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The Good Lord Bird
A Novel
Soon to be a major motion picture starring Liev Shreiber and Jaden Smith
A Washington Post, Publishers Weekly, Oprah Magazine Top 10 Book of the Year
Winner of the Morning News Tournament of Champions
"A magnificent new novel by the best-selling author James McBride." –cover review of The New York Times Book Review
"Outrageously entertaining." –USA Today
"James McBride delivers another tour de force" –Essence
"So imaginative, you'll race to the finish." –NPR.org
"Wildly entertaining."—4-star People lead review
"A boisterous, highly entertaining, altogether original novel." – Washington Post
From the bestselling author of The Color of Water and Song Yet Sung comes the story of a young boy born a slave who joins John Brown's antislavery crusade—and who must pass as a girl to survive.
Henry Shackleford is a young slave living in the Kansas Territory in 1857, when the region is a battleground between anti- and pro-slavery forces. When John Brown, the legendary abolitionist, arrives in the area, an argument between Brown and Henry's master quickly turns violent. Henry is forced to leave town—with Brown, who believes he's a girl.
Over the ensuing months, Henry—whom Brown nicknames Little Onion—conceals his true identity as he struggles to stay alive. Eventually Little Onion finds himself with Brown at the historic raid on Harpers Ferry in 1859—one of the great catalysts for the Civil War.
An absorbing mixture of history and imagination, and told with McBride's meticulous eye for detail and character, The Good Lord Bird is both a rousing adventure and a moving exploration of identity and survival.
PART I – FREE DEEDS (Kansas)
Meet The Lord
I was born a colored man and don't you forget it. But I lived as a colored woman for seventeen years.
My Pa was a full-blooded Negro out of Osawatomie, in Kansas Territory, north of Fort Scott, near Lawrence. Pa was a barber by trade, though that never gived him full satisfaction. Preaching the gospel was his main line. Pa didn't have a regular church , like the type that don't allow nothing but bingo on Wednesday nights and women setting around making paper dolls cutouts. He saved souls one at a time, cutting hair at Dutch Henry's Tavern, which was tucked at a crossing on the California Trail that runs along the Kaw River in south Kansas Territory.
Pa ministered mostly to low lifes, four flushers, slave holders, and drunks who came along the Kansas Trail. He weren't a big man in size, but he dressed big. He favored a top hat, pants that drawed up around his ankles, high collar shirt, and heeled boots. Most of his clothing was junk he found, or items he stole off dead white folks on the prairie who dropped dead of fever or was aired out on account of some dispute or other. His shirt had bullet holes in it the size of quarters. His hat was two sizes too small. His trousers come from two different colored pairs sewn together in the middle where the arse met. His hair was nappy enough to strike a match on. Most women wouldn't go near him, including my Ma, who closed her eyes in death bringing me to this life. She was said to be gentle, high-yaller woman. "Your Ma was the only woman the world man enough to hear my Holy thoughts," Pa liked to boast. "For I'm a man of many parts."
Whatever them parts was, they didn't add up to much, for all full up and dressed to the nines, complete with boots and three-inch top hat, Pa only come out to about four feet, three inches tall, and quite a bit of that was air.
But what he lacked in size, Pa made up for with his voice. My Pa could outyell with his voice any white man who ever walked God's green earth bar none. He had a high, thin voice. When he talked, it sounded like he had a Jews Harp stuck down his throat, for he spoke in pops and bangs and such, which meant speaking with him was a two-for-one deal, being that he cleaned your face and spit washed it for you at the same time -- make that three-for- one when you consider his breath. His breath smelled like hog guts and sawdust, for he worked in a slaughterhouse for many years, so most colored folks avoided him generally.
But white folks liked him fine. Many a night I seen my Pa fill up on joy juice and leap atop the bar at Dutch Henry's snipping his scissors and hollering through the smoke and gin, "The Lord's coming! He's a'comin to gnash out your teeth and tear out your hair!" then fling hisself into a crowd of the meanest, low-down, piss-drunk Missouri rebels you ever saw. And while they mostly clubbed him to the floor and kicked out his teeth, them white fellers didn't no more blame my Pa for flinging hisself at them in the name of the Holy Ghost than if a tornado was to come along and toss him across the room, for the Spirit The Redeemer Who Spilt His Blood was serious business out on the prairie in them days, and your basic white pioneer weren't no stranger to the notion of hope. Most of em was fresh out of that commodity, having come west on a notion that hadn't worked out the way it was drawed up anyway, so anything that helped them outta bed to fight Indians and not drop dead from ague and rattlesnakes was a welcome change. It helped too that Pa made some of the best rotgut in Kansas Territory –though he was a preacher, Pa weren't against a taste or three – and like as not the same gunslingers who tore out his hair and knocked him cold would pick him up afterwards and say "Let's liquor," and the whole bunch of em would wander off and howl at the moon drinking Pa's giddy sauce. Pa was right proud of his friendship with the white race, something he claimed he learned from the Bible. "Son," he'd say, "always remember the book of Heziekial. 12th chapter, 17th verse: 'Hold out thy glass to thy thirsty neighbor, Captain Ahab, and let him drinketh his fill.' "
I was a grown man before I knowed there weren't no book of Heziekial in the Bible. Nor was there any Captain Ahab. Fact is, Pa couldn't read a lick, and only recited Bible verses he heard white folks tell him.
Now it's true there was a movement in town to hang my Pa, on account of his getting filled with the Holy Ghost and throwing hisself at the flood of westward pioneers who stopped to lay in supplies at Dutch Henry's– speculators, trappers, children, merchants, Mormons, even white women. Them poor settlers had enough to worry about what with rattlers popping up from the floorboards and breech loaders that fired for nothing and building chimneys the wrong way that choked 'em to death, without having to fret about a Negro flinging hisself at them in the name of our Great Redeemer Who Wore The Crown. In fact, by the time I was ten years old in 1857, there was open talk in town of blowing Pa's brains out.
They would'a done it, I think, had not a visitor come that spring and got the job done for 'em.
Dutch Henry's sat right near the Missouri border. It served as a kind of post office, courthouse, rumor mill, and gin house for Missouri rebels who come across the Kansas line to drink, throw cards, tell lies, frequent low women, and holler to the moon about niggers taking over the world and the white man's constitutional rights being throwed in the outhouse by the Yankees and so forth. I paid no attention to that talk, for my aim in them days was to shine shoes while my Pa cut hair and shove as much Johnny cake and ale down my little red lane as possible. But come spring, talk in Dutch's circled 'round a certain murderous white scoundrel named Old John Brown, a Yank from back east who'd come to Kansas Territory to stir up trouble with his gang of sons called the Pottowatomie Rifle Company. To hear them tell it, Old John Brown and his murderous sons planned to deaden every man, woman and child on the prairie. Old John Brown stole horses. Old John Brown burned homesteads. Old John Brown raped women and hacked off heads. Old John Brown done this, and Old John Brown done that, and why, by God, by the time they was done with him Old John Brown sounded like the most onerous, murderous, low-down son-of-a-bitch you ever saw, and I resolved that if I ever was to run across him, why, by God, I would do him in myself, just on account of what he done or was gonna do to the good white people I knowed.
