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17 Feb 2013 01:20 GMT | Business & Economy, US & Canada, Canada, France, Germany
The G20 group of the world's top economies have pledged to crack down on tax avoidance by multinational companies.
The UK, France, and Germany were the main backers of the move, which aims to develop measures to stop firms from shifting profits from a home country to pay less less tax elsewhere under another jurisdiction.
"We are determined to develop measures to address base erosion and profit shifting" the G20 said in a communique after a two-day meeting of finance ministers and central bankers in Moscow.
They vowed to "take the necessary collective action" and awaited an action plan which is set to be put forward later this year by the Organisation for Cooperation and Economic Development (OECD).
Online retailer Amazon, Internet giant Google as well as coffee shop chain Starbucks have been under the spotlight for their tax strategies in Britain and other EU countries in recent months.
Starbucks came under particular pressure in Britain following the revelation last year that it has paid just $13.8m in British corporation tax since 1998, despite generating $4 billion in revenues.
It has now pledged to voluntarily pay back millions in extra tax.
"We are talking about something that is fundamentally legal. We need to modify the law," admitted the OECD secretary general Angel Gurria. "Avoiding double taxation has become a way of having double non-taxation."
In a rare joint news conference, the finance ministers George Osborne of Britain, France's Pierre Moscovici and Germany's Wolfgang Schaeuble said while such tax avoidance was still technically legal, laws needed to be changed in a broad global effort.
Schaeuble said it was "unfair that multinational companies should be able to use globalisation as a tool" not to pay their fair share of taxes while Moscovici described the issue as a "matter of fairness for our citizens".
Osborne said that current global tax rules had been developed almost 100 years ago - along principles set out by the League of Nations in the 1920s - and few changes had been made since.
"We want businesses to pay the taxes that we set in our countries. And this cannot be achieved by one country alone. No one country can create an international tax system by itself."
'Currency war'
The G20 group have also declared there would be no "currency war" and deferred plans to set new debt-cutting targets in an indication of concern about the fragile state of the world economy.
Japan's policies, which have driven down the yen, escaped criticism in a statement agreed on in Moscow on Saturday by financial policymakers from the G20, which groups developed and emerging markets and accounts for 90 percent of the world economy.
"So, what the G20 is interested in, notably those representatives from the eurozone, is more stability at a time when growth is very fragile"
- Stephen Barber, political economist
After late night talks, finance ministers and central bankers agreed on wording closer than expected to a joint statement issued last Tuesday by the Group of Seven rich nations backing market-determined exchange rates.
A draft communique seen by delegates on Friday had steered clear of the G7's call for fiscal and monetary policy not to be targeted at exchange rates but the later version included a G20 commitment to refrain from competitive devaluations and stated monetary policy would be directed at price stability and growth.
"The language has been strengthened since our discussions last night," Jim Flaherty, Canadian finance minister, said.
"It's stronger than it was, but it was quite clear last night that everyone around the table wants to avoid anysort of currency disputes."
Japan not singled out
The communique did not single out Japan for aggressive monetary and fiscal policies that have seen the yen drop 20 percent.
The statement reflected a substantial, but not complete, endorsement of Tuesday's statement by the G7 nations - the United States, Japan, Britain, Canada, France, Germany and Italy.
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"We all agreed on the fact that we refuse to enter any currency war," Pierre Moscovici, French finance minister, said.
The text also contained a commitment to credible medium-term fiscal strategy, but stopped short of setting specific goals.
The G7 has long been the powerhouse of financial diplomacy. But tension between the US and Japan has risen over an attempt by Shinzo Abe, Japan's new prime minister, to end two decades of deflation.
The G7 issued a joint statement on Tuesday reaffirming "our longstanding commitment to market determined exchange rates".
Yet the show of unity was quickly undermined by off-the-record briefings critical of Japan.
Fiscal strategies
A debt-cutting pact struck in Toronto in 2010 will expire this year if leaders fail to agree to extend it at a G20 summit of leaders in St Petersburg in September.
"Advanced economies will develop credible medium-term fiscal strategies ... by the St Petersburg summit," the communique said.
The US says is on track to meet its Toronto pledge but argues that the pace of future fiscal consolidation must not snuff out demand. Germany and others are pressing for another round of binding debt-cutting goals.
Backing in the communique for the use of domestic monetary policy to support economic recovery reflected the US Federal Reserve's commitment to monetary stimulus through quantitative easing, or QE, to promote recovery and jobs.
QE entails large-scale bond buying - $85bn a month in the Fed's case - that helps economic growth but creates money, much of which has leaked into emerging markets, threatening to destabilise them.
That was offset in the communique by a commitment to minimise "negative spillovers" of the resulting financial flows that emerging markets fear may pump up asset bubbles and ruin their export competitiveness.
Russia, this year's chair of the G20, said the group had failed to reach agreement on medium-term budget deficit levels and also expressed concern about ultra-loose policies that it and other big emerging economies say could store up trouble for later.
Anton Siluanov, Russian finance minister, said a rebalancing of global growth required more than an adjustment of exchange rates.
Stephen Barber, a political economist from the London South Bank University, told Al Jazeera that "unlike shares you cannot devalue all currencies in the world, all at the same time."
