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Allright......this question might seem pretty stupid and it is but I just need some info here:
Do you need to put rubber blocks on the engine mounts or do you just bolt the engine straight onto the bare metal? My dad and me were talking about it the other day and we came up with different theories. Basically what I need to know is what is the best way to mount an engine? And also does anyone know the distance between the engine mounts of a chev 350? This is just a topic that's been bugging me because I'm looking at project cars and my dad and me dont know if we're up to an engine swap yet cuz we've never done it. Thanks Mike
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Mike, don't take offense but I find your wording a little confusing. Let me see if I can help you though. I assume your talking about motor mounts. The motor mounts bolt directly to the vehicles crossmember (one on each side naturally and metal to metal) Then there are also two solid metal parts that bolt directly to the block, metal to metal, (one on each side). Oh and if you do an engine swap buy new motor mounts, don't reuse the old ones.
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haha I guess I missed the boat on that one, it didn't even cross my mind he would be considering solid mounts. Good call Bob
Alright, thanks a lot guys but now I am confused.......
There is a metal motor mount welded to the frame going to the motor where it bolts onto (on each side naturally). What I want to know is if you need a rubber block between mount and engine to resist vibration? Thats what my dad thought. Mike |
Either style is intended to isolate vibration from the engine to the frame and also to enable the engine to twist from the engines torque with the least amount of transfer to the frame. Your Dad is correct. |
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9:00 PM ET, December 11, 2009
Pepsi Center, Denver, Colorado
DENVER -- The Colorado Avalanche got the bounce they needed to avoid a fourth straight home loss.
Wojtek Wolski scored the only goal in a shootout, Craig Anderson stopped all three Tampa Bay shots and the Avalanche beat the Lightning 2-1 on Friday night.
Wolski had the Avalanche's only regulation goal, and Anderson made 21 saves to help Colorado snap a three-game home losing streak.
"Lately we've been snakebitten," Wolski said. "Tonight we really put the effort forth."
Antero Niittymaki made 33 saves, and Steve Downie scored for Tampa Bay. The Lightning have lost seven of their last eight.
The Avalanche outshot the Lightning 26-12 after the first period but were on the verge of their second straight 1-0 loss when Wolski came through. Paul Stastny skated down the left boards and his centering pass to the front of the net banked off a driving Wolski's leg with 7:49 remaining. It was Wolski's 12th goal of the season.
"Sometimes you just have to go to the net and get a lucky bounce," Wolski said. "I've had so many chances in the last little while and they're not going in. Sometimes you just have to get the ugly ones."
The way Niittymaki was playing, Colorado needed a lucky bounce. The Tampa Bay goalie was close to his first shutout of the season when Wolski tied it.
"You knew they were going to come, we just didn't have an answer for them," Tampa Bay coach Rick Tocchet said. "Actually, we had one answer -- Niittymaki. That was our only answer."
Niittymaki had 18 saves in the third period alone.
"We just sat back in the third period and let them con in our zone," forward Alex Tanguay said. "We were making stupid mistakes and not playing good."
Wolski's goal would have been cosmetic if Tampa Bay scored on its best chance of second period. The Lightning had an odd-man rush late in the frame, but Anderson made a save on Vincent Lecavalier to keep Colorado within a goal.
"I thought when [Lowrie] passed it to me there was an opening on the low blocker but that wasn't the shot that came out," Lecavalier said. "I was going low blocker and it ended it up on his blocker."
Anderson, playing for the first time since suffering a neck injury against Florida on Dec. 2, faced only five shots in the third period and overtime.
"Sometimes the toughest job is when you don't see a lot of shots," he said.
The Lightning scored first when the Avalanche couldn't control two rebounds. Anderson saved shots by Martin St. Louis and Lecavalier, but the second rebound came out to Downie, who wristed a shot into the open net with 7:48 left in the first period for his sixth goal of the season.
The Avalanche had a chance to tie with a power play late in the period but couldn't capitalize on the man advantage.
Both teams had several good chances to score in the second period. Colorado nearly tied it midway through the second period on a shot by Stastny, but Niittymaki got his shoulder on the puck.
The Avalanche continued to put pressure on the Lightning but couldn't get the equalizer.
Tampa Bay took consecutive minors early in the third period, giving Colorado two power-play opportunities. Although they had six shots on goal with the man advantage the Avalanche couldn't cash in.
