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Marine Turned Novelist Brings Brutal, Everyday Work Of War Into Focus
"Every inch of that place, every grain of sand, wanted desperately to kill us."
That's a line from a compelling new novel about the Iraq War, written by former Marine Michael Pitre.
Pitre was a history and creative writing major at Louisiana State when he joined the Marines after Sept. 11. He became an officer and served two tours in Iraq's Anbar province working in logistics and communications.
His new novel, Fives and Twenty-Fives, follows an American road repair crew and bomb disposal team in Iraq. He tells NPR's Melissa Block about the crew's mission, the meaning of the book's title and balancing his loyalty to the Marine Corps with his desire to tell a realistic story.
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On his characters' mission in Iraq
Their mission is to fill potholes — to repair the roads and highways of western Iraq so that the troops and supplies and civilians can move freely on them. The problem is the potholes are created by IEDs, roadside bombs, and the insurgent cells were planting IEDs in the same potholes over and over and over again. So when you go out to repair the potholes, you had to first clear the bomb that was waiting for you that had been planted overnight, typically. So it was just this endless grind of really brutal manual labor in a very dangerous environment.
And this was not my job; it was the job of a very close friend of mine named Ed ... who did this for a stretch in Iraq. And I asked him the question, "How many of those potholes had another bomb in them, Ed?" And he said, "Oh, every single one."
On why he wanted to write this book
I did not have an exciting, super action-packed Iraq experience, but my close, close friends did, and I was there with them when they did. And their stories weren't being told the way I thought they should. ...
I wanted to tell a story that didn't fetishize combat. It was a war story with very little real combat as we know it. Because war is work, right? It's sweaty and it's exhausting and sometimes it's carrying bags of concrete in the 130-degree sun and wondering if you're just going to get engaged by a sniper when your back is turned. And it was not glamorous and it's not SEAL Team 6; it's just work, and I wanted to tell a story about that.
On his decision to write part of the book from an Iraqi's perspective — that of a young interpreter named Dodge
The combat in Iraq, the fighting done by the Marines there, was not an end unto itself — we didn't go there to fight just to fight. The fighting was part of a larger military mission, and that military mission was the safety and security of the Iraqi people. That was the reason why I included a narrator who was Iraqi. It was really their war much more than it was ever ours and I wanted their story told as well. ...
It took some thought and it took some soul-searching. And I knew a number of interpreters, none of whom are direct inspirations for Dodge — he's really an invention. And putting myself in his shoes wasn't that hard, honestly, because you saw it every day on those guys' faces, that they had to go home to this at the end of the day when you got to go home to sunny California.
On the meaning of the book's title
Fives and Twenty-Fives refers to a tactic to maintain safe distances from possible roadside bombs. So if you were on a convoy and someone in the lead vehicle saw something suspicious that they needed to stop and investigate, the first thing everyone would do is scan 5 meters around the wheels of their Humvee to make sure that they weren't parked next to a bomb. So once everyone's cleared in their fives, they dismount and do their 25-meter sweep where they establish a larger zone of protection for the dismounted troops so you can know that if you're within 25 meters of the vehicle, you're safe.
But it also became a metaphor for protecting yourself. I heard it more than once in a Southern California bar. Two young Marines — very obviously young Marines by their haircuts — one of them's too drunk and his buddy says to him, "Hey man, watch your five and twenty-fives"; meaning, you know, stay safe.
On balancing his loyalty to the Marine Corps with his desire to tell a realistic story
My loyalty to the Marine Corps and to those with whom I served — those with whom I'm still very close — my loyalty to them led me to want to tell a true story. And as I was writing it — and this is, in all honesty, a manuscript that I never thought would be read by anyone other than my wife — I sent it out to my old friends from my old battalion and said, "Hey, read this." And the subject line was always "Read this and tell me if I have brought dishonor to our corps." And no complaints from them, which is what matters to me most.
On his frustration with the State Department and contractors in Iraq
There's no getting rid of that. That exasperation will last the rest of my life, I know. I mean you were dealing with a whole Marine Corps that was marched into this area of desert without a plan at all. And then you see around you contractors and folks who are really profiteering, was what a lot of it was.
And there's a line in the book in which [an American lieutenant] says to Dodge: Hey, I think we're gonna remember this war as the last time we were disappointed by our parents. And I do hold to that. There was this sense in Iraq that, you know, your dad had taken you on vacation and didn't bring gas money and you were stranded. So the Marines on the ground in Iraq did the best with what they had, but in the end there was no real strategy. We just dropped a lot of bombs and said, "We've taken over the country now." And that was sort of the end of the thinking, it seemed, and from there on it was improvisation. And that was a shameful way to treat the U.S. military and the volunteers who embody it.
On how he feels about the recent advances of Islamic State fighters in Iraq
It's absolutely gutting if you think about it too long. And I have stayed up late at night watching the news, unable to sleep, thinking about God, I've been in that town, I saw those people. And now that they're under the thumb of such brutality... [it] is truly gutting. ... You try to go to sleep, in my case anyway. I'm long separated from the service. You call up your friends; you have a heart-to-heart. And you try to move on with your life.
Exclusive First Read: 'The Bone Clocks' By David Mitchell
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David Mitchell's new novel, The Bone Clocks, is a treat for longtime fans and people who've never picked up one of his books before. It's a decades-spanning saga that switches perspective from section to section among a wildly disparate group of people — but the center of it all is Holly Sykes, at the start of the book a psychically sensitive runaway who gets caught up in a war between two factions of ancient near-immortals. The Bone Clocks is a deft and entertaining mix of literary fiction and fantasy — and Mitchell fans will appreciate the Easter eggs here and there, returning characters and themes from previous books that begin to tie all Mitchell's books into one grand universe. This scene is told from the perspective of Ed, Holly's partner and the father of her child — and also a war journalist who's about to embark on a dangerous assignment. The Bone Clocks will be published Sept. 2.
