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When Charles Bovary first meets his future wife Emma, she is resting in the parlor of her father's farmhouse surrounded by bags of wheat and the incongruous images of oriental and mythological figures. This is not, we are invited to think, your typical farmer's daughter. Here is a young woman whose imagination feeds on Turks and Olympian gods. Charles, on the other hand, responds to more common motives. Already married at this point in the novel, he has come to mend Emma's father's broken leg. Reflecting on his meeting with Emma a page later he attempts to explain away his aroused interest by attributing "his zeal to the gravity of the case, or perhaps to the profit he hoped to make from it" (p. 15). In fact, the narrator introduces this reflection as a hypothetical by prefacing it with "Had he thought of it." Charles seems to lack even the imagination and curiosity to investigate his feelings of arousal. This brief scene with its suggestion of adultery and with the mismatched imaginative faculties of its two actors foreshadows the disastrous union the two will soon make.
Charles's thoughts of profit also introduce a central theme in the novel: the entanglement of love and money. Money is inscribed in most of the marriages in the novel. When Charles's first wife dies and her legacy is discovered to be a fraction of what was promised, the Bovary parents are outraged. Later Emma's father accepts Charles as a suitor because, inter alia, he "would probably not haggle too much over the dowry" (p. 21). Flaubert even hints at this relationship in his choice of name. Bovary with its echo of "bovine" suggests that Emma, or any marriageable woman, is akin to a dairy cow to be traded and bartered with. Readers should remember that Madame Bovary was written in the mid-nineteenth century when marriage was more of an economic contract than a relationship based on love or emotional compatibility. The tension between the claims of conventional marriage and amorous love has been exploited by poets and novelists since the Middle Ages but it was the Romantic movement in the early nineteenth century that first challenged conventional assumptions for a wide reading public. Emma, demonstrably part of that reading public, spends most of her life rebelling against societal expectations and searching for an enduring passionate relationship. These designs, alas, end in disappointment when her lovers show as much petty concern with money and status as any of the ordinary townsfolk. The most poignant twining of love and money is the fact that Emma is quite literally killed by broken promissory notes: those promises of a new life in Italy betrayed by Rodolphe, and those lines of credit she is unable to repay the evil merchant Lhereux. Both betrayals of trust converge at the novel's end leaving Emma seemingly without any hope.
Emma's refusal to accept the conventions of marriage is part and parcel of her rebellion against the oppressively dull world of the petit bourgeois. As Emma confides in the young law student Leon, "I detest common heroes and moderate feelings, the sort that exist in real life" (p. 73). And no one better epitomizes that dull middle class and its obsessions with money and social status than the pharmacist Homais. Despite interfering with and bungling several medical procedures, despite being directly responsible for the wrongful sentencing of a poor vagabond, and despite being implicated in Emma's suicide, at the novel's end Homais receives the vaunted cross of the Legion of Honor. The irony of Homais's success is not lost on Emma who goes in search of people more worthy of the mantle of heroism. Her first lover Rodolphe seems at first to walk out of the pages of a Sir Walter Scott novel when he says to Emma "In fact there are two moralities . . . the conventional one, the one devised by men. . . . But the other one, the eternal one, is all around and above us, like the landscape that surrounds us and the blue sky that gives us light" (p. 126). Rodolphe, who proves to be a cad, simply employs poetic language in the service of seduction. Later in the novel, after her affair with Rodolphe fades, a more jaded and withered Emma begins to see the false seductions of art and life. At the opera, seeing an adaption of Scott's novel The Bride of Lammermoor, "She now knew the pettiness of the passions which art exaggerated" (p. 197). Both art and life, she realizes, are inadequate in their own ways.
Unfortunately, she encounters her old flame Leon and quickly forgets the hard-won lessons about the dangers of mixing art and life. Their affair ends similarly in disappointment. In fact, most human endeavors in the novel end in monotonous tedium. Lassitude, a word borrowed from the French, is repeated numerous times in the novel; even Charles utters the word once. No sooner is Emma married than she becomes "thoroughly disillusioned" with marriage (p. 34), and Charles's passionate love for her falls into a predictable pattern, "like a dessert course foreseen in advance, after the monotony of dinner" (p. 37). The repetitiousness of life gnaws at even the promising young law student Leon who declaims "How bored I am!" (p. 83). Shortly after their first passionate embrace, Emma and Rodolphe behave "like a married couple calmly tending a domestic flame" (p. 149). Rodolphe, no less vain or shallow than most other characters, nonetheless is associated with the novel's most profound meditation on the nature of love and desire: "the charm of novelty, slipping off gradually like a piece of clothing, revealed in its nakedness the eternal monotony of passion" (p. 167). The novel suggests that all human relationships, all of life's most arousing moments eventually end in unbearable tedium.
Tedium hardly makes for interesting reading. But this was the challenge Flaubert, encouraged by his friend Louis Bouilhet, explicitly presented to himself. Instead of drawing upon the exotic material of myth or ancient history, Flaubert chose the very prosaic story of adultery set in an ordinary provincial village. The novel's success would rest not on its subject matter but on its formal beauty, its style. Flaubert enhances the theme of tedium in a number of ways, including in the coupling of scenes. For example, the seduction of Emma by Leon against the backdrop of the church and its prattling cleric parallels the earlier seduction by Rodolphe against the inane speeches of the officials at the agricultural fair. At the end of part II Emma is read her last rites; at the end of part III she is pronounced dead. Flaubert's choice of verb tense also calls attention to the theme of repetitiousness. As Lydia Davis notes in her introduction, Flaubert often employs the imparfait, or imperfect tense, which describes a repeated rather than a completed action. Finally, the novel's recurring imagery highlights the enervating monotony of its characters' lives. No more affecting or haunting image is that of the vessel subjected to the repetitively rocking forces beyond its control. The carriage ride that whirs around in circles as Emma and Leon consummate their relationship; the image of "an empty cask carried out to sea and rolling about in the waves," (p. 161) to which Charles compares himself in a state of psychological duress; the image of the "vessel pitching" (p. 180), used to describe a reeling Emma after seeing Rodolphe's farewell letter; the Bovary house, emptied by Lhereux's creditors; the three caskets, each containing another empty vessel-these are but a few of the images which help tie the formal components of the novel together. The effect on the reader is not one of lassitude but of wonder and aesthetic pleasure.
Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880) was born in Rouen, France, the younger son of a provincial doctor. At age eighteen he was sent to study law in Paris but was afflicted with a mysterious nervous ailment and retired after only three years to live with his widowed mother. Supported by a private income, he devoted himself to his writing. The success of Madame Bovary, his first novel, was ensured when it was deemed immoral by the French government. Flaubert went on to write Salammbô, Sentimental Education, and Three Tales, and his fame and reputation grew steadily after his death with the publication of his unfinished comic masterpiece Bouvard and Pécuchet and the many remarkable volumes of his correspondence.
Lydia Davis is the author of one novel and seven story collections, the most recent of which was a finalist for the 2007 National Book Award. Her stories were recently brought together in one volume, The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis, which was selected as a best book of 2009 by The New York Times Book Review, Los Angeles Times, and San Francisco Chronicle. In 2003 she was awarded the French-American Foundation Translation Prize for her translation of Marcel Proust's Swann's Way. She won the prize again in 2011 for her translation of Madame Bovary. Her other honors include a MacArthur Fellowship and a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government for her fiction and her translations. She lives near Albany, New York.
