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Pastor Sean Harris: I Was Just Kidding When I Told People To Punch Their Gay Kids
Pastor Sean Harris of the Berean Baptist Church in Fayetteville, North Carolina, is claiming he misspoke when he told parishioners to "give a good punch" to their effeminate sons during a sermon on Sunday.
In his homophobic homily, Harris gave parents "a special dispensation" to "squash like a cockroach" any gay tendencies in their boys:
"Can I make it any clearer? Dads, the second you see that son dropping the limp wrist, you walk over there and crack that wrist. Man up. Give them a good punch. Okay? You're not going to act like that—you were made by God to be a male and you're going to be a male."
He went on to tell his flock that, if a four-year old boy, for example, starts acting "a little girlish," his father should tell him to "man up, son, get that dress off you get outside and dig a ditch—because that's what boys do."
Seriously? When we were four, most boys were playing tag and watching episodes of Sesame Street. Not a lot of ditch-digging going on.
His advise for parents of tomboys was less violent but equally abhorrent:
"And when your daughter starts acting too 'butch,' you rein her in. And you say, 'Oh no. Oh no, sweetheart. You can play sports. Play 'em, play 'em to the glory of God, but sometimes you're going to act like a girl and talk like a girl and talk like a girl, and smell like a girl, and that means you're going to be beautiful, you're going to be attractive, you're going to dress yourself up'."
When the media jumped on Harris' hate speech, though, he changed his tune tout suite. He told The Fayetteville Observer:
If I had to say it again, I would say it differently, no doubt. Those weren't planned words, but what I do stand by is that the word of God makes it clear that effeminate behavior is ungodly. I'm not going to compromise on that."
We understand—it's not like it's Harris' job to give a well-considered speech on spirituality and morals every Sunday.
Harris was speaking in favor of North Carolina's Amendment One, which would ban recognition of same-sex marriages, domestic partnerships, civil unions and any relationship outside of heterosexual marriage. He told the Observer that though the Bible makes it clear homosexuality is a sin, there was "not an ounce of hate being communicated," in his sermon. Oh, of course not.
What we want to know is if Harris can be brought up on charges. He literally incited his listeners to inflict bodily harm on four-year-olds. If we stood on a street corner and made similar suggestions, we'd probably have to answer to the cops. Why should Harris be protected because he was standing at a (bully) pulpit?
To make matters worse, Berean Baptist Church operates a school from kindergarten to 12th grade. Harris swears teachers at the Berean Baptist Academy never lay hands on the students, but after Sunday's rant, we think social services or the Department of Education should start sniffing around.
has a code of parental discipline on its website, supported by biblical references, that endorses spanking but adds that "we reject the idea that bruising is ever the objective when disciplining a child."
If you have the stomach for such things, Good as You has the full audio of Harris' sermon.
Oh great the "just kidding" defense? I am sure that kids who get the shit beat out of them for "not being a real man" for having "limp wrists" (because there are definitely no gay athletes ever in the history of the world) are glad he was just kidding. I absolutely hate how people can say things promoting child or spouse abuse with a just kidding.May 2, 2012 at 11:06 am · @Reply ·
um where does it say in the bible that effeminate behavior is ungodly?? It's amazing how people just literally pull stuff out of their ass and claim it's gods word. Why the hell is effeminate behavior ungodly? If someone is effeminate, it's because it comes to them natural- nobody puts that kind of stuff on- especially a god damn four year old! This hacks the ungodly one.
Southern translation for 'I was just kidding' . . . No I wasn't, but aren't I charming.
Great – contact details missing ! Anyone know where we can contact his employers and / or the school he works at ?
Matthew 25: 40 "Truly I say to you , as you did it to one of the least of my brethren, you did it to me."
Typical republican bigot!
Is he in 5th grade or something? Just kidding???
@Clueless: I e-mailed him and sent him a message yesterday on the church Facebook page before they deactivated that option. I don't buy the "those weren't planned words" argument. They don't have to be planned to make them hateful, hurtful and ultimately very dangerous.
well said!
Can I punch paster Harris in the balls and stick my fist up his bum? Oh I'm "just kidding"….I didn't plan these words……… He needs more then gods words to help him!!
@desdemona: I think it was said somewhere by that creep Saul of Tarsus, also known as St Paul. He has some kind of dig against effeminacy. I just can't remember the actual line.
Count down to Sean Harris being discovered with (a) male Craigslist trick in a hotel room (b) plainclothes cop in public restroom (c) gay hooker and a lot of meth. 10, 9, 8 ….
Spread the word about this action. At the link below is the Berean Baptist Church's Child Adoption website page. Click on the links to adoption agencies, call the adoption agencies, get to the executive director's office of the agency and then ask if they will be insisting that the Berean Church remove the link to their adoption agency from the church's website. Explain that the pastor is giving the parishioners instructions to beat children:
I hate christians
@desdemona: This is a weird one. There's a passage ("Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate (malakoi), nor abusers of themselves with mankind, (arsenokoites)" -1 Corinthians 6:9, KJV) which uses two words that are so obscure that no one knows what they mean. They don't mean "homosexual" because there was a perfectly good word for that and Paul choose not to use it. However the modern homophobic translations always say homosexual. Historic translations have been all over the place.
Literally malakoi means "soft men." In other contexts the word means sniveling cowards. It is not clear what it means in this context.
The other word, arsenokoites, appears to be a curse word, sort of like "motherfucker," but an ancient commentator claimed it was a temple prostitute.
I swear religion makes people stupid. Dangerously stupid. Here is just the latest in a long line of countless examples.
Gee, what a shock a bigot was encouraging others to do his dirty bigoted work.
Rev. Sean should know better…he must need money, so something like this is now a joke??? People like that should be shot…they infect too many people, with their "'jokes'". No wonder this country is in such a mess.
He should fuck himself.
Berean Baptist Church
517 Glensford Drive Fayetteville, NC 28314
(910) 868-5156
Feel free to give them a call!
I would like to punch that smug look off his holy face! I listened to his sermon and it made my hair stand on end. He obviously harbors a hatred for women. The way he spits out the word "FEE-MALE" with such vitriol is frightening. I can't believe any clergyman gives sermons that haven't been carefully written beforehand. What a piece of scum this man is. Unfortunately, he doesn't have a contact section on his Berean site. (Has it been deactivated, I wonder?) I would like to send him the link to one of those articles claiming that the more homophobic a person is, the more likely he is to be a latent gay.
Dearies…he's gay.
Someone ought to let his wife know.
The Bible does talk about being effeminate maybe you should read it some times. The teachers never harm students at Berean Baptist Academy. It was a joke. Honestly you people need to find something else to get all riled up about. It doesn't involve or affect you.
@No. 23 – it's called compassion and charity, virtues that Pastor Harris is obviously unfamiliar with considering his endorsement of violence. And why are you posting here ? It doesn't involve / affect you !
He's on Twitter and has a blog: http://pastorseansblog.blogspot.com/
He is a liar! He lies about everything! His apology says he is sorry and then he repeats his bullshit about it being a crime against god. What an asshole !
TAX CHURCHES: No special rights for bigots.
"The Word Of God" to men like this is simply every word coming out of their own meglamaniacal mouth…..
@ 'common sense'. The Bible talks about touching the skin of a dead animal. Honestly, you people need to lay off the gays and start picketing NFL games…
And the Bible doesn't talk one word. It's a book. Books don't talk.
Fucked up idiots talk. And then they claim the Bible for their own, and talk…and talk, and talk…about how their their interpretation is 'Gods Word'
@Common Sense:
Um.. In case you didn't notice, this is an LGBT-oriented blog. When a 'religious leader' publicly advocates inflicting physical harm on people -children, in fact- for being effeminate/butch/different, it does involve or affect readers and commenters of this blog.
Oh and I may not be a Christian anymore but I've read the Bible. And Jesus said a lot more about compassion and tolerance than persecution and condemnation. Or were you referring to the Old Testament where it was a sin to eat pork and shellfish? Maybe the next time you read your Bible you try understanding it instead of being an ignorant sheeple.
And I don't buy the whole "it was a joke" excuse. I'm sick of people with (religious, political, or whatever) power saying irresponsible shit then getting away with it. The man has to be held responsible for his words, one way or another.
@Andy: I'm for that!
You make the most sense and your tolerant response is to your credit!
@Common Sense: No, your translation renders it as "effeminate." The actual meaning in context is unknown. It may or may not mean effeminate as we would understand it today.
If it was a joke then the next question is why the pastor thought that he could get away with making an offensive joke. Many, many people here have been harmed by parents who tried to get them to conform to pointless gender stereotypes. I don't see how you can say it doesn't effect people when it effects people all the time.
This is so sad… and just days ago people were complaining about Dan Savage's anti-bullying speech at a high school. The most he did was say the word "bull____" in regards to some Biblical philosophies and hypocrisies, and call some kids "pansy-ass" when they walked out of his speech – for which he apologized later. He didn't call anyone to physical violence. The Christian students were "hurt" that they had been bullied. I honor their feelings. Does this "enlightened" man not understand the words have power to "create" or to "destroy"? I just watched a film on Charles Manson last night… words and sex, that's what he used.
