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2008 U.S. pressing of this release from the UK band featuring two bonus tracks: 'Marakech' and 'An Intimate Battering'. Between Post-Metal, Psychedelic Post-Rock and whatever ever other post-genre label gets writers juiced comes Leeds based riff merchants Humanfly. This release offer six vast, epic, metallic journeys through huge NeurISIS style heaviness and Pink Floyd via Mogwai atmospherics. Tunes like 'Echoes Of The Roman Empire' and 'Tjanargata / A Passage To Reykjavik' are given ample space to breathe and build before inevitably crashing into a mountain of mammoth, celestial volume. With the shortest track more than eight minutes and the longest over 13, each song is a two or three part saga within itself. Vocals are used sparingly focusing primarily on building thematically through the music. 20 Buck Spin.


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Want to feed a giraffe or get cozy with a flamingo? The 170-acre Riverbanks Zoo and Garden is home to more than 2,000 creatures, with even more fun in a three-story ropes course, four zip-lines, nature trails, pony rides and more.
Art, history, science and discovery collide in Columbia, SC at our many museums. Step back in time at the region's historic museums, reflect on the finer things in life at an art museum, or find the inner child at the Southeast's largest children's museum.
South Carolina's only national park is the largest old-growth bottomland hardwood forest in the Southeast and contains some of the nation's tallest trees. Experience the park through many opportunities, including an elevated boardwalk, guided canoe trips and even nighttime hikes.
The South Carolina State House overlooks downtown Columbia, SC's Main Street and is a must-see on any trip. The copper Greek Revival dome and Corinthian columns adorn the structure, while six stars mark where Union cannonballs struck the building during the Civil War.
Located between downtown Columbia and Lake Murray, Saluda Shoals Park offers paved and unpaved hiking trails, kayaking and canoeing on the Saluda River, trout fishing, horseback riding and a splash pad for the little ones.
This 18,000-seat arena is your ticket to popular music and entertainment, hosting names like Taylor Swift, Red Hot Chili Peppers or Billy Joel, performances by Cirque du Soleil, Gamecocks basketball games, the circus and even more.
Learn how to sail, kayak or canoe, scuba dive, water ski or just cruise this watery playground. In late summer, thousands of purple martins converge on Bomb Island, the largest roosting sanctuary in North America.
Whether you're a Gamecock or an opponent, you'll enjoy game day in Columbia, SC. Baseball and football fans tailgate in style before heading to the stadium for a frenzied afternoon or evening of jumping to "Sandstorm."
Locals agree that Columbia's barbecue, smoky pulled pork smothered in our unique mustard-based sauce, is a must-try on any trip to the region. Most "joints" will offer a wide variety of Southern food, including fried chicken, hash and rice, hush puppies and macaroni and cheese.
Boutiques, antique stores, and large malls and shopping villages give visitors the opportunity to snag something Southern as a wearable or local product. Try Devine Street, Five Points, the Congaree Vista, Main Street, Village at Sandhill or other hot spots throughout the region.
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Snoop Dog Gets Down With Darth Vader in NYC
We've already seen the shoes, but now we're getting a behind-the-scenes look at the ads that are being produced to promote the Adidas Originals Star Wars sneaks. We spotted a few celebs in the teaser trailer (like David Beckham and Daft Punk), but Snoop Dogg is up first, and he's making his way through NYC with a gaggle of Storm Troopers and the man himself — Darth Vader — to spread the word about these unique shoes. My favorite part? Catching a glimpse of a few of the shoes coming packaged like Star Wars figurines! Check it out below. I can't wait to see what they come up with next!


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Ask any New York Giants fan who they would like to see Big Blue keep as their week one running backs, and you may hear a series of different answers. But despite running back Peyton Hillis being injured since August 6th, there are still many fans that would like to have him stay.
Hillis returned to practice Sunday after suffering injuries to his foot and ankle. In that eighteen day span, the Giants played three of their five preseason games, and Hillis was unsure if he would be ready in time for the preseason finale against the New England Patriots.
Hillis spoke to the media Sunday after his first practice back.
"Oh my goodness, it was nice," Hillis said in response to being asked how it felt to be on the field again. "It was good to be out there with the guys again, just fun. I'm looking forward to hopefully playing this week (in the preseason finale vs. New England)."
Hillis' productivity in practice this week is a good indication that he has fully recovered. Wednesday's practice saw Hillis make a juggling catch off a deflected pass from Ryan Nassib. Peyton also brought up that it was important to him to get back on the field so he can learn the offense hands on.
"A lot of it is just repetition, getting in there, learning your reads in the run game and in the pass game," he said. "Get stuff down so it becomes second nature. All that takes is getting in there and doing it. You can't be on the sideline doing that."
Running backs Rashad Jennings and rookie Andre Williams are leading the race now when it comes to New York's week one running game. Michael Cox looks to be in the hunt for that third spot while Kendall Gaskins is the wild card. Peyton Hillis has the steepest hill to climb after missing three games, but his experience arguably rises above the rest out of the five, but none of that matters when he, at this moment, is competing for that third spot. Hillis compared his mindset towards making the roster to a rookie's.
"That's the mindset you've got to have," Hillis said. "You never know what's going to happen. You never know what upstairs (coaches and management) is going to do, so you just have to go out there and do your best."
The one thing however that is in Hillis' favor is that in March, the Giants gave him a two year contract extension worth $1.8 million. So cutting him this season will result in a decent sized cap hit. The 28-year-old still has plenty of fight left in him, and many Giants fans hope to see him in an expanded role against the Patriots to help his roster chances. Should he get waived, it is certain that teams will line up to take him.
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I got to sit down and chat with Betty White a couple of months ago.
Really. Sat right next to her at lunch in a Studio City, Calif., restaurant across the street from where her sitcom, "Hot in Cleveland," is produced.
Might have been the coolest thing I've done on the job since I presented White with the Television Critics Association Lifetime Achievement Award in 2009. Before everybody else started giving her lifetime achievement awards.
We're talking Betty White here. The entertainment industry is far too fond of calling minor stars "legends," but she is a television legend who's still going strong at 92.


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Positive ways to manage behaviour
Some great ways here of maintaining a positive environment in your classroom from teacher and behaviour expert Paul Dix. Paul offers reminders of being a positive role model for your class, so treating them as you would like to be treated and the benefits of handing out praise and rewards. He also touches on the importance of acknowledging even the quietest member of the class (and they can be so very easy to overlook if you are coping with a couple of demanding pupils day in, day out) and making sure you start everyday with a clean sheet so no lesson starts as a grudge match.
10 top behaviour management tips for NQTs
This resource may be billed as tips for NQTs but there are some really useful ideas that could help any teacher who is feeling a little overwhelmed in class or has moved to a new school and needs to establish their authority. Author of this resource, Paul Dix, advises NQTs to take time to look at the other staff in the school and identify the teachers who are truly respected by pupils and replicate what they do. Triangulate praise says Paul. This is a posh way of saying although you may have praised a child and rewarded them for something you may need to get that praise further endorsed by a more senior member of staff. Also make positive phone calls home to parents and send positive notes; you'll be amazed how it helps you to develop your relationship with parents who all too often see teachers as the bearers of bad tidings only.
