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Summer Reading ListJune 23, 2011 • 70 Comments • category: Algonquin Books Blog, What We're Reading
It's no secret that we Algonkians are voracious readers. This summer, we're excited to dive into a wide variety of books, from the eclectic (The Decameron, Emily Post's Etiquette, Yakuza Moon) to the wildly popular (Bossypants, A Visit from the Goon Squad, The Hunger Games) and everything in between.
What are you looking forward to reading this summer? Tell us and you'll automatically be entered to win one of three West of Here pint glasses and Algonquin Book Club tote bags.
Chuck Adams, Executive Editor:
Because I read just about all day long–at least when I'm not editing–I don't do a lot of "pleasure" reading, and when I do, I'm jealous of my time. This summer, over the 4th of July week, I plan to take a bit of vacation, and during those precious days, I hope to read one or all of the following:
In the Garden of Beasts by Eric Larson — I chose this one because of a personal fascination with evil, pure and simple, and also because I find tales of the war era in Germany to be pertinent to our own times, as cautionary tales and as reminders of why we cannot just accept everything our government says and does.
The Bull from the Sea by Mary Renault — This was a novel I read when I was young, circa the late '60s, and it was the first by Renault that I had encountered. It led me to read all of her Grecian novels, and they remain vivid in my memory. I recently read a similar kind of novel by a young writer who claimed never to have read those earlier novels, and I enjoyed the new book–about the legend of Achilles, being published by Ecco sometime next year–so much that I want to go back and revisit Renault's work, which I remember as being masterful and transporting.
Just Kids by Patti Smith — Like Smith, I was finding myself as a person in New York during the late '60s, and I gather from reviews that she has done a wonderful job of making that city in those days come alive on the page. I did not, however, get to consort with anyone quite like Robert Mapplethorpe, so I hope to be introduced to an experience that goes beyond mere nostalgia.
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan — I want to read this one for many reasons–awards, friends who rave about it, big bestseller–but especially because when I look on Amazon I find so many negative reviews. I love books that people either love or hate. I, of course, expect to love it.
Stephen Ashley, Publishing Coordinator:
The first on my to-read list is The Magicians by Lev Grossman. With the last Harry Potter movie coming out in less than a month and my childhood nearing its official end, I'm going to venture out and read about grown up wizards. But, let's be serious, I'll never really grow up. There are too many exciting YA books coming out. I can't wait to tear into Libba Bray's Beauty Queens (Lord of the Flies with less assmar and more pirates? Yes please) and Sean Beaudoin's You Killed Wesley Payne ("young adult noir mystery" is probably the closest I can get to complete happiness in four words, though "so much ice cream" is a close second).
Kelly Bowen, Publicity Manager:
My summer reading list usually comes down to two important factors: What is the easiest to read at the beach? And what is the perfect drink to pair with that book?
After spending one sweltering summer with my book club discussing the daunting 2666 by Roberto Bolano, I'm excited to read Between Parentheses alongside a huge pitcher of fruity red sangria. I'm slightly embarrassed to admit that I haven't read Tea Obreht's The Tiger's Wife yet, so that's definitely next on the list (with a white Russian, of course!). Maine by J. Courtney Sullivan with a very CapeCod-ish vodka spritzer sounds like the perfect Sunday summer afternoon. And I also managed to snag a copy of The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern at BEA, and can't wait to dive into it. (I haven't figured out the right drink for that one and accept any suggestions you might have!)
Jordan Castelloe, Intern:
Right now I'm about halfway through Virginia Woolf's intricate, deeply weird novel Orlando about a man who lives forever and changes genders a few times along the way. It's sort of like making your way through a big plate of fettucine alfredo– you never want it to end, but it's better in small doses. I'm juggling some lighter fare to balance it out: Foul Matter by Martha Grimes, a madcap murder mystery about the world of publishing in which writers go to homicidal lengths to get their books published and editors have mob affiliations. Ah, if only.
I've got big plans for tackling Boccaccio's The Decameron this summer. Sounds impressive and literary, right? It's actually a humongous compilation of medieval sex jokes. They also happen to be great stories, but I'm mostly interested in the sex jokes. Next on the list is Cormac McCarthy's The Road because at this point four different people have made me swear that I would.
Megan Fishmann, Publicist:
Lately I've been on a real nonfiction kick, trying to learn more about the strangest of the strange (I figure this will help balance out the insane amount of time I read things like Us Weekly). I recently finished Still Life: Adventures in Taxidermy by Melissa Milgrom and now am eager to begin yet another taxidermy book, Kingdom Under Glass by Jay Kirk. Continuing my reading streak on all things deceased, I've got The Red Market (a fascinating look at the illegal human organ trading market) by Scott Carney on my bedside table. Not one to buck this odd passion I'm investing so much time in, I bought The Long Goodbye by Meghan O'Rourke at our local independent bookstore, Flyleaf. I hear this one is an incredibly moving memoir, and I've got my handkerchief ready.
Katie Ford, Assistant Marketing Manager:
My fiancé came home from a weekend in WV with a mason jar of strawberry moonshine. I refuse to touch it for fear of going blind, but it reminded me to pick up Max Watman's Chasing the White Dog: An Amateur Outlaw Adventure's in Moonshine, an Indie Next List pick chronicling the history of moonshine in the U.S. Maybe it will give me the information I need to talk my fiancé out of converting the bathtub into the still of his dreams.
I'm also going to pick up George R. R. Martin's Game of Thrones series to read by the pool. I think I like the HBO miniseries, but I can't make it more than 10 minutes through an episode without getting confused and asking, "Wait, who's that?" The books have been at the top of the bestseller lists, convincing me I'm not alone.
Amy Gash, Senior Editor:
Whenever I have time to read for pleasure I almost always choose literary fiction. This summer, though, I'm determined to branch out with some nonfiction and genre titles:
Cleopatra by Stacy Schiff
All I know about Cleopatra I learned from Elizabeth Taylor so I'm ready to be transported to the ancient world and enlightened by this biography of an apparently shrewd and formidable politician. And what's the real dish on her relationships with Antony and Caesar?
Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear
I recently acquired a mystery, which is unusual for Algonquin, and now I'm eager to read some of the best of the genre. I've been hearing about the adventures of Maise Dobbs for years. Maybe I'll get hooked on this series and find myself in bed in the wee hours of the night with a flashlight – just like I used to do with Agatha Christie as a kid.
Emily Post's Etiquette (17th edition) by Peggy Post
My son is leaving for college in September and I was thinking I should send him off with this book. Truth is, though, he'd never in a million years open it. But I realized I would. I've already found it helpful in a number of situations. And, believe it or not, I actually like this kind of information, so this summer I'll be enjoying flipping through the 900 pages!
Brunson Hoole, Managing Editor:
I just started City of Thieves by Marc Benioff. I may be the only person who hasn't read this; it's been recommended to me many times by many people, and I was starting to feel stubborn. I saw the paperback at the bookstore and was smitten by the cover–and the fact that it's short (I'm into achievable goals this summer). It doesn't hurt that it's a somewhat whimsical and macabre adventure. I've already laughed out loud on the bus while reading Pete Dexter's Spooner, a logical follow-up to the equally rambling and outrageous A Fraction of the Whole by Steve Toltz, so fellow passengers weren't surprised to see me chuckling to the dark humor in this one.
Simon Winchester's Atlantic looks appealing, and like something I can dip in and out of while reading The Commodore by Patrick O'Brian. It's taken me only ten years to get to number seventeen! (Remember, achievable goals.) I love the sea–and a sea story–so it's fitting that these should travel to the beach with me this summer. I bought a paperback copy of Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall to give to someone, but the package was too appealing to part with. It seems like a sprawling yet detailed romp more likely to expose me to some actual history than the Showtime version (The Tudors–I'll admit to enjoying a few episodes on DVD) of the Henry VIII period.
Andra Miller, Editor:
I don't know what's in the air, but it seems I have a bunch of books about violent, aggressive young women in my pile. I'm in the middle of the Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collins, and then I want to read The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson. My husband and I began listening to the audio recordings of the Stieg Larsson books over several long car trips this past year, but now our son, at 18 months, is old enough to actually pay attention to the stories, so it seems we have to move on to more benign listening. To keep me from getting too surly this summer, I have The Help and The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer at the ready. And maybe this summer I will finally get to A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith, which I've been wanting to read for years!
Sarah Rose Nordgren, Publicity Assistant:
Mister Skylight by Ed Skoog – Ed Skoog's debut poetry collection on Copper Canyon Press comes highly recommended to me, and since I haven't had much time to read poetry lately, I'm very excited to delve into it this month. The Stranger raves "Ed Skoog's poetry is so ambitious it takes my breath away." I've been told it's exactly the kind of strange, idiosyncratic and moving work that I love to read.
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell – This book has been recommended to me by several people who know my tastes for imaginative and experimental novels, and it's been on my "to-read" list for over a year. The publisher's description says that Mitchell "erases the boundaries of language, genre and time to offer a meditation on humanity's dangerous will to power, and where it may lead us." I'm sold.
Emily Parliman, Assistant to the Publisher:
Over the last week or two, multiple people have told me that they're reading John Banville and are blown away by his writing. So, I'm going to try for a "literary" turn in my summer reading and start The Infinities or The Sea after I finish devouring Suzanne Collins' compulsively readable trilogy.
Kelly Policelli, Assistant Managing Editor:
First on my summer reading list is Bossypants by Tina Fey, which my husband bought for me in hardcover just this week. I love Tina Fey's work, but I'm particularly interested in reading her memoir because we're from the same town and went to the same public high school. (And, no, it was not like "Mean Girls"). Every summer I read one classic paperback, preferably on the beach, and this year it's going to be The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck. I managed (cunningly) to avoid reading this book in both high school and college, but with the economy the way it is, and the fallout from global warming seemingly coming to fruition in the midwest, it seems like a good time to read an American epic about dust bowls and the Depression. And I'm planning to download Caleb's Crossing by Geraldine Brooks to my iPhone using the free Kindle app, for summer reading on the go. I've been a huge fan of Geraldine Brooks since I read Year of Wonders. This is an author who can make the Plague romantic and transporting and delicious. I admire that. Plus, I'm a sucker for good historical fiction (i.e., I'm a real geek).
