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A minute and a half?!??! Are you kidding me? I don't care what anyone says, I'm going by my watch, and that Marathon was 26.5 (a standard marathon is 26.2).
I ran the inaugural Charleston Marathon yesterday.
I didn't realize that a marathon had never been run in charleston before. That said, I had to throw down a good time. I had a dream of crossing in under 4 hours but honestly, I thought I would put in a 4:30 or 4:20 at best. When I got to the half marathon point though, I looked at my watch and saw that it was under two hours. I knew it would be close, but it meant that I actually had a shot at it. I won't lie, my legs were on fire for the last six miles. This is the longest distance I've run in well over a year, and I usually don't go against the clock, but I wanted this one. I dug deep in the last couple of miles and practically sprinted for the line, and I thought I had it, but it seems not. Still, I'm stoked with finishing in practically four hours. That's nearly 60 minutes better than my usual time. I'm not really built for speed. I can just go for long stretches of time.
For the last couple of miles I was pacing with this older guy who had to have been pushing 60 which is damn impressive. I could see he was hurting though, and I tried to pull him along but he hit the wall and just couldn't hold the pace. I felt awful but I had a shot at 4:00 and I had to take it. And now I'm 1:32 off?!!? All well, I'll have my revenge in two months. I'm lining up another race at the end of February. I'm still happy with my time and the fact that I'm even running these distances again at all. I think I kind of pulled a muscle in my groin on the left side on that final sprint (I'm plagued with injuries) but it doesn't feel serious.
The event was actually really well-organized. The expo was great, though I didn't get to spend much time at it. I had to sneak away from set just to get my race packet. Oh, and the old Credit Union crew was at the event! My buddy Brian, called to tell me they were in town. Brian essentially took over the gig from Lindsey and I. Two more people, Jonathan and Melanie, are also on the crew now. I think Brian might have gotten some footage of me crossing the line. I'm sure I looked like a wreck.
We went out to Poe's afterwards and I had a huge burger, a big plate of cheesy bacon fries and a plate of onion rings. I've completely cut red meat out of my diet, but after that race….I was craving cow. It was delicious and it was quickly followed by two huge slices of pizza, a bag of chips, and a fruit smoothie. Running is awesome. It was good to see Brian again. He actually did the 10k and is looking at doing a half now! I think I've successfully passed on the running bug to him. I don't think Melanie is much of a runner, but she was still super cool. Anyone who takes a class in Harry Potter has my respect!
Alright, signing off from an ice bath.

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112th Annual Conference - Riverside Convention Center, California
Friday, October 31 - Sunday, November 2, 2014
Architecture, Space, and Literature III
Session Chair:
Paris Brown, University of California, Riverside
Session 3: Friday 2:00-3:30pm
RCC Meeting Room 3
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Patricia Michele Robinson, University of North Carolina, Chapel HillThis paper argues that in Trollope's Barchester Towers, only characters who are willing to limit themselves in decorating their homes, but display good taste, are fit to preach in major historical buildings of the church and to oversee the creation of new ecclesiastical spaces.
Lisa Kohlmeier, La Sierra UniversityThis paper focuses on the physical space in which women worked and the way the spaces helped to shape the work these women accomplished. Space tells a story and helps us to understand dimensions of the ideas of women and their intellectual influence on their time.
Emily Handy, Winthrop UniversityThis paper interrogates Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wall-paper" in an attempt to delineate the identity of Jane from the destabilized narrator at the story's end. In pursuing this distinction, this paper argues that the room that the narrator inhabits, furnished by patriarchal fixtures, is a macrocosm of the narrator's mind.
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In our previous post, we started to explore haiku and scratched the surface of what such a small poem can contain. Not only do these poems pack a punch when it comes to its length to content ratio—looking back at the foundations of haiku is a monumental task. Since we're experts of distilling down an entire conversation into seventeen syllables while writing on our typewriters at parties and events, we'll see how brief we can make this recap!
Traditional haiku is a small, three line poem characterized by three restraints— a 5-7-5 syllable structure; a mention of a natural seasonal word or image called a kigo; and a kireji, or a moment in the poem that both separates two separate images and connects their relationship to one another.
Haiku, in its origins, were known as hokku. Hokku were used as an opening in a renga, another traditional Japanese form of poetry. Later known as renka, renga is a collaborative genre, created by two or more poets working together to write two or more stanzas. The most standard method is where the first writer creates three lines, and the second writer responds with two.
Throughout many periods of the pre-modern era, Japanese masters of poetry such as Ueshima Onitsura and Matsuo Bashō brought the haiku to new heights in the 17th century. Bashō is one of the most revered poets to come from the Edo period of feudal Japan and was instrumental in forming the hokku as a standalone form separate from renga. Hokku eventually transformed into haiku during the 18th century, and it was elevated to a new high form of poetry independent from renka.
A slew of iconic poets followed in Bashō's footsteps—Buson, Issa, Shiki, and more—all of whom added their own styles into the mix. We'll touch more on these guys later to explore their particular styles, highlight some of their best poems, and think about how we can harness their poetic influence as contemporary haikuists!
But how did this Japanese artform deeply entrenched in the annals of eastern literary traditions make its way into the western world? We'll take a look at how it has expanded its reach, all the way into contemporary times. Do you think Bashō had any idea that The Haiku Guys and Gals would be writing free custom haiku on typewriters for guests at parties?
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North Carolina Central University in Durham will ring its historic Shepard Bell on Wednesday, Aug. 28, at 3 p.m. to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the historic March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
Dr. Debra Saunders-White, NCCU chancellor, will provide opening remarks at 2:55 p.m. Tiffany Adams, a senior, political science major and member of the Student Government Association's Executive Board, will ring the bell along with North Carolina State Rep. H. M. Michaux Jr. An NCCU alumnus, Michaux took part in the March on Washington on Aug. 28, 1963, at the personal invitation of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Adams attended last Saturday's celebration in Washington.
The Shepard Bell, bearing the name of NCCU founder Dr. James E. Shepard, has been a campus fixture since the institution's earliest days, when it rang out to announce class dismissals, mealtime, and game victories. The bell stands in a low tower on Campus Drive in front of the Hubbard-Totton Building and next to the Edmonds Classroom Building. The community is invited to attend. The campus map is here.
Founded in 1910, North Carolina Central University was the first publicly supported liberal arts college for African-Americans. Today, this dynamic campus has a diverse student body of 8,300 enrolled in academic programs including law, biosciences, library science, business, nursing, education and liberal arts.
