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"When two small earthquakes struck near Blackpool, England in April and May, suspicious eyes turned toward the hydraulic fracturing operation in the area. In a move few expected, Cuadrilla Resources, admitted that its shale fracking operations were indeed responsible.
In a press release issued today, Cuadrilla explained the findings of an investigation of the tremors:
- It is highly probable that the hydraulic fracturing of Cuadrilla's Preese Hall-1 well did trigger a number of minor seismic events.
- The seismic events were due to an unusual combination of geology at the well site coupled with the pressure exerted by water injection as part of operations.
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Cuadrilla insists that the event was extremely rare and unlikely to do any damage if it ever recurred. But whether or not it's right, the fact that humans are causing earthquakes as well as global warming is likely to make the idea of fracking much less palatable.
Updated: Despite Cuadrilla's insistence that this is an isolated incident, a US Geological Survey report links 50 earthquakes to fracking operations throughout the United States.
Ironic that the New "pork" ad-campaign is funded by tax dollars. Meanwhile, powerful pork industry continues it's free pass to pollute rivers, aquifers, and devalue private property.
Board officials said after nearly 25 years, it was time to move on from the old message that compared pork to chicken and instead try to increase sales by focusing on the estimated 82 million Americans who already eat pork.
"The overall goal is to move sales of our product," said Ceci Snyder, the Des Moines, Iowa-based board's vice president of marketing. "We want to increase pork sales by 10 percent by 2014. To do that, we needed to make a stronger connection, a more emotional connection to our product." [Emphasis mine.]
Exactly. Who doesn't look to pork for inspiration? Actually, I think the NPB is misreading it audience. A far more appropriate tagline would be "Bacon: Be Inspired." I mean, seriously. Talk about inspiring! We are in the midst of a bacon renaissance (and possibly a bacon backlash). But pork? Inspiration? Meh.
Sure, it beats "Pork: When You Can't Afford a Steak"; or "Pork: We're Pretty Sure It Won't Give You Swine Flu"; or even "Pork: Wash Hands Thoroughly After Handling." But perhaps that isn't saying much.
Mockery aside, this is a good time to remember that the marketing wizards behind this campaign are funded by the NPB, which is a federally-mandated entity that's one of several so-called USDA "Check-off programs" responsible for marketing, some might say hyping, various agricultural products like pork, milk, cheese, and beef. While operated independently of the USDA and funded not by your tax dollars but by your spending dollars — producers must contribute to these programs based on their sales volume, these check-off programs were established by an act of Congress and have board members selected by the secretary of agriculture.
As it happens, the cheese check-off program received some recent negative attention via The New York Times for its multi-million dollar marketing efforts to push junk food while the USDA itself has been focusing on healthy eating. Grist contributor Parke Davis provided an excellent rundown at the time on the extent to which these checkoff programs are or aren't true government programs.
In sum, the NPB is itself a bit of pork, in a sense. Why should the federal government be involved in marketing this stuff? Moreover, why should the same agency charged with regulating factory hog farms — the USDA — also oversee the effort to sell more of it? While the effort to sell more pork seems to be going swimmingly, the regulating-farm-practices task seems a bit stuck, well, in the mire. For example, a recent study found that roaches and flies drawn to the huge manure pits that surround factory hog farms can carry antibiotic-resistant pathogens into surrounding communities. I'd "be inspired" if the USDA spent more time trying to clean up such foul conditions, and less time trying to get us to eat more (quite possibly MRSA-infected) pork.


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Greetings y'all, "The Bullpen" here. Something strange has happened to Tim and I just wanted to let all his readers know what he's dealing with.
If you know Mr. Thompson at all, you know that most of his long-term memory consists of quotes and one-liners from classic movies and television shows. Not classics in a Jimmy Stewart/Clark Gable sense; more along the lines of "Caddyshack," "Airplane" and "Saturday Night Live." You also can include on that list pretty much anything done by Jim Carrey (during his funny years), Will Ferrell and, of course, the comedic legend that is Chris Farley.
As Tim and I are just a month apart in age, we enjoy many of the same pop-culture favorites and have shared many a laugh over the years. I'm sure being a walking movie-quote machine is both a blessing and a curse, but I can't imagine what his co-workers have to deal 45-50 hours per week over the course of several years. My heart goes out to them!
Anyway, I hadn't heard much from Tim since the Brewers were eliminated from postseason contention, so I stopped by his house the other day to check on him. When I entered his living room, I found him sitting in his recliner, barefoot and wearing a flannel shirt, straw hat, and suspenders . This didn't worry me, as this ensemble wasn't too different than what he normally wears. The worries began when he opened his mouth.
