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Posted 22 February 2007 - 03:35 AM
I'm going to return to Carl Hiaasen's wacky South Florida next in Strip Tease. This one was made into a disasterous film starring Demi Moore and the woefully miscast Burt Reynolds. Ugggh just thinking about it makes me snarl. Demi may have looked good in it but the script was dog ugly. I'm hoping to purge the movie images from my mind with this re-read...
Posted 25 February 2007 - 03:22 PM
Also he's made his main character Erin, way too smart and resourceful to be a downtrodden stripper who can't even keep custody of her own kid. She's like some kind of working class super hero the way he paints her here but if she was so smart would she be working in a lowly dive of a strip club doing a job she so obviously loathes? Would she have allowed this to happen? I don't think so. Would she have allowed her doofus of an ex-husband to run rings around her for years. Would she have even taken a second look at him in the first place. It's possible maybe, but not the way she's presented in these pages, she's too knowing too clever. She's handled everyone so far like she's some kind of wonder woman, without the panties...
It's still waaaaay better than the film version, but well down on the one I read a bit back by Carl, Skin Tight...
Ah well, half of the book still to go, maybe it'll shock me with it's incredible denouement...
Posted 05 March 2007 - 01:40 PM
I've already almost finished my next book, a james W Hall mystery, yet another of the South Florida mystery cartel. It's good, quirky and funny, although it started of slowly. I forgot most of the plot but certain parts came back to me (the villainesses suddenly going lesbian was one part of the book that sprung to my mind). It's a good quirky thriller and it's way better than Strip Tease which never got any better unfortunately. Hall even seems to mock the celebrated Miami Herald columnist's eco sensibilities at one point, of ocurse it's from a murderer's point of view so that covers his ass in case Hiaasen ever picks him up on it:
"He set a section aside and picked up the local pages and read a paragraph or two from the Herald's star columnist - a middle-aged guy who'd discovered sarcasm in fifth grade and had never gotten over it. Today he was being snide about a new real estate development out on the edge of his precious Everglades. A scathing tack on some business man who had the gall to build some houses where the columnist used to fish with his cane pole as a kid. Because the guy had grown up in Miami and remembered it when it was a drowsy backwater tourist town, he thought he was the pope of alligators. Everybody was supposed to squirm up to him, kiss his ring, and let him decide what got built, what didn't. f***ing journalists."
Akk for all I know Hall is Hiaasen's best pal and it was a novelist's in-joke or something ah well...
Posted 06 March 2007 - 04:12 AM
Even though it started a little bit slowly with a flashback prologue, this turned out to be best one so far in this M&S thread. It was a serial killer style thriller but much more interesting and diverse than the usual books of this kind. It had great characters who all had their various quirks and idiosyncracies like real people instead of the stereotypes you often find in these stories.
I was a little disappointed that Stan, Emma and Norman got wiped out in ways that prevented what could have been a series of exciting confrontations but that's not the way the story went and it's just a minor gripe as the second of half of the book was particularly satisfying with a really page-turning conclusion.
I really recommend this one it's fairly original and the main character, Alex and particularly her father are great characters. And the killer was very effective a lot more entertaining and engaging than the average fictional psycho killer, plus he was much more convincing,
And it was funny too, here's an excerpt that had me laughing and it doesn't give away the plot or even a sub-plot...
The big redneck came up to Stan's window, bent down to look him over, then said, "Don't do no full service after 7 P.M.. Gotta pump it yourself."
Stan looked at the dashboard digital clock.
"It's only six-fifty."
"'At's not what my watch says. And my watch is what we go by around here."
The big man was wearing a railroad cap and overalls and an orange t-shirt that was giving Stan an instant headache.
"Jesus Christ man I got a broken leg," Stan said, tapping on the white plaster. "I'm in a Goddamn cast. Cut me some slack, why don't you?"
The big man stepped away from the window.
"Don't be cussing me, mister. Rules is rules."
The man started back to his office.
"Hey!" Stan yelled. "Hey, you porker. Look at me. Turn around, doofus and look me in the f***ing eye."
With his back to Stan, the man halted, shot a thick dollop of tobacco juice into the weeds beside the pumps, and turned slowly. His mouth was set in a snarl, but when he saw the .38 pointing at him out the window, his face went slack.