Coping strategies for teachers: time management for behaviour management
Former deputy head Rob Plevin offers some sound advice in this resource to teachers who are feeling stressed out by their classes and how they can regain control of their classroom by using some of his simple techniques and looking at his strategies for maintaining a work-life balance. Rob also reveals in this resource the secrets of good time management which he used when working in school because he is a self-confessed 'messy thinker.' He firmly believes good time management leads to good behaviour management. Not all of Rob's advice will be for you but there are plenty of pearls of wisdom to pick and choose from, including a whole section on how to deal assertively with requests from SMTs.
How to deal with the seven most common classroom behaviour problems
The seven deadly sins of the classroom: defiance, making silly noises, abusive language, refusing to work, being disrespectful, acting the clown and interrupting. Most teachers will come up against one or more of these on a regular basis and this resource examines the possible cause for the behaviour but also offers a range of strategies for handling them calmly and effectively.
Autistic spectrum disorders: a teacher's guide
Pupils on the autistic spectrum can pose a particular challenge to teachers; especially those who are new to the profession or who haven't worked with a child with autism before. But as this guide from the Autism Education Trust explains there are a wealth of strategies that can be used to help make the experience a positive, calm, rewarding and empowering one for all concerned.
Behaviour management cards
Behaviour management flashcards available to download and print off in red, amber and green with appropriate facial expressions. Laminate and use to quietly reward or warn pupils in your class.
Jim's behaviour management documents
Chemistry teacher and former head of department Jim Baker came up with a strategy for getting great behaviour from his students when they were in his science lessons, and these documents relate to that but could easily be adapted for any lesson/class. Jim includes ways to set out the rules to pupils making sure the reasons for the rules are clearly explained and the consequences of breaking them are also described. Also included are science star cards which can be printed out and given to pupils, notes explaining why a student has been removed from a class and even template letters to parents.
25 ways to get silence from a noisy group
This is one of the most popular resources on the Guardian Teacher Network resources site. There are loads of interesting and innovative strategies in here for getting silence from a noisy class including whispering, counting down, invoking the spirit of Elvis and deploying an army of secret agents. This one would be an absolute must read for anyone contemplating supply teaching but some really useful strategies for anyone who fancies trying something new in class to go from rowdy rabble to silence in a blink.
Editable golden rules posters
Need a template to display your class rules? Well look no further. These golden rules come in a Word format so can easily be edited to include the rules of your choice and then all you need to do is print them off and display them clearly in class/corridor/cloakroom.
Good listening posters
Looking for a way to show your class they are sitting, listening, looking and being quiet then download these simple and colourful posters. You could display them in class, adapt them for use on the whiteboard or have them as handy flashcards. Ideally suited for primary pupils they are a great way to offer positive praise in class.


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Poker Tourney Timer is the perfect tool for managing home poker tournaments. Set up custom rounds, breaks, blinds, and antes, or use a template based on common well known tournaments. Select a stock background image or use one from your photo library, define chip colors and values, and customize sound effects to completely personalize your home game. And Poker Tourney Timer is the only poker timer for the iPad that includes built in iPod integration to select and control the soundtrack for your game from your musical library.
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I am beginning to post some songs I've been writing in the last few years under the name Lefty. This one, "Hiding Away" is very new. I played it for the first time on May 2, 2015 at the New York Hostel Loft Basement Bar in Brooklyn.
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Ryan Cabrera & Audrina Patridge Date Night
This is actually happening. We didn't believe the rumors at first, but it's been weeks and Audrina Patridge is still hooking up with Ashlee Simpson's ex, Ryan Cabrera. We mean, we get it, how can you resist those red pants?
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Wendell post (vol. 8:4) , December 1985–January 1986
Includes articles on Swift River School improvements, population explosion in Wendell, an alternative low profile plan for Route 2 construction, marijuana search and several complaints, three wheeler accident and laws, Town Clerk Harry Williston departs, Wendell's revaluation, stream chosen for acidification experiment, Council on Aging, Wendell's first police cruiser, the Wetherby family, Adam Drowdowski's family, letter to the editor from a family living abroad in Sweden, letter to the editor about a possible list of local communists, Shadow Project charges, Hurricane Gloria, Route 2 fundraiser, Bob Weiner opposing Conte for Representative, spraying by-laws, search for waste oil receptacle, resident preserving steam engines, local music news, Hannukah and Selectmen's minutes.
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Creative Funding for Pop-Up Park
Clint Randall, fresh from planning school, dreamed up the project, named the project "Reclaim Concrete", and entered it in the Pepsi Refresh Project for a potential grant. Randall is relying on the whims of internet voting to come through where city budgets can't.
Inga Saffron writes, "If Reclaim Concrete wins, Randall said, the East Passyunk Business Improvement District would receive $50,000 to transform a portion of the dreary traffic intersection where Passyunk Avenue slices 12th Street into a European-style, people-watching space outfitted with cafe tables, sailcloth umbrellas, and planters. The asphalt won't go away, but will be "retexturized" with a thick epoxy surface in a pleasant color, like green or beige."
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Chelmsford, UK (SPX) Dec 16, 2011
e2v has signed a multi-million dollar contract for a 2 year programme to supply the complete camera system for the Javalambre Physics-of-the-Accelerating-Universe Astrophysical Survey (J-PAS) project.
This is a unique 5 year survey of the northern sky to be performed on the Observatorio Astrofisico de Javalambre's new wide-field 2.5m telescope. Funded by a consortium of Spanish and Brazilian astronomy institutes, J-PAS will be dedicated to creating a map of the observable Universe in 56 continuous wavebands from 350nm to 1000nm.
The e2v cryogenic camera system has a 1.2 gigapixel mosaic array capable of being read out in 10 seconds, and produces high fidelity images resulting in effectively low-resolution spectra over the whole area of the survey. The prime purpose of the instrument is to explore dark energy through measuring galaxy distribution in three dimensions.
The exceptional sensitivity, low noise and fast readout rates offered by the J-PAS camera system make it very efficient for this astronomical survey, supplying an immense amount of astrophysical information, not just in cosmology but in all areas of astronomy, from asteroids to clusters of galaxies.
The gigapixel camera for J-PAS, which will be designed and built by e2v, will use 14 newly developed e2v CCD290-99 high performance imaging sensors and includes a guarantee of the camera's performance levels and a commercial warranty.
The 85 megapixel devices will be back-thinned and given a multi-layer, anti-reflection coating for maximum sensitivity. They are a 9k x 9k pixel format, with multiple outputs for rapid readout times, and are mounted in a precision package to allow them to be assembled into a mosaic, providing an image area that is nearly 0.5m in diameter.
The focal plane assembly will also include the telescope guide and wavefront sensors. The whole focal plane will then be contained in a custom cryogenic camera, with vacuum and cooling components and integrated electronics which will provide state-of-the-art low noise for maximum sensitivity.
e2v is working with RAL Space to provide the electronics. Professor Mariano Moles, J-PAS Collaboration Board Chair and Director of the Centro de Estudios de Fisica del Cosmos de Aragon said "J-PAS is a 10,000 square degree survey whose main goal is trying to solve the mystery of dark energy by measuring tiny modulations in the distribution of galaxies.
It will obtain low resolution spectral information from every pixel, something akin to observing the whole northern sky through a gigantic prism.
This enormously rich dataset, which will include hundreds of millions of galaxies, and millions of stars and quasars, will have enormous value for most areas of astrophysics, from cosmology to solar system studies, including galaxy evolution and stellar physics.
