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Canadian police officers respond to a shooting in a mosque at the Québec City Islamic cultural center on Sainte-Foy Street in Quebec city at about 8 pm local time, on January 29, 2017. Two arrests have been made after five people (now six!) were reportedly shot dead in an attack on a mosque in Québec City, Canada. At least five people were injured in the incident and are at the University Hospital of Quebec. (Why always five?)
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Britain, France, Germany, Australia, Canada. All these countries have been targeted in turn, and all are deeply suspicious. They are clearly intended to generate anti-Muslim sentiment, now officially sanctioned by the President of the United States who is determined to project the false narrative that Muslims are the threat to America, when all the evidence points another way.
(9/11 for example was incontrovertably a CIA/Mossad operation with Saudi support. Further there are are well over 16,000 MURDERS in the USA every year and only a MINISCULE proportion of these are committed by Muslims let alone ISIS affiliates)
We may conclude from this and other factual evidence, that this is a joint American/Israeli black ops policy, building on all the earlier offensive actions and preparing Western mind-set for more. It is fraudulent and disengenuous and everyone in the world has a responsibility to call it out whenever it shows its ugly head.
It is too early yet to come to conclusions about Quebec but already there are indications that this too may fit an established pattern and modus operandi.
Clearly Canada's welcoming stance to Muslim refugees needs to be torpedoed and we might ask who would want that - Muslim refugees?
Further if the information is correct, this was Muslims attacking their own. Again what sense does that make except in the context of an American/Israeli/Saudi created Daish?
Canadian police officers respond to a shooting in a mosque at the Québec City Islamic cultural center on Sainte-Foy Street in Quebec city on January 29, 2017. (Getty) Source: http://heavy.com/news/2017/01/quebec-city-canada-mosque-shooting-victims-shooter-gunman-photos-video-injuries-deaths/
People should be very aware that in parallel, alleged threat from Muslims is used to justify bombing in Muslim countries, most recently in the Yemen, increased surveillance particularly of the internet and communications, limitations on free speech and disemination of opinion as with the "Anti anti-Semitism" campaign raging everywhere.
The current obsession with "fake news", is yet another thinly veiled attempt to control anything other than the agreed and delusive, anti-Muslim, rhetorical, narrative.
So without necessarily jumping to conclusions, what in this attack appears familiar and like so many earlier ones:
- "two or three" attackers
- the use of AK47's
- indescriminate shooting of peaceful people
- the choice of public worship or other public gathering
- attackers reported to shout "Allah Akbar" before or whilst firing weapons
- wearing dark clothes and masks (surely more for effect than disguise, for why would 'suicide attackers' wish to prevent recognition?)
- At a press conference early Monday morning, a Sûreté du Québec spokesperson said two suspects were arrested – one near the mosque, and another near Île d'Orléans, east of Quebec City. Police said nothing leads them to believe that other people were involved.
- On Twitter, several hashtags emerged, including #JeSuisQuébec, #IAmQuebec and #PrayForQuebec.
"Hamid Nadji, who spoke to a friend who was inside the mosque, told the Montreal Gazette the scene was a "carnage."
Nadji told the newspaper, "From what we heard over the phone, one person had a weapon discharged in his face because he had wanted to jump on the man to stop him. And the three others died because they wanted to catch the man."
One of the gunmen left the mosque to reload and came back. He then ran out of bullets a second time, reloaded and returned for a third round of shooting, Nadji told the Gazette."
Ah yes we have observed similar in almost every similar case. Often, but not in this instance it would appear, from a profession journalist(s) Note also the inevitable "hero" meme being planted here as with virtually every other case. This it is alleged is coming not from the attackers or their organisation, but "a friend of an eye witness."
So we are justified in enquiring who is this Hamid Nadji and his background affiliations (if any)
The following are listed who may or may not be the gentleman in question, nor should anything sinister be read into their CV's or contacts shown:
Hamid Nadji
Polymer Chemistry, Green Chemistry, Materials Chemistry
manufacture and particularly formaldehyde
From http://ca.viadeo.com/fr/profile/hamid.nadji it would appear his last contacts were:
Lanouar Baali Cherif
Réda Djebbar
Residential Real Estate Broker
Real Estate Agency
The same gentleman appears to hold other positions of influence as here reported:
Hamid Nadji. President of the Regrouping Capital Taxi Owners (RPTC) Photo: Radio-Canada
"The meeting will also be an opportunity for the organization to calm the troops. "We want to turn to calm
and peaceful ways and we want to avoid slippages. As you know, under the effect of anger, there are
always slips, "said Hamid Nadji."
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Ever read something that made you want to pump your fist in the air? That's exactly how I felt when I read this article from John Piper. If you're a person who is struggling with feeling joy, or you feel like people expect you to be happy all the time because you're a Christian, this is for you.
Some days with Jesus our disposition is as sour as raw persimmons. Some days with Jesus we are so sad we feel our heart will break open. Some days with Jesus fear turns us into a knot of nerve ends. Some days with Jesus we are so depressed and discouraged that between the garage and the house we just want to sit down on the grass and cry. Every day with Jesus is not sweeter than the day before. We know it from experience and we know it from Scripture. For the text says (Psalm 19:7), "The law of the Lord is perfect, reviving the soul." If every day with Jesus is sweeter than the day before, we wouldn't need to be revived.
The reason David praised God with the words, "He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul," is because he had bad days. There were days when his soul needed to be restored. It's the same phrase used in Psalm 19:7—"the law of the Lord is perfect, reviving the soul." Normal Christian life is a repeated process of restoration and renewal. Our joy is not static. It fluctuates with real life. When Paul says in 2 Corinthians 1:24, "Not that we lord it over your faith, but we are workers with you for your joy," we should emphasize it this way: "We are workers with you for your joy."
The preservation of our joy in God takes work. It is a fight. Our adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, and he has an insatiable appetite to destroy one thing: the joy of faith.
But the Holy Spirit has given us a shield called faith and a sword called the Word of God and a power called prayer to defend and extend our joy. Or, to change the image, when Satan huffs and puffs and tries to blow out the flame of your joy, you have an endless supply of kindling in the Word of God. And even though there are days when we feel that every cinder in our soul is cold, yet if we crawl to the Word of God and cry out for ears to hear, the cold ashes will be lifted and the tiny spark of life will be fanned, because, "The law of the Lord is perfect, reviving the soul."
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In this Buyers Advocate Melbourne post, Luxton Property will summarise the aspects of living in Ivanhoe that have made Ivanhoe the charming sought after suburb it is today.
