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Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Edward Steichen: In High Fashion, the Conde Nast Years, 1923-37
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- A Whimsical Girl Named Debbie said...
I hope you feel a bit better, too so you can enjoy all your whimsical jaunts! Thank you for your visit to GirlWhimsy, yesterday! It's always a pleasure to receive a comment from you, Frivolous Flapper! Have a lovely night!
- October 20, 2009 at 8:34 PM
- Kelley Anne said...
Oh I took this book out of the library earlier this year and blogged about it! Its such a wonderful compilation of images. Swoon is right:)
- October 20, 2009 at 11:39 PM
- FrivolousFlapper said...
Oh, Kelley Anne, I must have missed that post (or I missed a connection between the book and the exhibit). I'll have to check it out so I can pore over the details of the images!
- October 21, 2009 at 7:44 AM
- 50sgal said...
It is amazing to me how modern the evening clothes from the 20s and 30s are particularly now that I have been enmessed in 1955 for almost a year. I look at these fashions, sitting her in my girdle, full skirt and petticoat and they look so smooth and almost bare! That would be a great exhibit. Enjoy!
- October 21, 2009 at 8:00 PM
- Maria Confer said...
I hope you're better in time, too!!
Such stunning photos. Oh, to live back then and look so gorgeous.
- October 21, 2009 at 9:01 PM
- Some Like it Vintage said...
Ooooohhh....thanks for the reminder! The exhibit has been travelling for awhile now through the states and so happy it's here now. I think I'll head down on the weekend.
Have a great day and thank you for your comment on my blog :-)
- October 21, 2009 at 9:48 PM
- Andi B. Goode said...
I LOVE EDWARD STEICHEN! Sorry for the caps but...nnngh! Last year I saw some of his photos at the NGV in the 'Photographers in the Circle of Alfred Stieglitz' exhibit they had on.
-Andi x
- October 22, 2009 at 3:00 AM
- Stéphanie said...
Fabulous pictures !
- October 22, 2009 at 4:09 AM
- AlohaAroha said...
Gosh...that reminds me...I think I am [i]still[/i] on the waiting list for the book at the library!
I love the first image, with the shawl, but the lace one never did it for me.
- October 22, 2009 at 4:10 PM

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India is home to the largest population of malnourished and hunger-stricken people and children leading to high infant and maternal mortality. Along with these issues are a deluge of problems ranging from diseases, lack of education, lack of hygiene, illness, etc.
To combat this situation, the Government of India in 1975 initiated the Integrated Child Development Service (ICDS) scheme which operates at the state level to address the health issues of small children, all over the country. It is one of the largest child care programmes in the world aiming at child health, hunger, mal nutrition and its related issues.
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The name anganwadi worker is derived from the Indian word – angan, which means the court yard (an central area in and around the house where most of the social activities of the household takes place). In rural settings, the angan is the open place where people gather to talk, greet the guests, and socialize. Traditional rural households have a small hut or house with a boundary around the house which houses their charpoys, cattle, feed, bicycle, etc. Sometimes food is also prepared in the angan. Some members of the household also sleep outside in open air, under the sky, in their angans. The angan is also considered as the 'heart of the house' and a sacred place which buzzes with activity at the break of dawn. Given the nature of this versatile nature of this space, the public health worker who works in an angan, and also visits other people's angans, helping with their healthcare issues and concerns, is the Anganwadi worker.
The Anganwadi worker and helper are the basic functionaries of the ICDS who run the anganwadi centre and implement the ICDS scheme in coordination with the functionaries of the health, education, rural development and other departments. Their services also include the health and nutrition of pregnant women, nursing mothers, and adolescent girls.
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Anganwadi workers are key informants of healthcare issues but given the nature of their work, they are also being called as social workers and many more activities are being added to their job profile, such as the kind of services they provide in Dindigul.
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- Immunisation of all children less than 6 years of age
- Immunisation against tetanus for all the expectant mothers
- Supplementary nutrition to children below 6 years of age
- Supplementary nutrition to women who are pregnant and nursing, esp. from the low income group
- Nutrition, health education and health check-ups to all women in the age group of 15- 45 years
- Antenatal care of expectant mothers
- Postnatal care of nursing mothers
- Caring for newborn babies
- Caring for all children under 6 years of age
- Referral of serious cases of malnutrition or illness to hospitals, upgraded PHCs/ Community Health Services or district hospitals
- Non-formal preschool education to children of 3-5 years of age.
Role and responsibilities of AWWs
According to the The Ministry of Women and Child Development - The Government of India, the following are the basic roles and responsibilities listed for the anganwadi worker:
- To elicit community support and participation in running the programme.
- To weigh each child every month, record the weight graphically on the growth card, use referral card for referring cases of mothers/children to the sub-centres/PHC etc., and maintain child cards for children below 6 years and produce these cards before visiting medical and para-medical personnel.
- To carry out a quick survey of all the families, especially mothers and children in those families in their respective area of work once in a year.
- To organise non-formal pre-school activities in the anganwadi of children in the age group 3-6 years of age and to help in designing and making of toys and play equipment of indigenous origin for use in anganwadi.
- To organise supplementary nutrition feeding for children (0-6 years) and expectant and nursing mothers by planning the menu based on locally available food and local recipes.
- To provide health and nutrition education and counseling on breastfeeding/ Infant & young feeding practices to mothers. Anganwadi Workers, being close to the local community, can motivate married women to adopt family planning/birth control measures
- AWWs shall share the information relating to births that took place during the month with the Panchayat Secretary/Gram Sabha Sewak/ANM whoever has been notified as Registrar/Sub Registrar of Births & Deaths in her village.
- To make home visits for educating parents to enable mothers to plan an effective role in the child's growth and development with special emphasis on new born child.
- To maintain files and records as prescribed.
- To assist the PHC staff in the implementation of health component of the programme viz. immunisation, health check-up, ante natal and post natal check etc.
- To assist ANM in the administration of IFA and Vitamin A by keeping stock of the two medicines in the Centre without maintaining stock register as it would add to her administrative work which would effect her main functions under the Scheme.
- To share information collected under ICDS Scheme with the ANM. However, ANM will not solely rely upon the information obtained from the records of AWW.
- To bring to the notice of the Supervisors/ CDPO any development in the village which requires their attention and intervention, particularly in regard to the work of the coordinating arrangements with different departments.
- To maintain liaison with other institutions (Mahila Mandals) and involve lady school teachers and girls of the primary/middle schools in the village which have relevance to her functions.
- To guide Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHA) engaged under National Rural Health Mission in the delivery of health care services and maintenance of records under the ICDS Scheme.
- To assist in implementation of Kishori Shakti Yojana (KSY) and motivate and educate the adolescent girls and their parents and community in general by organzing social awareness programmes/ campaigns etc.
- AWW would also assist in implementation of Nutrition Programme for Adolescent Girls (NPAG) as per the guidelines of the Scheme and maintain such record as prescribed under the NPAG.
- Anganwadi Worker can function as depot holder for RCH Kit/ contraceptives and disposable delivery kits. However, actual distribution of delivery kits or administration of drugs, other than OTC (Over the Counter) drugs would actually be carried out by the ANM or ASHA as decided by the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare.
- To identify the disability among children during her home visits and refer the case immediately to the nearest PHC or District Disability Rehabilitation Centre.
- To support in organizing Pulse Polio Immunization (PPI) drives.
- To inform the ANM in case of emergency cases like diahorrea, cholera etc.?
How does the Anganwadi System Work?
The Anganwadi system in one village/ area is managed by a single Anganwadi worker, who is chosen from the community and has been trained for four months in areas such as health, nutrition and childcare. Each Anganwadi worker covers a population of about 1000 people.
It is heartening to know that there more than a million Anganwadi centers in India, employing more than 2 million workers, who are mostly female and intuitive to the health needs of the region. For a country where illness, child mortality, illiteracy and poverty co-exist, this comes as a refreshing statistic.
MukhyaSevika – The Supervisor of Anganwadi Workers
For every 10 Anganwadi workers, there is an Anganwadi Supervisor to provide on-the-job guidance, who is also known as Mukhya Sevika. Apart from the healthcare, nutrition and educational work, the following are the responsibilities of the Anganwadi Supervisor:
- Checks the list of beneficiaries from the low economic strata, who are severely malnourished,
- Guides AWWs in the assessment of correct ages of children, correct method of weighing the children, and plotting their weights on growth charts,
- Demonstrates to the AWWs the effective methods of providing health and nutrition education to mothers, and
Maintains the statistics of the Anganawadis
The Mukhya Sevikas, in turn, report to the Child Development Projects officer (CDPO)
How does the Anganwadi System help?
India is home to over-population, mal nutrition, poverty, unemployment, low literacy levels and more, with a target to make healthcare accessible and affordable for everyone. Given the urgency of healthcare issues, child mortality, mal nutrition, etc., our country needs high number of medical and healthcare professionals to cater to the population that is now running into billions. Faced with acute shortage of skilled professionals, the Government's ICDS scheme is using the local population to help meet its grand goals.
The Anganwadi worker hails from the village where she works and has her finger on the pulse of the health of the village, its people and children.
Apart for the healthcare knowledge that she possesses and gained over a period of time, the Anganwadi worker is so entrenched in the general affairs of the household that she is in a better position to understand the real malady behind the healthcare issues. These latent problems of the household or community could range from relationship issues, daily hassles, sanitation, nutrition, social, peer pressure, and much more. Given the definition of health – the physical, metal, social, spiritual wellbeing of an individual, the Anganwadi worker perhaps has the best insight into the people's health of her region.
While educated doctors, learned nurses and seasoned professionals are excellent in their work and skills, they mostly lack the social skills and expertise which is more than necessary in interacting with the rural folk. An anganwadi worker is well versed in the ways of the village, knows the people by their names, interacts with them on regular basis and may also has an personal relationship with the people.
Anganwadi workers need to have good communication skills. They are usually adept in using the right language, metaphors and allusions for convincing people to act in a certain way. Religious customs and sentiments work best for them.
Here is an interesting account of how the Anganwadi worker convinced the villagers from defecating on open land. From shaming the defecators, convincing the women of the house, to citing the sacred texts that emphasized cleanliness and took the sanitary hygiene of the village to much higher level than one can imagine. Such is the power of the Anganwadi worker.
Some Anganwadi workers are very enterprising. Like the ones in Tamil Nadu, trhey have taken the initiative of growing kitchen gardens to help meet the nutritional needs and achieve the objectives of reducing mal nutrition of 0-6 year olds. So far 200 kitchen garden initiatives have been undertaken where Anganwadi workers will be trained in laying the gardens and growing crops, on one cent of land allotted to them. …
With minimum qualification to boot, an Anganwadi worker is deemed wise in the ways of the village and in the duties that she performs. Their understanding, communication skills and approach is needed to implement the grand projects of the state and central Governments, making them the most vital link in delivering the 'health for all' mission.


