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"All this time I was writing, writing no matter what else I was doing; no matter what I thought I was doing, in fact. I was living almost as instinctively as a little animal, but I realize now that all that time a part of me was getting ready to be an artist. That my mind was working even when I didn't know it, and didn't care if it was working or not. It is my firm belief that all our lives we are preparing to be somebody or something, even if we don't do it consciously. And the time comes one morning when you wake up and find that you have become irrevocably what you were preparing all this time to be. Lord, that could be a sticky moment, if you had been doing the wrong things, something against your grain. And, mind you, I know that can happen. I have no patience with this dreadful idea that whatever you have in you has to come out, that you can't suppress true talent. People can be destroyed; they can be bent, distorted and completely crippled. To say that you can't destroy yourself is just as foolish as to say of a young man killed in war at twenty-one or twenty-two that that was his fate, that he wasn't going to have anything anyhow.
"I look upon literature as an art, and I practice it as an art. Of course, it is also a vocation, and a trade, and a profession, and all kinds of things; but first it's an art, and you should practice it as that, I think. I know a great many people disagree, and they are welcome to it. I think probably the important thing is to get your work done, in the way you can—and we all have our different and separate ways. But I look upon literature as an art, and I believe that if you misuse it or abuse it, it will leave you. It is not a thing that you can nail down and use as you want. You have to let it use you, too."
-- Katherine Anne Porter, interviewed for The Paris Review, 1963
Detroit borders the Great Lakes system, containing 21 percent of the world's surface freshwater. The lakes are the source of the city's water supply, but a growing number of residents can't turn on the tap.
Longtime subscriber, first-time writer. I've been tearing up periodically since this op-ed was published in The New York Times on the Fourth of July. It is a strange feeling: the story itself is a sad and difficult and maddening one. And yet, the telling of it in this space is a dream come true for me.
One thing I appreciated: the rigor of fact-checking an opinion piece. This took a lot of hustle, because there's an enormous amount of misinformation out there. It is actually pretty depressing how slippery many activists and people writing for media ("reporters") are with the specifics of this story. For example, the statistic that the city is shutting off water for 3000 people a week keeps getting thrown around. But it's just not true. It's a mangled fact: actually, the water department prepared in June logistically to do 1500-3000 shutoffs per week, but that is not the number of shutoffs that actually happened. It's a distinction that is important, but I think has been willfully blurred in some cases to emphasize the urgency of the situation. Of course, the situation is urgent. But it drives me nuts when people trust rhetoric and hyperbole, rather than facts, to make their case. There seems to be something darker at hand than plain old laziness and sloppiness and a misunderstanding of what a credible source is. It seems to demonstrate a lack of faith in the real world to be enough, as it is.
In a second article, one for Next City, I had more room to expand on the lived experience of the water story.
For (Nicole) Hill, friends have invited her over to shower or fill jugs. She uses a trashcan as a rain barrel. She recycles dishwater to use again as mop water, or to pour into the toilet to make it flush. When she uses the bathroom without water, she says, "I literally try to do it military style in my small trash can: Bind it up and throw it out."
Her kids, spread out in different homes around the city, are worried about their mother. Her son, staying around the corner, checks in on her frequently. Her 14-year-old daughter filled a backpack with two liters of water and rode them over on her bike. "They feel like they have to protect me," Hill said
Well, then.
Life brims.
As I've taken a breather from this little corner of the internet, so much has filled up. I don't even know how to begin telling the story of how much work and community has been threaded through the days. It has been breathless and exhausting. The past six months, I have worked harder than I ever have before.
But the past few mornings, I woke up feeling glad. There is power and joy in making things, you know?
One of the things made: A Detroit Anthology, published this month. Tonight is our book launch. I am proud of this book, and feeling a little bewildered that it now, finally, exists. I want to tell you stories about its making -- what surprised me in what people did and didn't submit from this, what I learned about this uniquely collaborative form of narrative -- but for now: let's just pause, breathe, and celebrate. I want to remember this day.
I'm just beginning to pivot into the tenderness of hearing what people think of a book you made. It's such a vulnerable thing! But this is what it means for the book to live in the world. For all that I could control in the making of this book, the relationship between it and readers is beyond me. But I'm listening.
In my introduction to the anthology, I wrote this:
I don't expect you to read this book straight through, any more than I expect you to explore the city by walking straight up Woodward, notching each essay and poem as if it were a mile marker. But if you do move page by page through this book, you will see a collective narrative emerge. This is a story of leaving, and of being left. It is a story of not having enough money, and of having much more than your neighbors. It is a story of fires. Of inventing music. Of trying to get from one part of town to another—by bike, car, bus, foot, or sheer force of will. A story of sports, play, and the heart-thrust of fandom. Of shame and wonder. Of laughter and self-deprecation. Of remembering and misremembering history. Of fear. Of skyscrapers and gardens. Of suburbs—little towns in their own right. It is a story of having more power than we know.
This anthology is loosely arranged like a stage play (overture, two acts, and an intermission) not because there is anything false or costumed about the writing here, but because theater is a uniquely collaborative art form; so, too, are cities. Theater stitches together prose and poetry, music and oratory; so do cities. Comedy and tragedy are the two archetypal forms of theater; likewise, I'll venture to say that no place stages comedy and tragedy better than Detroit. And while it's hard to shake the feeling sometimes that the spectacle of this city is defined more by the distant "audience"—watching us from their safe seats in the dark as we improvise our way through an epic drama—in the end, it is thrilling to realize that we are all players here, each with the power to impact our shared story. On this stage, each choice we make matters.
However you navigate this book, you will find the dissonant chorus of people so often tasked with justifying themselves because of where they live, no matter which side of 8 Mile they are on. A watchfulness comes forth that I have rarely seen in other places I have lived or visited. Detroiters notice the details. As a result, you will not find "positive" stories about Detroit in this collection, or "negative" ones. But you will find true stories.
My hope is that the pieces in this Detroit anthology will ignite recognition: not (just) for our similarities, but for our differences. Our experiences are not the same, after all. Sometimes our search for connection leads to the washing away of our distinctive shapes, as if difference equals conflict and futility. But it needn't be so. Friction creates energy, and it is our choice how we use it.
We are a city moving through the fire of transformation. We are afire. There is no place I would rather be.
There are more stories I want to share with you, hammered out over the past month or so. But one thing at a time.
This deserves your notice: Detroit 1968, a collection of photographs -- mostly portraits -- from a city at its pivot point. It was originally published in 1972 under the title New American People, which fascinates me. The nameless faces peopling this book are photographed while they are in the midst of something: their work, their families, their breakfast, the business of their lives. At the time, they were understood as the faces of modern America. As the original introduction put it, written by the curator of the Art Institute of Chicago (which exhibited the photos): "All the photographs in the present collection were taken in 1967–1970 in Detroit, which in no way restricts their presentation as a brief of how Americans look and live today. These scenes and incidents might have occurred anywhere in the United States in this time when regional characteristics are disappearing ... this is a view of a situation and condition, not a localization."
Now, under its new title, their representation has narrowed significantly: they collectively incarnate this particular city, at this particular time. It is exactly a localization.