Q. You mentioned that you had examined Flaubert's working drafts of Madame Bovary. As a novelist yourself, did you disagree with any of Flaubert's final editorial decisions? Were you especially perplexed by any?I was usually too intent on discovering the history of certain passages, and often the answer to some puzzle-why was Charles stamping his foot against the wall of his room?-to stand back and make a judgment about whether or not Flaubert should have done what he did in a particular sentence. But his earlier drafts were almost always much longer, more descriptive, than his final versions-he would often cut whole pages-and although sometimes he left out some information that would have clarified the final passage, in general I would say his restraint, the fact that he kept the writing more economical and terse throughout the novel, gave it a greater emotional force.
Q. In a recent interview, you said that you didn't find Emma "admirable or likeable." Could you elaborate on this? Has your opinion of her changed since your translation published?As a reader of a novel, as you suspend your disbelief, you warm to a character or you don't like-or you have mixed feelings, of course, just as you do about people in real life. Many readers of Madame Bovary do warm to Emma. My reaction to her, in the end, was mixed. It is hard not to feel some admiration and sympathy for a person so driven by desperation that she is brave enough to take her own life and who is thoughtful enough to examine her sensations as she is doing it. But of course she is not a real person, so I am at the same time reacting to Flaubert's artistic skill in portraying her as she evolves through the course of the novel. As I translate, I generally have two reactions operating in tandem: the general reader's reaction to the material of the novel, and at the same time a writer's reaction to the problems posed by the text, the beauties of the text, and the satisfactions of the translation.
Q. What was the single most difficult sentence, or word, in the novel to translate?There are a number of words in French that are as useful to French sentence structure as they are difficult to translate, one of them being dont, meaning "of which," "concerning which," "about which," etc. It would take me a page to explain how handy that word is in French for creating a graceful subordinate structure and how utterly graceless it is when translated literally into English. But as for sentences in Madame Bovary, one of the very hardest was one of the shortest: the sentence announcing Emma's death: "Elle n'existait plus." Literally, that would be: "She no longer existed." But that is a tough one to write if you want it to have some emotional impact. In the end, I chose to translate it "She had ceased to exist"-which extended the original just a little. "She was no longer" would be another decent one, still within the parameters of a close translation. The temptation to step outside those parameters (which one occasionally has to do, of course) and to enhance the sentence, or to sentimentalize it or romanticize it-"she was gone"; "she had departed this life"-simply had to be avoided.
Q. You confided that it took some persuading before you accepted the invitation to translate Madame Bovary. Why did you hesitate? Do you have plans for another translation project in the future?When the suggestion was first made, I was still reeling from the enormous project of translating Proust's Swann's Way. I needed a long break. But when the suggestion came up again, I missed translating-the long, steady engagement with a superlative text, the opportunity both to solve a word puzzle and to write a good sentence in English-so I agreed to do it. I will probably not, however, take on another long translation project in the future, since I have a long project of my own under way.
Q. Is there a particular aspect of Flaubert's style you had hoped to convey in your translation? Do you think you were successful?There are a couple of aspects of his style that I particularly admire, one being its economy and the other the beauty of the detail in his descriptions. By staying very close to the original text, especially to the order in which his sentences unfolded and to the material of the text itself-adding nothing and subtracting nothing-I think I did succeed in conveying both of these aspects to a large degree, though you always do lose something in a translation.
Q. Many readers will inevitably compare this translation with your lauded translation of Proust's Swann's Way. Could you briefly characterize the differences in translating Flaubert and Proust?In both cases, my attempt was to stay very close to the original text while writing English that was both natural and forceful. One difference was that in the case of the Proust, this was the first time I had worked so "deeply" on a text-I felt it deserved all the time I needed to take, and all the concentration on a single sentence or, often, a single word. One of the challenges in the Proust was to retain the elaborate constructions of the long sentences with their many subordinate clauses. But the extravagance and lyricism of his prose was a pleasure, and in his own way he is just as concise as Flaubert-there are many words, but no unnecessary ones. One of the main challenges in translating Flaubert was the opposite-to be as terse as he is, as in the example I gave above, of the announcement of Emma's death, and make it work in English.
Q. Does this novel mean something different to French readers today than Anglo-American ones? Is there something cultural that is inevitably lost in translation?There will always be cultural associations that resonate for readers of the original text and are absent for readers of the translation, and a constant question for a translator is whether, and how, to attempt to reproduce or explain these associations. Some translators incorporate explanations "silently" in the text by adding an identification-for instance, "dance hall" in the reference "La Chaumière dance hall"; others substitute a more universal, and presumably more recognizable, reference for a more local one-for instance "Salome" in place of "Marianne dancing"; others retain the original text and supply explanations in footnotes. In the case of my translation, I retained the original text and supplied these explanations in the form of "blind" end notes-i.e. notes at the back of the book not signaled by any mark on the page of the novel. I have never liked the intrusion of scholarly apparatus in an edition of a novel that is not meant to be for the scholar so much as for the general reader. Some readers like this approach, while others would rather be alerted when there is a note at the back of the book.
Q. Flaubert famously declared that "a good sentence in prose should be like a good line in poetry, unchangeable." His exacting style and attention to detail must have put enormous pressure on you as a translator. Did you keep such pronouncements in mind as you worked? Do you think Flaubert himself was always faithful to such pronouncements? Does he ever prove to be a mere mortal?I did not feel under greater pressure translating Flaubert than I did translating Proust or, years before, the novels and essays of Maurice Blanchot. Any really fine writer demands the same level of care from a translator. As for the "unchangeable" sentence-the task of the translator seems to involve just the opposite, an acceptance of the changeability of a sentence: first, there is the radical change of the sentence from French to English, then the testing of any number of possible alternatives in English until a satisfactory one is found. And if you look at the many previous translations of Madame Bovary, you will see how many different possibilities there are for every single sentence of the book-in the view of each translator, presumably, the best alternative. I do think that Flaubert's many drafts show how carefully he worked to achieve the sentence that seemed uniquely right to him. And I don't remember coming upon a sentence that seemed careless or clumsy, though I may be forgetting some. (There is general consensus, on the other hand, that entire novels of his were less compelling than Madame Bovary and certain stylistic approaches of his a mistake-but surely a conscientious choice on his part.)
Q. Among the many previous translations of the novel, was there one in particular you had hoped to surpass in accuracy and readability?My aim was simply to stay as close as possible to the original and at the same time to write an English version that would be fully alive. I admired many of the previous translations at many moments, and did not actively want to surpass any one in particular. In the case of the Proust, the situation was different, since there was really only one available previous translation, the C. K. Scott Moncrieff, and its style was quite different from, and unrepresentative of, the original-thus terribly misleading to the Anglo-American reader who wanted to experience Proust. I felt it was very important that it be replaced by a version closer to Proust.
Q. The New York Times review of your translation, which referred to Emma as "a covetous, small-minded woman, incapable of love," stirred up a lot of reaction online and in print. Were you surprised how passionate readers feel about Flaubert's heroine?We are circling back to the second question, here. That description of Emma is not inaccurate, but it is incomplete, and, as I said, one can have sympathy even for a character who is not generally admirable. It is natural for readers to become emotionally involved in the story Flaubert is telling, and that is part of the pleasure; yet it is important to retain enough disbelief, at the same time, to enjoy what he is doing technically-in his sparklingly specific descriptions, his artful transitions, his balancing of thematic elements and motifs, his sly humor.


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Don't swipe right on a scammer this Valentine's Day, residents warned
LOOKING for an online date this Valentine's Day?
Be careful.
