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This Notice of Harassment Letter is sent to a debt collector, a collection agency or an attorney demanding that they immediately cease communication regarding a debt. This notice is for use after you have sent an initial letter asking that the collector to cease harassment. You may have asked that the collector communicate with you by writing only. If communication such as phone calls or other types of harassment continue, this Notice of Harassment letter will serve as official notice that you intend to take any and all action against the collector according to the terms of the Fair Debt Collections Act.
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- Parties: Sets forth the name and address of the writer and the collection agency or attorney. It also references that this letter is sent by certified mail;
- Notice of Harassment: Sets forth the date the initial notice of dispute or cease communication letter was sent and gives formal notice of any limitations on future communications;
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On , you received my letter, via Certified Mail-Return Receipt Requested, a Notice of Dispute regarding alleged collection account #_______________.
Pursuant to Section 809 of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are required to cease all collection efforts of the disputed amount until verification and validation of this alleged debt is completed. However, since , what has happened is that the volume of telephone calls to my place of residence has increased, sometime up to . I consider this behavior on your part to be harassment of me and very disruptive to my home environment.
Please be advised that this letter is FORMAL NOTICE that you are to limit all future communication with me, IN WRITING ONLY. If I receive any future telephone calls from your <company, office, law firm>, I will consider your calls as harassment. Be further advised that unwanted telephone calls from your <company, office or law firm> in this state and jurisdiction is considered a violation of telecommunications law and is a criminal offense (Class 1 Misdemeanor). I will also file a complaint with the Office of the Attorney General. I maintain perfect telephone records for each telephone call, and in some cases, make audio recordings if deemed necessary. I permanently record all messages left on my voice mail. I have evidence of over from your <company, office or law firm> since your received my Notice of Dispute on . Beware, be wise, and consider the consequences.
Be advised that you have the right to remain silent, and if you ignore this Notice of Harassment and continue to violate the FDCPA, and any applicable federal or state law and statutes, you and members of your staff will agree to allow the writer of this letter, to make audio recordings of our conversations and you and your staff further agree to allow any recorded conversation to be admitted into evidence and used against you and your staff in any court of competent jurisdiction. I will accept ONLY written communication and your failure to honor this request may constitute a violation of Section 806 of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, which WILL RESULT IN LEGAL ACTION AND CRIMINAL ACTION BEING BROUGHT AGAINST YOU. Please govern yourselves accordingly.
You should also be aware that making unsubstantiated demands for payment over the telephone may, and in this particular case, can be considered a form or wire fraud. Furthermore, sending or causing to be sent, unsubstantiated "demands for payment" through the United States Postal Authority and System, might constitute mail fraud charges to be brought against you, under federal and state laws. Before performing any of the illegal acts as described in the paragraphs above, you may wish to consult with a competent legal advisor before your next communication with me.
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SOURCE: "Paula Remembered," in San Francisco Review of Books, May-June, 1995, p. 10.
In the following review of Paula, Schwirtz states that Allende's depiction of her personal pain is intense and excruciating.
In Chilean author Isabel Allende's life, two tragic twists of fate marked sharply divergent trajectories along which her life unfolded. Their imprint indelibly stamps all of her writing. One was the 1973 Chilean military coup that established Auguste Pinochet's totalitarian government and led to the Allende family's exile to Venezuela. The other was her daughter Paula's grave illness in 1991 that placed the young woman in a coma from which she never recovered.
The violent end of her uncle Salvador Allende's socialist administration and the subsequent years of torture, imprisonment, and death of many innocent Chilean citizens is chronicled in many of Allende's books. It also plays a major role in this new book of nonfiction [Paula], but here it figures as a disturbing blot in a memoir spanning Allende's fifty years. Far more terrifying is the end that hovers on the story's outer perimeter, the lid inexorably closing on author and reader as Paula's prognosis become less and less hopeful.
As Allende's life rolls forward to meet the present, Paula languishes first in a hospital bed in Madrid, then a clinic in California after an exhausting, 20-hour flight home hooked up to life-support, and finally, in the author's Bay Area home. Allende carefully describes her own and her family's anguish as they keep their hopes alive and endure a bitter struggle to remain patient, not despair, and come to terms with their tragedy. Some of her family look to their faith; Allende sustains herself with the love of family and friends, her own soul's wellspring of hope, an iron will, and a belief in spiritual communication.
To take refuge from this unthinkable loss, Allende delves into her history, taking us on a memorable journey through her childhood in Chile, her marriage, exile, divorce, move to California, and second marriage. Anecdotes and character sketches about her parents and grandparents, her in-laws, lovers, friends, and co-workers are woven within the narrative at every turn. There is Allende's stern and dignified grandfather, a regal patriarch who cares for his daughter's family after Isabel's father disappears; her beautiful, long-suffering mother who tells her three children stories each night; Allende's son-in-law, Ernesto, whose devotion to his wife and determination during her coma create some of the most wrenching scenes in the book.
Salvador Allende appears here, too, although the author was never in close contact with her uncle. She recalls family picnics with the entire Allende clan and the socialist candidate racing down a grassy slope with all the children. Allende's spare writing evokes the richest details, from a breathtaking description of the Chilean landscape to the adolescent turmoil of a first love.
These, and a hundred other absorbing scenes, are a gratefully received, temporary respite from the reality on the other side of their shimmering images. The felling of suspension as we wait for Allende to draw out of her memories and again raise the curtain on her personal pain adds a color and an intensity to the book that is almost excruciating. Yet she controls the narrative skillfully—never hastening the pace—examining and telling her story with a straightforward, unreserved interest.
