text: Ideas For Shared Kids Rooms The More the Merrier: 24 Great Shared Spaces For Kids by Lisa Horten 5/26/13 5 Reactions 35 Shares Print 24 2 9 0 0 Whether it's out of necessity or just for fun, many families face the challenge of creating a shared bedroom or nursery for their little ones. We've all seen traditional bunk beds, but there are plenty of ways to upgrade the standard split sibling space to make it truly one of a kind. Here, 24 creative and fun solutions to creating an extraspecial room for two (or more!) kiddos to call their very own. A Tiny Bedroom Turned Triplet Oasis What's Your Reaction? 0 0 0 0 0 0 While living in a small space can force families to cut down on the clutter and carefully edit their toys, kids will inevitably feel constrained by limited areas. Bob and Cortney Novogratz know all about small homes. The designing duo, and stars of HGTV's Home by Novogratz, have lived in and around New York City with their seven kids. The couple helped a friend-of-a-friend convert a small bedroom in NYC's Hell's Kitchen into a clean, functional room for 4-year-old triplets. Click here to see what the designers used to make it functional and fun for the tykes. Photos by Matthew Williams 1 / 24 Adella and Nolan's Creative, Book-Filled Playroom What's Your Reaction? 0 0 0 0 0 0 When Lexi Adams — a former fashion designer, blogger, and mom to Adella, 4, and toddler Noah — was looking for a new house with her husband, Tim, finding a home with a potential play space was at the top of her wish list. While the home they found wasn't quite playroom-ready, after two years of renovation and lots of trips to Ikea, they turned what was a home office into a light, gender-neutral, creativity-boosting playroom and tot-friendly library. Click here to find out how Lexi created such an awesome playroom on a budget. Source: Adella & Co. 2 / 24 Baby Valentin's Shared Nursery and Guest Room Space What's Your Reaction? 0 0 0 0 0 0 "Like any creative project, designing Valentin's nursery was both a challenge and a wonderful time of joy for me," said Caroline Colom Vasquez, proud mama and founder of online marketplace Paloma's Nest. The room, which was designed before Valentin's gender was known, was to serve as a space that could grow with the baby and, in the meantime, accommodate visiting grandparents. Click through to see little Valentin's whimsical, one-of-a-kind bedroom! Photos by Agnes Blum and Jesse Ryan Photography 3 / 24 A Serene, Dreamy Nursery For Twins What's Your Reaction? 0 0 0 0 0 0 Some might call Susan Hutchinson — an interior designer who focuses on baby and kid spaces, an event and editorial stylist, and a blogger — a bit crazy for creating an almost-all-white nursery for her twin boy and girl. But the serene space totally makes sense to us. Those little ones are sure to bring enough color into the West Chester, PA, mom-to-be's life! Click here to check out the cream, gray, and white space. Source: Nesting LLC 4 / 24 A Modern, Neutral Nursery What's Your Reaction? 0 0 0 0 0 0 We love when parents find a way to make shared spaces feel cohesive and thoughtful. Case in point: the gender-neutral New York City nursery created by first-time parents Robyn and Joe Wallace. The couple didn't find out the gender of their baby before she was born (welcome, Scarlett!), yet they managed to create a beautiful, calming space that works for both baby and grown-ups. Click here to check out the details. Source: Studio 1208 6 / 24 A Twin-Tastic Nursery For a Lucky Boy and Girl What's Your Reaction? 0 0 0 0 0 0 Stylish LA mom-to-be Kelly Zajfen faced the ultimate design challenge when she found out she was having boy and girl twins. Not only would she have to fit two babies into a small room, but she would also have to find gender-neutral items that suited her modern-chic tastes. She met the challenge with Stokke cribs, custom-made sheets, a gorgeous (and inexpensive) wall map, and a crochet elephant head that's long been on our wish list. See more photos here. Source: Oh Hello Mommyhood 6 / 24 Four Girls, One Room What's Your Reaction? 0 0 0 0 0 0 We're not the only ones who have redecorated with a little help from Pinterest. When Shannon of Googie Momma was brainstorming how to fit her five children (four girls, one boy) into two bedrooms, a pin from another mom-to-many blogger inspired her to create a bunk room for her girls. The end result is a magical shared space for four little heads to rest. Keep reading to check out all the red, aqua, and striped details. Source: Googie Momma 7 / 24 Martha Stewart's Grandchildren's Space What's Your Reaction? 0 0 0 0 0 0 When your grandmother is Martha Stewart (shh, don't call her Grandma, though), you can rest assured that your bedroom and playroom are more than just spaces to throw a few toys. Jude and Truman Stewart, 17 and 5 months old, respectively, are living the high life in a serene NYC triplex that their mom, Alexis Stewart, decorated as an urban oasis. In true Stewart form, both rooms are not only beautiful, but also practical, with furniture that can stay with the kids well past their infant and toddler stages. Click here to see more photos. Copyright © 2012, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Inc. Originally published in the September issue of Martha Stewart Living magazine 8 / 24 A Hip, Shared Space For Baby Adela and Her Big Brother What's Your Reaction? 0 0 0 0 0 0 Amanda de Beaufort is not only the brains behind amazing kids blog Coos & Ahhs, but she's also the mother of two small children: newborn Adela and toddler Henry. Until her family's recent move to a larger place in Brooklyn in anticipation of Adela's arrival, Henry actually shared a room with his parents, so their new two-bedroom space is a luxury in terms of square footage. But it still comes with the obvious challenges of putting a busy toddler boy in the same space as an infant girl. Luckily for these two tots, their mama is seriously gifted when it comes to design, and the room she created for them is stocked with amazing finds. Click here to check out the chic shared space. Source: Coos & Ahhs 9 / 24 Mariah Carey's Twins' Nursery What's Your Reaction? 0 0 0 0 0 0 Before her twins' birth, Mariah Carey gave an exclusive interview and tour of the duo's Bel Air and NYC rooms to Life & Style, revealing that the nurseries for her son and daughter match but aren't identical so they can "celebrate the twins as separate entities." Forgoing pink and blue color schemes, the classically decorated nursery is primarily outfitted in green, with pink accents (and butterflies, of course) scattered throughout. Click here to see more photos. Source: Lisa Rose for Life & Style 11 / 24 Vintage-Mod Bedroom and Playroom For Two What's Your Reaction? 