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So just how does a parent like me prevent his or her child from using drugs, anyway? I don't want her to hate me, and I don't want to always be fighting with him.And I can't be there with her all the time. But I don't want anything to happen to him, either. Help!
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The lax world is talking about a new John Grant Jr MLL Record, and it has to do with him passing Kevin Leveille as the all-time leading goal scorer in Major League Lacrosse. Junior entered the game with 276 goals, and needed just one to tie Leveille at 277. Instead, John Grant Jr dropped four goals (and four assists!) to move to 280 total goals, and set a new MLL record.
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Eshkol, Eshkolot, Booknik, Knizhniki, Sefer, JAM, MATCH, TaL AM, Jewish day schools, summer camps, Shabbatonim, and more.
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Created in 2005 in response to the large number of participants at events on Jewish themes that were organized in Moscow's intellectual clubs and cafés, Eshkol conducts monthly programs focusing on Jewish culture, literature, Jewish-themed family plays, and book readings, as well as monthly screenings of Israeli films and performances by Israeli and local Jewish artists, theater productions and music presentations.
These events, all of which take place at various Moscow clubs and cafés, have an average of 60 to 150 participants per session, and attendance at related "Eshkolit" mini-programs for families continues to grow.
Based on detailed feasibility studies and the successful piloting of a number of "taste of Jewish study" activities in 2008 and 2009, the Eshkolot program was launched in 2010.
While still in its beginning stages, Eshkolot continues to expand and is attracting a growing number of participants to programs that are divided into four primary areas:
• large monthly learning events, led by prominent speakers;
• mini-series events, composed of two or three monthly text-based study seminars with greater immersion in specific subject areas;
• Eshkolot Jewish Study Festivals – six annual events relating directly to the Jewish calendar;
• monthly study group cycles focusing on the study of one specific Jewish text, facilitated by Russian-speaking Jewish educators and moderators.
All Eshkolot programs are videotaped, and live-stream video enables those not physically present at the events to participate from home or the office.
Booknik is a Russian-language Internet portal focusing on the full gamut of Jewish life and thought: Jewish and Israeli history, religion, society and ideas, Jewish literature, art, music and culture, Jewish people and places, Jewish philosophy and ethics, with a separate section for children and family reading.
Since Booknik's launch in July 2006, monthly visitor traffic (based on Google Analytics) has grown from 6,000 monthly visitors to a combined total of over 800,000 visitors per month.
For more than 70 years, the literary treasures of the Jewish people were unavailable to virtually any reader in the Soviet Union.
Political repression forced generations of Jewish scholarship and literature underground.
The vibrant world of Jewish life, history and ideas was painfully, systematically and mercilessly sliced away from Soviet society and identity.
Today, the Russian-reading public remains largely unaware of this scholarship and culture.
To address the critical need of opening closed, forgotten and often unknown pages of Jewish literature and thought and making them widely available, Knizhniki Publishers and Book Distribution Center was founded in 2005.
Knizhniki publishes works of fiction, nonfiction, academic literature, illustrated books for children on Jewish themes, classical Jewish literature, pearls from the world of Yiddish, and books on Jewish and Israeli history, including books by Haim Grade, Sholem Aleichem, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Saul Bellow and Meir Shalev.
Outside the university programs in Moscow and St. Petersburg, since 2003, Avi Chai has provided significant funding toward Sefer, an academic umbrella organization uniting scholars, young researchers, and graduate and undergraduate students of academic Jewish studies from across the former Soviet Union. Sefer organizes oneweek schools in a number of regions of Jewish significance, arranges academic conferences on Jewish studies, publishes several annual academic publications with recently conducted research, sends academics and junior faculty to teach minicourses at universities across the FSU, and directs Eshnav, a three-week study program at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem for select students and junior faculty.
Since 2003, enrollment in the Sefer schools and programs has increased from 350 to 600 students a year, with conducted evaluations pointing to the academic quality and importance of the organization's programs and activities.
Sefer, which is housed at Russia's Academy of Sciences, remains the only program of its kind in the FSU and is often the only opportunity for FSU students to pursue their academic Jewish study research and interests – as well as to network with others who share these interests.
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High school students attending local Jewish day schools across the FSU receive ongoing training, educational seminars, materials and a large educational component to further strengthen their Jewish knowledge. They receive training in psychology, methodology and leadership.
The goal of the program is to create a cadre of young, well-educated and active local Jewish leaders to avoid having to rely on foreign Jewish leaders who are less attuned to the Russian way of thinking.
MATCH is a new program geared toward encouraging locals to contribute to the costs of running Jewish programs in schools. Avi Chai, together with a group of major donors, has created a matching system by which those donors will contribute 50 percent of any gift above $10,000 to support the 50 schools across the FSU, and which benefits 12,000-14,000 students.