Ivanhoe, famous for its Boulevard Christmas Lights that draw thousands of tourists every year, is located 12km North East of Melbourne's CBD, and is amongst a cluster of other prestigious suburbs including Kew and Balwyn. With the Eastern Freeway located close to the area, residents enjoy quick access to the popular Yarra Valley and Mornington Peninsula – both are a one hour drive away. Weekend-getaway's aside, Melbourne's CBD can be reached in under 30 minutes by car or within an hour by train from Ivanhoe Station or nearby Darebin Station.
|Property Data for Ivanhoe
|Median house price:
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|– Price per square metre
|– Annual Capital Growth
|– Average Annual Growth
|– Capital Growth since 2012 (5 years)
|– Median Advertised Rent (per week)
|– Gross Rental Yield
Source: Core Logic: RealEstate.com, YourInvestmentPropertyMag.com
|Demographics of Ivanhoe
|City of Banyule
|Total Population
|Median household income
|$1,599 per week
|Median housing loan repayment
|$2,167 per month
|Average household size
|2.5 (people)
|Dominant country of birth
|Australia (74%)
|Dominant religion
|Christianity (61%)
|Percentage that work
|Dominant occupation
|38.6% professionals, 15.3% managers, 14.7% clerical & admin
|Household income
|40.9% earning above $1500 (weekly)
|Dominant dwelling type
|71.3% separate house
Source: ABS Census, 2011 – YourInvestmentPropertyMag.com
|Property buying information for Ivanhoe
|Most expensive pocket/s:
|Property within the boundary of Livingstone Street, Waterdale Road, Banksia Street and Oriel Road
Property within the boundary of The Boulevard to the south and east and Lower Heidelberg Road to the North and West
|Train: Ivanhoe Station, Darebin Station (Hurstbridge Line)
|Bus stops on St Elmo Rd, Banksia St, Lower Heidelberg Rd, Bond St, Oriel Rd
|Popular Shopping Hubs
|Upper Heidelberg Rd, Ivanhoe Plaza, East Ivanhoe Village
|Popular Private Schools
|Ivanhoe Grammar School, Ivanhoe Girls' Grammar School, Mary Immaculate Primary School, Mother of God Primary School
|Popular Restaurants
|Vatutto, Centonove, Tao's, Vasko
|Popular Attractions
|Hatch Art Space, The Boulevard Christmas Lights
Living in Ivanhoe can be described as a charmingly prestigious established green suburb with quiet tree lined leafy streets. Ivanhoe has everything at your doorstep. The majority of community activity resonates from the well-known Heidelberg Town Hall ( also known as The Centre, Ivanhoe) and down the main shopping strip of Upper Heidelberg Rd and on to the adjoining Lower Heidelberg Rd and Boulevard. It is in these areas where residents enjoy their weekend brunch and do their shopping at many of the cafes, restaurants and boutique stores. Residents are further spoilt for choice with access to golf courses, parklands, walking and biking tracks, an aquatic centre and other sporting facilities.
Ivanhoe is known for its established historic period and character homes, in particular the popular Art Deco, on large blocks of land with park or city views. More recently there have been newer apartment developments and modern town homes popping up. The median buy-in for a house in Ivanhoe is valued at $1.4 million, or $630 thousand for a unit. Although the value of property in Ivanhoe can seem to be on the higher-end of the affordability scale, investors should account for qualitative aspects of both living in Ivanhoe and available properties within the suburb.
With a plethora of amenities available, it's no wonder that Ivanhoe has become a sought after place – home to established families, but more recently home to mature singles. Ivanhoe could be the next place for young families to settle down in too given the range of prestigious school's available in the area including Ivanhoe Grammar School and Ivanhoe Primary School, just to mention a few. It's also safe to say that Ivanhoe has become home to a community of artists as they flaunt their latest masterpieces in the local Maker's Market. Hatch, the local contemporary art space ads to the artistic vibe of Ivanhoe, as well as the modernistic architecture mixed in with period-style architecture. The charm of Ivanhoe seems to have brought residents together – creating a community-feel to the area.
We know the intricate details of Ivanhoe as well as most suburbs in Melbourne's North East to ensure we buy the best property for our clients at the best price. The above is just a brief insight in to how thorough we are with our property research, which in turn assists our clients to make the right decision with their next purchase. You see the more information we have, the better our buying strategy. This ensures our client's needs are always met and their expectations are always exceeded.
At Luxton Property Group we specialise in purchasing property for investors and premium home buyers. You might just be starting out in the property market or be a seasoned property investor looking for an edge. The above is just a small glimpse in to what we do and how we use our local market knowledge to buy our clients the best property at the best price. We have been buying property for over a decade and have a superior buying service at a more affordable price. If your thinking about living in Ivanhoe, Request a call today to speak to one of our property buying experts for a no obligation discussion on how we can assist you with your next purchase.


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Four young speakers contested the final of Banchory Rotary's Young Speechmaker competition, held at the town's Burnett Arms Hotel on Wednesday, June 7.
Jamie Holroyde and Alex Grant, from Banchory Primary School, were joined in competition for the Speechmakers' Shield by Matthew Mair, from Hill of Banchory School, and Finn Dearsley, from Drumoak Primary School.
Contestants presented a five-minute speech on their own choice of topic using visual aids and props.
They fielded questions on their subject from the audience of more than 70 Rotarians and guests, who learned about subjects as diverse as The Conspiracy Theory of the First Man on The Moon, the History and Delights of Rowntrees' Sweets, and the equally enticing Delights of Cheese.
The winner was Matthew Mair who talked about the Art of Illustration, in particular of the Harry Potter book series, which are being issued with full colour illustrations, and the first of which pre-dated and influenced the films.
Wednesday's event was the final of a competition which started in Primary 7 classes in most of the Banchory area schools.
It progressed though a semi-final where we learned about Reptiles (with one present), Natural Disasters, Mountain Biking - even David Beckham - plus several other interesting topics.
While the judges were marking their way through the 16 criteria, entertainment was provided by three impressive violinists and a large choir from Banchory Primary School, whose harmonies were superb.
Club president Richard Bridger presented the Young Speechmaker Shield to Matthew and individual prizes to all four competitors. He said: "Banchory Rotary would like to thank all the schools and pupils who contributed so much to this annual competition, and in particular also to the evening's young musicians and choristers.
"Congratulations to all who participated at the various stages of the contest, and we hope they enjoyed the experience and doing the research into their own topic."
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The first debate will focus on what some see as incompatible objectives of national drug policy—ensuring public health and conducting effective policing. In many settings, it has been shown that aggressive drug policing tends to drive people who use drugs underground and away from health services, and that health services are especially absent when people are in police custody. The Global Commission on Drug Policy, an expert body including politicians, artists, business leaders and scholars, has suggested that in drug policy, policing should be balanced by explicit efforts to ensure access to health services, including finding alternatives to arrest and incarceration for minor drug infractions.
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Aroma of Christ Prayer & Encouragement Group
The Aroma of Christ Prayer & Encouragement Group is a good opportunity for people who are housebound to be involved in a ministry right from their home. We are here to pray for one another, encourage one another, and find ways to bless others from our homes such as through our e-card ministry.
"Let us not give up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but let us encourage one another–and all the more as you see the Day approaching." Hebrews 10:24
If you would like to join us, please read the Statement of Faith for this ministry. If you agree with this statement, we'd love to have you join our group!
