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Student Work – Clara Tan
October 23, 2012 | 1 Comment
Designed by Clara Tan | Country: Australia
"Zenne is a new, premium brand of organic lambic made in Pajottenland, Belgium. It is named after the Zenne river valley where the yeasts that grow there help ferment the beer through a process called spontaneous fermentation. Elements that hint of a small, handcrafted boutique brewery are added in the design to tell the story of the brand/product."
Limited Edition SKYY Vodka
October 22, 2012 | 1 Comment
Designed by Mode Design Group | Country: United States
"New York branding and design agency Mode Design Group has designed a custom, limited edition SKYY Vodka bottle for the 2012 holiday season. The new-to-world bottle decoration includes a flocked baroque velvet pattern adorning the trademark blue bottle, inviting you to touch the supple design. This innovative bottle design is the first flocked bottle to hit the spirits market, and changes the dynamic of how bottle design can be approached. Mode's groundbreaking design blended the worlds of high fashion and spirits utilizing the baroque themed pattern with a tangible element of sensuous velvet to create an inviting design.
"We incorporated the baroque pattern into the design because over a year ago when we began the process we felt strongly about velvet baroque patterns to connote style and elegance. However, it had never been done before so we had to innovate the technique. Fast forward to launch time for the SKYY holiday bottle, and baroque the biggest trend at all the fashion shows. So while we were planning our bottle, the big fashion houses were thinking the same thing with their clothing lines. Most of the major designers are integrating baroque details into their collections. Adding the velvet texture to the bottle made it sexy, touchable and holiday-appropriate, and fortunately, on-trend." Says MDG Creative Director Gabrielle Rein.
The bottles hit shelves in October. Proceeds of the bottle sales will benefit the amfAR organization, dedicated to ending the global AIDS epidemic through innovative research."
Student Work – Wonchan Lee
October 19, 2012 | 21 Comments
Designed by Wonchan Lee | Country: Australia
"Belgium. Premium. Beer. Those are the three words I had to keep in mind while designing the range.
The aim was to differentiate the brand and packaging from other market competitors as well as clearly communicate and maintain its identity; Premium Belgian beer.
With the understated colour palette throughout the design the colour of beer creates great contrast and stands out.
Not only the material used in the package is lighter, but also more economical than widely used glass, therefore has advantage to both cost and shipping."
5th Gin
October 18, 2012 | 2 Comments
Designed by Puigdemont Roca | Country: Spain
Duff Beer
October 15, 2012 | 7 Comments
Designed by ROCKER / STUDIO | Country: Argentina
"We wanted to see how some non-real brands would look like in the real world, so we started with our favourite: Duff Beer.
For this concept proyect, we focused on the city of Springfield, as the hometown for the Brewery. To emphasize the concept of tradition, we simulated a portrait of Jebediah Springfield.
This is what we think Duff Beer could be in the real world: A Noble Spirit."
Student Work – Kristian Mjøset
October 10, 2012 | 1 Comment
Designed by Kristian Mjøset | Country: Norway
"This dark beer is brewed using smoked malt grown in the Ravenhof Castles courtyard to give it a rich and strong smoky flavour.
The label itself is laser engraved on the bottle. A metallic purple colour is used to give it a premium, yet dark and gritty feel. The carrier pack is simple and consistent with the visual style of the brand. The handle incorporates the shape of the logo and the bottle opener is used as a give-away and to strengthen the carrier pack."
The Entertainer
October 9, 2012 | 2 Comments
Designed by Stranger & Stranger | Country: United States
"Our long time whisky client, Compass Box, has done a limited edition scotch for the icon London store Selfridges. London artist Peter Blake seemed fitting inspiration but Selfridges have really gone to town with the in store displays.
This is a very limited bottling so get it while you can."
October 8, 2012 | No Comments
Designed by Camilla Edvardsen | Country: Norway
"Piquant is a premium Belgium cherry beer. Taking the best of Belgian brewing traditions and combining them with modern and innovative brewing techniques Piquant manages to introduce a new exciting beer, yet maintains the quality of the traditional Belgium beers we all know and love.
Everything about piquant links up to it's taste. From the shape of the bottle, to the colour scheme down to the name itself it all reflects it's core ingredient: cherry. Even the carry pack holds the bottles so it form the shape of a cherry."
Student Work – Nathan Hull
October 5, 2012 | 1 Comment
Designed by Nathan Hull | Country: Australia
Blossa 12
September 26, 2012 | 1 Comment
Designed by McCann Stockholm | Country: Sweden
"The annual 'glögg' from Blossa celebrates 10 years. This year is inspired by East Asia in terms of both taste and design."


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Prostate Cancer Health Center
Prostate Cancer Group Issues Call to Action
The Latest Research continued...
A recent report illustrated why overtreatment is of such concern. Researchers from the National Cancer Institute found that the majority of patients remain impotent five years after having either radiation or surgery. A significant percentage of the patients in the study also had long-lasting urinary or bowel problems.
Another recent study suggested that a rapid elevation in PSA level over a relatively short period of time may be a better indicator of clinically meaningful prostate cancer than a single PSA reading.
The NCI is evaluating the merits of PSA screening in a study involving 75,000 men, but results are not expected for five years. Another major study is under way among men with elevated PSAs comparing surgery to no treatment.
"There is growing funding for prostate cancer research, and much of it is heading in the right direction," American Cancer Society Director of Prostate Cancer Durado Brooks, MD, tells WebMD. "But unfortunately, because of the complexity of this disease -- the fact that it is slow growing and mostly occurs in an older population -- it is difficult to get a handle on. It is not likely that we will have useful answers for several years."
Brooks says the report should be of value to clinicians treating prostate cancer because it gives them easy access to the latest research.
"Prostate cancer treatment decisions have to be made on a patient-by-patient basis, and the more information everyone has, the better," he says. "Some men are very uncomfortable with the idea of having cancer in their body, while others may be OK with watching blood tests for a while."


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DEXTER - William D. Walker, 96, died Dec. 28, 2004, at the Beverly Health and Rehabilitation Center in Dexter.
Born Nov. 17, 1908, at Gainesville, Ark., to the late Charlie and Ethel Penny Walker, he was a self-employed farmer and a member of the Sadler's Chapel Methodist Church in Dexter.
On Feb. 13, 1931, in Piggott, Ark., he married Geneva Glassgow, who preceded him in death on July 16, 1997.
Survivors include; two sons, William Jerald Walker of Crown Point, Ind., and Charles Allen Walker of Dexter; three daughters, Betty Lou McBride of Dexter, Dorothy Sue Issacs of St. Louis and Carolyn Marie Dube of Columbia; two brothers, Frank Walker of Dallas and Ellis Walker of Detroit; and 14 grandchildren, 26 great-grandchildren and four great-great-grandchildren.
In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by two brothers, Prentis and Hayes Walker; and one sister, Lena Catherine Walker.
