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What is fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS)?
Fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) is a group of abnormalities in babies born to mothers who consume alcohol during pregnancy. It is the most common known non-genetic (non-inherited) cause of mental retardation in the United States. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), between 1,200 and 8,8,00 babies are born with FAS each year. Even more are born with alcohol-related neurodevelopmental disorder (ARND).
Fetal alcohol syndrome includes a characteristic group of defects including small head and brain, facial abnormalities, and defects of other organs. Infants with FAS also have neurodevelopmental abnormalities including impaired fine motor skills, abnormal walking, neurosensory hearing loss, and poor eye-hand coordination.
Many drugs can pass from the mother's blood stream through the placenta to the fetus. Alcohol is no exception. Alcohol is broken down more slowly in the immature body of the fetus than in an adult's body. This can cause the alcohol levels to remain high and stay in the baby's body longer.
The full picture of FAS usually occurs in babies born to alcoholic mothers, or those who drink regularly or binge-drink. However, no amount of alcohol is safe. Even light or moderate drinking can affect the developing fetus.
Alcohol use in pregnancy has significant effects on the fetus and the baby. Dependence and addiction to alcohol in the mother also cause the fetus to become addicted. At birth, the baby's dependence on alcohol continues. But since the alcohol is no longer available, the baby's central nervous system becomes overstimulated causing the symptoms of withdrawal. Alcohol withdrawal may begin within a few hours after birth and symptoms may last up to 18 months.
In addition to the acute effects of withdrawal, babies often suffer the teratogenic (causing abnormalities in formation) effects of alcohol. Specific deformities of the head and face, heart defects, and mental retardation are seen with fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS).
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Religion has been taught as an academic discipline at The University of Montana since 1924. Located within the Liberal Studies Program in the College of Arts and Sciences, the study of religion is pursued at the University in an interdisciplinary setting that offers opportunities for exploration and discovery in many areas of the humanities, arts, and sciences. Our Religious Studies courses emphasize the scholarly analysis and interpretation of the history, literature, beliefs, myths, symbols, rituals, ethical and legal codes, and communities and institutions of the world´s religious traditions. We investigate how the world´s religions address enduring human questions and influence responses to daily problems, and we explore how religious traditions shape lives and societies, from the emergence of the earliest civilizations to twenty-first century global conflicts. Our students engage ideas about the good life and death, suffering and happiness, war and peace, revelation and salvation, God, mysticism, and religious experience. Our curriculum is designed to provide students with a broad and deep understanding of religion as a field of human activity and inquiry. Our students acquire the skills necessary to investigate specific religious traditions in historical depth and to understand the forms, expressions, and roles of religions in the world today.


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"Serving Abroad…Through Their Eyes" as a part of the programming celebrating the office of Art in Embassies 50th anniversary has been an amazing journey. After the project submission cut-off date of February 20th, our office found ourselves happily overwhelmed by the quantity and the quality of the images submitted. Over 3,200 images were uploaded to our site art.state.gov, in the first joint Department of State and Department of Defense photo contest and exhibition of its kind.
In April, I had the pleasure of sitting in a dark conference room for eight hours, with some of the most prestigious photographers and photo editors in the business, the project jurors, invited to edit those images in search of the finalists. One of the best comments that day came from internationally renowned New York Times Staff Photographer Joao Silva, who, as the jury members were talking about some of the images, exclaimed that he wished that HE had been the one to take some of those shots. Of the over 3,200 images submitted, and it took a couple of go-rounds, a group of 161 amazing images emerged -- as finalists. At the conclusion of that day, the 161 images were displayed, each single slide on the screen for 3 seconds -- the entire room fell silent as all the finalist images rolled across the screen. After an intense four minutes passed, I felt that everyone in the room was awestruck with the message and power of the photographs. In the end, the jury members -- all experienced in the world of photography -- couldn't express enough what it meant for them to be part of this project and participate as a juror.
Over the next few months, we will be announcing the Best in Show winners, which have been selected. Art in Embassies will also be featuring a gallery of the finalist images soon on our website, as well as the Best in Show images, when they are announced. You can see who was a part of the photography jury here.


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Atorvastatin (also available as tonact tg/ tonact 10/ tonact 40/ tonact 20/ storvas 10/ storvas 20/ lipikind/ atorlip/ atorlip-20) belong to group of medications called statins (lipid-lowering agents) or HMG CoA reductase inhibitors. It acts by blocking the enzyme HMG CoA reductase and formation of cholesterol, thus, lowering the blood lipid levels.
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Firm's Recall Hotline: (800) 247-6144
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with the firm named below, today announced a voluntary recall of the following consumer product. Consumers should stop using recalled products immediately unless otherwise instructed. It is illegal to resell or attempt to resell a recalled consumer product.
Name of Product: Play Wonder Toy Sundae Sets
Units: About 22,000
Distributor: Battat Inc., of Plattsburgh, N.Y.
Hazard: The wooden cherries on top of the toy sundae pose a choking hazard to young children.
Incidents/Injuries: None reported.
Description: The recalled wooden sundae set toy includes six wooden scoops of ice cream, three cherries that attach to the top of the ice cream scoops, banana slices, a spoon and bowl. The ice cream scoops are green, pink, brown, yellow and purple. The sundae set pieces attach to each other with Velcro. Model number DPCI-204-12-0526 is included in this recall and is located on the packaging.
Sold exclusively at: Target Stores nationwide from December 2006 through December 2007 for about $10.
Manufactured in: China
Remedy: Consumers should immediately take the recalled toy sundae sets away from children and return the toys to any Target store for a full refund.
Consumer Contact: For additional information, contact Battat Inc. at (800) 247-6144 between 8:00 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. ET or visit the firm's Web site at www.battatco.com
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Roberts, Michèle
Michèle Roberts 1949-
(Full name Michèle Brigitte Roberts) English novelist, short story writer, poet, and essayist.
The following entry presents an overview of Roberts's career through 2003. For further information on her life and works, see CLC, Volume 48.
Throughout her collection of works—including novels, short story collections, essays, and poetry—Roberts addresses themes of female identity, passion, and how women struggle against the confines of the Catholic religion and male-dominated family structures. Critical attention has focused primarily on Roberts's novels, many of which interweave the narratives of several female characters living in different historical periods from a feminist perspective. Roberts is recognized for her sensuous, descriptive language and powerful imagery which often draws from biblical, mythological, and Catholic iconography. While widely published, read, and reviewed in the United Kingdom, Roberts has not attracted similar attention in the United States.
Biographical Information
Roberts and her twin sister, Marguerite, were born on May 20, 1949, in Bushey, Hertfordshire, England. Of French and English descent, she grew up primarily in England, but visited her mother's family in Normandy during the summers. Roberts was raised Catholic and attended convent schools, but as an adult she rejected organized religion. She entered Somerville College of Oxford University in 1967 and graduated with honors in 1970. Roberts then studied to be a librarian, earning an Associate of the Library Association degree from the University of London in 1972. After graduating, she held a variety of positions, including teacher, pregnancy counselor, researcher, and librarian. During the 1970s, Roberts was active in the women's rights movement and served as editor of the feminist poetry journal Spare Rib. She also contributed several poems and short stories to various collections, many of which she also coedited. Her first novel, A Piece of the Night (1978), was awarded the Gay News Book Award in 1979. Roberts served as writer-in-residence in Lambeth Borough, London, from 1981 to 1982, and in Bromley Borough, London, from 1983 to 1984. In 1992 she married painter Jim Latter, with whom she lives in England and France.
