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But here in this graveyard that is still No Man's land the countless white crosses in mute witness stand. To man's blind indifference to his fellow man to a whole generation that was butchered and damned.Elfwine was raised in a peacetime Rohan. I wondered what the living king's son would think of the dead king's son's last moments. Would he find it meaningful? 3) "Roll With It" what if the enemy isn't in a distant land what if the enemy lies behind the voice of command the sound of war is a child's cry behind tinted windows, they just drive by all I know is that those who are going to be killed aren't those who preside on capitol hill I told him, don't fill the front lines of their war those assholes aren't worth dying for but he said roll with it, baby make it your career keep the home fires burning till america is in the clear I am tired of glorifying war, however. Most of the most poignant WWI poets concluded that it was not worth the sacrifice. I think a large part of Tolkien's fantasy is a struggle that is worth fighting. There is a side who is in the right, in his stories. Which is refreshing to contemplate, as like him I watch friends and family departing for a war I cannot overcome my cynicism to muster support for. The closest I can come in the Ardaverse is a woman of Rhun coming to terms with the fact that her husband died for less than a noble cause.
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Leon Leyson was number 289, the youngest on the list. The list that would eventually mean life for more than a thousand Jews. Leon was Number 289 on Schindler's list. His powerful memoir, The Boy on the Wooden Box tells his story to the young people of today what it was like surviving the Holocaust. The reader sees this horrific time through the eyes of a child. His youthful perspective brings a powerful message of survival and humanity. Leon was only a boy during WWII, spending most of his years from 10-19 in Jewish ghettos, work, concentration and displaced persons camps. The hunger, loss, pain and suffering are real. Separated for months at a time from his family, Leon found the will to survive inside of him. If you are a reader at 40 or a child at 10 reading this book, you will feel the struggle. You will hold your breath as the family is forced to separate. You will wonder how evil can exist. You will wonder if Leon ever sees the faces again of his brothers. Share this book with your children or students.
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A poor man was given a loaf of bread. He thanked the baker, but the baker said, "Don't thank me. Thank the miller who made the flour." So he thanked the miller, but the miller said, "Don't thank me. Thank the farmer who planted the wheat." So he thanked the farmer, but the farmer said, "Don't thank me. Thank the Lord. He gave the sunshine, rain, and fertility to the soil, and that's why you have bread to eat." As we enter the season of giving, showing our love to one another in special ways and giving thanks for the bounty we enjoy in this life, whether great or small, take time to remember where it ultimately all comes from.
Regardless of how sophisticated, how advanced we may be scientifically, we still can't create; we still can't make a kernel of wheat. That has to come from God. God has supplied all the things we need in order to survive on this planet. " ... Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows."
(James 1:17) When it comes time to share and give thanks for the bounties in your life, remember, first of all it's not yours, it never belonged to you. We are simply caretakers of what we possess. All we receive in this life will eventually be passed on to someone else. Give in the spirit that you never possessed it. Be thankful for what you have; care for it, for it is not yours; and do good with all that has been given you by your Father.
[Psalm 32] "... Blessed is he whose transgressions are forgiven, whose sins are covered. Blessed is the man whose sin the Lord does not count against him and in whose spirit is no deceit." Blessed means happy. The Psalmist David tells of the days he suffered as he concealed his sin and the guilt was literally killing him. To be blessed, David needed to confess his sin to God, "... I said, 'I will confess my transgressions to the Lord -- and you forgave the guilt of my sin.'" The happiest I've ever been in my entire life is when I have no guilty conscience for the wrongs I have done.
When I go to my Heavenly Father in prayerful confession, asking for forgiveness of my sins, I know I am forgiven and it's time to move on, for what has been forgiven by God has been forgotten forever. The greatest thanks we can give this season is thanks to God, who gave His Son as the perfect sacrifice for the sins of man. And all who believe and are baptized for the forgiveness of their sins, buried with Christ to rise and live a new life, are blessed, for their guilt of sin has been washed away (Romans 6:3-12 & Acts 22:16). The Brush by Chuck Millhuff: Life started like a canvas; And God started painting on me. But I took the paintbrush from Jesus; And painted what I wished to see. The colors I painted kept running; And the objects were all out of size; I had made a mess of my painting; my ways now seemed so unwise. So I brought my painting to Jesus; All the colors, the pieces so wrong; In the markets of the earth it was worthless; But His blood made my painting belong. He worked with no condemnation; Never mentioned the mess I had made. Then He dipped his brush in the rainbow; And he signed it, "The price has been paid." When I gave the brush back to Jesus; When I gave the brush back to Him, He started all over life's canvas to fill; When I gave to Jesus the brush of my will. He worked with no condemnation; He never mentioned the mess I had made. Then He dipped his brush in the rainbow; And He signed it, "The price has been paid." I thank God for His renewing power of love and forgiveness.