Visitation will be from 1 p.m. Thursday until time for services at 2 p.m. at the Rainey-Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter. The Rev. Wendy Downing will officiate.
Burial will follow in the Hagy Cemetery in Dexter.


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At the age of 22, my husband, Leo, and I impulsively decided to take a family trip and go camping. We didn't have a tent, but we borrowed a couple of tarps and set off one Friday evening after work. We took food and coffee, along with several bottles of milk, baby food and diapers for our 15-month-old daughter, Laurel.
We found an isolated spot in the mountains near a small pond sheltered by tall pine trees. As soon as I saw it, I cried, "This is it!" At my outburst, Leo pulled in. We hopped out to inspect our campsite, and we decided it was perfect.
We ate our supper and drank our coffee as we watched the sun sink low. Dusk set in early, and we realized we didn't have anything we needed to get a campfire going. Just then a forest ranger drove into our spot. He noticed we didn't have a fire and asked if we needed help getting one started, telling us that camping in Colorado can be pretty chilly after dark. We accepted his gracious offer and sheepishly admitted that we had forgotten to bring a hatchet and matches.
In no time, the ranger had a blazing campfire going. He placed a large log on the fire and piled up some extra kindling to get us through the night. We thanked him and waved goodbye as he drove away.
Suddenly everything became still, and the darkness seemed to creep out of the forest. I inched closer to Leo and, trying to stay calm, suggested we get Laurel ready for bed and get our makeshift tent set up. He agreed.
We settled Laurel on the back seat of the car, nestled in warm blankets, and then we sat by the fire as we drank the last of the coffee. We put more wood on the fire, and then we climbed into the blankets that were laid out on top of one tarp. The other tarp was held tight in the front window of the car, with a rock holding the other end.
We gradually drifted off to sleep, with me about three feet from the back tire, and Leo right beside me. I had barely dozed off when I heard stealthy footsteps nearby, moving in our direction. "Leo, I hear footsteps!" I whispered, as I nudged him. He peeked outside and then softly said, "Don't move. It's a porcupine." I froze, stiff as a board, as that critter walked between me and the tire. Then he was gone.
Sleep came at last, and then in the dark early morning hours, a haunting laugh jerked me upright. "Leo, there's somebody in the woods. I hear him laughing." He listened to the eerie sound, then told me it was just a loon. I didn't dare go back to sleep, though.
As Laurel was waking up, Leo noticed that one of the back tires on the car was flat. When he went to get the jack, he realized it wasn't in the trunk. "What next?" I groaned. Making do with what we had, Leo used a log to jack up the car so he could change the tire.
Finally, we headed home — tired, dirty and hungry.
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David Brooks (journalist)
|David Brooks
August 11, 1961
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
|Washington, D.C., United States
|Alma mater
|University of Chicago (A.B. 1983)
|Columnist, pundit
|Sarah (née Jane Hughes)
(1986–2014; divorced); 3 children
David Brooks (born August 11, 1961)[1] is an American conservative[2][3] political and cultural commentator who writes for The New York Times.[4] He has worked as an editorial writer and film reviewer for The Washington Times;[1] a reporter and later op-ed editor for The Wall Street Journal;[5] a senior editor at The Weekly Standard from its inception; a contributing editor at Newsweek and The Atlantic Monthly; and as a commentator on NPR. He is currently a columnist for The New York Times and commentator on PBS NewsHour.[1]
Brooks was born in Toronto, Ontario—his father was an American citizen living in Canada at the time—and spent his early years in the middle-income Stuyvesant Town housing development in downtown New York City. His father taught English literature at New York University, while his mother studied nineteenth-century British history at Columbia. Although his family was Jewish,[6][7] Brooks himself is not especially observant.[6][7][8][9] As a young child, Brooks attended the Grace Church School, an independent Episcopal primary school in Greenwich Village. When he was 12, his family moved to the Philadelphia Main Line, the affluent suburbs of Philadelphia. He graduated from Radnor High School in 1979. In 1983, Brooks graduated from the University of Chicago with a degree in history.[1] His senior thesis was on popular science writer Robert Ardrey.[10]
As an undergraduate, Brooks frequently contributed reviews and satirical pieces to campus publications. In his senior year, he wrote a spoof of the life-style of wealthy conservative William F. Buckley Jr., who was scheduled to speak at the university: "In the afternoons he is in the habit of going into crowded rooms and making everybody else feel inferior. The evenings are reserved for extended bouts of name-dropping."[11] To his piece, Brooks appended the note: "Some would say I'm envious of Mr. Buckley. But if truth be known, I just want a job and have a peculiar way of asking. So how about it, Billy? Can you spare a dime?" When Buckley arrived to give his talk, he asked whether Brooks was in the lecture audience and offered to give him a job.[12]
Upon graduation, Brooks became a police reporter for the City News Bureau of Chicago, a wire service owned jointly by the Chicago Tribune and Chicago Sun Times.[13] He says that his experience on Chicago's crime beat had a conservatizing influence on him[14] In 1984, mindful of the offer he had previously received from William F. Buckley, Brooks applied and was accepted as an intern on Buckley's National Review. According to Christopher Beam, the internship included an all-access pass to the affluent life style that Brooks had previously mocked, including yachting expeditions; Bach concerts; dinners at Buckley's Park Avenue apartment and villa in Stamford, Connecticut; and a constant stream of writers, politicians, and celebrities.
Brooks was an outsider in more ways than his relative inexperience. National Review was a Catholic magazine, and Brooks is not Catholic. Sam Tanenhaus later reported in The New Republic that Buckley might have eventually named Brooks his successor if it hadn't been for his being Jewish. "If true, it would be upsetting," Brooks says.[15]
After his internship with Buckley ended, Brooks spent some time at the conservative Hoover Institute at Stanford University and then got a job writing movie reviews for the Washington Times. In 1986, Brooks was hired by the Wall Street Journal, where he worked first as an editor of the book review section, enlisting William Kristol to review Allan Bloom's The Closing of the American Mind, which catapulted that book to national prominence. He also filled in for five months as a movie critic. From 1990–94, The Wall Street Journal posted Brooks as an op-ed columnist to Brussels, whence he covered Russia (making numerous trips to Moscow); the Middle East; South Africa; and European affairs. On his return, Brooks joined the neo-conservative Weekly Standard when it was launched in 1994–95. In 1996, he edited an anthology, Backward and Upward: The New Conservative Writing.[5][16]
In 2000, Brooks published a book of cultural commentary titled Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There to considerable acclaim. The book, a paean to consumerism, argued that the new managerial or "new upper class" represents a marriage between the liberal idealism of the 1960s and the self-interest of the 1980s.
According to a 2010 article in New York Magazine written by Christopher Beam, New York Times editorial-page editor Gail Collins called Brooks in 2003 and invited him to lunch.
