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Volume 119, Issue 1, January 2006
Level dependence of auditory filters in nonsimultaneous masking as a function of frequency119(2006); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.2141359View Description Hide Description
Auditory filter bandwidths were measured using nonsimultaneous masking, as a function of signal level between 10 and SL for signal frequencies of 1, 2, 4, and . The brief sinusoidal signal was presented in a temporal gap within a spectrally notched noise. Two groups of normal-hearing subjects were tested, one using a fixed masker level and adaptively varying signal level, the other using a fixed signal level and adaptively varying masker level. In both cases, auditory filters were derived by assuming a constant filter shape for a given signal level. The filter parameters derived from the two paradigms were not significantly different. At , the equivalent rectangular bandwidth (ERB) decreased as the signal level increased from SL, after which it remained roughly constant. In contrast, at , the ERB increased consistently with signal levels from SL. The results at 2 and were intermediate, showing no consistent change in ERB with signal level. Overall, the results suggest changes in the level dependence of the auditory filters at frequencies above that are not currently incorporated in models of human auditory filter tuning.
Auditory filter nonlinearity across frequency using simultaneous notched-noise masking119(2006); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.2139100View Description Hide Description
Psychoacoustic masking experiments have been widely used to investigate cochlear function in human listeners. Here we use simultaneous notched-noise masking experiments in normal hearing listeners to characterize the changes in auditory filter shape with stimulus level over the frequency range . At each frequency a range of fixed signal levels (SPL) and fixed masker levels (SPL spectrum level) are used in order to obtain accurate descriptions of the filter shapes in individual listeners. The notched-noise data for individual listeners are fitted with two filter shape models: a rounded exponential (roex) shape in which the filter skirt changes as a linear function of probe-tone level and the other, in which the gain of the tip filter relative to the filter tail changes as a function of signal level [Glasberg and Moore, J. Acoust. Soc. Am.108, 2318–2328 (2000)]. The parameters for these fitted models are then described with a simple set of equations that quantify the changes in auditory filter shape across level and frequency. Both these models fitted the data equally well and both demonstrated increasing tip-tail gain as frequency increased.
Sound source localization in real sound fields based on empirical statistics of interaural parametersa)119(2006); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.2139619View Description Hide Description
The role of temporal fluctuations and systematic variations of interaural parameters in localization of sound sources in spatially distributed, nonstationary noise conditions was investigated. For this, Bayesian estimation was applied to interaural parameters calculated with physiologically plausible time and frequency resolution. Probability density functions(PDFs) of the interaural level differences (ILDs) and phase differences (IPDs) were estimated by measuring histograms for a directional sound source perturbed by several types of interfering noise at signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs) between and . A moment analysis of the PDFs reveals that the expected values shift and the standard deviations increase considerably with decreasing SNR, and that the PDFs have non-Gaussian shape at medium SNRs. A analysis of the PDFs indicates that elevation discrimination is possible even at low SNRs in the median plane by integrating information across frequency. Absolute sound localization was simulated by a Bayesian maximum a posteriori (MAP) procedure. The simulation is based on frequency integration of broadly tuned "detectors." Confusion patterns of real and estimated sound source directions are similar to those of human listeners. The results indicate that robust processing strategies are needed to exploit interaural parameters successfully in noise conditions due to their strong temporal fluctuations.
Frequency discrimination of complex tones; assessing the role of component resolvability and temporal fine structurea)119(2006); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.2139070View Description Hide Description
Thresholds for discriminating the fundamental frequency (F0) of a complex tone, F0DLs, are small when low harmonics are present, but increase when the number of the lowest harmonic,, is above eight. To assess whether the relatively small F0DLs for in the range 8–10 are based on (partly) resolved harmonics or on temporal fine structure information, F0DLs were measured as a function of for tones with three successive harmonics which were added either in cosine or alternating phase. The center frequency was , and was varied by changing the mean F0. A background noise was used to mask combination tones. The value of F0 was roved across trials to force subjects to make within-trial comparisons. was roved by for every stimulus, to prevent subjects from using excitation pattern cues. F0DLs were not influenced by component phase for or 7, but were smaller for cosine than for alternating phase once exceeded 7, suggesting that temporal fine structure plays a role in this range. When the center frequency was increased to , performance was much worse for low , suggesting that phase locking is important for obtaining low F0DLs with resolved harmonics.
Factors affecting the use of noise-band vocoders as acoustic models for pitch perception in cochlear implants119(2006); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.2133391View Description Hide Description
Although in a number of experiments noise-band vocoders have been shown to provide acoustic models for speech perception in cochlear implants(CI), the present study assesses in four experiments whether and under what limitations noise-band vocoders can be used as an acoustic model for pitch perception in CI. The first two experiments examine the effect of spectral smearing on simulated electrodediscrimination and fundamental frequency (F0) discrimination. The third experiment assesses the effect of spectral mismatch in an F0-discrimination task with two different vocoders. The fourth experiment investigates the effect of amplitude compression on modulation rate discrimination. For each experiment, the results obtained from normal-hearing subjects presented with vocoded stimuli are compared to results obtained directly from CI recipients. The results show that place pitch sensitivity drops with increased spectral smearing and that place pitch cues for multi-channel stimuli can adequately be mimicked when the discriminability of adjacent channels is adjusted by varying the spectral slopes to match that of CI subjects. The results also indicate that temporal pitch sensitivity is limited for noise-band carriers with low center frequencies and that the absence of a compression function in the vocoder might alter the saliency of the temporal pitch cues.
Perception of amplitude modulation by hearing-impaired listeners: The audibility of component modulation and detection of phase change in three-component modulators119(2006); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.2139631View Description Hide Description
Two experiments were conducted to assess whether hearing-impaired listeners have a reduced ability to process suprathreshold complex patterns of modulation applied to a sinusoidal carrier. Experiment 1 examined the ability to "hear out" the modulation frequency of the central component of a three-component modulator, using the method described by Sek and Moore [J. Acoust. Soc. Am.113, 2801–2811 (2003)]. Scores were around 70–80% correct when the components in the three-component modulator were widely spaced and when the frequencies of the target and comparison different sufficiently, but decreased when the components in the modulator were closely spaced. Experiment 2 examined the ability to hear a change in the relative phase of the components in a three-component modulator with harmonically spaced components. The frequency of the central component, , was either 50 or . Scores were about 70% correct when the component spacing was , but decreased markedly for greater spacings. Performance was only slightly impaired by randomizing the overall modulation depth from one stimulus to the next. For both experiments, performance was only slightly worse than for normally hearing listeners, indicating that cochlear hearing loss does not markedly affect the ability to process suprathreshold complex patterns of modulation.
