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'The meaning of it all'
Sunday, December 09, 2007
By KEVIN O'HARE
Since the early 1960s, there's barely been a week when Paul McCartney hasn't been in the news. First with his mates John Lennon, George Harrison and Ringo Starr in The Beatles, then onto working with his wife Linda and others in Wings, as well as proceeding with a prolific and extremely successful solo career.
Recently, though, he's been in the news more for his tabloid-topping, turbulent divorce negotiations with his second wife (Linda passed away in 1998), Heather Mills, than for his music. That's very foreign territory for McCartney, but he's still progressing with numerous musical projects.
The songwriter recently released a three-disc DVD ("The McCartney Years") chronicling his post-Beatles career, as well as an expanded deluxe edition of his critically acclaimed 2007 album "Memory Almost Full." He's working on the release of a classical DVD. He played a handful of small-scale shows earlier this year, including two in the U.S., and is hoping to mount a full scale tour once the divorce is finalized.
He recently spoke - at length - from England about his amazing life and times.
"It's sort of a rainy evening here in London," McCartney said over the phone. "It's cool, though, things are starting to get a bit Christmas-y - it's nice."
And so it went, as rock's leading Renaissance man reflected on the good times and the tough times and everything in between. As you can read, at 65, the guy once dubbed "The cute Beatle" has got far too much on his plate to even consider slowing down:
Q: It's obviously been a tough year for you in a lot of ways. How are you getting through it all?
A: I'm doing quite well, y'know, surprisingly well, really. I think it's mainly because of my music. I think music is a great help in difficult situations. I love music. Music is a place to kind of escape to in many ways and that's one of the great things about it. It also is a healer. So I'm doing pretty good.
Q: Looking back on the 40 music videos in your new DVD "The McCartney Years" must have brought back a lot of memories. Was it a major nostalgia trip for you?
A: Yeah, it was. It was one of those things I put off for years 'cause when is the right time to release a collection like that? It was suggested to me by the guys who put it together, Dick Carruthers and Ray Still - who were the main people behind it and did most of the work they said, "We'll put it all together for you, we'll clean it all up, we'll clean the pictures up, clean the sound up, it's gonna look beautiful. All we want for you is to enjoy it and approve it." So I would go in and see them every so often and, I was like, "Wow, I haven't seen that thing in years. Ooh, look at that." Obviously, the main nostalgia thing was Linda, really, 'cause she plays such a big part in it. But it was lovely; it's like looking at your family scrapbook.
Q: The film "Heart of the Country" really focuses on your life with Linda shortly after The Beatles' breakup. It has the intimacy of a home movie. Is that one especially difficult for you to watch?
A: Yeah. The truth is really that anything with Linda in it is kind of difficult for me to watch because of losing her. So I don't think that's any more difficult than anything. The whole period was great. Like I say, all of that is difficult, but at the same time, this is what happens in life. And we have to rationalize that fact, that we lose people. Y'know, I lost my mom and dad, I lost my mom when I was young. And even though it's really sad, I think you have to - I certainly do - look to the good times. Even though there's sort of a tinge of sadness running throughout any of the pieces with Linda in it, there's also a great feeling of, "Wow, God, what a good time we had." That's really what outweighs everything in the end for me.
Q: Watching it all, were there any songs that you had sort of forgotten about and felt like - "Hey, we should play that one live again"?
A: There were a few like that, actually. There was one, "Pipes of Peace," I don't really consider performing that. There's some sort of some good stuff there. I think "Put It There" is kind of interesting to suddenly see out of nowhere. "Take it Away," that's another quite a sort of funky little music video, that.
Q: You'd have to get (producer) George Martin back on piano, though, for that ("Take it Away").
A: That's amazing. Whoa. You kind of forget. You do it, then a year or two later you're not always thinking, "Oh, that was the music video with George in it," I mean, 'cause it also had John Hurt in it, it had Ringo in it, and Linda, it was quite a star-studded little cast that one ...
Q: As seen in the DVD, you've played with a whole lot of musicians since The Beatles. Other than Linda, obviously, and other than your current band, who are some that you miss the most and are there any that you might like to play with again at some point?
A: "Since The Beatles" - That's kind of a difficult question because I think they're all cool in their individual ways. I mean, because I'm very happy with my new band. If we were five years from now, I think I'd probably sort of miss guys out of my new band if I wasn't playing with them. Then I don't know who you'd choose.
My mind goes to Joe English, actually. Funnily enough, he's just a real cool character Joe, I liked him, I thought he was a really hot drummer. But y'know it's always difficult singling anyone out. My mind went to him but I kind of loathe to single anyone out. We had some great times.
The 1976 lineup of Wings, which Joe drummed for, I think was the height. Linda and I always thought that was the height of the Wings' period. But then again you have a memory like the "My Love" lineup, which was Henry McCullough , ex-Grease Band on guitar. Henry's greatest moment for me was in the recording of "My Love," when we'd rehearsed the whole thing and I kind of knew what he was going to play on the solo and I was happy with it and he just came over on a live session where we were playing live with the orchestra in Abbey Road No. 2 studio and he just sort of wandered over to me just before the take and said, "Hey, do you mind if I try something different?" That was like, "Whoa, wait a moment, decision time: 'Yes I do, stick to the script' or; 'No, of course, I don't.'"
The latter was my answer. And he came up with the solo there on "My Love," which I think is a real fine moment, the definitive Henry moment. It's difficult to single any one out, so I think I shouldn't really, it was all great and each period had something great.
Q: Now that you've gone back into the archives, and it's come out so well, let me ask about two other projects that a lot of fans have asked about through the years.
One is "Cold Cuts," the long-discussed album of some of your best solo unreleased material, and one is a DVD of all The Beatles' promotional films, which were the music videos of their era. Any chance of either being released?
A: I think there's every chance always. George Harrison and I used to joke when we did "The Anthology," "O.K. guys, we've done it now. The next album is going to be called 'Scraping the Bottom of the Barrel'" (laughs heartily). We can poke fun at ourselves. But there still is stuff at the bottom of the barrel. It's not the A-list stuff, The Beatles' promo stuff, it isn't bad stuff, but the fact that it hasn't been released 'til now indicates, I think, that there's not sort of a huge outcry for it. Maybe, not absolutely the greatest stuff we ever did, but I think it's good enough. I think The Beatles' barrel is pretty cool. I think you can scrape the bottom if it.
"Cold Cuts," with me, it's kind of bootleg country, a lot of that has been out on bootlegs. I always like the idea of going to the bootleggers and putting their stuff out officially and watching them as they come up to me and say, "Hey, that's our album." "No, it ain't buddy." So I imagine, yeah, both of those, it's a possibility as time goes by.
Q: You've released a special edition of "Memory Almost Full" with a bonus DVD of film clips from the London club show you did awhile ago. Why did you pick London, as opposed to say, the show you did at the Highline Ballroom in New York City?
A: I tell you what it was. We just got more film on the London one ... we did film the others, but didn't film them as comprehensively. I think what will happen, we do have footage of all of these gigs, they were great - he said modestly (laughs). I really enjoyed them. The feedback we got was super. So we were just talking the other day actually that when we had to put it together, you can imagine for it to be released now we had to put it together very quickly. And the most footage we had readily available was of the first show.
Q: Speaking of the clubs shows that you've done this year, they've been tremendously well-received. The new songs sound great live. Do you have any plans of bringing them out for a wider audience and doing a full scale tour, and if so, when?
A: Yeah, I'm looking at that now. The truth is, personal circumstances. I've never done this divorce thing before. It's completely new to me. My basic feeling is, it's really difficult and the thing I need to do sort of before taking on any big commitments like a big tour is try and get it settled. I've got like a tidy mind that way. I don't want to be in the middle of some holocaust and be on tour. So I would like to tidy it up and try and do the whole thing with dignity. But certainly what we're looking at beyond that, I'm itching, me and the band are itching to get out for those friends of ours.
Q: Seeing you play in a club made me wonder. In the early days of The Beatles, did you ever just bomb with a crowd? Somewhere where they hated you guys?
A: Oh, yes. This is what early days and training are about. Oh, yeah, that sure happened.
Q: Where?
A: It happened all over the place.
Q: C'mon, it was The Beatles.
