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Wayne County Soil and Water Conservation District
Basin Program Funds:
Non-federal Funds:
Project Duration:
Problem Statement
Water quality monitoring has demonstrated that close to 4,000 tons of sediment
annually enter Sodus Bay contributing to degraded water quality and fish and
wildlife habitat in Lake Ontario. In order to address this problem, the Wayne
County Conservation District will develop a local ordinance requiring erosion
and sediment control measures for construction and new development in Wayne
The Wayne County Soil and Water Conservation District plays an integral role
in assisting local governments with natural resource management issues. For
instance, the conservation district developed and facilitated the adoption of
a common ordinance for septic systems in Wayne County. The conservation district
proposes a similar ordinance to address soil erosion and sedimentation control
during construction. The application of such an ordinance will reduce the amount
of sediment entering Sodus Bay annually and lead to improved water quality,
and fish and wildlife habitat.
The goal of this project is to facilitate the adoption of an
erosion and sediment control ordinance in fifteen Wayne County towns located
in the Lake Ontario basin. This pilot project will demonstrate the kind of interagency
cooperation that integrates soil erosion and sedimentation control efforts with
water quality initiatives and can be adopted throughout the region.
District personnel will draft an erosion and sediment control
ordinance. They will then develop supporting educational materials which outline
the need for and benefit of erosion and sediment control. This will most likely
take the form of a video and accompanying brochure. District staff will then
attend town board meetings to promote the ordinance, in the process disseminating
information to town councils, planning committees and, through council reports,
to the larger community.
District staff drafted a model stormwater erosion and sediment control ordinance
and conveyed it to the Director of the County Planning Department and two town
supervisors for review and comment. The ordinance was also posted on the district's
web site for review by the community at large and other communities contemplating
similar measures. At the same time, District staff made municipalities aware
of technical support at the District that can reduce the burden of site review
for municipal officials. Project personnel developed an educational brochure
that can be used throughout the Great Lakes basin to promote the importance
and benefits of the ordinance. They also developed press releases for county
newspapers. The articles informed the public about the District's campaign to
promote stormwater management and erosion control. The District expects this
multi-phase response will help protect freshwater resources.
Contact: Wayne County Soil and Water Conservation District, (315) 946-4136


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TellyBuzz brings to you the column on 'Confessions of Tellywood Shopaholics.' This week we caught up with the gorgeous actress Kishwer Merchantt who was last seen in a cameo role in Hum Ne Li Hai... Shapath on Life OK. We tried to find out more about Kishwer's shopping interests and her favorite shopping destination through this column.
Share your craze for shopping.
I am crazy for shopping but I prefer shopping in Dubai and Bangkok the most. Like I go to Dubai and Bangkok twice in a year and I make sure that I get enough stuff for the next six months for myself. Once I had fainted while shopping for myself in the shop Zara (laughs), I shopped till I drop!
How often do you go to shop?
It all depends. Like I said I go twice in a year to Bangkok and Dubai. In Mumbai if I like something I buy it, nowadays the malls in Mumbai have all the best brands so it's not a difficulty.
What do you shop the most for?
Clothes, shoes and bags.
Your dream shopping destination?
Where do you prefer to shop in Mumbai?
Lokhandwala, Inorbit, Infinity Mall in Malad.
What would you buy?
If given Rs. 10: Chewing gum.
If given Rs. 100: Eskimo coffee from Cafe Coffee Day.
If given Rs. 1000: A lipstick from Color Bar.
If given Rs. 1 Lakh: Will add some more money to it and pay a down payment for a new car.
If given Rs. 1 Crore: Will buy a property.
Share how you feel after shopping?
I feel very excited and happy just like a child who feels happy when he gets a candy.
Krishma Solanki
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NAMI FaithNet Newsletter: January 2009
In This Issue:
Alone Among Us - The Mental Health Challenges Faced by Hispanics
Family counselor Jorge Ruiz Chacón follows an ancient path to healing.
He has been counseling mostly Hispanic families in Chelan County since 1994. From his grandmother, a natural healer, Chacón was taught that all illnesses are spiritual, a loss of hope and faith. In college, he learned the same techniques in psychology courses that his grandmother taught him -- just in a different way.
"Even in the domestic violence counseling that I do, the spirituality part is always there," Chacón said.
"In everything I do, I combine the two worlds. It completes the picture for me."
Incorporating Faith and Spirituality in Treatment
People gathered at the United Church of God and Christ in St. Paul, Minnesota recently to hear personal, and sometimes heart wrenching, stories of those grappling with mental illness.
The night was not only about sharing experiences; it was also an opportunity for the storytellers to network with one another in an effort to create a web of support, especially in minority communities, where people too often fall through the cracks of service.
Sharing Stories, Dispelling Stigma
When Jeffrey Montague entered the mental health field in the early 1980s, there was an unspoken separation between medicine and spirituality.
However, in recent years, there has been a shift toward using spirituality to treat mental health problems.
Today, Montague heads the faith initiative at the Southeastern Mental Health Authority in Norwich, Conn. Montague answers questions about incorporating faith and spirituality in treatment, and reaching out to other faith communities.
Support NAMI to help millions of Americans who face mental illness every day.Donate today
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January 28, 2009
Franz Kafka: Blumfeld, an Elderly Bachelor
Kafka is perhaps the tallest of the monoliths casting my literary knowledge into deep shadow. I have made numerous references to his work here without really knowing what I'm talking about: I have the public understanding of Kafkaesque to go on and little else. I shudder now to think of my response to The Trial a few years ago, as glib and ignorant as Martin Amis's ("I could never finish a novel by Kafka. But then, neither could Kafka"). So I seized on the opportunity provided by this new edition of his story 'Blumfeld, an Elderly Bachelor' which has been issued by Four Corners Books, and was brought to my attention by Caustic Cover Critic. You can see why the cover attracted him.
'Blumfeld', written around 1915, is unfinished and in most editions of Kafka's stories, it takes up just over 20 pages. Here, the wide margins and beautifully large text (set in "Walbaum, Kafka's preferred typeface") spread it to 86 pages. This gives the story space to breathe, emphasises it as work of art in its own right, and makes for a thoroughly satisfying experience (even if the illustrations by David Musgrave added little to the book for me). All short stories should be published like this.
Where 'Metamorphosis' in its high concept form is 'man turns into insect', 'Blumfeld' is 'man hounded by bouncing balls'. He comes home to his sixth-floor apartment, musing (and amusing) on the pros and cons of having a dog to keep him company, when he hears a rattling sound from within.
He quickly unlocks the door and switches on the light. He is not prepared for what he sees. For this is magic – two small white celluloid balls with blue stripes jumping up and down side by side on the parquet; when one of them touches the floor the other is in the air, a game they continue ceaselessly to play.