ELEVEN O'CLOCK AT night, and all's well, kind of, for now. Olive Sun wants me flying out again by Thursday at the latest, so I'll have to tell Holly soon. Tonight, really, so she doesn't make plans for the three of us next week. Fallujah is the biggest deployment of marines since the battle for Hue City in Vietnam, and I'm stuck here on the Sussex coast. Holly'll hit the frigging roof, but I'd better get it over and done with, and she'll have to calm down for Sharon's wedding tomorrow. Aoife's asleep in the single bed in the corner of our hotel room. I only got here after her bedtime, so I still haven't said hi to my daughter, but the First Rule of Parenting states that you never wake a peacefully sleeping child. I wonder how Nasser's girls are sleeping tonight, with dogs barking and gunfire crackling and marines kicking down doors. CNN's on the flatscreen TV with the sound down, showing footage of marines under fire on rooftops in Fallujah. I've seen it five times or more and even the pundits can't think of anything fresh to say until the news cycle starts up again in a few hours, when Iraq begins a new day. Holly texted a quarter of an hour ago to say she and the other hens'll be heading back to the hotel soon. "Soon" could mean anything in the context of a wine �bar, though. I switch off the TV, to prove I'm no war junkie, and go to the window. Brighton Pier's all lit up like Fairyland on Friday night, and pop music booms from the fairground at the far end. By English standards it's a warm spring evening, and the restaurants and bars on the promenade are at the end of a busy evening. Couples walk hand in hand. Night buses trundle. Traffic obeys the traffic laws, by and large. I don't knock a peaceful and well-�functioning society. I enjoy it, for a few days, weeks, even. But I know that, after a couple of months, a well-�ordered life tastes like a flat, non-�alcoholic lager. Which isn't the same as saying I'm addicted to warzones, as Brendan helpfully implied earlier. That's as ridiculous as accusing David Beckham of being addicted to playing soccer. Just as soccer is Beckham's art and his craft, reporting from hot �spots is my art and my craft. I wish I'd said that to the clan earlier.
Aoife giggles in her sleep, then groans sharply. I go over. "You okay, Aoife? It's only a dream."
Unconscious Aoife complains, "No, silly! The lemon one." Then her eyes flip open like a doll's in a horror movie: "We're going to a hotel in Brighton later, 'cause Aunty Sharon's marrying Uncle Pete, and we'll meet you there, Daddy. I'm a bridesmaid."
I try not to laugh, and stroke Aoife's hair back from her face. "I know, love. We're all here now, so you go back to sleep. I'll be here in the morning and we'll all have a brilliant day."
"Good," Aoife pronounces, teetering on the brink of sleep ...
... she's gone. I pull the duvet over her My Little Pony pajama top and kiss her forehead, remembering the week in 1997 when Holly and I made this precious no-�longer-�quite-�so-�little life-form. The Hale-Bopp Comet was adorning the night sky, and thirty-nine members of the Heaven's Gate cult committed mass suicide in San Diego so their souls could be picked up by a UFO in the comet's tail and be transported to a higher state of consciousness beyond human. I rented a cottage in Northumbria and we had plans to go hiking along Hadrian's Wall, but hiking didn't turn out to be the principal activity of the week. Now look at her. I wonder how she sees me. A bristly giant who teleports into her life and teleports out again for mystifying reasons, perhaps — not so different from how I saw my own father, I guess, except while I'm away on various assignments, Dad went away to various prisons. I'd love to know how Dad saw me when I was a kid. I'd love to know a hundred things. When a parent dies, a filing cabinet full of all the fascinating stuff also ceases to exist. I never imagined how hungry I'd be one day to look inside it.
When I was back in February she was having her period. I hear Holly's key in the door. I feel vaguely guilty.
Not half as guilty as she'll make me feel, though.
Holly's having trouble with the lock so I go over, put the chain on, and open it up a crack. "Sorry, sweetheart," I tell her, in my Michael Caine voice. "I never ordered no kinky massage. Try next door."
"Let me in," says Holly, sweetly, "or I'll kick you in the nuts." "Nope, I didn't order no kick in the nuts, neither. Try — " Not so sweetly: "Brubeck, I need to use the loo!"
"Oh, all right, then." I unchain the door and stand aside. "Even if you have come home too plastered to use a key, you dirty stop �out."
"The locks in this hotel are all fancy and burglar-�proofed. You need a PhD to open the damn things." Holly bustles past to the bathroom, peering down at Aoife in passing. "Plus I only had a few glasses of wine. Mam was there as well, remember."
"Right, as if Kath Sykes was ever a girl to put the dampeners on a 'wine-tasting session.' "
Holly closes the bathroom door. "Was Aoife okay?" "She woke up for a second, otherwise not a squeak."
"Good. She was so excited on the train down, I was afraid she was going to be up all night dancing on the ceiling." Holly flushes the toilet to provide a bit of noise cover. I go over to the window again. The funfair at the end of the pier is winding down, by the look of it. Such a lovely night. My proposed six-month extension for Spyglass in Iraq is going to wreck it, I know. Holly opens the bathroom door, smiling at me and drying her hands. "How did you spend your quiet night in? Snoozing, writing?"
Her hair's up, she's wearing a low-�cut figure-�hugging black dress and a necklace of black and blue stones. She hardly ever looks like that anymore. "Thinking impure thoughts about my favorite yummy mummy. Can I help you out of that dress, Miss Sykes?"
"Down, boy." She fusses over Aoife. "We're sharing a room with our daughter, you might have noticed."
I walk over. "I can operate on silent mode." "Not tonight, Romeo. I'm having my period."
Thing is, I haven't been back often enough in the last six months to know when Holly's period is. "Guess I'll have to make do with a long, slow snog, then."
" 'Fraid so matey." We kiss, but it's not as long and slow as advertised, and Holly isn't as drunk as I was half hoping. When was it that Holly stopped opening her mouth when we kiss? It's like kissing a zipped-�up zip. I think of Big Mac's aphorism: In order to have sex, women need to feel loved; but in order for men to feel loved, we need to have sex. I'm keeping my half of the deal — so far as I know — but sexually, Holly acts like she's forty-�five or fifty-�five, not thirty-�five. Of course I'm not allowed to complain, because that's pressurizing her. Once Holly and I could talk about anything, anything, but all these no-�go areas keep springing up. It all makes me ... I'm not allowed to be sad either, because then I'm a sulky boy who isn't getting the bag of sweets he thinks he deserves. I �haven't cheated on her — ever — not that Baghdad is a hotbed of sexual opportunity, but it's depressing still being a fully functioning thirty-�five-�year-�old male and having to take matters into my own hands so often. The Danish photojournalist in Tajikistan last year would've been up for it if I'd been less anxious about how I'd feel when the taxi dropped me off at Stoke Newington and I heard Aoife yelling, "It's Daaaaddyyy!"
