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Zynga Jumps as Games Win Facebook Popularity
NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Zynga (ZNGA), best known for the popular Facebook (FB) game FarmVille, was gaining Friday on better-than-expected third-quarter results that reflected growth from its widening portfolio even as the company operates in the red. Shares were rising 13% to $3.99 in mid-day trading.
For the three-month period ended Sept. 30, the social-gaming company reported a third-quarter loss of 2 cents a share, beating Thomson Reuters estimates by 2 cents. Revenue totaled $152.1 million, 41% lower than the same period a year earlier but beating estimates by $9.4 million.
The San Francisco-based company continues to show growth after announcing it would refocus operations on core franchises. By the end of the quarter, Zynga had 3 of the top 10 games on Facebook based on daily average users.
"Our teams are working hard to compete more aggressively on the web, move to mobile and develop new hits," said CEO Don Mattrick in a statement. "We believe our top franchises -- Zynga Poker, FarmVille and Words With Friends -- can be evergreen in terms of consumer interest and we are focused on growing these franchises in fiscal year 2014."Come the New Year, this will remain a challenge as engaged-users is expected to fall. DAUs dropped to 30 million, down 49% on the year-ago quarter and 23% quarter-by-quarter. Monthly active users (MAUs) were 57% lower to 133 million on a year-on-year basis, and down 29% since the second quarter 2013. Costs were kept in check, however, as the company completed restructuring efforts. Lay-offs affected 520 positions or 18% of total global workforce during the quarter. "We are dedicated to improving employee efficiency by leveraging smaller, more focused teams on new intellectual property and redeploying talent through our largest franchises," explained CFO Mark Vranesh in a conference call. The company also announced it had hired Clive Downie, former executive of mobile gaming company DeNA Co, as its new chief operating officer in a play to expand mobile reach. For the fourth-quarter, the company forecasts revenue between $175 million and $185 million, and earnings loss between 5 and 4 cents, below Yahoo! Finance estimates of a 3-cent loss. TheStreet Ratings team rates Zynga Inc as a Sell with a ratings score of D. The team has this to say about their recommendation: "We rate Zynga Inc (ZNGA) a SELL. This is driven by a number of negative factors, which we believe should have a greater impact than any strengths, and could make it more difficult for investors to achieve positive results compared to most of the stocks we cover. Among the areas we feel are negative, one of the most important has been weak operating cash flow."
- You can view the full analysis from the report here: ZNGA Ratings Report
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The Sac-Joaquin Section championship meet on Saturday was a chance for young swimmers from Kimball and Tracy high schools to establish themselves among the section's top athletes.
After the trials on May 15 and Friday at Tokay High in Lodi, nearly all of the local swimmers who qualified for the championship and consolation heats on Saturday competed in the freshman-sophomore division.
Top local swimmer was Kimball High freshman Kamryn Lucero, who placed fourth in the championship heat of the frosh-soph girls 100–yard freestyle with a time of 55.78 seconds. Lucero also placed fourth in the consolation heat of the 50 freestyle (25.77) and was part of the Kimball 400 freestyle relay team that won the consolation heat in that event (3:48.40).
The 400 freestyle relay time is nearly four seconds faster than the previous school record (3:52.72) that Lucero and her teammates, sophomore Gaby Perez and freshmen Sasha Betts and Scarlett Green, set at the Valley Oak League championships on May 3.
Top swimmer for Tracy High was sophomore Nathan Hu, with a fifth-place finish in the championship heat of the frosh-soph boys 500 freestyle (4:54.40) and seventh in the championship heat of the 200 freestyle (1:49.34).
Tracy swimmers who competed in Saturday's consolation heat races were sophomore Preston Tsang, second in the boys 100 breaststroke (1:04.03), sophomore Bree Houser, second in the girls 100 breasstroke (1:11.98), and freshman Brandon Brown, fourth in the boys 500 freestyle (5:01.70).
Tracy's team of freshman Brandon Brown and sophomores Spencer Bishop, Nathan Hu and Preston Tsang placed seventh in the frosh-soph boys consolation heat of the 200 freestyle relay (1:37.64).
The only varsity team to make Saturday's consolation heats was the Kimball boys 400-yard freestyle relay team of juniors Seth Suzuki and Brandon Nusser and seniors Daniel Russell-Cheung and Josh Wagstaff, who placed seventh (3:28.12).
Also competing for Tracy High was sophomore Alex Lopez, who placed 11th overall in the frosh-soph boys diving competition on May 10 at McClatchy High in Sacramento.
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MARQUETTE COUNTY, WI (WTAQ) - A weekend tornado in Marquette County was rated Monday as an F-0, the weakest classification from the National Weather Service.
The Saturday night storm toppled trees, tore off part of a metal roof, and knocked a tree onto a car and a house.
Weather Service investigators checked the damage, and concluded that the twister was on the ground for 7 minutes. The damage followed a path 1.75 miles long near Endeavor.
The tornado was part of a massive storm system throughout the Midwest last Thursday through Saturday, which also dumped several inches of rain in much of Wisconsin.
All that's gone now, and Wisconsin is enjoying drier and warmer weather on the back side of a high pressure system to our east.
Highs will reach the mid-70's over the next couple days, as much as 10 degrees above normal.
More rain is expected on Friday, and into the weekend. A cool down is predicted for Sunday.


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Remember when Richard Alpert visited John Locke, handed him six items and then asked "which already belongs to you"? Yeah, well that has very little to do with the above image, but that shit gave me goose bumps. What that image reminds me of, however, are those obnoxious "which one of the following three items doesn't belong" tests administered by kindergarten teachers across the world.
I mean, seriously? Isaia, Balmain and…7 FOR ALL MANKIND…?! Scanning this sale page is like taking a bad bitch home, pretty as fuck (Isaia), taking off her top to unveil an amazing set of hooters (Balmain), only to get down below and find out she has ass pimples or some other whack shit going on down there (you get the idea).
Sorry, I just had to do it. Long live NTB and all that jazz.
Do you ever just think clothes are a load of shit. I mean why do people care and waste so much money. Clothes that feel and look good are great I know. But sometimes there's just more worthy things to buy.
Never once have I thought that "clothes are a load of shit." I take great pride in the way I present myself, and I believe that all should endeavor to do the same. I mean, if destitute Americans waiting on breadlines during the Great Depression can look presentable, the 21st century middle class really has no excuse.
Sure, one can look at building one's own wardrobe as a constant weighing of priorities. But isn't that the case for every other luxury made available by capitalism? Further to that point, I have never advised anyone to choose a Balmain sportcoat over two months' rent. If you find yourself in a position to drop stacks like that, and that's what you want to do, then by all means: be my guest. But if you find yourself patiently waiting for the first of the month to pick up some government cheese, well, you know what to do (call Cam and move to Ohio).


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NewPages Book Reviews
Posted December 1, 2010
Pirate Talk or Mermalade :: Creative Writer's Survival Guide :: Muted Lines from Someone Else's Memory :: God on the Rocks :: Indexical Elegies :: Patterns of Paper Monsters :: Please Take Me Off the Guest List :: Velleity's Shade :: Skin, Inc. :: Present Tense :: Sonnets
Pirate Talk or Mermalade
Fiction by Terese Svoboda
Dzanc Books, September 2010
Paperback: 147pp; $14.95
Review by Alex Myers
Put aside any expectations of swashbuckling that this title might inspire. Pirate Talk or Mermalade has its share of cutlasses, of peg legs, of sailors marooned on desert isles. But it is far from a typical pirate tale. Described as a "novel in voices," the story is told entirely in dialogue. No quotation marks, no helpful tag lines (i.e. he said, she replied): each page is simply the conversation, with an indentation serving as the indication that the speaker has shifted. At first, I thought the "only dialogue" rule would limit the scope—where would the description be? The thought and reflection?—but within a few pages, it was apparent that Svoboda is a masterful writer and is no more constrained by this selection of form than a poet is constrained by composing a sonnet: the novel delights because of this rule, succeeds because of this confinement.