A: You're talking early days. For instance, there's a place called Stroud, which is really sort of backwoods country (in England). We'd never heard of it and certainly didn't know how to find our way there in our little van. But it was that early, it was really van time. What you did in those days, you'd get down there in the afternoon, you'd have to find the gig. That was the most important thing. And then you'd get your equipment sort of set, get your van parked and then you could go get something to eat. Anyway we did this gig in Stroud, we finally found the place. There weren't an awful lot of people who showed up. Very slim audience, some of whom were male hooligans that you'd always get at these shows. This is half the fun about a rock'n'roll show, there's always somebody going, "Wellwayabeya" (McCartney yelling gibberish). And you've got to prove yourself. The cooler you get, the less of that you get, but in the beginning, these guys, we use to call them "Teddy Boys" in England, we called them "Teds." A bunch of "Teds" in the back of the room, they came forward and they started throwing coins at us. We were like, oh (expletive), this is what we've heard about (laughs). But we were, as always, on top of it. We just kind of stopped and picked them up and pocketed them and we thought, well, a little extra money. They didn't stop us, we just continued. I think they realized they were giving us their money rather than shaming us. It wasn't having much of an effect, other than we were looking rather pleased to make a little more out of the gig. But yeah, we certainly had those moments. That's just one I particularly remember.
Q: 1961, you think, or '60?
A: Yeah, that kind of time.
Q: "House of Wax," from the new album isn't just musically complex, it also offers some very fascinating lyrics. What exactly is "hidden in the yard, underneath the wall?"
A: "The meaning of it all." It's like that. Look at any kind of philosophy and they're talking about their view of what this thing we're going through means. Look at modern science and they will give you the molecular quantum theory view. The big question is really that. To write a song and say, "It's hidden in the yard, it's buried in the wall, buried under a thousand layers." That's kind of how it is, it appears to me. You don't just get born and someone goes, "This is what it is," and you go, "Ah, ok, Buddha thank you." It's not like that. We've got this hugely complex life, multi-layered. More layered perhaps now than ever. We're all kind of, in a way, it may not be our primary question of the day, but in the background there is always this thing - what's it all about, Alfie? That's just a song that found its way to that in the chorus. The front bit, I was just enjoying writing kind of surrealist poetry, what is this house of wax?
There were two things and I hadn't decided. One of the terrible things about doing a poetry book with a Japanese translation was I had to actually decide the sex of the (Beatles' song) "Blackbird." In Japanese you can't just put "Blackbird singing in the dead of night." They need to know if it's a male or a female. I'm going, "Um, I don't know, I don't want to tell you, I don't want to decide." In the end I think I had to decide. They bullied me into it and I think I made her female.
In that sort of vein, this song is sort of like that. What is a "House of Wax?" Is it a museum like Madame Tussaud's? Or is it a record shop, or label? I think I kind of thought more of that, a fantasy, surreal place where they make records, manufacture them in sort of a Tim Burton house. That's where my mind was going. But I liked the sort of poets spilling out onto the street. Spilling. I enjoyed the lyrics to that. "They can only dream of flight away from their confusion." It's slightly sort of chilling. It's just me having fun really as Edgar Allen Poe did (laughs). It's a little bit Poe-esque.
Q: In June, you and Ringo and Yoko (Ono - Lennon's widow) and Olivia (Harrison - George Harrison's widow) attended Cirque du Soleil's production of The Beatles' "Love" together in Las Vegas. How did you enjoy that, and what was your reaction when Yoko referred to you as "a magnificent man?"
A: I thought she was stealing my line. I had just said two seconds before that John was a magnificent man. And she went, "Paul, you're a magnificent man." I think in the interests of equality, which is rather nice, we're always trying to do that. It was very cute, really. I was very pleased, obviously, but my main thought was, "Didn't I just say that? (laughs). Just kidding, this is all in good humor.
Q: How did you enjoy the whole thing of "Love" in Las Vegas, other than Larry King mixing up your names?
A: I thought that was the best. We nailed Larry, it was terrible. We shouldn't have, but the sort of hunting instinct came out, I'm afraid. The interesting thing was, he was saying, "No, I didn't mean it like that," and we were going, "Get out of here." We wouldn't let him off. But afterwards I was thinking about it. I think possibly what he was actually saying wasn't, "Now George," looking at Ringo. I think what he was sort of saying was, "Now George, there's a subject." I'm giving him such a massive benefit of a doubt. I'm afraid we nailed him on that night. But he's a good enough friend of mine, I've run into him so many times. I like Larry. And he was also a voice in "Shrek," so anyone who's a voice in "Shrek," I have a lot of time for.
Q: You were recently quoted as saying that it looks like The Beatles' songs are going to be available to download in 2008. That's been in the works for a while. Are there plans to include any bonus material on that project?
A: It's progressing. I don't actually know the details just yet. We're all very keen - everyone's very keen - but it's a deal, a negotiating thing. And when you talk about The Beatles, all it needs is one branch of the deal - and obviously there's a lot - there's the record company, individuals, whatever. And it just needs somebody to need a variance in the deal. But it's near, it's very near. As I've said, there are one or two things that need talking about rather than just "Yes," which is natural. But it will happen. Everyone really wants to make it happen. I think there's just I's being dotted, T's being crossed.
Q: A restored version of The Beatles' "Help!" DVD was recently released. What are your favorite recollections of that movie and how do you think it compares with "A Hard Day's Night?"
A: In truth, my recollections of making "Help!" were that we really didn't bother. We didn't read the script. I don't think any of us read the script. Ringo might have, being the film star amongst us. I don't think anyone bothered. At the time I thought, "This is probably not a good omen." And I say we were a bit stoned during the making of it, and we weren't in "Hard Day's Night." So I consequently at the time thought, well, "Hard Day's Night" has got it a million times over "Help!" But seeing it now, it's actually pretty cool, it's actually sort of rather brilliant in a strange way. The filmmakers, I think, did a pretty good job putting it all together, it's filmed beautifully. And the script writer caught some surreal, witty, period things. So all in all, my answer is, it's kind of cool. But I must say I never thought it was. I always thought we really missed that opportunity. But looking at it now, it's great.
Q: What can you tell me about this Long Island Labor Day party of Bon Jovi's? There were reports that you played at the party at his house with a band that included Billy Joel, Bon Jovi, Roger Waters and Jimmy Buffett? Is that accurate?
A: That is.
Q: What songs did you play and what was it like?
A: It was funny, actually. It was the last night of my holiday and I was going over there and there were huge local fireworks displays. I went this way, got stopped, went this way, it must have taken me about an hour more than the usual 20 minutes to just sort of get there. So I got there and I was having fun just meeting people. Then I noticed Jon going down the lawn to where there was just a little band and I thought, "Oh, he's going to play. Oh, my God." He suddenly starts calling everyone. "Hey is my friend Billy there?" And so Billy goes up, and I'm thinking, "Oh, wow, what do we do now?" I must admit, I was kind of edging toward the parking lot, very, very discreetly (laughs), when I heard, "Hey, my friend Paul, you gotta come up, man." I felt, "Well, there's no way out of that one." But it was great. All that lineup in the band and the rest of the other guys from the evening's band. I did "Long Tall Sally." It was impossibly high. Someone said, "E." I said, "No, it's in G." They said, "No, E will be more attainable." So I sort of (sings a bit of "Long Tall Sally" in a very high voice), I was right up there. But I enjoyed it a lot and the band kicked ass. We had a fun number, but I think then I felt, "Get off, quick (laughs), jump onto the dance floor."
Q: One other memorable jam - 1974 in Los Angeles, the jam in the studio with you and John (Lennon) Stevie Wonder, Harry Nilsson, the whole crew. Was that the last time you ever played with John, and what are your recollections of that?
A: I think it was. If it was, it was great fun, great to just be part of that company. Looking back at it, I think it was a stoned moment. There was a lot of stoned-ness going on. When I say a lot, take that in capital letters and square it at least. I think I ended up on drums of all things. It was really just to have fun in the studio. It was good to see John. It was good to see Harry and Jesse Ed (Davis) was there. Lovely people, lovely, crazy (expletive) man.
Q: I think there's only one photo of you and John together after The Beatles that's ever been published. I believe it was taken around the same time as the jam out in L.A. with Keith Moon. Since Linda was a photographer, did you and John ever (have other photos taken). I know you got together sometimes at the Dakota or different places a few times.
A: Yeah (but) I'm not sure. I don't think so. It doesn't always come up, man, let's face it. It depends what your relationship is. It's not like guys getting together for a high school reunion and, "Let's have a photo." It's just people that know each other running into each other, you don't take pictures. You just hang with each other.
Q: It's not hidden in the yard underneath the wall?
A: (laughs) Oh, come on, man.
