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I took only two pictures. One of the tea menu
and one of my rose lemonade (but it came out blurry so I nabbed this off the net).
This lemonade is beyond perfection. I must find this in the shops for me to consume on very selfish afternoons when I need a pep-up. Imagine me sprawled on a chaise lounge sipping these and suffering from a very affected migraine. I think this will cure all ails. Its a very happy drink.
Whilst out on our very sophisticated afternoon, we came across these little monsters.
I have been after vintage french fruit crates since 21AD. Every time I have seen them for sale, they have been approx £9485247657236751637065. Today they were £5.50 each. THAT IS OBSCENE!
So I bought three and have reserved some more for my props in the studio. Im exasperated - so much so that only a rose lemonade might calm me down. These will be perfect for a newborn shoot on Sunday. Im photographing a little boy who was born on Tuesday! **ovarie's in knots**
Then it was back to Helens to get down to some nitty gritty design work. Helen has two of the most ADORBS pooches in the world. Chico, whom I have met before and little Mia. My heart was crushed to hear and witness little Mia's suffering. It sounds like she has an arthritic problem and to see her struggle to walk broke by heart into a zillion squishy bits of jelly. I loved her immediately. I even want her and was weighing up trading my Mac computer for her. I knew Ellie would be BESIDE herself to see a picture of her, so Helen took this before I left. **sniff sniff**
It wasn't long before I was on the road home to my darlings and, of course, to this little scamp who would have sniffed out Mia's scent on me 10 miles from home. He will always be my number one love but Mia is closely pipping him!
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This girl whom Imy crushing on had a huge with with her friend in the past so I told to stop talking to him... but all of a sudden she strated talking to him and when I told she tells me I can't ignore him.. When I asked why beaus everyone in my college thinks I'm a bitch with attitude!!! when I heard this I was actually shocked to some extent so told I don't wanna talk about it..! later on I asked her to tell me what happened she didn't tell... so for this I told if u don't tell me now I will get to know in someway or another... she got pissed when I said this!!! she told me why was I acting like a jerk and u spoilt our relationship...
now what do I do need some opinion!!!
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She was upset, it sounds like you tried to get her to open up when she was angry, and it only made her angrier. Wait till she calms down a bit, and apologize for trying to get in her business (even if you weren't trying to make her angry). Tell her she can tell you anything, and maybe give her a compliment. If you really don't want to screw this up apologize.00|00|0

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Microsoft just put ending dates on the current exam life-cycles. Looks like all MCITP 2008 series exams only have until July 2013 until they're gone.
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Jun 21, 2012 at 2:32 UTC
looks like procrastination is once again not my friend.
books for sale! lol
Jun 21, 2012 at 2:33 UTC
I still havn't figured out why they flip flopped to mcitp and now back to MCSE & MCSA respectively. I personally like the new MCITP
Jun 21, 2012 at 2:35 UTC
where is the mostcertifiedmanintheuniverse to answer our questions
Jun 21, 2012 at 2:43 UTC
I'm still planning to pass my tests on the 2008 material. Hopefully they'll offer an upgrade path.
I'm genuinely confused right now about all of Microsoft's certifications. Where they're going in the future and such.
Jun 21, 2012 at 3:39 UTC
Awesome. I just bought my books for MCITP: Enterprise Admin. Guess I have to really get cracking on this. I don't have much time left....ugggg..
Jun 21, 2012 at 4:38 UTC
I'm still planning to pass my tests on the 2008 material. Hopefully they'll offer an upgrade path.
I'm genuinely confused right now about all of Microsoft's certifications. Where they're going in the future and such.
I completely agree
Jun 21, 2012 at 7:22 UTC
They're changing the names back? Why? Too many letters?
Jun 21, 2012 at 8:21 UTC
Thanks for posting this.. somehow I missed the announcement. Luckily for me right now I am only concerned with Enterprise Desktop Support Technician: Windows 7. Since I have my MCDST, I only have one exam to take.
The only thing I don't like about the change is the confusion in titles. MCSE and MCSA. Yes they "brought them back" for brand recognition but they mean different things now. MCSA is an associate title although it still deals with administration. This is a larger issue for employers then employees I think. The same companies that ask for an MCSA (Windows 2003!) for a 2008 environment. I do think that MCITP can be too encompassing. They range from desktop techs to admins to database admins to architects.
To quickly see the new differences you should check this link.
Even though they call the MCSA and MCSE "cloud-built" I think they are still applicable to traditional Active Directory/client environments.
Jul 23, 2012 at 1:09 UTC
OK, I just had a LiveChat with a person at Microsoft about training. At this point, it seems the MCITP path is still the place to get started, then you upgrade to the 2012 MCSA/MCSA exams. You can't even just start with MCSA 2012 right now without having the MCITP 2008 Certs.
From Almond "At this time, if you pass Exams 640, 642, and 646 you will earn both the MCSA: Windows Server 2008 certification and the MCITP: Server Administrator certification. After July 31, 2013, the MCITP: Server Administrator certification will be discontinued, but the MCSA: Windows Server 2008 certification will remain available."
Basically at this point, ignore the MCSX 2012 stuff until all of the exams are out, knowing that you only have a year to take the current exams.
Jul 23, 2012 at 1:38 UTC
Thanks for the info, Rob. Honestly I don't think it's a big deal. Also remember that this is the exam retire date, not expiration or invalidation. Five years after product release.. can't complain about that really.
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I have Zapier integration between Jotform and ConvertKit, what I'm wanting to find out is how to set this up so that every email isn't Zapped. We have a "would you like to sign up for our newsletter" click box on our Jotform forms. Right now, having that option clicked or unclicked makes no difference as far as the email being transferred to ConvertKit. That's not ideal.
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Hi there! I am also interested to see this integration. What's more, I've been told of new service provider Mailerlite https://www.mailerlite.com/convertkit-alternative. Perhaps you are planning to integrate this as well?
Hi there! I am also interested to see this integration. What's more, I've been told of new service provider Mailerlite https://www.mailerlite.com/convertkit-alternative. Perhaps you are planning to integrate this as well?