Well, not long after I decided them proclamations, an old, tottering Irishman teetered into Dutch Henry's and sat in Pa's barber chair. Weren't nothing special about him. There was a hundred prospecting prairie bums wandering around Kansas Territory in them days looking to get a lift west or rustle cattle. This drummer weren't nothing special. He was a stooped, skinny fella, fresh off the prairie, smelling like buffalo dung, with a nervous twitch in his jaw and a chin full of ragged whiskers. His face had so many lines and wrinkles running between his mouth and eyes that if you bundled em up, you could make a canal. His thin lips was pulled back to a permanent frown. His coat, vest, pants, and string tie looked like mice had chewed on every corner of em, and his boots was altogether done in. His toes stuck clean through the toe points. He was a sorry looking package altogether, even by prairie standards, but he was white, so when he set in Pa's chair for a haircut and a shave, Pa put a bib on him and went to work. As usual Pa worked at the top end and I done the bottom, shining his boots, which in this case was more toes than leather.
After a few minutes, the Irishman glanced around, and seeing as nobody was standing too close, said to Pa quietly, "You a Bible man?"
Well Pa was a lunatic when it come to God, and that perked him right up. He said, "Why boss, I surely is. I knows all kinds of Bible verses."
The old coot smiled. I can't say it was a real smile, for his face was so stern it weren't capable of smiling. But his lips kind of widened out. The mention of the Lord clearly pleased him, and it should have, for he was running on the Lord's grace right then and there, for that was the murderer Old John Brown hisself, the scourge of Kansas Territory, setting right there in Dutch's Tavern, with a $1500 reward on his head and half the population in Kansas Territory aiming to put a charge in him.
"Wonderful," he said. "Tell me. Which books in the Bible do you favor?"
"Oh, I favors em all," Pa said. "But I mostly like Ezekiel, Ahab, Trotter, and Pontiff the Emperor."
The Old Man frowned. "I don't recollect I have read those," he said, "and I have read the Bible through and through."
"I don't know em exact," Pa said. "But whatever verses you know stranger, why if it would please you to share them, I would be happy to hear em."
"It would please me indeed, brother," said the stranger. "Here's one: Whosoever stoppeth his ear at the cry of the Lord, he also shall cry himself."
"Hot goodness, that's a winner!" Pa said, leaping into the air and clapping his boots together. "Tell me another."
"The Lord puts forth his hand and touches all evil and kills it."
"That warms my soul!" Pa said, leaping up and clapping his hands. "Gimme more!"
The old coot was rolling now. "Put a Christian in the presence of sin and he will spring at its throat!" he said.
"C'mon, stranger!"
"Free the slave from the tyranny of sin!"the old coot nearly shouted.
"Preach it!
"And scatter the sinners as stubble so that the slave shall forever be free!"
Yes sir!
Now them two was setting dead center in Dutch Henry's tavern as they went at it, and there must've been ten people milling about within five feet of them, traders, Mormons, Indians, whores -- even the Old John Brown hisself -- who could've leaned over to Pa and whispered a word or two that would have saved his life, for the question of slavery had throwed Kansas territory into war. Lawrence was sacked. The governor had fled. There weren't no law to speak of. Every Yankee settler from Palmyra to Kansas City was getting his duff kicked from front to back by Missouri rough riders. But Pa didn't know nothing about that. He had never been more than a mile from Dutch's Tavern. But nobody said a word. And Pa, being a lunatic for the Lord, hopped about clicking his scissors and laughing, "Oh, the Holy Spirit's a'comin! The blood of Christ! Yes indeedy. Scatter that stubble! Scatter it! I feel like I done met the Lawd!!!"
All around him, the tavern had quieted up.
And just then, Dutch Henry walked into the room.
Dutch Henry Sherman was a German fellow, big in feature, standing 6 hands tall without his boots. He had hands the size of meat cleavers, lips the color of veal, and a rumbling voice. He owned me, Pa, my aunt and uncle, and several Indian squaws which he used for privilege. It weren't beyond old Dutch to use a white man in that manner too, if he could buy his goods that way. Pa was Dutch's very first slave, so Pa was privileged. He come and go as he pleased. But at noon every day, Dutch came in to collect his money, which Pa faithfully kept in a cigar box behind the barber's chair. And as luck would have it, it was noon.
Dutch walked over, reached behind Pa's barber chair to the cashbox, removed his money, and was about to turn away when he glanced at the old man setting in Pa's barber chair and saw something he didn't like.
"You look familiar," he said. "What's your name?"
"Shubel Morgan," the Old Man said.
"What you doing round these parts?"
"Looking for work."
Dutch paused a moment, peering at the old man. He smelled a rat. "I got some wood out back needs chopping," he said. "I'll give you fifty cents to chop wood half a day."
"No thanks," the old man said.
"Seventy-five cents."
"How about a dollar then?" Dutch asked. "A dollar is a lot of money."
"I can't," the Old Man grunted. "I'm waiting on the steamer to come down the Kaw."
"That steamer don't come for two weeks," Dutch said.
The Old Man frowned. "I am setting here sharing the Holy Word with a brother Christian if you don't mind," he said. "So why don't do you mind your marbles friend, and go saw your wood your own self, lest the Lord see you as a fat sow and a laggard."
Dutch carried a Pepperbox in them days. Tight little gun. Got four barrels on it. Nasty close up. He kept it in his front pocket for easy pickings. Not in a holster. Right in his front pocket. He reached in that pocket and drawed it out, and held it, barrel down, all four barrels pointed to the floor, talking to that wrinkled old man with a gun in his hand now.
"Only a white-livered, tit-squeezing Yankee would talk like that," he said. Several men got up and walked out. But the Old Man sat there, calm as an egg. Sir," he said to Dutch, "That's an insult."
Now I ought to say right here that my sympathies was with The Dutch. He weren't a bad fella. Fact is, Dutch took good care of me, Pa, my aunt and uncle, and several Indian squaws which he used for privilege, and plenty others. He had two younger brothers William and Drury, and he kept them in chips, plus he sent money back to his maw in Germany, plus fed and clothed all the various squaws and assorted whores his brother William drug in from Mosquite Creek and thereabouts, which was considerable, for William weren't worth a shit and made friends with everybody in Kansas Territory but his own own wife and children. Not to mention Dutch had a stall barn, several cows and chickens, two mules, two horses, a slaughterhouse, and a tavern. Dutch had a lot on him. He didn't sleep but two or three hours a night. Fact is, looking back, Dutch Henry was something like a slave himself.
He backed off the old man a step, still holding that Pepperbox pointed to the floor, and said, "Get down off that chair."
The barber's chair was set on a wood pallet. The old man slowly stepped off it. Dutch turned to the bartender and said, "Hand me a Bible," which the bartender done. Then he stepped up to the old man, holding the Bible in one hand and his Pepperbox in the other.
"I'm gonna make you swear on this Bible that you is for slavery and the U.S. Constitution," he said. "If you do that, you old bag, you can walk outta here none the worse. But if you're a lying, blue-bellied Free-Stater, I'mma bust you across the head so hard with this pistol, yellow'll come out your ears. Place your hand on that," he said.
Now I was to see quite a bit of Old John Brown in the coming years. And he done some murderous, terrible things. But one thing the Old Man couldn't do good was fib – especially with his hand on the Bible. He was in a spot. He throwed his hand on the Bible and for the first time, looked downright tight.
"What's your name?" Dutch said.
"Shubel Isaac."
"I thought you said it was Shubel Morgan.
"Isaac's my middle name," he said.
