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The Tin Drum
Acclaimed as the greatest German novel written since the end of World War II, The Tin Drum is the autobiography of thirty-year-old Oskar Matzerath, who has lived through the long Nazi nightmare and who, as the novel begins, is being held in a mental institution. Willfully stunting his growth at three feet for many years, wielding his tin drum and piercing scream as anarchistic weapons, he provides a profound yet hilarious perspective on both German history and the human condition in the modern world.
Translated from the German by Ralph Manheim.
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The Tin Drum, the author's first novel, has been translated into all major European languages. A film version of the book received an Oscar for Best Foreign Film in 1980. His other works include Cat and Mouse, The Flounder, Headbirths, and The Rat.
In 1999, Günter Grass was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
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The Tin Drum
By Gunter Grass
Vintage Books USACopyright © 1990 Gunter Grass
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Granted: I am an inmate of a mental hospital; my keeper is watching me, he never lets me out of his sight; there's a peephole in the door, and my keeper's eye is the shade of brown that can never see through a blue-eyed type like me.
So you see, my keeper can't be an enemy. I've come to be very fond of him; when he stops looking at me from behind the door and comes into the room, I tell him incidents from my life, so he can get to know me in spite of the peephole between us. He seems to treasure my stories, because every time I tell him some fairy tale, he shows his gratitude by bringing out his latest knot construction. I wouldn't swear that he's an artist. But I am certain that an exhibition of his creations would be well received by the press and attract a few purchasers. He picks up common pieces of string in the patients' rooms after visiting hours, disentangles them, and works them up into elaborate contorted spooks; then he dips them in plaster, lets them harden, and mounts them on knitting needles that he fastens to little wooden pedestals.
He often plays with the idea of coloring his works. l advise him against it, taking my white enamel bed as an example and bidding him try to imagine how this most perfect of all beds would look if painted in many colors. He raises his hands in horror, tries to give his rather expressionless face an expression of extreme disgust, and abandons his polychrome projects.
So you see, my white-enameled, metal hospital bed has become a norm and standard. To me it is still more: my bed is a goal attained at last, it is my consolation and might become my faith if the management allowed me to make a few changes: I should like, for instance, to have the bars built up higher, to prevent anyone from coming too close to me.
Once a week a visiting day breaks in on the stillness that I plait between the white metal bars. This is the time for the people who want to save me, whom it amuses to love me, who try to esteem and respect themselves, to get to know themselves, through me. How blind, how nervous and ill-bred they are! They scratch the white enamel of my bedstead with their fingernail scissors, they scribble obscene little men on it with their ballpoint pens and blue pencils. No sooner has my lawyer blasted the room with his hello than he slaps his nylon hat down over the lower left-hand bedpost--an act of violence that shatters my peace of mind for the duration of his visit, and lawyers find a good deal to talk about.
After my visitors have deposited their gifts beneath the water color of the anemones, on the little white table covered with oilcloth, after they have submitted their current projects for my salvation, and convinced me, whom they are working indefatigably to save, of the high quality of their charity, they recover their relish in their own existence, and leave me. Then my keeper comes in to air the room and collect the strings from the gift packages. Often after airing he finds time to sit by my bed for a while, disentangling his strings, and spreading silence until I call the silence Bruno and Bruno silence.
Bruno Munsterberg--this time I mean my keeper, I've stopped playing with words--has bought me five hundred sheets of writing paper.
Should this supply prove insufficient, Bruno, who is unmarried and childless and hails from the Sauerland, will go to the little stationery store that also sells toys, and get me some more of the unlined space I need for the recording of my memories--I only hope they are accurate. I could never have asked such a service of my visitors, the lawyer for instance, or Klepp. The solicitous affection prescribed in my case would surely have deterred my friends from bringing me anything so dangerous as blank paper and making it available to this mind of mine which persists in excreting syllables.
"Oh, Bruno," I said, "would you buy me a ream of virgin paper?" And Bruno, looking up at the ceiling and pointing his index finger in the same direction by way of inviting a comparison, replied: "You mean white paper, Herr Oskar?"
I stuck to "virgin" and asked Bruno to say just that in the store. When he came back late in the afternoon with the package, he gave the impression of a Bruno shaken by thought. Several times he looked fixedly up at the ceiling from which he derived all his inspiration. And a little later he spoke: "That was the right word you told me. I asked for virgin paper and the salesgirl blushed like mad before getting it."
Fearing an interminable conversation about salesgirls in stationery stores, I regretted having spoken of virgin paper and said nothing, waiting for Bruno to leave the room. Only then did I open the package with the five hundred sheets of writing paper.
For a time I weighed the hard, flexible ream in my hands; then I counted out ten sheets and stowed the rest in my bedside table. I found my fountain pen in the drawer beside the photograph album: it's full, ink is no problem, how shall I begin?
You can begin a story in the middle and create confusion by striking out boldly, backward and forward. You can be modern, put aside all mention of time and distance and, when the whole thing is done, proclaim, or let someone else proclaim, that you have finally, at the last moment, solved the space-time problem. Or you can declare at the very start that it's impossible to write a novel nowadays, but then, behind your own back so to speak, give birth to a whopper, a novel to end all novels. I have also been told that it makes a good impression, an impression of modesty so to speak, if you begin by saying that a novel can't have a hero any more because there are no more individualists, because individuality is a thing of the past, because man--each man and all men together--is alone in his loneliness and no one is entitled to individual loneliness, and all men lumped together make up a "lonely mass" without names and without heroes. All this may be true. But as far as I and Bruno my keeper are concerned, I beg leave to say that we are both heroes, very different heroes, he on his side of the peephole, and I on my side; and even, when he opens the door, the two of us, with all our friendship and loneliness, are still far from being a nameless, heroless mass.
I shall begin far away from me; for no one ought to tell the story of his life who hasn't the patience to say a word or two about at least half of his grandparents before plunging into his own existence. And so to you personally, dear reader, who are no doubt leading a muddled kind of life outside this institution, to you my friends and weekly visitors who suspect nothing of my paper supply, I introduce Oskar's maternal grandmother.
Late one October afternoon my grandmother Anna Bronski was sitting in her skirts at the edge of a potato field. In the morning you might have seen how expert my grandmother was at making the limp potato plants into neat piles; at noon she had eaten a chunk of bread smeared with lard and syrup; then she had dug over the field a last time, and now she sat in her skirts between two nearly full baskets. The soles of her boots rose up at right angles to the ground, converging slightly at the toes, and in front of them smoldered a fire of potato plants, flaring up asthmatically from time to time, sending a queasy film of smoke out over the scarcely inclined crust of the earth. The year was 1899; she was sitting in the heart of Kashubia, not far from Bissau but still closer to the brickworks between Ramkau and Viereck, in front of her the Brenntau highway at a point between Dirschau and Karthaus, behind her the black forest of Goldkrug; there she sat, pushing potatoes about beneath the hot ashes with the charred tip of a hazel branch.
If I have made a special point of my grandmother's skirt, leaving no doubt, I hope, that she was sitting in her skirts; if indeed I have gone so far as to call the whole chapter "The Wide Skirt," it is because I know how much I owe to this article of apparel. My grandmother had on not just one skirt, but four, one over the other. It should not be supposed that she wore one skirt and three petticoats; no, she wore four skirts; one supported the next, and she wore the lot of them in accordance with a definite system, that is, the order of the skirts was changed from day to day. The one that was on top yesterday was today in second place; the second became the third. The one that was third yesterday was next to her skin today. The one that was closest to her yesterday clearly disclosed its pattern today, or rather its lack of pattern: all my grandmother Anna Bronski's skirts favored the same potato color. It must have been becoming to her.
Aside from the color, my grandmother's skirts were distinguished by a lavish expanse of material. They puffed and billowed when the wind came, crackled as it passed, and sagged when it was gone, and all four of them flew out ahead of her when she had the wind in her stern. When she sat down, she gathered her skirts about her.
In addition to the four skirts, billowing, sagging, hanging down in folds, or standing stiff and empty beside her bed, my grandmother possessed a fifth. It differed in no way from the other four potato-coloured garments. And actually the fifth skirt was not always fifth. Like its brothers-for skirts are masculine by nature-it was subject to change, it was worn like the other four, and like them when its time had come, took its turn in the wash trough every fifth Friday, then Saturday on the line by the kitchen window, and when dry on the ironing board.
When, after one of these Saturdays spent in housecleaning, baking, washing and ironing, after milking and feeding the cow, my grandmother immersed herself from top to toe in the tub, when after leaving a little of herself in the soapsuds and letting the water in the tub sink back to its normal level, she sat down on the edge of the bed swathed in a great flowery towel, the four worn skirts and the freshly washed skirt lay spread out before her on the floor. She pondered, propping the lower lid of her right eye with her right index finger, and since she consulted no one, not even her brother Vincent, she quickly made up her mind. She stood up and with her bare toes pushed aside the skirt whose potato color had lost the most bloom. The freshly laundered one took its place.
On Sunday morning she went to church in Ramkau and inaugurated the new order of skirts in honor of ]esus, about whom she had very set ideas. Where did my grandmother wear the laundered skirt? She was not only a cleanly woman, but also a rather vain one; she wore the best piece where it could be seen in the sunlight when the weather was good.
But now it was a Monday afternoon and my grandmother was sitting by the potato fire. Today her Sunday skirt was one layer closer to her person, while the one that had basked in the warmth of her skin on Sunday swathed her hips in Monday gloom. Whistling with no particular tune in mind, she coaxed the first cooked potato out of the ashes with her hazel branch and pushed it away from the smoldering mound to cool in the breeze. Then she spitted the charred and crusty tuber on a pointed stick and held it close to her mouth; she had stopped whistling and instead pursed her cracked, wind-parched lips to blow the earth and ashes off the potato skin.
In blowing, my grandmother closed her eyes. When she thought she had blown enough, she opened first one eye, then the other, bit into the potato with her widely spaced but otherwise perfect front teeth, removed half the potato, cradled the other half, mealy, steaming, and still too hot to chew, in her open mouth, and, snifflng at the smoke and the October air, gazed wide-eyed across the field toward the nearby horizon, sectioned by telegraph poles and the upper third of the brickworks chimney.
Something was moving between the telegraph poles. My grandmother closed her mouth. Something was jumping about. Three men were darting between the poles, three men made for the chimney, then round in front, then one doubled back. Short and wide he seemed, he took a fresh start and made it across the brickyard, the other two, sort of long and thin, just behind him. They were out of the brickyard, back between the telegraph poles, but Short and Wide twisted and turned and seemed to be in more of a hurry than Long and Thin, who had to double back to the chimney, because he was already rolling over it when they two hands' breadths away, were still taking a start, and suddenly they were gone as though they had given up, and the little one disappeared too, behind the horizon, in the middle of his jump from the chimney.
Out of sight they remained, it was intermission, they were changing their costumes, or making bricks and getting paid for it.
Taking advantage of the intermission, my grandmother tried to spit another potato, but missed it. Because the one who seemed to be short and wide, who hadn't changed his clothes after all climbed up over the horizon as if it were a fence and he had left his pursuers behind it, in among the bricks or on the road to Brenntau. But he was still in a hurry; trying to go faster than the telegraph poles, he took long slow leaps across the field; the mud flew from his boots as he leapt over the soggy ground, but leap as he might, he seemed to be crawling. Sometimes he seemed to stick in the ground and then to stick in mid-air, short and wide time enough to wipe his face before his foot came down again in the freshly plowed field, which bordered the five acres of potatoes and narrowed into a sunken lane.
He made it to the lane; short and wide, he had barely disappeared into the lane, when the two others, long and thin, who had probably been searching the brickyard in the meantime, climbed over the horizon and came plodding through the mud, so long and thin, but not really skinny, that my grandmother missed her potato again; because it's not every day that you see this kind of thing, three full-grown men, though they hadn't grown in exactly the same directions, hopping around telegraph poles, nearly breaking the chimney off the brickworks, and then at intervals, first short and wide, then long and thin, but all with the same difficulty, picking up more and more mud on the soles of their boots, leaping through the field that Vincent had plowed two days before, and disappearing down the sunken lane.
