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The Risks We Dread: A Social Circle Account
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What makes some risks dreadful? We propose that people are particularly sensitive to threats that could kill the number of people that is similar to the size of a typical human social circle. Although there is some variability in reported sizes of social circles, active contact rarely seems to be maintained with more than about 100 people. The loss of this immediate social group may have had survival consequences in the past and still causes great distress to people today. Therefore we hypothesize that risks that threaten a much larger number of people (e.g., 1000) will not be dreaded more than those that threaten to kill "only" the number of people typical for social circles. We found support for this hypothesis in 9 experiments using different risk scenarios, measurements of fear, and samples from different countries. Fear of risks killing 100 people was higher than fear of risks killing 10 people, but there was no difference in fear of risks killing 100 or 1000 people (Experiments 1–4, 7–9). Also in support of the hypothesis, the median number of deaths that would cause maximum level of fear was 100 (Experiments 5 and 6). These results are not a consequence of lack of differentiation between the numbers 100 and 1000 (Experiments 7 and 8), and are different from the phenomenon of "psychophysical numbing" that occurs in the context of altruistic behavior towards members of other communities rather than in the context of threat to one's own community (Experiment 9). We discuss several possible explanations of these findings. Our results stress the importance of considering social environments when studying people's understanding of and reactions to risks.
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April 24, 2012 Posted by Janice Flahiff | Psychology | fear, Risk assessment, Risk perception, risks, Social circle, Social group, Social network | Leave a comment
Toxicologist Believe It's Time To Test Assumptions About Health Effects That Guide Risk Assessment
From the 22 November Medical News Today article
Governments and the nuclear industry have failed to address serious data gaps and untested assumptions guiding exposure limits to Cesium (Cs)-137 released in the Chernobyl accident in 1986 and this year's incident at Fukushima, says University of Massachusetts Amherst toxicologist Edward Calabrese. It's time now to move toward adopting more evidence-based risk assessment for the future, he adds.
"It is also critical that the linear, no-threshold (LNT) model and the alternative models, such as the threshold and hormesis models, be objectively assessed so that society can be guided by scientific data and validated models rather than ideological perspectives that stealthily infected the risk assessment process for ionizing radiation and carcinogenic chemicals," he states. …..
November 22, 2011 Posted by Janice Flahiff | Medical and Health Research News, Public Health | Chernobyl disaster, Fukushima, Ionizing radiation, Linear no-threshold model, Nuclear power, Risk assessment | Leave a comment
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Officials probably cannot stop gun shows at a state building located on city property, Asheville's city attorney says.
ASHEVILLE � Officials probably cannot stop gun shows at a state building located on city property, Asheville's city attorney says.
City attorney Bob Oast says state law limits local government's ability to regulate guns, the Asheville Citizen-Times reported.
City Councilman Cecil Bothwell said earlier this month the city should ban gun shows on city-owned property, a reaction to the school shooting in Connecticut that killed 20 children and six adults.
The WNC Agriculture Center that hosts gun shows is located on city property. The state of North Carolina operates the center and owns its buildings.
"The state tells us pretty directly what we can and can't do," Oast said Monday. "The state can make rules for its own property."
Bothwell had proposed the city use an existing ordinance that prevents possession of firearms on city property.
The center is scheduled to hold four more gun shows this year. The next is to start March 23.
Bothwell says he will continue to push to ban the shows.
Oast said it is possible the city could use the ordinance to prevent shows at U.S. Cellular Center.
"It is a city-owned facility on city-owned property," he said. That facility last hosted a gun show in 2009.
Atlanta promoter Mike Kent says he's not surprised by the opinion.
"I have felt that we were in the right. I was assured about that by some folks high up in state government all along," Kent said.

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Since I haven't posted much this month (though I do have new sketches on the way, I promise) I thought I'd go way back and show some very early sketchbook work. This drawing was done 17 years ago today. I'm sure I copied the pose from a comic book somewhere, but the character is an original creation by yours truly. "The Cetaceanist" was a marine biologist and crime-fighter with various whale-derived superpowers. One of these days I'll get around to finishing the comic book I started about him. Also of note here: I no longer put little loops in my 2s.


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USA TODAY Sports' Reid Cherner dishes on all the changes we've seen in the past 36 years.
NEW YORK -- Spectacular Bid (1979) stepped on a safety pin the day of the race, said his trainer. Charismatic (1999) crossed the finish line with a broken leg. Big Brown (2008) had a shoe displaced and didn't finish. I'll Have Another (2012) never made it to the starting gate.
As California Chrome awaits his try at horse racing's first Triple Crown in 36 years, trainer Art Sherman, 77, says he not replaying all that's gone wrong for a dozen horses who have been in the same spot since the drought began – and fallen short in a dozen different ways in the 1½-mile test of the Belmont Stakes.
"When you've been in the game as long as I have, nothing fazes me anymore," Sherman said Tuesday after watching California Chrome gallop at Belmont Park. "I've had everything happen to me that's going to happen. … And when I've thought I've seen it all, something new happens. So I just can't worry about that. … If something happens, it happens. … Right now, he looks great and has his new shoes on. I feel good about him."
WINNER?: Thirteen reasons California Chrome can get the Triple Crown
Two years ago, I'll Have Another's handlers felt good about their 4-5 favorite, until they noticed a slight loss of definition in his front, left leg the Thursday before the Belmont. He was scratched the day before the race with a tendon issue and was in his barn when Union Rags won.
"A horse can wake up the next day and have something wrong with him. Like Charlie Whittingham (late Hall of Fame trainer) used to say, 'They're like strawberries. They can spoil over night,' '' says Barry Irwin, president of Team Valor International of Versailles, Ky., which syndicates race horse ownership.
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Big Brown had a crack discovered in his hoof after the won the 2008 Preakness. In the Belmont, the shoe on his right, hind leg became displaced. The shoe stayed on, but Big Brown didn't finish. Jockey Kent Desormeaux eased up on the 3-10 favorite at the top of the stretch. He didn't finish the race.
In 1979, Spectacular Bid looked poised to become the third Triple Crown winner in a row behind Affirmed (1978) and Seattle Slew (1977). Instead, he finished third. After the race, late trainer Bud Delp, who had called Spectacular Bid the "best horse ever to look through a bridle," said his horse was found to have a safety pin lodged in his hoof on race day.
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Says Irwin: "There are so many stories about those horses. You don't know which ones to believe and which ones not to believe. But some of those horses could have won the final leg if certain things were a little different..''
Whatever the individual stories, the dozen horses all faced a common challenge in the Belmont — running a mile and a half for the first time ever and at the end of the five-week Triple Crown grind.
The Kentucky Derby is 1¼ miles. The Preakness is a 1 3/16 miles. The extra distance at the Belmont can seem like a mile for some horses.
Trainer Billy Gowan, who will send Ride On Curlin against California Chrome, says the horses decide whether they're up to the mile and a half. "You can't train them harder. They either want to go a mile and a half or they don't. There's really nothing you can train into them," says Gowan.
Some horses to have the pedigree, the family history that shows they might have what it takes to go the distance. "I think the pedigree would suggest it, but still you don't know if they can do it or not until you try," said Gowan.
MORE: Are changes coming to the Triple Crown?
Tuesday, California Chrome galloped 23/8 miles. He typically gallops two miles.
"I feel better about this race than I have any other race," said Art Sherman, whose horses has won six in a row. " … I know that it will be tough for a mile and half, but this horse is a good horse.''
So he's not worried about anything?
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But luck can play a role, too, in any race.
Sherman has that covered. He's worn a new, gray suit for the Derby and Preakness. He'll have it on Saturday's race and carry a special dollar.
"I've still got my lucky dollar that this lady gave me in a letter. She wrote to me and said keep this dollar. It was before the Derby, so you know I'm still holding onto that dollar in my money clip,'' said Sherman. " … That suit won two major races. I'm sure not going to change the suit. In fact, I dropped it off to get clean and pressed."