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Niittymaki was briefly attended to late in the first period after stopping a shot by Ryan O'Reilly. Niittymaki stayed in the game. ... Colorado went more than 154 minutes between goals at home, a span of three games. ... The Avalanche have not allowed a power-play goal in their last four games, killing of 10 penalties. ... Colorado is 3-5 in shootouts and Tampa Bay is 1-6.
Game Information
Arena: Pepsi Center Location: Denver, Colorado |
Referees: Mike Leggo, Tom Kowal Linesmen: Don Henderson, Mark Pare |
Attendance: 12,188 (67.7% full) |
Team Stat Comparison
Tampa Bay | Colorado | ||
1 | Goals | 1 | |
0 | Power Play Goals | 0 | |
1 | Power Play Opportunities | 3 | |
0 | Shorthanded Goals | 0 | |
3 | Penalties | 1 | |
6 | Penalty Minutes | 2 | |
22 | Shots on Goal | 34 | |
18 | Hits | 16 | |
26 | Faceoffs Won | 30 |
Scoring Summary
1st Period | TB | COL | ||
12:12 | Steve Downie (6)
Assists: Vincent Lecavalier, Martin St. Louis |
1 | 0 | |
2nd Period | TB | COL | ||
No scoring this period | 1 | 0 | ||
3rd Period | TB | COL | ||
12:11 | Wojtek Wolski (12)
Assists: Paul Stastny, Ryan Wilson |
1 | 1 | |
No scoring this period | 1 | 1 | ||
Shootout Summary | TB | COL | ||
Shootout attempt by Chris Stewart SAVED by Antero Niittymaki (Wristshot 17 ft) | 0 | 0 | ||
Shootout attempt by Stephane Veilleux SAVED by Craig Anderson (Backhand 10 ft) | 0 | 0 | ||
Shootout attempt by Matt Duchene SAVED by Antero Niittymaki (Wristshot 17 ft) | 0 | 0 | ||
Shootout attempt by Vincent Lecavalier SAVED by Craig Anderson (Wristshot 13 ft) | 0 | 0 | ||
Shootout GOAL scored by Wojtek Wolski on Antero Niittymaki (Backhand 13 ft) | 0 | 1 | ||
Shootout attempt by Alex Tanguay SAVED by Craig Anderson (Wristshot 23 ft) | 0 | 1 |

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Conducting market research can do a great deal to help you determine whether or not you should invest in an Internet marketing campaign for your book. This step is very important because it will give you a good indication of whether or not you should even begin marketing your business on the Internet. Hiring a firm specializing in market research is recommended because they can conduct this research quickly and efficiently and will likely gain a great deal of valuable information as a result of their research efforts. If they determine your business can benefit from an Internet marketing campaign, it is time to start thinking about how you want to advertise your business online.
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We hope to open either the first or second week of November. We plan on doing a soft open for a couple of weeks and then have a big celebration once we get everything working the way we would like. I am planning on having in person workshops for authors about social media, publishing your books and more. Visionary Meetings would be a great place for authors to meet their readers.
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When selecting a book cover, try to find an image that isn't used too much and that is unique. My favorite graphic website is Pixabay. I've noted some other image websites that you might be interested in.
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To look just be on the realm of grabbing a job as a writer, you could also look at doing some freelance writing. If you're not happy with the amount of money that you could make within the writing field, you could look at supplementing this on the side by either of these two following websites: www.elance.com or Fiverr.com. On Elance, you are able to bid on projects that are listed as well as set up a profile to showcase your best work. Fiverr is a great place to start out and build your experience. You can create search criteria so that jobs that meet what you want can be e-mailed to you. This is a great way to supplement your income.
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Last year's iOS 6 release was marred by the negative reactions to Apple's Maps, yet the OS quickly went on to be the most downloaded and used iOS ever. This year, iOS 7 arguably had more of a potential hindrance: a completely revamped UI. Yet Apple seems to have pleased almost everyone, with the iOS garnering praise from users and technology critics alike. Still, to see the analytics data from Mixpanel over the weekend is no less shocking: within 72 hours of its release, iOS 7 overtook iOS 6 as the iOS installed on the majority of devices.
Apple's press release today notes that "more than 200 million iOS devices are now running the completely redesigned iOS 7, making it the fastest software upgrade in history." Guess Apple isn't doomed after all.