Then all three of them were gone and my grandmother ventured to spit another potato, which by this time was almost cold. She hastily blew the earth and ashes off the skin, popped the whole potato straight into her mouth. They must be from the brickworks, she thought if she thought anything, and she was still chewing with a circular motion when one of them jumped out of the lane, wild eyes over a black mustache, reached the fire in two jumps, stood before, behind, and beside the fire all at once, cursing, scared, not knowing which way to go, unable to turn back, for behind him Long and Thin were running down the lane. He hit his knees, the eyes in his head were like to pop out, and sweat poured from his forehead. Panting, his whole face atremble, he ventured to crawl closer, toward the soles of my grandmother's boots, peering up at her like a squat little animal. Heaving a great sigh, which made her stop chewing on her potato, my grandmother let her feet tilt over, stopped thinking about bricks and brickmakers, and lifted high her skirt, no, all four skirts, high enough so that Short and Wide, who was not from the brickworks, could crawl underneath. Gone was his black mustache; he didn't look like an animal any more, he was neither from Ramkau nor from Viereck, at any rate he had vanished with his fright, he had ceased to be wide or short but he took up room just the same, he forgot to pant or tremble and he had stopped hitting his knees; all was as still as on the first day of Creation or the last; a bit of wind hummed in the potato fire, the telegraph poles counted themselves in silence, the chimney of the brickworks stood at attention, and my grandmother smoothed down her uppermost skirt neatly and sensibly over the second one; she scarcely felt him under her fourth skirt, and her third skirt wasn't even aware that there was anything new and unusual next to her skin. Yes, unusual it was, but the top was nicely smoothed out and the second and third layers didn't know a thing; and so she scraped two or three potatoes out of the ashes, took four raw ones from the basket beneath her right elbow, pushed the raw spuds one after another into the hot ashes, covered them over with more ashes, and poked the fire till the smoke rose in clouds--what else could she have done?
My grandmother's skirts had barely settled down; the sticky smudge of the potato fire, which had lost its direction with all the poking and thrashing about, had barely had time to adjust itself to the wind and resume its low yellow course across the field to southwestward, when Long and Thin popped out of the lane, hot in pursuit of Short and Wide, who by now had set up housekeeping beneath my grandmother's skirts; they were indeed long and thin and they wore the uniform of the rural constabulary.
They nearly ran past my grandmother. One of them even jumped over the fire. But suddenly they remembered they had heels and used them to brake with, about-faced, stood booted and uniformed in the smudge, coughed, pulled their uniforms out of the smudge, taking some of it along with them, and, still coughing, turned to my grandmother, asked her if she had seen Koljaiczek, 'cause she must have seen him 'cause she was sitting here by the lane and that was the way he had come.
My grandmother hadn't seen any Koljaiczek because she didn't know any Koljaiczek. Was he from the brickworks, she asked, 'cause the only ones she knew were the ones from the brickworks. But according to the uniforms, this Koljaiczek had nothing to do with bricks, but was short and stocky. My grandmother remembered she had seen somebody like that running and pointed her stick with the steaming potato on the end toward Bissau, which, to judge by the potato, must have been between the sixth and seventh telegraph poles if you counted westward from the chimney. But whether this fellow that was running was a Koljaiczek, my grandmother couldn't say; she'd been having enough trouble with this fire,: she explained, it was burning poorly, how could she worry her head about all the people that ran by or stood in the smoke, and anyway she never worried her head about people she didn't know, she only knew the people in Bissau, Ramkau, Viereck, and the brickworks--and that was plenty for her.
After saying all this, my grandmother heaved a gentle sigh, but lt was enough of a sigh to make the uniforms ask what there was to sigh about. She nodded toward the fire, meaning to say that she had sighed because the fire was doing poorly and maybe a little on account of the people standing in the smoke; then she bit off half her potato with her widely spaced incisors, and gave her undivided attention to the business of chewing, while her eyeballs rolled heavenward.
My grandmother's absent gaze told the uniforms nothing; unable to make up their minds whether to look for Bissau behind the telegraph poles, they poked their bayonets into all the piles of potato tops that hadn't been set on fire. Responding to a sudden inspiration, they upset the two baskets under my grandmother's elbows almost simultaneously and were quite bewildered when nothing but potatoes came rolling out, and no Koljaiczek. Full of suspicion, they crept round the stack of potatoes, as though Koljaiczek had somehow got into it, thrust in their bayonets as though deliberately taking aim, and were disappointed to hear no cry. Their suspicions were aroused by every bush, however abject, by every mousehole, by a colony of molehills, and most of all by my grandmother, who sat there as if rooted to the spot, sighing, rolling her eyes so that the whites showed, listing the Kashubian names of all the saints--all of which seemed to have been brought on by the poor performance of the fire and the overturning of her potato baskets.
The uniforms stayed on for a good half-hour. They took up positions at varying distances from the fire, they took an azimuth on the chimney, contemplated an offensive against Bissau but postponed it, and held out their purple hands over the fire until my grandmother, though without interrupting her sighs, gave each of them a charred potato. But in the midst of chewing, the uniforms remembered their uniforms, dashed a little way out into the field along the furze bordering the lane, and scared up a hare which, however, turned out not to be Koljaiczek. Returning to the fire, they recovered the mealy, steaming spuds and then, wearied and rather mellowed by their battles, decided to pick up the raw potatoes and put them back into the baskets which they had overturned in line of duty.
Only when evening began to squeeze a fine slanting rain and an inky twilight from the October sky did they briefly and without enthusiasm attack a dark boulder at the other end of the field, but once this enemy had been disposed of they decided to let well enough alone. After flexing their legs for another moment or two and holding out their hands in blessing over the rather dampened fire, they coughed a last cough and dropped a last tear in the green and yellow smudge, and plodded off coughing and weeping in the direction of Bissau. If Koljaiczek wasn't here, he must be in Bissau. Rural constables never envisage more than two possibilities.
The smoke of the slowly dying fire enveloped my grandmother like a spacious fifth skirt, so that she too with her four skirts, her sighs, and her holy names, was under a skirt. Only when the uniforms had become staggering dots, vanishing in the dusk between the telegraph poles, did my grandmother arise, slowly and painfully as though she had struck root and now, drawing earth and fibers along with her, were tearing herself out of the ground.
Suddenly Koljaiczek found himself short, wide, and coverless in the rain, and he was cold. Quickly he buttoned his pants, which fear and a boundless need for shelter had bidden him open during his stay beneath the skirts. Hurriedly he manipulated the buttons, fearing to let his piston cool too quickly, for there was a threat of dire chills in the autumn air.
My grandmother found four more hot potatoes under the ashes. She gave Koljaiczek three of them and took one for herself; before biting into it she asked if he was from the brickworks, though she knew perfectly well that Koljaiczek came from somewhere else and had no connection with bricks. Without waiting for an answer, she lifted the lighter basket to his back, took the heavier one for herself, and still had a hand free for her rake and hoe. Then with her basket, her potatoes, her rake, and her hoe, she set off, like a sail billowing in the breeze, in the direction of Bissau Quarry.
That wasn't the same as Bissau itself. It lay more in the direction of Ramkau. Passing to the right of the brickworks, they headed for the black forest with Goldkrug in it and Brenntau behind it. But in a hollow, before you come to the forest, lay Bissau Quarry. Thither Joseph Koljaiczek, unable to tear himself away from her skirts, followed my grandmother.
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By far the oddest of the books reviewed here The Tin Drum is a direct contrast between art and war. The underlying theme is that art has the power to overcome the inhumanities of war in society. The theme of performance, music and art permeates throughout the novel. The Tin Drum is the fictional autobiography of Oskar Matzerath and is a masterpiece of surrealism and characterization and is an exact counterpoint to City of Thieves. Oskar, at the age of three, voluntarily wills himself not to grow up after receiving a tin drum for his birthday. He develops a strained high-pitched singing voice that he uses in various ways; breaking glass, defending his drum (which he is never without), breaking and entering, tombstone inscribing, and entrancing his audience. Much like the Russian masters Oskar's autobiography is also the biography of his family and its history and the book delves into the manic lives of the people who affect his life. His mother, her husband Alfred, his mother's lover and many others who cross paths are all tragic characters of the first degree. With convoluted interwoven relationships, extramarital affairs, traveling troupes of dwarf clowns, front line battle antics, criminal anti-establishment youth gangs, jazz music, fortune and fame, tombstone engraving, the Düsseldorf Academy of Art, music recording deals, murder, a dismembered finger, and an insane asylum this story has something for everyone. You must read it to get the full effect. Try as I might, my words could never suffice. 4 1/2 out of 5 stars The Alternative Southeast, Wisconsin http://thealternativeone.blogspot.com/
If you're familiar with magical realism, you might know what to expect from Gunter Grass. If you're not then you will find that this book is quite different than most other books. (Note that if you've read A Prayer to Owen Meany by John Irving, you will find that the protagonist of this work was a big influence to Irving and both protagonists Owen and Oskar share many similarities) (I won't say too much so I ruin the book for you) This book is two stories all together: about pre-war and post-war Germany and Poland. And about Oskar's life in those societies. Now you might be thinking 'just who is this Oskar?' Oskar is by far THE MOST original character I have ever been acquainted with. Not only is his story quite an enigma, but the work is packed with ideas(themes if you will)about the world we live in. Yes, this is one of those books that will make you think (if you are an analytical reader rather than a reader who reads only for the plot) One of the reasons why i love the language of this book is because it was translated from German I believe in 1961 and the language is very rich. For example there are some words that are derived from German that you won't find in an English dictionary, but you can figure out the meaning. As far as the i-can't-put-the-book-down factor goes, this book will have you hooked right away as soon as you read chapter one which is probably the best first chapter I ever read. The book doesn't drag and moves quickly, but it's not exactly a short read (589 pages or so). You should definetly read this book, it's worth the time and money. Trust me!!
A great view of the relations between Poles and Germans at Danzig in the years before WWII
I loved Oskar, and all the characters, sympathetic or not. Yet, when I pictured them, smelled them, listened to them (in my mind), I was usually disgusted or grossed out. Things and people are not always as they appear. The Onion Room was so unusual that when I realized what it was, I gasped out loud.
PSST, Hey You,yeah you, over here. Boy do I have a great read for you. This is one of my all time favorite books to read. It's definately an undown putable book to say the least. I have read it once and didn't finish it until the third day!
Excellent! This magical realism novel is absolutely BRILLIANT! It is as hilarious as it is depressing.... READ IT!
This is the most brilliant book you will ever read! Though it might be a little difficult to comprehend for some, it is a wonderful novel, laden with humor! EXCELLENT!!!
Written by a German author, the book is highly acclaimed as the 1st great novel in post-war Germany. The main character is ¿Oskar,¿ who as a child decided to stop growing at the age of 3 and expressed himself through his tin drum, and a glass-shattering scream. The book is widely seen as a metaphor for anti-nazism. The author is a published poet and his prose and story expresses a highly abstract style of writing. The first half of the book (Oskar as a child), is entertaining, at times profound, and original. This includes a chapter in which Oskar tells the story of the spread of nazi policy in his town¿s stores. This particular chapter is related as though it were a child¿s parable. This was the best chapter and a Steinbeck like innovation. Unfortunately, the 2nd half continues the account, as the boy becomes an adult. Here, Oskar loses his innocence and charm. He is now very self centered and more like Peter Pan than a metaphorical truth seeker. The character tells the story, but he mixes first person and third person storyteller without reason. The book frequently advanced anti-Catholicism to promote the metaphor of Oskar as the messiah. The author did this too often and it soon became offensive. Overall, I recommend the book, but not not wholeheartedly.
The writer also attracted a lot of controversy when he admitted a few years back of his Nazi connection. So, like all great writers he remains an enigma to all. The book is phenomenal and brilliant, for it tries to capture through fiction the life in Germany just before and after the war broke out. This Gunter does through a character Oskar who is about to reach his teens but has decided not to grow beyond three years. He is dwarfish or gmomish and shatters his drums when he is angry by beating; or glasses around him through his screams: sometimes to steal from a shop, with the help of an accomplice, at others to just express his anguish. He, apparently grown up, narrates the story of his younger age, from a mental asylum where he has found the refuge. So it is mostly through symbols, that the author builds a powerful character. Oskar is a product of a bad mothering by a promiscuous and glutonous woman, who indulges him by never stopping his destructive drum-shattering or glass-breaking. Oskar often leaves her behind to her lover, whom he suspects of being his father, to go out beating his drum in anguish, at their secret hide in a hotel. She pays for the glasses or the drums Oskar destroys. She kills herself by over eating when she is pregnant for the second time, leaving the Oskar, the drummer boy, almost orphaned. A spoilt child he is, he is anguished more at the loss of his mother. There is no one to indulge him anymore, while he apparently resents the mere sympathy he receives from some of the people for becoming a motherless young boy. Both: his suspected and presumptuous fathers, a Polish and a German, offer him almost no help. His legal or presumptive father though, mostly tried earlier to entertain his mother by cooking food for her and tolerating the presence of her Polish lover, when she was alive. His suspected father, Jan Bronski, later got excecuted while he was out only to help Oskar repair his drum, as he and thirty other people were founnd defending the Polish post office from a Nazi attack, where he worked, and France did not come to defend the Poland, author notes, in spite of the treaty. Oskar keeps the guilt secret while he recoves from a sickness in the aftermath of this incident. A few friends Oskar made become victims of different tragidies. One of them, Herbert, dies while trying to make love to a statue in a museum, while another, a jewish Toy-shop owner, who supplies him drums, disappears in the hands of Nazis. A mutual friend of Oskar and Herbert, ..'Meyn, who is an SA man, who drank gin all day and played trumpet too beautifully for words', before he joined the SA and was seen burning a synagogue of the town, comes to mourn the death of Herbert and reaches for the gin bottle after a long time and played the trumpet too beautifully for words. But being a Nazi he was denied sympathies at the funnerel and he returns to his apartment to kill his four pet cats. He was expelled for this cruelty against animals by the Nazi party. Oskar is truly alarmed at the loss of his toy-seller friend and worries if the world is going to remain toyless in future. These poignant discription crisply sum up the situation the writer tries to depict. There is very little of the literature available in English,


