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Adoption, both a legal act and a social service,
is the method provided by law to establish the legal relationship
between parent and child. Adoption creates a new family and gives
adopted children the same rights and benefits as if they had been
born into the family.
The South Carolina Department of Social Services
provides adoption services to children whose parents either have
voluntarily given up their parental rights or whose rights have
been terminated by the courts. Most of the children live with
foster parents while waiting for an adoptive home. Some are members
of sibling groups, and many are emotionally, physically or mentally
Here are some questions often asked by potential
adoptive parents.
What are adoption services?
Adoption services are the array of professional services offered
and coordinated by an agency to not only place a child into an
adoptive family but to also strengthen and preserve the family
during the adoption process. Adoption services are provided statewide
in South Carolina through regional adoption offices. There also
are a number of private adoption agencies offering adoption services.
Does it take a lot of money to adopt children?
Not really. You do not have to be rich or have a high income.
However, you should be able to manage on the income you earn.
The child may be eligible for financial assistance.
Do I have to own my home?
No, you can rent your home and still adopt. The primary concern
is that there is adequate space for the child. Living arrangements
should ensure the health, safety and well-being of your family
and the child you wish to adopt.
What about marital status?
Both married and single persons are encouraged to adopt.
Can you work outside the home?
The fact that a primary caretaker works outside the home does
not exclude her or him from being an adoptive parent. Each situation
is decided on the parents' ability to meet the child's needs.
Child care plans, working hours and family schedules are evaluated.
Are adoptive homes needed only for infants?
DSS places children of all ages; however, an urgent need exists
for adoptive homes for older children.
Are older children more difficult to parent?
Children are children. Most feel vulnerable in making yet another
move while wanting, at the same time, to do well in a new family.
Many children have good reason not to trust adults, and it will
take time for them to learn to trust. It is true that children
develop personality traits and behavior patterns early in life,
but all people change over time, even when they are adults. Are
we the same people now we were five years ago? The secret is to
enjoy the qualities that the child brings to your family while
working out compromises regarding other issues.
Are the people who adopt older children special
Most families who adopt children who are older or handicapped
are just plain people. They do feel something special about children
who need parents. What makes them different is a willingness to
work harder at becoming a parent to a child with special problems.
Does DSS share all information with adopting
All non-identifying information the agency has about the child
is shared with the adopting family.
If I do not accept the first child offered,
will I be considered again?
You decide if a specific child will blend into your family. To
refuse a child will not hurt your chances to consider other children.
Do adoption specialists pry into my private
You and your adoption specialist share a particular responsibility
to look at those things that will help or hinder an adoption.
If you think the specialist is prying too much, then say so, and
ask the reasons why certain things are discussed.
After a child is placed, am I left on my own?
What's next?
DSS works closely with the family and the child to increase understanding
of the changes that are occurring. Adoption specialists provide
services before, during and after placement.
May we request financial assistance if we cannot
meet all the costs of parenting a child with special needs?
In some circumstances, a family adopting a child with special-needs
may apply for assistance with legal fees, monthly cash benefits,
health coverage or medical subsidy. Your adoption specialist will
assist you with this information.
What are special needs factors and conditions?
Special needs factors and conditions include:
What about age . . . mine?
One must be of legal age to complete an adoption. Persons older
than 40 are encouraged to apply, and they are given consideration
for older children and children with special-needs.
What about health?
Your physical health, life expectancy and your emotional health
are important. There are no restrictions regarding handicapped
persons unless their handicap would hinder fulfilling their parental
And religion?
Adoptive applicants are not required to claim certain religious
faiths. The main concern is the provision of a wholesome environment
in which the child is accepted and nurtured.
If I accept a child and the placement does
not work, will I be considered for other children?
Realistically, some placements do not work and an adoption may
disrupt. If a disruption occurs, all factors that contributed
to the disruption will be considered. If the family needs time
to sort through the previous experience, they may request that
their case be placed on hold until they are ready to be considered
Do I need to be a South Carolina resident or
U. S. citizen?
You may adopt if you live within the state or live elsewhere.
United States citizenship is not required, but the status of non-citizen
applicants is investigated. If you live in another state, South
Carolina adheres to the Interstate Compact on the Placement of
Children. You must have a home study approved by an agency licensed
by your state. This agency must agree to provide post placement
supervision in the event a child is placed with you.
What if I want to adopt a particular South
Carolina child that I identify in the LINK photo album of waiting
children on the Internet?
A particular child cannot be promised. The photo listings reflect
the types of children that are available for adoption. It is possible
that a match might be made between your family and a particular
child that you identify on the Internet, however, your family
may match the needs of another child more realistically and appropriately.
Remember that your home study includes a child factors check list
that you have completed acknowledging what you find appropriate
or not appropriate. Sincere effort will be made to ensure a good
Can children be placed outside South Carolina
before they are legally free?
Children cannot be placed outside South Carolina unless parental
rights have been terminated, however, there are circumstances
that on occasion create exception to this rule.
For more information on adoption in South
Carolina, please call 1-888-CARE-4-US.
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Columbia Restaurant - Celebration
- Address:
649 Front Street
Celebration, FL 34747Neighborhood:
- Cuisine:
SpanishPrice: $30 and under
Columbia Restaurant - Celebration
- Dining Style: Casual Dining
- Website: http://www.columbiarestaurant.com/
- Phone: 4075661505
- Hours of Operation:
Lunch Daily: 11:30am - 4:00pm; Dinner Nightly: 4:00pm - 10:00pm; Tapas Bar: Sunday - Thursday: 5:00pm - 10:00pm, Friday - Saturday: 5:00pm - 12:00am
- Payment Options: AMEX,Discover,MasterCard,Visa
- Cuisine: Spanish, Cuban
- Executive Chef: Ponciano Garcia
- Dress Code: Casual Dress
- Accepts Walk-Ins: Yes
- Additional Details: Banquet/Private Rooms, Bar/Lounge, Beer, Full Bar, Gluten-free Menu, Non-Smoking Area, Non-Smoking Restaurant, Patio/Outdoor Dining, Private Room, Smoking Area, Takeout, Wheelchair Access, Wine
- Private Party Facilities: From groups of 10-300 we offer an outdoor courtyard and indoor private dining area to host your birthday or anniversary party, office party, rehearsal dinner or wedding reception. Choose from our banquet menu or let us customize your menu for that special occasion. Our Mediterranean-style dining rooms are surrounded by outdoor dining areas and hundreds of hand-painted Spanish tiles and family heirlooms, specially selected to create an old-world charm and ambiance that lend an atmosphere of warmth and elegance to any gathering.
- Private Party Contact: Dan Coward 4075661505
- Entertainment: Live Music Friday and Saturday nights from 8:00 p.m. to 12:00 a.m. in the Tapas Bar. The Columbia in Downtown Celebration opened in 1997 and is located just minutes from Orlando's theme parks and overlooks Celebration's picturesque lake. The Columbia is situated within a community with small town charm, offering a variety of designer boutiques and shops, and next door to a movie theater.
- Special Events: Although online reservations may not be available, we are still taking reservations through the restaurant.
