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Adoremus, Society for the Renewal of the Sacred Liturgy
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August 2012
Vol. XVIII, No. 5
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Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Juan Martín Cabezalero (1633-1673)
Oil on canvas - 1665-70, Museo del Prado, Madrid.
Juan Martín Cabezalero was active during the reign of Charles II of Spain, and was influenced by Anthony Van Dyke, the Flemish artist renowned as the portrait artist to the English court.
This painting depicts ten of the apostles, some mostly hidden, gazing into the empty tomb of the Virgin Mary. One of them (lower left) is casting roses into her tomb. Only one, Peter (center left, in shadow), has as yet noticed that Mary is being borne heavenward by angels and he gestures to call attention to the amazing event of her assumption into heaven. Unlike her Son, the Blessed Virgin does not ascend to heaven by her own power, but is carried aloft by angels.
News & Views -- Archbishop DiNoia VP of Ecclesia Dei -- Bishop Roche to CDW | Synod of Bishops on New Evangelization | Pope to Name New Doctors of the Church | Australian Ordinariate Established | UK Ordinariate Publishes Prayer Book
USCCB June 2012 Meeting Report: Bishops Discuss Key Social Issues -- and Scripture Translation -- by Helen Hull Hitchcock and Susan Benofy
The Cathedral from the Romanesque to the Gothic: The Theological Background -- Pope Benedict XVI
The Myth of the Domus Ecclesiae -- and how this has influenced modern Church architecture -- by Steven J. Schloeder
Readers' Forum -- AB a Valued Resource | Pro Multis | The Tabernacle and the New Evangelization | Ember and Rogation Days | Holy Spirit is a She? | Who May Be in the Sanctuary? | Our Babel of Bibles
Pope Benedict XVI's Message to the 50th International Eucharistic Congress: "Here we wish to encounter the Risen Lord ... and to become witnesses to His love"
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Almighty ever-living God, who assumed the
Immaculate Virgin Mary, the Mother of your Son, body and soul into heavenly glory,
Grant, we pray, that, always attentive to the things that are above, we may merit to be sharers of her glory.
Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.
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text: Step back in time to the 70,s re the decor, due for a makeover methinks although it's a cosy little place, service not particularly welcoming, waitress just going through the motions, I ordered lentil kedgeree which although quite tasty bore no connection to kedgeree at at all , a rather dry mix of yellow lentils and rice spiced up with cardomon pods etc, decent portion with a nicely sliced whole avocado on top and a rather ordinary side salad. Oh and a little pot of potatoe and tomatoe curry which was ok but will hardly have veeraswarmys quaking in their boots. All in all though a fair meal, will probably go again as both my wife and son are veggies , I being normal!

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Monday, July 22, 2013
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What a seriously awesome photograph. If you posted it out on Facebook, I bet it'd go viral. Did you see the drumming grandma on the news? What a hoot. She didn't even know what Youtube.ReplyDelete
Meanwhile, why was gramma looking so um, unhappy here?
Left out was.
Didn't know what Youtube was.
I hate seeing my typos after I post stuff.
Meanwhile, can you still access James's blog? If so, tell him I can't. It tells me I'm not an invited reader. I miss reading him.
I have no idea why she's making that face!! I think she's just being ornery and I happened to catch her at the exact right moment to make her look SO angry. She's smiling in the photos just seconds before this and after this...just a lucky snap!ReplyDelete
As for James, I emailed him. I am also locked out of his blog. I'll let ya know what he says.
hey maria I made it. thank you. I love this photo. If you look at her mouth, there's a smile there just starting, but the scowl in the image itself is priceless....ReplyDelete


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hi guys am thinking of switching to sat from cable, can you guys help me by telling me what i will need. i have an openmedia box which am using to watch cable channel. ( most of the channel are gone)
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thanks for the reply eamo
can anyone tell me if i need normal 75ohm coax cable to connect into this box, i have/had a starview box but today i have fallen victim to the nagra3 and i cant be dealin with welfare tv
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BHSN-Bridgeport Hospital School of Nursing Fall 2011 - page 49
Started a new thread, since the other threads on this topic look like they are from last year. Okay, I just got my acceptance letter in the mail today!! I was going totally mental with anxiety, checking this board... Read More
- 0Jan 19, '12 by altheawelshallforthekids I have been following your posts, I reaaaaaaaaaly hope you get in. Keep me posted.
- 0Jan 20, '12 by allforthekiddsThanks, me too!! I am very frustrated with NVCC, they sent an email to check mycommnet because they posted the page that states if we are missing anything or not. Well it says I am missing a transcript from my old college, but I know that it was sent to them a few weeks ago. Then it says that anything missing has to be sent to them by Feb 1st, and at the bottom of the email it says not to call the school if we see anything is missing, wth??? At least when I call bhsn they answer and are very helpful. If I get into both, I think NVCC is making my decision easier
- 0Jan 21, '12 by allforthekiddsWell I received the letter that lets me know what may be missing in my application and it says that I am missing my teas, even though I spoke to someone a few weeks ago and she said they had it:icon_roll. Oh well, I just emailed them to let them know. So hopefully they find it fast, I'm getting antsy
- 0Jan 23, '12 by allforthekiddsJust got an email saying that they have my TEAS score and that my application is being reviewed, ahhh, I'm really nervous now. There is only one thing that is making me nervous and that is my essay, everything else I have is good, great references, my gpa is 3.96 (A- in Eng Lit, everything else A's), Teas score was 81.3, taking A&P 2 and Micro now. I am praying that I get accepted. Sorry, rambling, just really nervous, oh well seems I'm the only one posting lately,lol..Anyone else waiting??
- 0Jan 26, '12 by RooskenatorI'm waiting too!!! Haven't even gotten my letter saying what they have/don't have yet. My essay also makes me nervous. Have taken:
Micro: A
Chem: A
Calculus: C (I know, I know. It's from my undergrad. Should've just taken MAT 137 over again to replace it.)
