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The Christian doctrine of hell as found recorded in the Bible (much of it from the lips of Jesus himself, sorry Bill Maher) is a punishment that cannot possibly fit any crime committed by any finite human being on this earth in their short lifetime. Even the worst person who ever lived who amazingly managed to do the most evil ever simply does not deserve it. Even if humans really are totally depraved equally across the board in the most Calvinistic sense possible, the punishment still would not fit that crime (not to mention that is entrapment). They may deserve a whole lot of retribution, but there's obviously such a thing as too much. No Christian is going to argue that punishments don't have to fit the crime and so they have to figure out how to make those ends meet somehow.
There have been numerous popular attempts to justify the unjustifiable, and I'd like to rigorously show how those attempts fail. From mere assertions, to attacking the critic or some alternative worldview as though that makes Christianity coherent, to passing the buck in some way to humans, to giving humans some infinite quality they don't have, to appealing to some irrelevant quality that the Christian god is supposed to have, to misrepresenting the Bible, to misrepresenting the concepts presented in the Bible, and just arguing fallaciously all the way around, the doctrine is plainly indefensible. To that end, I've used the Compendium software to argument map all of those debates and nail all that apologetic Jell-O to the wall "once and for all" (as if that were possible).
Here is the legend to understand the map nodes (click to embiggen):
My recommendation, given the info overload factor, is to skim through the 30 objections and find the one you specifically care about and just focus on that particular tangent. I will let you know if you are bumping into other things. Start at the left of the map and follow the arrows (click to biggyfie):
I will work with anyone who will constructively work with me to improve the map. I'm sure there are Christians out there who are interested in figuring out how best to defend the doctrine and who wish to eliminate the bad arguments from their arsenal. This is a two way street, since I could always get stuff wrong. To help out, here are some suggested themes to contribute to:
Meanwhile, I'll be chasing down every lead that I know of on my own time. I've pulled from my own history of arguing with Christians and hit up the wiki of course. I will be investigating the hell views of every Christian apologist who took interest in the recent popular skeptical anthology "The Christian Delusion: Why Faith Fails" since they are likely to do so with John Loftus' next book. Keith Parsons' chapter on "Hell: Christianity's Most Damnable Doctrine" in the next skeptical anthology "The End of Christianity" will be released on July 26th, 2011 and I'd like to have a final version of this by around that time. I'll be mapping whatever responses he gets to his chapter (assuming they are novel). Many of the books in the anti-new atheists book list are searchable through Amazon and so I will be lifting their responses to the many criticisms Dawkins, Hitchens, and Harris have dished out.
Possibly the best part of this is the reaction from Christians to the answers other Christians give in defense of this ridiculous doctrine. And one doesn't necessarily get that kind of shock without lining all the excuses up next to each other. ;) I've only contributed one response to the argument (see the previous argument map: Could Jesus be lying about hell?) and yes, other Christians do in fact argue all the others that are found somewhere on the map. I'm not making it up. Sorry.
I was also thinking we might print the final version out on bedsheets to perhaps sell at upcoming skeptical events (like Skepticon 4). My significant other suggested that we call them "Pascal's Bedsheets." Our marketing line will be, "Rest well, knowing hell shouldn't keep you up at night anymore." I've never actually personally feared the fires of hell as a Christian or later as an atheist (since I was too intellectually embarrassed by the obvious wish fulfillment aspect of heaven, and the obvious petty hearsay threat of hell), but it is understandably a powerful influence in the lives of many believers and ex-believers. It is also a large ripe target for critics of the religion to continually harp on as Christianity looses its grip on the culture. And I think we should keep on that.
If someone would like to program an iPhone app with this map for easy on-the-go argument access, that would be awesome.
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Getaway Green Bay, WI
Green Bay Restaurants and Bars
631 Bellevue St.
Green Bay, Wisconsin 54302
Getaway Reviews
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Map of Getaway
Getaway Events
Getaway Basics
- Cuisine
- American, Pizza
- Hours
- Daily 6AM - 2AM
- Neighborhood
- Green Bay East
- Cross Streets
- Bellevue St and Charles St.
- Handicap Access
- Handicap Access - Ramp
- Price Range
- Inexpensive $(under$8)
- Reservations
- Not Accepted
- Payment Methods
- Cash, Visa, Mastercard
Getaway Features
- Meals Served
- Lunch
- Alcohol
- Beer, Full Bar
- Audience
- 21+
- Outdoor Seating
- Outdoor Patio
- Features
- Pool, Darts, Party Room, Horseshoes
Bar Review of Getaway in Green Bay, WI
By END
July 29, 2010
Another week, another bar adventure. This week my girlfriend said we should go out to Getaway. Before I could ask her where we should go to getaway, she was kindly explaining to me that that was the name of the place. Thank goodness she said something before I looked a fool as I did with my other friend when he suggested we go to The Bar. How am I supposed to know that Green Bay has this thing on naming bars verbs and nouns that confuse me when said aloud in a sentence?!? Anyway... The Getaway is located on the East side of Green Bay and I'm not sure how I missed it when I drove by. (You can leave your comments about women and directions and/or driving skills at home, thank you. In Chicago my friends would call me for directions; I knew how to get everywhere. Here, not so much. I am ALWAYS lost.) The Getaway is huge and from the outside it looks like a large home. Kinda hard to pass by.
There was plenty of parking in the back and so we walked in through the patio side. There was no one sitting in the patio area when we arrived and I thought that was strange, it was beautiful outside and for once not too humid. We entered the building and to my surprise everyone was inside enjoying the cool air. The air was blastin'. Also, as I said before that this place was big, well it is, but you don't see just how big until you go inside. There is a second story loft that you can go up and overlook the place. The staircase was blocked but maybe they open it later at night when there is a bigger crowd. Downstairs you have a large bar with tons of seats, big screen TVs, pool, darts and a friendly bartender. I ordered a Coors Light and my girlfriend ordered a Sam Adams Seasonal. The total came to $5.75. Nice. On tap they carry some Leinies, Sam, Blue Moon, Coors Light, Miller Lite and a few others. You can also choose bottles or any type of mixed drink imaginable.
Since it was really nice out we didn't waste anytime paying up and heading out to the patio. And what is so great about their patio you ask? Horseshoes! I haven't played horseshoes since, well never. But I always wanted to try it out. They have four horseshoe battle fields for your enjoyment. And you will enjoy; playing horseshoes is fun! There are several tables and chairs if you feel like sitting instead of playing. You can also smoke in the patio and in the cooler weather there are heat lamps set up and ready to go. The Getaway has thought of everything. We hung around for a while and by the time we left the patio was filling up quick. The Getaway is a cool bar with some fun games and a nice outside area to bask in all the sun's glory.
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The trail was established in 2011 to tell the story of this 3,000+ acre island. Its creation seemed an appropriate way to honor those who lived here before us. The path connects the historic plantation house ruins with the wooded space of the Old House Cemetery. Interpretive signs along the trail explore human and natural history and geography, celebrating South Carolina's deep roots in European, Native American and West African cultures.
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The Galvez State Office Building, designed in association with KPS Group (JV) is one of the new office buildings proposed by the Capitol Park Master Plan (also designed by POST ARCHITECTS). It is a 13-story, 350,000sf facility that houses several state agencies. The tower provides appropriate architectural reference to the historical State Capitol, incorporating Art Deco detailing and creating spectacular views to the capitol building via a twelve-story atrium.
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Vikings trade back into first round (again), get QB of future (again) in Bridgewater
EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. — Teddy Bridgewater had a feeling.
Rick Spielman, Mike Zimmer and the Minnesota Vikings felt it, too.
After meeting with Bridgewater at least four times during the pre-draft process, Spielman made another late first-round move and made Bridgewater a member of the Vikings with the 32nd overall pick in Thursday's first round of the NFL Draft.
For the third year in a row, Spielman traded into the end of the first round. This time, Minnesota gave up a second-rounder (No. 40 overall) and a fourth-rounder (No. 108) to the Seattle Seahawks for the right to make Bridgewater a first-round selection and a member of the Vikings.
