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Half the Kingdom
By Lore Segal
Melville House, 176 pages, $23.95
Since 2001, the already-abundant anxieties of living in New York City have been ratcheted up by an exponential factor. Abandoned bags have become potential tools of terror; mysterious smells could be toxic; the sounds of sirens or of helicopters overhead might signify an emergency unfolding close to home.
That unspoken anxiety has been captured in several notable fictional works: Jonathan Lethem's "Chronic City" presented an altered Manhattan that nonetheless alluded to everything from middle-class displacement to the terrorist attacks of September 11 2001 in surreal, though no less wrenching, terms. Thomas Pynchon's new "Bleeding Edge" is a more realistic account of several months of September 2001, albeit with Pynchon's trademark mysterious and ominous portents looming in the background.
Lore Segal's new novel "Half the Kingdom" taps into that same well of anxiety, and ups the ante by adding two more dimensions: the frustration of the unrecognized artist (which Segal's 1976 novella "Lucinella" also ably channeled) and the terrors of growing old. "Having an Alzheimer's epidemic?" asks Joe Bernstine, one of the book's central characters, during a visit early in the novel to Cedars of Lebanon Hospital. That chilling concept, with all it implies, pervades the actions that follow.
Joe, retired from a think tank and now at work on "The Compendium of End-of-World Scenarios," teams up with Dr. Miriam Haddad to investigate whether the onrush of dementia in Cedars of Lebanon is a coincidence, medical emergency, or terrorist attack. He enlists family and friends to take part in this investigation, and once this premise has been established, the course of action seems clear: we're in caper territory. Right?
Happy Mutant Baby Pills
By Jerry Stahl
Harper Perennial, 272 pages, $14.99
The narrator of Jerry Stahl's new novel "Happy Mutant Baby Pills," has a serious case of unrest. Lloyd earns his living writing pharmaceutical copy — specifically, disclaimers for the side effects of various drugs. He's also got a fairly severe heroin habit, and possesses a general sense of detachment from the world.
Lloyd is a particularly deadpan narrator. He's bleakly funny, world-weary, and appropriately candid. Stahl (and, through him, Lloyd) is handy with a turn of phrase, as in a pastor who makes reference to the "withered as the dugs of Satan." Late in the novel Lloyd notes that one character "looked exactly the same, except for missing an arm." In the novel's lengthy prologue, he says that years of drug use occasionally affect his sense of time, and warns the reader that "I used to write greeting cards. Sometimes I relapse." Thankfully, those nods to cliché manifest themselves as the bleakest of comedy — something this satirical, occasionally transgressive novel has in abundance.
Lloyd is savvy enough to come up with the perfect reference for nearly every situation, from nods to Nick Tosches's similarly harrowing body of work to Graham Greene's "Our Man in Havana" to Katherine Dunn's "Geek Love." Curiously, there is one instance where Lloyd barely acknowledges a cultural reference point: the discovery of a character with a name echoing Fernando Pessoa, author of "The Book of Disquiet." Is Stahl paralleling Pessoa's account of one writer's flights of fancy from his day job, and contrasting those idle thoughts with Lloyd's journey from frustrated writer to outlaw?
A family rumor was the genesis of David Laskin's extraordinary new book, "The Family: Three Journeys into the Heart of the 20th Century."
Laskin heard from his mother who heard it from her cousin Barbara who heard it from her parents: that they were related to Lazar Kaganovich, henchman of Joseph Stalin and a perpetrator of the famine genocide that killed millions of Ukrainians in the early 1930s.
Because Laskin's great aunt Itel (Ida) Rosenberg founded the Maidenform Bra Co., at one point the largest privately held company in America, Laskin, who spoke to the Forward on the phone from his home in Seattle, thought he had "a fantastic idea for a new book, the juxtaposition of a communist monster and a capitalist tycoon in the same family."
While his research proved the Stalin connection a canard, he discovered there was another part of his family he knew absolutely nothing about: "an entire branch of the family killed in the Holocaust," Laskin said.
Laskin found out about his family's tragic past when he met his Israeli cousin Benny Kaganovitz for the first time while traveling to Israel for his research.
Benny had interviewed his mother, Sonia, a pioneer, and wrote two unpublished memoirs about her early experiences. He also saved over 300 letters Sonia received from her family in the Pale, of the Settlement, in Volozhin, home of the famed Volozhin yeshiva. Going back at least four generations, the family patriarchs were torah scribes. Among the letters, which were written in Yiddish, were several from Sonia's grandfather, Sholom Tvi, who'd gone to visit relatives in the United States, just before World War.
The Holy Days are barely behind us, and we're already preparing for Hanukkah (the first day of which, as some have realized, coincides with American Thanksgiving this year). But between these events comes something else that should be on your calendar: Jewish Book Month.
Running this year from October 26 to November 26, Jewish Book Month is associated most visibly with the New York-based Jewish Book Council. Many of the author visits to North American synagogues and Jewish community centers that are highlights of local Jewish book festivals occur during this time period. Check this list of sites associated with the Jewish Book Council to see what may be planned during Jewish Book Month in your area.
But whether you're in New York or New Zealand, you can find ways to appreciate the richness and diversity of Jewish books and writing over the next month. Here are 10 suggestions:
1) New York's 92nd Street Y will host the East Coast premiere of "Saffron and Rosewater: Songs and Stories from Persian Jewish Women" (November 23). The performance is adapted from work by Gina Nahai, Angella Nazarian, Farideh Goldin, Dora Levy Mossanen, Esther Amini and composer Niki Black. The writers will participate in a Q&A following the performance.
Chani and Baruch are about to get married. In her heavy, layered dress, the sweat drips down the hollow of her back and collects in pools under her arms. She has never been kissed, never held a boy's hand. As for Baruch, such is his panic that he cannot even remember Chani's face, though they had been on three or four dates. The wedding night is within sight, a cause of anxiety for them both, each knowing nothing of the other or much about the act itself.
