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NOTE: Users should be aware that choosing a username that allows personal identification, or disclosing personally identifiable information when posting messages to the Discussion Boards and Chat Rooms makes the information submitted public. Such disclosure may increase the chance of receiving "spam" or unsolicited email.
- if you request free printed booklets, we may use the name and postal mailing address you provide to mail you the booklets you request.
- if you provide your e-mail address in connection with an order, we may send you e-mail confirmation of your order.
- if you send us a question by e-mail, we may use the e-mail address you provide to respond to your question.
- if you elect to add your address to our mailing list, we may send you informational materials and notice of special events at Breastcancer.org.
- if you wish to subscribe to our e-mail Updates, we will use the e-mail address you provide to send you e-mail Updates.
- if you purchase a product or other service, we may use the credit card information you provide to bill you for the product or service you have requested.
- if you choose to contribute to Breastcancer.org, we may use the information you provide to process the transaction. We may also mail you updates on our programs and support offerings. You may also receive future solicitations for donations to support these programs and offerings.
- if you send an article to a friend by using the Email to a friend feature on our site, we will ask you for your friend's name and email address. Breastcancer.org does not store this information and will only use this for the sole purpose of sending this one-time email.
- if you utilize our mobile application, we will use the information you provide to deliver relevant health related information directly to your mobile device. We do not associate any identifying information with your personal health information. You remain anonymous to us. If you send an article to a friend using our mobile application, the email is used to forward an article. Breastcancer.org does not collect or store email addresses provided within its mobile app.
We may also use the information you provide to operate and maintain the Breastcancer.org web site and our mobile applications and to improve our content, services and communications with you.
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Breastcancer.org also collects routine tracking information as users move through the site, through the use of IP addresses, cookies, and web beacons, explained in more detail below.
Technologies such as: cookies, beacons, tags, and scripts are used by Breastcancer.org and our third party vendors, affiliates, or analytics or service providers. These technologies are used in analyzing trends, administering the site, tracking users' movements around the site and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole. We may receive reports based on the use of these technologies by these companies on an individual as well as aggregated basis.
We use cookies to track aggregate user statistics on the site to help us determine how people move throughout the site, which areas are popular, and which links are unpopular or hard to see. Users can control the use of cookies at the individual browser level. If you reject cookies, you may still use our site, but your ability to use some features or areas of our site may be limited.
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As is true of most web sites, we gather certain information automatically and store it in log files. This information includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp, and clickstream data. We use IP addresses to analyze trends, administer the site, track user's movement, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. "IP addresses" are the equivalent of internet "mailing addresses." They tell other computers on the Internet where to send the information you have requested, such as new web pages or images. Breastcancer.org does not link IP addresses to personally identifiable information.
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We collect limited information from your mobile device upon download of our mobile application in order to provide the service you've requested. We collect your device type, app version, device id, date and time stamps of app use, etc. Third party cookies and other such technologies are deployed within our mobile app only to help us track aggregate statistics such as pageviews, events, etc. We do not capture any other personal information stored on your device and we do not ask for or have access to your location data. We do not share any information provided within the app with third parties for promotional purposes.
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- We will share your personal information with third parties only in the ways that are described in this privacy policy.
- We do not rent, sell or otherwise provide your personally identifiable information to third parties for marketing purposes, without your consent.
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- We may disclose your personally identifiable information in response to a subpoena or court order, or in response to a request from a law enforcement or other government agency, to establish or exercise our legal rights or to defend against claims.
- We reserve the right to transfer all personally identifiable information in our possession to a successor organization in the event of a merger, acquisition or a sale of all or a part of our assets. You will be notified via email and/or a prominent notice on our Web site of any change in ownership or uses of your personal information, as well as any choices you may have regarding your personal information.
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This web site and our mobile application contain links to other sites. Please be aware that Breastcancer.org is not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of every web site that collects personally identifiable information. This Privacy Statement applies solely to information collected by the Breastcancer.org Web Site and in our mobile applications.
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We maintain reasonable and appropriate security procedures and practices to protect the personally identifiable information you provide from unauthorized access, destruction, use, modification and disclosure, and we require that our authorized service providers that have access to your personally identifiable information implement and maintain such security procedures and practices as well. For example, we use industry standard tools such as firewalls to protect your personal information and we host our servers in a physically secure environment and SSL encryption to secure the transmission of your sensitive personal information, such as credit card number or personal health information. Please be aware, however, that e-mail messages sent to a web site may not be secure. Site visitors sending e-mail accept the risk that a third party may intercept e-mail messages. No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure, however. Therefore, we cannot guarantee its absolute security. If you have any questions about security on our Web site, you can contact us.
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If a user's personally identifiable information changes (such as your zip code), or if a user no longer desires our service, the user may review, correct, update or remove that user's personal data provided to us. This can be done by contacting Customer Support. Users will receive a confirmation email stating that we have received their updated or corrected information and/or their request to have personal data removed. You always have the option to delete your personal health information within our mobile application at any time within the Settings area.
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We will maintain the personally identifiable information that you provide for so long as we, in our sole discretion, believe is necessary or appropriate to carry out the purposes for which the information was collected, or to comply with applicable laws, contracts or other rules or regulations.
8. Choice/Opt-out
Our users are given the opportunity to 'opt-out' of having their information used, at the point where we ask for the information. For example, users who no longer wish to receive our e-mail Updates may opt-out of receiving these communications by following the Unsubscribe directions in the Update or by contacting us. You may opt out of receiving updates on our programs and support offerings and solicitations for donations to support these programs and offerings by requesting us to remove your mailing address from our list.
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The Breastcancer.org Web Site is intended for adults. Accordingly, we do not knowingly collect information from children under the age of thirteen.
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Users will be notified of any changes in our Privacy Statement by a link to the updated Statement on the home page, including an icon indicating that the Statement has recently changed. Any change will be effective on the effective date that appears on the modified Statement. Your continued use of this Web site following modification of this Privacy Statement will be deemed to signify your acceptance of the modifications. If, at any point, we decide to use personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the time it was collected, we will notify users by way of an e-mail prior to the change becoming effective. Users will have a choice as to whether or not we use their information in this different manner.
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Thyroid tumors carrying mutations in the BRAF gene depend on the mutant protein produced by the gene, and inhibiting the gene leads to tumor regression in mice, a new study shows (Chakravarty D et al. J Clin Invest. doi:10.1172/JCI46382 [published online November 21, 2011]).
BRAF gene mutations are found in about one-quarter of papillary carcinomas, the most common form of thyroid cancer, and are even more common in high-grade carcinomas, particularly those that resist radioiodine treatment.
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Ok were going to start off with the graphics,When you start playing the first level in carear mode or just play the mini-games you'll find that there are Trails in the game that makes it kind of blurry to play and wished it could be turned off,the textures are very well done, and the cars are modeled great,overall graphics gets a 7/10
The sound in Flatout were ok,there were only 2 or 3 smashing through the car window sounda and they were kinda lame,second of all,the soundtrack wasnt that great,some off the songs were ok,The cars sound could of been bettter,Over all graphics get 6/10
The gameplay in Flatout is probably the best part,you will never experience a game were you can do high jump just by smashing through your car window(my score was 90!) any way,the game does tend to have about 15 or 10 mini games like Smash up derby or just plain wierd games,Which are actually fun.THe carrear mode is OK,Xbox Live is supported.So overall Gameplay gets a good 8/10
Other:same price as EBgames
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OVERALL THE BIG SCORE FOR FLATOUT IS A 7/10[b]
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Community Health Net pulls out of Erie school-based health center
UPMC Hamot is looking for a new partner to help it run Wayne Primary Care, Erie County's first school-based health center.
Community Health Net, 1202 State St., notified Hamot officials by letter earlier this month that it was ending its involvement with the center, 650 East Ave.
