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25.12.05 - By Geoffrey Openda: Kiilu boxed a very disciplined fight, and controlled the action from the first bell. Ameme tried his best, but missed most of his punches, and was never a real threat to Kiilus triumph. Halfway through the bout it was apparent that the visitor from Dar es Salaam had to score a knockout to win, but he simply couldnt manage to get on the inside to connect. After the decision was announced, Kiilu was awarded his newly won belt by Australian World Boxing Foundation (WBF) president Mick Croucher, who praised Kiilu for a job well done..
Mr. Kiilu did his job almost to perfection, and we are proud to now have him as one of our champions. I hope he can hold on to the title for a while, and maybe one day challenge for our world title said Croucher.
In the co-feature of the evening, media-darling Congestina Achieng captured the WBF female world middleweight title with a first round annihilation of Argentinean import Guilermina Hernandez. After just one minute and forty-one seconds, the trainer of Hernandez, Mr. Herrera Carlos, had seen enough and threw in the towel to conclude a very poor performance by his boxer. It was a mixed atmosphere of happiness and disappointment, as spectators hailed their new boxing queen, but at the same time felt cheated by the poor showing from the South American.
I expected to gain victory early in the bout, and I am marching forward towards my dream fight against Laila Ali. Soon she will not be able to avoid me said Achieng after the massacre, and assured that the WBF title would open many doors in her future career. She proudly displayed her belt to the media, but at this time didnt know what would happen later on.
In the third title fight of the evening, former Commonwealth king Michael Lonzi Muya scored a ten-round unanimous verdict over Chaurembo Palasa from Tanzania, to lift the UBO Intercontinental super lightweight championship. Muya also defeated Palasa to win the Commonwealth crown almost three years ago, but won more convincingly this time around.
After five months of inactivity, former Kenyan champion Athanas Nzau returned to the ring only to suffer a major setback when the decision was controversially given to his opponent Samba Andrew. Most felt veteran Nzau had done well enough to win after the completion of the scheduled four rounds, but to everybodys amazement it was not to be.
On the undercard, supermiddleweight Samson Onyango continues to look promising, and scored a third round stoppage over fellow novice Lucas Ochieng. Also registering a third-round victory was welterweight Ashioya Katibi, who overwhelmed former national champion Henry Jessai by technical knockout.
In what must be considered almost inhumane, 15-year-old debutant Moses Ngugi was knocked out by world-class super flyweight Mbwana Matumla from Tanzania. It was quite an accomplishment by the teenager to last into the third round against his accomplished foe, but both the promoters, Solid Rock Promotions, and the Kenyan Professional Boxing Commission should be made to face consequences after shamelessly allowing this mismatch. One tends to use the word child-abuse in this case!
Other results on the card: Damaris Muthoni beat Monique Chipeta (2nd round technical knockout), Hasan Saku beat Caleb Amianda (unanimous decision after four rounds), Mustafa Noor beat Ray Ochieng (unanimous decision after four rounds).
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Lemuridae is a primate family consisting of lemurs from Madagascar. Lemuridae contains five extant genera: Lemur, Eulemur, Varecia, Hapalemur, and Prolemur. Lemuridae species range in weight from 700 g to 4.5 kg. Forelimbs are slightly shorter than hindlimbs. In general, members of Lemuridae move quadrupedally along branches and leap across foliage gaps. Most live in groups and exhibit a cathemeral activity pattern, i.e. are active during both day and night, with the exception of the purely diurnal Varecia (ruffed lemurs). All Lemuridae species have at least spotty pigmentation of the ocular fundus; this pigmentation tends to obscure the golden shine that is normally produced when light reflects off of the tapetum lucidum layer in the eye (Groves, 2001).
Genetic studies show that Lemur and Hapalemur are sister genera and form an exclusive clade (Mittermeier et al., 2008). This discovery makes earlier subfamily classifications obsolete; previously, Lemuridae was divided into two subfamilies, the Lemurinae ("true lemurs", Lemur, Eulemur, and Varecia) and Hapalemurinae ("bamboo lemurs", Hapalemur and Prolemur).
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CHENNAI: During the British rule the print media was heavily censored and the radio was State-owned. How then did the freedom struggle find support among the masses of Madras Presidency?
It was through theatre, folk songs and other such popular media, explained writer S.Theodore Baskaran in a talk on "Stage, Screen and Freedom Struggle," organised by Roja Muthiah Research Library (RMRL) with the support of Chennai Willingdon Corporate Foundation here on Friday.
Mr.Baskaran spoke about how the trend of actors turning politicians emerged during the freedom struggle in Madras, when popular drama got politicised and became the medium for nationalistic propaganda. Madras-based entrepreneurs set up drama companies based on the Marathi and Parsi theatre companies in the late 19th century and these came to be known as "company drama".
In the early 20th century, Madras had about 250 such drama companies which later became centres of political activity. "The Otravaadai theatre in Mint was one such place," Mr.Baskaran said. Some plays that had political content were Kadarin Vetri and Banagurattu Veeran which are available for reference in the library.
"Between 1930 and 1940 several theatre actors were instrumental in mobilising the masses for the freedom struggle," he said. One such person was M.N.Chidambaranathan, who organised a 'salt satyagraha' in Santhome in 1931 and received support from freedom-fighter Durgabai Deshmukh . Chidambaranathan later went on to play the lead role in a movie "Madurai Veeran" in 1935 (the one starring MGR came only much later!)
"Even folk songs sung by workers in agricultural fields had political content and the message of fighting for the nation's freedom thus spread by word of mouth," he said. A number of such songs that were sung by ordinary men and women in Madras as a mark of support for the freedom struggle have been documented at the Roja Muthiah Research Library .
When cinema arrived in 1916, a Madras-based entrepreneur by name Nataraja Mudaliar set up "India Films" and produced films in Tamil. "Mudaliar wanted to be different from other film companies of the time that donned names of English origin," Mr.Baskaran pointed out.
He referred to a film Kalidas, which ran for a long time in Murugan talkies in Madras and had a scene where the hero spins the charkha in prison and sings a song on Gandhi. "Thus through movies potent nationalistic symbols were popularised," he said.
Mr.Baskaran also mentioned Bhaskara Das whose song "Gandhi oru parama ezhai sanyasi" was extremely popular in the countryside. Song and books containing nationalistic propaganda were banned by the British and some of these banned works figure as exhibits in the library.
Among these are some rare collections of Bharatiar's songs and a book "Amirutasaras patukolai" by B.G.Horniman.
