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Release date: December 1, 2011
Curator and art historian Thomas Sokolowski is no stranger to MOCRA audiences, having lectured at the museum in 1994 with a talk called "The Changing Face of AIDS" and again in 2002 with a talk called "The Last Impression: Andy Warhol's Art as Belief."
Sokolowski and MOCRA Director Terrence Dempsey, SJ, discuss issues related to art and AIDS. Topics include Sokolowski's experiences in presenting some of the earliest exhibitions of art about AIDS, and his role in the creation of the red ribbon for AIDS awareness. Also addressed are Sokolowski's role in introducing Dempsey to the late artist Adrian Kellard, and Sokolowski's significant role in making several MOCRA exhibitions possible.
The Audio Extra, "The Changing Face of AIDS," features excerpts from Sokolowski's 1994 talk at MOCRA.
The Conversation
Audio Extra: The Changing Face of AIDS
Listening Guide for the Audio Extra
MOCRA Voices on Stitcher MOCRA Voices on iTunes
Related Exhibitions
Consecrations: The Spiritual in Art in the Time of AIDS
Adrian Kellard: The Learned Art of Compassion
Andy Warhol: Silver Clouds
Related Episode
Producer: David Brinker
Recording Engineer and Editor: Fojammi (Daniel Stefacek)
Host: John Launius
Listening Guide: David Brinker
A native of Chicago, Thomas Sokolowski received his B.A. from the University of Chicago, and earned his master's degree and did doctoral work in art history at New York University, where he specialized in late 17th- and early 18th-century Italian art. In the early 1980s Sokolowski was curator of European painting and sculpture, and later chief curator, at the Chrysler Museum. In 1984 he was named Director of New York University's Grey Art Gallery and Study Center, where he curated a number of important exhibitions.
Sokolowski became Director of The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, PA, in 1996, a post he held for 14 years. During his tenure at the Warhol, Sokolowski established a reputation for inventiveness in exhibitions and programming, as well as for civic activism. In addition to reaching out to marginalized populations in the Pittsburgh region, the Warhol has produced more than 50 traveling exhibitions that have been shown in over 150 venues worldwide.
In addition to his work in museums, Sokolowski has taught at a number of universities, including New York University, and he is a board member of Visual AIDS. Since he left the Warhol at the end of 2010, Sokolowski has kept up an active schedule as an art historian, consultant, and lecturer.
Listening Guide
Audio Extra: "The Changing Face of AIDS"
June 5, 1981, marked the first published descriptions of the disease that would come to be known as acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, or AIDS , a complex of opportunistic infections that take advantage of an immune system weakened by infection with the human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV. The amfAR website provides this timeline of the impact of AIDS over the ensuing 30 years, from the 159 cases reported in the U.S. in 1981, to the over 33 million estimated worldwide cases today. Another timeline is provided by AVERT. This New York Times article reports on new research showing that HIV was laying its first roots as early as the 1920s.
It may be difficult for some today to appreciate just how devastating the impact of HIV/AIDS was upon those infected in the early years. Lack of scientific knowledge about the disease and its causes led to unfounded rumors and consequent discrimination against and ostracizing of both HIV+ patients and people in high risk groups, particularly gay men. The epidemic devastated whole communities with predominantly gay residents, yet also led to grassroots activism to address the needs of the ill, to educate those at risk, to fund scientific research, and to influence government policy and public opinion. (The U.S. government response, initially distressingly tepid, has since become quite robust.)
The magazine article referenced by Sokolowski is likely the article by David Ansen, titled "A Lost Generation." It appeared in the January 17, 1993, issue of Newsweek. This article about a 1990 photo in Life magazine demonstrates how visual imagery played a major role in helping to break down the fear and misinformation that dogged those with HIV/AIDS.
The WPA , or Works Progress Administration, was the largest of the New Deal programs initiated by the administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt. It employed millions of unskilled workers to carry out public works projects, and also funded arts, drama, media, and literacy projects. Many of the artists involved in the WPA are well known today, including Leon Golub, Jacob Lawrence, Philip Guston, Mark Rothko, Arshile Gorky, Lee Krasner, Marsden Hartley, and Diego Rivera. Wikipedia lists a number of the artists who worked for the WPA.
Sokolowski notes that the arts community has been disproportionately affected by HIV/AIDS, and has responded to the crisis in the most natural way it could, through the creation and presentation of art. Visual AIDS continues to play an active role in the arts community. According to the Visual AIDS website, the organization "utilizes art to fight AIDS by provoking dialogue, supporting HIV+ artists, and preserving a legacy, because AIDS is not over." Visual AIDS works for HIV prevention and AIDS awareness through visual art projects; provides assistance to artists living with HIV/AIDS; and preserves and promotes the legacy of artist who have died from AIDS. (A similar initiative is The Estate Project for Artists with AIDS.)
As Sokolowski mentions later in this segment, Visual AIDS initiated Day With(out) Art, an annual observance each year on World AIDS Day (December 1), for which galleries and museums display (or sometimes remove) works of art, or present other programs to mark the impact of HIV/AIDS on the arts community. MOCRA participates annually in the Day With(out) Art observance. MOCRA's 2009 observance featured Adrian Kellard's work The Promise.
Sokolowski mentions other similar arts-related organizations, including Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, and Dance for Life Chicago. The power of the arts to fight ignorance about AIDS is not limited to professional performers, as the organization dance4life demonstrates.
Kaposi's sarcoma is one of the best known and also most horrifying symptoms of full-blown AIDS. Kaposi's sarcoma is a cancer that causes red or purple patches to appear on the skin, in the lining of the mouth, nose, and throat, or in other organs. Read more about the disease and its treatment on the American Cancer Society website.
above: Ken Meeks, a 42-year-old AIDS patient in San Francisco. The lesions of Kaposi's sarcoma are visible on his arm. The photo, by Alon Reininger, won the 1986 World Press Photo award.
Pablo Picasso, Gertrude Stein, 1905-06. Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Along with her brother Leo, Gertrude Stein supported and collected the work of Henri Matisse, Georges Braque, Juan Gris, and Pablo Picasso long before their work was generally accepted and acclaimed.
The Metropolitan Museum website provides a short essay on this portrait and the creative ferment in Paris in the early 1900s, a setting that brought together artists, writers, musicians, and thinkers from diverse countries.
The AVERT website provides a discussion of the impact of AIDS on the African continent. The disease has affected different countries, regions, and tribal groups in various ways, and the response has been equally varied. HIV/AIDS has spread widely and rapidly, and had a severe impact on life expectancy, family structure, and economic growth and development. The dire poverty in much of the continent has also raised serious ethical and practical issues for drug manufacturers and the agencies that provide treatment.