Tim kept looking at me, rocking in his chair while grinning wildly and repeating "elimina-shone." This threw me for a loop, so I started asking questions. It looked a little bit like this. Here is a transcript of our conversation:
(TB = The Bullpen; TT = Tim Thompson)
TB: What's up man? I haven't seen you in a couple weeks. What have you been up to since the Brewers' season ended?
TT: Depress-shone. No participa-shone for Brewer Na-shone.
TB: No doubt. It was good to see them finish strong, though. What do you think they need to do to improve in 2013?
TT: Have good founda-shone. Now sign Josh Hamil-tone.
TB: Wow, that would be something! But anyway, you have to have some opinion about the way the National League playoffs have played out, right?
TT: Satisfact-shone.
TB: It was pretty satisfying to watch the San Francisco Giants first come back from a 2-0 series deficit to defeat the Cincinnati Reds 3-2 to win the NL divisional series, and then dig out from a 3-1 hole in the NLCS to defeat the St. Louis Cardinals to advance to take on the Detroit Tigers in the World Series.
TT: San Fran six times faced elimina-shone. Sent two teams on early vaca-shone.
TB: What do you think Cardinals fans are feeling right now?
TT: Exaspera-shone. Reject-shone. No love from Brewer Na-shone!
TB: I don't know what happened. It was like a completely different Cardinals team showed up for Games 5,6 and 7. How do you think manager Mike Matheny felt while watching his squad get outscored 20-1 over the final three games?
TT: Frustra-shone. Humilia-shone.
TB: Any thoughts on Matt Holliday's controversial slide during Game 2 that caused Giants second-baseman (and former Brewers farmhand and eventual 2012 NLCS MVP) Marco Scutaro to leave the game with a minor injury?
TT: Gross miscalcula-shone.
TB: Really? A lot of people questioned whether that slide was necessary and/or legal.
TT: Lots of self-reflect-shone. All about percept-shone.
TB: Very true, my friend. You are forever the diplomat. Do you think the Cardinals' loss will have a "hangover effect" next season?
TT: No way. Too much tradi-shone. Franchise preach dedica-shone.
TB: Agreed. I gotta get going — any big plans coming up?
TT: Hiberna-shone from televi-shone until after the elect-shone.
TB: That sounds like a good plan. Hey man, one more thing — what would you think about turning this conversation into a "Peace & Glove" post?
TT: Ideal collabora-shone.
TB: What if we were to ask those readers who picked the Cardinals to win it all on your recent web poll to explain what they think went wrong with their team?
TT: Crowd participa-shone. React to elimina-shone. Explain Giants' domina-shone.


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mystery was all I could think to put this in. A story about a young thief in the rough streets of Dargonhall, just trying to have some fun. He never intended to get caught, and never intended t...
Dargonhall was never silent. Her streets–from those caked with grime to those pristine and washed–were so alive that even if all were to vanish, one would still swear that the laughter of those sweet-on, the sighs of those whose hearts ached, and the cries of the forlorn street children would still leak out through the desolate alleys, the cracks in walls, and even the space between the baker's oven and the floor.
The city was a gem of a creation. Its palace gleamed against the white mountains behind it, and towered over the majestic houses of the nobles and rich. Its high white walls blocked off all those of lesser disposition from sight, and with this, the thoughts of those aforementioned.
On the grime-covered side of the white washed wall, things were a spectacular shamble. Murder, rape, and slavery were a common fact, hidden well from the city guard (those still keeping with their once noble cause) but still an ever-present threat to all.
But this isn't where this story begins; it begins on the opposite side of that awe inducing wall. Just atop a modest (to the standards of the rich) merchant's home, a young thief was perched, his eyes sharpened to the night as he watched blobs of light pass about below. They were completely oblivious to the seventeen year old watching them like a hawk to its prey, as he moved silently across the rooftops near the wall. He reached a place close enough to leap onto the top of the divider. A risky move, but the need was there as the sun was almost to rising. A shadow scaling down the side of a grimy wall was harder to identify than a black-clothed youth attempting to slip past the Gate Guard in full light, or to squeeze through one of the still undiscovered passages in the wall where someone had pried out a few columns of bricks.
The little thief must have experienced a lapse in intelligence to have allowed time to slip out of his grasp as he had. Had not he the hearing of a paranoid rabbit, he may have not heard the distant toll of the chapel clock. And where would he have been?
'Hanged, that's where!'
He was better off with the risk of having to run and the soreness in his fingers from clinging to the small indents between each brick as he shimmied down the surface—more muck than stone. How mud had gotten so high up, he would never know. But his bet was on the Littles aiming for the other side—Adults as well, probably trying to let out their frustration after long days of work. Especially the ones who worked all day on the 'right' side of the Divider, only to be kicked back into the grime once the sun began to set.
He slipped into his building and nodded to the doorman just as the first rays peeked out over the city.
"Mornin' Taffer," the large burly man grunted as the thief went up the stairs, taking them three at a time and locking himself into his dusty attic home.
