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At the beginning of "Jane Eyre," we find the heroine, a ten-year-old orphan, living as a poor relation in the home of her maternal kin. One day, she takes a book down from a shelf and slips behind a curtain to read it. The son of the family, John—he is fourteen—comes in and discovers her:
"What were you doing behind the curtain?" he asked.
"I was reading."
"Show the book."
I returned to the window and fetched it thence.
"You have no business to take our books; you are a dependant, mama says; you have no money; your father left you none; you ought to beg, and not to live here with gentlemen's children like us, and eat the same meals we do, and wear clothes at our mama's expense. Now, I'll teach you to rummage my book-shelves."
John throws the book at her. She falls and cuts her head. His mother enters and tells the servants to take Jane away and lock her in a room.
A nineteenth-century reader would have understood, as a twentieth-century reader might not, that Jane's crime was made especially serious by the fact that it involved a book. In the history of women, there is probably no matter, apart from contraception, more important than literacy. With the advent of the Industrial Revolution, access to power required knowledge of the world. This could not be gained without reading and writing, skills that were granted to men long before they were to women. Deprived of them, women were condemned to stay home with the livestock, or, if they were lucky, with the servants. (Alternatively, they may have been the servants.) Compared with men, they led mediocre lives. In thinking about wisdom, it helps to read about wisdom—about Solomon or Socrates or whomever. Likewise, goodness and happiness and love. To decide whether you have them, or want to make the sacrifices necessary to get them, it is useful to read about them. Without such introspection, women seemed stupid; therefore, they were considered unfit for education; therefore, they weren't given an education; therefore they seemed stupid.
It is hard to find out how many women in early-modern societies could read and write, but one method that scholars have used is to count how many, in giving legal depositions—a duty that crossed class lines—were able to sign their names to their statements. Between 1580 and 1640, only about ten per cent of women in a diocese of London were able to do so, and this figure is probably too high as a measure of literacy. A woman who can write her name can't necessarily write anything else. Furthermore, even if the figure were typical for England, that nation was far ahead of many others. The slow process by which women took up books and pens is the subject of "The Woman Reader" (Yale), by Belinda Jack, a tutorial fellow at Oxford.
It was in the fourth millennium B.C., in Mesopotamia, that people began writing and reading. Jack can't tell us much about this innovation, or its early development—not much is known—except to say that for a long time few people, and very few women, were literate. That includes the citizens of two cultures that we regard as foundations of our own: ancient Greece and Rome. Around 480 B.C., when Aeschylus was staging plays, five per cent of Greeks (men and women), at the most, could read. Plato, the fount of Western philosophy, actually disapproved of reading and writing. He worried that such practices would erode memory. He also seems to have thought that written statements might be accepted without the test of dialogue—of people asking "Is this really true?" and batting the question back and forth. In imperial Rome, it seems, more women were literate, but when, occasionally, this achievement was praised by their contemporaries it was mainly because their skills would help them in educating their male children.
In the chaos that came after the fall of Rome, reading and writing survived almost exclusively in religious retreats. The Church saved Latin, and literacy. Also, by stressing the inner life—the soul, speaking to God—it preserved the fragile idea that reading (a sacred text, of course) was an elevating experience. An important moment in the history of literacy is the passage in St. Augustine's "Confessions" when he sees his mentor, Ambrose, the bishop of Milan, reading without moving his lips: "His heart searched out the sense, but his voice and tongue were at rest." A new idea of reading was taking hold. Before, that word usually involved not just moving your lips but actually speaking: reading some text, such as a sermon or an edict, to an audience. Now people had started reading alone, which meant that they could go at their own pace and compare the text with their knowledge of the world. As a rule, the only people who could do this—the only ones who had access to a private room, and were able and entitled to read—were the nobility and, of course, monks and nuns, but they were often highborn. Many medieval convents had two classes of nuns, the "laboring nuns," who peeled the vegetables and mopped the floors, and the "church nuns," who, because they came from upper-class families, were given time to read and discuss.
In the eighth century, Charlemagne, eager that his subjects seem like more than a collection of louts, decreed that all churches in the Frankish kingdom had to have schools, for girls as well as boys. And, in time, more books were written in the vernacular, which meant that more girls were able to read. (The girls might, with effort, have learned to decipher their mother tongue, but they were far less likely than boys to know Latin.) On the other hand, vernacular literature was frequently scorned by men, because it tended to be sentimental and realistic: ballads and lays—that is, verse stories—about love and friendship and animals and magic potions. Some of these were written by women, as were some vernacular holy texts. Hildegard of Bingen, the twelfth-century German abbess, poet, and composer, was a learned person, and corresponded with highly placed churchmen, but since, in her letters, she described elaborate visions—she heard voices, saw white lights and black abysses—her correspondents often made fun of her behind her back. Until the late eighteenth century, a female writer who had bold ideas, especially ideas that might be socially disruptive, was widely regarded as foolish or insane. Conversely, a book by a woman which seemed to make sense was sometimes said to have been penned, secretly, by a man.
