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Here are the top national stories coming today from GateHouse News Service. Stories are available at http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/. Please submit stories below no later than 6 pm local time, unless you have breaking news that is changing significantly.
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THANKSGIVING: Check out links to our Thanksgiving stories, and keep checking because we'll add to this package as more stories come in.
AWARDS: Submissions being sought for Best of GateHouse 2008 http://ghnewsroom.com/news.php?newsid=1227275043
MORNING MINUTES: Word of the Day, Web Site of the Day and Number to Know. http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/lifestyle/morning_minutes
LOOKING UP: Stars are never where they're supposed to be. http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/features/x541358104/Looking-Up-Stars-are-never-where-they-re-supposed-to-be
RACHEL RAY'S TIPS: Rachel Ray offers tips for easy Thanksgiving entertaining
WAITING IN LINE: Etiquette experts give tips on surviving lines -
ROCKFORD – When it comes to waiting in line, the best ground rules are those taught in kindergarten: no cuts, no loud talking and no shoving. Even the most devoted cybershopper or mail-order catalog enthusiast is going to encounter at least one long, seemingly unmoving line this holiday season. Although few find them fun, there are ways to make the experience more bearable for yourself and for your line neighbors. By Sean F. Driscoll of the Rockford Register Star.
HE'S NO DUMMY: Nursing students practice on patient simulator - In what could be the start of a unique partnership in health care, a new "man on campus" has arrived on the Regis College campus. He is the Sim-Man patient simulator, a $50,000 human-like robot that has vital signs, can go into cardiac arrest, be treated for pneumonia, appear to be pregnant (as a woman, of course), groan and talk. http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/regional_news/east/massachusetts/x541360215/Hes-no-dummy-Nursing-students-practice-on-patient-simulator
LISA NEAL GUALTIERI, Ph.D.: Internet diagnoses: Trust them or toss them? - Eighty-four percent of adult Internet users in the U.S. go online for medical information, according to a 2007 Harris poll. Some of them, like Diana C., believe the Internet saved their life. CNC, on wire now
LUNG TEST: Study: Lung function test might help smokers quit - ROCKFORD – A simple, doctor's office-based test can help move smokers through the process of deciding to quit. That was the preliminary finding of a report co-authored by University of Illinois College of Medicine at Rockford assistant professor Dr. Robert Bales and presented this week at the North American Primary Care Research Group annual meeting in advance of Thursday's 33rd annual observance of the Great American Smokeout. By Mike DeDoncker of the Rockford Register Star.
ELIZABETH DAVIES: Will GPS show me the way? http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/opinions/columnists/elizabeth_davies/x541360776/Elizabeth-Davies-Will-GPS-show-me-the-way
SUDOKU PUZZLES: Latest installment is on the site.
'TWILIGHT': Sure to be love at first bite - Most girls would happily endure a love bite from hunky Robert Pattinson as vampire Edward Cullen in the screen adaptation of Stephenie Meyer's teen-vampire romance novel, "Twilight." Ledger, Barbuto, on wire now
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INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE LADY: "Twilight" series author Stephenie Meyer talks about writing, her good fortune and the movie that's expected to be a huge hit. (Includes link to movie profile.) By Ed Symkus. http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/entertainment/x1772951064/Interview-with-the-vampire-lady-Stephenie-Meyer-on-Twilight
"TWILIGHT" STARS: 'Romeo and Juliet' with bite: Popular 'Twilight' book hits the big screen. Interviews with Bella and Edward. By Ed Symkus. http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/entertainment/x541350753/Romeo-and-Juliet-with-bite-Popular-Twilight-book-hits-the-big-screen
BOYS LIKE GIRLS: Boys Like Girls like success
'A CHRISTMAS TALE' not your usual sappy holiday fare
'SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE' a socially conscious, cleverly mounted beauty
WITCHES: Biography Channel chronicles witches, past and present - Most biographies explore the life of a single individual, but recently, a television documentary delved into the collective history of witches.
Salem, Guerriero, on wire now
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EDITORIAL: Stemming the tide of foreclosures - The national numbers are staggering: An estimated 1.5 million homeowners went through foreclosure last year, and another 1.2 million in the first six months of this year. The FDIC estimates that unless something is done, between 4 million and 5 million homes will enter foreclosure in the next two years. MetroWest, on wire now
BRITT: Toon on a possible bailout of the Big Three.
O'MAHONEY CARTOON: On a bailout for the 'Big Three' . Ledger, on wire now http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/opinions/cartoons/x1772956624/OMahoney-cartoon-On-a-bailout-for-the-Big-Three
O'MAHONEY CARTOON: On ATM fees. Ledger, on wire now
WOOD ON WORDS: Sit down to a meal of Turkey Day terms. http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/opinions/columnists/barry_wood/x1751725531/Wood-on-Words-Sit-down-to-a-meal-of-Turkey-Day-terms
JERRY MOORE: Taxpayers getting taken during economic catastrophe - In the midst of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, is it possible we are being fleeced by our own government out of nearly $1 trillion?
ANN LUONGO: Count your blessings, and do what you can to help others
FOOTBALL BRIEFS: PFW news on the Giants, Panthers, Chargers and Raiders, plus the latest Fantasy Buzz. http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/sports/pro/football/fantasy_football/x1772957883/Football-briefs-Coughlin-s-message-centers-on-trying-to-keep-Giants-focused
COLLEGE FOOTBALL NATION: Mediocre has been a frequent word used to describe it. Lousy is another. But it's neither. It's the Atlantic Coast Conference, and it's smoldering. It's combustible. http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/sports/college/x1720662317/College-Football-Nation-ACC-is-a-mess
HUNTING SEASON: Deer me, it's that time of year for hunters - The car heading north on U.S. 67 toward Macomb last Saturday stopped dead in the middle of the road. The driver's head craned in the direction of a harvested cornfield to his left. Standing tall, less than 100 yards off the highway, in the company of three does, was a nice buck. His antlers — at least a dozen points — stretched skyward. The cornfield buck could focus on his courting rituals then. But that changed Friday, when about 200,000 hunters clad in bright orange hats and vests swarmed into Illinois woods and fields for the first weekend of firearm deer-hunting season. By Chris Young of the State Journal-Register.
KIRK WESSLER: Golfer sets example all should follow - Thanks to J.P. Hayes, this has been a good week. Hayes is a pro golfer who reported himself for inadvertently violating a rule during a tournament last week in Texas. He was disqualified. By failing to place, Hayes also lost his chance to earn a PGA Tour card for the 2009 season. A tough week for Hayes' earning potential. A good week for his character. A great week for all of us to take stock of who we are and what we ought to be.
JEFF LAMPE: Hunters eager for shotgun start - When a female bank teller chatted me up about deer season it hit me. This one still has zing. Opening weekend of the Illinois firearm deer season still gets people talking, still sends boys and men to bed dreaming. While most hunting openers fly under the radar, shotgun season looms large.
INSIDE THE LINES: Peoria Journal Star sports editor Bill Liesse takes an irreverent look at this weekend's NFL games. Will be posted this evening.
SUNDAY QUICK SHOTS. By Matt Trowbridge of the Rockford Register Star. Will be posted this evening for use Sunday.
OBAMA'S TEAM: Who's who in Obama's White House. Attorney general added to package.
