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As with years past, we're going to spend the next three weeks highlighting the rest of the 25 titles on the BTBA fiction longlist. We'll have a variety of guests writing these posts, all of which are centered around the question of "Why This Book Should Win." Hopefully these are funny, accidental, entertaining, and informative posts that prompt you to read at least a few of these excellent works.
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Seven Years by Peter Stamm, translated by Michael Hofmann
Language: German
Country: Switzerland
Publisher: Other Press
Why this book should win: Dismantled relationships FTW!
Today's post is by Tom Flynn, bookseller and events coordinator at Seminary Co-Op in Chicago.
Let's get this bit out of the way first: Peter Stamm's Seven Years is not a terribly pleasant novel. The characters—particularly the narrator, Alexander—are deeply flawed people who probably would have done better in their fictional lives had they never encountered one or another or, after meeting, run in opposite directions. But it is also an engrossing read with direct, clear prose that engages and eggs the reader on.
Alexander is a German architecture student who, at the end of his final year of school, becomes involved with a Polish woman, Ivona, whom he does not much like. She does not engage him intellectually, he finds her unattractive, and he feels her to be beneath him socially. Yet he finds himself unable to stop seeing her. While this is going on, he begins a relationship with a fellow student, Sonia, who possesses an ambition and drive completely absent from Alex. Sonia and Alex marry and open a firm but after several years (the seven year itch that the title can, perhaps, be understood to reference) of marriage Ivona reappears in his life and he takes up with her once again. The effect of this affair eventually lays bare the weakness of his and Sonia's relationship, which, despite its solid presentation at the beginning of the novel, is doomed to crumble around them.
Architecture and its various metaphors prove an apt vehicle for exploring Sonia, Alex, and Ivona's movement through life. Sonia wishes to build socially conscious structures that work toward the creation and fulfillment of an ideal human. She has very firm ideas on the type of life she and Alex ought to lead: their work, home, and family life are all clearly laid out. Alex, for his part, finds himself happiest designing buildings he can never build, nor wants to construct; he would rather explore space on the page than express it in the world what with all the compromises that accompany such efforts. He allows others to determine the shape and course of his life, effectively drifting from one event to the next. And Ivona is simply a dweller, moving from one small, unpleasant residence to the next with little regard for how much smaller the physical space she inhabits becomes along the way. Instead, she carves out a world within that houses her love—her mania, really—for Alex and Alex alone.
Much of the drama in the novel feels, well, anti-climatic. A sense of the inevitable pervades the novel. Alex is by no means a passionate character, nor is he anyone—in fiction or life—for whom one should feel much pity. The events of the novel plays out as they do because of his own inertia, his willingness to meander in whatever direction circumstances take him. He builds a life with Sonia because it's what she wants and it seems he should want her. He returns to Ivona time and again not because he wants to, but because she is always reaching out to him, no matter how he treats her. Inertia is his natural state and by novel's end his inability to act has yielded the life he sees laid out before him.
Really, I could go on at much greater length about Seven Years. There's just something about the characters and Stamm's understanding of human nature that causes the myriad issues the novel raises to jut out in my mind. Truly excellent novels—which in my estimation Seven Years is—worm their way into the reader's mind, giving them something to gnaw on. The excellent novel also possesses a life of its own and, to turn the phrase somewhat, gnaws on the reader, too. Or creates an itch that the reader can't help but scratch.
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Do you live near the water? There is probably a body of water closer than you think! In this activity, students will use Google Maps to first find their school, and then locate and learn about the closest body of water to their school. Included in an OurStory module entitled Life on the Water, this activity is intended to help children and adults enjoy exploring history together through the use of children's literature, everyday objects, and hands-on activities.
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What time for afternoon nap?
My ds (17mo) was quite young when he moved to having only one nap. He is a very regular little guy and has slept well (except for being an early bird) for a long time. He wakes at night when he's sick or teething but otherwise sleeps fine.
Recently, he's been sleeping from about 7-7:30 bedtime til almost 7ish in the morning. He has one nap for exactly 1.5hr, around noon. This seems to work well, since he has the same amount of wake time before his nap, as he does after his nap.