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Israel's Prime Minister Ariel Sharon confirmed Monday that the evacuation of the Gaza Strip and parts of the West Bank will be delayed until mid-August.
Sharon told Israel television the evacuation of settlers from the 21 Gaza Strip settlements would be delayed until after a religious mourning period, which ends Aug. 14. "The evacuation will be carried out, giving consideration to the mourning period," Sharon said. The original date to start the pullout was July 25.
Meanwhile, Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom warned Monday that occupation forces wouldn't leave Palestinian population centers if the Islamic resistance group, Hamas, wins the upcoming legislative elections. The Israeli state-run radio quoted Shalom as saying that Israel would refuse to "hand over" Gaza Strip to Hamas. "Israel will not hand over the Gaza Strip to Hamas until the movement gives up its weapons," he noted.
Shalom's comments were condemned by Muslim leaders in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. "The Palestinian people alone have the right to choose its leaders and representatives, our elections are none of the Zionists' business," said Muhammed Suleiman, a Hamas spokesman in the Hebron region. "The Israeli government is mostly made up of certified war criminals," he said.
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Into tech and IP but don't want to clip your wings working somewhere too niche? Try London mid-sizer Bird & Bird.
Everybody's heard Bird & Bird is the word
The early bird, as they say, catches the worm, and Bird & Bird's been up hunting since 1843. During the Industrial Revolution the firm represented clients in the coal and steel industry, as well as the first ever electric lightbulb manufacturer. Today this sector-focused law firm flits between industries as varied as aviation, energy, food and drink, and healthcare. Twobirds (as the firm calls itself) has long been known for its work in the technology and IP spheres, and reels in some impressive Chambers UK rankings on this front. Most of the trainees we chirped with were attracted to the firm's practices, with tech, sports and media frequently cited as favourites. Those with an interest in the latter should take note, as our sources suggested that the firm is looking to beef up its offering in the area.
With 28 offices across Europe, the Middle East and the Asia-Pacific region, Twobirds has a similar global reach to some magic circle and US firms. In addition to the usual legal and financial hubs, there are bases in some more unique locations, such as Slovakia's Bratislava and Denmark's Skanderborg. The firm offers a regular secondment to its Brussels office, but newbies who want to work in any of the other offices will need to show a little initiative. "You have to bring it up with HR," a trainee explained, "but they are very flexible." So instead of restricting secondments to certain destinations, the firm leaves it up to trainees to decide where they want to go and make the business case for a sojourn. The ability to speak the local lingo is a must, and a good relationship with a partner in the locale will help to open doors. At the time of our calls, one trainee had bagged themselves three months in the Sydney office.
No pecking order
Birds of a feather may indeed flock together, but Twobirds' trainees come from a broad range of backgrounds. "While everyone gets on, everyone's pretty different," one source relayed. "The youngest trainees are in their early twenties," said another, "while the oldest are in their forties." Some previous work experience will stand you in good stead, but isn't mandatory. "A lot of people have worked as paralegals for a number of years, or spent time in related industries," said a source, "but I hadn't." The firm doesn't favour any particular background – "any experience is good experience," as one put it – but given how technical the firm's work can be, we're weren't surprised to discover former doctors and engineers in the 34-strong intake. Yet a whole flock of degrees, from law to languages, and physics to history, were also represented.
"Commercial and IP are the two biggest departments," said one source, "and they're what the firm is known for." So it's no surprise that "a lot of trainees come to Twobirds to do a seat in one or the other." Before each seat rotation, fledglings meet with HR to have a relatively informal chat and submit a number of preferences for where they'd like to go next. The precise number, we're told, "depends very much on the person." We heard of trainees who'd submitted as many as six choices and as few as one, although sources said it was advisable to put down "at least a couple, as they can't always satisfy everyone." In years gone by, the firm guaranteed trainees at least three out of four first choices, but this is no longer the case.
"If you want to draft something, no one will object."
Commercial consists of subgroups in sports, competition and franchising, technology and communications, data protection, healthcare and energy. Supervisors usually specialise in one sector, and while "it's natural to spend a lot of time doing your supervisor's work," trainees didn't feel pigeonholed: "They think trainees should take advantage of being in such a diverse department, and assignments are sent out to all trainees." Given that it's a big department and that "things have to be checked and double checked in contract law," trainees are often responsible for research and proof-reading. "You get a good amount of responsibility, but you're not left to run with it in the same way you would in a smaller department," one interviewee said. However, we heard the department's open to trainees getting more responsibility: "If you want to have a go at drafting something, like an advertising agreement, no one will object."
While most sports are by their nature contentious, the commercial department's sports subgroup offers both contentious and non-contentious work. Some suggested it was even more popular with trainees than the wider commercial team; think of commercial as FC Barcelona, and sport as its Lionel Messi. With disciplinary bodies like the British Horseracing Authority and the International Paralympic Committee as clients, trainees can get involved in thorny regulatory issues like doping. Less controversially, the group advised the Six Nations (yes, all of them) on the tender of the competition's UK and Irish media rights; they also helped the British & Irish Lions negotiate a sponsorship agreement with Standard Life. "Everything happens quickly," a sporting trainee explained, "and it's a very small group," so there's a lot of responsibility to be had. On the contentious front, trainees get to dig into witnesses' backgrounds, draft cross-examination questions and cobble bundles together, while transactional work bestows a good helping of drafting: "I've done a few broadcasting agreements – a couple from scratch and some where I've contributed parts. I've also been involved in negotiations on contract matters."
Bird's brains
Like commercial, IP offers trainees a mix of contentious and non-contentious work, as well as both hard and soft IP. Pharma clients include Actavis, Teva and Merck, but the department also services telecoms outfits like BT and names from the food and beverage sector, like Monster Energy. Around 75% of the lawyers in the department boast a science degree, but it's not necessarily an impediment if you don't. "All of the pharma patents people probably have those degrees, but there are plenty of people working for IT and telecoms companies who don't have a techy background," a source revealed. "Trainees aren't so bound to their supervisors," in this department; "we're more like a pool." There is, however, "quite a lot of admin," but at least "it's interesting admin," insiders optimistically reported. "I did a lot of trade mark clearance searches for retailers looking to OK names for their latest ranges, but I also drafted letters to clients advising them on the extent of their trade mark protection." The group's currently acting for toy company Mattel – of Barbie fame – who claim that Zynga's app 'Scramble' infringes its trade mark on 'SCRAMBLE'; they also recently helped Actavis to obtain a declaration that an anti-cancer drug, Alimta, doesn't violate Eli Lilly's patents.
