were starting to talk about how this wasn't about race. That it was about poor people being told that they have to things that rich people don't have to do. Our mothers couldn't get over people thinking that we had something in our schools that blacks in Roxbury didn't have. "Our kids have just as little," they said. "Neither side has a pot to piss in and now they want us to fight over who can piss in what alley." I couldn't believe that there were people who were now willing to admit they were poor. I'd never heard that one before in Southie, especially not in the project. We weren't poor; that was a black thing, being poor. But the ones who talk about us being poor were few and far between, and it wasn't long before the talk became all "niggers this" and "niggers that."
Class, race, ethnic tribalism, poverty, a sense of disenfranchisement all fueled the anger and the public reaction that overtook the city. Some neighborhood politicians like Louise Day Hicks exploited it. Boston, the enlightened City on a Hill, was embroiled in one of the ugliest chapters in its history. To manage the crisis, Garrity appointed "masters" to shepherd through the desegregation plan. One, Charles Willie from Harvard, noted that unlike the civil rights struggle in the South which was all-encompassing and built its own momentum, Boston's struggles were more isolated from the larger surrounding social context and this isolation allowed a continuous resistance to fester.
Regardless, from day one things didn't go well. According to the Harvard report,
"On September 12, 1974, school buses set out to pick up 20,000 children—out of a total of 87,000 students then enrolled in the Boston Public Schools—for journeys ranging from several blocks to several miles. But many buses pulled up to their assigned schools with only a few students, or none at all. Only 124 of an expected 1,300 students, for instance, showed up at South Boston High School for the first day of school. Of those 124 students, 56 were black and had come to desegregate the previously all-white institution."
Garrity tried to get the universities to become more active partners on the theory that both white working-class parents and African-American parents would feel greater confidence in the desegregation efforts if the many institutions of higher-ed took a more active role in the schools. Boston University president John Silber stepped up immediately, pledging the support of BU in the effort. Harvard was more ambivalent about getting involved and assigned it to a graduate student at the Ed School, according to the Harvard report.
Court ordered desegregation efforts continued until 1999, when a group of white parents filed suit to have it ended. Nevertheless, its impacts are wide-felt. The effort was a wrenching one that showed the ugly side of the civic personality of the city. At the same time, it was a genuine and brave effort to undo a pervasive pattern of discrimination. Our school systems have not succeeded in closing the gaps in student performance, with race as an unfortunately accurate predictor. Nevertheless, we are a much more multi-cultural society than we were and the neighborhood and ethnic boundaries that used to define and constrain us have almost entirely disappeared after so many trips through the wash cycle. Though race has by no means vanished from the conversation, income and education differentials play an equally pervasive role as skin color.
Why did I write about the busing crisis? The story revealed a time that is no longer with us in a place that still very much is. In that way, the searing and painful drama etches out what has changed about us, and what hasn't. More than that, as I reflected on the era, I realized that 1974 was a year in the history of this city when the foundational pillars of society shook. In addition to the busing crisis, in that year the Massachusetts Supreme Judical Court ruled the state's obscenity laws unconstitutional. The Boston Redevelopment Authority was laying the groundwork for an area that became known as that Combat Zone,
And of course, forty years ago tomorrow, Richard Nixon resigned the presidency of the United States.
The filter of time allows us to see the past through a gauze that reveals the outlines, but obscures the specifics. Photographs pull the gauze away, showing it all in an unblinking black and white. People and places emerge from the past in unnerving, familiar detail.
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Bernadette Beauvais annonce ne pas vouloir être députée, préférant la fonction de maire d'Étrépilly, mais le devient néanmoins brièvement. Elle démissionne de son mandat de députée le 25 août 2021.

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This book was fantastic and it will definitely influence some decisions that are made for Lontananza, now and in the future. These are just my Kindle highlights, so hopefully they have enough context to make sense, if not just ask me in the comments and I'll be happy to fill you in!
I was starting to feel a bit overwhelmed this week by the number of things that need to get done and I was just so grateful for the process I've been able to create for myself to keep things organized and keep myself from not doing anything because of all that there is to do haha. That's why I decided to write a blog about organization and prioritization because, without it, this would drive me crazy! The important thing is to always be moving forward and sticking to what's important.
Day One On The Field!
