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Voice For Health – How Do You Carry Yourself?
Changes in the way that we walk should not be considered to be an inevitable part of aging. However, a slower step, slight limp, or a shuffle or tilt while walking could be indicative of an underlying medical condition that should be diagnosed and treated before it leads to possible limitations of mobility and independence.
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Friday, March 10, 2006
Janacek on Rye
J: it is very very pretty
J: but like, it sometimes feels unenergized
J: but it is truly a beautiful instrument
A: I feel you
A: I am really interested to hear it live
J: hmm it is better on headphones
A: huh
J: I feel like it will be a weird voice for Elsa
J: like just not enough balls
A: interesting
J: but everyone like creams themselves for her Salome
J: and that takes serious nuts
A: the most recent idea I have of it was that Boccanegra DVD
J: oh how was that?
A: I definitely had an impression of cojones
J: oh good
A: moreso than that Meistersinger I have
J: like this Jenufa is great but there are moments where I feel like I just want a little more guts.
J: and a little less Anja Silja
J: who may I reiterate I cannot believe is taking time out of her busy schedule to return from the dead for a run as Kostelnicka next season
J: when she was already in horrible voice 15 years ago
A: Ummm...I guess I'll have the Jenufa--but could you make the Mattila extra spicy and go easy on the Silja?
J: haha
J: and if you could just leave out the Jerry Hadley altogether
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- Lisa Hirsch said...
He's still singing?
(Oops. He hasn't been in SF since Mansouri, to give you an idea.)
I've heard Mattila three times - Elsa, Kat'a, Arabella. I don't remember the Elsa too well; it was ten years ago. She was fantastic in the other roles. PLENTY of balls. It's a big voice.
- yooperprof said...
La Karita is a great Fidelio. She looks great in pants, and makes Beethoven sound like a vocal composer.
I didn't care that much for her Salome. It was so oversexed from the beginning that it had nowhere to go. Totally minority opinion, I know. Very much looking forward to her Elsa and another notch on my Wagner belt.
For what it's worth, I'm with straussmonster re: Mattila's Salome.
Her Elsa, though, was *perfection* back in 1998. I'm looking forward to hearing it again, and hoping like mad that the Salomes haven't taken their toll. (My Chicago sources were down, down, down on Mattila's Manon Lescaut. As I recall, it got a good report here - but in any event, Elsa is a vastly better vocal fit for Mattila, sitting in the easiest part of her voice without putting undue pressure on it.)
She is a glorious artist with a glorious voice, but her technique is something of a kluge.
i've only seen her once - last season as Kat'a.
before, i had always thought the same thing about her recorded voice. every once in awhile (or is it all the time?) it just emerges all limp and vibrato-less like a very pretty (but very tired) hooker.
totally different in house.
now silja totally puzzles me - absolutely intrigued (puzzled by la voce) and would have given my left nut to have not chickened-out in going to the Glyndbourne production of Vec Makropulos at BAM (like...6 years ago?).

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Staff Member of Popular Singer "A" Confirmed to Be Infected With COVID-19
Following the recent reports that a staff member of a popular singer was suspected and being tested for COVID-19, it has been reported that the staff member has been tested positive for COVID-19.
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Let's talk about teenage birth parents.
Who are they?
Getting pregnant, no matter how old you are, doesn't mean you're careless. And although there are thousands of teenage birth parents, there are even more birth parents who placed a baby for adoption as adults.
It's time to dispel some of the birth parent myths which too many people still believe. With the help of the Donaldson Institute's 2006 study "Safeguarding the Rights and Well-Being of Birth Parents in the Adoption Process," we went ahead and took a look.
Myth: Most birth parents are teenagers.
Fact: Birth parents are an extremely diverse group. But, statistics show that most birth moms today are high school graduates in their 20s, many of whom are already parenting other children. Only about 25 percent of birth parents are teenagers.
Myth: Most birth parents are drug users.
Fact: Many Americans struggle with substance abuse, and so do some birth parents, but that doesn't mean that all birth parents abuse drugs. Every year about 13,000 to 14,000 women place an infant for adoption, and they each have their own unique situation and story.
Myth: Birth parents "give up" their babies for adoption because they don't care about them.
Fact: Most birth parents choose adoption out of love for their babies and feel a deep loss after placement. Those who have open adoptions and are able to know how their child is doing as they grow up have been shown to experience lower levels of grief and greater peace of mind as time goes on. The term "give up my baby for adoption" is not positive adoption language, and we don't use it!
Myth: Birth parents want to drop their babies off and never see them again.
Fact: Birth parents have the right to choose the level of openness they want in their adoption, and Adoptions Together respects the needs of those who do not wish to keep in touch. However, most birth parents say they do want to have contact with their child and their child's family after placement, or at least receive information about how their child is doing. If you choose to place a child for adoption, we can help you decide what level of openness you're comfortable with.
Myth: Sometimes biological parents don't realize that adoption is the best choice for them and need a friend, family member, social worker, or medical professional to help them understand why it is.
Fact: No parent should be pressured into placing a child for adoption. Research shows that those who feel pressured into adoption have a much harder time healing after and adoption takes place. This is why Adoptions Together supports state laws that require thorough in-person counseling as well as waiting periods during which birth parents can change their minds.
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Abstract Abraham Bornstein was a well-known publisher and collector of art and art books. In 1923, Bornstein founded the Boston Book and Art Shop, which distributed art books from leading publishers of Europe, as well as published books, portfolios and monographs. Abraham and his wife, Rachel, used their publishing house to help encourage and promote many Jewish artists and writers in the United States, among them, Chaim Grade, a Yiddish poet. This collection contains materials from the Boston Book...
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Testosterone Deficiency Syndrome
The hormone testosterone is responsible for proper development of male sexual characteristics and it plays a vital role in maintaining muscle, overall well-being and sexual function. Inadequate production of testosterone may lead to testosterone deficiency syndrome which may even cause erectile dysfunction. Here are some of the causes of the syndrome. Image Courtesy: Getty
Klinefelter's Syndrome
One of the most common causes of testosteron deficiency syndrome is the Klinefelter's syndrome which is a chromosomal condition affecting male physical and cognitive development, causing smaller testes that do not produce much testosterone. Image Courtesy: Getty
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Testosterone deficiency is also commonly caused by other congenital hormonal disorders such as LHRH hormone deficiency, Kallmann's syndrome. Such hormonal disorders may affect the production of the testosterone hormone leading to a deficiency. Image Courtesy: Getty
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Other common congenital causes of testosterone deficiency syndrome can be conditions such as anarchism which is the absence of the testes and having undescended testicles. Problem with the testicles may also affect the testosterone production. Image Courtesy: Getty
Other Causes
Other common causes of the deficiency also include damages to the pituitary gland, chemotherapy, hypothalamus, testes, glandular malformation, infection, isolated LH deficiency, radiation therapy, testicular trauma and tumors of the pituitary gland. Following are some signs and symptoms of the syndrome. Image Courtesy: Getty
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Acquired testosterone deficiency may also affect the physical appearance of the person. Such symptoms of the syndrome include gynecomastia, sparse hair on the body and underdeveloped testes or penis. It can also cause a symptom of underdeveloped muscles. Image Courtesy: Getty
Men with testosterone deficiency syndrome may experience symptoms such as loss of libido, erectile dysfunction, depression, and mood disorders. Image Courtesy: Getty


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|Crocodile Bay's Strike 33s serve as spacious, comfortable platforms for offshore trolling. Flats boats and center consoles are available for inshore work.