"CHN has recently been informed that our present focus and timetables are viewed to be a hardship for UPMC Hamot with regard to the Wayne Primary Care site," said Community Health Net Chief Executive R. Anthony Snow, M.D., in a statement e-mailed to the Erie Times-News. "So as to allow UPMC Hamot to meet their operational needs unencumbered by the processes CHN is presently experiencing ... our board voted to discontinue our collaboration with the Wayne Primary Care site effective July 2."
UPMC Hamot and Community Health Net created Wayne Primary Care, with a grant from the Erie Community Foundation, to serve students and neighbors in a low-income section of Erie.
Community Health Net, Erie County's only federally qualified health center, was working to extend its FQHC status to Wayne Primary Care, so it would receive higher payments for treating Medicaid patients.
The original plan for Wayne Primary Care was for it to have FQHC designation when it opened in October 2012. Community Health Net started the process in 2012 but it hasn't been completed.
"Over the past three years both organizations have had challenges necessitating both internal and external changes," Snow said, referring to Hamot joining UPMC and Community Health Net replacing its former chief executive, John Schultz.
Without an FQHC designation, Wayne Primary Care has lost about $800,000 since it opened despite seeing 20 to 24 patients a day, said David Gibbons, Hamot's chief operating officer.
"Aside from its financial performance, we have been pleased with Wayne Primary Care's ramp-up," Gibbons said. "It needs FQHC status."
Hamot is now looking for another FQHC to collaborate on Wayne Primary Care. The problem is that Community Health Net is the only one in the county.
"We are looking for a new partner," Gibbons said. "Based on past experiences, it will probably take about six months to get one qualified for Erie County."
Once Hamot finds another FQHC, the Erie hospital could open more school-based health centers around the county, said David Dausey, dean of Mercyhurst University's School of Health Professions and Public Health.
"My understanding is that UPMC is treating Wayne as a model," Dausey said. "If they get the funding sorted out, they could extrapolate into other places."
Erie County is large enough, and has enough people who use Medicaid, to support two FQHCs, Dausey said.
Still, he said he was surprised when he heard Community Health Net was pulling out of Wayne Primary Care and opening the door for another FQHC to come into Erie County.
"Community Health Net might have said they were fine with having another FQHC come in, but I don't really believe they are fine with it," Dausey said. "But if they don't say they are fine with it, they would be perceived as an obstacle."
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For the second straight week, an upstart team from the MAC upset a previously undefeated Big East team as Kent State knocked off Rutgers on the road, 35-23
Rutgers was done in by turnovers with quarterback Gary Nova throwing six interceptions. To be that in perspective, he had only thrown three interceptions this season in 201 pass attempts entering this game.
"It's a terrible feeling," said Nova, who was 25 of 46 for 313 yards. "You never want to feel like this, especially with all of the hard work you've put in. You've just got to take the punches and keep going."
All in all, the Kent State defense forced seven turnovers, including an interception that was returned for a score.
The Golden Flashes attack was led by running back Trayion Durham, who finished with 131 rushing yards and a touchdown.
Workhorse running back Jawan Jamison led the way for Rutgers in a losing effort, totaling 172 yards (84 rushing yards, 88 receiving yards) and a touchdown.
"This is a lump in the road," Rutgers linebacker Khaseem Greene said. "We control our own destiny and we can still do what we set out to do since the beginning of the year. This is all about how we respond. To the young guys, this class is different and I know they will follow the leaders, and it's on us to set the example how to react after losing the game in the way that we did."
In a silver lining for Rutgers, since it was an out of conference loss, the Scarlet Knights are still in the middle of a battle for the Big East title.
"There's a goal that is in front of us that's never been done at Rutgers, the Big East championship," Kyle Flood said after his first lost as the Scarlet Knights coach. "We have an opportunity sitting in conference play to be able to do that over the last three games of our season. That will be conference games. I think we'll be very motivated, there's no doubt about that. But I'm always up front and honest with the team."
Rutgers has a bye week next week before hosting Army on Nov. 10. With Ohio losing, Kent State now holds the stand alone lead in the East division of the MAC.
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VDARE Defends Golden Dawn
Submitted by Brian Tashman on Wednesday, 11/27/2013 12:00 pm
The violent, extreme right Golden Dawn, a Greek political party implicated in organized crime, has found an ally in VDARE's Nicholas Stix, who claims that "Golden Dawn is simply resisting this genocidal process." He lauds Golden Dawn for "resisting the extermination of the Greek people" in the face of "mass non-white, Third World immigration."
"And if they want to survive, other Western nations will, one way or another, have to make the same choice – no matter what names they are called," Stix writes.
However, one thing I do not doubt about the party: It does seek to run all aliens out of the country.
Let's not beat around the bush. Golden Dawn are a brutal lot. But it is a party in a revolutionary situation, confronted with mass non-white, Third World immigration into the West. In Greece, an incredible two million immigrants, most of them recently-arrived, illegal, non-white, and Muslim, are leeching off and dispossessing the mere 10.8 million white, 98 percent Orthodox Christian, Greeks. [The CIA World Factbook, last checked on November 22, 2013.]
Greece is one of the main entry points for illegal immigration from Africa and Asia, most of it from across the Turkish frontier. Back in 2010, up to 350 immigrants were crossing the border every day, accounting for about 90 per cent of all illegal immigrants coming into Europe. [Uncontrolled immigration is fuelling Greece's violent street politics. The EU needs to sit up and take notice by Colin Freeman, Telegraph, last updated: September 30th, 2013.]
Some Greek businessmen support the invaders, based on the usual short-sighted Slave Power-type greed. But the most powerful force behind the invasion is the European Union. The EU is actively pushing policies that will result in genocide against all indigenous, European peoples.
Golden Dawn is simply resisting this genocidal process and filling a political vacuum.
Peter Brimelow coined the phrase "Hitler's revenge" in his 1995 book Alien Nation to describe how Western nations, repulsed by Nazism, have reacted by abolishing their own identities, so in the end, Hitler is actually achieving his goal of destroying his enemies.
When government refuses to perform its core functions such as protecting the borders and enforcing the laws, the nation has a choice. Citizens can either step in to do the job, or the nation will perish.
Golden Dawn is resisting Hitler's revenge. It's resisting the extermination of the Greek people.
And if they want to survive, other Western nations will, one way or another, have to make the same choice – no matter what names they are called.
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Spring 2016
Deadline for submissions: March 16, 2016 by Noon
Ceremony: May 2016
Note: Award values are estimates only and will be determined after endowment distributions are finalized; amounts may be distributed to more than one awardee.
GUIDELINES: Submissions not following these guidelines will not be considered.
Each submission must include a cover sheet with your name, student ID, your status as undergraduate or graduate student, the title of the award you are applying for, and your email address.
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Scholarships Available by Student Submission:
Prior graduates or graduating seniors (F15) are not eligible. Award values are estimates only and will be determined after endowment distributions are finalized; amounts may be distributed to more than one awardee.
Bonita M. Cox Award for Classical and Medieval Literature: Awarded for outstanding achievement in classical or medieval studies. The student recipient will demonstrate achievement by writing the best paper addressing an arguable classical or medieval issue or theme in literature or history (e.g., the uses to which Dante puts flower metaphors as an important structural element in the divine comedy). The essays may be on any topic and from any discipline. Preference shall be given to those essays that demonstrate a clear connection between the past (classical or medieval periods) and the present.
Eligible students: Junior, Senior and Graduate students taking 6 units or more. Essays must be double-spaced and follow the format of the MLA Style Sheet and should be 12-25 pages in length. ($400)
The Academy of American Poets/Virginia de Araujo Prize: Monetary award for best poem submitted. Open to any undergraduate or graduate student (taking at least 6 units or more). This prize is judged by a distinguished poet not affiliated with SJSU. A maximum of three poems may be submitted; no longer than 150 lines each. ($100)
Kichung Kim Scholarship: Scholarship awarded to an SJSU student majoring in English and Comparative Literature. Submit an essay based on American/Ethnic American Literature. Eligible students will be enrolled full time, have a minimum 2.5 GPA, and demonstrate financial need. Include a statement of eligibility with your essay. ($1000)
Scholarships Available by Faculty Nomination:
Prior graduates or graduating seniors (F15) are not eligible. Award values are estimates only and will be determined after endowment distributions are finalized; amounts may be distributed to more than one awardee.
