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Release Date: April 11, 2014
Studio: Summit Entertainment (Lionsgate)
Director: Ivan Reitman
Screenwriter: Rajiv Joseph, Scott Rothman
Starring: Kevin Costner, Jennifer Garner, Ellen Burstyn, Denis Leary, Frank Langella, Tom Welling, Chadwick Boseman, Sean Combs
Genre: Comedy, Sports
MPAA Rating: PG-13 (for brief strong language and sexual references)
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The ICANN, the folks who set some guidelines that make the Internet go 'round, are in the final stages of passing a proposal to introduce non-Latin characters to web addresses. Finally, there'll be some non-porn-based multiculturalism on the Internet.
Seriously, this is incredibly huge. Aside from being one of the single biggest changes to domain names since the "creation" of the Internet, more than 40 years ago, it also finally takes into consideration that more than half the Internet's users' native languages contain non-Latin characters. In a sense, it truly represents the liberty of the Internet.
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As we come to the end of 2009, it's time to look forward and put together our list of our most anticipated movies of 2010.
Last year could have been worse - 5 of our 10 most anticipated movies of 2009 turned out to live up to our expectations (including Watchmen, Up, and Star Trek), while the other five ranged from mediocre (Public Enemies) to downright disappointing (Terminator Salvation, Wolverine, Transformers 2). Of course "most anticipated" does not necessarily mean "movies we think are going to be awesome" - it's "movies we hope are going to be awesome."
This year the task was made a lot easier thanks to our senior editor Kofi Outlaw putting together Screen Rant's 2010 movie preview, giving us a one-stop list from which to gather the biggies. While last year was a group effort, this year I've decided to pull rank and come up with the list myself, with some fine tuning help from editors Kofi and Rob Keyes.
So, without further delay...
Screen Rant's 20 Most Anticipated Movies of 2010:
20. The Green Hornet - December 22
Green Hornet made it onto the list just on morbid curiosity. I'm a big fan of the 60s TV series and was hoping to see a serious take on it on the big screen. However the production has not been smooth to say the least with apparent differences of opinion between Seth Rogen, director Michael Gondry and Stephen Chow (who eventually left the production altogether), production delays, script changes, etc. We'll see what the final product looks like at the end of 2010.
19. Edge of Darkness - January 29
An older Mel Gibson as a father set on avenging the death of his daughter? Consider my ticket purchased and my seat reserved.
18. The Last Airbender - July 2
M. Night Shyamalan has been a victim of his own success (and his ego) with each of his films getting pretty much worse than the one that came before. However here he will be tackling something completely different from anything he has ever done before, and based on the one trailer we've seen so far it looks like it may turn out to be impressive. We'll see.
17. The Wolfman - February 12
Benicio del Toro is a great actor and I'm looking forward to seeing him as the tortured soul cursed by the, uh, curse of the werewolf. It looks like they'll be trying to do as much as they can with practical visual effects (although I'm sure there will be CGI as well) and that suits this film.
16. Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time - May 28
Is this going to be any good? I have no idea - but it looks like a helluva production. And Jake Gyllenhaal as a buffed out action hero? Curiosity factor alone is enough to put this on the list.
15. The Book of Eli - January 15
Denzel Washington as a righteous, post-apocalyptic bad-ass? Check. Gary Oldman as the bad guy? Check. A trailer that emphasizes both of those to utter awesomeness? Check. See you there.
14. Robin Hood - May 14
While some were disappointed (myself included) that director Ridley Scott decided to drop a couple of unique concepts for the story from the final product (Russell Crowe playing both Robin Hood and the Sheriff of Nottingham, the sheriff as the good guy and Robin as the villain), this still looks like a great, reality-based update of the story.
13. Alice In Wonderland - March 5
If there was ever a film that was suited to the twisted vision of Tim Burton, this is it. I'm not the biggest Burton fan and some of what I've seen in the trailer doesn't quite work for me (the Red Queen's head is so huge it looks cartoonish), but overall this is bound to be a feast for the senses and probably the closest a screen version will get to the source material.
12. A Nightmare On Elm Street - April 30
The original Nightmare on Elm Street is a horror classic and we're all curious to see how this reboot/remake turns out. From what has been shown it seems like they may tone down the humor and dial up some of the more realistic aspects of the story. Really looking forward to Jackie Earle Haley's take on Freddy Krueger.
11. The A-Team - June 11
With some interesting casting choices (Liam Neeson as "Hannibal" Smith, Bradley Cooper from The Hangover and Sharlto Copley from District 9) and director Joe Carnahan (Smokin' Aces) behind the camera, this could turn out to be a fun hat-tip to the original series.
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On a day in May, 1922, in Paris, a medical student named Pierre Mérigot de Treigny was asked by his teacher, Dr. Victor Morax, a well-known ophthalmologist, to attend to a patient who had telephoned complaining about pain from iritis, an inflammation of the eye. The student went to the patient's apartment, in a residential hotel on the Rue de l'Université. Inside, he found a scene of disarray. Clothes were hanging everywhere; toilet articles were scattered around on chairs and the mantelpiece. A man wearing dark glasses and wrapped in a blanket was squatting in front of a pan that contained the remains of a chicken. A woman was sitting across from him. There was a half-empty bottle of wine next to them on the floor. The man was James Joyce. A few months before, on February 2nd, he had published what some people regarded then, and many people regard now, as the greatest work of prose fiction ever written in the English language.
The woman was Nora Barnacle. She and Joyce were unmarried, and had two teen-age children, Giorgio and Lucia, who were living with them in the two-room apartment. The conditions in which the student discovered them were not typical—Joyce lived in luxury whenever he could afford it, and often when he couldn't—but the scene was emblematic. Joyce was a nomad. He was born in 1882, in Rathgar, a suburb of Dublin, and grew up the oldest of ten surviving children. After he started school, his family changed houses nine times in eleven years, an itinerancy not always undertaken by choice. They sometimes moved, with their shrinking stock of possessions, at night, in order to escape the attention of creditors. They did not leave a forwarding address.
James was the favorite of his charming, cantankerous, and dissolute father, John Stanislaus Joyce, and was adored by his brothers and sisters. They called him Sunny Jim, because he laughed at everything. He was a brilliant student when he chose to excel, a prodigy; and, despite the family's relentless downward spiral—John Joyce wasted a considerable inheritance—he received a serious education at Jesuit schools. By the time he got his degree, from University College, Dublin, in 1902, the family was living in the northern suburb of Cabra. A friend later described the house: "The banisters were broken, the grass in the back-yard was all blackened out. There was laundry there and a few chickens, and it was a very very miserable home." Joyce's mother, Mary, died there, of liver cancer, in 1903.
Joyce left Ireland a year later, when he was twenty-two, but he never really left the manner of life he had known. Like his father, he was a raconteur and a barfly. He had a good tenor voice (as did John Joyce), and he loved to sing and to dance. When he had no money, he borrowed it; when he had it, he picked up the tab for whatever company he was in, booked himself and his family into fancy hotels, and bought fur coats for Nora and Lucia. He was generous in the free-spirited way that only the inveterately insolvent can be.