Q: People like Tony Bennett and B.B. King have proved that one can still sing and perform with class into their 80s. Your voice seems to be holding up remarkably well. I mean, on the last tour you were even still doing "Helter Skelter," which was a real vocal workout in your concerts. Do you ever think about that stuff?
A: Yeah. But as far as my vocals are concerned it's always been a constant source of amazement to me - he said modestly (laughs) - please put that in, somehow, let me off the hook. My voice, I've never understood it. I remember when I was recording "Kansas City" with The Beatles. Weeks before that I said to John, we talked about my "Little Richard" voice, which is what it was to me. I said, "It just comes out of the top of my head." He said, "Oh wow," and we forgot about it. Later, I was trying to do "Kansas City," and not doing too well, not catching the thing. He just came down to sort of help me and said, "Remember, it comes out of the top of your head." That's all I know, that's the best thing I know about vocalizing. So to answer your question, I have no idea. But it is funny, I'm in the middle of one of these songs, like "Helter Skelter," which has got some tortuous things. All I know how to do is go for it and hope for the best. I'm constantly surprised.
But as you say, I take your point, wow, Tony and B.B. and Muddy (Waters) did great, these guys. And Mick Jagger, he's very old, isn't he? (laughs) He's about 10 years older than me. (For the record, McCartney is 65, Jagger is 64). They're all very good, though. You know what I mean. The great thing is, they're busting rules. Tony Bennett. I don't think anyone quite knows how, except my explanation would be the love of it, the love of what you do. Bennett's very good. These boys, they can lay it on the line. They've got this finely honed skill. ... What I find, it's kind of surprisingly there. Something I'm having extra fun playing with it, if you know what I mean. But I have great hopes. Looking at Tony, one constantly thinks of the great Bennetto, he's the man, he sings beautifully, lovely, and he's a great painter as well. He had something just recently exhibited in the Smithsonian. Not bad.
Q: Your son James is working on an album. Is that an album by the two of you, or his album that you're going to be working on?
A: No, that's just him.
Q: Something you're looking at for 2008?
A: Yeah, it's just started. We just went in for a short period, to dip our feet in the water. We went in with (producer) David Kahne, and James and we had the most delightful week. I mean more than that, I think he's very good. But you don't want to go talking things up when they're not formed. So it's great. But you're just waiting because you know I'd love to talk all about it, give you the week's blow by blow. But I think for now, it's great, we went in there, we enjoyed it very much, I think he's very good.
Q: Fans. What's your whole take on your fans? How do you feel about them? When you're at the level of fame you've been at for so long there have got to be pros and cons to it all.
A: Yeah. Hmm, fans, I don't know, I think it's only pros really. I was just going to go for it and say, "Cons," that would have put the cat amongst the pigeons. (laughs) But no really, my thought is you go from one end of the spectrum to the other. From the true meaning of fan which is fanatic, to the other end which is, sort of, friend. And so I'm kind of fascinated by it. I don't like it when it gets intrusive, but I must say that my people don't seem to do that. People who take an interest in me don't seem to be too sort of crazy, they seem to be great. The amazing thing is, they know more about me than I do. No, seriously. They do. "Oh yeah, you went to the so and so ballroom." I go, "Wow, really?" Because when you're living it, c'mon you're not sitting in front of a computer dialing it up.
Q: What are your goals for 2008? We're almost at New Year's.
A: Win the Olympics, single-handed. Hundred-yard sprint. If you're looking at goals, that's it. As to whether I can achieve it, I don't know. You asked the question, you got it.
Q: Finally, why are you a Yankees fan?
A: Oh don't tell me you're not. What are you?
Q: I'm from Massachusetts, we're Red Sox fans.
A: Oh, I know a lot of Red Sox fans, a lot of my family are Red Sox fans. If you want to know the answer, the true answer, I got free tickets. ("Saturday Night Live" creator) Lorne Michaels had some tickets to a game. I went there and the very first baseball game in my life I had seen was at Yankee Stadium with the New York Yankees in quite a cool year where I believe they won. So I obviously became a bit of a fan. That's it. Hey, man, "Go Yankees. C'mon man, Go Yankees. Good team." (laughs) I'm lucky, I'm British. I can appreciate it and I'm glad that the Red Sox won it. Like I said, I have a lot of Red Sox friends. I'm kind of not really partisan. But you pick a team.
Q: You've got to be loyal.
A: Yeah, man. It's great, but my New York friends go, "Oh, we're with the Mets." Whoever, you know?


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S&P Seizes All-Time High on Housing Outlook
NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- Major U.S. stock markets ticked higher Tuesday after a Conference Board report showed a strengthening in consumer confidence offset indications of business weakness in the Midwest.
The S&P 500 added 0.25% to 1,597.54, snagging an all-time closing high for the index. The S&P rose 1.81% in April.
The Conference Board Consumer Confidence Index increased in April to a better-than-expected 68.1, up from 61.9 in March. Economists were expecting a rise to 60.8, according to a Thomson Reuters poll. Earlier, the Chicago Purchasing Managers Index reported that its Business Barometer fell 3.4 points to a three and-a-half year low of 49 in April, indicating that business activity weakened in the Midwestern region. It was expected to show an increase to 52.5.
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A simple way to improve your form, avoid injury and run faster
Hit the right tempo—at least 45 strikes per foot in 30 seconds—to improve your running form and injury resistance. Photo by Patitucciphoto.
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Trail running isn't easy. Steep ascents and descents, rocks, roots and mud are all hurdles of the game. It takes lots of energy to do all that dodging, weaving and dancing. What's more, the trails increase the likelihood of injury from tripping, slipping and charging up and down those quad-crushing slopes.
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- Nissan unveils the radical new DeltaWing car for the Le Mans 24 Hour race
- The DeltaWing has drawn comparisons with Batman's iconic Batmobile car
- The experimental car is powered by a 1.6 liter four-cylinder engine
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Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's a Batmobile-like race car which will take to the track at the legendary Le Mans 24 Hour event in June.
Nissan's experimental DeltaWing, which bears a startling resemblance to the vehicle made famous by the "Caped Crusader," was unveiled by the Japanese manufacturer in London on Tuesday.
The purpose of the car is to promote fuel efficiency, with the DeltaWing's 1.6 liter engine set to complete motorsport's legendary endurance challenge using half the gas of its regular counterparts.
Despite being granted entry to the marquee French race, the DeltaWing will not be counted in the final Le Mans 24 Hour classification as it is participating as an experimental vehicle.
"This announcement gives Nissan the opportunity to become part of a ground-breaking motorsport project, and one which could shape the future of the sport," Nissan's executive vice president Andy Palmer said in a statement.
"As motor racing rulebooks have become tighter over time, racing cars look more and more similar and the technology used has had less and less relevance to road car development.
"Nissan DeltaWing aims to change that, and we are delighted to have become part of the project."
The DeltaWing's radical design has half the aerodynamic drag of a conventional car and is only half the weight. It can also produce 300 bhp (horsepower) thanks to a turbocharged four-cylinder engine.
Rather than being piloted by Bruce Wayne's vigilante alter ego, the first two drivers of the DeltaWing will be Britain's Marino Franchitti, the younger brother of IndyCar legend Dario Franchitti, and Michael Krumm of Germany.
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ROME, ITALY. The USA Pentathlon National Team arrived today (May 21) in Rome, Italy in anticipation of their competition on the final stop of the four city World Cup circuit. The results from this World Cup will determine who will qualify for the World Cup Final to be held this fall in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil where the top 36 ranking competitors of each gender in the four World Cups will meet to determine who reigns supreme in the 2009 series.
Currently Margaux Isaksen leads the US effort with a solid tenth place ranking and seems assured of a spot in the World Cup final. This comes on the strength of two top ten finishes in Mexico City and Hungary earlier this spring. Isaksen did not attend the Cairo World Cup. On the men's side, Sam Sacksen is close with a 39th place ranking in the World Cup standings. Teammate Will Brady is within reach at 50th and a strong performance this weekend will allow him a shot at the top 36.
The men will start their semi-final qualification rounds at 0800 CET on Thursday (May 21) with the women competing on Friday (May 21). The finals events will be held on Saturday for the men and Sunday for the women respectively.
Follow the results at the UIPM website and on the USA Pentathlon RESULTS Page which will be updated periodically. As has been their policy in the past three World Cups, the UIPM will broadcast live streaming video of the men's and women's final riding and combined event competitions on Saturday and Sunday.


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Here's how RW members rated this race in the past (121 votes).