Collins was looking for a conservative to replace outgoing columnist William Safire, but one who understood how liberals think. "I was looking for the kind of conservative writer that wouldn't make our readers shriek and throw the paper out the window," says Collins. "He was perfect." Brooks started writing in September 2003. "The first six months were miserable," Brooks says. "I'd never been hated on a mass scale before."[15]
In 2004, Brooks' book On Paradise Drive: How We Live Now (And Always Have) in the Future Tense was published as a sequel to his 2000 best seller, Bobos in Paradise, but it was not as well received as its predecessor. Brooks is also the volume editor of The Best American Essays (publication date October 2, 2012), and he authored The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character and Achievement.[17] The book was excerpted in The New Yorker magazine in January 2011[18] and received mixed reviews upon its full publication, by Random House, in March of that year.[19][20][21][22][23][24][25] The book has been a commercial success, reaching the #3 spot on the Publishers Weekly best-sellers list for non-fiction in April 2011.[26]
Brooks was a visiting professor of public policy at Duke University's Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy, and taught an undergraduate seminar there in the fall of 2006.[27] In 2013, he taught a course at Yale University on philosophical humility.[28]
In 2012, Brooks was elected to the University of Chicago Board of Trustees.[29] He also serves on the Board of Advisors for the University of Chicago Institute of Politics.[30]
Personal life[edit]
Brooks met his ex-wife, the former Jane Hughes, while both were students at the University of Chicago. She converted to Judaism [31] and changed her given name to Sarah.[32] In 2012, Brooks and his wife moved from their home in Bethesda, Maryland, to the Cleveland Park neighborhood of Northwest Washington, D.C., where they purchased a home.[33] Brooks said during a February 2015 interview with Brian Lamb that he and his wife are divorced.[34]
According to The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles, in a September 2014 interview with the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, Brooks revealed that his oldest son serves in the Israel Defense Forces.[35]
Political views[edit]
Ottawa Citizen conservative commentator David Warren has identified Brooks as a "sophisticated pundit" one of "those Republicans who want to 'engage with' the liberal agenda."[36] When asked what he thinks of charges that he's "not a real conservative" or "squishy," Brooks has said that, "if you define conservative by support for the Republican candidate or the belief that tax cuts are the correct answer to all problems, I guess I don't fit that agenda. But I do think that I'm part of a longstanding conservative tradition that has to do with Edmund Burke ... and Alexander Hamilton."[37] In fact, Brooks read Edmund Burke's work while he was an undergraduate at the University of Chicago and "completely despised it," but "gradually over the next five to seven years...came to agree with him." Brooks claims that "my visceral hatred was because he touched something I didn't like or know about myself."[38] In September 2012, Brooks talked about being criticized from the conservative side, saying, "If it's from a loon, I don't mind it. I get a kick out of it. If it's Michelle Malkin attacking, I don't mind it." With respect to whether he was "the liberals' favorite conservative" Brooks said he "didn't care," stating that "I don't mind liberals praising me, but when it's the really partisan liberals, you get an avalanche of love, it's like uhhh, I gotta rethink this."[37]
Brooks describes himself as having originally been a liberal before, as he put it, "coming to my senses." He recounts that a turning point in his thinking came while he was still an undergraduate, when he was selected to present the socialist point of view during a televised debate with free-market economist Milton Friedman.[39] As Brooks describes it, "[It] was essentially me making a point, and he making a two-sentence rebuttal which totally devastated my point. That didn't immediately turn me into a conservative, but ...."[40]
Before the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Brooks argued forcefully for American military intervention, echoing the belief of commentators and political figures that American and British forces would be welcomed as liberators.[41][42] In 2005, Brooks wrote what columnist Jonathan Chait described as "a witheringly condescending column" portraying Senator Harry Reid "as an unhinged conspiracy theorist because he accused the [George W. Bush] administration of falsifying its Iraq intelligence."[43][44] By 2008, five years into the war, Brooks maintained that the decision to go to war was correct, but that Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld had botched U.S. war efforts.[45] In 2015, Brooks wrote that "[f]rom the current vantage point, the decision to go to war was a clear misjudgment" made in 2003 by President Bush and the majority of Americans who supported the war, including Brooks himself.[46] Brooks wrote "many of us thought that, by taking down Saddam Hussein, we could end another evil empire, and gradually open up human development in Iraq and the Arab world. Has that happened? In 2004, I would have said yes. In 2006, I would have said no. In 2015, I say yes and no, but mostly no."[46] Citing the Robb-Silberman report, Brooks rejected as a "fable" the idea that "intelligence about Iraqi weapons of mass destruction was all cooked by political pressure, that there was a big political conspiracy to lie us into war."[46] Instead, Brooks viewed the war as a product of faulty intelligence, writing that "[t]he Iraq war error reminds us of the need for epistemological modesty."[46]
His dismissal of the conviction of Scooter Libby as being "a farce" and having "no significance"[47] was derided by political blogger Andrew Sullivan.[48]
On August 10, 2006, Brooks wrote a column for The New York Times entitled "Party No. 3". The column proposed the idea of the McCain-Lieberman Party, or the fictional representation of the fictional moderate majority in America.[49]
Brooks has long been a supporter of John McCain; however, he disliked McCain's 2008 running mate, Sarah Palin, calling her a "cancer" on the Republican Party.[50] He has referred to her as a "joke," unlikely ever to win the Republican nomination.[51] But he later admitted during a C-SPAN interview that he had gone too far in his previous "cancer" comments about Palin, which he regretted, and simply stated he was not a fan of her values.[52]
In a March 2007, article published in The New York Times titled "No U-Turns",[53] Brooks explained that the Republican Party must distance itself from the minimal-government conservative principles that had arisen during the Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan eras. He claims that these core concepts had served their purposes and should no longer be embraced by Republicans in order to win elections. Alex Pareene commented that Brooks "has been trying for so long to imagine a sensible Republican Party into existence that he can't still think it's going to happen soon."[54]
Brooks has frequently expressed admiration for President Barack Obama. In an August 2009, profile of Brooks, The New Republic describes his first encounter with Obama, in the spring of 2005: "Usually when I talk to senators, while they may know a policy area better than me, they generally don't know political philosophy better than me. I got the sense he knew both better than me. [...] I remember distinctly an image of--we were sitting on his couches, and I was looking at his pant leg and his perfectly creased pant, and I'm thinking, a) he's going to be president and b) he'll be a very good president."[55] Brooks appreciates that Obama thinks "like a writer," explaining, "He's a very writerly personality, a little aloof, exasperated. He's calm. He's not addicted to people."[38] Two days after Obama's second autobiography, The Audacity of Hope, hit bookstores, Brooks published a column in The New York Times, titled "Run, Barack, Run", urging the Chicago politician to run for president.[56] However, in December 2011, during a CSPAN interview, Brooks' expressed a more tempered opinion of Obama's presidency, giving Obama only a "B-" rating, and saying that Obama's chances of re-election would be less than 50-50 if elections were held at that time.[52] He stated, "I don't think he's integrated himself with people in Washington as much as he should have."[38] However, in a February 2016 New York Times Op-Ed, Brooks admitted that he missed Obama during the 2016 primary season, admiring the president's "integrity" and "humanity" among other characteristics.[57]
