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The London Olympics 2012 is witnessing a fresh controversy as a medical group is calling for a sponsorship review. Many groups have lashed out against some of the key sponsors like McDonalds, Coke and Cadbury. British doctors say it's sending out a wrong message in a country where obesity is ballooning.
The Academy of Royal Medical Colleges (which represents over 2,00,000 health professionals) has asked the British government to restrict advertising of the controversial sponsors during the Olympics games to be held in London from 27th July to 12th August.
This is, in fact, not the first time that the London Olympics has generated news because of its controversial sponsors. Touted to be 'the greenest game ever', it's indeed ironical that three of the official sponsors namely Dow Chemicals, BP and Rio Tinto have rightly come under attack from environment and human right activists. The companies are currently embroiled in lawsuits over alleged commission of large-scale environmental harm.
If you are still wondering why the sponsors are receiving criticism, read on to know more about the five controversial sponsors of the summer Olympics 2012!
Quite famous for being unhealthy, McDonalds will open the world's largest restaurant at the London Olympics park with a seating capacity of 1500 and will be the only restaurateur allowed to sell branded food at the games. The 'official' restaurant will be rolling out over 50,000 big Mac burgers and 1,80,000 portions of fries to Olympic spectators! (I wonder if athletes will also indulge in the junk food)! The fast food chain is blamed for contributing to the obesity problem of many developed countries!
The soft drink giant is also receiving a backlash by the medical fraternity for spreading unhealthy habits among youngsters and then choosing to sponsor games that are meant to be celebrate healthy living!! It further faces allegations of poor treatment to African laborers harvesting oranges in Italy. Having spent millions on sponsorship, Coke will have exclusive rights to sell non-alcoholic beverages in Olympic stadiums.
Dow Chemicals
It is perhaps the most controversial sponsor of the Olympics. Human right activists have protested against its inclusion because of its ties with Union Carbide, the company that was responsible for the inhuman Bhopal gas tragedy of 1984 in India.
Considered the world's worst industrial catastrophe, it's killed an estimated 15,000 people and lakhs of people continue to suffer with physical defects. The Indian government had also urged the organizers to drop the chemical corporation, but the IOC (International Olympics Committee) decided to stand by its decision. The Olympic stadium will drape in a cover sponsored by this very controversial company.
British Petroleum
In 2010, this multi-national oil and gas company's oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico drew global outrage but it still chose to tag itself as a "sustainability partner" for the London Olympics .The oil spill was the largest marine accident in the history of the petroleum industry and adversely affected marine life and the ecology. It's rather amusing that British Petroleum (BP) hasn't still cleaned up the leak but is spending millions in re-branding its image by being the official oil and gas partner at the 2012 Olympics (reasons enough to outrage activists, don't you think?).
Rio Tinto
Another multinational mining corporation is in the news for all wrong reasons. Rio Tinto, a mining company, is providing metal for the medals of the Olympics. However, reports reveal that the 'medals' (signifying victory) will carry with it stories of environmental abuse. The metal will come from its mines in Utan and Mongolia; both of which have had allegations of environmental harm. The company is also facing human right abuses at mines in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. It's a question if the company's presence at the games helps in promoting Olympics as 'environment friendly'.
Let's not forget the Olympic Games are a big business and countries shell out billions to host them. Top sponsors pay at least $100 million each. The London Olympics organizing committee had estimated the costs to be $ 5 billion but the expenditure is now over 15 billion dollars. No wonder the organizers choose to defend all the controversial sponsors!
Protests against them is so intense that critics of Dow Chemicals, BP and Rio Tinto, in particular, have decided to label them as 'worst corporate sponsors". A campaign called 'Greenwash Gold 2012' (link: http://www.greenwashgold.org/) is asking people to vote online for the most unethical sponsor.
It's highly unlikely that the Olympic committee will now drop any of its sponsors but raging controversy has done enough harm to the spirit of the games!
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The Eagles are not playing to their talent level this season. Some of it can be attributed to injuries but I put most on the playcalling and decisions by the coaching staff. The Eagles offensive line is devastated, could any QB and RB make plays for this team?