0 0 0 0 0 0 California-based wedding photographer Raya Carlisle has a house that's big on style but supersmall (about 1,300 square feet) on space. But with a little creative decorating, including turning a seldom-used formal dining room into a playroom and keeping the two kids' room gender-neutral with distinctive, individual spaces, Carlisle has created a home that feels eclectic and warm, kid-friendly but grown-up, cozy, and not cramped. And that's no small task. Click here for all the beautiful details. Source: Raya Carlisle 11 / 24 An Antique-y Nursery For Two (With a Fireplace Just For Kids) What's Your Reaction? 0 0 0 0 0 0 Kirsten Marchand, a retail designer for New Balance and design blogger, dreamed about what her nursery would look like long before she was even pregnant. "I wanted to create a nursery that could grow with the kids," says the mom of boy and girl twin toddlers. "I had kept a folder filled with inspiration for years before we started our family, so the nursery truly was a labor of love. One of the best surprises was how functional the nursery ended up being for two very tired parents — plenty of places for storage and play." With its sophisticated, historic vibe, special art and toy finds, and muted color palette, the nursery isn't a departure from the style of the rest of the farmhouse, which was originally built in the 1700s and is located on Boston's North Shore. But with two cribs (Ikea finds made to look antique with Old Fashioned Milk Paint) and two toddling residents, this room is all about creating a cozy, kid-friendly family space. Keep clicking to see all the details. Source: Kirsten Marchand and Malcolm Brown 12 / 24 A Crisp, Cool Shared Sibling Space What's Your Reaction? 0 0 0 0 0 0 This shared brother-sister space shows that gender-neutral doesn't have to mean dull! Bold, wide aqua and white stripes give the room a fresh feel, and pops of color are everywhere from the nightstand to the lantern and tissue paper mobile. Source: Apartment Therapy 13 / 24 From A to Z What's Your Reaction? 0 0 0 0 0 0 Trios of wall art initials establish each sister's very own sleep space in this cozy, vintagey bedroom. Source: Design Sponge 14 / 24 The Most Modern, Versatile Bunk Beds Ever What's Your Reaction? 0 0 0 0 0 0 Take a good, long look at this impressive custom bunk bed setup — you won't believe all of the incredible built-in storage, sleep, and play space. It adds a superfuturistic look to this cool kids room. Source: EvDes Home & Interior 15 / 24 All in a Row What's Your Reaction? 0 0 0 0 0 0 If you have a long, horizontal space and lots of kids to accommodate (or frequent sleepover guests), here's proof that you can fit everyone in — in style. Matching beds and bedding establishes continuity, while an eclectic assortment of art adds plenty of personality. Source: Little Lovely 16 / 24 Meet Me in the Middle What's Your Reaction? 0 0 0 0 0 0 There's no doubt that these sisters don't mind sharing a bedroom. A dining set that's just their size makes for lots of fun tea parties and girl talk. Source: Paintchips and Cupcakes 17 / 24 Pretty in Pink What's Your Reaction? 0 0 0 0 0 0 Bunk beds don't have to look overly "kiddie" or modern. This Pottery Barn Kids room setup makes for a traditional shared sleep space that incorporates plenty of pretty, feminine details. Source: Pottery Barn Kids 18 / 24 An Elegant Sister Space What's Your Reaction? 0 0 0 0 0 0 This shared girls room by Serena & Lily is so dreamy, we'd take it for ourselves! The nailhead-embellished headboards will easily grow with the girls, and the linen-covered walls add a clean, beachy feel. Source: Serena & Lily 19 / 24 Gender-Neutral and So Much Fun! What's Your Reaction? 0 0 0 0 0 0 Choosing a modern look can help you appease all of your little tenants. Hanging bunk beds are an added bonus! Source: The Bumper Crop 20 / 24 Side by Side What's Your Reaction? 0 0 0 0 0 0 Push their beds together! Being closer to a big brother or big sister can be comforting for younger siblings — and it will give you a little more room to work with. Source: Design Mom 21 / 24 A Sleek Bunk Bed System What's Your Reaction? 0 0 0 0 0 0 Two children plus one bedroom equals storage problem! Bunking up gives your tots more room to store all of their belongings. Source: Aalto + Aalto 22 / 24 The Sweetest Dreams What's Your Reaction? 0 0 0 0 0 0 The idea of sharing a bedroom with a younger sibling might not be so appealing for some kiddos. Create a whimsical space (with your children's input) that incorporates all of their favorite things. Source: Danielle Thompson 23 / 24 Room For Four What's Your Reaction? 0 0 0 0 0 0 You may have enough room for three or more twin beds, but splurging on a custom bunk bed can pay off big. Your tots will have more room to run around, and you'll avoid clutter-induced headaches! 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One way we can measure a company's "evilness" is by how important litigation is to corporate strategy. We'll open this series by comparing today's three tech giants: Microsoft, Google, and Apple. Which company gets sued the most? And more importantly, which company sues others the most?
To find out, I wrote a perl script called the litig-o-meter that searches google scholar for lawsuits involving specific companies. It graphs how many cases the companies have been involved in every year; whether those cases were at the circuit, appellate, or supreme court level; and whether the company was the plaintiff or the defendant. Essentially, it does a search for "allintitle: [company name]" of federal court cases and interprets the results. It's not yet ready for public release, but the results so far are fascinating.

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High School: The Savannah Morning News Defensive Player of the Year led Screven County to a 15-0 record his senior year and a Class AAA state championship (first state title in 71 years) ... Selected first team All-State for Coach Mark Daniel's team ... Finished his senior year with 129 tackles, including 11 for loss of yards ... Team went 12-1 his junior year ... Had 333 tackles during his entire prep career ... Lettered in football and wrestling.
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When LMFAO kick off their Sorry for Party Rocking tour on May 22nd, they'll expect just one thing from their fans. "The one rule is, there are no rules," says member Redfoo. Adds SkyBlu, the group's other half, "You can use this as your excuse to let loose – no matter what job you got, no matter what people are telling you."
