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Now for Delton, (puppy) as we have affectionately named him (Del) Delton is where he was abandoned and found. He is a corker, spunky, affectionate and just a stitch to watch. He is vocal for attention, loves to cuddle and be cuddled, loves his toys and can be directed to chew on them and not on my rugs! He is a bit "mouthy" but I believe it is just puppy chewing but I am not allowing him to nip, or bite at clothing. He is not afraid of my big dogs, loves to play in the grass, has a very health appetite and drinks well, his energy levels are up and has had two wormings, with no sign of worms. In looking at his hind legs he looks bow-legged however, I believe it is due to him being so very thin. I think when he fills out he will look fine. He sits like a typical pit, and there is no noticed problems with his walking or running. When out in the yard he stays very close to me and I have been working with him on starts and stops. We walk, then stop, he comes to the right of me and I have been helping him with "sitting" when we stop. He is alert, when the other dogs bark his ears go up and he directs his attention to the barking, then usually settles right down when my dogs are told it is "ok". His belly is the biggest part of him but again I believe it is because he was so malnourished and thin. I can see he is already starting to fill out and put on some weight. He loves playing tug with his rope toy, and is very alert and watchful of what is going on around him.
I have had him at the office with me and when he tires, he goes to his "cat crate" and curles up and sleeps. As soon as he wakes I put him outside and he pees with very positive praise on "potty outside". He is starting to unders the word 'No" and will back off or stop his actions, unless he is really excited from playing.
At night if I feed him and play with him just before bed, he tires and sleeps alnight without any barking or crying, as long as he has a blanke or towel to snuggle in he will go right to sleep. He gets cold easily but again it is because he has NO fat on him to keep him warm. He is beginning to climb steps and does not give up on trying. He has no interest at this point in cats, but loves kids as the neighbor children have been coming over in early evening to play with him, which helps tire him out. He is a normal but skinny puppy for now.
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Don needed to replace his old car. So he figured out his budget and spent a month looking at new cars and used cars at different dealerships. At the end of the month, he had narrowed his options down to five possible cars. He was very surprised when he realized that his final five choices were all from different manufacturers. Determine the make and type of each car on his final list, the price of each car, and the color of each car.
1. The Chrysler Light wasn't $27,000. The black car wasn't the Hyundai.
2. The white car cost $2000 more than the Chevrolet. The Cigar, which wasn't blue, cost $25,000.
3. The Torch wasn't red. The Spark wasn't a Chevrolet.
4. The Match, which wasn't a Ford, was green. The Nissan cost $1000 more than the white car.
5. The red car wasn't the Spark. The Chevrolet wasn't $23,000.
6. The Hyundai was $4000 less than the Match.
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The Appellate Division, Fourth Judicial Department, of the Supreme Court of the State of New York granted Cybex's motion for a stay of enforcement of the judgment during the pendency of the company's appeals.
The Barnhard case involves a woman, Natalie Barnhard, who was rendered a quadriplegic when a piece of Cybex equipment fell on her in 2004 at the physical therapy business where she worked. The jury in the case found Cybex 75 percent liable in the $66 million judgment, rendered in December 2010.
A statement from the company said that Cybex believes it was not negligent and is in no way responsible for the accident that is the basis of the suit, and intends to vigorously pursue all avenues to attain a reversal or substantial reduction of this judgment. Cybex has filed appeals of post-trial orders and the judgment in this case with the Appellate Division.
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"There's a reason why forty, fifty and sixty don't look the way they used to and it's not because of feminism, or better living through exercise, It's because of hair dye"… Nora Ephron.
I'm in the middle of reading Nora Ephron's "I FEEL BAD ABOUT MY NECK AND OTHER THOUGHTS ON BEING A WOMAN". We all have baggage and this book sums up some of Nora's. Nora hated her neck and getting old. While reading the book I started to feel bummed out. I'm in denial that I am "middle aged" I'm 46. I have a touch of stiffness in my big left toe and my right thumb, both work induced. I'm not losing weight as quickly as I used to and I have to pull printed materials back from my face to read. I get tired more quickly but that's because I'm uber-woman. I don't look it or perhaps I'm in denial about that too. These aren't symptoms of middle age, it's my lifestyle choices. Oh and I forget things, like words. I've given up remembering street names. I chalk this up to I really don't need to remember useless information so why memorize them.
I watched an episode on The Oprah Show on aging. Her guest was Sophia Lauren, Oscar winner, international movie star, iconic sex symbol and still a knock out today at age 78. For Sophia getting old in the public's eyes is ghastly. Imagine being an international sex symbol and getting old. I'm sure she has post traumatic stress disorder, (PTSD) who wouldn't? Talent she had but vavavavoom opened doors wide open for her. She knew she was beautiful and used it to her advantage, a very smart women but who noticed that? Her banker.
Humble me was a dancer. People don't understand that unless I say showgirl. My looks were a big part of my success in an industry built around beauty, smoke and mirrors. That's not to lessen my talent but I certainly got jobs over girls that were better dancer. Why, because of looks. I had them and they didn't. Thanks mom and dad! I have PTSD too. Show business is set up to hurt your feelings.
I've never had to work at looking good until now, and I don't like it. I'm starting to see lines, not wrinkles on my face. Wrinkles are for old people, I just sunbathe too much. If a fortune-teller read my forehead 20 years ago she would have said "stay out of the sun you're a narcissist who can't afford botox". I wouldn't have listened anyway, I was young! I now have crows feet, those lines around your eyes that fan out. I must have been asleep on the beach when a crow landed on my face and left its talon prints, maybe it was a seagull. When I cry the tears don't run down my face, they roll into the lagoon my lines have made until I cock my head and they roll out. I try not to cry, it makes my mascara run.
In the summer I wear my hair pulled back in a ponytail. It's usually wet from either sweating or swimming and it looks and feels good off my face and neck. Of course I wear awesome sun glasses. Accessories make all the difference. I love my ponytail because it is simple. Wet it down, pull it back, hair spray until it's invisibly hard as a helmet and I'm good for a few days, simple.
Bangs are my Fall and Winter "look". I'm a product of my history and you can't teach an old dog new tricks. Yikes, did I just admit that? In Europe bangs are known as fringe. They can be ragged or ruffled, spiked up with hair gel, or swept to one side or the other so there are options. The great thing about bangs is that they cover my forehead and give me an edgy look, stylish. They cover flaws like lines but they are time-consuming. My bangs require a blow out with a hair dryer and a flat-iron so they stay "in place". Bangs create a "hairstyle" and hairstyles are expensive so I cut my hair myself. I cut my hair, my son's hair and my dog Henri's hair. When our hair gets unruly I take it to the salon. Now that summer is over my hair is as dry as hay. It's time for follicle surgery and to get yelled at by my hairdresser for hair neglect during my hairstyle consultation. Which brings me to Botox.