A word from Columbia Restaurant - Celebration
Family-owned and operated for over 100 years, Columbia has earned acclaim for its old-world charm and award-winning Spanish/Cuban cuisine and wine list. Join us for century-old family recipes like Paella "a la Valenciana," Filet Mignon "Columbia," and fresh seafood specialties. Don't miss Columbia's Original "1905" Salad®, prepared tableside with our delicious, freshly-made dressing, a 100-year-old family recipe of fresh garlic, oregano, wine vinegar and Spanish extra virgin olive oil. Be sure to sample a fine Spanish wine like Torres, Montecillo or Campillo. Relax outdoors in our café or courtyard, or inside our Tapas Bar or Mediterranean-style dining rooms filled with hand-painted tiles and family heirlooms. We are a sister to the Columbia in Tampa's Ybor City, founded in 1905. Children's menu available. Open 365-days a year, including all holidays.Continued
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Columbia Restaurant - Celebration reviews from OpenTable diners
223 reviews since June 4, 2014
- Food4.4Service4.3
- Ambiance4.4Noise LevelModerate
special occasion (134)neighborhood gem (103)fit for foodies (97)good for groups (86)romantic (84)great for outdoor dining (83)great for lunch (76)scenic view (51)hot spot (38)kid-friendly (37)notable wine list (27)great for brunch (26)late-night find (15)vibrant bar scene (5)Show More
- One of my favorite restaurantsgingy28Dined on 9/29/2014We love Columbia so much that we ate there on a Saturday night for supper and returned on Monday for lunch. Everyone on the staff is so kind. The manager came over to greet us. It's a great place and the food is equally great!Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- ExcellentOpenTable Diner Since 2014Dined on 9/27/2014Great food with good table location. Enjoyed the wine.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- DisappointingNorCalDanVIPDined on 9/27/2014My wife and I had lunch at Columbia two days earlier and had a marvelous experience, so we invited two friends, one of whom is a Cubano, to join us for dinner. our server was inept at best, the bar ran out of the ingredients for a favorite cocktail, and the food was inconsistent - the tapas were nicely done but the signature Snapper Alicante was overlooked and the sauce was pathetic. No management was visible while we were there, let alone did anyone ask how are experience was. No way we can recommend this location.
- I've had better....Mallory28Dined on 9/27/2014Went for my moms bday. Usually the food is good, I've been here about 3 other times and never had a problem. Our waiter I believe left out certain ingredients in the 1905 salad since mine had absolutely no taste and was very oily. It was extremely loud so that made it very unenjoyable. I think the best part of the dinner was when we left.Special Features:
- Padrino's Is Far Superior35thAnniversaryDined on 9/25/2014HORRIBLE! I have gone there since it opened years ago and am totally outraged at the food and especially the beyond horrible service, My money is more important to me. Would definitely think twice before going back and intend on telling others of this Horrible Evening, I sent a reservation ahead of our arrival telling them we were celebrating our anniversary and really expected a special evening to remember, WELL I sure got that. Over a Hundred Dollars of our social security, gone and a truly memorable evening thanks to your staff and horrible cook. Good Rice, YUCK that is what I scrape off the bottom of a pan. Never got my 1905 salad I ordered, the Sangria was far below your usual quality, $20 alone for 2 glasses, I have more to say....
- Truly Disappointed!76BluehenVIPDined on 9/25/2014We chose to go to the Celebration restaurant based on a fairly recent experience at the original restaurant in Tampa which was wonderful. Boy were we sadly mistaken. We were seated quickly and waiter was attentive - went downhill from there. Wife decided to do the 3 part Tapas dinner - Scallops, Calamari and Black Bean cakes. Scallops were so overcooked they were tough. Calamari was cold when arrived and to their credit they did replace. Black Bean cakes were flavorless and boring. I had the Cuban type combo which was good, not great. We were thoroughly disappointed and give the competition and many restaurant choices in the area - we will not be making a return visit.
- Consistently Ouststanding!ChazDined on 9/23/2014Everything about this place is awesome, but I expect nothing less. The food and service is fabtastic. I had the Eggplant for the first time, and I long for another order of it.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Love this placeNoNameVIPDined on 9/22/2014Excellent service by Rico and impeccable food. The 1905 salad was very heavy on the dressing, though!Special Features:
- Best restaurant we have ever eattOpenTable Diner Since 2013Dined on 9/20/2014We have been coming to Columbia since it opened in celebration it is my family's favorite restaurant great for any occasion excellent food and serviceSpecial Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Columbia CelebrationPattiDined on 9/18/2014I have been a fan of this restaurant, and have been to all of their locations. Each offers a slightly different vibe and some minor differences in the preparation of the food. This was a lunch with a friend, and we both ordered our long-time favorite. 1/2 a 1905 Salad and a cup of black bean soup. Our waitress was very attentive and friendly. I have the recipes for both these dishes, but they are just not the same when I prepare them. The black bean soup is the best I've had anywhere, and the signature salad is delicious. I normally do not eat iceberg lettuce, but I would recommend this salad to anyone. A hot and crisp Cuban bread is served with each meal. Try this restaurant. You will come backSpecial Features:
- Great welcomeDanlDined on 9/16/2014We forgot our GPS and needed help finding the place. A very courteous hostess took around 20 minutes guiding us in by phone. The waiter was very helpful in explaining some of the preparation and ingredients in some of the menu items. The 1905 salad was wonderful. The empanadas were about average. The Paella was good but not great. Still in all fairness a four out of five. I was most impressed by the tenderness of the calamari. I would go again because most of the items were very intriguing.Special Features:
- Accomodating and PleasantSusieDined on 9/16/2014I met a friend for dinner who I had not seen in a couple of years. Needless to say we were catching up on things more than being attentive to our menus so it took us forever to be ready to order. The waiters were very patient with us, gave us excellent service but didn't make us feel like we were a drain on their evening. With a 6:00 reservation we didn't leave until 11:00. We did make sure we weren't tying up a table that others needed but really appreciate how we were treated while staying so long. Always good Cuban food!Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- ReservationOpenTable Diner Since 2014Dined on 9/13/2014I made a reservation over the phone and when I got there I have to wait. For a 5 star restaurant the amount of people waking in was like going to Chili's. No class, I was disappointed on the amount of food for the price!!!!Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Wonderful!luv2eatDined on 9/13/2014Enjoyed a wonderful evening at the Columbia Restaurant. Everything was delicious. From the time we entered until we left, the experience was enjoyable. We would definitely come back.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- I love this locationLuckyNVIPDined on 9/9/2014This Columbia is by far my favorite location. Every time we visit Orlando this place is a must go.Special Features:
- 1905 SaladYisthisVIPDined on 9/7/2014The simple 1905 Salad is always good and always what I order after making the mistake of trying the other salad. My husband always orders something new and while it is usually okay, the snapper this time, it tends to be a bit on the bland, overcooked, and smaller portion side.