For many years after he moved to the Continent, he scraped a living as a language teacher in Berlitz schools, a job he disliked. He started out in Pula, moved to Trieste, to Rome, then back to Trieste, and, finally, to Zurich. He changed residences regularly wherever he was, sometimes under a landlord's gun. In 1920, he moved to Paris, where he was supported by patrons and—though only toward the end of his life, since "Ulysses" was banned for twelve years in the United States and for fourteen in Britain—by royalties. During the twenty years he lived in Paris, he had eighteen different addresses.
"A man of small virtue, inclined to extravagance and alcoholism" is how Joyce described himself to Carl Jung. He was frail—he avoided contact sports like rugby as a child and barroom pugilism as a grownup—and he was frequently laid low by nervous attacks and illnesses. His eye troubles forced him to submit to a series of tricky and painful operations. At times, he was virtually blind. When he wrote, which he did usually stretched out across a bed, he wore a white jacket, so that light was reflected onto the paper; as he got older, he used a magnifying glass, in addition to his eyeglasses, to read.
After the Second World War broke out and the Germans occupied Paris, Joyce managed to get to Switzerland. He died there, in Zurich, of a perforated ulcer, on January 13, 1941. He was fifty-eight, and a very old man. He had burned the candle all the way down. He had spent eight years on "Ulysses," and fifteen years on "Finnegans Wake," which was published in 1939. "My eyes are tired," he wrote in a letter to Giorgio, in 1935. "For over half a century, they have gazed into nullity where they have found a lovely nothing."
Joyce had a lot of bad luck in the literary marketplace. Four publishers turned down his first book, a volume of poems called "Chamber Music." He spent nine years getting his story collection, "Dubliners," into print. It was rejected by eight publishers. At least thirteen printers refused to set his first novel, "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man," in full. His play, "Exiles," after being turned down by theatre companies in Ireland and En-gland, opened in Munich, was poorly received, and closed almost immediately. It took Joyce two years to obtain an injunction against a pirated American version of "Ulysses." And, throughout his career, he had chronic censorship afflictions, even with "Finnegans Wake," a book that people said was unreadable—which ought to have made the question of obscenity moot. But he was lucky in his biographer.
Richard Ellmann started his biography of Joyce in 1947. He was therefore able to interview people who had known his subject. The medical student who reported on Joyce's ménage on the Rue de l'Université, for example, was a discovery of Ellmann's. Ellmann was an energetic researcher, an eloquent writer, and a scholar whose specialty was Irish literature. (His first book was a critical biography of William Butler Yeats.) He understood the man—"this bizarre and wonderful creature who turned literature and language on end," he called him—and he understood the work. Not every literary biography has all those things going for it.
Ellmann's "James Joyce" came out in 1959. The English novelist Anthony Burgess, another dedicated Joycean, judged it "the greatest literary biography of the century," and many people have filed concurrences. Ellmann didn't start working on the book steadily until 1952. Considering the quantity of information it holds, he wrote it in an amazingly short amount of time, and a reader can feel how fully he was possessed by his project, and how much fun he found the job to be. That, too, is not an impression left by most eight-hundred-page biographies. The book was reprinted twice, with corrections and additions, and a revised edition was published in 1982. (Ellmann suffered from A.L.S.—Lou Gehrig's disease—but he was able to finish a second major biography, of Oscar Wilde, which appeared in 1987, the year of his death.)
So the first question that a writer contemplating a biography of Joyce has to ask is whether we really need another one. It's true that more is known about Joyce and his world. Since 1982, biographies of John Joyce (by John Wyse Jackson and Peter Costello), of Nora (by Brenda Maddox), and of Lucia (by Carol Loeb Shloss) have come out, and there has been fresh biographical work on Joyce himself. Gordon Bowker's "James Joyce: A New Biography" (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) is a kind of synthesis of this research—along with some material, now in Ellmann's papers, that Ellmann elected not to use. Bowker is a clear and prudent writer, and his labors count as a service to scholarship. But he never indicates where he thinks earlier accounts got things wrong; his biography is an update, not a revision. It doesn't affect our understanding of Joyce or of what Joyce wrote.
"It is enlightening to view the work of a highly autobiographical writer like Joyce in the context of his life," Bowker says. Well, yes—that's exactly what Ellmann demonstrated more than fifty years ago. And Joyce himself could hardly have been more explicit. The invitation to understand his fiction as fashioned from the facts of his own experience is one of the few things in Joyce's work not to be taken ironically. "As we, or mother Dana, weave and unweave our bodies, from day to day, their molecules shuttled to and fro, so does the artist weave and unweave his image," Stephen Dedalus explains (a little grandly, but Stephen is a little grand) to the Dublin literati, in "Ulysses." "So in the future, the sister of the past, I may see myself as I sit here now but by reflection from that which then I shall be." Stephen is imagining himself, many years later, as Joyce, writing "Ulysses" and imagining himself, many years earlier, as Stephen.
Bowker's notion of how life relates to art is more mechanical. He thinks, for example, that "John's habit of regular long walks around Dublin and environs . . . foreshadows the wandering narrative line which snakes through most of his son's fiction"—an observation that does not do a lot of interpretive work. As many previous commentators have, he matches up names and events in Joyce's books with their likely real-life counterparts, which is an entertaining game but not a challenging one, since Joyce usually did little or nothing to disguise the originals of his characters. He often gave them their real names. Joyce's dramatis personae include a lot of "as himself" parts. It's one of the reasons he never returned to Ireland after "Ulysses" came out: many people in Dublin were prepared to sue him for libel.
Joyce didn't use actual people and places because he was settling scores, or because he was writing disguised autobiography, or because he lacked invention. The relation between his world and his fiction is much stranger than that. In November, 1921, he wrote to his aunt Josephine, in Dublin, to ask if she could tell him whether it was possible "for an ordinary person to climb over the area railings of no 7 Eccles street, either from the path or the steps, lower himself from the lowest part of the railings till his feet are within 2 feet or 3 of the ground and drop unhurt." He had seen it done, he told her, but by someone with an athletic build; he wanted to make sure that an ordinary man could do it. He needed the information because he was editing the "Ithaca" chapter of "Ulysses," in which Leopold Bloom, who has forgotten his latchkey, enters his house, at 7 Eccles Street, by this method. He had made up Bloom. Why couldn't he just make up the height of the railings?
Bowker has relatively little critical interest in what Joyce was up to as a writer. And, if you're not interested in that, you're not going to produce a very satisfying biography. The writing is where the action is. Joyce lived in eventful times, but he did not lead an eventful life. After he moved to Paris, he socialized mostly with his family and, since he was a suspicious man who suffered from a mild but persistent persecution complex, with a small circle of trusted associates. He did not reveal himself to strangers. He knew his famous contemporaries—Yeats, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Ernest Hemingway—but his attitude toward them was fairly aloof. He could be self-absorbed far beyond the point of mere incivility. The only things that really mattered to him were his family and his art.