In short: Good organisationDate of review: November 3, 2008
In short: Wonderful - thank you Stars Appeal + Army!!Date of review: November 3, 2008
In short: great race, plenty of ups and downs, but still got a pb!Date of review: November 3, 2008
In short: FANTASTIC In full: Fantastic! Having been one of the first to moan about last year I must say this year was great. Well organised and enjoyable the marshals deserve special praise for their attitude and enthusiasm. Please let the organising Army unit know how well represented they were.The new start is very nice and the route very creative (unless you are looking for a PB!) a great day see you next year.Date of review: November 3, 2008
In short: Very friendly well organised event, that hill will live long in my memory,In full: Very well organsied, free parking and well marked and marshalled course. Mainly tank tracks with plenty of challenge. The hill at 4K was hugh, very step and long going up and steeper and slippy (loose stones) going down. Felt very pleased to have completed this course and would recommend the race to all, but make sure you are reasonably fit.Date of review: November 3, 2008
In short: Excellent organisation, great atmosphere, very inclusive. Date of review: November 2, 2008
In short: Fab race despite the killer hill!!!In full: Great race despite the cold and horrendous hill, so well organised by the army and great support on the way round from the army guys. Tough hill but made it, I personally didn't get a PB but my husband did.Date of review: November 2, 2008
In short: Excellent, well done.Date of review: November 2, 2008
In short: My first race. The first of many I've decided.In full: This was my first race and so I was a bit nervy but I started at the back and kept a comfortable pace. I found the course fantastic with just the right amount of undulation early on then suddenly in the distance a huge hill. It was fine though. A cracking pace down the other side. I really enjoyed this. Organisation was proffesional.Date of review: November 2, 2008
In short: Slick organisation, big hill, great race.In full: Yes, that was a tough hill alright...great organisation though, plenty of soldiers in hi-viz everywhere, marshalling the race and parking (poor things!)and giving loads of encouragement. Great set up; will be back.Date of review: November 2, 2008
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Ibn Hazm
Ibn Hazm 994-1064
(Full name Abū Muhammad 'Alī ibn Ahmad ibn Sa'īd ibn Hazm) Spanish (Andalusian) theologian, historian, poet, philosopher, and critic.
An eminent humanist and prose writer of eleventh-century Muslim Spain, Ibn Hazm was a controversial figure. A polymath whose encyclopedic knowledge reached across all major intellectual disciplines of the era—from logic, ethics, theology, literature, history, and law to medicine and the natural sciences—Ibn Hazm was an innovative scholar and outspoken proponent of radical views that often prompted harsh criticism. Credited with the composition of an estimated 400 literary and scholarly works, Ibn Hazm's crowning achievement is usually considered to be his uniquely realized treatise on love, the Tawq al-hamāma fī al-ulfah wa al-ullāf (c. 1027; The Ring of the Dove: A Treatise on the Art and Practice of Arab Love), regarded as one of the finest compositions of Arabic belles-lettres. Ibn Hazm's other exceptional works include a history of religion, Kitāb al-fasl fi al-milal wa al-ahwā' wa al-nihal (c. 1027-38), and the legal treatise al-Ihkam li-usul al-ahkam (c. 1035-64). A master scholar of the Arabic holy books the Qur'ān and Hadīth, Ibn Hazm was also the outstanding figure of the Zāhirī school of theology, proponents of which have offered literal interpretations of Islamic scripture as the foundation of a system of Muslim jurisprudence. One of the greatest and most recognizable Arab authorities of his age, Ibn Hazm also stands alone among his Islamic contemporaries in his vast knowledge of Christian and Jewish theology and scripture.
Biographical Information
Ibn Hazm was born in 994 Islamic Cordova to a respected and affluent family, descendants of Persian émigrés who had converted from Christianity and resettled in Andalusian Spain. His father, Ahmad, an erudite scholar and devout Muslim, served as a high functionary to al-Mansūr and to his son and successor, al-Muzaffar, regents to caliph Hishām II of al-Andalus. His father's connections to the Umayyad dynasts offered Ibn Hazm access to the finest education available. Taught by the women of the caliph's harem, the boy spent the first fourteen years of his life in comfort and seclusion absorbing knowledge of the Qur'ān. He composed verse in his youth, but none of his early writings have survived. The demise of al-Muzaffar in 1008 roughly coincided with the rise of political unrest in Cordova. Civil war raged between rival dynasties and competing ethnic groups—including the Spanish, Berbers, Slavs, and Arabs—for more than two decades, signaling the brutal and drawn out end of Umayyad rule. Ibn Hazm's father died in 1012 and the following year Berber rebels sacked Cordova, forcing Ibn Hazm to flee to the city of Almeria. 'Ali ibn Hammud's 1016 usurpation of the caliphate did little to restore order, and Ibn Hazm was expelled from Almeria by its governor, who was sympathetic to the Hammudid cause. He subsequently traveled through al-Andalus during the years of his banishment, returning to a Cordova still controlled by the Hammudid in early 1019. Power shifted back to the Umayyads in 1023 with the rise of 'Abd-er-Rahmān V al-Mustazhir to the position of caliph. Ibn Hazm was appointed his vizier, a position he held for only seven weeks before the new ruler was assassinated and his regent jailed. In about 1027, after his release from a subsequent term of imprisonment, Ibn Hazm settled in Játiva. He is generally thought to have completed his The Ring of the Dove there during this period. In 1030, the epoch of violent conflict precipitated by the struggle between the Hummudid and Umayyad families for the throne of Cordova subsided with the complete dissolution of the caliphate, which was replaced by a conglomeration of cities and small republics independent of any centralized authority. Ibn Hazm never renounced his support for the displaced Umayyad but moderated his public sponsorship of the doomed cause. For the remainder of his life he attempted to detach himself from contemporary politics, residing at his family estate in Manta Līsham and concentrating on writing and scholarship. Ibn Hazm remained a controversial and outspoken figure, however, and an assortment of his works were publicly burned by al-Mu'tadid in nearby Seville. His reputation survived intact and when he died at Manta Līsham in August 1064, he was already viewed as one of the greatest Muslim intellectuals of the age.
Textual History
Of Ibn Hazm's four hundred reputed volumes containing approximately eighty thousand pages of text, less than forty are extant. Of these, most exist only in Arabic redactions, save for the The Ring of the Dove. Based upon a manuscript codex of the work dated 1338 and preserved in Leiden, modern versions of the The Ring of the Dove. owe their existence to Russian scholar D. K. Pétrof, who emended its corrupt text in his 1914 Arabic edition. Since Pétrof's work was published, translations of Ibn Hazm's literary masterpiece have appeared in the major languages of Europe, the most acclaimed version being E. García Gómez's well-regarded 1952 Spanish edition. A. J. Arberry's The Ring of the Dove: A Treatise on the Art and Practice of Arab Love, published in 1953, has remained the standard English translation in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
Major Works
Scholars have found more than approximate dates for Ibn Hazm's works difficult to ascertain, though some have observed a somewhat generalized break by around 1035, after which the writer is thought to have devoted himself almost exclusively to juridical and theological matters. Thus, Ibn Hazm's belletristic works were most likely completed before this time. Generally considered his literary masterpiece, The Ring of the Dove is a compelling book on the psychology of love in which Ibn Hazm analyzed its symptoms, conventions, causes, methods, and spiritual aspects. Comprised of thirty chapters that detail the nature of love viewed in relation to such subjects as compliance, secrecy, accident, correspondence, fidelity, and separation, The Ring of the Dove features delightful narratives drawn from Ibn Hazm's own experience. The work additionally contains many examples of Ibn Hazm's poetry, including verses inspired by passion, ecstasy, and despair. Chief among Ibn Hazm's critical works devoted to the history of literature, Risāla fī fadā il al-Andalus wa-dhikr rajaliah (c. 1031) offers a guide to Andalusian authors studied within the traditions of Arabic and Islamic writing. The collection is the only surviving text of five literary histories he wrote. Representative of Ibn Hazm's historical works, Kitāb nuqat al-'arus fi akhbar al-khulafa' bani Umayyah fi-l-Andalus (c. 1035) catalogues the events and individuals associated with the Umayyad dynasty that dominated Andalusian Spain in the ninth century before collapsing during the span of Ibn Hazm's lifetime. Al-Imamah wa-l-mufadalah (c. 1035), another of Ibn Hazm's historical works on the caliphate of Cordova, documents the lives of the Umayyad caliphs, while examining bureaucratic orders and court policies. Two apposite works of genealogy, Jamharat ansāb al-'Arab (c. 1035) and Nasab al-Barbar (c. 1035), detail the ancestral lines of these ethnic groups and their impact on medieval Spanish history. The crowning achievement of Ibn Hazm's combined interest in history and religion, Kitāb al-fasl fi al-milal wa al-ahwā' wa al-nihal is a groundbreaking comparative study of Islam, Christianity, and Judaism. Unlike this thoroughly ambitious work, Ibn Hazm's other historical writings tend to be more limited and focused on the Islamic experience. His Kitāb al-īmān (c. 1035-64) defines the differences between belief, tasdīq,) and faith, (īmān,) exploring the spiritual bonds that join members of the Muslim community. As it exists in surviving manuscripts, Ibn Hazm's Jawāmi'al-sīrah (c. 1035) is an abridgement, with scholars insisting that much of the text has been corrupted by careless editors. A companion piece, Hijjah al-wada' (c. 1035) concentrates on the last ten days of Muhammad's final journey to Mecca and is informed by Ibn Hazm's vast knowledge of the Islamic book of Traditions. A somewhat notorious attack against Judaism, the al-Radd 'alā Ibn al-Naghrīlah al-yahūdī (c. 1056) assails one of Ibn Hazm's principal political, religious, and intellectual adversaries. More generally, the work is thought to be representative of his polemic writings on religion. Other works in this vein contain Ibn Hazm's reasoned, if highly opinionated, critiques of Judaic and Christian theology, scripture, and religious practice. Central among Ibn Hazm's legal texts, al-Ihkam li-usul al-ahkam examines the traditions and methods of Islamic law, while al-Muhalla bi-al-āthār fu sharh al-mujalla bi-al-ikhtisar (c. 1035-64) contains a comparative study of Islamic jurisprudence. Turning to philosophy, al-Takrīb li-hadd al-mantiq (c. 1023-34) is Ibn Hazm's fundamental treatise on logical argumentation. In it, the writer explains his disagreements with Aristotelian norms on the subject and illustrates the everyday uses of logic, as well as its applications in science, rhetoric, and religious polemic. Probably written near the end of his career, al-Akhlaq wa'l-siyar (c. 1035-64) is a collection of maxims on personality and ethics that presents Ibn Hazm's distilled thought on such subjects as social behavior, friendship, love, and practical morality. A similar but shorter work, Mudāwāt al-nufūs wa tahdhīb al-akhlāq (c. 1035) contains more of Ibn Hazm's insightful reflections on morality and human behavior. Other volumes by this versatile author include ten books on medicine, many of them commentaries on important texts from classical antiquity.
