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Moving Busti Town Offices Would Be A Mistake
For years the historic area of the village of Lakewood has struggled to revive Chautauqua Avenue.
There is a new threat that would remove 12,000 square feet of retail and warehouse space from potential use by a business and essentially put a stranglehold on local business. With property taxes at 2.58 percent, Chautauqua County is in the top ten highest property tax rates in New York state. Why then, would a town government intentionally remove more property from the tax roll and stop a potential business from opening? The simple economics are that you either have to expand your tax base or all taxpayers pay more. As a local resident, homeowner and small business owner I am against higher taxes and the town of Busti expanding their footprint.
This letter will lay out the arguments against the town of Busti moving their offices from the current location at 121 Chautauqua Ave., Lakewood NY 14750, to the location next to them at 125 and 127 Chautauqua Ave. (previously Tordella's). The move would remove 12,000 square feet of retail and warehouse spaces from private sector use and moreover kill any possibility of job creation or generating tax revenue. For example, a business generating $2 million in gross sales would generate $150,000 in sales tax revenue; in addition to creating or keeping several jobs, which the county desperately needs. The alternative of Busti taking over the property removes it from tax rolls and does not create any new jobs.
Currently Busti occupies a bank at 121 Chautauqua Ave., approximately 2,500 square feet. They plan to take over the old Tordella building (12,000 square feet) to consolidate their offices, town court and recreational center.
The argument Supervisor Jessie Robbins is applying is the fact that they can sell the bank, move into the new property without taking out a loan or spend additional taxpayer dollars. There are some issues with this plan; the first being that Jessie Robbins has not brought any hard numbers on paper. Thus far, everything has been stated in 'approximately' or 'roughly' phrases and nothing with discrete numbers has been put in print.
According to the public meeting on January 21, 2014, the town of Busti could sell the building at 121 Chautauqua for $300,000. The purchase price of the old Tordella building was estimated at $300,000 to $340,000 plus another $100,000 for remodeling. This estimate was to retrofit the existing property for ADA compliance, a town court, recreational hall, town offices, kitchen for the recreational hall and public bathrooms. They did not give or have an estimate for demolishing the current Busti recreational center on Summit Ave. Nor have they ever presented in writing actual estimates for the move and remodel.
The town residents that came to the meeting were informed that moving into the Lakewood Village Hall was not an option due to the price of renovations. One Lakewood Village Board of Trustees member I spoke to said it would cost roughly $600,000 for a complete renovation to make it suitable for both Busti and Lakewood to co-exist under one roof. Many of these renovations are or will be necessary even if Busti did not relocate to the Lakewood Village Hall; they could share the cost and benefits. Additionally, there are grants available for towns and villages that are working to consolidate for greater efficiency. What can't be estimated in dollars is the intrinsic value of having both the town and village under one roof.
I am hopeful that Busti and Lakewood residents will come to the public meeting to discuss this project, it is scheduled for February 18 at 6:45 p.m.
Samuel Whitmore is a Lakewood resident.


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School superintendents can lead, despite rules, regulations and union contracts, argue Rick Hess and Whitney Downs in Combating the 'Culture of Can't' in Education Next. It's not easy, but "school officials have far more freedom to transform, reimagine, and invigorate teaching, learning, and schooling than is widely believed," they write.
Contracts, rules, regulations, statutes, and policies present real problems, but smart leaders can frequently find ways to bust them—with enough persistence, knowledge, or ingenuity.
The problem is . . . the "culture of can't," in which even surmountable impediments or ankle-high obstacles are treated as absolute prohibitions.
Reformers fight for new policies on teacher evaluation, school turnarounds or school choice, but don't provide the support school leaders "need to tackle rules, regulations, and contracts in new ways," write Hess and Downs.
Thus, reformers struggle to narrow the scope of collective bargaining, only to see administrators fumble the hard-won opportunities. They enact teacher evaluation and turnaround policies whose efficacy and impact rest entirely on the ability of officials to execute them competently and aggressively in the face of contracts, embedded routines, and recalcitrant cultures.
Hess, director of education policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute has a new book, Cage-Busting Leadership.
"In selecting, training, socializing, and mentoring leaders, we have unwittingly encouraged 'caged' leadership," he writes in Ed Week. "Cage-dwellers spend most of their energy stamping out fires or getting permission to lead, and most of their time wooing recalcitrant staff, remediating ineffective team members, or begging for resources. Cage-busters wake up every morning focused on identifying big challenges, dreaming up solutions, and blasting their way forward."

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Run4Unity2016 Columbus, Ohio
Finally the Run4Unity2016 baton arrived in Ohio! On Saturday, May 14, Run4Unity2016 took place in Columbus. It was a super day full of joy, unity and friendship![more]
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On May 8, Most Reverend Blaise Cupich of the Archdiocese of Chicago met with the lay movements operating within the Chicago Archdiocese. There were twenty five lay movements present including Communion and Liberation, Legion of Mary, Marriage Encounter, and Cursillo among others.[more]
Held in a variety of settings, with different programs, Mariapolis, is an occasion to gather with many and, in a dialogue of true openness, learn to be a gift for one another. Here are the locations and dates for the 2016 Mariapolises.[more]
A year after the opening of Chiara Lubich's Cause of Beatification, we publish an extract from a talk she gave at Loppiano on the 14th May 1987.[more]
"Jesus is the greatest gift of all": with this spirit, thousands of children throughout the world remind us that "Jesus has been dislodged," and invite us to make him once again the focus of Christmas. In St. Peter's Square on 20 December, there will be a Children's Jubilee with the blessing of their statues of Baby Jesus.
A video produced by the Gen 4 International Centre in Rome.
16 year old Caitlin Rowley from Houston, Texas, shares how she lives with Crohn's Disease, overcoming her fears. An experience which emanates strength and light.
An exhibition held in support of victims in war-torn countries. It consists of a wall composed of handmade tiles which can be lifted off and taken home. Joelma Regis, the project creator, explains: "We are all connected and together we can help tear down the walls of indifference in our everyday lives."
In cities all over the world, thousands of children of the Focolare Movement have responded to the invitation of Chiara Lubich to bring Jesus back into Christmas.[more]
"Once upon a time, in 1971 (yeah, not that long ago!), in Sassello, Italy a girl named Chiara Luce was born. She was an average girl who liked to sing and play tennis. She even failed math one year. She never did anything "big" like found a hospital or religious order, but she went to Church regularly and tried to love God and live the Gospel in her life."[more]
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Melvin R. Daley
MARQUETTE, Mich. – Melvin R. Daley, 72, of Marquette, died Saturday afternoon, July 6, 2013, at his home in the presence of his loving family and under the care of U.P. Home Health and Hospice.
Melvin was born on January 31, 1941 at Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan to the late Renaldo and Alice (Streeter) Daley. He was a 1959 graduate of Sault Ste. Marie High School and was a U.S. Army veteran. He was a member for many years of IBEW Local #1251 and later for Local #1070 until his retirement.
Melvin became a member of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul in 1981 for St. Michael's Conference. He later transferred to St. Peter's Conference serving as both conference and district president. He was also very supportive of his wife, Judi, in her Vincentian journey. Mel served as spiritual advisor for the conference up until a couple of months ago. He was a member of St. Peter Cathedral.
Mel's greatest legacy was the mentoring he gave to his grandchildren.