I'm pro-Botox, in earlier years I was a champion of Botox. I started using Botox before I needed Botox, my excuse was it was preventative. At first I had to get injections every three to four months but eventually it spread out to about every 7 months. My theory was it trained my face muscles not to move, you know, muscle memory. I want instant gratification and I have no patience so buying creams and potions to apply daily isn't going to happen. Getting Botox is quick and easy, I had the money, and it made me look 10 years younger. It's not surgery so there is no recovery time needed. I am pro-plastic surgery as well. If you want your face done, NYC is the place to go. For body work, LA is my suggestion. Call me, I know people.
I had really gotten used to the convenience of my ponytail but I'm a creature of habit. I sat on the fence about how to cut my hair. Easy or edgy, bangs or Botox, bangs or Botox, easy or edgy? Back and forth the debate in my head went on. It was decision time. What do you think I chose? Bangs not Botox. I wish I could say that I chose bangs because "I'm beautiful just the way I am," or " it is a waste of money, why put poison in your face" and all the other medical and righteous arguments people who oppose Botox have, which are valid. But I can't. The truth is I'm vain and I can't afford Botox or its upkeep. If I could I would . I'd be at my medi-spa paralyzing my facial muscles right this minute. I know beauty is an inside job and meditation gives me a glow but I can't OM my face back 20 years. I will age gracefully but I will go down with a fight. For today I have champagne taste but a beer budget. I have to use what I got and today, that's bangs. I'm an honest work in progress!
In memory of Nora Eprhon (May 19, 1941 – June 26, 2012)
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Causatives and Causation: A Universal-typological Perspective
Longman, 1996 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 295 pages
Causatives and Causation is the first comprehensive study of causative constructions found in the world's languages. This important new research, based on a data base of more than 600 languages, not only investigates fully the richness and variety of causative types, but also presents an alternative perspective to the traditional typological approach. The new typology enables a better understanding of how the human mind cognizes causation and how this is reflected in language. Causatives and Causation is also an important attempt to integrate language typology with diachrony by constructing a diachronic model of causative affixes on the basis of this new typology. Drawing on the theoretical insight of Role and Reference Grammar, this book provides a case study of the causative constructions in Korean, providing additional support for both the proposed new typology and the diachronic model. It also examines the pragmatic foundations of causatives, an important but previously unexplored area of study. This book will be essential and stimulating reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students involved in language typology and universals, historical linguistics, language and cognition, and pragmatics and will be an invaluable reference book for professional linguists in both teaching and research.
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LONDON — As a Californian, I had forgotten that you don't cancel your life just because it rains. If you did, you'd never see anything in London, at least not recently. And there is much to see.
Too much, in fact. It's a travel buffet, and it's hard not to load your plate with a plethora of monuments, historic buildings and churches.
It's important to see that London, but it's imperative to see the lesser-known London, if only to escape the hordes who are coming here for the Queen's Jubilee from June 2-5, World Pride from June 17-July 8, the Summer Games from July 27-Aug. 9 and the Paralympics from Aug. 29-Sept. 9.
By stepping away from the famous sites, you see a different, less daunting London. There's lugubrious London, luscious London, Latino London, liquid London, even low-key and sometimes low-cost London. And if even those get to be too much, there's always leaving London. So welcome to London for the "L" of it, a sort of suggestion box of ideas for a city about to steal the spotlight and always threatening to steal your heart.
Lugubrious London
If you want to torment your soul, go to the Thames on a foggy morning and listen to Big Ben chime the hour. On the right day, it's bone-chilling and it's free.
If you'd rather focus on someone else's tormented soul, check out the Wraiths of London, a 2½-hour ghost walk in central London, which is said to be haunted by the restless dead. Guide Alan Aspinall, a newcomer to the crowded ghost-walk field, takes his passion for stories, combines them with history and spins your head around.
He talks about Amelia Dyer, a "baby farmer" in Victorian England. For a fee, she and others of her trade took the offspring from unwed mothers and found homes for them. True to her name, Dyer didn't place them; she killed them. She was sentenced to death, but before her execution, she told one of the guards, "I'll see you again, sir." He did see her again — in a vision, or so the story goes. As Aspinall unspooled the tale, a street sign came loose and clanged on its metal post as we stood across from Old Bailey, the criminal court where Dyer was tried. Coincidence?
Departs 7:30 p.m. Tuesdays from Exit 1 of St. Paul's tube stop. Cost: about $13. Info: https://www.wraithsoflondon.com
Luscious London
After hanging with the dead, you may need some antioxidants. Chocolate always works for me, and an organized walk sounded sublime. CityDiscovery's Thursday afternoon trek took a group of us to such little pieces of heaven as Hotel Chocolat, where I learned the proper way to eat good chocolate (take a slice, hold it against the roof of your mouth, let it melt, repeat); Freggo (sample the dulce de leche ice cream with bitter chocolate); Prestat; Ladurée; and Charbonnel et Walker (where the violet and rose crèmes became my new BFF). Or you can skip the tour and go directly to Selfridges, which has many of these under one roof in its food hall. It's a little like eating dessert first, but life is short.
Info: https://www.lat.ms/Jnjsvd. About $32.
Latino London
On the outside, the Church Street Hotel looks like another stately inn. On the inside? Fiesta! Bienvenidos to a Latin-flavored London, to a hotel so unexpected that you're apt to ask yourself, "Did I take a wrong turn and end up in Oaxaca?" (Not yet, but hold on and you may.)
Each of its 28 rooms is awash with color (mine was a brilliant beach-day blue), and the knickknacks and pictures say "hola." If you haven't come for the décor, come for the price (rates during non-Olympics start at an almost unheard of $145 a night, including breakfast), the quiet and the quirkiness. You pay a price for feeling South of the Border because you're in what feels like far southern London; it's a trek into the city, but I grew to love Bus 36. Note that there's no elevator, the steps are steep and illumination — in my room, at least — wasn't a strong point. Still, the hotel was a bright spot.
Church Street Hotel, 29-33 Camberwell Church St.; 011-44-20-7703-5984, https://www.churchstreethotel.com.
The next-door Angels & Gypsies restaurant is more Iberian than Mexican, but it's hard to resist this small-plates place, where hams hang in the window. The fennel/pomegranate/feta salad alone is worth it, never mind the chorizo tortilla.
Angels & Gypsies, 33 Camberwell Church St.; 011-44-20-7703-5984, https://www.angelsandgypsies.com.
If your hambre won't be satisfied by anything but Mexican, try Wahaca (Oaxaca to the rest of us), which bills itself as "Mexican market eating" with such offerings as tacos, burritos, quesadillas and salads. I tried the green rice (coriander, onion and garlic, $3.70) and piquant pork pibil tacos (three for $6.35). To put out the slight sting of the piquant: vanilla ice cream topped with pumpkin seeds and cajeta sauce (lighter than caramel, $6.35). An indulgence calorically and monetarily but a bueno one.
Wahaca, multiple locations, https://www.wahaca.co.uk.