"You know who I am pig man?"
"Don't reckon I do."
"I'm Machine Gun Kelly is who I am. I'm Richard Loch and Alfred Packer and Lee Harvey Oswald all rolled into one. I'm Charles Starkweather and Frank Nitti and Joseph Michael Valachi."
"You're all those people, are you?"
"You bet your sweet ass I am. Them and more."
"If you say so."
"So fill it up, fat boy." Stan said. "Regular unleaded."
While the guy pumped the gas, Stan kept one eye on him in the rearview mirror and the other one on the yellow pool truck across the highway. Jennifer and the dark girl had gotten out and gone over to the john together while the water buffalo who'd been driving the truck was filling the tank. Stan just got a glimpse of the two women together, he didn't like what he saw. Reading their body language, it didn't look like Jennifer was a hostage at all. Way too friendly. A couple of girls out for a Sunday ride, kidding around, playful.
For close to six hundred miles now, Stan had been following them. Never saw anyone drive so slowly. A hundred times he'd considered passing them by, speeding on ahead, getting to Seaside a few hours before they did. But things could go wrong with that. He could have car trouble. They could pass him, get there first. This way, at least he could keep them in sight, and maybe, if the opportunity arose, ambush them somewhere along the way.
He'd always hated that white Galaxy, but now he'd begun to appreciate the car because it was so damn bland, it was practically invisible. Even with no traffic to speak of for the last few hours, the three of them didn't have a clue he was back there. Just another boxy white car.
"You're full up," the porker called.
Stan looked over at the pump, then pulled out his wallet and counted out seventeen dollars and held them out to the man, but the big guy eyed the money suspiciously and backed away.
"Take it," Stan said. "This isn't a f***ing holdup."
"It's not?"
"No, you idiot. I just wanted full service that's all."
"We don't do full service after 7 P.M.," the porker said.
"Yeah so I heard."
Stan waggled the money at the man until he leaned over and snatched it out of Stan's grasp.
By then, the pool-service truck was pulling out of the Exxon plaza and cranking back up the highway.
"Before I go," Stan said, and showed him the gun again, "I want you to swallow that plug."
"Say what?"
"That chewing tobacco, swallow it." Stan sighted on the man's broad, smooth forehead. "The whole damn mess, gulp it right on down."
Stan thumbed back the hammer.
"Shit," the man said. "It's too got-damned big to swallow."
"No cussing. Just swallow it down you oinker. The whole thing. Hurry up. I gotta go. Do it or I'll shoot your measly pecker off."
With his eyes on the gun, the porker craned his neck and took a quick breath, then choked down the wad.
"That stuff'll kill you boy, if you aren't careful. Give you mouth cancer and kill you deader than a bullet through the heart."
Stan uncocked the pistol, put the car in gear, and rolled onto the highway.
When he looked back, the porker was bent over the grass, vomiting, and a couple of chickens were scurrying over to feed.
Edited by treeduck, 06 March 2007 - 04:55 AM.
Posted 06 March 2007 - 06:20 PM
This is the first in the Hap Collins/Leonard Pine mystery series, one of the funniest and suspenseful in fiction. I'm gonna read about 5 of these, Mujo Mojo follows this one and it's the best of the bunch, so I'll save that till last. I'm not going to read them one after another anyway... Who knows what's next?? This is only about 170 pages so a nice short little story...
Posted 10 March 2007 - 03:44 AM
Savage Season is so short it's almost like an appetizer for the whole series. And it only really kicks into high gear at the halfway point. It's good stuff all the way through though as Joe introduces his characters and builds up steadily to an explosive finish.
Posted 10 March 2007 - 03:51 AM
This is one hell of a spooky tale, so spooky it even gave Stephen King the willies when it was published back in 1979...
I can't remember the story at all of course I read it way back in the late 80s, so I better find out what the hell is going on up there in Wyoming before it's too late...
Posted 13 March 2007 - 01:47 PM
The condensed, zero-padded writing style makes it very fast paced but also makes it a bit confusing with too much happening too fast. One thing about this style though it's certainly not boring...
I've got about 80 pages to go and I still don't know what the hell's going on. Which is rare at this stage of any suspense book. So plus points to DM for that...