By 8 PM on Friday, September 20, iOS 7 was on 48.21 percent of iOS devices, compared to 47.58 percent for iOS 6. By today at 4 AM, that percentage had grown to 56.21 percent of devices. Those percentages are absolutely mind-blowing numbers for any OS adoption rate in such a short amount of time. They are particularly more impressive considering the massive changes iOS 7 has brought to iOS devices. No matter which way you slice it, it looks like Apple's software offerings this year have hit one out of the park.
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A longstanding YMCA volunteer, Carse will be appointed as an Officer of the YMCA Fellowship of Honour in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the organization.
"It's great to be a part of something like this," Carse said Thursday at the Chaplin Family YMCA following a racquetball game. "I've really enjoyed it."
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"The thing I keep asking myself is why me," he said, humbly. "It's a little hard to believe."
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He served on the board between 1999 and 2005 when the Cambridge YMCA merged with the Cambridge Multicultural Centre in 1999, and added a $1.25-million, 20,000-square-foot addition onto the Chaplin Family YMCA. The expansion included space leased to KidsAbility.
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Carse has also served the YMCA's national organization. He was a YMCA Canada board member between 1989 and 1992.
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I'm gonna bump this but diamond player become diamond for a reason. But the system does reward a lot for being 300 games in. if your gaining 30 lp for your first 50 game like the old elo system did that fine, but you shouldn't be getting that amount 300 games in :O.
I was a bit below 2k and I was placed into Plat II. I think I got to Diamond V with a ~2050 MMR (assuming I won/lost 12 a game) If you're diamond II though I think that's 2200. Diamond III is a bit risky and anything below wouldn't have been diamond without the new system. I've also noticed my LP gain is a bit higher than my loss (nothing substantial though). That shouldn't be the case as my MMR shouldn't be high enough to warrant high gains (I gain 21-24 and lose 18-21). Plat is the new gold and Diamond is the new plat but there is no new diamond so all that is left to do is casual play lol
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W. Somerset Maugham | |
Maugham photographed by Carl Van Vechten in 1934 | |
Born | William Somerset Maugham 25 January 1874 UK Embassy, Paris, France |
Died | 16 December 1965 Nice, France | (aged 91)
Occupation | Playwright, novelist, short story writer |
Notable works | Of Human Bondage The Letter The Razor's Edge |
Spouse | Syrie Wellcome (1917–29) |
Children | Mary Elizabeth Maugham (1915–1998) Alan Searle (adopted, 1962) |
W. Somerset Maugham | |
Maugham photographed by Carl Van Vechten in 1934 | |
Born | William Somerset Maugham 25 January 1874 UK Embassy, Paris, France |
Died | 16 December 1965 Nice, France | (aged 91)
Occupation | Playwright, novelist, short story writer |
Notable works | Of Human Bondage The Letter The Razor's Edge |
Spouse | Syrie Wellcome (1917–29) |
Children | Mary Elizabeth Maugham (1915–1998) Alan Searle (adopted, 1962) |
William Somerset Maugham CH (/ˈmɔːm/ MAWM; 25 January 1874 – 16 December 1965) was a British playwright, novelist and short story writer. He was among the most popular writers of his era and reputedly the highest paid author during the 1930s.[1]
After losing both his parents by the age of 10, Maugham was raised by a paternal uncle who was emotionally cold. Not wanting to become a lawyer like other men in his family, Maugham eventually trained and qualified as a medical doctor (physician). The first run of his first novel, Liza of Lambeth (1897), sold out so rapidly that Maugham gave up medicine to write full-time.
During the First World War, he served with the Red Cross and in the ambulance corps, before being recruited in 1916 into the British Secret Intelligence Service, for which he worked in Switzerland and Russia before the October Revolution of 1917. During and after the war, he travelled in India and Southeast Asia; all of these experiences were reflected in later short stories and novels.
Maugham's father, Robert Ormond Maugham, was a lawyer who handled the legal affairs of the British embassy in Paris.[2] Since French law declared that all children born on French soil could be conscripted for military service, his father arranged for Maugham to be born at the embassy, technically on British soil.[3] His grandfather, another Robert, had also been a prominent lawyer and co-founder of the English Law Society.[4] It was taken for granted that Maugham and his brothers would follow in their footsteps. His elder brother Viscount Maugham enjoyed a distinguished legal career and served as Lord Chancellor from 1938 to 1939.
Maugham's mother, Edith Mary (née Snell), had tuberculosis (TB), a condition for which her medic prescribed childbirth.[5] She had Maugham several years after the last of his three older brothers; they were already enrolled in boarding school by the time he was three. Being the youngest, he was effectively raised as an only child.