Psych: AP credit
Eng I: AP credit
Eng II: B+
Public Speaking: B+
My undergrad GPA is pretty unimpressive, so hopefully this is enough to make up for it & they actually have all of my stuff. Also applied to GWCC, but if given the option I think I'd choose BHSN even though I live .3 miles from GWCC. Also, I've been a stay-at-home mommy for a few years now, so my previous employment is probably not as strong as others either & they tend to look at the whole picture.
Who all has heard back so far??
- 1Jan 26, '12 by allforthekiddsYour grades look really good, your lucky you have A&P II and Micro under your belt, I'm taking those two now. I've been a stay at home mom to 5 for the last 12 years and my last job I was a receptionist, so I hope they don't look down on that. I don't know about you, but being a stay at home mom is a 24/7 job, the hardest job I have ever had and I believe that it has prepared me to be the best nurse possible
- 0Jan 26, '12 by RooskenatorI wholeheartedly agree!!! (Especially if you have 5) That is amazing that you have time to care for 5 children AND do your nursing pre-requ's. It was hard enough with one, I can't even imagine doing this with 5 kiddos. And that's pretty brave to do A&P and Micro at the same time. I spread them out to lessen my pain Good luck allforthekidds!!! Hopefully we'll be classmates next year!
- 0Feb 3, '12 by NurseLCoop2BSo..... I got an acceptance letter in the mail dated Jan 31st !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
SO ecstatic right now, I feel so great and I am excited to say I will be joining all you other luck guys/ girls in the fall
I guess the hard part of getting in is over, now all we have to do is hold our ground til the NCLEX
Congrats to everyone else that has heard back and good luck on your journey:spin:
SN: I'm hoping to do the Accelerated Program, anyone heard of the pace and what to expect if you are accepted to the accelerated program?
- 1Feb 17, '12 by altheawelshCongratulations to all those accepted into Bridgeport Hospital School of Nursing for Fall 2012, See you there!!! Can't wait
- 0Feb 27, '12 by RooskenatorOK, so this may be a little bit psycho... but I just read through all 49 pages of this thread. I got my acceptance letter today & am DYING for any and all info. A lot of you have posted a ton of scheduling/accelerated option/books info & it has been SUCH a huge help!
Questions for any of the students from the fall of 2010 class (if you are still reading): Did you get hired by Bridgeport? Does anyone know if they still do the 2 year contracts? If you are going into a BSN bridge program, when can you start applying to those if you went to BHSN? And lastly, when to you sit for the NCLEX?
A lot of questions, I know, but I can hardly contain myself Any and all comments and/or advice would be greatly appreciated!! Thanks in advance.


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Summer months in Buenos Aires can turn out to be unbearable and put us in a bad mood if we don't find a place to refresh our minds and take refuge from the heat. In comparision to its incredibly wide array of possibilities in terms of pleasures, we have a slight doubt about the abilities of Buenos Aires to offer us nice swimming pools. To answer this doubt, we went on the quest to find the best oasis in town and selected the ones we thought you would like. (…)
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Faena: its concept lies on the idea of « universes » where each space makes us feel just like Alice in Wonderland. In addition, the design of these universes was realised by Philippe Stark, the french designer worldwidely famous for the conveniency and the esthetics of his creations. The « Faena Hotel + Univers » was the first project of Stark in south America ; he helped the businessman Alan Faena in his attempt to rebuild Buenos Aires' « Belle Epoque » in a luxury hotel in front of the river. The building hosts an art gallery, a gourmet food market and a pool with a bar where a DJ plays when the sun goes down. The price is $ 150 and includes a very fancy dressing room and deckchairs. For US$ 200 you can get in the spa with Sauna and turkish bath. You don't need to make a reservation and the pool is open every day from 9 to 21.Martha Salotti 445, Puerto Madero.
Four Seasons: The former Park Hyatt Hotel, located in Posadas 1086, offers an outside pool in the garden of its magnificent mansion. You cqn also enjoy the solarium, the turkish bath, the sauna, the aromatherapy space, the gym, the jacuzzi and the spa and beauty services. Every day from 7 to 21, US$ 75, reservation needed. (4321-1642 / 4393-4466)
Claridge: The gym with its sport devices and its sauna opens onto a garden with a nice swimming pool. You don't need to bring your own towel and you will appreciate the salad, tea and fresh fruits bar. The prices are 190$ for one day and 640$ a month for 6 months. Open from Monday to Friday and from 8 to 20, a reservation is needed. (4314-7700). Tucuman 535
Hilton: The 7th floor hosts an outdoor swimming pool and a solarium and offers an incredible view on the Rio de Plata. You can also have a drink at the pool bar, exercize at the gym, enjoy the jacuzzi, the sauna and the massage spaces. All included for 200$ a day, don't forget to make a reservation at least one day in advance, and come from Monday to Friday (8 to 20). Macacha Güemes 351. 4891-0035
Villas Club Palermo: a unique and special space for all the « afficionados » of sport and healthy life. In addition to swimming pool, you can also enjoy the tennis courts, the paddle tables and a nice bar where you can have lunch during the week-ends. Open every day from 9 to 20, 265$ from Monday to Friday and 305$ on the week-ends. Valentin Alsina 1450
The affordable option: The outdoor sport complex Parque Norte, extending over 30 hectares in the heart of the city ( corner of Avenida Cantilo and Güiraldes) is the perfect place to go with a large group of people or amuse the kids in the week-ends. You will find four pools with water slides and one pool exclusively dedicated to the children. If laying in the sun without doing anything is not your cup of tea, you can do water-boxing, water-aerobic, spinning, play beach-volley or take classes of latin danses. Waterpolo, basket-ball and soccer tournaments are also organized. The prices are 25$ a day (9 to 20) during the week and 35$ during the week-ends and the holidays.
