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Three papers were presented at the third international conference on Tunisian Jewry at Bar-Ilan University May 17-19, 2000 based on Center expeditions to Tunisia. Prof. Bezalel Narkiss spoke on "Synagogues in Djerba." Ariella Amar, Head of the Synagogues and Ritual Objects Section delivered a paper entitled: "Between Tunisia and Livorno: A Comparative Study." Efrat Assaf-Schapira, a master's student in the Synagogues and Ritual Objects Section presented a lecture on "Tunisian Torah Cases."
"Identity and Memory: Achievements and Goals in the Study of Oriental Jewish Communities on the Verge of the Twenty-first Century" was an international conference co-sponsored by the Ben-Zvi Institute and the Hebrew University, Jerusalem May 22-25, 2000. It included a presentation made by Ariella Amar entitled "Documentation of Synagogues in North Africa."
CJA Director Prof. Aliza Cohen-Mushlin was featured as a distinguished speaker at a "Cathedral Workshop" sponsored by the Council of Europe and its Heritage Committee in Ireland. The October 2000 conference was entitled "The Sacred Art of Calligraphy and Illuminated Manuscripts – The Challenge of Promoting Liturgical Book Arts at the Dawn of the New Millennium." Prof. Cohen-Mushlin's topic was "Scribes and Artists in Hebrew Illuminated Manuscripts."
MORDECHAI and NASSIA NARKISS LECTURE SERIES:
Since Hanukkah of 1988, the Center for Jewish Art has designated this festive time of year as a fitting opportunity to honour the memory of Mordechai and Nassia Narkiss. Mordechai Narkiss, a scholar of Jewish art, was the founder of the Bezalel Museum which later became the Israel Museum. Nassia his wife was a prominent early childhood educator. The highlight of this event is the presentation of the annual Mordechai and Nassia Narkiss Prize to an individual from the Center or outside it who has made a significant contribution to "Achievement in Research on Jewish Art."
In 2000 this prize was awarded to Architect Dr.Sergei Kravtzov. Dr. Kravtzov, a native of Lvov, received his doctorate in the history of architecture from the Institute of History and Theory of Architecture and Town Planning in Moscow. He immigrated to Israel one year later. Working in the Index's Architecture section since 1994, Dr. Kravtzov is responsible for creating the CJA's state-of-the-art three-dimensional computerized documentation of synagogue architecture.
In 2001 the prize was awarded to the renowned architect David Cassuto, a longtime friend of the Center and a passionate scholar of Italian Jewish art and architecture. Born in Florence, Italy, Cassuto made aliyah in 1945. After his military service he studied architecture and town planning at the Technion. In addition to notable contributions in his field including the design of numerous synagogues, Cassuto was very active in establishing the Italian Jewish Museum and Research Center of which he was Chairman for many years. He was one of the founders of the Society for Jewish Art and has published extensively on the subject.
In addition to awarding the annual prize, the four-week Narkiss lecture series gives an accounting of the work done by the various sections of the Index in the previous year. In 2000 the series featured lectures on synagogues in former Yugoslavia (Dr. Samuel Albert, Architectural Historian), a hidden decoration program in Piemonte (Ariella Amar, IJA Section Head), the community of Alsace (Ruth Jacoby, CJA Deputy Director). The 2001 series featured lectures on gestures in prayer (Michal Sternthal, IJA Section Head), Romaniot and Sephardim in Greece (Ariella Amar, IJA Section Head), the story of Jonah in the work of Uriel Birnbaum (Dr. Haya Freidberg, IJA Section Head).
This lecture series was sponsored with the generous support of Sotheby's Israel.
Wooden models of fifteen German synagogues, some destroyed on Kristallnacht, some still standing, were featured in an exhibition entitled "Synagogues in Germany: From Baroque to Modernism" in June 2000. The exhibition in Braunschweig was organized by architects Katrin Kessler, Ulrich Knufinke and Simon Paulus and supported by the Niedersächsische Lottostiftung and the Stiftung Nord/LB-Öffentliche. An address on "Jewish Identity through Art" delivered by Prof. Bezalel Narkiss, Director of the Index of Jewish Art, opened the lecture series devoted to the topic of Jews, Judaism and architecture which ran concurrent with the exhibition. Prof. Aliza Cohen-Mushlin spoke about "The Documentation of an Endangered Heritage: Jewish Art and Architecture throughout the World." On this occasion, the Senate of the Technical University of Braunschweig bestowed an Honourary Professorship to Prof. Aliza Cohen-Mushlin. Some of the architectural models were later displayed in Görlitz, Saxony, Hannover, and Leipzig and at the Braunschweigisches Landesmuseum. The students built additional wooden models which are permanently exhibited at the new Berlin Jewish Museum and at the Kölnisches Stadtmuseum. In March 2002 they were exhibited at the Niedersächsischen Landtag.
Ariella Amar, Head of the Synagogues and Ritual Objects Section, served as researcher and consultant for "Between Israel and the Nations," a traveling exhibition sponsored by the Jerusalem Fairs and Conventions Bureau. Curated by Muli Ben Sassoon and Ori Reshef in cooperation with the World Center for Jewish Studies at the Hebrew University, the exhibition opened in Jerusalem at the Judaica Fair in May 2000 and traveled to the Eretz Israel Museum in Tel Aviv in August-September 2000. It revealed connections between Jewish rites, art and culture and the Christian, Moslem and Hindu environments.
In collaboration with the World Center for Jewish Studies at the Hebrew University, Index researchers and section heads Ariella Amar and Michal Sternthal have helped produce a publication --"Nehar De'ah" (River of Knowledge) -- devoted to the weekly Torah portion, parshat haShavuah. This beautifully produced circular provides an arena for commentaries on the weekly sidra and is distributed through the Ministry of Education to teachers. The Jerusalem Index of Jewish Art provided year-long visual material with commentaries for each of the parshiot which added a new dimension to the commentary of the Torah portion.


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Tome of Arms is a collectible item that appears in Sonic and the Black Knight.
The Tome of Arms makes the identification of weapons easier.
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Insidious forces work from within to destroy Western civilization
We have all the answers we need to solve our present problems. They were written in a book published 67 years ago. Back then, it was part of the mainstream news package. There were no protests about anti-Semitism, no heated charges that it was a hate crime. It was simply a political analysis, part of a larger political spectrum, warning us about a cancer on society, which today has metastasized into a terminal disease that has already wiped out freedom of speech around the world and now is aggressively trying to take our lives.
A quarter century before Arthur Koestler wrote his epic The Thirteenth Tribe (1976) revealing to the world that the majority of people who invented the nation of Israel in 1948 were not descended from the Biblical Hebrews, John Beaty's The Iron Curtain over America (1952) attempted to alert Americans to the same creeping Khazar tyranny we face today in the takeover by Jewish money of all of society's systems. (Order from wariscrime.com )


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Understanding how your air conditioner works will help you know when to call an air conditioner repair man. All air conditioners use heat transference to move energy. AC units circulate pressurized chemical refrigerant through a sealed system of tubes and chambers. One side of the system is high- pressure, and the other is low-pressure. As refrigerant passes through the low-pressure chamber (the evaporator), liquid refrigerant changes into a vapor in a process that takes heat energy out of the ambient air. The vapor carries the energy to the high-pressure chamber (the condenser). As the vapor changes back into liquid inside the condenser, the stored energy is released. A compressor pump moves the refrigerant, and a calibrated restriction in the lines maintains the pressure differential. Fans circulate air across both chambers to facilitate the heat transfer.If you have any questions or just want to learn more, ask one of our experts for a more details about the components of an air conditioner.