(The appearance of the balls is represented in the headache-inducing endpapers of this edition.) Blumfeld is initially exasperated by the balls, which follow him around, even to bed, but soon learns that there are ways of first becoming accustomed to, and then managing, their presence. "The fact that they cannot make themselves audible on the rug strikes Blumfeld as a great weakness on the part of the balls. What one has to do is lay one or even better two rugs under them and they are all but powerless. Admittedly only for a limited time, and besides, their very existence wields a certain power."
What is most striking, for those expecting from Kafka a sense of isolation and confusion, is that 'Blumfeld' is not only lucid but very funny. Blumfeld's recurring thoughts on getting a dog are funnier each time the subject comes up, and there is a delicious understated wit in lines like, "If one looks at the whole thing with an unprejudiced eye, the balls behave modestly enough."
However there is isolation here too, and the balls reflect Blumfeld's fractured relations with others, as is made clearer in the second section of the story. Here, having apparently solved the problem of the balls, he goes to his place of work, where he is saddled with a couple of assistants, who hound and trouble him, but are deemed necessary to him, and from whom he cannot escape.
So long as they were following him they could have been considered as something belonging to him, something which, in passing judgement on his person, had somehow to be taken into consideration.
"Even the unusual must have its limits," observes Blumfeld in his struggle with the balls – and with people, and with life. The story remains unfinished, which is appropriate in its way. 'Blumfeld' is a work of pure imagination, grounded but absurd, chilling and entertaining, formally perfect and one great big loose end. It is a tiny but tantalising glimpse into the world and works of Kafka, into which I must now delve with still great trepidation but with much greater excitement.
January 24, 2009
Richard Price Q & A
Richard Price is one of those writers people had been recommending to me for years, but I never got around to taking a chance on him until last year when he published a new novel, Lush Life – which quickly ended up in my Best of Year list. He now occupies that rare pedestal, a new favourite writer with a rich back catalogue all waiting for me to get my hands on it.
I was delighted when my low begging to get an interview with him paid off. Sadly, owing to my technological incompetence, I was unable to do it by telephone as planned, and the "shitload of overdue work" Price had on meant a detailed email interview was out. So what follows is a quick Q&A which I hope will nonetheless give answers to some frequently asked – at least by me – questions. I've also looked up some older interviews and spliced in some quotes from those where I think they can provide illumination.
And note well the answer to the second question. If more of you bought his books, he could write more of them. It's a win-win situation.
How did you choose the title of Lush Life? Is it from the song? Are you a jazz lover?
It's from the song. I liked the suggestion of abundance. The book is peopled with a crazy quilt of nations.
Lush Life came out 5 years after Samaritan. Do you give your books precedence over screenwriting, or alternate between them?
Alternate. I can't afford to write two novels in a row. Movie writing pays the bills.
The most important thing you can buy if you're a writer is time. I need to do screenplays to tide me over so that I can take a year or two to write my next novel. … Writing novels is my freedom from screenplays. This is where I get to throw in everything. It's where I get to not think in marketing terms. (Interview, 2003)
What made you come back to New York in this book? [Price's three previous novels were set in the fictional New Jersey suburb of Dempsy]
I wanted to write about a specific and real neighborhood, not a generic anonymous city.
It's the most written about place in the world. The first job anyone ever had getting off a boat was as a trouser cutter in a Lower East Side sweatshop. The second job was writing a novel about being a trouser cutter in a Lower East Side sweatshop. The literature could fill a library, but while it was my story, it also wasn't my story, so I sort of left it alone and it has taken me a long time to come back to it. (Interview, 2008 )
How important is the plot in your books? Do you know where it's going when you set out?
Plot comes last, character first.
Tom Wolfe sees you as a hero of socially realistic fiction. Is that what you're trying to do?
Yes and no. I try to write with more style and bebop in my sentences than the average social realist.
Are you happy for your novels to be filed under the Crime genre?
I hate it. Is Cormac McCarthy a "Western" writer?
In my last three books I found that a police procedural, the investigation into a crime from the moment it occurs through all of the interviews and legwork to whatever conclusion is arrived upon, is a great spine to investigate anything you want to about human nature. … I'm not a mystery writer and I certainly don't see myself in any genre, but I do feel that crime and punishment and crime and investigation provide a great skeleton. (Interview, 2003)
Do you write with the reader, or the market, in mind? Or do you agree with David Simon who likes to throw the reader/viewer in at the deep end? (Simon: "Fuck the average reader")
I write with no one in mind but the characters.
You stalled after your first four novels, and turned to screenplays. You've now written four more novels – do you think of yourself as mainly a novelist again?
I have always thought of myself as a novelist first and last.
I don't enjoy [screenwriting] my own books-I've just finished the book and presented my take on it, and now I have to take a 400-600 page book and turn it into a 115-page singing telegram. That's not a lot of fun if you feel like you own every word of the book. Not only that, but once you're the screenwriter you go from being the biological parent to the babysitter, and you're being paid by the hour. It started out as your child but now you're just an employee on it. (Interview, 2003)
You said once that Hubert Selby Jr was an early influence – what other writers do you look up to?
In the early days, James Baldwin, John Rechy, John Steinbeck, and the Beats.
Can you recommend an underrated book or author to readers of this blog?
Julia Leigh's The Hunter.
When I'm writing a book all I read is genre stuff; I'm very careful not to read anything too good, that's going to make me anxious. I once made the mistake of reading Sophie's Choice while I was trying to write The Breaks. It was like trying to sing while someone else is singing another song in the background. (Interview, 1996)
January 20, 2009
Ross Raisin: God's Own Country
I didn't pay much attention to Ross Raisin's debut novel God's Own Country when it was published last year, or rather I did pay just enough attention – to his odd name (he sounds more character than author) and the terrible Niall Griffiths-like cover his publishers gave him – to decide I didn't want to read it. But it kept creeping into my consciousness, and it attracted so much critical praise that I couldn't ignore it much longer. Fortunately the paperback cover is better, or at least different, and comes complete with 'belly band' listing the six awards the novel won or was shortlisted for. Nothing like raising expectations even further, is there?
The cover blurb and first few pages of God's Own Country made me think of Iain Banks' debut The Wasp Factory: a narrative by an isolated, damaged and possibly dangerous teenager. However Sam Marsdyke's voice is more distinctive than Frank Cauldhame's, mainly because of the lightly cracked syntax and use of Yorkshire dialect. We learn much from the opening pages – that Sam lives on a farm, hates urban visitors (or "towns") and is apparently has a past.
He looked at me. Them who've bought Turnbull's farm move in day after tomorrow, d'you know that, lad?
No. Who are they?
Towns. And you'll let them alone, an' all. He took himself a biscuit from the tin. They've a daughter.
This is Sam's father speaking, or 'Father', to indicate the formal relationship they have. (By way of balance, Father calls Sam 'Nimrod' and hits him.) It is little precisely placed clues like this which on the one hand satisfy a certain puzzle-solving impulse in the reader, but also seem to mark it with the stamp of creative writing course. (Raisin did an MA at Goldsmiths.) This, in other words, seems like the essence of an unreliable narrator – the clues, the unrevealed references, the piecing together of the story. However, in the end Sam is quite reliable. This is essential for the reader to have the sympathy with him which is clearly intended: if we don't believe him about bullying at school, wrong accusations of rape, Father's violence, then there is no level ground to take our bearings from.
