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Problem serializing DistinctResultList when EntityManager is closed ------------------------------------------------------------------- Key: OPENJPA-1722 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OPENJPA-1722 Project: OpenJPA Issue Type: Bug Components: kernel Affects Versions: 2.1.0 Reporter: Dianne Richards Assignee: Dianne Richards Fix For: 2.1.0 A client application that worked earlier is now failing in 2.10, relating to the serialization of the DistinctResultList. It does a distinct query followed by a getResultList(). A DistinctResultList is returned from the query, where a DelegatingResultList used to be returned. The EntityManager is closed before the serialization occurs. It fails with the exception: org.apache.openjpa.persistence.InvalidStateException: The context has been closed. Here's what is happening: The DistinctResultList contains a RuntimeExceptionTranslator object which contains the closed EntityManager. The writeObject() in the enclosed BrokerImpl does an assertOpen(), which issues the exception. The DelegatingResultList also contains the RuntimeExceptionTranslator. But, it contains a writeResult() method which is called during serialization. This only attempts to write the ResultList object, not the RuntimeExceptionTranslator object. So, I will add the writeResult() method to the DistinctResultList class. In this case, it will write an ArrayList instead of a ResultList object. This should be ok since the method signature is for a List. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.
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WABAN, Mass. — Publix earned top marks for customer service in a new survey by Temkin Group. The firm rated the customer experience of 206 large companies across 18 industries.
In the grocery industry, Publix earned the top spot and is the second overall company across all 206 companies in the study. Aldi, H.E.B., and Winn-Dixie also scored very well. These four grocery chains received "excellent" customer experience ratings, a level that was only earned by eight companies across all 18 industries, Temkin Group reported.
The overall grocery industry earned the top spot out of 18 industries, slightly higher than fast food chains and retailers but well ahead of other industries. The majority of the grocery chains earned "good" ratings. Piggly Wiggly, which is the lowest scoring grocery chain, earned an "OK" rating.
"Grocery chains are doing a good job of meeting their customers' needs," states Bruce Temkin, author of the report and Managing Partner of Temkin Group.
The Temkin Experience Ratings evaluates three dimensions of customer experience:
Accessible: How easy is it for consumers to do what they are trying to do?
Emotional: How do consumers feel about their interactions with companies?
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Flooding spreads across England
Beleaguered towns and villages in England have been dealt a further blow as more rain battered the North East and 200,000 householders across the country were warned they could lose their home insurance policies.
Environment Secretary Owen Paterson attacked the insurance industry for causing flood victims "alarm" after people were warned they could lose their home cover.
Three people have died since the latest bout of severe weather struck, forcing hundreds of people to flee water-logged properties.
Some 530 flood warnings and alerts remained in place as insurance chiefs hit out at the Government, claiming negotiations over future cover have hit an impasse and are now at "crisis point".
The two sides are locked in talks relating to the replacement of a "safety net" deal to ensure those in flood risk areas can continue to afford their policies which are set to expire next year. Insurers have called on the Government to provide a temporary overdraft facility to pay claims for 200,000 high-risk households in the event of serious flooding such as that seen in 2007.
Nick Starling, director of general insurance at the Association of British Insurers (ABI), accused ministers of rejecting its proposals. "We want a solution even more now after the difficult events of the weekend," he told the BBC Radio 4 Today programme. We seem to have reached an impasse. The Government has made it clear it's rejected our solution."
But Floods Minister Richard Benyon insisted the Government remained "really determined" to reach a deal and that the issue was an "absolute priority" for the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra). He criticised the ABI for airing its concerns at the height of the crisis.
He said: "I think it is actually rather demeaning at this particular moment in time to be talking about this. It is rather a shame that it has been raised at this particular moment when there are a lot of distressed people with flooded homes."
Widespread flooding has caused major disruption across the North East, with persistent rain creating a continued risk of surface water and river flooding. The Environment Agency said there are currently 17 flood warnings and 37 flood alerts in place for Yorkshire and the North East.
But with the rain persisting, communities are being urged to be vigilant as more warnings could be issued.
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Environmental responsibility is extremely important, particularly in our beautiful state. I firmly support making the many innovative forms of renewable energy a part of our overall energy portfolio that will help drastically reduce our dependence on foreign sources of energy. However, these efforts should be made in a fiscally responsible way. Unnecessarily burdening our energy sector with mandates is irresponsible and counter productive. Moving forward with renewable energy technology and implementation in a way that is conducive to our infrastructure will benefit our energy sector as well as our business climate.
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Cherie Blair, the wife of Tony Blair, is taking legal action against Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. Blaire filed a lawsuit today in relation to the recent phone hacking scandal.
Graham Atkins, Blair's lawyer, confirmed that Cherie had filed a claim but did not elaborate. Atkins released a statement today, saying:
"I can confirm that we have issued a claim on behalf of Cherie Blair in relation to the unlawful interception of her voicemails. I will not be commenting any further at this time."
Bloomberg reports that Cherie Blair's lawsuit comes just a few days before News Corp.'s first civil trial about the phone hacking scandal. News Corp. has already settled claims with Alastair Campbell, Blair's former press chief, and John Prescott, the former Deputy Prime Minister.
The phone hacking scandal started when it was revealed that the News of the World hacked into the phone of a murdered girl. Since then it has been revealed that the defunct paper hacked into the phones of politicians, celebrities, and civilians in order to get their stories. News Corp. has already settled lawsuits from Jude Law and they are currently trying to reach a settlement with Charlotte Church.
News Corp. could face fresh lawsuits from people like James Blunt, footballer Peter Crouch and singer James Blunt. According to Bloomberg, News Corp. could face as many as 800 more lawsuits.


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One Man Marches for Immigration Reform
He's on a one man march, as Brian Whitecalf's black Chuck Taylors hit the pavement, in search of changing an immigration system that touches central Nebraska in a big way.
"I believe it's vitally important," he said as walked along the shoulder of Highway 30 near Wood River.
It's estimated more than ten million undocumented workers live in the shadows in this country and Brian says Nebraska couldn't survive without them.
"It gives us a workforce, economic stability and a cultural experience that we wouldn't have anywhere else in the world," he said.
But some in Congress and many Americans say reform would reward lawbreakers.
Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama took the floor today, saying, "We cannot go down the path of amnesty now and another massive illegality in the future. Cannot do that."
It's been nearly seven years since immigration officers rounded up dozens they said had bogus paperwork. Some praised the crackdown, but Brian saw it differently.
He said, "Families were torn apart, stability of the next meal would come from or where they were going to live."
As his bright orange sign says, Brian wants comprehensive immigration reform, saying it's an issue of economics and faith.
"As a Christian, I don't believe this is how Jesus would treat people," in terms of the current system.
You'd have to get up pretty early -- 4:45 in the morning -- to beat a guy who says he could never run the mile in high school.
"And now I'm walking 47 miles in one day," starting near Grand Island's Hispanic business district.
He's a foot soldier in a much bigger battle, but says he's gaining friends.
And as cars fly by at 65 miles an hours, he believes central Nebraskans are showing support for his position.
The response to his one man march? "Definitely a thumbs up or a wave or a honk."
Brian sees Governor Heineman as an "obstructionist" on the issue.
However, the governor remains very popular and very outspoken against illegal immigration.


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I think I'm gonna have to side with the DW vid over this.
I like this one from The Buxton Bunny's site....
What the H%#* did he use a miniature garden rake? Da*# that was fast!
I clean mine as it it shown on the Buston Bunny site also. It is very fast and I think, safer. No knife being pulled in the direction of my hand.
Ha!! What a way to clean them! I spent 10 minutes on each one. Thanks!
Best Regards,
There have been similar posts on here and a bent fork was recommended for the toad tool. I tried it and it works.
Hand garden cultivator tool.
I sneaked a folk out the kitchen to try this method
You had to sneak a fork out of the kitchen? Your wife must run a pretty tight ship.


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Fall is coming whether we're ready or not! I'm quite excited about it this year since I can't wait to wear skirts and colored tights again. I also love all of the Autumn festivities in Germany and Europe in general. Do you love to knit? That's such a great Fall hobby though it's a good idea to get started on projects now so you can cuddle up with them in the cooler months ahead.
Everyone knows I'm a fan of Amy Butler! I'm willing to bet you are too. Did you know that she now has a brand new collection for those who love to knit? From fashion accessories to the home, you can find lots of patterns and yarns in Amy's favorite colors to create your very own piece. This new collection with Rowan Yarns is Amy's first collaboration with a favorite English designer of hers, Erika Knight!
"The collection includes knitted and crochet designs from throws, cushions and chair covers to super stylish accessories as a slouch beret, multi colored scarf, gloves and cabled socks. The garments are a mix of key pieces including simple cables, stripes and a show stopping crochet skirt."
Her yarn is 100% merino wool with a chainette structure and the color palette is selected from her Soul Blossoms fabric collection so that the two can coordinate beautifully together so that you can mix fabric and yarn effortlessly in your projects.