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Klay Thompson scored a career-high 32 points and the short-handed Golden State Warriors beat the Cleveland Cavaliers 108-95 on Tuesday night.
Tired, short-handed and eager to get home, the Golden State Warriors could have taken the night off.
Instead, they looked like a team that needs to be taken seriously.
Klay Thompson scored a career-high 32 points and the Warriors, playing without three starters and a key reserve, beat the Cleveland Cavaliers 108-95 Tuesday night.
The Warriors were missing guard Stephen Curry (ankle), center Andrew Bogut (ankle) and forward Harrison Barnes (knee). Also, Carl Landry, one of the first players off Golden State's bench, didn't play because of a shoulder injury.
In all, the Warriors were missing an average of 49.1 points and 19.5 rebounds, but that didn't matter. Golden State shot 54 percent, including 11 for 16 on 3-pointers as it hit the first nine from beyond the arc. The Warriors took control in the second quarter and built a 16-point lead in the second half.
"No matter who is out there, we're still going to play Warriors basketball," said David Lee, had 20 points and 13 rebounds. "We could have mailed it in on the last game of a road trip, but everybody stepped up with a bunch of guys out."
The Warriors played the finale of a four-game road trip and were coming off a victory in Toronto on Monday.
"That's a big-time win," Golden State coach Mark Jackson said. "That's a statement game for us. I'm extremely proud of my guys. It would've been very easy to chalk one up (a loss) because we were short-handed, but I challenged them — and they stepped up."
Jarrett Jack, starting at point guard, had 26 points and 12 assists.
"I had to channel my inner Stephen Curry tonight," he said.
Cavaliers guard Kyrie Irving, who missed the morning shootaround because he was sick, scored 14 points on 5-for-17 shooting in 36 minutes. Irving was coming off the best week of his career when he averaged a league-best 35.7 points in three wins, was selected as a reserve to the Eastern Conference All-Star team, and was named the conference's player of the week on Monday.
"I just wasn't there in terms of my mental focus," Irving said. "That's no excuse. I tried to play through it, but my normal energy wasn't there. I'm just feeling like crap."
"He didn't look like himself," Cleveland coach Byron Scott said. "I didn't think, obviously, he was 100 percent."
Scott warned his players before the game that the Warriors would be ready to play. It would appear they didn't listen.
"We've got to treat it like a wounded animal," he said. "It has no choice. It's going to come out fighting."
"They just kicked our butts, to be honest with you," Irving said.
Tristan Thompson had 18 points and 11 rebounds for Cleveland, and Dion Waiters also scored 18 points. The Cavaliers fell short in their bid for their first four-game winning streak since late in the 2009-10 season — LeBron James' final year with the team.
Klay Thompson was 13 of 24 from the field, including 6 for 8 on 3s.
"It wasn't just me," he said. "My teammates found me, and we just played great tonight. We didn't have four of our premier players, but it just shows the depth of our team."
Curry, who leads the Warriors with a 21-point average, didn't play after twisting his right ankle Monday. Jackson said he doesn't know how long Curry, who has had surgery on the ankle in each of the past two offseasons, will be out.
Bogut, who returned Monday after missing 38 games with an injury to his left ankle, likely won't play in back-to-back games until after the All-Star break. Barnes, a rookie, was out with a sore left knee sustained against Toronto while Landry, a forward off the bench, was sidelined with a bruised left shoulder that also occurred Monday.
Golden State raced to a 13-4 lead less than four minutes into the game. The Cavaliers regrouped and led 27-25 in the second quarter, but the Warriors regained control.
Klay Thompson hit three 3-pointers, a jump shot and a dunk to help the Warriors build a 13-point lead twice. Golden State led 55-44 and shot 59 percent, including making all six of their 3-point attempts, in the first half.
The Warriors' continued to pull away in the third quarter when Thompson hit two 3-pointers and scored 12 points. Golden State led 84-68 going into the fourth quarter. The Cavaliers, who rallied from a 20-point deficit to defeat Milwaukee on Friday, cut the lead to 97-89 with about three minutes to play, but Jack hit a 3-pointer and another basket, pushing the lead to 102-89.
NOTES G Kent Bazemore, an undrafted rookie, scored a career-high nine points for Golden State. ... Jack tied a career high with his 12 assists. ... Cavaliers F Alonzo Gee was scoreless in 28 minutes. ... F Luke Walton (left foot and ankle) missed his second straight game. ... G Daniel Gibson (sprained right big toe) was also out. ... Following Friday's game in Detroit, Cleveland plays seven in a row at home.