It isn't just 'towns' that Sam resents. When others in his region are protesting about the loss of an old pub to the community, he has no more affection for that than he does for the new development ("twenty or thirty red houses, all bright and glishy like a piece of flesh with the skin torn off"). He has no real connection with people at all, and (like a sinister Johnny Morris) prefers to imagine the thoughts of the animals he sees and knows – the whelps of the farm dogs, the birds – or even inanimate objects such as a toy Dracula figure (Sam prowls around Whitby in the later parts of the book). There's a lovely moment when the new girl in the area ("they've a daughter") is with Sam in the fields watching a ram and ewe rutting, and Raisin has Sam's perceptions slip beautifully between the ewe and the girl without the reader noticing.
Raisin also has a fine line in descriptive touches where Sam's limited language mixes with his dialect to become vigorous and evocative.
I crouched behind the hedge, spying through the mesh of thorns at the hubbleshoo of small boys spewing out the bus. They were all over the road in an instant, squawking zigzags through the mass to clobber each other round the head with their bags. Next were the little girls, slower, mingled in with the big-belly boys who weren't so partial on chasing about. And then the older ones. The girls kept separate from the lads, paired up tantling down the road with a snitter of talk kept close between the two as if all they had to say was secrets, meant for the hearing of nobbut themselves.
The story progresses in a not entirely surprising way, though the pleasure of the book is not in what we are told but in how Sam tells it. At the same time God's Own Country seems to offer promise as much as achievement, like a meal which despite being delicious, doesn't entirely fill you. This might be down to the very qualities – polish, neatness – which I found to praise in it. Raisin is, to adopt reviewerly cliché (it's a cliché here because it's true), a writer to watch.
Incidentally, readers in North America will find the book under the title Out Backward, which I prefer, as it comes from Sam's mother ("Janet says I'm not to blame meself. I couldn't have done different. You must've came out backward") and so is in Sam's own dialect, rather than from the words of ramblers and 'blow-ins' ("oh we must move there, the North York moors is God's own country").
January 16, 2009
Planned Engineering Works
We interrupt this blog to bring you a personal announcement
Due to circumstances not entirely beyond my control, Asylum will be operating a reduced service for the foreseeable future. This is because I expect to become a father in the next couple of weeks. While some bloggers have been able to maintain a healthy posting schedule with a new baby on hand, I am not so confident, and tend to heed those who greet the news of impending fatherhood with phrases such as "no more reading for you, then," "say goodbye to your old life," and "ha ha ha ha".
Presently I don't know how adjustment to my new life will affect this blog. It may continue as normal, with less frequent posts, or shorter posts (if I have time to make them shorter). It may stop altogether. In the meantime, I am planning ahead and have scheduled some content for the coming months, including early (or at least punctual) reviews of new novels from Geoff Dyer and Colm Tóibín, reissues from Penguin Modern Classics of books by John Christopher and Eric Ambler, and one or two interviews with authors I've praised here recently.
Thank you for listening. I now have to go and laminate my paperbacks.
January 13, 2009
W.F. Hermans: The Darkroom of Damocles
I would like to compile, for my own personal reassurance, a list of moments when admired authors have shown that they too struggle with difficult books. There was Martin Amis's review of Don Quixote which he said "suffers from one serious flaw – that of outright unreadability." Or Seamus Deane, Booker-shortlisted novelist and critic, whose introduction to the Penguin Modern Classic edition of Finnegans Wake opens: "The first thing to say about Finnegans Wake is that it is, in an important sense, unreadable." Now, on the back cover of the Harvill (hardback-only: again) edition of Willem Fredrik Hermans' The Darkroom of Damocles, we have Milan Kundera, admitting that he was "intimidated" by the novel's length. Milan: don't you worry. Just stick with me and everything will be all right.
He was right though. The first thing to say about The Darkroom of Damocles [1958, tr. 2007 by Ina Rilke] is that it is, in an important sense, too bloody long. But it is very readable. I had high hopes for this book as Beyond Sleep, Hermans' only other novel in English translation, was one of my favourite books of 2008. It has been praised by reliable voices such as Lizzy Siddal and William Rycroft. And Milan Kundera.
It takes us through the life of Henri Ousewoudt, "a diminutive freak, a toad reared upright" who is orphaned when his mentally ill mother kills his father. Henri moves in with his aunt and uncle, and ends up marrying his cousin Ria, who is as physically unappealing as he is ("her teeth did not enhance her mouth, nor did they make it look fierce, they merely clamped it shut, rather like the clasp on a purse … her chortling reminded him of the squeak of chamois leather on a wet windowpane"). All this is brilliantly sketched, with enough omissions to make the reader work a little, and by page twenty we are into the main body of the story, where Henri has taken over his uncle's tobacconist shop, and has grown into a man who "did nothing, wanted nothing, left everything to chance".
War is raging, the Nazis have occupied the Netherlands, and Henri finds himself doing patriotic favours for a stranger named Dorbeck, who looks exactly like him, "the way a photo negative looks like the positive" – Dorbeck is dark and hairy, where Henri is babyishly fair and has never needed to shave. Here Hermans settles into a much more detailed telling, which is where he began to lose me. The accounts of Henri's wartime activities, chance meetings with Dorbeck and captures and escapes, are vital in defining Henri's relationship with the world ("Things just happen. Nothing I ever do makes a difference"), but they don't half go on.
Henri has no allegiance to anyone, and it is his lack of agency which will lead to his troubles in the second half of the book, as first Nazis and then Allies consider him a murderer and a traitor. By failing to subscribe to an ideology, he cannot be anyone's hero ("What is a hero? Someone who is careless and gets away with it"), even when he dyes his hair and looks like Dorbeck. It is Henri's initial desire to impress Dorbeck which leads both to his discovery of his own strength and stamina, and to his downfall. When he dyes his hair to disguise himself from the Nazis, he recognises that he now resembles Dorbeck entirely, but even though it helps him find love, it doesn't "make me the man Dorbeck is. We're alike, but not the same."
A ghostly vision entered his mind. The war was over, and he and Marianne were strolling hand in hand in some faraway countryside. Then they saw Dorbeck. Without a word, she went off with Dorbeck and left him standing there. No goodbye, no turning round to wave, just one quick look over the shoulder, only to call back to him: I knew what the man I wanted looked like. Forgive me for thinking it was you.
Whether Dorbeck really exists or not is the central question of the second half of the novel. All we know is that he really exists in Henri's mind, a sort of Tyler Durden figure.