Now, would the "Christian" community please begin to police your own who are SO quick to trounce on the feelings of others, and even condone violence? This is what Jesus would do, really?! Well, in His behalf I would like to say – He certainly would NOT! Know your Jesus, and stop the insult. LOVE! There is NO joy in this…
@micha: Oh, he WILL be held responsible for his words and the harm they cause. The sad part is it will be too late for the victims of his words to do any good, as he has to die first and the damage will have been done by then. (Ya know, free will and all that) It's up to the members of "his" church to put a stop to it NOW before it goes any further, as in give him the boot, for preaching the gospel of the enemy. Isn't it special that these so called christians love the parts of the Bible that BRACKET the gospels (Mat. Mark Luke & John) and pointedly ignore the one section that suposedly is the basis of their faith. I could have sworn that the point of being a Christian was to follow Christ and "ignore" all other comers be they before or after. (That includes the asshat that appropriated my name so he wouldn't be remembered for what he did to the first Christians, yeah I'm talking about you, Saul of Tarsus.)
The Pastors.. views.. ARE.. ANCIENT, ARCHAEIC,.. NARROW MINDED. He is part of THE BIG BOYS CLUB.. WHERE BEING.. BIG, BRAWNY and MACHO.. are THE IN.. thing to be. What kind of "LOVE" did Jesus.. have for "THE DISCIPLE.. that JESUS LOVED?!?!?" DID HE NOT.. Love his other DISCIPLES?!?
Fascinating that Pastor Sean Harris doesn't seem to know that it is a sin to lie, which it is obvious he's doing with his "just kidding" remark. Listen to audio. This was (and is) no joke.
Someone should beat the living crap out of him…and then say "Sorry…I was just kidding"
And he's a pastor. How pathetic!
@desdemona: some translations translate arsenokoites as "effeminates" and others "homosexual offenders" or even more vague: "abusers of themselves with mankind". Sadly he isn't pulling it out of his ass. That would be the translators. Nobody knows exactly what arsenokoites means, but it probably doesn't mean homosexuals because there were plenty of other words and phrases used during the time which would have have made things much clearer.
@Common Sense: To encourage a parent to harm a child for any reason affects every one – every member of society. Re-read your screen name and try to find some before making yourself look so foolish.
@Common Sense: BS. He meant it. And the people at his church are filled with hatred for Gay people. Even their own kids.
Hey, Pastor. Is this what you wanted…
From a 2010 news report: According to WPIX-TV, suspect Pedro Jones, 20, of South Hampton has been charged with first-degree manslaughter for hitting Roy A. Jones so hard with his fists that the infant went into cardiac arrest and died at a local hospital. Police say Jones said he was "trying to make him act like a boy instead of a little girl."
Source: http://www.advocate.com/news/daily-news/2010/08/04/man-kills-baby-boy-acting-girl
Or maybe this parent makes you happy, Pastor?
January, 2005, three year old Ronnie Antonio Paris died of injuries after being beaten by his father, Ronnie Paris, Jr. Ronnie's father, Ronnie Paris, Jr., was convicted of second degree murder. News reports give us the impression Ronnie Antonio Paris' father was trying to make Ronnie Antonio tough and to teach him to fight, because he did not want Ronnie Antonio to grow up to be gay.
He advocates punching 4 year olds?
I will now feel no guilt about punching him when I see him.
Hatred like this is from a gay man hiding. Read the NYTimes article. He hates himself for being gay, too bad, he should just be himself.
For some insane reason, some religious leaders think religion gives them a right to violate other people's human rights – including other people's right to freedom of/from religion. They are just insane humans using religion as an excuse for their own sociopathic behavior. If religion didn't exist they still be cruel and evil, just as others who protect human rights would be kind and good. Religion provides no defense for violating human rights – never has, never will.
What are the qualifications to be a ,,,, PREACHER,,,,,,?
It is a scam ,,, same as Joseph Madoff,,, just a big,,, confidance SCAM.
So many,,, millinos/billions of people,,, believe and follow these PREACHERS,,,, it is amazing.
Ask Joseph Madoff to show me the money/proof,,, ? He would not be able to do it.
Ask a PREACHER to show me the proof,,,, ? He will not be able to do it.
Some day the millions/billinos of people will figure this out,, as they did with Joseph Madoff.
The kingdom of God is not in word (Bible), but power…it's not food and drink…but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit….St Paul.
The kingdom of God is within you…..Jesus.
The great prayer says, "thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven".
As time goes on we'll learn more about these things concerning "the kingdom" and then we'll learn not to be so enthusiastic about anything or everything that's written down in scripture from old times.
Jesus said, "the Holy Spirit will guide us into all things". Thankfully, that is what's going on in the world today. And many are not happy about it. They are fearful to go beyond what is written, yet that is one of the callings of modernity or the "guidance of the Spirit".
@WillBFair: Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
This is only really quoted this way in the KJV. However, most Baptists swear by the KJV as the only translation of the Bible "inspired by God." The KJV was actually more inspired by a self-hating homosexual homophobe than by God, but they would never admit that.
You are right that it comes from Paul. The hatred of women also comes from Paul. What can you expect from a former tax collector who turned prophet?
@Danny: Actually, you are wrong, because if this type of hatred and stupidity came from any other source it would be a scandal worthy of the national news. Can you imagine if the principal of a school said something like this? They would be out of the job, and it would be all over the cable channels. This will be glossed over because along with being the principal of a Christian school (which assumes like most church ran schools, the pastor serves as the principal) he is also a pastor.
Religion often provides an excuse to be a hateful bigot. Without religion, more people would call hateful bigots on who they are.
Somebody needs to beat the shit out of him!!!
Just called the church to let them know how I feel… they are now denying that the pastor has ever said the words that are in the audio and video tapes… Geez… isn't lying a sin? This is how brainwashed they are! SAD
It is obvious that many politicians and religious leaders in the USA are genocidal towards LGBTA Americans and their children.
This guy is almost comical. We're all made in God's image…how dare he stand in judgment of HIM and tell him that millions of his creations are unGodly.
No. 1 · Tom wrote, 'Oh great the "just kidding" defense?' … He can even try to back it up with the recording – there was laughter in the background. I'm not sure what the laughter represented, but hopefully it meant that his audience wasn't taking what he said seriously, or at least not literally. Maybe they have more sense than he does. If so, we can be thankful for small favors.
I'd gladly punch his face and do jail time. Asshole.
There is no way on Goddess's great earth that this man is NOT a raging homosexual. I'm so sick of this queer-on-queer bashing.
@sam: It does seem like a scam doesn't it? And it's true that anyone can become a preacher. I'm not convinced that is because they're led by the spirit either.
But consider this. The Bible, with all its faults, is all we have. There ain't nothin' else of any value. Christianity with all its faults is also all we have that's any good. It allows us, by virtue of its influence on every modern culture, to be and do what we feel is best for ourselves.
Christianity is the "best thing in town" for all LGBT folks the "world over" and we must not ignore that. We are all the greater people because of it.
Praise God for all of his blessings he has bestowed upon us lgbt people and those blessing are NOT gonna go away either.
My friend,
We all like to have a crutch to lean on, a helpful hand.
In religions the crutch is called "faith."
I call faith "hoke poke."
The same with "luck,"
I believe we make our own "luck" success/failure.
By being prepared, such as: doing well/poorly in school, etc. ,, things in life.
I wish the masses of religious people, especially the leaders/preachers/"THE POPE" would apply more common sense to their interruptions of bible "stories" and remember ALL stories are just "stories" and not always accurate.
Including, scientific formulas have been found to be in error and require correction as we learn and grow.
Bible, "Go forth and multiply."
That was probably a good ideal at the time, 1000's of years ago.
But, common sense tells us that is not always the best ideal today.
I know a 25 year old girl here with 5 children.
She is LIVING WELL on public assistance.
She has no husband and no clue of who or where is the father of the 5 babies.
The Pope and preachers and the masses of church people praise her.
The same people condim gays for the gays minor infraction of the Bible = "THE LAW OF THE LAND."
Does that make sense?
Wow! It is amazing, what a bunch of sheepish people without common sense.
They are suckers for the SCAM artist such as Joseph Madoff = preacher,,,,,,,, .
Make them show you proof,,, they can NOT…
They will all tell you must have "FAITH" my son, read the good book and pray,,,
(and most of all give $ to the church).
Respectfully, Sam.
@sam: My friend also,
Yes, the Bible is "full" of stories. Some of them seem valuable and others don't.
But they're such strange stories.
They can get some of us worked up about them cause they are so different than most things.
There IS something unique about its contents. But how do we make it become useful to us?
Is it worthy to be made useful and applicable?
I can't fully understand why I have an interest in this Bible stuff.
And I can't fully understand why others don't.
I love gin and tonic for a spirit lift once in a while.
I can't understand why others prefer whiskey. I hate the smell of that stuff.
But why? Why do any of us have differing tastes?
The answer to that is beyond the scope of this post, but I do ponder things like that.
What's wrong with a crutch? If we need it, then we should 'go for it".
You say "hoke poke" cause you're simply not interested enough in it to learn about it.
It does not have your respect "yet", but it's possible that it will one day.
The reason it has limited admiration is really a major problem within Christianity.
Some of Christianity's worse enemies are from within its own ranks.
Its adherents often express words and deeds too hypocritical and too judgemental.
That "turns people off".
Forget what others say. Create your own understanding.
St Paul said, "work out "YOUR OWN" salvation" or understanding.
Make the Bible a guide not a God.
Here's some ideas, comments or suggestions from the Bible itself so often overlooked.
It's a plea for folks to "Be Curious" as the PBS ad says —
The kingdom of God is not in word (the Bible), but power(the Spirit)…it's not food and drink…but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit…St Paul.
The kingdom of God is within you….Jesus.
The great prayer says, "thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven".
As time goes on we'll learn more about these things concerning "the kingdom" and then we'll learn not to be so enthusiastic about anything or everything that's written down in scripture from old times.