As in all her books, the boundary between reality and the world of the dead is porous. The spirits of her grandmother and of her daughter, imprisoned within her comatose body, appear to Allende in her dreams, offering her direction, hope, and toward the end, entreaties that she let her daughter go. It is through this personal mysticism that Allende attempts to transcend her loss, and, ultimately, proves to be her salvation.
As I dissolved, I had the revelation that the void was filled with everything the universe holds. Nothing and everything, at once. Sacramental light and unfathomable darkness. I am the void, I am everything that exists, I am in every leaf of the forest, in every drop of the dew, in every particle of ash carried by the stream, I am Paula and I am also Isabel, I am nothing and all other things in this life and other lives, immortal.
Allende likens her visions to the muse, made of the same ethereal stuff, that inspires her work. She confides that it is her attenuation to supernatural energy that allows her "to receive the first sentence in a trance, so the door may open slightly and allow me to peer through and perceive the hazy outlines of the story waiting for me." When in possession of her, it forces her to write without stopping. Although Allende says early on in the book she thought she would never write again after Paula fell ill, it is both admirable and wonderful that her indomitable spirit never failed her in documenting a long and arduous experience with death, a journey that, even in its terrible adversity produced something fundamentally eternal.
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Amazing Ourselves to Death: Neil Postman's Brave New World Revisited (A Critical Introduction to Media and Communication Theory)
Neil Postman's most popular work, Amusing Ourselves to Death (1985), provided an insightful critique of the effects of television on public discourse in America, arguing that television's bias towards entertaining content trivializes serious issues and undermines the basis of democratic culture. Lance Strate, who earned his doctorate under Neil Postman and is one of the leading media ecology scholars of our time, re-examines Postman's arguments, updating his analysis and critique for the twenty-first-century media environment that includes the expansion of television programming via cable and satellite as well as the Internet, the web, social media, and mobile technologies.
Integrating Postman's arguments about television with his critique of technology in general, Strate considers the current state of journalism, politics, religion, and education in American culture. Strate also contextualizes Amusing Ourselves to Death through an examination of Postman's life and career and the field of media ecology that Postman introduced. This is a book about our prospects for the future, which can only be based on the ways in which we think and talk about the present.
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Ty Cobb wasn't a very likable guy either--or so I've heard.
Ty Cobb wasn't a very likable guy either--or so I've heard.
[QUOTE=sgallan;20636]Poor Barry Bonds wants to be treated fairly? Then play fairly to begin with.
I agree. But are you willing to use those same standards with Clemons (HGH for sure)? I am not going overboard when I say that more than 50% of all the records of the Bonds era are tainted.
I think you are going overboard in saying that 50% of the records in this era are tainted. You are going overboard because you have absolutely no evidence to back up that statement.
While I agree with you that Clemens probably used, to say for sure that he did is jumping the gun. Again, there is no proof that he took anything at this point.
McGwire not getting in the HOF is a sure sign that the voters are going to send a message to the players that use. However, there is no way that Bonds doesn't make it on the first ballot.
There's no proof Bonds took anything either, and the only evidence, as I understand it, is circumstantial--but most people take it as an article of faith.
I think it's quite reasonable to believe that if Bonds was using, that other players were using during the same era. I think Conseco and Camineti (to name two) admitted as much.
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Testimony from other athletes include statements that they knew BALCO was shipping THG in falsely labeled containers indicating it was flaxseed oil. I find it hard to believe Bonds wasn't aware it was steriods in the containers.
Summary of his 2004 testimony.
"Barry Bonds testified to a grand jury that he used a clear substance and a cream given to him by a trainer who was indicted in a steroid-distribution ring, but said he didn't know they were steroids, the San Francisco Chronicle reported Friday.
Bonds told a U.S. grand jury that he used undetectable steroids known as "the cream" and "the clear," which he received from personal trainer Greg Anderson during the 2003 season. According to Bonds, the trainer told him the substances were the nutritional supplement flaxseed oil and a pain-relieving balm for the player's arthritis.
According to government attorneys, BALCO founder Victor Conte has identified the designer steroid THG as "the clear." A testosterone-based ointment was identified as "the cream." Olympic sprinter Tim Montgomery testified that Conte used flaxseed oil containers to send "the clear" to athletes.
It depends on what level of proof you want, but if I were going to hang someone (literally or figuratively) on this evidence, I wouldn't call it substantial. If we assume Bonds' testimony is true, he was innocent of wrong-doing (he didn't knowingly use steroids). If we assume the testimony was in part false, then all we know is he used steroids at some point. We don't know how much or how long (what if it was a day or a week?). In any case, the veracity (or not) of his testimony hasn't been established by any fact-finding person or body. Maybe Geo. Mitchell will have the goods but, until then, it's not fair to say with certainty that Bonds is guilty.
Even if it's later established that he used steroids, then, if he's going to punished in some manner, it seems we have to consider the question (raised elsewhere here) whether others were using it as well. Others who have not yet appeared before a jury or who have not otherwise been questioned.