Major Works
Roberts's stories are usually narrated by female narrators and concern the place of women in history and society. She characteristically intertwines the stories of several women, often from different historical periods or nations, linking them by recurring thematic concerns, symbolic imagery, and significant motifs. Her most prominent themes include women's relationships within the home and family, the influence of Catholicism on the development of girls, and the power of passion in determining life choices. Roberts employs lush, sensual language in her descriptions of specific rural landscapes, the mundane details of everyday life, and the pleasures of physical sensation. Among her most prominent recurring motifs are detailed accounts of food preparation and eating experiences. Roberts's fiction often concerns the struggles of women to free themselves from the constraints imposed upon them by men and religion. A Piece of the Night is written as the confessional narrative of Julie Fanchot, a French Catholic woman who overcomes the domination of her parents and husband to evolve as a feminist and lesbian. Several of Roberts's novels are revisitations of biblical and mythological tales from a modern-day feminist perspective. In The Visitation (1983), Helen, a woman in present-day London, communicates through her dreams with women from the world of Greek mythology. The Wild Girl (1984) is a retelling of the biblical story of Mary Magdalene from a feminist perspective. In The Book of Mrs. Noah (1987), a librarian named Mrs. Noah imagines herself to be sailing on a symbolic ark filled with women from throughout history who discuss the role of womankind in the development of humanity. In the Red Kitchen (1990) combines the narratives of four different women: the frame narrative concerns Hattie King, a cookbook writer who has moved into a house in Hackney, England. The other narrators include Flora Milk, a nineteenth-century medium from London; Minny Preston, a pregnant Victorian housewife whose story is told through letters written to her mother; and Hat, an ancient Egyptian princess, daughter of the Pharaoh, who marries her own father and assumes political power after his death. Daughters of the House (1992) revolves around two cousins, Léonie and Thérèse, who grow up in the same house in a small village in Normandy. The two are separated as young women when Thérèse enters a Catholic convent, and Léonie marries. Twenty years later, Thérèse leaves the convent to return to the family home where Léonie still lives. Together, they must reconcile their personal histories with that of a family secret buried in the cellar and a village secret regarding the massacre of a Jewish family during the Holocaust.
Flesh and Blood (1994) is one of Roberts's most complex novels, both in its narration and conception. The work is again told by multiple narrators of different genders and time periods, all of whom may be imaginary incarnations of the same person. Fred, the central narrator, claims to have just murdered his mother. Fred's narrative segues into those of Freddy, Felicité, and others. The events, locations, and time periods covered by the various narrators include London in the 1950s, the making of an impressionist painting in the nineteenth century, an arranged marriage in the eighteenth century, the Garden of Eden, and Soho in the 1960s. Impossible Saints (1997) incorporates the narratives of several fictional female saints. The central story concerns Josephine, a nun who is declared a saint after her death. After her death, parts of Josephine's corpse are cut off and sold for profit as holy relics. The events of Josephine's life and death are narrated by her niece, Isabelle. Fair Exchange (1999) is set in revolutionary England and France between the years 1780 and 1810, recounting the birth of illegitimate children by two prominent women in the community. The Looking Glass (2000) takes place in provincial France during the years 1913 and 1914. The novel includes the stories of five different narrators, all of them women whose lives have been touched by a fictional poet named Gerard Colbert. The Mistressclass (2003) focuses on two London sisters, Catherine and Vinny, and Catherine's marriage to Adam, a writer. During the course of the novel, Adam struggles to come to terms with the death of his father. A series of flashbacks reveals that Adam and Vinny were in love before Adam married Catherine. Another subplot involves Vinny's interest in the writers Charlotte and Emily Brontë and a set of fictionalized letters that Charlotte writes to a former teacher at a Brussels school. Roberts's short story collections include During Mother's Absence (1993) and Playing Sardines (2001). She has also published several books of poetry, including The Mirror of the Mother: Selected Poems, 1975-1985 (1986) and All the Selves I Was: New and Selected Poems (1995), as well as Food, Sex & God: On Inspiration and Writing, a book of essays on writing.
Critical Reception
The most common criticism of Roberts's fiction has been the claim that her novels are overly didactic, presenting a feminist message and agenda at the expense of storytelling and fully developed characters. Many critics, however, have praised Roberts as a feminist writer whose explorations of women's consciousness, experiences, and place in history are complex, insightful, and evocative. A number of reviewers have found Roberts's experimental plot structures and her interweaving of the narratives of several characters to be highly effective in demonstrating how themes in the lives of the various women cut across socioeconomic and historical divisions. Others have countered this assertion, arguing that her unconventional narrative structure often reads as incoherent and confusing. Roberts has been applauded by a number of commentators for her treatment of such recurring themes as the mother-daughter relationship, conflict between the individual and gender identity, the effects of Catholic upbringing on the development of girls, female sexual desire, family secrets, and the power of sensual experience. Critics have also offered a generally favorable assessment of her descriptive language, variously describing her prose style as vivid and lyrical. Reviewers have been particularly impressed with Roberts's detailed descriptions of landscapes, cooking and eating experiences, and the everyday lives of women throughout the centuries.
Principal Works
A Piece of the Night (novel) 1978
The Visitation (novel) 1983
The Wild Girl (novel) 1984
The Mirror of the Mother: Selected Poems, 1975-1985 (poetry) 1986
The Book of Mrs. Noah (novel) 1987
In the Red Kitchen (novel) 1990
Psyche and the Hurricane (poetry) 1991
Daughters of the House (novel) 1992
During Mother's Absence (short stories) 1993
Flesh and Blood (novel) 1994
All the Selves I Was: New and Selected Poems (poetry) 1995
Impossible Saints (novel) 1997
Food, Sex & God: On Inspiration and Writing (essays) 1998
Fair Exchange (novel) 1999
The Looking Glass (novel) 2000
Playing Sardines, and Other Stories (short stories) 2001
The Mistressclass (novel) 2003
Patrick Parrinder (review date 22 March 1990)
SOURCE: Parrinder, Patrick. "Uncle Kingsley." London Review of Books 12, no. 6 (22 March 1990): 20-2.
[In the following excerpt, Parrinder comments that In the Red Kitchen is more experimental, though less successful, than Roberts's previous novels.]
[B]oth Michèle Roberts and David Grossman have written novels which pivot on the sentimental privileging of authorship. 'I want to tell you my stories. I want to record my life with you. I want to give myself a history,' insists one of Roberts's narrators, a contemporary writer addressing her lover. In In the Red Kitchen her voice mingles with those of the others—like herself, ghosts, spirits,...
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Helen Birch (review date 30 March 1990)
SOURCE: Birch, Helen. "Whispers of Immortality." New Statesman and Society 3, no. 94 (30 March 1990): 40.
[In the following review, Birch describes In the Red Kitchen as an exploration of the feminine unconscious using the narratives of the four central characters.]
Michèle Roberts is an exquisite writer. For her, language is a precious instrument with which she traces the contours of the world, mixing its colours, identifying tone and shade and smell, as if failure to classify would cause it to crumble. Her meticulous realism invites comparisons with that much-maligned genre, the "women's novel" of the thirties, forties and fifties, when miniaturists...
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Louise Doughty (review date 6 April 1990)
SOURCE: Doughty, Louise. "Medium with a Message." Times Literary Supplement, no. 4540 (6 April 1990): 375.
[In the following review, Doughty comments that the different narrative voices of In the Red Kitchen are unified by common themes, contending that the book is "a truly post-feminist novel."]