Jesus said, "the Holy Spirit will guide us into all things". Thankfully, that is what's going on in the world today. And many are not happy about it. They are "too fearful" to go beyond what is written, yet that is one of the callings of modernity or the "guidance of the Spirit".
Respectfully also,
Bill (Scooty is my cat….lol.)
PS — follow me, if your interested, as I try to generate an interest in Bruce Barton. See — http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jaweed-kaleem/faith-shift-what-religion-stories_b_1412331.html .
My handle is Billysees and the logo is my cat Scooty. It's kinda quiet there now but I will be posting more pleas soon to cause an interest in the books Mr. Barton wrote.
Somewhere at a gun shop in North Carolina there's a bullet that's just itching to be lodged into one of Miss Harris's major arteries. Anyone here from NC, please see that it gets there.
And no, I'm not kidding. We've tolerated these breeders way too long. It's time to start getting up in their faces. Time to start speaking loudly, carrying big sticks, and bashing bigots with them. Hard. Until they bleed to death. No jury in the world will convict us, and if they even try it, they're next.
@Queer Supremacist:
Be cool my friend,,,, violance will not help the gay cause.
@Queer Supremacist: Let's act like better Christians than they are.
It's easier than you think.
Let's overcome "their" evil or immature words with "our" good words.
They are "gainsayers" and we're not.
They'll have their bit o' fame for a while and get much attention.
But we only have ourselves to offer.
That's good enough.
@Queer Supremacist:
Your screen name, SUPREMACIST,,,, ..
I associate that word to "skin heads" "KKK" and such.
That screen name and your words sadly display the complete opposite of the gay objective.
Which is only "EQUALITY."
I agree with you in this sense:
It is shocking that such a thing as "EQUALITY" would be put up for POPULAR VOTE by the citizens in the UNITED STATES.
I suggest for you and all gays be prepared for loosing in the North Carolina election on Tuesday.
We must be calm, because the US Constution will not allow this to previal.
But,,, WHEN!!!!! will it be resolved? ,,,,
As we all know the goverment wheels turn slowly.
Being an old guy,
I have seen BIG IMPROVEMENTS with regards to "EQUALITY."
Blacks, women, etc.,,, it is a slow process.
The recent one GAYS must give Clinton and Oboma credit for gays serving in the military.
I believe Oboma's heart is in the right place.
I believe Oboma will do all he can for "EQUALITY."
Before we go to vote,,,
Help to register at least two or more of our allies to vote.
And, we must VOTE SMART,,, find out who is against "EQUALITY",,, VOTE THEM OUT OF OFFICE.
THIS IS A MUST READ: "Thank a Homosexual for Your Bible"
I am by far not an athority on the Bible, so you be the judge …
This will scar the hell out of the Bible thumpers in North Carolina and a few other places, lol.
Hi Friend,
About equality and the popular vote.
You say,"We must be calm, because the US Constution will not allow this to previal."
But I would say,"as time goes on, the Holy Spirit will do what is right and best for us."
That's an example of this thing called "righteousness" or simply doing good things.
Or doing what is right and best.
But…this process seems so long and drawn out. Wonder why?
It's like we've heard before, 3 steps forward and 1 step backward.
Many years ago, SCOTUS voted that gay sex was legal. I heard it on the car radio.
I was so "flipped out" by that simple decision I had to pull off to the side of the road.
I knew then "once again" that, "If God be for us, who or what can be against us."
My observation here may not easily be understood, but to me it is real and important.
LGBT things are bigger and greater than North Carolina.
I'm an "old guy" too…..Lol……lol…..
And I've also seen the things you've seen over the years.
And it does take time doesn't, this thing called "equality".
It's like "a nation's greatness" is so big and important, we dare not go "too fast".
We could go too fast and miss something. God forbid.
All of what you've said is this — "thy kingdom come thy will be done" at work.
A mighty work "in progress" it is.
Obama is "the best" and I love him.
I love all "good liberals".
Good for you to suggest registering our allies.
Hi Sam,
I've seen and known this for some time now.
It made its rounds years ago.
It is interesting.
But will it really matter?
Who knows.
We all need more of "the best of things".
You know…there's good…better…and best.
Liberals need to know more than they do.
Fundamentalists need to be less angry and quarrelsome with what they do know.
The Book says,better to live in the wilderness than with an angry and a quarrelsome woman.
Fundamentalists are like this woman.
And they listen too much to angry and quarrelsome preachers. They make them what they are.
The Book also says, "don't give your money to a rich man or you won't have anything".
St Paul writes, "follow after the things that make for peace".
A great example of this is — "don't provoke one another".
And "be peaceable and considerate".
Fundamentalists need to treat all LGBT folks with these great attitudes.
Bullies (or more accurately TORMENTERS) and young suicides will ceast to exist.
We can't wait for that to happen.
It has to happen now.
May the blessing of The Almighty God be upon you, Pastor Sean Harris.
My name is Uzor from Nigeria, Africa. While watching the news on cable tv, I listened as tapes of your sermon to your congregation about how to correct their kids if they notice them leaning to the gay side of life was replayed. You were praised by friends of mine who watch along side me and we prayed that the Love of Christ and the Blessing of the Most High continue to strengthen you all the days of your life.
We need more of you as we take on the battle between good and evil. Christianity warned about the end times and we are obviously approaching these times. My reason being that, everything seems to be going against the tenets of Christ. We now have world leaders openly supporting sick minded people.
Why should we tolerate people who are mentally unstable and possessed by demonic forces. Would these gay idiot's have had the chance to pollute earth with their demonic acts if they were not conceived naturally? It is obviously unnatural and even the gay fools know this. May God forgive and correct all who indulge in such cursed acts.
It is our duty to help correct these ills of society by counselling or if need be, by enforcing it. The Good Lord will reward us as we help the sick.
May God be with you all.
What a douche , this pastor should know by now that lying is a sin and also where the nearest library is so that he can look up the phrase: 'return of the repressed'. Again what a douche.


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TUSCALOOSA, Alabama — Let's take a look back at the week of news as Alabama prepared to play host to No. 21 Ole Miss.
In chronological order, here are the headlines from the week that was:
-- Alabama LB C.J. Mosley explains why he and fellow leaders spoke up after Colorado State win (video)
-- Alabama DE Jeoffrey Pagan explains challenge for linemen facing Ole Miss up-tempo offense (video)
-- Nick Saban: Canceling Michigan State series about SEC scheduling; touts financial perks of neutral-site games
-- Nick Saban says expectations have caused 'anxiety' among Alabama players, urges fans to be supportive
-- Deion Belue's return 'important' for Alabama DBs, says Nick Saban, who drops hint about other starter
-- Alabama leaders' gumption to address team's issues now should encourage Tide fans (Andrew Gribble)
-- Ole Miss' and Texas A&M's offenses are different, but Alabama prepared for another fast-paced showdown
-- Mack Brown not 'bothered' by Texas regent's interest in Nick Saban; talks Jameis Winston recruitment


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According to the report, police ran the caller's name through the Law Enforcement Information Network (LEIN) and found he had a two felony warrant for breaking and entering.
Police said the man was arrested and lodged in the Flint City Lockup.
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Bonds from Hovnanian Enterprises Inc. tumbled and the cost to protect the debt from default soared after the largest homebuilder in New Jersey announced exchange offers for up to $220 million of securities.
The company's $797 million of 10.625 percent senior secured notes due in October 2016 tumbled 5.3 cents to 79.4 cents on the dollar as of 11:33 a.m. in New York, the lowest since at least March 2010, according to Trace, the bond-price reporting system of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority.
Credit-default swaps protecting against default for five years increased 1.8 percentage points to 59.5 percent upfront as of 3 p.m. in New York, according to data provider CMA. That's in addition to 5 percent a year, meaning it would cost $5.95 million initially and $500,000 annually to protect $10 million of Hovnanian's debt, and implies an 87.7 percent chance of default within five years, the data show.
The Red Bank, New Jersey-based homebuilder is offering to exchange senior notes with coupons ranging from 6.25 percent to 11.875 percent and maturities from 2014 through 2017 for up to $220 million of new 2 percent senior secured bonds due 2021, according to a statement distributed by Globe Newswire yesterday. Hovnanian said the offer will expire on Oct. 26 and that the early tender and consent time is at 5 p.m. in New York on Oct. 12.


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FASB issues final standard on a customer's accounting for fees paid in a cloud computing arrangement.
The FASB issued a final standard in April 2015 on a customer's accounting for fees paid in a cloud computing arrangement. The standard provides guidance on how customers should evaluate whether such arrangements contain a software license that should be accounted for separately. Customers will need to apply the same criteria as vendors to determine whether the arrangement contains a software license or is solely a service contract. The new standard will affect all entities that apply U.S. GAAP and purchase cloud, software-as-a-service, or other hosted computing arrangements, irrespective of industry.
The standard is effective for public companies for annual periods, including interim periods, beginning after December 15, 2015. For non-public companies, it is effective for annual periods beginning after December 15, 2015, and interim periods in annual periods beginning after December 15, 2016. Early adoption is permitted for all companies.
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Well, the latest in the saga of AW, the now 18 year old who has the car, promised to work all summer, quit her job halfway through, but managed to avoid me enough (probably why she has spent two nights here this entire summer!):
...and had the temerity to complain about not having gas money last weekend. I informed my wife that I am selling the car as soon as she goes away to college (9/21), and taking AW off of insurance ($2300/year!). My wife says that we should 'keep' the car as a backup. We have two other vehicles, but they are trucks, and my wife does not feel comfortable driving them in her present professional capacity, which I understand.