The United States has provided significant financial resources to combat and treat HIV/AIDS in Africa, although these efforts are beset with contention over issues such as abstinence education, abortion and clean needles for IV drug users.
BBC News provides a look at the history of the red ribbon , including an interview with co-creator Patrick O'Connell, who describes the meetings in May 1991 that led to the ribbon's creation.
The inspiration in part came from United States folk traditions associated with yellow ribbons. As discussed in this Wikipedia article on the yellow ribbon, perhaps the best known reference is the early 1970s song "Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Old Oak Tree," wherein the yellow ribbon represents the welcome home of a released convict by his wife or lover; this symbolism was adapted as a symbol of support first for the U.S. hostages in Tehran in 1979, and for the troops in the first Guly War in the early 1990s. Memorial Day has roots in customs of decorating the graves of those who died fighting in service of their country.
The 45th Tony Awards ceremony on which co-host Jeremy Irons wore a red ribbon, was broadcast on on June 2, 1991. Watch a clip from that broadcast on YouTube. Awareness ribbons of various colors have become commonplace sight in the years since, such as pink for breast cancer.
Seeking to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the red ribbon, and to revitalize the ribbon by emphasizing that the struggle against HIV/AIDS is not over, Visual AIDS has commissioned four artists to create "Not Over" buttons that can be attached to the red ribbon.
Copyright law concerning visual art is notoriously convoluted. Explore a primer on the subject from Artists Rights Society.
Actress Dame Elizabeth Taylor (1932-2011) was an early and prominent champion for HIV and AIDS programs. She co-founded the American Foundation for AIDS Research (amfAR) in 1985, and established the Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation in 1993.
A jewel-studded ribbon like the won described by Sokolowski was sold in auction by Christie's for $21,837 in May 2000.
Sokolowski touches briefly on a turbulent period in the late 1980s and early 1990s when art, morality and politics collided over a variety of issues, including AIDS and the public funding of art. Artist Andres Serrano, along with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe (1946-89) and others, was a lightning rod for attacks on the public funding of art through the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). Their chief adversary was Senator Jesse Helms (1921-2008) of North Carolina. (See this MOCRA blog entry about a more recent assault--literally--on Serrano's infamous Piss Christ.)
This Cincinnati Enquirer article from May 2000 looks back at the Mapplethorpe controversy that embroiled the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati and the wider cultural context. Or, delve into this in-depth look at the NEA - NEH crisis from scholar Cynthia Koch, writing for the Penn National Commission on Society, Culture and Community.
Although the "culture wars" have since quieted down to a slow simmer, they still boil over from time to time over works that address AIDS, such as the 2010 controversy involving the National Portrait Gallery and the video work A Fire in My Belly by David Wojnarowicz (1954-92).
Sokolowski mentions President Ronald Reagan (1911-2004), as well as Mayor Ed Koch and Cardinal John J. O'Connor (1920-2000), both of New York City. Reagan and Koch were both strongly criticized by AIDS activists for their inaction concerning the spreading epidemic. O'Connor had long been an antagonist of the gay and lesbian community in New York--he fought against non-discrimination laws that included sexual orientation, and opposed condom distribution to reduce the spread of AIDS--when he was appointed by Reagan to a presidential commission on AIDS. The response from AIDS activists was predictably chilly.
Juan Gonzalez, Don't Mourn, Consecrate, 1987.
Juan Gonzalez (1942-93) was noted for his exquisite magic realist paintings that incorporated art historical references but evoked a state of dreamlike wonder. See samples of his work on the Nancy Hoffman Gallery website.
Gonzalez' work Don't Mourn, Consecrate was first presented in 1987 at New York University's Grey Art Gallery, whose street front windows overlook Washington Square. The work subsequently lent its name to MOCRA's exhibition Consecrations: The Spiritual in Art in the Time of AIDS (1994) and was featured in MOCRA at Fifteen: Good Friday (2009); and Good Friday: The Suffering Christ in Contemporary Art (2010).
The source work by Hans Holbein, The Dead Christ in the Tomb (c. 1520) can be seen here.
Two of the people Sokolowski mentions as taking part in the "AIDS tally" ritual are Dr. Mathilde Krim, one of the earliest scientists to devote herself to AIDS research, and Larry Kramer, a playwright, author, and LGBT rights activist. His 1985 play The Normal Heart won the 2011 Tony Award for best revival.
Sokolowski mentions Gran Fury , an activist/artist collective associated with the AIDS activist group ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power). ACT UP made potent use of arresting visuals, such as "Silence=Death," which took the upside-down pink triangle used by the Nazis to stigmatize homosexuals, and inverted it as a sign of resistance and power. Read more about ACT UP and Gran Fury on Wikipedia. This article in Frieze magazine looks back at ACT UP's noteworthy public demonstrations in New York.
Gran Fury become formalized as a collective in 1988, following a 1987 installation created by ACT UP members at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, titled "Let the Record Show. . ." Beneath a neon Silence=Death logo was a gallery of "AIDS criminals" including televangelist Jerry Falwell (1933-2007)--who declared "AIDS is God's judgment of a society that does not live by His rules" --and conservative columnist William F. Buckley, Jr. (1925-2008)--who opined that "Everyone detected with AIDS should be tattooed in the upper forearm, to protect common needle users, and on the buttocks to prevent the victimization of other homosexuals."
Sokolowski uses three well-known artworks as examples of "good art."
Michelangelo Buonarotti, Pietà, 1498-99.
Michelangelo's Pietà of 1498-99 is found in St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City. It depicts the dead Jesus, brought down from the Cross and laid on Mary's lap.
Read more about the work on Wikipedia.
Leonardo's famous fresco of The Last Supper , located in a refectory in a monastery in Milan, Italy, has endured both bombings and restorations over the centuries. More recently, it played a central (if dubious) role in Dan Brown's novel The Da Vinci Code.
Read more about the work on Wikipedia, including discussion of the various interpretations put forth about its possible hidden meanings.
Picasso's imposing mural commemorates the bombing of the Basque town of Guernica in April 1937 by German forces during the Spanish Civil War. It has become an iconic expression of the horrors of war, especially the suffering imposed on innocent civilians. It is presently housed at the Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid.
Read more about the work on Wikipedia.
Allen Tucker, Washington Crossing the Delaware, 1931.