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Stocks on Wall Street were mixed to begin the week, as the Dow managed to register mild gains but the Nasdaq was weighed down by slides in a number of so-called "momentum stocks" like Tesla (TSLA). Investors may remain cautious in the next two sessions ahead of the Fed's much anticipated rate decision and accompanying statement, which is due Wednesday. ECONOMIC EVENTS: In the U.S., New York Fed's Empire state survey for September rose to a five-year high of 27.54. Industrial production unexpectedly dipped 0.1% in August from a downwardly revised 0.2% July gain, missing the forecast for a rise of 0.3%. Capacity utilization dropped to 78.8% last month from 79.1% previously. In China, industrial output increased 6.9% in August versus the same period a year earlier, which was its weakest advance, excluding months that fell during New Year holidays, since December 2008. Chinese retail sales growth for August came in at 11.9%, missing the consensus estimate. COMPANY NEWS: Shares of Apple (AAPL) edged down 3c, or 0.03%, to $101.63 despite the company's announcement that a record 4M iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus pre-orders were placed in the first 24 hours that ordering was available. Demand for the new phones exceeds the initial pre-order supply, the company added, stating that delivery of "many" iPhone pre-orders have been pushed out to October... Microsoft (MSFT) slid 45c, or 0.97%, to $46.24 after the company confirmed an agreement to acquire Mojang, the developer for the "Minecraft" video game franchise, for $2.5B... MAJOR MOVERS: Among the notable gainers was Avanir Pharmaceuticals (AVNR), which surged $5.75, or 85.31%, to $12.49 and was upgraded to Buy from Hold at Jefferies after the company announced results from its phase II clinical trial evaluating the safety and efficacy of its treatment of agitation in patients with Alzheimer's disease. Also higher was SABMiller (SBMRY), which jumped $4.72, or 8.5%, to $60.26 after the Wall Street Journal said that ABInBev (BUD) was looking to obtain financing for an acquisition of the U.K.-based brewer and Heineken (HEINY) confirmed that it rebuffed SABMiller's approach regarding a potential transaction. The news of potential consolidation in the space also drove other beer makers highers, with Molson Coors (TAP) rising $4.20, or 5.85%, to $76.00 and Boston Beer (SAM) gaining 71c, or 0.33%, to $218.47. Among the noteworthy losers was Tesla (TSLA), which dropped $25.34, or 9.08%, to $253.86 after Morgan Stanley analyst Adam Jones wrote that he agrees with the assertion of Tesla's CEO Elon Musk that the company's stock may have gotten ahead of itself. Also lower were shares of NPS Pharmaceuticals (NPSP), which fell $5.42, or 16.56%, to $27.28 after Oppennheimer and Jefferies stated that approval of its Natpara drug for hypoparathyroidism could be delayed after concerns were raised during an FDA panel meeting, even though the advisors were in favor of approving the drug. INDEXES: The Dow rose 43.63, or 0.26%, to 17,031.14, the Nasdaq dropped 48.70, or 1.07%, to 4,518.90, and the S&P 500 declined 1.41, or 0.07%, to 1,984.13.
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Shares of beer makers SABMiller (SBMRY) and Molson Coors (TAP) are climbing after Heineken (HEINY) confirmed that it rebuffed SABMiller's approach regarding a potential acquisition. Additionally, the Wall Street Journal reported that another company in the sector, ABInBev (BUD), was looking to obtain financing for an acquisition of U.K.-based SABMiller, but that report was refuted by CNBC's David Faber. WHAT'S NEW: Heineken announced yesterday that it has been approached by SABMiller regarding a potential acquisition, but concluded that SABMiller's proposal is non-actionable. The Heineken family has informed SABMiller of its intention to "preserve the heritage and identity of Heineken as an independent company," the beer maker stated. Meanwhile, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing an unnamed source, that ABInBev is in talks with banks about financing a takeover of SABMiller. The deal could be worth nearly $122B, the newspaper added. However, CNBC's David Faber this morning disputed the accuracy of the report, saying that ABInBev was not in talks to receive financing for a SABMiller takeover and that the companies were not in discussions about a transaction. ANALYST REACTION: In a note to investors on Saturday, ISI Group analyst Robert Ottenstein recommended buying shares of Molson Coors, SABMiller. and ABInBev. SABMiller's attempt to buy Heineken could indicate that the U.K-based company thinks that it will receive a takeover offer from ABInBev in the near-term, the analyst believes. It's likely that SABMiller expects an offer by ABInBev "in the foreseeable future," causing the British brewer to explore all strategic options, Ottenstein contended. Additionally, Ottenstein does not believe that SABMiller is looking to prevent a takeover by ABInBev and he does not expect Heineken to sell itself. Heineken's management said in 2012 that the family which controls the company takes a very long-term view of the business and is unlikely to permit it to be sold, Ottenstein stated. WHAT'S NOTABLE: In June, research firm ISI Group said that if ABInBev were to acquire SABMiller, Molson Coors would likely buy SABMiller's 58% stake in their U.S. joint venture, MillerCoors , at an attractive, very accretive price. Such a deal would provide AmInBev with a solution to U.S. anti-trust issues, the firm stated. Also in June, Molson Coors CEO Peter Swinburn said he wouldn't rule out buying SABMiller's stake in MillerCoors if it becomes available. PRICE ACTION: In mid-morning trading, Molson Coors climbed nearly 7% to $76.66, SABMiller rallied 10% to $61.24, and ABInBev gained 3% to $114.50 and Heineken rose 2% to $39.19.
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Anheuser-Busch InBev (BUD) volatility is expected to move on sources say that SABMiller (SBMRY) has approached Heineken (HINKY) about an offer for the brewer to help defend itself against a possible takeover attempt by Anheuser-Busch, says Bloomberg. Overall option implied volatility of 18 is near its 26-week average of 19 according to Track Data, suggesting non-directional price movement.
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County inches toward possible incorporation
The Whatcom County Planning and Development Services department has announced plans to solicit proposals for an incorporation feasibility study for Birch Bay.
The request will invite potential consultants to prepare an analysis of the feasibility of incorporating the Birch Bay community into a city based on the city design guidelines currently being developed by the Bellingham-based A Northwest Collaborative (ANC), an architectural and bioregional planning firm led by Davidya Kasperzyk.
Birch Bay is identified as an unincorporated urban growth area (UGA) and has experienced tremendous growth, according to county records that cited figures from a 2004 study by the Kask Consulting group.
The study found the 2000 U.S. Census counted 4,128 people in the Birch Bay area and estimated a population of 9,619 people by the year 2022.
Additional population studies, however, have indicated that Birch Bay has grown 87 percent since the 2000 Census and it is estimated the population at the beginning of 2007 was approximately 7,500.
Whatcom County officials now estimate Birch Bay's population will reach 2022 levels by 2010.
Birch Bay Steering Committee chair Kathy Berg said as the area continues to grow, the demand for services such as police and fire protection will continue to increase.
Berg said incorporation could give the community more control over how their tax dollars are distributed and the level and cost of services available.
"It sounds counter intuitive to think another layer can improve services without costing a whole lot more, but in fact it can, generally speaking, because we decide what we spend our money on," she said. "It's self-determination."
Berg cited a national study that showed that for every $1 for property taxes collected in an area, residential units require $1.28 worth of services.