- Great Food & AtmosphereIggyDined on 9/5/2014If you are visiting Disney and want a non-theme park atmosphere and great Old Florida / Cuban-Spanish cuisine, the Columbia is the perfect spot.Special Features:
- Second time at different location.fun4twoDined on 9/4/2014This was second time dinning at the family owned chain of Columbia restaurants. Always the same great food and service. Great home style Cuban and Spanish food. The staff is always friendly and knowledgeable. Great time on a date or with the family.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Celebration winnerCRS1VIPDined on 8/31/2014First visit to this family owned restaurant. The wait staff and service were terrific. The food was very good. The 1905 Salad lived up to its reputation and the Cuban sandwich was tasty. This is a great place to bring out of town guests, since the ambiance is terrific.Special Features:
- NPinkDined on 8/31/2014My husband and I were already big fans of Columbia, so I took my 2 best friends from the midwest for Sunday brunch and they said it was their favorite place I took them during their 5 day stay with me in Windermere. We had great drinks and shared several great tasting small plates and, of course, the 1905 salad. They liked it so much the next day they googled the dressing recipe & we did our best to replicate it. They left saying the 1905 salad has been added to their reccipe books, but know it will never be the same as made table side.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Celebration ColumbiaProfessoreDined on 8/30/2014What a nice find in Celebration. Family owned since 1905 and the food is still excellent. We want to return just to try everything. Don't miss the wonderful Cuban bread.Special Features:
- Great restaurant!CerodadoDined on 8/29/2014Excellent food, very good service! Very good decoration, ambiance...Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- MeMeDined on 8/27/2014I specifically chose this restaurant for my birthday celebration because it is my idea of the perfect special occasion place. It's fun, good food, good service and my favorite place to go.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Not always how you remember itEBAlvarezDined on 8/27/2014My family and I go to Columbia frequently. I have always loved the food, menu, ambiance, staff, and views. This most recent time the food was warm, not cold but from from fresh out the oven. I was sad because I love the food and always hate myself for finishing the food and not taking any home for later. This last time I didn't even eat the leftovers. My kids love this place and they loved their food. My husband tried something new (which is very out of the ordinary for him) and he liked it. I will go back again in hopes it was a fluke.Special Features:
- YumLuv2flybyDined on 8/26/2014Best part is the 1905 salad!!! Entrees are very good but I can make a meal with just the salad ;)sangria is a very refreshing addition to the meal too.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- More than just coffee at ColumbiaFoodieFindsDined on 8/24/2014One can always find something at the Columbia Restaurant. Whether it is light fare or something more involved, the flavor is to savor! The appetizers we chose were scallops and the empanadas. Sangria can't be beat! Our group then chose everything from pompano in parchment, pork, steak and the combination plate. Can you say leftovers as we needed room for the dessert. Flan and chocolate with a nice espresso or coffee can't be beat. From arriving to check out, the staff is gracious and warm. It was a two hour dinner full of fun and sharing stories. Amazing...no cell phones needed at this dinner table. So, leave the phone at home and grab the family...young and old.Special Features:
- Good Spanish FoodjayeDined on 8/23/2014We always try to get here at least once when we come to Florida. Unique menu items. Also beer offerings are different. Service is excellent and food is delicious.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Mystery DateRapunzelDined on 8/23/2014My boyfriend and I like to do mystery dates with each other, so I took him on a mystery date to the Columbia. This is one of our favorite restaurants and we had been to every one of them except this one. Everything about the dinner was outstanding as always. The food was delicious and high quality, the atmosphere is lively, and the wait staff is attentive. We will, of course, visit the Columbia again. Thanks for making date night so special!!Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- My FavoriteWebberwarriorVIPDined on 8/23/2014If you want Latin food this is the place. It has a great selection of Spanish themed food. There is some very good Cuban choices As well I as others. The Sangria is awesome and the service is great too.Special Features:
- Great findOpenTable Diner Since 2009Dined on 8/22/2014This is a great Cuban restaurant in a fine quaint town. The food is superb - the steak awesome. Sangria was very authentic as well . We would love to return.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Tasty as always!LauraVIPDined on 8/21/2014Met with a few friends for lunch and as always Columbia delivered a great meal! The 1905 Salad was delicious! Everyone had a great time and enjoyed the food, service and ambience.Special Features:
- Hope it's better next time!LindaWDined on 8/17/2014We've been twice for dinner in the last week. The first time was brilliant - good service, food etc. The second time not so good. We took friends on Sunday 17th. We were seated at 7.20pm, ordered our food & drinks and had to ask where our meal was at 8.35pm! We were sitting in the rear of the restaurant and when everyone, except us, left the staff moved all the tables and set them for breakfast and it was only 9pm. We were so disappointed after highly recommending it to our friends.
- Service great, food okayD4STDined on 8/17/2014My wife and I went here for our 35th wedding anniversary. The ambience is very good. I ordered the 1905 salad, which was good but not drop dead. I also had a glass of sangria which was watered down from the ice. For entrees I ordered the filet flambé, and my wife the crab stuffed shrimp. The steak was cooked perfectly but the sauce had a strong alcoholic bourbon taste - so much I avoided it. My wife did not enjoy the shrimp because she thought the shrimp did not taste or smell right. I tasted them and they weren't as flavorful as true Gulf shrimp. For dessert we split the white chocolate bread pudding, which was outstanding. Service was outstanding. Overall, a nice restaurant. The meal was not a homerun, especially for a $100+.Special Features:
- Pedestrian Fare, Nice LocationnofoofoofoodieVIPDined on 8/16/2014Lunched here five years ago which was a far better experience than our recent dinner. Maybe the more cost-effective lunch was more palatable than the relatively expensive dinner. The appetizers were bland and my husband's paella was greasy and gummy and not very flavorful. My crab cakes tasted fishy and overly salty. The scallops tasted just ok. I was very disappointed because I brought my husband here because he was unable to make it last time. We still enjoyed the evening because of the quaint town of Celebration, good weather, nice location/atmosphere & the great ice cream nearby at Kilwins.Special Features:
- One of our favoritesGladToHelpDined on 8/15/2014Columbia is a fantastic restaurant which we have enjoyed for years. Certainly for their outstanding menu and superb service, along side a pleasant ambiance. We shared our first date there, many lunches, and 6 years later we celebrated our wedding anniversary dinner. It is perfect for all occasions. Highly recommend you experience and make this place a tradition to enjoy.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Never changesAubbieVIPDined on 8/12/2014The Columbia Restaurant always serves a decent Cuban experience meal. We will eat there when visiting the area for a quick lunch and it has always been fine. Portions are large and the menu is extensive.Special Features:
- Poor Service and ManagementGeryDined on 8/10/2014We went to this restaurant for a special occasion and we had specified in the reservation that we were celebrating a birthday. Tables around us received the usual congratulations from the staff with a song but we never did. Our service was very slow although we were very quick to order both drinks and food. We never received the glass for the beer that we asked for. 2 waiters started sweeping the flow with 2 brooms spreading the dirt and dust from the floor all throughout our plates as we were eating. We also had a sleeping baby with us. UNACCEPTABLE. Since we couldn't eat the dusty food we asked for the check. The waiter started clearing the table instead. We had to ask him to bring us the check and clean later. We left very disappointed.
- Very nice eveningJackyDined on 8/10/2014We've eaten here before and have never been disappointed. This time, since the restaurant was very busy, our waiter forgot to bring an appetizer to the table that we were going to share before dinner. We waited ages for our dinner and had no appetizer to pick at. When we reminded him, he did bring it, but it was not as good (hot) as usual and it came after our main courses had arrived. We will go back. Everyone's entitled to an off night, right?Special Features:
- One of the besthungrynfunnyDined on 8/5/2014We love Columbia. We've been to the original and two of the others. This one has a charm all it's own within the setting of the community of Celebration. The food is outstanding as it has been at all of the locations we've experienced. The interior was beautiful and we had a perfect view of the beautiful paintings and decor. We ordered the famous 1905 salad and tapas and were not disappointed in the food and presentation. It was a Tuesday evening but there will still quite a buzz of people. Everything about this dining experience was outstanding, except our service. Our waiter was nice enough, but not very attentive, almost shy. We had to request things once or twice or he didn't come by for long periods of time. A little disappointing.Special Features:
- liv2travelDined on 8/5/2014Never fails to deliver great food. 1905 salad with turkey my all time favorite!Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.


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Once again, the end of the semester snuck up on us, and students are filling the Multimedia Lab with
lively chatter as they finish their final assignments. These projects include short films, stop motions, animations, and websites which will be presented by students to receive their final grades. Today from 1-3, Professor Palana's Web Graphics and Design class presented personal websites which featured students' work, such as photography, writing, and video.
Professor Palana was not with us for the last few weeks of the course due to her pregnancy…but congratulations are in order because on December 7 her family was joined by a beautiful baby boy named Nicolas Aiden Hemling.
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The food world has been reacting with shock to the news that Charlie Trotter, a famous Chicago chef, has died of as-yet-unknown causes at the age of 54.
Trotter closed his eponymous restaurant in Chicago's Lincoln Park neighborhood just last year after 25 years. The much-lauded restaurant has held two Michelin stars and was known for its very exacting, precise fine dining and regularly changing menu.