AW emailed us yesterday, saying that her 'real' Dad, the Disneyland Dad type, has complained about sharing half of her college costs, and wants my wife (mom) to pay for whatever Dad doesn't pay for.
I say "No". My wife says '...maybe" This little minx has already cost me over $20k in the last two years, and I do not like the prospect of funding the next four years of 'culinary' school.
I would like to eliminate the issues altogether, remodeling the house to eliminate AW's bedroom and bathroom, effectively denying her access on 'xmas and spring breaks' and to make the other issues clear in a "straight talk' fashion. AW does NOT want to have that conversation, because she knows she is in the wrong. My wife does NOT want to have the conversation, because she avoids confrontation, except with me, at all costs.
What to do? Help! I have calmly placed the other issues forward in the last year...the result has been prevarication and waffling...and I can't stand it!


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UPDATE: More details released in May's Photo murders
It was a crime that shocked our community.
The owner of May's Photo and his teenage son were shot to death last month in their downtown business in the middle of a busy Saturday afternoon.
Now the man police say is responsible for that double homicide is in custody.
Thirty-nine-year-old Jeffrey Lepsch of Dakota, Minn. was arrested yesterday.
Investigators have combed through thousands of hours of surveillance video from more than 150 local businesses in this case.
The road to Jeffrey Lepsch starts on the 400 block of Main Street. That's where surveillance video caught a man wearing a grey hooded sweatshirt and a backpack getting out of a van and going inside May's Photo just before 2 p.m. on Sept. 15.
Security video also caught the same man coming out of the store about an hour later, this time carrying four bags.
"Hopefully we can get more people putting cameras in their businesses and stuff because that really was a major piece of this puzzle being put together in solving this crime," said La Crosse Police Chief Ron Tischer.
Investigators said the man in that video is Lepsch, and while he was inside, he stole more than $16,000 worth of camera equipment and shot Paul and AJ Petras to death.
AJ Petras' body was found behind the main counter in front of a safe. His father's body was found in the restroom.
"Let's face it. Nobody in La Crosse would like to think something like this could happen," said La Crosse Police Capt. Jason Melby, who headed up the investigation. "We were thinking, who would come in, in the middle of the day, and do something like this in downtown La Crosse? And some of the local businesses were telling us it was one of the busiest days of the year for them."
Multiple witnesses said they saw a white male, about 5-foot-5, wearing a grey hooded sweatshirt and a backpack, inside the store that afternoon.
Investigators tracked down the van caught on security video -- the van being driven by a man matching that description.
The blue Dodge Caravan belonged to Lepsch's wife.
Police searched their Dakota home and found 14 of the missing pieces of camera equipment inside.
They also found a grey hooded sweatshirt.
And while Lepsch's arrest may be a big step forward in this case, one big question is still unanswered.
"Why? Why go in and kill two people when you're just looking for camera equipment or you just want to steal something? It's just a senseless crime that didn't need to be committed," said Tischer.
Now that police have released the name of their suspect, they're hoping even more witnesses will come forward.
It is still unknown whether the Petras family had any sort of relationship with Lepsch. That's something investigators hope to clear up soon.
Investigators took hundreds of pieces of evidence from Lepsch's home yesterday. Those all have to be processed.
They also need to figure out where the missing pieces of camera equipment that they did not find in Lepsch's home are now, and whether they've been sold off.
Police have not found the .22-caliber handgun they believe was used in the crime.
Police say at this time they are not looking for any other suspects.
Lepsch faces two counts of first-degree intentional homicide, armed robbery and possession of a firearm as a felon.
He has a past conviction for stealing $60,000 worth of equipment from Ace Hardware in La Crosse.
Jeffrey Lepsch made his first court appearance in Winona County on Thursday.
Lepsch requested a public defender to represent him at the hearing. That means his next hearing will be on Oct. 18.
The judge set a $10 million unconditional cash bail at the request of the Winona County Attorney.
Lepsch's wife, Angie, was in the courtroom with a few other people. She was visibly shaking throughout the hearing.
When Lepsch stood up to leave, he looked back at the group and mouthed a message to them.
Some of Lepsch's neighbors said Lepsch is a stay-at-home dad. They also said they are shocked he is facing homicide charges.
Lepsch will be held in the Winona County jail until his next hearing.
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What does an acquisition editor do?
Someone wrote to ask, "Can you explain what an acquisition editor is, and how that's different from a regular editor?"
As the name implies, the main role of an acquisitions editor is to acquire manuscripts for the publishing house. That means he or she knows what sort of books the house wants to do, and in the role will talk with agents, read the proposals that are sent in, perhaps go to conferences to meet face-to-face with authors, and evaluate everything in order to identify the manuscripts the house should pursue. Understand that most good acquisition editors are actively going out to hunt down authors and projects and ideas — not just sitting in an office and reacting to what's sent to them.
Another author asked a similar question: "Are people hired into that type of position? Or does one have to 'work one's way'up to do that? What is the usual period of time/experience required to do that?"
Most new editorial hires start out as editorial assistants, working with an editor to assist with general office stuff. There's not necessarily a major in college for becoming an editor, so we see a lot of English and Journalism majors, but also Business, History, Marketing, and Communications grads hired into the role. They learn the process of what a manuscript goes through in order to become a book. Then they are graduated to assistant editor, where they learn to actually edit. Then usually to associate editor, where they can begin to learn how to acquire. Eventually they become a full-fledged editor (in case you know of any editors who are only partially fledged). Most editors have two roles: to acquire books and edit them. At some houses they have "Acquisitions Editors," whose sole job is to acquire new titles — in most cases others will do the actual editing of the manuscript. So yes, you work your way up. And the way you advance is by finding books that are successful. It's not unusual for a person to spend five to seven years moving up the ranks.
And someone sent this: "What part does the 'slush pile' play in an acquisitions person's life? (Do they find projects from time to time? Is a certain amount of 'slush' expected to be handled?)"
"Slush" is just a term for all those incoming manuscripts at a publishing house; sometimes used to refer to the whole of the incoming, other times just to refer to the unsolicited manuscripts. Every acquisitions person has to deal with it. There is a constant pile, since we're in love with celebrity in this country and therefore everybody thinks they have the talent to write a book and become a star. The fact is, it's a pain for an editor. Most manuscripts gets a cursory look. Some (from people we know, friends of authors, etc) get read more thoroughly. At houses that don't accept unsoliciteds, they simply get recycled. Occasionally somebody picks something out, finds a diamond in the rough and gets it published… but it's rare. As in "winning the lottery" rare. To be honest, you want to stay away from the slush pile.
An interesting question came from an author I represent: "Can you tell me what the actual physical layout is for the slush pile? Where is it kept? How big is it? How easy is it to get out a manuscript to read? I know most manuscripts are sent digitally, but isn't there a big pile of papers somewhere?"
Most proposals are sent via Word documents these days, so they're only read on a screen. But yes, every editorial department has a big pile of pages sitting on a credenza or a lower bookshelf in an editor's office, or sitting on the editorial assistant's floor, desk, file cabinet, table, and side chair. It's often a foot or two high, but everything is logged, for legal reasons. Basically, the editor will walk by, pick one up, look at it for about ten seconds, and make a decision. If it's a crappy idea, is written in crayon, has misspelled words, is crude, isn't in English, is a laughably bad idea, or was written by Carrot Top, it gets immediately tagged as "reject" and moved to the rejection pile. (A much bigger pile that some poor ed asst has to take care of once a month or so—sending "No, we don't want you" letters.) If it has some potential, they stick it into the "to be read" pile, where it will be given more time… and THEN rejected.
And this came in: "Does the acquisitions person who signs the author of a 'best-seller' generally receive any type of bonus or is it just part of their expected duties?"
Absolutely. You're known by your success in publishing, so an editor who finds an unknown author and watches that book rise to the bestseller lists in turn becomes a star in-house (though everybody around will try to take credit for it — another old publishing tradition). That's how you make senior editor, by having hits. It's how a senior editor becomes a publisher, by having big hits. You're known by your hits. You rise by your hits. If you don't have hits, you're going to remain in the nameless group of midlist editors forever. And yes, your bonus is tied to your books. So, an editor who has several bestselling books in a year can expect a big bonus.
Another author asked a related question: "What is the next step up the career ladder for someone who acquires and is successful?"
Senior editor. Then executive editor or editorial director, if they have management skills. Maybe an associate publisher. It's even possible they could become publisher of a line — completely in charge of their own imprint. Amy Einhorn found several good authors, had a bunch of hits, and now runs "Amy Einhorn Books" for Penguin.
And we'll end with one from a beginning writer: "How much competition is there among acquisitions people to sign/find best-selling authors? How 'cutthroat' is it?"
In my life I've been an editor, senior editor, and associate publisher. From my perspective, we're all in the business of finding successful authors and titles. It's what drives the business, which is more "hit" driven than ever before. This is what people live for. So there is always pressure to find the next bestselling author. This is a business, my friend, and like any business, the people doing it want to make money and succeed. Now, some people may not like hearing that, since they want to focus on the artistic side of publishing. I'm part of that — I got into this because I love words, and believe great art can change us. But part of why I do this blog is to bring some reality to the conversation. Yes, writers are artists. But they are managed, molded, packaged, and sold by business people. And to the business types, this is a highly competitive world.


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Aug 16 2006, 08:00 PM
It's a cool departure then. And can rarely resist "what if" stories.
Aug 17 2006, 05:46 AM
On Beauty
is one of those on my to read list (if I can start my PhD in January instead of next month then I'm planning to devour a good few books). The campus novel seems to be popular again.
