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Sherrybaby (+)
I tried to see this film last Friday night when it opened, but met a sold-out sign at the box office. I was able to see it the following Sunday afternoon, and it was well worth the wait.
Sherrybaby is a superb short story about a young woman released from prison, having served a few years for theft and drug use. Sherry (Maggie Gyllenhaal) is placed on probation and meets with those in charge of her rehabilitation as she tries to get her life in order. Parole Officer Hernandez (Giancarlo Esposito) is dedicated to his job and tough on his parolees. The head of the half-way house where Sherry lives and her employment officer become obstacles for her which she overcomes with sex and favors. Instead of helping Sherry with her rehabilitation, they willingly take their pound of flesh.
Her brother Bobby (Brad William Henke), a very decent man, and his wife Lynette (Bridget Barkan), who resents Sherry, are taking care of Sherrys baby, Alexis (Ryan Simpkins). They want to help Sherry but also protect the child. Among the people Sherry meets at A.A. meetings is Dean (Danny Trejo), an American Indian who also has problems. The temptations of alcohol, drugs and sex are enormous for them. The shock and Ill leave it at that is Sherrys dad (Sam Bottoms).
Maggie Gyllenhaal is a superb actress willing to give her role everything she has, even if it entails undressing. All of the actors are excellent including the child who is pressured by her mother, aunt and uncle.
The movie covers much of the same ground as Factotum starring Matt Dillon, also an excellent actor. I gave that film a minus rating, however. It is adequate but totally without any emotion other than depression, while Sherrybaby provides the hope of ultimate redemption.
Hollywoodland (-)
This was supposed to be the movie of the week. However, the theater I attended for a6:00 p.m. performance was only 20 percent full, so the drums must have been sounding out the message Stay away!
The story is intended to be epic in the mold of the 1974 film Chinatown which was an enormous success. Hollywoodland, however, is a dud. Ben Affleck received accolades for his performance and was the recipient of a major industry award the night I saw the film. I thought his performance and that of all the principals were adequate.
The movie is a docudrama on the life of George Reeves, the original Superman on television. When the film opens, Reeves (Ben Affleck) is seeking to meet Hollywood producer Edward Mannix (Bob Hoskins) in the hope of advancing his acting career. He meets Mannixs wife, Toni (Diane Lane), and begins an affair with her. Flashbacks occur throughout the movie, and an effort is made to tantalize the audience with the question of how George Reeves died. Was it suicide or murder, and if the latter who committed the crime? I tuned out early on, finding the movie and its plot to be dullsville. Hollywoodland is no Chinatown in brilliance or excitement.
I asked one of my movie companions if he liked the film. He replied, I dont know. I can tell you that I did not.
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Creating Safety in Practice: How the Right Tools Can Speed Healing and Reduce Symptoms for Even the Most Traumatized Clients
Peter Levine, PhD
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Building the Body's Resources: Why Focusing on the Present Moment Can Help Us Heal Trauma
Pat Ogden, PhD
- Uncovering Root Causes - The Long-Term Effects of Attachment Issues
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Stephen Porges, PhD
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Francine Shapiro, PhD
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The Neurobiology of Trauma - What Is Happening in the Brain of Someone With Unresolved Trauma
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- The Neurobiology of Dissociation: What We've Learned in the Past Year
- The Inability to Process Pleasure: Finding Answers to Anhedonia
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Tiring Trauma Out: How to Activate the Body's Natural Defense Mechanisms Against Trauma
David Berceli, PhD
- Life in the Danger Zone: How the Experience of Suffering Can Be Used for Growth
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Finding Meaningful Change After Trauma: The Unique Strengths of the Affect-Based Approach
Diana Fosha, PhD
- Practical Strategies for Working with Affect in the Treatment of Trauma
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- What the "Transformational Affect" Looks Like in Practice
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It's that simple - this is a field where there's so much work being done constantly.
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"Living overseas, I have limited access to professional development opportunities. Much of my work here in Kenya is trauma-related and the series allows me to feel I am in touch with up- to- date information presented by world class practitioners in the field. I can immediately apply what I learn in my practice without having to travel out of the country!"
"I live in Nova Scotia and have limited travel funds at the university in which I work. The series provided by NICABM gives me the rare opportunity to listen to the leaders in the field. As a result, I learn valuable information that would not otherwise be available to me. I benefit, my practice benefits, and most important my clients benefit from the knowledge and wisdom I gain from the series."
These valuable sessions can get you quickly onboard
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"This NICABM Trauma Series have helped me to feel a closer connection to some of my heroes in the field. It's nice to be able to bring them into my study, and to feel inspired and re-dedicated through their words. And I do really like the talkback as a way to wind down and 'land.'"
"These seminars have been instrumental in opening my mind and heart to understanding trauma. They are brief and accessible and of such high quality that I've been able to glean real understanding and a starting point for further study. I can't say enough about them. I have recommended them to so many of my colleagues and they say the same things I do about them. Thank you Ruth!"
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"After the trauma series I recommended the webinars to all the psychologists I train and supervise as it has had a profound effect on the way I practice, with awesome results for my clients."
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All Talented and Gifted students are identified and are offered a wide range of extension opportunities including Membership of the Society of Young Mathematicians, participation in a number of Regional and National Maths Challenges, Master Classes and a Gifted and Talented maths. We have a team of Maths Lead Learners recruited from our year 10 students who do outreach work with our local pimary schools, are active on our Primary Challenge Daysand support the learning in the maths department. For those who are struggling to make progress we have developed a rigorous system for identifying students who are showing signs of being stuck and offer extensive intervention programs both in class time and beyond. Students who exceed our expectations have the chance to be awarded the very prestigious 'Student of the Month' award.
Students are offered the chance to participate in a games club, a chess club, the weekly maths puzzle, , the cipher club, Mathematical Discovery Club and also enter the schools fantasy football league, usually with an excess of 100 participants. Families and students are all invited to join us in the annual Maths and Music Pub Quiz which gives opportunity to test the brain cells in a more informal situation.


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TANGIERS — The spirit of Tangiers grabs you as soon as you step off the boat. It is lurking there, at the bottom of the gangway, in the form of an unshaven, dark- eyed man wearing a pinstripe suit and no shirt.