The Rebbetzin, meanwhile, is pregnant at 44 and knows that this child will be her last. One evening she awakes to find the bed wet and sits up in a spasm of panic. She calls upon her husband, Chaim, to do something and yet he is impotent in the moment, frozen by the scene playing out in front of him. The best he can do for his wife is cover her hair as she is carried off on a stretcher into the waiting ambulance.
Set in the ultra-Orthodox enclaves of northwest London, Eve Harris's "The Marrying of Chani Kaufmann" takes these scenes as its starting point, ambitiously shifting between perspectives and generations and examining a cloistered world with a judgmental outsiders' eye. "Chani Kaufmann" was recently longlisted for the Man Booker Prize (though not shortlisted) and sold out its initial print run in the United Kingdom. The attention has been a surprise to many not only due to the narrowness of the subject but since its publisher, Sandstone Press, is a relatively small outfit based in Scotland.
"The writing is fresh and bold and the author has shone a light on an unfamiliar corner of life and experience," Eilidh Smith of Sandstone Press told The Forward, when asked why they would pick up and publish a novel about London's Haredim. "The terrific subplot of the Rabbi's wife and her struggle is another element which really leapt out for us, making this book, which was already far more than a boy meets girl story, quite dazzling — endings and beginnings and the bit in-between.
If you're Jewish, and a sports star, you probably have an assured spot in David J. Goldman's "Jewish Sports Stars: Past and Present." But if you're found to be violating Major League Baseball's enhancing drug policy, you might not make the cover.
So it goes for Ryan Braun, the disgraced slugger who was suspended for the remainder the 2013 baseball season after he tested positive for steroid use. Braun has now been removed from the cover of "Jewish Sports Stars," published by Kar-Ben, Publishers Weekly reported.
Kar-Ben publisher Joni Sussman told PW that "While Ryan Braun is a very talented baseball player and we were originally excited to have a contemporary sports figure of his talent and stature with such a strong identification to his Jewish heritage on the cover, there was no question that, after the steroids scandal surfaced, his image was tarnished and he was no longer appropriate to serve as a role model for Jewish kids."
The book, now in its second edition, was scheduled to be published in August but was delayed until October for the change to be made. The original cover showed Braun alongside Olympic gymnast Aly Raisman. Braun will be now replaced by — who else? —Sandy Koufax.
A version of this post originally appeared on Ron Hogan's Beatrice blog.
I owe my discovery of Bernard Malamud's "The German Refugee" — published 50 years ago Saturday — to "The Best American Short Stories of the Century," which joined my bookshelf shortly after its release. And although I don't normally use the word "frisson" in everyday conversation, it describes exactly what went through me when I saw the title of Malamud's story in the anthology's table of contents.
Reading this story as a writer, I noticed several elements. First, there is the first-person narrator through whose eyes we learn of another character and his conflicts. Perhaps the most famous example of this technique is the Nick Carraway narrative of Jay Gatsby's story in "The Great Gatsby." In "The German Refugee," American Martin Goldberg recounts the tale of the eponymous "German Refugee," an older German-Jewish man named Oskar Gassner, whom Martin describes as "the Berlin critic and journalist" who had fled Germany in the months after the Kristallnacht of November 1938. In those days, Martin tells us, he "made a little living" by tutoring such refugees in English, and the meat of the story recalls the summer of 1939, when Martin worked with Gassner in preparation for the latter's delivery of a lecture in English.
Then, too, for anyone who focuses on language, this story yields rich rewards. One sees how a character — in this case, a refugee character — gains definition through speech: "'Zis heat,' he muttered…. 'Impozzible. I do not know such heat.' It was bad enough for me but terrible for him. He had difficulty breathing."
Laura and Marina are strangers. Their home in London is an island with a foreign culture, a cramped flat in Bayswater in which they are themselves outsiders. Their keepers — Laura's mother-in-law, Marina's grandmother, and her two sisters — are Hungarian, and speak with a heavily-accented English. Dar-link, they say. Von-darefool. Tair-ible. They host parties where cold sour-cherry soup, stuffed cabbage, and a carp suspended in jelly are served, and the guests have coiffed hair and wear faux-fox.
Marina doesn't fit in outside the home, either. A boarding student at Combe, a stereotypical English public school — "Cricket pavilions, and midnight feasts, and Gothic stone. Oh yes." — she initially had dreams of reinvention. "She would have to change her old self. She needed class. She spent the summer preparing." She read "Tom Brown's Schooldays" and "Billy Bunter" as one might a textbook, and tore out pages from old issues of the Tatler:
This was it: the future. It would feature cheery refectory meals beside tall friendly English girls with welcoming families; stimulating lessons in well-equipped Victorian laboratories; handsome boys writing her sonnets beneath historic oak trees. Soon it would not matter that she could neither hurdle nor paint nor sing, for at Combe she would blossom and become herself.
"And even when she had waved her family goodbye on the terrible first day, she had not realised how much worse it would become." Marina soon finds herself lonely and isolated, her visions of transformation dashed, and after every half term she seriously contemplates never going back. Marina is, as the title of Charlotte Mendelson's Booker-longlisted new novel would have it, "Almost English," almost Hungarian, neither here or there, not fully of either world.
Lauren Grodstein's books include the novels "The Explanation for Everything," "A Friend of the Family," and "Reproduction is the Flaw of Love" and the story collection "The Best of Animals." Lauren teaches creative writing at Rutgers-Camden, where she helps administer the college's MFA program. Her blog posts are featured on The Arty Semite courtesy of the Jewish Book Council and My Jewish Learning's Author Blog Series. For more information on the series, please visit:
Recently, one of my writing students turned in a story featuring an adorable, vulnerable child whose blue eyes were "wide with wisdom" or something similarly icky. Although I otherwise liked the story, I warned my student – my entire class, in fact – against this particular cliché, the urchin who spouts soul-ennobling maxims while either bringing the adults together or putting them in their place. This child is usually between the ages of four and eight, preternaturally mature, humorless, and almost always blond. I call him the Golden Child, and he annoys the crap out of me.