THIS WEEK IN WEIRD: Mystery meat, deadly teddy bears and more in this week's edition. http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/news/x466664098/This-Week-in-Weird-Nov-21
LAYAWAY BACK IN STYLE: Afraid of debt, shoppers are limiting credit card use - Layaway, that throwback from an era when consumers actually paid for purchases before taking them home, has been dusted off and put back out on the shelves – just in time for the holidays. Ledger, Steele, on wire now
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Business / Ag
BIZ BITS: Weekly business rail, with a tip about online video, a look at America's largest private companies and more. http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/news/business/x776452395/Biz-Bits-An-online-solution-for-hard-economic-times
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January 2011 New Products
Small-Block Chevy:
Summit Top End Kits
Summit Racing
Disco Novas:
Classic Industries Grille
Why is it that '67-69 Camaros get all the cool parts, while cars that were made in far greater numbers seem to get relegated to the back of the bus? The '76-78 Chevy Nova is one such car, and Classic Industries is working hard to reverse that discrimination. Classic's low-cost "dental work" is now available for disco Novas in the form of grille PN 466818 ($229.99). Manufactured by OER, this all-new reproduction front grille installs onto the radiator core support of '76-78 Nova models. These grilles are manufactured in plastic, and electroplated with chrome for a beautiful shine, and each grille features the correct black accent edging as original. Produced with the correct shape and contour for third-generation Nova standard models, each grille features all correct mounting points and is carefully designed to install and appear like factory original.
Classic Industries
'64-70 Mustang
Bolt-In IFS
Jim Meyer Racing Products has created a bolt-in IFS for early Mustangs that boasts superior handling, stopping, and steering over stock. With reprogrammed suspension geometry, reduced antidive, and adjustable stance, Meyer's new rear-steer A-arm IFS offers (as standard equipment) a tight power rack-and-pinion steering, 11-inch vented disc brakes, aluminum adjustable coilover shocks, 1-inch antisway bar, tubular A-arms, and removable steering arms.
As a benefit, the Meyer IFS claims a tighter-than-stock turning radius, with the caster and camber weight loaded onto the frame, not the inner fender panel. Additionally, the rear steering bracket sits above front-sump oil pans, and will clear Patriot headers.
Meyer says the IFS installation can be done at home in a weekend with basic handtools and jackstands. There is no cutting, and only eight holes need to be drilled with provided templates.
Jim Meyer Racing Products
Coilover Shock
To most in the hot rod industry, it would've been unthinkable for a company like RideTech-the industry leader in air suspension-to offer a mechanical coilover shock a few years ago, but here we are announcing just that. RideTech has relentlessly expanded its product line over the years, branching out from just air shocks to bolt-on suspension components, cages, and everything chassis related. The most recent move into coilovers is right in line with this, and comes right on the heels of their electronically adjustable RideTech Select shocks released earlier this year.
For RideTech's coilover design, the engineering team started from the ground up with an all-new impact-forged aluminum shock body. This monotube gas-pressure design uses a 43 percent larger piston area versus traditional twin tubes for superior fluid management and outstanding ride quality. The 5/8-inch chrome shaft travels through a dual-seal rod guide for zero oil leakage and long-lasting performance. The RideTech coilover is available in fixed valving, or rebound single-adjustable in all popular lengths. They also feature a 1/2-inch bore, Kevlar-lined spherical bearing mount that eliminates shock noise and deflection normally found with rubber/poly bushing ends. And did we mention, like all RideTech products, it's absolutely drop-dead gorgeous?
"RideTech has relentlessly expanded its product line over the years, branching out from just air shocks..."
Wilwood Engineering:
Billet Pedal Assembly
If you're building a serious Pro Touring vehicle, you'll appreciate Wilwood's new adjustable reverse-mount pedal assembly, and their new forward-mount pedal assembly; both combine the brake and clutch pedals together in one unit. The reverse-mount pedal assembly positions the master cylinders inside of the firewall, while the forward mount pedal assembly positions the master cylinders outside on the firewall. Both feature an aluminum frame and forged aluminum pedal arms with ladder-style construction. The frame and pedal arms are Platinum-E coated for protection while the pedal pads are a special adjustable lightweight design that allows fine-tuning of pedal location and clearance. Also included with the assembly are mounting studs, hardware, and a clevis and pivot pin balance bar that is designed to provide smooth brake pedal bias. The units provide a 6.25:1 ratio on both the clutch and brake pedal.
Wilwood Engineering
1967 Chevelle
Custom Dash
ABC Performance knows that it is hard to have a dashboard full of big gauges, a tall stereo with a GPS screen, air-conditioning controls, and all of the other items desired in a Pro Touring car, yet retain the style and classic look of a '66-67 Chevelle. ABC's Pro Touring Dashboard updates the interior and creates a space for everything. It also allows customizing without fabrication skills.
An ABC dashboard can be finished with the exact parts you want in your car, or it can be roughed in for you to finish. ABC converts an original unit to accept modern high-performance gauges including large tachometers and speedos. They remove the upper switch panel and widen the opening for the instrument insert. This makes enough room to mount gauges up to 5 inches in diameter. ABC offers several inserts to mount a variety of gauges. The insert is CNC laser cut for precision and cleanliness.
The rest of the dashboard can be left as is, or the ashtray, original heat/air controls, and glovebox openings can be filled. ABC can supply new switches, air-conditioning vents, and other dashboard components as needed.
ABC Performance
Torque Converter
Power Steering
Flaming River
We don't give a lot of thought to power steering pumps, and even less thought to how they are mounted. The only exception to that is when you're having problems, like throwing belts, adjusting belt tension, or clearing other accessories or chassis components. The steering specialists at Flaming River have decided that all components of the steering system, no matter how nonglamorous, are equally important, so they designed a pair of power steering pump brackets for small- and big-block Chevys that work great. They also happen to be inexpensive (just $74 each), and they have the no-nonsense functional look that today's hot rodders want. Longitudinal adjustment even allows for use on short and long water pumps.
Flaming River
Late-Model Hemi:
Lunati Voodoo Cams
The late-model Chrysler Hemi in both 5.7L and 6.1L forms has far surpassed the performance and efficiency of its predecessor, yet its power potential is far from being tapped out. The camshaft experts at Lunati have recognized the reserve airflow capacity of the new Hemi by designing a series of three Voodoo hydraulic roller camshafts for mild, intermediate, and aggressive performance. All three work well with blowers and nitrous; the mild one (PN 61900) provides excellent torque at low speeds through midrange; the intermediate one (PN 61901) is ideal for higher performance engines with upgraded valvesprings; and the most aggressive one (PN 61902) serves a wide range of modified applications, including upgraded intake, blower, or nitrous. Because these new cams subject the valvesprings to increased valve lift and higher velocities, Lunati recommends upgraded Beehive valvesprings and retainers. The springs are available in two different heat treatments while the retainers are available in steel or titanium.
"The late-model Chrysler Hemi in both 5.7L and 6.1L forms has far surpassed the performance and efficiency of its predecessor..."
C6 Corvette:
Edelbrock Blower Kits
Earlier this year, we told you about Edelbrock's E-Force supercharger kit for LS3-equipped Corvettes (2008-2010). Those kits are rated at 554 and 599 hp, and not only close the gap between ordinary Vettes and the vaunted Z06, they flat-out hand them a beat down. That was great news for owners of 6.2L LS3-equipped cars, but it did absolutely nothing for guys with the older '05-07 cars. Now Edelbrock has put the finishing touches on their E-Force kits for earlier 6.0L LS2-equipped C6 Corvettes, and even better-they carry the same horsepower ratings (554 hp for PN 1593 and 599 hp for PN 1594) as the 6.2L LS3 kits. Retail pricing on the E-Force kits starts at $6,595.87.