This project, one of the most ambitious surveys attempted to date, involves close to 100 scientists from different countries and research centres". Jon Kemp, marketing manager for high performance imaging solutions at e2v said
"This is a landmark contract for e2v, as it demonstrates our capability to provide integrated imaging systems including electronics, focal plane array and cooling, along with sensor technology that has enabled the world's astronomical observatories for many years".
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Today, I found a limp head of celery in the fridge. I thought it looked like the squid alien baby from Men in Black. After nursing it for a couple of hours, giving it food, and rocking it to sleep, my parents found me. Then I realised it was just celery. Too bad it took that long for my meds to kick in. FML
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A 10-year-old girl and a sailor won a dance contest in Hawaii the night before the day of infamy.
Despite their differences, all these men seem to want the kind of immortality that comes from infamy.
That rant about "an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth" now lives in infamy on the Internet.
Some were even questioning if the NFL could survive its own infamy.
His family name lives in infamy as it adorns the plaza where Kennedy was shot.
I will not stop at treachery, which is more than a crime; nor at infamy, which is more than treachery.
We have reached the apex of infamy in the crime which lies unavenged at our doors.
It is true your king, although less capable than you suppose, was not without certain gifts—their misuse only adds to his infamy.
But who sees not that the infamy is of the very essence of the punishment?
We have been shackled because of infamy during the last centuries.
early 15c., from Old French infamie (14c.), earlier infame, and directly from Latin infamia "ill fame, bad repute, dishonor, from infamis "of ill fame," from in- "not, without" + fama "reputation" (see fame (n.)).


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Gimme Some Sugar
Sometimes Hollywood likes to put love on display, even if it's in front of uninvited guests in the form of paparazzi, and even if it makes us cringe.
But one thing's for sure: these couples are in love, and they're quite proud of it.
From Olivia Wilde and fiance Jason Sudeikis' PDA-filled vacation in Maui to courtside love courtesy of Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel, it looks like love in Hollywood has never been stronger.
Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi took their love to Portia's homeland of Sydney earlier this year, while America's Got Talent's newest judge Melanie Brown stared into her hubby Stephen Belafonte's eyes for what seemed like eternity while the couple enjoyed a romantic getaway in Cannes.
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Review: Elgato's bus-powered Thunderbolt SSD
Coming in 120GB and 240GB capacities, and priced at $430 and $700 respectively, Elgato's Thunderbolt SSD is a solid-state drive that offers a nice speed boost over FireWire 800, but is overall slower than other Thunderbolt drives we've tested. (We tested the 240GB version.)
In our series of hard drive tests, the Thunderbolt SSD performed well, with an average write time of 257.9 MBps, and an average read time of 268.6 MBps in the AJA System Test. When writing a 10GB file, the drive averaged 125.9 MBps, and read the same file at 187.4 MBps. Furthermore, for a 10GB folder, the Elgato drive averaged write and read speeds of 124.2 MBps and 139.1 MBps respectively.
In comparison to other Thunderbolt SSD drives, such as LaCie's Little Big Disk SSD, the Elgato didn't put up the fastest transfer speeds, but it is still a competent, high-performance drive.
While the combination of a SSD and Thunderbolt can be beneficial in a variety of applications, there's no doubt that Elgato has targeted this product at photographers and video producers. After all, Elgato is most widely known for its EyeTV products for Mac, and the fast data throughput offered by this drive is definitely advantageous for users who are transferring large video files and photos.
When Elgato announced the Thunderbolt SSD, the company claimed to be the first manufacturer to produce a bus-powered, portable SSD with Thunderbolt connectivity. However, Seagate offers a Thunderbolt adapter that can turn an existing FreeAgent GoFlex Ultra-Portable ( Macworld rated 4 out of 5 mice ) drive into a Thunderbolt bus-powered device. Other drives, such as LaCie's Little Big Disk Thunderbolt Series SSD ( Macworld rated 4 out of 5 mice ), have a built-in Thunderbolt interface, but unlike the Elgato drive, it requires an external power connection.
The overall design of the Thunderbolt SSD is very simple; it's quite literally the embodiment of "the bare necessities." Since it's bus-powered and designed specifically for Thunderbolt, it has just a single Thunderbolt port at the top of the drive, and that's it. There's no power adapter, no USB or FireWire ports--there isn't even an activity light to notify you that the drive is connected.
While some might see this simplicity as an attractive quality, others might find that it limits the drive's accessibility. The lack of interfaces restricts integration with older Mac models, and because there's only one Thunderbolt port, it must be the last drive connected to a daisy chain if it's being used in that capacity.
There is also the issue of price. While SSDs have a more expensive price per gigabyte than regular hard drives, $700 for 240GB is rather high. External SSDs with FireWire 800 interfaces can be had for $350 to $400. Another consideration is the price of the cable. The Thunderbolt SSD doesn't come with one, so you'll have to pay $49 for Apple's white 2.0-meter Thunderbolt cable, or $60 for Elgato's black 0.5-meter Thunderbolt cable.
Macworld's buying advice
With the combination of speed and portability, the Elgato Thunderbolt SSD is a great, high performance drive. However, this drive is not cheap, and owners of older Macs won't be able to share the drive with their machines. But, for those that can afford the Thunderbolt SSD, it's fast transfer speeds and attractive, pocket-sized package would make it a great addition to your Thunderbolt-ready Mac product.
This story, "Review: Elgato's bus-powered Thunderbolt SSD" was originally published by Macworld.


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Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Killing me softly?
Recently I've seen something come up on a couple of Christian websites that probably needs to be addressed, because sooner or later some us may find ourselves caught squarely in the crosshairs ... so to speak. Namely, violence in Christian fiction. Not surprisingly the subject quickly found "some agin 'em and some for 'em," as we used to say down South.
In the first group are the … well, call them the "traditionalists", for lack of a better term. Without painting these folks with too broad a brush, they're mainly women, mostly older, and they prefer romance fiction, with a likeminded readership. Violence is anathema to this group, as it should be. These ladies prefer writing--and reading--books with a female lead who is either going through a life crisis or having survived the same, the resolution of which causes them to meet Mister Right. I understand sometimes bonnets are involved. Or something. If that sounds like I don't understand chick lit, you're probably right. But God bless those that do, and God really bless the houses that seem to produce them in freight car lots.
On the other side are the Others (sounds like a Lost episode). For good or ill, I find myself in this group. We're the ones trying to push our books a bit further out. Oddly, this bunch seems (the operative word being "seems") to be growing more rapidly than the first. Is it because our stuff is better-written? Doubtful; over the years I've read some CBA novels going for "edgy" that were simply poorly-penned dreck with Jesus tacked on. Story is still king, folks.
On reflection, I think this group is trying to fill a perceived need: to wit, a dearth of hard-edged fiction that delivers a solid story without "crossing the line" … wherever that is. Sometimes the experiment works, and sometimes it doesn't. When it works, it seems to work splendidly. And when it doesn't ... well.
Which brings us to violence. What's been going hot and heavy on those other boards is the discussion of "how much is too much." In other words, if a story features a showdown between the hero and the villain, what is its logical conclusion? Does the villain suddenly drop his gun, repent his ill deeds, and vow to Walk the Straight and Narrow Evermore? Or does the said bad guy go for his gun (a fraction of a second too slow) and get drilled through the pump for his trouble? Anyone who's ever seen a John Wayne movie can answer that. I'll confess my own stuff tends to the latter resolution. Why? Because as I said upstream, the story demands it. In my world, simply put, some villains are no darn good, and will never be (Adolph Hitler, anyone?).