"I always loved men more than women. It is hard to love women. They want far too much." These are the thoughts of Flora Milk, a Victorian medium who conjures the spirits of the dead in her Hackney kitchen to the delight, surprise and scepticism of assembled pampered ladies and scientific gents. The character of Flora Milk is based on a real-life mystic,...
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Contemporary Review (review date July 1990)
SOURCE: Review of In the Red Kitchen, by Michèle Roberts. Contemporary Review 257, no. 494 (July 1990): 56.
[In the following review, the critic observes that In the Red Kitchen contains richly descriptive prose but comments that the different narrative voices in the novel are confusing.]
In Michèle Roberts's novel [In the Red Kitchen] four main characters narrate episodes in their respective stories. They range from an ancient Egyptian woman to one who lives in present day Hackney. By various devices their stories interrelate in unexpected, not to say contrived, ways until the final complication involves the question of whether the connections...
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Roz Kaveney (review date 18 September 1992)
SOURCE: Kaveney, Roz. "Moments of Choice." Times Literary Supplement, no. 4668 (18 September 1992): 23.
[In the following review, Kaveney comments that the strength of Daughters of the House lies in the ambivalence of the characters, as well as Roberts's descriptions of deep sadness, sense of loss, and anguished memory.]
Daughters of the House is an English novel about French Catholic provincial life; an overt but restrained feminism informs it and creates a sense of deep sadness. Cousins Thérèse and Léonie, born during the Occupation in a small Norman village, support each other through puberty and the death of Thérèse's mother, but are...
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Francis King (review date 3 October 1992)
SOURCE: King, Francis. "Too Much Goes into a Best Cellar." Spectator 269, no. 8569 (3 October 1992): 30-1.
[In the following review, King asserts that Daughters of the House is Roberts's most successful novel to date but finds it lacking in plot structure and character development.]
The past is a palimpsest: so many conflicting memories and imaginations have scrawled their messages across it that it is often impossible and always difficult to decipher the truth. This is the basic theme of Michèle Roberts's sixth and—since it has won her place on the Booker short-list—most successful novel to date [Daughters of the House].
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Judy Cooke (review date 9 October 1992)
SOURCE: Cooke, Judy. "Past Imperfect." New Statesman and Society 5, no. 223 (9 October 1992): 34.
[In the following review, Cooke praises Daughters of the House for a satisfying plot, complex characters, lyrical prose, and psychological insight.]
Daughters of the House begins with a full-blown nightmare, the image of a woman with dead, bleeding feet who clutches "a red handbag … full of shreds of dead flesh". Starting awake, Léonie runs to the bathroom gagging, feeling that it is her cousin Thérèse, expected home soon after many years in a convent, whom she is vomiting out. Threatened by real and symbolic manifestations of an unmother—a...
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Patricia Craig (review date 3 December 1992)
SOURCE: Craig, Patricia. "Non-Eater." London Review of Books 14, no. 23 (3 December 1992): 28.
[In the following review, Craig criticizes Daughters of the House as "overwrought" and comments that Roberts is "one of those writers who equate obscurity with depth."]
Jenefer Shute's Life-Size comes garnished with a quote from Fay Weldon, in which enthusiasm has got the better of taste: 'Terrific! I devoured it at a sitting.' 'Devour' is not a word one would choose to apply to a novel about the suppression of appetites, however jocularly. This book is full of rage and disgust. 'They say I'm sick, but what about them, all of them, who...
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Trev Broughton (review date 22 October 1993)
SOURCE: Broughton, Trev. "Edible Imagery." Times Literary Supplement, no. 4725 (22 October 1993): 21.
[In the following review, Broughton argues that the short stories collected in During Mother's Absence are unified by the overarching theme of mother-daughter relationships and provide "an excellent introduction to the central themes of Roberts's fiction."]
These nine stories [in During Mother's Absence,] provide an excellent introduction to many of Michèle Roberts's preoccupations over the past five years: her compassion for weakness; her warm and witty nostalgia for a childhood spent between suburban England and rural France; her robustly...
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Charlotte Moore (review date 10 September 1994)
SOURCE: Moore, Charlotte. "Back to the Womb with a View." Spectator 273, no. 8670 (10 September 1994): 34.
[In the following review, Moore observes that the unusual narrative structure of Flesh and Blood works to blur the boundaries between memory and desire, imagination and reality, conscious and unconscious.]
'My mother was my first great love, she was my paradise garden.' So says Frederica, one of the several narrators of Flesh and Blood. Or are they really several? Frederica, the pregnant artist, has evolved from Fred the androgynous matricide, has merged into Federigo, adolescent observer of female transgression. Time runs backward, and is...
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Kate Alvarez (review date 16 September 1994)
SOURCE: Alvarez, Kate. "The Female Tongue." Times Literary Supplement, no. 4772 (16 September 1994): 20.
[In the following review of Flesh and Blood, Alvarez asserts that the complex narrative structure of the novel is ultimately incohesive and frustrating to readers.]
The title, Flesh and Blood, and the opening words, "An hour after murdering my mother I was in Soho", suggest that Michèle Roberts's new novel is a murder mystery or perhaps a piece of modern Gothic. What we get instead is an infinitely complex and frustrating set of fictions.
Fred, the criminal narrator of the first chapter, finds himself in a dressmaker's shop...
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Judy Cooke (review date 16 September 1994)
SOURCE: Cooke, Judy. "Tales from Paradise." New Statesman and Society 7, no. 320 (16 September 1994): 39-40.
[In the following review, Cooke asserts that Flesh and Blood is a carefully constructed novel that includes multiple narratives unified by a common thematic focus on issues of eroticism, Catholicism, and feminism.]
Artful in the best sense of the word, Flesh and Blood appears to be a collection of stories told with desperate urgency to ward off disaster. Like Scheherezade, the narrator—variously called Fred, Freddy and Frederica—perfects a technique that closes abruptly on one fascinating encounter only to plunge headlong into the next....
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Susan Rowland (essay date June 1996)
SOURCE: Rowland, Susan. "The Body's Sacred: Romance and Sacrifice in Religious and Jungian Narratives." Literature and Theology 10, no. 2 (June 1996): 160-70.
[In the following essay, Rowland discusses the novels Wild Girl and Chymical Wedding, by Lindsay Clark, in terms of Jungian psychology.]
What is distinctive about Jungian psychology is Jung's refusal to divide off psychology from religion or to privilege one over the other as a mastering discourse. To Jung, psychology cannot 'explain away' religious feeling nor can theology authenticate subjective psychological intuitions. He believed that primary reality is psychic reality: we experience...
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Roger Luckhurst (essay date summer 1996)
SOURCE: Luckhurst, Roger. "'Impossible Mourning' in Toni Morrison's Beloved and Michèle Roberts's Daughters of the House." Critique 37, no. 4 (summer 1996): 243-60.
[In the following essay, Luckhurst draws on postcolonial theory to find parallels between the novels Daughters of the House and Beloved by Toni Morrison.]
Why these two texts together? Can the link between one of the most celebrated African American texts of recent years and an Anglo-French writer's latest novel be anything but cryptic? Toni Morrison's oeuvre has fostered a massive critical industry; Beloved alone is the subject of some thirty articles....
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Emma Tristram (review date 25 April 1997)
SOURCE: Tristram, Emma. "The Relics of Religion." Times Literary Supplement, no. 4908 (25 April 1997): 24.
[In the following review, Tristram comments that Roberts's writing style in Impossible Saints is intense, sensuous, and full of evocative imagery.]
