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American Idol fans may be able to see Aubrey Cleland on tour this summer, after all.
The local favorite from West Linn was eliminated last week, but still has a chance to snag a spot on the American Idol tour. Cleland sang her heart out in a faceoff against Charlie Askew on Thursday night, and is looking for enough votes to get her on the tour bus.
Fans can vote for their favorite singer on the American Idol website. The results will be announced March 20.
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Penn State loks to improve on its 1-0 start in the Big Ten Saturday in Happy Valley against a ranked Northwestern squad that's outplaying any and all expectations. So as always, we reached out to the foremost authority on the Lions' opposition, and Rodger over at Sippin' on Purple was more than forthcoming in offering plenty of insight. So thanks a ton, Rodger, and remember to check out Sippin' On Purple all season long to stay up to date on the Wildcats. Also, be sure to check back later this week, to read my answers to Rodger's questions about this Nittany Lion team.
Black Shoe Diaries: Northwestern comes in to this game undefeated, ranked, and off the most dominant offensive performance from any Big Ten team thusfar this season. How have fans expectations changed since the start of the year?
Sippin' On Purple: They've changed a lot, actually. When we did our season prediction thread, most people thought Northwestern would win six or seven games. I predicted six, although I was being intentionally pessimistic because I like fun surprises more than I like getting my hopes up and having them dashed into little tiny pieces. Obviously, NU would have to have a terrible collapse to finish 6-6. There was always the idea that Northwestern could start out with seven wins with a back-heavy schedule, but I don't think any of us understood how bad our non-conference opponents would be, and I don't think any of us could've possibly predicted how bad the Big Ten is. As of today, NU is undefeated and ranked, with only one ranked opponent on the seven games left. There's even talk about potentially winning the Legends Division, although there'd have to be a perfect storm for that to happen, and everybody who says that deserves to get smote a bunch of times for jinxship and not subscribing to my "predict suckitude, hope you're wrong" guide to life.
BSD: Usually, the saying goes, when you have 2 QBs you really have no QBs. But in Kain Colter and Trevor Siemian, Northwestern has 2 QBs and a slot receiver. How much of each should Penn State expect to see?
SOP: If I knew, I'd tell you. Actually, I wouldn't, because that would be a bad idea as a Northwestern fan, but my point is, I don't know. At the start of the season, I didn't think Siemian would play at all. Before last week, I thought we'd see Siemian continue to take about half the snaps - Colter's a better runner, Siemian has a stronger arm, so they'd been trading off to give teams different looks. Now, I expect to see Colter play half the time as a QB with a heavy emphasis on options and zone reads, and Siemian half the time at QB with Colter out in the slot. But Colter's a ridiculous athlete and I'm sure there's tricks somewhere up Pat Fitzgerald's sleeves. Colter's not a bad passer, runs perfect routes and has great hands, and has the speed and cutting ability to play running back. Hat-tip to Jim Harbaugh for pulling Colter's scholarship when he hurt his shoulder in high school.
BSD: Past Northwestern teams, with their spread offenses, have given Penn State a lot of trouble. How has the added dimension of a dominant running game, led by Colter and Venric Mark, turned the Wildcat offense into an elite one?
My co-writer MountainTiger broke down NU's running attack in depth the other day; as he shows, Northwestern likes to run a zone read set where defenses have to account for a) a quarterback who can throw to a talented wide receiver corps b) a running back in Mike Trumpy who can take the ball up the gut c) Colter's ability to take the ball to the outside d) a speed demon in Venric Mark. Indiana really couldn't stop that, but then again, y'know, Indiana.
There's plenty more after the jump, including Rodger's final prediction for the game.
BSD: Two games that looked like blowouts early--the wins over Syracuse and Indiana--turned into nailbiters for Northwestern. Was that a case of taking the foot off the gas, or good adjustments by the Orange and Hoosiers?
SOP: Some would say the poor second-half performances had to do with stamina: both teams ran hurry-up offenses, and both games featured NU's offense scoring relatively quickly, leaving Indiana on the field for a long time. Others would say a cruel, Northwestern-hating god torments his un-chosen people by perpetually have us go up by a large number of points - hey, remember two years ago when we were up 21-nothing on y'all? Yeah, you're not the only ones - and blow it. We were lucky enough to score a get a foolish personal foul called so we could score a touchdown on our final drive to take back a lead against Syracuse, but it wasn't as bad against Indy.
BSD: Defensively, Northwestern has been pretty vulnerable to the pass, and it looks like they'll be heading into the Penn State game without a couple pieces. How can Matt McGloin and the Bill O'Brien offense take advantage?
SOP: Most of Northwestern's pass defense problems happened in the first game, where NU gave up 470 yards - not including 60 yards of pass interference calls - to Ryan Nassib, Syracuse's all-Big East QB who threw the ball at will throughout the second half against a gassed NU defense in a 95-degree dome. Since then, Northwestern has benched cornerback Demetrius Dugar, who was in one-on-one coverage on deep balls for, let's say conservatively, 125 yards of that 470, and replaced him with Quinn Evans, a fifth-year transfer student from Stanford, who was in one-on-one coverage on deep balls for let's say, 50 yards of that. Safety Ibraheim Campbell was out for the second half against Indiana, when the Hoosiers did most of their passing, but he'll be ready for PSU. As for McGloin, I don't think he has to worry - from what's looked like a mediocre-ish career to outsiders, that dude has torched NU for six touchdowns and zero picks in two games. I'm not making that up! He's done that!