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Springbok flyhalf Morne Steyn led an exodus of players out of the three-time Super Rugby champion Bulls and to overseas clubs on Tuesday, the latest group of South African players to head to big-paying teams in Europe and Japan.
The Pretoria-based Bulls said the contracts of the eight players, all South Africa internationals, had expired and they would leave before the start of the domestic Currie Cup this weekend.
Their departure was confirmed three days after the Bulls lost to the Brumbies in the Super Rugby semi-finals on Saturday, the first time the Bulls have dropped a post-season game in South Africa.
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Steyn, who has played more than 100 Super Rugby games for the Bulls and is the Springboks' second-highest point scorer in tests, will join Stade Francais in France.
Six of the eight players leaving are still viewed as part of Springbok coach Heyneke Meyer's plans and join a growing list of Springboks overseas.
National try-scoring record holder Bryan Habana joined French club Toulon from Cape Town's Stormers this month, while fellow internationals JP Pietersen and Andries Bekker have signed for Japanese clubs. The 2.08-metre Bekker's international career was likely ended by his move to Japanese team Kobelco Steelers.
Pietersen rocketed into the top 10 sports earners in South Africa after signing a $A1.20 million) per season contract with Japanese club Panasonic Wild Knights, South African newspaper The Sunday Times reported recently.
Pietersen's Japan deal was more than five times more than what he makes a year in South Africa off his provincial and national contracts combined.
Along with Steyn, hooker Chiliboy Ralepelle, lock Juandre Kruger, loose forwards Dewald Potgieter and Jacques Potgieter, scrumhalf Jano Vermaak, center Wynand Olivier and fullback Zane Kirchner also officially left the Bulls on Tuesday.
South Africa flanker Francois Louw and scrumhalf Ruan Pienaar already play in Europe.
Habana, Pietersen, Steyn, Ralepelle, Kruger, Jacques Potgieter, Vermaak and Kirchner are also all current Springboks and the number of internationals now playing overseas and in different seasons will complicate Meyer's plans for the national team, which starts its Rugby Championship campaign on August 17 against Argentina. No.2-ranked South Africa won the last of their three southern hemisphere rugby titles in 2009.