Thanks to LMFAO's Number One smashes "Party Rock Anthem" and "Sexy and I Know It," their upcoming 25-city jaunt marks their biggest tour to date. But the tour's launch comes just as rumors have surfaced suggesting a rift between Redfoo and SkyBlu. In a conference call with reporters on Wednesday, the duo dismissed the speculation as merely a byproduct of their rising fame. "It's completely false. We're family at the end of the day. Blood is stronger than anything," said SkyBlu, alluding to the fact that he is RedFoo's nephew (both are direct descendants of Motown Records founder Berry Gordy).
"Sky might be doing a DJ set in South America and I might be in Vegas, and they'll say, 'Oh, they're separate doing things. How can we make a story out of that?'" said Redfoo. "We have to be smart enough to recognize it's all a game, keep executing our vision and turn this world into a party planet."
The tour also marks SkyBlu's return to the stage, after he sustained a back injury last year during a December gig and was forced to sit out a handful of shows this year. RedFoo said he's thrilled to have his partner back. "Looking to my right, seeing my player-partner right there is such a great feeling. We follow each other's lead all the time. The fans love to see us together."
The duo don't have any concrete plans for a new album just yet – "We're always woking on new ideas," RedFoo says. "We have to." But they are toying with the idea of an LMFAO movie. "That's something we've definitely been thinking and putting out into the universe," said SkyBlu. Added RedFoo, "An LMFAO movie is very exciting."
Several acts will open for LMFAO on tour, including Far East Movement, Natalia Kills and Sidney Samson. Redfoo said fans can expect to see the whole lineup together onstage together when the duo perform their breakout single, "Shots." They're also open to having other VIP guests join them. "If Obama wants to come out and wiggle, have our people talk to his people," said Redfoo. "Let's get it started!"
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Nice fabric and true to size. A great value.Wear this blazed a couple of times a month.
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Pros: short lift lines, 12 miles from Wenatchee, great rope tow park, best powder in washington
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The Tison seventh-grade girls track team dominated the competition to win first place overall, at the recent running of the Quad County West Zone Track Meet.
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A 27-year-old Waltham man is facing charges for allegedly committing a series of car break-ins throughout the city, according to police.
Anthony Taranto, 27, of 78 Harvard St., is facing the following charges: two counts of larceny over $250, three counts of credit card fraud on three separate occasions, breaking and entering (nighttime felony) of a motor vehicle, larceny under $250 and receiving a stolen credit, according to Waltham Police Sgt. Joseph Guigno.
Taranto was arrested on Jan. 10 on an existing warrant for credit card fraud after officers located him at his home, according to Guigno. During questioning, Guigno said, Taranto confessed to four separate thefts.
Guigno said Tarnato committed car break-ins in the Warrdendale and Roberts neighborhoods in the areas of South Street and Middlesex Road. Taranto was looking for loose change and easily accessible cash, some of which Guigno said police recovered and returned to its owners.
"He was on a one man crime [spree]," Guigno said.
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Part 1 of this two-part series describes RAID, in which cases RAID-1 is useful, the RAID-1 installation requirements and how to install RAID-1 when you have an existing ext2 filesystem. Part 2 covers how to set up RAID-1 with an existing and a new swap partition, how to boot from a RAID-1 device, how to use a RAID-1 array to facilitate backing up a busy filesystem or a database that cannot be taken off line for long and how to set up monitoring scripts that will notify you of problems.
We wrote this article because we could not find a complete description of the setup process, and we wanted to document what we learned to make it easier for others to implement RAID-1. We learned how to implement RAID by reviewing the "Software-RAID HOWTO" and Usenet correspondence as well as through trial and error. This article includes information from the HOWTO and Usenet archives. Please read the HOWTO and the other resources called out in the references section for a lot more information about RAID.
This article focuses on RAID-1. There are five RAID levels: Linear mode, RAID-0, RAID-1, RAID-4 and RAID-5. RAID-1 maintains an exact mirror of the data on one disk on another disk. If one of the active RAID disks is removed (or fails), the data are still intact. If there are spare disks available, and if the system survived the crash, reconstruction of the mirror will begin immediately on one of the spare disks. If there is no spare disk, the system will continue to run on the remaining good disk, until you can obtain and install a replacement disk. RAID-1 is an effective, inexpensive way to help to ensure that your system stays up when you have a hard disk failure. One also could use a RAID-1 device to facilitate backing up a busy filesystem.
A RAID-1 device (e.g., /dev/md0) maintains an exact copy (mirror) of the files in a given partition (e.g. /dev/hda2) on a separate partition (e.g./dev/hdc2). The Linux RAID code mirrors partitions, not entire disks. The partitions that make up a RAID device set should be on separate hard disks. Write performance is slightly worse than on a single device, because identical copies of the data written must be sent to every disk in the array. The write is not complete until all disk writes are finished. Reading may be faster than without RAID-1, depending on the read-balancing strategy that is implemented. We did not benchmark our RAID setups. We are using RAID to provide data redundancy, not to improve disk performance.
We suffered a hard disk failure on our production web server a few months after we installed RAID-1 on the system. We noticed that a hard disk partition failed during a routine review of our system logs (the RAID code is truly transparent, we didn't notice the failure until three days after it happened). If we were not using RAID-1, we would have found out when the system crashed. We have about twelve staff members who work on the server and hundreds of users who access our web site on a daily basis. They would have lost time had server gone down. We replaced the failed disk during scheduled downtime. A second (identical) disk failed a few weeks later with similar results. This was a much better and less stressful outcome for all concerned. We have since set up scripts that monitor the status of the RAID devices and send e-mail alerts when there are problems.
There are three requirements for RAID-1: the kernel must support RAID-1, the RAID device driver must be compiled into the kernel or be available as a module and raidtools must be installed. Technically, you can use RAID with just one hard disk but most installations use more than one disk.
If /proc/mdstat exists, RAID support was compiled into the kernel. The Personalities listing indicates which RAID devices are available. For example:
more /proc/mdstat Personalities : [RAID1] read_ahead not set unused devices: <none>
indicates that the kernel supports RAID and the RAID-1 device driver is loaded (RAID-1 may have been compiled into the kernel or have been loaded as a module).