Not every corporate department lets trainees run their own files, but then again, not every one is as snug as Twobirds'. "Setting up a UK company for a client trading overseas – that's something a trainee might do," said one source, as if incorporating a business was no big deal. Even when working on a supervisor's matter, trainees get the full spread of corporate tasks, like "drafting board minutes and resolutions, liaising with Companies House and doing the occasional post-completion matter." All told, "it's possible to experience the full life-cycle of a business, from inception to exit." In keeping with the rest of the firm, there's a TMT focus, but the group's also known for its work in the healthcare and energy spaces too. Recent highlights include acting for Sony Pictures as it bought five pay-TV channels from telecoms company Liberty Global; representing Bluefield Partners as it acquired the UK's largest solar farm for £56.5 million; and helping diamond producers De Beers acquire a stake in Synova, which produces diamond-cutting technology.
With departments like IP and commercial offering the chance to do contentious work, you'd be forgiven for thinking that Twobirds wouldn't need a dedicated disputes team. But you'd be mistaken. Disputes follows the traditional Birdian pattern of being broken into sector-specific specialities, although this arrangement is less formal than in other departments. "People have their own areas of speciality, like retail disputes, financial services litigation, or arbitration," explained a trainee, "but these categories aren't formal subgroups." The firm recently represented Polar Air Cargo in the mammoth British Airways price fixing case (worth several billion). "On larger cases you're on case management and bundling duty," but we also heard from trainees who'd been able to "draft an emergency application for a freezing injunction and run the evidence for it – it ended up not happening but it was a good experience!"
The qualification process was "fairly typical of City firms," in that solicitors-to-be have a chat with HR in which they express their preferences. Once they've collated everyone's views, the powers that be inform the various heads of department. There's stiff competition for some groups – like the aforementioned IP and commercial departments – but sources commended HR for managing expectations and keeping trainees in the loop through an "ongoing dialogue." Retention's generally pretty good, and 2016 was no exception, as 16 of 18 qualifiers stayed on. When people do leave, we're told it's usually because they couldn't get a place in their chosen department.
Culture vulture
For most of our sources, a typical day ran somewhere between 9am and 6.30pm, although "that's not to say that everyone walks out at 6.30pm sharp." Late nights are par for the course at any law firm, but "if you're working anything past 8pm, you'll notice that the office is much emptier." One source admitted that there are "plenty of times where I've been here until midnight or on the weekends," but interviewees agreed that all-nighters are rare and that "the firm absolutely encourages you to have a life." Regular social events help to keep things cohesive, and the annual inter-office football tournament was one of our sources' favourite fixtures. The tournament takes place in a different European city every year – the latest was held in Prague – and features both male and female teams.
While the "work/life balance isn't quite what it was four or five years ago," sources confirmed that the Twobirds' reputation for "being a very nice place to work" remains "well founded." We're told that this friendly culture "shines through at the assessment day," where applicants "don't feel interrogated," and continues throughout their career at the firm. While Twobirds' techy-ness and amusing name were definitely big draws for many of our interviewees, it was the firm's culture that sealed the deal. "I did a few vac schemes," said one well-prepared source, "and the Bird & Bird people were by far the most sociable." Without exception we hear the firm's birds are "incredibly down to earth," and "don't have an ounce of pretentiousness to them."
"There are posters around the office counting down the days!"
It's a fairly cosmopolitan place, with trainees coming from around the world, "which is good, as I like being in an international environment." On the subject of diversity, our sources thought that while Twobirds isn't diverse "compared to the general UK population," it performs better than other law firms. And while the firm still places a premium on "the top 20 or 30 universities," it recruits more widely than similarly sized outfits. To improve diversity within the firm – and the wider legal profession – Twobirds invites students from inner-city schools for seminars and a week of work experience. Pro bono and charity work are also encouraged: folk from the firm volunteer every Tuesday at the South West Legal Advice Centre, plus "there are always emails asking trainees to assist in various charitable activities." All employees can take one 'charity day' a year, which they can dedicate to altruistic endeavours without sacrificing either pay or a day of annual leave.
Twobirds' lawyers are still perched in three different buildings, but by the time you read this, they will have flown to brand new digs just up the road in 12 New Fetter Lane – bringing everybody under one roof for the first time. The trainees we spoke to couldn't wait to fly their current nest. "We're all very much looking forward to it," said one; "there are posters around the office counting down the days!" Even the 'Bird Table' – the firm's canteen – will get an upgrade: "Instead of being in the basement like before, it'll be on the 13th floor and have a wrap-around balcony with views all the way to Piccadilly." But incoming trainees won't just be getting to know their London-based colleagues: "In most departments there's an international aspect to the work we're doing, so you'll collaborate a lot with lawyers in the other offices, whether you're helping clients to protect their IP across the EU, or providing jurisdictional advice on employment law."
Twobirds is not just moving for a better view: it's planning to boost its London head count by 25% over the next few years, both through lateral hires and internal promotions – hence the need for a bit more space.
How to get a Bird & Bird training contract
Vacation scheme deadline (2017): 5 January 2017
Training contract deadline (2019): 30 June 2017
Training contract applications and assessments
Bird & Bird receives around 1,500 applications each year for its training contract. The first step in the process is a critical reasoning test, after which recruiters invite 60 candidates who made the grade to complete an online video interview in which they're sent a link and given a week to record their answers to a set of questions. From here, around 16 candidates are asked to attend an insight and selection day.
This sees candidates asked to demonstrate various competencies through three activities: a presentation and interview, a group task and a written task. Those who impress go on to a formal panel interview, which further tests these competencies. Insiders suggest coming armed with a thorough knowledge of your CV and just how your skill set equips you to work at the firm, and being prepared to defend your interest in Bird & Bird over its peer firms. As one trainee pointed out: "The firm is into deep sector knowledge, so make sure you're ready to talk about the industries we work in."
