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The Nokia Lumia 610 is now available on Canada's Koodo Mobile for $50 with free shipping when you activate a new line of service. To make the deal even sweeter, customers ordering online will receive a $25 Visa gift card 4-6 weeks after activation.
Koodo works a bit differently than other carriers when it comes to pricing their phones. Starting at the retail price of a device ($200 in the case of the Lumia 610), customers can knock money off of the cost by opening their account with a "tab" or pre-paid minutes. The bigger the tab you start with, the less money the actual phone costs you. So by maxing out the new line of service with a tab of $150, the final price of the Lumia 610 becomes $50. Throw in the $25 gift card, and now you're down to $25. Not too shabby for a solid budget-friendly Windows Phone device.
The Lumia 610 is the cheapest of the Nokia line. It features a 3.7" non-ClearBlack LCD display, 256MB of RAM and a 800Mhz CPU with 8GB of storage and runs Windows Phone 7.5 Tango. If you are looking for an entry-level Windows Phone 7.5 handset, this might be the right deal for you.
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College football players seem to be having a tough time navigating mopeds and scooters. Last year, there was the Kentucky running back who broke his arm during an accident, followed by the Iowa lineman whose frightening crash into a truck was captured on video. Then came Georgia, where coach Mark Richt made it clear he has no plans to ban the use of scooters even though two players this summer have gotten hurt while riding them. And now there's South Carolina, where coach Steve Sprurrier revealed today that third-string quarterback Andrew Clifford had to be taken to the hospital over the weekend after crashing his moped.
Then again, there's another detail about Clifford's crash that clearly distinguishes it from the others.
Spurrier said the redshirt freshman was not wearing a helmet and was carrying a pizza at the time of the accident.
The crash resulted in Clifford having to "get stitches," according to the WISTV report. There was no word on what happened to the pizza.
USC QB Wrecks Moped While Carrying Pizza [WISTV.com]


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Terrorist attack
On 5 September, eight Palestinian terrorists broke into the Olympic Village, killing two members of the Israeli team and taking nine hostages. In the ensuing battle, all nine Israeli hostages were killed, as were five of the terrorists and one policeman. In defiance of the terrorists, the IOC ordered the competitions to resume after a pause of 34 hours.
All other details of the Munich Games pale in significance, but it did have its highlights. The Munich Games were the largest yet, setting records in all categories, with 195 events and 7,134 athletes from 121 National Olympic Committees.
Debuts and firsts
Men's indoor handball, slalom canoeing and kayaking all made their Olympic debuts. West German Liselott Linsenhoff, competing in the dressage event, became the first female equestrian to win a gold medal, and archery returned to the Olympic programme after a 52-year absence.
Memorable champions
US swimmer Mark Spitz won an incredible seven gold medals and broke seven world records. Yet the media star of the Munich Games was the tiny Soviet gymnast, Olga Korbut, whose dramatic cycle of success in the team competition, failure in the individual competition and renewed success in the apparatus finals captured the attention of fans worldwide.
NOCs: 121
Athletes: 7,134 (1,059 women, 6,075 men)
Events: 195
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"The Games must go on !"
The 11 days of these Games were perhaps the greatest Olympic festival ever. However, on the morning of 5 September, the Games were interrupted when eight Arab terrorists, representing the militant group "Black September" entered the Olympic Village, took hostage and then killed 11 members of the Israeli Olympic team- all this only 20km from Dachau. The Olympic Games were suspended for 34 hours and a mass was held in the main stadium to commemorate the victims. But the Games continued at the insistence of the IOC President Avery Brundage, who famously said "The Games must go on !"
Seven gold medals and seven world records for a single man
There were several magnificent sporting performances at the 1972 Games, notably by Mark Spitz who won seven gold medals and broke seven world records.
The officials take an oath
For the first time at the Games of the Olympiad an oath is also sworn by an official.
New on the programme
Men's indoor handball and slalom canoeing and kayaking made their first appearance.
The comeback of archery Archery was reintroduced into the programme after an absence of 52 years.
26 August 1972, Opening Ceremony. Athlet Günter Zahn lights the Olympic Flame.
Official opening of the Games by:
President Gustav Heinemann
Lighting the Olympic Flame by:
Günter Zahn (athletics, junior 1,500m champion)
Olympic Oath by:
Heidi Schüller (athletics)
Official Oath by:
Heinz Pollay (equestrian)
It represents a crown of rays of light, a design symbolizing the spirit of the Munich Games- light, freshness, generosity, expressed by the design "Radiant Munich". It was created by Otl Aicher, the designed and director of the visual conception commission. His project was chosen in spite of a competition whose 2 332 entries were unsatisfactory.
On the obverse, the traditional goddess of victory, a design used since the 1928 Amsterdam Games, accompanied by the specific inscription "XX Olympiade München 1972". On the reverse, Castor and Pollux, the twin sons of Zeus and Léda, the patrons of sports competitions and friendship, represented by two naked youths. This design was created by Gerhard Marcks, one of the last representatives of the Bauhaus.More info
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Number of torchbearers: around 6 200
Total distance: 5 532 km. including 1 819 km in Greece and 457 km in the Federal Republic of Germany
Countries crossed: Greece, Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania, Yugoslavia, Hungary, Austria, and Federal Republic of Germany
Numerous posters were created for these Games, notably a series on the theme of sports competitions and cultural events. The official poster was meant to promote not one specific sports event, but the whole of the Munich Games. It was supposed to express the specific spirit of the Games. Here, the design evokes the modern architecture of the sporting venues, in a style and using colours which are purposefully simple and pure. In the centre of the background, the famous Olympic tower. 5,000 copies were made.
From the decoration of urban areas to matchbooks, everything went together; everything followed the playful, colourful spirit inspired by Otl Aicher and his team; everything contributed to make the Munich Games a historic and instantly recognisable edition.More info
"Die Spiele: the official report of the Organizing Committtee for the Games of the XXth Olympiad Munich 1972" was published in 1974 in French, English and German. It consisted of three volumes. The first two (The organization; The constructions) existed in each of the languages, while the third (The competitions) was trilingual.
Munich 1972
Munich 1972Download"Die Spiele: the official report of the Organizing Committtee for the Games of the XXth Olympiad Munich 1972" was published in 1974 in French, English and German. It consisted of three volumes. The first two (The organization; The constructions) existed in each of the languages, while the third (The competitions) was trilingual.


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Forum Post: The housing "recovery" is a total sham
Posted 6 years ago on July 31, 2013, 12:46 p.m. EST by GirlFriday
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It isn't.
We have a similar problem The prices of housing jumped. The local banks can't give you a loan for under $50,000. Community Reinvestment Act. Often the houses have tremendous problems. Too, because they can't give you a loan the houses are sold for cash. So, a house that needs some work is deliberately held back unless it is sold for cash to someone who is going to flip it. Some real estate agents are absolute douche bags.
Now, there are also areas where a crap house that needs extensive work is being sold at 60-75 thousand dollars for a two bedroom. I just watched an area where the prices jumped ten grand. I have seen a house for sale that is $120,000 for a one bedroom.
What recovery?