TaL AM
Since the beginning of Avi Chai's philanthropic activity in the FSU, supporting programs that seek to strengthen and enhance Jewish day schools, youth activities, and the structured study of the Hebrew language has been at the forefront of their efforts. These programs include support for a wide variety of informal Jewish experiences in 25 Jewish day schools in nine FSU cities.
Jewish day schools
Expanding from six schools with 87 students in the initial pilot year (2007-08), the number of schools using TaL AM for their Hebrew-language and Jewish studies instruction now totals 15, with 686 pupils in the first to third grades. Based on the evaluation methodology devised for TaL AM, these pilot pupils show a growing proficiency in the Hebrew language and display much enthusiasm for TaL AM classes. These initial accomplishments are especially important in an environment where exciting students about their Hebrew and Jewish studies classes is a growing challenge, with many parents often finding these subjects foreign and academically unnecessary for their children's education. The expanded pilot has also created a buzz in other Jewish day schools in the FSU, with many requests to bring TaL AM to their classrooms.
Summer camps
Avi Chai's initial exploration of Jewish life in the FSU identified Jewish overnight summer camping as a powerful mode of informal Jewish education. The existing programs suggested their potential to serve as catalysts for young Jews to become more active in, and connected to, Jewish life, as well as excellent recruitment tools for organized Jewish programs and local Jewish day schools. Away from the preoccupations of daily life, these camps, sponsored by community centers, youth organizations and day schools throughout the FSU, would provide thousands of young Jews with an immersion in Jewish study and living, reaching the unaffiliated in a way that few programs could.
At the same time, it was clear that there was much room for enhancement of the Jewish educational programs of these camps. Many of the counselors were poorly prepared for their roles as camp counselors and educators, a structured educational theme was lacking in most camps, and there was little focus on follow- up activity beyond the camp program.
Over the course of approximately five years, Avi Chai supported a number of educational training seminars and initiatives to try and enhance the Jewish knowledge and activity of FSU camp leadership.
Numerous Shabbaton (Jewish weekend retreat) programs have taken place, with an estimated 3,250 participants in the 25 schools eligible for this grant in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kazan, Rostov, Novosibirsk, Kiev, Kharkov, Odessa, Zhitomir, Lugansk, Donetsk, Dniepropetrovsk and Riga. In addition, there are many other programs, including 25 extended-day programs with bar/bat mitzva preparations, Jewish school newspapers, inter-school Jewish musical performances and the expansion of in-school Jewish libraries open to parents and children.
A new development of this grant is the initiation of a program that provides educational support and training for high-school students who express interest in being Shabbaton and Jewish retreat leaders. Piloted in five schools three years ago, this program includes the development of thematic games, informal Jewish resources and program materials, ways of using books on Jewish themes to lead session discussions, the creation of a data bank of batei midrash (Jewish study halls) – in this case employing Jewish texts with a combination of music, art, theater, and dance mediums – educational materials for informal Jewish programs, and a leadership training component.
Supervised by a number of local Jewish educators, many high-school students have taken part in training seminars thus far, with a committee of school teachers, principals, students and educators continuing to develop this program.
Online Russian courses
Avi Chai supports 28 online courses on Jewish life, culture and textual study.
Three of the courses are digitized with search capabilities.
Academic improvement
A total of 25 teachers and academic tutors (of various subjects) receive monthly salary enhancements in four schools that have been carefully selected based on their track record of academic accomplishment and a leadership committed to improving the respective schools' academic standing. Growing numbers of students from these schools compete in inter-school and inter-country academic Olympics and receive academic tutorials to prepare them for university entrance exams, with several students scoring tuition-free spots at prestigious universities due to the excellence of their entrance test scores.
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Last night, Twitchy brought you updates from the #RomneyOhioMegaRally that drew 30,000 supporters to West Chester, Ohio to see the GOP candidate "lose ugly" and "close angry" in front of a "low energy" audience (according to Obama campaign staffers and an AP reporter, that is). Tonight, Romney appeared before a crowd of 18,000 in Englewood, Colo.
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Mitt Romney's eyes appear to tear up as he looks out at crowd in Englewood, Colo.—
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It's the perfect time of year to give thanks, and a small group of students from Wheeling Park High School are showing just how thankful they are, but for different reasons.
Almost one year ago the country was rocked after a gunman took several lives at Sandy Hook School in Connecticut. Since then, the students have taken it upon themselves to improve their community, by volunteering their time across the Ohio Valley.
"We've been doing this since the shooting and for us it's a great way to remember the lives that were taken, plus its nice to help people," said Caitlyn Taylor.
The idea to help started in Mark Fetty's homeroom, when a simple idea evolved into something much more. Fetty told WTRF.com "Its truly incredible what this has turned into. Its really a credit to these students for sticking to it.'
In addition to helping at the Wheeling Soup Kitchen, the students have donated their time once a month at several non-profit organizations across the Ohio Valley and there's no plan to stop anytime soon.