In 1932, two young Americans, Dwight Macdonald and George Morris, recent Yale graduates with an interest in modern literature and art, were in Paris, where they bought a copy of "Ulysses," still outlawed in the United States, at the English-language bookstore Shakespeare and Company. They got into a conversation with the owner, Sylvia Beach, the woman who had published "Ulysses," and she arranged for them to meet Joyce. They showed up at Joyce's apartment and plied him eagerly with questions about his work. He was unresponsive. "It was like trying to open a safe without the combination," Macdonald later said. Finally, one of them made a remark about people not knowing what to do with their lives. Joyce suddenly perked up. He gestured toward the window. "There are people who go walkin' up and down the street," he said, "and they don't know what they want."
He knew what he wanted. Bowker reports someone's remembrance of Joyce as a little boy at parties with neighborhood children: "Sometimes, donning a red cap, he played the Devil, condemning some of them to hell, which he decided was under a wheelbarrow." The artist was already at work. "Joyce's court," as Ellmann put it, "is always in session." Joyce's favorite writer was Dante, another exile, who created a verbal universe that he populated with old Florentine comrades and enemies, each caricatured with exquisite precision for all time, and who placed at the center of his imaginary cosmos a woman he had fallen in love with after seeing her on the street, Beatrice Portinari.
Joyce's Beatrice, of course, was Nora. She came from Galway, and was working as a chambermaid at Finn's Hotel, in Dublin, when he saw her walking along Nassau Street in a manner suggesting that she was approachable. "Sauntering" is how Joyce later described it. He duly approached, and asked her for a date. She agreed, but stood him up. He sent her a note. "I went home quite dejected," it said. "I would like to make an appointment but it might not suit you. I hope you will be kind enough to make one with me—if you have not forgotten me!" This time, they did meet. They walked to Ringsend, on the south bank of the Liffey, where (and here we can drop the Dante analogy) she put her hand inside his trousers and masturbated him. It was June 16, 1904, the day on which Joyce set "Ulysses." When people celebrate Bloomsday, that is what they are celebrating.
Ellmann chose to omit the sexual details in his account of the first date with Nora, although there are several references to the incident in Joyce's letters. After a date, Joyce took one of Nora's gloves home with him, and he writes to her to say that he has slept with it: "Your glove lay beside me all night—unbuttoned—but otherwise conducted itself very properly—like Nora." In August, he tells her that what happened was "a kind of sacrament, and the recollection of it fills me with amazed joy." Five years later, on a trip to Dublin, he writes to her in Trieste: "It was not I who first touched you long ago down at Ringsend. It was you who slid your hand down down inside my trousers . . . and frigged me slowly until I came off through your fingers, all the time bending over me and gazing at me out of your quiet saintlike eyes." On that night, he tells her in another letter, she "made me a man."
Joyce had known only prostitutes and proper middle-class girls. Nora was something new, an ordinary woman who treated him as an ordinary man. The moral simplicity of what happened between them seems to have stunned him. It was elemental, a gratuitous act of loving that had not involved flattery or deceit, and that was unaccompanied by shame or guilt. That simplicity became the basis of their relationship.
Nothing is purely elemental in the day-to-day, of course; the partnership had its share of tensions, and Joyce and Nora often quarrelled. Intellectually, they were ill matched, to put it mildly. She read very little of his work, which exasperated him, and she sometimes said that she wished he had become a singer. He was jealous of men in her past. The character Michael Furey, who dies after standing all night in the rain outside Gretta's window, in "The Dead," is based on one of Nora's Galway boyfriends, Michael Feeney. (Two of Nora's boyfriends died when she was dating them; the girls at the convent where she boarded in Galway called her the "man-killer.")
But he hated to be apart from her. When he was away, and they were still young, he wrote her pornographic letters. (Readers with scholarly curiosity can find these in the "Selected Letters of James Joyce," edited by Ellmann. Readers with scholarly curiosity and a lot of money might want to know that, in 2004, an unpublished pornographic letter was sold at auction for four hundred and forty-six thousand dollars.) He wrote her love letters, too. "I have enormous belief in the power of a simple honorable soul. You are that, are you not, Nora?" he wrote to her from Ireland, on one of his last visits there, in 1909. "I want you to say to yourself: Jim, the poor fellow I love, is coming back. He is a poor weak impulsive man and he prays to me to defend him and make him strong." Later, on the same trip: "I thought of one who held me in her hand like a pebble. . . . Everything that is noble and exalted and deep and true and moving in what I write comes, I believe, from you." They eventually married, in London, in 1931, but only in order to safeguard their children's inheritance.
The story in "A Portrait of the Artist" of how Stephen Dedalus metamorphoses from an acolyte bound for the priesthood into a man of high aesthetic purpose can give a misleading idea of Joyce's sense of vocation. Joyce didn't think that art was a substitute for religion, or that it had spiritual sources or powers. He didn't believe in miracles. He believed in coincidences. "Chance furnishes me with what I need," he told a Swiss friend when he was writing "Finnegans Wake." "I'm like a man who stumbles; my foot strikes something, I look down, and there is exactly what I'm in need of."
He was a master of rhetoric, as he was a master of mimicry, but his preferred figure of speech was one of the lowest, the pun. "After all, the Holy Roman Catholic Apostolic Church was built on a pun," he said to a friend, Frank Budgen. "It ought to be good enough for me." (Joyce meant the verses in Matthew, where Jesus tells Simon Peter, "Thou art Peter"—an Anglicization of the Greek Petros—"and upon this rock"—petra—"I will build my church.") A pun is a verbal coincidence: a word that just happens to sound like another word. In this respect, the whole of "Ulysses" ("Oolissays" is how Joyce pronounced it) is a kind of pun. It's a story about people and events on a day in Dublin that, when told in a certain way, "sounds like" Homer's Odyssey.
Telling the story in that certain way, assigning the bits he or she has stumbled across in life to their places in a symbolic order—picking out the damned and throwing them under the wheelbarrow—is the artist's task. This is why the materials of Joyce's fiction are found objects, "the reality of experience," as Stephen puts it at the end of "A Portrait of the Artist." The writer begins with the arbitrary, the accidental, the insignificant (the area railings outside a house on Eccles Street, say), and he transmutes them into an object that has intention, design, and significance (Odysseus, when he at last returns to Ithaca, must enter his own house by a stratagem) but that is purely imaginary. He looks into nullity, and finds there a lovely nothing.
Joyce knew Jung because he sent Lucia, who, as she grew older, began having violent fits, to him for treatment in Zurich. Jung could do nothing for her: she was schizophrenic and, to Joyce's great distress, was ultimately institutionalized. (Jung thought that Joyce was schizophrenic, too, but that he was functional because he was a genius.) Joyce was contemptuous of psychoanalysis. He called Jung "the Swiss Tweedledum who is not to be confused with the Viennese Tweedledee"—though he was amused, characteristically, that Freud's name, in English translation, is a near-homophone of Joyce. And Jung, somewhat surprisingly, found "Ulysses" disturbing and perplexing. He had a hard time getting through it, and he wrote an essay, in 1932, in which he tried to sort through his reaction to the book.
