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James Baldwin
"If the concept of God has any use, it is to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God can't do that, it's time we got rid of him."
---Jimmy Baldwin
James Baldwin (Jimmy Baldwin) was an African American writer, novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, social critic, and civil rights activist. Baldwin's essays, such as the collection "Notes of a Native Son" (1955), explore palpable yet unspoken intricacies of racial, sexual, and class distinctions in Western societies, most notably in mid-20th-century America, vis-à-vis their inevitable, if unnameable tensions with personal identity, assumptions, uncertainties, yearning, and questing. Some Baldwin essays are book-length, for instance "The Fire Next Time" (1963), "No Name in the Street" (1972), and "The Devil Finds Work" (1976).
His novels and plays fictionalize fundamental personal questions and dilemmas amid complex social and psychological pressures thwarting the equitable integration of not only blacks but also of male homosexuals. He depicted as well, some internalized impediments to such individuals' quest for acceptance, in particular, his second novel, "Giovanni's Room" (1956), which was written well before the equality of homosexuals became widely espoused in America. Baldwin's best-known novel is his first novel, "Go Tell It on the Mountain" (1953).
When Baldwin was an infant, his mother Emma Berdis Jones divorced his father because of drug abuse and moved to Harlem, New York, where she married a preacher, David Baldwin. The family was very poor. James spent much time caring for his several younger brothers and sisters. At age ten, he was beaten by a gang of police officers. His adoptive father, whom James, in essays, simply called his father, appears to have treated James—versus James's siblings—with singular harshness.
His stepfather died with tuberculosis in summer of 1943 soon before James turned 19. The day of the funeral was James's 19th birthday and also the day his father's last child was born. It was also a day in which Harlem rioted and the portrait opening his essay "Notes of a Native Son". The quest to answer or explain familial and social repudiation—and attain a sense of self both coherent and benevolent—became a motif in Baldwin's writing.
James attended the prestigious, mostly Jewish DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx where, along with Richard Avedon, he worked on the school magazine. Baldwin was its literary editor. After high school, Baldwin studied at The New School, where he found an intellectual community.
James Baldwin, "No Name in the Street" (1972)
At age 14, Baldwin joined the Pentecostal Church and became a Pentecostal preacher. The difficulties of life, as well as his abusive stepfather, who was a preacher, delivered him to the church. During a euphoric prayer meeting, Baldwin converted, and soon became junior minister at the Fireside Pentecostal Assembly. He drew larger crowds than his father did.
At 17, Baldwin came to view Christianity as falsely premised, however, and later regarded his time in the pulpit as a remedy to his personal crises. Still, his church experience significantly shaped his worldview and writing. For him, "being in the pulpit was like being in the theatre; I was behind the scenes and knew how the illusion was worked." Baldwin once visited Elijah Muhammad, founder of the Nation of Islam, who inquired about Baldwin's religious beliefs. He answered, "I left the church 20 years ago and haven't joined anything since." Elijah asked, "And what are you now?" Baldwin explained, "I? Now? Nothing. I'm a writer. I like doing things alone." (Baldwin viewed Muhammad's religious beliefs, too, as misguided.)
Still, Baldwin was recorded singing 'Precious Lord', a gospel song by Thomas A. Dorsey. And although he criticized Christianity for, as he explained, "reinforcing the system of American slavery by palliating the pangs of oppression," he praised religion for inspiring some American blacks to defy oppression. Baldwin once wrote, "If the concept of God has any use, it is to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God can't do that, it's time we got rid of him." However, Baldwin have never seemingly identified himself as atheist.
When Baldwin was 15, his high-school running buddy, Emile Capouya, skipped school one day and, in Greenwich Village, met one Beauford Delaney, a painter. Emile gave James the address, and suggested a visit. James, who worked at a sweatshop nearby on Canal Street and dreaded going home after school, visited Beauford—at 181 Greene Street. Beauford would become a mentor to James. According to James, this was his first realization that a black person could be an artist. And so his social life in the Village began. While working odd jobs, he wrote short stories, essays, and book reviews, some of them collected in the volume "Notes of a Native Son" (1955).
James Baldwin, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1955
Baldwin's expatriation
During his teenage years in Harlem and Greenwich Village, Baldwin began to recognize his own homosexuality. In 1948, disillusioned by American prejudice against blacks and homosexuals, Baldwin left the United States for Paris, France. His flight was not just a desire to distance himself from American prejudice. He also fled in order to see himself and his writing beyond an African American context and to be read as not "merely a Negro; or, even, merely a Negro writer". He left the United States desiring to come to terms with his sexual ambivalence and to flee the hopelessness that many young African American homosexual men like himself had succumbed to in New York.
In Paris, Baldwin was soon involved in the cultural radicalism of the Left Bank. His work started to be published in literary anthologies, notably Zero, which was edited by his friend Themistocles Hoetis and which had already published essays by Richard Wright. He would live as an expatriate in France for most of his later life. He would also spend some time in Switzerland and Turkey. During his life and after it, Baldwin would be seen not only as an influential African American writer but also as an influential exile writer, particularly because of his numerous experiences outside of the United States and the impact of these experiences on Baldwin's life and his writing.
Literary career
James Baldwin with Shakespeare by Allan Warren
In 1953, Baldwin's first novel, "Go Tell It on the Mountain", a semi-autobiographical bildungsroman, was published. Baldwin's first collection of essays, "Notes of a Native Son" appeared two years later. Baldwin continued to experiment with literary forms throughout his career, publishing poetry and plays as well as the fiction and essays for which he would become well known.
Baldwin's second novel, "Giovanni's Room" stirred controversy when it was first published in 1956 due to its explicit homoerotic content. Baldwin was again resisting labels with the publication of this work: despite the reading public's expectations that he would publish works dealing with the African American experience, "Giovanni's Room" is predominantly about white characters. Baldwin's next two novels, "Another Country" and "Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone", are sprawling, experimental works dealing with black and white characters and with heterosexual, homosexual, and bisexual characters. These novels struggled to contain the turbulence of the 1960s as they are saturated with a sense of violent unrest and outrage.
James Baldwin, Giovanni's Room
Baldwin's lengthy essay "Down at the Cross" (frequently called "The Fire Next Time" after the title of the book in which it was published) similarly showed the seething discontent of the 1960s in novel form. The essay was originally published in two oversized issues of The New Yorker, and it landed Baldwin on the cover of Time magazine in 1963 while he was touring the South, speaking about the Civil Rights movement. The essay talked about the uneasy relationship between Christianity and the burgeoning Black Muslim movement. Baldwin's next book-length essay, "No Name in the Street", also discussed his own experience in the context of the later 1960s, specifically the assassinations of three of his personal friends: Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King, Jr.
Baldwin's writings of the 1970s and 1980s have been largely overlooked by critics, though even these texts are beginning to receive attention. Eldridge Cleaver's vicious homophobic attack on Baldwin in "Soul on Ice", and Baldwin's return to southern France contributed to the sense that he was not in touch with his readership. Always true to his own convictions rather than to the tastes of others, Baldwin continued to write what he wanted to write. His two novels written in the 1970s, "If Beale Street Could Talk" and "Just Above My Head", placed a strong emphasis on the importance of black families, and he concluded his career by publishing a volume of poetry, "Sonny's Blues", as well as another book-length essay, "The Evidence of Things Not Seen", which was an extended meditation inspired by the Atlanta Child Murders of the early 1980s.
Social and political activism
Baldwin returned to the United States in the summer of 1957 while the Civil Rights Act of that year was being debated in Congress. He had been powerfully moved by the image of a young girl braving a mob in an attempt to desegregate schools in Charlotte, N.C.. As well Partisan Review editor Philip Rahv had suggested he report on what was happening in the American south. Baldwin was nervous about the trip but he made it, interviewing people in Charlotte, Atlanta (where he met Martin Luther King), and Montgomery, and in Alabama. The result was two essays, one published in Harper's magazine ("The Hard Kind of Courage"), the other in Partisan Review ("Nobody Knows My Name"). Subsequent Baldwin articles on the movement appeared in Mademoiselle, Harper's, the New York Times Magazine, and the New Yorker, where in 1962 he published the essay he called "Down at the Cross" and the New Yorker called "Letter from a Region of My Mind". Along with a shorter essay from The Progressive, the essay became "The Fire Next Time".