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Deutsche Bank's Sherri Scribner today cut her ratings on electronics distributors Arrow Electronics (ARW) and Avnet (AVT) to Hold from Buy, writing that most valuations for both are fair, trading at price-to-book multiples of 1.3 times.
Demand is weak globally, but both Arrow and Avnet should see relatively normal results in the current quarter, she writes:
This quarter, we expect Arrow and Avnet to exhibit normal seasonality amid a subdued global demand environment. The components segment will be driven by strength in the industrial and automotive markets, and we believe inventory levels how now been worked down. In IT hardware, we expected more muted demand, with servers being weaker, while storage remains a bright spot.
Scribner maintains a Buy rating on shares of interconnect manufacturer Amphenol (APH):
We are positive on connector companies in C3Q-13, as we expect the
improving economy, strength in automotive, and conservative guidance to drive upside. We would be buyers of APH into earnings as the stock has underperformed peers and the market over the past 3 months, and we expect shares to begin to catch up. We expect upside to C3Q-13 results and C4Q-13 guidance as we believe mgmt gave conservative C3Q-13 guidance and that Street expectations for C4Q-13 are too low.
She continues to rate disk drive makers Seagate Technology (STX) and Western Digital (WDC) Buy, seeing some potential for upside in disk drives:
Both STX and WDC guided C3Q-13 industry TAM to be slightly up Q/Q and we believe the market shipped roughly 138M units in the Sept quarter, up 3% Q/Q, vs. the PC market which was up 8% Q/Q. With Y/Y weakness in PCs well telegraphed, investors remain focused on ASP trends and gross margins, which we expect to hold up in C3Q-13 despite investor concerns. With PC demand still soft, we expect conservative C4Q-13 TAM guidance which we expect to be flat or down slightly Q/Q. We remain positive on the group, driven by our long-standing view that robust data growth will be the key driver of demand and that industry consolidation will lead to more stable pricing and profitability. We are buyers of both STX and WDC.
Shares of Arrow today closed down 46 cents, or 0.9%, at $49.16, while Avnet declined 29 cents, or 0.7%, to close at $80.28.


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Now this is the third part from our trip with the time magazine covers we started here and there . At trip with history,politics and Art .
We stopped at the year 1970 , an important year in the history of the Arab world not only Egypt when President Nasser suddenly died in a critical time , Israeli invasion for the Arab lands and a Palestinian-Jordanian mini war going on and one question "Who is going to fill Nasser's vacancy ??' Yes according to the fact President Nasser chose Anwar El-Sadat to be his first vice president beside another 2 vice presidents ,El-Sadat became the the third President to Egypt.President El-Sadat who had one hell of a history pre-1952 coup managed through the years after the coup to keep a low profile for himself and I guess it was a smart thing from him to do so because he realized that there would be a deadly conflict on the leadership in the revolution council .Keeping a low profile made him like a riddle inside and outside ,he was regarded as weak puppet in the hands of the centers of Power till he surprised the Egyptians and the whole world with his corrective revolution on the 15th of May 1971 to get rid from all those anti-Sadat and Pro-Soviet in a single move
The world especially the west did not understand the move or understand what policy Anwar El-Sadat would work with, he was the riddle of the middle East ,the Underrated Heir who proved to be above all the expectations
President El-Sadat made his first appearance on the cover of the time on the 17th of May 1971 , just two days after from the corrective movement he made . He was the third president and the fourth leader to appear on the cover of the time . That cover was very special , an illustration of Cartoon showing him like Sphinx in front of th pyramids , Sadat's head on the body of a lion and on the left side there was a ribbon written on it "The Middle east Riddle" , a very perfect cover to drew the attention of the reader who did not know who the Sadat was , a riddle that need to be understood in the middle east
After 3 years President Sadat appeared for the second time on June 24 ,1974 with Preisdent Nixon in a photo from the huge public reception the first American President received in Cairo and I think it would be the last , Nixon was the first American president to visit Egypt,Cairo since the famous visit of Roosevelt to the Suez Canal and his meeting with king Farouk.Already that visit was a bright point in the life of Nixon , the Americans are officially back in the heart of the Arab world after years of Soviet domination ,regardless of the claims of the Nasserists and Egyptian Communists ,President Nixon was received by huge welcome of the Egyptian people for the fact that they got sick from the Soviets "With my all respect to the leftists ,history is history". The Cover was a photo taken by Michele Laurant
The following year Sadat appeared on the cover of the magazine for the third time on April 7th 1975 , this time he was not alone , he was with other leaders from kings,prime ministers and Presidents of the World ,the cover story , which was more a whole section was about America and the world , mostly about King Faisal who was killed that year ,his death was not an easy thing , President Sadat was mentioned in three articles in that issue , the first about the death of the Saudi King , the second was a short report about the relations between the Soviets and the Arabs specifically President Sadat who was still counting on their arms and the third which was the most important of them about the Kissigner negotiations between Egypt and Israel and what went wrong in it. Those who appeared on the cover beside Sadat King Faisal 'May Allah bless his soul', Kissinger,Rabin and Thieu of South Vietnam then.
President Sadat appeared again in the same year on the cover of the time on June 9th year 1975 , a very important year on all level , the beginning of the open doors policy , the relations with the Americans and also the relations with the soviets, the opening of Suez canal on the 5 th of June and surely the talks between Cairo and ... "The magazine wickedly used the word Jerusalem despite it was n't and is not the capital of Israel yet" in brief it was one hell of watershed Week in Cairo . Another illustration for President Sadat , this time his face is well drawn in close up with the words "The Quest of Peace" Sadat was already for Peace but on what terms and how !!?? Sadat was the first Egyptian leader to appear twice in the same year till then ,that was the fourth time for him to be on the cover
Well year 1975 did not finish and President Sadat broke the record and appeared for the third time in the same year and the fifth in total on the cover of the magazine on August 25th in a very beautiful comic illustration by Jack Davis portraying Kissinger and a pigeon of Peace on his shoulder trying to make President Sadat and Rabin Shake hands , Sadat and Rabin both were wearing their military suites referring to their military background and rivalry and if you noticed Rabin got bandages over his hand and Sadat got a plaster on his forehead, both were skeptical while shaking the perfect illustration for a famous cartoonist to describe the cover story of Kissinger's visits between the two Countries to bring Peace in the middle east for the first time and the obstacles he was facing from both sides
After 2 years President Sadat made in August 8th 1977 it to the cover again for the sixth time ,yet this time he was not alone for the second time ,he was with other leaders from the world in a beautiful comic illustration , already he was not the center of the cover story that was represented graphically , the center of the cover story was President Jimmy Carter and his foreign policy in the Oval room dealing with the powers in the world and issues whether the Soviets or Europe or the middle east or Asia , it made him like Daniel in the den of the lions and that was the idea of the comic ,the foreign policies of the ex-Georgia Governor who was much less experienced in foreign affairs were under question, Carter came to a powerful world ,with powerful players in foreign policies who were like lions ,fierce lions whether West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt who described Carter as a faith healer or Egypt's President who looked in a Sphinx position for the second time , looking in a smart wicked way admired already the policy of Carter whom was called by an Egyptian official "An Arab more than the Arabs" and it seemed that it is true ,already Carter took a legacy from Kissinger that was the Peace talks between Arabs and Israelis especially with the arrival of Menachem Begin to power in Israel appearing less willing to comprise for Peace , he was another lion to be dealt with , of course those beside the two lions of the east U.S.S.R 'S Brezhnev and China's Hua Kuo-Feng
Two months Later President had to be on the time Cover again after his historical visit to Israel ,the historical visit was the cover story of the time November 28th 1977 , the sacred mission of President Sadat to return back the land and to bring Peace breaking the ice by himself,that was the seventh time and President Sadat broke the record
President Sadat appeared for the eigth time on 8th of January 1978 in the following year as the first President of Egypt to be chosen as Man of the year by the Time for the first and currently the last time as he was the architect of Peace in New the Middle east after his famous visit to Israel,an Illustration for the face of President Sadat, a perfect protait for his face by Audrey Flack. He made it again to the cover but not as the cover boy that year 1978, he appeared again on March 20th in the same year in the right corner of the cover in an exclusive announcement that the Time would publish his memories "in search for identity" in English
And if you think that would be his last appearance on the time cover in that year , you are wrong because he appeared for the 9th time on the Time that year for the third time in the same year on September 25th, he appeared in another comic illustration face to face with Begin ,the way to Peace was not easy for sure and the two parties who started the negotiations on the 17 of September in Camp David had suffered during that time till they appeared on the screen of TV Shaking hands and signing the camp David accords which were backbones of a Peace treaty between Egypt and Israel , President Carter's vision of Peace came true,still the cover made them more like rivals not Peace partners , you can feel it
President Sadat after that did not appear on the cover of the magazine alive again , but as a dead man after three years in 1981 in one of the most beautiful illustrated cover of the time ever , Simple yet full of meaning , the cover of the issue published on October 19,1981 after his assassination on the 6th of October from the same year, his assassination was the topic of the wonderful illustration , his face in front and in the background what happened in the Sad parade , the last public army Parade Egypt has seen till ,the exact sequence of events as it was seen on TV ,the air fights , the military vehicle and the attack of the terrorists on the podium. inside the edition there were about 9 articles about him whether sadness about his loss as a man of Peace ,how he changed the history, his passion for Peace,the American grief on their Egyptian Friend , the concerns after his death and the faithful pupil who took his place with a short interview with Mubarak 48 hours after the incident of course that was beside the international reaction .That time was the 10th time
As I said that was the last time for him on the cover of the time Magazine Cover where he had appeared more than any previous or next Egyptian President , in total he appeared for 10 times from year 1971 to 1981 .He appeared Solo for five times and the other five he appeared with other leaders.Three of those covers were photographs where as the rest were illustrations.
President Sadat surely appeared all those times due to his role in the international Peace , what made him earn it and on the contrary of President Nasser he was a friend to the west yet not a weak ally but a powerful man who was ready for Peace on the basis of Land and Justice , President Sadat again was not a weak puppet like those Arab weak leaders from Presidents and Kings Now
Amazon.com: Anwar El Sadat: In Search of Identity an Autobiography: Books: Anwar Sadat


