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What every physician needs to know:
Exposure to indoor and outdoor air pollutants may increase an individual's risk for morbidity and mortality from a variety of different conditions in multiple organ systems. These exposures cause and/or exacerbate respiratory diseases and diseases in other organ systems. Air pollution may also cause sensory irritation and decrease well-being through, for example, loss of visibility.
Ambient air pollution arises from both natural and human-derived sources. Air pollution has likely had adverse health effects throughout history due to natural occurrences such as volcanic eruptions and wildfires. In the modern era, burning fossil fuels, electric power generation, home heating, and motor vehicle transport has greatly increased emissions and pollution exposure. The importance of ambient air pollution was first appreciated in the 20th century, when cars, trucks, and other vehicles created "smog," or photochemical pollution and when public health crises arose from periods of intense pollution such as the London "killer fog" in 1952.
Recent unprecedented growth of urban areas forming "megacities" on multiple continents has led to enormous concentration of emissions from sources including massive fleets of motor vehicles, electric power generation, heating, and industry, which combine to produce remarkable and sustained air pollution events. Rarely, events such as the collapse of the World Trade Center have created short-term intense levels of outdoor air pollutants with recognized health effects.
There has also been increasing recognition that the problem of air pollution extends to indoor environments. In low-income countries, exposure to smoke from biomass fuel combustion is widespread and typically occurs at high concentrations. Poor residents of high-income countries may experience indoor pollution due to biomass fuel burning. More commonly in high-income countries, indoor pollutants are generated by human activities and released from materials used for construction and furnishings. These indoor pollutants are often maintained at unhealthy concentrations by building designs that seal them in with limited exchange of indoor air with outdoor air.
Several factors related to specific pollutant characteristics and patterns of exposure determine the likelihood of injury from inhalation of indoor or outdoor air pollutants.
Pollutant Characteristics
Uptake of gases: Penetration into and retention within the respiratory tract of gaseous pollutants vary widely, depending on the physical properties of the gas (e.g., solubility), the concentration of the gas in the inspired air, the rate and depth of ventilation, and the extent to which the material is reactive.
Highly water-soluble gases, such as formaldehyde and SO2, are almost completely extracted in the upper airways. Removal of less water-soluble gases like NO2 and O3 is much less complete, and these gases may penetrate to the distal airways and alveoli. Exercise augments penetration of gases into the lung parenchyma and the total dose of pollutants delivered to the airways.
Particle deposition and retention: Deposition of particulate pollutants depends on several factors, including the particles' aerodynamic properties (primarily particle size), airway anatomy, and breathing pattern. Particles >10 μm in diameter are filtered out in the nose and nasopharynx, while particles <10 μm tend to be deposited in the tracheobronchial tree. Deposition in the alveoli is maximal for particles <1-2 um in diameter, while particles <100 nanometers (ultrafine particles) can deposit throughout the respiratory tract. Removal of particles from the larger airways occurs by the mucociliary apparatus within hours of deposition. Clearance from the deep lung by alveolar macrophages is much slower requiring days to months.
Personal Exposure
Definitions of concentration, exposure, and dose are fundamental to considering the effects of air pollution. Concentration is the amount of material present in the air. For the respiratory tract, exposure is the amount of time spent in contaminated air; exposure is given units of concentration x time. Dose is the amount of material that enters the body. A biologically effective dose is the amount of material that must reach the target site, i.e., alveoli, for injury to occur. Total personal exposure is the relevant index of exposure, which refers to the time-weighted average pollutant concentration in the microenvironment in which a person spends time. For example, a relevant microenvironment for high particulate exposure would be an office in which smoking is permitted.
Studies indicate that residents of most high-income countries spend most of their time indoors so that exposure to many pollutants occurs indoors. Data in a number of countries showed that people spend an average of 65-75% of their time inside their homes and >90% of their time indoors. Even so, time spent outdoors may be the predominant determinant of exposure for some pollutants, such as ozone, especially for people who exercise outdoors and receive an augmented dose of ozone to their lungs because of the increased ventilation associated with exercise.
Outdoor air pollution
Outdoor air is polluted with a dynamic mixture of pollutants from both natural and manmade sources. The nature of the mixture depends primarily on the mix of sources and their operations and on meteorology. The mixture includes primary pollutants like nitrogen oxides and primary particles, which come directly from their sources, and secondary pollutants like ozone and secondary particles, which are formed through chemical and physical transformations in the atmosphere. These pollutants are variably classified based on their characteristics and sources. One commonly used classification is based on Section 108 of the Clean Air Act, which covers "criteria pollutants" (particulate matter, ozone, nitrogen dioxide, sulfur dioxide, carbon monoxide, and lead). Among these, particulate pollutants and ozone receive the greatest focus and have the most extensive health data. In addition to criteria pollutants, 189 "toxic air pollutants" are recognized, including carcinogens and irritants.
For public health and particularly for persons with cardiopulmonary disease, exposure to particulate matter and ozone at levels associated with adverse health effects is common. Particulate matter in urban air is typically a heterogeneous mixture classified into 3 size ranges based on diameter: the ultrafine range (<0.10 microns in diameter), the fine range (<2.5 microns in diameter), and the coarse range (between 2.5-10 microns in diameter). The ultrafine particles, which reflect fresh combustion, are in highest numbers near roadways, where they come from vehicles. Much of the mass in the fine range is attributable to secondary particles. The coarse mode particles in urban areas are comprised of dust, tire debris, bioaerosols, and other materials.
Ozone is an indicator of oxidant pollution formed through sunlight-driven photochemistry that involves nitrogen oxides and hydrocarbons. Concentrations vary across the day based on traffic, sunlight, and weather. Photochemical pollution now affects much of the US, particularly sunny and warm areas.
For both inhaled particles and ozone, oxidative injury with local and systemic consequences is the key mechanism of injury. Particulate matter in urban air typically has carcinogens among its components. Decades of epidemiologic research link these air pollutants to adverse respiratory effects, including exacerbation of chronic lung diseases such as asthma, COPD, and cystic fibrosis, and reduced lung function. At very high concentrations of particulate matter, excess deaths have been well-documented, particularly among those with cardiopulmonary disease. Although the major entry of air pollution is via the respiratory tract, air pollution has extensive effects in multiple organ systems. Literature links particulate matter to increased cardiovascular morbidity and mortality, including myocardial infarctions, arrhythmias, congestive heart failure, hypertension, and stroke. Emerging evidence also links particulate matter exposure with pulmonary malignancies, adverse birth outcomes, childhood respiratory disease, diabetes, deep venous thrombosis, and neuropsychiatric disease. As a consequence, epidemiologic studies document increased short- and long-term mortality associated with particulate matter at levels present over the last several decades.
Short-term ozone exposure is associated with multiple health effects including increased asthma and COPD exacerbations, hospital admissions and deaths. Acute but reversible reduction of lung function is well documented from experimental exposures. Long-term ozone exposure is linked to increased cardiovascular and respiratory mortality in multiple epidemiologic studies.
Indoor air pollution
There are myriad forms and sources of indoor pollution, including combustion (tobacco smoke, stoves, fireplaces, and wood stoves), household products, construction materials, biologic agents (e.g., microbes, pets), off-gassing from water, and soil gas. In particular, soil gas is the origin of most indoor radon. These agents cause disease through diverse mechanisms, inflammation and irritation, immune responses, carcinogenesis, and effects on the central nervous system. The spectrum of adverse respiratory consequences is broad and includes upper airway symptoms, causation and exacerbation of asthma, hypersensitivity pneumonitis, and lung cancer.
Many potential toxins exist in indoors (Figure 1), and several have been well characterized in the literature. Examples of agents associated with acute or chronic toxicity from inhalation include wood smoke, biological agents, radon, second-hand cigarette smoke, and formaldehyde.
Wood Smoke
Environmental Sources of Exposure
In North America, use of a wood stove as a primary or secondary heat source is common and can lead to intermittent high levels of indoor particulate matter and endotoxin. In developing countries, use of wood, coal, and other biomass fuels for cooking, heating, and lighting leads to extremely high exposure levels of indoor toxicants. Additionally smoke from household burning of biomass fuel contributes to ambient air pollution and can infiltrate into neighboring non-wood stove households.