Horizontal localization with bilateral hearing aids: Without is better than with119(2006); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.2139653View Description Hide Description
This paper studies the effect of bilateral hearing aids on directional hearing in the frontal horizontal plane. Localization tests evaluated bilateral hearing aid users using different stimuli and different noise scenarios. Normal hearing subjects were used as a reference. The main research questions raised in this paper are: (i) How do bilateral hearing aid users perform on a localization task, relative to normal hearing subjects? (ii) Do bilateral hearing aids preserve localization cues, and (iii) Is there an influence of state of the art noise reduction algorithms, more in particular an adaptive directional microphone configuration, on localization performance? The hearing aid users were tested without and with their hearing aids, using both a standard omnidirectional microphone configuration and an adaptive directional microphone configuration. The following main conclusions are drawn. (i) Bilateral hearing aid users perform worse than normal hearing subjects in a localization task, although more than one-half of the subjects reach normal hearing performance when tested unaided. For both groups, localization performance drops significantly when acoustical scenarios become more complex. (ii) Bilateral, i.e., independently operating hearing aids do not preserve localization cues. (iii) Overall, adaptive directional noise reduction can have an additional and significant negative impact on localization performance.
Distortion product otoacoustic emission (DPOAE) in tinnitus patients119(2006); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.2141297View Description Hide Description
The aim of this study was to determine the effect of tinnitus (experiment I) and the combined effect of tinnitus and sensorineural hearing loss (experiment II) on the distortion product otoacoustic emission (DPOAE) for two age groups of tinnitus patients. Tinnitus patients with normal earing, along with normal-hearing control subjects, participated in experiment I. They were divided into two age groups, below 50 and above 50 years. Experiment I showed that the DPOAE levels in the tinnitus patients were lower than those in the normal-hearing (nontinnitus) subjects. The differences depended on the frequency and the age of the patients, suggesting the confounding influence of presbyacusis. The second group of tinnitus patients with increasing and notch-like hearing loss participated in experiment II. They were also divided into two age groups, below 50 and above 50 years. The data from experiment II showed that DPOAE activity well reflects the increasing and notch-like hearing loss functions up to about 40 dB HL. The effect of age on the DPOAE level was clearly noted only for the tinnitus patients with clinically normal-hearing thresholds and was ambiguous for the tinnitus patients with hearing loss.


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Dec 20, 2012
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Dec 20, 2012
Himachal Results Live: 'Internal problems not Congress cause of defeat'
Most post-poll surveys gave a clear thumb down to the BJP, saying its tally would be well below the 34 mark in the 68-member assembly. #counting #Himachal Elections 2012 #Prem Dhumal
Dec 20, 2012
Himachal results: Prem Dhumal concedes defeat
Dhumal today won from the Hamirpur seat defeating his nearest Congress rival Narinder Thakur by a margin of over 9,500 votes. #counting #Prem Kumar Dhumal #Himachal Elections 2012
Dec 20, 2012
Himachal slaps a surprise on the BJP
The Congress, hobbled on many fronts, never looked in a position to snatch a victory. #Congress #BJP #PoliticsDecoder #Himachal Elections 2012
Dec 20, 2012
Sonia Gandhi to decide party's CM in Himachal: Virbhadra Singh
As initial trends indicated a Congress victory in Himachal Pradesh, party veteran Virbhadra Singh said that he had put in his "best efforts" in the polls and it was for Sonia Gandhi to decide the party's Chief Minister. #Sonia Gandhi #Virbhadra Singh #counting #Himachal Elections 2012 #Congress in Himachal
Dec 20, 2012
Sonia to decide Himachal Pradesh CM: Birendra Singh
The Congress leader said iton the eve of the poll results in Himachal Pradesh on Wednesday when asked who will be made the chief minister by the party if it wins. #Congress #counting #Himachal Elections 2012 #Birendra Singh
Dec 20, 2012
HP polls: Gap between polling day, counting cost Rs 4 cr
The long gap of 46 days, between 4 November polling for Himachal Assembly and date of counting on 20 December, has caused an additional expenditure of Rs 4 crore on security of Electronic Voting Machines, state Chief Electoral Officer Narinder Chauhan #NewsTracker #EVM #counting #Himachal Elections 2012 #Narinder Chauhan
Dec 17, 2012
Post-poll survey: It's touch-and-go in Himachal Pradesh
In neck and neck contest Congress has the edge. #BJP #PoliticsDecoder #Prem Kumar Dhumal #Himachal Elections 2012 #Comgress
Dec 17, 2012
Concerned Advani urges EC to look into gap between voting, counting day
"In Gujarat, electors and candidates won't have to wait for too long a period as the results would be out after two days. But my concern is for the voters and candidates in Himachal Pradesh," Advani said. #NewsTracker #LK Advani #Gujarat Elections 2012 #Himachal Elections 2012
Dec 17, 2012
Congress marginally ahead in Himachal dead heat: C-Voter
A C-Voter exit poll shows that the Congress lost its early lead towards the closing stages, but may still manage to pip the BJP in seat count. #Congress #BJP #Exit polls #Himachal Elections 2012 #C-Voter

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Jun 30, 2015
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Aug 21, 2014
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Aug 07, 2014
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Apr 23, 2013
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Apr 23, 2013
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Apr 19, 2013
NGO seeks ban on 'Ek Thi Daayan'
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Apr 18, 2013
Hindi cinema only part of my acting career: Konkona Sen Sharma
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Church officials throughout this state got an unpleasant surprise this Christmas season. They were awakened to the news that unless their places of worship are equipped with sprinkler systems, their tradition of trimming natural cut Christmas trees is at odds with the International Fire Code adopted by the state more than four years ago. This state should consider following the lead of the state of Virginia, which has exempted places of worship from the natural cut tree ban.
State Fire Marshall John Reich told our reporter that a "common sense" approach could still allow the use of natural cut trees rather than forcing congregations to turn to the artificial variety. He said there is some latitude in enforcement, particularly involving historic buildings, suggesting, for example, that local fire departments could train ushers in the use of fire extinguishers.