When I was working as a chef in the late 1980's, I often heard about Charlie Trotter's, which had established itself as the kind of destination restaurant people planned trips around — a first for Chicago. Trotter, not yet 30 when he opened the restaurant, was famously self taught.
You can read the obituary here.
If there are any Atlanta chefs who worked with Trotter or diners who recall meals at his restaurant, we would appreciate your comments below.
- by John Kessler for the Food & More blog
November 5th, 2013
5:47 pm
I tried to get a res there years ago. Wound up at another fine dining restaurant in Lincoln park that I thoroughly enjoyed but always wished we had dined there. Now I'll never know. Rip. tougher life than most think being a chef.
November 6th, 2013
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November 6th, 2013
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I have fond memories of lovely dinners there with my husband. I think Charlie Trotter's started the fine dining scene in Chicago.
November 7th, 2013
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God bless his soul…he was such a great Chef.
His temper was legendary though, one of my chefs staged at Trotter's for a while and he said he would throw up everyday before going to work. Charlie was that intense.


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A bomb threat was reportedly written in the bathroom of a valley high school.
Parents and students received a message from the administration about a bomb threat made against Liberty High School in Peoria.
The father of a student, who did not want to be identified, called FOX 10 to report the threat.
Here is the message he received from school officials:
"This is a message from the Peoria Unified School District. We were recently made aware of a threat through social media against the Liberty High School campus rumored for tomorrow. Though we feel the potential for real danger is unlikely, we're taking appropriate measures to ensure the safety of all students and staff including contacting the Peoria Police Department. All classes are taking place at Liberty High School as scheduled. We are committed to providing the safest possible learning environment for our students. If additional details develop we'll keep you informed. When speaking to your student tonight, if you receive additional details related to this incident, we ask that you contact the schools administration office."
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Piaggio Aero (Static Display T19) last week broke ground for a new factory, which will produce subassemblies and parts for the A180 Avanti II twin turboprop. The new facility, which will be located at Villanova d'Albenga, Italy, is scheduled to be operational by 2013.
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New Piaggio Aero general manager Eligio Trombetta was in bullish form at EBACE this week as he outlined plans for the new P1XX jet, the next aircraft to join the Italian airframer's stable. And it seems that the new model will be more of a step up from the existing P.180 Avanti than some had imagined. "The P1XX ideally will go beyond Europe," he said.
New Piaggio Aero general manager Eligio Trombetta was in bullish form at EBACE as he outlined plans for the new P1XX jet, the next aircraft to join the Italian airframer's stable. And it seems that the new model will be more of a step up from the existing P.180 Avanti than some had imagined.
With a maximum speed of 402 knots, the P.180 Avanti II, made by Italy's Piaggio Aero Industries, is the world's fastest turboprop, while also boasting the largest cabin in its class of midsize jets and twin turboprops. But it's also known for a stylish airframe and twin pusher design, which has been compared to a work of art.
AIN senior editor Kirby Harrison spoke with Piaggio America president and CEO John Bingham about the business aircraft market, as well as the company's future plans for the Avanti II turboprop twin and the P1XX jet program.
Before the recession truly made its presence felt, Italian OEM Piaggio Aero recognized its impending arrival and adjusted production rates accordingly, said Piaggio America president and CEO John Bingham. "What we were able to do was recognize it early enough to reposition in terms of manufacturing and market access."
John Bingham, president and CEO of Piaggio America, did not mince words when he kicked off Piaggio Aero's press conference Monday. "It's a horrible market," he said. Piaggio Aero Industries of Italy is the manufacturer of the P.180 Avanti twin turboprop pusher. But Bingham then presented an overview of the company's current and future developments, which provided some salve for the grim assessment.
Italian turboprop manufacturer Piaggio Aero, which recently announced its entry into the Brazilian market, plans to bring its business to Russia as well. The company is seeking Russian certification for its popular P.180 Avanti II twin-engine turboprop, which it expects to begin delivering in the country by April or May of next year.
Recent news reports claimed that Piaggio Aero shareholder Mubadala Development has plans to build its own business jet, but John Bingham, Piaggio America president and CEO, and Piaggio Aero spokesman Enrico Sgarbi told AIN at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh last month that this information is not accurate. "We are [Mubadala's] platform for jets," said Sgarbi.
Abu Dhabi-based Mubadala Aerospace is aiming to be not only a tier-one supplier of large composite structures to Airbus or Boeing, but also a business jet manufacturer. Yesterday at the Farnborough airshow, Mubadala Aerospace executive director Homaid Al Shemmari told AIN in an exclusive interview that the company intends to build a "business jet-sized aircraft" for entry into service in 2018.


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FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) - The state is providing a $5 million grant to Northern Arizona University to help provide new caseworkers to Child Protective Services.
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The Arizona Daily Sun reports that the graduates would have to remain CPS caseworkers for a specific period of time to qualify for the reimbursement for tuition for up to two years.
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KHQ.COM - One year after a 40-year old Coeur d-Alene, Idaho man was reported missing and presumed to be a homicide victim, law enforcement officers spread out in the Joseph, Oregon community Wednesday posting bulletins to help develop tips as "Chief Joseph Days" kicks into high gear in Wallowa County. A reward was offered by the man's family to help investigators in this case. Isaac Lee Roberts, age 40, was reported missing July 29, 2012 by his wife to Wallowa County Sheriff's Office. Roberts traveled to the area for "Chief Joseph Days" on his motorcycle. After arriving in the area, he is believed to have been in the company of at least two Union County residents. These two people were considered persons of interest and their names have not been released by investigators. Unconfirmed information indicates Roberts may have traveled to Lewiston, Idaho with one of the persons of interest and investigators believe he went missing during this return trip to Oregon under suspicious circumstances. The missing person investigation evolved into a homicide investigation for which the Major Crime Team (composed of representatives from Oregon State Police, Wallowa County Sheriff's Office, La Grande Police Department, Union County Sheriff's Office, and Wallowa County District Attorney's Office) was activated. The Wallow County Sheriff's Office and OSP Criminal Investigation Division also requested assistance from the FBI. Roberts is described as a white male, 6'3", 215 lbs, ash blonde hair, green eyes, with a long goatee and no mustache. He has an upper right arm tattoo (see photo) and was last known to be wearing a gray t-shirt with the words "Lone Wolf Harley" on the front left upper chest and back, a black Harley Davidson vest, blue jeans, black boots, and a black "skull cap / do-rag" with Harley Davidson logo on front. >>>Anyone with information regarding the whereabouts of Roberts is asked to call OSP at (541) 963-7174 or email tips to firstname.lastname@example.com. Information should have as much detail as possible and contact information for follow-up by investigators.
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Sixty percent of the experimental health insurance co-ops funded under Obamacare failed to meet their original enrollment targets, according to a congressional analysis.
The congressional data shows that 14 of 23 federally underwritten health co-ops failed to meet their original enrollment targets by wide margins. Thirteen of the 14 missed enrollment targets by half.
Of the eight million people who enrolled in Obamacare, only five percent enrolled in a co-op.
The enrollment targets were set by Deloitte, a consulting firm retained by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to advise federal officials on the co-op program.
Underscoring the low enrollment numbers, 10 of the co-ops enrolled fewer than 3,600 customers in high-population states such as New Jersey, Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts and Arizona.
The data, obtained from each co-op by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, suggests that most of the nonprofits fared poorly as they attempted to sell health insurance policies in the federal Obamacare exchanges.
"Enrollment figures to date raise serious questions about how these co-ops plan on staying solvent and that taxpayers will ever be repaid," Oversight Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., said in a statement to the Washington Examiner.