We've set up RAID-1 arrays on Red Hat 7.0, 7.1 and 7.2 and Debian potato using the 2.4.4, 2.4.9, 2.4.12 and 2.4.17 kernels that include RAID support, and the 2.2.16-22 kernel with the md driver 0.90.0 patch. If you are using a kernel that does not include RAID support, you may use the RAID-patches and raidtools found at people.redhat.com/mingo.
If you're using IDE for your RAID devices, you should install them on different controllers. SCSI RAID setups can get away with using the same bus, but they have a greater chance of a broken disk taking down the whole machine. And, consider using different manufacturers (or at least different lots) for the disks in your RAID array. Our initial array was created with two identical hard disks. The disks failed within a month of each other.
The partition that will be used for the RAID-1 array on the second disk should be about the same size as that on the first disk. It must be at least as large as the first disk's partition. If the second disk's partition is larger, the extra space will not be used by the RAID-1 device. The smallest partition determines the size of the RAID-1 device.
would be nice to also know how to uninstall
how to take a raid-1 system and return it to two separate disks?
how to unbuild what one has built?
would be nice to see this information, as well. (it's also missing from the linux software-raid howto and other similar articles online)
Useless Mirror
I echo the last comment. What's the use of RAID if the system still fails? I have done multiple Fedora installs attempting to RAID1 entire system. All installs go well, system runs great. When a disk is removed system hangs. When you re-boot and add the disk back it rebuilds and works fine again. It seems some pertinent information is missing from all these articles and how to's on linux RAID.
Useless. How do we mirror
Useless. How do we mirror root then? Copy it to a temp location, unmount it and format???? In Solaris, metadevices can be created on the fly.
Chunk sizes, blocks sizes, groups?
Where is the discussion on the performance effect of raid chunk size, and ext2 (ext3?) filesystem properties?
RAID clarification
I have seen ur article
I need some clarification about software raid 1
I have installed Redhat Linux 9 using Software RAID 1
I am using only two..not giving any spares
But if one hard disk fail, i will create another hard disk with the same partions
can i concatinate the two partions as a single RAID with out formatting
And i m getting problem when i install some network drivers.
The drivers are not installing
Where might be the problem????
Try mdadm !
Try the new RAID for Linux management tool 'mdadm'
Re: RAID-1, Part 1
Good info I guess. LD
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"We are coming into Lynbrook on Sunday night and will be closed Monday and Tuesday to clean and do slight renovations," a spokesperson for The Barn told Patch. "We will be open [at] 6 a.m. on Wednesday, Oct 31."
Although the family-owned, Long-Island-based Dairy Barn has been in business for more than 50 years, it has been selling off its 16 locations across Nassau and Suffolk counties at a rapid pace in recent years to The Barn, which also dubs itself a Long Island family business.
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Interstellar Overdrive
an interview with Evan Lavender-Smith
by Dylan Hicks
With two slim but ambitious books and many short works scattered around literary journals, the poetically named Evan Lavender-Smith has emerged as a writer about whom hype-abused words such as daring might legitimately apply. Last years From Old Notebooks (BlazeVOX, $16) was a hybrid-genre work (a memiovel in one of its own proposed classifications) composed of epigrams, anecdotes, confessions, and fragments about, among other things, thanatophobia and pornophilia, epistemology and scatology (he was, at the time of composition, the parent of diapered children), reading and writing and the pleasures and anxieties thereof. Scenes of domestic life both tender and jokey abut philosophical musings both serious and playful, until we seem to glimpse Wittgensteins Twitter feed. The book is structurally reminiscent of David Marksons late novels (an acknowledged influence), mindful of the long epigrammatic tradition that would include, say, La Rochefoucauld and Nietzsche, and, in the clarity and wit of its self-consciousness, a more austere cousin of David Foster Wallaces work.
Lavender-Smiths new novella, Avatar (Six Gallery Press, $15), is the interior monologue of a person of unspecified name, age, and sex floating in space. More precisely, the narrator (hereafter called N. for these introductory purposes) is floating between two stars, or, N. has feared, not so much floating as caught right in the middle where the gravities from the two stars [meet] in a tug of war. (That period is my own; Avatar is one long unpunctuated block of text.) N., understandably insane, increasingly amnesic, endlessly qualifying (I still feel even now some degree some slight degree of second hand relative confidence, is as uncertain as we are as to how this space-floating began, only that its been going on for a great number of years, from the early days when N. was crying tears of boundless loneliness, which tears floated alongside N. and became N.s friends, to a more recent period of trying to think that most impossible thought: nothing.
I reached Lavender-Smith by phone at his office in Las Cruces, where hes a visiting assistant professor of English at New Mexico State University. The following is a lightly edited transcript of our conversation.
Dylan Hicks: Did you grow up in Las Cruces?
Evan Lavender-Smith: I did. We moved here when I was about nine, and Ive lived here ever since, with the exception of going off to college in California.
DH: Yeah, I see that you went to Berkeley. And did that precede getting an MFA?
ELS: Yes, that was for undergrad. I had no intention of getting an MFA. I was planning to get a Ph.D, but I was homesick, so I came back here to New Mexico. I was bored, so I took a writing class and enjoyed that, met some people in there who became my friends, ended up taking more writing classes, and eventually accumulated enough credits to qualify for the MFA.
DH: But at some point you must have realized that was happening.
ELS: I did, though I think I denied that it was happening. Ive always struggled with the idea of an institutionalized writing curriculum, so finding myself engaged in such a thing was a little troubling. But I think its helpfulness outweighed any reservations I might have had about it.
DH: When you say helpfulness, do you mean that your fears werent particularly realized or that it was subsequently helpful?
ELS: Well, in my case it was very specifically helpful in that I discovered a teacher in Kevin McIlvoy. We just really connected in a powerful way. My thinking about literature, especially with regard to form, has been strongly influenced by him.
DH: This is Mc in From Old Notebooks?