A touching example of female erudition in the twelfth century is Héloïse, the niece of Canon Fulbert, of Nôtre Dame de Paris, and a student of the brilliant Scholastic theologian Peter Abelard, also a canon of Nôtre Dame. Abelard advocated "critical reading"; that is, asking yourself whether you actually agreed with the text. He had a willing pupil in Héloïse, who, in Jack's account, was a considerable scholar—versed not just in Latin but in Greek and Hebrew as well—and a great questioner. Héloïse denied the separation of body, mind, and spirit. She questioned the Gospels. (Why did the four evangelists tell such different stories?) Most important, she asked herself whether she could bring her own life into accord with the holy books. She didn't succeed; she had an affair with Abelard. When this was discovered, he was castrated. She became a nun and, eventually, an abbess. Her letters to Abelard are piercing. "I wanted simply you, nothing of yours," she wrote. "I looked for no marriage bond, no marriage portion, and it was not my own pleasures and wishes I sought to gratify, as you well know, but yours." Héloïse has not gone down in history as a learned woman. Instead, she and Abelard are regarded as iconic lovers, like Tristan and Isolde. Still, people have heard of her, which is an improvement over our knowledge of literate women in earlier times.
In the Renaissance, there were, again, more books in the vernacular, more books by women, and just more books. In the mid-fifteenth century, the Dominican convent of St. Catherine, in Nuremberg, had forty-six volumes. By the end of the century, it had more than five hundred. The religious were still ahead of the game, but with the expansion of vernacular literature, especially romantic stories, many more women outside the Church were reading. This included merchant-class wives and daughters. (They needed to know letters and numbers in order to help in the shop.) Servants, too, were reading. In some quarters, there were strong objections to women's putting their noses into books, but this was probably not the majority view, as long as the text was a holy one. In Renaissance paintings of the Annunciation, we begin, consistently, to find the Virgin Mary interrupted by the Archangel Gabriel as she is reading, a circumstance certainly not mentioned in the Gospel of St. Luke, which is the main source for this story. (Mary herself says she is a woman of "low estate.") In an early example, the "Annunciation and Two Saints," by Simone Martini, which is in the Uffizi gallery, in Florence, the Virgin keeps her thumb in her book, so as not to lose her place, as Gabriel, having flown into her room, informs her that she is going to give birth to the son of God.
Such instances of the growth of female literacy are fun to hear about, but for early-modern times they are few and far apart, with the result that they begin to seem small barks on a great ocean. When Jack comes up with an example of something, you often wonder if she has a second one. Also, because the stories are disconnected, Jack's organization of them is largely chronological, and so her account reads like a list, with no statement of what caused what, or what was a variation on what. Again, this is not really her fault. To describe a shape, you have to see a shape.
The real action begins with the Reformation, or a little before, with Gutenberg. In the history of women's reading, the fact that Gutenberg's machine made books more available is almost a minor matter compared with the impact that printing had on Western culture as a whole. The Reformation, Jack tells us, is sometimes known as "the daughter of Gutenberg." The easier it was for people to get hold of books, the more readily they could find out about the duties Martin Luther had placed before them—above all, private, unmediated thinking. People were supposed to ask questions about their lives, and, apart from the peasantry, no social group had better reason to do so than women.
More and more of them began to spend time with books. In France and elsewhere, in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, publishers started producing small, relatively inexpensive editions, which women could afford and conceal from their husbands. Eventually, a number of men gave up on the idea of forbidding women to read and began publishing books that would at least have a good influence on them. In 1766, James Fordyce, a Scottish Presbyterian minister, exhorted ladies to be gentle and to do what men told them to, in his "Sermons to Young Women." In Sheridan's "The Rivals" (1775), the heroine, Lydia Languish, suddenly hears her elders coming to visit her in her boudoir. "Here, my dear Lucy, hide these books," she says to her maid. "Quick, quick—Fling Peregrine Pickle under the toilet—throw Roderick Random into the closet . . . cram Ovid behind the bolster." Fordyce's "Sermons," she tells Lucy, should be laid open on the table.
