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From the author of the beloved novel The Giant's House—finalist for the National Book Award—comes a beautiful new story collection, her first in twenty years. Laced through with the humor, the empathy, and the rare and magical descriptive powers that have led Elizabeth McCracken's fiction to be hailed as "exquisite" (The New York Times Book Review), "funny and heartbreaking" (The Boston Globe), and "a true marvel" (San Francisco Chronicle), these nine vibrant stories navigate the fragile space between love and loneliness. In "Property," selected by Geraldine Brooks for The Best American Short Stories, a young scholar, grieving the sudden death of his wife, decides to refurbish the Maine rental house they were to share together by removing his landlord's possessions. In "Peter Elroy: A Documentary by Ian Casey," the household of a successful filmmaker is visited years later by his famous first subject, whose trust he betrayed. In "The Lost & Found Department of Greater Boston," the manager of a grocery store becomes fixated on the famous case of a missing local woman, and on the fate of the teenage son she left behind. And in the unforgettable title story, a family makes a quixotic decision to flee to Paris for a summer, only to find their lives altered in an unimaginable way by their teenage daughter's risky behavior.
In Elizabeth McCracken's universe, heartache is always interwoven with strange, charmed moments of joy—an unexpected conversation with small children, the gift of a parrot with a bad French accent—that remind us of the wonder and mystery of being alive. Thunderstruck & Other Stories shows this inimitable writer working at the full height of her powers.
Praise for Thunderstruck & Other Stories
"Restorative, unforgettable . . . a powerful testament to the scratchy humor and warm intelligence of McCracken's writing."—Sylvia Brownrigg, The New York Times Book Review (Editor's Choice)
"[A] bewitching and wise collection . . . playful, even joyful."—O: The Oprah Magazine
"Stunningly beautiful . . . brilliantly moving . . . Moments of joy and pure magic flicker and pitch-perfect humor acts as a furtive SOS signal through the fog of loss."—Los Angeles Times
"Each of Thunderstruck's nine stories is a storm: delightful and destructive, packed with electricity, fascinating to watch unfold."—Salon
"The stories here are brilliant, funny and heartbreaking. . . . Elizabeth McCracken is a national treasure."—Paul Harding, The Wall Street Journal
"Pure delight: one lyrical, impeccably constructed sentence after another."—Chicago Tribune
"Beautifully wrought . . . As painstaking as a watchmaker, McCracken disassembles life down to its smallest parts."—The Boston Globe
Editorial Reviews
McCracken's short stories are like no others. Her distinctive voice, her slightly askew manner of looking at the world, her mix of mordant humor and tenderness, her sense of life's ironies, and the jolt of electricity at the end of each tale make her work arresting and memorable. In this collection of nine short narratives (McCracken's return to short fiction 20 years after Here's Your Hat, What's Your Hurry), a feckless, improvident father mourns the unwitting example he has set for his son; a grieving mother finds solace in a neighbor's child, while that child's mother is about to undergo a tragic loss; and a librarian has to live with a disastrous memory. In the title story, a father who must come to terms with his daughter's brain injury muses: "Happiness was a narrow tank. You had to make sure that you cleared the lip." These stories, set in France, Massachusetts, Maine, and Iowa, are macabre yet anchored by precise details and psychological insight; they turn on ironic twists of fate and seesaws of luck. Readers will enjoy reading them twice—the first time quickly, because the plots are mesmerizing and strange, and the second to relish the dozens of images, aperçus, and descriptions (a handsaw is "a house key from a giant's pocket"; "His hair looked like it had been combed with a piece of buttered toast"; "Amazing how death made petty disappointments into operatic insults"). McCracken transforms life's dead ends into transformational visions. Agent; Henry Dunow, Dunow, Carlson & Lerner. (Apr.)
These nine stories from fiction and memoir author McCracken (An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination, 2008, etc.) excavate unexplored permutations of loss and grief. The volume starts and ends with bookending wallops. The opener, "Something Amazing"—combining a not-quite-ghost story about a grieving mother "haunted" by her dead child with the unfolding story of a mother unaware she is about to suffer her own loss—taps into every parent's worst fears. The final story, "Thunderstruck," follows a family in which the mother and father react in very different ways after their joint efforts to be good parents disastrously backfire. The rest of the volume deals with various forms of sorrow and coping. "Property" considers the stuff of grief as a newly widowed man moves into a rental house full of what he considers junk left by the house's owner. In "Some Terpsichore," a woman remembers an abusive former lover with horror and nostalgia. Memory also plays tricks in "The Lost & Found Department of Greater Boston": A store manager's memory of helping a young boy he once discovered being starved by his grandfather sustains him through his own losses, but the boy, now grown, remembers the incident differently. In "Juliet," the murder of a library patron causes a series of off-kilter reactions among the librarians, showing that guilt is not limited to perpetrators or sorrow, to those officially bereaved. In "The House of Two Three-Legged Dogs," a foolhardy expat in rural France realizes his son, whom he's raised with outrageous carelessness, has betrayed his trust and left him broke. "Peter Elroy: A Documentary by Ian Casey" describes a different kind of betrayal when a dying man attempts to visit the former friend who ruined his life. In the surprisingly tender "Hungry," about a woman caring for her granddaughter while the girl's father (the woman's son) lies in the hospital, food and a patriotic speech serve as metaphors for the power and limitations of love. McCracken's skewed perspectives make this a powerfully if quietly disturbing volume.