While he wrote about the movement, Baldwin aligned himself with the ideals of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). In 1963 he conducted a lecture tour of the South for CORE, traveling to locations like Durham and Greensboro, North Carolina and New Orleans, Louisiana. During the tour, he lectured to students, white liberals, and anyone else listening about his racial ideology, an ideological position between the "muscular approach" of Malcolm X and the nonviolent program of Martin Luther King Jr..
By the Spring of 1963, Baldwin had become so much a spokesman for the Civil Rights Movement that for its May 17 issue on the turmoil in Birmingham, Alabama, Time magazine placed James Baldwin on the cover. "There is not another writer," said Time, "who expresses with such poignancy and abrasiveness the dark realities of the racial ferment in North and South."
James Baldwin, Time magazine May 17, 1963 issue
In a cable Baldwin sent to Attorney General Robert Kennedy during the crisis, Baldwin blamed the violence in Birmingham on the FBI, J.Edgar Hoover, Mississippi Senator James O. Eastland, and President Kennedy for "failing to use the great prestige of his office as the moral forum which it can be." Attorney General Kennedy invited Baldwin to meet with him over breakfast. That meeting was followed up with a second, when Kennedy met with Baldwin and others in Kennedy's Manhattan apartment. The delegation included Kenneth Clark, a sociologist who had played a key role in the Brown v. Board of Education decision, actor Harry Belafonte, singer Lena Horne, writer Lorraine Hansberry, and activists from the civil rights organizations. Although most of the attendees of this meeting left feeling "devastated," the meeting was an important one in voicing the concerns of the civil rights movement and it provided exposure of the civil rights issue not just as a political issue but also as a moral issue.
Baldwin also made a prominent appearance at the Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C. on August 28, 1963, with Belafonte and long time friends Sidney Poitier and Marlon Brando.
James Baldwin and Marlon Brando on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial
After a bomb exploded in a Birmingham church not long after the March on Washington, Baldwin called for a nationwide campaign of civil disobedience in response to this "terrifying crisis." He traveled to Selma, Alabama, where SNCC had organized a voter registration drive, and he watched mothers with babies and elderly men and women standing in long lines for hours, as armed deputies and state troopers stood by or intervened to smash a reporter's camera or use cattle prods on SNCC workers. After his day of watching, Baldwin spoke in a crowded church, blaming Washington - "the good white people on the hill." Returning to Washington, he told a New York Post reporter that the federal government could protect Negroes—it could send federal troops into the South. He blamed the Kennedys for not acting. In March 1964, Baldwin joined marchers who walked 50 miles from Selma, Alabama, to the capitol in Montgomery under the protection of federal troops.
Nonetheless, he rejected the label civil rights activist, or that he had participated in a civil rights movement, instead agreeing with Malcolm X's assertion that, "if one is a citizen, one should not have to fight for one's civil rights". In a 1979 speech at UC Berkeley, he called it, instead, "the latest slave rebellion." In 1968, Baldwin signed the "Writers and Editors War Tax Protest" pledge, vowing to refuse tax payments in protest against the Vietnam War.
Richard Wright (1908-1960) photographed in 1939 by Carl Van Vechten
Inspiration and relationships
A great influence on Baldwin was the painter Beauford Delaney. In "The Price of the Ticket" (1985), Baldwin describes Delaney as "the first living proof, for me, that a black man could be an artist. In a warmer time, a less blasphemous place, he would have been recognized as my teacher and I as his pupil. He became, for me, an example of courage and integrity, humility and passion. An absolute integrity: I saw him shaken many times and I lived to see him broken but I never saw him bow."
Later support came from Richard Wright, whom Baldwin called "the greatest black writer in the world." Wright and Baldwin became friends, and Wright helped Baldwin secure the Eugene F. Saxon Memorial Award. Baldwin's essay "Notes of a Native Son" and his essay collection Notes of a Native Son allude to Wright's novel Native Son. In Baldwin's 1949 essay "Everybody's Protest Novel", however, Baldwin indicated that "Native Son", like Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, lacked credible characters and psychological complexity, and the two authors' friendship deteriorated in bad blood and suspicion. Interviewed by Julius Lester, however, Baldwin explained, "I knew Richard and I loved him. I was not attacking him; I was trying to clarify something for myself."
Writers James Baldwin and Lorraine Hansberry.
In 1949 Baldwin met and fell in love with Lucien Happersberger, age 17, though Happersberger's marriage three years later left Baldwin distraught. Baldwin was a close friend of the singer, pianist, and civil rights activist Nina Simone. With Langston Hughes and Lorraine Hansberry, Baldwin helped awaken Simone to the civil rights movement then gelling. Baldwin also offered her with literary references influential on her later work.
Baldwin influenced the work of French painter Philippe Derome, whom he met in Paris in the early 1960s. Baldwin also knew Jean-Paul Sartre, Jean Genet (with whom he campaigned on behalf of the Black Panther Party), Lee Strasberg, Elia Kazan, Rip Torn, Alex Haley, Miles Davis, Amiri Baraka, Martin Luther King, Jr., Margaret Mead, Josephine Baker, Allen Ginsberg and Maya Angelou. Angelou called Baldwin her "friend and brother", and credited him for "setting the stage" for her 1969 autobiography "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings".
Early on December 1, 1987 (some sources say late on November 30) Baldwin died from stomach cancer in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France at age 63. He was buried at the Ferncliff Cemetery in Hartsdale, near New York City.
Baldwin's influence on other writers has been profound: Toni Morrison edited the Library of America two volume editions of Baldwin's fiction and essays, and a recent collection of critical essays links these two writers. One of Baldwin's richest short stories, "Sonny's Blues", appears in many anthologies of short fiction used in introductory college literature classes. In 1987, Kevin Brown, a photo-journalist from Baltimore, founded the National James Baldwin Literary Society. The group organizes free public events celebrating Baldwin's life and legacy.
In 1992, Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts, established the James Baldwin Scholars program, an urban outreach initiative in honor of Baldwin, who taught at Hampshire in the early 1980s. The JBS Program provides talented students of color from underserved communities an opportunity to develop and improve the skills necessary for college success through coursework and tutorial support for one transitional year, after which Baldwin scholars may apply for full matriculation to Hampshire or any other four-year college program.
In 2002, scholar Molefi Kete Asante listed James Baldwin on his list of 100 Greatest African Americans. In 2005 the USPS created a first-class postage stamp dedicated to him which featured him on the front, and on the back of the peeling paper had a short biography.
James Baldwin (right of center) with Hollywood actors Charlton Heston and Marlon Brando at the 1963 Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C. Sidney Poitier (rear) and Harry Belafonte (right of Brando) can also be seen in the crowd.
- Go Tell It on the Mountain(semi-autobiographical novel; 1953)
- The Amen Corner(play; 1954)
- Notes of a Native Son(essays; 1955)
- Giovanni's Room(novel; 1956)
- Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son(essays; 1961)
- Another Country(novel; 1962)
- A Talk to Teachers(essay; 1963)
- The Fire Next Time(essays; 1963)
- Blues for Mister Charlie(play; 1964)
- Going to Meet the Man(stories; 1965)
- Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone(novel; 1968)
- No Name in the Street(essays; 1972)
- If Beale Street Could Talk(novel; 1974)
- The Devil Finds Work(essays; 1976)
- Just Above My Head(novel; 1979)
- Jimmy's Blues(poems; 1983)
- The Evidence of Things Not Seen(essays; 1985)
- The Price of the Ticket(essays; 1985)
- Harlem Quartet(novel; 1987)
- The Cross of Redemption: Uncollected Writings(essays; 2010)
- Together with others:
- Nothing Personal(withRichard Avedon, photography) (1964)
- A Rap on Race(withMargaret Mead) (1971)
- One Day When I Was Lost(orig.: A. Haley; 1972)
- A Dialogue(withNikki Giovanni)(1973)
- Little Man Little Man: A Story of Childhood(withYoran Cazac, 1976)
- Native Sons(withSol Stein, 2004)
- Public Broadcasting Service."James Baldwin: About the author".American Masters. 29 November 2006.
- Jean-François Gounardoo, Joseph J. Rodgers (1992).The Racial Problem in the Works of Richard Wright and James Baldwin. Greenwood Press.p. 158, pp. 148-200
- Baldwin J,Notes of a native son.
- Staff."Richard Avedon",The Daily Telegraph, 2 Oct 2004 (accessed 14 Sep 2009). "He also edited the school magazine at DeWitt Clinton High, on which the black American writer James' Baldwin was literary editor."
- Chireau Y. James "Baldwin's God: Sex, Hope and Crisis in Black Holiness Culture."Church History.December 2005;74(4):883-884.
