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The Leon Levy Center for Biography at the CUNY Graduate Center, established by a generous gift from the Leon Levy Foundation, has announced the 2009-2010 Biography Fellows. Each fellow will receive $60,000, writing space, library privileges, and participate in a seminar given by Executive Director, Nancy Milford.
The 2009-2010 Biography Fellows are: Wendy Lesser, award-winning author and founding editor of the Threepenny Review; Mary Lisa Gavenas, a fashion editor and author, who has lectured at Fashion Institute of Technology; John Matteson, Associate Professor of English at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY and author of Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father; and journalist Vanda Krefft, who has covered the entertainment industry and social issues for national publications.
The Leon Levy Center for Biography was established last year and aims to raise the profile of biography within the academy and cultivate lively interdisciplinary discussion about biography in our time. All applications were read by a screening committee that identified 15 finalists for the fellowship. Finalists were then read by a selection panel comprised of Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, former editor of the Sunday New York Times Book Review; Daniel Menaker, former Senior Vice President and Executive Editor-in-Chief of Random House; James Oakes, Graduate Center Professor and recipient of the 2008 Lincoln Prize; and Joyce Seltzer, Senior Editor for History and Contemporary Affairs at Harvard University Press.
Wendy Lesser is the founding editor of The Threepenny Review and is the author of eight books, including one novel, The Pagoda in the Garden, and seven works of nonfiction, the most recent of which is Room for Doubt. Besides writing for Threepenny about dance, music, theater, and other cultural subjects, she occasionally reviews books for Bookforum, The New York Times Book Review, and other publications. She has received fellowships and awards from the American Academy of Arts & Letters, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, the American Academy in Berlin, the Dedalus Foundation, and many other institutions and organizations. Her current project is a biography of Dmitri Shostakovich that focuses on his 15 string quartets.
Mary Lisa Gavenas was a columnist at ELLE and served as senior editor at Glamour, In Style, and Mirabella; she writes for the academic and popular press. Following publication of Color Stories: Behind the Scenes in America's Billion-Dollar Beauty Industry, she became a consultant on the beauty industry. Gavenas' biography of Mary Kay Ash had its genesis in her writing the Mary Kay Ash entry for the American National Biography published by Oxford University Press.
John Matteson is an Associate Professor of English at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY. His scholarship in 19th-century American literature includes articles published in Leviathan, Streams of William James, and The New England Quarterly. His first book, Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father, was awarded the 2008 Pulitzer Prize in Biography. During his residency, Matteson will continue his work on The Lives of Margaret Fuller.
Vanda Krefft's articles on the entertainment industry and social issues have been published in magazines and newspapers, including ELLE, Redbook, Woman's Day, and the Los Angeles Times. She is currently at work on her first book, a biography of Twentieth Century Fox founder William Fox, to be published by HarperCollins. Krefft has received a Helm Fellowship from Indiana University's Lilly Library and a grant from the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation. Her project explores the life and times of the forgotten movie mogul whose contributions to the art, technology, and business of film laid the foundation for today's global popular culture.
The Leon Levy Center for Biography
The Leon Levy Center for Biography was established in 2008 at the CUNY Graduate Center by a gift from the Leon Levy Foundation. Envisioned as a hub for writers, scholars, students and readers of the genre, the Leon Levy Center for Biography commenced programming in the academic year beginning September 2008. The center seeks to build connections between university-affiliated and independent biographers working in print, film, visual arts, and new media and across academic disciplines. Acclaimed biographers and CUNY faculty members Professors Nancy Milford and David Nasaw are the center's executive director and faculty director, respectively.
The Graduate Center
The Graduate Center is the primary doctorate-granting institution of the City University of New York (CUNY). The school offers more than 30 doctoral programs, as well as a number of master's programs. The Graduate Center is also home to more than 30 interdisciplinary research centers and institutes and offers an extensive array of public lectures, exhibitions, concerts, and theatrical events. Further information on the Graduate Center and its programs can be found at www.gc.cuny.edu.
The Leon Levy Foundation
The Leon Levy Foundation, founded in 2004, is a private, not-for-profit foundation created from the estate of Leon Levy, a legendary investor with a longstanding commitment to philanthropy. The Foundation's overarching goal is to continue the tradition of humanism characteristic of Mr. Levy by supporting scholarship at the highest level, ultimately advancing knowledge and improving the lives of individuals and society at large.
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Everyone knows that you can't have a teen-centric supernatural romance without two things: teens in love, and magical powers (and longing stares)(oh, and dudes without shirts)(and, yeah, OK, mysterious secrets: so maybe there's more than two things every teen-centric supernatural romance needs, but you get the idea). In the upcoming Warner Bros. film Beautiful Creatures, the "teens in love" portion of that formula is covered by newcomers Alden Ehrenreich and Alice Englert, who play Ethan Wate and Lena Duchannes, respectively. The "magical powers" part is covered by Englert, whose Lena may or may not be a powerful witch.
Earlier this year, I traveled to the Beautiful Creatures set (outside of Baton Rouge, LA) with a few other members of the online press to chat with the cast of Richard LaGravenese's new film. Find out what Alice Englert had to say about her character, the supernatural-romance genre, and more after the jump.
Admittedly, I knew very little about Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl's Beautiful Creatures prior to visiting the set of Warner Bros.' bid-budget adaptation of that book. Lucky for me, I was joined by a number of other online journalists who were happy to give me the basics of the story prior to our arrival on-set, so that—by the time we arrived—I had a basic understanding of what Richard LaGravenese's film (opening the day before Valentine's Day in early 2013) was all about: the "new girl in town", Lena Duchannes, has a family with a history of witchcraft, and Ethan Wate—a local boy who meets and falls in love with Lena as the story begins—gets mixed up in a struggle surrounding Lena's struggle with that family history.
We were given the chance to speak to most of the film's lead actors while on-set, but getting Englert alone for several minutes proved to be somewhat difficult: every time we were able to corner the young actress and start firing off questions, she got called away to film another shot (on the day we arrived, the production was filming an epic, massively impressive outdoor party sequence involving dozens of elaborately-costumed extras). Eventually, we were able to get her to ourselves for more than a moment, but we still ended up with a somewhat abbreviated interview. We'll get to that in a moment, but first—the highlights:
- The party sequence we saw being filmed turned out to be the "Claiming Party" for Englert's character, we she describes as "a caster (read: witch) bar mitzvah".
- Englert tells us the Claiming Party is one of two major set pieces in the film, the other being a Civil War re-enactment (!!!) that was shot at a location known as "Honey Hill".
- How do the "Casters" (or witches) view humanity? Says Englert: "They believe the humans to be messy, because they're complicated and they have all these problems, they can't figure it out."
- Englert tells us that—in real life—when she feels attracted to someone, she "finds them in (her) dreams", but clarifies that this involves "conversation, nothing more".
Let's get on with the show, folks. What follows is the full transcription of the limited chat we were able to have with one of the two big stars of Beautiful Creatures, Alice Englert:
Are all of your costumes this extravagant and amazing?
Alice Englert: No. They wanted to show off with this one.
So this dress is for your claiming party then?
Englert: Yes, it is. It's sort of like a caster bar mitzvah thing.
That's the big scene you're shooting right now?
Englert: Yes, it is.
Can you give us a little background to tell us about it?
Englert: Well, it's the scene that the whole movie is, to a degree, leading up to, this and the next sequence, our big ending sequence. We've already shot some of that, at Honey Hill, where they're having a reenactment for the Civil War. It gets overtaken by this flashback, where it merges into the actual battle, so you have the reenactment, and then you have the actual soldiers dying. It's quite epic.
Your character is going through this struggle, where she finds out if she's going to the light side or the dark side. Is there a side that your character is leaning towards?
Englert: Well, I think everyone believes that they can be good, and I think everyone is afraid that they're going to be dark. That's really the complication, isn't it? We all feel a little dark sometimes, so you never know how much of that is in you, or how true that is.
Are the two options sort of indistinguishable, in the sense that the dark side is presented as an equally compelling thing? Or is it more of an intuitive, good versus evil kind of thing?