Craig Popelars, Marketing Director:
My summer reading began with Michael Crummey's Newfoundland novel, Galore, and was quickly followed by S.J. Parris' Elizabethan thriller, Heresy—both recommended by the fine booksellers at Flyleaf Books. I'm well into Erik Larson's In the Garden of Beasts, which I'm enjoying immensely. And since I just returned from our family vacation in Yosemite National Park, where I was simply awestruck by nature in its grandest form, I have John Muir: Nature Writings waiting in the wings. After a seventeen mile hike up Yosemite's Half Dome, it's now in my blood to celebrate the man who helped preserve this national treasure. And since I've read all of Louis Bayard's novels, I hope to read his latest, The School of Night. Finally, the one galley that I'm most eager to read this summer (and since we're into the thick of baseball season) is The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach. That's my literary six-pack that should keep me refreshingly cool all summer long.
Kathy Pories, Senior Editor:
First thing: I have to read Blood, Bones, and Butter by Gabrielle Hamilton since second to eating food, I like nothing better than thinking and reading about food—and it's been beckoning from my nightstand for a while. After that, The Tiger's Wife by Tea Obreht (yes, I'm catching up late on what I should have already read). And carrying on with that theme, I finally will get a chance to read Tom Franklin's Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter. It's a crime that I haven't read this yet, and it's just out in paperback. (And all of these in the real live bonified physical book form. Sorry, Kindle, you are a good workhorse, but you don't hold a candle to my treasured real books, the kind whose pages I can bend and waterlog and whose spines I can break.)
.Kendra Poster, Rights Director :
People have asked me how certain of our books compare to The Help by Kathryn Stockett, so I have a copy of that which I'll definitely read this summer. And I so loved Tina Fey's much-emailed "Prayer for a Daughter" that I'm seriously considering picking up Bossypants despite the gross cover. I also have a stack of cookbooks I can't wait to get to. Perfect bedtime reading, a recipe at a time!
Shannon Ravenel, Editor-at-Large:
The Lacuna, by Barbara Kingsolver — Dale, my husband, lived in Mexico City close to the time of the book's setting. His house was two doors down from Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo's house. He remembers people whispering about them.
Factory Girls, by Leslie T. Chang — Living this close to China, you do get interested. I loved Country Driving, by Peter Hessler (her husband) about small new cities in China and persuaded my book group to choose this one for July.
Yakuza Moon: Memoirs of a Gangster's Daughter, by Shoko Tendo — I like Japanese writing. This one is about the dark side of Tokyo.
.Elisabeth Scharlatt, Publisher:
The Yacoubian Building by Alaa Al Aswany — In anticipation of a trip to Cairo, which I'm hoping to get to some day.
Essays by Wallace Shawn — What I've read so far is marvelously fearless with impeccable politics.
Last Call by Daniel Okrent — The Rise and Fall of Prohibition, to read in the garden with a tall Bloody Mary.
The Great Journey: Americans in Paris by David McCullough — Essential for Francophiles, of which I am one.
Drink, Play, F*&K by Andrew Gottlieb — Must finish reading my step-son's hilarious spoof of Eat, Pray, Love.
Oh, and Bob Dylan's Chronicles.
Ina Stern, Associate Publisher:
Lost Memory of Skin by Russell Banks — I was given an advance reading copy at a dinner I attended at BEA, at which Banks was a speaker. I'm ashamed to say that I haven't read a book of his since The Sweet Hereafter, which remains one of the most haunting books I've ever read, so I'm really looking forward to this one.
The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein — I read some of this in manuscript when it came before our editorial board, but when we lost it to another house, I stopped reading. (Sometimes, when you lose a book you really like, it's just too hard to keep reading!) Now that it's four years later, and it's a big bestseller and all my friends have read it and loved it, I think it's time for me to get over it and pick up a copy.
.Michael Taeckens, Online and Paperback Marketing Director:
I was dazzled by John Jeremiah Sullivan's recent pieces in the New York Times Magazine and the Paris Review, so first up is his highly acclaimed debut, Blood Horses: Notes of a Sportswriter's Son. I also plan to read Ann Patchett's new novel State of Wonder, because more than a few people have said it's better than Bel Canto, which knocked my socks off. Also on the roster: Paul Lisicky's The Burning House, some Annie Dillard I haven't yet explored (The Maytrees, Holy the Firm, Teaching a Stone to Talk), Nick Flynn's Another Bullshit Night in Suck City, The Selected Letters of Emily Dickinson, and The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis.
.Laura Williams, Art Assistant:
I just finished and loved our soon to be published Maman's Homesick Pie, and I also saw the movie The King of Pastry, which was great. This has prompted some interesting discussions with a friend about how chefs have a slightly different relationship to time because of everything they have to do at once. So this summer, in keeping with the food theme I am going to read Bill Buford's Heat.
Anne Winslow, Art Director:
I'm interested in reading The Tiger's Wife by Tea Obreht, primarily because it's gotten great reviews and everyone comments on author Tea Obreht's exquisite writing. A young person who writes as well as she does seems surprising to many reviewers, though I can't fathom why. I found this to be true as well with The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman. Rachman, also a young author, has crafted a perfect novel. Language, voice, characterizations, plot–it's all wonderful. But really, this is the nature of great fiction writing. The reader is transported. A gifted author can accomplish this no matter what his or her age–hearkening back to Truman Capote and Other Voices, Other rooms. Maybe it's surprising now, because we've all been told, or assumed, that young people don't read (as much) as older generations did. The Imperfectionists and The Tiger's Wife are evidence that this curmudgeonly view is patently untrue, though I must say, there IS a lot of JUNK out there by authors of all ages.
Growing up as a kid I remember listening in on my parent's bridge parties, but oddly they never taught any of us kids to play. I think this is true for most of my generation and below because it's really hard to find a bridge club which is not held in a senior center. Anyway, I bought a bridge application for my Mac and used it to teach myself. Then a friend, who knew how avid I was to learn, gifted me with the 1957 edition of the classic bridge reference, Goren's New Contract Bridge Complete by Charles H. Goren. The writing style is direct and authoritative yet still manages to be friendly. Goren never steps anywhere near the irritating realm of cutesy and gabby, a fault which plagues many how-to books. Largely because of Goren I know enough to play with my aged–but still expert–bridge playing relatives, and sometimes, I even win. The best thing with reading a reference book is that you are never done reading.
70 Comments On This Post:
1:14 pm
Laura Hansen says...
Don't you find that for all the lists you make for yourself that someting completely unkonwn falls into your hands and knocks your socks off and you forget the whole list and spend your time searching for more of something like that strange and wonderful unexpected thing you just read???
1:15 pm
Amanda says...
Is it wrong of me to admit that I have yet to read The Help. I look forward to push my little toes in the sand and catch up on what everyone else is raving about!
1:16 pm
Dawn Langley says...
This summer, I'm going to read "brain candy" books. I'm hung up on 'Game of Thrones,' so that's on my bedside stand. I'm also looking at a couple by Russel Banks, Amerians in Paris, and Cleopatra. Love that I can get ideas here. Thanks, Algonquin
1:17 pm
Jennifer O. says...
My can't-wait-to-read Summer list:
The Lantern, by Deborah Lawrenson
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
The Tiger's Wife by Tea Obreht
The Bird Sisters by Rebecca Rassmussen
Domestic Violets by Matthew Norman
The Four Mrs. Bradwells by Meg Waite Clayton
When She Woke by Hillary Jordan
The Pale King by David Foster Wallace
1:20 pm
ColleenFL says...
I'm really looking forward to reading A Dance with Dragons by George R. R. Martin this summer. It's been a long wait since the previous book in this series!
1:21 pm
Kelsey says...
Currently in the middle of The Brothers K, by David James Duncan (loving it, and, unexpectedly, learning quite a lot about baseball in the process). Also hope to read Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver, as well as Bossypants (I have heard only outrageously good things about the latter).
1:21 pm
Rachel Z says...
I'll be reading Ready Player One along with all five Song of Ice and Fire books by George RR Martin AND all seven Harry Potter books for a round-up book club meeting!
1:22 pm
Trisha Quasney says...
I plan to re-read T.H. White's "The Once and Future King." I haven't read it since high school. I am also going to read "Below Mile Zero" by Brooke Babineau. He is a local writer here and I used to work with his wife. He's also an Indie film director.
1:23 pm
Bracha says...
Too many books to name! My summer reading list is ever growing. But right now, atop the list are Nathan Englander's For the Relief of Unbearable Urges, Daniel Mendelsohn's How Beautiful It Is, How Easily It Can Be Broken, and Dreisers' Sister Carrie. But so much more too– this is the summer of books! Foucault, Edith Wharton, Tama Janowitz. This list has also sparked my interested in quite a few more books!
1:23 pm
Anna Lee says...
The new biography of Montaigne. Perhaps this is the summer I will finally finish the memoirs of Casanova.
1:26 pm
Grace says...
I will be reading books by Janet Evanovich. They make perfect beach reads this summer!
1:27 pm
Rebecca says...
Right now I'm working through the W's (purely coincidence): I just read Wildwood by Colin Meloy and Wingshooters by Nina Revyor. Just started Zadie Smith's White Teeth because I have a goal of reading all of the books I SHOULD have read when I was a bookseller 🙂
1:28 pm
Rachael Stewart says...
I visited Mark Twain's house in Hartford over Memorial Day weekend so I am looking forward to reading his semi-autobiographical book, Life on the Mississippi. I'm also looking forward to reading Tina Fey's Bossypants–a friend recommended it and I think she is a hilarious comic.