This is my opinion on Bonds...He was a HoF player BEFORE he got into the steroids but the reason he is in trouble now is that he is a liar. Don't quote me on this but i don't believe performance enhancing drugs were banned in baseball at the time so i would gain a lot of respect back if he was like you know i did it i'm sorry. I could respect that. All he does though is lie lie and deni it and then has the nerv to complain about how everyone is picking on him and his family. Now he is in trouble for what? Not seroids as much as LIEING...purjury...flat out the guy is a liar. That's why i don't like the guy and also in the news they are talking about people singling him out because he is black. They were saying they didn't want him to break the home run record because hes black. Correct me if im wrong but wasn't Hank Aaron a black man? So people are upset a black man broke a black man's record...I'm confused...Barry is just being targeted because hes an asshole...
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Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister-designate N. Chandrababu Naidu unveiled his development plans before a team of senior State government officials led by Chief Secretary P.K. Mohanty, who called on him at his residence here on Friday.
The CM-designate is stated to have explained to the senior officials his vision to develop Seemandhra on the lines of Singapore by decentralising development, as promised during the election campaign. He is against the growth model of united AP which was restricted to only Hyderabad and its surrounding areas.
Mr. Naidu is learnt to have asked the officials to prepare reports on the requirements of the residuary State of Andhra Pradesh and said he would pursue the issue of getting funds/financial assistance from the Centre.
The officials explained to Mr. Naidu the ongoing process of bifurcation of employees, assets and liabilities between AP and Telangana. They made a power-point presentation detailing the arrangements being made for the functioning of the Secretariat in Andhra Pradesh.
Mr. Naidu was apprised of department-wise allocation of space in different blocks already allotted to AP, including the Chief Minister's office in 'H' block. He is understood to have told the officials that he would divide his time between Hyderabad and the camp office to be set up in Seemandhra. Though the surroundings of Guntur are being tipped to have the camp office, the TDP leadership would take a decision only after Mr. Naidu's oath-taking ceremony, party sources said.
The officials presented reports on the progress of bifurcation being implemented by 23 committees and sub-committees set up by the Central government for the purpose. The meeting lasted for about two hours.
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I have an ICOM422 with NMEA in/out wires and I cannot figure out where to connect them to bring in GPS positions.
For what ever reason there is no industry wide color code on the com wires :)
But each unit has output wires and input wires and a common/ground wire
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The output from the radio goes to the input one the GPS
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Does the Raymarine GPS have NMEA 0183 output? If so, then wiring it should be relatively easy. You need to check the manual for the Raymarine Pathfinder and see what outputs it has, and what version of NMEA 0183, if any, it has. Be aware that if the Pathfinder does output an older version of NMEA 0183, it may not be compatible with the iCom, which may require a newer version.
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He played and practiced for about three weeks after that.
"Here and there it would get better," he said.
Then, he'd hit it against something. Then, it would feel worse. Then, it would feel better. And, for the most part, he was fine with that little cycle.
"Then, [Rajon] Rondo threw the ball in practice, and I was trying to steal it and it just hit me wrong," Daniels said. "It was just real painful."
"Doc pulled me out of practice. I was trying to keep going, he just told me to come out. He was starting to notice it a lot more."
He had surgery last week and everyone found out he would likely miss two months.
"It was just something that we all decided that needed to be done," he said. "I wasn't going to do it. I just wanted to play and be out there on the floor. We've got a great chance with a great team so you don't want to take yourself out of it if you don't have to.
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Dara Howell has received her second straight invitation to the Winter X Games Aspen, to be held Jan. 24 to 27 in Colorado. She will compete against four other women in the slopestyle division.
The 18-year-old came in sixth overall at the 2012 X Games for her first attempt, and found her form at the European X Games at Tignes, France on March 14, where she won bronze.
Getting the invitation to the Aspen competition is another feather in the cap for Howell, who is currently in Colorado practising before her Canadian slopestyle teammates join her there for another training session.
She said she plans on improving on her sixth-place finish from the 2012 competition.
"I am training with some friends right now, and I will be here until December, when I will be part of the Dew Tour," she said, referring to the pro ski tour she has competed on the past two years. "I am just getting back on snow, so I am just starting to get my legs again."
Howell is one of the rising stars in the freestyle skiing world. In February 2011, she won silver at the Canada Winter Games in Halifax, then in March captured two gold at the Canada Post National Freestyle Championships at the Mount Saint Louis Moonstone course near Coldwater.
She was named to the A squad for the national team this past May, and helped her country earn its first Fédération Internationale de Ski World Cup medal of the season on Sept. 7 with a third-place finish at Ushuaia, Argentina in the women's slopestyle competition.
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"I am looking at it a bit differently. I am still going to go in and not have too high expectations. I am going to ski the way I can ski and ski the best I can ski, so that is all I can really ask for and if it works out on that day, then it works out."
Howell said that she is definitely a better skier heading into these X Games than she was nearly a year ago.
"I have been working a lot harder, I have been into the gym more … I think I have learned a lot about skiing since then and the way I compete. I also learned a lot about myself and I am a better athlete for it.
In addition to getting ready for the X Games, Howell will be competing at the next Dew Tour stop in Breckenridge Colorado Dec. 13 to 16. She will be part of the national team when it competes at a World Cup event at Copper Mountain Colorado Jan. 10 to 13 and then she'll be off to Russia to participate in the World Cup test event for the Olympics Feb. 12 and 13.
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I bought two pairs of these mitts. One pair for me, the other for my wife. After one outting at the hill both pairs had holes in them all around the seams. There was even a hole in the palm of my wife's pair. I called Burton to see about a possible warranty, and they said it was not covered under warranty. Well there's $260 down the drain. I will never buy a Burton product again, and suggest you look elsewhere for warm mitts. I have a pair of Black Diamonds now and they are fantastic. Do yourself a favor, don't waste your time with these mitts.