Has anyone read
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
Oryx and Crake
but I've been starved of pleasure reading (although what I read is pleasurable it's compulsory and not escapism) so I would perhaps enjoy reading anything.
Aug 17 2006, 06:59 AM
QUOTE(crazyoldcatlady @ Aug 14 2006, 07:31 PM)
so, in light of every mom n pop bookstore being usurped by something larger, i'm wondering if online ordering is the way to go. anyone know an independent site that is realtively inexpensive and ships fast?
Powell's!!!! www.powells.com The best bookstore in the world. Pity I live almost an entire continent away from it.
I bought
Balzac etc.
about a year ago at a rummage sale but haven't read it yet. I really should.
Currently reading one of Lee Child's "Reacher" thrillers. Very well written.
Aug 17 2006, 02:59 PM
I've been gone a while but am back to see what everyone's reading these days having had some great recommendations from here.
Am very happy as I was trying to come up with 2 great books to give to my best friend for her birthday wanting female oriented stories that had a little more depth then the chick lit/Maeve Binchy she normally seems to read. Gave her Runaway by Alice Munro (Short Stories - you get so inside the head of her women!) and "The Way the Crow Flies" by Ann-Marie MacDonald (could NOT put that one down and such a satisfying story).
I'm reading "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius" and have just finished "The True and Amazing Adventures of the Hunt Sisters" (lent by best friend) and "Bel Canto". All really good - was trying to read "Slaughterhouse Five" but for some reason can't get into it.
I'm finding having a young toddler and being full time at work that I SO treasure my limited reading time so am really up for some more recommendations. Especially - books that are impossible to put down but are a little more reflective than pure fiction but not so dense that they'd have to be big "L" literature. Oh - also read Michael Cunningham's "Specimen Days" recently which was a great example of that I think.
Aug 17 2006, 03:31 PM
ann marie macdonald is AMAAZING. "fall on your knees" is an incredible family saga. she is like the canadian, female gabriel garcia marquez.
Aug 17 2006, 05:09 PM
Ooh, "canadian, female gabriel garcia marquez" is quite the compliment! I have
Fall on your Knees
and must read it sometime soon. In actual fact, I have two copies as accidentally bought it twice!
The Waterstones graphic novel written using feminist cuttings from 60s is
Woman's World
by Graham Rawle.
Aug 17 2006, 05:21 PM
oh my god, bunnyb, read it RIGHT NOW. seriously one of my favorite books, EVER.
Aug 17 2006, 05:47 PM
I know it's a little late in the game, but I just finished
The Kite Runner
today and I LOVED IT.
Ah...you reminded me of Fall On Your Knees! That book is fan.tas.tic. She's such an amazing writer!
Aug 17 2006, 06:27 PM
Yes, Powells is the big bookstore in the whole world! www.powells.com. Considering moving to Portland to live near Powells, yes I'm a dork. But, oh my god.... I could have just lived there for at least the week that I was in the Pacific NW.
Heard Kite Runner was fab, but haven't gotten it yet. The Ruins is still amazing, and I'm reading a book about the Chicago World's Fair called Devil in the White City. I like Ruins better, but I think Devil is just taking a little time to get into.
Have to now check out Fall On Your Knees.
Aug 18 2006, 02:19 AM
luludoll - try The Island by Victoria Hislop. Now I know I may be loving up richard and judy a little too much here, but I did feel that the book was a good work of fiction without being Literature. And I cried three times!
Don't get me wrong, I love Literature but I'd read so much of it I realised I just needed some escapist, easy to read good fiction.
Aug 18 2006, 11:27 AM
punkerplus, if you (or anyone) is still looking for some fun, easy reads, can I suggest Sujata Massey? (you like mysteries, yeah?)
The Floating Girl
is quite good, the protagonist is a Japanese-American girl living in Tokyo who gets mixed up in murder mysteries (of course!). Great descriptions of Tokyo and modern Japanese culture.
Aug 18 2006, 05:19 PM
mouse, I started reading
Fall on your Knees
last night! So far, so good. It may take me a while as also reading
Oryx and Crake
(enjoying) and my Master's dissertation is due 4 weeks today...
Aug 20 2006, 12:14 PM
QUOTE(crazyoldcatlady @ Aug 14 2006, 07:31 PM)
so, in light of every mom n pop bookstore being usurped by something larger, i'm wondering if online ordering is the way to go. anyone know an independent site that is realtively inexpensive and ships fast?
Catlady, you might want to check into Alibris. I hadn't heard of them until I saw an ad in the
New Yorker
. I've ordered from them (also the independent sellers selling used books) a couple of times and haven't had any problems. Even though I live in the land of used bookstores, I still like to order online once in a while.
I'm currently reading a book by a Bust writer:
I'm Not the New Me
, by Wendy McClure. Honest, funny, smart, and comes at a good time as I am still on a mission to continue losing weight but don't want to lose my mind while doing so. In the center of the book are pictures of these old Weight Watchers recipe cards (Jellied Tomato Refresher, anyone?) -- that stuff looks HORRID! No wonder people could lose weight from those diets; the food looks completely nonedible! And certainly not desirable. I figured this was a logical follow-up book after reading the wonderful
. I have to keep it in the family!
Aug 20 2006, 01:38 PM
I started
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
last night and got about halfway through. It's a bit self-consciously quirky but skips along nicely and is engrossing enough.
I also re-read Iain Banks'
Against A Dark Background
again. Some of his Culture novels leave me cold/bewildered, but I really like that one. 'Tis dark though.
Aug 22 2006, 03:24 AM
*shakes fist at mouse*
I'm finding
Fall on your Knees
a hard book to put down! Not so good as I should be frantically reading other things, not to mention typing like a fiend! It's gripping and good to get my teeth into something that I don't have to analyse in minute detail.
Sybarite, have you finished
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
? Once the dissertation is out of the way I'm going to read that and
The Eyre Affair
Nervous Conditions
On Beauty
and ...
Aug 22 2006, 04:41 AM
I did bunnyb... I dunno. The background story of the family in the Ukraine was interesting but the central character Nadia annoyed me. She was a bit twittery and disingenuous, despite apparently being (like the author) a sociology lecturer.
I'm re-reading an Irish writer, Keith Ridgeway, who I really like. Whatever about Ireland's impressive literary legacy, a lot of the writing coming from there today is pants. Ridgway's
The Long Falling
really gets Dublin in the 1990s, the abortion referendum and the gay scene, as well as being a decent thriller.
I need new books...
Aug 22 2006, 05:04 AM
OMG syb, I LOVE Keith Ridgway. If you haven't already read his novella
; it's beautiful and one of the most haunting things I've read. His short story collection
Standard Time
is good too and I have
The Parts
but haven't had a chance to read them yet.
eta: have you read any Jennifer Johnston (another Irish writer)? Tutor recommended looking at her for her use of birds but I'm not sure where to start!
Do you also know of any good books on Irish myth? I'm working on Irish dramatist Marina Carr along with Angela Carter.
Aug 22 2006, 05:45 AM
damn borders and thier three-for-two goodness.
I have no idea why... but I really liked Tennyson's king arthur poems. Currently loving
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
, which I've been intending to read but always forgot. Bless oxfam and thier cheap secondhand books.
Next up is Xinran's
Good Women of China
Aug 22 2006, 08:14 AM
Oxfam's cheap books
. Especially as new books here cost a bloody fortune.
Bunnyb, re. Irish myths: anthologies or critical texts? I know of neither offhand but can ask around...
Aug 22 2006, 09:19 AM
Powells has a great online service, I've found a lot of random signed books there. They're the huge indy bookseller in Oregon. I thought Alibris was more about rare books, but it's been a while since I checked it out.
I didn't love "I'm Not The New Me" -- it might just be because Wendy's blog, www.poundy.com, has been rubbing me the wrong way and that somehow bled into the book. I just didn't feel like I understood her -- the book was somehow mediated/distanced, I didn't feel like it was personal. I wonder if you blog a lot that that's inevitable? You're so aware of people constantly reading you/judging you. She just seems so defensive and guarded. Just my $0.02
Recent great reads:
The Love Wife by Gish Jen -- I have loved her since Mona in the Promised Land, I thought this was a really interesting look at race and class but still a good read, with real characters I cared about.
The Stephanie Plum books by Janet Evanovich -- pure wonderful escapism. I just finished 11 on Top.
Becoming Justice Blackmun, by Linda Greenhouse. (I'm a law dork though, but I still found it readable).
The Raintree Rebellion/Underneath my skin -- good Canadian sci fi-social commentary.
Miss Wyoming by Douglas Coupland.
I also read the new(ish) Jasper Fforde, The Big Over Easy, but I didn't like it as much as the Eyre Affaire books.
Aug 22 2006, 10:50 AM
syb, anthology. I need a good inroad into Irish myth, especially those used by Yeats and then by later writers.
Aug 22 2006, 12:58 PM
Faith - I just loved Miss Wyoming. Have you read Girlfriend in a Coma. Fall on Your Knees was incredible - but seriously I think The Way the Crow Flies was even better.
Am hitting a slump in "Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius" - rare to slump mid book when it's been riveting so far. Harooumph!
Aug 22 2006, 06:07 PM
while compelling, i found dave eggers to be pretentious and self-involved, which is kind of a requisite for that genre of writing, i suppose...
so, off topic, but i have an informal poll: do any of you have one book that fucked up your world? i.e., a book that significantly affected you, changed your course of action, etc. etc.?
Ray Kinsella: By the time I was ten, playing baseball got to be like eating vegetables or taking out the garbage. So when I was 14, I started to refuse. Could you believe that? An American boy refusing to play catch with his father.