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Alan Hollinghurst: "The Sparsholt Affair" | Talks at Google
Alan Hollinghurst is the award-winning author of "The Swimming Pool Library", "The Folding Star", and 2004 Man Booker Prize winner "The Line of Beauty".
In this talk, he reads from his first novel in six years, "The Sparsholt Affair", a multi-generational exploration of the legacy of a family scandal and the shifting attitudes towards England's gay community from World War II to the present day.
April Ryan, "Under Fire"
Book TV visited the National Press Club's annual Book Fair & Author's Night. There we interviewed April Ryan about her book "Under Fire."
Michael Arceneaux | I Can't Date Jesus
Join us as Michael Arceneaux sits down with Doreen St. Felix from The New Yorker to share his story.
It's no question that equality for LGBTQ people has come a long way, but voices of persons of color within the community continue to remain stifled to this day. With distinctive wit and candor, I Can't Date Jesus is Michael Arceneaux's impassioned look at minority life in today's America, challenging every bigoted and ignorant argument along his journey into self-acceptance, in a world that seeks to reject him.
Michael writes with an engaging tone about coming out to his mother; growing up in Houston, Texas; being approached for the priesthood; his obstacles in embracing close and intimate encounters; and the persistent challenges of young people who feel marginalized and denied the chance to pursue their dreams.
I Can't Date Jesus is a timely collection of essays that tell—without apologies—what it's like to be outspoken and brave in a divisive world.
Joshua Hunt: "University of Nike" | Talks at Google
In the mid-1990s, facing severe cuts to its public funding, the University of Oregon—like so many colleges across the country—was desperate for cash. Luckily, the Oregon Ducks' 1995 Rose Bowl berth caught the attention of the school's wealthiest alumnus: Nike founder Phil Knight, who was seeking new marketing angles at the collegiate level. And so the University of Nike was born: Knight has so far donated more than half a billion dollars to the school in exchange for high-visibility branding opportunities.
But as journalist Joshua Hunt shows in University of Nike, Oregon has paid dearly for the veneer of financial prosperity and athletic success that has come with this brand partnering.
Appel Salon | Jay Baruchel
"We're only as good as our rivals." —Jay Baruchel
Jay Baruchel appeared at the Toronto Reference Library to discuss his memoir Born Into It with Dan Robson.
Jill Lepore: These Truths
The American experiment rests on three ideas—"these truths," Jefferson called them—political equality, natural rights, and the sovereignty of the people. But according to renowned historian and best-selling author Jill Lepore, it rests, too, on "a dedication to inquiry, fearless and unflinching." Witty, endlessly curious, and astonishingly lucid, Lepore returns to CHF with "the most ambitious one-volume American history in decades." American cultural historian Eric Slauter joins Lepore for a conversation focused on her groundbreaking investigation of an American past that claims to have placed truth itself at the center of the nation's history—and asks whether the actual course of events has supported this claim or, in fact, belied it.
Martha C. Nussbaum: The Monarchy of Fear
Acclaimed scholar and humanist Martha C. Nussbaum turns her attention to the current political climate crisis of party polarization, divisive rhetoric, and the increasing inability of two halves of the country to communicate with one another in her most recent work, The Monarchy of Fear. At the heart of the problem, Nussbaum sees a simple truth: The political is always emotional, and the psychological constant of fear of the other will always be at-the-ready to fuel the fires of anger, disgust, envy, and blame. Drawing on a mix of historical and contemporary examples, from classical Athens to the musical Hamilton, Nussbaum will discuss the emotions behind our political culture, and suggest a roadmap for where we might go next.
Jonathan Weisman, "(((Semitism)))"
Book TV visited the National Press Club's annual Book Fair & Author's Night. There we interviewed Jonathan Weisman about his book "(((Semitism)))."
Neoliberalism's World Order
Adam Tooze, Quinn Slobodian, and Atossa Araxia Abrahamian discuss neoliberalism, globalization, and the future of democracy.
At Verso Books in Brooklyn, September 20, 2018.
Ten years after the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers nearly shattered the global economy, basic questions about the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression remain unanswered. What drove the accumulation of private debt and financialization of the economy that made the downturn possible? Was this a crisis for neoliberalism? Given its association with globalization, is a defense of national sovereignty the only way to take back democratic control from neoliberal forces? How has this shaped the populist revolts now transforming the global order, and how might the left respond?
Adam Tooze is Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of History at Columbia University, where he also directs the European Institute. He is author of "Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World."
Quinn Slobodian is associate professor of history at Wellesley College. His most recent book is "Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism." Forthcoming is "Nine Lives of Neoliberalism" (Verso Books), co-edited with Dieter Plehwe and Philip Mirowski. He is currently writing a book with the working title "Hayek's Bastards" on the neoliberal roots of the far right.
The conversation is moderated by Atossa Araxia Abrahamian, senior editor at the Nation and a contributing editor at Dissent.
Reading Lu Xun Through Carl Jung
Carolyn Brown discussed her just-published book "Reading Lu Xun Through Carl Jung," which offers a unique approach to the short stories of the most famous modern Chinese writer, Lu Xun (1881-1936). Brown uses foundational elements of the psychology of Carl Jung (1875-1961), who with Freud was the founder of modern Western psychology, to illuminate key structures in the works of this great writer. Approaching these works from a unique direction, Brown's lecture will shed new light on the psychological patterns within Lu Xun???s most famous story, "The True Story of Ah Q."
Speaker Biography: Carolyn Brown is a scholar of Chinese literature and the former director of the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress.
New Poets of Native Nations: 2018 National Book Festival
Heid E. Erdrich, Natalie Diaz and Jennifer Elise Foerster present "New Poets of Native Nations" at the 2018 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C.
Speaker Biography: Natalie Diaz is an enrolled member of the Gila River Indian community and was born in the Fort Mojave Indian Village in Needles, California. Her poetry collection "When My Brother Was an Aztec" was praised by The New York Times as a "beautiful book." She is a contributor to the anthology "New Poets of Native Nations" (Graywolf). Diaz has played professional basketball and received a full athletic scholarship to Old Dominion University, where she earned a B.A. and an M.F.A. Among her honors is the Louis Untermeyer Scholarship in Poetry from the Bread Loaf Foundation.
Speaker Biography: Natalie Diaz is an enrolled member of the Gila River Indian community and was born in the Fort Mojave Indian Village in Needles, California. Her poetry collection "When My Brother Was an Aztec" was praised by The New York Times as a "beautiful book." She is a contributor to the anthology "New Poets of Native Nations" (Graywolf). Diaz has played professional basketball and received a full athletic scholarship to Old Dominion University, where she earned a B.A. and an M.F.A. Among her honors is the Louis Untermeyer Scholarship in Poetry from the Bread Loaf Foundation.
Speaker Biography: Poet Jennifer Elise Foerster is a member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation of Oklahoma and one of the contributors to the anthology "New Poets of Native Nations" (Graywolf). She has a B.F.A. from the Institute of American Indian Arts, an M.F.A. from Vermont College of Fine Arts and a Ph.D. from the University of Denver. Her poetry collections are "Leaving Tulsa" and "Bright Raft in the Afterweather." She is a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship and a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Bread Loaf.
The Pushcart Prize XLIII - Best of the Small Presses 2019
The Writers Studio, in partnership with The Strand Bookstore, is pleased to present The Pushcart Prize XLIII - Best of the Small Presses 2019. Published every year since 1976, The Pushcart Prize is the most honored literary project in America, featuring hundreds of presses and writers of short stories, poetry, and essays in its annual collections.
Come together and connect with our writers' community, with readings by:
Cortney Lamar Charleston
Rick Moody
Thylias Moss
Oliver de la Paz
Marisa Silver
Introduction by founder/editor Bill Henderson.
Cortney Lamar Charleston is the author of Telepathologies, selected by D.A. Powell for the 2016 Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize. He was awarded a 2017 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation and he has also received fellowships from Cave Canem, The Conversation Literary Festival and the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. His poems have appeared, or are forthcoming, in POETRY, The American Poetry Review, New England Review, AGNI, TriQuarterly and elsewhere. He serves as a poetry editor at The Rumpus.
Rick Moody is the author of The Ice Storm, Demonology, Hotels of North America, and many other books. He writes about music at The Rumpus and has an advice column at LitHub.
Thylias Moss, prize-winning multiracial maker, has won a number of awards beginning in 1983 with her poem, "Coming of Age in Sandusky," for which she received $25.00 from the Cleveland, Ohio Public Library. Since then, she has authored a total of 15 books, most of which have won awards, notably, a MacArthur Genius Fellowship, and two finalist awards from the National Book Critics Circle Award. She will be featuring her novel in verse, Slave Moth written by a literate slave girl, "Varl," a collection she needed to make after a visit to her son's middle school, a trip that necessitated her making the dress on the cover, by hand in the dark.
Oliver de la Paz is the author of three collections of poetry, most recently Requiem for the Orchard, winner of the Akron Prize for Poetry. His honors include a 2005 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship Award and a 2009 GAP Grant from Artist Trust. His work has appeared in literary journals and magazines including Virginia Quarterly Review, North American Review, Tin House, Chattahoochee Review, and in anthologies such as Asian American Poetry: The Next Generation.
Marisa Silver is the author of four novels, including Little Nothing and Mary Coin, and two collections of short stories. In 2017, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. Her work has received the Ohioana Book Prize, the Southern California Independent Bookseller Award, and the O. Henry Award. Her short fiction has been published in the New Yorker, as well as other journals, and has been included in The Best American Short Stories and other anthologies. She is a 2018-19 New York Public Library Mary Ellen von der Heyden Fellow during which time she'll be working on a new novel, The Mysteries.
Founded in 1987 by Pulitzer Prize winning poet Philip Schultz, The Writers Studio is an independent creative writing program, offering six and eight-week workshops specializing in topics from the necessity of political fiction to writers beginning in their fifties. The classes, which meet in New York City, San Francisco, Tucson, the Hudson Valley and Online utilize an original teaching method which combines technique-based instruction with personal weekly feedback. Since its inception in 1990, The Writers Studio Reading Series has featured numerous writers and poets, including Lydia Davis, Junot Diaz, Andre Dubus III, Jennifer Egan, Mary Gaitskill, Julia Glass, Edward Hirsch, A.M. Homes, Etgar Keret, Marie Ponsot, Robert Pinsky, Gary Shteyngart, Colson Whitehead, and Yehuda Amichai. www.writerstudio.com
Appel Salon | Susan Orlean | November 22, 2018
"I began the book in what felt like a very different era and the change in the culture made the book feel really urgent in a way I hadn't anticipated: Not only was it about the respect and love for books, it was also about the belief that there can be shared space that is inclusive and that celebrates the idea of a community working together with open doors." —Susan Orlean
Paul Auster & Luc Sante | The New York Trilogy Manuscript Edition
The inimitable Paul Auster launches the limited edition manuscript of his New York Trilogy with fellow author Luc Sante at the Strand's Rare Book Room. Paul will undoubtedly share never before seen or heard thoughts of The New York Trilogy's journey from infancy to publication.
Some words about the limited edition manuscript:
Specialized in the reproduction of major manuscripts, SP Books are happy to present three drafts from Paul Auster's New York Trilogy. In 2014 the publisher went to the New York Public Library to explore the papers of one of our greatest contemporary writers, Paul Auster. This colossal archive bears witness to the evolution of a novel, the generation of a publication through all its intermediary stages, from beginning to end.
After summarily sketching out the plot, he writes his first versions in notebooks which represent weeks, months, or years of his life. There are usually around ten handwritten and as many as three typewritten drafts of a single text, the latter containing numerous corrections in pen. The document he hands his publisher is the final version of a text that has gone through many incarnations.
A veritable time capsule, the book contains hand- and typewritten manuscripts of The New York Trilogy, carefully selected in cooperation with Paul Auster to shed light on this major work's architecture. The first, a handwritten sketch of City of Glass, entitled New York Confidential, is followed by a nearly definitive typewritten version of Ghosts, initially called Black Outs, and a quite advanced manuscript of The Locked Room, whose first title was Ghosts. Like Mr. Auster's enigmatic New York, this is "an inexhaustible space, a labyrinth of endless steps".
Paul Auster is the bestselling author of "Winter Journal," "Sunset Park," "Invisible," "The Book of Illusions," and The New York Trilogy, among many other works. He has been awarded the Prince of Asturias Award for Literature, the Prix Médicis étranger, an Independent Spirit Award, and the Premio Napoli. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and is a Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Luc Sante's books include "Low Life," "Evidence," "The Factory of Facts," "Kill All Your Darlings," and "The Other Paris." He teaches at Bard.
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Well, I apparently paid way too much for it, having embroiled myself in a bidding war on eBay and being too stubborn to back out, but I finally have a copy of Ted Saucier's saucy 1951 cocktail book, Bottom's Up! For those of you who don't know the book, it's a hefty thing, at a pound and a half, 270 pages, and a trim size of 10.25 by 7 inches. (Yes, I've worked in publishing, why do you ask?)
I mention the book's (ahem) ample nature to point out that it's a serious volume, with a lot of recipes and a bunch of really good ones, to boot. One thing I love most, though, is the index. Arranged, in part, by main ingredient, it's very handy. Want a gin drink? Find the Gin subheading and eat your heart out. It is, unfortunately, not cross-referenced, so if a recipe has, say, gin and rum, but rum is the main ingredient, you won't find it under Gin.
"Whazzawha? Recipe with gin and rum?" you sez? Well, yes. And it's a good drink. Well balanced, with the rum and gin complementing each other rather than fighting. Saucier terms this drink the Baroque, but given the political season in the USA, I'm calling this, rather obviously, the Baroque Obama, although it's the same recipe as appears in Saucier (although I'm converting his 1 part lime, 2 parts rum, etc. into ounces).
Baroque Obama
Courtesy, The Baroque Restaurant, New York City
- 1 part [3/4 oz.] fresh lime juice
- 1/2 t. sugar
- 2 parts [1-1/2 oz.] Jamaican rum
- 1 part [3/4 oz.] gin
- 1 dash maraschino
Technique: Shake lime juice and sugar well. Add rum and gin [and ice]. Shake well and serve in iced glass. [As you can see from the picture, I served ours up, in a cocktail glass.] Float maraschino. [No garnish.]
I've learned very little about Ted Saucier. It appears he was once the publicist for the Waldorf-Astoria hotel in Manhattan, and he lived from 1896 to 1970, but beyond that, I've learned nothing.
Except that I shouldn't get excited and overbid on a cocktail book.
OH, I almost forgot! There's another reason Saucier's book is so well-loved. I'll share that tomorrow.