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I got married about 3 months ago in Arizona. Unfortunately we are not as compatible as thought. There has not been any abuse or infidelity in the marriage, but too many disagreements. I have decided to get out. While she has asked, I have not agreed to seek any counseling or therapy - no point... We were both previously in long marriages and have our own children, but there are no custody issues in our current marriage. Additionally we have no real joint property to divide. From her previous marriage she had been getting $1K per month in spousal support for life. Obviously when we got married that was stopped. While there is a significant delta in our incomes, there has not been a significant lifestyle change for her. She has sought some legal advice, and believes she could be entitled to as much as 10 years of spousal support from me to compensate for her lost alimony income. I will consult legal advice, but this seems completely unreasonable. She is fit to work and still maintains child support from her previous marriage. Can or would that "lost income" be a factor in our divorce?
she might be able to get spousal support started back up from her ex but not from you. I am in AZ and this sounds ludicrious. I highly doubt an attorney told her this because AZ is a no fault state anyways, and you should actually file for an annulment. Stop listening to her and see an attorney. No court is going to make you pay alimony after a ridiculously short marriage. If you make good $$ then you should be able to afford an attorney.
I don't see an annulment as applicable nor fault or no fault as relevant to any award of support. No one here can tell you what a court will or won't do. Many factors are taken into consideration and while it seems unlikely that you could be responsible for any long term support, we don't know the income disparity between the two of you and whether she would be again eligible for support from the prior marriage.
Only a local attorney can give you good advice regarding this.
I highly doubt her ex husband is ordered to start paying again. The burden of alimony from their marriage stopped the minute she married you. His obligation has been met and it is highly unlikely he is ordered to pay again. He has nothing to do with this marriage failing.
There may be a loss of income due to this marriage and if she has a lawyer and you don't, you will lose. Your opinion that she is fit to work is irrelevant, she HAD this income and no longer does and you are already trying to end this marriage without trying to work through issues (counseling). It is a loss of income and you are not willing to try.
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I don't see where in a very short term marriage there arise issues in favor of alimony --however some might be sympathetic to the plea of I gave up XYZ just to marry you and now you leave me --and if that happens to be the judge you may have problems---I think you need AZ counsel like pronto .
I think there is an interesting question to address under AZ law that if a second marriage is annulled and creates the legal fiction that it never took place does that put first alimony payer back on the hook --if that's likely--then it might be ultra wise to examine the facts of your current marriage and see is any of them could possibly fit inside the criteria to get an annulment under AZ law --carefully and quickly done it just might work--but I'd want seasoned AZ counsel like pronto.
There might be mutual advantage for you both to participate in an uncontested annulment and get it done with no comments about any secondary effect raised before the court. ?
A court needs to approve an annulment- unless the suggestion is that the parties engage in fraud on the court- not a good idea.
I agree to consult an attorney. I do not know about AZ as I am in CT, but protect yourself from inheriting the $1K per month lifetime spousal support. I would think her attorney would aggressively go for that!
I agree one needs to be very careful not to engage in fraud---how not to step into mine field is a good topic to be left to good counsel on each side IF there is a way to avoid minefiled.
She gave up 1k every month to marry you and you want to give up after 3 months? Honestly, that's pretty pathetic. Don't blame her for seeking compensation from you, but only a local attorney can tell you if it's possible.
Somehow I'm guessing she'll get "compensation" out of you for this in one form or another. Frankly, the LEAST you can do is a bit of the counseling you SHOULD have done before she gave the $ up to marry you.


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Target: The community of Hebron, Indiana
Goal: Find and punish the person responsible for deliberately killing a pet dog in a groundhog trap
A woman in Hebron, Indiana recently witnessed one of the worst imaginable sights–her pet dog dying slowly inside a metal animal trap. Upon finding her trapped dog, the pet owner struggled to free him from the metal jaws of the trap, but to no avail. She was forced to watch her dog suffocate to death before police could arrive on the scene.
Although the trap was set on the woman's own property, the perpetrator remains unknown and at large. But one thing is clear: the trap (the kind usually used to catch groundhogs) was set deliberately for the dog. Hebron Police Chief Steven Sibbrell says that noise complaints about the dog's barking had brought him to the woman's home in the past. Both he and the pet owner believe that the same person who called about the dog's barking took matters into his or her own hands by deliberately and brutally murdering the innocent animal.
This reckless disregard for animal life cannot go unpunished. No living being deserves to die as a result of neighborly bickering. The person responsible for the death of this dog must be brought to justice and given the highest possible sentence for animal cruelty. Call on the police department and community of Hebron to seek out the culprit and press appropriate charges.
Dear community of Hebron,
Recently, a passive argument between neighbors culminated in a horrific act of violence. One Saturday morning, a member of your community went out into her yard to witness an unthinkable sight: her pet dog dying slowly in the jaws of a steel animal trap.
While this pet owner struggled to free her companion from his confines, she was unable to release the trap. Unfortunately, help arrived too late. By the time police were on the scene, this woman's dog had already suffocated to death.
Police report that neighbors had called in noise complaints about the dog's barking in the past. It seems as though a neighbor took matters into his or her own hands by setting an animal trap on the dog owner's property. Regardless of whether the dog's barking was a public nuisance, no living creature deserves such a brutal and untimely death as the result of a neighbor's disagreement. The person responsible for this crime must be brought to justice. I urge you to seek out the perpetrator and ensure that he or she receives the strictest punishment for this heinous act of animal cruelty.
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Josée Carrier from The Charming Needle has an engineering background, and started sewing for her little ones around five years ago. She initially started sewing home decor projects for her home, and then seriously got into sewing and quilting for her kids. Around that time she also discovered modern prints and the online quilting community!
Josée loves to create and design her own projects, and finds quilting and patchwork projects are a great way to express her creativity. She has published several sewing and quilting projects in different magazines, and she is the co-founder and current vice-president of the Montreal Modern Quilt Guild. Learn more about Josée's projects and patterns at The Charming Needle!
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Of course, it's very early days for the new Microsoft mobile OS. After all, Rome wasn't build in a day and it's naive to expect that Windows Phone 7 will become a world-beater for a week or two, especially if we take into account how strong its rivals are. Moreover, sales may be hampered by hardware shortages, similar to what we have seen with the Super AMOLED displays.
There is no official word on the subject by Microsoft, while AT&T spokeswoman said that:
"Windows Phone 7 handsets are already receiving strong interest from our customers right out of the gate."
That's consistent with what we have heard from Europe, where Orange was reporting shortages. Furthermore, Nielsen analyst Roger Entner thinks that we will have to wait until Christmas to make any conclusions on the sales:
"It's early in the game and not every product surges right out of the starting blocks. The first Android phone was not a big seller at T-Mobile. We'll see what happens with Black Friday sales."
Only time can reveal whether Windows Phone 7 is heading to glory or oblivion, but what are your first impressions of the newly released handsets?
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It never ceases to amaze me how predictable my human overlords are. For example, over the last few months both the male and the female of the household have been perpetually befuddled at how the charges on their credit cards have appeared. After much interrigation of one another, they then being speculating upon whether or not it was possible that a burglar broke into the house, took the credit cards, charged $37.52 to madcattoys.com, returned the cards, and then disappeared into the night. So be it. I have little pity for organisms that so readily dismiss and underestimate the power of the duclaw on top of the coincidental irony of their computer having a mouse. It's not as if one of the dogs would have the slightest clue as to what to do if they were to encounter a mouse, be it a live rodent or the one which I will use shortly to overnight Dav Pilkey's novel, KAT KONG. Now there's a more realistic depiction of our feline capabilities.
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text: I love art. I teach it. I try to preach it to others. My faith is truly alive due to artists - both old and new. They imbue hope, life, and peace. Rembrandt and Michelangelo, Goya and Picasso, and more recently Wooster. These are my commentaries upon the Scriptures. As a Christian this often lands me in two worlds simultaneously. One foot in church related things and the other in creative arts. I've found the bridge is most often me. I enjoy mixing it up in both worlds, but it would be truly f … [Read more...]


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Rob (RetroCRX) started his CRX experience at the same time so many of us get into a rex - college. Just after his second year of college (about 10 years ago) he became owner of a Canadian first gen. A 1986 "DX" with the 1.5L 12 valve carburated motor. In his words - "this thing had a manual choke and a 2 barrel carb, not exactly a high performance unit!" However, this was just the tip of the iceberg in this CRX story.
Rob ended up with the first gen in quite a roundabout way. The car had been sitting in a neighbors driveway for a few weeks and had not moved since it arrived. Rob decided to go over and ask the neighbor what his plans for it were. The encounter went as follows:
"basically he said he wanted to drive it, couldn't figure out why it wouldn't start and he was going to get rid of it. I offered him $500 for it and he accepted. In the end I paid $400 for the CRX. Seeing as I lived 3 doors down, I pushed it home, got it on the driveway, pulled the choke out and it started first crank!"
The CRX appeared to be fine - the neighbor just didn't know that the choke needed to be pulled to start it! Obviously bringing Rob and the CRX together was destiny.
Once home, the car spent all summer in the garage where Rob replaced the shocks, rear springs, sway bar bushings, and head gasket, as well as welding numerous patches into the floor and rocker panels to render it structurally sound. Rob said "The Canadian winters and salty roads had taken their toll on this little car. However I had her back in tip top shape and running strong for the start of college year 3." You can come to expect nothing less from this CRX enthusiast in the making. In Rob's words, "It was this first experience with the CRX that started the obsession."
Rob drove the "little Red DX" for several years in which he completed college (Mechanical Technologist/Designer) and found his first full time job. Every car guy's dream is disposable income, and Rob exclaimed "NOW I HAD SOME CASH COMING IN!!!"