Low-cost London
London didn't make the Economist's Intelligence Unit top 10 list of the 10 most expensive cities in the world — Zurich, Switzerland, can chant, "We're No. 1!" — but you may feel penny-pinched compared with pricey L.A. as your point of reference. We don't, for instance, pay $30 for a one-way express train ride into the city from LAX. Oh, wait. We don't have an express train. Never mind.
For transportation other than the Heathrow Express, here are two words for every London traveler: Oyster card. You'll save major bucks and time if you have this tube/bus/rail card and perhaps feel a little smug as you place it smartly on the ubiquitous "circle" that gives you safe passage onto your chosen mode of transport. You buy the card and load it with however many pounds you like. For instance, if you're riding from Paddington to Piccadilly Circus, you'd cough up almost $7 if paying cash but only $3.20 with the Oyster, a budget aphrodisiac for sure.
Meals too can be budget wreckers. I'm tickled at having found a couple of good places near my hotels that didn't break my bank.
Some critics sneer at Masters Super Fish (191 Waterloo Road, 011-44-20-7928-6924) about a block from the H10 London Hotel, where I stayed for about $220 a night, but my early evening fish and chips dinner was tasty, and the place was full of regulars. If you're going for the décor, don't. If you're going for a nice meal of fresh fish (which doesn't have to be fried) for about $15, do.
My best find (thanks to Time Out London) was Bonnington Café (11 Vauxhall Grove, https://www.bonningtoncafe.co.uk), not far from the Kia Oval cricket ground, which puts it off the path. But I did have a sit-down lunch of vegetarian squash/chickpea curry over rice and a nice green salad for $8 (also open for dinner). It's about the dishes, not the décor, at this community-run eatery. Afterward, stroll around the square and you'll see Bonnington's pocket park (and head over to the Harleyford Road Community Garden while you're at it). Because especially in the coming weeks, London promises to be anything but an oasis of calm.
Low-key London
Perhaps because we think of London as stately, we also think of it as sedate. This would be incorrect. Victoria station at afternoon rush hour makes an L.A. SigAlert look like a garden party. Eventually, you're going to need to remove yourself. You can leave London (see below) or you can remove yourself from the chaos. Or both.
London is loaded with gardens — more than 2,500 of them — chronicled at https://www.londongardensonline.org.uk. I sampled several but fell madly for the Royal Botanic Gardens, or Kew. You have to want to visit Kew — it was a 90-minute bus/train/bus ride for me — but the Sturm und Drang is worth it for the sheer absence of Sturm und Drang.
The 300-acre Kew is dotted with structures (Waterlily House, Kew Palace, the Orangery restaurant and more), each of which is a little magic pocket of surprises. I suggest taking the tram ride ($6.35) around the garden and then putting on your dancing shoes to hobnob with the birds, bees and, alas, the jets that break the reverie.
Admission: $22 adults, free for children 17 and younger. Info: https://www.kew.org.
Contrast Kew's open spaces with the nine-mile Regent's Canal, a waterway and towpath enclave that's a buffer from urban insanity. Start at the Canal Museum, a one-time ice house, near King's Cross. Its history lesson on ice cream is more interesting than its discourse on the man-made canals.
On the mile and a half walk from the Canal Museum to Camden Town, I encountered bikers, joggers, strollers, moms, babies, dogs, swans, ducks and the occasional graffito. Water trickled through the locks like the tinkle of aquatic piano keys.
The bubble burst at Camden Town, reminiscent of the Orange County swap meet but with more global food offerings and less charm. A sugar infusion at vegan Cookies & Scream buoyed my spirits, as did embarking on the London Waterbus Co.'s canal boat bound for Little Venice. The 50-minute ride (about $12.30 one way) put me back in the bubble as it glided past Regent's Park, through the London Zoo and by Italian manor houses, depositing us at Browning's Pool near the renovated Rembrandt Gardens. There, willows wept but a bride and groom beamed as they posed for post-nuptial pics. Blue skies and young love — does it get better than this?
Canal Museum: https://www.canalmuseum.org. Admission about $6.35. Regent's Canal: https://www.waterscape.com/canals-and-rivers/regents-canal. London Waterbus Co.: https://www.londonwaterbus.com.
Liquid London
London is all about the liquid — the 60 billion cups of tea Brits drink each year, the 27 million pints of beer quaffed each day, the 23 or so inches of rain that fall, on average, in London each year. You'll find enough tea/coffee houses and pubs (although they're said to be disappearing at the rate of two a day) to slake your thirst, but your personal shelter from the storm needs a special place, and that place is James Smith & Sons, which sells umbrellas and walking sticks. It's been a going concern since 1830. I could not leave without buying an umbrella, silly for a Southern Californian.
James Smith & Sons, 53 New Oxford St., https://www.james-smith.co.uk.
Although it was raining, I didn't need the umbrella for my trip down the Thames on the Thames Clipper, which is really an enclosed commuter boat. It's an overlooked way of seeing London like a local — a local in a hurry. It leaves slowly from the London Eye, but just past the Tower Bridge, it goes full tilt on its run to Greenwich. No narration, but you can figure out the sites yourself.
Round trip: https://www.thamesclippers.com, about $12.75 with an Oyster card discount.
It seemed only right on my liquid tour to stop at the Cutty Sark, an 1869 clipper ship that in its prime carried tea from China (and later wool from Australia). Queen Elizabeth II reopened the ship last month, almost five years after a fire gutted it. Now it sits in a steel cradle, its beauty restored, pointing proudly at this section of the 205-mile Thames as if to say, "Landlubbers are lame." You walk enough in London, and I promise that's true.
Cutty Sark, part of the Royal Museums Greenwich, https://www.rmg.co.uk/cuttysark. Admission: About $20.
Leaving London
What's more romantic than dinner in London? Just about anything, but definitely dinner in Paris. I'd booked the Eurostar for this fast train trip to France, leaving on the 3 p.m. speeder to Paris and returning about 9 p.m. (You gain an hour, so you'll arrive about 6:30 p.m. at Gare du Nord station.) The countryside blurred by, fields of yellow rapeseed exploding with color amid patches of vibrant spring green. From the Gare du Nord, I walked across the street to Terminus Nord, ordered a glass of wine, some escargot and a steak with béarnaise sauce and fries, which sound less sinful as pommes frites. Tab: $75, not including tip. Effect: Made me giggle at the silliness of it all. Next time: I'll stay longer. Or be more adventuresome with my restaurant choice. Or go to Brussels, which you can also do for less than a day. If you book far enough in advance, a standard nonrefundable ticket for Brussels or Paris can be about $100, round trip. Leaving London made me long for it, and I returned, happy but tired, just before midnight to log a little more shut eye before continuing one L of a trip.
Eurostar, https://www.eurostar.com. Terminus Nord, https://www.terminusnord.com.