He is selling postcards from a tray and is harmless enough, but, beyond him, all the way into town, waits a relentless army of hustlers, eager to peddle you anything from a doughnut to a bag of drugs. They would sell their grandmothers if they could, although they are far more likely to offer their sisters.


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Traffic congestion along N.C. 150 throughout Mooresville and Catawba County won't likely improve for about a decade.
That's a concern for area residents and commuters, because more than 20,000 vehicles use the road daily. That's almost double the highway's designed capacity of roughly 12,700 vehicles per day.
And the number of vehicles could more than double again by 2035, according to N.C. Department of Transportation officials.
As the Lake Norman area's population exploded in recent decades, traffic has continually mounted. N.C. 150 has grown infamous for backups several miles long each morning and afternoon heading to and from Interstate 77.
N.C. 150 in the Lake Norman area is four lanes for only about a mile, from I-77 west to a Best Buy-anchored retail center at Morrison Plantation Parkway in Mooresville.
The state plans to expand N.C. 150 from I-77 Exit 36 in Mooresville to the four-lane N.C. 16 Bypass in Catawba County. NCDOT officials also plan to add a median to the road; they say it will make the road safer than a two-way turning lane and will not hurt businesses.
The state will pay the estimated $117 million project cost, nearly $7 million of which will be used to create the I-77/N.C. 150 diverging diamond interchange like is under construction at Exit 28 in Cornelius.
Zahid Baloch, project planning engineer with the NCDOT's project development and environmental analysis unit, said the section from just east of U.S. 21 to Harvel Road in Terrell is scheduled for right-of-way acquisition in 2017 and construction for 2019.
The section from Harvel Road to the N.C. 16 Bypass is scheduled for right-of-way acquisition in 2020 and construction in 2023.
Residents say traffic on the highway has been a problem for years. During recent planning meetings, residents have expressed concerns ranging from the desire for construction to start earlier, to the effects a highway median could have on businesses, to Lake Norman High School's need for congestion relief.
"Some citizens and business owners are concerned that a bypass would cause business relocations and hurt existing businesses," said Baloch, adding it's too early to tell which ones could be effected.
"A number of comments were related to traffic issues and development at specific locations, most notably the need for improvements at the eastern end (near the NC 16 bypass) of the project."
Other comments dealt with individual properties along the roadway, he said.
Baloch said the state considered widening N.C. 150 in the 1990s but decided to improve the section of the highway from Cherryville to Lincolnton then instead, rather than the section around Mooresville.
Officials will continue to gather public input in coming months, Baloch said. Residents can request small-group meetings with NCDOT anytime.
The project is being developed through an interagency process, he said, that allows planning and design agencies help steer the project from conception to final design and permitting.
Jim Pratt, 73, was born and raised in the area. He has seen the road evolve and the traffic get increasingly busy for decades. Either he or his wife uses the road more than once a week to visit his daughter and grandchildren in Mooresville.
"I think (traffic) really started getting terrible after Lake Norman started developing, then all the race teams, " he said.
"You expect (the area) to grow," Pratt said. "You don't want things to stay stagnant. But I think they dropped the ball when they didn't see the potential (of this road) and start buying up land and getting ready for it."
Jacky Eubanks, planning and parks director for Catawba County, said most of the congestion problem is on the Iredell County side.
A concern of Catawba residents is the future of the historic district in the town of Terrell.
NCDOT is in the process of creating multiple design options, said Eubanks, but a final decision isn't expected until this time next year.
"What (this widening project) will do, on (Catawba's) side, is open up new development," said Eubanks. "I think the major benefit will be more opportunities for growth and development along that corridor."


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Courtney Stodden's high heel drama invades YouTube
Teen bride Courtney Stodden is counting down the days to her 18th birthday, and wants the world to join along. The young wife of Doug Hutchison makes her YouTube video series debut with "My Foot Hurts."
After Aug. 29 Courtney Stodden will no longer be an underage bride. The wife of actor Doug Hutchison is making the most of her final days free from the responsibility of voting with a new series of YouTube videos.
The series, entitled "Courtney's Countdown" kicked off Monday with a new video and message posted on the teen bride's YouTube account.
"Episode 1 in the continuous YouTube series of Courtney's Countdown to her 18th birthday," the description reads. "Watch her as she deals with a sprained foot injury. 135 days and counting…"
The first video, aptly titled "My Foot Hurts," appears to be a homemade reality show, focused on its star wearing skimpy clothing, ordering skimpier clothing for a new photo shoot and debating the safety of sky-high heels with husband Doug Hutchison.
Courtney Stodden's YouTube video starts out with the PETA spokesperson moaning "my foot hurts" while wearing insane heels and a tight dress around the house. Next viewers with an age-verified YouTube account are treated to the teen bride's phone conversation with her mother/manager, where she once again complains of foot pain while planning an outfit for an upcoming photo shoot.
"I want a really tight, tiny dress, as always," Courtney Stodden can be heard demanding.
We next find the video's subject wearing next-to-nothing while sitting on the couch next to 51-year-old husband Doug Hutchison, still moaning about her foot. "It's the shoes, baby, I'm telling you," he tells her, exasperated. "Stop wearing the shoes!"
The 17-year-old is pictured here shopping at The Grove last month in shoes nearly identical to the "My Foot Hurts" culprits.
By the time Courtney Stodden's over five-minute YoutTube video wraps up, we find the teenager has gone to the doctor and been told her foot was sprained during a recent photo shoot which involved jumping.
"It's not because of my shoes," viewers see her happily tell Hutchison of the doctor's diagnosis. "What do you think of that?"
"I think I love you," he replied.
"I love you too," she returned. "And I love my high shoes!" The end.
It's fair to say reaction to the "My Foot Hurts" video has been mostly negative. One YouTube user commented, "This is nothing more than an online pilot for the reality TV show they're desperate for. And every comment is just another nail in the coffin, ensuring it goes ahead. We have only ourselves to blame."
Another pointed out the irony of the teen bride's age and YouTube's video restriction, writing, "Per the terms and conditions of Google, she isn't even old enough to watch her own video."