But our survey of code enforcement officials for major fire departments in the Charleston area indicated a general reluctance to sanction the use of natural cut trees absent a change in the code. While there's no indication that local officials plan to make a church-by-church search for natural cut trees, several officials said that if such trees were observed in churches without sprinklers, they would be deemed in violation. In fact, Charleston's chief code inspector told us he doesn't think the law allows natural cut trees in churches without sprinklers even if they aren't trimmed with lights.
The International Fire Code prohibition against natural cut trees extends to most gathering places without sprinklers, from churches to motels to shopping malls. Further, candles and open flames may not be used near decorative vegetation and artificial decorative vegetation must be flame resistant or retardant.
Our story last week was spurred by news that the South Carolina Synod, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, had advised officials of its more than 160 churches of the little-known code provision. When the code section came to light in Virginia several years ago, the public outcry resulted in two legislative amendments. That code now stipulates that natural cut trees "shall be permitted in places of worship." It also allows the trees in apartments that are part of a complex.
While a justification cited for the IFC ban on natural cut trees notes some 400 fires annually are attributed to Christmas trees, a spokesperson told us the office has no specific information on whether any of those fires involve church Christmas trees — which generally are lit only during services. A Virginia state fire official couldn't recall any Christmas tree fires in churches in his state during the decade he's been involved in fire safety.
Charleston Sen. Glenn McConnell, president pro tempore of the Senate, was as surprised as many church officials to find that the state has a ban on real trees in places of worship without sprinklers and plans to take action early next year to legalize them in all churches once again. Further, he said, the fact that the ban is in place speaks to the need to examine every section of the IFC, which has been adopted in 41 states. The IFC has no statistics on how many states have exempted churches from the natural cut tree ban.
One Virginia official suggested to us a temporary way for churches without sprinkler systems to have the real thing this year. The code, he pointed out, doesn't prohibit the use of trees that still have their root systems intact.
One obvious permanent compromise would be to allow cut trees in churches without sprinklers as long as the decorations don't include anything potentially flammable, including lights.
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Every once in awhile, I just get a hare-brained notion. Today's was, why do we use a central website for doing internet searches at all? Why Google?
Consider the success of the Planetary Society's distributed SETI project, and the distributed computing architecture that resulted from it. Consider the success of swarming download technology like BitTorrent. Consider how simple a basic web spider could be. Consider the efficiency of spidering networks locally. Consider the architecture of DNS.
See a pattern?
What if we replaced the concept of a search engine site with a search engine protocol? What if we ran small spidering operations on thousands of sites around the world instead of putting a massively parallel supercomputer in one room somewhere to do it? The individual spiders would be intelligent applications that learned their immediate environment, and then shared that data with others. Each person using the software could send queries into it, and it would propagate up through a series of spiders to find the best sources of information on the subject.
Probably, you'd still need central indexes somewhere. But what if the index servers where run by lots of people, and not just one company?
It would be a whole new architecture, of course, and there's probably some weaknesses to it, but the idea of a peer-to-peer based search network with peer applications sharing both the indexing and querying load with each other does seem feasible -- after all, distributed computing is able to capture more computing power more cost-effectively than just about any supercomputer architecture, so the power to do it is probably there.
Makes me wonder if someone is already building it.
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City misses out on Sunday's rain showers Cobb said.
So in essence, he said, radar pictures can be deceiving when you are looking at a line of storms in Deaf Smith County that are moving toward Amarillo.
"It's like looking at a group of clouds at a distance. They can look more numerous than what they are," Cobb said. "So it has nothing to do with the ability or inability of Amarillo getting any rain."
The city does have another chance for rain today and through Friday, Cobb said.
"Tonight looks like we're calling for a 40 to 50 percent chance for storms," Cobb said, adding that the storms will be more numerous in the evening.
Changing weather patterns will help Amarillo's chances of rain this week, Cobb said.
"This is really typically a late summer/early fall pattern. Once they (storms) develop in the mountains, the winds blow them this way and the winds are more favorable for them to sustain themselves," Cobb said. "(This weather pattern is) more favorable for widespread coverage of rain."
Cobb said when the storms form and move this way expect them to move to the east and southeast.
Today's high is expected to flirt with triple digits again and tonight's low will be 69, Cobb said.
The trace of rainfall brings Amarillo precipitation to 0.70 inches for July. Normal precipitation for July is 0.83 inches, Beams said.
Rainfall for the year is below normal with just 7.54 for this year as compared to normal precipitation of 10.07, he said.
The dry conditions have been blamed for fires around the area. Firefighters have been battling flames at Palo Duro Canyon for several days.
Because of dry conditions, Amarillo's voluntary alternate-day watering plan remains in effect.
Amarilloans used 60 million gallons of water Friday, when the voluntary watering ban applies to everyone. On Saturday, when even-numbered addresses may water, usage soared to 76.5 million gallons, according to figures provided by Emmett Autry, Osage Treatment Plant superintendent. On Sunday, when odd-numbered addresses could water, usage was 66 million gallons.
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©2009 Jordan Belfort; (P)2009 Blackstone Audio, Inc.
"His new memoir is graphic....Still a hustler, still a salesman - and also a hell of a writer." (Kirkus Reviews)
"OK...if all you want is ice cream."
On the up side this is good listen that should keep your interest. Narrator Ray Porter gives a solid performance on a book well written, but I couldn't help thinking that the author was better suited to writing soap operas or red dress novels. I assume Belfort actually did write it, though it is a bit strange that none of it got written during all those months in prison he spent in prison. The style is different from Belfort's previous book; less self loathing but even more self absorbed which is why you might get annoyed if you prefer hearing about facts more than you prefer hearing about Belfort's inner conflicts. If your main interest doesn't center on the 5 or 6 hours Belfort actually devotes to the securities business you might enjoy all 16+ hours. Otherwise you might wish, as I did, wish that broadband and cheap data storage had not put an end to the abridged audiobook. The rest of the time you'll hear mostly about Belfort's women, Belfort's substance abuse, Belfort's women, Belfort's kids and Belfort's women. So if what you want is lusty entertainment you'll get a healthy dose of it from this ex ice cream vendor. It might even make good screneplay for the casually interested and the underinformed.
Unfortunately there was and there still is a much more serious side to the whole business. Many of us who watched intently while ostentatious brokers slugged it out with over zealous regulators until the wolves, blue eyed devils and high flyers were removed from the equation can't help but notice that not only have markets tumbled but they now seem to lie at the beckonned call of influences with a much lower profile that may be far more sinister. Ones that use new found connectivity to cut like a dagger. We know that markets are supposed to stimulate competition and promote new business activity but we watch as markets keep doing exactly the opposite. Sadly, we will not overcome such problems by waiting for the ice cream vendor.