When the nap moves to a true afternoon nap (1or2?) do toddlers still fall asleep well at night? Or should I continue to have an earlier nap since he goes to bed early?
Have any of you found that as your toddlers nap moved later in the afternoon, that their bedtime changed too?
I normally put my two toddlers down for a nap right after lunch, and they normally sleep a good two hours. They have a 7:30-8 bedtime (my son insists on watching the Wheel of Fortune). I think a later afternoon nap works better for us (they used to nap around 11am) because the longer waketime in the morning playing just totally wears them out, so they take a better nap. They also sleep around 12 hours a night--except when sick.
DS (turning 3 next month) has been napping at 12 for 2 hrs for.. well, ever. recently, he's started pushing naptime out further, closer to 1 or even later. Unless he sleeps past 4 (which almost never happens) he goes to bed between 8-9 and is tired. I was going to say "without a hitch", but that would be such a lie. :)
Adrienne -- Our guys are about the same age; DS is 17.5mo (6/29/00). He went from 2 to 1 naps sometime over the summer, before his first birthday, and it was NOT fun.
He's settled into a great routine now, though. Bedtime is 8pm; he wakes up anywhere from 7 to 8; usually around 7:30. And he naps from 12:30 or 1 to 3 or 3:30. (Sometimes longer, too, though if he's at the sitter's & still asleep, she'll wake him up at 3:30. At home, I'll let him sleep until 4 if he needs it).
That doesn't answer your question though! I have found that if he gets down for his nap early -- closer to 12 than to 1 -- that he's tired earlier. If he doesn't go down until 1:30 or 2 he generally will still wake up about the same time (3 or 3:30) but then be crabby the rest of the day and fight at bedtime. So ... I'm planning on sticking with 1 o'clock for as long as he'll nap.


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But even if there's no merchandise left, the store will stay open until 6 p.m., long enough to accommodate St. Patrick's Day parade crowds.
The closing of Macy's means downtown St. Paul will be without a department store for the first time in a century. It also will be lacking in popovers.
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Few things look so forlorn as the tail end of a going-out-of-business sale. And for the Macy's store in downtown St. Paul — its sales floors littered with mostly empty shelves, a few scattered racks of clothing and some area rugs — that time is now.
On Saturday the Wabasha Street department store closes its doors for good, bringing to an end decades of shopping at stores from Schuneman's to Dayton's, from Marshall Field's to (since 2006) Macy's.
As its swan song, the store is offering one last courtesy — at least to green-clad revelers.
"The store will close at 6 p.m., regardless if merchandise is sold out prior," said Andrea Schwartz, media relations vice president for Macy's North and Midwest region.
"It is very busy in St. Paul during the St. Patrick's Day parade, and historically many have used our facilities."
Macy's officials announced Jan. 2 that the store would close in March, leaving downtown St. Paul without a department store for the first time in a century.
It was one of six stores nationwide that Macy's decided to close this year for "no longer meet[ing] our performance standards."
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Most of the store's former employees who wanted to stay with Macy's have gotten jobs at other metro-area locations, amounting to a transfer of more than 50 workers, Schwartz said. About 150 people in all worked at the St. Paul store.
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What's Wrong With Us?
We'll admit it. We're a little relieved that the holiday season is over. As fun and exciting as all of the hoopla is, December can be a stressful month with all of the last minute shopping, long distance traveling, family gatherings, and weather madness that come along with it… which is probably why lots of people called us certifiably crazy for adding moving-into-a-new-house to the mix.
It definitely was a bit crazy of us, but it just dawned on me and Sherry that this wasn't the first year that a major project fell over the holiday season. In fact, it's happened for the past FOUR YEARS IN A ROW. Update: Five years in a row – see the bottom of this post. So it seems that we've got a chronic case of making Christmas-time more complicated. Observe.
In the last month of 2007 we were at the tail end of our kitchen remodel. By Christmas we had already lived sans kitchen for two months and our new cabinets were installed, but we were still waiting on our counters to arrive and officially make the room functional again.
Oh yeah and did we mention that we didn't have a kitchen sink, so we were washing dishes in our tiny bathroom vanity. Yeah, that got old real quick.
In 2008 it was our floors. Right before leaving for a family Christmas out of town we shoved all of our belongings into the kitchen and den so the rest of the hardwood floors in our entire house could be professionally refinished.