"How many names you got?"
"How many I need? "
The talk had stirred up an old drunk named Dirk, who was sleep at a corner table nearby. Dirk sat up, squinted across the room and blurted, "Why Dutch, that looks like Old John Brown there."
When he said that, Dutch's brothers William and Drury, and a young feller named James Doyle– all three would draw their last breath in another day–got up from their table near the door and drawed their Colts on the Old Man, surrounding him.
"Is that true?" Dutch asked.
"Is what true," the Old Man said.
"Is you Old Man Brown?"
Did I say I was?"
"So you ain't him," Dutch said. He seemed relieved. "Who are you then?"
"I'm the child of my Maker."
"You too old to be a child. You Old John Brown or not?"
"I'm whoever the Lord wants me to be."
Dutch throwed the Bible down and pushed that Pepperbox right on the Old Man's neck and cocked it. "Stop shitting around, you God damned potato head! Old Man Brown. Is you him or not?"
Now, in all the years I knowed him, Old John Brown never got excitable, even in matters of death - his or the next man's – unless the subject of the Lord come up. And seeing Dutch Henry fling that Bible to the floor and swearing the Lord's name in vain, that done a number on him. The Old Man plain couldn't stand it. His face got tight. Next when he spoke, he weren't talking like an Irishman no more. He spoke in his real voice. High. Thin.Taut as gauge wire.
"You bite your tongue when you swear about our Maker," he said coolly, "lest by the Power of His Holy Grace, I be commanded to deliver redemption on His behalf. And then that pistol you holding there won't be worth a cent. The Lord will lift it out your hand."
"Cut the jitter and tell me your name, God Dammit."
"Don't swear God's name again, sir."
"Shit! I'll swear his cock-dragging God Damn name whenever I God Damn well please! I'll holler it up a dead hog's ass and then shove it down your shit-eating Yank throat, ya God damned nigger turned inside out! "
That roused the Old Man, and quick as you can tell it, he throwed off that barber's bib and flashed the butt end of a Sharps rifle beneath his coat. He moved with the speed of a rattler, but Dutch already had his pistol barrel at the Old Man's throat, and he didn't have to do nothing but drop the hammer on it.
Which he did.
Now that Pepperbox is a fussy pistol. It ain't dependable like a Colt or a regular repeater. It's a powder cap gun. It needs to be dry, and all that sweating and swearing must've sprouted water on Dutch's big hands, is the only way I can call it, for when Dutch pulled the go switch, the gun hollered "Kaw!" and misfired. One barrel exploded and peeled sideways. Dutch dropped it and fell to the floor bellowing like a calf, his hand nearly blowed off.
The other three fellers holding their Colts on Old Brown had stepped back momentarily to keep their faces clear of the Old Man's brains, which they expected to splatter across the room any minute, and now all three found themselves gaping at the hot end of a Sharps rifle, which the old fart coolly drawed out all the way.
"I told you the Lord would draw it out your hand," he said, "for The King Of Kings eliminates all pesters." He stuck that Sharps in Dutch's neck and drawed the hammer back all the way, then looked at them three other fellers, "And that includes you. Lay them pistols down on floor or here goes."
They done as he said, at which point he turned to the tavern, still holding his rifle and hollered out, "I'm John Brown. Captain of The Pottawatomie Rifle Company. I come with the Lord's blessing to free every colored man in this territory. Any man who stands against me will eat grape and powder."
Well there must've been half dozen drummers bearing six shooters standing round that room, and nary a man reach for his heater, for the Old Man was cool as smoke and all business. He throwed his eyes about the room and said calmly, "Every Negro in here, those of you that's hiding, come on out. Follow me. Don't be afraid, children."
Well, there was several coloreds in that room, some on errands or tending to their masters, most of em hiding under the table shaking and waiting for the blasting to start, and when he spoke them words, why, they popped up and took off, every single one of em. Out the door they went. You didn't see nothing but the backs of their heads, hauling ass home.
The Old Man watched them scatter . "They is not yet saved," he grumbled. But he weren't finished in the freeing business, for he wheeled around to Pa, who stood there, trembling in his boots, saying "Lawdy, Lawdy…"
This the Old Man took to be some kind of volunteering, for he clapped Pa on the back, pleased as punch.
"Friend," he said, "You has made a wise choice. You and your tragic octoroon daughter here is blessed for accepting our blessed Redeemer's purpose for you to live free and clear, and thus not spend the rest of your lives in this den of inequity here with these sinning savages. You is now free. Walk out the back door while I hold my rifle on these heathens, and I will lead you to freedom in the name of the King of Zion!"
Now I don't know about Pa, but between all that mumbling about Kings and heathens and Zions and so forth and with him waving that Sharps rifle around, I somehow got stuck at the "daughter" section of that speech. True, I wore a potato sack like most colored boys did in them days, and my light skin and curly hair to boot made me the fun of several boys about town, though I evened things out with my fists against those that I could. . But everybody in Dutch's, even the Indians, knowed I was a boy. I weren't even partial to girls at that age, being that I was raised in a tavern where most of the women smoked cigars, drunk gut sauce, and stunk to high heaven like men. But even those lowly types, who was so braced on joy juice they wouldn't know a boll weevil from a cotton ball and couldn't tell one colored from the other knowed the difference between me and a girl I opened my mouth to correct the Old Man on that notion, but right then a wave of high pitched whining seemed to cover the room and I couldn't holler past it. It was only after a few moments that I realized that that all that bellowing and wailing was coming from my own throat, and I confess here I lost my water.
Pa was panicked. He stood there shaking like shook of corn. "Massa, my Henry ain't a –
"We've no time to rationalize your thoughts of mental dependency, sir!" the Old Man snapped, cutting Pa off, still holding the rifle on the room. "We have to move. Courageous friend, I will take you and your Henrietta to safety." See, my true name is Henry Shackleford. But the Old Man heard Pa say "Henry ain't a," and took it to be "Henrietta," which is how the Old Man's mind worked. Whatever he believed, he believed. It didn't matter to him whether it was really true or not. He just the changed the truth till it fit him. He was a real white man.
"But my s—
"Courage friend!" he said to Pa, "for we has a ram in the bush. Remember Joel first chapter, fourth verse: 'That which the palmerworm hath left, hath the locust eaten. And that which the locust hath left, hath the canker worm eaten. And that which the canker worm hath left, hath the caterpillar eaten.'"
"What's that mean?" Pa asked.
"You'll be eaten alive if you stay here."
"But my child here ain't no gi---
"Shush!" said the Old Man. "We can't tarry. We can talk raising her to The Holy Word later."
He grabbed my hand, and still holding that Sharps at the ready, backed towards the rear door. I heard horses charging down the back alley. When he got to the door, he released my hand for a moment to fling it open, and as he did, Pa charged him.
At the same time, Dutch lunged for one of the Colts laying on the floor, snatched it up, pointed the hot end at the Old Man, and fired.
The bullet missed the Old Man and struck the edge of the door, sending a sliver of wood about an inch long, out sideways. The sliver jutted out the side of the door like a knife, straight horizontal, about chest high - and Pa runned right into it. Right into his chest it went.
He staggered back, dropped to the floor, and blowed out his spark right there.
By now the clabbering of horses making their way down the alley at hot speed was on us, and the Old Man kicked the door open wide.
Dutch Henry, setting on the floor, hollered, "Nigger thief! You owe me $1,200 dollars!"