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The killings of an elderly couple shot dead in their northern Nevada home ahead of Mother's Day apparently went unnoticed until days later, after the 25-year-old suspect had also killed a newspaper deliveryman and another couple nearby, charging documents allege.
Jeremiah Bean was arraigned Thursday on 19 counts, including first-degree murder, arson and burglary. He was assigned a public defender and is scheduled for a pretrial hearing Tuesday.
The victims were discovered Monday in and around the rural town of Fernley. The timeline laid out in court documents depicts a killer whose first two attacks came May 10 and went undetected, giving him the opportunity to kill three others.
"I'm pretty much in shock. It hasn't really hit me," said Gary Dolling, 60, who realized something was wrong when he saw flames leaping 20 to 30 feet in the air from his neighbors' house Monday morning. "It's just terrible. It's just a horrible thing."
Prosecutors say Bean entered the home of Robert and Dorothy Pape on the Friday before Mother's Day and shot them. He also took hundreds of dollars in jewelry from the 84-year-olds, the charges state.
Three days later, authorities say, Bean took the Papes' pickup truck to an exit along Interstate 80, toward the Mustang Ranch brothel.
After the pickup became disabled or stuck, Bean shot and killed a passer-by, stole his truck and left his body in a ditch, according to the Lyon County sheriff.
The 52-year-old victim, Eliazar Graham, worked as a backup deliveryman for the Reno Gazette-Journal. He had been delivering the newspaper at the time of his death, according the paper's circulation department.
Bean also broke into the home of Angie Duff, 67, where he fatally attacked her and her boyfriend Lester Leiber, 69, with a gun and a knife, charging documents say.
Duff had recently started dating Leiber about four years after her husband died of cancer, according to Gina Gaglione, a fellow volunteer at the Fernley senior center.
Gaglione became concerned when Duff didn't show up to volunteer Monday, so she sent another woman to check up on her. The woman noticed a smashed back door at Duff's house and called police, Gaglione told the Gazette-Journal.
Duff's home is around the corner from the Papes and two houses down from where Bean had been staying from time to time.
The string of killings first came to light early as smoked billowed from the Papes' home, which is set away from other homes on a large, grassy lot that Robert Pape was often seen tending.
Bean had poured gasoline in the garage, according to court documents, and had somehow used Graham's stolen truck in the arson.
Bean was found and arrested in the neighborhood where the two couples were killed.
Officials from the Lyon County sheriff's office were not available to comment on the crimes Friday. No motive has been offered, and neighbors said they didn't hear gunshots or notice suspicious activity over the weekend.
Dolling said he spoke briefly to the Papes' son after the grisly discoveries, and the son recalled that he was unable to reach the couple on Mother's Day.
Dolling also said he saw a white truck and a person standing outside the Papes' home Monday morning. Without his glasses, Dolling said he assumed it was Robert Pape; he now believes it was the killer.
Sheriff Allen Veil has said that the attacks were on a scale he hasn't seen in his three decades in Lyon County, historically a small farming community that has grown significantly in the last decade as a bedroom community for people who work in Reno.
"I think there probably should be a sense of relief that we believe we have the person responsible for this in custody," Veil said at a news conference Wednesday. But he added that residents needed to be vigilant and aware that crime happens even "in little Lyon County."
Bean has a previous felony conviction related to burglary and attempted grand larceny. He finished his parole in December. Authorities say he has also acknowledged gang ties.


