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Berenson Schemes, Don't Touch, Fish Facts, Florida SCBWI, Jack the Castaway, Janeen Mason, Lisa Doan, Ocean Commotion, Rachel Wilson, Spanhky: A Soldier's Son, Sue LaNeve, VCFA, Vermont College of Fine Arts
My friend Rachel Wilson, author of the soon to be released YA novel Don't Touch, invited me to participate in this blog tour about the writing process. Every author on the tour answers some questions about his or her own writing process, and then tags two other authors to answer next. Rachel asked me to participate. And she's way too special to me to ever say no! Keep your eye out on her career. She's going to kill it. You can read her responses here; mine are below!
What am I currently working on?
After finishing my MG novel, SPANKY: A Soldier's Son, I gave up my writer's horse (yes, horse) to become a boat captain and navigator. However, since we're docked for an extended time, I'm back in the saddle again. At the risk of sounding Sybilesque, my moods decide the project on which I'll work. Whimsical playful moods can only be sated by picture book writing in rhyme—the most difficult writing there is if you want to do it well. I love the irony in that. I have at least six picture books in various states of revision.
But my go-to project is a MG novel set in 1968 at the time of the famous Miss America Pageant protest where women had intended to burn their bras. I am completing it's zillionth revision in preparation to market it traditionally some day soon.
How does my work differ from others of its genre?
Argh! I've written the answer to this question three times. Okay. Call it a philosophical-difference block. I'll say that my work differs from others in my genre by voice, plot and character arcs; by how I kick off my stories, by my tone, my selection of setting and theme etc. etc.—all the choices that make every writer's manuscript completely unique—even if they're similar sounding stories.
But okay, I tend to write stories that echo my pre-teen years, surviving bullies, brothers, and coming of age wonders and difficulties, but that hardly differentiates me. I lived in my imagination for most of my childhood and adoles— okay, for my whole life and my MCs tend to as well. That is, until they figure out that to survive, you have to act (or become a MG writer!)
Why do I write what I write?
Without fail, I don't find out what I'm writing about, why I've written it, or what epiphany I will come to through the process until I reach the end of the first draft. That's when I realize what the story was really about. And I have to rewrite the whole thing. Like many MG writers, I'm stuck in that stage of my life, trying to make sense of it all. I guess you could say I'm unveiling early agnsts and rewriting how they turn out by adding what had been missing the first time–empowerment.
How does my individual writing process work?
Back to the Sybil and my moods . . . Truly, my unusual life dictates my actual process. Living on a boat, some days, I am captaining, navigating, or doing crew work (provisioning, cleaning, cooking, repairing, or maintenance). In a way, it's the same as living in a house and leading a normal life. No. Really, it's not at all like a normal life. The urgency of attention, response, and action is heightened on a boat. And I am attention challenged–it's impossible not to be distracted by changes in sounds and scenery. Finding my way into the fictive dream doesn't work well for me when we're moving. So when I'm "off duty," I revise and edit. After we're docked, I can dig in and become a writer again.
And that's my story! I'm tagging two more authors who'll be sharing their
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I met Janeen Mason through Florida SCBWI, drawn by her talent, but more so by her generosity of spirit. Besides her Ocean Commotion series and MANY other picture books, check out Janeen's accolades as an author/illustrator: Lifetime Achievement in the Arts Award, the U.S. Maritime Literature Award, the Benjamin Franklin Award, the National Award for Excellence in Communities, the Moonbeam Children's Book Award, the iParenting Media Award, and more. And that is only the whisper of a breath about a woman who inspires children, artists, and art collectors everywhere. On Monday, May 5th, she'll be sharing her process at http://www.janeenmason.com/blog.html.
Lisa Doan and I met while gorging ourselves on MFAs from Vermont College of Fine Arts. She was THE funniest person on campus. And she brings that amazing humor to her work. Lisa writes middle grade. (She will tell you herself that she will never be mature enough to write YA). Her series, The Berenson Schemes, launched 4/1/2014 with Jack the Castaway. It follows the quest for survival of sensible Jack as he is continually lost in a foreign wilderness by his insensible parents Richard and Claire. Lisa identifies with Richard and Claire, having spent a large amount of her adulthood roaming the planet, but this has led to the uncomfortable idea that she, like them, may have misplaced offspring somewhere. But she figures nearly everywhere has cell phone service these days, so she'll just wait for a call. (Secret message she sends to lost offspring – First, it was an adventure. Second, Sorry 'bout that – call me!)
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With three games remaining in the season, Southeastern will set out to face Southern Nazarene at 4 p.m. on Feb. 23, looking to move up in the Great American Conference standings.
The Savage Storm come into Saturday's meeting with a 13-10 record overall and a 9-8 mark in league play, currently in sixth place. With Northwestern Oklahoma State and Southern Nazarene not eligible for postseason play, SE is currently holding the No. 5 seed.
The standings are incredibly jumbled with heading into the second-to-last weekend of the season, with Harding and Arkansas Tech holding the top spot with an 11-6 record, just 1.5 games ahead of the Storm.
While SE has locked up a position in the postseason tournament, their seeding could range from No. 1 through No. 7 depending upon how things shake out down the stretch.
Saturday's game will be a rematch of a Jan. 19 meeting in Durant which SE took by an 82-78 decision.
In that meeting, SNU closed the Storm lead to one point with five seconds to play, but free throws in the final seconds would solidify the win for SE.
Southeastern had four players in double-figures that night, led by 21 points from Chris Roussell.
Mateus Oliveira added 15 points, while Steven Kohli chipped in 14 and eight rebounds.
Travis Timmons put up 13 points and dished out six assists in one of his last games before getting injured.
Roussell's 16.1 ppg leads the way for the Storm in scoring. He is also coming off a near triple-double against Southwestern Oklahoma State in which he put up 10 points, 10 rebounds and nine assists.
Kohli is also averaging in double-figures with 12.3 ppg, while also leading the team in rebounds at 8.0 per outing.
Roussell and Oliveira are each averaging better than seven rebounds per game as well.
SNU comes into the matchup off a win over East Central and are 14-10 overall on the year and 9-9 in GAC play.
Ryan Aaron leads a group of five players averaging better than 10 points per game and does so at an 18.9 ppg clip.
Tyrone Lyons and Brady Burford lead the way on the glass with 7.3 rpg each, while Quan Conner leads the team with 4.2 assists per game.


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By Vivienne McCarthy
To enter this genie's bottle of an emporium which is the work of Oriental rug purveyor Roy Maloumian and decorator Jeffrey Dean Soulges is to embark on a dizzying but delicious ride through an array of aesthetic influences and centuries of rug weaving. All of it is wrapped in the unassuming structure known as Kilim, which opened two months ago on the southwest corner of Germantown and Willow Grove Avenues.
The word kilim, from the Persian "gelim," which describes a flat tapestry-woven carpet, is an appropriate moniker for a store packed with beautiful kilim rugs and accessories such as, bags, wall hangings, briefcases, piano benches, floor pillows and hassocks, all of them hand woven and full of symbolism. Kilims, which might be referred to as the real magic carpets, come in all the colors of the rainbow, and it is a tradition that the designs and patterns should be harmonious. It is also a hallmark of vegetable-dyed kilims that every rug's color is unique. It is no surprise that the kilim, or the Oriental rug, should be the starting point when decorating a home. After all, over 150 years ago Edgar Allen Poe wrote, "The soul of the apartment is the carpet." He meant that the carpet is the foundation of the décor, and all else flows from it. That still resonates today.