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Posted on August 31, 2015 by Zach
Will Smith steps into the shoes of Dr. Bennet Omalu in this December's drama, Concussion. Dr. Omalu discovered CTE, a brain disease that is extremely prevalent in football players because of their repetitive head impacts. When he tried to prevent his findings to the NFL, they completely brushed it aside and Dr. Omalu had to fight to get them to change their rules and equipment to make the sport safer for players. Albert Brook, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje and Alec Baldwin co-star. The movie is out on Christmas Day and you can check out the trailer below.


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It's become a bit of a tradition for me to write a Christmas blog post these days, which is why I'm relieved to see that WordPress hasn't deleted my blog despite not having used it since May (pretty shameful, I know). That said, though, it's hard to know where to start up again.
Things have changed pretty dramatically in the past year, in a lot of ways. I've left a job. Moved house. Moved city, and left good friends and a church that had been home for six years. Gotten engaged, and started planning a wedding. Started a PGCE (which is less intense than I was sold but still pretty busy).
All good things, but as a result I've found myself in that curious mid-twenties state, much talked-about and feared by churches, where you start to wonder where God is in the midst of it all. It's really easy to be excited about faith when you're at university, in a vibrant student community where you have your whole life ahead of you and it really looks like this is something that could change the world. But a few years later, when the dust has settled on your church intern year and that youth work job that looked so promising and then nearly broke you, what does faith mean then?
In short, where does God fit in the stuff of real life?
That's why I've found that cold, dark, exhausting run-up to Christmas so valuable. Because it's then that you're reminded that Israel spent four hundred years in darkness, crying out for their Messiah.
Four hundred years of silence waiting for the promised hope. Whole generations of people who saw nothing.
Because for me, this cold, dark time reminds me that I am not good. When I am run ragged, when people walking into me in the street or pulling out suddenly from junctions seem like personal insults and lead me to mumbling threats under my breath. When my budgets are stretched and I wonder how I'm going to last until the end of the month. When work piles in and the holidays (and the sun, or even daylight) seem like a long time ago and I can barely stay awake, yet alone feel the presence of God. It leads me to craving comfort food, lazy evenings in, a selfish life – one where almost anything can be justified with the statement "it's Christmas".
That's when you remember how much you need Emmanuel.
God with us.
I don't know about you, but I'm grateful to be reminded that I can't keep going with this life alone, and also that I don't have to. That there is help at hand, a God who doesn't stay far off but who comes near, engages with the dirt and the pain of humanity and walks as a living hope among it. That God isn't standing far off even now, expecting us to do all this by ourselves, but offering the hope and strength to keep going if we stop long enough to look.
Ah, I don't want to pretend that I have a strong sense of the presence of God at the moment, as that would be a lie. I am tired, disorientated and in need of time to rest and recover. But at this cold, weary time of year I do have a fresh, renewed sense of my need for God, and how He can be found in the dark corners, how His light shines in the darkness even though the darkness may not understand it.
Years before Jesus, Isaiah famously prophesied that
The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of deep darkness a light has dawned.
And it's true that people, whether they're followers of God or not, have felt this way for a long time, like life is waiting and hope is far off. It was like that back then and it's often like that now too.
In a few days we will once again celebrate the entrance of God into this world, and the pause will give us time to remember that we have cause for gratitude – that hope has come, that sins can be forgiven, that we are not left on our own. But the waiting and the darkness have their value and their place too, in reminding us what life could be like otherwise.
And in the midst of them we have this cry:
O come, Thou dayspring, come and cheer
Our spirits by Thine advent here
Emmanuel shall come to thee
O Israel…


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Wednesday, June 4, 2008
String Quartet Tribute to Peter Gabriel - In Your Eyes
Posted by Amy@Fiancé Meeting You Here at 10:02 PM
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i love that song and oh sorry, tag you are it!ReplyDelete
That version made me go buy it from iTunes. It's "our" song so any verion I can get my hands on, I'm in heaven. After hearing it, we're going to play that version and a few others while everyone comes in the church to be seated! Thanks for the great post!ReplyDelete
TB-I'm so glad you are going to add this version. So jealous that you actually have a song. It's going to be so romantic!!ReplyDelete
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CHICAGO — With a hot increasingly more humid and unstable air mass pushing out of the plains into the western Great Lakes, there will be a Marginal Risk of severe thunderstorms (green-shaded area on the headlined map depicting a 5 percent chance of severe storms within 25 miles of a given location) reaching the Chicago area this Friday evening/tonight.
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This upper-level short-wave will track on east, spreading thunderstorms across northern Illinois/Wisconsin this evening. As the storms reach western portions of the Chicago area, they should be weakening somewhat with the loss of the daytime heating.


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Counter-Reformation for 500 Years
Jason M. Roebuck
Northwest Christian University
According to my research, the Council of Trent issued decrees between 1545 and 1563 that does attempt to make major reforms to the way the church ministers to the faithful, proving that the church was answering the questions posed by the Reformation. So, the question is can we prove that the church was and is attempting to bring Protestants back to the church. I will start out listing some of the grievances of the Protestant Reformation, and then list the decrees from the Council that answers each one of them. Finally, I will end with a discussion of later reformers, and how the church has the answer to even some of the later reformer's questions as well. I will attempt to keep the Council of Trent and its' decrees as the guiding force behind all of my arguments.
While researching my topic, I noticed a book that was referenced as a great resource to better understand the period leading up to the Council of Trent. In her book review, Elisabeth Hirsch says, "Jedin himself leaves the careful reader of the book with the impression that a "holier" Pope and less scheming rulers would have done a better job in the interest of the unity of the Church." (Hirsch, 1958) She was talking about a book called, "A History of the Council of Trent Volume I: The Struggle for the Council", by Hubert Jedin, and after reading her review completely, I felt I just had to have it. Unfortunately, when I read the book, it was a great historical account of the factors that called for a council before the first reformers came on the scene, as well as the logistical issues that were involved with calling all of the leaders of the church together into one location in Northern Italy. However, the only real insight that I received from his book would be a quote I found at the end of the book, that I could easily use for my own treatment of this topic for this final essay. He said, "Our exposition did not presume to summon to judgment those who bear responsibility-either to condemn them or to absolve them. Our first step was to explain, to understand. This done, it was necessary to appraise, that is, to assess the conduct of men in the light of the historical mission allotted to them. For the appreciations thus arrived at we claim no absolute validity; no such claim can be made, for though based on a firm Catholic view of events all such estimates are not the less conditioned by the writer's personal conception of history." (Jedin, 1949) After reading the full history of the events leading up to the Council of Trent, I was left with the impression that the understanding of the Council would be colored by my understanding of my faith, and this celebrated author was making sure I understood that. However, he continued to explain that in another 100 years, we could have a different understanding of these events, as well as the direction the Holy Spirit was leading the church by not providing the answers to the reformers questions in a more timely fashion.