Englert: Well, I would say what's so interesting about this story and the casters versus the humans, or in parallel to them, is the casters are presented as a highly evolved kind of species, in a way, and they believe themselves to be so. They believe the humans to be messy, because they're complicated and they have all these problems, they can't figure it out. But the casters have a very primitive idea, that you can only be good or bad, and that's just who you are. What Lena has to learn through the story, and what she learns through Ethan (Alden Ehrenreich), is humanity, and the fact that it is complicated and that we do have both within us, which is why at the end of the claiming, she has that strength. They're just as primitive, in their own way, and I think the idea of good and evil is really just these rules they've given themselves, and they're never really examined. They've been living this way up until this moment.
Do you think there's something immediately relatable to adolescence and defining one's expectations? Is that something you've discussed in any way?
Englert: Oh, of course. We've discussed everything. This film, for a supernatural film, I think it's so much about people, humans. We've spoken about everything from first love to bodily functions, and where that's represented in this story. I think that every child grows up with the ideas that what we our given, is our society. Your education, and your mother and father, they tell you this is how it is, but then you hit adolescence and you think, 'Is it? Why? Why is it like that?' Sometimes that questioning leads to something more. Sometimes it doesn't, and we just continue these cycles.
Alden was talking before about how the casters are very secretive, and the town doesn't know exactly who they are until you come into play. Can you talk a bit about the casters and their relationship to the town?
Englert: I think this is another thing that people do, things they don't understand, they're afraid of. They don't understand what the casters are. They don't actually find out what I am. The town is under the impression that we're satanists, rich, plantation-owning satanists, the sort of stuff you hear ghost stories about. It's only Ethan who discovers that, he's the only human that becomes aware of it. There have been spots of it, where people understand and become a part of that world, but Gatlin is a very backwards town, and I think it intends to stay that way, for at least this movie, anyway.
Can you talk about Lena's relationship with Ethan? You two meet and fall in love, and he doesn't know you're a caster in the beginning?
Englert: Yes, I can talk about it. There's a sense of premonition, which is kind of what's so interesting about love, that thing where you just know them. For them, it's kind of literal, it's being in the dreams. What's interesting is, for myself, when I become really attracted to somebody, I find them in my dreams… conversations, nothing more (Laughter). It's true, I have conversations with these people and, fuck, they're in my head now. It starts with this strange familiarity, but they don't know what it is. They're still in this normal world at that time. When they realize that they love each other, you start to see the magic, that Ethan becomes aware of it and he's welcomed into that world. It blossoms… blossoms, God that's a wanky word. It comes forth in that way, and from there, the complexities of the magic, the highs and the lows, come forth at the same time. Ethan is trying to find something else, and Lena is something else. What I think is great about their love story is it's not about, 'Oh, you need a girlfriend. Oh, you need a boyfriend.' It's actually about love, and sacrifice, loving someone and having to let them go for different reasons.
Englert was enormously friendly in person, and seemed genuinely bummed that she didn't have more time to speak with us. It'll be interesting to see how audiences react to her first big role on-film. Richard LaGravenese's Beautiful Creatures opens on February 13th—the day before Valentine's Day, don'tcha know—next year.
For more on our Beautiful Creatures set visit:
- 15 Things to Know About Richard LaGravenese's Beautiful Creatures from Our Set Visit
- Alden Ehrenreich Talks Twilight Comparisons, Landing the Part, and Working with Jeremy Irons and Emma Thompson on the Set of Beautiful Creatures
- Emmy Rossum Talks Playing the Evil Witch, Her Character's Many Looks, and Oral Fixation on the Set of Beautiful Creatures
- Margot Martindale Talks Painful Costumes, Getting Acclimated with the World's Mythology, and More on the Set of Beautiful Creatures


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Trapped In Ice
Sandler, Martin W. 2006. Trapped In Ice: An Amazing True Whaling Adventure.
Readers in search of amazing survivor stories need look no further than TRAPPED IN ICE, a nonfiction book telling the story of how thirty-two whaling vessels were trapped in the Arctic with only one hope to survive. Their story begins in the Spring of 1871, thirty-nine whaling vessels set sail from Hawaii full of arrogant adventurers seeking a plentiful and prosperous whaling adventure. The book provides readers with the background of the whaling industry, whaling vessels, and an in-depth glimpse of average whalers. (Primary sources such as journals, diaries, letters, etc.) When they arrive in the Arctic circle to hunt whales, they soon see something strange. Eskimos are seeking out each vessel to pass on a warning: winter is coming early. It is unsafe to stay. Most vessels (or should I say most captains) decide that they know better. After all return home with less than a full cargo? They'd be laughed out of the ports. And who would ever hire them for other expeditions? But seven vessels heed the warning and turn back. Thirty-two remain to spend weeks in the frozen waters hunting whales. They are plentiful. Always busy killing and processing whales. But soon trouble begins. One vessel after another becomes trapped, lodged in ice. Some vessels can't withstand the pressure of the ice and begin to break apart and sink. Others seem stronger and more stable. The thirty-two vessels were carrying 1,219 officers, crewmen, captain's wives, and children. Now there only hope for survival was to try to send a handful of men in several of the smaller whaleboats to see if the seven whaling vessels were still close enough to rescue them. A small team was elected to go and see if rescue was even possible. The others would have to stay and wait.
The amazing thing? They found the seven vessels, obtained permission for all 1,219 to be distributed among the seven remaining ships, and returned to spread the good news. The journey is not easy. The whaleboats are overcrowded and offer little protection from the harsh climate. Yet through it all, they persevere. Losing wealth and prestige but learning a valuable lessons...human life is more important than making a profit.
Martin W. Sandler is the author of many books, including The Story of American Photography, which was a Boston Globe-Horn Book Award Honor Book. He has been nominated twice for the Pulitzer Prize, and is one of America's most respected television producers, with five Emmy Awards to his credit. He is the author of five other Library of Congress Books: Pioneers, Cowboys, Immigrants, Presidents, and Civil War. Mr. Sandler and his wife, Carol, live in Massachusetts.


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FORT MEADE, Md. - The former boss of a Marine Corps brig in Quantico, Va., testified Monday that she was shocked when the base commander asked for advance notice of any orders she planned to give regarding the confinement of Pfc. Bradley Manning, the soldier charged with giving classified information to the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks.
The request was surprising because brig commanders have sole authority to determine the custody status of detainees, Chief Warrant Officer 2 Denise Barnes said. She testified on the 10th day of a pretrial hearing at Fort Meade, near Baltimore, to determine whether the nine months Manning spent in tight confinement at Quantico amounted to illegal pretrial punishment, possibly warranting dismissal of his case.
Barnes testified that Col. Daniel Choike, then garrison commander at Quantico, made the request after Barnes ordered in early March 2011 that Manning be stripped of his underwear each night as a suicide-prevention measure. Manning stood naked at attention the next morning, resulting in news coverage that embarrassed the military and heightened worldwide interest in his case.
Barnes said Choike called her to say that Lt. Gen. George Flynn, then the highest-ranking officer at Quantico, wanted her to run any orders involving Manning up the chain of command before executing them.
"I was kind of shocked," Barnes said. "The base commander does not control the brig OIC." The acronym stands for "officer in charge." Barnes was the officer in charge of the brig.
Barnes said she never received any orders regarding Manning's confinement conditions. He continued to be stripped of his underwear at night until he was moved to medium-security pretrial confinement at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, in April 2011.
Barnes was the brig commander during the last three months of Manning's confinement at Quantico. For all of his nine months there, he was held in maximum custody, with additional restrictions ostensibly aimed at preventing suicide or self-injury. The restrictions kept him confined to his cell at least 23 hours a day.
Defense attorney David Coombs claims those conditions were controlled by Flynn. Choike has denied that Flynn influenced Manning's confinement.
The hearing is scheduled to end Wednesday. To prevail, the defense must show either that there was intentional punishment or that Manning's restrictions were so egregious they were tantamount to punishment. To quash the claim, the government must prove by a preponderance of evidence that brig officials justifiably believed the strict conditions were needed to keep Manning from hurting or killing himself.
The 24-year-old native of Crescent, Okla., was an intelligence analyst in Iraq. He is charged with 22 offenses, including aiding the enemy, which carries a maximum penalty of life in prison. He is accused of leaking hundreds of thousands of classified Iraq and Afghanistan war logs and more than 250,000 diplomatic cables while working as an intelligence analyst in Baghdad in 2009 and 2010.
