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Critical Essay by Herb Weil
SOURCE: "From 'Dying for Love' to 'Mrs. Turner': Narrative Control in Stories by Carol Shields," in Contemporary Manitoba Writers: New Critical Studies, edited by Kenneth James Hughes, Turnstone Press, 1990, pp. 163-76.
In the essay below, Weil considers structure and narration in Shields's short stories.
My first thought this morning is for Beth, how on earth she'll cope now that Ted's left her for the dancer Charlotte Brown. I ask myself, what resources does a woman like Beth have, emotional resources? ("Dying," Made)
These two sentences begin Carol Shields' "Dying for Love," a story that has been reprinted twice within a year of its original publication (1989). After the first paragraph, the story-teller (perhaps better conceived as what we used to call "the implied author") unobtrusively vanishes—or at least does not explicitly refer to herself until the final paragraphs of the first segment:
Despite my uneasiness about Beth's ability to cope emotionally, and despite her insomnia, she somehow manages to get up most mornings….
Beth … wonders what would happen if she took all twelve pills plus the gin. She doesn't know. I don't know either.
This section is the first of three segments in the story. Each is devoted to one woman who may be in danger of dying (because of love or the absence of love). After we learn that Beth empties the gin down the sink and grinds the pills down the garburator, the first segment concludes, "Life is a thing to be cherished, she thinks, and this thought, slender as a handrail, gets her through one more night." Does this last line involve the narrator more intimately than does traditional omniscience? Unnamed, she presents explicitly only feelings, attitudes, and especially worries that are directly relevant to her characters and their situations. (Different readers will quite appropriately weigh differently phrases, rhythms, tones that suggest the technique of leaving insecure any distinctions between teller and creator.) How important is it that Beth and Ted have no last names while Charlotte does? Do all readers sense that the speaker in the second paragraph, partly by revealing intimate details, is constructing the characters?
Habits accrue in that time, especially habits of the night when bodies and their routines get driven into hard rituals of washed skin…. Beth curls, but sinuously; her backbone makes a long smiling capital C on the bedsheet, or used to, before Ted told her he was leaving her for Charlotte.
Within this brief story, and in most of her work, Shields creates a wide variety of relations between narrator and characters, situations, actions; between narrator and "implied author"; between each of these and her readers. Often we feel less encouraged to treat the events as if they had happened to the author than we do in other overtly "confessional" fiction, as, for example, by Alice Munro. Nor do we find here the "conspicuously" artificial sub-genre of alleged autobiography—at least in the literal sense best typified by Machado de Assis in which the speaker (after his own death) tells his story, or more typically, when the narrator is of a gender or an age, or lives in a time, that we know cannot be that of the author. In "Dying for Love" most readers will recognize a very self-conscious narrator, playing with some of the tones implied by her title. How strongly does "dying for" resonate of trite clichés, of transitory pleasures? Do these overtones make it far-fetched to take the phrase literally? Why then does "dying for" rather than "love" dominate in creating the tone?
As we read the story, how convincing are the threats that the cliché-sense will turn into actual death because of what the character, at least, continues to feel is love? But does the narrator feel it as love? Does the author? The second segment begins, "But then there's Lizzie in Somerset; my fears for Lizzie grow day by day. Her predicament is clear and so is her fate, although I would do anything, or almost anything, to assist her in the avoidance of that fate." Then the narrator again disappears. Four pages later, in the closing lines of this segment, she returns.
Who can tell.
One of the advantages in my relationship with Lizzie is my freedom to discard those possibilities she can't yet imagine. All she understands is that both love and the lack of love can be supported.
From the vagueness or false precision of "almost anything" the narrator advances with her character to the finely tuned tone of this final sentence that blends calculation and self-reassurance.
The final, shortest segment begins, "Elsewhere, nearer home, a woman named Elizabeth is lying on her bed in the middle of the afternoon with a plastic dry-cleaner's bag drawn up over her face…." How important for the reader is the change to the overt absence of the "I" from this sequence until the very last sentence of the story? Surely the first three words of this segment remind any alert reader of her presence. But how firm is the pressure? Need the good reader make much of this? Or of the apparently gratuitous "named"?
The segment and the story end in two long sentences. The first presents the apparently factual—if emotionally loaded—statement, "She is a woman whose life is crowded with not-unpleasant errands…." How decisive should we consider the change of tone with the return of the author in the final sentence?
Not that this is much of a handrail to hang on to—she knows that, and so do I—but it is at least continuous, solid, reliable in its turnings and better than no hand-rail at all.
Shields encourages many different responses: of hope, of worry, of emphasis upon strengths or upon fragility. In this final sentence, for the first time, the "I" knows precisely what the character knows. The story has moved from an extremely nervous series of questions about another person, allegedly external, with whom the "I" feels strong empathy: "The nights will be terrible for her, I'm sure of that…." Does the possible sense that the narrator (as well as the actual author) may have created the characters make her detachment much less? And consequently her handrail much more fragile? We sense here an implied author in a well-controlled but insecure relation to the narrator she has created.
In vivid contrast to Beth, Lizzie, and Elizabeth is the focal character in "Mrs. Turner Cutting the Grass." Few would be less likely to die for love. Unlike the three distinct "heroines" who share variants of the same first name but receive no other, Mrs. Turner seems at first to be captured in that title of address. Not until the third page, after our sense of her has been well established, do we learn that the high school girls on their way home
are ignorant of that fact … that she, Mrs. Turner, possesses a first name—which is Geraldine.
Not that she's ever been called Geraldine. Where she grew up in Boissevain, Manitoba, she was known always—the Lord knows why—as Girlie Fergus….
This story, a frequently anthologized prize-winner and favourite of many of Shields' readers, begins:
Oh, Mrs. Turner is a sight cutting the grass on a hot afternoon in June! She climbs into an ancient pair of shorts and ties on her halter top and wedges her feet into crepe-soled sandals and covers her red-gray frizz with Gord's old golf cap—Gord is dead now, ten years ago, a seizure on a Saturday night while winding the mantel clock.