Holly turns back to the bathroom. She leaves the door open, and starts to remove her makeup. "So, are you going to tell me or not?"
I sit on the edge of the double bed, alert. "Tell you what?"
She dabs cotton wool under her eyes. "I don't know yet." "What makes you think I ... have anything to tell you?" "Dunno, Brubeck. Must be my feminine intuition."
I don't believe in psychics but Holly can do a good impression of one. "Olive asked me to stay on in Baghdad until December."
Holly freezes for a few seconds, drops the cotton wool, and turns to me. "But you've already told her you're quitting in June."
"Yeah. I did. But she's asking me to reconsider."
"But you told me you're quitting in June. Me and Aoife."
"I told her I'd call back on Monday. After discussing it with you." Holly's looking betrayed. Or as if she's caught me downloading porn. "We agreed, Brubeck. This would be your final final extension."
"I'm only talking about another six months." "Oh, f'Chrissakes. You said that the last time."
"Sure, but since I won the Sheehan-�Dower Prize I've been — " "And the time before that. 'Half a year, then I'm out.' " "This'll cover a year of Aoife's college expenses, Hol." "She'd rather have a living father than a smaller loan."
"That's just"� — you can't call angry women "hysterical" these days; it's sexist — "hyperbole�. Don't stoop to that."
"Is that what Daniel Pearl said to his partner before he jetted off to Pakistan? 'That's just hyperbole'?"
"That's tasteless. And wrongheaded�. And Pakistan's not Iraq." She lowers the toilet lid and sits on it so we're roughly at eye level.
"I'm sick of wanting to puke with fear every time I hear the word 'Iraq' or 'Baghdad' on the radio. I'm sick of hardly sleeping. I'm sick of having to hide from Aoife how worried I am. Fantastic, you're an in-�demand award-�winning journalist, but you have a six-�year-�old who wants help riding a bike with no stabilizers. Being a crackly voice for a minute every two or three days, if the satphone's working, isn't enough. You are a war junkie. Brendan was right."
"No, I am not. I am a journalist doing what I do. Just as he does what he does and you do what you do."
Holly rubs her head like I'm giving her a headache. "Go, then! Back to Baghdad, to the bombs taking the front off your hotel. Pack. Go. Back to 'what you do.' If it's more precious than us. Only you'd better get the tenants out of your King's Cross flat 'cause the next time you're back in London, you'll be needing somewhere to live." I keep my voice low: "Will you please fucking listen to yourself?" "No, you fucking listen to yourfuckingself! Last month you agree to quit in June and come home. Your high-�powered American editor says, 'Make it December.' You say, 'Uh, okay.' Then you tell me. Who are you with, Brubeck? Me and Aoife, or Olive Sun and Spyglass?"
"I'm being offered another six months' work. That's all."
"No, it's not 'all' 'cause after Fallujah dies down or gets bombed to shit it'll be Baghdad or Afghanistan Part Two or someplace else, there's always someplace else, and on and on until the day your luck runs out and then I'm a widow and Aoife has no dad. Yes, I put up with Sierra Leone, yes, I survived your assignment in Somalia, but Aoife's older now. She needs a dad."
"Suppose I told you, 'No, Holly, you can't help homeless people anymore. Some have AIDS, some have knives, some are psychotic. Quit that job and work for ... for Greenland supermarkets instead. Put all those people skills of yours to use on dried goods. In fact, I'm ordering you to, or I'll kick you out.' How would you respond?"
"F'Chrissakes, the risks are different." Holly lets out an angry sigh. "Why bring this up in the middle of the bloody night? I'm Sharon's matron of honor tomorrow. I'll look like a hungover� panda. You're at a crossroads, Brubeck. Choose."
I make an ill-�advised quip: "More of a T-junction, technically." "Right. I'd forgotten. It's all a joke to you, isn't it?"
"Oh, Holly, for God's sake, that's not what I — "
"Well, I'm not joking. Quit Spyglass or move out. My house isn't just a storage dump for your dead laptops."
Excerpted from The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell. Copyright � 2014 by David Mitchell. Excerpted by permission of Random House, an imprint and division of Random House LLC, a Penguin Random House Company. All rights reserved.
Mystery Writer Finds Istanbul's Byzantine Past Hiding In Plain Sight
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Istanbul makes an exotic first impression: Boat traffic on the Bosporus sends waves brushing up against the shores of both Europe and Asia as enormous mosques and monuments from previous empires stand guard.
The city wears its history more openly than many, but that doesn't mean it's always easy to find. So writer Selcuk Altun spins mysteries that take his heroes into forgotten corners of the city, where once-majestic monuments go unnoticed amid the bustle of modern life.
Turkey's current Muslim leadership focuses primarily on the Ottoman Empire, but Altun's novel The Sultan of Byzantium is a homage to the Byzantines who ruled Istanbul — then Constantinople — for a millennium before the Ottomans came along.
It begins with a quiet academic living in Istanbul who receives a cryptic message that will change his life. It's from a mysterious organization that tells him he's a descendant of the last Byzantine emperor, Constantine Palaeologus, and it poses a series of tests to determine whether he's a worthy successor. Along the way, he discovers that other descendants, including his father, died under mysterious circumstances.
In the book, Altun sets the stage for an exploration of Istanbul's Byzantine past, an era he thinks deserves a lot more attention than it gets these days.
"In my opinion, Byzantium civilization is highly underrated," Altun says, "and not only underrated but also mis-[re]presented. Nowadays, when you say the word 'Byzantium' it's synonymous with grand-scale conspiracy and intrigue."
Altun says he wrote The Sultan of Byzantium as a kind of antidote to the thick, plot-heavy thrillers of writers like Dan Brown. In Altun's book, the main character considers Byzantine civilization the greatest in history, and the author still gets excited being around its monuments.
