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""Many years ago, our company founder, Al Conklin, sold a new twin-engine business aircraft to a very successful entrepreneur. He had established a bit of a rapport with the individual and, after the sale, asked him straight out, 'How can you justify the cost of this airplane?' His reply? 'What is the cost of a divorce?'"–David Wyndham, president, Conklin & de Decker"
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Cessna delivered the first Citation CJ4 (Model 525C) in April after wrapping up a rigorous flight-test program that included 1,000 sorties and more than 1,600 hours in the air since the airplane's first flight in May 2008.
The new model, which received FAA certification in March, is the latest in Cessna's popular CJ series of light twinjets, a line that is entering its third decade. The manufacturer launched the original Model 525 CitationJet in 1989 as a replacement for the early 1970s vintage Citation I. With each subsequent iteration, the CJ1, 2 and 3, the airplane grew a little bit faster and a little bit longer.
But it would be a mistake to call the CJ4 just another stretched out and updated CJ. While the $8.75 million, 16,950-pound (maximum takeoff weight) CJ4 is not a clean-sheet-of-paper design, it's a "lessons learned" airplane from a company that has learned a lot about small jets in the last 40 years.
While Cessna wanted to introduce a variety of new design features and technologies in the eight- to nine-passenger CJ4, it also wanted to mitigate risk, so it applied items successfully incorporated in several of its other newer airplanes. It borrowed the slicker wing geometry from the larger Citation Sovereign and the bigger passenger door from the Citation Mustang. The more powerful Williams FJ44-4A engines are derivatives of those on the CJ3. The peppier engines and slipperier wing allow the CJ4 to cruise at 453 knots and climb directly to 43,000 feet. Range has been increased to 1,963 nautical miles and full-fuel payload has grown to 1,000 pounds. (Maximum payload is 2,100 pounds.)
Up front, the pilots' seats have two inches more legroom and the instrument panel has a more logical, ergonomic layout. The avionics are tried-and-true: four-display Rockwell Collins Pro Line 21 with the latest safety enhancements, including electronic charts, graphical weather uplink and Multiscan weather radar, terrain avoidance and anti-collision systems. Like all CJs, the CJ4 can be flown single-pilot.
While these refinements unquestionably make the CJ4 a better jet, it is inside the redesigned passenger compartment where you are apt to notice the most dramatic changes.
Passenger electronics have been upgraded with the Rockwell Collins Venue cabin-management system. There are switch panels at each seat position and power outlets for laptops or other accessories at two passenger seats and both pilots' seats. The Venue system controls all in-flight entertainment equipment, including iPod connectivity, Blu-ray player, moving maps and 100-gigabyte hard-drive storage for personal media. The standard package includes a single satellite radio receiver and two plug-in, arm-mounted, 10.6-inch high-definition monitors. You can buy additional receivers and monitors that can be plugged in and moved between any of the six main passenger seats. Venue also controls all indirect cabin lighting as well as the electronic window shades, which can be set anywhere between clear, shear and full blackout mode.
The LED reading lights aren't dimmable but are installed as part of an integrated light/gasper combination. The environmental system has been fortified and improved through the addition of an extra evaporator, separate controls for pilot, copilot and passenger cabin, and redesigned air valves. The new valves can be swiveled 360 degrees and have louvers and a separate shutoff ring.
Compared with the CJ3, the CJ4's fuselage was stretched 21 inches, yielding more passenger legroom. Passenger capacity has grown to nine (copilot seat, belted aft lavatory seat and side-facing kibitzer opposite the cabin entry door plus six standard single executive seats).
The cabin seats feature a new design with a much beefier mechanism. The seat pitch and foam sculpting have been changed for improved comfort. The seats also have sturdy flip-up arms that can be stowed out of the way to improve the comfort of plus-sized passengers.
The CJ4's cabin floor has been lowered to provide a wider surface and better viewing out the windows. Three basic floor plans offer wider choices for refreshment centers and seat placement. New cabinets and panels give the CJ4 interior a clean, flowing appearance and sculpted lower sidewalls also afford more space. The aft lavatory features a left-hand belted potty, a small vanity and pocket doors. Unfortunately, the lav cannot be externally serviced.
The CJ4 also offers the option of quick-change mounts, allowing buyers to alter the aircraft configuration rapidly to better handle specific missions. For example, you can swap out the large forward refreshment center for a smaller one and a side-facing seat when you need extra passenger capacity. The change-out relies on a proprietary pin-mounting system developed by Cessna that cuts installation and removal times. The system not only makes the CJ4 easier to reconfigure, it also allows the interior to come together much faster during initial manufacture.
Although the CJ4 is a comparatively small business jet, Cessna offers it with a wide choice of colors, fabrics, materials and finishes. For example, you can select from dozens of embossed and patterned carpet options.
It may be a little jet, but it has a lot to offer.
At a Glance
Price (2008 dollars): $8.75 million
Passengers (standard): 8-9
Crew: 1-2
Range (six passengers and reserves): 1,963 nm
Maximum cruising speed: 453 kt
Cabin Width: 58 in
Cabin Height: 57 in
Cabin Length: 17 ft 4 in
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|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Factorial Assignment
Masking: Single Blind (Outcomes Assessor)
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|An RCT of Telemedicine Interventions for OSA
- Sleep symptoms [ Time Frame: 6 months ]
- Quality of life [ Time Frame: 6 months ]
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|October 2010
|Study Completion Date:
|January 2016
|Primary Completion Date:
|November 2015 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
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Physical activity
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Behavioral: Diet
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Active Comparator: Arm 3
Health education
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Obstructive sleep apnea/hypopnea (OSAH) is a common chronic disease that is associated with daytime sleepiness, impaired health-related quality of life (QOL), and increased risk of hypertension and cardiovascular disease. The most common treatment is continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP), although adherence to CPAP is poor in more than one-third of patients. Weight loss can clearly lessen the severity of OSAH, but although short-term dietary weight loss can often be achieved it is difficult to maintain. Regular aerobic exercise is associated with a lower prevalence of OSAH in observational studies after adjustment for body habitus, and in two small clinical trials moderate exercise was associated with a substantial decrease in OSAH severity despite little or no weight loss. Demonstrating that dietary weight loss and moderate physical activity, promoted in the home setting, independently improve OSAH severity will have a major impact on the therapeutic approach to OSAH, a disease that is highly prevalent in the VA population.
The investigators hypothesize that both moderate-intensity physical activity and dietary weight loss will independently reduce OSAH severity and improve QOL.
The proposed study is a randomized clinical trial designed to test the independent effects of the physical activity and diet interventions, with an attention control intervention for subjects not assigned to either active intervention. Subjects will be male and female Veterans with a BMI over 24 kg/m2, with a physician diagnosis of OSAH and apnea-hypopnea index (AHI) >10/hr. The interventions will last six months.