How long this home would last, he had no idea. He had grown used to moving around in his life in the shadows.
The boy hadn't always lived the life of a thief. He had once been an honest boy, with an honest family. Until he saw the world for what he now knew it to be. He saw mothers and fathers, brothers and sisters, aunts, uncles, nephews, and any other blood tie you could think of cast each other off like rubbish.
They say blood is thicker than water. But greed had the viscosity of molasses. If you wanted someone loyal to you, they had to have a reason to be–a reason that meant something. They had to get something out of the connection, otherwise, you were useless to them and treated as such.
So a thief is what he had become. Paranoid and sometimes cynical in his thinking, he loved every second of it.
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Religious Norms and Labour Supply of Married Women in Sweden
AbstractBased on economic and behavioural theory, this paper analyses whether religious norms about female labour participation influence married women in Sweden in their decision to participate in the labour market. Using data from the LNU and a multinomial logit framework, the results show that married women who attach importance to a faith that is strict towards female labour participation tend to participate less in the labour market compared to married women without a strong conviction. Furthermore taking into account the family and individual specific background of the married woman, there is evidence that education, the age of the children, health, main responsibility for the household and the size of the city where the woman is living affect participation in the labour market.
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Type:Rider Review
- Publisher: Bulkypix
- Genre: Entertainment
- Released: 10 Oct, 2013
- Size: 208.3 MB
- Price: $2.99
- Beautiful, complex environments begging to be explored.
- Packed with clever contraptions and physics puzzles.
- You might accidentally learn something.
- Controls can occasionally feel a little gluey.
If you want to play a beautiful, clever physics puzzler, and learn a little something about fonts along the way, then Type:Rider is for you. Period.
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Type:Rider is a difficult game to classify. If you boil it down to its bare bones, it's a stunt racer in the mould or Trials or Motoheroz. However, instead of a bike, you're controlling a colon. In fact, the entire game is constructed from letters and punctuation, with each level a kind of alphabet assault course.
What pushes Type:Rider beyond the stunt racer classification is its physics-based contraptions and historical info-bursts. You see, as you work your way through the stages, each of which are based around a particular font, the game attempts to educate you about the origins of that typeface. Collecting the asterisks strewn around the environment unlock handsomely illustrated pages detailing how and why each font was created.
The levels themselves are themed around the relevant typeface. The Gothic stage has a gregorian soundtrack and is littered with religious imagery. The levels based on the Clarendon font showcase it's 19th century typographic origins, and the Futura stages are full of abstract shapes and artistic flair.
Though the text dumps do require you to stop playing and read, you get a sense of the roots of each font simply by exploring each level. It's all feels extremely organic - a way of delivering knowledge and exploring context without making you feel like you're in a history lecture.
Controlling your colon (no laughing at the back) is relatively easy. You roll the character left or right by touching the appropriate side of the screen, and jump by tapping with your free hand. It's more streamlined than some stunt racers, with no option to adjust your pitch, but it can also feel a little gluey. You'll have to navigate some very angular landscapes, and your colon is prone to getting stuck on the corner of some letters.
None of these niggles come close to spoiling the experience, however. Type:Rider is a seriously classy experiment in covert edu-tainment, one which works best when imparting information directly through the architecture of its levels. If you want to play a clever physics puzzler and learn a little something along the way, then Type:Rider is for you. Period.
Description"TYPE:RIDER--THE "FINAL FONTASY" OF VIDEO GAMES--ENCOURAGES PLAYERS TO LEARN ABOUT TYPE BY EXPLORING A WORLD OF FONTS, MARIO-STYLE" FastCoDesign
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The European cultural TV channel Arte innovates and launches its first video game !
Immerse yourself in this fascinating and unique experience to uncover the history and secrets of Fonts & Characters !
Play as 2 dots and travel through the ages of typographic styles and techniques.
From the rock paintings of prehistoric times to Pixel art of the 2000's, solve all the riddles by riding the most popular fonts and characters (Garamond, Helvetica, Times New Roman, Pixel, Comic Sans...) in a very captivating musical and visual environment.
Type:Rider is an adventure puzzle game produced by AGAT – EX NIHILO and ARTE that brings gaming experience to a whole new daring level.
