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Sunday, January 22 2012
Riding Into a Nightmare: 'A Train in Winter'
Caroline Moorehead's A Train In Winter, like Daniel Mendelsohn's The Lost, leaves nothing to the imagination, a decision that makes reading it simultaneously engrossing and deeply disturbing.
Wednesday, January 18 2012
Doing The Worst Things Well: What We Can Learn from Anthony Burgess
The 50th anniversary of Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange, along with the recent discovery of a vast archive of the author's unpublished work, should shine fresh light on one of the 20th century's most prolific, daring and underrated writers.
Sunday, January 15 2012
Machine Guns and Metaphors: Outlaw Poet Todd Moore Remembered
The tough, vernacular, and outsider writer Todd Moore became an icon of Outlaw Poetry; he disdained academia, embraced gangsters like John Dillinger, and made American poetry pulse with dark blood.
Thursday, January 12 2012
If at First You Don't Succeed, Failure May Be Your Style: 'The Queer Art of Failure'
Rather than searching for ways around death and disappointment, the queer art of failure involves the acceptance of the finite, the embrace of the absurd, the silly, and the hopelessly goofy.
Tuesday, January 10 2012
What to Expect When You're Expecting a Vampire
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part I is a gratifying escape from reality. Those who are familiar with the books will be pleased with Director Bill Condon's attention to detail.
Sunday, January 8 2012
Queer Country: Chely Wright's Coming Out
The upcoming documentary, Wish Me Away, centered on country singer Chely Wright chronicles the pains of coming out in Nashville and raises questions about why more country musicians haven't come out.
Monday, January 2 2012
Kicked in the Teeth by Art
For a full day, it seemed like I got pummeled by unflinching art. And I feel like I'm better for it.
Thursday, December 15 2011
O Captain! My Captain! Going Where No Octogenarian Has Gone Before
As "Bill" explores the meaninglessness of celebrity, "Shatner" embraces the shallow and the superficial like an Andy Warhol soup can come to life.
Wednesday, December 7 2011
Art for the Hip-Hop Generation
The Legends of Hip Hop chronicles 50 deserving pioneers of the culture, and ultimately transforms and humanizes them.
Tuesday, December 6 2011
When the Music's Over: Greil Marcus on the Doors
Apparently seeking to account for every important rock act of the '60s, Greil Marcus turns his critical attention to the Doors.
Monday, December 5 2011
Showing My References: On Reading Too Much About TV & Watching Too Much TV
I still yearn for a hefty volume of pages to take down from the shelf, to leaf through at my leisure or to zero in on that relevant fact.
Thursday, December 1 2011
'Caligula's Ghost: Why Cinema Needs Epic Failure More than Mediocre Success
Obscene, grandiose and artistically worthless -- such is the monstrous reputation of the 1979 art-porn blockbuster Caligula. Is this most shocking of Roman epics worthy of reappraisal?
Tuesday, November 29 2011
Cold Wars End, Betrayal is Forever: 'Tinker, Tailer, Soldier, Spy'
What is espionage if not getting into bed with people -- physically or ideologically -- for purposes of betrayal?
Sunday, November 27 2011
Simon Reynolds Redux: A Conversation from the Past About Post-Punk
Simon Reynolds discusses Joy Division and The Ramones, sex and politics, and punk's blatant localism and latent racism around the time of the release of Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978-1984.
Sunday, November 13 2011
Symbolic Weight & the Def Jam Aesthetic
A coffee table book about rap does not sound too "hardcore" or "gangsta", does it? Well, that's because it's not. What it just might be is sincere.
Tuesday, November 1 2011
Before There Was 'The Exorcist', There Was 'The Possession of Joel Delaney'
Once again, the film industry came in and took a perfectly creepy book and upped the sensationalism because nothing can ever be too shocking in Hollywood.
Sunday, October 23 2011
Michael Moore vs. Jon Stewart: The Self-Destruction of the American Left
Michael Moore is a populist and Jon Stewart is an elitist. The blind liberal embrace of the superficial smugness of Stewart and detachment from the heroism of Moore is the most powerful and convincing illustration of the suicidal tendencies, moral bankruptcy, and spiritual decay of the American left.
Thursday, October 20 2011
The World's Favourite Parlour Game: The Quite Interesting Brilliance of 'QI'
We rarely equate television game shows with admirable life philosophies, but the BBC's QI with host Stephen Fry pulls it off by making us think as well as laugh.
Wednesday, October 19 2011
Geniuses Are People, Too
Creative geniuses don't succeed despite their flaws, they succeed because they are flawed.
Monday, October 17 2011
Pavement Art: When Destruction Is as Important as Creation
While some celebrate art through its destruction, we can ponder the impetus to buy, sell, own and store art away.


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Students entering LVC in the fall of 2014 may benefit from a current project supported by a President's Innovation Fund grant. One of the goals of the fund is to "develop new courses and program ideas." Dr. Kathleen Tacelosky, chair of languages and associate professor of Spanish, jumped at the opportunity with an innovative idea for experiential learning that put her back in the classroom—as a student—this summer.