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- Physician diagnosis of sleep apnea
- Apnea-hypopnea index >10/hr
- BMI over 24 kg/m2
Exclusion Criteria:
- Angina pectoris
- History of myocardial infarction within 6 months
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01108081
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|VA Boston Healthcare System Jamaica Plain Campus, Jamaica Plain, MA
|Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 02130
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|David William Sparrow, DSc
|VA Boston Healthcare System Jamaica Plain Campus, Jamaica Plain, MA
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|July 7, 2016
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Keywords provided by VA Office of Research and Development:
Sleep apnea
Sleep symptoms
Quality of Life
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Sleep Apnea Syndromes
Respiration Disorders
Respiratory Tract Diseases
Signs and Symptoms, Respiratory
Signs and Symptoms
Sleep Disorders, Intrinsic
Sleep Wake Disorders
Nervous System Diseases
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Posted on 02/26/2005 5:14:03 PM PST by Tanniker Smith
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The few that I saw discussions about up until now were fantasies (particularly "quest" novels), biographies and books by Freepers. With all due respect to my fellow Freepers, while I'd love to discuss your books, at the moment, there's probably a limited audience. I'd suggest at this point that the rest of us track down copies so we can talk about them at a later date.
That would leave us with biographies and fantasies. Which should we start off with. (Since we can't get a show of hands, I'll let the first of you that answer the ping or stumble upon the thread make the decision. See what a great leader I am! I delegate!)
(If you wish to be removed, please leave a note. Thank you.)
My vote goes to biographies, since I am looking for a good one to read. :)
Ironically, in the time it took me to type up and post the above message, someone posted a message to the oldest thread. Gotta love it.
How about Lord of the Rings?
I just picked up a copy of Hershey's 'A Bell for Adano' today. His forward discusses the difficulties of administration by American forces of a conquered land and I thought the book might have some insights for our foreign policy today.
There is a widely posted scan, here on FR, of the pinko John Dos Passo's article in a 1945 or '46 issue of LIFE magazine that has proven to be the exact replay of naysayer sentiment today on the same topic.
That's what first came to my mind too! Or another Tolkien book The Silmarillion. Both great reads and would make great discussion. We should probably clear it with the Hobbit Hole first - lol!
Please add me to the book club ping list. Thanks very much.
I have to catch an early flight to Ohio in the am, and was just heading to B&N to see if I could find someting to kill a few hours.;=]
Well today I bought "The Journal of Eleanor Ruse" b/c it only cost $4.98 and I'm into the paranormal, and Dan Brown's "Digital Fortress" b/c I'm also into reading junk fiction. If anybody feels I shouldn't waste the time, I'm all ears.
I finally read "The Lord of the Rings", pretty much reading each book around the time of the corresponding film. I don't own a copy; I borrowed them. That's probably what held me back from ordering a copy of "The Silmarillion" when I saw it for sale -- in of all places -- my son's Scholastic magazine. He's in the third grade for heaven's sake!
Actually, I do have some Tolkien collection that I got from a library sale. Don't recall which stories they are, and I'm not going to get to read it any time soon.
I'm in a bit of a bind here. I buy way more books than I'll ever read, usually telling myself, "The library needs the money" or somesuch. My wife has been trying to get me to get rid of many of these tomes. (We've moved with them twice!) I told her, "Okay, but let me read some of them first.")
Well, that was about ten years ago -- or about three weeks before I got transferred to an office in New Jersey which required driving to work. No more transit reading time. (sigh)
Anyway, excuse the digression, I pretty much have to read things that I own and can divest myself of (although I still make occasional trips to the library to borrow newer stuff.)
Good idea! I suggest we make next week's topic: "Quest" tomes, but this week, discuss biographies (since it is already Saturday).
Then, next Saturday, we can come up with a new theme for the following week.
I'd love to get there. We just started this two days ago. And, as you can see, I couldn't even decide on a topic for today, although I've been asking for two days.
The way I'm figuring this (and I could be totally wrong) is first we should see who pops in and wants to take part and see what they want to talk about. Example, I originally wanted to talk about the large number of conservative books out there, if only to find the good ones. This would also be on topic for FR. HOWEVER, I was quickly informed that this was a little too narrow a focus.
Give it a few weeks, and we could even start talking about specific books, but let's get our legs first. People will need time to find specific books and read them.
Actually, once again I'll put it to a vote:
I'll post the results sometime mid-week. (It's back to school Monday, so I can't guarantee which day.) We can make that the next three, four or even five weeks topics if we get enough people participating.
Thank you, in advance, to everyone.
You and I sound like two peas in a pod! I am always going to the library's used book store and stocking up on books. I have a whole section in my book shelf devoted to books that I've bought but haven't read yet. Some have been there for a few years. I don't know what it is about old used books but I like them better than new ones.
I used to have a bunch in the bookcase. Now there all in Rubbermaid bins, in a closet under the steps, in the basement. My wife really doesn't wish to see them. Of course, this actually makes it easier to sneak more *in*.
2. Historical narrative - fiction or non-fiction
3. Travel writing
"My vote goes to biographies, since I am looking for a good one to read."
Try "In My Hands" by Irene Gut Opdyke. She was 17 during WWII and hid and saved many Polish Jews at great risk to herself. She's one of my Heroes, without a doubt. :)
"Unfortunately, the last thing I have read was by Lemony Snickett!"
LOL! I remember those days. For about a year, the only books I read were about a monkey and a guy in a yellow hat.
Never did figure out what they really meant.
Please add me to your ping list. I'm mostly into historical novels. I also have a pretty good collection of Native American reference, including tribal designs.
The last book I read was Patricia Cornwell's research on Jack the Ripper (Case Closed). It was gory, but gave an insight into the pits of hell the human mind can travel. Ripper was not a nice guy.
Here's my vote:
1. Humor (Fiction or Non-Fiction)
2. Religious Fiction
3. Political and Current Affairs
My 8 year olds have found Snicket's books not an easy read, but enjoy hearing me read it to them.
It has been fun, but I look forward to reading for myself again.
I loved that little George! Always had himself in a mess!!
I have not read any of the Quest Books. Which, in particular, is your favorite or do you recommend the entire series?
You can ask the Admin Moderator to lock those old threads so that they won't receive new replies.
You might want to post the link to this thread before locking the old threads.
Please add me to your list. Thanks!
I am very interested in hearing more about them, though, so anyone out there know about these "Quest" novels?
2. Science Fiction/Paranormal.
3. political - fiction and non-fiction.
I detest bios. Enjoy fiction with a mystery. Just today finished up a Cait London paperback entitled "Hidden Secrets". Will be starting "French Quarter" by Stella Cameron. Have also Lisa Jackson's "The Night Before".
Some good biographies I have on the shelf:
Patton: A Genius for War, by Carlo D'Este
Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton, by Edward Rice
A Battle from the Start (Gen. Bedford Forrest), by Brian Steel Wills
Alexander of Macedon, by Peter Green
Wisdom and Innocence (G.K. Chesterton), by Joseph Pierce
The Reckoning (Christopher Marlowe), by Charles Nicholl
Life of Patrick Henry, by William Wirt
We were discussing these on the other thread, and someone called Cormac McCarthy's "Border Trilogy" a quest novel, but it's really not. It's Literature, big L. Try it, you'll never be the same.
All the Pretty Horses
The Crossing
City of the Plain = trilogy.
"Quest" here is a category, not a series. Any fiction or nonfiction with a hero(es) on a journey of discovery. "Huckleberry Finn" is an example; Jim is in search of freedom, and Huck is in search of adulthood (in effect.)
I have also been reading The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History by Thomas E. Woods, Jr., PhD.
My apologies.
I thought sandalwood was referring to the series authored by Barbara Hambly.
No problem. Barbara Hambly is writing one of my favorite historical mystery series, about a free black doctor in 1830's New Orleans.
The last two bios I read were last spring and summer, and both were on Reagan. One was "When Character Was King", I think, by Peggy Newnan. The other was by Mike Deavers..? Both were good.