Posted 14 March 2007 - 07:36 AM
Posted 14 March 2007 - 07:54 AM
You can match them up thus:
Salem's Lot - They Thirst
It - Stinger
Misery - Mine
The Stand - Swan Song
All these echos, as I've dubbed them, were very good or even excellent novels, though didn't quite match the King counterpart. They're too good to miss though if you like this genre.
McCammon disappeared off the radar in the early 90s. I think he's made something of a comeback recently but nothing to match his former glory.
But some of his books were of course nothing like King's like Baal, Usher's Passing, The Wolf's Hour and so on. And here's the one I'm gonna read and this is my Uk trade paperback version from 1989 via my attic...
This one is a collection of short stories and one novella at the end about the strange relationship between a priest and a porn starlet, hence the title Blue World... I don't think King's done one like that has he??
Posted 19 March 2007 - 12:38 AM
I've finished all the short stories now so just the novella about the priest and the porno star to go.
The stories have been generally good and enjoyable. they've been mostly in the horror/sci fi genre with a rich variety of subject matter: a thief who steals monster makeup that is more than just makeup, a vietnam veteran who's dreams are so real they come to life, a psycho kid who controls hordes of stinging insects, a has-been superhero actor who dons his moth-eaten costume one last time and goes on the trail of a serial killer, a good luck town that has to make special offerings to the devil on halloween, a man who wakes up to find death has come in the night and found his wife and so on.
It's not far off being as good as Stephen King's Everything's Eventual, almost as good but not quite. There's that King comparison again. He even mentions King in his introduction. I suppose anyone who writes horror is going to always be compared to King though...
Posted 25 March 2007 - 12:19 PM
Posted 28 March 2007 - 02:01 AM
As for the name maybe they thought Burke wasn't cool enough and Brown was. Of course it sounds right to people familiar with the film and not the book but it doesn't explain why it was changed...
Posted 30 March 2007 - 12:44 PM
Posted 30 March 2007 - 03:15 PM
I happen to have the original American hardback that I picked up about 10 years ago from Waterstones...
Posted 30 March 2007 - 05:44 PM
Posted 30 March 2007 - 06:17 PM
|QUOTE (steelcaressed @ Mar 30 2007, 05:44 PM)
|Hey duckie, on an unrelated topic, I posted this for you yesterday.
They do look some cousins of mine...
Meanwhile here's a pic of my neighbours...
Posted 30 March 2007 - 07:41 PM
|QUOTE (treeduck @ Mar 30 2007, 07:17 PM)
They do look some cousins of mine...
Meanwhile here's a pic of my neighbours...
Not quite as handsome as the one w/ the green head mate, but what can you say about neighbors?
Posted 02 April 2007 - 12:58 AM
This one has an amazing list of accolades on the back from celebrated authors such as Elmore Leonard and Robert Parker, all saying it's brilliant. One of them James Hall compares it to James Dickey's Deliverance but so far I'm finding it hard work. I can't put my finger on exactly why, it just lacks atmosphere somehow, in fact it's just a bit dull. The best thing I've read by Les is "Spill" a sci-fi/suspense novel which is good, this one is nothing like that though unfortunately...
Posted 04 April 2007 - 01:19 PM
This is a book I got on trade paperback back in the 90s and the cover is the one you see above, very spooky looking. It's funny how Dan chose a very cliche title for a his attampt at a new slant on the vampire novel...
No idea how this one goes, so it'll like reading it for the first time...
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Tuesday, July 3, 2007
I'd like to thank the Academy...
The lovely newlywed Lolabola nominated me for this fabulous Rockin' Girl Blogger award.
I don't know which makes me happier - that someone thinks I ROCK, or that someone thinks I'm young enough to be called a girl? Either way, she's a lovely person, whose judgement is clearly rosy because of that honeymoon high she's still on.
Thank you, my dear. you are too kind.
And now, to MY nominations (apparently this little award just comes with the caveat that you have to nominate 5 other bloggers.)
So in no order, here are my nominations:
Franklin, because even though she's on some cicadian posting cycle, she still rocks when she does. She was also one of the first people I didn't know to comment on my blog. She's super witty, incredibly smart, and she makes me laugh so hard I snort coffee out my nose. And she led me to...