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MERRITT ISLAND, Fla. (AP) — Two people are dead after their small plane crashed into a central Florida neighborhood.
The plane crashed into a back yard in Merritt Island around 8:30 p.m. Monday. Brevard County Sheriff's Lt. Alex Herrera says both people on board the plane were dead at the scene. No one else was injured.
Colton Primeaux watched the plane crash into his neighbor's yard. He says he heard the plane backfire and sputter as it approached the ground.
The crash occurred about three miles from the Merritt Island airport. It wasn't clear whether the plane had taken off or was landing.
Officials have not released the names of the victims.
Investigators from the Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board are expected to visit the site Tuesday.


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Disney's The Lion King Walkthrough and Guide
Welcome to the Disney's The Lion King Walkthrough where our team of contributors will help you work through the game via a step-by-step tutorial. A Gamewise walkthrough aims to take you all the way through the game to 100% completion including unlockable quests and items.
If you are stuck on something specific and are unable to find any answers in our Disney's The Lion King Walkthrough then be sure to ask the Disney's The Lion King Forum / Community for help and advice in the discussion box below and they will get back to you as soon as possible with an answer!
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This fresh fragrance pays homage to the beautiful Fleur de Vigne (Grape Blossom), which is celebrated in splendid style in June every year, in the vineyards. When it comes out, it heralds the start of the autumn harvest 110 days later. This energising splash, delicately fragranced, is drawn from plants of aromatherapy. Enriched with essential oils and plant waters rich in oligo-elements, it refreshes and tones. It contains a vitamin-rich citrus bouquet of Bergamot (bergaptene free), Grapefruit and Mandarin. The phyto-aromatic cocktail of Blackcurrant bud and Green Maté makes it an energizing concentrate which unfolds against a warm, voluptuous, subtly woody base of Sandalwood and Cedar.
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Not Just for the 4th: Red, White & Blue Goods You'll Use Year-Round
I love a party as much as the next person, but I also tend to be frugal and have a real aversion to waste. Put these things together, and it means that my parties never have a discernible theme because the decorations always feel too occasion-specific. But it's fun to have themes, so in the spirit of appeasing both my festive and more practical side, I've compiled a list of red, white, and blue party items that will still be useful after the 4th.
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1. West Elm wave dinnerware set, $19.99-$23.99 for 4-piece sets: Take advantage of this sale to get some interestingly patterned dishware that will be much more eco-friendly than paper plates.
2. West Elm Brushstrokes Napkin set, $20 for 4: The same eco-friendly principle applies for these coordinating napkins.
3. West Elm lacquered wood tray in cherry red, $17.00: This little guy will come in handy for serving food and drinks at your party, but afterward, it can be used in any number of ways. I've got one in my bathroom to keep my toiletries organized and another in my entryway to corral my mail.
4. Anthropologie large farmers' market basket, $20: Equally good for serving berries and for collecting keys, rogue office supplies, or any number of other things that need to be kept rounded up.
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1 and 2: Anthropologie two-toned wooden spoon set and two-toned cocktail forks, $18 each: Goodness knows that with my dedication to non-stick cookware, wooden utensils are among the kitchen items that I use most frequently. These are pretty enough to double as serving utensils for your party but practical enough for everyday use.
3. Ceramic serving bowls in peacock blue, red, and white from RedClayCo. on Etsy, $49 each + shipping: At 10" in diameter, these simple and elegant bowls are large enough to handle all your salad (or potato salad) needs, and they can function as mixing bowls, salad bowls, or fruit bowls for the rest of the year.
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1. Vintage wicker picnic basket from EpochCo on Etsy, $36 + shipping: Obviously, summer is the season for picnics, but in the winter months, this attractive basket can be used to keep blankets handy, or you can use it to as simple storage for summer clothing or accessories.
2. Vintage 60s robin's egg blue sunglasses from I Prefer Thrifty on Etsy, $28 + shipping: Sunglasses are a year-round item, and why not go a bit funky with some blue vintage frames?
3. Red-striped Turkish peshtemal from The Anatolian on Etsy, $28 + shipping: The uses for this thing are endless. I've been known to use mine as a picnic blanket, beach towel, gym towel, and a throw blanket. Attractive, sturdy, and lightweight, peshtemals are one of my favorite home items.
4. Blue Weber One-Touch Gold Grill from The Home Depot, $160: Summer corn and winter chestnuts. They all need an open fire, right?
5. Large navy blue chevron tote by Bella Jean Totes on Etsy, $45 + shipping: You can still seize the day with some red, white, and blue, but by opting for a fashionable chevron print instead of the stars and stripes, it's more appropriate year-round.
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Retro plaid metal picnic basket table from Poppy Hill Farm on Etsy, $115 + shipping: This was just too good not to add. It's a small, thin piece of luggage that opens up to reveal picnic-ware. Then—wait for it—it opens up even more to become a table. With this little thing, you can pretend to be picnicking even when it's below freezing. Be still my heart.
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A Chicago Public Schools executive who was formerly the district's chief administrative officer and more recently was appointed the Board of Education's chief of staff has been selected as the new superintendent of a school district in Florida.
Robert Runcie, 50, rose to the top ranks of CPS leadership under former schools CEO Ron Huberman. In December 2010, after Huberman left the district, Runcie became a chief area officer, heading a network of schools, and his name at one point was floated as a possible schools chief under Mayor Rahm Emanuel.
Emanuel eventually chose an outsider, Jean-Claude Brizard, as CEO of the district. Most recently Runcie was named chief of staff to the Board of Education.
Runcie, who has never been a teacher or principal, was chosen Wednesday to lead the schools in Broward County, Fla., the nation's sixth-largest school district. He had emphasized his work in a big school district in a variety of administrative roles since 2003 to beat out his contenders.
At CPS, Runcie spearheaded efforts to redo the IT infrastructure district-wide, helped in CPS' performance management initiatives and led in the development of community action councils for targeted neighborhoods.
Before joining CPS, he had served as president and founder of a management consulting and technology service company. He holds a bachelor's degree in economics from Harvard College and a master's degree in business administration from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management.


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Dale Sailing Open DayThursday, 22 March 2018
Our friends at Dale Sailing are celebrating their 35th Year anniversary on Neyland Marina with an open day together with the launch of their newly extended Chandlery. There will be Supplier stands,one day only deals, free expert advice, Boat Jumble, Boat Trips, raffles and giveaways, it's a day not to be missed!
Preferred Partners Information for customers and partnersSaturday, 10 March 2018
Boatshed's unique Preferred Partners Scheme connects boat buyers with marine suppliers and service providers, internationally, nationally across the UK and locally. When buying a used boat from Boatshed, many of our buyers require equipment, accessories, sails, insurance, transportation, berthing facilities, upgrades and other essential products and services associated with boat ownership, maintenance, cruising and racing. Often, these are required immediately upon purchase of the boat, or soon thereafter, and are regarded by our customers as part and parcel of buying and equipping their 'new' boat.
Enter your boat into our next boat auctionFriday, 09 March 2018
Our BoatBid online boat auction site provides the perfect platform for specialist boat auctions for a versatile range of boats from Cruising boats to Commercial, classic wooden boats to luxury motor yachts, houseboats, inland waterways, contact us if you are interested in entering your boat into our next auction.
LIVE ON A BOAT?Thursday, 08 March 2018
Boatshed have already sold hundreds of house boats in the UK and France. This month the Boatshed Data-Feed technology has been plugged into Rightmove.co.uk so we can find folks looking for a boat as an alternative to a house.
Owners portal area for boat sellersTuesday, 06 March 2018
Getting regular updates from your yacht broker about sales activity on your boat is vital. As well as regular broker contact Boatshed offer all boat owners a secure area where they can obtain live information on the activity, viewings and sales data of their boat for sale.
Boatshed's Specialist WebsitesTuesday, 06 March 2018
As one of the largest international yacht brokers in the world, Boatshed is well known for selling just about any and all types of boats: sail or motor; compact or super-sized; budget or expensive; inland or ocean going, since 2001 we have dealt with everything that floats. In order to provide the very best service to our customers we have over the years developed a handful of specialist Boatshed brands which focus on the marketing and sale of certain specific types of boats;
Why Register with Boatshed?Sunday, 04 March 2018
We are always told that Boatshed's website and online platform for the sale of boats is 'the best in the industry', but our technical engineers are always trying to improve it. We have added new features to our website and boat search system to make these even easier and quicker for boat buyers and boat sellers to use.
Independent Pre-Sale Assessments 'Transparency is everyone's friend'Sunday, 04 March 2018
An important part of what we do at Boatshed is help our owners' boats stand out from the crowd and attract serious interest in a busy, often crowded marketplace. The strength of our website and IT platform, and the attention and importance our brokers place upon extensively photographing and detailing every aspect of a boat for sale, is a key part of that philosophy, but we are always devising new ways to support this effort.


