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a: the complex of physical, chemical, and biotic factors
This page is for anything pertaining to the environment.
"We shall never understand the natural environment until we see it as a living organism" (Paul Brooks)
Veterans for Peace Golden Rule Speaker
From the open publishing newswire: Helen Jaccard, crew member on the Golden Rule speaking at a Portland event, detailing a little of the history of the ship, as well as announcing current and upcoming events during the Portland Rose Festival.
This event was part of a few days of anti war activities sponsored by Veterans for Peace.
The original peace ship, the Golden Rule, that set sail in 1958 to stop nuclear testing in the atmosphere, inspired many of the subsequent peace makers and peace ships that followed. The reborn Golden Rule is voyaging once more, to show that nuclear abolition is possible, and that bravery and tenacity can overcome militarism. http://www.vfpgoldenruleproject.org:
Earth First! Northwest Rendezvous June 10-13
From the open publishing newswire: We Want to Spend the End of the World with You
Cascadia Forest Defenders and the League of Extra-Ornery Cascadians are
pleased to announce the Earth First! Northwest Rendezvous, from June
10-13, 2016, in the heart of the southern Cascades. [...]
So, you wanna get up in the old-growth, trying to halt a roadless area
timber sale, or get acquainted with the kayak mob and the oil
blockaders? Come out to the woods and check us out. Stick around Monday
for a kick-ass action(s). Heck, why not just make a summer of it?
For more information, check out the Cascadia Forest Defenders at
Stu Sugarman ...a eulogy
From the open publishing newswire: I woke up this morning to find out that an old friend of mine, an earth warrior, an activist attorney, and a truly gentle soul... has died. This man saved many of our asses in the Pacific NW during the various waves of repression and Green Scare machinations that swept through Cascadia over the past 2 decades, and I will not forget him. I don't think any of us will. We thought he would be there forever. None of us was prepared for this, it was so sudden and unexpected.
Read this full eulogy by Cat Jones on her blog here:
Stu passed away in his home Monday of apparent diabetes-related causes. He was 52 years old.
A memorial service has been scheduled for 6 p.m. Thursday, March 31 at Laurelhurst Park, 3756 S.E. Oak St., in Portland. A group will gather north of the pond, at picnic area" E."
Video: 350 PDX - Paris Climate Talks - Report Back 1.20.16
From the open publishing newswire: A Report Back on January 20 2016. Filmed at "The Peace House" in Portland Oregon.
A panel of four tell of their experiences in Paris at the Climate Talks
Introductions by: Maya Jarrad: 350PDX's volunteer coordinator
Guest Speakers: Jill Stein,Virginia Wiseman,Maralena Murphy and Ptery Leight
"Paris Climate Talks - Report Back"
https://youtu.be/cEBAaAkpPfM [youtube video 2 hours 10 minutes]
2016 FRUIT TREE STEWARDSHIP INTERN with Portland Fruit Tree Project
From the open publishing newswire: Unpaid internship position open with Portland Fruit Tree Project
The Fruit Tree Stewardship Intern will aid in the implementation of Portland Fruit Tree Project's Fruit Tree Stewardship programs by assisting in the coordination our Tree Care Teams program and Tree Care Workshop series, and helping us maintain our existing Community Orchard sites.
Time commitment: 12-20 hours per week for 26 weeks (schedule is somewhat flexible, 312 total hours minimum) Monday January 4th, 2016 - Monday June 30th, 2016
Location: You would be working primarily out of PFTP headquarters in NE Portland, but will be traveling throughout the City of Portland for site visits and events.
This internship is unpaid, but the rewards are many - including a great learning experience and the unique opportunity to be a part of a vibrant and growing organization
Applications due by Monday December 7th
Comment on the Portland Fossil Fuel Policy - Come to Rally!
From the open publishing newswire: The City of Portland is taking the national lead on climate policy and protecting the health and safety of its residents. This groundbreaking policy will prohibit new large-scale fossil fuel projects in Portland will be voted on by City Council on November 4th!
City Council will be voting on 2 resolutions on Wednesday. One, the Fossil Fuel Policy and the 2nd, a resolution opposing oil trains.
The rally starts Wednesday the 4th at 1:15 outside City Hall - 1221 SW Fourth Avenue. The hearing starts at 2:30.
homepage: http://350pdx.org
Internships Opportunities with Portland Fruit Tree Project.
From the open publishing newswire: Internships Opportunities with Portland Fruit Tree Project.
Portland Fruit Tree Project is a small nonprofit that empowers neighbors to share in the harvest and care of urban fruit trees. Our mission is to increase equitable access to healthy food in our community. We work with fruit tree owners interested in donating their harvest to those in need by organizing trained work groups to harvest on site and distribute fruit to local food banks.
Portland Fruit Tree Project is currently recruiting for three internship positions - [...]
Go to http://portlandfruit.org/jobs for links to the full position descriptions & application instructions. Application deadline is Thursday September 3rd.
A Day of Tears: Report from the "sHell No!" Action in Portland
From the open publishing newswire: A report from Thursday's "sHell No!" actions at Cathedral Park, with analysis.
As has been well-documented, Royal Dutch Shell has plans to drill for oil in the Arctic, despite their knowledge that such extraction will exacerbate Climate Change [...] President Obama has given these plans his blessing, as could be expected of a politician beholden to the extraction industries. In order to commit such an ecocidal act, Shell has to transport many different resources to the area by ship, and activists have attempted to slow the process by blocking, if only temporarily, a couple of these key transports. In Seattle, kayakers delayed the departure of a Shell oil rig in June.
In Portland, the Fennica, a Shell ship carrying a key piece that is required on site before� drilling can legally begin, docked for repairs about ten days ago, giving local activists some time to put together a response. Another kayak blockade was quickly planned, and to the surprise of most locals, Greenpeace pulled a surprise action a little after 3:00 a.m., early on the morning of July 29th. Thirteen people with climbing equipment lowered themselves off the St. John's Bridge, downriver from the Fennica, and positioned themselves in harnesses about a third of the way down, with ropes strung between themselves. This simple, even elegant, set-up made passage of the Fennica impossible without injuring the climbers. They were provisioned with enough food and water to stay there for days.
This bold action quickly caught the attention of the media, as Greenpeace actions are designed to do [...]
Activists Hang from Bridge in Portland to Block Shell�s Arctic vessel
From the open publishing newswire: A group of environmental activists have rappelled off a bridge in Portland, Oregon, in a bid to block a key vessel in Shell's Arctic drilling fleet leaving the city's port.
"Our goal is to basically demonstrate as much community resistance to Shell's plans to drill for oil and secure new oil reserves in the Arctic," Meredith Cocks, of local green group Portland Rising Tide, told Reuters.
link to earthfirstjournal.org
Tallest trees in Eastmoreland could be cut down ; Three 150 foot Sequoias
From the open publishing newswire: These are the tallest trees in Eastmoreland, and probably the oldest. (based on my Google Earth canopy height survey project). I measured the foremost of the 3 giants, at 153- 154 ft with inclinometer from 4 different angles. This matches the Google Earth 3D model of 147 -150 ft. They are approx. 60 feet ins spread, and range from 78 to 83 inches DBH, diameter. No trees in Eastmoreland match or exceed 150 feet, based on my survey. You have to go out 1 to 2 miles radius to find taller trees than this in South East Portland.
Neighbors have raised $50,000 to protect the giant trees, but this only delays their harvest. Neighbors are trying to raise an additional $900,000 to to puchase the property from the developer and possibly turn it into a small park or green space.
Float the Pipe! June 19-20
From the open publishing newswire: To help publicize the proposed LNG pipeline in SW Oregon, the Cascadia Forest Defenders and are doing a publicity float starting at where the pipeline is proposed to cross the South Umpqua River.
Cascadia Forest Defenders launches "Float the Pipe", a floating protest of the Pacific Connector LNG pipeline, at the precise location the pipe would cross the South Umpqua river.
With the fight against the LNG pipeline and export terminal heating up in Oregon, CFD has decided to lead a flotilla of activists down a threatenend stretch of the South Umpqua. They will stretch a banner across the point where the pipeline would be bored underneath the river, then set off on their 12 mile, 2 day float through the waters that would flow downstream of the pipe. They will document the watershed they see along the way.
What: Press conference at the launch of Float the Pipe
Who: Cascadia Forest Defenders and friends
When: Friday, June 19 at 10am
Where: The proposed location that the pipeline would cross underneath the South Umpqua river. Just south of the Rivers West South Umpqua campground, 1-5 exit #112, on the east side of I-5. We will be putting boats in the water on Booth Ranch Rd. Myrtle, OR 97457
Why: To protest the Pacific Connector Pipeline and Jordan Cove energy terminal and to get to know a threatened section of the South Umpqua river.