When I first saw him I thought: this is the sort of man I ought to have been. It's a bit difficult to put into words, but think of the goods being produced in factories: now and then a substandard article gets made, so they make another one and throw away the reject…
Only, they didn't throw me away. I continued to exist, reject though I was. I didn't realise I was the reject until I met Dorbeck. Then I knew. That's when I knew he was the successful specimen, that compared to him I had no reason to exist, and the only way I could accept that was to do exactly as he said. I did everything he told me to, which was quite a lot sometimes … quite a lot …
It is these existential questions and the cloud of unclarity that surrounds them, rather than the hard detail of the thriller elements, which drove me to the end of the book. Though The Darkroom of Damocles is full of action, it was the parts where nothing was happening that I liked best.
January 9, 2009
Imre Kertész: Detective Story
Imre Kertész continues to enjoy the privilege accorded to Nobel laureates, of having his books trickle-translated into English, in the most profitable manner possible to the publishers. That's a bit unfair – nobody will be retiring on the proceeds of these titles. But it's worth noting that, while Detective Story was originally published in Hungary in 1977 in the same volume as The Pathseeker, here the two books have been published individually, at full price, despite barely scraping 100 pages and 25,000 words each.
Detective Story – perhaps now we're getting to it – suffers in comparison to The Pathseeker. After a framing preface, it begins like this:
I wish to tell a story. A simple story. You may ultimately call it a sickening one, but that does not change its simpleness. I wish therefore to tell a simple and sickening story.
An arresting opener, an eye-catching hook. And this is where the problem lies: while The Pathseeker moved by inference and the unspoken, Detective Story is much more straightforward and open, and less interesting as a result.
The subject, as ever with Kertész, is tyrannical regimes and their consequences, though here he has moved the territory to South America. Detective Story is the memoir, or confession, of Antonio Martens, a lieutenant of the secret police in a recently deposed dictatorship, now awaiting trial in prison. The story is introduced by his defence lawyer.
Do not be surprised by his way with words. In Martens's eyes the world must have seemed like pulp fiction come true, with everything taking place in accordance with the monstrous certainty and dubious regularities of the unvarying dramatic form – or choreography, if you prefer – of a horror story. Let me add, not in his defence but merely for the sake of the truth, that this horror story was written not by Martens alone but by reality, too.
The last sentence indicates Kertész's wider interest: not that he absolves Martens of his responsibilities, but that he understands his type to be a cog in the machinery of totalitarian power. "Power first, then the law," one of Martens's colleagues says, reminding him of the proper ranks in his world, a world where "we take away the offender's mind, shred his nerves, paralyze his brain." Martens is accompanied on this task by Rodriguez and Diaz, both of whom frighten him and contribute to his persistent headaches. "A person has to believe in something to be such a nasty piece of work," says Martens of Diaz, but we discover little of what he himself believes.
Their quarry is Enrique Salinas, the son of well-to-do Federigo Salinas. Once suspicion alights on the boy, all evidence is interpreted to point to his guilt.
Our records had already identified that Enrique was going to perpetrate something sooner or later. As far as we were concerned, his fate was sealed, even if he himself had not yet made up his mind. He was hesitating, playing for time. He roamed the streets or wrote in his diary, raced around in his Alfa Romeo, visited on friends, or popped into bed with some silky-smooth kitten, if he happened to feel so inclined.
This is where one of the problems arises. In order to add complexity, Kertész must allow the reader to have insight into Salinas's mind, which involves Martens, in his prison cell, being allowed to have Salinas's diary to hand. "No particular difficulties were raised." This rank implausibility, which seriously destabilises the reader's suspension of disbelief, is matched only by the notion that Salinas, putative challenger to the totalitarian regime, should have recorded his activities in diary form. "That was Enrique for you. He loved and hated, he was secretive yet kept exhaustive records of his secrets." The diaries themselves contain some nicely executed meditations on power and dependence:
This morning the lame woman who sells newspapers … She has a daughter, a delightful child, quite clearly the newspaper woman's only hope in life. She spends more than she can afford on clothing her, showers her with sweets. This morning the little girl ran away from her and came to a stop farther off in the traffic. The mother called, in vain: the girl teased her from afar, thumbing her nose, pulling faces. The lame newspaper woman kept coaxing her: "Come here, my child, there's a nice girl. Eat your chocolate!" Finally the child sidled up to her. As soon as she was within reach, the newspaper woman grabbed her and started hitting her – with the tenacity of the wretched and the mercilessness of those who have had their hopes made a mockery of.
Even though Kertész is careful to leave much unsaid, the overall impression of Detective Story is that it is too specific in its particulars. It is weaker than The Pathseeker, which kept its powder dry, or Fateless, which offered a rare new angle on an old subject. Like the Salinas family, if it had said less, it might have fared better in the end.
January 5, 2009
Patrick McCabe: The Holy City
Patrick McCabe's books come in bunches. First, the ones nobody has read, including Music on Clinton Street and Carn. Then a trio of successful novels, shortlisted and garlanded: The Butcher Boy, The Dead School and Breakfast on Pluto. Something went wrong then, with the next three books (Mondo Desperado, Emerald Germs of Ireland and Call Me the Breeze) receiving what are politely termed mixed reviews. Worse still: of the last, McCabe complains: "Nobody bloody read it." This downturn paid dividends, as he was then fired to write Winterwood (2006), a book matched in brilliance in McCabe's oeuvre only by The Dead School, and which attained the highest accolade achieved by all the best books these days, of failing to get longlisted for the Booker Prize.
If Winterwood – silent and silvery and coldly threatening – was a departure, then McCabe's new novel The Holy City must be a reparture. It feels as though he's going through his hoops with this one, with all the usual elements present from what John Banville called McCabe's "antic black comedy", from small-town Ireland to popular culture to an idiosyncratic narrative voice thinly veiling unspeakable horrors. Fortunately, it's a shtick that I have a high tolerance for; and this time we are in the company of "Chris J. McCool – at your service, just call me Pops … refined boulevardier of some distinction", in his 67th year, bestriding the town of Cullymore in a cloud of Old Spice and clad in "the smartest of neat blue blazers with brightly polished brass buttons, complete with white loafers and razor-creased grey slacks, a Peter Stuyvesant King Size cigarette (the international passport to smoking pleasure!) louchely dawdling between my lips."
Like most of McCabe's narrators, McCool is a witty and charming storyteller, and barking mad. Also as usual, the charm (and the madness) masks past trauma, a recurring theme in McCabe's fiction. The nature of the trauma of course cannot be disclosed here, for it is the destination to which the book leads. Which is not to say that it is the point of The Holy City; the journey is what matters, McCabe viewing his books as exercises in style. Here the style is a comic, meandering one, with McCool punctuating his reminiscences with disturbing punchlines, more unsettling than funny, and without the self-awareness to hide his worst qualities. These are combined with blunt pointers ("my psychotherapist") and references to the social mores of Ireland then and now, as when he attempts to "provide some background to the reason I insulted my psychotherapist Meera Pandit and called her unwholesome names."