I like John Grisham -- but I read his all in one sitting, so it gets expensive to buy them.
The most recent book I've read was by Cassandra King (Pat Conroy's wife) -- "The Same Sweet Girls." It was just okay.
Tanniker, thank you so much for taking this on. Looks like there is a very enthusiastic response, kudos to you!
I am okay with biographies on this thread --- which is this week's thread.
Next week, I would like the "Quest" genre. That means people could discuss LOR, and any other quest boos.
My third choice of genre is 'relationship'novels; that would include anything from Jane Austin to White Oleander.
Each time my wife and I go to Australia, we bring back Aussie historical novels; two of the best I have read are by Evan Green, Kalinda and Adam's Empire, a two book series.
I had to buy Kalinda from used book section on Amazon, prices all the way up to $107US per copy.
No, 'quest books' as in a genre, which would include everything from the Odessy to Lord of the Rings. --- heroes on a quest. Or anti-heroes or heroines on a quest.
But it is still a 'quest' type novel. Young hero on a search for something, self or treasure or whatever, strikes out into unknown lands,etc.
Pretty Horses is a masterpiece.
Tanniker, as I write this, my wife and I are sitting in my library office listening to the last two CDs of the "Digital Fortress."
You should like it, pretty good yarn.
Will check in tomorrow, bedtime (curling up with a good book --- history --- 'King Arthur's Britain').
Good heavens! Were they out of print?
Big Jane Austen fan here.
We're not possessive. We're happy when anyone talks about Tolkien. We'd probably just join right in.
We've had some book threads and have talked about doing them again. But we certainly have no intention (or any right) to get snippy if anyone else starts a discussion thread.
Green's dead, book is out of print, hard to get. I searched for it for months to find a cheaper copy. Finally found one at Powell's for 7.95 plus 3 shipping.
My vote goes to biographies"
I respect that you like bio's.
When I want to know about someone, I usually read the condensed version. I want to know where they stand as a person.
I don't really care to know every detail of their life.
I'm old and my brain is starting to get full.
Mostly I read for enjoyment .
In recent years,the two books I've enjoyed the most we're Swan Song and Unintended Consequences.
Absolutely.... never snippy! :~D
This thread is a great idea. If you have a ping list, please ad me.
Now in direct contravention to your above comment, I invite freepers to read my book, absolutely free. You may access it online via my Profile here on FR. Just click my name at the bottom of this post.
I'd love feedback, and it is really a pretty good story. It is science fiction, but takes place during the present day and has no aliens or other weird stuff in it.
For you statistic hounds: The book has been edited, re-edited, and gone over by independent third parties, so it's fairly polished (there are some computer generated typos I discovered, an artifact of converting it to html). It is 117,000 words long.
Now, back to my regularly scheduled posting...
That is my all time favorite, long before it was made into a movie. The first time I read it I was 15 and listened to Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon again and again as I read it. Even today, that music sends me back to Middle Earth. I never did get the hang of Elvish though.
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We, the U.S., have reached a cultural and economic tipping point, the recent school shooting in Newtown, Conn., the recent killing of Chris Stevens, ambassador of Lybia, the refusal of our own secretary of state to take full and unconditional responsibility for insufficient security at many U.S. diplomatic residences and embassies around the world.
Plus the display of absolute dysfunction within the legislative branch of our government, which the whole world can easily see. And our dysfunctional national government has not shown any interest in starting to arrest our descent into the darkness of a bottomless pit.
It cannot be left to the politicians to voluntarily give up some of their domestic political power and transfer it to the American people. We must start the process with ourselves, by unlearning all that we have been taught regarding politics since kindergarten.
This is a very difficult task but those of us who care about the future must try. We may not succeed the first time, we then must try again.
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We decided to rehouse our non-friable illustrations using polyester film L-weld enclosures with buffered, acid-free interleaving paper as inserts. The inserts absorbed any gasses emitted by the art that would otherwise be trapped in the polyester and further damage the art. The polyester allows the illustration to be handled and viewed while the art is still protected.
|Smithsonian paper conservator, Sarah Stauderman, prepared custom-made portfolios out of acid-free corrugated blue board to house the oversize illustrations that were too large to fit in our standard metal cabinets. This skeletal reconstruction of Stegosaurus is the largest illustration in our collection. It is 183 cm - almost 6 feet wide.


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Sunriver Resort Selected as one of Four Golf Digest Green Star Award Recipients Nationwide
In the November 2009 issue of Golf Digest, Sunriver Resort is recognized as one of four nationwide recipients of the inaugural Green Star Award from Golf Digest, which recognizes the country's most outstanding environmental leaders in golf.
Resorts were judged based on their comprehensive environmental program – for the golf course especially, but also the resort operation – that encompasses water use and conservation, energy use and conservation, waste disposal, pest and disease management, wildlife promotion, and contribution to the local environment and community.
"As stewards of Central Oregon's abundant natural resources, we are constantly looking for ways to expand our environmental practices and decrease the Resort's footprint," said Tom O'Shea, managing director of Sunriver Resort. "These practices date back to the Resort's inception nearly 40 years ago, when 'green' practices were virtually unheard of not just at golf resorts, but across all industries."
Other Green Star Award recipients, which were chosen from Golf Digest's initial pool of 400 resorts, included Pebble Beach (Calif.), Kiawah Island (S.C.), and Barton Creek (Texas).
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- 11-13-2012, 05:29 AM Thread Author #1iPhone Nanite
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Keeping the Jailbreak ? Confused : (
Ok so im confused. Im shifting from 4s to 5. While im going to backup everything to icloud and then ill just restore from backup/icloud on my new iphone 5 , that way i get to have everything
My real question is , if i format my phone (4s) from settings -> general -> reset -> erase all content and settings , will i loose my jailbreak also ?Will the phone go to factory? . I ask this because i know if you restore your phone through ITUNES then jailbreak is lost and phone is set to factory settings.
I want to give this phone to my dad , but still keep all jailbreak apps and settings. Also once i give it to him how do i make him use his own apple id. (where does he create one)
- 11-13-2012, 08:46 AM #2iMore Genius
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Once you reset you lose your jailbreak. Jailbreak apps work like iTune apps though, in that they are tied to your Cydia account. So your dad can't keep yours unless you share your account with him.
- 11-13-2012, 11:40 AM #3iPhone Intermediate
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You will loose your jailbreak if u reset. I don't know if it signs you out of your apple id, but either way, after u reset, go to settings>store>apple id & sign out. Press sign in & it'll ask u weather you want to sign in with an existing id or create a new one.
There are jailbreak apps to backup & restore your jailbreak data. I'd look into that before restoring the phone & rejailbreaking.
- 11-13-2012, 01:23 PM #4iMore Genius
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also, you may want to look into saving the SHSH Blobs for that device
assuming you are still on 5.1.1 go here: Save your SHSH blobs for iOS 5.1.1
- 11-13-2012, 03:52 PM #5iMore Expert
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When jailbroken don't ever, ever, EVER (did I mention ever??) erase all contents and settings. This will throw your phone in a respring loop and you'll be forced to restore through iTunes.
As to Apple ID - you can create one from either Settings -> iTunes, or from one of the actual store apps. Needless to say, first you must log out.
