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November 9, 2015
In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette
by Sides, Hampton
As the subtitle suggests, this book is about an Arctic sea voyage gone awry. In the Kingdom of Ice narrates the true tale of the USS Jeannette and her doomed expedition to the North Pole. During the latter half of the 19th century there was worldwide interest in reaching the 83rd parallel and beyond…to explore and map out the so-called Open Polar Sea. Enter New York Herald editor James Gordon Bennett, Jr., who footed an enormous bill that allowed the Jeannette to set sail for the North Pole . . . as a newly-registered US Navy ship, no longer a mere civilian yacht. Captain George Washington De Long assumed command of the reappointed vessel, and the explorers set sail from San Francisco amid great fanfare on July 8, 1879. But De Long and his 32 men (and 40 sled dogs) were beset by harsh weather conditions almost from the outset. Upon freezing to an enormous ice slab, the ship floated for almost two years, adrift at the mercy of the floe's caprice. At last the Jeannette broke free of her frozen shackle . . . only to sink in the brutal Arctic waters. And this was only the beginning of the crew's desperate fight for survival, nearly a thousand misery-filled miles from even the northernmost fringes of Siberia.
In the Kingdom of Ice is also available as a downloadable e-book, an audiobook on CD, and in large print.
--Recommended by Angie Lewis, Wayne Library
November 2, 2015
The Mysterious Mr. Quin: Twelve Complete Mysteries
by Christie, Agatha
When I was much younger, Agatha Christie was my favorite British mystery author, and Miss Marple was my favorite of her two best-known sleuths. But one of her books which I have read multiple times over the years features neither Miss Marple nor Hercule Poirot.
Recently, I listened to this one, The Mysterious Mr. Quin, on Cd. That the narrator was Hugh Fraser, the actor who played Captain Hastings to David Suchet's Hercule Poirot, added greatly to my pleasure in the "reading." Fraser's voice and accent are perfect for Christie's prose.
This book is not a novel but a collection of twelve stories, many published in the 1920s and 1930s in British and American magazines. The main character is fussy little Mr. Satterthwaite, who at the age of 62, is described as bent and elfish. He says of himself that he has always been an observer of life's dramas rather than a participant, but after he meets Mr. Harley Quin one dark and stormy night, some life-changing things begin to happen to those around him. Long-held misunderstandings are clarified, those falsely accused of crimes are exonerated, and relationships and even lives are saved.
Under the influence of his shadowy "friend", a man who "comes and goes" and can be found in places like the Bells and Motley pub, Mr. Satterthwaite becomes an actor in these dramas, but he knows that it is Mr. Quin who is the catalyst. He describes him as someone who knows everything and as a puppet master who stages the dramas.
This intriguing collection of stories, which raise the question of who and what Mr. Quin really is, is also available from the library in regular print and as an Overdrive e-book.
--Recommended by Georgia Silvers, Warren Library
October 26, 2015
She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth
by Castor, Helen
You might be under the impression that prior to the modern era women were totally powerless and spent their lives being victimized. If so, you would be mistaken. "She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth" offers an account of five royal women who not only demonstrated that women can rule effectively, they can exercise power even when they face greater odds than their male counterparts. This nonfiction book written by Helen Castor, a historian of medieval England and a Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, is as fascinating as it is detailed and well-documented. The book explores the lives of Empress Maud/Matilda; her daughter-in-law Eleanor of Aquitaine; Isabella of France; Margaret of Anjou—the wives of Edward II and Henry VI respectively and both descended from Matilda and Eleanor. The book culminates in Elizabeth I, who at last was both queen and king in one. Every one of these queens overcame staggering odds against her to survive and successfully to exercise the right to rule.
Born to royalty but not to power, all of these ladies shrewdly utilized whatever means were available to them to protect their lives, their rights, their property—and in the case of the first four women, their offspring. The book begins by introducing us to the reign of Elizabeth I and also ends with her, the ruler of England who at last was both queen and king in one—although unlike her predecessors or a male ruler, she had to forgo marriage and children in order to attain that power. Elizabeth also lived during the Renaissance, while these previous queens lived during the medieval period, the time of warrior kings. The author intriguingly suggests that this may have been a factor in the development of the idea that a woman was incapable of ruling in her own right. Medieval women were not normally trained in the arts of battle and war; noble women were expected to provide heirs, not be a soldier. This book is as spellbinding as the fictional "Game of Thrones," and being historical fact, far more instructive.
She-Wolves is also available as a downloadable e-book.
--Recommended by Patricia Fogleman, Southport Library
October 12, 2015
Preparation for the Next Life
by Lish, Atticus
If you are looking for a captivating novel beyond the tidy suburban tale where characters are immersed in white privilege, Preparation for the Next Life is a chance to safely enter the dark American underworld of the invisible ones. This novel is a compassionate love story which involves two social outcasts living in New York City--a Uighur Chinese illegal alien named Zou Lai and Skinner, a suffering Iraqi war veteran. It exposes the forbidden, tough world of illegal immigration, human trafficking and undocumented labor. Without apology or solution, Atticus Lish presents the problems encountered by the couple concerning basic human needs of lodging, food, wages, and pain management. This novel sharpens the readers view of contemporary struggles of so many members of our culture, softening our hearts by exposing the most necessary of social issues: human companionship. The couple's relationship initially blossoms in admiration of each other's military backgrounds and their mutual love of rigorous outdoor physical fitness regimes.
Atticus Lish took five years to write this debut novel (in longhand!) which brings us up close to unseen masses who hold our culture together, reducing the barriers between 'us' and 'them'.
Recommended by Sharon McKittrick, Lawrence Library
October 5, 2015
The Death of Superman
by Jurgens, Dan and Jerry Ordway, Louise Simonson & Roger Stern
At Haughville Branch, we just recently had literary classics on display. This got me thinking about classics in other areas – for example, some of the classic graphic novels.
The Death of Superman was a great graphic novel. The story is the titanic battle between Superman and one of his most powerful foes: Doomsday. This compilation of several comics depicts the unleashing of Doomsday, his battle with the Justice League, and his encounter with the Man of Steel. The action does not stop.
If you like the graphic novel, the novel – The Death and Life of Superman – is also good.
--Recommended by Keith Dinnage, Haughville Library


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Course ID: ExtHR 300
This session will highlight 5 areas that will ensure effective teamwork: Trust, Conflict, Commitment, Accountability and Results. All 5 areas are supported by one another in order for a team to function well and effectively, and for genuine teamwork to flourish and be successful.
Increased knowledge and improved performance towards the following competencies:
- Interpersonal Relationships
- Leadership
- Professionalism
Improved performance in managing effective teams both in the work environment and in the community environment
Evaluation method: Survey attendees for impact on work environment two to four weeks after the training.
Expectation for participants: Participants will participate in activities and discussions in the session.
Target audience: All MU Extension Employees
Instructional length: 2 hours
Facilitator(s): Megan Martin, Training/Development Coordinator, Human Resources, MU Extension
Date(s): Presented upon request to groups of 10 or more
Delivery mode: Face to face, work sheets
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LONDON, Feb. 18 (UPI) -- The Libyan government is called on to ensure the aspirations of those who supported the 2011 revolution are met, British Foreign Secretary William Hague said.
Libyans took to the streets in what the Tripoli Post described as peaceful demonstrations marking the second anniversary of their revolution.