"I feel honored," Bridgewater said. "I felt very comfortable working out for those guys. I felt that our relationship that we built leading up to this entire process helped get me to this point, this far. I look forward to doing great things with this team and eventually competing down the long run."
Bridgewater was considered one of the top quarterbacks in the draft along with Central Florida's Blake Bortles and Texas A&M's Johnny Manziel. Then a tough performance at the Louisville Pro Day, in which Bridgewater decided not to wear a glove after wearing one all season, started to affect his draft status.
Bortles went No. 3 overall to the Jacksonville Jaguars. Minnesota passed on the chance to select Manziel at No. 9 overall, instead going defense first with UCLA pass-rushing linebacker Anthony Barr.
But as the night went on, Spielman went back into the action late as he's done three straight years to grab Bridgewater.
"The other thing that we felt was very, very important was debating whether you sit and wait, or do you go ahead and get a guy up there on your board who you really like at that position, and felt just going to make that move up to 32nd was very important," Spielman said. "The other thing that comes into play is that fifth-year option, because now you've got a quarterback in the first, OK, you're going to have the opportunity to have that fifth-year option, which is a key part of it, as well."
Spielman traded up in 2012 to select Notre Dame safety Harrison Smith. Last year, Spielman didn't stand pat after picking defensive tackle Sharrif Floyd and cornerback Xavier Rhodes. He traded four picks for the right to select receiver Cordarrelle Patterson.
"This is what the draft is all about," Spielman said. "It's a thrill to watch our team play, but this is a chance every year, what we've done in free agency, and now this is a chance to put the final pieces together on making significant moves to help you improve your ball club. So, I can't tell you how exciting it is to be able to be a part of this draft and to do the things we've been able to do the last couple of years."
Spielman and the Vikings were open about their plan to draft another quarterback this year after Christian Ponder proved to not be the answer as the 2011 first-round pick.
Minnesota passed once on Manziel but was still interested in the player who won the 2012 Heisman Trophy winner as a freshman.
FOX Sports' Jay Glazer reported the Vikings tried to trade back into the first round with the Philadelphia Eagles at No. 22 to select Manziel. Curiously, Cleveland also was on the phone with Philadelphia and according to Glazer outbid Minnesota for the right to jump to the pick, where the Browns selected Manziel.
Cleveland gave up the No. 26 overall pick to the Eagles and included a third-round pick, No. 83 overall. Spielman called the reports about trading up for Manziel "speculation."
"We always are pretty aggressive just calling around, just to see if there's a potential moving up back in the first," Spielman said. "We were able to find a trade partner and we were fortunate enough to get two No. 1s again this year."
With Bortles and Manziel off the board, Spielman and the Vikings turned their attention to Bridgewater and decided to make the move into the back end of the first round to select the quarterback instead of waiting until their second-round pick Friday.
Houston owns the first pick in the second round and could be looking for a quarterback, so Spielman didn't take any chances.
Bridgewater was the consensus top signal-caller during the season when he threw for 3,970 yards, 31 touchdowns and four interceptions while playing in a pro-style offense at Louisville.
"He just seems to have that knack when he's in pressure situations in a game being able to come through it," Spielman said. "We did a very analytical study on all these quarterbacks. One of the things that really stuck out to us, of all the quarterbacks, he was the best against the blitz. So he's very cool and calm under pressure. He has mobility in the pocket to make plays."
However, Bridgewater started to get dissected during the evaluation period and was knocked for his slight frame (6-foot-2, 212 pounds).
Then, scouts really began to question his worthiness of a top pick after his Pro Day. Bridgewater, who wore a glove at Louisville, ditched the glove for his Pro Day workout and struggled with accuracy, one of his best attributes. Bridgewater completed 70.96 percent of his passes last year with the Cardinals.
"It was a decision that I made the way I was training prior to the Pro Day," Bridgewater said. "But I walked away from the Pro Day, I learned a valuable lesson to just continue to do what got you here and do what you're comfortable doing."
However, Minnesota wasn't concerned with Bridgewater's Pro Day after returning to Louisville and working out Bridgewater privately.
Bridgewater wore his gloves for the private workout and Vikings offensive Norv Turner worked with Bridgewater.
"These guys went down there for a private workout and they came back and they were drooling when they came back," said Zimmer, who didn't attend the private workout.
Zimmer added: "Norv really, really liked Teddy Bridgewater. He's talked to me several times about it, the potential that he has to be a great quarterback in the NFL. I don't want to speak for Rick, but we wouldn't have moved up just to get anybody."
The Vikings now have their future at the position and Bridgewater will be able to sit and learn from offensive coordinator Norv Turner while Matt Cassel starts for Minnesota. Ponder, who didn't have his fifth-year option picked up, is still on the roster as well. Cassel re-signed with the Vikings prior to free agency to return as the team's starter.
"He's got time," Spielman said. "We're very comfortable with Matt Cassel and Christian Ponder. Teddy will come in and he has plenty of time to sit there and develop. One of the things we wanted to do if we got another quarterback is not force him in before he's ready to play."
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Crab Cakes Benedict
Crab Cakes Benedict
Recipe Type: Breakfast
Cuisine: American
Author: Caroline Artiss
Prep time: 20 mins
Cook time: 20 mins
Total time: 40 mins
Serves: 2
This is a mega impressive brunch to make for that really special occasion. It's a different take on the delicious Eggs Benedict and it's well worth the effort.
- Crab cakes
- ¼ red pepper, finely diced
- 200g white crabmeat chunks
- ½ tsp Dijon mustard
- ½ tbsp mayonnaise
- ½ cup 50g fresh breadcrumbs
- ½ a beaten egg (just enough to bind)
- ½ tbsp flour
- 1 tsp fresh chives
- 1 tsp fresh chopped parsley
- Pinch black pepper
- Hollandaise sauce
- 2 eggs, yolks only
- 125g/4oz butter/ 1 stick butter
- ½ juice of a lemon,
- Salt and pepper to taste
- Pinch cayenne
- Other Ingredients:
- 6 cooked spears of asparagus if it's in season as it's cheaper and saves air miles or use watercress
- 2 large eggs for poaching
- Utensils needed:
- Double boiler – heatproof bowl and a saucepan
- Hand whisk
- Frying pan / skillet
- Pan to poach the eggs in
- Start by preparing the crab cakes as they can be kept until you need them in the fridge
- You can even make them the day before to save time and be super organised
- First of all just give the crab a quick check to make sure there is no cartilage in there
- Mix all the ingredients together gently in a large bowl
- Shape the mixture into 2 large cake shapes, wrap and chill for 20 minutes in the fridge
- Heat a little olive oil in a pan then fry the cakes for 3-4 minutes each side until golden and cooked through
- (As there are a few processes in this recipe, I would make these in advance and keep warm until your ready to serve)
- Next make the Hollandaise sauce:
- Fill a saucepan with a small amount of water and put on to simmer
- This is going to be used to cook your eggs on, you can also cook the asparagus in this water too
- In another pan gently melt your butter until it is just above warm
- It's important that it's not too hot; you can test it by sticking your finger in carefully, if it's too hot leave it to cool a little
- In a heatproof bowl, add the egg yolks and lemon juice and whisk together
- Place the bowl on top of the saucepan with the hot water and keep whisking until it begins to thicken up about 2 – 3 minutes
- It's important to watch this bit really carefully and to keep whisking so that the eggs don't scramble
- You will know it's ready when it turns a shade lighter in colour and it thickens up to make ribbons
- Immediately take off the heat and start to whisk in your melted butter a tiny bit at a time
- About a tablespoon amount at a time
- Keep whisking until all the butter is absorbed before you add the next bit
- Keep adding until all the butter is used up
- If your sauce is too thick just add a couple of tablespoons of semi hot water until you get the consistency you like
- Season with a pinch of salt and pepper
- To make poached eggs:
- You can buy special poached egg pans to make poached eggs or do it the old fashioned way. Using a shallow pan, fill about 3 inches of water and bring to simmering point
- Add a drop of vinegar to the water, I find this helps hold the eggs together
- When the water is simmering gently, crack an egg into the water
- Get as close to the water as you possibly can and drop the egg in slowly so it doesn't spread all over the place
- If you use very fresh eggs they should hold together better in the pan well
- Let the egg simmer for about 3 minutes then take out of the pan with a slotted spoon and serve straight away.