Terence Mann: Why 14?
Ray Kinsella: That's when I read "The Boat Rocker" by Terence Mann.
Aug 22 2006, 06:48 PM
QUOTE(raisingirl @ Aug 20 2006, 02:31 PM)
Catlady, you might want to check into Alibris.
I've found that although Alibris is usually your best bet if you're looking for something pretty obscure, you can usually find stuff much, much cheaper. They're sort of the filet mignon of online used book listings. Check out www.bookfinder.com - it accesses multiple online listings, including Alibris, so you can find exactly what you want and in the condition you want (i.e., not everyone needs/wants a signed first edition in near fine condition with a near fine dustwrapper - most folks just want to read the damn book) at a variety of prices. (This is also a great resource to suss out the value of a book you have and may want to sell.)
Says VP, used book junkie.
Speaking of Janet Evanovich, I read somewhere just today that she turned from writing romance novels to detective fiction when she hit menopause, because she found she was thinking more of murder and less of romance.
Aug 22 2006, 07:04 PM
luludoll - i think you're hitting the slump because the second half of the book sucks. i love his commentary on this american life but david eggers is the most pretentious writer ever. there needed to have been more toph and less of everything else. especially the whole mtv thing, what the fuck was that??
anyways, i finally read "wicked" which everyone else hear seemed to have loved. i really liked the first half but it too seemed to lose steam at the end.
currently, i am reading "the known world" and am totally riveted by the idea of black slave owners.
crazycatlady - i think "god bless you, mr. rosewater" by kurt vonnegut totally messed me up in regards to how i relate to money and belongings and the material side of myself. my 14 year old self really *wanted* to be messed up by Franny and Zooey by JD Salinger but I really cannot pretend to be that religious/spritual/searching. i just don't see it as important.
Aug 22 2006, 07:05 PM
Loved Miss Wyoming. I used to have a signed copy, but my shit of a ex-fiancee stole it. I want to get his new one, Jpod. I had the pleasure of going out to coffee with Doug Coupland after a book signing (for Miss Wyoming) a few years back. One of the best nights of my life. I still heart Generation X.
Done with Ruins. Was fabulous. A thriller, but a very fast read. Stephen King was right! Ordered an old Neil Gaiman and a new Vampire book (the one that Alan Ball is creating for HBO) from Amazon the other day. Should be arriving next week. Yay!
Oh, forgot to mention, anyone read the sequel to Wicked, Son of a Witch? I have a feeling that he's got another book up his sleeve. It was okay, but not nearly as good as Wicked. The musical, by the way was freaking amazing....
Aug 22 2006, 07:15 PM
Interesting observation, Faith. I know of Wendy's blog (I mean, how could you not?), but I have never read it regularly, so I don't really have much in the way of comparing the book to the blog. What an interesting and modern phenomenon, though.
Ooh, Catlady, good question. One summer for our required summer reading in middle school, I read
The Jungle
. I do think that those graphic descriptions of the meatpacking plants led me to eventually stop eating meat. Propaganda! heh. Those in-between years, though, were hell. It's going to sound a little OCD, but I'd make up rules about eating meat so I'd be okay with it -- like if my dad was making a grilled cheeseburger for me, it would absolutely have to have no trace of pink on the inside before I'd eat it. So yeah, I would say that book definitely changed my young teenage impressionable mind. Fucked me up in a way that I drove everyone in my family totally bonkers from about the age of 14 to early 20s because of what I would and wouldn't eat in terms of meat.
VP, now that you mention it, one of my purchases from Alibris was indeed a decades-old out-of-print book! Go figure.
Ferraro, I've heard good things about
The Known World
. ::adds it to my ever-growing list::
Aug 24 2006, 01:18 PM
mouse, thank you.
Aug 24 2006, 01:25 PM
Bunnyb, don't know of any anthologies... poked around a friend's library with Irish lit stuff but no joy. I'll let you know if I come across anything. I think they're pretty standardised though; any luck with amazon or similar?
Aug 25 2006, 02:55 AM
I don't have anything to add except that the BUSTmonster ate my post and now I can't remember what I said. Grrrmpft.
Aug 25 2006, 04:51 AM
That sucks punkyp, what book(s) were you discussing?
Sybarite, amazon's not been too helpful but I may have found one. I'm going to have a look around Borders first. I may also pick up a copy of
The Way the Crow Flies
Aug 25 2006, 05:08 AM
I thanked sixelacat for the suggestion, probably moaned about leaving my job because it means I have to return all my books. And I can't remember what else.
Has anyone read The Shadow of the Wind?
Hmmm books that fucked up my life......
I read Dear Nobody when I was 11 and it was the first time I really thought about abortion and what I believed about it.
I read the Beauty Myth when I was 16 and that put an end to the slight weight obsession I had.
Reading the Vagina Monologues when I was 15 and talking to people afterwards about it, made me feel more comfortable with discussing vaginas, and helped shape my body politics.
I guess a lot of them have been to do with feminism and have just solidified previous beliefs.
Aug 25 2006, 05:19 AM
I'm finding it a very difficult Q to answer: probably
The Diary of Anne Frank
Schindler's List
(the book as well as the movie).
On a lighter note, reading my first Angela Carter novel
Nights at the Circus
has kinda fucked up my life a bit (but in a good way) as I loved it so much I'm devoting a good few years to writing on her work.
Aug 25 2006, 05:25 AM
I am ashamed to admit that I have never read The Diary of Anne Frank, nor Schindlers List.
Aug 25 2006, 09:35 AM
OK, I'm reading a book right now that is making me a little crazy. It's really not my usual fare at all, but it's so interesting. It's
Galatea 2.2
, about a novelist who goes back to his alma mater for a year's writer-in-residence position and gets involved in an attempt to teach a computer about literature and make it at least mimic consciousness. The jargon of artificial intelligence, all about neural networks and cognition studies, is a little overwhelming in places, but the writing is *so good.* He's written several other books that have been highly rated (
The Gold Bug Variations
is the one title I recognized) - anyone else read him?
ETA: The author's name is Richard Powers, BTW.
Aug 26 2006, 06:46 AM
I like
The Shadow of The Wind
. It's quite gentle, and takes a while to get into, but it's well-written and keeps the plot going without being an "omg, thriller!" (like the da vinci code) sort of book.
I've just finished Xinran's
The Good Women of China
and cried.
As far as books that changed/fucked-up my life... James Herriot's
All Creatures Great And Small
The Stray
, a children's book he wrote). Damn you, Herriot. *shakes fist*.
The Female Eunuch
(I know I've not spelt that right) as well.
I haven't read anne frank either, punker.
Aug 26 2006, 08:57 AM
I seem to have overlooked crazycatlady's question before, but here is my belated answer:
I think the books that impacted on me the most were those I read in my teens: Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by de Beauvoir, which has convinced me that I have never worked hard enough at academia. Some sexist sci-fi (Jose Farmer, Arthur C Clarke) I read as a 10 year old left a vaguely nasty taste in my mouth. Little Women led me astray at around that age too, asserting that Jo was an early feminist when really all she did in the end was marry an older German professor and run a school. Before that the Nancy Drew books convinced me that George was indeed a 'tomboy' (instead of merely short-haired and independent) although by the same token they represented boy-crazy Bess as silly, which was no bad thing...
I suspect I'm veering off topic towards books I remember from my childhood. I'm sure there are other books that have been pivotal for me; I just can't think of them.
Vesica, I couldn't get into Powers but a writer friend of mine swears by him, says he's a genius and reveres his work.
Aug 26 2006, 09:21 AM
I'm taking it as a sign that
Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter
The Good Women of China
have been mentioned as I've been looking at both recently.
I bought
The Way the Crow Flies
yesterday but will not open it until dissertation submitted. Syb, I also found a dictionary of celtic myth which will suffice for the moment.
Aug 26 2006, 01:54 PM
I just got The Way the Crow Flies in the mail today. Damn, I'd forgotten how long it was! But I'm glad someone mentioned it, because I'd really wanted to read it a couple of years ago, but then I just forgot about it.
Aug 26 2006, 02:53 PM
I just finished reading Marcus Zusack's
I am the Messenger.
It is supposedly a young adult fiction book, but I'm 32 and was moved and intrigued by the book. It was one of those reads that promises on the cover that you won't want to put it down, and they weren't lying. Highly recommended to all, regardless of age.
Aug 26 2006, 10:00 PM
I can't recommend
The Diary of Anne Frank
enoughl; it was the first book concerning the Holocaust that I read, given to me by my mum (she's debating whether my lil sis is old enough to read it- although I was about same age, we're very different- and thinks it should be compulsory reading in schools). Around the same time I read
I am David
When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit
Mentioning Anne Frank has prompted me to purchase
The Boy who Loved Anne Frank
. I also ordered a copy of
The Good Women of China
. I have high expectations for the amount of reading time I have once dissertation is out of the way.
faerietales, TWtCF is loooong, but if it's anything like
Fall on Your Knees
in its compelling story and enjoyability then it will be a quick read.
Aug 27 2006, 03:46 AM
I've tried reading The Female Eunuch (
You did spell it right mornington!)
but I've never been able to get the whole way through. I just seem to wander off and pick up other books instead. I loved The Madwoman's Underclothes though.
I picked up Fat is a Feminist Issue recently and I haven't started reading it but now from the reviews I've looked at I'm a bit worried it is going to be more of a self help book than an inspiring feminist tome. Guess I'll try it anyway.
I'll keep Shadow of the Wind on my list and add The Good Women of China and Anne Frank.