The exhibits are part of the "Chennai and the Independence Movement" exhibition that got under way at the Library.
The exhibition, of rare photographs and written works by freedom fighters, would be on till August 22.
Historian S.Muthaiah, Chennai Willingdon Corporate Foundation Director V.Narayanan and Director of the Library G.Sundar participated.


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Anybody who's ever been to a HBCU (Black College) football game knows that halftime is game time. There was a popular movie, "Drumline", that showcased how important a band is to some schools. Football games like the Florida Classic seen its attendance drop by 20,000 with the absence of FAMU's band. Vibe.com recently release an article naming the Top 10 HBCU Bands. The list left off the JSU's "Sonic Boom of the South" leaving us to question its legitimacy. Never the less here's the list in no particular order. Which bands do you think needs to be added to the list? Leave comment below (be nice
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4.0 out of 5 stars Odd Themes
Having previously dwelt at length in the realms of lo-fi psyche, Ariel Pink reputedly had his arm twisted into making 2010's very well-received Before Today LP. Somewhat stumbling into the limelight therefore and, several public meltdowns since, it's perhaps offhand to suggest that he was never quite comfortable with that album's soft-rock sound and its relatively popular...
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3.0 out of 5 stars R.Stevie Moore...Or Less
I have to say I'm not entirely convinced by this album or indeed by Ariel Pink. While this album does sound very good and the songs are quite well written and constructed, I am highly suspicious of them and think they are made a little too well. The reason for this is based on various interviews I've read with Ariel Pink and the overall sound and feel of this album. I...
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4.0 out of 5 stars Odd Themes,
Gannon (Manchester, England) - See all my reviews
Having previously dwelt at length in the realms of lo-fi psyche, Ariel Pink reputedly had his arm twisted into making 2010's very well-received Before Today LP. Somewhat stumbling into the limelight therefore and, several public meltdowns since, it's perhaps offhand to suggest that he was never quite comfortable with that album's soft-rock sound and its relatively popular jams.
To a degree then Pink and his Haunted Graffiti band return to type on Mature Themes. The improved production quality of Before Today remains intact, its willing sense of diversity too, but, aside from the title track and "Only In My Dreams", which are both lovely little throwaways, wistful and bucolic, bubbling along happily lost in a stream of West Coast 60s shenanigans, there are few commercial takeaways to be found here.
True there's the pleasant lead single - a collaboration cover with D�M-FunK of the recently rediscovered funk-soul standard "Baby" by Donnie and Joe Emerson, but elsewhere things get very odd very quickly. Take the gloriously weird opener "Kinski Assassin", which talks about "dropping testicle bombs" and the exact whereabouts of a battleship. Built on little more than a dancing organ line, it brings to mind James Ferraro`s borderline experiments in tomfoolery, which, along with the cheesy retro-futurist jingle for lab-manufactured meat "Pink Slime", feel more like being taken for a ride than the stuff of subversive commentary. Similarly "Schnitzel Boogie" is a munchies-grade oddity toasted with fuzz-on-everything production and a grating vocal pitch that lacks the necessary depth to make any analysis worthwhile.
All credit then to 4AD for their notably hands-off approach when they could have demanded an album full of safe cuts and moreover for not freaking out when Pink delivered "Is This The Best Spot" - a giddy Casio-punk offering that features a covertly captured sample of label boss Simon Halliday to whom the track name must be credited. All the same, it does feel like a skit dragged out too long for the sake of an inside joke.
When push comes to shove it's tempting to give Pink the benefit of the doubt nevertheless because, true to his word, Mature Themes is only as peculiar a work as one should perhaps expect from a "rock and roller from Beverly Hills". Who then are we then to try and appraise the assonantal stream-of-conscious strangeness that is "Symphony Of The Nymph" - its strong almost-chorus is worthy of note though, rising twice out of the bong-sludge like a revelation. And what else can be said of "Early Birds Of Babylon" except that for a while it thinks it's The Doors, ultimately splitting itself apart to reveal a parallel tracking of creepy carnivalesque post-punk. Though grammatically shaky, "Nostradamus & Me" too is almost beyond classification, channelling superior psychedelic ambience and soothing synth washes comparable with those of Richard Youngs - only on acid of course.
The world needs people like Pink to be making records like Mature Themes, but guys like him are not everyday men for a good reason. Former city-mates Liars once presented an alternative Los Angeles via their dark Sisterworld LP; Mature Themes is best summed up as the other side of that coin - a hang-out for all the freaks when the lights go down ... and Pink is undoubtedly one of their ringleaders.
Advised downloads: "Only In My Dreams" and "Symphony Of The Nymph".
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3.0 out of 5 stars R.Stevie Moore...Or Less,
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I have to say I'm not entirely convinced by this album or indeed by Ariel Pink. While this album does sound very good and the songs are quite well written and constructed, I am highly suspicious of them and think they are made a little too well. The reason for this is based on various interviews I've read with Ariel Pink and the overall sound and feel of this album. I suspect that Ariel Pink is at best a very, very good R. Stevie Moore tribute act that has managed to hoodwink a lot of people into thinking he's a musical genius but I can't shake the feeling that most of his schtick is very contrived.
I know that R.Stevie Moore is a big influence on Ariel Pink and I suppose it's inevitible that he will sound like him but this album is basically nothing more than someone doing an impression of R.Stevie Moore, even down to the faux-lo-fi recording of Schnitzel Boogie. I remember reading an interview with Ariel Pink in an August issue of NME where he was spouting various ridiculous lines like "We need more psychopathic rock stars." and "I like hot dogs. I'd do a dog any day. Man's best friend!". The more I read the interview, the more I thought that this is someone trying to say as much weird, wacky and/or controversial things as possible to appear to be more interesting than he actually is, in much the same way that Noel Fielding constantly just blurts out random nonsense (a la Ross Noble, only not as clever) to appear funnier than he actually is.
Sure, much of the interview was probably done tongue-in-cheek and photos of Ariel Pink wearing womens clothes etc may be much the same but he just seems like someone trying to portray himself as weird or wacky when he actually isn't. And because of this I don't entirely believe his music either and it just seems a little too well-thought-out and close to the likes of R.Stevie Moore for it to be nothing more than an homage or love letter to Mr Moore.