I'm sitting at 84-49 heading into the weekend. I need to have a huge run to get over .750 for the season.
NY Giants @ Cincinnati - The Giants are coming off a tough home loss last week to the Steelers. I think last weeks events caught up to the Giants. I think their routine during the week with practice and meetings was thrown off and it ended up costing them in the game. The fact that they were able to play as well as they did is a testimony to how mentally tough they are. Giants fans shouldn't take anything away from this loss, they'll be fine.
The Bengals have not matured as much as people thought in the second year of Dalton/Green era. Cincinnati hasn't beaten a good team and are struggling. They have a couple winnable games left on the schedule, but they're not making the playoffs.
Giants win.
Tennessee @ Miami - The Titans are falling apart and let Chicago hang 51 on them last week. They are finally getting the ball to Chris Johnson and he's producing. Other than that, there isn't much to get excited about. The Jake Locker era hasn't been given a chance but I've never thought he could play NFL QB.
The Dolphins are a nice surprise this year and lost a tough one against an emotionally charged Colts team. I still don't buy Tannehill as a QB but they have a good defense and they can run the ball. There are a lot of holes to fill with this team to really compete, but they're holding their own and competing.
Dolphins win.
Detroit @ Minnesota - The Lions lost the first match-up at home when the Vikings were off to a hot start. These teams are headed in different directions now. The Lions have put together a few solid wins and starting to get things together on offense. I know they beat a bad team last week but the best news is that they didn't play down to their competition. If Leshoure can really run the ball, that will help the offense. They still need to cover the secondary with smoke and mirrors and pressuring the QB with the front four. As a Lions fan I don't see them going anywhere this season, if they can even sneak into the playoffs.
The Vikings started off hot and were one of the biggest surprises of the season. A running game, defense and solid QB play was leading the way. AP is still playing well but Ponder has become the QB we all expected him to be. They can't keep throwing WR screens to Harvin all season, teams will shut that down. They need more production from the QB if they want to go anywhere.
Going with the Lions on the road, as a Lions fan this is a must win game.
Buffalo @ New England - The Bills are a very inconsistent team. Some weeks they run all over the field, some they can't move the ball. Some weeks Fitzpatrick looks like a starting QB and some week he's a mess. Their defense isn't doing them any favors either.
The Patriots are doing what they do every year, roll through the regular season. Gronk is a stud and Ridley can run the ball. They can only go as far as the defense will carry them this postseason.
Pats post whatever score they want this week.
Atlanta @ New Orleans - The Falcons continue to win every week and are playing well in all aspects of the game. Everyone keeps asking the same question, can they continue this in the postseason. I'm one that won't buy into this team until I see them continue it in the postseason.
The Saints beat a bad team last week in the Eagles. They started off to a really slow start and have suffered without their head coach. I don't think they are back and they still have a terrible defense. Don't put too much into beating Philadelphia.
Atlanta wins on the road.
San Diego @ Tampa Bay - The Chargers have four wins against some of the worst teams in the NFL, don't let their record fool you. I don't know where the strength of this team is, what they are trying to do and where they are going. They need to clean house after the season.
The Bucs found a solid RB in Doug Martin last week. Can he continue that every week with the injuries on the O-Line, that's the big question. This is a solid young team, but a few years away from going deep in the playoffs.
Bucs win at home.
Denver @ Carolina - The Broncos and Manning are in the middle of a three game winning streak and they have a ridiculously easy schedule the rest of the season. Their game @ Baltimore is their toughest game remaining. The offense is on the same page, they just need to get the defense playing at a high level. Good thing for Manning they'll run away with the west and, with their weak schedule, they might be able to get a first round bye. This season, no AFC team is solid on both sides of the ball so they could go far in the playoffs.
The Panthers finally showed up last week and won a game. Cam played solidly, didn't turn the ball over and the offense was ok. This team has bigger issues than winning a game or two to closeout the season. Will their coach get fired, who's back with the team? These are huge issues that need to be addressed.
Broncos win.
