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Published by Random House on June 1, 2012
Genre: Fiction
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 360
Challenge Theme: A book set in the decade you were born
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1987. There's only one person who has ever truly understood fourteen-year-old June Elbus, and that's her uncle, the renowned painter Finn Weiss. Shy at school and distant from her older sister, June can only be herself in Finn's company; he is her godfather, confidant, and best friend. So when he dies, far too young, of a mysterious illness her mother can barely speak about, June's world is turned upside down. But Finn's death brings a surprise acquaintance into June's life – someone who will help her to heal, and to question what she thinks she knows about Finn, her family, and even her own heart.
At Finn's funeral, June notices a strange man lingering just beyond the crowd. A few days later, she receives a package in the mail. Inside is a beautiful teapot she recognizes from Finn's apartment, and a note from Toby, the stranger, asking for an opportunity to meet. As the two begin to spend time together, June realizes she's not the only one who misses Finn, and if she can bring herself to trust this unexpected friend, he just might be the one she needs the most.
I finished this book about a week ago and realized I never reviewed it. Not sure if that says anything about whether I liked it or not. I will say I thought this book was just so so. It had a lot more potential than it ended up showing. I would have preferred a whole book dedicated to Finn & Toby so I guess you could say the prequel to this novel. The book addresses the important topic of AIDS and the stigma that was associated with the disease back in the 80s. Even knowing how people treated the disease back then I am still always so shocked when I read about how misinformed people were. It makes me extremely sad to know how badly people were ostracized because they had this disease. Aside from that I loved the relationship between June & Greta because it was so real but otherwise most characters and the story fell flat for me. June come off as irresponsible and dumb, Greta came off as mean (once I understood why she was this way I accepted it but that wasn't until the very end), their mother is awful (how can you discard the one person your brother loved the most at a time when he needed family), and the father just wasn't around. I know times were different back then but the fact that June was able to befriend Toby, travel to the city, skip school, go to high school parties all without the knowledge of her parents is absentee parenting at its best. I know some people might find June relationship's with Finn creepy but at that age it is perfectly normal to have crushes on people who are important to you, family or not. Finn never seemed to be inappropriate with June. I can't say the same for Toby. There were times where I cringed a bit at his relationship with June. Not necessarily in a sexual nature but just for the fact that he was allowing her to come visit, letting her drink and smoke, all the while knowing her age and how her parents felt about him. I found this to be inappropriate. Like I said overall this book was just ok for me, it took my longer to read than it should have. There were moments of light which is why I rated it down the middle at 3.
Favorite Quotes:
"Maybe I was destined to forever fall in love with people I couldn't have. Maybe there's a whole assortment of impossible people waiting for me to find them. Waiting to make me feel the same impossibility over and over again."
"I really wondered why people were always doing what they didn't like doing. It seemed like life was a sort of narrowing tunnel. Right when you were born, the tunnel was huge. You could be anything. Then, like, the absolute second after you were born, the tunnel narrowed down to about half that size. You were a boy, and already it was certain you wouldn't be a mother and it was likely you wouldn't become a manicurist or a kindergarten teacher. Then you started to grow up and everything you did closed the tunnel in some more. You broke your arm climbing a tree and you ruled out being a baseball pitcher. You failed every math test you ever took and you canceled any hope of being a scientist. Like that. On and on through the years until you were stuck. You'd become a baker or a librarian or a bartender. Or an accountant. And there you were. I figured that on the day you died, the tunnel would be so narrow, you'd have squeezed yourself in with so many choices, that you just got squashed."
"That's the secret. If you always make sure you're exactly the person you hoped to be, if you always make sure you know only the very best people, then you won't care if you die tomorrow."
"That's what being shy feels like. Like my skin is too thin, the light too bright. Like the best place I could possibly be is in a tunnel far under the cool, dark earth. Someone asks me a question and I stare at them, empty-faced, my brain jammed up with how hard I'm trying to find something interesting to say. And in the end, all I can do is nod or shrug, because the light of their eyes looking at me, waiting for me, is just too much to take. And then it's over and there's one more person in the world who thinks I'm a complete and total waste of space.
The worst thing is the stupid hopefulness. Every new party, every new bunch of people, and I start thinking that maybe this is my chance. That I'm going to be normal this time. A new leaf. A fresh start. But then I find myself at the party, thinking, Oh, yeah. This again.
So I stand on the edge of things, crossing my fingers, praying nobody will try to look me in the eye. And the good thing is, they usually don't."
"Watching people is a good hobby, but you have to be careful about it. You can't let people catch you staring at them. If people catch you, they treat you like a first-class criminal. And maybe they're right to do that. Maybe it should be a crime to try to see things about people they don't want you to see."
"You could try to believe what you wanted, but it never worked. Your brain and your heart decided what you were going to believe and that was that. Whether you liked it or not."


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This time of the year in the NE United States, when temps are generally hovering in the teens, 'saling' tends to dry-up! An occasional Estate Sale or trip to a Thrift Store are about the only ways to get a Good.STUFF.Fix.!!
I have noticed lately (as has J), that I rarely come home without an extra box or bag (or 2) of 'STUFF'!
Upon pondering this, I realized that I have gained quite the posse of suppliers to 'feed my habits'!!!
~Our local Marshalls (namebrand discount homegood/clothing stores ) calls when they have a boxful ready to pick up
~Our hometown RX always has a bag of packing misc. ready for me when I pick up our monthly prescriptions.
~My Mom's hairdresser sends her homes with boxes full of 'peanuts' every 6wks (for us!!)
When you love to craft & create with CORKS, like I do, this is a GOOD THING (It would be SERIOUS TROUBLE if I had to empty all these bottle by myself!!)
~Sweet next door neighbor waitresses evenings at a high-end Restaurant, and has convinced the bartender to save corks for her!!
~A dear friend works at a local winery doing tastings...
~Our Favorite Happy Hour Bar has a bag waiting for me weekly!
(*One night at Happy Hr., I was surveying the contents of the 'weekly bag'. One of the 'Hierarchy' of the Company J works for was out with us - he looked at me, shook his head and laughed "Oh Susan, I wish something that simple could put a Smile like that on MY face!")
BIRDS of A FEATHER...
~The Best Man from our wedding has become an avid Hunter/Fisherman in his retirement. He is more than happy to supply me with FEATHERS to feed yet another of my recent 'crafting inflictions'!
~My 'trendy' friends are more than happy to keep me supplied with catalogs!! This probably seems REALLY BIZARRE to most, but when you don't do much retail shopping, you tend to get NO CATALOGS!! I LOVE thumbing through high-end clothing & home goods catalogs to catch up on the latest trends, and get Creative inspiration - like my recent soldering attempt!!
As WONDERFUL as all of this stuff is...
it was fun to get a 'Different Fix' this past Friday, and come home with the Subaru FILLED!!
To sum it all up...
I had my First. Real. DUMPSTER DIVE!!
BOSE Outlet STORE CLOSING!