He is also charged with leaking a 2007 video clip of a U.S. helicopter crew gunning down 11 men later found to have included a Reuters news photographer and his driver. The Pentagon concluded the troops acted appropriately, having mistaken the camera equipment for weapons.


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Institutional theory is one of the primary perspectives within organization theory. Not surprisingly, therefore, the Annals includes contributions that elaborate on some of the primary themes and emerging conversations within that perspective. Some papers explicitly focus upon institutional theory whereas others have a broader concern but have relevance for that theory.
A central idea of institutionalism is that organizations conform to social-cultural prescriptions in order to acquire social endorsement—"legitimacy"—from audiences that control or influence the distribution of resources. Suddaby, Bitektine and Haack (Volume 11) provide a timely clarification of this core concept. They argue that use of the term has become so layered that it has a surplus of meanings and is misused "in many ways." The authors seek to provide construct clarity and impose some theoretical discipline. In its original formal, institutional theory predicted that the pursuit of legitimacy would lead to the convergence of organizations around particular behaviors—but later studies found that organizations might vary in their responses to institutional pressures. One such response, "decoupling," is revisited by Bromley and Powell (Volume 6) who suggest that the original formulation (that decoupling is a separation of apparent policy and actual practice) is incomplete and obscured an equally important other gap—between means and ends—that has important implications.
Another core concept of the legitimacy perspective is "organizational field," which is a popular level of empirical analysis. Three papers explicitly reflect upon this concept. Zietsma, Groenewegan, Logue and Hinings (Volume 11) provide a typology based upon the relative maturity of a field's institutional infrastructure and the degree to which there is an agreed-upon ordering of institutional logics. The implications of the typology are then explored—especially for field-level change. Battilana, Lee and Boxenbaum (Volume 3) also address institutional change and give especial attention to "institutional entrepreneurship" —i.e., deliberate efforts to introduce change. The third paper exploring the concept of field is Leibel, Hallett and Betchky (Volume 11), who examine how discourse, rhetoric, and framing have been theorized as mechanisms of change. They argue that these mechanisms are "echoes" of "prior social interactions," but that these are often missed in empirical studies. A very different approach to institutional change (without using the term!) is offered by Marquis and Raynard (Volume 9) who examine strategies by which organizations might leverage and shape socio-political and cultural institutions in order to gain competitive advantage in "emerging market contexts characterized by weak capital markets and regulatory infrastructures and fast-paced turbulent change."
The importance of language and discourse is developed in different ways in three papers. Phillips and Oswick (Volume 6) provide a comprehensive account of the discourse theme and its application within organization theory to issues such as identity, strategy and organizational change, but in doing so emphasize the connection of discourse to processes of social construction, which underpin the institutional perspective. A complementary paper by Loewenstein, Ocasio and Jones (Volume 6) links "vocabularies and vocabulary structure" to the development of "meaningful categories." Again, the authors' focus is wider than institutional theory, but institutional scholars will find the application of these ideas to the concept of institutional logic particularly informative. Meyer, Hollerer, Janscary, and Van Leeuwen (Volume7) elaborate upon the "visual dimension of discourse and meaning construction." They pull together studies in other disciplines—including psychology, sociology, anthropology, art history, and media studies—and show how they could inform organization theory, which has traditionally ignored the visual. The relevance for institutional theory is pointed out and compelling.
The concept of institutional logics has captured much attention and generated "a veritable flood of articles in the 2010's" (Reay and Jones, 2016: 441). Two Annals papers explicitly focus upon the concept. Greenwood et al. (Volumes 5) review how organizations might respond to the challenge of coping with multiple logics that prescribe different and sometimes conflicting socio-cultural expectations—i.e., circumstances of "institutional complexity." The emphasis in this paper is upon relationships with the field and the organization. Battilana and Lee (Volume 8), in comparison, attend more explicitly to the organization, using "social enterprises" (organizations that seek to reconcile commercial and welfare logics) as a particular form of hybrid organization. Both of these papers are heavily cited.
Finally, it is worth noting three papers in the Annals that connect institutional theory to other perspectives. Marquis and Tilcsik's (Volume 7) overview of "imprinting" discusses how institutional processes influence organizational collectives, individual organizations, and individuals. Cornelissen and Werner (Volume 8) review the concept of "framing" and include a discussion of its contribution to "the institutionalization of enduring meaning structures" and how it provides a macro-structural underpinning for micro level understandings and processes. Tracey (Volume 6) reviews the study of religion in an array of disciplines, laments that it has received only modest attention in organization studies, and suggests that perhaps "the most exciting opportunity to extend institutional analysis involves a focus on the logic of religion."
So, that's eleven contributions from the first eleven volumes. Given the status and richness of the institutional perspective, more is to come. Watch this space.
Battilana, J., Leca, B., & Boxenbaum, E. How actors change institutions: Towards a theory of institutional entrepreneurship. Academy of Management Annals, Volume 3: 65-108.
Battilana, J., & Lee, M.Advancing research on hybrid organizing—Insights from the study of social enterprises. Academy of Management Annals, Volume 8: 397–442.
Bromly, P., & Powell, W.W. From smoke and mirrors to walking the talk: Decoupling in the contemporary world. Academy of Management Annals, Volume 6: 483–530.
Cornelissen, J.P., & Werner, M.D. Putting framing in perspective: A review of framing and frame analysis across the management and organizational literature. Academy of Management Annals, Volume 8: 181–236.
Greenwood, R., Raynard, M., Kodeih, F., Micelotta, E.R., & Lounsbury, M. Institutional complexity and organizational responses. Academy of Management Annals, Volume 5: 317–372.
Loewenstein, J., Ocasio, W., & Jones, C. Vocabularies and vocabulary structure: A new approach linking categories, practices and institutions. Academy of Management Annals,Volume 6: 41–86.
Marquis, C., & Tilcsik,A. Imprinting: towards a multilevel theory. Academy of Management Annals,Volume 7: 195–246.
Marquis, C., & Raynard, M. Institutional strategies in emerging markets. Academy of Management Annals,Volume 9: 291–335.
Meyer, R.E., Hollerer, M.A., Janscary, D., & Van Leeuwen, T. The visual dimension in organizing, organization, and organization research: Core ideas, current developments, and promising avenues. Academy of Management Annals,Volume 7: 489–556.
Phillips, N., & Oswick, W. Organizational discourse: Domains, debates and directions. Academy of Management Annals,Volume 6: 435–482.
Tracey, P. Religion and organizations: A critical review of current trends and future directions. Academy of Management Annals,Volume 6: 87–134.


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The American psychologist, Douglas McGregor, studied leadership styles. McGregor argued that managers operate from their personal view of how employees function. He separated managers into two groups based on Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs. He related Theory X managers to lower order needs in the hierarchy and Theory Y managers to higher order needs.
Theory X managers assume that people are intrinsically lazy, take no responsibility, are incapable of self-discipline and only want security. People must be controlled and threatened before they will work. The autocratic leadership style is the only one that works.
Theory Y managers assume that people like their work, are intrinsically motivated, have self-control and do seek responsibility. Employees can be consulted since individuals are emotionally mature, positively motivated towards their work; and see their own position in the management hierarchy. Managers will find that the participative approach to problem solving and decision making leads to far better results than authoritarian orders from above.
McGregor saw the two theories as separate entities. Theory Y is difficult to implement on the work floor of a large mass production operation, but can be used by managing professionals. He suggested that management could use either theories to motivate employees in most other cases, but would gain better results using Theory Y rather than Theory X, because X appeals to higher level needs.
However, Theory Y participatory leadership is not always the better leadership style. Schein used McGregor's work to call for a contingent approach to an effective leadership style, one that depends on the manager's preference for a style, their past experience, inner drivers, organisational context, the environment at large as well as the job at hand. A Theory X manager knows only the autocratic mode, but a Theory Y manager can chose to be autocratic, paternalistic, consultative or participatory.
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Government agencies have historically cultivated online presences guided by transparency and information sharing. We assert that evolving online tools also provide the opportunity for creating new ways of empowering citizens and building relationships between government and citizen in online space. By wedding the principles of engagement, the fundamentals of organizing practice, with new media tools, government agencies can enter existing online communities, creating new forms of citizen engagement while building meaningful relationships with citizens.