After I finished teaching that day, I met my four-year-old son for lunch in the campus garden. My son is blond. My son is blue-eyed. My son has a good sense of humor, but still: my creative writing students saw us in the garden and said, kindly, that it looked like I had a Golden Child of my own. I smiled through my cringe. They were right: Nathaniel is golden, as all-American as a fourth of July firework. I, on the other hand, look like I was just crowned Miss Shtetl 2013. In other words, my son doesn't look like me at all, and he doesn't look particularly "Jewish."
Does Your Rabbi Know You're Here?: The Story of English Football's Forgotten Tribe
By Anthony Clavane
Quercus Publishing, 304 Pages
Anthony Clavane's accomplished and engaging work "Does Your Rabbi Know You're Here?" now out in paperback, is not about what Jews have given to English soccer, so much as what soccer has given to English Jews.
This is not to minimize the contribution Jews have made to the game, particularly off-the-field. Clavane highlights the role of Willy Meisl, an Austrian sports journalist who not only bequeathed new ideas and tactics to the stodgy, long-ball English soccer of the 1950s, but also imparted a more cerebral, less oafish manner of discussing and analysing the game. Meisl spoke eloquently about soccer from the perspective "of the discerning outsider looking in, expressing a passion for, but still not quite becoming part of, English soccer."
In the boardroom, during the 1980s and '90s, Irving Scholar of Tottenham Hotspur and David Dein at Arsenal imported ideas from the United States about match days being an experience of their own. They sought to improve stadia to make them more family-friendly and to appeal to the middle class, as well as to exploit revenue streams such as merchandising. In laying the groundwork for what would become the Premier League, Scholar and Dein helped revolutionize English soccer by turning it into a product.
But for English Jewry as a community, these accomplishments are representative of the opportunities soccer has presented to become part of the whole. Clavane writes:
Earlier this week, Daniel Torday wrote about Jewish novella-writers and discussed the complicated "Jewish Writer Question." Daniel's novella "The Sensualist" won the 2012 National Jewish Book Award in Outstanding Debut Fiction. His blog posts are featured on The Arty Semite courtesy of the Jewish Book Council and My Jewish Learning's Author Blog Series. For more information on the series, please visit:
After five years as a magazine editor in New York City, I took the leap and the risk to exit the race and take an MFA. I was in my 20s and didn't know much more than that I loved books and wanted to write one. My first workshop there was taught by an African-American writer whose novels I love, and whose advice — every word of it — has stuck with me every day since.
In one of my first days there, I turned in a short story about a Jewish kid who goes to visit his grandparents in Montreal, and after a long night of drinking ends up skinny-dipping in a hot tub only to see, dramatically and in great detail, that his grandfather isn't circumcised.
This fact came under appropriate scrutiny by my fellow workshop members. Maybe the writing wasn't so hot (it wasn't). Maybe no one wants to read a long description of an octogenarian's foreskin (they sure don't!). So I demurred. The story's been in a drawer since.
But in private conference after workshop, the novelist sat me down. He could see how dejected I was.
"Look look look — so maybe you didn't pull of that scene," he said. "But you've got material here."
Earlier, Daniel Torday wrote about Jewish novella-writers. Daniel's novella "The Sensualist" won the 2012 National Jewish Book Award in Outstanding Debut Fiction. His blog posts are featured on The Arty Semite courtesy of the Jewish Book Council and My Jewish Learning's Author Blog Series. For more information on the series, please visit:
About three days after my second daughter, Delia, was born, I got a call from the editor of a novella I'd published the previous year. She said, "Congratulations!" I thought she was talking about the new baby. After three long minutes of my bumbling about diapers and sleeplessness she said, "You don't know, do you? You won the National Jewish Book Award!"
My first response was: Holy Oh My God! My second was: I mean, G-d! And my third was: Wait, so, does this make me a Jewish Writer? Because some part of me doesn't know what that means, and what that means for me.
So here are some facts:
Daniel Torday's novella "The Sensualist" won the 2012 National Jewish Book Award in Outstanding Debut Fiction. His debut novel, "The Last Flight of Poxl West," will be published by St. Martin's Press in 2015. His blog posts are featured on The Arty Semite courtesy of the Jewish Book Council and My Jewish Learning's Author Blog Series. For more information on the series, please visit:
I'm biased, having recently published a novella with strong Jewish themes. And this is deeply unscientific and probably not defensible. But I'll just say it unequivocally and then back off if need be: the most timeless, lasting novellas of the second half of the 20th century were written by Jewish novella writers. With apologies to Jim Harrison and Denis Johnson, whose novellas I love and teach, it seems to me that Philip Roth and Saul Bellow are the two major novellists (the proper epithet for the novella writer) of the past 60 years. You'd be hard-pressed to put Philip Roth's "Goodbye, Columbus" and Saul Bellow's "Seize the Day" up against virtually any other novella of their epoch and find them wanting. Those novellas have grown to be foundational texts of their times, cornerstones of those two major Jewish American writers' oeuvres.
But more than that, what distinguishes Roth and Bellow as novellists is the sheer quantity and quality of novellas each published — frequently. A quick perusal of the table of contents of Bellow's "Collected Stories" turns up nearly as many novellas as "stories" — "The Bellarosa Connection," which was published stand-alone; "A Theft," one of the Nobel-winner's finest; "What Kind of Day Did You Have?" clocking in at 70-plus small-print pages. And after the small masterpieces of his mid-career gave us the 86 pages of "The Prague Orgy," 96 pages of "The Breast," and the speedy "The Ghost Writer," the back half of Roth's celebrated late-career output finds the hopefully-future-Nobelist (a fan can dream, can't he?) alternating big novels with quick strike novellas published as "novels": "The Dying Animal" and "Everyman."