Nonetheless, over 59,000 pairs of eyes have already tuned into Courtney Stodden's YouTube video birthday countdown series.


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A disgrace to the word robot...
Now I know you might be thinking, "HOLY SHIT MOAR DAFT PUNK?!" And the answer is no, I am not going to talk about Daft Punk, except for the fact that Little Anthony and the Imperials (the guys whose vocals can be heard in Crescendolls) were recently inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Today, I am going to talk about Benny Benassi.
And they called Daft Punk ugly...
Marco Benassi is an Italian DJ/producer in his mid-40s who makes some pretty kickass Electrohouse. Be aware that this is Italian House we're talking about. If you think you're going to find some disco samples, you're dead wrong. The tracks listed soon will show you just what I mean.
You may know Benny Benassi for his smash hit "Satisfaction," which has been playing in many commercials, ranging from Pringles, to Wendy's, to Scion. It's a solid track. The first track, however, is one suggested by a viewer. Unfortunately, I had already owned a slightly better quality version, but still not that good. This track features some sweet 8-bit noises, which makes me poses a question. What the appeal of 8-bit noises and video game music? Anyway, enjoy your music.
Benny Benassi - B Tone [right click to download]
And just for the hell of it...
Benny Benassi - Satisfaction [right click to download]
Have fun,
Prez Jordan


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This beautiful gulf front home sleeps 20 guests (6 bed/5 bath) with spectacular views on a private white sandy beach! This home is nestled in the exclusive, private community of Gulf Trace located off Highway 30-A. This property is the perfect beach getaway for your family's vacation. The openness of the home and the two beachfront decks that overlook the beach combined with the spacious comforts found indoors, provide ample room for large families and friends.
This home boasts the most incredible views from anywhere you turn on both floors. The master bedroom with its stunning view and direct balcony access is oversized, creating the perfect private retreat. All of the bedrooms are generously sized and equipped with flat screen TV's and DVD players. This home was recently renovated with new flooring, painting, granite countertops and stainless steel appliances. The living area features plenty of comfortable seating for everyone to enjoy a movie on the large flat screen TV, complementary Wi-Fi or Netflix. The large dining room table with plenty of seating sits overlooking the gorgeous emerald green waters. There are two grills, two refrigerators and an ice maker for the devoted entertainers.
- The large open living room area overlooks the water with a beautiful fireplace.
- The dinning room table seats 8. The breakfast area is equipped with a table and four chairs.
- The open kitchen is equipped with all stainless steel appliances and the granite countertops with 8 barstools provide plenty seats for a large group.
- The laundry room boasts a washer and dryer and a second refrigerator.
- Guest room #1 has two queen beds, flat screen TV and a full bathroom(bathtub)
- Guest room #2 has two queen beds, flat screen TV and full bathroom (walk-in shower) and direct access to deck.
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- Master suite offers a king bed, sitting area, direct access to private balcony overlook the water, full bath, large walk-in closet, flat screen TV and bookshelves with plenty of books to choose from.
- The second living area provides the most spectacular sunrise/sunset views. It is equipped with a flat screen TV, recliner and a sleeper sofa.
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Xplorie Free Fun Included Every Day- To enhance your vacation experience, Rivard of South Walton includes Xplorie, which means free admissions and rentals everyday of your stay at select popular attractions in the area. You will receive a free bike rental, free round of golf, and unlimited DVD rentals for each night of your stay!
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Lynn Powell, Southern Baptist poet, author of Old and New Testaments
Bill Emerson, Journalism professor, University of South Carolina; former editor, The Saturday Evening Post
Doug Marlette, Political cartoonist, Newsday
Debra Mathis, Southern writer, syndicated columnist and former Arkansas television reporter
Lynn Powell, Southern Baptist poet, author of Old and New Testaments
Bill Emerson, Journalism professor, University of South Carolina; former editor, The Saturday Evening Post
Doug Marlette, Political cartoonist, Newsday
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Bobby Ann Mason, Southern writer, author of In Country Interviewed May 11-12, 1996
Well, the church is the central institution in the South. In the South,
the church hasn't been abandoned to the pious as I think it has been in other
places. And everybody still goes to church. And when I was growing up in the
fifties in the South, you'd go to church at least three times a week. Sunday
morning, Sunday night, Wednesday night for prayer meeting. During a revival
you'd have to go every night. You'd have to pack a pew. You'd be responsible
for packing a pew. You'd go to vacation bible school in the summer, bible
camp. And your social life and your cultural life all were rooted in the
church. And the theology of salvation and damnation also hovered over your
whole life. And the sort of world broke down into those who were saved and
those who weren't saved and that was the central drama and the central
narrative of your life.
I think when you grow up in the South in that kind of religion, even if later
you don't take your religion seriously, it still takes you seriously. You
can't ever quite leave that religion. You still have the flavor of it because
you've been steeped in it so long and you've been shaped by it.
And you know you have to at least feign religiosity. I mean it's part of who
you're supposed to be as a Southerner. So you at least have to go through some
motions or make some claims on religion if you're a true Southerner, it's
expected of you to have a religion. And that religion is often Baptist, often
Fundamentalist. You get all the fever pitches in the song, in the sermon, in
the giving and all, and yet there are a lot of places to hide in the South. A
lot of space where you can go and do your sin. And then report on Sunday
morning and pretend to be sanctimonious.
Now, how would this connect to Mr. Clinton?
Well, what do you think? We keep hearing about him, and he is a man with
weaknesses that have both been demonstrated, and those that he has confessed
to, sometimes obliquely but he has confessed to them. And as well as those
that he is rumored to have committed that we may not know to be true. But at
any rate he believes in redemption. He has to believe in redemption and he
expects the rest of us to act like good Southern Baptists and forgive him.
Well in the South you grow up marinated in religion. It's everywhere. You
can't escape it and more than you could escape the weather. So you learned to
live with it. It's encouraging and it's discouraging. It's terrifying and it's
comforting. But you know it has an awesome grip on your soul, even if you move
to a middle size city.