Tacelosky attended a five-week summer program at the Université Laval in Quebec, Canada. "Working with some of my colleagues in the Languages Department and with those in the offices of admission and study abroad, we will design a program for students who have recently graduated from high school and are entering their first year of full-time study at LVC in fall 2014," noted Tacelosky. "The program will hopefully be the first of many pre-college study abroad seminars that the College will offer in the future."
Why Canada? LVC offers study abroad programs in 13 countries, but this is the College's first academic venture into Canada. "We want to offer incoming students an experience in which they can connect with future classmates and faculty before beginning college," Tacelosky said. "There will be a pre-departure orientation on campus where the students can talk about their hopes and fears regarding specifics of the travel seminar or college life in general."
The program will be offered to all incoming first-year students who have studied any level of French in high school, not just those who plan to major in the language. "However, if students decide to take more language classes or declares a major or minor, all the better!" Tacelosky added. She also hopes to inspire more LVC students to study abroad during their four years at the Valley.
Although very few other colleges have study abroad programs the summer before college, those who offer this transformative experience have observed that students who participate tend to want more. "By having faculty lead these short-term study abroad seminars, more of our students will be motivated to add a full-term study abroad experience before they graduate," Tacelosky said.
"We hope this model will catch on and be the first of many that will open students' eyes to new global perspectives and career opportunities that they may never have considered, or even imagined."
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Preacher's Boyby Katherine Paterson
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A new century is fast approaching ...
... but will the year 1900 mean the end of the world, as some say) Robbie Hewitt isn't certain. What he does know is that he wants to get in as much living as possible between now and the new year, just in case-which includes running Mabel Cramm's bloomers up the flagpole on Decoration Day, and taking a ride in a real
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A new century is fast approaching ...
... but will the year 1900 mean the end of the world, as some say) Robbie Hewitt isn't certain. What he does know is that he wants to get in as much living as possible between now and the new year, just in case-which includes running Mabel Cramm's bloomers up the flagpole on Decoration Day, and taking a ride in a real motorcar. Robbie doesn't care that his antics leave his preacher father and the upstanding citizens of Leonardstown, Vermont, heartily unimpressed. But when his high spirits and hot temper entangle him in a scheme that damages far more than his father's reputation, Robbie must choose whether to take responsibility for his actions a decision that holds the life of a man in the balance.
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Paterson (Celia and the Sweet, Sweet Water, 1998, etc.) rings out the 20th century with this ruminative tale of a 10-year-old freethinker, set in a small Vermont town at the very end of the century. Hearing a revivalist preacher's dark hints of impending doom, Robbie decides to become &'grave;a heathen, a Unitarian, or a Democrat, whichever was most fun,'' because he &'grave;ain't got the knack for holiness.'' As it turns out, he's not very good at sinning either, bending a few commandments by stealing food for a pair of vagrants, Violet and her abusive, alcoholic pa, Zeb, and feeling a stab of envy over the love his parents lavish on his simple-minded older brother, Elliot. He has a brush with serious evil, nearly drowning a rival who throws his clothes into a pond; the experience leaves him profoundly shocked at himself, and he ultimately earns redemption, in his own eyes, by saving Zeb from a charge of attempted murder. Despite some violence, the tone is generally light; if some situations are contrived, more thoughtful readers will look beyond them to the larger moral questions underlying Robbie's attitudes and choices.... Nourishing for mind and spirit both.
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"Paterson, so adept at capturing a sense of time and place, returns once again to mine the richness of small-town Vermont during the 19th century. Here, she reflects on the approach of the previous century as she follows the adventures of energetic, mischievous Robbie Hewitt, a preacher's son with a bit of a temper, from Decoration Day in May, 1899, to the eve of January 1, 1900. . . . Paterson tells a multilayered coming-of-age story of loyalty, courage, and the enduring values of family. With warmth, humor, and her powerful yet plain style, Paterson draws empathetic and memorable characters. Readers share the anticipation and the joy of Robbie and his father as they welcome the 20th century at the book's end." School Library Journal, Starred
"Paterson captures the essence of an adolescent's fundamental questions of God and existence in this finely honed novel. . . . Once again placing universal conflict in a historical context, Paterson gives a compassionate, absorbing rendering of an adolescent boy trying to break free from social and religious constraints." Publishers Weekly, Starred
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- 10/22/2013
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- Reprint
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- 860L (what's this?)
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- 10 - 12 Years
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Chapter One
How the Trouble Began
On Decoration Day, while everyone else in town was at the cemetery decorating the graves of our Glorious War Dead, Willie Beaner and me, Robert Burns Hewitt, took Mabel Cramm's bloomers and run them up the flagpole in front of the town hall. That was the beginning of all my troubles.