Not that Meera was what you'd call proper black – not really. Not 'full-blown' black, I mean to say. Not Nigerian, for example – ebony – black and shiny the way that Marcus Otoyo was. Gleaming and polished, in that shiny African way. No, Pandit, you see, was a Hindu, not from anywhere near Nigeria, or anywhere else in Africa for that matter. I think from somewhere out near Bangladesh. As a matter of fact, to be fair to old Meera, now that I think of her, she was like something that might have emerged from the sixties herself, with her scarves and her bangles and her floppy Birkenstock sandals.
- You stupid black fucker! was, in fact, what I had said.
Two central elements in the book are present here: Marcus Otoyo, who is key to McCool's story (and trauma), and the casual racism of the past. This in itself serves a double purpose. It is indicative of McCool's wider lack of human empathy – his depersonalisation of others ("The Balloon People have arrived!") is repeatedly shown in the book, a marker of a psychopathic personality. Similarly, Catholics and Protestants in the book regard one another as a lumpen mass, and this matches the racism as a reflection of the changing social attitudes of Ireland in recent decades, and the less welcome changes brought about in tandem ("What exactly was happening to the town of Cullymore?").
McCabe shirks the bespoke label for his books of "bog gothic," preferring "the social fantastic" – "People have often commented that everyone in the books is mad or damaged. But you should view them as prisms through which the feelings of society are reflected. These are not naturalistic fictions." You can say that again.
McCabe's facility for this type of writing – as he put it of Breakfast on Pluto, "it's meant to be a small hand-grenade of a book, but a burlesque as well" – can leave the reader thinking that it's all too easy for him, and that the book is somehow less valuable as a result. And it is true that there is little here which has not been explored in his earlier fiction. But it all fits together so beautifully, and is so entertaining to read even when you can see the author's fingers on the buttons, that for me there was nothing to forgive. "If your character is repugnant in all respects," McCabe explained in an interview, "nobody can read it. Having some narrative tricks in this day and age is essential, at least for the first ten pages." Or, in this case, the first two hundred and ten.
January 1, 2009
Gilbert Adair: And Then There Was No One
Occasionally a book arrives about which I feel more excited than I have any right to expect. It's when this happens that I remember that the whole business of reading can be as much about these childlike pleasures of anticipation as intellectual reward or aesthetic delight. Gilbert Adair, arch-postmodernist, has written two Agatha Christie pastiches, the second of which I reviewed here last year. That book disappointed me a little, but I was nonetheless unreasonably excited when I got my hands on the third book in the Evadne Mount trilogy, And Then There Was No One. It may be the dramatic cover image, the wittily meticulous titular take on Christie's most famous book, the amusing subtitle, or the possibility of even more reflexive authorial trickery than Adair usually permits himself:
As the reader gradually discovers, however, And Then There Was No One is much more than the third panel in a triptych of detective stories. It's a novel like no other, a hall of mirrors, a hole-in-one, a tour de force of stylistic brio and narrative ingenuity, a conjuring act that ends with the conjuror, or author, actually sawing himself in half.
The playfulness even extends to the official Faber publication date: 25 December 2008. So is there more to And Then There Was No One than a clever literary confection? Should we care?
There are two obvious departures from the earlier Evadne Mount stories: first, the lady sleuth does not appear until almost halfway through; and second, instead of adopting the quaint omniscient voice of the traditional detective yarn, Adair has stepped into the story himself. He paints his narrative with verisimilitude by including real people (Carmen Callil, his agent Carole Blake), but the overall effect – as a postmodernist, his reputation exceeds him – is more akin to that of reading about 'Bret Easton Ellis' in Lunar Park than of 'Somerset Maugham' in The Moon and Sixpence.
This enables him to get away with bitching about the literary world (because, paradoxically, although it may indeed express his true views, we assume he would never be so indiscreet): at the start of the book, he is reading The Theory of Colonic Irrigation, "a fat, virtuosically executed novel by one of that new breed of American wunderkinder who, I would be lying if I denied it, are positively bloated with talent but who are also just too fucking pleased with themselves;" later, he has Carmen Callil, founder of Virago, refer to their modern classics line with blunt cynicism. He can also court controversy with impressively glib references to the World Trade Centre attacks, when a character notorious for anti-US sentiment publishes a book of essays about 9/11 which he wants to title "Come, Friendly Planes."
The character in question is Gustav Slavorigin, Booker Prize-winning novelist, controversialist, recipient of a fatwa from a right-wing American recluse, and murder victim for Evadne Mount's final investigation. His death takes place at Meiringen, Switzerland, famous location of the Reichenbach Falls and home to the annual Sherlock Holmes Festival. Adair has been invited as he has written a collection of Holmes stories (the book is set a few years in the future), including 'The Giant Rat of Sumatra' (referred to in a real Holmes story as one "for which the world is not yet ready"), which is reproduced here in full 30-page length. The witty conceit being, presumably, that having milked the Christie teat until dry, Adair then moved on to another defenceless dead author's estate.
To say more of the plot would spoil it – not least in seeing how Adair gets around having the fictional Evadne Mount appear in an apparently non-fictional setting – but the story is only partly the point. As fans of the author (Adair-devils?) might expect, not a page passes without some linguistic felicity, whether base pun ("a Catalan delicatessen I frequented [called] the Salvador Deli"), witty description ("the totally bald Sanary resembled, with his poached-egg eyes and pale thin legalistic lips, a transvestite whose wig has just been snatched off"), or whimsical metaphor ("the train tranquilly unzipped the country's flies from Oxford to London"). Sometimes he overdoes it, as when he has recourse to a footnote to explain a Francophone pun: but then again, this is what we would expect from 'Gilbert Adair', so it has a wit of its own. It means that, in its own register, the book is never less than good solid entertainment, a cleverer-than-thou equivalent of the defence made for Christie's own stories.
However the triumph of And Then There Was No One is to enable Adair to follow and conclude his most straightforward books with his most self-referential and 'too clever-clever by half' to date – and while some will find this to be sterile intellectual masturbation, reading such stuff has always been a favourite solo activity for me. By the end, the reader is not entirely clear whether the book was written by Gilbert Adair, 'Gilbert Adair', or someone else entirely. Aside from such cleverness, there is an underlying sadness too, as Adair uses other characters to lacerate his own work with brutal honesty:
The point, Gilbert, is that you've always been such a narcissistic writer. Which is why you've never had the popular touch, not even when writing whodunits. No one but himself loves a narcissist, or even likes a narcissist – and, I must tell you, Jane and Joe Public know in advance that, because of your overbearing egotism, there's going to be precious little room left in your books for them.
Postmodernism is dead, it's so last century, it's as hopelessly passé as Agatha Christie herself. Nobody gives two hoots about self-referentiality any longer, just as nobody gives two hoots, or even a single hoot, about you. Your books are out of sight, out of sound, out of fashion, and out of print.