The search was now on for a new project car. Initially Rob focused on the Mazda Miata:
"...drawn by the temptations of rear wheel drive and endless available modification possibilities! However, at the time, a decent Miata was too far out of the price range. My search came back to CRXs. Initially I was leaning towards a 2nd Gen CRX but could not find a solid car that hadn't already been molested by some poor misguided rice boys."
Again, so many of us can feel Rob's pain in the difficulty of finding the right car.
Continuing his search, Rob states
"My best bet was to find a solid 1st gen Si that someone had but didn't really know WHAT they had....This decision was made much easier when I ran into a guy at Mosport International Raceway who made a fiberglass fender flare kit for the 1st gen. Ever since I had seen a race car with that kit I had wanted my car to look the same!"
Rob located his future car in Owen Sound, Ontario and made arrangements to meet with the seller in Collingwood, splitting the distance each would have to travel. They met at a local Tim Horton's donut shop, where Rob looked over the car in the parking lot, and handed over the agreed upon $1100 - the deal was done!
The car was not flawless - it had some rust, the interior was a bit dirty with nicotine stains and the motor was tired - but overall it was a good starting point for what Rob had in mind.
And what, might you ask, did he have in mind? Nothing less than a "TOTAL AND COMPLETE RESTORATION!" Yeah, we were hoping he'd say that!
Within days Rob began disassembly. In about 2 weeks he had the car down to a mostly bare shell, with only the hard brake lines and several under-hood components remaining. The body was in decent condition, however, "some areas were better than I'd hoped and others were worse.....MUCH WORSE! Having looked over the car in a snowy parking lot, I missed several things that would likely have made me pass on it, but now I had to deal with it!" A good lesson for anyone searching for a classic Honda, indeed.
During his disassembly process, it became apparent that there was significantly more rust than was initially assumed. This wasn't necessarily a problem for Rob as he had a welder and metal working tools on hand, but it was going to delay the eventual progress he had hoped to make. Rob slowly worked his way through the body, welding in new panels on basically EVERY section of the car. He made panels for the floor, firewall, spare tire well, rocker panels, rear quarter panels, the jack points, and he even replaced the rear crossmember that houses the infamous panhard bar mounting point. (Who else feels like Honda should give Rob an award?) Along the way, Rob added braces and seam welded the body to increase rigidity, using his handy mechanical design background to help work out the most effective modifications. You have permission to faint, now...
Once the body was structurally sound, Rob was about one year into the project. He was spending every spare minute on the car. His take on the situation: "Foolishly my girlfriend at the time tolerated not seeing me at all during the week. She only saw me during the evenings on the weekends. It must not have bothered her much because we're now married with a little girl!" Apparently Rob's skills at nice finds aren't limited to cars!
Anyway, with the ongoing project, it was now time to progress to the mechanical systems. Rob had been accumulating new parts as funds allowed while he had been finishing the bodywork. Once finished, he had: new shocks, torsion bars, springs, full urethane suspension bushing set, sway bars, adjustable panhard bar, a complete set of parts to convert to an Integra braking system, a ZC motor, ZC transmission, new gas tank, new fuel lines, as well as numerous other "bits and pieces" - clutch, driveshafts, etc! Did he get fries with that?!!!
In total, it was nearly another year before Rob put the motor in and completed the wiring, plus getting everything else cleaned, painted, and reassembled. Now the final stretch of the project could begin!
The last 6 months of the project was the bodywork/interior and final setup. Rob set to installing the fiberglass flare kit. He managed to get everything attached, blended, and primed before the car was off to the body shop for final prep and paint. In addition to paint, the body shop was also going to reinstall all of the glass and the window trim. No agonizing, back and forth decisions on color choice here: "I flipped through the DuPont paint catalogue and picked out the brightest blue I could find in the book and left them to it. In 2 weeks I had my baby back and she looked spectacular!!"
About 2 weeks later the car was in roadworthy condition. Rob said, "I had a few minor teething problems like the injector seals were leaking and the IACV needed some TLC but other than that, it basically started first crank, needed the timing tweaked a little bit and she was off!"
The whole project lasted about 2.5 years to completion at considerable cost. How much you ask? Rob says, "GOD ONLY KNOWS how much it cost (I could add up all the reciepts but I'm afraid to). It was appraised for insurance at $17,500.00 about 6 years ago and is due to be appraised again soon so I can put it on a classic car insurance program." Talk about one of a kind!
"Since the initial build RETROCRX has seen many an adventure. First was the water pump fiasco! I had to replace the water pump.....no problem right?! Well got everything apart easily and were reinstalling the new one when one of the 4 mounting bolts broke! FUN!! After much cursing and swearing I managed to dig enough of the broken bolt out of the hole to affect a fix. With a little help from JB weld I bonded a stud into the block in the place of the broken bolt! All has been well with this fix for 6 years now!" All hail the magic that is JB Weld.
"In another such adventure, a track day resulted in a spun rod bearing and complete engine rebuild!! Not to mention a $350 tow that ended at 3:00am by the time we made it home!"
Along the way there have been great moments, too. RETROCRX won the Best in Show award at the Niagara N10 meet, is consistently among the quickest street tire cars whenever autocrossed, and is a true head-turner anywhere she goes, parked or in motion. (One look at the pictures, and we can't agree more!) Rob has also shown up at Mid Ohio at the SCCA Runoffs on one occasion. Of that experience, he says "Never again might I add because I had trouble walking after driving that distance!!" Perhaps cruise control is in the future for this rare rex?
Rob sums up his story with this touching quote, "Every year I look forward to the warm 6 months I get here in Ontario so I can take her out for a spin! Every winter she sleeps without complaint and every spring, without fail, she fires up on the first crank eager to go out for a thrash! Would I do it all again? [long pause] For a Honda, probably not...but will I need to? I think RETROCRX and I will grow old together! I hope my wife doesn't mind."


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Louise Erdrich to Receive 2009 Kenyon Review Award for Literary Achievement
The Board of Trustees of The Kenyon Review is pleased to honor Louise Erdrich as the 2009 recipient of the Kenyon Review Award for Literary Achievement at a gala dinner on Thursday, November 5 at the Four Seasons restaurant in New York City. Tickets are $1,000 per person and include dinner and cocktails, with proceeds benefiting The Kenyon Review. Members of the literary community and other luminaries are expected to be on hand, including past winners of the award. Following the dinner, Erdrich will travel to Gambier, Ohio, to give the keynote presentation at the third annual Kenyon Review Literary Festival.
Erdrich is the author of 12 novels, as well as three books of poems, a series of children's books, a collection of stories, and a memoir of early motherhood. Her first novel, Love Medicine, won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1984. Her most recent novel The Plague of Doves was a finalist for the 2009 Pulitzer Prize and New York Times bestseller, and she has recently released The Red Convertible: Selected and New Stories, 1978-2008 to great critical acclaim. The Kenyon Review, in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts, has launched the Big Read Knox County, a community reading celebration of Erdrich's first novel, Love Medicine.
The daughter of a Chippewa Indian mother and a German-American father, Erdrich was born in Little Falls, Minnesota in 1954, and raised in Wahpeton, North Dakota, where her parents were both teachers at the Bureau of Indian Affairs school. She is the eldest of seven children. Erdrich was part of the first class of women at Dartmouth College, graduating in 1976. Her first year there, 1972, was also the year the Native-American studies department was created at the college. She later earned an M.A. in creative writing from Johns Hopkins University in 1979.
Critics cite her as a seminal American writer, noting her prolific body of work as well as her artistic interest in addressing the cultural issues facing modern-day Native American and mixed heritage Americans. An essayist for Contemporary Novelists has noted: "Erdrich's accomplishment is that she is weaving a body of work that goes beyond portraying contemporary Native American life as descendants of a politically dominated people to explore the great universal questions—questions of identity, pattern versus randomness, and the meaning of life itself." It has been suggested that her nonlinear narratives and circular stories—where characters that appear in one novel may appear in another, years later—articulate a storytelling style with a lyrical sense of time, a style that highlights the thematic touchstones of love, loss, grief, and recovery around which her oeuvre is organized, rather than a simple conventional narrative progression of one action leading to the next.
Erdrich lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota with her daughters and is the owner of Birchbark Books, a small independent bookstore.
The Kenyon Review Award for Literary Achievement was first presented in 2002 to novelist E.L. Doctorow, a 1952 graduate of Kenyon, who is known for such works as The Book of Daniel, Ragtime, and Loon Lake and more recently for The March. In 2003 the recipient was novelist and short-story writer Joyce Carol Oates, author of Wonderland, Do With Me What You Will, and We Were the Mulvaneys, among many other titles. In 2004, Seamus Heaney, recipient of the 1995 Nobel Prize for Literature, received the award. In 2005, KR honored Roger Angell, the renowned baseball writer who has also been fiction editor of the New Yorker, and Umberto Eco, the Italian author of such best-selling novels as The Name of the Rose and Foucault's Pendulum. The 2006 recipient was novelist Ian McEwan, author of the Booker Prizewinning Amsterdam and the National Book Critics' Circle Fiction Award winning Atonement, and in 2007 KR honored Margaret Atwood, the author of such acclaimed novels as The Edible Woman, The Handmaid's Tale, Cat's Eye, The Robber Bride, Alias Grace, and The Blind Assassin. Last year's recipient was novelist Richard Ford, author of such acclaimed novels as The Sportswriter and the Pulitzer Prize winning Independence Day, along with the critically acclaimed collection of stories, Rock Springs.