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The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell
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Anyone who has ever read my blog, or ever met me, stands a good chance of having heard me talk about David Mitchell. It's rather satisfying, at my age, to have discovered my Favorite Living Writer. Ever since Cloud Atlas left me slack-jawed and inarticulate with its puzzle structure and fearlessly ambitious plots and astonishing humor and humanist compassion and heartbreaking truths -- okay, even before that, when I snapped up Ghostwritten and Number Nine Dream with the satisfaction of finding just what one wanted to eat, a meal that becomes a sweet memory -- and especially afterward, when I met the man at book readings for Cloud Atlas and Black Swan Green and he turned out to be the kind, brilliant, self-effacing person you hope in your heart of hearts that your favorite authors might turn out to be -- David Mitchell has been my model for what writing and writers can be, and I have described myself truthfully if unflatteringly as a slavering fan. (That sentence was just because I could. Sorry.)
But having a favorite writer also means you approach every new work of theirs with an inevitable trepidation: will it hold up? Will you have to love it half-heartedly, out of loyalty, or will it blow you away again? Will it move you in the same way -- or better yet, in a different way -- or will it be simply good, and not great?
For this reason, after I had gotten Random House's postcard last fall announcing a new David Mitchell title coming in June, and after I had begged the publicist to consider Greenlight for an event*, and after Mitchell's wonderful editor David Ebershoff had stopped into Greenlight and we'd talked about our mutual love for the man, and after Ebershoff had, taking pity on me, sent me the bound manuscript for Mitchell's new book -- I looked at it on my shelf for about a month and a half before opening it. I told myself and other people I wanted to wait until I could set aside time to read it straight through, and that was partly true. But of course I was also nervous about whether he could do it again, and whether I could love like that again. Finally, on the plane to see my family in California for a post-Christmas vacation, I pulled the 8 1/2 by 11 thing out of my bag and started to read.
So? What was it like? It was not like Cloud Atlas or Ghostwritten; it was a single narrative thread, ostensibly, the story of a Dutch trading post in Japan in 1799 and following. I noted with satisfaction that it was written in third person, a first for Mitchell -- he had noted at a reading I attended that he had always written in first person, since he "wouldn't know where to look" without a single perspective, but that third person sounded like a challenge he should set himself -- and look here, he had.
I also noted, as no doubt reviewers will, that one thread of this narrative involves a European (in Jacob de Zoet's case a Dutchman, in Mitchell's case an Irishman) falling in love with a Japanese girl (in de Zoet's case, Orito Aibagawa, a young surgeon in training who has a scar that makes her unmarriageable, but not unbeautiful; in Mitchell's case, his now wife and mother of his children, whom I know nothing more about). Here the similarity ends between Mitchell's biography and the story, but it is a telling detail -- I think during Mitchell's time in Japan he fell in love with Murakami and a kind of Japanese-ness as well as with the woman he eventually married, and Japan looms large in his pantheon of influences. There is an outsider's tenderness and frustration and fascination and longing and homesickness in the book that rings true to life; the part of me that considers myself to a very small degree David Mitchell's friend (we have had dinner together in a group, and he writes very kind things in my galleys and remembers my bookstore plans when he sees me) is glad that he wrote this part of his story, and that he did it in this particular way.
In fact, a great many things in the book delighted me, though they swam up slowly, rather than bursting in a flood of revelation. I love that Jacob de Zoet is a Dutch Reformed Calvinist (I am one myself, unlikely as that seems), and that his faith is taken seriously, as are the various faiths or skepticisms of the Asian, African, European, and other characters that populate the book -- they're not neuroses or tools of oppression, though they can be used that way. I love how in this simple through-line narrative about a young Dutchman in Japan, Mitchell manages to include dozens of other stories -- nearly every character in the book finds space to tell his own story, including some of the most contemptible. I love the endless invention that goes into making these many imaginary and believably specific lives, and the compassion that Mitchell, typically, has for them all.
I love several instances of good triumphing decidedly and sometimes hilariously over evil, as well as many more instances of good intentions bringing suffering and disappointment. I love that part way through this rigorously historical novel, a never-quite-resolved hint of creepy supernaturalism is introduced, as well as a very real nefarious institution, and the novel becomes, for a while, an adventure story. I love that, though he knows exactly how to write a satisfying adventure story, Mitchell cannot be relied upon to give all of his characters happy endings (though I didn't exactly love it at the time I was reading it -- I was actually a little angry and sad). I love how the novel in the end manages to be drawn together and loosened, resolved and heartbreakingly abandoned, all at once. I love how it stayed with me and grew in me after I had read it (on the plane and during the weekend I should have been hanging out with my family, though they're all readers too so it was mutual) -- as the best novels do.
As the ALP has postulated, the works of art that stay with us are usually not the ones that we love easily on first experiencing them. Rather, they tend to be the ones that grow on us, that we find ourselves thinking about and wrestling with and returning to. The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet is that second kind. It seems to have made its own distinctive ache in my heart -- for the heartbreaks of the story, and its beauties, and its delights that I will never experience for the first time again. In this way it does seem very Japanese: infused with an appreciation of the ephemeral that is as much about the nostalgia as about the event -- an autumnal beauty, in fact.
There is one delight, though, that I have yet to experience. When asked about the occasional recurrence of his characters from one book to another, Mitchell described a sort of waiting room, where every character he's ever written hangs out, and if he has a place for them in a story, they get a new part. I'm wondering whether Thousand Autumns is populated by any of the characters from the first section of Cloud Atlas, which takes place on a sailing vessel around the same time. Now, I'm gloatingly preserving the delight of re-reading Cloud Atlas to discover which characters might have life in both books. And perhaps "gloatingly preserving" is what made me wait so long to read Thousand Autumns anyway.
* The Greenlight David Mitchell event, by the way, has been scheduled: Saturday, July 17, at 7:30 PM. Random House is giving us a little budget to throw a party -- we're thinking sake and champagne. Open to ideas, though.
14 comments:
- Marta Szabo said...
Hi. I just made contact with Andy Laties via internet unlikelihoods, and he alerted me to your store, and I am hoping to visit this Saturday. Great to find your blog. I've just ordered Cloud Atlas from my local library, thanks to your mouth-watering review, though I won't blame you at all if it doesn't hit me the same way, especially as I never read fiction these days. Still, I want to give it a try, and I am excited to see your place.
- Rock City said...
I just finished the galley of 'Thousand Autums' I was lucky enough to get (we have the same feelings about David Mitchell, you and I), and went to 'Cloud Atlas' again as a result of it for the some of the same reasons you describe--to find where the worlds of the two books puzzle-pieced into each other--and then spun back into 'Black Swan Green' for, what, the eighth time now?, to look at the Frobisher quartet pieces again...so I'm here to say:
1) fully with you on the review, and
2) thank heavens for David Mitchell.
--Lacy Simons
(Book Manager, Rock City Books & Coffee, Rockland ME!)
- Rock City said...