He is survived by his wife, Judi Daley, whom he married on November 27, 1965 at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Sault Ste. Marie; two children, Melynda Daley and Brent (Alicia) Daley, both of Marquette; four grandchildren, Benjamin Daley, Jayne Daley, Kellan Duckworth, and Norah Daley; siblings, Patricia (Jim) Klieman of Lower Michigan, Richard (Cindy) Daley of Sault Ste. Marie, Debbie (Kurt) Edwards of Kentucky, David (Terri) Daley of Sault Ste. Marie, and Michael (Connie) Daley of California; also surviving are several nieces and nephews. Preceding him in death besides his parents was a brother, Gerald Daley and a special aunt, Bea Rembault.
Friends may call at the Bishop's Room of St. Peter Cathedral in Marquette on Wednesday from 2 to 4 p.m. A Funeral Mass will be celebrated in the cathedral at 4 p.m. Wednesday with the Rev. Monsignor Michael Steber officiating. A dinner will be served in the church hall immediately following the Mass. Burial will take place in Northland Chapel Gardens.
Pallbearers will be Jerry Burke, Dennis "Mike" Carter, John Gunville, Tom Hogan, and John Keto.
Memorials are preferred to the St. Vincent de Paul Society, 2119 Presque Isle Ave., Marquette, MI 49855 or to Great Lakes Recovery, 241 Wright St., Marquette, MI 49855.
The Canale-Tonella Funeral Home of Marquette is assisting the family where memories may be shared at canalefuneral.com.


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quote KoenmaI looked through ANN's Manga Encyclopedia and did not find an entry for a Gungrave manga. While that does not mean that one doesn't exist, there is probably a low chance that a Gungrave manga has been published, unless it is a doujinshi.
If I were you I would stick to the Naruto anime. The manga and anime have very little differences, and with the animation you have the added benefits of voices, music, and a new episode every week. VIZ is releasing the manga at a painfully slow rate, with a new volume every four months. At this point in time the anime is both cheaper and faster to follow. The anime should be caught up with VIZ's releases of the manga within the next two or three months.
quote Cloud Strife7Why does it take so long? Rurouni Kenshin is monthly, so it's possible for it to come out fast.
quote KoenmaNaruto runs one to two chapters monthly in the English version of the manga anthology Shonen Jump. In order to keep the monthly releases ahead of the graphic novel releases, the graphic novels are not compiled until the ten-or-so chapters found in the original Japanese graphic novels. Most of the series running in Shonen Jump are released at the same rate:
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The series (Under the SJ) not serialized in the monthly Shonen Jump anthology are usually released monthly or bimonthly.
quote SummonerSupremeAlso remember that the original Japanese dialogue has to be translated/adapted into English. That takes time as well, plus Viz is extremely horrible about putting out new material in a timely fashion.
quote LyonnaisYup! After that, you've got two orders you can go in!luffyluffy ah this is the first one then yeah?
quote MiragedresI dunno. It might do. But Kubo has said that Bleach is on its final arc. And Naruto looks pretty climatic right now. Final boss stuff. I suppose there might be ways to extend it, but who knows what those ways might be.I was under the impression Naruto would never end as long as it is financially viable...
And Tower of God is just plain awesome. I have gotten a few of my friends to read it as well. They do so on their phones primarily
quote LyonnaisCourse I do. Have you read the rest of Getter though? Because the part of the manga labeled "Shin Getter" is in the middle of the story. In fact production wise it's the second to last, so....Oh, and I still need to read Shin Getter. That's a manga you recommended me right luffyluffy?
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Is It OK To Play A Character Of The Opposite Sex?
When I first started playing MMORPGs (all of those moons ago) I took it for granted that male avatars were played by men and female avatars were played by women. Suffice to say, I quite quickly learned that this wasn't the case at all. In fact, back then, almost every female avatar was a male player. It's not something I've thought too much about before (I was in prime gaming mode when the whole Lara Croft "OMG play as a girl!" craze was going on remember) yet it's never something that's appealed to me in any way. All of my avatars have been blokes and that's the way it's going to stay.
I guess I never understood the appeal, as a man, of playing a female character. Not that I perceive female characters to be weak or anything, I just feel that my avatar presents myself to other players and the community in the way that I desire and I want that to be male. Maybe it's a bonding thing but I don't feel like I can relate with a female character. I've tried but it's never been my cup of tea and, even in games like Diablo 1 and 2, I never played the female characters.
Perhaps it's a psychological issue of mine. I went to all boys private school after all (feel free to email me your sympathies) and I'm aware I've got a bit of a Nietzsche complex. I usually want my characters to be the biggest, baddest, strongest lug that's available so I want walk right up to stuff and smack it in the face. I put the T in subtle.
So I'm really interesting in hearing people's feedback on this. Do you think it's strange for a man or a woman to play a character of the opposite sex? Are you worried about being perceived as someone of the opposite gender? Do you even care and is it just part and parcel of gaming now?
Oh and yeah, I'm perfectly aware that this article will probably convince people that I'm either a mad chauvinist or a raving homosexual
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Here's how RW members rated this race in the past (89 votes).
In short: Nice race, horrible courseIn full: Have run this twice now, and i'm impressed by the organisation and number of marshals / helpers on the day. Some points of feedback though:- Nobody could hear the briefing before the start as the megaphone wasn't loud enough- The course - it's really horrible - constantly crossing roads, through tight turns by the subways, lots of street obstacles, such as low bollards on the course or overhanging trees and hedges on the pavements. Pavements are rubbish to run on anyway. If you can improve 1 thing for next year, please try and find a route that is nice to run round, even if this takes in more off-road or more hills!That said, the start and finish on the running track is great, and a good goody bag is always welcome (although would've loved something to eat, banana or mars bar maybe?). Good facilities and easy registration process too.Date of review: November 23, 2015
Date of review: October 12, 2013
In short: Nasty Hill just after halfway, a bit twisty, but a good winter warmer!Date of review: November 26, 2012
In short: Very enjoyable and a good atmosphere. Volunteers to a great jobIn full: Thanks to all the volunteers and the encouragement they gave.Good support from the crowd on the finishing straight of the track.A medal would be nice. Most people like to receive one I think Date of review: November 26, 2012
Date of review: November 25, 2012
In short: Good race overall. Too bad about the lack of chip timing.In full: Good: - Organisation- Course- Bad: - No medal- No cereal bar or banana in goody bag- No chip timingDate of review: November 25, 2012
In short: perfect weather, great microfibre towel as a mementoDate of review: December 1, 2011
In short: Run on road with a couple of climbs, starts & finishes on the athletics track, loads of friendly marshalls, nice goody bag - first time I've received a towel!Date of review: November 27, 2011
In full: Brilliant run, very well organised. The weather was fab considering it was the end of November. Few inclines but nothing too serious. Everyone very friendly. Excellent goodie bag at the end, the embroidered Towel was a nice surprise, and lots of other goodies as well - much more than I expected for the entry fee. My only slight criticism would be the water station, there was only one and it was well past the halfway mark, could have done with it much earlier in the run. A very big thank you to all who organised this run, and to the ever smiling marshalls.Date of review: November 27, 2011
In short: Very cold winter race with bacon sandwiches at the endIn full: This race was on one of the very cold sub-zero days of the autumn and was difficult to get out of bed for. It was well worth it though and the intense cold added to the sense of achievement. The venue is easy to get to from Southampton by train. It is a plesant route around Queen's Park in Pokesdown with a lake towards the end. There is some light traffic in places, but it isn't excessive. The marshalling was excellent with a lot of volunteers along the route that were very friendly and encouraging. The route was mostly flat. At the end, the goody bag contained a mug as well as a few other freebies, making the race good value. Finishing on the race track is a bonus. Fotunately the cafe at the end was selling bacon baps, which went down well with a cup of tea! The only criticism is a lack of a bag storage area. Bags must be left in an unsupervised changing room, which isn't ideal for people that do not drive to the venue.Date of review: May 15, 2011
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Hold on tight folks, eBay is making changes to their Best Match Search AlgorithmPosted Saturday, July 21, 2012, at 7:40 AM
Now, we all hope for the best when eBay says they are changing something so....let's keep our fingers crossed, not our eyes. :-) ( you remember what Mom used to say about the eyes?)