ELS: Yes. In some regards he authorized a path for me in which language was prioritized in fiction. That was always a real struggle for me, thinking about the prioritization of language. Does that have a place in fiction? He absolutely confirmed that it did. And I was just so drawn to that idea that I wanted to take more and more classes from him.
DH: Were you a big reader as a teenager? And were you reading pretty sophisticated things?
ELS: I was. Thats when I started reading Pynchon and DeLillo and Barth and Hawkes and Barthelme and Gaddis and all those guys. Also, Kevin McIlvoy was a friend of my parents, and my mother is an English professor. So I had people who were helping me to navigate this course of reading. It started with DeLillo and Pynchon.
DH: It seems like, having read those writers when you were quite young, you would already be primed to accept the idea of a linguistically driven fiction.
ELS: Yes, thats a good point, but I dont know how much of that I was actually perceiving in, say, DeLillo and Pynchon—I dont think I had the diacritical judgment to perceive their work as being in contrast to another type of writing, or that there were two worlds in contemporary literature. To me it was just fun. It took someone presenting this contrast to me, this argument that has been taking place in contemporary literature for some time. And it wasnt until many years later that I saw that there was yet another tradition even more language-oriented, the tradition that follows directly from Joyce and Beckett. Of course we feel some of that in DeLillo and those other guys, but I would say that theres a kind of third tradition that is in some ways just as much in opposition to the DeLillos and the Pynchons as it is to . . . that other nebulous group of writers, those who shall not be named.
DH: So as an undergrad you studied philosophy, is that correct?
ELS: No, this is kind of embarrassing, but—
DH: You have no formal philosophical training whatsoever.
ELS: None at all. Ive actually never taken a single philosophy course. Which I think may be telling about the state of philosophy in academia nowadays. It seems that, in order to study the kind of philosophy that Im most interested in—
DH: Which is contemporary European philosophy?
ELS: Yes. I mean, I wasnt very interested in philosophy when I was at Berkeley, but had I been, if Id wanted to study Deleuze, I probably would have ended up doing so in the English department. I had friends at Berkeley who were studying philosophy with Hubert Dreyfus, a famous Heideggerian philosopher who wrote a seminal book called Being-in-the-World. I didnt even know what they were talking about. Now I quite regret that, because it was a rare opportunity that I missed. But no, Ive never had any training; its all come to me rather late. I was quite afraid of philosophy for a very long time, and finally just kind of abandoned myself to it in my mid-twenties. That was an important moment for me.
DH: How so?
ELS: Well, despite having felt in Pynchon and DeLillo a fanciful relationship to language—and I think also to philosophy—I never felt that a pathway in fiction was available in which philosophy bore heavily. Id never had the confidence to do something like that until I began seriously reading philosophy. Maybe this is largely about confidence: Kevin McIlvoy instilling in me the confidence to pay attention to language, and Brian Evenson making me feel that it was okay to pay attention to philosophy and feel confident about combining my interests in philosophy and fiction in some way.
DH: To not feel like an amateur—or perhaps you want to retain some of that.
ELS: I think I do, yes. When I think about the professional philosopher, my stomach turns. But there is a kind of armchair philosophizing that is really provocative to me, and as a fiction writer—whatever that means—I very consciously look for opportunities to do a little armchair philosophizing.
DH: The recent book has an epigraph from Kierkegaard, and the previous book has one from Nietzsche, and Wittgenstein plays a role in both, so it seems youre attracted to philosophers who are also gifted writers, or in philosophy thats linguistically driven or has a poetic sensibility. Is that fair to say?
ELS: I think so. However, a philosopher I grew very interested in a couple years ago is Alain Badiou, and he argues very forcefully that the poeticization of philosophy has been to philosophys detriment. And at least in the context of Badious ontology, I think thats very accurate. Im interested in reading many different kinds of philosophy, but when writing From Old Notebooks I was particularly interested in a kind of philosophy that would emerge from narrative. I think that Kierkegaard was up to something quite similar; I think that Nietzsche was too, at least occasionally. I dont know if narrative is quite the right word. I might say a philosophy that is engaged with formal affects; the art form itself produces affects and percepts that are verging on concepts, the stuff of philosophy. Im really interested in that possibility, but I dont know how rigorous it can be. When I think back on From Old Notebooks, I fear that the effects of the book finally arent as thoroughly rigorous as the effects of philosophy. They arent as intellectually bracing, I suppose. Maybe its just something Im incapable of. But the thought of producing new concepts is a big goal for me, as I imagine it is for many serious thinkers—I dont mean to call myself a serious thinker, because Im actually quite a playful thinker. But I wonder if thats something that can be done through narrative and prose. Its something Im constantly thinking of; it was something I was going for in Avatar as well.
DH: From Old Notebooks is kind of an audacious first book: a debut by an obscure writer that asks readers to care about things they might think unremarkable, such as your domestic life. I find the book very engaging, but I was also sort of puzzled by how it managed this, because, taken out of context, some of the items could easily be, say, a Facebook entry. And then theres also this high intellectual aspect put into that stew. You talk in the book about your self-consciousness about the projects potential vanity—it seems that you must have been quite anxious while writing it.
ELS: I think the book acknowledging its own audacity is a way for it to appear less audacious; the book attempts to preempt a reading in which someone points at it and says, Thats too audacious for a first book. I do think its too audacious in some respect. I think I would probably say that about Avatar as well. Theres almost a self-conscious positioning of the work within very serious trajectories of writing, canonical trajectories. I dont know what to say about that. Now Ill read from From Old Notebooks and think, Oh, God, Evan, who do you think you are? But those thoughts were very true at that moment. I feel very passionately about whatever it is Im writing, generally, and I feel very serious about whatever it is that Im writing, maybe a bit too serious. I think some of these lessons of postmodernism have been lost on me. I still have this decidedly modernist outlook on the position of the author in relation to the work, and in society at large—that the author is an important force for artistic creation, even for change. So when I inhabit this persona of the author, especially in the writing I do that is more self-reflexive, I think that idea of the author comes through. Its something of an antiquated notion of the role and the power of the author, but its one that for whatever reason I cant quite shake.
DH: I was just reading John Barths The Literature of Exhaustion, an essay from 1967. He would be considered a quintessential postmodernist, but he aligns himself with this same sort of modernist idea of the authors power, of championing the work that very few people could do.