Kilims are thought to be Central Asian in origin, but they are also produced in places such as North Africa. Most kilims are made from wool or from wool and cotton and are easy to take care of, as well as being reversible. Many are used as wall hangings, as featured in the Germantown Avenue store. Not to be confused with Dhurrie rugs, which are usually pastel in color, made of cotton and often geometric in design, kilims are a riot of joyful colors and textures that add richness to every décor.
Owner Roy Maloumian has been in the rug business all his life. His Armenian grandfather opened the family's flagship store in 1927, which takes up 10,000 square feet on 231 West Mt. Pleasant Ave. in Mt. Airy, where thousands of rugs are discounted every day.
"I am the third generation of Maloumians to carry on the tradition," he said. "Some months ago I decided to bring a different and more affordable carpet to Chestnut Hill. Something that had not yet been featured. Kilims are very taste-specific, kind of whimsical with both a traditional and contemporary appeal which can fit any lifestyle."
Maloumian, who also has a showroom in Fort Myers, Florida, has become the U.S. State Department's resource for the Oriental rug needs of American embassies. To that end he has shipped rugs to U.S. embassies in China, Vatican City, South America, Eastern Europe, Southeast Asia and Africa.
He also repairs and restores Oriental rugs and kilims.
Sharing space with Maloumian and adding design alchemy to the store is local interior decorator, Jeffrey Dean Soulges. With a bachelor's degree from Vassar followed by architecture studies at Drexel, Soulges is on hand every Monday and Tuesday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. to sell kilims or his own design services. He began selling rugs for Maloumian in the early '80s and during that time decided to embark on a career in interior design.
Soulges' projects range from slip-covers and window treatments to fully completed rooms and typically include architectural drawings. He also does thematic design and plant specifications in his garden work.
Kilim, at 7946 Germantown Ave., is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday-Saturday and noon to 5 p.m. on Sunday. More information at 215-247-3535 or www.RoysRugs.com or for Dean, Jeffreydeanltd.com or 215-248-5555.


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The Dillinger Escape Plan, Animals as Leaders + More Confirmed for 2013 Summer Slaughter Tour
The 2013 Summer Slaughter tour has announced the majority of bands who will grace this year's bill. Although specific dates have not yet been confirmed, the Dillinger Escape Plan will headline this year's tour, with Animals as Leaders, Periphery and more coming along for the ride.
Rumors have been flying around as to who would land on this year's bill. Although some of the rumored acts are now confirmed to appear on the tour, Summer Slaughter has managed to give us a few surprises, as well.
Along with experimental spastic metallers the Dillinger Escape Plan, who will headline this year's bill, Animals as Leaders, Periphery, Norma Jean, Cattle Decapitation, the Ocean, Revocation + Aeon will occupy stages across North America for this year's fest. Additionally, according to an official press release, two more featured bands have yet to be announced.
Dillinger Escape Plan vocalist Greg Puciato states of the band's slot on Summer Slaughter:
We can't wait to get back on the road! We're launching a US tour in the spring, hitting Europe for some festivals and club shows, and then hitting several more cities with Summer Slaughter all summer long. We are absolutely amped. After being holed up in the studio for such a long time giving birth to 'One of Us is the Killer,' we are all pent up and ready to share material new and old with our supporters doing what we love to do the most. Can't wait to see and either kiss or rip off each and every one of your faces on the road with Summer Slaughter and year round, everywhere.
Cattle Decapitation frontman Travis Ryan offers a quote about the tour as well:
We are very happy to be asked back to the Summer Slaughter tour. The first SS tour was the best US tour we've ever done and we look forward to helping devastate the states with our take on brutal, grinding death and playing the choicest slabs from our latest album Monolith of Inhumanity. Who's "ripe for the slaughter!?!?" See you this summer!
Summer Slaughter founder Ash Avildsen also shared his excitement for the tour's 2013 edition:
It's year seven and I think 2013's line-up is the most exciting and diverse yet. Slaughter has never been a one dimensional experience for fans. This year is a true testament to that as we have an amazing mix of extreme music's influential icons and leaders of the new school. Let the underground unite!
Summer Slaughter organizers are also asking metalheads to vote for one of the additional acts to appear on this year's tour, listing a total of 18 bands to choose from. To cast your vote, head over to Summer Slaughter on Facebook. 'Like' the page and make your voice heard.
Show dates for the 2013 Summer Slaughter tour have yet to be unveiled, but they will run from July 19 through Aug. 24. Stay tuned for more news as dates and additional bands continue to be confirmed for the annual shred-fest.


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Man Jumps Off Balcony to Avoid Urine Test
HASTINGS (AP) — Authorities say a defendant jumped off a second-floor balcony inside the Dakota County Courthouse to avoid taking a urine test.
The 22-year-old Hastings man bolted from a deputy, jumped off the balcony and landed on his face Wednesday.
The man had pleaded not guilty to misdemeanor theft. Chief Deputy Tim Leslie says the judge had ordered the man to undergo urinalysis to test for drug or alcohol use.
After a deputy escorted the man upstairs for testing, he ran away and jumped off the balcony. He landed on the first floor in a children's play area. The area was empty and no one else was hurt.
The man was taken to a hospital with a broken arm, bruises and a possible broken bone in his face.
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Fifty Shades of Grey
Publisher's Summary
More than 150 million copies sold worldwide.
When literature student Anastasia Steele goes to interview young entrepreneur Christian Grey, she encounters a man who is beautiful, brilliant, and intimidating. The unworldly, innocent Ana is startled to realize she wants this man and, despite his enigmatic reserve, finds she is desperate to get close to him. Unable to resist Ana's quiet beauty, wit, and independent spirit, Grey admits he wants her, too - but on his own terms.
Shocked yet thrilled by Grey's singular erotic tastes, Ana hesitates. For all the trappings of success - his multinational businesses, his vast wealth, his loving family - Grey is a man tormented by demons and consumed by the need to control. When the couple embarks on a daring, passionately physical affair, Ana discovers Christian Grey's secrets and explores her own dark desires.
This audiobook is intended for mature audiences.
Look for E L James' passionate new love story, The Mister, coming April 16, 2019.
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- Susan
- Parkland, FL, United States
- 05-04-12
Fifty Shades of Bad Writing
What would have made Fifty Shades of Grey better?
First, get a better narrator. I never read the book in print. However, listening to Ana and Christian's endless emails, (including dates and times) made me want to pass out from bordom. Further, the constant bickering between Ana's subconsious and her "inner goddes" was annoying, and the writer's overly-generous use the terms "holy cow", "holy s--t", and "oh my" became predictable. I'm no prude, and have read many books with erotic components. However, with the writer's use of the same descriptions over and over again (e.g. "exquisit orgasm"), even the sex scenes became boring. I truely don't understand why this book has received so much hype.
What could E L James have done to make this a more enjoyable book for you?
Take a writing class
Would you be willing to try another one of Becca Battoe's performances?