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New German firearms registry shows 5.5 million guns legally owned in country
BERLIN – Germany's new national firearms registry shows there are 5.5 million guns in legal circulation in the country.
That's an average of four weapons for each of the 1.4 million registered owners.
It is the first time reliable nationwide figures have been collected as previously such data were held by local authorities.
The registry provides a central national database to help police track the buyer and seller of each legally owned gun in Germany.
All European Union countries must have such a registry by 2015.
Interior Ministry spokesman Philipp Spauschus said Friday the registry would make a "concrete contribution to public safety."
Gun ownership rules in the nation of 82 million are far stricter than in the United States and firearms must be securely stored out of reach of unauthorized persons.


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Did you know?[edit | edit source]Willem I, Prince of Orange (April 24, 1533—July 10, 1584), also widely known as 'Willem de Zwijger' (William the Silent), or simply Willem van Oranje (William of Orange), as well as 'Vader des Vaderlands' (Father of the Fatherland), was born in the House of Nassau as a count of Nassau-Dillenburg. He became Prince of Orange in 1544 and is thereby the founder of the branch House of Orange-Nassau. He was the main leader of the Dutch revolt against the Spanish that set off the Eighty Years' War and resulted in the formal independence of the United Provinces in 1648. He was assassinated by Balthasar Gérard (also written as 'Gerardts') in his own home, de Prinsenhof in Delft.
The Dutch fought an Eighty Years long war, from 1568—1648, to gain indepence and religious freedom and so became one of the countries where people of all religions and cultures could find refuge.
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This web-site has all kinds of possibilities, starting with different topics, not just genealogy. When you do go to the genealogy topics you can search all kinds of web-sites, known and unknown. Some great information there!
Research at the CBG We can help you to search for information about your ancestors in the Netherlands. For advice please contact us. You may find some specific information in the following downloadable brochures:
Searching for Your Ancestors in the Netherlands. CBG brochure When you find an ancestor from 'Holland' or ' The Netherlands' you would be curious if additional information existed in Dutch sources. The Centraal Bureau voor Genealogie can help you to search for that information about your ancestors in the Netherlands.
Personal Record Cards and Personal Record Lists CBG brochure Personal Record Cards were introduced in the Netherlands in 1938 and used to register information on every inhabitant of the Netherlands regardless of nationality. Since October 1, 1994 the population registration in the Netherlands is automized. The personal record card was replaced by so called Personal Record Lists. Since this Central Register of Deceased Persons contains a lot of important information for genealogical and biographical research purposes, the CBG is allowed to provide information on written request.
List of Dutch Genealogical Researchers. CBG brochure Experienced Dutch genealogical researchers can help you to search for additional information in Dutch records.
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Title Cassell's English-Dutch, Dutch-English dictionary = Engels-Nederlands, Nederlands-Engels woordenboek Kramer, Jacob, 1802-1869. Kramers' Engels Woordenboek Call Number 439.31321 Ca272 Publication London : Cassell, 1982 New York, New York : Macmillan Publishers Limited Physical xiv, 602, vii, 729 p. ; 19 cm. ISBN/ISSN 0025229400 Title Also Known As Cassell's Dutch dictionary Engels-Nederlands, Nederlands-Engels woordenboek English-Dutch, Dutch-English dictionary Kramers' Engels woordenboek
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My university sent me a survey canvassing survey responses for their "UQ Student Strategy" which apparently all about "An open discussion: Creating change through transformational learning". I read some of the PDF. It's a jargon-fest. You have to rank 5 "strategies" you think should be top priority and three you think are low priority. Here are the strategies:
I'll spare you the full horror of the complete "Green Paper". But here are the expanded Strategies 1.1 to 1.3, which correspond to the first three items in the list above:
- Reimagine UQ's Graduate Attributes to drive program coherence, develop future employability skills and meet graduates' aspirations and employers' expectations
- Expand opportunities for extension experiences – including a suite of online and blended flagship courses and experiences – that reflect the comprehensive liberal education UQ is able to provide
- Build significant industry and government partnerships that strengthen and expand opportunities for authentic and attractive WIL experiences across all programs
I hope that this has made it clearer for you! Although I'm not entirely sure what a "WIL experience" is, nor what an inauthentic WIL experience would look like (seeing as we need to avoid that in order to provide an "authentic" one …)
Anyway they had a box to give additional feedback. And this is what I wrote to them:
Talk like a human for god's sake.
All your options are just awful jargon with no real content. It's meaningless drivel that sounds like a bad business strategy powerpoint slide from 2002. Does it have synergy? Does it vertically scale the horizontal integration of enterprise capability management with cost-effective strategization of key performance indicators implementing effective change management process design?
Look, after a long career in top flight computer programming jobs (a skill that UQ didn't teach me, another university taught me how to think like computer scientist long before I went to UQ), I too can talk like one of your expensive management consultants. But stop it, just stop it, its a joke, and you're a joke for spewing out this crap.
Teach students how to think, how to reason, how to research. Don't just teach them "Java" or "C++" or "Plate tectonics" or the "Pauli exclusion principle" or a string of dates and facts pertinent to the French Revolution or what Jane Austen wrote about in "Persuasion". Well, teach them all those things, but also teach them how to critically evaluate data, why to be suspicious (and when not to be!) of news reports of current events and especially scientific and technical matters, how to spot a likely fake, and where to find out if it is true or not. Teach them how to live, how society works, how it might work, how it should work, how it mustn't work, how to treat other people, what's the difference between right and wrong, and several different frameworks for deciding that.
Teach them that corporate jargon nearly always disguises a malevolent purpose- although actually, via negative reinforcement, you are already doing this, and you are empowering those students who have malevolent intent or those weak-willed enough to fall into line with it.
So don't be mindless jargonising corporate robots ready to "create change" – is that good change or bad change. I mean Hitler "created change" right? So did Albert Einstein. What sort of change do you want? Hitler or Einstein? Change isn't a unalloyed good and how can you teach the students the difference if you clearly don't know that difference yourself?