"Loved both the Wolf books fascinating"
I might especially the business parts and all the information about what it took to prosecute him.
Riveting on many levels, amazing story well written, well narrated, honest funny cautionary tale
Too many to choose , but liked how he got off of drugs, and the way he made his company successful his relationships.. W business friends and people trying to nail him, .hedonistic parts not so much...hope he's learned to look beyond the surface in his choices of women...
Yes, but I rationed myself
Read both books!
"The change in narrators is unbearable."
Ray Porter sounds incredibly dull compared to Eric Meyers. I can't even get through the first chapter, which is such a disappointment. Eric brought the character to life in an incredible way. It makes me want to return the book, which I probably will.
"Same book!!!"
It's practically the same exact book as the other one I already bought and listened to. what a rip off
"Great second part to the story"
After reading the first book a few years ago and then seeing the movie I wanted to know more about what had happened. Belfort does a great job in the details and you can close your eyes and imagine exactly what he is describing.
For me this audiobook was all about Ray Porter, I'm imagine the way he read it is how Jordan is. He brought the story to life.
Because of him now I'm buying other books that he has read.
"He is pond scum but likeable pond scum"
The author is a likable dirt bag and the narration is great! The author's nicknames for people are hilarious.
"I laughed a lot. Learned a little ."
I enjoyed the tone and style. The content was a blatant window into the lack of morality existent when people suddenly reach a powerful position. it was also motivating to see that we can all achieve wealth through smart a d hard work.... oh and the system is crooked as hell.
"So much better than the movie"
If you've watched the movie you've seen nothing yet if the Wolf. This is the work to know his humanity and genius through.
"Definitely worth the read"
this was great. I wish it had some more information about the prison stay and his life after.
love books,cats,computers,information
"Decadent w/midget"
The narrator Ray Porter is outstanding. Filled with stockbroker debauchery. Ah, gotta love Wall Street.
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The price of silver has closed higher (or no change) for the past 13 trading days, according to data from the London Bullion Market Association.
The previous record, using the data which goes back to 1968, was in 1989, where the price of silver went from $5.27 on November 8 to through November 27 to $5.80 on November 24. That was 12 consecutive trading days closing higher (or no change).
The 1989 record was almost broken in 2010, when there were 11 straight trading days where the closing price did not fall.
Surprisingly, of the past 13 trading days where silver not closed down, gold has closed down 5 times. So this pricing anomaly is unique to silver.
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Well, I congratulate them on their choice of desktop environments :) but their distro choice leaves a lot to be desired ;)
So if someone is intelligent and fully capable of running Debian or whatever idealistic nonsense you're running then their brain will explode if they install Ubuntu for the ease of use?
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Wests Tigers beat North Queensland Cowboys on a wet and wild Friday night
- From: The Daily Telegraph
- May 25, 2013
ON a wet and miserable night at Leichhardt, they celebrated like it was the 2005 grand final all over again.
But for inspirational skipper Robbie Farah, last night's thrilling 22-20 win over the Cowboys felt more like the weight of the world had been lifted from his shoulders.
All season, Farah has played his guts out for the Tigers.
But after finally breaking the record seven-match losing streak last night, Farah offered up a piece of his heart.
Asked how it felt to be heading into Origin camp on Monday after a win, he said: "To be honest, I have been thinking about it all week, even though we had this game.
"Even though I have been happy with my form for the whole year, you kind of start to doubt yourself and I found in the last couple of weeks I started to doubt if I was going as good as I thought."
But last night you couldn't question his effort, nor that of any of his teammates.
Let's leave the controversy surrounding the video refereeing decisions for a moment and look at what this win means for a club that has been under the pump all year.
Aaron Woods, Adam Blair, Benji Marshall.
They all chipped in their own way. In the end it was a spectacular try to 19-year-old winger David Nofoaluma that proved the difference in the dying minutes but there were stories all over the park - and the good and bad of it all depended on who you support.
If you were a Cowboys fan you have every right to be blowing up today - which is what you would imagine Neil Henry will be doing with referees boss Daniel Anderson after four contentious video refereeing decisions.
But for the Tigers it was about relief.
Woods busted his gut up front in a late bid for Origin inclusion while Blair stepped up after a week of intense criticism. Even before the game Blair copped it from his own crowd when the Leichhardt faithful booed him as the ground announcer read out the teams. But after the final hooter sounded you couldn't silence the cheers.
And you had to feel happy for Mick Potter. Asked how he felt at full-time, Potter dead-panned like he was completely drained of emotion.
"I was relieved but I was real happy for the players," he said. "It was a real determined effort. I was happy for them and happy for the crowd and relieved for myself."
And he reckons it was the type of win that could change their season. They have the bye next weekend and the Panthers follow Origin on Sunday week.
"It could launch us the other way where we could win a few on the back of that," he said. "If we can keep that team work and that want. You can't buy that sort of stuff. It is something that is either there or it is not and it was there tonight. The momentum from that will be fantastic."
As for his captain, he couldn't praise him enough.
"I think he has probably done 60-odd tackles," Potter said of Farah. "He carried the ball, kicked the ball. He would be the best hooker in the game. The way he is playing is phenomenal. He is going to be great for NSW. His work rate, you can't buy that."
For the Cowboys Johnathan Thurston couldn't have done more to get his team home, playing a hand in two tries and having two contentious decisions turned back by the video referee. All up, there were four that will come under scrutiny with the video referee over-ruling the on field referee on three occasions.
The whole point of getting rid of the benefit of the doubt call was to empower the on-field referee to make a decision.
"We owed it to the fans," victorious skipper Farah said.
"They stuck solid even though we have been pretty disappointing in the last few months.
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The hilarious opening of Almost does little to prepare either the reader or the narrator, Sophy Chase, for the drama of what is to come. Almost divorced, Sophy is in bed with her new lover — an art dealer and father of four young children — when the police call her with shocking news. Her almost ex-husband, Will, has died suddenly on the Massachusetts
The hilarious opening of Almost does little to prepare either the reader or the narrator, Sophy Chase, for the drama of what is to come. Almost divorced, Sophy is in bed with her new lover — an art dealer and father of four young children — when the police call her with shocking news. Her almost ex-husband, Will, has died suddenly on the Massachusetts island where she left him just months before. Dazed and grief-stricken, Sophy takes off at once for Swansea Island, hurled back into a life and family — her husband's grown twin daughters and their prickly mother — she had intended to leave behind.