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I spoke to them on the phone, and they said, "you can try and send them in, but we will not cover them". The person in customer service said they never cover tears. Terrible customer service and product support. And yes, they had holes in them after ONE day. You can get far nicer, more durable gloves for a lot less.
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Photon Flash Player & Browser brings Adobe Flash support to Android devices
There's a lot of debate about the future of flash. However, there are a bunch of websites out there running flash content. Having a Flash Player or a browser supporting flash still seems to be a must. That's why this app by Appverse, Inc. can be helpful.
Photon Flash Player & Browser doesn't require any Flash plugin which is currently unavailable after Adobe pulled flash support for Android officially. Just make sure you click on the lightning bolt button to view Flash websites. After that adjust Bandwith settings for an optimal Flash experience and start playing flash videos and websites.
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Just two catches noticed: ads are quite intrusive in its free version and smoothness and navigation speed should be increased. Besides, the app is really useful for those who have Flash needs.
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I almost hate to mention that spring is almost here, but it is!
To understand fully the quandary I faced Saturday, I'll have to volunteer that the first time I remember my cell phone ringing while fishing was in 2007. I was trout fishing on the Klawock River back home, where reception is spotty at best. But the call made it through and lit up my pocket. Though I was fishing and I risked setting a precedent, I answered. After all, it was my mom and it was about dinner.
Over the years I've been writing this column, I often refer to the fact that just being outdoors is good therapy for me. Whenever I get wound up and agitated, an outdoor excursion seems to help relieve the tension. Although fishing is my favorite outdoor pastime, I also get peace of mind from hunting, photography, plinking tin cans or just a walk in the woods.
Several years ago in an angler's online forum, I wrote about our artificial baits becoming better than the fisherman.
I stood for a moment atop the steps and looked down at the rows of lodges, outfitters, fly shops and other booths in the fly-fishing building at the International Sportsman's Expo in Sacramento.
Joe Paterno had barely hung up the phone when his wife of 50 years picked it up and redialed the number scrawled on the slip of paper.
Every so often there is a gun control measure put on the ballot for voters to consider. Most such measures are misguided efforts to reduce violent crime. The theory behind such restrictive gun measures seems to be based on the idea that if it's harder to obtain a gun, then violent crime rates will drop. Ironically, the exact opposite has been proven true time after time.
The season began with fans brawling in the stands, and a quarterback who didn't seem worth fighting for.
I could feel it deep down in my fisherman soul. Apparently it showed on my face too.
Recently there have been several news stories documenting the return of the Grey Wolf to California. So far it's only one wolf, wearing a tracking collar that has definitely been recorded appearing in Siskiyou County and then in Plumas County in Northern California.
After what seemed like the perfect swan song and the picturesque way to hang up his whistle, Bill Slikker tip-toed off into the sunset after a 14-0 Valley Oak League championship run as Weston Ranch head coach in 2008.
A lot of people I've been talking to are concerned about the lack of rain we've had so far this season.
I'm not a pessimist, but I did wonder what it meant when I turned on the heat in my truck and was almost overcome by the smell of cooked cat poop that apparently oozed into the treads of my hiking boots on the walk through my yard.
NEW ORLEANS - The moment was about as stilted as it could get, though Les Miles and Nick Saban certainly knew the routine. They posed stiffly for the photographers, smiles fixed on their faces and the BCS trophy between them, even though everyone in the room except the BCS bigwigs who crowded into the photo op knew they would both rather be somewhere - make that anywhere - else.
The dominant pitching and hitting of Tyres Harper led the Pirates to a 12-2 win over the Rangers in Northgate Little League junior division action.
The Northgate Little League Pirates beat the Nationals 12-2 behind the stellar complete-game pitching of Marcus Sequeira.
With the end of the school year in sight, all the talk around my household has been on where and when we're going camping.
The 4th of July is still two months ago, but there were plenty of fireworks in Saturday night's season opening race at the Stockton 99 Speedway.
It's been a year now since I sold my bass boat, and I can honestly say that there have been times when I wished I never would have parted with it.
Goalie Tatiana Orozco turned in an MVP performance, lifting the Benfica Red 05 girls soccer team to a thrilling third-place finish at the MFC Spring Invitational.
The Benfica White 05 girls soccer team of the Manteca Futbol Club made a splashy debut over the weekend.
Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens deserve their plaques in Cooperstown.
From now until mid-May, local fishing is at its best if you were to ask me.
As California enters its fourth year of drought, our streams and our ability to fish them is going to be seriously impacted. There will be almost no spring snowmelt and its accompanying high water.
After failing to finish in the top 10 in the opening two races of the 2015 Verizon IndyCar schedule, New Zealand's Scott Dixon reversed his early season woes by capturing Sunday's 41st running of the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach.
Tyres Harper hit the first home run out of the newly refurbished Morenzone Field on Wednesday to lead the Pirates to a 17-7 win over the Nationals in Northgate Little League junior division action.
Brett Lewis has a white-knuckle grip on the lead in the first-ever Coaches Bracket Challenge.
Stephen Curry closes games in the third quarter, not the fourth.
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President Barack Obama was declared the winner of Florida's 29 electoral votes Saturday, ending a four-day count with a razor-thin margin that narrowly avoided an automatic recount that would have brought back memories of 2000.
No matter the outcome, Obama had already clinched re-election and now has 332 electoral votes to Romney's 206.
