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Yesterday afternoon found me back at the Brian Allgood Army Community Hospital for a follow-up visit to get the results of my two CT exams (chest and abdomen) and my PFT (pulmonary function test). This was my fourth visit to the base hospital and also the fourth different doctor I've seen there. Not getting to see the same doctor twice is a function of being in the Space A (space available) category. Soldiers and their families come first, as it should be, and us civilians are at the bottom of the pecking order. So, I call in and get assigned to any doctor with an open spot. Honestly, each of the docs have been excellent. They actually come and spend some quality time having a conversation about my health issues and there is never a rush or a sense that they have better things to do. A much more satisfactory experience than anything I've encountered in the Korean hospitals, and truthfully, better than any care I received back in the USA as well.
I had the chest CT a couple of weeks ago. A nurse called me and said my lungs looked pretty good considering the abuse I've put them through (25 years of smoking). There was a small nodule on the left lung that might be nothing, but she advised I needed to have another CT in a year just to be sure. She told me the doctor wanted me to do an abdomen CT, so I got that done on Tuesday.
During the CT the fire alarms went off which was a little disconcerting. They finished the test though, then escorted me out of the hospital. I'm pretty sure it was just a drill.
Anyway, my physician yesterday was a young Army Captain. Even though Dr. Pence had not ordered the tests, he had obviously reviewed the results before he sat down with me. He said the lung nodule was 3 mm in size and could be from previous damage or could be a precursor to lung cancer. So yeah, I'll get that checked next year for sure.
The abdomen CT was clear. Woot! What about the PFT? Well, it confirmed the COPD diagnosis and revealed that my lung function is at Stage 2 (moderate) of the disease. COPD is progressive and irreversible. All that can be done is to take steps to slow its progress and delay reaching "end stage" for as long as possible. So, that's my plan. I figure on dragging it out for 20 years or so.
I told Dr. Pence that I planned to move to the Philippines in a few months and asked him if the hot and humid weather would cause me any problems. He said that on the contrary, those conditions would be much better for my condition than the cold and polluted environment of Seoul. So, there you have it. I'm going to live in the PI because it is what the doctor ordered!
Anyway, I've not had the shortness of breath issues that led me to the ER last month. I have a chronic cough that wakes me up at night and I'm still hocking up sputum. I've been using albuterol in my nebulizer and through my inhaler. Dr. Pence noted that during during my PFT the albuterol had limited effect. So he prescribed two additional meds to be inhaled. Both are in a powder form, sorta like cocaine I suppose.
That's the story of my health. Long may I live!
In other news…
Hope springs eternal.


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Today I spent 6 hours under the needle…the tattooing needle that is. Check out the video for the results thus far. After the tattoo Melissa and I went down a few doors from my tattoo shop to the Cricket-themed sports bar Hit Wicket. Given the number of taps, they had a very good beer selection (see below). It was obvious that they were pandering to cricket fans, as the beer selection included brews from New Zealand (Moa), India (Kingfisher) and Belgium (Estaminet), among others. I tried the Estaminet (a pils) and liked it, but given where my head was at, I had no intentions of reviewing it.
Our bartender was April, and we talked her up about my tattoo, travel-talk and craft beer; she had just returned from a west-coast trip where she visited Lagunitas brewery. The chatter was a great distraction to get my mind off my throbbing arm. We will definitely return to Hit Wicket next month when I go to get my tattoo completed.
Now, onto the beer for tonight, Foolproof Revery. This is a 10.7% ABV Russian Imperial Stout, and it pours as I might expect: tons of frothy, delicious looking head. I didn't realize this was such a boozy beer when I opened it, however I could use a good buzz, so down the hatch we go!
I bet this beer would age well, and perhaps I shouldn't be drinking it at such a "young" age, but whatevs. It's absolutely chalk-full of roasted malts…as in, I taste nothing else. It's robust and full bodied. There is very little pure sweetness, which shocks me given the ABV. For the style, I almost feel like it should be sweeter. Note that I even let the bottle warm up for about 10 minutes before I cracked it open…a process that will (generally speaking) sweeten up a beer like this.
I'm not a huge fan, but on the other hand, I don't dislike it. I'm going to soldier through and drink the rest of this bad boy before I head off to bed.

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Joachim Patinir
Transitions as Liminal and Archetypal Situations
From a lecture delivered by
Jean Shinoda Bolen, M.D.
at the Mythic Journeys Conference
June 2004, Atlanta, Georgia
The fourth step is the first time that Psyche will end up accomplishing the task herself. As her very last task, Aphrodite commands that Psyche must go into the underworld, fill an empty box with beauty ointment from Persephone, the goddess of the underworld, and return it to her. For the first time, Psyche thinks, "She must want me dead." The only way she knows to go into the underworld is to die. Psyche now climbs up the highest tower to throw herself off. This time the tower talks to her saying, "Psyche, there is another way to finish this task. Go into the underworld via the Vent of Dis. Take coins with you for the ferryman. Take two cakes for the three-headed dog; one to let you into the underworld, and one to let you out again."
And then the tower warns her saying, "Three times you will be asked for help, Psyche. You must harden your heart to pity, refuse, and go on." And so Psyche does. Three times she is asked by very pathetic creatures or people to stop for a moment and help. Each time she remembers the advice. She says "No" and she walks on. She gives one of the coins to the ferryman who ferries her across. Even as she's going across the River Styx, a pathetic man says, "Just hold my hand and pull me across. I didn't have a coin." But she ignores his plea. There was one other piece of advice from the tower. "Psyche, once you get the beauty ointment in the box, DON'T OPEN THE BOX!"
Psyche enters the underworld, gives the three-headed dog one cake, fills the box with beauty, gives the three-headed dog another cake, comes back across the river (because she has one more coin) and returns to the upper world.
All of the advice that the tower gave her was good. Psyche, having done exactly what the tower told her understands that, if she had stopped to help, she would have had to lend a hand. In each hand she had one cake and one coin. Had she lost what she was holding, she would not have had the means to return from the underworld.
People in the transition often have limited amounts of strength, health or energy as they go into the underworld. For example, the story of Psyche speaks to people living with cancer. They say, "Cancer was a cure for my co-dependency. Cancer was a way in which I could say to people, "I can't do that." The ability to say "No" is one of the challenges for a feeling man or the feminine psyche. When other people expect you to always be there for them, and you break from by saying "No," you create a crisis in a relationship. It may be that you need to not stay in the underworld of your own depression or your own addiction or your own whatever it is, it is there. Addiction, illness, and depression are images of the underworld that you need to get through in order to get out. This liminal period of transition is a very long one. The tasks to be done keep on growing. It's hard. It's scary. If you're going to make it through this transition to the new phase of your life in which you have integrated the new you, with all that you are for the next phase of your life, you've got to often learn to say "No." Otherwise the people who have expectations of you will use your energy. Say "No," and they'll say, "You're selfish." Psyche manages to do all of that. She returns to the upper world. She's no longer in the underworld. She has made it through.
By now, you can imagine, she's very tired. She's pregnant, and she's been on this journey a long time. Because she is who she is, her archetypes are related to the relationship goddesses. That is, her archetype is she's the Mother. She started out the Maiden very much like Persephone. She became a Lover, so she was like Aphrodite. She is pregnant, so she's like Demeter. And she wants to be reconnected with this bridegroom, so she's got the persistent energy of Hera.