1,133 of 1,260 people found this review helpful
- Penny
- Oklahoma
- 05-21-12
Holy Crap minus the Holy
The only emotions this book stirs in me is anger. I can't believe I wasted my credit on this. I am angry that this so called piece of literature was even published. I would have left minus stars if I could have. I feel duped by all the hype surrounding this book. I have seen it on the cover of magazines and on news programs, all with good things to say. Why??? I don't blame the author, I blame the editor and the publisher. Sadly there are more talented authors out there that take literature seriously that can't even get there foot in the door. But this dollar store throw away gets on the New York Times Best Seller list??? You've got to be kidding me. How??
This book is definitely thought provoking. My thoughts aren't what the author had in mind I am sure. First of all you want your readers to believe this is a romance, but in truth its an abusive relationship. Do a little research. Your hero, Christian Grey, 26 year old billionaire, flys a helicopter, is a pretty boy creep and the guy you teach your daughters to stay away from. How many red flags do you have to have? The difference is in real life the flags are much harder to see. This one comes with a contract, that is painfully read word for word. Your heroine, Anastasia Steele is 22 an idiot, with a college education, a virgin, no computer, no email address, naive, an American and no vocabulary. Even the names are ridiculous. Steele/Grey. Ridiculous and non believable. My intelligence has been insulted.
I am not even offended by the erotica. I am not a prude. But even that was lacking. Kinda turned me off, not on. Perhaps it was Anastasia's begging.
The narrator wasn't all that bad either. I could tolerate it. She didn't really have great material did she? There is no way to turn a bologna sandwich into a steak. And this is exactly what the author, editor and publisher want you to believe. I wonder how much money they have spent promoting this. Hope it hurts a little, like losing my credit hurt me. Did that sound sadistic? Well Holy Cow, I'm sorry.
I think I will sit down write murmur a thousand times, Oh my! a couple of hundred times. Throw in a couple of long fingers, Call a Vagina, "down there" . add a couple explicit sex scenes and call this publisher. Obviously anyone can write a book, get it published and make a million. Story? Who needs a story?
1,138 of 1,266 people found this review helpful
- Kd
- CLINTON, MS, United States
- 05-16-12
Really 2.5
Disappointed! Disappointed! It may just be me, but I'm clueless as to why there's so much fuss about this book. I fell for all of the hype and purchased this book. But I could barely finish it, was so happy when it was over, and quickly removed the two sequels from my wish list b/c I don't care what happens next. The only reason I finished it was to find out more about the history of the main male character, the reason for the book title--which I do with all books--and my unflinching hope and belief that the book had to get better. Apparently it didn't. The author repeatedly and without fail refers to female sexual parts as "down there" while also repeatedly referring to sex using the f word; this makes no sense. It felt and sounded like the only dialogue that the main female character included "oh my," hot," "my inner goddes," and "so bossy." She sounded like a very young, immature child doing very adult things and, supposedly, engaged in an adult relationship. That pseudo adult relationship was a one-sided adult experience. I don't know if the immaturity was just the writtend dialogue or the narrator's take on the dialogue or both. I'm leaning towards the latter. But the dialogue is where I put most of the blame when I think of how disappointed I was in the book. It was hard to understand the main male character's attraction to the main female one other than seeing her as a submissive. Considering she sounded like she was 11, his assessment might be understandable. But he confused immaturity with submissiveness. If I never hear another girl refer to anything sexual as "hot" or a female say "oh my" it'll be too soon! To refer to a male sexual dominant as "bossy" seemed dumb and too obvious. Duh! And the same female main character seemed to be unconvincing in her fear and concern about BDSM. The book was too long and not worth all of the hype. The sex scenes are explicit but the language didn't always coincide, so it's difficult to really call it erotica. Though it's certainly past the general romance genre. I don't know. Overall, if I had any idea, if I knew before what I know now, I certainly wouldn't have purchased it. If you can get it free, from a library or something, save your dime, IMO.
1,055 of 1,174 people found this review helpful
- Jayson
- 06-03-12
I can't believe I bought ths
What would have made Fifty Shades of Grey better?
As a long-time (over a decade) Audible listener, I was intrigued when a friend chastised me when I told her that I knew nothing about the "Fifty Shades of Grey" trilogy. Out of curiosity I downloaded and listened. I was sincerely shocked that this is a best seller, that women don't find this insulting and offensive, that the insertion of soft porn into every 10 pages could make a sophomoric storyline into a best seller (ok, I guess that one is no big surprise). Maybe I'm just annoyed that I didn't think to write this and reap the profits? Who knew?? I obviously think way to much. I have listened to over a thousand books in my travels. Some fantastic, some awful; however, even the awful weren't in the same intellectually shallow category. They might have not been my cup of tea for whatever reason, but I could say I learned something. I guess I could say what I learned here is how far such a large portion of our society has slipped intellectually. Terrorists should be laughing hysterically! They should be doubled over saying "that's hot" and "oh my." They don't have to plot to destroy our country. We have apparently dumbed down our educational system and expectations to the point of diminishing or possibly no return.
What could E L James have done to make this a more enjoyable book for you?
No comment
How did the narrator detract from the book?
Makes no difference when there are lines continually repeated like "Oh my" and "that's so hot"
What reaction did this book spark in you? Anger, sadness, disappointment?
Anger, sadness, disappointment AND disgust.
Any additional comments?
I am not a prude. If you are going to write something erotic, do it well. This was CRAP.
738 of 821 people found this review helpful
- Diane
- Winthrop, MA, United States
- 05-26-12
There's hours of my life I will never get back!
Would you try another book from E L James and/or Becca Battoe?
No. I am all done with this author and narrator. I understand the author wrote fanfiction. It's too bad some publisher picked her over the hundreds of others I have read. This book was not erotic, well written or even interesting. The plot was missing, these characters had no spart and I did not buy the attraction for one minute. The overuse of 'holy', 'inner goddess', 'oh my', 'hot' and 'Christain Grey" made this book more annoying than anything else. Once you sleep with a man, he loses his last name forever. When the main character spends so much time wondering why he picked her, we start to feel the same way because she comes off as boring and unreal. We are supposed to believe that she has never had a relationship by the time she is 22? She lives with the editor of the school newspaper who comes from a wealthy urban family and has remained 'naive'? EL spend some time watching American television and you will realize there is no way thsi person exists.
Would you ever listen to anything by E L James again?
Would you be willing to try another one of Becca Battoe's performances?
Absolutely NOT. She is horrible and should stand aside to let better performers obtain the job.
If you could play editor, what scene or scenes would you have cut from Fifty Shades of Grey?
The emails, and the endless talks with her subconvious and inner goddess.
Any additional comments?
I wish I could get my cedit back!
579 of 644 people found this review helpful
- Rick
- Lino Lakes, MN, United States
- 06-27-12
Should've read the reviews first.
What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you?
Would you ever listen to anything by E. L. James again?
Her announcement that she is retiring from writing?
How could the performance have been better?
Stop whining and dropping off on the end of her words like a lazy Valley-girl.
You didn't love this book... but did it have any redeeming qualities?
it taught me to always read reviews first and I enjoyed reading some of the other regretful reviews.
Any additional comments?
I'm sad for all of us.