The enrollment outcome did not improve when, last year, Deloitte lowered the co-op enrollment goals. Eight co-ops failed to meet even 10 percent of the revised enrollment targets.
Only nine co-ops met or exceeded the original enrollment goals.
Under a $2 billion program set up in 2012, CMS officials awarded 23 nonprofits between $57 million and $160 million each to compete with traditional commercial insurers.
If any co-op fails and defaults on its federal loans, taxpayers will have pay for its insolvency. A White House report by the Office of Management and Budget projected up to four out of 10 co-ops could eventually face insolvency.
The House committee also estimated that the public cost for the enrolling co-op customers was often immense, as high the $207,000-per-person expense in Tennessee. There, the Community Health Alliance Mutual Insurance Co. received $73 million in loans but was able to enroll only 354 people.
Minuteman Health in liberal Massachusetts received the second-largest loan, $156 million, but was able to enroll only 1,435 customers at a cost of $109,000 per enrollee.
The data show that 11 co-ops spent between $17,000 to $207,000 to enroll members.
Grace Marie-Turner, president of the Galen Institute, a free-market think tank critical of Obamacare, said she was not surprised by the low turnout.
"Clearly they are not competitive. If they would be, they would have gotten a bigger share of the enrollment," she told the Examiner.
Six co-ops operating in New York, Maine, Wisconsin, Utah, South Carolina, and Iowa and Nebraska far exceeded projections, however. Health Republic of New York reported 112,000 enrollments when Deloitte estimated only 18,000 would enroll. Deloitte estimated 11,000 would enroll in Iowa and Nebraska, but Co-Opportunity Health signed up nearly 77,000 people.
The nascent co-op movement was happy with the initial results. Martin Hickey, chairman of the state co-ops' trade association, said his group was "thrilled with our member co-ops' initial first-year enrollment figures."


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Previews of MySQL 5.4 and MySQL Cluster 7.0
Sun Microsystems is previewing its upcoming MySQL 5.4 and MySQL Cluster 7.0 database products.
The new releases announcement occurred at the MySQL Conference & Expo 2009 that Sun ran April 20-23 in Santa Clara CA. The fate of the releases, however, is still unsure because of the recent Oracle buyout.
For the MysQL 5.4 server Sun promises better scalability: the InnoDB storage engine can scale up to 16-way x86 servers and 64-way CMT (chip multithreading) servers. Next to that, the query response time should be 90% faster. Sun's website provides some benchmark results.
Sun also provides download of its MySQL 5.4 Community Edition, including packages for 64-bit Linux and Solaris and source code for the GPLv2 licensed software. In the course of the year the final version should become available based on feedback from the preview phase.
MySQL Cluster 7.0 should also get its finishing touches during Q2 2009 and should allow dynamic cluster configuration. Cluster availability should achieve 99.999% and, according to the company, anticipated response times should be in the milliseconds for a few ten thousands of operations per second. The cluster also supports popular LDAP directories.
The current MySQL Cluster 7.0.5 is ready for RHEL, SuSE Linux and Solaris download. An online upgrade from version 6.3 should come end of April with the release of 7.0.6.
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5:15 a.m. Thanksgiving a fire ripped through a structure known as The War Room on Heidelberg Street. A security car saw a man running from the area 15 minutes before the fire was reported. The investigation with the ATF and the Detroit Fire Department has moved quickly; it went from a suspicious fire to arson, and now a $5,000 reward is being offered for information that leads to an arrest. The Heidelberg Project saw six fires in 2013, the fires all being within just a few months of each other. Prior to The War Room fire, the Penny House and The House of Soul burned. One area resident tells Fox 2's Ron Savage he sees visitors from all over the world coming to see the art installation. He says last summer he met a man visiting from Australia to see the project. VIDEO: Click on the video player above to hear more from the neighbor in Savage's report
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Jonkro Books, August 2009
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This microscopic look at France's attempt to join two different parts of the world through outside labor is done in an honest and unbiased way through the two very different characters of Thomas and Byron. W.B. Garvey, the author of this climatic and colorful novel, writes with a straightforward and no-games-played style that evokes as broad a spectrum of emotion as the music Garvey is famous for playing on his violin. In his novel, Panama Fever, Garvey details the beginning stages of what we now know as the Panama Canal, enriching the pages with truthful character and landscape settings.
The at-turns lush and dry vividness of Central and South America's wilderness and civilized areas is so skillfully woven into the text that the reader is left with a time warp feeling of accuracy without being bogged down by lengthy and wordy passages of prose. With a sentence, Garvey has the ability to set an intense emotional mood while simultaneously laying a four dimensional portrait of the landscape. The first line of the novel infuses the atmosphere with the same hopeful promise that filled many people at the start of the Panama Canal project: "The Heavens were white and blooming miles above the marsh-strands stretching like fingers inside the lips of Limon Bay." The lusty desire for success, adventure and a place in history that drove thousands to Panama is rampant within the first few paragraphs of the novel, seduction unveiled.
Floating above the bay, as if by magic, was a city with roofs of spun gold, a tremor of vindication raced down each tense Jamaican spine… With sucked-in breaths the men felt their scalps begin to prickle as beyond the shoreline's gnarling mangroves loomed a great denseness, vast and impenetrable.
It isn't long, however, before the characters realize the near impossibility of the massive undertaking and begin to face the personal, natural and man-based obstacles that drive this book right until the last page.
The novel opens with Thomas and Byron as new "friends," to use the word lightly. Although the men are the same age and both are Jamaicans by birth, "country boy" Byron looks up to Thomas, who was raised with privilege.
Thomas was amused and secretly flattered by the guileless way Byron had attached himself to his side. It gave him added satisfaction to know that even though Byron was eight days his senior and suffered more of life's hard knocks the little recruit still looked up to him. That Byron wanted so desperately to be his friend when he had every reason to resent him only bolstered his newly-conceived ambition to be the small man's champion.
Both only seventeen years old at the start, Thomas is as naïve as Byron is innocent. After only a few days together, Thomas saves Byron after an accident, and they are separated. This is the only moment in which Thomas truly acts on behalf of Byron without selfish motivation. Despite the fact that Byron tries unceasingly to contact his friend through correspondence and dangerous voyages while Thomas doesn't recognize his efforts and is instead absorbed by his own exploits, Garvey manages to portray neither character as "good" or "bad." While sometimes the reader may get impatient with Thomas's selfishness and Byron's lack of self confidence, we are still constantly sympathizing with and rooting for both characters. Even the seemingly cold-hearted, ambitious French recruiter, Henry Duvay leaves room for the reader's occasional sympathy.
"You don't understand," Duvay said sadly, putting down the kaleidoscopic little globe to face his former protégé. "Whether this was a crazy dream or not does not mean we could have abandoned things sooner. Even had we never tried, somewhere men would have died, there would still be a failure. We need this canal. Without it there will never be light across the whole sorry world and the poor that you pretend to care for so deeply will perish in darkness. What we have started is not the end."
Throughout the novel, Garvey writes about opposition in a matter of fact, almost subtle way without taking sides. Dark versus light skin. Rich versus poor. Father against son. Religious Order versus the common man. French against British against Jamaicans. He doesn't merely gloss the issues, but he doesn't overwhelm the novel with dramatic and clichéd anecdotes either. Like he does so well with Thomas and Byron, Garvey paints all groups and individuals empathetically.
Although the end of the novel does not coincide with the completion of the Panama Canal, the knowledge of its eventual success is tempered by the reader's awareness of the lives that were changed and lost during the long years that led to its current existence. But Garvey's novel is not just accurate and moving historical fiction. Panama Fever is a humanitarian piece of art, with as many lyrical crests and valleys as a string ensemble, and as equally vivid and dreary as a South American panoramic view of the rainforest.