"Stunningly beautiful . . . brilliantly moving . . . Moments of joy and pure magic flicker and pitch-perfect humor acts as a furtive SOS signal through the fog of loss."—Los Angeles Times
"[A] bewitching and wise collection . . . playful, even joyful."—O: The Oprah Magazine
"Each of Thunderstruck's nine stories is a storm: delightful and destructive, packed with electricity, fascinating to watch unfold."—Salon
"The stories here are brilliant, funny and heartbreaking. . . . Elizabeth McCracken is a national treasure."—Paul Harding, The Wall Street Journal
"Pure delight: one lyrical, impeccably constructed sentence after another."—Chicago Tribune
"Beautifully wrought . . . As painstaking as a watchmaker, McCracken disassembles life down to its smallest parts."—The Boston Globe
"The stories in Elizabeth McCracken's latest collection land as swift and true as a prizefighter's blows, and often they feel just as powerful, emotionally speaking. . . . The psychological punches McCracken delivers, with her keen sense of irony and mordant humor, are unforgettable."—The Miami Herald
"The draw here is mesmerizing strangeness, heightened by McCracken's extraordinary images. . . . McCracken's description of eyeglasses which are 'the opposite of the weather: overcast when it was bright, clear when it was cloudy' will color the way you see transition lenses as surely as her off-kilter tales will subtly shade your view of love and parenting. . . . McCracken explores her characters' subtexts even as she catches them in the car wrecks of their lives. To resist gawking is hopeless. Brace yourself for rubbernecking delays."—NPR
"Elizabeth McCracken is one of my favorite writers. Or, to put it another way: I've read everything she's written . . . and there's nothing I haven't liked and admired enormously. . . . She writes with acuity, soul, and a kind of easy grace that probably kills her, about characters she has created to love. . . . 'Thunderstruck' showcases all the things this remarkable writer is so good at: the eccentric but illuminating metaphors, the deft characterization, the heart-lurching narrative development, the tenderness, the fantastic aphorisms. . . . Anything new by her is an excuse for wild, drunken celebration."—Nick Hornby, The Believer
"These gorgeous stories are so full of human oddity and surprising emotions. . . . [Thunderstruck & Other Stories] is alive with wit and feeling."—Newsday
"Brilliant . . . captivating . . . electrifying . . . Let's not forget the meticulous qualities of McCracken's sinuous prose, or the ingenuity of her plots."—San Francisco Chronicle
"McCracken's stories are fresh, peculiar and always entertaining."—The Huffington Post
"McCracken writes gorgeously sharp and insistent prose; her stories dazzle, uniquely angled and original."—More
"[Elizabeth McCracken] writes sentences so beautiful you'll want to stand up and applaud. I underlined so many phrases and details my copy is a mess, but that still didn't keep me from lending it to my best friend. . . . McCracken's revelatory prose style makes it impossible for even the bleakest story lines to feel like anything short of a blessing."—Cosmopolitan
"There's a strange magic . . . in Elizabeth McCracken's work."—Reader's Digest
"Haunting . . . McCracken assigns herself the task of showing her readers that there is no prescribed way to grieve or to love."—Minneapolis Star Tribune
"Extraordinary . . . In story after story, McCracken looks at the complexity of grief. At the same time, her quick eye never misses the strange little joys life comes up with."—The Dallas Morning News
"It's a rare story collection that starts strong and ends up even stronger. In her new book, Thunderstruck & Other Stories, award-winning novelist Elizabeth McCracken achieves this result through a combination of nonchalance, empathy and sheer intelligence. . . . There's no dearth of fine authors who have taken to writing short stories of late. Few, however, possess McCracken's full palette of hues, tones and shadows. This is three-dimensional writing at its most vivid."—Portland Press Herald
"Magnetic . . . Anyone who enjoys short fiction will find pleasure and substance in McCracken's witty, world-wise collection."—Library Journal
"[Elizabeth] McCracken's short stories are like no others. Her distinctive voice, her slightly askew manner of looking at the world, her mix of mordant humor and tenderness, her sense of life's ironies, and the jolt of electricity at the end of each tale make her work arresting and memorable. . . . Readers will enjoy reading them twice—the first time quickly, because the plots are mesmerizing and strange, and the second to relish the dozens of images, aperçus, and descriptions. . . . McCracken transforms life's dead ends into transformational visions."—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"Marvelously quirky, ironic, but, most of all, poignant . . . McCracken paints [her characters] with such rich detail that it feels as if we must know them."—Booklist
"A bracing collection . . . The connecting notion—that love's great capacity for tenderness must bear the risk of pain—is depicted with both joy and ruthlessness."—Shelf Awareness
"Elizabeth McCracken's magnificent stories are in a category all their own. They tremble with life, quake with heart-rending emotion, shine with wicked humor, and linger with a beautiful urgency. Thunderstruck & Other Stories is a stunning collection, a powerhouse of invention and heart and rare, buoyant curiosity."—Bret Anthony Johnston, author of Remember Me Like This
"It's rare for title and book to work so well, in fact so perfectly, together. In this vibrant, darkly funny, deeply tender collection, the reader is thunderstruck, again and again, by Elizabeth McCracken's endless gifts of plot, prose and insight that is as compassionate and sharp as one can bear."—Amy Bloom, bestselling author of Where the God of Love Hangs Out and Away
A young girl's ghost, two three-legged dogs, and a comatose American preteen in Paris are a few of the characters who live inside McCracken's bizarre and magnetic gallery of short fiction. In "Something Amazing," a woman is haunted by the recent death of her six-year-old daughter but discovers some release and joy in an unexpected place. "Some Terpsichore" tells how the strange love between a man who plays a saw with a bowlike instrument and his wife, whose singing voice mimics the sound of the musical saw, flickers out when he becomes depressive and physically abusive. At the heart of these pieces and her collection as a whole, McCracken (The Giant's House) examines the connections among human beings and what happens when they lose one another. Through death, medical trauma, or some other mystery or disappearance, life changes for the individuals in these stories, not only for those who are left behind to live with the memory of their loved ones but for neighbors, acquaintances, and even strangers. VERDICT Anyone who enjoys short fiction will find pleasure and substance in McCracken's witty, world-wise collection. [See Prepub Alert, 10/14/14.]—Shannon Greene, Greenville Technical Coll. Lib., SC
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Something Amazing
Just west of Boston, just north of the turnpike, the ghost of Missy Goodby sleeps curled up against the cyclone fence at the dead end of Winter Terrace, dressed in a pair of ectoplasmic dungarees. That thumping noise is Missy bopping a plastic Halloween pumpkin on one knee; that flash of light in the corner of a dark porch is the moon off the glasses she wore to correct her lazy eye. Late at night when you walk your dog and feel suddenly cold, and then unsure of yourself, and then loathed by the world, that's Missy Goodby, too, hissing as she had when she was alive and six years old, I hate you, you stink, you smell, you baby.