The songs on this album do sound good but I'd much rather listen to something more genuine and on this album Ariel Pink doesn't sound like he's being himself and is instead trying to be his hero. More originality please.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Rock n' Roller from Beverley Hills,
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It's tough to review an Ariel Pink LP. Chances are you arrive at this with previous introduction to his universe so I'll keep it fairly brief. There are often more ideas in one track than in the entire output of say, for argument's sake, Oasis. It takes a while to digest, unravel and let the songs really get under your skin. However, on the first couple of spins `Mature Themes' is a thrilling listen, filled with the usual fragmented streams of psycho-babble and awesome pop chops. Whereas on the one hand you have the stoner in-japery of `Schnitzel Boogie' and `Is This The Best Spot?' you also have `Only In My Dreams' which, in a parallel universe, spent longer at number one in the charts than Bryan Adams' `Everything I do' and the title track which sounds like Elvis Costello cribbing from a Wesleyan hymn book.
For me, the real killer material comes on Side 2 - from the pervy narcissistic ruminations of `Symphony of The Nymph' through to the glorious vintage synth clouds of `Nostradamus and Me' it's a superb suite which harks back to the more accessible, dreamy numbers on `Worn Copy' and `Lover Boy'. Despite Ariel's protestations, it's a wonderful bridge between his older material and the (comparatively) smoother `Before Today' sound.
So again I give Mr Pink my arbitrary 5 stars - I love his kaleidoscopic world and there's really nothing else quite like it when you're in the mood.
5.0 out of 5 stars ever inventive Mr pink,
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easily the most inventive record released this year, Mr Pink is light years ahead of everyone else it seems. Full of light and dark throughout, every song is a delight. The album is up there with Todd's a wizard a true star for setting a mood. If only there were other records as exciting as this. No supprises, it's my favorite this year so far. Well done to 4AD for releasing this, as ever I cant wait for the the next Ariel release.
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Cox Providence Rhode race markets itself as a relatively flat marathon. Technically, they are correct as the hills balance themselves out since every uphill has an equal downhill. These hills also strike a runner early in the race and then again during the end of the race.
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I don't think this particular monthly write-up needs any real explanation—it really is a "cheesy Thanksgiving post," complete with holiday cheer and unwanted gifts—so let's just get into it. (Also, I think it's going to be really long.)
Texas: The Great Theft by Carmen Boullosa, translated from the Spanish by Samantha Schnee (Deep Vellum)
Full disclosure: Bromance Will started Deep Vellum after spending a summer apprenticing at Open Letter and I'm serving on his board. THIS PLUG IS TRANSLATION PUBLISHING INCEST! (Pub-cest? Hmm . . . that sounds too drinky.)
But Bromance Will is one of people in the world I truly appreciate. He's spirited, brilliant, indefatigable, scrappy! I love that Deep Vellum is showing up on all the best lists (Flavorwire's 5 Small Presses Who Are Changing the Face of the Industry, Entropy's Best of 2014: Presses) and that their first list is going to be distributed by Consortium. I love texting Bromance about obscure Danish authors, books we both want to read, and basketball. (Yes, Will went to Duke and is a Duke basketball fan.) It's also amazing that he's in Dallas and tearing it up. Outsiders, unite! He's been featured in every Dallas publication ever—at least twice—and is helping light a spark in the Texas literary scene. The world is a better place because of him and Deep Vellum.
That all said, I mostly just love his moustache.
A few months ago, some friends were talking on Twitter about the publication of Texas: The Great Theft, Will's first book, and they were joking about growing out their moustaches to celebrate. Well, I've never ever grown out shit, and although it probably looks ridiculous, I decided to join in—but beardo style.
That beard is for you, Bromance!
Also, I hope a million people buy this book and subscribe to Deep Vellum. Five years from now, Deep Vellum will be one of the major players in indie publishing. I'm sure of it. Just watch this video.
Learning Cyrillic by David Albahari, translated from the Serbian by Ellen Elias-Bursać (Dalkey Archive)
Although things have gotten very strained post-2007, I have to admit that I really value the time I spent at Dalkey Archive. Without John O'Brien there would be no Open Letter. I don't agree with everything he does and says, but he built an amazing organization from scratch and has published some of the most important authors of the twentieth-century. Dalkey has seemingly been around forever, and it's almost too easy to take them for advantage, but imagine a reading culture without these authors: Gilbert Sorrentino, Flann O'Brien, Harry Mathews, Marguerite Young, etc. etc. And the new books that Dalkey is doing—like their Korean Literature Series—is going to appear just as foundational in a dozen years.
This past week, the literary community lost Allan Kornblum founder of Toothpaste Press, better known as Coffee House. A loss like this is always sad, but it's great to see Coffee House in such great shape, thanks to the work of Chris Fishbach. The way that great publishers inspire new generations of great publishers is reassuring about the future of book culture.
Also, David Albahari's Götz & Meyer is an incredible novel, as is Leeches. I can only imagine that his stories, collected here in Learning Cyrillic, are equally captivating and obsessive. These all focus on immigrant life, something that writers from the former Yugoslavia excel at writing about. A definitely must read for December.
Butterflies in November by Audur Ava Olafsdottir, translated from the Icelandic by Brian FitzGibbon (Black Cat)
Everything about Iceland is amazing. We've gone on about that before, at length. But the thing I'm most excited about in terms of Iceland is going back next September for the Reykjavik International Literary Festival.
Not too long ago, I was reading David Mitchell's The Bone Clocks (which, aside from part 5, is incredible), and there's a section about the Reykjavik Festival and visiting Halldor Laxness's house. Everything about this was so specific that I assumed Mitchell had been there. So I texted the Festival's director and found out that, no, he hadn't ever been invited, but that he'd just confirmed that he'll attend in 2015.
As it turns out, my 40th birthday is just a couple of weeks after the festival, and I've been secretly planning to take some wild "over the hill" party trip—and Iceland fits this perfectly. So if anyone wants to go hang out with David Mitchell, Teju Cole, all the greatest Icelandic writers—like Bragi Olafsson, Audur Ava Olafsdottir, Kristin Omarsdottir, Solvi Bjorn Sigurdsson, Sjon—AND rock out with me, you should come. Iceland is the most magical country in the world, and if you've never been, you'll be absolutely stunned by how gorgeous the country and the people are.
USSR: Diary of a Perestroika Kid by Vladimir Kozlov, translated from the Russian by Andrea Gregovich (Fiction Advocate)
The other week I had the pleasure of meeting Andrea Gregovich during the "Editor Speed Dating" part of the American Literary Translators Conference. Over the past year or so, ALTA has gone through a ton of changes. Their president had to step down. The organization left the University of Texas at Dallas, where it had been for basically it's entire thirty-seven year history. This led to Russell Valentino taking over and Erica Mena being appointed managing director. A consultant was hired. And now, although there's a lot to do and a lot that could be done, the organization's future seems as bright as ever.