Left an 'n' off the end of 'Autumn'. Mortified. Beg forgiveness.
i am a book nerd just like you, with 7 kids and 4 dogs. please how could i get an ARC of THE THOUSAND AUTUMNS OF JACOB DE ZOET?
"It's rather satisfying, at my age, to have discovered my Favorite Living Writer."
My thoughts exactly. I'm 21, and discovered him last year, and I have never looked forward to a book this much in my life.
- George Solomonides said...
I came across David Mitchell's books, through the one that perhaps could be called the odd one out, Black Swan Green. I read a review,liked it, bought the book, loved it. My wife then told me that we had another of his books in the house, Cloud Atlas. I picked it up and could not stop reading. When it was sadly over I rushed to buy the other two and though one could see how he was honing himself for Cloud Atlas in both of them and certainly in Ghostwritten, I enjoyed both hugely. And then silence (or have I missed out on something). Until I read your blog just now I felt absolutely bereft, longing for the next Mitchell novel. Kenzaburo Oe's Silent Cry the notable consolation. Cannot wait for Jacob to arrive.
Thank you for a great blog, your Greenlight event makes me wish I was in Brooklyn, where all of my father's family lived and died and where I have never managed to visit yet.
- Elisa said...
Like you I am an ardent fan of David Mitchell. I was lucky enough to get a galley of his latest just in time for my birthday.
I'm still in the middle of reading it, but so far I am mesmerized. Your great review has only fueled my anticipation for all the pages I've yet to read.
It's great to hear that David Mitchell will be stopping by your bookstore. I almost always prefer the events done by the independent bookshop owners over the chain store events that tend to get slightly insane.
- pedro velasquez said...
Jessica Stockton is the Book Nerd behind the bet basketball The Written Nerd. She worked in coffee houses, publishing houses, literary agencies, and as a freelance writer before discovering her true calling as an independent bookseller. A native of California, sportsbook she graduated from New York University with an English degree in 2001 and now lives happily with her fiance in Brooklyn. Jessica currently works on store publicity and design at McNally Robinson Booksellers in SoHo and writes reviews for march madness Publishers Weekly, and she will join the board of the New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association this fall. Her goal is to open a fabulous independent bookstore and performance space in Brooklyn within the next few years, with its very own store.
- Literary Corner Cafe said...
David Mitchell is, I think, a genius. I haven't read this yet as I didn't have an ARC, but I'm so looking forward to the release of the book. I'll grab a copy the day it's released and start reading. I expect to fall in love.
- susie said...
Just found you from googling David Mitchell reviews of new book, he is without a shadow of a doubt my favourite author too - and just met him! Signing copies in London, I tried to think of something intelligent and witty, nothing came. He was extremely personable and exceptionally generous taking to people. Marta, one you have read the utterly genius Cloud Atlas you will be hooked!
I am very excited about his latest read.
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I'm very, very glad I found this review because I don't live too far from Brooklyn and I am most definitely going to be there for David Mitchell's reading!
Great review of the new book. You perfectly captured the way so many people feel about Mitchell. Your post is what I would have written if I could express myself nearly as well as you do.
And the trepidation? Yeah, it's real, (and pardon the sports reference) but at the same time I think opening a David Mitchell book is like watching a prime Michael Jordan walk out onto a basketball court -- you know you are about to witness a masterful, unparalleled performance by an artist who is galactic turns ahead of his peers.
Fittingly, I discovered Ghostwritten completely by chance and picked it off a bookstore shelf in 1999 without knowing a damn thing about Mitchell or the book. He instantly became my favorite writer, and it's agonizing waiting for his new stuff.
Thanks so much for a great review, and I can't wait for your event in July. I'm the type of slow reader who likes to take a Kubrick-esque pace with novels and really soak everything in, so I hope there's enough time to finish the book before July 17. If not, well...I can't rush it. I'm psyched beyond belief that he's coming to New York -- and to think, he wrote his Bat Segundo chapter before he had ever set foot here.
- Manuel B. said...
Actually, there is one character recurring from another's mitchell's novel.
It is ***Spoiler Spoiler Spoiler*** Boerhaave, Captain Molyneux's second on the "Prophetess", who -- we discover in the last part of Cloud -- pushed young boy Raphael to commit suicide after being repeatedly violated by Boerhaave and his "garter snakes". Yet in the Thousand Autumns, Boerhaave appear as a young, sincere, compasionate and devout man (he appear in the Thousand autumns around the year 1820, and In Cloud atlas, he appear around the year 1850).
Manuel (One of Mitchell's die-hard fan and translator)


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The Internet offers a wealth of resources and material for
education. Accessed through a variety of electronic devices, it
also allows for rich and diverse opportunities for 21st century
communications. These devices are becoming ever more diverse and
ubiquitous. They raise issues of digital / Internet safety and
digital citizenship. Along with ensuring that our young people
have the technological skills to effectively use digital
devices, platforms, and resources for educational purposes, we
also have the responsibility to teach them how to be safe and
productive digital citizens of the 21st century. This
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Protecting Children
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Within this context, Washington's
anti-bullying law includes the prohibition
of cyberbullying. Cyberbullying is bullying using electronic devices to initiate
repeated negative behavior toward a less-powerful person. Electronic
name-calling, shunning and shaming are all forms of cyberbullying. So are
spreading rumors, gossiping and making threats online. Schools are permitted to
discipline students who engage in cyberbullying if it disrupts the orderly
operation of school. Additional HIB training materials are available on the Safety Center web
Introductory Training Presentations - Cyberbullying
The introductory presentations below are provided to assist districts with the HIB training requirements of RCW 28A.300.285. These specifically provide information on cyberbullying:
Cyberbullying Summit
Thursday, September 13, 2012, 8:00 a.m.–3:00 p.m.
Microsoft Campus – The Commons, Redmond
The Youth Internet Safety Task Force invites educators, administrators, community mobilizers, prevention and social messaging experts, law enforcement and anyone else interested in helping prevent cyberbullying—to this day-long summit devoted to development of a youth cyberbullying prevention campaign.
Agenda (PDF)
Registration List (PDF)
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Research/Resource Material:
BPS Cyber Safety Campaign
Committee for Children, 5 lesson, free, downloadable Steps to Respect Cyberbullying Prevention Module.
Common Sense Media resources for educators, including
Standing Up, Not Standing By, a free cyberbullying toolkit for educators.
CyberSmart: Classroom materials around digital safety for grades K-12 from Common Sense Media.
Faux Paw: The adventures of a six-toed, Web-surfing cat that loves having fun with her friends, and who sometimes gets into trouble while being on her computer and while playing video games.
Hector's World: A resource from New Zealand to help young people learn about safe online practices and digital citizenship.
iKeepSafe: A curriculum matrix for helping students understand how to protect their own personal information and respect the privacy of others.
Mop the Net Day: A school-based opportunity for students to delete, change, modify or otherwise update their online images. These materials include a template each for getting ready, spring cleaning, and follow-up.