On to the questions of the reformers, and how the Council of Trent was answering these questions. First, the reformers, especially Luther were concerned with how the indulgences were being sold or used to raise money for the church. It wasn't until the 25th session of the council, after the selling of indulgences was formally condemned by the pope, which the indulgences were explained as to be used for the purposes of all the faithful, and not just those who could afford them. Second, the reformers seemed to question the implications of all of the sacraments, and the 7th session of the council made it very clear that all seven sacraments were instituted by Jesus Christ. Finally, as far as Baptism is concerned, the same session of the council defined the sacrament of Baptism to be as prescribed in the Catholic Church in the name of Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. It was also explained that it is not necessary to be at any certain age in order to receive the sacrament.
There were many more complaints that were brought up by the reformers, but it would be impossible to discuss them all without recreating a good portion of the documents of the Council of Trent in this final essay. Since it was not for another 350 years that another council was convened in the church, it is clear that the church and the world was pretty comfortable with the explanation that the church gave for the way that they wanted to live out their faith. In a research article about the counter-reformation, I read, "In turn, Catholic lay people have begun to emerge not merely as either passive recipients or fierce opponents of Tridentine reforms but as active participants in a dynamic process of cultural negotiation and interaction." (Walsham, 2005) It is also clear from my research that no amount of clarification of these issues would have ever brought the reformers back from the path that they were already on toward the many different denominations of faith based on the particular movements away from the Catholic Church and the central authority of the papacy.
It was the fact that Jedin explains, where he gives so many reasons that the church was moving toward reform before the issues that were raised by the reformers early in the 16th century, as well the fact that the church was still reaching out to the reformers during the Council of Trent and the councils that followed throughout the past 500 years, that tells me the church will never stop trying to answer the issues that were brought up by the reformers as reasons to break from it. You might assume, as I did, that I would end with a treatment of how we have come so far in our understanding of conciliar movements in the church, that we need only look at the Second Vatican Council to see the many attempts that the church made there at bringing many great minds together to help move the church into the next phase of operations. However, it was a conference that was recently held at the Vatican that I would point to as a better illustration of the fact that the church is reaching out to leaders of all faiths to help explain the issues of our day. Specifically, it was the Humanum Conference in November of 2014 that shows the length that the modern church is willing to go to, in order to make sure the world hears the voices of many different faith leaders, in order to express the solidarity of the church. It was convened for the purpose of upholding the sanctity of marriage. They invited Pastor Rick Warren from Saddleback Church to speak, as well as Princeton Professor, Robert George. They included in the discussion, participants from the Pentecostal church, Buddhism, Islam, Hinduism, Sikhism and the Church of Latter-Day Saints. One of the fruits of this effort was a video presentation that was a beautiful explanation of the beauty of marriage that was shown to the participants and is now available on YouTube for anyone to view or use for the purposes of instruction. Finally, it is this example that gives me hope that many of the leaders of the Reformed churches will continue looking for ways that all Christians can come together to bring about the salvation of the world, or at least anyone who, by the grace of God, will listen to the Good News.
Hirsch, E. F. (1958). A History of the Council of Trent. Church History, p 378-379.
Jedin, H. (1949). A History of the Council of Trent Volume I: The Struggle for the Council. Freiburg: Herder & Co.
Walsham, A. (2005). Translating Trent? English Catholicism and the Counter Reformation. Historical Research, p288-310.


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By Jack Mobley
A US Marine trying to overcome his fear of heights fainted three times on his first skydive.
Eriq Adame is so scared of heights he has never been on a rollercoaster but, deciding to jump in at the deep end literally, he took to skies above Jamul, California, in June.
The 23-year-old faced his fears and leapt out of the plane on tandem dive, but seconds into the freefall he passes out, pulling a hilarious face.
Regaining consciousness, Eriq's screaming continues, but he passes out a further two more times before he reaches the ground.
Eriq said: "Once I was on the ground, I was just thankful I was alive and that I didn't wet my pants.
"I'm still trying to get over my fear by going skydiving again.
"I was tired of letting my fear get the best of me and stopping me from living to the fullest.
"I was trying not to think going up to the plane, but once I got on, I started freaking out and just thought about the money I already wasted up to that point and that I just needed to jump.
"I only remember landing on the ground, the blackouts made me forget most of the falling.
"The blackouts felt like I was asleep but waking up from them realising that I'm falling out of the sky was the worst."


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Our last day with Tanzania Travel and John Timothy (pictured below), guide extraordinaire, was spent traveling from the very deluxe digs at Endoro Lodge. Half a day to drive the lakeside not seeing the famous lions that like to climb trees. We did see a nice collection of shorebirds and giraffes plus one type of monkey that we hadn't seen before. In fact, I think the vervet monkey was the only type of monkey that we'd seen on our trip. Certainly they all looked alike, but this one, possibly a sykes monkey, the only other one in my guide to southern African mammals.
Additionally there's the ebony craft shop with huge amounts of the black wood that won't float. We came back with two small pieces (a man who's awfully good looking and a woman) that sit in our kitchen. The requisite Obama badges were laid upon the eager Tanzanians and we were asked to pay outside so the shopkeeper didn't get the usual rake-off. John wasn't there to guide us, so we caved and gave them their $20 (or Tanzanian shilling equivalent).


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Words and Music with Four Tet
Gilles Peterson talks to pioneering UK producer Kieran Hebden, aka Four Tet, about his career so far and dips in to his record box for some sublime selections.
Gilles speaks in depth to pioneering UK producer, Kieran Hebden aka Four Tet.
London-born Kieran formed the band Fridge whilst at school, with friends Adem Ilhan and Sam Jeffers - the trio released their first album in 1997 on Output Recordings. The following year, he started to release under the Four Tet moniker and this year saw the arrival of his 8th full length Four Tet album, Morning/Evening.
Aside from his solo works, he has collaborated with a whole host of musicians and producers, noticeably with the late jazz drummer Steve Reid, Burial and Thom Yorke and has remixed artists such as The xx, Aphex Twin, Beth Orton, Battles and Radiohead. Last year saw him collaborate on a film composition for a project by Sofia Mattioli, alongside Jamie xx - who he DJed with at last year's 6 Music Festival Late in Newcastle.
In this programme, Kieran talks about his career so far and also dips in to his record box for some sublime selections.


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Marilyn Olsen has contributed this article. She was president of the Friends of the Fairhaven Library for 2007 and 2008.
When Yogi Berra observed, "It's like déjà vu all over again," he was talking about Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris, but he just as easily could have been talking about the Bellingham Library Board.
After years of indecision about where to locate a new central library, in 2008 the Board presented a proposal to the City Council to have the taxpayers support a $56 million bond to build a fancy new library. Never was there ever any real plan for what the $56 million would pay for mind you, just a proposal that the citizens give the board the $56 million.