Ouch. But even here, Adair has the upper hand, with the self-awareness to pre-empt such complaints by making them against himself. Within the book, he does the same retrospectively, by having a character observe of the earlier Evadne Mount novels: "You made yourself absolutely critic-proof, didn't you? If the writing was brilliant, it was yours; if it was bad, it was poor old Agatha's." In other words, one might say, Adair wants to have his fake and eat it. And here he manages it, brilliantly, in the finest book of the trilogy by far; it's a departure for the series but business as usual for Adair, and pleasure as usual for the reader.


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Review: Phuzzled
Sometimes the old ones are the best ones; and a very old type of puzzle is the humble jigsaw, which hasn't seen much of a representation in the era of computer gaming. That's what Phuzzled is seeking to set right, while at the same time breathing new life into your old photos. Does it make for a fun game or a passing novelty?


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William Leo "Bill" Schilling, 71, Plover, died Tuesday, April 17, 2012, at his home.
A Funeral Mass will be held at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at St. Bronislava Catholic Church in Plover, with the Rev. Greg Bohren officiating. Burial with full military honors will follow in the parish cemetery.
Visitation will be at Pisarski Community Funeral Home in Plover from 4 to 8 p.m. Friday, with a general rosary at 7 p.m., and at the church from 9:30 a.m. Saturday until the Mass.
A memorial in his name will be established at a later date.
Condolences may be offered online at www.pisarskifuneralhome.com.
Mr. Schilling was born March 4, 1941, in Youngstown, Ohio, a son of the late Virginia O'Leary and Louis Schilling. He grew up in California and attended schools in the North Hollywood area.
After high school, he entered the U.S. Navy on Sept. 28, 1959, at North Hollywood, Calif., and served on the USS Coral Sea. His honorable discharge, at the rank of SN, took place on Sept. 28, 1961, at Alameda, Calif.
He was married to Kathleen Schilling on Oct. 28, 1972.
He worked for General Motors before entering the restaurant business where he worked for companies such as Arthur Treacher's Fish and Chips, Long John Silver's, and Taco Johns, eventually owning and operating his own Taco Johns franchise in Stevens Point.
Survivors include his wife; his stepfather, Fred (Rose) Boggs, San Jose, Calif.; two sons, Robert (Tracy), Elburn, Ill., and Michael (Kari), West Bend; two daughters, Jennie (Scott) Blum, Holly Springs, N.C., and Amy (Delano Roberts) Schilling, Stevens Point; one brother, John (Marian) Schilling, Meridian, Idaho; and seven grandchildren.
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Los Angeles: On June 23, 2004 officers from the Los Angeles Police Department were involved in a pursuit with a stolen vehicle, followed by a foot chase of the suspect, Stanley Miller. At the end of the foot chase, as Miller was taken into custody, there was a use of force. Both the pursuit and foot chase were televised and showed an officer from the LAPD using force, hitting Mr. Miller with a flashlight.
Following the arrest the LAPD promised four things:
Today the Department is announcing that it has fulfilled all of these promises.
A timely, exhaustive and thorough investigation has been conducted. From the outset this was treated as a serious matter with the immediate initiation of comprehensive administrative and criminal investigations.
Both the Inspector General and the Federal Consent Degree monitor were immediately asked to be a part of the investigation, not just to observe but also to offer investigative suggestions and insights. The Department treated them as valuable oversight members with the ability to propose different investigative strategies and options.
Other law enforcement agencies were also asked to participate in the investigation. In a unique and unprecedented investigative tactic, a number of our neighborhood canvases were done by teams of LAPD detectives partnered with FBI agents, with the FBI taking the lead. Information from the investigation has been provided to the United States Department of Justice as they have monitored the case.
The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department was also involved from the beginning of the investigation.
The LAPD has repeatedly worked to keep key community, political and other interested stakeholders, including our own personnel, informed of what was taking place. Again, from the moment this incident occurred, the Department has shared everything that the law allows, with all of the stakeholder groups and the media.
California law severely restricts what the Department can share publicly. Police officers are entitled to the same rights as every citizen.
Personnel records, which include discipline information and citizen complaints, are confidential except in certain, limited circumstances. Today the Department is only able to announce the conclusion of the administrative investigation without disclosing the specific decisions made as to discipline.
With the filing of administrative charges, there is a very specific process that follows depending on whether the officers decide to accept or contest the initial determination of guilt or innocence and Chief William Bratton's imposition of penalty. Officers can "opt" for a board of rights (the officer chooses to contest the penalty imposed) vs. "directed" boards of rights (an officer is sent to a board of right because the Chief wishes to impose a penalty greater than a 22 day suspension). Under the LAPD system, the Chief of Police is not allowed to directly state whether he wants the officer fired.
One of our key promises has been to follow the appropriate processes. The consent decree and the various policies and procedures are important and the Department will follow them. Certain key dates and timelines have been met in this case.
This incident occurred on June 23, 2005:
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Chief Bratton received the case on April 15. After an extensive review of the evidence, the recommendations and the responses from the officers, Chief Bratton imposed discipline for the individual officers and signed charge sheets on April 26, 2005. The case now moves into its final phase in terms of imposition of discipline.


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A trailer for the deluxe vinyl reissue of Rush's debut has been released. The release, Rush ReDISCovered, comes 40 years after the original on April 15. The 43 second clip gives fans a visual and audio preview of what to expect from the set.
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USS Liberty (AGTR-5)
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120 Minutes in Boston: Keeping warm
Brrr... time for the hats and gloves! It pains me to admit it, but these chilly mornings mean winter is officially here. My first thought? Hibernation! But, Alexandra '12 is back to offer her suggestions on ways to stay warm (and active!) during Boston's cold winter months - all within 120 minutes of Simmons, of course.
It is freezing outside! Being from Florida, I tend to overreact to the dropping temperature. In October, I break out my down jacket for temperatures in the low 50s when my friends are still wearing windbreakers.
However, winter weather is here! While it is so easy to want to stay inside, there are many ways to keep warm and have fun in the city. Boston.com offered 17 great suggestions.


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Dates Open: Open year round except closed for Special Permit hunts.
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The Nails Creek Compartment has two information and registration stations. The first is where CR 125 crosses Nails Creek and the other check-in station is where FM 1697 crosses Nails Creek both are west of Lake Somerville. A park area is just east of the Nails Creek Compartment at Lake Somerville's edge at the end of FM 180. FM 180 crosses both FM 1697 and CR 125.
The Yegua Creek Compartment has three information and registration stations. One is off CR134 in the northern part, another is off CR 430 in the northeast area and the last is off CR124 on the south side. The Yegua Creek portion is north of the Nails Creek portion. Cr 124 is off of 1697 and CR 430 is off of FM 141 east of Yegua Creek.
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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6702508936667404812.post4141648503522066410..comments2014-12-19T07:58:15.096-05:00Comments on RPG Blog II: Old-School Resources: The S&W CompanionZachary Houghtonhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6702508936667404812.post-46500301351603092192009-04-02T23:10:00.000-04:002009-04-02T23:10:00.000-04:00Absolutely. I have more reasons to stick with C&am...Absolutely. I have more reasons to stick with C&C than not. Especially since AGP is producing Wilderlands-specific C&C material.