This is slightly off topic but has anyone seen the film Sophie Scholl? I watched it the other day and was wondering if anyone knew of any good books about her and The White Rose?
Aug 27 2006, 07:54 AM
I just got Leslie Feinberg's new one,
Drag King Dreams
. Haven't started it yet, and with some tredpidation.
Stone Butch Blues
was almost painful to read. I mean, I'd read a few pages, and have to set it down and catch my breath. Not a light lunchtime read.
Aug 28 2006, 10:19 AM
I want to belatedly chime in on books that changed my life.
Number one, chronologically, would be "Harriet the Spy" by Louise Fitzhugh -- Harriet is such a tomboy/ uh, regular girl -- riding around on her bike, writing in her notebook, getting into weird situations. Kind of 'portrait of a young female writer' without being sappy -- definitely encouraged me a lot!
Then, sophomore year in High School, found "Last Exit to Brooklyn" by Hubert Selby, Junior, in a book store! Hard, crazy Brooklyn slum characters from the 1940s really made me see a few things and think about lives beyond the suburbs and small towns.
At some point I found the Carlos Castaneda books, and, whether its truth or fiction or some weird amalgam of both, its view of a concurrent reality with its own strict rules is enlightening.
Then "The Fountainhead" by Ayn Rand. She's a nut, but she manages to put into words some experiences and ideas that are hard to put into words. You have to make your way through a few god-awful passages, but it reminds me of my core values as a creative and technical person from a fairly non-encouraged background.
And a lot of the things she says about the media are still deadly accurate.
Lastly, "Valis" by Phillip K. Dick. His expansion of traditional Christianity and tough, humorous stance on the burnouts around him messed with my perceptions for awhile.
Love "Sound of Chariots" by Mollie Hunter -- and Margaret Atwood.
Aug 28 2006, 11:00 AM
the kite runner
last week, finally! it took me about a two and half months to finally make it through the first quarter of the book because of other obligations, but once i got into it, i was reading it every chance i got. beautiful story; heart-breaking but lovely. i cried several times. highly recommended.
last night, pulled out
in cold blood
the next on my long and ever-growing list. i'm already loving capote's writing style. i can hear his voice (or at least ps hoffman's version of it) in my head as i'm reading. i haven't seen
yet, hence the reading of the book now so i can!
Aug 28 2006, 04:20 PM
Both read
In Cold Blood
and seen
; I read the book a few years ago and seeing the film definitely altered my perception of it. Both are fantastic.
Aug 31 2006, 09:54 AM
(belated response)
Bunnyb, try
Great Folk Tales of Old Ireland
compiled by Mary McGarry... cheesy title but it's got some of the biggies like Diarmuid and Grainne and The Children of Lir.
the link on amazon.
Am I trawling amazon as procrastination instead of doing my own work? Why yes, yes I am. At least my time wasting is alturistic.
Hope it's what you're looking for.
Sep 1 2006, 05:07 AM
I've just finished We Need To Talk About Kevin by Lionel Schriver, and I thought it was awesome. Deals really well with the whole issue of nature versus nurture and whether motherhood comes easily or naturally to some women. Anyone else read it?
Sep 1 2006, 05:47 AM
Pointybird, that book killed me. I raced through it; I read it over Thanksgiving with my family last year, heh.
I don't actually feel it was a balanced view of motherhood (understatement) or even a good representation of nature vs nurture, only because the situation was so extreme. She does make a good point about some people not being suited to parenting, altho again the sitch here is pretty unusual. Disturbingly, I found myself identifying with her responses to her (admittedly psychopathic) son.
The guardian newspaper (www.guardian.co.uk) has a good article by Shriver where she explores being childfree; it'll be in the archives.
Sep 1 2006, 05:49 AM
I read The
Shadow of the Wind
and absolutely loved it. I'm going to buy it for my dad for his birthday. I've been to Barcelona a few times and it felt so right for the city.
I read
We Need to Talk About Kevin
recently too and thought it was really good, but very creepy. The whole notion that your own kid could be so horrible from day one and you're basically powerless about it... and the ending
where she realizes she loves him anyway and is keeping a room for him to stay in for when he gets out of prison
... it freaked me out. [white text to avoid spoiling] I would never recommend this to a friend with kids, I really did find it that creepy.
After over a year it is finally my turn to pick a book for my book club at work and I'm making them read
Snow Crash
by Neal Stephenson. It is one of my favourites and I am really curious to see what they think of it. I am keen to reread it again as it's been probably 8 years or so since the last time.
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- It had been five years since this critic was brave enough to review a Wayans brothers comedy.
One would have thought that the horror of "White Chicks," in which two Wayans made themselves up as blond girls only to resemble nothing so much as "intergalactic burn victims," would've been a life-changing experience so profound that I would've stayed away from Wayans brothers flicks for the rest of my natural life.
Alas, human beings are evidently the one species with the inability to learn from their mistakes.
The original Wayans had a TV show in the 1990s. It was funny. Of course, it was sketch comedy, and even "Saturday Night Live" can drum up 20 minutes or so of good sketch comedy every week.
Cinemas are regularly stuffed, however, with ill-advised films that attempt, and regularly fail, to extend the bliss of a good sketch into a feature-length presentation. Let us add yet another to that festering pile of stink.
"Dance Flick," like the name suggests, is a spoof on the raft of dance movies -- like 2001's "Save the Last Dance," the model for this recent trend and actually not a bad film -- in which a young man from the wrong side of the tracks (i.e., a black guy) and a young woman from the suburbs with ballet experience (a white girl) are brought together by their passion for dancing.
The guy and the girl, they spend long hours training for a climactic dance battle, and they don't just keep it on the floor either, if you know what I'm saying.
There are more Wayans in this movie then it's possible to keep straight, as the elder Wayans brothers have stepped aside for a younger generation of the clan, notably Damon Wayans Jr., this film's lead actor. He's a competent performer. He's not at all funny, but that's not necessarily his fault. (Shoshana Bush is Damon's co-star.)
It seems I took "White Chicks" to strenuous task for racial (and every other kind of ethnic and gender) stereotyping, and perhaps accurately. But as a friend of mine at Paramount Pictures, "Dance Flick's" studio, mentioned to me, the Wayans' movies are just spoofs. True enough.
The slave in the cotton field, the girl punched in the face by her boyfriend, the gay baiting -- this is only comedy, people. Laughing is optional.
I didn't laugh once at "Dance Flick." Not a single time. It wasn't so much that I was offended as struck dumb by how tone-deaf the Wayans brothers have become.
The writing process for this film apparently consisted of family members telling jokes to each other, either across a table or over the phone late at night. They make each other laugh, not unlike those guys you see standing out in front of your local deli at all hours of the day and night.
Of course, the guys at the deli don't have a major film studio willing to pay them millions of dollars to share their moronic humor with the rest of the world. The Wayans got reimbursed, they've been provided for, so can they please stop now?


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By Brian Smith 3:55am, October 30, 2012 - Updated 5:52pm, October 30, 2012Another indication of the magnitude and significance of Sandy comes in the form of some rainfall records.
The National Weather Service measured 3.79 inches of rain in Wilmington on Monday, which breaks a record that's held for more than 60 years. The old record of 2.56 inches was set in 1953.
Atlantic City destroyed a rainfall record that was even older. The town had 4.79 inches of rain Monday, which was more than twice the old record of 2.33 inches set in 1908.
And at Philadelphia International Airport, there was a record for rainfall and for atmospheric pressure. There was 2.68 inches of rain, breaking a record of 1.72 also set in 1953, and the barometer measured 953 millibars, which was lower than the previous record of 962 set during the blizzard of 1993.
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SOMERVILLE — The man convicted for the 2012 Craigslist armed robbery has been sentenced to 15 years in state prison, according to a statement from Somerset County Prosecutor Geoffrey D. Soriano.
Grant must serve 85 percent of that term, 12 years and nine months, pursuant to the No Early Release Act, before being eligible for parole, the statement said.
Grant was found guilty of the charges by a Somerset County jury after a six day trial held before Marino, the statement said.
At about 4:30 p.m. on Feb. 12, 2012, Somerville Police were called to a report of an armed robbery at 129 Fairview Avenue and met with a man who told them he had just been robbed by two men, each brandishing a knife, in the hallway of the multi-unit apartment building.The men got $2,500 from the man and then fled the area on foot, the statement said.
The victim told police that he had searched the Craigslist website looking to buy Apple electronic items, and made contact with a seller in Somerville who directed him to the Fairview Avenue address, the statement said.
The phone number posted by the seller was a cellular telephone used by co-defendant Stephen Maurrasse of Somerville, the statement said.
The police investigation, which included the victim picking Grant's photo out of a photo line-up, and text messages between Grant and Maurrasse earlier in the day planning the robbery, concluded that Grant and Maurrasse were responsible for the armed robbery, the statement said.
Both Grant and Maurrausse were arrested on Feb. 28, 2012 at their homes on the same block of Fairview Avenue, the statement said.
The state's case against Grant was handled by Assistant Prosecutor Robert J. Hawkes during the trial and sentencing, the statement said.
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First Look: Kinect Star Wars Social Networking App
Microsoft today released an interesting new app that could change how we view our social networking feeds. Kinect Star Wars arrived for Android and Windows devices; the iPhone version will be available soon, according to DesignTaxi.
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The American Cancer Society will hold its Long County Relay for Life kickoff at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 15, at A New Beginning Church.
Kids between the ages of 2-12 each can get a free ticket to attend the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus on Jan. 21-25 in the Savannah Civic Center.
What does Ben Affleck searching for his missing wife; Tom Cruise as he lives, dies, repeats; Brad Pitt leading troops into war; and a group of Marvel Comics misfits all have in common?