BSD: Northwestern's the ranked team, but Penn State's the favorite. How do you see this one playing out?
SOP: There's a lot of reasons for Northwestern to lose this game: we haven't won a game as a ranked team in the AP Poll since 2001 - we've been ranked SEVERAL times, we swear - we're headed on the road for the first time since Week 1 (when we barely beat an awful Cuse team) and NU hasn't started 6-0 since 1962. So I'll call a loss. 38-31, Penn State. Oh wait, field goals. Make it 35-31.
Thanks again, Rodger, and remember, check Sippin' On Purple later this week to see what I had to say when Rodger put me on the hot seat.


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A 35-year-old woman from Granby was killed in a crash in Windsor Friday morning.
Windsor police said around 10:30 a.m. a FedEx truck was stopped in the eastbound right lane of Day Hill Road and was in the process of making a delivery when a vehicle slammed into the back of it.
The force of the crash was so intense that most of the vehicle ended up under the truck.
Heather Dugas was pronounced dead at the scene. She was the only person in the vehicle.
The unidentified FedEx employee was not injured, police said.
The crash is under investigation and anyone that may have seen it should call the Windsor Police Department at 860-688-5273.
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BELLEVILLE When it comes to St. Clair County sales of delinquent property taxes, the countys biggest tax buyers based on how much money each spends per year on the purchase of late taxes get the best seats in the house, just inches from the auctioneer.
Its based on a seating chart system set up and enforced by the staff of Treasurer Charles Suarez, who oversees tax sales held in the County Board meeting room at the St. Clair County Building.
And in a verbal bidding system based on the haste with which buyers can shout out their bids, where you sit can make all the difference.
Just ask Ken Brosh, a part-time tax buyer from Mascoutah.
There is no question Ive seen other people get their bid in faster, louder, Brosh said. Nope, it always goes to the front row participants. Theres no question that front row people clean up.
Those front row people comprise a Whos Who of Illinois tax buyers: John Vassen, of Belleville; Scott McLean, of East St. Louis; Dennis Ballinger, of Decatur; John Sieron, of East St. Louis; and Barrett Rochman, of Carbondale, according to a copy of the seating chart for Novembers tax sales, which Suarez provided at the News-Democrats request.
The seating chart is based on campaign donations, Brosh said.
There is no question Ive seen other people get their bid in faster, louder, Brosh said. Nope, it always goes to the front row participants. Theres no question that front row people clean up.
Those front row people comprise a Whos Who of Illinois tax buyers: John Vassen, of Belleville; Scott McLean, of East St. Louis; Dennis Ballinger, of Decatur; John Sieron, of East St. Louis; and Barrett Rochman, of Carbondale, according to a copy of the seating chart for Novembers tax sales, which Suarez provided at the News-Democrats request.
The seating chart is based on campaign donations, Brosh said.
Everybody knows the more you donate, the better seating you get, the more your voice is heard, Brosh said.
Suarez denied campaign donations made a difference. Instead, the seating chart is based on each tax buyers level of experience and familiarity with the St. Clair County real estate market, he said.
Well give those people with the longevity, and the larger buyers, we will give them preference, Suarez said. You have to deal with these people all the time.
Even so, all donations to Suarezs re-election fund from tax buyers since 2003 a total of $22,200 came exclusively from the tax buyers that Suarez has assigned to the front row, campaign disclosure records show.
Ballinger, who gave $5,000 since 2005, was the single biggest donor to Suarez among tax buyers, the records show.
How sales work
Tax sales work like this: Each of the state's 102 county treasurers conduct sales of unpaid taxes owed to the county by property owners.
With few exceptions, these sales are conducted like reverse auctions, during which investors bid down the interest penalty rates they may charge the property owners.
These investors are buying the right to pay the unpaid property taxes. The investors make money by charging a penalty to the property owners. If the property owner doesn't pay the taxes and the penalty, the investor can take the property.
The tax buyers base their bids on the quality of the home with the late taxes, as well on the quality of the neighborhood where the house is located. Generally, the better the neighborhood, the lower the interest penalty charged the property owner.
But when a dozen bidders shout at once with the same bid, proximity to the auctioneer can make all the difference, according to Eric Cissell, a rookie tax buyer from Millstadt.
Cissell, a retired Air Force noncommissioned officer, found himself in the room's third row, on the left, during the tax sale Nov. 8.
Although no one explained to him why he was assigned his seat, he figured out the reason pretty quickly, he said.
"They place those people by knowledge and experience up front," Cissell said.
Not only does their proximity to the auctioneer give them an edge, but these big tax buyers also have multiple representatives bidding on the same properties, making it even harder for small tax buyers to bid against them, Cissell said.
"There might be three people there for the same company. They'll hand signal each other," he said, adding that as a result, "The people in the front row, yeah, they get the good properties."
Suarez defended the seating chart for tax sales. If property owners plan to redeem their taxes through payment plans, "it's much easier dealing with those local tax buyers because they understand the system, and understand the area," he said.
Suarez also denied that those who were assigned the front seats during the tax sales enjoyed an advantage over tax buyers seated further back.
"I don't hear any complaints," Suarez said. "Some people want the second row. Some people want center. Some people want to be on the right hand side. ... Who knows."