Assuming you're syncing your contact/email/reminders/etc through iCloud, once you log out, the info will be taken out of the phone and it will be essentially fresh, ready for the new owner
- 11-14-2012, 12:21 PM #6iMore Genius
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OP if you're giving your phone to your dad why do you want to reset it? Especially when you want to keep the jailbreak. It's easier to just manually clean it up which takes like half an hour at the most. I just sold my iPhone 4 to my cousin yesterday so I had to do the same thing. Just hook the iPhone up to iTunes and then uncheck sync for all your media, apps, music, podcasts, videos, etc. Do a sync and then go to settings Email and delete your email accounts. Go to Store and Sign out and in iCloud if you have it set up on the device turn off all the options. Select delete data from device in order to get the iCloud data stored on the device off. Then once that's done go to the bottom of the option and select Delete Account. It wont do anything with your iCloud account it will delete the account from that device and allow you to login with a new ID. On the homescreen press an icon until they go into jiggly mode and look for any that have the "x" available and get rid of the app. Do a reboot and the iPhone should be pretty much cleared. As Alli said the Jailbreak apps will still be on the device so unless you want your dad to use any of the paid apps go into Cydia and uninstall them. Once you give the iPhone to your dad just sign into the Store with his Apple ID and setup an iCloud account for him and you're all done.
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Chinese Chicken Salad
Recipe courtesy of Ellie Krieger
- Healthy Appetite with Ellie Krieger
Chef's note: If you can only find Mandarin oranges in light syrup, drain oranges and rinse with water.
- 4 tablespoons low-sodium soy sauce, divided
- 2 teaspoons toasted sesame oil, divided
- 1 pound skinless, boneless chicken breasts
- 1/2 head napa cabbage, thinly shredded (about 6 cups)
- 1/4 head red cabbage, shredded (about 2 cups)
- 1 large carrot, shredded (about 2 cups)
- 3 scallions, trimmed and thinly sliced, greens included (about 1/2 cup)
- 1 (8-ounce) can sliced water chestnuts
- 1 (11-ounce) can Mandarin oranges in water, drained
- 1/3 cup rice wine vinegar
- 1 teaspoon minced garlic
- 1 teaspoon minced ginger
- 2 tablespoons canola oil
- 2 tablespoons brown sugar
- 1 1/2 teaspoons chili-garlic sauce or chili sauce
- 1/4 cup sliced almonds, toasted
DirectionsWatch how to make this recipe.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
Combine 1 tablespoon soy sauce and 1/2 teaspoon sesame oil and brush onto chicken breasts. Arrange in a baking dish and bake until juices run clear, about 13 to15 minutes. Remove from oven, cool completely, and cut into 1/4-inch slices.
In a large bowl, combine Napa cabbage, red cabbage, carrot, scallions, water chestnuts, Mandarin orange and sliced chicken. In a separate bowl, whisk together 3 tablespoons soy sauce, vinegar, garlic, ginger, oil, 1 1/2 teaspoons sesame oil, brown sugar and chili sauce. Pour dressing over salad and toss to combine. Divide among bowls and top each serving with 2 teaspoons toasted almonds.
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What Skyrocketing Student Debt Means For the Economy
NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- The Federal Reserve Bank of New York's quarterly survey on household debt revealed some eye-popping statistics on the growing problem of student debt.
Total student debt has essentially tripled in the last eight years to $966 billion in 2012 and is now the second largest category of household debt after mortgages.
Student debt was the only category to see an increase in the recession as enrollments increased and more students opted to stay in college in light of a miserable job market. The cost of education has also risen with college fee increases and more students pursuing graduate education.
But the rising cost of education was a problem long before the recession started. The number of borrowers and the average student debt balance have each risen by about 70% between 2004 and 2012.
The pursuit of higher education has the obvious promise of better job prospects and incomes, but a significant proportion of students appear to be trapped in debt.
As many as 6.7 million borrowers or 17% are more than 90 days behind on their payments- considered seriously delinquent. That is up from 10% in 2004.
The 17% delinquency rate actually understates the problem. This figure factors in borrowers who are not technically required to make payments because they have a period of forbearance before they have to begin paying down their loans.
Excluding those borrowers, the delinquency rate shoots up to 30%, with students below 30 being disproportionately affected.
Student debt, unlike other forms of debt, is not discharged through bankruptcy.
A recent Fortune Magazine article offers reasons why the student debt crisis hasn't quite received the attention it deserves from the market.
One obvious difference is that the student loan market is still a fraction of the mortgage market.
Student loans are also now being disbursed directly by the government and banks are not involved. So a student loan bust won't likely spark a financial crisis.
But as the article goes on to note, the government is using faulty accounting that encourages risky lending. That of course has serious implications for the taxpayer.
A Possible Dark Cloud for Mortgage Credit
The economists at the New York Fed highlighted other implications for the economy in their media conference Thursday.
According to their presentation, average non-student loan balances have declined for all borrowers aged 25 to 30, but the dip is particularly stark for borrowers with student debt balances of more than $100,000.
This likely reflects declining loan demand as well as difficulties in gaining access to credit. Borrowers delinquent on student loans are also likely to be delinquent on other forms of debt.
Student borrowers might also face difficulty accessing mortgage credit in the future. New mortgage rules framed by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau require banks to ensure that borrowers have an ability to repay their mortgage. One requirement of the rule is that borrowers should spend no more than 43% of their income on loan payments.


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|NYPA Celebrates Two Million Visitors to the Blenheim-Gilboa Visitors Center (photo and caption included)
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Photo and Caption NORTH BLENHEIM—The New York Power Authority's (NYPA) admission-free Blenheim- Gilboa Visitors Center, part of NYPA's Blenheim-Gilboa Pumped Storage Power Project, has achieved the milestone of welcoming two million visitors. This significant event was recorded earlier this fall and was marked on Sat. Dec. 8 in conjunction with the visitor center's popular "Photos with Santa" holiday event. It was celebrated with festive balloons, refreshments and a commemorative photo of guests at the event holding up numbers to symbolically represent the two million visitors who have passed through the facility's doors since it first opened in Schoharie County in 1974. "This is a very special occasion for the New York Power Authority family especially our colleagues at the Blenheim-Gilboa power project," said Gil C. Quiniones, President and Chief Executive Officer, NYPA. "From the beginning we wanted the visitors center to contribute to the civic life of our community. Reaching this milestone gives us the sense we have achieved that goal and gives us the inspiration to continue to offer a welcoming and educational experience for the residents and visitors to Schoharie County." "We are thrilled to know that among the two million visitors are multiple visits by our greatest supporters—our neighbors—who have come again and again, to see Santa Claus at our holiday event, look for Easter Eggs at our Easter event or hear the adventures of local residents at our March Travelogue Series," said Lynn H. Hait, Regional Manager for Central New York, NYPA. "This milestone was achieved thanks to the support of this community, and we look forward to building on this success." "The Blenheim-Gilboa Visitors Center melds together a unique combination of environmental education, recreation and tourism in a breathtaking setting. Congratulations to the New York Power Authority on this milestone and to all of the employees and volunteers that have greeted the two million visitors and help make this such an exceptional destination," said Senator James L. Seward. "I congratulate the New York Power Authority on reaching their two millionth visitor. All of us value the contributions the Power Authority makes to the community and we look forward to a continued productive partnership in the region." said Assemblyman Pete Lopez. The Blenheim-Gilboa Visitors Center, housed in a restored dairy barn, is part of a larger complex of recreational improvements, including Historic Lansing Manor, fishing facilities and hiking trails, all in conjunction with the construction of the B-G power project. The visitors center has an array of hands-on exhibits about energy, the environment and local history and throughout the year it also serves as the focal point for many free, special events. Over the years it has grown to become one of the Capital Region's biggest tourist attractions. The visitors center is located approximately 50 miles southwest of Albany on Route 30, 17 miles south of Middleburgh and five miles north of Grand Gorge. It is open daily from 10am to 5pm, except for Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year holidays. For more information, please call 1-800-724-0309 or visit the web at www.nypa.gov.