789 of 878 people found this review helpful
- Private.
- 08-02-12
Laughed so hard, I nearly coughed up a lung!!
Is there anything you would change about this book?
I would have Gilbert Gottfried narrate the entire thing. That would really take this craptacular audiobook to the next level - definitely. Seriously folks...I'm not even kidding - watch the clip of him reading selections of this on You Tube. Classic. Absolute claaaaassssssiiiiiicccc.
Would you recommend Fifty Shades of Grey to your friends? Why or why not?
Only to people that can laugh at truly bad work that was meant to be taken seriously. In fact, get them all in a room together with copious amounts of alcohol and blast this audiobook. Make it a drinking game - take a shot every time Anastasia refers to her "inner goddess" or sputters "oh, my!" Take another shot every time creepy Grey "levels his intense (serial killer-like) gaze upon Anastasia". On second thought, don't - everyone will wind up dead from alcohol poisoning.
What did you like about the performance? What did you dislike?
Let's see, was it Ms. Battoe's mind-numbingly dull and droning Valley Girl-esque delivery? Check. Could it be her even worse leaden vocal rendition of the rich-yet-menacingly-sexy sociopath that is Mr. Grey? Check that too. HIGH-LAR-I-OUS. Best yet, I love the fact that it's told in first person through Anastasia's character. In no time you'll be screaming to be let out of her brain. Help! Hellllppp! Someone get me out of here!!
Was Fifty Shades of Grey worth the listening time?
Only to a very small percentage of the population that enjoys books and films meant to be taken seriously but can be enjoyed for all the wrong reasons. Just when you think Anastasia couldn't possibly be more knuckle-draggingly stupid...she manages to reach a new low. Every single time. Guaranteed! In fact, Anastasia Steel is such a cretin that I often wonder how this character could function in daily society. Oh yeah. She can't. It would all make more sense if her character suffered some kind of brain injury that would preclude her being this naive or possessing such a painful lack of cognitive skills with zero tolerance for self awareness.
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Folks, this is just a symptom of a much, much bigger problem with the state of extremely successful books and films. Why do we support work that depicts all female leads in today's big hits (I'm looking at YOU, Hunger Games Automaton Catniss and Twilight Boneheaded Bella!) as completely blank maidens in distress that have absolutely no sense of self awareness or willingness to own their own sexuality, much less be completely unable to understand if and why a man finds them attractive, preferring to remain asexual robots until they're felt up or kissed unexpectedly?? Such is the sad state of female leads in books and films. If I didn't laugh, I'd have to give up books and films altogether. If this is considered the only socially acceptable form of porn for mommies, they should have higher standards. We should too.
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- colleen
- ANCHORAGE, AK, United States
- 06-10-12
one star is too many
I don't know why I bought it. I guess I was compelled by the hype and the promise of over the top tales of .... whatever. I hated it. The characters were STUPID and unconvincing. It was awful. Like awful on top of awful, handcuffed to more awful. I'm not sure who the target audience for this book. I'm going to go sanitize my ear buds. In the future I plan to deny I ever listened to it.
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- Teresa Gregory
- Indianapolis, IN USA
- 05-10-12
Please buy this author a thesaurus (for starters)!
Spoiler Alert! I don't usually read "romances" but I was suckered in by all the hype. I hope they are generally better written.
First point: the vocabulary.
If I had known, I would have kept track of how many times Ana said, "Ooooh, myyyyy!" That seemed to be the only reaction the author could think of.
I told my daughter (who is a book editor) that if they make a movie of this, the audience will miss half the dialog since there was so much of it that was "murmured." There were entire conversations that were murmured.
In my entire life, I had never heard the word "clambered" used that much.
Second point: the attraction.
Ana is attracted to this man, but the only thing she keeps repeating is how stunningly beautiful he is. She's not a gold-digger, but she is so taken by his looks. I can understand a naive young woman (are there really women this naive and innocent?) being flattered by the attentions of a 27-year-old self-made billionaire (is there one of these besides Mark Zuckerberg?), but there doesn't seem to be a lot beyond infatuation.
Third point: the precedent.
I'm not a prude and I'm not a stranger to erotic fiction. I've written some myself. When I finished this book, I thought back over it. This naive young girl was lured into a world that she knew nothing about by a dashingly handsome man. He flattered her and cajoled her. The book romanticizes a jealous possessive stalker who abused her physically and mentally, and who convinced her that she wanted it. He never told her he loved her because he didn't.
I thought about all the young women who would read this book, and fall in love with Christian Grey. Domestic violence is on the rise in this country. I have known a few victims of it, and I know how difficult it is for them to leave the abuser because "he loves me." I worry that naive young women who find themselves in abusive relationships will be more tolerant because they will think it's okay after reading this book.
Fourth point: the narrator.
She was equal to the quality of the writing.
I will not be downloading the sequels.
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- Amazon Customer
- 05-05-12
I regret downloading this book!!!
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This has to be one of the worst books I've ever listened to. I couldn't even listen to the whole thing. A lot of the reviewers complained about the narrator, but I couldn't stomach the story itself. I didn't realize it was basically a porno and not even well written porn at that. The author needs to come up with some other lines instead of repeatedly using the same ones such as "I peeked at him through my lashes". Is that even possible?! I wish I hadn't wasted my time or money!
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Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Niederegger Marzipan Classics
In December I went on a grand tour of Germany. It was a junket sponsored by German Sweets, an export organization. Their goal was to improve awareness of German confectionery in North America.
One of the places that sealed the deal to get me to attend was Lubeck, home to Niederegger Marzipan. If there was a candy that I was introduced to through the blog that changed my mind about a long held prejudice, it was Niederegger's Cappuccino Marzipan bar.
Lubeck is actually home to many marzipan makers. At one time there were dozens, now there are a handful, but enough of them that there is a strict standard they must follow if they wish to be called Lubecker Marzipan. Kind of like sparkling wine can't be called Champagne unless it's from Champagne. How Lubeck became a center of marzipan creation when they don't actually grow the sugar or almonds necessary for its creation is kind of an odd tale.
Lubeck is a Hanseatic City, which means it was a member Dudesche Hanse, an economic alliance of cities and merchant guilds in Northern Europe starting in 1358 until the 1860s when it was one of the last remaining members. As a center of trade Lubeck had access to the almonds and sugar it needed to make marzipan and the shipping routes to export it.
In 1806 Johann Georg Niederegger purchased Maret Confectioner, where the current Niederegger Cafe stands to this day. The company is still family owned, in its seventh generation.
Niederegger is widely regarded as one of the best marzipans from Germany. It's characterized by its consistent texture and high quality. The marzipan is made in one facility, just outside of town in the traditional style of open copper pots.
The almonds sourced for Niederegger are from Spanish, mostly Marcona almonds though at times they also source from Italy. To start the almonds are cleaned and then blanched and then the fibrous peels are removed. There's a lot of hand work involved in the entire process, as workers pick over the almonds after the blanching process to keep the quality high.
The almonds are then mixed with sugar and ground and cooked in open copper pots. The staff were hesitant to give us exact times for how long these processes take, but it's probably more than an hour and less than a day.