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The Illusion of Equality: The Educational Consequences of Blinding Weak States, For Example
AbstractDoes the government control of school systems facilitate equality in school quality? There is a trade-off. On the one hand, government direct control of schools, typically through a large scale hierarchical organization, could produce equalization across schools by providing uniformity in inputs, standards, and teacher qualifications that localized individually managed schools could not achieve. But there is a tendency for large scale formal bureaucracies to "see" less and less of localized reality and hence to manage on the basis of a few simple, objective, and easily administratively verified characteristics (e.g. resources per student, formal teacher qualifications). Whether centralized or localized control produces more equality depends therefore not only on what "could" happen in principle but what does happen in practice. When government implementation capacity is weak, centralized control could lead to only the illusion of equality: in which central control of education with weak internal or external accountability actually allows for much greater inequalities across schools than entirely "uncontrolled" local schools. Data from Pakistan, using results from the LEAPS study, and from two states of India show much larger variance in school quality (adjusted for student characteristics) among the government schools—because of very poor public schools which continue in operation. We use the PISA data to estimate school specific learning achievement (in mathematics, science, and reading) net of individual student and school average background characteristics and compare public and private schools for 34 countries. For these countries there is, on average, exactly the same inequality in adjusted learning achievement across the private schools as across the public schools. But while inequality is the same on average, in some countries, such as Denmark, there was much more equality within the public sector while in others, such as Mexico, there was much more inequality among the public schools. Among the 18 non-OECD participating PISA countries the standard deviation across schools in adjusted quality was, on average, 36 percent higher in government than in private schools. In cases with weak states the proximate cause of high inequality again was that the public sector distribution of performance had a long left tail—schools with extremely poor performance. Relying on blinded weak states for top-down control of educational systems can be lose-lose relative to localized systems relying on bottom-up control—producing worse average performance and higher inequality.
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The southern part of the U.S. is known for its general stores and has been the starting point of many successful retail businesses. The South has a tradition of retailing that appeals to all corners of the U.S., and now globally. The scope of these retailers spans from discount stores to mass merchants. In identifying worthwhile investments, it's important for investors to look at a company's tradition and culture. What has worked in the past will likely work in the future.
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Fred's (NASDAQ: FRED) considers itself to be the low cost price leader. Its discount retail stores and full-service pharmacies are located predominantly in the Southeastern portion of the U.S. Fred's operates approximately 700 discount general merchandise stores. The strategy is to combine the best elements of a discount dollar store, drug store, and mass merchant.
Each store stocks more than 12,000 frequently purchased items that include nationally recognized brand name products, proprietary Fred's label products, and lower-priced, off-brand products. Fred's has a distribution center in Tennessee and one in Georgia.
In the first quarter of this year, total sales increased 0.2% to $501.5 million. Net income increased 9.1% to $11.4 million. Gross margin increased to 30.1% compared to 29.5% in the same quarter last year. In May, total sales increased 0.2%, while comparable store sales decreased 0.5%. June was a much better month for Fred's with total sales increasing 3% and comparable store sales increasing 4.5%.
Going forward, Fred's expects earnings for the full year to be $0.77 to $0.88 per share. This compares to $0.84 per share last year. However, last year saw a $0.12 per share increase due to a one-time benefit. Without that benefit, earnings last year were $0.72 per share.
The focus at Fred's is on improving its existing store base. Fred's is undergoing a reconfiguration plan that improves each store's layout, lighting, shelving, aisle widths, and signage. Fred's is also working to get more of its pharmacies into its stores. Currently, only about half of the stores have a pharmacy. The ones that do consistently exceed the company's operating profit goal of 4%.
Fred's also plans to continue rolling out its hometown auto and hardware expansion. Sales have increased 15% for automotive and 43% for hardware in the stores where this expansion was implemented. Currently, 175 stores have seen this expansion and by the end of the year, that number is expected to grow to 325 stores.
Save time and money every day
Dollar General (NYSE: DG) considers itself to be the nation's largest small-box discount retailer. Its strategy is to make shopping for everyday needs simpler and hassle-free by offering an assortment of the most popular items at low everyday prices in small, convenient locations. The company operates approximately 10,662 stores in 40 states.
In the first quarter of this year, total sales increased 8.5% and same-store sales rose 2.6%. Same-store sales increased on the back of increased customer traffic and a higher average transaction amount. Earnings per share rose 13%.
Going forward, Dollar General expects total sales to increase 10% to 11% compared to last year. Same-store sales are expected to increase 4% to 5%. For the full year, the company expects to earn $3.15 to $3.22 per share compared to $2.89 per share last year.
The reason for this optimism is continued growth. Dollar General plans to open approximately 635 new stores this year, and remodel or relocate approximately 550 stores. Remodeling stores is a positive as that tends to increase sales. Overall, square footage is expected to increase by 7%. More selling space equates to more sales.
This Southern retailer is now a global giant
Wal-Mart Stores (NYSE: WMT) has its roots in Bentonville, Arkansas, where the company was founded and where its headquarters are today. Today, the retailer is the largest in the world. The company now has approximately 10,800 stores under 69 banners in 27 countries, and e-commerce sites in 10 countries.
In the first quarter, Wal-Mart's earnings grew 4.6% to $1.14 per share. Consolidated net sales increased 1% to $113.4 billion. Operating income rose 1.1% to $6.5 billion. Comparable store sales decreased 1.2% in the U.S. due to a colder, wetter winter and a delay in consumers getting their tax refund checks.