- James Baldwin,The Fire Next Time(New York: Vintage Books, 1993 (orig Dial Press, 1963)),p 37.
- Baldwin, James (1963).The Fire Next Time. Down At The Cross—Letter from a Region of My Mind: Vintage.
- "James Baldwin Wrote About Race and Identity in America". voanews.com.
- "Blacks say atheists were unseen civil rights heroes". USATODAY.com.
- Baldwin, James.The Price of the Ticket: Collected Nonfiction, 1948-1985(New York: St Martin's Press, 1985),"The price of the ticket", p ix.
- James Baldwin, "The Discovery of What it Means to be an American," inThe Price of the Ticket: Collected Nonfiction, 1948-1985(New York:St. Martin's Marek, 1985), 171.
- James Baldwin, "Fifth Avenue, Uptown" inThe Price of the Ticket: Collected Nonfiction, 1948-1985(New York: St. Martin's/Marek, 1985), 206.
- Zero: a review of literature and art, Issues 1-7. Arno Press, A New York Times Company. 1974.ISBN0-405-01753-7. Retrieved 2010-04-04.
- "James Baldwin,"MSN Encarta.Archived2009-10-31.
- Zaborowska, Magdalena (2008).James Baldwin's Turkish Decade: Erotics of Exile. Duke University Press.ISBN0-8223-4144-1.
- Field, Douglas. Passing as a Cold War novel : anxiety and assimilation in James Baldwin's Giovanni's room. In: American Cold War culture / edited by Douglas Field. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2005.
- Lawrie Balfour (2001).The Evidence of Things Not Said: James Baldwin and the Promise of American Democracy. Cornell University Press.ISBN978-0-8014-8698-2.page 51
- Miller, D. Quentin.James BaldwinAmerican Writers Retrospective Supplement II, ed. Jay Parini. Scribner's, 2003, 1-17
- Paul Goodman (1962-06-24)."Not Enough of a World to Grow In (review of Another Country)". The New York Times.
- Sheldon Binn (1963-01-31)."Reivew ofThe Fire Next Time". The New York Times.
- Altman, Elias (May 2, 2011)."Watered Whiskey: James Baldwin's Uncollected Writings".The Nation.
- Carol Polsgrove,Divided Minds: Intellectuals and the Civil Rights Movement(2001), pp. 94-99, 155-156.
- David Leeming,James Baldwin: A Biography(New York: Henry Holt, 1994), 134.
- Carol Polsgrove,Divided Minds," p. 175.
- Carol Polsgrove, "Divided Minds," pp. 176-180.
- David Leeming,James Baldwin: A Biography
- "A Brando timeline". Chicago Sun-Times. 3 July 2004. Retrieved 30 November 2010.
- Carol Polsgrove,Divided Minds, p. 191, 195-198.
- Carol Polsgrove,Divided Minds,p. 236.
- "Lecture at UC Berkeley".
- "Writers and Editors War Tax Protest" January 30, 1968New York Post
- Michelle M. Wright '"Alas, Poor Richard!": Transatlantic Baldwin, The Politics of Forgetting, and the Project of Modernity',James Baldwin Now, ed. Dwight A. McBride, New York University Press, 1999, page 208
- "Baldwin Reflections". New York Times.
- Winston Wilde,Legacies of Lovep.93
- Leeming, David A. (1994).James Baldwin: A Biography. Knopf. pp. 442.ISBN0-394-57708-6.
- Angelou, Maya (1987-12-20)."A brother's love".The New York Times. Retrieved 2008-10-08.
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- Out,14, Here Publishing, Feb 2006, p. 32,ISSN1062-7928, "Baldwin died of stomach cancer in St. Paul de Vence, France, on December 1, 1987."
- James Baldwin, Eloquent Writer In Behalf of Civil Rights, Is Dead,The New York Times, December 2, 1987
- Asante, Molefi Kete (2002). 100 Greatest African Americans: A Biographical Encyclopedia. Amherst, New York. Prometheus Books.ISBN 1-57392-963-8.
Published as
- Early Novels & Stories: Go Tell It on the Mountain, Giovanni's Room, Another Country, Going to Meet the Man(Toni Morrison, ed.) (Library of America, 1998)ISBN 978-1-883011-51-2.
- Collected Essays: Notes of a Native Son, Nobody Knows My Name, The Fire Next Time, No Name in the Street, The Devil Finds Work, Other Essays(Toni Morrison, ed.) (Library of America, 1998)ISBN 978-1-883011-52-9
Other links
- Wikimedia Commons has media related to: James Baldwin
- Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: James Baldwin
- Altman, Elias. "Watered Whiskey: James Baldwin's Uncollected Writings" April 13, 2011.The Nation.
- From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Jordan Elgrably (Spring 1984)."James Baldwin, The Art of Fiction No. 78".Paris Review.
- Gwin, Minrose. "Southernspaces.org" March 11, 2008.Southern Spaces
- James Baldwin Photographs and PapersSelected manuscripts, correspondence, and photographic portraits from theBeinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University
- Works by or about James Baldwinin libraries (WorldCatcatalog)
- Comprehensive Resource of James Baldwin Information
- James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticketdistributed by California Newsreel
- "An Open Letter to My Sister, Angela Y. Davis" by James Baldwin
- Baldwin'sAmerican Masterspage
- James BaldwinatC-SPAN'sAmerican Writers: A Journey Through History
- Baldwin in the Literary Encyclopedia
- Audio files of speeches and interviews at UC Berkeley
- See Baldwin's 1963 filmTake This Hammer, made withRichard O. Moore, about Blacks in San Francisco in the late 1950s.
- Video: Baldwin debate with William F. Buckley (via UC Berkeley Media Resources Center)
- Discussion with Afro-American Studies Dept. at UC Berkeley
- Guardian Books "Author Page", with profile and links to further articles
- The James Baldwin Collective in Paris, France
- Transcript of interview with Dr. Kenneth Clark
- James Baldwinat theInternet Movie Database
- James BaldwinatFind a Grave


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Japan in 2010 accounted for 13.9 percent of all global electronic equipment factory revenue, according to a preliminary IHS iSuppli estimate. This includes manufacturing of all electronic equipment, including computers, consumer electronics devices and communications gear. Japan produced $216.6 billion worth of electronic equipment in 2010, compared to $1.6 billion worldwide.
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Japanese suppliers accounted for more than one fifth of global semiconductor production in 2010. Companies headquartered in Japan generated $63.3 billion in microchip revenue in 2010, representing 20.8 percent of the worldwide market. While not all of this actual production is located in Japan a large percentage is produced in manufacturing facilities in Japan.
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A. That's a very good question, and one that many romance writers struggle with each novel they write. It's important to remember that chemistry has key components: sexual attraction, intellectual common ground, emotional connection and emotional conflict. It's not excessive mental lusting and sex scene for the sake of just having a sex scene. I always look for ways in which the characters shake each other's world to the foundation. I like it when they challenge each other… among other things.
Q. Your brief summary of North Star alludes to a villain or villains so is the story a mystery?
A. No it's a romance with some suspense elements. I mean it's not John Gresham and the story focuses more on the relationship of Caresse and Graham.
Q. In your blog you spoke about critiquing other writers of RWA, doesn't it make more sense to have only published authors critique unpublished writers?
A. No way! Everyone's feedback is vital because all types of people read romance novels. If you are an active romance reader, and most published and unpublished romance novelists are, then you know when a passage is confusing, or if the pacing is inconsistent or even if the characters are likable. A writer should never limit the critique to just published writers because good feedback can come from the most unexpected places.
Q. What will be the next novel after South Beach is finished?
A. Well I haven't decided yet. I think I'll be closer to knowing the answer to that question when I'm on the final chapters of South Beach but I promise to keep you updated. I hope to have North Star published before I begin to outline m third novel.


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Former Conference Youth Director Gerald (Jerry) Wrenn Passes
February 05, 2016
Gerald Emmett Wrenn
Jan. 21, 1952 - Jan. 31, 2016
Resident of Hayward
Wrenn served as the California-Nevada Conference Youth Director from 1990 to 1994.
Jerry grew up in Castro Valley, living the typical life of the Bay Area post-war baby boom generation: Little League, Boy Scouts, Sunday School, Giants baseball, developing a life-long love of super hero comics and baseball memorabilia.
He held a variety of jobs over the years but most enjoyed his work with children and youth as a youth director and early childhood associate teacher. He was a proud veteran of the US Army.