But I have to say this has cemented S&W as my choice for a system for the Basic D&D project I've been considering. :)sirlarkinshttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6702508936667404812.post-81120445668127087682009-04-02T19:29:00.000-04:002009-04-02T19:29:00.000-04:00Hey I share the C&C love--the nice thing about...Hey I share the C&C love--the nice thing about C&C and many of the "old school" (am I supposed to say "old guard" now?) games is easily things can be moved from one system to another with only light conversion.

Stay strong, man! :)Zachary The Firsthttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6702508936667404812.post-58721748776305737822009-04-02T18:09:00.000-04:002009-04-02T18:09:00.000-04:00That is indeed an awesome link, but I really didn&...That is indeed an awesome link, but I really didn't need to see that--it's all I can do to stick with C&C right now as my system of choice for running my Wilderlands game. No, I won't switch systems. I won't!sirlarkinshttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6702508936667404812.post-19622326995271939752009-04-02T07:46:00.000-04:002009-04-02T07:46:00.000-04:00Great link! It is very heartening to me to see th...Great link!

It is very heartening to me to see this sort of creativity and effort so prevalent out there for old-schoolers (or those just taking a walk on that side of things)

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Have you ever wanted to summit the highest peak in the State of New York? (Mt. Marcy: 5344')
How about the four highest peaks in New York? (Algonquin Peak: 5114', Mt. Haystack: 4960',
Mt. Skylight: 4926') On this trip, we will summit all of them. And we'll cap off this
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At over 6 million acres,
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The end of the summer means a break from bugs, humidity, and crowds and is an ideal time
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Bears beaver, moose, coyote, porcupine, otter, skunk, and rabbit all live here so hopefully
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End your summer with adventure! See a conveniently located, wild and beautiful landscape (within
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The Adirondack High Peaks Fatpacking Trip will be from August 25 - September 2, 2012.
Our journey will begin at the famed
Adirondack Loj
in upstate New York.
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Marcy, Skylight, and Haystack. From there, we'll complete the loop and head back to Adirondack
Proposed Itinerary
Weather is always an important concern when backpacking.
Historical August weather
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discuss any gear with us before the trip.
We don't believe in austere eating regimens. Backpacking is a rigorous, rewarding
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sample menus.
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through the mountains, your body will reject the empty calories and prefer
nutritious food.
Make sure to leave room in your pack for a bear canister (ARFC) as the park requires
us to carry them
Although the mileage is moderate for much of this trip and a few of the days consist
of day-hiking without a pack,
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May soybeans were trading 5 1/2 cents higher late in the overnight session. China futures were unchanged overnight. Palm oil futures in Malaysia closed up 0.7% overnight. Equity markets in Asia were generally higher overnight, with Shanghai stocks reaching a new 1 month high off positive leadership from the financial sector. European markets were weaker to start today, mostly off political wrangling within the IMF and perhaps because of the potential for political leadership changes in France. Early in the US trade today, share prices were slightly higher with the markets shifting their focus toward another round of corporate earnings reports later this morning. The US economic report slate today is mostly empty, with a weekly ECRI report the only scheduled release today. However, there could be a series of reactions off an ongoing IMF meeting and a G20 Finance Ministers/Governors meeting.
A weaker USD and some strength in gold and energy market overnight helped to support higher trade. Declining South America production estimates and strong demand from China have been the primary supportive forces on the recent rally. In addition, the outlook for a very tight ending stocks situation for the 2012/13 season without a significant jump in acres from the March USDA estimate has helped to support active buying from speculators and record open interest. Argentina cut its production estimate for the 2011/12 season to just 42.9 million tonnes as compared with 44 million as their previous estimate and compared with 45 million as the last USDA forecast. The market closed slightly higher on the session yesterday but down sharply from the early highs. More China buying of US old crop soybeans plus a surge higher in corn sparked buying. Private exporters reported the sale of 110,000 tonnes of US soybeans to China for the 2011/12 season. Weekly export sales for soybeans came in at 1.219 million tonnes which was sharply above trade expectations. Old crop meal sales were 300,700 metric tonnes. Sales of 82,000 metric tonnes are needed each week to reach the USDA forecast. Oil sales were 23,900 metric tonnes which was also well above expectations. Sales of 7,000 metric tonnes are needed each week to reach the USDA forecast.
If we boost planted area by 2 million acres and see a trend yield of 43.4 bushels per acre, ending stocks come in near 114 million bushels with a stocks/usage of just 3.4% which would be a record low. It will take record yield or even a larger boost in plantings or weaker global demand to avoid tightness. The 11-day set-back from the highs may have been enough to correct the overbought condition and a resumption of the uptrend for November soybeans leaves 1421 3/4 as next target.
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SOYBEANS (JUL): Daily stochastics turning lower from overbought levels is bearish and will tend to reinforce a downside break especially if near term support is penetrated. The market's close below the 9-day moving average is an indication the short-term trend remains negative. The market has a slightly positive tilt with the close over the swing pivot. The next downside target is 1399. The next area of resistance is around 1432 3/4 and 1446, while 1st support hits today at 1409 1/4 and below there at 1399.
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Fitness Assault: 12 Motivational Workout Videos!
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did you know... Brownian Motion
In 1827 the biologist Robert Brown noticed that if you looked at pollen grains in water through a microscope, the pollen jiggles about. He called this jiggling 'Brownian motion', but Brown couldn't work out what was causing it. The first of the three papers that Einstein published in 1905 finally came up with an explanation.
Everything around us is made up of atoms and molecules: the chair you're sitting on, the food you eat, the air you're breathing. The idea of atoms has been around since the time of the ancient Greeks, and a century before Einstein, the great chemist John Dalton had suggested that all chemicals were made of tiny invisible molecules, which in turn were made of even tinier atoms. The problem was that there was no proof of their existence, until Einstein looked into the problem of Brownian motion.
Einstein realised that the jiggling of the pollen grains seen in Brownian motion was due to molecules of water hitting the tiny pollen grains, like players kicking the ball in a game of football. The pollen grains were visible but the water molecules weren't, so it looked like the grains were bouncing around on their own.
Einstein also showed that it was possible to work out how many molecules were hitting a single pollen grain and how fast the water molecules were moving - all by looking at the pollen grains.
Importantly, Einstein's paper also made predictions about the properties of atoms that could be tested. The French physicist Jean Perrin used Einstein's predictions to work out the size of atoms and remove any remaining doubts about the existence of atoms.
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CCC Hosts Pearl River Thursday at Home
Coahoma Community Colleges offense has showed sparks of brilliance, but has yet to catch fire after three games this season. The Tigers are steadily improving, but they will need to correct the mental errors and cut out the costly turnovers and penalties that have been hurting them early on this season.