Edith's sixth and final son died on 25 January 1882, one day after his birth, on Maugham's eighth birthday. Edith died of tuberculosis six days later on 31 January at the age of 41.[6] The early death of his mother left Maugham traumatized; he kept his mother's photograph by his bedside for the rest of his life.[7] Two years after Edith's death, Maugham's father died in France of cancer.
Maugham was sent to the UK to be cared for by his uncle, Henry MacDonald Maugham, the Vicar of Whitstable, in Kent. The move was damaging, as Henry Maugham proved cold and emotionally cruel. The boy attended The King's School, Canterbury, which was also difficult for him. He was teased for his bad English (French had been his first language) and his short stature, which he inherited from his father. Maugham developed a stammer that would stay with him all his life, although it was sporadic and subject to mood and circumstance.[8]
Miserable both at his uncle's vicarage and at school, the young Maugham developed a talent for making wounding remarks to those who displeased him. This ability is sometimes reflected in Maugham's literary characters. At sixteen, Maugham refused to continue at The King's School. His uncle allowed him to travel to Germany, where he studied literature, philosophy and German at Heidelberg University. During his year in Heidelberg, Maugham met and had a sexual affair with John Ellingham Brooks, an Englishman ten years his senior.[9] He also wrote his first book there, a biography of Giacomo Meyerbeer, an opera composer.[10]
On Maugham's return to Britain, his uncle found him a position in an accountant's office, but after a month, Maugham gave it up and returned to Whitstable. His uncle set about finding Maugham a new profession. Maugham's father and three older brothers were all distinguished lawyers, and Maugham asked to be excused from the duty of following in their footsteps. A career in the church was rejected because a stammering minister might make the family seem ridiculous. His uncle rejected the civil service, not because of the young man's feelings or interests, but because his uncle concluded that the civil service was no longer a career for gentlemen; a recent law required applicants to pass an entry examination. The local physician suggested the medical profession and Maugham's uncle agreed.
Maugham had been writing steadily since the age of 15 and fervently wished to become an author, but as he was not of age, he refrained from telling his guardian. For the next five years, he studied medicine at St Thomas' Hospital in Lambeth, London.
Some critics have assumed that the years Maugham spent studying medicine were a creative dead end, but Maugham felt otherwise. He was living in the great city of London, meeting people of a "low" sort whom he would never have met otherwise, and seeing them at a time of heightened anxiety and meaning in their lives. In maturity, he recalled the value of his experience as a medical student: "I saw how men died. I saw how they bore pain. I saw what hope looked like, fear and relief ..."[11]
Maugham kept his own lodgings, took pleasure in furnishing them, filled many notebooks with literary ideas, and continued writing nightly while at the same time studying for his medical degree. In 1897, he wrote his second book, Liza of Lambeth, a tale of working-class adultery and its consequences. It drew its details from Maugham's experiences as a medical student doing midwifery work in Lambeth, a South London slum. Maugham wrote near the opening of the novel: "... it is impossible always to give the exact unexpurgated words of Liza and the other personages of the story; the reader is therefore entreated with his thoughts to piece out the necessary imperfections of the dialogue."[12]
Liza of Lambeth's first print run sold out in a matter of weeks. Maugham, who had qualified as a medic, dropped medicine and embarked on his 65-year career as a man of letters. He later said, "I took to it as a duck takes to water."[13]
The writer's life allowed Maugham to travel and to live in places such as Spain and Capri for the next decade, but his next ten works never came close to rivalling the success of Liza. This changed in 1907 with the success of his play Lady Frederick. By the next year, he had four plays running simultaneously in London, and Punch published a cartoon of Shakespeare biting his fingernails nervously as he looked at the billboards.
Maugham's supernatural thriller, The Magician (1908), based its principal character on the well-known and somewhat disreputable Aleister Crowley. Crowley took some offence at the treatment of the protagonist, Oliver Haddo. He wrote a critique of the novel, charging Maugham with plagiarism, in a review published in Vanity Fair.[14] Maugham survived the criticism without much damage to his reputation.
By 1914, Maugham was famous, with 10 plays produced and 10 novels published. Too old to enlist when the First World War broke out, he served in France as a member of the British Red Cross's so-called "Literary Ambulance Drivers", a group of some 24 well-known writers, including the Americans John Dos Passos and E. E. Cummings.