At first, this story seems more conventional and familiar than much of the author's recent work. The tone of these first statements seems detached, the unnamed and undescribed narrator hardly sympathetic to her[?] subject. We assume that we are in the world of satire, perhaps of broad comedy (with the temporal jump between sentences), as the story races along with the unencumbered mower:
The grass flies up around Mrs. Turner's knees. Why doesn't she use a catcher …[?] Everyone knows that leaving the clippings like that is bad for the lawn….
… [And worse] Roy is far more concerned about the Killex that Mrs. Turner dumps on her dandelions….
… But he and Sally so far have said nothing to Mrs. Turner about her abuse of the planet because they're hoping she'll go into an old-folks home soon or maybe die, and then all will proceed as it should.
High-school girls on their way home … are mildly, momentarily repelled by the lapped, striated flesh on her upper thighs….
The things Mrs. Turner doesn't know would fill the Saschers' new compost pit, would sink a ship, would set off a tidal wave…. Back and forth, back and forth she goes with the electric lawn mower, the grass flying out sideways like whiskers. Oh, the things she doesn't know!
Smoothly, almost glibly, convincingly, the things Mrs. Turner does not know—not just about grass clippings but about Neil Young, cellulite, "the vocabulary of skin care," the concerns of the chorus of neighbours, and apparently of the narrator—give way to facts that the passing girls and the young parents do not know. Sharply in mid-sentence, the story turns. Until its final paragraph, roughly four-fifths of the story tells us about matters that the girls and the young married couple next door would want to know, but do not even suspect. And finally we learn, too, about the fame of Girlie Fergus, a public persona that she herself does not imagine.
Let us return to look more closely at the major shift in mid-sentence from the "present tense" of an old lady cutting the grass, an old lady so ignorant of facts about contemporary life that she does not even seem to inhabit the same psychological world as any of the unsympathizing characters mentioned. When the narrator moves from the chatty, relaxed, somewhat superior present tense that confidently invites readers to share the story-teller's views, we find the author there waiting to be noticed. There is nothing insistent. Shields gives us a life story that few could have predicted, but which includes only what could well have happened. With the greatest tact, the author creates a past that seems far-fetched but possible. She encourages a range of interpretation: many readers will skim happily along assuming a simple mimetic narrative. Others will feel more aware of an author neatly constructing people and events. The story will work well for both sorts of audience.
In the next paragraph, we quickly learn that Girlie was "the one who got herself in hot water…. Girlie got caught one night—she was nineteen—in a Boissevain hotel room with a local farmer, married, named Gus MacGregor." By the next paragraph Girlie has escaped, sneaking out to catch a bus to Winnipeg, another to Minneapolis, to Chicago, to New York City. However wretched the journey, New York is "immense and wonderful." She loves her job as usherette at the Movie Palace in Brooklyn, quickly moves in with "a man named Kiki…. His skin was as black as ebony…. [She has a baby] boy, rather sweetly formed, with wonderful smooth feet and hands." Deserted by Kiki, she leaves her baby in a beautiful carriage on the porch of a house that "she particularly liked…. She has no idea what happened to Kiki … [or] to her son," but she doesn't worry much. She returns home a year later. Frighteningly embraced and accepted by her family, she quickly leaves to marry "a tonguetied man … who loved every inch of his house…. And he loved every inch of his wife, Girlie, too, saying to her once and only once that he knew about her past … and that as far as he was concerned the slate had been wiped clean." In the single brilliant fast-paced paragraph devoted to this marriage, we learn too of the one time on a passionate picnic when he worshipped Girlie, or at least her body. We barely have time to wonder whether it matters that his sense of knowing all about the past stops at Boissevain. What would he think about New York? What should we?
After Gordon Turner dies, Girlie and her two sisters travel. To Disneyland, to seven countries of Europe, to New Orleans, to Mexico; finally, "three years ago they did what they swore they'd never have the nerve to do: they got on an airplane and went to Japan." This trip and one of its "results," a book of poems, receive the most extensive treatment in the story. Another tourist in the group, the "Professor," a bald, "trim," unsuccessful poet, almost continuously jotting, after his return publishes "a solid little book" which becomes very popular. The favourite poem, always demanded in readings, is his "A Day at the Golden Pavilion":
[It] was not really about the Golden Pavilion [in Kyoto] at all, but about three midwestern lady tourists who … had talked incessantly and in loud, flatbottomed voices about … indigestion, sore feet, breast lumps … who back home in Manitoba should receive a postcard…. They were the three furies … who for vulgarity and tastelessness formed a shattering counterpoint to the Professor's own state of transcendence….
One of the sisters … particularly stirred his contempt, she of the pink pantsuit, the red toenails, the grapefruity buttocks….
Always this reading evokes laughter and self-satisfied applause from the students who know "the irreconcilable distance between taste and banality."
Again in mid-paragraph the narrator steps in and corrects her last statement. A new distance combines with a new strong commitment: "Or perhaps that's too harsh; perhaps it's only the difference between those who know about the world and those who don't." Here the distance, strongly reinforced by the assertion that begins the next paragraph—"It's true Mrs. Turner remembers little about her travels…. What does it matter? She's having a grand time"—suggests a range of legitimate responses for the readers in deciding the stance and tones of the implied author. The irony toward the youths who already know so much about taste and banality at first offers a range of tones for the implied voice. The revision, "that's too harsh," even modulated by "perhaps," forecloses possibilities, ensuring that with more acute precision we see through the smug students and even more through the self-satisfied poet. (Even Gus MacGregor had received a name—if no physical, social, or other description.)