In the tension-filled days that follow, Sophy's past and present collide as she struggles to find out how her husband died, what role she might have had in the sudden disappearance of her boyfriend's ten-year-old daughter, and how she can maintain her equilibrium. The gulf between the island's summer people and its year-rounders is brought vividly to life in the process, as is the particular beauty of a setting that resembles Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard.
A story about starting over and looking back, about the pain of staying and the consequences of leaving, and about a woman's longing for children, Almost presses us to wonder how much responsibility we bear for other people's happiness — and who exactly we are when we're in limbo. By this riveting novel's end, Sophy has it all figured out — almost.
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- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Publication date:
- 06/28/2002
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- 272
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- 5.50(w) x 8.25(h) x 0.63(d)
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Chapter One
A High Note
I have this boyfriend who comes to visit me it's mostly a sexthing. Unless I visit him, in which case it's mostly a babysittingthing. I'm not sure which turns me on more. You don't think ofBritish Jews, if you happen to know any and I didn't until DanielJacobs as world-class lovers, but he must be an exception, or itcould be the antidepressants he takes, which not only keep the bluesat bay, but orgasms too. In Daniel's case, for, oh, forty-fiveminutes, give or take a few. My friend Henderson calls him the BionicMan.
That's how I'd have begun this story if I'd sat down to writeit two months ago, instead of now. I'd have put it firmly in thepresent tense, the intense present, a time that felt electric to meand that I know I don't want to part with yet. Two months ago, thestory would have been all about the sweet madness and the math. Andwhy not? When the numbers are in this range, you feel some obligationto history to keep a record. Remember that old Irving Wallace novelThe Seven Minutes, about what goes through this woman's mind in theseven minutes of intercourse? Not one reviewer griped, Seven? That'sit? Not one of them said, Irving, you sure this isn't autobiography?
Without my telling him, the doorman knows not to buzz me ifpackages, even groceries, arrive after he's seen dashing Daniel comeupstairs. Phone messages on my machine pile up as thickly as pinkWhile You Were Out slips impaled on an upright skewer. I always turnoff theringer on the phone and mute the voices on the machine,incoming and outgoing, so that we're not distracted. Or bombarded. Myalmost-ex sometimes calls, in tears, to say he wants me back, and myeditor, practically in tears, to remind me that my novel based on thelife of Lili Boulanger is budgeted for this year and I am elevenmonths late. And my other editor, a guy I call the Eighth Deadly Sin,who tries to tempt me to ghost another celebrity autobiography. He isa twenty-seven-year-old manic depressive with his own imprint whohired me to write the life story of a daytime TV personality, which Ifinished in three months and is about to be published without my nameon it, thank God.
As book-writing goes, other people's autobiographies arechild's play. You're handed the central character, the dramatic highsand lows, the bittersweet, inspirational ending, a deadline thatleaves no room for writer's block, and money, real money. Enough toleave my husband, Will O'Rourke, and dog Henry, move back to NewYork, and live for a while in this studio-with-alcove furnishedsublet in Greenwich Village with two walk-in closets, galley kitchen,central air, and a look of Pier One exoticism on the cheap. Anabundance of wicker, batik, cotton throw rugs, and bayberry-scentedcandles that I often light when Daniel leaves.
The other people I don't want disturbing us are my mother,whose memory is on the fritz, and who sometimes calls to ask how oldI was when my father left, and my best gay friend, Henderson, whosemessages I love, except when they're broadcast into the boudoir, asthis one was on an overcast afternoon: "Sophy, I trust you're notpicking up the phone because you and Daniel are having one of thosemarathon sessions. Hi, lovebirds. Would you believe I lost the nameof that guy who does interventions again? My birth father wasabsolutely blotto last night at Così fan tutte, and my wickedstepmother and I have decided it's time to send in the Eighty-secondAirborne. I hope this is a quickie, because I really need to talk toyou before the sun goes down."
Since I moved back to the city in March, my life often feelssurreal and overloaded, like an electrical extension cord with toomany attachments, on the verge of blowing a fuse. Henderson claimsI'm suffering from what Jack Kerouac called "the great mad joy youfeel on returning to New York City," though I think it's the genericgreat mad joy of jettisoning a tired old life for a shiny new one.Some days I'm Gene Kelly doing his waterlogged soft-shoe and singin'in the rain, happy again. On more difficult days, I'm Dorothy, wide-eyed at the phantasm of Oz but terrified I'll never find my way home,or never have another home to find my way to. Being able to focuscompletely on Daniel for several hours at a stretch keeps me fromgoing off the deep end. Or maybe maybe Daniel is the deep end, andwe are a couple of ordinary junkies who don't even know we have aproblem. You forget, being married, that sex can take up so manyhours of the day.
A quickie in Daniel's book is half an hour, and never mindforeplay, never mind the nerves on the back of my neck, the world ofwhispering and slowness. Daniel's cut-to-the-chase is an acquiredtaste, I know, but now that I've got it, I'm not sure I want to goback to the evolved, sensitive-guy approach. When I told my bestwoman friend, Annabelle, that on my birthday Daniel and I were at itfor forty-three minutes according to the digital clock on mymicrowave, which I can see in certain positions from the bed acrossthe room Annabelle said, "That's a very good birthday present,Sophy." Afterward he gave me another present, a framed gelatin printof a photo of my beautiful, sad-eyed Lili Boulanger he had an artdealer colleague in Paris track down, wrapped in wrinkled Pocahontasgift paper. Then we staggered to his house at the end of WaverlyStreet, stopping at Balducci's and Carvel to pick up dinner for hisfour Vietnamese orphans, Tran, Van, Vicki, and Cam, two boys and twogirls.
Of course they're not really orphans, because Daniel is theirlegal father, but so far they have lost two mothers apiece, theVietnamese women who bore them and Daniel's wife, Blair, who is, asit says on all those old tombstones, Not Dead Only Sleeping, in anursing home on the North Fork of Long Island, with a spot-on view ofa meadow, a salt marsh, and the daily sunrise, none of which she isever likely to lay eyes on again.
