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Last night, Big Love was able to keep us in suspense for next week's season finale episode.
"Next Ticket Out" did leave us with so many unanswered questions:
- We still don't know why Marilyn is so anti Bill and her reasons for her personal vendetta against him, but one thing is for certain she is out to uncover the truth. What is her deal anyway? She'll always be creepy Carrie to us.
- What was that moment between Barb and Tommy? Is there something more here that is left unsaid?
- Margene is full of surprises. Why did she all of a sudden decide that marrying Ana's fiance would be a bad idea? Does she have more romantic feelings for someone other than Bill - again?
- What ever happened with the Greens? They were noticeably not even mentioned in this weeks episode. One would think that after chopping off a mans arm someone would be around to seek revenge. Why are we left in the dark about them?
- Alby was being questioned for Dale's suicide, but the writers didn't show us the end result. It cut to a dramatic scene with Alby going pretty crazy. What happened at the trial? How was Alby able to get out of it without confessing his romantic ties to Dale?
- If the cats out of the bag about Joey killing Roman, why is JJ still so strange with regards to his sister? What is his whole M.O.?
All things considered, this episode definitely makes us anxious to see all the craziness that will happen next week. It's kind of like the feeling you have right before you are about to kiss someone for the first time - the butterflies, and the anticipation of whether it will be good or be a total plane crash.
We love this feeling and that is why we rated this week's episode 4.5 stars. What did you guys think? Can any of you answer our questions? What unanswered questions did you have after watching it? Let us know below!
We leave you with a couple Big Love quotes from last night:
Marilyn: I know some and I am just getting started. | permalink
Barb: You know Bill -it's like the wind! Always changing. | permalink
Alby: (to Nicki) Groveling like a common indecent whore. | permalink
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Scallop CrudoElisa Bosley | Delicious Living
- Serves: 4 people
- Calories per serving: 88
A beautiful and easy first course from chef Brian Malarkey of San Diego's Searsucker restaurant. Look for preserved lemons in gourmet shops and olive bars. The Lemonilla Dressing is also outstanding drizzled over cooked fish or salads.
- In a jar with a tight lid, combine all dressing ingredients. Shake well. Refrigerate at least 24 hours.
- Combine 1 quart water, 1/4 cup lemon juice, and kosher salt in a pot. Bring to boil. Add scallops and blanch for 10-20 seconds; then remove to a plate. Refrigerate for 1 hour.
- Using a mandolin, slice radishes and cucumber paper-tin; with a sharp knife, slice scallops as thinly as possible into disks. Shingle radishes, cucumbers, and scallop slices on plates (use one scallop per plate; about five slices each of other ingredients). Drizzle with about 2 tablespoons dressing and garnish with preserved lemon, basil, and sea salt.
PER SERVING: 88 cal, 7g fat (5g mono, 1g poly, 1g sat), 4mg chol, 3gprotien, 6g carb, 1g fiber, 25mg sodium

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Good Morning! Here is a round up of all the deals we talked about this morning on 10 New This Morning on Foxville 43! We covered all sorts of Easter deals, so don't worry if you haven't started thinking about Sunday, there is still time to save!
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Candy Deals
*update- The $1/2 printable coupon is popular! If the link says it is no longer available, try again in a little while. Also, I have seen these coupons in coupon dispensers right by the candy at both Publix and Kroger!
Buy 2 Snickers, Twix, M&M, Milky Way or 3 Musketeers (10-11.5oz bags)-reg. $3 on Buy One Get One Free sale for $1.50 each
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Buy 2) Mars Easter Chocolate (9.9-14 oz) on sale 2 for $4
-$1/2 Mars Fun Size or Minis chocolate candy from the Walgreens March coupon booklet (found at the front of the store)
–$1/2 M&M, Dove, Snickers, Twix, Milky Way or 3 Musketeers (2oz or larger) or from 3/20 RedPlum
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Buy 2 M&M's (8 oz+)- on sale for $3
-$1/2 bagged chocolate candy 8 oz+ Target coupon in the ad (or text CANDY to 827438)
stack with 35% Off M&M's Easter Candy 8-11.4 oz Cartwheel Offer (exp 3/26) (will deduct $1.75)
stack with –$1/2 M&M, Dove, Snickers, Twix, Milky Way or 3 Musketeers (2oz or larger) or from 3/20 RedPlum
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Buy 2 Dove Peanut Butter Easter Eggs (7.94 oz)- $3.99 each
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stack with $1/2 M&M, Dove, Snickers, Twix, Milky Way or 3 Musketeers (2oz or larger)
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**Also, if you need food for Easter celebrations be sure to clip the Free $10 Target Gift Card when you make a $50 food and/or beverage purchase from Sunday's Target ad or text FOOD to 827438. This is a threshold coupon, meaning you can meet $50 before any coupons!
Eggs for Dyeing
Walgreens has eggs for 99¢ a dozen through Thursday March 24th. (limit 4)
Target has a dozen Grade A large eggs for 99¢. Through March 26th you can use the 5% off Market Pantry 6, 12, 18 or 30 count Eggs Cartwheel offer to get them for 94¢.
Publix has dozen eggs for $1.29.
Easter Basket Gift Items
Check out dollar sections or dollar stores for outdoor toys like sidewalk chalk, bubbles, jump ropes etc.
ToysRUs.com is offering up Buy 1 Get 1 for $1 on ALL Skylanders, Disney Infinity and LEGO Dimensions Single Figures – prices start at just $3.99 through March 26th. They are also offering Buy One Get One FREE on Fisher-Price infant & preschool toys. You can buy online to get the deals and chose free in-store pick up.
Target has The Good Dinosaur on blue ray for $15 and there is a 10% cartwheel coupon making it $13.50. Other select DVD's are $4. Also, Target has $10 off Toy purchase of $50 or more coupon and a $25 off Toy purchase of $100 in their Sunday ad or you can text TOYS10 ($10 coupon) or TOYS25 ($25 coupon) to 827438
Kroger has a great deal on gift cards! Right now you can download a digital coupon for 4X Fuel points on gift card purchases! That means you save even more on gas! For example, if you buy $100 in gift card you will get 400 Fuel points, meaning 40¢ off a gallon next time you fill up at a Kroger or Shell station!
Clothing & Accessories
Kohl's is holding a Spring sale and they are offering three coupons that are valid until Wednesday March 23rd.You can use them in store or online.
$10 off $50 Women's apparel or accessories coupon
Kohl's $10 off $40 Men's apparel and accessories coupon
Kohl's $10 off $30 Children's apparel and accessories coupon
JCPenney has an extra 15% off coupon through today 3/22/16.
Belk– $10 off $50 purchase coupon
Michaels Copuons- 40% off regular priced item, 30% off regular price purchase
Hobby Lobby 40% off regular priced item
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An understanding of financial principals is vital when trying to create and maintain a long term investment plan. Below are some basic terminologies and ideas that you may find helpful.