Oakland @ Baltimore - The Raiders defense was embarrassed last week by a rookie running back. They haven't beaten a good team and I don't know where they are going. Some of their players can put up solid fantasy points, that's the best thing I can say about them.
Joe Flacco isn't doing much to change the minds of his critics. He is not an elite QB. If the Browns could score a TD, they would have won last week. The best thing the Ravens can do this week is hand the ball off to Ray Rice 40 times and see if he can rush for 300 yards.
Ravens win.
NY Jets @ Seattle - Here we go with another week wondering what the Jets will do with Tim Tebow. I predicted in the preseason that the Jets would start Tebow coming out of their bye, looks like I was wrong. I do expect Tebow to start at some point this season. I don't think Sanchez is a great QB but you can't put this one him. He has no supporting cast and the talent has deteriorated every year since he arrived. This team needs a complete offensive overhaul, starting with the line.
The Seahawks are grinding out wins with a good defense, elite RB and solid rookie QB. They're not going to win the division but they can hang around for a wildcard by beating up on St. Louis and AZ.
I'll go Seattle at home.
Dallas @ Philadelphia - This should have been a great match-up of two teams competing for the NFC East title and possibly a top playoff seed. Instead, we're looking at a two teams struggling. The Cowboys are actually a lot closer to being a complete team than Philadelphia. I look at this roster and see talent on both sides of the ball. For me their struggles come down to coaching and play calling. With these WR's, Witten and a running game there is no reason the Cowboys shouldn't score 24 points a game. There is no other excuses; it's scheme, play calling, in game adjustments and just plain coaching.
The Eagles are imploding. I am shocked at how bad the offensive line played against the Saints. Vick was hit within two steps of the line. This is another instance of Andy and Marty not making adjustments. I'm not a coach but I know enough to know, with their terrible line, they need to keep a TE in to block and just run the ball. Until that happens, they're not going anywhere.
Because my fantasy team needs it, I'll go with Dallas on the road.
St. Louis @ San Francisco - I'm giving Fisher a pass this season, we'll see what he can do after a year. I do like their talent on defense and I think Bradford can play but he gets one more year to prove it. They need some help at WR. I think this will be their last chance to trade Jackson for any type of value. They should move him for some draft picks and let him play for a contender.
San Francisco is still my pick to represent the NFC in the Super Bowl. They're a complete team and Smith is playing well. Their brand of football can travel anywhere and survive in any type of weather. They are playing for home field throughout the playoffs.
SF easy.
Houston @ Chicago - This is the premier match-up of the weekend. Houston needs to prove that they are an elite team and can hang with the NFC. Schaub and the offense will be tested against a great Bears defense. Houston needs to make sure they don't turn the ball over and if they do, they need to stop Chicago from returning it for a TD. Houston needs to pressure Cutler and their weak offensive line. If Houston can get to Cutler and hit him, he'll go into his shell and start chucking interceptions all over the field.
The Bears defense may have more TD's than the Chiefs offense. They are getting turnovers and turning them into points. This is keeping the pressure off of Jay Cutler and the offense. Cutler is responding by putting up some great passing numbers. I like the connection of Cutler to Marshall, they just need to keep the other guys in the mix so the defenses have to respect them. If the line can protect Cutler, and that's a big if, they'll be fine this week. However, if Cutler gets knocked around and gets upset, it could get ugly.
I'm going with the Bears at home but, if Cutler doesn't get protection he could throw 5 INTS.
Kansas City @ Pittsburgh - This cannot be the MNF game. The Chiefs are terrible this season and it starts at the QB position. Someone that couldn't start in college or in the NFL doesn't become a franchise QB in one season. The Chiefs entire organization and team is headed for an overhaul.
The Steelers won a big game last week on the road. I do think the Giants were affected by their unusual week in New York. The Steelers need to protect Big Ben and run the ball if they want success. They've been doing that recently but I need to see it a few more weeks before I completely buy in.
This game shouldn't be close. Steelers win.
Teams are starting to be eliminated from the playoffs and there are some must wins for bubble teams this week. This is why the NFL is the best sport on earth.