More Than A Minivan Mom, who rocks, oh yes she does, on a daily basis. The girl's got soul, and a passion for life that I admire.
Suttonhoo, because even though she was also nominated by Lolabola too, there doesn't seem to be any rule that says I can't nominate her too! Her blog travels - as does she. And someone who travels a lot has interesting things to say. She's also the only one here who is an "in real life" friend, and I consider that to be one of my greatest treasures.
iRodius. I know. He's a guy, but I'm making him an honorary girl for a day. He's a great writer, and one of those funny, sensitive guys, and we all know that needs to be encouraged.
So just in case it chaps your butt that I'm nominating a guy, check this out. My last nomination is for....
Purelight, who just happens to be Rodius' mom. I didn't know that when she first commented on my blog. Her comments always make me smile, and her blog - her blog gives me hope for the person I might be in a few years. Also, did I mention she's Rodius' mom? She's an amazing person, who is interested in life and is just the kind of person I want to be when I grow up.
There's my nominations.
Rock on, people. Rock on.
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- I, Rodius said...
Thanks! I've never been nominated as a Rockin' Girl before. But when I was much younger, and helping my mother in the kitchen, she told me I'd make someone an excellent wife someday. I'm sure she meant it as a sincere compliment.
I don't think I'll tell my big brother about this, though.
I'm not sure how I missed this post, though. I swear I've been to your site a few times, and never saw this. Same with some posts on Franklin5. How could someone be inept at blog reading? That don't make no sense...
- July 5, 2007 at 1:41:00 PM PDT
Oh. Oh no. Are we supposed to nominate other people when we get nominated for this? I was nominated last week by Mamalaw but I don't think I knew the rules!
I'm such a hopeless loser.
And thank God I,Rodius blogged about this because I missed this post also!
I have my head up my ass lately.
- July 5, 2007 at 5:27:00 PM PDT
As evidenced by commenting and not even saying THANK YOU.
What is WRONG with me?!?!
I'm just a self-absorbed loser who enjoys publicly flogging people. hehe. You gotta laugh, right?
- July 5, 2007 at 5:28:00 PM PDT
- anniemcq said...
You guys both make me laugh out loud. Which is why I nominated you. Even though your inept losers with your heads up your respective asses.
- July 5, 2007 at 5:31:00 PM PDT
- Franklin5 said...
Annie, I can't for the life of me remember how it was that we first crossed (virtual) paths, but I'm, truly, ever grateful for the stroke of serendipity.
As has been duly noted by nearly everyone, I've been a bad blogger (bad blogger! bad!) lately, so I'm thoroughly touched that you a) remembered me and b) had such nice things to say about me. Thank you so much, friend.
I told Tracey that I'm still working on that local restaurant list thingie that was making the rounds a few weeks ago, but you can bet your bottom dollar that I'll be returning this rockin' girl honor to you just as soon as possible.
Because, really: you're THE most rockin' girl I know. I mean, who else can I name who's said "hi" to Steve Martin? Please.
- July 8, 2007 at 11:18:00 PM PDT


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The company's first car, Polestar 1, will start production in mid-2019. As an Electric Performance Hybrid, the car can travel up to 150 km on pure electric power alone – the longest full electric range of any hybrid car on the market.
In combination with its four-cylinder Volvo Drive-E engine, the Polestar 1 delivers 600 HP and 1,000 Nm of torque, placing the car firmly within the performance car segment. Polestar will act as a technology spearhead for the Volvo Car Group, bringing new technology and performance attributes to market. At the same time, Polestar will benefit from technological and engineering synergies within Volvo Cars and significant economies of scale as a result. These synergies will allow Polestar to accelerate the design, development and building of its electrified performance cars. Thomas Ingenlath, Chief Executive Officer of Polestar said; "Polestar 1 is the first car to carry the Polestar on the bonnet. A beautiful GT with amazing technology packed into it – a great start for our new Polestar brand. All future cars from Polestar will feature a fully electric drivetrain, delivering on our brand vision of being the new standalone electric performance brand".