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DVD previews: '42,' 'Evil Dead,' 'Doctor Who,' more
"42" (PG-13, 127 minutes, Warner): Brian Helgeland has succeeded in "42," a soaring portrayal of Jackie Robinson's entry into Major League Baseball in 1947. Anchored by a quietly compelling lead performance by Chadwick Boseman, "42" begins in 1945, when Brooklyn Dodgers General Manager Branch Rickey (Harrison Ford) decides to integrate the team. Rickey settles on Robinson, a gifted athlete from California with an impressive record in the Negro leagues. The film is suffused with the casual racism of the era and captures Robinson as a character whose meaning and power is primarily existential. It was his very being around which the vortex swirled -- a vortex of defiance, pride, pathological racism and, finally, awe. Filmed with the gauzy, nostalgic light of an American summer and insistently underlined by Mark Isham's overwrought, Copland-esque orchestral score, "42" is unapologetically corny, but it never succumbs to offensive condescension. By the time PeeWee Reese (Lucas Black) famously puts his arm around Robinson during a game in Cincinnati, "42" has taken on undeniable momentum as a quintessential story of American aspiration. Thanks to transitional figures like Robinson, we've always been the home of the brave. To be the land of the free, the film suggests, we all need to step up to the plate. Contains thematic elements, including racial epithets and profanity. DVD extras: "Stepping into History" featurette. Also, on Blu-ray: "Full-Contact Baseball" and "The Legacy of the Number 42."
"Evil Dead" (R, 91 minutes, Sony): This reboot of the beloved cult horror film about five young friends terrorized by a demonic spirit does exactly what it's supposed to do: scare you to the chiropractor. The new version, by Uruguayan director Fede Alvarez, making his feature debut, is more stomach-churning than soul-chilling. The action revolves around a derelict cabin in the woods, but this time, it's the site of a drug intervention. What follows is a rapid descent into madness, homicide and self-mutilation, first by one, then another of the cohorts, until it is literally raining blood. "Evil Dead" has its moments, but many come courtesy of familiar horror movie camera tricks. Other touches seem cadged from the canon of horror-movie cliches, from the hand reaching up from the grave to the zombie neck twitch. For Alvarez, presumably, it's homage, not theft. Even so, the whole thing is kind of fun, if your taste runs to gallows humor. Contains obscenity and prolific, grisly violence and gore. DVD extras: behind-the-scenes featurette; "Being Mia" (the physical and psychological transformation into Evil Mia) and "Directing the Dead." Also, on Blu-ray: commentary with Alvarez, writer Rodo Sayagues and actors Jane Levy, Lou Taylor Pucci and Jessica Lucas; "Unleashing The Evil Force" featurette; "Evil Dead the Reboot" that includes cast rehearsals, Bruce Campbell and Deadites.
"Bullet to the Head" (R, 92 minutes, Warner): Directed by action veteran Walter Hill, this nasty, pulpy adaptation of the graphic novel plays it straight when it should wink and careers into chaotic, unimaginative mayhem when it should go long on style. Sylvester Stallone's Jimmy "Bobo" Bonomo is a snarly, sneering vigilante, who in this case is working as a New Orleans hit man when his partner unexpectedly gets knifed in a bar. Soon, a Washington detective named Kwon (Sung Kang) arrives on the scene, investigating the murder of his partner. Elements like story and dialogue are only pesky details to be dispensed with in between the real deliverables: fistfights, knife fights, gunfights, axe fights and one explosive showdown at the catfish corral that whet the filmmakers' insatiable appetite for figuring out new ways for people to brutalize one another. "Bullet to the Head" exposes that bravado for the pose that it is, and it's not a good look. Contains strong violence, bloody images, profanity, some nudity and brief drug use. Extras: "Bullet to the Head: Mayhem Inc." featurette.
Also: "Letters From Jackie: The Private Thoughts of Jackie Robinson" (documentary from Major League Baseball Productions), "An Affair of the Heart" (documentary on Grammy-winning songwriter and actor Rick Springfield), "Joanna Lumley's Nile" (cheeky travelogue from half of the iconic duo from "Absolutely Fabulous," Athena), "Bidder 70," "Bert Stern: Original Mad Man," "Bill Moyers: On the Hudson -- America's First River" (2002, PBS documentary, Athena), "Erased," "Lord of the Flies" (1963, The Criterion Collection), "White Frog," "American Courtesans," "Arthur Stands Up to Bullying" (PBS), "The Definitive Guide to the Mob" (History Channel), "The Good Life," "Tom and Jerry: No Mice Allowed!" and "The Life After Death Project 1 and 2" (Syfy Channel).
Television Series: "Doctor Who -- The Doctors Revisited: One-Four" (1963-1981, 50th anniversary of the enduring science fiction show; BBC Home Entertainment), "Combat!: The Complete Fourth Season," "Matlock: The Ninth & Final Season" (1994-95), "Damages: The Final Season," "Endeavour Series 1" (PBS), "George Lopez: The Complete Third Season," "Misfits: Season Three" (BBC), "Orphan Black: Season One" (BBC), "Hell on Wheels: The Complete Second Season," "America's Test Kitchen: Season 13" (PBS), "Dinosaur Train: Nature Trackers" (PBS), "Caillou: Big Kid Caillou" (PBS), "Power Rangers Samurai: The Ultimate Duel -- Volume 5," "The Smurfs: Smurfs to the Rescue!," "Super Why!: Hansel & Gretel: A Healthy Adventure" (PBS), "Alphas: Season Two" and "Femme Fatales: The Complete Second Season."
Washington Post staff writer Kay Coyte contributed to this report.


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Wed December 06 2017
|The 2018 Annual Reading Challenge List Thread
01:51 PM by pdurrant in E-Book General | Reading Recommendations
2018 Reading Challenge List Thread
Welcome to our 9th Annual Reading Challenge!
The Annual Reading Challenge is neither a race, contest, nor an "exclusive club", anyone can join! This is just a fun activity that some of us have enjoyed doing in the past. Many of us have found reading challenges to be an entertaining way to set goals for ourselves, get ideas for books, and see what others are reading.
This thread is for you to keep a running tally for your chosen challenge. Please state your goals at the top of your post (in the title line if you can), and then start your list in the body of your post. As you read books, edit your post to update your list of books read, or other challenge status.
Please Remember: No discussion posts in this thread. Please use the other thread for that. Non-List posts will be deleted or moved to the other thread.
Discussions & Ideas can be found here:
Post #2 of this thread is dedicated to a Table of Contents for all participants in this thread. Names will be added, to this TOC, in alphabetical order with a link to that individual's post number from this thread.
Previous threads were for 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011 and 2010
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Sat December 02 2017
|sun surfer Vote December 2017
09:44 AM by sun surfer in Reading Recommendations | Book Clubs
Help us select what the MR Literary Club will read in December 2017!
The options this month are courtesy of our rotating nominator, sun surfer (me).
Votes will be made by post. Each person has FIFTEEN(!) votes to use.
You may give each nominee one or two (or no) votes. You may vote all at once in one post or vote in separate posts at different times, so long as you have more votes remaining to cast. You may use any number of your possible votes up to the maximum. Any extraneous votes per person (past their maximum or more than two for one nominee) won't count. Votes cannot be changed once they are cast.
The rotating nominator may not vote. Once voting is complete, the count will be tallied and a winner declared. In the event of a tie, there will be a one-day run-off vote, also in this thread. If the run-off also ends in a tie, then the tie will be resolved by the nominator.
We hope that you will read the selection with the club and join in the discussion.
Initial voting is closed. Run-off voting is closed. Final results-
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|January 2018 Second Chance Vote
08:51 AM by issybird in Reading Recommendations | Book Clubs
MobileRead Book Club
*** Special thanks to Dazrin for providing the list of runner-up titles! ***
Help us select the next book that the MobileRead Book Club will read for January, 2018.
Book selection category for January is:
Second Chance
There will be no nominations this month. The way Second Chance works is that the poll will be comprised of selections that either came in second place or tied for second place during the previous 11 months. The discussion will start January 20, 2018.