Today (day 4 in this adventure) was exciting! I decided to get myself out there and out of my books and research to make sure I didn't get 'analysis paralysis.' I definitely wasn't ready yet of had a fully thought out plan to sound smart in front of others but I'm so glad I pushed myself to go and talk to others!
Hi everyone, my name is Adelaida Diaz-Roa, and I will be running the Lontananza Foundation. While writing may not be one of my strengths, I will try my best to share with you the who, why, and what behind this blog and the foundation.


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The Council of Elders, a newly organized, independent group of leaders from many of the defining American social justice movements of the 20th century, declared today that we stand in basic solidarity with the national Occupy Wall Street movement and the committed young people who give guidance to this important quest for justice in the 21st century. We wish to explore every possible, helpful way in which we can connect together the continuing flame of the justice and democratizing movements of the 20th century with the powerful light of the emerging movements of the present time, reflected in the Occupy Wall Street initiatives.
As veterans of the Civil Rights, Women's, Peace, Environmental, LGBTQ, Immigrant Justice, labor rights and other movements of the last 60 years we are convinced that Occupy Wall Street is a continuation, a deepening and expansion of the determination of the diverse peoples of our nation to transform our country into a more democratic, just and compassionate society—a more perfect union. We believe that the rapidly expanding and racialized impoverishment of our population, the rise of mass incarceration, the celebration of the culture of war and violence all create the bitter divisions among the peoples of our nation and throughout the world. Indeed, we believe such developments among us ultimately diminish the quality of life for all humanity, beginning with our own children who watch as we lower the priority for their care and education.
We applaud the miraculous extent to which the Occupy initiative has been non-violent and democratic, especially in light of the weight of violence under which the great majority of people are forced to live, including joblessness, foreclosures, unemployment, poverty, inadequate health care, etc. Among the Council of Elders, we place the highest value on the role of compassion and non-violent action in our personal and organizational lives. From that hard-won grounding in the humanizing movements of the 20th century we seek to support and join with Occupy Wall Street in contributing to the dreams and visions of many in this nation for a beloved community, a multi-generational, multi-racial, compassionate, democratic society with equality, liberty and justice for all—always searching for partners in the creation of a more peaceful, sustainable world, a world with living, loving and growing space for all of our children.
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Teen of the Week: Thomas Dean Simmons
When he was 5, Thomas Dean Simmons was diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome. But with a strong support system, Simmons learned early that his differences weren't a hindrance but a strength.
Video game technology has always been a passion of the McCracken County High School senior and was encouraged by his family, especially his late mother, Surrisa Simmons, who died during his junior year.
"When I was very little, my mom gave me a game and I always liked to play games," Simmons said.
"I've always thought gaming was a way to help me learn about technology, so I've always taken a special interest in how video games were made."
His talent and passion led him to compete at the state level in Action Skills at SkillsUSA, a career and technical student organization, during his sophomore, junior and senior years. He placed at regional, state and national levels, including eighth in the country by demonstrating his favorite skill -- playing video games.
Simmons, the son of Shaun Simmons, is the Paducah Bank Teen of the Week.
Each week in the online edition and Tuesday in the print edition, The Sun features a teen selected from nominees submitted by guidance counselors throughout the region.
Near the end of the school year, one of the students profiled will be named Teen of the Year and will receive a $5,000 scholarship. An additional student will be chosen for an Inspiration Award and receive a $1,000 scholarship.
Simmons is a four-year member of McCracken's gaming club, and he has recently taken on a leadership role within the group. He is a current member of the National Honor Society with a nearly perfect grade-point average and is a member of Heartland Baptist Church, where he serves within the puppet ministry and Connect Ministry, serving children, youth and adults with mental and physical disabilities.
In June 2017, Simmons had the opportunity to complete a virtual reality social cognition training program at the University of Texas in Dallas, an experience he described as extremely beneficial in managing his autism.
Simmons' grandmother, Sandy Sams, said the training served as a promising and motivating platform on which to safely practice and rehearse social skills for children with Autism Spectrum Disorders.
"It really helped him with communication," Sams said. "Because Thomas Dean, with Asperger's, sometimes has a hard time expressing his thoughts and his feelings. But the training really helped."
Sams spoke of Simmons' talent for video games, noting he has been playing -- and beating -- video games since he was just 18 months old.
"It was just something that he was comfortable with and as he got older, he just got better at them," she said.
"He'll get a new game and within a day, he has won all of it and is ready for a new one. We felt like that was the training he needed to go into also."