Shirley Nelson Iverson Scholarship: to a freshman English major with intentions of becoming a high school teacher. ($250)
Courtney E. Cox Carr Chaucer Award: for outstanding student achievement in a course in which students read untranslated literature from the Middle English literary period. Recipient will have completed a course in Chaucer or Middle English literature within one year from when the award was made. All students will be eligible for this award. Graduate students must have matriculated with six or more semester hours at the university, during the preceding semester, or the semester during the award. Students will be nominated by the professor teaching the course. Students enrolled in Independent Student basis are not eligible. ($150)
James Phelan Literary Awards: Faculty teaching across the Creative Writing curriculum (English 71; undergraduate and graduate workshops; English 193C) will nominate EXCEPTIONAL undergraduate and graduate students for verse and prose work the students have produced in the following categories:
• metrical verse
• free verse
• short story
• personal essay
All faculty can nominate for the critical essay category:
• critical essay
All categories will have a graduate and an undergraduate competition.
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All Soulsby John Banville Javier Marias
By one of the most important voices in contemporary world literature, a darkly comic novel about that most British of institutions, Oxford University.In All Souls, a visiting Spanish lecturer, viewing Oxford through a prismatic detachment, is alternately amused, puzzled, delighted, and disgusted by its vagaries of human vanity. A bit lonely, not always able to see his charming but very married mistress, he casts about for activity; he barely has to teach. Yet so much goes into simply "being" at Oxford: friendship, opinion-mongering, one-upmanship, finicky exchanges of favors, gossip, adultery, book-collecting, back-patting, backstabbing. Marías demonstrates a sweet tooth for eccentricity in this sly campus novel and love story.
Ancient Lightby John Banville
The Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea gives us a brilliant, profoundly moving new novel about an actor in the twilight of his life and his career: a meditation on love and loss, and on the inscrutable immediacy of the past in our present lives.Is there any difference between memory and invention? That is the question that fuels this stunning novel, written with the depth of character, the clarifying lyricism and the sly humor that have marked all of John Banville's extraordinary works. And it is the question that haunts Alexander Cleave, an actor in the twilight of his career and of his life, as he plumbs the memories of his first--and perhaps only--love (he, fifteen years old, the woman more than twice his age, the mother of his best friend; the situation impossible, thrilling, devouring and finally devastating) . . . and of his daughter, lost to a kind of madness of mind and heart that Cleave can only fail to understand. When his dormant acting career is suddenly, inexplicably revived with a movie role portraying a man who may not be who he says he is, his young leading lady--famous and fragile--unwittingly gives him the opportunity to see with aching clarity the "chasm that yawns between the doing of a thing and the recollection of what was done." Ancient Light is a profoundly moving meditation on love and loss, on the inscrutable immediacy of the past in our present lives, on how invention shapes memory and memory shapes the man. It is a book of spellbinding power and pathos from one of the greatest masters of prose at work today.From the Hardcover edition.
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From the internationally acclaimed author of The Book of Evidence and Ghosts comes a mesmerizing novel that is both a literary thriller and a love story as sumptuously perverse as Lolita. "A strange and dreamlike book . . . Banville has a breathtaking style."--Boston Globe.
Best European Fiction 2013by John Banville
2013 may be the best year yet for Best European Fiction. The inimitable John Banville joins the list of distinguished preface writers for Aleksandar Hemon's series, and A. S. Byatt represents England among a luminous cast of European contributors. Fans of the series will find everything they've grown to love, while new readers will discover what they've been missing!
Best European Fiction 2013by John Banville
2013 may be the best year yet for Best European Fiction. The inimitable John Banville joins the list of distinguished preface writers for Aleksandar Hemon's series, and A. S. Byatt represents England among a luminous cast of European contributors. Fans of the series will find everything they've grown to love, while new readers will discover what they've been missing!
Birchwoodby John Banville
I am therefore I think. So starts John Banville's 1973 novel Birchwood, a novel that centers around Gabriel Godkin and his return to his dilapidated family estate. After years away, Gabriel returns to a house filled with memories and despair. Delving deep into family secrets--a cold father, a tortured mother, an insane grandmother--Gabriel also recalls his first encounters with love and loss. At once a novel of a family, of isolation, and of a blighted Ireland, Birchwood is a remarkable and complex story about the end of innocence for one boy and his country, told in the brilliantly styled prose of one of our most essential writers..
The Blue Guitarby John Banville
John Banville, the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea and Ancient Light, now gives us a new novel--at once trenchant, witty, and shattering--about the intricacies of artistic creation, about theft, and about the ways in which we learn to possess one another, and to hold on to ourselves.Equally self-aggrandizing and self-deprecating, our narrator, Oliver Otway Orme ("O O O. An absurdity. You could hang me over the door of a pawnshop"), is a painter of some renown and a petty thief who has never before been caught and steals only for pleasure. Both art and the art of thievery have been part of his "endless effort at possession," but now he's pushing fifty, feels like a hundred, and things have not been going so well. Having recognized the "man-killing crevasse" that exists between what he sees and any representation he might make of it, he has stopped painting. And his last act of thievery--the last time he felt its "secret shiver of bliss"--has been discovered. The fact that the purloined possession was the wife of the man who was, perhaps, his best friend has compelled him to run away--from his mistress, his home, his wife; from whatever remains of his impulse to paint; and from a tragedy that has long haunted him--and to sequester himself in the house where he was born. Trying to uncover in himself the answer to how and why things have turned out as they have, excavating memories of family, of places he has called home, and of the way he has apprehended the world around him ("one of my eyes is forever turning towards the world beyond"), Olly reveals the very essence of a man who, in some way, has always been waiting to be rescued from himself.From the Hardcover edition.
The Book of Evidenceby John Banville
John Banville's stunning powers of mimicry are brilliantly on display in this engrossing novel, the darkly compelling confession of an improbable murderer.Freddie Montgomery is a highly cultured man, a husband and father living the life of a dissolute exile on a Mediterranean island. When a debt comes due and his wife and child are held as collateral, he returns to Ireland to secure funds. That pursuit leads to murder. And here is his attempt to present evidence, not of his innocence, but of his life, of the events that lead to the murder he committed because he could. Like a hero out of Nabokov or Camus, Montgomery is a chillingly articulate, self-aware, and amoral being, whose humanity is painfully on display.
The Book of Evidenceby John Banville
John Banville's stunning powers of mimicry are brilliantly on display in this engrossing novel, the darkly compelling confession of an improbable murderer.Freddie Montgomery is a highly cultured man, a husband and father living the life of a dissolute exile on a Mediterranean island. When a debt comes due and his wife and child are held as collateral, he returns to Ireland to secure funds. That pursuit leads to murder. And here is his attempt to present evidence, not of his innocence, but of his life, of the events that lead to the murder he committed because he could. Like a hero out of Nabokov or Camus, Montgomery is a chillingly articulate, self-aware, and amoral being, whose humanity is painfully on display.
The Crooked Timber of Humanityby Isaiah Berlin Henry Hardy John Banville
"Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made."--Immanuel KantIsaiah Berlin was one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century--an activist of the intellect who marshaled vast erudition and eloquence in defense of the endangered values of individual liberty and moral and political plurality. In The Crooked Timber of Humanity he exposes the links between the ideas of the past and the social and political cataclysms of our own time: between the Platonic belief in absolute truth and the lure of authoritarianism; between the eighteenth-century reactionary ideologue Joseph de Maistre and twentieth-century Fascism; between the romanticism of Schiller and Byron and the militant--and sometimes genocidal--nationalism that convulses the modern world.This new edition features a revised text that supplants all previous versions, a new foreword in which award-winning novelist John Banville discusses Berlin's life and ideas, particularly his defense of pluralism, and a substantial new appendix that provides rich context, including letters by Berlin and previously uncollected writings, most notably his virtuoso review of Bertrand Russell's A History of Western Philosophy.