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I just got Lightroom 5 and have never used it before. I'm very familiar with Photoshop, so I'm not concerned about figuring out the methods of editing photos. My questions are about organization (including what to do with photos already on the computer). Has anyone found a good video that explains these basic issues? I've watched a few videos on YouTube, but there was a lot of conflicting information. Thanks very much for any help you can provide.
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I'm sure there are lots of videos and opinions on the best way to organize photos but everyone's brain works differently and spend some time thinking about how you think and would want to recall specific photos. I personally use a vault->year->month-year->month-date-year->image where the image is yearmonthdate_hourmin_sequence.{nef,jpg}. keywording is your friend.
for images already on the computer, pick where your new 'vault' will be and *copy* them there (via LR's import dialog). you'll want to copy them because you can rest assured you'll change your method of storage (the hierarchy) so all you need to do is blow away the vault and re-import. You'll want a backup strategy too.
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YouTube the Lightroom channel . That has many very good (short
) videos about many aspects of LR . Don't just look at the LR 5 videos either . Many (most) things from earlier versions still carry over in much the same way .
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i found these videos to be very useful:
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Thanks for the responses -- very helpful!
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Consider whether or not you want other software to access your photos. e.g. there is merit in letting Nikon software find all of the Nikon shots together, and Canon software find all of the Canon shots together, so that you can use them to reveal info that Lr and Ps will not (such as the active focus sensors). These programs look better when they are not full of blank boxes representing the other brands photos. The best way to achieve this is to retain some sort of folder structure for the photo collection.
Then you'll get conflicting info about organisation because different users may have very different needs. e.g. One shoots specific events whereas another shoots a bit of everything and anything.
At this point you are probably ready to Import/Add your photos into Lr. This will leave them wherever they are whereas Import/Move will put them where Lr wants to put them and you'll lose control of your folder structure.
Once you have imported your photos into Lr you should absolulutely avoid shifting any of them with any other software, including the operating system tools. This will prevent breaking the link between the photos and the Lr catalog, which does not expect them to be moved.
It pays to have one folder on each drive that all of the photos sit beneath in whatever subfolder arrangement you think will work. That's because if you ever have to retrieve the photos from a backup or transfer them to a different drive then you will only have to tell Lr where that parent folder is and it will find all of the photos. Otherwise you have to tell Lr many times where various photos are.
I choose to not use sidecar files and in fact I actively delete them. I rely on the facts that (a) Lr keeps all of that info and more in its catalog and (b) I have lots of backups of the catalog on various drives. Sidecar files slow down Lr - especially on hard drives - because they require the drive heads to be shifted away from where the photos are, particularly in later edits after other files have been written to the drive.
I also maintain a single Lr catalog with all of the photos because this gives Lr (and therefore me) the best chance of finding whatever I want to find. Lr can only use one catalog at a time but it can cover multiple drives.
In terms of finding and organising photos within Lr you have control over the use of keywords, collections, ratings and labels. Lr will automatically find most of the metadata that already exists within digital camera files, and that data will get you going until you set up and apply the others. That extra data allocation and entry gobbles up time but later on it will save you heaps of time too.
With regard to keywords, start simple and add complexity only when you feel it is necessary. Chances are that you don't really need to use keywords to find one and only one relevant photo because if it finds 10 or 20 then it is still easy to pick the one that you need. However, finding 10 or 20 still makes life a lot easier than having Lr find hundreds or thousands because you didn't use any keywords at all.
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My own folder structure is based on camera model and then a rating number. That way any software can find all photos from a particular camera and find the best of them.
I rename all photos during or before import into Lr as follows:
That's for the camera model, year, month, day and time of capture, camera folder number and image number (which combine to tell me the long term photo count).
This info is available to any software and myself just by looking at a folder contents.
I used to add comments at the end but I found that prevents the Lr renaming tool from finding the image number.
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Alan 321 has a lot of really great info there. Read it slowly and let it all sink in. One point of clarification though. When using the import/move function, LR will only move the photos where you tell it to. There will be a default location, I believe, but you can tell it to put the pics wherever you want.
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JimRU wrote
I just got Lightroom 5 and have never used it before. I'm very familiar with Photoshop, so I'm not concerned about figuring out the methods of editing photos. My questions are about organization (including what to do with photos already on the computer). Has anyone found a good video that explains these basic issues? I've watched a few videos on YouTube, but there was a lot of conflicting information. Thanks very much for any help you can provide.
Can'thelp you with a video because all the ones I looked at were not that good. I do look at Laura Shoe's site because I find her very good at explaining things in video format.
What I've used extensively is Scott Kelby's books on LR. His writing style is very good and he gives you what he does. He also explains in detail file and folder structure and what to do with images already on your computer. I would recommend looking at his book on LR 5.
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As mentioned, how you organize is a personal thing. The use of Lightroom is not relevant to this. You should have the files organized in a logical way, independent of the application. Although the camera based structure Alan described works for some, for most it just complicates things. LR does not care what camera you use.