The first car from Polestar, named Polestar 1, will form a halo for the future Polestar brand. The Polestar 1 is a two-door, 2+2 seater Grand Tourer Coupé with an 'Electric Performance Hybrid' drivetrain. A maximum of 500 cars per year will be built. All cars will be offered on a subscription basis, with customers benefitting from the convenience of a single, all-inclusive payment that can be topped up by additional on-demand services if required. Thomas Ingenlath, Chief Executive Officer of Polestar, continued; "The Polestar 1 is a Performance Electric Hybrid, but with the longest pure electric range of any hybrid car in the world, we consider it an electric car with support from an internal combustion engine. All future cars from Polestar will be Electric Performance Vehicles but the Polestar 1 bridges today's technology with the future, offering the perfect drivetrain for a Grand Touring Coupé that's likely to be used over longer distances as well as shorter, faster, enjoyable journeys".
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When the driver enters the first corner in their Polestar 1, the car further differentiates itself from its electric car competitors. This is what Polestar defines as Progressive Performance. Polestar's experience of fitting Öhlins suspension to all its previous performance road cars has been harnessed, with Polestar 1 fitted with a state-of-the-art chassis, including the all-new Öhlins Continuously Controlled Electronic Suspension (CESi) – the world's first car to be fitted with this advanced chassis technology.Each Öhlins shock absorber is fitted with a new electronic valve, installed for the first time on any road car in conjunction with Öhlins shock absorbers. The valve constantly monitors the driver inputs and road surface conditions, reacting in two milliseconds, to immediately change the ride characteristics to the prevailing demands. For the first time on an Öhlins suspension, the driver can also make changes to the suspension settings within the car, constantly able to tailor the chassis damping and ride quality to their own requirements.The Polestar 1 also brings other new technologies to the market for the Group. Thanks to the double electric rear axle's planetary gears, torque vectoring features for the first time, separating the power from each of the electric rear motors to drive the car through corners, rather than convention traction control systems that brake the inner rear wheel, slowing the car in bends.
Polestar 2 and Polestar 3 to follow.
All future Polestar cars will feature a fully electric powertrain. Polestar 2 will start production later in 2019 and will be the first battery electric vehicle (BEV) from the Volvo Car Group. Polestar 2 will be a mid-sized fully-electric car that will join the competition around the Tesla Model 3. Polestar 2 is currently in the engineering phase and will start production before the end of 2019, delivering higher volumes than Polestar 1. Polestar 3 is in the finishing stages of design and will be a larger SUV-style BEV, creating a modern expression of electric performance and driving dynamics, and sitting between Polestar 1 and Polestar 2 in terms of volume and pricing.
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Chinatowns, a symbol of Chinese heritage were developed on both, the East and West Coasts of United States. In fact, Chinatowns were developed in many other countries around the world including Canada, Australia, France, Russia and several other countries. The mass immigration of Chinese and adjacent Asian communities owing to regional conflicts and the need of United States for a skilled labor was the main reason behind these mass immigrations.
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Would you know how you develop anxiety? Since some anxiety claims are made every year, it is logical to assume some cases of anxiety develop following accidents that cause injury, and after being subjected to stressful and overwhelming situations at work. Anxiety is a debilitating condition to suffer from, and it can ruin lives. If you were previously outgoing and relatively worry-free, it can be enormously upsetting to find yourself afflicted by anxiety because of an accident or situation caused by a third party – something you should not have been subjected to. It is this type of situation that can potentially lead to anxiety claims.
The symptoms of anxiety can vary from one person to another, but they are broadly the same across the spectrum. For example, a rising sense of panic you cannot control, shallow breathing, a sense of dread, and feeling clammy, are all typical symptoms you may experience. Not everyone gets all these symptoms, and some may get symptoms that are not mentioned here. Other symptoms you may not be aware of include tingling – like pins and needles – in your hands or feet or arms, and a feeling of being detached from your surroundings. Even if you recognise the symptoms of anxiety, it can be very difficult to cope with them and recover from them.
While some people suffer from anxiety for many other reasons, it is understandable to suffer from it following an accident or other situation. For example, if you were driving and your car was struck by another vehicle, with that driver at fault, you could well suffer from anxiety when you get back in your car again in the future. Another example would be to suffer from anxiety when going to work, if you have been subjected to stressful situations there and your employer did nothing to prevent them or to risk assess your job to reduce the odds of this occurring.