What has changed? Not the people. Not the photographer. It's us. Forty years later, we now need these images to mean something different. We know now, as the people in these images did not, that Detroit was on the brink of a radical transformation that for many would resonate most in the disappearance of people. Neighbors leaving seemingly overnight. Familiar bustling corner stores now empty, or a vacant lot. Seeing the faces of the people who were once here is what we now need most.
It is as if we are afraid that we could forget that Detroit -- for all this city's epic backstory -- is a city of everyday life. Of people who do things.
Enrico Natali originally came to Detroit in 1966, working as chief photographer for Hudson's department store. He told Lee DeVito of Metro Times that he never conceived of these images as individual photographs: they were always meant to be a collection.
"I was like a photographer monk," he says of the three years devoted to shooting for the book. "I put these constraints on myself: I'm going to only photograph people. I'm going to try to photograph as broad a cross-section as I can. I'm going to use only one focal length, one kind of film, one developer, one size print."
"I put all these constraints on myself, and that allowed the photography to fade into the background so I could just go into situations and work on automatic pilot," Natali says. "At some point that situation starts guiding you. You get a message that's bigger than you are."
The Detroit 1968 collection was one of Enrico Natali's last major projects. At about the time he took these photographs, he began a meditation practice that began to take on greater and greater meaning in his life. He eventually abandoned photography altogether, and made his life in Calirfonia's Los Padres National Forest.
The new edition of this collection includes an introduction by Mark Binelli, author of Detroit City is the Place To Be.
I wrote for the good folks at Pacific Standard about the 75th anniversary of The Grapes of Wrath -- such a fierce and fearless novel. As the magazine's intro text puts it, "The Grapes of Wrath is still a staple in most American classrooms. Is that because we haven't yet written anything that does a better job of portraying the devastation of not having enough?"
The 1939 New York Times review of The Grapes of Wrath called it "as pitiful and angry a novel ever to be written about America … it reads as if it had been composed in a flash, ripped off the typewriter and delivered to the public as an ultimatum."
It's hard to imagine similar words describing today's fiction (and not just because of that typewriter). Despite our recession-era reckoning with economics and inequality, fiction that examines both the macro and micro experience of poverty is all too rare. Of the writers who do venture forth in the tradition of John Steinbeck, many are finding new and riveting approaches to an age-old subject. But there are crucial gaps, still. And as brilliantly as Steinbeck wrote about poverty, we cannot rely on him to comprehensively tell today's story.
Steinbeck was a moralist—he wrote of the Depression in Biblical terms, after all—but he was not a polemicist. That's a tricky balance to strike ...
At the height of the Depression in 1933, Dorothy Day co-founded the Catholic Worker movement. She often wrote that the defining feature of poverty is not the lack of money; it is precarity—of not being sure if tomorrow you will be fed, sheltered, and safe. There is a lack of security. Will this leaking roof collapse? Will my kid eat breakfast tomorrow? Will the money I'm owed arrive before I have to pay the rent? Will I get picked to day labor today?
Today's best fiction about poverty is brilliant about tracing the nuances of precarity—how to survive when there is nowhere else to go. But there is another story about poverty that deserves to be more fully developed for our twenty-first century: It didn't have to be this way.
I've had my head down the last few months working on an anthology about and from the city I love. And now it's actually taking shape. It is going to be a real thing. And seeing it just takes my breath away.
We debut our cover today, with design by Haley Stone and photography by Amy Sacka of Owen Was Here.
We scheduled our Detroit book launch and you and everyone you know is invited! Think: drink, food, stories, music, bonfire.
Saturday, May 31
2801 14th Street
Detroit, MI 48216
And most importantly, we've released our table of contents. These are the extraordinary makers behind this book. I assure you, they will bend your mind, break your heart, make you laugh, and leave you amazed.
Anna Clark
We Love Detroit Even If You Don't
Aaron Foley
Thomas J. Sugrue
I'm From Detroit
Shannon Shelton Miller
Turner Ronald Carter the Third
Kat Harrison
Gas Station on Second Avenue
Matthew Olzmann
Hommage à l'avenir: Desire Lines
Michael Eugene Burdick and Francis Grunow
Things I Lost in the Fire
dream hampton
Letter from Detroit
Ingrid Norton
Tyehimba Jess
Greektown 1983
John Counts
Coming Soon
Nichole Christian
what you'd find buried in the dirt under charles. f. kettering sr. high school (detroit, michigan)
francine. j. harris
Fort Gratiot
Steven Pomerantz
Sketches of Eastern Market
Nina Misuraca Ignaczak
When the Trees Stop Giving Fruit
Shaka Senghor
Hungry Days in Detroit
Tracie MacMillan
There Are Birds Here
Jamaal May
Per Fumum (After Smoke)
Jamaal May
Desolation Angel
John Carlisle
Detroit: A City of Superheroes
Ingrid LaFleur
Hommage à l'avenir: Streetcar Tracks
Burdick / Grunow
Legally Blind In The Motor City: A Pedestrian's Lament
Pamela Sabaugh
On the Automobile
Rachel Reed
John G. Rodwan, Jr.
The Line
Maisha Hyman Sumbry
January in Detroit
Ken Mikolowski
Trembling in the Temple of Tears at the Feet of Buddha
M.L. Liebler
For the Long Haul
Desiree Cooper
still of it
adrienne maree brown
In the House Where Poetry Lives
Peter Markus
Belle Isle Song
Nandi Comer
The Imam I Knew
Omar Syed Mahmood
The Fixer
John Carlisle
The Next Move
Ryan Healy
Hommage à l'avenir: Ghost Shops
Burdick / Grunow
The Fauxtopia's of Detroit's Suburbs
James D. Griffioen
My Detroit
Joseph Lichterman
By the Time This Reaches You
Deonte Osayande
Music As The Missing Link
Keith A. Owens
Maisha Hyman Sumbry
Game Not Over
Veronica Grandison
Misguided Faith
Karen Minard
Leaning To Roll Our Tongues, Detroit 1986
Nandi Comer
Up in the Morning & Off to School in Detroit
Tracey Morris
Hommage à l'avenir: Apartments v. Houses
Burdick / Grunow
Steve Hughes
SOBs and Dummies
Karen Minard
Down in Detroit
Terry Blackhawk
Playing Ball
J.M. Leija
Night, Briggs Stadium, 1960
Gail Griffin
Lost in Hockeytown
Matthew Lewis and Aaron Mondry
Hommage à l'avenir: Street Lights
Burdick / Grunow
Lily-Livered New Yorker Seeks Lion-Hearted Detroiters
Jaclyn Trop
Motown Atlantis
Chantay "Legacy" Leonard
Strange City
Chantay "Legacy" Leonard
The Detroit Virus
Shaun S. Nethercott
Detroit's Good-Food Cure
Larry Gabriel
Planting Seeds of Hope
Grace Lee Boggs & Scott Kurashige
The Kidnapped Children of Detroit
Marsha Music
With photography by David Clement, James D. Griffioen, Kofi Handon, Patricia Lay-Dorsey, Aaron Mondry, Kevin Robishaw, Gabriela Santiago-Romero, Amy Sacka, Melanie Schmitt, Joseph Smedo, Megan Snow, and Aaron Waterman.