Allen Tucker 's (1866-1939) 1931depiction of Washington and his forces, in the collection of the Whitney Museum, will not be easily confused with the much better known version from 1851 by Emanuel Leutze, found in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
See the discussion at 6:46 above for more about the Works Progress Administration (WPA).
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610) is an artist who continues to command the fascination of contemporary audiences, and the mysteries surrounding his life and death are nearly as compelling as his paintings. Read more about him on Wikipedia. Sokolowski is likely referring to the Contarelli Chapel in Rome, which is home to Caravaggio's highly regarded painting The Calling of St. Matthew.
Several touring exhibitions of objects from the tomb of the Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamun (r. ca. 1333-23 BCE) have traveled the globe since the 1960s. In particular, The Treasures of Tutankhamun, which toured in the 1970s, smashed attendance records at museums worldwide and ushered in the era of the modern museum blockbuster.
Susan Sontag (b. 1933) is an American novelist, essayist, director, and human rights activist. Illness as Metaphor was published in 1978; a companion volume titled AIDS and its Metaphors appeared in 1988. (The two works are now published together.)
Tuberculosis is a bacterial disease that primarily effects the lungs, with symptoms including bloody coughs and weight loss. As Sontag explores in her essays, it shows up repeatedly in European art and literature. One perennial example, Puccini's opera La bohème, was updated in the Broadway musical Rent by Jonathan Larson, with AIDS assuming the role of tuberculosis.
Peruse a list of art works--novels, operas, films, and more--inspired by or prominently featuring tuberculosis.
Fr. Dempsey goes into greater detail about his first encounter with Adrian Kellard in a related MOCRA Voices podcast.
Precious: An American Cottage Industry of the Eighties , was an exhibition organized in 1985 by Sokolowski for the Grey Art Gallery of New York University. An exhibition catalogue was published and can be found in many library holdings. Brief discussions of the exhibition can be found online here (New York Magazine) and here (Christian Science Monitor).
Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt, The Anchorite, 2009. Mixed media. Shown at Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York.
Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt (b.1948) is known for creating glittering mixed-media constructions that speak directly to issues of sex, class and religion, particularly gay and working-class consciousness as well as theological, philosophical and aesthetic ideas/ideals. An art pioneer in the use of reflective materials, he has influenced subsequent generations of artist--including Adrian Kellard --who have engaged a similar "glitter" aesthetic, exploring themes of glamour, sexual transgression, camp and kitsch. Also like Kellard, Lanigan-Schmidt explores the relationship between "high" and "low" culture. Lanigan-Schmidt is represented in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and has exhibited extensively throughout the United States and abroad. He has been an instructor in the M.F.A. Program of The School of Visual Arts in New York City since the mid-1980s.
Abstract Expressionism emerged in New York in the mid-20th century as the first American art movement to achieve worldwide influence. The term applies to a broad range of artists and approaches to art. Explore Abstract Expressionism on Wikipedia, or through a major 2011 exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), Abstract Expressionist New York.
Pneumocystis pneumonia (PCP) is the most common opportunistic infection in people with HIV. It is caused by a fungus and primarily affects the lungs. PCP does not affect healthy people but can be deadly in people with compromised immune systems.
The corporal works of mercy are acts by which, in the Christian tradition, a person helps another with physical or material needs. They include feeding the hungry, giving drink to the thirsty, sheltering the homeless, clothing the naked, visiting and ransoming those captive or in prison, visiting the sick, and burying the dead. The corporal works of mercy are complemented by spiritual works of mercy. Learn more here.
In Judaism, the Hebrew term mitzvah can refer to the divine commandments given in the Torah, or more broadly to moral deeds performed as a religious duty--that is, an act of human kindness. Learn more about mitzvot here.
Audio Extra: The Changing Face of AIDS
This talk was given on November 5, 1994, in conjunction with MOCRA's exhibition Consecrations: The Spiritual in Art in the Time of AIDS. Excerpts are presented here; gaps are indicated by a brief period of silence.
The 1988 Grey Gallery exhibition of photographs by Rosalind Solomon was titled Portraits in the Time of AIDS. Read a summary of the exhibition catalogue, or this essay by Robert Atkins that places the exhibition in its cultural context.
Read a commentary about the 1992-93 international traveling exhibition Media to Metaphor by co-curators Robert Atkins and Thomas Sokolowski. Or, check out this New York Times review of the exhibition. The catalogue for Media to Metaphor is listed in WorldCat and is available in many library collections.
Significant Losses: Artists Who Have Died from AIDS was shown at the University of Maryland from November 2 to December 23, 1994.
Don't Leave Me This Way: Art in the Age of AIDS was shown at the National Gallery of Australia in 1994. Read a 1995 review published in The Independent (UK).
MOCRA has hosted community Day With(out) Art observances several times, including 1994, 2000, and 2006.
Fragmentary Ichthys and fish image from Catacomb of St. Sebastian, Rome.
Ichthys (ΙΧΘΥΣ) is Greek for fish, but also has an ancient Christian association as an acronym for Iēsous Christos, Theou Yios, Sōtēr, which translates into English as "Jesus Christ, God's Son, Savior."
Sokolowski references American artist Jeff Koons (b. 1955) and in particular the series Made in Heaven, featuring explicit portrayals of Koons in intimate encounters with his wife, Italian porn star Cicciolina (Ilona Staller). See an interview with Koons on the PBS series Art21 here.
Sokolowski also mentions Michelangelo 's famous frescoes for the Sistine Chapel. Take a virtual tour of the Sistine Chapel here.
Sokolowski is making an oblique reference to the NEA and NEH funding controversies. See the Listening Guide to the Sokolowski interview above, 22:55, for further discussion.
Robet Indiana, LOVE, 1968. Oil on canvas. Collection of the Indianapolis Museum of Art.
Robert Indiana's ubiquitous rendering of the word "LOVE" has appeared in many context and media since its creation in 1964.
Gran Fury, RIOT, 1989.
The art collective Gran Fury, associated with AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT-UP), reworked Indiana's image with the word "RIOT ." See more of Gran Fury's trenchant, witty, and sometimes shocking work here.
See the Listening Guide to the Sokolowski interview above, 23:50, for more about Gran Fury and ACT-UP.
The Biblical account of the events of Pentecost is found in the second chapter of the Acts of the Apostles. Read the Wikipedia entry on Pentecost and its contemporary observances.
See the Listening Guide to the Sokolowski interview above, 23:50, for a discussion of the Juan Gonzalez work Don't Mourn, Consecrate.
Donald Moffet, Mercy, 1991. Light boxes.