Judith is the co-founder and Executive Director of the New Organizing Institute, a training, research, and development organization for technology-enabled organizers, activists, staff, and leaders. In 2008 Judith worked on the Obama new media team, coordinating their field and new media efforts. Previously, she was the senior political strategist at the AFL-CIO, where she also co-founded the Analyst Institute. During the 2004 presidential election, she worked on the Kerry campaign's internet operations. She advises political campaigns, unions, hill, government, and non-profit organizations on campaigns, organizing, targeting, strategy and technology infrastructure. She worked for five years in technology at the University of Chicago where she also organized with social justice organizations.
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Yoga: Not as soothing as she'd imagined
A little, light torture, anyone?
"Lift! Lift the thighs! Lift the torso! Up with the arms! Lift higher! Shoulders back and down! Keep reaching upward! No talking! Breathe! Take off those socks! No socks allowed!"
Was this boot camp? Was this the sergeant major shouting endless instructions and commands to a group of new recruits?
No. The incongruous demand to remove the socks gives the truth away.
This was a yoga class -- a university yoga class. And I must say I hadn't expected it to be like this.
Mistakenly, I had imagined the gentlest of guiding voices, and perhaps some calm, new-age music. After all, I'd heard that yoga helps one to relax, to clear the head, to aid in concentration.
We were concentrating, all right! The poses were so demanding that if we didn't stay closely focused on our heels, the knuckles of our feet, our every toe, we would topple over.
We dared not even peek at each other. Watching someone else wobble was enough to set us wobbling, too.
The class comprised students aged from 17 into the 70s. Only those who were pregnant were allowed any slack. If we were warm and walking, we were to lift and stretch, bend and extend.
This was especially hard for basket ball players and other athletes among us. They were big and tall, strong and tough, but not as flexible as some of us less muscular weaklings. Much moaning and groaning ensued when they tried to extend their torsos forward or to the left or to the right.
"No complaining!" Despite her seeming harshness, though, the instructor was gentle with them, patiently easing them into the poses: "Right buttock forward, turn the right leg! Goooood!"
Over the 10-week course, most of us improved more than we could have imagined. From time to time, we gathered around the instructor as she demonstrated a particularly tricky pose for us, her slender, lithe body as beautiful as a Robert Graham sculpture. We watched in awe as she drew herself into extended triangles and perfect warrior poses.
Our warriors, alas, remained totally unthreatening to any would-be enemy. We would keel over if we thought about anything but bending the leg at a right angle to the floor and holding our arms straight above our heads.
This being a university, the course had academic as well as kinesiologic requirements. We studied some yoga philosophy and we learned both the English and the Sanskrit names for the poses.
Utthita trikonasana rolled sweetly from the tongue. It also rolled right out of the brain after the final exam. Still, the lessons remain.
Now, as I stride up and down the hills on my daily walk, I hear that voice urging "Lift the torso! Shoulders back and down! Open the chest! Breathe!"
And when I practice yoga at home, I know how to avoid injury, and how to relax, clear my head and calmly face the day. Namaste!
Monica B. Morris lives in Hollywood. Her latest book, to be published in August, 2009, is "Goodnight Children, Everywhere." Other books include "That Ridiculous Blue Sky: A Novel" and "Falling in Love Again: The Mature Woman's Guide to Finding Romantic Fulfillment."
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'Scrap harmful sugar quota extension plan': EU soft drinks industry cries
Yesterday the EP's Agricultural Committee (AGRI Committee) voted down the proposal to scrap quotas and voted instead (by 32 to 11) to extend quotas until 2020, with a plenary Parliament vote on this measure now scheduled for the week commencing March 11.
The Committee move dismayed trade body the Committee of European Sugar Users (CIUS), whose position also represents that of European soft drinks trade body UNESDA, as well as that of Coca-Cola Europe.
UNESDA Communications director Sam Rowe told BeverageDaily.com: "UNESDA is a member of the Committee of so we are aligned with their opinion, and were party to the statement on behalf of the soft drinks sector."
Inflated prices, supply shortfalls
CIUS secretary general, Muriel Korter, told BeverageDaily.com today that any quota extension would hit the competitiveness of European beverage firms, since a "dysfunctioning sugar regime" (including sugar quotas) artificially inflated prices and limited supply, with bloc sugar beet production falling 20% short of internal demand.
CIUS members purchase almost 70% of Europe's annual sugar production for use in food and beverages both for domestic and export sales.
Asked why a beverage SME could not simply buy sugar in from, say, Brazil, instead, Korter explained:
"First, you would have to go through a trader, raw imports must be refined via a refinery, then you have transport costs, then a high duty of €419/tonne ($653) for white sugar. So the total world market price would not be competitive for an SME."
But there was a huge difference between the Commission reference price for sugar and average (higher) prices in the bloc, and again with (lower) average world market prices, Korter added.
EU sugar prices rose 47% between October 2010 and October 2012 due to shortages caused by the quota system, the CIUS said, referencing Commision figures.
Reneged on deal to scrap quotas
The AGRI Committee had reneged on a political agreement that quotas be phased out by 2015, the CIUS claims, but Korter said this lacked a specific end date, which meant that it was "apparently not being respected at all by different politicians," who were revisiting the agreement's terms.
So why was the Agricultural Committee taking this stance? "It is very conservative. The MEPs in the committee are either farmers or represent farmers in their constituencies, while beet growers are very strong on maintaining the quota, claiming they would be uncompetitive without it," Korter said.
"But we say, 'if you eliminate quotas, this does not mean that you open up the borders from one day to the next'. There would not be an import surge, and we believe the European beet growers are highly competitive when you compare their beet yields with other world players."
No HFCS alternative
To make matters worse, beverage producers were unable to substitute scant sugar supplies with isoglucose/high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) since the EU also imposed a quota (5% of total sugar production) on that, Korter added.
"What's happening is that the isoglucose quota is so small that the beverage industry has to use sugar. We support the elimination of both quotas," Korter said.
"Eliminating the isoglucose quota would relieve the pressure on the beet/white sugar supply, which would benefit everyone," she added.
"The starch producers are also keen on this, and could effect economies of scale to produce more isoglucose – this could happen fairly quickly."
If the EP voted in March to extend quotas to 2020, an official trialogue would then start with the Council and Commission, Korter said, which both possess equal negotiating powers.
"It remains to be seen if this would be accepted by the two other institutions – it could go to a second reading," she added.
The British Soft Drinks Association said its position reflected that of the CIUS.
The European Parliament had not replied to our request for comment as we went to press.


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To help understand this issue, I did a search on the Ancestry.com Help menu:
and selected the Glossary, scrolled down to D for Double Date:
double date
More than one date given for an event. The practice of writing double dates resulted from switching from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar. This also relates to the fact that not all countries and people accepted the new calendar at the same time.In my earlier example, I used 30 Mar 1629. The issue appears in January, February, and March, through 1752. There are other resources for the details of this calendar change, but this blog post is only to address how Family Tree Maker handles it.
I entered the Birth Year of 30 Mar 1629 for my earlier example, and entered 30 Mar 1659 for this example. See below and notice a Warning to the Right of the Date, just above the "pencil" ICON for the Place Name. This Warning is telling us something OR that we have a choice to make.
Clicking on that ICON we see a box open up. These are our Choices:
Double date format:
- Leave the date as it is. Example: 20 Mar 1659
- Use double date formatting: Example 20 Mar 1658/59
and a choice
- Always use this setting for double dates without showing this dialog
For my first example, I chose the second option, so that I could see 1658/59.
The choice is ours to make.
Also, I want this Warning to appear when I do enter a date that falls into this category. It's that Exclamation point in the Date field.
We can control this warning, and other warnings, in the Tools Menu, Options Choice, and Warnings Tab.
These are the SAME options we have from the Date field. If you always want to see the Double Date format, then make the 2nd choice, rather then the Warn Me, as I have selected.
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In an Oct. 18 article(www.nejm.org) in the New England Journal of Medicine, the executive leadership of five key physician organizations -- the AAFP, the American College of Physicians, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American College of Surgeons -- call for an end to legislation that crosses traditional boundaries and intrudes into the realm of medical professionalism, saying that "legislators should abide by principles that put patients' best interest first."
"Critical to achieving this goal is respect for the importance of scientific evidence, patient autonomy and the patient-physician relationship," say the five organizations, which represent the majority of physicians providing clinical care in this country.