Doctor Copernicusby John Banville
'Banville is superb . . . there are not many historical novels of which it can be said that they illuminate both the time that forms their subject matter and the time in which they are read: Doctor Copernicusis among the very best of them' The Economist The work of Nicholas Koppernigk, better known as Copernicus, shattered the medieval view of the universe and led to the formulation of the image of the solar system we know today. Here his life is powerfully evoked in a novel that offers a vivid portrait of a man of painful reticence, haunted by a malevolent brother and baffled by the conspiracies that rage around him and his ideas while he searches for the secret of life. 'Banville writes novels of complex patterning, with grace, precision and timing' Guardian 'With his fastidious wit and exquisite style, John Banville is the heir to Nabokov' Daily Telegraph 'A tour de force: a fictional evocation of the great astronomer which is exciting, beautifully written and astonishingly redolent of the late medieval world' The Times
Eclipseby John Banville
A lyrical and haunting new work of fiction by one of Ireland's greatest writers. . . Alexander Cleave has never been able to rid himself of the feeling that he is in "a perpetual state of being watched"-even when alone. So he became an actor, and successfully performed his way through life until suddenly, at the peak of his career, he staggered off stage, never to return. Self-banished to his childhood home and cut off from his wife, Cleave begins to unravel the past and disinter his own identity. But his attempt to sift the accumulated clutter of half a century of existence is undermined by the house itself, brimming with lives, both ghostly and undeniably human. Memory constantly displaces Cleave's attention to the small, delicate details of the present. So too does his anxiety about the future, and the thought of his beloved but troubled daughter, Cass, tugging away at him like an undertow. This humane and beautifully written story tells the tragic tale of a man, intelligent, preposterous and vulnerable, who in attempting to bring the performance to a close, finds himself travelling inevitably towards a devastating denouement.
Eclipseby John Banville
In this deeply moving and original book, John Banville alloys mystery, fable, and ghost story with poignant psychological acuity to forge the riveting story of a man wary of the future, plagued by the past, and so uncertain in the present that he cannot discern the spectral from the real. When renowned actor Alexander Cleave was a boy living in a large house with his widowed mother and various itinerant lodgers, he encountered a strikingly vivid ghost of his father. Now that he's fifty and has returned to his boyhood home to recover from a nervous breakdown on stage, he is not surprised to find the place still haunted. He is surprised, however, at the presence of two new lodgers who have covertly settled into his old roost. And he is soon overwhelmed by how they, coupled with an onslaught of disturbing memories, compel him to confront the clutter that has become his life: ruined career, tenuous marriage, and troubled relationship with an estranged daughter destined for doom.
Ghostsby John Banville
In this brilliantly haunting new novel, John Banville forges an unforgettable amalgam of enchantment and menace that suggests both The Tempest and his own acclaimed The Book of Evidence. "A surreal and exquisitely lyrical new novel by one of the great stylists writing in English today."--Boston Globe.
La guitarra azulby John Banville
El gran John Banville, Príncipe de Asturias de las Letras, en su continua búsqueda de la perfección, se desafía a sí mismo y a los lectores: su novela más esperada. «Cuando se trata de la primera vez, el robo y el amor tienen mucho en común.» Esta es la historia de un hombre que se enamoró de una mujer con forma de chelo.Y la robó. Abandonado por su musa, Oliver Orme ha dejado de pintar. Quizá ya no sea un pintor, pero siempre será un ladrón. No roba por dinero, sino por el placer casi erótico de quitarle algo a otro. Posesiones como la irresistible Polly, la mujer de su gran amigo Marcus. Cuando este robo sale a la luz, con consecuencias irreparables para Marcus, Polly, Orme y su mujer Gloria, el culpable se refugia temporalmente en el hogar de su infancia. Un viaje que le obligará a enfrentarse a sí mismo en busca de la redención. Mordaz, ingeniosa, emotiva y demoledora, La guitarra azul disecciona la naturaleza de los celos y las relaciones humanas. Reseñas:«La elocuencia de Banville te transporta a otro mundo... Esta novela es una verdadera obra de arte, una recompensa.»Sameer Rahim, The Telegraph «John Banville genera una profunda satisfacción estética... La guitarra azul se seguirá leyendo -y seguirá cautivando- mucho después de que todas esas novelas tan cacareadas a bombo y platillo hayan acabado en la papelera de la historia de la literatura.»Andrew Riemer, The Sydney Morning Herald «Un logro notable: la obra de un autor que no es un simple conocedor del dolor y de la elocuencia, sino del consuelo de aprender a pensar, a mirar y a escuchar.»Matthew Adams, The National «Banville sitúa las palabras al trasluz con la meticulosidad de un relojero o un poeta... Se revela, una vez más, como uno de los mejores y más expertos testigos de la literatura contemporánea.»Kate Kellaway, The Guardian «Tal vez sea la más divertida y accesible de las numerosas novelas de Banville... Bella y desgarradora.»Jon Michaud, The Washington Post «La guitarra azul prolonga la investigación en la que Banville se encuentra inmerso, un estudio de la naturaleza de la representación y el ritmo, de principio a fin, con un corazón filosófico.»Stephanie Bishop, The Australian «Como siempre, Banville traza el recorrido de este viaje de autodescubrimiento con el característico lenguaje que él domina con tanto donaire: preciso y sin embargo evocador, clarividente y con los pies en la tierra, mas con los destellos de la mutabilidad y el misterio del arte.»Wendy Smith, Boston Globe «John Banville retorna al mundo del arte en esta referencial cajita de compartimentos secretos, que te atrapa sin hacer ruido.»Val Nolan, Irish Examiner
Imposturasby John Banville
Un estudio del deseo y la identidad. Una novela magistral y conmovedora de la mano del Príncipe de Asturias de las Letras John Banville Axel Vander, anciano dandi de las letras, no es el hombre que aparenta ser. Cuando recibe una carta misteriosa que amenaza con desvelar sus secretos, viaja a Turín para encontrarse con su autora. Allí, nublado por la edad y el alcohol e incapaz de distinguir entre realidad y ficción, se enfrentará cara a cara con Cass Cleave, la mujer que tiene el poder de desenmascararlo. ¿Qué fin persigue la joven, destruir a Vander o salvarlo? Atrapados en una realidad distorsionada, ambos personajes gravitan el uno hacia el otro en una relación oscura y perturbadora, condenada al desastre desde el primer momento. La crítica ha dicho... «Uno de esos libros en los que, en principio, se tiene la clara y grata sensación de "ir entrando". Una vez dentro, imposible salir.» Rodrigo Fresán, El País «Lo cierto es que cada una de sus novelas atrae y deleita por la maestría en el desarrollo de la trama, por el dominio de los registros y matices expresivos.»Guillermo Busutil, La Opinión de Málaga «Costará superar el listón de Imposturas, dada su combinación de ingenio, complejidad moral y compasión. Resulta difícil encontrar qué más puede aportar una novela.» Irish Times «Hipnótica. Más que cualquier otro autor contemporáneo, Banville pone de manifiesto la vigente relevancia de términos como arte y obra maestra.» The New York Times Book Review
The Infinitiesby John Banville
On a languid midsummer's day in the countryside, old Adam Godley, a renowned theoretical mathematician, is dying. His family gathers at his bedside: his son, young Adam, struggling to maintain his marriage to a radiantly beautiful actress; his nineteen-year-old daughter, Petra, filled with voices and visions as she waits for the inevitable; their mother, Ursula, whose relations with the Godley children are strained at best; and Petra's "young man"--very likely more interested in the father than the daughter--who has arrived for a superbly ill-timed visit.But the Godley family is not alone in their vigil. Around them hovers a family of mischievous immortals--among them, Zeus, who has his eye on young Adam's wife; Pan, who has taken the doughy, perspiring form of an old unwelcome acquaintance; and Hermes, who is the genial and omniscient narrator: "We too are petty and vindictive," he tells us, "just like you, when we are put to it." As old Adam's days on earth run down, these unearthly beings start to stir up trouble, to sometimes wildly unintended effect. . . . Blissfully inventive and playful, rich in psychological insight and sensual detail, The Infinities is at once a gloriously earthy romp and a wise look at the terrible, wonderful plight of being human--a dazzling novel from one of the most widely admired and acclaimed writers at work today.From the Hardcover edition.