But in that Southern religious sensibility which is an older vision of the
race. It is not that optimistic and does not necessarily assume that the
species is improveable and that man's lot is this unchangeable condition of
embattlement, equal parts meanness, orneriness, compassion, it's old vision.
And those kinetics, emotional kinetics in Southern religiousness, guilt,
transgression, contrition,
And redemption, c ontinue no matter how distantly you feel that you have pulled
away. That old steamy, dramaturgy continues to be a play in you, like the
distant and robust gallumphing of a calliope. It's always there.
So modestly put.
FL: Lynn can you talk a little bit about the climate of religion in the
Well, in the South it's hot, and it's lush and the landscape is sensually
inviting and it's soaked in color and in blossom. It just blooms and blooms
forever. The landscape invites you to reveal yourself and literally to take
your clothes off. And you're not bundled up against temptation the way you are
in the North so much of the year.
In the South...you're invited to be out in the grass and have most of your skin
uncovered. So it's harder to resist temptation in the South. It's a seductive
landscape. But it's not a benign seduction. It's not a benign lushness. An I
think that part of the reason Southerners tend toward Fundamentalism is that
serpent in the garden. It's not a metaphor for evil, it's a real copperhead in
the cornfield, it's a rattlesnake in the woodpile.
Cottonmouth down at the edge of the swamp.
That's right. And temptation ...
Move quickly, dearly beloved.
And temptations are like that, they're really coiled up and waiting for you.
They'll get you. And I think it makes sense that in that landscape you have a
religion that depends on the forgiveness of sin and is about grace and
redemption because you're gonna sin, you're gonna be seduced, you're going to
yield to temptation or else it's going to lie in wait and strike.
So the political projection of that would be the Comeback Kid. Moving back
into political grace after having foundered.
Well, I think that notion of sin and then forgiveness gets internalized in
people who grew up in that religion. And it's a motion that is familiar and
you depend on in a sense.
But you can always come back into grace. It's expected.
For Southerners there's a tolerance for ambiguity, there's a sense of
acceptance for what Faulkner called the "conflicts of the human heart."
There's a feel for both the light and the dark. And it's all one thing and
not only that, it's so much a part of our, I think of what you're talking about
as what Flannery O'Connor called the "Christ haunted South." It's a constant.
It's just second nature. It's something we grow up with and we see. It's in
the landscape. The roads, the churches, it's like living in Israel.
Everything sounds like you're in the middle of the holy land.
There's another past populating this landscape. From those old landscapes of
the scriptures. Jericho, Moab, and you see locales, and it's like some of us
live in this implosion of time, many ages... The memories of many ages.
You sort of forget the Mediterranean-like strain in the Southern character.
Southerners live in this fecund wilderness of flowers and birds. A cornucopia
turned, everything growing like crazy. That damned kudzu chase you down the
road and overtake you and swallow you whole.
Been known to consume a cow if left overnight in a field. And the next morning
nothing but kudzu. But A.J. Liebling once observed that there is one continuos
cultural, liberal, continuing from the Mediterranean, skipping across the blank
expanse of the Atlantic, but then picked up and continuing, particularly along
the Southern coast. One continuos continuum from the Mediterranean, which then
filters on back into the inland South.
Well you've noticed how intimate the scenery in the Mediterranean is. There's
not this vast bleak expanse that makes a cough respected as conversation.
It's a landscape with a rhetoric of adjectives. It is not lacking adjectives,
this landscape isn't.
It is better to link three adjectives together rather than have one lonely,
miserable adjective there.
Then it doesn't encompass it. One adjective doesn't necessarily draw the
circle around the phenomenon that you're straining to apprehend.
This conversation is a perfect example of the South. It epitomizes the South.
It is very self indulgent. It is very indulgent. It loves excess. I mean
It loves understanding. And it loves telling it.
But it loves excess. Look, the language that we're using here right now, what
we're talking about now, there is an abundance of adjectives, there's an
abundance of metaphors, there's an abundance of everything because there's so
much we don't have in the South, those things we do have we use them to pieces.
We've been up and down a time or two in the South. We've had this wild ride
the last 200 years. That'll get your attention won't it?
I think the South's experience is much more like the rest of the world than the
United States experience as a whole. I think that'S because we were invaded and
defeated and humiliated, it makes us be much more akin with Third World
countries, or countries in Europe or the Middle East who have been invaded.
Or Ireland.
The South is like America's Ireland, or Corsica, or Sicily.
But it all goes back to what, to being defeated, having lost and we experienced
this more of a universal ...
A live poem is something you never let go of. I mean it's affected the Irish
profoundly. It's affected us. Our folk memories include the whole business
But are all of these bagpipes of feeling in Mr. Clinton?
I think that they're very definitely in Mr. Clinton. And that's the thing that
makes a lot of people, not me, uneasy about him. He's a voluble passionate
gaudy sort of man. He's sort of a thinking Bubba. How can you beat that?
Some have suggested that he represents kind of Jimmy Carter, earnest, diligent;
Billy Carter, who was sort of the prodigal roustabout and rogue. That Clinton
represents Jimmy Carter and Billy Carter kind of morphed into the same
being--containing all of those qualities at once. These great barging
appetites, lip smacking appetites and that studious earnestness and diligence.
Patriotic, honest, decent and clean.
I think it goes back to the South's having been a Third World country or being
separate from the United States, or a separate landscape. And that Clinton is
the transitional figure. I think of him as the faux-Bubba. The weekend Bubba,
the fake, the counterfeit cracker. Not that, I mean that's his roots. But as
he moves and as he tries to pass in the dominant culture, that's what's
happening in this generation.
Technotronic, corporate civilization, and shopping center.
And he's rooted in the past, as all Southerners are, but he's moving into the
next century.
But politics is a game to him. It's a game in the South. It's an outrageous
game, and people hang from the top of trees listening to you when you're on the
stump. He's a great stump speaker. He's a great politician. There's a lot of
humor in person, not like the grim politics in other parts of the country.
He's trying to talk politics and talk about women which is a stunning
revelation isn't it?