From here, training contract offers are made.
Vacation scheme
The majority of trainees at Bird & Bird enter the firm through its summer placement scheme. "They see it as an extended interview and good way for you to suss out how much you actually like the firm," one trainee explained. The firm runs a one-week spring placement as well as a pair of two-week summer schemes. In total there around 34 places available each year.
Bagging a place starts with an online application form. The firm usually receives around 1,200 of these each year, and after a critical reasoning test it invites 250 applicants to undergo an online video interview. Around 90 of those who impress go on to complete the insight and selection day outlined above (minus the panel interview), and from here the firm decides who gets a place.
Attendees are assigned a trainee buddy and a supervisor each, and they sit in a single department during their visit, though they work on an ongoing task over the course of the three weeks that sees them engage with lawyers across the firm. This task is updated every year, though it's usually a research task that culminates in a panel presentation.
Vac schemers are automatically assessed for a training contract, and attend a short interview with a member of graduate recruitment and the training principal at the end of their placement.
Trainee profile
Bird & Bird doesn't have a cookie-cutter trainee type. In 2016 our sample of interviewees had a wide range of degrees between them – from languages to psychology to technology, to name just a few – as well a decent spread of universities, with Nottingham, Newcastle and Oxford all cropping up.
That said, the usual credentials – 2:1-plus results, excellent A levels, commercial awareness and interpersonal skills – are firmly required. Insiders told us Bird & Bird is particularly interested in "people who are willing to engage with the firm more broadly than simply doing their work and going home." At the same time, they agreed it's important for applicants to have other interests outside of law. "You'll find trainees here all sorts of strings to their bow," said one. As such, be sure to mention in your application if you're a keen volleyballer, watercolour wizard or crochet champ.
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Bird & Bird
12 New Fetter Lane,
Website www.twobirds.com
- Partners Over 280*
- Fee earners Over 1,100*
- Total trainees 36 in London
- *denotes worldwide figures
- Contact Trainee development team [email protected]
- Method of application Online application form via the firm website
- Selection procedure Insight and selection days in February 2017 for the vacation schemes and September 2017 for training contracts
- Closing date for 2019 30 July 2017 for law and non-law students
- Training contracts pa 18
- Applications p.a. 3,000
- % interviewed at first stage p.a. 30%
- Required degree grade 2:1
- Training salary
- First year (2015): £38,000
- Second year (2015): £40,000
- Holiday entitlement 25 days
- % of trainees with a non-law degree pa Varies
- Post-qualification salary (2016) £62,000
- % of trainees offered job on qualification (2016) 88%
- Overseas offices Abu Dhabi, Beijing, Bratislava, Brussels, Budapest, Copenhagen, Dubai, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, The Hague, Hamburg, Helsinki, Hong Kong, Luxembourg, Lyon, Madrid, Milan, Munich, Paris, Prague, Rome, Shanghai, Singapore, Skanderborg, Stockholm, Sydney Warsaw
Firm profile
With offices in Abu Dhabi, Beijing, Bratislava, Brussels, Budapest, Copenhagen, Dubai, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, The Hague, Hamburg, Helsinki, Hong Kong, London, Luxembourg, Lyon, Madrid, Milan, Munich, Paris, Prague, Rome, Shanghai, Singapore, Skanderborg, Stockholm, Sydney, Warsaw and close ties with firms in other key centres in Europe, Asia and the United States, the firm is well placed to offer its clients local expertise within a global context.
The firm is proud of its friendly, stimulating environment where individuals are able to develop first class legal, business and interpersonal skills. It has an open and collegiate culture reflected in its strong retention rate and assistant involvement. The firm is structured with a very strong international perspective to its culture – integrated teams working for cross-border clients as well as a range of international sport and social activities enables this.
At Bird & Bird, there is a genuine commitment to acting as a responsible employer and also as a proactive member of its local and wider international communities. The firm has a full programme of corporate social responsibility initiatives and policies in place, which fall under three broad areas: people, community and environment.
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THE recent regional swim meet at Dapto proved highly successful for Minnamurra and Kiama Public Schools, with nine swimmers winning spots to represent South Coast at the upcoming State titles at Homebush on April 10.
Minnamurra's Luke Males, Jasper Scobie, Nick Bamford and Callum Roberts did well to qualify individually, while the boys' senior relay team of Callum Roberts, Nick Bamford, Jasper Scobie and Kurtis Bennett and the junior relay team of Luke Males, Kade Roberts, Sam Scobie and Mitchell Tucker also qualified.
However, Kiama's Marlo Lewis outshone even the Minnamurra boys, winning the under-11 butterfly and coming third in the backstroke to qualify for her two events.
All children thanked Kiama Leisure Centre swim coach Nicola Sleight for her help.


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Karen Russell is not the first young writer to merge humanism and monstrosities in her fiction or take imaginative leaps buoyed by such fine writing that the reader follows along with the allegiance of wonder. Mary Shelley began writing Frankenstein at 19 and published the novel at 21. So, in the long hallways of literature, Karen Russell's accomplishments do have a precedent.
Still, it's difficult to think of another writer working today who has Russell's talent for gorgeous, risky prose and a seemingly endless arsenal of odd, inventive narratives. Give her a setting and she'll grow beautiful monsters in its brilliantly described ecosystem.
Her first collection of short stories, St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves, took stunning risks in an industry that seems more and more sheltered by the conventions of tidy realism. Her 2011 novel, Swamplandia!, turned readers into instant fans with her treatment of a family battling to save their gator-wrestling theme park from extinction in the gnarled swamps of Florida. Something rare happened: the Pulitzer Prize nomination that she garnered was never once questioned, even for a first-time novelist. To read the first chapter of Swamplandia! is to fall immediately into a universe so rich and strange, so haunted by humans, that it feels like a classic of American legend.