It was more than a bit "disruptive."
Then 2009 welcomed the bathroom remodel, which commenced the weekend after Thanksgiving. So by New Year's we found ourselves in the midst of tiling. Which meant that our only full bathroom was still a few weeks away from being functional again.
Let's just say we did our fair share of showering at the gym and at my sister's house. Sherry even hosed me down in the backyard after a particularly dusty day of work (she wouldn't let me get in the car and drive to have a proper shower for fear of getting the car all dirty). Brrr.
And we had more than a few adventures when it came to this year's mid-December move, which involved packing up every last possession and loading it into a UHaul…
… which then slipped into a ditch about .05 minutes after beginning the journey to our new house…
… which ended up looking a lot like this while we unpacked…
But now that we're more settled, in hindsight it wasn't so bad. Which is kind of how we feel about all of our other annual end-of-year adventures. So I guess we'll just have to wait about 11 months to see what crazy project we've got going on at the end of 2011 to keep the streak alive for a fifth year in a row. Maybe we'll be in the midst of a simultaneous kitchen remodel, floor refinishing project, and bathroom tile job. You know, just to put the other years to shame…
Update: Looks like this wacky tradition of ours is still going strong since we tackled a major kitchen reno just in time for Christmas in 2011 and were in the middle of a pretty chaotic book tour along with hosting Christmas for the first time at our house in 2012.
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Funniest post ever (well…in awhile). Thanks for sharing the 'good times'!
Ok, that's just funny. Well done!
It's a crazy time for all- but you have a fresh slate to get going!!!!
*LOL* You obviously thrive under pressure and love a tight deadline ;o) I have seen worse! Plus, it never gets boring for us who happily shadow all of your home improvement projects – not even over the holidays!
Lol! You guys are gluttons for punishment!
Who doesn't like to hunker down with a good floor sander and tile cutter when the weather outside gets crummy?
I love your "let's do it" attitude!
Hmm… This sounds familiar. It just wouldn't be the holidays without a major project here at the E house! We tackled the laundry room this past Christmas. New tile, paint, and pretties. We actually grouted the floor on Christmas morning! Good times :)
I haven't taken on anything that big at Christmas, but I must confess that whenever I have a week off (like last week) it's chock full of home projects.
No doubt you'll be working super hard on your new house this year so hopefully by the end of it you will take a well-deserved break over the holidays for once :)
Sounds a lot (and looks a lot) like how we live our lives…things would just be way too easy if we didn't have one (or 2 or 3) projects underway! We moved into our house 2 weeks before Christmas last year and didn't have a kitchen until 2 days before…it's still not 100% but we had our 3rd baby this year 6 weeks before Christmas…just to keep live interesting;)
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Well take a much deserved break this year! I love how all of us become brain damaged sometime during the year, every year, and completely forget that the holidays are the same time, every year, which results in mass pandemonium, every year. Been there brother.
TG for the honesty! I was beginning to think life was always perfect at only one place – your house. Thanks for the laugh.
Y'all are crazy. That seems to be how we roll too, though!
The most comforting thing about all of your 4-year-in-a-row chaos is that at least you and your familia are not stagnant. You're always on the move and going to to bigger and better things (…And I thought my husband and I were the only wild ones!), which is GREAT!!
Well, at least you're not ones to be bored! :) It makes for great blog reading, too!! I'm glad you are liking your new home, and I'm enjoying watching the new style unfold!!
I just think of it as you guys (1) doing projects when you are prepared/have saved the money/find good deals, which you're so good at, and (2) maybe subconsciously trying to get all of the craziness over at once! Whatever it is, you do it well!
P.S. As I know you are not short on projects, you are welcome to link up to my 2011 1st Project of the Year Party over at WhisperWood Cottage! I'm not sure the two of you participate in such events, but I still wanted to extend the invitation. It starts at 11:11 am on 1/11/11 if you are interested!
love love love. We are right there with you having 3 rooms finished starting tomorrow! And we moved Thanksgiving weekend ;-)
Some people thrive off of chaos! It's always exciting! :) Loving seeing the new house come together!
a bit of cabin fever perhaps? ;) I know the more time I spend cooped up in our house, the more I want to "fix" it and what better time of the year to tackle big indoor projects than when it's freezing out.