The poll will be open for 7 days since it's earlier than usual, in response to requests to facilitate library borrowing. If the voting results a tie, there will be a 3 day run-off poll. This is a visible poll: others can see how you voted. It is You may cast a vote for each book that appeals to you. Here are the selections you will be considering:
2017 runner up choices:
The song. That's what London constable and sorcerer's apprentice Peter Grant first notices when he examines the corpse of Cyrus Wilkins, part-time jazz drummer and full-time accountant, who dropped dead of a heart attack while playing a gig at Soho's 606 Club. The notes of the old jazz standard are rising from the body—a sure sign that something about the man's death was not at all natural but instead supernatural.
Body and soul—they're also what Peter will risk as he investigates a pattern of similar deaths in and around Soho. With the help of his superior officer, Detective Chief Inspector Thomas Nightingale, the last registered wizard in England, and the assistance of beautiful jazz aficionado Simone Fitzwilliam, Peter will uncover a deadly magical menace—one that leads right to his own doorstep and to the squandered promise of a young jazz musician: a talented trumpet player named Richard "Lord" Grant—otherwise known as Peter's dear old dad.
• Track of the Cat (Anna Pigeon #1) by Nevada Barr
Goodreads | Amazon US / Audible / Kobo US / Overdrive
Print Length: 245 pages
From Amazon:
The fascinating hero of Nevada Barr's award-winning series—park ranger Anna Pigeon—has brought an unyielding love of nature and sense of fair play to the mystery genre. Track of the Cat is the acclaimed novel that first introduced readers to Anna, as a woman looking for peace in the wilderness—and finding murder instead…
Patrolling the remote West Texas backcountry, Anna's first job as a national park ranger is marred by violence she thought she had left behind: the brutal death of a fellow ranger. When the cause of death is chalked up to a mountain lion attack, Anna's rage knows no bounds. It's up to her to save the protected cats from the politics and prejudices of the locals—and prove the kill was the work of a species far less rare…
From Goodreads:
Anna Pigeon fled the turmoil of New York to become a national park ranger, only to discover she hasn't escaped murder and violence. When a colleague is killed, claw marks on the victim's throat and paw prints around the body are too perfect to be those of an alleged killer mountain lion.
From Audible:
Publisher's Summary
From the vivid opening vista, high in craggy mountains, to the final haunting glimpse of a moonlit canyon, Nevada Barr's first mystery, Track of the Cat, instantly caught the attention of readers and reviewers. Its popularity gained it both an Agatha and an Anthony Award.
March: Patricia Clarke Memorial Library
• Lardner on the Loose (collected short fiction) by Ring Lardner
Kindle epub
Ring Lardner was an American sports columnist and short story writer best known for his satirical writings about sports, marriage, and the theatre. He was a contemporary of Ernest Hemingway, Virginia Woolf and F. Scott Fitzgerald, all of whom professed strong admiration for his writing.
In 1916, Lardner published his first successful book, You Know Me Al, an epistolary novel written in the form of letters from "Jack Keefe", a bush-league baseball player, to a friend back home. The letters made much use of the fictional author's idiosyncratic vernacular, with semi-literate grammar and phonetic spelling. Like most of Lardner's stories, You Know Me Al employs satire, in this case to show the stupidity and avarice of a certain type of athlete. Until 1920, Lardner continued to write follow-up stories about Jack Keefe, some of which were collected in the books Treat 'Em Rough and The Real Dope, narrating Jack's Army experiences in World War I.
Lardner later published such stories as "Haircut", "Some Like Them Cold", "The Golden Honeymoon", "Alibi Ike", "A Day with Conrad Green", and dozens more. Sometimes narrated by a "wise boob", with slyly satirical commentary on manners and morals (The Big Town), sometimes taking a poignant view ("Now and Then", "Old Folk's Christmas"), sometimes sliding into sheer noir ("Champion"), always entertaining. His frequent use of vernacular influenced sports fiction writing for generations to come.
• Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell
The most well-known and well-liked of Gaskell's works, this softly humorous picture of an English country village was first serialized in a magazine edited by Charles Dickens in 1851. Based on the village of Gaskell's childhood, "Cranford" is narrated by a young woman visiting the town who describes the genteel poverty of two middle-aged spinster sisters, Miss Matty and Miss Deborah. Gaskell tells of their little adventures in a confidential and almost chatty tone, perfectly conveying their habits and standards of propriety, decency, and kindness in reduced circumstances. The colorful characters and subtle class distinctions of the village of Cranford are captured in this compassionate and hopeful portrayal of small-town English life.
and from a Goodreads review:
• The Man of Property by John Galsworthy
Kindle Audible
John Galsworthy (1867-1933) devoted virtually his entire professional career to creating a fictional but entirely representative family of propertied Victorians: the Forsytes. He made their lives and times, loves and losses, fortunes and deaths so real that readers accused him of including as characters in his drama real individuals whom they knew. He was the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1932.
The entire saga comprises three trilogies of books, of which this is the first. The other two ("A Modern Comedy" and "End of the Chapter") are available as separate downloads.
This first trilogy, "The Forsyte Saga", chronicles the life of three generations of the Forsyte family, a wealthy upper middle class English family, in the turbulent years between the 1880s and the 1920s - a time period during which English society was completely transformed. The books are set against the great events of the day - the Boer War and WWI, the rise of Labour, the death of Queen Victoria, and much more.
This book was originally published as three novels, with a short story "interlude" between each one, the structure being:
The Man of Property
April: Award Winners (Fiction)
• The Light of Day by Eric Ambler
Goodreads | Amazon US / Audible
Print Length: 224 pages
1964 Edgar Award winner for Best Novel
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The Light of Day was the basis for Jules Dassin's classic film, Topkapi.
When Arthur Abdel Simpson first spots Harper in the Athens airport, he recognizes him as a tourist unfamiliar with city and in need of a private driver. In other words, the perfect mark for Simpson's brand of entrepreneurship. But Harper proves to be more the spider than the fly when he catches Simpson riffling his wallet for traveler's checks. Soon Simpson finds himself blackmailed into driving a suspicious car across the Turkish border. Then, when he is caught again, this time by the police, he faces a choice: cooperate with the Turks and spy on his erstwhile colleagues or end up in one of Turkey's notorious prisons. The authorities suspect an attempted coup, but Harper and his gang of international jewel thieves have planned something both less sinister and much, much more audacious.
May: Science Fiction
• In Times Like These: A Time Travel Adventure by Nathan van Coops
Goodreads | Amazon US / Barnes & Noble / Kobo US
Print Length: 384 pages
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"We broke something. How do you break time? Can something so bad happen that you fracture the world?" Benjamin Travers has been electrocuted. What's worse, he and his friends have woken up in the past. As the friends search for a way home, they realize they're not alone. There are other time travelers, and some of them are turning up dead. When Ben meets an enigmatic scientist and his charming, time-traveling daughter, salvation seems at hand, but escaping the dangers of the past may lead to a deadly future. If he hopes to save his friends, Ben must learn to master space and time, and survive a journey where past and future violently collide.
June: Science
• Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal by Mary Roach
Goodreads | Overdrive
Print Length: 353 pages
From Goodreads:
The irresistible, ever-curious, and always best-selling Mary Roach returns with a new adventure to the invisible realm we carry around inside.
Like all of Roach's books, Gulp is as much about human beings as it is about human bodies.
• What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe
Goodreads | Amazon US
Print Length: 321 pages
Randall Munroe left NASA in 2005 to start up his hugely popular site XKCD 'a web comic of romance, sarcasm, math and language' which offers a witty take on the world of science and geeks. It now has 600,000 to a million page hits daily. Every now and then, Munroe would get emails asking him to arbitrate a science debate. 'My friend and I were arguing about what would happen if a bullet got struck by lightning, and we agreed that you should resolve it . . . ' He liked these questions so much that he started up What If.