An ardent progressive, Jerry was a strong believer in volunteer work and helped a large variety of organizations over the years including the Boy Scouts of America, the South Hayward Parish Food Bank, LGBT causes and Walnut Creek Bus Stop program. He was a lifelong Methodist and an active member of Walnut Creek United Methodist Church.
He is survived by his beloved wife and best friend of 32 years, Joan Wrenn of Hayward; son Michael, daughters Elizabeth, Erryn Yaacobi and her husband Zohar; mother-in-law Faith Richardson; sister Nancy Edelhuber, and sisters-in-law Marsha and Marla Richardson. He was the adored Grandpa Jerry to Joshua, Jacob, Jaret and Jed Harrington, Jaret's wife Ariel and many others he welcomed into his life and considered family. He was preceded in death by parents Emmett and Betty Wrenn, and his stepson Drew Harrington.
A memorial service will be held on Saturday, February 6, 2016 at 2 p.m., at Walnut Creek United Methodist Church, 1543 Sunnyvale Ave., Walnut Creek, with reception to follow at the church. In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations to an organization of your choice.


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Blu-Ray wins on Black Friday week.
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Where are you pricing PS3's?
The top of the line (80G) is $499 with a free game included.
The 40G is $399 with a free movie included.
Oh yea you also get 5 free Blu-Ray movies by mail with both of them.
I'm thinking there are a lot more people with PS3's that know about Blu-Rays that is being reported, for one the 40G comes with a Blu-Ray movie & unless they take the hardware out & toss everything else there is a lot of Blu-Ray info in the box & fliers about the 5 free movies.
As for the games they are great & getting better, it takes a while to learn how to best use the PS3's hardware & now that it's been out a year those games are coming out & will blow away the competition.
Why would I want to tie up my computer for several days to download a 2 hour HD movie?
We are what, 7-10 years away from having a fast enough internet in the states to support HD movie downloads.
Ah, ha... this is where being a techie comes in: Its not in the states yet but just wait. Technology is growing at a blistering pace. You can't keep up with the latest and greatest computer - you just try to stay real close. Here's a news flash.
"Sigbritt Löthberg's home has been supplied with a blistering 40 Gigabits per second connection, many thousands of times faster than the average residential link and the first time ever that a home user has experienced such a high speed."
This person could download a full lenght HD movie in 2 seconds. Here's the link to the rest of the story
I also have inside information about AT&T - they will be soon offering fiber connections to residential customers and it won't take 7-10 years - think more like 2 to 3 for saturation. I work on a T3 connection at work - and according to the rep, what they plan to do will make T3 look like DSL. Stay posted Moose, something wickedly fast this way comes.
As for my PS3 pricing I forgot about the recent discounts and price slashing. The pricing that I ref'd was 60gb/$599 the 80gb/$699 therefore my conclusion (I was actually refering to early adopters who paid top price for their units and what I could do with that type of money).
As far as games go - PS3 doesn't get it - it goes like this
1. Gameplay and fun factor
2. Graphics
3. sound
PS3 didn't get the first rule right with gamers. Eye candy is great but when the game play lags - that's bad. Nothing against the PS3 but it seems more like a swiss army knife, good at a lot of things but there's better out there. Enjoy your PS3 though - its not for everyone but its just right for some (as evident by their sales - figures generally don't lie)
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Its time, the big 7th Annual RoadWar NW, and Star Car Concours Classic show is shifting into gear.
Again the main event is hosted at the LeMay Family Foundation Museum. We am puting the word out to all the Costumed Wastelanders & MFP, as well as all the MFP, Vermin, and toher Move & TV Starcar owners and fans.
Particularly all of our fellow IMTVOA, Star Car Central, Cinema Classics, and AMCA members
who expressed serious interest in showing at, or may want to attend the
event. You can count on the Usual Interceptor and XA Bat among all the starcars of course.
The 2013 RoadWar NWStar Car Concurs Classic is coming up in just a few short months
now, so we need to finalize the roster and reserve our spaces shortly.
Also arrangements need to be made for awards and some fun giveaways, so we
need our total number.
As usual, you can find the basic details and a small file of the poster on our events page here:
If you need a large file or hard copies of the poster, just ask and it can be provided.
Please let me know if you would still like a place reserved for your car,
we would love to have you join us.
We will look forward to seeing you there.


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"The unemployment rate is more than 25% in Spain. "
Really? I heard from friends in Europe that it is closer to 50%.
I know how they feel. In Texas we have a bum rush of
foreigners from other states. A native Texan in Texas is
as rare as a Mexican with liability insurance around here.
And all with their "that aint how we do it up north" crap.
The UK must be made of money and have a surplus of jobs.
Press 3 for English.
I'd rather have Spaniards and Italians over muzzies.


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Pecos airport manager loves her job
Published 8:45 am, Thursday, August 11, 2011
You might expect the manager of the Bill Hubbs Airport in Pecos to be a big, rough-talking guy wearing a leather jacket and chomping on a cigar. This is hardly the case. The manager is a woman who weighs about a 100 pounds and is dressed like she's on a picnic.
Actually, that's what she considers her job: a picnic. She loves it. Her name is Isabel Blanchard. She is not from these parts.
"Across the pond and then some," she said. "I was born in Tanzania and raised in Kenya, on the east coast of Africa. I came to the states because of opportunity. They say go west, so I did and here I am 30 years later."
She still carries that lilting accent common to people who speak the King's English. She got interested in flying about the time she was learning to drive.
"When I was 18, I took my father to the airport in Mombasa, Kenya. While we were waiting for his flight, just out of the blue I told him I would really like to learn how to fly. He sat down his newspaper, looked at me and said, 'we'll have to organize that.' I learned to fly in Kenya, got my private pilot's license and the instructor suggested I do further study in the U.S. if I wanted to make a living flying."
She learned about a flight school in South Carolina that had an intensive course that lasted six months. She did class work in the mornings, flew in the afternoons and was certified in several levels of flying. When she finished the school she sent out 200 job applications.
"I got an answer from somebody in Beaumont that had a flight school. So I got on a Greyhound bus and went there. They hired me and I worked there for a while. A friend of mine from El Paso told me there were good opportunities in West Texas, so I put out some feelers and ended up in Monahans to teach flying. I arrived with my blue Samsonite suitcase and $113 to my name. After working awhile I started freelancing. I leased an aircraft, then bought an aircraft. I was a flight instructor and pilot for hire. Anybody who needed a pilot, I was there."
An older couple had been managing the airport in Pecos for 13 years. She helped them for a couple of years, then they retired.
"I put in my bid to manage the airport, along with 14 other people. I think the city council took a big risk. I was all of 23, a foreigner, a young girl and they gave me a chance. This was in 1985."
Isabel has developed all sorts of programs for young people with the intent of one day getting them in the pilot's seat.
"I have some 300 kindergarten children out here every year. We put every one of them in the cockpit of a small Cessna. They sit in the airplane, use the controls, look around the airport and visit the hangars. Years later, some of those kids who are graduating from high school come out here to learn how to fly."


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I was considering applying for a concealed carry permit. Then when my investigating informed me it would cost as much as possibly $400, I just decided it wasn�t right to have to pay to defend my wife and myself.
Our government bodies provide food, housing, medical care and transportation for those who can�t afford the cost. Most of these people live in areas of low income and high crime. These are the people who need to need to protect themselves and yet they are less likely to get that opportunity.
Surely our government doesn�t believe only those who can afford the purchasing and training of firearms are the only ones worth being safe in the culture they�ve created with their governing.
Robert D. Sinclair


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What does a Photo Researcher do?
Pages and pages of black text can be hard on the eye. Scattering in a few images of smiling children or scampering puppies can make even the most dense report seem friendlier, and it can compel people to read those words the Writer slaved over for hours. That's where a Photo Researcher comes in. A Photo Researcher finds those photos and secures the rights to use them.
As a Photo Researcher for a large company, you may have a Photo Research Manager who assigns projects for you to work on. But if you work for a small company, or if you work for yourself, you need to hustle up your own projects and manage your own time.
At the beginning of a project, you meet with the Writer or the Publisher to discuss what images are needed. In order to do the job properly, you need to know whether the project will be published on paper or on the Web, whether the photographs should be in color or black-and-white format, and how large the artwork should be. In addition, you need to determine what sorts of images the text requires.