While physical injuries are visible and easier to claim for if someone else caused them, anxiety claims can be more difficult to assess. After all, you have no physical injuries to take photos of, or tangible proof to provide. That's why you should seek help from your GP from the moment you first suffer from anxiety symptoms. The sooner you get help, the better the chance you have of conquering it. But at least you will then have an official diagnosis, and that can make it easier to claim.<
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Treating anxiety can be done by taking medication, and by seeking counselling. Some people eventually get the better of their anxiety, while others find it much harder to handle the symptoms they feel. Sometimes, a combination of medication and counselling can be the best approach to take, as can identifying the trigger behind the anxiety.
If a trigger is identified, i.e. a lack of help and support at work, or an accident, it can provide a solution to coping with the anxiety. However, it may take months if not years before someone is fully recovered, and in some instances, people with anxiety may never get rid of it completely. A lot depends on the individual and the trigger.
In cases where anxiety claims are made, people usually receive compensation following successful claims that considers their individual circumstances. For example, this will assess the degree of the symptoms and the condition, and what the likely prognosis might be for the future. Your lawyer will help you understand how this works, and what you should expect if you do go ahead and make a claim. Sometimes, it can be easier to understand what to expect when claiming for physical injuries than for psychological and emotional ones. Getting expert legal advice as quickly as you can will help you understand what might happen and when. And of course, if you have proof of your anxiety as diagnosed by your GP, you will find it far easier to press ahead with your claim.
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No one wants to make anxiety claims, but if you've developed anxiety at work, or you developed it following an accident you were not to blame for, claiming for anxiety may be on your mind. The long term effects of anxiety can be harrowing, because it can make it harder for you to go out, to do your work, and to do many of the things other people take for granted. You simply never know whether counselling or medication will provide the best solution for you. It can be a rough situation to find yourself in, and knowing you did nothing to deserve it can make it worse. You may feel upset and emotional, and every day could be very uncertain for you, especially as you could be faced with anxiety or a panic attack, or have a better day. You simply never know what you could expect next from it.
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I. Leave Taking
Lorenzo Lotto, your painting, "Christ Taking Leave of his Mother" haunts me.
Or is it you – for Samuel Johnson said of ghosts:
"It is wonderful that five thousand years have now elapsed since the creation of the world, and still it is undecided whether or not there has ever been an instance of the
spirit of any person appearing after death. All argument is against it; but all belief is for it."
And you wake me, Lorenzo, at 1:44 a.m., and you won't let me sleep – lo, all those saints gathered round, haloes gracing their heads – and your patron, Elisabetta Rota, in the corner with a prayer book open in her hand, and her little dog with its hypercephalic forehead perched at her feet. And there she is dressed in red, red bleeding into black. Caput Mortuum.
On a tour in a very old museum, the tour guide said that in the past, people covered portraits because what you looked at looked back at you and changed you forever. People are visited by ghosts.
Listen, Lorenzo. I do not think Mary was consoled – and perhaps you, too, did not think thus, for her eyes are blind with grief, and her mouth, her open mouth, grimaces in pain.
And what of Saint Anne hovering darkly behind, Saint Anne, mother of Mary, grandmother of Jesus? It seems she wrings her hands as if she knows a child born to a barren woman such as she, is destined for greatness. Like Sarah, mother of Isaac and Hannah, mother of Samuel, and like Elizabeth, mother of John the Baptist. And when an angel of the Lord appeared and called : "Anne, Anne," the Lord heard your prayers, and you conceived and bore Mary, your child.
Lorenzo, you are no stranger to departures, you, a loner, a wanderer traveling Anacona, Treviso, the Marches, Venice; you, solitary, emotional, insecure, but your mother, what of her? Bernard Berenson said of you that "Never, neither before not after Lorenzo Lotto, has there been an artist who could paint so much of his own interior life on the face of his models."(1)
The cherry tree, Lorenzo, the broken branch with hanging fruit, it says what you do not even as you visit me past midnight. It cannot tell of new beginnings, for it is severed from the tree. Indeed, if not dead, it is dying – and your spirit visits me, but it is your painting that speaks.
1. Gustaw Herling: "My elaboration of the story always conforms to the reality at its source. It is always to the close to the world, the life, the reality it describes. No matter where I go, I'm still holding up a mirror."