Hague said Libya has come "a long way" in the two years since demonstrators began their protests against leader Moammar Gadhafi.
The British military helped with a NATO-led intervention in Libya meant to protect civilians from attacks by forces loyal to Gadhafi, who died in October 2011 after falling into rebel hands.
Hague said London called on the new Libyan government to work on reconciliation measures and new laws that would ensure democratic reforms.
"We know that Libya faces many challenges, from building security to ensuring that Libya's natural resources and wealth support economic opportunity and growth that benefits all Libyans," Hague said in a statement.
U.S. President Barack Obama last week extended a national emergency pertaining to Libya for one year.
Obama said the U.S. government is working to erase sanctions imposed on Libya and work more closely with the democratic government in Tripoli.
"The situation in Libya, however, continues to pose an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States," he said in a statement.


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Seventeen Montgomery Public Schools to be Recognized for Earning EPA's ENERGY STAR
Release Date: 02/09/2012
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ATLANTA - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will present ENERGY STAR awards to 17 Montgomery Public Schools. During the event, district officials will also provide an outline of their energy saving activities and results.
WHO: Carol Kemker, Deputy Director, Air, Pesticides and Toxic Management Division, U.S. EPA; MPS Superintendent Barbara Thompson; Anissha Officer, Principal, Garrett Elementary; Todd Strange, Mayor, City of Montgomery; Truman Atkins, Regional President for Marketing, Energy Education; School MPS Board of Education and elected officials
WHAT: Montgomery Public Schools press conference and ENERGY STAR awards ceremony
WHEN: February 13, 2012 at 10:00 a.m. CST
WHERE: Garrett Elementary School, 555 McLemore Drive, Montgomery AL
ENERGY STAR is a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency program helping organizations and individuals save energy and protect the environment through superior energy efficiency. Buildings that have earned EPA's ENERGY STAR use, on average, 35 percent less energy and are responsible for 35 percent fewer greenhouse gas emissions than their peers.
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I always said, "Those dating sites are stupid. Who needs those things?" Laughed every time I saw the commercial.
I had just moved back to my hometown in Mississippi. I didn't know anyone after being away for a few years. Out of boredom, I suddenly had the urge to give the free trial a run and see how it went for me on match.com. I really didn't have any hopes to meet anyone but during the free trial, you only get so many features for free. No way was I paying to meet someone online. That's what I thought. I'd met only about 2 people and in my first week something told me to just buy a month membership, what would it hurt. So, I did. I kept coming across this one profile. Of course I'd read it a few times and move on because he lived too far away, but something always drew me back there. A few days in, I received a wink from that somewhat intriguing person and thought, "Ya know what, I'll wink back just to see what happens next".
The next day I checked my account and to my surprise, an email from my "laidbackguy407". We emailed on and off for some time and instant messaged but I tried to keep myself at a distance. Eventually, I gave in to at least call him up and talk over the phone. We seemed to hit it off so well from the beginning and he never rushed me to meet him face to face. I learned so much about him on the phone over the two weeks before we finally met. We had so much in common from music, to family life, to what we wanted out of our own lives.
We lived nearly 2 hours apart so we made plans for him to pick me up on a Saturday morning and we'd make a day out of it. Really no plans on what we were going to do but knew we'd figure it out. I had a job interview in Memphis, not too far from where he lived the day before we were supposed to meet and I guess I got a bit impatient. It was a beautiful day out that day so I called him up and told him I'd be in the area and wondered if we could have lunch. We ended up spending the entire day together. From the moment I stepped out of my car at the Pizza Cafe and saw him, I felt so drawn to him. We spent the next 2 hours staring across the table at each other, hardly any nerves to show. I felt like I'd known him my whole life and I was getting a chance to catch up with an old friend. After lunch we spent the next 3 or 4 hours wandering through the park, holding hands and laughing, talking about absolutely nothing! I was sad to go home that afternoon, but never did I feel more alive. I was afraid to like him so much and didn't expect anything after that. To my surprise, the next morning, he shows up at my front door, ready for our already planned date. I met a few of his friends that day for a BBQ and a football game. At first site, I thought it was a pretty interesting crowd but I felt right at home. I won't bore you with any more details of the next 7 months, but I have met my soul mate. We spent the holidays together and being with him added onto me spending my first Christmas home with my family in a long time, made it absolutely the best Christmas ever. This guy has been my best friend and we've helped each other through some hard times. We've never given up on each other and we're always picking each other up when we need it. We've met each others families and even they think I did a pretty good job finding this one. I'm proud to have him and his family as a part of my life and my family now.
Thanks to match.com, I have now found my partner in life. On February 14, 2012, my boyfriend, my best friend, became my fiancé and my future husband. We are eager to start the rest of our lives together, and we're planning a spring wedding for next year. Thank you Match.com for bringing Ellis and me together. I love you Ellis!
Read more of Lacie and Ellis' story on the Match.com Success Site here!
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Emira Mears's Blog Posts
Does Your Non Profit Need to Worry About CASL?June 6, 2014 Comments
The Canadian Anti Spam Legislation (CASL) is coming into effect July 1, 2014 and I've been giving workshops on the legislation to help non profits ensure they're in compliance by the end of June.
We're Hiring! A developer & a web designer positionMarch 17, 2014 Comments
We're expanding our team. Check out the job postings for:
And do circulate them to your communities please!
Using Instagram in Your Digital StrategyJanuary 14, 2014 Comments
Beth Kanter shared this slide deck "The Ultimate Guide to Instagram Marketing" on her Facebook page the other day and I found it to be a great overview, including everything from strategic thoughts to some tips on how to best set up an Instagram account.instagram, non profit marketing, Nonprofit Tech, Online Fundraising, Online Strategy, The Social Web
Adjusting Your Facebook Page Strategy for 2014January 12, 2014 Comments
There was much talk made of the changes to how Facebook shows posts from Pages at the end of last year, you can see my thoughts here. If you missed it, the short story is that Facebook is now making increasingly clear that in order for posts produced from Pages (not individual personal accounts, but Pages) to be shown in supporters' feeds you will need to pay through their promoted post system. For non-profits who have used Facebook as a key part of their digital communications strategy, having to pay for what previously was a resource that only cost time, could have a significant impact on already stretched budgets. (For the record, the same impact will be had for business Pages, and in particular I've had a lot of similar conversations with small businesses who have not previously had budget for boosting Facebook posts).
Noticing a Drop Off in Facebook Activity for Your Non Profit Page? You're Not AloneDecember 17, 2013 Comments
I've been having more conversations than usual with the clients we do digital strategy work for about significant drops in Facebook activity over the last while. Posts that would typically get a lot of traction (shares, views, comments etc) are performing at far lower numbers, and traffic to their other web properties via Facebook referrals also seems to be dropping. By now those of us who are seasoned in social media strategy have adopted a plus ça change attitude to Facebook and their changing algorithms/rules for how posts are shown in people's feeds, but this recent drop in activity seemed particularly marked.
What Non Profit Campaign Strategies Can Learn From BeyoncéDecember 17, 2013 Comments
I'm the first to admit that the title of this post is a bit flippant, but I couldn't help but think about Beyoncé's record breaking album release last week with a "how can non-profits learn from this?" lens. And before you write me off as having lost my mind by drawing comparisons between the reigning monarch of pop music and typically underfunded non-profit organizations, let me explain.