But on this point Rochman, a tax buyer accorded front row status in St. Clair County tax sales, disagreed with Suarez.
A seat close to the auctioneer does indeed give an edge to tax buyers in verbal bidding situations, said Rochman, whose firm, Sabre Group, has donated $3,000 to Suarez's campaign fund since 2004.
"Yes, absolutely there is" an advantage to being seated in the front row, Rochman said. "Because your voice will be heard."
Rochman, however, denied that his donations to Suarez had anything to do with his receiving preferential seating.
Instead, where tax buyers are assigned to during the county tax sales was about fairness, he said.
"Why should a guy who wants to bid the lowest number and maybe get that number out and maybe bid the most competitive rate, be forced to sit four rows back?" Rochman said. "And why should the guy who bids only nine items sit in the front row?"
Champaign County Treasurer Dan Welch said he's never heard of a seating chart system used in a tax sale.
"I would never do anything like that," said Welch, the president of the state county treasurers' association. "I don't even know how you'd do a seating chart."
Welch called a tax sale seating chart "an odd thing," but also acknowledged "there's an advantage to being toward the front."
State law gives almost total discretion to county treasurers in determining how they set up and oversee delinquent property tax sales.
"The law in the state of Illinois is the treasurer can conduct the sale in the style he sees fit," Rochman said.
Fred Bathon, a former Madison County treasurer, enforced a seating chart system at the tax sales he oversaw up until his resignation a year ago.
In 2006, Republican treasurer candidate Kurt Prenzler, condemned Bathon's seating chart system, alleging that Bathon, a Democratic, gave the best seats to those who gave the most money to Bathon's election fund and to a charity named after his late daughter.
Bathon called Prenzler's criticism at the time "a baseless attack and accusation" and denied any connection between front row seating and campaign donations.
"I don't care if a guy gives me something or he gives me nothing," Bathon said at the time, a few days before his re-election. "He'll get a fair shake at the tax sale."
Even so, one of the first things Frank Miles did when he was sworn in as the county treasurer in January 2010 was to end the seating chart system.
Miles enacted a series of other reforms aimed at making tax sales more transparent and fair, but Prenzler defeated him anyway in November's treasurer election.
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The stomach flu is one of the worst things to have to deal with. When the kids were really little and got it, the mound of laundry was never ending. Puke on the bed, on the couch, on the floor, on their clothes, on towels, etc. Now that they are a tad bit older and have a little more self-control, they can use a bucket or the toilet, which has made things better. My heart aches for them as their little bodies expel what seems to be every bit of their insides. But they get over it quickly and bounce back. Every family I know has a gross/hilarious story about when the stomach flu passed through their house. I thought I'd share our latest…
My girls randomly decided to sleep in the same bed. As I was getting into bed around 11p.m., I heard Aster (3) having a nightmare and she was crying pretty hard. I ran downstairs to comfort her and get her back to sleep when I noticed something wet on the blanket. I quietly woke her up and asked if her diaper had leaked. Betty (5) then sat straight up, started crying, and sobbed, "I think I did that". I then noticed a horrible smell and turned on the light. Betty had puke CAKED into her hair, clothes, pillow, and literally covering her face. I then looked at Aster (who is black and has kinky curly hair) and noticed Betty's vomit was caked in her hair as well. Do you know how hard it is to get anything out of her hair? So, I quickly got them out of bed and my husband came downstairs. Repeat of two months ago (I know, I know-I can't believe this happened twice in two months). While I got them both in the shower, he stripped the sheets and took them outside to shake off all the big chunks. He got everything in the wash; the girls were now clean, so we all headed upstairs to make a bed on the floor for the girls. With a bucket by Betty's head, everyone went to sleep. That is until 20 minutes later when I heard the bucket being used and a cry of, "MOM, help!". This continued for the next five hours, EVERY twenty minutes.
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At Camp Kingfisher each session has a theme to guide our explorations and discoveries. Each session includes ALL camp activities, especially canoeing.
What do campers do all day? What are we learning and why? At Camp Kingfisher each session has a theme, each theme has special activities and each age group has goals. We want to share all of that with you, so you can share in your camper's experience. You will receive a copy of your campers schedule on the first day of camp. Check out the Summer 2013 themes below.
Rolling on the River
"Like a swift river, an active mind never stagnates." –Author Unknown
Our watershed is a habitat bursting with life & adventure. We explore the many ways of the river, its inhabitants and how we all connect to our main source of water: the Chattahoochee River!
Wander through our Wetlands and learn about their significance and the importance of water conservation. The river is constantly changing and always has something new to discover!
Scales, Slime, and Stingers
"Any glimpse into the life of an animal quickens our own and makes it so much the larger and better in every way." -John Muir
The world is full of creatures that many people think are gross or scary. This session we will explore and expel some of the common myths about this misunderstood group of creatures. Learn all about insects, reptiles and amphibians and get ready to go crazy for creatures who aren't so creepy after all!
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Planet Protectors
"Nobody makes a greater mistake than one who does nothing because one could only do a little" – Edmund Burke
Taking care of Mother Earth is no easy feat, but that doesn't mean it can't be done by learning how to tread lightly on planet earth. Find out how humans impact the environment, and understand the harmful effects of pollution.
Investigate how plants and animals can all be affected by the waste just tossed away or the light bulb left on. Do small steps lead to big changes and ideas? You bet!!