The Infinitiesby John Banville
One long, languid midsummer's day, the Godleys gather at the family home of Arden to attend their father's bedside. Adam, the elder child, and Petra, only nineteen, find that relations with their mother, Ursula, and their dying father, old Adam, are as strained as ever. Adam's relationship with his wife, Helen, seems too on the brink of collapse and Petra, fragile and deeply troubled, finds deepest relief in her own pain. The gods, those mischievous spirits, watch silently, flitting through this dark ménage. Unable to resist intervening in the mortals' lives, they spy, tease and seduce, all the while looking upon the antics of their playthings with a mixture of mild bafflement and occasional envy. Old Adam - husband, father and esteemed mathematician - has made his name grappling with the concept of the infinite. His own time on earth seems to be running out, and his mind runs to disquieting memories. Little does he realize, as he lies mute but alert in the Sky room, that the gods are capable of interposing themselves in the action, and even changing time itself when it pleases them. Overflowing with a bawdy humour, and a deep and refreshing clarity of insight, The Infinities is at once a gloriously earthy romp and a delicately poised, infinitely wise look at the terrible and wonderful plight of being human. In electrifying prose, Banville captures the aching intensity, the magic and enchantment, of a single midsummer's day in Arden.
El intocableby John Banville
Una de las grandes novelas de John Banville, Premio Príncipe de Asturias de las Letras, basada en la vida de Anthony Blunt, el controvertido espía de la Reina de Inglaterra y del Kremlin. Corren los años treinta y la amenaza de la guerra sobrevuela Europa. Fascismo y comunismo amenazan con sacudir los cimientos de Inglaterra, que ignora que tiene al enemigo dentro de sus fronteras: Moscú ha puesto los ojos en un grupo de jóvenes cultos, idealistas y triunfadores, que no levanta sospechas. Cuarenta años después, Victor Maskell ve cómo un comunicado en la Cámara de los Comunes revela su condición de agente doble. Pero ¿quién lo ha sacrificado, y a cambio de qué? ¿Puede un célebre historiador del arte experto en Poussin, marido y padre, agente de la reina, ser al tiempo amante homosexual y espía de Stalin? Y de todas esas traiciones, ¿cuál es la que más pesa? Reseñas:«Fascinante e ingeniosa casi hasta la exageración. Es el libro más completo que leído en mucho tiempo, una obra consumada, del cuño de un autor de inmenso talento.»Richard Ford «La belleza va de la mano de la ironía. Atrae y deleita por la maestría en el desarrollo de la trama y en el dominio de los registros y matices expresivos, y por su reflexión sobre los secretos del corazón humano.»Declaración del Jurado del Premio Príncipe de Asturias de las Letras «Relata con agudeza psicológica, ironía a menudo frontera del sarcasmo, y con su habitual virtuosismo estilístico, una época apasionante.»Maria Teresa Lezcano, Sur
Keplerby John Banville
'Superbly illuminates the man, the time, and the everlasting quest for knowledge' Observer Johannes Kepler, born in 1571 in south Germany, was one of the world's greatest mathematicians and astronomers. This novel brilliantly recreates his life and his incredible drive to chart the orbits of the planets and the geometry of the universe while being driven from exile to exile by religious and domestic strife. At the same time it illuminates the harsh realities of the Renaissance world; rich in imaginative daring but rooted in poverty, squalor and the tyrannical power of emperors. 'Narrative art at a positively symphonic level' Guardian 'One knows one is in the presence of a writer extraordinary. Wearing his vast research lightly, Mr Banville not only summons Kepler and his company of vivid souls but leads us into the small dark rooms' Sunday Telegraph 'This very distinguished novel . . . is done with very considerable skill; it suggests that this is what such a life must indeed have been like and the result is a wonderfully human figure, rife with feelings, principles, regrets and courage' Sunday Times 'An outstandingly good novel . . . a novel that dramatizes and celebrates intellectual passion. Which makes it a very rare novel indeed' Irish Press
El libro de las pruebasby John Banville
La perfecta introducción al universo Banville«Una novela sorprendente, perturbadora» (The New York Times Book Review) , por el ganador del Premio Booker y del Premio Príncipe de Asturias de las Letras.Freddie Montgomery es un científico de talento exiliado en una isla del Mediterráneo. Llegado el momento de saldar una deuda, su mujer y su hijo son retenidos como garantía de pago, y él regresa a Irlanda para conseguir fondos en una búsqueda que termina en el robo de un cuadro valioso y el asesinato de una joven. ¿El móvil del crimen? Ni la avaricia, ni la venganza. Ha matado porque «podía hacerlo»: es un asesino accidental como el que quizá todos llevamos dentro. Mientras espera juicio escribe esta confesión como un intento de presentar las pruebas, no ya de su inocencia, sino de los acontecimientos que lo han llevado a esa celda y han marcado el recorrido de su vida entera.Reseñas: «Cada creación suya atrae y deleita por la maestría en el desarrollo de la trama y en el dominio de los registros y matices expresivos, y por su reflexión sobre los secretos del corazón humano. »Declaración del Jurado del Premio Príncipe de Asturias de las Letras 2014 «Una gran obra en la que cada suave momento detona en voz baja para mostrar un mortífero destello interior.»Don DeLillo«La recomiendo como introducción a Banville.»Francisco García Pérez, La Opinión de Tenerife«El más grande escritor irlandés vivo #con el permiso de William Trevor# y el mejor estilista de la lengua inglesa.» Begoña Arce y Elena Hevia, El Periódico de Extremadura«No un relato policial, sino una novela psicológica fascinante y trabajada en cada línea.»Eduardo García, Diario de Mallorca«Heredero de la literatura de Nabokov, destaca en su estilo lacuidada construcción de cada frase, la narración en primera persona y el humor negro.»Gabinete de Prensa de la Biblioteca Nacional de España«Uno de los escritores contemporáneos más inteligentes, más sensibles y más cultos en las letras universales... Un escritor universal que quedará en la historia de la literatura... Hemos premiado no a un hombre más, sino a un novelista esencial en el panorama contemporáneo de las letras universales.»Rosa Navarro Durán, La Nueva España (Jurado del Premio Príncipe de Asturias de las Letras 2014)«La obra de Banville es un monumento al ser humano desde la complejidad y la profunda oscuridad.»Eduardo García, La Opinión de Málaga«El nosequé nabokoviano; la sensación de ensoñación con la que discurre el relato... Los que tengan ese Banville bien fijada en la cabeza seguramente se lleven una pequeña alegría con el fallo del Premio Príncipe de Asturias de las Letras.» Luis Alemany, El País
Long Lankinby John Banville
A collection of short stories from the early years of Man Booker Prize-winning author John Banville's career, Long Lankin explores the passionate emotions--fear, jealousy, desire--that course beneath the surface of everyday life. From a couple at risk of being torn apart by the allure of wealth to an old man's descent into nature, the tales in this collection showcase the talents that launched Banville onto the literary scene. Offering a unique insight into the mind of "one of the great living masters of English-language prose" (Los Angeles Times), these nine haunting sketches stand alone as canny observations on the turbulence of the human condition.
The Lord Chandos Letter and Other Writingsby John Banville Hugo Von Hofmannsthal Joel Rotenber
Hugo von Hoffmannsthal made his mark as a poet, as a playwright, and as the librettist for Richard Strauss's greatest operas, but he was no less accomplished as a writer of short, strangely evocative prose works. The atmospheric stories and sketches collected here--fin-de-siècle fairy tales from the Vienna of Klimt and Freud, a number of them never before translated into English--propel the reader into a shadowy world of uncanny fates and secret desires. An aristocrat from Paris in the plague years shares a single night of passion with an unknown woman; a cavalry sergeant meets his double on the battlefield; an orphaned man withdraws from the world with his four servants, each of whom has a mysterious power over his destiny.The most influential of all of Hofmannsthal's writings is the title story, a fictional letter to the English philosopher Francis Bacon in which Lord Chandos explains why he is no longer able to write. The "Letter" not only symbolized Hofmannsthal's own turn away from poetry, it captured the psychological crisis of faith and language which was to define the twentieth century.