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Until June 30, 2012, certain unpaid traffic tickets are eligible for a 50 percent discount under a one-time amnesty program. To qualify for amnesty all the following conditions must be met:
You will have to check with the superior court in the county where you got the ticket to determine how to pay for the traffic tickets that are eligible under the amnesty program.
No parking tickets, no DUIs, no reckless driving are eligible for the amnesty program.
The program includes all adult and juvenile vehicle code and non vehicle code infractions. Other traffic tickets due to be paid before January 1, 2009 could qualify too, but you will have to check with the superior court in the county where you got the ticket.
If other fees and assessments were added to your original fine, those will also be discounted 50 percent. The total amount you owe can be cut in half. You will have to pay it off in one lump sum, but you may be able to use a credit card. Cash and checks usually work, too. For details, and to check eligibility for your overdue court-ordered debt, contact the superior court where you got your violation.Note: Some counties may have slightly different eligibility requirements. Check with the superior court in the county where you got your ticket to find out the specific details of the amnesty program.
A: After January 1, 2012, contact the Superior Court in the county where the violation occurred.
A: You can pay in whatever form is customary in your county, which may include credit card, cash, cashier's checks, money orders, and personal checks.
Check with your local superior court for payment information.
A: No. You must pay the full 50% of amounts due in one lump payment.
Check with your local superior court for payment information.
A: Individuals who are unable to renew their driver's license due to unpaid tickets may have their driver's license hold or suspension released.
A: The amnesty program does NOT eliminate points.
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When Carl Icahn disclosed a 9.39% stake in Family Dollar Stores (UNKNOWN:FDO.DL) on June 6, he noted in his SEC filing that he had purchased company shares "in the belief that they were undervalued." Paradoxically, Family Dollar's stock is undervalued only in the context of Icahn's and other hedge fund activists' interests. To understand why, let's take a brief look at the company -- without regard to activist shareholders, and again in the context of their ownership.
A struggling business in a difficult industry
Over the last few quarters, Family Dollar's momentum has deflated. The company's second-quarter fiscal 2014 earnings were particularly disappointing, as revenue declined 6.1%, and income before taxes dropped by 35% versus the prior-year period. Even adjusting for an extra week in the prior year, revenue was essentially flat, despite heavy promotions. Management blamed a mix of products that shifted toward lower-margin consumables, a poorly executed holiday season, and marketing missteps for the uninspired results. But the fact is that the market opportunity for dollar stores has dampened in recent years.
As the U.S. economy continues to improve, the core customer of dollar stores is still tapped out and financially exhausted. To illustrate, on Family Dollar's most recent earnings call, an analyst questioned the impact to the company of reductions in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, the federal program that administers food stamps, among other services. CEO Howard Levine responded that the result was "difficult to quantify but [I] can tell you that it's not a positive for our customers."
In a similar vein, Richard Dreiling, the CEO of Dollar General, pointed out earlier this month that his company is expanding the number of items it carries in the $1 to $5 range ("dollar stores" traditionally sell items within a range of $1 to $10) and "sharpening" price points. "We are not waiting on the economy to improve for our core customer as she continues to face headwinds in cost increases," he observed.
Challenges ahead dispute the concept of undervaluation
To turn its revenue and income trends around without any friendly propulsion from the economy, Family Dollar is permanently lowering prices on 1,000 basic items, tweaking its product mix, and closing stores. But these actions will strain operating cash flow, which has thinned lately. The company plans to close 370 underperforming stores this year, and will incur a cash burn of $53 million to $58 million associated with the closings. At the same time, management will continue its plan to "renovate, relocate, or expand" roughly 850 stores this year. In reconfiguring its product mix, Family Dollar has bumped up its inventory to levels more than 13% higher than the prior year. All of these actions are capital intensive: In the last two quarters, Family Dollar tapped unsecured credit lines for $296 million, bringing total borrowings to $796 million. This is roughly half of total shareholders' equity, and as a reference point, the company has $157 million of cash on hand.
The company has significant off-balance-sheet obligations as well. As Family Dollar's strategy is to avoid owning real estate locations, it carries a fair amount of operating lease obligations at any given time. Going forward, the company has some significant lease payments looming: $515 million, $475 million, and $427 million to be paid in fiscal years 2014, 2015, and 2016, respectively. These obligations contradict the notion that Family Dollar could be further leveraged to return palpable value back to shareholders -- a common strategy in takeovers of undervalued companies with clean balance sheets.
To draw together the themes discussed above, for investors to regard Family Dollar as undervalued, management would have to turn the revenue trend around via newly lowered prices, manage increasingly tight cash flow without overleveraging, and improve gross margins through its product mix and store closings. These are all entirely possible outcomes, but much depends on future results.
Valuation often depends on the control you can exert
Now, in Carl Icahn's hands, the entire complexion of Family Dollar shares changes because he can exert control in a way that you or I can't. The possibilities of Icahn influencing a merger with Dollar General or perhaps Dollar Tree have been widely covered in the financial press, as well as by my Foolish colleague Nickey Friedman. But I believe Mr. Icahn is also exploring more direct action, including seeking to influence or modify the executive management team, which would allow him to make more extreme changes in the near term.
The current team, led by CEO Howard Levine, has implemented changes based on a long outlook -- it's going to close less than 5% of its stores while continuing to expand the chain, although at a reduced new-store opening schedule beginning in fiscal 2015 (from 525 this year to 350-400 in 2015). Odds are that Icahn, who earned his billionaire street cred as a somewhat ruthless corporate raider earlier in his career, probably doesn't have patience with such a plan.
If Icahn gained control over the company, his marching orders might require new store openings to slow to a trickle, with a more significant number of store closings in order to boost margins. This would deplete some cash in the way of exit fees from leases, but there's ample room in the company's unsecured lines, which have increased from $700 million to $900 million, to absorb this hit. It may be a smarter move for Family Dollar to cede market share growth for now in order to become a smaller, more vigorous, and more profitable organization in the years ahead. Ironically, such actions would likely propel the stock price, justifying Icahn's investment.
A single pill won't solve the Family Dollar board's headaches
Family Dollar's board was quick to react to Icahn's ownership disclosure, adopting a "poison pill," or shareholder's rights plan, which essentially forces any owner of greater than 10% to pay a premium for control of the company. The rights agreement is in effect for one year, expiring on June 8, 2015. But fighting the tide may be folly, as there are too many strong hands around this particular poker table, with Trian Fund Management and Paulson & Co. also holding sizable, if slightly smaller, stakes. Between Icahn and his fellow strong-willed billionaires, we'll surely witness concrete actions to increase the value of Family Dollar, despite the possibility of strong resistance from its board. In this context, it's no stretch to say the shares are undervalued.