Fast Flyers and Mighty Mammals
"An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language." -Martin Buber
Set off on an adventure to discover why mammals and birds rule! And can often be found on the top of the food chain. Where do the beaver, bald eagle, opossum and tiny screech owl fit into the pecking order? Wander our lakes, forests, and river to find the answer to this question and many more!
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Forest Homes and Hideaways
"In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks" – John Muir
There is so much life happening in our small forest! Every day there is something new to dig into from deep down in the dirt to way up high in the canopy of the tress. Learn the habitats and adaptations of all who inhabit this complex world and how diverse the forest can be! Set forth on an adventure guaranteed to uncover all the mystery that surrounds you in the forest!
Nature in a Nutshell
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Everything is alive; everything is interconnected." - Cicero
Everything is not as it seems… animals, even you and I, depend on some complex connections to survive. A snake unknowingly depends on a grasshopper, the giant oak tree depends on a tiny earthworm, and even an apple core affects the mighty great horned owl.
Explore the web of food, homes, and animals to uncover their connections and how you play a big role.
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This paper describes a model that can account for ad hoc user-responses to argument interrogative type of system-initiated questions. Successful implementation of the model can provide an alternative solution that is more effective than the menu-driven approach that has been proposed as a meager solution to enable the system to ask a question to the user. The proposed model assumes that when the system asks a question, it maintains an expectation of the potential answers. The system then uses the expectation as the focus to perform the most likely interpretation of the user's response. Without using such a focus the interpretation process could be unbounded. The interpretation process is mapped into a heuristic search problem. The interpretation process results in identifying a particular expectation-response relationship type, which the system can use to tailor its response strategy with respect to the given user-response. A prototype has been constructed to demonstrate the soundness of the proposed model.
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The following correction was printed in the Guardian's Corrections and clarifications column, Saturday 30 January 2010
Tove Jansson, part 2: As well as describing the Finnish author and artist Tove Jansson as Swedish, this review said that her novel The True Deceiver was set in a Swedish village. This error appears in a plot summary on the book's back cover; the text itself does not specify a country, and the point is reinforced in a disclaimer
After the enduring international success of her Moomintroll fantasies, the Finnish author-artist Tove Jansson, in her 60s, began to write adult fiction. It has taken a while for these books to get much attention outside Scandinavia. On the patronising assumption that books for children are nice, ie morally bland and stylistically infantile, critics, reviewers and prize juries often dismiss those who write them as incapable of writing seriously for adults a prejudice which, transferred to painting, plays a part in the plot of The True Deceiver.
Anyone familiar with Jansson knows it would be unwise to dismiss her or patronise her work on any grounds. Her books for children are complex, subtle, psychologically tricky, funny and unnerving; their morality, though never compromised, is never simple. Thus her transition to adult fiction involved no great change. Her everyday Swedes are quite as strange as trolls, and her Swedish village in winter is as beautiful and dangerous as any forest of fantasy.
If a transformation has taken place, it is in the nature of her writing. The language is more than ever spare, lean, taut, minimalist. These adjectives describe a good deal of modern narrative prose the modishly anorectic style, well suited to thrillers, police procedurals and the existential noir, but very limited in range. Jansson's range, though effortlessly controlled, is great. Her spare exactness can express not only tension and stress but deeply felt emotion, expansion, relaxation and peace. Her description is unhurried, accurate and vivid, an artist's vision. Her style is not at all "poetic" quite the contrary. It is prose of the very highest order; it is pure prose. Through its quiet clarity we see unreachable depths, threatening darkness, promised treasures. The sentences are beautiful in structure, movement and cadence. They have inevitable rightness. And this is a translation! Thomas Teal deserves to have his name on the title page with Jansson's: he has worked the true translator's miracle.
I wish I could quote whole pages, but a paragraph must do:
If it got really cold, it didn't make sense to go on working. The shed wasn't insulated, and the stove was barely able to warm it enough to keep their hands from stiffening. They locked it up and went home. But on the seaward side where the boats were launched, the doors had a latch that was easy to open. Mats would go out on the ice with his cod hook and when no one was in sight he'd go into the boat shed. Sometimes he'd go on with his work, usually details so trivial that no one noticed they'd been done. But most times he just sat quietly in the peaceful snowlight. He never felt cold.
The main characters are Anna Aemalin, a successful illustrator of children's books, and Katri, whose only love and ambition is for the younger brother left in her care, Mats, a shy, slow, gentle fellow. Then there are honest Liljeberg the boat-builder, the wise Madame Nygard, the malicious storekeeper, a little horde of village children, and Katri's dog. Nameless, silent and yellow-eyed, the dog is yellow-eyed Katri's creature. And she flatters herself on her own wolfish superiority to other people: "My dog and I despise them. We're hidden in our own secret life, concealed in our innermost wildness."
No one in the village seems to be married, and the relationship that will form between the two solitary women, Katri and Anna, is not sexual, though it is intensely passionate, fiercely unstable, destructive and transformative. Anna, far wealthier than Katri, keeps her parents' house piously unchanged, and illustrates little books for which the publisher provides the words. Her paintings are marvellously truthful depictions of the forest floor, patterns of leaf, twig, moss, lichen . . . to which she adds the cute bunnies of the publisher's texts. She spends much time answering letters from her child readers, and none in looking after her business interests. She sleeps, sleeps all winter until spring comes and she can see the living ground and paint it.
