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Though members of the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet are well aware that almost everyone has seen the guitar played before, they've spent the last 31 years entertaining audiences around the world by playing the instrument in an unparalleled way.
The Grammy-winning ensemble will showcase their talents for the local audience when they perform live at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at Schwab Auditorium in University Park. Tickets for the event are on sale and moving quickly.
William Kanengiser, one of the founding members of the quartet, said the guitar or some type of strummed or plucked instrument exists in almost every musical genre.
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The Los Angeles Guitar Quartet poses for a photo. Members of the group are: (from left) John Dearman, Matthew Greif, William Kanengiser and Scott Tennant.
"We like to think that the guitar is the ultimate popular instrument," he said during a phone interview from his L.A. home before the group left for this short tour.
"So the guitar is something that everyone recognizes, and what we do is take a sort of classical music sensibility and we apply it to this chameleon-like instrument."
The program the quartet will perform at Penn State includes everything from classical to jazz to traditional Spanish and African music. Kanengiser said they like to do this to show the different sounds, textures and colors they can create using just their four guitars.
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What: Los Angeles Guitar Quartet
When: 7:30 p.m. Tuesday
Where: Schwab Auditorium, University Park
Details: Tickets are $40 for adults, $32 for those 18 and younger and $15 for University Park students. They can be purchased by calling 863-0255 or online at www.cpa.psu.edu/tickets.
"What we like to do is present a really wide variety of music and show how the guitar can really cross boundaries and make all kinds of music feel very at home," Kanengiser said.
With the classical guitar's name of origin being the "Spanish" guitar, Kanengiser said playing that style of music is what most people would expect. To help meet these expectations, the group will play a suite from "Carmen" by Georges Bizet.
"[The opera] has some of the most famous Spanish melodies ever written, even though it was written by a French composer," Kanengiser said.
The quartet will also play the flamenco-style "El Amor Brujo" by Manuel de Falla, a set of jazz pieces by Miles Davis and John Coltrane and a Cuban work that Kanengiser said "imitates the sound of a rain storm."
"It's a very atmospheric piece that sort of pulls you into observing nature in a musical way," he added.
Not much of the music that the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet performs was originally written for their instruments. Kanengiser said he alone has arranged more than 40 pieces over the years, and other members of the quartet have contributed to this task.
"We couldn't just walk into a library and pull master works off the shelf like if we were a string quartet," he said. "With four guitars, we had to sort of create our own repertoire."
Aside from live performance, the members of the quartet also work as instructors for different institutions or through private lessons. Kanengiser teaches at his alma mater, University of Southern California, where he went to study with his "guitar guru," Pepe Romero.
"He was like a magnet that drew great players in the '70s to L.A.," Kanengiser said.
Passing on the techniques and traditions of classical guitar is something the quartet feels very strongly about, Kanengiser said, but that's not to say that all of their students are classical guitar players. In fact, they've given lessons to everyone from Andy Summers of The Police to a guitarist for the metal band Megadeth.
"You'll find that a lot, that the guys in the rock, jazz and other fields who play the guitar have a lot of respect for classical guitarists and really enjoy the sound of it and the technique of it," Kanengiser said. "They're not as separate as you might think."
Laura Sullivan, marketing director for the Center for the Performing Arts, said the night before their performance, the quartet will work with members of the Penn State Guitar Club, which is comprised of both classical guitar students and rock guitarists.
"This gives [the students] a chance to learn from these guys, who are absolutely incredible," Sullivan said.
Anyone interested in the guitar will enjoy the concert and respect the musicians on stage, Sullivan said, adding that the quartet's ability to cross genres adds to their appeal.
And for the last performance of the season, Sullivan said the setting in Schwab Auditorium should be both intimate and exciting for both the players and the audience members.
"They have a real connection with each other that's reflected in the way they play," she said. "I think everyone will feel that if they're in the audience."
Kanengiser said the band's live performances should be a "pretty loose and fun experience," which they hope will be both sharing and emotional between them and the audience. And because they have been both colleagues and friends for so long, Kanengiser added that the bond between the members of the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet should be palpable on stage, as well.
"Some people say our greatest accomplishment is that we've stayed together for 31 years," Kanengiser said.
"Even though we're a professional tour group now and we tour and record together, we're buddies. We share a real love and appreciation for the classical guitar and the tradition of guitar ensemble."
Mirror Staff Writer Beth Ann Downey is at 946-7520.


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The Yaschik/Arnold Jewish Studies Program and the new Center for Southern Jewish History at the College of Charleston are pleased to announce plans for a two-day conference on "Jews, Slavery and the Civil War" to coincide with the 150th anniversary of the conflict. The conference will be held on May 25–26, 2011 in Charleston, South Carolina.
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Syracuse, N.Y. -- Excellus BlueCross BlueShield says it spent less than allowed on salaries and administrative expenses in 2011, unlike many U.S. health insurers which overspent and must pay an estimated $1.3 billion in rebates to customers this summer.
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Why There Are Words January 9: Your Selected Readers
PAHR-TEE! For four years, WTAW has been doing what you love while we have been doing what we love: gathering writers extraordinaire to read their works to listeners extraordinaire. Join us on January 9, 2014, to celebrate the beginning of our quinquennium and to hear the top six writers you selected from the last four extraordinary years to read at Studio 333 in Sausalito. Doors will open at 7 pm and readings start at 7:15. Bring extra cash for books and booze.
Tom Barbash is the author of a novel, The Last Good Chance, the nonfiction book, On Top of the World: Cantor Fitzgerald, Howard Lutnick, and 9/11, and most recently the acclaimed collection of stories, Stay Up with Me. His work has appeared in McSweeney's, The Believer, and The New York Times. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow, he currently teaches at California College of the Arts.
Lynn Freed's books include six novels, a collection of stories, and a collection of essays. Her work has appeared in Harper's, The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, National Geographic, Narrative Magazine, Southwest Review, The Georgia Review, among others. She is the recipient of the inaugural Katherine Anne Porter Award in Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a PEN/O. Henry Award, fellowships, grants and support from the National Endowment for the Arts and The Guggenheim Foundation, among others. Born in South Africa, she now lives in northern California.
Molly Giles has published three award winning collections of stories, Rough Translations, which won The Flannery O'Connor Prize, the Boston Globe Award, and was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize; Creekwalk, which won the Small Press Award for Short Fiction and the California Commonwealth Silver Medal for Fiction; and Bothered, which won a flash fiction prize from Split Oak Press. Her novel, Iron Shoes, has won no prizes at all. She has an ebook of stories coming out from shebooks titled Three For the Road, and new stories in The Fairy Tale Review and Black Heart. Her latest story collection, All the Wrong Places, just won the Spokane Prize for Fiction and will be forthcoming from Willow Springs Press later this year. She taught fiction writing for many years at San Francisco State University and the University of Arkansas, has edited many published writers, and mentors through the Path to Publishing program at Book Passage. She is currently working on another non-prize winning novel.
Glen David Gold is the author of the novels Carter Beats the Devil and Sunnyside. His short stories and essays have appeared in McSweeney's, Playboy, The New York Times Sunday Magazine, the LA Review of Books, Tin House, and Black Clock. He has written comic books for DC and Dark Horse. Lately he's been writing scripts for The Thrilling Adventure Hour and Welcome to Night Vale, and the first chapter of his memoir is forthcoming in Zyzzyva. In 2014, the Circle Theater in Hollywood will launch his multi-part adaptation of Otto Friedrich's City of Nets.