"Examples of inappropriate legislative interference with this relationship are proliferating as lawmakers increasingly intrude into the realm of medical practice, often to satisfy political agendas without regard to established, evidence-based guidelines for care," say the organizations, who add that four types of laws are of particular concern. These include laws that
- prohibit physicians from discussing with or asking their patients about risk factors that may affect their health or the health of their families as recommended by evidence-based guidelines;
- require physicians to discuss practices that may not be necessary or appropriate at the time of a given encounter with a patient, according to the physician's best judgment;
- would require physicians to provide -- and patients to receive -- diagnostic tests or medical interventions not supported by evidence, including tests or interventions that are invasive and are required to be performed even without a patient's consent; and
- limit the information physicians can disclose to patients, consultants in patient care, or both.
- In a New England Journal of Medicine article, the AAFP and four other physician organizations have called for an end to laws that interfere with the patient-physician relationship and that are not grounded in science and evidence.
- The organizations identify four types of laws or legislative proposals that are most concerning, giving an example of how each type of law has played out.
- The AAFP and the other organizations say the laws have succeeded in devaluing the patient-physician relationship.
The organizations give an example of each of the four types of intrusive law. For example, the organizations cite a 2011 Florida statute that "substantially impaired physicians' ability to deliver gun-safety messages to patients."
The law, known as the Firearm Owners' Privacy Act, prohibited physicians and other health care professionals from routinely asking patients if they owned firearms and recording the information in the medical records of patients.
"Practitioners who violated the law were potentially subject to severe disciplinary action, including fines and loss of licensure," the organizations say.
They point out that U.S. District Judge Marcia Cooke issued a permanent injunction in June, barring the law's enforcement. In her opinion, Cooke said, "the state, through its law, inserts itself in the doctor-patient relationship, prohibiting and burdening speech necessary to the proper practice of preventive medicine, thereby preventing patients from receiving truthful, non-misleading information."
Cooke also said "the law chills practitioners' speech in a way that impairs the provision of medical care and may ultimately harm the patient."
Nevertheless, according to the article, Florida is continuing to push for the law. Florida Gov. Rick Scott recently announced that the state is appealing Cooke's ruling.
Citing Other Examples
The authors of the article also cite a New York statute requiring physicians to discuss practices that may not be necessary or appropriate at the time of a specific encounter with a patient. The New York law, which took effect in 2011, requires physicians and other health care professionals to offer terminally ill patients "information and counseling regarding palliative care and end-of-life options appropriate to the patient."
These include the patient's prognosis, risks and benefits of various options, and a patient's legal rights to pain and symptom management. However, the Medical Society of New York and others have criticized the bill for "failing to recognize the complexity and uncertainty involved in end-of-life discussions among patients and their families and physicians."
"This an area in which one size does not fit all and in which physicians are best able to determine what discussions with patients and families are necessary or appropriate at a given time," the organizations say. "Yet failure to comply with the law can result in fines of up to $5,000 for repeat offenses and a jail term of up to one year for willful violations."
As an example of laws that mandate diagnostic tests that may be neither medically indicated nor desired by the patient, the article cites a Virginia measure that would require women to undergo ultrasonography before having an abortion.
In addition, the article notes that four states -- Pennsylvania, Ohio, Colorado and Texas -- have passed legislation making it difficult for physicians to obtain information about the chemicals used in fracking, a process that involves injecting toxic chemicals into the ground.
"In Pennsylvania, physicians can obtain information about chemicals used in the fracking process that may be relevant to a patient's care, but only after requesting the information in writing and executing a nonstandardized confidentiality and nondisclosure agreement drafted by the drilling companies," the article states.
The organizations say laws of these types have effectively reduced health care decisions "to a series of mandates," devaluing the patient-physician relationship.
"Legislative mandates regarding the practice of medicine do not allow for the infinite array of exceptions -- cases in which the mandate may be unnecessary, inappropriate or even harmful to an individual patient," the article says.
Role of Government Not Discounted
The organizations do not discount the role of government, saying, for example, that "federal, state and local governments have long played valued and important roles in our nation's health care."
"Various levels of government are appropriately involved in providing essential health care services, licensing health care professionals, protecting public health, determining the safety of drugs and medical devices, and investing in medical education and research," the article says.
The organizations assert that objections to "legislatively mandated health care decisions does not translate into an argument that physicians can do whatever they want."
The health care needs of individual patients and the broader society are best served when physicians' actions and physician-patient interactions are dictated not by legislation but by "the fundamental principles of respect for autonomy, beneficence, nonmaleficence and justice," the organizations conclude.
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I can't believe I haven't been here in so long. I can't believe you've been coming back and checking in all this time. I can't believe you haven't given up on me. I bow to you in gratitude while applauding your clearly divine patience.
What's been going on is delicious and note worthy. December was cooked into a gourmet month in its entirety. Suddenly my name was passed from mouth to mouth and I landed catering gigs and other fun events of sorts that kept me tied to my stove.
To keep the long story short, I'm attaching a few photos from the above mentioned moments of what later turned out to be a great success:
Those are just the few snapshots I was able to take in the midst of the festivities. As soon as all the parties were over with, I was home in a bath tub filled with hot waters and enhanced with silky oils. The bath was mandatory if I were to get up early the following morning and pack for our trip East.
There, as in Texas, we entered virgin (to me) territories of disc golfing. Having successfully scattered all my discs all over the four adjacent fields, and that's not what I were to aim for, I decided at last to let the others do the work while I laid in the grass to contemplate. Things seemed to look more interesting from that angle.
Also, it was cold. Cold it was. Have I mentioned it was really, really cold out there?
The more so we enjoyed getting back into the warmth of the Harkins' family's house right in time for Christmas celebrations. Santa lost his marbles this year, clearly, as the mountain of presents that built up around the tree was making me dizzy just by looking at it. It could only be compared, I imagine, to the impression Uluru Mountain in Australia made on Oprah on her recent trip to Australia. All we wanted to do at the sight of our holy hill of presents was to close our eyes and meditate over its natural beauty.
Not for long. The children soon arrived and the mass destruction began. Neatly wrapped boxes proceeded to fly across the room, ribbons got ripped impatiently, and the wrapping paper torn into confetti.
Don't be fooled by the innocent faces of those two little munchkins. They know their game, trust me.
It all stil looks neat and sane, doesn't it? Just wait.
Heavy duty trash bags and oxygen masks were required to bring this war zone back to civilized conditions.
Then, suddenly I realized Cosmo went missing. How could he have not really? My instant reaction was to scream:
I did it with my inside voice, thank god. I had put that family through enough already with my shopping cart rides across their local Walmart, and then again by asking for vibrators at their local BEST BUY when the nice salesman offered to help us with any electronics we may be in need of. It's a small town, by the way. I'll say no more.
At the peak of my panic, I glanced just below my feet (the monkey in me climbed up the couch to take a few shots of the surrounding madness) and saw Cosmo tucked between the cushions… those of the sofa itself and those belonging to Jason's mom…
I feel like I should end this ramble-o-thon right about now, but then it wouldn't be complete without Paula Dean, would it?
The Queen of Southern Coking opened the Rose Bowl Parade herself, and Jason and I were there on the crisp morning of the New Year in Pasadena, and our asses we froze, and off the bucket list we took part taking in the thing forever. Alleluia.
Though we also snapped a big bucket of photos, I think I've exhausted my audience, my blog space, and my own self with this vomit of stories. Please, forgive my erratic behavior on these pages. I'm just a girl… who likes to cook and then write about it. I can't control everything else that falls in between.
Happy New Year, Everybody. I'm excited to go through it with you again. Cheers!


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Author: Calixa
Story: Nine to Five
Part: 1: Mad Futons and Old Friends
Rating: Teens
Setting: Pre-HBP
Status: WIP
Reviews: 8
Words: 5,405
Updated: July 13, 2004, 6:59pm
1: Mad Futons and Old Friends
A/N: No futons were harmed in the writing of this chapter. Some tea cozies may have been sacrificed, however. All for the good of Wizardkind, however - and please, if you must, blame JKR, since she's the one who started all this. Thanks to Sherry (my lovely beta-reader), Enna (for help with the money math) and the uber-cool Mel (who helped me get out of a writing funk).