A mutual fund is an investment vehicle that is made up of a pool of funds collected from many investors for the purpose of investing in securities such as stocks, bonds, money market instruments and similar assets. Mutual funds are operated by money managers, who invest the fund's capital and attempt to produce capital gains and income for the fund's investors. A mutual fund's portfolio is structured and maintained to match the investment objectives stated in its prospectus.
An investment strategy that aims to balance risk and reward by apportioning a portfolio's assets according to an individual's goals, risk tolerance and investment horizon.
The three main asset classes - equities, fixed-income, and cash and equivalents - have different levels of risk and return, so each will behave differently over time.
Investment Risk is the chance that an investment's actual return will be different than expected.
There are several different types of risk that may affect your investment:
In order to build wealth over time, investors need to accept a certain level of risk. Investing your money in only risk-free investments (ie. U.S. Treasury Bonds) only guarantees you a loss of purchasing power over the long term, due to the rising costs of goods.
"The most powerful force in the universe is compound interest" – Albert Einstein
Compounding is the process of generating earnings on an asset's reinvested earnings. In other words, it is the snowball effect when you are generating earnings from previous earnings.
You receive interest not only on your original investments, but also on any interest, dividends, and capital gains that accumulate—so your money can grow faster and faster as the years roll on.
If you invest $10,000 today and for the year earn 8%, you will have $10,800 in one year ($10,000 x 1.08). Now let's say that rather than withdraw the $800 gained from interest, you keep it in there for another year. If you continue to earn the same rate of 8%, your investment will grow to $11,664 ($10,800 x 1.08) by the end of the second year.
Because you reinvested that $800, it works together with the original investment, earning you $864, which is $64 more than the previous year. After the next year, your investment will be worth $12,597.12 ($11,664 x 1.08). This time you earned $933.12, which is $133.12 more interest than the first year. This increase in the amount made each year is compounding in action: interest earning interest on interest and so on. This will continue as long as you keep reinvesting and earning interest.
Beginning Investment Amount
Rate of Return*
Ending Investment Amount
*For example purpose, rate of return is set at a consistent 8%. Actual rate of returns will vary.
Investing to meet goals, many of which are decades ahead, takes discipline as down markets can be difficult to endure in the short term. But corrections are part of the process, they come and go and taking a step back during these times is imperative for building wealth. Investors that attempt to time the market by pulling out during periods of volatility tend to miss out on some of the markets best days, which often follow some of the worst.
"Market timing, defined as a short-term bet against long-term policy targets, requires being right in the short run about factors that are impossible to predict in the short-run." – David Swenson, Chief Investment Officer at Yale University.
Missing just a few days a year can have a huge impact because those missed gains aren't able to compound over the long term. As can be seen below, missing the best day each year is detrimental to wealth creation over long periods.
Source: Morningstar
Value investing is the strategy of selecting stocks that trade for less than their inherent value. The belief is that markets in the short term can overreact to good and bad news which results in the price of a stock to be out of line with the long-term fundamental value of the company, which creates a buying opportunity.
Relative value investing is a subset of the strategy that not only looks at the company's value in absolute terms, but also how that valuation compares to other stocks in the same industry and the stocks own historical valuation range.
Valuation ratios are tools used in the quantitative component of fundamental analysis. They can help determine what a company is worth by analyzing the relationship between the company's fundamentals and its share price. Not all of the ratios will be relevant in every situation, so it is important to use them all to gain a more complete understanding of value. A list of the primary ratios is below.
Price to Earnings (P/E):
The P/E ratio helps determine what the market is willing to pay for the company's earnings. It is calculated by dividing the company's price per share to its trailing earnings per share. The advantage of the P/E is that it is a simple and accurate was of valuing a stock which can be compared to the P/E's of other similar companies. The drawback is that the ratio is based on historic earnings which occasionally encounter specific events that won't be repeated, making a stock appear over or under valued.
The derivation of the P/E which eliminates issues related to historic earnings is the forward P/E, which uses estimated earnings instead of actual. This version provides insight into what the market is willing to pay for future earnings, but relies on accurate and timely estimates, which aren't always available.
Price to Sales (P/S):
The P/S ratio is similar to the P/E, but helps determine the value of the business the company generates, not the earnings. It is calculated by dividing the company's market capitalization (total number of shares issues multiplied by the share price) by its sales over the last twelve months.
The P/S ratio can be used in place of the P/E ratio in situations where the company has a net loss. Since sales are generally more stable than earnings, large changes in P/S often indicate a departure from the intrinsic value of the company, good or bad.
Price to Cash Flow (P/CF):
The P/CF ratio evaluates the price of a company's stock relative to how much cash flow the company generates. It is calculated by dividing the company's market capitalization by its operating cash flow. P/CF is sometimes preferred over P/E because cash flows are more difficult to manipulate from an accounting perspective than earnings.
Price to Book Value (P/B):
The P/B ratio helps gauge whether or not the market believes the company is worth more or less than its book value. It is calculated by dividing the price of a company's stock by its book value (balance sheet assets less liabilities). A P/B greater than one typically implies that the market believes the company is worth more than its book value and a P/B less than one typically implies the market believes the company is worth less.
The modern investment landscape offers a complex array of different strategies, but the cornerstone of them all involves the use of fundamental analysis. Fundamental analysis attempts to measure the inherent value of a company by studying quantitative factors like earnings and profits as well as qualitative factors like the quality of the company's board and key executives.
The quantitative piece of fundamental analysis looks at aspects of a company that can be measured. This typically begins by digging into a company's primary financial statements, the balance sheet, the income statement and the statement of cash flows.
Information within these statements can help answer questions that will help shed light into what the company's future financial performance will look like.
The qualitative piece of fundamental analysis cannot be measured, and is more a judgment into the quality of the company's character.


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Podcast 19: Anaïs Nin's Family with Gayle Nin Rosenkrantz
Gayle Nin Rosenkrantz was the daughter of Thorvald Nin, the middle child of the Nin family, between his big sister Anaïs and little brother Joaquín. She was born in Latin America during the 1930s and has vivid memories of not only her aunt, uncle and father, but also of her grandparents, Joaquín Nin y Castellanos and Rosa Culmell. Listen as she, like no one else can, describes the family dynamics, how Aunt Anaïs kept them at arm's length to keep her bigamy secret, a humorous account of her grandfather calling her and her brother "savages" after they met him in Cuba in 1939, and her stories about her father and uncle, many of which are entirely unknown until now. If you are interested in Anaïs Nin, this podcast is a must-listen, for it contains some real treasures from one of the only descendants of the original Nin family.
Run time: 41 minutes
To listen to the podcast with iTunes, click here.
To listen without iTunes, click here.
To learn more about the Nin family, click here.
This podcast is sponsored by The Quotable Anaïs Nin, which contains 365 cited quotations.