Several of the long-time Friends of the Fairhaven Library had for years been lobbying the Library Board to please just do some simple repairs to the Fairhaven Library.
The board responded by suggesting the request for repairs be incorporated in the bond issue.
These same several Friends, sensing the potential folly of this idea, responded by asking the City Council and the Mayor to please exclude the cost of the repairs to the Fairhaven Library from the bond issue. All we want is all we've ever wanted, these Friends said, please just make the simple repairs necessary to preserve our 104-year-old library for future generations.
Good thing, too.
Shortly thereafter, the Mayor tabled the board's request for the bond issue and the Council budgeted $2.3 million to do, at last, what these Friends had asked for all along. Make the simple and necessary repairs to the Fairhaven Library.
The bidding process could have begun and the repairs the Friends had asked for all along could have actually been accomplished in a prudent and timely manner.
The Board, however, decided instead to hire architects, and spend several months not helping move along a plan for the simple and necessary repairs to the Fairhaven Library, but to come up with a grand new proposal for the Fairhaven Library that would add an additional $1 million to the project. While their current $3.3 million proposal is, happily, $52.7 million less than their last idea, since the additional non-budgeted $1 million doesn't exist and the economy is in recession, the $3.3 million is another plan the board is proposing that the city and the taxpayers can't afford.
At the Board's public meeting to unveil this $3.3 million plan Thursday night, the same small, hopeful group of Friends appeared again. This time with a proposal to the Mayor and the City Council to just do what the group had asked for all along, make the simple and necessary repairs to the Fairhaven Library in a fiscally responsible, prudent and timely fashion.
Now, the Mayor and the Council have another decision to make. It's déjà vu all over again.
Marilyn Olsen has contributed this article. She was president of the Friends of the Fairhaven Library for 2007 and 2008.


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Pedestrians are vulnerable when crossing roads. So, Pennsylvania law has certain mechanisms in place for protecting them. Among the main ones are the rules on crosswalks.
Under state law, when pedestrians are in crosswalks, motor vehicles are required to stop for them. Drivers who fail to do this can receive fines. As a note, the requirement to stop does not extend to situations in which pedestrians are just standing on sidewalks.
Now, while pedestrians do generally have the right-of-way at crosswalks, it is still very important to be vigilant when crossing at these places. For one, state traffic rules require pedestrians to exercise appropriate caution when entering a crosswalk. Also, while one would hope all drivers would follow the rules on crosswalks, this doesn't always happen. So, it can be worth keeping a very close eye on the cars in the area when you are crossing at a crosswalk.
When aggressive driving, impaired driving, distracted driving or other negligence leads to a driver disobeying crosswalk rules and failing to stop for a pedestrian, the results could be devastating for the pedestrian. It could lead to an accident that causes major injuries. When a pedestrian has suffered injuries due to getting hit in a crosswalk, he or she may be able to seek compensation for things like medical expenses and lost wages. How such compensation-seeking efforts go can have big impacts on an injured pedestrian's future. So, victims of Pennsylvania crosswalk accidents may want to bring in skilled legal help when it comes to such efforts.


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Tuesday New Release Day: Starring Keefe, Beagin, Welsh, and More
Here's a quick look at some notable books—new titles from the likes of Patrick Radden Keefe, Jen Beagin, Irvine Welsh and more—that are publishing this week.
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Vacuum in the Dark by Jen Beagin
Here's what Publishers Weekly had to say about Vacuum in the Dark: "Beagin's sharp and superb novel finds Mona, from previous novel Pretend I'm Dead, now 26, living in Taos, N.Mex., having followed the dying wishes of her ex-boyfriend, a man she met at a needle exchange and called Mr. Disgusting. Mona cleans houses for a living, shares a ranch house with an older married couple she calls Yoko and Yoko, and claims Fresh Air's Terry Gross as an imaginary friend-slash-therapist. Prone to falling in love with her clients' furniture and taking advantage of their absences to create a series of photographic portraits in their homes, Mona often breaches the professional distance between her and her clients. There's the beautiful and blind therapist Rose, who has given Mona leave to conduct an affair with her husband, whom Mona has nicknamed Dark, and there's Hungarian artists Lena and Paul, who ask Mona to model for them. Deadpan and savage, Mona has a dark and complicated history she is not afraid to weaponize. When Mona's mother asks Mona to return to the apartment where she grew up in L.A., Mona must come to terms both with her difficult past and where she can go from here. Beagin pulls no punches—this novel is viciously smart and morbidly funny."
Dead Men's Trousers by Irvine Welsh
Here's what Publishers Weekly had to say about Dead Men's Trousers: "More than 25 years after they first appeared in Trainspotting, all four of Welsh's hard-living Scottish friends reunite in Edinburgh, roped into an appropriately bizarre and macabre organ harvesting caper. Told from the perspectives of the four protagonists, the novel rolls slowly in the first half, updating their individual biographies separately—readers new to Welsh's world need not be apprehensive—and setting up the brisker, and inevitably bollixed, execution of the theft plot. Two of these former reprobate mates have successfully escaped their pasts. Renton travels the globe as a music manager. Begbie, who runs into Renton on a plane in the opening chapter, is a successful artist living in California. Spud, whose narrative is most steeped in a slangy Scottish dialect, still lives on the edge and instigates the kidney-napping caper. Sick Boy, like Spud, is still in Edinburgh, and crashing with his sister, Carlotta, who screamingly blames him for the degeneration of her son, Ross, and husband, Euan, apparently on a debauched trip to Thailand. When the four finally get together, much comic mileage is wrung in rehashing old grievances. Not surprisingly, the crime unfolds like a Keystone Kops version of Ocean's 11, but with an irrevocable final result. Welsh's entire oeuvre crackles with idiomatic energy and brio, and this rollicking novel is no different."
That Time I Loved You by Carrianne Leung
Here's what Publishers Weekly had to say about That Time I Loved You: "Leung (The Wondrous Woo) presents 10 sweet, sad, sympathetic stories set in Scarborough, Ontario, for a group portrait of immigrants, misfits, adults, adolescents, and teenagers, all of whom discover suburban comfort does not ensure happiness. The first story, 'Grass,' takes place in 1979, as 11-year-olds June and Josie ponder two suicides: Mr. Finley, the local softball coach, and Mrs. Da Silva, a housewife with an abusive husband. The girls cannot ask their parents for explanations, because death is one of many subjects parents prefer not to discuss with children. 'Flowers' shows Mrs. Da Silva's last day, as she listens to flowers taunt her in her native Portuguese. In 'Treasure,' a woman named Marilyn who is admired by her neighbors turns out to be a thief. In 'Sweets,' June's buddy Naveen gets beaten up when he wears his sister's heart-shaped sunglasses to school. In 'Things,' comic book enthusiast Darren confronts a racist schoolteacher. 'Wheels,' 'Kiss,' and the title story explore June and Josie's changing perspectives upon their first experiences of womanhood. Linked by recurring characters such as Darren's Jamaican mother and June's grandmother from Hong Kong, together the stories track June's deepening understanding of the place she calls home. Crystalline prose, sharp storytelling, and pitch-perfect narration enhance Leung's accessible and affecting depiction of how cruelty undermines and kindness fortifies people's sense of community."