I missed all of the BIG store display pieces over-flowing from the top and sides of the Dumpster, that first caught my eye when I pulled into the mall from the side entrance... but I had 'real' stuff to do that I didn't want to look/smell like I had been 'rummaging around a dumpster' for.
When I came back through 45min. later, it looked like the dumpster was empty, but upon closer inspection - NOT!
More tangles of wires, cables, remotes, speakers, headphones and other non-sense than you can imagine - but luckily there were TWO Large Plastic totes (with Covers!!) in the dumpster, just waiting for me to fill. It means NOTHING to me, but it put a SMILE on J's face! I can Honestly say this is the first time I have ever garbage picked that he has actually APPROVED!
(and Today, 1/29 is his birthday - so I'm glad I brought him home some Fun Stuff!!)
After I had loaded every.last.electronic.bit into the car, I went back for ALL of the unopened boxes of office supplies!(?)...case of scotch tape ...boxful of white board markers in red ...boxful of white board markers in black ...another in green ...another in brown... carton (6 boxes of 5,000) of staples ...roll of Bubble wrap ...white board erasers ...tape dispenser ...3hole punch ...boxful of Sharpies in black ...in red ...boxful of highlighters ...pens ...white out ... folders ...wood yardstick ...magnetic displays ... even a Disco Ball light NIB!! OH MY!!
Yes, we have had TWO DAYS of fun sorting through all of the STUFF!
I can remember my Dad on occasion making comments about People regarding their smiles... "She wouldn't be nearly as Grumpy, if she smiled" ... "She wouldn't be half bad, if she would smile" or "I like her, she has a good smile"
Despite a lack of SALING, I have had an abundance of SMILES in my life lately!
...and HAPPY BIRTHDAY J!
I love You!! ((BIG Smile!))

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Professor Tsuyoshi Nakaya (of Kyoto University in Japan) shared that the international symposium on 'Neutrino Frontiers' is going to present the current landscape on contemporary neutrino physics as well as a vision for the future development of this branch and its fundamental impacts on particle physics, astrophysics, nuclear physics, and cosmology. This neutrino frontier is placed at the intersection of the intensity frontier, the sensitivity frontier and the energy frontier. Neutrinos could also link to the dark matter of the Universe. Understanding neutrinos, thus, helps to push the dark matter search forward.
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At the weekend I sowed some chilli seeds, following on from the minor success of last year, having managed to grow a handful of Jalepenos, Hungarian Hot Wax's and Red Cherries, all of which produced a useful and tasty crop of fruit.
It occurred to me today that last year I also sent away from some free packets of seeds from the BBC, which didn't actually arrive until late autumn, so I put them in the back of a cupboard and forgot of their existence…
…30 seconds of searching and they were located!
The Beeb has very kindly supplied me with tomato (sweet and delicious), beetroot (tasty both raw and roasted), butternut squash (great roasted, baked or mashed), carrot (sweet and crunchy) and lettuce (an irresistible Italian frilly with red-tinged leaves).
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Explore some interesting techniques with AngularJS directives to create a debug directive using termination, priority, and the $compile service.
John Lindquist: When you're writing your angular code all you get to see is the output in the browser you don't get to see the original expressions that were used to create that output.
If you want to see those you can use something call "ng-non-bindable" so that when I refresh here I can see the original expressions but now I don't get to see the final output. For debugging purposes maybe that would be a fun thing to see just to see what it originally was and then what the actual output is so you can compare and make sure everything's working just fine.
Let's set up a debug directive. I'm just going to create it there before I even start making it. So, egghead and directive, and we'll just say debug. From here we'll return our object. The first thing we'll do is say terminal, true. This basically means, "Don't run any other directives, stop here," and this will achieve that same result.
You can see that if I delete this and I refresh that it renders. But when I say terminal that means, "Don't do anything after this directive, just stop here." I'm also going to set a priority to something super high. This hasn't actually conflicted with anything I have seen but maybe it might for you. This just means, "Run this directive before any others run." We'll say, "Run it first, stop everything else."
What we can do now in our link function we can get our original scope, our original element and from there use those to compile it. We're going to clone the original element because we want to keep that original element there. We'll say "clone," we'll grab the clone. Then with the clone we'll need to remove the attribute of debug. This is super important or else you will crash your browser.
It crashes Chrome all the time if you do this because in the next step when you compile, which means we'll have inject the compiler. When we compile this, I'll compile our clone and I'll pass in the scope is the other thing you need for compiling. I get the cloned element and I just append it or add after the current element.
We'll say "clone to element." I hit refresh here you can see I get the original uncompiled element and then I get a compiled element, which is returned here and then added after the original element.
If you weren't to remove this attribute then this would crash the browser. You can try that on your own. I'm not going to do that right now.
One other thing I just want to do is just for debugging purposes I'll just say something like add an attribute of style, there's a million ways to do this, and we'll just say color red. I can see that this is obviously my debug stuff and then is not debug stuff.
I can just take this directive, I can add it anywhere I want. I want to debug this as well, two plus two is four and I can see that two plus two comes out to four.
This is a fun way of just building debugging tools to see what your element is before and what it is after it's compiled. Then once it's done you can actually just remove this directive all together or you could set up a service that would toggle true-false if you were in debug mode, however you want to achieve that.
But once you have that you can do whatever manipulation to this you'd want to see what's going on before and after the angular expressions have executed.
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This article is from Open Magazine.
By Trisha Gupta
"Tamil was a major factor for my fame within Tamil Nadu; but it was only after the translation in English that Salma rose to different heights," says the Tamil poet and novelist Salma, whose Irandam Jamangalin Kathai, about the world of women in a Tamil Muslim community, was published in Lakshmi Holmström's translation as The Hour Past Midnight. The novel was longlisted for the DSC Prize in 2011, and sold over 3,000 copies (roughly 5,000 in Tamil, says her publisher, Kannan Sundaram of Kalachuvadu). Shamsur Rahman Faruqi may have long been the brightest star of the Urdu literary world, but to the Indian reader in English, he really only appeared on the horizon with the publication of The Mirror of Beauty (2013), his own translation of his magnum opus Kai Chand Thay Sar- e-Aasmaan (2006). KR Meera's Aarachar might have won coveted Malayalam honours like the Vayalar, Odakkuzhal and Kerala Sahitya Akademi awards, and sold close to 50,000 copies--but it was only with its translation into English as Hangwoman (2014), that the book entered literary conversation outside of Kerala, applauded for its startlingly ambitious take on life, death, sex and the media through the eyes of a young Kolkata woman appointed executioner, and for J Devika's effervescent translation. And so it goes.