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Proposition 30 is no longer a ballot initiative. It's an obsession.
Just read the papers and listen to the California political commentary. Almost all news is viewed through a Prop 30 prism.
For several days, California pundits have speculated: What will the spike in gas prices mean for Prop 30? There's also been Prop 30-related speculation about what GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney's surge in the polls could mean for the measure.
This comes on top of months of similar speculation. What would the pension legislation that the state Legislature passed, and that Gov. Brown signed into law, mean for Prop 30? What would high-speed rail mean? What would the scandal in the state parks department mean?
Prop 30 is a big political conversation -- and Prop Zero has been a big part of it -- but this is tilting into the weird.
Prop 30 is simply not that important. It's a temporary -- emphasis on temporary -- increase in income taxes on wealthier folks and a small, also temporary, quarter-cent increase on sales taxes for everyone. It also includes some budget mumbo-jumbo and a new amendment that locks certain revenue streams for local governments into the state constitution.
But this isn't big stuff. Indeed, it's designed as a modest, nonthreatening measure -- nonthreatening enough to get passed. And, yes, while there are budget "trigger cuts" that are supposed to be pulled if Prop 30 fails, those cuts aren't in Prop 30 itself. They're part of the budget.
So it makes little sense to relate unrelated news to Prop 30. Then why is it happening? Because California is in crisis, and there are no bigger ideas in play right now to fix the system.
Prop 30, small as it is, is the biggest thing out there.
All of which offers another reason for the state to take on big, constitutional reform: If you're going to obsess, why not spend your energy worrying about something big?


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This seems quite a complex and hard-to-cover-all-situations method. I am wondering if there is any alternatives?


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Perez go-ahead double lifts Royals over White Sox
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — While Salvador Perez came up with the winning hit right after Nori Aoki made the game-saving catch.
Salvador Perez hit a go-ahead RBI double with two outs in the eighth inning and the Kansas City Royals beat the Chicago White Sox 4-3 Saturday.
Alex Gordon doubled off left-hander Scott Downs (0-1) before Perez hit Maikel Cleto's second pitch down the left-field line.
Wade Davis (1-1) let the White Sox tie it at three when gave up two runs in the eighth on two singles, a walk, a hit batter and sacrifice fly.
Greg Holland worked around a leadoff walk for his second save in two days.
Royals right fielder Aoki prevented the White Sox from taking a lead when he made a lunging catch of Alexei Ramirez line drive to end the eighth with two runners on base.
"Nori made a tremendous catch that saved the game from being cracked open there," Royals manager Ned Yost said.
Aoki, a six-time Gold Glove winner in center field in Japan, got a good jump on Ramirez's scorcher.
"It was a situation where we couldn't give up any more runs," Aoki said through an interpreter. "That was the play I was most happy with. The only thing was the sun was in my eyes."
Ramirez already had two singles and believed he had one over extra bases over Aoki's head.
"I don't think it got up in the wind enough to have a chance," Paul Konerko said "That's what the game comes down to sometimes, something so small."
Conor Gillaspie hit an RBI single in the eighth before Konerko's sacrifice fly tied it and gave him 146 RBIs against Kansas City, the most by any opponent.
Royals left-hander Bruce Chen allowed one unearned run on six singles, walked none and struck out seven in 6 1/3 innings, but had to settle for a no-decision.
White Sox left-hander John Danks did not allow a hit until the fourth inning, when six straight Kansas City batters reached base.
"I wish I had an explanation for it," Danks said. "It was the heart of the lineup. I was trying to come inside and just lost control a little. Hosmer I got behind 2-0 and you don't want to make too good a pitch to him."
Omar Infante, Eric Hosmer, Butler and Alex Gordon opened the inning with singles. Butler's single scored Infante for the first run, while Mike Moustakas walked with the bases loaded for the other run. Butler drove in another run in the fifth with a sacrifice fly.
"John just had the one inning where it got out of hand and he lost his control and it came back to bite us," White Sox manager Robin Ventura said.
Moustakas' fielding error led to an unearned White Sox run in the fifth. Adam Eaton's groundout scored Ramirez.
NOTES: The Royals designated for assignment IF Pedro Ciriaco, who has a .277 career batting average in the majors with four clubs, and purchased the contract of RHP Aaron Brooks from Triple-A Omaha. With the addition of Brooks, the Royals have a 12-man pitching staff. Brooks, who was a starter in the minors, will go to the bullpen. . The White Sox have lost their first two away games after going an AL worst 26-55 in road games last year. . White Sox RF Avisail Garcia, in an 0-for-13 funk, was given the day off. . Aces LHP Chris Sale of the White Sox and RHP James Shields of the Royals are set to pitch Sunday.


text: To the Editor,There was an article in the newspaper last week on individuals caught digging up the?Beaubassin archaeology site and another historical site near Fort Cumberland. These individuals were doing so to steal artifacts and sell them on eBay and so on. A prefered tool used by the culprits was a metal detector. The newspaper report made me very angry, as the offenders' actions would put a blemish on the credibility of those who perform metal detecting as a sport, for exercise and fresh air. Most of us with metal detectors who enjoy the sport, do so with a "Code of Ethics" in mind. Some of us walk the public beaches or farm fields or ballfields seeking lost coins. We certainly do not get rich finding quarters and dimes. Most finds are pop can tabs, tin foil seals on food containers, old metal bottle caps, metal buttons and rusted metal junk. But the challenge to find an elusive coin treasure spurs us on and we get much needed exercise and fresh air as well. There has been some major archaeology finds made with metal detectors around the world. More recently was a Roman silver treasure discovery in England, found in a farmer's field. The items will eventually be displayed in the museum for all to see. Cumberland County used to include all lands through to Sackville, N.B. This area is rich in history. Any historical finds will most likely end up in museums for restoration and public display. I know if I found something of historical significance, I would alert the museum or an archaeologist. Just venting my thoughts. Rick Harper, Amherst