The neighborhood kids remember Missy. She bit when she was angry and pinched no matter what. They don't feel sorry for her ghost self. They remember the funeral they were forced to attend after she died, how her mother threw herself on the coffin, wailing, how they thought she was kidding and so laughed out loud and got shushed. The way the neighborhood kids tell the story, the coffin was lowered into the ground and Missy Goodby's grieving mother leapt down and then had to be yanked from the hole like a weed. Everyone always believes the better story eventually. Really, Joyce Goodby just thumped the coffin at the graveside service. Spanked it: two little spanks, nothing serious. She knew that pleading would never budge her daughter, not because she was dead but because she was stubborn. All her life, the more you pleaded with Missy, the more likely she was to do something to terrify you. Joyce Goodby spanked the coffin and walked away and listened for footsteps behind her. She walked all the way home, where she took off her shoes, black pumps with worn stones of gray along the toes. "Done with you," she told them.
The soul is liquid, and slow to evaporate. The body's a bucket and liable to slosh. Grieving, haunted, heartbroken, obsessed: your friends will tell you to cheer up. What they really mean is dry up. But it isn't a matter of will. Only time and light will do the job.
Who wants to, anyhow?
Best keep in the dark and nurse the damp. Cover the mirrors, keep the radio switched off. Avoid the newspaper, the television, the whole outdoors, anywhere little girls congregate, though the world is manufacturing them hand over fist, though there are now, it seems, more little girls living in the world than any other variety of human being. Or middle-aged men whose pants don't fit, or infant boys, or young women with wide, sympathetic, fretful foreheads. Whatever you have lost there are more of, just not yours. Sneeze. Itch. Gasp for breath. Seal the windows. Replace the sheets, then the mattresses. Pry the mercury from your teeth. Buy appliances to scrub the air.
Even so, the smell of the detergent from the sheets will fall into your nose. The chili your nice son cooks will visit you in the bedroom. The sweat from his clothes when he runs home from high school, the fog of his big yawping shoes, the awful smell of batteries loaded into a remote control, car exhaust, the plastic bristles on your toothbrush, the salt-air smell of baking soda once you give up toothpaste. Make your house as safe and airtight as possible. Filter the air, boil the water: the rashes stay, the wheezing gets worse.
What you are allergic to can walk through walls.
The neighborhood kids don't remember what Joyce Goodby looked like back when she regularly drove down Winter Terrace; they've forgotten her curly black hair, her star-and-moon earrings, her velvet leggings. It's been five years. Now that she's locked away, they know everything about her. She no longer cuts or colors her mercury hair but instead twists it like a towel and pins it to her head. The paper face mask she wears over her nose and mouth makes her eyes look big. Her clothes are unbleached cotton and hemp; an invalid could eat them. She and her son, Gerry, used to look alike, a pair of freckled hearty people. Not anymore. Her freckles have starved from lack of light. Her eyebrows are thick, her eyelashes thin. She seems made of soap and steel wool.
Something's wrong in the neighborhood, she tells her son, it gave Missy lymphoma and now it's made her sick.
Of course she's a witch. The older kids tell younger kids, and kids who live on the street tell the kids round the corner. The Winter Terrace Witch, they call her, as though she's a seventeenth-century legend. She eats children. She kills them. She killed her own daughter a million years ago.
Some gangly kid not even from the street tells Santos and Johnny Mackers about the witch and the ghost. The Mackerses have just moved to Winter Terrace. Santos is nine years old, with curly hair and a strange accent, the result of nearly a decade of post-nasal drip. Johnny is as tough a five-year-old as ever was, a preschool monster Santos has created on the sly. Santos steals their father's Kools and lights them for Johnny. He has taught Johnny all the swears he knows, taught him how to punch, all in hopes that their mother will love Johnny a little less and him a little more. It's not working. Already they're famous on the street, where no one has ever seen Johnny Mackers's feet touch the ground. He rides his Big Wheel everywhere: up and down the street and into the attached garage. He rides it directly into the cyclone fence.
"You're a crazy motherfucker," Santos says. "A crazy motherfucker." He doesn't like the word himself but Johnny won't learn it otherwise.
"That's Ghostland, by the fence," the gangly kid says, from the other side. "That's where all the ghosts get caught, that's why they call it a dead end."
"Nosir," says Santos.
"Yessir," says the kid. "Dead girl ghost. Plus there's a witch." He spits to be tough but he hasn't practiced enough: he just drools, then walks away, embarrassed.
Johnny Mackers is swarthy and black-haired and Italian-looking, like his mother; Santos has his Irish father's looks. He likes to shut Johnny into things. Already he's investigated the locks of their new house. The attic, the basement, the mirror-fronted closet in their parents' room: every lock sounds different, key, slide bolt, knob, hook-and-eye, dead bolt. He's glad to learn of a ghost to threaten Johnny with. "The dead girl wants to kiss you. Here she comes. Pucker up." But the dead girl isn't interested, and Johnny Mackers knows it. The neighborhood kids are lying when they say they see her. The dead girl doesn't watch as Santos stuffs Johnny into the front hall closet. The dead girl doesn't see the fingers at the bottom of the door, or the foot that stomps on them. She doesn't see Mrs. Mackers open up the door an hour later, saying, "What are you doing in there, for Pete's sake? The way you hide, it drives me nuts. Why don't you go ride your bike. Go on, now." The dead girl doesn't sleep outside, ever. Why would she? She is with her mother, whoas she cleans the kitchen (her eyesight so vigilant she can see individual motes of dust, a single bacterium scuttling along the countertop)can hear the mortar-and-pestle sound of a plastic wheel grinding along the grit of the gutter, a noise that should surely mean more than a grimy black-haired boy getting from one end of the street to another.
A different child might have turned into a different kind of ghost, visible only to little children, a finder of lost balls, a demander of candy. She could have visited Johnny Mackers late at night, when he plotted how he would kill his brother Santos. She could have haunted Santos himself. She could have accomplished things.
Instead, she likes to snuffle close to her mother's skin. The best spot is Joyce's skin in the hollow just below her cheekbones and just above her jaw: you have to get close, you have to get nearly under Joyce's nose to settle in. Sometimes Missy gets in the way and cuts off her mother's breath. She doesn't mean to. The biting, pinching child bites and pinches, along her mother's arms, her pale stomach.