But it gets better. All E-Force kits for C6 Corvettes are 50-state legal (they have pending CARB EO numbers), and come with a five-year, 100,000-mile warranty. Yeah, it sounds crazy, but these kits really are that good. Edelbrock also offers an E-Force supercharger competition kit #1595 (LS2) and #1592 (LS3), which eliminates the injectors, programmer, and engine covers to provide only the core components needed to build up a competition level vehicle. The supercharger drive pulley is also deleted to allow the end user to select from four pulleys ranging in size from 2.75 to 3.875 inches in diameter, depending on the boost level desired.
Billet Specialties:
Heritage Hoops
Places like Bonneville, El Mirage, and Muroc inspired the design for the new Heritage wheel from Billet Specialties. Their precision CNC machining centers carve the design with thousands of tool paths from a rotary-forged 6061-T6 center for strength. Add Billet Specialties polish or powdercoated finish to the center and mate to a soft lip rim and you have a key ingredient for a stunning ride. The Billet Specialties Heritage is available in 17- through 22-inch diameters and with 5x4.5-, 5x4.75-, and 5x5-inch bolt patterns. Each wheel is custom built to customer's specs right in the USA.
Billet Specialties Inc.

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Sony has unveiled three new Cyber-shot cameras; with the W210 and W220 and an entry level Cyber-shot S950.
The W-series additions are the W220 and W210, both of which are 12.1MP snappers with Carl Zeiss lens, 4x optical zoom, SteadyShot and are described by Sony as 'fun to use'.
This is presumably because of the Smile Shutter tech which automatically fires the shutter when someone smiles. Presumably not when it's turned off.
'Adjustable to prioritise children's or adults' smiles, it's perfect for relaxed, informal portraits,' says the press release.
Sony has also bundled in a 2.7-inch LCD screen and PhotoTV HD for those people with a Bravia television.
S950 for Noobs
At the cheaper end of the market is the Sony Cyber-shot S950.
The 10.1MP camera has a 4x zoom, 2.7-inch screen and apparently 'First-time camera users won't be confused with simple shooting menus and a choice of six easy-to-use Scene Selection modes.'
Good news for all you first time camera users out there then…
The Cyber-shot W210, W220 and S950 are available from February 2009, with no prices confirmed by Sony UK.
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Custom Security Screens and Windows at Affordable Prices
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We offer timber look alike options which are made with powder coated aluminium which is fixed to a powder coated steel frame, these panels require no maintenance, do not warp or need maintenance.
See below some of the attractive designs we have installed for our happy customers and call us or email us to book a free measure and quote.
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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Pulitzer Prize, Fiction, 2001
It's 1939, in New York City. Joe Kavalier, a young artist who has also been trained in the art of Houdiniesque escape, has just pulled off his greatest feat: smuggling himself out of Hitler's Prague. He's looking to make big money, fast, so that he can bring his family to freedom. His cousin, Brooklyn's own Sammy Clay, is looking for a partner in creating the heroes, stories, and art for the latest novelty to hit the American dreamscape: the comic book.
Inspired by their own fantasies, fears, and dreams, Kavalier and Clay create the Escapist, the Monitor, and the otherworldly Mistress of the Night, Luna Moth, inspired by the beautiful Rosa Saks, who will become linked by powerful ties to both men. The golden age of comic books has begun, even as the shadow of Hitler falls across Europe.
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay is a stunning novel of endless comic invention and unforgettable characters, written in the exhilarating prose that has led critics to compare Michael Chabon to Cheever and Nabokov. In Joe Kavalier, Chabon has created a hero for the century.
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- Darwin8u
- 2012/06/12
A World I DON'T Ever Want to Escape From.
Let's just get this out in the open -- Michael Chabon is an amazing prose stylist. Occassionally, I imagine I can grow up one day and become a writer, then I read Chabon and I recognize just how HIGH that hill can be. His dexterity with the English language borders on magical. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay is at once playful and soulful.
Listening to AAoK&C, I was reminded of Saul Bellow's ability to dance with language while also keeping the novel briskly centered on its well-paced story. Chabon's characters are boyantly alive, cinemagraphiclly painted, and infused a with dialogue that seems to require a high level of stereophonics (all enhanced by Colacci's amazing reading).
Even in comic books, good doesn't always win over evil, but it seems like with Chabon love still conquers all. A fantastic novel to view the 20th century through. Chabon expertly captured the colors, smells, and magic of New York. Anyway, Kavalier & Clay is a world I don't ever want to escape from.
- Dave
- 2012/07/11
Escape From Reality is a Worthy Challenge
At Last! Because You Demanded It! An Unabridged Recording!
It's been several weeks since I finished listening to Michael Chabon's Pulitzer Prize-winning "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay," and I'm starting to think it's one of the best books I've ever read/heard. I read it when it first came out, and enjoyed it. But when the unabridged recording came out I knew I had to grab it, and give it a listen. I am so glad I did. And it was one of those listening experiences when you realize that a book is even better than you already thought it was.
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay's an incredible story about two Jewish kids prior to the U.S.'s involvement in WW II - one an immigrant, the other an American - who create a comic book hero that's a perfect and pure meditation on escapism: The Escapist! The novel itself is an epic story full of love, loss, friendship, creativity, and most of all: the human need for escapism.
Chabon's prose is spectacular, painting the setting and the characters better than a splash page. David Colacci's reading is no less spectacular, he was able to expertly give voice to all the characters - Sammy, Joe, Rosa, George Deasey, Tracy Bacon, and Thomas - they all sound exactly the way they should.
According to Chabon's story, Escapism is just as necessary for humans as love. It can be thrilling, sexy, healing, comforting, and transformative. It can make us better people.
Toward the end of the story, Sammy stares at another character's art work and says, "It makes me want to make something again. Something I can be just a little bit proud of."
That about sums it all up for me. Listening to this book made me laugh, got me all choked up, and left me wanting to create art for as long as possible.
- Chris Reich
- 2012/11/24
Superb, Original and BAM!
This is a wonderful story perfectly read. I would say no more but would fail to meet the Audible review requirements!
There is some real history here---read also The Ten Cent Plague---wrapped around the stories of two cousins. The stories are tragic but not overly depressing. The author somewhat gets us to a happy place by the end---not a perfect story book ending but that would demean some of the serious points this book makes. I love books that build compassion for people.
I have around 1500 audio books in my library. When I finish something really, really good, it can be insanely difficult to start, or rather get into, a new book. If you find yourself in that position, here you go! I had to listen to the first half hour a couple of times and then I was completely hooked.
Highly recommend.
Chris Reich
- Richard Delman
- 2012/07/18
Michael Chabon's magnum opus.
If you only read one book by Michael Chabon, this should be it. And, fortunately, David Colacci reads it, with his typical skill and verve. The book might be called over-written. Many of Chabon's books are like that. The story, however, is a remarkable one. Josef Kavalier escapes from Prague to eventually land in New York City during the early 1940s. He is welcomed by his cousin, Sam Klay, and the two young men rise to the very top of the world of comic books. Their hero, the Escapist, is a superman-like hero who is always escaping from Nazi-like traps and then returning to beat the Nazi-like guys to bloody pulps. The story of the personal lives of Kavalier and Klay is told in great detail. The book is extremely carefully researched. The ambience of New York City during this period is lovingly recreated by Chabon. There are a number of remarkable scenes. Kavalier has studied the great Houdini (whose real name was Erich Weiss) and has become an escape artist himself. He is also a magician and a clever entertainer. The book goes on perhaps too long, but if you are truly entertained, then Chabon and Colacci have done yeoman's work. The scenes of Kavalier's stretch in the Navy at a base in Antarctica are particularly memorable and heroic. Chabon's writing style is an acquired taste for many, but this is exactly the sort of thing for those who like this sort of thing.