What was it that men feared about women's reading? A big worry was that it was something they could do alone, without anyone to guide their thinking. They would thus learn to think independently. Accordingly, they might cease displaying the attractions—sweetness, soft voices, compliance—that were the product of their dependence on male approval. Indeed, they might start talking back to men. They did. This began long before the eighteenth century, but during the iconoclastic Enlightenment, and then in the nineteenth century, female protests against misogyny became both more frequent and more pointed. Also, as men feared, books caused women to imagine a different life for themselves, especially if the books were romances or, as we can call them by this point, novels. Some women, too, warned of the siren song. Nancy Johns Turner Hall, a middle-class American woman, wrote a memoir that included a chapter entitled "My first peep into novels and its consequences. Heartrending disappointment." In her youth, Hall recalled, she happened upon a stash of novels: "While conscious of the sin, I opened & read them, one after another until all were perused. . . . when I had read the last, I almost wept that there were no more to read." Wishing for the sort of reckless, rapturous love that these books portrayed, she married unwisely, at the age of sixteen. Fortunately, she recovered her sanity and made a prudent second marriage. Other women might not be so lucky. Indeed, reading might even kill them, as was said in the Scots Magazine, in 1774, to have been the case with the wife of the First Earl of Effingham. One night, in her rooms at Hampton Court, she became so absorbed in her book that she failed to notice that her clothes had caught fire. She died. Worse, a woman could be corrupted sexually. In Pierre-Antoine Baudouin's "The Reader" (c. 1760), we see a sumptuously dressed woman, her legs apart, her hand plunged suspiciously deep into her pocket, swooning as she drops the book she has been reading. If female novel-readers did not abandon themselves to sexual license, they might still disrupt the social order. In Samuel Richardson's alternately salacious and prudish epistolary novel "Pamela" (1740), a servant girl writes to her parents plaintively, and at length, of being chased by her employer down the hallways of his mansion. "I found his hand in my bosom," she says with apparent surprise. In fact, she was just holding out for a wedding ring, and she gets it, which was surely an inspiration to many a chambermaid. But the book seems to have appealed to all classes. It was the best-seller of its time. There were spinoffs: Pamela mugs, fans, playing cards. And people didn't just read the book; they read it in groups. Here is an account of the novel's reception in an English village:
The blacksmith of the village had got hold of Richardson's novel of "Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded," and used to read it aloud on the long summer evenings, seated on his anvil, and never failed to have a large and attentive audience. . . . At length, when the happy turn of fortune arrived which brings the hero and heroine together . . . the congregation were so delighted as to raise a great shout, and procuring the church keys actually set the parish bells ringing. In the nineteenth century, the problem of women's reading acquired a new dimension. By then, women were thought to be prone to "hysteria," whereby strong emotions caused physical symptoms. This concern, too, had been voiced long before. "Pamela" and Richardson's later novel "Clarissa" (1748) were products of, and appeals to, the eighteenth-century fashion for "sensibility," or emotional susceptibility. Women reacted powerfully to these novels. One of Richardson's fans, Lady Bradshaigh, wrote to him of her response to "Clarissa":
Had you seen me, I surely would have moved your pity. When alone, in agonies would I lay down the Book, take it up again, walk about the room, let fall a flood of tears, wipe my eyes, read again, perhaps not three lines, throw away the book, crying out, excuse me, good Mr Richardson, I cannot go on; it is your fault—you have done more than I can bear; [I] threw myself upon my couch.
Some medical experts felt that such responses might endanger a woman's mental health, or aggravate her physical disorders. One London doctor wrote that female patients might be allowed fiction but should be carefully watched. If a novel seemed to worsen a woman's condition, it should be taken away and replaced by "a book upon some practical subject; such, for instance, as beekeeping."
But the women won out, or capitalism did. Many writers—not only Dickens but George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, Trollope—published books as serials in inexpensive magazines. Booksellers opened stalls in railway stations—that is, for people who were about to have a few hours of leisure time. And books kept getting cheaper. The Abbé Prévost's "Manon Lescaut" (1731), like "Pamela," had to do with a beautiful lowborn girl who was good at marketing her attractions. (Manon comes to a bad end, though.) In 1848, the publisher Gustav Havard issued a handsome edition of the book, with plenty of pictures, and priced it at twenty centimes, a great bargain. The book sold millions of copies. By that time, actually, people could obtain books at almost no cost, thanks to commercial lending libraries. The most important was Mudie's, the Netflix of the nineteenth century. Founded in London in the middle of the century and eventually opening branches in other English cities, the company charged subscribers a guinea a year to borrow one book at a time. Until the popularization of public lending libraries late in the century, Mudie's offices were thronged.
As a result of these developments, and others, such as the increasing spread of compulsory education, about half the people living in Europe in the mid-nineteenth century could read, though with large differences between north and south, and Protestant and Catholic. The literacy rate for Sweden was about ninety per cent; for Scotland and Prussia, eighty per cent; for England and Wales, between sixty-five and seventy-five per cent; for France, sixty per cent; for Spain, twenty-five per cent; for Italy, twenty per cent. In Russia, where the serfs were not freed until 1861, only five to ten per cent of the population could read. Tolstoy had a larger audience in Western Europe than he did in his own country.
However many people spent time with books, they spent it mostly with fiction. The nineteenth century has been called a golden age of reading. In any case, it was the golden age of the novel, which became both hugely popular and, on average, of better quality than in any other period. The writers of that time raised the novel to the top of the hierarchy of genres, and also generously stocked the lower tiers. At all levels, from art to junk, women writers, though still in the minority, were as accomplished as the men. And women readers were more likely to read fiction than men were. Female novelists probably drew female patrons just by being of the same sex, but they also, much more than men, dealt with problems that were central to the lives of women. Both sexes could have their lives destroyed by misfortunes in love and marriage, but women were more vulnerable, and those subjects were a near-constant in the books produced by women writers, the best (Jane Austen, the Brontës, George Eliot) and the worst alike. The most important fact about the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century novel, apart from its increasing artistry, was its democratic reach. Ian Watt, in his classic 1957 study "The Rise of the Novel," writes that while in eighteenth-century England the poor were still strongly discouraged from reading, apprentices and household servants were likely to slip past the barriers:
They would normally have leisure and light to read by; there would often be books in the house; if there were not, since they did not have to pay for their food and lodging, their wages and vails could be devoted to buying them if they chose; and they were, as ever, peculiarly liable to be contaminated by the example of their betters.