Wolfish young Katri, determined to provide security for her brother, and also the fishing boat that is his one heart's desire, fakes a robbery of Anna's house in order to make her afraid to live alone, and pushes her way into Anna's service and confidence. Before long she appears to be in full control and has thrown out all the old furniture and the comfortable lies that let Anna sleep. But Anna, awake now, is not the bunny-rabbit she seemed, any more than Katri is truly the wolf. The unfolding of their story through vivid contrast and interplay of truthfulness and deceit, purity and complexity, ice and thaw, winter and spring, makes the most beautiful and satisfying novel I have read this year.
This article was amended on Monday 14 December 2009. The original referred to Tove Jansson as Swedish. This has been corrected.
Guardian review
the guardian Sat 07 November 2009
In 1962 Tove Jansson published a story for children called "The Spring Tune", featuring Snufkin, the peripatetic musician of the Moomin stories. "'It's the right evening for a tune,' Snufkin thought. 'A new tune, one part expectation, two parts sadness and, for the rest, just the great delight of walking alone and liking it.'" As he settles down to compose, he is disturbed by a small creature, a "creep", which rustles out of the undergrowth, declares its admiration for the famous Snufkin, asks him a lot of questions, and demands attention and comfort.
Meanwhile, the tune, which until then had been forming itself out of the noises of forest and brook and the slow revelations of the season, disappears. Snufkin has to wait for it to come back. Never underestimate Jansson, who never ever underestimates her reader. This story for eight-year-olds is a sharply pertinent discourse on the relationships between art, nature, fame and identity, a discussion of the place and role of the artist and of the mysterious sources of creativity.
It could be said that everything she wrote is, in one way or another, about the creative interactions between art and reality or art and nature.
Tove Jansson was born an artistic child of bohemian Finnish artists. Her mother, Signe Hammarsten, was one of Finland's best-known artists, designers and book illustrators; her father, Viktor Jansson, was a celebrated sculptor. Jansson herself became well known in her 30s for her Moomin tales and illustrations, which eventually made her world-famous. Because she was and is so recognised for her children's literature, her adult fiction, which she began writing in her early 50s (she died in 2001, aged 86) has tended to be overlooked, but in her last three decades the 11 books she wrote were all for adults. The UK republication of The Summer Book (1972) in 2003, followed by a selection of her short stories, The Winter Book, in 2006, and the first publication in English of her final novel, Fair Play, in 2007, has been revelatory for her English-speaking readership. That there can still be as-yet untranslated fiction by Jansson is simultaneously an aberration and a delight, like finding buried treasure, especially when the translator is as well suited to her resonant, minimal style as Thomas Teal (who was also the original English translator of The Summer Book in the 1970s). The True Deceiver is another fortunate first, and it is an unassuming, unexpected, powerful piece of work.
If the Moomins are Jansson's most celebrated legacy a community of inventive, big-nosed, good-natured beings who survive, again and again, the storms and existentialism of a dark Scandinavian winter through simply being mild, kind, inclusive and philosophical what will happen when a real community is put in its place? What will the outcome be when Jansson tackles, naturalistically, the life of a tiny hamlet in a dark, wintry landscape and in a book so close to real local life that the original Swedish publication carried a disclaimer saying it was in no way based on any real place, nor its characters on anybody living?
A novel about truth, deception, self-deception and the honest uses of fiction, The True Deceiver is almost deadpan in its clarity and seeming simplicity, and is at heart one of her most mysterious and subtle works. First published in 1982, it was her third novel specifically for adults. Her biographer, Boel Westin, records that she had great difficulty with it. "Its unsparing view of life," Westin comments, "is, in fact, one of the characteristics of her adult books." Jansson herself commented on how "stubbornly, labororiously" she had worked on it. There's no doubting the oppressiveness of the conditions under which her characters have to live and work. "The winds had risen. It pressed snow against the windows with a powerful whispering that had followed the people of the village for a long, long time. Between squalls there was silence."
It begins with the disarming simplicity that characterises the whole novel. "It was an ordinary dark winter morning, and snow was still falling. No window in the village showed a light." It's a book about a dark place, where snow creates a kind of claustrophobia, where "paths filled with snow as quickly as they were shovelled out", and where "people woke up late because there was no longer any morning". By paragraph two the censoriousness of small community life has set in. "It's still snowing and there she goes again," the unnamed narrator comments about Katri. Katri and her brother, Mats, are clearly not liked in the village. He's too "simple" and her eyes are the wrong colour. Worse, they aren't properly "local".
The novel's voice is flat and exact, a kind of reportage, which shifts, seamlessly and suddenly, into Katri's own voice, making it unclear who the first narrator is and unsettling all notions of objectivity. By the end of the chapter, we know that this book, concerned with locality, money, winter, wildness, social unacceptability and power, will also be about whether there's such a thing as objectivity. Objectivity and truth are Katri's obsessions. Her refusal of social niceties, her honesty, her silences and her bluntness have made the villagers uncomfortable and deeply hostile towards her, but made her peculiarly trusted and given her a great deal of power in the community.
Is this also going to be a book about class and hierarchy? Within five short pages, Katri is standing looking at the local big house, which surreally resembles a giant rabbit's face, and is owned by an artist, Anna Aemelin, who lives there "all by herself, alone with her money". Her motives are clear: she and Mats are going to move into that house. The book begins on the projected standoff, dog versus rabbit, "the real story of Anna and Katri" in other words, the standoff of "real" versus "story". At its heart is a battle that promises to be savage.