There are two main take-aways for anyone running in the business of connecting with a community:
What Will Digital Success Look Like for Non Profits in 2014?December 16, 2013 Comments
In our industry its tempting, but difficult, to predict what the future will bring. The pace of digital change, as we all know, continues to accelerate and the same tools won't have the same impact for every organization. Most of our clients are seeing mobile use of their websites go up exponentially, and many are noticing a change in the impact that Social Media channels are having on everything from donations to community engagement and list growth.
More and more, in addition to doing solid design and development work, we are helping our clients strategize about how to best allocate their resources. Whether it's assessing the impact of making their site mobile responsive, or putting more effort into donor development through digital channels, we're always honoured to partner with our clients to create a strategies that help ensure their digital efforts are having an impact.
Hold the CommentsSeptember 25, 2013 Comments
Like many of the requests for online functionality we receive from clients these days, setting up online commenting is extremely easy to do. The CMS's we use (primarily Wordpress and Drupal) have good systems built in for commenting, and other than needing to make sure you also install functionality to remove/filter spam posting, commenting is technically extremely easy. Where additional commenting tools like voting up and down comments, or threaded comments are important to our clients, additional functionality is also very achievable. Where commenting gets more complicated is when we start talking about managing the people that comprise your community of commenters.
New Generic Top Level Domains ComingSeptember 24, 2013 Comments
If you hadn't already heard, ICANN is releasing a whole host of new top level domains (think 100s) and I'm trying to sort through how to advise clients on registering them. You can see the full list here at Webames.ca (where you can also pre-register for domains, no cost until you purchase them).
Gmail Tabs: The end of email marketing or business as usual?August 19, 2013 Comments
If the internet were to have a patron philosopher, I think I'd nominate Heraclitus, the greek philosopher who believed that change was central to our understanding of the universe. Afterall, if one can't get used to the constant state of evolution that the web and many of its users favourite tools, then digital life will be very frustrating indeed.


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PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Ryan Sheffler scored his second goal of the season when he converted a penalty kick in the 39th minute, but it wasn't enough as MIT (2-1-0) fell for the first time this season, 4-1 to Rhode Island College (2-0). The two schools met for the first time in intercollegiate soccer action just six years ago, and the teams now stand even with three wins apiece over that span.
The Anchormen opened the scoring in the 17th minute when junior forward Jimmy Hernandez headed home a cross from teammate Julian Montoya. Just six minutes later it was 2-0 to Rhode Island College, this time courtesy of junior forward Kyle Genereux.
The Cardinal and Gray got themselves back into the game in the 39th minute when Sheffler banged home a penalty kick, but unfortunately for the Engineers, it simply wasn't enough.
Rhode Island College kept up the pressure in the second half and made it 3-1 on the hour mark when Brandon Migliore scored. Derek Rocha put the game out of reach with the Anchormen's fourth in the 68th minute.
The stingy Rhode Island defense has allowed only two goals in its two games, and both of them came as a result of penalty kicks. The Engineers did manage to force four saves out of junior keeper Sean Gonsalves, who picked up his first win of the season. Tom Caldwell made six saves in net for MIT before making way for freshman Javier Duarte to make his varsity debut in the 87th minute. Duarte faced no shots.
MIT's next match will take place on Wednesday, Sept. 13 when they welcome the Tufts University Jumbos to Steinbrenner Stadium for a 4:00 p.m. kickoff. Rhode Island College next play at Southern Maine on Saturday, Sept. 16 at 1:00 p.m.


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On arrival at Lusaka Airport, make your way to the Proflight
counter to check in for your onward flight to Mfuwe. Flying time is
approximately 1 hour. At Mfuwe airport, a Sanctuary representative
will meet and transfer you to the lodge. Transfer time is
approximately 1 hour and 30 minutes, enjoying the sights of Mfuwe
village and a game drive through the South Luangwa National Park.
Sanctuary Chichele Presidential Lodge was originally built for
Kenneth Kaunda, the former Zambian president, in the 1970s and the
original colonial style has been retained in the furnishings. A
long veranda stretches outside the dining room, from which guests
are afforded views down the valley to the Luangwa itself.
Activities available from the lodge include: morning and evening
game drives and walking safaris. The afternoon is at leisure to
enjoy the activities on offer.
Meals Included: Dinner
Overnight: Sanctuary Chichele Presidential Lodge
The days are at leisure to enjoy the game viewing activities on
offer. Lions and leopards are often seen in the area around the
camp, as are buffalo and elephant. For big game like this, guests
really need a vehicle to get up close and here in the South
Luangwa, travellers have the privilege of going on game drives at
night. Guests are always amazed how much can be seen when they go
down to the river for sundowner cocktails before leisurely driving
back to camp. Bush babies in the trees stand out with their
enormous eyes, puku and impala scarcely notice as vehicles pass by.
Guests often see hyena and leopard in the early evenings and are
able to get very close in Sanctuary Retreats' specially designed 4
x 4 vehicles. On the open plains below the camp there are always
grazing herds of antelope and of course they attract the predators
that every guest wants to see.
Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Overnight: Sanctuary Chichele Presidential Lodge
The days are at leisure to enjoy the game viewing activities on
offer. Walking is the best way to see the bush around the camp.
Sanctuary's experienced guides love showing guests the indicators
of the wild, 'rewinding' the action of the last few hours from just
a few small give away signs. See where an elephant stopped to
browse, where a leopard scratched a tree or a pangolin rolled into
a ball. Accompanied by an armed game scout and taking careful note
of the wind to mask any scent. There's nothing like seeing lion
tracks or the giant footprint of an elephant to make guests relish
the comforts of camp. The area is home to 60 mammals and over 400
bird species, making it one of the top birding destinations in the
After breakfast, your guide will transfer you to Mfuwe airport
for onward flight to Livingstone via Lusaka. Flying time is
approximately 1 hour to Lusaka and 1 hour to Livingstone. On
arrival at Livingstone Airport a Sanctuary representative will meet
and transfer you to the lodge. The transfer time is approximately
20 minutes. Sanctuary Sussi & Chuma is named after David
Livingstone's faithful companions and consist of an intimate lodge
and two exclusive houses, both of which are situated to make the
most of the amazing views that the sweeping Zambezi River provides.
The central lodge building features a raised bar/lounge with deck,
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treatment room which provide incredible views of the mighty
Zambezi. The afternoon is at leisure to enjoy the activities on
Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Overnight: Sanctuary Sussi & Chuma
The day is at leisure to enjoy the activities on offer. Just a
short drive away from the world famous Victoria Falls, the lodge
offers guests a walking tour of The Falls. First described to
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constant roar and are accompanied by a cloud of brilliant spray
where the mile wide Upper Zambezi falls 300 feet into the Lower
Zambezi. Rainbows constantly form and collapse in the tropical
sunlight over the waterfall. The river is bordered by ebony groves
and mopane forest. Well-known for its bird life, with many fish
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After breakfast, you will transfer to Livingstone airport for
your onward flight to Kasane airport where a Chobe Chilwero lodge
representative will meet you and transfer you to the lodge.