"So, what the G20 is interested in, notably those representatives from the eurozone, is more stability at a time when growth is very fragile."
Source: Al Jazeera and agencies
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|Michael Ryder, Steven Stamkos have Bruins and Lightning tied after one
|12.28.10 at 8:21 pm ET
The Bruins and Lightning traded power play goals in the first period, and the teams are tied at one goal apiece after 20 minutes of play.
Brad Marchand (who made his return to the lineup after battling soreness from the P.K. Subban hit earlier this month) and Sean Bergenheim got tangled up in the early going, and Bergenheim got minors for roughing and cross-checking, while Marchand only got went off for cross-checking. With the B's on the early man advantage, Michael Ryder scored his 11th goal of the season 28 seconds into the game.
Steven Stamkos countered with his 29th goal of the year at 7:10. With Adam McQuaid in the box for high-stickingm Tim Thomas was able to knock down a Ryan Malone bid, but in doing so swatted it to Stamkos, who put it in to make it a tie game.
There were six minor penalties assessed (three apiece) between the two teams in the first period. Five seconds into a Lightning power play with Milan Lucic in the box, Steven Stamkos went off for tripping Zdeno Chara, making for 1:55 of four-on-four play.
The Bruins, fresh off of jumping into first place in the Northeast division with their 3-2 shootout win over the Panthers on Monday, will take on the Lightning, who lead the Southeast division, on Tuesday night. It's the second of five straight road games for the Bruins, and the second of three games in four days.
The last time the Bruins faced the Lightning, they won in blowout fashion, crushing Tampa Bay, 8-1, at TD Garden on Dec. 2. The two teams have split the season series thus far, as the Lightning grabbed a 3-1 win at St. Pete Times Forum on Nov. 22.
The Lightning have won six of their last seven games, while the Bruins are winners of their last two.
Tuukka Rask and Brad Marchand were the only Bruins to take the ice on Tuesday morning, suggesting it will be Tim Thomas in net.
– The Lightning are 10-2-2 in Tampa and are a perfect 4-0-0 in home games this month.
– The Bruins are 10-5-1 on the road this season. Their shootout win on Monday was just their second road victory of the month, the first of which came on Dec. 1 in Philadelphia.
– Steven Stamkos is back on track following his statistical hiccup that lasted from late November into the beginning of the month. He has scored seven goals in his last eight games and has 28 on the season.
– Milan Lucic's scoreless streak has now reached four games and he has one point in the last six contests. Lucic had two points when the B's faced the Lightning on Dec. 2.
– David Krejci and Michael Ryder starred in that 8-1 Bruins victory over the Lightning earlier this month with three points apiece. Both Krejci and Ryder had a pair of points in Monday's win over the Panthers, and with their line with Blake Wheeler clicking, they're certainly a couple of players worth keeping an eye on.
– After having three goals entering last Thursday's game vs. the Rangers, Vincent Lecavalier has doubled that in his last two games. He has a pair of goals in Sunday night's 3-2 overtime victory over the Thrashers.
– After Monday, it's now been five straight games without a start for Rask. If Thomas starts against the the Thrashers on Thursday, Rask will have gone more than two weeks without seeing any playing time. Thomas has been stellar in his last two starts, so the Bruins face some serious difficulty in trying to get Rask game experience to keep him sharp.
– The Lucic – Savard – Horton line has not produced a goal in either of the two game s since it came into being in last week's line shuffle. In fact, of the four non-special-teams goals the team has scored in the last two contests, half have come from Krejci, with Shawn Thornton scoring the other two.
– Will this one go to overtime, too? Judging by the opponent, it wouldn't be surprising. The Lightning's last three games have been decided either in overtime or a shootout. They're 2-0-1 in that stretch.
|Tyler Seguin still working to 'figure this league out'
|12.18.10 at 1:22 pm ET
Tyler Seguin knows that he's been able to produce in the face of adversity. He's done it since he's been on the radar of hockey fans, but it might be a bit different at this level. That's why he doesn't want himself — or anyone else — to assume he'll embark on a career-defining hot streak after being a healthy scratch earlier this week. Observe the following exchange.
WEEI.com: Obviously in juniors after that coaching change, and then when you didn't make the World Juniors team last year, these things have seemed to spark a —
Seguin: Don't. Don't jinx it. Don't keep going.
[A bit of background information: Seguin, who was taken ninth overall by the Plymouth Whalers in the OHL draft in 2008, wasn't producing like a top-10 pick out of the gate. He had just one goal in his first 17 games, and after coach Greg Stefan left to take a scouting gig with the Carolina Hurricanes, Seguin finished the season with 21 goals despite his slow start. This came after Mike Vellucci, who took over as coach, sat the then-16-year-old down and told him he expected him to produce regardless of age.
Last season, Seguin, the ninth-ranked prospect in the NHL draft, didn't make the World Junior Championship team and used it as motivation as he went on to lead the OHL with 48 goals and take over as the top-ranked prospect.]
Fast forward to mid-December.
Whether he liked it or not, Seguin was forced to take in Wednesday's game against the Sabres from the press box, observing the pace of a game he's still learning at a professional level. He sat alongside Doug Jarvis as the Bruins fell to the Sabres, 3-2.