Mechanism of Injury
The toxicology of some components of wood smoke, such as benzo[a]pyrene, other polycyclic organic compounds, and nitrogen oxides, has been well studied. These components can produce inflammation and oxidant injury and act as carcinogens. Some studies investigating experimental exposure to wood smoke as a complex mixture have demonstrated increases in oxidative stress, inflammation, and coagulation factors, however results have been inconsistent and more research is needed to better characterize the toxicology and mechanism of injury from wood smoke.
Spectrum of Respiratory Disorders Associated with Exposure
Most epidemiology on the health effects of wood smoke is derived from studies in developing countries, where intense smoke exposure results from cooking fires in poorly ventilated dwellings. Studies indicate increases in acute respiratory infections, decreased lung growth and development, asthma, COPD in women non-smokers, lung and non-respiratory malignancies, and chronic respiratory morbidity in children and adults from exposure to wood smoke. There is growing recognition of the major impact of household air pollution from solid fuel combustion on worldwide deaths and global burden of disease.
Biological Agents
Environmental Sources of Exposure
Indoor allergens and microbes, the principal biologic agents in indoor air pollution relevant to human health, have diverse sources. Some of the most severe and prevalent indoor biologic pollution arises from the growth of microorganisms or mold on surfaces that are wet or moist. Indoor levels of allergens and microbes may be increased by accumulation of materials like human/animal dander and growth of fungi and bacteria on interior surfaces or air conditioning systems. Other common indoor allergens include those from house dust mites and cockroaches. Indoor pollen derived almost entirely from outdoor plants, and fungus spores from outdoors may also enter the indoor environment in air filtration systems or on people, animals, or objects that move from outdoors to indoors.
Mechanism of Injury
Biologic agents cause upper and lower respiratory infections, immunologic responses, and inflammation. Although considerable attention has focused on the effects of allergic responses to fungi, these organisms also cause non-allergic responses. Some species of fungi, including some molds, are capable of producing mycotoxins and volatile and semi-volatile compounds, and the health effects of inhalation of these compounds remains unclear. Non-allergic responses that may occur include neurotoxicity, immunotoxicity, sensory irritation, and dermal toxicity.
Spectrum of Respiratory Disorders Associated with Exposure
A wide spectrum of disease is associated with biologic agents. Bacteria may result in upper or lower respiratory infections that range from acute bronchitis to pneumonia. Exposure to fungi from indoor mold and damp environments can cause pulmonary infections, hypersensitivity disorders such as hypersensitivity pneumonitis and allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis, asthma symptoms, bronchial reactivity, and allergic fungal rhinosinusitis. Allergy symptoms or worsening of asthma symptoms may occur as a result of exposure to common indoor allergens.
Environmental Sources of Exposure
Radon, a colorless/odorless gas, originates from the decay of naturally occurring uranium-238. Present in soil gas, it enters homes through openings in basements and around foundations, drawn in by the pressure gradient that a structure creates across the ground. The concentration depends on local geology, including the porosity of the earth and the concentration of radium, the precursor of radon. In some places, radon may also be present in high concentrations in water and off-gassed during use of water. Radon is a well-documented occupational carcinogen that causes lung cancer. Underground mines can be contaminated by very high concentrations of radon, as in uranium mines.
Mechanism of Injury
Radon decays into a series of particulate radioactive progeny, two of which are alpha-particle-emitting polonium isotopes. Alpha particles, which have high mass and high energy, can create ionization tracks across cells that damage DNA. Lung cancer caused by radon is attributed to the traversal of basal cells in the respiratory epithelium by alpha particles emitted by the polonium progeny that have been deposited in the airways. Because the energy of the alpha particles does not depend on concentration, the risk of lung cancer associated with radon varies directly with the exposure; there is no threshold below which there is no risk.
Spectrum of Respiratory Disorders Associated with Exposure
Risk for lung cancer is the major concern for the population exposed to radon. However, in heavily exposed underground miners, there is some indication that radon exposure contributes to fibrosis; it has also been examined as a cause of non-respiratory cancers but the findings have been inconsistent. The epidemiologic evidence shows that radon causes lung cancer in both those who smoke and those who have never smoked, and there is evidence of a synergy between smoking and radon in causing lung cancer. Radon has not been definitively linked to any particular histologic type of lung cancer; however, observations in underground uranium miners showed an unexpectedly high frequency of small-cell carcinoma.
Secondhand Cigarette Smoke
Environmental Sources of Exposure
Secondhand smoke (SHS) refers to the mixture of diluted sidestream cigarette smoke and exhaled mainstream smoke that is inhaled by non-smokers in indoor environments. SHS is a complex dynamic mixture of gaseous and particulate components that changes as it is diluted and as various chemical transformations occur. The concentration of SHS depends on the number of smokers in the room and their pattern of smoking, the level of exchange of the indoor air with outdoor air, and on removal mechanisms, including surface deposition and filtration. In modern buildings with central air-handling units, SHS from one space may be distributed to others.
Mechanism of Injury
SHS is a rich mixture that includes agents that can cause symptoms and disease through diverse mechanisms including irritation, inflammation, and carcinogenesis. SHS includes many agents classified as carcinogenic by the World Health Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer, along with oxidant species that can contribute to carcinogenesis through nonspecific mechanisms.
Spectrum of Respiratory Disorders Associated with Exposure
Diverse respiratory effects have been linked to SHS exposure in children and adults. The first epidemiologic studies on SHS were directed at lower respiratory illnesses in infants and young children. Subsequently, a lengthy list of adverse effects of SHS exposure in children has been identified including risk of lower respiratory tract illnesses, middle-ear problems, exacerbation and possibly causation of asthma, and reduced lung growth. In 1981, two epidemiologic studies showed increased risk for lung cancer associated with SHS in those who had never smoked. Now both lung cancer and coronary disease are causally associated with SHS in those who have never smoked. SHS is also a well-established cause of eye and upper-airway irritation.
Environmental Sources of Exposure
Formaldehyde is a natural product in some foods and is naturally present in the body as a metabolic intermediate. It is a widely used chemical and component of materials used in homes and furnishings as well as a component of SHS. Formaldehyde has been of particular concern in indoor environments where high concentrations have been documented: homes insulated with improperly cured urea-formaldehyde foam insulation and in poorly ventilated mobile homes and trailers with formaldehyde-emitting particle board and plywood. Formaldehyde levels were found to be high in many US Federal Emergency Management Agency trailers following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. It is also present in outdoor air, where major emission sources include power plants, incinerators, refineries, manufacturing facilities, and automobiles.
Mechanism of Injury
Formaldehyde has a simple one-carbon chemical structure and has been linked to both non-malignant and malignant health outcomes. For non-malignant effects, key mechanisms include triggering of irritant receptors and nonspecific inflammation. For carcinogenesis in the respiratory tract, two mechanisms may be relevant: genotoxicity and regenerative cellular proliferation resulting from cytotoxicity, particularly for nasal tumors.
Spectrum of Respiratory Disorders Associated with Exposure
Diverse respiratory effects have been investigated in relation to inhaled formaldehyde. Of these, irritation is a well-established consequence. The evidence is less certain for other respiratory outcomes e.g., reduction of lung function and causation/exacerbation of asthma. In workers with high levels of exposure, formaldehyde exposure has been linked to cancers of the nose, nasal cavity, and nasopharynx.
Are you sure your patient has had exposure to indoor or outdoor air pollutants? What should you expect to find?
With few exceptions (e.g., hypersensitivity pneumonitis and carbon monoxide poisoning) air pollution does not cause "signature" diseases. Rather, air pollution contributes to the general burden of respiratory diseases, making contributions significant from a public health perspective. In particular, air pollution commonly contributes to episodic exacerbation of existing disease, especially cardiopulmonary disease, or contributes to progression of existing disease. Risk assessment methods are used to calculate the contributions of various pollutants to the public health burden. These estimates address population-level effects but are not informative as to which individuals have been harmed by air pollution. For example, indoor radon is estimated to be the second leading cause of lung cancer in the US, contributing to ~20,000 deaths annually.
One syndrome, "sick-building syndrome," has been associated with indoor environments that are unhealthy because of indoor pollution, temperature, humidity, and other factors. Respiratory symptoms may be a component of the nonspecific syndrome, which is diagnosed on the basis of symptoms and the temporal link of its occurrence to presence in the triggering environment.