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For nearly thirty years, Afghani weavers have incorporated images of war into hand-woven rugs
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Attorney Mark Gold has an oriental rug in his western Massachusetts home that most people call "nice-looking" until he tells them to inspect it more closely. Then they're enthralled, because this is no run-of-the-mill textile—it's what is called an Afghan war rug, and what it depicts is somber and stunning: cleverly mixed with age-old botanical and geometric designs are tanks, hand grenades and helicopters. "It's a beautiful piece in its own right," says Gold, "but I also think telling a cultural story in that traditional medium is fascinating."
The cultural story Gold's rug tells is only the beginning. Since the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, the country's war rugs have featured not only images of the instruments of war, but also maps detailing the Soviet defeat and, more recently, depictions of the World Trade Center attacks.
It was women from Afghanistan's Baluchi culture who, soon after the arrival of the Soviets, began to weave the violence they encountered in their daily lives into sturdy, knotted pile wool rugs that had previously featured peaceful, ordinary symbols, such as flowers and birds. The first of these rugs were much like Gold's, in that the aggressive imagery was rather hidden. In those early years, brokers and merchants refused to buy war rugs with overt designs for fear they would put off buyers. But with time and with the rugs' increasing popularity, the images became so prominent that one can even distinguish particular guns, such as AK-47s, Kalashnikov rifles, and automatic pistols.
A decade later, the Soviets withdrew from Afghanistan, and rugs celebrating their exodus appeared. Typical imagery includes a large map with Soviet tanks leaving from the north. These rugs, principally woven by women of the Turkman culture, often include red or yellow hues and are peppered with large weapons, military vehicles and English phrases such as "Hand Bom [Bomb]," "Rooket [Rocket]" and "Made in Afghanistan."
To many, this script is a firm indication of the rugs' intended audience: Westerners, and in particular, Americans, who funded the Afghan resistance—the Mujahadeen—during the Soviet occupation. "The rugs are geared for a tourist market," says Margaret Mills, a folklorist at Ohio State University who has conducted research in Afghanistan since 1974. "And they verbally address this market." Sediq Omar, a rug merchant from Herat who dealt in war rugs during and after the Soviet occupation, agrees. "Afghanis don't want to buy these," he says. "They're expensive for them. It's the Westerners who are interested."
While this may be true, it's likely that the first "hidden" war rugs from the early 1980s were meant for fellow Afghanis, according to Hanifa Tokhi, an Afghan immigrant who fled Kabul after the Soviet invasion and now lives in northern California. "Later on, they made it commercialized when they found out that people were interested," she says. "But at the beginning, it was to show their hatred of the invasion. I know the Afghan people, and this was their way to fight."
The war rug's latest form shows the demise of the World Trade Center, and many Americans find it upsetting. After September 11, Turkman weavers began to depict the attacks with eerie precision. Planes strike the twin towers with accompanying text declaring "first impact" and "second impact," and small stick figures fall to their deaths. Jets take off from an aircraft carrier at the bottom of the rug, and just above, a dove with an olive branch in its mouth seems to unite American and Afghan flags.
Kevin Sudeith, a New York City artist, sells war rugs online and in local flea markets for prices ranging from $60 to $25,000. He includes the World Trade Center rugs in his market displays, and finds that many passersby are disturbed by them and read them as a glorification of the event. "Plus, New Yorkers have had our share of 9/11 stuff," he says. "We all don't need to be reminded of it." Gold, a state away in Massachusetts, concurs. "I appreciate their storytelling aspect," he says. "But I'm not there yet. It's not something I'd want to put out."
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Afghani is their currency and banknotes can't weave carpets. The people are called Afghans!
Posted by Maximilian on July 26,2013 | 03:57 AM
I love my Afghan War Rug as I do all the other rug I have from Afghanistan.. They are all natural fibers, natural ink handmade with beautiful colors and craftsmanship but the war rugs are stirring and each one telling a story in a slightly different way. a great memory for my time spent there and most of them hang on the wall to view and not underfoot.