"I got to sit up top and look at it from a different perspective, and that's how the coach and GM wanted me to spend the game," Seguin, seemingly understanding of the decision, said.
The 18-year-old followed the scratch with an encouraging showing in Montreal, making a nice play to get the puck to Andrew Ference to set up Marc Savard's first goal of the season. Seguin has just three points in his last 10 games, so he'll look to build on whatever forward steps he can take after being kept out of the lineup.
"I always try to turn a negative into a positive," Seguin said. "All it is is adversity. You'll face it a million times in your hockey career, so it was just another experience of it. I wanted to come out with a strong game in Montreal, and I think I did that. I just want to stay consistent."
As the second overall pick still gets his bearings and finds different ways to adjust to the NHL, top pick Taylor Hall has seemed to hit his stride, scoring 10 goals thus far. Still, Seguin knows that how a player performs in the early going of his rookie year does not exactly set the pace for one's career production.
One of the players to whom he most often compared in Steven Stamkos (flip a coin on the frequency of comparisons of Seguin to Stamkos or Steve Yzerman) was also a healthy scratch at times as a rookie. Seguin, who has five goals thus far, kiddingly noted that Stamkos had four before Christmas prior to lighting it up with 20 goals after the holiday. In fact, Stamkos — the same guy who has 24 goals this season — only had three before Dec. 25. Regardless of the solace he may take in knowing he isn't the first to deal with such adjustment to the NHL, Seguin isn't trying to follow anyone's path or try to be somebody he's not.
"I just want to be Tyler right now," Seguin said. "I want to find my own identity and figure this league out."
|Tyler Seguin hopes to continue to following Steven Stamkos' path
|12.02.10 at 3:01 pm ET
If there's anybody a young scorer would want to be compared to this season, it's Steven Stamkos. The Lightning center already has 21 goals this season and is on pace for 69. It's remarkable production considering Stamkos is just 20 years of age.
In the case of Tyler Seguin, the comparisons he has received to Stamkos are undoubtedly cases of high praise, but the measurables seem to warrant them.
Both players were both highly coveted right-handed centers in their respective drafts, as Stamkos went first overall in 2008 and Seguin was taken second overall in 2010. They both had dominant OHL careers as well, with Stamkos potting 58 goals in 2007-08 with the Sarnia Sting, and Seguin winning the Red Tilson award for the OHL's most outstanding player with 48 goals last year for the Plymouth Whalers. They've also got similar body types (Seguin is 6-foot-1, 186 pounds while Stamkos is 6-foot-0, 176 pounds). Finally, Stamkos' hometown of Markham, Ontario is a 45-minute drive from Seguin's native Brampton.
Stamkos has established himself as one of the league's most explosive players at a very young age, and Seguin — the same guy who doesn't like to "over-respect" his opponents before a game — would love if his billing as the next Stamkos proves to be true.
"I try to [play like Stamkos]," Seguin said Thursday. "He's definitely doing really good right now."
Seguin has five goals this season through 23 games. He is on pace for 18 goals, which would be less than Stamkos' 23 as a rookie, but Seguin seems to be right where the Tampa Bay star was two years ago. Through 23 games, Stamkos actually had just three goals on the season. He didn't really kick things into high gear until February, and he hasn't stopped scoring since.
"He adapted to the league [and] I think it took him probably half a season in his rookie year," Seguin said of Stamkos. "I'll probably be around there hopefully and just keep on going."
The two players met over the summer at the increasingly legendary Atlantic City Bauer campaign. It was there that Seguin also met and got to know Phil Kessel.
|Steven Stamkos, Lightning beat Bruins in Tampa
|11.22.10 at 9:58 pm ET
The Bruins became the most recent team to fall victim to Steven Stamkos and the Lightning as they fell to Tampa Bay, 3-1, on Monday night.
Michael Ryder scored the lone Bruins' goal at 10:38 of the third, with Tampa Bay getting goals from Dana Tyrell, Stamkos, and Teddy Purcell in the second period.
Though the notable lineup news for the B's entering the game was Tyler Seguin's promotion to the second line, it was the first line that got attention for all the wrong reasons. Milan Lucic, David Krejci, and Nathan Horton failed to registered just one shot on Lightning goaltender Mike Smith, who made26 saves to improve to 7-3-0 on the season.
Tuukka Rask relived the season opener once again, as the Bruins stalled in front of him for two periods before attempting a comeback that didn't prove to be good enough. Rask make 33 saves on 36 shots. With the loss, Rask is now 1-5-1 on the season despite entering the game second third in the league in save percentage.
From Tampa the Bruins will travel to Florida, where they will face the Panthers on Wednesday.
– The top line went wrong for the Bruins. Claude Julien doesn't like to identify his lines in the first, second, third, fourth manner, and on Monday, he wouldn't be able to if he wanted to.
The lack of shooting this season on Nathan Horton's part has been well-documented, but on Monday it was his entirely line that failed to get the puck on net. The line got just one shot on goal, which Krejci contributed late in the third period.