Katri wants an obliterating purity "I wish the whole village could be covered and erased and finally be clean" she is a personification of wintriness. Her opponent, Anna Aemelin, has no foothold on winter and is a being particularly associated with spring. "It was winter, and she never worked until the first bare earth began to show." Her art is dependent on the spring, and it almost feels, sometimes, as though the spring may be dependent upon her art. She's also a person practically disconnected from the village, an ageing child living in a veritable museum to her parents, and a famous artist, who draws forest floor pictures known the world over for their authenticity, then takes these "implacably naturalistic" pictures and adds lots of very unnaturalistic flowery rabbits, for which she is equally world-renowned, especially among small children. Who is the true deceiver here? And how does deception relate to truth? The novel, with its village full of mundane cheats and charlatans, is a philosophical confrontation between Katri's cynicism and Anna's aesthetic sensibility. Is there such a thing as kindness? Or is there only "the whole sloppy, disgusting machinery that people engage in with impunity all the time everywhere to help them get what they want, maybe an advantage or not even that, mostly just because it's the way it's done, being as agreeable as possible and getting off the hook"? What are flowery rabbits (or, it might be added, Moomins) actually for? Or is it Anna who's right, that the paying of attention to people's needs, though "a pretty rare thing," is a natural and uncynical part of being human? She knows what is expected of her, and she acts on it, just as she knows her own lie and finds it tiresome. But "Things are not always that simple." Katri, on the other hand, knows exactly what "simple" means. She has seen and destroyed the snow figures the village children have made in spiteful likeness of her and her "simple" brother.
Jansson's own texts are always honed to perfection, given a lightness that proves deceptive, an ease of surface which, like ice over a lake, allows you rare access to something a lot riskier and more profound. "Rarely do books give as clear an impression as yours that they have simply matured to the point of inevitability," Jansson's editor at Bonnier, her Swedish publisher, wrote to her when she was struggling with difficult work; in many ways, The True Deceiver is a book about artistic maturation as well as human coming of age.
Is this an autobiographical portrait? Jansson herself commented, at the time of The True Deceiver's first publication in Swedish: "Every serious book is a kind of self-portrait." This overexcited reviewers, who decided to see the book, a subtle and calibrated work, in the simplified and reductive terms which "autobiographical" almost always means. But the hopelessly innocent Anna Aemelin, totally at a loss with the commercial spinoffs from her flowery rabbits, is laughably far from the sharp-eyed Jansson, who could write so acridly and merrily (as she did in her short story "Messages") about the flurry of requests that came in from companies and individuals concerning her "product". Jansson knew the responsibility and surreality of her position, which could result in a request like the one from a company that wanted to use her tiny anarchist figure, little My, on "a discreet new mini sanitary towel" (she said a discreet no) directly alongside one from a reader asking for a drawing of Snufkin "that I can have tattooed on my arm as a symbol of freedom".
One of its most haunting moments is when Anna, looking through reams of her parents' old correspondence, trying to find a portrait of herself as a girl, discovers that she was hardly there. She realises that she became "a painter of the ground" only after both her parents were dead and buried in it. It is a deeply poetic work, and such images, like that of the dog that finally runs mad, or the pile of rubbish left on the surface of the frozen lake all the piled-up ephemera of Anna Aemelin's life, which will sink when the spring comes and the ice melts are pervasive. On the surface, this is very much a book about how to survive, as well as how to deal with what surfaces in lives, over time.
The True Deceiver is the opposite of charming and deliberately so. But this novel's presentation of itself as a tough and unresolving work is a kind of deception in itself. "There are no real answers to what is right and what is wrong," Boel Westin concludes. That's one possible reading of the novel. But look at its deep understanding of human surreality and sadness, and at Jansson's vision of the epic qualities inherent in all small things. Though meticulous in its rejection of sentimentality, it demonstrates, alongside all the cruelty, a wealth of small, real acts of kindness. By the end, its two fixed protagonists, Anna and Katri the two opposite poles of its "real story" have learned to shift position. This change doesn't come without fracture ice will break in the melt. All the same, at the end of this mysterious novel, both women have changed their old tunes for new. It is one of Jansson's most deceptively quiet, most astonishing compositions.


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Colerain Township Trustee president Dennis Deters said he's received at least five complaints about the dogs from residents in recent weeks. That follows an incident last month in which Colerain Township Police Officer Steven Karwisch was bitten by a stray pit bull and eventually shot and killed the dog.
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Press Releases
Daughter Recalls Zeidler's Life
October 3, 2012
The reflections of Jeanne Zeidler on the life of her father, one of Milwaukee's most respected mayors, will be presented in a one-hour special, The FRANK P. ZEIDLER MEMORIAL LECTURE, on Milwaukee Public Television.
The presentation includes a variety of photos from family albums and archives. The program will premiere on MPTV HD 36.1 Sunday, Oct. 21, at 3 p.m. and will be repeated on MPTV HD 10.1 on Monday, Oct. 22, at 11 p.m.
MPTV recorded the presentation, which marked the 100th anniversary of the former mayor's birth on Sept. 20, at Milwaukee Public Library's Centennial Hall.