After Simmons' mother passed away, Sams said she began looking for places that trained individuals in video game technology.
"I found one that's in Plano, Texas, and it's called nonPareil Institute," she said. "It's a technology training center, but it's for individuals that are on the autism spectrum."
Sams said she and her family were hesitant to send Simmons so far away, but were pleasantly surprised when they discovered that another location would be opening this year in Orlando, Florida, just 45 minutes away from relatives.
"We feel like this is a God-answered prayer for us," she said.
In eight years, nonPareil has grown to serve more than 200 adults with autism within two training sites. Those training and working at nonPareil have built market competitive products, while also gaining the skills to become more independent, self-sufficient, and contributing members of the community.
Aside from video games, Simmons has in the past shown talent in tumbling on a competitive level, as well as at home football games and pep rallies. He has gone on to win United States Tumbling Association awards at the local, state and national levels for tumbling, trampoline and double mini. He placed top 10 in the nation in power tumbling and was a member of Mat Katz Power Tumbling Team at Lakewood Gymnastics for nine years before pursuing other interests.
"I think his tumbling really gave him a lot of confidence that he could do anything he set his mind to," Sams said. "I think we will see Thomas Dean's name on some video games one day that he has developed because that's his passion."
Simmons credited his mother as being his number one supporter.
"She was the greatest mom," he said. "I do miss her a lot, we all miss her, and every time I saw her helping kids, it gave me inspiration to help others, too."
He said he is grateful for his family and their support.
"I've always been told that Asperger's is not a disability, but that I was made this way, and all people are different," he said. "I just see the world as black and white, and I've learned to use that to my advantage."
By: Emily Smith


Gongura chutney or pickle is a very popular Andhra dish.this suits excellent with plain white rice.You can keep this chutney for 3-4 days without refrigeration.Gongura leaves are rich in fiber and vitamins.Gongura leaves contain beta carotene (vitamin A), lutein, and zeaxanthin which are powerful antioxidants that destroy free radicals (that damage and weaken our body cells), and help protect our bodies from cancer. Beta carotene strenghtens the immune system, while lutein and zeaxanthin prevent degenerative eye diseases like cataract.
Heat 2 tsp oil in a wok,add onion ,garlic and green chillies saute for 1-2 minutes.
Then add the roughly chopped tomatoes and saute till it turn soft but not mushy.
After that add gongura leaves fry for a minute and turn of the stove and allow to cool completely and grind it along with enough salt to a little coarse paste using very little amount of water .
then heat oil+sesame oil in the same wok and add the tempering ingredients and allow to splutter n fry lighty, then add the gongura paste and cook in low medium heat without covering.
Let the mixture boil and cook thoroughly till the moisture absorbs completely and oil shows on top.
After that Gongura chutney/Thuvaiyal is ready to have with plain rice.
Once it get completely cooled store it a air tight container .
Love this chutney,havent had since a long...mouthwatering..
Made this yesterday. Hubby's favorite. love the green of the chutney.
This is one of my fav thuvaiyals...This is very tasty and healthy too!
I love gongura thuvaiyal, yours look fantastic.
WOW..you are so tempting me sangeetha..I love this tuvaiyal...we get this gongura thokku from grand sweets and it's so irresistible. Have to look out for these leaves here.
One of most favorite chutneys - looks amazing!
Really an awesome dish !!!


Making a full, powerful turn in the backswing is easy once you know how. We've never met a golfer, of any age, who couldn't learn very quickly how to make a full shoulder turn using this drill.
Once again, apologies to the lefties out there, but for simplicity these instructions are given for a right-handed golfer.
First of all, let's make it clear what we mean by a full shoulder turn. Most amateurs don't understand it, it's often not well taught, and this misunderstanding has ruined many golf swings.
The term "shoulder turn" is misleading. You can easily make what looks like a full turn by pushing your left shoulder under your chin and lifting your right shoulder behind your head. That's a full shoulder turn, isn't it?
Maybe, but it's far from what you need to make a great golf swing. Pulling your shoulders out of posture this way might make it feel like you're getting plenty of coil, but you're "disconnecting" your arms from the powerful muscles in your core, making it impossible to efficiently transfer energy up the kinetic chain to the golf club. This will force you to try and "muscle" the golf club with your upper body. The result will be a weak, "armsy" golf swing that lacks power and consistency.