LR has powerful search functions that allow you to search by date, camera, lens, keyword, and many other metadata fields. However, I want my folder and naming convention to allow me to find the pictures of my daughters 21st birthday without the use of any software assistance besides the disk organization. All software goes obsolete eventually and you can be certain that the new one will not be compatible with whatever you had before.
For me, I have a mixture of family events, Landscape day trips, etc, arranged as follows: One catalog, a folder for the decade, folder for year, within each year a folder for each shoot that is named with the month-day-event "02-27-New-York-vacation". I also rename the files, but the name describes the event and ends with the camera generated number
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Thanks! I'm new to LR and have some studying & thinking to do. Good points to ponder here!
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I agree with JcarPhoto above. The Julieann Kost tutorials are terrific and free.
Two others I like (not free): Tim Grey and Luminous-Landscape (Michael Reichmann and Jeff Schewe).
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I got the Scott Kelby book, which is a nice reference to be able to flip back forth. When you purchase the book, you get access to a series of tutorial videos on his website as well.
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---- — METHUEN — Brittany Baldassari was an accidental model, going on a photo shoot for fun with some friends in college one day several years ago.
But that trip has led her down a career path that looks to be gaining speed, with a gig on a New England Sports Network show about food called "Wicked Bites" and a spot on MTV's new reality dating show, "Are You the One?," her second appearance on MTV.
She started on NESN last month, after finishing shooting "Are You the One?" in Hawaii. "Wicked Bites" showcases local food and athletes in restaurants and pubs around New England. Most recently, she did spots at Coliseum to the Cage in Derry and Playmakers Sports Bar and Grill in Waltham.
"Wicked Bites" is "a dream job," said Baldassari, 25, a 2007 Methuen High graduate. It's a platform for her personality and could be a step towards covering sports.
"Getting the job with NESN is huge because my future dream job is working for the NHL Network or SportsCenter," she said. "I'm at an age now I hope it leads to other stuff."
Brittany Baldi, a nickname from high school sports that she used to introduce herself recently on "Wicked Bites," was hired for the show about three months ago, but put her start on hold for the MTV show.
"Are You the One?" debuted Tuesday and is a reality dating show that brought 20 people, 10 men and 10 women, together from around the country in Hawaii. The participants worked with psychiatrists and counselors to try to pinpoint who their best match is, Baldassari said, and they spent the rest of the time interacting with the others, whom they did not know or meet beforehand, on dates and in challenges to find out if anyone there is "the one."
"We were there about 40 days," she said. "To this day I'm upset we had to come back. We got back right before Thanksgiving."
She couldn't discuss much about the show, including whether she found "the one," but said it was a key opportunity in her progression from modeling to television.
"All the different characters on the show helped me grow," she said. "A take away for me and viewers is, I hope they get an idea of how other people are from around the country."
As a junior at Suffolk University, Baldassari and a couple classmates, one a photographer and the other a model, went on a photo shoot on the North Shore for fun. She enjoyed the trip, liked the photos that came out of it and found she was good at modeling.
She posted some of the pictures on Facebook, which led to magazines contacting her, and then to jobs as a promotional model. She appeared in local bands' music videos, and soon landed brief roles in movies like "TED," "That's My Boy," and "Grown Ups 2."
In November 2010, she was featured in an episode on MTV's "Is She Really Going out with Him?," and appeared in an episode of the Fox dating show "The Choice" in 2012.
She graduated from Suffolk in 2011 with a bachelor's degree in sociology. But with the TV and movie spots leading to bigger opportunities, the sociology and the modeling are taking a back seat.
"Mainly I'm a TV personality. They like me because I'm very high energy," she said.
Freddie Baldassari, Brittany's father, wasn't on board with the career choice at first. "I was skeptical at the beginning because I wanted her to get her education. Going down the road she is going, very few kids make it. It's like being a professional athlete. But I back her 100 percent. She's done a lot in such a short period of time."
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I'm a big lover of chunky jewelry, so when I was looking around for some new pieces, these 3 caught my eye. Paired with a wedding or bridesmaids dress would really edge it up!
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Vulcano IslandVulcano Island, one of the Aeolian Islands, north of Sicily, was named after the Roman equivalent of the god Hephaestus, Vulcan. The ancient peoples were convinced that the fiery hole on the top of this island was the workshop of the 'God-Blacksmith'. People just started to call all similar landforms 'vulcano' and nowadays volcano is a term widely used with different variations in all languages.
KarstThe chemical aspect of weathering and erosion is related to the karst process. Karst topography appears when soluble layers of bedrock (carbonate rocks such as limestone, dolomite and marble) interact with the acids in the water. In addition on the surface the karst phenomenon appears in subterranean conditions and that is why over 90% of all caves in the world are with karst origins. Why do we use this strange word karst to describe these phenomena? A specific place can help us answer this question. The Serbian geographer Jovan Cvijić explored the Kras region in Slovenia and wrote an article titled 'The Karst Phenomenon' (1893) where he germanized the local name. His theory proved that the rock dissolution is the key process forming the specific landforms there and significantly contributed to the theoretical evolution of geomorphology since he graduated in Vienna.