- Plate up:
- Now to plate up, place your asparagus or watercress on a plate, top with a crab cake, poached egg then drizzle with hollandaise sauce and sprinkle a pinch of cayenne pepper on top! Next – enjoy all your hard work, it'll be well worth it and everyone your cooking for will love you for it!


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Paul Martone interviews Boswell on Late Night Library (Tumbledown)
David Naimon interviews Boswell on Between the Covers (Tumbledown)
Tin House interview with Boswell (Tumbledown)
Zola interview with Boswell (Tumbledown)
The Watch interview with Boswell (Tumbledown)
r.kv.r.y. interview with Boswell (Tumbledown)
Houston Chronicle interview with Boswell (Tumbledown)
KUHF audio interview with Boswell (Tumbledown)
TV interview-KOB Albuquerque (Tumbledown)
Publishers Weekly interview with Boswell (Tumbledown)
Houstonia interview with Boswell (Tumbledown)
Tony Hoagland and Robert Boswell interview each other at Friends of Writers
Interview with Boswell at TrendHunter
Interview with Boswell at Fiction Writers Review
Interview with Boswell at the Colorado Review
Interview with Boswell at the Southeast Review
Albert Martinez interviews Boswell about The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards
Ron Carlson interviews Boswell on Books & Co
Don Lee interviews Boswell in Ploughshares
The MFA program at the University of Arizona interviews Boswell and Antonya Nelson
Audio Recordings
Boswell reads "Brilliant Mistake" for InPrint
Boswell reads "Smoke" at Arizona State University
Boswell reads the opening to "The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards" at Creighton University
Boswell reads the opening to "The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards" at the University of Arizona
Bookslut reviews The Half-Known World
Review of The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards in Short Story Reviews
Review of The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards in the New York Times Book Review
Publishers Weekly reviews Century's Son
Michiko Kakutani's New York Times review of Crooked Hearts
Publishers Weekly reviews Mystery Ride
Chicago Tribune reviews American Owned Love
Chamber 4 reviews What Men Call Treasure
Seeing the World through Books reviews The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards
Corduroy Books reviews The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards
Crooked Hearts is reviewed by Kirkus
The Brooklyn Rail reviews The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards
Writers Read review of The Half-Known World
American Owned Love reviewed in the L.A. Times
Stories & Lectures
Boswell's story "American Epiphany" in r.kv.r.y.
Boswell's story "Sleeping in Bars" in Freight Stories
Boswell's story "The Holy Stall" in Five Chapters
Boswell's early story "The Right Thing" in Fictionaut
Purchase Boswell's lecture on characterization from the Warren Wilson archives.
Conferences & Retreats
Bread Loaf Writers' Conference
Website for Gilssando, a film by Chip Hourihan based on a story by Boswell
Website for Crooked Hearts, an MGM film based on Boswell's first novel
Website for Twelve Mile Road, a CBS film based on Boswell's novel Mystery Ride
Gale Biography page for Boswell
Robert Boswell on Goodreads
Reviews of The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards
Kansas City Star: Brilliant Stories from a Cast of Weirdos (Mark Luce, reviewer)
Denis Johnson's 1992 collection, "Jesus' Son," spends its pages traversing the country with a central character whose missteps—on the surface—look like those of any number of drug-addled protagonists. Beneath all the hallucinations, fights and general weirdness, Johnson steadily signals a shot at redemption, not so much looking for the way out, but rather the way through the mess his protagonist has become.
Reading Robert Boswell's sometimes discomforting, occasionally raunchy, often funny and always electrifying new short-story collection, "The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards," one can't help but be reminded of the skill and grace of Johnson. Boswell's cast of not-quite-wells remains broken in so many ways, but rather than revel in their foibles, he explores them with intriguing structures, varying voices and an undercurrent of transcendence.
Most authors can't perform such things without tripping into gimmicks or splatting into self-indulgence; here, however, Boswell showcases his incredible talents with seeming ease.
From the top of the first story, "No River Wide," Boswell announces his presence: "Both things first: Greta Steno is two places at once and walking. She is in a Chicago neighborhood in the early fall on a sidewalk made ramshackle by tree roots, and she is barefoot in Florida on a warm winter evening, the broad leaves of a banana tree swiping at her hair. She is thirty-nine and forty-two years old."
As the story of a friendship dissolving continues, Boswell manages to leap backward and forward in time without confusion and with a rawness that permeates the relationship between Greta and her supposed best friend, Ellen, and the tale also traces the slow demise of Duncan, Greta's now-dead husband.
Boswell never shies from the jarring—a snake cut in two with a chain saw, a hotel manager demanding a strip search from a guest, performance art with ants, a guilt-ridden but humane priest—and yet manages not to let the downward spiral of many of his characters cast a thoroughly depressing pall over the book.
One of the best examples of this trait comes in the story "A Walk in Winter," about a 32-year-old man, Conrad, who must return to his hometown in frozen North Dakota. His mother left when Conrad was just a boy, and his violent father left soon after. Boswell coils and layers what information he provides the reader but never preens as a literary showoff. He writes, "Conrad's mother spoke often of the winter their lives turned grim, as well as the time before, when she had held out some hope. Conrad was returning to Chapman to identify his mother's frozen remains."
Boswell scatters such paroxysms of violence throughout the book, be it a car crash or a knock-down brawl with a bully, a heroin overdose or a crippled mother begging a priest to paddle her children. Such situations always fit the respective stories, and the violence perpetrated, whether emotional or physical, carries with it the seeds of moral redemption that Boswell appears interested in.
The book's title story, and arguably its most interesting, follows a first-person narrator known as "Keen" through 10 assignments written for a parole application. The assignments, with titles like "Emotional Support," "Understanding Mistakes" and "Family," describe Keen's three months of squatting in a cabin in the mountains with a cast of addicts and weirdos. Keen wants to straighten things out, to get off hard drugs, and his best friend Clete suggests a steady regimen of psychedelic mushrooms and alcohol. The story reads as both hilarious and haunting, as a series of bad-vibes events forces Keen to a not-so-welcome truth.
At one point in the story, Clete points out, "It's beautiful here. Haven't you noticed." Those simple sentences succinctly sum up Boswell's peculiar universe. Despite the strange happenings and often stranger people, the world of "The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards" glitters with a rough-edged beauty that sprouts from Boswell's spotlessly drawn and precisely penned characters.
Publisher's Weekly, The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards, Robert Boswell. Graywolf, 288 pages
In this imaginative story collection, author Boswell (Century's Son) examines the limits and losses of ordinary souls with technical mastery and profound sympathy. In "No River Wide," a widowed woman visiting a longtime friend in Florida discovers that their friendship is over; her story unfolds in overlapping narratives that form a startling, resonant meditation on the nature of time. Another story finds a 30-something returning to his North Dakota home to identify the body of his missing mother; what he finds instead frees him from the long shadow of his embittered father. In the title story, a gang spends the summer squatting in the home of a vacationing family, with dire consequences; in "Supreme Beings," a priest's attempts to intervene in the lives of three troubled youths lead him to confront personal and professional failure. Boswell conveys the sordid but hopeful inner lives of average people with insight and care; his shorter stories ("Miss Famous," "Skin Deep") showcase his pleasure in language and invention, and his longer tales pack the emotional weight of a novel.