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Fresas con crema are a traditional, popular dessert all over Mexico.
Irapuato, a town in the state of Guanajuato, is particularly known not only for its bountiful strawberry fields, but also its roadside stands where you can get freshly picked berries or an impromptu treat of fresas con crema. Most of the roadside stands keep a cooler with crema on ice for highway travelers hankering for this sweet and simple treat. With only three ingredients—strawberries, cream and sugar—it's easy to fall under this dessert's spell.
MAY IS NATIONAL STRAWBERRY MONTH, so I'm delighted to share this spin on fresas con crema made into popsicles. You'll love them so much, I promise you'll want to eat them all spring and summer long until you can't get any more strawberries.
Variations on the traditional fresas con crema recipe mostly come in the choice of the "crema" part of the dish. Some people like to use crema Mexicana, while others may use a canned version known as media crema table cream. These Mexican strawberries and cream popsicles are made a little less dense—but equally creamy—with a quick homemade whipped cream made from scratch. Paletas de fresas con crema are one of my absolute favorite desserts for spring and summer, and my friends, family and co-workers all love when I make a big batch of these popsicles to share. During the hottest days of the summer, I suggest freezing them overnight before serving so they aren't quick to melt in the heat.


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Uli Jon Roth -- Westland, MI -- February 1st, 2013
Detroit and its surrounding area have terrible concert attendance. I don't even remember the last time i was at a show that was sold out. While tonight the small Token Lounge outside of Detroit in Westland, was not sold out, it was almost full for the joyous occasion of guitar legend Uli Jon Roth. I was expecting maybe 50 people there, but darn, i guess i didn't know Uli could still bring them in. Though this was my first time at the Token Lounge, so i'm not sure how much of a crowd they usually bring in. There was probably around 120 people there.
I mainly went to this show because i heard that Uli was going to play mostly classic Scorpions songs from his tenure with the band. Since i was little disappointed the last time i saw the Scorpions at DTE in 2010, this was an amazing chance to hear songs that otherwise i would never hear again/ was hoping to hear in 2010.
I'd like to say when Uli hit the stage (around 11:40) the crowd erupted, but it was really just middle aged dudes jeering and raising their beers. Something that annoyed me was the middle age people we're quite annoying. They kept screaming out songs during breaks, and Uli kept saying "Yeaahhh...no" or they would talk about how the singer was no Klaus and how Rudolph was missing. Most of the older folks left after "Dark Lady" was complete. I guess they forget about encores. At one point one of his nobs fell off his guitar, and he asked the audience if they had a tiny screwdriver. Twas quite odd considering he had another guitar already on the stage, but i don't believe he played that one the entire night.
The backing band was exceptional. The other guitarist, who couldn't of been more than 20 was phenomenal. The other musicians we're also extremely talented, and it didn't take away from the performance what so ever. The singer also sounded like Klaus alot. Though it seemed about half of the time the members were looking at Uli play just as we were, which was weird to say the least.
As for Uli himself, he was without a doubt the best guitarist i have ever seen live. I've never gone to a show before just to see a guitarist, but holy shnikes was it phenomenal. Uli played for over 2 hours, and even during songs i didn't know i enjoyed them just as much.
The setlist below is incomplete but i'm amost 99% sure they played 18 songs. So if you were there, please add. All the songs were Scorpions songs before the encore.
1. All Night Long
2. Longing For Fire
3. Crying Days
4. Yellow Raven
5. Life's Like A River
6. Sails of Charon
7. Hell Cat
8. Drifting Sun
9. We'll Burn The Sky
10. In Trance
11. I've Got To Be Free
12. ??? (slower)
13. Polar Nights?
14. Dark Lady
15. Pictured Life
16. Catch Your Train
17. All Along The Watch Tower (Bob Dylan cover)
18. ???
*I believe 13, was Polar Nights, but im not sure
*12 from what i remember was slower
*18 was not a Scorpions song.
Song definately not played:
Robot Man
Top of The Bill
He's A Woman, She's A Man
Steamrock Fever
Speedy's Coming
I really wish this was near me at all..damn...what a cool show. can't believe he played hell cat...awesome. These to me are what made the set.
Sails of Charon
Hell Cat
We'll Burn The Sky
In Trance
Dark Lady
would have liked to see Virgin Killer and speedy's coming in there as well.
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The Rochester Chapter of the American Marketing Association announced the winners Thursday of the 2013 Pinnacle Awards, Marketer of the Year Awards and Collegiate Chapter Excellence Award.
The awards recognized local companies and non-profit organizations that showcased excellence in marketing, and the event was at Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School. Each year, a highlight of the event comes with the announcement of the annual Marketer of the Year recipients.
The award for non-profit Marketer of the Year went to the American Diabetes Association. The organization was recognized for the marketing of its annual Tour de Cure cycling event.
It used relationship marketing and brand ambassadors who utilized a variety of promotional materials, including email blasts, direct mail, point-of-sale displays and social media videos. The goal was to increase corporate sponsorship, cycling team participation and income. The marketing efforts helped the association achieve 42 percent growth in sponsorship income and 31 percent growth in gross income.
The second Marketer of the Year award went to Brite Computers Inc. Last year, the company rolled out a new mini-website and quote request form, supported by social media marketing and traditional marketing, to increase brand awareness and revenue. The result was year-over-year revenue growth of 43 percent for fiscal 2012.
"One of the most rewarding aspects of involvement with AMA/Rochester is the Pinnacle Awards and finding out who is named Marketer of the Year," said Cathy Rubino Hines, board president for AMA/Rochester. "We are delighted with the increased participation of the marketing community this year and would like to wish congratulations to all the winners and express our thanks to all those who entered."
The annual Collegiate Chapter Excellence Award went to St. John Fisher College. The college's marketing club has earned national recognition from the American Marketing Association over the past two years. St. John Fisher will receive $1,000 for future club activities.
Criteria for the award are leadership, membership, programs, development, community service and involvement with both the Rochester chapter of AMA and the national AMA.
Russell McDonald, vice president of collegiate relations for AMA/Rochester, said the Collegiate Chapter Excellence Award has fostered important progress locally. Rochester-area colleges and the AMA have done a great job of increasing the number of students who participate in marketing groups and improving the quality of their work, he said.
AMA/Rochester also presented awards to more than 20 companies in its newly expanded Pinnacle Awards program, which included categories for integrated marketing, social media and special event.
The big winners included Carestream Health Inc., which won four Pinnacle Awards, and Butler/Till Media Services Inc., K2 Communications Inc., 5Linx Enterprises Inc. and the Verdi Group, which won two awards each.
Here's the full list of Pinnacle Award winners.
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Unsworth, Barry
Barry Unsworth 1930–
(Full name Barry Forster Unsworth) English novelist.
The following entry presents an overview of Unsworth's career through 1997. For further information on his life and works, see CLC, Vol. 76.