An exhibition titled The Interrupted Life was shown at the New Museum from September 13 to December 29, 1991. Visit the exhibition website here. Sokolowski mentions a work by artist Donald Moffet (b.1955) titled Mercy.
Sokolowski mentions one of the lasting testaments to the widespread response to AIDS, the AIDS Memorial Quilt, sections of which still travel to communities around the country each year.
Maya Lin (b.1959) won a competition in 1981 to design the Vietnam Veterans Memorial located near the National Mall in Washington, D.C. The Memorial receives around 3 million visitors a year. Learn more about the Memorial on Wikipedia. See an interview with Maya Lin on the PBS series Art21 here.
Works by Rod Rhodes were included in the Consecrations exhibition. Learn more about Rhodes here.
A flood refugee from southeast Missouri. Photographed in Westley, California, April 1939, by Dorothea Lange. Courtesy of the Library of Congress.
The Farm Security Administration (FSA) was a Roosevelt administration effort during the Great Depression to address American rural poverty. Its innovative photography program (1935-44) engaged photographers and writers to document and report on the plight of poor farmers. Images such as those by Dorothea Lange rank among America's iconic images.
Learn more about the FSA and its photography program on Wikipedia. Many of the FSA photographs can be browsed courtesy of the Library of Congress.
Photographer Jane Rosett and her partner Jean Carlomusto curated an interactive memorial project titled AIDS: A Living Archive. See additional images here.
Bill Jacobson, Interim Portrait #378, 1992. Chromogenic print.
In 1993 New York University's Grey Art Gallery presented a solo exhibition by Bill Jacobson (b.1955) titled Interim Figures. Visit the artist's website to see more images.
See the Listening Guide to the Sokolowski interview above, 8:10, for a discussion of Day With(out) Art.
Hillary Leone (b.1962) and Jennifer Macdonald (b.1958) had a 10-year collaborative relationship creating art that addressed social and political issues such as the AIDS pandemic, censorship, and the marginalization of those viewed as "other." Their work included objects and installations, including works with braille executed on sandpaper.
Read a description of a 1999 retrospective exhibition here. View a similar braille-on-sandpaper work work here.
Barbara Kruger, Girl, Don't Die for Love, 1992. Offset lithograph. Collection of Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum.
Barbara Kruger (b.1945) is well known for works emblazoned with bold slogans that carry multiple, sometimes contradictory, meanings. The work referenced by Sokolowski was shown in a 2005 exhibition at Washington University-St. Louis' Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum titled Inside Out Loud: Visualizing Women's Health in Contemporary Art.
Watch an interview with Kruger on the PBS series Art21.
Adrian Kellard, Man of Sorrows, 1989. Latex on wood with wire mesh. Collection of MOCRA.
Adrian Kellard was the subject of MOCRA's 2011 exhibition Adrian Kellard: The Learned Art of Compassion. View the exhibition website here, or listen to a MOCRA Voices episode discussing his life and work here.
See the Listening Guide to the Sokolowski interview above, 15:20 and 19:55, for discussions of the Red Ribbon.
Robert Farber, Western Blot #19, 1990. Mixed media on wood panels. Courtesy of the Robert D. Farber Foundation.
Bubonic plague is a bacterial disease that has killed millions of people across the century during various outbreaks. The most notable was in 1347--an event known as the Black Death--which took the lives of one-third of the population of Europe. Learn more about bubonic plague on Wikipedia.
A number of writers and artists have drawn parallels between the Black Death and the AIDS pandemic. Among them is Robert Farber, whose 2000 retrospective exhibition at MOCRA included a number of works juxtaposing the words of medieval victims of the plague and contemporary people living with HIV/AIDS.
Read more about the exhibition Robert Farber: A Retrospective, 1985-1995 here.


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The Handmaid's Tale
Publisher's Summary
Audie Award, Fiction, 2013
Margaret Atwood's popular dystopian novel The Handmaid's Tale explores a broad range of issues relating to power, gender, and religious politics. Multiple Golden Globe award-winner Claire Danes (Romeo and Juliet, The Hours) gives a stirring performance of this classic in speculative fiction, one of the most powerful and widely read novels of our time.
After a staged terrorist attack kills the President and most of Congress, the government is deposed and taken over by the oppressive and all-controlling Republic of Gilead. Offred, now a Handmaid serving in the household of the enigmatic Commander and his bitter wife, can remember a time when she lived with her husband and daughter and had a job, before she lost even her own name. Despite the danger, Offred learns to navigate the intimate secrets of those who control her every move, risking her life in breaking the rules in hopes of ending this oppression.
Cover Art by Fred Marcellino. Used with permission of Pippin Properties, Inc.
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"Claire Danes sparkles in this performance…Danes's Offred is complex, and her flashes of intense strength highlight her vulnerability. This is a consuming listen, thanks to Danes's emotional subtleties." (AudioFile)
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- Em
- 11-30-12
My Top Pick for 2012
Full disclosure: The Handmaid's Tale is my favorite book. It is my number one all-time pick among books, having topped my list since I first read it five years ago. So perhaps I came to this audiobook somewhat biased, but in a sense I think my love of the work set me up to be a harsher critic of the audio production. But listening to it served as a total reminder of why it is so incredible.
Last month, when we ran a little editorial feature about the books we were grateful for, I wrote about The Handmaid's Tale. It makes me grateful for a lot of reasons: I'm grateful to live in this society, in this time period. I'm grateful that my daughter won't know the kind of oppression so wrenchingly depicted by Margaret Atwood (who is for the record a total genius). And I'm grateful for how totally humbling this book is. No other work of literature is such a complete reminder that we are all just fragments, or moments in time, and we're all destined to become - if we're so lucky - mere historical footnotes. The framed narrative Atwood uses (and I won't elaborate so as not to spoil) really drives this point home.
I was worried that no narrator could live up to my expectations given my belief in the importance of this book. But Claire Danes is just vivid. She doesn't act, and she doesn't need to. She recounts. She breathes out the tale as if she is living it. Resigned, beaten down, traveling through hell by putting one step ahead of the other. I was utterly convinced by her performance and have not been able to shut up about it since. Everyone on my team is going to listen to this before I'm through, and I hope everyone who reads this review will too!
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- Heather
- 08-22-12
A heartwrenching story read absolutely brilliantly
This book is a speculative fiction classic. The rise of the Gilead society seems all too plausible in today's political climate, and Offred's story is painful in its intensity.