1:29 pm
Lisa L says...
I'm sifting through a handful of old favorites this summer (Anne of Green Gables, The Hardy Boys), but mostly I'm just plowing through the Song of Ice and Fire series. Also waiting for my attention, in no particular order, On the Road by Jack Kerouac, The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood, and, hopefully, Middle March by George Eliot, to name a few.
Summer is just a good time for overambitious literary insanity, don't think?
1:33 pm
m ricketts says...
I'll be reading the new Ann Patchett and a score of books for starting the MFA in creative writing at Pine Manor College
1:33 pm
Susan says...
Kitchen's Daughter, Still Alice,Silver Girl, and Bean Trees.But, most of the time I don't follow what I say I am going to read. Hopefully this time.
1:35 pm
Brett Kruger says...
I'm currently in the middle of Let the Great World Spin. But I have a to-read stack that includes a block of noir (Hammett and Chandler); a double dose of talent (The Talented Mr. Ripley and The Talented Miss Highsmith- bio of Patricia Highsmith); a pair of novels starting with B (Brooklyn and Brideshead Revisited); and quite a few others. I doubt I'll get to them all this summer because I keep hearing about other interesting books: I've read several reviews of The Great Night and The Watery Part of the World and am deeply intrigued by both. Plus I recently rescued many childhood books from my parents' house and can't help but reread down memory lane. 🙂
1:37 pm
Susan Cushman says...
Finished The Paris Wife (wonderful!) so now I'm reading The Sun Also Rises, because The Paris Wife chronicles the time during which Hemingway wrote it. Next up: Pearl of China by Anchee Min. (I'm a huge Pearl Buck fan.)
1:42 pm
Mark says...
Love your lists. Wish I could read them all. However, I will be starting with Ron Cooper's Purple Jesus. After that, who knows? Parisians, One Foot in Eden, Mr. Chartwell, and Hare With the Amber Eyes are among the many that await. Oh, really want to get to Skippy Dies, too!
1:43 pm
Aster C. Linn says...
I couldn't agree more, Laura. Fact is, I always have so much to read, I don't have the time to make a list! PS: although I can't really explain why. The 'something completely unknown that fell into my hands, a year or so ago, and knocked my socks off!' Was (and is) a book called: The Finishing School by Gail Godwin. (Possibly one of the most brilliant books I've ever read!) Also thoroughly enjoy books and short-stories by Roald Dahl, Truman Capote and Ruth Rendall.
(And with that, I'm back to my books!)
'Bye for now.
1:47 pm
Lori Anderson says...
I am looking forward to reading The Kid by Sapphire the sequel to Precious and The Cut by George Pelecanos. I would love a bag!
1:48 pm
Kizzy says...
A Visit from the Goon Squad . I've been hearing really good things about this book. I'm excited to get a copy of it in my hands.
1:49 pm
Jeffrey Tretin says...
I plan to read Fall of Giants by Ken Follett. In fact I started it already.
1:49 pm
Robyn Walker says...
So many I want to read…but I plan on reading: The Watery Part of The World, The Mermaid Garden, The Paris Wife, Sarah's Key, The Tiger's Wife, and Cutting for Stone.
2:01 pm
Meganne says...
I am about to read Tom Perotta's The Leftovers (out 8/30), the slew of Scandinavian mysteries out this summer, I have Tayari Jones' first book which I would like to read before Silver Sparrow and (hopefully) some Edith Wharton.
2:03 pm
Cindy(Cindy's Love Of Books) says...
Tina Fey's book and the help are the ones I am excited to read this summer.
2:05 pm
Mary says...
I'm looking forward to finishing "West of Here."
2:12 pm
Jill says...
I can't wait to read Dreams of Joy by Lisa See.
2:21 pm
Erica Spangler says...
I'm looking forward to reading THE HELP by Kathryn Stockett and LOVED Egan's A VISIT FROM THE GOON SQUAD! Yay to summer reading!!
2:39 pm
Benjamin Vogt says...
Megan Fishmann–Check out The Authentic Animal: Inside the Odd and Obsessive World of Taxidermy by Dave Madden. I'm also looking forward to reading up on prairie ecosystems and native american in Oklahaoma for research of my next book, and then to read Cabin Fever by Tom Montgomery Fate.
2:52 pm
Sharon says...
Steinbeck's "Travels with Charley" and "Once There Was a War", Paul Berkowitz " The Case of the Indian Trader", Michael Wallis' "David Crockett"….finishing a book by Helene Hanff, "Apple of My Eye"
3:43 pm
Helen Gibson says...
State of Wonder, Before I Go To Sleep and Bossypants…in that order. Happy summer!
3:47 pm
Keetha says...
I started A Visit From the Goon Squad two days ago and am really enjoying it.
I am really looking forward to the follow up to The Magicians, The Magician King.
This blog post gave me lots more ideas for my reading list.
4:11 pm
Becky says...
I'm reading Turn Left at the Trojan Horse by Brad Herzog. I also plan to read The Summer Book by Tove Jansson, The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collings, and Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery.
4:13 pm
Van Pittsenbargar says...
This summer, I've got a whole stack of books to read, among them are "Man With a Pan" – John Donohue, "Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim" and "Me Talk Pretty One Day" – both by David Sedaris. Currently working on the end of "Barrel Fever" also by David Sedaris. Never too much to read, and Algonquin Books always has a myriad of excellent suggestions. Thanks!
4:13 pm
Cat K. says...
These are great ideas! I'm hoping to read a lot of books about New York–let's just say it's for research, as well as a hefty does of YA fiction. Can't wait!
4:33 pm
Jessica M. says...
I'm looking forward to so many books this summer that I just don't think I'll be sleeping at all! I'm especially looking forward to finally reading The Tiger's Wife, especially now that Tea Obreht won the Orange Prize. I am also really excited to read Before I Go To Sleep, State of Wonder, and Never Knowing. I'm in the middle of reading The Map of Time by Felix J. Palma (I believe it comes out next week), and it is really really good. That might not count exactly since I've already started it but I'm looking forward to finishing it! 🙂
4:37 pm
Laurie Blum says...
My New American Life by Prose
Buried secrets by Finder
The Year We Left Home by Thompson
French Lessons by Sussman
4:37 pm
Pam S. says...
Just made my July list from these suggestions. Thanks
City of Thieves, Wolf hall, Galore, Heresy, and Crookedn Letter
4:42 pm
Bailey says...
I'm currently reading We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver–was looking forward to it and now can't put it down. I'm also planning on The Orchard Keeper by Cormac McCarthy, and Peter Straub's A Dark Matter.
4:43 pm
Michele H. says...
"Cloud Atlas" is one of my favorites, and I've been saving "The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet" for this summer. For some reason, I've never read Nora Ephron's famous "Heartburn," and that's on the list too. (And that little-known thing that I saw in a remainders pile . . . "The Lion's Husband"? Something like that?
4:43 pm
Leslie says...
So many good books out this summer. I'm reading Map of Time right now. Next in line is Turn of Mind and then State of Wonder.
4:46 pm
Greg says...
There's always so many books on my to-read list, taunting me from their stack on my desk. But the near-future ones include: Exley (the only Brock Clarke book I still haven't read), Fortress of Solitude, Wesley the Owl, Eating Animals, the complete Sailor & Lula, and Hell's Angels.
4:49 pm
cindy r says...
Right now, I'm having some fun reading a bunch of mind-candy chick-lit, but I look forward to switching to: "Silver Sparrow" "Maine" and "Dreams of Joy."
4:52 pm
stacey says...
Son of Neptune by Rick Riordan, The Penderwicks at Point Mouette by Jeanne Birdsall, The Help by Kathryn Stockett (finally!), Smokin' Seventeen by Janet Evanovich, Uncommon Criminals by Ally Carter… just to name a few!
5:04 pm
M. McPeak says...
I look forward to reading "Just Kids" by Patti Smith.And also all of the "hidden treasures" I can find of which Algonquin always has plenty for me to discover.
5:17 pm
Kelly says...
Reading Sister by Rosamund Lupton now, and plan to go onto a re-read of The Best of Everything by Rona Jaffe from there.
6:20 pm
Kim Welliver says...
Reading The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly; Mouth to Mouth poems by 12 contemporary Mexican women; Watermark by Vanitha Sankaran; The Lazarus Project by Aleksander Hemon; 13 1/2 by Nevada Barr; Wooroloo by Frieda Hughes;Secret River by Kate Grenville; Skeletons on the Zahara by Dean King; and Skeletons at the Feast by Chris Bohjalian. And of course anything else that pops up and catches my eye 😀
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Nadine Tatum says...
In the Garden of the Beasts, Caleb's Crossing, and 1861: Civil War Awakening.
8:06 pm
rhonda lomazow says...
Garden of beasts ,calebs crossing,tina fey, Alice Munros stories &on &on
8:40 pm
Pam Bustamante says...
Reading Ann Patchett's State of Wonder, Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher, and Doc by Mary Doria Russell. And I am starting at the beginning of Jo Nesbo's "Harry Hole" dectective series. Snowman was so good, glad there are more out there to be read.
8:56 pm
Margie Hunter says...
I'm reading all three of the Stieg Larsson books this summer. One down, 2 to go. I'm writing down all of these suggestions, too.
9:36 pm
rachel wf says...
I attended BEA and got a ton of books that I am ploughing through. my Kindle will be a paperweight for while. I am psyched about The Leftovers by Tom Perrotta. Also Silver Girl by Elin Hilderbrand and Faith by Jennifer Haigh.
BTW, I tore through When She Woke by Hillary Jordan. One of the best books I've read this year.
11:07 pm
Pamela Felzien says...
I am looking forward to reading A Visit from the Goon Squad..and I just bought In the Garden of Beasts.
11:08 pm
Katelyn says...