Beware: there are other diseases that can mimic exposure to indoor or outdoor air pollutants.
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How and/or why did the patient develop a condition related to indoor or outdoor air pollutants?
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Which individuals are at greatest risk of developing a condition related to indoor and outdoor air pollution?
In the US, the Environmental Protection Agency, states, and municipalities carry out extensive monitoring of the key pollutants, particularly the criteria pollutants. These data show that levels are highest in major urban areas, and fine-scale studies show that exposures can be particularly intense along major roadways. Individuals likely to have higher exposures tend to live in inner cities and close to industrial sources. Because people who live in these areas tend to be of lower socioeconomic status, they are also more likely to have lower quality housing and higher exposures to indoor air pollution. The term "vulnerability" has been used to refer to this potential for higher exposures, while "environmental inequity" or "environmental injustice" refers to the higher exposures for those who are less advantaged.
By contrast, susceptibility refers to a higher risk for developing disease or other adverse outcomes at a particular exposure than that of those who are not susceptible. Broad groups considered as susceptible include infants and elderly, persons with chronic cardiopulmonary disease, and those with other chronic diseases, such as diabetes. An important question concerns the differences in susceptibility to the health effects of air pollution between similarly exposed individuals. Research is in the process of addressing genetic determinants of susceptibility.
What laboratory studies should you order to help make the diagnosis, and how should you interpret the results?
Few lab tests are specifically relevant, with the exception of tests for exposures that have specific biomarkers: carboxyhemoglobin for CO, blood lead level, and antibody screens for hypersensitivity pneumonitis. As for exposure to tobacco smoke in indoor air, the level of cotinine, a nicotine metabolite, can be measured in saliva, blood, and urine, but this measurement is largely for research purposes.
While not a "lab test," inexpensive passive devices can readily measure indoor concentrations of radon. The Environmental Protection Agency recommends measurement of indoor radon for most homes and in some jurisdictions, it has become required with the sale of a house.
What imaging studies will be helpful in making or excluding the diagnosis?
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What non-invasive pulmonary diagnostic studies will be helpful in making or excluding the diagnosis of a condition related to indoor or outdoor air pollution?
Since air pollution commonly acts by exacerbating existing respiratory diseases, studies to determine the severity and change in physiological abnormality may be helpful. However, pulmonary function studies are generally not helpful for detecting the specific contribution of air pollution to the process except following discrete exposure to high levels of pollutants.
What diagnostic procedures will be helpful in making or excluding the diagnosis?
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What pathology/cytology/genetic studies will be helpful in making or excluding the diagnosis?
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If you decide the patient has a condition related to indoor or outdoor air pollution, how should the patient be managed?
Controlling the health effects of indoor and outdoor air pollution requires strategies oriented toward both populations as a whole and individual patients.
Patient-oriented Strategies
At the individual level, efforts should be made to limit personal exposure of susceptible groups during periods of elevated ambient pollution. It is important for the provider to recognize if the patient falls into one of these groups. Ideally the patient may wish to be aware of pollution levels in the community, using information conveyed from local media or air quality apps. Modifying time-activity patterns to limit time outside during significant pollution represents the most effective strategy to reduce exposure. Those susceptible to air pollution should remain indoors during pollution episodes. During air pollution events, affected individuals should discontinue vigorous outdoor exercise, as exercise increases the dose of pollution delivered to the respiratory tract. In the setting of very high levels of pollution (above EPA standards) even healthy individuals should consider exercising indoors. Summertime ozone presents a distinct pattern of exposure, often with low levels in the morning and high levels in the later part of the day, often coinciding with periods of high traffic congestion. Exposure may be reduced by encouraging exercise in the early morning during periods of high daytime ozone.
Susceptible individuals, especially those with asthma or COPD, should be reminded about medication adherence during pollution episodes. Medication use should follow the usual clinical indications, and regimens should not be adjusted because of the occurrence of pollution. Patients should have an action plan in the event of increased symptoms during pollution episodes.
Traditionally, the use of masks to reduce individual exposure during pollution episodes has not been recommended and commonly available surgical masks have no benefit. However, there is recent data suggesting that high efficiency masks (N95) may reduce particulate exposure and physiologic responses in susceptible individuals walking outside during high level pollution episodes. More research is required to better define the role for this intervention. Masks have no role in protection against ozone. There has been increasing interest in the use of indoor air filters. High efficiency particulate air (HEPA) filters can be effective for improving indoor air quality, and have been shown to have health benefits for children with asthma. However, more research is needed to establish effectiveness for other at-risk individuals.
Community-oriented Strategies
The EPA developed an Air Quality Index (AQI) that provides descriptors of air quality and guidelines for cautionary statements. The actions taken when "alert levels" are reached or anticipated include issuing public health advisories. The EPA's recommendations are used by local air pollution agencies in preparing daily air quality summaries to be disseminated to the media.
Pulmonologists may be faced with community issues that range from building-related issues to the effects of local sources, such as power plants and manufacturing facilities. Exposure to environmental pollutants may disproportionately affect disadvantaged communities, and the term "environmental justice" is used to address inequities between poorer and more well-to-do communities. Since these inequities are often complex issues that exceed the expertise of the local physician, guidance from public health and environmental agencies should be sought.
What is the prognosis for patients managed in the recommended ways?
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What other considerations exist for patients?
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- What every physician needs to know:
- Classification:
- Are you sure your patient has had exposure to indoor or outdoor air pollutants? What should you expect to find?
- Beware: there are other diseases that can mimic exposure to indoor or outdoor air pollutants.
- How and/or why did the patient develop a condition related to indoor or outdoor air pollutants?
- Which individuals are at greatest risk of developing a condition related to indoor and outdoor air pollution?
- What laboratory studies should you order to help make the diagnosis, and how should you interpret the results?
- What imaging studies will be helpful in making or excluding the diagnosis?
- What non-invasive pulmonary diagnostic studies will be helpful in making or excluding the diagnosis of a condition related to indoor or outdoor air pollution?
- What diagnostic procedures will be helpful in making or excluding the diagnosis?
- What pathology/cytology/genetic studies will be helpful in making or excluding the diagnosis?
- If you decide the patient has a condition related to indoor or outdoor air pollution, how should the patient be managed?
- What is the prognosis for patients managed in the recommended ways?
- What other considerations exist for patients?


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Selena Gomez Sued by Fragrance Company
Something stinks in Selena Gomez land. The 'Come & Get It' singer is being sued by a perfume company!
TMZ reports that Gomez is accused of breaching her contract with Adrenalina, a fragrance company. Adrenalina alleges that Gomez had a deal with Gomez to develop a fragrance line in her name, spending over $2 million on marketing alone in addition to research and development for the project. However, they claim that Gomez and her camp came up with a bogus excuse to end the deal, leaving Adrenalina without a spokesperson. Not cool!
The company is suing not only for damages, but also for a court order preventing Gomez from backing out of the deal. Can you imagine how awkward it'd be for that suit to go through -- having to work for someone who sued you (or having someone who you sued working for you)?
Gomez's attorney, Michael Weinstein, responded to the suit, saying, "Any claim that Selena did not meet her promotional obligations is ridiculous, manufactured after Adrenalina was terminated. Selena will vigorously defend this lawsuit, and will soon bring her own lawsuit against Adrenalina for millions in damages."
Drama! Here's hoping they find a sweet (scented) middle ground soon.
Watch the Selena Gomez 'Who Says' Video

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Infantry - 55-3016.00
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Operate weapons and equipment in ground combat operations. Duties include operating and maintaining weapons, such as rifles, machine guns, mortars, and hand grenades; locating, constructing, and camouflaging infantry positions and equipment; evaluating terrain and recording topographical information; operating and maintaining field communications equipment; assessing need for and directing supporting fire; placing explosives and performing minesweeping activities on land; and participating in basic reconnaissance operations.
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AOMORI, JAPAN—At first glance, 17-year-old Misaki Nakajima seems like any other shy and submissive Japanese schoolgirl. She loves shopping, text messaging, and the color pink. But beneath her wholesome exterior lies a wicked secret: Misaki Nakajima is consumed by sexual fantasies involving sweaty, middle-aged American men.