Pirate Talk or Mermalade tells the story of two brothers who, following the death of their mother, set out for sea. They end up as pirates of a sort, somewhat willingly and somewhat unwillingly. One suffers disfiguration of a ridiculously stereotypical sort (loss of a leg, of an eye, and of a hand, which means he has a peg leg, a patch and a hook). The other is routinely visited by a mermaid who urges him to join her in the water. Both end up shipwrecked on an island, imprisoned aboard a slaver, and, eventually, on a mission in the Arctic. Seems plain enough. But the tale twists and curls away, resisting simple categorization and description.
What could be a straight-forward story of adventure on the high seas is made into much more by Svoboda. In part, this is done through her language. She enjoys the tangle of good word play, as when the brothers are given an order: "take the watch whilst I have a hand of whist, and wait." But it's not all alliteration and tongue-twisters. She crafts sentences of such intensity that they easily overcome the limitations one might expect of an all-dialogue novel. For instance, one of the brothers tells another a story as they suffer in isolation on an island, a story about "this beautiful fish with watery fins and skin the color of ruby beaches at sunset the boy befriends." Fluid and descriptive, Svoboda's prose easily crosses the line to poetry as in this exchange:
I saw—
You must tell me.
Mark the spot—
What did you see?
The sea, I saw the sea. And—
You, a she, the sea—
Did you see her?
I saw—sister—I saw—
I will mark the spot, I will. What did you see?
Aye, the sea.
For all the wordplay and cleverly crafted sentences, Svoboda's writing is not just about the surface. It does more than sound good. Just as the story itself transcends the normal bounds of an adventure tale, so too the themes are oddly morphed into new shapes. As the one brother suffers injury upon injury, he remarks, "Pirates are a perfect picture of a person piecemeal, falling apart." In this and other such lines, it is clear that the story aims to comment on self, on identity, and on how what we hold to be icons—those we think of as rebels, heroes, or whores—are often not so easily defined as their singular appearance would make us believe.
Beyond the brothers and their redefinition of piracy, the mermaid is the character most compelling in this novel. When she is fished out by one brother, the interaction at first seems to go according to expectations:
I'm sorry to catch you.
I'm glad to be caught. When I saw it was your hook, I rejoiced. Just wrench out the barb…
That's better…
This fishy part is new and shocking.
Not so new. The skirts all women wear to confound men hid it.
Soon enough, though, it becomes clear that this is not the typical mermaid-woos-sailor type of story. Whenever the mermaid appears to the brother, she tempts him to join her. But what at first seems like a "come, run away with me" invitation takes on ominous undertones, such as when she invites him to swim with her and he replies: "Dust to dust, as the church says, not water to water." Svoboda patiently unfolds the mermaid-as-death metaphor over the course of the novel, and it is this piece that I found most satisfying. This alluring, promising presence, always lurking near the sailor's shoulders, the mermaid is the glue that holds the pieces of this story together.
Pirate Talk and Mermalade is immediately engaging, with prose that is breath-taking yet easy to read. Short and deft, I devoured this novel, and expect that many others will enjoy doing the same.
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The Creative Writer's Survival Guide
Advice from an Unrepentant Novelist
Nonfiction by John McNally
University of Iowa Press, September 2010
Paperback: 274pp; $19.95
Review by Elena Spagnolie
In his new book, The Creative Writer's Survival Guide: Advice from an Unrepentant Novelist, John McNally gives an honest and highly informative account of his experiences in the writing/publishing industry. As he cautions his readers in the introduction entitled "The Writer's Wonderland—Or: A Warning," this book is not an instruction manual on how to write short stories, it's not a place to seek writing prompts, and the author does not claim to have a formulaic answer to getting published. Rather, he explains:
This book is a highly subjective and idiosyncratic take on the writing life. You might agree with most of it or find something of value in each chapter, but it's entirely possible that you won't agree with me. In any case, I set out to write an honest book about what it takes to be a writer today, using my own life as well as the lives of other writers I've known as anecdotal support for my opinions on a wide range of subjects.
Through his personal experiences, McNally demystifies and de-romanticizes the writing life without being discouraging; he illustrates how challenging it can be (read: donating plasma to make ends meet), but isn't embittered or disdainful. Throughout his book, he never makes the reader feel as if the option of being a writer is outside of her reach; instead, he paints a picture of his life, and lets the reader make decisions for herself. While reading, I experienced moments of embarrassed disappointment when I was forced to admit that "being a writer" looks less like a Parisian party filled with literary geniuses and more like a person sitting alone in a trailer trying to knock out one more page. ("Talking about writing isn't writing," he warns.) But in this way, McNally's realism is a gift. His book covers what he's learned over many years and will be a useful resource to writers throughout their entire career, from making the decision to become a writer, to being a published, tenured professor with multiple books under his belt.
In addition to emphasizing the importance of writing every day, and the undeniable role of "luck, serendipity, and chance," he explores the merits of MFA programs, how to get funding, the process of submitting pieces to magazines and what you might accidentally do that would cause an editor to return your manuscript in shreds, the differences between cover letters and query letters, how to find an appropriate agent (and why you need one at all), how to effectively publicize your work, where to find the proper resources, what literary employment opportunities are out there, and how to deal with the inevitability of rejection. His narrative is highly entertaining, and the way he vents his own frustrations adds to the humorous and personal nature of the book, though at times it feels defensive. His credentials are strong and he is generous with sharing what he's learned. McNally writes, "If this book does nothing else, I hope it narrows that gap between the idea and the reality [of being a writer]" and I believe it does.
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Muted Lines from Someone Else's Memory
Poetry by Seth Berg
Dark Sky Books, July 2010
Paperback: 92pp; $12.00
Review by H.V. Cramond
The mind is a smelly heap of compost comprising our greatest hopes, delusions and sexual fantasies about robots. We explain its function with analogies to computers or other machines, trying to impose a structure on a ghost. So when our bodies and minds start to fail, we panic. We grope about in the dark for a user's manual, a crossword puzzle or anti-depressant that will put our brains in the order that we suppose it should have. Seth Berg explores this dark space in his first book of poems, Muted Lines from Someone Else's Memory.
This struggle for control is mirrored in the structure of the book and Berg's tight dedication to line and syllable. The book is broken down into three sections that give clues as to how one might read the poems they contain. The first section, "Structural Encoding," contains poems in familiar forms, especially couplets, that point one to the pleasure in carefully counted syllables. In "Phonemic Encoding," this pleasure is enhanced by the invitation to roll around in sound, especially near-rhyme and internal rhyme: the "gnome-like" speaker of "In the Land of Giants" might gather "fennel and stinging nettle / to take to market and barter." By the time the reader reaches "Semantic Encoding," she may begin to wonder if Berg is re-wiring her brain.
Muted Lines is a space of slowness and nightmare, a silence where one can forget the number two or storms force a bird to fly "achingly in place." Many of Berg's poems have a narrative quality, but all have a poet's carefulness with language. His keen eye and usually short lines train us to hone in on the minute: bugs dance a "surrendered ballet"; minnows become "jeweled relics"; corn snakes "collect mathematics"; pre-verbal, telepathic children laugh to appease stupid-faced adults. Through these tiny beasties and the often slimy and body-part ridden landscape they dance in, the reader can see a speaker in love with the body's disobedience, the mind's failure. When an old woman sets to weeding a garden in the narrator's cerebellum, instead of warding her off, he invites the process of alteration and memory to continue. This is not destruction, after-all but adventure, invention, and the lens through which Berg presents it to us is lucid and precise, transforming the terror of free-fall into synaptic leap.