During this time, he met Frederick Gerald Haxton, a young San Franciscan, who became his companion and lover until Haxton's death in 1944.[15] Throughout this period, Maugham continued to write. He proofread Of Human Bondage at a location near Dunkirk during a lull in his ambulance duties.[16]
Of Human Bondage (1915) initially was criticized in both England and the United States; the New York World described the romantic obsession of the protagonist Philip Carey as "the sentimental servitude of a poor fool". The influential American novelist and critic Theodore Dreiser rescued the novel, referring to it as a work of genius and comparing it to a Beethoven symphony. His review gave the book a lift, and it has never been out of print since.[17]
Maugham indicates in his foreword that he derived the title from a passage in Baruch Spinoza's Ethics:
Of Human Bondage is considered to have many autobiographical elements. Maugham gave Philip Carey a club foot (rather than his stammer); the vicar of Blackstable appears derived from the vicar of Whitstable; and Carey is a medic. Maugham insisted the book was more invention than fact. The close relationship between fictional and non-fictional became Maugham's trademark, despite the legal requirement to state that "the characters in [this or that publication] are entirely imaginary". In 1938 he wrote: "Fact and fiction are so intermingled in my work that now, looking back on it, I can hardly distinguish one from the other."[11]
Although homosexual,[5] Maugham entered into a relationship with Syrie Wellcome, the wife of Henry Wellcome, an American-born English pharmaceutical magnate. They had a daughter named Mary Elizabeth Maugham, (1915–1998).[19] Henry Wellcome sued his wife for divorce, naming Maugham as co-respondent.[20]
In May 1917, following the decree absolute, Syrie Wellcome and Maugham were married. Syrie Maugham became a noted interior decorator who in the 1920s popularized "the all-white room." Their daughter was familiarly called Liza and her surname was changed to Maugham.
The marriage was unhappy,[5] and Syrie divorced him in 1929, finding his relationship and travels with Haxton too difficult to live with.
Maugham returned to England from his ambulance unit duties to promote Of Human Bondage. With that completed, he was eager to assist the war effort again. As he was unable to return to his ambulance unit, Syrie arranged for him to be introduced to a high-ranking intelligence officer known as "R;" he was recruited by John Wallinger.[21] In September 1915, Maugham began work in Switzerland, as one of the network of British agents who operated against the Berlin Committee, whose members included Virendranath Chattopadhyay, an Indian revolutionary trying to use the war to create violence against the British in his country. Maugham lived in Switzerland as a writer.
In 1916, Maugham travelled to the Pacific to research his novel The Moon and Sixpence, based on the life of Paul Gauguin. This was the first of his journeys through the late-Imperial world of the 1920s and 1930s which inspired his novels. He became known as a writer who portrayed the last days of colonialism in India, Southeast Asia, China and the Pacific, although the books on which this reputation rests represent only a fraction of his output. On this and all subsequent journeys, he was accompanied by Haxton, whom he regarded as indispensable to his success as a writer. Maugham was painfully shy, and Haxton the extrovert gathered human material which the author converted to fiction.
In June 1917, Maugham was asked by Sir William Wiseman, an officer of the British Secret Intelligence Service (later named MI6), to undertake a special mission in Russia.[21][22] It was part of an attempt to keep the Provisional Government in power and Russia in the war by countering German pacifist propaganda.[23] Two and a half months later, the Bolsheviks took control. Maugham subsequently said that if he had been able to get there six months earlier, he might have succeeded. Quiet and observant, Maugham had a good temperament for intelligence work; he believed he had inherited from his lawyer father a gift for cool judgement and the ability to be undeceived by facile appearances.[21][24][citation needed]
Maugham used his spying experiences as the basis for Ashenden: Or the British Agent, a collection of short stories about a gentlemanly, sophisticated, aloof spy. This character is considered to have influenced Ian Fleming's later series of James Bond novels.[25] In 1922, Maugham dedicated his book On A Chinese Screen to Syrie. This was a collection of 58 ultra-short story sketches, which he had written during his 1920 travels through China and Hong Kong, intending to expand the sketches later as a book.[26]
Dramatised from a story first published in his collection The Casuarina Tree (1924), Maugham's play The Letter, starring Gladys Cooper, had its premiere in London in 1927. Later, he asked that Katharine Cornell play the lead in the 1927 Broadway version. The play was adapted as a film by the same name in 1929, and again in 1940, for which Bette Davis received an Oscar nomination. In 1951, Cornell was a great success playing the lead in his comedy, The Constant Wife.[27]
In 1926, Maugham bought Villa Mauresque, on 9 acres (3.6 hectares) at Cap Ferrat on the French Riviera and it was his home for most of the rest of his life. There he hosted one of the great literary and social salons of the 1920s and 30s. He continued to be highly productive, writing plays, short stories, novels, essays and travel books. By 1940, when the collapse of France and its occupation by the German Third Reich forced Maugham to leave the French Riviera, he was a refugee – but one of the wealthiest and most famous writers in the English-speaking world.[citation needed]
Maugham's novel, An Appointment in Samarra (1933), is based on an ancient Babylonian myth: Death is both the narrator and a central character.[28][29] The American writer John O'Hara credited Maugham's novel as a creative inspiration for his own novel Appointment in Samarra.[citation needed]
Maugham, by then in his sixties, spent most of the Second World War in the United States, first in Hollywood (he worked on many scripts, and was one of the first authors to make significant money from film adaptations) and later in the South. While in the US, he was asked by the British government to make patriotic speeches to induce the US to aid Britain, if not necessarily become an allied combatant. After his companion Gerald Haxton died in 1944, Maugham moved back to England. In 1946 he returned to his villa in France, where he lived, interrupted by frequent and long travels, until his death.