"Look," Joyce says to her son, and displays her forearms, which are captioned with strange anaglyphic sentences, spelled out in hives.
Gerry Goodby was twelve when his little sister died. Now he's a seventeen-year-old six-foot-tall lacrosse player. He has watched his mother turn from a human woman into some immaculate vegetable substance, wan, thin, lamplit. What will you do, his father says. He means about college. For the past five years, Gerry and his father have had the same alternating conversation. I want to live with you, Gerry will say, and his father will answer, You know that's impossible, you know your mother needs you. Or his father will say, This is crazy, she's crazy, come live with me, and Gerry will answer, You know that's impossible.
He was the one who closed up Missy's room. A year after she died, his mother wheezing, weeping, molting on the sofa. She gave him the directions. Don't touch a thing. Just seal it up. He nailed over the doorway with barrier cloth, then painted over that with latex paint. His mother felt better for nearly a month.
Sometimes he stops in the hallway and touches the slumped wall where Missy's door used to be. He feels like a projection on a screen, waiting for the rest of the movie to be filled in. This is intolerable, he thinks. He's always thought of intolerable as a grown‑up word, like mortgage.
Missy the allergen, Missy the poison. She's everywhere in the house, no matter how their mother scrubs and sweeps and burns and purges. She's in the bricks. She's in the new bedding, in the nontoxic cleaning fluid. She leeches and fumes and wishesinsofar as ghosts can, in the way that water wishes, and has a will, sometimes thwarted and sometimes notthat the house were not shut up so tight. She rises to the ceiling daily and collects there, drips down, tries again. Outside there's a world of blank skin, waiting for her to scribble all over it.
"I would die without you," Joyce Goodby tells her son one morning. He knows it's true, just as he knows he's the only one who would care. Sometimes he thinks it wouldn't be such a bad bargain, his mother's death for his own freedom. Anyone would understand. Anyhow, it's time to leave for school. She won't die during the school day; at least, she hasn't so far.
Across the street Santos shuts Johnny Mackers in a steamer trunk in the attic instead of walking him to kindergarten. Then Santos, liberated, guilty, decides to skip school himself. He walks to the corner and gets on the bus that says, across its forehead, DOWNTOWN VIA PIKE. He has just enough change to pay his fare. The bus is crammed with people. A man in a gray windbreaker stands up. "Hey," he says. "Kiddo. Sit here."
Santos sits.
The world goes on. The world will. At any moment you can look from your window and see your neighbors. The fat couple who live next door will bicker and then bear hug each other. The teenage boys will play basketball with their shirts off. The elderly lady next door waits for the visiting nurse; her bloodhound snoozes in the sun like a starlet, one paw across his snout. You want to drape that old, good, big dog's sun-warmed fawn-colored ears on your fists. You want to reassure the elderly lady, tease the fat couple, watchjust watchthose shirtless, heedless boys. You have to get out, your family says, it's time. It's time to join the world again. But you never left the world. You're filled with tenderness, with worry for every living being, but you can't do anythingnot for your across-the-street neighbors, or for the people on the next street, or around the corner, or driving on the turnpike two blocks away, or in the city, or the whole country, the whole world, west and east and north and south. You are so unlucky you don't want to brush up against anyone who isn't.
You will not join a group. You will not read a book. You're not interested in anyone else's story, not when your own story takes up all your time. When the calamity happened, your friends said, It's so sad. It's the worst kind of luck, and you could tell they believed it. What's changed? You are as sad and unlucky as you were when it happened. It's still so, so sad. It's still the worst kind of luck.
The dead live on in the homeliest of ways. They're listed in the phone book. They get mail. Their wigs rest on Styrofoam heads at the back of closets. Their beds are made. Their shoes are everywhere.
The paint across the door is still tacky. It's dumb to even be here. Joyce swears she can smell the fiberboard headboard of the bed through the barrier cloth, the scratch-and-sniff stickers on the desk, the old lip gloss, the bubble bath in containers shaped like animals arranged on the dresser top, the unchanged mattress, the dust. The dress from Bloomingdale's that had been hers and then Missy's, in striped fabric like a railroad engineer's hat. The Mexican jumping beans bought at a joke shop before the diagnosis, four dark little beans in a plastic box with a clear top and blue bottom that clasped shut like an old-fashioned change purse. You warmed them in your hands, and they woke up and twitched and flipped: the worms who lived inside dozed in the cold but threw themselves against the walls when the temperature rose.
"Worms?" Missy had asked. Her nose was lacy with freckles, pink around the rim. "How do we feed them?"
"We don't," said Joyce.
"Then they'll starve to death!"
Quickly Joyce made up a story: the worm wasn't a worm, it was a soul. It was fine where it was, it was eternal, and if the bean stopped moving that only meant the soul had moved on to find another home. Back to Mexico? asked Missy, and Joyce said, Sure, why not. (Who knows? Maybe that's why the worms woke up when they got warmthey thought, At last we're back home in Oaxaca.) Back then, reincarnation was a comforting fable. In fairy tales, people were always born again as beasts, frogs, migrating swans.
Now Joyce feels the world shake and thinks, Mexican jumping bean. She can't decide whether the house is the bean and she's the worm, or the bean's her body and the worm her soul.
Neither: someone has wrenched open the wooden storm door of the sun porch and let it slam behind him. Then the doorbell rings.
Meet the Author
Elizabeth McCracken is the author of An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination, The Giant's House, Here's Your Hat What's Your Hurry, and Niagara Falls All Over Again. A former public librarian, she is now a faculty member at the University of Texas, Austin, and has received grants and awards from numerous organizations, including the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and the American Academy in Berlin. Elizabeth is married to the novelist and illustrator Edward Carey.
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New York Army National Guard Staff Sgt. Brian Speach is in the running to have the May 1 NASCAR race at Richmond International Raceway named "The Brian Speach 400 Sponsored by Crown Royal."
Speach, 43, was nominated for the honor by a fellow guardsman after serving a half dozen times in Iraq or Afghanistan since joining the Navy in 1986, and for resuscitating 8-year-old John Edward, who had almost drowned in the pool of the Saratoga Springs Hilton Inn on Sept. 19.