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God on the Rocks
Fiction by Jane Gardam
Europa Editions, October 2010
Paperback: 195pp; $15.00
Review by Olive Mullet
For fans of Jane Gardam's Old Filth and The Man in the Wooden Hat, God on the Rocks, a 1978 Booker Prize finalist, will satisfy. As Gardam wrote in the November 20, 2010 Op-Ed article "Richard's Glove, Kate's Hand" (which gives an historical perspective to Kate and Prince William's upcoming wedding), "In my novels I write about the 'old world,' my parents' world, where people wore hats—and gloves." But "the old world is not so far away from this one." Therefore, this novel, set along the northern English coast in 1938, between the world wars, is not chronological but jumps back and forth between different characters' perspectives and pasts. In a book both humorous and tragic, the reader has to read carefully to notice switches in perspective and Gardam's parceling out of information during the unfolding of fully defined lives.
The novel is more character than plot driven, although there is suspense at the very end. It does have a theme of craziness both hidden and real. And the progression comes with discoveries about the characters. First we learn about the main character, eight-year-old Margaret Marsh's family: an unhappy romantic mother Ellie, a religious fundamentalist (member of the Primal Saints) father Kenneth, and a bawdy nurse Lydia. Margaret, confused about sex, is disturbed about what she sees. She announces to her mother about this crazy world, "It would be better without people. If I'd been God, I'd have left it at dinosaurs." One humorous scene of the father involves his trying to convert beachgoers—to the point of falling into the water and ruining his shoes and clothes.
A second revelation comes with Margaret stumbling upon craziness for real in a crumbling estate where she encounters a "gaga" painter whose canvas supposedly of the building is instead full of snakes. This Hall's history with its dying owner Rosalie Frayling Margaret never learns, though she meets her mother's friends Binkie and Charles Frayling. What she does detect is the love between Charles and Ellie from when they were children. Binkie keeps the sibling household together but to the point of craziness: "Nobody knows, she thought, what it costs to live the life I live. The ordered life. She endured it because it kept her so busy that she need not think. If she stopped for a moment to think, then the game would be up. Chaos would take charge. The sea would rush in and give up its dead."
The sea does rush in towards the end after the chaos of affections comes out. And while this is a tale of lost loves, including Rosalie Frayling's, the ending is uplifting, partly because children's perspective prevails, this time two boys.' In the final revelations, the reader must figure out who these boys are and also who Beezer, a shell-shocked captain, is. The boys are told about his failed rescue attempt off their beach. They are told Beezer, the lifeboatman, was "gassed" (which of course meant during the war), but one boy asks, "Gassed! On the lifeboat?" And finally the indomitable spirit Lydia, who exposes Kenneth's hypocrisy, returns. When asked if she ever married, Lydia responds, "'Nivver. I'se not that daft." And then pointing to the seabirds, adds, "'In't they bonny?" Not only does Margaret acknowledge lovingly that Lydia hasn't changed, but the reader realizes that everyone has stayed true to his or her nature, including Margaret's mother who continues to try too hard in everything she does. We know these characters well and we love them.
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Indexical Elegies
Poetry by Jon Paul Fiorentino
Coach House Books, October 2010
Paperback: 74pp; $14.95
Review by Sima Rabinowitz
I adore Coach House Books. The book design is smart, inventive, spot on. Poetry is clever, original, risky, inspiring. You want to go back to these books again and see them as if new each time you pick them up. You're happy to give them to others, to show them off. You return to them as, and I am not exaggerating, a reason to keep going on. And on. A reason to read. A reason to write. A reason to believe in poetry. Even, maybe especially, when they are difficult (emotionally or intellectually or in a reader-ly way).
This is a quintessential Coach House book. The cover design, a traditional library index card, couldn't be more appropriate, or more expertly presented. It's genius. Fiorentino's work embodies the indexical elegy construct, a series of elegies, of indexical representations, of elegies elevated to indexical elements and indexical elements presented as elegiac components. The work elevates the ordinary and make accessible the lyrical in short, urgent poems that avoid the sentimental (in true Coach House fashion), yet remain powerfully emotional. Fiorentino is a model poet of the moment, reminding us that the present times are difficult and unwieldy, yet reigning in any hysteria (however justified it might in such times) with his own brand of linguistic and emotional restraint. Here is an excerpt from "Self-Storage," but any number of other quotations would be equally appropriate:
Laminated name tags everywhere
shelf space for the wicked timid
Bottles tremble in November treble
everyone dying or leaving or straying
As these brief lines demonstrate, Fiorentino cares about sound and knows how to exploit its virtues. He has a keen sense of rhythm, pace, timing; is adept at breaking a line at just the right breaking point, and at breaking me down (in the best poetic way) emotionally by saying just enough.
The book as an "index" is broken down into several sections with integrity as discrete series of poems, yet without a table of contents: Elizabeth Conway (A Montreal Suite); Indexical Elegies; and Transprairie (A Post-Prairie Suite). There are pithy, economically crafted revelations in each of these sections.
From the "Montreal Suite," here is an excerpt from "Hysterical Narrative":
Shouldn't think so
I've been so thoughtless
Mispronounce hegemony
that's nothing
Announce too candidly
my candidacy
Something I hardly know
protects me being happy
Here is one from "Indexical Elegies":
Composed in 1946
Compost in 4/4/time
Composed –
a new verb
wicked and defiant
Missing you
Send in the nouns
And finally, an excerpt from the final section, "Dying in Winnipeg,"
Don't' read me wrong –
I plan on dying in Winnipeg.
In a strange way I
believe Winnipeg is where everything always dies.
Impossible not to hear the echo of César Vallejo here, intentional or coincidental. Impossible not to hope that Fiorentino will avoid Winnipeg, that he will live—and keep writing—forever.
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The Patterns of Paper Monsters
Fiction by Emma Rathbone
Back Bay Books, August 2010
Paperback: 206pp; $13.99
Review by Tessa Mellas
Emma Rathbone's debut novel The Patterns of Paper Monsters is about Jacob Higgins, an angry kid incarcerated in a juvenile detention center. But like any great book, this one can't be reduced to its plot. Its magic lies in the sarcasm that drools from its narrator's voice and in the beauty of the way that voice strings together language. Listen, as Jacob describes the crime that landed him in the JDC:
As for me, what I did was simple enough. Nothing quirky or diabolical. I didn't do anything sweeping like corral a bunch of single moms into a boardroom and then gas it. I didn't realign the universe so all the planets crashed into one another and the stars got swept up like a tablecloth and all the skin got sucked off our faces. I didn't make everyone watch while I transported a graceful, mythical beast from back in time, and then set it on fire.
What I'm guilty of is a pretty standard, run-of-the-mill armed robbery. More American than grass stains and painted curbs, with a little brutality thrown in for good measure.
Oh, and did I mention the humor? It is how Jacob Higgins copes. Humor is how he survives the motley crew of self-absorbed social workers and guards who put him through the motions of rehabilitation. It is how he survives the institution food, which he says "feels hostile." It is how he survives the "minty, sterile kind of cold […] that is always just short of freezing [his] balls off." His humor, constructed out of the subtle and dark ways he manipulates language, keeps both him and us entertained, chuckling as we turn pages.
Rathbone's attention to minutiae also makes Jacob's world utterly real and sensate. She, or rather Jacob, describes the inane process of checking out pencils, of signing honor slips in order to use antiquated computers that have seizures and reboot if you type too fast, of being herded into a rec room to eat waxy cookies that could only be appreciated by "an astronaut who had lost touch with home base and [had] run out of things to eat." Jacob notices staples "embedded in the blue carpet." He notices that the smoke detector in the rec room beeps every five minutes because no one has thought to change its battery. And he painstakingly describes the strawberry icing on wafer cookies, almost his singular pleasure.