Board, staff, and internship opportunities with Portland Fruit Tree Project
From the open publishing newswire: An announcement by local non-profit, Portland Fruit Tree Project, about current opportunities (paid & volunteer).
Portland Fruit Tree Project has some exciting leadership opportunities to share! We're currently accepting applications for our Board of Directors, a part-time staff position as Community Involvement & Harvest Coordinator, and three exciting internships!
[...] Join PFTP's Board of Directors! Board Members play an important and rewarding role in PFTP's efforts to make healthy food available to all, strengthen communities, and ensure equity in access to our programs. In addition, the board openings present a valuable opportunity to build skills and experience in non-profit governance, strategic planning, fundraising, and organizational leadership.
Candidates with ties to business communities, philanthropic communities, low income communities, communities of color, and/or communities in outer East Portland are especially encouraged to apply.
The application deadline is Sunday May 3rd.
The full position description can be found here
homepage: http://www.portlandfruit.org
Fast Track, TPP and TTIP Should Be Scrapped!
From the open publishing newswire: How scandalous that communities and states should lose their sovereignty to corporations! In the TTIP, corporations can sue states for lost profits. The threat of a lawsuit can have a chilling effect on labor and environmental protective regulations. A parallel private arbitration system (ISDS) is created that privileges foreign investors over labor and the environment. Public interest legislation is called a trade barrier or indirect expropriation. [...]
The increasingly aggressive statements of those who welcome the planned agreement imply there are only a few ideologically wrong-headed conservationists, social state dreamers and eternal opponents of globalization who oppose the TTIP with their non-governmental organizations driven by a mixture of anti-Americanism and conspiracy theories. But that is wrong. Millions of people, Americans and Europeans, prominent and non-prominent, US congresspersons and German mayors, unionists from Philadelphia and consumer protectors from Marseille, Spanish entrepreneurs and Austrian academics see the TTIP as dangerous. [...]
Call Sen Wyden at 503-326-7525
UPDATE: April 18: Oregon Rallies to Stop Fast Track! 1:00 PM


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Supervalu Plans to Close 60 Stores Amid Sales Process
The nation's supermarket chains are busy with strategic planning today.
Supervalu, which launched a review and sales process earlier this summer, says it plans to shutter 60 "underperforming or non-strategic" stores in the next couple of months.
The closings will cost about $80 to $90 million, pretax, in expenses this year, but ultimately that figure is expected to be offset by equal gains made from selling the real-estate in the next three years, the company says.
Earlier Wednesday, rival Safeway announced it was planning to spinoff its gift-card unit in an IPO next year as an attempt to monetize some of its assets.
Both have seen shares hurt this year amid the general economic malaise. Supervalu, in particular, has struggled amid poor earnings and heavy debt. The company, which operates some 4,400 stores, in July said it would launch a review and also replaced its CEO with Chairman Wayne C. Sales. Sales pledged to cut costs as part of the review.
Analysts, however, said it would be a difficult task to sell all of Supervalu as a whole and wondered if the company might instead shed one chain or another. As part of Wednesday's announcement, the company says it is closing 22 Save-A-Lot locations, the chain that had been among the strongest Supervalu assets.
The company doesn't offer any further update on the sales process or strategic review today.
"These decisions are never easy," Sales says in the release. "Today's announcement reflects our commitment to move with a greater sense of urgency to reduce costs and improve shareholder value."

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The Hummer is the poster child for the big, gas-guzzling mentality of decades past that's categorically shunned in today's eco-sensitive world. One boutique automotive firm has decided to blend a Hummer-style body and features with an all-electric powertrain, creating a Hummer for a new generation. Read More
Much as Hummer-owners may like to speak of their vehicles' military pedigree, the fact is that the U.S. Army now wants to replace its Humvees with vehicles that are better suited for use in war zones, particularly when it comes to protecting occupants. One potential Humvee-replacement has just been announced by Wisconsin-based Oshkosh Defense - the Light Combat Tactical All-Terrain Vehicle or L-ATV. Read More
If you're looking to boost the off-road capabilities of the already pretty capable Hummer H2 then look no further than the Hummer H2 Bomber. This customized vehicle from Germany's Geiger Cars replaces the H2's regular 8.5" x 20" rims and 305/60 tires with Mattracks 88M1-A1 rubber tracks on each wheel. These massive structures, 40cm wide and 150cm long, guarantee unrivaled traction on virtually any terrain.Read More
Raser Technologies has debuted a Hummer H3, converted into a plug-in series hybrid, to coincide with the company's listing on the New York Stock Exchange. With the aerodynamics of a house – it has a drag coefficient of .43 (Cd .43) – and a curb weight of 4700 lb (2132 kg) in standard trim, the H3 hardly makes an ideal vehicle to base a hybrid conversion on. Raser chose the Hummer because trucks and SUVs have been among the best-selling vehicles in the US and stood to benefit most from increased fuel economy and reduced emissions. The recent economic slump and fuel price volatility have led to the Hummer brand being put up for sale (with no takers), while SUV sales have stalled with many SUV plants now closed. Read More
We've seen it supercharged and even converted to remote control, but we've never seen a HUMMER H3 like this. Officially it's called art, but the phrases 'automotive travesty' and 'left-field promotional opportunity' also spring to mind in regard to British artist Matthew Harrison's latest project - a H3 with the standard 16-inch alloys dropped in favor of 'Wild West' wooden wagon wheels. The head-turning installation will be parked opposite the Royal Academy of Arts in London as part of the Zoo Art Fair 2008 which runs from 17-20 October. The strange thing is - it kind of suits.Read More
January 15, 2008 Talk about hitting the ground running - three young design students, fresh out of college, fronted up for their first day of work at GM and instead of a week of fetching coffees, their first assignment was to produce concepts for a new, compact, youth-oriented off-road Hummer. The three students' input drove the design of the new Hummer HX concept, which has sparked a lot of excitement among Hummer fans. Open-topped, with a configurable rear roof section, removable body panels and an E85-capable engine, the HX concept will debut shortly at the 2008 North American International Auto Show – and it's rumored to be the base for the upcoming H4 production SUV. Read More
September 12, 2007 Now here's something very much out of the ordinary. This unique black Ferrari 360 Modena carbon fibre stretch limousine will undoubtedly spin heads when it's unveiled at the European Limousine and Chauffeur Show in the UK this month. The fastest limo in the world according to owner Dan Cawley, the 23 feet long, 400bhp vehicle achieves 0-60mph in less than six seconds and has a top speed of 170mph.Read More
December 7, 2006 We regularly write up the wares of Munich-based GeigerCars.de which specialises in building outrageous American automobiles, so we couldn't really miss the chance to write up the firm's Christmas HUMMER creation for the German Television show Galileo. Everything was extensively modified, and St. Nick's new company vehicle sports everything he could possibly need including, would-you-believe a chimney!Read More
December 3, 2006 GM Advanced Design has won the Los Angeles Auto Show's Design Challenge for the second year in a row. This year's winning entry is a two-dimensional rendering of a 2015 Blue Sky Concept that addresses environmental sustainability. Called the HUMMER 02, the design was created to demonstrate that daily use of a vehicle could result in a net gain for the environment. The HUMMER 02 Concept features a phototropic body shell that produces pure oxygen throughout the life of the vehicle. Algae-filled body panels transform carbon dioxide into pure oxygen that is subsequently released back into the environment and inside the vehicle.Read More
October 27, 2006 European automotive technology company, Antonov, will be showing its innovative 2-speed supercharger drive system at the Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA) show next week in Las Vegas with two mouth-watering implementations. A Hummer H3 (that's a stock H3 pictured) incorporating the patented technology will be presented at the show by Antonov's US distributor Wheel to Wheel Powertrain and the system's performance enhancing characteristics will be demonstrated at the show proving grounds in a Ford Mustang GT. Read More
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With injuries to catchers becoming a thing in the Nationals organization, it should come as no surprise to see that the latest transaction post from Baseball America has Washington signing two of them along with a shortstop:
- C Kevin Flynn
- C Robert "Thor" Meeks
- SS Jose Savinon
Flynn is a product of Hofstra University, where he was a C-DH from 2010 to 2012 and played briefly (i.e. one game) in the American Association (Independent).