Proceeds from the dinner, and from the live auction that accompanies it, ensure the legacy of one of America's most revered literary journals. It also supports scholarships and fellowships to KR's summer writing programs, the Writers Workshop for adults and the Young Writers program for high-school students. The magazine's literary outreach programs include the Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers, established in 2003, which attracts thousands of entries from across the globe.
For more information about the 2009 Kenyon Review Award for Literary Achievement, please email KR.
2009 Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers Begins in November
The sixth annual Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers will begin accepting entries in November. The prize, which is open to high school sophomores and juniors throughout the world, is juried by David Baker, KR's poetry editor.
More than 600 entries were received last year, with the winner, Felicity Sheehy of New York, receiving a full scholarship to KR's popular Young Writers summer workshop. The top two runners up received partial scholarships to attend the summer workshop, and all three poets will be published in the Fall issue of The Kenyon Review.
Students are invited to submit one poem via an online program beginning November 1. Visit KR's web site for a link to the contest submission page at that time. The contest will close on November 30.
High school teachers are encouraged to pass along this information to sophomores and juniors.
Managing Editor Remembered
The Kenyon Review is sad to note the death of Cy Wainscott. He died at his home on Sunday, September 27, after a battle with cancer.
Cy Wainscott served as Managing Editor of the Review for over five years, until his retirement in 1998. He was the former managing editor at the Plain Dealer newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio, where he worked for more than twenty years. He was a copy editor there when he met his future wife, then-reporter Judith McCluskey, a Gambier native. Former KR Managing Editor, Meg Galipault, remembers Cy as a generous and thoughtful colleague who enjoyed mentoring students interested in journalism.
After leaving the Plain Dealer he worked for three years as the assistant vice president for university relations at Kansas State University.
He was never shy about emerging technology. From 1988 to 1991, he worked as a consultant for Atex, a software-development firm prominent at the time for its work with print media. He traveled the country and the world, advising newspapers about improving operations through technology. His stops included newsrooms in New Zealand, Poland, Scotland, and Sweden. He worked as an independent newspaper consultant from 1991 until he was hired by The Kenyon Review in 1993. Cy's tenure at the Review coincided with a major shift in the publishing world: the transition from outsourced typesetting and layout to in-house production. His knowledge of and facility with technology made him especially suited to usher the Review into this new phase of publishing. Loretta Godfrey, longtime chief copy editor of The Kenyon Review, who remembers Cy working in the tiny basement office of Sunset Cottage, expressed a great deal of respect for his vision in bringing the production of the journal in-house.
"He knew the ins and outs of publishing better than anyone I've ever known," said David Lynn, editor of The Kenyon Review. "He was a perfectionist who strove to make The Kenyon Review the best it could possibly be."
Think of this section as a bulletin from KR in which we brag about the accomplishments of the extended KR family and leave out the gall-bladder surgeries.
Cara Blue Adams' forthcoming story "Exit" will appear in the October issue of The Sun. She also has stories out this month in New South and Copper Nickel.
Lynn Ahrens is pleased to announce the Broadway revival of the Tony Award winning musical Ragtime for which she wrote the lyrics. Previews begin on October 23rd. Ahrens also has an essay, "White Fish," forthcoming in Narrative Magazine, and a short story, "Rendition," forthcoming in Glimmer Train Stories.
Meena Alexander's new book Poetics of Dislocation (University of Michigan Poets on Poetry Series) and a collection of essays about her work, Passage to Manhattan: Critical Essays on Meena Alexander, edited by Lopamudra Basu and Cynthia Leenerts, (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, UK)
will both come out in November.
Sarah Arvio's poem "Wood" is forthcoming in the New Yorker. Her poem "Whorl" is forthcoming in the New Republic. Her poem "Algarve" is forthcoming in a special issue of Triquarterly edited by Edward Hirsch.
Beth Bachmann's first book, Temper, selected by Lynn Emanuel as winner of
the AWP Award Series 2008 Donald Hall Prize, is out now from Pitt Poetry
Series. Info and poems are up at www.bethbachmann.com
Mary Jo Bang's new book The Bride of E, is out this month from Graywolf; it received a starred review from Publishers Weekly.
Alexei Bayer translated a few stories for a collection of contemporary Russian fiction for Life Stories, a charitable project to benefit old age hospices in Russia. The book has just come out.
Dan Beachy-Quick's new book of poetry, This Nest, Swift Passerine, is now out from Tupelo Press.
Robin Behn's book of poems The Yellow House will be out from Spuyten Duyvil this spring. Meanwhile she is writing poems to be wrapped up inside the music of her traditional music band Waxwing. Waxwing will perform Fiddle Tune Poems on the Spoken Word Stage at the Lake Eden Arts Festival in Asheville NC on May 16, 2010.
Margo Berdeshevsky's new book of illustrated short-short stories, Beautiful Soon Enough, recipient of the FC2/American Book Review Innovative Fiction Award has just been published by University of Alabama Press.
David Bergman's book Gay American Autobiography: Writing from Whitman to Sedaris was published in June by The University of Wisconsin Press.
Paula Bohince received a 2009 NEA fellowship in Poetry. Her poem "Mother's Quail" recently appeared in the New Yorker.
Joseph Campana received an Individual Artist's Grant from the Houston Arts Alliance
in 2009. Some recent publications include an essay in Modern Philology, some poems in Guernica, Salt, Colorado Review (republished in Verse Daily), and Boston Review.
Kara Candito's collection of poetry, Taste of Cherry (Winner of the 2008 Prairie Schooner Book Prize), has just been published by University of Nebraska Press.
Janet Chalmers' "Geetha Burning," a poem about bride burning in India, was included in the 2009 issue of Mamapalooza Magazine. "Letter to My Mother," another take on the Persephone myth, was accepted by 13th Moon.
Colin Cheney's first book of poems, Here Be Monsters, was chosen by David Wojahn as a winner of the 2009 National Poetry Series, and will be published in April 2010 by University of Georgia Press.
Eddie Chuculate, whose story, "Dear Shorty," is forthcoming in the Winter 2010 Kenyon Review, has a debut collection of short stories forthcoming in Spring 2010 through Black Sparrow Books/David R. Godine, Publisher, in Boston. "Dear Shorty" is included in the collection, titled "Cheyenne Madonna."
Tom Clark has four books forthcoming in the next few months: Problems of Thought: Paradoxical Essays (Skanky/Effing), The New World (Libellum), Trans/Versions (Libellum) and Something in the Air (Farfalla). His poetry blog can be found at: tomclarkblog.blogspot.com
Brian Doyle has a collection of 'spiritual essays' coming out in spring 2010, to be called Grace Notes.
Gerald Duff has signed a contract with TCU Press in Fort Worth, Texas, to publish his memoir Home Truths: A Deep East Texas Memory.
Kathy Fagan's new book of poems, Lip, was published in June by Eastern Washington University Press. She also has an essay forthcoming in River Teeth.
Paul Goldberger has two books coming out this fall: Why Architecture Matters, published by the Yale University Press (and excerpted in KR) and Building Up and Tearing Down: Reflections on the Age of Architecture, a collection of his architecture columns from the New Yorker, published by Monacelli Press.
Rachel Hadas coedited an anthology of Greek poetry in translation from Homer to the present, The Greek Poets, (forthcoming from Norton at the end of 2009) along with Peter Constantine, Karen Van Dyck, and Edmund Keeley. Her new book of poems The Ache of Appetite is forthcoming soon from Copper Beech Press. Her (as yet) untitled dementia memoir about her husband's illness is forthcoming in 2010 from Paul Dry Books.
Githa Hariharan's new novel, Fugitive Histories, was published by Penguin India in February 2009.
Joy Harjo's coming-of-age young adult picture book For A Girl Becoming, will be released October 2009, with illustrations by Mercedes McDonald from the University of Arizona Press.
Andrew Hudgins' new book Shut Up, You're Fine: Poems for Very, Very Bad Children, with illustrations by Barry Moser came out in March. Last fall the Library of America published his James Agee: Selected Poems. Hudgins' next book, American Rendering: New and Selected Poems, is coming out with Houghton Mifflin Harcourt next March.
Scott Kenemore's book The Art of Zombie Warfare is forthcoming from Skyhorse Publishing in the summer of 2010.
Brad Kessler's Goat Song: A Seasonal Life, A Short History of Herding, and the Art of Making Cheese came out three months ago and is in its fifth printing.
Poet Daniel Khalastchi recently won the Tupelo Press First Book Award. His manuscript, The Maturation of Man, is forthcoming in 2011.
Alex Lemon's debut memoir Happy will be published in December by Scribner. In March, Milkweed Editions will publish his third collection of poems, Fancy Beasts. Poems from the book have, or will appear in Esquire, Third Coast, Southern Review, jubilat, and Quarterly West among other publications.
James Longenbach's fourth book of poems, The Iron Key, which will include "The Island," previously published in KR, is forthcoming from W.W. Norton in the fall of 2010.
Joanie Mackowski's new book View from a Temporary Window will be out from University of Pittsburgh Press this January, 2010. Her poems also appear in The Swallow Anthology of New American Poets and 2009 Best American Poetry.
Amit Majmudar's first collection of poetry, 0′,0′ [Zero Degrees, Zero Degrees] is just out from Northwestern University Press/ TriQuarterly Books.
Ben Miller's poem "Pipe Birds" was recently chosen as a winner of the Bright Lights Big Verse: Poems of Times Square contest sponsored by the Poetry Society of America.
Meghan O'Rourke won the 2008 May Sarton award for poetry.