Sanctuary Chobe Chilwero is one of the most enchanting places on
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also boasts a split-level swimming pool, library, curio shop and a
communication centre, which offers telephone, fax and internet
access. The afternoon is at leisure to enjoy the game viewing
activities on offer which include game drives in the National Park
or a serene sundowner cruise on the Chobe River
Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Overnight: Sanctuary Chobe Chilwero
The day is at leisure to enjoy the game viewing activities on
offer or enjoy a treatment in our fully fledged spa. The best way
to end a day of safari is sipping on a cocktail while watching an
African sunset over the still waters of the Chobe River.
Specially designed riverboats take guests up close to elephants as
they wade in the river or near to the buffalo who gather on its
shores. Sundowner cruises are also a great way of seeing animals up
close as they come out of the shade to graze in the cooler
evenings. Chobe is renowned for its abundance of elephants and
dramatic sable and roan antelopes with their impressive horns.
Sitatungas - antelope with splayed feet to help them run in swamps
- are often seen here, as are the wild dog and lion that prey upon
Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Overnight: Sanctuary Chobe Chilwero
Enjoy a morning game viewing activity followed by
breakfast. Please meet your guide in reception who will
transfer you to Kasane airport for your onward journey. The
transfer time will be advised to you locally by the lodge
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Joyce Carol Oates Against Nature Essay Sample
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Joyce Carol Oates
"I am concerned with only one thing, the moral and social conditions of my generation."
Interview with the Chicago Tribune, book world editor.
Against Nature
The entire article is here.
See http://2010yeagleyenglish.pbworks.com/f/Against Nature by Oates019.pdf
"She excites an expectation that she cannot satisfy."
Henry David Thoreau, 1854
"It eludes us even as it prepares to swallow us up, books and all."
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Title | her point | discovering motives | basic format | uses of evidence | authority | structure | means | argument
In Against Nature, author Joyce Carol Oates takes us on an inward journey to encounter the exterior quality of all our lives and as she moves us through the grotesque and smarmy[1] imagery of nature writing–even in references to excellent literature [2] –to challenge our prejudices.
J. M. W. Turner's "Frosty Morning," oil on canvass, 1813. [3]
What does she say?
She allows us to take nothing for granted, as she examines our biases so that we are stripped of any reasonable emotional defense when she turns the argument upside down; leaving us with little in the way to rationally challenge her conclusion.
lines 33-34, ¶ 22- p. 843.
Title | her point | discovering motives | basic format | uses of evidence | authority | structure | means | argument
Discovering the complexity of motive when writing:
Joyce Carol Oates,
"The subject is there only by the grace of the author's language,"
Oates, Against Nature; Anthology. page 843, line 31-32.
If that is true, then the structure of the essay reveals a deliberate attempt to frame and then reveal in the frames a set of opposites, though starting in a deeply personal and ending an a personal manner of expressing a complex story.
An essay
"all around me nature thrummed with life..."
She experienced an attack of Paroxysmal tachycardia.
Along the Delaware and Raritan Canal, a trail.
"The earth seems to shift forward as a presence, hard, emphatic, not mere surface but a genuine force."
Tie this to:
"And it pleases our senses, in any case, as the physicists' chill universe of numbers certainly does not."
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Words Evidence
an inward journey "completely oblivious to [her] the predicament"
to encounter the exterior quality of "one vast democratic grave"
all our lives and The color of the sky "a mere optical illusion"
p. 59.
through the grotesque and smarmy
paragraphs; ¶s, 17-18-19-20, p. 60.
A classical allusion:
"In any case where is nature? one might (skeptically) inquire. Who has looked upon her / its face and survived?"
paragraph ¶, 21.
"Nature is mouths, or maybe a single mouth. Why glamorize it, romanticize it . . . . Nature is more than a mouth–it's a dazzling variety of mouths. And it pleases the senses, in any case, as the physicists' chill universe of numbers certainly does not."
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"An event to rethink all the acceptable cliches that reinforce our narrow perspectives."
Title | her point | discovering motives | basic format | uses of evidence | authority | structure | means | argument
Oates in the essay does the following:
- Poem "The writer's resistance to Nature"
- Personal encounter (near death; hence: out of control) {setting}
- A complete brief sketch of the argument: dimensions, illusions, infinity & necessity.
- references to authors:
- Wallace Stevens - metaphor of the Jar
- Emily Dickinson - alludes to the buzzing of a fly
- Henry David Thoreau, "yet another, and ingenious form of storytelling"
- Shakespeare'sKing Lear
- Robert Frost allusion
- Herman Melville
- Oscar Wilde
- Castigating Thoreau's transcendentalism
- Friedrich Neitszche
- William Butler Yeats' poem
- returns to Wallace Stevens for support "The writer's resistance to Nature"
- "Early Nature memories. . . ." Childhood memories, the grotesque
- "My resistance to Nature writing" -- her personal perspective revealed
- Inference, an attack on Platonism "anything other than . . . is - ness."
- A classical allusion to the story of Diana and Actaeon
- She questions her own expression, at least rhetorically "isn't this all exaggeration?"
- Nature as a layered manuscript
- Using Thoreau's duality of seeing Nature as both experience and oversoul
- Melville's "a blankness ten times blank."
- Oscar Wilde is used to reveal her thesis clearly.
- Poem Byzantium, by Yeats
- Her voice in the revelation (hyper-reality) conveys the climax of the piece.
- The personal story (in control) of the ants in search of her poem.
Title | her point | discovering motives | basic format | uses of evidence | authority | structure | means | argument
Oates deliberately uses many other writers to draw on for pushing her argument.
"She is our creation"says Oscar Wilde"It is in ourbrains that she quickens to life."
p. 62.
The goal is to unmask our pretensions and challenge our biased, hobbling prejudices.
"our fiercely romantic expectations."
p. 62.
"Why glamorize it, romanticize it..."
She quotes recognized literature whose authors are an easily appreciated literary or critical authority:
Henry David Thoreau
"A palimpsest of sorts you choose to read, layer by layer, always with care, always cautiously, in proportion to your psychological strength."
She skillfully other authors as leverage to her point
Oscar Wilde
William B. Yeats
Wallace Stevens
"In the presence of extraordinary actuality, consciousness takes the place of imagination."
Her voice:
"In any case, without the 'I'. . . the microscopic life-particles would die with it...."
What are the key points.
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In a literary tradition populated by many figures known for a single play or a handful of painstakingly wrought novels, Oates is notable first for her consistently prodigious output. Hundreds of stories and poems, printed and anthologized in a wide variety of publications, and dozens of novels, novellas, plays, essays, prefaces, and reviews have come from her pen, with an equally wide variety of settings, themes, genres, and styles. This productivity has even been a source of some criticism, inspiring suspicions that Oates works too fast and carelessly, that she lacks the basic self-censorship necessary to a writer. Oates, unaffected by criticism, has never slowed her pace. While some of her novels seem more felt than planned, and some of her stories inevitably overlap, Oates is a writer whose meanings can be appreciated cumulatively and whose craft and imagination are beyond question.
A more serious criticism is that her writing, especially in the 1960's and 1970's, is too violent, too dark, too obsessed with blood and death. (In 1981, in an essay in The New York Times Book Review titled "Why Is Your Writing So Violent?," Oates branded such criticism blatantly sexist and asserted the female novelist's right to depict nature as she sees it.) A typical Oates novel may feature mass murder, rape, suicide, arson, an automobile crash, or an autopsy, portrayed with detachment and graphic detail. Such violence is less a literal portrayal of the author's experience of life (though her great grandfather committed suicide in a rage after trying to kill his wife, Oates's own life has been relatively sedate) than an expression of the violence she sees beneath the surface of American life.