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There's a bit of a buzz about former Stranger political writer Sandeep Kaushik.
Although, Kaushik was hired away from us in summer 2005 to revitalize County Executive Ron Sims's office (which he seems to have done…have you noticed how bad ass Sims has been in the last year), Kaushik seems to be successfully transitioning into an up and coming political consultant.
After trouncing the Seattle Times-backed estate tax repeal as the spokesperson for the anti-920 campaign in 2006 and then knocking down the viaduct rebuild as part of the No and Hell No effort earlier this year, Kaushik may land a gig consulting in one of the top-10 U.S. Congressional races for campaign 2008.
Kaushik showed up as spokesperson for Darcy Burner over on Postman's blog this morning, and Kaushik tells me while he hasn't formally singed on with the Democratic hopeful in her do over to beat Republican Dave Reichert, he is in discussions with Burner.
I'm a Rodney Tom fan myself (and wasn't so impressed with Burner last time out), but with Kaushik, Reichert's gonna need more than his great hair cut to pull this one out.
Says Kaushik: "Darcy's gone from zero to 60 in the blink of an eye. With $200K raised and $185K in the bank, she's already 9 months ahead of where she was last time. She came achingly close to beating Reichert last time and this time she's going to finish the job."
She lost by 7,500 votes out of more than 250,000 cast. With 2008 being a presidential year and one where the Dems are psyched to boot, Reichert, who voted for the surge, does face a stiff challenge.


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text: veterans VFW Celebrates 100 Years In Pittsburgh By Michael Lynch • Sep 15, 2014 Marcus Charleston Listen Listening... / 14:31 In September of 1914, 250 veterans from across the U.S. and its territories gathered at the Schenley Hotel in Pittsburgh to form what would become the largest veterans' advocacy group in the nation, the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW). The hotel is now the William Pitt Union, but former military members and public officials are assembling there once again to mark the organization's centennial. "The people can feel that the community supports veterans around here," Matt Hannan, president of Pitt-Vets, said, "but they don't understand the legacy of what the veterans have committed to the community and contributed and that that legacy continues." Plan For Statewide Veterans Courts Met With Some Skepticism By Mary Wilson • Jun 18, 2014 Veterans who struggle with post-traumatic stress disorder or substance abuse could ping-pong through the criminal justice system for years without a support system that recognizes common problems facing former members of the military. That's the premise of Pennsylvania's veterans treatment courts, which started as county initiatives several years ago to help the state's veteran population — the fifth largest in the country, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Checkpoint - Where Military Meets Community By Essential Pittsburgh • Jun 16, 2014 TeamSaintLouis / Flickr Listen Listening... / 30:00 Southwest Pennsylvania is home to 220,000 Veterans, with 97,000 alone living in Allegheny County. After returning from active duty, all Veterans, whether injured or uninjured, are in need of resources such as employment, physical and mental health care, job training, and housing. Until recently, Pittsburgh-area veterans did not have a centralized, dedicated place to find these kinds of resources. This problem was solved when Pittsburgh resident and Iraq War veteran Jared Souder founded Checkpoint, a non-profit organization dedicated to helping Veterans find the resources they need to help resume their lives as civilians. Checkpoint was created out of necessity, said Souder. "I'm supposed to be a subject matter expert, and I would still run into walls, I would run into sort of confusing things, and just see the complexity of it and really saw the need for some way to help vets navigate and reduce complexity and just get better information into their hands so they can make more informed decisions to what they can connect with and what they can benefit from." Rep. Murphy: Disciplinary Action at Pittsburgh VA Doesn't Go Far Enough By Liz Reid • Jun 16, 2014 Office of Congressman Tim Murphy More than 10 months after U.S. Rep. Tim Murphy wrote to former Secretary of Veteran's Affairs Eric Shinseki asking what disciplinary action would be taken in the wake a Legionella outbreak at a Pittsburgh hospital, he has gotten an answer of sorts. On Friday, the VA announced that Pittsburgh Healthcare System director and CEO Terry Wolf was placed on administrative leave, "pending the completion of administrative actions related to the Legionella outbreak." Head of Pittsburgh VA Hospitals Placed on Administrative Leave By Liz Reid • Jun 15, 2014 The head of the VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System has been put on administrative leave, according to a statement from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. System Director Terry Gerigk Wolf oversaw the healthcare facilities during the Legionella outbreak of 2011 and 2012, which resulted in the deaths of at least six people and sickened more than twenty others. Funding Helps Veteran Homeowners With Costly Repairs By Deanna Garcia • Jun 11, 2014 Deanna Garcia / 90.5 WESA The Home Depot Foundation has given $200,000 toward repairing the homes of 28 veterans in the Pittsburgh region. Without the repairs, some of the vets could end up homeless. There are currently tens of thousands of homeless veterans in the U.S. and thousands more are at risk of becoming homeless. For those who are homeowners, security is not always a guarantee — many are one stop from becoming homeless. Pittsburgh Area Vets Honored for Their D-Day Service By Kevin Gavin • Jun 6, 2014 "All I know is we wanted to get off that beach which we did because there was a lot of casualties," recalls Ralph Russo of New Castle about the D-Day landing at Normandy 70 years ago today. There where thousands of casualties—9,000 Allied troops were killed or wounded including 6,600 Americans. 