I hear a lot of writers talk about being priced out of New York, San Francisco, and other cities. New creative communities must be created in new places. While I chose Detroit for myself, one of the most interesting and exciting emerging literary cities is Kalamazoo, Michigan. Halfway between Chicago and Detroit, it's home to extraordinary writers, bookshops, academic programs, literary festivals, publishers, readings, journals, and more. In the piece I wrote for today's Detroit Free Press, I was especially interested in the homegrown aesthetic:
Kalamazoo's industrial history is tied to Southern influences because many Southerners migrated north for jobs. (Author Bonnie Jo Campbell) sees parallels between Michigan writing and Southern writing, particularly in the way writers "treat our eccentrics" and their intimate engagement with the natural world. "We all have a bit of survivalist in us, the sense that if it all collapses, I could get by," she says.
Like other cities in Michigan, Kalamazoo also has experienced more than its share of economic precariousness. Campbell wonders whether "the very things that create and exacerbate economic stress are related to the things that create great art." Specifically, she means uncertainty — and the questioning and wonder that come with it.
"I'll get in trouble for saying this, but great writing rarely comes from people above the middle class, unless maybe in the 19th Century," Campbell says. "People who are poor don't write (much) because they're too busy getting by. But it's the people who figure out how to get by, who know the uncertainty that comes from having been poor, they make great art." Kalamazoo, she suggests, has many of these writers.
Houston is one of the most strange and fascinating places I've ever reported on. (That's its Art Deco city hall, above.) In Next City, I wrote about all the surprises I found there -- namely, about how practical progressivism plays out in this old-school climate, a city that basically exists through sheer force of will.
Here's a collection of a few passages from the piece:
Annise Parker, mayor of Houston, is hurt. She's limping when we meet in her third-floor office at City Hall, wearing one black shoe and one tan leather slipper fitted around a bandage on her sprained left ankle. Another bandage circles her sprained wrist. "I tangled with a City of Houston trash can," she says from behind her polished wood desk. "One of those big black boxes." A staffer in the room suggests that Parker needn't mention that it was specifically a City of Houston trashcan. But Parker does anyway. Several times.
After all, it's not as if Parker is easily beaten. We're speaking on a Tuesday morning at the beginning of her third term as leader of the nation's fourth-largest city. She has tackled the most provoking and most mundane of urban challenges and now, because of term limits, she has only two more years serving Houston as an elected official. She's already hearing from people who want her to run for state office.
Parker made headlines in 2010 by becoming the first openly gay mayor of a major U.S. city. Shortly after her third inauguration, she flew to California to marry her longtime partner. Parker's ascent spurred what she described as "lots and lots of frankly unearned media attention" that had the attitude of, "How could this have happened in Houston first, and not all these other places?"
Her reply: "It's because you don't know Houston."
Houston is strangely under-chronicled for a city that could fit the entirety of Chicago, Detroit, Philadelphia and Baltimore inside its 600-square-mile footprint. While the city's sprawling reach makes Los Angeles look dense, its population of 2.1 million makes it the fourth most populous city in the nation, following New York, L.A. and Chicago.
Julia Ideason Building: Houston Public Library
Houston is a profoundly international city. Twenty percent of its residents are foreign-born, with nearly as many Asians and Africans as Latinos. It's the fifth most popular city for American immigrants. As a result, Houston developed a reasonable immigration policy that those squabbling elsewhere might learn from. ...
The city's dependency on oil and gas has dimmed in the last three decades, and it is investing seriously in sustainability: Transit, green space, renewable energy and a dense urban core. Parker created the position of sustainability director for the city and recruited Laura Spanjian, from San Francisco, to run the new office. Her marching orders? "Shake things up," Parker says. In addition to investing in rail, bus and bike infrastructure, the city launched the massive Bayou Greenway Initiative, a $480 million public-private project that will transform the relationship between city residents and the bayous.
Houston is also making progress on inequality. Parker restructured the city's Office of Affirmative Action and Contract Compliance into the newly christened Office of Business Opportunity to help minority- and women-owned small businesses compete for municipal contracts. She instituted one of the most expansive anti-discrimination ordinances in the country. And Houston was first in the nation to solve its rape kit backlog, a horrific problem plaguing most major cities. Standing next to Parker to mark the achievement was another up-and-coming Lone Star Democrat: Sen. Wendy Davis. The senator — a fellow female politician with a media-friendly personal story — helped secure $11 million in state funding for Texas' 20,000 untested rape kits. Houston combined the state dollars with federal and city money to not only eliminate its backlog, but also improve evidence management in the long term.
Finally, there's Parker's stance on economic inequality. While homelessness in cities is ubiquitous to the point where it is almost accepted as a natural part of the urban fabric, Houston is working eliminate chronic homelessness. The mayor, whose son was homeless when she adopted him, dedicated her last two terms to the issue. Her inaugural reception, after all, was held at the Houston Food Bank.
None of these accomplishments were done by template, as there's no mold fit for the city's brass-tacks culture. In Houston, reform must happen on decidedly local terms. If visionary policies catch on, it's because they are useful — not because they are visionary. Here, you have to make the business case for what you do.
"We're not going to purchase renewable energy because it's great for the planet — although it is great for the planet — but because it's good for business," Parker said. "Obviously, we want to save taxpayers money when we can." Against all odds, Houston is the largest purchaser of renewable energy in the country.
Houston has become a case study for the practicality of progressivism. The city's radical transformation over the last three decades, and its finely tuned evolution under Annise Parker, speaks to the nuts and bolts of intelligent urban policy. Ideals are not the fuel here; utilitarianism is. The main mode of reform incentivizes change rather than regulates it. (This is still small-government Texas, after all.) Yet the new Houston looks far more idyllic than the old.
Downtown Houston, with rail line
And finally:
Parker calls herself a "thoroughly conventional mayor." By epitomizing the practicality prized by Houstonians, she is credible when she ventures into more classically progressive territory.
Comparing Parker with Wendy Davis, the mayor's occasional partner in the statehouse, is a study of contrasts. Davis' 11-hour filibuster in the Texas legislature won her the national spotlight, inspired a groundswell of progressive activism and propelled her gubernatorial campaign — but did not ultimately stop the abortion ban she was protesting from becoming law. Parker's managerial brand of progressivism doesn't incline her to take show-stopping risks, and her rhetoric often sounds decidedly straight-laced, even conservative. But, as she tells me, she has a list of things to accomplish, and one by one, she's checking them off.
The trick, though, will be for Parker to not let the brass tacks keep her from dreaming big and taking risks — with or without a coalition. After all, the energy for progressivism that Davis catalyzed marked a turning point for state politics in Texas. And Parker is in her final term as an elected official in Houston. As her former professor, Steve Klineberg puts it, "This is her chance to be a visionary."
Gordon Quan, who I interviewed for the story, with Irma of the famed Irma's Restaruant
You can see an excerpt of the story here. The piece happens to be the 100th Forefront feature, which is pretty great.
Here are things that happened over the last three weeks:
Here are things that did not happen over the last three weeks:
The things on the "not done" list are only palatable to me if they are temporary conditions, not a practice. I'm proud of the work done over the last few weeks, but it felt breathless and out of joint.
You know that Charlevoix retreat? It only happened because we were intentional about it. We planned ahead. We got to joyfully look forward to it for months. While there, we kept ourselves offline. And it was a perfect trip -- I experienced those days as a proper de-icing. My itch to get things done relaxed, and I basically did nothing that anyone expected or needed me to do; only things I felt like doing. (Mostly reading, as it turned out.)