Daniel explained all of this to me over coffee, days after Ihad moved back to the city and we met at the gay-lesbian-all-welcomeAA meeting in the gay-lesbian-all-welcome neighborhood where we live.But by all welcome, they don't only mean boring straight people likeDaniel and me; they mean cross-dressers, transsexuals, and asurprising number of people who haven't made up their minds. He and Iended up there separately and by accident, thinking it wasnondenominational, but we stayed because, story for story, it's thebest theater in New York, a darkly inspirational, Frank Capra-in-dragmovie that could be called It's a Wonderful Life One Day at a Time.It's also a place where a man telling his life story can say, "Duringthat period, which went on for five years, I was so busy drinking I mean, honey, I was taking Ecstasy as a mood stabilizer that Iforgot to meet men and have sex, which brings us to Fire Island," andseventy-five people will howl with sympathetic laughter.
Daniel and I innocently sat next to each other, and heinvited me out after for coffee at Dean & DeLuca on Eleventh Street.I was still thinking about the speaker at the meeting whose name wasRobert S., and who wore a platinum pageboy wig and a chartreuse DKNYminiskirt and said to us, "Girls" though I was the only one in theroom "I am waiting for God to work her magic," and I suppose I waswaiting myself. That's what made me ask Daniel, at the start of ourfirst date as I began to take inventory of all the ways heappeared different from my gray-haired, salty-looking husband where he stood on God.
"Off to the side," he answered, "quite a way. But here I am,knee-deep in drunks who talk about the Almighty as if he lives nextdoor. It's a lot for an Englishman to sign up for. We have a longtradition of drinking ourselves to death quietly and all alone. Thenagain, this wasn't my idea." Daniel had the look of a youthful TomWolfe, long-limbed, clean-shaven, wearing a suit I didn't know thenwas an Armani; and there was not a strand of gray in his fine brownhair. He might have been my age, mid-forties, or a few years younger.
"Whose idea was it?"
"My physician advised me three years ago that I'd die inshort order if I didn't quit. And what about you? Where do you standon God?"
I said that for the first ten years I went to meetings, I hada difficult time overcoming my godless Unitarian upbringing, but inthe last six months, I found myself leaning in another direction,dispensing with some of my skepticism. I wasn't a practicingUnitarian any longer, I told him; I considered myself lapsed. Tryingthat out for the first time, the "lapsed." Daniel laughed out loud.But I wanted to play it for laughs; I was flirting like crazy. Ihadn't slept with anyone but my husband for the ten years of ourmarriage, plus the two years before, and I wasn't leaving anything tochance.
"And what's at the core of a lapsed Unitarian's beliefsystem?" he asked.
"Nothing to speak of, so there's room for reconsideration,but not much motivation for it. What about you?"
"I'm Jewish," he said, "but in the English style, sort ofhalf a Jew, as if it were only one of your parents, and you're notcertain whether to take it or leave it."
"What's the other half, in your case?"
"Pure capitalist. I come from a long line of merchants. Furand microchips. My great-grandfather was furrier to the czar. Myfather was the last furrier in London to move away from the East Endwhen the Bangladeshis moved in. He went to Golders Green in 1962 andsold dead animals until the PETA people threw a can of fuchsia painton my mother's full-length sable, which coincided roughly with thediscovery of the microchip. He and my older brothers are computerconsultants to the Queen. They have the lucrative gift of being ableto endure long hours of bowing and scraping. I'm the youngest of foursons and, some say, the family rebel. Instead of software, I peddlepaintings."
In AA, of course, you are not supposed to tell anyone yourlast name, but Daniel blithely told me his. I knew it from going togalleries during all the years I lived in New York and reading artreviews in the Times during all the years I didn't.
A cappuccino or two later, we were swapping infertilitystories like girlfriends, by way of explaining how he ended up withfour imports and I ended up with no offspring at all, except thisgryphon-like dog Henry, whom I had left with my husband until I gotsettled. I didn't tell Daniel that night that Henry had been Will'spresent to me when I quit trying to get pregnant. "I still carryaround a picture of him, ugly as he is."
"Your husband?" Daniel said, visibly startled.
"The dog."
And I didn't tell Daniel about the immense sadness that hadmade me stop trying to have a baby. It was our first date, after all,and I wanted him to think my past was safely behind me, buried likenuclear waste, in airtight containers, even though I'd walked out onit only a handful of days earlier. Instead, I entertained Daniel withstories of my test-tube encounters with Green-Blue, the code name forthe nuclear physicist at the California genius sperm bank I hadwanted to be the father of my child, after it became clear thatWill's sperm motility wasn't what it had been when he'd fathered mytwo grown, soon-to-be-ex stepdaughters.
"Green-Blue is six-one, IQ of one fifty-six, and the father,as of two years ago, of thirty-one children of lesbian mothers andstraight single women scattered across the fault lines of SouthernCalifornia. They Fed Exed me the stuff in tanks of liquid nitrogen.But I ovulate funny. It was like waiting for three cherries to comeup on a slot machine. And my husband was convinced that the onlysperm donor in the joint was the skaggy-looking guy who ran thebusiness and called me at seven in the morning mind you, that'sfour A.M. in California to say, 'Sophy, I have to know, is yourtemperature going up or down?'"
Daniel told me that he and Blair had done the temperaturebusiness, test tubes, and Pergonal injections. She had even made anappointment with a faith healer named Falling Rain Drop, who insistedthey participate in a fertility dance in Washington Square Park everyday at dawn for a week. Daniel refused.
The years of trying piled up, and Blair, pushing forty-three,grew impatient and fearful. In one fell swoop, they adopted threesiblings, two boys and a girl, ages approximately six, four, and two,who had been living in an orphanage in Hoa Binh for six months, and afourth child, Vicki, whose sad face in a photograph Blair could notresist. They nearly emptied out the orphanage and filled every roomin the narrow, turn-of-the-century brownstone Blair had inheritedfrom her stockbroker father.
Adopting all those children, you could say she was Mia Farrowminus Woody, and now, poor lamb, poor Blair, she is Sunny von Bulowminus the millions. Not that they are destitute; Daniel's two artgalleries are doing record business, despite his long afternoonabsences. He was a willing partner in the international quest forchildren, and he is a devoted father, though he is often sleep-deprived and frequently flummoxed, as when his five-year-old said tohim, "If you don't buy me a Beanie Baby, I'll say the F word all thetime, starting right now."
He wants me to think and seems to believe himself and itmay be the truth that his essential nature is now subsumed by thecondition of being overwhelmed. "I used to have a personality," hewill say, "and a life I rather liked. Now I run an orphanage on astreet where I am the only heterosexual man for ten blocks in everyblinking direction."