The three concluding paragraphs return us to the present, primarily in Winnipeg, with an explicit yoking of celebration and irony: "Her sisters have long forgotten about her wild days." To the Local History Museum, Em has donated her father's pipe, her mother's wedding veil, and "a white cotton garment labeled 'Girlie Fergus' Underdrawers….' If Mrs. Turner knew the word irony she would relish this. Even without knowing the word irony, she relishes it." This past and her "fame" contrast vividly with the way in which the poem brought her, however nameless, into the consciousness of so many audiences. With careful vagueness, the narrator leaves the patronizing professor who has won "an important international award" and who has sold rights to "a number of foreign publishers." Circling to the first six paragraphs, the final one returns to Mrs. Turner. But now, we see things only through her vision—and that created by the narrator—never through that of the high school girls or the neighbours, or, in another world, of the college students. Mrs. Turner waves to the girls (who have become timid), "she hollers hello to Sally and Roy…." And finally, the narrator makes overt the vision she shares with her heroine, a vision that Mrs. Turner could never come close to formulating: "She cannot imagine that anyone would wish her harm. All she's done is live her life." Mrs. Turner would never make such claims, but she would no doubt feel pleased, if embarrassed, should she read this description (so unlike the crude ungenerous satiric poem). Only now does the author dare to conclude, with symbolic images and finally with her first explicit celebration: "The green grass flies up in the air, a buoyant cloud swirling about her head. Oh, what a sight is Mrs. Turner cutting her grass and how, like an ornament, she shines."
The author has chosen a subject and created for her a biography that very few of her readers are likely at first to find appealing. She leaves open crucial questions. How can the deserted child, the devoted husband be so quickly dropped? But her movement from satire and irony to the final praise permits her to lead her reader (as Jane Austen did with Emma and Mrs. Bates) away from participating in the narrow-minded alleged superiority of characters early in the story. That we accept as well the contrasting didactic style which the ending incorporates and transforms suggests how skillfully the narrator has earned our trust.
"Mrs. Turner Cutting the Grass" and "Dying for Love" succeed, I think, for most readers, both those who focus upon the strategies of the implied author and those more casual (say, for example, readers sympathetic and alert, but not studying the stories or, at least, not these aspects of the stories). If one attends to the careful timing and tones of authorial control one should have a richer, more complex appreciation, but those only intermittently aware of this craft need never feel excluded from the audience addressed. Two other stories in Various Miracles, however, make, in their very distinct ways, much more explicit demands upon their readers. The brief title story ["Various Miracles"] (placed first, just before "Mrs. Turner") immediately confronts the reader with the presence of a strongly manipulating author. Even the title, like that of the earlier novel, Small Ceremonies, links a vague or weak initial adjective that normally would not arouse any special interest with a stronger noun which has overtones (or at least distant memories) of religion. The nouns have a formality usually denied by the adjectives, and this makes us aware of a creator intentionally starting with the weaker word.
The initial terse paragraph, both casual and authoritative, establishes the tone: "Several of the miracles that occurred this year have gone unrecorded." Each of the six "miracles" begins with a date and an almost identical form of presentation, although after two very brief miracles, each new one receives a longer description. The first sets the pattern: "Example: On the morning of January 3, seven women stood in line at a lingerie sale in Palo Alto, California, and by chance each of these women bore the Christian name Emily." While some readers will think more of coincidence than of miracles, others will stress the way, perhaps arbitrarily, that the "author" (for the narrator never receives distinguishing traits or past experiences and never explicitly refers to her[?]self) creates and arranges the examples. But the third miracle (dropping "Example") adds a different order of reality.
On March 30 a lathe operator in a Moroccan mountain village dreamed that a lemon fell from a tree into his open mouth, causing him to choke and die. He opened his eyes, overjoyed at being still alive, and embraced his wife … she was dreaming … that a lemon tree had taken root in her stomach … she began to tremble … with happiness and intoxication … her face radiant. What he saw was a mask of happiness so intense it made him fear for his life.
By now, the earlier convincing mimetic realism may seem to have become completely irrelevant. The "miracles" lie in the power of the creator's imagination and skill. To refuse (or fail) to delight in this exultant artifice would leave the reader incapable of enjoying this story.
Particularly deft in expressing another completely different relation of story-teller to material is the much more extended "Dolls, Dolls, Dolls, Dolls." Starting with a long unquoted letter she has received from a friend who was visiting a doll factory in Japan, the narrator then recalls how she herself was given one doll every year until she was ten. She goes on to describe a visit in the suburbs of Paris to "one of the finest archeological museums in Europe" where her daughter insists that the pre-Christian icons might be dolls. The story-teller feels "sick with sudden inexplicable anger" when her husband tries to correct the child, but then immensely relieved when he shrugs, smiles, and says, "'You might be right. Who knows'." The fourth section, corresponding to the final repetition in the title, presents a story in itself as the speaker and her sister share both recollections and a strange forgetfulness about their childhood. These lead the speaker to remember the terrible murder of a little girl, "ten years old, my age" and especially her own horrible fears and attempts to cope with them for the rest of that summer. A battered old doll, Nancy Lynn, "protects" her, although "I knew she was lifeless…. Human love, I saw, could not always be relied upon. There would be times when I would have to settle for a kind of parallel love."
In this vivid story, close to a meditation, Shields presents us with nothing that could not be factually or autobiographically true. In this example of an increasingly widespread subgenre, she achieves a brilliant success, comparable to the best stories of the unheralded master, James McConkey. The work can be considered as memoir, as autobiography, or as fiction. But unlike the stories of McConkey or the gripping monologue No Place Like Home by Shane McCabe (the outstanding critical and popular favourite at the 1990 Winnipeg Fringe Festival), "Dolls" would be in no way diminished if its facts were no more literally true than those of "Mrs. Turner" or of "Dying for Love." Shields achieves here a convincing effect of autobiographic truth in which we never go outside the thoughts and the memories set off in the extremely credible narrator, who might well be the author. We read the story as if its events and feelings were true.
