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Philip Roth
American novelist (1933-2018)
Philip Milton Roth (19 March 1933 – 22 May 2018) was an American novelist. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1998 for his novel American Pastoral. In May 2011, he received the Man Booker International Prize, for achievement in fiction on the world stage, becoming the fourth winner of the biennial award.
Quotes edit
- The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.
- As quoted in "Works in Progress" in The New York Times Book Review (15 July 1979), page BR1
- When you publish a book, it's the world's book. The world edits it.
- "A Visit with Philip Roth," interview with James Atlas, The New York Times Book Review (2 September 1979), p. BR1
- To become a celebrity is to become a brand name. There is Ivory Soap, Rice Krispies, and Philip Roth. Ivory is the soap that floats; Rice Krispies the breakfast cereal that goes snap-crackle-pop; Philip Roth the Jew who masturbates with a piece of liver.
- "The Ghosts of Roth," interview with Alan Finkielkraut, Esquire (September 1981)
- This indictment is a kind of fever that flares up from time to time. It flared up after "Defender of the Faith," again after "Goodbye Columbus," and understandably it went way up — to about 107 — after "Portnoy's Complaint." Now there's just a low-grade fever running, nothing to worry about.
- On criticism of his writing, as quoted in "The Unbounded Spirit of Philip Roth", interview with Mervyn Rothstein, The New York Times (1 August 1985), Late City Final Edition, section C, page 13, column 1
- I write fiction and I'm told it's autobiography, I write autobiography and I'm told it's fiction, so since I'm so dim and they're so smart, let them decide what it is or it isn't.
- Deception: A Novel (1990)
- I cannot and do not live in the world of discretion, not as a writer, anyway. I would prefer to, I assure you — it would make life easier. But discretion is, unfortunately, not for novelists.
- Deception: A Novel (1990)
- I'm exactly the opposite of religious, I'm anti-religious. I find religious people hideous. I hate the religious lies. It's all a big lie. … I have such a huge dislike. It's not a neurotic thing, but the miserable record of religion. I don't even want to talk about it, it's not interesting to talk about the sheep referred to as believers. When I write, I'm alone. It's filled with fear and loneliness and anxiety — and I never needed religion to save me.
- Interview by Martin Krasnik The Guardian (14 December 2005)
- When the whole world doesn't believe in God, it will be a great place.
- Interview on CBS, 3 October 2010, Philip Roth on Fame, Sex, and God CBS News (3 October 2010)
- I found much that was alarming about being a citizen during the tenures of Richard Nixon and George W. Bush. But, whatever I may have seen as their limitations of character or intellect, neither was anything like as humanly impoverished as Trump is: ignorant of government, of history, of science, of philosophy, of art, incapable of expressing or recognizing subtlety or nuance, destitute of all decency, and wielding a vocabulary of seventy-seven words that is better called Jerkish than English.
- As quoted in "Roth on Trump" by Judith Thurman, in The New Yorker (30 January 2017), p. 17
- No one I know of has foreseen an America like the one we live in today. No one (except perhaps the acidic H. L. Mencken, who famously described American democracy as "the worship of jackals by jackasses") could have imagined that the 21st-century catastrophe to befall the U.S.A., the most debasing of disasters, would appear not, say, in the terrifying guise of an Orwellian Big Brother but in the ominously ridiculous commedia dell'arte figure of the boastful buffoon. How naïve I was in 1960 to think that I was an American living in preposterous times! How quaint! But then what could I know in 1960 of 1963 or 1968 or 1974 or 2001 or 2016? … However prescient The Plot Against America might seem to you, there is surely one enormous difference between the political circumstances I invent there for the U.S. in 1940 and the political calamity that dismays us so today. It's the difference in stature between a President Lindbergh and a President Trump. Charles Lindbergh, in life as in my novel, may have been a genuine racist and an anti-Semite and a white supremacist sympathetic to Fascism, but he was also — because of the extraordinary feat of his solo trans-Atlantic flight at the age of 25 — an authentic American hero 13 years before I have him winning the presidency. … Trump, by comparison, is a massive fraud, the evil sum of his deficiencies, devoid of everything but the hollow ideology of a megalomaniac.
- Comparing Charles Lindbergh's leadership of an "America First" movement with that of Donald Trump, in responses to being asked about foreseeing an America such as now exists in his earlier writings, including his alternate-history novel The Plot Against America (2004) where Lindbergh defeated FDR for the presidency in 1940, as quoted in "No Longer Writing, Philip Roth Still Has Plenty to Say" by Charles Mcgrath, in The New York Times (16 January 2018)
Goodbye, Columbus (1959) edit
- Oh Patimkin! Fruit grew in their refrigerator and sporting goods dropped from their trees!
- [H]er breasts swam towards me like two pink-nosed fish and she let me hold them.
- Chapter 2
- We came back to the chairs now and then and sang hesitant, clever, nervous, gentle dithyrambs about how we were beginning to feel towards one another. Actually we did not have the feelings we said we had until we spoke them — at least I didn't; to phrase them was to invent them and own them. We whipped our strangeness and newness into a froth that resembled love, and we dared not play too long with it, talk too much of it, or it would flatten and fizzle away. So we moved back and forth from chairs to water, from talk to silence, and considering my unshakable edginess with Brenda, and the high walls of ego that rose, buttresses and all, between her and her knowledge of herself, we managed pretty well.
- Chapter 2
- Life was a throwing off for poor aunt Gladys, her greatest joys were taking out the garbage, emptying the pantry, and making threadbare bundles for what she still refers to as the poor Jews of Palestine.
Writing About Jews (1963) edit
- Ever Since some of my first stories were published in 1959 in a volume called Goodbye, Columbus, my work has been attacked from certain pulpits and in certain periodicals as dangerous, dishonest, and irresponsible. I have read editorials and articles in Jewish community newspapers condemning these stories for ignoring the accomplishments of Jewish life, or, as Rabbi Emanuel Rackman recently told a convention of the Rabbinical Council of America, for creating a "distorted image of the basic values of Orthodox Judaism," and even, he went on, for denying the non-Jewish world the opportunity of appreciating "the overwhelming contributions which Orthodox Jews are making in every avenue of modern endeavor …"
- I do not write a story to make evident whatever disapproval I may feel for adulterous men. I write a story of a man who is adulterous to reveal the condition of such a man. If the adulterous man is a Jew, then I am revealing the condition of an adulterous man who is a Jew. Why tell that story? Because I seem to be interested in how — and why and when — a man acts counter to what he considers to be his "best self," or what others assume it to be, or would like for it to be. The subject is hardly "mine"; it interested readers and writers for a long time before it became my turn to be engaged by it, too.
- Literary works do not take as their subjects characters and events which have impressed a writer primarily by the frequency of their appearance. For example, how many Jewish men, as we know them, have come nearly to the brink of plunging a knife into their only son because they believed God had commanded them to? The story of Abraham and Isaac derives its meaning from something other than its being a familiar, recognizable, everyday occurrence. The test of any literary work is not how broad is its range of representation — for all that breadth may be characteristic of a kind of narrative — but the depth with which the writer reveals whatever it may be that he has chosen to represent.
- The concerns of fiction, let it be said, are not those of a statistician — or of a public-relations firm. The novelist asks himself, "What do people think?"; the PR man asks, "What will people think?"
- All the tolerance of persecution that has seeped into the Jewish character — the adaptability, the patience, the resignation, the silence, the self-denial — must be squeezed out, until the only response there is to any restriction of liberties is "No, I refuse."
- The chances are that there will always be some people who will despise Jews, just so long as they continue to call themselves Jews; and, of course, we must keep an eye on them. But if some Jews are dreaming of a time when they will be accepted by Christians as Christians accept one another — if this is why certain Jewish writers should be silent — it may be that they are dreaming of a time that cannot be, and of a condition that does not exist, this side of one's dreams. Perhaps even the Christians don't accept one another as they are imagined to in that world from which Jews may believe themselves excluded solely because they are Jews.
Portnoy's Complaint (1969) edit
- A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy till they die.
- It's a family joke that when I was a tiny child I turned from the window out of which I was watching a snowstorm, and hopefully asked, "Momma, do we believe in winter?"
- My God! The English language is a form of communication! Conversation isn't just crossfire where you shoot and get shot at! Where you've got to duck for your life and aim to kill! Words aren't only bombs and bullets — no, they're little gifts, containing meanings!
- Ch. 4: "The Most Prevalent Form of Degradation in Erotic Life"
- Only in America, Rabbi Golden, do these peasants, our mothers, get their hair dyed platinum at the age of sixty, and walk up and down Collins Avenue in Florida in pedalpushers and mink stoles — and with opinions on every subject under the sun. It isn't their fault they were given a gift like speech — look, if cows could talk, they would say things just as idiotic.
- Part 5: "Cunt Crazy"
- I am thirteen. At long last, not a cored apple. Not an empty milk bottle greased with vaseline, but a girl in a slip, with two tits and a cunt — and a mustache, but who am I to be picky.
- I'm not trying to turn you into a bourgeois, Naomi. If the bed is too luxurious, we can do it on the floor.
- ...and then this amazing creature — to whom no one has ever said "Shah!" or "I only hope your children will do the same to you someday!"
- I am marked like a road map from head to toe with my repressions. You can travel the length and breadth of my body over superhighways of shame and inhibition and fear.
- American society [...] not only sanctions gross and unfair relations among men, but it encourages them. Now, can that be denied? No. Rivalry, competition, envy, jealousy, all that is malignant in human character is nourished by the system. Possession, money, property — on such corrupt standards as these do you people measure happiness and success.