96-year old Mike Vernillo of Pittsburgh served with the US 227th Field Artillery Battalion on June 6, 1944. "It was very difficult; you can't stop to help nobody, you have to just keep running." Peduto Part of Group of Mayors Battling Homelessness Among Veterans By Deanna Garcia • Jun 5, 2014 Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto is one of a group of more than 75 Mayors and county officials who've signed on to a nation-wide plan to end homelessness among those who've served in the military. First Lady Michelle Obama this week kicked off the Mayors Challenge to End Veteran Homelessness. "It really is a call to mayors and other elected officials to focus their attention on veterans who are homeless in our communities," said Jane Vincent, regional administrator for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) in Philadelphia. Pittsburgh To Host 'Navy Week' By Michael Lynch • May 29, 2014 The U.S. Navy is coming to the Steel City, but don't expect to see any aircraft carriers floating in the Mon. During Navy Week (June 2 – June 8) sailors will be stationed throughout the city hosting events, providing musical entertainment and answering any questions about Navy life. Navy spokesman Gary Ross said Navy Week is not a recruitment effort, but an educational event. "We are not there to recruit," he said. "We are there to create awareness and understanding about what our Navy does for our nation." Soldiers and Sailors Hosts Memorial Day Celebration By Michael Lynch • May 26, 2014 At Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hall and Museum, Memorial Day is more than just hotdogs and hamburgers. "Over the years, as we had more and more conflicts, the building became a symbol representative of a memorial for all veterans of all branches of service. The only one like it of its kind in the nation," said Soldiers and Sailors President and CEO John McCabe. According to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, there are more than 995,000 veterans living in Pennsylvania. New Housing Units For Women Veterans Open In Millvale By Deanna Garcia • Apr 17, 2014 Deanna Garcia / 90.5 WESA There are about 1,200 veterans in Allegheny County who are either homeless or at risk of becoming homeless. Over the last year or so there has been an increase in the number of women and women with children who are in need of emergency housing. Proposed Property Tax Break for Disabled Veterans By Michael Lynch • Apr 17, 2014 A Pennsylvania state lawmaker is pushing for legislation that would allow disabled veterans to receive a real estate tax exemption regardless of the severity of their disability. Currently, Pennsylvania offers an "all-or-nothing" program, where veterans who are 100 percent disabled receive a complete property tax exemption and those who are 80 or 90 percent disabled get nothing. State Sen. Daylin Leach (D-Montgomery) said the tax exemption should be proportional to the percentage of disability. 'Project 22' Releases Official Trailer By Michael Lynch • Mar 17, 2014 The U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs released a report last year stating that an estimated 22 veterans commit suicide every day. That number hit home for Marine Sgt. Daniel Egbert and Army Sgt. Matt King; both of whom served in Iraq. The two set out on a 22-day road trip from Los Angeles to Ground Zero in New York, producing a documentary focused on raising awareness about veteran suicide. That documentary is "Project 22." Under the Keystone: A Veteran's Progress By Jake Danna Stevens | Scranton Times-Tribune • Mar 12, 2014 Jake Danna Stevens / Scranton Times-Tribune, via PublicSource Earl Granville, of Scranton, Pa., is the second person featured in Under the Keystone, a new collaborative series from our content partner PublicSource. A veteran who lost his leg in Afghanistan and lost a brother to PTSD, Granville is now studying mental health counseling so he can help veterans and others who have come through difficult situations. Legislation to Shrink VA Backlog Introduced; No Cost Estimate Filed By Mark Nootbaar • Mar 7, 2014 On average, a veteran in the Pittsburgh areas has to wait one day shy of a year between the time they apply for disability benefits and the day they are approved. Though the backlog has been shrinking, U.S. Sen. Bob Casey says it is not falling fast enough, and in an effort to fix the situation, he and bipartisan group of six senators have introduced legislation aimed at fixing the system. The Veterans Administration deems a claim to be backlogged after it has been in the system for more than 125 days. By its own admission, there are nearly 400,000 cases on that list. Veterans Marker Now Available on Driver's Licenses By Mary Wilson • Mar 6, 2014 Pennsylvania's military veterans can now have their service noted on their driver's licenses. The new designation is free, though the costs of renewing the license apply. At a roll-out news conference Tuesday, Sen. Lisa Baker (R-Luzerne) said the designation helps identify veterans so people can simply show respect. "And it will come in handy in the worst of times when a veteran may find him or herself in a dangerous situation," Baker said. "This designation is something our veterans have asked for, and worked for, for a very long time." VA Honors Veteran Patients with 'National Salute' Events By Larkin Page-Jacobs • Feb 10, 2014 The VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System is celebrating its annual "National Salute to Veteran Patients," a week-long series of events that applaud veterans' sacrifices and draws attention to those receiving medical care. In Pittsburgh, the VA will hold events at both its University Drive campus in Oakland and H.J. Heinz campus in O'Hara Township. Cold Hands and Warm Hearts at Pittsburgh's Veterans Day Parade By Liz Reid • Nov 11, 2013 Liz Reid / 90.5 WESA Thousands of people converged on downtown Pittsburgh Monday for the annual Veterans Day parade. Many of them were watching, and even more were marching. Dozens of high school bands provided entertainment while veterans from every generation marched down the length of Smithfield Street. Onlookers greeted the vets with cheers and applause, shouting "Thank you!" Paul Kennedy, western vice commander for the Pennsylvania American Legion, lives in the North Hills and said it was great to see so many people come out for the parade. Pittsburgh Honors Veterans with 94th Annual Veterans Day Parade By Liz Reid • Nov 11, 2013 The city of Pittsburgh will hold its 94th annual Veterans Day parade on Monday. Tony Filardi of Overbrook served in the U.S. Air Force during the Korean War and has been the chair of the Veterans Day parade committee since 1990. Filardi said the parade is an important tradition that pays tribute both to veterans and to active duty military. "It's to honor all the veterans who served in the service and also the military people who are serving currently," Filardi said. "After all, without them, our nation would not be free, because freedom is not free." Sen. Casey Pushes Health Care Bill For Retired Veterans By Michael Lynch • Sep 20, 2013 Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA) is co-sponsoring a bill to help more than 4,000 retired Pennsylvania veterans keep their health care plans. On Oct. 1, a new policy from the Department of Defense will force some retired veterans off of TRICARE Prime, the most affordable option in the Military Health System for people under 65. According to the new policy, only veterans living within 100 miles of a Military Treatment Facility or a BRAC site will be able to stay on TRICARE Prime. Now, more than 171,000 people nationally are at risk of losing the military health care. Meet Julia Parsons, Pittsburgh Native and WWII Code Breaker By Deanna Garcia • Sep 19, 2013 Ryan Loew / 90.5 WESA Imagine your mom, or your grandmother, maybe even your great-grandmother, with a secret past. Perhaps you know that she's lived through some major historical events like World War II. Now imagine finding out