Critical Reception
While there exists little doubt of Ibn Hazm's controversial and provocative status during his own lifetime, contemporaneous assessments of this eminent Muslim thinker also suggest much of his subsequently recognized greatness. His works were widely read and esteemed, eliciting considerable, if sometimes strident, commentary. Jailed three times for his outspoken political beliefs, Ibn Hazm lived through one of the most chaotic periods in Spanish history, an epoch that is in many ways stamped with the remnants of his thought and methods of argumentation. Innumerable Arabic scholars refer to Ibn Hazm's works, listing him as an authority on the full range of intellectual endeavor. He has been acknowledged for his consuming thirst for knowledge and prolific creative output, as well as praised for his candidness, dignity, and directness. Commentators have acknowledged his immense artistic sensitivity comfortably existing alongside a rare intellectual audacity. His writings, both literary and scholarly, have been lauded for their lucidity and spontaneity. Concerning Ibn Hazm's individual works, critics have remarked that his al-Takrīb li-hadd al-mantiq was responsible for a sizeable controversy in its own day due to its deviations from Aristotle. Modern scholars have since recognized the fundamental differences between Ibn Hazm's philosophical orientation and that of the influential Greek thinker. Kitāb al-fasl fi al-milal wa al-ahwā' wa al-nihal continues to be considered a work of monumental significance in comparative religion, the first of its kind to systematically study the religious doctrines of Islam, Judaism, and Christianity. Spanish scholar E. García Gómez has called the The Ring of the Dove Ibn Hazm's "best work and the best in all Hispano-Arabic literature." Many other critics have been inclined to agree. Indeed, a good deal of contemporary scholarly attention to Ibn Hazm has been devoted to the The Ring of the Dove, his only book to have been adequately translated from Arabic. Despite a preponderance of approval for Ibn Hazm in the contemporary period, however, admiration for his ideas has been far from universal. Several commentators have pointed out inconsistencies in his work, particularly as they arise in the contradiction between his Zāhirī critical principles and the practical exigencies of literary composition. Others have questioned Ibn Hazm's negative attitudes toward Judaism and Christianity. Allowing these reservations, however, modern critics have tended to hold Ibn Hazm in very high regard, characterizing him as one of the outstanding minds of the Islamic tradition and as a writer and thinker possessed of an energy, talent, and erudition unsurpassed among his contemporaries.
Principal Works
al-Takrīb li-hadd al-mantiq (philosophy) c. 1023-34
Kitāb al-takrīb (philosophy) c. 1025-35
Tawq al-hamāma fī al-ulfah wa al-ullāf [The Ring of the Dove: A Treatise on the Art and Practice of Arab Love] (nonfiction) c. 1027
Kitāb al-fasl fi al-milal wa al-ahwā' wa al-nihal (theology) c. 1027-38
Risāla fī fadā il al-Andalus wa-dhikr rajaliah (history) c. 1031
Ahkam al-din (theology) c. 1035
al-Imamah wa-l-mufadalah (history) c. 1035
Diwan (poetry) c. 1035
Djamharat ansāb al-'Arab (history) c....
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Reinhart Dozy (essay date 1913)
SOURCE: Dozy, Reinhart. "'Abd-er-Rahmân V and Ibn Hazm." In Spanish Islam: A History of the Moslems in Spain, translated by Francis Griffin Stokes, pp. 574-80. London: Chatto & Windus, 1913.
[In the following essay, Dozy concentrates on Ibn Hazm's romantic imagination, noting his relationship to Caliph 'Abd-er-Rahman V and the latter's anti-Christian views.]
The historian of a calamitous epoch, and of a people rent and agonised by civil wars, sometimes longs to avert his gaze from the strife of factions and its attendant bloodshed, in order to soothe the imagination for a while in the realms of fancy, amidst ideals of innocence and peace. Let us therefore...
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H. A. R. Gibb (essay date 1926)
SOURCE: Gibb, H. A. R. "The Golden Age (a.d. 945-1055)." In Arabic Literature: An Introduction, pp. 33-81. London: Oxford University Press, 1926.
[In the following excerpt, Gibb mentions Ibn Hazm's Kitāb al-fasl fi al-milal wa al-ahwā' wa al-nihal, calling it "the first systematic and critical work on the religions of mankind."]
The chief figure in the prose literature of the eleventh century is Ibn Hazm of Cordova, the grandson of a Spanish convert. In his early years he was pre-eminently a poet, but, belonging to the narrowest school of Islamic theology, his activities were diverted to bitter attacks on his theological opponents; the sharpness of his...
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A. J. Arberry (essay date 1953)
SOURCE: Arberry, A. J. "Preface and Preliminary Excursus." In The Ring of the Dove, by Ibn Hazm, translated by A. J. Arberry, pp. 7-14, 19-32. London: Luzac & Company, 1953.
[In the following excerpt, Arberry summarizes the historical and literary contexts of Ibn Hazm's The Ring of the Dove and presents his translation of the author's preliminary excursus to the work, which details its structure and approach to the subject of love.]
I have divided this treatise into thirty chapters. Of these, ten are concerned with the root-principles of Love, the first being the...
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A. S. Tritton (essay date December 1964)
SOURCE: Tritton, A. S. "Ibn Hazm: The Man and the Thinker." Islamic Studies 3, no. 4 (December 1964): 471-84.
[In the following essay, Tritton surveys Ibn Hazm's thought, touching on his methods of argumentation as well as on his views concerning epistemology, theology, metaphysics, the natural world, and other subjects.]
Ibn Hazm was a man of many interests; in addition to theology, on which he wrote two big books, and law on which he wrote a bigger volume, he had an eye on the common things of life. He records trivialities and, of course, shared many of the beliefs of his age. The common folk thought that the earth was flat and sunrise was at the same time all...
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Muhammad Abu Laylah (essay date 1990)
SOURCE: Laylah, Muhammad Abu. "Ibn Hazm's Milieu." In In Pursuit of Virtue: The Moral Theology and Psychology of Ibn Hazm al-Andalusi, with a translation of his book Al Akhlaq wa'l-Siyar, pp. 13-54. London: TaHa Publishers, 1990.