"Bill me," the Old Man said. Then he picked me up with one hand, stepped into the alley, and we was gone.
Winner of the Morning News Tournament of Books
Praise for The Good Lord Bird
"A magnificent new novel by the best-selling author James McBride…a brilliant romp of a novel…McBride—with the same flair for historical mining, musicality of voice and outsize characterization that made his memoir, The Color of Water, an instant classic—pulls off his portrait masterfully, like a modern-day Mark Twain: evoking sheer glee with every page." —The New York Times Book Review
"You may know the story of John Brown's unsuccessful raid on Harpers Ferry, but author James McBride's retelling of the events leading up to it is so imaginative, you'll race to the finish."—NPR
"A boisterous, highly entertaining, altogether original novel by James McBride...There is something deeply humane in this [story], something akin to the work of Homer or Mark Twain. McBride's Little Onion — a sparkling narrator who is sure to win new life on the silver screen — leads us through history's dark corridors, suggesting that "truths" may actually lie elsewhere." —The Washington Post
"Wildly entertaining…From the author of The Color of Water, a rollicking saga about one of America's earliest abolitionists." —People (4 star review; "People Pick")
"McBride delivers another tour de force...A fascinating mix of history and mystery."—Essence
"A story that's difficult to put down."—Ebony
"Outrageously entertaining…The Good Lord Bird rockets toward its inevitable and, yes, knee-slapping conclusion. Never has mayhem been this much of a humdinger." —USA Today
"An impressively deep comedy...It's a view of the antebellum world refreshingly free of pieties, and full of questions about the capacity of human beings to act on their sense of right and wrong, about why the world is the way it is, and what any one of us can do to make it better. It's the rare comic novel that delves so deep." —Salon
"Both breezy and sharp, a rare combination outside of Twain. You should absolutely read it." —Kathryn Schulz, New York Magazine
"A superbly written novel....McBride...transcends history and makes it come alive."—The Chicago Tribune
"Absorbing and darkly funny."—The San Francisco Chronicle
"An irrepressibly fun read."—The Seattle Times
"As in Huck Finn, this novel comes in through the back door of history, telling you something you might not know by putting you in the heat of the action…It is a compelling story and an important one, told in a voice that is fresh and apolitical." —Minneapolis Star Tribune
"Exhilarating… McBride makes what could be a confusing tale clear and creates suspense even in a story whose end is well-known. Beneath the humor lies sympathy for Brown and all those whose lives were caught up with his." —Columbus Dispatch
"Outrageously funny, sad... McBride puts a human face on a nation at its most divided."—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"A sizzling historical novel that is an evocative escapade and a provocative pastiche of Larry McMurtry's salty western satires and William Styron's seminal insurrection masterpiece, The Confessions of Nat Turner." —Booklist (starred review)
"[The Good Lord Bird] recalls the broad humor and irony of Mark Twain." —Bloomberg News
"The Good Lord Bird is just so brilliant. It had everything I want in a novel and left me feeling both transported and transformed—the last book I remember loving so thoroughly was The Orphan Master's Son."—John Green (in judging the Morning News Tournament of Books)
"[McBride's] effervescent young narrator is pitch-perfect and wholly original."—Geraldine Brooks (in judging the Morning News Tournament of Books)
"For years we have waited for a response to William Styron's The Confessions of Nat Turner. So long, in fact, that we forgot we were waiting. The Good Lord Bird sings like a bird set free, with a voice that ought to join Huck Finn, the narrators of Toni Morrison's Jazz, and Junot Díaz's Oscar Wao as a voice which is here to tell us who we are in music so lovely we almost forget it was born in terrible pain. It's an alarmingly beautiful book."—John Freeman (in judging the Morning News Tournament of Books)


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Millions of children in Europe now face a "bleak future" of lower life expectancy and higher risks of going into care or becoming homeless as the economic crisis continues, organizations and social policy experts told CNBC.
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"Unfortunately we're likely to see more children going into care, more children dropping out of school and more families becoming homeless. It's difficult to see when the vicious cycle will end," Jana Hainsworth, the Secretary General of organization Eurochild, told CNBC.
Hainsworth's comments come as euro zone unemployment reached a record high of 12.1 percent in March. With some 19.2 million people now out of work in the single currency bloc, the jobless rate has reached the highest level since the euro's inception in 1999.
Unemployment rates are even worse for young people aged under 25, with over 50 percent of young people jobless in Spain and Greece.
"Many children and young people feel disengaged and a sense of hopelessness in the future. The very fabric of European society is at risk…governments need to take a long-term perspective and invest in future generations," Hainsworth added.
"Rather than protecting and reinforcing investment in children and families, governments are cutting budgets in the health, education and social sectors. The risks for the next generation are huge. We are witnessing growing inequalities and segregation in society," Hainsworth added.
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Over the last few years as euro zone economies have contracted and austerity measures have been imposed across the continent, the popularity of food banks has risen as family homelessness and child abandonment increased.
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Chris Grover, senior lecturer in Social Policy at Lancaster University in the U.K., told CNBC the number of people using food banks, which provide a few days' supply of basic foodstuffs free of charge, tripled between 2011-12 and 2012-13 in the U.K.
"Similar services in Greece are feeding thousands of people on a daily basis [and] it is reported that the Red Cross is currently giving out more food in Europe than it has since the end of the Second World War," he added.
Grover, who is the author of a report entitled "Child Poverty in an Age of Austerity" for the U.K. child protection charity the NSPCC, said that countries imposing "brutal cuts" need "to think carefully about the longer term consequences of their actions."
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"Many children in the European Union currently face a bleak future because of cuts to public spending and the numbers living in poverty are likely to increase…Increasing levels of poverty among children will have a fundamental impact upon their life chances. The children of the least well off are more likely to die as children, and to die at younger age in adulthood than their better off peers," Grover said.
"They are also less likely to gain good educational qualifications, are more likely to be excluded from school and to be involved with criminal justice agencies, and to be working in low paid, casualized sectors of the economy. Overall, children born into poor families today are likely to die poor," he added.
Poverty in the Future
Grover told CNBC that governments had to invest in the future generation by increasing spending on education and vocational training for young adults if they are to be equipped to meet "future economic challenges."
(Read More: Depression, Suicides Rise as Euro Debt Crisis Intensifies)
For example, he said, it is estimated that the number of children living in poverty in the U.K. will increase from 2.5 million in 2011 to 3.3 million in 2020, and many experts are pessimistic about the target of raising 20 million people across Europe out of the risk of poverty and social exclusion by 2020," Grover said.
The European Commission has urged EU countries to put more emphasis on social investment but many governments are straining to invest in social programs and the educational infrastructure. Both Grover and Hainsworth said that they and "many experts" are pessimistic about the target of raising 20 million people across Europe out of the risk of poverty and social exclusion by 2020.
In a joint report with the European Anti-Poverty Network (EAPN), Eurochild noted that the current crisis was a "social crime."
"This is a social crime in an EU that prides itself on its social model, an attack on fundamental rights and a failure to invest in people and in our future. Can the EU afford the price?"


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Used to be my favorite place to eat – As a kid I dined at Hong Kong Inn regularly, I stopped going probably around 2007, and then went last year for the first time since then. I was appalled! The broccoli with the orange chicken dish I had ordered was completely dehydrated because it had been cooked so long. The breading was falling off the chicken completely, not to mention they added way too much salt to the egg drop soup. It was a terrible turn around from the restaurant I once loved and looked forward to eating at! All I can wonder is if they got a knew cook, or if they lost their old owner.