Daniel Handler is the author of the novels The Basic Eight, Watch Your Mouth, Adverbs, and Why We Broke Up, recently awarded a Michael L. Printz Honor. As Lemony Snicket, he is the author of far too many books for children, including the internationally bestselling A Series Of Unfortunate Events and his new series, All The Wrong Questions. He is adjunct accordionist for the pop group The Magnetic Fields.
Melissa Pritchard is the author of four short story collections: The Odditorium, Disappearing Ingenue, The Instinct for Bliss, and Spirit Seizures; and four novels: Phoenix, Selene of the Spirits, Late Bloomer, and the brand new Palmerino. She is also the author of Devotedly, Virginia, a biography of Arizona philanthropist Virginia Galvin Piper. Her short stories are frequently anthologized and cited in Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards, The Pushcart Prize, Best American Short Stories, the Prentice Hall Anthology of Women's Literature, and numerous other anthologies and textbooks. Her fiction has appeared in over sixty renowned literary journals, including The Paris Review, A Public Space, Agni, The Southern Review, Gulf Coast, Gettysburg Review and others. A recipient of numerous awards, including fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Howard Foundation at Brown University, the Bogliasco Foundation, and the Ledig-Rowohlt Foundation, she teaches at Arizona State University.
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Why There Are Words Literary Reading Series presents "After All"
Why There Are Words Literary Reading Series presents the following readers on the theme After All July 12 at Studio 333 in Sausalito, 7-9pm. $5. Join us as seven authors share stories big and small. It's why there are words after all!
Lauren Becker is editor of Corium Magazine. Her work has appeared in The Los Angeles Review, Opium, Hobart, Juked and some other nice places. Her collection of short fiction is included in the anthology Shut Up/Look Pretty (Tiny Hardcore Press, 2012). She lives in Oakland, where she hosts the reading series, East Bay on the Brain. She has never been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
Joe Clifford's work has appeared in Big Bridge, the Connecticut Review, Drunken Boat, Fringe, Opium, Thuglit, Word Riot, and Underground Voices, among others. A collection of short stories, Choice Cuts, and his noir novel Wake the Undertaker will be published by Snubnose Press this year. He is the producer of Lip Service West, a "gritty, real, raw" reading series in Oakland. He has been to jail but never prison.
Sere Prince Halverson is the author of The Underside of Joy (Dutton, January 2012), translated into fifteen languages. She worked as a copywriter and creative director for 20 years while she wrote fiction and raised kids. She and her husband have four children, and live in Northern California.
Joy Lanzendorfer's work has appeared in Hotel Amerika, Necessary Fiction, Word Riot, Salon, the San Francisco Chronicle, Entrepreneur, Bust, and others. She completed an MA in Creative Writing at San Francisco State University, where she served on the editorial board for Fourteen Hills. Her chapbook The End of the World as I Know It won runner-up for the Michael Rubin Chapbook Award at SFSU. For the last five years, she has been a judge in the Writer's Digest Self-Published Book Awards. She just completed her first novel.
Ericka Lutz is the author of the recently published novel The Edge of Maybe. Her seven non-fiction books include On the Go with Baby and The Complete Idiot's Guide to Stepparenting, and her short fiction and creative non-fiction have appeared in numerous books, anthologies, and journals, including Literary Mama, Because I Love Her, Paris: A Love Story, and Green Mountains Review. She won the Boston Fiction Festival in 2006 with her story "Deer Story," and was a two-time fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Her full-length solo show "A Widow's To-Do List" is in development. She teaches writing at U.C. Berkeley. She is currently writing a second novel based in Oakland about family ties… but this one has ghosts.
Aimee Phan is the author of The Reeducation of Cherry Truong (St. Martin's Press, March 2012). Her first book, We Should Never Meet, was awarded the Association for Asian American Studies Book Award in Prose, a Notable Book by the Kiryama Prize in fiction, and a finalist for the Asian American Literary Awards. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, USA Today, and The Oregonian, among others. A 2010 National Endowment of the Arts Creative Writing Fellow, she received her MFA from the University of Iowa, where she won a Maytag Fellowship. She teaches in the MFA Program in Writing and Writing and Literature Program at California College of the Arts.
Eric Sasson's story collection Margins of Tolerance (Livingston Press, May 2012) was the 2011 Tartt First Fiction Award runner-up. His story "Floating" was a finalist for the Robert Olen Butler prize. Other publication credits include Explosion Proof, BLOOM, Nashville Review, The Puritan, Liquid Imagination, Alligator Juniper, Trans, The Ledge, MARY magazine, and THE2NDHAND, among others. He's taught fiction writing at the Sackett Street Writers Workshop and lives in Brooklyn.
Why There Are Words March 8: "Unspeakable"
Why There Are Words Literary Reading Series presents the following authors March 8 at Studio 333 in Sausalito, 7-9pm. $5. Can the unspeakable be put into words? Come find out when these six writers take on that theme.
Chris Cole's first novel, The Speed at Which I Travel, is about an existentialist, time-traveling teenager from the Midwest. Chris Cole sits on the board of the SF literary organization Quiet Lightning, and is a co-founder of the Pints and Prose reading series. Under the name "Disembodied Poetics," he writes a daily blog of verse and occasional prose to thousands of dedicated followers.
Timothy Crandle's fiction has been honored with the Jack Dyer Prize from Crab Orchard Review, the Waasmode Prize from Passages North,and second prize in the Zoetrope: All-Story Fiction Contest where it was selected from over 2500 entries by Joyce Carol Oates. In autumn 2010 he was writer in residence at Ox-Bow School of the Arts. He has worked as a roofer, painter (walls only, never canvases), pizza delivery man, casting director, and electrical engineer. He holds an MFA from the University of San Francisco, and lives and writes in Oakland.
Krys Lee is the author of the debut novel Drifting House. Born in Seoul, South Korea, she was raised in California, and studied in the U.S. and England. A finalist for Best New American Voices in 2006, her work has appeared in The Kenyon Review, Narrative magazine, California Quarterly, Pacific Ties, the Korea Times, and Asia Weekly. She lives in Seoul.
Kate Moses is the author of Cakewalk, A Memoir,nominated for a Northern California Book Award, and the internationally acclaimed, award-winning novel Wintering: A Novel of Sylvia Plath, published in fifteen languages. As a founding editor and staff writer for Salon, Kate Moses co-edited Salon's groundbreaking daily feature Mothers Who Think and two bestselling anthologies of essays on motherhood inspired by the site, Mothers Who Think and Because I Said So. A native of San Francisco, she teaches in the creative writing programs at San Francisco State and the University of San Francisco.
Meghan Thornton won the poetry prize at the 2010 San Francisco Writer's Conference and was published in the Poets 11 Anthology. She is a board member of Quiet Lightning, and her poetry and short stories can be found in Sparkle & Blink. She wrote her first novel, a vampire romance, in high school. Knowing that it would never sell, she moved on to poetry. She is currently editing her novel, "The Sword in the Cellar," the first in a middle grade fantasy series that, unfortunately, has nothing to do with vampires.