Stanley Plumly recently received The PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award runner-up prize for biography for Posthumous Keats; and the John Corrington Award for Lifetime Literary Achievement, given by Centenary College.
Kevin Prufer and D. A. Powell are editing a book due out soon on the great, unknown poet Dunstan Thompson. A gay GI poet (who later became a committed Catholic poet), Thompson's truly brilliant, harrowing, sometimes violent poetry has been out of print for more than 50 years.
Ron Rash's new book of stories, Burning Bright, will come out in March, 10, from Ecco.
Thomas Reiter's new book of poems, Catchment, will appear from LSU Press in October. His poems appear in current or upcoming issues of Hudson Review, Literary Review, Crab Orchard Review, Cincinnati Review, Caribbean Writer, Caribbean Review of Books, and Shenandoah.
David Reynolds' book Waking Giant: American in the Age of Jackson will appear on Oct. 1 in paperback. It was selected among the Notable Books of the Year by the NYT Book Review and among the Best of 2008 by the Washington Post.
Nick Ripatrazone's story "Never, Ever Bring This Up Again" was a runner-up in the Esquire fiction contest. It will be published online in early October.
Steven Schwartz is the winner of the 2009 Cohen Award for the best story of the year from Ploughshares.
Maurya Simon's new novel in verse, entitled The Raindrop's Gospel: The Trials of St. Jerome & St. Paula, is due out in January 2010 from Elixir Press.
John Smelcer, whose poems have appeared in KR many times over the past 15 years, has a new novel due out this month. The Great Death will be available in the US, Canada, and the UK in late October. His poetry book The Binghamton Poems just came out from Foothills Press in NY. The poems in the collection were selected and edited by his friend, the late John Updike.
Arthur Sze just published his eighth book of poetry, The Ginkgo Light, with Copper Canyon Press.
Chase Twichell's new book Horses Where the Answers Should Have Been: New & Selected Poems is forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press.
Ellen Bryant Voigt has published The Art of Syntax: Rhythm of Speech, Rhythm of Song, with Graywolf Press. Last spring, she received The Poets' Prize for her last collection, Messenger: New and Selected Poems 1976-2006 (W.W. Norton).
William Wenthe received the 2009 Everett Southwest Literary Award for his book-length manuscript of a book of poems, Words Before Dawn. The award, open to writers from New Mexico, Texas, and Oklahoma, is awarded biennially for an unpublished book manuscript, and administered by the University of Central Oklahoma.
Former KR Fiction Editor Nancy Zafris has news from her new job as Editor of the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction: The 2010 winners of the FOC award are Linda Grover and Jessica Treadway. Their books will be published in October 2010. Meanwhile, the books of 2009 winners Lori Ostlund and Geoffrey Beckers are now available. Lori Ostlund's collection, The Bigness of the World, has received a starred review from Publisher's Weekly. And finally, Zafris' first book, The People I Know, itself a Flannery O'Connor winner, has been reissued in paperback.
The third annual Kenyon Review Literary Festival will be held in Gambier, Ohio on November 4-7, 2009.
The festival complements the eighth annual Kenyon Review Award for Literary Achievement, which will take place on November 6 in New York City. The award recipient this year is Louise Erdrich. Erdrich will then travel to Gambier, Ohio, to give the Festival's keynote presentation, the Denham Sutcliffe Memorial Lecture.
The festival is designed to bring literature home with seminars, readings, and more, available to Ohio residents and visitors across the country. Highlights of the festival include the Writers' Harvest (11/4, 8pm), a student-organized fundraiser to help the hungry, an Ojibwe Poetry Reading (11/6, 7:30pm) featuring Kimberley Blaeser, Heid Erdrich, and Gordon Henry, readings by Kenyon authors (11/7, 10am), a continuation of the Online Love Medicine Book Discussion (11/7, 2pm), and the keynote event, An Evening with Louise Erdrich (11/7, 8pm).
In conjunction with the Council of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP), the festival will play host to the CLMP Midwest Literary Magazine & Small Press Fair. In addition to panels and readings, the Fair offers dozens of literary magazines as well as Kenyon Review preview books for sale at discount prices.
Sponsorship provided by: First-Knox National Bank, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ohio Arts Council, WOSU Public Media, and the Denham Sutcliffe Memorial Lecture Series.
Click here for the full schedule of Literary Festival Events.
Click here to reserve your free ticket(s) for the keynote address.
Join us for The Big Read in October!
KR's Big Read continues in October with the kickoff of the Love Medicine Online Book Discussion moderated by KR editor David Lynn, and KR associate editor Sergei Lobanov-Rostovsky. Click here to join the discussion.
Additional events taking place throughout October include:
- Oct. 7, 12:00 p.m. — Brown Bag Chat: An Overview of the NEA Big Read, Public Library of Mount Vernon and Knox County, Mount Vernon.
- Oct. 14, 12:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. — Literature and Lunch/Lattes with Anne Storan. Join Anne for a discussion about the various revisions of Love Medicine throughout the years, Sips Coffee Shop, Mount Vernon.
- Oct. 15, 12:00 p.m. — Love Medicine Book Discussion, Kenyon College Bookstore, Gambier.
- Oct. 17, 3:00-6:00 p.m. — Love Medicine Craft Project for grades three and above at the Brown Family Environmental Center Harvest Festival, 9781 Laymon Road, Gambier. Directions: Follow Route 229 four miles east of Mount Vernon, and turn right on Laymon Road.
- Oct. 19, 6:30 p.m. — Love Medicine Book Discussion, Lulu's Café & Bistro, Danville.
- Oct. 20, 6:30 p.m. — Love Medicine Book Discussion, Public Library of Mount Vernon and Knox County, Mount Vernon.
- Oct. 21, 7:00 p.m. — The Big Read Knox County Film Series: Nokomis: Voices of Anishinabe Grandmothers, KAC Theater, Gambier.
- Oct. 23, 7:00 p.m. — Readers' Theater adaptation of Love Medicine: Lipsha's Journey, ThePlace@TheWoodward, 111 S. Main St., Mount Vernon.
- Oct. 27, 6:30 p.m. — Love Medicine Book Discussion, Fredericktown Public Library, Fredericktown.
- Oct. 28, 7:30 p.m. — Love Medicine Book Discussion, Centerburg Public Library, Centerburg.
- Nov. 2, 7:00 p.m. — Student-led Love Medicine Book Discussion, Ramser Community Room, in the corner of the Thorne Library, Mount Vernon Nazarene University.
- Nov. 4, 12:00 p.m. — Brown Bag Chat: Focus on the Author, Public Library of Mount Vernon and Knox County, Mount Vernon.
- Nov. 5, 4:30 p.m. — Student-led Love Medicine Book Discussion, Ringwalt Room, Kenyon College Library, Gambier.
All events are free and open to the public.
A $10,000 Big Read grant from the National Endowment for the Arts provides for the free distribution of the book. The NEA launched the Big Read initiative in 2006 to restore reading to its role at the center of American culture. About 400 communities have engaged in Big Read projects, tapping into an NEA library of thirty selected works, including Love Medicine. The Big Read is an initiative of the NEA developed in partnership with the Institute of Museum and Library Services and in cooperation with Arts Midwest. Our supporters also include First-Knox National Bank, the Ohio Arts Council, and WOSU Public Media.
I was fixed in him; glass would not stream from itself.
I took the window down; the woods now
other woods surrounding. I took myself to a class on
Berry Street.
The place for him inarticulate. Tandem, the teacher took
me along the metal
rod to river
in glass, the oven. She fished; she knew how much time;
I followed.
Swooning the molten glass out high on the rod.
Wrists, wrists, wrists (she said) rolling the rod across
my lap.
Someone else kissed, someone else lodged it.
I rowed in a scarred wooden cup.
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To you, I give my solitude
September 19th, 2009 — Darcie Dennigan
I am an extremely busy person. I keep an eye on the world . . .
I watch the almond trees on the street below.
When I visit the Botanical Gardens I soon become weary. There I have to keep an eye on thousands of plants and trees, especially the gigantic water-lilies . . .
I can remember the terrifying face of one woman I saw on the street, a face devoid of any expression . . .
That is Clarice Lispector talking. But I, too, am kept extremely busy by my many watching responsibilities.
There is a bridge near my apartment that is stuck in the raised position, and I have to stare at it in many kinds of light. If the day still has some sun, I have to also stare at the bridge's shadow on the water. I don't even have time to get into the huge responsibilities that living near water entails. Too, my apartment is on a hill, and being able to see above the roofs of the neighbors to the east also creates endless tasks—I have to watch the moon and the clouds, and the birds in v formations, and since it is autumn now, I have to watch the sky itself . . . Never mind the man across the street who comes home from work on a bike at 6 am. Never mind the family of skunks beneath the shed.
Clarice Lispector even watched for ants.
I kept a watchful eye on these insects when I was little and now that I so dearly long to see them again, I cannot find a single ant. I know they have not been exterminated otherwise I should have been told. Keeping an eye on the world also requires a lot of patience: I must wait for the ants to reappear. Patience. While watching the flowers open imperceptibly, little by little.
"But," Lispector writes, "I still have not found the person to whom I should report my findings."
Yeah. There's that.
To whom to report?
For the kids-books-kitchen floors-jobs-snubs-cupcakes-cars reportage, there are many outlets. But reporting on business of the Clarice Lispector kind needs another platform.