"What is so staggering about 'Ulysses,' " he wrote, "is the fact that behind a thousand veils nothing lies hidden; that it turns neither toward the mind nor toward the world, but, as cold as the moon looking on from cosmic space, allows the drama of growth, being, and decay to pursue its course." This was a remarkable insight into Joyce's intention. "Not only will the reader know everything and know it in the baldest coldest way," Joyce had told a friend while he was working on the "Ithaca" section, the chapter he liked best. "But Bloom and Stephen thereby become heavenly bodies, wanderers like the stars at which they gaze."
Joyce was referring to the moment when, having consummated their meeting late in the night, at 7 Eccles Street, with hot chocolate, Bloom and Stephen leave the house in a manner that is figured as a comic version of the Passover celebration (as the novel opens with a mock celebration of the Catholic Mass performed by a man shaving):
In what order of precedence, with what attendant ceremony was the exodus from the house of bondage to the wilderness of inhabitation effected?
Lighted Candle in Stick borne by
Diaconal Hat on Ashplant borne by
With what intonation secreto of what commemorative psalm?
The 113th, modus peregrinus: In exitu Israël de Egypto: domus Jacob de populo barbaro.
What did each do at the door of egress?
Bloom set the candlestick on the floor. Stephen put the hat on his head.
For what creature was the door of egress a door of ingress?
For a cat.
What spectacle confronted them when they, first the host, then the guest, emerged silently, doubly dark, from obscurity by a passage from the rere of the house into the penumbra of the garden?
The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.
Dante ends all three books of his Comedy with the word stelle—stars. And—this part not in Dante—Stephen and Bloom consecrate the occasion by urinating together in the garden.
From a certain point of view—it would be God's point of view, except that, as there is no God in Joyce, it's the artist's—Bloom and Stephen (or James and Nora) are just some of the stuff of the universe. That they have inner lives, lives filled with highly particular memories and sensations, means, cosmically, nothing. Seen from that enormous distance, they are just doing what their sort of stuff does—coming into consciousness, reproducing, dying.
Joyce was fond of the line in Ovid "Everything changes, nothing is lost." He thought that, from some vast superhuman distance, the people in "Ulysses" are just like the people in Homer. They are tracing the same patterns, walking through the same roles, struggling to work out the same sets of relations: husband and wife, father and mother, son and daughter—who will become, in their time, husbands and wives, fathers and mothers.
"Finnegans Wake" is Joyce's effort to give imaginative expression to this conception of human life. The entire book is made out of portmanteaus and puns.
But I'm loothing them that's here and all I lothe. Loonely in me loneness. For all their faults. I am passing out. O bitter ending! I'll slip away before they're up. They'll never see. Nor know. Nor miss me. And it's old and old it's sad and old it's sad and weary I go back to you, my cold father, my cold mad father, my cold mad feary father, till the near sight of the mere size of him, the moyles and moyles of it, moananoaning, makes me seasilt saltsick and I rush, my only, into your arms.
"Finnegans Wake" is not a prose poem, which is probably how many people would like to read it. It's a work of realist fiction. It's just that the reality it represents is nighttime reality, the dream life, which Joyce believed required the invention of a new mode of language. Normal syntax is designed for a law-abiding reality, for a reality that is organized temporally, spatially, and causally. In dreams, these laws are suspended, which means that, to represent the dream life, normal syntax has to be suspended, too. And images in dreams can represent two things at once, as when we dream of X and know all the time that it is Y. This is why punning is the language of the night.
"Work in Progress," as the book was known until its publication, confounded many of Joyce's admirers. They thought that he was wasting his time, and they let him know it. "Nothing so far as I make out, nothing short of divine vision or a new cure for the clapp can possibly be worth all the circumambient peripherization," Pound wrote to Joyce. Harriet Shaw Weaver, who had serialized "A Portrait of the Artist" and a portion of "Ulysses" in her little magazine, The Egoist, and who was Joyce's principal benefactor (her maternal grandfather had made a fortune in the cotton industry), complained that she did not like "your Wholesale Safety Pun Factory."
Joyce was upset—he was a hypersensitive man—but he persevered. He loved writing the book; Nora used to hear him laughing to himself as he worked. It was an enormous task, and when it was finished one of his loyal assistants, Paul Léon, wrote to Weaver to tell her that Joyce was exhausted. "He has actually consumed almost all of his substance, physical and spiritual, moral and material in the writing of a book likely to be received with derision by his ill-wishers and with pained pleasure by his friends. And in this attitude he has remained true to himself."
Joyce's flight to Switzerland during the Second World War was a perilous business. He had refused the offer of an Irish passport, which would have got him safely out of France, and his application for a Swiss entrance visa was held up, apparently because the authorities believed that he was Jewish. ("There's a remarkable discovery" was his reaction.) But he got out, with Nora and their son and grandson (Lucia remained, in a French asylum), arriving in Geneva on December 14, 1940. Less than a month later, he was dead. Nora's request to repatriate the body to Ireland was refused by the Irish chargé d'affaires in Paris.
"Ulysses" was never banned in Ireland. People there who hated the book weren't simply offended by the obscenity. They didn't like what they saw of themselves in it. George Bernard Shaw called the novel's language "blackguardly," and said that his own hand could never have formed the words. But he conceded that the book was a masterpiece. He, too, had been a young man in Dublin, and he recognized the city he had known. " 'Ulysses' is a document," he told a friend, "the outcome of a passion for documentation that is as fundamental as the artistic passion. . . . If a man holds up a mirror to your nature and shows you that it needs washing—not whitewashing—it is no use breaking the mirror." As Joyce said when he was told that his aunt Josephine had refused to read the book, "If 'Ulysses' isn't fit to read, life isn't fit to live."
Henry James, in an essay called "The Art of Fiction," in 1884, said that in England and America people see more than they think it's proper to say, and they say more than they think it's proper to read. More than any other English writer, Joyce destroyed that decorum. He paid a terrible price for it.
Joyce persisted in what he called his "voluntary exile" in order to write the way he wanted to write. This meant that he had to endure continual rejection and critical abuse. His writing was repeatedly censored, and his greatest work had to be published in France, where it was set by French printers, who introduced thousands of typos into the text. The obscenity trial of "Ulysses" in the United States was by no means a pro-forma affair: when the American trial-court judge, John Woolsey, declared "Ulysses" not obscene, in 1933, the Justice Department appealed, and the decision had to be confirmed by the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. But by his persistence Joyce established a principle, which is that the artist must have absolute freedom to work with the world he or she has stumbled across, the world as it is. That most of us now take this for granted is largely because of him.
The price Joyce paid was not only in the coin of professional tribulation. After 1912, he never saw Dublin again, although he never wrote about any other place, and to the end of his life he was desperate for news of the city and its people. He also had to leave behind most of his family. He could not be present for his father's funeral.
John Joyce was buried by a man named Corny Kelleher—which is the name of the undertaker's assistant in "Ulysses." It was New Year's Day, 1932. Six weeks later, Giorgio and his wife, Helen, had a son, Stephen. Joyce wrote a poem on the occasion, "Ecce Puer," which ends:
A child is sleeping:
An old man gone.
O, father forsaken,
Forgive your son!