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What is a Tunnel to Towers Run & Walk?The Tunnel to Towers Run & Walk Series was created to honor the heroic life and death of StephenSiller, a New York City firefighter (FDNY) who lost his life on September 11, 2001 after strapping on hisgear and running through the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel to the Twin Towers. Honor all of those who losttheir lives on September 11, 2001 and support our first responders and military who make extraordinarysacrifices in the line of duty! For more information on the Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundationplease visit www.tunnel2towers.orgHow far is a Tunnel to Towers Run & Walk?Our race route is a true 5K (3.1 miles). It begins with one (1) lap around the track, goes out into the neighborhood and then concludes with a final (1) lap around the track. You are welcome to walk or run this event. Is the course certified?The course will be measured correctly, but is not certified, at this time.Is the race timed and can I get a timing chip?Yes, the event will be chip timed. How are racers/walkers staged to start the race?We are glad to have runners and walkers of all levels participate in our event. In order to accommodate different levels, we will be staging participants into 4 corrals: Corral A: First Responders, with those wearing their gear at the front of the corral Corral B: Runners with time of 20 minutes or less Corral C: Runners and walker with a time of 21-29 minutes Corral D: Runners and walkers with a time of 30 minutes or greaterYou will be assigned to your Corral when you pick up your packet.Where can I pick up my packet?We encourage everyone to pick up their packet prior to race day. Packet Pick-up will be available: Friday, October 4 th , 5pm-8pm, The Neighbor's Shoppe at 2833 12 Mile Rd, Berkley Saturday, October 5 th , 2pm-5pm The Neighbor's Shoppe at 2833 12 Mile Rd, Berkley Sunday, October 6 th , 7:30am-8:55am prior to the race in the Anderson Middle School parking lot Can someone else pick up my packet?We strongly encourage all runners to pick up their own race packet. It is important for runners to verify their data and make any necessary changes. However, if it is not possible for you to pick-up your own packet, you may have someone pick it up for you. That person will be responsible for verifying personal race information (name, age, birthdate, etc.).May I register in person?For those who wish to register in person, we recommending doing so during our scheduled packet pick-up times on Thursday and Friday before the race. If the event is not sold out, in-person registration is also available the morning of the race. Please note, this is considered a late registration and an additional fee will apply.Can I register the day of the run?If the event is not sold out, in-person registration is also available the morning of the race. Please note, this is considered late registration and an additional fee will apply. When does online registration close?Online registration will close at midnight Thursday, October 3rd. What are the guidelines for children and youth participation?We are excited to have youth runners and walkers! In the interest of safety, we recommend each child younger than 14 years old run with an adult and each adult supervise no more than three (3) children.Is there transportation to and from the event?No, we do not provide transportation to and from the event. Is there parking available?Parking options will be published as they are confirmed. Do I have to wear my bib number?Yes, please display your bib on the front of your outermost garment. Those who run without a bib will be asked to leave the course and will not be allowed to finish. Will the race happen rain or shine? The race will continue in the event of a normal rainfall. We will, however, observe storm advisories which recommend people seek shelter. Will water be available?Yes, a water station will be available along the route and there will be water available at the finish of the race. Can I run with a stroller, backpack, wheelchair, roller blades, bicycle, etc.?Strollers and wheelchairs are welcome. Roller blades, bicycles, hover boards, and other modes of transport are not. Be sure to track your time with the stroller so we can assign you to the right corral. Firefighter in turnout gear and military backpacks are also permitted. Please leave all personal items and valuables in your vehicle. All items should be stored securely at the owner's risk. Tunnel to Towers Foundation will not be responsible for the loss of any items.If I have a backpack, what do I do with it?Please leave all personal items and valuables in your vehicle. All items should be stored securely at the owner's risk. Tunnel to Towers Foundation will not be responsible for the loss of any items. Can I transfer my registration to another participant?Yes, see information above OR contact us at email@example.com and we will manually change it in our system. How can I volunteer?It's simple! Click on the Register button and select the Volunteer option. Thank you for volunteering! Do registrants get receipts?When you register online you should automatically receive a receipt. If paying by credit card or check that is your receipt. Is there a medical staff available on-site?Yes, there will be an Emergency Medical Service team available on site. There is also radio communication available on the course to help communicate with the EMS. Does my registration fee count towards my fundraising goal?Registration fees help offset some of the expenses associated with making the Tunnel to Towers 5K Run & Walk one of the country's greatest annual events. However your fundraising efforts enable us to continue to make a difference in the lives of so many in need. To show our appreciation for your time, passion, and effort, we recognize each fundraising milestone that is reached with prizes branded with the Tunnel to Towers logo.What are the fundraising levels & prizes?To be announced soon.How long do I have to fundraise for incentives?Funds will be counted up until midnight September 24th, the NYC 5K. When will my fundraising incentive arrive? Look for an email from us in October to confirm your fundraising prize. Prizes will be shipped out around November. Note: You will receive your fundraising prizes in January, 2017: Colors vary from year to year!As a participant, can I fundraise/encourage others to donate?Yes, once you are registered, you will be given directions to start your own fundraising page and you will be able to accept donations online. Do you want to donate cash/money? We can help you with that. Contact us at email@example.com and we can walk you through the process or you can send donations directly to Tunnel to Towers Foundation, 2361 Hylan Blvd, Staten Island, NY 10306 (attn: LIZ CURTIS) - please give us your team/participant information so we can add it to your fundraising page. It's easy! Can I still donate to a team and/or individual after the start of the race?Yes, donations will be accepted for 6 weeks after the event. How can my company/organization sponsor this event?Please send all sponsorship correspondence to email@example.com with your contact information and someone will be in touch with you within 24 hours. 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August 07, 2020
Organizer: National Association for Environmental Management (NAEM)
Date: 10.25.17, 08:00AM – 10.27.17, 11:30AM ET
Location:Fort Lauderdale Marriott Harbor Beach Resort & Spa
Drawing more than 650 Environmental, Health, Safety and Sustainability professionals, the Forum is the best opportunity for professional networking, benchmarking and best practice-sharing for those developing and integrating strategic environmental, health, safety and sustainability programs within their companies. This year's program will include 50 cross-industry speakers, 4 different tracks and 20 different sessions.
The Forum will explore topics like:
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The top forensics official at California's Department of Justice has come under attack for public statements defending controversial practices at a crime lab in North Carolina.
Jill Spriggs, chief of the DOJ's Bureau of Forensic Services, appeared before a panel of North Carolina legislators a few months ago to address their questions about oversight of the State Bureau of Investigation crime lab, where an FBI audit found more than 200 cases where analysts had withheld information favorable to defendants.
Spriggs, who was speaking in her capacity as president-elect of the American Society of Crime Lab Directors (ASCLD), a professional association, including the San Francisco Police Department. She was quoted in the Raleigh News & Observer defending faulty forensic and record-keeping methods that led to the now-infamous conviction and 17-year imprisonment of North Carolina resident Gregory Taylor, who was declared innocent last year by a state judicial commission.
ASCLD's accreditation agency, ASCLD-LAB, has been criticized for failing to uncover the problems despite its own repeated inspections of the North Carolina crime lab.
Spriggs reportedly sought to justify a highly controversial practice at the lab -- agents' habit of writing that their examinations of evidence "revealed chemical indications of blood," even when final, confirmatory tests actually ruled out the presence of blood. (Testing for blood is done through a two-step process consisting of a preliminary test and a final test to confirm the result.)
"That is an accurate statement," Spriggs reportedly said. "A lot of times you got no results. It didn't mean it wasn't blood; it meant you didn't have enough sample, or maybe the sample was old. ...What else is red-brown that will give you a positive presumptive test for blood? There's nothing that I know."
Her testimony prompted a scathing letter to the editor to the News & Observer from Diane Savage, president of the group NC Attorneys for Science and Technology.
"Even SBI lab protocols, supposedly approved by ASCLD-LAB, state that the phenolphthalein presumptive test is considered to be highly reactive with plant peroxidases and can give positive false reactions to tomatoes, potatoes, horseradish and several other substances," Savage wrote. "The lack of expertise of the new leader of ASCLD, the trade association of directors of crime labs across the U.S., is disappointing but no longer surprising."
Amy Driver, a former Los Angeles Police Department forensic scientist
who runs an industry blog, BulletPath, called Spriggs' statements
"amazing" on her website.
Reached by SF Weekly, Spriggs said she was misquoted in the North Carolina newspaper.
"I can tell you a lot of the things that were reported by the News & Observer in North Carolina were taken out of context," she said. "A lot of what they reported is wrong."
She declined to further discuss her statements without authorization from the press office of Attorney General Kamala Harris, which did not respond to requests to speak further with Spriggs.
ASCLD recently re-accredited the troubled SFPD crime lab, despite documented problems including the theft of drug evidence by a lab worker, the destruction of records of a DNA sample switch in a homicide case, and misleading forensics reporting by the current head of the lab's DNA section.
Harris -- Spriggs' boss and the former San Francisco District Attorney -- also came under fire for her alleged role in concealing those problems.