Meanwhile, for every $1 commercial business establishments pay in taxes, they require only 17 cents worth of services. "So to have a viable city you have to have a certain base of business and commercial establishments paying property taxes in order to afford the services residents require," she said. "And a predominantly residential area is not going to be able to afford the services they need."
Berg added that the incorporation study will help determine the right mix of residential and commercial establishments.
"We don't yet know what that balance is, that's one of the things the study will tell us," she said.
Birch Bay design guidelines upcoming meetings
Two community events are planned for Birch Bay citizens to help develop a town plan and design guidelines to help provide framework for growth. The county planning and development department has enlisted the help of A Northwest Collaborative (ANC), an architectural and bioregional planning firm led by Davidya Kasperzyk, to facilitate the events.
The Birch Bay Steering Committee and Whatcom County will host the ANC team at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, February 8 to review previous findings and examine town concepts developed by ANC.
The second meeting is scheduled for 10 a.m. Saturday, February 10, and will include an examination of site planning, sustainability, streetscape design, building design, public access, and connectivity. That meeting will also discuss what other unincorporated communities are doing. Both meetings will be held at the Jackson Road Bible Center at 7039 Jackson Road in Birch Bay.
The ANC team consists of: Davidya Kasperzyk whose town planning work includes "Imagine Shelton," and numerous Seattle neighborhoods, Don Carlson FAIA an award-winning architect and urban designer who created Bellingham's Bellwether buildings, Greg Waddell, a former Bellingham planning director, and Pam Beyette, a renowned public artist.
Other Birch Bay meetings
The Birch Bay Steering Committee meets at 7 p.m. Wednesday, January 24, and will include a discussion with guest speaker Warner Webb, Whatcom County Fire Marshall and a speaker from the Whatcom Land Trust. Webb will speak on how to deal with the recently adopted burn ban in urban growth areas (UGAs).
The next meeting of the Birch Bay Parks, Recreation and Open Spaces subcommittee is scheduled for 7 p.m. February 19 at the Birch Bay Bible Community Church. For more information about the meetings of the Birch Bay Steering Committee and its subcommittees, visit www.biz.birchbay.net/bbsc.


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What smartphone users don't know about their bill
Some US carriers are overcounting data use – and customers are the ones paying for it.
It's tough enough to make sense of your cell phone bill with all the "extra" fees, and now it turns out your bill could be wrong.
New research from the University of California at Los Angeles, presented at the MobiCom Conference recently in Istanbul, Turkey, looked at the systems of two large U.S. cell phone networks (which the researchers declined to identify) and if they're accurately charging customers for data use.
According to Technology Review, the researchers used a data-tracking app on Android phones to check the data the phone actually used versus what that the carriers were recording. They found that the carriers tended to overcount data when a person used applications like YouTube or Pandora, or any app that streams video or audio, particularly when coverage was weak or unreliable. The miscount could potentially show up as extra charges on a customer's bill.
Even typical use of cellular phones, like checking email and using search engines, could lead to data being overcounted by 5-7 percent, according to the researchers. AT&T (T) charges $10-$15 and Verizon (VZ) charges $15 for straying into each new gigabyte of data over the data cap – even if you only use one kilobyte. AT&T's lowest-tier plan, for example, offers only 250MB a month of data. How quickly can 250MB be used? Sprint estimates that 250MB equals just over an hour of streaming music, 15 minutes of YouTube videos, 20 photos uploaded and download, and two downloads of apps and games.
The problem is, carriers count data downloaded or streamed over their networks whether or not a handset receives it. Video and audio are especially vulnerable because their protocols do not require the end user's device to acknowledge the receipt of every piece of data. At times, the data transmission from the server to the mobile device will continue to load, even if the wireless link is broken, explained UCLA researcher Chunyi Peng. "In one of our tests, video streaming lasted about five minutes after the link was broken. Users could be charged while not receiving anything."
All this matters because as more customers own smartphones (50.4 percent of mobile subscribers now own a smartphone) and flood networks with data usage, many mobile carriers have replaced unlimited data plans with ones that have data use caps. AT&T was the first to do so in June 2010, and T-Mobile and Verizon followed soon after (though in August this year, T-Mobile had a change of heart and announced a new unlimited individual data plan). Sprint continues to offer an unlimited data plan.
Despite the caps, data usage continues to increase. From 2010 to 2011, the average AT&T customer used 116 percent more data, Sprint's average customer usage went up 69 percent, and Verizon's rose 150 percent, going from an average of 206.6MB of data to 512.4MB (though Verizon didn't have a data cap until July 2011). AT&T and Verizon recently announced "shared-data" plans for individuals and families with multiple devices, but these plans also have data caps.
Though the Federal Communications Commission has required that carriers alert customers when they're getting close to their data cap, giving them the option to either use less data for the rest of the month or upgrade to a higher tier plan before they're charged, the requirement isn't in full effect until October this year.
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I'm leaving Microsoft
Here's my resignation "letter":
Here's my resignation "letter":
Glad to see you found what you wanted. Rock on!
I spent two wonderful internships at MSFT. I loved my job over there and how the team said goodbye for me. After watching your video I regret that I haven't made such awsome goodbye.
Good luck!
Wow! You totally got featured on Techcrunch. Way to go, even though that may not have been your immediate intention it's still pretty darn cool. As a former Seattle-ite give it a hug for me.
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Love the parody!!! Always keep that contagious smile in whatever you do! It sure as heck kept me smiling during the duration of your song! <3
love it. very creative.
Lovely voice and GREAT parody! Great wishes in your next endeavor!
You're very pretty, you have a gorgeous voice, and you can play an instrument. Best of luck to you with your new job, any company would be privileged to have you
beautiful voice.
good luck with your new job
Emmanuel, Paris (France)
Totally cool and awesome! All the best to you! Good luck!
不知道你是否看得懂中文 :)
You rock.
this is the BEST farewell I've seen in 20 years at msft! good luck.
Congratulations! You certainly have the talent and best of all a good imagination! Reach for the sky. Leadership is a lonely profession but as Ken Olsen, Founder of Digital Equipment Corporation, (DEC) told me "If everyone agrees with you then you are not leading or managing" Best of luck!!!