Meeks graduated from Marshall University in 2012 but went undrafted, presumably after poor showing in his senior season that saw his line drop from .257/.337/.444 to .227/.349/.325.
Nothing could be found on Savinon, so the logical inference is that he is an international free agent.
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Well, I'm looking pretty good this season …
Rendon is up as predicted. Karns still starting and doing well. And then there's Holder.
Not bad. Not bad at all at all.
So far, reasonably good. I'd say that odds are >50% that Rendon is back in the minors before Mother's Day if Zimmerman is healthy. The Nationals will want him to be playing every day, and he has played a grand total of two games at 2b and one at SS in the minors.
You are also on record as having Zimmerman move to first base and Tyler Moore taking over LF with Denard Span being benched. I'll be shocked if either of those things happen this year.
Karns dominates tonight!


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Man rescued from Chula Vista storm drain went in to escape the heat
CHULA VISTA, Calif. - Firefighters rescued a man from a storm drain in Chula Vista on Monday.
The incident occurred in the 800 block of Fourth Avenue just after 9 p.m.
The man told 10News he was trapped inside the storm drain for about 12 hours. He said he went into the drain because his home does not have air conditioning and it was hot. That is when he became stuck.
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Cooking with gas? Bills about to jump
Brian Robins If you thought surging household energy bills were a thing of the past, think again.
Smart meters coming despite cost concerns
Brian Robins WITH little fanfare, the O'Farrell government is moving towards the introduction of the controversial ''smart meters'' in NSW.
Carbon tax fallout will hit power bills
Brian Robins Household electricity prices will become exposed to world oil prices following the introduction of a carbon tax, which will result in more electricity being generated from gas.
White paper warns of power price hit on households
Brian Robins NSW households would face electricity price rises of 13.35 per cent if a heavily polluting power station was closed, a federal government study has found.
Warning over cuts to solar scheme
Brian Robins The state government has thrown its weight behind a move to halve the price paid for solar electricity, amid warnings of further job losses if the lower rate is implemented.
World demand for gas sparks fears for supply
Brian Robins The federal government has signalled that it may need to intervene in the gas market to ensure uninterrupted domestic supplies, amid a boom in overseas demand for Australian gas.
City of Sydney plans recycled water network
Brian Robins The City of Sydney council is finalising plans for a recycled water network to be established throughout much of the city.
Coal seam gas claims were 'falsified'
Brian Robins The head of one of the most active groups opposing coal seam gas has been accused of falsifying claims by US researchers in submissions to official inquiries.
Oil, gas licences ignite demands for overhaul
Brian Robins The state must overhaul oil and gas exploration licences as it grapples with rising concerns of farmers over the loss of control of their land and a surging demand for access, environmental groups...
Price rises flood in with water the latest
Brian Robins The price of water is set to rise for the average Sydney household by up to $166 over the next four years.
Fears over higher electricity prices
Brian Robins NSW would face higher electricity prices and also carbon emissions if development of the state's gas resources stored in coal seams is not allowed to proceed, an inquiry is to be told today.
Water to fill carbon tax hole in state coffers
Brian Robins The NSW government is planning to siphon hundreds of millions of dollars out of Sydney Water over the next few years, as it moves to replace falls in money received from state-owned electricity...
Solar energy cost hits par with coal fuel
Ben Cubby, Brian Robins, Melissa Lahoud The cost of solar power in parts of NSW has for the first time crept below that of coal-fired electricity - seen as a key tipping point for the expansion of renewable energy.
Group buyers feel empowered
Brian Robins A Sydney lawyer has launched a group-buying scheme aimed at winning large discounts from electricity retailers.
Price rises pay off for electricity consumers
Brian Robins Rising electricity prices and a new awareness of ways to cut use have slashed consumer demand.
Water price equity means big bill rise for apartments
Brian Robins Unit dwellers are facing steep increases in their water bills as a result of a review being conducted by the pricing regulator, the Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal.
NSW bids for unity on coal seam gas rules
Leonie Lamont, Brian Robins The ban by the NSW government on ''fractured stimulation'', better known as ''fracking'', in the NSW coal seam gas sector is unlikely to be extended beyond year-end, with the regulatory regime set to...
Farmers see threat in $900m Santos buyout
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Brian Robins The Shooters and Fishers Party wants the new state government to allow the hunting of feral animals in national parks along with a review of marine parks, saying ''political'' factors underscored...
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Brian Robins AS MANY as 10 nuclear units in large power stations in eastern Japan were shut down after the earthquake.


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Published on: May 22, 2012 - 8:30am
ABS-CBNNews.com reports that pop star Lady Gaga defied "threats from conservative Christians" by singing the song, "Judas," and "Born This Way," which has been tagged as a gay anthem, on the first night of her concert series at the SM Mall of Asia on Monday, May 21.
The report further revealed: "The American pop singer and songwriter, who is known for her outlandish costumes, arrived on stage riding a black stallion. She opened her concert wearing a conservative Filipiniana-like Armani dress amid the backdrop of a protest by conservative Christians in the country." The singer then declared, "I'm not a creature of your government, Manila."
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John Manuel Floyd
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Height: 6-1 Weight: 195 lbs.
Born: September 10, 1956 in Big Sandy, TX
High School: Gladewater
College: La-Monroe (school history) (Floyd college stats)
Drafted by the San Diego Chargers in the 4th round (104th overall) of the 1979 NFL Draft.
Weighted Career AV (100-95-...): 2 (11632nd overall since 1950)
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After my experience with Melville's Maple Sugar Spoons, I was determined to give a different flavor another try. I was really keen on giving the honey versions to try, but as soon as I started hunting them down I couldn't find them for the life of me. I found the Mulling Spice Spoons instead, and figured that these will have to do in the meantime. It seems to be one of those situations that as soon as I stop looking, they'll magically find me somehow.
These spoons are the same format as the Maple Sugar spoons I had before. A large chunk of hard candy shaped like a spoon, with a beautifully crafted wooden handle sticking out of one end. The candy part of these spoons are a bright, semi opaque fire engine red.
Of course these are meant to be stirred into a mug of apple juice or apple cider. I tried that as well as eating it as is.
The flavor is very much like a coating of a candy apple. Fake apple flavor with a hint of spicy cinnamon. I hesitate to call it a "mulled" flavor, as mulling spices are more about the elements of allspice, clove and orange peel in my mind. On it's own the spoon tasted sort of lackluster, granted I prefer this fake apple cinnamon flavor to the sour apple of a Jolly Rancher, but it still doesn't do anything for me. In a mug of cider, I do get the sweetness and the hit of cinnamon. The fake apple flavor is masked by the juice.
Again, not terribly impressed with these. I liked them better than the Maple Sugar Spoons. I'm still going to give the honey ones a go if I ever come across them.
Rating: Might Eat Again
Links Mellville Candy Company Website


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Wade Mountain Nature Preserve consists of 843 acres of forest with 8.5 miles of trails. Its users include hikers (and trail runners), mountain bikers, and horse riders. (This is the only Land Trust preserve which allows horses.)
The preserve is well-forested and the trails are well-marked. According to Briartech.com, the main feature of the preserve is the Devil's Racetrack--originally the only trail, circling the upper prominence where the devil supposedly "hangs out." There are now additional trails called Harris, Shovelton, Wade, and Rock Wall. Briartech.com also contains information about the plant life of the Preserve:
The Racetrack Trail reaches a saddle between ridges that is mostly open except for a few scraggily cedar trees. This is considered a "cedar glade" and has special plant populations. To the east is the race track loop which has the spectacular American Columbo plants. Every 5 years or so these normally low growing plants, shoot up a 6-8 foot stalks with a showy inflorescence. The north side of the racetrack loop has nice views of northern Madison County. The western loops have a number of wildflower types, especially the new Rock Wall trail.
WHAT: Wade Mountain Nature Preserve.
WHO: Suitable for all ages. The technicality of the hiking here is rated easy-to-moderate.
WHY: You want to get outside, be next to nature, and explore some of the trails in Huntsville.
WHEN: Any time. (Avoid muddy areas when it rains to prevent erosion.)
WHERE: Huntsville, AL. Wade Mountain Nature Preserve is not far from Alabama A&M University. If heading north on Memorial Parkway, turn left on Hollow Road (the first road north of Winchester Highway). Then turn right on Spragins Hollow Road. The Land Trust parking lot will be on the right, at 9500 Spragins Hollow Road.
HOW: Free to the public, but donations are encouraged and there is a donation box at the trailhead.
FOR MORE INFO: Visit Land Trust of North Alabama online, on Facebook, and on Twitter.