Besides international expansion, the growth for Wal-Mart going forward is in e-commerce sales. E-commerce sales grew 30% in the first quarter and that segment looks to be a big driver going forward. Wal-Mart is working to increase its capacity to ship online orders from each store.
Currently, Wal-Mart has a test program in place at 35 stores where online orders are shipped straight to customers' home. A successful rollout of this program would be a game changer in the online realm and would be a major blow to Amazon.
Wal-Mart continues to reward shareholders. In the first quarter alone, Wal-Mart returned $1.6 billion to shareholders in dividends and repurchased 30 million shares at a cost of $2.2 billion. The company has $1.5 billion remaining under its previous $15 billion share buyback program. With the dividend payout ratio at only 33% and free cash flow of $10 billion, look for the dividend to increase and more share buybacks in the future.
Foolish assessment
I like all three retailers. Fred's has enormous room to grow. It has a great retail model and as it expands its pharmacies into more stores, comparable store sales are going to increase. Dollar General is remodeling its stores as well, and its smaller footprint gets it into more markets. Lastly, what can I say, you can't go wrong owning Wal-Mart. The company remains the best in retail and has the track record and management team to back it up. These Southern retailers are worthy of a place in your portfolio.
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The United Nations' (UN) Universal Children's Day, which was established in 1954, is celebrated on Nov. 20 each year to promote international togetherness and awareness among children worldwide.
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We talked about how children live differently around the world, but also that there are things that all children share: school, pets, friends, food, families, play, art and being silly. We found all this in the book To Be A Kid.
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LAIE, HAWAII-The Nanook women's basketball team find themselves with some early season success after a 69-39 blowout victory over BYU-Hawaii last night.
Freshman Jordan Wilson continues here torrid shooting to start the season. Wilson finished with 19 points on eight for eight shooting. That's third most all-time in GNAC history for made shots without a miss. In her first game Jordan went 10 for 11 from the field. The forward added five rebounds and even hit a heat check shot for her first career three pointer.
Freshman Victoria Milton had her first double digit scoring game with 10 points. Junior guard Kelly Logue had 13 for UAF and Benissa Bulaya was one assist away from her career high. She had seven last night.
UAF was hot to in the first half with a blistering 77 percent shooitng percentage. They held the Seasiders 28 percent shooting for the game and the Nanooks ended up shooting just under 59 percent.
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the guardian Wed 10 April 2013
There's a great passage in Tobias Wolff's autobiographical novel Old School, in which a pompous young teacher called Ramsey asks Robert Frost whether form really matters any more: isn't writing that is spontaneous, even disorderly, a better way to reflect the traumas of modern-day experience? Frost's reply is devastating: "I lost my nearest friend in the one they called the Great War. So did Achilles lose his friend in war, and Homer did no injustice to his grief by writing about it in dactylic hexameters Such grief can only be told in form Without it you've got nothing but a stubbed-toe cry sincere, maybe, for what that's worth, but with no depth or carry. No echo. You may have a grievance but you do not have grief."
Julian Barnes's new book is, in part, about the grief he suffered (and continues to suffer) after the death of his wife, the literary agent Pat Kavanagh, in 2008. On the matter of form, he is with Frost, not Ramsey. If it has taken him several years to express his grief in writing, whereas Joan Didion, for example, completed a book about the death of her husband within 12 months, that's not because he was lost for words (he wrote hundreds of thousands of them in a diary) but because he needed to find the right form. His wife didn't enjoy public attention: a confessional memoir wouldn't have suited. The category-defying book he has written looks disjointed at first, until its different themes gradually converge.
"You put together two things that have not been put together before," it begins, "and the world is changed." That's true of love but also of art. Ezra Pound made the combination of disparate things a principle of imagism, as in his poem on a station of the Paris Métro: "The apparition of these faces in the crowd:/Petals on a wet, black bough." Faces and petals make an immediate visual match. The themes that preoccupy Barnes love and ballooning (and grief and photography) take a little longer to line up but discovering how they do is half the pleasure. We've work to do not griefwork such as the author's, but work all the same.
The book's first section offers a brief history of 19th-century Anglo-French ballooning, with the pioneer of aerial photography Gaspard-Félix Tournachon, aka Nadar in the starring role. Just as every love story is a potential grief story, so every exultant balloon ascent is a potential disaster; as well as freedom and adventure, there is hubris and farce. Nadar was doubly innovative: he didn't just get up in the clouds, colonising God's space, he took pictures, when all our previous imagery had been Earthbound. It is the capacity "to look at ourselves from afar, to make the subjective suddenly objective" that Barnes admires in Nadar that and the fact he was "uxorious", a word he returns to later and rescues from misuse in relation to himself.