We Must Be Brave by Frances Liardet
Here's what Publishers Weekly had to say about We Must Be Brave: "British author and translator Liardet's moving American debut, set in WWII England, follows a childless woman discovering joy after she begins caring for a young girl. Ellen Parr is married to Selwyn, owner of the local mill in the village of Upton, near Southampton. In 1940, while helping evacuees of a nearby bombing who have arrived at Upton by bus, Ellen meets Pamela Pickering, a young child left alone on the bus. Ellen treats Pamela as the daughter she never had (Selwyn is impotent) for the next few years, until Pamela is eight and a relative of Pamela's finds her and takes her to live with family members. Though distraught by Pamela's departure, Ellen survives the devastation around her with the love and support of Selwyn, her childhood friend Lucy Horne, and other villagers who have been a constant presence in Ellen's life. Over 30 years later, Ellen befriends Penny Lacey, a lonely young boarding school student in Upton. Ellen glimpses similarities between Pamela and Penny, and they form a life-changing friendship. Readers will be captivated by Ellen's story, which is bolstered by a swift plot and characters who realistically and memorably grow."
Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe
Here's what Publishers Weekly had to say about Say Nothing: "New Yorker staff writer Keefe (Snakehead) incorporates a real-life whodunit into a moving, accessible account of the violence that has afflicted Northern Ireland. The mystery concerns Jean McConville, a widowed mother of 10, who was snatched from her Belfast home by an IRA gang in 1972. While Keefe touches on historical antecedents, his real starting point is the 1960s, when advocates of a unified Ireland attempted to emulate the nonviolent methods of the American civil rights movement. The path from peaceful protests to terrorist bombings is framed by the story of Dolours Price, who became involved as a teenager and went on to become a central figure in the IRA. While formal charges were never brought against republican leader Gerry Adams in McConville's murder, Keefe makes a persuasive case that McConville was killed at his order for being an informer to the British—and the author's dogged detective work enables him to plausibly name those who literally pulled the trigger. Tinged with immense sadness, this work never loses sight of the humanity of even those who committed horrible acts in support of what they believed in."
Mother Country by Irina Reyn
Here's what Publishers Weekly had to say about Mother Country: "In Reyn's excellent exploration of the immigrant experience, a Ukrainian transplant to the United States grapples with the convoluted legacy of her home country. Once head bookkeeper at an important gas pipe factory in east Ukraine, Nadia Andreevna now nannies for a family in Brooklyn, navigating an unfamiliar land of artisanal mayonnaise and American parenting. Nadia had fled the politically destabilized country in 2008, aiming to send for her daughter, Larissa—detained due to a bureaucratic loophole—immediately. But six years have passed, and she spends her days writing pleading letters to senators and obsessively tracking news reports that document mounting violence in her home region. As Nadia resorts to increasingly extreme measures to reunite with her daughter—including scouting American suitors for Larissa at nightclubs—the narrative periodically flips back to Nadia's raw, affecting life as a single mother in Ukraine, fighting to carve out an existence for herself and her daughter amid a rapidly changing country. When Larissa's immigration suddenly looms closer, Nadia must reckon with how her memories of Larissa—whom she has not seen for seven years—abut against reality, and learn to forge her way in a culture that poses frequent affronts to her identity. In beautiful and emotionally perceptive prose, Reyn (The Imperial Wife) probes the intimate ways cultures clash within individuals, forcing them to knit together disparate truths to make sense of the world, and provides a tender depiction of how mother-daughter bonds morph over time and space."
Birthday by César Aira
Here's what Publishers Weekly had to say about Birthday: "In this profound memoir, Aira (The Linden Tree) turns 50 and sees this benchmark as an opportunity to make changes in his life. A casual conversation with his wife leads him to a darker contemplation of youth wasted, a diminishment of artistic authority in his work, and his potentially bleak future. By exploring these fears in a series of loosely organized reflections and anecdotes, Aira comes to terms with his standing as an artist, his achievements, and his future. Immersed in his identity as a writer, he admits to a fetishistic attachment to stationery and pens, and to his struggles with life outside writing. In his early 40s, he began a grand project, a conscious departure from his 'little novels,' which he sees as marginal. He calls it the Encyclopedia, envisioning it as a comprehensive book of knowledge. But at 50, all he has is a collection of sketches and plans, with not a single page of manuscript, and it's unlikely that this ambitious project will be finished. There are thoughtful anecdotes about Ludwig Wittgenstein, a waitress (and budding writer) whom he meets in a café, and Evariste Galois, a brilliant young mathematician killed in a duel in 1832. The reader gradually realizes Aira's seemingly feigned self-deprecation is actually clear-eyed honesty, and the ostensible simplicity of the volume carries powerful and incisive ideas about life and aging."
Just Like in the Movies
Belle and Sebastian's Stevie Jackson, better known (at least to this writer) as the Sultan of Twee, sits down with Rick Moody as part of the Swinging Modern Sounds feature over at The Rumpus. Among other things, Jackson says that he thinks the John Lennon album Sometime in New York City is a "total masterpiece" and says that at one point in his life he could recite the book Trainspotting.
Tuesday New Release Day: Rushdie, Boyle, Moore, Welsh, Elie, Simmons, Roth
New this week: Salman Rushdie's much talked about memoir Joseph Anton, T.C. Boyle's San Miguel, The Life of Objects by Susanna Moore, and Irvine Welsh's Trainspotting prequel Skagboys. Also new this week: Paul Elie's Reinventing Bach, Sylvie Simmons's biography I'm Your Man: The Life of Leonard Cohen, and n+1 vet Marco Roth's memoir The Scientists.
Ask a Book Question #76 (Good Readers, Good Readings)
Traci writes in with this question:
I'm working to establish a really great reading series in Indianapolis, and I'm wondering whether you have suggestions for readers who really own a stage. I'm looking for someone lively and personable (and, of course, someone who writes great prose).
Have you seen anyone who really knocked your socks off?
Emily St. John Mandel: Reading one's work aloud is a difficult art. Doing it well requires a certain stage presence, and a small degree of talent as a live entertainer: in other words, more or less the exact opposite of the skills you needed to actually sit down and write your book in the first place. Given that the skillsets involved in writing and reading aloud are so different, I've found that it's a rare writer who can give a memorable reading. (By "memorable," I mean "memorable in a good way." I've been to some memorably bad ones.) More often than not we speak too quickly, or in a monotone, or way too dramatically when the material doesn't call for it ("and then… she poured the coffee… into a cup.")
I go to a lot of readings. The ones I like best are assured, understated affairs, where the reading style doesn't get in the way of the prose, and I think the best reader I've come across in this vein so far is John Wray. I went to a reading of Lowboy in a bookstore in Brooklyn a few months back; Wray's full-back Sharpie tattoo of Michiko Kakutani ("MICHIKO 4-EVAH") was certainly striking, but I was more taken by his reading style. He reads very calmly and quietly, fairly slowly, with a pause after every sentence. The effect is mesmerizing; the audience in the bookstore was perfectly still.