Kirkus: Robert Boswell, The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards
Gifted novelist and essayist Boswell lets it all hang out in 13 unpredictable short stories. The collection opens with the showy "No River Wide," which confoundingly juxtaposes the lives of a woman in two places at once. Many of the stories focus on formative periods. In "Smoke," for example, a trio of adolescents boast about sex but keep their secrets, while "Supreme Beings" depicts a troubled 20-year-old convinced that Jesus Christ is hiding out in his town. A few pieces, like "City Bus," are mere sketches instead of full-fledged portraits, but more often, the stories run deep. The best of them lean to the dark side, bordering on crime fiction tinged with a beat-influenced incongruity. "A Walk in Winter" is particularly tense, as a young man visits the country with a rural sheriff to find out whether the ruined corpse found nearby is his long-disappeared mother. The deeply uncomfortable title story follows a drifter named Keen during a summer of mushrooms and transgressions in a borrowed house with his amigos. Naturally, his bad mojo gets the best of him. Dealing with low lives, Boswell never abandons his insight or his storytelling verve, both on full display in "Lacunae." Its protagonist, a divorced man who has lost his way in the world, contemplates fatherhood in its many forms. "Hearts can swell," he thinks. "One's father may speak the truth even as he settles into death. One's mother may see in a coincidence the opportunity for redemption. One's own child may have the blood and genes of another man. Reason may live in things that are not rational." Few like what they see on the unwelcome voyages of self-discovery delineated here. Heartbreakers from a writer who knows how to do it right.
Library Journal: Robert Boswell The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards
Boswell vividly depicts characters whose problems in coming to terms with life and love are complicated by the fact that meanings and perceptions keep shifting in unexpected ways. The title story is arranged as a document written by a man undergoing rehab or seeking a parole from prison. As he confesses to a life of drug-induced confusion and violence, he more than once comes upon someone who appears to be dead, only to have that person come surprisingly to life. That he remains under the influence of hallucinogenic mushrooms for much of the story only partially explains his misperceptions. Some of the stories are very short sketches or vignettes of brief encounters of a sexual or violent nature, while the longer stories are more novelistic and include large casts of characters and complex narratives. Boswell, whose style and subject matter is somewhat reminiscent of Tobias Wolff and Robert Stone, is a virtuoso of descriptive prose, and handles the psychological and emotional imagery with skill.
Reviews of Mystery Ride
MYSTERY RIDE spent three weeks on the PW best seller list. It made the Chicago Tribune Best Books of the year list.
Publishers Weekly: Robert Boswell, Mystery Ride
Boswell's memorable first novel, Crooked Hearts, about a dsyfunctional family, established his reputation on the literary scene...This new work makes a brilliant return to the subject Boswell writes about with distinctive tenderness and humor: a marriage that has fractured, although the love husband and wife once felt for each other endures as a touchstone in their lives. The novel reflects Boswell's increasing maturity and wisdom; its characters--especially an exasperating teenager--are vivid and fresh, its truths poignant and penetrating. The "Mystery Ride" (from a Springsteen song) is marriage, and here is "the almost inexhaustible mystery of love found and lost." Brimming with high ideals, Angela and Stephen Landis wed in the '60s and moved to a farm in Iowa, where their daughter Dulcie was born. Later, desperate for a life outside the confines of the farm and its small community, Angela left Stephen. She has remarried, and Dulcie is a rebellious, almost dangerously unstable adolescent when Angela returns to the farm for the first time in a decade to leave the fractious 15-year-old with her father. As Boswell cross-cuts among different events over a 20-year span, he draws a nuanced portrait of decent people striving to connect with each other. A fundamentalist Christian couple in the farm community is sketched with as much empathy as Angela's second, philandering husband and Stephen's understanding girlfriend. Boswell's compassion for his characters, his coherent control of motivation and plot, help him build to a series of tremendously affecting events, followed by Dulcie's quiet epiphany and an unforgettable ending. The dialogue has wit and energy, and the details of farm routine are rendered with impressive authenticity. Most important, the book is charged with insight, resonating with questions about how one leads a moral, fulfilling life and accepts the mystery of love.
Library Journal: Robert Boswell MYSTERY RIDE
Life, indeed, can be a mystery ride. Who can explain the bonds that hold us together when the odds so often seem stacked against us? The answer lies best in works by novelists like Boswell, whose latest effort focuses on an American family separated by time, distance, and generation. Angela Vorda and Stephen Landis have been divorced for ten years. Remarried, she lives and works in Los Angeles; single, with a live-in woman friend, he owns a small farm in Iowa. Their daughter, Dulcie, lives with her mother and suffers from more than the usual teenage angst. In an attempt to straighten out Dulcie, Angela arranges for her to spend the summer with Stephen. Struggling to adjust to these changed circumstances, both Dulcie and her father learn some important truths about life and love. Combining wisdom, humor, and poignancy in equal measure, this well-told tale inexorably draws in the reader. Highly recommended.


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More than 20 dead from forest fires in central Portugal
- by Kristina Cox
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- — Jun 19, 2017
The fires spread across four fronts near the Pedrogao Grande, Secretary of State for the Interior Jorge Gomes said. The ceremony took place before the teams' match Sunday at the Confederations Cup tournament. Sunday's fire in Pedrógão Grande, however, has shocked local officials with its deadly scale.
Another 17 bodies were found next to the roads and 10 were recovered from the rural areas surrounding them.
Portugal has been experiencing a recent heatwave, with temperatures soaring to more than 40C in some areas.
Since noon on Saturday when the fire started in a mountainous area of the central Leiria district, measuring some 128 square kilometers, it has spilled over to another three municipalities: Castanheira de Per in Leiria, Figueiro dos Vinhos, and Gois. "At this time of loss, my thoughts and prayers are with the families and loved ones of the victims", said Mr. Guterres. Many people died because of getting trapped in their cars.
Portuguese firefighters work to stop a forest fire from reaching the village of Avelar in central Portugal at sunrise Sunday.
Media in Portugal said the fire is no closer to being contained despite about 600 firefighters working to put them out.
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He reported that at least 18 people were "burned to death in their cars", while several others died from smoke inhalation. "It is an authentic inferno, we have never seen anything like that", Pedrogao Grande Mayor Valdemar Alves told reporters.
The prime minister said the emergency services acted as fast as they could but acknowledged that some of the efforts like alerting the population might have been hindered because the blaze had ruined phone lines and communications towers. France was also sending three aircraft and Greece's prime minister also offered to send firefighting help.
Pope Francis has led thousands of people in a moment of silent prayer for the victims of the Portugal fire. "We were afraid the fire would reach us".
Costa said that while investigations are ongoing to determine the cause of the fire, authorities believe that the high temperatures of 40 Celsius in recent days may have played a part.
The authorities said very low smoke clouds prevented helicopters and fire planes dropping water on the flames efficiently for most of the day. According to local reports, more than 50 people have been killed so far.


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ThoughtExchange – We Want To Hear From You
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On behalf of the students we serve, we would like to invite you to please contribute your thoughts regarding Parkland School Division. We want to know what you think we do well and where we can improve. At Parkland School Division, we embrace open and honest communication. Our Ultimate Goal, Success for All Students, is dependent upon engagement with our community and that's where you come in. Everyone can make a meaningful contribution to public education.
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Our state senator Jeff Kruse faces a $500 fine for smoking in his office in the state capital. His excuse for violating Oregon's Indoor Clean Air Act? "I didn't think I was bothering anybody."
According to a formal complaint filed by the State of Oregon Legislative Council Committee, his violation of the law extended over many years, and he has not responded to warnings desist from his illegal behavior.
Senator Kruse has for many years smoked in his office or at other locations in the Capitol. His behavior has been the subject of repeated warnings and direction to cease smoking in the Capitol by legislative staff and Senate leadership.
The Statesman Journal has the details.
Is Senator Kruse simply oblivious to the effect of his smoking on those round him, or its it just another case of IOKIYAR*.