5 years ago I would of recommended this place to everyone. Now, not so much!
Mediocre and Americanized – After reading the other reviews of the Hong Kong Inn on this website, I was excited and surprised to find a hopefully authentic Chinese restaurant in Indianapolis. After eating there, I realized that my hopes were in vain. The food at this restaurant was okay at best. I will say, though that their egg roll was one of the best I've ever had; but, the rest of the food was too sweet and the flavors just did not fit in with what authentic Chinese food should be. I have many friends who grew up in China, and I know for a fact that they would not claim Hong Kong Inn to be authentic.
The BEST Chinese Food – This is the best Chinese you will find. It is one of the last authentic Chinese food restaurants around. You use to be able to find this kind of food everywhere when I was growing up but as the "fast food" Chinese started creeping up the genuine ones started to close. If you want a real eggroll this is the place. They are big and crispy and filled with lots of flavorful ingredients including tiny shrimp. If it is chow mein you want they make it with bean sprouts and the tiny crispy chow mein noodles. If you are a true Chinese food lover you owe it to yourself to try this place. The only problem is, once you have had it you will never be the same. I live on the west side of Carmel and it is quite a trip but well worth it.
Editorial Review by Christy Buena – Locals flock for fresh egg rolls, authentic Chinese cuisine and fast, friendly service at the restaurant that offers tropical drinks.
Best Chinese Food in Indianapolis! – The food is wonderful. It's not that processed stuff you get at those china buffet's, this is really good food! The egg rolls are big and the best I've ever had in Indy. My family has been going here since I was a little girl and it has always been one of my favorite restaurants.
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London home of Sigmund Freud and his family who came to England in 1938 as refugees from Nazi-occupied Vienna. Freud was able to bring with him his library papers, collection of antiquities and furniture, including his desk and famous couch. Freud lived here until his death in 1939 and his daughter, Anna Freud, continued to live here until her death in 1982. Freud's library and study remain as he left it. On the first floor is an exhibition room and video room where the public can view 2 videos including 'Freud's home movies'.
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What a shame, such a nice park and it's not maintained. There is no grass, just loads of thorny weeds and dirt. The weeds aren't even mowed and some were over 2 feet high. There is no shade or trees and no Wi-Fi. On the plus side, the hookups are good and the concrete pads are nice. The park is easy to navigate and big rig friendly. The whole park is satellite TV friendly with nothing to obstruct the signal. I also got over 20 stations with my antenna. Cell phone and Verizon air card work well here. They have a park host, but I was told they are usually not here. We never saw them at their camp site. What good is a park host that's not there? I made a reservation and paid via phone. When I got to the base, they had no record of my reservation. Took about 45 minutes to sort out. I would give them a higher rating if they just had someone to look after the park and maybe clean the restrooms and mow the weeds. The place has potential, but at present it's badly neglected. When entering the base come in the commercial gate which is at the corner of Mississippi and Aspen streets. When you approach the gate, take the RIGHT lane. They had an RV try to take the left lane, but it's too narrow for all but the smallest rig. This guy got wedged between the concrete barriers. We camped here in a Motorhome.
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Buckley Air National Guard Base famcamp (retired/active duty military only) is located at the end of Steamboat Road. To get on the base you MUST go through the commercial gate. (Intersection of E. Mississippi and S. Aspen or coordinates 39.69654N and 104.76995W.) This campground offers FHU sites (30 & 50 Amp) with moderately level cement slabs (some pull through, some back in), picnic table and, an in-ground charcoal grill. The process is you go to the CG, find a site and then go to the RV office. In Aurora's hot summertime you best have a strong A/C unit as there is NO shade at any site we viewed. They claim to have planted trees, but some unnamed thief removed them. They have 2 showers and 2 toilet stalls per M/W restroom, no WiFi but free laundry (2 washers/2 dryers, very inadequate for a campground this size) and no organized campground events. We are here through the weekend due to a problem with our RV engine. The previous reviewers were pretty much right on. The RV office is not at the park but is located at 538 S. Aspen Way (Bldg 1022). They have a surprisingly nice commissary, BX (well stocked and fairly large) plus gas station, but no diesel. Our Verion 4G air card worked well and there are TV antenna stations available. A nice, paved, long bike/walking trail beside the campground offers the chance to walk the dogs or stretch your legs. They have a camp host but their site is unmarked, they never came around to identify themselves, nor do they appear to check the sites. For the price we would consider this park in the future, but NOT during Denver's hot summer or cold winter days. We camped here in a Motorhome.
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Before making reservations we checked out their website. Directions to arrive are spot on. Exit 7 (GPS indicated exit 9) through a commercial gate. There is a sign that indicates that RVs check in on right, but do not have to with personal vehicles, just proceed to gate. Straight on Aspen to Steamboat (you will see main gate) before turning right. CG was well thought out for convenience of getting in and out of sites. Lots of space between sites, concrete pads and paved roads. Each site has wonderful picnic table and grill (ours must have never been used before). The things lacking to get a rating of 7. It was hard to make this reservation: took 3-4 phone calls to finally reach a person. Site was paid for with Visa, so no receipt received. Since this was an overnighter we were not disconnecting to check in at bldg 1022, and get one (no one at CG when arrived). CG is definitely right along the flight line, no shade, no pool and the grounds (grass) are in need of attention. More weeds and scratchy grass. It would be a stretch if we stay here again, really hard up. We camped here in a Travel Trailer.
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This park just opened on April 1. It is a very nice park. The parking pads are cement and electric is 50 Amp. There is no cable TV, but you can pick up all the Denver channels on your antenna. They do not have Wi-Fi yet, but they say they are working on it. We used the laundry which was free. There were 2 washers and 2 dryers. Since they just opened April 1, I am thinking that the laundry might not always be free. There was only 1 trash dumpster and that would not be enough if the place was full which I am sure it will be as the season progresses. There was no shade but it is on the plains next to the base flight line and so if felt OK not having trees. There was a lot of grass. Only real negative was the crabby old man who checked us in. He communicated in grunts and acted as though we were bothering him. Maybe he needs the customer service course. The woman in the office was very personable and knowledgeable. We camped here in a Motorhome.
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Android Market Update Rolls Out
Designed to aid developers in the commercial distribution of their applications, the new Google Android Market client streamlines the browse-to-purchase experience.
Discoverability and merchandising are only two of the improved areas of the Market client; a new carousel on the home and category screens were added as well. From the promoted applications page, users can flip through the carousel and can get to the download page for the applications they want faster and more efficiently. Also added to the app details page is Related content so users can find similar apps. In addition to the those improvements, developers have added both Widget and Live Wallpaper categories, with plans to add more popular games and applications categories.
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President Obama addressed the nation this evening about the explosions that have rocked Boston this afternoon during the city's marathon.
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Brazil's drought made arabica coffee this year's best-performing commodity. Now, farmers are facing a downpour that is once more threatening crops.
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The last time a new sunscreen ingredient came on the U.S. market, the Y2K bug was threatening to destroy our way of life. Intel had just introduced the Pentium III processor, featuring an amazing 500 MHz of computing power.