- M. Spencer
- 2012/12/05
Well Written, But Not My Favorite
I really had no idea what The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay was about when I started listening. It had been on my "wish list" list for quite awhile and I just randomly decided to grab it. I can't help but think that a three star review seems awfully negative, but, really, I liked the novel; I just didn't love it.
Michael Chabon's work is undeniably well written. The characters are incredibly realistic, as is the setting. If I didn't know any better, I would believe that Chabon grew up in New York City in the 1940s. He must have done an incredible amount of research to pull off the setting so convincingly.
Perhaps because the audiobook was split up into three files, the novel felt to me like it had three acts. The first act was really an introduction to the characters and their business endeavors, the second act was largely a love story, and the third was the war and beyond. I could elaborate, but I'll refrain to avoid spoilers.
I really liked the first act. It was really interesting to see how Sammy and Joe take part in the birth of superhero comics, and The Escapist was frankly awesome. I also largely enjoyed the second act. I found Rosa to be interesting, quirky, and a wonderful compliment to the existing cast of characters.
My biggest issue was the third act. I just didn't enjoy it very much. I understand why Chabon chose for the story to go the way it did, but it started to wear on me and finishing the story became a bit of a slog, especially because the conclusion was both expected and inevitable, but not particularly satisfying.
Overall, I enjoyed the novel, especially the parts about The Escapist, but it wasn't my favorite and I wouldn't recommend it to just anyone. I think this one takes more of a patient reader than some of the novels that I tend to like.
- Bethann McLaren
- 2013/12/06
I feel like I should have loved it, but...
Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not?
I might. I know for good reason a lot of people that are not me really love this book. I am a BA, MA English graduate and I feel slightly guilty for not enjoying it more than I did. It's certainly well-written and the characters well crafted. I personally, though, just never really fell in love with the book. I found myself anxious for the book to be over so I could start reading something else. There were bits and pieces that moved me and I will always remember, but I can't say that for the book as a whole.
- Ryan
- 2012/10/22
Favorite Chabon novel so far, despite "meh" ending
I've read a couple of Michael Chabon's other books and have found him to be a writer I like a lot, but have never been totally enamored with. His prose reminds me of a certain type I sometimes meet at parties in the city: stylish, insightful, full of savoir faire, but trying just a little too hard to impress, and maybe not as original as he wants to be.
Still, if there was ever a novel that plays to an author's descriptive flair and love for homage, it would be the Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay. Through mannered but flip character study, Chabon hones in on the energies passing through pre-war New York City, as experienced by two young artists intent on making their mark in the dawning Golden Era of Comic Books, and later, the doldrums of 1950s suburbia and a stagnating industry. One of his protagonists, Joe Kavalier, is a young Jew from Czechoslovakia, trained in the arts of escape (think Harry Houdini), the other, Sammy Klayman, is a young Jew from Brooklyn, with aspirations of being a novelist. One worries about his family back in Europe, the other struggles with his sexuality, alternating between cautious acceptance and the socially-prescribed denial of the era. As with other Chabon novels, there are broad "Jewish" themes of exile, suffering, and redemption, which make an interesting subtext.
To me, the joy of this novel is the inventiveness with which Chabon has his heroes playing out their psyches and backstories on the nine-paneled page, as they struggle with guilt, a sense of identity, love, friendship, and failure. His ability to evoke the imagery of classic comics in prose is impressive, and reminds us of the ineffable power that visuals hold over both creator and devotee, even hampered by the stilted "sock! bam! pow!" conventions of the early days. A less graceful writer might have stamped out an empty nostalgia trip, but Chabon, in celebrating the earnest constructive spirit of young men in a new field of expression, crafts an ecstatic secret history of one rapidly evolving. It's not often that words are worth a thousand pictures.
Well, for the first third of the book, anyway. Once the young duo achieves its meteoric rise and begins settling into comfortable lives of regular paychecks and predictable comforts, the novel begins to sag and its character studies to feel a little superficial and plodding (but impeccably written). Luckily, an engaging interlude involving a little known-theater of World War Two shakes things up for a while at the two-thirds mark (though it's largely superfluous to the main story, and felt like Chabon just needed the writerly equivalent of an excuse to get out of the building and run around for a bit). After that, the story returns to 1950s suburbia, a dull marriage, a McCarthy-esque harassment of comic book writers, and a resolution that I found surprisingly banal. Does Chabon just not know how to end books well? I had a similar problem with the Yiddish Policemen's Union.
Yet, as with that book, I liked the imagination and joyous construction of a place in time on display in the first half of The Amazing Adventures so much, I still think it's worth your consideration. The audiobook might even be an improvement over the print version, with Joe and Sammy's distinct accents brought to life, along with those of several other characters. Probably my favorite of Michael Chabon's novels thus far.
- Wayne
- 2015/12/05
Amazing indeed!!
Having started routinely writing reviews of books I listen to recently, I've been looking back through my 900+ book Audible library for some of the very best, and a few of the worst, books to which I have listened. I listened to The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay two years ago. It remains one of my favorite novels although it is not of my favorite mystery/thriller genre.
The novel is set in the US during the WWII time frame beginning inn 1939. Kavalier, recently arrived in the US from a portion of Europe controlled by Nazi Germany, is the cousin of Clay. Both are in their late teens and they live in the house of Cay's mother as the book begins.
In this wonderful and inspiring, and sometimes funny, historical fiction novel the two talented cousins invent the modern comic book.
The narration is perfect.
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay falls into the must-read category.
- Honey Badger
- 2012/08/04
Even Narrator's Need an Editor
What made the experience of listening to The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay the most enjoyable?
This is a fantastic story, with amazing characters about whom you really care.
What did you like best about this story?
The characters.
What three words best describe David Colacci's performance?
Can't do accents.
If you could take any character from The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay out to dinner, who would it be and why?
Joe Kavalier.
Any additional comments?
I've been listening to audiobooks for a few months now and truly love them. They make my commute more than bearable and my "reading" has increased enormously. THAT SAID... do the people who make these books just put the narrators in front of a microphone and leave the room? Does nobody check how the "hard words" or foreign expressions are actually pronounced? Could audible not find a narrator who knew maybe even, would it be so hard to find, a little bit of Yiddish? And could this narrator fellow, this David Colacci, not have done maybe a little bit of research to distinguish the differences among German, Czech and Russian accents? Would that have killed somebody? Would that be so terrible?
Bubbe, when referring to a Jewish grandmother is pronounced Buh-bee. "My [buh-bee] makes great brisket." Bubbie -- sometimes also spelled bubbe -- is a shortened form of bubeleh. It is what your Jewish grandmother might call you when she pinches your cheek. It is hard to parse out phonetically in English, but the "u" is pronounced like the sound following the "c" in the word, could. So, using "oul" to represent that sound, that word is pronounced boul-bee. Funny one word means grandmother, and the other is usually used in reference to a child.
The mixing up of these two terms by the narrator drove me nuts. That nobody in the chain of listeners before this audiobook went public didn't know or didn't care makes me meshuge. The grandmother should have been buh-bee, not boul-bee. If it happened once, ok. But multiple times? Oye! Not good. In short he was referring to the grandmother using a term meant for a child.