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A Foreshadowing of Future Mass Panic in America: This Is Why We Prepare…
Mac Slavo
February 12th, 2014
Every year somewhere in our country tens of thousands of Americans experience an emergency resulting from any number of scenarios that may include natural disasters, economic hardship or other unexpected circumstances. And every year we watch with amazement as those in areas that have been affected by snow storms, hurricanes, tornadoes or earthquakes lose everything and have no backup plan to deal with the crisis.
The thin veneer of our civilization should be apparent to everyone, yet it seems that no one really gets it.
Despite warnings from FEMA, as well as the prevalence of popular preparedness TV shows, Americans still don't seem to understand how susceptible we are to a complete destabilization of life as we know it. It boggles the mind that most people seem to think that when disasters strikes they'll be able to depend on someone else to provide them with assistance.
Recent disasters, especially those here in the United States, are often limited to a particular city or region, so emergency service personal are often able to get things under control within a week or two. But events like Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, Hurricane Sandy on the east coast, and the recent chemical spill in West Virgina often only affect a small percentage of our domestic population.
But what if the next disaster comes in the form of an earthquake on the New Madrid fault line? Or what if the sun unleashes a solar flare powerful enough to take down our electrical grid? Or what if a rogue terror organization were to detonate a nuclear weapon or dirty bomb over U.S. soil?
All of these scenarios would have an immediate and lasting impact on not tens of thousands of people, but millions.
What would it look like in America on that particular day?
If this week's snow storm east of the Mississippi is any indication, then we can expect widespread pandemonium and panic:
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Three Things to Know about the Dana Foundation/
This is shaping up to be a big year for the Manhattan-based Dana Foundation. It redesigned its website earlier this year, and it's getting ready to announce a new batch of recipients in both its Clinical Neuroscience Research program and its David Mahoney Neuroimaging Program.
Here are a few things to know about this funder.
It's all about the brain
The Dana Foundation is all about the brain. Though the Dana Foundation began as an arts, education and cancer philanthropy in the 1950s, in 1985 it shifted its priorities to focus on neurology. Interestingly, while the Dana Foundation continues to give to the causes they were founded on (supporting the Dana-Farber Cancer Research Institute, and supporting academic scholarships and professorships at colleges around the country) the Dana Foundation's new website is all about the brain. Moving forward, that's where we expect its priorities to be. Seems arts and education are has-been causes at the foundation, and though it will continue to fulfill any historic funding commitments it made in its past, we don't expect to see any new ones.
Related: Dana Foundation: Grants for Brain Research and Treatment
It's less daring than it used to be
When the Dana Foundation redesigned its website, it assumed a more conservative tone. In the past, the Dana Foundation sought out "off the beaten path" and "innovative" approaches to brain research; now it has refocused its mission slightly, leaning away from the edge—and perhaps, toward more conservative science—as it presses forward into 2014. It still wants "pilot tests of novel hypotheses," but it wants these hypotheses to be founded on proven factual science, not supposition.
But sleeker, too
In the 1990s, interdisciplinary initiatives, advocacy materials, and outreach items proliferated at the foundation. It launched a public radio series called Gray Matters. It hosted the Consortium on Therapy for HIV Dementia. It launched Brain Awareness Week. It started a publishing press, a news office, and a journal called Cerebrum. And in 2010, it pulled the plug.
It closed its DC office and moved to Manhattan, and stopped putting out trade publications. In the early 2000s, Dana's interest in progressively more and more rigorous areas of brain science had expanded rapidly. It was getting away from advocacy and into neuroimaging, neuroimmunology, you name it. And moving forward, it seems like that's precisely the direction it's going to continue to head.


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With its murders at Garissa University today, Al Shabab has cemented its status as Kenya's most serious terrorist threat, following on from its murder of 67 people at Nairobi's Westgate Mall in September 2013.
The initial death-toll for Thursday's attack was put at 14 by Kenyan authorities but appears very likely to rise, with Al Shabab – a Somalia-based Islamist group – telling Reuters that it had taken a number of Christian hostages at the university.
"We sorted people out and released the Muslims," Sheikh Abdiasis Abu Musab, an Al Shabab spokesman, told Reuters. "Fighting still goes on inside the college."
Compared to Nairobi's Westgate Mall, the university at Garissa was probably a softer target. The town lies 200 miles east of Nairobi and about 100 miles west of the southern Somali border and has been used by the Kenyan military to stage operations into Somalia against Al Shabab. In 2012, Islamist terror attacks on churches in the town left 17 dead.
Those attacks followed Kenya's decision to invade Somalia in late 2011 and try to root the group out, particularly from the southern Somali town of Kismayo, which had become a base of both business and military operations for the group. That effort was ultimately successful at Kismayo, but led to Al Shabab's increased attempts to attack civilians in Kenya, which continues to this day. In 2014, more than 170 Kenyans were killed in terrorist attacks.
Jonathan Masters and Mohamed Aly Sergie wrote a backgrounder on Al Shabab for the Council on Foreign Relations last month.
In areas it controls, al-Shabab enforces its own harsh interpretation of sharia, prohibiting various types of entertainment, such as movies and music, the sale of khat (a narcotic plant often chewed), smoking, the shaving of beards, and many other "un-Islamic" activities. Stonings and amputations have been meted out as punishment on suspected adulterers and thieves. International rights groups have reported that al-Shabab members have kidnapped young boys from schools and have forced them to fight for the group.
... Despite strategic setbacks inflicted by [African Union] forces over the past several years, including the loss of the Barawe in October 2014, al-Shabab remains in control of most of southern and central Somalia. The U.S. State Department's 2013 terrorism report estimates the group has several thousand members. Analysts say the group's resilience is likely the result of significant support from local clans and the perception among elders that it remains a plausible alternative to corrupt institutions in Mogadishu.
Though the group is weaker than when it controlled Mogadishu in alliance with the Islamic Courts Union, its ongoing ability to carry out massacres in Kenya is evidence that it isn't on the ropes. US airstrikes in Somalia killed Al Shabab leader Ahmed Abdi Godane last September. Godane was believed to have ordered the Westgate mall attack in Nairobi, but as today's violence shows, the group has proven adaptable.
And it has been taking a toll. Kenya's tourism industry, which is driven by both game-viewing safaris and Indian Ocean beach holidays, has been hammered since the Westgate attack. Just yesterday, Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta complained that travel warnings issued by the US and other foreign governments were unfair.
"The travel advisories being issued by our friends are not genuine," Kenyatta said. "I have not heard of any travel advisory issued to those visiting Paris, which recently experienced a terror attack."
President Kenyatta has made fighting terrorism one of his highest priorities. Last December, he signed a new terrorism law that gave police sweeping new powers, including the right to censor news about terrorism.


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Competition Stages
Initial screening and endorsement of a scholar's application are done by the Fulbright Office in Moscow, Russia. Applications are reviewed in three stages:
Round 1: August-September, 2019
All applications undergo academic screening and evaluation by two American and one Russian expert in the appropriate disciplines. Experts review all of the materials submitted by an applicant.
Round 2: October-December, 2019
All Round 1 applicants with a high enough score will undergo an English language interview held in Moscow by a joint U.S.A.-Russian committee in the fall or the first winter month of the current year. At this stage, an applicant's communicative, adaptive and English-language skills will be evaluated as well as her/his ability to explain their project to non-specialists.
Round 2 participants residing outside Moscow will be reimbursed for their travel and lodging expenses according to the following guidelines:
- If train travel from the applicant's home city to Moscow takes more than 24 hours, the Program will cover the cost of an airline ticket on Aeroflot.
- If train travel from the applicant's home city to Moscow takes less than 24 hours, the Program will cover the cost of a standard (4-person compartment) train ticket.
- If necessary, the Program may arrange and pay for a one night stay in a hotel.
Round 3: November-December, 2019
In the fall or December of the current year or in January of the next year a joint U.S.A.-Russian Committee will select semi-finalists recommended for a grant. The committee will include representatives of the Public Affairs Section (PAS) of the U.S. Embassy in Moscow and the Fulbright Program Russian Office. Finalist applications will then be forwarded to CIES (Council for International Exchange of Scholars), the Fulbright Program administering organization.