Posted by E S on December 10,2010 | 03:21 AM
I prize my Afghan war rug depicting September 11th which was purchased in Iraq. It's part of the human imagination woven into textiles which are representations of life. Sometimes reality bites but the truth is that life can be altered or at least perceived differently if we actually face the truth of events unpleasant to the collective human consciousness and experience.
Posted by Dianne Hendeson on September 6,2009 | 12:27 PM
Excellent article. I have a few of the early rugs so it was even more interesting.
Posted by w dowling on February 14,2008 | 02:28 PM
The AK 47 is a Kalashnikov.
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By John Ramsey Staff writer
More than 7,000 veterans have been waiting at least a year for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs regional office in Winston-Salem to rule on their disability claims, according to a recent memo from the office to veterans service organizations.
For more than 700 veterans, the wait has dragged on at least two years.
The delays have worsened for veterans in North Carolina, who are waiting longer for claims decisions than they were six months ago even as the VA works to eliminate its growing backlog by 2015.
It takes an average of 341 days to process claims at the Veterans Benefits Administration's claims office in Winston-Salem, up from 329 days in September. The office, which handles most North Carolina cases including Fayetteville and the Cape Fear region, has the second-longest wait time in the agency's southeastern region behind Roanoke, Va.
In the past six months, the number of pending claims in Winston-Salem grew by about 570 veterans a month, from 33,606 to 37,051.
The backlog is growing because more veterans are filing claims and the average number of injuries reported per claim is increasing, said Leigh Ann Skeens-Wilson, assistant director of the Winston-Salem regional office.
The office has hired 25 people to make claims decisions, trained organizations on how to submit full claims that can be ruled on more quickly and created disability questionnaires for veterans to give to their doctors.
Two months ago, the office began using a new computer system that the VA says should speed up claims once it is fully operational.
"We recognize that the current average wait times are not acceptable, and we are taking measures to improve our processing time," Skeens-Wilson said.
One in five claims processed in the past year in Winston-Salem contained an error, and 75 percent of pending claims are more than 125 days old, according to a VA spokesman and the VA's online measures.
The marks are lower than the VA's national average and, like the rest of the system, fall far short of the agency's stated goal of processing all claims within 125 days and making errors on no more than 2 percent of claims.
Fayetteville veterans make up about 3,282 of the pending cases, up slightly from 3,170 in September.
Cumberland County Veterans Services, a county agency that helps veterans file claims, serves 800 to 1,000 veterans a month.
Director Sharon Sanders said people sometimes come to her office angry about waiting for a decision and a check, month after month.
"I absolutely understand why they're angry," said Sanders. "I'm angry, and it's not my money."
Sanders said newer claims are being processed more quickly but seemingly at the expense of clearing the backlog.
The backslide in Winston-Salem reflects a national trend of claims piling up more quickly than workers can rule on them.
The Associated Press reported last year that 45 percent of veterans who fought in Iraq or Afghanistan are seeking VA compensation for war-related wounds, the highest rate in history. Many of those include conditions such as post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury, which are more complex to diagnose and assign a disability rating.
The system also has seen a spike in Vietnam War veterans filing claims because the government expanded its list of ailments that can be attributed to exposure to Agent Orange.
The VA has hired more than 3,000 claims processors and bought a $300 million computer system that is being rolled out office by office. The new system, which will allow for paperless medical records and should make claims processing speedier, is expected to be installed across the country by the end of the year.
But the system has been plagued so far by "system failures, slowness and errors in generating notification letters for veterans," according to an inspector general report issued in February. The report cited errors and disorganization in the process of scanning paper records to computer files, which could have left veterans' personal information vulnerable. The report said the problems have made processing claims more difficult, so it's unclear whether the VA will be able to meet its targets for improvement with the new system.
A Government Accountability Office report questions whether the VA is in a position to meet its goal of clearing the backlog because it lacks a clear plan. The report says the VA expects an increase in an already overwhelming number of claims as 1 million service members leave the military over the next five years.
Disability claims are not the only type the VA is slow to process. Pension claims that support low-income veterans and widows are often taking nine or 10 months to process at a VA office in Philadelphia, said Sanders, the county's veteran services director.