I often find myself disappointed by the narrators of audiobooks, but not so with this one. Claire Danes does an incredible job reading, listening to her is like being inside Offred's head, and she manages to inject pathos into the story without ever distracting the listener from the true star: the words.
Readings this good of stories this potent are the reason audiobooks exist. If I could give it ten stars I would.
158 people found this helpful
- Mel
- 09-06-12
Not So Far-Fetched -- Still Chilling
Because this has been re-released as an *Audible A-List Collection,* a selection chosen by Clare Danes for narration, I'll begin with the narration. This is one of the rare cases where a straight reading, sans the voice characterizations and the nuances one would think an actor would use, earns top scores from me. Ms. Danes reads the story with strength and conviction, wisely chosing to let the words of an outstanding poet/author give voice to the characters in this cautionary tale. The feel of this book is dark and dispassionate, a story about a violent new world where feelings and thoughts are prohibited, yet it is at the same time visceral, strong with emotion, because of Atwood's writing skills, her ironic wit, and superb story-telling abilities -- matched perfectly with Danes' talents.
I was introduced to this book in college. 1985, a women's rights to her body (i.e. abortion) was a hot topic, feminism was getting its first *report card,* and The Handmaid's Tale was either being showered with awards and praise, or being pulled from library shelves and crossed off reading lists -- a scene straight out of Farenheit 451, another *dystopian* novel where we see that repression of any kind has a price. (Atwood didn't think her work was sci-fi and argued that this was not science fiction, but rather speculative fiction.) In '85 I thought this was chilling and very futuristic.
Dystopian? Future? Speculative? ... The world is struggling from the effects (or more accurately the consequences of) of pollution, chemicals, GMO's, and radiation; our government has been extinguished, world-wide war rages, religious conflicts a large part of the cause; disease and sterility are prevalent, conception and healthy live births atypical; many species have vanished, food is scarce and rationed along with water. The Republic of Gilead (a country established within the borders of the former USA) is a violent male dominated theocracy where women have no power, young women are owned for breeding purposes, sex is a disturbing biblical ritual, the Eyes watch constantly for heretics and dissenters (routinely put to death and openly displayed). ...*Dystopian* along the lines of Clockwork Orange,1984, (Stepford Wives?), but more like good *speculation* now in 2012, where burkas, honor killings, or young girls being married off to old coots in polygamist sects are weekly headlines.
The ending of this book is troublesome for those that want a destination, or a wrap-up, as it leaves the reader unsure--left to decide between hope and complete despair. Atwood is a master at interrogating society and having the reader then try to explain it. Definitely one you will think about. Ageless and still chilling in 2012; a wonderfully distrubing tale made even better by Danes' insightful dead-on interpretation. (Fantastic to have this as a selection--great choice Audible.)
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- Tricia, Audible Editor
- 09-10-12
Not Your Tween's Dystopia
There are some books that you can go back to multiple times, and continue to get something new out of with each read, or listen. The Handmaid's Tale certainly falls into this category. The impact of the story changes in contrast to the current cultural and political climate but it remains current. The fact that the world Atwood creates is far closer to "reality" makes this story that much more disturbing than the many popular and more fantastical dystopias currently targeted to the Young Adult audience.
For me, it's been years since I first read The Handmaid's Tale and listening to Claire Danes narrate was the perfect way to re-visit the story. She captures the almost somber mood perfectly. Clearly, she has a love of the book along with the talent to provide a killer performance. If you are looking to experience, or re-experience, a classic modern day "dystopia" as envisioned by a truly unique author, listening to this new rendition is your perfect opportunity.
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- Lesley
- 12-02-12
If I could give the narrator more than 5 stars...
This was my first Audible "A-list" title, and I was not disappointed. Claire Danes was the perfect choice for this book.
What used to be the United States is now Gilead, a monotheistic regime where women are protected from "too much choice." Like our real-world foremothers of a few hundred years ago, the women of Gilead cannot earn money, own property, or vote. They have few lifestyle options: governess, domestic, prostitute, mother. Females with "viable ovaries" are drafted as "Handmaids," surrogate mothers for sterile women of the elite class.
For Offred, the Handmaid of the title, life is a chorus of "not allowed." No reading, for women may not read. No fraternization, no conversation, no acknowledgement, no unauthorized possessions like hand lotion. Only fear and loneliness remain as Offred spends her days in a grim little room from which anything she could use to kill herself has been removed.
Through it all she's starving for human interaction, yet terrified that she'll look in the wrong direction, say a wrong word, and be transferred to the ominous Colonies with the other "UnWomen." Claire Danes reads matter-of-factly, her emotions understated as if she really is Offred, who must hide all longing and pain to stay alive.
While there are plenty of great narrators to choose from among Audible titles, it's very infrequent that the performance makes the book this much better. The story is as chilling as it was when the book was published, but Danes' reading brings out the suffering, the confusion, the "how-did-I-get-to-this-awful-place" feelings in a way that didn't come out of the printed text.
This definitely goes on the A-list. Recommended for any woman, any mother, anyone at all.
72 people found this helpful
- Abstractchick
- 12-21-12
A Surprie of a story
This was on my 100 books to read in my lifetime and I didn't know what to expect with the story. It is an interesting tale about an alternate society. I was surprised how good the book was, but the reading was wonderful. Claire Danes did an exceptional narration and it is one I would listen to again.
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- Meredith A. Crain
- 09-25-12
Would you consider the audio edition of The Handmaid's Tale to be better than the print version?
I haven't read the print version of this book, but Clare Danes's interpretation captivated me on so many levels. In her hands, I enjoyed this book probably more than I would have had I read it myself. I would absolutely recommend this audio book to fans of the print book.
What other book might you compare The Handmaid's Tale to and why?
I hesitate to say this, but I would compare it to the Hunger Games. The writing is far better in this book and it's a different style altogether, but the dark tone is the same, and the premises for both books is similar. I would say this book would suit those who might want a more literary version of The Hunger Games.
What does Claire Danes bring to the story that you wouldn't experience if you just read the book?
It was so interesting to listen to the story as if Clare Danes was speaking to me as Offred. I believed her so much, it was almost creepy! I'm also finding it's hard to move on to other audio books because Clare Danes was such an exceptional narrator.
If you could take any character from The Handmaid's Tale out to dinner, who would it be and why?
I would take Offred. I want to know what happened to her.
Any additional comments?
I can't stop thinking about this book, and I've actually started listening to it for a second time. It's one of those stories that stays with you.
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- Katherine
- 12-31-12
Government Control through fear...it could happen!