- Dreams? If only they had been! But I don't need dreams, Doctor, that's why I hardly have them — because I have this life instead. With me it all happens in broad daylight!
- I can lie about my name, I can lie about my school, but how am I going to lie about this fucking nose? "You seem like a very nice person Mr. Porte-Noir, but why do you go around covering the middle of your face like that?" Because suddenly it has taken off, the middle of my face! Because gone is the button of my childhood years, that pretty little thing that people used to look at in my carriage, and lo and behold, the middle of my face has begun to reach out towards God. Porte-Noir and Parsons my ass, kid, you have got J-E-W written right across the middle of your face.
The Counterlife (1986) edit
- Circumcision is startling, all right, particularly when performed by a garlicked old man upon the glory of a newborn body, but then maybe that's what the Jews had in mind and what makes the act seem quintessentially Jewish and the mark of their reality. Circumcision makes it clear as can be that you are here and not there, that you are out and not in — also that you're mine and not theirs.... Quite convincingly, circumcision gives the lie to the womb-dream of life in the beautiful state of innocent prehistory, the appealing idyll of living "naturally," unencumbered by man-made ritual. To be born is to lose all that. The heavy hand of human values falls upon you right at the start, marking your genitals as its own.
- Ch. 5
- England's made a Jew of me in only eight weeks, which, on reflection, might be the least painful method. A Jew without Jews, without Judaism, without Zionism, without Jewishness, without a temple or an army or even a pistol, a Jew clearly without a home, just the object itself, like a glass or an apple.
- Ch. 5
- Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding?
- Ch. 5
- All I can tell you with certainty is that I, for one, have no self, and that I am unwilling or unable to perpetrate upon myself the joke of a self .... What I have instead is a variety of impersonations I can do, and not only of myself — a troupe of players that I have internalised, a permanent company of actors that I can call upon when a self is required .... I am a theater and nothing more than a theater.
- Ch. 5
Paris Review Interview (1986) edit
- Interview with Hermione Lee (summer 1983 - winter 1984), Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, seventh series, Viking/Penguin, 1986, ISBN 0-140-08500-9
- Beginning a book is unpleasant. I'm entirely uncertain about the character and the predicament, and a character in his predicament is what I have to begin with. Worse than not knowing your subject is not knowing how to treat it, because that's finally everything. I type out beginnings and they're awful, more of an unconscious parody of my previous book than the breakaway from it that I want. I need something driving down the center of a book, a magnet to draw everything to it — that's what I look for during the first months of writing something new. I often have to write a hundred pages or more before there's a paragraph that's alive. Okay, I say to myself, that's your beginning, start there; that's the first paragraph of the book. I'll go over the first six months of work and underline in red a paragraph, a sentence, sometimes no more than a phrase, that has some life in it, and then I'll type all these out on one page. Usually it doesn't come to more than one page, but if I'm lucky, that's the start of page one. I look for the liveliness to set the tone. After the awful beginning come the months of freewheeling play, and after the play come the crises, turning against your material and hating the book.
- I don't ask writers about their work habits. I really don't care. Joyce Carol Oates says somewhere that when writers ask each other what time they start working and when they finish and how much time they take for lunch, they're actually trying to find out, "Is he as crazy as I am?" I don't need that question answered.
- You know, the dirty little secret is no longer sex; the dirty little secret is hatred and rage. It's the tirade that's taboo. Odd that this should be so a hundred years after Dostoyevsky (and fifty after Freud), but nobody nice likes to be identified with the stuff. It's the way folks used to feel about fellatio in the good old days. "Me? Never heard of it. Disgusting." But is it "hostile," really, to take a look at the ferocity of the emotion they call "hostility"?
- Any satirist writing a futuristic novel who had imagined a President Reagan during the Eisenhower years would have been accused of perpetrating a piece of crude, contemptible, adolescent, anti-American wickedness, when, in fact, he would have succeeded, as prophetic sentry, where Orwell failed.
- I was trying to solve the problem of this book. (My Life as a Man) When it seemed I never would, I stopped and wrote Our Gang; when I tried again and still couldn't write it, I stopped and wrote the baseball book; then while finishing the baseball book, I stopped to write The Breast. It was as though I were blasting my way through a tunnel to reach the novel I couldn't write. Each of one's books is a blast, clearing the way for what's next.
- When I was first in Czechoslovakia, it occurred to me that I work in a society where as a writer everything goes and nothing matters, while for the Czech writers I met in Prague, nothing goes and everything matters. This isn't to say I wished to change places. I didn't envy their persecution and the way in which it heightens their social importance. I didn't even envy them their seemingly more valuable and serious themes. The trivialization, in the West, of much that's deadly serious in the East is itself a subject, one requiring considerable imaginative ingenuity to transform into compelling fiction.
- You ask if I thought my fiction had changed anything in the culture and the answer is no. Sure, there's been some scandal, but people are scandalized all the time; it's a way of life for them. It doesn't mean a thing. If you ask if I want my fiction to change anything in the culture, the answer is still no. What I want is to possess my readers while they are reading my book — if I can, to possess them in ways that other writers don't. Then let them return, just as they were, to a world where everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt, and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise, to have set loose in them the consciousness that's otherwise conditioned and hemmed in by all that isn't fiction.
The Facts: A Novelist's Autobiography (1988) edit
- Obviously the facts are never just coming at you but are incorporated by an imagination that is formed by your previous experience. Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts.
- Opening letter to Nathan Zuckerman
- Undermining experience, embellishing experience, rearranging and enlarging experience into a species of mythology.
- Referring to the life of a fiction writer, in the opening letter to Nathan Zuckerman.
- Just like those who are incurably ill, the aged know everything about their dying except exactly when.
- Opening letter to Nathan Zuckerman
- It isn't that you subordinate your ideas to the force of the facts in autobiography but that you construct a sequence of stories to bind up the facts with a persuasive hypothesis that unravels your history's meaning.
- Opening letter to Nathan Zuckerman
- You rebel against the tribal and look for the individual, for your own voice as against the stereotypical voice of the tribe or the tribe's stereotype of itself. You have to establish yourself against your predecessor, and doing so can well involve what they like to call self-hatred. I happen to think that — all those protestations notwithstanding — your self hatred was real and a positive force in its very destructiveness. Since to build something new often requires that something else be destroyed, self-hatred is valuable for a young person. What should he or she have instead — self-approval, self-satisfaction, self-praise? It's not so bad to hate the norms that keep a society from moving on, especially when the norms are dictated by fear as much as by anything else and especially when that fear is of the enemy forces of the overwhelming majority. But you seem now to be so strongly motivated by a need for reconciliation with the tribe that you aren't even willing to acknowledge how disapproving of its platitudinous demands you were back then, however ineluctably Jewish you may also have felt. The prodigal son who once upset the tribal balance — and perhaps even invigorated the tribe's health — may well, in his old age, have a sentimental urge to go back home, but isn't this a bit premature in you, aren't you really too young to have it so fully developed?
- Nathan Zuckerman to Philip Roth
- They boo you, they whistle, they stamp their feet — you hate it but you thrive on it. Because the things that wear you down are the things that nurture you and your talent.
- Nathan Zuckerman to Philip Roth
Sabbath's Theater (1995) edit
- Each year she taught him the names of the flowers in her language and in his, and from one year to the next he could not even remember the English. For nearly thirty years Sabbath had been exiled in these mountains, and still he could name hardly anything. They didn't have this stuff where he came from. All these things growing were beside the point there. He was from the shore. There was sand and ocean, horizon and sky, daytime and nighttime — the light, the dark, the tide, the stars, the boats, the sun, the mists, the gulls. There were the jetties, the piers, the boardwalk, the booming, silent, limitless sea. Where he grew up they had the Atlantic. You could touch with your toes where America began. They lived in a stucco bungalow two short streets from the edge of America. The house. The porch. The screens. The icebox. The tub. The linoleum. The broom. The pantry. The ants. The sofa. The radio. The garage. The outside shower with the slatted wooden floor Morty had built and the drain that always clogged. In summer, the salty sea breeze and the dazling light; in September, the hurricanes; in January, the storms. They had January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, November, December. And then January. And then again January, no end to the stockpile of Januaries, of Mays, of Marches. August, December, April — name a month, and they had it in spades. They'd had endlessness. He had grown up on endlessness and his mother — in the beginning they were the same thing. His mother, his mother, his mother, his mother, his mother... and then there was his mother, his father, Grandma, Morty, and the Atlantic at the end of the street. The ocean, the beach, the first two streets in America, then the house, and in the house a mother who never stopped whistlîg until December 1944. If Morty had come alive, if the endlessness had ended naturally instead of with the telegram, if after the war Morty had started doing electrical work and plumbing for people, had become a builder at the shore, gone into the construction business just as the boom in Monmouth County was beginning...Didn't matter. Take your pick. Get betrayed by the fantasy of endlessness or by the fact of finitude. No, Sabbath could only have wound up Sabbath, begging for what he was begging, bound to what he was bound, saying what he did not wish to stop himself from saying.
- Immediate reality is outside that window; so big it is, so much of it, everything entangled in everything else...What large thought Sabbath was struggling to express? Is he asking, "Whatever did happen to my own true life?" Was it taking place elsewhere? But how then can looking out of this window be so gigantically real? Well, that is the difference between the true and the real. We don't get to live in the truth. That's why Nikki ran away. She was an idealist, an innocent, touching, talented illusionist who wanted to live in the truth. Well, if you found it, kid, you're the first. In my experience the direction of life is toward incoherence — precisely what you would never confront. Maybe that was the only coherent thing you could think to do: die to deny incoherence.