she not only lived through it – but was an integral part of secret military operations during the war. That is part of Pittsburgh native Julia Parsons' story. She was part of an all-women's German code-breaking team. Patriotic Cabs Provide Jobs for Veterans By Katherine Blackley • Jul 24, 2013 Star Transportation Group Listen Listening... / 9:32 VETaxi is the most patriotic ride on the road. The Pittsburgh-based company owned by Vietnam veteran Robert Delucia hires American military veteran drivers, transports customers in American-built vehicles and uses solely American-sourced fuel. As a branch of the Star Transportation Group, VETaxi aims to provide jobs to veterans where they are then given the opportunity to own and operate their own cab. Bill Could Make Free Counseling More Available to Veterans By Mary Wilson • Jun 20, 2013 The state House is advancing a proposal to make it easier for military veterans to receive free mental health counseling in less formal settings.The bill would change licensing rules to allow retired mental health professionals to volunteer their services through approved groups serving veterans and their families, as well as military personnel. VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System Hires More Mental Health Professionals By Deanna Garcia • Jun 17, 2013 As part of a national mandate from President Obama to hire 1,600 new mental health professionals in the veterans' health system, the VA Pittsburgh Health System has hired 30 new mental health professionals plus an additional 14 to fill existing vacancies. "I think it's obvious that if we have more people offering service, then more people could obtain services and obtain them quicker," said Jeffrey Peters, associate chief of staff for behavior health at the VA Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh Symposium Focuses on Returning Female Veterans By Deanna Garcia • Jun 11, 2013 Chris Cieslak, a lieutenant colonel with the Army Reserves, returned from Kabul, Afghanistan in 2012 after a year's duty there. Cieslak went through what she described as a "minor depression," and only now does she feel she's made the transition from military to civilian life. She considers herself lucky — she had a good support system in place. Not all women veterans can say the same. Casey Reintroduces Tax Credit Bill for Veterans By Mary Wilson • May 23, 2013 Pennsylvania's Democratic U.S. senator is taking another whack at knocking down the unemployment rate among military veterans with a proposed tax credit.Sen. Bob Casey said Wednesday the tax credit would help veterans or their spouses purchase franchises. They would be able to write off 25 percent of the franchise fee, or up to $100,000.In a conference call with reporters, Casey likened the tax credit to the GI bill funding veterans' college education, saying it's another way to help veterans establish themselves as civilians. New License Plates Honor Airborne and Merchant Marine Veterans By Tim Camerato • May 6, 2013 U.S. Airborne Unit and Merchant Marine veterans are now able to display pride in their service on their cars. The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation has added two new designs to its list of military license plates. PennDOT spokeswoman Jan McKnight said the plates are the result of bills passed by the Pennsylvania Legislature and "are there to recognize the challenges faced by these service members." Investigation Reveals Failures of Pittsburgh VA Hospital in Legionnaires' Outbreak By Noah Brode • Apr 23, 2013 Southwestern Pennsylvania officials are expressing outrage after learning the details of a Veterans Affairs investigation into the deadly Legionnaires' disease outbreak at the VA's Pittsburgh facilities. According to VA Office of Inspector General, the VA Pittsburgh Health System failed to follow its own rules during an outbreak of Legionnaires' disease that left five veterans dead from early 2011 to late 2012. At a House Inside the VA, Injured Vets Prepare to Return Home By Larkin Page-Jacobs • Apr 4, 2013 Ryan Loew / 90.5 WESA There is a house inside a building at the Pittsburgh Veterans Affair's Aspinwall campus. The house has everything one would expect – a doorbell, cable, flatware, a bedroom. There's even a garage (but with half of a car). The 1,100 square foot house, called MyHome, is a part of the VA's Community Living Center, and it's designed to help patients recovering from physical or mental injuries transition safely back to their homes. But that transition takes practice, according to VA Pittsburgh Rehab Site Supervisor Jason Fay. VA Systems Would be Required to Report Instances of Legionella under New Casey Bill By Deanna Garcia • Mar 26, 2013 Deanna Garcia / 90.5 WESA U.S. Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA) is introducing a bill that would require any Veterans Affairs health system to report an incident of Legionnaires ' disease and detection of the Legionella bacteria within 24 hours."To be blunt about this, we shouldn't have to legislate this," Casey said. "This should be standard practice at the VA, but it isn't. Therefore we have to legislate and provide a measure of accountability." Pages« first ‹ previous 1 2 3 next › last »


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Hubbard and the G are interesting prospects. Not sure many of the others have a crack this season. The team had a deep draft. I think most of those players make the team, other than Janis (PS, unless someone picks him up).
Janis vs. the competition will be interesting. Dorsey is a big, fast, tough kid. White is talented but super skinny. Harper is a big body type kid. But Janis is REALLY big and has the shot to be a take the top of the D off kinda player.
Hubbard seems to have a shot at taking out Palmer (who seemed to be a Kevin Greene guy) and Mulumba (injuries). We may see a similar makeup inside (Hawk, Jones, Lattimore, Barrington, and Francois) and Hubbard/Bradford backing up at the OLB.
The Oline will be interesting. They won't cut the new C, so you have Tretter/Ohio St, Bulaga, Bak, Bar, Sherrod, Lang, Sitton. That's ALREADY 8 lineman, assuming nobody gets hurt.
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At one time, it was targeted to be the largest mall in Penang. Today Megamall is still a popular shopping center but at the higher levels, most of the shop lots are unoccupied.
There is cineplex and the famous Megalanes for bowling where major competitions at national and international level are regularly held. There is a major bookstore for English and Chinese books "Popular Bookstore" and Pacific Mall is the departmental store.
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Holland Christian�s Lisa Busscher and Anna Bosgraaf lost in the semifinals of the Division 3 girls tennis state tournament at No. 2 doubles on Saturday. On Friday, the duo had a first round bye, then won in the second round 6-0, 6-2, and then won in the quarterfinals 6-4, 6-0.
Holland Christian finished sixth as a team in the state standings. Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook-Kingswood won the title with 35 points.