One of Oates's primary concerns is the shape of American identity in the twentieth century. Her novels often trace the lives of prototypical Americans and can be seen as paradigms of their collective history. Very aware of her parents' experiences through the 1930's, Oates often places the Depression at the beginning, chronologically if not narratively, of the stories she tells, for that is the source of much of the history of the 1960's, 1970's, and 1980's. (In Bellefleur, she goes further back to trace all of American history through a single family chronicle.) Many of her works are set in an imaginary Eden County, modeled on the Erie and Niagara counties of western New York. As the name suggests, Eden County is a mythical paradise where Oates depicts the American loss of innocence. Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart, What I Lived For, We Were the Mulvaneys, and Broke Heart Blues continued to mine this theme in this setting in the 1990's.
Oates documents, and at times seems to prophesy, this loss of innocence through a pattern reflecting the American national heritage. This historical paradigm involves derivation from a strong familial tradition, be it the migrant workers of A Garden of Earthly Delights or the patricians of The Assassins: A Book of Hours; dislocation, often violent and senseless, from that home or tradition; the search for parent figures; the lack of fixed identity; acceptance of the American Dream, with all of its materialistic manifestations; emergence from poverty and anonymity; the obsession that arrives with single-minded pursuits; and the vacuity and transparency of contemporary American modes of being and communicating. Black Water, in 1992, was a thinly veiled retelling of the 1969 tragedy at Chappaquiddick, Massachusetts, where the young Mary Jo Kopechne drowned in the car of Senator Edward Kennedy, while Blonde, which won the National Book Award in 2001, was a fictional reworking of the life of Marilyn Monroe.
This paradigm is not inviolate, nor does it inform all of Oates's work. One of her most noted novels, them, is drawn quite faithfully from the life experience of a woman Oates knew while teaching in Detroit, and Marya: A Life (1986) is based to an extent on her mother's and her own early lives. Conversely, the stories in Marriages and Infidelities (1972) are modeled on (and even named for) earlier stories by acknowledged masters, such as James Joyce's "The Dead" (1914) and Franz Kafka's Die Verwandlung (1915; "The Metamorphosis," 1936), and their appreciation can depend on familiarity with—indeed, "marriage" to—their predecessors. A number of her works, including the satirical collection The Hungry Ghosts: Seven Allusive Comedies (1974), are set in academic institutions not unlike Oates's own universities of Windsor and Princeton.
Whatever the setting and the model for dramatic movement, certain themes are central. Oates is fascinated with the multiple facets of individual personality, and her characters often undergo dramatic upheavals and transformations (which are larger metaphorical expressions of the violence of modern life). They are constantly questioning who and where they are, constantly feeling detached from their bodies and their immediate experiences of the world. Nothing is certain or fixed. In such a whirlwind, emotion and sensation are all one can really know and trust; having a name; as the fundamental unit of identity, becomes of paramount importance.
Many of Oates's novels and stories, therefore, based in the emotional reality of a character, have a surrealistic quality. Oates is fascinated with dreams; not only do her characters relate theirs, but also the lines between perception, imagination, and dream or nightmare often become hazy. Because objective reality is unavailable, people become trapped within their own personalities, and connections between them are often tenuous and false. Many of the short stories, such as "The Census-Taker" (1963), "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" (1966), "How I Contemplated the World from the Detroit House of Correction and Began My Life Over Again" (1969), "Queen of the Night" (1979), and "The Seasons" (1985), focus on jarring and unsuccessful encounters or relationships between very disparate personalities.
Generally, Oates's style is controlled and detached; her narrative voices do not cater to the reader but demand that the reader make necessary connections and assumptions. Her works are sometimes challenging puzzles that require careful attention. She is a skilled technician who uses precise and explicit language and portrays personality through detailed sketching of both interior and exterior reality. Not surprisingly, the imagery Oates employs is often violent: exposed flesh, broken glass, explosions, floods, fire. All these elements—the detachment, the ambiguity, the detail, the imagery—combine to create an uncertain world where reality is constantly reconceived and re-imagined through the window of perception, and truth—historical, subjective, and psychic—is ever-changing.
A Garden of Earthly Delights
First published: 1967, revised 2003
Type of work: Novel
A woman's quest to escape her impoverished past bequeaths to her son a world full of power but empty of meaning and identity.
A Garden of Earthly Delights is a novel that portrays the American economic system and the ills suffered both by those who fail and by those who succeed in it. Oates tells the story of Clara, from the day of her birth among migrant laborers to her waning years watching television in a nursing home, and the men—father, lovers, son—who define her life experience.
The title is taken from a dramatic triptych by the fifteenth century Dutch painter Hieronymus Bosch. The three panels of the original Garden of Earthly Delights illustrate Eve's creation in paradise, the debauchery of her descendants, and humankind's punishment in hell. Oates's novel mirrors this structure in its three sections. The first, titled "Carleton," focuses on a bitter migrant laborer named Carleton Walpole as he takes his growing family from state to state, struggling to control his rage and maintain his lost sense of dignity. Clara, the third and favorite of his five children, learns to look beyond the distress and misery of their migrant existence and eventually runs off with a virtual stranger to find a better life.
The second section, "Lowry," follows Clara through adolescence. The stranger, an enigmatic drifter named Lowry, sets her up in a small southern town, but he is involved in shady activities and soon disappears, spurning her obsessive love and unknowingly leaving her pregnant. Clara, a survivor, has attracted the attentions of a wealthy landowner, Curt Revere; she becomes his mistress, leads him to believe he is the father of her child, accepts his boundless generosity, and, with the death of his ailing wife, becomes the second Mrs. Revere.
Now established in comfort and wealth, having achieved a perfect vision of the American Dream, Clara consolidates her power. The third section of the novel, "Swan," focuses on Clara's son Steven (whom she calls Swan) and the pressures he feels growing up an outsider among someone else's wealth, destined to inherit it but unable to make sense of his destiny or to fulfill his mother's exaggerated expectations for him.
Within this structure, the narrative moves chronologically but with a greatly modulated pace. Oates relates individual scenes or periods in the lives of her characters with slow and careful accuracy and feeling, and then shifts the action months or years ahead, establishing the passage of time casually with age or year references. Such shifts highlight the suddenness of the events and changes that have occurred. This irregular flow serves to emphasize, as if microscopically, certain telling moments or encounters. Carleton's rage explodes during an arm-wrestling match, and he kills his best friend, an event that Clara recalls throughout her life. A jaunt into a nearby town where Clara impulsively steals a flag, her first night with Lowry, and her decision to run away are vividly portrayed and establish the fearlessness and pride that will bring tragedy in later life. A pivotal encounter comes at the end of the second section when, after years of silence, Lowry shows up at Clara's house to reclaim her: She does not love Revere, and she feels a flood of emotion at the sight of Lowry, but her resolution to accumulate power at any cost is too firm, and she sends her former lover—and her only hope for true happiness—away forever.