"These are seriously disabled veterans that have seriously low income," Sanders said. "Most of these are desperately in need of that money."
And simple claims that don't require rating - adding a spouse or family member as a dependent - are lagging in Winston-Salem.
Todd Shockley's daughter turned 18 last March. The VA system automatically removes children as dependents when they turn 18. Veterans whose children are going to college and will remain their dependents are required to send a form to the VA.
Shockley, a retired Fort Bragg soldier who served in Desert Storm and Afghanistan, sent the form to keep his daughter, Sommer, on his claim five months before her birthday.
Sommer has finished her first semester at Fayetteville Technical Community College. Shockley is still waiting for the VA to add her as a dependent. Meanwhile, he is not receiving the roughly $150 a month a dependent would add to his check.
"It's frustrating," said Shockley.
About 30,000 simple claims, known in the VA system as nonrated, are pending in Winston-Salem. According to a memo from the office, about 11,000 of those had not even been typed into the computer system. Putting a dependent into the system may take 18 months or longer, the memo says.
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Kacal, a Republican running for Texas House District 12 on the Republican side, edged Tucker Anderson.
Kacal had 4,230, or 50.88 percent. Anderson won 4,083 votes, or 49.11 percent.
Tuesday night, Anderson called Kacal and conceded the race.
Kacal is now set to face Democrat Robert Stem in the November general election.
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Twenty-five years ago this week, the Israeli army surrounded the Palestinian refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila in Beirut and sent in their Christian Phalangist allies. Over the next two days, between 800 and 2,000 Palestinian civilians were butchered in a scene of carnage that shocked much of the world.
This Saturday, Sept. 22, at 1 p.m., the Coalition for Justice and Peace in Palestine commemorates this sombre anniversary by protesting outside of the Indigo bookstore downtown (corner Ste-Catherine and McGill College), where they will call on Chapters/Indigo majority shareholder Heather Reisman and her husband Gerry Schwartz to end their support of so-called "lone sol-diers"—young Jews who emigrate to Israel alone to join the military.
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Set in northern Minnesota in the period prior to mechanized farming, this short novel is narrated by eleven-year-old Eldon, who lives on an eighty-acre farm with his parents, older brother Wayne, his father's Uncle David, and David's friend Nels. Eldon, a third-generation Norwegian American, presents a picture of a simpler way of life as he describes what he likes and dislikes about life during each of the four seasons. Gary Paulsen provides crisp and sometimes graphic descriptions of the softness of spring when the land thaws, the back-breaking work of summer thrashing, the autumn slaughter of pigs and chickens, and the camouflaging snows of winter. Work, particularly repetitive, physical labor, is the major component of the lifestyle that Eldon depicts. The love and bonds among Eldon's extended family compensates for the lack of material comforts and the isolation of the family from the rest of society. Paulsen also includes some vignettes about the pranks of Eldon and his brother, as well as vivid profiles of Eldon's father and his Uncle David. Eldon's mother, for the most part, remains a shadowy figure in the book.
Although Eldon finds some attractive elements in each of the seasons, he loves winter best without question because it is the time when Uncle David enlivens the evenings with his stories, four of which conclude the book: the story of the death of Uncle David's young wife, Alida; a Norse legend; a tall tale about a practical...
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Both time and place are vividly realized. For these characters, time is not determined by chronology or calendar; time is known through the cycle of the seasons. Each season is known by its distinctive work and play. Time is precious too; it is the stuff of days which passes all too quickly yet has ample room for the rich variety of chores, games, and rituals. Time can be stopped in stories, however, through the power of imagination shared by a teller of tales and his listeners.
The farm is the center of the world in the novel. Although it is located on the edge of a Minnesota forest that stretches limitlessly northward into Canada, the family concerns itself only with its fields, animals, and buildings. At the center of the farm is the house. It is so old that no one recalls the original builder who carved his initials in the wall. Although it lacks modern conveniences, it provides shelter and society. At the center of the house is the winter room. Here the family spends the long winter nights around the wood burning stove. Mother knits, father carves, the uncles chew tobacco, and the young boys wait eagerly. At the center of the winter room's life are the stories.