- We believe there is only one true God. (See Exodus 20:3 & Isaiah 46:9)
- We believe that the way to salvation and eternal life is obtained through a personal commitment to Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior of one's life and through Him alone. (See John 14:6 & John 3:16)
- We believe that the Bible is God's written Word, infallible and inspired by the Holy Spirit. In it is revealed God's plan of salvation as well as principles for living a life pleasing to God. (See 2 Timothy 3:16 and Hebrews 4:12)
- We believe that salvation is a free gift from God and no one can earn his/her own way to heaven. We also believe that a true follower of Christ will seek to demonstrate his love for Christ through obedience. (See Ephesians 2:8-9 & I John 2:3)
- We believe that God is three persons in one—the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. (See Genesis 1:26 & Matthew 28:19)
- We believe that those who receive God's free gift of salvation will live eternally with God in heaven. (See Romans 6:8 & I Thessalonians 4:16-17)
- We believe that those who reject God will be eternally separated from Him. (See Romans 6:23 & Revelation 20:15)


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Published at Tuesday, July 23rd, 2019 - 07:08:47 AM. Patio. By Lorie Granet.
Patios also happen to be the perfect place to have a barbecue. Barbecues are becoming increasingly popular nowadays. In summer, the best way to spend time with friends or family is to have a nice little barbecue party in your patio. What is great about a patio is, you can keep all your equipment in the patio, you don't need to keep making trips to your kitchen and back. Your patio can be private and away from your house. You can have a patio door and make it like a separate entertainment room altogether. You can even decorate your patio by either putting up curtains or having patio window and patio door blinds. Basically, you can choose to make your dining out as luxurious as you want. Decorate your patio with as much taste as you would decorate one of the rooms in your house. It will make your barbecue parties at home more delightful.
There are a few to choose from when deciding for a patio umbrella's pole. Popular ones are wood, metal and fiberglass. Wood is a standstill pole. If you do not need something that can rotate or tilt, then this is the pole for you. Metal poles are strong poles that can rotate and tilt. These stylish poles are flexible and are most suited for iron patio set. The lightest pole would be the fiberglass poles. It can naturally enhance your patio. It gives comfort to eyes and your guests will love it too.
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A regular soccer game lasts for 90 minutes. If the game ends in a draw during a knockout competition, then extra time is played. Extra time consists of two halves that are 15 minutes each.
Soccer is played for 45 minutes, and there is then a 15-minute halftime break before players play for an additional 45 minutes. If the ball is kicked off the pitch during a soccer match, meaning the ball is kicked out of play, the clock still does not stop. In knockout competitions, if the match is still a draw after extra time, then the match is decided on penalties.


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Friday, June 22 and Saturday, June 23
Exposition Center at Wisconsin State Fair Park 8200 W. Greenfield Ave. West Allis, WI 53214
Please do NOT wait for the WDA Mission of Mercy to seek care for dental pain, as this could signal a serious condition. Click here for a list of low-cost dental clinics and other information.
If dental pain is severe and accompanied by a fever or swelling, go to a hospital emergency room immediately!
WDA Mission of Mercy Patient Info and FAQs
▶ How many people will you see?
Our goal is to see approximately 1,000 patients per day, but that number will be adjusted depending on the type of care needed and the final number of volunteers.
▶ Will adults be seen or is this just for children?
▶ Can I bring my tent to wait in? What about my grill?
Tents and grills are not allowed. We encourage you to drink non-alcoholic fluids (water is best) to keep yourself hydrated and eat something while waiting; however, grills and other fires are not allowed.
▶ What are the clinic hours?
▶ Do I need to bring ID?
There is no identification required.
▶ What time should I get there?
▶ How long will it take?
Plan to be at Mission of Mercy for at least several hours. Patients are seen on first-come, first-served basis, so how long it takes depends how many people are ahead of you. The first people into the clinic should be done around 7 a.m. Once you enter the clinic area doors, registration and your initial exam will take approximately 30 minutes. We will have 100 dental chairs, and patients will spend an average of 45 minutes in the treatment chair.
▶ Will everyone who comes be seen?
This depends on how many people show up and their physical health. Patients are seen on a first-come, first-served basis until the day's capacity is met. All patients go through a medical health screening where they must meet requirements for blood pressure, blood-clotting and blood sugar in order to be seen.
We reserve the right to refuse to treat anyone who has signs of intoxication or illegal drug use or is found to be threatening to other patients and/or volunteers.
▶ What procedures do you do?
We do cleanings, fillings, extractions and a limited number of transitional partials for front teeth. Full dentures and denture repairs are not provided on a walk-in basis.
▶ Will all the work I need done be completed?
▶ Can I get nitrous or general anesthetic?
We only use local anesthetic for procedures requiring numbing at the MOM clinic. No nitrous will be onsite.
▶ Do you extract wisdom teeth?
If the tooth is visible through the gum and accompanied by pain and swelling, then we will extract a wisdom tooth.
▶ Can I get a set of dentures?
▶ Do you do root canals?
In some circumstances we are able to do a root canal on front teeth. However, the tooth needs to be structurally sound, not require a crown and/or be an anchor tooth for a partial or a bridge.
▶ What are partial dentures/transitional partials?
▶ Will there be interpreters available?
▶ Can I smoke?
▶ Is there a maximum income level for patients?
No, we do not ask any questions regarding your situation.
▶ Do I need to have insurance?
▶ Where can I park?
This added expense will be substantial, so we encourage carpooling, taking public transportation or use street parking in the area whenever possible. Please tell the gate attendant that you are with the WDA Mission of Mercy when you arrive at the clinic.
If you would like to make a donation to assist us in covering this expense, please click here.
▶ What should I bring?
You may wish to bring a lawn chair for outside; chairs are not provided. If bringing young children, be sure to bring diapers and a change of clothes to keep them comfortable. There is no onsite coat or package check, so anything you bring will need to be carried with you or returned to your car before entering the building.
Remember, you will not be allowed to leave and re-enter the building without losing your place in line. The building will be air conditioned, so if you chill easily bring a sweater or light jacket to help keep you warm.
▶ What can I expect?
Everyone will receive a numbered wristband and a nametag. You will be asked how you would like to be referred to while in the clinic. You may choose to go by your first name, your last name and salutation (i.e. Mr. Jones) or a nickname you decided on for the day. Whatever you choose is fine. The wristbands help ensure first-come, first-served order is followed.
Upon entering the building, you will be asked several survey questions prior to treatment. Your responses are tracked in the computer and no one will see them once submitted. The information you provide will help us track demographics about the clinic's patients which, in turn, helps us receive grants for future MOM events. After that you will complete a patient registration form then go through a patient education area. Your next stop will be medical triage.
In medical triage, you will be asked about your medical history and have your blood pressure taken. In some instances you may need to have your blood clotting and/or blood sugar levels tested. Providing these readings are all in line, you will proceed to dental triage for an oral exam. A dentist will look over your teeth and determine what work needs to be done and in what priority.
Next you will be taken to routing where another dentist will look over the recommended treatment priorities and compare them to each department's availability to determine what work you will have done. Depending on what work is to be done, you may be sent to have an X-ray taken. Once any needed X-rays are taken, you will be escorted to the appropriate department, checked in and asked to have a seat in the specific waiting area. Here you will be seen on a first-come, first-served using the number provided to you in routing. Depending on the number of people in front of you, you could wait for several hours in the department.
If you are receiving a cleaning, you will go from the waiting area directly into the treatment chair. If you are having fillings, extractions or a root canal, you will first go to a general numbing area to receive local anesthetic before going into a treatment chair. Once the work has been done, you will be escorted to the patient exit area where you will receive a kit with toothbrush, toothpaste and floss to take home. If other family or friends accompanied you to the clinic, you can reconnect with them in the designated meeting place which will be by the clinic's patient exit.