The Florida Secretary of State's Office said that with almost 100 percent of the vote counted, Obama led Republican challenger Mitt Romney 50 percent to 49.1 percent, a difference of about 74,000 votes. That was over the half-percent margin where a computer recount would have been automatically ordered unless Romney had waived it.
There is a Nov. 16 deadline for overseas and military ballots, but under Florida law, recounts are based on Saturday's results. Only a handful of overseas and military ballots are believed to remain outstanding.
The U.S. Geological Survey is reporting that an earthquake centered in Kentucky also rattled at least eight other states.
The USGS website says the epicenter of the 4.3 magnitude earthquake on Saturday afternoon was about 10 miles west of Whitesburg, near the Virginia line. Residents in both states, as well as West Virginia, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, Indiana, Ohio and Georgia, also reported feeling the temblor.
National Weather Service spokesman Jeff Carico said employees at the office in Jackson, which is about 60 miles northwest of Whitesburg, felt the ground shake for about 15 seconds. He says the office has gotten numerous calls, but so far no one has reported any serious damage.
USGS geophysicist John Bellini said the quake is considered light.
Two trains traveling south of the Egyptian capital collided on Saturday, killing at least four people, officials said.
An error from the switch operator is believed to have caused the accident, security officials said. The two trains, one coming from Cairo and another from the south, were traveling between two villages near Fayyoum, an oasis province 100 kilometers (60 miles) southwest of Cairo.
The Health Ministry said in comments published by the state news agency that four people were killed and 30 injured. Earlier, security officials said five were killed.
The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to brief the media.
A New York utility says some Long Island residents won't get power until Tuesday even as thousands of linemen and tree trimmers work to restore power lines damaged by Hurricane Sandy.
About 130,000 homes and businesses remain without power, down from a peak of 1 million. Long Island Power Authority chief Michael Hervey said Saturday that power will be back on in 99 percent of those homes by Tuesday. That doesn't count buildings too damaged to get electricity.


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This coming sunday paper, we can expect a McDonalds FREE McCafe Berry Chiller coupon in the Parade magazine, so be sure not to throw that out!
I have yet to verify this. (taken from southerncalisaver).
The June copy of Latina magazine also has these coupons as well as a P&G booklet.
Proud Wifey to Gabe 9/4/04
SAHMama to.. Hailey 12/4/03, Lauren 2/7/06 & Zachary 7/7/08
Mommy to "A" 5/09 and "J" 05/11
Stepmom to "A" 01/96
Proud Wifey to Gabe 9/4/04
SAHMama to.. Hailey 12/4/03, Lauren 2/7/06 & Zachary 7/7/08
We did a swim party this yr with 20 kids. It was $250 & still ordered pizza @ the rec center. They provided the rest. They had the section of the pool roped off with 2 lifeguards in the pool with them. They did clean up & hosted it all.
Last yr I took Sam to Disney. She wanted a sleepover 2 wks prior to us going. We did a easy 12 girl plus a teen over for pizza & cake. Plus they did their nails & watch a movie. I also served breakfast. Cost was $100 for everything.
Now, Sam's 2nd & 4th home parties were the same. We borrowed a bouncy & had our tiny one. All the kiddos played in the back yard. Ate pizza (2nd) & hambugers/hot dogs (4th) plus cake. We had a friend do face painting (4th) too. Costs were $150 & $200. They went well. As for rain, we got lucky.
Janna mom to Samantha Rose 05/10/06
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can someone please point me in the direction of the HP Touchpad debugging thing? I never did that and mine is driving me crazy!
Katie mom to J (4/09), M (6/10), and #3 (08/14)
Brita Water Filter Deal
Mom to Myles(5)-DX'd Type1Diabetes 4/28/2010
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Argh didnt save the link from the article on spending time on technology instead of our kids nyone have it?
Kristin wife to Kurt 28 mommy to P 02/09 , A 01/11 and ? 03/2013
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Critical Essay by Ross Miller
SOURCE: "Autobiography as Fact and Fiction: Franklin, Adams, Malcolm X," in Centennial Review, Vol. XVI, No. 3, Summer, 1972, pp. 221-32.
In the following essay, Miller uses the autobiographies of Malcolm X, Benjamin Franklin, and Henry Adams to illustrate the patterns in and the course of American autobiographies, which, he asserts, represent "a coherent American literary tradition which in addition to saying something about the country, has always challenged conservative and confining notions of what is taken to be the separate realms of fact and fiction."
The autobiographies which fill the bookstores today mark a departure from what I see as a classic line of autobiographical literature from Benjamin Franklin to Malcolm X. A serious metaphysical or self-reflective quality is simply missing in recent works. Using three examples of serious autobiographical art, I have chosen to reconstruct a coherent American literary tradition which in addition to saying something about the country, has always challenged conservative and confining notions of what is taken to be the separate realms of fact and fiction. But as it took Tocqueville to tell Americans about their own political institutions it is not altogether surprising that a Frenchman has brought attention to a declining American literary tradition.
André Malraux was sensitive to the failure of a profound art of autobiography in France, and his book Anti-Memoirs was conceived, in part, as a corrective to the dull public confessions of statesmen of his generation. He felt that there was a special vanity to those books which sought only to repeat, in an attractive context, the accomplishments of the author. Writing about oneself, Malraux thought, had to be more critical. The ongoing analogy of the autobiography to the documentary film was too mechanistic. The successful autobiography had to be reflexive, able to reflect upon its own process and organization. Writing about oneself was the archetypal activity of man, not unlike the problem he faced in trying to contemplate the implications of his own death.