Groups of IslandsSome terms come from the languages of the indigenous people who the Europeans had been meeting. For instance, the Dhivehi** word atoll (meaning lagoon-island) has come in use in English since the seventeenth century when the British sailors reached the Maldives.
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MeanderJust about everyone knows what a meander, a river curve, is. There are different conditions and stages for its formation. In the western parts of Turkey there exists a river named Büyük Menderes (translated as Big Meander). This land where the river flows used to be a part of Classical Greece and back then it was named Maíandros. The river course has so many curves alongside its direction, so, the people started to use the river's name to describe any similar river turn.
The Geography of the Periodic TableToponyms spread over other fields of knowledge. Many elements in the periodic table of the elements are meant to glorify geographical places. Some of the chemical elements are named after ancient, predominantly Latin, geographical locations. To name a few: Ruthenium (after Russia), Gallium (after Galia, the ancient name of France), Holmium (after Holmia, the Latin name of Stockholm), Thulium (after Thule, the ancient name of Scandinavia), Lutetium (after Lutetia, the ancient name of Paris), Hafnium (after Hafnia, the Latin name of Copenhagen), Hassium (after Hassia, the Latin name for the German state of Hesse). Europium and Americium are named after continents. In the list of the glorified countries are Germany, France, Poland and India (Germanium, Francium, Polonium and Indium). Home to a productive quarry, the Swedish village Ytterby gave its name to three elements (Ytterbium, Erbium, Yttrium). The Scottish village Strontian has only one namesake (Strontium). Other elements with geographical names are Manganese and Magnesium (after Magnesia, a region in Greece), Scandium (Scandinavian peninsula), Californium (after California), Darmstadtium (after the city of Darmstadt in Germany), Dubnium (after the town Dubna in Russia) and Rhenium (after the Rhine River in Europe). The Platinum 'comes' from the Spanish platina del Pinto or the silver metal from the Pinto River, Columbia, while the world's leading chemistry research institute in Berkeley, California, commemorated with the Berkelium.
GeologyThe list of the minerals named after specific locations or regions is large. For example, andalusite and aragonite are named after regions in Spain. The intrusive rock sienite 'originates' from the ancient name of Egyptian city of Aswan (Syene). The monzonites are firstly described in the Monzoni Mountains in Italy, the andesites are typical for the Andes, etc. The situation with the stages in natural history is even richer. The geological time scale is generally constructed of periods named after particular places with specific outcrops. The first geological period of the Paleozoic era, the Cambrian, is named after the Latin name of Wales (Cambria). The second chronological period, the Ordovician, is derived from the name of the Celtic tribe of the Ordovices. The Silurian has a similar destiny, it is the namesake of Silures, another tribe. Devon is a county in southwestern England while the Carboniferous is divided in two parts (the earlier Mississippian and the later Pennsylvanian). The Permian honors Perm, a city in Russia. The Jura Mountains in West Europe gave the name of the famous Jurassic. Many other similar connections can be found in the inner division of each of the them.
* Tarifa is a Spanish town alongside the Strait of Gibraltar. In the past, the Arabs ruled the fortress there and each foreign vessel needed to pay a fee just to pass through the channel.
Marathon is a town in Greece and its distance to Athens is the equivalent for the Olympic discipline.
Spa is a municipality in Belgium having water with health-giving properties.
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Hosseini soars with searing portrait of Afghan women
After the unexpected success of his first novel, The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini decided to focus his second book on a part of Afghan society often obscured from public view—its women. "There are women characters in The Kite Runner, but I wouldn't describe any of them as major characters," he says. "So there was this entire aspect of Afghan society and Afghan life that I hadn't touched upon. It was a landscape that I felt was rich with possibilities for storytelling."
Hosseini, a superb storyteller, realizes those possibilities fully in A Thousand Splendid Suns, his textured, deeply affecting novel about the intersecting lives of two Afghan women. Mariam is the illegitimate daughter of a wealthy Herat movie house owner. She grows up exiled with her mother to a hovel in the hills outside the city, visited occasionally by the father she adores. When her presence at the periphery of her father's life threatens family peace, she is forced into marriage with a shoemaker from Kabul. Life in Kabul goes from bad to worse under the Soviet occupation. Her husband brutalizes her and eventually takes in, then marries, a young, well-educated girl—Laila—who has been orphaned during the Afghan civil war. Most of A Thousand Splendid Suns depicts the extraordinary relationship that develops under grim circumstances between these two women.
"As a writer, the things that always move me are the intimate human stories, the links between the characters, their dreams, their disappointments, their crushing defeats and their atonements," Hosseini says during a call to his home in San Jose, California. Hosseini was an internist at a Bay Area Kaiser hospital before the phenomenal popularity of The Kite Runner allowed him to take an extended leave of absence. He and his wife have two young children. He briefly, politely, interrupts the call to kiss his son goodbye as he heads off to school. Hosseini appears remarkably unaffected by the hoopla over his first novel.