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We have the full results of the 1st Leg of the Baja HPI Cup in Switzerland! Race : HPI Baja Cup Switzerland Location : Densbüren The race was held at the same time as another large-scale cup race, and after 3 qualification races, Mario Di Bella held the TQ in style, 2 laps in front of the second position, Alexandro Resico.
During the final, Mario Di Bella continue is great driving and after 20 minutes he won easily with 3 laps in front of Armando Mühlethaler. Neidhart distribution would like to say Thanks to all the participants for making this a great race event! Final Result 1 Di Bella Mario 2 Mühlethaler Armando 3 Greuter Bruno 4 Titi Patrick 5 Leuenberger Patrick 6 Resico Alessandro 7 Zenklusen Joe 8 Lukic Thomi 9 Widmer Noel 10 Cantello Salvatore 11 Buck Gregor 12 Moser Lucien


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Yes meaning ... as a helicopter pilot, you can find yourself staying on an Army base, or at an Air Force base, or going at sea in ships. There are some helicopters that provide their support from all of these locations and to all three environments. It's the nature of helicopters to act in support of everybody. And little known secret here: Shhhh! Don't tell anyone, but helicopters don't necessarily need an airport, unlike their fixed wing brethren.


text: A New York Times article from 1910 describes founding of Mound Bayou, a town founded on the wealth of a steamboat patent. SundayMagazine.org February 19, 2017 America's always had black inventors – even when the patent system explicitly excluded them Shontavia Johnson, Clemson University American slaves couldn't hold property – including patents on their own inventions. But that didn't stop black Americans from innovating since the beginning of the country's history.


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It has been said that within the mountains (or was it the darklands?) there dwells a fluffy creature of immense cuteness. This creature is so adorable that all who encounter it are filled with joy so great their mortal forms cannot contain it. And they explode. Several magic institutions are desperate to study the creature or better yet capture one to prove the theory of an elemental plane of "D'Awwww".


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There are a lot of really great things about being a lady in Thailand. Most of them involve pampering, beautifying, and free booze (Not together. Usually. Although…quick! Write up a business plan for a beauty salon where you can drink!).
To be honest, I usually take a page out of my imaginary best friend Tina Fey's book, who says:
If you retain nothing else, always remember the most important Rule of Beauty: 'Who cares?'
How brilliant is that?
Anyway, in Thailand, I can afford to care a little bit more than I do back home, because I can pay somebody to do the things that I can't do on my own.
1. Shampoo and Blow Dry
For me, this is the best value for my money because it's something I would never pay to have done back home. At my favorite hair salon in Silver Spring, Maryland, it costs about $40 just to have somebody shampoo and then blow dry your hair.
My main questions about that are: So, is that blow dryer made of solid gold? Or what?
For some reason, getting a shampoo and dry in Bangkok is so cheap it's shocking. I have had a shampoo/dry for 60B ($2), but I generally pay 100B (about $3). I have paid 200B (about $7) when I was in a hurry and picked a random place, but that's way too much for me on a regular basis.
Some things to keep in mind if you want a shampoo/dry for 100B:
- You're not going to get a fancy place for 100B. It's going to be a neighborhood place filled with Thai women, which I think is great.
- You're not always going to get hot water for the shampoo for that price. Again, that doesn't really bother me, as it's usually one trillion degrees in this city.
- They're not going to sterilize the brushes and things like they do in many Western countries. Usually they just grab a brush, rip out the hair left by the previous person, and move on. I haven't caught anything yet (that I'm aware of)!
- They'll shampoo your hair two or three times, use conditioner, and give you a head massage. And then you will die happy.
- They will take as much time and care as if you go to a fancy place. Sometimes they will take more time and care.
- A tip will be greatly appreciated and often confusing. ("I charged you 80B and you're giving me 100B?")
2. Hair Styling
Back home, I generally paid $50-$90 for a simple haircut, which is hilarious because it would look awesome for one day and then go back to the exact same cut I've had for years.
In Bangkok, I pay about 600-700 baht (around $20+) for a good cut at Anderson Salon. Pam is Thai, but she deals almost exclusively with Western clients, and she knows her stuff. She speaks great English and has very competitive prices. I recently got lowlights and a cut from her, and it cost 1500B, or about $50.
(p.s. Pam gives the best shampoo/head massage I've ever had, literally. Worth it just for that!)
3. Massages
If you just go to a random place, Thai massages in Thailand will start at around 150 (~$5) to 200 baht (~$7) for an hour. And while Thai massage isn't exactly relaxing (think forced yoga meets WWF wrestling), you feel great after, even with the bruises. Yes, literally, bruises.
Body massages of any kind in the US cost anywhere from $70 to $100 an hour. I love telling that to my Thai friends who have never been to the US before. The look of shock on their faces is awesome. And it is shocking! That's a LOT of money!
The best foot massage in town is a place on Sukumvhit soi 31 for 250B, but I think if I reveal the name, my friend Jonathan will kill me.
4. Knock-off beauty supplies at MBK
I'm going to be honest: I don't really understand how to put on makeup correctly. There's some part of my girl gene code missing, so I literally have to look at an instruction booklet to put on fancy eye makeup. But I still like to buy it and pretend that someday I'll know how to use it.
Enter: MBK. MBK is a mall full of clothing, electronics, and crap, and is so labyrinthine that I always end up stumbling out of there after a few hours, completely disoriented, praising the sun blazing down on my head, thankful that I made it out alive.
Still, it's all worth it because the 3rd floor of MBK has a series of stands that sell expensive brand-name makeup and beauty supplies for incredibly, incredibly cheap. I don't know how they do it, and I probably don't want to know. Factory rejects? "Fell" off the back of the truck? Just old products? Who knows!
5. Keratin Hair Treatment
I don't really know what keratin is, but I assume it's some kind of wizarding magic that is taught at the School of Magical Beauty, Hogwarts's lesser-known sister campus. That's how amazing it is. It takes frizzy hair and makes it more manageable and smooth, and it's pretty labor-intensive, so in the DC-area it costs $400-500. That's two zeros there on the end. In Kansas City, it's around $300.
I haven't had it done in Bangkok yet, but I've seen that costs can start around 4,000B (around $130) and go up from there. That's crazy cheap for wizardry, right?
You might also see it called a Brazilian blowout. Not crazy about that term, I gotta say.
6. Free Booze!
Most ladies nights back home are pretty lame. Maybe free admission or discounted drinks at some lame bar.
Well, Bangkok has some super fantastic ladies nights. It's a good time to have lady parts!
Coyote Mexican Restaurant: Free margaritas from 6-8 on Wednesdays at the Soi Convent location, and Thursdays at the Suk Soi 33 location. Seriously, free. Their nachos are pretty decent, too.
Dusit Thani MyBar: Free ALL drinks from 7-9 on Thursdays. They've got all sorts of cocktails, wine, sparkling wine, beer, and smoothies. The atmosphere is kind of fancy, and there are large groups of women, so be sure to make a reservation. One time I was there, half the Thai ladies ended up passed out with their arms wrapped around a toilet and the other half were face down, drooling on the floor of the bar. Then somebody yelled at the DJ, who screamed back, cranked up the music so loud it hurt our ears, then stormed off. It was awesome.
QBar: They often (always?) have ladies night on Wednesdays, which is free admission (usually 500B!) and two free drinks for women. And I gotta say, they don't go cheap on the alcohol.
Witches' Tavern: Free drinks from 5-9 on Wednesdays. I haven't been there, but I hear it's a pretty nice place, and that their food is good. Supposedly they have super yummy pizza. Also: free drinks for four hours!
Dear Men: I know you're going to be like, "This is totally not fair!" But, seriously? Keep it to yourself. Give us this one thing. Give us the free booze!
7. Clothes Shopping
I know that a lot of Western women don't like shopping in Thailand, or Asia in general, because they feel that they're too big. I would say I'm a pretty average-sized woman, and I don't have any problems finding super incredibly cute clothes in Thailand for super incredibly cheap prices. I will admit, though, I haven't bought pants (trousers, Brits!) here, and I don't mind wearing snug clothing, so that could be why I don't have much of a problem. If something is too short, I just put on some tights and go on my way.
If you go to the street stalls, you can find amazing deals. I shop almost exclusively from the street stalls, to be honest. And while Khao San may be a nightmare for some things, there are some really cute clothes to be had there.
Also, I haven't gone shoes shopping because I have abnormally large feet for a shortish woman (5'4″), so I can't comment on that. Asian ladies have got some tiny feet, yo.
8. Pedicures
If you go to pretty much any hairdresser or massage place here, you can get your toes painted for 100 to 200 baht, but it's really just paint. For about 450 baht (~$13), you can get a spa pedicure at a nice place. That's about half the price of a pedicure back home. 600B will get you some extras like a massage or leg scrub.
When I go to get a pedicure, I usually look for a place that has the pedicure chairs; you know, the ones with the basins to put your feet in at the end. When you're looking, anything under 450B is a really good deal, but 450-500 is average for a decent place. Anything less than that and it's probable you're just getting your toes painted. Check for the chairs, and you're good to go.
Conclusion: I love you, Thailand. (I can't think of anything witty right now!)