Andean Express
Novel by Juan de Recacoechea
Translated from the Spanish by Adrian Althoff
Akashic Books, April 2009
Paperback: 172pp; $15.95
Review by Laura Di Giovine
Andean Express by Bolivian journalist Juan de Recacoechea follows a slew of intriguing characters on an overnight train ride from Bolivia to Chile.
It's 1952 and Ricardo Beintigoitia has just graduated from high school. He's catching the train from La Paz, Bolivia, to Arica, Chile, where he spends the end of every school year with his family, and for the first time, he's traveling alone. On his journey, Ricardo falls in love with the young (and newly married) Gulietta Carletti. Forced into an arranged marriage by her mother, Gulietta is on her honeymoon with a man she loathes, Nazario Alderete, an accountant-turned-mine owner who stole the mine from Gulietta's own father. It turns out that nearly everyone on the train has a personal vendetta against Alderete, and reminiscent of Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express, every character has his or her own motive for wanting to get rid of him.
Andean Express succeeds in creating a whodunit element of mystery alongside a cast of quirky characters, but the dialogue is occasionally stilted, as in the following heated exchange between Alderete and Ricardo:
"You won't see [Gulietta] for many years, maybe never again. An adventure on a train with a married woman – is that what's missing from your repertoire?"
"You've got quite an imagination, even though you're only an accountant."
"If you keep bothering her, then I'll have to use my fists."
"Why don't we get off at the next station? That way we can see what you can do with those fists."
"Careful, pretty boy."
These sentences feel somewhat forced and unnatural. However, de Recacoechea makes up for the dialogue in his descriptions of the passing landscape. Observe the following vividly rendered paragraphs: "As the sun receded further, it gave way to shadows announcing the hostile Altiplano night, accompanied by an anguished silence," and
Through the window, the landscape reinvented itself from moment to moment; it was like watching an endless movie, one without pauses or surprises. The Altiplano was a horizontal vertigo, as Drieu de la Rochelle once wrote about the Argentine pampas. Human life had vanished, giving way to a desolate moonscape.
These descriptions of a changing, foreign and occasionally hostile environment anchor the book and serve as an effective backdrop to the diverse and often strange characters that Ricardo encounters on his journey, including a Franciscan priest, an ex-mine worker, a contortionist, a Russian loan shark, a poker player, the owner of a popular cabaret and a former Irish boxer, among others. Everyone has a specific agenda and most involve Alderete.
Amidst all the chaos, Ricardo pursues a relationship with Gulietta, even though "it wasn't like the Paris-Istanbul or the Trans-Siberian line, where the trip lasts nearly a week and relationships have time to begin, develop, and find reason for hope upon arriving at their destination." And yet, Gulietta intrigues him. Why did she marry the much older, unattractive and universally despised Alderete? Why is her mother accompanying her on their honeymoon? Can Ricardo and Gulietta's romance last beyond the Andean plateau? The burgeoning affair between Ricardo and Gulietta simmers seductively throughout the trip, and the sinister motives of the train's passengers will keep the reader guessing until the thrilling finale.
Despite the uneven dialogue, de Recacoechea masterfully executes a tale of first-class suspense and constructs a sophisticated character-study of Bolivians from all backgrounds and professions.
Where I Stay
Fiction by Andrew Zornoza
Tarpaulin Sky Press, June 2009
Paperback: 108pp; $14.00
Review by Cynthia Reeser
Andrew Zornoza's expansive, fragmentary Where I Stay is a piecemeal construction of text and image. An epigraph, penned in 1938 by Walker Evans, simultaneously urges the reader and the eye behind the camera to focus on "[t]hese anonymous people who come and go in the cities and who move on the land," on "what is in their faces and in the windows and the streets beside and around them." Fittingly, it is just those elements, particular to an individual's specific moment, time and place, that capture the anonymous sense of the national spirit.
Much of the text evokes the anatomy of a moment, while each accompanying photograph tells its own story. The first, titled "Aug. 2, Cheyenne, Wyoming," roots the reader firmly in the visual:
Perpendicular to the road and sagging between the outstretched arms of crossed wood crutches are several irrigation pipes leaking water. As far as the eye can see are gold, spent fields of grain, cut only by the pencil-thin shadows of the irrigators [. . . ] A car hurtles down the road, bringing bleached white Utah plates and a trio of kids gawking through the back window, their mouths tiny O's pressed against the glass.
As this passage illustrates, people steer in and out of the frame throughout the book, leaving just as quickly as they arrived. The narrator is unnamed, but travels from place to place searching for something, for someone (often, his "lost" sister), and presumably for meaning. The photograph that accompanies "Aug. 2, Cheyenne, Wyoming" depicts a scene of vast Wyoming sky that seems oppressed by the rolling hills and variegated scrub beneath it. It is captioned, "I want you to know how it was with me." In scenes like these, it is almost as though the narrator wants to convey that the land, that travel, has its own message and meaning; sometimes it is almost as if the land itself reveals a story.
Zornoza finds meaning not only in the land and in travel, but conveys what is derived via both ordinary moments and dysfunctional situations: A man is fired from a road crew; a bleary narrator wakes from a heroin dream next to a bleeding body and nods off again; male prostitutes tread carefully around a new recruit. What it all adds up to is a picture of a life, told in evocative fragments. The stories and, especially, the captions encourage poignant questions of self, placement and identity. The author begins many scenes in the middle of the action, bringing the reader into a moment that seems to always exist, anywhere and outside of time.
Along with questions of
identity, which Zornoza brings to light in small moments posing
as captions ("I have systematically and selectively removed
myself from my past. The past does not fit in my present tense.
I do not fit in myself."), borders, liminal spaces, liminality,
and uncertainty surface in the bleak, vast and mostly barren
landscapes. One caption accompanies a photograph
(portrait?) of a road that skirts rolling hills dotted with farmhouses and reads, "There are cracks in the country – in its families and highways, houses and rivers, factories, cellar windows, truck stops, in the sounds of chattering televisions, in the plexiglass booths of pay phones by bus stations, in the crushed glass of parking lots."
Zornoza's use of fragments of image and narration is expert. The movement of people and lives; chance meetings between strangers destined never to cross paths again; moments that can never be recreated; the uncertainty of people, place, relationships – all collide across culture and class, gender and race to form an anthem of displacement. The author deftly – and in spite of himself, seamlessly – weaves common threads that, by the end of the book, form a recognizable whole. Where I Stay is a story of a search for a home, for permanence, and ultimately for meaning. This becomes clear only gradually. Yet another caption reads, "I had removed everyone I knew or the people had removed themselves. I replaced them all with a vast plateau, then mountains, dry desert, broken pieces of landscape that didn't quite fit together. I found people in the cracks."
The landscape Zornoza creates is one in which fragments and emptiness hold a meaning that simply requires a watchful observer. "Nov. 6, US Atomic Energy Commission Reservation, Arco, Idaho" is starkly poignant. The narrator hitches a ride with a Marine, who notes, "What's out there, looks like nothing. Looks like a wasteland, right? I look out the window. But there is no nothing, he says." Zornoza's narrator is one that is so uncertain and searching that he is sometimes swallowed up in his surroundings and in circumstance. But the author provides just enough for the attentive reader to locate him in bits and pieces, and the narrator's story becomes the reader's journey.
Once the Shore
Stories by Paul Yoon
Sarabande Books, April 2009
Paperback: 270pp; $15.95
Review by Cyan James
The wind. The East China Sea. Time gnawing on the shore. In the eight assured short stories in his first collection, Yoon takes us through fifty years on the fictional Korean island of Solla, where his characters map out lives eroded by warfare and polished by a series of tender passing moments.