In writing for The New York Times in January 2010, Brooks described Israel as "an astonishing success story".[58] He wrote that "Jews are a famously accomplished group," who, because they were "forced to give up farming in the Middle Ages... have been living off their wits ever since".[58] In Brooks' view, "Israel's technological success is the fruition of the Zionist dream. The country was not founded so stray settlers could sit among thousands of angry Palestinians in Hebron. It was founded so Jews would have a safe place to come together and create things for the world."[58][59]
Social views[edit]
Brooks opposes what he sees as self-destructive behavior, such as the prevalence of teenage sex and divorce. His view is that "sex is more explicit everywhere barring real life. As the entertainment media have become more sex-saturated, American teenagers have become more sexually abstemious" by "waiting longer to have sex...[and] having fewer partners." He sees the culture war as nearly over, because "today's young people...seem happy with the frankness of the left and the wholesomeness of the right." As a result, he is optimistic about the United States' social stability, which he considers to be "in the middle of an amazing moment of improvement and repair."[60]
As early as 2003, Brooks wrote favorably of same-sex marriage, pointing out that marriage is a traditional conservative value. Rather than opposing it, he wrote: "We should insist on gay marriage. We should regard it as scandalous that two people could claim to love each other and not want to sanctify their love with marriage and fidelity.... It's going to be up to conservatives to make the important, moral case for marriage, including gay marriage."[61]
Brooks also takes a moderate position on abortion, which he thinks should be legal, but with parental consent for minors, during the first four or five months, and illegal afterward, except in extremely rare circumstances. (New York Times, April 22, 2002)[62]
On the legalization of drugs, he has expressed opposition to the liberalization of marijuana, advocating that it encourages morally reprovable behavior. Brooks relates that he smoked it in his youth but quit after a humiliating incident: Brooks smoked marijuana during lunch hour at school and felt embarrassed during a class presentation that afternoon in which he says he was incapable of intelligible speech.[63]
Brooks' writing on sociology has been criticised for being based on stereotypes and presenting false claims as factual.[64][65] In 2004, Sasha Issenberg, writing for Philadelphia magazine, fact-checked Bobos in Paradise, concluding that many of its comments about middle America were misleading or the exact reverse of the truth.[66] He reported Brooks as insisting that the book was not intended to be factual but to report his impressions of what he believed an area to be like: "He laughed...'[The book was] partially tongue-in-cheek'...I went through some of the other instances where he made declarations that appeared insupportable. He accused me of being 'too pedantic,' of "taking all of this too literally,' of 'taking a joke and distorting it.' 'That's totally unethical', he said." Brooks later said the article made him feel that "I suck...I can't remember what I said but my mother told me I was extremely stupid."[67] In 2015, Salon found that Brooks had got 'nearly every detail' wrong about a poll of high-school students.[68]
Michael Kinsley argued that Brooks was guilty of "fearless generalizing... Brooks does not let the sociology get in the way of the shtick, and he wields a mean shoehorn when he needs the theory to fit the joke."[69] Writing for Gawker, which has consistently criticised Brooks' work, opinion writer Tom Scocca argued that Brooks' career since 2004 had been marked by supporting political stands based on moral judgments and disdaining those citing evidence or statistical research, noting that "possibly that is because he perceives facts and statistics as an opportunity...to work mischief."[70]
In 2016, James Taranto criticized[71] Brooks' analysis[72] of a U.S. Supreme Court case,[73] writing that "Brooks's treatment of this case is either deliberately deceptive or recklessly ignorant."[71] Law professor Ann Althouse concurred that Brooks "distorts rather grotesquely" the case in question.[74] Brooks was previously criticized by Lyle Denniston with regard to another case, for having "scrambled the actual significance of what the Supreme Court has done".[75]
Sidney Awards[edit]
In 2004 Brooks created an award to honor the best political and cultural journalism of the year. Named for philosopher Sidney Hook and originally called "The Hookies," the honor was renamed "The Sidney Awards" in 2005. The awards are presented each December.[76]
Partial bibliography[edit]
- Editor, Backward and Upward: The New Conservative Writing (Vintage, 1996) 0-6797-6654-5
- Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There (2000) ISBN 0-684-85377-9
- On Paradise Drive: How We Live Now (And Always Have) in the Future Tense (2004) ISBN 0-7432-2738-7
- The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement (2011) ISBN 978-1-4000-6760-2
- The Road to Character (Random House, 2015) ISBN 978-0-8129-9325-7
See also[edit]
- Co-commentator on NPR: E. J. Dionne.
- Co-commentator on the PBS Newshour: Mark Shields
- ^ a b c d David Brooks Analyst Bio Online NewsHour
- ^ "David Brooks." Contemporary Authors Online. Detroit: Gale, 2012. Biography In Context. Web. November 7, 2013.
- ^ "David Brooks." Gale Biography in Context. Detroit: Gale, 2011. Biography In Context. Web. November 7, 2013.
- ^ Eberstadt, Mary (ed.), "Why I turned right: leading baby boom conservatives chronicle their political journeys," Simon and Schuster (2007).
- ^ a b Columnist Biography: David Brooks, The New York Times
- ^ a b It's Back, The Weekly Standard, February 20, 2003
- ^ a b A Loud and Promised Land, New York Times, April 16, 2009. "As an American Jew, I was taught to go all gooey-eyed at the thought of Israel..."
- ^ Christopher Beam, "A Reasonable Man", New York Magazine (July 12, 2010)|"His wife is devoutly Jewish; she converted after they married and recently changed her name from Jane Hughes to the more biblical-sounding Sarah Brooks but he rarely attends synagogue"
- ^ Christopher Beam, "A Reasonable Man", New York Magazine (July 12, 2010). Regarding his views on liberals, he has said. "I think it's more a matter of respect than agreement. I don't have a sense that they're idiots."
- ^ "A Reasonable Man" New York (magazine)
- ^ University of Chicago Maroon, April 5, 1983.
- ^ "Everybody's a Critic", Mary Ruth Yoe, University of Chicago Magazine(February, 2004).
- ^ Biography page for David Brooks on PBS.
- ^ Beam, "A Reasonable Man" (New York Magazine, 2010).
- ^ a b Beam, "A Reasonable Man", New York Magazine" (2010).
- ^ PBS biography of Brooks.
- ^ Brooks, David (January 17, 2011). "Social Animal How the new sciences of human nature can help make sense of a life". The New Yorker. Retrieved March 13, 2011.
- ^ "The Social Animal by David Brooks - Book - eBook - Audiobook". Random House. Retrieved January 22, 2012.
- ^ Bell, Douglas (March 11, 2011). "The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement, by David Brooks". The Globe and Mail. Toronto.
- ^ "The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement | Books Inc. - The West's Oldest Independent Bookseller". Books Inc. Retrieved January 22, 2012.