Apparently they have been testing this and I hope we were in the control group since our searches turned up numerous irrelevant results mixed in with the relevant ones. It seems they were searching the item description, (even though there is a box for that) and stray words would bring the irrelevant results.
An eBay spokesperson Johnna Hoff said in an email response to AuctionBytes that eBay launched a Best Match test covering auctions late last week. "Best Match will be using relevance and popularity factors and reducing the importance of end time in sorting auctions."
They have not announced it on the eBay site yet, so it might not be a done deal, but it sure sounds like it happen.
So the big thing seems to be devaluing the ending time of auctions but there is surely more, so as the saying goes, "The Devil is in the details". I hope we can come back to this and change the saying to the "blessing was in the details".
How does ending time really affect you? I know some students who use the shorter listing times to create excitement AND to improve their ranking. Maybe eBay thought that was being abused or it falls in line with their beliefs about auctions.
I know some folks who ONLY sell by auction, so I am sure this is important to them, but unless they are using it as suggested above, I am not sure it will make much difference to the seller.
BUT it could make a real difference to the buyer who thinks they will get the auctions ending soonest under a Best Match (the default) search. In their case, they need to change THEIR search default to ending soonest.
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While I was setting up the next pot of coffee, a little voice kept bugging me saying "some may want to know why folks look for auctions ending soonest, so give them some ideas".
OK, the first is pretty obvious. Buyers want to know if something they are looking for is about to sold at a good price.
But an offshoot of that are folks who look for auctions with no reserve and have no bids for a variety of reasons like misspelled words, wrong category or maybe a poor choice of key words or listed local only, plus many more.
"Well how do you find those?" Ugh, that voice again. There are a number of ingenious ways but a start is to explore the search options running down the left hand side of the page when you start a search. Ever looked at them?
Also, make sure you change your "sort by" search parameter in the top right quadrant of the page, a few spaces under the blue button that says "Search".
OK, my coffee is ready.
-- Posted by stevemills on Sat, Jul 21, 2012, at 7:58 AM
By the way PhillipCohen, could you just blog us your thoughts on this topic and not the rest? :-) :-)
-- Posted by stevemills on Sat, Jul 21, 2012, at 8:23 AM
Ah, Steve, come on, there's much more fun to be had with the eBafia in their latest ongoing efforts at aiding and abetting another outrageous eBay merchant fraudster at ...
"Shill Bidding Fraud on eBay: Case Study #5"
eBay / PayPal / Donahoe: Dead Men Walking
-- Posted by PhilipCohen on Mon, Jul 23, 2012, at 10:40 AM
Hey Phillip, I was starting to get worried about you. :-)
At least you came through, my other respondents must be on vacation. Did you ever share with us if there are selling sites you like?
I mean, I still like eBay, but my blood is still just red, no extra colors yet, so I consider all opportunities.
-- Posted by stevemills on Mon, Jul 23, 2012, at 5:46 PM
Hi Steve, I still buy the occasional item on eBay; it and Google Product have their uses for searching items. Regardless, for me there is a serious principle involved; eBay can be demonstrated to be a most unscrupulous entity; indeed, the greatest knowing facilitator of auction wire fraud on consumers that the world is ever likely to know, and no one seems to want to do anything about it; such is the power of such large corporations, apparently ... I mean, the ongoing blatant shill bidding activity of the eBay merchant, eDropOff, is simply an outrage, and eBay simply sits there and collects FVFs from all her sales, real or faux ...
-- Posted by PhilipCohen on Mon, Jul 23, 2012, at 8:41 PM
Just for fun, another gem from the "master wire fraud facilitator", eBafia ...
Oh, shock, horror!
"New Auction Fee: Beginning October 1, eBay will charge sellers for ending any auction listing early that has received at least one bid. ... eBay believes ending an auction early once it has received a bid leads to disappointed bidders." (And eBafia needs the extra fees, too; after all, they can't simply keep "reducing" the fees paid by merchants, to keep the rusting old scow afloat.)
Obviously, this "ending auctions early" fee is being introduced principally to stop unscrupulous merchants avoiding eBay's FVF by the monotonous cancelling/relisting of their grossly shilled auctions that have not yet attracted any, or any reasonable, genuine bids. The "master fraud facilitator", eBafia, is wise to all the tricks that such fraudsters play to avoid eBay's FVF; after all, eBafia has that "sophisticated and proactive software" to keep track of all you shill bidders. ...
But, fraudster should otherwise fear not; they are hereby advised that eBafia permits them to carry on blatantly shill bidding on their auctions, but eBafia is no longer going to let them avoid its FVF. A great move, eBafia. No doubt about it; the "master fraud facilitator" knows how to turn a blind eye to such fraud but, the avoidance of their FVF--that, the eBafia finds simply intolerable and so, after 1 October, merchants are going to be paying a FVF on early cancelled auctions that have received at least one (shill?) bid (above any set reserve). Brilliant, eBafia, brilliant! However could we have expected you to be satisfied with collecting your fee on only the successful frauds when now, as merchants become ever more desperate, there is an ever increasing amount of attempted fraud, your cut on which you have hereto before been missing out on. ...
eBafia, the Mafia of old would undoubtedly be most proud of your evolving business model ...
Anyone want to bet that after October 1, eDropOff's monotonous early cancellation of many so auctions (if not the subsequent relists) will cease?
Just my opinion, of course ...
-- Posted by PhilipCohen on Tue, Jul 24, 2012, at 6:37 PM
Well, your opinion counts but I want to point out that you are not necessarily picking on the majority of eBay sellers, just the unscrupulous ones that I believe eBay really would like to weed out.
I know, you believe otherwise, but I guess we will have to agree to disagree on this point.
Honestly, I don't believe in a seller cancelling an auction because they are not happy with the bid, unless they have a reserve on it from the beginning.
BUT, I also believe the buyers should not cancel unethically either, so to stop it eBay should be STRONGER than just a fine. Just fines falls in line with your thinking Phillip. See, we can agree at times!! :-)
-- Posted by stevemills on Wed, Jul 25, 2012, at 8:31 AM
Steve, seller "eDropOff" is continuing to blatantly shill bid on virtually all their auctions and eBay is doing nothing about it; it's as obvious as the noses on our faces that eBay is effectively complicit in such fraud ...
If you have not already done so, I invite you to peruse the facts, not just opinionn, presented in:
"Shill Bidding Fraud on eBay: Case Study #5"
-- Posted by PhilipCohen on Wed, Jul 25, 2012, at 10:52 AM
I have not spent ANYWHERE close to the time that you have apparently spent in researching this and while some things I can explain to repeat buyers, competitors and resellers, the last one is puzzling.
We used to have a customer who constantly bought teddy bears from us. It kept happening to the point that I contacted her and learned more. She had a real emotional issue so we would ask her at least three times if she really needed her current purchase. We eventually stopped selling to her.
BUT, I don't think she bought from us exclusively so your last example was intriguing. That one I intend to do more research on and the next time I am in Chicago I am also going to visit the seller you mentioned.
They are in an extremely tough selling category that by itself would bring extreme scrutiny by eBay and customers who buy in this category would be extremely critical as well. To do as well as they have is impressive to me, but that nagging case you mentioned needs clarification, so....