An anthology of 50-plus years of Ron Rubin's published commentary on topics of import to world Jewry, "A Jewish Professor's Political Punditry" (Syracuse University Press), is now available. His blog posts are featured on The Arty Semite courtesy of the Jewish Book Council and My Jewish Learning's Author Blog Series. For more information on the series, please visit:
Despite the contributions of the Internet, turning out a college daily newspaper today still requires human ingenuity and dedication, as it did more than a half century ago. Computers left to themselves don't write editorials, accounts of student council intrigue, reviews of drama society productions, or play-by-play accounts of intercollegiate sports events, and they don't know how to meet a deadline!
In my senior year at NYU's Bronx ("uptown") campus — way back in 1960-1961 — I wrote a lot about the facets of collegiate culture mentioned above. I was editor-in-chief of the student newspaper, the Heights Daily News (HDN). Since the newspaper covered a campus of only 2,000 students enrolled in NYU's two uptown colleges — liberal arts and engineering — the publication held the distinction of being "the smallest college daily in America." (By contrast, the Columbia Daily Spectator, which covered the comings and goings of tens of thousands of students and faculty at Columbia University's campus in Manhattan's Morningside Heights section a dozen miles to the south, had many richer and more provocative sources to draw from to produce its daily miracle.)
Earlier this week, Ron Rubin wrote about visiting the Soviet Union and Peri Devaney wrote about working on the postscript for her anthology, "A Jewish Professor's Political Punditry: Fifty-Plus Years of Published Commentary by Ron Rubin" (Syracuse University Press). Today, Peri discusses organizing the material for the anthology. Their blog posts are featured on The Arty Semite courtesy of the Jewish Book Council and My Jewish Learning's Author Blog Series. For more information on the series, please visit:
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Having worked with Ron Rubin in an editing capacity since 2003, I thought I was well aware of how prolific a writer he was when he asked me if I would put together an anthology of his works. And then came the boxes of newspapers, magazines, journals and other various and sundry periodicals.
And then came the emails with e-versions of his more current articles, and an occasional new article showing up even after I started working with the material.
As I said in my earlier blog post, political science and history are just not my bailiwick. So how was I to get through, select, and organize as much of this material as possible into an interesting anthology focusing on topics related to Judaism and Israel?
A plump, cherubic bar-mitzvah boy beams from the cover the new memoir "Oy Vey! I'm Glad I'm Gay!" (Intracoastal Media). That's Barry Losinsky, the book's author, a retired Maryland school psychologist and one of many unsung pioneers in a generation of gay men who came out when it still felt dangerous.
Born to Russian-immigrant parents, Losinsky grappled with his sexual identity — and weight issues — as the Vietnam war raged and race riots roared through Baltimore; with raw humor and disarming candor, the book details Losinsky's journey from awkward fat kid to sexually confident, happily partnered activist. The Arty Semite caught up with him by email in suburban Baltimore, where he lives with his partner George.
Michael Kaminer: We're talking just a few weeks after the DOMA ruling. Did you ever think you'd see something like it in your lifetime?
Barry Losinsky: I never in my wildest dreams ever thought that gay and lesbian individuals would be allowed to marry in my lifetime. My major concern, and that of my life partner of 46 years, had been the inheritance tax when one of us was no longer around. We've worked hard over the years for what we've got, and the inheritance tax in our state is the 10%. That's a lot of money. So years ago, he legally adopted me as his son to avoid that 10%. It's been a marvelous conversation piece.
Yesterday, Peri Devaney wrote about working on the postscript for her anthology, "A Jewish Professor's Political Punditry: Fifty-Plus Years of Published Commentary by Ron Rubin" (Syracuse University Press). Today we hear from Ron Rubin, the prolific professor she anthologized. Their blog posts are featured on The Arty Semite courtesy of the Jewish Book Council and My Jewish Learning's Author Blog Series. For more information on the series, please visit:
I've had four opportunities to visit the Soviet Union/Former Soviet Union over the years, the fourth being the trip I'm preparing for as I write this blog that will be posted while I'm physically there.
Each trip had a different setting, successively bringing me closer to my Jewish brethren. In looking back I realize how fortunate it was that along the way I was never thrown out!
My first trip, as a 26-year-old single in 1968, was mainly exploratory. I wanted to check out the terrible press reports, leave behind some Jewish books, and instill some hope. In this pre détente era when tourism between the USA and the Soviet Union was virtually unknown, I signed up with the Dutch Student Travel Organization, NBBS, for a two week all-expenses-covered trip costing $250. I was the only Jew and the only American among the 30 travelers. The railroad that left Amsterdam took two days and nights to reach our first stop, Minsk. At the intersection between the two Germanys, bloodhounds came on board to search. Crossing Poland, I recognized the names of towns like Bialystok, well known in Jewish history. Were these the same tracks used a quarter century earlier to bring Jews to the concentration camps, I wondered?
Life in London's Jewish community and Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe, billionaires in China and hard times in Ireland all feature in the novels vying for this year's Man Booker Prize.
The longlist for the prize, one of the English language's top fiction awards, names 13 writers from seven countries.
"This is surely the most diverse longlist in Man Booker history: wonderfully various in terms of geography, form, length and subject," said Robert Macfarlane, a writer and Cambridge University academic who chairs the panel of five judges.
"These 13 outstanding novels range from the traditional to the experimental, from the first century AD to the present day, from 100 pages to 1,000 and from Shanghai to Hendon," he said in a statement announcing the list.
Selected from 151 titles, it includes authors from Britain, Zimbabwe, New Zealand, Canada, Australia, Malaysia and Ireland.
Two authors, Jim Crace with "Harvest" and Colm Toibin with "The Testament of Mary," have appeared on the award's shortlist previously.