Touring Istanbul's Obscure Byzantine Monuments
It's early on a weekday morning and commuter traffic is whizzing by, carrying passengers on cellphones who don't notice that they're traveling in a VIP lane of sorts: the Byzantine Golden Gate, reserved for victorious generals and visiting dignitaries. These walls were built in the fifth century to protect Byzantines, but by the Middle Ages they were also protecting medieval Europe from rapacious Eastern armies.
Altun points to differences in the limestone where later stone masons carried out renovations.
"The renovation part is really debatable," he says. "The original stones and renovated stones, they are not in coherence. Actually, in the infamous earthquake of 1999, some of the renovated stones fell down, but nothing happened to the original stones."
From there we move inland to a giant monument that, to motorists passing through its arches, must look like an old bridge — it's actually the ancient, 90-foot-high Valens Aqueduct, which once brought water to the royal cisterns.
"When Greeks and Romans started coming and settling in this city," Altun explains, "the city had a major problem: The nearest source of water was called Belgrade Forest, 25 kilometers [about 15.5 miles] west of [the] city. So they built these huge water bridges, called aqueducts. And to me it has a special meaning: You are coexisting with history."
To reach our next destination, we climb steep, winding streets alongside creaking bicycle carts. We're looking for Tekfur Palace, home of Palaeologus, the last Byzantine emperor. It's tucked away amid modest apartment blocks in a working-class neighborhood.
Altun says he can't blame Turks for not recognizing the amazing history all around them; after all, they aren't taught to appreciate it.
"Seventy years ago," he says, "in the history department of Istanbul University, there was a subdivision of Byzantine history. Today, there is no division or subdivision to study Byzantine history, although Istanbul — old Constantinople — is the center, is the heart of the Byzantine civilization."
The Tekfur Palace was saved by its very obscurity — rampaging crusaders missed it when they sacked the city in the 13th century. In the novel, this is where Altun's narrator discovers who has been putting his life in danger throughout the book.
The Final Crusader Insult
Our next stop is by far the most popular Byzantine site in Istanbul. Known as the "Church of Holy Wisdom," Hagia Sophia was an astonishing architectural achievement for the sixth century. Altun says a thousand years passed before a bigger church was built in Spain.
As massive lines of tourists fill the plaza outside the church, Altun pauses to describe what he calls "the Mona Lisa of mosaics" — an image of Jesus, Mary and John the Baptist in the church's upper gallery. In the book, this is where his hero discovers the final crusader insult to the venerable church: Across from the glorious mosaic lies a marker for the grave of a Venetian doge named Dandolo.
"He was the one who provoked and motivated the mercenaries of [the] Fourth Crusade to plunder the city," Altun says. "When he died, he was 100 or 101 years old, and there is a plaque saying, 'Here is Dandolo.' "
The plaque remains, but historians say the bones were probably removed after the Ottomans conquered the city and turned the church into a mosque. It's now a museum, but some Turkish officials want to make it a mosque again. Altun hopes that won't happen.
A retired bank executive, Altun calls himself a reader and a book lover more than a writer. All proceeds from his books go to a scholarship fund for literature students. He hopes his modest mystery will give readers an urge to know more about a once-grand empire hiding in plain sight in modern-day Istanbul.
In A Foster Home, Two Boys Become 'Kinda Like Brothers'
Before Coe Booth was a writer, she was a caseworker with child protective services in New York City, where she worked with teenagers and families in crisis. She was, at times, responsible for removing children from their homes and placing them with foster families. The foster parents would often have children of their own.
"I was always wondering: What would it be like for those kids to have these new kids come and leave and come and leave and not want to attach to them?" she tells Tess Vigeland, guest host of NPR's weekends on All Things Considered.
Booth's latest book for middle-grade readers, Kinda Like Brothers, explores that question from the kids' points of view.
The novel starts with the arrival of a new set of foster children in the home of 11-year-old Jarrett. He's been through this many times before, but always with babies. This time, a young girl named Treasure is brought to his house late one night, along with her 12-year-old brother, Kevon.
The book follows Jarrett and Kevon as they grow from being strangers to sort of enemies — and then, kind of like family.
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On getting the mind of her characters and writing for young boys
I think in every grown woman, there is an 11-year-old boy. No, I'm just joking! ... I don't know, I have nephews that ... they don't know it, but I've been spying on them while I was writing this book and a lot of my book is set in a community center much like the community center that my nieces and nephews go to. I would just hang out there for a little while. I was the creepy lady like writing notes as the kids were running around ...
But as I continue writing, he just becomes a person, so I'm able to kind of just let go of fear that I'm not portraying boys accurately.
On a scene where young boys at the community center receive advice on what to do when stopped by the police
That scene begins with Jarrett walking up and seeing a counselor at the center getting stopped and frisked for no reason. And it really disturbs him; he's just really angry. That afternoon a guy comes over to the center ... and he just tells them, "I'm going to keep it real with you guys, you black and Latino boys are going to get stopped a lot. And it doesn't matter what you do, or what you didn't do. It's just because of who you are. And in the meantime, I need to teach you what to do when the cops stop you — not if, when."
I think any parent or anybody who is dealing with young black boys — as is what's happening at the community center in this book — I think every single community center has had this conversation with their boys. And it's just so sad that we have to do this, but we do, and I hope that changes. I don't know if what's going on in Ferguson will change that, but I do hope it at least continues that conversation, because it's just exhausting that this is still going on in 2014.
On the intended audience for the book
Everybody — but particularly, I want kids who see themselves in this book because it's hard to find books that are for them and about them. It's not a fairy tale, it's a reality and it's, you know, it's complicated. But I hope it's true.
As Summer Winds Down, Wistful Dreams Of A 'Lost Estate'
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The summer before I went to college my grandfather died. I spent that season clearing out the shelves in his bedroom. And since he was a compulsive rereader, I kept the books that looked the most tattered. I thought he must have loved those the most.
One of them was The Lost Estate (Le Grand Meaulnes), by Henri Alain-Fournier. I couldn't have known when I picked it up that it would be such an appropriate last book for someone just days away from becoming a college student. In the late August heat I sat on my grandmother's balcony and read it in two days.
The story begins with the arrival of a new student at a school in a small French town. Through the eyes of the headmaster's son we meet Augustin Meaulnes — and the two boys quickly become friends.