- And he couldn't do it. He could not fucking die. How could he leave? How could he go? Everything he hated was here.
The Human Stain (2000) edit
- There is truth and then again there is truth. For all that the world is full of people who go around believing they've got you or your neighbor figured out, there really is no bottom to what is not known. The truth about us is endless. As are the lies.
The Dying Animal (2001) edit
- ""You'll always be powerless to this girl. You'll never be in charge. There's something there," George told me, "that makes you crazy and always will. If you don't cut the connection for good, in the end that something will destroy you. You're no longer merely answering natural need with her. This is the pathology in its purest form. Look," he told me, "see it as a critic, see it from a professional point of view. You violated the law of aesthetic distance. You sentimentalized the aesthetic experience with this girl — you personalized it, you sentimentalized it, and you lost the sense of separation essential to your enjoyment. Do you know when that happened? … I'm not against it because it's disgusting. I'm against it because it's falling in love. The only obsession everyone wants: 'love.' People think that in falling in love they make themselves whole? The Platonic union of souls? I think otherwise. I think you're whole before you begin. And the love fractures you. You're whole, and then you're cracked open."
- Sex is all the enchantment required. Do men find women so enchanting once the sex is taken out? Does anyone find anyone that enchanting unless they have sexual business with them? Who else are you enchanted by? Nobody.
- The jealously. That poison. And unprovoked. Jealous even when she tells me she's going ice-skating with her eighteen-year-old brother.
- You too need the lecture on the childishness of coupling? Of course it's childish. Family life is, today more than ever, when the ethos is created substantially by the children. It's even worse when there are no children around. Because the childish adult replaces the child. Coupled life and family life bring out everything that's childish in everyone involved. Why do they have to sleep night after night in the same bed? Why must they be on the phone to each other five times a day? Why are they always with each other? The forced deference is certainly childish. The unnatural deference.
- Now, I'm very vulnerable to female beauty, as you know. Everybody's defenseless against something, and that's it for me. I see it and it blinds me to everything else. They come to my first class, and I know almost immediately which is the girl for me. There is a Mark Twain story in which he runs from a bull, and the bull looks up to him when he's hiding in a tree, and the bull thinks, "You are my meat, sir." Well, that "sir" is transformed into "young lady" when I see them in class.
- That body is still new to her, she's still trying it out, thinking it through, a bit like a kid walking the streets with a loaded gun and deciding whether he's packing it to protect himself or to begin a life of crime.
The Plot Against America (2004) edit
- All quotes are from the trade paperback edition published by Vintage International, ISBN 1-4000-7949-7, September 2005, 1st printing
- Turned the wrong way around, the relentless unforeseen was what we schoolchildren studied as "History," harmless history, where everything unexpected in its own time is chronicled on the page as inevitable. The terror of the unforeseen is what the science of history hides, turning a disaster into an epic.
- Chapter 3, "Following Christians" (pp. 113-114)
- Monty was the most overbearing of my uncles, which probably accounted for why he was also the richest.
- Chapter 4, "The Stump" (p. 122)
- "Because what's history?" he asked rhetorically when he was in his expansive dinnertime instructional mode. "History is everything that happens everywhere. Even here in Newark. Even here on Summit Avenue. Even what happens in his house to an ordinary man—that'll be history too someday."
- Chapter 5, "Never Before" (p. 180)
- He tell us that in a democracy, keeping abreast of current events was a citizen's most important duty and that you could never start too early to be informed about the news of the day.
- Chapter 5, "Never Before" (p. 181)
- Probably I couldn't have done any worse—I might well have done a lot better—seeking solace from the two nuns on the Lyons Avenue bus than from someone reveling in the pleasures of the standard, petty corruptions that proliferate wherever people compete for even the tiniest advantages of rank.
- Chapter 6, "Their Country" (p. 217)
- There's a plot afoot all right, and I'll gladly name the forces propelling it—hysteria, ignorance, malice, stupidity, hatred, and fear. What a repugnant spectacle our country has become! Falsehood, cruelty, and madness everywhere, and brute force in the wings waiting to finish us off.
- Chapter 8, "Bad Days" (p. 315)
Everyman (2006) edit
- Why must he mistrust his life just when he was more its master than he'd been in years?.
- Should he ever write an autobiography, he'd call it The Life and Death of a Male Body.
- I'm sure the liars as skillful and persistent and devious as you reach the point where it's the one you are lying to, and not you, who seems like the one with the serious limitations.
- Old age isn't a battle; old age is a massacre.
- He went under feeling far from felled, anything but doomed, eager yet again to be fulfilled, but nonetheless, he never woke up. Cardiac arrest. He was no more, freed from being, entering into nowhere without even knowing it. Just as he'd feared from the start.
Exit Ghost (2007) edit
- In the eighties, a self-assured knucklehead whose unsurpassable hollowness and hackneyed sentiments and absolute blindness to every historical complexity became the object of national worship and, esteemed as a "great communicator" no less, won each of his two terms in a landslide.
- They [the young] are not "no-longers," losing faculties, losing control, shamefully dispossessed from themselves, marked by deprivation and experiencing the organic rebellion staged by the body against the elderly; they are "not-yets," with no idea how quickly things turn out another way.
Quotes about Roth edit
- Sorted alphabetically by author or source
- What is being done to silence this man? Medieval Jews would have known what to do with him ...
- Anonymous (unidentified) rabbi and educator in New York City, in a letter written to the Anti-Defamation League, as quoted in "Writing about Jews" by Philip Roth, Commentary magazine (December 1963)
- Toni Morrison, Kay Boyle, Philip Roth, Peter Matthiessen, Anne Tyler, and Rosellen Brown read an unknown manuscript and responded with those quotes and marks of approval that appear on book jackets. These were completely unsolicited and I still find it remarkable that these writers, overwhelmed with pleas and manuscripts, picked up Love Medicine and responded. There were a great number of people kind along the way. One hears much more about the egomania and posturing of writers than one does about the devotion that writers have for one another's work.
- 1993 interview in Conversations with Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris edited by Allan Chavkin and Nancy Feyl Chavkin (1994)
- The cruelest thing anyone can do to Portnoy's Complaint is to read it twice.
- Irving Howe, as quoted in "The War between Writers and Reviewers" by Thomas Fleming, in The New York Times (6 January 1985); originally in Howe's "Philip Roth Reconsidered," Commentary, Vol. 54 (December 1972)
- In high school, I'd devoured the works of Philip Roth, Saul Bellow, and Norman Mailer, moved by stories of men trying to find their place in an America that didn't welcome them.
- Barack Obama A Promised Land (2020)
- I'm a woman and that makes a big difference. It separates me a lot from Bellow and Roth and all those guys. There's such distortion in their writing sometimes, the kind of stuff that gives men a bad name. It really louses them up. I think there's a lot of contempt for their fathers coming out and it doesn't do the books, or them, a lot of good.
- 1985 interview in Conversations with Grace Paley (1997)
- He's a fine writer, but I wouldn't want to shake hands with him.
- Jacqueline Susann, as quoted in Lovely Me: The Life of Jacqueline Susann (1996) by Barbara Seaman
- as Freud's views on the childhood source of mental disorder have permeated our culture, there has been mounted a wide campaign of mother-suspicion and mother-discreditation. From Sidney Howard's play The Silver Cord, in the mid-twenties, to Philip Roth's more recent Portnoy's Complaint, our literature has disseminated the idea that American women alternate a diet of husbands with a diet of sons.
- Diana Trilling "Women's Liberation" in We Must March My Darlings (1977)
External links edit
- Literary Encyclopedia biography
- Brief biography at Kirjasto
- The New York Times Featured Author: Philip Roth
- The Philip Roth Society
- Roth interview - from NPR's "Fresh Air", September 2005
- Roth interview - from The Guardian, December 2005
- Roth interview - from Open Source Radio with Christopher Lydon, December 2006
- Philip Roth Discusses Everyman - from NPR's "Fresh Air," May 2006
- "Roth Returns with Life and Death of Everyman" - from NPR, May 2006
- Weequahic Alumni Assn.


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During its four week closure from 17th March to 11th April, Crush's Coaster will reportedly see the addition of a permanent Single Rider line, as well as an expansion of the regular queue line itself, something fans including ourselves have requested since opening.
Cast Member sources Pretty Wyatt, AnonyMouse and DynastyGo on Disney Central Plaza forum report that two options were presented to improve the standard queue line: making permanent the temporary ropes which wind their way in front of Flying Carpets Over Agrabah, and/or a genuine enlargement of the exterior queue area into what is currently "backstage".
Thankfully, the second option has apparently been green-lit, leaving the installation of more permanent barriers around the Flying Carpets "oasis" area as an added possibility.
This is great news for visitors joining the queue and the area as a whole. The temporary ropes constantly clog up what is already a cramped portion of the land, especially now guests are also heading through to Toy Story Playland and soon to La Place de Rémy. Making the outside queue area at the side of Studio 5 bigger would be a long-overdue decision.
Single Rider is also absolutely the right choice to maximise capacity of the ride. We reported in-depth on the Crush's Coaster Fastpass tests in 2008, quickly proven unworkable for a ride with such low capacity. Fastpass can obviously never add capacity to a finite ride, whereas Single Rider can at least maximise capacity to as close to 100% as possible, filling every empty seat in groups of odd numbers. Both Toy Soldiers Parachute Drop and RC Racer now work successful, permanent Single Rider lines, and one is planned for Ratatouille right from the start.