Rathbone's characterization, seen through Jacob's eyes, is also pitch perfect. Of another inmate, Jacob says, "His face was so raw with his lips curling and his insides spilling out that there was something genital about it." He says that his mother's boyfriend "has the anger and sense of entitlement of a Vietnam vet except without the traumatic combat experience to explain it." He describes his mentor Jim as "someone you would see trying to straighten out a picnic blanket." But it is Andrea, a girl he likes, who he captures best. Early in their interactions, he says, "It was like she was the underside of a leaf, smarting and naked and veiny." Later, he says this:
Sometimes she'll make a little animal gesture, like turn her head really quick to look at something, and I'll feel like I recognize her from an ancient time. Some of her teeth are whiter than her other teeth. Once, in the computer room, I saw her smell the eraser at the end of her pencil after she'd used it […] It's like I think about her all the time. Like every moment has a little pupil of Andrea. I knocked my toothbrush off my sink the other day and the sound it made when it clattered to the floor reminded me of her.
It is at moments like these that Jacob's voice transforms from biting sarcasm into raw earnestness. But Rathbone is careful not to let Jacob's voice turn sappy. She retains the "likes" that characterize the imprecise language of adolescents, and she captures the height of the emotion in a vivid sensory moment without explaining it away. It is at these moments that Rathbone knocks out your breath. It is for these moments that this book is worth every page.
My one disappointment, though, was in the book's ending. After two hundred pages artfully navigated with a teenaged voice, two hundred pages in which Rathbone avoids the easy morals that sometimes characterize fiction written about young adults—a genre that sometimes condescends to its readers thus turning the "young adult" label into a pejorative term— Rathbone perhaps writes toward an expected sort of redemption. She does salvage herself a bit with the last line, which proves that the messiness of the brain space of a "possibly bipolar juvenile […] with only the most tenuous impulse of civility" cannot be easily tidied up. To Rathbone's credit, I had high expectations for the ending given the exceptional quality of the rest of the book. And the book's ending certainly did not cancel out the novel's numerous strengths. I would undoubtedly read it again.
It is exactly the type of book you could thrust into the hands of a ninth grader to make him love reading. It is also the type of book you could slide across the desk of a creative writing student to show her how to nail voice, detail, humor, and prose. It is a book you'd read out loud to a parent who'd forgotten the joys of reading. And it is one that could reconfigure the entire juvenile detention system because this book perfectly occupies the headspace of a kid trapped in an institution that doesn't remember what it was like to be young.
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Please Take Me Off the Guest List
Art/Popular Culture by Nick Zinner, Zachary Lipez, Stacy Wakefield
Akashic Books, August 2010
Paperback: 150pp; $15.95
Review by Gina Myers
Please Take Me Off the Guest List is a collaboration between three people: Nick Zinner, of the band Yeah Yeah Yeahs, provides the photographs; Zachary Lipez, of the band Freshkills, provides the essays; and Stacy Wakefield, former design director of Artforum, pulls it all together into a wonderfully designed object. It has already been noted elsewhere how rare it is for the book's designer to have her name on the cover, but here it is earned. Zinner's photographs and Wakefield's design are the true highlights of this collection, which should appeal to anyone interested in book arts. Unfortunately, Lipez's essays do not measure up to the quality of the photographs and the quality of the design elements.
The first essay in the collection is titled "Boring Coke Stories," which should indicate the kind of self-deprecation that the reader will come to expect from Lipez as he or she works through these essays. After all, Lipez can't actually believe the stories are boring. If he does, then why tell them? In this essay he tells a number of short narratives surrounding cocaine use, and before his last "boring coke story," he writes, "Okay. One more. I'm keeping some for myself so I don't feel like the sort of person who engages in memoir." This reluctance to engage in memoir is too bad, because it could be the difference between these stories coming across as anyone's generic New York City experiences and as stories that are specifically Lipez's own.
And this criticism applies to the other essays in the collection too. Anyone who has spent time on the Lower East Side or in Williamsburg, Brooklyn in their twenties, or perhaps thirties as Lipez is in now, already knows these stories, already knows people just like those who Lipez depicts, already knows people just like Lipez, or at least just like how he presents himself in these essays. This is not to say that there are not moments where Lipez comes across as witty or sincere, but those moments are few and far between.
In "My Letter of Resignation," Lipez writes a no-holds-bar letter to his bosses at The Strand, which is something I imagine a lot of people would like to do at some point in their lives— resign from their job, telling the boss what you really think. However, Lipez's essay is more about his own shortcomings as a worker, including always arriving late and often arriving still drunk from the night before, though he does not see these things as problems. Lipez wryly writes, "My tardiness should have never been an issue, and certainly not one that was brought to my attention." In this piece, he also offers his view on literary criticism: "My mother birthed me with a certain expectation of disappointment, but she would have to lower the bar considerably before I add literary criticism to the pyramid of disenchantment that I've managed to build for her."
The title Please Take Me Off the Guest List suggests a tiredness, a readiness to move on from these experiences; however, I am not convinced that is the case for Lipez. In "I Like My Metal Like I Like My Women…False," Lipez writes:
I did not grow up during wartime. I have never, in any real sense, suffered. I know I said I suffered earlier, but I was using dramatic license, or kidding, or lying. I grew up in a state of privileged irritation. I suckled on a tit of brie and always had an unkind word for the school janitor. Truly, I was a shit. Now I read the great books and barely comprehend them. The sad ones make me sad and I hate that there's no one around to swoon over my sincerity.
He criticizes here his "privileged irritation," and he seems to half-mock the entitlement he feels to show up to work whenever he wants, still drunk or not, but the overall impression left suggests that he will continue to use dramatic license, to kid, or to lie to himself.
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Velleity's Shade
Poetry by Star Black; Paintings by Bill Knott
Saturnalia Books, October 2010
Paperback: 69pp; $16.00
Review by Sima Rabinowitz
This is the sixth volume in Saturnalia's Artist/Collaboration Series. I am impressed by and grateful for publisher Henry Israeli's commitment to making available the collaborative efforts of visual and literary artists. The books are beautifully conceived, designed, and composed, and they occupy a uniquely wonderful place in the world of small press poetry publications.
Star Black, author of five previous volumes of poetry, founder of New York City's amazing and popular KGB Bar Poetry Series, and a visual artist herself, and poet and painter Bill Knott, author of 12 books of poetry, have created an original and appealing book. Poems and paintings are titled separately, but form a meaningful whole. All of these works are comprised of the familiar and unfamiliar, images both round and sharp, impressions that can bear close scrutiny and a long-distance view. They are concretely abstract and abstractly concrete.
Here, for example, is an excerpt from "Inscape Complaint":
The bouquets went away, miffed
at shoelaces that wrote their initials
in the dust en route to the humor train
that loved children so much it kidnapped
half of them and dropped them off at
zip codes, leaving the playground
ashen, with beagles and chows
replacements for friendship that last
a New York minute.
And here is another from "Subversion":
Under the rain, its kaftans of faces,
above the butterweed of similar places,
between the cabin and the cantata,
are thin aerial arrays.
Many of Black's poems are less abstract, small narratives with a more familiar dramatic arc. Some are philosophical musings ("Meanwhile, we edge toward demise, / dust-mop-like, courteous, respectful, // hoping to avoid a new life, its droll shock"). Others are autobiographical or confessional ("I hate irony. / I like the selfless quiet that surrounds me"). And others are themselves like paintings ("Lately it's been late in the day, / the lavish firmament grey as a whisper / in a living room bathed in blood. Winters / have unspooled from a missing sun"). I appreciate the variety and admire the poet's versatility and nimble manipulation of imagery.
I am especially moved by the book's final poem, "Bridged by Eaves," which brings together Black's finest strengths: an eye for detail; an adept economy of expression; a surprising, yet utterly precise revelation (that bath!):
Ceravalo, it snows. The sky
is cotton-cold and unseeming.
I bathe to wash away non-feeling.
the rice of daylight
Whitens the roofs until
civilized streets are brambles
on Wang Wei screens—
mists adrift above rose-pink mountains.