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Help language development. Donate to The Perl Foundation
P5chomp - Implement Perl's chomp() / chop() built-ins
use P5chomp; # exports chomp() and chop()
chomp $a;
chomp @a;
chomp %h;
chomp(); # bare chomp may be compilation error to prevent P5isms in Raku
chop $a;
chop @a;
chop %h;
chop(); # bare chop may be compilation error to prevent P5isms in Raku
This module tries to mimic the behaviour of the
chomp and
chop functions of Perl as closely as possible.
chop VARIABLE
chop( LIST )
chop Chops off the last character of a string and returns the character
chopped. It is much more efficient than "s/.$//s" because it
neither scans nor copies the string. If VARIABLE is omitted, chops
$_. If VARIABLE is a hash, it chops the hash's values, but not its
keys, resetting the "each" iterator in the process.
You can actually chop anything that's an lvalue, including an
If you chop a list, each element is chopped. Only the value of the
last "chop" is returned.
Note that "chop" returns the last character. To return all but the
last character, use "substr($string, 0, -1)".
chomp VARIABLE
chomp( LIST )
chomp This safer version of "chop" removes any trailing string that
corresponds to the current value of $/ (also known as
$INPUT_RECORD_SEPARATOR in the "English" module). It returns the
total number of characters removed from all its arguments. It's
often used to remove the newline from the end of an input record
when you're worried that the final record may be missing its
newline. When in paragraph mode ("$/ = """), it removes all
trailing newlines from the string. When in slurp mode ("$/ =
undef") or fixed-length record mode ($/ is a reference to an
integer or the like; see perlvar) chomp() won't remove anything.
If VARIABLE is omitted, it chomps $_. Example:
while (<>) {
chomp; # avoid \n on last field
@array = split(/:/);
# ...
If VARIABLE is a hash, it chomps the hash's values, but not its
keys, resetting the "each" iterator in the process.
You can actually chomp anything that's an lvalue, including an
chomp($cwd = `pwd`);
chomp($answer = <STDIN>);
If you chomp a list, each element is chomped, and the total number
of characters removed is returned.
Note that parentheses are necessary when you're chomping anything
that is not a simple variable. This is because "chomp $cwd =
`pwd`;" is interpreted as "(chomp $cwd) = `pwd`;", rather than as
"chomp( $cwd = `pwd` )" which you might expect. Similarly, "chomp
$a, $b" is interpreted as "chomp($a), $b" rather than as
"chomp($a, $b)".
Elizabeth Mattijsen [email protected]
Source can be located at: https://github.com/lizmat/P5chomp . Comments and Pull Requests are welcome.
Copyright 2018-2019 Elizabeth Mattijsen
Re-imagined from Perl as part of the CPAN Butterfly Plan.
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the Artistic License 2.0.


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Green Flag Award
Chipperfield Village is very proud to have been awarded once more in 2014 the Green Flag for villages achieving a high standard of presentation and management of the Common and surrounding areas.
A Presentation and Flag Raising Ceremony will be held at the Cricket Club on Friday 14 November at 11am with members of the Parish Council and representatives of Dacorum Council.
Everyone welcome to attend
Peter Ingram, Chipperfield Parish Councillor for Open Space
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Well, I really should be in bed right now but I figured I would post just a few pictures of our back-packin' trip.....so that no one pops. There are lots more pics to come later......Lord willing.
Monday, September 24, 2007
Back Packin' Pictures
Posted by Aaron Sleadd at 10:23 PM
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Ha! Your such a clown Aaron. See ya tomorrow.ReplyDelete
Wow, cool pictures! So, who is going to pop? At least you didn't say any name... but I now who you were talking about:0) See ya at speech tonight:)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 25, 2007 at 10:47 PM
It was fun seeing you at speech tonight:0) Guess who?ReplyDelete
You are so full of yourself :)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 27, 2007 at 9:19 PM
You never guessed who the anonymous was.ReplyDelete
You're so funny Aaron! ~Ruth~ReplyDelete
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Lead Us from Darkness into Light...
Depot School celebrated its 56th Anniversary cum Parents day on 7th of January 2019, program was inaugurated jointly by the Chief Guest Speaker of the Province No. 1 Mr. Pradeep Kumar Bhandari and the School Committee President Maj. Sarwan Kumar Limbu by lighting a candle. Students performed dance numbers, fashion show, solo song and even jokes on stage for the much delight of guest entertainment. Science exhibition was also held by the students of class IX and X, Scout hiking and the winter camping recorded events were also shown in projector, per-primary students handicraft work was also in exhibition. At the end of the event the Lucky Draw was announced to the winner parents. The program was adjourned by the school Principal.
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Hayden Nathaniel Babb, age 16, of Crockett passed away Thursday, June 27. 2019. Hayden was born November 15, 2002 in Crockett and was a junior at Crockett High School.
Hayden is survived by mother, Jennifer Rena Babb of Crockett; grandparents, Johnny and Janice Babb of Crockett; brother, Traye Babb of Crockett; sisters, Jayda Babb of Crockett, Ava Babb of Crockett; half-sister, Lexi Smith of Huntsville; aunt, Jana Babb Nealy and husband, Bubba of Crockett; cousins, Emily Allen, Nicholas Allen, Lane Nealy; numerous other loving relatives and friends.
Funeral services for Hayden Nathaniel Babb will be at 2:00 p.m. Tuesday, July 2, 2019 in the Callaway-Allee Memorial Chapel.
Family will receive friends for visitation Monday evening from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the Michelle Lynn Holsey Foundation, P. O. Box 652, Crockett, TX 75835 or Central Baptist Church, 100 North 7th Street, Crockett, TX 75835.
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Specially for the big adventure bike/dual sport riders – Big Bike Day is a Green Lane Mini Adventure departing from and returning to Rykas Café near Dorking. Bikes 600cc and over only please with knobblies or aggressive dual purpose tyres!
BOOKING ESSENTIAL, LIMITED PLACES! Saturday 26th May, meet at Rykas Café from 9.30am onwards for a 10am set off. We'll guide you through some of the best lanes Surrey has to offer with a lunch stop en-route*, from spectacular views from the highest point in the South East of England, along forest trails and splashing through woodland streams, there's no better way to spend the day than getting your bike dirty!
All routes on Big Bike Day are rideable on big adventure/dual sport bikes and are tailored to the skill level of the group or individual on the day, making the most of the lanes and keeping road work to a minimum. In order to minimise disruption to other users of the lanes we operate a maximum group size of 6 riders.
• Well first off you'll need a bike! This can be anything from a Honda XR125 to a BMW R1200 GS Adventure, (600cc + for the Big Bike Day please!) but choose your ride according to your skill level. The real joy of trail riding and green laning comes from taking your everyday bike somewhere entirely different and where you never thought it could go.
• Bear in mind that the green lanes are classed as roads so your machine must be fully road legal, taxed, MOT'd, insured and you must hold an appropriate driving licence.
• A good pair of motorcycle boots, waterproof ideally. These should be strong enough to protect your feet, ankles and shins from rocks and tree stumps… and possibly your bike falling on top of you! Motocross boots are ideal.
• You'll also need a sturdy motorcycle jacket, trousers and gloves with all the armour in the relevant places. Textile gear is preferable to leathers (you'll never get them clean again!) to protect you from overhanging branches, brambles and the almost inevitable tumble.
• A few essential tools and some basic knowledge to carry out any running repairs necessary to your own bike as we go. An AA or RAC Membership card is also sometimes also useful!
• Carrying some water is also a good idea – trail riding can be very strenuous, especially if it's your first time, and you can easily become dehydrated.
• Bring a camera! There's some lovely spots out there and plenty of opportunity to take some great shots.
• It's always worth carrying a freezer bag or two to act as waterproof cases for wallets, phones, cameras or anything else you need to keep dry.


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Do I need a passport to sail to Mexico, Caribbean or Alaska?