Now Russell returns with her second collection of short stories, Vampires in the Lemon Grove (Knopf), and this time she stretches that golden imagination beyond the humid lagoons of her native state. Russell has created eight new theme parks in her stories; eight new cages of horror and heart and winding metamorphoses that would take a normal writer a lifetime to dream into being. Here schoolyard bullies are met with the scarecrow of one of their weakest victims, young Japanese factory slaves become silkworms in captivity, a vampire couple permanently honeymoons in Italy, and in my favorite story in years, "Proving Up," a homesteader family struggles through drought and poverty and the ghosts of homesteaders past to earn its land title and make a home from dust. Here is how Russell describes a horse galloping through a blizzard: "a black match head tearing against a wall of snow. It's a wonder the gales don't catch alight and burn." Can reading be like striking a match?
Russell is currently living in Philadelphia, but came to New York for the publication of her book. We ate sushi in a restaurant in SoHo.
CHRISTOPHER BOLLEN: You're a writer whose work is really rooted in nature—or at least your characters rub up very closely with the natural world. And I know you grew up in Miami. Were you on the water a lot as a kid?
KAREN RUSSELL: My dad is a nautical guy. He was in the Navy and loves it. And it probably brings him great sadness that none of his kids are sailors.
BOLLEN: He didn't force you onto a boat as a child?
RUSSELL: We went out on the boat a lot. I really liked the sea, but I was just kind of bad at sailing. There's a lot of blooper reel of me catching a stingray and having it slap my face, you know? Slapstick nature. Falling out of the boat or failing to bait a hook. But I did make them send me to a one-week sailing camp, because I never got to go to camp.
BOLLEN: Me neither! I saw too many horror movies as a little kid, and I was too terrified to go to camp.
RUSSELL: Yeah, what's going to happen in your cabin? Nothing great. When your first contact of camp is horror stories, you aren't going to appreciate the dating possibilities, right? Cabins are not a place to let your guard down.
BOLLEN: Sailing camp might have been the safer option for me.
RUSSELL: We went to sailing camp for one week. It was through the Miami Museum of Science, and they put my younger sister and me on this boat with a kid who spoke no English, and then there was a kid with him to translate.
BOLLEN: Weird. He brought his own kid as a translator at kid camp?
RUSSELL: Yeah, it was a weird kid boat. It really was a week of horror. I remember we had a swim test, and my sister had long, beautiful blond hair. Do you know how you acutely remember those moments of kid cowardice? And the guilt is still there no matter how years have elapsed. We had to tread water for five minutes in the bay, and my sister's gorgeous tresses got slick with oil and fish, and I just swam away from her.
BOLLEN: You didn't come to her aid? [laughs]
RUSSELL: Let that be your first impression of me. I'm a monster of self-interest.
BOLLEN: You swim away when people are in trouble. But I think I would have probably done the same thing. But my sister is older, so she never depended on me.
RUSSELL: It was a tough sister moment. But what I discovered from that week was that I was really bad at sailing and predicting the wind. I do like eating KFC on a boat.
BOLLEN: I once was on a boat in Miami and they took us an hour out to the place called Stiltsville, where old houses are just hanging on stilts in the middle of the ocean. It was beautiful.
RUSSELL: I snuck Stiltsville into Swamplandia! I always get false credit for inventing the places that are literally out there. I must sheepishly confess that you can set your GPS to Stiltsville and see those beautiful barnacled roofs.
BOLLEN: I couldn't tell what was geographically real or unreal in Swamplandia! I guess that's part of the magic. Is there an island like this off the mainland? Could a boat make that voyage?
RUSSELL: The contours are right. There's the Gulf side of the swamp, and Loomis [County] is sort of cast off a little. But there's really nowhere where there could be this isolated theme park where you could take a 40-minute ferry ride and be in downtown Miami. That was my own fantasy of some umbilical that would be possible between the island and the mainland.
BOLLEN: Do you find that Miami or Florida has a different reaction to Swamplandia! than the rest of the country?
RUSSELL: It's funny, I just came back from Miami yesterday. It just gets a different reception down there. There's less of a fantasy to it down there. Everyone sort of wants to come and tell me about the roadside attractions they went to, or do I remember the Miami Serpentarium?
BOLLEN: I wanted to tell you about the time I drove to the Everglades and took one of those alligator tours on an airboat.
RUSSELL: Are you still bleeding out of your ears?
BOLLEN: [laughs.] I actually really loved it. And the weirdest things happened. There was a family from the Midwest on my boat, and they had forgotten their camera, so I said I'd take pictures of them and email them. So throughout the tour we got to talking and it turned out they were from Ohio, where I am from. And then at the end, after I took all these portraits of them with the gators in the background, they gave me their card for me to email them, and their last name was Bollen. They were also Bollens from Ohio. We honestly must have been related.
RUSSELL: That's too weird. What a place to meet in this primordial muck. On an airboat.
BOLLEN: I do think there is something magical about that area. And I loved the airboats.
RUSSELL: I like that those boats are still at the forefront of technology. A tiny boat with an airplane engine. It's a deafening ship. When we went on field trips as a kid, we'd put cotton balls in our ears. And we had to sign a waiver. It's funny to watch tourists who at first want to see one gator and their excitement extenuates as they begin to see literally majillions of gators and they so quickly become inured. First you're freaking out, and 45 minutes later, you're like, "Whatever. I want to see a great blue heron."
BOLLEN: We're supposed to be talking about the new book. Did I just do what you must get all the time? The "I went to Florida and saw an alligator" story? I'm sorry!
RUSSELL: No, no, no, no. I like it, I still like it.
BOLLEN: Do you feel that because of Swamplandia!'s success, you have inadvertently become a regional writer? Even though you don't live in Florida anymore.
RUSSELL: I've decided I'm just not the authority on my own feelings at this moment, you know what I mean? I'm ostensibly trying to describe the interior worlds of my characters. And when I'm asking, "How does XYZ feel?" I'm like, "I don't know. I'm thirsty, though." [Bollen laughs.] But I will say that with this collection of short stories it was exciting in a really conscious way to leave Florida. Which felt kind of risky. Because up until then, most of what I wrote was set in Florida. It's the landscape of my childhood and, although it's never easy to write, it's a productive landscape for me because I can really mine whatever deep emotional attachment I have to things like the mangroves. Or alligators, even. I'm sure for you in the Midwest, you have your own lexicon of images and symbols.