Opening track: Joaquin Nin "Suite Espanole II"
Closing track: Joaquin Nin-Culmell: "Ball pla i l'esquerrana"
Anais Nin Podcast 5, part 2: 5 more questions for Anais Nin with answers
Part 2 of episode 5 of The Anaïs Nin Podcast picks up where Part 1 left off: with answers to the last five of the ten questions Nin fans said they would have liked to ask her, the answers to which are thoroughly researched and explained.
The subject matter of Part 2 includes the Paris café life as a precursor to social media and how Anaïs Nin would have used Twitter, Facebook, blogs and podcasts today; the end of her love affair with the famed "laboratory of the soul," her home in Louveciennes, and her undying affinity with France; how Nin kept (or didn't keep) her two husbands unaware of each other; Nin's choice to not bear children—whether it was selfishness, as commonly thought, or a much deeper reason; and how Nin went about the construction her most ignored genre of work, her fiction.
With the invaluable help of Sex Love Joy podcaster, Anaín Bjorkquist, these questions are addressed, discussed and answered as closely as possible to how Anaïs Nin herself would have.
Once again, special thanks go to Lulu Salavegesen (@Shimmerinbloom) for the concept of this series.
You can listen to Podcast 5, Part 2 on iTunes by clicking here, or, if you don't have iTunes, by clicking here.
To learn about Part 1 and listen to it, click here.
Run time: 33 minutes. Enjoy.
New Guardian Article Raises Questions about Anaïs Nin
Recently The Guardian posted an article, written by Sady Doyle, about Anaïs Nin which chronicles her struggles as a young writer, her meteoric rise to fame, her downfall in the aftermath of Incest and Deirdre Bair's biography, and finally her current resurgence in social media. I happen to feel that the article is well-balanced, well-written, and is based on solid fact. This leads me to confront some misconceptions seen in the article's comments section about Nin's incestuous relationship with her father, Joaquín Nin. First, there seems to be some disagreement about who wrote the incest passages, not just from some of the commenters of the Guardian article, but among those who actually knew Nin herself. I happened to be among a group of women, all of whom knew Nin on some level—none of them intimately—who argued that Nin's "husband" and literary executor Rupert Pole and agent/editor Gunther Stuhlmann concocted the incest passage in the name of creating money-making scandal. Some believe that Pole was the editor of Incest, when, in fact, he transcribed the text from the original handwritten diary of Anaïs Nin, and Gunther Stuhlmann was the editor. I was Stuhlmann's friend and had first-hand accounts of how the process unfolded—Pole was difficult to work with, he said, because he wanted Nin's words exactly as she wrote them (Harcourt editor John Ferrone said the same thing—check out his article on the making of Henry & June in A Café in Space, Vol. 4). While Ferrone was very bold in editing Nin's text, Stuhlmann was more prone to leave it alone. The proof of this lies in the handwritten diary itself. Fortunately, Pole xeroxed the entire thing before Nin's death, and I happen to have this document—the Incest passage it is the same wording as in the handwritten diary. So, the account is Nin's, and it is virtually unchanged (misspellings, punctuation, etc. were the only edits). Secondly, the question about who seduced whom is still debated. This is answered by the correspondence between Nin and her father Joaquín. The letters are clear: Joaquín Nin aggressively and relentlessly pursued his daughter and even predicted what would happen inside "the four walls" of his hotel room. We know from Nin's account in Incest that she consented to his advances, but nowhere in any of the correspondence, or the diary, does she suggest a premeditated desire for a physical relationship. To learn more about these letters see the blog post or read a selection of them in A Café in Space, Vol. 6. The Guardian article does crystallize the fact that Anaïs Nin and social media is a good fit, and, as Tristine Rainer mentions, she would have loved to have an instantaneous connection with the world. To read the Guardian article, click here.
No Ordinary House: Anais Nin's 110th Birthday
Anaïs Nin was born 110 years ago on Feb. 21, 1903 at Neuilly-sur-Seine in what was then a newly built luxurious building at 7 rue du Général Henrion Bertier, which still stands today. The house, and the one next door, an identical building, were both built in 1895.
The city of Neuilly was kind enough to send along some specs for the house.
The specs roughly state that the houses were built parallel to each other and perpendicular to the street, with basements and four floors and a courtyard. The building materials consist of limestone, stone and slate. The front of the house has covered gables, and the roofs are made of long sections. The rear of the house is broken into sections with uncovered gables. There is a spiral staircase which is suspended, and a décor which consists of sculpture.
This was no ordinary house, and this was no ordinary neighborhood. It would perhaps be the most luxurious place little Anaïs ever occupied. The street view is below:
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Alas, the family would not remain long in Neuilly, since Joaquin Nin was a composer and pianist who traveled much of Europe on concert tours. They would go to Havana, Cuba, where 2 year old Anaïs contracted typhoid fever. She became very ill, losing weight and her hair, drawing taunts from her father as an "ugly duckling," something that would scar Anaïs for life.
After Havana, the Nins settled in a cheaper house in St-Cloud, near Paris, one of many places to which they would relocate, followed by Berlin and Brussels.
To learn more about the Neuilly house, click here.
To see more posts on Anaïs Nin's birthday, including her family heritage, click here.
To celebrate Anaïs's 110th, get Volume 10 of A Café in Space, which contains excerpts from her unpublished diary. It is available in both print and digital formats.
Thorvald Nin: Anais Nin's brother
Anaïs Nin valued writer Marguerite Young's opinions about her as-of-yet unpublished Diary 1, which begins in 1931, just before the 28 year old Nin met Henry Miller. While Young understood why Nin and her editor/agent Gunther Stuhlmann decided to begin the first published diary at that stage of Nin's life (because it was arguably the most interesting period), she still expressed a desire to know more about Nin's early years and her family members, all of whom are briefly mentioned in the diary for the sake of background.
In this revealing conversation, Young gets Nin to open up about her feelings towards her brother Thorvald, her mother, and her father. Nin explains how, as a child, she knew everything about her father's infidelity and that when he left the family at Arcachon in 1913 he would never return.
She reveals why she felt Thorvald had estranged himself from the family, and Young offers her own rather surprising opinion, as you shall hear.
In response to her Aunt Anaïs's remarks, Thorvald's daughter, Gayle Nin Rosenkrantz, says, "I must respond to the theory about my Dad's going into the business world. My poor Dad had no choice in the matter. His mother made him turn down a four year engineering scholarship at Cornell and told him he had to get a job to help support the family. He was obedient. He went into business because that is all an 18 year old boy could do. Get a 'go-fer' job in a bank and hope it leads to something. Believe me, he was broken hearted."