If you want to step out of the routine and forget about the ambient heat for a while, you don't have any excuse left ! Enjoy it !


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Over the weekend my YayTM got posted to Hackaday. Very cool except I'd failed to post documentation or source code, and the comments on this site were broken. I was notably called a "goober" and an "immature sociopath", among other things. Getting insulted by the Internet is cool, a rite of passage even, and nothing to be taken personally or seriously, but some of the comments were totally valid. I should have documented this thing. So here we go, after the nonjump.
The image above is of some sketches I did trying to figure out how the dance detection would work, and how to build the acrylic box. Source code of the actual processing sketch is available here, but it's totally and completely awful code that I can't recommend reading in good conscience, but be my guest. I should have written or found some sort of scripting/events system. Next time.
The bill dispenser was ten dollars used on ebay and was manufactured by ICT. I burned out the circuit board pretty quickly while messing around with it, but the motor continued to work, so with a little cajoling and the installation of my own LED and sensor, I was able to dispense dollar bills using an Arduino and Processing.
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A Walk in the Park at Frozen Head
Thunder rumbled and a fine mist settled over the cove at the Visitors Center at Frozen Head State Park and Natural Area on the beautiful Cumberland Plateau as I spoke with Ranger Jacob Ingram.
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Ferns and wildflowers lined the picnic areas and walkways. But Flat Fork Creek, which is stocked with rainbow trout during February and March, was essentially dry.
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As rewarding as enjoying the bounty of nature at its unspoiled best can be, there are special events scheduled throughout the year to appreciate other aspects of the park and its history.
On Saturday, July 28 the annual CCC Reunion is being held. There will be demonstrations ranging from shingle making to cross cut sawing, photo displays and opportunities throughout the day to appreciate the work done by the members of the CCC camp established at what was then known as Morgan State Forest. The young men worked hard for their $30 per month, $25 of which was sent home to help their families. They surveyed boundaries, built ranger's headquarters along Flat Fork Creek, dug fire control roads and trails and erected the lookout tower on Frozen Head Mountain. The camp disbanded as World War II began but evidence of their labor remains to this day.
Saturday, August 11 is a time to celebrate the arts, crafts, food and music of the Cumberland Mountains during Heritage Day. Craftspeople, story tellers, demonstrators and old time Appalachian music makers from around the region will perform throughout the day. Vendors will be on site. Admission is free. Contact the park at 423-346-3318 for more information. And be sure to check out more information on all of Tennessee's State Parks at tnvacation.com/75.


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First Warden: Ken Lacoste, Republican
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Classics I Forgot To Read
The Classics I Forgot To Read Book Club
In choosing our classics we've tried to select titles that had some visibility among readers, but were not necessarily included in the standard high school English class. We've also sampled a range of genres, from mystery to comedy to stream-of-consciousness. So, whether our picks are already gathering dust on your bookshelves or this is your first encounter with the literary canon, we encourage you to join us!
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December 2014 Selection: Bazarov--a gifted, impatient, and caustic young man--has journeyed from school to the home of his friend Arkady Kirsanov. But soon Bazarov's outspoken rejection of authority and social conventions touches off quarrels, misunderstandings, and romantic entanglements that will utterly transform the Kirsanov household and reflect the changes taking place all across nineteenth-century Russia.
"Fathers and Sons" enraged the old and the young, reactionaries, romantics, and radicals alike when it was first published. At the same time, Turgenev won the acclaim of Flaubert, Maupassant, and Henry James for his craftsmanship as a writer and his psychological insight. "Fathers and Sons" is now considered one of the world's greatest novels.
A timeless depiction of generational conflict during social upheaval, it vividly portrays the clash between the older Russian aristocracy and the youthful radicalism that foreshadowed the revolution to come--and offers modern-day readers much to reflect upon as they look around at their own tumultuous, changing world.
Introduction by Jane Costlow
October 2014 Selection: Jim, the first mate aboard the Patna, dreams youthful dreams of heroism and of the daring act that will prove his courage. But when the Patna collides with a mysterious obstacle, Jim panics and jumps free. This act of cowardice drives him to exile as a white trader in the remote tropical outpost of Patusan.
September 2014 Selection: In Monterey, on the California coast, Sweet Thursday is what they call the day after Lousy Wednesday, which is one of those days that are just naturally bad. Returning to the scene of Cannery Rowathe weedy lots and junk heaps and flophouses of Monterey, John Steinbeck once more brings to life the denizens of a netherworld of laughter and tearsafrom Fauna, new headmistress of the local brothel, to Hazel, a bum whose mother must have wanted a daughter.
August 2014 Selection: Based on his own experience of the Great War, Henri Barbusseas novel is a powerful account of one of the greatest horrors mankind has inflicted on itself. For the group of ordinary men in the French Sixth Battalion, thrown together from all over France and longing for home, war is simply a matter of survival, lightened only by the arrival of their rations or a glimpse of a pretty girl or a brief reprieve in the hospital. Reminiscent of classics like Hemingwayas A Farewell to Arms and Remarqueas All Quiet on the Western Front, Under Fire (originally published in French as La Feu) vividly evokes life in the trenchesathe mud, stench, and monotony of waiting while constantly fearing for oneas life in an infernal and seemingly eternal battlefield.
July 2014 Selection: First published in 1908, A Room with a View portrays the love of a British woman for an expatriate living in Italy. Caught up in a world of social snobbery, Forster's heroine, Lucy Honeychurch, finds herself constrained by the claustrophobic influence of her British guardians, who encourage her to take up with a well-connected boor. In the end, however, Lucy takes control of her own fate and finds love with a man whose free spirit reminds her of "a room with a view."