For your safety as well as for that of our volunteers, at no time should you walk unescorted on the clinic floor. There are numerous hazards in a working dental clinic where over 1,000 people will be busy at any one time. Patient ambassadors will be available to assist you, including making trips to the restroom.
▶ Who works on me/provides treatment?
▶ Will I receive any prescriptions?
▶ Do the dentists or other volunteers get compensated to work at the event?
No. Everyone providing care and helping out at the clinic is a volunteer. No one is being paid.
▶ Who pays for all the supplies and equipment?
We are very grateful for the numerous sponsors and donors that provide either cash or in-kind donations to make this event possible.
▶ Can my adult special needs ward receive treatment?
Yes, providing the legal guardian/caregiver accompanies them and authorizes care.
▶ Do you see patients in wheelchairs?
Yes, providing the patient is able to be moved into a treatment chair either on their own or with assistance.
▶ I am a Special Olympics athlete. How can I be seen at the clinic?
Contact Special Olympics Director of Wellness Initiatives Melissa Schoenbrodt at [email protected] to find out more.
▶ How can I volunteer?
Visit the Volunteer page on WDA.org. Volunteering is not a requirement in order to receive care nor does it assure a place in line.
It's the smiles – not the miles – that make it a mission!


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US President-elect Donald Trump visited Congress on Thursday and proclaimed that health care, border security and jobs will be his top three priorities when he moves to the White House next January.
US President Barack Obama and President-elect Donald Trump shake hands during a transition planning meeting in the Oval Office at the White House on November 10, 2016 in Washington,DC. Continuing a Washington victory tour of sorts after his presidential election shocked the world, Trump and Vice president-elect Mike Pence sat down with House Speaker Paul Ryan and then with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to discuss the Republican priorities in Congress.
Ryan and Trump had a testy relationship during the campaign, with the House speaker last month saying he would not defend the nominee after Trump's lewd comments about women were made public. Now that Trump is the president-elect, Ryan appeared friendly and gracious as they met, first over lunch and then in his Capitol office.
"We had a very detailed meeting," Trump told reporters at a brief photo spray. "As you know, health care — we're going to make it affordable. We are going to do a real job on health care," he said. Trump made repealing Obamacare, and building a border wall between the United States and Mexico, pillars of his presidential campaign.
Trump said he and the Republican majority in Congress were going to accomplish "absolutely spectacular things for the American people," adding he was eager to get started. Afterwards, following an hour-long meeting with McConnell on the other side of the Capitol, Trump stood at the Senate majority leader's side and stressed that "we have a lot to do.
" "We're going to look very strongly at immigration," he said. "We're going to look very strongly at health care, and we're looking at jobs — big league jobs." Trump did not elaborate. McConnell said they discussed the transition operations and said "he's anxious to get going early, and so are we.
" Ryan for his part complimented Trump on his astounding come-from-behind victory against Democrat Hillary Clinton.
"We're going to turn that victory into progress for the American people, and we are now talking about how we are going to hit the ground running to get this country turned around and make America great again," Ryan said. Congress returns to work next week, after an extended break for the US elections.


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Managing the Adoption Process
Adoption is the legal procedure by which a child, through court action, becomes part of a family other than that of his or her birth parents. Adoption permanently severs the ties with birth parents and relatives and transfers the child into a new family where he or she will remain permanently.
For the most part, to the birth parents, adoption usually relinquishes the child forever without the privilege of seeing the child or being otherwise involved in the child's life. However, in open adoption, birth parents retain the right to communicate or visit the child, depending upon the parties' agreement.
For the adoptive parent, adoption means providing a child with a forever family and caring and loving a child as a child naturally born to you. There are different types of adoptions that include:
- Private Adoption,
- Second Parent (Same-Sex) Adoption,
- Relative Adoption,
- Step-Parent Adoption,
- Foster Parent (Dependency Court) Adoption,
- Haitian Orphan Adoption,
- Interstate Compact Adoption, and
- Adult Adoption
Our firm is experienced and skilled in representing prospective adoptive parents in all national adoptions. Too, we have demonstrated experience in negotiating adoption subsidies issues between foster parent and caregivers in the dependency system and the State the Florida.
As a staunch adoption advocate, our firm will guide you every step of the way throughout your adoption process to ensure that the adoption is successfully legally finalized on a timely and forever basis.


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Question #1: I am having a lot of company for Shabbos and we have a small house. During Shabbos, I would like to remove the extra leaves from the table and set up the "porta crib," and then in the morning fold up the crib and put the table leaves back. May I do this on Shabbos?
Question #2: I have an adjustable shtender that I usually leave at the same height. May I adjust it on Shabbos?
Question #3: The house is very crowded and stuffy because we are celebrating a kiddush. May I remove a door or a window to allow some additional ventilation? (I was asked this shaylah in Israel where doors and windows are hinged in a way that they are easily removable.)
Question #4: May I remove the pieces of glass from a broken window on Shabbos?
Before discussing these shaylos, we need to explain the halachos of construction on Shabbos, and how they apply to movable items such as household furnishings and accessories.
Boneh, building or constructing, is one of the 39 melachos of Shabbos that are derived from the construction of the Mishkan. Included in this melacha is performing any type of home repair or enhancement, even if only a minor repair (see Gemara Shabbos 102b). Thus, it is prohibited min haTorah to hammer a nail into a wall in order to hang a picture (Rashi, Eruvin 102a s.v. halacha). Similarly, one may not smooth the dirt floor of a house because this enhances the "structure" (Gemara Shabbos 73b).
Sosair, demolishing or razing, is also one of the 39 melachos, since Bnei Yisroel disassembled the mishkan whenever they moved it from place to place (Gemara Shabbos 31b). Therefore, any demolition of a building is prohibited min haTorah if the ultimate results are beneficial, such as razing part of a building in order to renovate it.
If there are no benefits to the demolition, it is still prohibited midirabbanan. Thus, wrecking the house because someone is angry violates Shabbos only midirabbanan (according to most Rishonim) since there is no positive benefit from the destruction (Pri Megadim 314:11 in Eishel Avraham). It is also prohibited because of other reasons, such as bal tashchis (unnecessary destruction) and being bad for one's middos (see Gemara Shabbos 105b).
We already have enough information to answer questions #3 and #4 above, regarding removing a window to ventilate the house and removing pieces of glass from a broken window. Both of these activities are prohibited min haTorah since they involve the melacha of sosair for positive results. Therefore, a Jew may not remove the window or the broken glass unless there is a life-threatening emergency. If the broken window is dangerous (but not life threatening), one may ask a non-Jew to remove the broken pieces of glass.
Do the melachos of boneh and sosair apply to movable items, keilim (sing., kli), as well, or only to buildings? In other words, does the Torah's prohibition refer only to something connected to the ground, or does it include the construction of a movable item?
This question is disputed in the Gemara and by the Rishonim, who debate whether keilim are included in the prohibition of building and destroying on Shabbos (Gemara Beitzah 10a). There are three basic opinions:
1. Keilim are not included in the prohibition of boneh and sosair.
2. Keilim are totally included in the prohibition of boneh and sosair.
3. A compromise position in which total construction or destruction of a kli is prohibited min haTorah, but minor improvement is not (Tosafos Shabbos 74b and 102b). The halacha follows this opinion (Shulchan Aruch 314:1).