"I can't explain it," said Nakajima, dressed in a pleated miniskirt and pure white knee socks. "There's just something about American men who are at least twice my age and nearly three times my body weight that totally drives me wild."
Added Nakajima, "They're so hot."
Though she finds all pasty, middle-aged men intoxicating, Nakajima said balding Midwesterners who carry most of their weight in their stomach particularly turn her on. According to the sexually inquisitive teen, she often daydreams about sleeping with a 43-year-old divorcé with poor hygiene habits.
"I like it when they dress up like middle managers," said Nakajima, twirling her girlish pigtails with one alabaster finger. "You know, with the sweat-stained dress shirts, and the office clipboards, and the khaki pants that are 2 inches too short."
"God," Nakajima continued. "Those get me every time."
The Japanese nymph then reportedly sighed, rolled over on her Hello Kitty bedsheets, and continued leafing through an old Rochester Big & Tall catalog.
While she has always been curious about men who attended state college before she was born, Nakajima said she first discovered her fetish after stumbling upon a late-night airing of Uncle Buck on television—a moment the teen now describes as her "sexual awakening."
"I was completely captivated by him," said Nakajima, referring to the obese, unemployed character played by John Candy. "He was so exotic-looking. It was like this whole new world of pleasure had just opened up for me."
Over the next several months Nakajima—a virgin—explored her new obsession by cutting out pictures of American men from riding mower advertisements and heart-attack-prevention brochures. The barely legal teen also discovered satellite broadcasts of ESPN2 around this time, and often stayed up all night ogling professional bowlers and competitive dart players.
Nakajima confessed to frequently searching the Internet to satisfy her insatiable appetite for round, greasy American men years past their sexual prime. A survey of her recent browsing history revealed such Google searches as "pale man lying on couch eating" and "retiree + jowls + hardcore." The teen has also bookmarked several sites with lurid pictures of aging American males, including BuffaloBillsFanZone.com and the History Channel chat room.
According to psychologist Asuka Yasuhara of Tokyo University, Nakajima is not alone.
"It's not uncommon for Asian girls to be fascinated with these types of men," said Dr. Yasuhara, who found in a recent survey that three out of 10 Japanese teenage girls list Paul Giamatti as the most attractive American celebrity. "And it's easy to see why. Sweaty, forty-something Caucasians represent the epitome of mystery and wonder to Asian teens."
Added Yasuhara, "Plus, how can anyone resist those enormous, chafed thighs?"
Drawn by her curiosity, Nakajima has scheduled a vacation to St. Louis for early March. The trip—which falls on her 18th birthday—reportedly coincides with the American Society of Actuaries' annual convention, a four-day event during which Nakajima hopes to be seduced by "the heavyset man of [her] dreams."
Although she has long fantasized about traveling overseas and having a world of carnal delights revealed to her by an aging claims adjuster, the taut Japanese teen admitted that she is uncertain how she'll be received by American men.
"I just hope they don't mind the fact that I'm completely shaven," Nakajima said. "Oh, who am I kidding? They'd probably never go for a naïve young sexual kitten like me."


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Want to know how much R2-D2's slapstick antics cost in 1970s ducats? David Pirie's 1981 book Anatomy of the Movies dissected the film's then-lavish $11-million budget, but sadly did not delve into the film's blue milk budget. Also, check out the amount of bank Sir Alec Guinness would eventually roll in. That crazy hermit was loaded.
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Clues of Finding Tire Repair Shops for your Flat Tires
You may have a flat tire that you want to have repaired. If you fail to find the right technicians to repair the puncture well, you may end up losing the whole tire. Here are the tips of finding the most suitable tire repair center.
You need to look at the availability of the equipment used in the repair. There are some centers where conventional equipment are the ones used in the repairs. This will not properly mend the punctures, and it will also consume a lot of time. Therefore, before giving your tire out to be repaired, you need to closely look at the type of tools and equipment the technicians are using. All the staff in that repair center must have undergone rigorous training and are competent enough in handling flat tires. It is a bad idea to contract someone who doesn't understand the different approaches in tire repair, and the risks for each. If you can, you should request for the training certificates from those workers.
You should also establish whether the repairers are genuine or not. You should be cautious because there are cons posing as tire repairers but their aim is to get away with people's properties. Such people may end up disappearing with your tire. Therefore, it is prudent for you to contract someone who is licensed to practice. These people can only get certified and permitted to operate by the local authorities if they have the right training and comply to the available bylaws. You need to establish whether the repair experts are legit and competent enough to repair your flat tires. You should only give these technicians upon approving their paperwork and sure that they are competent enough to repair your tire. In case of anything, it will be easy for you to report them to the relevant authorities. Also, it will be easy for you to track these people down and seek for compensation if they fail to deliver.
Finally, you need to ask around to get the best and most reputable tire repair center. You can get recommendations from your fellow motorists because they may be aware about it. There is a high likelihood that such people must have dealt with flat tires in the past. You can get more suggestions form the people serving at the nearest gas stations. Before contracting that particular repair expert, you need to know how much they charge for the repair service. You should know the prices that the services range from. If you find the repair technicians to charge higher for their services, you should avoid them and look for ones who charge normally. You should also avoid those repair technicians who charge very little for the repair services.


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Cape San Blas
This is an HDR shot of the summer clouds over Cape San Blas, a kind of barrier island (but actually a peninsula) on the Florida Panhandle, 2009
Cape San Blas Sunset
One of my more successful images, and one that I sat on the porch and sized up before ambling down to the shoreline to capture it. Cape San Blas, Florida Panhandle, 2009
This is Cape San Blas, looking out across the Gulf of Mexico as a storm made its way alongshore. This glorious part of Florida actually forms a kind of barrier island, even though it is more of a peninsula, protecting Port St. Joe. 2009.
Rays of Sunshine
This image caught me by surprise, and without my tripod. As such this was a hand held shot of these magnificent pink rays at sunset. f/3.5, with the aperture wide open to capture more of the light. Port St. Joe, Florida Panhandle, 2009
Panama City Dunes
This is an older image, taken on Panama City Beach, Florida, 2008. We were in town having evacuated from New Orleans due to Hurricane Gustav. It was a great decision: the place was deserted and there was barely any tropical impact. Pretty much had the place to ourselves.
Panama City Beach
A gulf shore shell on Panama City Beach shell, 2008. Taken with a Pentax K10D (a very old image) during the high waves caused by Hurricane Gustav.
Coastal Dunes
This is coastal dunes on Panama City Beach, Florida. The shot was taken during Hurricane Gustav in 2008.
Summer on the Beach
I just love the way the shoreline meanders a little on Pensacola Beach. With the waves and the glorious turquoise waters, it created this very typical summer on the beach scene. Love the way it captures those waves rolling up the sandy profile. Florida, 2011.
Pensacola Pier
One of my favourite piers in one of my favourite places: Pensacola, Florida. Taken in 2010, we got some decent sized waves in the nearshore area which added a little depth to this image.
Pensacola Sunset
Pensacola Beach at sunset in Florida, 2010. We were afforded a fairly high hotel room in the big high rise, which gave me my one and only opportunity for such a shot. I'm glad the sunrise persisted for this one. Originally I went with HDR, but was never satisfied with it, eventually going for a more heavily processed single image.
This image is more personal; it's the Flounders restaurant at the Pensacola Beach Boardwalk. Absolutely loved going here during our many trips to Pensacola between 2008 and 2011 - it really hit it out the park with the beach life feel to it. 2010
Disney World Magic Kingdom
Seen one shot of the Magic Kingdom and you've seen them all. But I did like the way the sunset lit up the Disney castle in Orlando, especially as there was an act in progress on the stage infront. Florida, 2016
Caught the end of show fireworks before the main light show of the evening - the purple colours were helped somewhat by the sunset in Disney's Magic Kingdom, Florida, 2016
Disneyworld Castle
Absolutely loved the way the sunset lit top the Disney World Magic Kingdom castle, although I did have to slowly muscle my way in to position on the bridge to capture these reflections. If ever patience served me well, it was here. 2016
Disneyworld Lanterns
A heavy matte finish was added to this image to accentuate the shadows and the glow of the lanterns - this is Disney's Magic Kingdom in Orlando, where night photography can be possible! 2016
Disney world Night Scene
This is a night scene in Disney's Magic Kingdom, Florida, 2016. Some parts of the site offered some interesting opportunities for night photography, so long as I was happy to apply some interesting effects in Alien Skin, which of course I was.