She adds that Thorvald "was never 'estranged' from his family. He always remained loving towards his mother and [his brother] Joaquín. He helped support his mother throughout her life. He was not a great letter writer, that is for sure, but 'estranged' is not the right word. When I was growing up we never lived in the States so we never saw my grandmother or Uncle Joaquín or Aunt Anaïs except during the brief times we spent in New York in between living in one Latin American country or other. When we were there we did spend time with both Anaïs and Hugo and Grandmother and Joaquín, and I remember in particular how warm and caring Hugo was with us. In the late 40s and early 50s Anaïs and sometimes both Anaïs and Hugo would come to Mexico and spend time with my Dad and his second wife Kay quite often. When Kay and Dad retired and moved to Florida, Anaïs and Hugo visited them off and on. Now my Dad was critical of Anaïs, no doubt about that. He did not think she was a 'good' writer and thought her novels were impossible to understand. He also knew that she was not living a straight and narrow domestic life, and because he cared for and admired Hugo, he disapproved of her infidelities. He talked about this to me when I was much older and long after Anaïs died. When I was growing up, Dad never discussed Anaïs in a hostile manner.
"My Dad loved music so even though he himself was not a professional musician, he did appreciate the arts. He always remained close to Joaquín.
"When Anaïs started publishing her diaries, in the 1960s, my Dad very clearly requested that she not include anything about him. She ignored that, and he was furious. The last time they saw each other was in San Francisco in 1971 for the Mass of Dedication of the new Roman Catholic Cathedral of St. Mary. Joaquín had been commissioned to compose the music for the Mass so Dad and Kay flew in from Florida and Anaïs came up from Los Angeles. [My husband] David and I took everyone out for dinner that evening and the exchange between Dad and his sister was not pleasant for the rest of us. So, yes, my Dad became estranged from his sister, but not from the rest of his family."
To listen to the 16 minute conversation between Anaïs Nin and Marguerite Young, click here.
Other related posts
For more on Nin's parents, click here.
To hear Young and Hugh Guiler discuss Nin's diary, click here.
To listen to Nin read "Under a Glass Bell," click here.
To listen to Nin reading about her fictional characters Lillian, Djuna, and Sabina, click here.
To see all Nin titles available as e-books, visit our e-bookstore.
To purchase books from Anaïs Nin's Silver Lake collection, click here.
Feb. 21: Anais Nin's Birthday
To celebrate Anais Nin's birthday, February 21, 1903, this page gives you a chance to easily locate the related information we have posted in the past. If this is your first time here, we hope you enjoy the summaries of Nin's birth, her family background, and her place of birth, Neuilly-sur-Seine, France.
Feel free to comment if you have further information or questions.
Post 1: Anais Nin's French and Danish ancestry
Post 2: Anais Nin's Spanish and Cuban ancestry
Post 3: Anais Nin's parents: Joaquin and Rosa
Post 4: Anais Nin's birthplace: Neuilly-sur-Seine
Post 5: Anais Nin's birth: the certificate
Post 6: Anais Nin's 13th birthday
Celebrate Anais Nin's birthday by purchasing one of the books (some extremely rare and out of print) from her and Rupert Pole's personal collection at the Los Angeles house.
Or, if you are digitally inclined, visit our Anais Nin e-bookstore.
We celebrate Anais Nin's birthday every year with a new issue of the only current Anais Nin literary journal, A Cafe in Space. To order your copy, click here.
A Cafe in Space: The Anais Nin Literary Journal, Vol. 6 is on Kindle
Today, Vol. 6 of A Café in Space: The Anaïs Nin Literary Journal was released on Amazon's Kindle. Vol. 6 (2009) contains the remarkable letters between Anaïs Nin and her father, composer Joaquín Nin, during the time just before and after the first nine days of their incestuous relationship in the south of France. Also included are essays by several prominent Nin scholars, such as Tristine Rainer and Sarah Burghauser, analysis of Henry Miller's writing, feminist literary theory, poetry, and reviews of Nin-related events.
For more information about the contents of the journal, and/or to order the print version, click here.
To order Vol. 6 of A Cafe in Space on Kindle, click here.
New Edition of Anais Nin's Children of the Albatross
Children of the Albatross, which has just been published on Kindle, is considered by many to be one of Anaïs Nin's most beautiful books; it is also a groundbreaker in that it eloquently addresses androgyny and homosexuality, which few literary works dared to do in 1940s America. What follows is an "unprofessional" analysis of the book, in which we are introduced to three of Nin's most iconic characters: Djuna, Lillian, and Sabina, all of whom represent different aspects of Nin's character—serenity, earthiness, and the femme fatale, respectively.
This new authoritative edition includes an introduction by Nin, character sketches drawn from Benjamin Franklin's Nin Character Dictionary, and a complete publishing history of the title.
The novel is divided into two sections, "The Sealed Room," in which we follow Djuna's developing perception of sexuality, and "The Café," in which the nature of each of the three female characters' relationships with the powerful, omnipotent painter Jay, whom Nin fashioned after Henry Miller.
In "The Sealed Room," young Djuna is in an orphanage, perhaps a metaphor for Nin's sense of abandonment by her father at the age of ten, and is confronted by the "watchman," a vile man who trades freedom for sexual favors. Later she is molested by her dance teacher. Symbolic of Nin's own struggle to free herself of overly powerful, masculine men (Paco Miralles—dance teacher who tried to seduce her; her father—incest; Henry Miller—emotional betrayal), Djuna's quest for freedom was for Michael, a young effeminate man (based on her cousin Eduardo Sánchez), with whom she seeks a complete love but fails because of his homosexuality. Djuna encounters Donald (after Robert Duncan), Lawrence ("Pablo" of the diary), and the seventeen year old Paul (Bill Pinckard) with whom she shares a nurturing (and sexual) relationship.
"The Café" brings together the three female characters (Sabina, Lillian and Djuna) with Jay (after Miller), who is a painter with whom all three woman have had a relationship. In this segment of the novel we find out, through the characters, how Nin's relationship with Miller had different stages and levels. Just as the female characters have conflicts in their approach to Jay, Nin's internal conflicts regarding Miller ultimately resulted in estrangement. The book concludes after Michael and Donald appear at the café, in effect bringing relationships from various times and places together as Jay drags Djuna from her "cities of the interior" into life.
It is interesting to note that the title "The Sealed Room" is a reference to Anaïs Nin's house in Louveciennes, France, which had one window that was eternally shuttered and appeared to be present for symmetry alone. The "room" which didn't exist behind this window became an important metaphor for Nin's interior vision. She also compared the sealed room to her diary, which was the repository that fed her fiction. This reminds us of the fact that Nin was criticized (and indeed she criticized herself at times) for not being able to invent, to compose fiction purely from the imagination. But what she did was to use the components of the diary as an ingredient in what can be considered a sort of "alchemy," what she termed a "distillation" that became a unique type of fiction that was, unfortunately, almost totally incompatible with the times (1930s to 1950s) during which it was published.