"Before the award, I was known as 'a leading writer from Kerala'... When I won the Crossword Book Award in 1999, the press qualified me as 'a leading Indian writer',"
Many regional language writers have only received national recognition late in their lives, because of translation into English. "Before the award, I was known as 'a leading writer from Kerala'... When I won the Crossword Book Award in 1999, the press qualified me as 'a leading Indian writer'," says M Mukundan (Crossword website), whose Kesavan's Lamentations won in the translation category in 2006. This is, of course, testament to an unfair linguistic landscape where English has an easier claim on the national. But it warrants greater scrutiny. If, as Marathi writer Bhalchandra Nemade and Indian English novelist Aatish Taseer would have it, English has squeezed the life out of Indian languages --"English is encroaching upon the innocence of children," Nemade said, in an interview on Scroll; 'How English Ruined Indian Literature' is the title of Taseer's New York Times opinion piece--why does English publishing seem more enthusiastic than ever in directing the many streams of that literature towards us, in translation? If this were a pessimistic critical theory paper, one might argue that the very impulse towards translation is preservationist, and things can only be preserved when they're dead. But however seductive this idea of embalming might be, literature in the other Indian languages seems anything but corpse-like. And yet, being translated into English seems to afford writers in even the most thriving of these literary languages--Bangla, Malayalam, Hindi, Urdu, Marathi--a new lease of life.
Because those of us who live in India but read only in English have grown dead to these languages; translation is the jadui kathi, the magic wand through which we might awake to their pleasures. English has turned us into Sleeping Beauties, and now only English can rouse us. And because whatever Nemade might wish for, neither our history nor the market allow for a clean separation between English and regional language cultures. A dedicated and growing community of Indian readers in English--while not exactly huge yet--is keen to read regional language literature (and read about it), while Indian language readers are often influenced by the 'buzz' English can create around authors.
Translation lists at HarperCollins India and Penguin Books India have certainly increased both in number and variety over the last five years. Penguin brought out 22 translations in 2013, 20 in 2014, and has 23 on the 2015 publication schedule. "We now publish an average of 20 titles in translation: five contemporary fiction titles and 15 classics (a mix of fiction, drama, poetry, memoir)," says Penguin's managing editor R Sivapriya, who heads its translations list. "The numbers must have been half that in 2012." Minakshi Thakur, who heads the same list at Harper, concurs: "We used to do five to six titles, this year onwards we'll have 10 to 12. Earlier most publishers would only do classics, but we want to work with writers who are working now; [build] a list of future classics." Penguin's recent successes include a book as contemporary as Sachin Kundalkar's 2006 Marathi novel Cobalt Blue, which sold over 2,000 copies in Jerry Pinto's 2013 translation, and one as grand and dastan-like as The Mirror of Beauty, which sold 5,000 copies in 1,000-page hardback.
At the more academic end of the spectrum, too, the translation list at Oxford University Press has seen 10 percent annual growth since 2009. It now stands at 125 titles from 18 languages, including less-represented literatures like Dogri (Shailender Singh's Hashiye Par (For a Tree to Grow) and Tamil Dalit writing like Cho Dharman's Koogai: The Owl (translated by Vasantha Surya). But this is still a niche readership, and the slow rate of growth makes publishing solely translations unsustainable. The independent Katha Books, which pioneered translations from the Indian languages, has shifted its focus to translations of children's books.
In a country as multilingual as India, translation has often been the only medium for a Malayalee reader to read the work of a Bengali writer, or an Oriya reader to discover a Kashmiri poet. Most readers in each of these linguistic communities have historically read translations in their mother tongue. Perhaps literary flows, even then, were somewhat unidirectional: I can't keep track of the Biharis and Malayalees I know whose literarily-inclined parents grew up reading Sarat Chandra Chatterjee and Tagore in Hindi and Malayalam translations respectively, but I would be hard put to name any Bengali readers who read Hindi or Malayalam writers (they did read Russian and English classics in Bangla). But as the Indian upper middle classes have grown more monolingual, reading almost entirely in English, it is mainstream English publishers who must take on the task of bringing a multifarious Indian literature to these readers. In SR Faruqi's words, the rising readership for English translations is attributable to "the growth, in geometrical proportions, of Indians who... sadly enough, have no real claim to any other language".
Sometimes an older translation in another language still serves as a route to English. Khushwant Singh and Vikram Seth had both read Sankar's Bangla bestseller Chowringhee in a Hindi translation, and their admiration for this chronicle of life at a 50s Calcutta hotel was partially responsible for Penguin's agreeing to publish Arunava Sinha's English translation, according to both Sankar and Sinha. Today, while Hindi remains an important link language between readers in North India and writers elsewhere, at least some Hindi publishers' decisions about translations may be routed through English. Aditi Maheshwari, translations head at the Hindi publishing house Vani Prakashan, stresses Vani's commitment to translating directly from the original language, whether it be Herta Müller's German or KS Sethumadhavan's Malayalam. But it is hard to deny the role of English (publishing and media) in foregrounding a potentially translatable writer, such as Tamil's Perumal Murugan.
Many Indian language writers cannot but recognise the unfortunately disproportional power English wields, knowing the only way to deal with it is to make it work for them, as much as possible. But writers from languages with a strong critical culture and a large literary readership can often experience a gulf between that vibrancy of exchange and their reception in English.
"English took me to other forums [but I soon saw the] lag between the interest in English in translation and English in original."
"Within Hindi, there's a rich conversation my work and I are part of, though not without its politics and prejudices," says Hindi writer Geetanjali Shree. "English took me to other forums [but I soon saw the] lag between the interest in English in translation and English in original." Her 2001 novel Tirohit appears in Rahul Soni's attentive translation as The Roof Beneath Their Feet (HarperCollins, 2013). "Some 60 people have done research on my books [before any translation], colleges have held discussions. For Katha Satisar (2005), I got ten Hindi literary prizes, including the Vyas Samman and Mahatma Gandhi Samman," agrees the Hindi writer Chandrakanta, author of this acclaimed historical take on Kashmiri Hindus, which Zubaan publishes later this year as A Saga of Satisar. Her intimate account of life in a Srinagar neighbourhood, Ailan Galli Zinda Hai (1986), was shortlisted for the 2012 DSC Prize as Zubaan's translation, A Street in Srinagar, but has not even sold 2,000 copies. "How is it possible that a novel that has been recognised, does not sell? Perhaps Satisar will do better."
While Hindi's literary universe, for example, was (and is) perfectly able to provide a launching pad for a serious writer such as herself, Shree concedes that its "being older" means it "has still to update its training in events, awards, markets". Yet vastly more copies are sold of a successful book in most Indian languages than in English. Benyamin's novel Aadujeevitham, a spare, arresting account of one man's brutal experience as a labourer in the Gulf, sold over one lakh copies across a hundred editions in Malayalam, according to its author. Translated lucidly into English by Joseph Koippally as Goat Days, the book is also one of Penguin's greatest successes-- but with 10,000 copies. Even Chowringhee, with over 30,000 copies sold in English, barely compares with the 100,000 copies its author ascribes to Bengali sales (not counting the huge pirated edition sales in Bangladesh, as he reminds me). And while Hangwoman gave Aarachar and its author a new visibility, only 2,000 hardback English copies have sold till date. Of course, any comparison of sales figures must acknowledge that English books are priced much higher.