Wade Mountain Nature Preserve - Parking Lot
This is the Land Trust sign that identifies the parking area for Wade Mountain Nature Preserve. For Google Maps directions, use "9500 Spragins Hollow Road" in Huntsville, AL.
Wade Mountain Nature Preserve - Trailhead
This is the trailhead for Wade Mountain Nature Preserve. The board includes a map showing all of the trails. There are two picnic tables to the left (not pictured). There is also a collection box for donations to the Land Trust of North Alabama.
Wade Mountain Nature Preserve - Multi-Use
Wade Mountain Nature Preserve is a multiple-use trail that is open to hikers, bicyclists, and equestrians. This is the only Land Trust of North Alabama preserve open to equestrians.
Wade Mountain Nature Preserve - Trail
This is a photo taken on the Devil's Racetrack Trail in the Wade Mountain Nature Preserve. Note that there are some rocks embedded in the trail, making for potentially tricky footing in some areas.
Wade Mountain Nature Preserve - Fauna
Wade Mountain Nature Preserve is home to many species of wildlife, including woodpeckers such as the one pictured here. Be sure to listen and look for more.
Wade Mountain Nature Preserve - Flora
This is one of many neat ecological features you can see while hiking in the Wade Mountain Nature Preserve. Be sure to keep your eyes open and look around to find others.


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September 15, 2003 - Issue #167
From the Desk of Laurie Likes Books:
Although all the topics presented this time were worked on independently, it turns out that there are some running themes throughout. Lists Editor Rachel Potter's discussion of the amnesia plot is followed by a segment on mythology, the collective unconscious, and how classic myths fit into today's romance novels. That leads into a short discussion entitled "A Surprise," and then we come back to a classic theme - the big misunderstanding. And finally we move back to the collective and a segment on shared reading histories.
In Defense of the Clichéd Plot Device (Rachel Potter)
This month, in my duties as Lists Editor, I'm updating the Amnesia List. In doing my preliminary searching for new titles, I came across a number of AAR reviews that trumpeted the fact that this particular series romance was not an amnesia plot (not to mention the earlier ATBF segment generally decrying the amnesia plot).
This started me wondering :What's intrinsically wrong with amnesia plots? Why do we look down our noses at them? Is it because amnesia itself is so unlikely or is it in the execution of the plot that most authors go wrong? Yes, amnesia is rarely believable and the approach authors usually take with it is medically unlikely, but the modern Marriage of Convenience stretches the limit of believability too. Both are staples of romance and daytime soaps, but "amnesia" is always said with a sneer. Why?
To American readers amnesia plots should appeal as an extension of our national philosophy. At its heart, the amnesia plot explores the question "Who are we when we don't have to be us?" It's a way to examine how identity is different from one's integral self. Isn't that what we are about as a country - both historically and presently?
Just recall Emma Lazsrus' famous poem inscribed at the base of the Statue of Liberty:
Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!
Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!
The American Dream is all about creating yourself anew. So is the amnesia plot.
Recently I got a chance to watch the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. During my marathon of 78 Buffy episodes (seasons 1-4) I noticed that the Buffyverse makes it much easier to ask that same question. No amnesia is necessary. Instead, you can be cursed into a new identity, chemically regressed to your most basic adolescent self, or body switched. I was always extremely pleased to see these Buffy plots because it meant both a change for the actors and also further character exploration, in terms of what it meant to be Buffy or Willow or Giles at their cores.
Why can't we give amnesia romances the same kind of slack? Really what they are trying to explore is that nature/nurture question we all ponder. When you distill us down to our most pure essence, filtering out all the conditioning and environmental factors and group dynamics, who are we? Are we better? Are we worse? Are we recognizable?
Perhaps we have so much disdain for the amnesia plot because losing your memory almost always produces the same results. It's interesting that in romance, memory loss commonly results in a less complicated, nicer personality. Recently I read Mary Jo Putney's Uncommon Vows. The heroine was quite feisty to start off with and completely opposed to the hero's lascivious plans for her. One knock in the head later and she's docile, innately sexual, and eager to please. She's a lusty little saint - any hero's dream come to earth.
This example illustrates well the pervasive underlying myth we have in America, that if you take away any cultural factors, we are all basically the same underneath. Culture, money, social status, manners and such are all just social constructs obscuring true selves. This is a very nice democratic ideal, but is it true? Do we really believe that? Apparently so. It would be interesting to read a Phineas Gage-type story in which head trauma leads to less desirable personality characteristics and the hero or heroine has to cope with the challenges of living with someone completely different and not necessarily better. This would be an excellent opportunity to examine what love truly is.
I believe the amnesia/change of identity plot still has some life in it if authors would take it more seriously and not use it as a gimmick. The complexity of the human brain and the notion of identity are fascinating concepts and could provide thought-provoking material. What do you think?
The Stories of Our Lives (Laurie Likes Books)
Last week my daughter said that she'd learned from her 6th grade English teacher that The Lion King was based on Hamlet. As I silently blessed the teacher, I was brought up short when my daughter then asked, "What are Cinderella and Beauty and the Beast based on?"
Mythology and religious stories can be considered part of the collective unconscious, to be perfectly Jungian about it. The story of how Hercules ascended Mount Olympus after a life filled not only with triumph but adversity is not the only religious story about the son of a god and a woman who becomes immortal as a result of good works, and scholars have drawn parallels between Adam and Eve's fall from grace and Pandora's opening of her box. This is one reason given for how easily the pantheistic Greeks accepted Christianity as their faith.
Other mythical stories are about succession, how power is transferred from one generation to the next. Ouranos, after all, prevented the birth of his children only to suffer castration at the hands of his youngest son, the Titan Chronus, which resulted not only in his own death but in the birth of the goddess Aphrodite. Similarly, Chronus feared the power of his own children and swallowed them at birth, only to be tricked by his wife into swallowing a stone in lieu of Zeus. When Zeus came of age, he forced his father to regurgitate his siblings and ascended Mount Olympus with them.
Other myths tackled nature, sexuality, fidelity, and love, and over the years, fairy tales were spun around these same concepts. In many instances the violence associated with myth was transformed but the morals remained the same. While Disney may take myths, fairy tales, and Shakespeare and create animated features with them, so have romance novels borrowed from these rich traditions.
The Beauty and the Beast story goes back into history quite far; in fact, some peg the myth of Cupid and Psyche as the original Beauty and the Beast story. But the story we know today as Beauty and the Beast grew out of the full-length novel written by Madame Gabrielle de Villeneuve in 1740, not for children, but for her rather famous literary salon. She based her written story on oral traditions, and in her version, the beast's transformation back into the prince occurs before the end. A subsequent shortening of the tale does end when the beast transforms into the prince, and was written in 1756 by Madame Le Prince de Beaumont. This is the story most of us are familiar with, focuses on Beauty's virtues, and is clearly aimed at a younger audience.
There are countless take-offs on Beauty and the Beast in modern romance novels. Authors as diverse as Judith Ivory and Amanda Quick have written historical romances with this theme, which has also been explored in series romance by authors such as Amy Fetzer and in single title contemporaries like one I recently read, Susan Wilson's Beauty, but we'll talk more about that particular title later on. For now let's move on to other mythic and/or fairy tale themes common to romance novels, what they might mean, and why they endure.
Part of romantic love is sexual attraction, and exploring how beauty and ugliness might come together is endlessly fascinating. So too is the complexity of marriage and familial relationships; the twelve gods and goddesses of Mount Olympus were as dysfunctional a family as we've ever seen, involved in infidelity, jealousy, revenge, trickery, and just about every sort of betrayal you can imagine.
Another theme common to romance novels with a lengthy history is the passing of power and wealth. And when adding this succession theme to the element of family, sit back - you're in for a roller coaster of a ride. One reason I think historical romances continue to resonate is because many medievals deal with the passing of power as a result of war and other conflicts. Go back to Chronos and his father, and Zeus and Chronus and you'll see an early depiction of this; read medievals focusing on the Norman conquer of England or historicals set in the Regency where father and son are in conflict and you'll see what I mean. And perhaps the will stipulation and arranged marriages endure even in contemporary romance because they too deal with transfers of wealth and power from one generation to the next.