It wasn't that we got caught. In fact, I've often thought since that would have been the best thing in the world. If we'd been caught, Pa, who is a preacher and therefore has to be in favor of repentance, would have made us both apologize to Mabel, brought me home, and given me a good hidingor as good a hiding as Pa can manage. He never can put his heart into corporal punishmenta weakness often lamented by Deacon Slaughter. In the rest of the town there would have been a few days' worth of people cutting their eyes sidewise at us, but in a couple of weekssay, by the middle of Junethe whole affair would've been forgotten.
As it was, by the middle of June the boyswell, they act like boys even if they are the size of menthe boys that hang around the livery stable were still speculating as to who had had the nerve to do it "in broad daylight, mind you!" and then slapping their knees and snorting like horses.
I still think Mabel herself is due part of the blame. Everyone returned from the cemetery that morning to discover a foreign object streaming just below Old Glory. It was quickly evident that the object fluttering in the spring breeze was a pair of female unmentionables,so Deacon Slaughter and Mr. Weston (being the leading citizens) conferred and decided the said unmentionables should be lowered and handed over to the sheriff for decent disposal. But when those bloomers got to eye level, Mabel Cramm had no more sense than to shriek out like a banshee, "They're mine!" Whereupon she fainted dead away. From that moment, Chaos took charge and Rumor reigned.
And it wasn't just those loafers at the stable; the whole goldurn town was aflutter. Mothers were keeping their daughters indoors, except for Mabel's mother, who had bundled her off on the afternoon train that very day to visit her grandmother in Waterbury until she recovered her equilibrium or the culprit was found and punished, whichever came first.
With all the fuss, there was no way Willie and me could confess. If we'd been caught, which by all rights we should have been, we'd've been tanned and sent to bed without our supper, and the whole thing dismissed as a schoolboy prank. Which it was. I swear. We were just trying to keep up with Tom and Ned Weston.
Two weeks before, the Weston boys had put a green snake into Teacher's lunch pail. It made a lovely to-do. All those girls screaming and putting their hands over their eyes and jumping up on their desks. Miss Bigelow didn't scream, but you could tell she wanted to and was barely keeping herself in line. You could see in her eyes the war between screaming and staying calm so she could quiet those hysterical girls.
Funny thing about that. It was only the older town girls. The farm girls and the little girls didn't scream at all. To tell the truth, they were just as interested in studying the varmint as the boys. It was only the girls practicing to be young ladies who went berserk and threatened to expire. I'll never understand women. No, it's not the whole kit `n' kaboodle of the ladylike female race. Nobody beats my ma in the ladylike department, and she never once in my lifetime went silly over a snake or a mouse either. We have plenty of mice running through that rattletrap manse where we live. Ma just gets a broom and chases them back to their holes.
But I'm getting off the subject. Tom and Ned never got caught. Only Willie and me saw the whole thing, and we aren't squealers. Tom and Ned were well aware of this. It made them act even more superior to us than usual, which me and Willie could not tolerate. So we figured that the only thing we could do is think up something even more outrageous and get away with it. Only we'd be smarter than them. We'd not even let Tom and Ned see us. Then they wouldn't know for sure we'd done it. They'd just go crazy wondering over it.
See, if they knew for sure, then they'd have to think up something even worse and not let anybody but us know. And then Willie and me would be obliged to think up something still worse, and so on and so on until we were all four dead or too old to care, one or the other.
"Now, the hardest part," I explained to Willie, "is that we can't brag. Not by the flicker of the eyebrow, you understand?"
"No," he said. "How do you flicker an eyebrow?"
"It's a manner of speaking," I said, prim as a schoolmarm.
"Wal, why would I want to brag anyway?"
"You wouldn't, normally. But the thing ishuman nature being what it iswe're going to be fair busting with the desire to hint to the Weston boys that we were the ones who pulled this off."
The actual crime was easy to commit. On Monday, the twenty-ninth of May, which was the day before Decoration Day, we watched, hidden in the tall grass, while the Cramms' hired girl hung out the wash behind their house. She was careful, as all women are, to hang the bloomers and other unmentionables in between the other things, but we were watching sharp, and when we saw the Mabel-sized pink bloomers pegged to the line, we took note.
"Write it down, Private Beaner," I said. "Right between the brown skirt and the pink shirtwaist."
"Private? Who's private?"
"Ah, Willie, somebody's got to be private or it ain't a scouting mission."
"Then what are you, Robbie?"
I rather fancied cap'n or major, but I could tell from the look on Willie's face that neither of those was likely to go down too well. "Sergeant," I said. "The sergeant has the private write stuff down."
"I ain't got nothing to write with," he said grumpily.
"Pretend, Willie. Write it down in your head."
He gave me that kind of patient look he gives when I want to pretend we're fighting in a war. Well, can you blame me? I wasn't born when they fought the Great War to End the Oppression of Slavery, and when they were sending troops to avenge the Maine and free the Cubans from Spanish tyranny, I was only nine years old. I don't think there's ever going to be a war I can really fight in.
"I can't write nothing down in my head. My whole forehead's turned to granite trying to keep my blamed eyebrows from flickering."