Assembling or improving a kli in a way that involves strength and skill constitutes boneh, and disassembling it involves sosair. Therefore, it is prohibited min haTorah to assemble a piece of furniture in a way that its parts are now extremely tight since this involves strength and skill to do the job properly. Similarly, replacing the handle on a hoe or other appliance is prohibited min haTorah since it requires skill and strength to do the job properly (Gemara Shabbos 102b).
What is considered tight? It appears from sources that anything as tight as one would nail it together is considered tight enough to be prohibited min Hatorah.
Assembling furniture without tightening the pieces is not prohibited min haTorah, but is prohibited midirabbanan out of concern that one might tighten them (Tosafos Shabbos 48a s.v. ha; Hagahos Ashri Shabbos 3:23). Therefore, one may not assemble a bed, crib, or table even without tightening the pieces since these pieces of furniture are usually tightened (Kaf HaChayim 313:63). However, there is a minority opinion that permits assembling such an item very loosely (Chazon Ish).
One may not assemble a crib on Shabbos. Assembling it in a very tight way may involve a Torah prohibition, whereas assembling it without tightening the pieces is prohibited midirabbanan since one might assemble it tightly. (However, porta cribs which are meant to be assembled and taken apart, have a different halacha as I will explain shortly.) According to most authorities, if one usually tightens the crib very tightly, it is prohibited to assemble it even very loosely, whereas according to the Chazon Ish, one may assemble it loosely.
Repairing a broken appliance on Shabbos follows the same guidelines as assembling. Therefore it is prohibited when the repair requires skill and strength even if one repairs it in a temporary way.
Therefore, if the leg of a bed or table fell out, one may not reinsert it even temporarily out of concern that one might repair it permanently (Shulchan Aruch 313:8). In this instance, Chazal decreed that the bed or table itself becomes muktzah in order to ensure that someone does not repair it (Rama 308:16). Again, according to the Chazon Ish, one may insert it loosely.
There are two exceptions to this rabbinic prohibition, when one may assemble or repair an item in a non-permanent way. The first is on Yom Tov (Tosafos Beitzah 22a; Shulchan Aruch 519:2, Magen Avraham and Gr"a ad loc.). One may use a temporary repair to fix a furniture item for a Yom Tov need.
A leg fell off the table on Yom Tov. Repairing the table in a proper way is prohibited min haTorah, and therefore on Shabbos I may not even reinsert the leg into the table in a temporary way. However on Yom Tov, I may reinsert the leg without performing a proper repair if this is the most convenient table to use.
If the broken or disassembled item is usually repaired or assembled without strength or skill, I may repair it in a temporary fashion. Chazal did not forbid this since it is unlikely that it will cause any Torah violation (Gemara Shabbos 47b with Tosafos).
In the time of the Gemara there existed a type of bed called "a coppersmiths' bed." Apparently, it was common that coppersmiths traveled from place to place making their living as iterant repairmen, and took portable beds with them that they reassembled at each destination. May one assemble this bed on Shabbos or is it considered construction? The Gemara quotes a dispute on the subject. According to the Tanna who contends that keilim are totally included in the prohibition of boneh and sosair, one may not assemble these beds on Shabbos (Shabbos 47a).
However, the conclusion is that one may assemble these beds on Shabbos. That is because these beds were never assembled very tightly and therefore it is not considered boneh to construct them, nor does it qualify as a rabbinic prohibition. However, an appliance that was assembled very tightly would be prohibited to assemble even loosely since it might be tightened (Tosafos ad loc.; cf., however, Chazon Ish).
Assembling the typical porta crib is similar to assembling a coppersmiths' bed. Thus, one may assemble a porta crib on Shabbos and fold it up afterwards.
Inserting table leaves also does not require skill or strength and is therefore permitted on Shabbos. However, some tables have a clamp to tighten the table after inserting or removing the leaf. This might be considered tightening enough to be prohibited and I refer you to your local Posek.
About three hundred and fifty years ago, the poskim began discussing appliances held together with screws. Around this time a drinking cup became available where the cup part screwed into a base. Does screwing this appliance together on Shabbos constitute boneh?
The halacha question here is as follows: Although this cup does not require someone particularly strong or skilled to assemble and disassemble, screwing the base on makes the cup into a well-made permanent appliance. Thus, the screw enables someone who is not particularly skilled to build a strong appliance.
The early poskim debate this issue. The Magen Avraham (313:12) rules that screwing an appliance together constitutes a melacha min haTorah (see Shaar HaTziyun 313:32), Maamar Mordechai disagrees. In practice however, Maamar Mordechai concludes that one should follow the stringent ruling of the Magen Avraham, and this is the accepted halachic practice. Thus, screwing the cup together is considered manufacturing a cup.
Similarly, today one can purchase furniture that one takes home and assembles by oneself. One might argue that assembling this furniture is prohibited min haTorah even though it is made in a way that an unskilled person can assemble it. Thus, the definition of "skill and strength" is not whether the assembler needs to be skilled or strong, but whether the appliance is made into a permanent, well-made appliance.
Focusing a pair of binoculars involves turning a screw to make it tighter and looser. Does this violate boneh on Shabbos?
The poskim rule one may focus binoculars on Shabbos (Kaf HaChayim 313:73; Ketzos HaShulchan 119:12). They explain that there is a qualitative difference between screwing the base onto the cup, which creates an appliance, and screwing the binoculars, which is the method of using it. One may use an appliance, just as one may use a house by opening and closing the doors and windows. This is not building an extension onto the house, but is rather considered normal, daily usage.
Many shtenders are tightened and loosened by the use of a screw. May one adjust the shtender by loosening and tightening the screw? Does it make a difference how often one adjusts the height?
According to Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach and Rav Vozner, one may adjust the height of the shtender on Shabbos since this is considered using the shtender, not making a new appliance (Shulchan Shlomoh 313:7; Shu"t Shevet HaLevi 6:32; cf. Minchas Yitzchok 9:38, who prohibits).
I forgot to fill the saltshaker before Shabbos, and now I realize that it is empty. May I unscrew the saltshaker on Shabbos to fill it, or is this considered demolishing and repairing the saltshaker?
Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach ruled that it is permitted to open, refill and close the saltshaker on Shabbos without violating boneh. Although the saltshaker is indeed screwed closed, it is typically not screwed as tightly as one screws furniture or the cup we described earlier (Minchas Shlomoh 1:11:4 s.v. gam nireh). The same applies to opening and closing a baby bottle. Although it is opened and closed by screwing, since it is intended to be opened and closed constantly, it is not considered demolishing and reconstructing it.
We may ask ourselves, why is the screwing of a cup together or removing a window off its hinge considered a melacha? Both cases only take seconds to complete and are not at all strenuous.
Rav Samson Raphael Hirsch (Shmos 20:10) notes that people mistakenly think that work is prohibited on Shabbos so that it should be a day of rest. He points out that the Torah does not prohibit doing avodah, which connotes hard work, but melacha, which implies purpose and accomplishment. Shabbos is a day that we refrain from constructing and altering the world for our own purposes. The goal of Shabbos is to allow Hashem's rule to be the focus of creation by refraining from our own creative acts (Shmos 20:11). Through not building for one day a week, we demonstrate and acknowledge the true Builder of the world and all it contains.