Two other pioneering balloonists were the English colonel Fred Burnaby and the French actor Sarah Bernhardt, both of them larger than life characters, despite Bernhardt being so slim. In the second section of the book, B & B are brought together. "We may establish that they met," Barnes writes "establish" as in build a story round, rather than base on fact. Soon they are soaring towards marriage. Or Burnaby imagines they are. Not that Bernhardt is merely flirting. But she is too busy having fun to want commitment. Rejected, he wonders if it isn't better to live among clouds, deluded, than on the level. "The pain was to last several years."
Burnaby died in 1885, in a battle in Sudan, from a spear-thrust through the neck. Barnes felt he had suffered a similar spear-thrust, or balloon crash, when his wife of 30 years died just 37 days after being diagnosed with a brain tumour. Where the first two sections portray life in the air and on the ground, the searing 50-page essay that concludes the book describes descent no upper air, no perspective, just darkness and despair. Nothing had prepared him: not his parents' deaths, nor all the thinking about death that went into his book Nothing to Be Frightened Of, published just a few months before. And very little helped him cope.
Certain things that were said, or not said, only made it worse: the friends who suggest he get away while they look after his house and their dog has the run of the garden (this while his wife is not yet dead); the ones who pretend not to hear when he mentions her name; the ones who ask convinced he is looking better "Have you found someone?" The griefstruck rarely know what they want, he says, so these offences are lightly noted, not raged over. What do they matter, after all what does anything matter when the worst has already happened?
One by one, the classic consolations offered to the bereaved are considered and repudiated: that suffering makes you stronger; that things get easier after the first year, through repetition ("why should repetition mean less pain?"); that the two of you will be reunited in the next life (which no atheist can believe). He owns up to thoughts of suicide and explains the reason for resisting: he is his wife's chief rememberer, and if he kills himself he will be killing her too.
One grief throws no light upon another, he says, quoting EM Forster. But some aspects of grief are universal, or can be made so through the honesty and precision with which they are articulated. Denying himself woolly comforts, Barnes scorns the euphemisms of "passed" or "lost to cancer" (the linguistic equivalent of averting one's eyes). Even actions that others might find strange his habit of talking to his wife, though she is dead have their own irresistible logic: "the fact that someone is dead may mean that they are not alive, but doesn't mean that they do not exist."
Pat Kavanagh was my agent for 30 years; it is hard for me to be objective. But this is not a book written for people who knew her. Nor is it "Before She Left Me", a story of her life and last weeks. Candid about his own grief, Barnes remains protective of her privacy; though her photo is on the back cover, her name doesn't appear in the text. Distressed by how many memories of her have gone, as if she is slipping away a second time, he lists the things he does remember the last book she read, the last wine she drank, the last clothes she bought. But he doesn't disclose what they were.
"Let me tell you something about her," he wrote of his wife in the half-chapter of A History of the World in 10½ Chapters, while giving away very little. Levels of Life, similarly, is a book that levels with us only up to a point. Its resonance comes from all it doesn't say, as well as what it does; from the depth of love we infer from the desert of grief. Even this essay is only one panel of a triptych a form arrived at to "give sorrow words" when it might have been a mere stubbed-toe cry.
Observer review
the observer Sat 06 April 2013
This little book has a purpose that is weightily monumental: it's a Taj Mahal made of paper not white marble.
Shah Jahan built the minareted tomb for his third wife when she died after delivering their 14th child; Barnes, who is uxorious as he points out in the strict sense of the word, is writing here to commemorate his one irreplaceable wife, Pat Kavanagh, who was in a sense the "onlie begetter" of his 20 books and who remains the dedicatee of whatever he writes, even though she died in 2008. Barnes once adopted her surname as a pseudonym. Now in Levels of Life she is honoured as a co-creator, with her own photograph quizzical, challenging, gloriously beautiful on the back flap beneath his.
But the Taj is a mausoleum: like the book, it couldn't keep alive the precious human being it praises. Religion duped us by pretending to vanquish death: are we fools for expecting art to do the same?
Levels of Life concludes with a raw, aching elegy. Before reaching that dead end, however, it goes for a characteristic wander around the universe, almost in the manner of Barnes's zigzagging tour through the centuries in A History of the World in 10½ Chapters. Here the itinerary is spatial, not temporal. The levels of life are the three tiers of our existence, storeys between which we commute and stories that we tell as we do so. Barnes starts in the stratosphere, with a semi-documentary account of the dotty balloonists who launched themselves into the sky in the late 19th century. He then settles down to ground in a fictionalised account of an affair between one of these aeronauts, a doughty colonel in the Horse Guards, and the actress Sarah Bernhardt. Then comes the inevitable descent underground to catacombs and corpses, with Barnes's account of his abrupt and unbearable bereavement.