ELS: Yes, I feel that in Barth. I feel something in that essay particularly, a kind of riven quality about the argument. He seems to retain a modernist outlook on the role of the author while making what is something like, as you say, the quintessential postmodernist argument about literature and writing. I feel very close to that essay in many respects.
DH: From Old Notebooks is full of ideas for stories, essays, screenplays, and poems—the sort of ideas people jot down, after all, in notebooks. One, from the last page, is: Epic poem in which hero floats between two stars—one in front, one behind, which obviously became Avatar. What most attracted you to this idea, and what were the chief technical problems you encountered while writing it?
ELS: Well, a consciousness alone with its own process of thought is the material I return to most often, and Avatar was an attempt to strip down that scenario to its most basic elements—in this case someone or something that is in the middle of nowhere with almost no stimuli. It feels like its paradigmatic of the material that is closest to me. I look back on those two books and I see that similarity in particular, a consciousness that is questioning the nature of consciousness itself through some form of narrative. So thats where it originated, with that impulse to get a consciousness completely alone. And then the technical complications were many. The book went through many formal iterations, including ones in which there was very little white space, and later iterations in which it looked more like composition by field. In its current iteration I struggled with simply reading the thing over and over and over, which is something I do—I try to barrage my consciousness with the writing. It was difficult just to read it, and it remains difficult.
DH: Difficult emotionally, or . . . ?
ELS: Kind of tedious, Id say. The absence of punctuation creates a certain demand on the reader that might not otherwise be there. I dont feel compelled to return to the book the way I do, say, From Old Notebooks. I enjoy taking up From Old Notebooks and reading something at random; theres a certain belletristic quality about it that I enjoy and am kind of amused by. I dont quite feel that way with Avatar. When I see the book on my desk, I nudge it even farther away. It feels almost like a violence on me when I try to read it.
DH: Another fragment from From Old Notebooks that you just gave me an occasion to bring up simply reads: My tumultuous relationship with the semicolon. Avatar is, I suppose, a kind of trial separation from semicolons, and from all punctuation. Im wondering when that decision was reached, especially considering how second-guessing the narrator is—conventionally punctuated, the book mightve been a Jamesian sea of commas and em-dashes and what have you.
ELS: It was a decision that was made in the moment of the works inception. The voice and the form were one thing from the beginning: I am floating between two stars just floating one in front one behind. The voice emerged without punctuation in my mind. It never contained punctuation. It did, at an early moment, do certain things with white space in order to control pace, but that was quite laborious to maintain and finally, I think, offered very little benefit. In my shifting around the white spaces I began to see the book without any punctuation or simulation of punctuation, and for whatever reason that felt most organic to this voice. I do think that there could be a tendency for a reader to project punctuation in his or her reading experience. Is that something that you did while reading it?
DH: There were a few repetitions that worked like a period, and a few miscues that would normally be resolved by punctuation, but after a few pages I felt I was pretty much in its rhythm. I would note the absence of an apostrophe after a possessive, so I guess that by noting it I was putting it there. I may have been thinking too literally—this kind of relates to the punctuation thing—but in the early parts of the book I was trying to figure out how old the narrator might be, trying to place it in time. There are some semi-antiquated words and phrases in the book—like all this while, upon, atop, for in the sense of because —I mean, these are not Elizabethan words or anything, but maybe those and the absence of contractions put me in mind of a somewhat elderly narrator. But then its revealed that the narrator is wearing Air Jordans, so I imagined the narrator as having been, at some point after the mid-1980s, an American teenager—except one who speaks in this language that seems a little older, kind of Continental. Maybe thats just me inserting voices from other books—the book is sometimes very wittily circular in that Thomas Bernhard way, for instance. But that was one of the interesting parts of the book for me, this hard-to-place tone, matched with a figure that in my imagination was not unlike myself.
ELS: I think thats very accurate. The paradoxical quality of the voice that you mention is something I find myself doing in the more conventional fiction Ive written, especially the short stories. It often involves a folding over of narrative distance in some way, where the voice of the child and the retrospective voice of the adult are somehow telescoped into one paradoxical voice. In Avatar particularly the book does present a timeless, or even an untimely, quality, yet its still littered with references—like Air Jordans and baseball cards—that might serve to locate it in time. I suppose I imagine those as cracks in something like a timeless regime of representation, a quality that we might associate with some of Beckett; I feel some of his narrators are outside of time. But yes, I think Avatar is after a paradoxical treatment of time. Theres a certain reading of it by which the speaker or thinker is revealed as being thousands or even millions of years old. That iscontrasted with a childlike voice, occasionally a childlike voice, and at least occasionally a more Continental voice, as you describe it.
DH: I happened to read Avatar around the time I went to an exhibition here in Minneapolis of Yves Kleins work, much of which attempted, at least in his sometimes coy rhetoric, to deal with the void. That seemed appropriate to me since Avatar is very much concerned with emptiness, nothingness, with types of nothing that are in fact something or become something, and I guess with the challenge or impossibility of emptying ones mind. Were there particular books or even meditative practices that informed your treatment of this stuff?
ELS: Well, I dont know that there were. I guess perhaps both Being and Time and Critique of Pure Reason are books I return to in my own mind when I think about thinking, when I think about presenting a rigorous image of thought. I do think that thats what Avatar finally is: an attempt to present a truly rigorous image of thought, and to me the best way to go about that is to attempt to show a mind struggling with the extremes of its own process. Is there such a thing as a thought of nothing? Is that a worthwhile goal? Is that a goal that would come about for this narrator in that position? I think so; it felt quite appropriate to me. But also these formal correspondences suggested by the novel became quite important to me, the formal correspondence between a thought of the void and the void itself—he doesnt have the void as a realistic material option in his world, but he does have the thought of the void. (Im saying his, though the novel goes out of its way to avoid gender specificity.) I think the book is concerned in some way with this formal displacement, which is language standing in place for materiality, a condition of his world. I remain very interested in placing characters up against their perception of nothing and nothingness, and the impossibility of such perception. I dont know why Im drawn to that; I suppose its something I do in my own thinking. Im eager to sort of figure it out, and the way that I tend to figure out my own thoughts about life and death is to sort of perform them in my writing.