Central West residents are advised to tread with caution as romance scammers are looking for prey on social media applications such as Tinder, Facebook Messenger and Viber.
Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) deputy chair Delia Rickard says women are particularly at risk of losing money to romance scams.
"Scamwatch data shows they [women] are four times more likely to report losing money compared with men," Ms Rickard said.
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Central West Police District crime manager Detective Inspector Bruce Grassick said the number of reported scams has remained stable in his area.
"But people are often embarrassed to report money scams," Detective Inspector Grassick said.
"People are advised to report the matter to the authorities.
"They should not transfer any money electronically or otherwise to persons they meet over the internet, and don't give others access to internet passwords and financial accounts."
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A report from Scamwatch showed lonely hearts lost $24.6 million to romance scammers last year – a 20 per cent increase on 2017.
"Women reported a total financial loss of almost $20 million, while men reported a total loss of nearly $5 million," it said.
"People aged 45 to 64 years were the most affected."
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A NSW Police spokesperson said scammers are preying on people through online dating sites, social media and email.
"These dating scams often involve fake profiles or accounts, with the scammer posing as a romantic prospect," the spokesperson said.
"Romance and dating scams can be especially devastating for people as they've not only been duped financially, but also emotionally."
The spokesperson encouraged people to report these scams.
"Our investigators don't judge. All they want is to help bring scammers to justice."
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Ms Rickard said romance scammers begin by establishing trust to form a relationship, then start making up stories about needing money to help cover costs associated with illness, injury, business expenses, duty or customs fees, legal costs, family costs, and travel.
"Finding potential new love is exhilarating, but that can make it easy to miss the red flags that point to you falling for a scammer," Ms Rickard said.
Finding potential new love is exhilarating but that can make it easy to miss the red flags that point to you falling for a scammerAustralian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) deputy chair Delia Rickard
"Be careful. If someone you don't know makes contact on social media and presents themselves as a 'too good to be true' catch, it's likely they've done some research on you beforehand to find out things about you to create an instant bond."
Advice from NSW Police:
- Consider the possibility that the initial contact is a scam.
- Do an image (Google) search on your admirer to determine if they really are who they say they are.
- Be alert to things like spelling and grammatical mistakes and/or inconsistencies in stories.
- Other signs of a scam include the camera not working for Skype or other chat, and dramatic or elaborate excuses for not being able to meet in person (and repeated excuses).
- Don't fall for their 'sob' stories, regardless of how convincing they sound.
- Do not agree to transfer money for someone else. This is considered money laundering and is a criminal offence.
- Be wary of requests for money. Never send money, give credit card details, online account details, or copies of important personal documents to anyone you don't know or trust or haven't met.
- Be careful about how much personal information you share on social networking sites. Scammers often use these details and pictures to create a fake identity or to target you with a scam. Never volunteer your personal details or phone number.


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DIY: Home staging can mean a quicker sold sign
In real estate sales, maximizing profits often means maximizing the product.
Home buyers generally want to see fresh, clean, updated homes that are move-in ready with plenty of appeal -- from the curb to door and throughout the house.
But this doesn't happen without effort. As homes age, they can appear drab and worn. Sellers need to keep a watchful eye and take on projects that add to the value and attract buyers.
"You only have one chance to wow a buyer," said Nancy Jones, owner of Showhomes Triad NC, a franchise of Nashville Showhomes, a home-staging company, www.showhomestriadnc.com. "Even small things have a big impact on the buyer. They tell them that the home was cared for."
Three of the top projects that can make a significant difference are relatively simple, according to Jones. She recommends painting the interior with neutral tones, renovating hardware to be consistent throughout the house and replacing aging light fixtures, exhaust fans, and smoke alarms.
Trim that has yellowed or hardware that has rusted will make your home appear dated and neglected. Something as simple as switching out old, almond-colored receptacle plates for new, white ones will brighten up the home.
It is estimated that only 10 percent of homebuyers can visualize what a house might look like with updates complete and with their own furnishings inside. The vast majority of buyers won't be able to see through the clutter, dirt, dated items or variety of colors found in many homes.
Decluttering is essential, even to the point of depersonalization. Remove all unnecessary items and leave well-placed furniture and artwork to shine in a neutral setting.
"In most cases, it doesn't have to be remodeled," said Frances Giaimo, a realtor with Berkshire Hathaway in Greensboro. "Just organize it. Clean it. The presentation is what you're going for."
Giaimo finds this makes all the difference, reporting that a staged house may sell within a week of going on the market whereas as an unstaged house may sit for five to six months. "You will get a higher price by staging your home," Giaimo said. "Today, buyers want a turn-key situation. They don't have time or resources for fixer-uppers."
This resonates with Jones who said that staged homes sell 60-percent faster.
Jones recommends that sellers keep their homes occupied if at all possible. That way there is someone there to maintain the property and it doesn't take on a vacant-home smell. Plus, there are other benefits. Homeowner's insurance rates are higher on a vacant home.
"Buyers are not wowed by a vacant home. When we have an empty house, the house seems smaller," said Earla Clark, a realtor with Keller Williams Realty in Kernersville. "If you have a homeowner who can't see how furniture will look and fit into a home, having that home staged makes all the difference in the buyer's mind."
But staging isn't just for the interior of the home.
"Buyers have to be sold on the outside before you can sell them on the inside," said Clark, who advises pressure washing your house, deck, walkways and driveway. "This makes a huge difference."
De-cluttering the exterior is also important. Make sure trashcans are not visible from the street. Get rid of old patio furniture. Paint or replace the mailbox. Remove piles of leaves or wood, and make sure landscaping is trimmed back and neat.
Home staging companies are popping up more and more as the housing market has changed.
"I've been doing this for 28 years, but when the economy started to change I had to rethink my marketing strategy," Giaimo said. "I employed a team of designers, organizers, painters, plumbers and stagers to market homes so they show their very best."
Showhomes Triad NC offers four home-staging services for both vacant and occupied properties. Starting with updating, the company guides sellers and realtors through the painting and flooring options to neutralize the home. Colors that have been enjoyed by one owner may be a turn-off to potential buyers and should be traded out for warm, neutral colors with wide appeal. Replacement of countertops may also be considered as desirable during an update.
A makeover may be in order to utilize existing furniture and redesign the home using new trends, color choices, fabrics and furniture placement.
For vacant homes, staging means to furnish and strategically place furniture in a manner appropriate to the home, adding artwork and fresh accessories.
Finally, Showhomes is able to match high-end vacant homes with individuals or families who have beautiful furnishings and artwork who are in need of temporary housing. These people become home-staging managers. Individuals in ransition such as medical students, residents, fellows, or newcomers who haven't decided what area of town to live in provide win-win services by occupying and maintaining vacant homes for sale. In some cases, if the home managers don't have their own furniture and artwork, the company will arrange for furniture rental and stage the house accordingly.
"We tailor the work needed to the needs of the home and the homeowner's budget," Jones said. "Maybe it's as simple as a consultation and picking out colors.
"The company's biggest goal is to help homeowners sell their homes faster and for more money," Jones said. "If you stage your home from the beginning, you sell it quicker and you don't go through price reductions. Also, when buyers see a home on the market for more than 30 days, they question what is wrong with it."
Clark points out that in today's market and technology, realtors must first appeal to online viewers. "The photos must be phenomenal. Staging helps with that."