And, however harsh the servants' upbringing, their employment separated them from the neighborhoods where most of England's urban poor spent what little free time and money they had drinking the cheap gin of the period. From that point to the present, it seems, many of the working poor have found popular fiction, especially about rich people and their love lives, one of the most reliable of life's pleasures. Marxists would call this "false consciousness," and even mild-minded progressives might furrow their brows over it. Kate Flint, in her 1993 book "The Woman Reader: 1837-1914," quotes a late-Victorian report about a book popular in Ancoats, a working-class neighborhood in Manchester:
It was a love story. The scenes were those of old baronial houses, country roads, wealthy mansions, floral parks, old and stately trees, delicious glens, limpid streams, hunting expeditions, billiard rooms, and continental pleasure places. The characters were rich men and beautiful women; titled men such as earls and knights, and ladies of refinement, wealth, education; real British pride, and charms irresistible; women who spurned work, treated low life ignominiously, and spoke in terms of contempt of people, however rich and good, who had made money by industry. . . . "It is the chief pleasure of my life," said a hard-working woman to me, who was buying one of these stories, "to read these tales—they're lovely!"
Jack goes up to the present. She discusses the Internet and its censorship, which no doubt falls harder on women, because they are still kept closer to home and therefore have more need of information. (The censorship of books, too, is more punishing to women, because the books in question often discuss issues crucial to women, such as sexual morality, contraception and abortion, and power relations between husband and wife. That's why such books are forbidden.) She also addresses blogs, which, particularly when they focus on literature, have been used successfully by many Western women. She writes about American reading groups, which are definitely a female preserve. This is a poignant matter: women who spent their young-adult years putting their husbands through medical school, and who now, in their forties or fifties—maybe after the husband has left them for a younger woman—are finally reading "Anna Karenina."
One study of adolescent girls and boys found that the two sexes still differ in their reading choices, in stereotypical ways. As before, girls favor fiction, particularly when it is about love, friendship, animals, and adventure. Boys, more than girls, like nonfiction, especially about sports and science. In a 2004 poll, eight hundred Britons—most of them well educated, obviously—were asked to name their "watershed books," books that sustained them "through key moments of transition or crisis in their lives." Among men, the winners were "The Stranger," "One Hundred Years of Solitude," and "The Catcher in the Rye." For women, "Jane Eyre," "Pride and Prejudice," and "Anna Karenina" topped the list (lest anyone doubt that women prefer tales of love and marriage).
A great virtue of Jack's book is that she repeatedly reminds us of the internal pleasures of reading: not so much the acquisition of ideas or information as just the pleasure of going to new places in one's mind. I wish she could have said more about women's experience of reading and how it differed from men's, and also how it varied from class to class. (We get very few statements from below the middle ranks.) Jack tells us some important things: that women read more fiction than men did; that they responded to it with strong emotion; that both circumstances were counted against them and against fiction. Such facts are well known, however, and she has no special theories about them. But if her book is thin, another word for that is modest, or honest. Jack doesn't like to say things that she has no evidence for. Also, she does not go in for special pleading. When George Eliot writes an essay called "Silly Novels by Lady Novelists" (1856), Jack records this. When women come out against women's reading, she says so. While she writes of some nunneries that had very rich libraries, she also points out that the surviving copies of the nuns' books tend to have fewer marginalia than do those of the priests. This, she says, might indicate that the women were less willing to deface their books, but it might also mean that they were less likely to read their books, which were often donated by parishioners.
Still, Jack tells some moving stories of women's delight in being allowed to read. Samuel Johnson's friend Hester Piozzi noted in her diary, in 1790, that she was ashamed to scribble in the margins of her books, "but one longs to say something." Piozzi's contemporary Anna Barbauld, a poet and a compiler of fiction—her fifty-volume "British Novelists" contained selections from Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, Ann Radcliffe, Maria Edgeworth, and so on—wrote that people should not defend fiction (as many did) on the ground that it was actually unfictive, that it dealt with real life. The glory of the novel, she argued, was the opposite, that it spurred the imagination: "It is pleasant to the mind to sport in the boundless regions of possibility; to find relief from the sameness of every-day occurrences by expatiating amidst brighter skies and fairer fields." Many people lead lives that are pretty boring to them, and are not going to get better. Reading, for them, is a secret garden, a second life. Men got there first, but women arrived eventually. ♦


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Phillies can't hang on to lead after four-run inning
Comeback bid falls a run short in ninth
PHILADELPHIA - The Phillies made the obvious and correct choice in March when they named Cole Hamels their Opening Day starter.