A few months later, in April or May 2020, after the program budget has been confirmed, CIES will advise the Moscow based office as to the exact number of grants available for 2020-2021. Only at this point the list of 2020-2021 program participants will be finalized.
• After the competition is over, all participants, successful as well as unsuccessful, will receive official letters, first via email and then by regular mail.
• It is the policy of the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board not to give to individual applicants, to others inquiring on their behalf, or to the public generally, the specific reasons for selection or non-selection of applicants for awards under the program, to the extent not required to do so as a matter of law.
• Each applicant should get from the Moscow Office an email confirmation of the application receipt no later than 2 to 3 weeks after the deadline. If you have not received confirmation in the stated time period, please contact this office immediately.
• CIES arranges affiliation with an appropriate U.S. institution for each of the selected candidates. Finalists become official Fulbright Scholars only after CIES has confirmed their placements with US host institutions.
• Before a grant can be confirmed, a Medical History and Examination Report is required and will be reviewed by appropriate U.S. medical personnel. A finalist can become the program participant only after his/her Medical Form has been approved by the program medical authorities.
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Conference Page: Religion & Politics (Washington, D.C., USA)
1) RELIGION & POLITICS IN CHINA -- Promise Hsu
China cannot create a politically modern and truly free society without Christianity, said Chinese journalist Promise Hsu in his presentation to the OCRPL's Religion and Politics conference in Washington, DC.
2) RELIGION & POLITICS IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC -- Daniel Raus, Hanka Rausova
Czechs are among Europe's most ardent atheists, yet Czech fortune tellers and psychics earn more money than trained psychologists, said Daniel Raus, a senior reporter for Cesky rozhlas, Czech national radio.
3) RELIGION & POLITICS IN INDIA -- Vishal Arora
Religion and politics have been mixed together in Indian society for so long that one cannot talk about them separately today, said Indian journalist Vishal Arora in a presentation to the Oxford Centre's course on Religion & Politics in Washington, D.C.
4) RELIGION, POLITICS & NEWS IN KENYA -- Christopher Khisa
Kenyans are almost universally religious people, but the country's journalists believe that printing religious news is a sure way to lose readers, said Kenyan journalist Christopher Khisa at the Politics and Religion conference.
5) RELIGION & POLITICS IN NIGERIA -- Aramide Oikelome
Nigeria's media both suffer from and contribute to the country's shriveling gap between church and state, said Nigerian journalist Aramide Oikelome at the Oxford Centre's Course on Religion & Politics in Washington, DC.
6) POLITICS & RELIGION IN U.S. TV NEWS -- Lisa Leigh Kelly
The worst enemies of good religion reporting are often religious people themselves, said American television-news reporter Lisa Leigh Kelly to the delegates of the OCRPL's Religion & Politics Conference.
The American press corps is ignorant of religious faith and sees it as bizarre and irrelevant to public life, said former Senator Rick Santorum in a speech to the Oxford Centre's course on religion and politics in Washington, DC.


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A simple way to make a gift
Would you like to help educate future priests, provide for youth camps and retreats, and feed the poor? You can, without changing your Will or parting with any assets now. Instead, designate Saint Joseph Abbey and Seminary College (SJASC) as a beneficiary of certain assets or accounts you own.
By completing a simple beneficiary form, you arrange your gift now and at your passing the gift becomes available to SJASC to use as you have directed.
The following assets may be designated for Saint Joseph Abbey and SEMINARY COLLEGE:
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These include IRAs (regardless of the type of IRA) and most qualified retirement plans, such as 401(k) and 403(b) plans. Request a Beneficiary Designation Form from your plan administrator and designate Saint Joseph Abbey as a beneficiary of either a percentage of your plan balance or of a specific dollar amount.
Retirement assets can be taxed at rates as high as 50% to 70% if you leave them to someone other than a surviving spouse. This is because most distributions* to an individual from an IRA, 401(k), 403(b), or other qualified retirement plan are subject to both income tax and estate tax.
In contrast, retirement funds that pass to Saint Joseph Abbey by beneficiary designation are not subject to either of these taxes*. From a tax standpoint, a transfer of assets remaining in an IRA or other retirement account is the very best charitable gift.
Life insurance policies
Simply complete and return to your insurance company a form designating that Saint Joseph Abbey receive all or a portion of the death benefit associated with your life insurance policy.
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You can instruct your investment company to transfer to Saint Joseph Abbey some or all investments held in your account at the time of your passing. Your broker or agent can let you know the process for doing this – it may be as simple as adding "Transfer on death to Saint Joseph Abbey" after your name on the account.
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A commercial annuity will sometimes have a remaining value at the end of the annuitant's lifetime. You can name Saint Joseph Abbey to receive all or part of this amount by designating Saint Joseph Abbey as a beneficiary (sole or partial) on a form available from the insurance company that issued the annuity.
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From Simon & Schuster:
"In this wildly entertaining collaboration, novelists Owen King and Mark Jude Poirier team up with illustrator Nancy Ahn to present a wickedly funny graphic novel about an alien invasion on a college campus.
Stacey, a brilliant, overachieving astrobiology major at Fenton College, had planned on just another lonely Spring Break on campus. But when a hurricane batters the small college town, downing power lines and knocking out cell phone reception, Stacey and her friends are stranded with no way to communicate with the outside world at the worst possible moment: in the midst of an alien invasion.
As space insects begin to burrow into students and staff, transforming them into slobbering, babbling monsters, a conglomeration of misfits must band together to prevent the infestation from spreading.
Illustrated with enormous wit and dynamism--mixing classic tropes from science fiction, indie comics, B-movies, and campus culture--this graphic novel is something different, a large-scale action/adventure story as seen from the point-of-view of a contemporary, realistic heroine. The result is a funny and singular work unlike anything else you've ever read."


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"I'm from the inside not the outside. That's where I come from. The inside."
This is what my father said to me as we talked about him approaching 70 and me gliding through my 30s. My father has always operated with a level of introspection that I admired. It's no wonder he eased into accepting me and loving me as his son. I think of my transmasculinity as a place that comes from within. It's tethered to the spirit of who I am not by what is imposed on how I should be. Trans masculinity, in that respect is antithetical to cismasculinity in its current state because cismasculinity gets its power from how it's authenticated by everything and everyone outside of it. And for every made up indicator of what masculinity is, there are 10x as many things that can undo manhood with the effortlessness of a hot knife through butter.
Coming into manhood by way of deliberate legal, medical, and social transitions as opposed to birthright gives space for a lot of questions. Too often those questions stop at the medical processes, gender marker and name changes not giving enough time and attention to what it means to be a man in the world. And I don't mean in the context that being a man is so complicated or noble that it needs so much deliberation, but because it has so much to account for. Being a man comes with enormous privilege and subsequently enormous responsibility. Everyday I'm challenged with how to meet that responsibility particularly when it feels like so many cisgender straight men aren't. For me, being a man of transgender experience means having to start from the inside and not relying on any outside markers of gender; that's what had me in the wrong gender expression and identity in the first place. Relying on everything else to define how I exist in the world instead of searching within.
I've had to dig deep. In the silence of introspection and frustration I began to pull from within my authentic self, regardless of how scary and complicated it would be. This excavation of self is an ongoing process of becoming the man of my own dreams. A man by my design. Particular now. With the ongoing state sanctioned violence against Black men, the violence that is perpetuated by us (namely cisgender men) and a cultural matrix that limits our expression of joy and compassion, it's hard to find examples of how to be healthy in my black masculine body.
I've decided to be that example. It's important that I'm visible, not just for the trans community but as a Black man trying to get free who is operating with the confidence that freedom mushrooms from the inside out, it's not given by any official or system or homeboy approval. It's about being a model of possibility for all those who embody masculinity in some way. I want to challenge, aggravate and change the way we talk about men and masculinity. The time is now for us to dig deeper and be better.