Barry Willdorf is author of the novel, The Flight of the Sorceress. In 2001, he published a semi-autobiographical novel, Bring the War Home. His legal publishing credits include co-authoring How To Pass the LSATs,/em>, and part of the Matthew Bender series, California Forms of Jury Instructions. He was a contributing editor for Matthew Bender's Trial Master series. Born in New York City, he grew up in Massachusetts, and claims to be the first person to have surfed on Cape Ann.
Why There Are Words February 9: "Vision"
Why There Are Words Literary Reading Series presents the following readers on the theme: Vision February 9 at Studio 333 in Sausalito, 7-9pm. $5. Come see for yourself what all the rave reviews for the reading series have been about.
Marcus Banks finds himself at many literary gatherings. A blogger and critic, his book reviews have appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, Prick of the Spindle, and Rain Taxi. He has also published personal essays in Superstition Review, and from 2005-2007 was the technology columnist for the Gotham Gazette. You can follow his jottings at http://mbanks.typepad.com/.
Kirstin Chen is a 2011-2012 Steinbeck Fellow at San Jose
State University. She has won awards from the Sewanee Writers' Conference and Emerson College. Her stories have appeared in Hobart, Pank, Juked, The Good Men Project, and others, and have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and the Best New American Voices anthology. She holds a BA from Stanford University and an MFA from Emerson College. She currently lives in San Francisco, where she is completing her first novel, Soy Sauce for Beginners, set in her homeland of Singapore.
Nicole McFeely is the author of hundreds of bar napkin scribblings and countless other incoherent jottings. She has not written a book, won a grant, or enrolled in a graduate program but has plans to do perhaps two of these things in the next ten years. Destroyer of free time, she currently works as a bartender and freelance editor and serves as the Director of Outreach for Quiet Lightning and the Assistant Editor of Litseen.com. http://nicmcfeely.wordpress.com/
Chicken John is a Showman living in San Francisco. A contributor and instigator
with a long history of arranging Serendipity to accommodate Chaos when she comes to Destiny's house for dinner. He is a documented confusionist. He is a qualified insultant. He also a mechanic and a writer. He owns a gigantic bus and an odd warehouse in San Francisco. In his spare time he enjoys longs walks off a short pier, underwater basket weaving, and writing dumb bios about himself. He would like you to buy his new book, The Book of the Is. http://chickenjohn.com/
Jacqueline Luckett is the author of the new novel, Passing Love. After wishin' and hopin' and thinkin' and planning.' Prayin' and dreamin' . . . just like that old Dusty Springfield song urges, Jacqueline Luckett finally put pen to paper and wrote, not one, but two novels. Jacqueline considers her novels great way to get a lot off her mind and to visit her favorite city, Paris. She travels frequently in search of another city that mesmerizes her as much as Paris, and is sure that when she finds it more story ideas will come her way.
Carol Sheldon's first novel, Mother Lode placed in the top five percent of Amazon's International Breakthrough Novel Contest of 2011. She's published two books of poetry. Her poetry can also be found in Robert Bly's Great Mother Conference Anthology, Hot Flashes and Marin Poetry Anthology. Two of her plays, Sandcastles, and Lifelines were chosen for professional productions. Several other works have won awards. She holds an MA from University of Michigan, and teaches poetry, novel, and memoir writing classes. She also enjoys directing and acting, believing her experience on stage has informed her writing. http://carolsheldon.wordpress.com/
Susanna Solomon's fiction has appeared in the online magazine Harlot's Sauce
Radio, in print in Vintage Voices, West Winds Centennial, and the Point Reyes Light. Her fiction lately has been inspired by entries in the Sheriff's Calls Section of the Point Reyes Light. She is at work on a short story collection and is polishing her first novel. In cafes all over Marin, in quiet corners, she is often visited by her characters Mildred and Fred, who not only have a lot to say about what they read in the paper, but about getting older, burglars in their backyard, and uncooperative lawn chairs.
Jon Wells is a designer, writer, and filmmaker living in Mill Valley. He Died All Day Long is his first novel. His design work has been recognized in venues such as the San Francisco Show, Addy Awards, Print Magazine books, and the American Institute of Graphic Arts. His first film, At the Epicenter of the Epidemic, documenting the HIV/AIDS crisis in Honduras, was shown at the Tiburon International Film Festival. He is a member of the Tuesday Night Writers and is a Squaw Valley Community of Writers alum.
Why There Are Words January 12 "Other Voices: Come Together"
Why There Are Words Literary Reading Series celebrates its second anniversary! Join us January 12 at Studio 333 in Sausalito, 7-9pm when we present Other Voices: Come Together and find out what all the rave reviews have been about. This will be a special show with a surprise treat. The following authors' readings are going to be anything other than ordinary!
Anne Buelteman's first published work is a non-fiction essay, "The Glamorous Life," in the anthology Single Woman of a Certain Age. You may know her from her published commentary on Susan Boyle in Huffington Post. She is currently at work on a novel about life on the national tour of a Broadway musical tentatively titled Road Kill: Tales of a National Tour. A professional actress, her acting career spans decades. She spent eleven years on the Broadway national tour of Les Miserables in North America and Asia. Most recently she appeared as the inspired eccentric Dorothea Wesbrook in the California Conservatory Theatre's production of Eleemosynary.
Audrey Ferber received an MFA in Writing from Mills College. Her short stories have been anthologized in Virtually Now, Eating Our Hearts Out, and An Intricate Weave. Her essays have appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, Travelers' Tales for Women, and most recently in FRONTIERS: A Journal of Women Studies. She has written book reviews for the San Jose Mercury News and the San Francisco Chronicle. Audrey is a book group leader and teaches writing at UC Berkeley Extension. She is at work on a memoir about aging, marriage, and dance classes.
Kathi Kamen Goldmark is the author of the novel And My Shoes Keep Walking Back to You. She is perhaps best known in the publishing world for founding the all-author garage band, the Rock Bottom Remainders. She is also the co-author of Write That Book Already!: the Tough Love You Need to Get Published Now (with her husband Sam Barry). She has contributed essays to many books, including Mid-Life Confidential: the Rock Bottom Remainders Tour America with Three Chords and an Attitude, and My California: Journeys by Great Writers, and others. She writes the Author Enablers advice column that offers information and encouragement to aspiring authors. A 2007 San Francisco Library Laureate, Kathi was the winner of the 2008 Women's National Book Association Award.
Seth Harwood received an MFA in fiction from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and went on to build a large fan base for his first novel, Jack Wakes Up, by first serializing it as a free audiobook. Across iTunes and sethharwood.com, his work has been downloaded over one million times. His second novel, Young Junius, is billed as "The Wire meets Cambridge, MA in 1987″ and was picked by George Pelecanos as one of his best books of 2010. Seth currently lives in San Francisco where he teaches English and creative writing at Stanford and the City College of San Francisco.
Michael David Lukas, author of The Oracle of Stamboul (HarperCollins, 2011), has been a Fulbright Scholar in Turkey, a night-shift proofreader in Tel Aviv, and a waiter at the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference in Vermont. A graduate of Brown University and the University of Maryland, his writing has appeared in VQR, Slate, National Geographic Traveler, and Georgia Review. He is also a recipient of scholarships from the National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Summer Writers' Institute, Squaw Valley Community of Writers, and Elizabeth George Foundation.