Awesome way to resign. Based on the creativity, you need to be a designer!!! Good luck in your endeavor down here in the Bay Area!!!
We are lucky to have someone like you join the awesomeness that is the Bay Area!!!
(Yeah, a lil biased!!!)
I like your song.
You rock.
Be happy with your new job.
Have a nice day.
Wow ! Quelle brillante idée que cette chanson de départ, exécuté avec brio et une joie de vivre contagieuse.
Bravo Mme. Cheng
You are amazing… Best wishes for your future.
Nice voice ; )
Well done … Now if I ever lunch Excel again; I would think of this
Great song, great voice! You made my day with this video, so I just want to say thank you! And good luck with your new job!
Best wishes
Patrik Järvelöv, Sweden
At least you can go on one of the talent shows if the start up doesn't work out ! gl
I read Taiwanese news to find your blog. Good job! Here is news link:
Hi Karen,
You probably have already known by now that your resignation 'letter' has been featured on really popular sites like Gizmodo and Neatorama. You're an inspiration. Not just because of your talents, but your record on Linkedin also motivates the hell out of me as a uni freshman. For now, I'll be
hoping working harder to get there.
I wish you all the best for your future endeavors.
See you at the top!
- Adam
Good parody and very nice voice!
Good luck!
I will never use Excel again without thinking of this song. Thanks!
Wonderful voice!
You are famous now! Your video being in many news sites. Seeing the video, I think the designer role suits you more.
you rule
Simone, Italy
suerte y enhorabuena por tu creativa e innovadora despedida. Good luck Karen.
I've heard you are a programmer, but why are you fairly attractive? And another, quite personal question: why did you or your parents leave your homeland? Prosperity? Success?
Do you want a land of milk and honey? A land of freedom? A land where people come from rags to riches?
Or maybe a land what democracises everyone? A land that bombs civilians? Or a land that takes drastic measures at every hot spot?
A land where everyone is welcome, except middle americans who are shot down at fences? Or a country for whose money soldiers die a miserable death all over the world?
A land that launchs shuttles into the space? That sprays Agent Orange over a whole nation? That compel respect for its views with torture, murder and threatening gestures?
The most beautiful land on earth, where the pacific curls on golden beaches? Where the people hold bliss in their hands. Maybe you wanted to live there, because it pleases you.
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The first half went sort of how you might have expected. The Vikings got on the board right off the bat thanks to a Cordarrelle Patterson TD return – his second kickoff return TD of the year – but the Packers took away any emotional lift the Vikes may have gotten from that huge play by methodically going down the field on their ensuing possession to tie the game.
The Vikings did nothing with the ball after getting it back, and when the Packers took over it was the same story all over again. Dinking and dunking their way down the field, converting third down after third down. The Vikes did manage to sack Aaron Rodgers in the red zone to prevent a TD, holding the Pack to a field goal.
And then things sort of fell apart for the Vikes. It quickly became 24-10 Packers after a pair of huge plays, a 76-yard TD pass to Jordy Nelson on a perfect blitz read and pass delivery by Aaron Rodgers, and then a 93 yard punt return TD by Micah Hyde.
Did the Vikings fold the tent after that? No they did not. Christian Ponder came out after a typically indecisive, ineffective first half and led the Vikes on a charge down the field, a charge that culminated in an Adrian Peterson touchdown scamper to make the score 24-17 going into the half.
Yes the Vikings have a glimmer of hope. But some things have to different in the second half if they want to steal this game. They need to get off the field on third down and Christian Ponder has to play better. Adrian Peterson looks like he's primed for a big second half but Ponder still needs to do his part. The quarterback frankly looked uninspired until that late drive. Maybe he can parlay that taste of success into a good final two quarters.
Or maybe he knows Josh Freeman will be starting next week anyway so he's already checked out? Who knows what's in Ponder's head.
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All Over :: Dixmont :: Ryan Seacrest is Famous :: Hiding Out :: Temporary People :: A Red Cherry on a White-tiled Floor :: The Pale of Settlement :: The Sky Over Walgreens
All Over
Roy Kesey
Dzanc Books, 2007
Paperback: 152 pp; $13.95
Review by Josh Maday
Roy Kesey's debut story collection, All Over, was also the groundbreaking ceremony for Dzanc Books, a new publishing house based in Michigan. Dzanc "was created in 2006 to advance great writing and champion those writers who don't fit neatly into the marketing niches of for-profit presses." Dzanc did well to procure talent like Kesey to launch their press.
Kesey's collection has been anticipated by many who've been reading his stories in dozens of the highest quality literary magazines, and ever since his prizewinning novella Nothing in the World was published in 2006. In All Over, Kesey creates strange and wonderful worlds with pathos, sharp intelligence, and humor. While Kesey is definitely working in a tradition—names like Barth, Barthelme, and Saunders come to mind—these odd, attractive stories bear Kesey's DNA.
The collection begins with one of the more traditional (realism in this case) stories in the bunch, "Invunche y voladora," where a newlywed couple awakes on the first day of their honeymoon in Chile, still reeling from the ceremony and reception they rushed to plan and execute and now do not remember. They find themselves in a foreign place, learning that everything has changed and continues to evolve at a seemingly unnatural pace. And when their surroundings have suddenly organized into a situation, they once again have to make a quick decision that will affect their lives forever.
In "Instituto," the main character, Stanley, is finally convinced that he requires the services of a mysterious company. The Instituto de Perfeccionamiento offers . . . well, the services are never stated specifically, only that the "program . . . has been chosen on your behalf . . . Cash, check, or credit card?" And after some circular linguistic games, he forks over one hundred bucks to begin his program. Treatment sessions involve sitting in a room for a little bit and then going home. But then Stanley wakes up the morning after to find that his "skin, hair, refrigerator, eyesight, wardrobe, gastrointestinal tract, sofa, car, unicycle, hearing, pogo-stick, flooring, plumbing, prostate, wiring, fingernails, and so on" are all miraculously, arbitrarily "perfected," a word whose meaning never quite stays in one place throughout the story. Perfection, improvement, or whatever, he wants to know how this is done and is told that, "You are not meant to understand, sir. You are meant only to be pleased." As soon as Stanley thought he was "just getting started, just getting going," he is informed that his "program is complete." So maybe he is left with the tools to pursue the things he didn't know he really wanted most of all—none of which, of course, "yield to our treatment." But maybe he simply finds himself drowning in more whetted desires than can possibly be fulfilled by his "perfect" things.