June 2014 Selection: Written in a time when criminal biographies enjoyed great success, Daniel Defoe's Moll Flanders details the life of the irresistible Moll and her struggles through poverty and sin in search of property and power. Born in Newgate Prison to a picaresque mother, Moll propels herself through marriages, periods of success and destitution, and a trip to the New World and back, only to return to the place of her birth as a popular prostitute and brilliant thief. The story of Moll Flanders vividly illustrates Defoe's themes of social mobility and predestination, sin, redemption and reward.
This Modern Library Paperback Classic is set from the 1721 edition printed by Chetwood in London, the only edition approved by Defoe.
May 2014 Selection: A vivid depiction of the suffering history has imposed upon the people of Bosnia from the late 16th century to the beginning of World War I, The Bridge on the Drina was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1961. As we seek to make sense of the current nightmare in this region, this remarkable, timely book serves as a reliable guide to its people and history. No better introduction to the study of Balkan and Ottoman history exists, nor do I know of any work of fiction that more persuasively introduces the reader to a civilization other than our own. It is an intellectual and emotional adventure to encounter the Ottoman world through Andric's pages in its grandiose beginning and at its tottering finale. It is, in short, a marvelous work, a masterpiece, and very much sui generis. . . . Andric's sensitive portrait of social change in distant Bosnia has revelatory force. (William H. McNeill, from the introduction)Born in Bosnia, Ivo Andric (1892-1975) was a distinguished diplomat and novelist. His books include The Damned Yard: And Other Stories, and The Days of the Consuls.
April 2014 Selection: Winner of the 1961 National Book Award
The dazzling novel that established Walker Percy as one of the major voices in Southern literature is now available for the first time in Vintage paperback.
"The Moviegoer" is Binx Bolling, a young New Orleans stockbroker who surveys the world with the detached gaze of a Bourbon Street dandy even as he yearns for a spiritual redemption he cannot bring himself to believe in. On the eve of his thirtieth birthday, he occupies himself dallying with his secretaries and going to movies, which provide him with the "treasurable moments" absent from his real life. But one fateful Mardi Gras, Binx embarks on a hare-brained quest that outrages his family, endangers his fragile cousin Kate, and sends him reeling through the chaos of New Orleans' French Quarter. Wry and wrenching, rich in irony and romance, The Moviegoer is a genuine American classic.
March 2014 Selection:
Set in the 1860s, "The Leopard" tells the spellbinding story of a decadent, dying Sicilian aristocracy threatened by the approaching forces of democracy and revolution. The dramatic sweep and richness of observation, the seamless intertwining of public and private worlds, and the grasp of human frailty imbue" The Leopard" with its particular melancholy beauty and power, and place it among the greatest historical novels of our time.
Although Giuseppe di Lampedusa had long had the book in mind, he began writing it only in his late fifties; he died at age sixty, soon after the manuscript was rejected as unpublishable. In his introduction, Gioacchino Lanza Tomasi, Lampedusa's nephew, gives us a detailed history of the initial publication and the various editions that followed. And he includes passages Lampedusa wrote for the book that were omitted by the original Italian editors.
Here, finally, is the definitive edition of this brilliant and timeless novel.
"(Translated from the Italian by Archibald Colquhoun.)"
February 2014 Selection: The original drug memoir--a true 19th-century account of the pleasures and pains of addiction
Once upon a time, opium, the main ingredient in heroin, was easily available over the chemist's counter. The secret of happiness, about which philosophers have disputed for so many ages, could be bought for a penny, and carried in the waistcoat pocket--portable ecstasies could be corked up in a pint bottle.""Paradise? So thought Thomas de Quincey, but he soon discovered that "nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium."
January 2014 Selection: Ford Madox Ford's masterpiece, a tetralogy set in England during World War I, is widely considered one of the best novels of the twentieth century.
First published as four separate novels ("Some Do Not . . ., No More Parades, A Man Could Stand Up--, and The Last Post) "between 1924 and 1928, "Parade's End" explores the world of the English ruling class as it descends into the chaos of war. Christopher Tietjens is an officer from a wealthy family who finds himself torn between his unfaithful socialite wife, Sylvia, and his suffragette mistress, Valentine. A profound portrait of one man's internal struggles during a time of brutal world conflict, "Parade's End" bears out Graham Greene's prediction that "There is no novelist of this century more likely to live than Ford Madox Ford."
November 2013 Selection: Featured in this rich collection are "Billy Budd," Melville's posthumously published novella; a chapter from Melville's masterpiece, "Moby-Dick;" and the short stories The Piazza, The Bell-Tower, and Bartleby, along with a new Introduction. Revised reissue.
October 2013 Selction: Regarded by many as the finest, and funniest, comic novel of the twentieth century, "Lucky Jim" remains as trenchant, withering, and eloquently misanthropic as when it first scandalized readers in 1954. This is the story of Jim Dixon, a hapless lecturer in medieval history at a provincial university who knows better than most that "there was no end to the ways in which nice things are nicer than nasty ones." Kingsley Amis's scabrous debut leads the reader through a gallery of emphatically English bores, cranks, frauds, and neurotics with whom Dixon must contend in one way or another in order to hold on to his cushy academic perch and win the girl of his fancy.
More than just a merciless satire of cloistered college life and stuffy postwar manners, "Lucky Jim" is an attack on the forces of boredom, whatever form they may take, and a work of art that at once distills and extends an entire tradition of English comic writing, from Fielding and Dickens through Wodehouse and Waugh. As Christopher Hitchens has written, "If you can picture Bertie or Jeeves being capable of actual malice, and simultaneously imagine Evelyn Waugh forgetting about original sin, you have the combination of innocence and experience that makes this short romp so imperishable."