Unsworth is widely respected for his historical novels that range in setting from medieval Yorkshire to early twentieth-century Turkey. Using the past as a springboard to explore larger universal themes of greed, betrayal, and the function and effect of art in human life, Unsworth concentrates on moral ambiguities and hidden complexities of seemingly minor decisions.
Biographical Information
Unsworth was born in Durham, England, in 1930. He graduated with an English degree from the University of Manchester in 1951. In the 1960s he moved his family to Greece and Turkey, where he worked as an English lecturer for the British Council at the Universities of Athens and Istanbul. Unsworth moved back to England in 1970 to teach at the Lennox Cook School of English, a private school that provided English classes to non-English speakers. In the late 1970s Unsworth earned a creative writing fellowship from Charlotte Mason College, Ambleside. In 1982 he was appointed Northern Arts Literary Fellow at the Universities of Durham and Newcastle. From 1984 to 1985 Unsworth was writer in residence at Liverpool University. In the early 1980s Unsworth visited Venice, Italy, to do research for his novel, Stone Virgin (1985). Later in the decade he moved to Scandinavia, living first in Sweden and then Finland, where he finished his Booker Prize-winning novel, Sacred Hunger (1992). After Sacred Hunger was published, Unsworth moved to the Umbrian countryside in Italy, where he still lives.
Major Works
Unsworth gained critical success with his novel Mooncranker's Gift (1973), winning the Heinemann Fiction Award. Told mostly in flashback, Mooncranker's Gift is the story of James Farnaby, who, in the midst of an adolescent religious obsession, is given the gift of a crucifix made of sausages by his middle-aged neighbor, Mooncranker. After masturbating in the garden one day, Farnaby sees the crucifix, rotting and infested with worms. His horror at the sight haunts him for years, until he encounters Mooncranker ten years later in Istanbul. Unsworth continued his critical success in 1980 with Pascali's Island, his first effort in the historical novel genre. Set on an island in the Aegean at the end of the Ottoman Empire in 1908, Pascali's Island is told as a monthly report from Basil Pascali, an agent working undercover for the last Ottoman sultan. As he writes his report, he embellishes certain aspects of his efforts and confesses various professional trangressions, eventually realizing that the work he has devoted eighteen years to is futile. In Rage of the Vulture (1982) Unsworth again explored events at the fall of the Ottoman Empire, but from the perspectives of the sultan and the British Captain Robert Markham and his young son, Henry. Unsworth's next novel, Stone Virgin (1985) explores the impact of a Venetian statue of the Virgin Mary on three men who encounter her between 1432 and 1972. Again using various points of view, Unsworth examined the relationship between art and life. Sugar and Rum (1988) is a quasi-historical work about an author suffering from writer's block while working on a novel about the slave trade. In 1992 Unsworth published his most successful and critically acclaimed novel, Sacred Hunger, which is about a slave ship in the eighteenth century that his fictional protagonist in Sugar and Rum was researching. Morality Play (1995) also was highly successful and nominated for the Booker Prize. Set in medieval Yorkshire, Morality Play is a murder mystery and complex discussion about art's place in life. Principle characters in the novel produce a play acting out the murder to solve the mystery. In After Hannibal (1996) Unsworth left the historical genre behind to examine backbiting and treachery among a group of expatriate neighbors fighting for property in Italy's Umbrian countryside.
Critical Reception
Response to Unsworth's work has varied, ranging from the relative indifferent reception that greeted Sugar and Rum after its publication to the nearly unanimous praise earned by Sacred Hunger, which shared the prestigious Booker Prize for literature. Morality Play was also nominated for the Booker, and Pascali's Island was widely admired for its take on the theme of creating a personal utopia. Unsworth's work has experienced a resurgence of interest during recent years with several new paperback editions of his novels.
Principal Works
The Partnership (novel) 1966
The Greeks Have a Word for It (novel) 1967
The Hide (novel) 1970; reprinted 1996
Mooncranker's Gift (novel) 1973
The Big Day (novel) 1976
Pascali's Island (novel) 1980; published in America as The Idol Hunter, 1980
The Rage of the Vulture (novel) 1982
Stone Virgin (novel) 1985
Sugar and Rum (novel) 1988
Sacred Hunger (novel) 1992
Morality Play (novel) 1995
After Hannibal (novel) 1996; also published as Umbrian Mosaic, 1997
Anatole Broyard (review date 9 October 1977)
SOURCE: "Painted into Opposite Corners," in New York Times Book Review, Vol. LXXXII, No. 41, October 9, 1977, p. 14.
[In the following review, Broyard compares Unsworth's The Big Day to MacDonald Harris' Yukiko. Though his critical evaluation focuses more on Yukiko, Broyard uses it to illustrate why he finds The Big Day a disappointing follow-up to Mooncranker's Gift.]
Yukiko and The Big Day illustrate, all too neatly in my opinion, two contrasting attitudes toward the novel, two unrewarding corners into which quite a few authors have painted themselves. MacDonald Harris writes a dogged, log-ahead prose under the assumption that his story is irresistible enough to grip and hold the reader. Barry Unsworth offers impressive style and technique that overwhelm the thin and rather stale idea behind his novel. Mr. Harris's style, his novelist's equipment, seem to be virtually forgotten in his preoccupation with his subject. His diction is deadpan, and there is hardly a memorable sentence in the book. His tone seems solemnified by the grandeur of what he is attempting. He has no time for frivolity, for bandying words or digressing into the psychological complexities of his characters. He is a bringer of a message, a purveyor of profundity.
Compared to him, Mr. Unsworth strikes me as a literary playboy. He enjoys the run and rhythm of a sentence, the happy impact of a well-chosen word. He has such a consummate talent for getting inside his characters' obsessions, he so blurs the figure-ground boundaries, that his characters spill like wine over the table he has set. It is, however, merely a platter of hors d'oeuvre.
Yukiko concerns four men, three American soldiers and a Japanese-American interpreter, who land on the island of Hokkaido in August of 1945. Their original mission was to deliver Havenmeyer, a commando, and his interpreter Ikeda to the island by submarine so that he might blow up a heavy-water plant. Under ambiguous circumstances, the submarine runs aground on a reef, and Gus, the sub commander, and Angelo, his navigator, are forced ashore with the other two.
Havenmeyer is a caricature, a destructive machine. Ikeda is a shadow, a mere decoder of language. Gus, the narrator, seems to have been hired, as one hires a butler, to bring a wry, humanistic perspective to the proceedings. Against all these predictable elements, Angelo embodies the unpredictable. He is moody, ironic, laconic, mysterious, forever saying things the others fail to understand. This deliberate inscrutibility, one supposes, is meant to create an aura of ominousness, of more-than-meets-the-eye, of suspended tensions.
When Gus asks Angelo whether he deliberately ran the submarine aground, Angelo will not talk about it, even though they have been friends and fellow officers for several years, even though four men were drowned as a result of Angelo's "mistake." It is not "healthy," Angelo says, to dwell on such things. He is not traumatized by the incident; he just does not feel in the mood to discuss it. He is, in other words, a prototype of contemporary fiction.
It may seem that I am laboring the point, but in fact most of the action in the book is of this nature. Mr. Harris is forever retreating into coy obscurity. There is no reason, for example, for Gus and Angelo to accompany Havenmeyer on his suicidal mission. The war is almost over, they point out. Under the circumstances, the mission is not only suicidal, but pointless. Havenmeyer invited them to leave, adding that they are useless...