Kesey manages to do a lot with little. Most of the stories are a few pages or less but with his precise word economy they are thought provoking and entertaining. We find girls who work at Pizza Hut taking meticulous care to build a fairy tale castle out of material as fragile and perishable as the fantasies that nourished their hopes and desires as children. In "Fontanel" a verbal photo collage guides the reader through the artifacts of a miraculous event, which, just beneath the surfaces of things photographed, is a tragedy that can only be examined in small, tolerable pieces. "Martin" takes the shape of a psychological evaluation where the subject in question believes himself to be a guitar string, while the author of the evaluation unwittingly provides as much if not more insight into her own state of mind. The homeless narrator in "Strike" tells how the garbage men went on strike and he and his wife became the king and queen of New York City. Elsewhere, "Cheese" is a smart, fresh, funny riff on The Inquisition, which could have been tired rehash in less capable hands.
Roy Kesey is as innovative with form and content as any writer working today. Naming names like John Barth, Donald Barthelme, Robert Coover, Don Delillo, George Saunders, and Thomas Pynchon is helpful to readers who may be unfamiliar with his work, but from now on it will only require one name: Roy Kesey.
Rick Campbell
Autumn House Press, 2008
Paperback; 85pp; $14.95
Review by Michael Hettich
Rick Campbell is a friend of mine, someone whose capacious heart and mind have served me as a touchstone of the genuine for over a decade. As director of Anhinga Press, as well as founder and director of the Florida Literary Arts Coalition (FLAC), Rick has performed immense and selfless service for poetry both in Florida and nationwide. For years he has advocated for good poetry, worked to make poetry a larger presence in our culture, and supported the work of his fellow poets. His work promoting other people's writing has been so significant, in fact, that his own fine poetry, while not exactly overlooked, has garnered less attention than it deserves. His new book, Dixmont, outshines his previous collections by a long shot; it is a powerful, honest, finely-crafted book of emotionally-honed poems whose cumulative effect is simultaneously harrowing and life-affirming. Quite simply, Dixmont is the real thing, a genuine contribution to our poetry.
These poems address a variety of subjects including fatherhood, politics, marriage, baseball, illness and love. Campbell has managed to weave these wide-ranging poems into a cohesive book whose whole is larger than the sum of its parts. The poems for his daughter and wife, which make up the emotional center of the collection, are deeply moving; they are also, I think, poems which break new ground in their openness to pain and their articulation of the speaker's clear commitment to love as it is experienced in daily life:
Sometimes, still, she wakes and says,
Daddy, I have to go to the bathroom,
And I pick her up. She's warm.
She wraps her arms around my neck,
Her legs around my waist, and I carry her.
("A Poem for Della")
When has the daily love of a father for his young daughter been phrased with such understated accuracy and power? Poems that evoke other kinds of love, for wife, for mother, even (in far more compromised terms) for father, are equally powerful, as are the poems dealing with Campbell's harrowing experiences with throat cancer.
These personal but never private poems form the pattern that sets the landscape of the book; they are deepened and clarified by their contrast with the more outward-gazing (but still deeply personal) poems of witness (they are more than merely "political" poems) as well as poems celebrating baseball (the only poems in the book that don't touch me). The poems of witness, powerful on their own, deepen the sense of vulnerability, the vividness of each moment, that characterizes Campbell's more overtly personal poems of family love:
I want to claim that I don't understand genocide,
That I have not read history; that I don't
Understand the circulation of the blood
And how we can all die from its
Spilling on the ground
From hacked off limbs…
("Poetry Makes Nothing Happen")
This is the awareness the father holds "below the heart, where things are tight" as he comforts or plays with his daughter, reminding himself "there is no excuse/ for not giving the world, all your blood/ every inch of skin and bone, for your child" ("Fair Warning").
Finally, in his poems of nature, of place, Campbell is able to bind the personal and the public together in fresh images and metaphors that work vividly on their own but also unite the book as a whole, showing us a man in the world we all share as well as a particular man in his own world, living with the consciousness of the tenuous brevity of everything he loves yet blessed daily with joy:
Now I measure the past by how much
I remember. Measure distance
by my drive from town. Measure the sun
by its height in my windshield.
Measure joy by each time the gate
swings open and my daughter
runs up, flanked by dogs.
("Time Running Out on the Millennium")
Dixmont is a stunning collection.
Ryan Seacrest is Famous
Dave Housley
Impetus Press, 2008
Paperback: 202 pages; $16.95
Review by Matt Bell
If you're the kind of person who reads book reviews, you're also probably the kind of person who occasionally says things like, "I don't really watch that much TV," or who likes to pretend they've never sang along to a boy band in the shower. If this in any way describes you, then prepare to squirm a little while you read Dave Housley's Ryan Seacrest is Famous. This debut collection is littered with pop culture references, and I can almost guarantee that you'll catch way more of them than you'd like. These stories, which originally appeared in magazines such as Nerve, Backward City Review, and Hobart, take on a variety of pop culture types, including reality television, professional wrestling, and wedding DJs. Fortunately for us, Housley goes past the most obvious hipster-ironic observations and into the more earnest territories reserved for true pop culture fanatics.
In the story "Namaste, Bitches," a reality dating show called Prince Charming II is down to its final three contestants, including the Nepalese "princess" Himani, who uses her exotic life story to first get on the show and then to make a run at winning the heart of Bruce, the titular Prince Charming. Like many of the more famous characters in Housley's collection, Himani struggles with the popular idea of who she is, what she should be like, and how she should behave, contrasting it with the inner knowledge of who she really is.