It had been a typical winter day in southwestern Costa Rica, with plenty of sunshine, calm seas-and fish. The action started early and fast. Just 15 minutes after leaving the dock, a 22-pound roosterfish had grabbed a live threadfin herring as we slow-trolled along a rocky ledge west of Punta Matapalo. That catch was followed by action with jack crevalle and barracuda before we noticed the bait-well pump had failed and most of our herring were belly-up, prompting a switch to offshore trolling.
After making the 45-minute run to blue water, I added two sailfish releases and a dolphin to the day's tally. Then it was back inshore, where I concentrated on casting plugs for roosterfish and other species that live among rocks. It wasn't long before a three-foot houndfish was skipping across the foam-flecked surface, intent on devouring my pencil popper. But the fish wasn't fast enough, for the plug suddenly disappeared in a shower of spray that erupted alongside an underwater rock. A few minutes later, a 22-pound cubera snapper was gaffed aboard, completing an unexpected and trip-saving super grand slam in the waters off Crocodile Bay Resort, located on the western edge of Golfo Dulce.
Dolphin spice up the offshore action (top). The author scored this jack crevalle on light tackle (bottom).|
Gulf of Plenty
Located at the extreme southwestern end of Costa Rica, Golfo Dulce is hardly a secret fishing spot. The area has long been known for its calm waters and excellent inshore and offshore fishing, which has supported several lodges on the gulf's eastern shore at Golfito and Zancudo. Robin Williams's (not the actor) Crocodile Bay Resort on the Osa Peninsula is the first lodge to provide a quick and easy means of fishing the western side of the gulf, as well as the popular spots from Punta Matapalo west.
Williams opened the resort in late 1999, but it hasn't taken long for word of the great fishing to get out. The place was packed last winter, and I was only able to squeeze in for three days with Mark Weidhaas of Adventures, a fishing travel agency in Bozeman, Montana. Weidhaas had first fished at Crocodile Bay in October 1999, and was delighted with all the changes that had occurred at the resort since then.
Crocodile Bay is just a few minutes drive from the Puerto Jim¿nez airstrip, which sees daily flights to and from San Jos¿, the capital of Costa Rica. San Jos¿ has a year-round, spring-like climate, and northerly winds were howling there when Mark and I flew in from the states last February. Fortunately, light winds and calm seas are the norm during the January-to-April dry season along Costa Rica's southern coast, and that's exactly what we found upon our arrival at Crocodile Bay.
The resort's landscaped grounds include four two-story buildings housing rooms with air conditioning, spacious bathrooms and hot water. The main building includes a large bar area, plus a gift shop and a dining room staffed by the most attractive and attentive waitresses in Costa Rica. Omelets are prepared to order for breakfast, and when you get back from fishing you can cool off in the pool and enjoy a drink at the swim-up bar. Colorful birds fly by regularly, scarlet macaws roost in the trees, and at times you'll be serenaded by howler monkeys. Eco-tours are an important part of this operation, and guests not interested in fishing every day will find plenty to do.
This 22-pound cubera snapper smashed the author's surface plug off Punta Matapalo.|
The lodge's 20-boat fleet departs from a floating dock at the end of a very long pier that's needed to handle the region's big tidal changes. In addition to the Strike 33s, there are 27-foot center consoles and 17-foot flats skiffs, which are ideal for prospecting deep into the gulf.
Despite the excellent fleet and fine accommodations that greeted us at Crocodile Bay, the short duration of our trip had me concerned. You see, my experience with short trips to tropical locales generally hasn't been good, even though I've never lost a day to bad weather in more than a quarter-century of fishing the eastern Pacific! Fishable weather is almost a given in these parts, except during easily avoidable times of year, primarily October and November. Unfortunately, the fish are never so dependable. The odds will almost always fall in your favor at some time during a six-day trip, but bad luck can easily follow you around for three days.
This was my big concern, and our experience on day one didn't exactly put me at ease. After flying in from San Jos¿ on the first morning, We immediately ran offshore with Captain Luis. On the way out, we learned that there had been excellent sailfishing in January, but that the action had recently slowed.
I asked Luis if he'd switched to rigging his sailfish baits with circle hooks, as many Central American fishing resorts now do. Luis replied that he was still rigging J-hooks in small mullet, which were pitched to sails that rose to plastics rigged with large hooks for marlin. I would soon be wishing for circle hooks.
Despite the negative reports, we raised eight sails on that first day, four of which took the pitch bait I dropped back. However, every one of those fish either pulled off right away or threw the hook during the first series of jumps. To compound our bad luck, a blue marlin crashed a lure, only to return it after two leaps. Only a 20-pound dolphin saved us from a skunking.
Roosterfish will hit surface plugs and live-lined herring fished close to shore, but sometimes prove elusive. While solid sailfishing can be found just a short run from the dock, the biggest draw at Crocodile Bay is the variety of offshore and inshore species available (below).|
We decided to concentrate on roosterfish the second day. Despite an adequate supply of threadfin herring, we couldn't buy a rooster in what may well be the most consistent place in the world to catch them. Later, back at the lodge, it seemed that every other group I talked to had caught from two to six roosters that day, while Mark and I only managed a few jack crevalle and houndfish. Jack crevalle are among the hardest-fighting fish in the world, and great sport on poppers. However, roosters are even tougher and often make spectacular jumps, so the jacks are basically considered a nuisance by most Golfo Dulce anglers.
With one day left to fish, things weren't looking good. However, as you now know, everything came together on the final day. Indeed, luck was truly on our side, for if the bait well hadn't failed we wouldn't have made the move offshore and caught those sails and a dolphin.
Awesome Inshore Action
The wide variety of game fish available in Golfo Dulce may be the area's chief claim to fame. There is no offshore bank to attract pelagic species, and long rides offshore are often required to find the requisite blue water. Though sailfishing can be very good at times, it isn't as consistent as nearby Quepos during the winter or Costa Rica's northern Guanacaste Province from May to September. Blue marlin are available, but are also far from a sure thing. Even the dolphin fishing can be spotty.
Fortunately, there are always fish to be caught inshore, and the number of roosterfish in the area is amazing, considering the intense angling pressure they receive. The fact that live bait is readily available means that anglers have the best opportunity of hooking these great game fish. Crocodile Bay keeps a floating bait pen filled with threadfin herring and blue runners whenever possible so that anglers don't have to jig their own.
Though jack crevalle, barracuda and houndfish are abundant in the Golfo Dulce area, I've never seen many bluefin trevally, bigeye trevally or mullet snapper. Some large cuberas are taken on live bait, but there's a relatively limited amount of structure for casting to these fish. In fact, the locals were impressed by my 22-pounder, which would be considered an average cubera in Panama.
The most obvious piece of structure is the large rock off Punta Matapalo, which is pounded by the fleets from both sides of the gulf every day, but still produces roosterfish, cuberas and amberjack on live baits with some regularity. Casting can be tough due to the boat traffic, but I once plugged up a 50-pound rooster there.