"I hope we help the writers with their ambitions, I think we do, but not as much as they deserve," says Sivapriya. "It requires enormous effort to train the gaze of the English reader on them." Thakur agrees, admitting, "It is still a struggle to sell out 3,000 copies of most titles", but adding, "That's the case with most original English [literary] fiction too." Bhima: Lone Warrior, Gita Krishnankutty's 2013 translation of Randamoozham, Malayalam giant MT Vasudevan Nair's classic telling of the Mahabharata from Bhima's perspective, has sold 6,000 copies, she says. "The epic still sells, retellings do well in our market. Translate anything [to do with] Satyajit Ray and it'll do very well. [Take] our 14 Stories project, stories by various writers that Ray made into films--that's the kind of book which goes on to backlist well."
"[I]n a bitter irony, Murugan's novel One Part Woman, which became the focus of a moral censorship campaign that forced the author to give up writing, has sold nearly 10,000 copies."
Controversy of any kind works wonders for sales, in any language. Taslima Nasreen's Lajja, banned in Bangladesh and inciting death threats, is one of Penguin's highest selling translations, with 30,000 copies sold till date. And in a bitter irony, Murugan's novel One Part Woman, which became the focus of a moral censorship campaign that forced the author to give up writing, has sold nearly 10,000 copies. The independent publisher Zubaan Books sold almost 7,000 copies of Urvashi Butalia's translation of Baby Halder's candid memoir of life as a domestic servant, A Life Less Ordinary. Penguin's other successes from before 2012 are all 20th century classics in their original languages: Shrilal Shukla's Raag Darbari, Manto's Bitter Fruit, Tagore's stories and poems, Bhisham Sahni's Tamas.
Often, however, English's ripple effect bears little connection to sales. Meera's Yellow is the Colour of Longing (2011) was long-listed for the Frank O'Connor prize and short-listed for the Crossword award, but did not sell beyond the first print run of 2,000. Being translated, however, brought Meera national exposure, with glowing reviews across the English media and speaking engagements at literature festivals, from Jaipur to Chandigarh, Odisha to Goa, held on a scale that most regional literatures cannot yet muster funds for. The publicity that an English translation receives sometimes triggers fresh interest in the original linguistic community. "If a book is awarded nationally or internationally, it gets more attention [from local readers]," says Benyamin.
Meera and Benyamin both believe the English media covers literature more than Malayalam, and Benyamin, like Sankar, thinks reviews in English are fairer. "A Malayalee reader would believe a bookshop owner more than a critic," says Benyamin. "English reviews were well-researched and positive, maybe because my book was already famous."
"Through English, I rediscovered my Bengali readers," agrees Sankar, long dismissed as middlebrow by Bengali critics. "I never had any good reviews [in Bangla. But] some Bengali readers think, if it's translated by Penguin, and getting rave reviews in London, maybe they should read it."
For writer Uday Prakash, English translation has helped lift his work out of what he sees as Hindi's insular, non-risk- taking, institutionally corrupt world, and made it part of 'world literature'. "When I wrote Peeli Chattri Wali Ladki, I was attacked and abused in the Hindi world. But Jason Grunebaum's English translation, The Girl with the Golden Parasol, got me to Penguin and then to Yale University Press."
Yet English translation is no panacea. Much depends on quality, the publisher's interest and distribution channels. "Older translations of my work, like Jai Ratan's [one of India's most prolific translators], were targeted at an Indian English reader, and could not travel abroad. Jason is young, and a fiction writer himself; his translation reflects how language in America has changed," Prakash adds.
English translation does not guarantee exposure. Although she gained an Indian English readership as early as 2000, after academic Nita Kumar translated her 1997 novel Mai into English for Kali For Women, Geetanjali Shree insists that her writing continues to be routed through Hindi. "Serious readers of my works, such as Annie Montaut, Alessandra Consolaro, Vasudha Dalmia and Francesca Orsini are advanced scholars keen to promote Hindi literature in the West. I am known in Russia and Poland because of Hindi!"
Certainly, Euro-American academic networks have been crucial in spreading regional Indian literature, providing the focused language training and university presses needed to support high-quality literary translation. Hindi departments in the USA, for instance, have produced such wonderful translators as Grunebaum and Daisy Rockwell, who has translated the late Hindi writer Upendranath Ashk.
But how far have translations to English travelled? Over the five years that the DSC Prize has been awarded at the Jaipur Literature Festival, only six out of the 29 shortlisted titles have been translations (UR Ananthamurthy's Bharathipura and A Street in Srinagar in 2011, Uday Prakash's The Walls of Delhi in 2013, Anand's Book of Destruction and Goat Days in 2014 and The Mirror of Beauty in 2015). None has won yet.
All of this is not to ignore that several regional language cultures inhabit positions of superiority with regard to some others: think of Hindi with regard to Urdu, or at a very different angle, to Bhojpuri. English may not be able to speak to this (though it has brought Dalit writers like P Sivakami, Urmila Pawar and Ajay Navaria some welcome attention). But it seems to me difficult to stand either with Nemade, denying that this collective landscape has been forever altered by a flood called English, or with Taseer--taking a position higher and safer than everyone else, and then bemoaning the flood. Bilinguality--reading in at least one Indian language besides English--is one way to withstand the waters. But translation, even in English, if we do more of it and better--while acknowledging that the ground is not level--can let the monolingual reader into several languages. For many of us, it might be the most feasible way to grow some roots.
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Tesco and Booker Group have announced a merger in a deal estimated to be worth £3.7bn.
Responding to the announcement, ACS Chief Executive James Lowman said: "The Tesco and Booker merger is a hugely significant deal that demonstrates how important independent convenience stores are to the UK retail market. Ten years ago, pundits were forecasting the demise of independent retailers at the hands of big competitors like Tesco, so the decision by Tesco to invest in supplying those same retailers shows that the independent sector is highly relevant and sustainable.
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Prior to this Gas & Hire Limited had a website but it was unable to sell products online. DBS has loaded the site with over three hundred products and associated images. Gas & Hire Limited started as a Calor Gas dealer but have diversified into ranges of outdoor leisure products such as gas barbecues, patio heaters, tents and an extensive range of camping equipment.
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To date, less than 9 months after the first subject was enrolled, over 85% of the 672 subjects necessary to complete enrolment have already been recruited into the study. Two of the four surgical indications, spinal and soft tissue surgery, completed enrolling. Full enrolment is expected to be completed in April 2013 and final results from the study are anticipated in June 2013.
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Gastein Valley in Salzburger Land is famous for its unique culinary experiences. This coming winter, we will also be treated to creative cuisine thanks to Markt:Auflauf in Bad Hofgastein.
The first Markt:Auflauf in Bad Hofgastein will once again put Gastein's culinary prowess on clear display this winter. In an unparalleled warm and friendly atmosphere, guests will be able to add an array of palate pleasers to their already memorable ski or spa vacation. There will definitely be no shortage of creative dishes conjured up from local products, since experienced Gastein chefs along with the young cooks from Bad Hofgastein Tourism School, in cooperation with regional producers, will be preparing three special evenings. On 9, 23 and 30 January 2020, Hampelplatz Square will become Gastein's gourmet hotspot from 6 to 9 p.m.