[In the following excerpt, Laylah evaluates the totality of Ibn Hazm's work as a scholar, critic, psychologist, moralist, and historian.]
We know from Ibn Hazm's own writings that he lived in al-Andalus in times of great political turmoil. He describes the confusion of the civil war, he names his outstanding contemporaries, and he himself clearly played a great part in the political and intellectual life of the period. In particular, he...
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Lois A. Giffen (essay date 1992)
SOURCE: Giffen, Lois A. "Ibn Hazm and the Tawq al-hamāma." In The Legacy of Muslim Spain, edited by Salma Khadra Jayyusi, pp. 420-42. Leiden, The Netherlands: E. J. Brill, 1992.
[In the following essay, Giffen analyzes The Ring of the Dove, considering this treatise on love to be Ibn Hazm's literary masterpiece and examining its origins, structure, content, themes, reception, and depiction of women and Arab society.]
About three centuries after the Muslim conquest of the Iberian Peninsula, and shortly before or after the thirtieth year of his very eventful life, 'Alī b. Aḥmad b. Sa'īd b. Hazm...
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Abdul Ali (essay date fall 1995)
SOURCE: Ali, Abdul. "Ibn Hazm as Moralist and Interpreter of Love." Hamdard Islamicus 18, no. 3 (fall 1995): 77-84.
[In the following essay, Ali assesses Ibn Hazm's writings on the psychology of love and enumerates his contributions to the Muslim understanding of morality and virtue.]
Abū Muḥammad Ibn Hazm (994-1064 a.d.) was the greatest and most original genius of Muslim Spain. He was a distinguished jurist and historian of his time as well as a great authority on juridico-theological studies. His analysis of religious and civilizational factors governing human life and social organization is said to have inspired Ibn Khaldūn, who, in the fourteenth century...
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Mercedes García-Arenal (review date February 1996)
SOURCE: García-Arenal, Mercedes. Review of Islam frente a Judaísmo: La polémico de Ibn Hazm de Córdoba. International Journal of Middle East Studies 28, no. 1 (February 1996): 110-11.
[In the following review, García-Arenal summarizes the salient features of critic Camilla Adang's study of Ibn Hazm's polemical writings on Judaism.]
This book is devoted to the polemical writings against Judaism of Ibn Hazm of Cordova (d. 456/1064), a poet, historian, jurist, and theologian and one of the most important figures and minds of Western Islam, equaled perhaps only by Ibn Khaldun. Ibn Hazm is a very relevant figure both because of the importance of his written work...
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Al Makin (essay date March 1999)
SOURCE: Makin, Al. "The Influence of Zahiri Theory on Ibn Hazm's Theology: The Case of His Interpretation of the Anthropomorphic Text 'The Hand of God.'" Medieval Encounters 5, no. 1 (March 1999): 112-20.
[In the following essay, Makin suggests that there is a contradiction between Ibn Hazm's general adherence to Zahiri ("literalist") theoretical principles and his metaphorical interpretation of God's anthropomorphism.]
Ibn Hazm, a theologian, philosopher, jurist, and moralist, was born at Cordova in 384 a.h. (994 a.d.) and died at Manta Lisham in 456 a.h. (1064 a.d.).1 From childhood onwards he lived through several traumatic experiences. For...
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Ghulam Haider Aasi (essay date 1999)
SOURCE: Aasi, Ghulam Haider. "Ibn Hazm: His Life and Environment," "Study of Other Religions," and "Principles and Methodology of the Study of Religions." In Muslim Understanding of Other Religions: A Study of Ibn Hazm's Kitab al-Fasl fi al-Milal wa al-Ahwa' wa al-Nihal. pp. 43-58; 59-64; 65-80. Islamabad, Pakistan: International Institute of Islamic Thought and Islamic Research Institute, 1999.
[In the following essays, Aasi remarks on Ibn Hazm's life and historical background, then discusses his religious thought.]
Ibn Hazm's full name is Abū...
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Jessica A. Coope (essay date 2000)
SOURCE: Coope, Jessica A. "With Heart, Tongue, and Limbs: Ibn Hazm on the Essence of Faith." Medieval Encounters 6, no. 1-3 (2000): 101-13.
[In the following essay, Coope explores Ibn Hazm's explication of the essentials of Muslim faith in his Kitab al-fasl fi al-milal wa al-ahwa' wa al-nihal.]
A student in my undergraduate Religious Studies seminar recently told me he wanted to write his term paper on the topic of solidarity within religious communities. As a believing Christian, he said, the fellowship and common beliefs he shared with members of his church gave him strength, peace of mind, and clarity of intention like nothing else in his life. Yet as he worked...
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Camilla Adang (essay date 2000)
SOURCE: Adang, Camilla. "Islam as the Inborn Religion of Mankind: The Concept of Fitra in the Works of Ibn Hazm." Qantara 21, no. 2 (2000): 391-410.
[In the following essay, Adang probes Ibn Hazm's views on the subject of fitra (inborn nature), especially his literalist notion that all human beings are born as Muslims and remain so until reaching adulthood, whereupon they either formally adopting the Islamic faith or renounce it in favor of Judaism, Christianity, polytheism, or another system of belief.]
A question much debated in religious communities is that of identity, of belonging: who belongs to...
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Further Reading
Arnaldez, R. "Ibn Hazm." In The Encyclopedia of Islam, new edition, edited by B. Lewis, et al., pp. 790-99. Leiden, The Netherlands: E. J. Brill, 1971.
Surveys Ibn Hazm's life and character as well as his writings on religion, philosophy, law, language, history, and genealogy.
Bekri, Tahar. "The Chaplets of Attachment: The Exile of Ibn Hazm." Literary Review 41, no. 2 (winter 1998): 173-76.
Includes a very brief summary of Ibn Hazm's life and translations of twelve verse stanzas from his The Ring of the Dove.
Brann, Ross. "Textualizing Ambivalence in Islamic Spain: Arabic...
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Jakes, John (William)
John (William) Jakes 1932–
(Has also written under pseudonyms of Alan Payne and Jay Scotland) American novelist, short story writer, dramatist, and lyricist.
Jakes began his writing career during the early 1950s, specializing in pulp Western novels and science fiction. He has written over twenty novels in both genres, but it was the historical novel The Bastard in 1974 that made Jakes one of the most widely read of popular novelists. The Bastard is the first of eight historical novels collectively known as The American Bicentennial Series or The Kent Family Chronicles. Each volume focuses on an era in American history from colonial times through the end of the nineteenth century. Jakes's recent novel, North and South (1982), is the first part of a projected trilogy about the events surrounding the American Civil War. Discussing his work in an interview, Jakes stated that his books "may be the only shot some people have at history." Critics acknowledge Jakes's thorough research and praise his ability to maintain the reader's interest by using colorful prose and fast-moving plots.
(See also Contemporary Authors, Vols. 57-60).
Book World—The Washington Post
Before John Jakes is finished [with The American Bicentennial Series], he will have summed up the whole of America's history, from the Intolerable Acts to Watergate, in what looks to be eight volumes….
Jakes, a veteran of popular fiction, says the research is what takes time….
His efforts are well rewarded. The series … has been an outrageous success. The first couple of volumes, The Bastard and The Rebels … deal with the adventures of Philip Kent in the American Revolution…. The Seekers and The Furies (volumes three and four) follow the lives of Philip Kent's heirs as they conquer the Northwest Territory, fight in the war of 1812 and then work their way west in the tumultuous days of Dred Scott, bleeding Kansas, and the fight to free Texas….
As to the merits of the books themselves, the prose is plain, but practical; the history (except for a minor manipulation of chronology) is as accurate as Jakes can make it and seems to interest all sorts of people—from housewives to convicts to assembly-line workers—in some fairly obscure aspects of America's past. Of course, as one might expect, there's a serious temptation to skim the historical explication when there's a deflowering, some dalliance, or intrepid derring-do to be found only a few pages farther on.
A review of "The American Bicentennial Series," in Book World—The Washington Post (© 1976, The Washington Post), March 7, 1976, p. F10.
Publishers Weekly
With [the] sixth installment of his American Bicentennial Series Jakes hits stride in ["The Warriors"]…. As he writes about the South's defeat in the Civil War, the laying of the transcontinental railroad, Indian troubles, the Robber Barons, readers are caught up in the genuine drama of events. This is a somber novel, conveying the enmity, fear and misunderstanding which followed the Civil War, as the Southern branch of the Kent family emerges scarred from battle…. More strongly than ever—and at greater length with 671 pages—Jakes proves his special talent for popularizing history. (pp. 81-2)
A review of "The Warriors," in Publishers Weekly (reprinted from the February 14, 1977 issue of Publishers Weekly, published by R. R. Bowker Company, a Xerox company; copyright © 1977 by Xerox Corporation), Vol. 211, No. 7, February 14, 1977, pp. 81-2.