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Every week, Bazaar's booking team highlights one name to note, from the industry's best-known faces to girls who are just starting out. This week, we turn our attention to Samile Bermannelli.
When you combine girlish beauty with innate poise on the runway it makes for casting-director catnip. Bermannelli demonstrated both qualities this season and made her presence felt at a diverse mix of top-tier shows.
The 18-year-old's first full season has been immaculate, with turns for major fashion houses including Kenzo, Valentino, Emporio Armani and Alberta Ferretti. With her arresting beauty and ease both in front of the camera and on the runway, it's easy to see why these brands enlisted Bermannelli to bring a touch of chic to their catwalks.
"Samile has that effortless beauty that clients desire," says Jamie Horridge at the Squad. "She is young and fresh-faced but also has an air of sophistication about her. She's a joy to be around and has a great little personality which is a strong attribute for a young lady of her age, we are extremely excited about her future."
We chat to the newcomer about her hometown of Salvador, Gisele Bündchen and an alternative career as a lawyer.
How were you discovered?
"I entered a local contest in my home city Salvador, and I was discovered there."
If you weren't modelling, which career would you pursue and why?
"If I wasn't a model, I would want to be a lawyer because I love debating and fighting for what I believe in."
What would you say has been the highlight of your career so far?
"My biggest highlight was walking in my first fashion week in Paris for the S/S 17 season. I was in a city on the other side of the world to where I come from, working with some of the best ateliers in the word. It was surreal."
How do you spend your free time?
"I like to read about and explore whichever city I happen to be in, or am about to visit. I love that Europe is so rich with the arts and creativity. I love going to galleries, museums and finding little secret gems."
Do you have any travel tips for those visiting your hometown?
"I love my home, Salvador is beautiful. If you visit, you need to see the sunset at the Farol da Barra. Pelourinho is the historical centre of Salvador, visit the Rio Vermelho and Imbuí neighbourhoods – one is a beach and one is a young vibrant city. You must, of course, eat the local food, it is absolutely delicious."
What are the three products you can't live without?
"Vichy make-up remover, Clarins daily moisturiser and EOS lip balm. My favourite products are from Phebo and Granato, they are both South American brands and their traditional soaps are the absolute best."
What is your favourite form of exercise?
"I don't really follow any diet, I just try to eat clean, organic products like most people these days. I was taught some very easy, practical exercises that I can perform anywhere, in a hotel or model apartment, or on the road – I think that the easier it is to do exercise, the more likely you will do it."
What is your dream shoot?
"There are so many amazing photographers that I would love to work with, but what I would love the most is to work with a small, tight, team on an incredible beach. That is my dream."
Name your five essential items you wouldn't leave the house without..
"My phone charger, lip balm, thermos of water, perfume and sunscreen."
If you had to wear only one designer, who would it be?
"Osklen, it's a Carioca brand."
What kind of advice would you give to new girls to the industry?
"Just keep focused and be prepared for anything that comes your way. It is a wildly unpredictable industry and you need to embrace it all."
Is there a model's career that you admire and why?
"Without any doubt, Gisele Bündchen. Gisele knows how to balance professional choices, manage her image and have a personal life."
Let's talk about favourites. What about…
…music? "MPB (Música popular brasiliera); it is a genre of urban Brazilian music."
…movies? "I like so many movies, but my favourite is Serendipity, I can watch it over and over."
…food? "I love food and trying new food but my favourite will always be Brazilian."


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The earthbound, comparatively conventional Cigarettes is a singular contradiction in Harry Mathews's fiction. This book of the intersecting romances and relations among well-to-do New Yorkers in the 1930s through the '60s is his only novel to concern itself with "conventional psychology"1—meaning that its characters are not hunting for treasures or navigating fantastical landscapes, are not busy outwitting (or failing to outwit) secret societies, conspiracies, con artists, traps, or puzzles, are not learning invented languages or cracking ciphers (or at least no more than we are). They are simply going about the business of being human, or, rather, being fictional in a way that evokes a different reaction than Zachary and Twang in The Sinking of the Odradek Stadium, than The Journalist's journalist, than Tlooth's revenge-bent fugitive. Our concerns are now "sexual conquest; the fostering of reputation; the love and hate between mother and son, father and daughter, brother and sister; the links (and abysses) between affection and imagination; the parallels between homosexuality and heterosexuality; and the nature of amorous friendship linking quite old people."2 These are as alien to a Rousselian fiction as flying saucers to a Jamesian.
The appeal of these concerns is founded on a similarity to and familiarity with the concerns of the reader, albeit heightened, as fiction must be. As Lynne Tillman has said, "In [Mathews's] earlier books it looks like games play people, and in Cigarettes it's people who play games."3
Further, Cigarettes is Mathews's only novel substantially concerned with Americans as Americans, at large in a fairly recognizable United States, in a place and time recognizable to readers of other novels we might name. Here Mathews inhabits a shared domain in which other authors have ranged before and will range again; not a private kingdom, inasmuch as our shared language permits this, not a walled city.
The characters in Cigarettes aren't even going mad—a not-infrequent narrative terminus for Mathews's manikins—save for the luckless, wonderful, hyperthyroidic Phoebe. And though there are enthusiasms in the book that verge upon the eccentric, these are pursued, so to speak, with sanity . . . Baron Charlus more than Casper Gutman (or Baron Charlus seeking an assignation with Casper Gutman). The characters of Cigarettes do not, by and large, allow whatever abstract systems they may have applied to their thoughts or habits or desires (a specialized vocabulary, a system of classification, installed out of a desire for order, or simply by whim) to impinge on their waking lives, crowding out the everyday situations that they had sought to improve. The opposite, in fact, obtains in Cigarettes. Idées fixes consume themselves here, leaving their survivors outside desire. In literary terms, by the end of the book, these personalities are no longer plotted. Though age and ill health and obsession take their toll on many, and our narrator must contend at last with a virtual army of what he calls the living dead—the shades with which our memories populate the world—the arc of the book is clear: It moves from moneyed decay—a "gabled house" looming over the reader-carrion "like a buzzard"—toward the astounding coda of "the immortal presence of that original and heroic actor who saw that the world had been given to him to play in without remorse or fear." We are led toward a state of Edenic acceptance, even to a sort of well-being, which is to say a way of functioning in the world as game-players rather than -played, emulating Adam's now impossible freedom as much as our melancholy and mortality will allow.