The combination of forms and styles, slipping to and fro between airy fantasy and the grim immitigable facts of disease and death, really shouldn't work but it does, thanks to Barnes's deft emotional insight and his verbal legerdemain. The progress from sky to earth to six feet under is doomy, dragged by gravity like the balloonists when their contraptions plunge back to earth. But this depression is countered by Barnes's skill and guile in recycling ideas and phrases, motifs that bounce about and recur in startling new contexts until by the end they hold together a book that is at once airy and dense, frivolous and morose. Levity makes up for gravity, and like Barnes's characters when they puzzle over flying machines with their paradoxical fusion of lightness and force you are left wondering how the magical feat has been accomplished.
In retrospect it all becomes clearer. Everything in the first two sections, no matter how wayward, prepares for the third part, which seems so different in its pain and anger. Barnes's "balloonatics" are committing "the sin of aspiration", which destroyed Icarus; like the pilot in his early novel Staring at the Sun, they have invaded the realm that God recently vacated. Their exploits suggest that our soaring, floating happiness like that which Barnes enjoyed in 30 years of marriage will have to be paid for in grief when the buoyant cloud deflates. "The universe is exact," a friend whose husband has died tells Barnes: our misery when we lose a partner is commensurate with our love for them (though mercifully it won't, if we're lucky, last as long).
The second section, in which Colonel Fred Burnaby romances the capricious Bernhardt, initially puzzled me, and I wondered if it was just another exercise in historical reanimation, like Arthur & George. In fact it's a peekaboo admission that fiction is fact adroitly displaced and rearranged, since Barnes here indirectly recreates his relationship with his wife.
Pat is absent from the third section of the book already lost to the world, not even described for the benefit of readers. (I speak of her personally because she was my agent and my friend for 32 years; I claim no priority, but can hear the bell dolefully tolling as I recall that I met her two years before Barnes did.) I understand his reticence. To treat her as a character would have meant squandering their intimacy; he calls himself "her principal rememberer", but the memory remains "internalised", secreted within. Putting her into the book would also have pretended she could be somehow brought back to life, which Barnes, stoically atheistic, knows to be weak-minded folly.
Instead he casts her as Bernhardt the alluring actress, with himself, I suspect, as her worshipful, ultimately unworthy admirer, only too aware like the heroes of Flaubert's Parrot and Before She Met Me of "her smiling retinue of former lovers". Fiction is the amelioration of fact: when Bernhardt drops Burnaby, his pain is eased by travelling and by imperial wars, in one of which he has the good fortune to be speared in the neck and killed.
The third section of Levels of Life is literally self-mortifying, as Barnes imagines a scenario for suicide and selects the sharp Japanese knife that might bring about his quietus. Those who grieve can't forgive other human beings for having the cheek to be still alive; Barnes shows little mercy to friends who try clumsily to console or divert him, and he brings to bear a lexicographer's contempt when they use inappropriate words to euphemise the stark truth of death. I have the feeling that he didn't expect or even wish to recover from this anguish, itself a fatal illness. Luckily the mood lightens on the final pages of the book, as he writes himself back to equilibrium, if not acceptance, and recovers his delight in "the miraculous trickery of art".
Those words, like all those he uses, are carefully chosen. Art performs tricks not miracles, and resurrection is beyond its powers. But representation revisiting the past to make it present again may be the next best thing and our only hope.


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Ok I changed my mind.....if DH wanted to go camping really bad, THAT he could do without me. LOL
We actually had a fight Friday night that spiraled out of control. We were drinking some white wine watching the Brewers...they lost he got crabby and went on the message board. I waited at least a half hour and drank a bunch more wine. Finally I said I was going to bed and went to bed. He must not have heard me and came in after I was sleeping, flipped on the lights and started a fight. He said his feelings were hurt because I ditched him and went to bed, my version is I said goodnight and went to bed. I wasn't mad at that point. When I got up to use the bathroom, he freaking took the covers and went in the guest room and locked the door. Now THAT ticked me off big time. I pitched a fit and he gave the covers back....I said I didn't want to talk, I had a drunk a lot of wine, was woken up from sleeping and was going to bed. I went to bed and slept. He said he didn't sleep much because we don't go to bed angry (I was almost drunk so couldn't have stayed up if I tried)......and by the time I got up, he thought I didn't love him anymore and didn't want to be with him. OMG. Like I said, he is as needy, if not more than me......and extremely sensitive. I'm sure that my version is skewed since I had been asleep and I had drunk most of a bottle of wine. But I'm not sure how he got me going to bed at 11pm as this personal thing against him and turning that into I didn't love him anymore. Especially since we have been together 13 years and never once have broken up and don't fight very often.