For all that she has learned in mastering these good things, these are not strengths that she particularly feels deeply connected to as her meaning. What she wants most of all, after accomplishing all these tasks, is to be beautiful in order that Eros might love her and return. Psyche opens the box and death-like sleep envelopes her. She falls, like Snow White, as if dead. This is the point in the story where some people find fault with her decision. "Oh Psyche, after all this, did you have to become unconscious again?"
It is this action that calls Eros to her side, but Eros has been transformed as Psyche has grown through her ordeals. He used to be this child who ran home to mother, who hid things from mother. He felt betrayed because Psyche actually looked at him. It didn't matter that when she looked at him she actually consciously loved him. He was so wounded that she broke the form and disobeyed him. Now we see a very different Eros who comes to her side, wipes the death-like sleep off of her, and then takes her to Olympus. There, in front of all the gods and goddesses, Eros announces that this is the conscious relationship that he wants. The Olympians celebrate a grand wedding now, no longer a hidden affair, not this unconscious relationship of love and soul, because those are the names of these two folks.
by Lucius Apuleius
Adlington's translation, 1566
The most pleasant and delectable tale of the marriage of Cupid and Psyches
Venus, who would not yet be appeased, but menacing more and more said, What, thou seemest unto me a very witch and enchauntresse, that bringest these things to passe, howbeit thou shalt do nothing more. Take this box and to Hell to Proserpina, and desire her to send me a little of her beauty, as much as will serve me the space of one day, and say that such as I had is consumed away since my sonne fell sicke, but returne againe quickly, for I must dresse my selfe therewithall, and goe to the Theatre of the Gods: then poore Psyches perceived the end of all fortune, thinking verely that she should never returne, and not without cause, when as she was compelled to go to the gulfe and furies of hell. Wherefore without any further delay, she went up to an high tower to throw her selfe downe headlong (thinking that it was the next and readiest way to hell) but the tower (as inspired) spake unto her saying, O poore miser, why goest thou about to slay thy selfe? Why dost thou rashly yeeld unto thy last perill and danger? know thou that if thy spirit be once separated from thy body, thou shalt surely go to hell, but never to returne againe, wherefore harken unto me; Lacedemon a Citie in Greece is not farre hence: go thou thither and enquire for the hill Tenarus, whereas thou shalt find a hold [sic] leading to hell, even to the Pallace of Pluto, but take heede thou go not with emptie hands to that place of darknesse: but carrie two sops [*] sodden in the flour of barley and Honney in thy hands, and two halfepence in thy mouth. And when thou hast passed a good part of that way, thou shalt see a lame Asse carrying of wood, and a lame fellow driving him, who will desire thee to give him up the sticks that fall downe, but passe thou on and do nothing; by and by thou shalt come unto a river of hell, whereas Charon is ferriman, who will first have his fare paied him, before he will carry the soules over the river in his boat, whereby you may see that avarice raigneth amongst the dead, neither Charon nor Pluto will do any thing for nought: for if it be a poore man that would passe over and lacketh money, he shal be compelled to die in his journey before they will shew him any reliefe, wherefore deliver to carraine Charon one of the halfpence (which thou bearest for thy passage) and let him receive it out of thy mouth. And it shall come to passe as thou sittest in the boat thou shalt see an old man swimming on the top of the river, holding up his deadly hands, and desiring thee to receive him into the barke [*] , but have no regard to his piteous cry: when thou art passed over the floud, thou shalt espie old women spinning, who will desire thee to helpe them, but beware thou do not consent unto them in any case, for these and like baits and traps will Venus set to make thee let fall one of thy sops, and thinke not that the keeping of thy sops is a light matter, for if thou leese one of them thou shalt be assured never to returne againe to this world. Then shalt thou see a great and marvailous dogge, with three heads, barking continually at the soules of such as enter in, but he can do them no other harme, he lieth day and night before the gate of Proserpina, and keepeth the house of Pluto with great diligence, to whom if thou cast one of thy sops, thou maist have accesse to Proserpina without all danger: shee will make thee good cheere, and entertaine thee with delicate meate and drinke, but sit thou upon the ground, and desire browne bread, and then declare thy message unto her, and when thou hast received such beauty as she giveth, in thy returne appease the rage of the dogge with thy other sop, and give thy other halfe penny to covetous Charon, and come the same way againe into the world as thou wentest: but above all things have a regard that thou looke not in the boxe, neither be not too curious about the treasure of the divine beauty. In this manner the tower spake unto Psyches, and advertised her what she should do: and immediately she tooke two halfe pence, two sops, and all things necessary, and went to the mountaine Tenarus to go towards hell. After that Psyches had passed by the lame Asse, paid her halfe pennie for passage, neglected the old man in the river, denyed to helpe the woman spinning, and filled the ravenous mouth of the dogge with a sop, shee came to the chamber of Proserpina, onely contented with course bread, declared her message, and after she received a mysticall secret in a boxe, she departed, and stopped the mouth of the dogge with the other sop, and paied the boat-man the other halfe penny. When Psyches was returned from hell, to the light of the world, shee was ravished with great desire, saying, Am not I a foole, that knowing that I carrie heere the divine beauty, will not take a little thereof to garnish my face, to please my love withall? And by and by shee opened the boxe where she could perceive no beauty nor any thing else, save onely an infernall and deadly sleepe, which immediately invaded all her members as soone as the boxe was uncovered, in such sort that shee fell downe upon the ground, and lay there as a sleeping corps.
But Cupid being now healed of his wound and Maladie, not able to endure the absence of Psyches, got him secretly out at a window of the chamber where hee was enclosed, and (receiving his wings,) tooke his flight towards his loving wife, whom when he had found, hee wiped away the sleepe from her face, and put it againe into the boxe, and awaked her with the tip of one of his arrows, saying: O wretched Caitife, behold thou wert well-nigh perished againe, with the overmuch curiositie: well, goe thou, and do thy message to my Mother, and in the meane season, I wil provide for all things accordingly: wherewithall he tooke his flight into the aire, and Psyches brought her present to Venus.


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This Act is administered in the Department of Justice.
1 Short Title
2 [Repealed]
3 [Repealed]
4 Appointment of Hon Mr Justice Henry
An Act to amend the Judicature Act 1908
BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
This Act may be cited as the Judicature Amendment Act 1969, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Judicature Act 1908 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).
Section 2 was repealed, as from 20 October 1972, by section 17(3) Judicature Amendment Act 1972 (1972 No 130).
Section 3 was repealed, as from 27 November 1970, by section 3(5) Judicature Amendment Act 1970 (1970 No 72).
The Honourable Trevor Ernest Henry, who was appointed to be a Judge of the Supreme Court for a limited period on the 21st day of February 1955 and who was appointed permanently on the 23rd day of May 1955, shall be deemed for the purposes of section 76 of the Government Superannuation Fund Act 1956 to have been appointed as a Judge within the meaning of section 75 of that Act on the 21st day of February 1955.
This section was amended, as from 1 November 1976, by substituting a reference to the Government Superannuation Fund Act 1956 for a reference to the Superannuation Act 1956, by section 3(3) Government Superannuation Fund Amendment Act 1976 (1976 No 30).


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When in a philosophical context we refer to the relation of philosophy and poetry, the first thing that comes to mind is the condemnation of poets in Plato's Republic on behalf of morality, truth and justice. According to Plato, artists lie, and their lie is all the more dangerous the greater their talent. Artists pretend; they make look real what is not. Of all the artists, the most dangerous is the poet because his tool is the word, and the word is the expression of logos par excellence. But the poetic word can be irrational. For this reason poetry commits the highest betrayal: it deceives reason using her own instrument.