The Czech accent is a beautiful one... think of the Hungarian accent of the Gabor sisters; it sounds like that. The narrator of this book decided that all Czechs sound like Russians, something akin to having someone with a French accent sound like they're from the United States.
- Eric Murphy
- 2012/12/05
Fantastic Story, Passible Narration
What did you love best about The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay?
The characters jump off the page and stick in your heart. You connect with them despite the gaps in history and crappy jewish mother accents.
Who was your favorite character and why?
Joe Kavalier. Great character. He is broken and compelling.
What three words best describe David Colacci's performance?
Please, Stop, {the} Accents
Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?
Plenty, but I don't want spoilers out there for future readers.
Any additional comments?
If you have the time and have heard about this book for years, it's worth a listen. The narration could be better, but the story makes up for that.
- Karen
- 2013/04/13
Entertaining and deeply moving
I love this book for the wonderful characters, richly-textured plot and the themes that develop in surprising ways throughout the book. The first time I read it I missed it terribly when it was over and became very cranky because I couldn't stand not having it in my life. I re-read it after 3 weeks. Since then, I've re-read parts of it numberless times and enjoy reading certain sections aloud to my friends. The audiobook is terrific. The variety of characters all sound authentic and it is in every way an experience that lives up to the quality of writing.
- Huttie at Hove
- 2019/07/23
it's a coherent long story & the narrator excels
lt's useful in illustrating the terrible experiences of Jewish families caught in the claws of Naziism, not just caught but unable to escape. That horror and, very importantly, how it came about (this book does not address the causes [the Book Thief does a better job of adressing how a leading modern educated society fell into Naziism] but looks at the awful effects) must never be forgotten. You experience how it seemed to one who had escaped to New York to watch in safety as the net closed on his immediate family. You also get an idea of what it may have felt like to be a survivor who lost... everyone.
It's a novel. It isn't too heavy or too dark. If you want Jewish humour, its there. If you want New York society during the 40s & 50s, this may be for you. Likewise if you want a better understanding of the comic book world, this might appeal. For me, l had difficulties with the characters & the prose is just too prolix. For me this book didnt work. Having said that, l did finish it
- mermaeve
- 2017/01/06
One of the best books I have ever read
Any additional comments?
The scope of the story the timeline and the craft going into the people who populate this book is amazing
- David
- 2016/09/14
Loved the book when I read it, this is a great audio book too - narration is spot on. An amazing adventure indeed.
- Trevell
- 2016/08/23
Why did I come so late to this?
What made the experience of listening to The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay the most enjoyable?
The whole place and time, New York 1939-53 comes fresh through this book,so near and yet so far and strange. It's a comic book evocation of a world we almost know.
What did you like best about this story?
The Prague Jews of the book are my family, and this might have been my world if my mother hadn't landed up in the UK instead of the US. But the awful parts of the book, the concentration camps and German occupation of Prague are both tragic and bearable.
Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
Not possible to listen to this enormous book at one sitting, but such fun, so exciting to go from cliff-hanger to cliff -hanger.
Any additional comments?
I wouldn't have the time to sit and read it, and so invest it with my own voice, which was a small sorrow, given how important to me the book turned out to be. But given that, I absolutely adored David Colacci's reading and it's done now. This reading is an essential part of the book to me.
- Lesleyboyd
- 2015/07/22
Great story - both moving and funny
I didn't like the look of the title and it was only through reading reviews that I gave it a go. Really glad I did. It is a super story, unusual, moving and funny. I like longer books and especially those that don't repeat themselves but keep the pace flowing - this is one of those. Interesting the unabridged is cheaper than the shorter abridged! Give it a go i'm sure you won't be disappointed.
- Brixtonian
- 2015/06/25
I miss them
Finding a life affirming story from the holocaust Chabon gives us characters to love and admire. The end of the book leaves you missing them and wanting to know what happens next. Not bad for a book this long. It keeps you hooked. Sometimes laughing out loud sometimes deeply sorrowful.
- Anonymous User
- 2020/08/06
crafty, genius, novel of the century,a must read.
it's perfect, stories within a story, simple but elegant, loved every second of it. would read again.
- NutwoodWanderer
- 2020/07/05
Not as interesting as it should have been
After 3 and a half hours I gave up. There were some interesting parts but there was too much that was just filler and I was bored. The narration didn't work for me either. There was no intrigue or subtlety. I found myself just listening to it as background noise rather than to the story itself.
- Chris Sampson
- 2019/11/15
I loved it. Hugely immersive and you don't half invest in characters. Totally brilliant reading.


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We do not have a group religion; our beliefs are diverse. We do not have a central leader; we govern ourselves by a form of democracy with responsibility shared among various managers, planners, and committees. We are self-supporting economically, and partly self-sufficient. We are income-sharing. Each member works 42 hours a week in the community's business and domestic areas. Each member receives housing, food, healthcare, and personal spending money from the community.
Our hammocks and casual furniture business has generated most of our income in the past. Making tofu as of 2011 has become roughly equal in importance to hammocks. Indexing books and now seed growing are also significant sources of income. Still, less than half of our work goes into these income-producing activities; the balance goes into a variety of tasks that benefit our quality of life—including milking cows, gardening, cooking, and childcare. Most people prefer doing a variety of work, rather than the same job day in, day out.
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I am still wondering if this is Sophie Archambeault and the man beside her is her husband Frank Lagasse (1858-1937), another descendant of Stanislas Lagacé I (1816-1900) whom we still don't have a picture of.
I have his dead certificate though, but that's not enough.
Frank is the brother of Stanislas Lagacé II (Dennis Lagasse II, 1842-1927) seen here on another picture Dennis IV sent me last month.
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I wonder if this could be Frank Lagasse's mustache on the old man on the right.
The mustache is seen again here.
I always thought the old man was Dennis Lagasse II. Now I am sure he is not.
The old man could be Frank Lagasse because one of his son was Bill Lagasse, and the caption with this picture says Bill Lagasse is on it.
One thing for sure, we will know for sure one of these days as well as all the names of all those people on that picture.
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The United Nations General Assembly voted overwhelmingly today to revoke the bitterly contested statement it approved in 1975 that said "Zionism is a form of racism and racial discrimination."
The official count found 111 nations in favor of repealing the statement and 25 nations, mostly Islamic and hard-line Communists, voting against. Thirteen nations abstained. Seventeen other countries, including Egypt, which recognizes Israel, and Kuwait and China, did not take part in the voting. [ Roll-call, page A12. ]
For the United States, the heavy vote in favor of repeal was a demonstration of its diplomatic power. After President Bush called for the repeal in September in a speech to the General Assembly, United States embassies around the world were instructed to put maximum pressure to secure the repeal. The 111 votes recorded today were about 11 more than the United States mission to the United Nations had predicted last week.
The vote reflected the shifting political currents of recent years, the Persian Gulf war in particular, which split the Arab and Islamic worlds, and the changes in the former Soviet bloc, fostered by the collapse of Communism.
In 1975, in an effort to curry favor with the Arabs and embarrass the United States, Moscow took the lead in pushing through the statement on Zionism, which was one line in a longer resolution.
With the end of Communism in Europe, countries there have by and large all re-established diplomatic relations with Israel in the last year. The Soviet Union and the rest of the former bloc, including newly independent Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, all voted for repeal today. The only Communist countries voting against repeal were Cuba, North Korea and Vietnam. Asians and Africans Back Vote
Many Asian and African nations, including India, Nigeria, Singapore and the Philippines, which voted for the Zionism resolution in 1975, reversed themselves today.