Bruce Cook
While the publishing world has been agog for months over the nearly unparalleled success of Alex Haley's Roots, another venture, in its own way just as successful, has gone virtually unnoticed by journalists and critics—though not by readers. John Jakes's American Bicentennial Series of historical novels, which traces the lives and fortunes of the fictitious Kent family from colonial times, has been appearing rapidly in installments since 1974. The Warriors is the sixth of them. It is, like those that preceded it, a very long novel … and like them, too, it should sell spectacularly well, leaving Roots' millions behind….
The difference—or at least one difference—between Roots and the American Bicentennial Series is that while Alex Haley's fictionalized fantasia on his family tree was issued in legitimate hardcover format, John Jakes's novels are poor little paperback bastards. And the literary world is content to let such half-orphans run free, ignored.
Fundamentally, I think, people read both for the same reason: they want to know, if only in a general way, where they came from. Yet I'd be willing to bet that there is little overlap in readership. The racial and spiritual descendants of Kunta Kinte themselves probably have little interest in the saga of a family scattered on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line which treats the causes of North and South so evenhandedly that it is...
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Publishers Weekly
With the publication of the seventh volume of his Kent family saga ["The Lawless,"] the wonder is that Jakes is able to sustain the pace and his own apparent interest in what is seeming to be an open-ended project. This installment covers approximately the years 1869–1877, a time of growing labor unionism and the attendant battles and bloodshed. Several of the more significant Kents die here, and the direction of the new generation is forecast, as Jeptha's three sons react to the historical events of the day…. In addition to showing them as emblematic of their era, Jakes also succeeds in making the Kents interesting characters in their own right.
A review of "The Lawless," in Publishers Weekly (reprinted from the February 27, 1978 issue of Publishers Weekly, published by R. R. Bowker Company, a Xerox company; copyright © 1978 by Xerox Corporation), Vol. 213, No. 9, February 27, 1978, p. 154.
[In The Lawless] Jakes maintains his popular formula: high-lighting the tribulations and successes of generation after generation of one family as reflective of the dramatic turns of events in the growth of the country. Plus, the style is in no way demanding.
A review of "The Lawless," in Booklist (reprinted by permission of the American Library Association; copyright © 1978 by the American Library Association), Vol. 74, No. 18, May 15, 1978, p. 1476.
Publishers Weekly
[In "The Americans"] John Jakes again proves his superior storytelling skills in the eighth volume of the Kent Family Chronicles (and, Jakes suggests in his afterword, perhaps the last installment for a while)…. Jakes's characterizations and lively historical detail entirely envelop the reader, who will be left with the hope that the author decides to bring the Kent family into the 20th century.
A review of "The Americans," in Publishers Weekly (reprinted from the December 24, 1979 issue of Publishers Weekly, published by R. R. Bowker Company, a Xerox company; copyright © 1979 by Xerox Corporation), Vol. 216, No. 25, December 24, 1979, p. 56....
(The entire section is 96 words.)
Joan Hinkemeyer
Readers who have followed the Kent family since The Bastard and The Rebels will not be disappointed with [The Americans] …, which concentrates on the family of Gideon Kent. Jakes displays the complete panorama of America in the 1880's, as Gideon's youngest son Will moves from life with Theodore Roosevelt at his Medora ranch to practicing medicine in the tenement slums of New York…. It's all here—countless historical details, romance, violence, suspense, and a strong sense of the worth of the common people plus a reaffirmation of the duties of citizenship.
Joan Hinkemeyer, in a review of "The Americans," in Library Journal (reprinted from...
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Publishers Weekly
[If Jakes's "North and South"], first of a projected historical trilogy dealing with events before, during and after the American Civil War, follows the example of his eight-book Kent Family Chronicles, it will be a major bestseller. There's reason to think it will. To compare it to Thomas Keneally's recent "Confederates" would be to compare homespun to silk; but Jakes's tale belongs essentially to robust melodrama, where subtleties of style or characterization are not required. His villains are so villainous you love to hate them, his women wild and passionate (mostly), his action fast and often lurid. The story focuses on two families, the Southern Mains, slave-owning aristocrats, and the Pennsylvania...
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John Brosnahan
Although Jakes breaks new publishing ground with his first novel to be produced initially as a hardcover rather than a paperback, [North and South] remains unchanged and depends upon the same undisturbed fictional formula, a fact for which the author's many fans will be thankful. With the Kents left behind, Jakes now aims to chart the lives and loves of two families, Carolina planters and Pennsylvania industrialists, respectively, and to show how their fortunes intermingle before, during, and after the Civil War…. Jakes' clumsy interjection of historical bits and pieces, seemingly straight out of a reference book, is handled awkwardly, but the narrative is enhanced by a vivid imagination and superheated...
(The entire section is 154 words.)
Anne G. Adler
[In North and South] Jakes describes the tumultuous tearing years that lead to the war between the states. He thus highlights, through the lives of … two families, the most poignant aspect of our Civil War. The book is a feat of research. The characters, both fictional and real, make this era seem almost current. This is historical novel writing at its best.
Anne G. Adler, in a review of "North and South," in Library Journal (reprinted from Library Journal, February 15, 1982; published by R. R. Bowker Co. (a Xerox company); copyright © 1982 by Xerox Corporation), Vol. 107, No. 4, February 15, 1982, p. 473.
(The entire section is 97 words.)
Mel Watkins
"North and South" is John Jakes's first novel since he completed his immensely popular "The Kent Family Chronicles." Although as his first hard-cover publication this novel represents something of a departure for Mr. Jakes, it remains solidly within the historical fiction genre of his previous work, and one can safely predict that this epic tale of the 20 years preceding the American Civil War will not disappoint his fans….
As one might expect in a novel played out on so vast a canvas, few characters are memorable. The focus here is on the momentous events of an era. The narrative shifts cinematically from scene to scene—North to South, plantation to industrial town—and each new scene or...
(The entire section is 326 words.)
Gay Andrews Dillin
Remember how easy it was to doze off in your American history class? Well, if John Jakes had been the teacher, you wouldn't have!
Mr. Jakes is making history—or at least the historical novel—interesting for millions. "North and South,"… has quickly taken over the best-seller spot….
The author knows the rules for a successful generational saga: give the reader just enough history to lend flavor to the story, but let your characters carry the day.
I didn't need to be reminded of how good Mr. Jakes is at his craft. I was hard-pressed to slow down and read the paragraphs of historical insight and speeches which presented the views of both sections of the...
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The used jet market has had to contend with more than its fair share of obstacles over the past few years and 2012 didn't offer any relief. They say that when the stock market moves up it climbs a wall of worry and that's probably not much different from how jet buyers view the aircraft market. That said, there may be a bit less to worry about than there was last year at this time.
If you looked only at inventory levels throughout 2012, you'd think this wasn't a very upbeat year for transactions. But transactions are actually occurring at a frequency not seen for a few years. The fact that overall inventory has held steady suggests that a stable flow of new jets is entering the market. In addition, some zombie aircraft listings continue to distort the picture regarding the number of aircraft for sale. Consider that more than 400 of the current offerings have been on the market since 2009 or before and that nearly 70 percent of those are models built in 1989 or earlier. Being in your twenties can be great–unless you're an airplane. Whether this group is legitimately for sale or is unsellable, at least as whole aircraft, remains unclear. But it's worth considering that this segment represents 17 percent of today's worldwide inventory–a significant portion.
Action remains concentrated, as it has been for some time, on aircraft built after 1999–the models many lending institutions consider good investments. Today, in North America, roughly 7 percent of aircraft in this group are for sale, which means they're in reasonably tight supply. In Europe, 16 percent of these aircraft are available–a decidedly softer market, which makes for fertile shopping grounds. In fact, among some model types, there are now at least as many aircraft for sale in Europe as in the U.S.–a probable result of the large number of jets that European buyers absorbed in the mid-2000s.
So 2012 seemed to spur many to get back into the market and it perhaps brought risk-averse buyers a step closer to the pricing floor they may have been waiting for before plunking down their euros and dollars. Current pricing seems to be breaking the law of supply and demand, but if 2012's level of activity continues, we could see some models adhere to this most basic of economic theses in the year ahead.