In fact, it's probably Rémy we have to thank for this long-awaited improvement. With all the new guests expected to flock to Walt Disney Studios Park for the E-Ticket dark ride, some will inevitably also help to make the Crush's Coaster queue longer. Leaving things as they are, with even longer queues spilling out into the street, would not present a good image.
In similar fashion, we've suddenly seen the front of Animagique get some paint work (if not enough work). And, from 14th April right through the whole of May at least, Flying Carpets Over Agrabah will be closed for a thorough top-to-bottom refurbishment that will reportedly see the aerial carousel completely dismantled and rebuilt, just as its cousin Orbitron – Machines Volantes has enjoyed at least twice in recent memory.
That's a lot of very welcome spit and polish ahead of the land's newest ride opening. (Let's just pretend the un-themed pathway behind Art of Disney Animation doesn't exist, shall we?)

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The Federal Trade Commission, the nation's chief privacy policy and enforcement agency for 40 years, issued a preliminary staff report today that proposes a framework to balance the privacy interests of consumers with innovation that relies on consumer information to develop beneficial new products and services. The proposed report also suggests implementation of a "Do Not Track" mechanism – likely a persistent setting on consumers' browsers – so consumers can choose whether to allow the collection of data regarding their online searching and browsing activities.
"Technological and business ingenuity have spawned a whole new online culture and vocabulary – email, IMs, apps and blogs – that consumers have come to expect and enjoy. The FTC wants to help ensure that the growing, changing, thriving information marketplace is built on a framework that promotes privacy, transparency, business innovation and consumer choice. We believe that's what most Americans want as well," said FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz.
The report states that industry efforts to address privacy through self-regulation "have been too slow, and up to now have failed to provide adequate and meaningful protection." The framework outlined in the report is designed to reduce the burdens on consumers and businesses.
"This proposal is intended to inform policymakers, including Congress, as they develop solutions, policies, and potential laws governing privacy, and guide and motivate industry as it develops more robust and effective best practices and self-regulatory guidelines," according to the report, which is titled, "Protecting Consumer Privacy in an Era of Rapid Change: A Proposed Framework for Businesses and Policymakers."
Leibowitz added that the FTC, in addition to making policy recommendations, "will take action against companies that cross the line with consumer data and violate consumers' privacy – especially when children and teens are involved."
The FTC staff developed the proposed framework in recognition of increasing advances in technology that allow for rapid data collection and sharing that is often invisible to consumers. Although many companies use privacy policies to explain their information practices, the policies have become long, legalistic disclosures that consumers usually don't read and don't understand if they do. Current privacy policies force consumers to bear too much burden in protecting their privacy.
To reduce the burden on consumers and ensure basic privacy protections, the report first recommends that "companies should adopt a 'privacy by design' approach by building privacy protections into their everyday business practices." Such protections include reasonable security for consumer data, limited collection and retention of such data, and reasonable procedures to promote data accuracy. Companies also should implement and enforce procedurally sound privacy practices throughout their organizations, including assigning personnel to oversee privacy issues, training employees, and conducting privacy reviews for new products and services.
Second, the report states, consumers should be presented with choice about collection and sharing of their data at the time and in the context in which they are making decisions – not after having to read long, complicated disclosures that they often cannot find. The report adds that, to simplify choice for both consumers and businesses, companies should not have to seek consent for certain commonly accepted practices. It is "reasonable for companies to engage in certain practices – namely, product and service fulfillment, internal operations such as improving services offered, fraud prevention, legal compliance, and first-party marketing," the report states. "By clarifying those practices for which consumer consent is unnecessary, companies will be able to streamline their communications with consumers, reducing the burden and confusion on consumers and businesses alike."
One method of simplified choice the FTC staff recommends is a "Do Not Track" mechanism governing the collection of information about consumer's Internet activity to deliver targeted advertisements and for other purposes. Consumers and industry both support increased transparency and choice for this largely invisible practice. The Commission recommends a simple, easy to use choice mechanism for consumers to opt out of the collection of information about their Internet behavior for targeted ads. The most practical method would probably involve the placement of a persistent setting, similar to a cookie, on the consumer's browser signaling the consumer's choices about being tracked and receiving targeted ads.
The report also recommends other measures to improve the transparency of information practices, including consideration of standardized notices that allow the public to compare information practices of competing companies. The report recommends allowing consumers "reasonable access" to the data that companies maintain about them, particularly for non-consumer facing entities such as data brokers. Finally, FTC staff proposes that stakeholders undertake a broad effort to educate consumers about commercial data practices and the choices available to them.
The vote approving the preliminary staff report was 5-0, with Commissioners William E. Kovacic and J. Thomas Rosch issuing concurring statements. Public comments on the report will be accepted until January 31, 2011. To file a public comment electronically, please click here and follow the instructions.
The Federal Trade Commission works for consumers to prevent fraudulent, deceptive, and unfair business practices and to provide information to help spot, stop, and avoid them. To file a complaint in English or Spanish, visit the FTC's online Complaint Assistant or call 1-877-FTC-HELP (1-877-382-4357). The FTC enters complaints into Consumer Sentinel, a secure, online database available to more than 1,800 civil and criminal law enforcement agencies in the U.S. and abroad. The FTC's website provides free information on a variety of consumer topics.
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At the height of its power, Rome reached a population of nearly one million people -- the largest city of an empire that stretched from Scotland in the west to the Persian Gulf in the east. A city of that size required enormous planning, and Roman engineers obliged by taking into consideration a number of features that ensured the safety, productivity and well-being of its citizens. They provided systems to dispose of sewage. They built aqueducts to bring water to the city. They built roads to facilitate transportation and communication. They designed and arranged financing for baths, sports arenas and theaters. And they placed, at the heart of the city, a forum where Romans of every class and distinction could gather to socialize, worship and conduct business.
Although ancient Rome finally collapsed, the principles of municipal planning that made the city so splendid and powerful lived on. As other cities grew, they also had to address the myriad problems that arose whenever a large number of people crowded into a relatively small amount of space. Over time, the development process cities undertook -- a process that led to solutions for habitation, communication, education, transportation and more -- became known as urban planning. And the people who guided the work became known as urban planners.
Today, urban planning is one of the most important occupations when you consider how much of the world's population lives in cities and their surrounding areas. In 1800, a little more than 2 percent of the world's population lived in urban areas. By 1900, that number had grown to 45 percent. And by 2010, it is expected to grow to 51.3 percent, according to the United Nations [source: ScienceDaily].
Clearly, effective urban planning will be critical to the success of our planet. But what exactly is it? That's the question this article will answer. We'll look closely at what urban planning is, how long it's been around, what it entails and who provides the services in most cities and towns. We'll also explore the future of urban planning to understand how municipal planning principles used today may be incorporated into cities of the future, including cities that could exist on the moon or Mars. But before we travel into outer space, let's go back to Chicago at the beginning of the 20th century.


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ETT21 #150: Barbara Brueggemann, Head of School at the GWU Online High School
alex.ragone - Thu, 2011-03-17 21:30
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ETT21 #150: Barbara Brueggemann, Head of School at the GWU Online High School.
March 9, 2011
Barbara Brueggemann is the Head of School at GWUOHS, a Partnership between George Washington University and K12.com in Herndon, VA. A full 9th to 12th grade online program that addresses the social and emotional learning as part of the program.
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12:29:50 william stites -> Still having trouble hearing the guest
12:32:04 william stites -> MUCH better
12:36:09 PeggyG -> did you share a link for GWU's Online High School?
12:37:41 PeggyG -> that certainly DOES sound like a "dream school" :-)
12:39:55 matt montagne -> hey y'all
12:40:08 PeggyG -> Hi Matt
12:40:27 matt montagne -> seems to fit in with the Alan November TEDx talk from last weekend
12:40:32 matt montagne -> Hi Peggy!
12:40:55 matt montagne -> I like the concept of 'leaving legacy'
12:41:47 matt montagne -> what is the topic??
12:42:05 PeggyG -> George Washing Univ. online high school
12:42:18 matt montagne -> ahh...nice
12:42:21 PeggyG -> http://www.gwu.edu/explore/mediaroom/newsreleases/thegeorgewashingtonuni...
12:42:36 matt montagne -> Is the school affiliated with a brick and mortar school??
12:42:43 matt montagne -> thanks peggy
12:43:23 PeggyG -> learning as I go :-) This is Barb Brueggemann I think
12:43:24 matt montagne -> I hope they make some of their courseware available to the public for free
12:43:37 matt montagne -> it would fit in with pat bassett's charge to the private school world
12:43:43 Vinnie Vrotny -> It is Barb Brueggemann
12:44:10 PeggyG -> http://www.gwuohs.com/
12:44:15 PeggyG -> thanks Vinnie :-)
12:44:49 PeggyG -> and Barb is Head of School :-)
12:46:17 PeggyG -> absolutely!! selective memory about high school :-)
12:46:22 matt montagne -> f2f isn't always that great...we need to acknowledge that. I think barb is right on
12:47:19 PeggyG -> I agree! my social life online is far better than my f2f social life :-)
12:47:24 Susan Carter Morgan -> It's authentic socializing for them-agree. Many opportunities to reach and relate on line.
12:47:40 Susan Carter Morgan -> Peggy, mine, too:)
12:48:28 matt montagne -> I like the project, but I wish they'd share some of their coursework as OERs in much the same way that MIT, Stanford, et al do.
12:48:30 PeggyG -> is this HS being modeled after any other virtual HS programs?
12:49:05 PeggyG -> that is a great question Matt. Maybe that's coming after they complete their pilot with the first 16 students?
12:49:07 Susan Carter Morgan -> Might that be a possibility in the future, Matt?