I'm looking forward to reading Michael Chabon's The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, The Selected Poems of Larry Levis, The Disappeared by Kim Echlin, and Half Life by Darin Strauss. I recently read Silver Sparrow and really enjoyed it!
12:14 am
Deana Fruth says...
I need to start cleaning out my Kindle, I've been downloading a lot of free books. The last Steig Larsson hasn't been read, and I've heard wonderful things about The Snowman by Nesbro and The Year We Left Home by Thompson. It's too bad I work at a library, so much temptation!
1:27 am
Charlotte Cecilia says...
I'm reading A Fraction of the Whole now. On my TBR list this summer: Brooklyn by Colm Toibin, State of Wonder by Ann Patchett.
5:05 am
Kitty says...
On a dare from my cousin I am reading all the Stephanie Plum novels by Janet Evanovich including hopefully 17 that is due out this month.
10:10 am
Anna Mills says...
I have probably changed my mind after skimming the list here. And I have a piece of paper and pen handy to write down what everyone else is listing in order that I will never miss a good book. I am now reading, from the first of the summer stack, "Jerusalem Maiden" by Talia Carner. Hard to put down!
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Katie says...
I'm currently reading Liane Moriarty's What Alice Forgot & Ann Brashares Sisterhood Everlasting. Followed by Jonathan Franzen's Freedom & Egan's AVisit from the Goon Squad
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Kristen M. says...
So many great books in this post! I'm going to be reading mostly from my shelves with a Thursday Next series re-read (Jasper Fforde), some Georgette Heyer and a couple of classics (probably Trollope, Dickens and Wilkie Collins). I have been spending a LOT of time sorting through my books to choose my summer reads!
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David says...
Just finished "Before I Go to Sleep" by S. J. Watson –wow! This afternoon started "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern, with "The Tiger's Wife" by Tea Obreht soon to follow. And this is the summer I take all the notes I stuffed into "1000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die" and start ordering some CDs!
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Jane says...
Mudbound by Hillary Jordan is one of the best books I have read in recent years. It is the story of 2 families and the secrets they live with. Each chapter offers a different point of view from a main character. I have already recommended this book to all of my friends.
1:35 am
Jennifer says...
I am looking forward to finally finishing Freedom, which I have been reading since its September pub date (please, don't ask). Supplementing with fiction: Ann Patchett's State of Wonder, Josephine Tey's The Daughter of Time, Nicola Upson's An Expert in Murder (feature Josephine Tey as a sleuth),Dean Bakopoulos' My American Unhappiness, and Ben Aaronovitch's Midnight Riot. And nonfiction: Mark Kurlansky's Salt, the new Sarah Vowell, and Jennet Conant's A Covert Affair: Paul Child and Julia Child in the OSS.
2:24 am
Amanda Welling says...
I have a ridiculous amount of books on my "To-Read" list this summer. Including: The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern, "The Tiger's Wife" by Tea Obreht and "The Orchard" by Theresa Weir. So many good books out right now and not enough time in the day to get to all of them, but I sure can try!
11:45 am
Kathy R. says...
I've already had a great start to my summer reading with Ann Patchett's State of Wonder, S.J. Bolton's Now You See Me, and Alan Brennert's Honolulu. These three authors have all given me favorites even before the recent three reads. Some other books that I'm looking forward to this summer are Geraldine Brooks' Caleb Crossing, Tess Gerritsen's The Silent Girl, Deanna Raybourne's The Dark Inquiry, Erik Larson's In the Garden of the Beast, Rebecca Makkai's The Borrower, Dan Simmons' Flashback, and Maggie Stiefvater's Forever.
6:28 pm
Deb S says...
Too many books to read! Up next A Good Hard Look by Ann Napolitano, Girl in the Blue Beret by Bobbie Ann Mason and State of Wonder by Ann Patchett are tops on my list.
11:35 pm
Kelly Eichhorn says...
So many books, so little time as the old cliche goes. I can't stand the thought of not always having a book going. I have a few lined up that I am very excited about. I just ordered The Front Porch Prophet by Raymond Atkins which I am really looking forward to diving into! Also The Bayou Trilogy by Daniel Woodrell and The Help. So that's where I am starting my summer reading with many more to follow. Happy Reading everyone!!
11:56 am
Tay says...
We also have Caleb's Crossing and Maine on our list of summer reccomendations! We actually created a quick, fun and easy 10 question summer reading quiz to get personalized recommendations on what you may enjoy reading this summer! Feel free to check out the quiz here: http://justtherightbook.com/quiz
Thanks again for sharing your summer reads with us!


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Starting with the interview 10 years ago, some city officials knew Ralph Evangelous was the right man for the job.
Starting with the interview 10 years ago, some city officials knew Wilmington Police Chief Ralph Evangelous was the right man for the job.
Spence Broadhurst, then-mayor who now lives in Greensboro, said he was immediately struck by Evangelous' honesty, transparency and candor.
"He kind of took our breath away," Broadhurst said. "He was clearly, rock solid, the person we wanted."
Today, City Manager Sterling Cheatham counts Evangelous among the best public safety employees he's worked with.
Evangelous himself points to improving crime rates, better cooperation with other law enforcement agencies, and modernization of equipment and policies as achievements.
But some critics say Evangelous has worn out his welcome during a 10-year tenure that doubles that of the average chief, according to the Police Executive Research Forum. The naysayers point to perceived fractures in community relations and morale problems within the rank-and-file at the Wilmington Police Department.
"I think we need to have a police chief who's much more proactive," said Tom Harris, the owner of Front Street Brewery who has at times clashed with Evangelous and Cheatham about public safety issues. Harris added that he supports all WPD officers below the deputy chief level.
In the face of such criticism, Evangelous stands by his actions.
"You may not like me, you may not like the decisions I make, but I'm gonna do what I feel is right, and I'm gonna stand by my people when they're right," said Evangelous, whose first day was Aug. 16, 2004.
Evangelous became chief shortly after the Police Executive Research Forum issued a report detailing problems within the police department. Some recommendations focused on the department's aging headquarters at 115 Red Cross St.
In 2006, two years into Evangelous' tenure, the police department moved into a new home – a $24 million building at 615 Bess St. where the air conditioning works and the toilets flush.
A new building isn't the only way WPD has come into the 21st century.
Police also use technology to predict where crime will happen, allowing them to send officers to likely hotspots, Evangelous said.
"We put together various policing strategies and techniques over the years, and we improved on the ones that worked," he said. "When others weren't effective, we would stop and change and go a different direction."
Such strategies have resulted in a 34 percent drop in the city's violent crime rate, from 953.2 crimes per 100,000 people in 2004 to 624.98 per 100,000 in 2013.
Meanwhile, a point of pride and a sign of modernization for Cheatham is that WPD was accredited by the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies for the first time in 2011.
"That's a testament on a national level of whether we're a well-run operation, and that accreditation signals that," Cheatham said.
While the city manager thinks WPD is well-run, some employees clearly think otherwise, according to an unofficial employee survey from late 2013.
"Negative morale starts from the top down here at WPD, it is plainly obvious the majority of command staff are disgruntled," said one comment.
Several other complaints were directed at WPD higher-ups, including a perceived lack of communication and leadership. Others focused on pay, the promotional process and a staffing shortage that has since been corrected.
Evangelous contends he is in touch with his employees, noting that he has hourlong individual meetings with three employees per week to discuss their personal and professional lives.
The department also does internal employee surveys, with suggestions occasionally coming to fruition, such as the upcoming shift in the color scheme on WPD cars from white to black and white.
"You know, people can make all the allegations they want and people can listen to a few people that may be malcontents, but that doesn't speak to the whole organization," Evangelous said.
Cheatham said the department's buy-in has been improved with efforts such as a policy beginning in the 2005-06 budget year that allowed officers with at least two years of experience to take their vehicles home.
"I think that's something that's worked well for the city citizens and the employees over time, and it's an example of changing how equipment is used can have an effect on morale," Cheatham said.
Pay has also been an ongoing issue for WPD. Last November, Jeanne Sexton, the city's human resources director, told the city council the department was paying 8.4 percent below market rate. City employees, including officers, received a 2 percent raise in the 2013-14 budget and a minimum 1.5 percent raise in the 2014-15 budget.
WPD and the New Hanover County Sheriff's Office are working together more smoothly than at any point in their recent history, the agencies' leaders said.
"We've had to put our personal opinions, and maybe some of our pride issues, aside," said Ed McMahon, who has been sheriff since 2009. "We've said, 'It's not about us, it's not about the agency, it's about how do we make it work to keep the citizens well protected.' In the 23 years I've been here, I've never seen our relationship with the city police better than it is right now."
The police department and sheriff's office work together on the public housing unit, the SABLE helicopter and on the Downtown Task Force, in which deputies and officers saturate the area at high-profile times.
In the final months of 2013, the sheriff's office also joined WPD in maximum uniform deployment, an effort in which every officer spent time in uniform on the street.
Cheatham has watched the relationship between the two agencies and their leaders evolve.
"They have a very good, open, hard-working relationship, and I think it starts with their expectations," Cheatham said. "Neither guy expects you to do anything they won't do, and with that attitude you'd be amazed at the things you can agree on and the progress you can make."
Some of that progress is evident in the crime numbers, according to Evangelous.
"It's healthy, and I have to say it's been really effective because look at the results," he said.
Several high-profile incidents at the end of 2013 – including three shootings involving WPD officers and an incident where a K-9 Unit dog bit a man who was seemingly surrendering – created a major challenge for Evangelous.
"We are concerned that officers are expanding their role and deciding for whatever reason – race, class, whatever reason – that they can be judge, jury and executioner," said N.C. NAACP President Rev. William Barber II during a news conference last November.
Residents voiced similar concerns last week at a public hearing regarding the department's accreditation.
"The excessive force is a big concern because people need to feel safe, and they need to feel protected," said Sonya Patrick, New Hanover County chairwoman of the N.C. Black Leadership Caucus. "Frankly, I don't feel protected, and a lot of people in the community are referring to the law enforcement as a new gang."