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Debates of March 23rd, 2011
House of Commons Hansard #147 of the 40th Parliament, 3rd Session. (The original version is on Parliament's site.) The word of the day was information.
- Question Period
- Ray Walter and Ken Rea
- Acadian and Francophone Women
- André Lachapelle
- Infrastructure Funding
- The Budget
- Filipino Canadians
- Pakistan
- Guaranteed Income Supplement
- The Budget
- Government of Canada
- Israel
- Gender Equality
- The Budget
- Ethics
- The Budget
- Ethics
- Employment Insurance
- Forestry Industry
- Agriculture
- The Budget
- Champlain Bridge
- The Budget
- Champlain Bridge
- The Budget
- Health
- Aboriginal Affairs
- Citizenship and Immigration
- Industry
- Shipbuilding Industry
- Presence in Gallery
- Points of Order
- General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade 1994
- International Convention against Doping in Sport
- Government Response to Petitions
- Interparliamentary Delegations
- Committees of the House
- Fairness for Victims of Violent Offenders Act
- Message from the Senate
- Fairness for Victims of Violent Offenders Act
Champlain Bridge
Oral Questions
2:55 p.m.
Josée Beaudin Saint-Lambert, QC
Mr. Speaker, the Conservatives managed to find the money needed to build a new bridge in Windsor, Ontario. They even advanced $550 million to help Michigan pay for its share. However, when the time comes to replace the busiest bridge in Canada, which is in Quebec, they cannot come up with the money. That is just wrong.
When will Quebec's needs get the same attention as the needs of Ontario and Michigan?
Champlain Bridge
Oral Questions
2:55 p.m.
Chilliwack—Fraser Canyon
Chuck Strahl Minister of Transport
That was a good question, Mr. Speaker. How much money are we going to spend on the new Windsor bridge? We are going to spend zero taxpayer dollars. It is a P3 project. It will not have a single dollar in it.
Perhaps that is an option for the Champlain Bridge. The reason we are not saying that is because we are going to wait for the report to be tabled with me. When that report is tabled, options will be presented to us, including design ideas, whether it should include a railway, whether it should include rapid transit, whether it should include a bus route. There are lots of options. We are certainly not going to go into this willy-nilly.
While the bridge is safe, Montrealers should use it.
We will be working with the Quebec government to design an option.
The Budget
Oral Questions
3 p.m.
Marcel Proulx Hull—Aylmer, QC
Mr. Speaker, on both sides of the Ottawa River, the Conservative budget delivered yesterday confirmed our worst fears. Our public servants are very astute and had already suspected that the Conservatives might make some cuts. Instead of strengthening our economic recovery, the Conservatives are spreading uncertainty regarding job security for thousands of families in the national capital region.
The Conservatives have a habit of getting rid of public servants who are doing their jobs, but do they not think that they are going a little too far?
The Budget
Oral Questions
3 p.m.
Stockwell Day President of the Treasury Board and Minister for the Asia-Pacific Gateway
Mr. Speaker, as we said yesterday, about 11,000 people leave the public service every year. My colleague mentioned that jobs are sometimes eliminated from the public service, but it was the Liberals who did that. They eliminated many public service jobs 10 years ago. It was very strange.
The Budget
Oral Questions
3 p.m.
Marcel Proulx Hull—Aylmer, QC
Mr. Speaker, we have seen the Conservatives are very keen on firing public servants who do not follow their ideology. This is getting a bit much.
On both sides of the Ottawa River, tens of thousands of families did not sleep well last night after the Conservative budget confirmed that over 20,000 jobs would be slashed from our hard-working, dedicated public service.
Why are Conservatives revving up the chainsaw and threatening our cherished public services?
The Budget
Oral Questions
3 p.m.
Stockwell Day President of the Treasury Board and Minister for the Asia-Pacific Gateway
Mr. Speaker, that is really taking things to an extreme.
It is bad enough that they ignore the fact that our budget that we just tabled gives the highest levels ever for health care, for seniors, for research, for education, along with lowering taxes. However, now what they are trying to do is to frighten public servants.
There are about 11,000 public servants a year who leave the public service. We have been very clear that in no way, shape or form are we going to replicate what the Liberals did in the mid-nineties, slashing tens of thousands of public servants overnight and throwing them out on the streets.
Oral Questions
3 p.m.
Megan Leslie Halifax, NS
Mr. Speaker, it is not natural for us to work with Conservatives, but because every Canadian deserves fair access to health care, we tried to work with them to get results for the five million Canadians who do not have access to a family doctor.
The Conservative budget had no money for doctors. They decided that political games were more important than the needs of Canadians.
Can the minister tell us why she abandoned the more than five million Canadians without access to a family doctor?
Oral Questions
3 p.m.
Leona Aglukkaq Minister of Health
Mr. Speaker, the member claims to care about the health of Canadians but will be voting against the budget.
A vote against the budget means there will be no funding for neurological and health research. A vote against the budget means there will not be additional funding for doctors and nurses in rural and remote communities. It will also be a vote against increased health transfers to provinces and territories.
That is a vote against Canadians.
Aboriginal Affairs
Oral Questions
3 p.m.
Jean Crowder Nanaimo—Cowichan, BC
Mr. Speaker, in yesterday's budget the government had an opportunity to address the needs of Aboriginal families, but it chose not to.
There is nothing for education, nothing to support friendship centres, nothing to provide clean water, and nothing to increase safe, healthy housing across Canada, especially in the north.
The government's answers to these grim conditions are projects that only reduce the government's own liability, like replacing fuel tanks. Why did the minister choose to ignore the calls to make strategic investments for first nations, Métis and Inuit?
Aboriginal Affairs
Oral Questions
3 p.m.
Vancouver Island North
John Duncan Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development
Mr. Speaker, this government is delivering strategic investments that will help improve the lives of aboriginal Canadians. Since coming to office, we have more than delivered on education, water, housing, economic development and human rights.
The Liberals ignored aboriginal peoples and northerners for a long period, while the NDP have shamefully voted against all of our important investments. We are the party that delivers for first nations, Métis, Inuit and the north.
Citizenship and Immigration
Oral Questions
March 23rd, 2011 / 3:05 p.m.
Patrick Brown Barrie, ON
Mr. Speaker, Filipino Canadians work hard to build this country. A recent example of nanny abuse was shocking. We know that nannies had substandard working conditions, had their immigration status threatened and passports confiscated so they could not flee.
Today the Toronto Star reveals that one of the nannies was coerced into a gag order, preventing her from talking to media or law enforcement. Alarmingly, this all happened in the house of a member who sits across the floor in the Liberal caucus.
Can the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration tell this House what the government's position is on immigration abuse?
Citizenship and Immigration
Oral Questions
3:05 p.m.
St. Catharines
Rick Dykstra Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration
Mr. Speaker, let me be clear. Immigrant women enjoy the same rights and protections under provincial labour laws as Canadian workers. If they are being abused they should report that abuse to the relevant provincial agency.
Our government is ensuring immigrant women know their rights. Whether it is abuse or exploitation, immigrant women have the right to speak out.
The real question is, would the Liberal leader not take a stand on this issue and state that treatment like this is wrong and is unacceptable?
Oral Questions
3:05 p.m.
John McCallum Markham—Unionville, ON
Mr. Speaker, last week I had the opportunity to visit the Diamond Aircraft facilities in London. The company is still waiting for a decision on a $35 million loan from the government. The Ontario government came through with its $35 million a year ago.
Meanwhile, hinging on the minister 's decision are 500 future jobs and the possible layoff of 200 existing employees.
Why has the minister loafed around for a year, leaving hundreds of Canadian families facing possible layoffs?
Oral Questions
3:05 p.m.
Parry Sound—Muskoka
Tony Clement Minister of Industry
Mr. Speaker, the fact is this government has already given this particular company $20 million through our aerospace program. It has asked for an additional $35 million, on top of the $20 million.
It is our responsibility, as keepers of the taxpayer interest, to ensure that we do our diligence on the books of a company like this, and that work is ongoing.
Shipbuilding Industry
Oral Questions
3:05 p.m.
Christiane Gagnon Québec, QC
Mr. Speaker, concerned about the fact that the Conservative government is trying to exclude the Davie shipyard from a major request for proposals, the National Assembly of Quebec unanimously adopted a motion calling on the federal government to be fair. The Conservatives and the hon. member for Lévis—Bellechasse have to stop sabotaging Davie's recovery.
Why did the government change the request for proposals midstream, thereby giving the Davie shipyard less time to restructure?