12:49:45 Susan Carter Morgan -> I'm late to the game here, but have they decided to go w/ 16 for the first year?
12:49:48 matt montagne -> I hope so, Peggy and Susan...IMHO, private schools need to step up to pat bassett's 'public purpose' challenge. Sharing is one way to participate in Pat's call
12:50:23 Susan Carter Morgan -> Agree, Matt. So important. May mean our survival, too
12:50:43 PeggyG -> does the student online work remain available to them after they graduate?
12:50:56 matt montagne -> good question, Peggy.
12:52:37 PeggyG -> interesting they are thinking of adding "integrity" to their rubric/assessment. Is process also part of the rubric?
12:52:52 PeggyG -> maybe that is what integrity implies?
12:53:49 Susan Carter Morgan -> Will there be any f2f opportunities? Once a year? Or not at all...
12:54:43 PeggyG -> intentional is a very key word!
12:55:15 Susan Carter Morgan -> SLA has been successful b/c of their intentional focus. All are tuned into and buy into the mission (from the start)
12:55:40 PeggyG -> SLA is a great example of intentional focus :-)
12:56:35 matt montagne -> we need to be doing way more action research in our schools...
12:57:16 PeggyG -> http://www.k12.com/
12:57:33 PeggyG -> I agree about action research Matt!! for teaachers and students
13:00:33 PeggyG -> motivated, hardworking, honest, creative souls wanted... :-)
13:00:47 matt montagne -> is there an admissions exam that you use??
13:01:06 matt montagne -> I hope an exam isn't used, particularly if you are looking at more effective ways for students to exhibit mastery
13:01:35 PeggyG -> thank you Barb for sharing your vision and stories!
13:01:40 Susan Carter Morgan -> Thanks, enjoyed this
13:01:42 PeggyG -> bye all
13:01:45 matt montagne -> yet another great 21CL webcast!!!
13:01:50 arvind -> thanks for being here, everyone!
13:02:04 PeggyG -> thanks all!
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Military criminal cases in limbo
WICHITA, Kan. - Dozens of military criminal cases have been thrown into limbo because of a legal challenge over whether Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel improperly appointed a judge to the Air Force's highest court, with attorneys raising questions about the judge's independence amid increasing pressure over the military's handling of sexual assault cases.
WICHITA, Kan. - Dozens of military criminal cases have been thrown into limbo because of a legal challenge over whether Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel improperly appointed a judge to the Air Force's highest court, with attorneys raising questions about the judge's independence amid increasing pressure over the military's handling of sexual assault cases.
The military's top court, the U.S. Armed Forces Court of Criminal Appeals, has sent at least 37 cases back to the Air Force Court of Appeals this month that were handled by former Judge Laurence Soybel. Soybel was a civilian when Hagel - who has publicly criticized the Air Force's handling of sexual assault cases - appointed him this summer to help alleviate a backlog of criminal cases.
"The secretary of defense has been making a lot of statements related to sexual assaults, and here he is appointing Judge Soybel at will," defense attorney Philip Cave, whose client was convicted in a case now on appeal, told the Associated Press. "That creates not just an appointment problem, but a perception problem of whether or not Judge Soybel will be fair."
The Air Force insists Soybel, who left the court in October, was unbiased and properly appointed. No hearings have been scheduled in the dispute.
The resulting delays have infuriated attorneys and their clients, many of whom have waited years for their appeals to be heard. They say if dozens of Soybel cases have to be reargued in the lower court, it could add six months to a year to each appeal.
Among those is the case of Air Force Sgt. David Gutierrez, who was convicted in 2011 of aggravated assault for exposing multiple sex partners to HIV at swinger parties in Kansas. His attorney, Kevin McDermott, said he was "blindsided" when he learned the dispute had delayed his case just days before he was to argue Gutierrez's appeal before the nation's highest military court on Dec. 9.
"This one case has the potential to remap the entire landscape of HIV testing and prosecution in the United States military," McDermott said.
Judges on the Air Force Court of Appeals are usually active-duty colonels appointed by the judge advocate of the Air Force. But because the court had a large backlog and didn't have any active-duty colonels available, the judge advocate appointed Soybel, a retired Air Force major. Soybel had served on the court as an appellate judge from 2006 to 2008, while he was on active duty.
But his civilian appointment was contested, and the Air Force Court of Appeals ultimately ruled that the judge advocate didn't have authority to appoint non-military personnel to the court, Cave said. Hagel then appointed Soybel, citing his hiring authority as defense secretary.
Cave and other defense attorneys have seized on the dispute, challenging Hagel's appointment because of concerns about "command influence" - questioning whether the court could have been unfair in its consideration of the cases when Soybel was beholden to Hagel for his job. The attorneys said that because Hagel could dismiss Soybel at any time, the judge could have been biased to side with alleged sexual assault victims.
Hagel and other Defense Department leaders have been under pressure to more aggressively respond to sexual assault allegations in the military.


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Priyanka, 13 and a chirpy adolescent girl studying in a government school in a village called 'Rohini Gaun' 25 kms from Wardha in Maharashtra blushes and says, "We don't talk about it at all!". That is how deep seated the taboo around menstruation is in rural India and our society as a whole, where mothers do not discuss it with their daughters or even among themselves.
It is something to be 'hidden' from each other and the men folk of the household as if it never happened! Priyanka gushes and says, "I got my menses when I turned thirteen few months ago and till that very time, I had no information about what menstrual cycle is." She says her mother told her nothing to prepare her for the change in her physiology and her life in general. "Menstruation onset turned my life upside down in more ways than one," Priyanka says regretfully, as if she felt she had been better off before it began.
In rural India as a whole, menstruation is a taboo writ with stigma not permitting discussion or even information seeking. Because of the shame and superstitions associated with this monthly biological occurrence, these women are impacted by poor menstrual hygiene. On an average a woman has 3000 days of menstruation in her lifetime, which begins from 8-16 years and ends in her late forties or early fifties, with very real and practical needs like material for absorption of menstrual blood, facilities for proper disposal of used materials with privacy and dignity.
In a study by A.C Nielsen and Plan India it was found that 200 million people inIndiahave poor understanding of menstrual hygiene and linked health care; that only 12% of young girls and women have access to use sanitary pads; and 23% of girls in the country drop out of school after reaching puberty. This clearly indicates that the stigma, shame and superstition associated with menstruation has impacted menstrual hygiene and their general/reproductive health and impacted education among women.
Due to ignorance of health guidelines, no access to information stemming from the stigma to discuss it or their own geographical and cultural isolation, 300 million women and girls in India use unsanitary materials such as old rags, husks, dried leaves and grass, ash, sand or newspapers every month to try and contain the flow of menstrual blood. These unhygienic measures during menstruation makes women susceptible to infections and diseases, often requiring urgent medical attention. Urinary Tract Infections and other reproductive system diseases reducing mobility and livelihood opportunities in these women are impacts of stigma on menstruation.
Priyanka, sitting perched on her class bench along with other girls in her class, some of whom have begun menstruating informs us of just how superstition and stigma weaves a norm prevalent in her community. "My mother told me not to tell any one that I have begun having periods and she was very clear that keeping it away from the public eye was for my own good. Other people in the village must not come to know that I have now entered the 'marriageable age." (Puberty is considered to be the age where a girl inIndiacan be married off and in ruralIndiathis is still prevalent)
Left: Class in progress in rural Maharashtra; Right: The Wash Yatra Team with the class on menstrual hygiene
Priyanka lives a life of complete isolation the 3-5 days her menstruation lasts in a month. She is made to eat separately after other members of the household have eaten. She is not allowed into the house kitchen to help her mother with the cooking like other days, nor can she get herself something to eat or drink from the kitchen. She sits separately during the day and sleeps alone at night. She is barred from worshipping and entering the 'puja' room (a room or a side of the house assigned to worship and most Hindu houses have this clearly demarcated in their houses). "I don't like these restrictions on me. I was better off before," she says.
Most other girls from her school and community use cotton fabric to absorb their menstrual fluid. This cotton fabric is mostly made out of old cotton saris (an Indian five yard long garment that women drape around themselves teamed with a blouse). Most of these girls don't know what a sanitary pad is and have never used one. And those who know about it have never considered it to be an option. Her classmate chips into our conversation and says, "We don't have money to buy Whisper Wings. The advertisement on the television tells me how expensive they are! And besides that they are not available in the village."
The shame associated with washing these cotton strips of old saris stealthily shying away from the eye of others, drying them on clotheslines in the backyard or behind the door, and finally burning them after usage is the biggest deterrent to menstrual hygiene in ruralIndia. Until we have a plan to eradicate the superstition, stigma and shame linked with menstruation, the status of menstrual hygiene inIndiawill not see improvement.
Left: Drinking water and hygiene in rural schools in Maharashtra; Right: Wash Yatra Team holds awareness drive & survey among adolescent girls
On Oct 1st 2012 in Wardha, Maharashtra began the Nirmal Bharat Yatra or the 'Great Wash Yatra', a travelling carnival that will travel for 50 days across five states of Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Uttar Pardesh and Bihar taking themed rides, games and performances seeking to promote awareness and behaviour change around sanitation and hygiene in India. An important component of the Yatra is talking to girls and their mothers and fathers, sisters and brothers, teachers and colleagues along the route of the Yatra, about menstruation without shame and embarrassment. The objective is to break the silence, to offer health guidelines on best practices for Menstruation Hygiene Management and to find solutions collectively. Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council (WSSCC), a partner in this initiative, through the Yatra aims to bring the most rarely talked about subject of menstruation out of the dark.