An area that deserves a lot more attention is the upper part of the gulf, which includes a large river mouth. Todd Staley, the manager of Crocodile Bay and a veteran snook fisherman, has been making experimental forays deep into the gulf, during which he has caught up to a dozen snook a day.
As a fishing destination, Golfo Dulce is hard to beat. It's sunny, calm and offers excellent fishing for a wide variety of species during the winter dry season, and continues to produce plenty of fish throughout the year. With the addition of Crocodile Bay Lodge, it's now also possible to explore the area in such comfort that you'll never want to leave.
|Crocodile Bay Travel Info
Many fishing travel agencies represent Crocodile Bay, including South Fishing,(800) 333-3347, or contact the lodge directly at (800) 733-1115. There are several fishing operations on the other side of Golfo Dulce, including the rejuvenated Golfito Sailfish Rancho and the long-established Roy's Zancudo Lodge. Though it's possible to carry plenty of clothing and gear on international flights to San Jos¿, Travelair allows only 25 pounds before imposing excess fees, and they even weigh carry-on bags.
Crocodile Bay provides good tackle for casting and trolling, so it's wise to only bring specialty gear with you, plus any plugs and flies you'd like to cast. Restrict rod cases to six feet or less, since Travelair sometimes uses small planes and may not be able to fit longer cases aboard.
Don't waste your weight allowance on a lot of clothing. Costa Rica is informal, even in San Jos¿, so it's possible to keep clothing to a minimum, as outfits can be rotated through the wash at the lodge. Raingear isn't necessary during the January-to-April dry season. I get by with shorts and bathing suits, plus a few short-sleeved shirts, but those with light skin should bring clothing that offers more protection from the tropical sun.-Al Ristori


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There's been a lot of up in the air of what we can expect from Thor: The Dark World. While we know there is going to be more epic fighting between the Gods and that it wouldn't be on Earth, we really didn't know what else to expect. One thing we do know thanks to USA Today's interview with Chris Hemsworth is that there will be at least one human in the movie – Jane Foster.
It would appear that Jane's life is in danger and Thor has to bring her to Asgard with him. With his parents unhappy with his interest in a mortal and Sif making an attempt at his affection, it looks like we're going to get a ton of relationship humor mixed in with everything else. Of course Jane is going to be a little angry with Thor since he didn't happen to stop by while he was helping out 'The Avengers' save the world. Oh the complicated lives of Superheroes.
The fun part though is apparently we're also seeing a lot of Loki and Thor on screen together. When they do the job right in the comics, Loki and Thor actually trying to be brothers (in their own twisted way) is some of the best writing that Thor has been placed in. As they are describing Loki's release from prison, setting up the dynamic of their relationship as a "kind of a chess match" you know that I'll be waiting for that scene to come up.
We're still stuck waiting until November 8th of this year to check the movie out but I am dying to see how it'll all be playing out!
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"Thor still has lot of explaining to do, and a lot of making up," says star Chris Hemsworth. "Even demigods end up in the doghouse, mate. So none of us is safe."
At which point he needs to bring Jane Foster back to Asgard to help save her life.
"So while Thor was a fish out of water on Earth in the first two films (Thor and The Avengers), this time Jane is very much a fish out of water in Asgard," says Marvel producer Kevin Feige.
So with Anthony Hopkins reprising his roll as Zeus, we're going to see him and his wife unhappy with the situation. As well as seeing Sif falling into a love triangle between Thor and Jane.
"It's superhero action, but it's the familiar territory of a love triangle where the parents think your girlfriend is wrong for you," says Feige. "That's how the best of these movies work."
That being the case though there is an entire set of fighting involved too though. Don't forget that the main enemy is going to be the Dark Elf Malekith (Christopher Eccleston) so they'll be plenty of on screen battles.
"I really wanted to ramp up his skill set in battle," says Hemsworth. "He's not just this Viking throwing the hammer. Here he's more demigod with dynamic moves we haven't seen before."
And what I am most waiting for is Loki's return. While he's had some bad runs in the comics he's always been one of my favorite villains, because he isn't inherently evil depending on the writer. Quite often he's just trying to do what he feels is good but has to live out his roll as the God of Mischief to do so.
"Needing Loki's help turns everything on its head," says Hemsworth. "And it allows us to explore the underlying complexities of their relationship. It really ends up being a kind of chess match."


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I slipped into hyperbole earlier this year when I reviewed Harlan Coben's Fool Me Once. Deservedly so, upon reflection. I stand by it. This isn't an apology for my extensive praise. Nor is this review what you're possibly expecting: "but wait, his latest novel, Home, is even better!" No, when juxtaposed, Fool Me Once is certainly the better thriller. It's got that brilliant final twist, which hasn't been topped by any other novel I've read this year, and certainly validates Coben's ranking as the consummate master of the modern day thriller.
That's right. He's not just a master. Anybody can master something. But to be a consummate master? Wowzer.
But – and forgive the obvious pun – there is something special about coming home. About reuniting with a cast of characters you haven't read about for some time. Myron Bolitar and Windsor Horne Lockwood III are two of my favourite characters in all of fiction, and we haven't seen them (besides brief appearances in Coben's YA Mickey Bolitar trilogy) since 2011's Live Wire.
2011, guys and gals. That's five years ago. God, we were do damn young. And look at us now. No, don't – – !
Home brings these characters back, alongside the classic cast: Esperanza; Big Cyndi, Myron's parents. Heck, even the kids wh0 starred in Coben's YA series play a vital role in proceedings, and it's great to be reunited with Mickey, Ema and Spoon. Their presence adds a cool continuity to things. So, sure; this book is for the fans. The readers, like me, who clamour each and every year for a new Myron novel. But there's plenty here for "non-Myron" fans to enjoy. If indeed there even are such people out there.
The premise is straightforward: 10 years after two 6-year-olds vanished from a suburban New Jersey home, one of them is spotted in London. Obvious question: where's the other? Myron gets involved because one of the kids, Rhys – – the boy who wasn't spotted — is (or was) the cousin Windsor Horne Lockwood III, Myron's best friend, and the friendliest psychopath you're likely to encounter. In the past it has always been Myron's lust for justice – – for righting wrongs, for doing the supposed right thing – – that pulled Win into deadly situations. This time the shoe is on the other foot. Win has always been there for Myron. And despite his pending marriage, Myron will always be there for Win. That's the bro-code, didn't you know?
Yes, there's a big mystery here, and there are surprising twists (unleashed rather late in proceedings, admittedly, but no less effectively than in other novels) but it's the emotion of the characters that really lifts Home above the rank and file. The heart and soul of this novel are the twin families coping with the loss of a child, and the extremes parents go to in order to protect them.
Ultimately, it's just great to be back with Myron and the gang. The novel's ending is possibly conclusive – – with a real lump-in-the-throat moment – – so who knows when we'll see these characters again? In many respects, I wish I'd taken my time with the novel and truly savoured it. Instead, I smashed through it in less than 24 hours. That's the true evidence of Coben's class: his books are so gripping, you can't put them down.