"One hundred years after his birth, Frank Zeidler's legacy remains remarkably fresh and relevant. He was a tireless advocate of social, economic and racial justice, including ensuring adequate health care, housing and educational opportunities," said Jeanne Zeidler. She is a former mayor of Williamsburg, VA and currently the president and CEO of Williamsburg Community Health Foundation.
Milwaukee's last Socialist mayor, Frank Zeidler served in that post from 1948 to 1960. He remained active in the community for many years until his death in 2006.


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Oak Ridge church votes to sell to developers
OAK RIDGE — An Oak Ridge church congregation has voted to sell its high-profile site near the city's busiest intersection to make way for a planned grocery store and retail project.
In a vote following Sunday services, the Oak Ridge Unitarian Universalist Church's 250 members accepted developers' offer to buy the church's 3.6 acres at the corner of Oak Ridge Turnpike and Robertsville Road, according to a news release today.
The site, where the church has stood since 1956, is adjacent to a planned $30 million project on the corner of the turnpike and Illinois Avenue, which will be anchored by a nearly 132,000-square-foot Kroger Marketplace, along with more than 12,000 square feet of retail space and several out-parcels for other stores.
The sale, for an undisclosed sum, is contingent on Oak Ridge City Council's approval of the developers' rezoning request, which is set for the first of two votes Oct. 8.
Two now-vacant motels, a Mexican restaurant and 55 homes also will be razed for the 25-acre development.
"The process to get to the vote has been a wonderful opportunity for a vibrant faith community to reflect on its value and priorities, to discern how we could best continue the legacy of serving the city we love throughout this century and beyond," the Rev. Jake Morrill said in the news release.
Church leaders have yet to announce relocation plans.
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Just about every community has a landfill these days in which to pitch things that are no longer used. The existence of a "dump" as it is colorfully called, has been an well-used part of metropolitan support networks for years.
So have the waste transport companies that fulfill the unsavory job of picking up and transporting our trash to the dump. Companies like Waste Management, which provides services in 48 states, as well as Puerto Rico and Canada, have made a successful industry out of facilitating that service. With yearly revenues of $13.6 billion and a net income of $817 million, WM is #200 on Fortune's 500 this year (up from 203 in 2012).
This advance may be due, in part, to WM's careful management of assets and services, but it is also proof of the fact that most communities still use the landfill to get rid of unused and discarded items.
Replacing landfills with zero waste programs
And WM has been thinking about that recently. In May, it announced that it was offering its customers services that would help them attain Zero Waste validation through Underwriter Laboratories' Environment (UL Environment) program. According to WM, the program helps customers attain a "streamlined route to pursuing validation" by providing "intermediate benchmarks" toward the ultimate goal of zero use of landfill services.
Many communities have already started moving away from the use of communal landfills by establishing a multi-faceted system for recycling and reusing materials. These programs, such as the one we reported on in March that is gearing up in Vancouver, BC Canada, strive toward a waste diversion rate of 100 percent. Attaining that, notes WM, often takes years, but can be accomplished in gradual stages. WM's program works with communities to convert their refuse program away from the landfill concept to a recycle, reuse and compost system that WM continues to manage.
Zero waste validation benchmarks
According to UL Environment, its validation services are broken into three levels, depending upon the success the community or company has made in attaining complete waste diversion. Applicants must undergo a two-part audit process by UL Environment before being awarded any of the three validation levels. Communities can meet those three benchmarks in stages, at their own pace.
WM partnering with UL Environment is only one of several steps it has taken recently to increase its visible support of its customers' sustainability goals. In June it announced that it would be partnering with designer Bill McDonough in a new initiative that would be geared toward making products and packaging more recycle-friendly.
Product and packaging redesign means less landfill
"This is a unique new avenue for innovation," McDonough said in a joint press release. "What we have previously thought of as 'waste streams' can be transformed into positive, safe, healthy resource reuse systems that bring value to their communities in many forms."
McDonough referred to the initiative as "designing up from the dumpster," by integrating change into packaging and product design so they can be recycled, reused or composted after their use.
"Working together, we will use the tools of design, science and principled business practices in collaboration with manufacturers, retailers, distributors, consumers and recyclers of products and packaging to profitably work toward eliminating the very concept of waste."
The WM-McDonough design initiative, and WM's partnership with zero-waste validation programs that increase the visibility of green companies, communities and organizations are two smart ideas that hopefully will make it easier for communities to dump the landfill concept.
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Non-specific urethritis (NSU), refers to inflammation of the urethra (the tube through which urine passes).
How is Non-specific urethritis (NSU) contracted?
In most cases it is a sexually transmitted disease that is passed on from an infected person during anal, oral or vaginal sex.The incubation period is highly variable but is thought to be between one week and one month. Very rarely non-specific urethritis can be caused by excessive friction during masturbation or sexual intercourse or an allergic reaction to soap or detergents or even excessive alcohol intake.
Time between infection and symptoms of NSU
Symptoms can happen at the time of infection or many months later. As symptoms can be very mild symptoms may be ignored. Up to 50% of men have no symptoms at all. Non-specific urethritis can also occur many years into a relationship.
Signs symptoms Non-Specific urethritis
Diagnosis for NSU
If you have symptoms, have been in sexual contact with someone who has been diagnosed with non-specific urethritis, or feel you need a general sexual health check-up then the tests are simple. A swab taken from the tip of the penis and or a urine test will look for evidence of infection. None of the tests are painful and the results are often available immediately.