Swan, however, only three years old at the time, is affected by Lowry—by some deep instinct of his own paternity—and the knowledge of that ominous visitor stays with him. Swan is not at home with Revere and his rightful sons, for Swan's true identity has been sacrificed to Clara's lust for power. Though she acts with his future supremacy in mind, she cannot understand his psychic needs, and, in the novel's ultimate violent act, he refuses the power she has achieved for him and renders the struggles of her life meaningless.
Clara's is a very American story, for her ascent and accomplishments reach a point of diminishing returns, but she refuses to relent. Set against a subtly drawn backdrop of national events from the 1920's through the 1960's—the Depression, the renewal of industrial prosperity, the transformation of race relations and erosion of class structures in the South—Clara's story takes on wider repercussions as an American fable, with implicit commentary on the misguided motives and empty values of American political and materialistic ethics.
First published: 1971
Type of work: Novel
A young man undergoes a series of transformations as he comes to maturity and strives for identity in a dreamlike American landscape.
Wonderland bears certain rough similarities to A Garden of Earthly Delights. It follows three generations of a family through stages of rage, searching, and emptiness. It offers critical comment on the lust for knowledge and power. It spans a particular period of American political and economic history. It moves irregularly, with sudden shifts and changes. It also draws on another work of art as a model. Wonderland, is, however, stylistically much less naturalistic, its commentary more satirical, and its concern for the issues of dislocation and identity more fully focused on a single central character, Jesse.
As the title suggests, Oates used Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) as a thematic source for her novel. Like Alice, Jesse bursts into new worlds and must deal with characters that verge on caricatures and that parallel the Mad Hatter, Cheshire Cat, and others. Oates has taken Carroll's thematic framework and applied it sharply and imaginatively to the American scene.
The novel begins abruptly: Fourteen-year-old Jesse Harte returns home one day to find his family murdered by his crazed father. Jesse escapes through a window (like Alice's "looking glass") and is orphaned by his father's suicide. Emotionally numbed, Jesse embarks on a passive search for replacements—for a father figure, for a home, for a viable belief system, for a name that is truly his. He lives first with his silent, bitter grandfather (taking the surname Vogel), then with uncomprehending cousins, then in an orphanage.
Book 1 of the novel is titled "Variations on an American Hymn," and most of it details Jesse's life with the Pedersens, his adoptive family of freaks. The father is a dogmatic, morphine-addicted doctor/mystic, the mother an obsequious alcoholic, the son a blithering piano virtuoso, the daughter an angry mathematical genius. The Pedersens are all grotesquely obese, and with them Jesse expands accordingly. He takes their name and their ways but never gives himself completely to the doctor's maniacal egoism. In the end, after helping Mrs. Pedersen in an aborted attempt to escape, Jesse is disowned, dislocated, and, again, nameless.
He goes to college at the University of Michigan to study medicine and, an excellent student, falls under the tutelage of Drs. Cady and Perrault and an errant scientist and poet named T. W. Monk (whose poem "Wonderland" provides the epigraph to Oates's novel). Each of the men expresses a distinct and limited worldview—empiricism, behaviorism, nihilism—which Jesse adopts to a point but is unable to accept fully or embody.
He becomes a brilliant surgeon, marries Cady's daughter Helene, and fathers two daughters, but the marriage is unfulfilling, and Jesse becomes inexplicably obsessed with a woman he encounters at a chance moment in the emergency room—Reva Denk, whose name suggests "think/dream." Book 2, titled "The Finite Passing of an Infinite Passion," ends with Jesse's impulsive decision to begin a new life with Reva, and, once she agrees, his equally impulsive decision to return at once to Helene.
Book 3, "Dreaming America," alternates between Jesse's search for his runaway daughter Shelly and her angry, enigmatic letters home declaring insistently that his pursuits—of knowledge, of love, of wealth, of metaphysical supremacy—have ruined her life. Her letters contain veiled hints, and when Jesse finally locates her among a community of draft dodgers in Toronto, the novel ends on a reservedly optimistic note.
Throughout Wonderland, Oates's language and imagery are palpable and graphic. Certain scenes are striking: Hilda Pedersen gluttonously devouring chocolates during a mathematical competition; Helene's obsession with her own reproductive capacities turning to panic during a gynecological examination; a man, who turns out to be Reva's lover, arriving at Jesse's hospital self-mutilated; later, Jesse symbolically mutilating himself with a rusty razor before abandoning Reva. Such scenes reinforce the thematic presence of science and medicine as means of knowing and experiencing life. There are recurrent perceptions of living organisms as reduced to their simplest form, protoplasm, and as beings that emerge from and consume other beings. The concept of "homeostasis"—the natural tendency toward balance—which Dr. Pedersen asks Jesse to explain one evening at the dinner table, provides a standard for the desirable pattern of functioning that Jesse, not to mention the gallery of characters that surround him, cannot achieve.
Wonderland—which is also the name of the new shopping mall where the dissatisfied Helene meets her lover—is an Oatesian world of unnatural proportions where, like the Pedersens' obesity, ideas, emotions, and aspirations are often ridiculously reduced or magnified. The portraits Oates creates are exaggerated, narcissistic, and often very comical.
The only exception is Jesse, who lacks an inherent personality and becomes a reflection or embodiment of the people and ideas around him. Thus, the other characters take on the dimensions of allegory: They become emotional or philosophical options for him to review and try, but his movement through and experience of them, like his movement from name to name and home to home, leaves him at the novel's end only barely less innocent and passive than he was at its start. Ultimately, his search for identity and longing for a sense of solidity in his existence are the only reliable facts of his life.
The Assassins: A Book of Hours
First published: 1975
Type of work: Novel
After the supposed assassination of a prominent politician, his brothers and widow struggle to find meaning in their lives.
The Assassins: A Book of Hours is perhaps Oates's darkest and most pessimistic novel. It takes its subtitle from a canonical book that ends with the Office of the Dead, and it is concerned with characters mourning or obsessed with death.
The four characters central to the novel are Andrew Petrie, a former senator from New York and outspoken political observer; his brothers Hugh and Stephen; and his widow, Yvonne. Andrew himself is dead and appears only through memory or flashback; Hugh, Yvonne, and Stephen provide the viewpoints for the three parts of the novel, which are accordingly named for them.
"Hugh" begins enigmatically, and only later does it become evident that his diffuse and convoluted first-person narrative takes place within his conscious mind as he lies inexpressive and paralyzed in a hospital bed. Hugh is a bitter and sardonic political cartoonist who has devoted his life to hating and lampooning all that his successful older brother represents. His character—greedy, impotent, hypochondriac, alcoholic—is expressed through his obsessive rantings as he recounts his experience during the year following Andrew's death. Without Andrew, Hugh's life lacks the pivot on which it had turned. Consumed with a desire to discover his brother's assassins and convinced that Yvonne holds...
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This is the Linux device driver for Ralink RT5370 USB ABGN WLAN Card.
This driver implements basic IEEE802.11 infrastructure and ad-hoc mode
with open or shared or WPA-PSK or WPA2-PSK authentication method.
NONE, WEP, TKIP and AES encryption.
If you wish to build the package for a kernel different from the running
one, pass its release no. to the script in the KERNEL variable, e.g.
KERNEL=220.127.116.11 ./rt5370.SlackBuild
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By Andrei Codrescu
Walker Evans is best known for his black and white photographs of the Great Depression, most notably in James Agee's book "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men." He did a lot of other remarkable work, including the wartime "Subway" series where he photographed New York subway riders with a hidden camera, revealing the deep anxieties of the age. He also captured the proliferation of commercial signage in America and made the quickly-growing language of advertising a subject of aesthetic inquiry. Scholars have usually attributed Walker Evans' fascination with advertising to his father, who had worked for an advertising agency.