Janis Cooke Newman is the author of the Bay Area bestseller, Mary, a historical novel about Mary Todd Lincoln. Mary was a Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist, chosen as USA Today's Best Historical Fiction of the Year in 2006, and a Booksense Year-End Highlight. Newman is also the author of The Russian Word for Snow, a memoir about adopting her son from a Moscow orphanage, which was published internationally. Her writing has appeared in numerous anthologies, as well as in several magazines, and newspapers including the NY Times, LA Times, and San Francisco Chronicle. She is a member of the SF Writers Grotto, where she works and teaches classes in creative writing.
Peter Orner is the author of the brand new novel, Love and Shame and Love (November 2011, Little Brown); The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo, finalist for the Los Angles Times Book Prize; and Esther Stories, Winner of the Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His work has appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, Granta, Best American Stories, and twice received the Pushcart Prize. A 2006 Guggenheim Fellow, he is also the editor of the oral history, Underground America, and co-editor (with Annie Holmes) of Hope Deferred: Narratives of Zimbabwean Lives published in McSweeney's. He teaches at San Francisco State University.
Susanne Pari is the author of The Fortune Catcher, a novel that explores bicultural and bi-religious identity during the aftermath of the 1979 Iranian Revolution, translated into six languages. Her essays and book reviews have appeared in The New York Times Sunday Magazine, The Christian Science Monitor, The Boston Globe, The San Francisco Chronicle, National Public Radio, and Voice of America. She was the program director for the 25 literary salons of Book Group Expo and teaches writing for the Afghan Women's Writing Project. As a literary host, Susanne has conducted interviews, panel discussions, and conversations with authors such as Amy Tan, Khaled Hosseini, Anna Quindlen, Andre Dubus III, Po Bronson, and many more. She lives in Northern California.
Todd Zuniga is the creator of Literary Death Match, now featured in 39 cities worldwide, the founding editor of Opium Magazine, and the president of Opium for the Arts (a 501©3 nonprofit). He is a Pushcart Prize-nominated writer for his short fiction and an award-winning journalist. His fiction has recently appeared in Stymie and Gopher Illustrated, and online at Lost Magazine and McSweeney's. Newly based in LA, and couches all over Europe, he longs for a Chicago Cubs World Series and an EU passport.
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Why There Are Words December 8: Last
It's our last show of the year so we've got just the theme. That's right: Last. Join us for the stellar line-up, at Sausalito's Studio 333 at 7 PM, December 8, for books, beer, wine, and great stories. $5 gets you in the door.
Kate Asche, poet/essayist and creative writing teacher, is a graduate of the UC Davis Creative Writing Program. She was a finalist for the 2011 Audio Contest at The Missouri Review and has poetry forthcoming in Confrontation. She has received two Elliot Gilbert Prizes in Poetry and an Academy of American Poets Award, and is a trained facilitator in the Amherst Writers and Artists (AWA) Method. She coordinates The Tomales Bay Workshops at UC Davis Extension and volunteers regularly for the Sacramento Public Library, the Sacramento Poetry Center, and 916 INK, a local youth literacy organization inspired by 826 Valencia. Follow her and get the scoop on local writing events at her blog Kate's Miscellany (click on her name.)
David Berkeley is called "a musical poet" by the San Francisco Chronicle. The singer/songwriter has recently penned a memoir entitled 140 Goats and a Guitar to accompany his fourth album, "Some Kind of Cure." The book comprises 13 pieces that tell the stories behind the 13 songs on the album, and the concept is that a reader moves through the prose and music together. When he presents his book live, he performs the corresponding song following each excerpt. He's been a guest on "This American Life;" has toured with artists including Don Mclean, Dido, Billy Bragg, Ben Folds, Rufus Wainwright, Nickel Creek, and Ray Lamontagne; and maintains a near-constant tour schedule performing concerts all over the country.
Lynn Freed's books include six novels, a collection of stories, and a collection of essays. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, The Atlantic Monthly, Southwest Review, The Georgia Review, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, National Geographic, Narrative Magazine, among others. She is the recipient of the inaugural Katherine Anne Porter Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a PEN/O. Henry Award, fellowships, grants and support from the National Endowment for the Arts and The Guggenheim Foundation, among others. Born in South Africa, she now lives in northern California.
Cary Groner has worked as a journalist for more than two decades. In 2009, he earned his MFA from the University of Arizona, where he began writing short stories and worked on two novels. His stories have won numerous awards and appeared in venues that include Glimmer Train, American Fiction, Mississippi Review, Southern California Review, Tampa Review, and Sycamore Review. His debut novel, Exiles, won the Hackney Literary Award and was published by Spiegel & Grau / Random House this past June. Cary and his wife live in the San Francisco Bay area.
Faith S. Holsaert was active in the civil rights movement and co-edited the nonfiction book Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC (University of Illinois Press, 2010). She has published fiction since 1979, in Fugue, Washington Review, Phoebe, The Long Story, Antietam Review and others. She has appeared online at the kingsenglish.org and mountainechoes.com. She received her MFA in fiction from the Warren Wilson Program for Writers. For many years, she lived in West Virginia where she raised her son and daughter. She lives in Durham, NC with her partner, with whom she shares seven grandchildren. She is working on her third novel.
Nick Krieger is the author of the memoir Nina Here Nor There: My Journey Beyond Gender. His writing has earned several travel-writing awards, has been published in multiple travel guides, and has appeared in numerous outlets including The Rumpus, Town & Country, 365Gay, and Original Plumbing. He is passionate about activism through art, creative self-expression, and queering all that he can. He holds an MFA in Writing from the University of San Francisco.
Dean Rader's debut collection of poems, Works & Days, won the 2010 T. S. Eliot Poetry Prize. It is also a finalist for the 2010 Bob Bush Memorial First Book Award and it is the winner of the 2010 Writer's League of Texas Poetry Prize. His poem "Ocean Beach at Twilight: 14" was named one of the Best Poems of 2010 by Verse Daily. He is currently curating a new blog called 99 Poems for the 99 Percent. He is a professor at the University of San Francisco, where he won the 2010/2011 Distinguished Research Award.
Ian Tuttle is the author of StretchyHead – Fictional Stories in Real Places. His toy camera photography has been exhibited internationally and he got admitted to business school by quoting Samuel Becket. He believes that you can tell a lot about a person from a short bio, and suspects most of it will be your own projection. But isn't that the aim of literature? To hang a screen for your projections?
Why There Are Words November 10: Witness
The month of October brought all kinds of literary goodness, both in Sausalito and San Francisco as part of Litquake. Can one simultaneously be recovering and ready for more? Are you? The theme is Witness, and we'll be in Sausalito's Studio 333 at 7 PM, November 10, with books, beer, wine, and blame! $5 is all you need to witness.
W. Ross Ayers is a writer and entrepreneur. He founded and runs the San Francisco Writers Community and co-publishing studio. He likes bad beer, bad bourbon, and clove cigarettes, and lives in and loves San Francisco. His book Blood, Guns and Whores – An All American Tale of a Boy and His Dog is a "coffee table novel" of micro chapters and illustrations.
Jasmin Darznik was born in Tehran, Iran. A former attorney, she
received her Ph.D. from Princeton University. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and other publications. She is a professor of English at Washington and Lee University and has also been a visiting professor of Iranian literature at the University of Virginia. The Good Daughter is her first book and will be published in twelve countries.