Searching for photos can take days or even weeks. Online databases may hold thousands of images, but they may not always be appropriate or available. Sometimes, you may even need to hire Photographers to take pictures for you.
Some images must be published with tiny credits, while others must be purchased. As you work, you keep detailed notes about these permissions, and you hand over all of that information at the end of the project.


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Vote for the Worst
Type of site
|Entertainment website
|Created by
|Dave Della Terza
|Alexa rank
|1,236,303 (April 2014[update])[1]
|Current status
VoteForTheWorst.com (VFTW) was a website devoted to voting for the worst, most entertaining, most hated or quirkiest contestants on the Fox Network television series American Idol as well as the NBC Network television series The Voice. Smaller campaigns have also been started on the site for CTV's Canadian Idol, Fox's On the Lot and The Next Great American Band, NBC's America's Got Talent, and ABC's Dancing with the Stars. The website was started in 2004 during the third season of American Idol. Vote for the Worst also had a weekly radio show that has featured guests such as Ayla Brown, Trenyce,[2] Leslie Hunt,[3] Steffi DiDomenicantonio,[4] Alex Wagner-Trugman and Todrick Hall. The site closed down in June 2013.[5]
- 1 History
- 2 Expansion to other shows
- 3 Reaction from American Idol
- 4 VFTW-supported contestants
- 5 See also
- 6 References
- 7 External links
VFTW started at the Survivor Sucks message board[6] and moved to a GeoCities website during season three of American Idol. The very first VFTW pick during Season 3 was Jennifer Hudson, dubbed "Boomquisha Santiago" or just "Boomie," during the semi-finals, but the site never picked her again as she improved in further weeks.[7] When Hudson sang "Circle of Life" during finals, the camera went to a shot of Hudson's family members, with a cousin who sat with her arms folded while the others cheered. This cousin was dubbed "Whatevia," the namesake of VFTW's annual awards. The site began to upset regular Idol viewers with their support of John Stevens and Jasmine Trias, but it was largely unknown to the general public at this time.
During American Idol's fourth season, the site moved to its own domain name. VFTW gained its first bit of notoriety when Scott Savol outlasted Constantine Maroulis in the top 6 of Idol's fourth season[8] and again appeared in the news when young crooner Kevin Covais made it to the top 11 in season five.[9]
Season six of American Idol became a turning point for the website due to its support of candidates Antonella Barba and Sanjaya Malakar. Vote for the Worst was one of the first websites to break the story about Antonella Barba's racy online pictures.[10] The site then made headlines by proving that the raciest pictures that appeared online (involving a Barba lookalike performing a sexual act) were not of Barba.[11] After Barba and Sundance Head (another VFTW candidate) were voted out of the competition, Vote for the Worst selected Sanjaya Malakar as their pick. Malakar went on to last 6 more weeks in the competition, becoming a cultural phenomenon while gaining momentum along the way with support from celebrities such as Howard Stern.[12] Entertainment Weekly called Malakar "the most popular Vote for the Worst candidate ever" and Malakar helped make Vote for the Worst a household name.[13]
Season seven of American Idol saw the site stir up some major controversies. As the season began, Vote for the Worst posted a blog that season seven was being stacked with contestants with prior music industry experience[14] and the controversy was picked up by news sources, including MTV, who decided to ask American Idol producer Ken Warwick about the issue.[15] The site went a step further to also prove that Randy Jackson, a judge on American Idol, was the vice president of A&R at MCA Records while Carly Smithson, a season 7 contestant, recorded an album there.[16] The second controversy started by the site was exposing contestant David Hernandez as a former gay stripper.[17] Outside all of the controversies, Vote for the Worst supported Kristy Lee Cook and Brooke White when more popular Carly Smithson was eliminated.[18]
During season eight of American Idol, Vote for the Worst's longest running contestant was Megan Joy,[19] a quirky singer from Utah who made bird noises.[20] The site also posted pictures of popular contestant Adam Lambert kissing another man,[21] leading the general public to question Adam's sexuality due to the fact that he had not discussed this topic on the show.[22] Bill O'Reilly ran Vote for the Worst's pictures of Adam during a news segment, but the show cropped the pictures to eliminate the actual kiss.[23]
During season nine, Tim Urban broke the record for Vote for the Worst's longest-running American Idol pick ever, as well as tying for longest pick ever with Jaydee Bixby of Canadian Idol Season 3. He remained their pick for nine weeks: from the top 24 to the top seven. He was eliminated in 7th—the same week as Sanjaya Malakar in Season 6. Michael Lynche was originally selected for Top 5 week, but after the performances, the website switched to Casey James, marking the first time the website had changed its mind on which contestant to vote for based on performance alone. VFTW chose Lee DeWyze for the finale, and he won. This supported VFTW's theory that a female will never win the show again. According to bloggers at VFTW, the seasons have resulted in "3, white, male, brunette, soft-rockers" winners in a row.
Vote for the Worst was successful during seasons ten and eleven, supporting the 4th and 5th "white guys with a guitar," Scotty McCreery and Phillip Phillips, to win the title in five years.
In January 2013, the site's creator, Dave Della Terza, announced that the site would be shutting down, but not before covering one final season of American Idol. The shutdown was planned for June 2013, though it was not specified whether the site would simply be discontinuing all updates and left behind as an archive, or whether it would disappear entirely.[5] As of April 2014, visiting the site results in a page indicating that the domain name has been "parked" with Go Daddy and is available for purchase.
Expansion to other shows[edit]
Because of the success of their American Idol campaign, Vote for the Worst has expanded its site to sometimes include other shows. The site helped support Casey Leblanc's 6 week run during Canadian Idol 3,[24] Jaydee Bixby's unprecedented 9 week "worst" run from the final 10 to the final 2 during Canadian Idol 5,[25] and Bristol Palin on Dancing with the Stars.
Vote for the Worst's mixed bag extends to other shows. The site had some success with a group like Light of Doom during The Next Great American Band,[26] but was unable to help others such as Boy Shakira during America's Got Talent.[27]
Not all of the shows mentioned on VFTW are in a bad way. The site is a big fan of America's Best Dance Crew and supported Fanny Pak in season 2. There was also an unofficial group that supported Dynamic Edition in season 3. There was also an unofficial group that supported Poreotix during season 5. Also there was an unofificial group that supported ICONic Boyz in the finale of season 6.
As of April 2, 2012, VFTW officially began including The Voice on their main page, along with American Idol. The Voice was given its own forum thread and the supported contestants were also given a place on the site's main banner, making it the only show that has received these honors since American Idol and the site's conception. When X Factor debuted in the U.S. in September 2011, Vote for the Worst expanded to it. The very first pick for them was teenage rapper Astro who they carried from the Top 12 to eliminate the entire year's groups category up until his elimination in the Top 7. After that they switched to Chris Rene during the Top 5 who they brought into the finale only to finish third place. In season 2 they started the live shows with Lyric145 from the Top 13 to their Top 12 elimination. Afterwards they started to vote for CeCe Frey from the Top 10 to the Top 6 where she was eliminated. Their final pick for the season was Tate Stevens who would carry on the WGWG tradition. They started voting in the Top 4 and put him through to the finale where he won.
Reaction from American Idol[edit]
American Idol producers rarely acknowledge the site, but Nigel Lythgoe, an executive producer, did issue a statement, calling Vote for the Worst "a fly buzzing around a cow" during season six of American Idol to play down any press the site had received about being influential.[28] In later seasons, Lythgoe has had a more playful repartee with the website, sending the site's Twitter account humorous tweets.[29] Legal action has been threatened against the website from fans of American Idol, but to date neither Fox nor the series have issued statements regarding any lawsuits.[30] Della Terza claims that lawyers involved with the program have contacted him twice about filing a lawsuit, but nothing has yet been filed against the site.[31]
While many American Idol fans claim Vote for the Worst promotes hate speech and bullying on their message boards and online comments, some lesser known contestants from American Idol, have embraced the site. Josiah Leming, a contestant from season 7, is a member of the website and gave an interview to their weekly radio show.[32] Chris Sligh, a season 6 contestant, gave a shoutout to site creator Della Terza during the top 11 performance show by saying "Hi, Dave."[33] Sligh and fellow contestant Phil Stacey have also posted on the site's message board,[34][35] along with many other former contestants such as Brenna Gethers,[36] Chris Labelle,[37] Phuong Pham,[38] and Montana Martin Iles.[39] Season 7 finalist Amanda Overmyer has also been vocal about her support of the website.[40] Even season 9 runner-up Crystal Bowersox has posted on American Idol's Facebook and Twitter that she loves VFTW.[41]
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Season 5
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Dancing With The Stars[edit]
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I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here![edit]
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John Anderson
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John Anderson
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etching and aquatint, published 16 August 1821
11 5/8 in. x 8 3/4 in. (297 mm x 223 mm) plate size; 14 in. x 10 in. (360 mm x 260 mm) paper size
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Described by the Dalai Lama as "one of the greatest thinkers of the age", Jiddu Krishnamurti has influenced millions throughout the 20th century, including Aldous Huxley, Bertrand Russell, Henry Miller and Joseph Campbell.