To reflect upon life—life in relation to death—is perhaps no more than to intensify one's questioning. I do not mean death in the sense of being killed, which poses few problems to anyone who has the commonplace luck to be brave; but death as it manifests itself in everything that is beyond man's control, in the aging and even the metamorphosis of the earth (the earth suggests death by its age-old torpor as well as its metamorphosis, even if this metamorphosis is the work of man) and above all the irremediable, the sense that "you'll never know what it all meant." Faced with that question, what do I care what matters only to me?
Malraux is challenging the notion that autobiographies need be personal at all and suggests that autobiographical writing involves a man in no less serious problems than are posed by living life itself. A man, as autobiographer, has the power to face his own mortality with an exorbitant power. Life to him can hold no terror, because in a sense he is already dead—facts no longer have the power to define him. He has relieved life of its temporality. And while a man always feels tangential to history, the autobiographer seems always to be at history's center. To see why this is so demands a revaluation of what we accept to be the proper relation of fact to fiction in the autobiography. I have chosen to explore the structural and methodological factors which define autobiographical literature in the works of Benjamin Franklin, Henry Adams, and Malcolm X: three writers who it would seem have nothing else in common aside from their desire to talk about themselves.
In their writing, as in all autobiographies, there is that power which comes with being one's own historian. Or the feeling that one is a superior historian who need not be content to painfully search out the truth from numerous sources of evidence, but rather because he is his own direct link with history the autobiographer can immediately "rethink" the past. The life of the autobiographer is the stage upon which history, that is all the history he remembers, is played out. Franklin's life spanned the period of America's movement for independence; Adams watched the country grow from an agrarian to an industrial nation; and Malcolm witnessed the resurrection of the Afro-American. Their books are records of their lives and accounts of American history they affected as well as experienced. Franklin, through his formative work in government; Adams, as a member of a great political family and as a writer; and Malcolm X as a major black leader moved the country in which they moved. In choosing to write directly from their own experience each of them encountered the central problem of autobiographical literature: how to reconcile the vanities and obsessions of the personal life with the realities of the historical past.
The problem is settled ingeniously by conflating the private and public histories with an artful narrative. Time is marked through the use of images and metaphor to insure that the reader continues to see the world centered around the writer. It is not our Philadelphia. It is young Ben Franklin's. Yes, it belongs to that boy who first walked the streets with two rolls under his arm, and a third in his mouth. It is the same way with Henry Adams's New England:
The order of impressions retained by memory might naturally be that of color and taste, although one would rather suppose that the sense of pain would be the first to be educated. In fact, the third recollection of the child was that of discomfort. The moment he could be removed, he was bundled up in blankets and carried from the little house in Hancock Avenue to a larger one which his parents were to occupy for the rest of their lives in the neighboring Mount Vernon Street.
Or Malcolm recounting his first days in Boston:
He peeled the potatoes and thin-sliced them into a quart-sized Mason fruit jar, then started stirring them with a wooden spoon as he gradually poured in a little over half the can of lye … The congolene just felt warm when Shorty started combing it in. But then my head caught fire.
I gritted my teeth and tried to pull the sides of the kitchen table together. The comb felt as if it was raking my skin off.
My eyes watered, my nose was running. I couldn't stand it any longer; I bolted to the washbasin. I was cursing Shorty with every name I could think of when he got the spray going and started soap-lathering my head.
In each case the intent is the same: not only to recall the past but to possess it. All three, as they view history, catalogue the senses, attempting to link themselves inextricably to the places and times they describe. Autobiographers, because they are able to see, touch, and smell their subject, write sensuous histories. They deal with the past as it is re-experienced through memory (a kind of sense itself) and conceive of history as it was lived through an individual's senses. When Franklin, Adams, and Malcolm write about themselves they use the details of their senses, not merely facts or events, to locate critical moments of the past. A silent proposition is established: the autobiographer implies that to know the world one must first know him.
All three writers use fictions to illustrate personal histories. Fictions that never lose their identity with an essentially true body of information. Personal language, metaphor, and a controlling narrative create the unique sense that the facts of the author's life are particular and yet at the same time are valid indicators of a wider history just outside or parallel to the life of the writer. Franklin's description of his entrance into Philadelphia and his subsequent success is representative of America's passage from a colony to a nation. Adams's sense of discomfort over the move to Mount Vernon Street is a sensuous mnemonic for the psychic and spiritual dislocation he felt as a victim of industrialization. His childhood change of residence is a microcosm of the larger historical displacement of towns like Quincy, Massachusetts, and other parts of pastoral America. In turn, Malcolm uses a rush of details as an emblem for a larger meaning, writing the history of his people through the landscape of his senses. His life becomes identical with the passage of the country black, "homeboy," into the world of the city Negro. It is all there in Malcolm's description of hair processing. The "conk" is the sign of the black man's humiliation, the brand of his selfhatred.
The sensuous aspect of the autobiography is really the link between the peculiarities of the autobiographer's life and broader historical currents. It affords the writer a chance to talk about the world as he talks about himself. But nowhere are the fictional devices of the autobiographer clearer than in his use of personae to respond to the complex demands of autobiographical literature.