It is yet to be seen if the Great Wash Yatra will reach out to the masses or not, but it certainly is a pioneer in taking an initiative deep into remote rural India and touching on aspects of water, sanitation and menstrual hygiene that have been buried under the load of stigma and ignorance. Girls like Priyanka and her classmates benefitted from the awareness program on menstruation hygiene held in her school in remoteMaharashtraby the Great Wash Yatra team. The mission of breaking stigma and superstition regarding menstruation has begun.
By Urmila Chanam
Fellow, India Water Portal, Arghyam
For full India Water Portal coverage of the Nirmal Bharat Yatra, click here.


text: May Your Holiday Season be Golden 19 December 2016 Dr-Vogelsang Pet Advice & Ideas (1) According to one recent study, upwards of 60% of pet parents buy their pet kids a Christmas stocking. My response is … ONLY 60%? Granted, I fall a little further on the extreme end of the pet-enthusiast spectrum. I don't just do stockings … we wrap gifts, don holiday sweaters and even keep a goodly supply of festive cookies! My beloved Golden, Brody, started joining in the holiday merriment as a pup. His first Christmas was 2009, as a bouncy little five-month-old filled with joy at this strange new festivity. The candy-cane shaped chew treats were icing on top of the holiday cake. My dog gets super excited on Christmas morning. (The cat not so much, but that doesn't deter me from trying.) He senses the excitement as the kids start tiptoeing around starting at 5 am, poking boxes and whispering their prognostications about what might be hidden inside each festive package. Brody plays along, sniffing at each gift in turn and standing patiently under his own stocking until it's his turn to discover his holiday goodies. He isn't as excited about his ornament as I would like him to be, but hey, we can't win them all. Maybe if they made scented decorations he'd be more appreciative. Your dog's enthusiasm may vary, of course. My dog Kekoa, who blessed our house until her passing in 2012, was not nearly as excited about donning holiday garb. She was quick to figure out that not tolerating costumes meant she got to skip straight to the treats. That's what you call a "smart cookie". As we enter the 2016 holiday season, I'm reminded of how much he has changed since Brody's first puppy Christmas back in 2009. He's a little slower, short one ear we had to amputate, and grey around the muzzle. He's like the Ghost of Christmas Present from Dicken's A Christmas Carol … an amiable chap who lives in the moment, which seems to pass by in the blink of an eye. Dogs are an ever-present reminder to stop and enjoy every moment, because you don't get it again once it's gone. I'm hopeful we'll be able to enjoy many more Christmases together. Taking my cues from him, I'm trying not to worry too much about the future, but rather just taking in the precious moments and enjoying his lovable presence in the here and now. So this year, instead of being sad about that little bit of grey already creeping into his coat, I'm remembering to be grateful for all the joy he has brought us over the years, thankful for him simply being who he is, and appreciative of the varied comforts our four-footed companions bring to the holiday season. What are your favorite canine holiday memories? Share your story in the comments section below! Wishing you and yours a very happy holiday season! Dr. Jessica Vogelsang May Your Holiday Season be Golden According to one recent study, upwards of 60% of pet parents buy their pet kids a Christmas stocking. My response is … ONLY 60%? Granted, I fall a little further on the extreme end of the pet-enthusiast spectrum. Tweet


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CIO… the Ivy League
Posted by Brian Goodman on February 15th, 2013Michael James is the RTC correspondent for the Ivy League. You can also find his musings on Twitter at @mrjames2006 and @ivybball.
Looking Back
- One For The Record Book – While Yale's 69-65 victory over Princeton sent shock waves throughout the league, the score itself obscured the myriad storylines, ranging from interesting to bizarre, hidden beyond a cursory glance. The Tigers saw their 21-game Ivy home winning streak come to an end – a run which extended all the way back to the 2009-10 season. The victory helped push the Bulldogs into a tie for third in the league and put Yale back on pace to finish in the Ivy's upper division for the 13th consecutive season. Also, it marked just the seventh time in the Academic Index era (dating back to 1980) that a team pulled off the back-to-back sweep of Pennsylvania and Princeton on the road. The game itself was very strange, as both teams posted effective field goal percentages over 60% and each offense rebounded over half of its missed shots.
- High Octane – After spending most of the non-conference slate struggling mightily to score the basketball, the eight Ivies have experienced a veritable explosion on the offensive end during league play. Every team has seen its offensive efficiency rise, as the 14-Game Tournament has seen Ivy teams score an average of six points more per 100 possessions than they did during the non-conference slate. True-shooting percentage has risen substantially in league play as teams have started getting to the line more and converting a greater percentage of their three-point shots. Dropping threes is a great equalizer for an underdog, and sure enough, the league's two biggest upsets to this point (Yale over Princeton and Columbia over Harvard) have seen the favorites succumb to a barrage of trifectas from their opponents.
Power Rankings
- Princeton (11-8, 4-1) – While the Tigers look like the most complete Ivy team and have the added benefit of experience going for them, one thing to keep in mind is that the Tigers haven't played a road game since January 5th and have yet to venture away from Jadwin in league play. With seven of its final nine on the road, Princeton is about to find out just how tough it is out there, starting with its trip to Dartmouth and Harvard this weekend. Over the same timeframe that the Tigers won 21 straight games at Jadwin Gym, they went just 9-7 on the road, losing at five different Ivy venues. Princeton's home-road splits this season have been pretty much dead even, so there's no reason to expect any drop off as the Tigers leave New Jersey, and all it would take is one road sweep to make Princeton the prohibitive favorite. Read the rest of this entry »


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It may have been a long, bitterly cold winter, but the action on the hardcourt in the Wayne-Finger Lakes basketball leagues was hotter than ever and the Upstate Hoops Podcast and FL1 Sports has been there every step of the way with 27 live game webcasts, countless interviews and features, and extensive nightly score recaps all season long culminating with our coverage of Championship Weekend at the Blue Cross Arena. On Sunday morning, Jim Sinicropi, Matt Verkey, Dave Barnick, Kevin Korzeniewski and Lyons Lions' head coach Zac Young look back at it all and recap all the postseason action, discuss Lyons' run to the state final four for the first time since 1997, pay tribute to Jerry Anderson's Mynderse Lady Blue Devils for their sectional title and take a look ahead to next season. Stay tuned at the end of this episode for a special video compilation of this season's most memorable moments.
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Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal: my five favorite KISS songs
Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal: my five favorite KISS songs
Guns N' Roses guitarist Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal became a KISS fan early. He was just five years old when some of the older kids in his neighborhood played him the band's classic 1975 live album, KISS Alive! "It was one of those life-changing moments," he says. "I was immediately inspired. All at once, I knew that I wanted to play the guitar and do what KISS did."
Borrowing a friend's guitar, which he banged like a drum ("I had no idea how to actually play guitar at the time"), Thal began writing songs about space exploration for the rock band he dreamed of forming one day. "I called it The Solar System," he says with a laugh. "It was all KISS and Star Wars – the kinds of things a little kid knows."
Thal's KISS obsession extended into his adolesence – he had the records, the dolls, the posters and the requisite KISS Army decal on his bedroom door. One year, he made a convincing Ace Frehley for Halloween. "I was pretty good-looking," he recalls. And his first concert? "KISS, Madison Square Garden, 1979. I was too young to see them in '77, but I went to the Dynasty tour. And it was great because it was the original dudes in the makeup, doing the whole show. They were remarkable."
Now that he's a grown-up rock star playing arenas himself, Thal is paying tribute to his boyhood heroes. He recently donated a cover version of Detroit Rock City to a KISS 40th anniversary tribute album called A World With Heroes. "That was the track I just had to do," he says. "I told [album producer] Mitch Lafon, 'I'm in, but I've got to do Detroit Rock City.' Luckily, nobody else claimed it yet."
Former Whitesnake drummer Brian Tichy and Kill Devil Hill bassist Rex Brown played on Thal's original guitar, vocal and click-track recording, which immediately caught the attention of concert promoters. "The thing was mixed and mastered, and suddenly people are asking me about dates," says Thal. "We all talked about it and decided, 'Yeah, let's do it.' We're all KISS fans, we know the songs – let's play some shows."
Pulling Kill Devil Hill guitarist Mark Zavon into the fold, Thal, Tichy and Brown formed A.L.I.V.E.!, a tribute band dedicated to early KISS. The band has three West Coast gigs coming up (24 July at the Whiskey in Hollywood, 25 July at the Las Vegas Country Saloon and 27 July at the Tiki Bar in Costa Mesa, CA), and Thal promises a no-frills, kickass set geared around the albums KISS Alive! I and II. "We're not going to wear the makeup, so it's not those other KISS tribute bands," he says. "You see that with Beatles tribute bands, too – they dress up in Sgt. Pepper outfits. We're not going to do that. We'll just play great music and have a good time."
On the following pages, Thal runs down his five favorite KISS songs, some of which very well could end up in the A.L.I.V.E.! setlist.
For more information on A World With Heroes, visit PledgeMusic, and for info on A.L.I.V.E. dates, visit Bumblefoot's website.
Ladies In Waiting (1975)
"This is a great track from Dressed To Kill. Oddly enough, what I really like about it are the moments in the song when they're not playing. There are spaces of silence that I find absolutely mesmerizing.
"Listen to the song. The band will be playing, and they'll stop on these chords and continue just half a second later. Those moments are so tight – it's as if somebody pulled the plug and put it right in as the record was playing.
"It's a brilliant trick, this complete nothingness. It makes me give the song my full attention. There's such value in those spaces – they pack the song such intensity and tension. I never get tired of hearing it."