In 1998 I wrote an essay for "Signs," a book of Evans photographs of public signage published by the Getty Museum. In my essay, I repeated the commonly held assumption that Evans was influenced by his father. In November 2006 I got a letter. Not so, the correspondent wrote. Walker Evans hated his father, who'd abandoned the family in his childhood. He was most likely influenced by his brother-in-law, Talbot Brewer, who was also a photographer. In fact, the letter writer went on, Evans followed in Brewer's footsteps all his life, beginning with his earliest employment in Roosevelt's State Farm Administration. The letter grew increasingly heated in defense of this theory, ending rather surprisingly with an attack on Evans himself who, at the height of his fame, cheated his brother-in-law of a considerable sum of money. The letter writer was none other than Talbot Brewer, Jr., the son of the man wronged by art history.
Essayists have been writing about Evans for the past 50 years, and at least eight years have passed since my essay. In all that time, Talbot Brewer, Jr., a man who must now be in his 60s, thought about the injustice done to his family. I summarized his letter briefly, but in addition to the thesis, the letter contains numerous references to the honorable services performed by his father for our country, and to the uncommon patience of his family for the disturbed branch of the Evanses. Walker's father and mother come in for harsh judgment.
Which brings me to a more general point, which is that if you're famous, you can run but you can't hide. The dissidents and revisionists, seething in obscurity, wait for their hour to expose the world's wrong-headed views of you. The "true" story doesn't matter all that much because, in the end, the work itself will serve as evidence of worth, and no biographical revision can change that. Is Talbot Brewer, Jr. right? Maybe. Does it matter? Only to the second edition, which must now be footnoted.
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EAU CLAIRE, Wis., November 14, 2005—Under nationwide pressure over its ban on private, resident assistant (RA)-led Bible studies, the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire (UWEC) has widened its assault on basic civil liberties while engaging in a campaign of deception. UWEC has told the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) that RAs are now and have been prohibited from "leading, organizing or recruiting students" for any organization or activity in their dorms—an assertion flatly contradicted by the evidence.
"UWEC's response to FIRE defies rational explanation," stated David French, president of FIRE, which brought the situation to the public's attention after UWEC refused to rectify it privately. "Faced with intense public criticism over its repressive policy, UWEC has announced an even more repressive policy. Further, for UWEC to argue that it has 'consistently followed' a policy banning RAs from leading or organizing 'all organizations or activities' flies in the face of the evidence—and logic."
The controversy began on July 26, when an administrator banned RAs from leading private, non-school-sponsored Bible studies in their dorms out of concern that students might feel "judged" and that Bible study–leading RAs might not be sufficiently "approachable." Undergraduate RA Lance Steiger contacted FIRE, which on October 10 asked UWEC Interim Chancellor Vicki Lord Larson to lift the Bible study ban. Receiving no response, FIRE took the case public on November 2, resulting in public outcry and condemnation of the policy from state and national lawmakers.
Finally, in a November 8 letter, the University of Wisconsin's general counsel attempted to justify the Bible study ban by claiming that UWEC has "consistently followed" a "viewpoint neutral" policy prohibiting RAs from organizing or leading "all organization [sic] or activities." This claim contradicts UWEC's own job description for RAs, which gives RAs the responsibility "[t]o help organize and promote educational, recreational, social, and cultural activities that the students want and need," and asks them to "actively assist" in the "political" programs of the dorm. It also conflicts with the fact that the university praised an RA for leading an official dorm production of The Vagina Monologues in 2004.
"UWEC's claim that RAs are banned from organizing any activities is not only disingenuous; it is clearly a post hoc justification of its earlier viewpoint-discriminatory restrictions on RAs' religious expression," remarked FIRE Director of Legal and Public Advocacy Greg Lukianoff. "Further, for a university to decide that an acceptable alternative to banning the expression of only some viewpoints is to ban all viewpoints is disgraceful and shows a real ignorance of what it means to be a university in a free society."
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You all seemed to really enjoy my Cary Grant round-up, so I figured I'd give it another go. Plus, today seems an appropriate time to give a little love to NYC. These are some of my favorite New York-centric films:
Grace Kelly and Jimmy Stewart are... well, their charming selves in my personal favorite Hitchcock murder mystery, Rear Window (1955). Though a homicidal neighbor may not be standard (or maybe it is, I don't know), the irresistable passtime of people watching and close living quarters are definitely qualities of a quintessential Gotham life.
Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan capture the ever-present tension of "authentic," "independent" New Yorkers versus the corporate interlopers in a The Shop Around the Corner (1940) homage, You've Got Mail (1998). It's not the most sophisticated film in the world, but I think the scenery and general attitude make it a shoe-in:
A group of rag-tag pseudo-scientists take on the supernatural emotional baggage of our not-so-fair city in Ghostbusters (1984, and Ghostbusters II, 1989). Can you really resist the laughs? No. And it captures the gritty spirit of the city in the 80's like no other. You love it. Don't lie.
I'm fairly certain that Metropolitan (1990 - on Netflix Instant) was an inspiration for "Gossip Girl." The cast of young adults (provoked by a young Chris Eigeman, who you may know as Jason from Gilmore Girls) spend their debutant party season engaging in heady debates, gossiping about each other, and generally placing the jaded over-familiarity of upper-crust New York society on full, unedited display. From the verbal swordplay to the early 90's preppy fashion, what's not to love here?
Speaking of "jaded," Big (1988) can relate. I think we've all had co-workers that act like they're 11, but here Hanks' character brings a much-needed jolt of joy to one of the most competitive environments in the world. Plus, the scene where Tom Hanks and his boss, Robert Loggia, play "Heart and Soul" and "Chopsticks" on the floor piano in F.A.O. Schwarz is legendary.
I recently discovered Robert Redford and Jane Fonda's Barefoot in the Park (1967 - on Netflix Instant). Let's just say we start off in the Plaza Hotel (always a good sign) and spend the rest of the movie watching the newlywed couple take on their Greenwich Village 6th-floor walk-up. Hilarity ensues, trust me.
Surely you all know Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961 - on Netflix Instant), which exudes a similar sense of humor towards New York City living. And Holly Golightly could teach us all a thing or two about living... As for When Harry Met Sally (1989)? Well, "I'll have what she's having."
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This presentation gives an overview of the field of artists' communities, including statistics and images of programs large and small, urban and rural, US-based and international. The PDF has been used and adapted for conferences, presentations to the boards of artists' communities, and for the Alliance's "Be Our Guest" series of public information sessions on residencies.
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LSI 'Rising to the Challenge' at '12 Symposium
October 2, 2012 by RVBusiness · Comments Off on LSI 'Rising to the Challenge' at '12 Symposium
"Rising to the Challenge" is the theme for Leisure Systems Inc. (LSI) Symposium scheduled for Nov. 5-8 at the Embassy Suites and Northern Kentucky Convention Center in Covington, Ky.
"Every day our owners and operators rise to meet all sorts of challenges they encounter," Kelly Jones, director of franchisee development for LSI, told Woodall's Campground Management. "At this year's annual symposium, we will be helping our franchisees with tools to address the new ADA challenges, employment challenges, social networking needs and the challenge of reducing costs in today's market."