- ^ Nagel, Thomas (March 11, 2011). "David Brooks's Theory of Human Nature". The New York Times. Retrieved March 13, 2011.
- ^ Myers, PZ (March 11, 2011). "David Brooks' dream world for the trust-fund set". Salon.com. Retrieved March 16, 2011.
- ^ Wilkinson, Will (March 10, 2011). "The Social Animal by David Brooks: A Scornful Review". Forbes.com. Retrieved March 16, 2011.
- ^ Brooks, David. "The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement (9781400067602): David Brooks: Books". Amazon.com. Retrieved January 22, 2012.
- ^ "Publishers Weekly Best-sellers". The Maui News. April 3, 2011. Retrieved April 4, 2011.
- ^ Brooks, David (February 4, 2007). "Children of Polarization". The New York Times.
- ^ Harrington, Rebecca (December 19, 2012). "David Brooks To Teach 'Humility' At Yale". The Huffington Post.
- ^ Wood, Becky (June 15, 2012). "Five new members elected to University of Chicago Board of Trustees". Retrieved February 13, 2016.
- ^ "Board of Advisors". The University of Chicago Institute of Politics. Retrieved February 13, 2016.
- ^ "The Times' 'New York Conservative'". The Jewish Week.
- ^ Brooks, Sarah (June 19, 2008). "What's in a name? In part, my religion". Washington Jewish Week.
- ^ Post on Brooks's 2012 purchase of a new home in The Washington Post
- ^ "Q&A with David Brooks". C-SPAN, February 8, 2015, 40:45.
(2 40:45) Lamb: Let me ask you, as I was doing research I kept running into the story, Is David Brooks divorced or not? Brooks: I am divorced. I do not want legally talk about it but I am divorced.
- ^ "David Brooks' Son Is In the Israeli Army: Does It Matter?". Jewish Journal. September 23, 2014. Retrieved September 25, 2014.
- ^ David Warren, A War Between Two World Views July 17, 2009
- ^ a b Howard Kurtz, "David Brooks, Riling Up the Right" The Daily Beast September 30, 2012
- ^ a b c Weiland, Noah (October 4, 2013). "Uncommon Interview: David Brooks (A.B. '83)". The Chicago Maroon. Retrieved February 13, 2016.
- ^ Felsenthal, Carol (May 18, 2015). "David Brooks Doesn't Pay Attention to Your Criticism". Retrieved February 14, 2016.
- ^ Yoe, Mary Ruth (February 2004). "Everybody's a critic". University of Chicago Magazine. 96 (3). Retrieved September 11, 2009.
- ^ Brooks, David (March 9, 2003). "The Certainty Crisis". The Weekly Standard. Retrieved February 17, 2015.
- ^ Brooks, David (April 28, 2003). "The Collapse of the Dream Palaces". The Weekly Standard. Retrieved February 17, 2015.
- ^ David Brooks, The Harry da Reid Code, New York Times (November 3, 2005).
- ^ Jonathan Chait, Was the Iraq War a Crime or a Mistake? Yes., New York (May 18, 2008).
- ^ Greg Mitchell, David Brooks: No Apologies 5 Years Later (March 25, 2008).
- ^ a b c d David Brooks, Learning From Mistakes, New York Times (May 19, 2015).
- ^ Brooks, David (July 3, 2007). "Ending the Farce". New York Times. Retrieved March 11, 2011.
- ^ Sullivan, Andrew (July 3, 2007). "What Rule of Law?". Atlantic Monthly. Retrieved March 11, 2011.
- ^ Brooks, David (August 10, 2006). "Party No. 3". The New York Times. Retrieved February 16, 2009.
- ^ Shea, Danny (October 8, 2008). "David Brooks: Sarah Palin "Represents A Fatal Cancer To The Republican Party"". Huffington Post. Retrieved February 16, 2009.
- ^ David Brooks: Sarah Palin Is A 'Joke', TPMTv on YouTube, November 15, 2009
- ^ a b "In Depth with David Brooks". C-SPAN. December 4, 2011. Retrieved April 25, 2015.
(Palin comments) Host: DOES DAVID REGRET HIS COMMENT ABOUT SARAH PALIN AND HER CANCER ON THE REPUBLICAN PARTY? Guest: YEAH, I DO. I THINK IT WAS SOME LUNCH AFFAIR FOR SOME MAGAZINE, AND I WAS JUST MOUTHING OFF, AND SO I -- I'M NOT A FAN OF HERS, BUT THAT'S A LITTLE STRONG. (Opinion on Obama) I THINK HE'S CONDUCTED HIMSELF IN PRETTY MUCH AN HONEST WAY. HE'S HAD VERY LITTLE CORRUPTION. I STILL HAVE GREAT PERM ADMIRATION FOR HIM. I'M MORE TO HIS RIGHT, BUT I GIVE HIM NO WORSE THAN A B-. I THINK HE'S MADE SOME MISTAKES, BUT I WOULDN'T SAY HE'S BEEN A BAD PRESIDENT.
- ^ Brooks, David (March 3, 2007). "No U-Turns". The New York Times. Retrieved September 13, 2008.
- ^ Pareene, Alex. "Blow up the Times Op-Ed page, and start again!". Salon. Retrieved August 15, 2015.
- ^ Sherman, Gabriel (August 31, 2009). "The Courtship: The story behind the Obama-Brooks bromance". The New Republic. Retrieved September 11, 2009.
- ^ Brooks, David (October 19, 2006). "Run, Barack, Run". The New York Times. Retrieved September 11, 2009.
- ^ "I Miss Barack Obama". The New York Times. February 9, 2016.
- ^ a b c Brooks, David (January 12, 2010). "The Tel Aviv Cluster". The New York Times.
- ^ Maltz Bovy, Phoebe. "David Brooks Was Right: Anti-Semitism Is a Different Evil". The New Republic. Retrieved August 15, 2015.
- ^ New York Times, April 17, 2005, 4-14
- ^ New York Times, November 22, 2003, A-15
- ^ Brooks, David (April 22, 2007). "Postures in Public, Facts in the Womb". The New York Times. Retrieved December 31, 2009.
- ^ Brooks, David (January 2, 2014). "Weed: Been There. Done That". The New York Times.
- ^ Scocca, Tom. "David Brooks Has Some Notions About the Programs on Your Television Machine". Slate. Retrieved August 15, 2015.
- ^ Scocca, Tom. "David Brooks Is Nostalgic for a World Without Himself in It". Slate. Retrieved August 15, 2015.
- ^ Issenberg, Sasha. "Boo-Boos in Paradise". Philadelphia magazine. Retrieved November 14, 2014.
- ^ Beam, Christopher. "A Reasonable Man". New York magazine. Retrieved November 14, 2014.
- ^ Zweig, David. "The facts vs. David Brooks: Startling inaccuracies raise questions about his latest book". Salon. Retrieved August 15, 2015.