While the narrator is cautious and sickly, his new friend is restless — Augustin can't seem to settle down into a routine. He's the first student in line for morning inspection at school, but he also wakes his friend at midnight so they can set off on an expedition.
One day he sneaks away from school and stumbles upon a party at a hidden, possibly magical, estate. When he comes back, he tells his friends that he has fallen in love with a girl he met there.
Years later he imagines meeting her, writing to the narrator: "Sitting on the bench, shivering, miserable, I like to imagine that someone will gently take my arm ... I should look round and she would be there. 'I'm a bit late,' she would say simply."
Meaulnes — uncompromisingly youthful — is unable to abandon the years-old adventure, and is unwilling to leave his adolescent fantasy unsatisfied. We perhaps understand him best when the narrator describes his friend's journey to the estate: "Anyone but Meaulnes would immediately have turned back."
Without ever actually announcing it, The Lost Estate tells a story about feeling inescapably tied to one's life as a student and a child, but hoping that something far more enchanting will come along and distract us. Just like Augustin, we wish we could be set off course.
Incidentally, it's the very same thing I always felt when summer begins to wind down, and Staples starts pushing back-to-school specials, and textbook lists are sent out in the mail: We are preparing for the inevitable, but still hope to avoid it. We're like Meaulnes, who cannot be tied down to school, or to his little village; he lives in a perpetual summer vacation.
Just as I was during those August balcony days, students heading out to university are all a little bit like Meaulnes himself: feeling those pangs of the beginnings of the familiar school year, but nevertheless nursing a desire to take off, and peer into the strange, unknown estate, ready to be swept off their feet.
Alexander Aciman's latest book is Twitterature: The World's Greatest Books in Twenty Tweets or Less.


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COLONIE, N.Y. – Colonie Police have arrested a man for allegedly lying to police about the vehicle used during a shooting at Shenanigan's club on Central Avenue that took place early Sunday morning.
Colonie Police say shots were fired from a vehicle driving by the club shortly after 1 a.m. The vehicle, a 2004 Jeep Liberty, was located, unoccupied, shortly after the shooting in the lot of the Lawrence Motel on Central Avenue. Police say the registered owner of the vehicle, 49-year-old Allan Frierson of Troy, used in the shooting, falsely reported the car stolen to Colonie Police and made false statements that hindered the investigation.
He has been charged with hindering prosecution, a felony, and falsely reporting an incident, a misdemeanor, and remanded to Albany County Correctional Facility without bail. Police say there is no indication that he was present during the shooting.
The victim in the shooting, 46-year-old Karl Richardson of Schenectady, is recovering at Albany Medical Center Hospital from a single gunshot to the lower leg. He was working as a bouncer at Shenanigan's when he was shot.
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The road to energy independence starts with a trip to Detroit this weekend. The Electric Drive Transportation Association is applauding the fact that the North American International Auto Show, set for Jan. 17-Jan. 25, will feature a plethora of alternatives to traditional gas-only vehicles.
On display will be five gas-electric vehicles, four vehicles all powered by electric battery (two available in late 2009 and two in late 2010); as well as two plug-in electric-drive hybrid vehicles (one by Ford, one by BYD).
In addition, a number of manufacturers will exhibit all-electric concept vehicles, including the Chrysler Town and Country EV, Jeep Wrangler Unlimited EV and a Cadillac EV.
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What (if anything) should Central Expressway be renamed?
DALLAS -- State Representative Dan Branch (R-Dallas) has filed a bill to name a seven-mile stretch of Central Expressway for President George W. Bush. It would tie neatly with the Bush Library at 75 and Mockingbird.
Dallas teacher Dana Morris thinks she has a better idea.
"I think the Chris Kyle Expressway," she said.
But she makes it clear she wants the change to honor former Navy SEAL sniper Chris Kyle, not diminish President Bush.
"I'm a total Bush supporter," she said, "but he does have his presidential library here. He does have a street named after him."
University Park just voted to rename a street near the library "Bush Avenue." Then there's 161, the Bush Turnpike, named for President George H.W. Bush.
Morris said that could be confusing.
"People refer to it as the 'Bush,'" she pointed out.
Once Morris got the idea for Chris Kyle Memorial Expressway, she put the pedal down.
"I did a petition, and sent Facebook messages to all my friends and said, 'Will you please sign this?'" Morris said.
She also contacted Representative Branch, who quickly responded that he would consider her input.
Drivers getting onto Central Thursday had mixed views.
Some loved the idea. Others said it would always just be "Central" or "75" to them. All, however, knew of the slain former Navy SEAL, and felt he deserved such an honor.
One of his friends suggested it might be more appropriate, and easier, to rename a stretch of Highway 287 -- which Kyle frequently drove near his home in Midlothian.
Morris, who teaches Texas history to seventh graders, said it's about more than naming a road. It's a lesson for her students.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Florida Gulf Coast freshman Rachael Rein (Oviedo, Fla.) and North Florida junior Emily Eisenhower (Scottsdale, Ariz.) have been selected as the CCSA Women's Swimmer and Diver of the Week, respectively, for meets competed Jan. 14-20, it was announced today.
Rein led her team to two victories over Conference opponents North Florida and Campbell last week, earning five first-place finishes. She got her week started with a first-place finish in the 50-yard freestyle against North Florida, clocking in at 25.57. In her second event of the meet, the 100-yard backstroke, she tallied another first-place finish touching the wall at 1:00.68, nearly two seconds ahead of the second-place finisher. Against Campbell, Rein started off the meet with a first-place finish in the 200-yard freestyle with a time of 1:54.48, which also marks her new personal best. She then went on to win the 100-yard freestyle, clocking in at 53.27. She finished out the meet with a win in the 200-yard individual medley in a time of 2:08.47, which was nearly four seconds ahead of all other swimmers. Rein sits atop the CCSA in six events.
Eisenhower earned one first-place finish and one second-place finish in North Florida's meet against Florida Gulf Coast last week. In the 3-meter dive, she finished with 262.42 points, which was good for first-place and went on to come in second in the 1-meter with 235.34 points. Eisenhower sits first in the top 16 in both categories.
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The PGA and USGA presented scholarships to Avon High School students Whitney and Ricky Blakely in honor of their father, Staff. Sgt. Richard Blakely, who died serving his country in 2006.