NetSmartz: Classroom and background information and resources from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
SPS Middle School Cyberbullying Curriculum: A complete cyberbullying curriculum designed to stand alone or fit into ongoing bullying prevention work.
Stay Safe Online: Resources from the National Cyber Security Alliance.
Internet Safety Brochure
Cyber Safety: Tips for Safe Surfing, is a full-color, two-page brochure for parents and teens. Schools may print this as a brochure and distribute to their families.
Download the brochure
The brochure is available as a PDF download in nine languages:
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The following is a limited list of laws and policies. It is not exhaustive, but rather identified several of laws and policies which are pertinent to cyberbullying and digital/Internet safety. Please check with state and local agencies for laws and policies in your area.
State by State:
The Protecting Children in the 21st Century Act adds statutory language to existing FCC rules for the implementation of the
Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA). CIPA compliance, in turn, impacts
ERate compliance. In addition to existing CIPA requirements, the Protecting Children in the 21st Century Act now also requires school boards to update their Internet Use/Internet Safety policies to include statutory language to say they are providing for the education of minors regarding appropriate online behavior including interacting with others on social networking websites and in chat rooms, and regarding cyberbullying awareness and response.
Sexting is not a singular thing. It covers a range of possible actions and motivations. Sexting is online communication involving youth produced sexually explicit or suggestive images created and shared through the use of personal communication technologies. Sexting response requires clear policies and procedures, common sense, compassion and a known plan of action. Discuss sexting with your legal office before a situation arises.
Sexting: A Typology: A definition and examination of sexting from the University of New Hampshire Crimes Against Children Research Center.
Sexting: A Brief Guide for Educators and Parents: A brief overview from the Cyberbullying Research Center.
Sexting Guidance for School Leaders: Guidance from the Center for Safe and responsible Internet Use.
These documents have been developed by reliable sources. They are designed to help adults in schools and at home better understand what social networking is and how to use it safely. They will help people to more easily talk with youth about appropriate behaviors and safety issues and to be better prepared to be help when necessary.
Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard
ChildrenOnline: Children Online provides links to various resources and informative articles for and from parents and educators.
Common Sense Media: A resources dedicated to providing the trustworthy information and education in the world of media and technology.
Connect Safely: Safety tips, advice, news and resources for parents, educators and youth.
Cyberbullying Research Center: The Cyberbullying Research Center provides up-to-date information about the nature, extent, causes, and consequences of cyberbullying among adolescents.
Family Online Safety Institute: FOSI works to make the online world safer for kids and their families.
Get Net Wise: GetNetWise is a public service of the Internet industry and public interest organizations to help ensure that Internet users have safe, constructive, and educational or entertaining online experiences
Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force: Internet resources to be better informed about the online dangers and challenges.
Microsoft Online Safety: Resources to help kids stay safe online.
National Crime Prevention Council: Cyberbullying information from the NCPC.
Net Family News: Kid-Tech news for parents.
NTIA Online Safety & Technology Work Group: Youth Safety on a Living Internet: Report of the Online Safety and Technology Working Group.
SafeKids: Larry Magid's site is one of the oldest and most enduring sites for Internet safety.
US Department of Education:
Analysis of State Bullying Laws and Policies; 2011
Wired Safety: This site provides one-to-one help, extensive information, and education to cyberspace users of all ages.
Selected Resources
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A Thin Line: A site created by MTV to empower youth to identify, respond to, and stop digital abuse among young people. A Thin Line has recently added a Grown Ups link for parents and educators.
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Windows Phone Dwindles To 6% Of U.S. Market Microsoft's mobile phone efforts dropped 33% from the second quarter to the third in the U.S., while Google surged and Apple held its ground.
DOD Aims To Improve Info Sharing Defense Department plans to use semantic Web principles to improve how data is shared, analyzed, and reported across myriad systems.
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So here I am, at 3am, like a child so excited about the first day of school I can't sleep. Normally I'd be getting ready for work at this time but Monday is going to be a paperwork day, so I come in at 9. I've been gone for almost a year so I'm practically a new hire. I have to sign the usual paper work and fill out the forms that a new employee goes through. I hope – for the love of all that is holy – they spare me the sexual harassment video. I think the last time I saw it was back in 2004, when I was first hired at Local 6. Even back then it was so outdated and exaggerated it (ironically) made me uncomfortable
I'll be starting out on a part-time basis and working behind the scenes. I definitely have to get reacquainted with the traffic system and traffic cams again. I even hear there's training I'll have to do with new technology. I'm also curious to see if I'm still able to work the green screen. And more than likely I'm going to start a drinking game for every time someone tells me "it'll be just like riding a bike!"
My managers have been so wonderfully supportive and understanding. It is as if work is a swimming pool and they're letting me ease in gently on the shallow end instead of making me do a triple back-tuck off the high dive, which is good because I'm afraid of heights. I have to admit I have moments of anxiety. While I'm feeling TONS better than I did just six months ago, there are still four things that worry me:
1) Chemo brain. It's a real thing. When you have toxic chemicals pumped into your body on a fairly regular basis it only stands to reason that it's going to mess with your brain. During treatments my loved ones just got used to me constantly forgetting simple things, like where I put the keys, whether the dog had been fed, what day was my next appointment. And because I was sleeping so much I even started to get my dreams mixed up with reality, which was REALLY weird. I would honestly forget if I made phone calls or had certain conversations in a dream or in real life. Also, reading is one of my favorite things to do! But for the first time in my life I found myself having to go back pages to remember a character – not an easy thing to do on a Kindle, and especially when reading A Song of Ice and Fire (the Game of Thrones books). It's gotten a LOT better, but I worry sometimes that I'll be on air, talking my way through a litany of traffic information and just stop mid-sentence, forgetting what I was going to say and, for the life of me, unable to remember.
2) Joint pain. In the months after my last chemo treatment I was hit hard with "chemo-induced arthropathy." Basically, arthritis. I guess it's normal. It could even hang around for a few more years. Awesome. There were days I could barely get out of bed, I would limp to the bathroom like I was 125 years old and limp back. It's not nearly that bad now, but I still have a difficult time bending down because the joints in my ankles and knees practically give out on me. Some days I wake up and I can't bend my fingers or move my wrists and I think to myself, "How in the hell would I hold a clicker in my hand to change the maps and camera?" I guess we'll see.
3) Hot flashes. I still get them. I also still get night sweats. It's not uncommon for me to wake up on a sweat-stained pillow. And several times a day I get so hot I start profusely sweating. It doesn't matter what the temperature is; my hands could be cold but my head will still sweat. It's created quite the role reversal in our home because for the first time ever I'M not the one complaining it's cold :). I tell my boyfriend, "NOW you know how it feels!" Is this what menopause feels like? And does it mean I'm infertile? I try not to dwell on that last question. Instead I just wonder what it'll look like on air when my face gets shiny and I start dripping.