Benjamin Franklin, the first major American autobiographer, understood and responded to these demands in such a way that he exemplifies the autobiographical art. Franklin employs a constant barrage of exaggeration—the hyperbole and soothsaying that D. H. Lawrence objected to. But Lawrence, among others, was deceived by Franklin's style. The man sets a trap with the didactic rhetoric of the book. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin parades as a finished document, a memoir of an aging public figure; however, the book cannot be fully understood as a fait accompli, but must be read in process, taken a little like we accept a man posturing in a conversation. As Franklin's autobiography is not merely a memoir, but a subtle investigation into the very act of autobiographical writing. Here is a hint of the plan.
By my rambling digressions I perceive myself to be grown old. I us'd to write more methodically. But one does not dress for private company as for a publick ball: 'Tis perhaps only negligence.
Franklin's posture, his denial of complexity, is similar to Adams's insistence of failure, or Malcolm's pose as a bad nigger. Franklin creates a persona in his book who is human, yet always bigger than life. The Autobiography is as much a fable as it is a personal history. In fact the book, finally, is not personal at all. There are two Franklins: one a real historical figure; the other is a character in an elaborate fiction.
In the Autobiography, Franklin includes two letters. One is from Mr. Abel James and is undated; the other is from Mr. Benjamin Vaughan, dated January, 31, 1783, around the time Franklin signed the final treaty with England. Vaughan's letter is placed in the middle of the book, between Franklin's personal and public accounts of his life. It is unmistakably placed in such a strategic location to comment upon the author's method and purpose. In fact, we are tempted to question if Mr. Vaughan is really Benjamin Franklin himself, because Franklin could not have asked for a better spokesman.
Your history is so remarkable, that if you do not give it, somebody else will certainly give it; and perhaps so as nearly to do as much harm, as your management of the same thing might do good. It will moreover present a table of the internal circumstances of your country, which will very much tend to invite to it settlers of virtuous and manly minds. And considering the eagerness with which such information is sought by them, and the extent of your reputation, I do not know of a more efficacious advertisement than your biography would give. All that has happened to you is also connected with the detail of the manners and situation of a rising people; and in this respect I do not think that the writings of Caesar and Tacitus can be more interesting to a true judge of human nature and society.
Vaughan's "encouragement" makes explicit the link between Franklin's personal and public lives. Like a Caesar, his life is inexorably "connected with the detail of the manners and situation of a rising people." Vaughan goes on to say, "The nearest thing to having experience of one's own, is to have other people's affairs brought before us in a shape that is interesting." Franklin chooses a particular persona to describe experience in an interesting shape, a mythic embodiment of America's struggle for independence. And this need to embody and shape experience is not unique to Franklin, but is characteristic of autobiographical art. Henry Adams employs a remarkably similar metaphor to describe the plan of the Education.
The object of study is the garment, not the figure. The tailor adapts the manikin as well as the clothes to his patron's wants….
The manikin, therefore, has the same value as any other geometrical figure of three or more dimensions, which is used for the study of relations. For that purpose it cannot be spared; it is the only measure of motion, of proportion, of human condition; it must have the air of reality; must be taken for real; must be treated as though it had life. Who knows? Possibly it had!
Franklin's personal history, like Adams's, is a manikin with which he can study relations. The life of one man becomes the key to mapping the mysteries of the race; and the wonders that are related to the one life are as important as the record of the life itself. Autobiography, at this level, is as much an exercise of will as it is a record of the past.
This posturing, the use of fictions, to get outside of oneself—to be equal to, yet, to be more than one is entitled to by birth—is the archetypal pose of the autobiographer. In Malraux's language, it is to identify yourself with no less than the eternal metamorphosis of the earth. In a word, it is that terrible reaching for immortality. Watch Malcolm struggle as he moves to identify himself with the entire black American population. Like the Sultan who dies trying to propagate the earth with his sons and daughters.
I have given to this book so much of whatever time I have because I feel, and I hope, that if I honestly and fully tell my life's account, read objectively it might prove to be a testimony of some social value….
I think that an objective reader may see how when I heard "The white man is the devil," when I played what had been my own experiences, it was inevitable that I would respond positively; the next twelve years of my life were devoted and dedicated to propagating that phrase among the black people.
I think, I hope, that the objective reader, in following my life—the life of only one ghetto-created Negro—may gain a better picture and understanding than he has previously had of the black ghettoes which are shaping the lives and the thinking of almost all of the 22 million Negroes who lives in America.
Malcolm's mythical presence, the pose of an exemplary life, just as Franklin's, is a daring simplification. They are using the autobiography, in part, as a fiction to express personal relationships to history that are true in essence, but are nevertheless suspicious in the exaggerated form they take. The personae of Malcolm and Franklin, in their autobiographies, are bigger than life because they are intended to represent many individuals. The paradox of writing in this mode is that this mythic relationship, although accepted by the writer and his audience, is illusory; it is a literary relation and not a metaphysical one. The fictive aspect of the autobiography is that result of this conflation between a first-person narrator and a naturally third-person persona who share a mutual identity. Malcolm X narrates the history of "Malcolm X," who is simultaneously himself and all black men in America, as Ben Franklin records the story of "Benjamin Franklin," who seems to be all of colonial America. This double identity is not accidental, but is intrinsic to the structure of the autobiography. It is the acting out of the quality William James called the phenomenon of the "twice born." In Franklin's words:
I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first. So I might, besides correcting the faults, change some sinister accidents and events of it for others more favorable. But though this were denied, I should still accepted the offer. Since such a repetition is not to be expected, the next thing most like living one's life over again seems to be a recollection as durable as possible by putting it down in writing.
Franklin could not be clearer. There is that quality to the autobiography that makes writing down the story of a life not so much reliving the past as simply living again.