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GRAMMY Artists Revelead featuring Melissa Etheridge, presented by MasterCard
GRAMMY Artists Revealed To Feature Melissa Etheridge
The Recording Academy will host the sophomore installment of its GRAMMY Artists Revealed series, presented by MasterCard, featuring two-time GRAMMY-winning artist Melissa Etheridge on June 21 at Hard Rock Cafe New York in Times Square. Delivered through a partnership with MasterCard, this event — part of a new Academy series launched in 2009 — gives music fans the opportunity to see their favorite artist perform songs from their catalog in an up-close-and-personal, storyteller-style format, and allows artists to share anecdotes about their musical journey to the GRAMMYs.
"As a two-time GRAMMY Award winner and friend of The Recording Academy, Melissa Etheridge is not only a uniquely gifted rock musician and songwriter but an inspirational woman with an incredible story to tell," said Neil Portnow, President/CEO of The Recording Academy. "So it is a true thrill to have her join us for our second installment of GRAMMY Artists Revealed."
"I'm honored The Recording Academy has asked me to share my road to the GRAMMYs story," said Etheridge. "Winning two GRAMMYs has been a highlight of my career, so I look forward to sharing some great memories in such an intimate environment for all my fans."
"Working with The Recording Academy, we are pleased to be able to offer our cardholders the opportunity to see one of the most iconic female rock musicians in an up-close-and-personal setting," said Michael Robichaud, vice president, global sponsorship, MasterCard Worldwide. "Our sponsorship of the GRAMMY Artists Revealed series supports our commitment to provide our cardholders with unique rewards and value, and is a unique opportunity to provide them with an unforgettable experience."
One of the top all-time female rock icons, Etheridge became one of the most popular recording artists of the '90s due to her mix of confessional lyrics, pop-based folk rock and gritty vocals. Fearless Love, her 10th studio album released on April 27, reflects music that still embodies much of what fans have come to anticipate from Etheridge — soaring melodies, her bold, expressive voice, and plenty of musical, lyrical and emotional drama. Her biggest-selling album to date, Yes I Am, sold a staggering 6 million copies in the United States during a single-year period and spawned two major MTV/radio hits with "I'm The Only One" and "Come To My Window." She has won GRAMMY Awards twice in her career for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance for "Ain't It Heavy" and "Come To My Window." Her powerful performance of Janis Joplin's "Piece Of My Heart" at the 47th Annual GRAMMY Awards in 2005 showcased her fearlessness and cemented her rock icon status. In February 2007 she celebrated a career milestone when she won an Oscar in the Original Song category at the 79th Annual Academy Awards for "I Need To Wake Up," written for the Al Gore documentary on global warming, An Inconvenient Truth. Etheridge is an outspoken cultural, political and human rights activist, a thought-provoker, a longtime truth-seeker, a mother, and a cancer survivor. For more information on Etheridge, visit www.melissaetheridge.com.


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Swansea Festival of Music and the Arts
Saturday 4 Oct 2014, 7.30pmBrangwyn Hall, Swansea
Karl-Heinz Steffens conductor
Frank Peter Zimmermann violin
Beethoven Overture, Leonore No. 3
Mendelssohn Violin Concerto
Beethoven Symphony No. 5
We regret to announce that Christoph von Dohnányi was taken ill at the weekend and, with enormous regret, has had to withdraw from conducting the concert on Saturday 4 October at Brangwyn Hall. The Philharmonia Orchestra is very grateful to Karl-Heinz Steffens for stepping in at very short notice to take his place.
Beethoven changed the face of music forever. From his Fifth Symphony's obsession with its famous opening rhythm to his epic Leonore Overture No.3, audiences had never heard anything like it before. By comparison, Mendelssohn's greatest innovation was a sleight-of-hand brilliance that creates the impression of elfin dreamworlds floating free of gravity.
"Christoph's music-making justified the view that the symphony orchestra was one of the greatest cultural manifestations of European civilisation." David Whelton, Managing Director of the Philharmonia Orchestra, pays tribute to Maestro Christoph von Dohnányi on the occasion of his 85th birthday. For the full article and more information about the birthday celebrations, please see the Christoph von Dohnányi @ 85 website, devised and curated by Puskás International Artist Management & Consultancy:


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The Charlotte Rouge Scalloped Tier Set of 2 has stenciled rouge red pencil stripes printed on a luxurious linen/cotton blend known as "Belgium weight" meaning equal parts cotton and linen in grey/beige. Scalloped hem with bias cut stripe binding trim. Sides are .75" hem fold. Features 2" header and 3.25" rod pocket. Each panel measures 24" x 36". Lined with white cotton. This item is imported. Please note, colors may appear differently in different resolutions and on different computers. Made by VHC Brands. Manufacturer's UPC code is 840528124730.
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I am using a "GriedViewControl" with 14 columns and with this code below I can set the number "1" to the First Column and 21 Rows down.
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FOX Business: Capitalism Lives Here
U.S. stock-index futures were little changed Thursday as traders mulled a round of mostly in-line economic data and decisions from global central banks.
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Today's Markets
As of 8:38 a.m. ET, Dow Jones Industrial Average futures rose 3 points to 14927, S&P 500 futures climbed 2 points to 1656 and Nasdaq 100 futures advanced 6.5 points to 3135.
The markets posted a strong performance on Wednesday as traders cheered a round of upbeat auto sales and a rosy economic analysis from the Federal Reserve. Attention was expected to remain on the world economy on Thursday, with traders eyeing two central bank decisions and a slew of economic data.
The European Central Bank held its main refinancing rate at 0.5% -- a record low – as expected. Similarly, the Bank of England held its benchmark interest rate at 0.5% and the size of its quantitative easing program steady at 375 billion pounds. Both banks have been trying to catalyze the burgeoning recovery taking place across the continent, while also keeping price pressures in check. Analysts generally expect the Federal Reserve to begin cutting back its bond-buying program later this month as the world's biggest economy recovers.
The private sector added 176,000 jobs in August, according to a report from payroll processor ADP. The number missed expectations of 180,000. The Labor Department said the number of Americans filing for first-time unemployment benefits fell to 323,000 last week from an upwardly revised 332,000 the week prior. Economists expected claims to fall to 330,000 from an initially reported 331,000.
Meanwhile, the number of planned layoffs by U.S. employers jumped 33.8% in August from July to 50,462, according to Challenger, Gray & Christmas. It was the highest level since February.
All three reports come ahead of the all-important monthly jobs report from the Labor Department due out on Friday. The report is taking on additional significance since the Fed has tied its monetary policy to fluctuations in the unemployment rate and inflation. With inflation mostly tame, the jobs market has been the central bank's main focus.
Elsewhere, U.S. crude oil futures rose 57 cents, or 0.53%, to $107.80 a barrel. Wholesale New York Harbor gasoline dipped 0.17% to $2.859 a gallon. In metals, gold climbed $5.20, or 0.37%, to $1,395 a troy ounce.
Foreign Markets
The Euro Stoxx 50 climbed 0.27% to 2765, the English FTSE 100 gained 0.41% to 6501 and the German DAX rose 0.18% to 8210.
In Asia, the Japanese Nikkei 225 edged up 0.08% to 14064 and the Chinese Hang Seng rallied 1.2% to 2258.