Format: Paperback (234mm x 153mm x mm)
Pages: 400
Imprint: Century
Publisher: Cornerstone
Publish Date: 22-Sep-2016
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Inch Lake is a 12.5 ha inland lake in northern Wisconsin that has been managed as catch-and-release for all species since 2006. Researchers at Northland College have monitored fish populations in Inch Lake since 2007. The total lengths (inches) and weights (g) for subsamples of several species of fish collected from Inch Lake in May of 2007 and 2008 are recorded in InchLake2.csv (view, download, meta).
Load these data, isolate Bluegill, and answer the following questions. [Note that this is a continuation of this exercise.]
- Complete this Plotting exercise.
- Qualitatively assess if the weight-length (in mm here and throughout) relationship differs between the two years.
- Fit a model that will allow you to determine if there is a statistically signficant difference in the weight-length relationship between the two years.
- Construct a residual plot for this model. Comment.
- Is there a statistically signficant difference in the weight-length relationship between the two years? Provide evidence for your findings and be very specific with your conclusions.
- Without fitting separate regressions for the two sample years, express the weight-length relationships on the raw scale for both years (i.e., write two specific equations).
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What is the Big Idea?
The Big Idea Challenge is a start-up competition, open to all London Met students, recent graduates and staff, which seeks to unearth early stage ideas and the passionate individuals behind them.
What kind of ideas?
Whether it's for a business, a creative experience, a way to make the world a better place or anything else you can imagine, we want to know about it!
There's loads of prizes up for grabs, including cash! So whether it's a brand new idea or something you've been thinking about for a while, Big Idea can give you the support and resources to make your dream a reality.
Is my idea big enough?
The Big Idea Challenge is open to all ideas regardless of the stage they are at. If your idea is tackling a real problem, then it has a great chance at success in the competition!
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Get rich or die trying! This category is for ideas with the potential to become successful commercial businesses. We want to see ideas that are innovative, have a large potential market and add value that people will be prepared to pay for.
Got an idea that will help tackle the inequality in London and the world beyond? This category is for ideas that have a positve impact on our communities. This could be a social enterprise or a not-for-profit idea that helps those who need it most.
Do you have an idea for a new product, an exhibition, or a way to make our city more vibrant? Or perhaps you have an idea that will help creative people reach new audiences and be more successful? Then the creative category is for you!
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This category is for ideas that make the world a cleaner, greener place that's ready for the future. It could address energy efficiency, transportation or any other sector creating a positive impact in the environment.
Why should I enter?
Each year we've awarded mountains of prizes to London Met students and graduates!
We'll give you the tools to spot exciting business opportunities and determine the potential of your idea. You'll have the chance to meet real entrepreneurs who have turned their own ideas into reality and receive coaching to take your idea to the next level.
Big Idea finalists can also win a place in our prestigious Launchpad programme.
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Entrants in the Competition are competing for a share of a prize pool valued at more than £30,000. Boom.
Prize Money
The total cash prize fund is £3,750 in Startup funds – cold, hard cash that you use to develop or advance your idea. Divided into £750 for each Category Winner, plus an additional £750 for the overall Grand Champion Winner
(selected from the Category Winners by an independent judging panel)
Two shortlisted Ideas will receive a shiny new website each worth £2500
built by Lucidica, our amazing corporate competition partner.
Big Idea Challenge finalists may also be awarded free places on our Summer Launchpad, an intensive 12-week start-up programme commencing in June 2021.
Business incubation & office space
Up for grabs is prestigious office space and the opportunity to be part of a community of startups at Accelerator, London Met's business incubator in Shoreditch.
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Up to three logo and brand development packages for selected entries (valued at £800 each).
One to one mentoring with members from our corporate partners.
Everyone's a winner
Yep – even if your idea is not one of this year's winners, by entering you'll receive preferential access to support programmes (such as Quickstart) designed to help make your idea a reality!
Frequently asked questions
Nope! – the Big Idea Challenge is for early stage ideas. All you need to take part is an idea that you're passionate about, and a willingness to jump in and have a go – no plan required!
Absolutely not – your idea will remain 100% your idea. We just want to help make it a reality!
Absolutely – even friends. As long as the majority of your team (up to 5 people) is either a student or graduate from London Met, you're good to go.
Yes, you can enter more than one idea. But because this competition is for ideas that you want to do something with, we'd encourage you to look inside yourself and only enter those ideas you're excited about the prospect of bringing to life.
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Virtual Big Idea Awards
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic our prestigious Big Idea Awards Night in 2020 and 2021 were held online.
Ruthy's Best Shito Sauce
Ruth Baidoo
Food For Good category winner in 2020 and featured by BBC Good Food. A percentage of the profits go towards SpeakOut, a programme founded by Ruth to help women affected by sexual violence.
Newport Works
Song Eng
Creative category winner in 2017 and successfully launched through crowdfunding. Modern portfolios built to last through creative careers. "Your work deserves better."
Trim It
Nathan Maalo & Darren Tenkorang
Commercial category winner from 2017. UK first mobile barbershop offering a razor-sharp customer experience with convenience and class.
Dottore London
Giorgia Bacco
The overall winner in 2014 was Dottore London: "the first gynaecological clinic for Italian women living in London."
WÜ: Bring the bar to you
Nathaniel Amish and Niah
Tired of queuing for a drink? Wü is an app that allows you to order and pay for your drinks via your mobile device, making the queue a thing of the past.
Belle of the Bows
Sophie Holden
A platform for cheerleaders and customers to design their own hair bows. Make your team stand out each season with unique and individualised bows!
Doggy Lock
Elise Harrison
Doggy Lock is a lockable lead and collar so you can safely lock your dog outside; delivering peace of mind to pet owners and reducing dog theft.
Just Honest Cosmetics
Tom Dolman
Just Honest Cosmetics is a completely natural and vegan line of cosmetics so you know exactly what you're putting on to your skin!
The Wanderlost
Nicole Page & Whitney Papa
A mentorship-led cafe and bakery project which places young care-leavers at the centre of the cafe's business and operations.


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Feminisms, Publics, and Rhetorical Indirections: Figuring Marcet Haldeman-Julius, Anita Loos, and Mae West, 1905-1930
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This work seeks to establish indirect feminist rhetoric, rhetoric that denies, elides, parodies, or co-opts its perceived exigencies, within the emergence of spectacular technologies of writing in the early 20th century, technologies that included personality journalism, scenario and screenwriting, and writing for the Broadway stage between roughly 1905 and 1930. Following the work of a cohort of indirect feminist rhetors, Marcet Haldeman-Julius, Anita Loos, and Mae West, all of whom, in different ways, wrote feminist critiques of the powerful and sometimes abusive men in their lives, often while these men functioned as the very gatekeepers to the audiences sought by these women, this dissertation challenges traditional notions that effective rhetoric takes place out in the open, with the free exchange of propositions, offering that sometimes the proliferation of rhetoric and critique is more useful in situations that circumvent the potential for reciprocal postulations, functioning counter- or even non-propositionally. Finally, in their approach to feminist critique, these indirect feminist rhetors - both in content and in style - challenge traditional feminist historiographies of what public women could say and be heard saying in the years leading up to and immediately following suffrage. In those ways, this study merges questions of rhetoric, gender, history, writing, and technology that lay the groundwork for scholars participating in the ongoing discussions of writing, rhetoric, and embodiment in digital worlds.