For the next 100 days I'll be posting every day on instagram and twitter lessons learned, contemplations and promises I make to myself in order to become a man of my own design. Stepping outside of the austere limits of what masculinity is can only set us free. And I need freedom too.


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There's a scene in 2011's "Ghost Protocol," the most recent installment of the "Mission Impossible" franchise, in which Tom Cruise hangs from the side of Dubai's Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest building. He's wearing special "Mission Impossible"-style magnetic gloves that allow him to stick to the building with his hands — if the gloves work properly! And Jeremy Renner has already warned him that if he doesn't break into the server on the 130th floor soon, they'll never be able to do, I don't know, something important. (I have a hard time following the plots of action movies.)
The scene is riveting — some of it because, I mean, will those gloves even work? And some of it because, naturally, that building. But mostly because, in the last 10 years, our culture has become completely reliant on computer-generated graphics and postproduction fixes, and yet here is a vision of effort being exerted by the person who was paid to exert it. That's what had me so slack-jawed and tense: Tom Cruise was really doing it. He was really hanging off the building. Our Tom Cruise was really and truly hanging off the tallest building in the world.
There's a making-of promotional video that I later found on YouTube that features this same scene. In it, the director and crew sit comfortably watching while Cruise stands inside the building, attached to some sort of safety harness, then runs and jumps out an open window, high up, or at least high enough up, and then runs down the side of the building. Him. Tom Cruise. Not a burly guy who looks enough like him that if he slapped on a wig and got shot at the right angles, we would be able to plausibly pretend it was Cruise. It was Cruise. And the feat is no less impressive — in fact, it's more impressive — for seeing how it all works. It's Cruise, dangling from that cord, working hard to get it right.
The unconscious is expert at detecting exactness, which is why this scene seems so much more thrilling than a thousand scenes cooked up in a hard drive. This is something Cruise and his team (and his insurers, apparently) understand. Something else that Cruise seems to understand is that there is no substitute for a man actually doing the thing he purports to be doing. And there may be no man who continues to fully comprehend that in exchange for his true sweat, we will love him, more than Tom Cruise does.
Who has ever worked so hard for our pleasure? Cruise's brand as a late-career action hero isn't Bruce Willis's putout amusement or Matt Damon's stoic efficiency or the Rock's eyebrow-acting. There are no catchphrases in the Tom Cruise oeuvre. Instead, his trademark is just a preternaturally good-looking man trying to get things done — to run across the building in time; get to the virtual-reality arcade in time; take down that MIG in time. In his effects-heavy action films like "Minority Report" or the Missions Impossible or the in- theaters-now "Oblivion," he is the anchor of reality in a sea of computer-generated effects. And he's very good at that, as it turns out.
Just check out any of the YouTube supercuts of Cruise running. He's fast and efficient, sure, but look at his face. His go-to facial expression is "holy Moses, this is terrifying."
Early in his career, Cruise was known for his smile — the cocky, megawatt grin that seemed to explode across his jaw. In his recent action films, though, his face is more often a palate for grim determination: eyes wide, eyebrows raised in terror, jaw clenched as he leaps some enormous chasm or scrambles up some ledge. It's all his way of saying to us, the audience: "Hey, pal. You and I aren't so different. Heights are scary. Gusts of wind are inconvenient when landing in a parachute. We're both going to be sore when we hit the side of this building. Oof!"
How odd that our shiniest celebrity, the man whose image once flashed most easily into our heads when we thought of the words "movie star," a man who, throughout his career, has grappled with all sorts of questions of privacy and secrecy and image control and damage control, has somehow emerged at this late date as the movie world's most unlikely symbol of old-fashioned authenticity.
He was a surprising candidate for this role. By the time the young Cruise pervaded our consciousness in "Risky Business" in 1983, he seemed already too famous, too swoon-inducing to even go to the shopping mall unmolested. By the time he was entangled with Kelly McGillis in "Top Gun" in 1986, he was on full celebrity-lockdown. He seemed to live entirely behind the golden gates of Hollywood. Go ahead, try to picture in your mind's eye Tom Cruise in a normal environment of any kind, anywhere, doing anything normal. For that matter, try to imagine him not smiling.
So the fog of secrecy that has always surrounded him came to seem natural, even inevitable. He's so weird, right? Remember that jumping on the couch? It seemed like he was being coached by a publicist on how to act like a human in love. Or have you heard that he may interview prospective wives in his living room? (Though how would you date if you were Tom Cruise? JDate?) Maybe he wears lifts. Maybe he has Xenu on speed dial. Though let me suggest that if we're not insisting that Mel Gibson show up to award shows muzzled and restrained to a dolly, Hannibal Lecter-style, then perhaps we should just give Cruise some peace for his religious beliefs.
A note on that: Scientology isn't among the world's major religions, and when I picture what goes on behind closed doors, it is not unlike that most action-filled scene in "Eyes Wide Shut." But Cruise isn't a religious leader, just a religious man, so to me much of our criticism smacks of religious bigotry. I grew up in an ultra-Orthodox Jewish household. Years of wide-eyed observation of people practicing a spirituality that made absolutely no sense to me led me to the conclusion that we're all entitled to whatever magic we find that makes the world meaningful to us. I have no real proof that the Torah isn't the "Dianetics" of millenniums past. (Don't kill me, Mom.)
But back to Cruise: on-screen, running, shirtless, 50. Hanging off the side of a building. Seeming, weirdly, like the most authentic of all the big action stars. The scrappiest. The most underdoggiest. How?
Or perhaps more pertinent: why? Why did he turn into an action star at all? He started out with the charismatic, instant success of "Risky Business," "Top Gun" and "Cocktail." He tiptoed into more serious fare with "Rain Man" and "Born on the Fourth of July." Remember that deathbed scene in "Magnolia"? I can't think of a more outstanding example in the parent's-deathbed-scene subgenre. And yet, with each of his three Oscar nominations, there was a sense that he was achieving great things despite the hindrance of his handsomeness. "Can you believe that Tom Cruise was nominated?" Like he had to overcome a great handicap.
So maybe it makes perfect sense that he leapt into action films and thrillers, with the rare foray into something like "Lions for Lambs" or "Rock of Ages." Finally, here was a genre where his good looks didn't require explanation, were not presented as an impediment, where he didn't have to worry about being too pretty for the position. (His height is another matter, as indicated by the grumbling that accompanied his playing the famously towering Jack Reacher.)
More than that, here was a genre in which he could outdo anyone. The aspect that sometimes seemed to dog his other acting — that famous Cruise intensity, that overwhelming desire to keep you entertained — actually becomes an asset in an action film. And for him, no stunt would be too big — or too small. He would be this thing with every fiber of his being. He would become the action hero.
By all accounts, he is the hardest-working megastar in the business. A man who seems to understand that for the ridiculous rate of compensation he receives, he'll do anything that's asked of him: the smallest talk show, the hardest stunt, the most intense run. Hard work equals success equals hard work in a loop forever. Authenticity equals value. These colors don't run. Tom Cruise runs. You get my point.
And sure, not all of the films will be bull's-eyes. But taken together, they prove we still need him. We need Tom Cruise!
Or at least, I need Tom Cruise. Good entertainment is getting harder to find. My TV is filled with cheaply made shows about demicelebrities whining at cameras as they vie for a man who is making out with all of them indiscriminately. People are decorating cakes on TV, and this is supposed to thrill us, to glue us to the screen. The most I can hope for from a comedy movie these days is that some jerk will stop smoking pot long enough to interest a sincere and beautiful woman. That jerk won't run for you. That jerk won't even get up from the couch for you.
And so I turn to Tom Cruise, who finds me worth taking the risk for, worth doing some situps for. Who'll climb the side of the world's tallest building for my pleasure. Run down that building, dangle off it, swing across from it. I work hard; I deserve it — I swear I do. If you do all that, I'll forget everything, all the miscues of the past, and it will just about move me to tears, and I will be yours forever.