I'll admit the whole thing is as sticky as new paint, and I'll also be the first to admit that in my own case having a Christian hero who not only packs a gun, but is willing to use it to defend the weak and the powerless, is less than an ideal situation. But we live in a less than ideal world, and sometimes all that's left is to kill a rabid dog rather than trying to reason with it.
At any rate, it's an ongoing conundrum, a debate which has now gotten so heated even the secular press is staring take note. Where will it end? God knows. He really does, though, and about the best we as writers can do is write the most honest story we can.
So with that said, where do you find yourselves on the writing spectrum? Is there a middle ground? Are there some subjects you won't tackle, for whatever reason? Where is your "dividing line?"
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I'm with you, John. I prefer to read gritty stories, and while mine aren't near as gritty as those I read, they're grittier than any bonnet book. (My MC's almost always pack heat, too!)ReplyDelete
I honestly can't think of any topics I wouldn't be willing to try to tackle. They may be a challenge to me, something to stretch me as a person or as a writer. One of the projects I've been working on for 3 years is like this.
Give me grit any day. Most of my stories are about hard-hitting heroes with dark pasts, violent presents, and uncertain futures. I appreciate that not everyone shares my view, but I believe the light shines brightest when there are shadows to dispel.ReplyDelete
Then we've got the Crusades. Seems I recall they were a Christian endeavor. Plenty of other violence in the Bible. Sweetness and Light in literature/fiction isn't much fun, actually.ReplyDelete
Most people think of violence as physical. Well, how about the mental effects of false lawsuits, hazing, gossip, and the like?
Just 'cause you might be a Christian doesn't make you immune. If you don't pay your taxes, the IRS will beget some violence upon your financial life.
I write fluff, but I read grit. Among Christian authors who write suspense/thrillers, I haven't been disappointed--especially with the established authors. They don't feel obligated to include minute detail of the violence, or step-by-step sex scenes, or F-bombs every other word, but their novels are still realistic, tense, and exciting.ReplyDelete
Which means, I'm beginning to wonder what Christians mean when they want to write "edgy" books. When I see excellent authors in the Christian market putting out the same things as excellent authors in the secular market, without the gore, explicit sex, and language, then I assume "edgy" authors want to write the gore, sex, and language. If they do, why can't they be Christian authors in the mainstream market? Why would they want to be included in the Christian market?
Maybe that's the thing: maybe we need to differentiate between Christian authors and Christian fiction. Not all Christian authors write Christian fiction. Some write mainstream fiction within the confines of their consciences.
I would say the Crusades were a Religious endeavor.ReplyDelete
I prefer to write violent encounters where the actual violence is off-camera (so to speak). One can evoke violence without actually assaulting the reader with explicit description.
For instance, my favorite vampire novel never directly invokes that term. Steven Brust's Agyar earns lavish praise for the restrained, lyrical type of storytelling.
The San Francisco Chronicle wrote "Packs more of an emotional wallop than any verbose gore-fest served up by less imaginative talents." And Kirkus Reviews wrote "Compact, understated, and highly persuasive... Brust accomplishes more with a wry turn of phrase or a small flourish what others never achieve despite hundreds of gory spatters."
There are two issues here, whether violence should be written about at all, and if so, how explicit should it be. I think violence occurs in life and should be reflected in fiction, but strongly feel violence is more effectively portrayed with a deft touch than by (heh) beating people over the head with it*.
(* See also sex.)
I think this is a healthy thing to go rounds on. We, as Christian writers who are ever endeavoring to reach those who need to hear the good news, need to thing through what the best ways to do that are. Yet, I have to admit it concerns me to see people in the CBA writing more and more like the ABA with the message scrubbed clean. If the light doesn't shine, how will they see it?ReplyDelete
That said, however, I don't feel that every book needs to be a bonnet book. In fact, some of them are so benign and unrealistic as to make me want to chuck the book across the room.
Let's give people real stories, with real scenarios, with real solutions. And if that means a bad guy needs to get a bullet in the chest, then so be it! Our country didn't come about (nor is our freedom maintained) because people sat back and refused to stand up to the bad guys. People make choices in life. Let us be in the group who chooses to be on God's side. And let us portray that in our writing with the light shining brightly against the shadows.
I've spent the last two years reading copious amounts of Christian fiction of many genres from Amish to suspense to fantasy. There is a lot more than bonnets going on in Christian fiction today. Those may be grabbing a lot of the headlines (and the grousing) but they are not the be-all-end-all of Christian fiction. I've read about child abuse, rape, murder, divorce, and many other real life issues (yes - some of those even in the bonnet books!) throughout the past two years.ReplyDelete
Stereotyping Christian fiction as as being all bonnets is like saying secular fiction is all F-bombs. Neither is true. There is a lot of great secular fiction being printed and a lot of great Christian fiction as well.
I do believe that Christian books should be free of explicit sin. That doesn't mean there isn't sin - of course - but does the reader need his/her nose rubbed in it to understand it? No. Portray the sin as what it is, absolutely. Trotting out each gory detail serves no purpose other than exploitation.
And for the record, I've read 4 of John Robinson's books. He does an excellent job of walking "the line" to create stories that are believable and enjoyable.
As everyone else has already said, real life isn't neat and tidy. It is messy. I prefer realistic stories with some grit, but I don't want to be hit over the head with excessive violence ie: detailed description of a man being chainsawed to death. Nor do I want a lot of profanity. The suggestion of either can be done to further the story without turning your stomach and your sens of taste inside out. Great post, John. Very interesting thoughts and comments.ReplyDelete
Good grief. I'm all over the map on this one. First of all, I'm one of those old ladies John mentioned, but I'm publishing my first novel and blood is a major theme. Blood outside of at least seven bodies, in fact. My characters let slip the odd swear word, though I don't even say "gosh" because it stands for...well, you know.ReplyDelete
I've written the book for a secular audience, but the Gospel is presented as graphically as the blood and gore, so I've probably managed to offend every target audience in the reading world.
I have covered my bases as best I can, though. I've put a message on the back of the book, like on the back of cigarette packs. Warning: some scenes in this book contain violence, strong language, and religious ideas. That should about cover it, I think. If anyone asks for their money back, they won't have a legal leg to stand on.
I'll probably give it to them, anyway, though, because I'm a sweet little old lady. Sigh. I'm so confused.
Lynnette said, "some of them are so benign and unrealistic as to make me want to chuck the book across the room." AMEN--especially in Christian romance. I once read a book where the 30-something MC was wondering if it was okay to kiss her boyfriend! Puh-lease!!! I think Christian romance is the weakest of all the genres, but I guess I'm particularly picky because it's what I write.ReplyDelete
Pegg: "Portray the sin as what it is, absolutely. Trotting out each gory detail serves no purpose other than exploitation." My thoughts exactly.
Ginny: "I've probably managed to offend every target audience in the reading world." How funny. Who knows? Being a controversial author may be a good thing! I think this really is a dilemma for authors who want to include graphic scenes. Unless you self-publish, how do you find a publisher?
*I had a typo in the previous comment and I couldn't find an edit button.ReplyDelete
I'm sort of in the middle. I'm not a big fan of "prairie romance" but I wouldn't touch a graphic scary R-rated horror movie with a ten foot pole.
I don't like swearing, gore, or immodesty, but I'm okay with some violence, or kissing (as long as it's not crazy).