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I've made an EP called Answer Me! It has six simple little love songs played on the ukulele, with lyrics about monsters and demons, intelligent machines and ignorant people. You can download it here in any format you want, and I'm releasing it as "name your price", so if you want you can throw some change my way! Or you could help me out by posting this on your facebook or blog or anywhere at all (just hit the "share" button below)! Anyway, I hope you like this thing I recorded in my bedroom.
By the way I'm releasing this under Creative Commons BY-NC-SA so feel free to make covers and remixes! You can find a lot of the lyrics and chords at awesomepedia.org/songs. Here are some things you didn't know about the songs:
Answer Me was written as a response to the challenge "write a song from the perspective of an inanimate object", and picking an answering machine was sort of a way of cheating myself out of that premise. The singer could be a futuristic answering machine with an actual AI, but I prefer to think of him as an anthropomorphized old-fashioned answering machine, like we did in the music video. And of course the whole thing is a not-so-subtle metaphor for someone on the sidelines or in the "friend zone".
I don't really know where Feet came from - it's the one song on the EP that doesn't tell a distinct story. It's a slightly ironic expression of enthusiasm for the unknown, and about understanding nothing yet seeing meanings in everything. In that sense it works as a counter-pole to my earlier Nihilist Birthday Song, which expresses the exact opposite. The feel of the recording we made for the EP is a bit sloppy but I always felt the song worked best with this unbridled enthusiasm, like it's almost breaking apart. The song features my friends Thea, Simon and Tobbe, who also appear in the music video.
Katherine is a song about how things die, and about sleeping dogs and why we should let them lie. (Psst! It's actually it's about demons and possession and Frankenstein-creatures!) The obvious metaphor THIS time is that of trying to rekindle an old flame and things not working out the way you hoped.
The Machine is a song I wrote about a machine that is able to calculate anyone's perfect soulmate (but sometimes we don't want perfection). The audio for this track on the EP is actually from this video - it's the only "live" video I've made that actually got good sound.
Worst Love Song is a brand new song - you haven't heard it anywhere else, folks! As the title suggests it is the worst love song ever written, as you'll probably be able to tell from the first line. It's also sort of about finding comfort in cynicism.
#79 is the the latest in a series of failed love songs written by the same person, for the same person. It's the last song on the EP and also the one I wrote last, which shows, since it's a bit more complex than the others (and about twice as long). Here's a fun fact: I threw in an out-of-place homophobic line because I never want to make a character too likeable. I don't like people without flaws. They bore me.
The plan for the future is to make another EP (of about the same length) and then combine the best songs from both into an album, which gets properly produced with a lot more instruments and better microphones and so on. If you want this to happen you should download and spread this EP. Because it cheers me up and keeps me going. And because it's my birthday today.
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Greenwich author asks tough questions in new book
GREENWICH — Bombastic, anti-immigrant election rhetoric. Post-traumatic stress disorder among veterans. Winning or doing the right thing.
Greenwich young adult author Sarah Darer Littman tackles these hot-button themes in her newest young adult book, "Anything But Okay."
Littman's book, her sixth for Scholastic Press, hit shelves Tuesday. In it, Stella, a high school junior, runs in a school election that is impacted by a concurrent national election resembling the presidential race of 2016. The second plot follows her older brother, Rob, a veteran of the war in Afghanistan whose struggles with PTSD affects his parents, veterans themselves.
"It's a timely, topical book, the characters are well-written and well-developed," Greenwich High School Library Media Specialist Alexandra Stevens said. "Even if you're not a teenager, it's a window into some of the things happening in schools today. It might even be a good book for an adult to read and then talk about with their kids."
In recent years, middle-grade literature has confronted modern problems with increasing frequency and candor.
"It's much scarier for young people when adults are trying to tell them everything is OK when they know it isn't," Littman said. "Being honest in an age-appropriate way is, to me, a better strategy than pretending problems don't exist."
For "Anything But Okay," she asked herself two questions: Why does the U.S. pay to send troops to war but not take care of its returning veterans? And: What does it means to be a patriot?
"I'm trying to find answers for myself, not necessarily trying to tell others what the answers are," she said. "My hope is they at least start conversations, and I think that's something that literature does so well."
Both questions are personal: The first reacts to the story of an acquaintance, a disillusioned Air Force veteran who served in Afghanistan and came back with health issues but was denied disability; the second responds to hate mail she received over years as a political columnist — including for Greenwich Time and the Stamford Advocate.
One piece of hate mail she received told her she "was using the American way of life to destroy the American way of life and the rest of civilization in the process."
"I found that very confusing," she said. "I thought I was being a patriot, doing my job as a journalist by questioning some of what I saw happening."
The dynamic between the veterans in the family in particular interested Stevens.
"I thought that the way she portrayed what veterans are dealing with was something that a lot of teens, especially in the Northeast, don't have a lot of experience with," she said.
The book, which Littman said is her most political so far, stems from her virtual classroom visits in which she talks about cyberbullying, the topic of her last book, "Backlash."
Most kids raise their hands when she asks if they have been the subject of nasty comments online.
"I tell them we as adults have to model the behavior we want to see from you and we're doing a really lousy job of it," she said.
Teens are overwhelmed by the the world's problems and bombarded by them online, Stevens said. Fiction helps them confront these relevant topics at their own pace with a little distance from reality, she said.
"It's nice to have that safe space," she said.
Eastern Middle School has every book Littman has written, Library Media Specialist Karen Ball said. Her books, especially "Backlash," resonate with her students because Littman understands the adolescent mind, she said.
Middle school students know when someone tries to pander to them or talk down to them, but Littman writes with truth and honesty and her readers learn important lessons from her stories, Ball said.
"Kids going through certain things find what they need out of certain books," Ball said. "Every single one of her books has found readers that needed them."
There will be a book launch party for "Anything But Okay" at Barrett Books in Darien on Oct. 25 at 7 p.m.


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Microsoft recently released the Service Pack 1 for SQL Server 2016. If you use Analysis Services, installing this update is a no-brainer and you should do that as soon as possible. The reason are all related to memory management. Microsoft officially described this in a blog post on MSDN. I suggest you reading it, but let me describe in a more informal way why this update should be a priority for you.
Getting scalability over NUMA architecture is not easy, but this is a long awaited first step in the right direction. In any case, this update is a priority if you have SSAS Tabular 2016.
Hi Marco,
Our team currently has around a 600 Gig Tabular Cube with multiple Dimissions and multiple fact tables.. We are looking at installing the Service Pack update.
Besides Installing this new update to help with the NUMA Problems (We have had NUMA disabled on our servers since SQL 2016 non SP1 was not NUMA Aware. Are there any other SSAS Configurations that will help query performance in the system?
Our System has 4x 400 gig NUMA Cores in the system.
We will provide some Testing results, of before and after the Update for comparing how much this service pack improves the query performance.
Thank You
Hi Joseph, sorry for the delay, I didn't notice the comment before (I missed the notification mail for some reason). If you have 4 nodes, you should try to enable the NUMA nodes and make sure you reset to default values the HeapTypeForObjects and MemoryHeapType settings. After you install SP1, check what are the suggested default values, and reset the settings to them. In this way you will use the new allocator provided by SSAS 2016 SP1. The default value of new settings are already optimized for 4 NUMA nodes.
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David Haviland is a writer, editor, and ghostwriter, with a number of bestselling books to his name, which have been sold to publishers all over the world and widely serialised.
David has written a number of books of amusing trivia and popular science. The most recent, How To Remove A Brain (Summersdale, 2012), is a collection of fascinating stories and anecdotes concerning the history of medicine and health. This book was previously published by Penguin in the US as Why You Should Store Your Farts in a Jar.