– Nothing derails a comeback attempt like a penalty in the third period. After failing to capitalize on a hooking penalty assessed to Steve Downie at 1:28, the B's were caught with too many men on the ice at 4:20, rendering them down a man and postponing a shot at a comeback for a couple of minutes. Luckily for the Bruins, the Lightning returned the favor shortly after with a too-many-men call of their own.
– Momentum, or lack thereof, was once again the story of the first two periods. No gloves were dropped after either of Tampa Bay's three goals in the second period, and it's something that could have aided the Bruins.
– Seguin responded well to being moved to the second line, shooting more (four shots on goal) and drawing a key hooking penalty on Downie early on in the third.
– Patrice Bergeron had a team-high five shots on goal, which tied his high on the season. Bergeron also had five shots against the Capitals on Oct. 21.
– Ryder and Jordan Caron really battled to set up the Blake Wheeler shot that led to Ryder's goal. The two had to outmuscle Lighting skaters to bring the puck up and get it to Wheeler in the offensive zone, with Ryder tipping it past Smith.
|Lightning lead Bruins after two
|at 9:04 pm ET
The Bruins are down, 3-0, after two periods, and yes, Steven Stamkos has something to do with it.
Randy Jones threw a shot on net from the point, and with Adam Hall and Dana Tyrell in front, Andrew Ference tended to Hall. This left Tyrell to tip it up and past Rask, who was likely still trying to track the puck at 3:26.
It wasn't shortly after that the B's worst fear was realized. Game-planning against the Lightning probably starts with stopping Stamkos and Martin St. Louis, but the two got on the score sheet when St. Louis picked up his 19th assist of the season on Stamkos' 20th goal at 5:15. Teddy Purcell added on at 11:36, grabbing a rebound off the boards and tipping it in.
Through two periods, the Lightning are outshooting the B's, 28-15. Tyler Seguin leads the Bruins with three shots on goal.
|Bruins, Lightning scoreless after first period
|at 8:13 pm ET
The Bruins spent much of the first period trying to keep up with the tempo of the Lightning, but after one the two teams are scoreless.
Tuukka Rask has faced 11 shots, saving them all. The B's limited Steven Stamkos to one shot on Rask, though Martin St. Louis got three on the netminder.
The Bruins have just seven shots on Mike Smith. Tyler Seguin and Shawn Thornton lead the B's with two. Thornton had the game's only penalty thus far when he got the gate for interference at 17:55 of the period.


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Early in the post-Sept. 11 era, the projection of American military strength led to pervasive fears of an unleashed, and unchecked, hyperpower. More recently, however, the global financial crisis has turned the spotlight to America's declining economic prowess and perceptions of a great power in decline.
U.S. Status as World's Superpower Challenged by Rise of China
The U.S. image abroad is more favorable than it was in the Bush years, but it now faces a new challenge: doubts about America's superpower status and the belief that China either will replace or already has replaced the United States as the world's leading superpower.
U.S. Seen as Among the Greatest Nations, But Not Superior to All Others
Despite the struggling economy and broad dissatisfaction with national conditions, the public has a positive view of the United States' global standing. But more think that the U.S. is one of the greatest countries in the world than say it stands above all other countries.
Friend or Foe? How Americans See China
When Chinese President Hu Jintao visits Washington next week, he will be greeted by an American public that looks to Asia- — rather than to Europe — as the region of the world most important to U.S. interests.


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3390 Views 4 Replies Latest reply: Apr 6, 2010 2:20 PM by JGatsby
JGatsby Apr 6, 2010 12:27 PM
in response to JGatsbyAlso, I tried rebooting one more time and also cycling the router and Safari still won't start. I'm guessing my only option is to reinstall Safari? That somehow it got corrupted?
Carolyn Samit Apr 6, 2010 1:04 PM
in response to JGatsbyHI,
Please click My Settings right side of this window and update your forum profile. Thanks!
Reinstalling Safari can exacerbate the problems. Troubleshooting is your best bet.
From the Safari Menu Bar, click Safari / Empty Cache.
From the Safari Menu Bar, click Safari / Reset Safari. Select the top 5 buttons and click Reset. If emptying the cache doesn't help or Resetting Safari ...
Go here for trouble shooting 3rd party plugins or input managers which might be causing the problem. Safari: Add-ons may cause Safari to unexpectedly quit or have performance issues
Web pages now include a small icon or 'favicon' which is visible in the address bar and next to bookmarks. These icons take up disk space and slow Safari down. It is possible to erase the icons from your computer and start fresh. *To delete Safari's icon cache using the Finder, open your user folder, navigate to ~/Library/Safari/ and move this file "webpageIcons.db to the Trash.*
If Safari still "beachballs", go to the Safari Menu Bar, click Safari/Preferences. Make note of all the preferences under each tab. Quit Safari. Now go to ~/Library/Preferences and move this file com.apple.safari.plist to the Desktop. Relaunch Safari. If it's a successful launch, then that .plist file needs to be moved to the Trash.
Relaunch Safari.
JGatsby Apr 6, 2010 2:20 PM
in response to Carolyn SamitHooray!!!! It worked!
It was a little tricky. At first I couldn't even get to the Safari window because it Beach Balled right away before the menu came up, even after I waited a while. But then I quit all other applications and tried again and this time after waiting a while (still beach balling) I was able to get to the menu, empty the cache and that worked! I did the reset as well just to make sure. FYI, the first time the bookmarks were messed up, I would click on Politics and get the bookmarks for Shopping but after I quit and restarted all was well.