Ceravolo, fresh snow on wet slate,
long ago is just a sec; no gift is late.
This book was published just a sec ago in 2010 and whenever readers encounter it will the right time.
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Skin, Inc.
Identity Repair Poems
Poetry by Thomas Sayers Ellis
Graywolf Press, September 2010
Hardcover: 176pp; $23.00
Review by C.J. Opperthauser
Ellis's collection of poems, Skin, Inc, is an aggressive book to say the least. It is a statement in itself. A statement that is different and powerful. The language coursing through the veins of this collection is raw, real, and full of earnest emotion. It is calm, yet aggressive. Strong, yet tamed. One poem that really sets the tone for the first portion of the book is "My Meter Is Percussive":
so throughout this worry,
I am rolling my eyes.
I am sucker-punching I,
the I that informs
these lines like
only I know I know how.
I am breathing,
repairing, breathing,
half-interested in progress
and half-interested
in progression, never finished.
Ellis knows how to take an idea and make it clear while having his fun with language and the way the words and lines look on the page. Beyond this first section of the book, which is largely traditional in its style and form, is a section with photos, dealing with African American life of the past and things of the like. Among these, and my favorite, is an elegy to James Brown that is really more like a celebration of his life and work. It's a fun piece. The photos on the page beside the poems include a caption under the poem. The captions are really just beautiful poems to accompany the picture more closely.
Later, Ellis explores the boundaries of words on the page with a section called The Pronoun-Vowel Reparations Song. The latter part of this section includes this gem, embodied on one page:
Issues of African American life, life in general, relationships, history—it's all here. This is a strong collection that is all at once ambitious, aggressive, experimental, and calm.
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Present Tense
Poetry by Anna Rabinowitz
Omnidawn Publishing, September 2010
Paperback: 96pp; $14.95
Review by Renee Emerson
Present Tense, by Anna Rabinowitz, phases through genres, using poetry as a vehicle to explore politics, gender, culture and human nature. The book opens with a prologue, a single sentence that declares the purpose of the book and the long list of who the book is for:
This writing is for the ones who inhabit elsewhere and for
those faces that appear on my inner lids as they close, for
me with Richie on the tricycle navigating fenced shrubs
and cement pathways between blades of grass, for Mr.
Bernstein's laundry store redolent of boiled starch, for
umbrellas on the beach, waves whacking and wildering,
for lying perfectly still while heat runnels through groins,
underarms, neck, for the children, good morning, freshing,
sparkly day, give me a hug, for my mother who could not
stay, for my father who didn't want to, for those denied
choice, for hate that stains the playing fields of men…
The lengthy credo helps the reader to anticipate the range in the writing that follows, and to expect the all-encompassing aspect of the poetry. The stretch of the book can be overwhelming at times, feeling as if it is lacking focus, but this is perhaps purposeful, mimicking the chaos of modern day living.
Present Tense is divided into four acts, the format of a play suiting it particularly as it delves into the drama of life and the various influences of our culture. Rabinowitz incorporates various styles in her poetry—free verse, glossary, list poems, sectioned poetry, narrative, and the list goes on. Her poems integrate a vast array of elements, taking from everything—from historical events to interviews, citing Woody Allen and Proverbs.
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Poetry by Camille Martin
Shearsman Books, February 2010
Paperback: 108pp; $16.00
Review by Carol Dorf
Can you pour new wine into old bottles? Well, if you are Camille Martin and the bottles are sonnets, the answer is an emphatic, "Yes." By her flexible use of the idea of the sonnet, Camille Martin has written a book that holds a pleasing balance of unity and variation. In the second sonnet, Martin seems to be speaking to the form as the beloved:
I gave you all my sense, blind homunculus,
a sea in a sea, but I'm far from broke.
do you love me, zombie? your main products
are indigo, figments, tricks of cardiac debt,
and a defiant sponge. sometimes your vision,
fluorescent and copious, undershines the diamonds
of your rods and cones and you have to wiggle
your way back, salmon-like, up the information
spillage to the enchanted vapour. you preen
your molecules, all the while scorning the witness
of your deposed gleam, and on your own
little hillside, your own fraudulent
elsewhere, flashing your mirrors into the sun,
you grow roots of endless delay.
The internal rhyme in this poem (sea and zombie, sometimes and undershines) as well as the clash of diction "blind homunculus," "the information / spillage to the enchanted vapour" prepare the reader for Martin's playful approach to the form. This is a world where science and myth intersect. Even more importantly, the intensity of the language reveals Martin's urgent preoccupation with both form and fragments of narrative.
Martin's interpretation of the sonnet is as a 14 line poem where the syllabic count varies from lines as short as 4 syllables in part 5 of tellurium candies "bulging magma gathers," or even the single syllable first line of "snow." Other poems such as "a simpleton inherits a kingdom after unwittingly avoiding" have lines of more than 20 syllables.While this may make some formalists uncomfortable, the technique of varying the syllable count opens up the form for most readers, allowing for a flexible balance between narrative and image with form.
Most of the poems in this book are from the perspective of the poet reflecting on language and experience (including the excellent series "the street names of toronto") but I'd like to end this discussion by looking at one of the love poems which comes near the end of Sonnets:
her green sweater, caught in a revolving
door that reflects clouds frittering away
like flour blown off a wooden cutting
board. she looks back. she has no
shadow. thoughts of the shortness
of ant seasons, and whether omens will ever
mean what they mean before coming true.
her eyes, transparent holes in the sky.
light fades into a dusk riddled
with dim constellations and vanishes
into their unconnected dots,
like knots in a magician's scarf.
the key to unhooking her sweater
is a tangled up, long, long time.
In this poem, the line between address to self and other are fruitfully elided while the poet plays with the perceptions of times "the shortness of ant seasons," or "the key to unhooking her sweater is a tangled up, long, long time." The poem also alternates between the domestic "flour blown off a wooden cutting board" and what we take as larger like the sky or omens.
Camille Martin's Sonnets provide many pleasures for the reader who spends time in their world of a mind reflecting on itself, the natural and built environments, time, and language.
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Deere Sets Another Earnings Record
November 21, 2012
It's almost the same story as a year ago. Today Deere and Company announced record earnings for the third year in a row. The company reported net income of $3 billion for the fiscal year ending in October, compared to $2.8 billion last year, and $1.8 billion in 2010.
Spokesman, Ken Golden, says worldwide sales and revenue increased 13 percent to $36 billion. And growth continued to be broad-based. Farm equipment sales rose 13%, while sales of construction and forestry equipment rose 19%. He says, "Both divisions posted sales figures in double digits and were profitable. We expect 2013 equipment sales to continue to increase by about 5%."
Deere expects demand for food and infrastructure to continue next year. But the company is cautious because of the global economy, the "fiscal cliff," and weather. Golden says, "The full outcome of the drought isn't known yet, and we know it has affected farmers in different ways. But farm income is very high, and that bodes well for equipment sales.
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By David Purdum
Blessed Trinity scored on a big trick play and the Titans' defense did the rest in an 18-0 victory at Westminster.
Pat Jasinski caught a 93-yard touchdown pass, quarterback Conor Davis scored on a 1-yard sneak and Marc Nolan kicked two field goals, lifting the Titans to their third straight victory over Westminster.
The defenses owned the first half. Neither team managed to pick up a first down in the first quarter. And with Blessed Trinity backed up inside their own 10 early the second quarter, coach Tim McFarlin knew his offense needed a spark.
Running back Milton Shelton took a handoff, ran to his right, before throwing a strike to a wide-open Jasinski. Jasinski fought off a defender with a stiff arm and raced 93 yards for a touchdown.
"They were hammering us, and we were grasping at straws. We couldn't move the ball on them," said McFarlin of the trick play call from inside his own 10. "As aggressive as their defense was playing, we felt that if we could get it off, it might work. It's just one of those lucky plays. It's high school football."