The name itself is intriguing since its meaning is deliberately ambiguous: Translated literally into English, it could mean either "Market:Casserole" or "Market:Crowd". The intent behind that choice is twofold: On the one hand, the goal is to draw crowds of visitors with an appreciation for good food in general. On the other, the popular layered dish, which can be baked with a personal selection of ingredients such as meat, potatoes, vegetables, pasta, flour and many more, is very much the common culinary thread you will be able to follow from one market stand to the next. Young cooks from the Tourism School in Bad Hofgastein will be filling those oven-proof casserole dishes with an array of palate-pleasing products and allowing them to bubble in the oven until they are baked golden brown.
The concept of the event is regional through and through. Top chefs from a selection of Gastein restaurants will closely collaborate with the producers themselves: Local farmers provide high-quality ingredients, while the chefs transform them into exceptional dishes. At Markt:Auflauf, everything will be steamed, roasted, braised and boiled until everyone is satisfied and full. On each of the three dates, guests will be offered an appetizer, main course and something sweet to finish up. Instead of mulled wine, there will be teas made from herbs that were plucked personally – if desired, with a shot of the "hard stuff". Laid-back music played by a live DJ does its part to add to the pleasant atmosphere.


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Fruit juice jelly is quick to make and you only need 4 simple ingredients. This recipe yields approximately 3 pints or 6 half pints.
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4 cups unsweetened juice
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Pour fruit juice and lemon juice into a large pot.
Sprinkle with the pectin and let sit for 2 minutes
Bring to a full and rolling boil over medium high heat, stirring frequently.
Stir in sugar. Return to a full and rolling boil, stirring often. Boil for 3-5 minutes, stirring constantly.
Remove from heat and skim off foam with a spoon.
Fill jars leaving 1/4 inch headspace. Cover with 2 piece lids. Process 1/2 pints for 5 minutes and pints for 10 minutes in a boiling water bath canner. Allow to cool for 24 hours. Check seal. If they do not seal reprocess within 24 hours or store in fridge and use within 2 weeks.
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Which are the world's most expensive festivals?
Which are the world's most expensive festivals? For modern day party people, music lovers, and cool kids, showing up at festivals during the summer season is an integral part of youth social integration. All over the world, music festivals have become the focal point of everything current, fashionable, noteworthy, and edgy. So of course everyone wants in, and that means festivals cash in.
It's a giant pie with many fruitful slices and a few of those organisers getting pieces are snagging some really juicy ones.
According to The Guardian, a study has been carried out on the costs that surround some of the most popular festivals in the world.
Attending a festival is pricey enough when it comes to the ticket, yet there are also many other costs that go along with keeping yourself and your friends fed and hydrated for a few days. And obviously, when you're out having a good time the very last thing you may be thinking of is any kind of smart spending.
If the data collected is to be trusted, Coachella is the number one most expensive festival in the world. The average person attending Coachella will spend 187 pounds a day.
The festival features a great big splash of Hollywood celebrities spanning the full spectrum of A to D list, fashion and music bloggers, and every type of LA climber that exists. The chance to get to frolic around the same grounds as people who make the cover of Heat and US! Magazines is undoubtedly a special drawing card for Coachella.
Tomorrowland is another well-known festival extravaganza in Belgium and it comes in second place, with the average attendee spending 186 pounds a day.
See the World's Most Expensive Festivals in the list below displaying a variety of different events, noting the cost of admission and estimating food, transportation and other miscellaneous categories.
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(CNN): The "kill switch," a system for remotely disabling smartphones and wiping their data, will become standard in 2015, according to a pledge backed by most of the mobile world's major players.
Apple, Google, Samsung and Microsoft, along with the five biggest cellular carriers in the United States, are among those that have signed on to a voluntary program announced Tuesday by the industry's largest trade group.
All smartphones manufactured for sale in the United States after July 2015 must have the technology, according to the program from CTIA-The Wireless Association.
Advocates say the feature would deter thieves from taking mobile devices by rendering phones useless while allowing people to protect personal information if their phone is lost or stolen. Its proponents include law enforcement officials concerned about the rising problem of smartphone theft.
"We appreciate the commitment made by these companies to protect wireless users in the event their smartphones are lost or stolen," said Steve Largent, president and CEO of CTIA. "This flexibility provides consumers with access to the best features and apps that fit their unique needs while protecting their smartphones and the valuable information they contain."
HTC, Motorola, Nokia are among the other smartphone makers who have signed up, along with carriers AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, Sprint and U.S. Cellular.
The feature would let a phone's owner erase contacts, photos, e-mail and other information, and lock the phone so it can't be used without a password.
The feature, which will be offered at no cost to consumers, also will prevent the phone from being reactivated without an authorized user's consent. The data would be retrievable if the owner recovers the phone.
Some phone makers already include the ability to remotely wipe phones. In Apple's latest mobile operating system, iOS 7, a feature called Activation Lock lets users prevent their phones from being reactivated even if they're reset.
The new pledge marks a reversal for wireless carriers, who have resisted making the kill-switch feature mandatory. Industry representatives have said they fear hackers exploiting remote-kill technology, while critics accuse the industry of not wanting to lose revenue from replacing and activating stolen phones.
In Minnesota, the state legislature could pass a mandatory kill-switch bill as early as next week.
Oregon state Sen. Bruce Starr, president of the National Conference of State Legislatures, said his group "applauds today's announcement unveiling the wireless industry's commitment to reduce the number of smartphone thefts each year by providing anti-theft tools on future devices."
"This voluntary effort serves as another positive illustration of the wireless industry adapting to address consumer needs through self-regulation," he said.
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It's something strange indeed; scientists have recently found that dental bacteria may play a role in some cases of Alzheimer's! Bacteria linked to gum disease traveled to the brains of people Alzheimer's disease, suggesting that dental hygiene plays a role in the development of the memory robbing illness, some British researchers said.
An analysis of the brains of twenty dead people, 10 of whom had Alzheimer's, by researchers at University of Central Lancashire revealed the presence of bug P. gingivalis. The researchers suggested that the presence of the microbe triggers a chemical immune response that kills off brain cells. Bacteria in the mouth could hop into the bloodstream and travel to the brain after losing a tooth. Chewing, brushing and flossing are also able to transfer oral bacteria into the bloodstream, the study's lead scientist, StJohn Crean of the University of Central Lancashire, said that people should keep brushing and flossing. Keeping your mouth clean reduces the number of bacteria in it and the likelihood that they'll travel elsewhere. On the other hand, some experts including Dr Simon Ridley of the charity Alzheimer's Research UK, suggest that the poor oral health could be as a result of Alzheimer's rather than its cause. However, there is still plenty more to be understood about this topic


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In week 8 of this series, the lord emperor PAG_Matiz battled with his brother-in-arms PAG_Clopse. We saw a world where air was in greater use than ever before.