Circling back to the original question about the religion, and how that
influences Clinton, I think Clinton exudes that Southern Baptist conviction
that once you're saved, you're always saved. And that once you've had that
moment of conversion, that in your heart you believe that Jesus took your sins
on him and died for your sins, that there's no thing that you can do that will
come between you and God's grace. That there is no sin too great that will
stand in your way going to the Promised Land. That all your sins are forgiven,
even the ones you've yet to commit. I think for the believer, in the words of
the old Baptist hymn, that's a blessed assurance. But I think to the skeptic
it's this maddening self-assurance and this hubris.
Well, that's the part of that tradition that some would more immediately
connect to Clinton. But that whole moral dramaturgy, it's a little difficult
to parse that into Clinton.
You know what, I've been urging you to be more concrete in what you're saying
about Clinton. And I want to remind you that he sang second tenor in the
church choir when he was Governor.
Who did?
Clinton did. Why -- I hope I'm telling the world. He's as startling to me ...
So he's been connected with a church very directly.
I went to a service at First Baptist Church in Washington, DC the night before
the Inauguration and the Clintons and the Gores were there. And he talked
about singing in the choir. And that was apparently a regular thing, it wasn't
just like an occasional appearance. This was very much a part of his life.
Does anybody know whether he's actually is he a born again Christian?
No. Not in the term. Now, you have to understand, I'm a Baptist preacher's
daughter. I've always had a problem with this whole born again thing because
of course the Baptists believe, as do most of the Protestant religions, that
you must be born again anyway. But born again has taken on this different
meaning in modern incarnations. And in that way I don't think that Clinton is
the evangelist, I found it, born again, type as though there's a moment of
epiphany where he just finds this. His conversion was early in his life and
so in the purest sense of the word he is, of course, born again, but in the
modern sense of the word, not. He's not part of the evangelism,
fundamentalism, Jerry Falwell group.
He's a Southern Baptist and when you're a Southern Baptist that conversion
experience can happen when you're seven and it can happen on your deathbed.
It's what the Baptists call the age of accountability.
When you read the Bible of course it says that you must be born ... The famous
passage with Nikodemus where he's saying, "Am I to enter into my mother's womb
again. Lord, am I? Is this what you mean, rabbi?" And he's explaining, no,
about being born again of the spirit. So that is part of the Christian faith,
no matter what. And so I'm saying that Bill Clinton is not part of this Jerry
Falwell, Pat Robertson born again community.
There's a wide array of Baptists, as we all know.
It sounds like the church is as balkanized as Protestantism is.
They tried to kick him out a couple of years ago because of his position on
gays in the military and on abortion.
Which is a ridiculous position, because as a Southern Baptist one of the
essences of the Baptist faith is soul freedom or individual consciousness, the
most existential of the Protestant reformation that we were the most
individual. I mean Southern Baptists gave us the first amendment. Of all the
people, we fled from the idea of religious persecution and the idea that there
were people who could mediate, like priests in the Catholic church. We
believed in the authority of individual conscious. And that is very much a
part of Clinton, that is very much central ...
But how that translates into Clinton would be moral earnestness. He's
FL: You've told me that you think that Clinton is the perfect Baptist minister
because of his sense of performance and the use of language.
I want to. Gotta get oriented here. The purpose of a Southern Baptist sermon
is to save souls. It's not to get you to live the good life, it's not to get
you to be introspective and reflect. It's to save souls. When the minister
gets up there to give his sermon it's the language that's going to make the
difference in whether or not people in the congregation are going to heaven or
hell. Whether or not the language can persuade them to surrender themselves to
Jesus. And I think a Baptist sermon is often about surrendering and yielding.
And it depends on emotion, not on logic and on reason. It's emotion that will
break through those reserves and get the reluctant heart to yield.
It seems to me that Clinton is like a Southern Baptist minister. That's sort
of the model for his speeches, it seems to me that the speeches are about
having your soul put right, having your heart be in the right place. And they
use the language of emotion and yielding and giving over.
Why does there attach to him that suspicion that behind that earnest
parson-like demeanor there lurks a scoundrel, a scamp.
Can I say it's because the South, which is the cradle of evangelism, had these
tent revivals, these healers that came through and laid on hands and people
gave money and believed in it, and all of a sudden they realized the other day
that woman that walked out of the wheelchair had been walking around anyway.
And so there's a skepticism about someone who comes on with so much love and
goodness and divine abilities and all of those things, wait a minute here. Is
this the preacher who is the man of God? Or is this the con man of God? There
are these double images of this evangelist, this traveling, itinerant preacher.
The snake oil salesman.
That rascal is in everybody though. Behind this love of God and behind the
piety, the rascal or the devil, whatever you want to call it, is in all of
Vividness is part of not only the Southern Baptist heritage, of that kind of
hysterical end of the spectrum of emotionalism that we embody, but also the
South has been vivid in its sins. And therefore we became the nation's whipping
boy, the bad boy, because we were more clearly what the entire nation has the
capacity for. But we were more poor, our racism, we had white and colored
signs. It was all clear. And so the nation pointed fingers at the South.
Well, the South has served almost since this nation's inception, as the
crucible through which the rest of the country works out it's struggles of
conscience on what remains, I think, the fundamental malaise of America, race.
The racial schism.
Exactly. Which is why, not only race, America came into itself in the South.
America became America on the red clay battlefields of this region. I mean the
war was fought here mainly, and the civil rights movement. So all its self
realizations were fought out, and that may account for some of our Southern
But the South has got a tragic vision of human experience, because it's had a
tragic experience, because it's outside the general optimistic, chipper vision
of life of the rest of the country.
It gives you more of a feel for the tragic dimension of life.
And it's an older vision. That has always seemed to me then what has been so
affecting to the Southerner about Jesus. And I'm not so sure that Jesus has
not mattered more to the Southerner for his suffering and crucifixion, than
this sort of ebullient anti-climax of the resurrection.
It's a theology of the cross, not of the resurrection.
It's tragic though, tragic. And what affects the Southerner about Jesus is
that almost from his beginning he was holiness, crucified on a cross of flesh.
About the Southern Jesus, there has always been much more Prometheus than St.
I think the resurrection theme is the most important theme in Southern
religion. Yes, there's the great romance of the suffering and the sacrifice
and the cross and the betrayals and all that. But resurrection is the linchpin
of this whole thing and it represents what Bill Clinton expects as well,
resurrection, resurrection, resurrection. I sin, I am redeemed.