To discuss the oeuvre of Carol Shields in mid-career would require consideration not only of her 11 books, including novels, stories, poems, and a play, but also of her uncollected reviews. Instead, by focusing upon four stories—especially through extensive quotations—we can see how central to her work is the range of tones rather than of subject matter or of location. We can often hear an effective speaking voice, especially in its needling humour. We always find carefully crafted comments upon characters and their situations, but how often do we consider these apart from our awareness of their construction? When her command of various tones results in our immediate assent, we will often subsequently find how our noticing the artifice increases the vividness and the resonance of the scene. Readers may well differ in deciding whether the word "miracle" should apply to extreme coincidence or to the comeback of a losing player or to the creation suddenly bursting out from unpromising material. But we should all share the delight, as we read, when, contrasting the initial description of Mrs. Turner's attire, we discover the exquisite tact of the final sentence in the story: "Oh, what a sight is Mrs. Turner cutting her grass, and how, like an ornament, she shines."
Running as sub-texts through this essay have been the varying relations of reader-response theory to the narrator and to the author. More overt have been the relations of the implied author (sometimes the "I") to the characters, the ideas they embody or express, and the events of the stories. Some of Shields' more intriguing resonances come if we now attend consciously to a sequence of relations leading from those internal ones we have discussed to those of the work to the reader. In "Mrs. Turner," for example, as we have seen, the reader is engaged from the first lines in a wide variety of ways. But the reader's retrospective engagement will prove quite unlike his/her initial response. At first, most of us may well share the views of the teen-age girls, the selfish ecologically minded neighbours, or the poem about Mrs. Turner—however little we may identify with those characters in other respects. By the end of the story, most of us will agree that Mrs. Turner is an ornament, for Shields has transformed this initially unattractive character through a final vision without mockery or condescension.
Some will not want to stop at this closure. Isn't the poet, especially, treated with mockery and condescension? However important or unimportant one feels one's answer is to this last question, readers of Carol Shields may suspect that she is—or was—prepared to write other stories about these other characters she has created—so that in the vision of the whole, mockery and condescension give way to compassion and celebration.
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Man accused of critically injuring former Naples standout enters not guilty plea
The alleged assailant of Naples High baseball standout Taylor Hashman entered a not guilty plea to misdemeanor assault charges Wednesday during an arraignment at the Oxford Municipal Courthouse in Mississippi. A July 20 trial date has been set.
The plea comes nine months after the attack that left Hashman, a former Ole Miss baseball player, in a coma after being punched and falling to the ground. Johnny Beasley, the accused attacker and University of Mississippi cheerleader, has continued with his sophomore year and cheerleading activities at Ole Miss.
"I just want it to be over with," Hashman said during a phone interview with the Daily News. "Now I've got to wait and come back (to Oxford) again."
After the July 31 attack, Hashman underwent intense rehabilitation and has, in his own words, fully recovered from the attack. Back out on the diamond, Hashman¹s been working out at the Ole Miss facilities to get in shape for a chance to play baseball again.
On May 2, he'll travel to Florence, Ky., where he'll tryout for the Frontier League, an independent minor league.
"I'll come back and testify everything I know, but the main person to testify will be the witness who saw everything go down," he said. "I don't really remember getting hit or slamming my head into the ground."
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Public Accountants in the United States can expect wages of $54K per year on average. In the world of Public Accountants, overall income ranges from $41K near the bottom to $86K at the top; this can include more than $10K from bonuses and more than $7K from profit sharing in exceptional cases. Men make up the majority of Public Accountants (65 percent) survey respondents. Work is enjoyable for Public Accountants, who typically claim high levels of job satisfaction. A fair number enjoy medical while a little more than half get dental coverage. Vision coverage is also available to more than two-fifths. The data in this summary comes from the PayScale salary survey.
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Survey results show that Public Accountants typically report just a few professional skills. Tax Preparation and Auditing are considered valuable skills and can increase employee pay. Skills that are correlated to lower pay, on the other hand, include Auditing. Auditing and Tax Preparation are correlating skills — those who know the former usually know the latter.
Median of all compensation (including tips, bonus, and overtime) by years of experience.
The average inexperienced worker earns $51K, and someone who has worked for five to 10 years can expect a bigger median salary of $64K. After working for 10 to 20 years, Public Accountants make a median salary of $48K. Seasoned workers who boast more than two decades of relevant experience enjoy a median salary of $62K, which is substantially larger than the medians reported by folks with fewer years on their resumes.
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Twitter's Response to Apple's iPhone 5 Announcement
Another Apple event has come and gone, and Twitter has had its chance to weigh in on what Tim Cook and the rest of Apple's senior management announced. Unlike the Amazon event, which was favorably received, the response to today's announcements have been tepid at best. Twitter being Twitter, most chose to either Tweet what was announced or crack a joke. As we pour one out for iTunes, bask in Twitter's collective humor below.
I was hoping #Apple would replace Siri with Morgan Freeman on the iPhone 5
— Ryan Armentrout (@ryaninco) September 12, 2012
Tim Cook walks out completely naked. "Let's talk about some things getting longer."
— Matt Alexander (@mattalexand) September 12, 2012
Breaking News: AT&T announces new #Apple iPhone 5 will in fact make and receive phone calls.
— Jeff Barrett (@BarrettAll) September 12, 2012
EarPods. Wow. After 3 years of design you'd think they'd have a better name for it. #apple
— Timothy Whalin (@TimothyWhalin) September 12, 2012
Siri, why is my heart filled with dread?
— Nathan Pensky (@Nathan_Pensky) September 12, 2012
Other than no iMacs, were any of the rumors *wrong*? It was like the whole internet had the run sheet for today's event.
— Shawn Blanc (@shawnblanc) September 12, 2012
If the Nano gets smaller it's just going to be a song that gets stuck in your head.
— Justin McElroy (@JustinMcElroy) September 12, 2012
So, the nano is a touch iPod, but it's not an iPod touch. Got it.
— felix salmon (@felixsalmon) September 12, 2012
Just once I'd like an Apple exec to say, "These aren't the best we've done. They're pretty good. But the ones before were better."