This has to be the one question I am asked by almost every client on their first cruise to one of these destinations who are American Citizens.
The answer…it would depend what type of cruise you are taking to the Caribbean or Mexico or Alaska. If you are on an 'open-ended' cruise (one way cruise: embark in one port and disembark in another) then YES you DO need a passport. Even if you are sailing from say San Diego to Seattle that includes a stop in a port in British Columbia, Canada, you need a passport.
If you are on a 'closed loop' cruise where you embark and disembark from the same US port then you don't need a US Passport BUT…yep there are some buts in here… if you talk to the cruise line or a very good travel agent they would tell you they STRONGLY recommend that you do have a passport. Now in reading that you have probably gathered that you don't really need a passport for a closed loop cruise and you would be right. According to the WHTI's (Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative) website it states:
""Closed Loop" Cruises: U.S. citizens who board a cruise ship at a port within the United States, travel only within the Western Hemisphere, and return to the same U.S. port on the same ship may present a government issued photo identification, along with proof of citizenship (an original or copy of his or her birth certificate, a Consular report of Birth Abroad, or a Certificate of Naturalization). Please be aware that you may still be required to present a passport to enter the foreign countries your cruise ship is visiting. Check with your cruise line to ensure you have the appropriate documents."
Now let me tell you why the Cruise Lines and good Travel Agents STRONGLY recommend you need a passport. What happens if you have an emergency or incident that happens where you have to leave the ship mid-cruise. If you don't have a passport with you it will take you a lot longer to get home with all the red tape you would have to wade through. If you have your passport it would be a lot smoother to get you home should anything happen that causes you leave the ship during your cruise.
Another great example as to why you need a passport would be if anything happens to the ship, like the incident on Carnival Triumph in February 2013 where the ship almost ended up being towed to Mexico. Onboard the ship were 900 people who did not have passports. If the ship had been towed to Mexico those without passports would have a more difficult time entering Mexico, leaving Mexico and re-entering the US. Fortunately because of the currents and the ship drifting closer to the US they were towed to Mobile, AL. This will help those who did not have their passports to re-enter the US but because they are not coming back into the same port they will have some problems re-entering the country.
The advice I have for you is just go and get your passport. Period! Do it now before you plan any trips. They are good for ten years and it is one less thing you have to worry about when planning your trip. If you decide to do a last minute trip outside the US at least you are prepared and don't have to put off a dream opportunity or business trip because you don't have a passport.
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Marketed as an "orthopedic bed," this product is essentially an air mattress with a quilt that snaps onto the mattress as a covering. The bed comes packaged with an extra quilt, so when one gets soiled, there's another available while the laundry gets done; toss it in with your regular wash. Sanitizing the mattress just requires a quick, wet wipe.
The mattress, reportedly claw and scratch proof, also comes in a bag with a pump, but a shoddy one—at least the pump Bay Woof received didn't work at all. Our test model bed was for a small dog, so blowing it up with old-fashioned lungpower worked fine, once you got the hang of squeezing the valve open while forcing in the air. The bed holds its shape well, meaning it's airtight, and it's good for indoor and outdoor use.
The small bed is 22″ x 16″ x 4″ and sells for $69.99 and the medium/large bed is 34″ x 22″ x 4″ and costs $79.99. They are available in baby blue, tan, pink, navy, and gray. Find Snappy Snoozers online at SnappySnoozers.com.
It's always nice to have an extra dog bed around. And while we haven't tried floating it in a pool, that just might be an option for a water-loving hound.
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Wilbert J. LeMelle, Sr., was a scholar, development specialist, and ambassador to Kenya and the Republic of Seychelles between 1977 and 1980. In both his academic and diplomatic work, LeMelle urged the United States to become more engaged in Africa, focusing on economic development and human rights issues.
Born in Louisiana, LeMelle initially sought to become a Catholic priest and earned both a BA and an MA degree at Notre Dame Seminary in New Orleans before becoming an instructor of history at Grambling State University in Grambling, Louisiana in 1956. After being drafted into the U.S. Army in 1957, he returned to graduate study and earned a PhD in international relations at the University of Denver (Colorado) in 1963. LeMelle taught in Boston (Massachusetts) University's prestigious African Studies program until being hired as a development specialist with the Ford Foundation.
Through positions with the Ford Foundation, LeMelle traveled and worked in numerous regions of Africa, ultimately becoming Deputy Director of the Middle East and Africa program by 1976. Ford Foundation projects focused on agricultural development, expanding African universities, and democratic leadership development in various regions across the continent. LeMelle helped these programs support civil rights reforms in African nations just emerging from European colonialism. He also worked closely with formal U.S. aid programs and other international non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Africa.
On May 11, 1977, President Jimmy Carter nominated LeMelle to the joint ambassadorship of Kenya and the Seychelles. After U.S. Senate confirmation, LeMelle traveled to Nairobi, the capital of Kenya, and presented his credentials on October 1, 1977.
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I have done many remixes over the years. In 2010, my remix of Shakedown by Joan Reyes went to #1 on the BeatPort overall chart. It then went on to be the highest selling track on BeatPort for that year. (seriously)
So I am often asked how to make a remix of a song.
It is a unique and fun thing about electronic music and hip hop. We can take one song of any genre, and reinterpret it in our own style. We can make remixes of popular songs, underground songs or anything we like.
But before you can make your own remix songs, there are a few tips you should know about the art of remixing.
An official remix is when the original artist/record label paid you or requested you to make it.
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Christmas in June for Jeremyville and Kiehl's
The holidays come earlier and earlier every year. And honestly, today we're a part of the problem. It's June and we're already telling you about one of our artist's holiday projects, but we couldn't hold the secret anymore. This winter Jeremyville is debuting his collaboration with Kiehl's in an unprecedentedly huge collection that runs the gamut from beauty projects to accessories. Jeremy applies his signature playful look mixed in with traditional Holiday imagery bringing the season's joy with a splash of silly.
Jeremyville created a series of tessellating prints that play off wrapped gifts, stars and holly, and tree ornaments, that will be featured on traveling toiletry bags and gift boxes for any well chosen gift. He's also created a winter ice skating scene that will grace a similar box. Inside these boxes and bags, customers will be able to place their, Crème de Corps, Calendula Herbal Toner, and Ultra Facial Cream that also feature designs by Jeremy on the packaging.
The exchange of gifts every holiday season is guaranteed to leave smiles in its wake, but with Jeremyville's work included on these items the smiles are sure to be that much brighter.


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Category: Humanitarian
Application Window Opens for 2018 Joy W. Pope Memorial Grants
July 1, 2017
Categories: Humanitarian, Philanthropy Updates, Press Releases, The Arts
The John William Pope Foundation has opened the application period for the 2018 Joy Pope Memorial Grant in The Arts and the 2018 Joy Pope Memorial Grant in Human Services. ...
Triangle Area Teens Become Pope Eagle Scout Scholars
June 14, 2017
Categories: Humanitarian, Press Releases
The Boy Scouts of America Occoneechee Council awarded four scholarships totaling $80,000 RALEIGH, N.C. – The Boy Scouts of America Occoneechee Council and John William Pope Foundation have announced the 2017 Pope Eagle Scout Scholars. The annual program recognizes four scouts who have demonstrated exceptional leadership and personal achievement in their academic and scouting lives. Each Pope Scholar receives a $20,000 college scholarship. The 2017 Pope Eagle Scout Scholars are: Holden James Bigford of Fayetteville (graduate of Northwood Temple Academy), William Samuel Godwin of Dunn (graduate of South Johnston High School), Warren Stewart Whitley of Raleigh (graduate of Raleigh Charter High School), and Miles T. Wiley of Raleigh (graduate of Rolesville High School). Over 50 scouts applied for the scholarship, and a committee of five community leaders interviewed finalists and selected recipients. [caption id="attachment_4676" align="alignleft" width="150"] Miles T. Wiley, a...