The cooking and mixing is carefully supervised by the cooks. The day we were there it was cold and rainy and it's pretty much assured that the room was probably not heated and it was quite balmy. I can't imagine what it's like in there even with air conditioning in the summer. The pots generate quite a bit of steam and moisture.
Once the marzipan is finished multiple pots are dumped into a large one and quickly cooled with dry ice. The last step is the addition of rosewater, which I believe has a touch of alcohol in it. The marzipan is then molded into blocks and sent along to other parts of the factory for different purposes.
Though Valentine's Day isn't as big of a deal in Europe as North America, the Niederegger Hearts are extremely popular year round but do show up in American stores for special holidays.
All enrobed chocolates had the Niederegger name embossed on the bottom.
Because the company makes such a huge variety of shapes, sizes, varieties and packaging styles, much of the work is done by humans, who are far more adaptable. This also helps to account for the higher price of Niederegger products.
In addition to the machine made products, some are molded by hand and then hand decorated. Though no photos were provided, we visited one room where they did custom molded pieces, especially for corporate clients as well as favors for weddings that can be personalized for the couple.
Though many of the Niederegger products are expensive when priced out by the pound, there are plenty of items available for less than a buck. They have stick or log versions of their bars which are usually about one Euro and their little loaves are about 35 cents or so. The box above is their Klassiker which featured pistachio, orange, pineapple and espresso. I think this assortment is about 6 Euros. It's one of the products I see for sale in the United States around Christmas but often for somewhere more in the neighborhood of $9 or $10.
The loaves are enrobed, like the hearts in the factory photos above. I generally prefer enrobed chocolates, I like the way the coating adheres to the fillings better than molded products.
At the end of our tour, the Niederegger folks gave us a sampler tray of their most popular current products. (Later we also went to their cafe and shop where I bought about 40 Euros more of stuff.)
I think the little loaves are my favorite. The chocolate is quite thin and the foil is always cute. They're barely an inch long, so it's not even two full bites. Since there's little chocolate, it's very much about the marzipan. There's not as much sugar in the Niederegger marzipan as in some other varieties. Also, it has a more rustic grind to it, it's not a smooth dough or paste like some. Think of it like peanut butter cookie dough - it holds its shape but has a slight grain. The sugar is completely integrated though. There's a toasty flavor throughout.
The trick with the little loaves though is that they get dried out quickly. I found that there's no point in hoarding them, they should be eaten within 3 months if possible, and be sure to keep them in a sealed tin or zippered bag.
The long bars solve that dryness problem with a thicker chocolate coating and a fully sealed plastic wrapper. Those seem to seal the moisture in much better. The Espresso Marzipan is by far my favorite of their standard flavors. So much so that I pick them up whenever I see them at a trade show, gourmet shop or when in Europe.
The marzipan is generally sweet, but the dark toffee flavors of the espresso really balance it out and even give it a little bitter edge that pairs well with some of the bitter note of the almonds.
In that big assortment from the Niederegger folks I got to try something new, their liqueur marzipans:
Rum Truffel - this was the most traditional and perhaps the most boring of the set. The reservoir center had a little slab of rum infused chocolate truffle. It was sweeter than the others, but had a nice little kick to it.
Orangen Liqueur is moister than most of the other Niederegger marzipans I've had. It's hard to tell if there was a liquored up center, which was a little darker than the rest of the marzipan, or that was just where the stuff concentrated itself. The scent has a light touch of orange zest to it. The flavor of the marzipan is delicate, the chocolate creamy and only a very thin shell of it to seal in the marzipan and cut the sweetness. The bite of the liquor isn't intense or harsh, just a light warming. I liked this one quite a bit, and tasted it compared to the classic Orangen piece as well. The liqueur does add a little more zest and less juice flavor to it, and the alcohol's ability to make me blush probably gives me the impression that it's said something flattering.
Armagnac Pflaume - is a plum brandy. The idea didn't really sound that appealing to me, but I know that I've enjoyed many of the things that the Japanese have done with plums and confectionery, so I thought I'd give it a chance. This piece has a little ribbon of plum jam of some sort in the center. The flavor is a little like brandied prunes, tangy and with deep cherry and raisin notes. The alcohol was quite distinctive and hit me high in my chest, between my collar bones.
Williams Christ is a Pear William brandy puree in the center of the marzipan. Though it looked rather like the Armagnac one, it definitely tasted distinctly of pear and a little like ripe bananas.
Eier Liqueur - is made with an egg liqueur. This is one of those drinks that I've never actually had except in confections (all German) so it's hard for me to compare it to anything else. It's like a creamy vanilla pudding center, with a slight rum buzz to it. I liked it, though the idea of egg cream in a candy is a little strange at first, and then I remember my love of nougat and custards.
One of the newer flavors I was really excited to pick up in Germany was their Niederegger Vodka Fig Marzipan. They're wrapped in bright purple foil and came in a long package like the sticks, but really just a strip of the loaves.
Again, freshness was the key here. The center had a definite grain alcohol blast to it. The figs were well supported by the delicate flavors of the almond paste and the vodka did a good job of helping disperse that flavor throughout.
On the whole, I'm not sure I needed the vodka, just a fig marzipan would be fine with me. And when I say fine, I mean, I wish there were fig marzipans available easily. I might have to make my own.
The last box I bought was called Niederegger Marzipan Weihnachtskofekt and I think I paid 6 Euros for it. It was a combination of three different winter flavors for Christmas. (Remember, I was there in December.)
The box was very simple, as are most of their packages. It was a paperboard box with a metallic gold plastic tray with little sections for each piece of candy. It protected the pieces extremely well (this was early in my trip and had to go on and off the bus every day for nearly 1,000 kilometers plus the flights home). So the inside did well, but the exterior got quite dinged up.
Since it was a seasonal product it was extremely fresh, the centers were soft and moist.
Arabisch-Mocca - toasty flavors of coffee and a little hint of chocolate in the center. The marzipan has more of a toffee and coffee flavor than anything almond. The dark chocolate shell seals it all up and has a nice bittersweet component that also gives it a creamy start.
Dattel-Honig is the only milk chocolate piece of the set. It smells like ripe bananas. In fact, it tastes like ripe bananas. Like actual fermented bananas, with a light alcoholic and tangy note towards the top. The milk chocolate and the dates keep it all rather sweet. I didn't catch much on the honey side of things.
Ingwer is one of my favorite bars from Niederegger. The little pattie version is a gem as well. The ginger is soft and glace style, the dark chocolate keeps it all from being to sweet or sticky. There's less chocolate in this version than the bar, and more of an alcoholic bite as well.
I know I have oodles more photos of the store, the cafe and the products I bought. But it's more of the same. The ingredients are simple and great and I think Niederegger has very high standards for what they'll produce. They make some other nougat (gianduia) products which I haven't sampled extensively. They do great marzipan, one of the other marzipans that I've ever tried that I truly love, so I'm always eager to try more of those. I've noticed that no matter what kind of store I was shopping in, a department store like Kaufhof or a grocery store like Rewe, the prices were always the same. So no sense in going bargain shopping, the trick for me when traveling was finding a store that carried the size and format of the flavors that I liked.