Another very misleading concept that is taught to amateurs is "turning your shoulders perpendicular to your spine". Well, your spine isn't straight, even when you're in the perfect "straight back" posture, far from it. Your spine has several curves in it (see Golf Swing 103 – Setup: The Perfect Golf Spine Angle), and these curves must be positioned correctly to provide the required mobility for a stable, efficient and powerful turn. What's more, although we use the concept of rotating around the axis of your spine, the curves in your spine will actually change during the golf swing, as we'll see in later articles.
So, which part of your spine are you supposed to turn your shoulders perpendicular to? Many instructors simply draw a line through the shoulders, and another through the back at an arbitrary angle that isn't directly related to any of the spine's many angles, angles that are changing as the spine twists during the golf swing. They don't teach you (they probably don't know) how to actually move your spine for a more effective golf swing. Using the spine correctly is crucial for a great golf swing, but it's rarely, if ever, taught — it's one of those things that great golfers do "instinctively" that sets them apart. In this section, together with the transition and downswing sections, we'll teach you how to use your spine correctly, and it will transform your golf swing forever.
What you really need to do is to make a full chest turn, turning your whole upper torso a full 90 degrees so that your back faces the target, and your sternum faces directly away from the target. When done correctly, this will create a high degree of separation (the "X-factor") between your hips and your shoulders, stretching the large, powerful muscles of your core, generating lag and putting you in the correct position to execute a fantastic transition and downswing sequence. And, as you're about to learn, you can do this easily while still keeping your shoulders in good posture, enabling the efficient transfer of energy from the core to the golf club.
We'll stick with the term "shoulder turn", because it's in common use, but when you see this you should think "turn your back to the target with separation".
As you'll see in this drill, there is some independent movement of the shoulders, specifically right side scapular retraction (right shoulder blade pull), but both shoulders stay firmly connected to your core. Other shoulder movements will be discussed as you learn how to correctly move your arms later in this section.
We'll see later in this section that a proper turn makes the backswing much simpler and easier to learn.
In the downswing section, those of you who are used to turning mostly with your shoulders, disconnecting them from your core, will soon find that a great golf swing feels effortless to you, as you stop "muscling" the golf club with your upper body and start letting the energy from your core flow into the golf club.
The vast majority of amateurs don't make a proper full turn in the backswing. They don't get their body in the correct position to use the full power of the large muscles in their core, and they're then unable to initiate the proper transition and downswing sequence for power, accuracy and consistency.
Those who think they're too inflexible to make a full turn. Perhaps that's what they've been taught to believe. Well, as we stated at the top, we've never met a golfer who couldn't learn how to make a full turn, and we've worked with thousands of golfers, aged from 6 to 96.
Those who think they're making a full turn, but all they're doing is moving their shoulders independently from their chest, pulling and lifting them out of posture, as they swing their arms around their body. You can see in Figure 1 that the golfer has made a full "shoulder turn", bit you can still clearly see the buttons on his shirt — his chest has only turned about 70 degrees.
Those who are making a full turn, but they're turning their hips much too far in order to do it — see Figure 2. They're not creating the separation needed for an effective transition sequence, and for using the powerful muscles of their core properly.
Better golfers who turn their back to the target while generating plenty of separation, but swing their arms too far and become disconnected because they lose shoulder posture.
Figure 1. Full shoulder turn mistake — Pushing with the left shoulder, and lifting shoulders out of posture.
Figure 2. Full shoulder turn mistake — Turning the hips too far.
All of these faults are usually caused by golfers being taught to turn their left shoulder under their chin, but not being told how to do that properly. They end up reaching across with their left arm, lifting their shoulders and pulling them out of posture. Unless you're very flexible, it's really hard to make a full turn that way, and it creates a "disconnection" between your arms and your core that causes numerous problems and leads to inconsistency.
All of these golfers are losing power, accuracy and consistency. This drill, together with the rest of this section, will quickly fix all of these problems and give you a tour-calibre backswing.
This drill is performed while standing upright, which will help you to gain the required muscle control and proprioception for a great backswing more quickly, by isolating the scapular retraction (right shoulder blade pull) part of the movement.
The drill assumes that you have been working through the setup and takeaway sections of the Swing like a Champion system, and that you are familiar with the golf mobility exercises.
Figure 3. Making a full shoulder turn drill.
Stand upright, in good posture, with your feet parallel and the perfect stance width apart, your knees soft, just slightly bent.