The conference is the keystone of ALTA's activities, and if you have any interest in translation—being a translator or publishing books in translation—you should come to the upcoming conferences in Tucson, San Francisco, New York, and Austin. I'm serving on the conference committee and helping with all of the programming—panels, workshops, roundtables and the like.
One of the new additions at this conference was the "Editor Speed Dating," and I have to say, this went even better than I expected. When I first agreed to participate, I assumed it would be four hours of explaining why I haven't replied to someone's submission, or, why we're just not interested. Instead, this was set up as three fifteen-minute meetings with three early-career translators, each of whom sent me two pages of a translation they're working on along with two specific questions. (Questions about how to get something published were banned.)
Andrea met with me to talk about a story and novella collection she's working on. In particular she wanted to know if there's an optimal mix of novellas and short stories, since she's picking pieces from a writer's entire career. It was an interesting conversation, as were the other two that I had. And if anything I said even helped a little bit, then great. That's what ALTA is really all about. Meeting colleagues who can help you out immediately and in the future. And in a field like this, that's incredibly vital. I'm so glad that ALTA didn't just keep its shit together during this transition period, but actually is in a position to do more, better.
My Mother-in-Law Drinks by Diego De Silva, translated from the Italian by Antony Shugaar (Europa Editions)
This book sounds fun . . . kind of like Thanksgiving mimosas!
It's too bad that the jacket copy for this includes no information about the mother-in-law or her drinking patterns. Although maybe that's the trick . . . Now I'm just projecting about this laid-back, finely preserved mother-in-law who gets a little loose with the liquor. I like it. This book is fantastic.
Also, Flavorwire should do a list of the best books featuring drunks. I would include The Last Days of My Mother on a list like that along with some of the other main go-tos.
The Strange Library by Haruki Murakami, translated from the Japanese by Ted Goossen (Knopf)
It's sad that out of all the books on this list, I can already guarantee that this one—which is one of the weakest, most assuredly—will sell roundabout 10,000 times more copies than the rest combined. Haruki "The Young Adult Juggernaut" Murakami strikes again!
In terms of giving thanks, I also have to give a shout-out to Drew Magary for writing such entertaining columns and "hater's guides" His weekly Jamboroo, which comes out every week during the NFL season and features a series of jokes, thoughtful commentary, and cutting observations, is the inspiration behind my writing these monthly overviews. But beyond that, his book on parenting, Someone Could Get Hurt, is brilliant and funny in that way that rings too true if you are also a parent. (Son using toothbrush on his penis? CHECK.) His piece on What Happens When a 35-year-old Man Retakes the SAT?, is filled with quotable bits, but the hater's guides and "Why Your Team Sucks" series are the best. That's where some of my favorite insults come from. Like, when he said about Buffalo, "there's nothing to do there but eat and marry someone you don't love." BASH.
Captives by Norman Manea, translated from the Romanian by Jean Harris (New Directions)
I'm glad that New Directions and Yale keep putting out Manea books. Although I haven't gotten to any of these yet, I know he's someone I should read, and I'm thankful that when I finally do, there will be a plethora of titles to enable my bender. (A bender like what I've been on with David Peace, whose Red Riding Quartet was so much better than I thought possible, or the one I plan on going on with Muriel Spark.)
This novel of his sounds particularly up my alley given the shifting p.o.v. and other narrative devices Manea uses to articulate the crazy complications of life in Romania's fascist/communist past:
Divided into interrelated sections—narrated in first-, second-, and third- person voices—Captives explores the social and psychological conditions of postwar Romania: a loss of identity, a complicated sense of guilt and trauma from having survived the fascist government during World War II, and the rise of communism.
Skylight by José Saramago, translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
Saramago is another author with enough books in print to justify a bender. If I'm counting right, he has eighteen titles available in translation—two-thirds of which came out in English after he won the Nobel Prize.
Skylight is funny to me since it was "lost" in a publisher's office for decades, rediscovered, and finally published in 2011. Have you ever been in a publisher's office? Holy shit is it disgusting. So much paper, so much correspondence, so many unread manuscripts and magazines and journals and cover letters. I'm surprised that we don't hear of five to ten accidents a year featuring editors and the raccoons hiding in their paper empires. I'm thankful that no one ever comes to visit our office.
But on a more serious thank you note: I really want to thank Nathan Furl and Kaija Straumanis for working so hard at Open Letter. There's not a lot of money—or glory—in nonprofit publishing, but both are incredibly committed to the press, and put up with a lot of shit in their jobs. Also, all our authors, translators, interns, and graduate students deserve some praise. They're all spectacular people, and I'm especially impressed by all the students who have come through our program so far. Each and every one is more talented than I am, and that's a pleasant sort of intimidating.
The Wall by H. G. Adler, translated from the Germany by Peter Filkins (Random House)
Growing up, I absolutely loved superhero comic books. I'm not sure why, exactly, although I think a lot of it was a sort of warped wish-fulfillment in which I fed my imagination with scenarios that I could later co-opt for my own personal superadventures.
Watching Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. now though, and absolutely loving it, I've realized what an impact comic book narrative structures have had on my life. The way that this show unfolds—which is sort of comic bookish, but only if run through a Stanislaw Lem novel—keeps me engaged week in and week out, with two-character scene following two-character scene playing ideas off one another in a sort of lock-step manichaeism. It's interesting to see how the show had adopted various comic book tropes, but in ways that are much more twenty-first century, and which point to legit societal issues (like the idea that the world won't be able to support humankind fifty years from now). It also fucks with the viewer's beliefs on a regular basis, creating a noirish spy world in which the viewer can buy in and play along with the principle characters. I'm half-embarrassed to admit it, but thank god for this show. Without it, I'd have almost nothing to watch on a weekly basis. (And yes, I am one of those old school people who likes the wait between episodes, the anticipation, the joy in being caught up.)
The Shipwrecked: Contemporary Stories by Women from Iran by Fereshteh Nouraie-Simone, translated from the Persian by Sara Khalili (Feminist Press)
There are too many good books to read. Or at least books that I wish I had the time/mental energy to read. (Which is an actual issue for me these days. I have a bunch of samples I should be evaluating, and a number of books I want to review, but I'd rather read David Peace and A Naked Singularity and enjoy my evenings instead of stressing myself out trying to evaluate everything and come up with new synonyms for "really interesting." Publishing is a full time job, and when I'm not reading for work at home, I'm checking my emails and pressuring myself about every facet of my job. That's not healthy.) But I am thankful that there are way too many books. I fear a time when I have only my own words and ideas to entertain and stimulate me. That would be the worst! I'm so glad that every month I have more titles that I want to include on this list than I actually can.