Great thoughts all, folks (and thanks for the kind comments). To further throw a monkey wrench into the mix, consider this: while females make up most of the readership in both CBA and the general market, the latter has many more males reading novels than the former.ReplyDelete
Given that, if a person was to set out to purchase a book for a male Christian reader, would you look for a general market novel, or CBA? And do you think the choices in CBA novels that would fit that reader is growing, diminishing, or about the same?
Tell all! *G*
You can certainly find Christian authors in both worlds. Thomas Nelson publishes Ted Dekker and Tim Downs, Zondervan pubs Mike Snyder (not exactly "gritty" but Mike does have light-weight swear words in his works), Baker/Revell pubs Steven James. I don't think I'd be shy about purchasing any of these. I've never read Jim Bell's fiction, but he's published by Hatchette group.ReplyDelete
These guys aren't Frank Peretti, Jerry Jenkins, or Tim LaHaye types. Their works aren't evangelistic, and I believe they'd be competitive in the secular market.
Question is, if a guy discovers he received a thriller written by a Christian author, would he be willing to read it, or would he prefer a Joe Finder or James Patterson?
Linda, I did self-publish. Created my own publishing company and went the whole way myself. My story didn't fit any of the market niches traditional publishers were after, either CBA or ABA. It just fell through the cracks. And I didn't go with self-publishing boutique companies because my novel was too long. Adding in the extra middlemen would have forced me to charge more for my book than I wanted the general reader to pay. So I'm selling through my website. We'll see how that works. I've got some kinky online marketing ideas.ReplyDelete
John, I'm amazed that the non-Christian males readers I know seem open to reading Christian books if they're interesting enough. They all seem to have eclectic tastes. Ted Dekker, Joel Rosenberg, and even the Left Behind series are okay with my non-Christian male friends, because they're curious. Especially if the story idea is a little different. I think non-Christians are interested in speculation about the future, which is what mine is about. Again, we'll see.
Agreed, Jenny. Men won't admit it, but we're as curious as cats. I think that's why your male non-Christian friends are reading those writers you mentioned. Something in the description, or perhaps in the writing itself, pinged their sonar, and caused them to give those books try. Which is very cool.ReplyDelete
Now somebody give me some catnip. And a sock. *G*
John, your comment stimulated my thinking on this topic so much that I wrote a reply that should really be a blog post, not a comment. I think I'll blog it instead of putting it here. In short, I do think catnip for men has to 1) have a very strong smell, and it has to 2) lure men into taking risks (at least vicariously) that will destroy at least eight of their nine lives. I'll let you know when the post is up, if you'd like to continue the conversation. It may be awhile. I'm behind on what I should say on the writing blog. Thanks for the stimulation. I need to think about things like this.ReplyDelete
I'm going to speak here as a reader rather than as an author because as an author, I write what God gives me to write. As a reader, when I first found Christian romance, it was about beige-dull. The first three I read had the pastor showing up at the door at the first sign of trouble. I think the push-back against unrealistic happened shortly thereafter.ReplyDelete
I'm not an R-rated kind of gal. Gore, violence, and graphic anything are not what I want to put into my mind. So much of the "edgy" stuff now just goes too far for me (not for everyone, for me!). But I'm also not a G-rated girl in reading tastes. I can handle kissing (not the R-kind, but the PG or even PG-13 doesn't bother me). I do like thornier issues, and I love something with a subtle message of hope. Not necessarily out-right, in your face religion.
But again, that's just me. I think in the end, write what you most like to read. There will be others out there who want to read what you write.
It's a big world and I think it's big enough for bonnets and bullets. That said, there are both bad bonnet books and bad bullet books. With the former, it's forgetting to put real, multi-dimensional characters in their books and the latter it's sin for the sake of sin.ReplyDelete
As a reader I'm willing to read some things -- as long as it advances the story. But when, say, Thomas Harris wrote "Hannibal" it seemed mainly for the purpose of making his readers throw up their collective lunch. (Even when your MC is a cannibal, there's way to get it across that he's Beyond Deviant without every last thing being so explicit.)
As an author, I aim for the middle ground. No profanity, no "on screen" sex, and violence only if it's going to be a major plot point. But that's just my thing -- I'm certainly not going to judge authors who write differently. There's plenty of room for all of us in Christian Fiction as long as we keep the faith, pun intended.


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Alistair Smith: Willy Russell's musical packs its bags after 24-year run while mayor describes Leicester's theatre as 'disastrous'
Olympic fever sends a chill through London's West End and arts cuts are felt further afield. Plus Gore Vidal is honoured on Broadway and Mike Tyson takes to the stage
As the curtain rises on the Olympics, London's Theatreland is on tenterhooks about ticket sales, while a new musical prepares to take wing at Beijing's Bird's Nest Olympic stadium
Actor–director wants fellow artists to occupy theatres threatened with demolition, and Eddie Izzard goes all funny in French for London show
A play written by a 17-year-old is the first ever production to be staged in Westminster Hall, while the lord of the theatre addresses the House of Lords about arts funding
Alistair Smith: Rebranded London Hippodrome relaunches, but many more historic buildings are at risk – plus Boris Johnson gets on his dancing shoes
Girl power puts West End musical Viva Forever! in the spotlight, Britain's Got Talent winner turns his paw to Dick Whittington, and Michael McIntyre's fringe prices are no laughing matter
Alistair Smith: Theatreland enjoys heartening box-office figures in early 2012, but students are staying away from drama schools. It's still a good year for Sir Michael Boyd, though
Judi Dench, Daniel Radcliffe and Jude Law set for West End stage, Max Stafford-Clark opens up rehearsals and a French ballet company hatches a plan for Swan Lake with real swans
Curtain theatre is unearthed in east London, a Burmese political comedian is to play his first UK gig and Brits on Broadway get ready to take on the Tonys
David Hasselhoff is set to star in a one-man show at Edinburgh this summer, Broadway shows there's no business like box-office business, and politics takes centre stage at the Globe
The viewing figures for the Oliviers could prompt terrestrial pickup, the Royal Court's third play transfers to the West End and Piff may have a plagiarist, writes Alistair Smith
DJ joins Tim Minchin and Melanie C in Andrew Lloyd Webber musical, the Coronation Street musical hits a bump in the road, and Baldrick helps train announcers improve their patter
In this week's roundup, the National Theatre of Scotland dominates Scottish critics' awards – plus Des O'Connor becomes the oldest performer in the West End, writes the Stage's Alistair Smith
Royal Ballet director speaks out about eating disorders at Dance UK conference and Brits do well on Broadway with awards nods for James Corden and Tracie Bennett
Tim Minchin and Stephen Fry are among the new Cultural Olympiad acts, while protestors take to the stage at Stratford-upon-Avon and encourage audiences to rip up their seats
Ice-skater Robin Cousins is to star in Chicago, while Chariots of Fire races to the Gielgud in time for the Games
The theatrical great and the good dust off their glad rags for Sunday night's Oliviers, Tamara Rojo leaps into position at English National Ballet, and chancellor George Osborne takes heat over charitable donations
Alistair Smith: Lloyd Webber donates £125,000 to help theatres in need of renovation, Mark Rylance stirs things up at the Globe, and Mogadishu's National theatre comes under attack from militants
Alistair Smith: Playwright speaks out about 'legal ticket touts', a Susan Boyle musical proves a surprise hit, and Norwich gains one of the UK's youngest-ever artistic directors
Doran gets the job he's been waiting for as the RSC's new artistic director, the O2 Arena is to stage its first ever pantomime, and Love Never Dies wins four awards in Australia
Kevin Spacey is 'embarrassed' by poor theatre access for young people, Edinburgh and LIFT unveil their festival lineups, and Birmingham Opera Company prepares for Stockhausen lift-off
The national theatres of China and Scotland hit it off, Steptoe and Son hit the stage and a tornado hits a theatre owned by David 'Spirit of the Dance' King
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Allen is adapting his 1994 movie for the stage, Matilda wins the public vote at the Whatsonstage awards, and Chortle's female-unfriendly comedy awards shortlist is no laughing matter
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Les Misérables originales are in despair over loyalty cheques, Andrew Lloyd Webber is on the lookout for Jesus and audience numbers dive in this week's roundup from the Stage's Alistair Smith
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A revised traffic law on the legislative agenda for next week would raise the legal blood alcohol level to 0.75 percent, which for most adults would translate to 6 drinks. The move comes less than a week after a drunk driver in Puriscal collided with a home and killed a women that was 9 months pregnant.