Wesley Shelter of Wilson Awarded 2017 Joy W. Pope Memorial Grant in Human Services
February 23, 2017
Categories: Announcements, Humanitarian, Philanthropy Updates, Press Releases
Today, the John William Pope Foundation announced the winner of the 2017 Joy W. Pope Memorial Grant in Human Services. Wesley Shelter in Wilson, N.C. received a $100,000 grant for capital improvements to their shelter housing facility. The change will allow Wesley Shelter to accommodate additional clients and will relocate existing office space to enhance space efficiency. ...
Pope Foundation Will Award $200,000 in Statewide Competitive Grants
September 14, 2016
Categories: Humanitarian, Philanthropy Updates, Press Releases, The Arts, Uncategorized
Deadline to submit applications for Joy W. Pope Memorial Grants has been extended to October 24 RALEIGH, N.C. – Today, the John William Pope Foundation announced they would again offer two statewide competitive grants. North Carolina nonprofits can apply for the 2017 Joy Pope Memorial Grant in the Arts and the 2017 Joy Pope Memorial Grant in Human Services until October 24, 2016. The foundation will award $100,000 to a selected nonprofit for an innovative project that will be completed in 2017. Interested organizations should visit the foundation's website at www.jwpf.org for more information and application instructions. "Traditionally, the Pope Foundation's humanitarian and arts giving has focused on needs in the Triangle area," said foundation Vice President Joyce Pope. "But we know there are needs across the state and organizations with innovative ideas to address those needs. This competitive grant program allows us to directly impact...
Public is Invited to First Raleigh Children's Business Fair on September 10
August 5, 2016
Categories: Humanitarian, Philanthropy Updates, Press Releases, Uncategorized
Raleigh, N.C. — The first Raleigh Children's Business Fair will be held on September 10, from 2:30-4:30 p.m. at The Commons at North Hills. The event is free and open to the public. The John William Pope Foundation and John Locke Foundation are organizing the event to promote an entrepreneurship learning opportunity. With over 40 booths, participating children will sell their original products in a farmers-market style setting. Local business leaders will serve as judges to award prizes in five categories that include 'Most Original Idea,' 'Best Customer Service,' and 'Shoppers' Favorite.' Children applied to participate in the Fair earlier this year. [caption id="attachment_4552" align="alignright" width="300"] For more information about the Raleigh Children's Business Fair, visit www.raleighcbf.org.[/caption] "When we were presented with the chance to bring this event to Raleigh, we knew it would be a match for our growing city" said Pope...
Dandelion Eatery Awarded $100,000 Joy Pope Memorial Grant in Human Services
March 1, 2016
Categories: Humanitarian, Philanthropy Updates, Press Releases
RALEIGH, N.C. -- At a press conference in Hendersonville, the John William Pope Foundation announced the winner of its first statewide competitive grant, the Joy Pope Memorial Grant in Human Services. The Dandelion Eatery, a project of Safelight Family Services (formerly Mainstay Women's Shelter) received a one-time gift of $100,000 to expand its commercial teaching kitchen. Opened in 2013, Dandelion Eatery provides jobs training for domestic violence victims while operating as a restaurant open to the public. [caption id="attachment_4493" align="alignleft" width="225"] Dandelion is located in Hendersonville, N.C. and is open M-F, 10 am - 3 pm.[/caption] "Ultimately, we were highly impressed with the innovative nature of the Dandelion Eatery project," said Foundation Vice President Joyce Pope. "They saw a way to break the cycle of abuse by empowering their clients to be self-sufficient, and that goal has positive lifelong effects for individuals, families, and...
Pope Foundation grants $1.8 million to North Carolina nonprofits in December
December 15, 2015
Categories: Education, Humanitarian, Philanthropy Updates, The Arts
RALEIGH, N.C. -- The John William Pope Foundation recently awarded $1.8 million to North Carolina nonprofits in its winter grant cycle. Of that, over $1 million went to humanitarian organizations that meet hunger, housing, and health needs, primarily in the Triangle region. That figure includes $400,000 to the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center to help fulfill a $1.3 million pledge made in 2014. "We're pleased to help ease the burden of North Carolinians who are in need," said foundation Chairman Art Pope. "Our grantees are doing excellent work to ensure that real and pressing issues are addressed in our communities. They are also providing first-class access to arts and education. The true value of our grantees' work cannot be overstated," said Pope. First-time grants were made to Camp Corral ($10,000), Dress for Success of Eastern North Carolina ($10,000), the Hope Center at Pullen ($5,000), Junior Achievement of the Triangle ($5,000), TROSA ($10,000), Wake...


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The coastal city of Wilmington, North Carolina, has been cut off from the rest of the state because of heavy floods following Hurricane Florence. Officials say all roads in and out are now impassable and have warned evacuated residents to stay away.
About 400 people have been rescued from floodwaters in the city, described as an island within the state. Two of the first known fatalities – a mother and her seven-month son – were reported in the city on Friday morning, reports BBC.
At least 15 other people are reported to have died in storm-related incidents across North and South Carolina since Florence made landfall on Thursday.
In Wilmington, with its population of about 120,000, some 400 people have had to be rescued from flood waters, and most of the city remains without power.
The National Weather Service has warned of at least two further days of possible flash flooding in the area before conditions are forecast to improve.
"Do not come here," New Hanover County Commission Chairman Woody White said.
"Our roads are flooded, there is no access into Wilmington…We want you home, but you can't come yet."
The area is usually best known as a filming location for US dramas One Tree Hill and Dawson's Creek. US basketball legend Michael Jordan – who is fundraising to help residents affected by the storm – also grew up in the city.
Many roads inside Wilmington are still passable for residents who defied evacuation orders to ride the storm out. But a city-wide curfew has been extended after five people were arrested on suspicion of looting from a store in the city on Saturday.
Florence has now weakened into a tropical depression with winds of 30mph (45km/h), according to the National Hurricane Centre.
Some parts of the Carolinas have seen up to 40in (100cm) of rain since Thursday – and officials have warned river levels are yet to peak in places.
"The storm has never been more dangerous than it is right now," North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper said on Sunday.
"Wherever you live in North Carolina, be alert for sudden flooding."
As of Monday morning, there have been several tornado warnings across North Carolina.
One tornado touched down in Elm City, causing some damage to buildings and power lines, according to local media reports.
The governor also warned of the potential danger of landslides once the weather system reached more mountainous areas.
In South Carolina, the state's emergency management division reminded residents: "It's not over yet. Not by a long shot."
The US coast guard and volunteer boats have been helping people left stricken by rising flood waters across the states.
Officials in North Carolina have said about 900 people have been rescued from floodwaters there, and about 15,000 people are still in emergency shelters.
US President Donald Trump has declared a disaster in several North Carolina counties – a move that frees up federal funding for recovery efforts.
He has praised federal and local law enforcement response to the storm on Twitter several times and the White House has indicated he may visit the affected area in coming days.
FEMA, First Responders and Law Enforcement are working really hard on hurricane Florence. As the storm begins to finally recede, they will kick into an even higher gear. Very Professional!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 16, 2018
FEMA, First Responders and Law Enforcement are working really hard on hurricane Florence. As the storm begins to finally recede, they will kick into an even higher gear. Very Professional!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 16, 2018
Power companies are working to restore power to the almost 502,000 homes and businesses in both states that are still without electricity.
The storm has begun to move into Virginia and West Virginia and is expected to turn toward New England on Tuesday.
Eleven deaths were reported in North Carolina, and at least six have been reported in South Carolina.
A mother and her seven-month child who died when a tree fell on their house in Wilmington were the first known deaths reported.
Among the other fatalities were two men in their 70s who died in Lenoir County – one had been connecting extension cords and another was blown by high winds when checking on his dogs.