Also, I updated my profile, hope its visible now. I think it may not have been visible because I never accessed discussions via Firefox before.
I love Macs, even when things go wrong the fix is painless. Thanks a million for the fast and effective reply.
Carolyn Samit Apr 6, 2010 2:23 PM
in response to JGatsbyYou're welcome. Waving from across the bay


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Bauhaus reference?
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I recently watched the original Dracula with him : )
He is from my country, so he is kind of an idol of mine!
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Watch the original Dracula, if you can! I watched it a few months ago, it's quite cool : ))
Watch the original Dracula, if you can! I watched it a few months ago, it's quite cool : ))
Now that Bauhaus song is in my head, but I love it! I love the old horror movies, the music is so good!!!
Ha-ha! There is a version of that song by Electric Hellfire Club, that I love:
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That song is great! I haven't heard them before, now I have new music to check out!
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Thank you, Gothic. :)
Thank you!
That song is going to be trapped in my head all day! Great work! (You can do no wrong, you know....)
Hehe, nice to read this! :D
I bet Lugosi would have loved this, I know I do!
Incredible work!!
His eyes. So piercing...
Very cool! Ran into his son at Kirk Hammett's Horror FestEvil in San Francisco last February.
Compelling and wonderful.
May fav Bauhaus song and great actor as well. Cool piece!
Beautiful, Ani!
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Recorded: Tuesday, August 28, 2012
Senior Fellow Robert Higgs, author of Delusions of Power, is interviewed on The Lew Rockwell Show, about the delusions of government power and U.S. interventionism.
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I think I suffer from an incurable disease.
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I have worn hijabs in the back alleys of Oman, I have walked the jungles of Borneo, seen the temples of India and visited every country in Asia. I have climbed…
Hi all,
I have an overnight layover at Brisbane airport. Just wondering if anyone can recommend an affordable hotel option near the airport?
Most hostels/guesthouses seem to be in town, ideally - I would like to stay near the airport to save time in the morning.
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We are starting to prepare stuff for our summer travel to Australia = 6 weeks in Sydney, Red Center, Darwin region, Cairns / Cape Tribulation area.
Apart from the usual stuff, I was wondering if you had any specific recommendations on things we should bring. I read about getting an insect head protection for the red Center. Anything else health wise ??
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With a voice as distinctive and original as that of The Lovely Bones, and for the fans of the speculative fiction of Margaret Atwood, Karen Thompson Walker's The Age of Miracles is a luminous and unforgettable debut novel about coming of age set against the backdrop of an utterly altered world.
"Maybe everything that happened to me and to my family had nothing at all to do with the slowing. It's possible, I guess. But I doubt it. I doubt it very much."
Spellbinding, haunting, The Age of Miracles is a beautiful novel of catastrophe and survival, growth and change, the story of Julia and her family as they struggle to live in an extraordinary time. On an ordinary Saturday, Julia awakes to discover that something has happened to the rotation of the earth. The days and nights are growing longer and longer, gravity is affected, the birds, the tides, human behavior and cosmic rhythms are thrown into disarray. In a world of danger and loss, Julia faces surprising developments in herself, and her personal world—divisions widening between her parents, strange behavior by Hannah and other friends, the vulnerability of first love, a sense of isolation, and a rebellious new strength. With crystalline prose and the indelible magic of a born storyteller, Karen Thompson Walker gives us a breathtaking story of people finding ways to go on, in an ever-evolving world.
Praise for The Age of Miracles
"A stunner."—Justin Cronin
"A genuinely moving tale that mixes the real and surreal, the ordinary and the extraordinary, with impressive fluency and flair."—Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
"Gripping drama . . . flawlessly written; it could be the most assured debut by an American writer since Jennifer Egan's Emerald City."—The Denver Post
"If you begin this book, you'll be loath to set it down until you've reached its end."—San Francisco Chronicle
"Provides solace with its wisdom, compassion, and elegance."—Curtis Sittenfeld
Don't miss the exclusive conversation between Karen Thompson Walker and Karen Russell at the back of the book.