On the other hand, I'm not sure what that personality was,the one he claims to have had. He can predict whether a client willprefer a Miró etching to an obscure Delvaux oil painting, and he isconsulted by museums and foreign governments to detect forgeries, butin matters of his heart, nuance is a rare commodity. When I asked himhow his marriage had changed over the years, all he said was, "Oncethe children arrived, we quit having sex on Saturday afternoons."
My friends are divided over the nature and severity of Daniel'saffliction. Those who have spent time in England insist that hispassport is his destiny, and his answer to my question about hismarriage passes in that population for soul-searching. Other friendsascribe his limitations to gender. "He sounds just like a man,"Annabelle said, "but worse." It may be most accurate on any continentto say that he is what Winston Churchill said about Russia: a riddlewrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.
But there is something else you should know about Daniel: Ithink he is still in love with Blair. She has this embalmed, waxy,forever-thirty-nine, Dick Clark quality. Perfect, silent, stricken,enveloped in the aura of her New York Stock Exchange pedigree and alife of excruciatingly good deeds. She founded and ran a literacy-and-reading center for inner city families and was always getting plaquesand certificates from the mayor, the governor, Channel 7, theAmsterdam News, El Diario, and the Helen Keller Foundation. Danielsells modern masters, wears Armani underwear, and a wristwatch asthin as a quarter, but his living room walls are now crammed withthree-dollar pressed-wood plaques and ersatz diplomas from local TVnews anchors who think Blair should have shared the Nobel Peace Prizewith Nelson Mandela.
Poor thing was hit by a UPS truck the year before whilebicycling on Hilton Head Island, where she was attending her onlysister's wedding. Can Daniel marry again without divorcing his brain-dead wife? The subject has not come up between us. We are efficientcommunicators in the sack and above-average conversationalists onterra firma, but on the question of our future I mean anythingbeyond tomorrow we are neophyte speakers of English, permanentlystalled in the present tense.
Blair is a tough act to follow, though I give it all I'vegot. In addition to baking Christmas cookies with Daniel's childrenin June, I frequently do a full-dress imitation of Dorothy in TheWizard of Oz, which they have seen on video twenty-five or thirtytimes. I braid my hair and wear a polka-dot pinafore and a pair ofglittery red shoes I found in a thrift store; and I rigged up alittle stuffed dog, attached to a real leather leash, which I drag upthe stairs of their brownstone and then sling over my shoulder,squealing, "Toto! Toto! I don't think we're in Kansas anymore!"
One night I made the mistake of imitating their father forthem. I put on one of his silk suits over my own clothes and cartedfour metal lunchboxes and a handful of naked Barbie dolls into thebedroom where they waited for me, perched on the edge of Vicki's bed Vicki, the oldest, Vicki, who keeps a shelf of books about childrenwho have no parents. This child who first heard English spoken threeyears ago has read The Secret Garden, Anne of Green Gables, PeterPan, Pippi Longstocking, and, in a category of loss entirely its own,The Diary of Anne Frank.
That night I studied each of their faces and said in thelowest growl I could summon and my best English accent, "What's allthis blinking mess in here?" I pretended to trip and sent thelunchboxes and Barbies flying. They landed hard and clattered acrossthe bare wood floor. From downstairs, Daniel hollered, "What's allthat blinking noise up there?" and we collapsed with laughter, and Iwas still laughing when Tran said to me, "Now do Mommy."
"But I don't know Mommy."
"You don't know Dorothy, either," Vicki said. I knew onlythat I was bound to fail in this, but four pair of beautiful, almond-shaped black eyes were on me, and I could not deprive them of anothermother, even of the flimsy imposter they knew to expect.
I slipped out of Daniel's clothes and tried to organize agame of Chinese checkers with them, tried to be a funny, light-hearted, old-fashioned, TV kind of Mom, before TV moms were cops andcardiologists, but my heart wasn't in it, or maybe I mean that Ididn't want them to see how much it was in it, so I held back, andthe whole thing fell flat. "Who wants peanut butter?" I saidlamely. "Who wants to take a Tarzan bubble bath? Who wants anenormous plate of asparagus for dessert?" But none of them laughed,and I was relieved when Van said, "Do Dorothy again."
At breakfast they have said to me, "Do our dad, please."
"The school bus is outside."
"Then do Toto."
"Honey, let Sophy finish her cereal."
"One little time, and we'll never ask you again."
"I will," said Cam, the youngest, always out of synch withthe consensus.
"Don't get dressed up," Tran said. "Just talk funny and throwthe Barbies."
Early on, when Daniel and I were in bed and it was dark andour skin was as slippery as the inside of an oyster, hewhispered, "Do me."
"Do me."
"Baby, I am doing you."
"Imitate me. The way you did today at lunch."
"You pervert."
"Don't stop moving."
"You narcissist."
"I'm guilty."
"You're out of your blinking mind."
"Do me."
"'I have a little, uh, Chagall etching in the vault, uh, youmight find enchanting. Once in the collection of His Majesty the Shahof Iran. Or was it the Duke of, uh, Windsor? Two-point-five.'"
"His etchings never sold for that much."
"'For you, then, two-point-three.'"
"I never bargain. Or mix up monarchs."
"You are out of your mind, Daniel."
"I know."
"I know you know."
The truth was we both were. Fourteen days before, in ahowling March nor'easter, on an island called Swansea, off the coastof Massachusetts a place as desolate as the Hebrides that time ofyear I had left my husband and a hideous hybrid hound dog withpointy ears. He was not only my consolation prize for not having ababy, but a sign from God, I'm sure, that had I succeeded, the poorcreature would have been Rosemary's Baby. I had driven away from aten-year marriage with what I could fit in a rented Toyota and apromise I did not think I would keep: to reconsider my decision whenI got to New York.
So much has happened since then. For one thing, the dog isgone. For another, I've just begun to write the story of my own life,at a desk in the house on Swansea that I walked out of in March, andI'm on a firm deadline. The story starts on a high note: a womanleaves her husband in search of happiness and ends up on a big-cityroller-coaster ride that feels for moments at a time like sheerbliss, an urban fairy tale come true. Then, out of nowhere, her newlife takes a plunge, then another, and a few dips, and before longshe feels like Job. But there isn't much of a story to tell unless afew things go wrong, is there?
I'm not going to trouble you with the story of my entire lifesince before my birth, like David Copperfield. I think it's best tostick to what's happened lately, starting two months ago, the morningof June twenty-second, when I was still in New York, still caught up,for the next few hours, in the great, mad joy of just being there,the morning of the day the police called.