And then there's Cinderella, a story where goodness wins out over selfishness. There are at least 500 (some say 1,500) versions of this tale, and many a romance has featured a Cinderella-like heroine. Perhaps the earliest rendition of Cinderella comes from China, but instead of a fairy godmother there is a magical fish to assist the heroine. I can remember watching Leslie Ann Warren and Stuart Damon (known to many as Dr. Alan Quartermaine on General Hospital) in the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical version on television while I grew up. Later I shared this version with my own daughter on video when she was younger and its themes combining beauty and goodness against the ugliness of selfish behavior are truly parts of the collective unconscious.
There are many more fairy tales and myths out there that continue to resonate today, that continue to be a part, thematically speaking, of modern romance novels. Let's discuss some on the At the Back Fence Message Board, but here are some quick ones to help jog your memory:
Obviously I'm more of a lover of Greek mythology than other mythologies, but I think this is a good start to get us talking about the larger themes that become intimate ones in individual romances. For instance, the terms "infidelity" and "infidel" are based on the same root word, but infidelity is a word we associate with unfaithfulness in marriage. It is a "micro" word. Infidel, on the other hand, refers to entire groups of people considered religious non-believers. It is a "macro" word. While entire civilizations were built upon myths - how the gods affected the environments of those who lived in those places, in those times - they are of interest to us when viewed in the "micro" sense, when we think about the themes used in the books we love.
A Surprise (Laurie Likes Books)
Not long ago I read a reissued book by Susan Wilson, a novelist I've enjoyed in the past. She first came to my attention in 2000, with Hawk's Cove. While Cameo Lake, in 2001, didn't live up to my expectations, her 2002 release, The Fortune Teller's Daughter did, and I look forward to her new book, Summer Harbor, which I believe might be a sequel to Hawke's Cove - at least it's set there.
A few weeks ago I received a romance novel from Pocket (they continue to send me some releases even though AAR's Managing Editor Blythe Barnhill receives and assigns all books for review). It was entitled Beauty and it was written by Susan Wilson. Given that her novels all have a romantic component, I was intrigued, only to discover when I looked at the copyright page, that it was a reissue of a book first published in 1996, four years before the first of her women's fiction novels were released. In fact, according to BYRON, she had no books published after Beauty and before Hawke's Cove. Because the book was quite short, I wondered whether perhaps it had been published as a series title under a different name, but no, this was originally published by Pocket in 1996. Okay, then, because she wrote it and because it was labeled "romance," I'll read it.
Beauty is not a genre romance; it reminded me, both in style and content, of Twelve Across and Three Wishes, both by Barbara Delinsky, the former originally a series title from 1987 reissued in 2000, the latter women's fiction published in 1997. Getting beyond why Beauty is marked "Romance" on the spine when it isn't a romance, though, and I have a larger question: Are there authors writing fiction, womens' fiction, mystery, suspense today that began their careers as romance writers that you or those you know didn't realize wrote romance?
My husband, for instance, reads Tess Gerritson, but had no clue she began her career writing series romance. And my cousins were tickled to see me wearing a purple baseball cap embroidered with the words "Plum Crazy" last year when they figured out it was a Janet Evanovich/Stephanie Plum cap. They had no idea Evanovich also started her career as a series writer. I imagine there are some readers who only know Barbara Delinsky as an author of women's fiction, and I know of at least one author whose first non-romance release was marketed as her "debut."
Big Misunderstandings as a Guilty Pleasure (Anne Marble)
Kick me out of the romance reader club. I confess, now and then (all right, all right, more often than not), I like to read big misunderstanding books. Yes, yes, I know they are the bane of romance plots, but I can't help myself. I like the darned things - except when I hate them.
Sometimes, I'm even drawn to the ones I am sure I will hate. I swear I must have a Big Mis Gland. Sometimes, like Audrey in Little Shop of Horrors, my Big Mis gland cries "Feed me! Feed me!" This is why I keep an emergency stash of Kat Martin historicals and the like on my shelves.
Now what is it about the Big Mis plot that I like? Maybe it's the emotional tension. Maybe it's the grovel at the end, whether it comes from the hero or heroine. Maybe I just like feeling smarter than the hero and heroine. Or maybe I like these plots because when I started reading romances, almost all romances had a crisis about three-quarters of the way through the book where the hero and heroine split up for a while. Hence the big misunderstanding. So maybe I just got used to the good ol' days of heroes and heroines who suddenly turned into blithering idiots on page 300 (page 140 or so in series romances). Oh, nostalgia!
I'm not kidding here. Some of my first memories of romance novels involve Big Mis plots. Some I remembered because they were memorable, others I remembered because they were so over-the-top. Yet even if I rolled my eyes at the stupidity of the characters, I still managed to love the repercussions of the Big Mis. I knew there'd be ladles of angst and tension. Even better, I knew that eventually one or both characters would have to admit they were wrong, apologize, and maybe even confess to a secret. I've always liked plots with those elements. Even when I was young and my main reading consisted of authors like Beverly Cleary and Scott Corbett, I was both fascinated and repelled by the fairy tale of Patient Griselda, which I consider to be the ultimate Big Mis story - with the biggest doormat of a heroine ever.
In Patient Griselda, Gualtieri, the Marquis of Saluzzo, is wary of the dangers of marrying an "unsuitable woman," but is forced to marry to get an heir. A beautiful peasant woman named Griselda proves all he desires; she is beautiful and obedient. But rather than thanking his lucky stars, he remains suspicious and forces her to endure a series of horrible tests to prove herself over a 13-year-period. Not only does he verbally abuse her, he forces her to work as a servant dressed in rags, and convinces her that he has had their children killed (instead he sends them off to a kinswoman, who raised the daughter on the sly for 12 years, the son for 6). Eventually he hatches an elaborate plot as her final test of obedience, informing her that he is kicking her out and taking a lovely young woman as his new wife (unbeknownst to Griselda et al, his "betrothed" is none other than their daughter). And how does Griselda respond when Gualtieri asks what she thinks of the lovely young bride-to-be?
"My lord," replied Griselda, "I think mighty well of her; and if she be but as discreet as she is fair - and so I deem her - I make no doubt but you may reckon to lead with her a life of incomparable felicity; but with all earnestness I entreat you, that you spare her those tribulations which you did once inflict upon another that was yours, for I scarce think she would be able to bear them, as well because she is younger, as for that she has been delicately nurtured, whereas that other had known no respite of hardship since she was but a little child."
"My lord," replied Griselda, "I think mighty well of her; and if she be but as discreet as she is fair - and so I deem her - I make no doubt but you may reckon to lead with her a life of incomparable felicity; but with all earnestness I entreat you, that you spare her those tribulations which you did once inflict upon another that was yours, for I scarce think she would be able to bear them, as well because she is younger, as for that she has been delicately nurtured, whereas that other had known no respite of hardship since she was but a little child."
It's at this point that Gualtieri determines Griselda is worthy after all; she's passed his final test. Frankly, I think the one in need of tests here is Gualtieri - of the Rorschach variety - but at the celebration that follows, Gualtieri was judged the wisest of men (albeit guilty of subjecting his wife to intolerable tests) and Griselda was judged wisest of them all.
Like many other readers, one of my first romances ever was Woodiwiss' The Flame and the Flower. That book is both a perennial favorite of many romance fans and a classic eye-roller for many others. The whole thing starts because the heroine, Heather, thinks she has killed her aunt's slimy brother. Then she runs off and is mistaken for a prostitute by a couple of sailors, so she lets them bring her to their captain, Brandon, who thinks she is a prostitute, because she thinks they are police who know she committed murder. She doesn't even balk when she sees the ship, because she thinks they are already ready to transport her to Australia. (I know justice was swift and cruel in those days, but come on, this is ridiculous.) Brandon rapes her, she gets pregnant, and romance novel history is made. The book goes on like this, with more big misunderstandings, some stemming from the volatile combination of Brandon's jealousy and the "murder" Heather is still trying to conceal. It was an exciting read, especially once everything came out right at the end. At the same time, it was frustrating, even in those days of yore, when my Big Mis gland was more demanding and... All right, all right, maybe I was just a less picky reader.
Although even when I was a less picky reader, I knew that when the plot hinged on a silly Big Mis, that something wasn't right. I found it hard to respect a "hero" who would condemn the heroine he loved so much because he saw her hugging a man, who of course would turn out to be her beloved stepbrother. And I found it just as hard to respect a heroine who, instead of saying "That was my beloved stepbrother, you ass," would say something along the lines of "You're right, I'm a slut." before striding away and waiting for him to grow some common sense.
Big Misunderstandings that Go Thud?