Treatment for Non-specific urethritis
Treatment is with antibiotics. A seven day course or single dose type antibiotic can be prescribed. It is important to take the full course of medication. Tell you doctor if you are allergic to any antibiotics. Symptoms may persist for a few days after taking the single dose antibiotic.
How can I prevent giving NSU to my sexual partner?
You should not have penetrative sex (where the penis enters the vagina, mouth or anus) at all. Get a follow-up check to make sure you are clear of infection before you have penetrative sex. You should accompany your sexual partner for a medical consultation.
Follow-up for NSU Non-specific urethritis
It is advisable if you are sexually active to have regular sexual health check-ups.Using a condom for vaginal, anal or oral sex is an important way to avoid passing on sexually transmitted diseases. ComplicationsIf you do not treat NSU it can cause reduced fertility. Untreated, Reiters syndrome may occur the features of which are inflammation of the joints, eyes, urethra, sometimes with sores on the penis or soles of the feet. Inflammation of the testicles may also occur. It can also increase the chances of passing on HIV infection as breaks in the mucous membrane (the barriers) of the urethra increase the HIV cells in that area.
Can reinfection with NSU recur?
Yes, non-specific urethritis can recur. You build up no immunity to this sexually transmitted disease.


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Provided by The Salvation Army
With less than a week until Christmas, The Salvation Army is hopeful that the community of Lubbock will come to their aid and give a little extra at the red kettle this week.
The Red Kettle Campaign is the main fundraiser of the year for The Salvation Army and every dollar raised is used directly to support local programs and services. During the last twelve months more than 18,000 individuals received emergency assistance of some kind from The Salvation Army in Lubbock, many of them looking for help at crisis points in their lives when they had no-where else to turn. The Salvation Army Shelter provided over 15,000 nights of shelter to men, women, and children who otherwise would have been out on the streets. More than 62,000 meals and 5,000 food boxes have been distributed to families and individuals who needed help just to put food on the table until their next pay check.
"In today's economy The Salvation Army is experiencing an increase in the number of people coming to us for assistance at the same time as a decline in donations," explained Major Tim Grider. "Indeed, for perhaps the first time, we are serving some people who have been regular donors and supporters of the Army in the past, but are now finding in necessary to come to us seeking assistance. We can only help in these emergency situations thanks to the generous support of the people of Lubbock."
This year's annual Red Kettle Campaign is shorter by a vital five days due to the lateness of the Thanksgiving holiday on the calendar. This, as well as the unexpected spell of winter weather in Texas, has significantly impacted the Army's fundraising. Donations coming in between now and the end of the year are critically important to The Salvation Army's ability to meet needs right here in your community.
Your Red Kettle Donations - big or small - will help The Salvation Army, throughout all of 2014, provide needed assistance such as meals to the hungry, shelter to the homeless, basic social services to the needy, and programs to assist and rehabilitate.
The Salvation Army is encouraging the public to donate generously to the red kettles found on street corners, in malls, and at local retailers, or online at www.salvationarmylubbock.org. Donations can also be mailed to your local Salvation Army center at 1111 16th Street or given by phone at 806-765-9434.
Please don't forget to give at The Salvation Army red kettles this season.
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Well, 20th Century Fox certainly aren't changing up the game plan too much. Just like they did last year, with their summer tentpole "X-Men: First Class," the studio is going to make sure that before June arrives we get at least a few hundred images, probably a dozen clips and god knows what else for "Prometheus." And yeah, it drives us fucking bananas but here we are posting about it. The irony is rich, we know.
Anyway, this spiritual sequel to "Shame" takes place in the future where Brandon is now an android, but continues to be subservient to the women in his life, this time played by Noomi Rapace and Charlize Theron. That's what "Prometheus" would be about if we were writing it, but as you know it's about a bunch of people who go to space to find the origins of humanity and then "CUT IT OFF! CUT IT OFF! THERE WON'T BE A HOME TO GO BACK TO AGGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" All in 3D too.
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Sara | May 12, 2012 11:46 AM
They are doing just like they did at X-men first class. Which IMO is bad,... because I feel like I know all the movie. I think they are worried,.. but I believe will be a sucess.
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Someone | May 11, 2012 11:50 PM
Just like Dark Knight Rises, all these pictures look exactly the same to me.
Fred | May 11, 2012 9:03 PM
I count the days and hours until its release, but for the apparently rare if not dying breed of film nut who wants to know as little going in as possible, Fox's barrage is going to make for a long month of looking the other way.
Jane | May 11, 2012 7:26 PM
I don't really understand the bitching about tons of trailers/photos. It doesn't seem like they're giving away plot points. I know you have to cover it & the mass amount creates more work for you, but this stuff isn't really for you, it's for the hard core fans who geek out over it. It's not a bad strategy.
Anway, I would totally watch a film about the Brandon-sexbot, forced to serve his sexy mistresses.
James Toburen | May 11, 2012 4:03 PM
20th Century Fox is taking a huge risk in releasing this movie with an R rating instead of the more audience-friendly PG-13, so I'm guessing their marketing gurus are absolutely saturating the media to ensure as wide an audience as possible knows about this movie. Unfortunately, as people who eat, breathe, and live for this stuff, you're being force-fed an "All Prometheus All the Time" diet, but I hope that the advertising pays off (and that the movie delivers). That's the only way we're going to see more of Ridley Scott's uncompromised work in this genre.