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Rangers rap Sox again
Napoli hits another homer, knocks in four more runs
When next the faithful convene at Fenway Park, on Friday, there will be a ceremony to mark the 100th anniversary of the first game played there. Red Sox long retired will take the field to be cheered one more time.
The past is all the Sox can celebrate these days. The present is too painful to think about.
The familiar pattern of losing continued Wednesday night as Mike Napoli drove in four runs to lift the Texas Rangers to a 6-3 victory before a crowd of 37,967.
The Red Sox have lost three straight and are 4-8 going into a weekend series against the Yankees. The Sox opened the homestand with three victories against the Tampa Bay Rays, scoring 31 runs. They have scored six runs in the three games since.
"It's definitely not how you want to play, it doesn't equal good,'' said Josh Beckett, who held the Rangers to three runs over seven innings but took the loss, dropping him to 1-2. "Especially when you come off a 1-5 road trip.''
The best team in baseball for five months last season, the Sox have lost 28 of their last 39 games. Two weeks into the new season, only some of the faces have changed; the results are the same.
It is taking a toll on manager Bobby Valentine, who is now booed when he makes pitching changes. The feisty enthusiasm that marks his personality was missing after the game as Valentine recounted the details of the latest loss.
"We'll get some little things going our way and we'll get a nice streak going,'' Valentine said, his words more hopeful than his expression.
Derek Holland (2-0) held the Sox to two runs over seven innings. They came in the second when David Ortiz doubled and Kevin Youkilis homered to left-center, a deep shot.
Youkilis was dropped to sixth in the order, the lowest he has been since 2008.
"Yeah, maybe just a little,'' Valentine said before the game when asked if he was trying to ease the pressure on Youkilis. "Maybe just a little something different for him, you know?''
Youkilis came into the game 6 of 34 with 12 strikeouts. The homer was his first in a stretch of 76 at-bats dating to Aug. 14.
"It's nice to hit a home run, but when you don't win a ballgame it doesn't really matter,'' Youkilis said.
The Sox were otherwise 1 for 8 with runners in scoring position.
A night after the Rangers scored 18 runs against Jon Lester and five relievers, Beckett pitched well enough to win but received little support.
Josh Hamilton had an RBI single in the third inning. In the fourth, David Murphy led off with a single and scored on a home run by Napoli that landed deep in the seats atop the wall in left field.
After missing twice with his cutter, Beckett went to a fastball and Napoli was waiting for it. Napoli is hitting .358 with 10 home runs and 24 RBIs in 20 games against the Red Sox since the start of the 2010 season.
"I made one big mistake, the pitch to Napoli,'' Beckett said. "Ultimately it was bad for me and bad for the team.''
Beckett retired 12 in a row after the home run. He was finished after 110 pitches. Beckett scattered seven hits, walked one, and struck out seven.
Franklin Morales let a close game get away in the eighth.
The lefthander loaded the bases with one out. Pinch hitter Craig Gentry fouled off three two-strike pitches before getting hit in the foot by a fastball to force in a run.
Napoli was next and he crunched a two-run double off the wall as Texas took a 6-2 lead.
Valentine regretted leaving Morales in the game as long as he did. Showing faith in his pitchers has backfired several times already this season.
"I wanted to keep confidence that I wasn't going to pull the plug too soon,'' Valentine said. "He's had four good outings for us. I was hoping to salvage that one. It didn't work.''
The crowd booed when Valentine came out to the mound to replace Morales with Matt Albers.
"I was booing myself. It didn't work out,'' Valentine said.
The four-run lead was ample against a low-wattage Red Sox offense that managed only five hits - two after the third inning.
The Sox stirred a bit in the ninth. Pinch hitter Ryan Sweeney had an RBI single but with runners on first and third, Jarrod Saltalamacchia lined into a double play to end the game.
Sweeney, who was on first base, ran a few steps when Saltalamacchia hit the ball hard. But the ball smacked into the glove of first baseman Brandon Snyder.
The Sox are off Thursday before the Yankees arrive.
"I don't mind it,'' Valentine said.
Peter Abraham can be reached at email@example.com. Follow him on Twitter @PeteAbe.