II. Leave Taking: For My Mother, Mary Katherine
Look Mama, Mary is distraught.
See her tragic eyes?
They seem not to see
the leave-taking of her son.
I, too, have a son,
your grandson who moved away.
Look Mother, how the women hold Mary back,
Look how they grasp her shoulders;
she would perish
for her son.
He is set to die,
Lord Jesus,
set to carry his cross
up Calvary's hill;
he waits the nails
and cries:
"Father, Why have you
forsaken me?"
Look inside this darkened room, Mama;
it is hard to see,
hard to imagine
words that might bring ease,
hard to imagine any sound;
even the lapdog
at Elizabetta's feet
seems unable to howl.
Look, Mama grief hovers,
and broods
Mama, if this is what men do to other men,
Now then, what can be spoken?
Now then, what can be said?
Sue Brannan Walker
Sue Brannan Walker is professor emerita at the University of South Alabama where she taught for 35 years. She served as Chair of the English Department and was the Stokes Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing and Director of Creative Write at USA. She was the Poet Laureate of Alabama from 2003-2012 and is the Publisher of Negative Capability Press. She was the 2013 recipient of the Eugene Current-Garcia Award for Alabama's Distinguished Scholar and was awarded also the Adele Mellen Award for distinguished scholarship for her critical book on James Dickey, The Ecological Poetics of James Dickey, by the Edwin Mellen Press. Sue serves on the Board of the Alabama Writers Forum and Blakeley State Park and has served as President of the Alabama Writers Conclave, 2014-2017.She has published 11 books of poetry, several anthologies, over 100 poems and critical articles in various journals. Her book, In the Realm of the Rivers, with a foreword by Edward O. Wilson, was published by New South Books. Her recorded reading of her book on Carson McCullers and slide show was presented at the International Centenary Carson McCullers Conference in Rome, Italy, in July 2017. A new edition of It's Good Weather for Fudge was released by NewSouth Books in January 2017. Her book, Let Us Imagine Her Name, an abecedarian, prose-poem memoir featuring 16 noted feminine persons, has just been released by Clemson University Press in July 2017. See negativecapabilitypress.org.
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October 19, 2013
The Things I believe in
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A smile can brighten up someone's day. Agree with you on this. Positivity is the way and add a smile :DReplyDelete
- Tiffany Mrsh HaywoodOctober 20, 2013 3:47 AM
This is so true! My home church used to have myself and a few other young people as 'Greeters' at the entrance...our only job? To Smile at visitors and members as the came in. It was amazing how you could visibly see someone's spirit lift simply by offering them a genuine smile!ReplyDelete
- Holly NelsonOctober 20, 2013 6:59 AM
I remember once when I saw a guy in a bar who was sitting in the window alone and he looked so so upset, so I broke away from my friends, knocked on the window and waved and smiled! This makes me remember that. I hope it is true xReplyDelete
Amazing. Just beautiful, and that's something I believe in too. I appreciate that you chose something seemingly simple but actually so powerful for this prompt.ReplyDelete


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12th August 2011
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Stray has been suffering with stomach troubles, so I went out for a cup of coffee and bought back baguettes and butter for his Vegemite. We also asked to be moved to a quieter room...to heck with any views, always ask for a back room if staying in Vietnam. We caught up on some sleep and went to a cafe on the other side of the (dry) lake for a light lunch, where we chatted with a couple of Aussies for a while. The lake has been emptied while the construction of a new bridge takes place.They suggested we see Crazy House. It's a 'sort of' hotel built by a Vietnamse lade who spent 15 years in Russia and was inspired by the work of Gaudi, in Spain. It is crazy in design and some parts are still under construction. I doubt whether anyone would actually stay there with the amount of tourists looking around.
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Maybe the idea of a big-aperture telescope appeals to you, but the portability issue has kept you on the fence. Well you can hop off it now because we've got the perfect solution - the "space-saving" Orion SkyQuest XX12i IntelliScope® Truss Tube Dobsonian. It's a deep-sky observer's dream telescope, offering jumbo 12" (305mm) parabolic optics of 1500mm focal length (f/4.9); a stylish, reduced-weight base outfitted with computerized IntelliScope object locating technology; and a sturdy, eight-truss tube design that disassembles in about a minute into compact, easily portable components. And at its price, the XX12i ranks as the #1 killer telescope deal of the year!