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a shirtless jony ive: "this is the finest product with the tightest fit and finish I've ever designed." stands up, flexes.
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Example sentences for opt
If you choose to opt in, information about all your purchases is made available to your friends.
Imagine if every company you had never done business with required you to opt out of their junk mailings.
When climbers opt to climb without a rope, they lose the luxury of learning from mistakes.
Others tend to see more similarities between fossils and opt for trees with fewer offshoots.
If you do opt for an eco-friendly paint, use a matching primer.
Users can opt out of receiving these sorts of ads by clicking on an icon on the banner.
They will opt to placate or to challenge a questioner.
Automatic enrolment puts the onus on the worker to opt out rather than to opt in.
For an even more remote experience, opt for one of the eight secluded cottages that dot the property.
The theory goes that, if the toll is high enough, some drivers will cancel their trips or opt for the bus or rails.
One of the reasons many opt for wood-burning features is concern about global climate change.
Canceling customers must opt out of the continued surveillance monitoring program, according to the privacy policy.
Certainly true, and students with low levels of computer literacy will simply opt for other modes of learning.
To escape the sun on a hot summer day, opt for a waterfall hike instead.
Other people should be able to opt out without penalty.
University libraries should opt out of the e-book market until it conforms itself to the values, needs, and wallets of academe.
He is determined to abolish the right of some defendants to opt for a trial by jury.
Some are independent by nature and opt to live on their own in countryside cells.
Too many people are not truly capable of loving others, but opt instead to cling to someone as a quick cure for insecurity.
Users have the option to either edit their profiles or opt out entirely.
Previously, corporate customers had to opt in to enable the banking group to share client information.
Admission is free, and you can opt to buy a lottery ticket to win a recording of the concert from the week before.
Then voluntarily opt out of using the new technology once it becomes convenient to use.
If there is no long-term visibility for that position, any well-managed company will opt for a contractor.
As an organization, the garden may opt to purchase or obtain a long-term lease of the land.
The legal system determines who is violent, and prisoners opt in or not, entirely voluntary.
It was left to users to figure out how to opt in for extra security.
Instead, it will opt for a government to spend to its perceived needs, which may of course change with the mood of the electorate.
Most people book safaris with a private guide, but some opt for a group experience.
Customers may be able to opt out if they value speed above price.
Users will also be able to opt out from being targeted by ads that rely on their profiles.
What it means in practice is that some countries opt for projects of closer integration that others prefer to avoid.
If you prefer it short, opt for a miniskirt instead.
Hospital surgeries reduce the infection rate, but many boys opt for the old rite.
High-volume users of voice will either have to opt for a more expensive monthly plan or switch to a regular phone contract.
We've decided to wait out the rush, to opt for an attempt a few days later in slightly higher winds.
The question they wanted to answer is why people opt for bigger serving sizes.
Rarely will you get a heavy downpour, which is why many locals opt to forgo the umbrella and wear a hooded rain jacket instead.
Opt for refillable pens made from recycled plastic or biodegradable plastic created from corn starch.
If you have a smaller head, you may want to opt for something different or plan on wearing a hat under it.
So a consumer could opt to get their power from a company taking part in such a partnership.
Try to avoid business travel, opt for remote meetings and teleconferences instead.
Authors and publishers could opt out of the program.
Rather than codifying an opt-in principle, the charter should make it easier for people to opt out of online mapping services.
But it will allow extra technical freedom to the teams that opt for it.
The lesson here, as with all social data sharing, is that you shouldn't opt in unless you fully understand the consequences.
We're updating our privacy policy to make these new features possible, and you're able to opt out.
As for mobile marketing, he says, consumers are always asked if they want to opt in to ads related to their cellphone location.
Huck's decision to opt out lessens that advantage somewhat.
Publishers and authors can opt out of the programme.
Opt for the east shore for a spectacular sunset view, the west shore to imbibe some morning sun with your coffee.
Many folks opt for the latter for financial reasons.
We can opt for a little of both the familiar and the new.
Or you can opt for the adapters, which twist in and accept a regular plug.
They opt out of state funding and get private firms to secure their ventures.
During the third trimester or summer students may opt for an exchange placement.
As incomes rise, more shoppers will opt to drive to large, air-conditioned stores and load up on groceries.
If you're tired or hung over you can opt for a day downtown in a museum.
They strongly prefer somebody who would opt to not buy out.
To many opponents vaccination feels involuntary though there are opt outs.
Authors could opt to post drafts of their articles online, open them up for anyone to comment on, and then revise accordingly.
Make no mistake, there are trade-offs when you opt-in and use free tools.
To replicate itself, it has to infiltrate your cells and co-opt their machinery.
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The business plan led to a second misstep, because it included a dubious opt-out clause.
People can opt out, but they have to pay toward a fund.
After all, they can always co-opt the alternatives if the alternatives begin to cut into market share.
Even telephone contact with a center counselor helps people to overcome the crisis and opt for life.
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Some doctors opt for treatment and others opt for simply monitoring patients.
That's the same deadline for authors and publishers to decide to opt out or oppose the settlement.
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The first is an opt-out from social and employment legislation.
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Most bacteria opt for an easy life breaking down organic material that is already dead.
Religious and aristocratic elites first tried to stop, then control, then co-opt the new medium.
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Otherwise, you can opt to purchase individual train tickets at the train station.
The rule allows anyone working in health care to opt out of providing care or services they oppose on moral or religious grounds.
Health care professionals can opt to work in a variety of settings and shifts.
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There is also a box at the bottom of the list to opt out of such mailings.
Members don't need to opt-out because the product is opt-in.
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HARRISBURG, Ill. - A Harrisburg, Ill., man arrested for the sexual assault of a Saline County woman last September has been sentenced to 25 years in prison.