Whether he's describing Jimi Hendrix navigate a twelve-step program at the age of sixty-five in "Voodoo Chile Blues" or a professional wrestling announcer try to find a way out of the only life he's known, Housley delivers not only biting commentary but a deep understanding of what it means for a person to be in the public eye every moment of every day. In "The Celebrity Orders Room Service," he describes the celebrity state of mind in a memorable series of vignettes, including the following:
The celebrity is amazed and bored that people pay such close attention to her. On one hand, she cannot imagine following, scrutinizing, but more than anything else, caring about somebody she hasn't dated or kissed or hung out with, somebody she has never even met, a picture in a magazine or a talking head on a movie screen. The idea is funny and inconceivably tragic.
On the other hand, it all seems so natural. Of course people want to know what clutch she's carrying, who she's wearing or dating or kissing or fighting. This is as it has always been. C'est la vie. It is what it is.
Still, it's not all celebrity-endorsed exercise machines and rehab-inflected comebacks. Other stories tread less exotic ground, such as the refreshingly down-to-earth 9/11 story "Fall Apart" and the bittersweet "The Movie Soundtrack to Our Lives." The best of these is the high-school drama "Are You Street or Popcorn?" Narrated by an unassuming high school vandal who carves slightly undecipherable phrases into his high school's desks, the story deftly describes what happens when the narrator simultaneously discovers both a first girlfriend and a partner-in-crime in the aggressive transfer student named Dorothea Quan, who widens his minor vandalism campaign into a full-scale operation. The narrator struggles to balance his growing sense of wrongdoing and his blossoming feelings for Dorothea (who he describes as "getting cuter every day, like one of those pictures hidden inside another picture"), eventually becoming a kind of gloriously perfect ruin, romantic in a way that only high school really can be.
Housley's ideal reader is perhaps the guy who live-blogs episodes of Battlestar Galactica or the girl who's memorized every line of Dirty Dancing, but saying so runs the risk of making a joke that sells short how good a writer and satirist Housley is. At it's best, Ryan Seacrest is Famous is both poignant and hilarious, inviting us past the velvet ropes and into the inner lives of our favorite celebrities and eventually to the truth about our own dreams and aspirations. The sooner you can read this book, the better— that way, when Housley's famous, we can all talk about how we read him way back when, before he sold out. I think that's the way he'd want it.
Full Disclosure: Dave Housley is the editor of Barrelhouse Magazine, which has published my own writing on two occasions.
Hiding Out
Stories by Jonathan Messinger
featherproof books, 2007
Paperback: 183pp; $13.95
Review by Sarah Sala
Jonathan Messinger's debut collection of short stories, Hiding Out, hits the mark in every possible way. From the winding layout of the book, to the basic line drawings accompanying each story, to the wildly engaging story plots, Messinger's book storms out of nowhere, his characters real enough to leave fingerprints on a windowpane.
Where the book begins is anyone's guess. Reading closely, I first discovered a fifty word short-short embedded in the copyright page:
This Story of 50 Words Feels as Though It Ran a Little Long, Maybe by 5 Words
There is little left for Connie to do. Her options: exhausted. Her headlights: dimmed. Her friends: silent. She lets slip her car keys into the floorboard and neutralizes the gears. The dark car lacks any resistance, overwhelming her with its speed as it rolls downhill. She thinks of no lovers.
Following this hideaway story comes an easier to locate "Captain Tomorrow," reminiscent of the long summer afternoons many of us spent parentless in the basement, devising all sorts of ridiculous and possibly dangerous things to do out of sheer boredom. Alex, 13, is enamored with a video game called "Captain Tomorrow," unable to make it past level 5. Meanwhile his sister Johanna, 16, home from a flea market, introduces a tape of people staging suicide by leaping from tall buildings. This opening story coins two of Messinger's most effective techniques: a unique situation, (combined with) everyday people whose lives and motivations are as familiar as our own.
The story "Bicycle Kick" involves a regular Joe who suddenly discovers he has a double aneurysm in his brain, courtesy of the CAT scan he undergoes from being smacked in the eye with a soccer ball.
The CAT scan had shown I had an unusual condition in my head. Two aneurysms, side-by-side. Two bloated vessels that could, given enough emotional or physical stress, burst, sending squid clouds of blood over my brain, erasing thoughts, functions, memories—irreparable damage. Highly unusual, to have two such advanced aneurysms so close together, [the doctor] assured me, as if I should be proud. Like I was up for the Guinness Book.
Mimicking the seemingly random tragedies of life, Messinger's story births a character we can sympathize with, without being forced to over-invest emotionally.
One of the most delightfully quirky items comes in the form of "Not Even The Zookeeper Can Keep Control." Maybe it's just my offbeat sense of humor, but anything that revolves around a man-eating wolf "permitted…to chew on the old bones of dead prisoners" is, for me, an immediate winner. Exhibit A:
Tourists went to the zoo and watched it from behind bulletproof glass. The wolf salivated at the sight of the onlookers, drool lolling from his jaws and, on occasion, he pointed at the most frightened as if ordering at a deli.
An expert at delivering humor, Messinger's "Zookeeper" is driven by the town's misguided effort to recapture the escaped wolf, the beast devouring everyone in its path. Ironically, the high school principal's bid to control the situation evolves into a critique of organized religion, and the author still manages to round out the work with a pleasingly understated truth about love and relationships.
Messinger's characters are beguiling in their persistent loneliness, their relief found only in risking a new relationship or mustering the courage to recoup an old one. Stories like "Hiding Out" and "True Hero" are fueled by the needling desire to finally cast off the self-doubt we allow to eclipse our dreams, and truly vie for what we want even though we may fail in the end. It helps that the protagonists are insecure or eccentric enough to write themselves self-reflexive e-mails every half hour or try to win back an ex-girlfriend by donning a super-fine robot costume.
Pregnant with insight into the human psyche, yet unremittingly basic in their logic, Messinger's stories earn him the title "master of pedestrian philosophy." I would recommend this book to anyone game enough to realize their life-long ambitions, if only vicariously.