The source of the poetic word is inspiration and this may mean that the poet is only a vehicle, so that he cannot be held responsible for what he says. It is as if the word had been placed at the service of something else that comes to inhabit the poet and owns his mind. The poetic word is thus the result of delirium, the absence of self, while the philosophical word is quite the opposite: it is a word of thought—contention—the result of a life lived in a continuous alert state, always watching, never sleeping.
Nonetheless, the systematic and abstracting procedure philosophy has assumed results in its incapacity to nourish human life. The philosophical quest for truth has entered into a collision route with life. The quest for pure truth humiliates life. Life is not only reason but passion, among many other things. Truth needs to make life fall in love with it.
Perhaps it is necessary in philosophical practice to come back to that initial moment common to both: the moment of wonder. Reason alone is incapable of passing through the shadow territories where philosophy now must enter. Therefore, the heart, as a rhythmic organ, suggests a new way of philosophizing, a way that unites philosophy and poetry that María Zambrano, with rigour and beauty, calls poetic reason.


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Special Meditation For Thich Nhat Hahn
Thursday, November 13th at 7pm
Milwaukee Mindfulness Center-South
3211 South Lake Drive, Room 316
Milwaukee WI
Good Day To All,
In accordance with an excellent suggestion from Cornelia we will be doing a special meditation for Thay this evening at the Marian Center.
As many of you know Thay is in the hospital after having suffered a brain hemorrhage. It has been suggested that we gather together and do a special meditation and reading for his support and recovery. Thank you for the wonderful idea Cornelia.
And so, this evening at the Marian Center Thursday Night Sangha we will be offering a special meditation to support our beloved teacher. All are welcome. We will be starting at 7pm and will have a special meditation session and a reading picked out by Cornelia.
Please feel free to forward this announcement and we hope you can attend. If you have questions about where we are or how to find us, just let me know.
Again, we will be meeting at the Milwaukee Mindfulness Center-South, 3211 South Lake Dr. Room 316 at 7pm tonight, 11/13. There is plenty of parking in the south lot and the entrance is in the southwest corner of the building (look for the sign next to the door).


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Another year has ended, and another has started. A very happy 2013 to you.
Every year we make New Year's resolutions and as the days and weeks progress, they get sidelined and immediate exigencies take precedence and before we realize it, the resolutions of this year become the resolutions of the next year, and this goes on. How do you make the most of the new year?
According to a study mentioned in this Forbes article, only 1 out of 10 people in America who make resolutions somehow manage to keep them. Of course these figures may also include people who make resolutions just for the heck of it (there is also a fad thing) but even serious people who want to lose weight, increase their savings, improve their health and get more organized fail to stick to their resolutions.
Why does this happen? Why do people lose track of their resolutions every year? Everybody starts with great determination. Then what happens?
Before you make a list of resolutions, you may like to ask yourself the following questions
- Do you really want to do this? Commitment comes from a strong desire. Do you remember how hard you try when you want to date somebody or get romantically involved with? At that moment your every action seems to be working towards that singular goal. Why cannot you bring the same level of determination in other aspects of your life, for example, losing weight? It might be because it is not as important to you as you think it is. Maybe you're totally fine with your weight and you don't want to lose it. You simply make a resolution of losing your weight because you think it should be done or maybe your other friends are also making such resolutions. So if you want to carry out a resolution, make sure that you really want to do it.
- What is the exact thing you are aiming at? The more vague you resolution is, the more difficult it is going to be to stick to it. You need to have very clear goals. He should be actually able to visualize yourself doing what you eventually want to do. Why do you want to lose weight? You want to fit into that dress you have always craved for? You want to participate in marathon? When you have a clear goal, you feel even more determined.
- Are you being reasonable? If you want to increase your bank balance by $1 million by the end of this year with zero balance right now and the salary of $2000 per month, are you sure it is a realistic resolution? I'm not saying that it cannot be done, but if you can draw a list of realistic resolutions, they will be more achievable. What about saving $200 every month when you have not at all been saving so far?
- Do you have a plan of action? People succeed when they know exactly how they want to reach from point A to point B. If you want to change your career by the end of the year, what steps are you going to take? You will need to improve your qualifications. You will need new skills or upgrade existing skills. You will need to spend more time on networking with the right people. You need to have a clear picture of what all you need to do in order to accomplish what you want to do.
- How do you plan to keep yourself motivated? Of course the above listed steps to a great extent take care of your motivation, nonetheless, your mind constantly tells you that you cannot do it. At these moments you will need to force your mind to think about the success, and not about the surrounding impediments and the resulting failure.


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Two well-known professional surfers were involved in an altercation with a surfer in Australia over the weekend, according to Australian news reports.
Former World Champion Sunny Garcia and ASP World Tour competitor Jeremy Flores got into a scuffle in the water after a local surfer cut in front of Sunny's son, reports and video show.
Witnesses said they saw Sunny Garcia place the man – known as Clarkey – into a head lock, holding him under water and punching him a number of times. Sunny lived in Orange County for a period of time.
Flores, who's currently ranked number nine in the ASP World Tour ratings, was also allegedly involved in the incident.
"I didn't swing first. I didn't look for trouble and I wasn't going to turn around and run away," said Flores.
An onlooker in the video can be heard screaming: "Oh my God, someone stop him!"
The ASP took disciplinary action against Garcia and Flores and banned Garcia from competing from his next competition in Newcastle next month. Flores was disqualified from the Breaka Burleigh Surf Pro event, which is currently under way. Here's more from the website goldcoast.com.au.
Check out this video that shows the fight, and the guy's beat-up body afterward:
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October 6, 2012
Thursday, October 11, 2012 UPDATE:
Another day, another new Hearst news director to tell you about.
Second generation broadcaster JUSTIN ANTONIOTTI has been named ND of the company's WTAE-TV in Pittsburgh, effective immediately. Justin's been the ND of Hearst's WYFF-TV in Greenville, SC, for the past five years. He earlier had been the Assistant ND of another Hearst station, WISN-TV in Milwaukee. He's also worked in Houston, Memphis, Biloxi, MS, and Columbia, MO.
Justin's father, STEVE ANTONIOTTI, worked as an ND in Los Angeles, St. Louis, and Oklahoma City, and also was a GM for WJBK-TV in Detroit as well as GM at WTVS-TV, the PBS station in Detroit.
At WTAE, Justin replaces ALEX BONGIORNO who announced on Friday she was leaving the station this week. Her last day was yesterday.
It will be a full newsletter when we distribute our regular weekly report later this week.
Wednesday, October 20, 2012 UPDATE:
There are two larger market news director moves to tell you about in this UPDATE.
One is the much reported but-just-now-finally-official-resignation of BILL CAREY as news director of Tribune's WPIX-TV in New York. Bill will leave the station by the end of the month for a new job which he says will be announced soon. Bill's been ND here for almost three years. Before that, he was ND and Station Manager for WQAD-TV in Moline, IL. He's a former ND for WCBS-TV in New York, and also worked for WABC-TV there. In addition, Bill's been a news director in Detroit (WXYZ-TV) and a General Manager for WFTS-TV in Tampa.
The other move was just announced this morning: CHRIS GEGG will be the new ND for WISN-TV in Milwaukee. Chris has spent the last 5+ years as ND for WMTV in Madison, WI. He's a former EP in Detroit and Nashville, and has worked as a producer in Tampa and Toledo. Chris replaces LORI WALDON at this Hearst owned ABC affiliate. She left a few months ago to become ND at Hearst's KCRA-TV in Sacramento.
We'll have more on these stories and the rest of the week's news in our regular report, which may be delayed by travel.