Albert Flynn DeSilver is an internationally published poet, an artist, publisher, and founder of The Visionary Writers MFA. He served as Marin County's first poet laureate from 2008-2010. For many years he taught as a California Poet in the Schools, and currently works in the Teen and Family program at Spirit Rock Meditation Center, and is the CEO of a Homecare Agency in Napa and Sonoma Counties. His most recent work is a memoir titled "Beamish Boy," which chronicles his spiritual journey, from violence and self-annihilation to self-realization, creativity, and a life in poetry and writing. He lives in Woodacre, California.
Pam Houston is the award-winning author of Cowboys Are My Weakness,
Waltzing the Cat, A Little More About Me, and Sight Hound. Her stories have been selected for the Best American Short Stories, the O. Henry Awards, the Pushcart Prize, and the Best American Short Stories of the Century. Pam teaches in the graduate writing program at University of California, Davis. Her new collection of short stories, Contents May Have Shifted, is forthcoming in 2012.
Joshua Mohr is the author of the novels Termite Parade, which was an Editors' Choice on The New York Times Best Seller List; Some Things that Meant the World to Me, one of O Magazine's Top 10 reads of 2009 and a SF Chronicle bestseller; and the brand new Damascus (October 2011). He has published numerous short stories and essays in publications such as The New York Times Book Review, 7×7, the Bay Guardian, ZYZZYVA, The Rumpus, among many others. He lives in San Francisco and teaches in the MFA program at the University of San Francisco.
Linda Joy Myers is the author of The Power of Memoir—How
to Write Your Healing Story, Becoming Whole, and the award-winning memoir Don't Call Me Mother, which won the BAPIA Gold Medal prize. She has won prizes for fiction, memoir and poetry: First Prize, Jessamyn West Fiction Contest; Finalist, San Francisco Writing Contest for Secret Music, a novel about the Kindertransport; First Prize, poetry, East of Eden Contest, and for memoir writing First Prize Carol Landauer Life Writing Contest. Hernext book is Truth or Lie: On the Cusp of Memoir and Fiction. The founder of the National Association of Memoir Writers and co-President of the Women's National Book Association, she is an instructor at Writers Digest and gives workshops nationally and online.
Tracy Winn's linked story collection, Mrs. Somebody Somebody won the 2010 Sherwood Anderson Foundation Fellowship, and was a finalist for the Julia Ward Howe Award and the Massachusetts Book Awards. Her stories have appeared most recently in Alaska Quarterly Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, and New Orleans Review. A Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers graduate, she is the recipient of grants and fellowships from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the Arch and Bruce Brown Foundation, and the MacDowell and Millay Colonies.
July 8 Reading: "Accident"
Accident is the theme for the July 8 event. 7 PM, Studio 333, Sausalito. &5. Here are the readers.
Elissa Bassist edits and occasionally writes for The Rumpus column Funny Women, an ever-widening place for women to submit and publish original humor pieces. (Please e-mail funnywomen at therumpus dot net to join the revolution.) Elissa's first essay in print, "A Baker's Dozen of my Feelings about David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest," is now available in Best of the Web 2010, Dzanc Books. Elissa also produces and co-hosts the San Francisco Literary Death Match, a reading series that is competitive (find it the second Friday of every month at the Elbo Room in San Francisco). Peruse elissabassist dot com for even more information, including literary, feminist, and personal criticism.
Glen David Gold is the author of the bestselling novel Carter Beats the Devil, which was translated into 14 languages, and named a book of the year by Entertainment Weekly, The LA Times, Publishers Weekly, and The Washington Post. He has written memoir, essays, short stories, and journalism for The New York Times Magazine, McSweeney's, Playboy, Black Clock, Tin House, and the Independent UK. After toiling as a screenwriter for many years, he turned to writing graphic novels for DC (The Spirit) and Dark Horse (the Escapist). His essays on the comic book artist Jack Kirby have appeared in many journals, as well as in support of the ground-breaking exhibition Masters of American Comics. His most recent novel, Sunnyside, is also an international bestseller. Currently, he is writing the libretto for an opera, Erdnase, with Gavin Bryars, composer.
Joshua Mohr is the author of the novel Some Things that Meant the World to Me, which was one of O Magazine's Top 10 reads of 2009 and a SF Chronicle bestseller. His new book Termite Parade was released last week [June 2010]. He teaches fiction writing at the Writing Salon.
Anne Raeff grew up in Tenafly, New Jersey, and graduated from Barnard
College. She has been a teacher for over fifteen years and has taught history, government, Spanish, English as a second language, and creative writing (at the University of New Mexico). She currently teaches in East Palo Alto and lives with her partner of seventeen years in San Francisco. She speaks four languages, has traveled extensively, and taught in Malaysia and Spain. She has also worked as a bartender and and co-owned an Asian furniture store in Albuquerque, New Mexico, named after Jane Bowles' novel Two Serious Ladies. Her first novel, Clara Mondschein's Melancholia, was published by MacAdam/Cage in 2002 and released in Italian by Edizioni Spartaco in 2006. Her short stories have appeared in Side Show, Oasis, and an excerpt from "Winter Kept Us Warm" appeared as a short story in The New England Review. In December 2009, she finished her second novel, Winter Kept Us Warm, while at the Fundación Valparaíso residency in Spain. She is currently working on a third book.
Jason Roberts' most recent work, A Sense of the World: How a Blind Man Became History's Greatest Traveler (HarperCollins), was a finalist for the 2006 National Book Critics Circle Award, longlisted for the international Guardian First Book Award, and named a Best Book of the Year by the Washington Post, the San Francisco Chronicle, and Kirkus Reviews. He is also the inaugural winner of the Van Zorn Prize for emerging fiction writers, sponsored by Michael Chabon, and a contributor to McSweeney's, The Believer, the Village Voice, and other publications. Born in Southern California, Roberts earned his high school diploma at fourteen, then took a five-year hiatus from education. He worked as a day laborer, dishwasher, and late-night disc jockey before matriculating at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he graduated with a degree in English literature. He is the founder of Learn2.com, the pioneering online education company named by Yahoo! as "one of the twelve most important websites of the 20th century." He is also the author of several instructional texts on multimedia programming. He lives in Sausalito and is a member of the SF Grotto. Roberts is currently at work on two books: a nonfiction narrative, centered on the opening of Japan in 1853, and a novel set in Northern California and post-unification Germany.
Tatjana Soli is the author of The Lotus Eaters, which Janet Maslin of the New York Times called "quietly mesmerizing… tough and lyrical." Her short stories have appeared in The Sun, StoryQuarterly, Confrontation, Gulf Coast, and Sonora Review, among other publications. A guest contributor to The Millions, she is at work on a second novel. See her website for more info.
By accident, incident, collision, coincidence — by something — it's also Josh Mohr's birthday, and we'll be more festive than ever. Don't miss it.


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These Mini Wine Bottle Jingle Bell Ornaments make a great addition to your Christmas tree! Made from single-serve mini wine bottles (you can also use hot sauce bottles), these adorable ornaments ring out with Christmas cheer! You could also arrange a series of these little ornaments in a hanging window arrangement or display them in a garland and drape it around your mantel. Either way, these cute Mini Wine Bottle Jingle Bell Ornaments are sure to get you in the holiday spirit in no time!