There are several levels at which her fiction can be read—there is the remarkable and distinct prose, which some compare to French surrealism and which uses words in unique ways (consider the word "ensorcell," for example); there is the psychological aspect of her writing, in which there is a constant search for identity, the understanding of the dynamics of relationships, and the impact of the past on the present; there is the struggle for self-awareness and self-evolution, which makes her writing relevant to this day. We see ourselves, our struggles, our pain, our hell, in Nin's work, and when her characters somehow survive and grow, we are inspired. Her work can be considered a mirror in which we see ourselves, which gives it a sort of secret personal touch that is sometimes missing in contemporary fiction. It is also why few can agree on the particulars of Anaïs Nin's body of work, because we all see it in our own way.
When Children of the Albatross was first released by Dutton in 1947, it met with mixed reviews—one of the usual complaints was that Nin's fiction is light on plot and heavy in the sorts of things that, although they wouldn't admit it, the critics simply didn't understand. In the 1940s, literary critics were looking for realism, sequence, solid characters with solid descriptions. Nin offered none of these characteristics in her fiction and therefore it was difficult to get a decent review or to sell many copies to middle American readers.
Today, because it offers deep insight into Nin's inner life within its beautifully written passages, it is considered one of her most effective works, and it is also recognized as one of the first American titles by a female author to consider male homosexuality.
Children of the Albatross joins The Winter of Artifice, Under a Glass Bell, and A Spy in the House of Love on Kindle.
Anaïs Nin's Childhood Writings: First Christmas in New York
After Anaïs Nin's father, Joaquín Nin, abandoned his family in Arachon, France in 1913, her mother took her daughter and two sons, Thorvald and Joaquinito, to New York to begin a new life. Ensconced in a house in Kew Gardens, outside of New York City, Anaïs marked her first Christmas outside of Europe, which was at the time embroiled in World War I. It was a bittersweet day, a mixture of joyous celebration with her extended family, and a mournful longing for the return of her father. The following comes from p. 37 of Linotte: The Early Diary of Anaïs Nin 1914-1920:
December 25, 1914
"Merry Christmas!" That was the shout when we woke up. What a surprise, hanging near the bed…a stocking for each of the three of us. What a lovely Christmas. There was a top for Thorvald, caramels for Joaquinito, oranges, holly, snow (imitation), how beautiful! And that's not all. Coquito led the way downstairs. New joy, new shouts. A beautiful Christmas tree, all lighted, and toys, it was wonderful. I was in the group of children too. Finally Uncle Gilbert calmed us down and it was with happy hearts and smiling faces that we sang "Adeste Fideles" all together. Then the blond heads and dark heads bent down to read the names and see a beautiful gun, skates, a box of chocolates for Coquito, a little car, a doll for Nuna, shiny proud soldiers for Thorvald, a little boat for Joaquinito, for Anaïs, a beautiful white bed from Aunt Edelmira, a book and a box of writing paper from Maman. Oh, I really don't deserve it. The cries of joy ended and we had breakfast. The house is full of holly. Holly wreaths hang at the windows. The dining room lamp is ornamented with a beautiful white bell tied round with red ribbon, a charming effect. Afterward Uncle Gilbert, Thorvald and I went to take Communion. How sweet it is to be able to say, I belong to Jesus. The rest of the day was calm and happy. In spite of that, in spite of my happiness, I did not forget Papa. If he had been there, I could have shouted, I am in paradise. I have thought a lot about God's goodness. I am here with my family, warm, needing nothing. How many children over there are dying of cold and hunger. Here I have Maman, I am happy and can feel her tender kiss. How many children over there weep for their mothers or weep for the father who will never return. I can console myself knowing that I have Papa, who is far away, it's true, but he is there and I have the hope of receiving his kiss that I long for so much.
It's not right to be sad on such a happy day, and to avoid that I am going to bed and dream about Papa's homecoming. One word more. Today I couldn't help thinking of Christmas 1912, which I spent in Brussels in a sickbed, with an operation in prospect. I couldn't help telling God, O Jesus, your kindness is infinite. Thanks to your mercy, I have been allowed to have a merry Christmas here in New York with my family. I shall stop. I feel like crying with I remember my dear Brussels.
Prelude to a Symphony: Joaquín Nin's seduction of his daughter Anaïs
Recently discovered letters between Joaquín Nin and his daughter Anaïs reveal what has been hidden for decades—his explicit use of the doppelganger theory (which Nin psychoanalyst Otto Rank made famous) to seduce his daughter after essentially twenty years of estrangement. One letter in particular, written on April 29, 1933 (a few months before their first sexual encounter), illustrates this maneuver. Anaïs, who'd shortly beforehand initiated contact with her father, had sent him a copy of part of her childhood diary, which was originally written for him as a sort of "letter" after he'd abandoned Anaïs and her family in 1913. In response, Joaquín says:
You are not only my daughter…you are two daughters, one by flesh and the other by spirit. There are coincidences—some of which are troubling and others which fill me with joy—between your "journal" and the one I wrote—yes—at your age. Like you, I sought the kind of solitude that liberates, and I wept over secret, indefinable disappointments. Like you, I found the ways of the world absurd. Like you, I hated school, because the dogma clipped the wings of my imagination. Like you, I loved flowers, books, music, worms, the sky and stars, the sea, the sun, trees, snow and the faithful claire de lune…benevolent confidants of my secret life.
Like you, I hated lies. Betrayals by my schoolmates made me literally sick with sorrow and despair…or furious to the point of wanting to beat them all senseless. For me, life seemed to be a farce, a sinister game impossible to play without leaving logic behind…and then I lost all my courage… Like you, I tried to raise my heart unto God himself, who, I believed by some miracle, could hear me. I was exactly thirteen years old when a sudden crisis of mysticism threw me into prayer, which I believed was the only possible consolation for my distressed heart and aimless soul. I spent, unbeknownst to my parents, hours and hours at night kneeling on the tiles of my tiny bedroom, reading and reciting prayers, in order to save myself and those I loved from the attacks of evil. The day before my first communion I almost fainted at the feet of the stern Priest to whom my Father had entrusted my religious initiation. Like you, I had a double life, a mysterious, burning and secret life; I spent hours of ecstasy in a world of dreams where all was just, beautiful and sweet. Alas! … "Life," harsh, hard, ferocious, broke all that little by little. I learned how to work, to fight, to hit, to settle arguments with my fists, just like the others around me. I suffered the effects of the collective madness; I lashed out to defend myself, initially, and then in order to defend my ideas, my concept of the world (?), of life, of society. I fought against my companions, with the exaltations of illumination, so that they would no longer lie, so that they would no longer betray, so that they would be just, so that they would not behave like animals, so that they would not steal, so that they would not rip flowers from the neighbors' gardens, so that they would not use vile words, so that they would not mock God and the poor, whom my father had taught us how to love and respect. But at the same time I sought, by all possible and conceivable means, to perfect myself because I felt—again like you—that I was filled with defects, ugly, weak and mal-conditioned, in the end, in every way.