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New Mexico sheriffs searching for a missing 3-year-old boy stumbled upon a heavily armed compound housing 11 starving children, authorities said Sunday.
The children, ages 1 to 15, were discovered in the "Third World"-worthy compound, which was built out of garbage, in the desert near Amalia.
"I've been working this job for 30 years, and I've never seen anything like this," Sheriff Jerry Hogrefe told the Santa Fe New Mexican newspaper.
"People live off the grid, but man, not like this."
Hogrefe described the compound as "the saddest living conditions and poverty" he has ever seen.
Adults and children were barefoot and wore "dirty rags" as clothing and had probably been living there for several months, Hogrefe said.
High-power weapons also were discovered at the site, the paper said.
The raid came after cops received a message believed to have originated inside the compound that stated, "We are starving and need food and water."
"I absolutely knew that we couldn't wait on another agency to step up and we had to go check this out as soon as possible," Hogrefe said.
At the time, cops were searching for a 3-year-old boy, Abdul-Ghani Wahhaj, who went missing from Clayton County, Ga., in December and was believed to be in the area.
The authorities had their eye on the compound for two months, but they could not find probable cause to storm the place until they received the message that people were malnourished.
In a press release, Hogrefe said he had heard that the adults in the compound were "extremist of the Muslim belief." He later said the FBI told him that, although the FBI declined to confirm it, according to the Santa Fe New Mexican. The FBI did not return a call for comment.
Police arrested two men, Siraj Wahhaj and Lucas Morten, after discovering the compound. Three women who are believed to be the children's mothers were detained and released.
Wahhaj was collared on an outstanding arrest warrant from Georgia alleging child abduction. He was found inside the compound with an AR-15 rifle, five 30-round magazines and four loaded pistols.
Police arrested Morten on suspicion he was harboring a fugitive, officials said.
The children were turned over to state child welfare workers.
"The children are in our custody, and our No. 1 priority right now is their health and safety," New Mexico Children, Youth and Families Department Secretary Monique Jacobson said in a statement.
"We will continue to work closely with law enforcement on this investigation."
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Chateau de Bangkok to Become One of the Silent Stars of Bangkok Film Festival
June 25, 2009
July is a big month in Sukhumvit, with the Amazing Thailand Grand Sale continuing and the Bangkok Film Festival drawing thousands of amateur critics. Chateau de Bangkok's ideal location and uniquely priced offering has already drawn extra guests over the Grand Sale. The Bangkok boutique hotel expects to build on that success with the launch of Bangkok Film Festival.
June 25, 2009
- Chateau de Bangkok, a boutique Bangkok hotel, has recorded an increase in guests this year over the Amazing Thailand Grand Sale period compared to last year. The Sukhumvit accommodation provider also expects to see numbers increase over the period of the upcoming Bangkok International Film Festival.
"We believe the awareness of our service offering, ideal location, and quite low rates compared to similar 4 star Bangkok hotels has grown tremendously over the past year", said Mrs Somrudee Nooner, director of sales and marketing at the hotel.
The Amazing Thailand Grand Sale is an annual event. This year the event runs from June 1 to August 31. Retail stores, tourism operators, sporting facilities and hospitals across all districts are offering 5-70% off their usual prices, luring thousands of extra visitors to Thailand. The sale is part of an overall package of tourism stimulus measures, meant to help the economy recover by the second or third quarter of this year.
Chateau de Bangkok is located in the heart of the Suklhumvit district, one of the best-known for quality shopping. The Emporium and Robinson department store are located in Sukhumvit and easily accessible from Chateau de Bangkok, as are smaller eclectic shops like ZEN, Flow Now, Manga, Playground, and Q Concept.
The Bangkok International Film Festival is expected to be held from the 1st to the 29th of July 2009. This will be the sixth year the event has run. Since its inauguration, it has become an important part of the global film festival circuit. Expect the focus in 2009 to be on content, rather than glamour.
Bangkok Film Festival is held on Ploenchit Rd, only a short walk or taxi ride from Chateau de Bangkok hotel. The hotel is adjacent to Ploenchit Skytrain BTS station.
"Most of our film festival guests last year were from across the Asian region, coming to see the blockbusters like 'Queen of Lankasuka' and the Asain premire of last year's Woody Allen film. We look forward to seeing the program for this year!", said Mrs Nooner.
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Bobby Sanabria Brings His Brilliant, Electrifying Reinvention of the West Side Story Score to Harlem This Weekend
Latin jazz drum sage Bobby Sanabria's mission to tackle Leonard Bernstein's iconic West Side Story score is ambitious, and a little hubristic. And it's been done before: The Oscar Peterson Trio, the Stan Kenton Big Band, Dave Brubeck (obviously), Dave Liebman and Dave Grusin have all recorded various sections of the most radical Broadway score prior to Fela, with results from the sublime to….you get the picture. Sanabria and his Multiverse Big Band debuted their West Side Story Reimagined at Lincoln Center last month (sadly, this blog was in Brooklyn that night). Good news for anyone who missed that show: the band are reprising it at the amphitheatre in Marcus Garvey Park this Friday, Sept 14 at 7 PM. If you want a seat, you need to get there early.
As you would expect, the new double album – streaming at Spotify – adds plenty of welcome texture, sonic color and emphatic groove to Bernstein's orchestration. Compared to previous jazz interpretations, what's new about it is how heavy it is. The original is a lithe ballet score livened even further by Bernstein's puckish wit. This version is gritty and in your face.
Sanabria is a connoisseur of just about every rhythm from throughout the Afro-Latin diaspora and beyond, and locks in on how eclectically inspired Bernstein was by all sorts of different rhythms from Puerto Rico, Cuba, Mexico and beyond. Yet Sanabria is also very highly attuned to the Stravinskian severity that makes such a stark contrast with the score's lyricism, particularly as far as the ballads are concerned. Maybe it's the focus on how much of a clave underscores so much of the music here, with charts by a grand total of nine separate arrangers, Sanabria included. Or maybe it's just as much of a focus on the storyline's stark relevance to current-day anti-immigrant paranoia.
This is not a solo-centric album: brief, punchy features for members of the ensemble go on for maybe eight bars at the most, with as many deft handoffs as momentary peaks amidst what Sanabria has very aptly described as a pervasive unease. Since the days of Tammany Hall, the ruling classes have pursued a relentless divide-and-conquer policy among New York's innumerable ethnic groups, and the 1950s were no exception. In this hands of this mighty band, Bernstein's keen perceptions are amplified even further.
Much as the new charts put the spotlight on the group's amazingly versatile percussion section – alongside Sanabria, there's Takao Heisho, Oreste Abrantes on congas and Matthew Gonzalez on bongós and cencerro – they hew closely to the original score. The deviations can be funny, but they have an edge. A Yoruba chant and a sardonically blithe dixieland interlude appear amid noir urban bustle, toweringly uneasy flares and noir urban bustle. Even the ballads – not all of which are included here – are especially electric. The band that rises to the challenge and succeeds epically here also includes Darwin Noguera on piano; Leo Traversa on bass; trumpeters Kevin Bryan, Shareef Clayton, Max Darché and Andrew Neesley; saxophonists David Dejesus, Andrew Gould, Peter Brainin, Jeff Lederer and Danny Rivera; trombonists Dave Miller, Tim Sessions, Armando Vergara and Chris Washburne; flutist Gabrielle Garo and violnist Ben Sutin.