But the Southern view is resurrection as a validation for the way of the cross,
not denial as a way of the cross.
But Lynn's point is the point about Bill Clinton. And that is that once saved,
always saved. And that's the thing he knows and that's the thing he counts on.
And I think that he is sometimes taken aback by the lack of forgiveness or the
unavailability of forgiveness from his constituents, when he knows that his God
is forgiving him. So he thinks that that in itself, the fact that he is a
child of God and being forgiven by God, should help redeem him in the eyes of
the people.
But why would Clinton find such consolation and comfort and energizing in that
Why? Because he knows himself. Just as you and I know ourselves. I'm very
grateful for my own religious beliefs. I know what I'm up to. And I need to
know that there is ultimate forgiveness and redemption no matter what other
people may think of me. I think that's what he's counting on. I think he
honestly believes that.
You're not suggesting that there's been something of the picaresque in
Clinton's past are you?
Of course there is.
But that's all it is. And that's an acknowledgment of our common
multi-dimensional nature. And that's why I think it's a sense of life that is
much fuller. We are tumultuously mixed critters. And as a Tennessee gospel
existentialist, peripatetic, evangelist named Will Campbell will sometimes put
it, "We're all varmints, but God loves us anyway."
And how does Clinton regard this? He is quite vivid.
We keep saying Clinton hadn't been saved again, born again, now we don't have
any idea whether he's been born again. Jesus himself said, "Don't flaunt it on
the thoroughfare, don't flaunt it on the streetcorner, don't talk about how
pious you are. It might be very wise for him to leave that as his personal
secret as to whether he's been born again or not.
Well what I'm saying is we know as much about his religious relationship as we
do about anyone's. And that is to take them at their word. That's about all
we can do. The thing about the Baptist religion that Bill Clinton knows and
that those of us who are Baptists understand, is that being saved does not mean
that you will no longer sin or that you are no longer subject to danger or
trouble. It means that you are promised an after life where you have no more
of these troubles, no more of these dangers, no more of these temptations.
Bill Clinton is a man of the flesh. I think he is a man who loves the thrill
of the chase. I think he loves chasing legislation and then once it gets
passed and people sign on to it, he kind of leaves it alone and gets bored with
it and fails to close the loop. He may have loved to chase women. He loves to
chase the food. He loves to chase an idea. He's a man who loves the thrill of
the chase. He recognizes, I believe, that this is one of his weaknesses and
he's trying to reign it in and he's partly relying upon his own maturity,
partly relying upon our forgiveness and partly relying on his faith in God to
bring him through all this.
It's good he has this theology. Immemorially. It's simply the natural
exuberance of this countryside and this weather in the South. He's a man of
barging appetites. And maybe one of his redeeming characters from being
strictly the schematic, techtronic, like Nixon, freeze dried, instead of being
a freeze dried kind of leader, he has these kind of brawling, kind of reckless
And he's organic and he is growing and that's why I think the kudzu vine that
covers everything and grows a foot at night, and sprawls and eats everything,
and covers barns and tractors and slow moving children, I think that that is in
essence, about Bill Clinton. That vine grows because it absorbs all the
nutrients and proteins in the environment and it keeps growing. And I think
Bill Clinton has this quality, this essence in him.
Clinton may prefer the metaphor of, which has that kind of rampant vitality
about it, but honeysuckle instead. Which also in addition to having this all
devouring appetite as kudzu, is also attended with a swooning sweetness,
honeysuckle. But is as rampant.
It pulls bricks out of the wall and everything else. But does it occur to you
how Southern this is, everything we've said, all this hype, all the rest of it.
All this fructifying prose and this honey dripping rhetoric. This is all very
Southern and it's a part of Southernness that the rest of the nation is
profoundly suspicious of and hostile to.
But it ain't just ornateness. It's not just baroque for the sake of baroque,
rococo for the sake of rococo. It's trying to understand as Faulkner once said
of Thomas Wolfe, "His splendid misery and compassion and exorbitant compulsion
was to put all experience on a postage stamp. On the head of a pin." And
that's the Southern compulsion.
That sounds like a Japanese talent to me.
Well, it's a kind of Dixie haiku.
FL: I'd like you to talk a little bit about emotionalism in the South and how
it's sanctioned in the church and how you see that in Clinton.
I think in the South the church is an environment that does sanction emotion in
men. It sanctions emotion in everyone, including the men. And it's, the
minister is the model for that. He's up there giving passionate, banging the
pulpit, sweating, I've seen men cry in church. And there's this push to making
yourself vulnerable. I mean that's what a sermon is about, making yourself
vulnerable so that you can yield to Jesus, surrender to Jesus. And when you
make yourself vulnerable, you yield to emotion and it's in the language of the
sermon, it's in the structure of the service and if one doesn't yield, if one
doesn't reveal themselves and become emotional, there's something wrong with
them. They're resistant to God, they're holding back.
Do you sense that kind of openness and vulnerability in Clinton?
I don't know. And remember in 1603, got the King James version of the bible
which was the local version in the vulgate, the common speech of the day. Then
all these people came swarming over here, bringing their cadences and their
rhythms, and their metaphors, and asimile. So we got religion, not to speak of
people fleeing from religious persecutions, so all of us are marked with this
in strange and curious and bizarre ways. And Clinton too. And this takes some
understanding on the part of the rest of the nation. And they may never get
A man like Clinton who goes into a room, and goes from person to person and
feels empathy with each and every one of them, I think that's very Southern and
it's a skill, projecting oneself on to others. And thinkingfirst of all-- what
they're thinking of you. And if you're very aware of what they're thinking of
you then you have to be very aware of what you think of them so the whole thing
will work smoothly. And it's being agreeable. And I think it's more likely
that there's genuine empathy in a culture where you're constantly conscious of
what others will think of you. And I think that Southerners may be a little
bit more oriented toward the group. And to conforming to the group than
perhaps other parts of the country.
The South is tribal culture. It's tribal.