LSI answered the challenge of keeping campground conferences relevant by modifying this year's symposium for its 78 franchisees. The gathering has been shortened by one day, without reducing the number of educational seminars offered to its franchisees.
This year's symposium will also feature a trade show and a first-time look at the new Yogi Bear-branded merchandise for the coming season.
On Tuesday morning, President and COO Rob Schutter Jr., will give franchisees an in-depth look at company and franchisee operations. Schutter will have a good story to share. Through August, same-park revenues were up 9% from a year ago with occupancy up around 4%, according to Woodall's Campground Management.
"In a down economy, people are looking for more affordable, economical locations," he explained. "Many of the Jellystones have the amenity packages that satisfy the needs of American families. Also, because of our strong development of in-park activities and special events, we have been fortunate in maintaining our customer base and revenue base."
Rental unit revenues continue to be a driving force behind increased occupancies at LSI camp-resorts with a 12 percent increase through the end of August, he said. Most of these lodges and cabins are park models.
The resorts that offer RV rentals, typically travel trailers, reported an 80% increase over 2011.
"That typically is not the way we encourage our parks to expand their rental fleets, but there is a certain segment of our customer base that enjoys staying in an RV," Schutter said.
In fact, this segment has shown double-digit growth each of the last three years, he continued.
"We continue to see parks convert sites into their rental pool or building additional sections to accommodate them. We have seen traditional site nights erode a little bit but made up by people deciding to be seasonals. That is one change we have seen and we're going to take a long, hard look to stem that tide. We would like to see our destination sites stabilize more. Either way you look at it, it's been a good year."
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I think I've found a race board but now I need some foot straps. Any recommendations? Any to definitely avoid? Having something that is adjustable on the water would be nice,but from experience never they never seem to be that useful. But hey things might have changed in the last couple of years.
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Thanks, I still have the bone spurs beside by little toe from the old Dakine straps we used in the "old" days. I see they're still around so I know to avoid them at least.
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By Ernest Makhaya
Emmanuel Emenike has warned Nigeria that underestimating Mali in the Africa Cup of Nations semi-final could well prove costly.
The Super Eagles ousted pre-tournament favourites Cote d'Ivoire to reach the last four on Sunday, but the Spartak Moscow striker feels his team-mates must still be on their guard.
"We beat the team that everyone was talking about and I think we will make it to the final this year," he told Goal.com.
"We will be making a big mistake if we take Mali for granted. We need to give them the respect that they deserve, because they fought hard to reach the semi-finals.
"I want to score as many goals as possible to help Nigeria win the trophy. Getting a top-scorer award will be a bonus because I am representing Nigeria and not myself."
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Hollywood Money Flows to Calif. Politicians Who Support Anti-Piracy Bills
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Hollywood is threatening politicians with one thing they hold very dear: campaign cash.
As anti-piracy legislation stalled in Congress last week, the movie industry's top lobbyist, former U.S. Sen. Chris Dodd, warned Democrats not to count on Hollywood money if they turn their backs on the industry's legislative priority.
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Among the biggest recipients of Hollywood money are Californian members of Congress who remain supportive of the controversial anti-piracy bills. Eight Californians in the House of Representatives, as well as Democratic U.S. Sens. Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer, co-sponsored the bills, representing more co-sponsors than from any other state.
Boxer was the top Senate recipient of campaign contributions from the movie production industry over the last six years, picking up nearly $413,000, according todata compiled by MapLight.org and the Center for Responsive Politics.
Democratic Rep. Howard Berman, whose Los Angeles district includes the famed Hollywood sign, is the industry's top beneficiary in the House, picking up $106,500 in the last two years of reported contributions. Berman was an early co-sponsor of the Stop Online Piracy Act that the Motion Picture Association of America has been pushing.
The movie industry and other supporters maintain that the bills, known as SOPA in the House and PIPA [PDF] in the Senate, are necessary to fight foreign websites that pirate American films and music. Opponents, including tech companies, claim the bills threaten freedom of expression on the Internet.
The debate pits two powerful California industries against each other, but one gives much more political money than the other. In the Senate, for example, MapLight.org found that the entertainment industry gave $14 million in contributions over the last six years, compared with $2 million from Internet interest groups.
The rare admission of the power of campaign contributions from Dodd, a former senator and past presidential candidate, puts a spotlight on the influence of money in this policy debate.
"Candidly, those who count on quote 'Hollywood' for support need to understand that this industry is watching very carefully who's going to stand up for them when their job is at stake," Dodd told Fox News last week. "Don't ask me to write a check for you when you think your job is at risk and then don't pay any attention to me when my job is at stake."
Dodd, CEO of the movie industry association, added: "I would caution people don't make the assumption that because the quote 'Hollywood community' has been historically supportive of Democrats, which they have, don't make the false assumptions this year that because we did it in years past, we will do it this year."
Howard Gantman, spokesman for the association, said in an e-mail that Dodd "was merely making the obvious point that people support politicians whose views coincide with their own. When politicians take positions that people disagree with, those people tend not to support those politicians."
Meredith McGehee, policy director of the Washington-based Campaign Legal Center, said Dodd's statement "reveals how much the current system is legalized bribery."
"It's notable that it's coming from someone who was so steeped in the system," she said.
Art Brodsky, spokesman for Public Knowledge, an advocacy group that fought the anti-piracy bills, said campaign contributions have indeed factored into the policy battle.
"You'd have to be totally naive not to think so," he said. "Look at the contributions and look where people were on the issue."
Californian co-sponsors of anti-piracy legislation in the House include Los Angeles-area Democrats Karen Bass, who received nearly $30,000 from the movie industry; Brad Sherman, who got $23,000; and Adam Schiff, who picked up about $19,000. Another co-sponsor, Rep. Mary Bono Mack, a Palm Springs Republican, received almost $22,000 over two years.
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Technology companies and Internet activists succeeded in stalling the bills despite the fact that Hollywood gives more money. But that doesn't mean that campaign cash didn't matter, said McGehee, because the fight isn't over. "We're only in round one," she said.
Feinstein, who garnered about $146,000 over six years from movie production interests, is working toward compromise legislation. In a statement, Feinstein said: "The only way we can resolve the differences on this bill is by the key CEOs sitting down together."


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It's done!!
Why I got a bug to finish the sweater when it is humid and in the upper 80s I will never know, but here she is.
I knit this with Peruvian Sierra Aran (80% highland wool, 20% alpaca) in Garnet I think, color #788. I did not want a totally solid yarn; this has a subtle heather to it. Once I washed the sweater, it softened up considerably. I will still have to wear long sleeves underneath, but that is what I had planned.
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I followed the pattern for the 33 ½" bust. The sleeves are perfect for my long arms, and it fits nicely on my narrow shoulders. The front is a little shorter than I thought but it will drop with wear so I am not sweating it.
This was a fun project and I will consider making another jacket, probably in a lighter color like something in the oatmeal family, and a yarn that I can wear in more than one season.


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Personalizing big-ticket items such as cars and computers, or even medium-ticket items such as bikes and sneakers, is viable from a retail manufacturing perspective because consumers are willing to pay more for such made-to-order "status items."
The costs associated with modifying the supply chain to meet personal tastes are passed along to the consumer.
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