Make sure that your core muscles are activated.
Balance your weight evenly between the insides of your ankles.
Cross your arms over your chest, the left on top of the right, your fingertips resting on the front of your shoulders.
Keeping your shoulders back and down, in perfect posture, turn your chest 45 degrees to the right by pulling the right side of your upper body behind you, using your obliques, rotating your torso around the your spine.
Keep your hips still as you turn to 45 degrees, as you practised in Golf Swing Drill 203 – Core Disassociation.
Now pull with your right shoulder blade, pulling it in and slightly down, towards your spine (scapular retraction).
Keep both shoulders in good posture, firmly depressed, and don't shift your weight, tilt your spine, or move your spine away from centre as your chest rotates around it. Your spine is a fixed axis of rotation throughout.
As your chest is pulled around, your hips and pelvis will be pulled around with it. Try to move your hips as late and as little as possible, while not restricting your 90 degree turn, resisting the turn of your lower body with your right hip and your abdominal muscles.
Keep pulling until your back is facing the target.
Pause, check your position, and return to the start position.
At first, perform this drill in slow motion, in two distinct parts — first an oblique pull to 45 degrees with silent hips, followed by a shoulder blade pull with pelvic rotation ("hip turn") to 90 degrees.
It is crucial that you stand in perfect posture, standing tall with your core activated, your tailbone dropped, and your shoulders connected, as described in Golf Swing Drill 101 – Setup: Perfect Posture and Connecting to Your Core. This will help you to turn properly, by putting your spine in the correct position.
You should feel as if your hips are passive, you are not trying to turn your pelvis, it is being "collected" and pulled around by your turning torso.
The feeling is that your hips and pelvis stay quiet as you begin the turn with your obliques, then they are pulled around a little as you start to pull with your right shoulder blade, then they reach the limit of their motion and resist as you continue to pull deep with your shoulder blade.
There is absolutely no need to lift your left heel off the ground in order to make a full turn.
You may find that you can turn more than 90 degrees, but don't do that by turning your hips more than 45 degrees — the separation between your hips and shoulders is crucial. If you have above-average flexibility (this can be improved with our golf-specific mobility exercises), then you should be able to turn your shoulders by 110 degrees or more with only 45 degrees of pelvic rotation ("hip turn"), which is great, but a proper 90 degree turn with good separation (45 degrees or less of pelvic rotation) is good enough for a great golf swing.
As you gain confidence, try to blend the two parts of the movement into one fluid turn, but make sure that your hips stay fairly still until your chest has turned 45 degrees. This is difficult at first, like patting your head while rubbing your tummy. With a little practice, your muscle control and proprioception will improve and you'll be able to do it without thinking.
If, when you blend the moves together, your hips start to move just slightly before your shoulders reach 45 degrees, that's fine. Your hips should begin to move smoothly, and not be jerked into action. Try to move your hips as late and as little as possible, resisting the turn with your right hip and your abdominal muscles. As you improve, however, you should be able to move correctly without feeling too much tension in your hips — too much tension will lead to not completing your turn, and getting "too quick" as you fire too early at the top. It's well worth putting in the time to work on your muscle control until you can get this move perfect without thinking about it.
At the end of the turn, you should feel a powerful coil in your middle and upper back as your right shoulder blade pulls hard and deep. Your breath will be a little restricted (because of the coil in your abdominal muscles). It won't be particularly comfortable, but you shouldn't have so much coil that you couldn't hold the full turn position for several seconds. The real power of the coil will be generated in the transition.
You should have no sense of swaying or shifting your weight as you turn.
Your left knee will bend a little more to enable your pelvic rotation ("hip turn"), but it should not turn inwards – it should remain pointing forwards, to the left of the golf ball.
Make sure that you maintain the slight flex in your right knee. It should feel like your right knee stays completely still, pointing forwards, though it will move a little as your hips rotate. Keep your hips level.
Once you can turn your back to the target in one fluid motion, increase the speed of your turn gradually.
When you pull with your right shoulder blade (scapula), try to feel like you have a handle attached to your shoulder blade, and that you are pulling that handle towards your spine, in and slightly down, causing your upper body to rotate around your spine. Your right shoulder is pulled behind your body as you turn, but you're not pulling your shoulder blade backwards, you're pulling it in and down, towards the middle of your spine.