Maugham began a relationship with Alan Searle, whom he had first met in 1928. A young man from the London slum area of Bermondsey, Searle had already been kept by older men. He proved a devoted if not a stimulating companion. One of Maugham's friends, describing the difference between Haxton and Searle, said simply: "Gerald was vintage, Alan was vin ordinaire."[30]
Maugham's love life was almost never smooth. He once confessed: "I have most loved people who cared little or nothing for me and when people have loved me I have been embarrassed ... In order not to hurt their feelings, I have often acted a passion I did not feel."[11]
In 1962 Maugham sold a collection of paintings, some of which had already been assigned to his daughter Liza by deed. She sued her father and won a judgment of £230,000. Maugham publicly disowned her and claimed she was not his biological daughter. He adopted Searle as his son and heir. In his 1962 volume of memoirs, Looking Back, he attacked the late Syrie Maugham and wrote that Liza had been born before they married. The memoir cost him several friends and exposed him to much public ridicule. Liza and her husband Lord Glendevon contested the change in Maugham's will in the French courts, and it was overturned. But, in 1965 Searle inherited £50,000, the contents of Villa Mauresque, Maugham's manuscripts and his revenue from copyrights for 30 years. Thereafter the copyrights passed to the Royal Literary Fund.
There is no grave for Maugham. His ashes were scattered near the Maugham Library, The King's School, Canterbury. Liza Maugham, Lady Glendevon, died aged 83 in 1998, survived by her four children (a son and a daughter by her first marriage to Vincent Paravicini, and two more sons to Lord Glendevon). One of her grandchildren is Derek Paravicini, who is a musical prodigy and autistic savant.
Commercial success with high book sales, successful theatre productions and a string of film adaptations, backed by astute stock market investments, allowed Maugham to live a very comfortable life. Small and weak as a boy, Maugham had been proud even then of his stamina, and as an adult he kept churning out the books, proud that he could. Yet, despite his triumphs, he never attracted the highest respect from the critics or his peers. Maugham attributed this to his lack of "lyrical quality", his small vocabulary, and failure to make expert use of metaphor in his work. In 1934 the American journalist and radio personality Alexander Woollcott offered Maugham some language advice: "The female implies, and from that the male infers." Maugham responded: "I am not yet too old to learn."[31]
Maugham wrote at a time when experimental modernist literature such as that of William Faulkner, Thomas Mann, James Joyce and Virginia Woolf was gaining increasing popularity and winning critical acclaim. In this context, his plain prose style was criticized as "such a tissue of clichés that one's wonder is finally aroused at the writer's ability to assemble so many and at his unfailing inability to put anything in an individual way".[32]
For a public man of Maugham's generation, being openly gay was impossible. Whether his own orientation disgusted him (as it did many at a time when homosexuality was widely considered a moral failing as well as illegal) or whether he was trying to disguise his leanings, Maugham wrote disparagingly of the gay artist. In Don Fernando, a non-fiction book about his years living in Spain, Maugham pondered a (perhaps fanciful) suggestion that the painter El Greco was homosexual:
"It cannot be denied that the homosexual has a narrower outlook on the world than the normal man. In certain respects the natural responses of the species are denied to him. Some at least of the broad and typical human emotions he can never experience. However subtly he sees life he cannot see it whole ... I cannot now help asking myself whether what I see in El Greco's work of tortured fantasy and sinister strangeness is not due to such a sexual abnormality as this."[33]
But Maugham's homosexuality or bisexuality is believed to have shaped his fiction in two ways. Since he tended to see attractive women as sexual rivals, he often gave his women characters sexual needs and appetites, in a way quite unusual for authors of his time.[citation needed] Liza of Lambeth, Cakes and Ale, Neil MacAdam and The Razor's Edge, all featured women determined to feed their strong sexual appetites, heedless of the result. As Maugham's sexual appetites were then officially disapproved of, or criminal, in nearly all of the countries in which he travelled, the author was unusually tolerant of the vices of others.[34] Some readers and critics[who?] complained that Maugham did not condemn what was bad in the villains of his fiction and plays. Maugham replied: "It must be a fault in me that I am not gravely shocked at the sins of others unless they personally affect me."[35]
Maugham's public view of his abilities remained modest. Toward the end of his career he described himself as "in the very first row of the second-raters".[36] In 1948 he wrote "Great Novelists and Their Novels" in which he listed the ten best novels of world literature in his view.[37] In 1954, he was made a Companion of Honour.