The January 2011 issue of Words Without Borders is now available, and has a number of really interesting pieces. This issue's theme is "The Work Force," which is elaborated on in the little intro to the issue:
Whether loathed or loved, work provides both livelihood and identity; and in times of economic depression and shrinking labor markets, jobs assume even greater importance, determining both personal and political stability. Whether reinventing themselves in a new economy or sticking it out in an old one, the characters here demonstrate the variety of the international work force.
Here's a list of the pieces that most caught my eye:
The blue building was empty, the name of the factory had been changed, and tough shit for the men and women who had been tossed out—"report to the occupational reclassification department," which wouldn't reclassify many people. (I'm writing in March 2004: this reclassification task, which began fifteen months ago, was finished three months ago and still no statistics are available.)
Layoffs continue, and if we're talking about businesses—their holy name, "business"— that employ less than fifty people, the layoffs are not even accounted for. At Fameck, the blue building is still there, looking sharp with its white gate, while the condition of cars parked in town attest to everyone else's general health: not so great. But the serious cracks running across the surface of the old world today do not readily reveal the reasons that make them apparent.
(Translated from the French by Alison Dundy and by Emmanuelle Ertel)
The hundred people who work at the Tutto Colore clothing factory have hardly noticed me. I could have been an actor, but here I'm invisible, like an extra. I'd like to think that I'm a spy with a good cover but the truth is that I'm a guy who works in a warehouse; and I have been for a month, for ten hours per day. In the course of these four weeks at work I have repeated a handful of phrases that seldom vary: "Yes, Sir. No, Sir. I'll do it right now." I've learned to move around the second floor, where I'm stationed, with the agility of a sailfish.
Every day I warehouse garments on metal shelves that look like the skeleton of a space shuttle. I also take inventory of T-shirts and sweatsuits on a long table like the ones in high-school cafeterias and I take orders from my boss—a neurotic man who won't let me and my coworkers listen to music—with Benedictine humility. On the other floors in the factory, people knit their brows less. They relax, listening to rancheras, merengues, ballads. We work without a sound track. If we could mumble along to any song, whatever it would be, I'm certain of two things: 1. The men I work with would stop obsessively discussing how to keep their women happy and 2. I wouldn't keep picking my life apart as if it were a Rubik's cube.
(Translated from the Spanish by Samantha Schnee)
The recent announcement of Shakespeare and Company's "Paris Literary Prize," to be awarded to the best novella by an unpublished writer, set me thinking about my inspiration to go into publishing: Shakespeare and Company's founder Sylvia Beach. (Like many teenagers with literary aspirations, I spent an intense few months working for the bookshop's current owner, George Whitman.) Beach's Paris bookshop and lending library was more than just a space where writers could meet and find inspiration; it became a publishing house as well when Sylvia stepped into the breach to produce the first edition of James Joyce's Ulysses. Sadly, without a mother in Princeton to whom I could cable "Opening bookshop in Paris. Please send money," I was forced to take a more conventional route into publishing: I got a job as an editorial assistant at Chatto & Windus, an imprint of Random House UK. And given that I was unexcitingly conventional, it was initially hard to see how I could inspire writers to want to work with me. I couldn't give them an exotic bookshop to hang out in, or—at that point—sign up their novels and trumpet them to influential friends in the media. The only thing of value I had to offer, I decided, was my willingness to read their books closely and carefully, and to make suggestions about how those books might be improved. Thus began my attempt to teach myself to be a good editor.
Notebook # 1. Monday, October 2.
I've already been back three days. I returned to Djibouti for professional reasons, not to feast at the table of nostalgia or reopen old wounds. I'm twenty-nine, and I've just signed a contract with a North American company; my remuneration will be substantial. I must hand in the results of my investigation, which cannot fail to satisfy its gargantuan appetite: a complete file, with notes, maps, sketches, and snapshots, to be delivered to the Denver office ASAP. I have just under a week to wrap up the whole thing. I will be paid in Canadian dollars transferred to my account, based in Montreal—like me. After that, I am no longer covered by the company. It will be at my own expense. At my own risk, their legal counsel Ariel Klein repeated to me, frowning with his one long eyebrow, as bushy as Frida Kahlo's. He wished me good luck, turned on his heel and walked away. I headed to the airport with my little trapper's suitcase.
So here I am on assignment in the land of my birth, the land that would not or could not keep me. I have no talent for sadness, I admit. I don't like good-byes or returns; I hate all emotional demonstrations. The past interests me less than the future and my time is very precious. It has the color of a greenback. In the world I come from, time doesn't stretch out before you into the mist. Time is money. And money makes the world go round. Money is the stock market, with its flows of pixels, algorithms, figures, commodities, manufactured goods, rating indexes, ideas, sounds, images or simulation models that pop up on screens the world over. It is the life force of the universe, it's about killing the competition and grabbing the coveted market.
(Translated from the French by David and Nicole Ball)
At nine a.m. the few people standing around on the subway platform are watching the news on the screens provided by the Barcelona Channel. The trains comply scrupulously with the minimum-service laws. They are running half-empty and many seats are unoccupied, which would be unthinkable at this time of day any other day, when occupancy approaches that of sardines in a can.
In front of the Goya Theater, at the top of Joaquín Costa, there are fewer whores than usual. Perhaps in keeping with the minimum-service notice. The overwhelming majority of shops are closed: from supermarkets to cosmetics stores, including bakeries and auto-repair shops. On Sepúlveda a charcuterie uses the old ploy of keeping the metal gates half-open, so that if a client shows up they can serve him, but if a picketer shows up they appear to be closed. In contrast, the local bar is open, which even the strikers are grateful for. "You're very brave," one of them says to the owner of the establishment, as he drinks his beer. "It's not about bravery. If we don't work, we don't eat." On the sidewalks lie piles of uncollected garbage in enormous black bags, some of them split open. A beggar pisses on one of them, and when he's finished he lies back down on his piece of cardboard.
(Translated from the Catalan by Mary Ann Newman)
As always, it's worth checking out the whole issue . . . including the so-so review of Zone.
As we mentioned a few Fridays ago, we're going to spend the next 3 days highlighting all of the authors selected for Granta's _"Best of Young Spanish-Language Novelists" special issue. All past and future posts related to this issue can be found by clicking here.
Today we're featuring Spanish author Sonia Hernandez. Samantha Schnee translated her story "The Survivor" for this issue.