…I will see you soon, dear Anaïs! Around your image and your memory I braid garlands of emotional tenderness, and I throw my trust to the heavens which separate us—the beautiful heavens of France—the soft murmer of my grateful heart, the clear message of the love of…
Your father (A Café in Space: The Anaïs Nin Literary Journal, Vol. 6 11-12, 13)
The many parallels between their lives (though there is no evidence to verify his version of his life) create a spiritual link between the two of them, which is followed up with sentimentality. Joaquín's motivation is up for speculation—he'd always sought a relationship with his daughter, especially during the time shortly after he'd left the family, for his own purposes—he was no doubt jealous of his wife Rosa's control over Anaïs and her two younger brothers, Thorvald and Joaquín Jr., and often used Anaïs's lingering affection for him to create a rift between the children and their mother, whom he loathed. Since he had not yet met Anaïs as a mature woman (except for a brief encounter some years previous, after she first arrived in Paris with her husband Hugh Guiler), there is no concrete evidence that he was plotting a physical relationship with her…but he was a seducer by nature, and if he saw himself in Anaïs's writing, as he indicates in this letter, it is possible that his self-adoration led him to such a scheme even before meeting her some weeks later in Louveciennes.
For a more complete exchange of letters before and just after the incestuous encounter, see A Café in Space: The Anaïs Nin Literary Journal, Vol. 6 ("Prelude to a Symphony: Letters between a father and daughter" pp 5-26).
To read more about Joaquin Nin, get Britt Arenander's Anais Nin's Lost World: Paris in Words and Pictures, 1924-1939, which has descriptions and an interactive map that includes his house in Paris.
To see a sample or to purchase Anaïs Nin's Lost World, click here.
To view a sample interactive map drawn from the book, click here.
Visit our Anaïs Nin e-bookstore here.
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Edit This is not a duplicate b/c I can't use a setter b/c of its limitaions, and these are not "dynamic" properties that don't get defined until runtime. I was looking for the same thing that vb.net supports...property setters with arguments. In such a case you get the extra arguments coming into the setter of the property, but the property is defined at runtime (yes I guess it's a meta property). I knew that won't work so was looking for an emulation of that.
I can use any solution up through ES6 if that helps, but I don't have to. This isn't necesarily an ES6 question.
Is there any way in the language to emulate the calling convention I seek?
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The GOOD – July 3, (Friday) was the kick off of stampede by having the parade in the morning, so it's officially started! I had a sudden desire to take a sneak a peek on Thursday evening, and even though I did not win any ribbons (THE BAD), I was happy to go and see what others have done.
I did feel that my bracelet is displayed elegantly (The GOOD) (considering I did provide the hand that it is draping on). I'm not pleased with the way the belt and buckle are resting, they could of prop this up better, so you can see it better (THE BAD). It didn't seem like there were that many entries in this year in a lot of the categories, so if you are creative and talented, try to enter! Jacqueline – I did see your bubblegum knitted dress, but I couldn't see your daugther's goose clock, I'll have to check it out again when I go down another day.
Last Saturday was a great success at the Lake Chaparral Community Center, the sun was beaming all day, and the line ups were long to get into the park, but they kept flipping pancakes (they expected 1,000 people but over 3,000 people came in!), and lots of fun, wholesome activites for everyone. (The GOOD)
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I've always struggled with monochromatic cards...but I think I finally pulled it off with this one. I just love it. I used Heartfelt Creations for the main sentiment stamp....love this set. The rose was made using one a Spellbinders die...and it's just stunning. Can you believe I made this whole card with cream colored cardstock...no designer paper here at all.
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Harvey Thompson: Jazz Is-Anything You Want It to Be (HT Records).
This splendid recording from Detroit singer Harvey Thompson is far more than just a vocal showcase. The ingenuity of the arrangements, the stylistic breadth of the repertoire and the ebullience of the performances establish Thompson as a bandleader of unusual sensitivity and musical accomplishment. The tight vocal-instrumental ensemble passages he leads in the title track, the idiomatic way he and the band handle the dance-funk rhythms of Horace Silver's "The Show Has Begun" and the clever way Thompson reinvents Cole Porter's "You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To" make this an instantly appealing recording. As for Thompson's vocal work, he sings with as much poetry as virtuosity and stands as a potentially major talent.


text: Ultimate Garage Band 3 Posted June 13, 2006 Let's talk about guitar budget. Have you ever purchased a digital camera? If you have then you know if you set a budget of $200 for a camera and SPEND $200 on just a camera, you've got about another $100 to spend in STUFF to make the camera do what you want it to do. A camera bag, rechargeable batteries, battery charger, bigger/2nd media storage card, and on and on. The same holds true with guitars. If you budget to spend $200 on your first guitar, don't forget you'll need something to carry the guitar around in, a bag or case, a tuner, and quite possibly a stand, an amplifier, chords, pedals, a metronome, a footstool, a music stand, books/dvd's, picks, strap, and on and on. Often times guitar companies will assemble much of these items into 'Starter Packs' and market them as an all inclusive purchase. Personally, I don't offer Starter Packs through my retail guitar business because I find them to be a poor value. Let's look at how the business of guitars and retail sales approaches the new player. The specific guitar that companies tout as the 'best' for a new player is the cheapest and poorest performing guitar in the product line up. Think about that for a moment; if company X offers 45 different guitar models, THE CHEAPEST ONE is the one they say is 'perfect' for the new player. This will be the one guitar, out of all 45, that will have the cheapest quality hardware, the cheapest quality wood, the cheapest quality finish, the cheapest quality fretwork. In other words, out of all 45 guitar models, IT'S THE HARDEST GUITAR TO PLAY WELL. So, does this sound like the 'perfect' guitar for beginners? The perfect guitar for beginners would be the top of the line, easiest playing, best performing guitar, BUT new players aren't going to spend that kind of money and companies AND retailers know that. Their solution? To package 'all in one' starter packs for a quick and easy sale KNOWING the player has an inferior instrument/gear and will probably never make another guitar related purchase again. Who cares? They got your money for this purchase and there's another newbie just like you every day. THERE ARE SOME THAT BUY THESE STARTER KITS AND DO SUCCEED IN LEARNING TO PLAY, HOWEVER, THE MAJORITY FAIL. This is also not to say that ALL starter kits offer ALL inferior products. I'm a Washburn dealer, for instance, and an electric guitar they currently offer in some their starter kits is the very same model I stock and suggest for a first electric guitar. However, everything else that comes with it will be replaced inside a year if the player keeps playing, so why not go ahead and put that money towards gear that will last more than a year? So, when thinking about your budget you should plan for accessories and look beyond the starter packs for the best value in performance. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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Reading the new U.S. Census report on income and poverty in 2011, released on Sept. 12, is a bit like turning on the weather report in the middle of a hurricane. We don't really need to look at our television to know that it's raining and windy, and we don't need to read the Census report to know that too many of our neighbors are struggling to get by. But the weather report also lets us know how the most vulnerable -- those on the unprotected coast -- are faring, and whether there are blue skies ahead or if the storms will linger. Likewise, the Census report provides an accounting of the number of people who are riding out the storm of poverty and anxiously awaiting forecasts of better economic conditions -- along with news of help.