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A player named Growltiger believes he/she has found what's causing the problem, and has even devised a fix that's seemed to work really well for the people who've tried it. Blizzard's acknowledged this and is working on patching the issue as soon as possible.
In the meantime, I thought that, in addition to including Growltiger's solution here, it might be a good idea to run an article on how to fix and prevent heat problems with Macs. We write for a pretty computer-savvy audience here at WoW Insider, and odds are good you'll find some people in the comment section who really know their stuff. I won't claim to be one of them, but I hope some of the things that have worked for me will also work for you.
Even if you're a novice computer user, you should find a few tips here. However, if you're one of the players looking to implement Growltiger's fix, fair warning: It's not for the faint of heart.


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Career services
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Sign-on: CyHire (contact your college for account)
- Post a job in CySpace Career Center
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- Career sessions on resume, finding a job, marketing yourself
- Job postings, career services through your college
- Resume critiquing
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- Position listings
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List of current employment opportunities for faculty and professional and scientific, merit and contract staff.
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KPIX, a television station in San Francisco, is reporting that the Giants "have a deal in place" for Phillies outfielder Hunter Pence. Giants vice president Bobby Evans reportedly denied the report in a text message, saying that there's "no truth to the rumor."
But sources tell Jon Heyman of CBSSports.com that, although no agreeement has been reached, the Giants and the Phillies are indeed discussing a deal.
Pence, 30, is hitting .268 with 17 home runs and 59 RBI. Should there be a trade, the Phillies could bring up Domonic Brown from the minor leagues.
The Phillies are expected to become sellers after a weekend sweep at the hands of the Atlanta Braves effectively eliminated them from playoff contention. The MLB trade deadline is 4 p.m. Tuesday.


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FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — German business optimism rose slightly more than expected in July, a closely watched survey revealed Thursday, the latest in a series of signals indicating moderate growth ahead for Europe's biggest economy.
The Ifo institute's business climate index rose to 106.2 during the month from 105.9 in June. The increase was slightly more than the 106.1 widely expected in the markets.
The third monthly increase in a row provides more evidence that Germany remains on track to rebound from a lackluster performance in the last months of 2012 and the first quarter of this year. Ifo survey director Kai Carstensen said Thursday that "firms remain cautiously optimistic with regard to their future business outlook."
First-quarter growth was only 0.1 percent but the country's central bank says figures will show it grew "strongly" in the April-June second quarter. Official data are due out Aug. 14 alongside wider figures for the economy of the 17 European Union countries that use the euro.
The Germany economy, the largest in the eurozone, will be a key factor as the region struggles to get out of a recession that has lasted six straight quarters. A survey Wednesday raised hopes that the eurozone as a whole was poised to emerge from recession soon.
Economist Christian Schulz at Berenberg Bank in London said the Ifo survey "signals moderate growth" in the Germany economy, which should remove the need for further interest rate cuts from the European Central Bank. He said export expectations were somewhat weaker as China, a key market for German companies, slows.
The ECB's governing council meets next week to decide interest rates for the eurozone. The benchmark refinancing rate is at a record low of 0.5 percent.
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Hi!Just curious: When is the 2.5 update coming for the JP-8V? I hope it includes some bugfixes and maybe a larger GUI.Thanks in advance.
There is a beta for 2.5 now. 2.5 planned to be released at the end of March to the public.
I find that if I need to turn the Arturia synth volume down using the Master Volume, then as soon as I choose another patch, the volume returns to the patch setting. This does not happen on my hardware synths - if I turn down the volume knob it stays there, regardless of which patch I choose.
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The Court of Appeals for the U.S. Ninth Circuit issued a ruling confirming Judge William Alsup's 2009 decision that Psystar was violating Apple's copyrights on Mac OS X, as well as the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DCMA) by selling its own PCs with Mac OS X installed on them.
To refresh your memory on this somewhat dusty story, Psystar was a small company in Florida who started buying copies of Mac OS X and installing them on their own PCs it called OpenMac, as seen in the figure below. The name was quickly changed to Open Computer, The Apple Alternative.
Psystar's Original OpenMac PCs Denied
Apple eventually sued the company, claiming that Psystar was violating Apple's copyrights, its end-user agreement (EULA), and eventually the DMCA itself. Psystar hired first one, then another law firm, and eventually filed for bankruptcy, releasing multiple new unauthorized Mac clones all the while.
The company threw (laughable) antitrust claims against Apple, there were motions and counter motions and all manner of legal maneuvering in the case. Near the end, Psystar started selling its firmware hack that allowed Mac OS X to work on non-Apple computers, and the company even tried to make a go of it as a clothier.
But in the end, Judge Alsup gave Apple a complete and total victory in its suit against Psystar, including an injunction preventing Psystar from from selling Mac clones, selling or copying Mac OS X in any incarnation, installing Mac OS X on non-Apple hardware, circumventing Apple's control measures that prevent Mac OS X from being installed on non-Apple hardware, selling or other distributing technology that allows such circumvention, or helping anyone in such circumvention efforts.
While some tiny, bankrupt companies might have thrown in the towel at this point, Psystar appealed the case. On Wednesday, the Ninth Circuit issued its ruling in that appeal. A three-judge panel effectively upheld everything Judge Alsup had ruled in his decision, according to CNet.
Again, some companies faced with the obvious that they can't make a living predicated on selling or cirucmventing a proprietary OS marketed and sold as a whole widget solution and protected by trademarks, copyrights, and an onerous law called the DMCA that favors IP holders would have simply given up after not one, but four federal judges told them so.
Not Psystar, though. A source told The Mac Observer that the company is asking for an en banc review, which means it wants the full court to check over the homework of the three member panel. If a majority of the judges agree to do so, they would then take a gander at both Judge Alsup's ruling and the three-member panel's review of that ruling.
If not, Pystar has the option of appealing its case to the U.S. Supreme Court.