Four road deaths in South Carolina have been blamed on the storm, and two people died from carbon monoxide poisoning caused by a generator inside their home.


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Our elected representatives owe their loyalty to us, not to their political parties.
The excessive loyalty that members of Congress give their parties, and the excessive power that parties have over our electoral and legislative systems, have led us to a stalemate. Our elected officials consistently fail to address the most pressing issues facing our nation. And when we act as partisans ourselves, we are not holding them accountable.


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As each light flickered during each passing moment, the monotone color on the wall seemed to move as if it had a breath.
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Jo Reed: That's author and playwright Victor Lodato. And this is Art Works, the weekly podcast produced at the National Endowment for the Arts. I'm Josephine Reed. Victor Lodato is an award-winning playwright whose first novel, Matilda Savitch, won the PEN USA Award for Fiction. Lodato's second novel, Edgar and Lucy, was almost ten years in the making, and was published to great critical acclaim. Edgar and Lucy is an epic—part family-drama, part ghost story, part love story—all of it moving, compelling, believable, yet unexpected. It really is a marvel of a book with its rich characters and deep attention to language. Lodato has written some 13 plays and he received early support from the National Endowment for the Arts—one of the many fellowships he has been awarded during his career. His years in the theater served him well when he added novels to his repertoire—his pacing and understanding of drama, as well as an uncanny knack for dialogue, are evident throughout this complicated story. In fact, the story itself of Edgar and Lucy defied my ability to describe it succinctly, so I asked the author Victor Lodato for a thumbnail sketch of the book…..
Victor Lodato: Okay. It's such a sprawling book that it's hard to do the thumbnail but—
Jo Reed: I know. That's why I asked you as opposed to me trying.
Victor Lodato: <laughs> So basically it is the story of the fates of two characters, Edgar and Lucy, mother and son, over the course of their lifetime, mainly focusing on one particularly difficult year in their life when Edgar's eight. The book projects even into their futures and into Lucy's past, but it's really about this one year in their life, and—and probably in describing the book I often joke about the book and call it my "New Jersey gothic" but I do think that it's a true contemporary gothic in many ways, which I can speak more of if you want to talk about that.
Jo Reed: That's exactly where I do want to go because that was my second question of—you've described it as "New Jersey gothic" so, tell us, tell me what you mean by this.
Victor Lodato: Well, you know I first thought of that sort of just as, you know, a silly thing to say about the book but the more I thought about it the more I do consider it a true gothic in that it's very much about Edgar and Lucy's complicated relationship to the past and then there's also a sense of this past as having a malignant influence, and then all of this is happening in sort of an updated version of the ruined castle of gothic literature. At first it's the sort of dilapidated suburban house that Edgar and Lucy live in and then in the second half of the book it's the underworld of the New Jersey Pine Barrens, which is a very strange and haunted place. And I think when I recognized that the book was a gothic, it gave me permission to go for sort of a bigger and hotter emotional temperature than what I am used to writing.
Jo Reed: The characters themselves are just so extraordinary. They all grow in stature for me from the major ones to the supporting ones with one exception and I think that's quite unusual. I'd like to talk about the characteristics, personality, of Edgar, who is so unusual in many ways, both physically, but emotionally and intellectually as well.
Victor Lodato: Yeah, do you want me to ramble on that now a little bit?
Jo Reed: Yeah, ramble away.
Victor Lodato: <laughs> Yeah, you know people have talked about the peculiarities of some of the characters, you know Edgar, and then of course Edgar's father who we learn had struggles with mental illness, and then when I'm writing the book I'm never thinking about writing about Edgar as a child who is considered maybe Asperger's or on some sort of borderline autism scale and father Frank as schizophrenic; I'm really sort of just really trying to understand their personalities. And I don't even think I ever mention schizophrenia in regard to Frank and maybe there's just a glancing reference of autism in terms to Edgar but, I'm really—I think people are in—generally a lot odder than we often see in fiction and I just—I think I'm fairly an odd person myself; I think most people are fairly odd. And I really tried to look at the strangeness of personalities and the strangeness of sort of our condition.
Jo Reed: Yeah, and with Edgar the thing that struck me about him is how kind he is and his ability to love and also his ability to receive love.
Victor Lodato: Oh, well, I'm glad. You know, that was sort of the breakthrough for me in writing the book. I mean in some ways, the book has a lot of comic elements but it's a very hard book. The family goes through some very serious and dangerous and upsetting trials and I think it was the character of Edgar that sort of helped me through that and get through the darkest parts of the novel because there are many heroes in the novel. I mean Edgar and Lucy are both of equal importance in, in some ways in the novel but Edgar in some ways I recognized him as my true hero and it's exactly what you're talking about. His power isn't great strength, or even overt bravery, but he does have this uncanny ability to love ferociously, and even more so to offer kindness in very unlikely situations to people who we wouldn't think as readers or even me as the writer think, do they deserve him being this kind? And so I was just really attracted to that in him and that's what kept me writing because kindness seems like a small thing but I think it's a—it's huge, and the more I wrote this book I realized why is it as rare? Shouldn't we see kindness constantly because it's so simple to offer? And so Edgar's character was a revelation to me about life and also as I said in just—in understanding the nature of this book.
Jo Reed: He would take my breath away at moments; I would have to stop for a second and just pause; it was so moving. Florence, who I really feel we need to talk about is Edgar's beloved grandmother, and that character is so key to Edgar, and as we learn, to Lucy as well.
Victor Lodato: Uh huh. This book, even though I grew up in New Jersey and grew up in sort of a working-class Italian-Polish family similar to the family in this book, the story is completely, if not largely, invented. But the dynamics between the characters, some of the emotional dynamics, are definitely drawn from my own family and my childhood, and particularly the character of Florence. I had the great fortune of growing up in a house with both my grandmothers, my Italian grandmother and my Polish grandmother, and my parents worked a lot; they were often absent and so it was these two women who raised me. And so the character of Florence, the grandmother in the book, is basically taking my two grandmothers—taking my very tiny Polish grandmother and stuffing her up inside the body of my much larger Italian grandmother and making them one person.
Jo Reed: Well you did a great job with it.
Victor Lodato: Thank you.
Jo Reed: Why don't we hear a little bit from it because I want to talk a bit about the beginning and I know you said that's what you were going to read. So, let's hear a bit
Victor Lodato: Okay. So I'm going to read the very first thing that came to me when I started this book; this is from the very first chapter, the beginning. All the chapters are titled and this chapter's called "Chanel No. 5": Having a life meant having a story; even at eight Edgar knew this. What he didn't know was his own beginning. Newborn brains were mushy. If you wanted to know how your life had started you had to get this information from other people, but what if these people were liars? "I kept falling asleep," said Lucy; she was speaking of Edgar's birth. The boy liked this particular story and so he made sure to roll his head in feigned boredom. "Even with all the pain I was like"—Lucy opened her mouth and made a stupendous snore sound worthy of a cartoon character—"It was nearly three in the morning when you decided to show your face," she tossed back her hair and turned to the mirror, "and you didn't make a fuss either. The doctor said he'd never seen a kid care less about being born, slip, slap and back to sleep." "And then they put me in the box, right, in the glass box?" "Yup, because you were so small and you didn't wake up for a week." Edgar didn't remember any of it. "The size of a dinner roll," Lucy said with a slight shudder, "and so white I thought you were a frigging ghost." The boy looked up as his mother swiped a pink stick the color of cake frosting across her lips. "Are you going out, Ma?" "Yes, I am," she said. "Yes, I am."
Jo Reed: That's wonderful. That's from "Edgar and Lucy," and, I had marked that first sentence, "Having a life meant having a story; even at eight Edgar knew this." It was a sentence that completely captivated me and I read that sentence and I said, "I know I'm going to love this book."
Victor Lodato: <laughs>
Jo Reed: You said you just sat down with a blank piece of paper and that's what came out?