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Townhomes & Duplexes: How Much Will A Homeowners Policy Cover?
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If you are considering purchasing a townhome or duplex, you may be wondering if coverage under a homeowners policy would be different than coverage for a single-family dwelling. Our knowledgeable agents at Flanagan Insurance in Powell, Ohio will be happy to explain the coverage for each type of dwelling and help you find a policy that suits your needs at the best available rates. What... Read Article
What Can I Do If My Car Is Stolen?
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Having your car stolen is a traumatic experience. You step out the door, and your car is simply gone – not there where you left it. Unfortunately, it happens every day to vehicle owners all over the U.S. The following is a checklist to prepare you in case that unhappy event ever happens to you. Check to Make Sure Your Car Has Actually Been Stolen... Read Article
Safe Driving In Major Cities
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While driving in a major city, you are likely to encounter traffic jams, bumper-to-bumper traffic, and large numbers of pedestrians and bicyclists. The following are safe driving tips to help smooth the way and reduce your risk of an accident. Avoid Driving During Rush Hour Peak rush hour traffic typically occurs from 7:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. and from 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. Stay... Read Article
Protecting Your Home Through The Seasons
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Blazing sun, sub-zero temperatures, or any extreme weather conditions can wreak havoc on your home. Seasonal maintenance can go a long way toward preserving the condition of your home. The following are home maintenance checklists for winter, spring, summer, and fall. Winter Home Maintenance Vacuum HVAC registers to remove dust and debris. Flush out water heater to remove built-up sediment. Clean refrigerator coils. Check caulking... Read Article
Do I Need Flood Insurance?
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You might think you don't need flood insurance if you live in an area that is considered "high and dry." Although some areas are more susceptible to flooding than others, flooding can occur anywhere. With heavy rains, spring thaws, or rapid accumulation of rain after a wildfire, flooding can occur in places that are not generally considered at risk. How Does Flood Insurance Differ from... Read Article


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KLettres is an application specially designed to help the user to learn alphabet in a new language and then to learn to read simple syllables. The user can be a young child aged from two and a half or an adult that wants to learn the basics of a foreign language.
There are twenty five languages available at the moment: Arabian, Brazilian Portuguese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, British English, US English, Phonics English, French, German, Hebrew, Hugarian, Italian, Kannada, Low Saxon, Malayalam, Norwegian Bokmål, Punjabi, Luganda, Romanized Hindi, Russian, Spanish, Slovak, Telugu and Ukrainian.
- 4 difficulties and 2 ages modes
- Special GUI with delayed keyboard action and scalable themes reasonable for younger users
- 16 languages available
- Download and upload of additional language data using KNewStuff
Developed By
- Anne-Marie Mahfouf <annma AT kde DOT org>
Thanks To:
- Marc Cheng <bdgraue AT web DOT de>
Kids and grown-up oxygen icons
- Ludovic Grossard <grossard AT kde DOT org>
French sounds
- Geert Stams <geert AT pa3csg DOT myweb DOT nl>
Dutch sounds
- Erik Kjaer Pedersen <erik AT binghamton DOT edu>
Danish sounds
- Eva Mikulčíková <evmi AT seznam DOT cz>
Czech sounds
- Silvia Motyčková & Jozef Říha <silviamotycka AT seznam DOT cz>
Slovak sounds
- Robert Wadley <robntina AT juno DOT com>
English sounds
- Pietro Pasotti <pietro AT itopen DOT it>
Italian sounds
- Ana Belén Caballero and Juan Pedro Paredes <neneta AT iquis DOT com>
Spanish sounds
- Vikas Kharat <kharat AT sancharnet DOT in>
Romanized Hindi sounds
- John Magoye and Cormac Lynch <cormaclynch AT eircom DOT net>
Luganda sounds
- Helmut Kriege <h.kriege AT freenet DOT de>
German sounds
- Assaf Gorgon and Diego Iastrubni <elcuco AT kde DOT org>
Hebrew sounds
- Lisa Kriege <h.kriege AT freenet DOT de>
British English sounds
- Vikram Vincent <vincentvikram AT gmail DOT com>
Kannada sounds
- Danny Allen <dannya40uk AT yahoo DOT co DOT uk>
SVG background pictures
- Robert Gogolok <mail AT robert-gogolok DOT de>
Support and coding guidance
- Peter Hedlund <peter DOT hedlund AT kdemail DOT net>
Code for generating special characters' icons
- Waldo Bastian <bastian AT kde DOT org>
Port to KConfig XT, coding help
- Pino Toscano <toscano DOT pino AT tiscali DOT it>
Code cleaning, Theme class
- Michael Goettsche <michael.goettsche AT kdemail DOT net>
Timer setting widgets
KLettres is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL), Version 2.