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TWO veteran news directors made news yesterday, one leaving for a new job, and one (in a top 25 market) just leaving. Those are our new openings this week, while we have THREE new NDs in our report.
By my count, that brings our list of open news director jobs to 30.
Our ONE new ad this week features a Senior Executive Producer opening in Portland, OR. And we have a Blind Box ad for an ND opening at a small market NBC affiliate.
Otherwise, it's a fairly slow week. We have some updates to our Other News Management Openings, and some news about two GM retirements…one a former ND. We do have one taker on our free Situations Wanted listing, and we'll tell you about the passing of a veteran Ft. Wayne broadcaster who spent 48 years at one station.
New News Director Openings:
WTAE-TV, Pittsburgh, PA…ALEX BONGIORNO announced Friday that she will be leaving the ND job here, effective next Wednesday. Alex has been the ND for this Hearst-owned ABC affiliate for the past 3/12 years. She previously worked for almost four years at WSPA-TV in Spartansburg, SC, including 18 months as ND. She's also worked in Tampa and Las Vegas.
KSWT-TV, Yuma, AZ…BILL CUMMINGS is leaving this Pappas owned CBS affiliate to take an ND job in Erie, PA (more on that below). He's been the ND here since January.
Newly Named News Directors:
KQDS-TV, Duluth, MN…DAN CLOUSE is on the job as the new ND for this Red River Broadcasting owned FOX affiliate. He's been the ND for KFBB-TV in Great Falls, MT, for about 18 months. Dan's also been an ND in Butte and Bozeman, MT., and has worked as an anchor in Iowa, South Dakota, Wisconsin, Nebraska and Texas. He replaces JASON VINCENT who resigned in August after 2 1/2 years as ND.
WICU/WSEE, Erie, PA…as mentioned above, BILL CUMMINGS is returning to his native Pennsylvania to become ND for these CBS/NBC stations. Bill's been the ND at KSWT-TV in Yuma, AZ, for less than a year. Bill's a former ND in Tucson, Evansville, IN, Huntington, WV, and Tri-Cities, TN, and also worked for weather vendor Baron Services. He replaces LISA ADAMS who is stepping down as ND after 18 months in the job but will continue to anchor for this SJL/Lilly owned duopoly.
KGNS-TV, Laredo, TX…TERESE RILEY WELLS is the new ND for this SagamoreHill Broadcasting owned NBC affiliate. She spent 14 years as a photographer for WSYX-WTTE-TV in Columbus, OH, leaving there with the title of Senior Photojournalist. Earlier in her career she worked in corporate video.
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KDFW-TV, Dallas, TX (Morning EP, relisted 9/14/12)
KTVT-TV, Dallas, TX (EP of Special Projects/Investigations, listed 9/14/12)
KHOU-TV, Houston, TX (new listing this week)
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This week, meet ED HEILAND:
News: It's in my blood and I want back in. With major market experience as an anchor/reporter (Orlando,Charlotte), small market leadership (anchor, reporter, mentor) and rounded out by "brand"casting for events and exhibitions, I'm seeking an opportunity to put that experience to work crafting viewer-enticing TV news. The ideal situation would be a combination of on-air and management roles but the key is a desire to dominate the market via solid reporting and viewer interaction.
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Veteran Indiana photographer RON HARMEYER died last Friday at the age of 68.. He spent 48 YEARS at WANE-TV in Ft. Wayne, most as a photojournalist and many of those years as chief photographer. This blog tells you more about the man.
Names in the News:
WFAA-TV in Dallas and WTHR-TV in Indianapolis were honored with EMMYs during the National Emmy Awards earlier this week. WFAA was honored for Spot News coverage, while WTHR won for Investigative Reporting. PBS won nine EMMYs, CBS and ABC seven each. The complete list is here.
Former ND turned General Manager JIM BOYER is retiring. He's currently GM of KFOR-TV in Oklahoma City. He's also been a GM in Portland, OR, and Des Moines. Jim's a former ND in Seattle and New Orleans and also worked in Philadelphia.
BARRY BARTH is retiring as GM of WXFG-TV in Albany, GA. He followed his father in the business, and his son is following him. Full disclosure: Barry and I worked together at WJXT-TV in Jacksonville, FL, one of three Post-Newsweek stations where Barry worked.
Our Full List of News Director Openings:
Here is my list of stations with open ND jobs, as of Saturday, October 6, 2012.
If you know of any additions/deletions/updates, please email me at: firstname.lastname@example.com
KVEA-TV 3000 W. Alameda Ave. Burbank CA 91523
WTXF-TV 330 Market St. Philadelphia PA 19106
WRC-TV 4001 Nebraska Ave. NW Washington DC 20016
KNXV-TV 515 N. 44th St. Phoenix AZ 85008
KTVK-TV 5555 N. 7th Avenue Phoenix AX 85013
WWSB-TV 1477 10th St. Sarasota, FL 34236
WKYC-TV 1333 Lakeside Ave. Cleveland OH 44114
WTAE-TV 400 Ardmore Blvd. Pittsburgh PA 15221
WISH-TV 1950 N. Meridian St. Indianapolis IN 46202
KSHB-TV 4720 Oak Street Kansas City MO 64112
WISN-TV 759 N. 19th St. Milwaukee WI 53233
WLWT-TV 5555 N. 7th Avenue Cincinnati OH 45210
WSPA-TV 250 International Drive Spartansburg SC 29303
KSNV-TV 1500 Foremaster Lane Las Vegas NV 89101
WTLV/WJXX 1070 E. Adams St. Jacksonville FL 32202
KTHV-TV 720 Izard St. Little Rock 72201
KOTV 302 S. Frankfort St. Tulsa OK 74120
KSNW-TV 833 N. Main Wichita, KS 67203
KOLR/KOZL 2650 E. Division Springfield MO 65803
WJHL-TV 338 E. Main St. Johnson City TN 37601
WNCT-TV 3221 S. Evans St. Greenville NC 27834
KHGI-TV 13 S. Highway 44 Kearney NE 66848
WCTV 1801 Halstead Blvd. Tallahassee FL 32309
KBOI-TV 140 N. 16th St. Boise ID 83702
WVNS-TV 141 Old Cline Rd. Ghent WV 25843
KSWT-TV 1301 Third Ave Yuma AZ 85364
WETM-TV 101 E. Water St. Elmira NY 14901
KKCO-TV 2325 Interstate Ave. Grand Junction CO 81505
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Issaquah schools stand to lose $7 million in funding next year if this bill does not pass!
Dear WPD Advocate,
We have an urgent opportunity to avoid teacher layoffs and program cuts that would undermine our children's education — and we need you to make calls right now.
The State Senate will likely be voting on Friday morning at 10AM on an important procedural motion that, if adopted, would allow a vote on the bill to delay the levy cliff soon afterward. We need to flood Senate offices with calls urging them to bring this bill, HB 1059, to the floor and then to vote yes on it.
Need to find your Senator or their phone number? Click here and urge your Senator to immediately pass the bill to delay the levy cliff!
If you need a script: "Hello, I am your constituent from [name your city or town]. I need you to vote to bring HB 1059 to the floor and vote for the bill. We must delay the levy cliff so that teachers don't get fired and students don't lose important classes and programs they need to succeed. I know you have the power to save our schools from financial peril and I need you to lead on this."
The bill to delay the levy cliff is an important part of fully funding our public schools. If this bill doesn't pass, districts across the state will have to fire teachers and slash important programs for students. This is because school districts would lose part of their funds on January 1, 2018 — but the legislature does not have to deliver full funding for schools under the McCleary decision until September 1, 2018.