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ClassicsOnline Home » BEETHOVEN, L. van: Symphony No. 3, "Eroica" / Leonore Overtures Nos. 1, 3 (Philharmonia Orchestra, Klemperer) (1954-1955)
Otto Klemperer's complex artistry combined a remarkable understanding of architectural structure, a loving attention to detail and immense subtlety. Nowhere was this more evident than in his authoritative and compellingly lucid readings of Beethoven's music. This 1955 Eroica is a notable example, the young but fully seasoned Philharmonia Orchestra responding superbly to Klemperer's weighty and deliberate conception, which is yet rhythmically buoyant and filled with dynamic contrast. The highlight of this recording is the second movement Funeral March, solemn, tender and noble, whose universal pathos never lapses into sentimentality.
By Brian Wilson
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By David Denton
Recorded by Otto Klemperer and the Philharmonia at the peak of their combined power, their 1955 performance remains my unqualified recommendation as the finest and most logically conceived account of the 'Eroica' on disc. The pure drama—that almost overloaded the original Columbia LP pressing—came from his wide dynamic range and tempos that were urgent but never rushed. Throughout there is that craggy feel you have when Klemperer was at his most inspired, as if he were fashioning the work from rough hewn granite. The second movement Funeral March moves at a pace of dignity and avoids sentimentality, while the spacious scherzo has the benefit of gorgeous horn playing, presumable lead by the legendary Dennis Brain. There is the questionable decision to omit the first movement repeat that today is taken for granted, but at the time was often ignored. The interpretations of two Leonora overtures, which featured on an LP recorded in 1954, are at times rather hard driven, though the spacious introduction to the third overture sets the scene for the lyric aspects that are to follow. By comparison with the symphony, the orchestral playing is at times a little rough around the edges, though exciting at the appropriate moments. The disc's information would suggest that the symphony was taken from 1956 pressings, though on checking my pressings it sounds more akin to the subsequent reissue when some of the 'bite' in the original release had been smoothed. It is an immaculate transfer, the two Leonore overtures a distinct improvement on my LP.
Great Conductors: Otto Klemperer (1885–1973)
BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 3 • Leonore Overtures Nos. 1 and 3
The German conductor and composer Otto Klemperer, whose wish was to be remembered more for the latter of those musical activities, was born in Breslau on 14 May 1885. He studied in Frankfurt and Berlin. Amongst those who encouraged him was Gustav Mahler, whom Klemperer had met in 1905 when conducting the offstage band in the former's Resurrection Symphony. In 1907 Klemperer became conductor of the German Opera in Prague, thanks to Mahler's recommendation. During his early career he undertook numerous appointments and it was in 1927 (some recordings from this period are available on 8.111274) that his activities peaked when he became conductor of the Kroll Opera in Berlin. There he performed then-new pieces by Hindemith, Janáček, Schoenberg and Stravinsky. In 1933, when the Nazi Party was gathering pace, Klemperer, a Jew who converted to Catholicism and then returned to Judaism, went to the United States: in that year he became conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, an appointment he held until 1939.
Klemperer died on 6 July 1973 at the age of 88 and perhaps the picture of him that most easily comes to mind is of an old man sitting to conduct and appearing uncertain of gesture and even of the occasion—such images being captured on film towards the end of his life when he was conducting Beethoven symphonies with the New Philharmonia Orchestra in London and adopting tempos that were slower than usual. Recorded fifteen or so years earlier, the Beethoven performances on this release find Klemperer at his powerful best; spacious, yes, but with a purpose and thrust that not only give the music its own space but also propose a clear sense of objective and absolute architectural surety.
Although 'slow tempos' were a significant characteristic of Klemperer's final years, as heard in some recordings, for example in his final recording of Beethoven's Symphony No. 7 and Bruckner's Symphony No. 8, and, perhaps most notoriously, in his slow-motion version of Mahler's Symphony No. 7, which lasts all of a hundred minutes, compared with a usual average duration of about 75, the word 'stoical' perhaps best sums up Klemperer's attitude to life—both as a man and as a musician—and there are few works more indomitable in spirit than Beethoven's Eroica Symphony. Further evidence of Klemperer's steadfastness was that he seemed 'charmed' against his penchant for being accident-prone (on one occasion he set fire to the bed that he was smoking in) and endured numerous illnesses (not least part-paralysis) until he reached a ripe old age and remained conducting until more or less the end of his life.
Such an unflinching attitude also informs Klemperer's 'style' as a conductor. He was a master structuralist, seeing a work's end in its beginning, and while it is reported that the younger Klemperer could be a firebrand and a towering figure on the podium (as well as being erratic off it), galvanising his performers with electric gestures, he was always focussed on the music, its construction and direction, and not interested, indeed antipathetic to, creating a particular sound; with Klemperer what you hear is what is written on the page, an unvarnished recreation of a composer's notation. In his earlier days Klemperer could set fizzing tempos, but the logic of his music-making was always a given, a sense of proportion and consistency being omnipresent in his conducting, whether in Brahms's First Symphony, recorded in 1927 and 1928, yet appearing made as a one-off performance rather than recorded on five different days over a period of six months, or in the unswerving logic of his conducting of this Eroica.
Klemperer was closely associated with the London-based Philharmonia Orchestra, first conducting it in 1951, becoming Principal Conductor in 1959 and retaining ties until shortly before his death. A large catalogue of recordings ensued for EMI, mostly produced by Walter Legge, the impresario who had formed the Philharmonia Orchestra in 1945, and inevitably of the Austro-German classics that Klemperer was particularly associated with. The Eroica is a notable example of Klemperer conducting Beethoven, the then-juvenile but fully seasoned Philharmonia Orchestra responding with a European sensibility to the gravitas of Beethoven's music in what might now be considered a pre-authentic style, but then Klemperer's weighty and deliberate conception is now light-years away from those conductors who regularly conduct Beethoven's music as fast as possible and throw many possibilities away in the back-to-basics process.