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- 9-point flotation primary mirror cell with spring loaded thumbscrew collimation adjustments
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- 4 groups of two-pole rotatable truss assemblies with captive assembly knobs
- Dual-Speed (11:1) 2" Crayford focuser w/ 1.25" telescope eyepiece adapter and adjustable focusing tension
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- 12V battery pack for Cooling Fan (requires 8 D cell batteries: not included)
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- Collimation Cap
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- Instruction manual
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Sainz: If Max is the new Senna and I beat him, then what am I?
Carlos Sainz says his goal is to impress his bosses and win a promotion to Red Bull's senior Formula 1 team.
"I know what I need to do to impress them," he said on Tuesday in a meeting with the Spanish media. "My goal is still to go to Red Bull and become the best driver and a world champion."
It seems a difficult task for Sainz, however, given the hype surrounding his fellow rookie and Toro Rosso teammate, Max Verstappen.
"Well," said Sainz when asked about the Dutch sensation, "Max did only three more overtakes than I did all season. Yet it feels like his were on TV more than mine were.
"But I did many other good and spectacular things that were not on TV but the team saw them. The telemetry, the numbers don't lie," he insisted.
So even when Verstappen is called a 'new Senna', Sainz says he is not overly worried. "If he is the new Senna and I beat him, then what am I?"
"I don't think too much about what the press says. When I hear what Horner, Marko, Alonso or Vettel says then I am calm, because the people who know see what I do."
But the risk remains that Red Bull will want to promote one of its newer stars, like new reserve Pierre Gasly, for 2017, leaving one of the current Toro Rosso drivers out in the cold.
"It is true that the pressure is higher now," Sainz admitted, "but my career has been like that since 2014. Every year, it is all or nothing.
"Now that I know the best in F1, I know what I have to improve and how," he added.
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In advance of the President's counterterrorism speech today at the National Defense University in Washington, D.C. – where it's anticipated he will lay out new restrictions for America's drone programs - Attorney General Eric Holder released a 5-page memo disclosing that, since 2009, America has assassinated four of its own citizens in "counterterrorism operations" - more specifically, via drone strike.
Unfortunately, the memo's admissions create more questions than answers.
1) The memo asserts that targeting and killing of citizens can only happen outside the U.S., tacitly readdressing the concerns Senator Rand Paul addressed in his 13 hour filibuster. But the right to due process is not contingent on geography; like it or not, these rights extend to citizens overseas. The fundamental assertion in the memo is, as Spencer Ackerman points out, that "Holder defended killing Americans the administration believes to be members of al-Qaeda without due process, a constitutionally questionable proposition."


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MAchine Learning and Interactive Systems
During the last decade, research in the field of Spoken Dialogue
Systems (SDS) has experienced increasing growth. However,
the design and optimization of SDS is not only about combining
speech and language processing systems such as Automatic
Speech Recognition (ASR), parsers, Natural Language Generation
(NLG), and Text-to-Speech (TTS) synthesis systems. It
also requires the development of dialogue strategies taking at
least into account the performances of these subsystems (and
others), the nature of the task (e.g. form filling, tutoring, robot
control, or database search/browsing), and the user's behaviour
(e.g. cooperativeness, expertise). Due to the great variability
of these factors, reuse of previous hand-crafted designs is also
made very difficult. For these reasons, statistical machine learning
(ML) methods applied to automatic SDS optimization have
been a leading research area for the last few years. Among machine learning methods, Reinforcement Learning (RL) has proven to be quite effective at optimizing dialogue strategies because of its ability to learn from rewarded interactions. Unlike supervised learning, RL doesn't require any sample of perfect interaction which is anyway not accessible in the case of human-machine interaction. Indeed, optimality is not easy to define in the field of man-machine dialogue while it is easier to obtain a rating from a user after s/he used the system. This is why reinforcement learning for spoken dialogue systems optimization is studied since the mid 90's.
Some publications on the topic
Book : O. PIETQUIN, "A Framework for Unsupervised Learning of Dialogue Strategies", Presses Universitaires de Louvain, SIMILAR Collection, 246 pages, 2004.
The European CLASSiC project