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The U.S. Supreme Court's support of Michigan's ban on race-based affirmative action in university admissions may spur colleges to find new ways to achieve diversity without using racial preferences.
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The newest item on Cuba's list of dwindling commodities is condoms, which are now reportedly in short supply. In response, the Cuban government has approved the sale of expired condoms.
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I knew a lot had been written about dogs, and I assumed there must be at least a handful of studies on cats. But after weeks of scouring the scientific world for someone - anyone - who studied how cats think, all I was left with was this statement, laughed over the phone to me by one of the world's top animal cognition experts, a Hungarian scientist named Ádám Miklósi.
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Researchers from North Carolina State University and the University of Tennessee have found that environmental stressors – from the Trail of Tears to the Civil War – led to significant changes in the shape of skulls in the eastern and western bands of the Cherokee people. The findings highlight the role of environmental factors in shaping our physical characteristics.
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The paper looked at how many delicious steamed sliders the minimum wage has been able to purchase over time. The point is that as it notes, in 1981, the $3.35 minimum could buy a whole dozen. Today, at $7.25, it could purchase just 10.
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The event will be broadcast live on NASA Television beginning at 7:30 a.m. EST.
The agency will join in the event with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, MIT, the European Space Agency, the Center for the Advancement of Science in Space, IT consulting firm Appirio, and high school student teams from the United States and abroad.
For the competition, NASA will upload software developed by high school students onto bowling ball-sized spherical satellites called Synchronized Position Hold, Engage, Reorient, Experimental Satellites, or SPHERES, which are currently aboard the International Space Station. From there, space station Expedition 38 Commander Oleg Kotov and Flight Engineer Richard Mastracchio will command the satellites to execute the teams' flight program.
During a simulated mission, the teams will complete a special challenge called CosmoSPHERES, a competition in which students must program their satellites to alter a fictional comet's earthbound trajectory.
Student finalists will be able to see their flight program live on the televised finals, where NASA's Associate Administrator for Science, John Grunsfeld, and retired NASA astronauts Gregory Chamitoff, Gregory Johnson and Barbara Morgan will make a special appearance. The team with the best software performance over several rounds of the competition will win the challenge. The winning team will receive certificates and a SPHERES flight patch flown aboard the space station.
Media wishing to cover this event must contact Sarah McDonnell at MIT at 617-253-8923 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
In addition to their use in this competition, SPHERES satellites are used on the space station to conduct formation flight maneuvers for spacecraft guidance navigation, control and docking. The three satellites that make up SPHERES fly in formation inside the space station's cabin. The satellites provide opportunities to affordably test a wide range of hardware and software.
NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif., operates and maintains the SPHERES National Laboratory Facility aboard the space station.
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Apartment, 1 King Bed
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Upscale hotel on the beach, with 2 outdoor swimming pools
This Miami Beach hotel is on the boardwalk, on the beach within minutes of Anchor Shops, New World Symphony Park, and Flamingo Park. Also nearby are Lincoln Road Mall and Art Deco Welcome Center.
Hotel Features
Catch some rays at the beach or spend the day relaxing at The James Royal Palm's full-service spa. Then enjoy a meal at one of the hotel's 2 restaurants.
Room Amenities
Flat-screen televisions come with premium cable channels. Guestrooms also feature complimentary wireless Internet access, iPod docking stations, and air conditioning.Information missing or incorrect? Tell us!
The James Royal Palm
- The Overview
Spend the day at the beach and work on your tan in the sun loungers (chaise longues) or kick back in the shade with cabanas (surcharge) and umbrellas. At The James Royal Palm you can cool off in one of the 2 outdoor swimming pools and indulge in a pampering afternoon at the full-service spa.
Dining is available at one of the hotel's 2 restaurants. The property also offers a snack bar/deli. Guests can unwind with a drink at one of the hotel's bars, which include 5 bars/lounges and a poolside bar. Public areas are equipped with complimentary wired high-speed Internet access. This Art Deco hotel also offers a children's club, a 24-hour fitness center, and a sauna. Onsite parking is available (surcharge). A total renovation of this property was completed in September 2012.
The James Royal Palm is a smoke-free property.
- Number of floors - 14
- Multiple large conference rooms
- Event catering
- Multiple small meeting rooms
- Banquet facilities
- Meeting facilities size (meters) - 900
- 24-hour business center
- Meeting facilities size (feet) - 10000
- Free wired high-speed Internet
- Technology support staff
- 24-hour front desk
- Air-conditioned public areas
- Total number of rooms - 393
- ATM/banking
- Audiovisual equipment
- Number of bars/lounges 5
- Beauty services
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- Coffee/tea in lobby
- Concierge desk
- Doorman/doorwoman
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Elevator/lift
- Express check-out
- 24-hour fitness facilities
- Full-service health spa
- Gift shops or newsstand
- Beach/pool umbrellas
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Number of outdoor pools - 2
- Children's club
- Massage - spa treatment room(s)
- Multilingual staff
- Nightclub
- Valet parking (surcharge)
- Parking (surcharge)
- Parking nearby
- Parking nearby (surcharge)
- Garden
- Patio
- Poolside bar
- Porter/bellhop
- Luggage storage
- Room service (24 hours)
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Number of meeting/conference rooms - 7
- Number of restaurants - 2
- Snack bar/deli
- Beach umbrellas
- Beach cabanas (surcharge)
- Pool cabanas (surcharge)
- Beach sun loungers
- Pool sun loungers
- Street parking (metered)
- Beach towels
- Sauna
- Security guard
- Smoke-free property
- Smoke-free property (fines apply)
- Number of buildings/towers - 3
- Spa services on site
- Tour assistance
- Wedding services
- Connect
Available in all rooms: Free Wi-Fi
Available in some public areas: Free wired high-speed Internet
- Parking
Parking (surcharge), Street parking (metered), Valet parking (surcharge), Parking nearby, Parking nearby (surcharge)
- The Room
- Premium TV channels
- Air conditioning
- Climate control
- Direct-dial phone
- Phone
- Free local calls
- Coffee/tea maker
- Daily housekeeping
- Extra towels/bedding
- Private bathroom
- Bathrobes
- Hair dryer
- In-room massage available
- Shower only
- Rainfall showerhead
- Desk
- Iron/ironing board
- In-room safe
- Cribs/infant beds available
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- iPod docking station
- Cable TV service
- Flat-panel TV
- Free Wi-Fi
- The Eats
Full breakfasts are available for a surcharge and are served each morning between 7 AM and 11 AM.
The James Royal Palm has 2 restaurants on site.
In-room dining choices include breakfast, lunch, dinner, and late night fare, available from 24-hour room service.
- Out and About
2 outdoor swimming pools are on site along with a sauna and a 24-hour fitness facility.