The levy cliff represents a big step backward in the state's compliance with the constitution and the courts. Delaying the levy cliff for one more year allows our teachers to teach and our students to learn while the legislature finally passes the new revenue needed to fully fund public schools, as well as reducing districts' reliance on levies to pay for basic education.
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John Braun
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Joe Fain
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Ann Rivers
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Mark Miloscia
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Jan Angel
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Dino Rossi
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Maureen Walsh
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Mark Schoesler
9th LD: includes Ritzville, Pullman, Colfax, St. John, Asotin
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Phil Fortunato
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Brad Hawkins
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Randi Becker
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Lynda Wilson
17th LD: includes Brush Prairie, Orchards, Cascade Park East (Clark County)
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Curtis King
14th LD: includes Stevenson, White Salmon, Naches, Goldendale, Tieton, Roosevelt
360 786-7626
Barbara Bailey
10th LD: includes Stanwood, Camamo Island, Whidbey Island, Oak Harbor, La Connor
360 786-7618
Thank you for taking a minute to call and contacting your friend, colleague, or relative out in these critical districts.
Your fellow advocate,
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The Samsung Galaxy J2 will let you take selfies with LED flash
Following up on the announcement of the Samsung Galaxy J5 and Galaxy J7, a source close to the company has revealed that Samsung is also working on the Galaxy J2 - a budget smartphone with a front-facing LED flash.
The source told Sam Mobile that the Galaxy J2 specs will include a 1.2GHz quad-core chipset, 1.5 GB RAM, and 8 GB internal storage, and a rear-facing 5 MP camera. The Galaxy J2 will also reportedly run on Android 5.1.1 Lollipop out of the box.
Other features of the Galaxy J2 will include a 4.5-inch TFT LCD display (800 x 480) and 2,000 mAh battery.
The star feature of the Galaxy J2 however, (don't get too excited) will be a front-facing 2 MP camera with LED flash. That means you'll be finally be able to take selfies with a flash on a Samsung phone - albeit with that 2006-style pixelation and graininess.
The Galaxy J2 camera won't be the first on a Samsung phone to feature a front-facing LED flash. That accolade goes to the Galaxy J5 and Galaxy J7, which were both announced in mid-June and are more powerful phones in the 'J' series.
India is expected to be the first country to receive the phone, followed by other emerging markets, with no word yet on a Galaxy J2 release date for the US and Europe. Using the expected Galaxy J5 and J7 prices as a guideline, the Galaxy J2 price should clock in at under $200.
Front-facing LED flash on phones - great idea, or should Samsung be focusing on more ground-breaking technologies? Let us know your thoughts.
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Samsung really need to stop with all these cheap low spec devices, its no wonder they do so badly. If they just stuck with their flagships and a "mini" version they wouldn't be so fragmented. As for the flash on the front, its nothing new. The HTC Eye has that feature and is a much better spec phone for a good price
This is totally different from the Samsung J1. It is more sophisticated and includes high-end specs and features that will upgrade your smartphone experience.


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The role fiction plays in travel writing and how the "American Voice" is being challenged by writers of color
By AMY GIGI ALEXANDER
Travel writer Nayomi Munaweera's debut novel, Island of a Thousand Mirrors, about two families living through the 26 year long Sri Lankan civil war was originally published in South Asia and was long-listed for the Man Asia Literary Prize and the Dublin IMPAC Prize. It won the Commonwealth Regional Prize for Asia and was short-listed for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature. It was released in America by St Martin's Press on Sept 2nd 2014 to critical acclaim, including coverage on NPR and a New York Times Book review which called the book, "luminous." Nayomi lives in Oakland, California and is currently at work on her second novel. She recently sat down for a one-on-one interview with me, transcribed below.
Amy Gigi Alexander: I would like to start with talking about your own travels in your childhood. You're from Sri Lanka, and you traveled with your family to Nigeria in 1976. Then in 1984, your family left Nigeria and came to the United States. Can you speak to the reasons why your family undertook such journeys: Why leave Sri Lanka? Why leave Nigeria?
Nayomi Munaweera: I was born in Sri Lanka in 1973. When I was three years old my family immigrated to Nigeria, Africa. My parents left Sri Lanka because the island was going through some dark economic times and my father, who was an engineer, could not find a good job. There were huge South Asian communities all over Africa and we were part of that diaspora. Nigeria had just discovered oil and the country was hiring engineers to create a greater infrastructure. My father was one of those engineers. We lived in various parts of Nigeria, some of them quite rural, from 1976 until 1984.
While we were in Nigeria, in 1982, civil war broke out in Sri Lanka. This war between the Tamil Tigers (a terrorist group) and the Sri Lankan military went on for 26 years and only ended in 2009. My parents had only planned to be out of Sri Lanka for a few years, but the fact that there was a war back home meant that we couldn't return. We planned to stay in Africa until the war was over.
In 1984 in Nigeria there were rumors of an impending military coup. The entire expatriate community that we were part of disbanded quickly and people left for all corners of the world. The fear was that we would be attacked as had happened to Asians in Uganda a few years prior under the dictatorship of Idi Amin.
We were really at a crossroads. We couldn't go back to Sri Lanka as the war there was now raging. My parents worked tirelessly to try and get our family, now including my three year old sister, to safety. Very luckily, an uncle who had lived in Los Angeles since the 1970's agreed to sponsor us. We landed in Los Angeles in 1984.
AGA: Let's talk to about that move to the United States. You arrived as an outsider, an experience you'd already been through once in Nigeria, and had learned to adapt. Now you had a yet another place to adapt to. What was this like?
NM: When we immigrated to Nigeria, I was only three. At that age, nothing is strange so I think that going from Sri Lanka to Nigeria was relatively painless for me. I'm sure my parents had a hard time adapting to all kinds of things, but I don't have early memories of that move. I do remember being sad that we were leaving my grandparents and my cousins. But we went back to Sri Lanka for a month every year so I was also very connected to my family there.
Arriving in America at the age of 12 was a much harder and stranger experience. In Nigeria we lived in small remote villages, but I had always gone to school with both Nigerian and other expatriate kids. I was used to a lot of diversity. Now, in America, almost all of the kids in my school were white. I was one of the very few Asians. I remember that they had the only Indian girl in the school show me around. I remember thinking, "I'm not Indian. Why did they choose this girl?" and then realizing she was the only one in the school who looked like me. She and I very quickly separated. Both of us were trying to fit in and neither wanted to be lumped in with the only other South Asian person at the school. There was this intense pressure to fit in. There were decisions to be made about what to wear, what music to listen to, how to do one's hair. In Nigeria, I had always worn a uniform and regulation shoes. There was no freedom or choice, the idea of teenage expression did not exist. But in America being a teenager was very much about expressing individuality in a way I had never experienced before. It took years before I felt somewhat American.
AGA: That is interesting, the mention of individuality as part of the American experience. I often get confronted with this as a traveler—an American traveler—when I go to other countries that don't have the same emphasis. But returning to those two journeys—Sri Lanka to Nigeria, and Nigeria to the United States—how have they defined you as a traveler and writer today?
NM: I grew up with the idea that travelling extensively and belonging to different places and cultures was very normal. I took my first flight at the age of 3. My parents had never met a black person before they went to Africa. My father had only been to India before this. My mother had never left the island. I say this to show you what a huge step immigrating was for them at that time. The decision to leave Sri Lanka was economic but it was also a very bold and brave thing. They left everything and everyone they knew and made a new life far away. However, in the pursuit of a better life for their young family, they were prepared to move continents.