Let Me Know (1974)
"This one ends Side One. It's a really nice rock 'n' roll song – very poppy, almost like something from the late '50s or early '60s. But then a very cool thing happens at the end: The songs stops and there are these vocal harmonies that are followed by a double solo from Ace. The whole thing fades from there.
"On KISS Alive!, this is the ending that they gave to the song She. It's such an interesting thing to do, to have this happy, feel-good rock song that stops on vocal harmonies and then goes into the coolest damn riff that Ace solos on. A brilliant construction."
100,000 Years (1975)
"I'm choosing the version off of KISS Alive! It has one of the longest drum solos, but it never gets boring. I love how they put the phase on it, too. And then you have Paul doing his thing, getting everybody worked up. [Imitates Paul Stanley.] 'How many people believe in rock 'n' roll?!'
"This one was on the first album, and I do like that version a lot, but I have to go with the live version. It makes you feel as though you're there. The way that Paul connects with the audience jumps right out, and that connection extends to the listener. You're at the show, and he's talking right to you. When you're a little kid, that's pretty important."
I Want You (1976)
"It starts with an acoustic, and you think the song might be a ballad, but then it goes into the build-up; it does a brief stop and then it explodes. That's one of the best openers I've ever heard.
"Another cool thing about the song is the guitar solo. There's a slower, melodic part with harmonic overtones that sound incredible, and then it takes off into a more fast-paced bit of licks. Very memorable.
"Great dynamics throughout. After the solo, they go back into the acoustic part from the intro. I just love everything about the song. The arrangement, the production, the spirit – it's all there."
Detroit Rock City
"There are many reasons to pick this song, but the biggest one is the solo. It's THE solo – one of the best guitar solos to ever appear in a rock song, ever.
"I have the demo of Detroit, and it was such a different song originally. Thank God it evolved into what it did. It's so dramatic, especially the opening. That's a long intro, but it works – it takes you somewhere.
"But again, it's all about the guitar solo. I learned how to play it as a kid, and I'll never forget it. That's the thing about KISS songs: The guitar solos are oftentimes the most memorable parts. You can sing every one of them. They're songs within songs."


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Willie Nelson Receiving 5th Degree Black Belt in Korean Martial Arts
Willie Nelson may be approaching 81, but he isn't letting his age hinder his physical fitness. The Red Headed Stranger will receive his 5th Degree Black Belt in the art of Gong Kwon Yu Sul, a modern Korean martial arts system.
Nelson has been practicing martial arts most of his life. It began in Nashville, when he started studying kung fu as a young songwriter. In the past 20 years, he has been training in the art of Tae Kwon Do and Gong Kwon Yu Sul, using his time in his tour bus, Honeysuckle Rose, as a means of practicing techniques.
Last year, Nelson told Men's Health Magazine, "Really, all my life, Charles Atlas and Bruce Lee were on my mind. It's a good form of exercise, especially as you get older. I went through school playing all kinds of sports. I played shortstop. I ran track. I played football. I was a pole vaulter. Then when I went to Nashville, I got into some martial arts and kung fu. I liked it. We used to offer kung fu lessons to the kids in town. It's good for you."
The country legend will receive his 5th degree black belt on April 28 in Austin, Texas. Grand Master Sam Um will be promoting Nelson at his studio, Master Martial Arts, and it will be an early birthday present for Nelson, who turns 81 two days later.
Nelson will embark on a tour with Alison Krauss & Union Station featuring Jerry Douglas on May 1 -- and since he'll be on the road through July, he will have lots of time to keep perfecting his technique on the bus.


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by Ethan Miller
Previous: Part Two: "The Name of the Trap Is 'The Economy'"...
From Economy to Livelihood: Five Principles
The glimmers of a new economic story are emerging. These are concepts and intuitions that can help to free our imaginations from the grip of the old "economy" and to embark on new collective explorations of how we might live together in this coming age of uncertainty and change. Let's start with five principles for re-orienting our economic thinking that can help us to move: (1) from a singular notion of "the economy" to a notion of diverse forms of livelihood; (2) from an economy/nature divide to a restorative concept of ecological community; (3) from a stale choice between "the market" and "the state" to a creative political space within and beyond these institutions; (4) from the limiting logics of "economic laws" to the work of creating new possibilities through collective imagination and action; and, finally, (5) from the economics of the "experts" to economics as a practice of democratic organizing in which "we the people" make our own economies.
Principle 1. From "The Economy" to Diverse Livelihoods
There is no single "economy," except as a story that is enforced by institutions to maintain the status quo. There are, instead, diverse forms of livelihood, multiple ways that we make our livings in relation to each other and to the living world of which we are a part.
The idea of a single "economic system" made of money and markets is a bankrupt story that serves only to make our economic possibilities invisible. In the real world-outside of the textbooks and the institutions who model the world on their ideas-we meet our needs through all kinds of different practices and relationships. It is time to move from a notion of "economy" to one of livelihood. This is not, any longer, about what the capitalist market demands of us. This is about how we make our living. How we make our lives.i
We are not just rational self-interest maximizers. We cooperate, we share, we identify with each other and create communities of care and support. Far from living in a world of cold business transactions, most of us live in worlds that are full of complex relationships, obligations, commitments, and forms of love. We fight tooth and nail to hold onto these spaces-the roots of our dignity-in the face of an economy that tries to rob them from us.
We do not just depend on jobs and money for our livelihoods. Our lives are more than our work, and our work is more than our jobs. We depend on each other, on our families and friends, on our neighbors and on the many communities of which we are a part. We depend on gift-giving and bartering, generosity and solidarity, lending and borrowing, sharing and holding resources in common. We depend on our own skills and the skills of others, on shared wisdom, and on shared forms of work within and beyond the workplace. These are the forms of livelihood, in fact, that keep us alive in the most difficult times. We don't rely on "the market" to provide us with our needs when the floodwaters rise, when the mill closes down, when the company downsizes, or when the hurricane strikes. We rely on each other, because we are the economy of life and community.
In a larger sense, we also rely on the ongoing labor of other living beings and the world itself, processes of livelihood which "the economy" cannot provide (and most often works to exploit or destroy): the plants that make our oxygen, the soils that grow our food, the insects that pollinate our fruit, the climate that turns our seasons, the clouds that bring the rain, and the wind that sweeps them away to reveal the sun. This is not "natural capital": this is our shared world. It cannot be turned into money.
Neither money nor "economic growth" are the sole measures of our well-being. Even as we struggle and strive to earn it, we do not all believe in the idea that money actually measures "value." We have other values, too: our health, our time to rest, play and to be free, our creative expressions, our spiritual and religious lives, our family commitments, our relations with the more-than-human living world, our traditions and our stories, and the possibility of a future for those yet to come. These values do not die, no matter how many times the economists ignore them and the insurance companies try to quantify them for profit: they make us who we are, we live them, and we pass them on.ii
The story of "the economy" has hidden from us our possibilities. These are not just imagined, not just fantasies of what might yet be. No: the creative action of generations of economic pioneers has already given rise to a whole array of living possibilities in which we might participate, or on which we might come to depend: worker, consumer and producer cooperatives; community currencies; fair trade initiatives; housing cooperatives and intentional communities; volunteer rescue and fire squads; collective childcare and education networks; community-run social centers; public libraries; non-profit community development credit unions; free schools; cooperative forms of no-interest financing; community gardens; neighborhood care networks; open source free software projects; community supported agriculture (CSA) programs; farmer's markets; community land trusts- commons of all sizes and shapes.iii
These are not utopian projects. They are the imperfect shapes of our creative struggles to build different forms of livelihood in this actual world. They call us toward possibilities that we have only begun to explore and to fight for.
Next: Part Four: "From Economy/Nature to a Community of Life" (principle #2)...
- 8.5 x 11 size (this one prints out nicely on letter-sized paper)
- Booklet-size (this one is easy to read on a computer screen)
- Ready-to-fold 'zine version (you can print this version and distribute it in your community or at your #occupation!)
i For more on this shift in perspective from a monolithic "economy" to a diverse landscape of practices, see J.K. Gibson-Graham, A Postcapitalist Politics. University of Minnesota Press, 2006; and Jenny Cameron and J.K. Gibson-Graham, "Feminising the Economy: Metaphors, Strategies, Politics." Gender, Place and Culture, Vol. 10, No.2, p.145-157; also other work of the Community Economies Collective.
ii Massimo De Angelis offers a powerful framework for thinking about values and "value struggles" in his book The Beginning of History: Value Struggles and Global Capital (London: Pluto Press, 2007). He draws on David Graeber's concept of "value as the importance of action" in David Graeber, Toward an Anthropological Theory of Value: The False Coin of Our Own Dreams. New York: Palgrave, 2001.
iii To put a few numbers into the mix: A recent study by the USDA shows that 29,000 cooperative businesses in the U.S. employ more than 2 million people. This includes over 200 worker-owned cooperatives and 26,844 consumer-owned cooperatives (many of which are credit unions-- non-profit alternatives to corporate banks). These are all businesses "mutually owned and democratically controlled by members who benefit from its products and services." Additionally, there are more than 250 community land trusts-cooperatively owed and democratically controlled parcels of land to support affordable housing and other projects-in the U.S. (National Community Land Trust Network), and hundreds of local currencies and barter networks of all kinds (see Community Currency Magazine's directory for just a few of these). The Data Commons Project is working to develop a more comprehensive directory of alternative economy initiatives of all kinds. The in-progress prototype can be found at: www.find.coop
iv The"iceberg" image is derived from an original by Ken Byrne, published in J.K. Gibson-Graham, A Postcapitalist Politics. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2006.
