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Extremeskins, or ES as it is known by members, is an online discussion forum for the Washington Redskins.

Founded in May of 2000, the site officially merged with the Redskins organization in 2005 experiencing a significant jump in membership from August of 2005 to February 2006. Currently as of July 2007 there are about 68,000 users registered to the site. Users register with the site and choose usernames that become their alias on the site. Members have options for creating their own "signature" which is either a graphic or text and receive an "avatar" that corresponds to how many total posts on the site the member has.

Forums
There are several forums for discussion on the site, each with its own focus. Of these forums The Stadium is the most visited, but The Tailgate is arguably the most popular among long-time members. Moderators are chosen by the staff to patrol the site and uphold the rules of discussion. Moderators or "mods" as some call them are experienced members hand-picked by the owners.

The Stadium
The Stadium forum is used exclusively for discussing issues directly involved with the Washington Redskins football franchise. This forum generally sees the most traffic of all of the forums and many newcomers to the site use this forum primarily.

The Tailgate
The Tailgate is a more relaxed forum where just about any non-football topic is fair game, from news to humor to science.

The Classifieds Forum
Members can buy, sell, or trade items or services in this forum. Mostly Redskins-related.

The Club Level Forums
The Club Level comprises four forums that include a graphic library, a Chat archive, a draft "war room", and a film library. Most of the material in these forums is created and posted by members. Non-staff members cannot post in the chat archive, but it can be viewed by anyone visiting the site.

Washington Area Sports Forums
The Washington area sports forums include forums for discussion of every major professional sports team in the Washington area. Teams include the Washington Nationals and Baltimore Orioles (Baseball), the Washington Wizards (Basketball), the Washington Capitals (Hockey), D.C. United (soccer), and the area's NCAA teams.

Stadium Maintenance Forums
Only two forums are in this area: Tech Feedback, which is open to all members, and the Owners Box, reserved specifically for Redskins personnel and Extremeskins staff.

The Redskins Tradition Forums
These forums contain past discussion threads and posts organized by year. These threads are editable, but no new posts can be made in these forums.

Origins

Extremeskins (ES) was founded by Die Hard (username) in May of 2000. Die Hard was fed up with message boards where discussions frequently degenerated into flame wars. Engaging discussion was impossible without countless posts from fans of other teams who had no intention other than to provoke a fight.

Die Hard set out to build a message board that was a haven for Redskins fans to discuss their team's issues without rude responses. At the site's inception, one didn't have to register for many of the online communities, the software was second rate, and the moderation was poor. The ultimate goal was to have the best Redskins fan site on the net with a committed, involved moderation staff.

Because Extremeskins started as a small group of devoted fans, discussions maintained a level of civility higher than one could find at other sports message boards. As the site grew, new members followed the positive example set by their predecessors. Throughout its history, Extremeskins has been entirely free to access and join. All funds necessary to run the forum came voluntarily from the pockets of the owners and members.

All of the staff are long-time posters at ExtremeSkins, who share the goal of fostering a pleasant environment for discussion not only of sports-related topics, but humor and current events as well. Many of the original members were refugees from a message board at "The Sporting News". The atmosphere at "The Sporting News" had begun to decline, and when ES was formed members quickly flocked to the fledgling site. The community grew slowly at first, but there was a dramatic increase in membership when Steve Spurrier was named Head Coach, and again when Joe Gibbs returned to Washington. Membership was also further bolstered when ES began to feature Bang Cartoons, satirical animations about the NFL, in late 2003. the cartoons became a hit, and fans league-wide signed on in large numbers to view them. Bang Cartoons became a weekly feature that stayed with ES until the summer of 2005.

Unbeknownst to the public, the Redskins wanted to add a message board to their official team site, Redskins.com. Realizing this would be a complicated task, the Redskins decided to acquire an established forum rather than start from scratch. After looking at all of the serious Redskins sites on the web, they found that ES was the busiest, best managed, highest quality site available. The team liked the way Extremeskins was run, the quality of discussion, and the friendly, hands-on approach of the staff. The Redskins assured the owners and members of ES that no significant changes would be made to the site as a result of the union, and the merger spurred a massive influx of new members.

The Present Day

Die Hard's goal has long since been reached, but the staff at Extremeskins is constantly working to improve the site. Each season ES welcomes new members and expands its features, but is still completely free. While some things did change with the merger, the sense of community, diversity of opinion and freedom of expression have not. Extremeskins owes these successes to the hard work and dedication of the staff.