Andrew Saikali: A great writer, a podium, bookmarked text on the stand, glass of water on the side. Microphone, lights, hushed audience. You'd think this would be the perfect recipe for a literary evening. Far too often it isn't. The best readings I've been to have all deviated, in some way, from this formula.
Many authors are captivating on the page, but lack a magnetic personality. Without it, without that way to connect with the audience, the reading is doomed. That's not a slight on their work. But let's face it – a reading is performance. And some do it better than others.
I saw Irvine Welsh a couple of years ago at the Harbourfront reading series here in Toronto. It was a packed house. Welsh has a big, loyal fan base and they all seemed to be there. It fueled him, and he gave back in kind. He read from his novel Crime and also did a Q&A. That's always a nice touch. An author's personality comes out when he goes off-script. Add a Scottish burr and a known and fascinating personal history – this was, after all, the man who wrote Trainspotting. His background chronicling young Scottish lives on the margin comes through his wit and his attitude, and that attitude seeps into a novel like Crime set in the United States, a world away from Scottish junkies.
The legendary Ralph Steadman, illustrator and partner in crime with the late Hunter S. Thompson, was in town a few years ago with his book The Joke's Over, chronicling, in words and drawings, his friendship with the gonzo journalist. His presentation wasn't even a reading – it was a slideshow of his illustrations, with off-the cuff commentary and anecdotes. It was fascinating and hilarious – a slice of cultural history and outlaw tales.
Top prize though, for me, goes to novelist, artist and designer Douglas Coupland. Having only read his novel Miss Wyoming, I saw him read back in 2005. jPod was the novel he read from, but I don't actually remember that part. I remember him talking to the audience, doing a Q&A like I'd never heard before, dripping with dry wit (yes, dry wit actually drips. I've seen it). Admittedly, Coupland was high on codeine at the time, but I've heard him interviewed since, and he's always extremely articulate and with just the right amount of sarcasm.
Edan Lepucki: I'll admit, I prefer to read an author's book on my own than have it performed to me–that way, I can follow the story at my own pace, pick it up or put it down at my leisure, and let the prose suggest a voice to me, rather than have the author's own monotone, or murmur, or over-enunciation, flung at me. And yet, I attend readings all the time, as if I actually like them. The most memorable one I've attended, by Deborah Eisenberg in the spring of 2006 in Iowa City, had nothing to do with her. It wasn't that she wasn't a strong reader, she was, but that hail so raucous and terrifying stopped her a few minutes in. The more adventurous among us (not me) ran outside to witness an ominous and greenish cloud coming for our heretofore sturdy university town. A tornado! Before she'd begun reading, Eisenberg had announced that her story would take approximately 40 minutes to read aloud, start to finish. That struck me as too long, and so, when we were interrupted, I felt as if I'd willed the tornado into existence, to rescue me from all that sitting-still. However, after we waited in an interior hallway for over an hour, we were herded into a smaller lecture hall to finish the performance. Eisenberg chose a different story this time, and only read the opening pages. I am sure it was marvelous, but with the winds still howling outside, I was distracted.
The only reading I've attended where I was truly riveted from start to finish was also in Iowa City when I was a graduate student. D.A. Powell read from his collection of poems Chronic with such a feisty and comic theatricality that for weeks afterward I found myself reenacting the event, as if I'd seen a dance performance and wanted to try out the steps for myself in my living room. I loved how playful Powell's poems were, and how this playfulness left you unprepared for their beauty, which made them all the more delicious. D.A. Powell's reading was followed, and matched in greatness, by Edward Carey's. Carey is a small English fellow with a flop of boyish blond hair, and his novel Observatory Mansions, is delightfully off-the-wall. He was a masterful reader–it felt like we were gathered around the campfire, or listening to a ye olden radio play, with Britain's preeminent actor flexing his talent just for the fun of it. That night felt like real theatre.
Garth Risk Hallberg: As an undergraduate in Missouri, I learned as much from the surfeit of on-campus readings as I did from any class. One of the most memorable featured Ben Marcus performing parts of his novel-in-progress Notable American Women. I use the term "performing" advisedly; Marcus had concocted an elaborate conceptual framework in which he was not himself but (I think) a secret agent shadowing "the author Ben Marcus." Equally performative, in his own canny way, was David Foster Wallace, who delivered an hour-long reading from Brief Interviews with Hideous Men still talked about by those who attended. Wallace's prefatory remarks played up his ineptitutude at public speaking – "I seem to have misplaced my saliva," he said at one point – but what followed (B.I. #20; the one about the rape) was beyond ept. Indeed, in a twangy shambolic way I'm finding impossible to describe, it was riveting.
Later, I got to hear the late Kenneth Koch – a hero of my semi-rural adolescence – read from New Addresses. Usually, I get impatient with explanations about a poem's composition, strategies, place in the author's oeuvre, etc., but Koch was a wonderful storyteller, and as the reading went on, poems and exposition began to bleed into each other: witty, philosophical, and humane. And in 1999, I saw William H. Gass, whose International Writers Center (IWC) had sponsored the above events, read a scarifying section of The Tunnel. (Readers can now hear the entire novel as an audiobook.)
In larger cities where authors appear like summer fireflies – nightly, and en masse – it's easy to come to see readings as transactions: obligations (from one side of the ledger), or as promotional stunts (from the other). But those irruptions of literature into the flat gray Midwestern winters remind me – as Deborah Eisenberg and Péter Esterházy would later, in New York – that a great reading is a singular communal experience. Indeed, as a way into the minds of other human beings, declamation predates literature. Maybe this is why I get misty-eyed every time I hear that old wire recording of Walt Whitman reading "Pioneers! O Pioneers!" – even if the occasion is just a Levi's commercial.
Sonya Chung: The other night, poet/performance artist/novelist Sapphire – author of the novel Push, on which the feature film Precious is based – did a public reading at the National Arts Club in New York to kick off the Poetry Society of America's Centennial. The event was also the opening reception for an impressive and seemingly exhaustive exhibit of drawings, photographs, and oil portraits of distinguished poets (living and dead), and was preceded by a benefit reading featuring Galway Kinnell, Marie Ponsot, Yusef Komunyakaa, and Richard Howard.
Sapphire opened with a poem by Etheridge Knight and went on to read her own work. Remind me to wear tight jeans and spike heels and to use my whole body and every register of voice I can muster the next time I do a reading. She sang, she incanted, she channeled and grooved. She read a poem about Charlotte Bronte's Villette, another featuring Raskolnikov and Katerina, and the penultimate of the evening – a poem called "Survivor," named for the reality show – that you'll really just have to see/hear her read in person sometime. She stood in that venerable Gramercy parlor with 100 years of poetry creation and community welling up behind her, those venerable poets of yore looking on from their immortalized frames on all four walls; and one couldn't help but be reminded of another kick-off event: January 20, 2009. Sapphire's performance – both elegant and no-nonsense – and its spark of contextual incongruousness, made the reading utterly memorable.