He had pitched better than Cliff Lee and Roy Halladay last season, but an impressive resume also secured the first-time honor. He finished in the top 10 in National League Cy Young Award voting each of the previous two seasons. He also earned three career trips to the All-Star Game and the 2008 World Series and National League Championship Series Most Valuble Player awards.
But Hamels has looked nothing like one of the best pitchers in baseball in his first two starts in 2013. After getting battered Monday in the season-opening loss to the Braves at Turner Field, he blew a four-run lead Sunday in a 9-8 loss to the Royals at Citizens Bank Park.
Hamels is 0-2 with a 10.97 ERA.
"It's giving up runs," said Hamels, when asked what has frustrated him most. "Not giving the team the opportunity to win. When we're able to score runs early you want to keep the team in the ballgame. I wasn't able to do that.
"First and foremost, win the ballgame no matter who you're playing and who's pitching. We want to win. I wasn't able to do that for two straight games."
Hamels allowed nine hits, eight runs, four walks, one home run and struck out two in 5 2/3 innings Sunday. The eight earned runs allowed were a career worst. He has allowed 16 hits, 13 runs, five walks, four home runs and has struck out seven in just 10 2/3 innings this season.
The momentum killer Sunday came in the fifth inning when Hamels served up a grand slam to Billy Butler to give Kansas City a two-run lead.
It was the first grand slam of Butler's career. It was also the first one Hamels had allowed.
It was just another bad loss for the Phillies, who fell twice to the Royals in the three-game series in similar fashion: race to an early lead only to watch the bats fall silent while the starting pitcher blew the lead and the bullpen failed to keep the game close. It happened in Friday's 13-4 loss, when the Phillies took a 4-0 lead, but had no hits following the third inning as Kyle Kendrick blew the lead and the bullpen turned the game into a rout.
It nearly happened again Sunday as the Phillies built a 4-0 lead, only to watch Hamels blow the lead as the bullpen made a comeback a near impossibility.
The Phillies rallied in the ninth with a three-run home run from Jimmy Rollins. They scored another run and had runners on second and third with two outs, but Royals right-hander Kelvin Herrera struck out Erik Kratz in a tough nine-pitch at-bat to win the game.
"We don't take the foot off the gas," said Phillies manager Charlie Manuel, when asked about the team's offensive hibernation after building early leads this weekend. "What you see is baseball. Believe me, if anything we might be wanting it too bad. We don't take our foot off the gas. That's just the way it goes sometimes."
Phillies third baseman Michael Young went 4-for-5 with a double and an RBI. He believes the runs will come.
"It's something we definitely want to address, though," Young said. "I think we did a really good job against a good pitcher in the first inning [James Shields], but one thing we want to continue to get better at is making sure we keep our foot on the gas as the game goes on. That's one thing they did well during this series. They tacked on runs in those middle innings and we didn't."
Chad Durbin, who has an 11.57 ERA in three appearances, replaced Hamels with two on and two outs in the sixth, but walked Alcides Escobar to load the bases before allowing a single to Butler, who had a career-high seven RBIs, to make it 8-4.
Phillies relievers have allowed 10 of 11 inherited runners to score this year. The pitching staff has a 7.10 ERA in six games, which is the worst in baseball.
"All of us are true competitors," Hamels said of the team's poor pitching to this point. "We've all had success in the big leagues. We all expect to have success. I think we just have to bear down and go out there and do what we know we're capable of doing. We can't stress about the results as much as what people want. We have to be confident in what we can do and go out there and execute. Things will definitely take care of itself."
But it will be impossible to compete with the Nationals and Braves in the National League East with efforts like this.
The Phillies open a three-game series Monday against the Mets at Citizens Bank Park before they head to Miami to play a three-game series against the Marlins beginning Friday. Forget the tired clichés that everybody that puts on a big-league uniform has a chance to win. Managers, coaches and players have to say those things. If the Phillies expect to hang with the Nationals and Braves, they need to win series against the Mets and Marlins, whom everybody in baseball considers a distant fourth and fifth in NL East talent.
The Phillies can get on the right track with a good effort Monday from Halladay, who entered the season as the team's biggest question mark. Hamels was not supposed to be a question, but his first two starts have helped the Phillies to a 2-4 start.


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• American Jurisprudence Award – Criminal Procedure
Work as a Broadcaster
In 2006, Ms. Coombs left the DA's office and transitioned into the broadcast world as a legal analyst for national and local broadcast outlets, including CNN, Court TV (now TruTV), Extra, The View, Entertainment Tonight, and KTLA. Loni has covered numerous high profile trials including Phil Spector, OJ Simpson, Mel Gibson, Warren Jeffs, Casey Anthony, Jodi Arias, and George Zimmerman
Her daily coverage of the Phil Spector trial on KTLA.com earned her an AP award.
Loni has anchored newscasts (KTLA's Prime News, KDOC's Daybreak OC), co-hosted talk shows (KTLA's 9 am Morning Show, Fox's San Diego Living), and reported from the field (KTLA's Morning News and Prime News).