What an opportunity for a man like Henry Adams. To live again. First he could arrange his marriage differently, do something about his father-in-law, and get early help for his wife. Second to that, he could write his autobiography and edit out all the painful "accidents." There did not have to be any marriage, any father-in-law, any suicide. He could leave it all out. As a result the Education is often more interesting for what it leaves out, at one point a full twenty years, than for what it contains. Late in the book the narrative breaks off with the year 1871 and resumes in 1892. The chapter "Twenty Years After" begins as if Adams is not conscious of his ingenious sublimation of the major emotional events of his life. Adams's style is reminiscent of those patients who awake in Swiss clinics after a month of sleep therapy (where a man is kept asleep, by the use of drugs for a protracted length of time) and who are cured by literally forgetting what was bothering them.
No doubt the world at large will always lag so far behind the active mind as to make a soft cushion of inertia to drop upon, as it did for Henry Adams: but education should try to lessen the obstacles, diminish the friction, invigorate the enemy, and should train minds to react, not a haphazard, but by choice, on the lines of force that attract their world.
Adams is not really talking about education at all. His obsession with the idea of attraction and his sense that the world always lags behind the active mind is metaphysical static generated to avoid discussing similar questions in emotional terms. He asks the impossible of education—that it should conjoin thought and action. And at the same time it reveals one of the prime motives for writing about one's life. His autobiography might, at least on paper, make life subservient to mind and, in a sense, tame it. So in the end, as it was for Franklin and Malcolm, Adams's education was in the writing of his own life.
Fictional methods have applied so consistently to the writing of autobiography, and historical models are now once again so fashionable in the novel, that it has become increasingly difficult to distinguish the two. Alfred Kazin has considered a variation of this problem in an essay that concerns the shifting boundary between fiction and fact in what has come to be called the "non-fiction" novel. He speaks of Truman Capote's desire, in his book In Cold Blood, to relieve life of its "mere factuality." Kazin's insight is correct and if expanded it could be brought to describe the activity of writing itself. But Kazin stops short of the point and is content to acknowledge yet another genre. Like the term "new journalism," the creation of the "non-fiction" novel as a separate literary entity is less helpful than it is a clever circumvention of philosophical questions that are central to writing about any subject. What is now called "new journalism" is merely the manipulation of the details of experience in the present not unlike the way Sir Walter Scott manipulates historical facts of the past to invest a situation with character and plot. Oddly enough we are inclined to believe the journalist and not the novelist because no matter how subjective the journalist's interpretation seems, it is still an interpretation of the facts. Critics have chosen to distinguish so minutely between what they feel to be works of fact and works of fiction that they find themselves continually adding new categories, like philosophers creating new links for the "Great Chain of Being," instead of challenging the need for categories at all.
This discussion of Franklin, Adams, and Malcolm attempts to show that autobiographical writing has always been an attempt to make history into a novel, and that writers like Norman Mailer have really done nothing new but have more significantly grounded themselves in an American literary tradition that moves directly from Ben Franklin.
It is appropriate that autobiography should be more than personal and factual, in the same way we expect a still-life painting to be more than a facsimile of the objects themselves; or a film to be more than the chronological development from points A to Z. Painting shows us objects from many angles at the same time; a film breaks down time and explores connections that we ordinarily do not notice. As a form, autobiography is multi-angular and able to alter perspective, to make a man bigger or smaller, like those enormous figures on a movie screen; and like the novel, its reference is explicitly self-centered. Its subject and object are identical.
The intent and method of the best autobiographies have always been literary in the broadest sense, just as conversely the novel (most obviously those in the first person closely following the writer's own experience) has reflected the intimate particulars and reflections of the writer. For example, Jack London's Martin Eden and Frank Conroy's Stop-Time disguise real situations and people through the traditional devices of the novel. London and Conroy share a central concern, to see themselves as they were. To see their lives sublimated in an elaborate fiction. The masters of this method were Proust and Colette. In both cases the fictional distance they had from their own experiences permitted self-illumination comparable to the studied self-interpretation of the autobiographer writing from hindsight. (The pose of the autobiographer as an experienced man is particularly effective because we expect to hear from someone who has a completed sense of his own life and is therefore in a position to tell what he has discovered.) The obsession with sensuous detail in Proust and Colette's writing came from their fixation upon the sensual side of their own lives. In a way, writing about themselves, through elaborate disguises, allowed them the liberation of confession and created an art which made the final significance of life (because there was no heaven or hell) solely dependent upon its telling.
Autobiography at its best has the pretensions and effects of art. Merleau-Ponty hinted at this in a different context in his essay on Cézanne, where he hoped to suggest that what makes great art move us is that it alters our basic perceptions.
Cézanne's difficulties are those of the first word. He considered himself powerless because he was not omnipotent, because he was not God and wanted nevertheless to portray the world, to change it completely into a spectacle, to make visible how the world touches us … It is not enough for a painter like Cézanne, an artist, or a philosopher, to create and express an idea; they must also awaken the experiences which will make their idea take root in the consciousness of others. A successful work has the strange power to teach its own lesson.
In the same way, to write about oneself is to create a durable work of art in an attempt to freeze the process of life, for a moment, to make it visible. And it is with Franklin, Adams, and Malcolm that we feel this need to stop time, not to justify their actions in the past, but to see their lives as they might have appeared to God day by day. They use the facts of their lives, not as the historian would, but as a way of probing the limits of their own self-knowledge. Art is used in the writing of autobiography to express what cannot be understood by facts alone.
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