-- Posted by stevemills on Thu, Jul 26, 2012, at 8:34 AM
"That case" is only one of very many demonstrated in the spreadsheet; and, how did you like the bidder that had made ~11,000 bids on ~5,000 eBay auctions in the previous 30 days; could that be other than a third-party commercial supplier of shill bidding? No, of course not. Regrettably we are here dealing with a rampant shill bidding merchant and eBay, the "master fraud facilitator, has also here demonstrated that it could not care less ... Or to put it another way, eBay provides the tools, the now opaque bidding system, that is, and then simply let's the unscrupulous merchants get on with it ...
-- Posted by PhilipCohen on Thu, Jul 26, 2012, at 10:38 AM
Phillip, before you started this crusade, did you try to get eBay to respond? Now, I am sure they would probably avoid you like the plague, but did they ever respond?
I will be visiting with a few eBay folks soon and often have "off the record" discussions. If I find out anything that I can discuss openly, I will share it.
eBay and I don't always see eye to eye but nothing in our discussions over the years have led me to believe they would purposely allow this. In fact, they have been trying to minimize auctions for several years so it could be a case of them not being able to identify it clearly enough for legal actions.
I know, I know, they should be able to, but there are other things I think they could control better that would benefit them and they haven't so.... There are also soooo many other things to chase down that shill bidding may be low on their priorities.
Don't know, but I will try to find out more.
-- Posted by stevemills on Thu, Jul 26, 2012, at 2:17 PM
Yes, back in July 2009 when I first realized that shill bidding was rampant and they, contrary to their claims, were doing nothing about it, and I started watching their auctions, the media communicated with them and, of course, they obfuscated; later I communicated with a David Smith at eBay, but our emails simply went round in circles ...
Needless to say, it would be interesting to hear if you get any better response to such ongoing allegations; of course, even if they are prepared to talk to you "off the record" about such criminal activity they will probably want you to sign a non-disclosure agreement (non enforceable in such circumstances) ... Still you should be able to develop a goodly list of embarrassing questions to ask from my Case Study #5--LOL
Steve, it gives me no real pleasure to say it but the fact is eBay has always been a knowing facilitator or wire fraud, on a massive scale.
-- Posted by PhilipCohen on Thu, Jul 26, 2012, at 7:57 PM
With the huge target they have painted on their company I am sure they are under more scrutiny that yours Phillip. As long as I run my business in an appropriate manner, I'll keep selling there. I still have not found anything that comes close.
Wanna buy a watch mista? :-)
-- Posted by stevemills on Fri, Jul 27, 2012, at 5:36 PM
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2.5pts e.w. Geoff Ogilvy at 14/1 (General 1/4 1,2,3,4,5).
1pt e.w. Pablo Larrazabal at 33/1 (Ladbrokes 1/4 1,2,3,4,5).
0.5pt e.w. Tano Goya at 150/1 (bet365 1/4 1,2,3,4,5).
It's December 2012 but the 2013 Race To Dubai starts this week, on a course inside Greyville racecourse in Durban. This is not the opening line to a joke.
Meanwhile, Lee Westwood will defend his Thailand Golf Championship title in a field that is decidedly top-heavy, while Adam Scott bids to win the Australian Open for the second time in his career.
It's all live on Sky so there's plenty for viewers to go at, but for those of us who like to have a bet as well as watch the action the truth is this is all pretty uninspiring - it would be no surprise at all were one of the first half-dozen in the betting to win each event.
Take the Nelson Mandela Championship at Royal Durban Golf Club as Exhibit A. This course was last used for the 2008 South African Amateur Championship in which none of today's stars took part, and to be frank it's no surprise the venue hasn't been a staple part of even the Sunshine Tour.
Trapped as it is within the confines of Greyville, a horseracing track of some distinction, the course is devoid of any sizeable trees as they'd be an obscruction for regular racegoers.
Its defence is said to be the wind as well as the fact that any shots straying onto the track are out of bounds, but at well short of 7,000 yards and with fairways that reportedly hold, we shouldn't see the classier players find much trouble.
But do you want to be backing any of them at short prices? I certainly don't.
Branden Grace - an ambassador for this event - is one of several who will be desperate to win a tournament named in honour of South Africa's greatest son, but at the end of a long, hard season that may not be enough to see him over the line again.
George Coetzee continues to frustrate and at around 9/1 just cannot be backed on a course that wouldn't look a perfect fit on paper, while the likes of Tim Clark and Jaco Van Zyl should in theory enjoy this test but I couldn't back either with confidence.
For me, Pablo Larrazabal looks overpriced in relation to most of the field and I'll make him one of two small bets.
The Spaniard is a rare visitor to Africa but was ninth in Morocco last time he ventured south while in his rookie European Tour season he sat second after 36 holes of the Joburg Open before falling out of contention.
Of course, Larrazabal's career has largely been on an upward curve since winning the Open de France later that year and, as is the case at Le Golf National, much of his best golf has come at venues that require accuracy over brute force.
In addition, he showed when second in the Open de Espana earlier this year that he's more than happy to face the challenges provided by howling winds and in fact he's probably better for having something to battle against.
Larrazabal insists he's been striking it well for a long time and is simply a good week with the putter away from going very close, which he's already done with six top-10 finishes this season including a tie for eighth on his penultimate start on a tight track in Hong Kong.
Last time out he ranked 11th for driving accuracy and sixth for greens in regulation in the DP World Tour Championship and having been practicing hard since, it's easy to see him ending this week close to the top of the ball-striking charts.
His regular caddie won't be on the bag this week but his son - a member at the course no less - will be and sometimes a small change to the routine is all a player needs to step his game up.
Throw in some encouraging words from Gary Player via Twitter plus Larrazabal's obvious determination to get off to a fast start and there's plenty to support a small bet.
For me Larrazabal is the one player in this field who is trustworthy in contention, a class apart from most and a decent price, so he gets the vote.
At bigger prices, Tano Goya looks value at 150s and again I'm prepared to chance him taking to the venue.
A winner of a similarly weak European Tour event in the past, Goya has just come through Q School to finish fourth and secure his playing rights for 2013.
That gruelling six-round affair might've taken a lot out of him physically, but he's had time to recover and should be feeling on top of the world having successfully navigated one of the toughest tests any golfer will ever face.
The Argentinian owes his finishing position to a pair of stunning 64s on the easier layouts at PGA Catalunya, but he responded admirably to shooting 73-76 with a final-round 69 on the feature course.
Goya's best finish of the season came in a weak field outside of Europe where the emphasis was on accuracy and more recently he finished a respectable 33rd in the SA Open Championship, an event on a much longer track when he had the pressure of playing for his card to deal with.
Ultimately, there's not a lot more to go at than the fact he played well when last in action, knows how to win and is at his best on short layouts, but at 150/1 that's enough for a small wager.
With the Nelson Mandela Championship dealt with, my most confident wager of the week comes in the Emirates Australian Open where Geoff Ogilvy can go very close.
First and foremost, 2010 champion Ogilvy has a fine record at the host venue, The Lakes Golf Club, a fantastic track that requires the levels of patience former US Open winner Ogilvy has demonstrated throughout his career.
He also finished fourth at the venue last year thanks to a final round 65 and although we've not seen him in competitive action since a modest effort in the WGC-HSBC Champions, that was exactly the way he arrived at the event last year.
Keen not to let his career slip away, Ogilvy has hired friend and fellow Victoria member Matthew Tritton to replace long-time caddie Alistair Matheson as he seeks to end a winless streak that dates back to this two years ago.