The Titans young defense, with just four returning starters from last season's playoff squad, dominated. Linebackers Zach Mitchler and Jasinski, and safety Chris Keegan shut down Westminster's ground game.
Keegan also started at quarterback, before Davis, a sophomore, took over in the second quarter and played well.
Westminster's biggest scoring threat came in the second quarter. Quarterback Jake Forte hooked up with Chris Ottley on a 43-yard completion to the Titans' 19. But the drive ended with a missed field goal.
The Titans didn't run a play in Westminster territory the entire first half, but still took a 6-0 lead into the locker room.
Carter McManes' interception on the first play of the fourth quarter led Nolan's first field goal, putting Blessed Trinity up 15-0 with 8:43 to play.
Jake Johnson had an interception late in the first quarter for the Wildcats, who travel to St. Pius X next week.
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Buyers are on strike
Stocks have become playthings for forces that have nothing to do with fundamentals or prospects.
By Jim Cramer, TheStreet
So, the shorts cover their positions in anticipation of a deal with Greece -- what you see on your screen now. The moment the deal occurs then the shorts get put on again as we play dominoes and we go after Portugal or Spain or Italy.
This is investing in 2010 -- break the stimulating countries. It is too easy not to. What's going to happen? A big rally?
Do you think that with these budget deficits there isn't going to be a story every single day that can send an inter-linked market down?
Monday's sickening 100-point decline was a silent killer. On no volume. Just a waterfall. No buyers? Why bother?
And it wasn't so much of a "buyers' strike" as a recognition that stocks are playthings for bigger forces that have nothing to do with earnings per share or prospects going forward.
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I am sure that they are making a fortune in this tape. But in the end, Goldman is part of the S&P 500 and that's going down.
So who cares?
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The term male menopause was coined in the late 1940s for a condition whose symptoms included emotional upsets and uncharacteristic behaviour but quickly became something of a joke. The concept has recently been revived by various specialists, who call it the andropause, a word coined using the Greek prefix andro-, "man", plus pause, also from Greek, which here means "cessation; stop", as it does not only in menopause but also in some technical terms such as tropopause or magnetopause. A better-established related term in medicine, dating from the early seventies, is andrology, the study of male reproductive disorders. The principal symptoms of the andropause are loss of libido, decline of memory, increased fatigue and risk of osteoporosis, which can occur at any age from about 30 onwards, but are most common about 50 and which are associated with lowered levels of testosterone. Some specialists argue this is a real condition, often with devastating consequences for the sufferer, but which can be treated by appropriate synthetic sex hormones. The adjective is andropausal. Another term sometimes seen is viropause.
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Bob Stewart, a television producer who created such popular game shows as "To Tell the Truth," "The $10,000 Pyramid," and the enduring daytime hit "The Price Is Right," has died. He was 91.
Stewart died Friday of natural causes at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, said a son, Sande.
He kick-started his career in 1956 when Monty Hall, then trying to break through as a game-show host, arranged for Stewart to meet with Mark Goodson of Goodson-Todman Productions, the company that came up with the prototype for the TV game show.
Goodson initially rejected Stewart's first idea, "Three of a Kind," which he described as a show featuring three contestants claiming to be the same person and a panel trying to ferret out the truth. When Goodson asked if he had anything else, Stewart mentioned "The Auctioneer," which was based on guessing the cost of consumer products.
On the spot, Goodson green-lighted the second pitch, which became the landmark game show "The Price Is Right." It made its debut on NBC in 1956 with Bill Cullen as host and moved to CBS in 1972 with Bob Barker as the longtime emcee. Drew Carey has been the host since 2007.
"Three of a Kind" became "To Tell The Truth," which also premiered in 1956, on CBS. Inspiration for the show had struck Stewart while he was on a crowded elevator wondering what everyone around him did for a living, Wostbrock said.
Around 1960, Stewart helped create a third hit for Goodson-Todman, "Password," which had its genesis in a brainstorming session, producer-director Ira Skutch wrote in his 1990 book "I Remember Television."
No one was certain who first suggested the concept for the show based on guessing words from one-word clues, according to Skutch, but Stewart's format made it work: Two teams of people competed using the same word, which was passed back and forth between teams until the word was identified.
"Password" was the first quiz show that paired "civilians" with celebrities, according to the "Encyclopedia of Television." With Allen Ludden as host, it was shown on all three major networks between 1961 and 1980. A prime-time version aired as recently as 2009.
In 1964, Stewart formed his own production company and had his greatest success with "The $10,000 Pyramid." It first appeared in 1973 and over time was packaged in increasing dollar amounts that crested with "The $100,000 Pyramid." A version simply called "Pyramid" left the air in 2004.
The "Pyramid" productions received nine Emmy Awards as best game show, according to Wostbrock.
Through his company, Stewart created 15 shows before retiring in 1991. They included such 1970s titles as "Three on a Match," "Jackpot," "Winning Streak" and "The Love Experts."
"It was not uncommon for Bob to have three or four game shows on every day," Wostbrock said. "With his success came big money, but the money never changed him. He wore sneakers. He wore jeans. He ate with the crew."
The son of a tailor, he was born Isidore Steinberg on Aug. 27, 1920, in Brooklyn to Jacob and Dora Steinberg, who had emigrated from Russia.
During World War II, Stewart served stateside in the Air Force. After his 1946 discharge, he enrolled in a radio-writing course. Within weeks the instructor hired him to work at a New York City radio station.
After losing an opportunity in television because he was Jewish, he changed his name to Bob Stewart, adopting the same last name a brother used, his son said.
When the production of "Pyramid" moved from New York to Los Angeles in 1982 to make it easier to book celebrities, Stewart also came west and lived in an apartment.
In the early 1940s, he married his high school sweetheart, Sara. She died at 67 in 1990.
Stewart is survived by three sons, Barry, Sande and David; two grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.
Asked in 2008 how he would like to be remembered, Stewart — known for his wit and wordplay — responded: "Occasionally."
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Northern Europe may have been battered by the elements in recent weeks, but when the teams arrived in Valencia on Monday they were welcomed by balmy blue skies and scorching temperatures. Like Monaco, the Valencia Street Circuit winds its way around a busy harbour and it's just a stone's throw from the local beach – rather handy for sun-worshipers, if not the drivers.
The European Grand Prix represents the second home race of the season for local favourite Fernando Alonso. After a few years living in Switzerland, the Ferrari star is back living in Spain these days, a country in which he has God-like status. Let's hope Ferrari have bought plenty of pens with them to Valencia because Fernando's going to be signing a boat-load of autographs this weekend…
Racing drivers are used to horsepower, but Jenson Button arrived in town fresh from experiencing a distinctly different kind to what he's used to. In the UK it's Royal Ascot week and the McLaren driver and his model girlfriend, Jessica Michibata, spent a day having a flutter at the world famous horse races. Ascot is notorious for its strict dress code but, far from being put off, Jenson revelled in getting dressed up in full top hat and tails. Let's hope he had better luck on the horses than he's had on the racetrack of late.
F1 may be the hottest ticket in town, but there's no doubt that football fever is in full swing in Valencia. Spain play France in the quarter finals of Euro 2012 on Saturday night, but for the German speakers in the paddock, such as MERCEDES AMG PETRONAS drivers Michael Schumacher and Nico Rosberg, the big game of the weekend is tonight, when Germany play Greece.
As we write, Mercedes are busy transforming the top floor of their motorhome into the perfect venue for watching the game. Games at this stage of the tournament are usually tense affairs, although not everyone is expecting a tight match. In the paddock today Nico confidently predicted a 3-0 German victory. Let's see if he's still smiling tomorrow morning!