In Impossible Saints, Michèle Roberts parodies and criticizes Catholic Christianity with a certain glee. She also enjoys baffling the reader's expectations and upsetting literary conventions. Each time you finish a chapter of the main story—the life of a nun called Josephine—Roberts breaks the flow of the narrative by inserting the life of another fictional female saint. Josephine's story begins...
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Jason Cowley (review date 23 May 1997)
SOURCE: Cowley, Jason. "Incest and Holiness." New Statesman 126, no. 4335 (23 May 1997): 49.
[In the following review of Impossible Saints, Cowley asserts that Roberts's fictions are overly taken with fanciful flights of the imagination and fail to address the real experience of modern life.]
Michèle Roberts is a disarmingly sensuous writer. Her sentences have a voluptuous torpor. She luxuriates in abundance. We read her for her language, for her ornate style and disturbed Gothic imagination. Themes and motifs recur: the relationship of mothers and daughters, the allure of incest, the oppressiveness of Catholicism, the seductive pleasure of food, the...
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Michèle Roberts and Stephen Brasher (interview date 4 July 1997)
SOURCE: Roberts, Michèle, and Stephen Brasher. "Influences: Michèle Roberts, Writer and Broadcaster." New Statesman 126, no. 4341 (4 July 1997): 21.
[In the following interview, Roberts comments on her literary influences and political opinions.]
[Brasher]: Which books and authors have had the greatest effect on your political beliefs?
[Roberts]: Sheila Rowbotham's books helped me to see that you need to be a socialist to be a feminist.
Name one film, book, play, poem and piece of music that you would like everyone to see, read or hear.
Film: I love all Buñuel's films and would recommend...
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Linda Giedl (review date 2 July 1998)
SOURCE: Giedl, Linda. "Double Standard for Women Saints." Christian Science Monitor 90, no. 152 (2 July 1998): B8.
[In the following review of Impossible Saints, Giedl comments that Roberts is a skilled storyteller but that the novel is uneven in quality.]
Among the summer offerings are two books by women about women—women saints, to be exact. Both are drawn from one of the remotest periods of Christian history, when the Roman Catholic Church was extending its influence all over Europe, and sainthood was a growth industry.
In their books, American scholar Jane Tibbetts Schulenburg and London-based fiction writer Michèle Roberts address...
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Peter Swaab (review date 15 January 1999)
SOURCE: Swaab, Peter. "Revolution's Leavings." Times Literary Supplement, no. 4998 (15 January 1999): 21.
[In the following review, Swaab observes that Fair Exchange is intricately plotted with vivid descriptions of women's everyday lives, but that it is overly didactic in conveying its feminist message.]
Fair Exchange sets its narrative confusions in the convulsions of revolutionary England and France. The action takes place between the late 1780s and 1810, and is suggested by the coincidence that both William Wordsworth and Mary Wollstonecraft conceived illegitimate children in post-revolutionary France. Wordsworth's nephew and biographer,...
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Andrew Barrow (review date 16 January 1999)
SOURCE: Barrow, Andrew. "Food for Puzzled Thought." Spectator 282, no. 8893 (16 January 1999): 30.
[In the following review, Barrow describes Fair Exchange as an "extremely juicy historical romance."]
This short and extremely juicy historical romance [Fair Exchange] starts with a French peasant woman called Louise summoning a priest. She has something dreadful to confess about her early life. Only at the end of the novel do we learn her terrible secret.
Cliff-hanging chapter-endings and constructions seem to be one of Michèle Roberts's specialities and during the first 80 or so pages of this book I was transfixed by her fine,...
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Susan Rowland (essay date 1999)
SOURCE: Rowland, Susan. "Feminist Ethical Reading Strategies in Michèle Roberts's In the Red Kitchen: Hysterical Reading and Making Theory Hysterical." In The Ethics in Literature, edited by Andrew Hadfield, Dominic Rainsford, and Tim Woods, pp. 169-83. New York: St. Martin's, 1999.
[In the following essay, Rowland asserts that Roberts utilizes a social realist narrative in her novel In the Red Kitchen to make feminist ethical claims.]
This essay will examine the ethical encounter with the Other in a contemporary feminist novel: In the Red Kitchen by Michèle Roberts.1 I will argue that the novel is designed not only to display an...
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Emma Parker (essay date winter 2000)
SOURCE: Parker, Emma. "From House to Home: A Kristevan Reading of Michèle Roberts's Daughters of the House." Critique 41, no. 2 (winter 2000): 153-73.
[In the following essay, Parker draws on the feminist theories of Julia Kristeva in an analysis of Roberts's novel Daughters of the House.]
Women writers have a penchant for burning down paternal houses that do not offer their female protagonists satisfactory homes.1 In Daughters of the House, Michèle Roberts prefers to transform rather than destroy the house in which her two main female characters reside, a metaphor for the patriarchal symbolic order,2 and she attempts this...
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Claire Harman (review date 26 May 2000)
SOURCE: Harman, Claire. "A Poet and a Mermaid." Times Literary Supplement, no. 5069 (26 May 2000): 21.
[In the following review of The Looking Glass, Harman praises Roberts for vivid, sensuous prose that portrays the drama and humor of everyday life.]
Michèle Roberts's eleventh novel [The Looking Glass] returns to nineteenth-century French provincial life with a multilayered narrative centred on a poet called Gérard Colbert. Colbert himself is an elusive figure; it is the women who surround him who tell the story and the humblest of them, the orphaned maidservant Geneviève, whose point of view dominates the book.
Geneviève is a...
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Michèle Roberts (essay date 27 November 2000)
SOURCE: Roberts, Michèle. "On the Novels of Colette." New Statesman 129, no. 4514 (27 November 2000): 58.
[In the following essay, Roberts discusses the influence of French novelist Colette on her own life and fiction.]
Colette has meant a lot to me both because of the books she wrote and the life she led. As a young writer in the 1970s, entering a literary world that was still dominated by masculine precepts and models, I sought for a tradition of fiction-writing that suggested possibilities of writing riskily, authentically, differently. Colette was a major modernist, producing a new sort of novel. I believe that the life she lived helped her to do this....
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Susan Rowland (essay date 2000)
SOURCE: Rowland, Susan. "Women, Spiritualism and Depth Psychology in Michèle Roberts's Victorian Novel." In Rereading Victorian Fiction, edited by Alice Jenkins and Juliet John, pp. 201-14. New York: St. Martin's, 2000.
[In the following essay, Rowland asserts that Roberts's works of historical fiction represent an extension of academic feminist research that challenges traditional history and add a feminist perspective to the historical record.]
In the Red Kitchen by Michèle Roberts is a contemporary feminist novel partly set in the Victorian London of female Spiritualist mediums.1 Its two other temporal sites are Ancient Egypt and London in...
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Clare Hanson (essay date 2000)
SOURCE: Hanson, Clare. "During Mother's Absence: The Fiction of Michèle Roberts." In British Women Writing Fiction, edited by Abby H. P. Werlock, pp. 229-47. London: University of Alabama Press, 2000.
[In the following essay, Hanson discusses the recurring theme of mother-daughter relationships in Roberts's novels and short stories.]
Michèle Roberts is one of the most interesting and accomplished writers working in English. Her fiction is vivid, sensuous, and imaginative, its formal inventiveness matching the richness of her vision and insight. Roberts explores many of the key issues facing women today, but from the perspective of a woman half-English and...
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Sarah Sceats (essay date 2000)
SOURCE: Sceats, Sarah. "Food and Manners: Roberts and Ellis." In Food, Consumption and the Body in Contemporary Women's Fiction, pp. 125-54. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
[In the following essay, Sceats discusses the significance of food and cooking to the creation of female identity in the fiction of Roberts and Alice Thomas Ellis.]