Tritton has experience of working with winners throughout his career and was even involved with Matt Kuchar as he, as Ogilvy is attempting to do himself, returned from a relatively quiet period to compete at the top level.
Ogilvy's form when he returns home to Australia is absolutely rock solid, he's making the right noises and this venue is perfect for him.
With Justin Rose having been all over the world of late and looking tired last week, for me Ogilvy is the man to serve it to worthy favourite Adam Scott and at 14/1 in a field with no depth whatsoever I expect him to place at least, as he has done on each of his last two visits to the track.
I touched upon the Thailand Golf Championship earlier but with a lack of prices to go at I'm going to revisit that later in the week should anyone make appeal, although in truth I doubt that they will.


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I think mozzarella is tasteless. I would like to try a new cheese but have no clue which one. I remember eating this pizza that had cheese that smelt like dirty socks, but it tasted great. That place no loner exists.What cheese/combo would you recommend that has great flavor/aroma?
I remember eating this pizza that had cheese that smelt like dirty socks, but it tasted great.
Ive been using almost all sharp white cheddar lately and im really liking it. tried it after following normas macks pizza posts.
i hadnt really thought of it before then either, but all the pictures in those threads looked soo good i had to try it, and im glad i did. and the first time i tried it, one of the things that stood out to me is that it almost instantly gave me a taste of the Monical's thin crust pizza that i grew up eating too. ive made it recently since finding tips here, but had always used mozz or a mostly mozz/provolone mix and it just didnt have quite the same taste i remembered. the first time i made a pie with just the white cheddar, i instantly got the taste of Monical's, so i have to guess there was a good amount of white cheddar in their mix as well.


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Back on his feet: Staff Sgt. Corbin Stacey fights at 2013 U.S. Open for those who got him there
U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Corbin Stacey enters the men's 33-40 ultra heavy weight competition today with a heavy heart.
He will have two close friends, Jeremy Keene and Grandmaster Al Cole, on his mind—two people whose memory he tries to honor and keep alive through competition in his first and last U.S. Open as a competitor. A former quadriplegic and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder victim, Stacey is fighting for injured and mentally harmed military men and women, trying to set an example that there is life after the life-jarring events of the battlefield.
By the looks of it, he is a man who wants to climb the medal stand on Wednesday for everyone in his life as much as himself.
"I always was that guy who wanted to kick a little bit, fight a little bit and teach a little bit," said Stacey, who is a retired 18-year veteran of the U.S. Army Medical Corps.
A master instructor, Stacey's journey to Las Vegas has been more about what he has learned.
In August of 2009, Stacey was participating in a training brigade before being deployed overseas when he fell and broke three vertebrae in his neck. The fracture pinched a nerve, which resulted in paralysis of all four limbs. He went six weeks without the ability to walk or move his extremities.
Then two miraculous things happened while recovering at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas: he regained the ability to feel, walk and move, and he met 20-year-old Jeremy Keene.
"He was regular kid from Pennsylvania," remembered Stacey. "He would go to UFC fights, basketball games, just a normal American kid who wanted to serve his country. That's what impressed me about him."
Stacey was three months into his rehab when he met Keene, who found out he had testicular cancer soon after starting basic training. They were a generation apart—"He was like my son," said Stacey, who has three children of his own. "I could have been his dad."—but they found many bonds from the start.
"I didn't know he was into martial arts (early on)," said Stacey. "I was in the gym jacking around on the punching bag and he was like, 'You know how to do taekwondo?' I told him I used to teach before I got hurt. He wanted to do that so we would work out.
"That's when we started talking smack about who would fight in the Open and who was going to go to the (National) Championships."
With ailing bodies as their bond and an interest in taekwondo the glue, Keene and Stacey's friendly and competitive rivalry began. They golfed, they worked out and they pushed each other. The two made tentative plans that they would fight in a U.S. Open together.
But it was Keene's positive outlook on his inevitably expiring time on Earth that pulled Stacey out of the darkness that PTSD and fighting through grueling physical therapy casts. Keene forced Stacey to stay active and get out of the house on even the most difficult days.
"He'd blow the horn outside of my house and when I came outside he would be like, 'Come on, let's go play some golf.' That was him.
"He was a good kid like these kids out here—young, witty, hard-headed sometimes. But he never complained. When he was really sick he would be basically passing out in formation, like pale white, ghost white. We called him the rock of the formation. He had the IV tube in his arm from the chemo, but he would show up, sitting there with the (IV) bag in his pocket."
Keene lost his fight with testicular cancer Feb. 26, 2012. He was 23. The two Army medics shared a friendship for two years, but Stacey fights to keep his memory alive far longer.
Stacey knew he would make the trip out to Las Vegas for the U.S. Open since 2010 when he and Keene would talk trash about who was the better fighter. They both decided they would compete at a U.S. Open and Stacey takes to the mat today to fulfill that promise.
Two days ago, though, he received a piece of unnerving news: his longtime taekwondo instructor, Grandmaster Al Cole, passed away following his own battle with cancer. He was 52.
Stacey can credit Cole for much of his success in taekwondo. He trained under Cole after he took up the sport his senior year of college. He earned his Kukkiwon black belt at Cole's insistence (he is now a Level 5) and he even instructed under Cole at Cole's Taekwondo in the Cleveland area. Most importantly, Cole was another player in Stacey's life that showed him there is life outside of his injuries.
"He introduced me to the Paralympic program," said Stacey.
In large part Stacey came to Las Vegas for Keene, but now that he is here, his focus will be on Cole's lessons.
"If you try your best, even if you lose, you're a good student," Stacey said, echoing Cole's message. "Not everybody here is going to win. There are only a few spots. Be a good student."
So Stacey will do his best, not only for Keene and Cole, but for his fellow wounded soldiers who are looking for a purpose after injury.
"I'm trying to do this to show them that they can get out of the house—that it ain't over," he said. "A lot of problems with our soldiers is they are scared to do stuff. They don't really want to test the waters until they see somebody else do it. Then they'll think, 'Let me try that.'"
Stacey said he does not know what he would do with his medal if he were to win one. He could give it to Keene's parents, the Cole family or his wife—so many people have gotten him to the competition mat today.
But the obstacles continue.
Stacey has permanent numbness on the right side of his body after suffering a second neck injury sustained in a car wreck just four months following his paralysis, a condition for which he must swallow 22 pills a day. He will certainly be at a disadvantage against other ultra heavy weight competition today, but he has trained, studied film and shed 40 pounds since registering for the tournament in September.
Standing in front of the weigh-in room on Tuesday at the Las Vegas Hotel and Casino, site of the 2013 U.S. Open, Stacey wore matching Wounded Warrior Project clothing— a hat, t-shirt and jacket. There is a thick, raised scar above his right collar bone at the base of his neck. The reminders of where he has been and where he continues to go were evident, and although he competes today as an individual, there is an army of people he fights for.
"Perseverance and resilience are the goals to life," he said. "You're going to have bad days and you're going to have good days. At the end of the day you've only got one life and you've got to live it. Like Jeremy would say, 'Hey, I could be dead.' That rings in my head every day. I'm just happy to be walking. Whatever happens after that, I can't be mad."


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The Whitewater Slalom Foundation was founded in the spring of 2009, in association with USA Canoe/Kayak, to help rejuvenate the sport of canoe and kayak slalom in the US. The WSF has established Regional Teams throughout the country and provided travel funds for team members who participate in summer races, established an under-23 team, and helped fund training camps around the country.