August 2013 Selection:
Winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards
A groundbreaking work of science fiction, The Left Hand of Darkness tells the story of a lone human emissary to Winter, an alien world whose inhabitants can change their gender. His goal is to facilitate Winter's inclusion in a growing intergalactic civilization. But to do so he must bridge the gulf between his own views and those of the completely dissimilar culture that he encounters. Embracing the aspects of psychology, society, and human emotion on an alien world, The Left Hand of Darkness stands as a landmark achievement in the annals of intellectual science fiction.
July 2013 Selection: Since its publication in 1842, Dead Souls has been celebrated as a supremely realistic portrait of provincial Russian life and as a splendidly exaggerated tale; as a paean to the Russian spirit and as a remorseless satire of imperial Russian venality, vulgarity, and pomp. As Gogol's wily antihero, Chichikov, combs the back country wheeling and dealing for "dead souls"--deceased serfs who still represent money to anyone sharp enough to trade in them--we are introduced to a Dickensian cast of peasants, landowners, and conniving petty officials, few of whom can resist the seductive illogic of Chichikov's proposition. This lively, idiomatic English version by the award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky makes accessible the full extent of the novel's lyricism, sulphurous humor, and delight in human oddity and error.
June 2013 Selection: Nevil Shute's most beloved novel, a tale of love and war, follows its enterprising heroine from the Malayan jungle during World War II to the rugged Australian outback.
Jean Paget, a young Englishwoman living in Malaya, is captured by the invading Japanese and forced on a brutal seven-month death march with dozens of other women and children. A few years after the war, Jean is back in England, the nightmare behind her. However, an unexpected inheritance inspires her to return to Malaya to give something back to the villagers who saved her life. But it turns out that they have a gift for her as well: the news that the young Australian soldier, Joe Harmon, who had risked his life to help the women, had miraculously survived. Jean's search for Joe leads her to a desolate Australian outpost called Willstown, where she finds a challenge that will draw on all the resourcefulness and spirit that carried her through her war-time ordeals.
May 2013 Selection: Part of Emile Zola's multigenerational Rougon-Macquart saga, The Belly of Paris is the story of Florent Quenu, a wrongly accused man who escapes imprisonment on Devil's Island. Returning to his native Paris, Florent finds a city he barely recognizes, with its working classes displaced to make way for broad boulevards and bourgeois flats. Living with his brother's family in the newly rebuilt Les Halles market, Florent is soon caught up in a dangerous maelstrom of food and politics. Amid intrigue among the market's sellers-the fishmonger, the charcutiere, the fruit girl, and the cheese vendor-and the glorious culinary bounty of their labors, we see the dramatic difference between "fat and thin" (the rich and the poor) and how the widening gulf between them strains a city to the breaking point.
Translated and with an Introduction by the celebrated historian and food writer Mark Kurlansky, The Belly of Paris offers fascinating perspectives on the French capital during the Second Empire-and, of course, tantalizing descriptions of its sumptuous repasts.
April 2013 Selection: Written between 1873 and 1884 but not published until 1903, a year after Butler's death, his marvelously uninhibited satire savages Victorian bourgeois values as personified by multiple generations of the Pontifex family. A thinly veiled account of his own upbringing in the bosom of a God-fearing Christian family, Butler's scathingly funny depiction of the self-righteous hypocrisy underlying nineteenth-century domestic life was hailed by George Bernard Shaw as "one of the summits of human achievement."
February 2013 Selction: The first nonfiction work by one of the most distinctive prose stylists of our era, "Slouching Towards Bethlehem "remains, forty years after its first publication, the essential portrait of America-- particularly California--in the sixties. It focuses on such subjects as John Wayne and Howard Hughes, growing up a girl in California, ruminating on the nature of good and evil in a Death Valley motel room, and, especially, the essence of San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury, the heart of the counterculture.
January 2013 Selection: In his captivating third novel, Mitchell erases the boundaries of language, genre, and time to offer a meditation on humanity's dangerous will to power, and where it may lead.
October 2012 Selection: The classic supernatural thriller by an author who helped define the genre
First published in 1959, Shirley Jackson's "The Haunting of Hill House" has been hailed as a perfect work of unnerving terror. It is the story of four seekers who arrive at a notoriously unfriendly pile called Hill House: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of a "haunting"; Theodora, his lighthearted assistant; Eleanor, a friendless, fragile young woman well acquainted with poltergeists; and Luke, the future heir of Hill House. At first, their stay seems destined to be merely a spooky encounter with inexplicable phenomena. But Hill House is gathering its powers-and soon it will choose one of them to make its own.
September 2012 Selection: Considered by contemporary critics to be Trollope's greatest novel, "The Way We Live Now" is a satire of the literary world of London in the 1870s and a bold indictment of the new power of speculative finance in English life. 'I was instigated by what I conceived to be the commercial profligacy of the age, ' Trollope said.
His story concerns Augustus Melmotte, a French swindler and scoundrel, and his daughter, to whom Felix Carbury, adored son of the authoress Lady Carbury, is induced to propose marriage for the sake of securing a fortune. Trollope knew well the difficulties of dealing with editors, publishers, reviewers, and the public; his portrait of Lady Carbury, impetuous, unprincipled, and unswervingly devoted to her own self-promotion, is one of his finest satirical achievements.
His picture of late-nineteenth-century England is a portrait of a society on the verge of moral bankruptcy. In "The Way We Live Now" Trollope combines his talents as a portraitist and his skills as a storyteller to give us life as it was lived more than a hundred years ago.


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NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- Popular searches on the Internet include Facebook (FB) after the social networking Web site crossed a major milestone -- passing 1 billion active users.
With more than 7 billion people in the world, it means about one in every seven people on the planet uses Facebook. CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg confirmed the news Friday morning. The site officially hit the 1 billion mark on Sept. 14.