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10 Bands Influenced by Ray Manzarek and the Doors
Jim Morrison's deep, bellowing baritone was the voice of the Doors, but it was Ray Manzarek's signature Vox Continetal organ playing that was the heart and soul of the band's sound. The music is over now for Manzarek, who died this week at the age of 74, but it will always live on thanks to his fans -- many of whom are musicians themselves. The Doors and Manzarek had an undeniable influence on many indie and alt-rock acts, and the following 10 bands will help pass it on to future generations.
Joy Division
Don't hear hints of the Doors' blues-soaked psychedelia in the bleak industrial clamor of Joy Division? Not only was Ian Curtis' deep baritone often compared to Morrison's, but Ian regularly cited the Doors as one of the band's formative influences. The parallels go even further, with bassist Peter Hook's distinctive mid-range bass playing often bringing to mind Manzaeck's single-note organ. Check out 'New Dawn Fades' off 1979's 'Unknown Pleasures' below -- and then DJ Rudec's mash-up of 'Fades' with the Doors' 'Break On Through' here.
The Dandy Warhols
Ray Manzarek may not have been the first rocker to play bass lines on an organ, but his signature sound was certainly rare at the time -- and still isn't exactly a common move today. That approach wasn't lost on the Dandy Warhols, who employ Zia McCabe to play the low end on keyboards. Think it's a coincidence? Not likely, especially considering the Warhols dug the Doors enough to tweet about Ray's death. On 'There Is Only This Time' off 2005's 'Odditorium or Warlords of Mars,' the Warhols offer up a slightly brighter take on the Doors' more foreboding work.
Iggy Pop
Iggy Pop was barely out of his teens when he saw the Doors perform in 1967, and the show permanently changed his life. The music pulled Pop in, but it was more Morrison's confrontational stage presence that had an immediate and obvious impact on the future Stooges singer. His take-away from the gig? "If this guy can do it, I can do it" -- which he meant in the most reverential of ways.
Patti Smith
Punk priestess Patti Smith had a similar epiphany as Iggy when she saw the Doors in her younger days -- although she almost took it as a personal challenge. "I was sitting there thinking, 'I could do that. I felt this strange kinship, I don't know why I thought that ... I was just a girl from Jersey." Years later, Smith appeared on Manzarek's 1975 solo album 'The Whole Thing Started with Rock and Roll Now it's Out of Control' and has been known to turn in the occasional Doors cover. Below, listen to her belt out a version of 'Crystal Ship.'
Mazzy Star
Mazzy Star's 'So Tonight That I Might See,' the final track off their album of the same name, may be the most Doors-like track on this entire list -- until, of course, singer Hope Sandoval's hauntingly breathless voice comes in. But even then, her delivery carries a Morrison-like cadence that helps this epic jam of 'The End'-tinged psychedelia become a strong contender for best '90s song the Doors didn't write (but totally could have).
Echo and the Bunnymen
This one may be obvious, but that doesn't take anything away from Echo and the Bunnymen's spectacular music. The British band's moody and dark sound certainly draws from the Doors, but it's their dead-on cover of 'People Are Strange,' which appeared on the soundtrack to cult '80s flick 'The Lost Boys,' that seals the deal.
The Wooden Shjips
We can't be the only ones who think San Francisco psych rockers the Wooden Shjips (that's pronounced "ships") seriously sound like the Doors at some choice moments. Witness 'We Ask You To Ride,' the lead single and first track from their stellar self-titled 2007 debut, which comes across as a loose, lively outtake from the Doors' 'In Concert' bootleg, complete with the feedback-soaked wall of sound assault the Doors sometimes busted out when onstage.
The Brian Jonestown Massacre
Another band with San Francisco roots, the Brian Jonestown Massacre are known for their creative re-imagining of the music of a wide swath of rock icons, from classic legends like Dylan and the Stones to contemporary greats like My Bloody Valentine and Yo La Tengo. But schizo-shamanic frontman Anton Newcombe cut his young musical teeth listening to the Doors, and here, BJM turn in a rare, straight-up cover of 'Five to One.'
The Strokes
"Put simply, because of the Doors, I chose music as my life path," Strokes frontman Julian Casablancas wrote in the intro to an interview he conducted with Manzarek and Robert Krieger before the release of the Doors documentary 'Mojo Risin: The Making Of L.A. Woman.' "I was actually drawn by the instrumentation primarily ... as musicians I found them to be unique and masterful." That influence can be heard frequently in the Strokes' music, including obvious shades of 'Touch Me' in their first single, 'Last Nite.'
We're not totally sure what Nirvana thought of the Doors, to be honest -- considering their staunch promotion of the punk ethos, they may very well have regarded the band as an example of the ridiculousness of overwrought "rock royalty" -- but they did pay attention long enough to learn how to cover 'The End' (kind of). And quite an interesting cover it is, with Krist Novoselic seemingly changing the lyrics as he goes, spinning a ridiculous tale that you really just have to hear to believe. OK, so Nirvana probably didn't admire the Doors quite like the rest of these bands, but they certainly were influenced by them. Check out 'The End' below and then try to tell us their sense of humor didn't just grow three sizes.


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Mary was originally created to bring the middle classes to their senses. Mary's job as protagonist was to reflect the weak ethics of the stuffy middle class who chose not to look after their own children. Further, Mary highlighted middle class inability to provide emotional stability and child protection.
The lesson of the story was that the Nanny was superseded by parental development: the middle classes awake to their children's psychological needs and forever more parented appropriately.
But, Disney recreated Mary Poppins to make her a superstar, super singing and dancing, all time fantastic carer of children, animals and handsome suitors: a woman that the middle class Banks family just could not do without.
Mary's creator was Pamela Travers, a young Australian women. A survivor of childhood neglect at the hands of her middle class parents, this is the life story that developed a now immortalized Mary Poppins:
Born Helen Goff, in Maryborough, Queensland, Australia in 1899, the celebrated author of Mary Poppins was the daughter of a bank manager who drank himself to death by the time Helen was seven. Helen's histrionic mother, Margaret, dithered on for a few more years before also giving up on life and attempting suicide in a local river.
On a thundery night, Margaret Goff announced to her three children that she was off to kill herself. Helen, the oldest (age 10) was terrified. She was left, alone, to settle her younger siblings and she coped by putting them to bed, all three together, on the lounge room floor. In an effort to divert their attention from frantic thoughts around their mother's impending violent death, Helen made up fantasy stories about magical flying horses in faraway lands that would ride them all to safety.
Although Margaret returned, unsuccessful in her suicide attempt, Helen withdrew from
the hurt caused by her family and instead found solace in the strength of a spinster aunt.
Helen's dysfunctional family predicament haunted her for the rest of her life. She was never able to rid herself of images concerning the appalling fate of children whose parents were unable to care for them.
At 21 years of age, Helen changed her name to Pamela L. Travers. At age 25, she moved to London to make a new life as a writer. She never married, wore trousers when she wanted, had an affair with an older married man and eventually entered into a long-term relationship with another woman. Ever desperate to protect children, at age 40, a single parent, she adopted and raised an Irish orphan.
It was Walt Disney who rewrote Mary Poppins as a screen play (1964) and the forever ingrained personification of Mary Poppins as the all rounded protector of
children. Disney's movie made Mary Poppins synonymous with love and magic, whereas Pamela had meant for Mary to be synonymous with neglect and rejection.
It is reported that Pamela sat through the Disney screening of her beloved Mary Poppins with tears rolling down her cheeks. Disney had made Mary into everything that she was not. Disney had failed to heed the protection of children through the symbolic development of a nasty and controlling Nanny interested only in her own needs.
Pamela L. Travers died a broken woman in 1996, aged 96.


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Two additional earthquakes have struck Italy this afternoon.
At the moment there are around 15 deaths reported.
Following a request from the Italian Civil Protection department
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Maybe cornerback Marquice Cole is going to be the new Ross Ventrone for the Patriots.
The Patriots just announced they re-signed Cole, after releasing him in final cuts this weekend.
To make room for him on the roster, they released offensive lineman Josh Cline.
Cole was released Sunday, when the team claimed a pair of offensive lineman off waivers. Apparently, after a night to think it over, they realized they needed more help in the secondary.