This book was both amazing and completely horrifying to me! As a woman, mother, wife and daughter I could really relate with the main character Offred (the Handmaid). This book was a real game-changer for me. I will never look at the world again with the same eyes. This is an absolute literary masterpiece and I am so glad it was available on Audible. This is a MUST READ for everyone!
Claire Danes is magnificent as the narrator. I can't envision anyone else doing it. Just superb!
42 people found this helpful
- Sue
- 04-07-13
Freedom to or Freedom from...
That is one of the most thought provoking parts of the novel for me. When people throw the word freedom around, which is it in their mind?, freedom to or freedom from. For this to be written in the late 80's and be so scary today is amazing. I think this is a great book club book and can't wait to talk to others about it.
The narration was outstanding. Again this is a book that I am so glad to have listened to. It added so much more to the story.
This was the last of all the nominees that I listened to for best fiction for the Audies. In my mind it should be the winner!!
24 people found this helpful
- Grant
- 05-29-13
Heart-wrenchingly good
The story and writing are impeccable. But I was even more impressed by Claire Danes' interpretation.
There is a point in Danes' performance in which the main character is sharing a cigarette with a friend where Danes laughs and blows imaginary smoke out of the side of her mouth. This simple but attentive improvisational detail underscores the genius of her craft and the commitment she has to the material. A spectacular bit of work that would be degraded by calling it a reading.
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Abu Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Muadh Al-Jayyani
Born: 989 in Cordoba, Andalusia (now Spain)
Died: after 1079 in possibly Jaén, Andalusia (now Spain)
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Little is known of al-Jayyani's life. Even the identification of al-Jayyani the mathematician with al-Jayyani the Spanish scholar who was born in Cordoba in 989 is not absolutely certain. Everything points to this identification being correct except one (possible) problem.
The Spanish scholar who was born in Cordoba has exactly the same name as the mathematician, and the Spanish scholar is described as an expert in the Qur'an, also being knowledgeable in Arabic philology, inheritance laws and arithmetic. Al-Jayyani, the mathematician, is described as a judge and a jurist in one of his treatises. The only possible problem to the identification is that al-Jayyani wrote a treatise on the total solar eclipse which occurred in Jaén on 1 July 1079. The identification means that he was over ninety years old when he wrote this treatise which, although certainly not impossible, casts a slight doubt.
The only other facts known about al-Jayyani's life are that he lived in Cairo from 1012 to 1017 and that he must have undertaken most of his work in Jaén, the city at the centre of the Moorish principality of Jayyan. This cannot only be deduced from his name "al-Jayyani" which means "from Jaén", but also from the fact that the astronomical tables that he produced were for the longitude of Jaén. Certainly he observed the solar eclipse in Jaén in 1079.
Al-Jayyani's work On ratio is almost certainly his most interesting mathematical work. An English translation of this remarkable treatise is given in [2]. In this work al-Jayyani sets out to defend Euclid's Elements Book V. In [7] Vahabzadeh writes:-
Euclid's definition, in Book V of his "Elements", of the proportionality of four magnitudes gave rise to numerous commentaries. Of these we have selected two [one being al-Jayyani's] whose goal was not to criticise Euclid's point of view but rather to justify it by trying to make explicit the assumptions underlying Euclid's argument.Al-Jayyani states that he is writing the treatise On ratio (see for example [1]):-
... to explain what may not be clear in the fifth book of Euclid's writing to such as are not satisfied with it.There are five magnitudes that, according to al-Jayyani, are used in geometry; number, line, surface, angle, and solid. Neither Euclid nor any other Greek mathematician would have considered "number" as a geometrical magnitude, but al-Jayyani needs the notion for his definition of ratio which follows the Arabic idea of number. After assuming that every intelligent person has a basic understanding of ratio, al-Jayyani deduces further properties based on this "commonly understood definition". To justify his approach he writes:-
There is no method to make clear what is already clear in itself.He then connects this idea of ratio with that given by Euclid. The authors of [1] write:-
Al-Jayyani shows here an understanding comparable with that of Isaac Barrow, who is customarily regarded as the first to have really understood Euclid's Book V.Another work of great importance is al-Jayyani's The book of unknown arcs of a sphere, the first treatise on spherical trigonometry. The work, which is published together with a Spanish translation and a commentary in [3], contains formulae for right-handed triangles, the general law of sines, and the solution of a spherical triangle by means of the polar triangle. Proofs are sometimes only given as sketches. Debarnot, in his review of [3], argues however that Villuendas:-
... in his commentary ... fails to take the originality of the Determination of the magnitudes sufficiently into account.Al-Jayyani was to have a strong influence on European mathematics. In addition to translations of his works from the Arabic, his work influenced certain European mathematicians. The article [4] argues that one of Regiomontanus sources was The book of unknown arcs of a sphere. Among the similarities between al-Jayyani's treatise and that of Regiomontanus are the definition of ratios as numbers, the lack of a tangent function, and a similar method of solving a spherical triangle when all sides are unknown.
However, the author of [4] remarks that there are some marked differences in approach between al-Jayyani and Regiomontanus, such as the proof of the spherical sign law. Although it is certain that Regiomontanus based his treatise on Arabic works on spherical trigonometry it may well be that al-Jayyani's work was only one of many such sources.
The article [6] describes the treatise Kitab al-asrar fi nata'ij al-Afkar (The book of secrets about the results of thoughts), attributed to al-Jayyani on the basis of internal evidence together with its date. The work studies hydraulics and water clocks.
Work by al-Jayyani on astronomy was also important. He wrote on the morning and evening twilight, computing the fairly accurate value of 18° for the angle of the sun below the horizon at the start on morning twilight and at the end of the evening twilight.
In the Tabulae Jahen al-Jayyani gave data to enable the calculation of the time of day, the calendar, the new moon, eclipses and information required for the timing and direction for prayers. As was common at this time, not only was there astronomical information in the work but also astrological information on horoscopes. Al-Jayyani seems to have considerable respect for al-Khwarizmi's astronomical data, which he freely used, but he rejects the ideas of al-Khwarizmi on astrology. Much of al-Jayyani's astrology is based on Hindu sources.
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Matt Yglesias thinks that my Washington Monthly piece is talking about the crisis that "we should have had," not the crisis we actually had.