One of the Irishmen who hung around Joyce in Paris was Arthur Power, an aspiring man of letters whose renown rests entirely on a book called "Conversations with James Joyce," published in 1974. Although these "conversations" were reconstructed by Power more than forty years after they are supposed to have taken place, Bowker (like other biographers) quotes from them verbatim, as though they were reliable records of Joyce's own words. Still, we can assume that they represent the gist of their exchanges.
One of the last exchanges Power recounts occurred, he says, in 1932. "I have just received very important news," Joyce told him. "A son has been born to Giorgio and Helen in Paris." "Is that all?" Power asked. "It is the most important thing there is," Joyce replied. Power took this to mean that "the most important thing there is" was that another Joyce had come into the world. He reports that he felt that "egotism has its limit," and he told Joyce, "I cannot see that it is so important." A tense silence followed. "Our relationship was never the same again," he says. No wonder. He had missed completely the idea that Joyce had spent his entire life trying, in the most comical and fantastical way he could imagine, to express. ♦


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We all get butterflies at some point in our lives, but when fear of social interaction threatens to take over your life, it is time to seek help.
Suzanne, an intelligent woman in her thirties, had been lonely for much of her life. She had been stuck in the same secretarial job because she was afraid of working with people above her job level. She wanted to meet a man, but was sure she would say something stupid and be rejected. Her few good friends could not get her to go to restaurants or even parties because she was afraid other people might think she was a sloppy eater. The few times she agreed to go, her heart was pounding and she began to blush and perspire. When her primary care doctor finally referred her to a psychologist with experience in anxiety disorders, she was relieved to discover she had a treatable condition with a name, social anxiety disorder.
Many people get nervous in certain social or business situations. There is nothing unusual about feeling anxious before making a presentation, going out on a first date, going to a party where you do not know many people, or having dinner with the boss.
What is different about social anxiety disorder is that you have an extreme fear of being judged by other people and acting in ways that might embarrass or humiliate you. You are also afraid of becoming the center of attention and worry that everyone is looking at you. As a result, you go to great lengths to avoid the social situations you fear. If you find yourself in one of these situations, such as a party, you experience intense anxiety that is out of proportion to the event.
Social anxiety disorder usually begins in childhood or adolescence, although symptoms like extreme shyness may occur in earlier years. The disorder is chronic, although stress may cause the intensity to fluctuate.
On the surface, shyness and social anxiety disorder may seem the same. The main difference is the reaction of the person with the disorder. People with social anxiety disorder often avoid social situations and have intense, physical symptoms.
Although social anxiety disorder responds readily to treatment, many people remain undiagnosed or misdiagnosed, in part because many people who suffer from social anxiety disorder are embarrassed to admit it.
In addition, many clinicians do not know how to recognize social anxiety disorder and provide appropriate treatment. Because a large number of people with social anxiety disorder also suffer from depression, or alcohol or drug problems, diagnosis and treatment can become more complicated.
Some people are afraid of a specific situation, often involving public speaking or performing. This severe stage fright may dampen the career of a musician, actor, or salesperson. Other people have generalized social anxiety disorder, which is a fear of several, if not most, social situations.
In both types of social anxiety disorder, anxiety before, during, and after events and avoidance of feared situations significantly interfere with everyday life. However, generalized social anxiety disorder usually has more serious effects because it occurs in a number of different situations.
In both types of social anxiety disorder, physical symptoms may occur. They may include
You also fear that others will judge you negatively for having these symptoms, which further fuels the symptoms.
The exact cause of social anxiety disorder has not yet been identified. However, researchers believe it is a combination of biological and environmental factors. Some people may be genetically predisposed to social anxiety disorder. When they experience negative social interactions or a particularly stressful event, the disorder may be set off or worsen.
Many people treated for social anxiety disorder experience significant improvement and are able to get the disorder under control. Treatment includes one or more of the following:
Most people with social anxiety disorder can be helped by cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), in which they learn:
Some people may also have exposure therapy, where they are gradually exposed to situations that cause the anxiety. After repeated exposures and practice coping with the anxiety, they begin to realize that there is no need to feel embarrassed and that they can succeed at the task at hand. As more positive experiences occur with less anxiety, they feel less need to avoid previously feared situations. Relaxation training also can help in coping with the anxiety.
CBT may have the greatest impact on the treatment of social anxiety disorder when it is done in a group because the main feature of the disorder is anxiety triggered by interactions with other people. Training in social skills is a useful adjunct to CBT, as is learning new ways of acting in different situations.
Medication can also be helpful for treatment of social anxiety disorder. Different medications work for different people. People with a specific social anxiety disorder may benefit from taking a beta blocker only before specific performances. However, people with generalized social anxiety disorder usually require medication on a regular basis. Antidepressants, such as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) may be helpful in people with generalized social anxiety disorder.
Suzanne is a good example of someone who benefited from treatment. Within several months, she began to feel more confident in new social situations. A year later, she has a boyfriend and has just accepted a job promotion. She still gets anxious in some situations, but not enough to keep her from doing the things she wants to do.
If you think you or someone you know may have social anxiety disorder, seek help from a mental health professional who has experience treating this disorder. You can get help to overcome your fears, feel more comfortable interacting with other people, and lead a fulfilling life.
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Last reviewed February 2017 by Michael Woods, MD, FAAP Last Updated: 2/24/2017


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Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts' newest flagship hotel will open in the heart of Shanghai this June.
The 508-room Jing An Shangri-La in West Shanghai is the cornerstone of the new Jing An Kerry Centre, a 450,000-square-metre integrated complex with prime retail, office and residential space located in the fashionable Jing An District in Puxi, Shanghai.
Jing An Shangri-La will present an approachable contemporary design that evokes a strong sense of place complemented by Shangri-La's inimitable heartfelt hospitality.
Every detail of the hotel has been meticulously considered, from the staff uniforms designed by top Chinese designer Han Feng, to over 80 intricate silk lanterns that appear to float magically in the Summer Palace Chinese restaurant, to the commissioning of large-scale artwork from two of the most renowned Chinese contemporary artists – Zeng Fanzhi and Zhou Chun Ya.
"We set out to create a hotel that would be part of this vibrant community. We look forward to opening our doors on the 29th of June to our many loyal guests, friends, Jing An neighbours, and the greater Shanghai community," said Shangri-La President and CEO Greg Dogan.
Jing An Shangri-La overlooks the focal point of Jing An Kerry Centre – a 3,000-square metre piazza featuring pathways, gardens, water features and al fresco dining. Guestrooms will occupy the top 29 floors of the hotel's 60-storey main tower, while restaurants, offices and retail shops will be located on the lower levels.
The spacious guestrooms' rich yet delicate interiors are a foil for the stunning views of Shanghai visible through nearly floor-to-ceiling windows. All guestrooms will feature bathrooms with heated marble floors as well as LCD TV and digital clock embedded in the bathroom mirrors.
The most spectacular view can be seen from the hotel's Horizon Club Lounge, which takes up the entire 55th floor and offers a 360-degree panoramic view of Shanghai. Horizon Club Lounge access will be available to guests staying in the 62-square-metre Grand Premier Room category and all suites.
Among Jing An Shangri-La's many draws is its array of restaurants and lounges. Shangri-La created a distinct environment for each venue.