BOLLEN: Yeah. When I think of nature, my mind instinctively thinks of the birds and trees of Southern Ohio.
RUSSELL: It's sort of innate. If you're going to conjure up some kind of landscape, that would be your stock footage. For me, it's the cormorant and the mangroves at the end of my street. And you feel like you have a license to imagine something on top of this stock footage. So the stories in Vampires in the Lemon Grove were a little trickier because some of them are set in the past, some are set in different states and countries...
BOLLEN: I have to say, your story set in 19th-century Nebraska, "Proving Up," is one of the best short stories I've read in the past decade. It had this gorgeous Willa Cather-like attention to the scenery and characters on this merciless frontier land.
RUSSELL: Frontiers are always interesting. For the story that I did a million years ago when my first collection came out about this minotaur who pulls his family to the west, I just happened to have picked up this book called Women's Diaries of the Westward Journey. There's something about the stoic acceptance of these women at the most brutal losses. It almost doesn't seem possible, like it's an artifact of a different way of being in this world. It feels very foreign to me, their toughness. You could lose five children and have that sort of resilience. There's something of a horror story in it for me too—what you can endure and survive. It's Book of Job style. There's a situation that is absolutely unlivable, intolerable, and yet your body continues. I feel like such a sap in so many ways. I'm terrified of losing my loved ones. So there is almost this morbid fascination and respect for what these people were able to absorb and continue existing.
BOLLEN: In "Proving Up," the family is hoping to be approved for a land section title from the inspector, and of course they are desperate for land that's mostly unlivable. It's sort of a torture of commitment.
RUSSELL: If you've buried three of your children on that land, and you're mortgaged up to your eyeballs, what's the tipping point after all you've sacrificed? Whatever dream that brought them out there had become so nightmarish, and yet there was a commitment to that land.
BOLLEN: I liked that one of the conditions of receiving a title was having a glass window in the home. The whole story revolves around the glass window shared among the neighbors to "prove up."
RUSSELL: On the one hand, the idea that it exists in the legislation seems so arbitrary. But to make a window a prerequisite for a house to become a home was also so metaphorically terrific. There's something about having a transparent membrane of seeing in and seeing out and being part of this community. And I liked the idea of something being in glass as being so rare that it becomes a luxury commodity, and this community is swapping it around, in a way, like a fragile unity.
BOLLEN: There's an actual murderer on the loose in "Proving Up." How did you dream up this ghostly killer?
RUSSELL: In an earlier draft, the zombie homesteader was more of a tragicomic figure. He's much more terrifying now. In the earlier draft, I had this strange compassion for whatever the figure represents. I was thinking about a hope that outlasts any possibility of its fulfillment, this undead hope in a landscape that just completely inhospitable to it, this hope that has kind of gone rancid and killed its host and killed anything the host cared about and continues to. I must be obsessed with stories of people in conflict or deep mismatch with nature, because it comes up in Swamplandia! too. I was working on that novel while all of these dream communities in Florida were foreclosing. They were what is called arrested developments. There would be a beautiful gate to a place like "Paradise, Florida" and the gate would lead nowhere, just to a half-built development. So in a way it isn't as if "Proving Up" isn't a contemporary story with the same kind of blind delusional optimism. The dream of owning a home or owning land is still somehow part of our mythos.
BOLLEN: In a way, every story in the collection could be read as a story in the horror genre, with a lot of toying with or reworking the conventions. When I was reading the book at a diner, my gothy waitress looked at the cover and said, "Oh, are you really into vampires?" And I was surprised by my own reaction. I felt some strange need to tell her that this book isn't part of the Twilight series. Or I'm not just reading teen death-romance books.
RUSSELL: That's been an interesting problem. [laughs.]
BOLLEN: Are you a big horror reader? Or were you as a child?
RUSSELL: I loved horror when I was a kid, in an embarrassed way, because I got the sense early on that that wasn't literary, and that there was something discomfiting to adults, that you were interested in books like Cujo.
BOLLEN: It's funny how you start to understand that adults could read you as a creepy kid.
RUSSELL: Yeah! Exactly. But for me it wasn't specifically horror. I would read a lot of sci-fi fantasy stuff, too. But if I wanted a book with some kind of genre sticker on it, I would also have to get something more literary, like the kids' abridged Grapes of Wrath.
BOLLEN: Or To Kill a Mockingbird, which is also a sort of monster story in its way, with Boo Radley.
RUSSELL: And the way that kids will embroider that figure on the margins until he becomes this bogeyman. And how you're kind of left to do that private arithmetic as a kid. Adults are so discreet, they never help you understand that face in the window.
BOLLEN: I'm glad you mentioned reading Cujo. I love Stephen King.
RUSSELL: Me too. I love him a lot. It's funny to think how persuasive his influence actually is. I had an English teacher at this Catholic elementary school who was so sweet, a cardigan, sweetheart, and she loved Tony Hillerman mysteries and Michael Crichton—not Stephen King so much. But some of the stuff she would lend to me was exciting, because this is an adult I respected and not someone you would identify in a police lineup as the woman with an appetite for strangeness and darkness.
BOLLEN: It's probably even more fraught that she's giving those kinds of book to a girl and not to a boy. I feel like it is more acceptable for a boy to be curious about gore and murder.
RUSSELL: I could not read any of those sanitized books for girls, like the Sweet Valley twins. I just had no way in there.
BOLLEN: My sister read those books.
RUSSELL: It's amazing to think about being so young and how a child's mind is making sense of those texts. I wish there was some cinematic entry point where adults could actually see how a nine-year-old brain is translating books. Because you're kind of coasting on fumes, you don't have a lot of real-world reference points, so it's the most creative act to even try to create those landscapes of dramas. I have no idea what cracked-out vision I must have been conjuring when I was 10.
BOLLEN: I think there was a safety to the world when I was little, and books allowed so many edges into that world, so many opportunities for terror and fear and desire and greed that just wasn't available to me in Ohio at age nine.