DH: Theres a thanatophobia at work in From Old Notebooks that seems to relate to Avatar, in that one could imagine the narrators situation as an afterlife. Perhaps you didnt, but I guess I did, when thinking, what might this be?
ELS: Well, its an important question: To what extent does the book invite that? Its a question that, at a late point in the composition of the book, concerned me: Is a reader going to be willing to accept the immanent terms of this world without attempting to apply a hermeneutics thats looking for transcendent meaning? And of course its impossible for me to say. I did, at a late point, consider the space of the novel as the space of purgatory, but of course your reading is just as valid as mine.
DH: Does that jibe with your earlier statement about the power of the author?
ELS: No, it does not.
DH: Theres a recurrent phrase in the book— quarter of a fingernail —that I confess I dont entirely understand. I thought for a while it was the narrators description of how big the star hes floating toward looks, but then I thought other things as well, all fairly prosaic.
ELS: Yes, that was the intention: a measurement of the star. But I think also his body becomes quite important.
DH: Right—the funniest parts of the book for me were the discussions of friendship and reciprocity with respect, for instance, to his arm potentially being one of his friends.
ELS: Yes, this strange objectification of his own body is something like the comic relief of the book. Its a pitiful humor. I do find myself laughing at him in his miserable existence—not unlike the way I laugh at characters in Beckett, with their sucking stones or whatever.
DH: Can you talk just a bit about the title? When I first saw the book I was reminded, because of the film Avatar, of how the Replacements Let It Be playfully echoes the Beatles like-titled album—the distinction being that I happen to love both Let It Be albums, but only your book in the case at hand. So Im wondering if the title preceded the film. The title seems to suggest allegorical readings.
ELS: The title did present a problem for me when I learned of Camerons film. But I went and saw the film, and I didnt really like it at all, so I decided to retain the original title. Perhaps if Id liked the movie, I would have changed the title. Its a difficult question for me. Id heard the word avatar for years, but I think I first encountered it in print in Ellmanns biography of Joyce. The young Joyce is meeting someone for the first time, I think its a famous poet, and he says, Theres an avatar in Ireland. Hes referring to himself, and I didnt quite get his use of the word. The word consequently existed in my memory in an ambiguous capacity.
DH: He was using it cheekily as a god come to earth, I take it.
ELS: Yes, I think so. But of course the word is now in common usage in reference to the substitution of a figure for a person, say, on the Internet. I suppose these various meanings and associations of the word sort of colluded to produce, for me, an image of a word disassociated from a stable meaning, and so I think in a certain early moment I simply called it Avatar for that reason, and then subsequently, through the writing of the book, I began to feel other vague associations between the word and the narrative sitting there beneath the word. I think the sound of the word carries with it certain associations—an association of flight, for me, that I dont think follows from the words etymology.
DH: Did you happen to see Ed Parks essay in a recent New York Times Book Review about the one-sentence novel?
ELS: I didnt.
DH: It was just a back-page thing in praise of the one-sentence novel. So I guess I thought of Avatar as being potentially Zeitgeisty. Im not sure if you consider it a one-sentence novel; its almost a part of an endless sentence.
ELS: Right. I think that that was actually an important way for me to imagine the form of the novel, especially at an early moment in its composition, as a fragment from something endless. I maybe lost sight of that through its composition—in my attempt to provide the narrative with a kind of shapeliness that would be perceived as a real contrivance if in fact this were simply an excerpt. Or maybe it was an excerpt that was selected on account of its shapeliness. Likewise, at an early moment I imagined this being printed on a scroll, and this being almost like a section torn out from the scroll, and thats whats been presented to us.
DH: This last question may be unwieldy, but you talked about your interest in trying to deal seriously with consciousness, and I know youve studied Joyce. So when youre writing and revising, what sort of things are you mindful of in terms of the ever-present challenge of trying to represent consciousness while at the same time dealing with a linguistic presentation that also seeks to be art, and may as such be distancing from the thing youre trying to get at, but may also be clarifying . . . this question is so huge that now Im regretting having even—
ELS: No, this is exactly the sort of thing I think about. Something that I seem to have to do, and I recall doing this with both of these books, is to get my thinking as the writer and the thinking presented by the book to achieve an alignment, so we become one and the same thing for a certain duration. Its a great challenge. With Avatar it involved reading the book over and over and over and over until my thoughts were very much proceeding in the manner of this narrators, so that I could return to the book and the voice was right there. There was little distinction between my own thoughts and this insane narrators thoughts, which was quite scary. In both books, this process of a consciousness looping back on itself is repeatedly performed—very self-reflexively in From Old Notebooks, perhaps less self-reflexively in Avatar, although it is still a consciousness constantly returning to its own process. So that seems to be the way I deal with representing thought—I have to become it. Ive likened it to method acting.
DH: It seems analogous to what a more traditional fiction writer would say about getting inside the character.
ELS: I suppose it is, but thinking about my writing as containing a cast of concepts, rather than a cast of characters, has been important to me. When I think about inhabiting my fiction, I tend to think about inhabiting forms and concepts rather than characters.
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The South Pasadena City Council meets tonight, with the open session part of the meeting starting at 7 p.m. at City Hall at 1424 Mission Street.
Below are some of the items up for discussion. The full agenda can be viewed here.
- Amending a tree trimming ordinance to increase penalties for violations. If approved, the change would allow the city to impose a "tree replacement fee" for up to double the value of the damaged or destroyed tree. If the tree trimming violation happens on a property being developed, the change would allow the city to ban issuing new permits for up to five years
- Discussion of extending the city's lease with the company that operates the Arroyo Seco Golf Course from four years to six years
- A decision on whether to approve an 18 percent water hike and start the state-mandated public hearing process, with hearing to be scheduled in December.
- A review of existing city properties and lease agreements to ensure that "the City is receiving the service/and or payment it deserves and that a good product is being delivered."


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Hollis Recalls Digital Dive Computers Due to Drowning Hazard
Consumers should stop using this product unless otherwise instructed. It is illegal to resell or attempt to resell a recalled consumer product.