Our misison statement: "To promote and develop the sport of whitewater slalom in particular, and other whitewater or paddlesports events as appropriate, bringing their many joys and benefits--including environmental awareness, physical fitness, camaraderie, sportsmanship, fun, and the pursuit of excellence--to a widespread and diverse group of participants."
The Whitewater Slalom Foundation is the brainchild of Olympic Bronze Medalist Jamie McEwan. Jamie's vision is to create a service organization that supports and promotes Whitewater Slalom and Whitewater sport through the leadership, efforts and support of the sport's alumni.
The current, and inaugural, Foundation board is comprised of current and former National Team members including past World Championship and Olympic Medalists. This board is trying to achieve its objectives by improving the sport of Whitewater Slalom in four specific areas: Performance, Participation, Athlete Retention, and Opportunity. The WSF is targeting its efforts in these areas in order to best leverage the knowledge, relationships, experience, and expertise of its board and alumni. The Foundation also has a commitment to self‐sustaining projects— those in which a seed can be planted by the Foundation but with the objective that operations will be taken over by either USACK, volunteer or professional organizations. Projects and organizations that we support include coaching programs, racing and training clubs, regional teams, race series, training camps, a rankings program, and other development initiatives that are essential to the sport of slalom in America today. It is our commitment to do what we can to foster the sport and shore up these programs in the best way possible.
The Foundation's first two years have included the implementation of some very exciting projects including the Regional Teams Program, the U‐23 Program and the National Rankings Series. The Regional Teams Program provided support and encouragement to regions that chose to competitively select and field a Regional Team. This effort promoted racing and participation in many regions around the country. The U‐23 program was an initiative that tried to create incentives and opportunities that would help athletes to bridge the gap between racing in as juniors and racing on the National Team. The National Rankings Series was an effort to revitalize the rankings system to be a clear and competitive objective that promotes racing on the national level. Other initiatives included a Training Camp Initiative, a pool slalom initiative and a project that acted to expand, update, and remain in contact with our alumni.
Our 2011 projects are as exciting as those of this past two years. Changes at USACK last year have spurred an organization that is like‐minded to the WSF and that is seeking to work closely with us on many of our projects. I am very excited to announce the expectation that USACK will take over the U‐23 program and will adopt our rankings system in the coming year. The Foundation is also working directly with the USACK to fund a Junior Team Coach as well as work on grants for a women's coaching program. I am also pleased to announce that all of our current initiatives were deemed a success by the current board and are slated to be updated and continued in the coming year. It is my belief that our efforts to date have already served to grow and enhance the sport of slalom.
Scott Shipley, President
Whitewater Slalom Foundation Board Members: Dana Chladek, David Hepp, Jamie McEwan, Matthew Taylor.
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Yoshimoto, Banana
Banana Yoshimoto 1964–
(Pseudonym of Mahoko Yoshimoto) Japanese novelist, short story writer, and essayist.
The following entry provides criticism on Yoshimoto's works that have been translated into English as of 1994.
Yoshimoto is best known to English-language readers for fiction that features young, offbeat Japanese characters and concerns such sensationalistic topics as incest, suicide, transsexuality, and mysticism. Despite earning a reputation for a hip sensibility, her works are pervaded by traditional themes of loss, love, friendship, and isolation.
Biographical Information
Born in 1964, Yoshimoto is the daughter of renowned philosopher and literary critic Ryumei Yoshimoto. A resident of Tokyo, she attended Nihon University and has won numerous literary prizes. In addition to her works of fiction, Yoshimoto has also published essay collections in her homeland.
Major Works
NP (1991; NP) and the novella and short story that comprise Kitchin (1988; Kitchen) focus on young Japanese women. In the novella Kitchen a young woman named Mikage moves in with her friend Yuichi and his transsexual father after her grandmother dies. Mikage, for whom kitchens, food, and cooking have cathartic properties, studies the culinary arts, eventually using them to help Yuichi cope with his father's unexpected death. In the short story "Moonlight Shadow" the protagonist's boyfriend dies in a car accident on a bridge. Obsessed with his death, she returns daily to the site until a mysterious woman conjures a vision of her lost lover. NP revolves around a woman, Kazami, who befriends a brother, sister, and step-sister whose father, a well-known author, mysteriously committed suicide after publishing a collection of short stories entitled NP. Employing a metafictional approach, Yoshimoto creates an intricate web of interpersonal relationships and coincidences as Kazami's life begins to parallel that of the author and several of his characters. The plot is further complicated by many twists, including affairs involving the step-sister and her half-brother, her father, and Kazami.
Critical Reception
Although Yoshimoto's fiction has been received enthusiastically in Japan, the response among English-speaking critics has been mixed. Detractors have found Kitchen little more than charming, arguing that the dialogue is unrevealing and the protagonists' introspective ruminations about life are insipid and sentimental. Several commentators, however, have expressed appreciation of Yoshimoto's youthful perspective on modern Japanese life, praising her focus on social fragmentation, her blending of Japanese and Western cultures, and her openness to eccentricity. Citing Kitchen's use of fantasy, its lack of conventional parental figures, and its emphasis on androgyny and idealized love uncomplicated by sexual encounters, Deborah Garrison has observed: "Yoshimoto's attraction to weirdness and her unpretentious approach to it—she's not trying to be hip, just faithful to her sense of people as they are—are what might make Western readers want more of her." NP is generally regarded as less successful than Kitchen, with critics mentioning unsympathetic characters and unconvincing treatment of weighty issues as the novel's flaws. Donna Seaman, however, has observed that the events of NP "deepen our wonder at the dangers and idiosyncrasies of love."
Principal Works
Kitchin [Kitchen] (novella and short story) 1988
Tugumi (novel) 1989
NP [NP] (novel) 1991
Nick Hornby (review date 8 January 1993)
SOURCE: "Mystical Mundane," in The Times Literary Supplement, No. 4684, January 8, 1993, p. 18.
[In the following excerpt, Hornby contends that Yoshimoto blends prosaic and extraordinary elements in Kitchen, yet the desired effect of this fusion is unapparent in translation.]
Kitchen comes to us almost bent double with the weight of its success in its native country. Banana Yoshimoto's slim volume, which consists of the title novella and "Moonlight Shadow," a matching short story, has sold "millions" of copies in Japan, and won two prestigious literary prizes. Works like this always appear strangely attractive in translation, promising as they do the contradictory virtues of accessibility and exoticism.
The book is certainly exotic. Indeed, anyone who has been deterred by the self-conscious eccentricity of some recent Japanese writing (particularly the work of Haruki Murakami) might find themselves dispirited by the novella's dramatis personae alone: one of the central characters, Yuichi, lives with a mother who was formerly his father.
Yoshimoto's writing is much more understated than this isolated example of narrative flamboyance suggests. Her stories possess a clarity and simplicity that can seem lightweight. The reliance on mood and a kind of ingenuous directness means that the author is perilously dependent on her translator. "The endless sea...
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Scott Shibuya Brown (review date 10 January 1993)
SOURCE: "Adrift in the New Japan," in Book World—The Washington Post, January 10, 1993, p. 8.
[A journalist, Brown was the 1990–91 recipient of the Gannett fellowship in Asian Studies. In the following review, he provides a thematic analysis of Kitchen.]
In an interview, the architect Arata Isozaki once remarked that Tokyo's massive sprawl rendered the ideas of "center" and landmarks superfluous. One could easily set down in any of its several urban areas and not know (or care) that, in most major cities, geographical meaning was supposed to radiate from a singular locus. While initially discomfiting, for Isozaki, the effects of such decentralization are strangely appealing, when one gets used to them.