There is, for example, Elizabeth, the much-desired, who has moved in with Maud, the wife of Allan, with whom she (Elizabeth) carried on an affair before vanishing behind the scenes—with the occasional ankle glimpsed—for the majority of the novel. It may be said that desire for Elizabeth, and items emblematic of her, motivates a good many of the men in Cigarettes. In seclusion with "her beloved Maud," in flight from the skewed trajectories of Cigarettes' various masculine protagonists, she finally decides that "'men' [seem] hardly worth the trouble." The next morning she's suffered a stroke, which leads to paralysis and death. But this dreadful peripeteia is not a violence visited on the character. It is a necessary stopping point, an end to the primal story that started all of Cigarettes' many plot-branches whirling like a Calder mobile. It is also a step toward what I can only call "enlightenment" (if she could shout, Elizabeth would no doubt give a mighty "Katsu!"), for Mathews describes the experience of her illness not as a restriction but as a liberation. She does not want to speak or move. It would be "inappropriate," and "smiling no less so." How could this not be the case for someone suddenly "inhabited by so large a number of birds"? For all the shit, inconvenience, and grief with which she has left her loved ones to contend, her loss of agency is not at all a loss of personhood. It also allows Maud to best demonstrate her love for Elizabeth, that "passionate friendship between two middle-aged women"4 which Mathews has mentioned as being one of the impetuses for writing Cigarettes in the first place.
For devotees of Mathews's other novels, then, and/or the Oulipo, there is—I perceive—I worry!—a potential barrier here. A barrier, and then a paradox, for Cigarettes is, by Mathews's own account, his only "properly" Oulipian novel. Not, I hasten to add, that lovers of Oulipian writing are allergic to those tropes that generally accompany "realist" fiction, nor that other Oulipian novels (or novels by Oulipians) are empty of emotion, pathos, and all those other things we are meant to want from literature. As I am fond of reminding people, "sincerity too is a rhetorical mode," and it cannot be sincerity, strictly defined, so long as it must be communicated. Already constituting a restricted vocabulary, sincerity falls squarely within the purview of the Oulipo, does it not? As does the expression of any emotional state in an infinitely permutable medium such as the English language. Nothing could be more "sincere" than a sentence written under duress, without the use of one's customary lexicon. No: the barrier, if it's there, lies in the book's abandonment of the charming playfulness, the fantasy of Tlooth and The Conversions and The Sinking of the Odradek Stadium, which remoteness from quotidian novelistic fare makes them so accessible to the readers likeliest to take up Mathews's flag. The barrier lies precisely in Cigarettes' appropriation of the tools of realism. Mathews's prose is rarely "showy," rarely purple, even when describing (especially when describing) impossible mechanisms or events. In Cigarettes, however, it may be at its quietest: "No erudition, no language games . . . [I]f you took each chapter by itself, it would seem very conventional in style."5 Not very conventional, surely, but we are far from the world of Queneau or Perec or Roubaud at their most playful:
In a clump of copper beeches by the stables, on a tablecloth spread on the ground, Phoebe set out lunch: two club sandwiches, four pears, a slab of rat cheese, a frosty thermos of martinis. They ate and drank. . . . Owen felt pleasantly restless: "Let's go take a look."
"This is no time for camp followers," Phoebe told him. "We'd be in the way."
"Well, I feel like joining the party."
"They thought of that. You get to bet."
But to return to that paradox. Mathews called Cigarettes his only "properly" Oulipian novel because it is structured according to an "abstract scheme of permutations of situations in which A meets B, B meets C, and so forth."6 Or else, as he has hinted more recently, having begun with a series of these simple narrative elements—A falls in love with B, or comes to hate C—these are then swapped about, so that we have A mistakes C for B, and so forth, until the permutations (or their author) are exhausted: "It was arbitrary in the sense that I lined up the different events, but they were after all very basic. They didn't signify anything substantial. . . . The situations were permutated, as in a sestina; their order changes in a precise way."7 Since there's "no point in looking for [the constraint] now because no one will ever figure it out, including me,"8 Cigarettes may be the lone standard bearer for a peculiar sub-genre in the world of Oulipian fiction . . . not so much that its constraint has been very well hidden (a common goal), and not so much that it has the basic concerns of a realist novel, but that this arbitrary (and so, says the conventional psychology, "cold," even antihumanist) structure of narrative events is hidden in particular beneath a tear-jerker, a story of well-to-do New Yorkers, "cast in limpid prose" and with plots and concerns that a writer like Edith Wharton would admire. Indeed, the artificer for whom Maud and Elizabeth and Allan and Lewis and Louisa are merely A, B, C, D, arranged in rows, dehydrated, waiting for a drop of narrative water to inflate them into characters (much as in Roussel's wonderful " Documents to Serve as an Outline," which he didn't live to expand into the novel it was intended to be) has cloaked himself behind a story culminating in an exhortation toward the rather unsexy plateau of health, lucidity, and quietude. For all of the book's advice to itself regarding the necessary annihilation of "typical forms and procedures" in writing, particularly "the illusory 'naturalness' of sequence and coherence" (as master sadomasochist Morris advises his protégé Lewis), Mathews has squared the circle of "making new" his subject by writing an Oulipian novel made up of tried-and-true techniques and which is almost pure plot (things we are supposed to be above, nowadays, remember). It reduces the "experimental" or "nonrealist" elements of the work to as comfortable a Victorian antimacassar for the will to tell stories as "Once upon a time . . ." or "In the afternoon rush of the Grand Central Station his eyes had been refreshed by Miss Lily Bart."
This all makes Cigarettes an inversion of the "typical" Mathews novel. We are given hints that an infernal machine ticks away deep in its center, while it presents to our eyes something almost—polite. That is, if you're coming to Cigarettes looking for an Oulipian dissection of the novelistic conventions we call realism, you might find, instead, and perhaps to your disappointment, that Mathews has simply built the better mousetrap—has improved realism—by being, perversely, precisely the sort of writer who sees his characters as formal devices, as ways of organizing information. This contra the criticism of the "postmodern" that, in its most genteel form (to flog an old, dead horse) goes a little something like,
after all, are generated by
human beings, and it might be said that these . . .
novels are full of inhuman stories,
whereby that phrase is precisely an oxymoron, an impossibility,
a wanting it both ways. . . .
Each of these novels is excessively centripetal.
The different stories all intertwine, and double and triple on themselves.
since the characters in these novels are not
really alive, not fully human,
their connectedness can only be insisted on. . . .9
Can it be that the well-to-do, imaginary New Yorkers who drink and fuck and maneuver and make money for our amusement have actually been begging for this treatment all along? (One thinks of Morris and Lewis's various ministrations: BDSM, like most things, makes for perfectly serviceable literary criticism if done correctly.) As Edmund White put it—the blurb is front and center on the Dalkey Archive edition—Cigarettes is "as involving as a nineteenth-century novel and as original as any modernist invention." That's a specious if tempting binary, natch—as I'm sure White was/is well aware—but I would tweak his sentiment: how about, instead, we say that Mathews has marshaled modernist invention to bring the novel of manners, like Elizabeth, to an enlightened terminus?
What, then, about the devotee of that much-pilloried novel of conventional psychology that Cigarettes is reforming? The reader concerned not with constrained literature, not with Mathews's other work, but with the psychological novel, as it was and is still written? If Cigarettes so sublimates its origins in the arbitrary, are there no barriers or paradoxes in store for them?