Eddie Palmieri Sets SoHo on Fire
In this era's maze of weird tempos and microtones, sometimes some of us forget that jazz was the world's default pop and dance music not for years but for decades. The crowd that packed SOB's Friday night to see Eddie Palmieri hadn't forgotten, though. It was as if it was 1965 all over again, in the best possible way. El gente were an eclectic mix of dancers, but just as many of them had come out for a concert experience, to listen and be blown away by the intensity of the music. Even the pianist at least partially responsible for the invention of salsa jazz was impressed by his 14-piece orchestra's raw, feral power. There was a point where after Palmieri had wrung all the apprehension he could find out of a gleefully cautionary, Monkish riff, trombonist Chris Washburne grabbed a mean handful of low chromatics, ran with them and headed straight to the rafters, the band close behind. Would they ever back away and let it breathe for a minute? No way, Jose! The band's stampeding ferocity could not be stopped, and at age 75, Palmieri is every bit as vital as he's ever been, maybe better than ever.
He looked out at the crowd, remarked that the ambience was the same as it had been way back in day at the Palladium, then dedicated an expansively crescendoing version of Azucar Para Ti to Barry Rogers, the trombonist on that landmark album. The band had begun on an improvisationally-charged note – probably a good idea to tweak individual sound levels right off the bat considering how loud it was in the club, with the occasional howl of feedback bleeding from the PA early on – and as the heat rose, eventually took a turn into more hypnotic, two-chord-vamp Afro-Cuban grooves for the sake of the dancers. Crooner Herman Olivera held suave and resolute while the percussionists went deeper into a thicket of tropical polyrhythms punctuated by the incisions and roars of the horns, ablaze with minor-key fury. Palmieri is a generous leader, to a fault, playing to the strengths of the band and doling out solos throughout the orchestra. One particular star was the absolutely brilliant tres player Nelson Gonzalez, who was running his guitar through a watery, flanged effect that gave him almost as much volume as the trombones, making his way matter-of-factly through several slinky, unstoppably crescendoing solos, moving from fluid, sinuous melody lines to frenetic chord-chopping way up the fretboard. It looked as if he was about to break a string at any second, but he never did.
When Palmieri did take a solo, he was probably the most adventurous of everyone, slowly uncoiling from swinging broken chords, to insistent pedal motifs, to outright menace as he fired off several series of resonant atonal clusters anchored by his powerful low lefthand attack. Avant garde as it may have been, it made sense: this is a guy who's been pushing the envelope all his life. And that was just the first set. Palmieri – who's just been made a NEA Jazz Master – is off on world tour, with a return engagement at the New York Salsa Congress on September 2 at the Hilton at 6th Ave. and 53rd St. You have to wonder if the rest of the world is anywhere near ready for the kind of energy that the crowd here seemed to take for granted.


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I was asked my opinion on AAL (American Airlines Group) earlier today & figured that the chart was worth sharing. After breaking down from a Rounding Top pattern, AAL is close to backtesting the former support, now resistance level from below. A solid break above would be bullish, providing a long entry, while an objective short entry would come on either a backtest of the 45.75-46.00 resistance OR a solid break below the current rounding bottom (yellow curved trendline). AAL is an "unofficial" trade idea meaning that it will not be added as an Active Trade (long or short) if either of the entry criteria stated above are met. I am simply pointing out this potential trading opportunity as there are some fairly significant technical developments & well-defined levels on this chart.
For those that have followed RSOTC for a while, you might have noticed an unusually large proportion of unofficial trade ideas lately, which is a direct reflection of the current market conditions. Unofficial trade ideas are those in which I don't have the usual degree of confidence but still might be worth passing along for those interested. Unofficially trades usually don't included explicit price targets/suggested stop parameters & typically are not followed up on whereas all official trade ideas are ultimately moved to the Completed Trades category to be archived indefinitely, whether successful or not.
For the bulk of 2015, this market has resembled an irregular/erratic EKG: moving sideways while chopping around in a difficult to trade, nearly impossible to predict trading range. For swing traders, that means a marked increase in the number of false buy & sell triggers, i.e.- whipsaw signals that result in trades either falling short of their expected profit target, stopped out, or becoming "dead money" as the stock or ETF trades range-bound for weeks or even months on end. Trend traders & investors have likely found this market equally frustrating as there simply isn't a trend to trade with the US equity market essentially flat YTD as we're already half way through the third quarter of 2015.
In hindsight, the last 6-8 months would have probably been a good time to use some of the option spread strategies designed to profit from a sideways market but then again, I doubt that anyone could have foreseen just how long the market would trade in such a tight range. As mentioned recently, the monthly Bollinger Bands on the Wilshire 5000 have contracted to levels not seen in decades, if ever. The good news for those who are waiting patiently for the next tradable run in the market, is that sharp, relatively uni-directional moves often follow such contractions in the Bollinger Bands and the scope of the move is often relative to the duration & level of contraction or "pinch" in the Bollinger Bands. Hang in there as historically, August thru October have traditionally been marked by sharp moves in the markets.


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Following the success of last year's {Colchester Presents} Style Destination, Colchester's own fashion event returns to town for the second year running on 29 and 30 April.
For this year's event Lion Walk Shopping Centre & Red Lion Yard are teaming up with Cancer Research UK again to support its "Race for Life" campaign.
The centres will be adopting Cancer Research's tribal-theme for its exciting "Fashion in a Flash" mobile catwalk shows that will take place around Lion Walk and Red Lion Yard on both days, showcasing the very latest fashions from the centre's retailers.
The centres are on the hunt for members of the public to be models for the day. A Facebook competition to find two lucky winners will be launched on Facebook on Tuesday 5 April.
{Colchester Presents} Style Destination, Colchester's own fashion week style event, is now in its second year. It aims to celebrate the wide range of fashion and style available in the town centre from big brand stores and independent boutiques and organised jointly by Lion Walk Shopping Centre and Culver Square. Shoppers will be able to enjoy fun and stylish events and promotions across the town centres during the two days.
More details about the two-day fashion event are coming soon on What's On at www.lionwalkshopping.com and on www.facebook.com/lionwalkshoppingcentre


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Sometimes our best is not good enough. We make mistakes. The most painful ones are those that harm a loved one. Stress and grief leave us in agony, and we play our choice repeatedly wondering if we made the right decision. We cannot let ourselves off the hook either merely because we are human.
In Joan Schweighardt's Gifts for the Dead, Irishman Jack Hopper arrives home barely alive and without his brother. What could he have done differently? Guilt-ridden, he needs time to sort through the events in South America's jungle. In the meantime, his mother and his brother's sweetheart, Nora, nurse him back to health. They wait patiently to learn specifics of Bax, Jack's brother. To make matters worse, Nora eased Jack's pain and he liked it. He had always secretly cared for her more than he should have. As time passes and Jack heals, and the two grow closer until they take a trip to South America where Nora then learns the truth.