New Traffic Law would allow up to 6 drinks
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Where are these peoples heads. What will it take, another dead Mother/Father/Son/Daughter to get their attention? I would bet that had the authorities had their family killed by a drunk driver, they would not have even put this bill up for a vote.


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Jason Day was left shaking his head after his sensational scoring streak ran dry just when a US PGA Tour victory was in his sights in Las Vegas.
Well back at the halfway mark, the Australian caught fire with a run of 17 birdies in 24 holes at the weekend amid closing rounds of 64 and 65.
By the time he'd covered the front nine at TPC Summerlin in seven-under on Sunday, the 25-year-old Queenslander was in third place and just two shots from the lead.
But he could only manage one further birdie on the 16th and finally stumbled with a double bogey on the last to finish fourth, six shots behind winner Ryan Moore.
American Moore, a Las Vegas resident, shot a 66 to win by one from Zimbabwe's Brendon de Jonge (67) at 24-under 260 with Sweden's Jonas Blixt (70) third at 20-under.
Day was at a loss to explain why his hot streak ended midway through the final round.
"I don't know, I hit a lot of good quality shots on the back nine, the front nine it just seemed like I had a perfect number every time into the greens," Day said.
"The back nine it just felt like I was a little bit in between clubs. But other than that I hit it great all day, I can't be disappointed about the day."
Day, who collected $US216,000 ($A214,000), was playing the fall series event looking to move up from his lowly 97th position on the money list after a season interrupted by injury then the birth of his first child.
"Obviously on course it has been a little bit disappointing, a few injuries during the year have slowed the rounds that I could play in," said Day.
"This was my 16th event so I haven't really played that much. But off course it has been the greatest year I have ever had."
While Day's tour card was already safe for next year, several countrymen are battling to retain their cards amid the top 125 money earners and there was little joy for them in Las Vegas.
Mat Goggin did best, finishing with a 66 to tie for 13th but he went into the tournament way back in 201st on the money list with just $US110,835 ($A110,000) in prizemoney and his cheque of $US72,500 ($A71,720) still left him with a mountain to climb in the next three weeks.
Nathan Green tied 46th, Rod Pampling shared 68th.
Robert Allenby, Stuart Appleby, Nick O'Hern and Gavin Coles all missed the cut.


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But only the literate imagination can bring them back to life.
According to Fidel, his father, like his mother, did not become fully literate until adulthood.
Her humor was New York humor, layered and tangy with irony; chewy and Jewish and deadpan and literate.
Pointing out that Nick Denton writes and speaks like a literate adult and not like a 14-year-old in remedial English.
Then Omar urges all the educated and literate of Afghanistan to rally behind the Taliban mujahideen.
The break with the past was a break with its values as these were rooted in literate culture.
Students who were under the influence of literate reasoning had problems.
Every American adult must be a skilled, literate worker and citizen.
Expectation of high figures is an extension of literate expectations.
Pragmatic requirements and anti-elitist political considerations collided with the literate model and a strange hybrid resulted.
"educated, instructed," early 15c., from Latin literatus/litteratus "educated, learned," literally "one who knows the letters," formed in imitation of Greek grammatikos from Latin littera/litera "letter" (see letter (n.1)).


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Plum doubles teams fare well at Section 3 tournament
All four members of the Plum varsity tennis doubles teams are first-year varsity players.
The teams were in the mix at last week's Section 3-AAA doubles tournament at the Alpha Fitness and Tennis Center in Harmar, and they got a chance to put their talents on display.
Plum head coach Lori Senkewitz said both teams played well and impressed her as they made the quarterfinal round.
Senior Jessica Kenny and junior Maria Campbell engaged in a back-and-forth battle with Penn Hills' Gabby Hemp and Sarah Thrall in the first round.
The pro-set match — where the first team to capture 10 games and win by two is the winner — went to a tiebreaker at 10-10.
Kenny and Campbell had 9-8 and 10-9 leads, but Hemp and Thrall broke the Plum duo's serve both times in the match-clinching situations.
The tiebreaker was tied six times, as the teams traded point wins. Kenny and Campbell finally put the match away with an 8-6 victory in the tiebreaker.
"That was an amazing match," Senkewitz said. "They were determined and didn't give up. I was impressed with how well they worked together and communicated."
Kenny and Campbell then bowed to the Fox Chapel freshmen duo of Laurel Shymansky and Lacey Cohen.
Shymansky and Cohen went on to capture the section title with a 6-0, 6-0 win over Shady Side Academy freshmen Emma Perelman and Lindsay Miller.
Plum junior Danielle Davido and sophomore Ashley Alpino took care of business in the first round, as they beat Gateway sophomores Bridget Jacob and Kaylee Steimer, 10-3.
The veteran duo of Fox Chapel senior Maddy Hoffman and junior Isabella Verardi ended Davido and Alpino's run in the quarterfinals, 10-0.
In Section 3 team competition, Plum improved to 5-8 Monday with a 4-1 victory over Penn Hills.
Seniors Christen Kraemer and Julie Lester won in straight sets at No. 3 and No. 2 singles, respectively. Kraemer continues to battle back from a shoulder injury, and Senkewitz said she's been impressed with her fight to get back on the court and her play on the court.
Kraemer and Kenny teamed up for a victory at No. 2 doubles in last week's 5-0 win over McKeesport.
Also claiming victory in straight sets against Penn Hills were Kenny and Campbell at No. 1 doubles and Davido and Alpino at No. 2 doubles.
Plum was scheduled to wrap up the Section 3 slate Wednesday at home against Gateway. The match was to be contested past the deadline for this week's edition.
Michael Love is a staff writer with Trib Total Media. He can be reached at 412-388- 5825 or at email@example.com.


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Author Week #1: An Interview With Ekaterina Sedia
Kicking off our first Author Week: Charles Tan interviews Ekaterina Sedia about her latest novel, The House of Discarded Dreams!
Hi! Thanks for agreeing to do the interview. The title The House of Discarded Dreams is apt. Which came first, the title or the story? What finalized this as the title of the novel?
Well, the idea of a place where forgotten dreams fester and take on a life of their own and sort of get away from their originators is a very appealing one to me – I played with it for a novel (now abandoned, but it might be resurrected as an e-novella, if all goes well) that centers around literal dreams. For HoDD, I took a more ontogenic, if you will, approach – taking dreams not just of individuals but of the collective unconscious as well, trying to blend the two together. So you can say that the idea came first, than the title, then the story. As to what finalized it – I don't think there was ever any other option for the title, it came with the book.