If your cells suddenly lost the power to divide, how long would you survive?
In pursuit of answers, Munroe runs computer simulations, pores over stacks of declassified military research memos, solves differential equations, and consults with nuclear reactor operators. His responses are masterpieces of clarity and hilarity, studded with memorable cartoons and infographics. They often predict the complete annihilation of humankind, or at least a really big explosion. Far more than a book for geeks, WHAT IF: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions explains the laws of science in operation in a way that every intelligent reader will enjoy and feel much the smarter for having read.
July: Free-For-All
• The Wind Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami, Jay Rubin (Translator)
Goodreads | Amazon US / Overdrive / WorldCat
Print Length: 607 pages
From Goodreads:
Japan's most highly regarded novelist now vaults into the first ranks of international fiction writers with this heroically imaginative novel, which is at once a detective story, an account of a disintegrating marriage, and an excavation of the buried secrets of World War II.
In a Tokyo suburb a young man named Toru Okada searches for his wife's missing cat. Soon he finds himself looking for his wife as well in a netherworld that lies beneath the placid surface of Tokyo. As these searches intersect, Okada encounters a bizarre group of allies and antagonists: a psychic prostitute; a malevolent yet mediagenic politician; a cheerfully morbid sixteen-year-old-girl; and an aging war veteran who has been permanently changed by the hideous things he witnessed during Japan's forgotten campaign in Manchuria.
Gripping, prophetic, suffused with comedy and menace, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is a tour de force equal in scope to the masterpieces of Mishima and Pynchon.
August: Thriller, Suspense, & Crime
• The Guns of Navarone by Alistair MacLean
Goodreads | Amazon UK / Amazon US
Print Length: 288 pages
From Goodreads:
The classic World War II thriller from the acclaimed master of action and suspense. Now reissued in a new cover style.
Twelve hundred British soldiers isolated on the small island of Kheros off the Turkish coast, waiting to die. Twelve hundred lives in jeopardy, lives that could be saved if only the guns could be silenced. The guns of Navarone, vigilant, savage and catastrophically accurate. Navarone itself, grim bastion of narrow straits manned by a mixed garrison of Germans and Italians, an apparently impregnable iron fortress. To Captain Keith Mallory, skllled saboteur, trained mountaineer, fell the task of leading the small party detailed to scale the vast, impossible precipice of Navarone and to blow up the guns. The Guns of Navarone is the story of that mission, the tale of a calculated risk taken in the time of war.
September: Classics
• Whose Body? (Lord Peter Wimsey Series Book 1) by Dorothy L. Sayers
Goodreads | Amazon US / Amazon UK / Audible US / Audible UK / Public Domain
Print Length: 208 pages
From Amazon:
Wimseys mother, the Dowager Duchess of Denver, rings her son with news of such a quaint thing. She has heard through a friend that Mr. Thipps, a respectable Battersea architect, found a dead man in his bathwearing nothing but a gold pince-nez. Lord Wimsey makes his way straight over to Mr. Thipps, and a good look at the body raises a number of interesting questions. Why would such an apparently well groomed man have filthy black toenails, flea bites and the scent of carbolic soap lingering on his corpse? Then comes the disappearance of oil millionaire Sir Reuben Levy, last seen on the Battersea Park Road. With his beard shaved he would look very similar to the man found in the bath, but is Sir Levy really dead?
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"Whose Body" is something of an apprentice work. Lord Peter is here more a bundle of characteristics than a character: a collector of rare books and incunabula, facile with quotations, fluent in French and probably in Latin, a skillful and sensitive pianist who never needs to practise, slightly built but possessed of "curious" strength and speed which he maintains without exercise. Over subsequent books, this caricature smooths and deepens into one of the most interesting and attractive detectives in fiction.
From Goodreads:
The stark naked body was lying in the tub. Not unusual for a proper bath, but highly irregular for murder -- especially with a pair of gold pince-nez deliberately perched before the sightless eyes. What's more, the face appeared to have been shaved after death. The police assumed that the victim was a prominent financier, but Lord Peter Wimsey, who dabbled in mystery detection as a hobby, knew better. In this, his first murder case, Lord Peter untangles the ghastly mystery of the corpse in the bath.
October: Humor
• Breakup (Kate Shugak #7) by Dana Stabenow
Goodreads | Amazon UK / Amazon US / Audible UK / Audible US / Kobo UK
Print Length: 260 pages
From Amazon:
When winter's done, but spring has not yet fully-sprung, much of Alaska turns to slush. Locally, it's called "breakup," and it's a… messy time of year. It's certainly messy for Kate Shugak; between doing her taxes, being chased by grizzlies and getting shot-at by feuding families, she has to cope with an NTSB investigation that hits very close to home. Then, of course, there's the body in the woods. And up at the old mining town. And… being Kate Shugak, somehow she can't leave well enough alone, and begins to tease-apart a well-planned and surprising crime.
November: History
• The End: The Defiance and Destruction of Hitler's Germany, 1944-1945 by Ian Kershaw
Goodreads | Amazon US / Kobo
Print Length: 596 pages
From Goodreads:
From the preeminent Hitler biographer, a fascinating and original exploration of how the Third Reich was willing and able to fight to the bitter end of World War II
Countless books have been written about why Nazi Germany lost the Second World War, yet remarkably little attention has been paid to the equally vital questions of how and why the Third Reich did not surrender until Germany had been left in ruins and almost completely occupied. Drawing on prodigious new research, Ian Kershaw, an award-winning historian and the author of Fateful Choices, explores these fascinating questions in a gripping and focused narrative that begins with the failed bomb plot in July 1944 and ends with the death of Adolf Hitler and the German capitulation in 1945. The End paints a harrowing yet enthralling portrait of the Third Reich in its last desperate gasps.
• The Magic City by Edith Nesbit
When young Philip Haldane and his new step-sister Lucy (whom he resents) are magically transported to a magic city (created by Philip from odds and ends from about the house), they find themselves on an incredible enchanted adventure complete with talking dogs, winged horses, ancient buildings and magic islands. How Philip and Lucy come to forge a friendship and work together to save the Magic City from impending disaster makes for a riveting, entrancing story.
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Philip Haldane builds a play city out of odds and ends that comes to life, when his beloved sister Helen marries Lucy's father. But the nurse tears down the city and traps Lucy. Peter, The Deliverer, must perform seven valorous deeds, opposed by the Pretenderette, a mysterious veiled woman who wants to be Queen. Noah builds an ark and adventures abound.
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Sat November 11 2017
|MobileRead Week in Review: 11/04 - 11/11
06:00 AM by Alexander Turcic in Miscellaneous | Week in Review
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Fri November 10 2017
|Delta Wedding by Eudora Welty
09:19 AM by sun surfer in Reading Recommendations | Book Clubs
'"The nickname of the train was the Yellow Dog. Its real name was the Yazoo-Delta. It was a mixed train. The day was the 10th of September, 1923-afternoon. Laura McRaven, who was nine years old, was on her first journey alone."
So begins Delta Wedding, Eudora Welty's portrait of a large and clamorous Southern family living on their plantation in the Mississippi Delta, and into whose midst Laura McRaven, whose mother has just died, is thrust. When Laura arrives, the Fairchilds are preparing for the marriage of Dabney, not the oldest but the prettiest of the Fairchild girls. Drama leads to drama, revelation to revelation. The result is a sometimes riotous portrait of a Southern family and the motherless child who learns to become one of them. Eudora Welty's first novel remains an American classic.'