David's next book is a myth-busting guide to history, revealing the truth behind many long-held fallacies, called The Not-So-Nude Ride Of Lady Godiva (Penguin, 2012). This book will also soon be published in the UK.
David has also collaborated with Francesca Gould on a number of amusing trivia books, including New York Times bestseller Why Is Yawning Contagious? (Piatus, 2007), Horny Lizards and Headless Chickens (Piatkus, 2009), and Self-Harming Parrots and Exploding Toads (Little, Brown, 2010).
The agency's fiction agent David Haviland has given an interesting interview to the Serial Writer blog, discussing writing, author submissions, and Rod Stewart.
David Haviland has contributed to an interesting article on how to construct characters, for First Draft, the newsletter of the Sisters in Crime group.
There's a nice piece on the agency's publishing imprint Thistle Books in the current issue of Writing Magazine.
'As we speak, I am in the process of publishing several different books, one with the very traditional HarperCollins – ("Secret Child", which I wrote with Gordon Lewis about his childhood in a home for single mothers in Dublin in the Fifties) – one with the selective, bespoke publisher Red Door – ("Chances", an erotic love story which I ghosted for the author known only as "Penny") – and one with Thistle Publishing, the enormously successful imprint run by literary agents Andrew Lownie and David Haviland, ("Pretty Little Packages" a novel about people-trafficking and modern slavery which was first published in 2001 under the title "Maisie's Amazing Maids").'
Jennifer Craig has won the latest IPR 'Agents Pick' competition for Yes Sister, No Sister: My Life as a Trainee Nurse in 1950s Yorkshire.
"Yes Sister, No Sister is an appealing, well written memoir about the life of a trainee nurse in the 1950s, with obvious similarities to the hugely popular Jennifer Worth." - David Haviland
David Haviland has chosen counterfactual WWII novel 'Waffen SS Britain' by Paul Hurley as the winner of this month's IPR Agent's Pick competition.
David Haviland has selected Joe Crawley's comic memoir More Ketchup than Salsa as the winner of this month's IPR Agent's Pick, describing the book as "A very funny tale of the expat experience… The prose is rich with irony, wit and comic absurdity."
The Andrew Lownie Literary Agency will be judging The Guardian's new monthly literary prize for self-published authors.
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IPR License, the global and digital marketplace for books rights, has announced that Warren Durrant has won the latest IPR License 'Agents Pick' for his memoir Across the Wide Zambezi.
Commenting on the winners book, David Haviland, agent at The Andrew Lownie Literary Agency, said: "This is a pacy, entertaining memoir, by turns fascinating and amusing, with an appealing narrative voice."
David Haviland has chosen Gil Hogg's espionage thriller Codename Wolf as the IPR Agent's Pick for December.
IPR License, the global and digital marketplace for books rights, has announced that Samsun Lobe has won the October 'Agents Pick' for his fantasy novel Ruin: Birth of a Legend.
Congratulations to David Haviland, who has been selected as one of The Bookseller's Rising Stars of 2013.
David Haviland selected Jill Darragh's The Case of the Distant Relative as the winner of this month's IPR Agent's Pick competition.
"This is an intriguing detective mystery, with an excellent sense of the historical period and context, engaging with powerful themes regarding women's emancipation and domestic abuse."
IPR License, the global and digital marketplace for books rights, has announced the result of its inaugural member 'Agents Pick' with the winner Amanda Sington-Williams, being approached by top literary agency Andrew Lownie…
"With some deeply weird, wonderful (and grisly) historical facts, plus extraordinary revelations to make us think and laugh-out-loud, best-selling author David Haviland explores the more murky, mucky and mirth-inducing aspects of history, from the ancient Greeks to the present day."
David Haviland is one of four literary agents judging the WowFactor 2013 competition for debut authors. The competition is being run by the Cornerstones Literary Consultancy.
'It's tough for a new writer to break into the publishing arena. But debut writers and self-publishing successes are great publicity hooks so we're feeling confident and excited about this competition,' says founder and co-director Helen Corner.
David Haviland's myth-busting guide to history Why Was Queen Victoria Such A Prude? has now been the number one book in all its categories for a month and a half.
David Haviland's Why Was Queen Victoria Such A Prude?, a collection of surprising historical trivia, has been selected for Amazon's March promotion, which means that the book will be available for one month for just 99p. Thanks to this promotion, Queen Victoria is currently the number one book in all its categories on Amazon. Queen Victoria was the first book to be published under the agency's new imprint Thistle Publishing.
The agency's new fiction agent David Haviland is featured on the cover of next month's Writers' Forum magazine.
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Firstly, thanks to everybody who kept their fingers crossed for the safe and timely arrival of the other half of the Tialys clan this Christmas. It worked!!
As you know, secret sewing (and crochet) projects had been in progress for a little while leading up to Christmas and I can now reveal the results – both good and bad.
I had acquired some cute Peter Rabbit fabric and, as the quote says 'Too Much Lettuce Makes Me Sleepy', what else could I make but pyjamas?
I chose a New Look pattern I'd used before but only had enough to make the shorts.
I did have enough to make some bias binding though ….
…….and some white broderie anglaise in my stash so used the free Colette Sorbetto pattern to make a little top to complete the set.
That was Mlle Tialys the Elder sorted but what about the Younger? Well, she's a bit of a home body and sometimes wraps a blanket round her shoulders when sitting at the desktop. I thought a shawl would be a bit more elegant so I downloaded the free pattern for the Grinda Shawl which is rather beautiful but, as I found out, more challenging than I expected as the yarn is finer than I'm used to using for crochet and the stitches more lacy.
This is as far as I got and that's after frogging it on numerous occasions.
It soon became obvious I wasn't going to finish it in time for Christmas. I have since become more adept and no longer feel like flinging it in the nearest bin so, hopefully, it will be ready for her birthday in February.
In the meantime, I needed something quick and it was a good opportunity to use some fleece that has been taking up room in my stash for some time.
I didn't have enough for a top and anyway, she would have looked like the Michelin Man with both pieces of the pyjamas in such thick fleece so I bought an RTW top in thinner fabric which matches well enough to make a set.
'But', I hear you ask, 'these projects don't explain the mangled looking piece of fabric you showed us and asked us to guess what it was going to be.'
Well, Kate's guess was the closest because she said – and I quote – 'is it one of those complicated lined garments where you turn it inside out through the shoulder seam?'
Yes! It is.
You join the inside and outside yokes together (I made the inside yoke in contrasting fabric), rolling up the fronts inside, like a burrito, and then pull it all out the right way. It's one of those magic things you can't believe is going to work – until it does.
The fabric is a chambray and, as Mr. T. already has a dark blue shirt with a similar floral design, I was fairly confident he'd like it. I used some scraps of Liberty tana lawn to face the inside yoke and the cuffs.
I was going to use ordinary buttons but thought pearl snaps would be a nice touch. The installation of these was hit and miss as I hammered a bit too hard occasionally and, on my first try, didn't line them up properly and had to take those on one side out again which was a bit scary.
I had made the shirt before as a short sleeved muslin so it was my first time making sleeve plackets and cuffs and I was quite pleased with how they came out.
I used the Colette pattern here and, as well as using their instructions which are very good, I followed a sew along over at Male Pattern Boldness which was also very helpful.
I feel as if my sewing skills have moved up a level over the past year or so. Better late than never I suppose!