(Disclosure Note: The trip to Germany was sponsored, so I did not pay for my airfare, ground transportation, accommodations or food while I was there. At the factory tours we were given generous samples to consume on site as well as some to bring home. Any reviews of those products will be noted as to that fact. But I also brought a couple hundred Euros with me and spent them liberally and almost exclusively on candy both from the companies we were introduced to as well as many other Germany/European products that I found in my prowlings of grocery stores, department stores and the factory outlets.)
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Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Eat with your Eyes: Weihnachtskofekt
I missed reviewing this array of Niederegger Marzipan Weihnachtskofekt, special marzipan disks with seasonal flavors: Ingwer, Dattel-Honig & Arabisch-Mocca before Christmas. Suffice to say that they were fresh, nutty and delicious.
POSTED BY Cybele AT 1:07 pm Candy • Christmas • Niederegger • Highlight • Photography •
Thursday, December 22, 2011
Christmas Bars: Hershey's, Niederegger, Ghirardelli & Hachez
Here's a small selection of what I'd call Christmas chocolate bars. I've got to eat them up before the holidays - it may be too late for you to get them by Christmas, but there are some special ones that are worth picking up at the after-Christmas sales.
Hershey's introduced their Golden Almond Bar in 1977. It's a thick bar and clocks in at 2.8 ounces. The bar design and packaging has changed little over the past thirty five years. It's still wrapped in gold foil with a gold sleeve. Bars are sold either singly or in gold gift boxes of five bars (see a 1984 ad here). They're not that easy to find, I usually see them at the official Hershey's stores at Chocolate World or the Times Square shop.
The bar is simple, it's just milk chocolate with lots of whole roasted almonds in it. It differs from the Hershey's Milk Chocolate with Almonds bar as it's supposed to be better quality chocolate. The ingredients do not differ from the Hershey's standard milk chocolate which includes PGPR but is at least made in the United States and not Mexico as the other supposedly upscale Pot of Gold line is.
The bar is wonderful looking, it's thick and has a great snap. It's about 1.7 inches wide, 4.75 inches long and a beefy half inch high. There are some almonds in there though not as many as I feel are promised but they look like they're fresh and of good quality. The chocolate looks a little darker than the standard Hershey's but smells like I'd expect. It's sweet with a slight yogurty tang to it.
The texture is smooth and fudgy, with a sticky melt and a light caramel and woodsy chocolate flavor. It's not complex and it's not extraordinary. But if you like Hershey's chocolate and enjoy the decadence of a thicker piece, this is a good bar to choose. I liked the nostalgia of an actual foil wrapped bar, which is so rare these days. If there's someone on your list that loves Hershey's, this is a little bit more elegant way to give them what they desire.
Size: 2.8 ounces
I'll have more about my German adventures, including a tour of the Niederegger Factory in Lubeck in the coming weeks.
I found this seasonal bar called Niederegger Marzipan Weihnachtsschokolade at the Niederegger cafe at Marktplatz in Lubeck. The front of the package says Saftiges gewurz marzipan mit vollmilch-schokolade. So it's a spiced marzipan in milk chocolate. The image shows almonds, cinnamon sticks and star anise. The ingredients don't specifically list anise, just "spices" though cinnamon is a separate item.
Inside the paper wrapper there's a stiff card (advertising the company and their website) and the foil wrapped bar.
The packaging did a great job of protecting the bar. It was glossy and unscuffed.
The milk chocolate is very light in color (33% cocoa solids and 14% milk solids). The bar smells like milky chai, a little spicy and very sweet. The marzipan is moist and a bit like eating Snickerdoodle cookie dough. The chocolate is smooth, but doesn't contribute much in the way of cocoa to this, it just nicely encases the marzipan. The texture of the marzipan is a little more rustic than the French style fondant type that's used for creating figures and shapes. Niederegger is meant for eating and enjoying.
The ratios on the 100 gram bars from Niederegger favor the chocolate more than the enrobed little classic loaves. (I'll get into that more in my master post.) If you're looking for a starter marzipan that's more about the texture and celebrates almonds as the source ingredient, Niederegger really can't be beat. It's not too sweet and doesn't have any fake amaretto flavors to it.
I would prefer a version of this with dark chocolate, but I can't argue with the traditional recipe they have. It's a great balance of subtle spice, sweetness, milk and almonds.
Size: 3.5 ounces
I'm no stranger to the Ghirardelli Peppermint Bark. They've been making it for years and it comes in a clever little square that's perfect for some afternoon tea or coffee.
I found this set of bars at Target last month on sale for $2 each. They're heralded as limited edition and come in milk chocolate and dark chocolate.
I'm not actually a fan of barks. I like my inclusions fully immersed in the chocolate. So the bar version of Peppermint Bark is perfect for my strange fondness for things being hidden in the chocolate.
Unlike most Peppermint Barks, which combine white chocolate with crushed peppermint candies (like candy canes or starlight mints), the Ghiradelli version uses minty, artificially colored corn flakes. I haven't the foggiest why they did it that way, but honestly, they created something unique enough to be a new genre.
The milk and dark vary a little bit in their coloring. The milk version is sweet and has a lot of dairy notes to it from both the milk chocolate base and the white chocolate top (made with real cocoa butter). The mint is clean and bright, the little cereal bits are crunchy and a little salty and keep it all from being too cloying.
The dark version has two kinds of bits, the red bits and some little dark brown bits, which I think are little chocolate cookie pieces. The dark chocolate has a little smoky note to it which overshadowed the minty layer a bit, which I enjoyed. There's a definite difference between the Ghirardelli Peppermint Bark and the Dove Peppermint Bark, which can also be found for comparable prices at similar stores. Personally, I prefer the Dove version, because it's a bit butterier. This one is about the crunch, a grown up sort of crunch.
Size: 3 ounces
The last item I have is not quite a full review. The Hachez Weihnachts Knusper Bar (Christmas Crunchy Bar) is a darling looking bar. The soft white paper wrapper has a classically illustrated scene of a child ice skating on a pond.
Feine Vollmilch-Chocolade mit Zimt, Mandeln und Nussen
My German was getting pretty good, even though I'd only been listening to German podcasts for a week and was only there for a day. The front of the package said Fine milk chocolate with cinnamon, almonds and nuts. The little image also showed all of the above -cinnamon sticks, milk chocolate blocks, almonds and a hazelnut in its shell.
So I was very excited when I got it home and put at the top of my list to photograph and review before Christmas. I took it out of the wrapper, snapped it in half ... it looked and smelled so good:
The bar was glossy and showed no ill effects from the long journey (about 750 more miles on a bus at that point then the 5,700 mile plane ride).
I broke off a little piece of it to try after the photo, I was greeted by wonderfully smooth and milky chocolate and amazingly fresh, crunchy and crushed nuts and a hint of cinnamon. I could taste the hazelnuts and something else ... it wasn't pecans, it was walnuts. What I didn't realize was that while Nussen might be a generic word for nuts, it usually meant walnuts. (Walnusse is the more specific word.) So technically, I didn't eat any of the bar. I had to spit it out and rinse out my mouth (I still ended up itchy and with a sore throat all evening - my allergy has not developed beyond this irritation stage). But I'm going to go out on a limb after eating many of the other Hachez products in the past week (which I'll have reviews for) and say that this really is a good bar.
Size: 3.5 ounces
Do you have a favorite winter flavor combination? Anything regional or something from long ago that they don't make any longer?