RUSSELL: Yes, and it's also confirmation of some real ugliness that you're always aware of when you're younger but have no vocabulary for. Or to speak it feels too taboo—to admit that you know what's going on. There's that strange beautiful impulse to think, "I better protect these adults from my knowledge of what's actually happening. I have to chloroform my own inner knowledge of what's happening because it's too threatening to this really unsteady equilibrium we've brokered here." Whether it's within the classroom or within the family or wherever.
BOLLEN: And adults are unaware of how aware children are.
RUSSELL: They're just like, "Kids love this cartoon." It's fascinating. Because there is no way to avoid knowing something that you understand is too soon for you to know. I think a lot of childhood is just creating mental containers for violence that you see at a friend's house or your own house or in a book that you read where it really felt like trespassing, a book could fill you with the same kind of terror-dread as riding your bike somewhere you're not allowed to go.
BOLLEN: Just from reading all of your work, I sense I'm in the presence of a fellow animal lover. Animals crop up in your fiction a lot. And I find when I look at landscapes, I immediately gravitate toward any animal presence, the way others must gravitate toward the sun or the trees or water. Do you find animals populating your stories almost unconsciously?
RUSSELL: It's getting to the point that I'm afraid that it might be a tic. You don't want to become overly reliant on any one thing. In my first book, it would be all "moons and oceans" to the point that it was a relief to have stories set elsewhere, where no one could be besotted by the moon on the water yet again! I wasn't going to use a bunch of lunar adjectives again. You know, as a reader, I like a New York story. I like a vicious party story as much as the next person. But as a writer, I find animals work to visualize certain emotional states. Like in my seagull story ["The Seagull Army Descends on Strong Beach, 1979"], I was thinking of an image of a ravenous flock. So that worked as an analog for an emotional state.
BOLLEN: For that particular story, where seagulls invade a beach town and steal objects from the population that exist in a separate time—past, present, and future—did the birds come before the plot of the story?
RUSSELL: I had read this André Aciman essay that's amazing on "mnemonic arbitrage," which is, among other things, our inability to live in the present and our desire to exploit the difference between the present and the future and to enjoy whatever's happening right now as a future memory.
BOLLEN: Wow.
RUSSELL: Aciman borrows this financial language to describe this really universal move to launch out of the present. And I was thinking about seagulls as being these cosmic scavengers, or at least the narrator sees them that way, whether it's happening that way or not. But it's just this terror of an impersonal appetite. That's one clear way to see nature and animals. They are part of this frightening, clam, natural order. I think there's something beautiful and terrifying about that. I think what is sublime about animals is that they're emissaries from a world that we're part of, since we're part of nature too, but there is no way to witness a flock of seagulls or bats and still feel yourself to be the be-all, end-all of the game. Animals are humbling in a good way. They resize our own lives.
BOLLEN: How did you decide on these particular stories for the collection? I see a horror pattern and also a transformational theme, too. Today happens to be Presidents' Day, and one story involves presidents who are all reborn into the bodies of horses in a stable ["The Barn at the End of Our Term"].
RUSSELL: In a really loose way, it seemed like I was doing something with these monstrous metamorphoses. And some are told from the point of view of, like, the bull or the monster.
BOLLEN: Like "The Graveless Doll of Eric Mutis," where the narrator is part of the class bully pack.
RUSSELL: I was thinking of our boy Stephen King a lot with that one. He's so good at these unchaperoned boys.
BOLLEN: Groups of boys are scary.
RUSSELL: Why are they so scary? I think so too. I think just the terrible inertia of boys in groups. Something awful happens to you guys.
BOLLEN: Terrible.
RUSSELL: I've seen it with my brother and his goon friends. Some force possesses them. It's like they are obeying some evil ghost of their own group creation.
BOLLEN: I think girls do it differently, but they're equally awful.
RUSSELL: Girls are cruel. There's a sort of slippery, horrified sense—
BOLLEN: A slippery meanness!
RUSSELL: Yeah, it's often not physical cruelty for girls. It's social cowardice, or like Kitty Genovese, watching someone get stabbed to death, and you do nothing. That kind of diffusion of responsibility... I think that's very common among kids. But that story for me, too, was also about substitution, the scarecrow logic whereby a bully or a captor becomes the victim. Or the shallow burial that you can give to your own culpability, which kept coming up in these stories. It wasn't even conscious; it was just often the force that was giving life to whatever story. I'm always the last to know. When I'm writing, I'm like, "Oh! I see!" [laughs] And in that last story, there is a callback to the title story where they're saying this kind of quiet, available to them in their shitty, awful urban lives... There's a sort of stillness and complicity that's hurting this kid and that's mysterious to his group, but is also the glue of their friendship. And I think I say, "It's like blood is to a vampire." I think so many of these stories end up being about that bloodlust.
BOLLEN: You often write from the point of view of the adolescent. I was going to ask you if you think your understanding of the adolescent would change as you got older, but that's a dumb question. Of course it will. But it doesn't mean you will somehow understand it better just because you're older.
RUSSELL: We're all just living in a world where you're required to make some guess about how another body is experiencing time. I kind of love authors who pull a Cate Blanchett and just jump into anybody. For a while I was really self-conscious about that fact. Before my first collection, I was penning stories about 13-year-olds, 14-year-olds... There's just this sense that when you have an adolescent protagonist, some people will automatically class that as YA. And it doesn't matter if the view is retrospective, it doesn't matter if you're looking back through the tunnel of memory. And it doesn't matter either if you're using the kid as an objective lens on adult systems. I get so upset when people say, "Well, this voice doesn't sound like the voice of a nine-year-old."
BOLLEN: Reviewers in The New York Times always point that out, like the narrator has to sound exactly like a nine-year-old or else it's writer duplicity. It's ridiculous. We are all perfectly aware this book is being written by an adult. Do we want to read a book by a nine-year-old?
RUSSELL: Tell me if you like this, I've been trying this one out. "At the expense of one kind of realism, something that comes is emotional realism." So it feels really true to the experience of being that age, and you have access to adult language to recreate that space. So you're going to use analogies and metaphors and sophisticated language—in the interest, actually, of recreating a kind of uncanniness and bewilderment that would otherwise be impossible to get down on the page if you limited yourself to a nine-year-old's vocabulary and perspective. You have to be old enough... You have to reach a certain age to remember what it was like to be a child. [Laughs.]