Loni appears as a regular contributor on "Dr. Phil", "The Doctors", and a legal commentator on HLN's "Dr. Drew on Call" and EXTRA TV.
Loni is author of the parenting book entitled, "You're Perfect" and Other Lies Parents Tell. The Ugly Truth About Spoiling Your Kids. This very timely call to action is written from the unique perspective of a criminal prosecutor and mother, sharing the critical insights she learned from working with hundreds of young people and their parents as they faced the life-changing consequences of their bad behavior.
Loni is an avid reader, a movie buff, and a fitness fanatic. She loves to watch the Food Network and then create her own culinary concoctions. Loni is married and the mother of one son, four stepchildren, one daughter-in-law, one stepson-in-law, one awesome (his favorite word) grandson, and two more grandkids on the way!
Loni Coombs
grew up in Southern California, the third of seven adopted children. She attended Brigham Young University, graduating at the age of nineteen with a bachelor's degree in psychology and minors in philosophy and music.
Work as a Prosecutor
In 1988, after graduating from Pepperdine Law School, Loni began her legal career as a criminal trial prosecutor for the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office. Her numerous felony trials ranged from murders to sex crimes and DUIs.
In 1996, Ms. Coombs worked in the "Crimes Against Peace Officers" unit, prosecuting criminals who seriously injured or killed police officers. One of her most notable cases was the capital murder trial of Julie Cross, the first female Secret Service agent killed in the line of duty. Loni received personal commendations from President William Clinton and US Secret Service Director L.J. Bowron for this death penalty verdict.


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Nicolae: The Rise of Antichrist; pp. 125-128
"Now, let us get down to business," the Antichrist says.
Rayford pulled up the top two sheets on his clipboard and began to take notes, as Carpathia outlined immediate plans.
At last. The Rapture occurred more than a year and a half ago and Nicolae Carpathia, the Antichrist, seized power soon afterwards, ruling over the entire world (except Israel) as a global dictator with unchecked power and no one to stand in his way as he set about demonstrating his wickedness as the all-time epitome of evil.
Well, that's what it said on the package anyway. The actual Antichrist here in our story hasn't done a whole lot during his first 500 days on the throne.
I don't mean to diminish his accomplishments. He's built a brand new global capital — and entire city — in the middle of a desert. And he's consolidated the entire globe under one world government, one world religion, one world currency and one world language. That's all quite impressive — probably even impossible. But we still haven't seen anything much like a plan. Nicolae has been putting all his pieces in place, but nothing we've seen suggests he has any idea what to do with them.
It seems like he's just drifting along — an evil mastermind without an evil master plan. The sudden burst of arbitrary mass-murder in the early part of this book shows a newfound enthusiasm for the evil part of that equation, but there still hasn't been any sign of the plan part.
But now Nicolae promises to "get down to business." Now, at last, he's ready to outline his evil scheme of evilness:
"We must act swiftly," he was saying, "while the people are most vulnerable and open. They will look to the Global Community for help and aid, and we will give it to them."
That is, I suppose, a plan. But now I'm confused about the evil part. Providing help and aid to vulnerable people makes the Antichrist's OWG seem kind of like the International Red Cross, and most of us don't usually think of the Red Cross as a global supervillain and/or the embodiment of Satan.
"However …"
Aha, there's a catch. Excellent. Maybe Nicolae will reveal that this help and aid is conditional. He will rebuild their shattered cities, feeding and sheltering the millions of nuclear refugees, but in exchange for this assistance he will demand that the afflicted sacrifice their children.
Hold on, no, wait. Scratch that. There are no children anymore in the world of this novel. I keep forgetting.
That's an important point to keep in mind, too, when we're evaluating Nicolae's work as an Antichrist. It puts him at a rather large disadvantage in the monstrous evil department. Sure, he's still able to do things like bomb a hospital, killing Bruce Barnes and hundreds of other sick people, but that would have been so much more evil if the pediatric ward hadn't already been empty. This whole world-without-children thing really does handicap Nicolae's ability to do the sort of thing we'd expect from an epitome of evil. He's supposed to surpass all the monsters of history, but it's hard to compete with guys like Genghis Khan or Joshua when there are no children available to put to the sword.
So, OK, demanding that his subjects sacrifice their children is out, but he could still maybe require some kind of Shirley-Jackson "The Lottery" situation, where, say, food and shelter from the Global Community only goes to cities who offer a random 1 percent of their residents as a human sacrifice.
But no. Nicolae doesn't have anything that evil in mind. What he intends to do, instead, is to rebuild all the cities he just finished nuking, ensuring that everyone is housed, fed and spared from hardship. But in return he will levy taxes to pay for it.
"However, they will give it to us first. We had an enormous storehouse of income before the rebuilding of Babylon. We will need much more to effect our plan of raising the level of Third World countries so that the entire globe is on equal footing."
That oxymoronic phrase "storehouse of income" gives a hint of Nicolae's shaky grasp on economics — a subject about which he and the authors are deeply confused.