Of its 1 billion active users, 600 million of them are mobile users. The average age of a Facebook user has fallen to 22 years old from 23. The site has seen more than 1.13 trillion "Likes" since the feature was launched in February 2009.
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Mark Coffey's '34 Chev sat waiting for a heart transplant for 20 years. Now, thanks to a 572ci crate motor, it's alive and kicking arse.
It's funny, here I sit starting out on another feature article and once again I have some connection, which shows it's a small world after all, especially when you're talking cars. Or perhaps Wellington really is the Smallville of New Zealand, or perhaps it's a mixture of both the above. But anyway, as with the vast majority of cars I've written about I have some weird involvement with them or their owners. It's not all about me, I'm not that much of an egomaniac, nor self-centred enough to think or believe I know of all the cool cars in Wellington. Hell, until recently I hadn't even seen this rod, although I had heard about it more than once. But to prevent you from having to resort to scratching your heads and muttering things about me that only my mother should mutter, I will get my involvement out of the way ASAP so you can enjoy reading about another cool NZV8 feature car.
This cracker of a hot rod is owned by Mark Coffey, who is into real estate and works at Tommy's Real Estate in Lower Hutt. A few years ago a couple of local hot rodders built a house with internal-access garaging for eight to 10 cars. They split up and the house went on the market, marketed by Tommy's Real Estate with Mark as the agent. And yes, you guessed it, I purchased that house with my then wife. I wasn't even in the market to buy a house, but couldn't say no to the place and had to stump up and make an unconditional cash offer to steal it out from under the other would-be buyers' noses.
I recall that while Mark was doing the wheeling and dealing we got talking cars, and he told me about a Corvette he had, along with a healthy interest in cars.
Then he had a look over my T-bucket in the garage when he came around with paperwork to sign. Speaking of wheeling and dealing, what better way is there to reward yourself for all the horrendous hours a real estate agent must work, than to have a way-cool hot rod sitting in the shed waiting to be used and maybe abused?
And those horrendous hours Mark does aren't exactly conducive to working on one's toys, either. That work-life balance is a hard one to get right, and as we all know, all work and no play makes Johnnie a dull boy. Of course it is sometimes better, or at least more economically sound, to earn one's salary than to toil away in a garage, perhaps without the required skill level to build a rod to the exacting and high standards this 1934 Chevrolet Junior has been built to.
So now the picture is somewhat painted for you, let's fill in a few of the gaps. Mark has owned the Junior since the mid '80s, and had it stored in various garages around the Hutt Valley while it sat and waited patiently. After probably paying more over the years in storage fees than the Junior first cost him, and along with a career change to that real estate sales role, Mark decided he either had to sell it or actually get it completed. Given the car is still in his possession it's apparent that he didn't sell it, and he kept the dollars rolling in. Mark finally entrusted the '34 to the Hutt Valley's premier rod and custom shop " Ed Junior's Custom Rides and Classics " so they could do their thing, which is all forms of automotive magic. It's not that Mark didn't have the required skills after 18 years in the tool-making trade; it was just that time constraints were in the way of progress being made.
As many of you will appreciate, entrusting someone with your pride and joy, and asking them to perform what you haven't the time to do, is a big thing.
Giving that control over your automotive baby to someone else is probably a little like handing over your 18-month-old child and getting it back when it's four years old, while all along hoping it turns out okay. This wouldn't have been an easy step for Mark to take, but it was the right one. He had owned the car for nigh on 20 years, yet it was only in Ed Junior's shop for 18 months before it rolled out looking as it does now.
I suppose to say it rolled out of the shop is a tad understated. It would have 'rolled out' back in the '30s when it came out of the factory with its anaemic little engine.
Perhaps it would be more in keeping with the CUBES number plate to say it roared out of Ed Junior's shop, motivated by 572ci (9373cc) of GM Performance big block crate engine. When you have a full steel-bodied hot rod that's made of real steel (not wafer thin recycled whiteware appliances) you need a good dose of power, and that's been well and truly provided. There are great gobs of torque, 881Nm to be exact, and 462kW (620hp) comes easy from the 9.5:1 compression crate motor which runs on pump gas. That gas comes via a Holley Blue pump up to the 850cfm Demon carb, and from there into the big block topped with alloy heads. A high performance HEI ignition is assisted by a 6000rpm limiter in charge of spark. To allow the crate motor to exhale properly there's a set of headers with two-inch primaries, which lead to the rest of the HPC-coated exhaust that is complete with removable dump plates for drag racing.
Keeping that great crate motor cool is an Aussie Desert Coolers radiator that was custom built for a 1934 with a big block. At the firewall end of the bonnet sits a shift-kitted Turbo 400 trans, complete with 2500rpm stall converter. A Ford nine-inch filled with an LSD head wearing 3.25:1 gears makes sure that the big block's power heads towards the ground.
To hold the body up off the tyres there are Carrera coil-over springs on all four corners. The front end has a stainless Mustang II steering kit, with the front suspension from Fatman fabrications in the USA, where it was specifically designed for 1934 Chevrolet Junior sedans. The rear end is made up of a McDonald Brothers four-bar setup, which is adjustable for height and ride, and like the whole exhaust has been HPC coated.
It was pretty obvious that the original brakes, which might have stopped the car efficiently enough some 70 years ago, would not be up to much today, especially with the big block's power propelling the stunning black beauty down the road.
At the front end there are now Wilwood four-pot callipers and Mustang rotors, while the anchors out the back are Ford drums.
To hide all those brakes from sight, and just to look cool, there is a set of True Spokes measuring 15 by seven inches at the front and 15 by eight out back. These are shod with Hankook tyres measuring 215/60R15s at the front and 255/60R15 at the rear.