- ^ Kinsley, Michael. "Suburban Thrall". New York Times. Retrieved November 14, 2014.
- ^ Scocca, Tom. "David Brooks Has Noticed Hillary Is a Soviet Dictator". Gawker. Retrieved August 15, 2015.
- ^ a b Taranto, James. "Brooks Borks Cruz", Wall Street Journal (January 12, 2016).
- ^ Brooks, David. "The Brutalism of Ted Cruz", New York Times (January 12, 2016).
- ^ Dretke v. Haley, 541 U.S. 386 (2004).
- ^ Althouse, Ann. "Althouse" (January 13, 2016).
- ^ Denniston, Lyle. "Constitution Check: Did the Supreme Court give us Super PACs?", Constitution Daily (May 7, 2012).
- ^ Brooks, David (December 29, 2005). "The Sidney Awards, 2005". The New York Times. Retrieved December 30, 2014.
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February 28, 2011 - Amy Phelps
I haven't really been a fan of audio books - for some reason I get impatient being read to as an adult and just want to read it myself. Some of my coworkers have been listening to several audio books, including a recent Star Wars book, "Death Troopers" about zombies in which the chapter titles are screamed repeatedly - "Where the Bad Air Goes...BAD AIR!" and has become somewhat of a running joke, and Jim Butcher's "Harry Dresden" series, narrated by James Marsters. It wasn't until there were some new Doctor Who books that were issued exclusively as audio books and read by the Doctor himself, David Tennant, that I took a chance and got one, figuring the Doctor could read to me anytime.
In "The Last Voyage" by Dan Abnett (AudioGO Ltd., $24.95.) the Doctor shows up on an interdimensional-traveling ship (hey, kind of like the TARDIS!) on its maiden voyage. The crew and passengers, including "comfort mediator" Sugar McCauley, are all excited to be aboard. But during travel there is a jolt. The ship isn't actually moving, reality is moving around it, so what happened? As the Doctor investigates with Sugar's help, they find that half of the passengers and crew are just...gone. And then they keep hearing voices calling their names...And Sugar sees a swirling mass that starts to take on shape. Is something trying to get into our dimension? And when the ship "lands" what will they find?
The story itself was well-written and quite exciting. I enjoyed the supporting characters, and, of course, the Doctor. As for the audio book experience, I wasn't disappointed. It was actually quite entertaining. For one, David Tennant does the voices of different characters in different accents. As the narrator, he reads in his normal Scottish voice, as the Doctor, in British tones, and as the female main character, Sugar McCauley, an American accent, to name a few. After a while, I actually forgot he was doing all of the voices because they all sounded so different. I also think it makes a world of difference to have an actor, especially an actor familiar with the series if possible, to read the story. I know Tennant created a sense of tension and urgency with his reading.
An even bigger plus for me was that car rides became VERY quiet. My kids, who normally fight over what music to listen to or seem determined to talk as loud as humanly possible in a small space, were quiet so they could hear the story. They also became adamant about listening to it every second we were in the car ("Turn on the Doctor, Mom!") and that I was not to listen to it without them because they didn't want to miss what happened next. This was also a shorter book than some audio books I've seen with a running time of 2 hours and 30 minutes, so they didn't forget what happened 4 hours ago. I'm actually looking forward to trying the stories out the next trip we take.
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#20752 assigned Bug
Error signals are not reliable, especially when dealing with database errors
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In core.handlers.base, unhandled exceptions are processed as such:
except: # Handle everything else, including SuspiciousOperation, etc. # Get the exception info now, in case another exception is thrown later. signals.got_request_exception.send(sender=self.__class__, request=request) response = self.handle_uncaught_exception(request, resolver, sys.exc_info())
Which delivers the error signal to the various handlers (database transaction resets, things like Sentry etc).
However, the code that dispatches signals aborts the dispatch if any of the handlers fail (to try..except block):
for receiver in self._live_receivers(_make_id(sender)): response = receiver(signal=self, sender=sender, **named) responses.append((receiver, response)) return responses
This is perfectly reasonable in most cases, but is problematic when dealing with top-level error handling, as this prevents the unhandled error from reaching handlers that just want to report it.
This is very noticeable in cases where "something bad" happens to the database connection, as the first handler is always the database rollback handler, which only catches DatabaseError, which excludes a lot of errors that can and do crop up in production
def _rollback_on_exception(**kwargs): from django.db import transaction for conn in connections: try: transaction.rollback_unless_managed(using=conn) except DatabaseError: pass
I think that it will be better to have the error signal dispatcher defer except raising until after all the handlers were called (or just swallow them all).
Alternatively, a different signal for error reporting is possible, but I think that's a little confusing.
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comment:1 Changed 3 years ago by anonymous
- Needs documentation unset
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Oh, just saw that the defer thing is implemented in send_robust(). Maybe just switch it from send() to send_robust() then?
Changed 3 years ago by tal@…
comment:2 Changed 3 years ago by tal@…
- Has patch set
comment:3 Changed 3 years ago by shai
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send_robust() implies (correctly) that errors are expected. But the current patch proposes to just silence them, and that seems wrong to me.
Also, if you see a real problem, can you provide a test that exemplifies it (and can be used to verify that the solution is correct)?
comment:4 Changed 3 years ago by tal@…
I was on the fence on send_robust(): I generally dislike mechanisms that just swallow exceptions, because it makes bugs slip through the cracks. On the other hand, some signal handlers (db rollback) are actually extremely likely to raise an exception if something bad happened to the underlying connection, which is what we were seeing.
You can simulate something like this by closing the underlying connections. You can simulate it by doing something like:
from django.db import connection connection.connection.close()
At a view or a middleware.
Some alternatives to send_robust:
1) implement something that will aggregate the exceptions and just raise a "SignalHandlersException" container at the end. No exceptions are lost, but I question the overall value of it in this scenario.
2) Print out exceptions to stderr, which is what django actually ends up doing when the error signal handler go rogue.
I'm leaning towards option 2.
comment:5 Changed 3 years ago by ianawilson
I like option 2 as well, but to take it just one step further, what do you think of doing a logger.error() call with the stacktrace? Seems to me that this gives the most control and flexibility to developers.
comment:6 Changed 3 years ago by tal@…
shai: while I agree with you on silencing errors being wrong, it does seem like a problem with send_robust, as it's actually pretty sensible to rely on the existing "robust" dispatch.
I can also have send_robust emit a call to logger.error (as proposed by Ian) as a part of this patch, although it might be a little out of scope :)
What do you think? Right now we're working around this issue by doing some setattr magic:
def make_unhandled_signal_safe(): from django.core import signals as core_signals setattr(core_signals.got_request_exception, 'send', core_signals.got_request_exception.send_robust)
and we would very much like to get rid of it :)
comment:7 Changed 3 years ago by schacki
- Owner changed from nobody to schacki
- Status changed from new to assigned
comment:8 Changed 3 years ago by schacki
Please find my patch attached. I have changed the core handler in a way such that:
- the initial error is logged as expected, so the root cause of the trouble is visible and not covered by any other exceptions
- all connected handlers are completely executed as expected, so no unexpected side-effects from one handler to the other
- any exceptions from the handlers are logged to the error log, so no errors pass silently.