Born of middle-class Brahmin parents in 1895, Krishnamurti was recognized at age fourteen by theosophists Annie Besant and C W Leadbetter as an anticipated world teacher and proclaimed to be the vehicle for the reincarnation of Christ in the West and of Buddha in the East. In 1929 he repudiated these claims and travelled the world, sharing his philosophical insights and establishing schools and foundations.
Because Krishnamurti had no interest in presenting theories, his thought is far removed from academic philosophy in the analytic tradition, yet his insights remain extremely relevant to contemporary philosophical theories and to those interested in understanding themselves and the world. Rather than a theorist, Krishnamurti is regarded as a seer and a teacher. He perceived inherent distorting psychological structures that bring about a division in the individual's consciousness between "the observer" and "the observed". He believed this division was a potent source of conflict, both within the individual and externally for society as a whole, and offered a way to transcend these harmful structures through a radical transformation in human consciousness.
This is a collection of Krishnamurti's writings and lectures about the individual in relation to society. He examines the importance of inquiry, the role of the emotions, the relation between experience and the self, the observer/observed distinction, the nature of freedom, and other philosophical ideas.
©1997 Krishnamurti Foundation of America and Krishnamurti Foundation Trust, Ltd. (P)2014 Redwood Audiobooks
"Neti neti!"
[{ "answer" : "Probably not. Not for some time at least. This is not to say it was not extremely illuminating, but to listen again would defeat the purpose of the work - for me at least, as the message is delivered loud and clear, piece by piece into a congruent whole and repetition would seem to me to be an exercise in cataloging and memorising for rather flaccid intellectual whimsy. The whole point seems to be to not merely read and to pat yourself on the back for intellectually understanding, but rather to do, to investigate for yourself.
The purpose of the collection seems to be to break down the psychological components of the ego driven self - desire, fear, ambition, anger, jealousy, sorrow and above all conflict, in order to see what lays beyond. Not to repudiate and dismiss them through the forms of denial offered in the numerous methods which are probably familiar to anyone picking this book up in the first place, but rather to acknowledge them as an inescapable part of you and by simply observing them - neither accepting nor condemning, filtering or interpreting them through the medium of thought based on prejudicial memory, then they cease to become objectified and external, and thereby, apparently, cease.
What this leaves you with I have no more idea than I did when i first started listening to the book. I have read Krishnamurti several times over the years but I feel that in the listening I was more able to understand the clarity of the points, reiterated again and again in differing forms but always returning to the central point.
It still leaves big questions, but leaves you with the feeling that many of the ways you have previously sought fulfillment to these answers are somewhat childish and probably raise more obstacles than they lower. Do you yearn to perfect the art of Yoga, follow the path of the Buddha, to imitate Christ, to understand the Tao? Perhaps that is part of the reason you never will!", "type" : "Overall", "question" : "Would you listen to Krishnamurti: Reflections on the Self again? Why?", "id" : 235, "typeString" : "overall" }, { "answer" : "Not really applicable! The book should be taken as a whole.", "type" : "Story", "question" : "What was one of the most memorable moments of Krishnamurti: Reflections on the Self?", "id" : 197, "typeString" : "story" }, { "answer" : "I haven't listened to him before. I found the description in one review of his voice being like the voice over for a movie trailer quite amusing (and a little bit precious...), but I can see what the reviewer meant, he does have a rather sonorous, slightly booming quality to his voice, but I found it rather neutral actually and quite appropriate (I actually preferred it to Krishnamurti's own voice - shock horror!). He also read very carefully, with good emphasis, rhythm and clarity. I don't usually like American narration on non American books (now who's being precious?), but this was a good choice (one star removed only because it wasn't Richard Burton!).", "type" : "Performance", "question" : " Have you listened to any of Jim Tedder's other performances? How does this one compare? ", "id" : 214, "typeString" : "performance" }, { "answer" : "Again not really applicable for the same reason as above.", "type" : "Genre", "question" : "Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?", "id" : 241, "typeString" : "genre" }, { "answer" : "Reading and hearing Krishnamurti always leaves me with the feeling that I understand what is being said, but the thought that remains is that I am like a blind man being asked to simply, see. Although I also feel that, to a certain extent, some more of the cataracts have been forever removed.", "type" : "Misc", "question" : "Any additional comments?", "id" : -1, "typeString" : "misc" } ]
"Profoundly thought provoking and life changing wisdom"
Challenges many/majority of the notions that so called 'society' would have us believe - unlike many 'new age' manipulative books, Krishnamurti has no hidden agenda - this is an extraordinary work. Ignore it at your peril....
"Excellent Audio book"
An excellent and thought provoking Audio book one I would highly recommend to those looking for insight.
it's content and delivery are enlightening. This is what they should teach at school. Society tries to condition us with all its unintended consequences.
"Life changing look at my self. Thank you."
Very very good book that I would suggest to everyone I meet.every were I go this book has for me back on the path to back to the person that I thought I would never be again.
"Great teaching :). Needs refinement."
The teaching is fantastic. I believe I understand his words due to reading other teachings and Alan watts.
However, it could be explained better. The way it's laid out here can get very confusing and contradictory. After listening to his teachings many times over, you start to get the idea behind the words. Stick with it and it will eventually hit you. :)
Found in it a path-less path to real freedom of the mind without the conditioning by authority. An insight into insight.
"Love is selfless"
The good: I can't give this content anything less than a 5/5. Krishnamurti displays a refreshing disregard of any authority, even his own, at the same time revealing deep insight: just nails it, over and over again.
The warning: This book is presented as a series of lectures with questions and answers at the end of the lecture. The listener must be aware of the fact that Krishnamurti will list a number of observations about common human longings and fears, which are expected to be recognised by the listener through own self-examination. So here it is not enough to have an intellectual understanding (of psychology or whathaveyou), one must have done the actual work.
The bad: some of these conversations have ideas that can go quite deep. Ideally one wants to think about a certain sentence that has been said, and its implications and that forces one to pause the audiobook, or even rewind a little bit every now and then.
The ugly: The narration is clear, but robotic. It is somehow unforgivable to screw up the narration of a text that is, already by itself, written in the format of a conversation. One needs to really think twice first about the text and then about how the original conversation would sound like. This makes it more difficult to understand a content that by itself isn't easy to grasp, even in text form.
Excellent apps, as for Krishnamurti, he was a modern Socrates and I intend to continue reading his books and all about him in audible.
I wish I had read more about him in my youth.
"Strange but good"
It's strange to hear what are clearly k's words, in the voice of another, specially after hearing a lot of him online directly on videos. But strangely it doesn't take away from what is being said. And if you've heard k talk, you know how his pauses and repeated affectations can be annoying. Which is eliminated in a voiced performance obviously. That's a great plus.
Having said that, there are other people conversing too, and there is Q and A in there, but here the performance is limited to one voice. The work around is saying their names or initials repeatedly through the dialogue. This is very disorienting. I'd rather have different voices for different people talking. The medium clearly allows for it. But it's not a large part of the book and so it can be given a pass I guess.
"Perhaps the deepest knowledge of yourself."
KM points to the deepest points in our minds. He is generous to share this.
"God has spoken through Krishnamurti"
Understanding through these words, you feel, you can almost touch the eternal. Wonderful audiobook. Thank you.
"A different perspective"
Krishnamurti presents a different perspective that is secular and promotes the idea of self inquiry. Some parts were a bit repetitive, but perhaps necessary as we are all deluded in this concept of self/ego. This is the concept of Annata (or no self) in Buddhism but Krishnamuti poignantly explains that thought alone, cannot lead to wisdom because thought is limited and divisive.
"all you need to know about freedom"
what a great guy this Krishna murti - what an insight! he really makes you think about life
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Legal medical industry in Arizona
Arizona is among 15 states that have laws permitting eligible patients to consume medicinal marijuana for the treatment of approved conditions and terminal illnesses. Eligibility for a marijuana recommendation depends upon both type and severity of an illness, and all patients must first speak with a physician to determine if medical marijuana is the right treatment for them.