The Love Objectby John Banville Edna O'Brien
Collected here for the first time are stories spanning five decades of writing by the "short story master." (Harold Bloom)As John Banville writes in his introduction to THE LOVE OBJECT, Edna O'Brien "is, simply, one of the finest writers of our time." The thirty-one stories collected in this volume provide, among other things, a cumulative portrait of Ireland, seen from within and without. Coming of age, the impact of class, and familial and romantic love are the prevalent motifs, along with the instinct toward escape and subsequent nostalgia for home. Some of the stories are linked and some carry O'Brien's distinct sense of the comical. In "A Rose in the Heart of New York," the single-mindedness of love dramatically derails the relationship between a girl and her mother, while in "Sister Imelda" and "The Creature" the strong ties between teacher and student and mother and son are ultimately broken. "The Love Object" recounts a passionate affair between the narrator and her older lover.The magnificent, mid-career title story from Lantern Slides portrays a Dublin dinner party that takes on the lives and loves of all the guests. More recent stories include "Shovel Kings"--"a masterpiece of compression, distilling the pain of a lost, exiled generation" (Sunday Times)--and "Old Wounds," which follows the revival and demise of the friendship between two elderly cousins.In 2011, Edna O'Brien's gifts were acknowledged with the most prestigious international award for the story, the Frank O'Connor Short Story Award. THE LOVE OBJECT illustrates a career's worth of shimmering, potent prose from a writer of great courage, vision, and heart."The most striking aspect of Edna O'Brien's short stories, aside from the consistent mastery with which they are executed, is their diversity."--John Banville
The Old Devilsby Kingsley Amis John Banville
Age has done everything except mellow the characters in Kingsley Amis's The Old Devils, which turns its humane and ironic gaze on a group of Welsh married couples who have been spending their golden years--when "all of a sudden the evening starts starting after breakfast"--nattering, complaining, reminiscing, and, above all, drinking. This more or less orderly social world is thrown off-kilter, however, when two old friends unexpectedly return from England: Alun Weaver, now a celebrated man of Welsh letters, and his entrancing wife, Rhiannon. Long-dormant rivalries and romances are rudely awakened, as life at the Bible and Crown, the local pub, is changed irrevocably. <P><P> Considered by Martin Amis to be Kingsley Amis's greatest achievement--a book that "stands comparison with any English novel of the [twentieth] century"--The Old Devils confronts the attrition of ageing with rare candor, sympathy, and moral intelligence.<P> Man Booker Prize winner
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Syracuse, N.Y. — Bill Dutch, the president of the Syracuse Chiefs, gazed around the banquet hall of the Holiday Inn Convention Center in Salina on Friday evening and beamed.
Every chair at every table was filled, or would soon be. Folks were happily bellying up to the cash bar. Bids were being made early and often on rows of auction items that would yield proceeds to benefit the Syracuse Challenger Baseball Program.
It was January. Duke would be playing Syracuse in a basketball lollapalooza in the Carrier Dome the next day. Denver and Seattle would decide the championship of the football world in the Super Bowl the day after that. And yet, something else was making the room buzz.
"Baseball," said Dutch. "I told you that baseball was alive in Syracuse. Look at this. Look at this place. Look at all these people. This is just a start, I know, but it's a good start."
The occasion was the Chiefs' 54th annual Hot Stove Dinner, an event that drew 404 fans, paying $40 (adults) and $20 (children) apiece, to mingle with VIP types from both the Washington Nationals, Syracuse's parent club, and the Chiefs.
Among the guests were:
-- Davey Johnson, the decorated former big-league player and manager who'd served as the Nationals' skipper before stepping down at the end of the 2013 season.
-- Doug Harris, Washington's assistant general manager.
-- Mark Scialabba, the Nationals' director of player development.
-- Randy Mobley, the president of the International League.
-- Billy Gardner Jr., the newly-named Syracuse manager.
-- Jason Smorol, the Chiefs' rookie general manager who was presiding over his initial Hot Stove affair.
Johnson, who'd turned 71 the day before and was serenaded by the crowd with a rendition of "Happy Birthday," served as the dinner's featured speaker. And he spoke glowingly of the possibilities of the 2014 campaign.
"I'm not saying it's Governors' Cup or bust," Johnson told the gathering, "but it's there. The talent is there. I wouldn't have said that a few years ago when Randy Knorr was the manager here. I remember watching a game with the team he had and saying to him, 'Good luck, pal.' But things have come along. I love what the Washington Nationals have done with their minor-league system."
Johnson also professed his admiration for Don Waful, the long-time Chiefs' fixture who spent time as a prisoner of war in Poland with Johnson's father, Fred, during World War II.
Waful, who will be 98 in April, was presented with the Syracuse organization's inaugural Lifetime Achievement Award. And before that, the Challenger program was warmly saluted. But the clear winner on Friday was baseball.
"We've got a long way to go," said Dutch, whose franchise is coming off a red-inked 2013 season during which it lost some $1 million. "We know that. We know it's going to take some time. But this support is more than we could have hoped for. We're going to show everybody that Syracuse is a baseball town."
Friday's gathering provided fair evidence of that.


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WASHINGTON - A long-running trade dispute between the United States and Mexico over the safety of Mexican trucks may be nearing an end.
A five-member arbitration panel set up under the North American Free Trade Agreement is scheduled to rule Thursday on the U.S. government's refusal to allow Mexican trucks on American highways, as required under NAFTA.
The panel ruled in favor of Mexico in a preliminary decision last November and is expected to stick with its decision.
"We expect them to rule against the United States and to cite that Mexico has laws on the books about highway safety and that they are making progress," said Bret Caldwell, a spokesman for the Teamsters Union, which opposes allowing the trucks to travel farther north of the border.
NAFTA called for Mexican trucks to have unrestricted access to highways in U.S. border states - Texas, California, New Mexico and Arizona - by 1995 and full access to all U.S. highways by January 2000.
President Clinton, however, refused to follow the timetable. He was backed by U.S. Department of Transportation reports that gave low marks to Mexico's trucking safety standards and to Mexican trucks already crossing the border.
President Bush could discuss the issue with Mexico President Vicente Fox in a meeting Feb. 16. The Teamsters Union plans a protest rally the same day in Laredo, Texas.
During his presidential campaign, Bush called on Clinton to comply with NAFTA. Soon he must decide whether to live up to the treaty. He can agree with the ruling or refuse and negotiate compensation with Mexico. If he takes the latter, Mexico can name its price, including holding out for the highway access.
Mexico estimates that about 14,000 trucks a day cross the border and that it has lost about $2 billion because of the U.S. policy. About 70 percent of those trucks come through Texas, but are restricted 20 miles north of the border.
Lori Wallach, director of Global Trade Watch, a consumer group, said her organization "is strongly urging the Bush administration that no matter what the ruling is, they keep the border closed and pay compensation."
Wallach said the United States inspects two million trucks on its highways every year, including 1 percent of the four million that come from Mexico. The Department of Transportation has said another three million could be on U.S. highways with the NAFTA ruling, Wallach said.
"The reality is if you want to make sure Mexican trucks are safe, you have to inspect every one. . . . You can't do it unless you have more resources going into truck inspection than into the U.S. Army," she said.
The Department of Transportation Inspector General's Office said 35 percent of Mexican trucks that entered the United States were put out of service last year for significant safety violations.
But the American Trucking Associations, which has lobbied for opening up U.S. highways to Mexican trucks, says opening the highways will eliminate many of the older Mexican trucks that present most of the safety problems.