I gave up. We waited without whispering until we saw the hired girl go out the door with her basket, headed for the meat market and the general store. We'd already made sure the family had gone off somewhere. That's why we picked Cramms'. We didn't have any grudge against Mabelno more grudge, that is, than we have against most girls. We crept down the hill, pinched just the one pair of bloomers, and tidied the line to cover the spot. The bloomers were still damp, but I carried them in my hand all the way up the hill to our secret place deep in the woodsan act which I considered fairly brave, but which Willie gave me no credit for at all.
Willie's and my place used to be someone's cabin, but the last owner left fifty or more years ago, probably headed west. In those days lots of people left Vermont, just up and deserted their hill farms, looking for an easier life on the plains. Woods have grown up now where pasture and fields had once been. It's a bit spooky, that tumbledown cabin. But once Willie and me stumbled on it, we knew it was the perfect place for us. We can hide away there from the Weston boys and anyone else that aggravates us. Sometimes we read dime novels there that Ma never wants to see the likes of around the manse. Sometimes we talk. Sometimes we just go there to do nothing but get away from stuff at home.
We have a lot to get away from, Willie and me. Willie's folks died when he was a baby, so he lives with his aunt Millie. She isn't really mean, and she's too arthritic to chase him up a mountain, but she does like to make the boy work around the house and garden. Willie even washes dishes. She gets cranky as an old hen when she thinks he's slacking off.
I don't have to do women's work. I have Ma and Beth, who's fifteen and practicing hard at being grown up. Then there's Letty, who's only five but who always loves to think she's helping. And ... Elliot. It's hard to tell you about Elliot. If you could see him ... But you can't. He's almost two years older than me and about a foot taller, but, well, Elliot's simple in the head. That's the best I can explain it.
One of the worst fights I ever had with the Weston boys was because they were picking on Elliot. It was right after church one Sunday. The grownups were hanging around chatting like usual. A bunch of us boys had gone over to the horse sheds to see the horses. The farmers' horses are pretty much old friends, since we see them Sunday after Sunday in the sheds, where they are waiting patiently for their owners to get out of church and get them home for dinner.
Willie and me were doing acrobatics on a shed door when over from the churchyard we heard Ned Weston say, "Hello, there, Elliot. How's tricks?" We knew he meant nothing but trouble, but Elliot loves everyone. He didn't know he was being picked on.
"Sing us a song, Elliot," says Tom.
"Yeah, big fellow," Ned chimes in. "Sing us a song!"
Me and Willie slid off the shed door and went to see what was happening. If your pa's the preacher, you know a lot of hymns, even if you're slow. Elliot started singing his favorite"What a Friend We Have in Jesus"only Elliot slides his words, so it comes out something like "Wha a fen we ha in Sheeshush." Elliot was singing along happily, and the Westons joined in, both of them shuffling their feet and walking around with their right shoulders lower than their left and copying Elliot's way of making his words, so the next line comes out "Aw our shins and grease to bear." They were holding their stomachs to keep from laughing.
Elliot was smiling away. Other boys don't usually play with him, and here was Tom and Ned Weston, the sons of the richest man in town, heaping all this attention on him, smiling and singing his favorite song along with him.
I walked up and whacked Ned Weston in the face. "Hey, you!" he yelled. Then his big brother, Tom, jumped in. They were both on me, knocking me to the ground. Willie would have jumped in, too, but I called him off. It was my fight, not his. The Westons probably would have beat me senseless, two on one like that, but Elliot stopped singing and started yelling for Pa.
Pa came running off the church porch and saved my life. I was not grateful. It just made the Westons feel even more superior that I had to be saved by my "big old papa." Pa waded into the fracas and hoisted me up right off the ground by the back of my shirt. There I hung with my legs dangling in the air. I could see his eyes flashing, and I thought for a minute he was going to wallop me. Instead he lets me down gentle. "Oh, Robbie," he says, "when are you going to learn to settle things with your head instead of your fists?"
At that point I could see the Westons doubled over trying not to laugh out loud in front of the preacher. Pa couldn't have humiliated me more if he'd yanked down my britches and paddled my bare bottom right there in the churchyard. I couldn't understand why he didn't leave me alone to fight my own fights. A boy has got to learn to take up for himself in this world. I couldn't walk away from a fight. It would ruin my reputation.
Besides, a lot of my fights in those days were because of Elliot. You'd think Pa would admire the fact that I was willing to get my nose bloodied for Elliot's sake. But no, he thought I should let those ignorant Westons call me a yellow-livered coward and never raise a finger. All because I was born to be his son.
Pa hates any kind of fighting. It's because he can remember the Great War, though just barely. His father fought in it. They were living in Massachusetts then. Pa says what he remembers is how much grieving the womenfolk did, and how, when his pa came home, everyone was laughing and crying at the same time. He says he couldn't understand, being only four years old, why his mother should be laughing and crying and all because of some stranger. It didn't make sense to him.