Literally and metaphorically, Yoon's characters are true islanders, separated from one another both in body and spirit by deep seas. They seem intent on learning how to swim, and if not that, at least how to drown well. Sinaru, a young boy in the story "So That They Do Not Hear Us," pleads for "a room filled with water." He is fascinated with the neighbor woman, an old diver he thinks is otherworldly enough to save him from a life of being bullied. The diver can't wrest him from life's wreckage, but she can give him a bathtub for his wounds. She muses about the sea: "if you were in it without purpose, there was the sense of going nowhere and being nothing, the sense of insignificance. And that each descent and surfacing was a struggle against this."
Yoon's other characters doggedly struggle against this insignificance. Even those whose lives have already been blighted soldier on with resolution and elegant dignity. A quietly warring couple motor out to fish their blown-up son from the sea. A crippled girl tries to protect an American deserter. Another girl struggles to keep the farm where her mother left her. A responsible daughter tries to explain her love for the vagrant thieving boy she has grown up with, who has returned to the island: "He traveled great distances. He started fires . . . And I thought it beautiful. And loved him."
It's this measured doggedness that embeds these stories in the mind, as well as Yoon's ability to fit the physicality and soul of an entire life into a single paragraph. For example, a woman argues with her husband, then mourns her son:
Afterward, she lay in the corner of the bedroom and pressed the side of her face against the wall and said, "Karo, I am listening to your heart. I am listening to the sea. And I am scared." Bey was across the room, looking up at the thatched roof that seemed to spread until he saw a vast network of hands extending. Karo's hands were thick and scarred and calloused from the nets, from the war, and they were always cold and always beautiful.
These stories are about big emotions – big betrayals, lasting attachments, deepening disappointments. They're about the way we fail each other, but also about the little graces we give each other to keep one another going. They're, simply, about us. Yoon knows us.
And by now you've gotten a spoonful of his beautifully calibrated prose. Even when the stories seem momentarily becalmed, his descriptions keep the writing wonderfully rich. The sentences themselves remain generally simple and spare, but resonate fully. A man's beard smells like "citrus and the river." Another one's fingernails taste like flour.
These details, like little hooks, grab us and pull us completely into a character's interior life. They pull us to the end of the book, and back to the beginning again. Dip your toes in. Wade out. Dive in.
Future Missionaries of America
Fiction by Matthew Vollmer
MacAdam/Cage, February 2009
Hardcover: 250pp; $24.00
Review by Brian Alan Carr
Matthew Vollmer's impressive debut collection grates its characters against their fate, pitting their desires and their beliefs against each other as these brightly rendered tales unfold. These are well constructed, richly polished stories that rely heavily on nuanced events to deliver powerful and precise emotion. Characters struggle with sexuality, social acceptance, and death – often times through the filter of non-mainstream Christian faith. The result is an odd and heightened sense of guilt and grief.
[D]on't drink, don't smoke, don't drink caffeinated beverages, don't swear, don't gamble, don't touch yourself, don't consult mediums or talk to ghosts (because the dead are dead and ghosts are demons in disguise), don't eat flesh foods (they arouse animal passions), don't visit the cinema (your angel won't follow you inside), love not the world and its diversions, Christ, and watch out for Satan, who lies always in wait and knows your every weakness.
In this way, religion in Vollmer's Future Missionaries of America functions much as Bella Fleck's banjo. It is a traditional instrument being used in a re-imagined capacity. Whereas many fiction writers have used religion as metaphor for structure and security, Vollmer lets religion stand as an obstacle for human interaction. His characters are affiliated with odd religious sects, and their social conflicts are compacted by these affiliations. This is not Jake Barnes escaping into a cathedral to escape drunken reverie in Hemingway's Spain. Religion here is used to further alienate, to fuel tensions, not to establish solace.
Surprisingly, however, the stories here are not heavy reads. On the contrary, Vollmer's diction and rhythms lend bright and airy atmospheres to his character's lives. In "Man-O'-War," a dentist laments the death of his bride. He floats in and out of daily routines, re-imagining his wife's drowning after being stung by a man-o'-war on their honeymoon. But the tone is often more darkly comical than overtly dramatic. As shown here as the narrator speaks with his mother on the phone:
I don't have the balls to tell them, Don't come down, won't admit I can't stand the sight of them, so I say, Now's not such a good time. Then, to distract Mom from further lines of questioning, all of which will no doubt lead to tears, I ask if she's gotten the pictures, knowing she hasn't because the pictures, or what I'm pretty sure are the pictures, are sitting on the table in the kitchen, inside a box I'm poking with a dirty fork in order to open, if possible, a little peephole. No, she says, hasn't gotten anything, wonders if she should call the photographer, because, Ted, you paid good money for those. Ah, I say, I paid good money for a lot of things. My honeymoon, for example. Ted, she says. For instance, I say, I also recently paid good money for a man-o'-war. Silence. You know, I continue, a Portuguese man-o'-war, the invertebrate, I bought one.
But if there is a complaint to launch against Vollmer's debut, it is that this language, necessary to a certain extent to brighten the atmosphere, can become cumbersome in certain passages. In "The Digging" for instance, the main character Kyle has been shipped off to a Seventh-Day-Adventist boarding school. He is being punished for bad behavior. The punishment is digging grave-sized holes. Hedrick, the principal of the school, arrives with cheeseburgers for lunch.
Once Hedrick's far enough away, Kyle unfolds the bag, flicks the pickles off the patties, wolfs down the lukewarm burgers. Despite the fact that he wants to think Hedrick's a dick, he's thankful for the meat. Each majestically cheesy bite obliterates his tastes buds, reminds him of post Little League Happy Meals when, after the Nantahala Hawks got squashed by whoever they were playing, Kyle and his father would drive to the nearest McDonald's to gorge themselves on burgers, fries, apple pies.
But these "majestically cheesy bite[s]" are few and far between, and generally Vollmer handles the framework of the language with subtle precision. The effect is a large hearted collection of stories that work extremely well together thematically to create a wide bodied debut. When at his best, Vollmer's work evokes a sort of sun-colored pain. The guilt, hurt and alienation his characters deal with is somehow fresh. Somehow clean. And because of this, Future Missionaries of America deserves attention.
Border Crossing
YA Novel by Jessica Lee Anderson
Milkweed Press, October 2009
Hardcover: 160pp; $17
Review by Jessica Powers
Anderson's sophomore novel explores one young man's descent into schizophrenia as he responds to an erratic and arbitrary world filled with a dysfunctional alcoholic mother, a disappearing stepfather, and a best friend with problems as large as his own.
Set in a farming community in Texas where Mexican immigrants seek day labor, Manz struggles with his split identity – Anglo mom, Mexican dad – in a world that doesn't seem to have room for both. His decline is fueled by the community's visible racism, Border Patrol operations, and the violence his best friend suffers at the hands of his father.
Though the side characters need to be fleshed out, the novel is a page turner. Anderson manages to be both realistic and compassionate in her depiction of mental illness.
The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash Fiction
Tips from Editors, Teachers, and
Writers in the Field
Edited by Tara L. Masih
Rose Metal Press, May 2009
Paperback: 208pp; $15.95
Review by John Madera
[Here's my flash review of Field Guide to Writing Flash Fiction:]
For the beginner, the book is a tremendous resource offering various glosses and overviews of the short short's history and widely divergent definitions of this resurgent genre. Each of the twenty-five brief essays here, written by twenty-five peerless writers and editors, is followed by an exercise or prompt, and includes a demonstrative story.