'Eudora Welty (1909-2001) was born in Jackson, Mississippi. She worked as a photographer during the Depression and published her first book, a collection of short stories, in 1941. In addition to short fiction, Welty wrote novels, novellas, essays, and reviews, and was the winner of both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. By the time of her death in 2001, Welty had established herself as one of the most important and beloved American writers of the twentieth century.'
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Sat November 04 2017
|MobileRead Week in Review: 10/28 - 11/04
06:00 AM by Alexander Turcic in Miscellaneous | Week in Review
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Thu November 02 2017
|Time Period Nominations & Vote November 2017
01:04 AM by sun surfer in Reading Recommendations | Book Clubs
Help us select what the MR Literary Club will read in November 2017!
This is the last Time Period category month (of this Time Period cycle at least) that will have a starter vote to choose the time period. There are only two options currently eligible, and after one is chosen this month only one will remain. So, our next Time Period month after this (in May) will use the final option with no starter vote needed.
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Sat October 28 2017
|MobileRead Week in Review: 10/21 - 10/28
06:00 AM by Alexander Turcic in Miscellaneous | Week in Review
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Iran has agreed to allow regular Tehran-Damascus flights to pass through Iraq's airspace instead of Turkey's, Iranian Transportation Minister Mahmud Hojjati said Monday.
"Since the route over Turkey is not suitable for these flights, and wanting to develop relations with Iraq, particularly in transportation, Iran believes these flights should go over Iraq," Hojjati said after meeting with his Iraqi counterpart Ahmed Morteza.
"Baghdad hopes that Tehran-Damascus flights will from now on pass over Iraq," Morteza said, as cited by Iran's official IRNA news agency.
The Tehran-Damascus route is primarily geared toward Muslim pilgrims. All international airlines have avoided flying over Iraq since August 1990, when an air embargo was imposed on the country after Baghdad's invasion of Kuwait.
In answer to a request by Morteza for Iran to open its airspace to Russian flights to Iraq, Hojjati said Tehran "has promised that these planes will be authorized, in so far as possible, to fly over Iran after the necessary studies have been carried out."
The Russian carrier Aeroflot said in Moscow Monday it had signed an agreement with an Iraqi Airways delegation that will allow the resumption at some point of regular flights to Baghdad.
Morteza said the Russian flights were to resume in two weeks.
Separately, Morteza also said Iraq wanted to send technicians to Iran to examine Iraqi planes that have been kept in its eastern neighbor since just before the 1991 Gulf war. Baghdad says there are 148 planes, while Iran says there are only 22.
Iraq wants to make sure the planes "are not deteriorating," Morteza said.
Hojjati responded that the planes were not the responsiblity of the transport ministry and said "the two countries' authorities must reach an agreement on the subject."
Iran has previously said it would return the planes to Iraq but only if requested to do so by the United Nations. – (AFP)
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Here Today, Corn Tomorrow: The E85 Road Trip [TTAC]; Kick the Oil Habit Road Trip - Cruising on Homegrown Fuel [kickthehabit.org]
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Defiance took a 29-25 lead when quarterback Alex Larson ran into the end zone from a yard out with 13:10 left in the fourth.
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From Apathy to Advocacy for the Sake of the Gospel
Having worked in many churches and Christian communities, I have seen numerous well-intentioned Christ-followers living simple lifestyles, but apathetic to many of the world's travesties around them.
We are well-meaning and profess to love Jesus. We care about our neighbors -- those we encounter on rare occasions. We give money to the church and to the poor, but often, we don't know any poor people by name.
I think there are many reasons for this. Perhaps we are too consumed with full schedules -- TV shows, committee meetings, soccer games, and taekwondo practice -- or are overwhelmed because the surrounding problems seem too big to tackle.
Have we become apathetic to the things that break the heart of God because of the many things that have gotten in the way? Life, it seems, keeps us from living on behalf of the gospel.
One dictionary definition of "apathy" is the "absence or suppression of passion, emotion, or excitement" or a "lack of interest or concern." Apathy leads to passivity, and passivity is a great sin.
Sometimes when I am traveling, I try to take time to intentionally "see" the people around me. I wonder about the stories of the men and women who join me on an elevator. I watch a young mother cross the street while holding the hand of her toddler and wonder whether all of their needs are being met at home. I observe the migrant workers on the street corner waiting for work to help fill their day and put food on their families' tables.
It has become increasingly difficult to connect with the people with whom we cross paths on a daily basis. Our culture propels people into an all-consuming lifestyle that leaves little room to care for those who are not in our immediate sphere of influence. The apathy that is present isn't intentional; it is a byproduct of full agendas and busy lives.
Called to justice
I wish moving from apathy to advocacy could be outlined in a four-step process. But the fight against injustice is specific to the time, space, region, and context to which God has called each individual and community. To become advocates for justice, we must begin the spiritual process of discerning how God is calling us to get involved.
Not only does each person have a unique calling for his or her life, but each church, ministry, and community is called to witness to the kingdom of God locally, regionally, nationally, and around the world. Some are called to battle human trafficking in Southeast Asia. Others are called to support better educational programs in their local school district. Some are called to pass legislation regarding healthcare for the poor. Still others are called to work with disabled orphans across the globe. The beauty of God's kingdom is that each person has a significant part to play in the body.
Toward advocacy
Just as Jesus and the Holy Spirit are our advocates, we are called to advocate for one another on earth. Advocates are change agents who work on behalf of others who might not have a voice or the power to change their unfortunate circumstances.
Ask God to reveal to you if there are any places in your life where you are being apathetic. Prayer launches the movement from apathy to advocacy by bringing awareness. One of the ways that God graciously moves people out of apathy and closer to advocacy is by opening their eyes to what is happening in the world. Many social reform movements in history began when people were exposed to truth that had otherwise been ignored.
Mother Teresa said, "Following Jesus is simple, but not easy. Love until it hurts, and then love more." As we seek to raise awareness in our communities, we must do so with humility and brokenness. The only way to become sensitive to injustice is to allow hearts to be broken by the things that break the heart of God.
Engaging in social justice is the greatest evangelistic opportunity the church has in the 21st century. The world will see the love of Christ expressed through the actions of His followers who diligently seek justice. The church cannot sit idly by and allow injustice to occur. Rather, the people of God must rise up and stamp out the injustice that exists, all the while pursuing the shalom (peace) of God, which is expressed in Christ's perfect love.
None of us can do everything, but all of us can do something! Let us partner together as we seek to be advocates of justice for the sake of the gospel.
This post is taken from Social Justice Handbook: Small Steps for a Better World by Mae Elise Cannon.
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WikiLeaks: Stratfor emails reveal problems with Web security
WASHINGTON — On April 24, 2010, George Friedman, the CEO and founder of Stratfor, an Austin, Texas, company that specializes in writing analyses of international political developments, sent an email from his BlackBerry to one of his employees. It was a response to a suggestion that the company buy email encryption software. He no doubt rues his short missive today.
"40k is a lot of money to spend on that obviously," he wrote. "It probably prices the solution out of our means right now."
Nearly two years later, Stratfor's internal emails, more than 5 million pieces, are being published — drip, drip, drip, 100 or so per day — by the website WikiLeaks, which has provided access to all of the documents to 25 organizations around the world, including McClatchy.
The emails, whose publication began Monday, contain some startling assertions, almost none of which have been confirmed.
In one, from Jan. 26, 2011, the firm's vice president for intelligence, a former State Department counter-terrorism officer named Fred Burton, claimed to know the disposition of a grand jury investigation into WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. "We have a sealed grand jury indictment," he wrote.