The Legends Golf Club and its members helped to raise the funds and presented the scholarships through the Folds of Honor Foundation. The foundation is a non-profit organization that provides educational scholarships to the families of service men and women who are disabled or killed while serving their country.
Blakely was a 1990 graduate of Avon High School. He was an iron worker and served as a medic. He was a member of the Indiana National Guard's Company E 38th Main Support Battalion in Indianapolis.
Ted Bishop, vice president of the PGA and general manager of the Legends Golf Club, welcomed everyone to the Military Appreciation Day activities there. He gave a special thank you to several attendees who are currently serving in the military.
"I sit on the National Folds of Honor board and we hear so many emotional stories," Bishop said. "You always think it will get easier to hear, but it never does."
Indiana National Guard Major Gen. R. Martin Umberger served as the keynote speaker.
"I know this family well," he said. "He (Blakely) was a son, a husband, a father, and a great American patriot."
Umberger told of Blakely's service as he worked as a medic in Iraq.
"They didn't have medics in the neighborhoods and Richard said, 'I'll do that,'" he said. "They called him Doc Blakely and in early 2006 he was shot by a sniper. He survived that and found out they still needed help, so he said, 'Put me back in.' I told him he didn't have to do this, but he demanded to go. He said 'what are the chances I would be hit again?'"
But on June 6, 2006, he was killed as a result of small arms fire while on dismounted patrol near Al Khalidiyah, Iraq.
Patricia Blakely, widow of the staff sergeant and mother of Whitney and Ricky, thanked members of the club and the PGA for the generous gift.
"I cannot explain to you just how wonderful this program is," Blakely said. "They've been in touch with me since 2007. I can't tell you enough how much this is appreciated."
She said Marsha Maxwell, a staff member at Folds of Honor, has become a very good friend.
"She's almost been like a counselor to me," she said. "She's become a friend."
Blakely thanked all the members of the club, the PGA, and everyone affiliated with the program.
Whitney Blakely, 17, is a senior at Avon High School who is planning to attend IUPUI to study something in the medical field. Her brother, Ricky, 15, is a sophomore at AHS. He's planning to study law, but is undecided on a school.


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The Rams football team used a late defensive stop to knock off Carbondale 21-13 on Friday night.
"It feels good," Mt. Vernon coach Jared Shaner said. "Especially to come out in the second half and play like we did."
Drew Hester put the Rams up 21-13 with a four-yard diving touchdown run with 2:47 left in the game.
The Rams needed one last stop to top the Terriers.
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After moving the ball in big chunks, Carbondale quarterback Justin Hoffman scrambled out of the pocket and appear headed for another big game. But he fumbled the ball. Mt. Vernon's Trevor Schubert pounced on the loose ball.
Mt. Vernon ran out the rest of the clock for the win.
The game was a defensive struggle early on. Both offenses battled for control trading punts. Carbondale took a 7-0 lead into halftime.
Mt. Vernon answered in the third quarter with a pair of scores on runs from Drew Hester and Dylan Reeves to go up 14-7.
"Momentum's a weird thing," Shaner said. "You can't see it, but you sure know who has it. You can't feel it, but in the third quarter he just got it."
Carbondale scored with 7:54 left in the game to set the stage and battle for the victory late in the matchup.
Demontez Miller-Gray led the Rams with 106 yards on the ground. Hester added 92 and two scores. Reeves finished with 81 yards rushing.
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Hester was able to sack Hoffman again in the second half to hamper the Terriers offense.
Reeves finished the game two of nine for 13 yards.
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It was a blunt, honest, raw question and Deacon Greg Kandra knew it would stir deep emotions and fierce arguments among Catholic readers.
The question's originator, a Catholic mother of six, stressed that she sincerely wanted to know: "Why don't parents take screaming babies out of church?"
Nearly 200 online comments later -- with Kandra moderating comments to keep the dialogue constructive -- legions of Catholic writers are still airing their "screaming babies" differences at his "The Deacon's Bench" website and elsewhere online.
The author of the original letter added: "When I politely ask the parent of a screaming child why they refuse to leave Mass so they don't disrupt it for everyone else, they get angry at me! ... There were four screamers at the morning Mass -- every Saturday the same families show up with screaming babies AND STAY in the chapel with them! People have expressed their desire that they leave the kids at home, but they don't."
Reactions on the other side were just as harsh, with Catholics expressing anger at those who glare at parents who bring noisy toddlers to church, allowing their children to act up Sunday after Sunday.
"Jesus embraced children, folks, and so does our church," read one typical response. "If you don't want to hear them cry, the solution is not to remove the holy little ones from the church. The solution is for you to go to the 7 a.m. quickie Mass or the solemn high Mass that takes three hours. Find a Mass kids aren't going to and shut yourself up in that one."
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The United States is one of the most diverse countries on earth, jam packed full of amazing sights from St. Patrick's cathedral in New York to Mount Hollywood California.The Northeast region is where it all started. Thirteen British colonies fought the American Revolution from here and won their independence in the first successful colonial rebellion in history. Take a look at these rolling hills carpeted with foliage along the Hudson river here, north of New York City.The American south is known for its polite people and slow pace of life. Probably they move slowly because it's so hot. Southerners tend not to trust people from "up north" because they talk too fast. Here's a cemetery in Georgia where you can find graves of soldiers from the Civil War.The West Coast is sort of like another country that exists to make the east coast jealous. California is full of nothing but grizzly old miners digging for gold, a few gangster rappers, and then actors. That is to say, the West Coast functions as the imagination of the US, like a weird little brother who teases everybody then gets famous for making freaky art.The central part of the country is flat farmland all the way over to the Rocky Mountains. Up in the northwest corner you can find creative people in places like Portland and Seattle, along with awesome snowboarding and good beer. Text by Steve Smith.