Over dinner just before Charlevoix, a friend shared an exercise that she went through (in a much more involved way) on a facilitated retreat. It basically goes like this:
Step 1: What is a strength of yours?
(I picked that I'm not afraid to work hard.)
Step 2: What is a pitfall of your strength? That is, what happens if you have too much of it?
(I get too busy, and I don't leave time to care for myself or for the other meaningful parts of my life that are not work. I mis-value things: if time isn't spent "productively," I fret that I am wasting it.)
Step 3: Given your pitfall, what is your challenge? That is, what is an action to take to keep you calibrated right, so that you're acting from your strength, and not your pitfall?
(I can intentionally create space for things that are not "productive" but have meaning and delight for me. I can catch myself trying to strain, say, a lazy afternoon with a friend into something that is "useful," or when I try to problem-solve things that are not a problem I need to solve. Basically, I can learn to be attentive, to slow down, to pivot more easily into other ways of being. I can work less.)
Step 4: Who is your trigger person? Or, what is your allergy persona? That is, what is the persona that drives you mad? This is your shadow self. You know you got it when just thinking about this person/persona starts working you up! (No naming names here, but my trigger persona is people who have time and resources -- but no will or passion. People who have a lack of curiosity about the world: I just do not understand that. People who opt out. Lazy people. People who say they will do things and don't follow through. People who can't be counted on. People who skirt the edges. People afraid of effort, or snobbish about what kind of "work" is worth their time. In my experience, it is the same persona who has all these traits! And it reveals a lot about my shadow self -- the side of me that I repress, that I'm afraid of, that I'd be horrified to be known as.)
I was really struck by this exercise, because it crystallized the fluidity of our strengths and pitfalls ... and it gave me a stern look at how my irritation at my shadow self/trigger persona (Step 4) has me overcompensating, leading me straight into my pitfall (Step 2.) Once that was revealed, I started seeing it everywhere.
Our Charlevoix retreat was a way of creating space that intervenes on those old well-worn emotional patterns. I was starved for it, and am seriously and happily considering making my annual writing retreat into a twice-a-year ritual, or maybe even a seasonal one. The somewhat spontaneous decision to travel three hours each way to visit family this weekend was part of that same instinct to disrupt the habits that incline me to spend my time "accomplishing things."
But that's still not enough. I am alive every day, and I want to learn how the "creating space" model can get outside the vacation set-up.
I've been in the weeds, and I've gotten a lot done. I'm proud of it -- especially this anthology. But I'm ready to experiment with more ways of measuring worth than in output. I will try. It is hard for me to not work hard -- constantly -- because I fear that I will go hungry if I don't accept every possible assignment, and because I fear I will disappoint people, and because I've grown very accustomed to conflating my worth as a person with the worth of my work. I was a good student in school, and this came to seem like a moral good, you know? And I want to be a good person.
It's tiring, though. And while my ability to work hard is indeed a strength, it is not my only one, even though it's the one that gets all my attention and trust. Vulnerable as it feels to let go of concrete markers of value of usefulness, I'm ready to pay more attention to my shadow persona instead -- the side that says no, that lays down, that wanders, that takes great joy in not working -- to see what power she has. Writing isn't the only way to get through the weeds that choke up the days, after all. What if I relax through them instead? What if I skip rope through them, or do nothing through them? What if I just laugh?
Let's see.
American readers are not likely to discover today's Borges, Neruda, or Kafka until long after they are dead (if ever). I wrote about why for Pacific Standard:
When Alice Munro, a Canadian, won the Nobel Prize in Literature, you could almost hear the howl of relief from America's readers: finally, a winner whose name I know! And, perhaps, whose books I've even read!
American authors, journalists, and readers have been criticized for being "too isolated, too insular " about literature published outside our own borders, as a member of the Nobel committee once put it. Americans "don't really participate in the big dialogue of literature." When the internationally celebrated author Herta Müller won the Nobel in 2009, Europeans poked fun at the bafflement of Americans with headlines like: "Amerikaanse Media: 'Müller, Who the f*** Is Müller?'"
Is it true? Are American readers woefully out of touch with international literature? Is our bookish insularity limiting our imaginative lives and suffocating our understanding of the world, while inflating our own sense of self-importance?
Well, yes. But there's more to the story than that.
A meager three percent of all books published in America each year are translated from another language. The majority of that is computer manuals, instructions, and other technical material. An even smaller percentage accounts for reprints or new translations of classics—this is where War & Peace and Madame Bovary come in.
That means that contemporary global literature—fiction and poetry written by living authors—is a vanishingly tiny portion of that three percent. ...
Things are worse for female authors: only a quarter of this already microscopic number of contemporary literary translations is of works by women. No female authors have ever won the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, and four out of 22 have won the Neustadt International Prize for Literature. For all the seeming diversity of books available to American readers, the scope is actually breathtakingly narrow.
To paraphrase Zora Neale Hurston: Let us be a people who does not throw our geniuses away.
Here is a dark pearl of a poem from Maxine Kumin in 1969, four years before she won the Pulitzer Prize for Up Country. (That year, The Boston Globe featured her in the above photo.)
The Masochist
My black-eyed lover broke my back,
that hinge I swung on in and out
and never once thought twice about,
expecting a lifetime guarantee.
He snapped that simple hinge for me.
My black-eyed lover broke my back.
All delicate with touch and praise
he one by one undid the screws
that held the pin inside its cup
and when I toppled like a door
–his bitch, his bountiful, his whore–
he did not stay to lift me up.
Beware of black-eyed lovers. Some
who tease to see you all undone,
who taste and take you in the game
will later trample on your spine
as if they never called you mine,
mine, mine.
Maxine Kumin's story -- how she balanced ferocity with even-headedness, seriousness with earthiness -- unfolds here, here, here, and here. But her writing is most important. Here is a poem of hers from 2002:
Last Days


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Dracut, MA — Emile J. Dodier, 82, of Dracut, MA and formerly of Haverhill, died Monday, November 19, 2012, at his home.
Born in Haverhill, MA, the son of Edward J. and Emma (Gardner) Dodier, he attended St. Joseph Grammar School. Mr. Dodier worked in local shoe factories as an elevator operator, and also was employed at the former Western Electric Company, North Andover, MA and most recently with his brother, Raymond, in the operation of the Metrix TV Repair Shop in Plaistow, NH.
He was a member of the former St. Joseph Parish, Haverhill, MA.
He is survived by two brothers, Ronald Dodier of Honolulu, Hawaii and Raymond Dodier of Auburn, NH; a sister and brother-in-law, Yvonne and James Meehan of Haverhill; and several nieces, nephews, great nieces and nephews and great great nieces and nephews. He was pre-deceased by brothers, Roland Dodier, Edward Dodier and Lucien Dodier.
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Deroy Murdock: Hey Washington, why not spend less?
Raul Castro is right. The powerful brother of dictator Fidel Castro is almost always wrong. But he was perfectly right when he told comrades in Camaguey, Cuba: "No country has the luxury of spending more than it has."