Okay, so Big Mis stories can be fun. But as we all know, so often, when the characters don't use common sense, they can fail. So what makes a Big Mis plot got phhhhsssttt, so much so that even a "closet" fan like me hates it? Usually, rampant stupidity. And characters who forget the concept of rational discourse. (Intercourse, they can manage, but discourse is beyond them.) Oh, and let's not forget heroines get so caught up in pride and anger that they counter stupid accusations by pretending the hero is right. Yeah, that's sure to seal the health and stability of your relationship.
Like most other readers, I hate, hate, hate big misunderstandings where smart and balanced characters suddenly become jealous, mistrustful twits. Especially just in time for a nice little conflict before the ending. Or those where one of the characters keeps essential information from the other for no apparent reason. (Gotta give Woodiwiss credit, at least Heather had a pretty good reason for concealing information; she thought she had murdered someone!) Oh, and let's not forget stories where the secondary characters conveniently avoid telling the characters that they are wrong about each other. (Oh, I'll read those stories in a pinch, to settle my "Big Mis gland," but I usually end up disappointed and cranky once I do so.)
In the 1980s, Harlequin Presents romances were famous for Big Mis plots. (At the same time, they put out some groundbreaking work, including books that broke rules still enforced by the Romance Police today.) I ate these books up, but I also learned to skim them before buying so that I didn't end up reading a truly silly Big Mis. Skimming saved me from reading one where the entire plot hinged on the heroine being unable to have children and ass/u/ming that the hero would not marry her because he wanted to have lots of children. Instead of telling him this, she walked away. If she had T-A-L-K-E-D to him, the book would have been about 70 pages long. Another one hinged on the hero getting the wrong impression about the heroine when a conniving relative called him from the hospital on a bad connection and told him that his wife had a "spontaneous abortion" (miscarriage). He spent years angry because he thought she had aborted his baby, and she fumed because she thought he had refused to come help her recover from a miscarriage. I guess hubby never heard Relationship Tip Number 535: Never divorce a spouse based on something a conniving relative told you over a phone with a bad connection.
Contrast those plots to Robyn Donald's Captives of the Past (Harlequin Presents 952), in which the heroine escaped an abusive first marriage but never told anyone about the abuse - because she didn't fit in with her step-family. When she learns that her younger sister is going to marry her abusive ex-husband, she tries to intervene, but no one believes her. They believe the ex-husband's lies and think she is simply jealous and trying to make trouble. Even the hero refuses to believe her. This led to a believable crisis. She had to stop the marriage, but no one believed her when she finally told them about the abuse because she had concealed the truth from them, giving the evil ex time to spread lies. No, the characters didn't behave as PC characters in a current romance might, but they were all too believable, and the Big Mis worked. (By the way, thanks to Donna on AARList for helping me remember the plot.)
Harlequin Presents were not alone in the Big Mis department, though. Consider the early Heather Graham novel, A Season for Love, a series romance put out by Candlelight Ecstasy. This is one of those "heroine married to wealthy dying artist to whom she has never made love meets the love of her life on a cruise" books. Because she's devoted to her dying husband, Ronnie lies to the hero, Drake, and pretends their shipboard romance was just a fling. When Drake later finds out she is married to a wealthy dying artist, Pieter von Hurst, Ronnie keeps up the pretense, letting him think she is a gold-digger. Even when the devoted dying husband frees her from the marriage, everything happens so that the hero takes that the wrong way, too. Pieter was behind a lot of what happened as he tried to push the two together. So ya woulda thunk if he wanted Drake to fall in love with his wife, he might have pointed out that she wasn't a gold-digger or something. Yes, I enjoyed this book when I first read it, but I also wanted to bash Ronnie, Drake, and Pieter at the head with a rubber mallet. From romance novel to Whack-a-Mole.
And then there's Diana Palmer's Heart of Ice. Yup, Anne's trotting that one out again. This is the one where the hero thought the heroine was a slut because she wrote sexy romance novels. Not only does he make this silly assumption, but at one point, she pretends to be a slut to secure a Big Secret. Lots of people in this book know that she is an innocent, but no one thinks to walk up to him and say "Her parents were missionaries. She is a virgin. You are acting like a dope." Yet did I throw this book down after the first such moment? Oh, no, a true Big Mis addict can't bring herself to do that. I read that book in the course of an afternoon - because I was too horrified to pull away. That's part of the frightening power of the Big Mis to and addict like me. Stop me before I throw the book against the wall again.
Another Big Mis that didn't quite work for me was in an historical romance novel. Near the end of the book, the heroine was kidnapped by a baddie who lusted after her. The baddie did thought he was raping her, but there was a big catch. He had no penis - it had been replaced with a reed or other device. When the heroine manages to get back to the hero, the hero tells her it's okay if she the baddie raped her because he knows she didn't want to have sex with that man, and she says something along the order of "No prob. He had no penis, just a reed, so he didn't rape me." The hero doesn't believe her, and she gets angry, and then he gets angry at her because he thinks she's not telling him the truth. Eventually they make up once the baddie is killed and indeed proves to have a wooden woody. The hero points out to the heroine that it was only natural he would disbelieve her story because it was so outlandish. Well that's exactly the point. Who would make that up?! If she were telling a lie, she would have said something like "He didn't rape me, he was impotent." Only someone telling the truth (or a romance writer!) would say something about the wooden woody. On the other hand, at least this didn't take up the whole novel to resolve, so it was only a blip in an otherwise good romance. That says something for the skill of the author. Too many authors let the Big Mis run away from them.
A silly Big Mis takes over Annette Couch-Jareb's Cyber Bride, reviewed in 1999 by Blythe Barnhill. The plot hinged on a whopper of the Big Mis. The hero spent most of the book believing that the heroine was married to a much older man. It's true that she was close to an older man named Harry. However, Harry was her.... (wait for it!) grandfather! It all seemed too contrived for Blythe.
Other AAR reviewers have had similar experiences with the Big Mis. Robin Uncapher admits that in her mind, the dumbest Big Mis of all time is the end of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, where Romeo kills himself because he thinks Juliet is dead. Interestingly, in the play The Elephant Man, John Merrick said that Romeo didn't really love Juliet because if he had, he would have made sure she was really dead before doing something so stupid as killing himself. John Merrick believed that Romeo loved only himself, and that he killed himself because the illusion was over. Or maybe that's just another way of saying that he was "in love with the idea of being in love." Interesting point. I think that many of the heroes and heroines in bad Big Mis plots don't really "get" love. When they see a flaw, real or imagined, in the person they think they love, it shatters them.
Teresa Galloway hates Big Mis plots that hinge on the hero thinking that the heroine is a slut. She wonders why these heroes are both so good and so bad at figuring out who is a virgin and who is not. Reviewer Marguerite Kraft doesn't like the major Big Mis (there are several) in Twitney, My Love Whitney, My Love. Because a complete stranger tells Clayton that Whitney has been sleeping her around, he rapes her, only to discover that, wonder of wonders, she is a virgin. As presented in the original edition of this book, the scene was especially brutal. But Marguerite wonders what would have happened if Whitney hadn't bled. She also hates the way this plot implied that Clayton would have been justified in raping her if she really had been a slut, and that the rape was only wrong because she was a virgin.
On the other hand, LLB loves the way the whole deflowering thing was handled in a couple of books - Catherine Coulter's Moonspun Magic, and Johanna Lindsey's Once a Princess. In Coulter's book, the Big Mis is partly predicated on a Big Secret; the two often go hand in hand. The heroine was injured in an accident that killed her parents, and as a result, her leg and hip is scarred and, what's worse, she comes up lame when she over-does physical activity. She believes she is hideous as a result of her injuries and is mortified that others should discover her flaws. He knows she has a secret to reveal, but thinks it must be that she's not a virgin, and so it goes between them until the true secret is revealed. His twin brother, a villain in the piece, drops evil hints throughout that he and the heroine have been lovers, feeding his brother's jealousy and fear that the woman who is so passionate in his bed wasn't a virgin. How the hero reacts when he discovers her real secret works wonderfully. He's mad, but not because, as she feared, she's "deformed." No, as he tells her in a fury, if only she'd told him the truth about her injuries, he could have helped her discomfort (and he wouldn't have been jealous and thought she'd slept with his brother).
In Lindsey's Once a Princess, the hero makes huge assumptions about the heroine's virginity (or lack thereof), believing at one point that she was a prostitute. He refuses to believe she's a virgin even after he deflowers her and she eventually stops protesting her innocence - what's the point? It's only later, much later, just before their marriage at the end of the book, in fact, that his valet slyly leaves him evidence of her earlier virginity. By this time they'd already grown to love and learned to trust one another - virginity truly isn't an issue anymore - and when he confronts her with the proof that he'd been an idiot, it's a nice reminder of how far they'd come as a couple. To me, that sounds like a healthier relationship than so many of the "Whoops, you're a virgin, I guess you're okay after all" plots that hinge on a hymen , an awfully small piece of flesh on which to stretch an entire plot.