Food is an essentially social signifier, a bearer of interpersonal and cultural meanings. It is, and has been, constructed as symbolic in all sorts of ways, either intentionally (Passover, the Eucharist), through custom (harvest suppers and hot cross buns) or by commerce (the 'ploughman's lunch'); the resonances are,...
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Sheena Joughin (review date 8 June 2001)
SOURCE: Joughin, Sheena. "A Soubrette among the Espaliers." Times Literary Supplement, no. 5123 (8 June 2001): 23.
[In the following review, Joughin observes that the stories in Playing Sardines include many of Roberts's recurring themes but comments that the stories are underdeveloped.]
In 1979, The Women's Press inaugurated its fiction list with Michèle Roberts's first novel, A Piece of the Night. Fourteen more books have consolidated her position within a particularly female enclosure. Her preoccupations are with mothers and daughters, with female saints, and the lessons to be learnt from their journeys to canonization, the reclamation of history,...
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Patricia Duncker (review date 18 June 2001)
SOURCE: Duncker, Patricia. "Cookery Lessons." New Statesman 14, no. 661 (18 June 2001): 58.
[In the following review, Duncker observes that the motif of cooking and eating unites the stories in Playing Sardines.]
Food, Sex and God was the title of Michèle Roberts's earlier book of essays, and signalled her central preoccupations as a writer. Food, sex and God are indeed the main themes of her arresting new collection of stories, Playing Sardines. Her approach to each is adventurous, quirky and erotic. Both food and sex, in the orthodox forms of communion and marriage, are sacraments in the Catholic Church. I read Roberts as a Catholic writer, still...
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Kai Maristed (review date 22 July 2001)
SOURCE: Maristed, Kai. "Suddenly Last Summer." Los Angeles Times Book Review (22 July 2001): 8.
[In the following review, Maristed argues that The Looking Glass expresses an immediacy and intimacy unusual in historical novels and asserts that the book contains exciting narrative structure, rich imagery, and deep explorations of character.]
[In The Looking Glass,] Genevieve, a foundling raised in provincial confinement by strict nuns, savored her first taste of freedom at 16. As she rode in a farmer's cart toward an arranged future as domestic maid, her "eyes seized on everything: the swaying rump of the horse just in front of me and the strip of...
(The entire section is 747 words.)
Penelope Lively (review date 12 April 2003)
SOURCE: Lively, Penelope. "A Dance to the Music of London." Spectator 291, no. 9114 (12 April 2003): 42.
[In the following review, Lively offers a positive assessment of The Mistressclass, praising Roberts's "meticulous creation of a time and a place."]
Michèle Roberts writes some of the most sensual prose around in contemporary fiction. This novel is alight with rich descriptive passages, often springing from the most mundane prompts—having a shampoo at the hairdresser, rolling a joint, the interior of a greasy-spoon café. In other hands, these might seem gratuitous page-fillers. Michèle Roberts uses them to create a climate for her fiction that...
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Further Reading
Falcus, Sarah. "Her Odyssey: Herstory in Michele Roberts's Fair Exchange." Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction 44, no. 3 (spring 2003): 237-51.
Falcus explores how Roberts "deals with the making of historical narrative" in Fair Exchange.
Matthews, Samantha. "Scribbling Sisters." Times Literary Supplement, no. 5219 (11 April 2003): 8.
Matthews evaluates the strengths and weaknesses of The Mistressclass.
Rowland, Susan. "Michele Roberts' Virgins: Contesting Gender in Fictions, Re-writing Jungian Theory and Christian Myth." Journal of Gender Studies 8,...
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USA Taekwondo will host a free webinar on Saturday, Dec.15 at 4 p.m. EST. This webinar will serve as a refresher/educational course on the competition rules which will be used for all USAT events in 2013. This webinar is open to all members of USAT.
As most know, many changes have occurred in the sport of taekwondo over the past year. We want to be sure each coach, athlete and referee is fully educated on the rules. We highly encourage each of you to participate in this free webinar.
This webinar is open to the first 100 people who register for the course via the HangAstar online registration system. To guarantee your spot, you should register as soon as possible. We will not be having a second refresher course before the 2013 National Team Trials.
Additional Information:
USA Taekwondo will be utilizing the webinar technology even more than we have in the past with topics such as nutrition, training, Poomsae, Coaches Edge, referee updates and many more. Please let us know if there is any way we can continue to make these webinars better for you our members.
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Have you watched Dobson? The guys hands are worse than Ikes.
Trade Sanders, re-sign JD Woods & promote Wheaton to starter, or have Cotch fill the role until Wheaton is ready.
Sanders is not the difference between winning & losing.
Schiavone's Race Career:
Starts- 10
Wins- 2
2nd- 4
3rd- 0
Other- 4
Prizemoney- $60,050.00
Agree in trading ES
Why not start Derek Moye..he is a big target and had played well in preseason and the short play time he got in regular game...
Why are they not playing him????
Well that and because Sanders is better than Moye at this stage in their careers. I do like Moye...like how he fights for yards. I would like to see him in 3-4 WR sets.
1.25 CB Eli Apple-DB-tOSU
2.58 SS Vonn Bell-DB tOSU
3.89 DT Javon Hargrave-SC State
4.123 DE-Matt Judon-Grand Valley State
6.220 RB-Tyler Erwin-San Jose State
7.229 WR Geronimo Allison-Ilinois
7.246 QB-Cody Kessler-USC
Me, I have no problem with Sanders. Okay, maybe all this showboating could go, it seems to be rubbing too many fans the wrong way.
btw: Not that is is significant but Sanders is outdoing Mike Wallace in just about every WR stat category. But then who isn't? Wallace is buried so deep in every category it is unbelievable. Right now on paper he would be hard pressed to make most teams as a 3rd or 4th WR. He looked very tentative and insecure the only game I got a look at him.


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COMMENTARY: Customer service 101
(RNS) Too many providers — churches, retailers, even politicians — come across as having a low opinion of their constituents. Voters know this recession better than their politicians, and believers seem to take their faith more seriously than the institutions that seek to enroll them as members. By Tom Ehrich.


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American blueberry pancakes
Light, fluffy and fruity, these pancakes are a US classic. Serve them stacked high with syrup and extra fruit
Nutrition and extra info
- Freezable
- Easily doubled / halved
- Vegetarian
Nutrition: per serving (without syrup)
- kcal108
- fat3g
- saturates1g
- carbs18g
- sugars0g
- fibre1g
- protein4g
- salt0.41g
- 200g self-raising flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
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Baking powder is a raising agent that is commonly used in cake-making. It is made from an alkali…
- 1 egg
The ultimate convenience food, eggs are powerhouses of nutrition, packed with protein and a…
- 300ml milk
One of the most widely used ingredients, milk is often referred to as a complete food. While cow…
- knob butter
Butter is made when lactic-acid producing bacteria are added to cream and churned to make an…
- 150g pack blueberry
Blueberries are one of the few edibles native to North America and credited with being…
- sunflower oil or a little butter for cooking
Sunflower oil
A variety of oils can be used for baking. Sunflower is the one we use most often at Good Food as…
- golden or maple syrup
Mix together the flour, baking powder and a pinch of salt in a large bowl. Beat the egg with the milk, make a well in the centre of the dry ingredients and whisk in the milk to make a thick smooth batter. Beat in the melted butter, and gently stir in half the blueberries.