Even now, as America slouches toward the fiscal cliff, House Speaker John Boehner and leading Republicans seem ho-hum about limiting federal expenditures and restraining a government gone crazy. President Obama and top Democrats are downright allergic to these concepts. Too bad this Cuban tyrant's rare words of wisdom escape Washington's spendaholics.
There are billions of ways to shrink the $3.8 trillion federal budget. Let's start with these:
First, the Mack Penny Plan, created by outgoing Congressman Connie Mack, R-Fla., would cut a penny from each dollar that Uncle Sam spends each year, for eight years. In 2013, Congress would spend 99 cents per dollar disbursed today; in 2014, 98 cents, etc. Rather than consume 24.3 percent of gross domestic product today, federal spending in 2020 would be capped at 18 percent, just below the 18.2 percent at which Bill Clinton left it.
Such steady reductions, spanning nearly a decade, finally would lasso the spending monster. Washington policy makers should be able to prioritize and reallocate funding within a predictable, slowly decreasing budget.
Second, Washington should terminate antiquated and extraneous programs.
-- FDR launched the Rural Electrification Administration in 1935 to bring power to Appalachia. It morphed into the Rural Utilities Service and now spends taxpayer dollars to bring wind turbines and broadband Internet to the countryside, including an $81.6 million gift to VTel Wireless. Now that Appalachia has been electrified since at least 1960, let's declare, "Mission accomplished," thank the staff, retire them and sell their offices.
-- Besides food-safety inspections, the Agriculture Department creates little value. Americans can thrive without agrocrats dictating sugar prices and paying farmers some $1.8 billion annually not to farm. Food growers and eaters can manage without Washington's relentless interference.
-- Washington expands affordable housing, so millions of Americans can buy homes, and simultaneously supports housing prices, so millions of Americans can enjoy precious nest eggs. Which is it? Washington should close the Department of Housing and Urban Development and exit the housing sector, which it nearly demolished in 2008.
-- Launched in 1970, the Public Broadcasting Service challenged the three original broadcast networks, back when many TVs received just 13 channels. Today, anyone unhappy with ABC, CBS or NBC can watch C-SPAN, the History Channel, National Geographic, Turner Classic Movies and literally hundreds of other culturally enriching offerings. Thousands of DVD titles offer tremendous educational and artistic value. And don't forget books. PBS and Jim Lehrer will survive once they fully depart the federal dole and let donations and other non-government money finance 100 percent of their budget, rather than a mere 85 percent today.
Third, between December 2008 and December 2011, Washington-based executive-branch civilian employees grew from 345,326 to 368,706. This 6.8 percent expansion across Obama's first three years is ripe for reduction, especially considering these feds' paychecks. According to Bureau of Economic Analysis data analyzed by the libertarian Cato Institute's Chris Edwards, federal civilian employees in 2011 averaged $128,226 in total compensation ($84,671 in wages and $43,555 in benefits). Private-sector workers, meanwhile, earned half of that: $64,560 ($53,463 in wages and $11,099 in benefits). Even worse, 825 directors at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac last year got paid at least $205,330.
"The federal work force has become an elite island of secure and high-paid workers, separated from the ocean of average American workers competing in the global economy," Edwards commented. "Federal wages should be frozen or cut, overly generous federal benefits should be overhauled, and the federal work force downsized through program terminations and privatization."
If Washington will not stop hiking spending, spending hikes will stop Washington. How sad that nearly every Democrat and too many Republicans cannot grasp a concept self-evident even to a Cuban communist.
New York commentator Deroy Murdock is a Fox News contributor, a nationally syndicated columnist with the Scripps Howard News Service, and a media fellow with the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace at Stanford University.
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Studying Rembrandt
So the book Tell It Slant (Brenda Miller and Suzanne Paula) came out with its 2nd edition and I have to say the writing exercises are some of the best I've ever done. (By the way you can go to the accompanying website http://mhhe.com/tellitslant )
The exercise I enjoyed most must further in the book on writers opening themselves up to the Art world out there. I chose to write a Speculative Narrative on Rembrandt's self-portrait (the 1659 one here:)
The first time I saw this painting I stopped in my tracks–I'd never realized there were painters out there who could paint something so alive.
I want to give my impression of the painting that I wrote earlier before I get into other impressions and the history and so on:
Rembrandt's 1659 self-portrait really struck me the first time I saw it, and it has ever since. I've never seen a painting more real, a portrait more genuine. The eyes. The skin. The pores. The shape of the brow muscles beneath the scant eyebrows, the hard looking tone of the skin in certain areas with those brilliant white lines, but most importantly I feel, are the eyes. For one I feel like I'm looking into a mirror when I meet his eyes. They're sad. They're lonely. Yet there's a stubborn, muted fire to them—as if he was angry for so long in all his loneliness and the anger resolved him or steeled him somewhat against his own character and he stopped allowing love in.
The intake of the lips, they're not exactly pinched but they are persed, mimicking me in the mirror—it's an action of regret. Rembrandt has regrets. What could they be of? Besides his broke and lonely heart? Not that a woman broke it—but that no one ever touched it. And he has volumes of passion. He, to me, is at a point in this portrait where he maybe has just had enough, has seen to much, judging by the attire juxtaposing those eyes. I know what it is—it looks like he's looking into his very own soul. Yes.
I haven't read yet about anyone else's take on the portait, I wanted to share my opinion before it's unintentionally swayed by facts and maybe even by others if it's a strong enough argument.
So that's my impression of the portrait. And of the artist himself. History has considered his many (over forty or fifty) portraits to be sort of a diary of self-discovery. The portraits were an important part of his oeuvre as a painter. Why he chose to do so many is kind of the mystery. It's a mystery because there are fresh arguments (with a pack behind it) being made by art historian Ernst van de Wetering–he says "self-portraits" couldn't have been made then for the purpose of self-analysis because the idea of self as "an independent I who lives and creates solely from within" arose later in the Romantic era, after 1800. They're saying the looks, the eyes, the impression–was faked for the fashion pretty much. People were trying to step away from the idealized beauty image stemming from the Catholic church. The facial expressions were becoming a new genre of the time.
I take issue with this. Isn't that basically saying our emotions and self-analysis were non-existent until it was a fad? And then fed to everyone else as popular? What…. I didn't pay attention in history very well, but I find it hard to believe the people of the past never scrutinized their own beings and questioned and doubted and sought. I highly doubt this art historian, however well respected, is an artist himself. Artists know that their drive is ancient. We just know. It's not something learned. And it didn't evolve in our brains over so short a period of time either–if you want to make that argument.
I like how the art historian (in 1961) Manuel Gasser put it: "Over the years, Rembrandt's self-portraits increasingly became a means of gaining self-knowledge, and in the end took the form of an interior dialogue: a lonely old man communicating with himself while he painted."
I'm wondering your thoughts? And what is your impression? Do you have a favorite painting or sculpture or piece? I think my favorite piece of music that I feel stirs my soul is Rachmaninoff's Nocturne in E flat. Here's a video of it. Sends me to a certain cold place every time:
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Lexington County Sheriff's Department deputies who are assigned to conduct drug interdiction on interstate highways on Tuesday, June 25 seized nine pounds of marijuana with a street value of about $10,000 following a traffic stop that the officers conducted on a motor vehicle on Interstate 20 near Leesville. Deputies arrested two Georgia men who were in the motor vehicle that deputies stopped on charges that the two men intended to sell the marijuana.