Children under 16 years old are not allowed in the swimming pool, health club, or fitness facility without adult supervision.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
- Golfing nearby
- Golf - driving range nearby
- Golf - miniature nearby
- Motor boating nearby
- Boat launch nearby
- Dock nearby
- Rowboats nearby
- Kayaking nearby
- Sailing nearby
- Scuba diving nearby
- Water skiing nearby
- Rafting nearby
- Snorkeling nearby
- Boating nearby
- Surfing/boogie boarding nearby
- Swimming nearby
- Rowing or canoeing nearby
- Windsurfing nearby
- Whale-watching nearby
- Racquetball/squash nearby
- Tennis nearby
- Running track/path nearby
- Basketball nearby
- Volleyball nearby
- Aerobics nearby
- Pilates classes/instruction nearby
- Yoga classes/instruction nearby
- Sports center nearby
- Hiking/biking trails nearby
- Scooter/moped rentals nearby
- Bicycle rentals nearby
- Parasailing nearby
- Helicopter/airplane tours nearby
- Fishing nearby
- Playground nearby
- Shuffleboard nearby
- Tennis lessons available nearby
- Bowling alley nearby
- Golf lessons available nearby
- Table tennis nearby
- Personal motorized watercraft nearby
- Segway rental/tour nearby
- Banana boat nearby
- Beach volleyball nearby
- Beach badminton nearby
- Paddle boats (pedalos) nearby
- Beach yoga on site
- Kite-surfing nearby
- Boat tours nearby
- Boat cruises nearby
- Mind and Body
The onsite spa has 8 treatment rooms including rooms for couples. Services include massages, facials, body wraps, and body scrubs. A variety of treatment therapies are provided, including hydrotherapy. This beachfront spa is equipped with a sauna and a spa tub. Visitors of this ocean view spa can round out their time of relaxation with a trip to the boutique.
Children under 18 years old are not allowed in the spa without adult supervision. Guests under 18 years old are not allowed in the spa.
- Number of treatment rooms 8
- Couples treatment rooms
- Body wraps
- Body scrubs
- Hydrotherapy treatments
- Sauna in spa
- Spa tub in spa
- Massages
- Minimum age to access spa is 18
- Body treatments
- Facial treatments
- Accessibility
To make requests for specific accessibility needs, complete the "Special or Accessibility Requests" section of "Trip Preferences" when you book your hotel.
- Accessibility equipment for the deaf
- Accessible bathroom
- Accessible path of travel
- In-room accessibility
- Roll-in shower
The Fine Print for The James Royal Palm
- Check-in
Check-in time starts at 3 PM
Minimum check-in age is 21
- Check-out
Check-out time is 11 AM
- Pay
Accepted at this hotel: JCB International, MasterCard, Visa, American Express, Diners Club, Discover
- Pack your pet
Pets allowed, Pet policy - dogs and cats only, Pet maximum weight in lb is 25
- You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
- Minimum Spring Break check-in age is 21 years old.
- The name on the credit card used at check-in to pay for incidentals must be the primary name on the guestroom reservation.
Parking height restrictions apply
- Fees
- Unless otherwise indicated, the charges below are not included in the overall room price. If not included in the overall room price, they will be charged by the property at check-in or check-out. Charges can vary, for example, based on length of stay or the room you book. This property told us they will charge you for the following:
Hotel resort fee inclusions (may be listed elsewhere in this description as complimentary or available for a surcharge):
- Resort fee: USD 21 per accommodation, per night
We have included all charges provided to us by the property. However, charges can vary, for example, based on length of stay or the room you book.The following fees and deposits are charged by the property at time of service, check-in, or check-out.
- Pool access
- Beach access
- Beach loungers
- Beach towels
- Fitness center access
- Internet access (may be limited)
The above list may not be comprehensive. Fees and deposits may not include tax and are subject to change.
- A pet fee will be charged
- We Should Mention
Reservations are required for massage services and spa treatments. Reservations can be made by contacting the hotel prior to arrival, using the contact information on the booking confirmation. Children 12 years old and younger stay free when occupying the parent or guardian's room, using existing bedding.


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The article was good id that it mentioned the Kratom Association and actually mentioned the fight to protect Kratom as well. This is unique because most news articles only quote the D.E.A. or addiction specialists who want to make everyone believe that Kratom is addictive just so they can get new patients.
Earlier this year Mr. DiSalvo wrote a follow up article titled "The Kratom Experiment" where he recgonized the massive amount of reponses that he received in the aftermath of his initial article and, like a good reporter, actually decided to find out what Kratom is truly about and how Kratom truly works. His initial article received nearly 50,000 views and over 80 comments and, in response to this outpouring of response, he wanted to nget to the bottom Kratom. Initially, Mr. DiSalvo purchached a bottle of "Lucky Kratom" brand kratom capsules which, to say the least, got a huge amount of opposition due to Lucky Kratom's reputation among Kratom fans. Lucky Kratom is, in fact, blacklisted by the Kratom Association and numerous kratom supporters voiced their opposition to DiSalvo's use of this brand.
In the beginning of April, DiSalvo wrote a 3rd and follow up article which detailed his experience with Kratom. He decided to use Kratom and the article written described his experience with using Kratom and the effects he experienced. He published the article on his own perosnal website because he was approached by three different Kratom companies (Mayan Kratom, Nutmeg Kratom and Online Kratom) who all offered him free samples for his experiement. He felt that his accepting of these samples may have been a conflict of interest because Forbes pays him for articles. In any case, he used these samples and described his experience. He choose to drink the Kratom powder with orange juice in the morning and stuck to Bali, Maeng Da and Green Thai.
DiSalvo described his effects as overall positive, similar to coffee but without the jitters or the crash. He also described a mild calming effect that he experienced from Kratom and he experienced that the effects of Kratom where much more level and longer-lasting than coffee.
Now, for the side effects? Considering that, as the media wants us to believe; Kratom is more addictive than Heroin, causes hallucinations like L.S.D., works just like Cocaine and has more side effects than all of them combined...What side effects did Mr. DiSalvo experience?
Essentially none! (He did note that he had red eyes after using a specific extract fusion but in general he noted that there were no effects worth nothing.)
Really? No side effects worth nothing? How could this be? How is this possible? Hmmm. Maybe the news media are not being as honest as they claim to be.
In any case, DiSalvo noted that Kratom is a lot like good coffee, but with a longer lasting and even effect with a pleasent finish opposed to the crash one would get from coffee. He also noted that, after stopping kratom, the withdrawl was actually less severe than his withdrawl experiences from Coffee. The effects of stopping kratom were mild sluggishness which wore off in a day, opposed to stopping Kratom where he experienced "excruciating headaches" for days. Kratom "withdrawl", he says, is essentially non existant.
In conclusion, DiSalvo's article is a breath of fresh air amid the pure propaganda that we see on a weekly basis which bashes Kratom and lies about Kratom non-stop. DiSalvo concluded that he saw no reason why Kratom should be banned and also noted that if large amounts of coffee are legal to buy, which is stronger in effects than any Kratom, then why should Kratom be banned?
Indeed Mr. DiSalvo...Indeed!
The Kratom Association is currently undergoing much needed updates. We apologize for the lack of updates but due to necessity we, as a organization and as a group of Kratom supporters, must be vigilant. We are considering numerous updates and changes to the way this website and this organization functions and we are asking for advice from our members.
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Letter from the Chair
January, 2013
Dear Fellow Far-Westerners,
Welcome to your geographical section (or anyhow its web pages) of the American Physical Society; initially California, then CA-NV and CA-NV-HI, and soon to be Far West! If you are not yet a Sections member but belong to APS, please send an email to firstname.lastname@example.com and ask to be added to our rolls. It won't cost you anything extra, but will provide a bit of extra funding for the Section to carry out its tasks.
What does the Section do? The same things that the National Academy of Sciences does: identify new members, elect officers, hold meetings, and give prizes (for outstanding student and postdoc psentations at those meetings).