But Burton offered no explanation for how he knew, and apparently none of the other participants in the exchange thought to ask him. More than a year later, no other report of an indictment has surfaced, though the existence of a grand jury is well documented. The Justice Department refused to say Tuesday whether an indictment exists, citing an ongoing investigation.
In another email, 11 days after the special forces raid last May 2 in Pakistan that killed al Qaida founder Osama bin Laden, Burton reported that he'd been told that several members of the Pakistani military, "less than 12," knew of bin Laden's presence in the country. The email chain implied that Burton had acquired that information through access to records and other materials recovered from the bin Laden house.
But no further details are offered in subsequent emails, and while the information seems plausible — bin Laden had been living just a few hundred yards from Pakistan's premier military academy for five years — Burton doesn't repeat it in a 3,892-word commentary on the bin Laden raid that was distributed to Stratfor subscribers on May 26.
In announcing that WikiLeaks was making Stratfor's emails public, Assange referred to the company as a "shadow CIA." WikiLeaks said the emails would reveal "Stratfor's web of informers, payoff structure, payment-laundering techniques and psychological methods."
But while Stratfor may have aspired to become a private equivalent to the CIA, analysts who are familiar with the burgeoning market for international political analysis say it's not among the world's premier players. Friedman's rejection of encryption software over a mere $40,000 is evidence of that.
"Gathering global intelligence requires lots of resources," said Jo Jakobsen, an associate professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and one of the few scholars who've devoted their academic careers to studying the risk analysis industry.
Before Monday, Jakobsen said, he'd never heard of Stratfor.
"I was a little bit surprised about hacking a medium or even small company like that," Jakobsen said.
"WikiLeaks, as such, is brilliant," Jakobsen said, in an unsolicited paean to the website that gained its fame by publishing hundreds of thousands of U.S. government documents. "But," he added, "the way they have portrayed how these risk analysis firms operate shows they don't really understand. My guess is that most of (Stratfor's) time is spent on the Internet."
WikiLeaks' publication of the Stratfor emails, naturally, has been controversial. WikiLeaks says it doesn't know the source of the emails, though it's been known since December that Stratfor's computers had been violated. That's when Anonymous, a group of Internet hackers who target corporations they deem guilty of wrongdoing, published the names of Stratfor's customers and their credit card numbers. The controversy has touched the news organizations that have been given access to the emails.
"McClatchy's relationship with WikiLeaks is the same as we have with hundreds of people and organizations that provide information to our newspapers," said Anders Gyllenhaal, McClatchy's vice president for news and its Washington editor. "This is not a partnership. We have no role in how WikiLeaks operates. We simply have an arrangement that enables us to review documents ahead of others. We then determine the information's validity and value and publish based on our independent news judgment."
Friedman founded Stratfor in 1996 after he left Louisiana State University, where he was a political science professor, and it's made its reputation by distributing analyses of breaking international news developments on its website.
American journalists found Stratfor analysts particularly accessible and often used their postings and comments when official law enforcement sources were unavailable. McClatchy, for example, cited a Stratfor analysis of burn patterns in a mosque to discuss the likely cause of an explosion last June that wounded former Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh as he was praying.
Without doubt, Stratfor is much smaller than the world's most prominent risk-analysis firms. The granddaddies of the trade include New York-based Control Risk Group, with offices in 34 countries, and London-based Merchant International Group, which boasts operations in 100 countries. There are hundreds, if not thousands, of others.
By comparison, Stratfor's employee complement is fewer than 100 people, according to one former insider, who spoke only on the condition that he not be identified, to preserve his status in the industry. Stratfor itself isn't commenting.
One of Stratfor's emails lists 24 people by name who are authorized to receive missives as part of the company's "secure" email list.
The company's financial statements — they, too, can be found in the WikiLeaks emails, unencrypted — indicate that Stratfor is profitable, though not wildly so.
According to its eight-month income statement for 2011, revenues through August were $7.6 million, of which $6.7 million came from subscriptions to the company's publications. Costs, including $4.9 million in salaries and benefits, totaled $6.48 million. That left a net income, through August, of $516,401.
That same profit and loss statement indicated that Stratfor had just one U.S. government client last year, the Marine Corps, which was billed $34,000 in October, apparently for consulting services.
In 2010, according to a list of receivables found among the email, the Department of the Air Force owed Stratfor $119,950. That same year, the "commandant of the Marines" is listed as owing Stratfor $48,000.
As for Stratfor's other clients, there were nine that made payments in the first eight months of 2011, according to the financial statement. The largest was Chevron Latin America, which paid Stratfor $81,700. A 10th client was added in September — according to an email from Friedman to his staff that month — the Turkish Industry and Business Association. It was billed $75,000 in October, according to a note that accompanied the financial statement.
Another client, Dallas-based Hunt Oil, renewed its subscription to Stratfor's research for $42,394. According to the emails, Stratfor monitors events in Iraq, Peru and Yemen for Hunt, which has oil interests in those countries, and along the U.S.-Mexican border, where Hunt controls the electrical transmission lines between Mexico and Texas.
Despite the existence of emails that indicate Dow Chemical had asked Stratfor to gather information on advocates for victims of the 1984 chemical spill in Bhopal, India, there's no indication in the financial statement that Dow made any payments to Stratfor in 2010 or 2011. The monitoring appears to have been done by Allis Information Management, a political analysis firm based in Midland, Mich., where Dow's headquarters are also. Allis didn't respond to requests for comment.
Without doubt, according to the emails, Stratfor's most colorful personality is Burton, the VP for intelligence, who announced the news of a sealed indictment of Assange to his incurious colleagues last year. Even without the emails, Burton is a bigger-than-life figure.
A former deputy director of the Counter Terrorism Division of the State Department's Diplomatic Security Service, Burton has written two books. The first, "Ghost: Confessions of a Counterterrorism Agent," made The New York Times best-seller list when it was published in 2008.
He casts a long shadow in the Stratfor emails. He slams the CIA, suggests that Assange should be waterboarded and takes an unpopular position, at least among some analysts he's exchanging emails with, that sometimes one source is all you need — if the information is good enough and the source trusted.
"If a source has a strong record for accuracy and the info being sent adds up, I don't see why we need to wait for it to be corroborated," Burton wrote in an email Nov. 14.
He was a proponent of improving the company's Internet security, calling for encrypting nearly everything, including the company's financials, its reports to its clients and other potentially sensitive communications.
The admonition fell largely on deaf ears.
Last summer, Stratfor began a rush program to gather all of its analysts' sources into a central database, urging in repeated emails that they send the lists, with names, numerical code designations and contact information, all color-coded according to Stratfor's standards: red for people who should be contacted only sparingly, orange for those who are more accessible and yellow for sources who seem willing to be contacted at any time.
Only once in the flurry of emails did an analyst suggest that perhaps this information should be encrypted. All the others apparently sent their lists as they kept them, in Excel spreadsheets that soon will be available for all the world to peruse — scores of names and phone numbers in Asia, Africa and Latin America.
"That's the big scandal here," said Jakobsen, the Norwegian risk analysis industry expert. "An intelligence company being hacked."
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Health journal highlights 'inactivity pandemic'
Health journal highlights 'inactivity pandemic'
The current issue of The Lancet made headlines with a series of articles, highlighting the mounting worldwide crisis of physical inactivity.
An introductory article explains that adults need to do at least 150 minutes of moderate physical activity a week to maintain good health – that equates to a two-way 15 minute cycle commute, five times a week. It also says that failure to reach this level caused 5.3 million of the 57 million deaths worldwide in 2008.