I have also tried to add unit tests. Unfortunately, I have not managed, to really read the logging output. Any help is appreciated.
Changed 3 years ago by schacki
comment:9 Changed 3 years ago by schacki
I have just sent this pull request: https://github.com/django/django/pull/1778
comment:10 Changed 3 years ago by ptone
- Component changed from Core (Other) to HTTP handling
- Easy pickings unset
- Triage Stage changed from Unreviewed to Accepted
- Version changed from 1.5 to master
I agree there is some room to improve the robustness of the handler here in the case of "something bad happened".
Signal receiver's shouldn't be doing anything fancy when getting the "got_request_exception" signal (basically heeding the warning in the docstring of "handle_uncaught_exception", but the handler itself should be robust against any poorly written signal handler.
Another related place the handler could be more robust is in "handle_uncaught_exception" itself. While hopefully rare, someone could have attempted to install some fancy 500 handler which itself raises some unforseen exceptoin - so maybe a try except is needed there as well, with some logging, and then returning a minimal 500 ala:
return http.HttpResponseServerError('
Server Error (500)
', content_type='text/html')
Also it is not clear to me why the more robust sending of the signal step shouldn't just be rolled into handle_uncaught_exception. Those two steps occur together every single time in the handler, so I'm not sure why they need to be separate steps - sending the signal could easily be considered as "part of" handling the uncaught exception.
comment:11 Changed 3 years ago by ptone
- Cc preston@… added
comment:12 Changed 3 years ago by schacki
I have changed the code as follows:
- Refactored the got_request_exception handling into handle_uncaught_exception. This makes to code much cleaner and the process more transparent
- The inital exception, that triggered the handle_uncaught_exception is the main focus. I.e. this exception is logged first, this exception is raised if settings.DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS is True. This makes debugging and analyzing the root cause of all the trouble much easier (which was one of the reasons, why this ticket was raised), nevertheless all follow-up errors are still logged.
- Implemented proposal from ptone, to make the resolve500 more robust.
- Commented the code in handle_uncaugh_exception to make the process and ideas behind it more transparent.
comment:13 Changed 3 years ago by schacki
- Cc schacki added
comment:14 Changed 3 years ago by schacki
Hi all, may I ask on the status here. Anything I could/should? Thanks (was not aware that I was not logged in while writing my previous message)
comment:15 Changed 3 years ago by ptone
schacki - there aren't any steps to do you haven't already, thank you for the patch. I myself have not been able to make time to give it another review, I hope to be able to late this week, or early next. You can always try to recruit any member of the Django community to review the patch (not just core members), more eyes is always better. Thank you for your patience.
comment:16 Changed 2 years ago by anubhav9042
The PR looks good to me. I am not marking it as RFC though, because it would be better if core-dev does that.
comment:17 Changed 2 years ago by aaugustin
The PR doesn't apply any more.


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When it comes to managerial training — ratio analysis, business and marketing plans, strategic planning — 20 groups have long been the industry standard. But they come with a hefty monthly bill that some retailers have recently chosen to forgo. Now they may be having second thoughts, according to the Mike Brunken, general manager of Gart Sutton & Associates (www.gartsutton.com). "We're hearing through our current dealers that a lot of former members are contacting them to see if they can get back in their old groups," he says. "We've had three enrollments in the last couple of months, and we think we're going to get a lot more coming back at the beginning of the year."
GSA moderates six metric 20 clubs and one for Harley dealers. It has more than 140 dealer clients, but many aren't club members and only report numbers.
This may seem like a modest number for the industry's largest 20 group organizer. Just two years ago, RPM Group was claiming more than 300 members. After owning the group for a year, Assurant Solutions sold the business to GSA in May 2009. Roughly 80 of the 300 were Ducati dealers whose fees were paid for by the OEM, which decided to disband the groups after the sale. "That was half of the dealers that quit," says Brunken, who believes the bad economy claimed the others.
Ed Lemco, founder in 1980 of the company that would become RPM Group, decided to restart his groups (www.lemco.com) with daughter Laura Lemco. He now moderates one 20 group with 15 Harley-Davidson dealers, five of which he's partnered with. Laura moderates a metric group and a Harley group. Besides monthly composites, Lemco tracks dealer departments, the managers of which share numbers daily. The resultant reports are sent out twice per month.
Other 20 group providers mentioned by Top 100 dealers include Spader Business Management (www.spader.com) and PowerHouse Dealer Services (www.phdservices.com), the second of which is Dealernews' partner for "The Lab" project (page 10). Some manufacturers like Harley-Davidson host their own.
In addition, some of these companies offer in-store training, like GSA's three-day "accelerated assessment and action planning session." The company also provides tailored on-site training for management, sales, F&I, P&A and DMS support.
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The Return of the Native
by Thomas Hardy
Hourglass and Telescope
Symbolism, Imagery, Allegory
When we meet Eustacia, we learn that she's carrying two rather unusual items with her: an hourglass and a telescope.
For the rest, she suffered much from depression of spirits, and took slow walks to recover them, in which she carried her grandfather's telescope and her grandmother's hour-glass – the latter because of a peculiar pleasure she derived from watching a material representation of time's gradual slide away. (1.7.22)
So what's up with these two objects? Well, these two symbolic objects represent two of the books major themes and help us explore Eustacia's relationship with these themes. These objects stand for time and sight.
Let's start off with the hourglass. Eustacia gets a weird kick out of watching time physically slide away, perhaps because it means that yet another terrible day on the heath is over for her. But what else is going on with this symbol?
[T]he middle article being the old hour-glass, and the other two a pair of ancient British urns which ha been dug from a barrow near, and were used as flower-pots for two razor-leaved cactuses. (2.4.4)
The hourglass here is surrounded by old, historic objects – ancient urns and cacti that seem like prehistoric plant life. But why is the hourglass connected to the past? Well, an hourglass is a rather old-fashioned way to tell time – there were clocks back in Hardy's day. In fact, Victorians really loved their new-fangled clocks. Time wasn't measured by the natural world as much anymore and cities began to run on different sorts of time than the countryside still did. (Check out this cool site to learn more about the history of how people told time.)
And Eustacia isn't so divorced from the modern world that she relies solely on an hourglass to tell time; she actually carries a watch with her (1.6.13). The fact that she still favors using an hourglass gives us some insight into how Eustacia approaches time.
First, Eustacia's use of an hourglass points to her situation on the heath – an old-fashioned and isolated place. Ironically, Eustacia longs to escape the heath, yet she definitely has an old-fashioned vibe. So Eustacia's approach to time may point to her counter-cultural tendencies and her penchant for going against the crowd. Likewise, as we noted earlier, the hourglass's physical representation of time passing appeals to Eustacia's sad and thoughtful nature; she likes to dwell on things, and the hourglass really lets her dwell on time's passage.