Currently, a few moderators from Extremeskins have turn their attentions from attacking other Redskins Fans/Posters, and focused on attacking local beat writers. To the surprise of many in the media and around the league, the Washington Redskins allow these moderators to spend games in the press box.

(contributed in part by ES member Skinfan13 and in bulk by ES moderator Pete)

Extremeskins in the Media

"One of the most novel steps came in August, when the Redskins announced they had acquired ExtremeSkins.com. That was sort of the Neon Deion of fan Web sites, the most popular and brashest such outlet in the burgundy-and-gold universe. ExtremeSkins.com is the first existing fan site ever acquired by an NFL team."


"Still operated by the fan moderators who founded the site, ExtremeSkins.com--the largest Redskins fan site on the Internet--provides fans unique views and access to the team. Representatives of Extremeskins travel to all Redskins games, posting fan-centric articles and topics. Chats with players, coaches and team officials are also featured, along with "fan view" columns."

"And last August it bought a fan Web site, one that had kept a running tally of alleged errors made by one of the Post's beat reporters. The first Redskins executive to appear on the site after the acquisition was the team's owner, Daniel M. Snyder, who used some of his time to bash the news media for possessing personal agendas and overusing anonymous sources."[http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/07/sports/football/07redskins.html?ei5070&en983ae4b27d661ebb&ex1149825600&adxnnl1&adxnnlx=1149699915-s+Gc/B8CVzce6WKA6Pdzxg]

"McKenna takes a low view of shadow journalism, calling ExtremeSkins.com, a message board site purchased by the team, a Snyder "party organ." He feels the same way about the Redskins' TV shows ("infomercials," he harrumphs), Redskins.com, and Redskins Journal, a previously independent print publication now owned by Snyder." http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/cheap/2005/cheap1021.html

"Worst web site: Extremeskins.com, now owned and operated by the Washington Redskins and a place where no-accountability venom remains the lifeblood of a despicable operation."
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Joshua Mehigan is a contemporary American poet born in 1969.

He is the author to date of one book, The Optimist (ISBN 0-8214-1611-1), which was published to acclaim in 2004.

After winning the Hollis Summers Poetry Prize, and upon its release by Ohio University Press, The Optimist was named one of the top-ten university press books of 2004 and chosen as a finalist for the 2004 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Poetry.

In addition to poetry, Mehigan has published occasional verse translations by Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Valéry. He has also published essays and articles in magazines and on the Internet.

Born in Johnstown, a mill town in upstate New York, Mehigan was raised as an only child in a middle-class household. In 1987, he enrolled at Purchase College, where in 1991 he earned a degree in philosophy. In 1994, he received an MFA in poetry from Sarah Lawrence College, where he studied with the writers Mark Doty, Dana Gioia, and Thomas Lux. Since 1992, he has lived in New York City, where he has worked in communications, education, and publishing.

Mehigan's material and style are relatively diverse, and have included elegies, ecphrasis, and historical or philosophical subjects in a pure lyric or satiric vein. However, most of his work to date uses a stable mix of lyric, dramatic, or narrative modes and a variety of the plain style. "In the Home of My Sitter" or "The Pig Roast," for example, would seem to be informed by his rural childhood experience. Other poems, such as "Promenade" or "Another Pygmalion," trade on urbanity and a somewhat more heightened style, and tend to concern cosmopolitan themes.

Editors and critics have grouped Mehigan loosely with the younger generation of poets that includes John Canaday, A.E. Stallings, Philip Stephens, Catherine Tufariello, Greg Williamson, Christian Wiman, and David Yezzi, each of whom has employed traditional poetic technique in a contemporary idiom.

In general, Mehigan's poems are marked by thematic darkness, sardonic humor, and musicality, which in many cases serves to temper the saturnine quality they display.

Quotations

* (from "Promenade"): "Wish is the word that sounds like what wind means."
* (from Ohio University Press Book News) "I don't know anyone who thinks forms are really the point. And you have to be severely parochial—parochial in place and time—to think meter is marginal enough to poetry to call its proponents by a special name. A lot of poets classed as New Formalists barely use meter or rhyme! And of course many poets who were never called New Formalists always use meter."
* (from the New York Times) "The city is very definitely a good place for a poet, because there's always some sort of human drama unfolding everywhere. But it's also trying, because you're never going to get rich writing poetry, and the city's so expensive."