A neat hole sizzled in the middle of the blue tea cosy, and it levitated for another split second before flopping lifelessly to the ground. Take that! Ginny's lips curved upwards in triumph, and she aimed her wand at the next cozy, blasting a hole in that as well. The silly things scattered and dove behind toasters and plate racks for cover - Ginny quite easily located them, however, and with a small flick of her wrist forced them to float back into the air above her head. Allowing herself a small smile (and a quick glance into the living room) she made the cozies spin in circle formation, and blew holes in each one by one.
As soon as the last tea cosy had fallen to the tiled floor of the small, dusty kitchen, she heard a plea for help.
"Let that be a lesson to you all," she muttered to the quilted squares, before darting into the living room. "Dean?"
Ginny looked wildly around for the source of the agonized moan. "Dean? Where are you?"
"Heeeeeeeeeeelp! Giiiiiiiiiiiiiiinnny! It's eating meeeeeeeeee!"
Alarming. Ginny was still trying to locate Dean's voice - was it coming from upstairs? She paused, waiting, and before long she heard him cry out again - "Shit, Ginny, it's EATING ME!!" - Ginny winced and decided, yes, it definitely was coming from the second floor of the house - she wasted no more time and set off at a hurried pace, kicking a rather ugly brown beanbag out of her way as she dashed up the stairs, two at a time.
"Dean? DEAN?!"
Ginny reached the landing and heard a racket issuing from the room at the end of the hall, accompanied by a feeble sort of 'help me...' so she ran towards it, kicking the door open. In the middle of the threadbare room was a giant white futon, folded in half - in alarm she noted the hand that stuck out from between the snapping ends of the futon, gripping a wand that she recognized as Dean's.
It really was eating him, she thought, partially stunned, partially fascinated - but duty (and common sense) kicked in and Ginny jumped forward, brandishing her own wand. The futon snapped open and shut again, allowing her a glimpse of Dean's face, contorted in pain.
"Dean! Hang on! I'll get you out of there!"
"Hurry..." was the weak response.
She was halfway through muttering 'Reducto!' again when she realised blasting a hole in the futon could possibly mean blasting a hole through Dean as well. Ginny hesitated, wincing as the futon made a sinister creaking sound - Ok, she thought, trying to remember to breathe, better plan needed... think, Ginny, think!
"My leg...!"
Oh GOD.
"What am I supposed to do??" she wailed in despair, ducking as a spring dislodged itself from the futon and hit the wall behind her. They'd never taught her how to stop a mad futon from eating one's co-worker in school! This was a disaster. A DISASTER.
Focus, damnit! Ginny bit her lip, panicking, racking her brain for a solution. She couldn't let Dean die like this. Not like this, not eaten alive by a FUTON, of all things. No, she just couldn't -
The futon stopped clanking in mid-air, and fell with a loud crash of metal on wood. Ginny cursed violently and rushed forward, falling to her knees beside it. She used her hands to pry the ends, and pushed and pushed, but it wouldn't come apart.
"Dean!" she shouted in alarm, "Dean, can you hear me?!"
There was a pause.
Oh, THANK MERLIN .
"Yes, it's me -" she breathed in shaky relief, "Are you -are you alright?"
His voice was muffled, but intact. "I - I dunno... I can't feel my legs..."
She grabbed his hand, still visibly sticking out from the top of the tangled mass of metal and mattress. Thank goodness Dean was a wizard - a normal Muggle would have surely been killed by such an ordeal. Ginny shuddered and cast those thoughts aside. "I'm holding your hand, Dean, can you feel my fingers?"
"Erm - I think so..." he said, his voice trembling. "Oh god, I think I can feel my foot wrapped around my neck -"
"-Can you try pushing?" she asked loudly, letting go of his hand.
"With what?" he asked hysterically in return.
She cussed, got back on her feet, and kicked the futon in frustration.
"Sorry," she said, wincing. "Listen, Dean, I'm going to get you out of there - just - just... stay calm, all right? You'll be okay, I promise, I just need to figure out how to get this... this thing apart -"
"Okay," came Dean's muffled reply. He paused. Then, in an agonized voice that made Ginny's chest wring, "- Can I just say that this is the worse pain I have ever felt in my entire life? I think my spleen is digging into my heart."
OK, not reassuring information. Think. Think. You can do this.
"...Ginny?" Panic. "Are you still there?"
"Yes!" she exclaimed hurriedly, belatedly realizing that she'd fallen silent while frantically thinking. "I'm here - don't worry, I'll get you out -"
There was a long, dreadful silence. Dean cleared his throat - or, rather, she thought he did, though it was hard to tell if the sounds coming from the dented futon were human or not - and she expected him to speak.
"If I die, will you exact revenge on Botham for me?"
Ginny couldn't help it - she laughed, although it was short-lived and cruel. Botham was to blame for all this - Mallory Botham, head of the Misuse of Muggle Artifacts office, lazy, fat, purple-faced excuse for a human being, who dumped all the work on Ginny and Dean while he spent hours in his office, doing Merlin knows what. Plucking his nose hairs, maybe, she thought in disgust. He was supposed to be supervising this raid - of course, per usual, he'd not even shown up for it - forcing Ginny and Dean to go on with the plans without him (not that they weren't used to that) and ending up in this awful predicament. Ginny cursed the heavens above. If life were fair, it would have been Botham inside that bloody futon instead of poor, mild-mannered Dean. (If life were good, it would have killed him off and they'd get a new, nicer boss.)
"I will," she promised, only two-thirds serious. Ginny briefly imagined scooping out Botham's eyeballs with a rusty spoon and felt better.
"I think maybe I should go to St. Mungo's," said Dean's muffled voice, rather strangely magnanimous. Perhaps he was delirious with pain, thought Ginny worriedly.
"Dean, St. Mungo's is miles away from here," she said, biting her lip. "And there isn't a Floo grate in this place, I can't -"
"I think I can still Apparate," he said slowly, pronouncing each word carefully. Ginny pressed her ear to the side of the futon to hear him.
Apparating. Her worst nightmare. Ginny couldn't Apparate. Well, technically she could, she had a license, but she didn't want to.
"You can stay," he offered. Dean understood. She felt vaguely ashamed that he had to be sympathetic while squashed up inside a dysfunctional piece of Muggle furniture, and made up her mind not to be a wimp.
"Okay," she said bravely, screwing her eyes shut, and gripping the metal frame of the futon with both hands, brushing Dean's hand with her fingertips. She swallowed a huge, hard lump that had grown in the back of her throat. "Here goes..."
It took ten Healers and their assistant staff to carry the futon with Dean inside of it from the reception area (where they had pretty much crash landed - Ginny was too relieved that she'd made it in one piece to complain about lacking entry finesse) to the inner wards of the ground level -Artifact Accidents - and into a room that Ginny wasn't allowed to enter. She stood outside of it, however, and listened as worrying noises were emitted through the door.
Eventually, one of the Healers came out and told her that Dean would be fine, they'd magically sawed the futon in half and released him - after a couple of re-inflating spells and some much needed salve, he was well on his way to recovery (and sleep).
"He'll be fine in a week," the Healer warmly reassured her.
She sighed in relief and peeked inside the room to see Dean, peacefully sleeping in a bed in the corner. Thank Merlin, she thought before using the public Floo grates to return to the Ministry of Magic, in a terrible mood.
Ginny fumed all through the lift ride to the second Level of the Ministry, and knocked over a few surprised Aurors in her path as she pushed past their sea of seemingly endless cubicles. She stormed into the Misuse of Muggle Artifacts Office, no longer the shabby, one-room bureau Arthur Weasley had once occupied. Since the appointment of Amelia Bones as Minister of Magic five years ago, and the promotion of Arthur to Senior Assistant, the department had expanded to three personnel instead of two (not counting the recently retired Perkins), and had been granted a bigger office (two, to be exact, Botham got the private room, Ginny and Dean shared the main one), as well as a bigger budget and some windows (finally!). This was wise, however, as the rate of Muggle mistreatment had only increased after the defeat of Voldemort - the Death Eaters had disbanded, with their most potent members locked away in Azkaban for life, so the remaining scum at the bottom of the pond had resorted to other forms of entertainment. Life had improved as a whole for everyone, however; now that the Dark Lord was gone, but there still wasn't total peace. No, far from it.