Patrick added that her concerns have cropped up only in the past year.
Evangelous and other officials feel the department properly handled the 2013 incidents while continuing to build trust in the agency.
After every incident involving one of his officers, Evangelous said, he has a frank conversation with community leaders.
"I'm open and honest with them, and they're open and honest with me," Evangelous said. "The one thing they can say about me is I tell them how it is – I don't lie to them. The one thing you can never question is my integrity."
That honesty works with other efforts such as the department's work with community watch groups, its citizens' police academy and the Boots on the Ground program, started with local ministers in 2012, to improve the department's image.
"We tend to only hear the squeaky wheel but we forget that there are tens of thousands of people who are supportive of us every single day and the great work that our people do every single day," Evangelous said.
Not everyone thinks that's enough.
Dr. Michael Vasu, a professor emeritus from N.C. State University, said a city of Wilmington's size needs a committee on the city council that can specialize in public safety matters.
"There's just no doubt about it," he said, adding the formation of such a committee would let members specialize in public safety issues.
Even without such a committee, the department has made some headway under Evangelous' watch, officials said.
"It's my view based on the interaction I've seen between the police chief and organizations like the NAACP that they have probably as open of a relationship now as they've had since I've been here, and that's a good thing," Cheatham said.
Even after 10 years, Evangelous hasn't taken the department as far as he would like. Despite the improvement in the city's crime numbers, the chief sees room for improvement.
"We still have too much crime here. We're in a much better position than we were, but we're not where we need to be," Evangelous said. "If we truly want to be a world-class city, we've got to get crime numbers down lower."
Cheatham said he'd like to see police use more nontraditional law enforcement techniques to address the conditions that cause crime.
The chief would also like to see a regional law enforcement training facility with a driving track and a pistol range. It was close to moving forward at one point, but then, Evangelous said, there was a problem with the land.
"That's a struggle for us right now, but we're still working at it and my vision is that will happen," Evangelous said. "We've got multiple agencies involved in making that vision come true."
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GAME 10 - PENN (2-7) at DELAWARE (3-8)
Friday, Dec. 21, 2012 * 7 p.m.
Bob Carpenter Center (Newark, Del.)
TV: BlueHens.com
Radio: WNTP 990 AM (Brian Seltzer, Vince Curran)
Click here for Live Stats!
Penn Game Notes (PDF) / Delaware Game Notes (PDF)
The Penn-Delaware Series
*The Quakers and the Blue Hens have met 23 times in history, with Penn holding an 18-5 lead in the series. That record includes Delaware's 84-69 win on Nov. 12 as part of the NIT Season Tip-Off; that game was played in Charlottesville, Va. (recap and box score on page 12 of these notes).
*These teams have also met each of the last three seasons, with Penn winning last year at The Palestra (69-60) and two years ago in Newark (78-68) and Delaware taking the decision three years ago in Philadelphia (97-94 in double overtime).
*The last time Penn played a non-Ivy, non-Philadelphia Big 5 team twice in one season? Try St. John's way back in 1980-81, once in the Red Storm's Lapchick Tournament on the St. John's campus and the second time as part of the Holiday Festival at Madison Square Garden.
*Penn is 39-16 all-time against programs that currently compete in the Colonial Athletic Association, including this season's losses to Delaware and Drexel. (18-5 vs. Delaware, 1-0 vs. Northeastern, 15-9 vs. Drexel, 2-0 vs. Towson, 1-1 vs. Hofstra, 2-0 vs. William & Mary, 0-1 vs. James Madison ... 0-1)
A Short December
After an intense start to the season that included a stretch of six games in an 11-day span, things have slowed down considerably for the Quakers in the month of December. Friday's game will be Penn's first in 13 days and just its third in this month. The Quakers have just one more game -- next Saturday at Wagner -- before the calendar turns to 2013.
Countdown to 1,700
Penn has won 1,699 games as a program; with one more, the Quakers will become the 11th NCAA Division I program to reach 1,700 wins. (Indiana only recently became the 10th, scoring its 1,700th win Wednesday night against Mount St. Mary's.)
Quaker Notemeal From Villanova
*For the first time in the Jerome Allen coaching era, Penn was credited with an assist on every one of its baskets (13); that said, Penn's 13 field goals were a program low in the Allen era.
*Penn hit more three-point baskets (7) than two-point baskets (6).
*Junior guard Miles Cartwright went 10-of-10 from the foul line, the best performance by a Penn player since Zack Rosen went 12-of-12 against Delaware almost exactly a year ago (Dec. 7, 2011); Cartwright has hit 18 straight foul shots over the last four games and is 40-of-43 (93.0 percent) over the last seven.
*Junior guard Steve Rennard had 12 points, his first double-figure scoring game this season and third at Penn; he also tied a career high with three steals.
*For the first time this season, junior forward Fran Dougherty did not lead Penn in rebounding; those honors were shared by Cartwright and freshman center Darien Nelson-Henry.
*Nelson-Henry also tied a season/career high with seven points and set a new high with 21 minutes.
*Sophomore forward Greg Louis set a season/career best with eight points and played 22 minutes, also a season/career high.
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2013 AFL fixture in full
Rohan Connolly: Fairer, but some are more equal than others
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Club by club fixtures
THE AFL claims it has delivered greater fairness and made its marquee Friday-night timeslot even more attractive for broadcasters and supporters in its 2013 fixture.
After criticism during this year's campaign that some clubs, particularly North Melbourne and Adelaide, benefited by playing the weaker teams twice, the AFL has moved to ease these concerns.
This year's top-four clubs - Sydney, Hawthorn, Collingwood and Adelaide - will only play the bottom-four clubs - Greater Western Sydney, Gold Coast, Melbourne and the Western Bulldogs - once. The exception is the Swans and Giants twice staging their cross-town clash.
The 10 clubs which did not make the finals will have a maximum of two return matches with the top-eight teams from this year while, where possible, the eight finalists this year will have a maximum of two return matches against the 10 non-finalists.
The season begins with a split round on Friday March 22 when the Adelaide Crows host Essendon. The Dockers and Eagles will stage a derby a day later, while the remaining clubs begin a week later over Easter when Carlton and Richmond clash at the MCG.
AFL general manager broadcasting, scheduling and legal affairs Simon Lethlean said he was happy with the overall outcome of a fixture featuring 198 home-and-away matches.
"Every year the average is three clubs come out of the eight and three go in, so you can't pick who they are going to be. You can't divorce yourself from those teams that are in the eight because they could be there again," he said.
"I think we have looked at it as transparently as we ever have about who is playing who twice and tried to assume as best we can whilst still trying to achieve all these things like big match ups, the big crowds, all those contractual obligations and the broadcasts.
"I think it's the best type of model of fairness and commerciality and everything else that I have done in four or five years. But who knows? Someone might be playing a side that falls well below where we thought they would have been and might get an easier run."
AFL chief operating officer Gillon McLachlan said Friday-night and Saturday twilight fixtures were stronger.
"Friday night is the strongest Friday-night fixture I have ever seen," he said.
To help achieve this, five of this year's struggling clubs - Western Bulldogs, Melbourne, Port Adelaide, Gold Coast and Greater Western Sydney - will not appear in the most commercially important time-slot of the weekend.
However, the eagerly-anticipated clash between Collingwood and a Carlton team now led by Mick Malthouse will be staged on a Sunday afternoon in round two.
Other key features of the fixture are:
* To maximise attendances and television audiences, Carlton and Richmond will meet in rounds one and 21, Hawthorn and Geelong in rounds one and 15, Carlton and Collingwood in rounds two and 15, Collingwood and Hawthorn in rounds three and 21, Essendon and Collingwood in rounds five and 19, Richmond and Essendon in rounds nine and 23 and Carlton and Essendon in rounds 11 and 22;
* There will be two Friday-night matches at the SCG, with the Swans hosting Geelong in round four and Carlton in round 14;
* There will be six matches in Tasmania. North Melbourne will host the Swans (round three) and Port Adelaide (round six) in Hobart, while Hawthorn will host Fremantle (round four), GWS (round eight), Brisbane (round 14) and Western Bulldogs (round 17) in Launceston;
* There will be two matches at TIO Stadium in Darwin. The Bulldogs will host the Power in round 10 and Melbourne will host Brisbane in round 17;
* Richmond will attempt to finally secure a win against the Gold Coast in Cairns in round 16;
* There will be two Monday-night matches. St Kilda and Carlton will clash in round seven at Etihad Stadium, while the Eagles will host Richmond three weeks later;
* The 'Dreamtime at the G' clash between Richmond and Essendon will be in round nine;
* Collingwood will travel to Brisbane for a Friday-night clash in round 10;
* The grand-final rematch between Hawthorn and Sydney will be in round seven at the MCG;
* The Western Bulldogs will attempt to turn their multi-cultural round clash against Essendon into a Sunday-afternoon blockbuster;
* Hawthorn will face its fellow finalists in the opening seven rounds;
* The mid-season break will be spread across rounds 11 to 13, with six matches to be played in each round;
* All Victorian clubs to travel interstate on a minimum of five occasions;
* All clubs to play at least one match at the MCG.
McLachlan said in an ideal world the entire opening round would have been held on the weekend of March 22-24 but the unavailability of the MCG due to cricket commitments - it needs to be available for the final of the Sheffield Shield - meant this was not possible.
He said the AFL was seeking "constructive solutions" for future seasons with the state government and cricket authorities.
McLachlan said if this issue was resolved it would allow the league to appease its players and factor in two byes.
"Our players are crying out for a rest. In the discussions we have with them, in the conversations, it's priority one, two, three for them," he said.
Lethlean said the move to have the top-eight teams from this season play each other more regularly next year would not be to their disadvantage.
"I think, for one thing, it's giving people what they want to see, which is the best clubs playing each other," he said.