This psychological state of living without defining landmarks, of decentralization and dislocation, is also at the heart of Kitchen, [a novella and a short story] that represent the first English translation of Banana Yoshimoto, a young and extraordinarily popular chronicler of the 20-something crowd in Japan. Like the geography of Tokyo, Yoshimoto's characters exist at random, denied any possibility of order by the death of their loved ones. Alienated and withdrawn, they linger in the wake of these deaths, grappling with the transition from order into emotional chaos.
Kitchen, the better of the two [pieces], concerns a young cooking student, Mikage, who loses her grandmother, her only surviving relative. Taken in temporarily by a young mutual acquaintance, Yuichi Tanabe, and his transsexual mother, Eriko (who used to be Yuichi's father), Mikage slowly regains her sense of self by extracting pleasure from mundane things—sleeping on her hosts' enormous sofa, listening to their living noises, and simply finding peace, as she puts it, in the mother and son's "strange...
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Todd Grimson (review date 10 January 1993)
SOURCE: "The Catcher in the Rice," in Los Angeles Times Book Review, January 10, 1993, pp. 3, 7.
[Grimson is an American novelist and short story writer. In the following review, he perceives a youthful, innocent quality and an emphasis on family life as both the strengths and weaknesses of Kitchen.]
I had been really looking forward to reading Banana Yoshimoto. I've long been a fan of Japanese fiction, from the emotionally cryptic but cumulatively powerful work of Nobel Prize-winning Yasunari-Kawabata to the "most Western," sex-and-violence-obsessed Yukio Mishima, plus Tanizaki, Kobo Abe, Yoshiyuki—almost everything translated has been worth reading, with many surprises to be savored along the way.
Banana Yoshimoto has been mentioned along with Haruki Murakami (author of Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World and A Wild Sheep Chase) as part of a new generation of Japanese novelists, and Murakami is amazing, just what the art calls for, so I presumed Kitchen, Yoshimoto's first book to be translated would be, well—important.
Instead, Kitchen is light as an invisible pancake, charming and forgettable, showing every sign of having been written when the author was only 23. It starts out engagingly enough, the young female narrator telling of her love for kitchens: "White tile catching the light (ting! ting!)."
Our heroine, Mikage, has recently been orphaned; her grandmother has died; her parents passed on long ago. A boy she knows, Yuichi, asks her to come live with him and his mother, Eriko. Mikage cannot take her eyes off Yuichi; he seems to glow with white light.
When Eriko appears, she is so beautiful Mikage is stunned. As it turns out, Eriko is a transsexual: She is Yuichi's father, and changed sex many years ago when Yuichi's mother died. This circumstance is treated with no particular thought or examination; it just is.
Mikage moves in with them, sleeping on the huge couch. The kitchen passes inspection, and Mikage begins to cook in it the very next day. "That whole summer I went about it with a crazed enthusiasm: cooking, cooking, cooking…. And if something came out wrong I'd do it over till I got it right. Complicated omelettes, beautifully shaped vegetables cooked in broth,...
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Elizabeth Hanson (review date 17 January 1993)
SOURCE: "Hold the Tofu," in The New York Times Book Review, January 17, 1993, p. 18.
[In the review below, Hanson values Kitchen as a work about modern, young Japanese.]
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Deborah Garrison (review date 25 January 1993)
SOURCE: "Day-O!" in The New Yorker, Vol. LXVIII, No. 49, January 25, 1993, pp. 109-10
[In the following review, Garrison perceives the novella Kitchen as a quirky and oddly upbeat examination of a young person's emotional trials.]
Banana Yoshimoto's Kitchen is a tangy, imperfect little snack. The book, though it appears to be a short novel, is really a pair of stories—the first, called Kitchen, is just long enough, at a hundred and three pages, to be classed as a novella. A literary prize-winner and long-running best-seller in Japan a few years ago, it arrives here translated, somewhat doggedly, by Megan Backus and attended by a small but...
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Penelope Fitzgerald (review date 28 January 1993)
SOURCE: "Ninjo," in London Review of Books, Vol. 15, No. 2, January 28, 1993, p. 20.
[An English novelist, biographer, and critic, Fitzgerald is the author of several novels, including The Golden Child (1977), Offshore (1979), and Innocence (1986). She is known for combining a humanistic approach and a compressed, witty narrative style in her fiction to reveal the strength and nobility of her characters as they cope with life in contemporary society. In the following review, she contends that the pieces included in Kitchen emphasize the theme of coping with loss.]
Banana Yoshimoto contributes a respectful preface to her book...
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Ian Buruma (review date 12 August 1993)
"Weeping Tears of Nostalgia," in The New York Review of Books, Vol. XL, No. 14, August 12, 1993, pp. 29-30.
[Buruma is a Dutch-born critic who has written several nonfiction works on Asian culture. In the following excerpt, he claims that Kitchen draws upon aspects of traditional Japanese literature and current popular tastes.]
Japan can easily give the impression of a country of fag hags. Comic books for young girls feature beautiful youths falling in love with aristocratic men, or androgynous rock stars. Japanese girls like David Bowie at his most camp. The film of E. M. Forster's Maurice played to full houses, mostly of young girls. Luchino Visconti...
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Publishers Weekly (review date 13 December 1993)
SOURCE: A review of NP in Publishers Weekly, Vol. 240, No. 50, December 13, 1993, p. 61.
[In the following review, the critic describes NP as "ultimately unsatisfying."]
Japanese novelist Yoshimoto follows her well-received Kitchen with [NP,] an off-beat, intriguing, but ultimately unsatisfying tale about incest, suicide and broken relationships. NP (after an old, sad song titled "North Point") is the name of a short-story collection published in America by celebrated émigré writer Sarao Takase. The book seems, as one character says, to be cursed: Takase committed suicide, as did three would-be Japanese translators. Four years after...
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Donna Seaman (review date 1 February 1994)
SOURCE: A review of NP, in Booklist, Vol. 90, No. 11, February 1, 1994, p. 996.
[In the following review, Seaman provides a positive assessment of NP.]
Kitchen was a surprise hit last year for young Tokyo author Yoshimoto, so expectations will be high for this taut little melodrama. Yoshimoto has a distinctively pop, bemused, and telegraphic writing style. Her new novel's enigmatic title, NP, stands for "North Point," a sad old song that was a favorite of a writer named Sarao Takase, who used it as the title of a collection of 97 stories. After his suicide, a 98th story surfaces and becomes, or at least is rumored to be, the catalyst for two more...
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David Galef (review date 27 February 1994)
SOURCE: "Jinxed," in The New York Times Book Review, February 27, 1994, p. 23.
[In the following review. Galef argues that NP suffers from superficiality and poor writing.]
Like comic books for businessmen and green-tea ice cream, Banana Yoshimoto is a Japanese phenomenon that Americans may find difficult to understand. Though her previous novel, Kitchen, got mixed reviews in the United States, it was a best seller in Tokyo, and she is particularly attractive to the teen-age and young-adult set. Her protagonists tend to be young women adrift, sliding away from family into sensuous romance. The loosely constructed episodes are meant to evoke a mood of what...
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Meg Cohen (review date March 1994)
SOURCE: "Top Banana," in Harper's Bazaar, No. 3388, March, 1994, p. 170.
[In the following review, Cohen offers praise for NP.]
When Banana Yoshimoto's novella Kitchen arrived on the American literary scene last year, many readers discovered a new soul mate. First published in Japan in 1987, it was praised for its artful simplicity and whimsical style; Yoshimoto proved to be a master storyteller with a lot of heart. And with the publication of her new book, NP, she has ventured out of the familiar confines of the kitchen and into a more restless, but no less magical, world.