The vote divided the Islamic and former nonaligned movements. While no Arab country voted for repeal, Bahrain, Egypt, Kuwait, Morocco, Oman and Tunisia all were absent from the vote. Algeria, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Syria, the United Arab Emirates and Yemen were among those voting against repeal. But there was no indication that those Arabs voting against repeal made much of an effort to persuade other states not to go along with the United States initiative.
The one-line resolution repealing the Zionism statement declared that the Assembly "decides to revoke the determination contained in its resolution 3379 of 10 November 1975." It did not use the words "Zionism" or "racism" in the resolution. Applause for Vote
The 1975 statement referred to in the repeal decision said that after reviewing other international resolutions linking Zionism with South Africa's apartheid system, the General Assembly "determines that Zionism is a form of racism and racial discrimination."
Applause broke out in the General Assembly as the result flashed on the big electronic voting board high on one side of the hall. And delegates leapt up from their seats and rushed to congratulate Israel's Foreign Minister, David Levy, who led his country's delegation at the session.
At a news conference later, Mr. Levy described the vote as "removing a terrible blot" and said the world community was "sobering up," with many countries "shifting their positions."
A total of 85 countries, or just more than half of the 166 members in the United Nations, co-sponsored the repeal resolution, including the Soviet Union and all its former communist allies in Eastern Europe that voted the other way in 1975. The outcome was also at the high end of American expectations. On Friday, United States officials were predicting a maximum of just more than 100 votes for repeal but warning that there could be a 20 percent margin of error. Enhancing the U.N.
Both the United States and the spokesmen for the Arab countries voting against repeal saw the vote as important for both the credibility of the United Nations and for the Middle East peace talks. And their addresses drew loud applause from delegates.
Deputy Secretary of State Lawrence S. Eagleburger, who led the American delegation at this afternoon's session, argued that repeal would bring the United Nations better into line with the realities of the post-cold-war world.
Equating Zionism with racism, Mr. Eagleburger said, "demonstrated like nothing else before or since, to what extent the cold war had distorted the United Nation's vision of reality, marginalized its political utility and separated it from its original moral purpose."
Repeal, he said, could "only help and not hinder efforts currently under way" to bring peace to the Middle East, removing a 16-year-old obstacle to the United Nations' playing a more significant role in the peace process. The Arabs' Voice
Speaking against repeal on behalf of the Arabs, Lebanon's representative, Khalil Makkawi, warned that it would hinder the peace process by whetting the appetite of "Israeli extremists wishing to pursue their policy of creeping annexation."
It would also, he went on, "fuel the passions" of those Arabs "who believe the whole peace process is an exercise in futility which gives Israel more time to expand and achieve its revisionist Zionist project."
But he said the Arab group "will revise its assumptions" if the sponsors of today's repeal motion can now persuade Israel to comply with the Security Council's demands that it cede occupied Arab lands in return for peace.
In a further sign of the discomfort that the repeal has caused the Islamic world, today's session was presided over by the United Nations representative from Honduras, Roberto Flores Bermudez, rather than by the world organization's president, Samir S. Shihabi of Saudi Arabia, who is of Palestinian origin and who was present for the morning session today. Furor in September
In September he caused a stir by leaving the podium when Israel's Foreign Minister addressed the General Assembly.
The 1975 resolution on Zionism was approved in a smaller General Assembly, with 72 countries voting in favor, 35 against and 32 abstaining. Three countries did not take part in the vote.
Apart from the Soviet Union and its former East European allies, countries that switched their votes from support for that resolution to support for repeal included Brazil, India, Mexico, Nigeria and Yugoslavia.
Those that have now voted twice in favor of equating Zionism and racism include Afghanistan, Pakistan, Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Algeria, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Iran and Iraq.
In seeking support for repeal, the United States and its Western allies have used a variety of arguments to persuade wavering countries to join their camp, diplomats say, many of them based on a belief that today's vote would increase the pressure on Israel to compromise in the American-sponsored Middle East peace talks.
All argued that Resolution 3379 was out of date because it was a product of the cold war, pushed forward by the old Soviet Union and embraced by a militant third-world nations that saw the United Nations as a forum for attacking capitalism and propounding a new economic order that would redistribute wealth from rich to poor.


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Pronghorn cross a new overpass on Wyoming's U.S. 191.
The fastest land animal in the U.S. now has safe passage across a Wyoming highway -- extending a seasonal migration that's been going on for 6,000 years.
Pronghorn antelope have started using two overpasses atop Highway 191 that were completed this fall, the Wildlife Conservation Society announced this week. Eight-foot high fencing channels the animals to the crossing points.
"The importance of these overpasses and their use by pronghorn cannot be overstated," Joel Berger, a Wildlife Conservation Society scientist, said in a statement announcing the first successful crossings. "They eliminate the danger of collisions and will help to preserve a spectacular element of our natural heritage -- the longest mammal migration in the 48 contiguous United States."
The group has been tracking pronghorn in the area and provided data for Wyoming to decide where to put the overpasses.
The entire $10 million project includes six underpasses used by deer, moose, elk and other animals. Pronghorn got the overpasses because they don't like going into tunnels.
The eight passages are along a 13-mile stretch of Highway 191. The state's aim was to reduce car-wildlife crashes -- from 2002 and 2006, 49 deer and three pronghorn were killed in crashes.
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Able to run at speeds up to 70 mph, pronghorn probably numbered around 35 million in North America two centuries ago, the Wildlife Conservation Society stated. Today, Wyoming is home to more than half of the estimated 700,000 pronghorn left in North America.
The pronghorn use the corridor to get back and forth between winter sagebrush in the Upper Green River Basin and summer grounds in Grand Teton National Park.
Several hundred make the 93-mile migration each season -- and now they have the chance to do it without stopping at Highway 191.
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Date of Birth: 12/26/1959
County: Denver
Date of Death: 02/08/1981
Agency Case #: 81-648690
Age: 21
Judicial District: 2nd Judicial District
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On the evening of February 8,1981, members of the Denver Fire Department responded to the XV Logan Apartments, located on North Logan Street, on a report of a structure fire. After the fire was extinguished, emergency crews located James Migano along with two other victims deceased inside of the apartment. During the investigation, the fire was classified as arson. Anyone with information regarding this case, is asked to please contact the Denver Police Department.
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BOSTON Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley is recommending that the town of Middleborough change or repeal a bylaw that prohibits public profanity.
The town approved a proposal this summer that would allow police to enforce the 1968 ban by imposing a $20 fine on people who engage in loud swearing in public.
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Dolphin shows at the Brookfield Zoo are scheduled to resume today after a female dolphin died after apparently colliding with another dolphin minutes before a show Monday.
Nea, a 4-year-old Atlantic bottlenose dolphin, was set to perform an afternoon show when the accident occurred, officials said.
Preliminary results of a necropsy indicated she sustained a fractured skull, according to a press release issued by the Chicago Zoological Society, which manages the zoo.
The incident happened just before the 1 p.m. show. Marine mammal staff heard a loud pop and responded immediately, officials said. The staff noticed that the female dolphin appeared injured and trainers jumped into the water and attempted to save her by performing CPR, officials said.
Veterinary staff arrived in less than 10 minutes to assist, but the dolphin remained unresponsive.
The "freak incident" was not witnessed by anyone but according to the necropsy officials believe that Nea sustained her fatal injuries when she accidentally collided with another dolphin, officials said. There was no indication that the other dolphin was injured.