Disney Show
A lone star rises away from the Magic Kingdom in Disney World, Florida. Truth is that it was one of a great many fireworks, but its always interesting how one still image can present an altogether different story. 2016
Magic Kingdom Fireworks
Heavily doctored image and border, but I was in Disneyworld and, as such, felt that I had great license to add something else to the Magic Kingdom firework display images. Orlando, 2016
Cinderella's Castle Fireworks
Magic Kingdom, Florida, 2016. I've added a Photoshop / Alien Skin filter to this image to add a little more; sometimes a little obscurity can do an image wonders.
Swimming at Sunset
This shot was taken during Thanksgiving in 2019. I love the colours, but a few years later, I am taken by the sheer number of people on the pier. Three years of Covid, seems to have conditioned (some of) us to be wary of such non-social distanced conditions! Sunset on Clearwater Beach, Florida, 2019.
Clearwater Waves
I was obsessed with the way the sun was setting behind the pier at Clearwater Beach. So much so that I experimented with multiple different approaches. Florida, 2019.
I couldn't believe my luck with this sunset on Clearwater Beach. The colours were glorious. It was a moment I nearly missed as we were on our way to dinner, and just happened to still have my camera on me. Florida, 2019.
Epcot Mexican Band
A traditional Mexican acoustic band, performing at Epcot, Disney, 2019.


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National Right to Life Committee
The National Right to Life Committee (NRLC) is the oldest pro-life organization in the United States.[1] The organization now has over 3,000 organization chapters in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. In 1999, NRLC was ranked the eighth most influential lobbying group in Washington, D.C. by Forbes magazine.[2] The Washington, D.C. based organization publishes a monthly newsletter which is subscribed to by nearly 400,000 people. President George W. Bush praised the bi-partisan organizations work on abortion, calling the group,
|"Fearless shepherds of the innocent and the unborn. You've been faithful stewards of our Declaration of Independence's promise that all people have an inalienable right to life, through your witness, you have helped more of our citizens understand that the mark of [a] great ... nation is the respect that we give to every single human life."[3]
Roughly 1000 supporters attended its annual convention in Jacksonville, Florida, in June 2011, and many Republican candidates for president addressed the crowd.[4]
It was founded in 1968 as the "Right to Life League" under the National Conference of Catholic Bishops (NCCB). In 1973, it was changed to the "National Right to Life Committee" and separated from the NCCB. This was intended to gain more broad support, as the organization rose to the challenge of dealing with the Supreme Court ruling that same year on Roe v. Wade (which legalized abortion in all 50 states). One of its founders was Mildred Jefferson.
According to the National Right to Life Committee, its goal is to:
|Restore legal protection to innocent human life. The primary interest of the National Right to Life Committee and its members has been the abortion controversy; however, it is also concerned with related matters of medical ethics which relate to the right to life issues of euthanasia and infanticide.[5]
The National Right to Life Committee stands against abortion, and criticizes pro-abortion organizations such as Planned Parenthood.[6] The NRLC website provides studies and information on the abortion procedure and the medical danger it causes to women.[7] NRLC actively involves itself in lobbying for pro-life causes. The organizations praised the Supreme Court's ban on partial birth abortion. NRLC Legislative Director, Douglas Johnson commented, "Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, and their allies blocked this law for 12 years -- but finally, it is illegal in America to mostly deliver a premature infant before puncturing her skull and removing her brain, which is what a partial-birth abortion is." [8]
Although the NRLC has made a psitive impact, they have also sometimes aligned itself with politicians who have pro-abortion or pro-Planned Parenthood records, such as Mitt Romney and (in Nebraska) Jon Bruning.
The National Right to Life Committee has condemned measures to allow for federal funding for embryonic cloning initiatives. They called the United States House of Representatives bill, H.R. 2560, which would allow for increase cloning, "a clone-and kill bill."[9] The organization praised President Bush's veto of a bill which would allow for federal funding for embryonic cloning. The bi-partisan organization also criticized Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi for stating that science had shown that embryonic stem cells have the "power to cure." Douglas Johnson stated, "since not a single human being has benefited from any procedure using embryonic stem cells, Pelosi's statement is yet another demonstration that the congressional Democratic leadership is more interested in demagoguery than in supporting the most promising types of stem cell research, which do not require killing human embryos." [10]
The organization is against all forms of euthanasia. To support their position, the organization cites studies which show that most of the recipients of assisted suicides suffer from mental health problems, which does not allow for them to make a rational decision to commit suicide.[11] They also state that problems should be dealt with by counseling, not assisted suicide. The organization says that if poor quality of life justifies the ending of life then, "we have taken a step down a slippery slope that places all of us in danger."[12]
- ↑ https://www.nrlc.org/about/history/
- ↑ http://www.pfaw.org/pfaw/general/default.aspx?oid=4103
- ↑ http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/74419.php
- ↑ http://www.sunshinestatenews.com/story/pro-life-activists-converge-first-coast
- ↑ https://www.nrlc.org/Missionstatement.htm
- ↑ http://www.prolifeperspective.com/
- ↑ https://www.nrlc.org/abortion/ASMF/asmf10.html
- ↑ https://www.nrlc.org/press_releases_new/Release041807.html
- ↑ https://www.nrlc.org/Killing_Embryos/cloningmisconceptions031803.html
- ↑ https://www.nrlc.org/Killing_Embryos/Release062007.html
- ↑ https://www.nrlc.org/euthanasia/asisuid1.html
- ↑ https://www.nrlc.org/euthanasia/index.html


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This collection houses memoranda, reports, minutes, agendas, reports, membership information, resolutions, by-laws, and other materials documenting the University of Tennessee's Faculty Senate activities dating from 1936 to the present. The collection also includes materials documenting the Faculty Senate Research Council's work between 1973 and 1990, and research files from the Senate Joint Committee investigating religion on campus. Of particular interest are the papers showing Billy Graham's visit to campus on May 28, 1970. Graham's friend Richard Nixon made a presentation at the rally, and a number of faculty and students who protested the President were arrested.
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Epsilon breach: When should almost public info be private?
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Scott Bradner, Network World
April 13, 2011 09:41 AM ET
A press feeding frenzy followed the somewhat vague April Fools Day announcement by Epsilon Data Management that someone had hacked into its systems and stolen a bunch of email addresses. The addresses were of people who had "opted in" for email marketing by a bunch of major vendors such as Target and Red Roof Inns, and many of the vendors sent announcements of the breach to their customers (I got such an announcement from a vendor I had purchased a present from for my wife. The announcement did not say all that much, essentially it told me to "be careful".).
Was this an important breach? What should you do if you have amassed a pile of such information?
We did not find out all that much about the Epsilon Data Management breach from the first press release (other than to say that the company did not quite live up to the promise of its corporate name). And the second press release did not add much actual data.
It seems to me that it would be better for Epsilon to be more forthcoming as to the scale of the breach and other details.
It might be fun to try to figure out why the press found this breach so interesting. (This publication had 10 articles on it and Google News picks up over 3,000.) By any objective measure, loss of a bunch of email addresses pales in comparison to what else has been going on - for example the breach at Ohio State University that may have exposed 760,000 names and Social Security numbers of current and former Ohio State "faculty, students and staff as well as applicants and other individuals who have been associated with the university."
The Ohio State breach seems to have gone unnoticed by most technical publications.
The biggest threat from the Epsilon breach to those whose email addresses were stolen is that you may receive better-targeted phishing attempts. RSA's description of how their recent breach happened does show that the risks of phishing attacks can be quite real. But the risk with exposing email addresses will always be far less than with exposed SSNs since so many institutions, such as banks, think that anyone with the knowledge of your name and SSN must be you - a stunningly stupid, and common, assumption.
But there clearly is a lesson that enterprises should learn from the Epsilon situation - any enterprise that stores any significant amount of information that some part of the public might consider to be, to some degree, private needs to actually protect that information from theft.
One example of a reasonable best practice for protecting private information is the Payment Card Industry's Data Security Standards (PCI DSS).