After his defeat, the Wizarding world had been left in shambles, and there were few left with enough energy to pick up the pieces. Fortunately, great wizards like Albus Dumbledore had survived the war, and with his ever-helpful guidance, things had begun to improve, slowly but steady. First Hogwarts was opened to all who wished to return to school (for many students had had to abandon their studies to participate as soldiers against the common evil), and then the rest of the community had to be reinstated. People didn't quite trust each other at first - like Dumbledore had once said, Voldemort's greatest gift was his ability to spread chaos and discord - so trust, most vital of all, had to forged between young and old alike. Times went by, and with the introduction of a new Minister, a new set of policies and laws, even a new outlook on life - things progressed.� The Wizarding world stabilized itself, and today it had become similar to what it had been like before the rise of Voldemort.
Still, a lot had changed - things that couldn't be fixed. Lives had been lost. Ginny could reel off in her head the list of names that had made it onto the casualty list, names that had once been people she'd known in the flesh. The thought was saddening, so she avoiding thinking about it. Her only consolation lay in the knowledge that their deaths had not been wasted - Voldemort had been slain, many lives had been spared through their loss. It was, in a perhaps rather morbid sense, a fair trade.
The office was exactly how they'd left it - covered in maps and paper airplane memos, mostly from her father, who'd offered much advice about raiding Muggle homes for charmed objects. Ginny had been slightly averse to following his input, since she'd witnessed his arrival home in a state of cheerful disarray often times. (Arthur Weasley loved Muggles so much that he never complained about being mostly covered in burns or injuries.)
The door to Botham's office was still closed - Ginny seethed, slamming her things onto her desk and flopping heavily into her seat. The big fat idiot probably hadn't moved all day.� It still bewildered her, how a man like Mallory Botham, who lacked both skill and intelligence, had managed to secure the position of department head. Granted, he'd been working in the Ministry for well over two decades, but argh! There were so many more talented, better suited candidates for his job, all of whom Ginny would gladly work under without complaint.
But nooooo, her father had to promote Botham, of all people, to take over his place. It boggled her mind ceaselessly. She noted that she would have to have a word with him about his alarming lapse of character judgment.
Ginny squared her shoulders and glared at the closed door. The glazed glass window with its shiny bronze plaque - Mallory Botham, it read in handsome engraved block letters - offended her immensely, and it took a lot of effort for Ginny to force herself to look down at her paperwork. She still had to record what they'd found in the Muggle home, and make note of what was left to collect. She sighed, thinking of the work that lay ahead - in the midst of Dean's situation, Ginny had forgotten most of standard protocol, so a return to the raid location was inevitable.
She uncorked her ink bottle, picked up a luxury quill Hermione Granger had bought her for her 21st birthday, and began writing out a detailed report of what had happened that morning. As if Botham cared. She doubted he would even read it. Hell, he hadn't even noticed she'd returned - or that Dean hadn't - and she'd be damned if she brought that to his attention. Her only peace at work depended on Botham's level of awareness of others around him - which, thankfully, wasn't very high.
She was halfway done when a cheerful voice bade her hello from the door of the office. Dennis Creevey poked his fair head into the room and grinned at her.
Ginny threw him her most exasperated, annoyed stare.
Dennis took a step back. "Whoa... what happened to you?"
He regretted asking that question later, after Ginny had launched into detailed, angry rant about Botham, mad futons, reports, overtime and stupid Window Maintenance, always giving their department cloudy weather - she pointed at the window to her right - always! Dennis looked quite terrified but knew better than to even attempt to cut her off in the middle of her shouting. That would entail bodily harm, and he was enjoying his day too much to take that risk.
"Wait... where's Dean?" he asked, screwing up his face in concentration as he tried to follow.
Ginny glared at him. "St. Mungo's. The futon got him."
(That sentence made it to the desks of at least thirty different Ministry wizards within five minutes of Dennis returning to his own desk in the form of interdepartmental memos. By four o'clock that afternoon the entire Ministry was buzzing about how Dean Thomas had sacrificed himself in the line of duty, and was currently in St. Mungo's, sporting two lost limbs and possible gangrene of his stumps. One airplane memo even hit Ginny in the back of the head on its way to Botham's desk - why anyone felt the need to tell� him was beyond her comprehension - but she was too aggravated to care.)
She was hoping to finish her report before the day ended - Ginny badly wanted to go home, drop everything, and pass out on her bed - but even those hopes were dashed by the opening of Botham's door. He came out, in all his purple-faced, gooseflesh glory, and addressed her in his typical, overbearing fashion.
"Weasley!" he barked rudely, stomping over to her desk. Ginny bit down on her tongue and fought the urge to gouge out his eyeballs again. "Where's your report? I want it on my desk -"
Ginny stood up and thrust the roll of parchment she'd been slaving over for the last hour at him. He blinked and took it, sneering. Then, with a nasty gleam in his eye, "I didn't mean this."
She stared at him, and forced herself to speak evenly. "What report did you mean, then, sir?"
"The one on those charmed Toasters - where the hell did Thomas go? Skivving off work, is he?"
Ginny's jaw fell open. "But that report isn't mine! You told Dean to do it yesterday, and I haven't -"
"I need it today," he repeated.
You arrogant, unbearable, incompetent jerk -
"Yes, sir," she said, exhaling shakily. "Dean is in St. Mungo's, by the way. He got hurt on our raid this morning."
"Did he?" sneered Botham, turning around and walking back into his office. "I suppose the Muggles were too much for him to handle, is that it?"
With forks , she thought viciously, as the door slammed shut again. Sharp, rusting forks. Up his giant, disgusting nostrils.
She finished the second bloody report around eight, and by that time the Ministry was pretty much deserted - aside from the Aurors, who worked night and day, it seemed. Ginny waved at Kingsley Shacklebolt as she passed through the cubicles, and he waved his thermos of coffee at her in return. She was exhausted and in a hugely bad mood.
Clutching a rather threadbare Muggle coat she'd brought in that morning, Ginny left the Ministry buildings and wandered into the thick of London. In dismay, she noticed that the calm dark skies that she'd seen outside the windows in her office had been a product of Window Maintenance's fancy - it was actually raining now. Hard.
She cussed under her breath and hurried down the busy street, trying not to glare at the lucky passersby clutching their umbrellas. After heading a couple of blocks west, Ginny turned into a small street and slowed down as she reached a small shop at the very end of it. By this point she was sopping wet and miserable, and wanted more than ever to get home and sleep.
A little wrought iron sign hung just above the door, reading "Barclay's Groceries and Dairy" in rusted red paint. Rows of fruit lined the front window; an elderly man was standing in front of it holding an apple and an orange in each hand, apparently comparing the two. Pulling her Muggle coat tighter around herself to fend off a chilly wind that had picked up, Ginny hurried inside the shop, feeling around in her purse for money.
A bell chimed as she entered. The shop was small and cluttered, but there was a sort of order to it that made the place feel homey and welcoming. Several scents mingled in the air, there were only a few other people inside, not counting the boy who worked there, stacking cans onto a top shelf to Ginny's right. She felt a bit guilty, standing on the polished floor, dripping a monstrous puddle.
Vaguely she wondered how Dean was doing (Maybe I should owl Parvati... someone had to have informed her by now, hadn't they? Lavender worked in St. Mungo's, after all. Ginny made a mental note to send Pigwidgeon off as soon as she got home, just in case) and felt slightly guilty that he was in St. Mungo's all alone. Sighing, she wandered down the aisle, picking items off the shelves mindlessly. Flour, eggs, baking soda. Bread. Had she tea, still? She couldn't remember - so she picked up a bag of imported jasmine tea (a treat, but it wouldn't do to suddenly discover they were out of tea - Ginny thrived on it.)
A small, plump woman entered the shop from a door behind the front counter. She broke into a wide smile. "Ginny! How are you, dear?"
"Good evening, ma'am," replied Ginny, smiling at the friendly shopkeeper in her flowered apron. "How's business?"
"Oh, you know, the usual - Clive's been working so hard on the back, we're extending the dairy section, dear, it's ever so exciting-" She paused, and addressed the adolescent boy, "Thomas, ring up the customers, will you? Thank you, dear - anyway, what were you looking for?"
"A few things," said Ginny, "Soap and something for my fireplace, it's horribly ashy and sooty, I promised my brother I'd clean it."