Ali Swets and Rachel Steggerda won their second-round match at No. 1 doubles 6-1, 6-1, and then lost in the third round 6-2, 6-1. Mackenzie Weener and Lauren Balder won their second-round match at No. 3 doubles 7-6, 6-1, and then lost in the third round 6-1, 6-3. Abby VanZalen and Marissa VandenBerg won their second-round match at No. 4 6-3, 6-1, and then lost in the third rounf 6-7, 6-4, 7-6.
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Skip to comments.Bangladesh among top finishers in US visa lottery - got 7,404 visas
Posted on 07/23/2004 2:52:12 PM PDT by Grzegorz 246
WASHINGTON, July 23: Bangladesh, Nigeria, Poland and Ethiopia were the top finishers in the US visa lottery, which granted 50,000 permanent residence visas, or "green cards," allowing recipients to live and work in the United States, the US State Department said Thursday.
The "diversity lottery," held each year under the US Immigration and Nationality Act, distributes the visas to residents of countries which have low immigration rates to the United States.
Applicants were selected at random from a total of some 9.5 million applications submitted from November 1 to December 30, 2003, said the State Department.
Bangladesh got 7,404 visas, Nigeria 6,725, Poland 6,211 and Ethiopia 6,060. Countries with heavy immigration to the United States, including Canada, China (minus Hong Kong and Taiwan), Colombia, Pakistan, The Philippines, Russia, South Korea, Britain (minus Northern Ireland) and Vietnam, were excluded from the lottery. AFP
How many Visa's did mexico get? Let me guess...Ummmm 11,000,000?
Mexicans don't need visas. They are born as CA Residents.
Bangladesh, Nigeria, Poland and Ethiopia
Well at least Poland isn't a terrorism risk for us.
This Polish guy was sitting in a bar....never mind.
hmmmmm... why are Canadians and Britians coming here? Perhaps they want to get paid what they're worth for the work that they do? So much for socialism...
I don't understan one thing. I think that Canadians and Brits don't need visas to USA.
This is a very important program. We are running out of poor people, we need to import them now or our country will lack diversity.
This whole visa lottery program is an outrageous assault on America. The main instigator of the program ten years ago was ... Ted Kennedy (that's a fact).
I know one Japanese woman who was married to an African. They were living in Japan. The husband insisted his wife apply for the lottery (she wasn't really interested). She won a visa, so she and her husband immigrated. Now the husband, who's a permanent resident, has brought in over one dozen of his relatives after petitioning for their visas. They all live in one slum-house. This kind of "cascading immigration" based on the original entry of just one family member is what's turning many of our urban areas into third world tenements.
I didn't get a visa to USA in last year.
Just what we need - more third-world illiterates.
This is just wrong.
No, they're talking about historical immigration, as reflected in the current composition of the nation. In other words, no more western people, please.
They don't need "B" visas to come here, which is for short-term tourist or business trips. They do need visas to come here under any other status, such as permanent immigration, which is what the diversity lottery is for.
Most of them were in the subway car I rode home to Brooklyn on.
I've not anyone from those countries who could read. In fact, they spoke better english than many Americans I know.
Once again you are trashing Americans. BTW, how many Bangladeshis have you met?
Huh? Where did I trash Americans? I'm just stating what I've experienced living in New York.
You were the one who was stating that the Central Americans that your mother hired were so much better than American workers - don't you remember???
I asked you to explain where I trashed Americans. I was giving my experience living here in New York, where I do meet a lot of people from other countries.
Where? When? Post my words for me. I would NEVER say such a thing. EVER. No one is better than anyone else.
Bangladesh is a country that needs leaving.
Didn't your mother hire Central Americans? Are you denying that you stated that they were harder workers than Americans?
I don't even recall what I said. I would not say that stereotype though because it's not true. My landscaper is from El Salvador.
That's exactly what you said - when you commentated that you mother hired Central Americans. BTW, your landscaper is from Central America if he is from El Salvador - did your mother hire him because he was a better worker or because he charged less than a native American?
We still do this? What a waste of time and money.
If the borders are not controlled, why bother?
That said, I do think we should reward our steadfast allies, such as Poland, visaless entry.
I know where El Salvador is :) She hired him because he was available and because he was better. He certainly isn't cheap that's for sure. Her first landscaper was an American and he moved. The second was an American as well but he was on drugs and always asked for an advance. There are still Americans doing landscaping in the traditional sense.
This is legal so it is controlled borders. It's illegal immigration that is not controlled.
Why doesn't she hire them?
BTW, I see that you are backing away from your prior denials.
I'm not backing away from anything sarcasm. You asked and I answered.
She did to lay down a pond liner.
Why doesn't she hire Americans to do her landscaping?
What's your problem? Why should she? She's had Americans work for her before. Why should she dump her current guy just to hire an American? You're trying to make an issue where there is none.
Why not - do you hate Americans?
You're being ridiculous sarcasm. She has a good working relationship with the guy she has now. You know damn well that's not what I meant. You're trying to make me into an America hater and that's not what I am. Why do you ask me that question sarcasm when you know it's not true?
Blather, you're the one who stated that Americans are poorer workers than Central Americans
Prove it. I never said it and you can't. You are very hostile for some reason, and I'm not sure why.
That's exactly what you meant.
You value immigrants much higher than the native born.
GIVE ME A FRIGGING BREAK. You will NOT get away with that statement which is totally and completely false. I have NEVER EVER in this forun EVER said I value immigrants over the native born. You are a liar, deliberately set out to paint people in a light and twist their words to paint them into things that are not true. Enough sarcasm.
Just telling the truth.
AMAZING.......9.5 Million applicants (in TWO months) wanting to come to the USA to work & live LEGALLY......& only 50K get a chance.
Meanwhile 75% of our politicians spend much time & tax dollars *rewarding* the MILLIONS of illegals already here.......& citizens are told daily "we need all those illegal workers, the country *can't function* without them".
Boot the illegals, & bring in more legals, *if* we need the labor.
If you refuse to do this,then you will be known as a coward and a LIAR,whose word is worthless.
No,not "whatever",make him PROVE it.
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% Daily Value*
Total Fat 16 g24.1%
Saturated Fat 8.8 g43.8%
Trans Fat 0 g
Cholesterol 39.6 mg13.2%
Sodium 269.3 mg11.2%
Total Carbohydrates 33 g11.2%
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