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It feels like it was 2013 for a long time. Mostly, that's because I started a Ph.D. program this fall, so my year breaks into a before and after, and the before feels far away. It was also the 10th anniversary year of this blog, and so I feel that, though activity hereabouts was relatively thin given my other commitments, I should bid this year some special adieu.
Given how full the year was, I thought I'd try to remember some of my reading, writing, viewing, etc. and see what comes of it. I haven't kept systematic lists (my Letterboxd film diary is about as close as it gets), so I will inevitably forget or miss things, but just trying to get the year in perspective ought to be a useful, if unavoidably narcissistic, activity...
I published two short stories in 2013, about double my annual average. Both were horror stories: "Lacuna" in Where Thy Dark Eye Glances edited by Steve Berman and "How Far to Englishman's Bay" in Nightmare magazine. I love writing horror stories, but it's hard to find markets for the sort of horror I tend to write, so I'm especially pleased these stories found homes.
My favorite writing project published this year was something for which my work was mostly in the background: Jeff VanderMeer's extraordinary Wonderbook, a fiction-writing guide that is also an art object, thanks to the contributions of Jeremy Zerfoss and others. Even now, months after it was published, I open the book and flip through it and it just fills me with joy.
Of the nonfiction I published this year, three pieces in particular stick out when I think back: a review of M. John Harrison's Empty Space for Strange Horizons (and the outtakes), an essay on 12 Years a Slave for Press Play, and a review of Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry & Poetics for Rain Taxi.
I continued to experiment with the medium of video essays, and generally liked the results, the most substantial of which were: "The End of Violence: The Conclusions of Clint Eastwood", "First Fassbinder", "Rob Zombie and the Cinema of Cruelty", and "Watching the Dark: Zero Dark Thirty".
The biggest as-yet-unpublished writing I did was an introduction for an upcoming reissue of Samuel Delany's The American Shore for Wesleyan University Press. Chip and I worked closer on this introduction than the ones I did for The Jewel-Hinged Jaw and Starboard Wine — he answered lots of questions for me, and so I was really able to get at why The American Shore, which is a book-length study of Thomas M. Disch's story short story "Angouleme", takes the form and makes the moves it does. (I think the book may be released this summer, but I don't know if Wesleyan has solidified their schedule yet.)
I really didn't keep track of any of the books I read this year, so I'm going to forget more than I remember. I had the privilege to read drafts of the first two novels in Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach trilogy, Annihilation and Authority, which are marvelous and fascinating (to say more at this point would be taunting, since the books won't be published till next year. And I don't want to taunt you. Really. I don't. [Na na na na na naaaaa!]). The books are like what might result from J.J. Abrams and H.P. Lovecraft having a love-child, and then that love-child is hit by a truck and smeared across the road, and the road is renovated by necromancer/roadworkers, who bring the smeared bits of love-child to an alchemist/chef they know, who bakes it into a meatloaf he's been working on, and then David Lynch eats the meatloaf, but has an allergic reaction and ends up projectile-vomiting it across the main dining room of a very fine restaurant and into the hair of a disgraced member of the British House of Lords, who — well, no, maybe not. The books are not like any of that at all. Truly. They're more like Annie meets Caligula. Yes. Just like that. Would I lie to you?
I started reading Thomas Pynchon's Bleeding Edge, and enjoyed it very much — indeed, it made me laugh out loud repeatedly, which few novels do — but then work got in the way and I put the book aside. Hopefully, I'll return to it soon...
I re-read Toni Morrison's Beloved for the first time in about 20 years. It's a book I admire more than embrace. I've read most of her novels at least once, and there's something about Morrison's writing that always feels forced to me, even slick, although those words also feel inadequate (and overly negative) to the sensation I'm stumbling to describe. My indifference to Morrison's books likely results from her genre/style, what William Gass astutely called "operatic realism", a style I respond very well to in film but not so much in writing, except in Faulkner (an influence on Morrison) — but the Faulkner novels I love and revere are his most difficult, most highly High Modernist (Absalom, Absalom! above all, but also As I Lay Dying and The Sound and the Fury), where the style and structure counteracts at least some of the operatic qualities.
My general dislike of most operatic novels (and, honestly, most opera) leads naturally to my love of J.M. Coetzee, a writer more Webernian than operatic. Some of the biggest, or at least most obvious, influences on Coetzee have been Cervantes, Kafka, and Beckett, and that influence remains prominent in The Childhood of Jesus, his latest novel, which I wrote about in June. The Cervantes and Kafka connections are especially strong in this book, so much so that to call them influences seems inadequate, for they are more like dialogic shards. The novel has pestered, even haunted, me ever since I read it, and I look forward to reading it again, because it is very much a book that needs re-reading.
I spent much of the last third of 2013 thinking about Coetzee, because I was working on a paper about In the Heart of the Country. This led not only to immersion in that novel and the scholarship on it, but also to Coetzee's doctoral dissertation, The English Novels of Samuel Beckett, which was great fun, though probably only to someone with at least a passing interest in Beckett and a strong interest in Coetzee. (Many of the substantial insights from the dissertation can be found in Doubling the Point.)
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Other books of a distinctly academic persuasion that I spent a bit of time with and at least found provocatively interesting in 2013: The Cultural Politics of Emotion by Sara Ahmed, The Female Complaint: The Unfinished Business of Sentimentality in American Culture by Lauren Berlant, Wittgenstein Reads Freud by Jacques Bouveresse, No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive by Lee Edelman, Post-Traumatic Culture by Kirby Ferguson, A Story of South Africa: J.M. Coetzee's Fiction in Context by Susan VanZanten Gallagher, Against Race: Imagining Political Culture Beyond the Color Line by Paul Gilroy, Moving Politics: Emotion and ACT UP's Fight Against AIDS by Deborah B. Gould, Cultural Studies in the Future Tense by Lawrence Grossberg, The Erotic Life of Racism by Sharon Patricia Holland, The Trauma Question by Roger Luckhurst, and All in the Family: The Realignment of American Democracy Since the 1960s by Robert O. Self.
Another biography I read in 2013 was Alexis De Veaux's of Audre Lorde, Warrior Poet, which was revelatory. I've long loved Lorde's poems and essays, and known some of the context, but to have so much of that context revealed more fully led me back to Lorde's writings, which is real praise for the biography. I don't think the book is especially well written, but the information is useful and the product of excellent research. We need more books on the overlapping contexts of American feminism and American poetry in the later 20th century.