Pa started talking about all the pain and sorrow that the Civil War caused when everyone was yelling and hollering that President McKinley should hurry up and send troops to get the goldurned Spanish out of Cuba; Pa didn't like it one little bit. In fact, he said in church one Sunday right in the sermon that war was Hell, and he thought it broke the heart of God to see His children killing and maiming each other.
Deacon Slaughter rose up from his pew kind of slow like and marched down the aisle and clean out the door. Willie, who is my spy in the world at large, says that Deacon Slaughter told Mr. Weston that the Reverend Hewitt needed to learn a bit more about Hell before he went to throwing the term around. For once in my life I was inclined to agree with Deacon Slaughter.
Don't get me wrongmost days I really like my pa. I wouldn't trade him for anyone else's, even the Westons', who owns half of Leonardstown and has bought them both brand-new bicycles. But land o' Goshen, why did I have to be a preacher's boy?
It isn't just Pa. The whole town thinks they got a right to tell me how to behave. People just have unrealistic expectations if your pa happens to be a preacher. One: You are supposed to be cleanall the time, not just on Sundays. And Two: You are supposed to be good. I don't have a talent for eithernor wish to.
I wasn't the one wanted to be a preacher. It was Pa, and he's clean and good enough for eight or ten people. They should be plenty satisfied with that and not go laying impossible demands on his offspring.
Of course, Beth is clean and good in the way girls her age tend to be. Which makes her a pain in the neck to me and a joy and comfort to the rest of the world. No one's keeping score on Letty yet. She's still a baby to their way of thinking. Poor Elliot. I guess he's kind of in the baby category, too. So it is always and only me that gets the pursed lips and tut-tuts and "Robbie, you of all people! And your father a minister!"
All right, back to the problem of Mabel Cramm's bloomers. No one got caught. There was mighty speculation, as I think I've said, down at the livery stable. Neither Willie nor me was privy to those conversations, but I think I can assure you that our names never came up in that sniggering talk.
The ladies of Leonardstown were noisily appalled, and whatever their menfolk might have thought privately, there was a general agreement, at least among the members of our Congregational church, that it was yet another evidence of the creeping moral decay that was rotting America from the core like a worm in an apple. Previously, they had been able to look down their noses at the other forty-four states, but America's worm had invaded the Green Mountains of Vermont and crawled all the way into our beautiful little village.
In addition to the shocking affair of the flying bloomers, there was the rowdy crowd that hung around the livery stable. They weren't just talking horseflesh, that was plain. You don't do that much snorting and knee slapping discussing gait and coat and size of livery-stable mares and geldings.
And then there were the Italian stonecutters. Now, the Italians go to the Catholic church in Tyler if they go anywhere at all, and in my opinion that isn't any business of the old-time New England Protestant population. But while the pious folks were on the subject of wickedness, they started in on the Italian population as well. Those men were drinking something considerably harder than the local ciderand none of them even pretended it was for medicinal purposes. Everyone knew that certain of the Italian women brewed their own, so to speak. But in a state that enshrined prohibition as law, maybe it was high time the sheriff stopped looking the other way.
And getting closer to home, there was the current preacher at the Congregational church. Whether you were Methodist, Baptist, Unitarian, or nothing at all, you still looked to the tall white steeple on Main Street as a symbol of purity and piety come from Heaven straight down to earth. There was, it was noted, a certain lack of rigor in the current occupant. According to the going opinion, he was a good man, but he was far too easy on sin.
Then I had to go and make matters worse. I was sitting with Willie in the evening service. Ma knows it is a burden for me to have to go to church twice on Sundays, and Wednesday-night prayer meeting to boot, so sometimes she lets me sit with Willie, making me promise to behave. Willie's aunt's pew is right behind the Westons'. I was behaving, just like I promised, but fate intervened.
The church was stuffy as a coffin. What was I doing in church on such a night? My mind drifted miles away. I was a sweating private on the lines waiting for Johnny Reb to show the whites of his eyes over the rise. The rise being Mrs. Weston's back, which is about as broad as East Hill. Boy, it was hot. I pulled out one of the pew fans from the rack in front of me and begun to flap a little breeze toward my sweaty face. That was when I saw it. Right in the middle of the sermon, there was a large black spider crawling up that generous expanse of brown silk, heading for Mrs. Weston's high-necked collar.
I punched Willie with the fan, and we both watched fascinated to see how far the spider would get before Mrs. Weston knew it was there and what would happen if and when it got to the top of her collar. Well, what happened was it crept right up that stiff collar, teetered, and was about to get its balance and ruin all our fun. So I leaned over as if in prayer, and, delicate as a Civil War surgeon removing a bullet, put the edge of the fan under the spider's four lower legs and tipped it right down the back of Mrs. Weston's dress.
At first, Mrs. Weston just twitched a bit, but before long she began wiggling like a caterpillar when you tickle it with a stick. And the way she wiggled and pawed, you had to figure that the creature had made its way around to the front and was exploring the territory on the other side of the world. I tried to control myself, but before I knew it, a livery-stable-sized snort just popped right out of my mouth. That got Willie going and only made matters worse.