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A listing of some of the events occurring in the metro area remembering the terror attacks on September 11, 2001.Atlanta
Atlanta Police and Fire marks 9/119:30 a.m.City of Atlanta Public Safety Headquarters226 Peachtree St SWAtlanta, Ga. 30303More: atlantaga.gov
Flag memorialNoonGeorgia Tech Campus225 North Ave NWAtlanta, Ga. 30332More: gatech.edu
American Flag remembrance8 a.m.Milton High School13025 Birmingham Hwy.Milton, Ga. 30004More: http://school.fultonschools.org/hs/milton/Pages/default.aspx
Newnan 9/11 Tribute9 a.m.West Court SquareDowntown NewnanNewnan, Ga. 30263More: ci.newnan.ga.usRoswellWreath-laying ceremony and moment of silence8:30 a.m.Faces of War MemorialRoswell City Hall38 Hill StreetRoswell, Ga. 30075More: roswellgov.comSuwanee World Trade Center tower relic display dedication7:30 p.m.Town Center ParkBuford Highway and Lawrenceville-Suwanee RoadSuwanee, Ga. 30024 More: suwanee.com
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Virtual Recruitment Fairs in June 2014
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6:20am Wednesday 11th June 2014 in News By Dan Sharp, Reporter
MEMBERS of the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) are due to take part in strike action on two separate occasions this month, with the first set to begin tomorrow.
Hereford and Worcester Fire and Rescue Service confirmed the first part of industrial action was to take place between 9am tomorrow and 9am Friday.
The second part of the strike will take place between 10am and 5pm on Saturday, June 21.
A dispute relating to proposed changed to firefighters' pensions between the FBU and central government has led to the action.
Area Commander Keith Chance, head of operations support for the service, said: "While the industrial action is ongoing we will still be responding to 999 calls but we will be asking members of the public to take extra steps to reduce the risk of a fire breaking out in their home.
"This is the first 24-hour strike being taken by the FBU during this dispute and we appreciate that members of the public may be concerned by this. However, I would like to reassure them that we will have plans in place to cover this strike period."
A spokeswoman for the fire service said: "This is obviously a serious situation, both for the service and for all individuals concerned, and the service hopes that there will be continued dialogue between the union and government over the coming days to prevent strike action taking place.
"If strike action takes place on these dates it will result in a significant reduction of the service's available resources.
"This reduced fire cover is likely to provide a basic service and will aim to prioritise the most urgent calls ahead of other responses.
"This plan was invoked during periods of industrial action last year and earlier this year."
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9:01am Wed 11 Jun 14
Bcfc1186 says...
12:55pm Wed 11 Jun 14
SlipperyWhenWet says...
When Benefit fraud costs the UK over £1 Billion per annum and tax avoidance £5 Billion plus, it would be far more sensible for the Government to tackle these first before making swathes of cuts that fundamentally affect public safety and the lives during service and post-retirement of those individuals willing and capable of risking their own lives for the safety and security of others.
I note today that a report criticises the move away from a fully funded and appropritely staffed full time armed forces in favour of a larger 'reservist' contingent. 70 years on from D Day, would the respondent feel that this is appropriate due to the 'global financial crisis'? I imagine not if we find ourselves under military or other threat requiring a military response - therefore why should the Fire and Rescue service be any different? When you require an emergency response you want to know it is there, immediately, appropriately funded (in all aspects) and populated with well trained, motivated and young/fit enough to rescue you, your family, your belongings, your livelihood etc etc.
We are NOT 'all in it together', that is a political myth; unfortunately there are those that would prefer to swallow the political spin rather than do their own homework.
4:25pm Wed 11 Jun 14
Andy-Apache says...
1) It is not a race to the bottom. Remember British Leyland, whose assembly line workers figured they should be paid as much as the boss? That worked out well eh?
2) They pay a lot into their pension so they can retire early. If they didn't retire early, they wouldn't pay so much per month. Seems pretty straightforward to me.
3) No.2 is a choice they made. Did it come as a surprise? Really??
4) Stop spreading the BS that they 'risk their lives for others'. The job carries risk, yes, but it's a calculated acceptable risk bound by H&S guidance. Apparently you're more likely to be injured or killed driving a taxi or HGV.
5) I'm guessing there *could* (and probably should) be some sort of re-deployment policy put in place for those who are unfit at the current retirement age to continue in a forward role.
5) Benefit fraud *is* being tackled, in a more direct way than the red side managed - albeit not as directly as I'd like, but show me a government with the kahunas to stamp it out immediately? certainly Labour! (same goes for tax avoidance - again, not as swiftly as I'd like)
6) The Fire Service are NOT the Armed Forces. Not by a LONG chalk!
5:26pm Wed 11 Jun 14
SlipperyWhenWet says...
A higher pension premium to allow earlier retirement is fine - if you can then retire early! Bear in mind that early retirement in this profession has a sound basis; it is physically arduous and early death rates post retirement are very high. The fact is that the pension costs are not reducing by the imposition of a higher normal pension age - they are in fact going up, whereas the final pension is being decreased. Hence 'work longer/pay more/get less! It is a straightforward calculation yes; the T&C's are being made worse.
The choice to join the Fire Service is no different to the choice made to work in Tesco, drive a train or become cabin crew; when you join any profession you accept it's terms and conditions, you also expect that your employer will meet their own commitments to you based on the contract you signed. It would be unacceptable for an employee to sign a 42 hour contract, then autonomously decide to only work 35 hours because petrol prices have gone up and saving a day of petrol a week makes personal sense. Put another way; if you went to MacDonalds and paid for a Big Mac, you wouldn't accept a Hamburger because of an Irish beef crisis - that's MacDonalds problem, not yours!
Your 4th point is questionable; statistics can be made to say whatever you like - they are currently being used to justify the proposed downgrade of Fire Cover in H&W. Statistics were also used as a means of downgrading Kidderminster Hospital, which was also folly because Worcester can't now cope with its patient levels. The fact remains that when YOU are running out of your housefire, THEY will be running into it. That doesn't necessarily justify a better pension, but when its your butt on fire it DOES justify an appropriately funded Service to ensure a well resources, well trained and physically able workforce - the pension arrangements are part of that 'deal'. Firefighters die - FACT - and cuts cost lives; thise of the public AND those of the crews.
There are NO redeployment opportunities for firefighters unable to do their job due to 'capability'. In a world of funding cuts the 'backroom' functions have been cut to the bone, the frontline crews are next. Part of the pensions dispute is centred on 'no job, no pension'; anyone failing to maintain the required fitness standard (and where no redeployment opportunity exists - and there aren't any remember!), can be dismissed under 'capability' - in this case they will have no income and their pension payments will be deferred until normal state pension age. That might mean being forced out at 55, with no income whatsoever until state pension age at (rising to) 68! Thats 13 years with no income or access to the pension that has been paid into.