When it comes to your published novels, each one is very different from the other. Could you share with us how The House of Discarded Dreams has evolved based on your experience with your previous books?
Well, I get bored easily. So I have to try something different with every book to keep myself interested. The downside of course is that every book is a first book in my case, so I get amused when reviewers talk about my potential to become as good as Somebody Famous. But really, this is it – there's no unrealized potential, I'm not building up my skills with every book, since they all are different. There's no linear progression (or any progression). Then again, I'll probably never be like anyone else.
What made you decide to use African culture and mythology as a key element in the book?
I'm a huge fan of Dambudzo Marechera (a Zimbabwean novelist, terribly underrated) and Amos Tutuola (an amazing Nigerian author). (These two are familiar classics, but I do enjoy modern African literature – for example, Kenya's Binyavanga Wainaina.) I can't really say that there was a decision so much as a general desire to write about immigrant experience – but the one that only touched mine rather than replicated it exactly. One of my closest friends is an immigrant from Zimbabwe, so it seemed like a natural choice to me – something that was unlike mine, and yet close enough to it that I could at least try and get to some universality in it.
Did you find it difficult writing about African culture? What kind of research did you have to do?
Well, the main difficulty for me was to keep my boundaries. This is not the culture I can speak for, so I was careful to approach it from the point of view of someone who is not part of the tradition – the protagonist is an American, with immigrant parents. The question of who is entitled to a culture and who can consider themselves a part of it is an interesting one all by itself; in the book, Vimbai is emphatically not a part of her parents' world, and thus she approaches some of the traditions as an outsider. So I felt comfortable writing her perspective, but I wouldn't be doing so from the point of view of her parents. I'm talking about a culture rather than from inside of it, and that is okay, I think. On the other hand, I do understand that some readers will not be interested in this book because it was written by an outsider – and that's okay too.
As for research – I of course read plenty of fiction and folklore. But my main (voluntary, I hasten to add) source was Tait Chirenje, the friend I mentioned. He was really invaluable in helping me with language as well as cultural references. Without him, I would probably put my foot in my mouth a lot more frequently. You will also notice that Zimbabwean is not the only culture I drew upon – there is a certain degree of amalgamation of cultures in African diaspora, and I wanted to at least touch upon that.
The author and Tait Chirenje
How much of your own personal experience was helpful in writing the novel?
It was helpful, because I do believe that the immigrants in the US share a certain host of experiences – especially those of us who carry 'undesirable' (ie, not Western European) accents. There's also a common experience of being interrogated on your country's policies, being asked to speak for your entire nation, people assuming that they know your biases without recognizing their own… basically, something Vimbai's parents are more familiar with than Vimbai herself. So her mother's frustrations were easier for me to relate to and to understand, I think, than for someone who hasn't experienced that.
Some of the tension in the story is between the previous generation and the present. What made you decide to explore this kind of conflict and what were the challenges in writing it as such?
First and second generation of immigrants dynamics was always fascinating to me. I know several first generation families in which parents are baffled by the fact of having perfectly American children. Oftentimes, immigrant issues are ignored, because the assumption is that by the second generation they'll be assimilated into at least the language environment – but it leaves the first generation out of it, as if everyone is just waiting for them to die so that their children and grandchildren are free to develop uncomplicated national identities. And second generation children are being pulled in different directions by society around them and their families. It's a built-in conflict right there; another issue, somewhat less obvious, is that first generation immigrants often do feel guilt for abandoning if not their country than at least people and families they had there. These splintered identities and loyalties are not a small matter, and they're far more complex than usual representations of nostalgia in first generation immigrants.
Memory plays a key role in the book. How important is memory in shaping one's character and culture?
It's everything. Memory is the tool by which we internalize cultural reference points. In some simplistic way, your identity, cultural or individual, is the sum total of your childhood memories: favorite foods, stories, cartoons – all of these build the basis of that sense of self. And going back to the disconnect between first and second generation: they are of different nationalities because they watched different cartoons as kids (or read different stories).
Additionally, the memory does become blurred and distorted with time. When immigrants write about their home, the memories of it are distorted by nostalgia, and simply by a passage of time. I wouldn't say that every immigrant writer writing about their home is necessarily an unreliable narrator, but in many cases this is true. So memory in the book as I mentioned before is by necessity faulty and splintered, individual and cultural, reliable and not.
One of the characters in the book describes evil not as maliciousness, but single-mindedness. Could you elaborate more on this idea and why it made sense for the book?
Ha, I wish I could remember what I meant when I wrote that! But looking at it now, I think that the problems inherent in single-mindedness are two-fold: first, there's a failure to consider how your desired outcomes affect others; secondly; there's also a failure to consider other possible outcomes which might be just as satisfactory. Both of these serve to block the person off from other people/venues of expression, and such isolation can lead to disconnect and further advancement of one's goals with greater and greater impacts coupled with lesser and lesser awareness of these impacts.
Anything else you'd like to share or plug?
Always! I have a new novel coming out this year, HEART OF IRON (Prime). Here's the preliminary back cover copy, revealed here for the first time:
"In a Russia where the Decembrists' rebellion was successful and the Trans-Siberian railroad was completed before 1854, Sasha Trubetskaya wants nothing more than to have a decent debut ball in St. Petersburg. But her aunt's feud with the emperor lands Sasha at university, where she becomes one of its first female students—an experiment, she suspects, designed more to prove female unsuitability for such pursuits than offer them education. The pressure intensifies when Sasha's only friends—Chinese students—start disappearing, and she begins to realize her new British companion, Jack, has bigger secrets than she can imagine.
Sasha and Jack find themselves trying to stop a war brewing between the three empires. The only place can turn to for help is the Heavenly Kingdom of Great Peace, newly founded by the Taiping rebels. Pursued by the terrifying Dame Florence Nightingale of the British Secret Service, Sasha and Jack escape across Siberia via train to China. Sasha discovers that Jack is not quite the person she thought he was…but then again, neither is she."
My collection, tentatively titled MOSCOW BUT DREAMING is scheduled for next year. Jeffrey Ford was kind enough to write an introduction for it, which was a thrill all in itself. And of course, there are anthologies I edit: BEWERE THE NIGHT is coming out in May 2011, and there are plans for more.
January 31, 2011 - Posted by lavietidhar | Uncategorized | author week, charles tan, ekaterina sedia, interview, original content, russia, Tait Chirenje, zimbabwe
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In their quest for higher profits, the biggest US banks have seized on the one thing they can reliably control: cutting costs.
The six biggest US lenders will spend $US61.8 billion ($88.4 billion) on items including employee compensation, marketing and real estate in the fourth quarter, the lowest total for a quarter since the final three months 2008, according to analysts' estimates. That's helping companies deliver more revenue to the bottom line, which at a projected $US19.9 billion for the group would be the most for the final quarter of a year since 2006.
Investors get a first glimpse when JPMorgan Chase reports on January 14. Analysts expect the depth of cuts in the fourth quarter to highlight the firms' success in trimming bloated operations by firing workers, settling legal disputes and centralising back-office functions to preserve returns in the face of low interest rates that have sapped income. Now, banks are under pressure to find new sources of savings at a time when prospects for revenue growth remain uncertain.