Things I Don't Want to Know: A Response to George Orwell's Why I Write
By Deborah Levy
Notting Hill Editions
In his 1946 essay "Why I Write," George Orwell identified four great motives for writing, including aesthetic enthusiasm, historical impulse and political purpose. The other, he observed, was that writers are "vain and self-centred," motivated by egoism and a "desire to seem clever, to be talked about, to be remembered after death, to get your own back on grown-ups who snubbed you in childhood. It is humbug to pretend that [egoism] is not a motive, and a strong one," he wrote.
Deborah Levy would seem to quibble with that last bit. In her recent response to Orwell's essay, "Things I Don't Want to Know," Levy ponders:
Perhaps when Orwell described sheer egoism as a necessary quality for a writer, he was not thinking about the sheer egoism of a female writer. Even the most arrogant female writer has to work over time to build an ego that is robust enough to get her through January, never mind all the way to December.
Billed as a feminist reply to Orwell, Levy's political purpose is indeed related to gender — both as female stereotypes in literature and gender constructs in society:
Peri Devaney's new book, "A Jewish Professor's Political Punditry: Fifty-Plus Years of Published Commentary by Ron Rubin" (Syracuse University Press), is now available. Her blog posts are featured on The Arty Semite courtesy of the Jewish Book Council and My Jewish Learning's Author Blog Series. For more information on the series, please visit:
As a book editor, my work had always been behind the scenes. When Ron Rubin (an author I had previously edited for "behind the scenes") asked me to come out from behind and have my name appear on the cover of an anthology of his works, I never considered the possibility I might wind up putting myself on the line.
As I understood it, my role as anthologist would be to cull through the anthologized's published materials, decide which pieces fit the anthology's theme, create "abridged" versions for some of the tangential works, organize the material in a sensible pattern, and write a preface and filler blurbs to provide a biographical background and help the reader move through the book.
All went as expected, the manuscript was submitted, and then…
A reviewer for the publisher's acquisitions department gave the book a "thumbs up" but suggested adding a bridge between the last of Rubin's published commentaries and the book's production. Syracuse University Press's editorial committee agreed, I discussed the idea of a "Postscript" with Dr. Rubin, and he informed me he would gladly help me write it.


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WASHINGTON – Russian President Vladimir Putin annexed Crimea almost without warning, and U.S. intelligence agencies aren't quite sure what he might do next, House Intelligence Chairman Mike Rogers said.
You know, part of the problem has been that it is really difficult with Putin – he has continued to shrink, Rogers, R-Mich., said in an interview for Bloomberg Television's Political Capital with Al Hunt airing this weekend. Those who made decisions, his inner circle has gotten very, very small.
Asked if U.S. intelligence was sure what Putin's next move might be, Rogers replied, No, you can't get in his head.
If history is a judge, Rogers said of the Russian president, there's more that he's going to do.
I believe he'll probably try to create a land bridge from Transnistria down across the top of the Baltic Sea to Crimea, Rogers said. And so we have some concerns that he is trying to create land bridges from Russia to Armenia. In Georgia, we have some concerns that he'd try to create a land bridge in Ukraine.
Rogers said lawmakers on his panel are reviewing Defense Department and CIA reports issued ahead of the Crimea takeover – one of them got it completely wrong, one at least laid out the scenario – to find out what was missed.
It could be a valuable lesson, he said. I think it, you know, a teaching moment for all of us.


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The first Lorado Taft payment was due Monday, Nov 17th in the office, for all 8th grade parents.
Grandparents' Day will be held at Washington Middle School on Tuesday, November 25, 2014. It is always a wonderful experience to meet grandparents and special people in the children's lives, so we are looking forward to this special day in our school! We are having a breakfast and entertainment for our guests, 9:00-10:30 a.m. A student who does not have grandparents to come is free to ask an aunt, uncle, adult neighbor or adult family friend, etc. to be a "Peoria Grandparent" for the event. (We will include parents at other events). We think the time factor will be a good one for our guests as they spend personal time with the grandchildren and enjoy entertainment offered by our talented students as opposed to visiting classrooms.
First, we would like to say thank you to all the teachers who volunteered to provide services above and beyond for our students!!!! HALF DAY WITH MR. CARPENTER- Alix R, Logan S, Neve K Draw Together at lunch with Mrs. Fleming- Sophie J, Aditi T, Lotus G, Razan N, Alexandra V Starbucks with Mrs. Randall- Anna G, Ashanti A Cooking with Mrs. Conard- Max H, Mirella E, Aditi T, Carolina R, Marisa P-O Have Some More S'mores with Mrs. Zacovic- Alix R, Cami P, Sam J, Ashanti A, Kim N, Marisa P-O Doughnuts with Mrs. Hansen- Alix R, Max H, Kylie M, Logan D, Coco W
Which Homeroom wants to win an extended lunch period? Clip those Boxtops and you can bring your electronics OR have an extended outdoor recess...How will you choose to use it? Contest ends December 12. Make sure to label you envelope or bag with name and Homeroom!
Washington Students celebrated good choices for the first nine weeks with Dodgeball Games. Games were by class, eligible students versus teachers, and eligible students also enjoyed pizza on the stage during the event.
7:15-7:30am and 2:00-2:38pm, students may only be picked up and dropped off in the North Parking Lot located near the ball fields. For student safety, only buses may drive in the Main Parking Lot during these times.
Save these labels(Campbell's) so the school can earn equipment. Ask your family, friends and neighbors to save them for you, too. Put them in a baggie or envelope with your student's name and homeroom on it. The TOP COLLECTOR will win a gift card to Cherry Berry! L4E sent us FREE BOOKS for the Library because we have done such a great job! Keep Clipping!
Currently every student in Washington has taken AR quizzes in the last 30 days. We would love to have 100% participation EVERY MONTH and an 85% or higher success rate! Way to go, kids! Students are only able to take quizzes while at a district school, but from home, the public library, etc., the student or the parent can login to Home Connect to check progress. Please check out the AR page on our website for more info.