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The price of medical marijuana also varies from state-to-state, considering that some purchases may be twice as expensive in some states than in others. Because Arizona's medical marijuana program is officially in effect yet, it is currently unclear how the prices will be set by licensed dispensaries. We can, however, observe some of the prices in some of the other states that legalized cannabis:
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Inheriting a codebase isn't fun. Even less fun if the code is filled with so many memory leaks that the only solution is to force a full page load on every route change. Below is a solution that works well in modern browsers, and IE9.
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I Am Very Much Into 80's Music
Personal Stories, Advice, and Support 41 People
I Listen to It All, ButI listen to all music, but there is a special place in my heart for the music I grew up with. I remember special songs, those our songs, when things where so much simpler. So there are days in my car when I am listen to the radio I transport my self back 20 years if...
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80s Music Is Great!!I miss Warrent, White Snake, Gun n Roses, Tesla, Dokken, Poison, Duran Duran, ect. I love hair bands!! I miss the 80s what a fun time!
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Everyday Mysteries will help you get the answers to these and many other of life's most interesting questions through scientific inquiry.
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Flock 2
It was a pleasant surprise this morning. The developers of the Flock web browser were pushing out the official release of version 2 of the web browser.
This has long been my browser of choice with its functionality and security inherited from Firefox, paired with social networking functionality.
In the beta releases, there were all kinds of features added to the full suite in place already.
- My world
- Built-in RSS reader
- Integration with DIGG
- Built in blog editor (using it right now)
- Media browsing
- Add Firefox plug-ins
- Browse your friends from your Facebook, Twitter, …
- Integrate with web email
- Web clippings
- Upload images from your computer
- Share a link via email
- and so much more
Today turned out to be a banner day. I'm in the middle of working on something and I get a notice that there are updates to Add-ons.
This wasn't totally unexpected. After all, with the release of a new browser, add-on developers may have to do some tweaking to preserver functionality. This time, one of the add-ons that had an update was CoolIris. Sigh. Big deal. There have been updates to this phenomenal tool on a regular basis but they never solve the fact that it just didn't work with Flock. I apply it anyway. Upon reboot, I see that the faded button now has full colour.
Could it be?
Oh yeah! CoolIris and Flock 2 are now happily working with each other.
Browser wise, I'm incredibly happy. My favourite browser is now out of Beta and one of my favourite add-ons now works.
Does it get any better than this?
If you are looking for something to do this weekend, download the official release of Flock and kick the tires. You may be another convert.


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Karthik Ramanna; George Serafeim; Aldo Sesia
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|Revision Date: Jan 24, 2013
The case explores a new business venture to bring clean water to residents of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, who otherwise cannot afford it. Management has enough money to get their company through August 2010, but needs more capital thereafter. An HBS alumnus is interested in investing in the company. Management needs to revisit their financial assumptions, decide on an incentive structure for their proposed network of local water vendors, and put together a pro-forma income statement, cashflow statement, and balance sheet in anticipation of their meeting with the investor.
Use of accounting and organizational design in driving corporate performance.
Accounting; Entrepreneurship; Incentives; Organizational design
Urban Water Partners (B), Spreadsheet Supplement
Karthik Ramanna; George Serafeim
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336Even the greatest role-playing games aren't necessarily known for their great combat. They're frequently praised for their ambitious worlds, their involving stories, and the element of choice. But when you talk about your favorite RPGs, it's not often that the action is what you talk about first.
Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning is not like those games. In the future, when you talk about Kingdoms of Amalur, the first thing you will probably mention is how fun the battles were. Incredibly, this RPG's combat is so exciting, it could have been used in a pure action game and would have held up just fine. In fact, from a swordplay, loot, and leveling perspective, Kingdoms of Amalur is as good as any RPG in recent memory. This is the role-playing game you should be playing if excellent action and progression are your primary concern.
Of course, RPGs are about more than just swinging swords. The best of them aren't just games--they're worlds, in which unusual people mill about, inviting you into their homes and telling you of unimaginable treasures protected by unimaginable monsters. It's here that Kingdoms of Amalur falters. Amalur is nice enough to look at, and there are lots of things to do there. But each thing you do is pretty much like the last thing you did. In The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, you stumble upon a coven of cannibals and have telepathic conversations with a dog. In Mass Effect 2, you explore the painful past of a troubled young woman and witness the ultimate conflict between mother and daughter. In Kingdoms of Amalur, you kill stuff and listen to a bunch of nondescript characters spout line after line of unexceptional fantasy lore. There's so much talking, so much effort put into all this dialogue. And yet Amalur never develops an identity in spite of it all. There's a lot of tell, but not a whole lot of show.
There's at least a great premise providing a foundation for your adventure. You see, you are dead. Or at least, you were dead before a device called the Well of Souls brought you back to the land of the living. Upon reawakening, you find yourself in quite the position: you no longer have a fate. And because the laws of fate no longer apply to you, you can change destiny as you see fit. Save innocent lives. Kill your enemies. In conversation, act like a jerk--or like an angel. Like other RPGs, Kingdoms of Amalur occasionally grants you the power to choose. However, the storys very premise nods to the fact that you are a blank slate, free to progress as you see fit. You're special in this world because everyone else is tied to the threads of fate. Before you came along, the future was unchangeable.
It's a pity that Kingdoms of Amalur doesn't know what to do with the setup. You gradually learn more about your self-named, blank-slate character, but the game is more interested in getting you into battle than it is in developing its people. You can talk to the inhabitants about all sorts of things, but doing so is rarely more interesting than reading some dusty tome. It's nice to have a world fleshed out by conversations and books, but in any game, it's better to see and experience an adventure firsthand than it is to hear someone talking about one. There are some nice narrative touches that resonate, such as a conversation with a woman angry that the church has outlawed female clergy. But most dialogue is wooden description.
Many fine RPGs don't feature great central plots or superior dialogue, so the humdrum storytelling may not be a bother for you. It's too bad that the side quests don't pick up the slack. There's so little variety here. Kill spiders, find a missing person, collect these items, and so on. A few of these have a spark of creativity. You partake in a bizarre reenactment of an old legend, speak with a wolf cursed to roam as a human, and assist a dimwit who has been deceived by pranksters pretending to be something they're not. But overall, questing in Kingdoms of Amalur is a game of "chase the waypoint," in which you run toward quest goals without caring about why you're heading there. The dullness of questing is reinforced by your own voiceless character during cutscenes, who mutely stares into space during every conversation as if he or she has heard it all before.
You may have heard Kingdoms of Amalur compared with The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, in the sense that they are both open-world fantasy RPGs. But such comparisons aren't really accurate. Amalur is "open-world" in a pedantic sense, yet it's not an enormous landmass, but rather a collection of big areas separated by winding corridors. (All you have to do is open the world map to see how different this game's world structure is from an Elder Scrolls game.) It's more akin to a large-scale Fable, with loading times and winding pathways used to segment explorable areas, dungeons, and towns.
The art design may also remind you of Fable (or maybe World of Warcraft), though Kingdoms of Amalur isn't so self-consciously lighthearted. It is certainly lovely, however, in a vanilla sort of way. Bright red and blue flowers dot sun-dappled meadows, where antelopes graze and hop about, prancing away when you draw too near. Crooked lampposts and skewed wooden rooftops welcome you to a desert village and its brown cobbled streets. It's all so pretty, pixie dust rising from enough grassy knolls and daisy patches that it looks like an army of fairies just exploded. But the visual design lacks identity, embracing the middle of the road and never reaching beyond. Kingdoms of Amalur doesn't have the exaggerated charm of Fable II or the rich detail of The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings. It happily embraces its pedestrian prettiness, like the front cover of any fantasy novel you might find on a bookstore's shelf.
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Grilled Flank Steak With Avocado, Charred Corn & Red Onion Salsa
Updated 8:42 am, Wednesday, August 22, 2012
1 large or two small ears corn, shucked
3 tablespoons olive oil
1 flank steak, about 1½ pounds
Kosher salt and ground black pepper, to taste
½ cup small diced red onion (about ½ small onion)
1 small avocado, peeled, pitted and cut into ½-inch dice (about ¾ cup)
1-2 tablespoons lime juice
Instructions: Preheat a grill to high heat.