The authors also tip their hand here when you consider what they have just provided. This is intended to be a threat — a wicked threat of dire immorality. The Antichrist is the worst person in the history of the world and here he threatens to do the worst thing he can imagine doing. And that, in the authors' words, is "raising the level of Third World countries."
What does "countries" even mean in the context of a one-world government? Weren't all countries abolished and absorbed into the monolithic "Global Community" ruled over by the global potentate?
Yes. And no. Both. And neither.
Every time I think I have a firm grasp on this, the authors turn around and contradict themselves. Chapter after chapter, book after book, they provide occasional conclusive statements definitively stating that Nicolae is the head of a single government over the entire world. And then two pages later they introduce some local political leader or official — an American president or a Chicago police officer who shouldn't exist in this world, but does.
This section flips back and forth on this point so much that I wound up almost as confused as Nicolae seems to be.
Later in this speech, Nicolae refers to the now-deceased "President Fitzhugh," whose rebellion he says, "confirmed my earlier decision to virtually strip him of executive power." That doesn't clear up my questions about whether this OWG is really a OWG. Nor does the bit a few pages from now in which Nicolae says:
"I will soon be appointing leaders to replace the three ambassadors to the regions that turned against us. That will bring the Global Community administration back to its full complement of ten regions. While you are now known as ambassadors to the Global Community, forthwith I will begin referring to you as sovereign heads of your own kingdoms. You will each continue to report directly to me."
So, forthwith, he's going to replace the current structure with an exact replica in which the ambassadors will continue to be "sovereign" and "kings" except not, as they will also be reporting directly to the potentate. Got it? If so, could you explain it to me? Because I'm lost here.
The one thing that's clear here is that these ambassadors are terrified of Nicolae. Because if they weren't completely intimidated and paralyzed with fear of the potentate, they would be laughing at him, or at least asking questions about his very strange plan for diabolical taxation.
And it turns out this is the core, the skeleton, the foundation for all of the Antichrist's evil master plan: taxes.
In theory, you could make that work. You could impose unbearably harsh taxes, following the example of Joseph in the book of Genesis, burying the people under such a heavy burden of taxes that eventually all of their property, their vocations, their bodies were the possession of the central government and the entire world was enslaved by the potentate.
That sort of thing would certainly seem to qualify as wicked (although, inexplicably, Joseph is rarely criticized for enslaving an entire nation), but it still seems a bit too abstract and detached. The Antichrist should be beastly, after all — ruling with an iron fist and an iron boot and not just with an iron spreadsheet.Even the worst-case scenario for oppressive taxation only gets you something like North Korea. The Antichrist is supposed to be worse than North Korea. Plus, even North Korea doesn't lean entirely on oppressive taxation for its evilness. They mix in a big dose of secret police, perpetual re-education and an absurd, Kafka-esque cult of personality.
It just doesn't seem likely that Nicolae is going to succeed as an undisputed Antichrist if his evil master plan is going to lean so heavily on the evils of taxation.
The bigger problem, though, is that Nicolae's tax plan just doesn't make sense. Here he is outlining the first piece of it:
"You all have been doing a wonderful job of moving to the one-world currency. We are close to a cashless society, which can only help the Global Community administration. Upon your return to your respective areas, I would like you to announce, simultaneously, the initiation of a ten-cent tax on all electronic money transfers. When we get to the totally cashless system, you can imagine that every transaction will be electronic. I estimate that this will generate more than one and a half trillion dollars annually."
So now we know that the one-world currency is, in fact, US dollars. Convenient. Almost as convenient as Nicolae's decision to make English the one-world language. Those two factors should help make the Great Tribulation a little less tribulation-y for residents of the former United States.
This business about a cashless, one-world currency is of course meant to set the table for the whole Mark of the Beast system to come. This bit of premillennial dispensationalist "Bible prophecy" has entered popular culture to the extent that most people in our world (but no one in the world of the novel) are familiar with the idea taken from Revelation 13:
He causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads, and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
Here is wisdom. Let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man: His number is 666.
That passage is why "prophecy" obsessed fundies freaked out over the introduction of bar codes, and credit cards, and PayPal. This is why America will never have a national ID card. And why you have to carry your driver's license, registration and proof of insurance as three separate documents instead of those latter two just coming up when your license is scanned or swiped.
Anyway, you get the idea here of what Nicolae Carpathia is supposed to be steering toward. He wants a global system in which nothing can be bought or sold without his say-so.
Unfortunately, his bungled version of a financial transaction tax will likely make sure that never happens.
Consider the proposed Robin Hood Tax (which will probably never happen, but which I think is an interesting idea and could be an effective way of limiting speculation and shifting our economy away from our present imbalance toward the FIRE, or finance insurance real estate, sector). That's a financial transaction tax of about 0.05 percent — or 1/20 of 1 percent. Nicolae's tax doesn't charge a percentage, but instead charges a flat 10 cents for every transaction. Under Nicolae's tax, the cost doesn't increase for a larger transaction, but it increases a great deal when you make a greater number of transactions. In other words, the Antichrist has just created a worldwide incentive for every business, investor and consumer to make fewer, less frequent financial transactions.*
So now everyone from investment banks to the coffee shop on the corner starts billing differently. You don't pay for your cup of coffee every day anymore, you pay a monthly coffee bill. Transactions get bundled, pay periods get larger and longer. Everyone, everywhere starts running a tab for everything.