I can't wait to see what you do with that long and skinny laundry room of yours now that you've got your new appliances on order- I'm just so jealous that it's 1)full of sunlight and 2) not right next to your bedroom!
ahhh chaos! I've been in a few of these situations… mostly the moving ones! It DOES make a fun story though! =) I'm curious to see what you crazy kids do next!
I sure did! I put up a picture, and linked it on the blog. The husband ate seconds!
I obv do stilly things… liiiike whats at the end of my post.. bhahahahahahaha! I thought I was slick by copying and pasting my name. annnd FAIL =)
Oh my gosh…that is really funny. It looks like you guys get stuff done though, so I guess that's a good thing. Just be sure to keep posting it so we can all feel better about our "hectic" holidays. :) Mine was easy peasy next you yours!
i can commiserate! we did our bathroom last christmas and our kitchen including hardwoods this christmas…the refrigerator is still in the dining room…
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Wei-Yin Chen SP BAL 4 weeks ago
Chen went two shutout innings in his Grapefruit League debut, allowing one hit and striking out one.
Chen has had a quiet and healthy camp so far. He is coming off a 16-win season in which he had a 2.76 ERA after the All-Star break. Chen allowed 17 home runs in 104 innings in the first half, but just six home runs in 81.2 innings in the second half. With Chris Tillman as the Opening Day starter, Chen slides in as the No. 2 starter.
Wei-Yin Chen SP BAL 5 months ago
Chen had his contract option exercised by the Orioles on Thursday, Roch Kubatko of MASN Sports reports.
Chen had his best season with the Orioles since coming over from Japan in 2104, posting a 3.54 ERA and 1.23 WHIP over 185.67 innings of work on his way to a 16-6 record on the season.
Wei-Yin Chen SP BAL 6 months ago
Chen will start Game 3 of the ALCS on Tuesday, CSN Mid-Atlantic's Rich Dubroff reports.
Game 3 was postponed Monday and will instead be played on Tuesday, however the O's will still start Chen. Chris Tillman may now be called upon to pitch Game 4 as he would be able to do so on regular rest.
Wei-Yin Chen SP BAL 6 months ago
Chen is expected to start Game 3 of the ALCS against the Royals on Monday, Brittany Ghiroli of MLB.com reports.
It's possible plans could change, if Bud Norris is driven from Saturday's Game 2 early and Chen is forced to pitch in long relief, but the lefty is currently penciled in to toe the rubber Monday. Chen failed to make it out of the fourth inning in Game 2 of the ALDS, but the Orioles rallied against the Tigers' bullpen to earn the victory.
Wei-Yin Chen SP BAL 6 months ago
Chen will start Game 2 of the ALDS against the Tigers on Friday, Roch Kubatko of MASNsports.com reports.
Manager Buck Showalter had been mum as to his starters beyond Chris Tillman in Game 1, but it will be Chen who opposes Justin Verlander in Game 2. Chen posted a 2.05 ERA over five September starts (30.2 innings) to finish the regular season with a 3.54 ERA and 1.23 WHIP.
Wei-Yin Chen SP BAL 6 months ago
Chen fell to 16-6 on the season after throwing six innings and allowing three runs - two earned - on five hits with three strikeouts and one walk Saturday against the Blue Jays.
Chen threw 79 pitches and left something in the tank while exiting early in his final regular season start. He will start Baltimore's second playoff game.
Wei-Yin Chen SP BAL 6 months ago
Chen lost Monday against the Yankees as he pitched six innings and allowed four runs (two earned), six hits and two walks to go along with four strikeouts.
Chen is having a great season overall as his record stands at 16-5 even after Monday's loss. There is a chance that he might not start again during the regular season depending on what the Orioles decide to do with their postseason rotation.
Wei-Yin Chen SP BAL 6 months ago
Chen won Monday against the Blue Jays he pitched 5.2 innings and allowed two runs, nine hits and one walk to go along with six strikeouts.
Although Chen wasn't at his best Monday, he battled for his 16th win of the season and allowed two runs or less for the fourth time in his last five starts. He has been a big reason why the Orioles have run away with their division this season.