Excerpted from Almost by Elizabeth Benedict. Copyright © 2001 by Elizabeth Benedict. Excerpted by permission. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.
Meet the Author
Elizabeth Benedict is the author of Almost, which was selected as a New York Times Notable Book, a Washington Post Book World Book of the Year, a Newsweek Best Fiction Book of the Year, and a Best Book of the Year by National Public Radio's Fresh Air. She is also the author of three other novels, as well as The Joy of Writing Sex: A Guide for Fiction Writers. She lives in New York City.
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A novel with a mystery, but more importantly, a main character who is either too sure of herself or painfully uncertain, depending on the circumstances. She wants to be true to both herself and the people in her life, but she is often at a loss as to which path to take. The minor characters are well drawn and it's easy to like some and dislike others but they are not total stereotypes. The book starts slowly but then picks up. The only negative is that her financial situation is never a concern for her as it is for most people, yet she doesn't have any source of income except for her writing career. She makes decisions without thinking about money--an unrealistic luxury. Nevertheless, I do recommend the book because it held my attention throughout.
A book ridden of guilt and grief. Sophy's story is one where everything that might go wrong - can. A book that would make you reflect on your own ambition and life choices and what they mean for others. But also one that makes you also realize that each event is only for a period of time. I didn't enjoy the book honestly because it made me sad and bum me out the whole time while I was reading. Written in a reflective narrative is not the normal but it helped add to the suspense.
a great story and a great book. the writing is different and great. totally enjoyed it.
Great read. I enjoyed the suspenseful aspects of the story and useful interjection of humor. Great beach/rainy day read.
I was very disappointed with this book. I read this book only after reading Benedict's 'The Practice of Deceit' which was a great book and I couldn't put it down. This one, however, was slow-paced, boring, and when you think it's going to get better it doesn't.
This book may not change your life, but it is thought provoking. It makes the reader think about the ambiguities of life, love, and death.
Elizabeth Benedict has written a novel both fun to read and worth reading. She is a master of her craft, and in this novel she manages to combine a mystery narrative with the story of a woman looking for the meaning of her own life.
Almost is a completely gripping experience. The book pulled me along compulsively, made me laugh out loud, had breathtaking sentences, and lots of emotion and drive. A combination of great writing and great enjoyment.
I thought this was a lovingly drawn little tale about grief, loss and how life can knock us flat with those two emotions when we least expect it, and we usually don't get any explanation. This was my first novel by this author and I liked her main character's self-deprecating humor very much. Another reviewer complained about the one dimensional stereotypes and, in particular, the hangover scene. Personally, I found the hangover scene very funny. Not too many of us who CAN'T relate to having been in this very situation and the character's inability to think straight because of the hangover simply underscored what I think is the author's purpose is in this book. I am fairly certain that all of these characters were purposefully drawn in simple sketches of words. To have become deeply involved in the lives of any of these characters would have been to have missed the point. NONE of these people--not a single one we meet can be said to have finished with or drawn epiphanal conclusions about their lives. After all, the name of the book is Almost and the coroner's report is (spoiler alert here!!) inconclusive. We almost get to know Sophy--but only just enough to know that she doesn't really know what she wants or how she is "supposed" to feel about the death of her almost ex husband. What happens to Mavis and Evan is, well, titillating but inconclusive as well. Henderson is the gay best friend who hints at depth, but hints are all we get. The enigmatic Crystal's story is unfinished, and even the deceased himself leaves letters and business unfinished. Again, I am certain that this vagueness is on purpose--used to highlight the fact that life is so often a collection of unfinished conversations and/or relationships, tied together in the best way we know how, but most often unexplanable or inconclusive on the part of those of us who are living in the middle of it. This is what I think makes this book so interesting--it starts in the middle and leaves us in the middle and even the ending is happy....almost. Definitely worth the read (and frustration!).
From the first sentence, I found the style to be self-consiously inelegant, like a high schooler who feels full of daring by throwing in the occasional profanity and sex scene. There is a myriad of painful similes, and the triteness of the hangover scene has to be read to be believed. The shallowness of the writing contributes toward a complete lack of emotional impact in a story line that could be rich with the traumas of death and separation. The cast of supporting characters is a kaleidoscope of one-dimensional stereotypes, where all of the seemingly successful people are full of torment, and the only decent men are the perfectly understanding gay neighbor and the back-to-nature chap. The book ends (as was obvious all along) with nothing solved, leaving a sense of the ultimate futility of interpersonal relationships and life itself.


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For more, see Wednesday's Augusta Chronicle.
John E. Hoover is defying the odds. At age 86, he has already well surpassed the average life expectancy for an American male, despite the fact that he smoked for 30 years. He attributes it to 32 years in the U.S. military.
"That's a rather active life," said the retired Major General, who still exercises every day in the pool at Brandon Wilde.
While it is increasing, life expectancy in the U.S. has not risen at the rate it has in other countries, such as Japan, Germany and France. A report out today from the National Research Council of the National Academies looks at why. The differences are particularly striking for women. Heavier smoking rates 30 to 50 years ago is a big reason, the report concludes. While rates of smoking have declined, any gains could be wiped out by a higher level of obesity in the U,S., although that appears to have leveled in recent years, the report noted.
The differences are clear when looking at the latter stages of life. In 1980, for instance, the average life expectancy for a 50-year-old woman in the U.S. was 30.6, about the same as in similar high-income countries such as Australia, Canada and France. By 2007, however, while that life expectancy had increased by 2.5 years to 33.1, the same life expectancy for women in the comparable countries had increased on average by 3.9 years, the report noted. For a 50-year-old woman in Japan it had increased by 6.4 years, for instance, and in Italy by 5.9 years, the report noted.
From birth, the life expectancy for men in the U.S. is 75.6 years and for women is 80.8 years, according to the report. Japan has the highest life expectancy for women from birth at 86 years; Australia has the highest life expectancy for men at 79.27 years, just edging out Japan at 79.2.
Hoover. who was stationed in Germany for three years, believes it is the more active lifestyles, particularly walking, that favor people in European countries. The report bears him out - Germany, for instance, has half the rate of inactive people that the U.S. has.
For more, see Wednesday's Augusta Chronicle.
Just wait until obamacare fully kicks in and you have to wait 6-12 months for life saving surgery. We'll be even further behind.
I cant wait until its repelled so I can buy someone's house for nickels on the dollar because they couldnt afford a life saving surgery after the insurance company rejected the claim!
Spoken like a true predatory capitalist!


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