Let's face it, if a Big Mis plot fizzles out, it's usually because it feels contrived, and the reader's suspension of disbelief is stretched as thin as a hymen. Contrived enough for readers to ask questions along the lines of "But what if she hadn't bled?" or "But why did he believe the stranger/evil step-mother/circus clown?" I know, I know, we're not supposed to second-guess the author. But if the hero spends the entire book loathing the heroine because he thinks she slept around, and they split up three-quarters of the way through, and then, on page 199 (of a 200-page novel), he finds out that she was a virgin and suddenly decides he was wrong and she is an angel, you have to wonder... Or if he learns that the heroine is an actress/model/romance novelist early in the book and decides that means she's a slut/a slut/a slut, then you have to wonder....
Big Misunderstandings that Pack a Wallop
Okay, we've all seen examples of the Big Mis that didn't work. How can the Big Mis work? There are three important words: character, character, character. Get the picture?
I've already ranted about Big Mis plots with characters who act, well, out of character. On the other hand, if an author creates a Big Mis plot in which the characters have real, believable reasons for distrusting each other or hiding stuff from each other, I am in what my brother calls "Dummy's Heaven."
And by believable reasons, I don't mean "My wife slept around, so all women are whores." Puh-leaze. Oh, and just because the hero has managed to be betrayed by every woman he knows since the was four years old, that doesn't mean it's OK if he distrusts the heroine. That goes in the Department of Contrivances, I'm afraid.
But when a Big Mis plot works without being contrived... Ooooh.
Take Johanna Lindsey's Prisoner of My Desire - echoing Henny Youngman, many fans would say, "Take Prisoner of my Desire - please.") Rowena must consummate her marriage to a skanky old lord and carry his child, or her evil step-brother will take it out on her mother. The skanky old lord dies, putting a huge wrench in their works. So the evil step-brother decides on the perfect plan - let's kidnap a serf who looks like her husband, chain him to the bed, and make Rowena have sex with him. The "serf" is a knight, Warrick deChaville, however, and Warrick takes his revenge on Rowena, taking her away and imprisoning her. Sure, it's a plot that gives a lot of readers hives, but it works because Rowena is driven by desperate need to do what she does yet at the same time doesn't dare tell Warrick why she is doing it, and Warrick's need for vengeance against her also makes perfect sense. It's the kind of plot only Johanna Lindsey in her prime could have gotten away with.
Another Lindsey that could have gotten embroiled in a Big Mis and didn't was Hearts Aflame. In that one, the heroine, Kristen, becomes the Viking slave of a Saxon, Royce, when her brothers attempt to raid his lands but fail. She sees her brother Selig cut down in battle. Later in the book, Selig turns up alive, and she helps him disguise himself as a Celt. Once Royce and Kristen become lovers, Royce does get jealous because of her secrecy, but that doesn't overtake the book. The reason? I think it's because Kristen is too busy kicking butt. Sure, Royce is an alpha male, but Kristen is an alpha female. In the first scene, she draws a knife on a would-be rapist. I like this woman. If faced with a Big Mis that lasted too long, she would have sliced it in half with a sword.
The Funny Big Misunderstanding
Even readers who loathe big misunderstandings usually don't mind them at all when they're used comically. I think it's because we're willing to stretch our willing suspension of disbelief a little more when we're reading something funny.We've come to expect contrivances in comedies, just as we expect them in most sitcoms, and we don't mind as long as they make us laugh. If we're laughing, we're less likely to roll our eyes - it really is hard to laugh and roll your eyes at the same time.
A contrived Big Mis that would ruin a serious romance can work like a charm if it's made farcical.For example, take the beginning of Bonnie Tucker's Hannah's Hunks. For several pages near the beginning of this Harlequin Love & Laughter, the hero (who is working undercover) thinks the heroine is running a male escort service because she handed him a business card that said "Hannah's Hunks." This manly agent nearly flips his lid when she asks him if he wants to try one of her hunks. But before he can arrest her for being a madam, her "hunk" turns out to be a type of candy!
Imagine that Big Mis playing out in a serious romance, especially one that dragged on for pages. It would go phhhhsssttt. Picture your reaction if the hero suspected the heroine for pages and pages, only to find out she was dealing in sweets rather sex. How big would the dent in your wall be? It sounds about as contrived as the Big Big Mis in Cyber Bride. But lasting for a few pages, in a short, funny romance like Hannah's Hunks, it was just right.
Let's face it, most Big Mis plots are silly to start out with. So putting them inside a comic framework may be the best use for them! A Big Mis may be easier to take if it occurs in a humorous book. In a funny book, the Big Mis, no matter how serious, can't overtake the plot. There is too much else going on, and the reader is having too much fun to worry about the Big Mis. Julia Quinn, for instance, used a Big Mis in Everything and the Moon. Yup, that's right, Julia Quinn. She is definitely not the type of author anyone associates with the Big Mis! In Everything and the Moon, there is a Big Mis - the hero and heroine were in love but driven apart years ago. But unlike so many similar books, this one isn't about anger and bickering, it's about two characters who made assumptions in the past and who grow beyond them. In a farce, lots of misunderstandings, big and little, can create comedy.
Funny Big Mis plots are, well, fun - but they usually don't satisfy my cravings. To really do that, I need lots of angst and stuff. Unfortunately, the serious Big Mis plots so often take out the fun and replace it with inane behavior. Sigh, what is a "closet" Big Mis fan to do?
Of course, Big Mis plots in comedies go back a long time - even before Three's Company. I love Shakespeare's Much Ado about Nothing, even though its Big Mis is quite lame. Claudio acts like a complete twit and believes that his fiancée Hero betrayed him with another man. So why do I love this play? Because it's really about Beatrice and Benedick, that's why. By making Beatrice and Benedick the real central couple, Shakespeare turned Much Ado about Nothing into a romp. Had it been about Claudio and hero, it would have been the comic version of Othello. Can't picture that? Don't worry, neither can I. I doubt even Harold Hecuba/Phil Silvers could have turned that one into Broadway gold. <g>
When is a Big Mis Plot Not a Big Mis?
In the right hands, stories about miscommunication and secrets no longer seem like a Big Mis plot. A great example is Adele Ashworth's My Darling Caroline. Caroline wants to study botany and is accomplished at mathematics - not desirable traits in a woman in Regency England. She secretly plans to travel to America to study botany at a university. But an unexpected arranged marriage to Brent Ravenscroft threatens her plans. She plans to get an annulment and travel to America later, only she has to fight her attraction for her husband. Yes, once Brent learns of Caroline's secret plans, he is angry. But both characters have secrets, and it takes a lot of effort for them to mend their relationship.
In My Darling Caroline, the elements of the Big Mis plot are there, but the characters act like real people, so it no longer seems like a Big Mis plot. It becomes a plot about miscommunication and secrets, rather than a Big Mis story. Or maybe a book like this really is a Big Mis plot, but we're just afraid to use that label. This is like categorizing some heroes as "gamma" instead of "alpha" - some fans have said that they think "gamma" is just a label that readers use if they feel guilty about liking alpha heroes. Maybe if a book is that good, people don't want to admit that it's a Big Mis plot because so many Big Mis books suck.
What do you think? I think it's a tough call. As you might have noticed, I'm a fan of Big Mis stories and have learned to stop being guilty about that. Yet at the same time, I still don't feel right labeling My Darling Caroline as a Big Mis story. It is, instead, the kind of story that can please both fans and detractors of the Big Mis. Big Mis fans get all the elements of the Big Mis - secrets, tension, angst, and apologies - but without the contrivances.And those who hate the Big Mis get a powerful story with, of course, secrets, tension, angst, and apologies. I think a story like MDC shows what I like about the Big Mis story, without actually being a Big Mis story. Although there was a suspense subplot in this book, the greatest tension came from wondering when Caroline would tell Brent her secret wishes - and wondering how Brent would react. The tension came from the characters, rather than from contrivances, and that made the tension all the better. The book wasn't about a Big Mis, it was about characters trying to work through secrets and lots of baggage and coming to know each other.