Washington Gifted is one of 9 schools in Illinois to earn the Illinois Honor Roll's Academic Excellence Award 10 years in a row. For 2013, only 177 schools received the Academic Excellence Award because of higher eligibility and passing requirements, so Washington is very proud to still be meeting these goals. We have great students and great teachers! Keep it up!
Congratulations to Mrs. Prescott for being named Washington's Kiwanis Teacher of the Year. She was recognized at a luncheon on April 30 at the Lariat Club. Great job, Tracy!!!
Effective 8/8/2014, students' Compass Login will be their 6-digit Student ID. Their password will be their 6-digit date of birth (MMDDYY). Compass Learning is a 24/7 online resource for students that is tailored to individual strengths and weaknesses in Math, Reading, Science and Social Studies.
Washington Gifted had 6 regional winners in the EconIllinois Contest. Amy Le, Amy Lee, Austin Lin, Keegan McConnell, Tasneem Naffakh and Ariel Zedric. In addition, Austin's poster was 1 of only 12 chosen as All-State Honorable Mention.
CONGRATULATIONS to the following band students for their successful participation in the IGSMA Solo and Ensemble contest on Saturday, March 8th held at Illinois Central College. All students from Washington Gifted received a First Division Rating! Sophia Kennedy, woodwind duet AND Piano solo. Taylor Eastwood, flute duet AND Flute solo. Marisa Patel-O'Connor, flute duet AND flute solo. Alix Rule, flute solo. Cami Proctor, piano solo. Congratulations Band Students! Washington is proud of you!
Seventh grade students from Washington Middle School, seen here in front of an ambulance, enjoyed a field trip to the OSF Jump Trading Center. They went through a simulated emergency, learned the basics of CPR and examined a pig heart and lungs
The Peoria Riverfront Museum hosted Engineering Day on Sunday, Feb 16th. There were many booths set up by different engineering groups, but the highlight of the day was the 23rd Annual ASCE Contest. Students built model truss bridges out of 3"x 5" note cards and then tested the strength of the bridge. Congratulations to the nine 8th grade teams who entered.
Mr. Weinrich would like to thank the two FIRST LEGO Robotics teams for a successful season. Both the Storm Troopers and Flaming Impact competed in the regional tournament on Saturday, December 7th. It was a busy and exciting day, with teams from all over central Illinois. Both teams presented research projects, robot designs and programming challenges with enthusiasm and class. They also got to see what the other area teams had done. Lots of fun for everyone.
12:00 AM - 11:00 PM Holiday Basket Begins
12:30 PM - 2:30 PM Hult Health Center Educators @WMS
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3:30 PM - 4:25 PM Boys Basketball @Von Steuben
11:10 AM - 12:15 PM Student Council Holiday Basket Meeting at Lunch
6:30 PM - 7:30 PM Parent International Baccalaureate (IB) Meeting at Richwoods
3:30 PM - 4:15 PM boys Basketball @home vs Trewyn
8:00 AM - 12:00 PM Group Pictures for Yearbook
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM Newsletter
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Rihanna, J. Cole, a goddamn fire American Airlines July 8 2011 Better than: The Voice. Wait, does The Voice have fire? Rachel ParkerRihanna at the AAC last night. For more photos, check out the slideshow.Four spotlight displays and a rounded widescreen highlighted the swanky American Airlin ... More >>
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Whether you're at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt's End:*Roger Staubach to Tony Hill to beat the Redskins in '79. Alvin Harper running free against the 49ers to clinch the NFC Championship Game in '92. Dirk Nowitzki's long 3-pointer to secure Game 2 of ... More >>
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Each month ANNA offers a FREE continuing nursing education (CNE) program in ANNA's Online Library. This special offer is available to ANNA members only! This month's featured session, "Superbugs and Superdrugs," was originally offered at the 2013 Fall Meeting in New Orleans. Presented by Heather Nyman, PharmD, BCPS, this session focuses on infections in patients with CKD, pharmacology management, and dosing strategies based on estimated GFR and treatment modality.
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This weekend, Sajid Javid, the minister for Culture, Media and Sport announced plans to engage in talks with mobile operators in the UK to establish a 'national roaming agreement', whereby operators would consent to share their mobile network infrastructure in order to maximise coverage. The cause behind this announcement appears to have been David Cameron's failure to get a good mobile phone signal while on holiday in Cornwall, alerting him to the realities of mobile network connection in much of the rural United Kingdom.
This announcement achieved a great deal of publicity in the UK press, including some rather overexcited responses (the Times' front page headline ran 'End to mobile phone blackspots across UK'), but in none of these articles was the actual impact of a national roaming agreement analysed quantitatively. A national roaming agreement, while increasing network coverage for all networks, would not put an end to mobile blackspots as networks have a great deal of overlap in terms of their areas of provision. Using OpenSignal data gathered from over 40,000 users across the UK we are able to say exactly what impact a national roaming agreement would have, were one to be put into place.
The Average UK user has no signal 7.7% of the time, under national roaming this would drop to 4.9% – a huge improvement, but in no way an 'end to mobile blackspots'. National roaming would impact the discrete networks to slightly differing extents, as the following graph demonstrates:
The metric we use for analysing this is our coverage metric 'time on no signal', which looks at the proportion of time the average user has no mobile phone signal (2G or better). A part of 'time on no signal' includes a subset called 'time on emergency calls only' – a condition that arises when a mobile phone has access to an alternative network, but cannot access the network it is tethered to. Under a national roaming agreement, all 'time on emergency calls only' would therefore become time when the user did have a mobile connection. Therefore, by removing these times from our overall 'no signal' metric, we are able to derive the actual impact of a national roaming agreement on users in the UK.