When you grow up like this, between various cultures, there is a sense of displacement. But at the very same time, one also feels like a global citizen. I do have a sense–possibly a misguided sense–that I could land in many different places on the globe and make a life there if I needed to.
AGA: You say that your parents' "sense of boldness" has informed you. Obviously that changed the way you saw the world at large and your role inside of it. Yet you also talk about displacement and an almost intimate transitory quality about what you see as "home."
This leads me to want to dig deeper and ask you about the themes of belonging and exile. These are two strong currents in your life, in your writing, and in the travel genre itself. How do these two themes color your life and your work?
NM: As an immigrant, issues of exile and belonging inform my life. This is also true as a writer.
For example, in Sri Lanka I am seen as an American and my book is taught in classes like "Diaspora Writing." Meanwhile in America, although I have lived here since 1984 and been a citizen since 1986, I'm not really regarded as an American, since American for the most part is still defined as white. My book is considered Asian Fiction. So there is always the sense of having my feet in two different and disparate cultures. There is always an attempt to try and stitch together the different parts of my existence. There is a Sri Lankan self and an American self and they are somewhat different. I do have to change and shape-shift depending on where I am. These changes have to do with things like language, dress, and gesture, but also occur on a deeper, quieter level. You simply are a different person in different settings.
I think grappling with these issues of non-belonging are very good for a writer. They force you to always be on the outside looking in, observing, and I think this is a very useful trait for a writer.
AGA: Watching for signs and signals is key to writing well, and keen observation means attention to detail, which is something you master in your writing. I am interested in how your book and voice are heard: I read your book, Island of a Thousand Mirrors, and to me, it was a travelogue. Fiction, yes. But a travelogue, a series of journeys…
Circling back to exile and belonging, has the way you have experienced these two things changed over time, or has your definition of what they are changed? Has writing been a catalyst for these changes?
NM: Over time I have become more comfortable with my in-between state. This has a lot to do with writing about it. In working out these conflicts in my journals and in my novels, I do think I have a better, more integrated sense of self around these issues.
Before my first novel was published, I had a great deal of doubt about whether I had the authority to write about the Sri Lankan civil war because I did not grow up in Sri Lanka during the war years. I had been far away and in safety in Nigeria and America while this war was being fought. My family always spent a month of every year in Sri Lanka, no matter where in the world we were living, and this is where a lot of the catalyst for writing about the conflict came from. But I wondered whether I had the right to tell this story, being as I am privileged by the fact that I am Sinhala –the majority ethnicity in Sri Lanka–and an American citizen.
I started writing the novel in 2001. I finished in 2009 and tried to find an American publisher. Every publishing house said no so I put the book away and started writing another. In 2011 I was introduced to a Sri Lankan publisher who wanted the book. It was hugely validating to me that people in Sri Lanka, most of whom had experienced the war I had written about were willing to publish it. Even more significant was the fact that when the book was out in Sri Lanka, I started to hear from people there who said, 'yes this is how it was.' 'Yes you got it right.' This was despite the fact that the government at that time which controlled all media was publishing reviews extolling people not to read it.
In the same way, I've often felt strange about being some sort of cultural ambassador of Sri Lanka in the U.S. I'll never consider myself an expert on Sri Lanka but I am accepting that my relationship with it is deep and intimate, and from this place I can talk about it.
AGA: You've talked about how others see your work. How do you see it? How do you categorize it?
NM: I don't really categorize it. This is the book that came to me. The characters in it are mostly Sri Lankans. Some of them are dealing with migration to the United States. Others are in the midst of the war in Northern Sri Lanka. Beyond this specificity, their feelings and emotional states, the joys and sorrows they have to confront are universal. Their experiences they could easily apply to people of any ethnicity and in any place.
AGA: You decided to write a book, a fictional book, based on that early experience you had, the conflict itself, and how it affected people in Sri Lanka. Let's talk about the book title first: Island of a Thousand Mirrors. What's the meaning behind the title?
NM: Since the book is about a civil war I'm playing with the idea of mirrors, as in the enemy one is fighting is, the self. The Tamils and Sinhalese–the two warring ethnicities in Sri Lanka have a long and intimate history, sometimes fighting, sometimes marrying. So I wanted to invoke the sense that we are fighting intimate enemies, ourselves. There are also other explanations of the title tucked into the book. I like titles that have multiple meanings, so that as you read the book, you also discover these.
AGA: The book must have been controversial for you to write, and yet you felt called to do so. What was the calling, and why did you follow it?
NM: In my experience writers don't choose books, books choose writers.
AGA: I think you are righ. Yet, some writers resist the call for a long time. You didn't.
NM: I knew that this was touchy material, but when I was first writing, in 2001, it didn't matter. This was the story that was inside me and the story that wanted to be told. I had a compulsion to write and a compulsion to write about these particular characters.
At that stage I wasn't thinking about publication. That wasn't the motivation. And since it wasn't my motivation I could write about whatever I felt like. I didn't think about it as particularly controversial, although it turned out to be, I was just writing to try and work out my own ideas of belonging and exile, my own relationship to the war happening in the country of my birth.
I realize this makes it sound like the writing was easy. It wasn't. But it was also deeply joyous. Some part of me really loved doing that work. It still does.
AGA: So you never thought about publishing it? It just was the process of writing the story that drew you in? That is, to me, the very best kind of writing.
You are a self-taught writer. And that is very exciting to me because I'm self-taught as well. Can you talk about the process of deciding to be a writer, and writing your book?
NM: In 2001 I was finishing a Ph.D in English Literature and had to write a dissertation. However, all that was coming to me was bits of this book. I tried to submit fiction but they wouldn't accept it. So I left the program, dropped out, moved to Berkeley, got a job at a community college and started writing my novel.
I had no idea what I was doing. I didn't think it would ever be published. It's not that I didn't want it published. I just never imagined that publication, which is so insanely hard to achieve, would happen to my book. I didn't think anyone in America would care about this war happening to people far away.
For many years I didn't show my work to anyone. Later I took a few workshops, VONA and Squaw Valley. But that was after the book was selected for publication in Sri Lanka.
AGA: So you did go to a few writing workshops, but only after it had been accepted, but you didn't show the book to anyone while you were in the process of crafting it?
NM: I have a horror of showing my work too early as I think it can easily be shifted away from the author's own vision.
AGA: I agree. I think you can lose your voice. It happened to me a few times and it was leveling. Better to work out the details on your own, I think—or just with a few very trusted mentors.
NM: The idea of work-shopping anything–and getting various views on what's wrong with it– scares the heck out of me. I think it's healthy for young writers to struggle in solitude for many years and try to figure it out what they are saying for themselves. I don't show work to my editor unless it's as close to perfection as I can get it. As you said, I have a few trusted readers but they only see it very late in the game when I'm quite sure of my own voice. But these folks are precious and invaluable. Every writer needs them. They can be hugely influential.
AGA: Can you talk about the act of writing a book without formal training? What did you have to teach yourself, and where did that teaching of yourself begin?
NM: I think my true education came from reading voraciously since childhood. I continued this all the way through my Ph.D.
AGA: What were some of these early books that were major influences for you in your childhood?
NM: Gerrald Durrell, My Family and Other Animals; Enid Blyton, The Folk of the Faraway Tree; Asterix and Obelix.
I don't think any of these titles are familiar in America but anyone who grew up in the ex-colonies will recognize them. For American readers I'll add, Francine Pascal's Sweet Valley High series and the Flowers in the Attic series. I was obsessed with these as a teenager.