Lexington County Sheriff James R. Metts said deputies arrested Sumbundu Bacamara, 52, of 1717 Central Villa Drive, Apartment A-12, Atlanta, Ga. and Aly Sallah, 35, of 305 Pointer Court, College Park, Ga., on a charge of possessing marijuana with the intent to distribute it. Bacamara and Sallah were being held on Wednesday, June 26 at the Lexington County Detention Center while awaiting bond hearings.
At about 8:50 p.m. on Tuesday, Deputy Jason Jones, who serves as an interstate drug interdiction officer with the Traffic Division, saw a silver 2001 Lincoln LS sedan pass by his stationary patrol car in the median adjacent to eastbound lanes on Interstate 20 near mile marker 40, Metts said. Jones observed a window tint violation on the car and conducted a traffic stop on the car near mile marker 42 on I-20 near Leesville.
Jones requested assistance from a South Carolina Highway Patrol trooper who has a K-9 police dog that is trained to detect the presence of drugs in motor vehicles, Metts said. The state trooper and his K-9 police dog partner arrived at the scene of the traffic stop. The K-9 police dog detected the presence of drugs in the Lincoln LS sedan.
Jones and Deputy William Patterson, who also serves as an interstate drug interdiction officer with the Traffic Division, placed Sallah and Bacamara in investigative detention after the K-9 police dog alerted to one piece of black luggage in the car's trunk, Metts said. Jones detected a strong odor of marijuana emanating from the luggage, opened the luggage and found a large black trash bag in the luggage that contained nine clear, plastic, zip-lock bags that each contained one pound of marijuana. The nine pounds of marijuana have a street value of about $10,000.
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Authorities rescued 105 children who were forced into prostitution and arrested 150 pimps and others in a three-day law enforcement sweep in 76 American cities, the FBI said Monday. The victims, almost all girls, range in age from 13 to 17.
At least three children in Hillsborough County were rescued, according to a media release from the task force.
The largest numbers of children rescued were in San Francisco, Detroit, Milwaukee, Denver and New Orleans. The campaign, known as Operation Cross Country, was conducted under the FBI's Innocence Lost initiative.
"Child prostitution remains a persistent threat to children across the country," Ron Hosko, assistant director of the bureau's criminal investigative division, told a press conference.
The FBI said the campaign has resulted in rescuing 2,700 children since 2003.
The investigations and convictions of 1,350 have led to life imprisonment for 10 pimps and the seizure of more than $3.1 million in assets.
For the past decade, the FBI has been attacking the problem in partnership with a non-profit group, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
John Ryan, the head of the center, called the problem "an escalating threat against America's children."
The Justice Department has estimated that nearly 450,000 children run away from home each year and that one-third of teens living on the street will be lured toward prostitution within 48 hours of leaving home.
Congress has introduced legislation that would require state law enforcement, foster care and child welfare programs to identify children lured into sex trafficking as victims of abuse and neglect eligible for the appropriate protections and services.
"In much of the country today if a girl is found in the custody of a so-called pimp she is not considered to be a victim of abuse, and that's just wrong and defies common sense," Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., said during a Senate Finance Committee hearing last month. Wyden co-sponsored the bill with Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio.
The FBI issued the following statistics from central and southwest Florida:
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Recovered juveniles: 3
Number of pimps identified: 7
Number of adults arrested for prostitution: 18
Adult human trafficking victims recovered: 1
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Number of adults arrested for prostitution: 24
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Three weeks into the Preseason, and we've been seeing a few things. Most notable are all of the injuries we are accumulating. Personally, I'm getting tired of watching our players drop to the ground. The latest to take such a blow was David DeCastro. We can all sigh a bit of relief since he didn't tear his ACL, but what he did suffer yesterday was bad enough to wonder if he'll even return this season (as of right now, very unlikely).
That being said, one has to ask if getting rid of the preseason should be the solution. When I read the comments on blogs, a good majority of people have said to get rid of the preseason, but why would you do that? let's take a look at possible choices:
choice #1: Shortening the preseason
We already know the preseason had 1 game eliminated, but how about only having 2 preseason games? Do we really need to have 4 preseason games? Think about it though, those games give players a chance to earn their way to a roster spot. It's like a job interview, you come in early, warm up, and give everything that you can give to impress the boss. Shortening the preseason would mean that you wouldn't have another opportunity to earn that spot, but it can also shorten the risk of losing players to injuries. No, I'm not saying it can prevent that, but it can reduce the chances of getting hurt. However, that would also mean that players have less time to prepare for the season.
Choice #2: Get rid of it
This is what I read most of the time, getting rid of the preseason and just jump into the the season. now why would you do that? To prevent injuries? Pft, yeah right! Injuries happen all of the time. At home, at practice, during the preseason, regular season and the post season. You can say that nobody watches it, but that's a lie. We use the preseason to see where our teams are at, what needs to be done to fix things, (say the O-Line) and to give those who don't have a job an opportunity to get one. It also allows our starters to get into football shape. So if you get rid of the preseason, what are the players gonna do?
Choice #3: Leave it
To me, the preseason is like a tease, you want the season to start already, but you want to see what your team is capable of. Personally, I like how it is. You see the talent that's around to fill roster spots, those who are coming off of injuries can get into shape and those who are starters can get back into form. Changing it would mean less time to prepare. Coaches thrive off of this so they can analyze what's going to happen and what needs to be done.


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I just finished Mass Effect 2, having rolled into it right after playing Mass Effect. I won't get a chance to play Mass Effect 3 until after Ranger School.
I know I could have looked online to see how to make it through the last mission with everyone, but I enjoy playing the game blind – it's more realistic that way.
Everything was going well on the Collector Base, and when I had to choose a leader for the diversion team, I thought Mordin would be a good choice given his background with the Salarian Special Tasks Group. Well, that didn't work out, and Mordin didn't make it.
The rest of the squad made it, but only Dr. Chakwas from the Normandy.
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Many of us question whether sneakwrap agreements like the Terms of Service (ToS) of most websites should be considered a binding contractual agreement. But several stories in the news have shown a disturbing trend that goes even further -- treating a ToS violation not just as a breach of contract, but as a criminal act.
Certainly the story getting the most attention right now is the tragic cyberbullying case in which a 49-year-old woman is alleged to have harassed a teenage girl into suicide using a phony MySpace account. Lacking appropriate laws covering cyberbullying, federal prosecutors have brought charges against the woman -- in Los Angeles, MySpace's headquarters, rather than Missouri, where the woman and the teenager resided -- for violating MySpace ToS provisions. As many observers have noted, it's a real stretch to use the federal anti-hacking statutes in this way, and a very slippery slope.
Earlier this month, World of Warcraft (WoW) publisher Blizzard sued MDY, Inc., maker of a program called Glider that automates WoW play. Using a program like Glider undeniably violates the WoW EULA and terms of use, but Blizzard is also suing the company for copyright infringement, arguing that the copy of WoW loaded into RAM when using Glider is illegal, just because it violates the EULA. In other words, they're saying that using a product you've paid for can still be a copyright violation if you don't follow their fine-print rules.