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Monday, January 26, 2009
Niederegger Ginger Marzipan
At the Fancy Food Show I stopped at the Niederegger importer's booth. I love their flavored marzipans, though I only ever see them around Christmas at Cost Plus World Market.
The newest version is Bittersweet Chocolate filled with Ginger Marzipan (called Marzipan Ingwer on the package).
Though it wasn't open and out on the counter for tasting, the fellows at the booth really thought this was a special bar and opened one up for me to try. After I confirmed that it was in fact, pretty darn tasty, they gave me the rest to take home. I had a hard time, even with all my other samples, not continuing to eat it before I got home to photograph it.
It's a bittersweet chocolate shell filled with a rustic almond marzipan with chunks of candied ginger.
The bar was fresh and glossy, it has a woodsy and spicy scent. A little touch of bitter almond at the start along with the creamy and slightly bitter dark chocolate. This slowly gives way to the mellow almond paste flavors with less of the "amaretto" taste and into a warm ginger burn. It finishes again with the chocolate.
I ate the whole bar.
I am definitely a fan of Niederegger, though I can't stress this enough: it has to be fresh. They make a wide variety of products, including traditional loaves of plain marzipan, but they've found a new convert through their consistent flavor versions.
The chocolate contains milk products, so this is not a vegan product but it is all-natural.
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POSTED BY Cybele AT 9:15 am
Wednesday, September 5, 2007
Niederegger Marzipan Orange
After Christmas last year I bought some marzipan that I actually loved. Made by Niederegger in Germany, these folks have been making marzipan for over 200 years. I wanted to buy more, but the only ones I've seen in stores are the regular flavor which I tried at the Fancy Food Show and found to be okay.
While I'm not ordinarily a marzipan fan, it's my dislike for Amaretto that prompts my avoidance, because I actually love almonds and eat them just about every day. But I'm coming around on marzipan ... Charles Chocolates makes an excellent and zesty set of marzipan and I was hoping that Marzipan Orange was a more easily available version of it. (But sadly, really not less expensive.)
I was a little irritated when I opened the bar to photograph it and found that it was slightly bloomed. At first I cursed myself for not storing it properly (this was before the Great Heat Wave of Labor Day Weekend '07 that got temps in my candy studio up to 99 degrees during the day when the power went out), but when I opened the other chocolate items my husband brought back from NYC (the Ritter Sport Schokowurfel and another bar) I found that it was just this one and then I raised my fist to curse the folks who sold him a SIX DOLLAR bar that had not been stored properly.
But you know, I ate it anyway. 'Cuz it smelled sooooo good. I feel pretty good about it, too.
It smells like someone has been in the kitchen juicing fresh oranges and perhaps baking cookies at the same time. The orange zest scent is lovely with an added note of vanilla and a sort of caramelly nut smell topped off with a light chocolate. It makes me happy.
Though the chocolate wasn't as creamy-melt-in-your-mouth as the capuccino one I had before, I'm pretty confident that this was still tasty stuff, with full chocolate flavor to add to the light zest of citrus. The marzipan was firm and a little on the dry side and only lightly sweet (one of the hallmarks of Niederegger). It wasn't a super-smooth, doughy version like a fondant or anything, this felt like a rustic almond paste. (It's pretty high in protein too, 4 grams per 1.4 ounce serving.)
I would definitely plunk down $6 again for a fresh and properly stored bar. I saw on the Niederegger website that they little foil wrapped pieces in various fruity flavors (this is how I've tried the plain), I'm going to keep my eyes peeled at the holidays at places like Cost Plus World Market. If you've tried these before, where have you found them? GermanDeli.com has the orange bar (and on sale for $4.99 right now).
Unfortunately it's not vegan (milk in the semisweet chocolate) but it is otherwise vegetarian.
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POSTED BY Cybele AT 6:59 am
Wednesday, January 11, 2006
Niederegger Capuccino Marzipan
I hardly thought it was possible, but I found a marzipan I actually like. (See, I didn't give up.)
This is a beautiful bar, it's dark and glossy and has a wonderful rich aroma of smoky coffee and chocolate.
The chocolate is good quality, slightly bitter but smooth and the center is a different kind of marzipan. It's not the ultrafine paste that you find in some of the sculpted varieties. Instead this one has palpable bits of almond in it and a darker color (because of the coffee flavoring). There's also only the slightest hint of amaretto, which is the actual thing I don't like about marzipan. I love almonds, I just don't like the "flavor" of almonds.
The bar doesn't really have much of a capuccino flavor, but a pleasing scent and creamy quality that I found really compelling.
I doubt these are widely available, but I noticed that Cost Plus had quite a variety of this brand (they were on sale for the After Christmas clearance) so I might give their actual plain marzipan a try in the future or perhaps the Orange I saw on this site.
Interesting fact: Niederegger was founded by Johann Georg Niederegger on March 1, 1806 ... that means they're going to celebrate their bicentennial of marzipan in a few scant months. Happy Birthday Niederegger!
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And finally, in the A-10, St. Joseph's completed a season sweep of UMass to replace the Minutemen as the league's fourth bid. We still like UMass as a potential at-large down the road because of their good OOC resume, but the fact that they are now two games behind the Hawks in conference makes it impossible to keep them in. The only other potential head-scratcher this week is the fact that Illinois State is still in the field off a loss at Bradley, but remember, we are keeping the Redbirds in the field as a placeholder out of the MVC. The MVC is the 8th rated conference in RPI so we like their chances to get 2 bids. Illinois State doesn't have a tourney resume at this point but they do have a solid RPI and have some opportunities to pick up some big wins (Drake, and their Bracket Buster game). That, combined with a second place finish and a deep run in the conference tourney, should get them a bid (assuming Drake wins the conference tourney).