4) Fatigue. It's no longer a bone-weary tiredness that I cannot fight off, but I still feel very fatigued several times throughout the day. Sometimes I fight it, other times I succumb to it. Just last Wednesday I laid down to "take a nap" at 7pm and didn't wake up until the next morning. It actually worried me that that could still happen. 7pm is my typical bedtime when I work on the morning show.


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The first thing we thought about doing, while we were trying to run Java applets in Google Chrome was to drop the Safaris Java plugin into Google Chrome folder.
The problem we saw was that Google Chrome does not install itself into the default application directory Program Files, so we checked the properties of the exe file and found the location to be in the default user folder.
Where Does Google Chrome Install Itself?
In Windows XP Google Chrome will be installed in C:\Documents and Settings\UserName\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\ directory. In Windows Vista Google Chrome will be installed in C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\ directory.
Replace C: with the drive windows is installed in and UserName with the windows users you installed chrome with. We are not sure why they install in the Local App Data folder, and they do not provide any way to change the settings, while you are installing the software. You can easily uninstall Google Chrome through the control panel.


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By Scott Brown, PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Monday, February 27, 2012
INDIANAPOLIS The game within a game has a relatively simple formula.
Points are awarded for tackles, interceptions and forced fumbles, among other things. They are taken away for blown assignments and missed opportunities.
By the end of a championship season, Alabama linebacker Dont'a Hightower had amassed more points than any of his teammates. Considering how dominant of a defense Alabama fielded in 2011, that's like grading better than classmates in a particle physics course at MIT.
"We all compete, and that's another reason why we came to Alabama and the SEC to compete against some of the best athletes in the country," Hightower said at the NFL Scouting Combine.
Hightower's transcendent play in the crucible of SEC competition puts him on a short list of players who are likely to make an immediate impact in the NFL. He is of particular interest to the Steelers given their need at inside linebacker the team may part ways with 15th-year veteran James Farrior and the reality of this year's draft.
"It's not a real deep group at inside 'backer," Steelers general manager Kevin Colbert said.
Hightower, who interviewed with the Steelers at the Combine, appears to be a Steelers inside linebacker straight out of central casting.
He is 6-foot-2, 265 pounds, and he is best suited for a 3-4 defense given his ability to take on and shed blockers.
Hightower led the Crimson Tide with 85 tackles last season, including 11 for losses. The consensus All-American also recorded four sacks and eight quarterback hurries in helping Alabama win the national championship.
His versatility would add to his appeal to the Steelers, who place a premium on that quality.
"I can play both inside and outside and the defensive end in the 4-3, so it ultimately comes down to which teams need what," Hightower said, "and I feel like I have just as much ability as anyone at the Combine at either (linebacker) position."
One concern teams may have about Hightower is the torn ACL he sustained in 2009, which wiped out much of his sophomore season. Then again, Hightower answered most if not all questions about coming back from a major knee injury with the way he played the past two seasons.
His speed is still a bit of an issue Hightower is hoping to run a 4.6 in the 40-yard dash today at the Combine to allay any concerns but he has been working on improving that at API Institute in Arizona.
Hightower dropped about five pounds before the Combine, and he said nutrition has become a big part of his training regimen. He hopes to lose about five to 10 more in advance of the draft to further enhance his speed.
"I feel as fast as I've ever felt, even before the knee injury," Hightower said. "I feel a lot more fluid as far as my movements go, so I'm definitely moving in the right direction to get myself in the best performance ability."
He proved to be at his best last season, and on a defense for the ages.
Four players from that unit Hightower, outside linebacker Courtney Upshaw, cornerback Dre Kirkpatrick and safety Mark Barron are widely projected to go in the first round of the draft.
The depth and talent on that defense makes it all the more impressive that Hightower racked up more points in a season-long competition with his teammates.
There was a subjective element to the scoring, as coaches could award or deduct points based on judgment calls they made while watching film.
"But he won it fair and square," Upshaw said of Hightower, "and I'm proud to say I was in the top three with those two guys (Barron was the other). It was a fun competition."
Here are NFL Network analyst Mike Mayock's top five linebackers in the draft. Mayock ranked them before the NFL Scouting Combine, so they will likely change:
Rank, Player, College, Ht./Wt.
1. Courtney Upshaw, Alabama, 6-1/272
2. Luke Kuechly, Boston College, 6-3/242
3. Dont'a Hightower, Alabama, 6-2/265
4. Ronnell Lewis, Oklahoma, 6-2/253
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. . . is the title of my article just published on Archives.com.
Most records genealogists deal with were not created to answer our questions. Vital records often come close, but common names can be a problem, and as we move back through the years such records become scarce or were never created in the first place. In general, the more distant the ancestors, the less likely we are to find direct answers to our questions about them, and the more we will need to think in terms of indirect evidence -- piling up clues from which we can prove a conclusion, or at least a probability.This will also be the topic of one of my two talks at NGS 2012 in Cincinnati.


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Natasha Khan and Daryl Loo of Bloomberg look at the growing problem of Alzheimer's in China. According to one estimate, the country now has the world's largest population of sufferers of the disease:
In China, there are only about 300 qualified physicians to treat more than 9 million dementia sufferers. The shortage is overwhelming families and threatening resources from an already stretched welfare system as the country ages. … Life expectancy in China has increased seven years to 76 since 1990. The flip side of that progress is that an aging population has combined with rapid modernization to fuel a rise in mental illness from depression to Alzheimer's even as the nation has directed only limited resources toward the elderly.
Between 2000 and 2010, the number of Alzheimer's patients grew 53 percent to an estimated 5.7 million.
This isn't just a China story. After years of being thought of as a disease of the wealthy, Alzheimer's is increasingly proliferating in middle- and lower-income countries. A 2008 study in the Lancet found that rates of dementia "in urban Latin America (approaching 10%) resemble those in high-income countries."
According to the London-based Alzheimer's Disease International, "Already 62% of people with dementia live in developing countries, but by 2050 this will rise to 71%. The fastest growth in the elderly population is taking place in China, India, and their south Asian and western Pacific neighbours."
It is obviously something of a victory for global public health that life expectancies even in developing countries are reaching the point where conditions like Alzheimer's or diabetes are become widespread problems. But it's also a sign that in the next century, we may need to reframe some priorities.


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Jim Carrey certainly knows how to make an entrance, arriving at the Los Angeles premiere of his new movie Yes Man in a giant hamster ball.
Rather bizarrely the actor didn't offer any explanation as to why he opted to rock up on the red carpet in such a manner, but it certainly got people talking.
"This film is the first time that my comedy crazy insane side has molded with my self-help search for the meaning of life side," Jim told reporters. "It's the first self-help comedy."
The special screening in Westwood was also a fundraising benefit for Generation Rescue, a charity very close to Jim and his girlfriend Jenny McCarthy's heart since her son was diagnosed with autism.