Gratitude to Kate Boverman, who inspired this piece and provided crucial ideas and support, and to Michael Johnson, Annie McShiras, Cheyenna Weber, Len Krimerman and Anne O'Brien for their excellent thoughts and edits.
Ethan Miller is an activist, educator and researcher working to cultivate and support movements for solidarity-based economic transformation. He works with Grassroots Economic Organizing and the Community Economies Collective, and has lived for the past ten years at the JED Collective and Giant's Belly Farm in Greene, Maine. Ethan is currently on a hiatus in Australia, working on a PhD at the University of Western Sydney with the Community Economies Research Group.
Email Ethan at: leaving.omelas (-at-) gmail.com


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Final Product What You'll Be Creating
Underwater scenes can be quite challenging to create in a realistic way. In this tutorial, we will explain how to create an Underwater scene in Photoshop using several stock photographs. Let's get started!
Speed Art Video
Take a look at this stunning speed art video that shows how this artwork was created from beginning to end.
Tutorial Assets
The following assets were used during the production of this tutorial. Please download them or find alternatives before you begin work.
- Seagulls #1
- Seagulls #2
- Octopus #1
- Octopus #2
- Octopus #3
- Octopus #4
- Octopus #5
- Fish #1
- Fish #2
- Fish #3
- Fish and Reef
- Reef
- Reef #2
- Sky #1
- Sky #2
- Shipwreck
- Turtle
- Shark – Image note available. Find alternative.
- Cracks
- Flag
- Bubbles
- Water #1
- Brush Pack
1. Setting Up the Base
Step 1
Create a new A4 document using the presets shown below. You can make it smaller or bigger but keep the proportion of A4 document.
Step 2
Open the underwater image to make the base of the ocean. With clone stamp tool (S) clean the diver out of the image.
Now using curves (CTRL/CMD + M), change the contrast like shown below.
After that, make another curves with layer mask layer to give more depth to the ocean as the next image shows.
Step 3
For the water surface, you will cut with the path tool (P) the image water #1. After finishing the path press CTRL/CMD + enter to transform the path in selection and CTRL/CMD + F6 to make the selection softer using a feather around 0.5 or more.
The water surface adjustments, you will use gradient map and curves like the sequence below.
At the end, the image should look like this.
Step 4
Open the image Sky #1 for use as a base, after that open the Sky #2 and set the blend mode set to multiply but mask some parts just to put a few clouds in the clear areas of the sky base.
Now for the sky adjustments you will use curves and color balance as the following sequence.
Color Balance in soft light blending mode whit 50% opacity:
Curves with clipping mask:
2. Insert New Elements
Step 1
The next step will be to insert the shipwreck into the water. Like previously, use the path tool to cut the ship, make a path press CTRL/CMD + enter to transform the path in selection and CTRL/CMD + F6 to make the selection softer using a feather around 0.5 and after that with a soft brush bring back some rocks on the bottom of the ship. To make it appear that there is water on the ship you will make a copy of the sea, right click on the sea`s folder and select Duplicate Layer with the selected folder duplicated press CTRL/CMD + E to merge in one layer, after that change the opacity of this layer to 75% and create a mask like the image below to make depth and then with ALT pressed click between the layers to bind the ocean layer to the ship layer.
To make light and shadow of the shipwreck, you will use curve adjustments. Create a new curves layer and position between the ship and sea layers like the nest image.
For the light create a new curves layer on top of the other layers.
For the mast out of the water, duplicate the layers of the ship and light then mask like below.
For the final touch on the ship, open the flag image and cut the red one. Then follow the next adjustments layers:
Curves with clipping mask:
Curves with clipping mask:
Color balance:
Step 2
The image of the stones will be used for better integration between the ship and the sea. Place the image as in the example and with a soft brush, paint in the mask.
For the colors and lighting adjustments, follow the images below.
Color Balance:
Curves with clipping mask:
Step 3
Open the bubbles image and position on the top of waterline and set the blend mode to screen, then make a mask like below.
3. Inserting Animal Life
Step 1
For the octopus you will use five images. For the main part, mix the images #1 and #2, position the tentacle like image below and with a soft brush paint in the mask to integrate the tentacle with the octopus.
After that merge these two layers in one and cut with path. Follow the next adjustments for color and lighting corrections:
Duplicate the bubbles layer and set the opacity to 40% without mask.
Curves with clipping mask:
Curves with clipping mask:
Curves with clipping mask:
Curves with clipping mask:
Color Balance:
Now create a mask on the folder of octopus, after that go the shipwreck mask and pressing CTRL/CMD click under the mask to make a selection with the shape of the ship, press SHIFT + CTRL/CMD + I, to invert the selection and go back to the octopus mask, now with a soft brush you will paint on the mask parties that should be hidden.
To make the shadow, you will use curves adjustments.
Curves with clipping mask:
Curves with clipping mask:
The tentacles you have complete freedom to make the shape you want, for this, cutting parts of images 3,4 and 5, than go to edit menu and select puppet warp tool to model the tentacles as you wish.
After positioning the tentacles merge all in one layer. Now make the adjustments adapting the masks for your design, having in mind that the direction of the light comes from top left.
Gradient map, to let all the tentacles with the same tone:
Curves with clipping mask:
Curves with clipping mask:
Curves with clipping mask:
Curves with clipping mask:
Curves with clipping mask:
Color Balance:
Once again, make a copy of the sea and put on all the layers and set opacity to 50%.
To finish the octopus, open the cracks image and set to multiply, opacity 75% and scale/rotate the way you want to make cracks in the hull of the boat.
Step 2
Open the turtle image and after cut it set the opacity to 70% and position on top right of the water.
Step 3
The image fish and reef you will use both but for now cut the school of dark fish.
Then go to filter, blur, Gaussian blur and blurry a little bit, around 0.5. After that you will make two adjustments:
Color Balance:
Step 4
The images fish #1 and #2, you will cut the light shoal.
Color Balance:
Step 5
Now you will cut the shark image.
Next flip the shark (edit, transform, flip horizontal) and position beside the boat on the bottom, then set the opacity to 75% and make the adjustments below.
Color Balance:
Step 6
Now you will spread some bubbles around the water. For this, duplicate the image that you used for the base of the ocean, then turn into black and white pressing SHIFT + CTRL/CMD + U and set the levels(image, adjustments, levels) like the image below.
Set the blend mode to screen and change the intensity of the bubbles paint in the mask or decreasing the opacity. At the end the layer will be like image below.
Step 7
You will cut the seagulls images and position near the ship's mast.
Then follow the adjustments sequence.
Curves with clipping mask. This effect is to make the shadows, try to paint the right side of the birds:
Curves with clipping mask. This effect is to make the lights, try to paint the left side of the birds:
Color Balance to adjust color:
4. Foreground Elements
Step 1
This part of tutorial you will put elements on foreground. Open once again the fish and reef image for now cut just the reef, using Gaussian blur, blurry the image around 8.0 and scale to appear that are close to the camera lens.
With color Balance set the colors like below:
Using curves you will make the shadows painting in the mask with a soft brush darkening the underside of corals, like next image:
For the fish, follow the first steps of the reef. The difference is the shadow and color adjustments.
Using curves, make the shadows painting in the mask with a soft brush the underside of the fish:
With color Balance change the tones:
Step 2
This step is optional. If you want to make the distortion of water you have to make a copy of all layers together. Press SHIFT + CTRL/CMD + ALT + E (Combines all visible layersinto one) then go to filter, filter gallery, distortion, glass and set like image below.
To finish, make a mask only in part of the water and set the opacity to 50% or the way you prefer.
Step 3
For the last step of all process you will create the environment. This part is to make all the elements appear to be in the same atmosphere. You can change some settings for your preference.
Curves with clipping mask to darken the corners:
Gradient Map with blend mode set to color and 40% opacity:
Now using the brush pack of light, you will create some rays of light entering on the water with curves adjustment:
Curves with clipping mask to lighten the surface of the water:
Hue/saturation to decrease the saturation:
Color Balance to adjust color and tones:
This next effect is only available in version CS6 and beyond. Called color lookup has several variations of preset moods, in this case, Horror Blue
Photo filter to change the kind of blue:
Vibrance, to bring more life to the image:
The final touch is to add noise throughout the image. Go to menu bar > new layer, in the menu that appears change the mode to overlay and select the option, Fill with overlay.
Then go to filter, noise, add noise and set like window below.
In this tutorial, we have shown you how to composite several photos together and incorporate them into an Underwater scene in a realistic way. Hopefully, you have learned something from this tutorial and can incorporate these techniques into your own artwork.


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Turpial 1.3.2 alpha1 available in a Development Snapshot PPA
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Turpial 1.3.2 in a separate ppa , The Turpial Development PPA. lots of interesting new stuff in it and definetelly worth a try.
* New and secure authentication management wizzard from within Turpial.
* Support for Spanish, English, Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, Taiwanese, French and more.
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* Preferences button in the login screen
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* Added support for SigueMiLink in the URL shortener services
* Spellcheck
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* Added support for Yfrog, img.ly, mobypicture and twitgoo for uploading images.
* Added support for zi.ma and ur1.ca URL shortner services
* Turpial service API optimized, all services centralized
* Implemented extended gtk view using webkit (gtk+)
* Fixed minor bugs and added improvements in usability
There are several know issues regarding random failure pulling tweets and making status updates and Will and the gang are working hard on this and hope to make another stable release soon.
Install Turpial 1.3.2 in ubuntu Lucid/karmic
Open the terminal and run the following comamnds
Adding the archive:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:effie-jayx/turpial-devel
sudo apt-get update
and ready to install Turpial
sudo apt-get install turpial
Source from here