Yeah. It reminds me very much of Japan, in a way, because of this emphasis on
politeness and what the group will think, and not wanting to stick out and take
the initiative. So I think that these behaviors may be suspect in some
quarters, but among Southerners I think we understand that we're trying to see
the other person's point of view so that you don't upset things too much
because it could get disagreeable very quickly and you don't treat people that
FL: Can you continue with Clinton and how his language is interpreted.
I think Clinton's often misinterpreted and may be understood very well by
Southerners as a way of talking. In the South you don't say, "I think so and
so." You say, "Well, I believe" or "I guess", or "I reckon", or "I expect', or
"I calculate", or "I figure." Anything but "I think." Or if you say "I
believe," you don't necessarily mean a basic belief of yours, you may just
mean "I think" or "My opinion of the moment." "I suspect" or "I expect". And
a person can say "I don't care" and mean yes. You could ask, "Do you want to
go to the movies?" And the answer might be, "I don't care." Well, it's a
loaded question. It means, "Well, I won't asset myself too much. I'll just
see if you want to go to the movies." And the person replying let's the other
person take the initiative. So it's a kind of game that's played so that
somebody's not bossing another person around. It's polite.
It's a consciousness of the other people around you and an empathy which what
Walker Percy called "that minuet of overture and response." It is a constant
ebb and flow of human relations that we feel comfortable with, that Clinton
has. This is not big deal for us, but I think the rest of the nation can
sometimes be suspicious.
Does it lend the appearance to Clinton, this filigreed civility, of
I think it does although, it's a virtue in the South to be agreeable and to
have good manners and to see the point of view of everyone present. So it's
understood that it's a virtue. But there's the other side of it too.
Don't you think there's a natural diplomacy there that's very Southern in it's
finesse? It makes it possible for the other person, you explained so nicely
the way each person allows the other person to contribute to the decision.
Whatever it's going to be. There's a natural diplomacy in that. He may be
inconstant in ways, but that doesn't seem to me to be inconstancy. Does it to
No, I think it's a natural behavior. And I think it's rooted in the cavalier
tradition where --if you said the wrong thing or got the wrong impression--on a
split second you could be in a duel.
We're a frontier society too. Which nobody has mentioned.
The bottom line is to not offend.
On the frontier, that was very important.
Not to offend. And I think part of that goes to this Southern need to be liked
and to be accepted that in large part comes from the devastation after the
Civil War.
Just not good enough, not smart enough, not whatever enough as the rest of the
country and having to try and prove always that, "You do like me don't you? You
will treat me like a fellow American won't you? You will let me in? You do
think I'm as smart as you are?" And so sometimes empathy, or feigned empathy,
is the mode, is the vehicle to get to that place of being liked.
That took on a particular urgency with Clinton though, didn't it?
One of the first things everybody seemed to notice about him is that how the
man wants to be liked, how he wants to be liked.
Well, given his beginnings...
Given his beginnings, of course, so much was tied metaphysically to his growing
up with an alcoholic step father and all of that and wanting to be the
peacemaker. I'm sure, I'm sure that had to be part of it. But a lot of it is
just inherent Southernism where you don't want to offend, you do want to be
liked, which means that you have to empathize or sympathize with the other
And you have to be nice. You have to be nice. Southerners judge you on how
nice you are, especially if you achieve any kind of success. You have to be
You can't be stuck up. It's a sin. It's something you said about religion.
If you bragged about being saved then you would be stuck up. I suppose that's
the origin of some of this.
And that's a sin. So you can't act above your raising. You have to remember
the folks back home if you go away. Clinton is very conscious of this.
The phrase "good old boy" comes out of that. He is a good old boy.
Is Clinton our first good old boy president? Clinton is a good old boy, sort
of in a Bubba way. He's our first good old boy president. That's a historic
moment for the South.
Wasn't Andrew Jackson a President?
Yes, but even Andrew Jackson couldn't have been considered a good old boy.
He was a pretty ornery guy.
I think we should distinguish here, because good old boy has become a sinister
term for people, but it originated as coming out of what kind of Bobby Ann was
talking about, as a compliment that "he may be this or that, but so and so's a
good old boy."
Do you realize what you're describing about Clinton is what makes him so
successful in international policy and conversation in Europe and all over the
world. This really works. Everybody is astonished with how well Bill Clinton
does with foreign policy.
Kohl likes Bill Clinton. Boris Yeltsin likes Bill Clinton. And I'm telling
you that that is the universal language, is being liked. And if you like a
person you can make all kinds of headway, whether you're talking about nuclear
disarmament, or you're talking about what you're going to have for dinner.
But it's also his Southernness. He's more like abroad that he tends to be in
the rest of this country.
Because of his Southernness he's a more likable person. The press likes him.
No matter how the press may attack him, the press likes him because his
Southern ways make him a likable person, no matter what you think of his
Well he's an agreeable person to be with. It's easy and relaxing.
You know lately I find myself speculating... Southerners like Clinton may be
the most cosmopolitan people on the face of the planet. Because of this push
towards embracing, accepting and trying to understand the world. Trying to be
a part of it. And I think Bill Clinton is that.
We are the true continentals in a sense. The Irish are such continentals. I
mean people naturally like them. And they naturally like Southerners.
Now remember he has Irish blood too. So boy.
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Uriah Bentick past an American defender, Tuesday. Bentick and the Flames face Presbyterian College, Friday.
The Liberty Flames men's soccer team will begin a stretch of three Big South Conference road contests, Friday. The Flames will travel to Clinton, S.C., for a match with the Presbyterian College Blue Hose. Game time is scheduled for 5 p.m.
How to Follow the Flames Live Stats will be able for Friday evening's contest via LibertyFlames.com by clicking the live stats link under men's soccer in the schedule bar on the main page. Live stats are provided courtesy of the Presbyterian College Sports Information office.