Anne Yoder: The bookish should take a cue from our more extroverted playwriting brethren and remember that an audience needs to be entertained. Literary readings are performances, people. This fact is too often forgotten, and readings frequently resemble reversions to grade school story time, or are reminiscent of lay readings at church services, where the nervous race to finish and the serious, often zealous, overdose on sincerity and didacticism. In terms of material, light, funny, and sexy generally goes further than complicated, sentimental, or sorrowful. But what stands out more are the readers themselves. Readers with oversized egos, with larger-than-life personas, or even a dollop of theatricality, know that impudence, playfulness, and ego make for a good show, and often, a memorable reading.
The most remarkable readers I've seen have hewed to this rule. At a New Yorker Festival reading, Martin Amis made heads spin when he claimed that when he was younger his idea of a good time was lighting a joint, swigging a bottle of wine, and spending an evening reading his own writing. T.C. Boyle was endearingly cocky and wore suitably matched hot-pink Converse high-tops when he read at the 92nd Street Y last fall. Memory recalls hot pink, though my mind may be playing up his already eccentric appearance (loud shirt, gaunt face, and thin though voluminous hair). When artist Tracey Emin read from her memoir during Performa 09, her racy tale of an oversexed drug-addled visit to New York became so debauched she refused to read the passage to its end. She stopped short and exclaimed, "Schoolchildren in England read this?!" Emin's infamous shamelessness made her obvious discomfort and subsequent omission all the more enticing.
Playwright Edward Albee takes the prize, though, for his dramatic command in an impromptu performance. Albee read at a PEN reading to protest silenced Chinese writers on the eve of the Beijing Olympics, and began by remarking that many countries continue to violate their citizens' rights and imprison them unlawfully, most notably the United States and the People's Republic of China. At which point, a man wearing a red T-shirt and bandana started shouting, "Long live the People's Republic of China," and, "PEN is the CIA." At first Albee tried to engage the man's remarks and said that China should be allowed to continue on with nothing but severe criticism, and then lost patience and ordered him to be quiet. The protester was swiftly escorted outside where he continued his protest. In an apt denouement, Albee remarked that he was happy he lived in a country where people are free to say such things and continued reading.
Millions readers, let us know about your best experiences at a reading – who are the best you've seen?
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Hello! I'm back, this time reporting from Chicago, IL. Without further ado, I'll move on to what I have been reading lately. The first book I picked up since my last post was Asne Seierstad's A Hundred and One Days: A Baghdad Journal. I was longing for some non-fiction and Seierstad's memoirs of her visit to Baghdad three years ago seemed like a good choice (I have been meaning to read it for the past two years). Seierstad is a Norwegian freelance journalist that covered the wars in Kosovo and Afghanistan prior to her trip to Baghdad. She arrived in Baghdad roughly 80 days before the war started and began reporting. Seierstad organizes her book in three parts: Before, During, and After. In these simply, yet carefully, organized sections Seierstad conveys her observations of the Iraqi society under Saddam Hussein, during the initial stages of the war, and after the capture of Baghdad. Seierstad has a very personable voice that almost embeds the reader alongside her. She provides good eyes and ears in a society that, under Saddam, became introverted and isolated. One learns about the difficulties of finding out about the regime, the spy network, the reluctance of locals to talk with foreigners, and how Iraqis perceived the brewing US attack on their country.Throughout the whole affair Seierstad also shows the bureaucratic network in Iraq, explains how she had to bribe officials to remain in, and once to re-enter, the country, and draws a unique portrait of Uday, Saddam's most feared son. Seierstad also communicates to the reader the difficulties endured by average Iraqis, both under Saddam and in face of advancing US troops. Civilian casualties inflicted by "smart bombs," the lack of resources in hospitals, and the fear of the emerging power vacuum each represent a part of the untold story, particularly during the initial stages of the war. Seierstad also mentions (or maybe even predicts) the emerging power struggle between Shiites and Sunnis as early as April 2003, a month after the war started. A Hundred and One Days is a very insightful and well written piece of work. Some of the stories are heart wrenching and leave one wondering how the great powers, and their leaders, could not foresee all the misery that would follow the war. If you are curious about the mood in Iraq, and mostly in Baghdad, at the onset of the war, I suggest that you get your hands on Seierstad's brilliant memoirs. (See Andrew's review of A Hundred and One Days)Next I turned to Irvine Welsh's Marabou Stork Nightmares, which had been sitting on my shelves for the past four years. My brilliant friend Mitch had bestowed the book upon me during our final year of college, telling me that it was the best written novel he ever read. Now, that's a pretty strong statement but I have to agree with Mr. Maddox that Welsh's narrative in Marabou Stork Nightmares is smart, innovative, and fluent.The protagonist Roy Strang is in a coma when the reader first meets him. The narrative moves between Strang's perceptions of things happening around him (such as visits from parents, friends, nurses, doctors, and unrecognized people), to Strang's fantasy world (set in South Africa, where he and Sandy Jamieson are trying to hunt the leader of the Marabou Storks, who are dominating and ruining the wildlife) and Strang's autobiography. The three worlds intertwine as Welsh brings the reader to the current day, sheds light on the demise of Roy Strang, connects his fantasy world with the real, and presents a grand finale at the hospital where the protagonist is stranded. This quite awesome story is further enhanced by Welsh's portrayal of Scots living in "schemes" (i.e. projects) outside Edinburgh and the personal anxieties he created for each character. Child abuse, gay tendencies, rape fantasies, a retarded sibling, a dysfunctional family, and hooligans all add new dimensions to the great story that Welsh devised. If you are a fan of Trainspotting and/or The Acid House, want a good laugh, and can stomach some disturbing moments, you should definitely pick up Welsh's Marabou Stork Nightmares.See Also: Part 2
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Some good new fiction paperbacks have come out in the past days and weeks. Today's new arrival is Porno by Irvine Welsh. This one apparently resurrects the characters from Trainspotting and chronicles their foray into the world of adult films. I read Trainspotting while I was staying with my friend Derek and his folks at their house in Maine. I loved the book; I was thrilled when I found myself thinking in the thick Scottish accent of the book: bairn for baby, bird for girl, etc. It was the summer after my senior year in high school. I was of an age and at a moment for which Trainspotting was perfect, plus there is something special about a book read while vacationing, when huge chuncks are read at a time, and nothing that happens in between these reading sessions is weighty enough to detract from a full immersion in the story at hand. I became sufficiently attached to Renton, Sick Boy, and the rest that had Porno been around, I probably would have begun reading it the moment I set down its predecessor. Instead, with the intervening pause approaching ten years, I never mustered the interest to read Porno. Maybe if I ever read Trainspotting again, I will read Porno as well. Also out recently in paper: After the Quake by Haruki Murakami. Since Murakami's stories appear frequently in the New Yorker, and since I read the New Yorker each week, by the time this earthquake-centered collection came out I had already read many of the stories. Once some time has passed, a decade perhaps, I will buy this book and read all the stories again. I feel confident that Murakami will remain in print. One day I would also like to reread his book Norwegian Wood. It is a favorite book of mine, in large part bacause it reminded me of that great feeling you get when you find one that's really good. Life of Pi by Yann Martel, I suspect, may be able to deliver that same feeling. This one, since it came out, has had an ever-growing swell of support, cresting with it's being awarded the Booker Prize. My grandmother, whose taste in books I trust considerably, found this book to be remarkable. Out of all the books I'm mentioning today, I'll most likely read Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer soonest. I read an excerpt of the book many months ago in a "New Fiction" issue of the New Yorker. I was both surprised by and somewhat skeptical of its more daring stylistic flourishes. There is no denying that this is a good book though, unless I'm foolish enough to go against the recommendations of several of my trusted fellow readers.A Small but Important Poker AddendaIn my mention of Positively Fifth Street, I forget to mention a related book that, at the very least, I would like to have on the record so that I remember to read it one day. The Biggest Game in Town by A. Alvarez is another account of the World Series of Poker and is, from what I hear, a must read for all poker fans. Plus, Chronicle Books is the publisher, which is why it looks so cool.