Rub corn with 1 tablespoon of the olive oil. Rub the flank steak on both sides with the remaining 2 tablespoons of oil. Season both with salt and pepper and place them on the grill.
Cook the corn for 3-5 minutes, turning occasionally, until slightly charred. Remove from the grill and cool slightly.
Cook the flank steak for about 10-12 minutes for medium rare, turning once halfway through cooking. Remove from the grill, tent with foil, and let rest for 10 minutes.
While the steak rests, finish the salsa. Cut the corn kernels off the cobs and toss with the red onion and avocado. Add lime juice to taste, and season with salt and pepper.
Cut the steak into thin slices against the grain, and serve topped with the salsa.
Per serving: 435 calories, 37 g protein, 9 g carbohydrate, 28 g fat, 88 mg cholesterol, 115 mg sodium, 2 g fiber.
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A tummy tuck can be an ideal solution for people who need a little help achieving a flatter stomach area when all other methods have failed. However, it should not be forgotten that a tummy tuck is also a major surgical procedure which incurs significant cost. It therefore should not be undertaken lightly.
The costs of a tummy tuck are influenced by many factors:
• The prominence and reputation of your surgeon. If s/he is popular and highly sought after, you can expect to pay more
• The location of your surgeon – you may pay more in a larger city than a small one
• The extent of your surgery: how much skin and fat are you having removed? Are you having a mini tummy tuck, a standard one or an extended tummy tuck?
The average cost of the procedure can be anywhere between $3,000 – $10,000 and you should do your research carefully. The internet is useful for this but you should also call around different surgeons in your area and compare prices. You need to be satisfied that you have the right surgeon at the right price for you. You could also ask if there are any medical financing options available, if that is relevant to your situation. Also should check whether the way your pay for your surgery affects the costs.
Bear in mind that you will have to pay a deposit to secure a surgery date with the surgeon and pay the balance just prior to surgery (however it is financed). Check if the price is all-inclusive or the surgery may also incur other miscellaneous costs, for example:
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CPGH special meeting called
The Central Peninsula General Hospital Inc. will hold a special meeting to discuss the 2006 Legislative priorities at 4:30 p.m. today in the Redoubt Room in the basement of CPGH. It is open to the public. For a copy of the agenda visit www.cpgh.org.
SAD to be discussed
Seasonal Affective Disorder will be the second in a series of mental health topics discussed from 6:30 to 8 p.m. today in the Kenai Community Library conference room. Kristie Sellers, with the Central Peninsula General Hospital will be the featured speaker. For more information visit www.kenailibrary.org/-Mental_Health_Presentations.htm.
Neighbors needed
The Peninsula Clarion is seeking outgoing, motivated people in the Nikiski, Soldotna, Sterling and Kasilof areas to help us introduce our readers to their neighbors in a weekly column.
The Neighbors section will have a new look and will highlight individuals in the area.
Community members interested in helping launch a new and informative column will need to e-mail a resume and writing sample to Jennifer Neyman at email@example.com. The deadline for submissions is Wednesday.
Fair trade crafts fund-raiser set
A Ten Thousand Villages Sale will be held from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday and from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday at the Soldotna United Methodist Church on Binkley Street. Crafts from around the world will be available. Profits are returned to Ten Thousand Villages, which provides fair income to Third World people by marketing their handicrafts and telling their stories. For more information, call Susie at 283-7469.
Wrestling camp takes it to the mat
The Skyview High School wrestling team will host a wrestling camp from noon to 5 p.m. Friday and Saturday at the school for beginning and intermediate wrestlers, in grades three through eight. A minitournament will be held at the conclusion of camp. The cost is $25 in advance or $30 at the door.
For more information, call Molly at 260-3083, Mary at 262-4260 or e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com.
Craft fairs vendors needed
The Sterling Elementary PTA is seeking vendors for its holiday craft fair to be held from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Dec. 10 and from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Dec. 11. Booth space is available. The cost is $50. For more information, call Amber at 262-9783, Colleen at 262-7569 or e-mail them at firstname.lastname@example.com. It is open to the public.
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Williamsburg, Whitley County (WVLT) - An Anderson County man accused of causing a fatal accident on Interstate 75 in southeast Kentucky appeared in court Monday morning.
Raymond Garner was only before the judge for a few minutes, instead of hearing testimony, Garner's lawyer decided to go ahead and wait for the grand jury to decide the next step in Garner's fate.
Handcuffed and escorted by four police officers, Raymond Garner headed back to jail Monday afternoon where the judge ordered him to stay in lieu of a five million dollars cash bond.
Garner faces three counts of murder for the accident three weeks ago Monday.
Police say Garner was drunk when his pickup crossed from the northbound lanes of I-75 into the southbound lanes, slamming into three cars, killing an eight year old boy and a pregnant woman.
And Garner is accused of killing three people, but his attorney questions whether murder is the right charge.
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One of the strangest investment vehicles ever designed is something called the Bitcoin, which is at once an exciting new technology for managing online transactions and an alternative currency to national currencies like the dollar, yen and euro. Last week, people who owned bitcoins discovered that electronic "coins" worth $1,350 were suddenly worth just under $945. Around the same time, U.S. regulators rejected an effort to create a bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF).
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Bread Uttapam / uthappam/ Uthappa are a thick pancake or dosa cooked along with the veggies. Serve bread uttapam hot with your favorite chutney and a cup of tea. Tastes Heaven!
Uttapam is a famous South Indian breakfast and is usually made with dosa batter which needs significant prep work. This recipe of making bread uttapam is really easy and quick as the batter does not need to be fermented and all the ingredients are easily available at home.
I always prefer quick, easy and yet healthy breakfast in mornings while everyone is in hurry. Usually I make sandwiches, omlets, parathas, dosas, uttapams or something similar that is fresh, healthy and filling.
Bread Uttapam Ingredients
I have been a big fan of dosas, idlis and uttapam from my childhood. My mom still makes best dosas and uttapams in the world :). The smell of fresh bread uttapams with a cup of coffee or tea still makes me so hungry. But sometimes I feel very lazy to make batter and then keep for fermentations for hours. This is when this quick bread uttapam recipe comes handy. It is delicious alternate to skip all soaking, grinding and fermentation. Make fresh and instant bread uttapam whenever you like.
Kids love this bread uttapam as it tastes little sour due to yogurt. I added lot of fresh veggies in this uttapam to make it healthy and flavorful. You can use whatever fresh seasonal veggies available at your place. I like to make these Bread Uttapams in small disk shapes. That way they are easy to handle and look cute. I prefer to serve these cuties hot with coriander chutney or coconut chutney and with a cup of hot coffee or tea. Sounds yummy, isn't it!
This bread Uttapam can be made with any type of bread– white, whole wheat or multigrain. In the batter I used all-purpose flour (maida) but you can also use whole wheat flour (atta) in this recipe.
When you make the batter for bread uttapams check the consistency of the batter as shown in video. Batter should be of medium consistency. If it is too runny or too thick it will difficult to handle Uttapams on the pan they will not come out good. Make sure that bread uttapams are fully cooked from both the sides before serving.
Watch my instant Bread Uttapam Recipe video with easy to follow instructions
Bread Uttapam recipe card below:
- Bread: 4-5 pieces,
- Thick yogurt/ curd: ½ cup,
- Coarse rava/ sooji/semolina: ½ cup,
- All purpose flour/ maida: 2 tbsp,
- Water: ½ cup,
- Fine chopped tomatoes: ½ cup,
- Chopped onions: ½ cup,
- Chopped bell pepper or capsicum: ½ cup,
- Salt to taste,
- Cooking Oil
- Take out the bread crusts and break it into small pieces.
- In a grinder add curd, rava, all-purpose flour,bread pieces, water.
- Grind everything to a thick, smooth and even paste.
- Take out the mixture in a bowl.
- Add chopped tomatoes, chopped onions, chopped capsicum and little salt.
- Mix everything and make a thick batter.
- If you think batter is too thick add little water at this time.
- Heat the pan at medium heat and spread some oil on it.
- Pour spoonful of batter and spread it to make a small and thick bread uttapam or pancake.
- Pour some oil around uttapam to make it crispy.
- Flip it over and cook till bread uttapam or pancake become nice and crispy from both sides.
- Serve bread uttapam with your favorite chutney or sauce.
2. Batter should be of medium consistency, it should not be too runny or thick otherwise bread uttapams or pancake will not come out good.
3. You can use more veggies like grated carrots, chopped spring onions, fine chopped cabbage in this recipe.