Maugham had begun collecting theatrical paintings before the First World War; he continued to the point where his collection was second only to that of the Garrick Club.[38] In 1948 he announced that he would bequeath this collection to the Trustees of the National Theatre. From 1951, some 14 years before his death, his paintings began their exhibition life. In 1994 they were placed on loan to the Theatre Museum in Covent Garden.[39][40]
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Maugham's masterpiece is generally agreed to be Of Human Bondage, a semiautobiographical novel that deals with the life of the main character Philip Carey, who, like Maugham, was orphaned, and brought up by his pious uncle. Philip's clubfoot causes him endless self-consciousness and embarrassment, echoing Maugham's struggles with his stutter and, as his biographer Ted Morgan notes, his homosexuality.[citation needed]
Two of his later novels were based on historical people: The Moon and Sixpence is about the life of Paul Gauguin; and Cakes and Ale contains what were taken as thinly veiled and unflattering characterizations of the authors Thomas Hardy (who had died two years previously) and Hugh Walpole. Maugham himself denied any intention of doing this in a long letter to Walpole:[41] "I certainly never intended Alroy Kear to be a portrait of you. He is made up of a dozen people and the greater part of him is myself." Maugham's last major novel, The Razor's Edge (1944), was a departure for him in many ways. While much of the novel takes place in Europe, its main characters are American, not British. The protagonist is a disillusioned veteran of the First World War who abandons his wealthy friends and lifestyle, traveling to India seeking enlightenment. The story's themes of Eastern mysticism and war-weariness struck a chord with readers during the Second World War. It was adapted into a major motion picture released in 1946.[citation needed]
Among his short stories, some of the most memorable are those dealing with the lives of Western, mostly British, colonists in the Far East. They typically express the emotional toll the colonists bear by their isolation. "Rain", "Footprints in the Jungle", and "The Outstation" are considered especially notable. "Rain", in particular, which charts the moral disintegration of a missionary attempting to convert the Pacific island prostitute Sadie Thompson, has kept its reputation. It has been adapted as a play and as several films. His The Magician (1908) is based on British occultist Aleister Crowley.[citation needed]
Maugham was one of the most significant travel writers of the inter-war years, and can be compared with contemporaries such as Evelyn Waugh and Freya Stark. His best efforts in this line include The Gentleman in the Parlour, dealing with a journey through Burma, Siam, Cambodia and Vietnam, and On a Chinese Screen, a series of very brief vignettes that might have been sketches for stories left unwritten.[citation needed]
In 1947 Maugham instituted the Somerset Maugham Award,[42] awarded to the best British writer or writers under the age of thirty-five for a work of fiction published in the past year. Notable winners include V. S. Naipaul, Kingsley Amis, Martin Amis and Thom Gunn. On his death, Maugham donated his royalties to the Royal Literary Fund.[42]
Other writers acknowledged his work. Anthony Burgess, who included a complex fictional portrait of Maugham in the novel Earthly Powers, praised his influence. Ian Fleming noted that he wrote the short story Quantum of Solace as an homage to Maugham's writing style.[43] George Orwell said that Maugham was "the modern writer who has influenced me the most, whom I admire immensely for his power of telling a story straightforwardly and without frills."[44]
Many portraits were painted of Somerset Maugham, including that by Graham Sutherland[45] in the Tate Gallery, and several by Sir Gerald Kelly. Sutherland's portrait was included in the exhibit Painting the Century: 101 Portrait Masterpieces 1900–2000 at the National Portrait Gallery.