But later in the conversation, Hosseini admits the success of his first book, which has sold more than 4 million copies, cast a "looming shadow" over early attempts at composing the new novel. "Suddenly everybody was interested in what I was writing next," he says with a pleasant, rueful laugh. "You go through these crises of self-doubt. You wonder: Am I a hack? It took a little bit of work to ignore the noise outside my door."
In fact, for a while, Hosseini rented an office in a nondescript office building, a room with nothing on the walls to distract him that he now calls his "windowless bunker." He worried about finding the right voice for the book, writing through four drafts using different approaches and points of view. He "chastised" himself because he had "not only decided to write from a woman's standpoint, but had decided to write from the standpoints of two women. I had to not only think about what it would be like to be a woman, but I also had to think about what it would be like to be a different woman. As long as I was self-conscious about the fact that I was writing from a woman's voice, it kept coming across as very self-aware and contrived. But as I wrote and as I began to know these women, began to understand their motivations, their dreams, began to understand them as people, the issue vanished on its own. At first I was a ventriloquist and they were dummies speaking with my voice. But as I began to know them, the characters took over and I became a mouthpiece for them. That was a watershed moment for me."
The completed book has the same big heart displayed in The Kite Runner, but even Hosseini (despite his writerly doubts) believes the new story is more masterfully told. "I feel this is a more subtle and somewhat more restrained book," he says. "I think that I, as a writer, have learned to trust readers and allow them to make their own connections."
One sign of such mastery is the way Hosseini weaves recent history into the narrative. He says he struggled to restrain himself "from getting too much into the history and political turmoil" of those years. But he eventually found that the "intimate story of these characters" and the bigger story of what is going on in Afghanistan "twisted around each other like a DNA strand. It is really by necessity, because these two women happen to be living in the volatile period of recent Afghanistan history. There is no way I could have told the story of Laila and Mariam without telling the story of Afghanistan."
In addition to their concern for the plights of Hosseini's characters, readers will be carried willingly from page to page by the sensory and cultural details that enrich Hosseini's depiction of Afghan life in this era. Hosseini grew up in Kabul before immigrating to the United States as a youth. His family was originally from Herat, which he would visit for family gatherings. "I remember the city and how beautiful it was," he says. "I can speak Farsi in both the Herati and the Kabuli accent. This is part of my background." Breaking his rule of allowing only his wife to read and comment on drafts of his novels, he asked his father, a former Afghan diplomat, to read the final draft and serve as a sort historical and technical advisor. In 2003, a time of cautious optimism in Afghanistan, he visited Kabul. A Thousand Splendid Suns resonates with his remembered and recently witnessed details of Afghan life.
"The writer side of me," Hosseini says at the end of our conversation, "wants what every writer wants: that people respond to my characters, to feel their happiness and sorrow, and to be transported by them. Then there's the other side of me. I am from Afghanistan. And although it's not my intention to educate people about Afghanistan, I do hope that in some ways this novel gives people a window into Afghanistan, especially into the difficult existence of Afghan women over the last 30 years. Maybe this novel will give some identity to the nameless, faceless women in burqa walking down the street, so that a reader will now sense that these are real people who have dreams and hopes and disappointments. Just like everybody else."
Alden Mudge writes from Oakland, California. Copyright 2007 BookPage Reviews.
BookPage Reviews 2008 December
A Thousand Splendid Suns
After more than two years on the bestseller lists, Hosseini's internationally acclaimed novel is now available in paperback. In his masterful follow-up to The Kite Runner, he takes readers back to Afghanistan, presenting events from that troubled country's past—including the Soviet takeover and the rise of the Taliban—as they appear from the perspectives of two very different female characters. Mariam, the daughter of a cleaning woman and a businessman, was born out of wedlock. Married at the age of 15 to a man in his 40s, she experiences a loveless relationship. Laila, who lives with her accomplished, forward-thinking parents in Kabul, is favored by her father but spurned by her mother, who showers affection on her brothers. When Laila meets Tariq, a brave young man who was injured in an explosion, she falls in love for the first time. But the friction between the Communists and the mujahideen make day-to-day living in Kabul dangerous, and soon Tariq and his family move to Pakistan. After a horrifying series of events leads Laila to the home of Mariam and Rasheed, she must make a decision that will change her life forever. The two women develop a special relationship that could only arise in a country ruled by terror. Spanning 30 years of Afghanistan's tumultuous history, this melancholy, beautifully conceived book reinforces Hosseini's reputation as a first-class novelist. Copyright 2008 BookPage Reviews.