BOLLEN: Finally, a lot of people have asked you if you felt more pressure with Vampires in the Lemon Grove after the success and Pulitzer Prize nomination of Swamplandia! But for me, I wonder if instead that kind of success might have re-assured you. You don't have to worry about getting published. You have a far less chance of future rejection. You've built an authentic, interested readership. Hasn't all of that success really operated as a comfort to you?
RUSSELL: That is something I can speak to. It's a relief. I feel like I have been given this astonishing chance and the industry is so flukey and beautiful books are written that don't get lofted high enough over the general din. Luck plays a huge role in the whole reception, too. So that was a very good thing. I don't feel like I'm starting over. That is a nice new evolving feeling—this might really work.
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Parthenope 40-1 (8-2) Held up, headway on outside 2f out, edging left but chased leader over 1f out, upside throughout final furlong, got head in front on line, won at Brighton 1m app hcp (6) gf in Aug beating Legal Lover (9-10) by a shd, 10 ran.
Sir Mikeale 66-1 (9-0) Always towards rear, 6th of 8, 6l behind Radiator Rooney (9-0) at Lingfield 5f 3yo mdn (5) pol in Feb '06.
Willofcourse 13-2 (8-7) Prominent, ridden 2f out, soon one pace, 4th of 17, 5l behind Viewforth (9-0) at Lingfield 6f hcp 0-50 (6) gf.
Blue Knight (IRE) 16-1 (9-0) Toward rear, ridden 2f out, kept on, never nearer, 9th of 17, 8l behind Viewforth (9-0) at Lingfield 6f hcp 0-50 (6) gf.
Sun Bian 33-1 (9-1) Held up mid-division, weakened 2f out, last of 13, 11l behind Golden Spectrum (9-1) at W'hampton 1m 1f hcp 0-60 (6) pol in Jul.
Laphonic (USA) 12-1 (9-3) Outpaced towards rear, kept on from over 1f out, 6th of 14, 5l behind Mister Jingles (9-7) at Carlisle 7f hcp 0-60 (6) gf in Aug.
Time To Regret 11-2 (9-5) In touch, came standside 3f out, soon ridden, no impression final 2f, 10th of 13, 31l behind United Nations (9-13) at Beverley 1m clm (5) gf in Aug.
Shunkawakhan (IRE) 11-2 (8-10) Chased leaders, chased winner halfway, no extra final furlong, 4th of 16, 5l behind Viable (9-0) at Yarmouth 1m sll hcp (6) gf in Aug.
Winds of Kildare (IRE) 16-1 (9-6) Chased leaders until weakened over 2f out, last of 9, 15l behind Treetops Hotel (9-7) at Lingfield 1m 1f sll (6) gf in Aug.
Double Valentine 14-1 (8-5) Held up, ridden 2f out, kept on, not reach leaders, 6th of 17, 5l behind Viewforth (9-0) at Lingfield 6f hcp 0-50 (6) gf.
Diamond World 16-1 (8-13) Behind, ridden over 2f out, no impression on leaders, 8th of 11, 6l behind Piddies Pride (8-10) at Kempton 6f hcp 0-50 (6) pol in Mar.
Jools 20-1 (9-9) Mid-division, headway over 2f out, soon chasing leaders, kept on same pace, 4th of 14, 4l behind Hart of Gold (9-0) at Folkestone 7f sll (6) gf.
Inscribed (IRE) 20-1 (8-11) Chased leaders, ridden over 2f out, kept on, 2nd of 17, 3l behind Viewforth (9-0) at Lingfield 6f hcp 0-50 (6) gf.
Tamatave (IRE) 11-1 (8-12) In touch, weakened 4f out, eased over 2f out, last of 15, well behind Don Pasquale (8-13) at Beverley 1m 2f hcp 0-50 (6) gs in Jun.


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HI, my name is SARA!!!!
I'm a 7th grader and I play volleyball. I am a percussionist in my school band. I'm a Christian and I'm totally on fire for God.
My FAVORITE things!!!!!
1. I collect pressed pennies
2. I love music
3. I can play and have played every position in volleyball
4. I'm an olympic hopeful.
6. I smile 24/7
7. I LOVE swimming
8. I love my grandparents farm in Alabama.
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I have 1 little sister, who's in 5th grade, my mom, who teaches at my school, my dad and two cats, Snowy and Slippers.
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Lindegaard, 27, a £3.5 million signing from Norwegian club Aalesunds, began the season as Manchester United's second-choice goalkeeper behind the considerably more expensive Spaniard, but exudes an air of control which is in contrast to the uncertainty that continues to accompany De Gea.
Within two hours of the final whistle against Wigan, Lindegaard issued a public reminder of his impressive form as De Gea's understudy by tweeting: "Calmfidence – 6!" The word is an amalgamation of 'calmness' and 'confidence' while the number refers to Lindegaard's clean-sheet record.
Sir Alex Ferguson has made it clear to both goalkeepers that De Gea remains the long-term No1, but the 21 year-old now seems to have been withdrawn from the firing line, judging by Lindegaard playing successive games for the first time this season in the wins against Fulham and Wigan.
De Gea was at fault for Basle's opener in the costly 2-1 Champions League defeat earlier this month. While the Spaniard's distribution is more accurate than Lindegaard's, the Dane's more powerful physique and vocal presence have added reassurance to a back four badly hit by injury to Nemanja Vidic, Rio Ferdinand and the Da Silva twins.
The understudy now looks more convincing than the first choice and if Ferguson sticks with Lindegaard for the visit of Blackburn on Saturday, De Gea might have to learn about the Premier League from the substitutes' bench.
Meanwhile, Dimitar Berbatov, who looks likely to leave the club at the end of the season, was yesterday being linked by the German newspaper Bild with a return to former club Bayer Leverkusen on a free transfer next summer.
Berbatov scored a hat-trick in the Boxing Day win over Wigan but has failed to convince Ferguson that he deserves more than a ranking as the club's fourth-choice forward.


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