And since copyright infringement can carry criminal as well as civil penalties, another piece of news that might be relevant is the "Copyright Czar" bill that the House of Representatives recently passed. With thousands of ordinary Americans falling victim to identity theft, phishing scams, etc., Congress wants to create a cabinet-level position to fund and marshal federal law enforcement resources to protect ... not us, but the motion picture and music industries. Terrific.


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NHRMC Heart Center receives quality recognition from the Society of Thoracic Surgeons
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WILMINGTON, NC - The New Hanover Regional Medical Center Heart Center has received the highest designation given to hospitals -- a three-star rating for quality of coronary artery bypass surgery -- by the Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS). Nationwide, only about 10 percent of heart centers attain this level, which is a designation recognizing quality and clinical excellence. This designation was awarded as part of a comprehensive rating system that compares the quality of cardiac surgery among hospitals across the country. The Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) has awarded the New Hanover Regional Medical Center Heart Center a three-star rating for overall quality of care and clinical excellence. The STS database is the national report card that compares the quality of cardiac surgery programs across the country. Historically, only 10 percent of hospitals receive the three-star rating.
The Society of Thoracic Surgeons collects and analyzes data on coronary artery bypass grafting surgery (CABG), the most common cardiac surgical procedure, and organizes it into four categories to determine a score. The categories include avoidance of operative mortality; avoidance of the five most serious complications of CABG surgeries; the percentage of CABG procedures that include the use of at least one of the arteries from the underside of the chest wall for bypass grafting, which generally has better outcomes; and how often all of the four medications believed to improve a patient's immediate and long-term outcomes were prescribed. The composite score is based on National Quality Forum measures. The three-star rating denotes the highest category of quality and indicates that the NHRMC Heart Center has scored significantly higher than the overall mean score. "Our physicians, nurses and staff have worked diligently to provide high quality care to our patients and we are very pleased to be recognized by this prestigious organization," said David Parks, vice president of cardiac services at New Hanover Regional Medical Center.
About the NHRMC Heart Center: New Hanover Regional Medical Center's Heart Center is home to 29 cardiologists and 3 cardiovascular surgeons who perform more than 550 surgical procedures and 12,000 diagnostic procedures each year. The NHRMC Heart Center is the only hospital in Southeastern North Carolina to perform heart surgery and is among the state's leaders in cardiac care. In recent years, the NHRMC Heart Center has received recognition for excellence from the American College of Cardiology, the American Heart Association and was named a standout hospital for cardiology and heart surgery. For more information on the services provided at the NHRMC Heart Center, visit www.nhrmc.org/heart.
About the Society of Thoracic Surgeons
The Society of Thoracic Surgeons is a not-for-profit organization representing more than 6,600 surgeons, researchers, and allied health professionals in 85 countries who are dedicated to ensuring the best possible heart, lung, esophageal, and other surgical procedures for the chest. Founded in 1964, the mission of STS is to enhance the ability of cardiothoracic surgeons to provide the highest quality patient care through education, research, and advocacy.


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Kagan Fulfills a Promise and Goes Hunting with Justice Scalia
Posted Oct 20, 2011 9:45 AM CDT
By Debra Cassens Weiss
Corrected: During a courtesy call before her confirmation, Justice Elena Kagan responded to a remark by Sen. James Risch, R-Idaho, about gun rights.
Risch told Kagan she may not realize how important the issue was to most Americans, Kagan recalled in a speech Tuesday to the Beth Tfiloh Congregation in Baltimore.
Kagan said she had never owned or fired a gun, CNN reports. "But I told the senator if I was fortunate enough to be confirmed, I would go hunting with Justice Scalia," she told the congregation.
Kagan lived up to her word. She has accompanied Scalia to a shooting range and on several hunting trips, she said. "It turns out, it's kind of fun," she added.
Kagan also spoke about being the first girl to have a bat mitzvah at her synagogue, which occurred after she negotiated with the rabbi, the CNN story says. Negotiating with the rabbi "shaped my life," she said. "It was a formative experience, and I guess I've always been a striver."
Hat tip to How Appealing.
Story corrected to say it was Sen. Risch who asked about gun rights, in accord with an updated version of CNN's story.
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Vote for Rocket as ESPY Best Play!
This year, the ESPYs are doing a 16-play bracket to determine the winner of "Best Play" and our very own "Rocket" is a 9-seed going up against the 8-seed Watford 3-pointer to beat UK (pitting 2 B1G fanbases against each other). Voting on the first round closes TOMORROW, July 3, so get out the vote as much as you can to ensure that this immortal play makes it to the Final Four that is announced the night of the show. Also, when you vote, vote for the 16-seed to upset the 1-seed to make the next round's matchup easier. This is your duty as Spartans. And Spartans Will.


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Central America Solidarity Activists
Central America Solidarity activists collection. 1986 -1990.
22.5 cm of textual records. 52 audio cassettes.
Lorne A. Brown, who taught political science at the University of Regina
in the 1980s, was active in the Central America Solidarity Movement.
He was also a member of the Central America Working Group in Regina.
In 1986 he decided to edit an anthology, assisted by Janice Acton and
Miaja Kagis, to reflect the experiences of Canadians who have
worked in, travelled to, observed or been associated with developments
in several Central American countries, with an emphasis on Nicaragua.
To accomplish this task, he contacted Canadian solidarity activists
in trade unions, the National Farmers Union, churches, teachers
association and other groups, including Tools for Peace. Although
the anthology was never published, many activists were interviewed.
The collection consists of interviews contained on audio cassettes along
with transcripts of many of the interviews. Most of the interviews are
in English but some are in French.
Researchers may also want to consult
the Tools for Peace fonds.
Title based on content of the collection.
The collection was acquired in two accruals: the first (28-2008) from
Janice Acton and the second (40-2008) from Lorne A. Browne.
Finding aid available in hard copy and electronically.
There are no access restrictions.
Further accruals are not expected.
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At the 2014 NAMM show in Anaheim, The Music & Sound Retailer will present the 28th Annual Music & Sound Awards. As you know, a Music & Sound Award is the industry's most prestigious award, and the only award based on a poll of every American dealer and manufacturer; it is the only award that is NOT selected by an editorial board or influenced by advertising revenue.
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Police arrested 25 people at Stonehenge overnight after an estimated 37,000 people saw the sun rise on the longest day in the calendar.
Officers with Wiltshire Police said the arrests were largely for drugs-related offences.
The Summer Solstice has a long tradition of attracting people to monuments such as Stonehenge, off the A303, where latter-day Druids gather to witness the sun rising on the longest day.
A police spokesman said: "We are pleased that the Solstice celebrations at Stonehenge and Avebury have been enjoyable events for the majority of people attending.
"There were 25 arrests at Stonehenge and two at Avebury which were mainly for drug-related offences.
"The road system worked well with minimum delays and many people used the public transport as we advised people to do. Every year there are new challenges for us at Solstice but it is always a pleasure to see so many people enjoying the event.
"This year we estimate 36,000 people visited the stones throughout the night. There is always a small proportion of people who will try to break the law but I am satisfied that this was a successful policing operation and Wiltshire Police continue to facilitate a safe Solstice with our partners."


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Get off to a good start for a fit and healthy New Year.