The Census report confirms that 2011 was a tough year for the average American worker and family. We already knew that unemployment was lower in 2011 than in 2010. However, this report tells us that real median earnings for full-time, year-round workers fell by 2.5 percent. Putting it together, median household income declined by 1.5 percent from 2010 to 2011. Incomes at the top end started to grow a bit, which means that inequality rose. Poverty rates in 2011 were at about the same levels as 2010 -- 15 percent for all people, 21.8 percent for children under 18, with blacks and Hispanics facing poverty rates of more than twice the overall levels.
No one would rip the plywood off their windows or empty the sandbags in the midst of an intense storm. Similarly, the federal government should not reduce the strength of its safety net when there are so many families in need and truly benefiting from the support. That's because government programs really do help lessen the impact of poverty and get people back on their feet so they can become more self-sufficient.
One of the bright spots in the Census report -- and a great example of how government policy can work -- is the news that the number and share of people in the U.S. without health insurance coverage declined. This is likely due to both the Affordable Care Act's provision requiring health insurance companies to cover young adults on their parents' plans, and to increased public coverage. The report also showed that public supports like Unemployment Insurance, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), and the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) made a difference in millions of people's lives, and that hardship would have been much greater without them.
The election will set a long-term course for how government helps struggling families. But policymakers will also have a lot of work to do immediately after the election, when Congress comes back to work on unfinished business. Our lawmakers must steer clear of the looming cuts to the programs so many vulnerable families rely on for survival. Unfortunately, it's easy to forecast what will happen if they don't.


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Washington Does Not Like Snarky
To: Jofi Joseph, Washington DC
Dear Mr Joseph:
I read of your firing as a low-level national security adviser in the White House thanks to your "snarky" tweeting about various Obama administration officials above you in the pecking order.
I understand you are contrite and a bit embarrassed and said that your tweeting escapade as @NatSecWonk started as innocent fun and turned into something else. Even the New York Times reporters who told your story on their front page today seemed hard pressed not to treat it comically. The headline was: "White House Official's Career Twitters Out." Twittering out is hardly a dignified downfall. In the annals of schadenfreude over the downfall of promising national office holders via the internet, at least you did not tweet anyone images of your penis.
From here on out I'm going to treat your situation seriously, since I feel your predicament is instructive. I know you and your wife certainly see it as serious, since she remains on the Washington national-security-state power merry-go-round.
On the Rachel Maddow Show Wednesday night, yours was not the only Twitter-based story. Maddow gave much more time to, and was quite laudatory about, a tweeter named Tom Matzzie, a man who once worked for MoveOn.org.
Mattzie made blow-by-blow tweets from a Washington to New York Acela train of a loud, off-the-record cell phone interview being given in the seat directly behind him. The interviewee, Michael Hayden, as you must know, was the NSA director under President Clinton and CIA director under Presidents Bush and Obama; he now works for the Chertoff Group, which according to its website, "provides business and government leaders with the same kind of high-level, strategic thinking and diligent execution that have kept the American homeland and its people safe since 9/11."
When Hayden was informed via his cell phone that an ordinary schmuck had just done a surveillance job on him from the seat ahead, the master spy introduced himself and graciously posed with Matzzie for a photograph. As any good spy knows, it's important to always remain cool and make the best of things when caught with your pants down. (The photo is at the end of this missive.)
In your case, you assumed the role of an anonymous insider making snide comments about Hillary Clinton on Benghazi, John Kerry, Susan Rice and others. This is how you described yourself: "Unapologetically says what everyone else only thinks. A keen observer of the foreign policy and national security scene. I'm abrasive and bring the snark." Snark comes from Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark, and the word is defined as "an imaginary animal (used to refer to someone or something that is difficult to track down)."
Here's your August 9 tweet concerning UN Ambassador Samantha Power -- or "Sam" as you refer to her:


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Lottie had an open gaze and her lips and eyes smiled together. Her eyes were incredibly large and curious, like a cartoon princess's, over-scored by delicate, arched eyebrows, like most of her patients' on the Children's Ward. Her level of trust the result, no doubt, of a cherished upbringing by doting parents and starting life … Continue reading Swallow
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Crossing to Safety
• 20 January 2009
This is the perfect time of year to revisit one of my all-time favorite books...Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner. It is the only book I've read multiple times, in fact. So, if you're looking for a good read (also a great way to cure the January doldrums!), consider giving it a try.
Back me up sistahs.
16 comments:
- Julia said...
I also enjoyed "Where The Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs" by Wallace Stegner. Not a novel, but a wonderful read for anyone who loves the West. By the way, the matryoshka party was adorable.
- January 20, 2009 at 8:48 AM
- Emily said...
I've been making my way through all of Wallace Stegner's books...and i've loved every one of them.
- January 20, 2009 at 9:51 AM
- Cher said...
We reorganized the bookshelves upstairs by genre last night and I put the stegners next to each other- crossing to safety and angle of repose. Even though I just read Crossing to Safety last year I was really thinking of picking it up again! It just takes me to another place and time that I love...
- January 20, 2009 at 10:53 AM
- sws said...
Great suggestion....one of my all time favorites, and just what I need for this crazy inversion! ss
- January 20, 2009 at 12:09 PM
Amy cries whenever she reads this.
- January 20, 2009 at 1:01 PM
- Emily said...
Oh, I loved this book when I read it the first time - wow, that was 2002! - so yes, I must go back and read it again. Thanks for reminding me of it! (And I recently re-read Angle of Repose, and it meant many different things to me the second time than it did the first. Love books like that, that speak to you in different ways at different points in your life.)
- January 20, 2009 at 2:53 PM
- bird on the lawn said...
My favorite book indeed.
- January 20, 2009 at 3:13 PM
- Whatever Dee-Dee wants said...
After reading this book I became a BIG fan off Wallace Stegner. I should re read it.
- January 20, 2009 at 3:54 PM
- wild child said...
Oh gosh, it's been many years since I read this book - the first Stegner book I ever read. It is still my favorite of his, though I know Angle of Repose is more famous (and it was certainly an amazing book). Big Rock Candy Mountain nearly did me in though - it was so heartbreaking I haven't read a Stegner book since!
wild child
- January 20, 2009 at 6:22 PM
- Georgia said...
Would it be a good vacation book? I'm dreaming of Spring Break in Mexico! I've never read a book by that author, but you've mentioned him before.
- January 20, 2009 at 6:54 PM
I adore this book...a must read for those who haven't.
- January 20, 2009 at 7:22 PM
- Jen H. said...
When asked my favorite book, sometimes I say Angle of Repose, and sometimes I say Crossing to Safety. It's just too hard to choose between them.