The meta favoured Clopse, and it was obvious that Matiz was not well prepared, even losing on Tanis, the world he was considered unbeatable on. But showing why he was king he managed to come back from 2-1 down to win 3-2, concluding with a decisive victory in the fifth game and a little of the Matiz sass we know and love.
In week 9 of this series eXodus eSports will be streaming a best-of-five between King of the Planet, PAG_Matiz, and the challenger, PAG_elodea, at 17:00 UTC on Sunday, 10th August.
It's another PAG on PAG, the third best on the ladder has fallen can the number four do any better? He has one of the best tournament win rates of anyone listed on eXodus and has also been a rapidly rising star. It wasn't that long ago he wasn't in the top 10 at all yet it feels unthinkable now that that it could ever be otherwise.
They met in Cloak and Danger in what was effectively a 1v1 with two spoiler AIs. At first it appeared that Matiz would defeat the aggressive raiding of elodea with his macro war machine, but then the impossible happened: elodea shut him down. Can elodea repeat this in longform? Can he take advantage of the greater control the system editor now provides to create maps Matiz will never anticipate? Can we set enough alarms to make sure he doesn't oversleep and miss the whole thing? Will Matiz prove to be unstoppable?
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While Boston's historic gas-powered street lamps still need to be lit, the 21st century lamplighter looks a lot different then our friend pictured above.
Last week, Michael Doyle and his colleagues from the Boston Public Works Street Lighting Division installed 12 new solar-assisted gas light fixtures on Marlborough Street. This is a test of a new technology designed to save money by having gas street lights turn on when needed, rather than remain on 24 hours a day.
Here's a closer look at the system as it was being installed. The solar panel charges a battery. A photo sensor tells the system when light is needed, and a control opens the gas valve and lights the lamp. In daylight, the control turns off the gas.
This crew had just come from Thompson Square in Charlestown where they'd installed 8 similar units. According to the Charlestown Patriot-Bridge, the plan to give a solar assist to hundreds of gas lamps throughout the city of Boston is expected to save hundreds of thousands of dollars a year.
Officials claim the lamp's battery can last almost 3 weeks without sunlight and won't need replacing for at least 5 years. Now, that's a Lamplighter!
Learn more about Boston's solar-assisted gas lamp project at Going Greener: Gas Lamps Grow More Efficient from the Charlestown Patriot-Bridge.
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Nigel Adkins says everyone connected with Sheffield United should be 'excited' ahead of Saturday's trip to Old Trafford.
And the Blades boss says the management and coaching staff will be urging the players to be positive against Louis van Gaal's Red Devils in the televised Emirates FA Cup third round tie.
Speaking at a hectic media gathering ahead of the clash, Adkins remarked: "It is FA Cup, we are going to Old Trafford to face Manchester United and it promises to be a terrific occasion.
"There is a genuine buzz around the Club and rightly so, we should be excited about the prospect of facing a team that is packed with world class players.
"We would be delighted with two of the possible three outcomes on the day and although Manchester United winning the game on Saturday is obviously the most likely outcome, we have a chance and if we believe we have a chance then who knows what might happen.
"We certainly aren't planning on going there and just sitting back and inviting pressure, of course they will have the majority of the possession, but let's see if we can hurt them and get a goal when we have the ball, that's our aim because we have goals in our team."
But the Gaffer is acutely aware of the factors needed if his side are to pull of a massive upset.
He added: "We are the underdogs, the odds are stacked against us and we know we will have to defend at our very best from the first minute to the last to give ourselves hope.
"Manchester United have players throughout their team that are capable of winning a game on their own, but if we are resolute and have a bit of luck on our side then stranger things have happened than us winning at Old Trafford or at least forcing a reply.
"Let's go there and do ourselves proud."


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Inspired by tragedy
(Editor's note: Some content has been changed since publication to reflect new information.)
He was a basketball star at St. Augustine High, a gifted scholar and athlete at the University of San Diego, a dramatic presence in Old Globe Theatre productions, a promising grad student in drama at UCSD.
On June 10, 1979, Mark Yavorsky, then 34, marched across the street from the home in Pacific Beach shared with his mother, Mary Wathan, 65. In a neighbor's living room, where she had sought refuge, Yavorsky stabbed her to death with a 3-foot antique saber.
Three decades after a crime that garnered rapt national attention, a film "inspired" by the event, directed by the provocative Werner Herzog, spent most of last month shooting around San Diego, including the usually serene streets of Point Loma.
Yavorsky's actions were eerily remindful of a scene out of the Greek tragedy "Orestes," in which a son slays a mother in revenge for the death of his father. Yavorsky had been cast for the lead role in "Orestes" at UCSD. According to newspaper articles, he left campus two weeks before it was to premiere, dropped from the cast when he became "grossly psychotic."
This talented ballplayer, poet and ambitious actor was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter. A judge ruled him innocent by reason of insanity, and Yavorsky spent years at Patton State Hospital in San Bernardino County. After his release, Yavorsky was in and out of custody, at one point escaping from a group home in downtown San Diego, taking off on a cross-country foray.
"He always seemed to have a classic, dramatic sense of life. He was an excellent writer and poet. Not rhymes about sunsets, but in the real, classic tradition of poetry. He wrote a lot about his father who had died, whom he had never known."
– USD English professor Dick Peacock on student Mark Yavorsky, from The San Diego Union, June 12, 1979
A few days ago, perched on the stoop of a house on Zola Street, Herzog, 66, emphasized more than once that the production, "My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done?" is not precisely from the Yavorsky case. "It's not a biopic," he said. "You never even see the actual crime."
There's no re-creation, either, of Yavorsky's escapades on the road after being released from Patton, taking off from the facility in San Diego, being arrested in Vermont after allegedly brandishing a knife in front of high school students.
Herbert Golder, a Boston University classics professor and regular Herzog collaborator, discovered the bizarre tale "serendipitously," he says, and wrote a screenplay called "My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done?" (the title having both biblical and Greek literary significance).
Produced by David Lynch, of "Twin Peaks" notoriety, it has been filming here with an impressive cast, including recent Oscar nominee Michael Shannon ("Revolutionary Road") in the Yavorsky role, the character's name changed to Brad McCullum. Of his actor, Herzog says, "He has emotional intelligence."
There have been locations at Balboa Park's Alcazar Garden, Paradise Valley Hospital in National City, a motel in San Ysidro, downtown's The Theatre Inc., a Tijuana hotel room and the San Diego-Coronado Bridge.
For years, Yavorsky's sanity was the subject of legal wrangling. In the late '90s, Herzog arranged an uneasy visit with him.
"He was argumentative," Herzog said. "I felt it imperative to keep a distance from him, to stay away." Yavorsky died in 2003.
"'Everything just kind of flowed for him,' a young man who wanted very much to star in whatever he did."