The body of the old girl also got a darn good seeing-to by the lads at Ed Junior's, and they filled the roof and widened the rear guards by 40mm. The rest of the body was given a good going-over to ensure it was straighter than a straight thing. Let's face it, when your colour will be black, the bodywork must be 110 percent perfect. The panel-work was expertly handled by Paul Knight, a man who is no stranger to cool cars with killer looks. Once the body was deemed up to scratch, off it went to Neil Buckley, who painted it in PPG two-pack black.
The paint job is a knockout, and the couple of times I've seen the car it's been spotlessly clean, which is no easy feat with a black car. So I'm picking that Mark is either very familiar with a rag and decent car cleaning products, or he has some kids who get paid a reasonable amount of pocket money.
The original chassis was fully boxed and braced to safely handle the torque from the crate motor, before being painted again with PPG products " this time in a colour that would contrast: silver.
When you have a black car the interior had better be pretty cool, and heck, being comfortable would be nice too. The original seats have been retained all round, but were reupholstered in cloth. To point the old girl in the right direction there's a Grant Banjo steering wheel accompanied by Lokar shifter and handbrake. The job of keeping an eye on the big block's vital statistics and wellbeing is now carried out with the aid of a full complement of Auto Meter gauges.
What with Mark's plan of throwing the Chev down a drag strip or two, a removable six-point roll cage and Simpson five-point harnesses were installed for added safety. Mark grabbed himself an 11.9-second pass at 193kph on his first outing with the Chev. Not bad for a full-bodied, all-steel hot rod that is far from being a lightweight.
No car is complete without some sort of sounds (well, other than the big block's cool sound, anyway). The old valve wireless that the Chev started life with is gone, and in its place is a Boss CD unit with marine speakers that have been wood grained to match the dash and interior trim. The stereo install has been cunningly fitted up by Ed Junior's to swing up and hide out of sight.
That's pretty much it in a nutshell, a cool car in the hands of a car guy who uses it how it should be used. I've seen the Chev out and about, and last year it was used at Ed Junior's open day. That it was there was a fitting tribute that showcased their craftsmanship and abilities.
The only down side to the whole thing is that the car sat around for close to 20 years before Mark made the big decision to go the turnkey route, and now there's a lot of cruising time to be made up. But according to an old Wellington icon, "It's the putting right that counts," and this hot rod has been put right, there is no doubting that.
Good things also come to those who wait, and clearly Mark waited for some time — as did the Chev, sitting in various sheds waiting for its chance to roll down the streets again, to power cruise, do some skids and be used as any good rod should be.
1934 Chevrolet Junior Sedan
Engine: 572 cubic-inch (9373cc) GM Performance crate engine, 9.5:1 compression, aluminium heads, BG Demon 850cfm carb.
Driveline: GM Turbo 400 trans with shift kit, 2500 stall converter, Ford nine-inch diff, 3.25:1 gears
Suspension: Independent front end, four-bar rear, with Carrera coil-overs
Brakes: Wilwood disc front end and Ford drum rears
Wheels/tyres: 15×7 and 15×8 Tru Spokes with 215/60R15 and 225/60R15 Hankook tyres
Performance: 620hp (462kW) and 881Nm of torque. 11.9 ET at 120mph (193kph)
Driver Profile
Mark Coffey
Age: 42
Occupation: Real estate sales
Previously owned cars: 327 Chev-powered HG Holden ute, two HQ Monaros, 1975 Corvette, 1969 383 Dodge Charger, two FJ Holdens, 1934 Chev coupe, 1977 Ford Ltd
Current rides: 1934 Chevrolet Junior sedan, 1958 Ford Retractable, 1963 and ½ Ford Galaxy convertible, 2006 Chrysler 300C
Length of ownership: 20 years
Build time: 18 months
Mark thanks: Ed Junior's, Paul Knight, Neil Buckley, wife Michelle, and Terry o'Leary
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Is the CCC having an "Instagram" moment?
As many readers will know, the past few weeks have seen a couple of controversies over end user license agreements (EULAs) and Internet services. In the library world, Yankee Book Peddler, an order fulfillment service, announced that they would introduce such an end user license whenever someone logged in to their ordering database. The license terms included indemnifications and submission to the law of New Hampshire. Both of these terms are impossible for most public institutions, and there was a lot of outcry. Eventually, YBP withdrew its plan to introduce the EULA. Then, earlier this week, there was a lot of controversy when Instagram announced that its new license would gave it the right to sell photos uploaded by subscribers, even for commercial purposes like advertising. Again there was much consternation and an eventual repudiation of its earlier position from Instagram.
The use of EULAs for academic services instead of negotiating terms with each customer is especially problematic. For one thing, those licenses often contain terms that are unacceptable and, for public institutions, may be invalidated by state laws and regulations over purchasing by state entities. Worse, the EULAs are by definition required as a condition of use, meaning that the staff members who actually accept them are seldom the employees who actually have the authority to bind a university to a contract.
These considerations were in my mind when our e-reserves specialist informed this week about "new" licensing terms he had encountered when placing a request for a permission license with the Copyright Clearance Center. A two and a half page set of terms was suddenly appearing with each order confirmation, and they contained a lot of the same troubling assertions that we saw with the proposed, but never implemented, YBP license. Institutions indemnify CCC and agree to defend them against claims arising from any use outside the scope of the license. Institutions agree to the application of New York law and the jurisdiction of New York courts. Most distressing, each institution that uses the CCC agrees that that organization, which has been active in financing the legal case against Georgia State University, has the right to access and audit university records, which is not only a possible violation of our obligations under FERPA, but also seems like giving a potential adversary free pre-litigation discovery rights.
As with the proposed YBP license, several of the terms in this EULA are impossible for most public institutions, which usually cannot agree to indemnifications — because they could create an uncontrolled drain on taxpayer dollars — or submission to the laws and jurisdiction of another state. Even for private institutions, which are not forbidden by law from agreeing to such terms, the license contains things we would try to negotiate around if the CCC had engaged us at the enterprise level rather than simply imposing these terms for acceptance by employees not actually empowered to do so.