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GENERIC NAME: Bupropion hydrochloride extended release
BRAND NAME: Forfivo XL
DRUG CLASS AND MECHANISM: Bupropion hydrochloride is an antidepressant medication that affects chemicals within the brain that nerves use to send messages to each other. (Forfivo XL is an extended release form of bupropion hydrochloride.) Chemical messengers are called neurotransmitters. Many experts believe that depression is caused by an imbalance among the amounts of neurotransmitters that are released. Nerves may recycle neurotransmitters by a process referred to as reuptake in which the released neurotransmitters are taken up and reused (released again) by the nerves. Bupropion works by inhibiting the reuptake of dopamine, serotonin, and norepinephrine by the nerves after they have been released, an action that results in more dopamine, serotonin, and norepinephrine to transmit messages to other nerves. Bupropion is unique and unlike other antidepressants in that its major effect is on dopamine, an effect that is not shared by the related selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors or SSRIs (for example, paroxetine [Paxil], fluoxetine [Prozac], sertraline [Zoloft]) or the tricyclic antidepressants or TCAs (for example, amitriptyline [Elavil, Endep], imipramine [Tofranil], desipramine [Norpramin]). The FDA approved Forfivo in December 1985.
PRESCRIPTION: Yes
GENERIC AVAILABLE: Yes (other extended release formulations of bupropion)
STORAGE: Tablets should be kept at room temperature, 15 C to 25 C (59 F to 77 F).
PRESCRIBED FOR: Bupropion is used for the management of major depression.
DOSING: Bupropion is given as 450 mg once daily without regards to meals. It is given to patients receiving 300 mg of another bupropion formulation daily for at least 2 weeks and require 450 mg daily. Those receiving 450 mg daily of another bupropion formulation can be switched directly to Forfivo.
DRUG INTERACTIONS: Bupropion should be used cautiously in patients receiving drugs that reduce the threshold for seizures. Such drugs include prochlorperazine (Compazine), chlorpromazine (Thorazine), and other antipsychotic medications of the phenothiazine class. Additionally, persons who are withdrawing from benzodiazepines (for example, diazepam [Valium], alprazolam [Xanax]) are at increased risk for seizures.
Carbamazepine (Tegretol) may reduce the effect of bupropion by reducing its blood concentration. Monamine oxidase inhibitors should not be combined with bupropion because of the risk of severe reactions. At least 14 days should elapse between discontinuation of an monoamine oxidase inhibitor and initiation of bupropion. bupropion may affect the action of warfarin (Coumadin).
Ritonavir (Norvir) may increase the breakdown and elimination of bupropion. In some studies ritonavir reduced the concentration of bupropion in the body by 22% to 66%.
PREGNANCY: There are no adequate studies of bupropion in pregnant women. In one study, there was no difference between bupropion and other antidepressants in the occurrence of birth defects. Bupropion should only be used in pregnancy if the benefit outweighs the potential risk.
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It's not easy to negotiate a $4 billion deal. It's even harder to replace an industry legend.
But Mark Lazarus had to do both at the same time during a whirlwind 19 days after the Atlanta resident was named chairman of NBC Sports Group.
Lazarus, 48, was picked to replace TV heavyweight Dick Ebersol, who abruptly resigned in a contract dispute with new owner Comcast on May 19 after 22 years at the helm.
Talk about getting thrown into the fire. On June 7, the International Olympic Committee was scheduled to decide if NBC would win the rights to broadcast the Games until 2020 — or get dislodged by ESPN or Fox.
It was Ebersol who made NBC home of the Games since 1988. (He also co-created "Saturday Night Live.") Would Lazarus be the guy who lost them?
"I've been through a lot of transitions in my career," Lazarus told me recently, shortly before the movers came to empty his Buckhead home and take his furniture to Connecticut. "The key is to manage through them."
Three years ago, as head of Turner Entertainment, Lazarus was on the losing end of a transition. His job, reporting directly to the CEO, was eliminated.
But this time, after working for Ebersol for just four months as head of NBC Sports' cable unit, his career would take a promising turn at 30 Rock. Lazarus went from having a bit part in NBC's Olympics bid to becoming a key actor.
He also had to grab the reins of a multifaceted media operation — from NBC Sports, Golf Channel and VERSUS, to 11 regional sports networks and a dozen websites — while simultaneously improving the network's two-hour bid presentation to the IOC in Switzerland.
After getting the job on a Thursday, his methodical manner kicked in.
"I spent Thursday, Friday and Saturday focused on the [corporate] transition, calling everyone," Lazarus said. "On Sunday, the Olympic team came in and … we started reformulating our pitch."
A team of 20 worked overtime, including Comcast CEO Brian Roberts and NBCUniversal CEO Steve Burke. The June 7 pitch to the IOC, which detailed why it should pick NBC, was critical.
But what was even more important was the sealed bid quantifying what NBC was willing to pay. Execs tried to predict what the competitors would offer, throw in a little more — but not too much or they can lose money. (NBC lost $200 million during the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver.)
NBC bid $4.38 billion to win the Games from 2014 to 2020. Fox bid $3.4 billion for the four Games, while ESPN bid $1.4 billion for 2014 and 2016.
As for next year's Games, which NBC already had locked up, Lazarus is hopeful the recent riots in London will be a distant memory by then.
"We've had strong ad sales so far," he said.
Not all of Lazarus' early days have come with a victory. After 43 years of broadcasting Wimbledon, NBC lost it last month.
"At the end of the day, ESPN outbid us," he said. "They are incredibly powerful and a formidable competitor."
As he goes forward, Lazarus knows he'll be facing many tough competitors.
"I'll compete with anyone who wants our eyeballs," he said.
A philosophy close to the legend's heart.
– Henry Unger, The Biz Beat
August 23rd, 2011
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August 23rd, 2011
6:53 am
Great guy, nice story. He was great at CSE, not sure why Turner let him get away. Lots of idiots left behind running Turner stuff, judging by the Conan/Lopez disaster. Wish him well in NY!
August 23rd, 2011
8:35 am
How could we go wrong with Mark? He's a country Feller with many good sayings and a biblical name. My favorite of his sayings is- "Clothes am lags ye skeester, you're causin flies."
August 23rd, 2011
12:33 pm
Smart guy, outgoing, friendly, fair…doesn't fit the current Turner executive mold of backstabbing, overspending, infighting, corporate jet-abusing and arrogance. The white haired short guy in NY is the biggest offender, guess Time Warner management doesn't care. Sad. Their loss is CSE and now NBC's gain.
August 24th, 2011
2:49 pm
[...] Unger of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution speaks with NBC Sports Chairman Mark Lazarus about replacing the former Emperor Dick [...]
August 25th, 2011
7:55 am
Mark will do well wherever because he's fair and his ego is in check. He's a level headed thinker and willing to take risks. Atlanta will miss him!
August 26th, 2011
1:38 pm
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text: Being open and honest will hopefully encourage others to do the same. Conversations about sexuality have the potential to be educational, inspirational and empowering. Everyone has different ideas about and experiences with sexuality so make sure to acknowledge the backgrounds of your peers. Of course, these discussions may be met with negative reactions at first. Discussions of sexuality can lead to feelings of inadequacy, anger, fear, shame or simply awkward silences. This can be especially true of individuals in communities or populations where sexual behavior is rarely publicly acknowledged. Don't just keep chatting away when this occurs; acknowledge these reactions and pause to address them. For example, your spouse might feel that talking about your sexuality in a new way or talking about topics that have never really been brought up before means that you are implying they are an inadequate lover. They may become defensive or hurt. Acknowledge the legitimacy of these feelings while at the same time reassuring them of your true motives. What if you mention condom use to a friend and they suddenly clam up and become withdrawn or sullen? Once again, pause and acknowledge their discomfort. Say that you noticed their mood change and ask what may have triggered it. Some people may get defensive when discussing issues of sexual health, especially if their past behavior has been less than safe or they feel embarrassed by their lack of knowledge. Assure your friend that you don't judge them, nor should they judge themselves. Assure them that you are right by their side navigating these issues just like they are. Luckily discussions of sexuality can also bring you closer to your friends or partners, allowing them to express their desires, questions and ideas about sexuality and sexual health.