- Generation Green (g2)™ Bottle Cutter
- 3 Discarded Miniature Bottles (single serve wine bottles or hot sauce bottles work great)
- Assorted Ribbon – Approximately 60" for 3 Bottles
- Assorted 1/2 - 1" in Diameter Glass Beads (small enough to fit through the opening of your bottle)
- Assorted Buttons (we chose white, cream, gold and blue buttons)
- 3 Small Corks
- 6 - 5/16" Screws
- Screwdriver
- Craft Knife
- Scissors
Read and carefully following the instructions contained within the Generation Green (g2)™ bottle cutter manual.
Cover the work area with craft or newspaper.
For our bells we used a vanilla extract bottle and two single serving wine bottles. Measure up from the bottom of each 1" and mark with a Sharpie®.
Using the bottle cutter, follow the instructions for scoring and separating bottles. Separate jar where indicated.
Smooth the rough edges as instructed in the bottle cutter manual.
Clean your bottle inside and out with a window cleaner or for a more natural cleaner use a mixture of 1 cup of water to 2 tablespoons of vinegar. Dry glass surface.
Using the craft knife, shave off the sides of old wine corks until they fit the top openings in each bottle. Once you have cut the corks to fit, set the bottles aside.
Cut a 12" length of ribbon, using a 5/16" screw; secure the ribbon to the center bottom of the cork. Insert the cork with the ribbon into the mouth of the bottle. Allow the ribbon to hang down, slide a glass bead onto the ribbon and push the bead up inside of the bottle so it sits about mid-way down the bottle, secure in place with a knot and glue the tail end of the ribbon together.
Cut a 6" piece of ribbon, using a 5/16" screw; secure both ends of the ribbon to the top portion of the cork to form a loop.
Repeat this process for the remaining two bottles.
Embellish glass bells by gluing assorted buttons and additional ribbon on each bottle (see image for embellishment suggestions).
Add addition details by gluing on assorted buttons and ribbons. For the blue bottle, we made a bow and placed two buttons on it, then for some added winter charm, we selected 3 different sized and similarly colored buttons and glued them to the tail of the ribbon to form a snowman!
- Hang these festive bells on the Christmas tree or anywhere in the your home for some holiday charm. Tip: Avoid placing any embellishments on the body of the bell, the less you have the louder your bell will clang!
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European Indexes Fall
After a mixed morning, markets dipped after weakness on Wall Street
From Standard & Poor's European MarketScope
After stronger trading Wednesday morning, the major European indexes closed lower amid weak action in New York. US stocks edged lower on fears over inflation and the specter of higher interest rates. US oil inventories showed a 2.72 million barrel build in crude stocks, vs. forecasts for a 2 million draw so the price of crude fell.
Germany: The Xetra-Dax index closed lower. In Frankfurt, Munich Re (-2.99%) fell as HVB (-0.75%) cut its stake in the reinsurer to 4.9% from 7.89%, with Lehman Brothers placing 6.9 million shares, representing some 3% of Munich Re's share capital. BMW (-1.34%) group sales rose 10.8%, meaning the car maker is on-track to achieve its forecast for unit sales to rise at a high-single-digit rate this year. DaimlerChrysler (DCX )(-0.88%) will sell its engine-building unit MTU Friedrichshafen to Sweden's EQT Partners for between €1.5 billion and €1.7 billion, Handelsblatt said. The newspaper reckoned the deal will be closed next week.
Siemens (SI )(+0.96%) achieved a 15% rise in revenues in China and met its target of growing at double the rate of the country's GDP, the FT reported. Karstadt (-0.95%) may get a €300 million loan to secure liquidity for next year, and will pay between 14% and 15% interest on it, FTD said. At its annual earnings conference today, Porsche (-5.5%) said unit sales are likely to increase in the 2005/06 fiscal year to end-July, but sales of the Cayenne SUV model will slide markedly. ProSiebenSat1 (+2.04%) moved up on a Le Monde report that TF1 is eyeing the group again.
United Kingdom: The FTSE 100 index closed lower as a fall in crude prices hit the UK's heavyweight oil stocks: Royal Dutch Shell (RDS )(-1.36%), BP (BP )(-1.97%). Elsewhere, Vodafone (VOD )(+2.58%) jumped after reporting 57,000 net new adds for November in Japan. Bradford & Bingley (+1.71%) gained on talk Santander could be mulling a bid. Santander declined to comment. HBOS (+1.71%) extended yesterday's advance and Northern Rock (+1.6%) was lifted by a Lehman Brothers upgrade.
On the downside, Standard Chartered (-3.11%) dropped as it said second half income would be in line with first half. Barclays (BCS )(-0.17%) slipped on news that the head of its UK banking has stepped down. Russian copper group Kazakhmys (+1.1%) is expected to be confirmed as a new FTSE 100 entrant with Persimmon (+0.09%), replacing Whitbread (+0.11%) and William Hill (+0.57%). Carillion (-5.06%) agreed to buy Mowlem (unch.) for £290 million, in a cash and share deal. easyJet (+1.92%) reported an 8.3% rise passenger numbers in November and reiterated its target of high single digit percentage profit growth in the calendar year.
France:The CAC 40 index (-0.43%) closed the day in negative territory. In Paris, Total (TOT )(-0.82%) fell with oil prices. Automotive stocks Peugeot (-1.92%) and Michelin (-1.85%) also put pressure on the index. Michelin fell following a CSFB note reiterating its underweight stance, on fears of a tough trading environment and further negative news to come. Gemplus (-0.87%) and Axalto (+5.59%) said they were merging to become the market leader on smart cards. Analysts commented the terms of the deal were less favorable to Gemplus shareholders. They added Oberthur (unch) might benefit from telecom operators redirecting their orders to smaller players to avoid a too large exposure to the new group.
Air France (AKH )(+1.26%) and Neopost (-0.24%) made fresh year highs on strong November traffic figures and third quarter results respectively. Hermes' (+2.69%) controlling family denied they had received an approach for their stake. Finally, NRJ (-1.32%) reports fiscal year results Wednesday night. Operating profit estimates range between €112 and €122 million, while analysts will look for clarification of the CEO's sudden exit last Monday. Remy Cointreau (+3.58%) reports first half results Thursday before the open.
Elsewhere: The AEX ended a predominantly positive session in the red. ABN Amro (-0.69%) slipped further amid profit-taking after yesterday's rally. Philips' (PHG )(-0.36%) initially strong session declined in late trade following news it has been fined €16 million by the French competition regulator for price fixing. On positive note, TNT (+1.84%) led the AEX gainers for a second session as brokers rushed to raise targets and estimates following yesterday's Logistics sale and buyback announcement.
In the Nordics, Wednesday's session ended with positive performances across the board, and stellar displays from Helsinki and Oslo. Helsinki's OMX closed around the 8,050 mark: its highest level in almost four years. In Oslo, an unexpected build in crude oil stocks, and a subsequent fall in WTI below US$60.00/bbl, came too late to affect local oil stocks. Statoil (+1.92%) and Norsk Hydro (+1.31%) ended in fine fettle as oil prices hovered around US$60.50/bbl at the time of the Norwegian close. Back in Finland, Nokia (NOK )(+2.08%) added over 55 points to the index after JP Morgan raised estimates following the mobile giant's upbeat CMD. Swedish peer Ericsson (+0.36%) was also in the black as Citigroup upped estimates on the back of the group's seven-year deal with 3 in the UK.