"Cost-cutting has enabled the banks to essentially combat what has been a pretty sluggish revenue environment," said Shannon Stemm, an analyst in St. Louis at Edward Jones. "A lot of the benefit from cost-cutting has already been felt."
Fourth-quarter revenue will rise 2 per cent for the group from the prior year to $US97.9 billion, while expenses will fall 14 per cent, analysts estimate.
Emerging from the financial crisis, firms had swollen costs they needed to work down. They were paying temporary workers to service soured mortgages and writing checks to settle government investigations into the sale of bonds backed by the home loans. More recently, banks have paid billions of dollars in fines to end allegations of rigging in markets such as foreign exchange.
Lenders announced cost-cutting programs with catchy names and set targets for efficiency ratios, a measure of how much it costs to produce one dollar of revenue. As part of an initiative dubbed Project New BAC, Bank of America said in September 2011 that it planned to cut 30,000 workers and consolidate 63 data centers inherited through acquisitions. The following year, Wells Fargo set an efficiency-ratio target in a range of 55 per cent to 59 per cent, and in March 2013, less than six months after getting the top job at Citigroup, CEO Michael Corbat established a 2015 target of about 55 per cent.
Analysts project Citigroup will meet the target, and Wells Fargo has told investors that it expects to be within its range. Bank of America cut headcount by about 75,000 employees over the four years through September.
One bright spot for the industry has been lower litigation costs as old cases are settled and fewer new ones are filed. The legal tab for the five largest US banks excluding Wells Fargo, which doesn't disclose the costs in earnings announcements, amounted to more than $US33 billion in 2014. Through the first three quarters of 2015, the tally was less than $US7 billion. The group includes JPMorgan, Bank of America, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley.
Operating units also have been asked to slim down, with management teams taking their scalpels to institutional businesses and consumer operations alike. Banks have trimmed branch networks as clients move to mobile phones, while more trading goes digital, reducing the reliance on human beings.
Since the end of 2010, Bank of America has cut the most, reducing total expenses by 34 per cent, data shows. Citigroup lowered costs by 17 per cent, while Goldman Sachs's are down 14 per cent.
That's got analysts projecting net income of $US3.29 billion for Bank of America and $US3.55 billion for Citigroup. Wells Fargo will lead the group, with $US5.36 billion in profit, followed by JPMorgan with $US4.75 billion, according to estimates.
The expected fourth-quarter results cap a year marked by a surge in dealmaking, gains in the US economy and the first rate increase in almost a decade. Mergers and acquisitions reached more than $US4.2 trillion in transactions last year, a record, data shows. As the US unemployment rate improved to 5.3 per cent for the year, the best since 2007, Federal Reserve policymakers raised interest rates for the first time in nine years, boosting banks' prospects for higher lending margins in 2016.
JPMorgan's earnings announcement this week will be followed by Citigroup and Wells Fargo on January 15. Morgan Stanley and Bank of America are scheduled to report January 19. Goldman Sachs posts results on January 20.
Wells Fargo rose 0.7 per cent to $US49.88 at 11 a.m. in New York. Citigroup climbed 0.4 per cent, while Bank of America fell 0.3 per cent. The 24-company KBW Bank Index has dropped 9.3 per cent this year.
Morgan Stanley and Citigroup preannounced fourth-quarter charges, at $US150 million and $US300 million, respectively. Morgan Stanley's hit will cover the cost of cutting 1,200 workers worldwide, including about 470 traders and salespeople in its fixed-income and commodities business, a person briefed on the matter said last month. That should help the firm save $US300 million to $US400 million this year, Deutsche Bank's Matt O'Connor wrote in a Jan. 4 note. Citigroup is planning to cut at least 2,000 jobs this month, including some front-office personnel, people familiar with the matter said last month.
Rising revenue may push expenses higher, according to Jason Goldberg, an analyst at Barclays in New York.
"As revenue picks up, we think expenses grow," Goldberg said. "It's cybersecurity, it's mobile banking, it's new technologies, it's adding to sales forces. Perhaps over the past several years there are certain things banks underinvested in as they grappled with the tight revenue environment. To the extent that the revenue environment gets easier, aided by help from the Fed, we think banks will start investing in those areas."
The average net interest margin for the largest banks, a key measure of profitability, will rise to 3.09 per cent in 2016 and 3.15 per cent in 2017 from 3.04 per cent at the end of 2015, estimates show. It was 3.21 per cent at the end of 2014.
And it's not clear how much more room the banks have to lower costs as they face new demands for investment. Firms have poured resources into compliance and regulatory functions as well as technologies to protect against cyber-attacks. JPMorgan said it spent $US250 million in 2014 to prevent cybercrime, while Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan has said his bank is spending five times what it was six or seven years ago.
"If revenue is going to continue to be a bit of a drag and we don't reach potential in terms of growth, how are you going to grow?" said Chris Mutascio, an analyst at Keefe, Bruyette & Woods. "It's going to be on expenses. And that's going to be interesting, because we've gotten a lot of expense savings out. There's not a lot to be had from here. It may be difficult for the banks to toe the line."


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Thanks Kit. Maybe, I used the wrong example. In practice, I get this
error message always. In my real problem, I am estimating a probit and
on the RHS I have the interaction of two continuous variables. In the
past, I was able to estimate this exact model and then use "inteff" to
estimate the marginal effect on the interaction term. Now, I keep
geting this error message. I have the output saved from the past, but
I just can't replicate it anymore using inteff.
Why bother with -inteff- if you have Stata 12? It handles c-c interactions just fine:
webuse lbw2, clear
probit low c.age##c.lwt
margins, dydx(_all)
I can run this model (with explicit interactions) in -inteff-, updated version from SJ,
but why? The standard probit command gives the estimate of the interaction effect and its
significance (or lack thereof).
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Brazi's Italian Restaurant + "Curse of the Starving Class"February 23, 2013
We stopped for a bite at Brazi's on our way to opening night of Curse of the Starving Glass, a work by the Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Sam Shepard (who I met … and school-girl swooned over… at the Kentucky Derby years ago!) and directed by Gordon Edelstein.
Knowing we'd be back there after the performance for the opening night party, we nibbled only appetizers. The delicate Eggplant Rollatini (rolled eggplant stuffed with ricotta and topped with marinara sauce, $9.50) was almost a meal in itself with the two hearty portions. We combined that with a variety of grilled veggies ($8.95) that included zucchini, yellow squash, red pepper, eggplant, mushrooms and a tomato.
We then scurried off to the show and were warned as we walked in that there would be nudity, profanity and loud noises. The show (like all shows these days) didn't start on time… we later learned that is was Edie, the live 3-week old lamb that kept them from starting! I won't tell you any more about Edie, as I don't want to be a spoiler!
The cast includes Tony Award-winner Judith Ivey (who appeared in Long Wharf 's productions of The Glass Menagerie and Shirley Valentine and who recently stole the show in The Heiress on Broadway), Peter Albrink, Ben Becher, Clark Middleton, John Procaccino (who was fabulous in Long Wharf's Down the Garden Paths), Kevin Tighe, and — the weakest link — Elvy Yost (whose performance was a bit high-schoolish).
The play is a dark comedy about a dysfunctional family that's describable as a Greek tragedy. For sure it's food (pun intended) for interesting conversations. Curse of the Starving Class runs through March 10. For more information about Long Wharf Theatre or to purchase tickets, visit www.longwharf.org or call 203-787-4282.
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