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The remains of a young child, believed to be an infant, were found early Wednesday in a recycling facility in south suburban Chicago Ridge.
The child's remains were discovered in a recycling center in the 10100 block of Anderson Avenue in Chicago Ridge, according to a spokesman for the Cook County Medical Examiner's office.
The discovery came about 3:45 a.m., near the end of a shift at Resource Management Companies, a facility that operates around the clock, company President Calvin Tigchelaar said.
Once the body was discovered, "everything comes to a stop, the authorities come in and it then becomes a crime scene," Tigchelaar said. Police were at the facility processing the scene and investigating for about five to six hours, he said.
The remains appeared to be that of an infant, but the age could not immediately be determined, according to the medical examiner's office. No additional information on the child was being released Wednesday afternoon.
Police believe the truck that brought the child's body to the plant may have originated in northern Illinois or southern Wisconsin, according to Tigchelaar.
The company employees "handled it quite well," he said. "Everybody initially was very distraught."
Because the discovery came near the end of a shift, "we'll see" how those employees are doing "when they come back later this evening," he said.
The Save Abandoned Babies Foundation took the occasion to remind the public of the Safe Haven law, which allows any desperate parent to hand their unharmed baby, 30 days old or younger, to staff at a hospital, fire or police station with no questions asked.
Chicago Ridge police did not immediately return a call for comment.
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February 11: Blaine officers assisted WCSO with a search for a subject who had fled the scene of a fatality accident on Drayton Harbor Road. Officers were part of a perimeter and cleared when it was determined the subject could not be located.
February 10: U.S. Customs at the Peace Arch POE reported two male subjects in possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia. An officer arrested the pair for the violations/cited/released them.
February 10: A citizen reported that person(s) unknown had entered her unlocked car in the 1400 block of Bayview and stole a wallet/fanny pack combo. The property was later recovered by a neighbor from bushes in the area. No suspects/witnesses.
February 10: An officer stopped a vehicle for failing to stop at a stop sign. After contacting the juvenile it was determined she was intoxicated. The subject was cited and released with a mandatory court appearance.
February 10: A citizen in the 1600 block of Bayview reported that person(s) unknown had stolen his 1982 Volvo, Washington license 352LEA from his driveway during the night. There are no suspects/witnesses in the theft. Blaine police recovered the vehicle later within the city.
February 9: An adult female traveler asked an officer to transport her to the nearest doctor. The females shoulder was dislocated and she did not want medics to respond. An officer transported her to a local doctors office.
February 9: A citizen reported her family was being harassed by a neighborhood juvenile. An officer warned the juvenile female and had to return again after she ignored the first warning. No future verbal warnings arrest proximity alert.
February 9: Blaine officers helped to direct the fire department to an advanced life support call for a man who had fallen in the 700 block of B Street. The police departments defib unit was not needed, and the call was handled by the fire department.
February 8: A U.S. Customs officer intercepted a motorist with a gun and marijuana pipe. A Blaine officer investigated the incident and prepared a criminal citation for the city attorneys review. The contraband was seized and booked.
February 8: U.S. Customs reported a person driving on a suspended drivers license. An officer confirmed the drivers license was suspended. The driver was arrested, processed and released. The vehicle was impounded.
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February 6: The Blaine middle school reported that a student had threatened a faculty member. An officer investigated the incident. The case is to be forwarded to the juvenile prosecutors office for review.


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What can we do and what do we do about bullying?
Recently, while playing Red Dead Redemption I noticed another player, LatinLupe752, running in a straight line towards Chuparosa, a dusty settlement in the middle of nowhere.
Obviously a noobie. If you run in a straight line in an open field, you will be shot, in real life and in video games too.
I took my gun and killed him. Bam! 10 seconds later he, or she, respawned and started to run in a straight line again. I shot him again. Bam! He respawned once more; I switched weapons to a shotgun and shot him again, and again, and again. Soon I was "most wanted player" and there was a bounty on my head. I was killed by other players who came for the bounty.
I respawned and looked around for LatinLupe752, and saw him in the distance leaving the area, probably just wanted to play in peace and decided to go somewhere else in the game. I got on my horse, climbed up a hill, took aim with my carcano rifle and shot him in the head from afar. He respawned again and I shot his horse and then I shot him. They never came back.
Why would I, an active collaborating member of Stanford University Peace Innovation Lab, become a bully so vicious to this individual? Why couldn't I just let him play?
I did it because:
- There was a reward for me in doing it: Everytime I killed LatinLupe752 I would receive experience points and increase my reputation. A clean head shot earned me additional points.
- Yes, I was killed twice by other players who came to collect the bounty on my head, but that did not reduce my experience points or my reputation, so I didn´t mind the inconvenience of respawning a few seconds later and continue my behavior going after more points with LatinLupe752's face in them.
More important, it had nothing to do with LatinLupe752, I did not think he or she was weak, weird or different. It wasn't about intolerance and it wasn't personal.
I did it because there was something for me to gain and because the penalties involved were not enough to deter me from it.
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Jul 2 2012: So both the bully and the one being bullied are destitute of responsibility, will and volition? Innocent victims of an unfortunate condition enabled and brought to them by the system and society to which they belong? Passing the responsibility and blame to others while failing to acknowledge our responsibility as a society and system to prevent these conditions from existing (and their rewards, escapes and other related elements) will not get us far into a solution.
The same issues that enable the condition of bullying to exist and take place will most likely keep the witnesses from intervening and stopping it.
The witnesses are bound by the same influences, system, environment and society as the bully and the one being bullied. While we can claim that the witnesses can stop it, one could also claim that the bully and the one being bullied could stop it too, yet all three consistently fail to do so as a result of the intricate and complicated web of communal existence that involve and surround us all.
Just as I would be careful to place the blame of bullying in one party, I would also be careful to put the responsibility of stopping it or preventing it on another single party. Bully, bullied, witness and their environment are part of a whole which needs to be addressed for viable, sustainable solutions to be achieved without requiring sacrificial lambs in the form of a punished bully, an immolating bullied or a heroic witness who decides to intervene at the risk of high personal and social expense.
J MJul 3 2012: There probably is no freewill.
This knowledge CAN hlep us solve "problems"(observed contingency deemed negatives). Eg we take more care to raise "properly" (understanding nurture syndrome/health issues) in society. We cure the violent/damaged with chemicals (oxytocin or stress inhibitors) or behavior therapy (though that is COMPLEX and unexplored by rationals) to make them less aggressive. _We process /THINK THROUGH as a society the implications of creating a species of chemically altered meek/prey creatures._
Eg what will group-imposed meekness mean to us in a material world of red in tooth claw Darwinism that we must be a part of? What will it do to the sexual dynamic of this dimorphically sexual species where the females get off on tournament (brute) display and endlessly search and flirt on instinct (like a spinning top) so as to avoid "losers" and to suss out "winners and losers"? Will we just accept mass cuckolding as the females search (for the ever more unfindable) and cheat?
As a group sp, it is a group problem (which will be solved badly by a group not equipped to think that deeply, being creatures selected by a totally diff world once upon a time). But joining jiujitzu or weightlifting or --social avoidance [see pioneer ants/birds/sheep]-- is a survival response (ie reflex) on the individual scale.
Jul 3 2012: Oh, but there is free will. From the meekest bacteria to the mightiest blue whale. Where there is life, there is free will. Only inanimate matter and chemical compounds are bound to the determinism of the laws of physics and even they are subject to randomness and the unpredictiveness of quantum mechanics.
While your lack of belief in free will may not be a choice you make, your post expressing it is a manifestation of your free will, just as my response underlines the fact that we choose to do things - or not - even if our interest in such things does not come from our own volition but from imposed or external conditions to ourselves.
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