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DEAR MISS LONELYHEARTS: When my boyfriend said he was tired of our relationship and wanted to break up, I begged for one more time in bed with him, and he couldn't resist. The power games were the best part of our relationship, since he was too dumb for me anyway. But I wanted the last laugh. I knew what he would ask for. I tied him to the bed with just enough slack for him to get away. But then I went shopping and hid his clothes -- not part of the usual game. He had to go home in my clothing and no coat. Boy, is he out of his skull over that. He has phoned and left angry messages that scare me. What should I do? -- Getting Harrassed, Winnipeg
Dear Harrassed: Look, you took the guy's clothes and he had to drive home in women's clothing in the freezing cold. People have a right to break up with each other in this country. You owe him a big apology, so give him one. Leave a return message, saying you're sorry for the trick you played and realize it was mean and wrong. Now let's take a look at your emotions. Instead of facing the hurt, you instantly covered it up with anger and vengeance. It's time to let yourself face the pain of being rejected, and accept the fact you were not a long-term match anyway. You need to see a counsellor to talk about what you did, because it's a cruel and unhealthy reaction and could be argued to be a form of forcible confinement, if your ex wanted to lay charges.
Dear Miss Lonelyhearts: I come from a working background I'm not proud of. While in university in another province for five years, I charged money for my sexual services and earned my way through two degrees. I was not out on the street -- I did outcalls, and I'm a guy. I moved here to Winnipeg to get away from running into any of my former clients. This week I was at a nightclub and one of the former wealthy ladies, a national sales representative I serviced regularly in the other city, spotted me and came over. She offered me the same amount of money as I had charged before (a lot) to see her in her hotel. I said I wasn't in that business any more. She then offered me twice the money and I refused again. Then I saw her go and gossip with her girlfriends in the corner, and they were all looking at me. Does this mean I have to move again? I have an excellent job here that requires I have a good reputation. What should I do? -- Gossip Could Destroy Me, Winnipeg
Dear Destroy: You're probably safe, unless you get into a position of prominence and your name and picture are everywhere. Even then, what are she and her cohorts going to say? Clearly, she is still in the market for a gigolo, but she has no way to get hold of you when she comes into the city, which is good. At this point, when you are not active, you would be safe to deny the rumours, as the proof would have to lie with her own experience -- and that's not good for her. It'd be smart to avoid that particular nightclub, if that's her Winnipeg hangout, as she would go there looking for you another time.
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Restaurants in Marlborough are mourning the death of one of their favourite customers, Robert Hill, a successful businessman and stalwart of the town golf club.
Mr Hill was a leading figure in the waste management, quarrying and house building company, The Hills Group, for more than four decades.
In his home town, Marlborough, he was the customer every restaurant owner dreams of because few were the days when he did not have either lunch or dinner at one of the many restaurants in town, especially at Pino's Italian restaurant in New Road.
It was a bitter irony that Mr Hill, 74, who lived in Marlborough with his barrister wife Rosie, died on Thursday afternoon, 24 hours before the start of Marlborough's annual Jazz Festival.
The Hills Group sponsored the jazz event since it started and its opening on Friday was attended by Mrs Hill, his wife of 48 years, and included a minute's silence for her husband.
Robert Hill was born in 1939 at Okus in Swindon, the town where his grandfather Edward Hill had started a brickmakers in 1900.
Mr Hill's late father Grahame took over the business and passed it onto his youngest son Robert to run. It is now in the hands of Mr Hill's eldest son Michael who is the chief executive.
From making bricks the Hills' family business diversified into haulage and quarrying sand and gravel and at various stages also ran a tyre business, a builder's merchant and bottled propane gas supplier in the Swindon area and further afield. By the time Mr Hill relinquished the chairmanship in 2008 it had become a multi-million pound business and one of the country's leaders in waste management and recycling.
Alongside running one Wiltshire's best known businesses, Mr Hill devoted a lot of his energy to Marlborough Golf Club and its futuristic clubhouse that stands proudly on The Common and visible from long distances is a lasting memorial to him.
He was chairman of the golf club's development committee at the time the clubhouse was built.
Mr Hill met his wife Rosie who was studying law at Bristol University when he also studied there. They were married in 1966 at Gray's Inn in London. Mr Hill is survived by his wife Rosie, sons Mike, Chas, Bill, David and Jamie and 12 grandchildren. He is also survived by one of his three brothers, Richard.


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My colleague Fiona Harvey has dug out the fact that an array of flood prevention schemes could soon be culled – despite claims by ministers pre-CSR that flood funding would be protected.
There could be "dozens" of flood measures among the casualties of the spending round including a £100m flood prevention scheme in Leeds.
Caroline Spelman, secretary of state for the environment, said on Wednesday that although the floods budget would be cut by 20 per cent much of this would be found through efficiencies. But Defra has since admitted that proposed flood defence projects would be cancelled, although it has not yet offered any details.
The budget for building new flood defences and upgrading existing defences has been reduced from an average of £335m a year to £261m a year for the next four years.
You could say this is unsurprising in the context of wider cuts to almost all parts of government. But it flies in the face of comments by ministers: such as Ms Spelman's insistence during the summer that she would ensure the protection of vital spending on the key areas of animal health and flood prevention.


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A SHORTLIST has been created of applicants for two direct entry Superintendent roles at North Yorkshire Police.
The two candidates were among 67 applicants - mostly from outside North Yorkshire Police, from industries including the legal sector, military, local government and private businesses - who put their names forward for the roles, with seven asked to take part in a round of interviews at police headquarters.
From those seven, the two candidates were selected this week and will now go forward to the College of Policing National Assessment Centre to take part in a series of tests to evaluate their ability to perform in the rank of Superintendent.
Assistant Chief Constable Paul Kennedy said: "The calibre of the candidates who applied for the Direct Entry Programme was very impressive and I am delighted that so many talented individuals showed an interest in working for North Yorkshire Police.
"The selection process was extremely tough, which it needed to be to ensure we are putting the right applicants through to the next stage, and I am really pleased that we have identified two people to progress."
The next stage of the recruitment process will take place between the end of this month and the beginning of August, with the applicants facing a number of scenarios to measure their ability to perform in the role, and their ability to bring new perspectives to the police service.
ACC Kennedy said: "I would like to think all the candidates who applied for the scheme and wish the two successful candidates the best of luck at Bramshill."


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Columbia Area Mothers of Multiples — First Monday, 7 p.m. Mothers of twins and multiples. Christ Episcopal Church, 6800 Oakland Mills Road, Columbia. 410-750-1322.
Columbia Toastmasters — First and third Monday, 7:30 p.m. Public speaking and leadership skills. Owen Brown Interfaith Center, 7246 Cradlerock Way, Columbia. Terry Meyers, 443-831-0069, http://www.progress.org/toast or firstname.lastname@example.com.
Hola! Toastmasters — First and third Tuesday, 7:30-9 p.m. 8830 Stanford Blvd., First Floor, Room 3, Columbia. Diane or Rene, 410-381-8459.
Howard County Democratic Central Committee — First Wednesday, 7 p.m. 410-730-8683.
Howard County Republican Club — First Friday. Happy hour. Chick Chickanis, firstname.lastname@example.com.
Laurel Moms Club — First Thursday, 7 p.m. Learn something new, develop adult friendships and become a part of the Laurel community. Our Savior Lutheran Church, 13611 Laurel-Bowie Road. 301-776-4989 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
MOMS Club of Ellicott City-South — First Tuesday, 9:30 a.m. Glen Mar United Methodist Church, 8430 Glen Mar Road, Ellicott City. email@example.com or http://www.geocities.com/momsclubofec.
Vegan Potluck Dinner, Ellicott City — Usually the first Saturday, 7 p.m. Bring a vegan dish for the number in your party plus eight and tableware. email@example.com or 410-465-0427.
50+ Professionals — Singles social group for professionals ages 50 and older. Group meets for social events such as happy hours, brunches, dinners, theater, concerts, book clubs and more. 410-813-4071.
Chapelgate Presbyterian Church — Wednesdays, 6:45 p.m. Free classes for adults learning English as their second language. Free child care is available for children up to age 12. 2600 Marriottsville Road, Marriottsville. 410-442-5800. http://www.chapelgate.org.
Christian Singles Fellowship — Sundays, 7 p.m. Join for a meeting of connection, friendship, spiritual growth, learning and worship. Crossroads Church of the Nazarene, 2750 Rogers Ave., Ellicott City. http://www.christiansinglesfellowship.net.
Columbia Bridge — The group plays Thursdays at members' houses and is looking for intermediate and above duplicate bridge players. Mike Gray, 410-992-7498.
Columbia International Folk Dancers — Wednesdays, 8-10:30 p.m. Kahler Hall, 5440 Old Tucker Row, Columbia. 410-997-1613.
Faithful Circle Quilters — Mondays, 7-9 p.m.; Thursdays, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. First Presbyterian Church of Howard County, 9325 Presbyterian Circle, Columbia. 410-730-9561.
First Place Singles — A group for singles 40 and older offers social events such as happy hours, dances, potluck parties, bowling, hikes and field trips. Join for $18. Membership form and calendar, http://www.firstplacesingles.org or 410-243-7344.
Howard County Mage Wars Society — Saturdays, 7:30 p.m. Come learn and play Mage Wars, a board game by Arcane Wonders. Beginners welcome, but please no unaccompanied minors. Savage Mill's Family Game Store. firstname.lastname@example.com to R.S.V.P.
Howard County spiritual discussion group — Tuesdays, 7-9 p.m. Open to all faiths. Bethany Lane Methodist Church, 2875 Bethany Lane, Ellicott City. 410-730-7417.
Kiwanis Club — Mondays, 6:45 p.m. Kiwanis-Wallis Building, 3300 Norberts Way, Ellicott City. Harry Slade, 410-418-8218.
Kiwanis Club of Ellicott City —Mondays, 6:30 p.m. Bob Evans off of Executive Park Drive at Route 100. http://www.ellicottcitykiwanis.com.