I think sections of Tyler Cowen's The Great Stagnation are about the crisis we should have had, that Michael Spence's The Next Convergence is largely about the crisis we should have had, Joe Stiglitz' recent Vanity Fair article is basically about the crisis we should have had, Michael Mandel's piece on the myth of American productivity is about the crisis we should have had. I can name others. There's no particular ideological tendency grouping these people together, since if we were facing a big profound crisis then it would be the case that we need big profound answers that can support a range of different ideological positions. Indeed, I would say that an awful lot of the Obama agenda has been about efforts to address the crisis we should have had. That's why long-term fiscal austerity is important and why there was no "holy crap the economy's falling apart, let's forget about comprehensive reform of the health, energy, and education sectors" moment back in 2009.
But this is not the crisis we're having. Interest rates are low. Headlines tell us that "U.S. Factories Could Suffer From Dollar's Appeal". I'm inclined to think that we will, at some future point, face the crisis we should have had and it will need to be addressed in complicated ways. But the crisis we're having is, for all its horror and scale, a pretty banal monetary crunch—the natural rate of interest is below zero, nomimal rates can't go below zero, and the Fed won't act to push real rates lower.
I don't understand Matt's argument. He cites low interest rates as evidence for his side. However, we would expect a slow growth, low-innovation crisis to push interest rates lower, since there would be fewer good opportunities for investment.
The other issue is that the economy is not behaving the way we would expect a high-productivity, high-innovation economy to behave. One example: real wages for new college grads have been falling for a decade, even before the recession. That shouldn't happen if there were growing innovative industries for them to find jobs in.


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FOX's Brit Hume spins for Bush
FOX News managing editor and chief Washington correspondent Brit Hume attempted to put a pro-Bush spin on data reported by The Washington Post; the data indicates that President George W. Bush's reelection campaign is airing more attack ads than is Senator John Kerry's presidential campaign. While Hume criticized the Post for failing to include in its count the thousands of negative ads aired by the Kerry campaign during the Democratic primaries, the information the Post omitted is even less favorable to Bush.
From the June 2 edition of FOX News Channel's Special Report with Brit Hume:
HUME: The Washington Post has reported that the Bush re-election campaign is using, quote, "unprecedented negativity against John Kerry." The Post says Kerry has so far aired only 13,300 ads in major media markets, while Bush-Cheney has aired more than 49,000. But the Post is only counting ads from the period since March 4, when the Bush-Cheney '04 team began its ad campaign. The Post fails to note that more than 15,300 negative ads that Kerry ran during the primary season, which means that Kerry ran nearly 29,000 negative ads, more than twice as many as the Post noted.
Pushing back the start date of the Post's survey only emphasizes how much more negative Bush's campaign has been: Bush has run 71 percent more negative ads than has Kerry (49,000 negative ads from Bush versus 29,000 from Kerry) in one-third of the time (three months since March 4, 2004, versus nine months since Kerry ran his first negative ad on September 4, 2003). Indeed, if Bush had been running ads at his current pace since Kerry ran his first ad, his current negative ad total would be approximately 147,000 -- 413 percent greater than Kerry's current total.


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Superstorm Sandy is what did it. If it hadn't been for Superstorm Sandy coming in at the last moment, Romney would have won.
Chris Christie did it. The way he sucked up to Obama was a complete betrayal. Some Republican he was. Republicans, just a few, maybe, thought if Christie thinks he's so nice, maybe he is. That was it.
Mitt Romney did it. For all sorts of reasons. He should have phoned Chris Christie when Superstorm Sandy hit. He didn't. He beat Obama in the first debate. Then he couldn't beat him in the second or third? What? He forgot? He was so stiff. Even when he was animated, he looked stiff. And he looked sweaty; even at that first debate he won, he looked sweaty.
Also, Mitt Romney is just too nice a guy. Everybody knows where nice guys finish. You can't be a kick 'em in the butt, this is the way it's going to be President if you're such a nice guy.
And he didn't come on like the real friend he is to the Hispanics and African-Americans. They could see he was trying. But he just wasn't acting the part good enough. He's no actor, Mitt.
Another thing about Mitt Romney was he was all over the place with the issues. He should have stuck to just the one—Obama has tried for four years and didn't get us anywhere, so now try me. But he kept talking about other things. Medicare. Obamacare. Foreign policy. Immigration. Education. Business. What does he know about business?
It was the weather. In most parts of the country the weather was good on Election Day. That means people who have difficulty getting around, no offense intended, turn out. That means the Democrats have an edge.
It was the sneaky Obama campaign workers in Ohio. Who knew they had stayed there the whole four years since 2008 just waiting to do it again. I mean, REALLY.
It was the money, really. Obama gave it away. He bought these people, spending this money on Medicare for them, on food stamps, on clinics, on all sorts of giveaways, especially for the Hispanics. He BOUGHT the Hispanics. You think they didn't notice? Didn't he buy people clothing? I think he did.
It was religion. If Romney had been a Presbyterian, he would have won. Even if it was just a few more votes, it would have done it.
Is it true Mormons wear special religious underwear?
It was Netenyahu. He kept calling and calling Romney. Hadn't Romney gone to school with Netenyahu or something? He wasn't President yet. This looked to people like he had Romney in his pocket. Well, maybe not everybody, but some, enough.
It was the auto industry. What the hell was the matter with those people in Ohio? Didn't they know Obama bankrupted Chrysler? We kept telling them. They just didn't want to hear it.
It was the cuteness factor. Obama is just cute, even with the big ears and the stupid way he juts out his jaw like Roosevelt when he speaks. Romney was, well, he's movie star handsome, there's no doubt about it, but sometimes that's a minus.
Romney, Romney, Romney.
It was his father's fault. If his father, George Romney, had not been a governor who failed to be nominated for president, Romney would never have made this run. We would have had a stronger candidate. Santorum, didn't he make that final lunge for the nomination at the last minute?
It was the unemployment numbers' fault. Wasn't it just so convenient that, just four weeks before the election, the numbers all came down? And then, at the end, how they delayed the truth about Benghazi?
It was Florida. If Florida had come in on time, and for us, even by just a little bit, we would have had Ohio. And then Nevada.
It was Mayor Bloomberg's fault. Right there, three days before Election Day, he endorses Obama because he thinks his heart is in the right place. How could he do that? That's what did it.
And where was Donald Trump with all this when we needed him? People may not agree with Donald Trump, but they LISTEN when he talks.
It was Paul Ryan who did it. Romney never should have nominated Ryan for vice president. He should have stayed away from the Tea Party, even though they have it exactly right.
Mathematics did it. All through the evening, Romney was ahead. Then suddenly, Obama starts gaining on him and passing him? Are you kidding me?
It was that dog on the roof thing. It just hung in there, in the background, that story. It tipped things at the end.