The first research article looks at how inactivity levels vary from country to country. Britain is third worst in Europe with 63% of the adult population insufficiently active, beaten only by Serbia and Malta. Europe's most active country was the Netherlands, with only 18% of adults failing to meet the physical activity guideline.
A second article examines why some people are more active than others. It shows, among other things, that people are more likely to take up physical activity if they have been active in the past. We currently lack good research evidence that people who have cycled (or taken part in cycle training) as children or teenagers are more likely to cycle later in life. However this article makes that assumption all the more plausible.
The third article focuses on evidence from around the world about what works to encourage greater physical activity. It highlights the role of transport policies and urban design, including cycle routes and trails.
However it also flags up the benefits of media-based and other awareness campaigns, and of community-based activities, such as group-based exercise opportunities in public parks.
This very much supports the work CTC is doing through its Cycle Champions and Bike Club programmes, enabling people of all ages and backgrounds – health patients, people with disabilities, teenage girls and women from ethnic minority backgrounds and disadvantaged young people – to give cycling a try, in a supportive peer-group setting.
Finally the authors cite the value of weekly events such as Bogota's "Ciclovia" and similar events in other cities, where roads are closed to motor traffic and opened up for people to walk, cycle, skate and enjoy using the streets as public space.
The final article points to the need for leadership and joined-up action to promote physical activities, from Government departments involved in transport, planning, education recreation etc – exactly as CTC and other cycling groups have been calling for.
The Lancet was published on the day that the Commons Transport Select Committee echoed CTC President Jon Snow's call for stronger leadership on road safety. As the Government prepares to issue a transport strategy document this autumn, we will be urging them to take note!


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This thread is for posting pictures or replies on car's you have spotted and maybe wanted to find out who the owner is so maybe you can see more of there ride !
Post pic and or location/information on the car you got from spotting it!
Imma call this Scene it! ( For Krosbyyy lol)


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March 3, 1996, Section ZZZ, Page 0Buy Reprints
Reading David Foster Wallace's latest novel, ''Infinite Jest,'' I couldn't help thinking at times about 7-year-old Seymour Glass's book-length ''letter'' home from camp, published in The New Yorker in 1965 as ''Hapworth 16, 1924.'' I felt a similar feeling of admiration alloyed with impatience veering toward strained credulity. (Do you suppose Seymour's parents actually read the whole thing?) I had previously been a great admirer of Mr. Wallace's collection of stories, ''Girl With Curious Hair,'' and, to a lesser extent, of the loose, baggy monster that was his debut novel, ''The Broom of the System,'' which I confess to not finishing. If Mr. Wallace were less talented, you would be inclined to shoot him -- or possibly yourself -- somewhere right around page 480 of ''Infinite Jest.'' In fact, you might anyway.
Alternately tedious and effulgent, ''Infinite Jest'' is set in the near future, specifically in the Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment, which would seem to be about 18 years from now. The United States has become part of the Organization of North American Nations (ONAN), federated with Canada and Mexico; most of northern New England has been transformed into a huge toxic waste dump and palmed off on the Canadians. Qubcois separatists, many of them in wheelchairs (les Assassins des Fauteuils Rollents), prowl the lower, nontoxic states, performing terrorist acts, understandably more bilious than ever now that giant fans along the border blow Northeastern American waste products in their direction. President Limbaugh has been fairly recently assassinated, and the calendar has been sold to the highest corporate bidder, giving us the Year of the Whopper, the Year of the Tucks Medicated Pad and so on.
All of this might -- and sometimes does -- feel cartoonish in the extreme. But this skeleton of satire is fleshed out with several domestically scaled narratives and masses of hyperrealistic quotidian detail. The overall effect is something like a sleek Vonnegut chassis wrapped in layers of post-millennial Zola. Mr. Wallace's earlier fiction revealed him as a student of literary post-modernists like John Barth and Robert Coover, flirting with metafictional tropes and self-referential narratives. Here, despite the ''Gravity's Rainbow''-plus length and haute science flourishes, Mr. Wallace plays it straight -- that is, almost realistically -- and seems to want to convince us of the authenticity of his vision by sheer weight of accumulated detail. The weight almost crushes the narrative at times -- as when, for example, we are treated to 10 dense pages about the disassembly of a bed, complete with diagrams.
The two overlapping microcosms of this nonlinear narrative are the Enfield Tennis Academy, a Boston-area institution founded by the mad genius James O. Incandenza, whose clan of athletic and academic prodigies still resides there, and Ennet House, a residence for recovering drug addicts and alcoholics just down the hill. James O., a former tennis prodigy, physicist specializing in optics and avant-garde film maker, has by the time the story opens killed himself by sticking his head in a microwave oven. Surviving him are his sons: Orin, a pro football kicker; Hal, a 17-year-old student at the academy who is as gifted mentally as he is physically; and Mario, who is severely deformed and mildly retarded.
The details of day-to-day life at the academy are rendered in something very close to real time, as are several matches between the junior athletes; Mr. Wallace knows his serve and volley from his baseline game: readers may feel qualified toward the end to march down to the court and challenge the club pro to a match.
The mechanics and rituals of the recovering addicts are also represented with mind-numbing fidelity. Central to this narrative is one Don Gately, a recovering burglar and Demerol man, the slogging Leopold Bloom to Hal Incandenza's Stephen Dedalus. Mr. Wallace's knowledge of pharmaceuticals and the psychology of addiction is encyclopedic; if not for the copious footnotes, which among other functions annotate the dozens of narcotics and psychedelics mentioned in the book, all but the most hard-core drug enthusiasts would need a copy of the Physician's Desk Reference just to keep track of who was up or down at any given moment.
Recovering at Ennet House from a serious freebase habit is one Joelle van Dyne, who was supposedly featured in a cartridge (i.e., film) made by James Incandenza before he died. This film is said to be so mesmerizing that anyone viewing it -- like the famous lab rat with the cocaine dispenser -- is rendered helpless and insensible to everything except the desire to keep watching it.
These plot lines eventually converge, although as a narrator Mr. Wallace reminds me of his character Lateral Alice: his momentum tends to be sideways rather than forward, with chapters often seeming interchangeable with the almost 400 footnotes, some a dozen pages long. As the title -- a nod to Hamlet's Yorick -- indicates, the emergent theme is that we as a nation are amusing ourselves to death. A legless Canadian terrorist tells his American counterpart: ''You all stumble about in the dark, this confusion of permissions. The without-end pursuit of a happiness of which someone let you forget the old things which made happiness possible.'' The terrorist is trying to find Joelle van Dyne in the hope of locating the master copy of the cartridge, code-named ''the Entertainment.'' This would constitute the ultimate terrorist weapon, a device to facilitate the American penchant for entertaining ourselves senseless.
What makes all this almost plausible, and often pleasurable, is Mr. Wallace's talent -- as a stylist, a satirist and a mimic -- as well as his erudition, which ranges from the world of street crime to higher mathematics. While there are many uninteresting pages in this novel, there are not many uninteresting sentences. And there are dozens of set pieces that double as dazzling mini-entertainments -- like an essay on the etiquette of videophones and a street brawl between drunken Canadian separatists and a houseful of recovering addicts. Equally lively is Mr. Wallace's rendition of a New Age 12-step men's group in which bearded hulks sit in a circle clutching teddy bears that represent their inner infants. ''Can you share what you're feeling, Kevin?'' asks the group leader. ''I'm feeling my Inner Infant's abandonment and deep-deprivation issues, Harv,'' answers a weeping, bearded bear-clutcher.