Victor Lodato: I—and I—again it's one of the mysteries sometimes of the writing process where these things come out of. You know, a lot of people write an autobiographical novel early on. You know, I've been writing for a long time, and only with this book did I feel like I tapped into some of the things from my own childhood, and I think what I loved about Edgar and maybe where that book starts is that Edgar knew there were big things and big themes and secrets in his life and that there was a story in that household but he didn't really have access to the particulars of it. And for me as a writer, I never start with a plan or agenda, I really start with character and voice, and so as Edgar is searching out for the truth about his family and the past I am also doing that as a writer and that's what keeps me interested as a writer is that detective work of figuring out okay, so what is this story that Edgar doesn't really know, well, I don't know either, and so we sort of hunted out together. I mean it's funny—in my first book and then even in this book, people have commented about at certain points in the action where they—they say to me, "Well, I never saw that coming. It was such a turn," and I always have to say, "Well, <laughs> it was the same for me. You know, I was completely surprised when that happened."
Jo Reed: Did Edgar or Lucy or Florence ever take you down a path, then you got there and you realized not really, this is not going to work?
Victor Lodato: This book took me a long time but there weren't a lot of false steps. I worked so slowly and meticulously on this. I would get to a point, say a third of the way and then halfway and then three-quarters of the way, where I didn't know what was next and I had this very laborious process where I'd just go back to the beginning and sort of go through it all, sometimes even early on in the book retype the whole thing and then get to that point, and then I would, you know, live through it emotionally again with the characters and then I would figure out what was next. There were a few places where I thought, oh no, I don't really want to go <laughs> here but then I went there and then it turned out differently than I expected, you know, something that I—the signs were pointing to something that I thought I knew what it was but when I got there it was something else. It's a very strange process.
Jo Reed: Yeah, it sounds like a very interesting one too. Back to secrets, Edgar's living with both Lucy and Florence, and they're both widows and Edgar is thinking about widows and he thinks they're almost like witches; they're "deathy;" they have secrets. That use of the word "deathy" struck me as so perfect because it's so pointed, it so conveys a child's way of thinking. How do—how do you access that?
Victor Lodato: Well, it's interesting. You know, with that word "deathy" when you say that I think—it seems like you didn't have this reaction but I'm always afraid people will think it's a writerly conceit, but but, you know, being inside Edgar at that moment, just that word came to me and it just seemed absolutely right for him. You know, accessing the child is something that I have always done in my work. My first novel is also—has a child character and first—it's first person in the voice of a 12-year-old, and a lot of my plays—I'm also a playwright—have children in them and it isn't a choice but they keep appearing and now that I've done it for so long I can see that, you know, I'm just a person who's generally confused about the world still, even as an adult I feel like I don't get it, and I mean I'm writing to try to see if I can get it. And so putting these children into my novels and plays is a way for me to sort of move through the world of a novel with a character who is still trying to figure out the world and I feel like that puts me in this great position where as a writer I don't feel like I have to have all the answers; I can be very innocent about my own anxieties and confusions. And I feel like in some ways having children in my books keeps me honest as a writer.
Jo Reed: Well, there's a magic that goes through this book, I mean not wizards and not dragons but it's more like a homespun quotidian magic, and there are moments in the book—well as I said, I'm just not sure where it's going.
Victor Lodato: <laughs> That was a good thing I hope.
Jo Reed: Yes, a very good thing.
Victor Lodato: You know, I think some people had read the book and were even expecting it to go into something truly magical but I think this is a book that's rooted in real characters and real psychologies, but the story is so big, it being a gothic, that it does aspire at times to almost be a storybook kind of version of this Italian family's life. You know, that's one of the reasons why it jumps into the past and then jumps into the future. I felt like, you know, in some ways I wanted it to be exhaustive; I wanted it you to see the whole picture from beginning to end and in some ways, this book encouraged a kind of symmetry and ending that I might not normally put on another kind of book.
Jo Reed: Well, as you mentioned, it's the second novel you've written with a child at its center, "Mathilda Savitch" being the first—and as you said, she's the sole narrator of her book, whereas "Edgar and Lucy" is told from multiple perspectives, through various characters, even the dog at one point—good old Jackie, a shout-out for Jack—and then sometimes we have an omniscient narrator. Can you talk about moving through all those perspectives and moving the story from the eyes of one of the characters into the eyes of another.
Victor Lodato: You know, again, it was a completely intuitive process. I have described it once before as, when I was writing it I felt access to many characters and when I would shift, you know, sometimes within a single paragraph, sometimes from chapter to chapter, but sometimes within a single page, we'd have several perspectives, and the only way that I can describe it is sort of like being in this big ocean and I could feel the character change as a temperature or tidal shift and I would just go with it. And I remember—you know I did not study writing. I started in the theater, I was an actor, and then I started writing plays for myself and multi-character plays and then I began a novel many years ago. I didn't know I was writing a novel, I thought I was writing a long monologue, which is how my first novel started. I remember teaching a class at a university and then being out afterwards with the students and I—I was talking a little bit about this new novel I was working on with Edgar and Lucy and I mentioned how it shifts perspectives sometimes within a paragraph and a student said to me, "Oh, I thought you're not supposed to do that," and I got really nervous because I thought oh, am I not supposed to do that? And I remember asking my editor and she said, "Well"-- she says "It's hard to do so that's why maybe it's not often recommended but I think you can do it so just trust yourself."
Jo Reed: Both your novels deal with, among other things, really profound loss and grief. "Edgar and Lucy" in some way is a landscape of loss. What drew you to that—what draws you to that?
Victor Lodato: Yeah. It's a good question, and I think when I started my first novel, "Mathilda Savitch," it was about a year after 9/11 and also my mother was diagnosed with cancer and was quite sick at that time, and so the book started to be an exploration of national grief and family grief—those two currents were moved through the book. Mathilda in the book is—there's a terrorist act that happens in the country and then also her sister has died a year before the book begins, so I think that's how grief got into that book. I was still reeling from 9/11, and then from my mother's diagnosis, and then my mother died just before that book was published. And so I think "Edgar and Lucy" was still a continuum of now going to the next level of trying to understand my mother's absence and though she's different than Lucy in some ways, the best of Lucy is—is my mother, and some of the difficult parts of Lucy too, and so I—I guess "Edgar and Lucy" really became a love story on many levels, a family love story, a romantic love story, but it really was about the profundity of losing one's mother.
Jo Reed: You mentioned that you started as an actor? Tell me about that. How did you family respond to you deciding you were going to be an actor?
Victor Lodato: Well, you know, I come from a very working-class family. You know, my mother was a waitress, my father was a barber. There wasn't a lot of pushing toward sort of academic greatness or big careers, and I was the first person in my family to go to college and the choice to be an actor was, you know, an odd one because I was a very, very shy child—even young adult; it was very hard for me to even speak if there was more than <laughs> two people in a room. And so I feel like my choice to become an actor was try just to figure out something that would force me to talk, and so I was drawn to that, it fascinated me that, you know, you'd be required to be on a stage and saying things in front of rooms full of people, and it did make me braver, it did help. Though I think I was good at it and got some acclaim for it, I just found it didn't suit my personality. And so I eventually started writing—writing plays—instead of performing them and when I did that I just thought I prefer writing them, I enjoy this time writing them and I love seeing the other actors sweating it out on the stage. And then as I said, I had been writing plays for over ten years and then I was at an artist residency, I finished a play, I thought well, I'll start another one, and then I started what I thought was a monologue that would start a play, and then the monologue went on for fifty pages, a hundred pages, and then I thought hmm, maybe this is a novel.
Jo Reed: <laughs> And, in fact, you got a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Victor Lodato: Yeah.
Jo Reed: Right? It's an NEA Solo Artist Fellowship.