Nea arrived at Brookfield Zoo a year ago with Tatum, a 7-year-old dolphin. Both dolphins had integrated "very well" with the other dolphins, officials said.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda said the central bank will consider fresh steps to calm markets if borrowing costs spike again in the future, but the central bank held off on new measures on Tuesday arguing that bond markets had stabilised.
The decision disappointed some investors, who had factored in new market operation measures, prompting a rebound in the yen and falls in Tokyo shares and Japanese government bonds - moves that counter the aims of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's aggressive policy mix.
Rising bond market yields have already pushed up some mortgage rates, raising concerns that a further rise could increase other borrowing costs and so dent the economy's new found momentum under Abe.
"We remain vigilant to long-term interest rate moves. It's undesirable for volatility to heighten, so we'll make efforts to reduce it," Kuroda told a news conference.
The BOJ left monetary policy unchanged, as widely expected, thus keeping in place a pledge first made on April 4 to expand the supply of money at an annual pace of 60 trillion (389 billion pounds) to 70 trillion yen in a bid to turnover years of deflation with 2 percent inflation in two years.
The BOJ raised its official assessment of the economy - another reason that could explain its inaction on market-calming measures. Data on Monday had shown economic growth was faster than previously thought, the current account surplus was growing rapidly and lending was on the rise.
"Japan's economy is picking up," the central bank said in a statement, more upbeat than last month when it said growth was starting to pick up. It also revised up its assessment on exports and output to say they were picking up thanks to a gradual recovery in global growth and the benefits of a weak yen.
The dollar slumped as low as 96.48 yen, more than 2 percent on the day, after the BOJ's announcement. The Nikkei share average shed 1.5 percent and the benchmark 10-year bond yield rose 3.5 basis points to 0.870 percent. Financial markets were weak more generally as well, which contributed to the reaction in Tokyo.
Some central bankers had been considering the idea of extending the maximum duration of cheap, fixed-rate funds offered by the BOJ in market operations to two years from the current one year.
Such a move would have made it easier for banks that were caught wrong-footed by last month's spike in JGB yields to hedge their portfolios by reducing the need to sell bonds to balance their books, thus potentially dampening market swings.
"Today's decision may reflect Kuroda's stance of not taking incremental action in response to day-to-day market moves," said Hideo Kumano, chief economist at Dai-ichi Life Research Institute in Tokyo.
"He may also have thought there's no need to be too nervous about the market volatility, hoping to determine more the effect of the BOJ's bond-buying programme for the time being."
Before the recent market setback, euphoria over Abe's campaign to reflate the economy had driven Japanese equities up more than 70 percent since mid-November. The yen had briefly tumbled to a 4-1/2-year low against the dollar of 103.74 yen, raising the earnings prospects for exporters.
The BOJ stunned financial markets on April 4 by setting in motion an intense burst of monetary stimulus, promising to double its bond holdings in two years and boost purchases of risk assets.
One aim of the central bank's JGB buying is to reduce long-term interest rates, which could act as a lever to revive consumption.
But the massive scale of the purchases jolted markets instead and prompted a rush of sellers. The 10-year bond yield jumped to a one-year high of 1.000 percent on May 23 which, coupled with jitters over slowing Chinese growth, hurt global stocks, including Japanese equities.
The yen also surged to a two-month high against the dollar last week, weighing on the export-reliant economy and taking back a chunk of the feel-good effect of "Abenomics", the name given to Abe's economic policies, a prescription of sweeping fiscal and monetary expansion aimed at jerking Japan out of a two-decade long slump.
A loss of market confidence would be a big blow to Abenomics, which relies on sentiment to spur a virtuous circle of consumption, investment, higher wages and lending to revitalise the economy.
Kuroda put up a brave face in his briefing, insisting markets will stabilise over time to reflect Japan's economic recovery. Gradual improvements in the jobs market will offset some of the negative effect recent stock price falls could have on consumer sentiment, he said.
Kuroda also dismissed market speculation the BOJ will soon boost purchases of risk assets, notably that of real-estate investment trust (J-REIT), to tame market turbulence.
"Japan's REIT market is not that big, so it's hard to sharply increase our purchases in a short period of time," Kuroda said.
Many analysts say the BOJ will spend more time scrutinising market developments and hold off on additional monetary easing unless the market turbulence inflicts severe harm on the economy, given its dwindling list of policy options.
"As long as yields move in line with economic developments, this is not a problem. If yields start to deviate from the underlying economy, the BOJ could make some minor adjustments in the future," said Hiroshi Miyazaki, senior economist at Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities in Tokyo.
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I didn't even know what title to give this post because basically this is something that I've been putting off and dreading, as well as not even having much time to write. It is also hard to write since my previous post was about how my Mom rocked Thanksgiving. This is because just over a week later, my mother had a massive heart attack and ended up on life support, which was turned off four days later.
My dear, wonderful, lovely, passionate, feisty but hurting in ways I don't think anyone could truly understand, mother has passed away. My Momma who always listened to me and has been there for me, even if we were "fighting" always said that she would watch my daughter for my husband and I, because she never really trusted anyone else to do the best job that she could do. Someone that would jump on the bandwagon, when my feelings were hurt or if it looked like I was taken advantage of from someone. A person that made it all better, when I hurt. Weather it was with medication or just getting me a wet washrag and putting it on my forehead when I was sick. Someone that was there at the hospital after giving birth to my own daughter and basically *saved* my life, so I could be a mother today. Someone that I want here with me right now, but can't be. Someone that I know, is in a much better place, but it still sucks for those that loved her and are left behind.
I can't even begin to express into words on this blog how hard this has been. Not only on me, but my sweet Dad who loves her so much and doesn't know how to make it without her. (But you will Daddy, you will. Momma would want you to, and Theresa and I both want and need you) My sister, who even though they didn't always see eye to eye, it was her Momma too, and my sweet wonderful daughter, who thought the world of her Grandma and who was my daughter's favorite playmate when she was a toddler! We are all in a world of hurt even still.
I feel like I am in a walking hell at the moment and I can't find an exit route to take out of it. Because not only did *I* lose my mother, four weeks later, my own husband lost his Mother. We have only been back in the country not even a week, and during our time in England, my daughter and I came down with either food poisoning or a nasty bug on the plane. We were so sick in fact, that my daughter couldn't even get off the floor of the hotel room because of throwing up so much, and we both missed the funeral. Once returning from England, I also promptly came down sick again, this time running fever and now my daughter has it too. I am thankful to God that it wasn't nearly as severe as it was in England.
I just seems like it keeps getting worse. Once returning from home, I also found out that a game I play online called World of Warcraft got hacked into. I lost a lot of items in the game and it's not important to me. It's a game. BUT it does make me concerned about if I have a virus or a key-logger on my computer and if it can pose a threat to my financial accounts that I do online. So I had to promptly cancel credit cards as a precaution and money is so tight, it's not even funny. I am also concerned about all the photos that I have online of my Mom, taken in this last year. I lost my saved phone messages from Mom about three weeks ago, and it broke me down in tears. I don't want to lose anything else, especially if it's in regards to my mom/parents. Then to add salt to all these wounds, is the fact of how my MIL left her will, and it's left my husband feeling hurt, confused and wondering if his own mother even cared about him.
Then today in the mail I get a wonderful letter from my child's school about truancy. YEAH! What Fun! NOT!!! So now I am wondering about the sentence that said , "We could prosecute you to the fullest extent of the law..which I do believe includes a big fine a possible jail time! Something two disabled parents who both lost their mothers in the space of a month, needs! So basically when it comes to fund raising at my child's school, they can piss off!