AGA: And in adulthood?
NM: Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children, Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things, Anita Desai's Feasting, Fasting, Lional Shriver's We Need to Talk About Kevin, Toni Morrison's Beloved and Yann Martel, Life of Pi.
AGA: There is the process of reading and absorption, and then there is organic talent that writers naturally have. Your foundation came from your reading, but what did the process of creating actually look like?
NM: I've journaled avidly since I was 13. Now looking back I can see that crafting my experience in this way keeps the writing muscle supple.
The idea that you can work through emotion, hardship or trauma by writing about it is very important to me. I keep seeing studies that point to the therapeutic effects of writing about one's life. I was always doing this but didn't realize it was an exercise that would serve me well until much later.
The everyday act of creating looks messy and chaotic. Some days it all flows beautifully and I think I'm a genius. The next day I'll delete every word because I now am convinced it is all crap and that I'm an idiot. On the third day I'll rewrite everything erased the previous day. My creative process consists of ping-ponging between grandiosity and self loathing on a daily basis. Now I realize this is just a normal part of being an artist. I call it an occupational hazard and I'm much better at letting the highs and lows just flow.
I see writing novels as marathons. There's nothing fast or easy about it. It's a long labor of love, patience and discipline.
AGA: That is a fascinating way to describe it. There is always the next section, endlessly. In your case, the marathon of the writing alone took eight years. That's very long time.
One thing about your book is that it is fiction, and the development of the characters and story took time to happen. Talking about fiction, there are people who don't think that fiction fits into the travel genre; yet, obviously one quick look at your book belies that assumption. How do you think fiction fits into the travel genre?
NM: I think when a book transcends one setting and talks about what it means for a character to move between places — physically and psychologically — you can see it as a travel book.
AGA: Can you give a few examples of fictional books which you think cross with ease into the travel genre?
NM: I'm thinking of: The Life of Pi, The Poisonwood Bible, The Satanic Verses, The Unbearable Lightness of Being.
AGA: You are a person of color. How does this affect how you see the publishing industry and opportunities for yourself and other people of color? Your book was published first in Sri Lanka. Did this make the publishing experience easier here?
NM: I tried to publish in America for three to four years and was completely unsuccessful. My agent at the time tried to sell the book and then eventually stopped taking my phone calls probably because he got sick of giving me bad news.
I then found a publisher in Sri Lanka through a mutual friend. This first publisher printed 1,000 books out of their tiny office. There was no advance. Then the book was picked up in India and nominated for some of the region's biggest prizes. It ended up winning the Commonwealth Regional Prize for Asia. This is when America called me. There was a mini bidding war and then the book came out in Sept 2014 in America.
I think it's very difficult for writers of color. There are a few folks who are hugely and rightly successful like Jumpha and Junot but if you are an unknown person of color writer in America, it's tremendously difficult to get published. But the stories these writers are telling are really interesting and fresh and they need to be told.
I was at the Japiur Literary Festival in India in 2013 and they were talking about the new American voice and everyone they talked about was a person of color writer. So the very definition of American writer as male and white is being rightly challenged. These are the most interesting voices to me: Chimamanda Ngochi Adichie, Celeste Ng, No Violet Bulawayo, Sugi Ganeshanathan, Chris Abani, Sandip Roy, to name a few.
AGA: Favorite travel book?
NM: The Cat's Table by Michael Ondatjee
AGA: Despite the fictional narrative of Island of a Thousand Mirrors, it feels very real. What is the basic story of the book?
NM: The novel is about two young women, one from either side of the Sri Lankan civil war, telling their account of this 26 year long conflict. It's about love, war, belonging and exile. At its heart, it's the story of a nation struggling to find itself.
AGA: What has been your experience writing and publishing a story about something some people would like to not even havediscussed?
NM: When my book first came out in Sri Lanka in 2012, the pro-government media–all media was controlled by the state–attacked it saying that the subject of the war was an obsolete one and that no one should be writing about it. That was a scary time because as I said, that government was imprisoning and disappearing journalists and activists. I was in Sri Lanka for the book launch and when the articles came out attacking the book, I was really afraid that there would be a banging on my door at night. I have known other people who have been taken away to be questioned and escaped through luck so it was a very scary time and there was a very real push towards silence.
This government was overthrown in a democratic election in January 2015. It remains to be seen how the new government will deal with the memory of that war, minority rights, and press freedoms.
AGA: Travel writing is often seen as pleasure writing. But your book describes war and conflict interlaced with lucid and beautiful details. Is writing about what is real and not what we wish to find. Is that how you see it?
NM: Some of the characters in the novel I wrote were going through a war. So there was no way I couldn't try to represent that. I think writing about what we see, writing about the truth, as experienced by characters is essential in any kind of writing.
AGA: Do you feel you have written about a place that no longer exists?
NM: The early part of my book is set in the pre-war Sri Lanka of my dad's youth and that place, with its very pristine nature and innocence, doesn't exist anymore. I was also writing about a war that ended in 2009 so the more horrific and active warfare is over. Sri Lanka is changing rapidly. I was there in 2012 and then in 2014 and the changes are astounding. But other things, like the food, the ocean, these never change.
AGA: How do the senses evoke a place to you?
NM: If you talk authentically about the smells, tastes, sights, feeling of a place, the reader should be able to connect. It's always good to notice the details that no one else is paying attention to. As a visitor, you're granted a fresh view of this place that the people living there probably no longer see. They might have a much better idea of how it all works, but you have the un-spoilt eyes of new experience. Capturing this can be really powerful.
AGA: That's true. I think often writers are forgetful of this fresh view.
NM: I've had readers in Sri Lanka say, 'You know I've seen that a million times, but I never noticed it until I read it in your book.' They say this about various things. One example, the way the sea salt scent and the fragrance of jasmine combine in parts of Colombo. If you've lived there all your life you might not notice anymore. But as an outsider I will notice, revel in it and write about it.
AGA: Give me an example from your writing that demonstrates this.
NM: "On the new nation's flag is poised a stylized lion, all curving flank and ornate muscle, a long, cruel sword gripped in its front paw. It is the ancient symbol of the Sinhala who believe that they are descended from the lovemaking between an exiled Indian princess and a large jungle cat. A green stripe represents that small and much-tossed Muslim population. An orange stripe represents the larger Tamil minority.
But in the decades that are coming, race riots and discrimination will render the orange stripe inadequate. It will be replaced by a new flag. On its face, a snarling tiger, all bared fang and bristling whisker. If the idea of militancy is not conveyed strongly enough, dagger clawed paws burst forth while crossed rifles rear over the cat's head.
A rifle toting tiger. A sword gripping lion. This is a war that will be waged between related beasts."
This early passage in the book describes the flags of the two enemies who fought in the Sri Lankan war. I've had Sri Lankan readers tell me they never thought of their flags as militant until they read this passage.
My point is that when you live with something on a daily basis, you cease to really see it. This is just a condition of being human. The writer's job is partly to point out the unseen in the everyday.
AGA: How does a writer show and not tell? This is so important in the travel genre, and yet many writers miss this fundamental rule. How do you show and not tell?
NM: I try to tell the story by capturing vignettes from a character's life. If the character is real enough, authentic enough, and if as the writer, you have really done your work to tap into them, then you can show the reader that scenes from their lives, their thoughts and it will ring true. But the writer has to do the hard work first. Otherwise readers will sense that it is inauthentic.
AGA: How do you tap into someone? Give me an example of a character you've written about and how you got close enough to let them show you their story.