Editorial Reviews
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"[A] moving tale that mixes the real and surreal, the ordinary and the extraordinary with impressive fluency and flair … Ms. Walker has an instinctive feel for narrative architecture, creating a story, in lapidary prose, that moves ahead with a sense of both the inevitable and the unexpected … Ms. Walker maps [her characters'] inner lives with such sure-footedness that they become as recognizable to us as people we've grown up with or watched for years on television… [A] precocious debut…one of this summer's hot literary reads."Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
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"[AN] EARTHSHAKING DEBUT." –Entertainment Weekly
"Part speculative fiction, part coming-of-age story…The Age of Miracles could turn Walker into American literature's next big thing."NPR
"A tender coming-of-age novel."Maureen Dowd, The New York Times
"Walker creates lovely, low-key scenes to dramatize her premise…The spirit of Ray Bradbury hovers in the mixture of the portentous and quotidian."The New Yorker
"[Walker] matches the fierce creativity of her imagination with a lyrical and portentous understanding of the present."People (4 stars)
"This haunting and soul-stirring novel about the apocalypse is transformative and unforgettable."Marie Claire
"Quietly explosive … Walker describes global shifts with a sense of utter realism, but she treats Julia's personal adolescent upheaval with equal care, delicacy, and poignancy."—O, The Oprah Magazine
"Haunting."Real Simple
"If you begin this book, you'll be loath to set it down until you've reached its end… The Age of Miracles reminds us that we never know when everything will change, when a single event will split our understanding of personal history and all history into a Before and an After." –The San Francisco Chronicle
"The perfect combination of the intimate and the pandemic…Flawlessly written; it could be the most assured debut by an American writer since Jennifer Egan's 'Emerald City.'"Denver Post
"Touching, observant and poetic."The Columbus Dispatch
"Simply told, skillfully crafted and filled with metaphorical unities, this resonant first novel [rings] with difficult truths both large and small."Kansas City Star
"The Age of Miracles lingers, like a faded photo of a happy time. It is stunning."–Cleveland Plain Dealer
"Both utterly realistic and fantastically dystopian…The big miracles, Walker seems to be saying, may doom the world at large, but the little ones keep life worth living."Minnesota Herald Tribune
"[An] elegiac, moving first novel."Newsday
"Arresting… This book cuts bone-deep." Austin Chronicle
"Evocative and poetic...I loved this book from the first page."Huntington News
"Walker's tone can be properly [Harper] Lee-esque; both Julia and Scout grapple with the standard childhood difficulties as their societies crumble around them. But life prevails, and the stunning Miracles subtly conveys that adapting."Time Out New York
"[A] gripping debut . . . Thompson's Julia is the perfect narrator. . . . While the apocalypse looms large—has in fact already arrived—the narrative remains fiercely grounded in the surreal and horrifying day-to-day and the personal decisions that persist even though no one knows what to do. A triumph of vision, language, and terrifying momentum, the story also feels eerily plausible, as if the problems we've been worrying about all along pale in comparison to what might actually bring our end."—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"In Walker's stunning debut, a young California girl coming of age in a dystopian near future confronts the inevitability of change on the most personal level as life on earth withers … She goes through the trials and joys of first love. She begins to see cracks in her parents' marriage and must navigate the currents of loyalty and moral uncertainty. She faces sickness and death of loved ones. ... Julia's life is shaped by what happens in the larger world, but it is the only life she knows, and Walker captures each moment, intimate and universal, with magical precision. Riveting, heartbreaking, profoundly moving."—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
"What a remarkable and beautifully wrought novel. In its depiction of a world at once utterly like and unlike our own, The Age of Miracles is so convincingly unsettling that it just might make you stockpile emergency supplies of batteries and bottled water. It also—thank goodness—provides great solace with its wisdom, its compassion, and the elegance of its storytelling."—Curtis Sittenfeld, author of Prep
"'Miracles' indeed. Karen Thompson Walker's debut novel is a stunner from the first page—an end-of-the-world, coming-of-age tale of quiet majesty. I loved this novel and can't wait to see what this remarkable writer will do next."—Justin Cronin, author of The Passage
"Is the end near? In Karen Thompson Walker's beautiful and frightening debut, sunsets are becoming rarities, "real-timers" live in daylight colonies while mainstream America continues to operate on the moribund system of "Clock Time," and environmentalists rail against global dependence on crops that guzzle light. Against this apocalyptic backdrop, Walker sets the coming-of-age story of brave, bewildered Julia, who wonders at the "malleable rhythms" of the increasingly erratic adults around her. Like master fabulists Steven Millhauser and Kevin Brockmeier, Karen Thompson Walker takes a fantastic premise and makes it feel thrillingly real. In precise, poetic language, she floods the California suburbs with shadows and a doomsday glow, and in this altered light shows us amazing things about how one family responds to a stunningly imagined global crisis."—Karen Russell, author of Swamplandia!
"This is what imagination is. In The Age of Miracles, the earth's rotation slows, gravity alters, days are stretched out to fifty hours of sunlight. In the midst of this, a young girl falls in loves, sees things she shouldn't and suffers heartbreak of the most ordinary kind. Karen Thompson Walker has managed to combine fiction of the dystopian future with an incisive and powerful portrait of our personal present."—Amy Bloom, author of Away
"The Age of Miracles is pure magnificence. Deeply moving and beautifully executed, Karen Thompson Walker has written the perfect novel for the global-warming age."—Nathan Englander, author of For the Relief of Unbearable Urges
"Reading The Age of Miracles is like gazing into a sky of constellations and being mesmerized by the the strange yet familiar sensation of infinity. Beautifully written, the novel lets the readers see the world within us and the world without with an unforgettable freshness."—Yiyun Li, author of Gold Boy, Emerald Girl
"The Age of Miracles spins its glowing magic through incredibly lucid and honest prose, giving equal care and dignity to the small spheres and the large. It is at once a love letter to the world as we know it and an elegy."—Aimee Bender, author of The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
"Gripping from first page to last, The Age of Miracles is itself a small, perfectly formed miracle: Written with the cadence and pitch of poetry, this gem of a novel is a wrenching and all-too-believable parable for our times, and one of the most original coming-of-age stories I have ever read. Karen Thompson Walker is the real deal."—Dani Shapiro, author of Devotion
"The Age of Miracles is harrowing and beautiful on the ways in which those catastrophes already hidden about us in plain sight, once ratcheted up just a bit, provide us with a glimpse of the end of our species' run on earth: the uncanny distress of hundreds of beached whales, or the surreal unease of waves rolling across the rooftops of beachfront houses. And as it does it reminds us of all of the miracles of human regard that will have taken place before then: the way compassion will retain its resilience, and the way, for those of us in love, a string of afternoons will be as good as a year."—Jim Shepard, author of Like You'd Understand, Anyway (National Book Award finalist)
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We didn't notice right away. We couldn't feel it.