Logos youth program — Wednesdays, 5 p.m., for kindergarten-eighth grade; 6 p.m. for high school. Christ Memorial Presbyterian Church, in Columbia. http://www.cmpcusa.org, or Liz Perraud, email@example.com.
Men's Program — Mondays, 7 p.m., Grace Community Church, Fulton. Steve Girard, 240-553-1090.
Phoenix Cultural Singles — Sundays, 11:45 a.m.-1:15 p.m.; presentation at noon. For attendees 50 and older. Social, and complimentary cup of coffee and snacks. Meeting House Room A, Oakland Mills Interfaith Center, 5885 Robert Oliver Place, Columbia. 410-730-7568 or 410-997-0739.
Rotaract Club of Howard County — Wednesdays, 7 p.m. Community service group for young professionals ages 18-30. Nora Cafe, 8450 Baltimore National Pike, Ellicott City. Joe, email@example.com or http://www.hcrotaract.com.
Rotary Club of Clarksville — Tuesdays, 7:45-8:45 a.m. Luna C Grille, River Hill Shopping Center, Clarksville. Karen Krehs, 410-465-3434; Hamp Fields, 410-531-7869; Susie Davis, 410-531-7900; Nancy Forrest, 410-531-2113.
Rotary Club of Columbia — Tuesdays, 6:30 p.m. Social hour, and community and international service programs. Eggspectation, 6010 University Blvd., Ellicott City. Becky Magnus, 410-740-7300.
TOPS (Take Off Pounds Sensibly) Club — Mondays. Weigh-in, 6:30-6:45 p.m.; meeting begins at 7 p.m. Hall of the Pythians, 850 Montgomery Ave. (Seventh and Montgomery), Laurel. 410-531-1283.
Voix de Femmes — Thursdays, 7:45-9:15 p.m. All women's chamber choir based in Laurel. Good sight readers preferred. Annick, 301-520-8921 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
Listings are accepted on a space-available basis. Groups must be open to the public and priority will be given to those that meet in Howard County. Send information to: Let's Get Together, Baltimore Sun Media Group, Targeted Media, 501 N. Calvert St., Third Floor, Baltimore, MD 21278; fax to 410-332-6495; or email firstname.lastname@example.com.


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A GRIEVING mother has paid tribute to her 'inspiring' baby who died from an infection while having chemotherapy for a rare disease.
Max James Moment was just 17-months-old when he passed away after battling against langerhans cell histiocytosis, a cancer-like condition which caused a skin rash that would crack and bleed.
His mum, Mikayla Macmillan, of Holden Street, Clitheroe, said her son had been a 'hero' through all of his treatment, laughing and smiling with the nurses and doctors.
She said: "He was amazing with what he went through.
"He would teach a lot of adults a lot of things because I do not know many adults that could go through what he went through in 17 months and still be smiling.
"Max was inspiring. What he went through gives you a whole new outlook on life because everything was a fight for him."
The youngster, who was born in Burnley, was diagnosed with the disease, which affects just 50 children in the UK every year, in April 2013.
After extensive treatment including blood transfusions and chemotherapy, doctors told Miss Macmillan that the prognosis was good.
But soon after, Max's sister Olivia, five, got chicken pox and, despite receiving an injection to prevent the baby getting it too, he contracted the illness.
Max had more treatment at Manchester Children's Hospital and had been doing well before he caught another infection and died.
Miss Macmillan, 27, who was Max's full-time carer, said: "The doctors said it was not the disease that would kill Max, it was an infection.
"He never got to go to the park or anything like that because of the risk of infection or germs.
"Even just a cold could wipe him out.
"I just wanted to wrap him up in cotton wool, but I could not even give him a cuddle because it hurt him so much."
In April, Max had to be taken by ambulance to the Royal Blackburn Hospital after his condition started to deteriorate. His body went into shock and he passed away.
Michael Singleton, coroner for Blackburn, Hyndburn and the Ribble Valley, recorded a narrative verdict at Max's inquest.
He said: "Max succumbed to an overwhelming infection in the context of being immuno suppressed.
"I know there are no words I can express that will take away any of the pain and grief.
"I cannot begin to imagine what that must be like."


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Updated 1:36 pm, Tuesday, June 18, 2013
(06-18) 13:34 PDT SAN FRANCISCO -- Three lanes of southbound Highway 101 in San Francisco were closed for nearly two hours Tuesday morning when a motorcyclist suffered serious injuries after colliding with a bus, authorities said.
The wreck was reported at 5:59 a.m. just before Silver Avenue, according to the California Highway Patrol. The motorcyclist was taken to San Francisco General Hospital, where he underwent surgery and remains in critical condition. He has not been publicly identified.
CHP investigators are trying to determine what caused the crash, said Officer Michael Ferguson, a CHP spokesman.
"They are looking at everything and they are not yet sure what caused the crash," Ferguson said. No arrests have been made.
All lanes were finally opened at 7:54 a.m. CHP officers had previously inaccurately reported that the motorcyclist had died, Ferguson said.
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Canada's senior men's team arrived in Abu Dhabi today ahead of the International Cricket Council Twenty20 Cricket World Cup Qualification tournament. The tournament starts Thursday across the UAE with Canada looking to lock up one of six spots for the 2014 Twenty20 Cricket World Cup.
Prior to arrival, in Abu Dhabi, the team spent 10 days in Sri Lanka preparing for the tournament. The gruelling training camp included 4 matches against top Sri Lankan sides as well as rival Scotland. Canada finished with a 2-win and 2-loss record including a convincing 6-wicket victory over the Scots. Coach Gus Logie had this to say about the preparation of the team
"We leave Sri Lanka feeling a lot more confident about our ability to play the T20 format… during the past 10 days we saw a marked improvement in our fitness levels, and skills levels. We tried many different batting and bowling combinations, and we are quite confident that we have a good idea of what works."
Logie's men will be put to a quick test early as 2010 Champion's Afghanistan lock horns with Canada in the first warm up game on November 12th, 2013. Canada take on regional rivals Bermuda in another warm-up on November 13th before the tournament starts in earnest on Friday with a match against the United States of America. Canada has never qualified for the Twenty20 Cricket World Cup, having been unsuccessful at the previous 3 incarnations of the this tournament.
Chief Executive Officer Doug Hannum believes that this time, Canada will get the correct result.
"This qualification tournament represents the culmination of 8 months of training and preparation for the team. As an organization we have thrown all of our support into the team and we believe that they are completely prepared. Everyone with Cricket Canada believes in this team and we are very confident that they will do their best and qualify for the T20 Cricket World Cup next year."
Canada's captain Ashish Bagai is playing in his fourth T20 Cricket World Cup Qualifier. The captain, a veteran of three 50 over World Cup Campaigns for Canada believes his team has the right mix to win this tournament.
"Being a Twenty20 short format competition you obviously go in there to finish on top. Our first goal is, however, to qualify, but if you get that far there is no reason any of the top six Associate countries can't win the tournament…In saying that, it is not going to be easy, we haven't really had the results we would have wanted in the last year or so. We know there is a lot of hard work ahead, but we are absolutely going in there to win the tournament"


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Calling All Holiday Cookie Cooksby FN Dish Editor in View All Posts, December 4th, 2008
In honor of the 12 Days of Cookies, some Food Network staffers decided to bake each cookie this weekend. We'll take pictures and put up a gallery on The FN Dish next week.
However, it would be more fun if you got in on the action as well. Send us a photo of YOUR holiday cookie and we'll post as many as we can. If you need inspiration, try out some 12 Days of Cookies ideas or maybe an exotic, international recipe.
Send your photo to email@example.com and feel free to let us know how it went (and if they were tasty). We're looking to receive all photos by Monday, December 8th so we can get them up.
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Looking for a quick dinner in DC at an affordable price? The Adams Morgan district in Washington DC has some of the best cultural venues in the area. The Smoke and Barrel restaurant offers a wide selection of barbecue ribs, wings and even vegan options. A favorite night is usually Monday nights when the restaurant has its famous Honey Butter Chipotle wings for $5, which is 50% off the menu price! That's not all. To help you enjoy the flavor of that good american barbecue, choose from a wide selection of 24 draft beers and 25 craft cans of great tasting goodness.
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BUCKEYE LAKE, Ohio (AP) -- Authorities say a husband and wife in their 60s died in a large house fire in central Ohio.
It happened early Thursday near Buckeye Lake in Fairfield County, east of Columbus. The Fairfield County Sheriff's Office identified the dead couple as Milton Clagg and Mary Clagg, both 62.
Units from multiple agencies responded just after midnight to fight the blaze, which was made more difficult by frigid temperatures.
Other residents got out safely, and nobody else was hurt. The house was destroyed. The Claggs were initially reported as unaccounted for until their bodies were found later Thursday morning.
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The demand for rental housing has resulted in rising rents as many landlords renovate their units and in accordance with The Residential Tenancy Act, are permitted to increase rents above guidelines. Because the rent allowances provided by social assistance have not kept pace with rent increases, many individuals and families must use their food allowance to cover their rent resulting in a reliance on food banks and soup kitchens.
In late fall of 2008, "Joe," a resident of the West Broadway neighbourhood, received notice that his rent would increase by 60 per cent from $330 to $550. Joe suffers from bipolar disorder. He receives a total of $285 shelter allowance from Employment and Income Assistance (EIA) plus an additional $35 supplement provided to EIA recipients with disabilities. This covered the cost of his rent until the rate increase. Joe felt that the increase was far too high and he exercised his right to appeal. He lost his appeal to the Residential Tenancy Branch. The cost of rent is now far beyond what he is able to afford and he is desperately trying to find somewhere else to live. On May 21, the Manitoba government announced a homeless strategy that includes plans for "285 more mental-health housing units". It is not clear when the new units will be built. In the meantime, Joe continues to search for somewhere to live.