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Crash adds to Metro-North woes
Sunday's deadly derailment of a Metro-North train in New York City marks the second incident in eight months for the Connecticut-based transit agency, raising additional questions about its practices and operations.
The National Transportation Safety Board has already been investigating an incident in May near Bridgeport, Conn., in which a Metro-North train derailed and collided with another train that was going the opposite direction on an adjacent track. That crash injured 73 people.
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In a separate incident in May, a commuter train struck and killed a Metro-North foreman.
Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), who sharply criticized the regional transit following those incidents, said Sunday that "riders are losing patience with this railroad and so am I. These severe accidents and service disruptions are unacceptable."
( Also on POLITICO: At least 4 killed in derailment)
Blumenthal said Metro-North "must confront questions about adequacy of equipment, tracks, and maintenance and repair practices," though he noted that the root cause is yet to be determined. As he has in the past, he said he had asked NTSB Chairwoman Debbie Hersman for an expedited investigation.
Though the NTSB has yet to make any conclusions about the cause of the May derailment, its line of questioning and the facts it has released so far suggest potential flaws in Metro-North's regime for track inspections. Those include questions about how the agency handles paperwork and visual inspections, as well as track repairs.
One potential factor in the May derailment appears to be broken bar connecting pieces of track near where the train skidded off. Just days before the derailment, inspectors had noted problems with the joint bar — though they didn't consider it hazardous enough to require immediate action. That wasn't the first time there had been a problem on that section of track.
The investigation into Sunday's derailment is still in the early stages, so it's far too soon to say anything definitive about what may have caused the crash. The accident sent at least four cars in the seven-car train off the tracks, killing four and injuring 63 so far.
The accident appears to have been violent, with three of the four people killed having been ejected from the train. Reports from passengers suggest some of the derailed cars may have flipped and righted themselves again. A surgeon at a local hospital interviewed by an ABC affiliate in New York said several of the most serious injuries involve open elbow, knee and spinal fractures, and he characterized the injuries as "dirty."
Police Commissioner Ray Kelly told reporters Sunday that the train was estimated to be carrying about 100 people, which would mean that a majority of people on board were injured severely enough to require some form of medical attention.
Early questions are focusing on how fast the train was traveling around a curved piece of track as it approached the station near where it derailed.
MTA spokeswoman Marjorie Anders told The Associated Press that the piece of track is subject to a "slow" order, meaning that the conductor should have slowed the train down to take the bend.
CNN and local media on the ground in New York, citing unnamed law enforcement officials, said the train's conductor – who was among the injured – reported that he had he applied the brake but that it failed.
After the May derailment, Metro North acted quickly, including a soup-to-nuts reorganization of its track department. Leadership has been changed, new management positions added, and inspector retraining is under way. Metro-North has also in the past vowed to implement the NTSB's recommendations.
Metro-North is a Connecticut-based commuter rail agency that is operated by New York City's transit authority, the MTA.
Its management has taken pains to stress to its inspectors that they are autonomous and have the authority to request repairs immediately. But given the latest derailment, those steps themselves will be looked at afresh.


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'''Skug''' is a science fiction and fantasy fanzine by Gary S. Mattingly.
'''Skug''' is a science fiction and fantasy fanzine by Gary S. Mattingly.
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Skug is a science fiction and fantasy fanzine by Gary S. Mattingly.
Skug was first released in the 1990s and was published into the 2000s.
Contributors of writing included Pamela Boal, Larry Blazek, William Breiding (Star Fire), Rich Coad, Terry Floyd, Sean Russell Friend (Overspace), Dave Green, Patty Peters, Michael Shcherba, Steve Sneyd (Data Dump), Mae Strelkov, Bruce Townley (Oblong), and Billy Wolfenbarger.
Contributing artists included Sheryl Birkhead, Brad W. Foster, Alexis Gilliand, Teddy Harvia, Terry Jeeves (ERG, The Damned Patrol), Jay Kinney, Gary Mattingly, Patty Peters, Marc Schirmeister, Steve Stiles, and Mae Strelkov.
Covers were by Bruce Townley (#11, #12, #14), Sheryl Birkhead (#13), Jay Kinney (#15), and Mae Strelkov (#16).
Letters came from Bill Bowers (Outworlds), Jeanne Bowman (Janus), Avedon Carol (Chuch), Chester Cuthbert, Frank Denton (Ash-Wing), Lucy Huntzinger, Jerry Kaufman (Mainstream, Littlebrook), Robert Lichtman (Trap Door), Joseph Nicholas (Vector), Lloyd Penney (Torus), Geri Sullivan (Idea), Harry Warner, Jr. (Horizons) and Walt Willis (Hyphen).


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Macon County, Mo., funds by Environmental Protection Agency
Listing $952,293.38 in stimulus funds from Environmental Protection Agency for Macon
Note: For some programs where states do not report where money will be distributed across the state, we do not have the allocation for individual counties. Those programs include: Medicaid, unemployment benefits and food stamps. Those amounts are included in the totals for where the state agency receiving that money is located.
Amount refers to both the amount of stimulus funding going toward the project and the face value of the loan.
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Adam is a 12-year old human who was transferred to a school for local zoo animals because of an accidental misspelling of his last name from "Lyon" to "Lion". Adam was paired up with troublemaker Jake Spidermonkey in gym class, and now they're best friends.
Jake Spidermonkey is Adam's best friend. He hates not having Adam around regularly, and although he can be lazy and selfish, Jake's also a very good friend. He has also a slight obsession with his backside.
Ingrid Giraffe is easily the tallest student in Charles Darwin Middle School. Her height makes her feel insecure, so she tries - unsuccessfully - to blend into the background and not get attention. Ingrid has a crush on Adam Lyon, but she tries to keep this a secret.
Through a mix-up in paperwork, twelve-year-old Adam Lyon is accidentally transferred to Charles Darwin Middle School, where all of the students and faculty are animals. As the only human student, Adam soon finds that life at his new school really is the survival of the fittest.


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Found History - Creative writing and critical thinking come together in this L.A. history-inspired, found poetry exercise.
Squirrel Observations- Observe, collect, and analyze data on a popular animal that's easy to find in a schoolyard!
My Wild L.A. - Tell your story about L.A. nature and use it to develop a narrative work and inspire a research project!
Building Blocks of Minerals - Explore the fundamentals of chemistry and engage in inquiry through examining a mineral's composition and structure.
You Can't Fool Me! - Examine the chemical and physical properties of matter by revealing their application to real life situations.
Postulating Pressures - Research a mammal's natural history to try and reveal the selection pressures that drove its evolution, then share findings with a research project.
Sizing 'em Up - Or rather... down. Draw a dinosaur specimen to scale after measuring its length, width and estimating its height.
Dinosaurs and Definitions - Through a research project, examine vocabulary using context to infer the meaning of new words.


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Scattered throughout Pandaria are clickable scrolls which have a slight blue hue around them.There are several in each zone. There are achievements for reading all of them. Each time you complete one of the achievements you receive a mail with an item which starts a quest. Handing in the quests will grant you Lorewalkers reputation and Loremaster Cho will then act out a scene for you.
You can find coordinates for each of the scrolls within the first comment on wowhead. Be sure to read them, they're really fun and interesting.