"It's about bio-medical intervention for autistic children and of course getting the message out there about vaccines and their safety. They're doing such wonderful work, Generation Rescue has been there for people, it certainly saved Evan's life so Jenny and I are now involved with it," he said.
Director Peyton Reed confessed to being a tad jealous over Jim's attention-grabbing entrance: "I wish I'd said yes to that because that looks amazing, I want to do that."
Co-star Zooey Deschanel told the press she'd learned to exercise some self-constraint, but was definitely saying yes more often since making the picture.
"But I know when to say no," she added.
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Fast Food Restaurant Paid Female Shift Managers and Cashiers / Sandwich Makers Less Than Males for the Same Work, Federal Agency Charged
PHILADELPHIA -- A fast food restaurant franchise, Market Burgers, LLC, doing business as Checkers in West Philadelphia, will pay $100,000 and furnish significant equitable relief to settle a gender pay discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today.
The EEOC charged that Market Burgers paid female shift managers and female cashiers / sandwich makers lower wages than their male counterparts even though they did substantially equal work. According to the lawsuit, Market Burgers also suppressed the wages of female shift managers and cashiers / sandwich makers through discriminatory job assignments, such as scheduling them for fewer hours than their male counterparts.
Such alleged conduct violates the Equal Pay Act of 1963 (EPA) and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The EEOC filed suit (EEOC v. Market Burgers, L.L.C., d/b/a Checkers, Civil Action No. 13-cv-4651) in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania after first attempting to reach a voluntary pre-litigation settlement through its conciliation process.
In addition to the $100,000 in monetary relief to aggrieved current and former female employees, the three-year consent decree settling the lawsuit contains important remedial provisions, including prohibiting Market Burgers from future discrimination on the basis of sex with respect to wages. The restaurant will increase the hourly wages of female cashiers / sandwich makers to match the wage rate it pays to males performing equal work. Market Burgers will provide training on complying with Title VII's and the EPA's prohibition against sex-based wage discrimination with a focus on the legal prohibitions on making discriminatory job assignments based on sex. Market Burgers will also report to the EEOC on its handling of all complaints of wage discrimination based on sex or sex-based discrimination in job assignments, as well as post a remedial notice.
"As this lawsuit demonstrated, discrimination in hourly rates of pay and scheduling can result in substantial lost income for female workers and their families," said District Director Spencer H. Lewis, Jr. of the EEOC's Philadelphia District Office. "This is a significant settlement because it remedies pay discrimination based on gender for lower-wage workers and changes the restaurant's compensation practices to ensure that female employees are paid the same as their male counterparts."
EEOC Regional Attorney Debra M. Lawrence added, "The EEOC is a member of the White House Equal Pay Enforcement Task Force, and addressing wage discrimination claims is one of our priority issues. We are pleased that Market Burgers worked with us to resolve this case early in the litigation. The settlement compensates class members for their lost wages and contains important equitable relief and training provisions designed to prevent any future wage discrimination."
The Philadelphia District Office of the EEOC oversees Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, West Virginia and parts of New Jersey and Ohio.
Enforcement of equal pay laws and targeting compensation systems and practices that discriminate based on gender is of one of six national priorities identified by the EEOC's Strategic Enforcement Plan.
The EEOC enforces federal laws prohibiting employment discrimination. Further information about the EEOC is available on its website at www.eeoc.gov.


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|Tebow in the days when he was allowed to wear Bible verses on his eye black. (Getty Images)
By Will Brinson
You'd think that the Tim Tebow story couldn't get any more bananas. You'd be wrong. See, it's not just that Tebow transformed himself into a legitimate passer in the playoffs. Or that Tebow is about to go against the guy who drafted him, Josh McDaniels. How about the fact that the guy who's renowned for writing John 3:16 on his eye black just happened to throw for 316 yards on Sunday in the Broncos win?
Because that actually happened.
The result, as with anything relating to Tim Tebow was predictable, is a Google-splosion:
|Timothy is fairly popular. Especially when his passing yards = Bible verses. (Google.com)
Think about this: Beyonce and Jay-Z, arguably two of the 10 most famous people on the planet, had a baby -- TOGETHER! -- and they rank third on the things that the world is searching about, behind two things relating to Timothy J.C. Tebow. (Not to mention the other two searches out-pacing everything else but the new Fusion and baby Beyonce.) It's pretty insane.
And for those that are curious about the further weirdness of statistical anomalies, before last night there were 46 quarterbacks who had thrown for 316 yards in either a playoff or regular season game in NFL history. This morning? There are 47. If only that had any significance to Mr. Tebow ...
|There were 46 quarterbacks with 316 passing yards. Now there are 47. (Getty Images)
And one more, just for kicks: there's only one other playoff game in NFL history featuring someone who passed for 316 yards. Sadly, the other person's name isn't "John." (But Tebow's boss is John Elway, so, yeah.)
We'll just have to settle for someone named Daunte.
UPDATE 2:50 p.m. ET: OK, so we're not quite done yet. As our brilliant commenters point out below, Tebow completed 10 passes. That means he averaged 31.6 yards per pass. His final pass was to Thomas who just happens to have been born on Christmas Day. (!)
Oh and this: the Steelers-Broncos game was the most-watched wild-card game since 1988. In the final quarter-hour, the overnight rating was 31.6. Weird stuff man, weird stuff.
As it turns out, the lone interception thrown in the game on Sunday night came from Ben Roethlisberger. What down and distance were involved when he threw it? Third and 16. Of course.
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Meet the gorilla bachelor boys at Werribee Open Range Zoo. These endlessly fascinating creatures are one of our closest living relatives with a genetic difference of only 1.6%. In this experience, you'll get up so close to the gorilla boys that the similarities are impossible to miss!
Guided by our keepers, you will head behind the scenes into the gorilla night dens where you will get up close with our bachelor boys and learn about the unique dynamics of the group. Each behind the scenes experience is slightly different. Your gorilla behind the scenes encounter may include:
- An activity feed
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- Discussion about gorilla behaviours, characteristics and conservation
Following the behind the scenes experience, our guides will escort you to the viewing window to catch the Gorilla Keeper Talk.
Gorillas are classed as critically endangered with numbers in the wild falling. A visit to Werribee Open Range Zoo is an opportunity to help save wild gorillas by participating in They're Calling on You. This mobile phone recycling campaign raises funds for Gorilla Doctors, an organisation working to protect Eastern Lowland (Grauer's) and Mountain Gorillas in the wild.
Your behind the scenes encounter and participation in They're Calling on You will help Zoos Victoria fight wildlife extinction.
Please note: Keeper led activity will vary on a daily basis due to gorilla behaviours. All visitors to the gorilla encounter are required to wear a face mask in order to protect the gorillas from any human disease risks. Gorillas are one of our closest living relatives with a genetic difference to humans of only 1.6%. This greatly increases their susceptibility to infection from human pathogens.
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