"We have just the thing," shrilled Mrs. Barclay, taking Ginny's arm in hers, "I know exactly what you need, dear - oh, watch your foot - Clive again! I've told him so many times, don't you leave your things lying around, people are going to trip and hurt themselves! He always says that people aren't blind, and besides, the insurance will cover it, but paint me green and call me a pickle, I don't trust those insurance companies! I mean, what sort of business is that? Giving people money? It's all a scam, dear, I remember when Mr. Herbet - he lives just upstairs, you know - fell and broke his hip on the stairs - they didn't give him a penny! Terrible, that was, and he'd been paying for insurance for years, he told us, but there was a cluster or summat in the paperwork, something about accidents -so not a knu-penny!"
Ginny nodded and pretended to be politely interested in what Mrs. Barclay was telling her - a young (and rather handsome) man standing by a rack of spices caught her eye and smiled at her. Ginny was only mildly taken aback; she quickly recovered and smiled at him, pretending to roll her eyes at the shopkeeper's back, as though to say, honestly, I'm just her customer. He grinned in sympathy. The entire exchange was done in absolute silence, and as Mrs. Barclay steered Ginny into a different aisle, one that led to the back of the shop, she broke eye contact with the man.
"... like I was telling Clive, we don't need any special shelving, I mean, what's wrong with double grommets? They're good enough, and it's not like we get many people asking for fertilizer..." Her voice trailed off, and she turned to beam at Ginny, lifting a curtain that led into a small, dark corridor. "Right, dear, is it Floo powder you need? I think we just got a new order of that in last week, there should be plenty on the second shelf -"
Ginny nodded her thanks, and opened the door at the end of the corridor, to reveal what looked like another shop, only this one was hidden, dimly lit by levitating candles, and had rows of shelves filled with Wizarding items instead of regular groceries.
"Hello, Clive," said Ginny, taking a box of Floo Powder off a shelf and greeting the middle-aged wizard behind the counter. He seemed to be rolling up Knuts. "I hear you're renovating."
"That's just a story we tell the Muggles," replied Clive, his eyes twinkling, "None of them give you any trouble today, did they, Miss?"
Ginny thought of Dean and winced. "Not particularly," she said, shaking her head at Clive's questioning glance. "Can I get some All-Purpose Magical Mess Remover, too, please? Crookshanks made a big mess on Ron's bed. We don't know why it won't come out in the wash... "
Clive chuckled and retrieved some of the cleaning potion from beneath the counter.
"Will that be all, Miss?" he asked.
"Yes, thank you."
"You be getting home through the Floo, Miss?" asked Clive conversationally, gesturing at the fireplace.
Ginny nodded as he rang up her things. She plunked down a handful of Galleons (and winced, thinking that was the last of this month's pay - fortunately it was the 25th) to pay for it all. Clive thanked her and put all her things into a big paper bag, which Ginny hefted up onto her hip, balancing it against her purse. She walked over to the fireplace in the corner, and glanced at the sign.
"Floo Service: Three Sickles per use. Provide correct change (no Knuts, please)."
Fumbling in her pockets, Ginny located three Sickles and shoved them into the slot next to the grate, and there was the sound of a lock being opened. A small wooden door opened in the wall, and she reached in to take a handful of Floo powder from the silver tin. Ginny clambered inside the fireplace, pushing a wet lock of hair off her forehead.
"105 Lamport Block," she said loudly, clutching her bags as the green flames swallowed her up.
Ginny stumbled out of the fireplace in her flat minutes later, coughing, feeling damp and sooty at the same time. It was a rather disgusting mix of sensations. Shower, she thought, then bed.� A nice, long bubble bath sounded nice, anyway. She trudged into the kitchen, and dumped the bag of groceries on the table. It was partially sopping, just from contact with her wet clothing. Ginny sighed and gingerly peeled off the Muggle coat, tossing it into a basket in the hall.
A piece of parchment stuck to the stair banister caught her eye. Over at Hermione's for dinner! Don't stay up waiting! - Ron
Ginny rolled her eyes at the note, ripped it off the banister and crumpled it into her palm. As usual, she'd been abandoned again. Sometimes she wondered why Ron didn't just move in with Hermione - they spent so much of their time over at her flat it was as though he lived there anyway. But she supposed that was the whole point of sharing a flat with Ron: she'd agreed because she'd known it would mean lots of time and space to herself, practically like having her own flat.� Ron had quite clearly informed her from the start that this arrangement made it easier for him to - ahem - spend quality time with Hermione without Mrs. Weasley meddling (or knowing) too much about the limits of their relationship.
Try as much as she might, Ginny could not push back the wave of emotion that welled up in her stomach. She sat gingerly down on the sofa in the living room and looked around at her surroundings.
The room was dark, long shadows fell across the cream walls upon which hung framed portraits of Ginny, Ron, and their friends - mostly ones of her brother and his girlfriend - Ron and Hermione on vacation, Ron and Hermione visiting Hogwarts, Ron and Hermione after one of Ron's games. A Muggle radio and a television set sat in the corner of the room, but were rarely used. They were really just there for show, in case the landlord decided to pay a visit. No one in the neighbourhood suspected that the friendly redhead and his sister on the second floor were anything but a budding journalist (Ginny snorted at Ron's choice of false profession - he hadn't picked up a quill for a couple of years now) and a student researcher finishing up her degree.
The photographs in particular made her feel uneasy. The flat seemed to be a reflection of Ron, not her. She had made few decisions when it came to decorating - Hermione had taken care of most of that - and even after they'd settled in, Ginny had never quite come to thinking of the flat as home (that word was reserved for the Burrow, even if she wouldn't admit it to anyone but herself). There was so much Ron and Hermione in the flat. Not that it bothered her to see them happy together - no, absolutely not, Ginny was thrilled on their behalf - it simply made her ache, sometimes, when she remembered that she didn't have what they had.
In a nutshell, Ginny was lonely. She hadn't been in a relationship for two years now. Three. The last had been with a wizard she'd met in her first year working at the Ministry, and even he was with someone, as far as she knew. Most of the people she'd known from Hogwarts were either married or hugely successful by now - at twenty-one, Ginny was still alone and working under an incompetent, arrogant fool of a man. She felt the beginnings of a self-loathing mood gnaw at her insides.
Why am I always by myself? Why don't I have someone, too?
There was nothing wrong with that, though - Ginny was independent. She didn't need a man to survive, she could fend for herself perfectly fine, thank you very much.
A loud knock broke into her thoughts, and she jumped, startled by the sudden noise. Someone was at the door. Immediately she stood up, alert. It was late - who could be calling at this time?
Maybe it was Ron. She frowned, though. He rarely forgot his keys, and almost never came through the front door. He could Apparate. They only made it a point to leave through the front door every now and then to refrain from making the neighbours suspicious - the first two weeks after they'd moved in neither Ron nor Ginny had realised this, causing a bit of a wave of gossip. They'd learned their lesson, however.
She stood up and wandered cautiously down the hall, slipping her hand into pocket and fingering her wand. Don't be silly, she told herself. It's not like there are still Death Eaters on the loose, looking for victims. Ginny was still wary, though - it was hard to shake years of mental training, of constant vigilance. She approached the door slowly, keeping her hand in her pocket.
A shadowy figure lingered outside the small window in the door, but it was too dark for her to be able to distinguish if it were Ron or not. She wondered briefly if turning on a light now was wise - Oh, what the hell. She pulled her wand out and whispered, "Lumos!"
The head in the window turned sharply towards the light that emanated from her wand tip. Ginny cursed softly, and hesitated - something about the dark shape of the figure reminded her of something - rather, someone, though she couldn't place him or her. Him, she thought as she came closer, definitely a him. Who, though?
There was really only one way to find out. With a slightly shaky hand, Ginny reached for the doorknob, and turned the little bar. It made a small click, and the door creaked open slowly.
Ginny squinted at the man on her doorstep. Not Ron, no. Too short to be Ron, and a little too thin as well. Strangely familiar, particularly his hair - she could see the outline of a dark cowlick, begging to be brushed back. Ginny blinked, and her heart raced as the possibility sprung to her mind. Impossible - could - could it -?
�She lifted her wand to his face, and felt her heart leap into her throat.
"Hullo Ginny," said Harry Potter, breaking into a wide smile.
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CHESTNUT HILL, MA – During the 2012-2013 school year tennis will be conducted as a club activity.
Tennis court time will be made available to Pine Manor students who wish to continue to play tennis during the 2012-2013 school year by contacting the athletic department.
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