So much so that, next year – in another 'never say never' project – I am going to embark upon a coat. Yes, you heard it right. I know I said I'd never make jeans or a coat and, even though I haven't shown you the jeans yet, as soon as I can get them on again after my Christmas indulgences, I will.
Mr. Tialys has not yet worn his shirt because I need to make an adjustment to the top stud which isn't staying closed (heavy handed use of the hammer again probably) so, no photo of him but here's Mlle T. the Elder sporting her new P.J.s and ending my final blog post of the year by wishing you all a very peaceful, prosperous, healthy, happy 2019 .


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"When you have to go potty, stop and go right away. Flush and wash and be on your way."
Daniel Tiger and his friend Katerina Kittycat are like a lot of young children — they don't always want to stop playing when they have to go to the bathroom. It can be hard to stop when they're having so much fun. But when they start to wiggle, it's time to Stop & Go Potty! With Daniel Tiger's Stop & Go Potty app, children will practice stopping their play when they have to go potty and learn important bathroom routines at the potty and sink.
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Ken Allan, associate professor of art history, and Charles Tung, associate professor of English, both presented at the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present conference at Wayne State University in Detroit, the theme of which was "The Arts of the City."
Allan, left, gave a paper on a 1968 museum exhibition designed by Frank Gehry for the pop artist Billy Al Bengston and the intertwining of Gerhy's postmodern experimentation and the underlying racial history of Los Angeles. Tung co-organized a pair of linked panels, Immaterial Cities I and II (Accretion and Flow), and presented "Pinholes, Scale, and Blurry Ontology," which contrasted time-lapse with pinhole photography in order to sketch an aesthetics of temporal immersion and blur.
Anticipating the possibility of organizing an interdisciplinary lecture series at Seattle University, Allan and Tung asked several scholars, who live in the Pacific Northwest or who will be nearby at various professional conferences, if they would visit SU to present their work. Allan and Tung envision a series of undergraduate learning opportunities and scholarly exchanges that focus on the topic of the contemporary and that bring together the students and faculty of art history, literature, history, and new media studies.
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Transcript Atoms and Periodic Table Review
Atoms and Periodic Table Review Dalton's Concept • John Dalton, an English schoolteacher proposed the following ideas about matter: 1. Matter is made up of atoms. *2. Atoms cannot be divided into smaller pieces. *3. All the atoms of an element are exactly alike. 4. Different elements are made of different kinds of atoms. • Dalton pictured an atom as a hard sphere that was the same throughout. Thomson's Atomic Model • Thomson pictured a sphere of positive charge. • The negatively charged electrons were spread evenly among the positive charge. • The atom is neutral. • Plum pudding model (chocolate chip cookie) Rutherford's Gold Foil Experiment Rutherford's Model • Most of atom is empty space • Electrons surrounding • Nucleus- very dense positively charged area. The Proton • In 1920 scientists identified the positive charges in the nucleus as protons. • A proton is a positively charged particle present in the nucleus of all atoms. Neutron • Electrons are very light weight • Mass of atom should be equal to the number of protons. • But mass is about 2X the number of protons • Hypothesized a new particle. neutron (NEW trahn), would have the same mass as a proton and be electrically neutral. The Electron Cloud Model • The new model of the atom allows for the somewhat unpredictable wave nature of electrons by defining a region where electrons are most likely to be found. • Electrons travel in a region surrounding the nucleus, which is called the electron cloud. Atoms by the Numbers • Atomic Number- the number of protons in an atom. (Z) • The mass number of an isotope is the number of neutrons plus protons. Also called the atomic mass. Designated A Isotope Identification Name of element followed by mass number identifies the isotope. • Hyphen notation • Carbon-14 or C-14 • • • Mass number Atomic number 14 6C C Development of the Periodic Table– Mendeleev's Table of Elements • A Russian chemist, Dmitri Mendeleev (men duh LAY uhf), published his first version of the periodic table 1869. • When Mendeleev arranged the elements in order of increasing atomic mass, he saw a pattern. • He noticed repeating patterns of properties. Moseley's Contribution • Although Mendeleev's table correctly organized most of the elements, a few elements (cobalt and nickel, tellurium and iodine) seemed out of place. • In the early twentieth century, the English physicist Henry Moseley realized that Mendeleev's table could be improved by arranging the elements according to atomic number rather than atomic mass. Today's Periodic Table • In the modern periodic table, the elements still are organized by increasing atomic number. • The rows or periods are labeled 1-7. • A period is a row of elements in the periodic table whose properties change gradually and predictably. Today's Periodic Table • The periodic table has 18 columns of elements. • Each column contains a group, or family, of elements. • A group contains elements that have similar physical or chemical properties. Element Key Color- book only not reference sheet Blue – Metal Green – Metalloid Yellow - Nonmetal • • • • • • • • • • • Common elements - Uncommon Names Sodium Potassium Iron Copper Silver Tin Antimony Tungsten Gold Mercury Lead Na K Fe Cu Ag Sn Sb W Au Hg Pb Review Electron Configuration • The properties of an element are determined by the arrangement of electrons in the outer energy level. • The number of electrons in the outer energy level of main group elements can be determined by the group number of the element. • Group 1 and 2: number of electrons = group number. • Group 13-18: number of electrons = group number - 10 Groups • • • • • • • • • Group 1 – alkali metals 1 outer electron Group 2 – alkaline earth metals - 2 outer electrons Group 3-12 – Transition Elements (Medals) Group 13 – 3 outer electrons Group 14 – 4 outer electrons Group 15 – 5 outer electrons Group 16 – 6 outer electrons Group 17 – halogens - 7 outer electrons Group 18 – noble gases – 8 outer electrons


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Five Steps on How to Become a Marriage Counselor
A marriage counselor is a person who is licensed to provide counseling services to individuals and couples in regard to their marriages. The person is responsible in providing goal oriented services by focusing solely on marriages also; help patients in identifying and solving their marital problems. There are various steps which can be used as a guideline for you to become a well sought after marriage counselor.
Internet: You must make sure that you understand fully what it entails for you becoming a marriage counselor. You can do this by browsing the internet so as to get much information on what is required from you and what the career entails at length.
Career counselor: Consult your career counselor to get more information on what you ought to do. Make sure that you have the understanding of what being a marriage counselor entails. The counselors mostly treat individuals and couples in regard to their family and marriage life.
Marriage counselor skills: Make sure that you learn the skills that are needed for you to be a better marriage counselor. You should be in a position to relate well with people and be capable of listening keenly. Also, you ought to be able to find solutions for your patients, come up with plans on how you are going to do it.
Education: When taking marriage counseling as a career, you will be better suited if you undertake a bachelor's degree plus a master's program in family and marriage counseling. Techniques of counseling, family and marriage systems, group therapy, counseling theories and human sexuality are among the topics that will be covered in the the program. Complete an internship so as to acquire the relevant experience.
Requirements: All Requirements needed so as to be a licensed counselor should be met. They usually vary from one state to another thus; carry out research to know what is needed in your state.


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First class
We recommend new customers arrive 20 minutes before their
class to get started. If you are not signed in 5 minutes before the
class starts, your spot may be given away to someone on the waitlist.
All riders should be in their class before it starts – when the doors
close, we won't be able to let anyone into the class late. If you are
running just a few minutes late, please call the studio for exceptions.