Suddenly I realized that there was silence where there should have been preaching. I felt it before I looked up. There standing at my elbow in the aisle was the tall form of my father. He wasn't saying a word. He was just looking at me. Nobody ever sobered up as fast as I did that night. Pa never said a thing. He just marched back up the aisle, climbed the stairs to the platform, and took up preaching where he left off, leaving my face as red as the side of a new-painted barn. While every eye was on Pa, Mrs. Weston seized the opportunity to escape down the aisle and out the door.
It doesn't make much sense to me even now, but that night I raced homethe manse is just up the hill behind the churchran up two flights of stairs to Elliot's and my bedroom, and climbed under the quilt. I guess I was hoping if Pa didn't see me right off, he'd forget the whole incident. It was Elliot, not Pa, who came looking for me.
"Oooo, Robbie, you in big trouble."
I stuck my head under the pillow. I was in no mood to deal with Elliot.
"You scare', Robbie?"
"No, I am not scare'."
"Den why you hidin'?"
I threw back the covers and jumped out of bed. "I'm not hiding, you dummy! Just go away and leave me alone, will you?" He stood there with his mouth open, looking more dumb than ever, which made me yell all the louder. "Get outta here," I said. "Take your stupid self out of my sight!"
"What is going on up here?" Pa was standing in the doorway. He's so tall, he has to stoop a little or bump his head on the doorjamb when he comes into our bedroom, which is under the eaves.
I shut up yelling pretty quick. He was staring at me something fierce, but I didn't want him to think I was as ashamed as I felt, so I made myself look him in the eyes.
He turned toward Elliot. "Elliot," he said quietly, "please go downstairs. I need to talk to Robbie a minute."
Elliot smiled his sweet silly smile. "'kay, Pa." Sometimes that smile could drive me near crazy.
Pa waited until Elliot had clumped down the stairs. "Well, Robbie," he said, "I don't know where to begin."
I just sniffed. I was still furious, though I couldn't have told you who I was mad at.
He waited a minute, but when he realized I wasn't going to say anything, he went on. "I'm less concerned about your behavior in church than I am about your behavior just now toward your brother."
I shrugged my shoulders. Nobody needed to tell me I shouldn't have yelled that way at Elliot. But I didn't want him saying so.
I guess he realized that it wasn't the time for a lecture on Elliot. "As for your behavior in church"
"I don't know why I always got to go to church"
"Because you're a member of this family."
"Nobody asked me about that."
"Oh, Robbie" I could tell he wanted to say more, but he was too exasperated and hurt to keep at it. "When you're ready to talk in a sensible fashion, I'll be in my study."
I showed him. I never went downstairs until the next morning.
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"Nourishing for mind and spirit both."Kirkus Reviews
"Paterson tells a multilayered coming-of-age story of loyalty, courage, and the enduring values of family. With warmth, humor, and her powerful yet plain style, Paterson draws empathetic and memorable characters. Readers share the anticipation and the joy of Robbie and his father as they welcome the 20th century at the book's end." School Library Journal, starred review
"Paterson captures the essence of an adolescent's fundamental questions of God and existence in this finely honed novel. . . . Once again placing universal conflict in a historical context, Paterson gives a compassionate, absorbing rendering of an adolescent boy trying to break free from social and religious constraints." Publishers Weekly, starred review
Meet the Author
Katherine Paterson's international fame rests not only on her widely acclaimed novels but also on her efforts to promote literacy in the United States and abroad. A two-time winner of the Newbery Medal (Bridge to Terabithia and Jacob Have I Loved) and the National Book Award (The Great Gilly Hopkins and The Master Puppeteer), she has received many accolades for her body of work, including the Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal, the Hans Christian Andersen Medal, the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, and the Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts, given by her home state of Vermont. She was also named a Living Legend by the Library of Congress. She served as the National Ambassador for Young People's Literature in 2010-2011.
Ms. Paterson is vice president of the National Children's Book and Literacy Alliance (www.thencbla.org), which is a not-for-profit education and advocacy organization. The NCBLA's innovative projects actively promote literacy, literature, libraries, and the arts. She is both an Alida Cutts Lifetime Member of the United States Board on Books for Young People (www.usbby.org) and a lifetime member of the International Board on Books for Young People (www.ibby.org).
She and her husband, John, live in Montpelier, Vermont. They have four children and seven grandchildren. For more information, visit www.terabithia.com.
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A Yale engineering graduate who quit a hedge-fund job last year, Schneider lives in Williamsburg and works on tech start-ups, including Rap Genius, where he published an annotated guide to Wedding Crunchers. Among the discoveries: Boarding-school references dropped sharply in the nineties, and 35-year-olds have appeared as frequently as 25-year-olds for close to a decade.
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1. Though met online has been happening for more than a decade, Facebook has vastly outpaced online-dating references.