Schweighardt is masterful at historical fiction and Gifts for the Dead is an example of her skill. Not only does she entertain with accounts that examine the perplexities of being human with its heartening moments and struggles, but she also inspires thoughts about the human condition.
How does one justify bad choices simply because they are human? Why can we not be better than that, and what about the good that comes from bad choices as a result? Will Jack Hopper find that good thing?
Gifts for the Dead is a thoughtful and entertaining read, especially for those who enjoy historical adventure mixed with suspense and a little romance. A wild escapade that thoroughly entertains.
Review by Christina Francine
Christina Francine is an enthusiastic author of a variety of work for all ages. When not weaving tales, she teaches academic writing at the college level. She's also a licensed elementary teacher. Picture books: Special Memory and Mr. Inker. Academic: Journal of Literacy Innovation.
In the second edition of Poems for the Writing: Prompts for Poets (Texture Press, 2019), authors Valerie Fox and Lynn Levin provide 18 entertaining and motivating prompts that range from the light-hearted to the serious and challenging. Drawing on both traditional forms and contemporary experiments, the authors encourage the use of found text, song titles, facts, and quotations. They propose scenarios and invite a poetic response. They even show how to "translate" the text of a poem written in a language you can't read! Each prompt is followed by suggestions for getting started and sample poems written in response. What distinguishes Poems for the Writing from other poetry-prompt collections is that most of the sample poems are by undergraduates, community workshop participants, and some working poets. The responses are fresh, energetic, and unexpected.
This is an excellent book for poets and for teachers of poetry. The authors, both poets and teachers themselves, have selected prompts that work well in the classroom—for poets at any level and just about any age. They encourage emotional orientations, helping the students to plumb their personal experiences—and with just enough structure to help students struggling to organize and articulate emotional responses. But all of this comes with a touch of levity. Like Fox and Levin's own approach to teaching, the book is friendly, open, and eclectic. The results are a testament to the extent to which prompts can trigger new and imaginative insights and jog one out of a routine approach to the blank page. Prompts are entry points—doors and doorknobs, as the authors put it—to new rooms, new emotional and intellectual spaces. The results are likely to be both surprising and satisfying.
Review by Antonia Clark
Antonia Clark has taught poetry and fiction writing and is co-administrator of an online poetry forum, The Waters. She is the author of a poetry chapbook, Smoke and Mirrors, and a full-length poetry collection, Chameleon Moon (2014, 2019), and the forthcoming Dance Craze. Her poems and short stories have appeared in numerous print and electronic journals, including The Cortland Review, Eclectica, The Pedestal Magazine, and Rattle, and she has reviewed poetry collections for The Rumpus, Literary Bohemian, Wild Goose Poetry Review, and IthacaLit. Toni lives in Vermont, loves French picnics, and plays French café music on a sparkly purple accordion.
David Salner's The Stillness of Certain Valleys is impressively sustained. I could quote memorable lines from every poem. "Beer for Breakfast" is a pitch-perfect opening poem, and the subsequent sequence "A Dream of Quitting Time" is very strong. Then comes the agonizing "Goodbye to My Big Toe." Salner writes with gritty authority about many kinds of work, including a stint as a cab driver in "Like Silver," as well as in steel mills and coal mines. Now that world is in a state of collapse, hence "water drips from a tipple / to wild strawberries sprouting from rail beds" in the title poem. I admire the moving way he evokes the dignity of a working man in "Horse Trailer with Beans": "nothing / but the dirt under his nails / and who he is." This first section concludes with the understated "Steel Lunch Pail."
The second section begins with a boy learning to be an artist, which could be the poet himself or Winslow Homer: "He creases uniforms, / inks the hollow of a gully. With purple shadows / he molds the blunt, half-buried stones." Then come a series of poems about major American figures: Whitman during the Civil War, Melville brooding on human pain, Frederick Douglass working at the dry docks in Fells Point.
The third section features poems about his grandparents and growing up, before returning to the world of work, which Salner always depicts with convincing precision. Near the end in "The Lakefront Closes at 8 PM," the poet notices as he walks to the parking lot how the weeds have "white flowers." It's that impressive eye for telling detail that make the whole collection a compelling and convincing read. Salner has been there, done that. As Whitman once said, "I am the man. I was there."
Review by William Heath
William Heath has published three books of poetry, The Walking Man, Night Moves in Ohio, and Leaving Seville; three novels, The Children Bob Moses Led, Blacksnake's Path, and Devil Dancer; a work of history, William Wells and the Struggle for the Old Northwest; and a collection of interviews, Conversations with Robert Stone.
Although published in 1951, any person serious about literature would do well to read or reread Nabokov's captivating autobiography, if not for the rapture of his complicated life, then for the beauty of his syntactical architecture. A master of form devoted to meaning, Nabokov relays the truths of a man twice removed from his home country of Russia, once by revolution and again with the rise of the iron curtain. He renders through complex but clear sentence structure the pains of diaspora and the call to home which he can never truly answer. Within this beautiful prose he also provides insight into his master works Lolita, Despair, and The Gift. He dangles before the reader a maze of sentences each providing a decadent feast for those who value—above all—the meaning-making capacity of provoking syntax.
Even his first sentence tells the reader more about his lost home and life than many lesser writers could conjure in a length of chapters, "The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness." Although he plays at the duplicity of life and death, so does his opening sentence relay the pain of a man who can never truly return to the womb of his mother country nor escape its call through death. Nabokov rewards the keen reader. He displays the full power of a prose master and does so with all the beauty of a life richly lived.
For those readers who seek reward through art, no writer has ever provided as much in their autobiography as Vladimir Nabokov.
Review by Justyn Hardy
A haunting meditation on the legacy of racism, violence, and abuse, Relief by Execution: A Visit to Mauthausen by Gint Aras is a gut-kick of a memoir in which Aras contemplates the far-reaching tentacles of anger and hate from the normalized cruelty of a boy's childhood to the genocide of World War II. After a prolonged bout of PTSD following a violent attack, Aras visits the Mauthausen concentration camp in Lithuania and reflects on its horrors, acknowledging that as a descendant of Lithuanians, there exists within himself "the energy of the victim and the perpetrator."
While depictions of the Holocaust remind us of the enduring human capacity for dehumanization and extreme cruelty, Aras's essay is at its strongest when recounting the socially accepted racism of his Lithuanian-American community in Chicago. Jesse Jackson's 1984 Presidential run provides a backdrop for Aras's father's racist diatribes; the community's anti-Semitism is equally virulent and ingrained in their language. Aras writes: "The Lithuanian word for Jew is žydas. My family used this word to mean snot, and for a time I knew no other word. Mother would see me picking my nose and scold me, Netrauk žydų, or Stop pulling out Jews." Aras draws the connections between the family's denialism and scapegoating of Lithuanian Jews as Soviet collaborators with their refusal to see the physical and emotional abuse perpetrated against him by his tyrannical father. As an adult, Aras confronts his father in a harrowing scene, yet a cathartic reckoning remains elusive.
Aras reflects on whether he is imposing "the personal on the collective," but most readers will recognize how hate, in its various manifestations, informs the cultural assumptions we carry. Aras's willingness to confront this legacy is a useful reminder that we all bear the responsibility to do the same.