We recommend wearing workout gear that is comfortable
for you. Form fitting shorts or pants will ensure nothing
gets caught in the bikes or Xformers
For Power
For the safety and hygiene of all clients, we require Grip socks
to be worn in our Power classes. ToeSox grip socks are most
technical for your practice with the five-toe design, which allow
your feet and toes to perform naturally. ToeSox can be
purchased at all of our studios
For your Rides
All bikes require SPD clip-in shoes, so feel free to bring your
own SPD compatible shoes, or we offer shoes at our studio
for free. Wearing clipped in shoes better engages leg muscles
and leads to a more powerful and smoother pedal stroke.
If you find this a bit scary, we promise after one class you will
start to love the closer connection between the leg and the bike.
Ensure your body is hydrated to keep it happy throughout
the whole class. We recommend you bring a bottle of water,
or buy one of our reusable water bottles that you can fill at
the studio. We also recommend a light snack 30 minutes before
your class. Protein bars, Juices, and Coconut Waters
are available for purchase directly in the studios.
Velocity offers full body workouts, and like any new fitness routine,
you may want to check with a doctor before your first class. Your
safety is our first and foremost priority. Always ask an Instructor
or Velocity staff member if you have any questions or concerns,
and notify them of any pre-existing injuries or illnesses. Get familiar
with your equipment before your class. If you're taking one of our cycling
classes, make sure to check that your bike adjustments are correct and
locked down tightly, and that your cycling shoes clip in securely. Get
familiar with your bike, especially the safety brake which is the red
resistance knob in the centre when pressed down. Our instructors are
here to push you and give you a fun and energetic workout, but please
listen to your body and work at a pace that is comfortable for you.
Each locker room contains lockers with digital keypad locks to store all
of your belongings, no need to bring a lock. The showers are fully stocked
with bath products to keep you smelling fresh. You will receive one
small towel and one bath towel when you check in for your class.
Everyday at midnight (0:00) we open new class times for reservation
for the same day of the following week.
If there are valid class credits in your account, you can
book a spot for your friend or multiple friends. This will
guarantee you can workout next to each other. Your friend
only needs to check in with the front desk and sign a waiver
form upon arrival if it's their first class.
If a class is full you can add your name to the waitlist when
you are logged into your account. If a spot becomes available,
you will receive an email alerting you of action required in your
account to secure the open spot. If you do not confirm your spot
quickly, we may call you to ask if we can release it to the next
person on the waitlist. We accept walk-ins should a spot become
available last minute.
If you need to cancel a reservation, you must do so more than
12 hours prior to the start of the class by logging into your
Velocity account or calling the studio. If you cancel less than
12 hours prior to the beginning of class, or do not show up for
the class, your credit will be deducted from your account as though
you attended. However, if you cancel less than 12 hours prior to the
beginning of class, and someone from the waitlist ends up taking
the spot you've made available, your credit will be returned to
your account.


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Wild About Barley
3/4 cup pearl barley
1/4 cup wild rice
1/2 teaspoon salt
3 cups water
1 cup orange juice
3/4 cup dried cranberries
2 teaspoons lemon juice
1 tablespoon finely chopped onion
1/3 cup olive oil
Salt and pepper, to taste
1/4 cup chopped fresh parsley
1 cup coarsely chopped walnuts, toasted
In medium saucepan with lid, bring water to a boil. Add pearl barley, wild rice and salt; return to boil. Reduce heat to low, cover and cook about 40 minutes or until barley is tender but chewy. While barley-wild rice is cooking, pour orange juice over dried cranberries and set aside. Drain any excess liquid from cooked barley and rice mixture. Place barley and wild rice in large bowl. Drain cranberries, reserving 5 tablespoons orange juice. Toss cranberries with barley and wild rice. Mix reserved orange juice with lemon juice and onion. Whisk in olive oil and season to taste with salt and pepper. Pour dressing over barley mixture. Add chopped parsley and toasted walnuts; mix well. Serve at room temperature or chilled. Makes 6 servings.
Per serving: calories 416, protein 9g, fat 24g, carbohydrates 45g, cholesterol 0; fiber 6g, sodium 183mg.


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Deutsche Bank and Commerzbank, Germany's two largest lenders, said on Sunday that they had begun merger discussions, in what analysts see as a last-ditch effort to create a national champion that can compete with the giant American investment banks.
In a statement, Deutsche Bank said that its board would explore "strategic options" meant to shore up its growth and profitability, and Commerzbank confirmed the merger talks. Both lenders cautioned that the talks may not lead to a deal.
The idea of merging the two firms has gained support in recent months within each bank, and with the German government, after previous rounds of talks over the years failed.
The combined bank would have $2 trillion in assets and be the third-largest lender in Europe, behind HSBC Holdings in Britain and BNP Paribas of France. Together, Deutsche Bank and Commerzbank would have about one-fifth of the private customers in Germany, in theory giving them enough critical mass to be profitable in the country's overcrowded retail banking market.
For Berlin, combining the two would create a new national champion lender that could support the country's huge export industry and compete for international business with the giant Wall Street banks. For the lenders, it offers the opportunity to gain financial scale, cut costs and combine technology.
But analysts have questioned whether fusing two beleaguered banks would simply create an even bigger problem. Commerzbank and Deutsche Bank are among the least profitable banks of their size, primarily because they are too large and unwieldy in relation to the revenue they generate.
Deutsche Bank reported a net loss of 409 million euros, or about $464 million, for the fourth quarter of 2018. Commerzbank did better, reporting a profit of €113 million on revenue of €2.1 billion. Investors, however, remain skeptical. Shares of both banks have been trading near 10-year lows amid reports that the banks might be considering a merger.
In a message to employees on Sunday, Christian Sewing, Deutsche's chief executive said, "I have consistently stressed that consolidation in the German and European banking sector is an important topic for us." He added, "Our stated aim remains to be a global bank with a strong capital markets business — based on a leading position in our home market in Germany and in Europe, and with a global network."
Rumors have been circulating for months that German political leaders were trying to orchestrate a merger to create a homegrown alternative to overseas giants, including established American ones, like JPMorgan Chase, and fast-growing Chinese ones. If there is another financial crisis, officials in Berlin do not want German businesses to be dependent on foreign banks for credit and access to capital markets.
Olaf Scholz, Germany's finance minister and a member of the center-left Social Democrats, has repeatedly stressed his belief that the country needs a large financial institution to compete at a global level. His deputy, Jörg Kukies, a former head of Goldman-Sachs in Germany, has met several dozen times with representatives of Deutsche Bank. The ministry acknowledged the news on Sunday, saying, "We are in regular contact with all involved parties."
The deal still faces many hurdles. Unions that represent Deutsche Bank and Commerzbank have expressed opposition to a merger, which would certainly lead to thousands of job cuts. And agreeing on the terms of a merger may be difficult as executives of the two longtime rivals seek to defend their turf.
The Verdi service workers' union, one of Germany's largest unions, made clear its displeasure with a potential merger. "We reject a possible fusion of both banks with a view to the danger posed to tens of thousands of jobs," Jan Duscheck, who heads the division for bank workers, said in a statement. He cited, among others, the retail and investment banking divisions as points where current difficulties at both banks would only be worsened by a merger.
"A fusion would lead to additional problems," Mr. Duscheck said, "but without solving existing problems."
Both banks are based in Frankfurt, and their headquarters are within easy walking distance of each other.
A merger would leave Germany with just one bank with a significant international footprint, and might be the final chapter in the long decline of the once mighty German banking system.
Of the five biggest German banks at the end of the 1990s, Commerzbank and Deutsche Bank are the only two that still exist as independent entities. Both banks were founded in 1870, as Germany was emerging as an industrial power.