(The entire section is 210 words.)
Literary Qualities
The Winter Room is richly descriptive. Paulsen creates an evocative, sensory language to communicate the mood and rhythm of rural life as shaped by the seasons. The language employs several devices that accentuate sound and rhythm. In the first part, "Tuning," the incremental repetition of the phrase, "If books could be more," acts like the verse of a song or the invocation of a chant. The phrase expands in meaning and grows in intensity until it leads to a starkly simple revelation and reminder. Throughout the novel the characteristic device is a cumulative, elaborated sentence. Nouns, verbs, and adjectives multiply to give different aspects of one impression. Phrases and clauses are connected by conjunctions rather than separated by punctuation. The effect is a sense of assembling a rich collage. No one detail is more important than the other; the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
The Winter Room may remind some readers of Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House on the Prairie in its attention to description of landscape and farm life. Because young Laura was fascinated with Pa's construction of a door or building of a fireplace, she described the process in great detail. The reader sensed how easy it would be to imitate Pa's actions because the description was so precise. In Paulsen's novel, Eldon is similarly attentive to his father's plowing of the field with a tractor or to slaughtering animals for the winter meat supply....
(The entire section is 342 words.)
Social Sensitivity
Without being sentimental in the least, The Winter Room communicates the richness, the beauty, and the poignancy of rural life in an earlier, simpler time. It presents many positive values: it urges how family life and hard work can be satisfying; it appreciates the role of the older generation in educating the younger generation; it lauds human life attuned to the patterns and rhythms of nature.
Unlike many young adult books that stress conflict between generations, The Winter Room accentuates harmony. The adult world is not a world of privilege and autonomy but of responsibility and community. Paulsen's view is not simplistic or idealistic. The adult world has its pains; growing up is not without loss (as the story of Alida shows) nor without its poignancy (as the Woodcutter's tale illustrates). It has its sacrifices too: compared to Eldon and Wayne's pranks and play, adult recreation is subdued and routine. What adults and adolescents share is imagination: the former tell stories while the latter invent games. Both satisfy the human need for something, as Mother says, to "be believed in." The Winter Room is that rare book that cultivates the aesthetic sensibility of adolescents.
(The entire section is 194 words.)
Topics for Discussion
1. The chapter titles about the seasons are printed in italics; the others are in plain text. What does the difference imply?
2. "Tuning" wishes that books had smells and sounds and light, but they cannot. What do they have instead, which is ultimately better?
3. Does Eldon appreciate all four seasons equally?
4. Characterize the relationship between Eldon and Wayne.
5. Why is the winter room the most important room in the house?
6. Mother says that "stories are not so much for believing as to be believed in"? What is the difference?
7. Are there common elements of plot, theme, or characterization in the stories of "Alida," "Orud the Terrible," "Crazy Alen," and "The Woodcutter"?
8. Is Paulsen's device of letting the conflict between the boys and Uncle David be enacted indirectly better than having all three confront each other?
9. Were Eldon and Wayne right not to tell Uncle David they had seen him split a log with two axes simultaneously?
10. Uncle David seems magically transformed when he splits the log. Is the description convincing?
(The entire section is 169 words.)
Ideas for Reports and Papers
1. In a literary encyclopedia or dictionary look up the definition of a "Georgic." Apply the concept to The Winter Room.
2. Look up the definition of "pastoral" in a literary encyclopedia or reference work. Apply the concept to The Winter Room.
3. From Jim Trelease's Reading Aloud Handbook or a similar guide, get some advice on techniques of reading aloud effectively. Choose one of Uncle David's stories and prepare it for oral presentation.
4. The story ends with Eldon summarizing a new, enthralling Uncle David story. Write that story as you think Uncle David would tell it.
5. In a literary dictionary or encyclopedia look up the definition of a "legend." Apply the concept to David's story of "Orud the Terrible."