Heat a teaspoon of oil or small knob of butter in a large non-stick frying pan. Drop a large tablespoonful of the batter per pancake into the pan to make pancakes about 7.5cm across. Make three or four pancakes at a time. Cook for about 3 minutes over a medium heat until small bubbles appear on the surface of each pancake, then turn and cook another 2-3 minutes until golden. Cover with kitchen paper to keep warm while you use up the rest of the batter. Serve with golden syrup and the rest of the blueberries.
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This recipe worked great. I used the ingredients listed and followed the instructions given. The pancakes were easy to make and tasty. I didn't realise that the blueberries in the pancake would break and spread out within it. That made the end result more colourful and interesting. I'll definitely use this recipe again.
I didn't have any full-fat milk to hand, so I used semi-skimmed. But that didn't seem to affect the pancakes. I wasn't sure what a 'large tablespoon' is supposed to be, but I found that if you are a bit more generous with the amount of batter per pancake (so using more than 15 ml), you get a better, thicker pancake as a result.
If you want to avoid the pancakes tasting a bit salty, use sunflower oil or unsalted butter in the pan.
I have been searching madly for a good recipe for American pancakes after returning from the USA. This is the very best one that I have found, so very easy to make, light and fluffy, I am super delighted and cant wait to bin all the other recipes !!! The only thing I didn't add was the blueberries as I wanted to try this recipe for the pancake only .... its a WINNER !!!
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Quite simply, this is the only pancake recipe I use except for on Shrove Tuesday. I make them often for various friends. Be sure to use as fresh Baking Powder as possible, the last batch I made, a few hours, I used a brand new pack of Baking Powder and the results were even better. The batter was thick to the point of not pouring but the pancakes were incredibly light textured and held a very impressive thickness.
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My favorite american pancakes are with banana slices and some almond crumbs. Just put a couple of slices and almonds in the batter after pouring it in the pan. Tastes incredible.


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ALL spring program introduced
The Association of Lifelong Learners introduced its spring program March 7 at a luncheon "Happening" held at the APlex. A business meeting preceded the luncheon which consisted of brats and buns from Nowicki's Sausage Shop, potato salad, chips, vegetable tray and dessert from Two Dough Nuts.
The business meeting covered the usual housekeeping issues but the one major announcement was that Jodene Compton is stepping down as president of the executive board after three years of devoted service. On behalf of the membership, Jim Rapin presented Compton with a vase of fresh flowers, symbolic of the organization's appreciation for her effective service during a time of transition.
After the business portion of the meeting, a presentation was given by Darlene Wilmot of Synchronizations, LLC on the history and operation of the APlex event center. Interesting information on the history of Alpena and Jesse Besser was also discussed with attendees. Following Wilmot's presentation, ALL members were treated to an informative tour of the facility.
The ALL spring 2013 program schedule was also introduced during the "Happening" event. A total of 51 activities/programs are available to ALL members at their leisure. A special $20 spring membership is available to the general public which is effective through June 30.
Twelve activities of the spring program are open to the public at no charge. Two of these presentations will be at the NOAA Marine Sanctuary on April 1 and 18 entitled Under Water Technology and Recent Maritime Archaeology Discoveries in the Northwest Hawaiian Islands: Whaling Ships to WWII Aircraft.
The next presentation open to the public is Supporting Green at the ACC World Center for Concrete on April 5. Attendees will learn about high performance buildings and the green building movement. The fourth program will be Lansing Update with Peter Pettalia on April 8, followed by National Debt: What Are We Doing? on April 11. Both of these programs will take place at ACC's Center Building, Room 114.
Also open to the public are Celebration of Earth Day on April 22 at ACC's Van Lare Hall and The Galapagos Islands through the eyes of Randy Baker on April 26 at ACC's Center Building, Room 106.
Music oriented presentations include: Life and Songs of John Denver on April 23 at the ACC Granum Theatre; Pie & Music on April 30 at the Center Building, Room 106; "No, No, Nanette" at Alpena High School on May 4; and Behind the Scenes at Thunder Bay Theater on June 1.
Interested people who are not members of ALL can get additional information on the preceding programs by calling 358-7207 or e-mail email@example.com.
For ALL members and guests there is much more to the 2013 spring program. Arts and crafts are represented with Wire Memory Bracelet (make one) on April 2; Write Now, Too (writing poetry) on April 3; Exploring Mixed Media Felting on April 22; and Ink and Scrub Landscape on May 23 and 30.
Food is a popular category in every ALL quarterly schedule. The first Moveable Feast is Breakfast on Tax Day at JJ's Pizza on April 15. Sugar The Good and the Bad will be on April 15 and the next Moveable Feast will be at the Nineteenth Hole on May 16. Learn how to prepare and cook Coq Au Vin from Chef Kurt Pratel on May 20 and attend the last Moveable Feast of the quarter at the Lighthouse Restaurant in Rogers City on June 24.
One of the main reasons to join ALL is to take advantage of the many opportunities offered to keep physically active. These include What Plaza Pool Can Offer You on April 10 at the Madeline Briggs Center; Silver Anniversary of Thompson's Harbor State Park where nature, flower walks and a driving tour will be available on May 11; Hike the Bell Bay Trail and explore the ghost town of Bell, do a walking tour of sink holes in the Bruski, Stevens and Mystery Valley preserves and finish at Sunken Lake Park on June 3. Hike Thompson State Park on June 8 and go camping with friends on June 14-16 at the Beaver Lake Campground.
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On April 4, learn about the Montagnard highland people living in northeast Cambodia and the Cambodian Corps which provides educational opportunities for young people. Max Lund presents his personal experience with these people.
Each quarter ALL attempts to have at least one program exploring various religions of the world. This quarter the group look at The Mormons Next Door, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, presented on April 6.
A Mental Health Advocacy Forum will be on April 9 at the Madeline Briggs Center and will highlight mental health resources available in this area. At Brush Creek Mill in Hillman is a musical presentation of "Two Soldiers Reflections on the War Between the States" by Allan James Grund on April 13. On May 1 meet the 7 Alpena High School exchange students at the Madeline Briggs Center.
History buffs may want to attend Learning History through Philately which will be presented by Rudy Bauer on May 6 at the Madeline Briggs Center. Following is the History of the Alpena Police Department on May 21 by Phil Wiser and the Metz Fire Tour on June 12 starting at Karstens Restaurant in Rogers City.
Under the self-help/improvement category ALL recommends Making Requests & Promises (communication skills) by Mark Kinney on May 16; Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery with Dr. Jason Mussman on June 4; and Financial Forum Encore by Michelle McEwen on June 19.
The following are a collage of presentations: Water is Life Rotary's Water Initiatives by Georgene Hildebrand on May 16; Pesky Paws Wildlife Services (hazardous animal removal) by Duane Haske on May 9; Planning and Implementation of a Local Custom Sign Business on May 13 by Laurie Trahan; The Philosophy of St. Augustine by ACC President Olin Joynton; Book Lovers Gathering on June 5; and Geneology-Potpourri (build your family tree) by Janet Romas on June 10. Also experience the Beauty & Romance of Lavender Fields near Boyne City with Linda Longworth on June 13 and tour the Moran Iron Works on June 17 with founder Tom Moran.
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A high-ranking official for Advanced Micro Devices said that the company would initiate mass shipments of its code-named Llano products in the first half of next year. Partners of AMD would start sales of systems featuring Llano - the hybrid processor that features x86 as well as graphics cores - in Summer 2011.
"Llano will start shipping in the first half or 2011, and products should be available in summer 2011," said Leslie Sobon, vice president of worldwide product marketing at AMD, in an interview with Inside Hardware web-site.