Sources and
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Hemsby Inshore Lifeboat (H.I.R.S) was established in 1976 and became a "DECLARED FACILITY" with the Maritime and Coastguard Agency. This means that Hemsby Inshore Lifeboat is part of the United Kingdom's Maritime Search and Rescue Service for the waters off the Norfolk coast and also the freshwater area known as the Norfolk Broads.
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Christopher Wunderlee is an American poet and writer. To date, he has published two novels, a book of poetry, and a collection of short stories.

Wunderlee is associated with hysterical realism, post-modernist writers. His poetry first attracted attention. His poem "Tomorrow" garnered attention for its word juxtaposition, confessional style and allusions. In recent years, a number of 'prose-poems' published in journals in the UK and U.S. furthered his reputation and brought him critical acclaim and a number of awards.

His prose rose to prominence with the short story "A Chat with Howl" in the literary journal Zyzzyva, in which he interviewed the "voice" of the poem Howl by Allen Ginsberg. The story's originality and experimentation attracted readers and garned Wunderlee an "Emerging Voice" nomination. He followed with a number of critically well-received stories, and travel articles in the magazine Places.

In 2003, Wunderlee published a collection of poems, Kalopsia. The title is indicative of Wunderlee’s poetic theory and means, “a state (or delusion) in which things are more beautiful than they truly are”. The poems in the collection share the theme of juxtaposing graceful lines with an often dubious subject matter, and highlight his talent for new lyricism. “Tomorrow/ I’ll wake/ after some suppressant evening/ with nothing but the tele-waves/ and groans of bored kitty cats/ and shave my head for god/ leave the house with alms hands/ and circumambulation cries/ and live Brahmin-like in alleyway insights” (from “Tomorrow”). It won critical acclaim from a number of critics and publications for its merging of modernistic themes and postmodernistic voice, essentially a collection that seemed to unite T. S. Eliot or Ezra Pound and Lawrence Ferlinghetti or Ginsberg.

In 2005, the Loony appeared, the story of an estranged scientist’s supposed role in faking the Project Apollo moon missions in the ‘60s and ‘70s. Again, the title of the book mirrors the subject matter, as the protagonist appears to be either suffering from ‘lunacy’ or he is the victim of an elaborate conspiracy to keep it secret that the Apollo missions were faked. The main characters are Albert Locner, an astrophysicist who becomes embroiled in the plot. An apparitional love interest named Harris who is allegedly a military spy who uses sex to blackmail prominent enemies of the state and/or another victim of the plot. And, “the Colonel”, who is either the military officer in charge of Lochner’s case or a psychiatrist. It has been suggested that they are postmodern counterparts to Dante, Beatrice and the Devil, or Don Quixote, Dulcinea, and the narrator. The story, using experimental narration, follows Albert Lochner’s life from conception to his downfall, when he joins the team to fake the lunar landings. After they accomplish their goal and fool the world, Lochner is blackmailed when Harris is supposedly abducted. In order to save her, he must agree to a number of unspecified demands, one of which is that he spends several years being driven randomly around the U.S. by two agents, why is never explained. He later escapes to find Harris, in attempt to discover whether she was truly a victim or an accomplice in the conspiracy. The plot is infused with unique devices, including the repetitive use of lines from David Bowie’s Space Oddity song, “out-of-room-voices” who chime in to offer commentary or break into song (it has been suggested that these ‘voices’ are actually patients at a psychiatric ward and that the entire or at least some part of the book takes place there) and “file footage”, or scenes from movies, television shows, propaganda films, and other media (again, potentially simply what is playing on the television at the hospital). These plot devices combine with the unique, loquacious prose style to mirror a state of lunacy, whether this is because the protagonist is indeed mentally ill or because of the situation he finds himself in is the big unanswered question of the novella. Because of its symbolic parallels, stylistic innovations, and distinctive narrative style, The Loony is considered a groundbreaking work of fiction. Comparisons of the novella were made to Thomas Pynchon, William Gaddis, Joseph Heller, and Vladimir Nabokov.

In 2007, Wunderlee published "Visiting Hours", a collection of his short stories.

Poetry

[http://www.snarkpub.com/snarkpub/Chapbook.aspx?CurrentID50e27387-872a-4620-aa94-ee8fd021484b&MySubmitVerbSelect+Chapbook Kalopsia (2003)]

Fiction

Visiting Hours (2007)ISBN 978-0615157436

The Loony: a novella of epic proportions (2005) ISBN 1411624505

A Wanton Gyre (2001)

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