Set in Japan, NP takes its title from a collection of 97...
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Q. David Bowers: The following narrative, with minor editing, is from my "Silver Dollars & Trade Dollars of the United States: A Complete Encyclopedia" (Wolfeboro, NH: Bowers and Merena Galleries, Inc., 1993)
Coinage Context
Nothing but dollars: The New Orleans Mint produced silver dollars exclusively during the 1885 year.
Numismatic Information
Hoard coins: Following the closing of the New Orleans Mint, quantities of 1885O dollars were shipped to the Treasury Building in Washington, D.C. and the Philadelphia Mint for long-term storage. From the Washington vault, 1885-O dollars were paid out beginning by the early 1930s, and in multiple-bag quantities in 1938, 1953, 1954, and 1957. In October 1962, continuing into early 1963, vast quantities, probably amounting to millions of coins, were released from storage at the Philadelphia Mint.
The 1883-O, 1884-O, and 1885-O constitute the bulk of approximately 10 million coins released from a long-sealed vault in the Philadelphia Mint, beginning in October 1962 and continuing through much of 1963. My estimate is that the breakdown of these three dates is about as follows: 1883-O: 1.5 to 2.5 million coins; 1884-O: 2.5 to four million coins; and 1885-O: two to 3.5 million coins. These are, of course, in addition to bags released before 1962. While many went into the hands of investors, hoarders, and collectors, others-possibly amounting to millions of pieces totally-went into circulation.
Many of these were melted in the 1970s during the run-up in silver bullion prices.
Many Uncirculated 1885-O dollars were in the Continental-Illinois Bank hoard.
Circulated grades: The 1885-O dollar is very common in Worn grades and attracts scant numismatic notice, due to the easy availability of Mint State coins.
Mint State grades: The 1885-O is the most common of all New Orleans Mint silver dollars in Uncirculated grade and among certified coins from this mint is the most common issue at levels from MS-63 through MS-65. It is believed that 2.5 to 3.5 million exist at the MS-60 to 62 level, a staggering quantity. In MS-63 grade, the estimated population is 800,000 to 1,300,000, followed by 400,000 to 600,000 in MS-64, and 100,000 to 175,000 MS-65 or better coins.
The strike of 1885-O dollars is average. Examples are seen weakly defined at the centers, while others are sharply struck. Certain flatly-struck coins have what Wayne Miller called a "belly button" or a recessed or dimpled area in the lowest portion of the eagle's breast, due to metal not filling the deepest portion of the die. Cherrypicking is easy to do for this issue and is advised.
Prooflike coins: Semi-prooflike 1885-O dollars are very common, although the contrast is usually low between the fields and the devices. As such, they are not necessarily objects of beauty. This is especially the case when they are in low grades and have many bagmarks. Full, PL pieces are common, and probably 15,000 or more remain. Often, prooflike coins are somewhat flatly struck. DMPL are about as populous as PLs. About 10% to 15% are MS-65 or better.
Circulation strikes:
1. Normal date: Breen-5583. Gems and bagmarked prooflikes are common, even DMPLs (mostly less than gem quality). The figure 10 pairs of dies is almost certainly a typographical error for 40 pairs. At least four VAM varieties have partly repunched dates. VAM-1A is from a rusted reverse die (New Orleans humidity caused dies to rust quickly, unless they were protected with grease).
Dies prepared: Obverse: 10 (or 40?); Reverse: 10 (or 40?)
Circulation strike mintage: 9,185,000; Delivery figures by month: January: 800,000; February: 800,000; March: 950,000; April: 910,000; May: 900,000; June: 925,000; July: 100,000; August: 600,000; September: 800,000; October: 800,000; November: 800,000; December: 800,000.
Estimated quantity melted: Millions under the Pittman Act and later during the rise in silver bullion prices in the late 1970s.
Availability of prooflike coins: Semi-prooflike coins are common, PL and DMPL coins are less common, but still plentiful.
Characteristics of striking: Varies from fiat to sharp, but most ate weakly defined at the centers.
Known hoards of Mint State coins: Bags of 1,000 coins were released by the Treasury in 1938 and in December 1954; large quantities (millions) were released 1962-1964.
In Mint State this is one of the most common Morgan dollars.
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2008 PARALYMPIC GAMES - CYCLING: Cycling Team Achieves Three More Medals in Final Day of Competition; Brings Grand Total to 14
BEIJING, China - The U.S. road cycling team ended on a high note in its final day of competition, earning two silvers and one bronze.
"Pleased would be an understatement," said a very happy Head Coach Craig Griffin (Colorado Springs, Colo.) referring to the team's overall performance. "You come here and you hope for the best but realistically, you think some things may go wrong. But, it all came together as we had hoped."
Alejandro Albor (HCC/Elk Grove, Calif.) and Oz Sanchez (HCC/San Diego, Calif.) began the day for the U.S., competing in the Men's HC C Individual Road Race. In the Time Trials on Friday, Sanchez won gold and Albor finished with a bronze and both were hoping for a medal once more.
After the second lap in the race, both only trailed Ernst Van Dyk (South Africa) and were neck-in-neck with Jose Arzo of Spain. By the third lap, Van Dyk still led, but was beginning to show signs of wearing down physically. The two Americans were close behind and Arzo was no longer in the pack.
"We let him work on his own for two laps and figured on the last leg we would catch him [Van Dyk]," said Sanchez, referring to their strategy of allowing Van Dyk to stay in the lead and run out of energy. "We are a team and are stronger as two than we are as one."
In the fourth and final lap Albor, Sanchez, and Van Dyk were all even as they flew by, but it looked like Albor and Sanchez were taking the lead. Unable to see the final turn, the crowd patiently waited to see who emerged down the final sprint. Van Dyk managed to cross the finish line first with a time of 1:21:40, followed immediately by Albor (1:21:41) and Sanchez (1:21:41).
"Overall it was a good race," said a pleased Albor. "We [Van Dyk] bumped wheels at the final turn and I wasn't able to recuperate. I felt like I was closing in, but ran out of room and that was that. But once again, it was a terrific race."
When Albor and Van Dyk bumped wheels, it caused Van Dyk to jerk his bike, which in turn affected Sanchez and he had to jerk his bike as well. "I lost my chain at the turn when that happened," said Sanchez. "It was a good race, just frustrating when I lost my chain."
Also racing in the morning were Matthew Updike (HCB/Denver, Colo.) and David Lee (HCB/Cardiff-by-the-Sea, Calif.) competing in the Men's HC B Individual Road Race. Updike finished in tenth place with a time of 1:32:17 and Lee finished in fourteenth place with his time of 1:38:09.
The final race of the day for the U.S. featured the tandem team of Karissa Whitsell (B/VI/Eugene, Ore.) and Mackenzie Woodring (Pilot for Whitsell/Grand Rapids, Mich.). The pair had already snagged a bronze and gold medal for their efforts earlier in the week in the Track 3k Individual Pursuit (B&VI) and the Road Women's Time Trial (B&VI), respectively.
By the third lap of the race, the Belarus team of Fiadotava and Drazdova had broken away, followed by the U.S. and the rest were behind in a pack. That was the way the race would remain and Whitsell and Woodring had to settle for the silver with a final time of 1:58:35.
"We just didn't have the legs," said Whitsell. "But, we are absolutely satisfied with the silver. We had an awesome time trial earlier in the week and that is what I am really excited about."
Today's races conclude the cycling portion of the Paralympics. The U.S. team had a goal of two gold medals and ten medals total. They surpassed their goal, finishing with an amazing five gold, five silver and four bronze.