The telescope is a bit more obvious than the hourglass. After all, Eustacia uses it to spy on people, so the telescope's ties to the theme of sight are pretty straightforward. However, this idea of spying gives us further insight into Eustacia's character.
She lifted her left hand, which held a closed telescope. This she rapidly extended, as if she were well accustomed to the operation, and raising it to her eye directed it towards the light beaming from the inn. (1.6.10)
Eustacia tends to set herself apart from people – she eavesdrops and crashes a party in disguise before finally meeting Clym (the object of her stalking) face-to-face. Eustacia often does things in a very roundabout way and the telescope points to her tendencies here. She spies on people, she engages in subterfuge and secret meetings, and the girl likes to be sneaky. All these things indicate a very imaginative and romantic personality, which ties back to Eustacia's tendency to confuse fantasy and reality. The things Eustacia sees aren't always reality and her fondness for viewing stuff via a telescope point to her fondness for "seeing" things as romantic when there might not be any there.


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The Displaced Person
by Flannery O'Connor
Character Role Analysis
Mr. Guizac
Mr. Guizac is an odd protagonist because we don't get to know him. But, he is at the center of the story. As we discuss in "What's Up With the Title?" Mr. Guizac is the named Displaced Person. The title can also apply to all the other characters, who can all be looked at as alternative protagonists.


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Each of these LOTR characters was folded from one piece of paper. This further shames those of us who are unable to fold a paper airplane.
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Detroit Pension Fears; Operation Crew Cut; Baby 'Messiah'
Law Blog rounds up the morning's news:
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It give me great pleasure to introduce the newest member of the Breidenbacher Hof family! Jacques Backhaus joins the team at Brasserie 1806 as the restaurant manager. I am always excited to get to know our new colleagues, and fortunately the Capella Blog provides the perfect cover to ask all my questions!
You are the Restaurant Manager at our "Brasserie 1806", what are your daily tasks?
Of course, one main task is the organization of the entire restaurant. Furthermore, I am the host of the restaurant, which includes serving my guests at all times. This means everything from recommending the best wines to addressing any questions a guest may have. Training our staff is also a very important task.
What do you like most about your job?
What I like most is the contact to the guests! Anticipating the wishes and needs and just being there for my guests at all times – that's what I love about my job!
Where do you come from originally and how did you come to Germany and Düsseldorf particularly?
I was born and raised in France, right between Versailles and Paris. Eighteen years ago, after numerous jobs in Paris, I had the wish to do something new and totally different and to learn German. I came to Germany and originally planned on staying for only one year. But due to very good job opportunities, I ended up staying. What brought me to Düsseldorf in particular, was my self-employment in the wine trade. Here, I finally re-discovered my passion for the gastronomy – that's why I am here now!
Do you miss France sometimes?
Not really, because I "live" France, right where I am.
What do you like about the Breidenbacher Hof, a Capella Hotel and why did you choose to work at Capella Hotels and Resorts?
I especially like the philosophy, the heart felt kindness, the great hospitality and that we really do everything it takes to make our guests happy. Here, the saying "the customer is king" is lived every day!


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A greeting, similar to hello
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Leeds United Message Board
pathetic leeds
as a long serving and suffering leeds fan i think its time to sack grayson for his pathetic signings and even worse goal keepers this team will die in the prem league and will suffer more if we keep this mad man in charge bring on martin o neal and money to buy real players who are proud to wear the leeds stripSort: Newest | Oldest | Most Replied Expand all replies
David there's nothing pathetic about LU you lack a bit of insight, understanding and empathy. Put yourself in SG's position with the lack of support from Bates and Harvey. Bates with his deep pockets and Harvey with his pen that refuses to work when prospects are lined up for signing contracts etc. SG is a bloody martyr having to take that sort support from those two. If its anyone who is long a long suffering fan its SG. Count the players that have been lined up by SG over the summer and into August that we have lost because of Bates and Harvey. As for signing goalkeepers we lost two top draw keepers because the Monaco tight arse and his mate failed to offer reasonable contracts on the day to possible signings. We lost Bowyer because of a distance of travel clause that they wouldn't alter to suit his young family and there's more . As for O'Neil he turned us down twice because of finances when we were in a better position a few years back so what makes you think he would come now. Get real! So Dave what I am certain of is that as long as we are saddled with Bates we will continue to be a long way from returning to the heady heights of the top four in the Prem. So you have a lot more suffering to do lad. We remain as ever a massive club in transition bearing the burden that comes with Bates hoping that we can give as good account as possible in the Championship which after all is a very respectable league to be in. We strive in good company with the rest of the Fallen Giants in our league similarly hoping for success. In closing David I have watched Leeds since the late fifties patiently waiting for the good times to return with many a false dawn over the last couple of decades. Hopeful as ever MOT and taking my daily dose of Berroca.
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Couldn't agree more with Bryan and Tom. All you can do is keep supporting the team you love and hope they can get it right on and off the pitch. Or in the case if my club Manchester City get a bucketful of cash thrown at you.
Having been all over the country watching City in some run down back waters over the years I am pinching myself a little now. I've watched some crap but still enjoyed it because the away games were a great day out. When people sing "where were you when you were shit" you can say we were here all along actually. At least you haven't had to put up with the spoilt kid next door taunting you for 20 years!
I've no doubt that Leeds will be back in the Premiership sooner rather than later. Having watched them a few times recently I must admit that they do flatter to deceive. It's a case of will the real Leeds United please stand up. They're either brilliant or awful from what I've seen. If they can get a decent run together and sort their defence out there appear to be plenty of goals in the side.
Anyway keep the faith and good luck.
Do you really think Martin O'Neil would come to Leeds? And then work under Bates with hardly any money?Come on get real!!
All you Leeds fans calling for Grayson to go dont even have a viable alternative to replace him.
In Grayson we trust.
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I am not sure where David is coming from or even if there is a mass belief among the fans that Larry should.
As has been pointed out by Tom et al SG is having to work within a very tight budget, and as I said in a previous post the time to really judge him is when he is given a few quid to spend (if that ever happens). He had to work in similar circumstances at Blackpool and did a reasonable job there (Oyston and Bates might be related), although the Blackpool fans came to the same conclusions us with regard to his lack of vision at times, but he is doing a good job under the circumstances in my opinion.
No manager gets it right all the time, including Ferguson, but if they get it right most of the time then things will eventually happen.
As Tom has pointed out O'Neil has turned us down twice and why would we want him now? OK he is a great manager, but I think he is a Clough man and although I would give him the greatest respect he obviously has no feelings for LU as Larry most definitely has, and that is worth it's weight in gold.
Lets hope he can get them to go on another 12 match unbeaten run over Christmas, and the see where we are - in the top two no doubt. MOT


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