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There is one body and one Spirit — just as you were called to one hope when you were called — one Lord, one faith, one baptism; one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.
- Ephesians 4:4-6 (NIV)
I happened to walk past the federal courthouse at a time when many people were leaving the building. All were smiling and many were dressed in special clothes. Some paused in the windy, chilly weather to have pictures taken with their companions.
I soon discovered the source of their joy. These people had just become U.S. citizens and had received the documents that assure them the rights, security, and privileges of this citizenship. People from many different countries now share one allegiance. From many other cultures, they now share one homeland. From many other backgrounds they came — seeking a better life for themselves and their children.
The family of believers and the church offer a similar unity. We are an assembly of many but with one Lord, people who share hope for a better life now and eternal life to come.
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Thought for the Day: For citizens of God's kingdom, every day can be a day of joy.
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Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk celebrates Divine Liturgy at the Monastery of St Panteleimon on Mount Athos
On 15 February 2014, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate's Department for External Church Relations, visited the Old Roussikon hermitage which is undergoing restoration.
That same day the pilgrims arrived in the Monastery of St Panteleimon and met with its hegumen, schema-archimandrite Jeremiah. After vigil, Metropolitan Hilarion venerated the shrines of the monastery and visited a new church dedicated to the holy Russian sovereigns.
On 16 February, the DECR chairman celebrated the Divine Liturgy at the Intercession Church of the Monastery of St Panteleimon. At a festive repast after the service, Metropolitan Hilarion addressed the brethren with an archpastoral word, saying in particular:
"I would like to convey to you the blessing from His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, who visited this holy abode last year.
"Every time I come to the monastery I feel joy seeing its buildings being restored. And yesterday I had an opportunity to see a new church, dedicated to the holy Russian sovereigns.
"I am particularly glad that with God's help, the monastic life at the abode prospers and the monastic community, which our predecessors built during many centuries, is maintained by our labours and prayers.
"During this visit, I was at the Xilourgou hermitage, the first Russian settlement on Mount Athos, and saw that the restoration works are under way there. I also visited the Old Roussikon, where a church and other buildings are being restored. I believe it means that the Russian monasticism on Athos has not only the past, but the future as well. And no doubt, the Russian Athonite monasticism has the present, which is you, my dear brothers. Living in the bosom of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, you, nevertheless, pray for your earthly homeland and for your relatives. Keep praying for them, keep praying for your country and keep loving it, because it is an earthly lot given by God to each of you.
"It is important that the brethren of this monastery keep praying for His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, for bishops, clergy, and pious laypeople of the Russian Church. The Church needs your prayers. The spiritual bonds between this holy abode and the Russian Orthodox Church are unbreakable, being strengthened by your prayers."
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A Swedish toy maker called Top Toy has just the thing to help quell little Riley's displeasure at the fact that more insidious toy makers all across America are making sure that only boys play with machine guns and only girls play with doll houses. Top Toy has made a Christmas toy catalogue (the best kind of catalogue) for Denmark and Sweden, but its Swedish version features an interesting twist: all the genders of the kids playing with shiny new toys has been switched. Boys are playing with dollhouses and girls are gunning down unseen younger siblings with Nerf guns.
The decision to swap all the genders in its Swedish toy catalogue, notes RT, marks a pretty significant shift for Top Toy, which was called out by a Swedish advertising watchdog for foisting outdated gender roles on boys and girls back in 2008. That same year, Sweden made a national push to promote gender equality in schools, spending some 110 million Swedish crowns ($16.3 million) in an effort that included the introduction of laws requiring teachers to actively help reverse gender stereotypes.
Swedish officials even went so far as introducing the non-gendered pronoun "hen" to supplant "he" and "she," thereby solving the unfortunate use of the plural third person pronoun when one is aiming for gender neutrality. Elise Claeson, a columnist and former "equality expert" at the Swedish Confederation of Professions, thought that "hen" was, after all, a step too far, arguing that kids really needed to have their gender "confirmed" when they were young so that they could grow up to be "confident about their identity."
Still, it's nice to see that, at least in some of the snowier parts of the world this Christmas, girls will be getting an equal opportunity to petition Santa Claus for toy guns, because where will our soldiers of the future come from if we don't get kids comfortable with weaponry at an early age? (Montessori school is not the correct answer.)
Swedish toymaker publishes 'gender-neutral' children's Christmas catalogue [RT]
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — For Edie Falco, the stigma surrounding older actresses is nothing more than Hollywood folklore. In fact, the 50-year-old says life has never been sweeter.
"It continues to get better and more rewarding and fuller and more confident and all these things that I kind of never realized how much I had longed for until I had them," Falco said in a recent interview. "I feel like it's an ideal time to, I don't know, to be me."
After six seasons of playing mob wife Carmela on HBO's "The Sopranos," Falco now plays Jackie Peyton, an ER nurse addicted to prescription drugs, on Showtime's "Nurse Jackie" (Sunday, 9 p.m. EDT). Season six finds Jackie in the throes of relapse.
"I was as heartbroken as everybody else that she took that pill at the end of the (last) season," she said. "I'm also grateful that we're portraying it (addiction) the way it really is, which is irrational and so often disappointing."
Falco, a recovering alcoholic with 20 years sobriety, said portraying Jackie's downward spiral has been helpful to her recovery.
"If it's anything, it's therapeutic," she said. "Rather than making me want to (relapse) it makes me even more solidly planted. ... And also just reminds me, thank god, I'm not there. I'm not going through this. I'm not waking up the morning after anymore."
Falco, who has won four Emmys and two Golden Globes, said her main focus is on her children, Anderson, 9, and Macy, 6.
And she said that with age and motherhood comes a sense of confidence that was missing during the heyday of "The Sopranos."
"What I'm sure is that if I don't work forever I'll be fine either way," she said. "I've kind of my whole life hoped to one day feel the way I do right now, which is that everything is going to be fine."
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LOS ANGELES, May 4 (UPI) -- Charlie Sheen said he supports the decision to remove his twin sons from the custody of ex-wife Brooke Mueller to that of another ex-wife, Denise Richards.
The Los Angeles County Department of Child and Family Services determined Mueller's home was unsafe because she was using drugs again, the Los Angeles Times reported Friday.
"It just wasn't a stable environment with different nannies coming in and out, and child protective services came in and did their thing, and this is the outcome," a source close to Mueller told the New York Daily News. "Brooke didn't have a say in this."
The boys -- Bob and Max -- were placed in temporary custody with Richards, with whom Sheen has two daughters, 9-year-old Sam and 7-year-old Lola, the newspaper said.
"Charlie supports the actions of the Department of Children and Family Services," his rep told TMZ. "He knows Max and Bob are safe and in a stable, loving environment with Denise and the boys' sisters."
This is not the first time Richards has taken care of her ex-husband's children.
She watched over them late last year while Mueller was in rehab for substance abuse for the 19th time, the Times said.
"Brooke knows any time, and Charlie, that any time they need help with the boys, that I'm there," Richards told Radar Online at the Time.
Radar reported Mueller is refusing to go to rehab again.
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we were on our way to the store to restock our party house when we saw an unbelievable site in the parking lot. this lady was selling fresh fruits in the parking lot. we could see her melons a mile away. we bought some stuff because amberlynn was so nice and was showing off her ass and tits.she had no problem sharing her fruits and tits.


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This is part of a series of posts about the QuiltCon Block Challenge. You can see more photos of blocks submitted for this challenge here, and in the Block Challenge Flickr Group.
This is the block arrangement that I've planned for the quilt top, which will be about 62″ x 82″.
Given the size and number of the blocks, I knew that I wasn't going to be able to add much negative space without making the quilt way too big. I decided to concentrate on the 12-1/2″ dimension that was common to all of the blocks and arrange them in 6 rows that would each finish at 12″ high.
Since the other dimension of each block varies, there are different numbers of blocks among the rows and they aren't arranged in a regular grid.
With such a variety of blocks, and such a large footprint, it can be tricky to use a design wall to plan the layout. Here's a little trick that I used instead.
I started by putting all of the blocks up on the wall, without regard for how they would look in the finished quilt. Then, I took a photo, scaled it to fit on a piece of printer paper and printed it out.
Next, I cut out each block, which made it possible for me to just move them around on my work table until I found an arrangement that I liked.
(This is also a good strategy if you want to see what your blocks would look like amid different colors of negative space fabric.)
Here it is! I'm so happy with the finished arrangement. Come back tomorrow to see how I finished the top.
As a way of giving something back to QuiltCon's host city of Austin, Texas, we're going to use the blocks that aren't selected for this quilt to make quilts for each of the 46 beds at the Austin Children's Shelter. This will be MQG's first large-scale charity project and we look forward to both using the many beautiful blocks we received for the challenge and getting as many guilds as possible involved in the process! Participating guilds will receive a package of 7 or more blocks (much like the groups of blocks being shown in these blog posts) to expand into a 68″ X 88″ Twin bed quilt. This can be accomplished by adding blocks, adding negative space, or some combination of the two. The quilts will need to be machine quilted, bound, washed, and shipped to Austin in advance of QuiltCon. MQG will also be interested in hearing about each guild's process and will feature the completed quilts in a series of blog posts in Spring 2013.
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Kim Kardashian's estranged husband Kris Humphries is taking the reality TV star to court over her decision to keep their wedding gifts and donate double their value to charity.
The brunette beauty wed basketball star Humphries in a highly-publicised and televised ceremony last August, but the union broke down after just 72 days and Kardashian filed for divorce.
The socialite recently announced she would be writing a cheque to the Dream Foundation, which helps the families of patients battling terminal illness, to cover the cost of the wedding presents they received.
However, Humphries alleges he wasn't consulted over the decision and is demanding to know exactly how much the gifts were worth, in addition to a full accounting of the money they raked in during their short-lived marriage.
In court documents obtained by TMZ.com, the sportsman's lawyer writes, "A spouse may not make a gift of community personal property, or dispose of community personal property for less than fair and reasonable value, without the written consent of the other spouse."


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Codes & confrontations: A better way for the city?EDITORIAL
July 11. 2013 10:42PM
It is every business owner's nightmare. Government inspectors show up unannounced, declare you out of compliance with regulations, and shut you down. Kevin Cornish, owner of K.C.'s Rib Shack on Second Street, lived such a nightmare just before Independence Day. City officials ordered his outdoor tiki bar closed for 12 code violations. Cornish and Ward 10 Alderman Phil Greazzo say the business should have been given time to fix the violations while staying open. They have a point, as does the city code enforcement office.
The city Health Department cited a few health violations at the tiki bar earlier this year and ordered them fixed. They did not get fixed, Cornish admits. The Health Department alerted code enforcement about possible building code violations, which triggered a visit to the restaurant.
The 12 violations listed in the city's letter to K.C.'s include a grass roof on the tiki bar — a violation of city code regarding flame-retardant roof materials — and a fence that blocked off the exit from the patio. To city code enforcers, fire hazards trump a business' bottom line.
"I just don't see why city staff wouldn't try to help him stay open," Greazzo told us. Sure, that would be ideal and should always be a goal of the code enforcement office. If the city was needlessly adversarial in this case, that is a problem that needs to be addressed. But based on the city's report, it seems that some immediate enforcement action was justified. Greazzo might do all city businesses a favor by asking for a review of the building code and zoning ordinances, and the processes by which they are enforced, to see whether a less adversarial approach can be devised.


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