Since Samantha Schnee is one of the founding editors of Words Without Borders, and the translator of Sonia Hernandez's "The Survivor," makes this as good a post as any to point out that Words Without Borders is maybe the best place to visit for more stories from Spanish-language novelists. I'm pretty sure any and every person reading this is already familiar with their site, but in case you're not, it's worth noting that WWB is fricking awesome. Not just for their new content (a new issue comes out every month), but for their extensive archive, which becomes more and more impressive all the time as these authors move from being discovered by WWB, to getting U.S. book deals, to becoming cult and cultural phenomenons. And the WWB archive can be searched and sorted in dozens of ways, including by country.
Sonia Hernandez is featured on the Granta website where she talks about the writers she currently admires (James Joyce, Italo Svevo, Enrique Vila-Matas, Melania G. Mazzucco and Siri Hustvedt), her literary criticism, and her sort of adverse relationship to the Internet:
Do you have your own web page?
No – I find it dangerous how easy it is for writings from the personal sphere or literary gossip can become published on the Internet.
Yes, yes it is easy. And dangerous. But anywho . . .
That same link also has a very short piece by Stewart O'Nan about Hernandez's story:
"The Survivor"'s a funny story, and I don't mean just comic, something that made me laugh as I found myself agreeing with its logic, though I did that more and more the deeper I got into it, but funny in the way it's put together, that initial metaphysical heaviness – since we're talking about existence and its lack of meaning – giving way as the narrator goes from person to person like Chekhov's sadsack hack driver, trying to find someone close to him who finds his life of value, to the running cosmic joke, at once pathetic and terrifying, that he might as well have died, or perhaps not even lived (his great achievement providing affordable couches for the asses of Spain). It's a tale of dis-ease that leaves the reader chuckling uneasily. We've survived it, yes, but now we have to do something with the rest of our lives.
And to give you a taste, here's the opening:
I should have died six years ago. On 16 July 1999. That's what Dr Castro said. A medical doctor. Marisa, my wife, was with me and she stared furiously at the doctor, as if the woman said I had been dead for six years. Perhaps that's what she actually said, and I misheard her. My mind went blank. There were a few seconds of silence, like those moments of uncertainty when you awaken in someone else's bed. In a way, I was awakening to a life that wasn't mine.
Dr Castro half smiled. She's a rather unfortunate woman, physically: too skinny, a sharp nose, large but glassy eyes. News like that should come from a more attractive woman, or a man, a corpulent, taciturn physician who would leave no room for doubt. 'What I mean is that you're very fortunate,' she added. I'm very lucky, according to my physician.
After a few more instructions about my upcoming endoscopy and prescribed echocardiogram, we left her office. Marisa began to babble nervously, on the brink of a hysterical outburst, the kind she usually has when things don't go as she's planned. For a moment, I felt guilty; this vague, confusing terrain where Dr Castro had dumped me was a great inconvenience to our life together, a life which had cost us so much effort to build. I supposed that for Marisa it must have been a huge problem, not to know whether or not her husband had died, or worse, not to understand why I hadn't died according to plan on 16 July 1999.
Suddenly, I realized that the logorrhoea, the rhetoric, the flattery and the timid reproaches that poured forth from my wife upon exiting the doctor's office were nothing more than words intended to fill my mind – my immediate memory – to prevent me from dwelling on that strange diagnosis which had made me into a rebellious patient. My other memory – the mediate, or deep, or whatever it's called – was different. There the lights were still off, that sense of strangeness of a hotel bed, the descent into an abyss – they weren't melodramatic but made no sense. Marisa was livid about the doctor's lack of tact, and repeated her rather pragmatic question, 'Why on earth would she tell you that now? The accident and the operation belong to a very difficult chapter in our lives, why would she want to torment us with the possibility of what might have happened?' Few people survive an accident like the one I had and, according to Dr Castro, no one survives an operation with complications like that.
Marisa decided that after the visit with the doctor, I wasn't fit to go to the factory, so we went home and let the day run its normal course. I went to Pepe's bar for a while, spoke with the regulars and put a coin or two into the slot machine, nothing special. I thought about telling everyone what the doctor had told me, to see how they'd react, but I stopped myself because it would have legitimized the joke she made at my expense. It was later that night, as we were watching television, that I began to think about the past six years, a gift of sorts from Providence, God, science, chance or my body. I realized that the whole time, I had been living irresponsibly. It's a fact that after the operation Dr Cabrol, the surgeon, had said the situation was touch and go. And the days in the ICU were nothing but a fog, followed by a convalescence in our apartment in Altea before returning to real life in September. I went back to work against doctors' orders because at the time I was indispensable at the factory. After years of toil and misery, we had finally managed to become one of the main sofa manufacturers, and I couldn't leave everything hanging, especially after my brother Ramón had washed his hands of the business, more concerned with discovering Taoism and the truth of Zen. Returning to work was the first of my mistakes. For some strange reason, my body insisted on continuing to function; in other words, I had been given what's called a new lease on life, and I wasted it among feathers, foams and wooden frames.
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The Crimson Thread of Abandon is the first collection of short fiction available in English by the prolific Japanese writer and all-around avant-garde trickster Terayama Shūji, who died in 1983 at the age of 47. This collection would be important. . .
Last year, NYRB Classics introduced English-language readers to Catalan writer Josep Pla with Peter Bush's translation of The Gray Notebook. In that book, Pla wrote about life in Spain during an influenza outbreak soon after World War I, when. . .
"Your bile is stagnant, you see sorrow in everything, you are drenched in melancholy," my friend the doctor said.
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And you guys wonder why PvP is in such sad shape...
Gank em right away, huh...?
Think that'll ecourage a new wave of players to get into PvP?
How about, "can't wait to teach some others my mad skillz so maybe I can have decent team mates"?
"Ganking" them may make you feel good for a couple matches, but then when the victims of your mini ego boost goes back to PvE after vowing to never touch PvP again because of the behavior of his opponets don't cry on the forums about no one in the PvP qeues, OK?
Lol are you kidding man?
I got my face smashed in for 6 months straight and got no love when I started to pvp in this game.
It's called tough love people.
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(mine isn't too creative, it's just a mashup of my daughters' names)


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This is one of only two albums I have bought without first listening to them and both were just for the CD cover. I got this in 1999 or 2000 and have listened to it once. I've since lost the CD but have the case and from memory it was a dull journey into an abient wank factory. But upon my tastes relaxing a little, I've found the Adlib track on the artist's Myspace page enjoyable.