AMD Llano will be positioned for mainstream and high-end notebooks, whereas the company's lower-performance Ontario and Zacate chips are aimed at inexpensive notebooks as well as netbooks. AMD is already working with actual PC manufacturers on the design of systems featuring Llano and Zacate.
"Designing and selling to our customers is well underway, since it takes 12 to 18 months for notebook products to hit the market. And let me tell you one thing about Llano, the reaction of all our partners after seeing the demo was, in one word, 'whoa'," said Ms. Sobon.
This is the first time when a high-ranking AMD executive is talking about availability of products based on the code-named Llano chip. Earlier the company's chief executive said that the problems with manufacturing technology shifter its internal plans on Llano by "a couple of months".
As reported earlier, AMD Llano accelerated processing unit (APU) will have four x86 cores based on the current micro-architecture each of which will have 9.69mm² die size (without L2 cache), a little more than 35 million transistors (without L2 cache), 2.5W – 25W power consumption, 0.8V – 1.3V voltage and target clock-speeds at over 3.0GHz clock-speed. The cores will dynamically scale their clock-speeds and voltages within the designated thermal design power in order to boost performance when a program does not require all four processing engines or trim power consumption when there is no demand for resources. According to sources familiar with the matter, different versions of Llano processor will have thermal design power varying from 20W to 59W: high-end dual-core, triple-core and quad-core chips will have TDP between 35W and 59W; mainstream chips with two of four x86 cores will fit into 30W thermal envelope and low-power dual-core Llano chips will have 20W TDP. Llano will be made using 32nm SOI process technology.
AMD Sabine platform will also include code-named Hudson input/output controllers that will support PCI Express graphics port, 16 USB ports, USB 3.0 support (Hudson M3 only), 6 Serial ATA ports with RAID support, 1Gb Ethernet, integrated video DAC, integrated clock-generator and so on. Besides, Sabine may also feature optional Vancouver-series graphics processing units.
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Daily Archives: February 13, 2011
CPAC–Days 3 and 4
Well today's a travel day and so I thought I'd jot down a few thoughts about the last two days before I hit the road.
A) I enjoyed it. Quite lively and quite a different experience. Apparently this was their largest attendance ever. Got to speak to a lot of people about a lot of subjects near and dear to my heart.
B) Great networking – met a great number of bloggers who I've read and admired over the years. Also met a number of media types which was cool as well.
C) The two people who literally packed the huge ballroom with thousands were Ron Paul, which came as no surprise, and Ann Coulter. Coulter was sharp and funny. She was asked afterwards during the Q&A who she favored in the 2012 race and she blurted out that the GOP needed to nominate Chris Christie or Romney would win it and the Republicans would lose. Frankly, that's the scenario I see developing (Romney gets the nomination), but whether the GOP loses probably depends more on the economy's state than whether it is Romney or not. Ron Paul won the straw poll which is essentially a throw-out and it's the second place guy you look at. Romney took that with 23% and then it drops to about 6% apiece for all the other candidates (to include Newt Gingrich).
D) GOProud sort of crapped in their mess kit by doing a little name calling during the event. They killed a lot of good will they had earned up to that point. OTOH, those that boycotted were obviously not missed (see record attendance). Both GOProud and the boycotters need to grow up.
E) I wanted to say a public thank you to Tabitha Hale and Freedom Works for the outstanding job they did putting blogger's row together. Probably about 50 or so bloggers there. Good libertarian contingent including Doug Mataconis from OTB who I finally got to meet. Anyway, taking care of bloggers is akin to herding cats but Tabitha was up to the job and things went very well there. It was a choice location with tables and power in a large room and a balcony a few steps away which overlooked the main floor of CPAC where bloggers could go out and listen to the speeches.
F) A good number of speakers and others came through blogger's row and bloggers had an opportunity to interview and meet them. Yesterday former LTC and now Congressman Allen West came though and spent about 10 minutes with bloggers before he gave the keynote speech of CPAC. I like the guy (no Army prejudice or anything, heh). Here's a link to the entire 10 minute interview if you're interested (video).
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The season is now going to start it second month as May 1st is tomorrow.
Now I finished fourth and ended up rotating my picks with the team that placed third. It was an interesting draft and there were no major surprises, most members know what they are doing. We are in the fifth year or so.
The fun part about this keeper league is that it was not snake. You kept your 12 keepers unless, you were lucky enough to make a trade to get someone elses good draft choices for a player you would have had to cut. A few members made some nice trades.
Well, my season did not start out that great, but after about 7 days I was in contention. Well, my team in the first four or five years had great pitching and limited hitting.
Last season the hitting came around and I got some money. This year, I decided to cut a few players, I probably should have traded, since one was the first player drafted. My weakness last year was OBP. The hitter, who provided points in four of five areas should have been kept, but the OBP was just one area, that was weak and consistent with other players I kept.
So I gambled. This season starter great hitting and limited pitching. Look at Cliff Lee. Well, I got lucky because either my draft or the waiver wire but I am now about 20 points ahead.
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Richard A. Kern
Richard (Dick) A. Kern, 87 of Dunkirk passed away Thursday afternoon, March 14, 2013, at Brooks Memorial Hospital with his family at his side.
He was born August 7, 1925 in Dunkirk, the son of the late Arthur and Sophie (Schrantz) Kern.
He attended St. George's School (Sacred Heart Parish) and The Industrial High School in Dunkirk.
A U.S. Navy Veteran of World War II, Mr. Kern served on the Light Cruiser U.S.S. Atlanta CL-104 in the South Pacific and off the coast of Japan as a Medical Assistant. In service to his country, he received the American Campaign, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign, Navy Occupation Service and Victory-World War II Medals.
A retiree from Bethlehem Steel in Lackawanna, Mr. Kern had previously worked for the City of Dunkirk Urban Renewal Agency and Alco Products Corporation until they both closed.
Memberships included Blessed Mary Angela R.C. Parish-Church of St. Hedwig, where he served as a Eucharist Minister ad-ministering terminal ill parishioners communion at home. Also, he participated at the American Legion Post #62 (Life Member) where he served as Legion Commander in 1953/1954 and was the oldest commander in terms of service. He currently was a member of the Moniuszko Social Club and The Southwestern Firemen's Association (Life Member).
Past memberships in-cluded The Kosciuszko Polish Home, Dunkirk Exempt Firemen's Association, and The Pioneer Hook and Ladder Truck #1.
Prior to the closing of Sacred Heart Church, Mr. Kern was an active member of numerous parish committees including The Knight's of St. John.
Mr. Kern also had served the city of Dunkirk as a Democratic Committeeman for numerous years.
He was an avid outdoors-men especially hunting and fishing. Traveling was one of his favorite pastimes along with following local sports including the ones his family participated in.
Surviving are his wife Betty J. (Bernstein) whom he married July 11, 1953. Their children Richard (Mary) Kern, Elizabeth (Gary) Dauber, Lakewood Ohio, and Patrick (Zoe), Naples, Fla. 8 grandchildren, Matthew, Mary E., Susan, Grant, Brian, Colin, Margo, Olivia, and 3 great grandchildren, Emily, Matthew Scott, Erin.
Numerous nieces and nephews also survive.
Besides his parents, he was preceded in death by his brother Arthur and sister MaryLou (Maslach).
Relatives and friends are invited to call at the R. Mackowiak Funeral Home Inc. 56 East Doughty Street in Dunkirk, Sunday from 3-7 P.M. Prayers from the funeral home at 9 A.M. Monday morning, with services at 10 O'Clock from Blessed Mary Angela R.C. Parish Church of St. Hedwig. Interment will be at St. Hedwig's Cemetery.