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Radio stations are playing Christmas songs seemingly nonstop, but which ones are consumers actually buying?
Since digital downloading has become one of the more popular ways to buy an individual song, we took a look at sales compiled by media measurement company BigChampagne from Apple's iTunes store. The digital store accounts for 69 percent of the downloaded music market, according to market research group NPD Group.
The top ten-list turned out to be a mix of classics and fresh remakes from current artists. Check out the top -ten songs for the week ending Dec. 2, 2009. (Apple does not release volume data.)
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Kansas City Chiefs offensive coordinator Brian Daboll gave the media the answer that coach Romeo Crennel couldn't.
Daboll was asked Tuesday why Jamaal Charles was given just five carries in Sunday's 26-16 loss to the Oakland Raiders. On Sunday, Crennel responded to the same question by stating he wasn't exactly sure, never the answer you want to hear from the guy at the top of the food chain.
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Daboll shined light on the situation with some actual sentinent reasoning.
"Jamaal is a good player ... and give Oakland credit," Daboll said, via The Kansas City Star. "They did a nice job of stopping the run. We tried to move it some other ways. Every week is a new week.
"You go as the game develops. You try to run or pass based some on what you think you can do and some on what they're doing. If they're doing a good job of stopping the run over and over, we're going to try and move the ball in another fashion. If we're running the ball well, we'll continue to run the ball."
While we applaud Daboll for providing an actual explanation, it's still strange that Charles -- the team's most gifted playmaker by a long shot -- had just eight touches.
This wasn't a game that was 21-0 after the first quarter. The Chiefs remained within striking distance before Darrius Heyward-Bey's 32-yard touchdown catch gave the Raiders legitimate breathing room late in the third quarter.
The Chiefs are a better team when Jamaal Charles has the ball. Give Jamaal Charles the ball.
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STOCKTON - Homicide detectives were busy processing two murder scenes after two women and one man were killed and three other people were wounded during a two-hour span on a bloody Sunday evening in Stockton, police said.
STOCKTON - Homicide detectives were busy processing two murder scenes after two women and one man were killed and three other people were wounded during a two-hour span on a bloody Sunday evening in Stockton, police said.
Two people attending a birthday party died following a drive-by shooting that occurred about 8:10 p.m. Sunday outside a home in the 1800 block of East Sonora Street near Stribley Park, police said. In all, five people were struck by bullets, including one man visiting a home two doors down on the normally quiet street of single-family homes.
The San Joaquin County Coroner's Office identified the man who died Sunday at the party as Juan Augestine Sarraraz Jr., 22. The woman who was killed, Juanita Julia Maldonado, 35, was pronounced dead early Monday at a hospital.
A third shooting victim was listed in critical condition in a hospital, according to police. A neighbor said one of the other victims who was shot in the leg was already out of the hospital and recovering from his injury. Police did not provide the shooting victims' identities.
Another neighbor, who declined to give his name out of fear for his safety, said a resident of the home was havinging a birthday party outside for about 15 to 20 guests, including several young children. A barbecue, lawn chairs and children's toys could be seen in the front yard Monday afternoon after police had finished their initial investigation.
After hearing several shots, the neighbor ran outside and described the scene as "total chaos. People running around everywhere, yelling, 'He got shot.' Kids running around asking where their parents were."
The neighbor, who did not witness the shooting, said he believed that a vehicle turned onto East Sonora Street heading west and an occupant first shot at a person outside one house, then fired again upon the group attending the birthday party two houses away before fleeing the area. Police would not comment on that scenario nor provide further details except to say they believe the shooting was gang-related.
Later, officers responded to a call of a disturbance shortly before 10 p.m. Sunday in the 700 block of East Clay Street, in south Stockton, where a man told police he killed his girlfriend, identified as Kelly Melissa Guerrero, 34, authorities said. When officers arrived, they found a woman dead inside the home. Police did not say how the woman died. Anthony Orosco, 36, was arrested on suspicion of murder, police reported.
The three people who died are Stockton's fourth, fifth and sixth homicide victims of 2013. Their deaths came days after the Police Department released figures showing a dramatic decrease in violent crime over the first two months of 2013 compared with the same period in 2012, when the city set a record with 71 homicides.


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Interview: Cherry Hill native Evan Weiss makes waves with emo pioneers in Their / They're / There
It's about 10 degrees in Chicago, but Evan Weiss is glad to be home.
The indie / emo / punk musician is back after a three-week full-band European tour with his solo project Into It. Over It., and coming off a year jam-packed with other tours, releases and other musical endeavors.
For now, it's time to relax.
"When I'm home, I do some music stuff, but I don't really have a job or anyone to answer to aside from doing music-related things," Weiss says. "So I've just been hanging out since we got back. … I've been kind of relaxing and nesting for the last week."
Weiss hasn't always called Chicago home. He moved there five years ago from his hometown of Cherry Hill, and his home music scene of Philadelphia. His participation in past local projects includes The Progress, Damiera and Up Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right B A Start.
But it's Chicago where Weiss was able to collaborate with fellow Windy City punks Mike Kinsella (Cap'n Jazz, American Football, Owls and his solo project Owen) and Matthew Frank (Loose Lips Sink Ships) to form punk supergroup There / They're / Their. The band will stop by First Unitarian Church Friday as part of a short four-day run with Mansions and Birthmark.
With Frank's intricate guitar parts, Kinsella's post-punk drum beats and Weiss' bass playing and distinctive vocals, news about T / T / T came out this past April when they put out a self-titled EP to coincide with Record Store Day. But the band had been formed more than a year prior in late 2011, instigated by Weiss' desire to play with Frank.
"Matt and I had met through his old band. We hadn't really been hanging out, but we'd see each other around at shows and I was very familiar with Matt's guitar playing," Weiss recalls. "I had this idea about doing a band that was his style of mad-house guitar playing, but kind of making it poppy. Not poppy, maybe catchy? Basically taking his crazy way of guitar and putting something memorable to it so it wasn't just crazy guitar all of the time."
Into It. Over It. then played the record release show for Owen's Ghost Town, when frontman Kinsella told Weiss how much he missed playing drums in a band.
"I kind of mentioned starting a band with him, and how I'd had this idea to start a band with Matt. So I go to Matt and tell him, you know, 'Hey I'd like to start a band with you. I think I have a drummer in mind,'" Weiss says. "It kind of came together pretty organically."
After Kinsella's initial shock at the first practice that Weiss would not be playing guitar (that's what he's known for playing with Into It. Over It.), the three musicians successfully ran through the few songs Weiss and Frank had written.
"He doesn't write guitar the way I think about guitar, " Weiss said of Frank. "His ideas are really out of the box and crazy for me … [but] I think that the way the vocals are written and the way the bass and drums are written, it kind of fools you into not thinking it's as complicated as it is. That was the idea, to take something really crazy and make it sound really straightforward, even though it's totally not. So, that to me is fun."


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Robert Kless
Robert started working for IFAW Germany in 2005. First he was responsible for wildlife trade issues. And since February 2017 he is representative of the German office. He is campaigning nationally and internationally on topics as wildlife trade (CITES, wildlife trade via Internet), elephants, wolves and marine mammals. His overall aim is to help protecting wildlife from commercial exploitation and habitat loss.
Before Robert joined IFAW he worked for several other conservation organizations in Germany, inter alia for one of Germany's biggest Nature Conservation Organization NABU. Topics of his work and engagement were for example renaturation of rivers and floodplains, promotion of renewable energy, campaigning against wild animals in circuses. Already during his study of Geography at the University of Marburg, Germany, he supported the local GREENPEACE group for several years, campaigning against using nuclear energy and genetic engineering in agriculture and food, and for the establishment of a beech grove National Park in Germany.
Growing up in a very rural region in the Black Forest with a great nature and environment, Robert's interest and fascination for animals were already aroused during his childhood and youth. This interest remains till today and for him it is a stroke of luck and a great privilege that he has always been able so far to combine it with his profession.