2. Of the seven reasons I can think of to get married, love held a lead until money briefly overtook it.
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4. From Schneider's blog post: "Back in the early Reagan days, you were actually more likely to see a Republican mentioned in the weddings section than a Democrat," but the Democrats have been surging ever since.
Though Wedding Crunchers' data suggests that Yale and hedge fund remain desirable attributes for New York weddings, Schneider is single. "Would be lying if I didn't say that before publishing this I wondered how it would affect my chances," he told the Cut by e-mail. "But do you think girls are more or less inclined to go out with the guy who overanalyzes the NYT wedding section?" More inclined, I assured him. Everyone loves weddings.
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Ultimately, you're correct that the line will adjust automatically to the right levels. That doesn't mean that additional money cannot be gained by setting the starting line more appropriately.
For sure their goal should always be to set the most accurate opening line possible. But whether they do it with a model or with strict opinion (which if you think about it, is no doubt a model as well that only exists in that dealer's head) I thought was the debate.
In reality it has to be some combination of the two right? Opinion based on some fundamental principles.
I think eventually we will see models be used for hockey but I really don't think we are there yet. There is just too much that is not captured by the layman and advanced stats that exist today. And of the stuff that is captured even, a lot of it is not understood correctly/perfectly either.
Like I said, I've been working on my own NHL model for 3 years now. I feel like I've learned some interesting things from it but there are also such obvious, critical flaws to it that my head just "gets" but the model doesn't. And I can't tweak it to compensate for these things accurately. It can routinely spit out lines that are 20 cents off or something when my head spits out lines that coincide with the majority of openers.
If your friends can accurately model NHL hockey then thats very impressive (definitely possible, I feel I can eventually get there as well or I wouldn't have wasted so much time trying) but I feel like our brain can accurately process and sort out the available information better at this point (due to lack of enough good/comprehensive stats). The best approach then is probably based off a model but modify it based on your opinion, agree?
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Rounding out the list of things you shouldn't touch on a plane: The inside door handle of the restroom, the restroom faucet handles, the toilet flushing button, blankets and the toilet seat.
A college professor is using beer to inspire chemistry students.
University of Southern Maine professor Lucille Benedict told the Portland Press Herald it can be challenging to keep students engaged in chemistry, so she started using beer as a testing medium.
Benedict oversees the school's new Quality Assurance/Quality Control and Research Laboratory.
In a partnership with the Maine Brewers Guild, the lab will provide testing and training for breweries and brewmasters.
Students say the beer-testing lab allows them to use science to solve real-world problems. Students will focus on how a flawed brewing process can contaminate or ruin beer.
Classes for brewers begin in the fall.
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A small study is making big headlines, as the results suggest a possible link between specialized medical procedures and a precursor to what is believed to be Alzheimer's-related proteins.
The study, published in the scientific journal Nature, studied the brains of eight people who died of the rare brain disease, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. The patients had contracted CJD via contaminated tissue used in human growth-hormone treatment. The autopsy revealed that six of the eight brains had signs of amyloid-plaque formation, which is considered to be a precursor of Alzheimer's disease.
CJD is caused by an infectious protein known as a prion. One theory suggests that Alzheimer's disease may also be triggered by proteins that have gone rogue.
The presence of plaque in patients aged 36 to 51 is rare, and scientists involved in the study suspect that seeds of the amyloid protein may have transferred to the patients from the hGH injections they received, according to Nature.
If the results prove to be true after further study, it could have major implications in the surgical room. Specialized surgical tools and equipment might be required to undergo expensive decontamination procedures.
But skeptics warn that the study's sample size of just eight subjects is too small to draw any solid conclusions. Health experts encourage everyone to continue undergoing any medical procedures they've been advised to have.
Alzheimer's disease and related dementias affect approximately 47 million people worldwide, according to the Alzheimer's Association.
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Willow Smith is developing her own eclectic, unique sound and it suits her well. The singer debuts the D'artiste-produced "Rta," delivering lines about the ups and downs of young love and her quest for freedom.
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Willow Smith told her dad, Will, a while ago that she wanted to take some time off to just be 12. (Yes, she's still just 12!) however, her vacation ended with 'Summer Fling,' a track she made with producer/DJ MVSIC Fabrega as part of a collabo they're calling Melodic Chaotic.
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The opener page shows the Fifth District supe, who also goes by Pat, speaking with a KABC/Channel 7 Eyewitness News reporter in Trabuco Canyon. Residents received a letter from Orange County Public Works stating that the Wagon Wheel community's Christmas lights, which are anchored on multiple houses and suspended overhead, violate the county code and must come down by today.
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Nitrome, commonly known as Nitrome Limited, is a British independent game development company based in London. The company makes Flash-based games. Their games are recognizable by the pixel art design and cartoon like appearance, along with a jingle to the start of every game and the use of chiptune. Nitrome was originally started by Mat Annal and Heather Stancliffe, two graphic designers, intending to create games for mobile phones. Instead, the company began taking on commissions Internet-based flash games. Some of the games of Nitrome have characters which are inspired other characters from video games, tv shows, and others. Nitrome's games are published on their website and are often available to license on other websites such as Miniclip, MTV Arcade and Friv.