I feel sorry for Romney, don't you? He tried so hard. He had that five-point plan. Not too many points, not too few. Just enough. And then all these things came along not in his favor and just pushed him over the fiscal cliff, just like that.


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NEWCASTLE lord mayor Jeff McCloy says plans to make 90 council jobs redundant are a ''mass correction'' to recent years of wastefulness and mismanagement.
The Newcastle Herald revealed yesterday that cost-cutting proposals shown to councillors included shutting The Loft youth venue, closing swimming pools at Stockton and Beresfield and selling Beresfield Golf Course.
In a statement, acting general manager Martin Coates confirmed that ''almost 90 full-time positions'' were proposed to be made redundant.
''The administration … has highlighted to councillors the flow-on effect those reductions would have to services provided to the community,'' Mr Coates said.
''Council now needs to determine whether these potential impacts are acceptable or not.
''The message has been clear from the start that tough decisions need to be made to ensure the organisation survives in the long term and the approach we are taking is not just skirting around the edges.''
Cr McCloy said yesterday the only alternative to the proposed cuts was a rate rise, ''and people don't want that''.
''We need to do the job once so the place can move forward,'' Cr McCloy said.
United Services Union organiser Robert Potter said union representatives were attempting to secure staffing provisions that would prevent forced redundancies.
Mr Potter said many of the staff were also ratepayers, and they wanted to see a vibrant and efficient council in the future.
''Senior managers past and present have allowed years of going into debt and not balancing the budget,'' Mr Potter said.
Greens councillor Michael Osborne described the proposals, which were first shown to councillors during a marathon briefing on Tuesday night, as ''very crude''.
Cr Osborne said more work should have been done to find efficiencies in the bureaucracy ''rather than simply cost cutting''.
''It hasn't gone into the detail that I think it needs to look at,'' Cr Osborne said. ''If these things go ahead the community will be up in arms and rightly so.''
Councillors have asked for a second workshop on the budget, where they hope to provide more direction to management.
Lord mayor Jeff McCloy says the cuts correct mismanagement, and are needed in the absence of rate rises.


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Had a very pleasant evening with a bunch of friends tonight. Ate good food, talked about old memories and shared stories that we had somehow never told each other before.
Good times.
Now I'm home – my spouse stayed behind to catch up some more, while I came home to rest. We've been driving separate cars to common events for some time now, because there are times when I . Just . Run . Out . Of . Steam.
Tonight is one of those nights. While everyone was still going strong, I said my good-byes and ducked out. Got a few miles down the road before I realized that I'd forgotten something, turned around and went back, chatted a bit more, then finally made it home.
I had a really nice ride home. The night was clear and cold, and for some reason tonight just looked so beautiful. Maybe it's all the Christmas lights. Maybe it's because I don't have to go to work for another week and a half. Maybe it's because I gave myself time to get going, so I don't have to bump up against the rough edge of my limits later on. For whatever reason, it was a beautiful drive, and I took my time coming home.
Now I'm having some hot lemon water to help with my cough, and I'm winding down … getting ready to hit the hay. This is good – much better than being crazy rushed and forcing myself to hang around and be the life of the party. I really like my friends. I also like getting a good night's sleep.
The wind is up tonight. It sounds like a wild animal prowling around the house.That's fine. It can prowl. I'm taking a shower and going to bed.


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I get so annoyed with people everywhere (on the sidewalk, in stores, at work, at the grocery store in restaurants, etc, etc, etc) who walk soooooooo slooooooooow. Sure I probably used to walk the same speed as them when I had two functioning legs, but now those bastards are just in the way (feel like I'm channeling Bill Burr here ranting about how the world is overpopulated and there are too many people who seem to do nothing but get in the way).
I live in a very walkable downtown in the southeast (shocking, I know), and I kind of expect walkers to be in the way on the downhills, but y'all know how you've got to maintain a certain speed going uphill or it just gets annoying trying to keep the front wheels from coming up off of the ground with each push, and people tend to get in the way on uphill climbs as well.
Years ago when I was newly injured I used to worry about how normal people viewed me and my new awkward method of ambulating and doing everything (for about three weeks till i said 'fuck it'). It's been so long since I cared what everyone else thinks about me while I get where i need to get that I do sometimes wonder how I come off flying around elderly couples and young children on the downhills and skidding tires around corners (I wonder about it, but still don't care, it's not like I can/am-going-to change anything). I keep getting the image of the weird kid in high school who used to sprint full speed across the quad between every single class, holding onto his backpack straps with both hands to keep it from flapping around... I used to absolutely love when I was responding to codes in the hospital because I could go balls to the walls as fast as I want, grabbing onto handrails to whip around corners, hitting 8 mph or so down congested corridors, zipping around startled phlebotomists pushing their bloody carts, and nobody could get annoyed with me because they heard the code overhead just like I did. It was a weird, but nice, kind of freedom.
Anyway... surely I'm not the only one who gets so annoyed with people walking slowly. Hell, I gotta get stuff done. If i have to spend 2 hours a day in the bathroom more than the average AB, I sure as shit want to ambulate at a comfortably rapid pace to make up a few of those minutes. Normal walking speed is about 3 mph, I figure 5 mph is as slow as I really ever want to go (of course I'll slow down if some ABs are walking with me), it feels inefficient to push more slowly, like I'm spending more calories per miles or whatever (you know what I mean).
Also... "Slow down or I'll give you a speeding ticket" is the lamest joke ever... do people really think they're the first ones to come up with that?


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Hi to all,
excuse me in advance if I have done something wrong in posting this thread (I'm new ).
My problem is the following:
I have a set of pairs identified by two end point: u and, that respectively represent two process connected (u sends and v receives), and each process can hold one connection at a time, so I have to divide the computation in communication rounds so that in each round communicate as many process as possibile. This example may explain better the idea:
I have
If I choose 1-2 in a communication round I can't choose in the same communication round 1-3, 1-4, 2-1, 2-3, 4-2 because these pairs involve process 1 or 2.
I tried to solve the problem with a greedy algorithm that for each pair choose a round that doesn't intersect with it and if there are no feasible rounds it creates a new one.
I find lots of problems in literature regarding path coloring, arc coloring and interval scheduling, but I'm not sure if I'm dealing with a difficoult problem, I mean NP-hard, or with a polynomial one, so I can't prove if my solution is optimal. Can you help me? Do you think my problem is reconducible to path coloring? If so, are there some approximation algorithms that give less than O(n^2)?
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