The unique destination restaurant, Summer Palace, serves Southeastern Chinese cuisine with Cantonese flair. Inspired by Chinese ink paintings of poetic landscapes, a series of contemporary dining chambers each provide a different dining ambience and menu. The colourful rooms flow from the casual Pantry Chamber serving dim sum, to the Lantern Chamber with an open kitchen specialising in clay pot cooking, to the exquisite Imperial Chamber for formal dining.
The 1515 WEST, Chophouse and Bar is where old Shanghai film making meets classic American bar and grill décor. Executive Chef Franco Brodini will bring "ranch to table" dining to Shanghai, serving beef from hand-selected cattle raised in Australia specifically for The 1515 WEST. The main dining room features an open-grill kitchen complemented by a raw bar and The 1515 WEST bar, serving signature cocktails from a team of world-class mixologists.
The hotel's two-level Café LIANG and mezzanine will add a new twist to the gourmet international buffet dining experience Shangri-La hotels are known to offer. The café will feature a "tick box" menu card for main courses, integrating a buffet and table service experience. Main courses can be served family style for sharing, and al fresco dining will be available in the piazza area. A la carte Japanese cuisine will be served on the mezzanine level.
Opposite Café LIANG in the piazza is a modern Mediterranean restaurant and wine bar in a striking stand-alone two-storey glass-roof building clad in bamboo.
Also located within the piazza is the home in which Chairman Mao Zedong spent several months in 1920. Preserved amid the Jing An Kerry Centre's gleaming modern towers, the heritage home is currently being restored with the support of Kerry Properties and Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts, in collaboration with the Jing An District Government.
Anticipating a need for meeting and event space in the central business district, the hotel offers an unparalleled 4,465 square metres of function space in West Shanghai. Jing An Shangri-La's Event Centre is housed in a five-storey podium block with a direct passage to the hotel tower on the third storey.
Its 1,740-square-metre pillarless Jing An Grand Ballroom is the largest in West Shanghai and boasts a 10-metre-high ceiling. The ballroom is complemented by a roof garden and a 1,039 square-metre pre-function area. In addition, the Event Centre houses a 514-square-metre junior ballroom plus six function rooms covering 659 square metres of space.
One signature event venue will be the Lifestyle Suite. Designed to provide the perfect combination of privacy and exclusivity, the self-contained Lifestyle Suite has its own bar, reception area, living room, dining room and courtyard. It can cater up to 80 guests.
Other offerings at Jing An Shangri-La include Shangri-La's signature CHI, The Spa, a state-of-the-art health club and a 25-metre heated indoor sky-dome lap pool.
The hotel is steps away from the Shanghai Exhibition Centre, Jing An Temple and the famous Nanjing Road shopping street. It sits on a network of public transportation, including Metro Lines 2 and 7. It is a 45-minute drive from Pudong International Airport and a 20-minute drive from Hongqiao Airport via the adjacent elevated Yan'an Middle Ring Road.
The hotel and entire Jing An Kerry Centre development has been awarded the LEED Gold Pre-certification from the U.S. Green Building Council. Jing An Shangri-La, West Shanghai is the third Shangri-La property in the city, joining the luxurious Pudong Shangri-La located in the city's financial centre opposite the Bund, and the vibrant Kerry Hotel, Pudong, a luxury lifestyle hotel located near Century Park and the Shanghai New International Expo Centre.


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The metadata muddle
The Obama administration has proved adept at the public relations response to the surveillance leaks — but still hasn't provided much evidence that sweeping up information on the phone calls of millions of Americans has been critical to the fight against terrorism.
Judging by the way officials have framed their answers during hours of congressional hearings, the administration has been seeking headlines touting a big tally of high-profile successes for the surveillance efforts. But the numbers of how many attacks or "terrorist events" were averted are murky.
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President Barack Obama himself has said we'll never really know if the plots could have been scuttled by other means.
( PHOTOS: Pols, pundits weigh in on NSA report)
And the greatest deal of confusion seems to surround the issue of what successes can be traced to the controversial program that stores five years' worth of data on virtually every telephone call made to, from or within the United States.
FBI Director Robert Mueller's appearance at a Senate hearing Wednesday provided the latest set of ambiguous answers. Asked by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) how many cases the call-tracking database was "critical" to, Mueller said: "We're working through the list of numbers — or not numbers — the list of cases. And of those, domestically, I think there will be anywhere from 10 or 12 where 215 was important in some way, shape or form."
Like other officials and members of Congress, Mueller mixed comments about one program, sometimes referred to as Section 215 for the part of the PATRIOT Act used to justify it, with another system, called PRISM or sometimes Section 702 after the part of the 2008 law used to authorize it. The former attempts to collect data on every telephone call made in the U.S. and between the U.S. and abroad, while the latter acquires large volumes of data foreigners exchange on U.S.-based Internet, email and social media sites.
( Also on POLITICO: Mueller: FBI drone use 'seldom')
Mueller eventually said his estimate of 10 or 12 cases included information from both the phone metadata program and PRISM, and he couldn't really break the numbers down more precisely.
"Some of them are 702. I'm not certain whether all of them are 215. They're a combination, or one or the other," Mueller said of the dozen or so U.S. cases he identified.
For the White House and congressional leaders, the challenge in justifying the programs to the public is that separating those numbers out leaves the program that's more domestically controversial and unprecedented looking like a relatively minor contributor to counterterrorism efforts.
( Also on POLITICO: NSA: PRISM stopped NYSE attack)
"They were conflating 215 and 702 as if this [the call-tracking program] was critical to everything," Leahy complained.
A House hearing Tuesday produced breathless stories about National Security Agency snooping unraveling a plot to bomb the New York Stock Exchange and heading off a total of more than 50 planned terrorist strikes worldwide since Sept. 11, 2001.
However, the caveats and qualifiers applicable to those attention-grabbing claims are at least as significant as the assertions themselves.
For one thing, NSA Director Gen. Keith Alexander quickly acknowledged that most of the 50-plus plots averted were foreign — not a huge shock, since the tool most relied on is set up to capture communications between foreigners.
Asked to quantify the domestic impact of intelligence gathered from the call-tracking program, Alexander said it played a role in the "vast majority" of "just over 10" plots which resulted in prosecutions in the U.S. in recent years.


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No more searching for the 3mm wrench!
There is some mystique about a shop with a dirty, well-used workspace, littered with tools specific to long-obsolete components, lengths of housing, five-speed derailleurs, and other shiny, greasy homages to a life of caring for all kinds of bicycles. Once the bubble of the daydream is popped, however, it becomes apparent that tools have a tendency to... shall we say, wander. An organized workspace is a functional workspace, and even if you love to let the hours slip by making adjustments, cleaning, and tuning your machines, the reality is that time spent wrenching is time not spent riding. With that in mind, we present the Feedback Sports Tool Tray.
The Feedback Sports Tool Tray easily attaches to any Feedback repair stand and will keep your tools, cleaners, and lubes organized and close at hand at all times. Its heavy-duty plastic construction won't deteriorate if exposed to chemicals, and in fact the large basin can be used to soak parts in degreaser. It even features a drain for convenient clean up. Drop your chain in the basin and let degreaser do the dirty work while you replace cables and align the derailleur hanger.