I'm reminded of Borges's words in praise of the genre novel over the literary:
The typical psychological novel is formless. The Russians and their disciples have proven, tediously, that no one is impossible. A person may kill himself because he is so happy, for example, or commit murder as an act of benevolence. Lovers may separate forever as a consequence of their love. . . . In the end such complete freedom is tantamount to chaos.10
Mathews has no interest in freedom of that sort, and the reader who prefers those baggy monsters might smell a rat just as quickly as the devotee of experiment/constraint. Mathews has said of Cigarettes' style that, despite its concern with "real life," "there is actually no suggestion of depth in the writing itself. It's all very two dimensional and readers, including myself, must fill in the rest."11 And then, if this were not enough, to reach Elizabeth's transcendence at the end of the novel, you must first pass through its morbid echo, a different avian episode entirely, when hallucinating Phoebe is taunted by her dead grandmother in the form of a black bird. I find this the novel's most memorable and certainly virtuoso chapter ("Owen and Phoebe II"): a breathless unraveling of what constitutes humanity in Cigarettes and fiction generally. It is also the book's one great rupture with conventional narration, aside from the wonderful slips into a kind of (invented?) Polari by Morris, and other peekaboo moments reminding us of the digressive "knee plays" in Tlooth. If Phoebe is the beneficiary of a form of enlightenment, it is not a liberation from fiction but a burdening, a brush with word-gamesmanship as a terrifying and undermining irrationality. This terror serves as an interregnum in the otherwise well functioning engine of naturalist fiction that Cigarettes emulates: Mathews opens the hood to reveal "some kind of Oulipian torture"12 beneath Cigarettes' placid surface, a nightmare in wait for the unsuspecting humanist. To the model of fiction decried by Borges—not dissimilar from that with which we live our lives, built on the assumption that our words and identities are more or less stable and subject to our wills; thus the model to which "real-life" material like Cigarettes' is most often consigned—this is sickness indeed. Phoebe's hell of the body and mind is the inverse of Elizabeth's escape, just as Cigarettes inverts the model of Mathews and Roussel before him. This sickness reduces the signs of the world until a recognition of their depthlessness is inescapable. The chapter seems almost an anticipatory parody of the above-quoted condemnation of the centripetal novel, with its inhuman characters and insistence on (paranoid) interconnectedness:
At another time [the voice in Phoebe's head] repeated an inexplicable succession of letters inside her docile ears: b.s.t.q.l.d.s.t., b.s.t.q.l.d.s.t. . . . Phoebe could not decipher the series. After making it yield "Beasts stalk the question lest demons sever trust," and "But soon the quest lured drab saint thither," she rejected the possibility that the letters were initials. She found it even harder to make words out of them, especially without a u for the q.
The Oulipian snake in the realist garden. Of what else can those letters remind us but the progress from A to B to C? And a page later comes the pivot upon which the novel turns, darkly: Phoebe riding home on the train comes to a new insight, which is that the letters' meaning is not in the words or statements they might imply but in their sound. That sound divorced from sense is what names the book, whose allegiances are thereby put into (permanent, suspended) question:
During her trip, Phoebe learned something about the series of letters. B.s.t.q.l.d.s.t. signified an old train careening down an old track. At slower speeds, the train said,
Cigarettes, tch tch.
Cigarettes, tch tch.
There is the temptation to see that "old train" careening down its "old track" as the novel—this novel and then the novel: of manners, of conventional what-have-you. The sounds it makes and the turns it takes are its meaning, but the passengers may well be incidental.
The conclusion of Cigarettes, quoted earlier, states that only the ur-character, Adam, could be a free agent, the "hero" of his story, because unencumbered by the knowledge of mortality. He could play, while we cannot. If there is a sub rosa quest in Cigarettes after all, of the variety at the forefront of The Conversions and Odradek, it is a quest by the narrator to understand how and why the people in his life have acted as they did, which is the subtle or unsubtle intention of much psychological realism. The answer is: the overwhelming constraint that is death, ours and others'. In life and in fiction, our characters and vocabularies are shaped by the knowledge of our inevitable cessation, and we act under its influence at all times. We are not ourselves, but the dead. Eden, which is to say choice, is a fiction, and so character too is fiction. If this is "conventional psychology," it leads us to a place where both of those words have been entirely obviated by other forces.
You might be familiar with Laura Bohannan's famous article "Shakespeare in the Bush," which relates her frustrated attempts to demonstrate the universality of certain "great tragedies" by explaining the plot of Hamlet to the elders of an African tribe (and itself resembles the set up for a Harry Mathews story, for example "The Dialect of the Tribe"). The elders tell her that she is wrong about most of the plot, for surely it could not have happened that way. (Why shouldn't Claudius have married Gertrude? And of course Laertes was responsible for Ophelia's death, for with Prince Hamlet in love with her, no other suitor would take her; better to sell her body to the witches to ameliorate this loss of income . . .) There is something of this same reordering of assumptions in Cigarettes. Mathews is shuttling between his two tribes (that he was born into, and then that he adopted), speaking a language and telling a story that is, or so the scholar-graduate intends, not only comprehensible but affecting to both. Yet each tribe will interpret the stations of Cigarettes' plot differently—what discomfits the one might well amuse the other; and then the motivations of the characters and their author too will come across differently depending on your assumptions as to the function of fiction: A means of transmitting sentiment? A game? A panacea, an emetic, a tool with which to learn about humanity or else about the culs-de-sac in its only manner of meaning? No loan word carries the same import in all the languages to which it's been introduced. I'd like to think that the paradoxical Cigarettes might be the sort of book to undermine the certainties of whatever camp tries to assimilate it to their tradition. If it sits uncomfortably in either of the primary modes to which it belongs, this can only be to the betterment of both, for—it always bears repeating—all novels are constrained by convention, however chaotic or experimental or generic they appear; and there is no fiction so human as that which appears to distance itself from its humanity.
Something as fragile as a cigarette would only be squashed under the weight of a word like masterpiece, and, really, who needs another masterpiece this late in the day? Better in the end, perhaps, for a Great Book "to fade away and leave behind ashes of regret."
Jeremy M. Davies is the author of the novel Rose Alley (Counterpath, 2009), and is Senior Editor at Dalkey Archive Press.
[1] "The Art of Fiction No. 191," Paris Review 180 (Spring 2007). Online at http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/5734/the-art-of-fiction-no-191-harry-mathews
[2] Edmund White, "Their Masks, Their Lives," Review of Contemporary Fiction 7:3 (Fall 1997), 77-8.
[3] Lynne Tillman, "Harry Mathews." BOMB 26 (Winter 1989). Available online at "http://bombsite.com/issues/26/articles/1165
[4] Tillman
[5] Tillman
[6] "Art of Fiction"
[7] Barbara Henning, "An Interview with Harry Mathews." Unpublished, available at http://barbarahenning.blogspot.com/2012/05/interview-of-harry-mathews.html
[8] "Art of Fiction"
[9] James Wood, "Human, All Too Inhuman." The New Republic, 24 July 2000. Available online at http://www.powells.com/review/2001_08_30.html
[10] Jorge Luis Borges, "Prologue," in The Invention of Morel (New York: New York Review Books, 2003), 5.
[11]John Ash, "A Conversation with Harry Mathews." Review of Contemporary Fiction 7:3 (Fall 1987). Available online at http://www.dalkeyarchive.com/book/?fa=customcontent&GCOI=15647100621780&extrasfile=A09F7D46-B0D0-B086-B609D260CAA2D76E.html
[12] Mark Ford, "Red Makes Wrong." London Review of Books, 25:6 (2003). Available online at http://www.lrb.co.uk/v25/n06/mark-ford/red-makes-wrong
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