You will feel this right shoulder blade pull (scapular retraction) mostly in your lats, which will engage as your trapezius and rhomboids pull your scapula in and slightly down.
Later, when you perform the right shoulder blade pull with flexed shoulders, raising your arms in front of your chest, the muscles of the rotator cuff will also play a part. These include the teres minor, supraspinatus and infraspinatus.
The multifidi are also involved in rotating and stabilising your lower spinal column (lumbar spine) as you turn.
The actual turn is still performed mostly by your obliques, but it's helped by the increased engagement of the large muscles in your back.
As you approach the limit of your motion, you should also be able to feel your thoracic spine extending (your middle and upper back straightening), as you pull hard with your right shoulder blade, thus further increasing your range of motion and storing energy in your back that you will use in the downswing. For more information on this, and for some exercises that will improve your muscle control and the quality of your turn, see Fitness 301. Thoracic Spine Mobility for a More Powerful Golf Swing.
The shoulder blade pull serves several purposes — it enables a simple, perfectly centred turn, it stabilises the spine, it engages the muscles in the core, and it stores energy in your thoracic spine and rib cage — all of which are crucial in preparing for a great downswing.
Note that the scapula shouldn't actually move very much, relative to the spine, it's a subtle movement of only about 2" (5 cm). If you feel any discomfort in your back after this move, you are overdoing the movement. You will, however, feel like you've had a good ab workout after working on this drill.
You should have no sense of pulling with your right elbow — the pull is with the right shoulder blade, never the right arm.
Make sure that you do not push with your left shoulder at any point. Both shoulders should remain connected and passive, the movement is made by pulling inwards with your right side, towards your spine — first with your obliques, and then with your right shoulder blade.
The entire movement is made by pulling with the muscles of your right side. You will not feel any push at all. In reality the two sides of your body work together, but the feel is 100% right side pull.
You should have no sense of reaching around with your left shoulder — be vigilant for any pressure against your right fingertips, which would indicate that your left shoulder is pushing. Fight this by keeping your left shoulder firmly back and down, in perfect posture.
Don't worry about letting your head turn in this drill, up to about 45 degrees, but it shouldn't sway to either side. As you progress, try to turn your head a little less — we'll focus on this a lot more in Golf Swing Drill 303 – Backswing: Full Shoulder Turn with Weight Shift.
Note that your axis of rotation, your spine, is towards the back of your head, so your eyes will move slightly to the right as your head turns around the fixed axis of your spine. Never let your head tilt, not even slightly, towards the target, in an attempt to keep it still.
It is very common for golfers to try to keep their head still, because that's what they've always been taught. They try to do this, avoiding the sensation that their head is swaying, by trying to keep their eyes still as their head turns — this will tilt your head, and it's a recipe for disaster with the dreaded reverse pivot.
Full shoulder turn mistake – Tilting your head towards the target.
Figure 4. Full shoulder turn mistake – Tilting your head towards the target.
Unless you're freakishly flexible, you can't make a proper full turn without turning your head. It is very important to learn the feeling of your head shifting slightly, a feeling caused by your eyes moving as your head turns, even though your spine (the base of your neck) stays perfectly centred.
Don't try to keep your head still. Instead, keep your spine centred, and let your eyes move slightly as your head needs to turn. Check on video that your spine is staying centred.
Use deliberate practice, find somewhere where you will be undisturbed. Put your "game face" on. Laser focus.
This can be a difficult drill to perform correctly, at first. You'll want to move your hips too soon. It can get frustrating. Remember that you learn fastest when it's a struggle, when you're reaching, when you're making mistakes. Embrace it.
Work in front of a mirror as much as possible, from both face on and down the line. Also use a video camera as often as you can.
Perform the drill with your eyes closed, sometimes. Focus intently on the feeling of your muscles pulling your torso around.
What does your body feel like when you have proper separation between your hips and shoulders? What does it feel like when you don't get at least 45 degrees of separation?
Check very carefully that you are not shifting or tilting your spine, or tilting your head, as you turn.
Make sure that the turn of your hips doesn't begin until your shoulders have turned about 45 degrees, and that your hips haven't turned more than 45 degrees at the end of your turn.
Be extremely sensitive to any push from your left side.
Learn what it feels like to get it wrong, as well as correct. Train your proprioception.
Your goal is to quickly get to the stage where you move correctly by default, without thinking about it, and any mistakes you make will feel "wrong".