Wei-Yin Chen SP BAL 7 months ago
Chen (15-4) tossed seven innings of one-run ball in a win over the Red Sox on Wednesday, allowing just three hits with four strikeouts against no walks.
The lone blemish against Chen came on a solo homer from Xander Bogaerts in the bottom of the seventh inning. With the victory, Chen has now won eight of his last nine decision to put him just one off of the AL lead. As things line up, Chen will make two home starts next week, Monday against the Blue Jays and Sept. 21 against the Red Sox.
Wei-Yin Chen SP BAL 7 months ago
Chen worked six scoreless innings Friday night against Rays, surrendering just four hits and three walks while striking out three.
Though the Orioles' bullpen squandered the effort, Chen came up with another solid performance Friday night. The 29-year-old lefty has been a steady presence in the Baltimore rotation this season, especially during the last few weeks. Dating back to July 24, a span of eight starts, he has gone 4-1 while posting a 2.60 ERA, 1.13 WHIP and 40:12 K:BB ratio across 52 innings. Chen is next scheduled to take the mound Wednesday in Boston.


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In a unanimous opinion, the United States Supreme Court held in Sandifer et al., v. United States Steel Corp., 571 U.S. __ (January 27, 2014) that the time employees spent "donning and doffing" protective gear was not compensable by operation of the Fair Labor Standards Act ("FLSA"), as it is a subject appropriately committed to collective bargaining.
Justice Sotomayor joined the Court's opinion except as to footnote 7.
Clifton Sandifer, along with a group of current and former employees ("Petitioners") of U.S. Steel Corp.'s ("U.S. Steel") steelmaking facilities, filed a lawsuit under the FLSA against U.S. Steel seeking backpay for time spent putting on and removing various pieces of protective gear. The Petitioners asserted that U.S. Steel required its workers to wear all of the protective items because of hazards regularly encountered in steel plants. The various protective items included: a flame-retardant jacket, a pair of pants, a hood, a hardhat, a snood, wristlets, work gloves, leggings, metatarsal boots, safety glasses, earplugs, and a respirator.
While Petitioners claimed that the time spent donning and doffing protective gear was compensable under the FLSA, U.S. Steel's contention of noncompensability hinged on the validity of a provision of its collective-bargaining agreement with Petitioners' union, which stated that this time was noncompensable. The validity of that provision depended on the applicability and meaning of "changing clothes" within 29 U.S.C. § 203(o), which states that parties may decide, as part of a collective-bargaining agreement, that the "time spent in changing clothes… at the beginning or end of each workday" is noncompensable.
The district court awarded summary judgment to U.S. Steel, holding that donning and doffing protective gear constituted "changing clothes" within the meaning of § 203(o), and was thus noncompensable by way of the parties' collective-bargaining agreement. Even if some of the items did not constitute "clothes," such as the hardhat, glasses, and earplugs, the district Court held that the time spent donning and doffing these items was "de minimis," and therefore noncompensable. The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed these conclusions.
In writing for the Court, Justice Scalia disagreed with petitioners' argument that the term "clothes" only encompassed that which was worn for "decency or comfort" and generally excluded anything worn for protection. The Court noted that "protection" and "comfort" are not incompatible, and are often synonymous, as "a parasol protects against the sun, enhancing the comfort of the bearer – just as work gloves protect against scrapes and cuts, enhancing the comfort of the wearer." The Court held that the term "clothes" did not omit protective clothing, and that the phrase "changing clothes" included time spent altering dress.
The Court did not agree with lower courts' application of the de minimis non curat lex (the law does not take account of trifles) doctrine to account for time donning and doffing non-clothing items such as safety glasses, earplugs, and respirators. Instead, the Court concluded that courts should inquire as to whether the period at issue can, on the whole, be characterized as "time spent in changing clothes or washing." Therefore, if the vast majority of the time is spent putting on and taking off clothes, the entire period qualifies, and the time spent putting on and off other items does not need to be subtracted.
Thus, the Court refused to disturb the district court's factual findings and held that the employees' time spent donning and doffing protective gear constituted "changing clothes" within the meaning of 29 U.S.C. § 203(o), and was therefore subject to collective bargaining.
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