We did not sense, at first, the extra time, bulging from the smooth edge of each day like a tumor blooming beneath skin.
We were distracted, back then, by weather and war. We had no interest in the turning of the earth. Bombs continued to explode on the streets of distant countries. Hurricanes came and went. Summer ended. A new school year began. The clocks ticked as usual. Seconds beaded into minutes. Minutes grew into hours. And there was nothing to suggest that those hours too weren't still pooling into days, each the same, fixed length known to every human being.
But there were those who would later claim to have recognized the disaster before the rest of us did. These were the night workers, the graveyard shifters, the stockers of shelves, and the loaders of ships, the drivers of big-rig trucks, or else they were the bearers of different burdens: the sleepless and the troubled and the sick. These people were accustomed to waiting out the night. Through bloodshot eyes, a few did detect a certain persistence of darkness on the mornings leading up to the news, but each mistook it for the private misperception of a lonely, rattled mind.
On the sixth of October, the experts went public. This, of course, is the day we all remember. There'd been a change, they said, a slowing, and that's what we called it from then on: the slowing.
"We have no way of knowing if this trend will continue," said a shy bearded scientist at a hastily arranged press conference, now infamous. He cleared his throat and swallowed. Cameras flashed in his eyes. Then came the moment, replayed so often afterward that the particular cadences of that scientist's speech—the dips and the pauses and that slight Midwestern slant—would be forever married to the news itself. He went on: "But we suspect that it will continue."
Our days had grown by fifty-six minutes in the night.
At the beginning, people stood on street corners and shouted about the end of the world. Counselors came to talk to us at school. I remember watching Mr. Valencia next door fill up his garage with stacks of canned food and bottled water, as if preparing, it now seems to me, for a disaster much more minor.
The grocery stores were soon empty, the shelves sucked clean like chicken bones.
The freeways clogged immediately. People heard the news and they wanted to move. Families piled into minivans and crossed state lines. They scurried in every direction like small animals caught suddenly under a light.
But, of course, there was nowhere on earth to go.
The news broke on a Saturday.
In our house, at least, the change had gone unnoticed. We were still asleep when the sun came up that morning, and so we sensed nothing unusual in the timing of its rise. Those last few hours before we learned of the slowing remain preserved in my memory—even all these years later—as if trapped behind glass.
My friend Hanna had slept over the night before, and we'd camped out in sleeping bags on the living room floor, where we'd slept side by side on a hundred other nights. We woke to the purring of lawn mower motors and the barking of dogs, to the soft squeak of a trampoline as the twins jumped next door. In an hour we'd both be dressed in blue soccer uniforms—hair pulled back, sunscreen applied, cleats clicking on tile.
"I had the weirdest dream last night," said Hanna. She lay on her stomach, her head propped up on one elbow, her long blonde hair hanging tangled behind her ears. She had a certain skinny beauty that I wished I had too.
"You always have weird dreams," I said.
She unzipped her sleeping bag and sat up, pressed her knees to her chest. From her slim wrist there jingled a charm bracelet crowded with charms. Among them: one half of a small brass heart, the other half of which belonged to me.
"In the dream, I was at my house, but it wasn't my house," she went on. "I was with my mom, but she wasn't my mom. My sisters weren't my sisters."
"I hardly ever remember my dreams," I said, and then I got up to let the cats out of the garage.
My parents were spending that morning the way I remember them spending every morning, reading the newspaper at the dining room table. I can still see them sitting there: my mother in her green bathrobe, her hair wet, skimming quickly through the pages, while my father sat in silence, fully dressed, reading every story in the order it appeared, each one reflected in the thick lenses of his glasses.
My father would save that day's paper for a long time afterward—packed away like an heirloom, folded neatly beside the newspaper from the day I was born. The pages of that Saturday's paper, printed before the news was out, report a rise in the city's real estate prices, the further erosion of several area beaches, and plans for a new freeway overpass. That week, a local surfer had been attacked by a great white shark; border patrol agents discovered a three-mile long drug-running tunnel six feet beneath the U.S./Mexico border; and the body of a young girl, long missing, was found buried under a pile of white rocks in the wide, empty desert out east. The times of that day's sunrise and sunset appear in a chart on the back page, predictions that did not, of course, come to pass.
Half an hour before we heard the news, my mother went out for bagels.
I think the cats sensed the change before we did. They were both Siamese, but different breeds. Chloe was sleepy and feathery and sweet. Tony was her opposite: an old and anxious creature, possibly mentally ill, a cat who tore out his own fur in snatches and left it in piles around the house, tiny tumbleweeds set adrift on the carpet.