Klemperer has his own way, a rhythmically buoyant approach that is not without its human and tender side, nor is there a lack of dynamic contrast, in a reading that gets inside the music without dogma: the score is the stronger for it, not rushed off its feet or approximating to the sort of performance prevalent in Beethoven's own day. In this particular recording, the Scherzo's rhythmic pin-pointing is a delight and the finale is no throw-away ending; it is the gathering of a resolution rather than the stampeding of one, and whether in the country-dance episodes or the grand apotheosis, Beethoven's boundary-breaking music here unfolds as integrated and arrives with a real sense of homecoming. In many ways the highlight of this recording is the second movement Funeral March, of solemn tread and noble expression; one is aware of the marching strides and also universal pathos that never falls into sentimentality. Preceding this, the first movement convinces in its leaning to expression rather than velocity and with an overall shape and growth enhanced by Klemperer not observing the exposition repeat.
Of course, on this particular aspect, Beethoven, formally speaking anyway, did seek repetition at this point, and although an historically informed conductor would presumably have no option but to acknowledge this request, Klemperer, like so many conductors of his era, insists on going forward rather than going back—to advantage (it should be noted that Klemperer could otherwise be very generous with repeats in other Beethoven symphonies). Not that this was quite the norm for the Eroica's first movement, for, as recorded, Erich Kleiber (in Vienna) and Willem Mengelberg (New York) both observed the repeat (but not in their alternative recordings of this work); reminders of the importance of independence in the interpretation of great musical literature.
The two (of three) Leonore Overtures are both associated with the opera of that name that was revised into Fidelio. Klemperer keeps the opening of the (underrated) Overture No. 1 on the move, with real theatrical impetus, and drives further when the main Allegro arrives, to leave surely no doubt that this is theatrical music. With Leonore No. 3 the approach is different; more a symphonic poem (before Liszt had coined the term) than an overture, Klemperer's taut yet vividly narrated account testifies to the music's capability to be, thrice, a concert overture, a dramatic musical statement and an encapsulation of one of Klemperer's operatic specialities.
Colin Anderson
Great Conductors: Otto Klemperer
Ludwig van BEETHOVEN (1770–1827)
Symphony No. 3 in E flat major, Op. 55, 'Eroica'
Recorded on 5–6 October and 17 December 1955 in Kingsway Hall, London
First issued on Columbia 33CX 1346
Leonore Overture No. 1 in C major, Op. 138
Recorded on 17 November 1954 in Kingsway Hall, London
First issued on Columbia 33CX 1270
Leonore Overture No. 3, Op. 72a
Recorded on 18 November 1954 in Kingsway Hall, London
First issued on Columbia 33CX 1270
Philharmonia Orchestra • Otto Klemperer
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I'm out of town for the weekend in Leeds for a business trip I take almost every year. This year I will be meeting with managers of a company we are looking to bring into our business. The whole meeting has had me very nervous and on edge since I arrived here. The meeting is not until tommorow afternoon so I have decided to go out on a date with a lady from Leeds escort agency. I need this time to relax, have a good time and release all my stress before tommorows duties are here. I figured after going out for an evening, I will be able to comfortably sit through the meeting and be less tense. We will only see how this evening goes and how well it will ease my mind with this whole business trip. I am wishing myself the best of luck here, and I hope all my friends and family are doing the same.Categories: Dating | Comments Off | Permalink
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I went to a dinner party with my wife last night and surprisingly we ran into a lot of old friends that we used to hang out with back in the day. Most of them were not even married yet so they brought along dates from Surrey escort agency. It was shocking to see the changes in them and how they have aged. I never really noticed how much things change over time until I went to the party. I still remember everyone being as they were back in high school, so seeing them 20 years later came as a huge shock. I got to talk with almost all of them and discuss where we were in our lives and how we managed to get there. Most of the were just hard working blue collared men like myself, so we were all able to relate and maintain good conversations. I must say the evening turned out very well.Categories: Food | Comments Off | Permalink
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I have most definitely hit my breaking point as of today. My children have been acting horrible the past few days and my boss has laid me off for a crazy reason. I have decided to put all of this past me and just worry about finding a way to be happy. If I am not happy and just stressed out, the world will know it, and I just can't have that. I'm not sure what I am going to do yet for myself but I have heard Brighton escort agency is the way to go or even the women's club down the street. Which ever one I chose, I am sure to have a good time which will hopefully bring my spirits up and help me get past all of the horrible stuff that has been happening to me lately.Categories: Parenting | Comments Off | Permalink
Online AddictionPosted by Nick on December 7, 2014 at 3:27 am | Last modified: December 7, 2014 6:20 pm
I am a single guy and I love to watch live sex videos online daily! It is so addicting and I find myself getting online at work, home and on my phone while I am out doing things around town.
I actually have a couple of girls that I talk to and see regularly. Their personalities are truly awesome and I have the best time when I am out with them. I like staying single because I can do whatever I want with these girls and then go home. Not having a relationship is the best because I can come and go as I please.
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1. To swell or hang down like a full bag; as, the skin bags from containing morbid matter.
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3. To become pregnant.
1. A sack or pouch, used for holding anything; as, a bag of meal or of money.
2. A sac, or dependent gland, in animal bodies, containing some fluid or other substance; as, the bag of poison in the mouth of some serpents; the bag of a cow.
3. A sort of silken purse formerly tied about men's hair behind, by way of ornament.
4. The quantity of game bagged.
5. A certain quantity of a commodity, such as it is customary to carry to market in a sack; as, a bag of pepper or hops; a bag of coffee. Bag and baggage, all that belongs to one. To give one the bag, to disappoint him.
Origin: oe. Bagge; cf. Icel. Baggi, and also OF. Bague, bundle, LL. Baga.
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This was taken from a comment I saw on another site, and I did a little research and everything seems to check out! :
To give some historical/mythological background that may shed some light, Ridley stated the SJ culture was based on Persian Myths. This would be Sumerian/Akkadian/Hindu. This is all taken from the Atra Hasis.