A lot in the PCI DSS might be overkill if you are only protecting a database full of names and email addresses, but the basic system architecture makes a lot of sense. For example, you should not store any confidential information on any Web server - ever. If you do need to store confidential data, it should be stored on a backend database with a firewall between the database and any Web server, and between the database and any enterprise users.
Such protections do not always prevent hackers from being successful, but they do make things harder for the hacker and give you a better story to tell if you do get hacked.
Disclaimer: Harvard has classes on how to tell stories but I have not taken that class or asked the instructors about the above story, so it must be my own.
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Once upon a time, The American Book Review came up with a list of American classics. From this list, they pulled the opening sentence from each. In the days of Criminal Brief, I made a game of it, trying to identify the novel… or author… solely from the first line. Rather than skip back and forth with the answer sheet, simply pop the menu to grade yourself or refresh your memory.
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|Call me Ishmael.
|It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
|A screaming comes across the sky.
|Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.
|Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins.
|Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
|riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs.
|It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.
|It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.
|I am an invisible man.
|The Miss Lonelyhearts of the New York Post-Dispatch (Are you in trouble?—Do-you-need-advice?—Write-to-Miss-Lonelyhearts-and-she-will-help-you) sat at his desk and stared at a piece of white cardboard.
|You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain't no matter.
|Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything truly wrong, he was arrested.
|You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler.
|The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
|If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.
|Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo.
|This is the saddest story I have ever heard.
|I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me; had they duly considered how much depended upon what they were then doing;—that not only the production of a rational Being was concerned in it, but that possibly the happy formation and temperature of his body, perhaps his genius and the very cast of his mind;—and, for aught they knew to the contrary, even the fortunes of his whole house might take their turn from the humours and dispositions which were then uppermost:—Had they duly weighed and considered all this, and proceeded accordingly,—I am verily persuaded I should have made a quite different figure in the world, from that, in which the reader is likely to see me.
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|Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.
|It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents, except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the house-tops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.
|One summer afternoon Mrs. Oedipa Maas came home from a Tupperware party whose hostess had put perhaps too much kirsch in the fondue to find that she, Oedipa, had been named executor, or she supposed executrix, of the estate of one Pierce Inverarity, a California real estate mogul who had once lost two million dollars in his spare time but still had assets numerous and tangled enough to make the job of sorting it all out more than honorary.
|It was a wrong number that started it, the telephone ringing three times in the dead of night, and the voice on the other end asking for someone he was not.
|Through the fence, between the curling flower spaces, I could see them hitting.
|124 was spiteful.
|Somewhere in la Mancha, in a place whose name I do not care to remember, a gentleman lived not long ago, one of those who has a lance and ancient shield on a shelf and keeps a skinny nag and a greyhound for racing.
|Mother died today.
|Every summer Lin Kong returned to Goose Village to divorce his wife, Shuyu.
|The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.
|I am a sick man… I am a spiteful man.
|Where now? Who now? When now?
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|In a sense, I am Jacob Horner.
|It was like so, but wasn't.
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|Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.
|All this happened, more or less.
|They shoot the white girl first.
|For a long time, I went to bed early.
|The moment one learns English, complications set in.
|Dr. Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature.
|I was the shadow of the waxwing slain / By the false azure in the windowpane;
|Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board.
|I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.
|Ages ago, Alex, Allen and Alva arrived at Antibes, and Alva allowing all, allowing anyone, against Alex's admonition, against Allen's angry assertion: another African amusement . . . anyhow, as all argued, an awesome African army assembled and arduously advanced against an African anthill, assiduously annihilating ant after ant, and afterward, Alex astonishingly accuses Albert as also accepting Africa's antipodal ant annexation.
|There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.
|He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish.
|It was the day my grandmother exploded.
|I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of 1974.
|Elmer Gantry was drunk.
|We started dying before the snow, and like the snow, we continued to fall.
|It was a pleasure to burn.
|A story has no beginning or end; arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.
|Having placed in my mouth sufficient bread for three minutes' chewing, I withdrew my powers of sensual perception and retired into the privacy of my mind, my eyes and face assuming a vacant and preoccupied expression.
|I was born in the Year 1632, in the City of York, of a good Family, tho' not of that Country, my Father being a Foreigner of Bremen, who settled first at Hull; He got a good Estate by Merchandise, and leaving off his Trade, lived afterward at York, from whence he had married my Mother, whose Relations were named Robinson, a very good Family in that Country, and from whom I was called Robinson Kreutznaer; but by the usual Corruption of Words in England, we are now called, nay we call our selves, and write our Name Crusoe, and so my Companions always call'd me.
|In the beginning, sometimes I left messages in the street.
|Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.
|It was love at first sight.
|What if this young woman, who writes such bad poems, in competition with her husband, whose poems are equally bad, should stretch her remarkably long and well-made legs out before you, so that her skirt slips up to the tops of her stockings?
|I have never begun a novel with more misgiving.
|Once upon a time, there was a woman who discovered she had turned into the wrong person.
|The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning, and will probably do it till the end, which is a nuisance for the few people who grow up.
|In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.
|You better not never tell nobody but God.
|"To be born again," sang Gibreel Farishta tumbling from the heavens, "first you have to die."
|It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York.
|Most really pretty girls have pretty ugly feet, and so does Mindy Metalman, Lenore notices, all of a sudden.
|If I am out of my mind, it's all right with me, thought Moses Herzog.
|Francis Marion Tarwater's uncle had been dead for only half a day when the boy got too drunk to finish digging his grave and a Negro named Buford Munson, who had come to get a jug filled, had to finish it and drag the body from the breakfast table where it was still sitting and bury it in a decent and Christian way, with the sign of its Saviour at the head of the grave and enough dirt on top to keep the dogs from digging it up.
|Granted: I am an inmate of a mental hospital; my keeper is watching me, he never lets me out of his sight; there's a peephole in the door, and my keeper's eye is the shade of brown that can never see through a blue-eyed type like me.
|When Dick Gibson was a little boy he was not Dick Gibson.
|Hiram Clegg, together with his wife Emma and four friends of the faith from Randolph Junction, were summoned by the Spirit and Mrs. Clara Collins, widow of the beloved Nazarene preacher Ely Collins, to West Condon on the weekend of the eighteenth and nineteenth of April, there to await the End of the World.
|She waited, Kate Croy, for her father to come in, but he kept her unconscionably, and there were moments at which she showed herself, in the glass over the mantel, a face positively pale with the irritation that had brought her to the point of going away without sight of him.
|In the late summer of that year we lived in a house in a village that looked across the river and the plain to the mountains.
|"Take my camel, dear," said my Aunt Dot, as she climbed down from this animal on her return from High Mass.
|He was an inch, perhaps two, under six feet, powerfully built, and he advanced straight at you with a slight stoop of the shoulders, head forward, and a fixed from-under stare which made you think of a charging bull.
|The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
|On my naming day when I come 12 I gone front spear and kilt a wyld boar he parbly ben the las wyld pig on the Bundel Downs any how there hadnt ben none for a long time befor him nor I aint looking to see none agen.
|Justice?—You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law.
|Vaughan died yesterday in his last car-crash.
|I write this sitting in the kitchen sink.
|"When your mama was the geek, my dreamlets," Papa would say, "she made the nipping off of noggins such a crystal mystery that the hens themselves yearned toward her, waltzing around her, hypnotized with longing."
|In the last years of the Seventeenth Century there was to be found among the fops and fools of the London coffee-houses one rangy, gangling flitch called Ebenezer Cooke, more ambitious than talented, and yet more talented than prudent, who, like his friends-in-folly, all of whom were supposed to be educating at Oxford or Cambridge, had found the sound of Mother English more fun to game with than her sense to labor over, and so rather than applying himself to the pains of scholarship, had learned the knack of versifying, and ground out quires of couplets after the fashion of the day, afroth with Joves and Jupiters, aclang with jarring rhymes, and string-taut with similes stretched to the snapping-point.
|When I finally caught up with Abraham Trahearne, he was drinking beer with an alcoholic bulldog named Fireball Roberts in a ramshackle joint just outside of Sonoma, California, drinking the heart right out of a fine spring afternoon.
|It was just noon that Sunday morning when the sheriff reached the jail with Lucas Beauchamp though the whole town (the whole county too for that matter) had known since the night before that Lucas had killed a white man.