One day, Lily, Mae, Samford and Griffin Armitage will be old enough to understand the impact their simultaneous arrivals have had on Sherri and Paul Armitage's lives.
New Year's babies were welcomed Jan. 1 at both Liberty Regional Medical Center and Fort Stewart's Winny Army Community Hospital. Meet them in the photos at left.
The Hinesville Area Arts Council will host an art exhibit this month.
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The Long County Martin Luther King Jr. Observance will start at 10 a.m. Saturday with a parade. Line-up will be between Walker Elementary and Long County Middle School.
I managed to surprise my husband recently when I casually admitted that I had never seen the movie "A Christmas Story." As is his habit, he immediately set about continuing my cultural makeover - an essential part of my "Americanization," according to him - and equally as important as the blue American passport I was granted two years ago.
Auditions will be from 5-7 p.m. Friday and 9 a.m.-noon Saturday 10 for the Fort Stewart Community Theater's first production of "Vintage Hitchcock: A Live Radio Play."
The crisp and sunny New Year's weather matched the celebratory mood inside First Calvary Missionary Baptist Church, which served as the site of Thursday's observance of the 152nd anniversary of the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation.
EDITOR'S NOTE: DVDs reviewed in this column will be available this week.
Liberty Veterinary Medical Center recently achieved the highest level of veterinary excellence following a thorough evaluation by the American Animal Hospital Association.
Keep Liberty Beautiful, Georgia Power and the Georgia Forestry Commission invite area residents to "chip in" and turn in live, undecorated Christmas trees for recycling after the holidays.
"Unbroken," directed by star actress Angelina Jolie, is a film that has had some serious awards consideration, and I think it's mostly deserving of something.
It was, of all things, a call to jury duty that reminded me powerfully of the beauty of a sweet hometown and the joy that ...
Not yet 25 years old, Jerrica Russaw has written her first book, "Life without Parole: The Journey to Freedom."
Fort McAllister State Park will be closed until at least the second week in November as staff continues to recover from Hurricane Matthew.
Families in Midway took a break Friday to have some fun and get away from all the hurricane fuss.
It happened last summer. I had been telling Tink about an adorable town a few hours away. This column runs in the newspaper there. In ...
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No team is really prepared for a lockout.
Management prepared their teams for the next season, even if they are in a rebuilding mode.
They brought in veterans to support the young guys or perhaps left positions open in order to allow the best prospects to get the most ice time.
Having said that, some teams are better prepared for a lockout than others.
A team in a rut may like a bounce back season, but a little time off to get things sorted out probably would help more than another poor season will hurt them.
A team on a hot streak is going to want to capitalize on their success for the next team.
Others that made a big push in free agency can't be happy that all the money they spent is not going to achieve instant results.
Still other teams that have a bunch of downtrending veterans might have wanted one last season to squeeze the most they can out of them before they hang up the skates.
Either way, fans, management and players are all upset that there's no hockey right now.
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Caring Bunny hops into VCC for children with special needs
Citizen Staff Reports 03/29/12
Caring Bunny will hop into Virginia Center Commons Mall, 10101 Brook Rd., for children with special needs and their families on Sunday, April 1 from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. in the JCPenney Court. The event will be held prior to the mall opening, so that accommodations can be made to support the sensory, physical and other developmental needs of all guests.
Caring Bunny is a joint program developed by The Noerr Programs, the digital imaging company that provides the Bunny Photo Experience for malls nationwide and AbilityPath.org, a national online resource hub and special needs community.
"We had an overwhelming response to the launch of Caring Bunny and Caring Santa last year. As a result, we are thrilled to expand this program to 52 malls," said Sheryl Young, CEO of AbilityPath.org. "Holding the event before the mall opens to the public helps provide a calmer, sensory-friendly environment," adds Young.
For children with a variety of special needs, standing in line, bright flashes, crowds and sounds can create major disturbances and distractions. "We take great care in making sure our photo setting is conducive to all abilities, to allow these families to participate in a heartwarming tradition that so many take for granted," said Judy Noerr, CEO of The Noerr Programs. "It's very rewarding to see the number of siblings who attend, many for the first time. It's just as much for them, as it is for their brother or sister with special needs," notes Noerr.
Registration is requested at http://www.abilitypath.org. For more information, call VCC at 266-9002.
Reynolds CC to host sculptor Paul DiPasquale
Reynolds Community College will host Richmond sculptor Paul DiPasquale Sept. 28 as he shares his presentation "Art Talk, Why Art Matters" from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. in the Conference Center Gallery of the Workforce Development and Conference Center on the Parham Road Campus, located at 1651 E. Parham Road in Richmond. This event is free and open to the public. > Read more.
Free children's clothing for those in need
The Children's Clothing Closet at Highland Springs United Methodist Church will be open Saturday, Aug. 27 and Tuesday, Aug. 30 to provide free new or nearly new children's clothing for families in need, prior to the start of the school year. The Clothing Closet will be open from 10 a.m. to noon both days. The church is located at 22 North Holly Avenue. > Read more.
CAT Theatre announces cast of 'Wishing Well'
Directory Zachary Owen this week announced the cast for CAT Theatre's production of the comedy Wishing Well, which will run Jan. 20 through Feb. 4.
RTCC nominee Jacqueline Jones (Quartet, All My Sons, The Dixie Swim Club) will return to the CAT stage as the matriarch of the Cauthen family. In keeping with CAT's mission to provide opportunities for local artists, the group will welcome four new actors to the stage: Kerrigan Sullivan (head of the John Tyler Community College Theatre Program) will play Callie Quayle; Rachel Dilliplane will play Cindy Cauthen; Arik Cullen will play Dennis Quayle; and Jonel Jones will play Richard Smalls. > Read more.
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CalendarThe Pocahontas Chapter of the Virginia Native Plant Society will meet at 7 p.m. at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden. Why would a young woman spend time fertilizing native grass on an undeveloped barrier island? That young woman, Ashley Moulton, will present the results of her Master's thesis, including the important implications of how the functional diversity of plant communities can be altered by global and local disturbances in coastal systems. The program is free and open to the public. A short business meeting will follow the presentation. For details, visit http://www.pocahontaschapter-vnps.org. Full text


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Antibiotics and Obesity--an Unexpected Casualty in the War on Microbes
There's mounting evidence that antibiotic use early in life may contribute to obesity. As if we needed it—here's, one more reason why we need to care about antibiotic stewardship
There's mounting evidence that antibiotic use early in life may contribute to obesity. As if we needed it—here's, one more reason why we need to care about antibiotic stewardship
uBiome's CEO, Jessica Richman, seems to me to be a great saleswoman who also excels at sounding innocent and playing the misunderstood victim in the ethical controversy surrounding her company.
The latest temperature readings from Antarctica are giving the world pause, along with the finding that 70 percent of the western Antarctic ice shelf has melted.
As #SciAmFood week draws to a close, we've heard a lot about the food we consume, from not getting enough to astronaut nutrition (and getting too much) to tricking your brain about what it's getting.
In recent days I've had some interesting conversations. There's a giddiness going around, related to an outpouring of science love – the kind you get from President Obama introducing TV science shows, the kind that has wonderful visuals, but is, well, a wee bit simplistic (a sin that none of us could ever, ever be [...]
Ever since coming to Harvard, I've been involved with a graduate student group called "Science in the News." At SITN, the goal is to bring the fascination with scientists that graduate students have to a wider audience, and the flagship effort of the group is a series of lectures held every Autumn and Spring that [...]
Do you ever wonder about the science behind your food? We do, too. Our group of writers serves up juicy topics like genetic engineering, gut bacteria and the chemical reactions that occur during cooking.
Two of the most monumental developments in the history of human civilization, likely the innovations that have saved more human lives than any other, are soap and sanitation.
If you ever worry that you're a bit too optimistic about the future, try reading Maryn McKenna's posts about the growing threat of antibiotic resistance.
Last week was a monumental one for me – I said goodbye to my old lab, where I've worked for the past 5 years. It was harder than I thought it would be to leave.
Imagine if in the 1960s surgeons like Christiaan Barnard or Norman Shumway had had to use the same rules that govern the development and testing of pharmaceutical medications when they were teaching the rest of the world how to transplant hearts from the recently deceased into their patients.
What is living in your gut? It might depend less on your diet, exercise habits, weight and sex than you think, according to new findings. Our health is tied to trillions of organisms that live in and on us.
This is a guest post from my friend and former colleague Tami Lieberman. She's a postdoc in the Kishony Lab in the Department of Systems Biology at the Harvard Medical School, and you follow her on twitter @conTAMInatedsci.
THIS is good scicomm. Why? Well, for many reasons – good writing, good sound, good editing – but by far the most apparent, the reason most people will sit up and take note is because of the strong visuals.
I find it ironic that Thanksgiving coincides with American Diabetes Month. In honor of that irony, two recently published studies have suggested a possible link between what you eat, how it impacts the behavior of the microbes living in your gut, and type II diabetes.
We're just learning how important certain microbes can be to our own health. They can help us digest foods and protect us from harmful invaders.
In the summer of 1984, the Australian scientist Neil Noakes took some bacteria from a petri dish, mixed them with lukewarm beef extract - the normal nutrient solution for bacteria in the lab - and filled a little more than one cup into a beaker.
Scientists collect crazy things. I'm not talking thimble-crazy or frog-themed-crazy. That kind of tchotchke barely ranks on the crazy scale.
I can't write an intro better than this: Far more attention has been paid to the microbes in our feces than the microbes in our food.