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Michael Malone (review date 11 January 1981)
SOURCE: "Other Times and Places," in New York Times Book Review, January 1, 1981, p. 10.
[In the following review, Malone provides an appreciative assessment of Unsworth's main character in The Idol Hunter.]
In 1908 on an irrelevant Greek island of the crumbling Ottoman Empire, the Levantine spy Basil Pascali writes his 216th irrelevant report to Constantinople, this time to the Sultan himself. Monthly, for 20 changeless years, the fat shabby informer has received for his services the same sum but never the slightest response to these millions of words poured into an Imperial void. In the silence he has written his life away and in so doing has fashioned it into the...
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Christopher Lehmann-Haupt (review date 7 February 1983)
SOURCE: "Books of the Times," in New York Times Book Review, February 7, 1983, p. 15.
[In the following review, Lehmann-Haupt offers praise for Unsworth's evocation of the Middle East in the early twentieth century in The Rage of the Vulture.]
In Barry Unsworth's latest novel, The Rage of the Vulture, Capt. Robert Markham—a British infantry officer posted to Constantinople during the final years of the Ottoman Empire—is a complicated and not very sympathetic protagonist. He regards his 10-year-old son, Henry, mainly as a rival for his wife's affection.
He resents his wife for her failure to understand a secret thing about him, which secret,...
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Thomas R. Edwards (review date 13 March 1983)
SOURCE: "Atonement in Turkey," in New York Times Book Review, March 13, 1983, p. 7.
[In the following review, Edwards finds The Rage of the Vulture an admirable attempt to reveal personal conflict amid catastrophic world events.]
The recent conquest of America's television screens by The Winds of War is the latest evidence of our desire to know the origins of the cataclysms the 20th century has made so commonplace. Or since such entertainments conceal as much as they reveal, maybe it is our desire not to know these origins too accurately, on the not unreasonable assumption that the whole truth might be more than we could handle.
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John Clute (review date 16 August 1985)
SOURCE: "Death in Venice," in New Statesman, Vol. 110, No. 2839, August 16, 1985, p. 28.
[In the following review, Clute finds the meaning of Stone Virgin somewhat confusing but appreciates Unsworth's depiction of Venice.]
Bulging like a teardrop into its poisonous lagoon, Venice boasts a geography so graspable for purposes of art that it comes as a surprise not that so many stories are set there, but so few. In its fatal intercourse with the sea, the city models an inherent tendency of the Western mind to see the world as a series of dire consequences: the old familiar marriages of love and death, art and decay, power and corruption, sex and drowning....
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Katha Pollitt (review date 6 April 1986)
SOURCE: "A Sexual Rectangle," in New York Times Book Review, April 6, 1986, p. 27.
[In the following review, Pollitt considers Unsworth's figure of the Madonna in Stone Virgin more interesting than his depiction of his human characters.]
Just when I thought I couldn't stand to read another semiautobiographical novel about a failing marriage, a blocked writer or a young man on drugs and the make, along comes the British novelist Barry Unsworth (Mooncranker's Gift) with a book that makes me think of that old Monty Python line "And now for something completely different." Stone Virgin is certainly that. Set in Venice in three different...
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Barry Unsworth with Phil Hogan (interview date 18 October 1992)
SOURCE: "Standing outside England and Looking In," in London Observer, No. 10,488, October 18, 1992, p. 59.
[In the following interview, Unsworth reflects on his childhood and literary influences as well as on winning the prestigious Booker Prize for Sacred Hunger.]
On balance, Barry Unsworth is in favour of literary prizes, even if he has to share one.
'I'm glad enough to have trousered the money,' he says, smiling diffidently—as much at his turn of phrase as at the sudden novelty of being £10,000 better off. 'And if the judges were genuinely at loggerheads between myself and Ondaatje, it was better to divide the prize than settling on a third who...
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Herbert Mitgang (review date 23 December 1992)
SOURCE: "Books of the Times: Trading in Misery on a Doomed Slave Ship," in New York Times Book Review, December 23, 1992.
[In the following review, Mitgang calls Sacred Hunger "a remarkable novel in every way."]
Reading Sacred Hunger, Barry Unsworth's long and beautifully written novel, you know you are in the hands of a master craftsman when you find yourself slowing down on page after page to savor his thoughts and words.
A hypocritical shipowner engaged in the slave trade: "Wealth had not dimmed his need to be liked, his desire to appear knowledgeable."
The shipowner's self-praise for including a doctor on his...
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Sybil S. Steinberg (review date 21 August 1995)
SOURCE: Review of Morality Play, in Publisher's Weekly, August 21, 1995, p. 43-44.
[In the following review, Steinberg praises Morality Play as a "gripping" examination of the tension between appearances and reality.]
A portentous opening sentence—"It was a death that began it all and another death that led us on"—sets the tone for Booker Prize winner Unsworth's (Sacred Hunger) gripping story [Morality Play]. Indeed, a larger spectre than those two deaths hangs over this tale set in 14th-century England. The Black Plague is abroad in the land, and here it also symbolizes the corruption of the Church and of the nobility. One bleak...
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Janet Burroway (review date 12 November 1995)
SOURCE: "The Great Pretenders," in New York Times Book Review, November 12, 1995, pp. 11+.
[In the following review, Burroway cites minor flaws in Morality Play, but otherwise praises the novel's deft universality of theme.]
In a bitter winter in 14th-century England, a young scholar-priest comes upon a troupe of traveling players. These are violent times, when victims of the plague are heaped in common pits and "the spirit of murder is never far." Nicholas Barber is in several sorts of flight: from the verbosity of the Latin manuscripts he has been set to copy, from the wrath of the bishop whose kindness he has betrayed and from the husband of the (most recent)...
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Charles Nicholl (review date 12 November 1995)
SOURCE: "All the Stage Is a World," in Los Angeles Times Book Review, November 12, 1995, pp. 2, 7.
[In the following review, Nicholl presents an appreciative assessment of Morality Play, maintaining that the novel is a worthy successor to Unsworth's prior works.]
It is three years since Barry Unsworth's last novel, Sacred Hunger, won plaudits and prizes (including the United Kingdom's prestigious Booker Prize) for its rich, harrowing portrayal of lives aboard an 18th-Century English slaving-ship.
The setting of his new book is very different, and the tone of it even more so. Morality Play tells the story of a troupe of players on...
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Adam Begley (review date 24 December 1995)
SOURCE: "Barry Unsworth Rescues 'All the World's a Stage' from Cliche," in Chicago Tribune Books, December 24, 1995, pp. 3, 6.
[In the following review, Begley praises Unsworth's deft handling of the historical novel genre and his thought-provoking themes in Morality Play.]
Morality Play, a fine new novel by Barry Unsworth, who won the 1992 Booker Prize for his Sacred Hunger, works brilliantly on three levels. It's an accurate, carefully imagined historical novel, set in 14th Century England; a dark and suspenseful murder mystery; and a provocative meditation on the birth of a new art form. Each layer adds a different flavor and texture. Binding the whole...
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Richard Bernstein (review date 17 January 1996)
SOURCE: "When Someone Zigs Instead of Zags," in New York Times Book Review, January 17, 1996, p. C16.
[In the following review, Bernstein praises Unsworth's "tightly constructed murder mystery" and the evocative details with which he builds his story in Morality Play.]