Kirkus Reviews 2007 March #1
This Afghan-American author follows his debut (The Kite Runner, 2003) with a fine risk-taking novel about two victimized but courageous Afghan women.Mariam is a bastard. Her mother was a housekeeper for a rich businessman in Herat, Afghanistan, until he impregnated and banished her. Mariam's childhood ended abruptly when her mother hanged herself. Her father then married off the 15-year-old to Rasheed, a 40ish shoemaker in Kabul, hundreds of miles away. Rasheed is a deeply conventional man who insists that Mariam wear a burqa, though many women are going uncovered (it's 1974). Mariam lives in fear of him, especially after numerous miscarriages. In 1987, the story switches to a neighbor, nine-year-old Laila, her playmate Tariq and her parents. It's the eighth year of Soviet occupation--bad for the nation, but good for women, who are granted unprecedented freedoms. Kabul's true suffering begins in 1992. The Soviets have gone, and rival warlords are tearing the city apart. Before he leaves for Pakistan, Tariq and Laila make love; soon after, her parents are killed by a rocket. The two storylines merge when Rasheed and Mariam shelter the solitary Laila. Rasheed has his own agenda; the 14-year-old will become his second wife, over Mariam's objections, and give him an heir, but to his disgust Laila has a daughter, Aziza; in time, he'll realize Tariq is the father. The heart of the novel is the gradual bonding between the girl-mother and the much older woman. Rasheed grows increasingly hostile, even frenzied, after an escape by the women is foiled. Relief comes when Laila gives birth to a boy, but it's short-lived. The Taliban are in control; women must stay home; Rasheed loses his business; they have no food; Aziza is sent to an orphanage. The dramatic final section includes a murder and an execution. Despite all the pain and heartbreak, the novel is never depressing; Hosseini barrels through each grim development unflinchingly, seeking illumination.Another artistic triumph, and surefire bestseller, for this fearless writer. Copyright Kirkus 2007 Kirkus/BPI Communications. All rights reserved.
Library Journal Reviews 2007 January #1
Hosseini sees whether he can top The Kite Runner's remarkable recordÄ103 weeks on the New York Times best sellers listÄwith this tale of two very different Afghan women over 30 years. With a national tour. Copyright 2007 Reed Business Information.
Library Journal Reviews 2007 March #2
Raised in poverty by her unwed epileptic mother and married off early by the rich, elegant father who has always kept her at arm's length, Mariam would seem to have little in common with well-educated and comfortably raised young Laila. Yet their lives intertwine dramatically in this affecting new novel from the author of The Kite Runner , who proves that one can write a successful follow-up after debuting with a phenomenal best seller. As Mariam settles in Kabul with her abusive cobbler husband, smart student Laila falls in love with friend Tariq. But she loses her brothers in the resistance to Soviet dominion and her parents in a bombing just as the family prepares to flee the awful violence. Simply to survive, she becomes the second wife of Mariam's husband and is bitterly resented by the older woman until they are able to form the bond that serves as the heart of this novel. Then the Taliban arrive. Hosseini deftly sketches the history of his native land in the late 20th century while also delivering a sensitive and utterly persuasive dual portrait. His writing is simple and unadorned, but his story is heartbreaking. Highly recommended. [See Prepub Alert, LJ 1/07.]--Barbara Hoffert, Library Journal[Page 58]. Copyright 2007 Reed Business Information.
Afghan-American novelist Hosseini follows up his bestselling The Kite Runner with another searing epic of Afghanistan in turmoil. The story covers three decades of anti-Soviet jihad, civil war and Taliban tyranny through the lives of two women. Mariam is the scorned illegitimate daughter of a wealthy businessman, forced at age 15 into marrying the 40-year-old Rasheed, who grows increasingly brutal as she fails to produce a child. Eighteen later, Rasheed takes another wife, 14-year-old Laila, a smart and spirited girl whose only other options, after her parents are killed by rocket fire, are prostitution or starvation. Against a backdrop of unending war, Mariam and Laila become allies in an asymmetrical battle with Rasheed, whose violent misogyny--"There was no cursing, no screaming, no pleading, no surprised yelps, only the systematic business of beating and being beaten"--is endorsed by custom and law. Hosseini gives a forceful but nuanced portrait of a patriarchal despotism where women are agonizingly dependent on fathers, husbands and especially sons, the bearing of male children being their sole path to social status. His tale is a powerful, harrowing depiction of Afghanistan, but also a lyrical evocation of the lives and enduring hopes of its resilient characters. (May)[Page 52]. Copyright 2007 Reed Business Information.


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Priorities: A Newsletter from Susan Martin
It's summertime, which means hundreds of new students are getting ready to attend the wonderful University of Tennessee – Knoxville. As the summer sessions continue and the fall session begins, I wanted to send out this newsletter explaining what some of my priorities are as Provost of this fine university.
1. With all the money that the football team brings in, I feel a bowl game trip is unneeded and a distraction from the class room for the student athletes.
2. Neyland Stadium takes up too much space on campus, which is why I am campaigning for it to be converted into new classrooms.