It is a bit like praying, blogging is. You want to pray for your child, or for the child in the newspaper. Or you want to hear your own voice counting aloud tiny events and ants from your day before that day is obliterated.
But as you start to pray, you think, but why should I be listened to? And how far into the prayer do you get each time before you remember?—I don't even believe in God.
Maybe to blog, to sketch, to write a literary-ish weekly column in the late 1960s for a local Brazilian newspaper a la Lispector, is to to render what you might have shared over dinner or in bed or on a late walk, aloud or silently, if you had known with whom to share it. (Here: This is what I am when I am alone.
But why write of tiny things at all? Even as she wrote her newspaper column, Lispector maintained that writing too much and too often contaminated the word, that it was writing 'from the fingertips and not the heart.'
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Don DeLillo's short piece "Coming Sun. Mon. Tues." is reprinted in KR's new anthology, Readings for Writers. It first appeared in KR Summer 1966, Vol.XXVIII, No. 3).
Coming Sun. Mon. Tues.
The bitterness and urgency of today's rebellious youth . . . tender and lyrical . . . A social document of aimless teenagers seeking their identity . . . evocative and bittersweet . . . the tragic boomerang of adolescent passions . . . A visual treat . . . somewhat controversial.
— The Times
It is Fifth Avenue in late afternoon in autumn and the shadows darken the street. The boy wears a heavy sweater and desert boots. He has long hair. The girl is pretty. She is wearing a heavy sweater. It is Fifth Avenue or Grosvenor Square. She has lovely eyes. They look in the shop windows. Mannequins in fur and diamonds. Ladies' shoes atop red velvet. An eight million dollar necklace. She whirls and pirouettes, dreaming of inaugural balls or being presented to the Queen. A few middle-aged people stare at her and shake their heads. What is the world coming to. She giggles and takes the boy's hand and they skip away to the park. They walk in the park. Leaves are falling. It is that golden time of day. There are boats on the lake. The sun is going down behind the Dakota Apartments or the London Hilton and she chases a squirrel across the grass in the soft darkening afternoon. Then they are drinking wine. They are in his small room drinking wine. Her eyes are lovely. The boy is talking. He is being bitter about something. Eventually it becomes clear. It's the world. He is being bitter about the world. He chain-smokes and drinks a lot of wine. It is Greenwich Village or the West Side. It is either of those or it is Soho or it is Montmartre. After a while she does a little pirouette and he gets up and stands in front of the bathroom mirror and makes funny faces in the mirror. Then they make funny faces together. He kisses her. She becomes pregnant. She is pregnant and they talk to an abortionist. The abortionist's office is cold and sterile. Everything in the office is white. The boy and girl are nervous but the abortionist's nurse is not nervous. The nurse has hooded eyes. She smokes a cigarette. The abortionist is smooth and very much to the point. He's been through this scene thousands of times. He has a moustache and long, elegant fingers. He tells them to come back next Tuesday. They leave the office. The boy puts his arm around the girl. They are not on Fifth Avenue. They are near the waterfront. A drunk is sleeping in a doorway. They are trying to decide what to do. The girl writes a letter to her mother in the suburbs and then tears it up. The boy runs from one end of Chicago to the other. Then he looks for a job to get the money for the abortion. He is interviewed by a series of tall men with elegant fingers and they all tell him that they'll let him know if anything turns up. He insults one of the men, an old school chum of his father's who is the president of a management consultant firm and cannot understand why the boy did not finish college. The boy insults him beautifully. The man is so out of it that he is not even sure he has been insulted. Then the boy and girl go to a store in San Francisco or Toronto or Liverpool. They steal some groceries. They leave the store laughing with the groceries under their heavy sweaters. Then the boy stops at a flower stand and steals a flower for the girl. Then they go home and she cries. Then they go to a party. Everybody at the party is a phony except for one guy who's a West Indian or an American Negro or a French Canadian. This guy tells them that they don't know the first thing about being bitter. They have no right to be bitter. He tells them a thing or two about life and death. Everybody else is doing the freddy and this guy is telling them about real suffering, real pain. Telling it like it is. Then he rolls up his sleeve and shows them how he was wounded in Vietnam or Mississippi. Meanwhile everybody is doing the freddy and talking about Andy Warhol or the Animals. The boy and girl go home again. The Vietnam or Mississippi thing has put their troubles in a truer perspective. They play hide-and-seek under the covers of his tiny bed. Then they take turns feeling the girl's belly. They go to the Louvre and the girl sticks out her tongue at the Mona Lisa. Some middle-aged people shake their heads. The next day the girl gets up early and goes to school and the boy sits around smoking and looking in the mirror. Then he steals a car. He drives past all the ancient monuments of Rome or Athens. He sees his father come out of a hotel with a woman who is not his mother. He slumps down low in the driver's seat and watches. His father talks to the woman for a few seconds and then kisses her and they walk off in different directions. The boy just sits there. He sits there. Cars are piling up behind him and horns are blowing. Then he is standing on a bridge above the Thames. Leaves and garbage float by. He goes home and sees that the flower he had stolen for the girl is dead. He throws the flower away so she won't see it when she gets home from school. Then she gets home and tells him to return the stolen car. He gives her a hard time, saying basically that nothing means anything so why bother. She says if that's your concept of life I don't want to see you anymore. So she goes home to the suburbs. She has roast beef and mashed potatoes with her mother and father and older sister. Dessert is chocolate cake. Her mother wants to know why she's failing Civics and Arithmetic and where she's been the last three days and nights. The girl tries to be nice. Things are different now, mom. It's not like when you were growing up. The father makes an attempt at paternal understanding. Takes the positive approach. Compliments her on the fine job she's been doing in English Lit. Says he likes the Beatles. Then the older sister's date shows up. He has a crew-cut and wears a button-down shirt. He makes a lot of comments about the junior chamber of commerce and the local country club. He's in the executive training program of a huge management consultant firm. He's also a lieutenant in the Air Force Reserve. Brags about the fact that his country club just admitted its first Jew. The girl wants to know why they didn't do it twenty years ago. Older sister gets mad and tells her to go to her room. In her room she looks in the mirror. Then she feels her belly for a few minutes and repacks her suitcase. The boy stands in front of a movie theater looking at a poster of Jean Paul Belmondo. He goes to a bar. The place is full of hookers and pimps. Derelicts slip from their bar stools and lie in the saw- dust. The juke is playing mean, lowdown jazz. The bartender is fat and ugly. A very clean-cut man comes up to the boy and arrests him. The boy's father visits him in jail and they have an argument. The boy doesn't want to mention the strange woman he had seen with his father but in the heat of the argument it slips out. The father is ashamed. He offers to foot all the bills if the boy would only go to the Sorbonne or Michigan State. The boy calls this gesture a moral bribe and he laughs sardonically. Then he is released in the custody of his father and he goes back to his small flat in Chelsea and looks in the mirror. His parole officer tries to talk some sense into him. The parole officer is a nice guy. He has kids of his own, same age as the boy. The boy goes to his room and plays the guitar. He runs through the mad Los Angeles night. Then the girl comes in with her suitcase and they live together. Both of them wear heavy sweaters and blue jeans and desert boots. The girl whirls and pirouettes. She is not too good-looking but she has lovely eyes. They go to Coney Island or Brighton. They ride on the roller coaster and the carousel and they look at themselves in the distorted mirrors. He is nine feet tall and very skinny. She is short and squat and it reminds her that she is pregnant. They think of the abortionist. She feels her belly and smiles. They are going to have the baby. Then he chases her along the beach. Seagulls slant across the dying afternoon. They go behind a sand-dune and kiss. They go home. He kills a roach. They see what their life together is going to be like.
The end.
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OMG It's a Full On Double Rainbow by Bill Amend
Dane from over at Business-Opportunities Weblog sent me this cool Foxtrot cartoon the other morning. Unfortunately I was caught up in a large project so I didn't have time to post it until just now but it made me laugh.
You can check out the full size here on Foxtrot.com.
Thanks, Dane
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A Crown Of Lights by Phil Rickman
A modern witch-hunt splits a remote community - in a further challenge for exorcist Rev.Merrily Watkins. A disused church near a Welsh border hamlet has already been sold off by the Church when it's discovered that the new owners are 'pagans' who intend to use the building for their own rituals. The local rector, an extreme evangelical, is appailed and blames these inoffensive middle-class witches for infesting the whole community with evil...even calling in the diocesan exorcist, Rev.Merrily Watkins. An atmosphere of stifling menace develops - with the persecution of innocent people, false accusations, and the formation of a Christian vigilante group. As this cauldron of conflict threatens to boil over into serious violence, Merrily uses all the diplomacy she can muster. But, as the confrontation moves towards its climax at Candlemass, she is unaware of a personal threat against her from a deranged and violent man.
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What do you guys think of the camera company olympus? I really wanna buy my g.f. a digital camera, because she never had one nor will she ever have the extra cash to spend on one. I found this olympus today while I was in Manhattan (at a very reputable place) for 250. It is 5.0 megapixels, and the model number is D630zoom.
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Quick question…
Where can I find PNG icons of browsers, like ones used on the image on this item (not my item) – http://themeforest.net/item/greptem-business-portfolio-wordpress-theme/115927
The only place I've found is http://www.mellewynia.nl/english/project/2010/06/15/all-the-browser-icons/ but there is no licensing terms and the site owners says they are not his icons.
I kind of need ones where IE6 and IE7 are distinguishable like in the link above if you see what I mean?