Currently, Mexican trucks travel near the border and transfer their loads to so-called drayage tractors, which are typically older vehicles that cross the border and travel a few miles to transfer their loads to American trucks.
NAFTA would eliminate passing cargo between various trucks and simply allow one to go across to its ultimate destination.
The burden of ensuring the trucks are safe will fall in part to state inspectors.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry said that safety would be a priority should the trucks be allowed greater highway access. His office said plans for dealing with the additional Mexican trucks will follow the NAFTA panel's ruling.
"Decisions about inspections and law enforcement will be made by the Legislature or state policy makers based on the timing and provisions of the (NAFTA panel) ruling," said Ray Sullivan, Perry's deputy press secretary.
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Almost every day for the last 65 years Cecil Kennedy, 81, has stopped to smell the flowers, but that's not all. He's also set up an easel and painted them, and when the British artist paints a flower, you see a flower—one at the peak of perfumed pickability. His is a clinically realistic style in the 17th-century Dutch tradition, and you won't find his posies in trendy galleries but in refined, antique-filled living rooms. Henry Wyndham of Christie's says, "He is the leader in his field. No one does similar stuff of the same quality."
With savory titles like Summer Abundance and Rhododendrum Fragrantissimo, Kennedy's oils cost $8,000 to $28,000. "I used to do portraits, nudes and landscapes, but since the early '30s it has been mostly flowers," the painter says. It all began when he painted a woman with roses in her lap. A dealer was impressed—not by the lady but by her bouquet—and suggested Kennedy do more. He was ready. "All that tarting around," he says of portraiture. "There was always worry that you might not get a commission."
In 1929 Queen Mary, Elizabeth's grandmother, bought a painting with a ladybug in it and made Kennedy promise to put one in from then on for good luck. He has loyally obliged ever since. Another royal customer, the Duke of Windsor, bought some red roses, but the canvas has disappeared. "He gave it to someone," says Kennedy, lowering his voice discreetly to add: "He had a lot of girlfriends, you know. Nice chap." But you won't find Kennedys on Princess Di's or Fergie's walls. "Royal patronage is damn good, but I don't think they buy flower paintings anymore," the artist says.
Kennedy, who works in his house north of London (his wife of 54 years, Winifred, buys the flowers), sniffs at the idea that he may be in a rut. He explains, "You never achieve the sheer beauty that nature has, but you are always hoping to achieve your golden glory." Then, displaying the tenacity that built the Empire, he adds: "I hope to God that one day I will paint it."
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What was supposed to be a fun field trip for grades 3 and 4 students from St-Lawrence Academy in Lasalle turned sour when a couple of employees of the Olympic Installations Board made some rude and inappropriate comments about their poppies.
Lynn Dallaire says every year she picks up poppies for her students for Rememberance Day as well as little Canadian flag pins which they use to hold the poppies in place.
She says earlier this week they went on a field trip to the Olympic Stadium and everything was fine up until the point they were about to leave. She says a couple of animators started making comments about the students' poppies, specfically referring to the flags in the centre.
"They were making comments like, 'it's sacrilege, the Canadian flag!' and 'ils sont ou les anglos,'" she says.
That is when another teacher who spoke French told the workers to stop making such inappropriate comments in front of children. But she says the animators kept going.
The teachers made a complaint with their supervisor, who later apologized, said it was a joke, and that it wouldn't happen again. A rather unsatisfying response for Dallaire and her colleagues.
"You don't joke around with things like that."
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1 to: 6 do: [:index | getOnWithIt: index ]I think the real reasons that Java does not have enumerations are:
class C { public int i; public C(int i) {this.i=i} public static void foo() {print("Hello, world!");} } class Bar { static void doFoo(??? o) { // insert hackish typing workaround here. o.foo() } public static void main(string[] args) { this.doFoo(C) // can't use this in a static method. } }Thus, in Java, classes are NOT first-class citizens. You can't treat them like they are objects, even within static method definitions. You can't have metaclasses. On the other hand, the following is perfectly valid Scala:
trait Fooable { def foo() : Unit } case class C(i : Int) object C extends Fooable { // Classes are objects: right there in the syntax. def foo = print "Hello, world!" } object Bar { def doFoo(o : Fooable) : Unit { // Metaclasses: OK. o.foo() } def main(args : Array[String]) : Unit = { this.doFoo(C) // this: OK. } }On translating that code back to Java, one will find that there are actually a ton of workarounds used to get JVM code to accept this stuff. However, Scala itself never lets you see that there is anything behind the abstraction, while Java...does. Scala also treats its Ints as real objects; using primitives at runtime is an optimization which you don't have to think about. (I think that they're still not nullable, but Scala being Scala, that's just some clever tricks in the typesystem. Even if the fact that Ints aren't nullable is an optimization, it's at least a well defined, formalized one. You can still call methods on 'em, in any case.)
a = Weight.Grains(158); b = Weight.Stones(8); Weight c = a+b; print("Ted with bullet weighs ", c.pounds, " pounds.");Also, rather than an untyped math library in a static class pretending to be an object, high OO-ness requires:
sin30 = (Angle.Degrees(30)).sin;-- MarcThibault That's the "OOP is about types" view of OOP. Others feel it's more about the structure of code, not so much type safety and "fancy" types. But, NobodyAgreesOnWhatOoIs. Note that above in "c = a+b", what decides which object "+" belongs with? This is something that's odd about OOP and infix notation.


text: 3 Key Issues for Florida's Session, March 5 by Julie H. on Monday, March 4, 2013 Florida's legislative session begins March 5th. Here are our top 3 issues we'll need your help on: House Bill 81 by Rep. Cary Pigman/Senate Bill 124 by Sen. Jeremy Ring - This bill gained some momentum last week by passing out of its first committee of reference in the Senate. It was heard in the Senate Health Policy Committee and voted on favorably 9 to 1. The bill now moves to the Senate Committee on Banking and Insurance and we will be asking the Chair, Sen. David Simmons of Altamonte Springs, to agenda the bill. We are still working with Rep. Ken Roberson of Port Charlotte and Chair of the House Health Quality Subcommittee to persuade him to place the bill on his committee's agenda. Encourage schools to open up their recreational facilities (Shared Use) - House Bill 525 by Rep. Jake Raburn/Senate Bill 392 by Sen. Jeff Brandes – We are working with the appropriate committee members to get this bill up and moving in the next couple of weeks. This bill passed the House of Representatives unanimously last year and made it to 2nd reading in the Senate. We will be pushing hard to get the bill up and moving as quickly as possible this year. Create the next generation of life savers (CPR in Schools) - House Bill 557 by Rep. Clay Ford/Senate Bill 302 by Sen. Thad Altman – We now have both bills referenced to committee and can begin the process of working with committee members to get the bill on the agenda in both chambers. Stay tuned for You're the Cure alerts on how you can help! « Now share your story Share This


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West Ranch football defeated Golden Valley 35-13 Friday night at Valencia High School, ending the Wildcats' five-game losing streak and extending the Grizzlies' Foothill League losing streak to 32 games.
The Wildcats took a 7-0 lead with 3:51 remaining in the first quarter when running back Mark Collins took the ball in for a 12-yard touchdown.
The lead did not last long for the Wildcats.
On their next possession, the Grizzlies marched down the field on the legs of running back Leon Jacobs to the West Ranch 26 yard line. Facing a fourth-and-9, Golden Valley drew the Wildcats offside to make it a manageable fourth-and-4. On the next play, Grizzlies quarterback Robert Phillips found a wide open Aaron Kinard in the corner of the end zone for a 21-yard touchdown to tie the score at 7 with 11:43 left in the second quarter.
West Ranch answered back with a 10-play, 65-yard drive that resulted in a 1-yard run by fullback Garrett Green.
But the Wildcat offense was not quite done. West Ranch took over with 48 seconds left in the half. Quarterback Gerrit Mouw connected with Kyle Rooney for a 59-yard pass that set up a 3-yard rushing touchdown by Collins to make it 21-7 into the half.