The 2.75 x 10 x 14.5in (69.9 mm X 254 mm X 368 mm) Feedback Sports Tool Tray provides labeled Allen wrench storage (2 - 8mm) to eliminate guess work, which not only saves you time while you're making the repair, but also when a tool wanders away. Since Allen wrenches are only part of the starting lineup for most repairs, the Feedback Sports Tool Tray includes room for cable cutters, fourth hand tools, and screwdrivers. It also features a cup holder for 12oz beverages or your stickered coffee mug so you can enjoy a refreshing beverage while fine tuning your ride.
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- Familiarity: I've used it several times
Forego one trip to the bar and pick up this tray if you own a Feedback Stand. This is great for home use and has tons of room for tools, cleaners, and small parts. Stop losing your shit and searching for gear. I would highly recommend this to any home mechanic and it is quite easy to remove when it is time pack up your stand. The mount for the tray can stay attached to the top portion of the stand and it comes with spacers if you choose to pursue that option. Otherwise just use the mount sans spacers on the lower portion of the stand. I like it up top because it is easy to access and out of the way of the cranks.
Don't wait like I did.
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I can't believe how hard I was making my life without this little gem. I was the guy that was setting tools on any flat surface near the work stand or pulling them out of a toolbox full of loose tools. This tray keeps all my tools organized and even has a great spot to hold my favorite hydration from Uinta Brewing.
I don't have a place to set up a work stand permanently, so I can't leave the tray attached all the time. This tray is easy to take off and reattach in a few seconds. Once on the stand, it holds secure and doesn't spin around.
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- Familiarity: I've used it several times
Super easy install, comes with spacers to install it on the upper or lower part of the stand. The storage space is really well thought out in terms of being able to hold parts, chain lube, wrenches etc in an organized fashion. Being organized makes it a lot easier to keep track of what I'm doing on the bike
great addition to home workstation...
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I've been home-wrenching on bikes for many years... I've even got a dedicated workspace in the garage with bench and tools close at hand. I've considered buying this tray for a couple years now but always found something else to spend my hard earned money on...until now. It installs easy and keeps your most used tools and small parts within reach and in-sight. No more fumbling through pockets or setting tools on the ground to kick or stand on. No more trying to hold a part partially installed while reaching to my bench. I wish I would have bought it sooner.
great add on
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Love what this contributes to me repair stand. I always have this full of random bike parts/tools. Really a necessity for any repair stand.
Keeps work area tidy & organized!
I had tools all over the floor around my work stand until I received this as a gift. Now I look really organized! Amazing how many slots and trays this thing has to accomodate a myriad of bike tools. Now everything is close at hand right where you need it to be. Highly recommend if you have a workstand.
Works great with Park Stands too
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In case you were wondering, I've just installed this on my Park stand. It took a moment to get the shim to set in to my satisfaction, but other than that tweak it was a whole lot easier than the actual work done on the bikes. Highly recommended based on first impressions.
Awesome Tray from Feedback Sports
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Totally pleased with this great add on tray. It is quickly installed or removed for travel. Feedback stands and tote bags are also top quality.
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Most excellent and spot on right out of the box! A definite must have for the daily or weekly bike cleaner/tinkerer. Keeps lots of tools, cleaners, or whatever at hands reach and ready to go - vs. shuffling through a scrappy tool box or the nasty taste of metal in your mouth from trying to hold a screwdriver in your pizza pie eater. There is even a spot for a can of cleaner - but really, it's a place to hold your frosty cold beer can (Bottle optional : ). If you have the FeedBack Sports work stand, this is a must have :)
Great add on if...
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
You are keeping the stand in one location. I generally take my stand with me to races and camping and this becomes just a bit of a nuisance in those situations, but it is definitely attached when my stand is at home. A great add on.
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The rise of Democratic power couple Tony and Heather Podesta was the talk of Washington back in 2008, when business was booming at their lobbying firms, their party looked poised to take the White House and they were basking in the success of their extensive fundraising.
The pair was so celebrated in Democratic circles that they even got away with gibing then-candidate Barack Obama on his anti-lobbying campaign rhetoric, sporting custom-made red "Scarlet L" (for lobbyist) patches at the Democratic National Convention.
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Six years later, the political class still can't stop talking about the Podestas, but now it's to savor their divorce drama. The Podestas haven't talked to the press about the breakup since early 2013 when they said in a statement they were separating "as best friends." That arrangement has since devolved into a bitter court battle, with each side hurling personal and professional accusations at the other in recent weeks and months.
In a town where status isn't just measured by money, but by influence — the only thing more interesting than a power couple's rise is their fall, especially when it gets ugly. And for the Podestas, it's getting very ugly.
( Earlier on POLITICO: Podesta divorce documents released)
"These figures are our Hollywood, our celebrities," said Peter Mirijanian, a veteran Democratic communications consultant who has advised public figures through divorces, about the Washington feeding frenzy.
The Podestas are hardly the first power couple to endure the spotlight when a divorce gets nasty. The 2010 separation of GOP power lobbyists Ed and Edwina Rogers — whose Virginia home was dubbed the "Republican Shangri-La" — turned particularly bitter post-divorce when Edwina Rogers accused the couple's accountant of conspiring with her ex-husband to pin a large tax bill on her. A Virginia judge dismissed Edwina Rogers' case in January.
Washington hostess and Republican lobbyist Juleanna Glover's divorce from Jeffrey Weiss became fodder in 2009 in The Washington Post gossip column making headlines like "Lovebirds No Longer" when her ex-husband's firm, Global Policy Partners, sued her for obtaining proprietary information after installing Pandora spyware on her then-husband's computer, which he used for work and personal use at home. Weiss later dropped the suit.
But while gossip and a voyeuristic interest nearly always surround public figures divorcing, the stratospheric rise of the Podestas and their lobbying business has garnered even more attention after both enjoyed years of professional success as longtime Podesta ally Nancy Pelosi became Speaker of the House and Tony Podesta's brother John served as White House chief of staff.
Fellow lobbyists, Capitol Hill aides and the Georgetown social set are fixated on the latest revelations about the couple's crumbling marriage and what it will mean for both their own political future and their lobbying firms' future.
"There is certainly a fascination, but there is also some business undertones as well," Mirijanian said. "Folks can, off the record, say things about one party or another that would hurt them from a business standpoint if it were to get out there, and swoop in and potentially get a client out of it. I'm being very cynical, but I think people think this way."
( Also on POLITICO: Lobbyists back in vogue with Dems)
Tony Podesta's firm, the Podesta Group, has not seen any impact from the couple's separation, according to firm spokeswoman Missi Tessier, who is not serving as a spokesperson on behalf of the divorce.
"We've continued to have healthy growth fueled by our public relations practice," Tessier said. "Our [lobbying revenue] continues to chug along in this turbulent atmosphere."
Heather Podesta + Partners, the largest women-owned Washington lobbying firm, is also having a "banner year," according to Jim Popkin, who is acting as a spokesman for the firm. The firm has added seven new clients, expects to add two nonlobbyist employees in May and is moving into new issue areas.