– Former USD basketball coach John Cunningham, who became friends with Yavorsky's half-brother, John Wathan, a Kansas City Royals catcher and manager, The San Diego Union, June 12, 1979
Filming in San Diego has impacted the cast, including Shannon, 35. "I'm very glad we're actually shooting here," the tall, lanky actor said during a break. "Me and Herb (screenwriter Golder) were driving around the other night (in Pacific Beach), and Herb said to me, 'That's the street Mark actually lived on.' It gave me a chill.
"San Diego has a distinctive character (he's been here often to see actress girlfriend Kate Arrington perform at The Old Globe). It's sedate and tranquil. A violent killing like this one set here makes the story all the more unusual."
Said Grace Zabriskie, 67, a co-star of HBO's "Big Love," who plays the slain mother in "My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done?": "It's exciting to know that we're actually doing it in the place where it happened."
On this day, the place is a cramped living room in a vintage Point Loma home. Herzog was holding up the action, keeping Shannon, Zabriskie, Irma P. Hall and Loretta Devine in dramatic character. The moment focused on this line from Zabriskie: "Brad tried to smother me with a pillow. I don't think he was kidding."
Cinematographer Peter Zeitlinger (consulting with Herzog in German), sound technicians and assorted assistants waited, too. There was the rumbling engines of another flight from Lindbergh Field inundating the environment.
Then, "Let's go! Take 7. Action!"
Outside on the front patio was the home's owner, Allen Whichard, a semiretired computer consultant. A producer scouting locations knocked on his door to ask if the company could take over his place for a few days. They'd be paid a small fee. He and wife Marcie agreed and stayed out of the way while the crew dragged wires and equipment around their vintage residence.
"These people are absolutely wonderful," Whichard said. "They always ask before they do anything and are extremely careful."
The production created fervor among those in the neighborhood, folks ducking under the yellow police tape roping off Zola Street near Willow to peer from a distance at the activity, spotting over a couple of weeks actors such as Willem Dafoe and Chloe Sevigny.
"Usually, the biggest excitement around here is the spillover from Rock Church parking," said Prudence Horne, a painter, whose home is up the street. She was hanging out the other day near the action undisturbed.
Producer Eric Bassett, a partner in Lynch's production company, said there were plans to shoot in Coronado: "They made it difficult for us, their whole board. We ended up saving money moving to San Diego (the film's budget is under $10 million)." It's scheduled for release in June.
"'A brilliant scholar' accused of stabbing his mother to death with an antique sword June 10 sobbed quietly yesterday as the judge ruled him insane. He was quoted by psychiatrists as saying he killed his mother to protect her from an expected nuclear holocaust."
– The San Diego Union, Aug. 7, 1979
Herzog takes on an interview like he might a movie – considering questions and turning them inside out. When asked if Yavorsky was paranoid, the director answered, "Maybe the rest of the world is paranoid." How will the plot play out? "It'll end when it naturally does."
The actors were not here for the money but a chance to work with a legendary director. "Nobody makes films like he does," Shannon said. "It's an exciting challenge, all his different shots and angles. He wants to see things happen. We're both drawn to stories of people dealing with crises, people not sitting around enjoying themselves and having a cup of tea."
Despite his big-time marketability, Shannon is comfortable with small films like this one. "The more money that's involved," he says, of Hollywood blockbuster budgets, "more people are swarming around making sure it's palatable for everyone in America.
"Here, you can take more chances."
Said Zabriskie, still in her character's bathrobe, during a lunch break, "Werner is on an extremely short list of directors I surely hoped to work with, because his approach is so clean, on his own terms. Then there's all his unique films. He's not under anyone's control, not even his own. He's in every moment. He doesn't see what's wrong but what could be better. He sees opportunities."
The cast and crew were staying at a Best Western on Shelter Island. "It's like open-heart surgery," Herzog said of the way he works, "whispers only, nobody makes a ruckus, no cell phones. All of us here do these films with our heart."
He can bristle, though, when during a scene someone outside inadvertently walks by a window. "Quite a few glitches," he says, after a curt, "Cut!"
Herzog approaches his work in a free-form kind of way, the script a guide to which he's not necessarily attached. He stressed that the movie might have emerged from the Yavorsky case but it's only a means to explore the kind of obsessive, dark issues considered in his films like "Grizzly Man" and "Fitzcarraldo."
"About 70 percent of the script is false (not taken from the Yavorsky story), loosely made up," he said. And being in San Diego, said Herzog, unwilling to acknowledge the city's significance to the story, "was just a matter of convenience and not because the original story was set here. It's a friendly environment, close to L.A. for supplies."
Headed back to his actors, Herzog cajoles a visitor: "Don't tell what the story is. Just say it's simply Greek tragedy."
"You had at one time great promise. You were an outstanding athlete at USD, an actor at The Old Globe Theatre, and you showed great promise as both an athlete and an actor. I hope you will in time become a wholesome, productive factor in the community. It will take time and effort on your part."
– Superior Court Judge Norbert Ehrenfreund, during a parole hearing for Mark Yavorsky, from a San Diego Union article, Oct. 6, 1984
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Decluttering the Kitchen
As we begin our third week of the 40 Bags in 40 Days Challenge, I'm realizing I need more focus. Instead of using last year's check sheet where I do a different area each day for 40 days, I need to spend some deep quality time focusing on just one room. That's why this week, I have decided to focus my attention on our kitchen.
We have a large eat-in kitchen that also serves as our homeschool room for part of the day. It's also the dumping ground as the kids come in from playing outside, so this time of year there are hats, gloves, and boots all over the place too. After living with the mess for the past few months, I'm over it!
Over the course of the week, I'm going to tackle my kitchen! I have broken the project down into 10 tasks so that I don't get overwhelmed or bite off too much on any single day.
- Hats, boots, and other winter gear will be put away
- All scouting stuff will go to the proper shelves in the basement
- Deal with all of the paper clutter
- Clear off the flat surfaces – counters & the table
- Declutter the pantry & fridge
- Reorganize the pantry
- Wipe out the fridge
- Clean the range & oven
- Wipe down the cabinets
- Mop the floors
It's going to take me a full week to conquer this space. I hate that the kitchen (more the dining room side) has become this much of a project, but better to deal with it now and have a clutter-free and tidy home in time for Easter guests in a few weeks.
What room are you going to focus on this week?
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The United States government – a wholly-owned subsidiary of the tiny US capitalist class, whose top 450 or so members own over 50% of US wealth – likes to pose as a benevolent government dedicated to the "freedom of the press". Of course, nothing could be further from the truth. The US Government has opposed a free press since the 1798 passage of the infamous "Alien and Sedition Acts" – signed into law by "Founding Father" John Adams and used by both Adams and Jefferson to gag those in the US news media of the day who dared to "defame" them in the pages of their newspapers.