3. In order to cut back on athletic spending, both men's and women's basketball teams will be coached by one head coach. Louis "Sweet Lou" Dunbar will leave his position as assistant coach of the Harlem Globetrotters and take over for Coach Martin and Coach Warlick effectively immediately.
4. I intend awarding several hardship points to the university's APR score. These points come from me having a few hard days where I actually had to work. Oh, and I stubbed my toe yesterday. It was an owwie.
5. I have informed all head coaches that they may only recruit Teen Jeopardy! or National Spelling Bee winners. We only want the best at the University of Tennessee. Hey, they are on ESPN after all.
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The Building Bridges with Music Quintet was in town last night - filling the air with music at Old Mission Peninsula School.
Building Bridges is a musical group that talks to people of all ages about prejudices and discrimination, through music.
They visit several schools throughout the year, and this week - they're in Traverse City.
The musicians are from all over the state, coming together to play music and tell their stories.
The quintet will be at the Cambria Suites in Traverse City tomorrow, and Friday they'll perform at The Circuit in Traverse City.
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Sunday, August 22, 2004
How to Get a Job
The American Philological Association has a Checklist of Advice for Job Candidates in Classics. I'm surprised that it doesn't give advice on one of the most important qualifications of all, membership in a minority group. A recent announcement of a tenure track position in Roman history at the University of Toronto had this coda, sadly all too common in these degenerate times:Newer› ‹Older
The University of Toronto is strongly committed to diversity within its community. The University especially welcomes applications from visible minority group members, women, Aboriginal persons, persons with disabilities, members of sexual minority groups and others who may contribute to the further diversification of ideas.I'm indebted to rogueclassicism for both of these bits of information, although it was my devious, politically incorrect mind, envious of those who actually get tenure track jobs, that combined them.


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"Enchanted Airlie" Is A Holiday Light and LEGO Extravaganza
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9th Annual Event Features 300,000 Lights, Music, Santa & Colorful LEGOs
Wilmington, N.C.: Tis the season to be enchanted! And what could be more enchanting than a glittering landscape of lighted oaks and twinkling displays in a coastal garden setting? Visitors who travel to Wilmington, North Carolina's historic river district and island beaches during the holiday season will have the opportunity to experience "Enchanted Airlie" each Thursday, Friday and Saturday evening from November 29 through December 21, with additional dates on Wednesday, December 18 and Sunday, December 22.
Now in its ninth season, Enchanted Airlie (Nov. 29-Dec. 22) presents a holiday light extravaganza with tastefully decorated gardens, magical evenings and fond memories for visitors and local residents. On select dates beginning the Friday after Thanksgiving and continuing into late December, Airlie Gardens is transformed into a visually stunning wonderland of theatrically illuminated large oaks, small native trees, holiday flowers, and elegant displays. Prepare to be enchanted by a world of holiday fantasy that features 300,000 lights and whimsical LEGO exhibits to delight visitors of all ages.
Always a crowd favorite, the colorful LEGO exhibit returns with more than 250,000 LEGO bricks that set a world record as the largest crowd to see a single LEGO display. Inside the garden services center, guests will marvel at an actual running LEGO train set constructed by NCLUG (North Carolina Lego Group Users). Other highlights include: a Poinsettia Paradise with more than 400 holiday plants; live musical entertainment and visits with Santa. Families can also have their pictures taken in Airlie's 2,400-square-foot floral conservatory. Refreshments will be available for purchase and the Airlie gift shop will be open. Want to go? Enchanted Airlie runs November 29-30; December 5-7, 12-14, and 18-22 in two time slots: 5:00-7:00 p.m. and 7:00–9:00 p.m. Enchanted Airlie tickets must be purchased in advance, no later than 4:00 p.m. the night of the event. Due to the popularity of this event, it is recommended that visitors purchase tickets for their preferred dates prior to arrival. Tickets are available for purchase online at http://www.airliegardens.org or in-person at Airlie Gardens service center (300 Airlie Rd., Wilmington) between 9am and 4pm. Single admission tickets cost $10 for individuals over the age of 4. Children under age 3 are free. Couples arriving in the same vehicle can purchase a couples ticket for $15. An economical green option is the carload ticket for $22, which will cover as many people as will safely fit into an automobile; no individual tickets or parking passes are required for this option (excludes buses and large, multi-passenger vans).
Airlie Gardens, located at 300 Airlie Road, is a 67-acre historic public garden bordering Bradley Creek in Wilmington, North Carolina. Visitors are encouraged to dress warmly and comfortably for the half-mile outdoor walking tour on gravel, sand, and mulch paths. For details about Enchanted Airlie, please call 910-798-7700 or visit the Airlie Gardens website www.airliegardens.org for event information, rules, restrictions and rain policy. See more at: www.wilmingtonandbeaches.com/press-releases/enchanted-airlie-is-a-holiday-light-lego-extravaganza/#sthash.rXpYbWKU.dpuf


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