"We were already motivated with this rivalry," said West Ranch head coach Sean O'Brien. "But that touchdown confirmed we can do this."
In the second half, West Ranch got some insurance points from Collins and Green. Collins finished the game with three rushing touchdowns and Green added two.
With 23 seconds left in the game, the Grizzles' backup quarterback Chase Lewis added six more points to the Golden Valley final total on 1-yard keeper.
"We just need to limit the mistakes," said Grizzlies head coach Robert Fisher, who lost his starting running back Leon Jacobs in the second quarter (hip). "The mistakes hurt us."


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Raising the Minimum Wage to $10.10 Would Cut Taxpayer Costs in Every State
See also: The Effects of Minimum Wages on SNAP Enrollments and Expenditures by Rachel West and Michael Reich
The federal minimum wage has not been raised for five years. Its real value today—$7.25 per hour—is less than two-thirds of what it was in 1968. Such a low minimum wage means that many full-time workers live in poverty. They must rely on public assistance programs—such as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, formerly known as food stamps—to keep their families from going hungry each month.
Increasing the minimum wage—as some states have already done—would not only provide a much-needed raise for low-wage workers but also decrease the amount that taxpayers spend on programs such as SNAP. Examining how states' minimum wage laws have affected their SNAP enrollments and spending over the past two decades sheds light on the effects a similar minimum wage policy could have at the national level.
The map below shows estimates of the reduction in SNAP enrollment and expenditures that would result from raising the federal minimum wage to $10.10 per hour. Analyzing SNAP data from 2012 along with current minimum wages reveals the savings that each state would experience. By requiring businesses to pay fairer wages, American taxpayers could save approximately $4.6 billion per year, or $46 billion over 10 years, in SNAP costs.
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i slept very badly last night. i was just at that stage where my head felt comfortable and heavy and my youngest came and woke me up. previous night was so so as well. looking back they have been the 2 days i have had carbs. and like ooooh 7.8g one day and 4g the next day. all from lemon juice and a smidgen of raw onion in my raw meat salad. and the coconut milk. no clues there. i do know if i overexercise on zero carb i start to get a brain fog for a while. by overexercise i mean when i go to the gym, i feel very forgetful afterwards for a while. i have had the same effect after 24 hrs in the bush with no food trying to concentrate on jumping across slippery rocks on a river and carrying a gun and not falling in where i found my balance was going. if i just cruise, as in walk lots, i dont have those issues at all.
day 9 of carnivory today. 5 days to go and i may go dirty carnivore as this is so much better than all that rabbit food for lunch. i've never liked fruit other than berries and stone fruit either. i am going to research carnivorous macros as i have been thinking where our ancestors would have gotten all the fat to be in ketosis as game animals like deer and wild hogs are not particularly fatty. there is alot of meat on one in proportion to the fat from the marrow and the brain too. till it dawned on me. marine mammals. since i cant go grab any off the local beach LMAO i need to think a bit more.
have fun shopping G! we are home today. going shopping tomorrow as it is my middle dd's b'day sat and i need to get fresh berries. she wants choc dipped berries. i am gonna party poop and sit there eating raw fish salad out of a paua shell to look flash lol


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My cat is going through the exact same thing!! I've had my baby for about 10 yrs and he has always had loose stools with some blood in it. But recently it has gotten significantly worse. For about the past month my baby's stool has been like water, some blood in it, horrible smell and sometimes mucus mixed in. He has been running to the box up to 5 times a day and sometime had accidents. He cries when he has to poop and he'll cry if you pet/pat his back end. He is also very gassy and you can hear his little tummy making noise. I have had numerous blood tests done, FIV, leukemia, worms, parasites, values ... negative on all. I've switched his food to Science Diet I/D hard food and the soft food (which he likes, thank God) with some luck. I've also bought one of those stress-relief plug-ins. I started giving him Pro-Pectalin which is an anit-diarrheal gel made for cats & dogs. I bought it on PetRx.com I believe this gel has helped him alot. I know it's not getting to the root of the problem but my baby was wasting away and no one can figure out why. He was a normal healthy cat of 11lbs and he is down to 7lbs (he's a Turkish Angora and should be heavy than 7lbs). He's not a fan of taking the med but I smear a little on his arm and he licks it off. I am also going to try some metamucil. I heard that will firm up his stool. After 3 days with the Pro-Pectalin his stool went from a water consistency to a pudding consistency with some firmer pieces. I will eventually have to do an intestinal biopsy but my main concern right now is to stop the diarrhea.
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Four days after a Southwest Philadelphia blaze killed four children, prompting angry questions about the adequacy of the Fire Department's response, a city safety official had a question for Patrick Sanyeah, father of two of the children who died.
Where was he when the fire erupted at 2:45 a.m. Saturday, when only one adult was at home?
Public Safety Director Michael Resnick posed that question to reporters covering a protest Sanyeah led Wednesday afternoon outside City Hall.
A few minutes later, a reporter asked Sanyeah to respond to Resnick's query, and the father exploded: "I was five minutes away! I was five minutes away! . . . Where was I? Where were they?"


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Hands-on with the Fujifilm X-30: Frankly, it's pretty good
A successor to the X-20, Fujifilm's X-30 brings an electronic viewfinder and other new features to the table. Here's a quick look at its key features.
Hands-on with the Nikon D810 DSLR (Updated with pricing and availability)
Nikon's latest D810 HD DSLR camera features the same resolution as its predecessors - 36.3 megapixels - but offers much better ISO performance and a whole host of movie recording functions. We share our first impressions.
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We took the Leica T out for a walk down Tiong Bahru district of Singapore to see just how its 16.3-megapixel APS-C CMOS sensor would fare, and brought back some images to share.
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Nikon 1 J4 Mirrorless Camera - Small and Speedy
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"S" truly stands for "sensitive" with Sony's new full-frame camera, the A7S. We had a chance to get a special sneak peek of the new camera in our office, and are pleased to bring you our first thoughts as well as image samples within.
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Fujifilm's new XF18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 R LM OIS WR is the latest addition to its professional-grade lenses for X-series cameras. Weather resistant to match the X-T1 camera, Fujifilm says it also offers professional-grade image quality. Too good to be true? Read on to find out more.
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Not intending to compete on specs, Casio has released the Exilim EX-100, a premium point-and-shoot camera that is able to shoot at F2.8 throughout its 10.7x optical zoom range. But with so many premium compacts around, where does the EX-100 stand?
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Barre water line break creates sinkhole
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BARRE A high-pressure water line blew out Wednesday night, creating a massive sinkhole in the middle of Third Street that prompted the residential streets closure to through traffic.
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text: I ain't no high-class broad/ I say, 'Hey, y'all' and 'Yee-haw' and I keep my Christmas lights on my front porch all year long/ And I know all the words to every Charlie Daniels song." So proudly announces Gretchen Wilson, 30, on "Redneck Woman," the hit first single off her debut disc, which opened at No. 2 on the Billboard pop chart. Sounding like a cross between Carlene Carter and the pre-glitzed-over incarnation of Shania Twain, Wilson is a most welcome addition to the ranks of country-rockers. She sings with an exceptional level of energy and control, unabashedly flaunting her good-ol'-gal proclivities. Wilson cowrote "Redneck Woman" with John Rich of Big & Rich, who has been an adviser to her since they met in a Nashville club. The two also cowrote (along with Vicky McGehee) another of the album's highlights, "When I Think About Cheatin'," with its ingratiatingly rueful lyric "Even when I'm tempted by some stranger/ There's never any danger/ I just think about you leavin' when I think about cheatin'." Meanwhile, Wilson, Rich and his usual sidekick Big Kenny cowrote the honky-tonkish title tune, a brash song that reflects Wilson's hard-living background: She moved to Nashville in 1996 from Pocahontas, Ill., where she dropped out of school after eighth grade to help manage a bar five miles outside of town. This may not have been a great triumph for liquor-licensing laws, but it does give Wilson some credibility as a honky-tonker now. And if there's any justice, this rousing Party will make her a big star.