There's another video available online of the making of that "Mission Impossible" Burj Khalifa sequence. It appears to be hand-held, cellphone camera footage of the filming of that scene, taken by someone in a crowd of onlookers below. No quick cuts and no overlaid soundtrack. Just people gathered to watch the spectacle.
Cruise is dangling from his safety harness outside the Burj Khalifa, placing those gloved hands at the outer windows of the building. He bounces and pushes off the building in what appears to be an intense negotiation with the building and the stunt itself. He looks down briefly and notices the crowd. He diverts his pinpoint focus just for a second. He seems to make eye contact with the person holding the cellphone that's recording the footage. And he smiles the whitest, most winning smile you can imagine (or don't have to imagine — you know it very well). Then he removes a hand from the building and waves, our movie star in chief, greeting the constituents who expect him to fulfill the office to which he was elected.
A second later, he pushes off from the building, flying off the window's surface, rounding the corner of that huge edifice — whoosh! — until he is gone beyond the camera's view.


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Saw and Insidious director James Wan's The Conjuring is the rare example of a horror film that both pleased critics and attracted a large mainstream audience in theaters, resulting in the film's $318 million worldwide gross on a $20 million budget. The movie has since given rise to a spinoff titled Annabelle (a critically-derided film that nonetheless grossed $257 million worldwide on a $6.5 million budget), as well as The Conjuring 2 - a sequel that, unlike Annabelle, Wan directed in addition to producing and co-writing.
Seeing as The Conjuring 2 is already a critical success (like its predecessor) and has currently grossed $96 million worldwide less than a week after it opened in the U.S. (against a $40 million budget), it's fair to assume that Warner Bros. Pictures has no intention of letting the horror franchise lie dormant anytime soon. Case in point, Annabelle 2 is scheduled to hit theaters in 2017, there's now talk of The Conjuring 3 - and, it turns out, a spinoff of The Conjuring 2 is moving forward already, too.
THR is reporting that WB is moving forward with a Conjuring 2 spinoff titled The Nun, with Conjuring 2 co-screenwriter David Leslie Johnson (who's also working with Wan on the Aquaman movie) attached to pen the script. Wan and Conjuring series producer Peter Safran are already lined up to produce The Nun - which, as its title suggests, will revolve around the demonic nun character that plays a key role in the storyline for The Conjuring 2. (And on an interesting sidenote: the demonic nun's look wasn't finalized until during reshoots that took place some three months before the Conjuring sequel was released in theaters.)
Where the Annabelle spinoff explored the untold backstory for the haunted doll of the same name that was featured primarily in the prologue to The Conjuring (though it did re-appear later in the film), The Conjuring 2 arguably doesn't hint at the demonic nun character in the movie having any sort of spinoff-worthy history that goes that far beyond what has been revealed about the monster by the end of the sequel. On the other hand, without getting too spoiler-y for those reading this who haven't seen the movie yet, The Conjuring 2 doesn't examine what trouble-making the demon got up to prior to the events depicted in the film (including its own prologue), either.
Although a number of filmgoers no doubt have limited interest in either a Conjuring spinoff or sequel not directed by Wan (especially after Annabelle), there's also no denying that the Conjuring universe is one that moviegoers have yet to grow tired of and that many horror fans in general probably want to visit again, post-Conjuring 2. WB is reported to be prioritizing the development of new installments in its established film properties over brand-new movies, so that's all the more reason to believe that the studio is going to continue releasing new films based in the Conjuring cinematic universe (like The Nun) so long as enough moviegoers seem interested.
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The Conjuring 2 is now playing in theaters. Annabelle 2 opens in U.S. theaters on May 19th, 2017. The Nun doesn't have an official release date yet.
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Casey Anthony is the mother of Florida toddler Caylee Anthony, who went missing in mid-June, 2008. The body of Caylee Anthony was found on December 11, 2008, near the home of her grandparents, George and Cindy Anthony. The identity of the body was confirmed on December 19, 2008, and the medical examiner determined that the cause of death was a homicide.
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Caylee Anthony had been missing since June 9th, 2008.
On July 24th, 2008, Cindy Anthony, Casey's mother and Caylee's Grandmother reported Caylee missing.
Cindy Anthony told 911 dispatcher that Casey Anthony's car smelled like a dead body had been in it.
Casey was arrested July 16, 2008.
Casey was granted bail hearing on July 22, 2008.
Anthony's bond was set at $500,000.
Formally charged with felony child neglect and filing a false statement on August 5, 2008.
On August 27, 2008, lab results confirmed that a human body had been in the trunk of Casey Anthony's car.
Friends consider her a habitual liar.
A judge ordered a psychiatric evaluation for her.
Was also arrested for forgery on August 29, 2008 in an unrelated case.
Indicted on murder charges October 14, 2008.
Body of Caylee Anthony's found near the home of Casey Anthony's parents on December 11, 2008 by utility worker Roy Kronk.
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Senen, Senen (2012) KARAKTERISASI BLOK REM KERETA API BERBAHAN BESI COR DAN Al-SiC BERDASARKAN KEKUATAN UJI TARIK DAN HARGA IMPAK. TEKNIK, Vo. 33 (No. 1). pp. 42-45. ISSN ISSN 0852-1697
The train is currently trusted by the people of Indonesia as a cheap and safe means of transportation. One from that must be met by a train is a reliable braking system. Generally the train brake block material is used gray cast iron brake block. One of materials based composite as a substitute for train brake block are the Al-SiC (Aluminium Silica Carbida). The Al-SiC composite material has hard and soft properties. Aluminium (Al) as a matrix and SiC as reinforcement. Metal material composite used for the reseach is Al-SiC composite with composition of SiC 15%, 10%, and 15% made through a process of stir casting. The specimens were tested tensile strength and impact tests. The test of results : tensile test for cast iron = 188.56 MPa; aluminium = 131.97 MPa; Al-SiC 5% = 127.17 MPa, 10% = 136.41 MPa dan 15% = 107.26 MPa. The result of the energy absorbed of impact test are cast iron = 2.17 Joule; aluminium = 8.67 Joule; Al-SiC 5% = 4.00 Joule, 10% = 4.67 Joule and 15% = 2.83 Joule. From the result of test, so replacement of cast iron brake material block is composite brake material block with a composition 10% of AL-SiC. Key words : gray cast iron, aluminium-silicon carbide, tensile strenght test and impact test.
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What would you do if you won the lottery and the money took care of all your needs? What would you do with the excess funds? Would you leave a legacy for others to enjoy?
"The relation with the world that I want is to be putting life back into the world, rather than taking life out of it."—W.S. Merwin
U.S. Poet Laureate and two time Pulitzer winner, W.S. Merwin decided to grow a forest of palm trees on 19 acres of officially designated wasteland on the north shore Maui, Hawaii. He has gathered palm seeds from various botanical gardens worldwide.
The forest has been grown sustainably with recycled water, and solar energy. Within this windswept region of microclimates various specimens of palm are thriving including a rare treasured palm from Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean. Mr. Merwin remarks "I know nothing about Reunion Island, but where a tree grows you have a place." Botanists have actually catalogued over 2500 species of palms trees globally.
His love of trees began at a young age, Mr. Merwin remarks, 'My father was very repressive. As a child I didn't trust the feelings of pretty well anyone except my mother. But I trusted the tree in the backyard. We were friends. If I could talk to it, it would talk to me. But I did not know how".
"Later in life I was talking to the biologist, E.O. Wilson about that, and he said talking to trees was not silly at all. "The trees gene code is much older than yours," he said, It's not withholding anything. If you know how to talk, it will tell you everything you want."
The Mervin Conservancy is his legacy. Check out the web site and the video as Mr. Merwin takes you on an enchanting tour of the forest.
"In between twenty-five or thirty years I have planted about 850 species of palms, and at least four or five times that many actual trees. I have had no map….We both hope that the whole of this land can eventually become a palm sanctuary. Just being here, with the garden, the `palm forest,' all around us, day after day, I think has taught me a great deal." —W.S. Merwin
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