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This is my last weekend of peace. The busy season at work is a week away. 6 day weeks, up to 10 hours a day are looming in my future. I've been through it over and over again, but it never gets easier. However, I am now the bitter veteran—I've seen it all before, been through it all at least twice, and I know I will make it out alive.
I got through the writing scene which so plagued me. Surprising myself, the scene came out a little more licentious than I expected. However, it fits one of the characters and I think was a decent illustration of the two people's differing values. If that was the hurdle, I'm over it. It's taking me a while to write this one. I've only spent a few hours actually writing it, but many days in between. I blame it on the holidays and getting into the groove. Next week I may post a little of it (the non-sexual part) for the hell of it.
Next week I will have a totally full plate and I'm actually looking forward to it.
At work I have to test and interview 28 applicants for our team. I will have to pour through written exams, grade them, and narrow the playing field. Then I will have to confer with my supervisor, then his boss, and hire someone. I have to write a bulletin to be sent to the entire department at several sites in multiple states. Then I have my normal duties. One of the smartest (and cutest) guys in our department looked at me with sympathy and told me good luck in a voice which implied that he expected to be attending my funeral after my stress-induced aneurysm.
Hottie Prince Scientist will be in his last week of training at the end of my row. We say hi to each other every day, we are all smiles, and he gives me what I suspect he thinks is subtle side-eye about four times a day. Today as he was doing it, he saw someone he knows at the desk next to mine, and did a double take, then said hi to him. Had he not so obviously been giving me side eye, he would never have seen his friend. Caught in the act. Then I backed up to see him as he was giving my empty desk side eye. I caught him looking at my chair, glance at me, and then look away shyly. Great. I'm shy, he's shy.
However, this shit is really, really old. I'm talking to him this coming week if I have to stalk him to the break room and drape myself across his lap in front of all his scientist friends. I'll have my friends dress up like fattened, adult female cupids and shoot suction cup arrows with my phone number attached. Get the chloroform; I'm going in. Send me happy thoughts and wish me luck…and hope that I haven't misread the signs. I still need my job.
Add to that the writing I plan to do, no matter what, and I have a full week. If Fate is with me, I'll get it all done.
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Sometimes, you head to the gym on a very specific mission: a mission that was the result of a snack sesh gone rogue. (First, it's one cookie. Then, it's 18 bite-size pretzels. Next, a whole bag of Tostitos, and shoot, suddenly your go-to workout tights feel a little more than "snug.") For many of us, on a post-binge mission, the workout goal is simple: Burn as many calories as possible to reverse the damage done.
In the process of Operation Calorie Burn, your eyes are glued to the calorie read-out on your cardio machine of choice. The reality: It's very unlikely that calorie readout is anywhere near correct.
"You have to be wary about calorie readouts on a cardio machine," says Ben Wegman, coach at New York City's The Fhitting Room. "There are so many factors, including your age, body weight, body fat percentage, even your experience level, and overall gauge of fitness that can impact how many calories you burn to a workout. It's very unlikely you're giving a machine the data it really needs to give you an accurate read. There's a lot of room for error."
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Translation: If your typical indicator of a good workout is a calorie readout, it's time to reevaluate.
The goal: To work out in a way that feels obtainable, but doesn't throw you straight on your backside. According to Aaron De Jong, Lululemon ambassador and founder of the Vancouver studio Movement 108, it's important to remember that a workout is personal. "Your response to exercise is yours alone," he stresses.
De Jong suggests that you ask yourself these three important questions to determine your workout intensity:
1. How's your breathing? "If it feels easy but you're breathing hard, it's hard!" says De Jong. Reality check: If it feels hard but you're breathing easy, it's actually not taxing you that much. As long as you have the proper form down, you may just be surprised how much weight you can lift.
2. Where's your heart rate? Your heart rate will be a much stronger indicator of consistent effort than a machine saying that you're at "level 10." With that said, your target heart rate will differ depending on how hard you're working. If you know your maximum heart rate (220 minus your age), that will help you determine your target exercise heart rate.
During moderate-intensity activities, aim for 50 to 69 percent of your maximum heart rate. During hard physical activities, heart rate will be between 70 percent and 90 percent of your max. If you're having a tough time, check out this helpful exercise heart rate calculator.
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3. What's your perceived exertion? This one's a bit trickier, but the better you know your body, the better you can respond to stimulus. "Hard work creates discomfort which creates change," says De Jong. "Find your edge between discomfort and enjoying the activity."
Your rating of perceived exertion (RPE) is calculated between 1 and 20, according to the American Council on Exercise. With 0 being no exertion whatsoever and 20 being a very, very hard workout, focus on grading how you feel during that specific workout.
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And as a preview for our upcoming column, we invite you to read this article about the sorry state of history knowledge in America.
We've heard lots of folks grumble about how "young people just don't care about history," and clearly this article suggests that the lack of history knowledge is far more widespread. What do you think? Has this played a role in the diminishing interest in antiques? And if so, what's the solution?
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
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- james conrad said...
I dont think so as the History channel is one the most popular shows on cable TV. Sure, some of the stuff is hokey like ice road truckers or some such but still, they have really well presented history programs as well. Naturally, I am not buying the argument that lack of interest in history generally is a leading cause of lack of interest in antique ownership, i'd argue its primarily a marketing problem.
- July 21, 2011 at 4:16 PM
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Writer: Matt Kindt
Artist: Pere Perez
Colorist: Brian Reber
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Cover Artists: Lewis LaRosa, Brian Reber, Clayton Henry, Moose Baumann, Juan Jose Ryp, Hi-Fi Colour Design
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I guess there is meaning to the saying "You can't always go home". Livewire is living this statement as she is back out on her own in the world. There's also meaning to the saying "Absence makes the heart grow fonder", and she also feels that her life is now empty when she has no "missions" to perform.
Matt Kindt continues his fantastic run with Valiant in this issue. He asks the question, "How do you re-enter the world, after you have just saved it?"'. The answer is not easy when your face is on TV.
The art team of Pere Perez and Brian Reber really show us how alone Livewire can be in a crowded room. The lines were sharp and the colors were fluid. I especially liked how her suit comes on and off of her.
All together this was a good read. It gave a glimpse into the private life of one of our heroes. How sad she is on the inside.