Recall SummaryName of product:
Hollis DG03 Dive ComputersHazard:
The dive computer, when used with an optional integrated transmitter, can malfunction and display an incorrect tank pressure reading to the diver. A diver could unknowingly deplete their air supply based on the reading, resulting in drowning.
Hollis toll-free at (888) 383-3483 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. PT Monday through Friday, e-mail at firstname.lastname@example.com or online at www.hollisgear.com and click Safety Notices for more information.Report an Incident Involving this Product
Recall Details
About 1,000
The recall includes Hollis brand DG03 dive computers with serial numbers 100 through 1142 that may be used with integrated transmitters that monitor tank pressure. The round black 2-1/2 inch diameter computer has a digital screen and is worn on the divers wrist like a watch. The name of the product, Hollis DG03, is printed on the front of the unit and the serial number is printed on the back of the unit. These computers allow scuba divers to measure the time and depth of a dive. Only dive computers with software labeled Revision 1A, viewed on the computers display are included in the recall.
Hollis has received two reports of dive computers malfunctioning. No injuries have been reported.
Consumers should stop using the recalled dive computers until the units operating system is upgraded to revision 1B. Consumers can download the upgrade from the firms website or contact an authorized Hollis dealer for assistance.
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CPSC is charged with protecting the public from unreasonable risks of injury or death associated with the use of the thousands of consumer products under the agency's jurisdiction. Deaths, injuries and property damage from consumer product incidents cost the nation more than $900 billion annually. CPSC is committed to protecting consumers and families from products that pose a fire, electrical, chemical or mechanical hazard. CPSC's work to ensure the safety of consumer products - such as toys, cribs, power tools, cigarette lighters and household chemicals - contributed to a decline in the rate of deaths and injuries associated with consumer products over the past 30 years.
Federal law bars any person from selling products subject to a publicly-announced voluntary recall by a manufacturer or a mandatory recall ordered by the Commission.
To report a dangerous product or a product-related injury go online to www.SaferProducts.gov or call CPSC's Hotline at (800) 638-2772 or teletypewriter at (301) 595-7054 for the hearing impaired. Consumers can obtain news release and recall information at www.cpsc.gov, on Twitter @OnSafety or by subscribing to CPSC's free e-mail newsletters.


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ST PETER — Area friends of the Meyer family have organized a fundraiser to help with the costs of searching for Annie Meyer, the missing daughter of Pat and Jerry Meyer.
Annie Meyer, a St. Peter native who has lived in the Denver area for the past 15 years, has been missing since February. Several family members from St. Peter have been staying in Colorado to assist with the search for the search for the 51-year-old woman.
The St. Peter fundraiser will by Friday, May 3, at the St. Peter Redman's club. The event starts at 4 p.m. with a silent auction and there will be a raffle drawing at 7 p.m.


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How do you plant an apple tree?
I have a goal to plant an apple tree but I can't figure out how to do so. There is no seed in my bag and I have no 'items'. I also cannot find a tree in the shop (entered from in the forest). All I found was a normal tree.
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You buy it from the shop, under the decorations section.
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An apple tree is grown in your town not the forest....so make sure you go to the shop in the village and not in the forest...then go to the decorations section and you will find what you are looking for.
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Tennessee Insurance Litigation Blog
TN Court of Appeals Impliedly Recognizes Claim for Common Law Bad Faith
You might recall the 2011 legislation that took away consumers' right to bring claims against insurance companies under the Tennessee Consumer Protection Act, but that same legislation seemed to recognize the existence of a common law cause of action for bad faith in Tennessee. (click here for a prior post on that topic). Since that time, I've been tracking a couple of bad faith cases working their way through the Tennessee appellate courts. Today the Court of Appeals for the Western Section issued its ruling in one of those cases. See U.S. Bank v. Tennessee Farmers Mutual Insurance Company.
The opinion itself was rather "ho-hum," and doesn't offer much of any substantive discussion regarding common law bad faith claims, but it impliedly holds that such a cause of action exists. The issue in the case was whether a mortgage company who is a named mortgagee on an insurance policy has a duty to notify the insurance company of a foreclosure on the insured property. The Tennessee Supreme Court previously ruled that no such duty exists, but on remand one of the issues to be considered was the Bank's common law bad faith claim. After hearing proof on the issue, the trial court (Judge Clayburn Peeples) ruled that such a cause of action exists and expressly held that Tennessee Farmers Insurance Company acted in bad faith in denying the Bank's claim for insurance proceeds. In reviewing Judge Peeples' decision, the Court of Appeals quoted his ruling at length, which stated in part:
US Bank has shown by a preponderance of the evidence the following elements of a claim for common law claim for a bad faith failure to pay:
a.That [Tennessee Farmers] issued a policy of insurance to US Bank and that US Bank made lawful, reasonable claim under that policy;
b. That [Tennessee Farmers] intentionally refused to pay US Bank's claim;
c. That [Tennessee Farmers] had no reasonably legitimate or arguable reason for its refusal to pay the claim;
d. That [Tennessee Farmers] had actual knowledge of the absence of a reasonably legitimate, debatable or arguable reason for the refusal; and
e. That [Tennessee Farmers] intentionally failed to determine whether it had a reasonably legitimate or arguable reason for refusing to pay US Bank's claim.
In reviewing this holding by the trial court (which was a specific issue on appeal), the Court of Appeals seemingly accepted the elements of a bad faith claim as set forth by Judge Peeples, but then went on to hold that the facts before the Court did not amount to bad faith. Its a rather odd opinion for such a big issue, but nonetheless is an extraordinary win for victims of insurance bad faith in Tennessee. The door is now wide open for future common law bad faith claims.
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NEW DELHI — President Obama will visit Myanmar this month, the White House said Thursday, as his administration seeks to bolster democracy and strengthen ties with nations in the region.
The visit will be part of a three-country tour Nov. 17-20 that will include stops in Bangkok, Thailand, and Phnom Penh, Cambodia, where the president will attend an Asian summit, the White House statement said. In Myanmar, Obama will meet with President Thein Sein and opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.