That, in turn, creates a cash-flow problem. Running a tab essentially means paying with IOUs instead of cash. So now everyone is piling up IOUs, but they're short on cash. The obvious next step is to make IOUs transferable. There's a well-established model for just exactly that, for a system of universally exchangeable IOUs. It's called currency.
Nicolae's flat-rate transaction tax would almost certainly undo everything he's done to create a single global currency. It would encourage the rapid creation of a black-market currency system (which would likely make use of all the former national currencies he tried to abolish). Once he gets around to requiring everyone to take the Mark of the Beast, this black-market currency system will already be well-established and the Mark isn't going to make much difference one way or another buying-and-selling-wise.
That black-market currency will also get a big boost from another piece of Nicolae's odd tax plan:
"You knew the time would come for a tax to the Global Community on each area's Gross National Product. That time has come. While the insurrectionists from Egypt, Great Britain, and North America have been devastated militarily, they must also be disciplined with a 50 percent tax on their GNP. The rest of you will pay 30 percent.
"Now do not give me those looks, gentlemen. You understand that everything you pay in will be returned to you in multiplied benefits. We are building a new global community. Pain is part of the process. …"
He misunderstands the looks he's getting from the ambassadors. They're not reacting to the "pain" of this proposed 30-percent "tax on their GNP," they're just trying to figure out what such a thing could possibly mean.
First off, there's no longer any such thing as GNP under the OWG. It only makes sense to speak of "gross national product" if there are nations.
But nevermind that, the bigger question is how is such a tax "on GNP/GRP" supposed to be calculated and collected? I suppose since GNP is meant to total the price of all goods and services produced within a nation, then a 30-percent tax on GNP just means that nation would have to collect a 30 percent tax on everything in order to pay its national bill at the end of the year. In 2011, the U.S. GNP was about $15.23 trillion. So if the U.S. had owed a 30-percent "tax on GNP" to some global federation, would it have had to write a check for $4.57 trillion on Jan. 1, 2012, or could it just have $176 billion withheld from its national paycheck every two weeks?
Let's just pretend for the sake of argument that there were some way to make sense of this idea of a "tax on GNP/GRP." What this means is that most of the world will suddenly owe a 30-percent tax on every good and service that's on the books. (The war-ravaged regions will owe an even higher tax, because that makes sense.)
The key words in that paragraph are "on the books." This is yet another huge push in the direction of an off-the-books black-market currency. Anything that can be done off the books or under the table will be. Nicolae's dream of one-world currency and a cashless society will be replaced by a cash-only, underground, under-the-table economy that avoids his OWC whenever possible.
But we've only scratched the surface so far of Nicolae Carpathia's economic dreams. Next week we'll look at more of his evil master plan, including his bewildering ideas for making sure that his one-world government is no longer dependent on foreign oil. (Yes, really.)
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* Nicolae's estimate of $1.5 trillion in revenue works out to something like 10 transactions a day for every person, assuming a post-Rapture population of around 4 billion people. But that doesn't count corporations, retailers, stock exchanges, investors, casinos, etc. Factor all those in and that $1.5 trillion figure looks really low.


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Despite Attrition, Vanderbilt Finding Surprising Success in SECPosted by David Changas on February 6th, 2014
Expectations for Vanderbilt were relatively low coming into the season, as the Commodores were predicted by most to finish in the bottom half of the SEC. A team beleaguered by defections and suspensions in the offseason started the year with an inexperienced nine-man rotation, but the loss of Josh Henderson to a torn ACL and leading scorer Eric McClellan to dismissal appeared to spell doom for the Commodores as they embarked upon conference play. Using a seven-man group that has forced starting guards Kyle Fuller and Dai-Jon Parker along with forward Rod Odom to essentially play with no rest, Vanderbilt's start in the SEC went largely as expected with home losses to Kentucky and Ole Miss contributing to a 1-4 record. But after the Ole Miss loss, the Commodores went to Texas A&M and Georgia and grabbed wins, following that up with a home win over Mississippi State last weekend. On Wednesday night, they extended their winning streak to four after edging Tennessee, 64-60, to surprisingly move a game to 5-4 at the halfway mark of SEC play. With Arkansas coming to Nashville on Saturday, the Commodores have a realistic shot of adding to their current hot streak.
While Vanderbilt coach Kevin Stallings has endured his share of criticism for underachieving with several upper echelon SEC squads, the job he has done with this year's team has drawn rave reviews. Included among the seven players who are part of the rotation are slender freshman Luke Kornet, who would have been a natural candidate to redshirt under different circumstances, and forward Shelby Moats, who logs just over 10 minutes per game. Fortunately for Stallings, he is especially able to rely upon the underrated Odom, who has stepped his game up to an all-SEC level.