Previous banking mergers in Germany have not turned out well.
Commerzbank required a government bailout in 2009 after it acquired Dresdner Bank, which turned out to have billions of euros in toxic assets. The German government still owns about 15 percent of Commerzbank.
Deutsche Bank is still struggling to absorb Postbank, which it acquired in 2010.
But Deutsche Bank's biggest problem is that it lacks a clear identity or competitive advantage in the global banking market, analysts say. And it is still dealing with the legal consequences of its attempt to become a major player on Wall Street.
Deutsche Bank became caught in many of the big scandals of the early 2000s: rigging interest rates, selling toxic mortgages, laundering money and violating sanctions. It paid billions of dollars in fines.
Deutsche Bank's reputation continues to suffer. In November, German prosecutors and police officers raided Deutsche Bank's headquarters in Frankfurt as part of an investigation into whether some bank employees helped criminals launder money in offshore tax havens. The bank has said that its own inquiry uncovered no wrongdoing by employees.
In the United States, Deutsche Bank has become caught up in investigations of President Trump. The bank was one of the few lenders willing to do business with Mr. Trump in recent years.
Last week, the New York attorney general's office issued subpoenas to Deutsche Bank and Investors Bank for records relating to the financing of four major Trump Organization projects and a failed effort to buy the Buffalo Bills of the National Football League in 2014, according to a person briefed on the subpoenas.
Deutsche Bank is already the subject of two congressional investigations.
The main rationale for the merger is that it would give the combined entity a big enough share of the German banking market to be profitable.
The German banking market is notoriously difficult for commercial banks because consumer and small-business lending is dominated by quasi-public savings banks. That makes it hard for lenders like Deutsche Bank and Commerzbank to make money, even though they are based in one of the world's most formidable economies.
The merger of Commerzbank and Deutsche Bank may be the final megadeal on the résumé of Paul Achleitner, a former Goldman Sachs executive who is now chairman of Deutsche Bank's supervisory board. Mr. Achleitner has been a behind-the-scenes force in the restructuring of German banking for decades.


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This week's post will be the final how-to for Private Internet Access and will cover Linux. For this project I used Ubuntu running in a virtual machine. If you're new to Linux and don't know how to install applications in Linux, Private Internet Access' website offers a good tutorial. Without further ado, Private Internet Access for Linux:
Private Internet Access for Linux – Basics
Like last week's post, setting up Private Internet Access for Linux is a fairly painless process. First, purchase a PIA subscription. Next, download and install the PIA application. Once the PIA application is installed and running, you will see a PIA logo in your task bar. The logo is your indicator that you are connected to the VPN. If it is green with a small check-mark beside it, you are connected. If it is greyed out, you are unconnected. Clicking this logo will allow you to select a VPN server, connect, disconnect, and exit the application. It will also allow you to access the settings.
Clicking "Settings" will open a new window. This contains only basic settings including username, password, and auto-start/auto-connect. For maximum protection, I recommend checking both the "Start application at login", "Auto-connect on launch", and "Show desktop notifications" boxes. The "Region" drop down allows you to select the server set to which your VPN automatically connects. To access additional settings, click the "Advanced" button.
Private Internet Access for Linux – Connection Settings
The settings menu will expand to include connection settings. I will only address the settings that are pertinent to security and privacy.
Connection type: The first setting is Connection type and the options are UDP and TCP. The UDP connection is generally preferred for VPNs for performance reasons. Some public networks attempt to limit VPN traffic by blocking UPD packets. If you run into this, switching to TCP may help resolve the situation.
PIA MACE™: This setting purports to be a built-in ad blocker. I am still unsure of how this technology works, and have not played with it enough to be comfortable recommending it.
VPN Kill Switch: The next setting you should look at is the "VPN Kill Switch". This "kills" your internet connection should the VPN connection drop unexpectedly (hey, it happens). This setting can be a bit tricky, however.The problems people are likely to run into are situations like logging into hotel or coffee shop internet. Packets from the computer are blocked until you sign in on the host's website. Because the VPN can't connect, it won't let you onto the internet to sign in – your standard Catch-22. In situations like this you can either a. open PIA's settings, disable the kill switch, or b. exit the VPN program (my preferred technique). You can then sign into the hotel's Wi-Fi, re-open PIA/re-enable the kill switch and you should be good to go.
DNS Leak Protection: This setting should be checked! This setting ensures that DNS requests are routed through the VPN. By default this option is left unchecked because it may cause connectivity issues on some networks. I recommend checking it, and unchecking only if you experience problems.
IPV6 leak protection: Even though your VPN will always protect your IPV4 IP address, your IPV6 address can still leak. I'll spare you the technical details, but you should leave this box checked.
Private Internet Access for Linux – Crypto Settings
Clicking the "Encryption" button displays more options. You can manipulate the data encryption, data authentication algorithm, and handshake protocol strength. These options are defaulted to a compromise between performance and security (AES-128, SHA-256, RSA-2048). I prefer to go as secure as possible, and accept the possible loss in performance. My recommended settings are, as shown below, AES-256, SHA-256, and RSA-4096.
Of course these are just recommendations. Even in its default state Private Internet Access provides excellent protection, especially when compared with browsing unprotected. As always, I will point out that there are plenty of other good VPN services out there. Do your homework and choose what your are comfortable with.
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oppe opppe there go the crazy americans again ! Good old "house hunters international" have this couple from the usa moving to Belgium…on $750 a month. And they expect the world but of course, they are American. The realtor says they might have to settle for a studio sized apartment, and the couple says…." a small studio is do- able probably a lot smaller though for what we americans are used to in the states." Then she says "its different here, every one walks or bikes, back in the usa everyone drives everywhere." She says that so innocently like it is an anomaly to see humans in physical action. I love this show ! For one I love seeing all the neat places in this world to live and what it would be like if you wanted to visit or move there but secondly it is watching Americans being, well American ..clueless.
Now not all americans are clueless don't get all bent out of shape thinking I'm putting my country down. But some movers are a little bit outside of reality, they must watch a lot of cable. Anyway do you think HGTV scripts some of these people? Because seriously they can't be that ignorant to what things cost and how much to expect for x amount of dollars. I can't quite believe how many americans think for 800$ a month they think they can get 3 rooms a nice kitchen a yard ect. ect. Most apartments in the usa don't start being nice until you reach 1,500$ a month!… This has to be scripted! (laugh- laugh- laugh) and age and intelligence isn't a factor so its not a young thing nor an older thing.


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What are we looking for in a Care Coordinator?
Care Coordinators are part of the WISe (Wraparound with Intensive Services) program, which serves youth who have mental health diagnoses and are experiencing severe behavioral disruptions that impact their functioning in family, school, and social environments. WISe is an evidence-based model with a collaborative, cross-system approach to creative problem-solving. Care Coordinators work with youth and their families to develop and implement individualized, cross-system care plans that work toward the family's long-term goals. Services are provided where and when convenient for the family, sometimes out in the community and outside of regular business hours. Care Coordinators must be skilled in managing team conflict, engaging a variety of personalities, facilitating meetings, and communicating with various audiences. Local travel and a flexible schedule are expected.
Care Coordinator duties may include:
Education/Experience: Bachelor's degree in social work, psychology, or related field.
Professional Credentials: Eligible for Washington State Agency Affiliated Counselor Registration
Other Credentials Required: Driver's License, Vehicle Liability Insurance
This position is currently not accepting applications.
To search for an open position, please go to http://CWCMH.appone.com