In those last few minutes, as I ladled dry food into their bowls, the ears of both cats began to swivel wildly toward the front yard. Maybe they felt it, somehow, a shift in the air. They both knew the sound of my mother's Volvo pulling into the driveway, but I wondered later if they recognized also the unusually quick spin of the wheels as she rushed to park the car, or the panic in the sharp crack of the parking brake as she yanked it into place.
Soon, even I could detect the pitch of my mother's mood from the stomps of her feet on the porch, the disorganized rattle of her keys against the door—she had heard those earliest news reports, now notorious, on the car radio between the bagel shop and home.
"Turn on the TV right now," she said. She was breathless and sweaty. She left her keys in the teeth of the lock, where they would dangle all day. "Something God awful is happening."
We were used to my mother's rhetoric. She talked big. She blustered. She overstated and oversold. God awful might have meant anything. It was a wide net of a phrase that scooped up a thousand possibilities, most of them benign: hot days and traffic jams, leaking pipes and long lines. Even cigarette smoke, if it wafted too close, could be really and truly God awful.
We were slow to react. My father, in his thinning yellow Padres t-shirt, stayed right where he was at the table, one palm on his coffee cup, the other resting on the back of his neck, as he finished an article in the business section. I went ahead and opened the bag of bagels, letting the paper crinkle beneath my fingers. Even Hanna knew my mother well enough to go right on with what she was doing—hunting for the cream cheese on the bottom shelf of the refrigerator.
"Are you watching this?" my mother said. We were not.
My mother had been an actress once. Her old commercials—mostly hair care and kitchen products—lay entombed together in a short stack of dusty black videotapes that stood beside the television. People were always telling me how beautiful she was when she was young, and I could still find it in the fair skin of her face and the high structure of her cheekbones, but she'd gained weight in middle age. Now she taught one period of drama at the high school and four periods of history. We lived 95 miles from Hollywood.
She was standing on our sleeping bags, two feet from the television screen. When I think of it now, I imagine her cupping one hand over her mouth the way she always did when she worried, but at the time, I just felt embarrassed by the way the black waffle soles of her running shoes were twisting Hanna's sleeping bag, hers the dainty cotton kind, pink and polka-dotted and designed not for the hazards of campsites but exclusively for the plush carpets of heated homes.
"Did you hear me?" said my mother, swinging round to look at us. My mouth was full of bagel and cream cheese. A sesame seed had lodged itself between my two front teeth. "Joel!" she shouted at my father. "I'm serious. This is hellacious."
My father looked up from the paper then, but still he kept his index finger pressed firmly to the page to mark his place. How could we have known that the workings of the universe had finally made appropriate the fire of my mother's words?
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BUDE — With one nearby railroad gone and another in north Mississippi fighting for its life, Southwest Mississippi leaders vowed Wednesday not to become a community with no railroad access.
Approximately 20 people attended a meeting of the Southwest Mississippi Regional Railroad Authority.
The authority was created earlier this year with cooperation from Adams, Franklin and Lincoln counties to be a backstop of protection for the future of the 66-mile railroad line that links the Natchez to connecting rail lines in Brookhaven.
The railroad's future has been a source of worry since Canadian National sold it to a newly formed company, Natchez Railway LLC. The new owners have ties to a railroad salvage company, A&K Railroad Materials.
Regional railroad users began crying foul as rates on the Natchez Railway LLC line increased shortly after the May 2009 sale.
In July 2009, the rate for moving a single railcar from Natchez to Brookhaven before moving to other parts of the CN rail system was $610.
Today the published rate is $3,000, or more than $45 per mile.
By comparison, a similar sized short line railroad in Texas, the Blacklands Railroad, charges $1,000 for a 65.6-mile trip or $15.24 per mile.
Blacklands recently was named the 2011 short line railroad of the year by Railway Age magazine.
Last month the owners of Natchez Railway filed abandonment paperwork on a longer stretch of railroad they own in Grenada. The line purchased from CN at the same time as the Natchez-Brookhaven line.
"The people up there are scrambling around," said Natchez attorney Walter Brown who has served as an advisor to the SWMRRA. "This is a statewide problem. If you look at the places you have short lines, everybody knows clearly that these guys could be on the chopping block, too."
In addition to the ongoing abandonment procedures on the Grenada line, a rail line connecting Gloster to Zachary, La., was abandoned and partially scrapped earlier this year. Ownership of the Gloster line is also affiliated with the Natchez and Grenada lines and A&K Railroad Materials.
"It's a national phenomenon, but it's critical in rural states like Mississippi," Brown said.
SWMRRA chairman Dan Bland bluntly said what many in the room seemed to be feeling regarding the current railroad owners.
"They don't care about us," he said. "At our first meeting, we said we're going to get this railroad bought. It's not time to fight yet, but it's time to get ready."
Previously, Chandler Russ, executive director of Natchez Inc. — Natchez and Adams County's economic development engine — said the railroad authority may be able to purchase the railroad outright and that the group planned to consider seeking a loan from the federal Railroad Rehabilitation and Improvement Financing Program.
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