Passing On the Books We Loved (Laurie Likes Books)
Reading Anne's enthusiastic remembrances of Big Mis romances she loved years ago reminded me of some of my own favorite books, although these are books from my childhood. And when I finalized my recent Q&A with Jill Marie Landis and realized that one of the books she loved growing up was mentioned by several posters on a message board discussion this spring, I thought we could talk about the idea of passing on the books we loved.
At the end of May, author Carla Kelly asked what books we loved that our children or grandchildren now love, I'll admit I haven't been too lucky in this area; my daughter's reading tastes differ greatly from my own, and I can't interest her in Mrs. Mike, Gone With the Wind, Emmy Keeps a Promise, or The Five Little Peppers and How They Grew. We've had far more luck discovering contemporary YA fiction together, although one series we both loved at roughly the samela age was Sydney Taylor's All of a Kind Family series. When I discovered the Betsy and Tacy series for her when she was much younger, I wish I'd known of it when I grew up.
One of my friends at The Romance Reader, Susan Scribner, has had fun reading books for the first time along with her own daughter. When her daughter, mine, and Blythe's put together their list of Young Adult Fiction for AAR last year, I knew that many of the titles on all three girls' lists were books Susan, Blythe, and I read along with our daughters. As Susan pointed out, "I dreamed of sharing the books I loved with my children but I've learned that you have to let them be themselves. And that sharing doesn't only go in one direction." Like my own daughter, Susan's finds many older books slow-moving and wasn't interested in the Little House series, although, unlike her daughter, mine has enjoyed the Narnia Chronicles, and, like Blythe's daughter, thought Anne of Green Gables was wonderful.
But if it weren't for my daughter, I'd never have discovered, as Susan did, both Louis Sachar (Holes, There's a Boy in the Girl's Bathroom) and J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter). And, like Alison Kent, if not for daughters would I have ever discovered Louise Rennison's Georgia Nicholson series (even though simply mentioning the title of the fourth book - Dancing in my Nuddy-Pants - in mixed company has my daughter wishing I were invisible).
But many children remain traditionalists and enjoy books beloved by parents and grandparents; even in our house we have a daily reminder of The Velveteen Rabbit because of the threadbare condition of a certain stuffed bear who remains a valued member of our family.
One book that resonated for at least two generations of readers is The Witch of Blackbird Pond. Not only does Landis have fond memories of it (and Calico Captive, both by the same author, Elizabeth George Speare), but former AAR Editor and upcoming Avon author Marianne Stillings recalls staying up most of the night reading it. And she loves that her two daughters "love it as much as I did."
For Carla Kelly, the book was Alice Dalgliesh's The Bears on Hemlock Mountain, first published in 1952. Her mother read it to her while growing up, and she returned the favor by reading it to her oldest grandson. And how many women and their daughters, do you suppose, are like Blythe and her daughter, both of whom love, love, love A Little Princess, first published in 1905? It's the story about a young girl whose magical early life is rudely ripped away when her father dies and she becomes an orphan under the supervision of a cruel school headmistress. It's her imagination that gets her through the tough times, and by the time she's rescued by a mysterious benefactor who turns out to be a family friend, it's impossible not to be bawling like a baby. With so many mythic themes in A Little Princess, one can only wonder how many romance novels were written in homage to Frances Hodgson Burnett (who also wrote The Secret Garden).
Other books that have been passed from one generation to the next are Esther Forbes' Johnny Tremain, which explores the Revolutionary War through the eyes of a young man injured in an accident. But when I say "passed," that doesn't necessary mean successfully. Pegg was thrilled when her daughter was assigned to read it in school and gave it a tremendous build up. Unfortunately, her daughter hated it, leaving mom terribly disappointed. On the other hand, Marianne's daughters both enjoyed it.
Susan has had mixed success with her three sons. The Narnia books are a family favorite, but she couldn't get any of them to read Caddie Woodlawn. But as with the other Susan, and me, sharing of favorites goes both ways. She discovered Robin McKinley's Beauty when her son got it as a gift. She writes, "He and I stayed up late reading it out loud to each other as my husband shouted up the stairs 'it's past his bedtime, turn out the light,'" adding that her eldest son convinced her to read Neil Gaiman's American Gods and "the middle one loved Richard Russo's Empire Falls so much he practically stood over me until I finished it. He was right; it's a lovely book."
It's wonderful to love a book beloved by a loved one, and I hope to hear from more of you about books shared - in both directions - between parents and children. My daughter, btw, read Caddie Woodlawn in school last year - and hated it. Thankfully she loved The Phantom Tollbooth or I'd have started to wonder just who her "real" mother was! <g>
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It's interesting to note that Telltale is working with HBO, so the games will likely follow the show's narrative, with its slight alterations from the adapted books. Though as far as that goes, I'm sure they'll skip over the gratuitous amounts of nudity and adult content that the showrunners felt the books were lacking in. Hopefully they'll retain the alarming casualty rate and crippling sadness that the story is known for.
In all seriousness, as popular as the books were, the show's fandom has grown to epic proportions, so it does make the best jumping off point. Not to mention these will likely be side stories, so the small changes in the primary narrative likely won't matter. It's not unlike how The Walking Dead game only came about after the massively successful show was produced.
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p0ps Harlow (1220 days)
you caught them! good job, it's hard even to see them.
Is it just me, but isn't low flying aircraft exactly NOT how to commemorate an air raid on our city? It would be one thing if jet fighters had intercepted the hijacked planes and miraculously brought the incident to a peaceful conclusion, but they didn't and aircraft over Manhattan has bothered me since. Doesn't anyone think this through?
Ed Yourdon (1220 days)
I suspect they never bothered asking any of the citizens of NYC how they felt about the presence of low-flying fighters.
I'll never forget the first year after 9-11, when a pair of hot-dog jet pilots had a "race" up the Hudson River, at full throttle, in the pre-dawn hours — making a thunderous noise that woke up almost everyone in Manhattan.
Military officials first denied that it had taken place, and then later admitted, somewhat sheepishly, that the pilots had been reprimanded for their actions. Apparently it was at the end of their "shift" of flying over NYC (as if Osama was coming back to launch another attack on the first anniversary), and the pilots were bored…
p0ps Harlow (1220 days)
Not to complain on and on, but, from my apt, I see the downtown skyline and each year, when the twin beams of light are shining, I watch small planes fly thru the beams, lighting up the planes' underside. I'm thinking, what is wrong with these pilots? How can they be so disrespectful? Don't they realize what they're doing? Is this just some kind of game to them?
I've said enough, thnx, Ed, for the forum.


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Having to bury a child is an unimaginable tragedy, and in the face grief it is hard to know what an unexpectedly discovered letter may bring. So often, when we see the handwriting of someone who has died, we feel that person's presence. There is little, after all, that is more unique than handwriting. Holding a letter that has felt the touch of someone's hand may be as close as we can get to a caress.
Found letters at their best hold memories, love, and sometimes new information. They let us into the life of someone who has left this world. The parents of Taylor Scout Smith, who died recently from complications of pneumonia, have suffered the unbearable tragedy of having to bury a child. While cleaning up her room, they discovered a letter she had written to herself in April of 2013, a letter in a sealed enveloped that she was to open herself in ten years.
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"The Real Housewives of New York City" has had quite a season already. Fans have watched as Ramona Singer has lost her cool several times and even threw a glass at Kristen Taekman. There has been drama between Carole Radziwill and Aviva Drescher about a book. It has lovingly been dubbed "Bookgate" by friends and fans of the housewives. According to a May 23 report from E! Online, "Glee" star Lea Michele weighed in on the book scandal and revealed she is "Team Carole" all the way. Radziwill and Michele are friends and have been for quite some time.
There was quite the drama over Aviva Drescher claiming that Carole Radziwill's book was written by a ghostwriter. Radziwill claims that she exclusively wrote the book but Drescher doesn't buy it. After a huge outburst at LuAnn's party, the two eventually called a truce. Drescher hasn't been seen on "The Real Housewives of New York City" in a few weeks with rumors swirling she may have been fired.
Twitter is still buzzing about "The Real Housewives of New York City." The latest incident where Ramona Singer threw the glass is still being talked about. Fans are calling for her to be fired, but no actions have been taken as of yet. The women are very much either "Team Ramona" or "Team Kristen," with the majority voting the latter.
Lea Michele appeared on "Watch What Happens Live" with host Andy Cohen when she made the comment about being "Team Carole." Michele even made a snide remark about Aviva Drescher to Cohen. It will be interesting to see whether or not Drescher will respond to Michele or move on. No one knows for sure who will returning next season to the show, but rumors are circulating that Drescher may be out with LuAnn taking her place.
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