The next meeting will be Friday & Saturday 1-2 November 2013 at Sonoma State University in Rohnert Park (nearest airport Santa Rosa; further but more flights Oakland). The 2014 meeting will probably be in Reno, Nevada. Why should you join and come? A chance to meet physicists from disciplines and institutions very different from your own. And, most important, a chance for your students and other young colleagues to give real, APS-style 12-minute talks about their own research. This applies to undergraduate and graduate physics students, and for some of them it may well bee their first talks about their own work. Talks (no posters allowed at Section meeting!) from less junior physicists are also welcome.
In addition, the meeting will have several plenary talks by outstanding colleagues, a panel discussion on some topic of general interest (careers in start-ups, aerospace, and medical physics have been recent ones); and a "meet the masters" luncheon for students and established physicists. Housing, travel, meeting registration, and meals for students who give talks are considerably subsidized. This (and the prizes for outstanding psentations) are our major annual expense. Details of the meeting will appear on another web page in summer 2013.
That is what your Section can do for you. Now, what can you do for your Section? It needs your help with several things - an election is coming up; the 2013 meeting program and other activities need to be formulated; and eventually abstracts must be sorted. Each of these requires a small committee and ideas.
So, if you are willing to help (or want to "volunteer" a colleague) please get in touch with the following:
Nominating Committee co-chairs: Douglas Singleton (CSU Fresno), & Lynn Cominsky (Sonoma State University). Need one person for the committee who has not pviously been active in section governance and a bunch of potential candidates for executive committee, chair sequence and all.
Program Committee chair: Sergey Savrasov (UC Davis). Committee needs a student member. Program will need suggestions for plenary speakers, after dinner speaker, panel topic & speakers.
Newsletter Editor: Hendrik Ohldag (SLAC), in case you would like to write or read something.
Secretary-Treasurer: Ken Ganezer (CSU Domiguez Hills).
Local Organizing Committee for November meeting, Chair: Lynn Cominsky (Sonoma State University).
Chief Cook & Bottle Washer, section chair: Virginia Trimble (UC Irvine).
Section members will receive sporadic updates, reminders, and such about these and other activities. Please be sure you are on the list!
With greetings from the Far West,
Virginia Trimble
Physics & Astronomy
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PS: The Section executive committee will meet on Saturday, 2 March. If there are items you want us to know about before that please contact the section chair, who will be putting together an agenda.


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With a stay at Beacon Hotel & Corporate Quarters, you'll be centrally located in Washington, steps from Charles Sumner School Museum and Archives and Embassy of Australia.
This family-friendly hotel is close to White House and Ford's Theater.
Make yourself at home in one of the 199 air-conditioned guestrooms. Premium TV channels provides entertainment, and wired and wireless Internet access is available for a surcharge. Conveniences include direct-dial phones, as well as desks and coffee/tea makers.
Take advantage of recreation opportunities such as a fitness center, or other amenities including babysitting/childcare and wedding services. Additional amenities include a television in the lobby and complimentary use of a nearby fitness facility.
Enjoy a meal at a restaurant, or stay in and take advantage of the hotel's room service (during limited hours). Quench your thirst with your favorite drink at a bar/lounge.
Featured amenities include a business center, audiovisual equipment, and express check-in. Planning an event in Washington? This hotel has 10,000 square feet (929 square meters) of space consisting of conference/meeting rooms, small meeting rooms, and a ballroom. Secure parking is available onsite.Information missing or incorrect? Tell us!
Hotel Amenities
- General
Beacon Hotel in downtown Washington, DC is 4 blocks from Dupont Circle Metro Station, which provides access to most DC neighborhoods and attractions such as the National Zoo and Smithsonian Institution.
A self-serve business center (surcharge) provides 2 computer workstations, a printer, a copier, and a fax machine; the Beacon also has 10,000 square feet of flexible meeting space, including a theater-style setting that can seat 150. Wireless Internet access is available in common areas (surcharge) and is complimentary in the hotel restaurant. A small fitness area has aerobic and strength training equipment. Guests also receive complimentary access to a YMCA 2 blocks away. On-site dining offers breakfast, lunch, and dinner daily, as well as Sunday brunch.
The hotel offers secure valet parking (surcharge; 6-foot clearance).
- Complimentary newspapers in lobby
- Use of nearby fitness center (complimentary)
- Fitness facilities
- Restaurant
- Room service (limited hours)
- Bar/lounge
- Exhibit space
- Multiple small meeting rooms
- Multiple large conference rooms
- Event catering
- Ballroom(s)
- Business center
- Banquet facilities
- Audiovisual equipment
- Express check-in
- Multilingual staff
- Total number of rooms - 199
- Express check-out
- Security guard
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- 24-hour front desk
- Laundry facilities
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Babysitting or childcare
- Television in lobby
- Elevator/lift
- Valet parking (surcharge)
- Number of floors - 9
- Air-conditioned public areas
- Wedding services
- Secure parking
- Meeting facilities size (feet) - 10,000
- Meeting facilities size (meters) - 929
- Concierge desk
- Internet
Available in all rooms: Wireless Internet access (surcharge), Wired high-speed Internet access (surcharge)
- Parking
Secure parking, Valet parking (surcharge)
- Room Amenities
- Premium TV channels
- Pay movies
- Premium bedding
- Hypo-allergenic bedding available
- Air conditioning
- Climate control
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- Direct-dial phone
- Phone
- Coffee/tea maker
- Microwave (on request)
- Refrigerator (on request)
- In-room massage available
- Hair dryer
- Iron/ironing board
- Daily housekeeping
- Desk
- Wireless Internet access (surcharge)
- Wired high-speed Internet access (surcharge)
- Cribs/infant beds available
- Dining
Beacon Bar and Grill Spacious hotel restaurant includes main dining room, enclosed patio dining, and private dining room, plus a high-energy lounge. Open for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and Sunday brunch. American fare, including pastas, salads, sandwiches, and steaks, and daily drink specials.
- Recreation
The Beacon's 24-hour fitness room includes a stair machine, treadmill, stationary bike, and elliptical trainer.
Guests receive complimentary admission to the YMCA, located within 2 blocks of the hotel.
- Accessibility
To make requests for specific accessibility needs, complete the "Special or Accessibility Requests" section of "Trip Preferences" when you book your hotel.
- Accessible bathroom
- Accessible path of travel
- Braille or raised signage
- In-room accessibility
- Roll-in shower
Policies & Fees
- Check-in
Check-in time starts at 3 PM
Minimum check-in age is 18
- Check-out
Check-out time is noon
- Payment types
Accepted at this hotel: American Express, Diners Club, Discover, MasterCard, Visa
- General
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
Parking height restrictions apply
- Fees
- The following fees and deposits are charged by the property at time of service, check-in, or check-out.
The above list may not be comprehensive. Fees and deposits may not include tax and are subject to change.
- Fee for in-room wireless Internet: USD 11 per 24-hour period (rates may vary)
- Fee for in-room high-speed Internet (wired): USD 11 per 24-hour period (rates may vary)
- Valet parking fee: USD 35 per night
Awards & Affiliations
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- A Green / Sustainable Property - Third Party CertifiedThis property participates in Green Seal, a third-party certification program that has been independently certified. Third-party certification measures the property's impact on one or more of the following: environment, community, cultural-heritage, the local economy. An objective assessment of a company's sustainable tourism practices has been performed at this property by an auditor who is independent of the third-party certification program.