There are two further notes that need to be made about these findings in order to put them in proper context:
1) National roaming would mean that absolute coverage for all networks was the same. However, the experienced coverage as reported by our metric, would still be slightly different – as the geographic (or demographic – cheaper phones get worse signal) arrangement of subscribers is different for each network. This can be demonstrated by a simple example – If a network has a reputation for poor coverage then consumers in rural areas may be put off from subscribing, meaning that the users that do subscribe are predominantly urban and therefore experience low 'time on no network' (because cities are generally well covered). Vodafone and 3 have a slightly higher current 'time on no network' but this may simply reflect the fact that they have a good reputation for rural coverage and therefore a higher proportion of rural users – who may not necessarily be served any better by any other network. 'Time on no network' represents coverage as it is experienced by its users, so one network having a higher 'time on no network' does not necessarily mean that their actual geographic coverage is any smaller than their competitors but may simply reflect selection bias. Our panel of 40,000 users is more than enough for us to be confident in the representativeness of our data.
2) National roaming would not necessarily be a good thing. If national roaming truly did 'eliminate blackspots' then it would be a good thing for consumers. However, since there will still be significant coverage holes in a post-agreement world, national roaming might end up reducing the incentives for operators to ever support these remaining areas. Increasingly, independent regulators (such as ourselves) are making coverage data publicly accessible, meaning that for the first time consumers are able to access accurate network information on which to base their purchasing decisions. As this information becomes more diffuse the market itself becomes more efficient, forcing networks increasingly to differentiate according to their network provision (speed and coverage) rather than simply price or handset availability. If consumers have to assume all networks offer the same service (because there is no way to verify if they do or don't) then national roaming would make sense as it would fit the market to consumers' expectations – helping them to make better decisions according to the few variables they can easily distinguish between. With better coverage information becoming more easily available, national roaming might end up limiting expansions that the networks themselves would make in order to appeal to different segments of a better-informed market.


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Mongueurs de Perl, AFPy (Association Francophone Python), Ruby France, and European Smalltalk User Group invite you on November 22nd for the 6th Open Source Developers Conference France.
The conference will be held in Paris, at Carrefour Numérique² of the Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie.
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best burger in denver?
i dont care whether its a fancy spot or not, but where have you eaten the best burger in denver? i have only seen recommendations here for City Grill and Cherry Cricket... any others? Thanks!
re: GroovinGourmet
No rare burgers. I have asked for medium rare and always get medium well to well. It is that fear of e-coli.
re: GroovinGourmet
That was one of the best burgers I've ever had. Just delicious and HUGE!
re: GroovinGourmet
I have to say I cringe anytime anyone mentions Jack N Grill. I think it's one of the most over hyped restraurants in Denver. Yes, the quantities are huge but I picture the ingredients being shoveled out of the back of a Sysco truck.
Don't get me wrong, while I prefer authentic Mexican food I still can appreciate good Tex-Mex as well. IMHO Jack N Grill offers neither.
Just one guys opinion - not trying to offend!
re: Strangewine
Jack N Grill offers neither Mexican nor Tex-Mex, so maybe that's your problem. They offer New Mexican food, which is different. That said, I haven't been in years so can't comment on recent quality. The last time I went there, however, it was definitely the most authentic New Mexican food I have found in the area.
re: LurkerDan
Nothing like chiming back in 4 years later. JnG still rules in my book. Service can suffer a bit when they are crowded, but that applies to just about anywhere. Cannot imagine a visit to Denver without stopping by.
I have to say, it's not a fancy burger, and it's takeout, only. But, Grandpa's Burger Haven has the best "old style" drive-in type burger I've eaten in Denver. The inside of the buns is toasted, the outside is a little greasy, and they put what I like on the burger. It's located on the West side of Federal around 1st Avenue.
Grandpas is very good. Beware of the double. They are huge, and a lot to eat.
Capital Grill is supposed to make a real good burger, and it is a (realtively) good deal (for an expensive steak house). I haven't had a burger there yet, but plan to. It is a good way to eat at an expensive reataurant, and not spend a ton of money.
The burger at the Denver Chop House is really good also.
People swear by Griffs Burger Barn (on Broadway right by I-25). I liked it, but didn't think it was anything too incredible.
re: Booger
There was a time when there were 7 or 8 Griffs Burger Bars around Denver, and they had a great burger. There are 2, that I know of, that are left. The one you mentioned, above, and one in old Downtown Arvada. It wouldn't surprise me if the ones that are left are under different ownership.
re: ColoradoFun
How could I have forgotten My Brothers Bar? It is great.
re: ColoradoFun
Great atmposphere, awesome beer selection, medicore burgers.
I've had burgers at all the places mentioned, that they are all good. But - my favorite is the Hillcrest Grill at 3rd and Holly in the Hilltop neighborhood of Denver. Their burgers are big and juicy with a lot of different add-on toppings. My favorites are balsamic onions, swiss cheese and basil mayo. Yummy.
re: Pampatz
Interesting.... obviously not kosher, but isn't that inside the Eruv in Hilltop?
re: Veggo
Veggo: It is in the eruv but certainly not Kosher. But then again so is Gunther Toodies.
If you are looking for a kosher burger we do actually enjoy the burgers at the East Side Kosher Deli. They aren't gourmet but if you order them medium they aren't bad. We don't keep kosher but family members do so that is what we will order if we go there.
GastroNaughty: we heard Cheeburger Cheeburger was really dirty and not worth going to so I appreciate the word of confidence, we mean to go there and don't. Also thanks for the good vote of confidence on Smashburger as well!
re: aka_zoe
aka zoe: working with Mike and Marcy from the East side kosher deli to extend the eruv while I was the city manager was a delight because they are such wonderful people. I helped with the Eruv in Mexico City when I lived there in the 90's, which was 100 times more difficult, partly for being danish. But we have kosher in Mexico.
re: Pampatz
Hillcrest Grill closed several months ago. It's new incarnation? Locanda del Borgo, an Italian restaurant.
As for best burgers, I love Smashburger, Burgers-n-Sports, Old School Burgers, Cheeburger Cheeburger, CityGrille and 1515 Restaurant.
I had a lunch appointment today in Cherry Creek. I was at Prime 121 on Clayton Lane. and ordered the burger. I could only eat half because honestly it was so big but delicious and seriously wanted to save half of it for tomorrow for lunch.