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I know the economy is bad and all, but when shopping on Black Friday, always follow this very crucial strategy: When tempted by a really good deal on a holiday gift, make sure the cost of your bail incurred for the crime you committed to obtain said item does not exceed the discount on said item. This would seem to be common sense, but it's not to everybody, particularly the lady in Los Angeles who actually used pepper spray on competing shoppers at Walmart last night. No doubt she got the idea from the University of California Davis cop who blasted a couple of protesting college students last week. Guess what item was worth the risk of acquiring a criminal record?
An XBox 360. Which means in all likelihood, this woman is a mother with kids. What an excellent example to set for them! The woman was waiting in line at Walmart in Los Angeles, and when the doors opened at 10, she burst into the store and made a bee line for electronics. As soon as a clerk removed the plastic to the XBoxes, which were half price, she let loose her pepper spray, injuring a crowd of about 20 other shoppers, including children! What has our world come to if we would risk blinding children for the sake of a video game. We are a seriously messed up people, my fellow Earthlings.
And the worst of it is ... she's still OUT there. Stalking, shopping, and ready to fire at you if you reach for that thing SHE had her eye on first. The pepper spraying incident caused such commotion that the woman was able to grab her video game, make it to the cash register, and leave the store with her prize in hand. Police think they got a good look at her on surveillance cameras so it's only a matter of time before they nab the insane shopper and charge her with assault. Merry Christmas to her!
All for a half-price sale that saves her about $100? Maybe $200? Stories like this make me feel so much better about my choice to just stay home gorging myself on leftover pumpkin pie, waiting to order online a week before Christmas, and paying full price and exhorbitant shipping.
Have you been out shopping on Black Friday? What's the craziest thing you've witnessed?
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Incidents such as these are sad and shameful for the world-view of our country. Just 24 hours after we are supposed to give thanks and show compassion for those in need, all of this comes to surface from the Capitalist mania the public is worked into by Big Business. I wrote an article about the true meaning behind our holiday and a warning about our national disgrace which is Black Friday at http://dregstudiosart.blogspot.com/2010/11/wishing-you-and-yours-bountiful-harvest.html
Last year I went to Old Navy at midnight with my aunts and cousins....stupidest thing I've ever done, and the only time I've ever actually participated in Black Friday. I saw three women get into an all out BRAWL over a pack of infant pajamas. I was actually embarassed to be a human that night.
This is what makes me scared to even go, some crazy whacko who will just bring out a knife,pepper spray etc over an stupid item.
I went shopping but I didn't go until about 1130am and the worst was the lines. Although Target and Wal*Mart I was able to get in the 10 or less aisle(I only had a few things at each store) and Toys R Us wasn't very long. The worst line was Best Buy.
Give me a break..She belongs behind bars..Next to..Sandusky who should get life..w/out parole..And this..Greedy..Greedy witch should get 360 days w/out visitation rights...
people are crazy/greedy/ desperate... we did 'Black Friday'shopping.... at 3 this afternoon. We picked up some great deals, used coupons and by then the feeding frenzy had slowed to a trickle.
I went Black Friday shopping for the first time ever this year, at midnight. It was kind of crowded, and the checkout lines were awful, but everyone was nice. Got some great deals, but I wasn't Christmas shopping. I just clothes shopped for myself ;)


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Do you have a thing for video games? Then I bet you have heard about the Legend of Zelda. It's a fantasy action-adventure game that has acquired big fame and popularity amongst gamers. Now, it's about to take over your Minecraft world!
Classic Zelda Texture Pack is a texture pack that will merge the Zelda world with the Minecraft world. Many cool features of the game will now be introduced to your world and they will all be yours to enjoy with. The texture pack will change the textures, blocks, items, and even mobs. Altogether, your world will look no different from the world you could have seen in the Zelda world. The adjustment expands to GUIs and small animations will make the world look more attractive. Are you still not convinced? Then give it a try right now! Become Link and wander the Minecraft world like how he has wandered the Zelda world.
Classic Zelda Texture Pack For Minecraft 1.7.2 Main Features
- The texture pack will bring features from the game called the Legend of Zelda.
- The resolution of the texture pack is 16×16.
- New sounds are added.
Classic Zelda Texture Pack For Minecraft 1.7.2 Pros and Cons
Most definitely, if you have been into this game, the Legend of Zelda, you are going to love the new textures and how they change the overall looks of the Minecraft world. The texture pack will create a world of fantasy.
The resolution of the texture pack is 16×16. It is very low. The smoothness and neatness are not guaranteed.
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Classic Zelda Texture Pack For Minecraft 1.7.2 Changelogs
- The texture pack has been updated for the latest version of Minecraft.
- Podzol has been added.
- Minor bugs have been fixed.
How to install Classic Zelda Texture Pack For Minecraft 1.7.2
- Download the texture pack file.
- Open the "run" search bar and type "%appdata%".
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- Open the texturepacks folder.
- Move the downloaded file into the texturepacks folder.
- Enjoy!