Your final comments show which side of the political line you fall, the point being however that if ANY government tackled the issue with any force there would be no need for any of US to be footing the bill for either the 'Global Financial Crisis' or, better put, the bankers who put greed before ethics supported by their political allies.
You're right, the Fire Service is not the Armed Forces, but they both hold the front line in an emergency. You seem to be suggesting that it would be ok to pillage the pensions of one, but not the other; clearly a daft argument. I think the comparison I made was clear; there when you need them, not if you undermine or destroy them.
In simple terms, its a money-grab from a government that would rather see all of us work until we are dead, paying taxes and pumping money into pension pots for them to spend on other things instead of us costing them anything. The Fire Service pension issue is specific to them, but the tip of a giant iceberg for everyone else.
I don't know what you do for a living, but find a context in your own working life and ask youself; would you roll over and have your tummy ticled, or would you stand up and try to fend off changes that negatively affect you, your livelihood, your family and your retirement period - which you'd probably like to be as long as possible?!
5:34pm Wed 11 Jun 14
bmoc55 says...
They are p***ing into the wind if they really think their actions will change Government policy
6:00pm Wed 11 Jun 14
harryurz says...
Its not about pensions, its about dragging his union members into fighting the class war in the time honoured militant tradition of the 1960-70s.
Still, at least there will be plenty of taxis available in the town centre tomorrow
7:49pm Wed 11 Jun 14
SlipperyWhenWet says...
Also, the 'taxi' comment is hilarious. Hilarious because it demonstrates utter ignorance. (a) I'm not aware of any firefighters driving cabs on their days off (b) if they did then they wouldn't be doing it on a strike date and (c) so what if someone wants to work a 2nd job IN ADDITION to their 48 hour working week and in many cases out of economic necessity- the UK wouldn't be as badly on its backside if everyone had that sort of work ethic. Don't like it?....do the same, find another job in addition to the one you have; enjoy the extra income, compromise your work/life balance.....but it won't make one scrap of difference to your pension pot so it's an irrelevance to this thread!!
10:24am Thu 12 Jun 14
Bcfc1186 says...
10:27am Thu 12 Jun 14
Bcfc1186 says...
6:01pm Thu 12 Jun 14
SlipperyWhenWet says...
That being the case I doubt it was in any way connected with the 'über' demonstration in London - in case you were planning to pass it off as that.
6:03pm Thu 12 Jun 14
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Albion, IN - After weeks of welding and construction many staff, faculty and students from Ivy Tech Community College in Fort Wayne gathered with their families at Black Pine Animal Sanctuary on Saturday to witness a milestone event. "Tarzan", the sanctuary's resident chimpanzee, stepped foot outdoors for the first time since 2006, exploring his new outdoor space made possible largely by Ivy Tech's contributions of labor and equipment over the past few months.
Tarzan, a retired performer and the only chimpanzee known to be living in Indiana, has resided at Black Pine since 1995. In 2006 the 501c3 non-profit animal sanctuary was forced to relocate and rebuild. Tarzan and "Coby", another chimpanzee resident that sadly passed away in late 2009 due to complications of diabetes, were given a very spacious indoor house with skylights and large windows at the new site. However, the funds and labor needed to build an outdoor play space required a lot more planning and fundraising, culminating in this week's "reveal".
Though more work needs done to call the project "complete", the efforts of many in the community, including donated student labor from Ivy Tech Community College, made it possible to enable Tarzan a late fall look at the progress on his house Saturday morning.
More than 40 invited volunteers, donors, and keepers were on hand to witness the animal's first exploration of the habitat. Many were brought to tears as the chimpanzee hooted, jumped, climbed, and smiled.
Black Pine will host an open house for the public on Saturday, November 27 from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. In lieu of admission, visitors are encouraged to make free-will cash and "wish list" donations. Many items will be available for purchase for the holiday gift-giving season as well. Although weather will determine if Tarzan can come outdoors that day, many other animals will be visible including Bengal tigers, lions, leopards, bobcats, llamas, reptiles and more.
All proceeds of the open house will help fund ongoing care throughout the winter months to more than 80 rescued former "pets" and retired performers. Black Pine provides "end of life" care to displaced exotic animals and works with more than 40 volunteers in carrying out this mission.
For more information call (260) 636-7383 or visit their web site at www.blackpine.org.


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---- — You can get just about anything at the Indiana State Fair — breaded tenderloins, giant onion rings, funnel cakes and even deep-fried Snickers bars.
But for the last 67 years, you haven't been able to wash it down with a frosty beer, cold margarita or glass of wine.
A bill pending before the Senate Public Policy Committee aims to change all that. A proposal from Sen. Jean Leising, R-Oldenburg, would allow the sale of alcoholic beverages during the annual August event, repealing the ban instated in 1947 after fair visitors trashed the grounds with glass bottles.
The thought of fending off Indiana's summer heat with a cold beer in hand while perusing the fair's many exhibits and attending its concerts seems heavenly to us. After all, the fairgrounds already has a liquor license and allows alcohol to be sold there during other events. There's no reason to single out the State Fair as an alcohol-free zone.
It's also a fantastic opportunity to showcase an emerging sector of Indiana's agricultural economy — the rapidly growing beer and wine industry. The state has about 60 local breweries, with more to come, and more than 80 wineries and vineyards. How better to expose fair attendees — a record 978,000 last year — to one of the most surprising aspects of our state than by enticing them with samples and sales at the 17-day fair.
Officials do say there would be only a few designated areas where alcohol would be sold. No doubt plans would need to be devised to handle inebriated visitors — such as designated driver programs and taxi services. And every effort should be made to maintain the fair's family atmosphere.
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In summary It's time to make "throwing back a cold one" mean more than just a lemon shake-up at the State Fair.


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Rose perfected the putting celebration last fall when he blindsided Phil Mickelson on Sunday at the Ryder Cup, draining a series of lengthy putts to start Europe's historic Sunday comeback. And given that he eventually went on to win at Merion, maybe he knows what he's doing and when he's headed to a good place.
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