The best new (to the U.S.) novel I read in 2013 was also the last novel I read in 2013: Submergence by J.M. Ledgard. I didn't read many novels this year, but that would be a top novel for me in any year.
2013 was a wonderful year for short fiction. To my mind, the greatest achievement in short fiction this year came from Tartarus Press, who finished bringing all of Robert Aickman's collections back into print. I spent much too much money for a grad student on these books, and have never regretted it for an instant; indeed, the books are so beautiful and so brilliant that I think Tartarus under-charges for them.
Steve Berman's Lethe Press also had a great year, not only publishing a story of mine in the (otherwise) really strong anthology Where Thy Dark Eye Glances, but also doing a great service to the world in publishing Christopher Barzak's collection Before and Afterlives and bringing Richard Bowes's mosaic novel Minions of the Moon back into print and Dust Devil on a Quiet Street. (Lethe also published books by Alex Jeffers and Will Ludwigsen that I haven't had a chance to read, but expect are well worth attention.)
Rick Bowes really had a banner year in 2013, publishing, in addition to his Lethe books, two collections: The Queen, the Cambion, and Seven Others from Aqueduct and If Angels Fight from Fairwood. (I will have a bit more to say about Bowes's year in books in a year-end roundup that Strange Horizons is scheduled to publish...)
Also published this year were excellent collections from Nathan Ballingrud, Laird Barron, Alan DeNiro, and Nnedi Okorafor, the latter of which I just finished writing a review of for Strange Horizons, and the others of which I haven't yet finished reading.
Eric Schaller and I first published one of the stories in Laird's collection, "More Dark", in The Revelator (a new issue of which will be out probably this month), and, reviewing the collection, the estimable S.T. Joshi, a man of many strong opinions (which he is thrilled to share with the world), said, regarding "More Dark", "I fervently hope Barron doesn't write anything like this again." We at Revelator Central celebrated mightily that comment. (We, of course, hope Laird writes whatever he wants in the future, and would, in fact, be thrilled to see him write a 7-volume series of novels based on "More Dark".)
There were a lot of other excellent books published in 2013. I probably read a few of them. But my brain is becoming mud as I write all this, so it's time to move on to ... MOVIES!
Looking through my Letterboxd list, I see that of the movies released in 2013 that I saw, my favorites were:
12 Years a SlaveI haven't had a chance to see a lot of 2013's films yet, though, especially the awards bait that has been released after the summer, so by this time next year I expect my list will be rather different. The ones I expect to remain, no matter what, are 12 Years a Slave, Pacific Rim, and maybe Spring Breakers and Upstream Color.
Deceptive Practice
Pacific Rim
Red 2
Spring Breakers
Upstream Color
We Steal Secrets
The World's End
I agree with Steffan Horowitz at Africa Is a Country: "For me in 2013, there was 12 Years a Slave and then there was everything else." I mostly explained why in my essay for Press Play, though I wrote that piece before I knew anybody else's perspective on the movie, so I wasn't able to address some of the criticisms the film has faced, for instance from bell hooks. I'm very sympathetic to the criticism that the film does not give enough attention to its female characters; I think that's generally true, and the most significant mark against the movie — particularly since even in the glimpses of the female characters that we get, they're interesting, compelling people, and I wanted to see them more, hear from them more, know about them more.
While I agree in principle with Daniel José Older's call for an end to white savior movies, I viewed the presence of Brad Pitt character in the film somewhat differently. Yes, Bass (Pitt) is Solomon Northup's savior in the film, because he delivers the letter that lets people outside the deep South know that Northup is alive, and then a white man comes and gets him, bringing him back to the north. So yes, white saviors. Only partly historically accurate ones, at that — it was a much more complex process than the film makes it out to be, and Northup managed to get more than one letter out over the years (his wife fought hard for his return). But the fundamental historical fact remains: white people came and saved him from white people. The filmmakers could have chosen to make another story, such as Older's suggested story of David Ruggles, or the endlessly-speculated-about Danny Glover film about Toussaint L'Ouverture. We should have those films. We should have films about Nat Turner, too, and about other slave rebellions, and about slaves who escaped on their own. Definitely, undoubtedly. We should have films based on Octavian Nothing and The Known World and The Great Negro Plot and the complete works of Octavia Butler and so many other excellent books about the history of race in America. Yes. Please. Now.
But the gravity of 12 Years a Slave doesn't reside with the character of Bass. He comes in toward the end, long after we have seen the extent and varieties of white complicity in slavery, and he is basically the plot tool to get Northup back home. The film could have mitigated some of the savior effect of Bass by continuing the story, showing the failures of white law to redress most of Northup's grievances, instead of relegating it to titles at the end, but it would have extended the film considerably, and that sort of narrative exposition isn't really what Steve McQueen is interested in or especially skilled at — he's a fundamentally visual filmmaker. Northup placed his faith in northern, white law to treat him basically as an equal, because he was free. It didn't. That, actually, is where the story of Northup feels most contemporary — the application of the law in the United States remains prejudiced against black men. (Just ask the family of Trayvon Martin.)
Anyway, while I think it's certainly legitimate to raise the question of the portrayals of women in the film, the presence of white saviors, the choices of which parts of the story to tell ... still, for all the reasons I laid out originally at Press Play, no other movie that I've seen or know about from this year feels remotely as important as this one, as necessary. As I said there, because it is one film in a genre that has generally been awful, we weight it down with all of our expectations. Hundreds of years of American oppression, and a century of racist portrayals in film, can't be overcome with one movie. We need many more, and my passion for 12 Years a Slave comes not only from the mastery in its making, but from the hope that it can begin to open new ways of portraying American history on screen.
To get much less serious...
Pacific Rim I loved for its hugeness, for its communitarian ethos, for its colors. Loved!
Spring Breakers I called "The American dream, in all its glory." It reminded me of William Carlos Williams.
Upstream Color is marvelously beguiling. After watching it, I said it was "A flow of sound and light, a hypnotism." Much more should be said. (Caleb Crain wrote a wonderful piece for the New Yorker website about the movie and its use of Thoreau. Jim Emerson wrote intelligently about it for RogerEbert.com.)
But now I've said enough. More than enough!
Hello, 2014.


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The village of Iettatello is 4,43 kilometers far from the same town of Nemoli to whom it belongs.
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