Prepared by Zaida Espana, Valerie Vidal, Michael Sanderson, Mariella Mongio, Alexander Wisch, Holly Cook, Emma Stevenson, Pawan Girglani, Julien Manrique, and Rocio Opazo-Aniotz (Standard & Poor's); Alex Halperin (BusinessWeek Online)


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Legislature overrides Lowry's veto of B&O tax cut
by Jeff Switzer
Washington businesses will receive a long-awaited reduction in the state's business and occupation tax as the
State Legislature
voted last week to override Gov. Lowry's veto of the tax cuts.
This bill rolls back about 50 percent of the B&O tax increases the legislature enacted in 1993, returning $132.4 million to the state's economy.
Lowry vetoed the bill on Jan. 22, but the legislature gathered the necessary two-thirds majority Jan. 24 to override, the House voting 76-21 and the Senate 41-7.
The tax cut applies to service providers, such as lawyers, doctors, barbers, architects, bakers, engineers, real estate dealers, and accountants.
Rep. Dave Schmidt, R-Bothell, said these cuts should have been in place seven months ago.
"It's a shame that we've had this unnecessary delay caused by the governor's opposition and a lack of cooperation across the rotunda," said Schmidt. "The B&O tax has been a real burden on small business trying to succeed and grow, and perhaps even more on the employees who rely on these small businesses for their livelihoods."
The rollback takes effect Jan. 1, 1996, and includes several provisions. The legislation:
Reduces the selected business services rate, from 2.5 to 2 percent;
Reduces the rate for other business services, from 2 to 1.75 percent;
Reduces the financial services business rate, from 1.7 to 1.6 percent;
Expands the distressed area job creation tax credit to $2,000 for each job created.
Local lawmakers voting for the override were:
1st District:
Sen. Rosemary McAuliffe, D-Bothell; Rep. Mike Sherstad, R-Bothell; Rep. Ian Elliott, R-Kirkland.
44th District:
Sen. Jeanine Long, R-Bothell; Rep. Dave Schmidt, R-Bothell; Rep. Bill Thompson, R-Everett.
45th District:
Sen. Bill Finkbeiner, R-Redmond; Rep. Bill Backlund, R-Redmond; Rep. Kathy Lambert, R-Redmond.


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A few days after I blogged about an East Texas woman giving birth to five babies in Dallas, a woman in Canada faked a pregnancy in which she claimed she was pregnant with quintuplets.
A Canadian TV station, CTV, reported a woman managed to convince her boyfriend and her town she was pregnant with quintuplets for 34 weeks.
It was onloy when Barbara Bienvenue, 37, went to the hospital to deliver the expected babies earlier this month that doctors pulled aside her boyfriend to tell him she wasn't pregnant and never had been.
"I love everything. It was my whole life," Paul Servat told the Toronto Sun. He said his girlfriend told him she was expecting twins, then triplets, the quadruplets, and finally, quintuplets.
Servat said Bienvenue's belly grew and she experienced morning sickness and lactation.
Le Canada Francais, a French language paper in Quebec, reported in late January the couple was expecting quadruplets. They had already picked out names -- Alexander, Sebastian, Charles and Rosalie -- and would be born via Cesarean section on Feb. 22 in Montreal. Photos of a room with wall-to-wall cribs was published with the story.
The story sparked a Facebook movement for donations to help the couple.
Then, five days ago, the newspaper published another story reporting that Bienvenue was never pregnant.
Local police say they are aware of the story, but it has not received any formal fraud complaints from those who donated money and baby items to the couple.
"The spouse, who was also jilted with this whole story, has been reimbursing some of the associations," Police Sgt. Luc Tougas told ABCNews.com. "He was also very stunned. Right now, this woman is at the hospital undergoing psychiatric treatment. We suspet some mental issues."
That would be a good conclusion.


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The 4 Percent Rule is Not Safe in a Low-Yield World
Michael S. Finke
Texas Tech University
Wade D. Pfau
The American College; McLean Asset Management
David Blanchett
Morningstar Investment Management
January 15, 2013
The safety of a 4% initial withdrawal strategy depends on asset return assumptions. Using historical averages to guide simulations for failure rates for retirees spending an inflation-adjusted 4% of retirement date assets over 30 years results in an estimated failure rate of about 6%. This modest projected failure rate rises sharply if real returns decline. As of January 2013, intermediate-term real interest rates are about 4% less than their historical average. Calibrating bond returns to the January 2013 real yields offered on 5-year TIPS, while maintaining the historical equity premium, causes the projected failure rate for retirement account withdrawals to jump to 57%. The 4% rule cannot be treated as a safe initial withdrawal rate in today's low interest rate environment. Some planners may wish to assume that today's low interest rates are an aberration and that higher real interest rates will return in the medium-term horizon. Although there is little evidence to support this assumption, we estimate how a reversion to historical real yields will impact failure rates. Because of sequence of returns risk, portfolio withdrawals can cause the events in early retirement to have a disproportionate effect on the sustainability of an income strategy. We simulate failure rates if today's bond rates return to their historical average after either 5 or 10 years and find that failure rates are much higher (18% and 32%, respectively for a 50% stock allocation) than many retirees may be willing to accept. The success of the 4% rule in the U.S. may be an historical anomaly, and clients may wish to consider their retirement income strategies more broadly than relying solely on systematic withdrawals from a volatile portfolio.
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Beach safety officers were called to the site of an accident at the jetty in New Smyrna Beach, where a child was hit by a vehicle on Monday.
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LAMS Workshop: More than Service
Renate, Mary, Ellen, Heather and Mary Beth attended the LAMS workshop entitled "More than Service…How Libraries are Transforming the Customer Experience" in Burlington, NC on December 11, 2008. This all day workshop was meant to help us learn how to put the customer experience at the center of the library's strategies, operations, training and development and procedures. One oft repeated catch phrase in the workshop was reminiscent of Lauren Pressley's blogging from the NCLA Leadership Institute: "It starts with you, but it's not about you." Mark Livingston and Kem Ellis were the presenters, and they also presided over the NCLA Leadership Institute.
A few of the memorable moments of the workshop include:
- Sharing stories of excellent customer service and examples of those who went above and beyond to provide service.
- Recognizing that services designed appropriately to not impede the users experience is only the starting point. Truly excelling at customer service requires a willingness to go beyond what is expected.
- Nothing in our library can have a relationship with our customers except our staff, and therefore, the staff are at the heart of the success of any customer service experiences and their investment will allow the program to succeed or fail.
- You will have created a loyal customer base when they know that you will watch their back.
- What is the expectation of the experience that the libraries will provide. At the very least (they will be open) and at the very most (they will have helpful staff and the material I need.) What if every time we could go beyond what is expected? Then we will have achieved a loyal customer.
- Are policies and procedures engineered in such a way to produce negative or positive results?
The afternoon of the workshop introduced the "Customer Experience Touch-Point Mapping" tool which allows for us to look at the touchpoints of a customers' experiences in the libraries, from parking, to restrooms, to services, to collections, to lighting to emails, and examine them in detail to see where the customer experience might fail. Then implement strategies to eliminate failure.
- Eliminate sacrifice
- Engage senses
- Ensure satisfaction
- Elicit surprise
- Evoke suspense
The goal is to build an "outside-in" service experience that starts with where the customer is, where their expectation is, and then provides service that meets them where they are, and exceeds what they expect.