"Most important it continues to provide meaningful results for its clients," Popkin said.
Still, celebrity attorney Gloria Allred, who has advised on divorces for 30 years, said it's important for couples to consider how their business is tied up with their reputation.
"It takes years to build a good reputation and it only takes moments to destroy it as Donald Sterling has found out," Allred said.
While there are obvious downsides to a public, nasty divorce — there could be potential upsides, according to Republican communications vet Lisa Camooso Miller.


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My cover story for this week's Christian Science Monitor is now online:
They are fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, opera lovers and salsa dancers, long-winded pedants and quick-witted conversationalists, cancer survivors and nonagenarian swimmers, West Coasters and East Coasters, Winnebago drivers and airplane pilots. Aside from being nine of the most powerful men and women in the United States, the Supreme Court justices are also a lot like We the People.
But when we talk about the court looking like America, we also mean things such as the justices' religions, races, genders, and sexual orientations. We mark our progress as a society by the diversity of these traits on the court. And President Obama's nomination of Solicitor General Elena Kagan makes plain how far we've come, and for some, how much further we have to go.
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In this book true software development stories are provided that may challenge long held thinking. 26 upside down principles are hihghlighted along with upside down principle clarifying thoughts. At the end of each story one finds extended clarifying thoughts in the upside down principle summary sections. Also, 18 coaching tips are given that can help to get an organization "right side up" with respect to performance.
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Roland Racko answers these questions (and many more) by explaining how "management by query" - a 12-step process during the software development process - subtly encourages positive team behavior. This book shows you, the non-technical executive, start-up founder or manager (someone having approval control over software development), a new way to corral the software development process in a manner that enhances the business value of the product and the project.
Millions of dollars are spent annually on process improvement initiatives that too frequently fall short of their goals. Due at least in part to this situation, today many are turned off and have tuned out when it comes to the multitude of process and performance improvement approaches along with their related hype and buzzwords. Agile, CMMI, Kanban, Lean, Six Sigma, Lean Six Sigma, PSP, and TSP to name just a few.
Drawing on decades of process improvement experience, author Paul E. McMahon explains why we are facing these problems and how you can get yourself and your organization back on track focused on the things that matter most to both your own personal performance and your organization's performance. This book is equally about personal and organizational performance.
This book discusses many popular improvement approaches including the CMMI, Lean Six Sigma, and Agile Retrospectives; it highlights fifteen (15) fundamentals common to all successful improvement efforts where sustainable high value performance improvements are achieved; and it shares a vision (and an actual example that holds promise) of a simple "thinking framework" that can help counter the patterns that may be holding you and your organization back from the sustainable high performance you seek.
The Essence of Software Engineering: Applying the SEMAT Kernel
SEMAT (Software Engineering Methods and Theory) is an international initiative designed to identify a common ground, or universal standard, for software engineering. It is supported by some of the most distinguished contributors to the field. Creating a simple language to describe methods and practices, the SEMAT team expresses this common ground as a kernel–or framework–of elements essential to all software development.


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- 3 ounces sliced provolone cheese
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- 3 ounces Teleme or Fontina cheese, grated (about 1 cup)
- 1 cup thinly sliced iceberg lettuce
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- Cut top crust (about 1/3 inch) off bread and discard. Cut bread horizontally in half. Arrange provolone cheese on cut side of bottom half, covering completely. Top with layer of salami, then ham. Mix olives, capers, and peperoncini in small bowl; spread relish over ham. Press top half of bread, cut side down, atop relish; spread with 1 1/2 tablespoons butter.
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The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
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This valuable book provides a complete manual for the study and practice of Raja Yoga, the path of concentration and meditation. This new deluxe printing of these timeless teachings is a treasure to be read and referred to again and again by seekers treading the spiritual path. The classic Sutras (thought-threads), at least 4,000 years old, cover the yogic teachings on ethics, meditation, and physical postures, and provide directions for dealing with situations in daily life. The Sutras are presented here in the purest form, with the original Sanskrit and with translation, transliteration, and commentary by Sri Swami Satchidananda, one of the most respected and revered contemporary Yoga masters. In this classic context, Sri Swamiji offers practical advice based on his own experience for mastering the mind and achieving physical, mental and emotional harmony.
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Past successes of the NASA program include the invention of a special drilling technique designed for lunar-gravity conditions and a nanofluid coolant system that works in different gravities, Fox reports.
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The Sun observed in a recent editorial that President Barack Obama's call to reduce the threat of nuclear war "could not have been more timely" ("Avoiding Armageddon," Feb. 18). It would be impossible to agree more with that sentiment.
Since the Cold War, the proliferation or threat of proliferation of nuclear weapons to rogue states and terrorist organizations has been a continuous specter in international relations.
With Iranian talks next week and a North Korean nuclear test last week, the threat of nuclear-armed rogue nations has never been higher. It is vital that the two largest nuclear arsenals lead the way.
Arms talks with Russia build on a foundation created by President Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush in the mid-1980s and early 1990s. President Obama is an heir to that cooperation.
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Spain: music for everyone in the summer
You can surely think of many reasons to visit Spain on your holidays, but did the thought of music cross your mind? Our country is pleasing to all the senses, and also to the ear. If you visit in the summer, you can enjoy some of the most famous festivals in Europe. Castles, palaces and places of great historic value become elegant stages for internationally renowned musicians.
Enjoy a concert in a majestic natural setting, attend a recital in a Renaissance palace, see a show in an emblematic place like the Alhambra in Granada, take master classes with musicians expert in their disciplines, or enjoy an improvisation session in a night club: these are only a few of the options available at the different music festivals held in many places in Spain during the summer.
These are prestigious, established events with an international reputation. They encompass a variety of styles and attract not only a huge audience eager to listen to the best music, but also the most representative artists from the international scene. While the musical performances are the focal point at these events, the programmes usually include other parallel activities in which those in attendance become active participants: from practical workshops to lectures, conferences, seminars and thematic courses.
All kinds of styles
These festivals, which are distributed throughout Spain, take place in both major cities and in beach or mountain areas or in smaller, quieter spots. The pleasant summer temperatures make it possible for many of the performances to be held outdoors. On occasion, the setting where they take place is as interesting as the event itself: emblematic places, monuments and historical buildings are often the magnificent stage for these performances.
Whatever your musical tastes, you can enjoy them in Spain. The Santander and Granada International Festivals are some of the indispensable events for classical music lovers. Those who like jazz will not want to miss the Vitoria-Gasteiz Jazz Festival or the San Sebastián Jazzaldia; and for flamenco, you will love the International Cante de las Minas (Mine Songs) Festival and the Córdoba Guitar Festival. For pop/rock, new trends and alternative styles, there are huge gatherings like Sónar or the FIB (Benicassim International Festival), while world and folk music have their place at festivals such as Pyrenees Folk Festival, Etnosur, Grec, La Mar de Músicas and the Ortigueira Celtic Festival.
These are only some of the musical offerings throughout the length and breadth of our country that will give you the chance to enjoy your stay in Spain even more. Check it out.
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