The first few sentences of this cunning, suspenseful medieval murder mystery by Barry Unsworth [Morality Play] are a model of literary compression and an illustration of the artfulness that adorns the novel's every page. With quick strokes of the pen, Mr. Unsworth introduces his narrator, Nicholas Barber, as a priest who in the recent past was searching for a meal but ended up in an act of...
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Anthony Quinn (review date 4 August 1996)
SOURCE: "Creepy Crawling, Heavy Breathing," in New York Times Book Review, August 4, 1996, p. 12.
[In the following review, Quinn offers praise for the reprint edition of The Hide.]
Better known for his potent fictional reconstructions of time past—most memorably the slave trade epic Sacred Hunger, which shared the Booker Prize in 1992—Barry Unsworth reveals in this early novel, first published in Britain in 1970, an equally assured grasp of the modern world. Bristling with menace, The Hide is a superbly modulated study of the blighting of an innocent. While the canvas is somewhat narrower than one might expect from Mr. Unsworth, the texture of the...
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Richard Eder (review date 9 March 1997)
SOURCE: "The Weight of History," in Los Angeles Time Book Review, March 9, 1997, p. 2.
[In the following review, Eder considers After Hannibal a "dazzling" exploration of history, greed, and betrayal.]
"Do you know the land where the lemontrees flower?" Goethe wrote in a poem that helped shift the elevation angle at which the Romantics regarded earthly salvation. Instead of going upward to heaven, you went sideways to Italy.
Since then, untold hundreds of thousands have traveled from Northern Europe, the United States and elsewhere, not so much for the sun as to follow a grand line of beauty and aesthetic order that shifted from Greece to Rome,...
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Hilary Mantel (review date 9 March 1997)
SOURCE: "Etrurian Shades," in New York Times Book Review, March 9, 1997, p. 30.
[In the following review, Mantel finds After Hannibal uneven in structure and character and overly formal in language.]
Barry Unsworth's latest novel [After Hannibal] is a sad comedy of cheats and fools, a story of unbounded beauty and blighted hopes, of multiple and layered betrayals, "a regression of falsehoods and deceptions going back through all the generations to the original agreement, God's pact with Adam." Its setting is the Umbrian countryside, "the hills that Perugino and Piero della Francesca looked at," and the little hill towns with their art treasures and their...
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Miranda Schwartz (review date 9 March 1997)
SOURCE: "Meet the Neighbors," in Chicago Tribune Books, March 9, 1997, p. 4.
[In the following review, Schwartz finds the characterizations in After Hannibal particularly intriguing and rewarding to the reader.]
After Hannibal, the latest novel from Booker Prize-winner Barry Unsworth (Morality Play, Sacred Hunger), is a deliciously keen observation of strangers in a strange land, deliciously keen observation of strangers in a strange land. Unsworth reminds the reader of Muriel Spark and Barbara Pym; he shares their understated wit and their talent for clean and stylish description. This contemporary novel even owes debt to E. M. Forster in its...
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Patricia Lothrop-Green (review date September 1997)
SOURCE: "It's Hip! It's Contemporary! It's Literature!," in School Library Journal, Vol. 43, No. 9, September 1997, pp. 128-29.
[In the following review, Lothrop-Green provides a brief overview of the plot of Morality Play and praises the novel's exploration of the role of art in revealing universal truths.]
Barry Unsworth's Morality Play (Norton, 1995) was praised by novelist Hilary Mantel (in the New York Times Book Review) as "a near-perfect novel, with a diamond's glitter and a diamond's hardness: a profound meditation on the nature of justice and the transforming power of art." It is also a gripping mystery, a coming-of-age story, and a...
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Further Reading
Altinel, Savkar. "Trinitarian Tanglings." Times Literary Supplement (30 August 1985): 946.
Altinel finds Stone Virgin disappointing as the final volume in Unsworth's literary triptych.
Bernard O'Donoghue, Bernard. "Medieval Mysteries." Times Literary Supplement (8 September 1995): 7.
O'Donoghue maintains that Morality Play is Unsworth's best book to date.
Colegate, Isabel. "Dreams of Umbria." in Times Literary Supplement (30 August 1996): 24.
Colegate finds After...
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"People sometimes ask me what the biggest perk of being president is. No. 1 is the plane. "
Gone bonefishing
Where were you last Super Bowl Sunday? I was wading across a tropical tidal flat in the Caribbean Sea, up to my knees in warm, sparkling clear saltwater.
The shallow bay stretching out in front of me was about as long as a football field. On the fringes grew low clusters of ancient green-leafed red mangroves. Overhead, billowy cotton clouds were pasted against a bright blue sky. The tropical sun beat down, illuminating the tawny sand-coral bottom flecked with patches of rust-colored grasses. With a faint splash, a reddish egret took wing.
I was moving stealthily-one cautious step, then a pause, another step and another pause. I held my fly rod in my right hand and a small, fluffy shrimp-like fly in my left, 30 feet of floating fly line trailing in my wake. Suddenly, my guide motioned excitedly, his body leaning forward into the breeze. My eyes were straining through polarized glasses to see what he was seeing.
"Bone, mon-bone!" he pointed ahead with excitement, "Eleven clock. Cast, cast!"
At once there they were: a synchronized school of submarine-gray forms against the light sand, six or seven fish swimming right at me, each pushing a tiny wake ahead of itself in inches of water. They slowed and turned left, silvery sides flashing. One fish and then another stuck its rounded snout into the superfine marl, grubbing for a clam or a worm. Puffs of gray silt surrounded their dark tails, tips protruding through the surface, actively wriggling and glinting in the winter sunshine.
A couple of quick sidearm false casts and I dropped my fly just to the right of the grubbing bonefish. One veered over to inspect it.
"Strip strike, strip strike!" my guide yelled, as my fly reel began whirring. The rest of the fly line went racing through the guides on my rod, now bending and pointing to the shimmering fish-eye horizon that the strong and blistering-fast bonefish on the end of my leader was determined to reach.
Lying roughly east from the Florida Keys and north from the midpoint of Cuba, Andros is the largest but, oddly, the least-explored island in the Bahamas. Fewer than 10,000 people live here, but this pine-covered coral hideaway-104 miles long and 40 miles wide-is larger than Rhode Island. Its spectacular 140-mile-long barrier reef is the second-largest in the Western Hemisphere. And inside and shielded by the crashing, colorful reef are some of the finest bonefish flats in the world.
I recently had the pleasure of sitting in on a conversation between former Olympic downhill skier Andy Mill-widely acknowledged as one of the world's finest tarpon anglers-and renowned fisherman Lefty Kreh, now in his 80s. Mill said: "You're known as the godfather of saltwater fly fishing. How does the thrill of the tarpon stack up with all the great fish that you have fished for over the world?" And to my surprise, the fly-casting maestro replied, "I think that most experienced saltwater fly fishermen I have talked to and who have caught a lot of different species would rather catch bonefish than anything else."
A five-pound game fish over one that often exceeds five feet? That says something.
Getting There:
Congo Town Airport has a 5,324-ft runway. One-hour charter flights are available from Miami and Fort Lauderdale. FBOs are Earco Elite, (242) 332-3244; and Bahamasair, (242) 369-2806. Note that passports are now required of all U.S. citizens.
Recommended Lodge:
Andros South Bonefish Lodge, Kemp's Bay, www.androssouth.com, (800) 344-3628
Recommended Reading:
Fly Fishing for Bonefish, New and Revised (2008) by Dick Brown; Fly-Fishing for Bonefish (2004) by Chico Fernandez
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