Back then, in the early days of the formation of the US Government, there was a much more lively left opposition bourgeois press dedicated to "Republican" principles than their is today. Today's bourgeois press fully supports the rule of the US capitalist aristocracy – from Fox News to the New York Times, they all, in the last analysis, are loyal defenders of the class rule of the US capitalist class.
The latest revelations of the true nature of the "openness" and "freedom" of the US capitalist political system – provided by an employee of a subcontractor working for the Orwellian nightmare National Security Agency (NSA) , Edward Snowden – is proving, once again, that when it comes to defending even the most revolting behavior of the US capitalist class and its government agents, the US bourgeois press stands second to none. Though it has become obligatory for the editorial boards of every US news media outlet to "condemn" the massive domestic and international spying operations being carried out by the NSA, this criticism has been of the "loyal opposition" type. The pro-capitalist news media are united in their defense of the "right" of the US Government to spy on the "enemies of the state" – foreign and domestic – so long as that spying is being "monitored" by the elected representatives of "the people" and members of the supposedly "objective" judiciary. The vast foreign and domestic spying operations of the US Government "are necessary" in order to "defend" the US from "terrorists", they all opine.
Still, the NSA wants to make sure that these fawning, slavish "knights of the pen" in the capitalist media stay "on message" as the NSA seeks to derail any accidental development of any political movement by a rogue Congressman to timidly file down the razor-sharp teeth and fangs of the US "intelligence community". In spite of the long-running spectacle of the entire US news media tripping over their own tongues in an obsequious effort to prove their undying loyalty to the US capitalist class – even when it appears unmasked in the guise of a 21st-century version of the Spanish Inquisition – the NSA is going the extra distance it believes to be necessary in order to ensure that no virulently anti-police state journalism obtains a foothold in any dark corner of a newsroom anywhere. To that end it has helpfully produced a series of "talking points" memos and distributed them throughout the editorial offices of the land so that all the bootlicking defenders of the US police state can stay "en pointe".
The pro-capitalist reformist liberals at Techdirt – who are apparently "shocked, SHOCKED!" at the very idea that the massive spying operations of "their" US Government should be directed at THEM! – have attempted to keep the NSA's feet to the tepid breath of the US news media by releasing two of the NSA's "talking points" memos.
They (the memos, that is) are quite interesting and even amusing.
"What is everyone so worked up about"? asks the NSA, donning grandma's bedclothes. "There's nothing illegal going on – everything we've done has been lawfully conducted under the FISA act, which was signed into law by the very same Democratic and Republican Senators and Congressmen who today pretend to be shocked at what we're doing!" True enough.
The Democrats – caught presiding over a domestic spying operation every bit as intrusive as that which they once hypocritically reviled in the East German workers state… one that would make Richard Nixon blush – are now lining up to defend "their" police state, claiming that it's "necessary" in order to fight the terrorist groups that fellow Democrat Jimmy Carter unleashed on the world in order to combat the communist menace. The truly hideous Dianne Feinstein, long-serving Democratic Senator from "liberal" San Francisco, California and Chairman of the hilariously misnamed "Senate Intelligence Committee" makes no bones about it:
""A primary mission of the U.S. intelligence community is to detect and prevent terrorist attacks against the United States, and Congress works closely with the executive branch to ensure that the authorities necessary to keep our country safe are in place. One of these authorities is the 'business records' provision of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act under which the executive branch is authorized to collect 'metadata' concerning telephone calls, such as a telephone number or the length of a call. This law does not allow the government to listen in on the content of a phone call.
"The executive branch's use of this authority has been briefed extensively to the Senate and House Intelligence and Judiciary Committees, and detailed information has been made available to all members of Congress prior to each congressional reauthorization of this law.
"Ensuring security, however, must be consistent with respect for the constitutional rights of all Americans. The alleged FISA Court order contained in the Guardian article does not give the government authority to listen in on anyone's telephone call, nor does it provide the government with the content of any communication or the name of any subscriber. As with other FISA authorities, all information the government may receive under such an order would be subject to strict limitations. While our courts have consistently recognized that there is no reasonable expectation of privacy in this type of metadata information and thus no search warrant is required to obtain it, any subsequent effort to obtain the content of an American's communications would require a specific order from the FISA Court.
"The intelligence community has successfully used FISA authorities to identify terrorists and those with whom they communicate, and this intelligence has helped protect the nation. The threat from terrorism remains very real and these lawful intelligence activities must continue, with the careful oversight of the executive, legislative and judicial branches of government."
[Source: http://www.intelligence.senate.gov/press/record.cfm?id=343993 , "Feinstein, Chambliss Statement on NSA Phone Records Program", 6 June, 2013 dredged from sewer of Feinstein's Senate website]
This is what voting for the "lesser of two evils" gets you. It is interesting to note that while Feinstein – who has been one of the principal architects of the US police state 'lo these many years – claims that the NSA's continual monitoring of every form of telecommunication carried out by every US citizen capable of using the Internet has "identified terrorists" and "helped protect the nation" she does not mention a single verifiable instance of such ever happening, while the NSA claims that it has, by collecting every email, blog post and phone call in the US, actually stopped "at least one" terrorist attack. Of course, they won't give any details to back up that assertion, either, because if they told the world about it, then they'd have to have the CIA kill us all.
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Kim Kardashian is once again facing criticism from members of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) -- this time, though, it's not for fur. Instead, the reality star was seen sporting Christian Loubitan boots made out of real python skin.
"They'd go well with a Dalmatian-fur coat, which is also illegal to sell in California and immoral to sell anywhere else," PETA representative Wendy Wegner said in a prepared statement, according to Gossipcop.com, which reported Kim was spotted wearing the boots in Paris while shopping with boyfriend Kanye West.
Kardashian isn't the first celebrity to be criticized for wearing snakeskin as an accessory. Jessica Simpson, Catherine Zeta Jones and Lindsay Lohan have all been the subject of PETA's ire for doing so in the past.
Last November, when Reese Witherspoon was seen carrying a $4,000 python skin bag, PETA promptly made her aware of the process by which such items are made, which they say can include the animal being nailed to a tree and skinned alive. The organization sent Witherspoon a video, narrated by her "Walk the Line" co-star Joaquin Phoenix, about the treatment of reptiles for the sake of fashion. Soon after, Witherspoon issued a statement saying she'd never wear the bag again.
Kardashian, on the other hand, already has quite the storied past with PETA, and its unlikely she'll be ditching her boots any time soon. The reality star has been the subject of PETA's criticism many times for her love of fur. The group gave her a "Celebrity Grinch Award" during the holidays this past year, and prior to that, they erected a billboard in Beverly Hills featuring a photo of her wearing fur alongside a picture of some fox cubs.
"Kim: These babies miss their mother. IS SHE ON YOUR BACK?" the billboard read.
Kim's sister, Khloe Kardashian, was previously a strong supporter of PETA -- even posing nude for them at one point. But Khloe and PETA parted ways this past spring after her sister was the target of a flour-bombing attack.
PETA said they had nothing to do with the incident, though they did offer to pay the legal fees of the woman responsible if criminal charges were filed.
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