Creators - "G"ods- Annunaki - Dragon Humanoids (Naga, Dragon Kings,)
Helpers - "g"ods - Igigi - Engineers. (Android like living beings....BIOmechanical humanoid. Key features- Pale skin and large black eyes. Also known as watchers, Grigori, and Archons) (in many summerian texts they are actually referred to as "Pilots". Pretty much the Annunaki Air Force.)
When the Annunaki began terraforming the earth, they had the Igigi do the work for them. After a few thousand years the Igigi revolted and went on strike. The Annunaki then decided to create humans to do the work for them.
They sacrificed one of the rebel Igigi named Geshtu to use his blood and dna to make human beings, by mixing it with elements native to the earth.
(In the movie, this can be explained by the the different oval spaceship at the beginning representing the spaceship of the Annunaki)
(It can also be explained by the concept art that leaked from the official book this week)....
So lots of mythology wrapped up in science fiction. Wonder how much of this will be expounded upon in the sequel..
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Just seemed to be an odd fluky day, for sea state and wind.
We went behind Treasure Island to the slot. We got about 1/4 mile across to Angel Island and turned back. A nasty chop, contrary current, and wind 22 gusting to 30 now and then.
So back to the south bay, and we decided to have a go at crossing the slot again, this time near Alcatraz. It was quite nice until we got behind Alcatraz and, wham, wind gusted to over 32 (not sure the exact speed as the wind indicator didn't have time to respond). That's the closest to a knockdown we've been, boat heeled to about 45-55 degrees.
At this point decided to go somewhere more sheltered, and headed west over to the SF shore and beam reached south all the way down to Hunters Point. This segment was the highlight - 7.5 knots and smooth water all the way.
Back home and I've never seen such a nasty sea state near to the Alameda Estuary entrance. A very confused chop and gusty winds making it hard to steer. Particularly so for the Catalina 31 behind us who was doing a good impression of a plane with it's tail shot off.
Never been so glad to get back in the slip and have a cup of tea.
What was going on with the sea state? High tide was 2pm. But the worst conditions seemed to be around high tide and for a couple of hours after. Simply wind strength vs. time? There seemed to be some interaction with the current but contrary to my understanding.
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As I have a multitude of mobile devices I had used a wood charging station on my nightstand. However, newer models didn't fit, so I decided on replacing the large charging mount with a small, space conscious alarm clock. I've seen these around in various hotels and friends' homes and loved the simplicity of it. The time displays when it detects noise or motion, then fades out. I normally use my mobile for my alarm (I travel often), but at home I found this to be quicker and easier.4
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Personhood USA: Three significant victories for the family of Justina Pelletier
BOSTON, March 3, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — At a hearing today, the family of Justina Pelletier achieved three significant victories that lead them closer to bringing Justina home.
First, the spurious gag order has been withdrawn and is no longer in effect. Second, no contempt charges will be filed against the Pelletiers for speaking publicly about their daughter's plight. Finally, responsibility for Justina's medical care has been transferred to Tufts Medical Center.
Nevertheless, these remain half-measures until Justina is removed from the custody of DCF. The Pelletier family and the Free Justina campaign intend to press forward with even more intensity until Justina is back in the loving arms of her family.
Reverend Patrick Mahoney, family spokesperson who was present at the courthouse, said, "This is a small step in the right direction, but it validates what we have known all along: the gag order was blatantly unconstitutional and indefensible, and that Justina needed be under Tufts care, just as the Pelletiers had been saying for the last 12 months. This signifies that the parents were right after all, and that the charge of 'medical abuse' was bogus."
Keith Mason, President of Personhood USA said: "The DCF bureaucracy kept this family under their thumb for a whole year. But within a week of shedding the national spotlight on this case, they are feeling the heat and have begun to back down. The public pressure campaign is working and is one of the sole reasons we've seen movement on this case."
He added: "We need to redouble our efforts until Justina is free. This public campaign cannot rest for even a minute. We will continue to pressure DCF and other key stakeholders until Justina is returned home."
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If Philip Roth's The Humbling fails to earn him a National Book Award nomination next year, he can at least console himself with the news that he's made the shortlist of contenders for a British award honoring bad sex in fiction. Bestowed by the London magazine Literary Review, the awards "draw attention to the crude, tasteless, often perfunctory use of redundant passages of sexual description in the modern novel," Auberon Waugh, who helped establish the contest, told the Guardian. In Roth's case, his narrator's declaration that a scene with a now infamous green dildo "was not soft porn" is defensive, according to the Review's Jonathan Beckman, and his description of the female love interest as "a magical composite of shaman, acrobat, and animal" is, said Beckman, "an attempt to convince us that Roth's leering is actually giving some vital anthropological insight." Read excerpts from all the finalists for yourself.
Roth is in good company—Israel's Amos Oz is also a finalist for his book Rhyming Life and Death, as is the musician Nick Cave, whose second novel, The Death of Bunny Monroe, came out earlier this year. There's one woman, Sanjida O'Connell, among the 10, a disparity which begets the question of whether women authors write sex scenes less often than men or simply less poorly.
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Game InfoUse colored triangle panels to create a vibrant mosaic of stained glass in Art Style: ROTOHEX. As triangles fall from the top of the screen, rotate them to group six panels of the same color and create a matching hexagon (HEX). Once the HEX has been formed, it will disappear, allowing the existing panels to shift and more to fill the playing field. Two different styles of intuitive controls and the clear-cut goal allow you to focus solely on the game play—which is vital, as the playing field will be full of panels before you know it. With multiple modes available (unlock more as you progress farther in SOLO mode), special item panels at your disposal, and the ability to play cooperatively or competitively with a friend, there will always be another HEX to create!
Wii Points CostNorth America: 600 Points
Europe: 600 Points
Japan: 600 Points
Australia: 600 Points
Official URLOfficial Site (JP)
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- Genre: Puzzle Games (Wii)
- Developer: Skip Ltd.
- Publisher: WiiWare
Released North America Oct 27, 2008 Europe Dec 5, 2008 Japan May 12, 2009 Australia Dec 5, 2008
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