|I, Tiberius Claudius Drusus Nero Germanicus This-that-and-the-other (for I shall not trouble you yet with all my titles) who was once, and not so long ago either, known to my friends and relatives and associates as "Claudius the Idiot," or "That Claudius," or "Claudius the Stammerer," or "Clau-Clau-Claudius" or at best as "Poor Uncle Claudius," am now about to write this strange history of my life; starting from my earliest childhood and continuing year by year until I reach the fateful point of change where, some eight years ago, at the age of fifty-one, I suddenly found myself caught in what I may call the "golden predicament" from which I have never since become disentangled.
|Of all the things that drive men to sea, the most common disaster, I've come to learn, is women.
|I am an American, Chicago born—Chicago, that somber city—and go at things as I have taught myself, free-style, and will make the record in my own way: first to knock, first admitted; sometimes an innocent knock, sometimes a not so innocent.
|The towers of Zenith aspired above the morning mist; austere towers of steel and cement and limestone, sturdy as cliffs and delicate as silver rods.
|I will tell you in a few words who I am: lover of the hummingbird that darts to the flower beyond the rotted sill where my feet are propped; lover of bright needlepoint and the bright stitching fingers of humorless old ladies bent to their sweet and infamous designs; lover of parasols made from the same puffy stuff as a young girl's underdrawers; still lover of that small naval boat which somehow survived the distressing years of my life between her decks or in her pilothouse; and also lover of poor dear black Sonny, my mess boy, fellow victim and confidant, and of my wife and child. But most of all, lover of my harmless and sanguine self.
|He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.
|Psychics can see the color of time it's blue.
|In the town, there were two mutes and they were always together.
|Once upon a time two or three weeks ago, a rather stubborn and determined middle-aged man decided to record for posterity, exactly as it happened, word by word and step by step, the story of another man for indeed what is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal, a somewhat paranoiac fellow unmarried, unattached, and quite irresponsible, who had decided to lock himself in a room a furnished room with a private bath, cooking facilities, a bed, a table, and at least one chair, in New York City, for a year 365 days to be precise, to write the story of another person—a shy young man about of 19 years old—who, after the war the Second World War, had come to America the land of opportunities from France under the sponsorship of his uncle—a journalist, fluent in five languages—who himself had come to America from Europe Poland it seems, though this was not clearly established sometime during the war after a series of rather gruesome adventures, and who, at the end of the war, wrote to the father his cousin by marriage of the young man whom he considered as a nephew, curious to know if he the father and his family had survived the German occupation, and indeed was deeply saddened to learn, in a letter from the young man—a long and touching letter written in English, not by the young man, however, who did not know a damn word of English, but by a good friend of his who had studied English in school—that his parents both his father and mother and his two sisters one older and the other younger than he had been deported they were Jewish to a German concentration camp Auschwitz probably and never returned, no doubt having been exterminated deliberately X * X * X * X, and that, therefore, the young man who was now an orphan, a displaced person, who, during the war, had managed to escape deportation by working very hard on a farm in Southern France, would be happy and grateful to be given the opportunity to come to America that great country he had heard so much about and yet knew so little about to start a new life, possibly go to school, learn a trade, and become a good, loyal citizen.
|Time is not a line but a dimension, like the dimensions of space.
|He—for there could be no doubt of his sex, though the fashion of the time did something to disguise it—was in the act of slicing at the head of a Moor which swung from the rafters.
|High, high above the North Pole, on the first day of 1969, two professors of English Literature approached each other at a combined velocity of 1200 miles per hour.
|They say when trouble comes close ranks, and so the white people did.
|The cold passed reluctantly from the earth, and the retiring fogs revealed an army stretched out on the hills, resting.
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An end of week recap
This is a weekly post in which I summarize books read, reviewed and currently on my TBR shelf. In addition to a variety of literary titbits, I look ahead to forthcoming features, see what's on the nightstand and keep readers abreast of various book-related happenings.
I shared a few thoughts on Muriel Spark's 1974 satirical novel, The Abbess of Crewe, which means another title has been ticked on my 10 Books of Summer 2019 list. >> THOUGHTS ON: The Abbess of Crewe >>
* Watch Out for Witch Week! *
Once again, Lizzie Ross and Chris Lovegrove will host Witch Week from 30th October to 6th November 2019 – and the theme this year is: 'Villains'. Now in its sixth year, this popular annual event will, as ever, feature guest posts and a readalong, which will appear on Calmgrove. Chris says he and Liz plan to spotlight "selected villains" appearing in the works of Shakespeare, graphic novels, the Chronicles of Narnia, Diana Wynne Jones' Black Maria and Joan Aiken's Wolves Chronicles. The official readalong will be "Cart and Cwidder, from Diana Wynne Jones' fantasy sequence The Dalemark Quartet". You are "invited to read this beforehand and join in a discussion introduced by an edited online conversation." For more information please check out Witch Week 2019 is coming.
* Lit Crit Blogflash *
I'm going to share with you six of my favourite literary posts from around the blogosphere. There are so many talented writers posting high-quality book features and reviews, it's difficult to limit the list to only these few – all of them published over the last week or two:
'The Memory Police' by Yoko Ogawa – Akylina of The Literary Sisters describes this dystopian novel as "a wonderful and terrifying book" and is delighted to find "Ogawa's apocalyptic magical realism is exactly [her] cup of tea".
Will and Testament (Arv og miljø) by Vigdis Hjorth (2016) – Norwegian Literature – Caroline at Beauty is a Sleeping Cat finds this "highly literary" novel about repressed memories resurfacing, "dark" but "never depressing." If you "like stories about dysfunctional families," she says, "you shouldn't miss this."
"…the future's uncertain and the end is always near…" – The Question Mark by Muriel Jaeger, published as part of the British Library's Science Fiction Classics series, "turned out to be […] absorbing and interesting", not to mention "thought-provoking", according to Karen Langley at Kaggsy's Bookish Ramblings.
How Dylan Thomas Found Inspiration In A House – Karen at BookerTalk is "curious about the lives of authors" – especially their "routines", workplaces and "quirky habits". For this, her first post in a series about the "homes that provided shelter, solace [and] inspiration for some of history's greatest literary talents", she explores Dylan Thomas's "'wordsplashed hut', perched on a cliff" in South Wales.
Book review: The Buried Giant, by Kazuo Ishiguro, 2015 – David at The Reading Bug describes this 2015 fantasy set in Britain during the Dark Ages as "an enigmatic, allegorical novel." He has "minor reservations" but ultimately found it "a genuinely enjoyable read."
Fantastic Find at the Bookstore #5: Prolific Garis Family – Becky Ross Michael shares news of an exciting discovery she made in one of her favourite second-hand bookstores. Visit Platform Number 4 to find out which "childhood memory in full color [but] in rather tattered shape" came into her possession for a mere $8.00.
* Irresistible Items *
Umpteen fascinating articles appeared on my bookdar last week. I generally make a point of tweeting my favourite finds (or adding them to my Facebook group page), but in case you missed anything, here are a handful of interesting snippets:
The Guardian: Address Unknown: the great, forgotten anti-Nazi book everyone must read – "First published in 1938, US author Kathrine Kressmann Taylor's forgotten classic [Address Unknown] is a devastating work of political fiction that still resonates today".
BBC Culture: Ten books to read in September – Jane Ciabattari with suggestions ranging from Margaret Atwood's The Testaments, to Patti Smith's new memoir.
Literary Hub: How to Review a Novel – "London Review of Books Editor Mary-Kay Wilmers on the language of criticism."
Georgia Straight: TaiwanFest 2019: Intriguing Connections at a pop-up Taiwanese bookstore – A pop-up bookstore will appear at Taiwanfest, which is happening in Vancouver this weekend.
Smithsonian: When the Public Feared That Library Books Could Spread Deadly Diseases – Joseph Hayes looks back at "The great book scare" of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, when panic broke out among readers afraid they could catch deadly infections from coming into contact with library books.
Brittle Paper: 22 Authors, 37 Novels: An African History of the Booker Prize for Fiction – While awaiting the announcement of this year's Booker shortlist, BP has gathered together a detailed list of every African authored book to be nominated for the Booker Prize for Fiction since its inception.