I'm pretty sure these are the ones most authors use on themeforest
Particularly nice icons, thanks for the share.
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A Hendersonville native became a pioneer of the sky when she claimed the title of first female Black Hawk pilot in the N.C. Army National Guard.
Maj. Michele P. Harper took to the skies in a UH-60 Black Hawk 16 years ago after she graduated flight school in Fort Rucker, Ala. She is currently serving in Iraq.
A Hendersonville native became a pioneer of the sky when she claimed the title of first female Black Hawk pilot in the N.C. Army National Guard.
Maj. Michele P. Harper took to the skies in a UH-60 Black Hawk 16 years ago after she graduated flight school in Fort Rucker, Ala. She is currently serving in Iraq.
The Hendersonville native graduated from East Henderson High School in 1988 and double majored in math and military science at Appalachian State, graduating in 1993.
Today there are still very few female Black Hawk pilots in the N.C. National Guard, and Harper is the most senior female pilot.
"It makes me feel good to have done something that many females have not done," Harper said. "But at the same time, I wish more females would go for a non-traditional military role. I mean, it is flattering to say, but I definitely would not mind flying with some females."
Harper, one of four children born to Jim and Pat Peeler of Hendersonville, was able to reunite with her parents for a few minutes last week at Atlanta International Airport. The aviator was on leave and headed to Cancun for some R&R.
Pat was ecstatic to see her daughter, even only for the 20-minute layover.
"She is a wonderful person and loves the military," Harper's mother said. "She is a really good Christian woman who loves her country and loves her family."
Harper has been married to her husband, Aaron, for more than four years and they have an 18-month-old son, Soren. They currently live in Charlotte.
Pat remembers her daughter growing up in Henderson County.
"She was a girly-girl," Pat said. "I never thought she would end up in the military."
Harper played softball, was a cheerleader at EHHS and excelled in academics, her mother said. As a young girl, Harper's dreams went higher than the just the blue skies. She has always wanted to be an astronaut.
"Before you apply to the space program, you have to be a pilot first," Harper said.
As a child, her mother would take her to the Asheville Regional Airport to watch the planes.
"I was always at the airport getting on any aircraft that they would let me," Harper added.
Years later, she has achieved not only boarding aircraft, but piloting a highly-technological, four-bladed, twin-engine helicopter.
Harper is constantly teased about females being bad drivers and even worse pilots. However, females are known to have better landings because they touch down softer, according to the pilot.
"Females always want things to be nice and pretty, and we take that into our flying as well," Harper said. "Pilots are always complimenting me on what a nice landing I have."
Harper is deployed to Iraq as Task Force 449 Aviation Brigade's administrative officer based at Camp Striker. Her job consists of overseeing all personnel actions for the Task Force, including pay issues, awards and orders.
"It's the best job," said Harper. "I have an awesome staff. I love to help people because I am a people person."
But when she gets into the cockpit, she said there is no experience like it.
"I get to see the world," Harper explained about her love of flying. "I get to see so many different things that others may never see. Last night, when everyone else was sitting in their rooms or walking around their office, I was flying over Babylon. How many people can say that?"
The aviator also flies over the Blue Ridge Mountains and the coast when she is back in the States.
"All those places that are inaccessible in a vehicle, I see," Harper said.
She would like to see more female pilots in the National Guard. If Harper gets her way, it will not be long before she is part of an all-female mission.
"The males would not even know what to say," Harper said. "They are so afraid to even have two females up front because they have never seen more than one, but it is time to shake them up a bit."
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Rain creates double trouble for IndyCar
By Steve Keating
TORONTO (Reuters) - Double-headers have long been part of baseball and it is nothing to see golfers pull double duty, but rarely are drivers forced to take on the challenge of two races in the same day as they did on Sunday at the Toronto Indy.
Frenchman Sebastien Bourdais and Briton Mike Conway shared the honors, each picking up a win on a wild weekend of racing that renewed the debate about drivers' safety.
Bourdais, who had ruled over Indy car winning four successive driver's titles from 2004 before jumping to Formula One with Toro Rosso, picked up his first series win since 2007.
Conway, who suffered serious leg and back injuries in a 2010 crash at the Indianapolis 500 and refuses to race on ovals, claimed his second win of the season - both coming on temporary road courses.
After rain on Saturday washed out Race One of the weekend double bill, IndyCar officials decided to squeeze in two races on Sunday on Toronto's temporary street course.
The postponement created the first same-day doubleheader since 1981 at the Atlanta Motor Speedway when Rick Mears swept the Kraco Twin 125s. An IndyCar series twin bill of shortened races was also contested at Texas Motor Speedway in 2011 where Dario Franchitti and Will Power each took the checker flag.
"It is not ideal...it's brutal," said Brazil's 2013 Indy 500 winner Tony Kanaan, who is not short on stamina having competed in the Hawaii Ironman. He managed third place in Race One and a second in Race Two.
"I don't think people understand how hard it is to drive a race car in two races in one day," he added. "It's tough but it is what it is, we have to do it. That is why we work out." Continued...


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SoundView upgraded Nokia (NOK ) to outperform from neutral.
Analyst Matt Hoffman says his upgrade is part of an improved outlook for the wireless equipment industry in 2003. He says the eight-million-unit inventory overhang from the fourth quarter of 2002 resulted from overproduction, not weak demand. Hoffman says underlying phone demand is better than expected, driven by strong subscriber growth. As such, he raised his 445 million unit 2003 handset market estimate to 458 million.
Hoffman says he would be a buyer of Nokia, as the stock is trading at trough levels. He raised the $16 target to $18, and upped the 84 cents 2003 earnings per share estimate to 85 cents. He also upped the $32.8 billion revenue estimate to $32.9 billion. Hoffman sees 97 cents 2004 earnings per share, and raised the $36.5 billion revenue estimate to $36.6 billion.


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I also would recommend a dehumidifier. I've used one on two boats now and I'm completely sold. I use a household model that runs on 120 AC. It isn't super small, measuring 10x13 inches and 19 inches tall. It has a humidistat so you can set the amount of humidity you want. It has three fan speeds but I always have it on the highest as that helps to circulate the air. It has a hose that I have routed to the galley sink so I never have to drain the bucket. I put the end of the hose into an empty water bottle in the sink so that when I get to the boat I have a pint of distilled water to top off the batteries. The boat stays very dry, even though I have some fresh water leaks and it rains here all the time. Since my boat is relatively large, I put a WM TurboDryer in the forward and after cabins. This provides very low heat and a slow fan to help circulate air. There are solar vents in the aft head and main salon as well which I allow to run so the boat smells fresh.
We leave the dehumidifier on the boat running all year round. The only hassle is taking it off the boat and putting it in the dock box when we go cruising. If we are just going out for a day sail, or quick overnight, we just bungy it to the mast and it doesn't go anywhere.
Works great.
|While at the dock, a dehumidifier is your friend.
Some contrarian thinking
Ventilation will only get your air as dry as the exterior air. I don't know what evenings are like up in Toronto, but around here they're HUMID. All that moisture captured by the day's heat cools at night, and it practically condenses on your skin when you go outside. That's exactly what you'll get as your reward for cutting a bunch of holes in your boat to increase ventilation. I did NOT want that happening inside my boat.
I took the opposite view. Seal 'er up real tight and suck the moisture out. It's worked great for me, and the boat is dry as a bone every time I go there. Fortunately I have shore power to keep a dehumidifier running 24/7. It draws about 60w:
Another source of condensation may be the cold water up in Toronto. If the inside of your hull is below the dew point of the air (another reason to dehumidify), you could get condensation anywhere below the waterline - settee lockers, V-berth, bilge, etc. Increasing ventilation to these areas might evaporate the condensation, but it could also INCREASE it. Think about it: You're constantly providing a fresh source of humid air to the cold surfaces below the water line. OTOH, insulating those areas could prevent the condensation from occurring. If you can insulate them well enough, LESS ventilation might actually be better.:
About 80% of the people here will disagree with me on both of these things. Many of them are far more experinced sailors than I am. So take this contrarian thinking with a grain of salt. But my concepts are based on good science and engineering, so they're worth considering.
Are you sailing during the day? Is it raining at all? I don't know about your boat, but mine is a somewhere between an elegant, beautiful elderly woman and a fat old bag. The POs maintained some things and not others. The last PO was nice enough but had NO BUSINESS being on the water in anything, let alone a sailboat. Just saying. So, one of the items not maintained is the toe rail. I have to pull them both up, reseal the deck joint and rebed the rail. As it is, the carpet is always damp and often outright wet. Maybe you have a nuisance leak like that.
|I went through this a few months ago on my boat and studied the issue to death. I wrote it up (kind of a free from blog) with lots of little humidity calculators if you are interested Humidity. The bottom line is that if you seal something up, it will go to 100% humidity. If you keep it open, you can keep it to the humidity of the outside. To do better than that, you need some kind of smart vents that let dry air in and moist air out (nobody does that on a boat) or an electric dehumidifier (air conditioner like contraption). The little bags you buy that fill with water help very little. Everyone is right, ventilation is the key. As an example, my cockpit lazarette cover was always dripping water when I opened it and everything in it was always wet. Since I started leaving it cracked 1 inch, it is always dry. My article has some hints on getting an accurate hydrometer cheap and a few other things but like has been said, it comes down to vents. I run a low grade heater with a fan not to heat the place but to facilitate air circulation.