Memorials are suggested to be made to Hospice of Chautauqua County, 20 West Fairmount Avenue, Lakewood, NY 14263.


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Joseph Bernard Kelly says that as a CIA interrogator, he didn't torture or act violently.He used a kinder approach to get information.
By BETH N. GRAY
Published July 7, 2006
BROOKSVILLE - Joseph Bernard Kelly, a military man of some 30 years, most as an officer, carved a career of four-letter words. But not the words you'd expect.
His weren't the harsh, demeaning indictments that leap to mind in the strict discipline of boot camp tales. Nor were they commands barked at slackers. Not even egregious stereotypical two-worders that would paint enemies with a broad brush.
Not that the now 75-year-old retiree living in Brooksville didn't observe such treatment while serving in the Army and Air Force in Vietnam in the 1970s.
But Kelly had an uncomfortable feeling that such tactics didn't produce the desired results as he oversaw snatch-and-detain operations and interrogation of enemy combatants and political bigwigs, listened to complaints of Vietnamese villagers and counseled the country's national police in their dealings with prisoners.
Kelly knew of threats to throw the Viet Cong out of helicopters if they didn't divulge information. The enemy's mind-set was, " 'If you start torturing me, I'll tell you what you want to hear,' " Kelly explained. "We were getting incorrect information."
Although Kelly had worked deep cover on and off with the Central Intelligence Agency in his regular military service, it wasn't until he was demobilized that he signed on as a contract operative with the CIA under the auspices of the Army. There he employed tactics in dealing with the enemy that he had considered for more than a year before he put them into play.
Kelly's credo of four-letter words: care, kind, firm, sometimes pity. He launched the first such case study program to deal with prisoners built on compassion, benevolence, tenderness, humaneness and charity.
It worked, he says.
In fact, his modus operandi was so successful that his superior at the time, field ambassador William Colby, later director of the CIA, had Kelly tout and teach his techniques to international forces and the national police throughout Vietnam.
Kelly's initiative and its results are detailed in a book, Confessions of a CIA Interrogator, written with Kelly by author Ben R. Games of Ellenton. Under publication consideration by Air Leaf Publishers of Martinsville, Ind., the work also has attracted the attention of at least two California film studios, Air Leaf president Carl Lau said.
Air Leaf has published several of Games' softcover books under the imprint Little Big Books. But Confessions is a big book running to 500 pages, likely a hardcover, Lau said.
Games, whom Kelly first met in Okinawa in 1948 and reconnected with during their military service over the years, persuaded Kelly to write of his experiences.
Kelly, who says he's blessed with total recall, including emotions of each situation, penned a draft of the book over just three weeks, writing daily from 2 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Penned, indeed. He wrote it in longhand. "I wore out a lot of pens," Kelly said with a chuckle. "I never wore out a pen before."
He mailed a chapter at a time to his friend Games, now 82, who transposed it to typescript, checked Kelly's sources to confirm their accuracy, edited the work and mailed it back to Kelly for his okay.
"It is a biography," Games said. "It happens to be nonfiction."
Kelly calls the book true adventures. He has supporting documentation to back it up as well as transcripts of more recent interviews with those who participated with him in operations.
While the book is riveting, like a compelling war novel - "almost like a techno-thriller," publisher Lau added - "it's all very factual." Lau's role includes verifying Kelly's reports.
The military declassified the information about Kelly's exploits just two years ago, which led to the writing now.
Among Kelly's revelations, and in tune with his benevolent nature, the operative counseled the Special Forces, Navy SEALs and Marine reconnaissance forces working for him: "I didn't want anyone killed. I didn't want any actions. I wanted to get this guy or whomever in for interrogation."
In three months, Kelly's operations turned more than 300 Viet Cong, meaning he brought them to the other side. "I convinced with kindness," he said. "I showered with sympathy. Kindness and sympathy made a spectacular favorable impression."
He offered such inducements as medical and dental care, vocational training, fabric to make clothing. Most of those he turned were women, ages 14 to 64.
He would dress them in disguises to look like men or boys and ask them to point out Viet Cong.
One such convert was a 15-year-old girl standing outside a Vietnamese aide station, unattended, cradling a compound broken arm. If he would get her American medical aid - local medical care was not advanced and she had a poor chance of full recovery - would she point out the bad guys for him?
Kelly had to sneak her into a makeshift facility set up in a trailer because U.S. medical personnel weren't allowed to treat natives. Doctors and nurses donated their skills. Recalling the incident, Kelly choked and teared up: "When she woke up, I was holding her hand."
The girl helped Kelly's unit capture 13 Viet Cong.
Kelly then set her up in an interrogation room, where a Korean colonel was about to visit and hear of Kelly's techniques. The Korean White Horse Division was known for its harsh tactics: killing Viet Cong and hoisting their heads on pikes, Kelly said. When the colonel saw her - "the most beautiful girl I saw in Vietnam," Kelly declared - he was overcome with her situation. She had been offered anything she wanted, and all she asked for was a mosquito net over her bed. The Korean bent. "We became the best of friends," Kelly said of the former torturer.
Subterfuge was sometimes necessary. A People's Republican Army bigwig, a woman, was being held and wouldn't talk. "She wanted to be a martyr," Kelly said.
"I thought, what I've got to do is blow her, get her where the VC wouldn't trust her anymore."
He took her to a POW camp where high-ranking Viet Cong were interred. Kelly pointed out one of the inmates and told the woman, " 'We're going to beat the snot out of him in front of all the other prisoners.' And since she was with us, it looked like she fingered him. She knew she'd be dead on the street in two hours. She turned, and she identified more VC than anyone in Na Trang."
Not everything turned out roses. Kelly interviewed and turned a 14-year-old girl whose immediate family had been killed. Kelly and his wife were preparing to adopt her. She was looking forward to an education in the United States. But before she left, she wanted to visit her one remaining aunt in North Vietnam. She trekked off.
"They cut off her head," Kelly said sadly of the Viet Cong, who made her for an informer.
Most of the time, however, his techniques worked, Kelly said, and he believes his writing about them can be instructive even today.
He sees what is happening in Iraq, where there have been allegations of torture in the Abu Ghraib prison scandal and says there is a better way to go about the business of interrogation. But he says he can understand how those incidents happen.
"Interrogations are like a bargaining sessions," he said, and not everyone is equipped to do the work.
"You do have to have a background on their culture, getting into their heads," he said. "Young people don't have the moxie. Young interrogators don't want to go the extra mile."
Publisher Lau says the book is generating a lot of interest. This is "well, well beyond" Games' other sort of down-home books. "It's a different style of writing when writing about the CIA, the military, senators, lots of people," Lau said. "His style (in Confessions) is more the Tom Clancy type."
Getting into print is not foremost for Kelly. He yearns for two Purple Hearts for injuries he suffered in Vietnam: one a broken back in a truck rollover when he tried to avoid hitting a herd of cows the Viet Cong drove across the road to stop him, the other when the house in which he was staying took mortar fire and his hearing was impaired.
Although official documents detail his injuries and their circumstances, and civilian employees of the government are eligible for the honor, U.S. Rep. Ginny Brown-Waite's office says it has not been able to confirm his CIA contract service.
Kelly has numerous medals awarded by the South Vietnamese government, but the U.S. military won't admit to his wartime service.
He is hoping his book will prove it.
Beth N. Gray may be contacted at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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