This is what he told us about living in poverty and not having a home.
"My yearly gross income is $9,667. After expenses are paid I am left with $2,703. That's $225 a month to cover everything including food, bus fare, clothing, toiletries and laundry. Everything. I have lived in my apartment for three years. I feel safe and comfortable there. But the rent increase is forcing me to find somewhere else to live. There is nothing available... Manitoba Housing tells me there is a one-year wait for public housing.
"When you are poor you have no choices. I hate having no choices and having to be forced to beg on the streets. Having choices gives you self-respect, dignity, self-esteem, self-control and confidence. But this is lost when you are forced to use food banks and line up at a soup kitchen every day -- to be forced to eat what is served without any choices of what you would want to eat and when and where -- in the company of strangers or the privacy of your own home. Because of my mental illness, I find eating in a room of strangers creates anxiety I do not need. It makes me anxious to be in a room of absolute strangers; surrounded by religious quotes on walls and religious hymns that I don't care to know in exchange for a meal that is not of my taste and liking... But every cent I get from Employment and Income Assistance goes to pay my rent. There is nothing left. I have no choice.
"I understand that people give money to food banks and soup kitchens because they want to help. But to really help would be to ensure that I have income sufficient to give me a choice of where to live and a choice of what to eat.
"Living in poverty is to live in fear and in uncertain circumstances all your live-long days. "I hate poverty -- I hate it. I hate it when I have to worry about where my next meal is going to come from and not being able to sleep because I dread the dawn of a new day -- nothing changes.
"I hate it when people stereotype me, then want to change who I am and force me into a mould I cannot fit into rather than accept me and let me be.
"I hate it when my family and friends ignore me and treat me like I don't belong in the world because I have a mental illness and am on social assistance.
"I hate it when my dignity is undermined and my self-respect swallowed in exchange for a meal somewhere I don't want to be. I hate it when I see others suffering -- tired, worn and in pain -- cheated of their basic rights to food and shelter.
"They expect people to live were they would not live -- an unsafe, insecure rooming house or on the street. They expect you to spend all your energy in a transient gloom -- moving from soup line to shelter and back again.
"But it really isn't hate that I feel. I am hurt. Very deeply hurt. That people like me, people who are poor, are ill treated -- verbally and physically and mentally mistreated and forced to live in such terrible conditions because people do not see us as deserving of more.
"I just want to have a decent home. I just want to be able to buy my own food, eat what I want when I am hungry."
Joe (not his real name) shared this story with Shauna MacKinnon, CCPA Manitoba. Joe has lived most of his life in Winnipeg. He currently lives in the West Broadway neighbourhood.


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Animals and the Kingdom of God Lecture Series celebrates 10th anniversary
On April 4, Calvin College hosts a lecture series that amplifies Christian scholarly voices in a discussion often shaped by secular perspectives.
March 27, 2017 | Matt Kucinski
The January Series celebrates its 30th anniversary
Calvin College's award-winning noontime lecture series provides deeper insight into pivotal issues facing the nation and world today.
September 15, 2016 | Matt Kucinski
Detroit visionary replaces former Chicago mayor in January Series lineup
Josh Linkner, a driving force in the city of Detroit's comeback, will talk about the importance of reinvention for cities and individuals.
January 12, 2015 | Matt Kucinski
Two threads emerge from impressive January Series lineup
The power of story and global security are two threads woven throughout an impressive lineup that includes a Holocaust survivor, "America's young Nelson Mandela" and a former NATO Commander.
October 28, 2014 | Matt Kucinski
Remote sites carry the January Series
"Remote sites are not just listening to the speakers, but they are talking about the ideas being presented."
December 12, 2012 | Matt Kucinski
January Series: 25 years fresh
As Calvin's annual lecture series hits a quarter-century, it welcomes David Gergen, Sherry Turkle, N.T. Wright and Deborah Lew.
December 14, 2011 | Myrna Anderson
Examining extremism
Professor Katerberg shares his thought on extremism in America.
April 30, 2010 | Phil de Haan
Former soldier brings war awareness to campus
The War Awareness Lecture Series will run for two weeks at Calvin, from Monday, Oct. 13 through Monday, Oct. 24.
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MPs have voted through a controversial measure that allows local hospitals to be closed or downgraded if a neighbouring trust is struggling financially.
Clause 119, dubbed the Hospital Closure Clause by opponents, gives England's health secretary Jeremy Hunt powers to close hospitals, even if they are performing well.
At a tense vote yesterday a total of 297 MPs, including Redditch MP Karen Lumley, voted in favour of a new Care Bill, which includes clause 119, while 239 voted against it.
Labour shadow health secretary Andy Burnham told MPs that it was dangerous and wrong.
Rebecca Blake, Labour's parliamentary spokesman for Redditch, said she is now worried about the future of the town's Alexandra Hospital.
"When Mrs Lumley voted yesterday to give the secretary of state the power to close hospitals within 40 days, she put her party before the needs of Redditch people.
"Local people have been in touch with me already about this and many more of them will be appalled to wake up to this news.
"For the past couple of years A&E, maternity and the future of our hospital have been under threat to save money. It has been a long hard slog to defend services and we are still fighting for consultant led births.
"Yet Mrs Lumley has pulled the rug from under local people and local doctors having a real say in the future of the Alex."
She added: "Members of parliament can give as many verbal assurances as they like, we the voters will judge them by their actions. And, when the Redditch MP voted for the hospital closure clause it was a vote against the Alex."
Mrs Lumley spoke at the report stage of the bill seeking clarification from Health Minister Dr Daniel Poulter that the Alex Hospital would be safe under the new plans.
During the debate she asked for assurances that the Worcestershire Acute Hospitals Trust, which runs the Alex and is expected to be £12 million in debt this year, was not on the Health Minister's radar.
Responding, Dr Poulter put on record that there were "no plans for the TSA (trust special administrator) to have involvement" in Redditch and that the local processes in place will continue.
He added that he believed it was "wrong to conflate the issues" of the Care Bill and protection of services for the Alex Hospital.
Defending her decision to vote in favour of the bill Mrs Lumley said: "I was pleased that the minister was able to allay the fears of my constituents. He was able to do that in our meeting on Monday and he did so in the House of Commons again yesterday.
"I said before I was elected that protecting services at the Alex would be my top priority for my constituency and this is as much the case today. We have fought long and hard on this and will continue to do so."
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt said clause 119 would help drive forward changes to ensure patient safety when trusts were found to be failing.
A Department of Health spokesman said the clause would only ever be used as a "last resort".


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Can you believe a week went by so quickly. At least this week I did not have to fork out another 250 dollars for plumbing issues. For those of you that don't follow me on twitter, last week my darling little Mayhem (the almost three year old) flushed a bottle of his fathers cologne down the toilet. It blocked the toilet so badly the plumber had to take it right off to get it out. I guess that was his way of telling his father that he didn't like the smell of that one. I tell you when kids aren't making you broke, they're driving you crazy. He is damn lucky he is so cute.
Anyway tell me all about your week and share what you have been reading or writing. Here are a few articles that caught my attention this week.
The Exception Or The Norm: It seems pretty freakin' clear to me that there is a strong connection between the "fuck all the immigrants, kick them out of the country, all Latinos are immigrants and don't deserve to be here" and a case of SEVEN teens who declare "Let's go find some Mexicans," and consequently beat and stab a man to death because he fits their profile (all Latinos are the same, after all).
My Shawshank Redemption: The ways in which focusing on reform can have a positive effect on recidivism.
The Audacity Of E-Mail: Now that he has been elected should Barack still be trying to raise money?
When Isn't A Penis Sexual: Examining the donation of prosthetic penises to trans man and the conditions that come with it.
The Job With No Paycheck: The media is quick to let Michelle Obama know that she new responsibilities now, but have we ever considered that we are asking her to work without pay? Why is the labour of women always devalued?
Aspiring To Whiteness: Buying into the American Dream also includes embracing "the views of the dominant white society – including the prejudiced, distorted image of blacks."


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HOUSTON - The Houston Rodeo Parade made its way through the streets of Houston on Saturday, to the delight of fans.
The "Go Rodeo" cry has been heard on the streets of Houston every February since 1938.
"Our job is to tell Houston and the community around Houston that it's time to rodeo," said David Yates, the parade's chairman.
This year, Texas A&M football head coach Kevin Sumlin served as grand marshal, leading the parade through the streets of downtown.
Thirteen marching bands and seven floats rolled through the streets of downtown Houston. But most of the children Local 2 spoke with said they came to see the horses.
"We got 3,000 of them, so they ought to love this parade," said Yates.
Local 2's Courtney Zavala, Keith Garvin and Randy Mcllvoy were also a part of the parade.
The rodeo officially kicks off on Monday.
Copyright 2013 by Click2Houston.com. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.


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I'm picturing Petr Nedved coming over from his native Czech to Canada for the World Juniors and defecting, hiding in Canada and never going back, becoming a Canadian citizen.
I don't want to make light of that, because what Nedved did was extremely courageous and serious.
But I can't help but imagine all these Boneheads parachuting into town this weekend for tomorrow's Boneheadpalooza and deciding to never go back from whence they came.
Anyway, I must sadly say that I'm working all weekend at Yankees-Mets and will not be attending the official function in Tribeca Friday night. Byfuglien. I still hold out hope that the game ends quickly and I can get there late, but it's doubtful. Usually we get out of the stadium around 12:30 or later. By the time I got downtown and parked it would probably be close to 1:30, and this ain't the good old days of knocking back Tequilas until 4 a.m. These are the bad old days of trying and failing to stay awake for West Coast hockey games on TV.
But I hope youse all have a blast, and that some of youse will send pictures to me via e-mail.
I've got to go see Mr. Titleist today, my only day off this week (some day off, I have to blog in the morning, then write a column when I get back). At least we get some hockey tonight; as ilb pointed out, there aren't many hockey nights left in this season.