Victor Lodato: Yes, in the olden times when they gave out those things, but it was amazing; I mean you can't imagine. I mean I was living in Tucson, Arizona, I was performing these solo plays at a little 99-seat theater there and I had written maybe four or five of them, and when I got that grant from the NEA at that time—not only the money to just set aside time to write and work for a while, but the validation that maybe I could actually do this; maybe I could make a life here. It was very, very important to me and something that I remain grateful for.
Jo Reed: Can you discuss the difference between writing for the page and writing for the stage.
Victor Lodato: I think of everything when I'm writing—to me it's always a kind of music. I'm very much involved with the music of a piece and there's something about a play—it's a simpler kind of music. You have just the dialog, and so I really enjoy that kind of, in some ways compared to in a novel, this sort of minimalist music where you're just dealing with voices. In a novel it's much more symphonic, and to me now after writing novels, I've been focused on that but now I'm thinking I have a play idea I might want to go back to, and even though plays are hard after writing "Edgar and Lucy" writing a play in my mind I think oh, that sounds like a vacation.
Jo Reed: But, theater is so collaborative. I mean, I think and obviously there are other people involved in the novel—you have editors, readers, etc.—but it is pretty much a solitary thing. What you set out to do is what gets done whereas often in theater, things are being changed constantly up until opening night.
Victor Lodato: Yes, and that was always very stressful for me and so yeah, it's—again, novel writing is more suited to my personality, both my solitary nature and probably my controlling part of my personality as well. You know, there are some playwrights who absolutely love the rehearsal process. I find it extremely difficult and painful. I love actors and love them to broaden my thoughts about what a character is or what this play is, but because I've always had a very clear music in my head for how any character sounds, at first when I hear the music coming from another body and it's very different from how I imagined it, I find that physically painful. Eventually, I let go because I know that the actor has to have that character in their own body, they have to reinvent it, but it was always very difficult for me, I mean it's—still that part, rehearsal process, trying to keep my mouth shut and not say, "Stop. Could you just do it like this?"
Jo Reed: <laughs>
Victor Lodato: —which is not done.
Jo Reed: Can you tell me about your writing practice.
Victor Lodato: Sure. I'm pretty disciplined. I now spend most of my time in Ashland, Oregon, which is, you know, a small town; there's not a lot to do here. So it's a lovely place, but I—I pretty much try to get to my desk when I'm writing—in my writing periods, which can last for half the year or longer depending on, you know, other theater commitments or other travel commitments, but I don't like to speak in the morning to anyone; I don't like to read the newspaper. I read a book in the morning, a novel or poetry, and then I try to get to my desk very early because the hours between sort of eight o'clock and two o'clock feel like the most fertile time for me. I try to get to my desk every day and I start with a revision of what I wrote the day before, at least a few pages back. I'm always uncomfortable just starting something new. I—like an actor almost—I have to warm up and sort of get into the characters and do a improv in the character by—with those few pages and then I'm off to the races, hopefully.
Jo Reed: Can you see how those years of play writing contributed to the way you write fiction? That wonderful dialog that you have obviously comes to mind.
Victor Lodato: Ah, yeah. Thank you, and definitely. You know, as I said, my writing is a very physical process. You know, it doesn't feel very different from being in a rehearsal room when I was an actor. I'm never—I mean, not often am I thinking of the characters from the outside; I'm really trying to write from inside the characters so I'm always speaking everything out loud when I'm writing, all the dialog, all the description. You know, I'm sitting at the edge of my seat, and I really feel like I'm performing it and I think probably from my work in the theater, I have an ability to suspend disbelief and—and believe that I can be someone other than Victor, so that's really helpful. And I think probably in terms of comparing the theater to the novel, there's something about—in a book, in a novel, that the medium of it is memory, that something's already happened and the writer is recounting that, where in a play, the medium is fate; these things are happening right now; the characters' fates are being decided. So when I'm writing I'm trying to be more in that theater or drama frame of mind where I'm trying to imagine that these things are happening just as I'm writing them, so that there can be a sort of present-tense theatricality about the work and I hope that comes through in the writing.
Jo Reed: Oh yes, I think it does. This isn't quite the right word, so just bear with me as I search for the right one. The characters in your book are extremely complicated, and they sometimes do things that are by any measure just not good things to do—
Victor Lodato: Mm-hmm
Jo Reed: —And yet you write them in such a way and to say you're not judging them—it—it's more than that. We never lose sight of their humanity so even people who are doing things that are truly not good things to do, your heart is still breaking for them.
Victor Lodato: Well, I'm glad to hear that. Because I'm writing from inside character, if there is judgment, it's when Lucy is judging herself—but it's also my really strong desire—I mean as a person who grew up very shy and shut off and unable to talk to other people—part of the writing process for me is sort of like who are other people? I really, really try to—want to understand. You know, I've seen in my own family, people do some terrible things and that can upset me or I can really say, "I want to understand why they did that," and so maybe it's the focus on that. You know, I'm less interested in judging them or making a villain, than I am in trying to sort of understand where those things come from and because I'm living inside the character I guess that's why there feels like there's a lack of judgment. You know, someone had said that once about Olive Kitteridge—"I didn't like that book because I really didn't like that character; they were not nice." And I thought well, Olive Kitteridge—she's not your mother; she's not your roommate; she's a character in a book. And I always think—she's so fascinating though, and I just I want to spend time; I want to understand what makes her tick. And I think that is what is so civilizing about fiction, not just the writing of it but the reading of it, because it's not just about what will happen next. Yes, you want to book to sort of hold you to that edge—I want to know what's going to happen—but you want to know who is this other person, who are other people in general, and I think that you know, there's these existential opportunities to sort of understand and maybe even to love someone who is nothing like you. And I think that's where the miracle of art can happen—you can change; your heart can possibly change. So I want that for myself as a writer, I want writing to change who I am, to change my heart, and ultimately I want it to do that to my readers, and so maybe approaching character that way allows me to get closer to that possibility.
Jo Reed: And tell me, what are you working on now?
Victor Lodato: I won't tell you what character but there was a character in "Edgar and Lucy," a peripheral character who I have remained fascinated with and have a number of pages about her and have been writing more about this character and I think it's turning into another novel. So I am focusing on another crazy New Jersey character and then also I'm continuing to write short fiction. I love writing short stories; it's—I think it's a very, very difficult form. I think I wrote my first successful story in 2012 or something, and ever since then I feel like I understand this form, at least my relationship to it, so whenever I get exhausted from working on the novel, I take a break and pull out one of my story files and work on a story. So a new novel and just about finished with a collection of short stories.
Jo Reed: Well, I look forward to it, I truly do. Thanks so much.
Jo Reed: That was author and playwright Victor Lodato. His most recent novel is called Edgar and Lucy. You've been listening to Art Works, produced at the National Endowment for the Arts. You can subscribe to Art Works wherever you get your podcasts, so please do. And leave us a rating on Apple because it helps people to find us. For the National Endowment for the Arts, I'm Josephine Reed. Thanks for listening.
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Author Victor Lodato has written two highly acclaimed novels Matilda Savitch and Edgar and Lucy. Nearly a decade in the making, Victor calls Edgar and Lucy "my New Jersey gothic." And he's not wrong. It's an epic novel that's part mystery, part love story, part ghost story, part family drama. It is both unexpected and perfectly believable. It's set in Victor's native New Jersey, in a working class Polish/Italian family much like Victor's own. But that's where the similarity ends. Edgar and Lucy are a son and mother; and, while the book concentrates on one very difficult year in their lives, it actually examines their relationship over the course of their lifetimes. It has its comic moments and heartbreaking ones—both with an attention to character and language. Happily, Victor Lodato is as thoughtful and compelling as his book. In this podcast, we talk about his very complicated characters, his childhood in New Jersey, why he was attracted to theater, and his move to novels.


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