Since I first learned about these terms on Tuesday, it has become less clear to me that they are actually new. It turns out that our e-reserve employees have been clicking through an "accept the terms and conditions" box when they place orders with CCC for some time. It is likely that other campus employees, including administrative assistants for departments, have done the same thing. I simply do not know if these terms that suddenly appeared on the order confirmation are new, or just a more assertive way of making the older terms known. In asking around, I discovered that at least one state university encountered and objected to similar terms several years ago, and negotiated separately with the CCC to arrive at a different agreement that supersedes any terms agreed to at end-user level.
My immediate reaction to these terms is that many of us will want to have similar negotiations to supersede this EULA, and that all of the CCC's public customers will have to do so. These terms might simply be invalid as a matter of state law for some public institutions, and they could be objected to by many other CCC customers on the basis that the end-users who must click through the license simply lack the authority to commit their employers to those terms.
For the record, I do not yet know what my own institution's reaction will be; I have scheduled a conversation about the CCC terms with our Office of University Counsel. But it still seems important to share the information about this new manifestation, at least, of terms that may well be unfamiliar to those folks who are actually responsible for contracting and purchasing decisions at their institutions.
I would be interested to hear from institutions that have already attempted to negotiate directly with CCC to supersede these terms. I hope the comments to this post fill up with the news that others are way ahead of me and have acted to prevent the problems this license seems to cause.
Finally, I wonder what impact these licensing terms could have on a fair use argument, especially in light of the ruling by Judge Evans in the Georgia State case. In that ruling, the Judge held that the fourth fair use factor, impact on the market for the original, favored the publisher (and so weighed against fair use) IF a license for the digital excerpt (not simply a license for another format) was "readily available at a reasonable price" (pp. 72 – 81 of the opinion). My question is, could the licensing terms imposed by the CCC have an effect on whether or not the license is "readily available." If a public institution, including, possibly, Georgia State, is prevented by state law from accepting terms like the ones included in each permission transaction from the CCC, can that permission really be said to be readily available? How can something be readily available if it is conditioned upon acceptance of an agreement that the institution is not allowed to accept? And if such a license cannot really be considered readily available, how dramatically does that impact the fair use analysis, especially in those cases where a publisher will not accept permission requests except through the CCC?
As I say, we are still deciding what these licensing terms, whether they are brand new or of long-standing, mean for our business with the CCC. But it seems likely that for some institutions, at least, these terms make the use of that permission service an impossibility unless they negotiate a superseding agreement. And for many of the rest of us, this added roadblock will cause us to rethink where and when we can purchase licenses, and when we must rely on fair use simply because we have no other feasible alternative.
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Dave Hansen says:
As usual, I learned something new from you (but I can't say I'm surprised on this one)! Thanks, Kevin.
I appreciate your point about the Ga. State court's fourth fair use factor analysis (the part about the "readily available" license) and its incompatibility with institutional policies and, for many public institutions, their state law. The impact on the fair use argument for publics could be a silver lining, for sure, but I am skeptical. Here's my argument for why not:
When you sue a public institution or its administrators (and notwithstanding the mystical logic of Ex Parte Young), you are in effect suing the state itself. If a state can pass a law that makes licensing with itself difficult (e.g., no indemnification clauses, no forum selection clauses) and that law is factored into the fair use analysis, an extension of the same logic would mean that the state could pass a law that makes licensing impossible (e.g., no arm of the state shall license or purchase of copyrighted material) and then build the impossibility of purchase or license into the fourth factor analysis (meaning, no market harm at all, since, after all, state law forbids purchasing (c) content). It's like voluntarily tying your own hand behind your back and then claiming a handicap.
Anyway, if there is a silver lining, maybe this is it. But overall, I think the license terms are just bad, bad, bad. I would be interested to see the license terms of the blanket academic license.
Kevin Smith says:
Thanks, Dave, for your thoughtful comment. Let me explain why I do not think the possibility you suggest would undermine the idea that CCC's licensing terms could strengthen a fair use analysis. Basically, I think a court could easily distinguish the two situations and find that the actual CCC terms support reliance on fair use for a public institution while not allowing the kind of more extreme law you suggest to make the fair use argument a slam dunk.
From the licensee side, the restrictions actually imposed by many state laws have a rational relationship to the purpose of the Eleventh Amendment (as it has been interpreted). That is, they exist to protect the state, and especially its fisc, from control by an entity not subject to the political process in that state. A law that simply forbade IP licensing would have no such purpose consistent with the 11th Amendment, and courts could more easily refuse to take account of it in a fair use analysis.
From the licensor side, I think it is important that the CCCs terms have been imposed by the rights holder (really by their agent) through a contract of adhesion. In the situation you imagine, there is nothing the rights holder could do to avoid the impact on fair use of the fictional law you envision. But in the actual situation, these terms have no necessary relationship to the licensing of the IP in question; they are imposed merely to protect and benefit the agent — the CCC. The license could be offered without them, and the hypothetical impact on fair use could thus be avoided. This seems to me to be a very different situation from the one in which a state would merely pass a law restricting licenses because it was alleged to improve the situation for fair use. In the actual case, it is the rights holder, through its agent, that has made the change that makes the license impossible for many state entities, so it is fair for the fair use argument against them to be impacted by that unnecessary and reversible change.
Andrew Shuping says:
Hey Kevin,
I knew nothing about the changes until you posted them and I've been in ILL for 6+ years now. I don't recall ever seeing these terms and conditions before now, so I'm betting that CCC set it up based upon what happened at GSU. MPOW is looking into this now and I've been charged with investigating what folks are doing differently over this. So I was wondering if y'all have changed anything or if you knew of other libraries that have changed their approach to paying for copyright based upon these changes. Thanks!
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