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Monday 10 December 2012
Cigarette companies ordered to apologise, but is junk food the new tobacco?
Pointing the finger of blame at others for our poor health and obesity isn't acceptable.
A US judge has ordered tobacco firms to fund a public health campaign detailing their "past deception" over the risks associated with tobacco use.
The move is predicated on the notion that tobacco companies "deliberately deceived the American public about the health effects of smoking".
"The President of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids described it as a "vitally important step" that would require tobacco companies to "finally tell the truth" about the "devastating consequences of their wrongdoing".
And the judge appears to have a solid case. For years smoking was portrayed by big tobacco as an enjoyable, even glamorous habit, and the harm it was doing to customers was ignored, downplayed, and finally, when the lawsuits began to pile up, grudgingly acknowledged.
Even though the industry did finally admit that smoking was addictive and damaging to health, it continues to spend money fighting against campaigns aimed at warning people of the dangers of cigarette smoke; as well as on initiatives which seek to "counteract the 'denormalisation' of tobacco".
It isn't only the tobacco industry which is looking anxiously towards the courts, however. Researchers in the US have begun to argue that corporations which produce junk food are the new big tobacco. They claim that, like the tobacco companies before them, corporate food giants are portraying themselves as reputable companies who take their social responsibilities seriously, when in reality they care little about the spiralling "obesity epidemic" they are in large part responsible for creating.
"It took five decades after the initial studies linking tobacco and cancer for effective public health policies to be put in place, with enormous cost to human health. Must we wait five decades to respond to the similar effects of Big Food?" a report published earlier this year in the influential PLOS journal asked.
In a not unrelated development, this side of the Atlantic a European consortium is investigating whether or not such a thing as food addiction exist; and if so, whether it should be recognised at a clinical level alongside addictions to drugs and alcohol. Speaking of alcohol, it was also reported that researchers at King's College London believe they have found the gene which makes people binge drink. Lead researcher Professor Gunter Schumann said people were inclined to "seek out situations which fulfil their sense of reward and make them happy, so if your brain is wired to find alcohol rewarding, you will seek it out".
If there is any message we might take from all of this it's a reassuringly absolving one: it isn't your fault. If you happen to be overweight and if your liver is shot from too many Sambucas, not to worry, it isn't your doing and those whose doing it is will soon be brought to task.
In the case big tobacco, those who've suffered a deterioration in their health because of smoking do have a strong case: the tobacco industry did lie to them, and in doing so it behaved abominably. It would take a particularly cold heart to argue that smokers who were oblivious to the harm they were doing to themselves are responsible for their later ill health. Personal responsibility is after all compromised somewhat when the choice a person makes is built on a foundation of sand.
That said, pointing the finger of blame at others for our obesity, or for the consequences of our nights out on the sauce, or because the burgers in McDonalds are a little too appetising, or because junk food is too cheap to begin with (as if that's a bad thing!), is to hide from reality – people are aware that being overweight is unhealthy and carry on regardless. Why? Because doing unhealthy things often feels very, very good.
Were it not for the fact that the NHS is facing a looming disaster, it wouldn't matter. But as it was reported on Monday, the NHS is facing a funding shortfall of £54 billion by 2021/22. Even if proposed efficiency savings are implemented, the health service still faces a potential financial black hole of £34 billion. Researchers predict that if current trends continue, up to 48 per cent of men and 43 per cent of women in the UK could be obese by 2030, which translates as a £2 billion per year cost to pay for obesity-related diseases.
Pointing the finger of blame at others for our poor health is rapidly becoming a way to deflect attention from the fact that the very idea of a health service is incompatible with modern lifestyles. The NHS is rightly viewed as a national treasure, and the politicians who meddle with it do so at their peril. But we seem to have forgotten that healthcare has a cost attached, and that we are responsible to each other if not to ourselves for maintaining at least a modicum of good health.
Blaming the food industry for making you fat is a bit like blaming Hooters because your husband likes breasts. It may be comforting to curse the corporate giants as you reach for another chocolate Digestive, but it's attitudes like this that will end up destroying the NHS.
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