1. Be Determined to be Successful
Someone once wrote: "Be Determined to Be Determined" -- which is similar in tone and even more pointed. Unless you start with this resolution, you chances of success are not good. Your ability to comply with the following resolutions will be hit and miss. Be determined.
2. Make Time for Exercise
Being in shape involves two essential elements: Lean weight and muscular and cardiorespiratory fitness. For this you need to do exercise, which differs from general physical activity in that exercise is generally an organized process and not random movement. Even so, non-exercise physical activity is also very important (see below).
3. Stick to a Diet and Nutrition Plan
How to eat well is not difficult. Eat mostly plants -- fruit and veg, whole grains, beans and seeds -- plus some low-fat protein of your choice. And don't overeat. That's it, there are no secrets, you just have to do it. Ultimately, it should not be a "plan" but a way of eating for life.
4. Get Sufficient Sleep
Insufficient sleep can knock you around. It upsets hormones and subsequently metabolism and prevents you from following the three critical resolutions above. Sleep is another fitness fundamental and you must accommodate it.
5. Move More Around the Home
General movement energy expenditure is called 'non-exercise activity thermogenesis' or NEAT. This is the activity you do when you are not formally exercising. It can make a real difference to daily energy expenditure and calorie balance. Do more NEAT like gardening, housework, walking kids to school or shops etc.
6. Fewer TV and Computer Sessions
This relates to No 5 above. You need to sit less. The health hazards or prolonged sitting are being gradually documented: heart disease, diabetes and metabolic syndromes all caused by excessive sitting. It's not what the body was designed for. Excessive sitting can negate some of your better exercise efforts if you get the proportions wrong. Sit less, move more in your leisure hours, and even at work if you can manage it.
7. Eat More Fresh Food, Less Packaged Food
Bodybuilders call this "eating clean," and it means emphasizing fresh produce, low-fat meats and dairy (or vegetarian equivalents), and avoiding packaged foods high in salt, sugars and fat plus additives and preservatives. If you do this, you will also see a useful fall in your supermarket budget if you choose wisely. It also means going easy on the fast foods and take-aways.
8. Do Cardio and Weights
For top of the line fitness, combine aerobic conditioning (cardio) with some form of resistance or weight training. Doing weight training as you lose weight will go some way toward maintaining muscle while you lose fat, which is the best outcome. Cardio will burn more fat than static weight lifting, so do both for best effect.
9. Aim for Achievable Fitness Goals
Don't overshoot with your goals. A sure way to get discouraged is to aim high and perform low. You need to nominate achievable goals. Depending on your base, you may need 6 months of exercise to develop a good, testable fitness level. Don't work too hard with high-intensity or high-volume programs to begin with. The secret is to use progressive programs as you get fitter.
10. Aim for Achievable Body Weight Goals
Same as above; 1-2 pounds/week weight loss is about right. If you do weights and hold on to or increase muscle, you may find you weight loss is not as rapid as you expect and may even stall. Take more notice of waist and hip, arm and leg measurements than measurement scale weights. Then you won't be fooled by the involvement of muscle.
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|Oneida giving away local fishing package
The Oneida County Tourism Department has launched the Hook, Line & Sinker Sweepstakes, which will award one grand-prize winner with a fishing trip for two, including lodging and a full-day guided fishing trip.
To enter, visit oneidacountywi.com or facebook. com/OneidaCountyWI, click on the Hook, Line & Sinker Sweepstakes logo and enter your information.The sweepstakes is accepting entries through July 31,
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BLUEFIELD, W. Va (WVVA)- An argument inside a Bluefield strip club ends in gunfire.
22-year old Richard Saunders of Bluefield is charged with two counts of attempted murder in the shooting of a unidentified female.
He also faces eight counts of wanton endangerment.
Police say the charges stem from an incident that happened around 3:30 this morning at the Sweet Dreams Gentlemen's Club on Grassy Branch Road.
Apparently an argument started inside the club, then it got physical, and everyone involved was kicked out.
When one of the parties attempted to leave, police say Saunders fired his gun at a vehicle ....striking the woman.
Saunders' bond is set at $100,000 cash.


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Monday's deadline for signing up for insurance under the new health care law has effectively been extended through Tuesday in case of heavy demand on the government website. Julie Bataille, a spokeswoman for the federal agency overseeing the Obama administration's health overhaul, says the grace period is being offered to accommodate people from different time zones and to deal with potential technical problems that could result from a last-minute rush of applicants. Monday was the deadline for Americans who wanted coverage that started on Jan. 1. The federal HealthCare.gov system serves 36 states (excluding Nevada). Some other states have also extended enrollment deadlines slightly.
Meanwhile, In a symbolic step, President Barack Obama has signed up for health insurance through the new exchanges created by his health care overhaul. The White House says Obama signed up through the Washington, D.C., marketplace over the weekend. Because he signed up in private, without reporters present, it was unclear whether Obama encountered any of the website glitches that millions of other Americans have experienced. The White House says Obama selected a plan at the less-expensive "bronze" level. Obama will continue receiving health care through the military. But when he signed the Affordable Care Act into law in 2010, the White House pledged Obama would personally participate. The White House says he enrolled to show support for the marketplaces. (AP)
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Just days after announcing plans to acquire Hughes Telematics for $612 million, Verizon Wireless said it has partnered with a group of automotive companies to form the awkwardly named 4G Venture Forum for Connected Cars. The "forum" tasks itself with pushing "the pace of innovation" into the LTE-enabled automotive and telematics ecosystem, and is an extension of Verizon Wireless' previous work through its 4G Venture Forum.
Initial partners with Verizon Wireless include BMW, Honda, Hyundai, Kia and Toyota, as well as MIT professor Sanjay Sarma. The group said it will work on ways to deliver cellular connectivity to vehicles using open standards and to help support the development of an LTE-based ecosystem.
"The 4G Venture Forum for Connected Cars will help discover ways to increase the value of services, ranging from embedded cloud-connected solutions to mobile applications; help define features and explore safety systems; and encourage third-party developers in this space," the collaborators noted in a statement.
No word if the support would also include various spectrum bands currently being used to deploy LTE services, though the group did note that it would support and fund opportunities regardless of underlying network technology and that members were not obligated to work with Verizon Wireless on solutions. Verizon Wireless already has a significant foot in the telematics space by providing cellular service to General Motors' OnStar service.
Juniper Reserch released a report earlier this year forecasting that intelligent vehicles embedded with wireless connectivity could generate up to $14.4 billion in revenues by 2016, at which point up to 92 million vehicles will have some form of Internet connectivity and the ability to integrate smartphone functionality.
"Intelligent vehicles can now come equipped with features including safety, security, navigation and emergency service access under the same subscription," said Anthony Cox, the report's author. Cox added that targeted services for insurance and stolen vehicle recovery are also gaining momentum through regional players and that the United States was currently at the forefront of deployments.
Bottom Line: The telematics space has for years been viewed as a significant growth opportunity for the cellular industry as consumers look to remain connected at all times and automotive manufacturers look to increase the appeal of their products. This deal shows that many of the biggest players continue to see great potential and that partnerships will be vital to success in the space. However, as with most deals to this point, there remains a lot of gray areas in this agreement that would seem to diffuse the potential. Plus, continued concerns over distracted driving will likely keep players at arms length until legal ramifications can be hammered out.
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