A Look at Liberty Liberty (4-6, 2-1 Big South) will enter Friday night's Big South match coming off of back-to-back 1-0 victories over conference rival Campbell, last Friday and American on Tuesday. In both games, forward Kyle Breitmeyer netted the game-winning goals. Strong defensive play keyed both of Liberty's victories. In their win over Campbell, goalkeeper Scott Sutarik made a career-high eight saves and the Flames recorded the first shutout of Campbell this season. Tuesday, the Flames did not allow a shot in the first half, en route to their third shutout of the year. Breitmeyer leads Liberty with three goals and seven points on the year. The forward has scored a goal in three out of the last four contests. Sam Duininck and Greg White have each netted two goals apiece for the Flames, while midfielder Juan Niño and Uriah Bentick have each scored a goal. Freshman defender Tim Harbison has assisted on three of the Flames' markers to lead the squad. Goalkeeper Scott Sutarik has played in seven contests and logged over 648 minutes between the goal posts for Liberty. With back-to-back shutouts, he enters Friday evening's match with a 1.39 goals-against average and .744 save percentage. Sutarik and the Flames have not allowed a goal during their last 207:40 of play. Head Coach Jeff Alder has led the Flames to a 112-85-19 record during his 12 seasons, capturing his 100th victory in a 2-0 win at No. 10 Virginia last season. Alder's Flames posted an 11-6-3 record in 2011, en route to their second Big South Conference crown and fifth consecutive season with a double-digit win total.
All-Time Against Presbyterian College Friday's match-up will be the fifth meeting between Liberty and Presbyterian on the soccer pitch. The teams began meeting when the Blue Hose joined the Big South in 2008. The Flames have won all four previous matches between the two teams. Last season, Liberty defeated Presbyterian College, 1-0, on Oct. 14 at Osborne Stadium. Scott Sutarik made his collegiate debut as the Flames goalkeeper in the match and recorded the win, making one save. The last time the two teams meet in Clinton, S.C., at Martin Field, Liberty scored the only second half goal, breaking a 1-1 tie, en route to a 2-1 victory on Oct. 15, 2010.
A Look at Presbyterian College The Blue Hose (3-10, 2-3 Big South) will be looking to snap a two-game losing streak on Friday. Presbyterian dropped a 2-0 decision to Winthrop at home in its last outing on Tuesday. Midfielder Ignacio Monchetti leads the Blue Hose with three goals and seven points. Midfielder Josh Carter is the only other PC player with more than one marker on the year, having netted two goals. Junior Tyler Beadle has handled the goalkeeping duties for the Blue Hose. Beadle has posted a 2.35 goals-against average and a .732 save percentage this season. Head coach Bret Boulware is in his 13th year at Presbyterian College, leading the Blue Hose program through its transition from Division II to the Division I level. The Presbyterian College alum has led his alma mater to an 82-110-19 record.
On the Defensive After back-to-back shutouts, the Flames will enter Friday night's game not having allowed a goal over the last 207:40. The span is the longest for Liberty this season.
Breitmeyer the Sequel Not only have the Liberty Flames posted back-to-back 1-0 wins, but forward Kyle Breitmeyer has provided the game-winning goal in each contest. In addition, Breitmeyer has scored in three of the last four Liberty contests to take over the team lead with three goals.
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"The alignment of Vittoria and Catlike brands makes perfect sense," said EJ Riordan, president of Vittoria NA. "Both companies own their manufacturing, which allows for complete quality control. Both have been proven in the top echelon of racing, yet both offer diverse product lines that cater to a wide consumer base of cycling enthusiasts."
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» Saturday, June 25, 2005
We have today received the final stocks of:
THE TELEVISION COMPANION: The original printing of this acclaimed guide to DOCTOR WHO sold out from us earlier in the year. Now we have reprinted, corrected a few minor glitches in the text, and it's available once more to order.
VALLEY OF LIGHTS Hardback. This is a signed and numbered limited edition of 100 copies in a sandstone covering. The book features the author's preferred edition of the novel, a novella called 'Nightmare, With Angel', an interview with Stephen Gallagher, an introduction by Stephen Laws and an afterword by Gallager, and an exclusive film diary from when VALLEY OF LIGHTS was optioned as a film. The Telos hardback edition is signed by both Gallagher and Laws.
ANOTHER WAR. A classic Alien Invasion story from Simon Morden. With the new WAR OF THE WORLDS film now on release, this is a different take on what happens when the Aliens arrive ... and they bring their God with them.
TIME HUNTER: PECULIAR LIVES. The latest in the highly acclaimed TIME HUNTER series. Philip Purser-Hallard's tale of super-humans spans the centuries and is an affectionate homage to the works of classic SF writer Olaf Stapledon.
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» Wednesday, June 01, 2005
A couple of news items in advance of getting them on the main page ...
Stephanie Bedwell-Grime's novel FALLEN ANGEL has been nominated for the Aurora Award (the Canadian national award for speculative fiction). The full shortlist is:
Best Long-Form Work in English
* Fallen Angel, Stephanie Bedwell-Grime (Telos Publishing, Nov/2004)
* Survival, Julie E. Czerneda (DAW Books, May/2004)
* Radiant, James Alan Gardner (Eos HarperCollins, 2004)
* Black Brillion, Matthew Hughes (Tor, Nov/2004)
* The Alchemist's Daughter, Eileen Kernaghan (Thistledown Press, Aug/2004)
* Wolf Pack, Edo van Belkom (Tundra Books, 2004)
We wish Stephanie all the best of luck with this nomination. The results are announced in July.
Several Telos titles have been recommended in the ballot for the British Fantasy Awards 2005.
In BEST NOVEL, Stephanie Bedwell-Grime's FALLEN ANGEL makes another appearance while the Telos titles in the BEST NOVELLA category are:
Claire Bott, Time Hunter: The Clockwork Woman (Telos Publications)
Simon Clark, The Dalek Factor (Telos Publications)
Christopher Fowler, Breathe (Telos Publications)
The British Fantasy Awards are announced in October.
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We have just received some early paperback copies of TIME HUNTER: PECULIAR LIVES and ANOTHER WAR. Copies will be despatched to pre-orders and subscribers shortly. The bulk of the copies (for shops etc) won't be with us until around the end of June.
The majority of copies of THE HANDBOOK (hardback) and TIME HUNTER: ECHOES (hardback) have now been despatched. There are a couple of orders still awaiting a mailing run but these should be sorted in the next week or so. Response to the titles has been good and the hardback edition of THE HANDBOOK seems to have gone down especially well.
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