6. In the same source look up the definition of a "tall tale." Apply the concept to "Crazy Alen."
7. Write a description of a season as it happens in a certain environment: the city, the suburbs, a park. Write the description, imitating Paulsen's style.
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Paulsen has written extensively about growing up in the Midwest. Small towns and farms in Minnesota and Wisconsin are frequent settings for his novels. The Cookcamp, Harris and Me, Dancing Carl, and The Island all use these backdrops.
An important theme in these novels revolves around an adolescent protagonist who is coming of age through interaction with an adult. Sometimes a relative, sometimes a stranger, the influential adult is different or odd. Often the adult is a loner or an outcast. When the protagonist is able to get beyond society's assumptions about the adult or even behind the adult's defenses, the central character finds an important lesson about life.
The lesson is that in work or in love, adulthood often exacts a steep price for the privilege of independence. Paulsen's protagonists discover that beyond youth's voyage through new pleasures and temporary anxieties lies the adult pilgrimage into inescapable time and inevitable pain. The best traveling companion on the journey will be courage.
(The entire section is 162 words.)
For Further Reference
Brown, Muriel W. and Rita Schoch Foudray. "Gary Paulsen." In Newbery and Caldecott Medalists and Honor Book Winners. New York: Neal-Schuman, 1992: 324-326. This entry lists awards, includes a bibliography, and mentions background reading material concerning Paulsen through 1991.
Bruner, Katharine. Review. School Library Journal (October 1989): 136. Bruner praises Paulsen's ability to pen "a mood poem in prose," and recommends the introductory chapter, in particular, to teachers "who seek to illuminate the use of ordinary English words with extraordinary descriptive power."
Coil, Marianne. Interview. Standing Room Only. National Public Radio. WFYI, Indianapolis. April 7, 1994. Coil's interview focuses on Paulsen's recent novel, Winterdance: The Fine Madness of Running the Iditarod and his interest in the race, but it does include some recent personal information about the author.
Commire, Anne, ed. "Gary Paulsen." In Something About the Author. Vol. 54. Detroit: Gale Research, 1989: 76-82. The majority of personal information about Paulsen found in this entry comes from an interview Marguerite Feitlowitz did for another Gale reference series, Authors and Artists for Young Adults. Details of Paulsen's career and a listing of his writings through 1987 are also included.
Devereaux, Elizabeth. "Gary Paulsen." Publisher's Weekly (March 28, 1994): 70. Devereaux's interview with...
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Bibliography (Masterplots II: Juvenile & Young Adult Literature Series, Supplement)
Jones, J. Sydney. "Paulsen, Gary." In Something About the Author, edited by Alan Hedblad. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale, 2000.
Moore, John Noell. "Archetypes: The Monomyth in Dogsong." In Interpreting Young Adult Literature. Portsmouth, N.H.: Boynton/Cook, 1997.
Paulsen, Gary. Father Water, Mother Woods: Essays on Fishing and Hunting in the North Woods. New York: Delacorte Press, 1994.
Paulsen, Gary. Guts: The True Stories Behind "Hatchet" and the Brian Books. New York: Delacorte Press, 2001.
Salvner, Gary. Presenting Gary Paulsen. Boston: Twayne, 1996.
Wood, Susan. "Bringing Us the Way to Know: The Novels of Gary Paulsen." English Journal 90, no. 3 (January, 2001): 67-72.
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Source: Beacham's Guide to Literature for Young Adults, ©1999 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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There are a few inaccuracies here. First, this list does not concern *only* hybrids, but regular gas cars as well that just happen to be very fuel efficient (ie, the diesel Jetta and the Yaris) -- while the most fuel economic cars on the market right now are hybrids, there are non-hybrids that come pretty close, and kudos to the EPA for making that point crystal clear. This list is actually EPA's top ten fuel efficient cars for 2009 -- but it's incomplete. For example, I remember Mini Cooper making it to that list -- as well as the Ford focus (on the highway side). A far more thorough look at the EPA's calculations is offered at Jalopnik --
And, of course, for fuel efficient scoring in general go to www.fueleconomy.gov or www.carfunfootprint.com (for green and "fun" scores).
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