Of course this letter comes the day my child comes home running a fever, that is about .2 points from being at the level of where they state that we are suppose to keep our child home..because Heaven forbid we give it to the rest of the students at her school. Even though they sure do like to give bicycles away to perfect attendance record holders. Their favorite sayings is.."when you miss school..you miss out!" Well I would really hate for any student to miss out on what my child has, and since we are on the edge of being sent to jail, my child will more than likely be hopped up on Tylenol and praying that she doesn't puke on anyone tomorrow! Times like these is when I wished like heck we home-schooled our daughter.
So right now little Lisa is pissed, mad, sad, depressed, angry, and Lord only knows what else right now. I keep having mini (ha ha) melt downs and I know it gets to my husband. He's been trying really hard to make me smile and do so much for me. He's hurting and grieving too. I am so very grateful for all that he's done for me and my family. Especially for my Mom, when it came right down to it at the end.
I am not sure when I will post again here to be honest. My heart and my life feels very broken at the moment. I want to go back to being the person that I used to be, but I am unsure if that will ever happen. When you say the final goodbyes to one of the most important people that's ever to be in your life (your parents, Your spouse, your children and siblings are included in that), it changes you. You finally are forced to grow up in ways you didn't realize you needed to. Or maybe it's just me, who was babied so much by both my Mom and Dad and now realize it's different and a lot harder than I ever thought possible.
I keep thinking about feeling broken and wondering if maybe being broken like this, is God's way of putting me back together in his way and his time, to be the person that he had planned for me all along.
For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart. (Jeremiah 29:11-13)
If I thought I could get up off my knees and not be in horrible, horrible pain ( I bad arthritis in my knees) I would be on them right now. But I will still pour my heart out to him. I will hope and pray that all of this will soon be a distant memory, but still a memory. Something not to be forgotten and cast aside, but something to be learned from and remembered. Something to share with others if the need arise. To somehow become a better person, a better Christian, because I know I am far from it at the moment. I want to learn how to pray better and praise him in the way he deserves. I want to murmur less, but it's hard when pressure keeps piling up. I want to get back into church and be surrounded around other believers. I want to get the joy back into my heart that came from him and goes back up to him in song. I pray I get that chance.
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FILE - In this Dec. 31, 2012 file photo, Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, center, fields questions from reporters as he walks on Capitol Hill in Washington. Foreigners leaving the country through any of the nation's 30 busiest airports would undergo mandatory fingerprinting under an amendment senators added Monday to a sweeping immigration bill. "This is an agreement that we need to build toward a biometric visa exit system," said Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., who offered the amendment by Hatch, who was absent Monday. "Implementing this biometric exit system is long overdue." (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate supporters of far-reaching immigration legislation accepted minor changes in public while negotiating over more sweeping alterations in private Monday as they drove toward expected Judiciary Committee approval by mid-week.
In a long day of drafting, the panel voted to begin phasing in a requirement for foreigners to undergo fingerprinting when they leave the country. Lawmakers also agreed to make an immigrant's third drunk driving conviction a deportable offense in some cases.
At the same time, officials expressed optimism that agreement was in sight in complex private talks over proposed changes to a section of the legislation relating to H-1B high skilled visas. As drafted, the bill would raise the current cap from 65,000 annually to 110,000, with the possibility of a further rise to 180,000.
Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, whose state is home to a burgeoning high tech industry, sought changes to reduce the cost and other conditions on firms that rely on highly skilled foreign labor.
He told reporters he is prepared to support the overall legislation when the committee votes on final passage if an agreement is reached on the issues. "The way it was written they're going to move offshore," he said of firms seeking changes.
In general, organized labor and its allies on the committee, including Sen. Richard Durbin, D-Ill., wanted tougher conditions than industry was seeking, part of an attempt to assure than American workers are not disadvantaged by a larger influx of H-1B visa holders.
At its core, the legislation would provide an opportunity of U.S. citizenship to millions of immigrants living in the country illegally, create a new visa program for low-skilled workers and permit a sizeable increase in the number of high-tech visas, at the same time it mandates new measures to crack down on future unlawful immigration.
The full Senate is expected to begin debate on the legislation next month.
In two previous weeks of deliberations, supporters of the legislation have demonstrated their command over the committee's proceedings, alternately accepting some proposals advanced by the bills critics and rejecting others — all without losing a single showdown.
The same pattern held true as the committee embarked on its third and final week of drafting.
On a vote of 13-5, the legislation's supporters agreed to require foreigners leaving the country through any of the nation's 30 busiest airports to submit to fingerprinting, part of an attempt to strengthen security.
"This is an agreement that we need to build toward a biometric visa exit system," said Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz. He said the system is "long overdue." Most of the committee's Democrats supported the provision, along with four Republicans. Among them were GOP Sens. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Flake of Arizona, two the so-called Gang of Eight that negotiated the bill's basic framework over many months.
The committee last week rejected a proposal by Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., to impose the fingerprinting requirement at all of the nation's ports of entry rather than only the biggest airports. He said the system's partial implementation marked a "retreat from current law," which already requires a nationwide biometric system. The requirement has not been fulfilled because of the cost.
Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, advanced the drunk-driving amendment, a proposal that stipulates at least one of three convictions must occur after enactment of the law. It cleared on a vote of 17-1.
It appeared unlikely the issue of the high tech visas would be settled formally until Tuesday.
High-tech companies sought a change in the bill's requirement that they show they've tried to recruit U.S. workers before hiring anyone on an H-1B visa. Hatch's original proposal would make the regulation apply only on the firms most heavily dependent on H-1B visas, not on those where 85 percent of the jobs are filled by American citizens.
Hatch also has an amendment to change a requirement in the bill seeking to ensure that U.S. workers are not displaced by the hiring of foreigners.
In an email issued during the afternoon, the AFL-CIO urged its supporters to contact the committee and express opposition to "Hatch's anti-worker amendments...
"Hatch's amendments would change the bill so high-tech companies can hire new immigrant employees without first making the jobs available to American workers," it said.
One Senate official said two earlier stabs at compromise had failed, one when the high tech industry rebelled at the terms, and the other when the AFL-CIO balked. The officials who described the deliberations did so on condition of anonymity, saying they were not authorized to speak on the record.
Whatever the ultimate outcome of the negotiations, it seemed unlikely that the committee's vote would be the final vote on high tech visas — or any other major portion of the measure.
"This bill is not perfect," Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said at one point during the day, one of several occasions in the past two weeks he has signaled that he and other supporters will be receptive to some changes when the legislation reaches the Senate floor.
And in fact, Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., arguably the Republican with the largest ability to sway the vote in the Senate, has said he wants to tighten the fingerprinting requirement that the committee accepted during the day. "I will continue to fight to make the tracking of entries and exits include biometrics in the most effective system we can build when the bill is amended on the Senate floor," he said.


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HARTFORD (AP) -- Two Albanian immigrants who live in Prospect have been released after spending more than a year in federal detention.
U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal said Monday that Valent Kolami, a father and businessman who immigrated to the U.S. 13 years ago, received a stay of deportation and was released last Thursday. He and his brother-in-law and business partner, Adrian Emin, were detained by immigration authorities on April 24, 2012, held in Alabama.
Emin was released in August.
Blumenthal intervened on behalf of both men, who said they did not realize they'd been living illegally in Connecticut because they had previously consulted with an attorney.
Blumenthal said even though the two men posed no threat, they were detained for months. He said their case points to the need for immigration reform.