Nitrome's creation stemmed from a conversation between Mat Annal and Heather Stancliffe, in which Annal suggested that they make a game for mobile phones. Stancliffe was initially hesitant, but was persuaded that it could be a successful idea.[1] The temporary website for their upcoming project was first launched on April 3, 2005,[2] with a preview video of Chick Flick, their intended first game.[3] Since then, Nitrome has made 146 flash games, their 135th game being Turn-undead, released October 7, 2014, and are venturing into mobile phone and PC gaming, as their current flash games aren't providing enough revenue. In November 2011, Nitrome released their 100th game, Nitrome Must Die, in which players shoot enemies from the previous 99 games that Nitrome has made before Nitrome Must Die. Their 136th game is Endless Doves.[4] In 2015, Nitrome made history by releasing their 140th game, Fluffball, their unreleased game from 2007, and their 141st game, Silly Sausage in Meat Land, sequel to their 2011 game, Silly Sausage. Also in 2015, their 142nd game Cooped Up, was released,[5] followed by Green Ninja, Vault, Beneath the Lighthouse, and ultimately, their first published game, Ultimate Briefcase, in 2016.
The games made by the company are divided into four main categories. "Hearted"[6] are the games that have received the most hearts from the heart button upon every game, and are thus considered the most popular. "All Games"[7] is a list of all games produced by Nitrome, while "Multiplayer games"[8] are designed for more than one person to play at once. Last, Touchy, released in 2012, featured games that are playable on Nitrome's mobile phone app, Nitrome Touchy. Games can be in more than one category. On July 8, 2015, Nitrome announced that Nitrome Touchy was officially discontinued. All links and services related to Touchy were taken down. [9] Turn-Undead was the final Touchy game, released October 2014.
Nitrome has made games for MTV Arcade,[10] Candystand and Miniclip.
Most of the games are divided into levels (usually between 10 and 100), and also give the player the option to replay any level they have completed, even if they have lost. Some games also feature the concept of bosses.
In July 2009, Nitrome Limited released Twin Shot 2, their first game to use MochiCoins, a system allowing players to pay for extra content in browser games.[11] Mat Annal said that Nitrome were "trialling" and that they "don't intend to use it in every game".[12] They used MochiCoins again in B.C. Bow Contest, which they have updated twice. MochiCoins, however, were discontinued by Mochi Media, preventing Nitrome from using them in any more of their games.[13]
Since 2014, Nitrome's game development has focused on producing mobile games.
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Nitrome.com 1.0 is the first version of Nitrome.com. It was launched on April 5, 2005, and was small at the time. The website did not stay up long, as it was replaced by Version 1.5 in 2006, between 8 and 16 November.[14]
Nitrome 1.2[edit]
Nitrome 1.2 was a previous version of the Nitrome Limited website, With a slightly different game grouping, no "heart" system, and subtitled pictures instead of icons.
Nitrome 1.5[edit]
Nitrome 1.5 was an updated version of Nitrome 1.2; thinner icons and blog/shop added.
Nitrome 2.0[edit]
New features include: more content on the front page, RSS feeds and the introduction of Hearting, Sharing and Tweeting.
Nitrome 2.5[edit]
The current version, as of July 19, 2013. Nitrome accounts added.
- ^ "about us". Nitrome Limited. 2006-06-19. Archived from the original on 2005-04-06. Retrieved 2009-02-04.
One day Mat said to Heather: "Y'know all this web stuff's ok, but wouldn't it be great if we could just make whatever we wanted?" [...] "I don't think anyone's gonna give us free reign [sic] to do just do whatever we want!" [...] "Well, why don't we make a mobile phone game?"
- ^ "Web Page Launched". Nitrome Limited. 2005-04-03. Archived from the original on 2005-04-06. Retrieved 2009-02-04.
We've launched our temporary web page today.
- ^ "Chick Flick Video". Nitrome Limited. 2005-04-03. Archived from the original on 2005-04-06. Retrieved 2009-02-04.
Exclusive first showing of our soon-to-be-finished java mobile phone game.
- ^ http://www.nitrome.com/blog/articles/1192/
- ^ http://www.nitrome.com/blog/articles/1312/
- ^ "Nitrome - Hearted games".
- ^ "Nitrome - All Games".
- ^ "Nitrome - Multiplayer Games".
- ^ http://www.nitrome.com/blog/articles/1339/
- ^ "MTV Arcade".
- ^ Annal, Mat (2009-07-20). "Twin Shot 2: Good and Evil". Nitrome Limited. Retrieved 2009-07-20.
- ^ Annal, Mat (2009-06-25). "Twin Shot 2... more info". Nitrome Limited. Retrieved 2009-07-20.
- ^ Annal, Mat (2012-07-19). "Mochi Coins to be Discontinued!". Nitrome Limited.
- ^ "nitrome". Archived from the original on December 1, 2006. Retrieved August 6, 2012.