The Times Literary Supplement: Fruit from suffering – "Ian Buruma on the inner and outer worlds of Anne Frank's diary".
Mental Floss: Why Beatrix Potter Ended Up Self-Publishing The Tale of Peter Rabbit – In 1901, after being rejected by six publishers, Beatrix Potter used her savings to privately print The Tale of Peter Rabbit, says Garin Pirnia.
The Verge: Women swept the Hugo Awards — again – Chaim Gartenberg on the women who won the prize honouring the best science fiction and fantasy literature of 2018.
Discover: Audiobooks or Reading? To Our Brains, It Doesn't Matter – Jennifer Walternew is fascinated to learn that new evidence suggests "to our brains, reading and hearing a story might not be so different."
The Economist: The writers breathing fresh life into Ugandan literature – "A new generation of authors is inspired by subjects as diverse as oral tradition, corruption and feminism".
Houston Chronicle: Author Ray Bradbury honored with Illinois hometown statue – The "hometown of the late famed science fiction writer Ray Bradbury marked his birthday with dedication of a statue in his honor."
The Irish Times: The future of sci-fi never looked so bright – "As a gay female author, Becky Chambers is pushing back against the genre's traditions", says John Connolly.
The Sunday Post: The stories of my life: Bookshop owner on hagglers, hardbacks and hitting Hollywood – Alice Hinds reports that The Diary Of A Bookseller, Shaun Bythell's memoir of "owning and running Scotland's largest secondhand bookshop" has been "snapped up by a big Los Angeles studio".
The London Magazine: Essay | The King of Hay-on-Wye – Jane Frank remembers the "maverick anarchist, bookseller and entrepreneur, Richard Booth".
The New Yorker: Reader, I Googled It – "Amid fears about the death of books," Dan Chiasson looks at ways of "finding new ways to bring them to life."
Shondaland: Sarah Broom on Creative Courage and What It Took to Write Her Stunning Memoir, 'The Yellow House' – "The author opens up about the struggles and successes that came with writing one of the year's best — and best-selling — books."
The Sydney Morning Herald: A bloom of one's own: Eight writers pen their odes to spring – "Put aside thoughts of moving to Queensland. Take a risk on bare legs. Writers celebrate the arrival of blossom, wisteria and even the allergy-inducing new life of the plane trees."
Harper's Magazine: Regarding the Pen of Others – Was Susan Sontag the true author of her ex-husband, Philip's Rieff's 1959 book, Freud: The Mind of the Moralist?
Inkstone: Literary award renamed after Hong Kong author calls out 'fascist' writer – Rachel Cheung reports on a "leading American literary magazine", which has "dropped the name of the late sci-fi writer John W. Campbell from a major award" after the winning author labelled him a "fascist".
Forbes: What If Social Media Platforms Were More Like Libraries? "The Web has long been described as the Library 2.0, a digital reincarnation of the knowledge centers that have long propelled society", writes Kalev Leetaru.
The Atlantic: The Paradox of Peanuts – "Charles Schulz's kid characters are precocious, cruel, and nihilistic. They're also among the most compelling in children's literature", according to Bruce Handy.
The Bookseller: The new literary tastemakers: can they be trusted? – "Publishing lecturer Adam Blades looks at how celebrity tastemakers are transforming what we read, and what this means for professional literary criticism."
Boston Review: Reading Lists: Highway to Hell – "A reading list for our time of climate crisis", from Rosie Gillies.
The Paris Review: Literary Paper Dolls: Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca "is about a house, only the house is a metaphor for a woman. Really, it's a book about imposter syndrome."
Lives in Literature: Three Score & Ten, or Like Ice Under a Terrible Sun – An anthology of literary quotes illustrating every year of one's life from conception to death, compiled by Wayne Gooderham.
The Curious Reader: Why We Buy Multiple Copies Of The Same Book – Buying "multiple editions of the same book is more common than you think", says Prasanna Sawant.
The Spectator: Novel explosives of the Cold War – "Orwell's searing satires as well as samizdat works from Solzhenitsyn and Pasternak proved powerful weapons in the fight against communism", writes Nicholas Shakespeare.
Independent: Nostalgia for Enid Blyton does not grant her a free pass for her bigotry – "As the Royal Mint receives a backlash for refusing to put the children's author on a commemorative coin, Roisin O'Connor argues why it was the right decision, and why we must stop trying to erase the problematic traits of our most famous cultural figures".
Litro: Book Review: Mary Ann Sate, Imbecile, by Alice Jolly – "Upon finishing this book [Jess Gulliver] raised a drink to the many women who worked, mothered, dreamt and died before us, all but forgotten."
The Japan Times: Understanding the challenging world of the literary translator – "English translations of Japanese books have found an enthusiastic audience around the world, but the contribution of the translator is sometimes overlooked in discussions and reviews in the English media", says Louise George Kittaka.
Booksellers NZ: Community bookshop wins owners lifetime achievement award – Rob and Kaye Clarke, owners of Paper Plus Coastlands in Paraparaumu, New Zealand, have jointly received a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2019 Book Trade Industry Awards.
Library Journal: The A to Z of Gen Z – "What comes to mind when you picture a generation of readers that is frugal and thinks there's nothing like that new book smell?" asks Christina Vercelletto.
If there is something you would particularly like to see on Winding Up the Week or if you have any suggestions, questions or comments for Book Jotter in general, please drop me a line or comment below. I would be delighted to hear from you.
Thank you for taking the time to read this post. I wish you a week bountiful in books and rich in reading.
NB In this feature, 'winding up' refers to the act of concluding something and should not be confused with the British expression: 'wind-up' – an age-old pastime of 'winding-up' friends and family by teasing or playing pranks on them. If you would like to know more about this expression, there's an excellent description on Urban Dictionary.
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Mindfulness has many benefits for brain functioning and better brain functioning equals better leadership. Here are five ways mindful leadership benefits organizational results.
1. Mindful leaders are less reactive. Being less reactive enables the frontal lobes to go into action, which equates to better analysis and better decisions. Better decisions drive better results in measures from efficiency to profitability.
2. Mindful leaders can see the big picture. Seeing the big picture enables us to understand the impacts of actions on our customers, the whole supply chain, and on our employees. While some people get down in the weeds, focused only on their small piece of the puzzle, being aware of the entire system—from inputs from suppliers to outputs to customers—helps us create better results for everyone. When we are aware of and responsive to customer needs, we can increase profitability, whichever way you measure it.
3. Mindful leaders increase collective engagement and create environments of trust and safety. Safety and trust are essential for people to feel free to speak up. When people can speak up, we avoid disasters and mistakes, and can engage people collectively to attain exceptional results. "To translate individual engagement to collective engagement, companies must also cultivate a culture of trust and respect," according to Elizabeth Craig and Yaarit Silverstone's 2010 essay, "Tapping the Power of Collective Engagement."
4. Mindful leaders are courageous. It takes courage to lead. We confront gnarly situations every day and, when we are able to have the courage of being able to face our fear and work with it, we can see what's needed even when the stakes are high and we aren't the most powerful person in the room. People who work for us depend on us to watch their backs and protect their interests. People we work for depend on our ability to say what's true in a way it can be heard.
5. Mindful leaders can ignite innovation. To survive, organizations need to innovate as a continuous practice. When leaders are present and awake, their presence can provide space for new ideas to surface. A leader's presence and awareness acts like a window, opening onto freshness outside the boundaries of day-to-day routines.
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|Instrument(s): Voice and Piano
|Style: Classical
|Lyricist(s): Gedicht von Friedr. von Hagedorn
|Opus: KV 517
|Date of composition: 18th May 1787
|Source: Breitkopf & Härtel (serie 7 n. 26)
|Copyright: Public Domain
|Last updated: 2005/Dec/09. View change history
|Music ID Number: Mutopia-2005/12/09-343
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Die Alte (The old lady)
This Lied was composed by Mozart in 1787, the year of Don Giovanni and Eine Kleine Nachtmusick, but also the great year of Lieder. It is a sort of "musical joke": an old lady mourns the old days of her youth, when things went better. The musical style too tries to evoke those "old days", as the chords in the piano part recall an old-fashoned harpsichord.
|Maintainer: Maurizio Tomasi
|zio_tom78 (at) hotmail.com


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