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Ventilation ... ventilation ... ventilation
- You should have at least one vent, powered or not, for each compartment; even if air can flow freely between the compartments. My 27' boat has a cowled vent forward, a solar exhaust vent in the head (mid-ships), and a louvered companionway hatch board.
- Moist air is less dense than dry air, so you will usually have warm, moist air high in the cabin. A solar exhaust vent at or near the highest point in the cabin will therefore be most effective at getting moisture out.
- Arranging your boat's vents so that air flows along the length of each compartment (or even the length of the entire cabin) will help to dry out moist surfaces, cushions, fabrics, et cetera. Small circulation fans will help tremendously in this respect, but take electrical power.
- Two or three people inside a small enclosed space (e.g., a boat cabin) can generate a lot of warm, moist, air (even if everyone is behaving themselves ).
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Ventilation ... ventilation ... ventilation
|One solar vent (that may not be working at night) going while I'm sleeping on any boat would not do it for me. You need ventilation, period.
|Ventilation ... ventilation ... ventilation
|Nothing left open. There is a solar vent that is always on. No water in bilge at all.
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The Dead of Jericho by Colin Dexter
001. …he'd come round to the view that Freud would have been a far more valuable citizen if he'd stuck to his research on local anaesthetics.
'The Demise of Engineer G.' (from Little Things That Matter) by Rein Raud (translated by Matthew Hyde) [Best European Fiction 2015]
-001- Names which had until then sounded like hollow echoes of an absent world had turned up with unexpected speed on the signposts of our immediate intellectual landscape, and those unfortunate who didn't manage to read them were assigned with cursory cruelty to the ranks of yesterday's men.
-002- It wasn't that moving in step with the new was compulsory, it wasn't–just that in its non-compulsory nature it had a passing resemblance to those voluntary activities which we all had to take part in at least once, and generally more often, during our youth…
-003- We were ahead of our times, removed from our immediate environment, and it would be wrong to say that we didn't enjoy that.
-004- It just goes to show that one can end up paying for the gaps in one's knowledge of the masterpieces of world literature in the most cruel and unexpected of ways.
Depths by Henning Mankell
001. 52: Tobiasson-Svartman was always nervous when required to address a crew. To conceal his unease, he came across s strict and liable to lose his temper.
002. 125: She expressed herself clearly, as only people who talk a lot to themselves can.
003. 216: His father had once spoken to guests at dinner about the importance of people learning at act like snakes. Cold blood, endless patience and poisonous fangs that struck at exactly the right instant.
004. Human beings worked constantly to make their gods unnecessary. He was an individual who made scientific measurements: one day time and perhaps also space would be measured and controlled by scales of measurements hitherto unknown. The supernatural was shadows dancing in the remains of a childhood fear of the dead.
005. It was as if he had some kind of invisible seal that made him inaccessible to everybody apart from himself. The surface was calm, like a sea when there is no wind blowing, but underneath it lurked all the duplicitous forces he was forced to fight against. Ambition, insecurity, the memory of his furious father and the silent weeping of his mother. He lived through constant battle between control, calculation and outrageous risk-taking. He did not do what other people do and adapt to different situations, but he changed his personality, became somebody else, often without being aware of the face.
006. I know how to set up a lie, he thought. But I cannot cope with living in the world that lies create. The impostor lives a life, but the deceit involved lives a different life.
Diary of a Seducer by Kierkegaard
001. Lost to others, they sought in vain to find themselves. – Kierkegaard, Diary of a Seducer
002. Cordelia occupies me almost too much. I again lose my balance, not in her presence, not when she is present, but when in the strictest sense when I am alone with her.
'A Dog's Fate or The Diversion of Armin P.' by Simon Deckert (translated by Rebecca McMullan) [from Best European Fiction 2015]
001. Many thoughts are like a cul-de-sac with a roundabout at the end. When you're done with them, you can either think back over them until you're back at the beginning, or you can go round and round the endpoint in order to convince yourself that it's a progressive thought that you're having, effectively circling around in the illusion of forward movement.
'Dungeness' by Edy Poppy (translated by Diane Oatley) [from Best European Fiction 2015]
001. He feels that the shadows outside affect her, that she has been a bit extinguished, internally. But he doesn't complain. He likes her way of being. A little dark, like the sky in polluted cities.
002. She checks the room one last time. Thinks about all of the hours, days, months. A blurry image. Because all this time she has been longing for something else with him.
003. …she makes up short, erotic stories in an attempt to satisfy him. His hand moving in a steady and recognisable rhythm beneath his fly both excites and saddens her. She can feel his breath on the back of her neck while she is talking. She knows that he no longer feels any shame. That he is capable of imaging anything.
004. 'Thinking about something sad makes me happy,' he says then. 'I know it's difficult to understand but that's the way I am.'
005. He doesn't know what he is going to do with himself, so he starts taking an interest in the lives of others. He pokes around in the empty summer houses first. He usually finds the key under the doormat or a flowerpot. He loves this sensation of strangeness: the invasion of other people's privacy. The first thing he does is to remove the sheets from all the chairs and tables, pull back the curtains, open the windows wide, air out the abandoned and dusty atmosphere. In this way he makes himself at home, looks at their pictures, reads diaries and letters, writers short greetings in guest books, walks around in the slippers of strangers
Once he spends the night in a strange bed. For the entire night he lies there with his heart pounding. He just grows bolder and bolder. Soon he doesn't care whether the houses are empty or not. He has become his old self. Someone who hides in corners. Someone who goes unnoticed. It is the way he carried himself and lowers his gaze that enables him to get away with things.


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It wasn't much of a contest in House District 99 the last go-round. Betsy Hands, a Democrat, trounced Republican challenger Brian Barnett by nearly 800 votes, confirming the district's liberal tilt. But Republican Gary Marbut, Montana's top gun-rights advocate, thinks he's got a shot at the seat now. "The political spectrum ends up being something like a circle," he says, "and the people who are very serious conservatives and people who are very serious liberals tend to have a lot in common."
On one issue, at least, Marbut, the director of the Montana Shooting Sports Association, stands in the center of that political Venn diagram: medical marijuana. He first found himself there last fall, in the wake of the federal medical marijuana raids, when the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives declared that firearms dealers can't sell to state-licensed medical marijuana patients—an "edict depriving 30,000 Montanans of a constitutional right," Marbut says. He's equally perturbed that several gun-owning Montanans snared in the raids are facing federal drug-related gun charges. These Montanans, he wrote last month in a letter to the Missoulian, "have been forced through the knothole of a process powerfully rigged by zealous federal prosecutors and complicit ... judges."
In a linear political spectrum, Marbut stands well to the right of Kimberly Dudik, an assistant attorney general, and Jonathan Dunbar, who will square of in the Democratic primary. Marbut has aggressively lobbied the legislature as director of the MSSA. Last session, he sought, unsuccessfully, to legalize the carrying of concealed firearms without a permit in cities and to nullify a 20-year-old list of locations, including government buildings and banks, where concealed weapons are forbidden. Outside the legislature, the MSSA joined the Western Tradition Partnership in challenging Montana's century-old ban on corporate campaign spending.
Marbut says he won't hide from his reputation as a "fire-breathing political activist" in order to win in HD 99. But, he says, he's eager to "show other parts of Gary Marbut than what people generally know from reading the headlines. I want people to know that I'm an organic gardener, that I'm an amateur musician, that I'm a dog lover, that I have earned 'guru' credentials in energy conservation—that there are other aspects that may well appeal to the people of the district if they just know about them."


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While largely unknown in Australia, Dansili stands at stud in Europe for approximately £65,000.
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Lot Antique,Vintage Porcelain, Ceramic Shoes, Figurines
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- Item Category: Ceramics
- Source: eBay
- Sold Date: Dec 08, 2008
- Channel: Auction House
Large lot of Antique and Vintage Porcelain & Ceramic items.1 Shoe has an R S Mark with a wreath (maybe RS prussia?) 1 Large Shoe is ceramic and not marked. 1 Small Blue shoe says Statue of Liberty on the top of it. 1 Gravy boat that is marked Royal Crown and #1446 1 Bell marked Lladro and on the front is 1987 1 Small horse marked Japan 1 Small Planter marked Fitz & Floyd 1990 1 Small Cup & Saucer, white with gold trim. Says Mother on the front of the cup. Marked what looks like Made in Germany. 1 Beautiful Butterfly Cup & Saucer, unusual shape, marked Lenwile Ardalt, Korea 2 Small Steins with Animals on one and Planes on one, each marked Avon, Ceramarte, Brazil and numbered. Everything seems to be in perfect condition.


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4 stars...Alden's each and every well-placed word demonstrates to readers what a superior storyteller of suspense she is. Her latest has a solid plot, a strong battle-tested heroine and tension to the extreme. This is one story that will have readers turning the pages well in the night."- RT Book Reviews Starred Review
4 1/2 stars...Anyone who says that romantic suspense is no longer a hot commodity hasn't read Jami Alden. She's quickly making a name for herself as one of the top writers in the genre. Her latest novel continues her streak of excellent, gripping stories and brings captivating recurring characters along for the ride."
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4 1/2 stars! Top Pick! Alden's emotionally gripping Beg for Mercy makes readers beg for mercy, too...A high-caliber romantic suspenseexactly what the genre should be!"
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Jami Alden writes gripping suspense with the perfect balance of emotion and romance. Combined, these elements weave an enthralling story with richly drawn characters. I enjoy her writing immensely."
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