I also would recommend the burger at the Chop House it was one of my favorites for many years, substitute the french fries for their house made mashed potatoes.
There is also a new burger place called Smashburger on Kentucky and Colorado Boulevard that recently opened but that I haven't been to. I would love to hear any feedback from anyone that might have tried it.
re: aka_zoe
Check out Jason Sheehan's review in this week's issue of Westword.
I like Old School for cheap eats and 1515 for upscale. Mustards Last Stand is also very good. As far as national chains go, Lone Star does a great juicy burger.
cherry cricket is kind of overrated as far as quality of burgers go. It's a fun place and part of the popularity are that the burgers are customizable. In my opinion, burgers should be made with thick patties of quality steak, well-seasoned, and properly cooked to a temperature of your desiring; lettuce and tomatoes should be crisp and fresh and fries must be excellent as well, whether thick steak fries or thin and extra crispy.
Mel's in Cherry Creek has awesome burgers. But of course, if you go there, why not have something nicer of the menu, if Tyler is still chef there... or, that reminds me, Brix might be a good place too.
McCormick's downtown has good burgers (only come cooked well, though). But, during happy hour, it's 1.95, and that's a fab deal.
re: oryza
What place serves a burger that is not "customizable"? If you took the lettuce off would they take the burger away? Like a soup nazi of hamburgers?! That would actually be awesome.
Just kind of an FYI Mel's closed down several months ago in Cherry Creek (they later opened in South Metro and apparently are going to open another one where Montecitos is located) Also, if you are referring to Tyler Wiard (sp?) the former chef at Mel's he has been at Elways 2-3 years.
re: ColoradoFun
whew, time flies... I used to work at Fourth Story, before he left, then last I heard he went back to Mel's. Had no idea he went to Elways... but then, I haven't been working in the Denver restaurant world either. I boycott Elways just by virtue of being irked by the brand... but I may change my mind, just because TW's cooking was something else-- an art
Customizable in reference to Cherry Cricket isn't so much about leaving off lettuce or anything, but about putting chile, jalapenos, and other random stuff on it... like pizza by way of analogy. Another place that does that is Cheeburger (a small chain throughout the US... mostly east coast I think)
re: oryza
5 Guys Burgers (which is new in town) is very customizable. They have a roster of 30 ingredients that you can add to any burger free of charge.
I haven't been in Denver, but frequented some of the original restaurants in their chain on the East Coast (DC and Baltimore). Their burgers are very good (but I am influenced by all the extra toppings, as that is something I tend to dig).
Smashburger on south Colorado Blvd. came out of nowhere and is, consistently, the best burger in Denver. Vying for second would be Fatburger and Cherry Cricket.
Cherry Cricket is a favorite. You can pretty much top it with anything you want, from basic cheese to cream cheese and green chiles. They also have a pretty good selection of berr. I've been going there for years and have never been disappointed. (except for parking)
re: Heyteacher
Anyone try Chicago Mikes on Arapahoe and I25? This is one of my favorite burger joints and their fries are better than McD's (I think). They are a little pricey for what you get, but really good.
If you're into Italian Beef, theirs is out of this world.
re: plumber55
Where at Arapahoe and I-25?
re: RobynS
Chicago Mikes is in one of the shopping strips 2 blocks east side of I25, on the south side (Clinton CT & Arapahoe). If you know where Grand Slam is (now it's called just Slam), it's in the same mall.
re: Heyteacher
Two years later and since Fuddruckers closed down......the homemade veg burger with secret sauce and american cheese at PARKBURGER is TO DIE FOR!!!!! YUMMY!
Great post idea! Who doesn't like burgers? Communists? Actually I think they do.
No one has mentioned Rodney's Colorado Burgers? They have a pretty good list of ingredients to choose from and also have buffalo burgers. The burgers were very juicy and just greasy enough to taste great. To top it off, they have sweet potato fries, and they are delicious. Try it out.
re: bubba42
How about the burgers at the Ship Tavern at the Brown Palace Hotel? What do you locals think of their burgers? I had a burger book that named them in the top 3 in Denver. I get there once a year and I always grab a burger there. Thoughts?
Brown Palace Hotel
321 17th Street, Denver, CO 80202
re: mmostro
Had an absolutely terrible burger tonight at My Brothers Bar. Tasted like it's been sitting under a heat lamp for an hour - dry, chewy, and flavorless. One of the worst restaurant burgers I've ever had.
Service was really slow too - one waitress for 12-15 patio tables who looks to be related to the family that runs the place.
re: bubba42
Sorry you didn't read this thread specifically about the burgers at My Brother's Bar until it was too late:
My Brother's Bar
2376 15th St, Denver, CO 80202
I think the burgers at Good Times are great, affordable, everyday burger. They use only natural beef. Also recently ate at Deluxe Burger on East Colfax - it was huge and delicious. The Asian Chop salad was also worth eating there. I do not like the burgers at Eco Burger in Cherry Creek - they are grass fed and very lean, but to add flavor (and too much fat) they add a buttered bun and an aoli to the burger.
The Lobby in downtown Denver has stuffed burgers ... Try the jalapeño cream cheese ... also, The Counter at Park Meadows is very good
I'm surprised to see no one has mentioned Deluxe Burger, it's relatively new and fantastic. I personally love the Ahi burger but everything is good. Also, I know we aren't talking sliders but if you haven't been to Tag and tried the Kobe slider yet, I highly recommend it - so good! I normally don't even eat beef but I make an exception for this.
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I really like the buffalo burger at the Bull and the Bush and they have great brews to wash it down. Larkburger in DTC is also pretty good for a more fast/casual experience. And the $1 sliders at Steuben's happy hour is one of the best deals in denver.
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Ed Debevics used to be in Denver, but, might be a long Drive now. Gunther Toodys was very good, haven't been there in a while. The best New Mexican Burgers in Denver are at Twisters.


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