What drew me to the cover was the stark barren design. A few pixel representations of OS8 UI elements scatter the cover and the 8 page booklet. There's very little info about the album and the website of the label Kraak. The musician is Kristian Peters a German who also works under the alias Novisad which seems to be the most active alias as it has the Myspace page.
The back of the booklet is a tiny radio button.
The booklet itself seems like a waste of paper.
The back cover has some info.
The white cover reminded me of a 1998 or 1999 cover of Wired that was all white with a Braille. It stood out like dogs balls in a sea of multi coloured magazines and that's what this cover did in the record shop. It was the absence of design that made it work. Now with digital downloads being the big thing and people shopping for their music online, a cover like this vanishes into the background.
Note: I'm too young to have seen the Beatles White album in the shops :)
While searching Discogs I found this 1999 reissue which was limited to 50 copies and sent to friends as an Xmas present. It's cover is the complete opposite of the original. I wonder if there was more to it than the simple wrapping paper sleeve?
The designer for this was the founder of Kraak records and can be found on Twitter as @DaveDriesmans. For those interested I can be found on Twitter here as @100ftzombie but I don't Tweet that much about music or design.
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What was the other album you bought without listening to it first?
Icarus Squid Ink. Almost the same type of music
White Album knock off.
Nah I think that's not too valid as this has artwork on it. White's concept was nothing but band name
"BEATLES" was embossed on the sleeve. It came with four color portraits and a pull out collage posters with lyrics on the backside. I'm thinking about scanning it and submitting it. Yes, the white album is more minimalist on the sleeve but they supplemented it with all the pullouts. The comment was really based on the cover. The Beatles CDs out now do not do the original album art justice.
The White Album is next on my list. If you have a good copy I'd love to get some good scans/photos
You got it. I'll send it along as soon as I can.
I'm very happy that I've got this link from a friend. :-)
Some years ago I experimented with cheap sound software. The gui elements were actually taken from screenshots of an old unix system and not from OS 8 or earlier versions. If I recall it correctly the framework of the gui was called X Toolkit (or xtk). I don't remember the name of the sound program but it couldn't be a good one. :-)
There were two version of "adlib". The first edition was limited to 40 pieces or so and was sent out to friends of the label tom (now known as tomlab) all over the world. The cover of the second edition was almost done by myself. I sent the people of kraak some cover proposals and instead of picking one they decided the make a little booklet. That's almost the whole story.
Great to read that there are people out there that are buying cd's for their cover. My oh my… How time is changing… That was almost 10 years ago..
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Convergys Corporation (NYSE:CVG), the global leader in integrated billing, employee care, and customer care services, announced today it has won the "Best Overall Company" recognition as part of the fourth annual Billing and OSS World "Excellence Awards" at Telestrategies' Billing World 2004.
Billing World and OSS Today magazine make the Best Overall Company Excellence Award to recognize a company that has proven leadership in its respective market and has demonstrated market achievement and innovative product development. The award application required companies to list key clients, recent contract wins, and partnerships. Additionally, applicants were asked to address specific implementations and how client requirements were met, challenges and triumphs, third-party involvement, benchmarks, implementation time, and how the solution improved the clients' operations.
In its award-winning application, Convergys highlighted the successful integration of Infinys (TM), the company's modular, convergent business support system (BSS) software, with the billing systems of several industry-leading clients. Specifically, Infinys was instrumental in helping major communications companies eliminate redundant billing systems, introduce new and emerging products and services, and support customers, products, and services from a single, convergent billing system.
"Convergys continues to be a leader in the billing industry because it has been successful in not only anticipating service providers' changing needs but taking that a step further and designing products to address those needs," said Jill Lucas Morgan, Publisher and Editorial Director, Billing World & OSS Today. "With the introduction of Infinys and its subsequent wide acceptance in the marketplace, Convergys once again has proven its ability to successfully adapt to the dynamic market."
"With our deep industry knowledge and experience, Convergys is uniquely positioned as an industry leader in both billing and customer care, and this award reflects the innovation and operational excellence we continue to demonstrate in these industry segments. We thank Billing World for recognizing our efforts and awarding Convergys with this outstanding honor," said Dave Dougherty, Convergys Executive Vice President, Global Information Management. "Our development and implementations of Infinys around the world were among our greatest achievements this year and the principal reason behind us winning this Best Overall Company award. Infinys stands alone as the industry's only truly convergent BSS software, and we are confident that operators will continue to select Infinys for its ability to provide true cross-industry convergent billing, with low operator risk, and the lowest total cost of ownership in meeting their billing requirements."
Since the inaugural Telestrategies Excellence Awards were presented in 2001, Convergys has claimed top honors for best integration project (2003), best overall product (2002), and best wireless billing platform (2001).
Only Infinys software drives true convergence while enabling operators to evolve their BSS environments with minimal risk. It is built on a modular architecture that provides unsurpassed flexibility, investment protection, and support. With Infinys software, Convergys clients - ranging from mobile to wireline to cable and satellite service providers - have the capability for rapid market innovation via their bundling of convergent voice, video, and data content for their residential and business customers.
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Communist Party of India (CPI) leader Atul Anjan on Monday hit out at the BJP over its sincerity in fighting corruption.
Commenting on the Vyapam Scam in Madhya Pradesh, which has placed the BJP on the wrong foot, Anjan said, "Those who were brandishing the tag of being a votary of being honest has been found deeply involved in corruption. Madhya Pradesh chief minister's wife, including Union Water Resources Minister Uma Bharti, and other government officials and other BJP leaders role in this case have surfaced,. Former minister Sharma's arrest proves that an estimated 300 to 400 crores of corruption had taken place."
"It is they who turned away the focus of corruption from the people by fooling the people on religious issues. Now the truth has come out, neither the BJP nor the prime minister is saying anything," he added. "This scam in Madhya Pradesh proves that the relationship between corruption and BJP is very close to each other," he further added.
The Congress, has reportedly dragged Union Minister Uma Bharti's name in Madhya Pradesh's Vyavsayik Pariksha Mandal (Vyapam) admissions scam.
During a press conference, Congress spokesperson KK Mishra reportedly disclosed the call details of the central minister blaming her of using political influence for 15 admissions in government jobs. The recruitment scam had reportedly involved manipulation in the selection process for government jobs conducted by the Madhya Pradesh Professional Examination Board (MPPEB).
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A fertility institute outside Washington is studying whether the same technique can be used safely for humans. If it won approval from the Food and Drug Administration, the technology would let parents choose their baby's sex.
When the technology was first marketed widely to farmers in 2006, it represented a long-awaited breakthrough and was embraced because global milk demand was outstripping supply.