I love this book!
- January 20, 2009 at 9:30 PM
- brooke said...
So funny, we just picked this for my book club. I've already read it a few times and am so excited to read it again.. it might be my most favorite book ever.
- January 20, 2009 at 10:11 PM
- s g said...
I absolutely LOVED this book and I should re-read, although I don't usually re-read books, this is timeless classic!
- January 21, 2009 at 9:44 AM
- lynne said...
this is one of my top 3 favorite books of my life.
- January 27, 2009 at 12:32 PM
- Julie said...
I remember reading this book and loving it, but now I've forgotten the story line. Maybe I should read it again.
Love your blog. I am new....came over from Happy Day.
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A day in the life of a "BA FM" student
I'm currently doing a BA in Business Administration/Facility Management (FM) at Flughafen Berlin Brandenburg GmbH.
Most people have no idea what FM is. Generally, FM is about all services required to optimally operate and manage facilities. FM primarily entails commercial, infrastructural and technical facility management as well as area management. More and more companies are seeing huge savings potential in this sector and are thus seeking to train qualified personnel. For most companies, however, FM is a secondary process alongside their actual core business. FM is thus a relatively new study option with very good prospects in Germany. As an airport operator, Flughafen Berlin Brandenburg GmbH also has a great need for FM. Flughafen Berlin Brandenburg GmbH has thus been offering the FM course since 2006.
Now about the course. The theoretical part of the cooperative study programme takes place at the Berlin School of Economics and Law. The course runs for a total of six semesters and leads to a Bachelor of Arts degree. As this is a cooperative study programme, you regularly alternate between theory and practice. The main focus is on business modules such as business administration, socio-economics, HR or marketing as well as FM-oriented modules such as the fundamentals of real estate and building, property rights, tenancy law, maintenance management and technical building services. The practical phase at Flughafen Berlin Brandenburg GmbH involves working in various departments – from Accounting and HR to FM-specific departments such as Real Estate Management. This is where you get involved in daily work processes.
The key advantage of a BA degree is the 1.5 years of practical experience gained during training. This means you don't just become a theorist, but also gain an insight into working life. Practical training allows you to build on the specialist knowledge gained during your studies. Although this is a very intense course of study, I really enjoy alternating between theory and practice, and the opportunity to study a course relevant for the future.
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Every year, the Alamo Drafthouse in Austin, Texas does a screening of all three of the Lord of the Rings films. This year, they also served breakfast, second breakfast, elevensies, luncheon, afternoon tea, dinner, and supper - favorite hobbit mealtimes - for a total of eight dishes. Wired has the full set of delicious-looking photos, though I see one problem with the spread: the courses are too fancy, too well-plated for hobbits, whom I picture relishing hearty, simple fare. They're a people that would feast from tin or pewter plates, not rectangular, white china that screams "fine dining." (Not that I have anything against fine dining - I just don't think hobbits would feel entirely comfortable in such a setting.)
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I've always loved pubs. I don't know why. I've just always loved pubs, every since I was a child. Real pubs, proper pubs in their many types in all different kids of communities and locations in this great country of ours.
Pubs are at the heart of our communities. Pubs are part of our history and our heritage as a nation. Yet as a nation we are standing by and watching so many close, that need not close and accepting excuses from companies who have an interest in closing them – and preventing someone else running them – and from politicians who use (or accept) excuses as to why not to allow other people to take and run them.
Noone was really standing up for the Great British Pub in the House of Commons, so I decided I would and I formed the Parliamentary Save the Pub Group in 2009. I and we've been involved in the successful campaigns for lower beer duty, for better recognition for pubs in the planning system and masterminded the campaign for the market rent only option for tied pubco landlords. Yet there is much more to do – and much of it could be done simply – with the political will. I will continue to lead the fight to make these things happen and to stop so many pubs closing that need not close; and yes, I will carry on visiting and commenting on pubs, the good, the bad and the mediocre up and down this still pub filled land.
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With Transocean Ltd.'s agreement this month to pay $1.4 billion in civil and criminal fines for its role in the Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil spill, Louisiana is edging closer to a meaningful infusion of money for coastal restoration. Roughly $75 million from the $400 million in criminal penalties to be paid by Transocean will go to the restoration of barrier islands and wetlands in Louisiana. Eighty percent of the $1 billion the company promised to pay in Clean Water Act penalties will go to trust funds set up by the federal Restore Act, which provides for the money to be divided among the five Gulf states. Although it is difficult to determine exactly how much of that $800 million Louisiana would get, it should be a sizable share.
The Transocean fines would be added to the $1.25 billion the state is in line to get over five years from BP for restoring barrier islands and to pay for a Mississippi River diversion of sediment to build new land. That money is part of the company's $4.5 billion in fines stemming from a guilty plea in November to criminal charges connected with the 2010 spill, which killed 11 rig workers.
Both Transocean's plea and BP's are subject to approval by federal judges. But presuming that happens, restoration funding should begin to flow in at a pretty significant rate.
And if BP's civil penalties for environmental damage caused by the massive spill are as large as expected, Louisiana could finally be in a position to do major restoration work along the coast.
The state has put together a $50 billion, 50-year restoration plan for coastal Louisiana, and the BP and Transocean fines already on the table could kick off important projects. State officials now are working to complete design and engineering work on dozens of restoration projects in hopes of being in a position to quickly get approval for funding.
When the fines begin to come in, the Obama administration should disburse the money quickly and with as few bureaucratic hoops as possible.
The question of BP's civil liability for environmental damage under the Clean Water Act is expected to be determined at a trial set to begin Feb. 25 -- unless the company agrees to a plea deal before then.
The company said when its criminal plea was announced that it would "vigorously defend itself against remaining civil claims." That is its right, of course, but the government should be just as vigorous on its side.
BP is trying to avoid being found "grossly negligent" under the Clean Water Act -- and limit its liability to as little as $5 billion. A finding of gross negligence could increase the fines to $21 billion or more, based on the release of 4.1 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico from the broken well.
Obviously, that finding matters tremendously to Louisiana and the other Gulf Coast states that suffered devastating environmental and economic damage from the spill. Transocean's guilty plea on Clean Water Act offenses doesn't seem likely to help BP's case. BP's admission of criminal negligence is damning as well.
The company's reaction to Transocean's settlement was self-serving. The deal "underscores what every official investigation has found: that the Deepwater Horizon accident resulted from multiple causes, involving multiple parties," a BP spokesman said. "In settling, Transocean has acknowledged that it played a significant role and has responsibility for the accident."
Sen. David Vitter, though, brought the focus back to where it should be. "Hopefully this leads soon to much bigger final action with BP, the main culprit in this horrible disaster," he said.
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Lorraine Smith, director of Churchland Country Day School, a day care center and kindergarten, has worked hard with her staff to creae an environment where children love to learn and feel safe.
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