I would suggest reading this book in small doses, as its repetitive aspects, that is, over-familiar ideas about story form, about craft, about how to generate ideas, and also about what really makes a flash, well, flash, will be grating even to the rank raconteur. That said, seasoned writers can happily cherry-pick through the essays and leave with at least a basketful of provocative, even inspiring, ideas. For instance, Shouhua Qi's "Old Wine in New Bottles? Flash Fiction from Contemporary China" provides a necessary fleshing out of some historical aspects only briefly surveyed in the Field Guide's introduction. Pamelyn Casto's "The Myth-ing Link (Or, Linking Up to Myth)," is a necessary departure from conventional views of the contemporary short short's narrative arc. But how could I not fall for an essay that references Victor Shklovsky's idea of ostranenie, or "defamiliarization?"
Michael Martone's essay may be the one that's worth the price of admission alone. Beginning as a meditation on titling stories, it ends up a multi-chambered collapsible box of interplaying ideas and crosstalk. Like the stories Martone describes, his essay is "a maze one works one's way through." The Oulipian-like exercises are wonderfully insane, and his story, "A Perimenopausal Jacqueline Kennedy, Two Years After the Assassination, Aboard the M/Y Christina, Off Eubeoa, Bound for the Island of Alonnisos, Devastated by a Recent Earthquake, Drinks Her Fourth Bloody Mary with Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jr.," is mind-boggling.
Essays by Randall Brown, Tom Hazuka, Jennifer Pieroni, and Robert Shapard shed useful light on just what these editors are looking to publish in their respective stalwart journals and anthologies. And cheers to Rusty Barnes for using Lydia Copeland's wonderfully lyrical, richly layered, and emotionally and psychologically probing story "In the Air a Shining Heart" as a story example. Kim Chinquee's essay laudably contributes to the debate regarding what distinguishes the prose poem from the short short, and her use of a Diane Williams story, as is Deb Olin Unferth's spot on explication of a Williams story, is to be commended.
Sherrie Flick offers necessary encouragement to those writers who believe that a story need not always conform to tired ideas of plot – that stories might also reside in a "timeless limbo." Bruce Holland Rogers's at times cantankerous essay adds another dimension to this project as do his almost mathematical approaches to writing constraints. And Julio Ortega offers one of the more interesting definitions of flash fiction: it "wanders . . . between waking up and waking down. The fictional, sudden vision occurs when your own soul finally reaches you and brings you a fistful of words." While this field guide certainly flashes, it also illuminates.
Beyond the Station Lies the Sea
YA Novel by Jutta Richter
Milkweed Press, September 2009
Hardcover: 96pp; $14.00
Review by Jessica Powers
What would you give up to pursue a dream? In this rich and wonderful novel for people of all ages, a 9-year-old boy named Niner is willing to sell his guardian angel in exchange for money so that he and his friend, a homeless man called Cosmos, can travel to the sea and open an "ice cold drinks" stand. But once Niner sells his guardian angel, a terrible thing happens: he is left without protection, vulnerable to any whim of fate, germ, or accident. The story's plot hinges on this one question: will he be able to get his guardian angel back before he dies?
This is Richter's third children's novel published in the U.S., all three translations from the original German. Clearly, Richter is one of the most imaginative children's writers alive . . . and Beyond the Station Lies the Sea is simply the latest evidence of her enormous talent.
Poetry by Elise Paschen
Red Hen Press, April 2009
Paperback: 80pp; $16.95
Review by Cyan James
Every poem in Paschen's Bestiary has been carefully groomed; each poem still stays a little feral, mostly concerning what strange things we do in our own familiar homes: A woman bears the chrysalis of her son in her wandering body, a mother nurses amid a welter of storybook patterns, the vagaries of gods and storms and men thunder in the background...
Two different sorts of domesticity are at play within Bestiary: the repainting of ancient stories (or the wildness we've always known lives within the home), and then the echo of those myths crackling in today's hearth-side. The words themselves uphold the themes of light and dark, ocean and earth, suspension and splitness, neither hereness nor thereness: "Night falls. / Suspended between timber / and foam, buoyed, then dropped, we pitch, catch hold. The sea / cradles the sighing hull."
Thematically, Paschen splits the collection into thirds. The first third mainly concerns vivacity and fecundity, humans twining with nature, and the fertile relationship that develops between Paschen and her husband (and, eventually, their two children). Spring would be an appropriate theme, when riotous nature breaks bonds and taboos while reproducing itself:
How much space will you need
to grow? A galaxy
of cells, then the heartbeat.
You nose-dive down. A dove
hoo, hoo, hooing. Above
lodestar, a slip of moon.
Paschen's nature descriptions themselves, reminiscent of Louise Erdrich, showcase this collection's true strength in lines such as: "Night-fall, we stretch and tumble under rafters, / beneath the moon. Bats' breath against our lips." But the poems disappoint when they content themselves with obvious, facile lines such as "Snuggling between a wedding photograph, / we now play Hearts instead of Solitaire." Sentimentality and portents are allowed a little too much free rein.
In the second part, deep autumn falls over the poems. You can nearly hear leaves breaking underfoot. The lines slacken their celebrations and turn instead toward the slightly sinister undertow of the season. Things are going dormant, preparing for something deep to happen: "The sky turns brackish green. I'm caught / outside and hear a rumble growing louder, / stomping the heart."
The final section is arguably Paschen's strongest – she skirts what could easily be cloying, and instead gives readers a supple, nuanced portrayal of how we carry on when we no longer know the proper rules and rituals. Paschen addresses that dusky in-between-ness of dying as she witnesses both her parents' passings. In "Ash," Paschen equates her father's crematory remains to moths, wood shavings from a fallen tree – all ephemeral – both linked and burned by those who continue to live. Her mother, a ballet dancer, first dances death and then herself enacts it.
Death seems to grapple for survival, as life's cycles slowly continue. Spring slowly dawns – far away, still cold, but coming. The gardener, Jesus, makes appearances, as Paschen intones "Where you seek permanence is death. / Where you seek change, there you find life."
There is life indeed in this half-tame, half-rampant bestiary.


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Very dark red. The nose is a bit closed but still causes immense pleasure: dung, earth, raspberry, cassis, some green-herbal elements - ripe yet very savoury. The scents just need a bit of coaxing to come out of the glass, but classic Madiran it is! The palate is sweetly fruity, rather tannic but not as ferocious as expected, intense in its savoury elements and fine acidity, earthy, fresh and light in alcohol (12,5%). Perfectly balanced and lovely. Perhaps it is ever so slightly watery, but that does not detract from the intensity. Needs still a few more years to enter early maturity and will keep. But causes immense joy even now!
I drank (or drunk, will some native speaker please tell me??) this today with two dear friends of mine with whom I'm studying Arabic. We made some chicken defying the bird flu scare and paired this with it. The chicken had tarragon and other herbs and was fried in a drop of this wine. The food didn't soften the tannins of the wine but flavourwise it was just a perfect match. We didn't get much Arabic done however. The ladies wanted to refurnish my bachelor apartment instead. I suppose women are like that.


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As expected, Coldplay earlier today sold out their "intimate" New York City show -- but it was fast, even by New-York-minute standards. Within 30 seconds of Ticketmaster opening sales, fans were having their hopes dashed by a large, red "High Demand--No Matches" message on the site, even if all they wanted were single tickets to the band's May 5 show.
Of course, tickets appeared on Craigslist almost immediately, with pricetags of up to $4000 a pop for orchestra seats. Several ads were placed for tickets in the $200 range, which were quickly snapped up.
There has been no mention from Coldplay's official sources about the possibility of an additional show added to help meet the overwhelming ticket demand.
On a happier note, Coldplay has signed on to headline the Saturday night show of Radio 1's Big Weekend in Glasgow on May 24. Tickets for that event were free, and snapped up in under two hours. The good news for Coldplay fans is that the show will be simulcast online -- check out details on the BBC website .
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