In this ONAN-ite world, everybody's in a 12-step group of some kind, like Phob-Comp-Anon, a ''12-step splinter from Al-Anon, for co-dependency issues surrounding loved ones who were cripplingly phobic or compulsive, or both.'' The satirical narrative distance evident in both these passages collapses, however, in the long sections about Ennet House and Boston A.A. (the only institution treated with a certain earnestness and even reverence), which seem somewhat out of tune with the book's overall omniscient-hipster narrative stance.
These two strains are never quite synthesized. It's as if Mr. Wallace started with the Glass family whiz-kid plot and then got more interested in the gritty church-basement world of A.A. But, in the end, it is the dogged attempt of the recovering addict Don Gately to reclaim the simple pleasures of everyday life that overshadows the athletic, intellectual and onanistic pyrotechnics of the Incandenzas -- and makes this novel something more than an interminable joke.


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Facebook::Graph::Cookbook::Recipe2 - Building a Full Web App
version 1.0500
A full working web app for those people who like to start hacking from a working example and make it their own.
Prerequisite Modules
You'll need to have all of the following modules installed in order to run this app (in addition to Facebook::Graph):
DateTime::Format::ICal Dancer Template Data::ICal XML::FeedPP
This recipe assumes that that you have a Facebook (http://www.facebook.com) account.
You'll also have to be able to point a domain name to a server that is accessible from the Internet. DNS and server configuration are way beyond the scope of this document.
In order to edit this web app you're either going to have to know or be willing to learn Dancer. It's a good little web app server. You can find out more at http://perldancer.org.
Step 1: Set up the developer application on Facebook.
Go to http://apps.facebook.com/developer.
Click "Allow".
Step 2: Create your application.
Go to http://www.facebook.com/developers/createapp.php or click "Set Up New Application" from the developer application.
Fill in an application name. The only restriction is that it can't use a Facebook trademark or be similar to official Facebook application names.
Agree to the terms of servce.
Click "Create Application".
Step 3: The Connect tab.
After creating your application, go to the "Connect" tab.
Fill in the "Connect URL" field. It should be
http://www.yourapplication.com/. It is the base URL to where you'll be deploying your application. The trailing slash is required.
Click "save".
Step 4: Note your application settings.
You either want to make note of your "Application ID" and your "Application Secret" or bookmark this page so you can come back to it. You'll need these later.
Step 5: Copy files.
If you don't already have it downloaded, download a tarball of Facebook::Graph and extract it:
tar xfz Facebook-Graph-0.0700.tar.gz
And copy the files from
eg/recipe2 where ever you want to deploy your app. For this example we'll assume you want to deploy from
mkdir -p /opt/webapp
cp -Rfp Facebook-Graph/eg/recipe2/* /opt/webapp
Step 6: Configure your app.
Before we can run the app we need to edit the config file.
cd /opt/webapp
vi config.yml
Specifically we need to set the
app_id and
secret fields with information from our Facebook application settings page. And we need to update the
postback with the domain pointing to our server.
Step 7: Start it.
To start the app just type the following command:
cd /opt/webapp
perl app.pl
Step 8: Play with it.
Go use the web app. See what it does. Point your browser to:
Step 9: Start tinkering.
Now that you know you have a working app, start tinkering. Make it do what you want it to do.
If you would like a step by step as to how this app was created, download the PDF presentation (http://www.madmongers.org/talks/writing-facebook-apps-in-10-minutes-or-less) I gave of this app at MadMongers (http://www.madmongers.org).
For more recipes, check out the Facebook::Graph::Cookbook.
Facebook::Graph is Copyright 2010 - 2012 Plain Black Corporation (http://www.plainblack.com) and is licensed under the same terms as Perl itself.


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By Caroline McGraw Jun 28, 2012 0
Moving On
Few things have the power to drive a person as crazy as a move … and a long-distance move has the kind of crazy-making power that most other life events can only dream of possessing. As a friend reminded me this week, in the list of major life stressors, moving makes the top three; it's right up there with death of a loved one and divorce. It's no wonder, then, that every little thing seems to elicit more stress than usual for me this week. As I type, my husband and I are preparing to begin a three-day move to a small town in Alabama. Starting tomorrow, we'll be driving away from five years in the same Washington, DC neighborhood and starting a new chapter in our story. We're moving into a home we own in Alabama. We've never lived there together, however, since we met and fell in love at L'Arche DC (a faith-based non-profit that creates homes where people with and without intellectual and developmental disabilities share life together).
Why the decision to move? Both of us have started our own businesses this year; mine is in writing and web copywriting, and my husband's is in web hosting and remote technical support. As such, we've decided to relocate from the big city to a small town in order to live more simply and enjoy more time together. (Ironically, it takes a big, complicated process to arrive at that simpler life!) As I wrote in a recent A Wish Come Clear post, "Everything [is] in transit, everything [is] in flux. For a couple who likes their daily routines, this is a destabilizing prospect."
Destabilizing indeed … and that word makes me think of my brother Willie, and how important his daily life routines are to him. As my husband and I go into moving mode, I realize that even small changes to Willie's regular routine may make him feel the way I am feeling now: disoriented, displaced, and generally distressed. My husband's family moved many times in the course of his childhood; my family, by contrast, moved just once, when I was less than a year old. My brother has lived in the same house for his entire life, and at this moment, I cannot help but wonder if that is no coincidence. I wonder if, perhaps, my parents wanted to spare him—and me—the generalized chaos that's caused by a move.
I also find myself struggling with feelings of over-reactivity this week; the slightest unexpected change in my schedule sends me reeling. Even though I know better than to give into it, there's still an irrational sense of panic dogging my heels. I wonder, Is this what Willie feels like before he has a major meltdown? As moving day draws near, I coach myself with the self-soothing techniques that work for my brother. I'm taking deep breaths, and reminding myself that, in the long run, small mistakes and miscalculations are, "No big deal." (In short order, I think I'll need a rug to roll up in; the sense of calming pressure that comes from Willie's technique sounds pretty good to me right about now.)
Rationally, I realize that everything will get done and that, as minimalists, my husband and I are actually more prepared for this big move than most. And there's also a fierce excitement running through my veins, the kind that makes it hard to fall asleep at night. There's a feeling of imminent adventure, a freedom found in letting go and starting over.
And that's the beautiful gift within the stress of our move: the ability to understand what it might be like to experience life as Willie does. To gain empathy for his need for structure and admiration for his courage when he faces change. We learn by going, after all, and this move is teaching me compassion, for myself and for my brother. I remember the words I wrote in a recent feature on Extreme Sports Camp: "I wonder if, despite the fact that Willie loves routine, such an experience of exploration might be just what he needs." I wonder if it might not be the same for me.


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A New York police officer has pleaded not guilty to plotting to kidnap, cook and eat up to 100 women.
"Not guilty,, Gilberto Valle told a federal judge in Manhattan when asked how he pleaded to one count of kidnapping and one of illegally accessing a restricted computer database.
Valle, 28, is accused of plotting with an unnamed co-conspirator to use chloroform to knock out women, then bring them back to his home where he was allegedly planning to cook them in an oven, on a spit, or roasting them in a cage.
The serving police officer allegedly exchanged detailed emails about the plan with the co-conspirator and accessed a police database to collect information on his victims.
A search of his computer allegedly revealed files kept on at least 100 women, each with a name and photograph and often personal details such as address and descriptions. No women came to harm in what Valle's lawyer says was merely an online fantasy.
Valle, wearing a blue jail smock to his hearing, spoke clearly, but did not show any emotion.
On Tuesday, his lawyer, Julia Gatto, was to argue for release on bail. However, Judge Paul Gardephe pointed out that this had already been rejected by two other judges and "you will have a hard row to hoe".