Temporary People
Steven Gillis
Black Lawrence Press, 2008
Hardcover: 203pp; $20.95
Review by Matt Bell
Like many readers my age, I grew up reading not literary fiction but the twin pillars of fantasy and science fiction. As an adult, I've mostly left those pleasures behind, except for those genre-bending writers in the mainstream literary world, writers like George Saunders, Aimee Bender, Michael Chabon, or Jonathan Lethem. For the most part, I don't regret the transition in my reading habits, but I do miss the invented worlds and cultures that came with the best genre writing. Thankfully, Steven Gillis has created just such a place in Bamerita, the floating island country of his newest novel, Temporary People. Much like Tolkien raiding Norse and Christian mythologies to create his own world, Gillis paints his culture with shades of Central American dictators and revolutions, then puts American pop songs on his character's lips while giving them the oppression, ingenuity, and knowledge needed to forge true revolutionaries from Bamerita's most common citizens.
In Gillis's words, Bamerita is a country whose "history is like the rim of a wheel made to turn round and round, [it's] political cycles nothing if not redundant." A country whose past is riddled with near-constant revolution, Bamerita now finds itself run by the failed television actor Teddy Lamb, who is using his oppressive government to fund and film a movie using the country's citizens as both actors and props. In the words of narrator and former revolutionary André Mafante:
The scenes for Teddy's movie are shot out of sequence and no one can say for certain what the film's about. Even when the soldiers come and order us into our costumes, we're not shown a script. At best, we hear rumors that the movie is a multi-generational saga weaved through the telling and retelling of a 3,000 year old fable. The focus of the fable changes however, each time the rumor is repeated. Teddy reviews all the daily rushes, assesses the caliber of our performance. Everyone's uneasy about how they appear. The perception we give is not always as intended. Our fear isn't artistic but rather a concern for our safety. Teddy's impatient with people who disappoint him. Those found deficient are removed from the film and rarely heard from again. "That," Teddy says, "is show biz."
It is against this backdrop that André once again finds himself at the center of a plot to overthrow a corrupt government. He is a deep admirer of Gandhi and a student of non-violent protest, believing that violence will not solve Bamerita's problems despite the more militant leanings of his friends, neighbors, and co-conspirators. Late in the book, his daughter's American boyfriend comments "there's no such thing as a harmless rant here. All pseudo-revolutionaries become the real deal," neatly summing up the character arcs of Bamerita's many young men who wish to fight but haven't yet learned what their actions will cost them and their families.
Read merely for its plot, Temporary People would be a serviceable political thriller. Luckily, Gillis has placed that plot in his excellent invented country and then populated it with a huge cast of likable and unique characters. André steals the show, even burdened with an idealistic streak so wide that it constantly tested the limits of this reader's cynicism. While the first instinct is to dismiss André's pacifism as old-fashioned and unrealistic, Gillis's book gains much of its weight from its ability to force you to resist this feeling and to read the book not as a disguised polemic, but as a true novel of ideas.
Temporary People is Gillis's fourth book and his finest work to date. Balancing world-building, a thriller-worthy plot, and high-end political dialogue, Temporary People is the kind of book that forces the reader to fight between turning the pages faster to find out what happens and slowing down to consider its arguments and to savor its sentences. This is a great problem to have when reading, and one Gillis caused me over and over during the course of his novel.
Full Disclosure: I am lucky to frequently see Steven Gillis both socially and professionally, and to have had the pleasure to work as a classroom volunteer through Dzanc Books, which he is the co-founder of.
Red Cherry
on a White-tiled Floor
Maram al-Massri
Trans. Khaled Mattawa
Copper Canyon Press, 2007
Paperback: 145pp; $15.00
Review by Sarah Sala
Whenever a man
leaves me
my beauty increases.
Maram al-Massri's A Red Cherry on a White-tiled Floor is comprised of poems from two book-length sequences, A Red Cherry on a White-tiled floor, first published in Tunis in 1997 and awarded Le Prix Du Forum culturel libanais en France in 1998, and I Look to You, published in Beirut in 2000. Written first in Arabic and then translated into English by the poet Khaled Mattawa, the assembled collection of poetry is a powerful portrayal of the female experience of love and intimacy.
Reminiscent of Sappho in their self-contained buds of verse, seemingly fragments brushed on the page, the work is divided into one hundred different sections. Each division is meticulous in its brevity, just as al-Massri's language is unaffected and pure, as if such verses exist already in the space between man and woman.
I know
I shouldn't have
let him
uncover my breasts.
I only
to show him
I'm a woman.
I know
I shouldn't
have let him
He only
to show me
he's a man.
Al-Massri's writing encompasses a lifetime of experience, unwaveringly self-aware in all situations so that the reader may benefit from the emerging truths. She disguises nothing, but instead bears up the boredoms of marriage and the violence of loneliness, bodily and spatially, as all people must to survive.
In the third section of the book the speaker is confronted with the delicious draw of lust, "Desire inflames me/and my eyes glimmer./ I stuff morals/in the nearest drawer,/ I turn into the Devil/ and blindfold my angels/ just/for a kiss." However, as the speaker progresses into the sixtieth section, she is forced to suffer through the frustrations of her familiar life: "With my delicious fruit/ I light/ the way leading to me./ Your stupid birds/ prefer/ old bread." It seems as if al-Massri has captured "woman" in every shade of her complex experience, distilling her down into a formidable, yet shapely simulacrum.
Al-Massri also has a magnificent ability to seize a moment in ordinary time and fire it into an extraordinary thing of beauty. Where one may easily overlook a slant of light or the subtle reactions our physical body yields to the material world, she refuses not to celebrate them:
I looked at him
through a thread of light
beaming from
the window of my mercy—
the tired body
spread beside me
hungry like mine.
I signaled to my hand
to come closer
and it refused,
I commanded it
and it disobeyed.
I forced it,
and it bent closer
shivering with the pain
of touching
another body.
A Syrian poet and translator originally from Latakia, Maram Al-Massri's A Red Cherry on a White-tiled Floor is a brilliant introduction to modern Arabic poetry. A quick read, if only because the stanzas are short, the sincere search for meaning in her writing will linger on in your thoughts like a fragrance.
The Pale of Settlement
Stories by Margot Singer
University of Georgia Press, 2007
Hardcover: 213pp; $24.95
Review by James Menter
The nine linked stories in this collection follow Susan Stern, a New York City photo journalist who often finds herself operating between two lives. The life she leads in the U.S. has its problems, relationships mostly, but she does all right. Her personal and familial ties to Israel and the Middle East, however, provide a much richer source for conflict. Bombs in Haifa, buzzing helicopters, border patrol violence, a massacre in Palestine–these events are merely background noise compared to the nuanced consideration of the personal lives and family history deeply imbedded within this chaos.