CCC (0-1 MACJC North, 0-3 overall) will host Pearl River Community College Thursday night at James E. Miller Stadium. The Wildcats (0-1 MACJC South, 1-1 overall) are coming off a 34-16 loss to No. 19 Jones County Junior College on Saturday. PRCC will have just a few short days to prepare for its trip to Clarksdale and the signs look good for Coahoma picking up its first win of the season.
We got to be more disciplined, and weve got to quit making the mental errors because they really hurt us during the first three weeks, said CCC Head Coach Freeman Horton. We played our best game of the season last week, (Northwest) just had some big plays that really changed the momentum of the game. That was a game that we couldve won.
Those big plays included a 91-yard kickoff return after the CCC kick coverage was incorrectly executed, and 83 and 70-yard runs by Northwest running back Damian Baker who finished the game with 208 yards and three scores. Four consecutive personal foul penalties, on NWCCs second possession of the game, setup Bakers other score by moving the ball from the Tigers own 30, to their own 2-yard line, and setting up the short touchdown run.
It was a tough loss for us, and after watching the film it made it a little harder to watch some of the mistakes that we made, said Horton. Weve got to keep our heads up this week, have a good week of practice, and come out and get our first win this Thursday night.
Thursdays home game will be the last for CCC for the next couple of weeks as they will play on the next two Saturday afternoons away at East Mississippi (Sept. 28 at 2 p.m.) and at Northeast Mississippi (Oct. 5 at 3 p.m.). The Tigers wont return home until Oct. 12 for their Homecoming game against Itawamba at 2 p.m.
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Lack of Planning, Confusion By Officials Added To Gas Crisis: Expert
In the aftermath of Sandy flashbacks to the national gas crisis of the seventies are everywhere.
There appears to be no end to endless fuel lines. It also gets more concerning when one sees the line that a PIX11 News crew captured off Bay Boulevard near JFK airport.
This particular line is different from all others, because this is where fuel tankers fill-up. It should come to no surprise that they they have lengthy issues as well. Truckers wait not for several minutes, but rather hours in a nearly half-mile long line at the Carbo Industries terminal.
A worker told PIX 11 News that they had lost power once again Wednesday night when the nor'easter blew through. Less than 24 hours later, the Army Corp of Engineers was on the scene along with other officials as they tried to get the terminal off of generator power.
Overall though, the fuel crisis is a major disappointment for Ralph Bombardiere, "Somebody missed the boat on this situation and they're not catching up."
Bombardier is the Executive Director of NY State Gasoline Automotive Services Association, the organization that works closely with gas station owners has been around for 81 years.
Bombardiere has been there for 52 of them.
He is considered by many as one of the foremost experts on how gas distribution operations work in the state.
In the days following Hurricane Sandy, Bombardiere dealt with Governor Cuomo along with his office in addressing the fuel crisis. According to Bombardiere, there were no plans in place for a fuel crisis, "Well there should have been but the state doesn't have one."
The failure to plan has only fueled the problem even more so, "They're trying to get a handle on it, but actually they don't have a handle on what the industry does and how it works, and they keep trying to find out," said Bombardiere, adding that "Every time they try something, they seem to create another problem."
During a news conference Thursday afternoon, Governor Andrew Cuomo said they are working on the problem and attributes it to consumption, "Right now in some areas, we're buying more gasoline than any usual consumption pattern because people want a full tank of gas always, because they're nervous, and I understand that, but that is actually compounding the situation."
A few hours after the news conference, odd/even day rationing went into effect in New York City along with Nassau and Suffolk Counties. Prior to the announcement Bombardiere said that his office made the suggestion to the Governor earlier in the week, but that they called them back to ask them about it again after they had already informed them, "They were concerned that the service station dealers and help, couldn't control someone coming in with the wrong plate and there would be some fights."
Bombardiere told them he was able to control it during the energy crisis of the seventies adding that, "there is a cop all over at every station when they're pumping."
The process, which goes into effect before the height of Friday morning's rush hour has operated smoothly in New Jersey for days.
As for why there are continued disruptions? Bombardiere says its due to power outages as well as some damage at the fueling facilities as well as confusion over distribution.
One thing is for certain, gas lines according to tanker drivers and station owners will not be getting any shorter in the immediate future.
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MADISON, Wis. (5/17/10)--The Credit Union National Association's (CUNA) Community Credit Union Committee has released the first of four complimentary white papers, the committee announced Friday. "Best Practices in Credit Union Efficiency," the first paper, details cost-structure benchmarks and current best practices for community credit unions operating in an environment filled with anxiety, guarded optimism and pure exhaustion from the tolls of the "Great Recession," the committee said. The white paper comes at a critical time. The mandate for improved efficiencies in community credit unions is clearly supported by industry data, the committee said. Roughly 2,000 of the 8,000 credit unions nationwide have community powers, and there are noticeable differences in the expense and revenue structures of these institutions. For community credit unions, improving profitability and protecting net worth in the years ahead will require a laser focus on ongoing tenacity around efficiency improvement. "Best Practices in Credit Union Efficiency" serves as a guide for credit unions looking to improve operating efficiencies. It focuses on how community credit unions can generate adequate returns by:
* Setting high]level objectives as part of the strategic planning process; * Using benchmarking data to assess efficiency across all areas of the credit union and reporting these measurements regularly; * Setting accountabilities and incentives around efficiency improvement at all levels of the credit union; * Establishing a culture of continuous process improvement to drive new efficiencies with disciplined project management; * Leveraging growing self-service channels (phone, Web, mobile, cards) to deliver financial services in a less labor]intensive manner and actively manage channel delivery costs; * Using sophisticated data mining and contextual marketing strategies to lower the cost of member acquisition, cross selling and retention; and * Developing stronger profitability reporting information at the branch, product and member level, and driving management decisions around this profitability information.
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MADISON, Wis. (5/17/10)--The Credit Union National Association (CUNA) is offering an eight-part audio series on individual retirement accounts (IRAs) starting June 1 at 1 p.m. CT and continuing through July 27. Participants will learn about traditional and Roth IRAs and health savings accounts (HSA). New accounts personnel will be taught how to open an IRA, understand beneficiary concerns, complete the required documentation for an IRA, and identify the ages, penalties and requirements for IRAs, CUNA said. Member contact employees will examine the building blocks or foundation that is most critical with IRAs, learn how to answer member questions about IRAs and discover how to refer a member from the teller line to the new accounts desk. The services can be purchased as individual sessions or a group of sessions. Sessions offered include:
* Types of IRAs, Traditional vs. Roth, June 1; * IRA: Documentation Requirements, June 15; * IRA: Contribution and Distribution Rules, June 22; * IRA: Rollovers and Transfers, June 29; * Penalties Associated with IRAs, July 6; * How to Give Advice on IRAs Without Giving Advice, July 13; * How to Promote IRAs and HSAs to Build Member Relations, July 20; and * How to Apply Your IRA Knowledge, July 27.
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