Review by Chuck Augello
Chuck Augello is the author of The Inexplicable Grey Space We Call Love (Duck Lake Books - April 2020). His work has appeared in One Story, Literary Hub, The Vestal Review, The Coachella Review, and other fine journals. He's a contributor to Cease Cows and publishes The Daily Vonnegut, a website exploring the life and art of Kurt Vonnegut.
Sea Above, Sun Below by George Salis is a rich and masterful novel. It is a balanced reading experience, told from differing perspectives, chockablock with symbolism and allusion and wordplay.
The descriptions of people, the universe, and abstract concepts are always lyrical and moving. The characters, though isolated in their narrative spheres from other characters, all relate in symbolic ways, interacting like entangled particles.
This is a tale about skydiving, the brave divers through the sky, and the diverse revelations they encounter on land and in the arms of God, up in the air, floating like angels, hovering above the ball and chain of their earth, which to some is an Eden, and to others, an egg, flush with history, pregnant with myth.
It is also about childhood and escape, tragedy, and the infinite potential of the future, told in convincing voices with heart and love and joy. I was enchanted by the realistic characters, the effortless flow of the evocative language, the precise word choice, effective dialogue, and seamless storytelling. The novel works on multiple levels at once, guiding the reader through layers of meaning. It does not engage in handholding, nor is it like wandering a labyrinth. Reading it is like falling—which is a metaphor the novel makes ample use of—into a magical realm. The picture widens as you proceed, and the sky behind you is full of Halley's comets, decaying gods, and past memories discarded like ballast.
There are many brilliant moments of interstitial congruency, like the following quote: "With the advancement of technology, he knew the future, however distant, would reveal the reality of alchemy."
Sea Above, Sun Below is literary alchemy. A magnificent novel.
Review by L.S. Popovich
L.S. Popovich is the author of Undertones and Echoes From Dust. They have always been a cat person (a person who like cats, not a cat human hybrid).
Exploring the complexities and absurdities of grief, Book of Mutter is a lyrical text that will leave readers returning to its textured fragments of memory and meditation again and again. And each time, those moments will reassemble into something new and incisive.
Kate Zambreno, whose previous book O Fallen Angel won the Undoing the Novel—First Book Contest, reflects on and interrogates her relationship with her dying mother in this 2017 publication. Her mother proved such an invasive force in her life that Zambreno couldn't help but turn to writing as the only hope she had to "expel [her] from my body." With some photographs, spent lipstick tubes, hoarded kitsch, and a gardening journal, Zambreno sorts through these "ruins" in search of both a connection to and deliverance from the long shadow of a troubled relationship.
Far from conclusive or definitive, Book of Mutter offers something tragically beautiful and genuinely vulnerable to the perennial struggle of grief. While every page is not filled by text, they are all complete with curious and inviting moments of anger, confusion, peace, and yes, absence.
Review by Mark Smeltzer
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Shanan Ballam's newest book, Inside the Animal: The Collected Red Riding Hood Papers, published by Main Street Rag Publishing Company in 2019, pushes the persona poem to its most shimmering and starved limit. Blending her voice with the perspectives of a depraved wolf, a blossoming girl, and a wilting grandmother, Ballam continually smashes wide the familiar fairy tale and trades reader comfort for animalistic truth. What empathy can be had for the predator? Is there a love story folded into the sheets of Grandmother's bed? Would Red Riding Hood slip into the wolf again? Continuing the work begun in her 2010 chapbook The Red Riding Hood Papers and furthered in her 2013 book Pretty Marrow, Ballam writes deeply into new velveteen layers of the aged cautionary tale.
Divided into six parts, the childhood world is rewritten for an adult understanding of intimacy and separation, ecstatic connection and pain. Through her passionate mastery of syntax and imagery, Ballam pulls readers deeper into a psychological landscape as sharp and mesmerizing as a kaleidoscope. The new Poet Laureate of Logan, Utah, as well as current faculty of Utah State University, Ballam writes with the bone-deep need to reclaim the story of monsters and naughty little girls into a truth more complicated and warm. Wholly driven and new, Ballam's tangled reimagining of the condemning Red Riding Hood fable will mark up the mind.
Reviewed by Brittney Allen
A psychoanalytic spin on the "unthought known" stream of one woman's stumble upon the narrative of self, reflective of intuitive synchronicity, Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love bursts the bubbles of vintage notions of the perfect family, or at least the façade of what the perfect family should have been.
In this memoir, Shapiro takes readers on a rocky ride through her personal genealogic discoveries; specifically, finding out after five decades that the man she knew as her father was not her biological father. Shapiro elaborates on how he was the only father she ever knew, and they shared an unbreakable bond until his passing when she was in her twenties. She tenderly recalls how he taught her about his Jewish heritage, which makes up a major part of the fabric of her self-narrative surrounding her paternity. She encounters rough waters throughout her quest, yet love remains the "unknown thought" she never gave up on.Read more...


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DFI sponsors town hall discussions to collect feedback
FRANKFORT, Ky. (July 2, 2013) – The Kentucky Department of Financial Institutions (DFI) hosted three town hall meetings in June to give Kentucky bankers the opportunity to discuss challenges and opportunities impacting state-chartered community banks.
In total, 47 community bankers attended the meetings and discussed the broad challenges affecting their industry, including a slow economic recovery, capital concerns, regulatory compliance issues and a rapidly changing information technology environment.
"We wanted to discuss topics that are important to community bankers today, and let bankers know we realize how important community banks are to their communities. They play a vital role in our local economy, and they are equally important to the nation's financial system," said DFI Commissioner Charles Vice. "These meetings provided DFI an opportunity to listen to concerns and for bankers to share their thoughts and ideas."
Some of the themes that recurred at each meeting included:
♦ The need to retain flexibility for community banks to design products to serve their local customers.
♦ Concerns with overregulation in the post-crisis era.
♦ Uncertainty regarding regulatory rules and changing examination procedures caused by new federal statutes.
♦ Both opportunities and challenges with technology – mobile and online banking may attract a younger and widespread customer bases, but those services are costly and come with risks that must be managed.
This feedback also will inform future academic research on community banking at the Community Banking in the 21st Century Conference to be held this fall. The conference is a joint effort by the Conference of State Bank Supervisors (CSBS) and the Federal Reserve System and will be held Oct. 2-3, 2013, at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. Research papers on community banking will be presented, and future research needs will be discussed among academics, policymakers, bank supervisors and community bankers. More information about the conference is available online at www.stlouisfed.org/banking/community-banking-conference/.
Kentucky bankers who attended DFI's Town Hall Discussion meetings were entered into a "golden ticket" drawing for the opportunity to attend the national conference. Jeff McDaniels, president and CEO of Farmers Bank and Trust in Princeton, was selected. While the conference is by invitation only, segments may be available to view via webcast.
"As chairman of CSBS, I feel a greater responsibility to take the messages and themes that have come out of these town hall meetings and incorporate them into the strategic plan and to help be a voice for the community banker in Washington, D.C.," Vice said.
DFI is an agency in the Public Protection Cabinet. For more than 100 years it has supervised the financial services industry by examining, chartering, licensing and registering various financial institutions, securities firms and professionals operating in Kentucky.