We were given a 90 day challenge at the end of the workshop to have us "Step Up" and apply the tools we'd learned to the places where our patron's (or the customer) connects with the facility, service, program or people related to the library. On the way home, we brainstormed a number of places that we could change our procedures to better meet the needs of our customers.


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Report of Cases.—Case 1.
—An asymptomatic 13-year-old boy was referred to the cardiology clinic because of a cardiac murmur disclosed on a routine physical examination. His stature was normal, the apical cardiac impulse was palpable in the normal position, and a 1/6 short systolic murmur and a variable systolic click were audible, which were not modified by upright position. No other physical abnormality was evident. The resting ECG was unremarkable. After exercise stress test (150 W), ventricular extrasystoles were observed. Chest roentgenograms were normal. The echocardiogram demonstrated prolapse of the posterior mitral leaflet. During a three-year follow-up period, serial ECG tracings demonstrated gradual development of an intraventricular conduction defect (QRS complex, 0.12 s) and
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At least three people are dead following a multi-vehicle crash on Interstate 78 in Berks County.
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Baby bump alert!
Sugarland's Jennifer Nettles was absolutely glowing Thursday when she showed off her growing belly at the Country Music Association Awards in Nashville.
Wearing a simple silhouette, the singer, who's nominated for vocal duo of the year alongside her Sugarland bandmate Kristian Bush, couldn't hide her smile as she posed for photographs on the red carpet.
When asked if she incorporated her baby bump into her Halloween plans, she answered: "I did the whole pumpkin thing. Yes, I did. When else do you get a chance to do that and pull it off so realistically?"
"Either that or else I was just gonna go as a pregnant lady which I figured I could pull off," she continued. "Or," she teased, "I was gonna go as pregnant Snooki. Could have been fun!"
But the jokes didn't end there.
"What happens if Jennifer Nettles goes into labor tonight? We have some ideas," host Carrie Underwood said as the show kicked off.
Not to be outdone by those shows featuring live weddings, she and co-host Brad Paisley put on some gloves as Paisley revealed: "With Jennifer's permission of course, we're going to induce [labor]."
With that, 91-year-old legend Little Jimmy Dickens appeared on stage in doctor scrubs and cowboy boots with a bevy of hot nurses and started yelling, "Push Jennifer" at a laughing Nettles in the audience.
It will be the first child for the Grammy award winner, 38, and her husband, Justin Miller.
When the couple announced their pregnancy in June, Sugarland's manager, Gail Gellman, told PEOPLE: "They are thrilled beyond belief."
Nettles is due in November.
Jennifer Nettles Shows Off Baby Bump at Country Music Awards
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McCourty Island?
Rookie first round pick, Devin McCourty, who has started all 11 Patriots games this season, had two interceptions in the Patriots win over the Lions in the matinee Thanksgiving matchup. It was McCourty's third interception in two weeks and fifth on the season.
Seven former Scarlet Knights were in New Jersey this weekend. S Courtney Greene, OL Kevin Haslam, and WR Tiquan Underwood took on the Giants as Jacksonville Jaguars on Sunday. The Giants have Rutgers alumni C Shaun O'Hara. On Thursday, in the Thanksgiving nightcap, RB Brian Leonard took on the Jets as a member of the Cincinnati Bengals. The Bengals long snapper is former Scarlet Knight TE Clark Harris and the Jets also have LB Jamaal Westerman.
Dirty Dozen
Twelve different Rutgers Alumni have started games this season (Brackett, Britt, Davis, Gibson, Greene, Jones, D. McCourty, J. McCourty, O'Hara, Rice, Underwood, and Zuttah).
Here is how all 22 former Scarlet Knights (17 on active, 4 practice squad, 1 injured reserve) performed in week twelve action:
Gary Brackett, LB, Indianapolis Colts
Brackett was sidelined again with turf toe and did not play.
Kenny Britt, WR, Tennessee Titans
Britt injured his hamstring four weeks ago and has not played since. Britt is expected to be out 6-8 weeks.
Kevin Brock, TE, Oakland Raiders
Practice Squad
Anthony Davis, OT, San Francisco 49ers
Davis started at his familiar right tackle spot as the 49ers beat the Cardinals 27-6 on Monday Night Football and improved to 4-7. That won-loss record, strangely enough, has the 49ers only one game out of first place in the embattled NFC West.
Ryan D'Imperio, FB, Minnesota Vikings
Practice Squad
Eric Foster, DT, Indianapolis Colts
Foster recorded a sack and two tackles as the Colts were stifled by the Chargers defense 36-14 on Sunday Night Football. The sack gives Foster 3.5 on the year and surpasses last season's total of 2.5 for a career high. Foster is in his third year in the NFL.
Gary Gibson, DT, St. Louis Rams
Gibson did not record any tackles as the Rams beat the Broncos 36-33.
Courtney Greene, S, Jacksonville Jaguars
Greene started his 8th game of the season at Safety for the Jaguars as Jacksonville fell 24-20 in a tight matchup against the Giants. Greene led the Jaguars with 7 tackles and 4 assists and also added 1 pass defensed.
Clark Harris, LS/TE, Cincinnati Bengals
Harris handled his normal long-snapping duties for the Bengals.
Kevin Haslam, OT, Jacksonville Jaguars
Haslam played as a reserve for the Jaguars. Check out this nice piece on Haslam that appeared in the New York Daily News.
George Johnson, DE, Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Practice squad.
Nate Jones, CB, Denver Broncos
Jones had 4 tackles and 2 assists as Broncos fell to the Rams 36-33 on Sunday.
Brian Leonard, RB, Cincinnati Bengals
Leonard had 2 catches for 3 yards as they Bengals were shut down by the Jets 26-10 on Thanksgiving night in the New Meadowlands Stadium.
Devin McCourty, CB, New England Patriots
McCourty had a superb all around game as the Patriots handled the Lions 45-24 on Thanksgiving in Detroit. D-Mac had 2 tackles, 2 assists, 2 pass defenses, and 3 special team tackles to go along with 2 interceptions on the day. He returned those two interceptions for 73 yards including a 50 yard return.
Jason McCourty, CB, Tennessee Titans
McCourty had 4 tackles on defense and 1 additional tackle on special teams as the Titans were blanked by the Texans 20-0 on Sunday.
Ryan Neill, LS, San Diego Chargers
Injured Reserve
Shaun O'Hara, C, New York Giants
O'Hara did not play again on Sunday as he is nursing a sprain in his right foot.
Joe Porter, CB, Oakland Raiders
Practice Squad
Ray Rice, RB, Baltimore Ravens
Rice showed his grittiness picking up three first downs to ice the game for the Ravens in a tight 17-10 contest against the Buccaneers. Showing his versatility Rice had two of those first downs on the ground and one in the air. Ray finished the day with 20 carries for 85 yards. He also had 7 catches for 47 yards to take him over the 100 total yard mark again with 132 all-purpose yards. Rice has topped the 100 total yard plateau four straight games. Rice also had a 76 yard TD run called back on a questionable penalty.
Tiquan Underwood, WR, Jacksonville Jaguars
A week after making his first NFL start, Underwood was inactive as his Jaguars visited New Jersey to take on the Giants at the New Meadowlands.
Jamaal Westerman, DE/LB, New York Jets
Jeremy Zuttah, G, Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Zuttah play as a reserve guard in Tampa's 17-10 loss to Baltimore.
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