Susan's attempt to reconcile her place among members of her extended family, many of whom, unlike her parents, still live in Israel, makes up the backbone of this collection. In the story "Helicopter Days," we see her develop a strange attraction to her cousin, Gavi, that is as much tied to her memories of her first summer on her own in Israel as it is to genuine intrigue and affection. Susan delivers the ashes of a dead relative to her uncle Avraham in "Deir Yassin," a story that plays with form in a way that weaves past with current action, alternating between three points of view. These stories and others like them place Susan in the present, forcing her to interact with people and places that aren't always familiar to her, but that are significant, nonetheless.
Coming to an understanding of her past has its own place in this book and, arguably, a more interesting one. Many of the stories are steeped in memory, both Susan's and those of other characters. "Lila's Story" combines Susan's efforts to retrace her grandmother's steps with her attempts to fictionalize the life of a woman she discovers she only partially knew. Memory itself becomes a source of conflict in its inconsistency, its inability, often, to separate stories from experience, the actual from the imagined, as Susan muses in "Lila's Story":
Back in Haifa…I retrace my grandmother's steps…Here at the corner there used to be a handbag shop, dim and pungent…and here's the newsstand where my grandmother bought me treats…There, I sat on a bench in the late afternoon while my grandmother told me stories…So are these my grandmother's footsteps or my own?
Margot Singer's investigation of what it is to remember and what it means to understand one's past, while perhaps forcing certain connections and "chance" meetings, and relying on the description of photographs to give a sense of what was (a crutch the collection often returns to, yet, somehow, necessarily so.), rounds out an impressive first collection. Singer's authorial hand is patient yet playful and confident when delving into the most personal of mistakes and shortcomings. The Pale of Settlement impressively divides and intertwines one family's history with an ever-changing, uncertain present.
The Sky Over Walgreens
Chris Green
Mayapple Press, 2007
Paperback: 78pp; $14.95
Review by Roy Wang
The wonderings and wanderings of the maturing poet, recollected in elegy, self-deprecating humor, and moments of personal clarity seem to be a perennial favorite among Midwestern voices, and Chris Green's first book clearly defines him as a champion of this mode. From his choice of puns and candid scenes to the obvious displays of technical skill and learning, Green exemplifies the ironies and neuroses that plague the writer who sees himself as Dante-prophet in the isolation of Midwest winters and towns. And his limits are as high as the skies over a Walgreens.
Glancing at the table of contents, many nature and cultural references grab the eye—so many "animal poems" in fact, Green almost seems to be daring the reader to dismiss them. Many of the titles also announce the casual ironic humor that is to follow with poem titles such as, "A Woman at Starbucks Reads the Cliff Notes to Moby-Dick," "What I Can Tell Ted Kooser and No One Else," and "The Physics of Ex-Girlfriends". With titles such as these, one can't help but dive in.
The leading entry, "Nursing Home Love Poem," characterizes the mix of humor and sadness that dominates the entire book, justifying and accelerating the reader's anticipation. The first lines read:
I've never told anyone this.
I lean in to give her a peck,
but before I can say, Grandma, it's me, Chris,
she slips me her tongue,
The first section, composed essentially of elegies, laments Green's distance from grief through scenes that carefully separate the author from the events, taking slow steps towards release with simple lines such as, "Old friend, I loved you, and I'm sorry," towards a breakthrough in "The Night my Grandmother Dies, I Watch a Documentary About Sharks":
When the shark finally recedes,
waves darken, and after
a silence, Shark Gordon's voice,
"This is why I wake up every morning."
And then it's herself and myself
and the whole cradling sea.
The second section gets a bit farther away from death, opening up to humor, and taking up the loss of connection in place of the loss of life. Consider "Limbo," Green's sensual, reference-laden commentary on the sterility of his friend's poetry and marriage:
In the map of Dante's hell, he neglects to note
the circle for listening to a lecture on Dante's hell.
The speaker keeps speaking,
It was the first time he ever smiled without being drunk or
borrowing money, and I wait for the poem where his Beatrice
conceives on a lonely freeway of endless wordplay.
Perhaps the most successful of the bunch, "Ars Poetica," is a meditation on transcendence that owes much to Keats and Eliot. It directs the action with straight-forward observation, weaving deftly between the universal and immediate as the poet observes his dog:
Like poetry,
he understood more
by not understanding. I want to
die without knowing I'm dying,
to love the ground and dig
for sweet bones, to lie in doorways
at night, and in the morning
take in the sunlight.
The last section of Green's book takes to humor more fully, tackling scenes of love and sex with a mixture of the genuinely positive and a sense of loss over our self-imposed distance and shortcomings. In it, Green draws us into his immediate senses and textures: the field of his hair, his nervous anticipations, the charge he feels just inches from another's face. The last line from "First Sex" perhaps sums him up here best, "So difficult even to begin, and then it's over."
Overall, The Sky Over Walgreens is very accessible to the non-poet reader while maintaining the interest of those who care to read more closely. The host of literary and cultural references will certainly make the reader feel rather pleased with herself for discerning them. While there's still the hint of showing off that comes from such efforts because they are embedded in a consciously casual tone, they are not in the least bit annoying; they instead work as sign posts for his intentions and influences.
The book could easily have been a bit shorter (it still only comes in at 72 pages) given that there are some flat moments that read more like private exercises, left in by over-indulgent editing, but with the strength of Green's wonderful observations and humor, it is perhaps better to view them as variations from the peaks in Green's quiet, private landscapes driving by a Walgreens.


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Business Card Holder
Style # 65222 Made in USA
Pliable leather business card holder with divided slot for ID
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This incredibly soft yet decades-durable leather case holds a supply of business cards and has slots for credit cards and ID. Made in USA.
- high capacity storage area; divided slot for ID and credit cards
4in. L x 3in. W (closed)
Made in USA.
100% genuine leather