NM: The character whose life is furthest from mine is Saraswathie from my debut novel. She lives in a village in northern Sri Lanka. That part of the country was closed off from the rest of the country for most of the war so I had never seen it until long after the book was published and the war was over.
When I was writing that book, I was reading everything I could find about life in the war zones and thinking about what it might be for a young Tamil girl in the midst of the war. I had written a great deal from the perspective of the other main character when Sarawathie's voice started popping up in my head. I really didn't want to write her story as it's quite emotionally difficult. But at some point I realized her point of view was extremely important. So I started reading everything I could find about people in her situation. At some point her voice got clearer to me. I felt like I could picture her and how she would respond to certain scenarios, to trauma and othering. Her experience was the furthest from my own but she is also my very favorite character so far. Writing her took me to some real depths since, in order to render her emotionally real, I had to imagine being in the terrible situations she finds herself in.
AGA: One reason I chose this book for the series, and also you, is that it is the story of someone leaving where they belong, and going somewhere else, perhaps against their will. Is that a travel story? I think it is.
It's different than the travel stories we hear, which are usually about leaving a place by choice and going somewhere one chooses. What are the differences and similarities between these narratives in your personal experience?
NM: Migration is, of course, different from travel for pleasure. But I wouldn't say that my family was made to go anywhere against our wills. We found ourselves in various moments of history that necessitated movement but we were never forced to flee for our lives as so many refugees are around the world. In this we were quite privileged. My experience seems to fall somewhere between the trauma suffered by someone who is forced to flee and the ease of someone choosing to travel.
What we did find was that both of these migrations necessitated a remaking of the self.
We are not the same people we would have been if my parents never left Sri Lanka. We don't know what our lives would have been if we stayed. There would have been different sadnesses and different joys in our lives.
AGA: What are you working on now?
"In the months before the thunderous monsoon, the ocean tugs at his toes, wraps sinuous limbs about his own and pulls him into its embrace, out until it is deep enough to dive, head first, feet overhead, inverted and submerged. Eyes open against stinging salt, he sees coral like a crowded, crumbling city, busy with variously marked, spotted, dotted, striped, lit, pompous and playful sea creatures. Now and then, he encounters the curious, swiveling eye of a small red octopus emerging from secret passageways. Approached recklessly, the octopus blanches a pure white and with an inky ejaculation, torpedoes away. So he learns to approach slowly, in rhythm with the gently rolling water, until the creature coming to know this stick-limbed biped, is lulled enough to allow his quiet presence.
Further out beyond the reef, where the coral gives way to the true deep, at a certain time of day, a tribe of flat silver fish gather in their thousands. To be there is to be surrounded by living shards of light. At a secret signal, all is chaos, a hundred mirrors shattering about him. Then the school speeds to sea and the boy is left in sedate water, a tug and pull of the body as comfortable as sitting in his father's outspread sarong being sung to sleep.
When he emerges dripping from the sea, it is to find this father, the village ayurvedic doctor, perched on an upturned catamaran, deep in conversation with the fisher-folk who squat on their heels before him.
The fishermen wear sarongs splotched with octopus ink. Their hands are leathered by handling rope, mending nets, wrestling sharks by their tails onto the beach. They are ruthless with the flesh of the creatures they catch, upturning gentle sea turtles in the sand to carve off chunks of the living flesh. The turtles bleed slowly, drip salt tears from the corners of their ancient eyes. In this way the meat stays fresh for days, the fishermen explain. For similar reasons the fishermen grasp just caught octopuses and turn them inside out, exposing delicate internals that flash through cycles of color. Decades later, in America, when my father sees Christmas lights for the first time, he will astound us with the observation that they look just like dying octopuses."</span>


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While it's clear to me which new smartphone is the must have of the bunch, what's not always clear to me and many others is the plans and charges that come along with these smartphones. Most will just go with a carrier that they are familiar with. This course will lead most of us to pay up to 50 % more than we need to for a cellular and data plan. Best Buy Has the solution to this problem with their mobile plan and compare tool. Just go into your local Best Buy and let their experts help you ascertain what your needs are. Then they can help you decide which carrier and plan best matches your needs and budget. Save money on the plan and get the device you know you want. The Samsung Galaxy Note 7.
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I left off at Cinema Wasteland, which was the first weekend of the year. Filled with fun and far too much alcohol, where I learned that my friends Vodka and Rum still do not get along.
The following weekend was spent in the wonderful wilds of Wooster, Massachusettes, at the Rock 'n Shock convention. This was our first show as guests of Camp Motion Pictures/Bloody Earth Films, as we previewed A Feast of Flesh for the first time. We've been hearing about this show for years, primarily from our friend Joe Knetter. And it turned out to be as much fun as he'd promised. The Red Sox landing in the playoffs and the Patriots making a good start out of the gate, however, lowered attendance quite a bit, I'm told. It was a slow show, monetarily-speaking, but the fun flowed like wine. Highlights for us included partying with Dave and Cathy Wilber (aka the "Superfans" from the Unconventional documentary) who are super-cool people. Thanks very much to you both for the hospitality! Another highlight was talking with Angela Bettis and Kevin Ford, who were also super people.
The lowlight for me in particular was a nasty cold I'd picked up the week before that refused to go away. I finally hit the "enough!" point on Saturday and started taking handfuls of whatever was handy - Day-Quil, Sudafed, generic cold medicine - anything that would just make me feel marginally better. The primary result, aside from transforming into a walking Meth lab, was that I tended to travel in a medicinal bubble, not unlike Glinda the Good Witch's preferred mode of transportation, and was on at least a seven second delay all weekend. And if you've ever flown with a congested head, I'm sure I don't have to discuss the misery with you here! But, at least I had Henric Couto, Justin Wingenfeld and Paige Davis, my longtime friends who accompanied my misery.
Miraculously, Amy and I found ourselves with a free day after the show. We weren't due back at the airport until late in the afternoon, so we drove down to Salem, Mass. (hey, we waited an hour for that rental car, we were going to make use of it!) It's not often we actually get to SEE any of the places we visit for shows, so it was cool to walk around and see some of the history of our country. Although I find it odd that Salem became a mecca for Wiccans, due to the people who were hanged there for witchcraft, despite the fact that the actual Wiccan religion was not in practice there at the time of the hysteria. I have to say that it was chilling to step into the main cemetery in the middle of the town and have to cross the thresh hold that was inscribed with the oaths of the condemned and their exclamations of innocense.
We did not, however, get to see any more of Boston than the famous skyline, with which I was familiar as a rabid Boston Legal fan. We are making plans to go again, though, and spend more time in the area. I love to see parts of America that aren't connected to hotel lobbies or airports.
More soon!


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Shepley Bulfinch welcomes Rhode Island School of Design architecture student Yin Liu, who is spending ten weeks this summer in Boston as the firm's 2015 Summer Design Fellow. So far, she's been working with teams on a range of design challenges, including the current renovation of the Boston office.
As a designer, Yin is drawn to the temporal qualities of space, as uses and forms shift over time. This is an area she hopes to explore in her thesis project next year, as she explores the development of tools and technologies that track how buildings are developed and change in both the short and long term.
Yin will receive her B.Arch. from RISD next year. During her foundation year at RISD, she was drawn to architecture by its encouragement of critical thinking and the design process, which seeks to make order from disorder, applying an understanding of movement through time and space as design progresses from abstract concept to line, plane, and three-dimensional form.
Now in its 18th year, Shepley Bulfinch's annual Summer Design Fellowship draws a diverse pool of candidates from top design schools across the country. A number of past Fellows have later joined Shepley Bulfinch's design staff.