A typical Holstein herd using conventional breeding methods will produce 48 percent female offspring and 52 percent male. The male calves are usually sold for little money to be raised as meat, and the females are raised as milk producers. But the sorted sperm produces 90 percent or more female offspring, allowing farmers to expand their herds more efficiently.
The technology's impact is being felt now because of the long lag time in raising cows born of sexed semen to the point that they have calves of their own and enter milk production.
De Groot, 74, first turned to sexed semen during the long economic boom because he wanted to expand his herd.
"When the world was short of milk, we were all told, 'We need more milk!' Everybody was crying for more milk," he said in his farm office.
But his plans were interrupted by the economic crisis, which caused booming dairy exports to dry up and curbed demand at home, sending prices tumbling. At the same time, feed costs remained high, squeezing farmers from both sides.
De Groot, who has used the technology with only a portion of his livestock, estimated that he would get up to 350 additional heifers a year by using sexed semen. But he cannot expand his herd because dairy processors will not buy the extra milk.
So for the time being, as the sexed semen offspring come of age, he will put them into the herd in place of lower-producing animals. That will drive up output, though not as much as expanding the total number of cows would.
Scott Bentley, dairy product manager at ABS Global in DeForest, Wis., a major producer of sexed semen, said that in the long run, the technology should be a boon. But first, the industry has to get through its worst economic crisis in decades.
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Leading up to Saturday's trade deadline, the MLB Facts & Rumors team takes a look at the biggest names on the trade block. Wednesday examines one of the best home-run hitters in the game, Washington's Adam Dunn.
Career stats: .251/.382/.522, 339 HR, 840 RBI
2010 stats : .275/.362/.553, 23 HR, 63 RBI
Contract status: Signed a two-year, $20 million contract prior to the 2009 season with Washington. Making $12 million in 2010 and projects to be a Type-A free agent after season.
Why he's desirable
Adam Dunn can change the game with one swing as one of the most prodigious home-run hitters of the 21st century. Dunn is currently enjoying a renaissance in batting average over the last two years as well (2005-08: .245 batting average, .270 since) which makes him more attractive, although his value remains tied up in walks and home runs. He is an absolute butcher on defense, although has been minimized somewhat by a move from left field to first base.
Dunn would immediately add sock to any lineup trying to make a push for the playoffs and does so at an affordable price. Any team could also offer Dunn arbitration (and be thrilled if he picks it up). If not, they grab two top draft picks to restock their farm system with. It's rare a player comes along like Dunn who fills such a perfect need with a win/win proposition in arbitration.
Why he's available
Simply by virtue of being a free agent on a team going nowhere, Dunn has been bandied about as a trade candidate all year. Reports surfaced earlier that Dunn approached the Nats about a contract extension, but these talks have gone nowhere.
While Dunn would prefer to stay with an up-and-coming team, it seems that Washington isn't prepared to commit a four-year extension to Dunn. Just 30, the odds are that the lefty stays productive for at least a couple more years and probably longer given his "old people" skills, but it's understandable why the Nationals would be sketchy of a four-year deal. A three-year deal might be in the cards, but it's not known if Washington is interested in that scenario as well.
There is no first-base prospect banging on the door, although the Nats may be gearing up for a big financial payout to Prince Fielder or Adrian Gonzalez after 2011.
Who is interested
The fact that Dunn is anti-DH hasn't stopped AL clubs from taking a look at the slugger. The White Sox have been hot to trot after Dunn for a while, at one point reportedly making their entire farm system available for him -- and the Nats weren't biting. You can bet GM Kenny Williams will do everything he can to integrate Dunn into the fold. There is a ready-made DH position for him to get at-bats in a ballpark that is a dream for home-run hitters.
The Yankees have also been linked to Dunn, who would pepper the right-field bleachers like nobody's business. The Rays have also checked into Dunn, who could really use his pop at DH as they scramble to keep pace with the Yankees. The Angels are seeking an upgrade, although the loss of Joel Pineiro for over a month may have adjusted their thinking on a contention window. The Giants are also hot after Dunn and may have a leg up on the competition both due to losing out on Scott Podsednik (although one argues that may be a good thing) and the appeal of being a NL team.
The problem here is that Dunn is anti-DH. He does not want to DH, and there are questions around just how happy and productive he would be as a DH. Fortunately for Dunn, as an impending free agent, he can control his future after the year. For the next two months, Dunn can just deal with being the DH, and the high probability of playing in October might adjust his thinking -- Dunn's only taste of contention came when he was dealt to Arizona in 2008.
The D-Backs finished two games behind the Dodgers. Back then, Dunn said he truly enjoyed playing meaningful baseball down the stretch, although he then found himself frozen out of the free-agent market and joining a down-and-out team like Washington.
The Rangers, Rockies and Tigers have also been connected to the lefty.
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Nats GM Mike Rizzo has reportedly attached a high price to Dunn, considering Dunn just as good as Ryan Howard. (And he's not far off the mark when talking just offense.) He proposed swapping Dunn to the White Sox for Gordon Beckham, something the ChiSox rejected out of hand, telling Beckham he would not be traded.
The Nats came back with an offer of Daniel Hudson along with a prospect -- either Jordan Danks, Tyler Flowers or Brent Morel says Bruce Levine of ESPN Chicago. The Nationals might be able to make the White Sox blink as the trade deadline approaches and make a swap, but it would be a tough pill to swallow. Many in the game believe Rizzo's demands will dwindle the closer the deadline is.
No names have been considered from the Yankees' end, although it wouldn't be a surprise if the Nationals asked for Ivan Nova, a similar quality pitcher to Hudson -- young and breaking into the majors. The Rays likely won't deal Jeremy Hellickson for Dunn, but Jacob McGee is a possibility.
What happens
It would be a disservice to the Nationals' future for Dunn to stay in town. Staying in town has no bearing on any possible contract extension with Washington, in addition to the fact the Nats are going nowhere. The quality of prospects being discussed for Dunn means that, at the very least, Washington should get a solid building block for the future. Washington needs to think of an actual contention window of 2012-2015, and the player acquired for Dunn has a far better chance of having an impact in those years.
The guess is that the White Sox will send Hudson along with a prospect slightly below the tier of Danks/Flowers/Morel for Dunn. Dunn won't be pleased about DHing, but will do his job, try to get Chicago into October, then run back to the NL in the offseason.
More trade deadline targets -- Jorge Cantu (trade profile ) | Scott Downs (trade profile ) | Roy Oswalt (trade profile )
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