Out This Bracket
Oregon, Massachusetts, Providence, San Diego State, Virginia, Cleveland State, Bucknell
In This Bracket
Connecticut, USC, Mississippi State, UNLV, Arkansas, St. Joseph's, Lafayette
Last Four In
Arkansas, Villanova, Illinois State, St. Joseph's
Last Four Out
Massachusetts, Oregon, Seton Hall, North Carolina State
Next Four Out
Houston, Boston College, Syracuse, Providence
Conference Breakdown
Big East (8), Big XII (6), Pac-10 (6), SEC (6), Big Ten (5), ACC (4), A-10 (4), MVC (2), WCC (2)
America East - UMBC
ACC - Duke, North Carolina, Clemson, Miami-FL
Atlantic Sun - Jacksonville
A-10 - Xavier, Dayton, Rhode Island, St. Joseph's
Big East - Georgetown, Pittsburgh, Marquette, Notre Dame, Connecticut, West Virginia, Louisville, Villanova
Big Sky - Northern Arizona
Big South - Winthrop
Big Ten - Michigan State, Wisconsin, Indiana, Purdue, Ohio State
Big 12 - Kansas, Texas, Kansas State, Baylor, Texas A&M, Oklahoma
Big West - Cal State Northridge
Colonial - VCU
C-USA - Memphis
Horizon - Butler
Ivy - Cornell
MAAC - Siena
MAC - Kent State
MEAC - Hampton
MVC - Drake, Illinois State
Northeast - Wagner
Ohio Valley - Austin Peay
Pac-10 - UCLA, Washington State, Stanford, Arizona, USC, Arizona State
Patriot - Lafayette
SEC - Tennessee, Vanderbilt, Mississippi, Florida, Mississippi State, Arkansas
Southern - Davidson
Southland - Stephen F. Austin
Summit - Oral Roberts
Sun Belt - South Alabama
SWAC - Alabama State
WAC - Utah State
WCC - St. Mary's, Gonzaga
The Seeds
The 1s
Memphis, Kansas, Duke, North Carolina
The 2s
UCLA, Tennessee, Michigan State, Texas
The 3s
Washington State, Georgetown, Wisconsin, Xavier
The 4s
Stanford, Indiana, St. Mary's, Drake
The 5s
Butler, Vanderbilt, Pittsburgh, Marquette
The 6s
Dayton, Mississippi, Kansas State, Arizona
The 7s
Oklahoma, Baylor, Gonzaga, Notre Dame
The 8s
Clemson, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Texas A&M
The 9s
Florida, West Virginia, USC, Purdue
The 10s
Louisville, Arizona State, Ohio State, Miami-FL
The 11s
Mississippi State, UNLV, Arkansas, Villanova
The 12s
Illinois State, St. Joseph's, Kent State, South Alabama
The 13s
VCU, Davidson, Utah State, Cal State Northridge
The 14s
Oral Roberts, Stephen F. Austin, Siena, Winthrop
The 15s
Cornell, Northern Arizona, Lafayette, Hampton
The 16s
Wagner, UMBC, Jacksonville, Austin Peay (Play-In Game), Alabama State (Play-In Game)
The Bracket
(Bracket courtesy Matt Reeves)
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Paleo-archaic broad spectrum adaptations at the Pleistocene-Holocene boundary in Far Western North America
Willig, Judith A. (Judith Ann), 1953-
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Western Clovis and Western Stemmed cultural traditions, archaeologically indexed by fluted (Clovis) and stemmed projectile point complexes, represent the earliest human occupation documented in Far Western North America. The temporal closeness of Western Clovis, dated roughly from 11,500 to 11,000 B.P., to Western Stemmed complexes known as early as 11,140 to 10,800 B.P., has generated debate over the age and historical relationship of these cultures. The frequent co-occurrence of fluted and stemmed points along the lowest strandlines in pluvial lake basins has also led scholars to hypothesize an early development of the characteristically "Archaic" lake-marsh adaptations known from later periods. Geoarchaeological research in the northern Alkali Lake Basin of south-central Oregon has addressed these issues of cultural chronology and economy by seeking data to test a paleoecological model of human land use in the basin from 11,500 to 7,000 B.P. The model posits a late Pleistocene Western Clovis settlement oriented to a small, shallow lake or pond, followed by an early Holocene Western Stemmed occupation around a much larger lake and marsh fringe. Data gathered through basin-wide site survey, stratigraphic studies, and high-resolution mapping of lake features and artifacts, support the model as proposed, and reveal a settlement pattern indicative of a "tethered" focus on local lake-marsh habitats. Research also verifies the horizontal separation of fluted and stemmed artifacts on different, sequent shorelines, indicating that Western Clovis occupation precedes Western Stemmed, although the two are close in time. Data from Alkali Basin, and elsewhere, support the notion that Far Western cultures developed broad-spectrum adaptations much earlier than was once thought. This implies that the foundations of the Western Archaic were already in place by 11,000 B.P. In keeping with the adaptive flexibility embodied within the Desert Culture concept, environmental data further suggest that this "paleo-Archaic" lifeway developed quickly, not gradually, in response to punctuated climatic change and the emerging mosaic of regional habitats which characterized the Pleistocene-Holocene boundary, at a time when the desert as we know it was just coming into being.


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Russia Premier League Wrap: Zenit sunk at CSKA
Zenit began life without Luciano Spalletti in a 1-0 defeat at CSKA Moscow while Anzhi's unlikely bid for survival gathered pace.
Spalletti – who led Zenit to two league titles after joining the club in December 2009 – was sacked last week after a goalless draw against strugglers Tom Tomsk.
That saw Zenit drop to second in the table, with Spalletti's departure coming after a run of one win in six league matches.
The club were unable to improve their form as interim head coach Sergei Semak took charge on Saturday.
Former Chelsea and Tottenham coach Andre Villas-Boas has been tipped to take over at Zenit soon, but that may come too late to secure another title if their poor form continues.
CSKA Moscow, who sit fifth, won on Saturday thanks to a first-half goal from Georgi Milanov.
Milanov's goal was his first for CSKA since joining the club last year from Lovech in Bulgaria.
Zenit remain second and are three points behind leaders Lokomotiv Moscow, who drew 0-0 with Amkar Perm.
A week after recording their first league win of the season, Anzhi came from two goals behind to draw 2-2 at third-placed Spartak Moscow on Monday.
Spartak seemed set for victory after Alberto Costa and Jurado scored in the first half.
But Anzhi – who were very unlucky to lose 1-0 at AZ in the first leg of their UEFA Europa League last 16 tie on Thursday, a result that ended an unbeaten run of three – showed great fight to win a point.
Diniyar Bilyaletdinov set up Alexandru Epureanu for a 52nd-minute goal and substitute Serder Serderov grabbed an equaliser in injury-time.
Serderov's 95th-minute goal means Anzhi are now four points behind second-bottom Terek Grozny.
Kevin Kuranyi scored for the fourth league match in a row for Dinamo Moscow, who had to settle for a 1-1 draw at Kuban Krasnodar on Saturday.
Kuranyi's 43rd-minute effort was cancelled out by Ivelin Popov with 17 minutes to play.
Armenia international Edgar Manucharyan scored twice in the last five minutes to see struggling Ural to a 2-1 victory over Terek Grozny on Friday.
Grozny were forced to play the majority of the game with 10 men following Fedor Kudryashov's 11th-minute dismissal.
Elsewhere, Krasnodar scored late to salvage a point in a 1-1 draw at Tom Tomsk and Rubin Kazan beat Volga 3-1, while Rostov defeated Krylya Sovetov 2-0.


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Poetry. In REVV. YOU'LL—UTION, Brenda Iijima enacts a gorgeous, terrifying zero-degree literalism of interiority and internality cum fold, forcing us humans to see down and deep and also up and out into our global and galactic symbiosis. "Sing here archaeology/recovery Sing here sociology/legal aid": this work speaks through the canny avatars of REV and RAW and THIS IS THIS, whose muse brushes with the supermax, diamond trade, Agent Orange, torture, Katrina, and Iraq—oil spills, ice floes, extinction, and oceanic peril—till they are universalized to the touch. As Iijima limns petrified cultural, political, and biological distinctions to dilate and explode them, "animal" becomes "sibling breath," screen memories echo cell memory, and biometrics reveal our starred carbon and murder-marred marrow. Through a vision that strips us down and builds us up, she re-inserts and -inscribes us into prehistoric technologies, habitus, and aggressions, paths of past-as-present earth metamorphosis ("Is us was us is"). Yet Iijima's textual "electroencephalogram" works the synchronic and diachronic in tandem, alerting us to "our attendant bacterial compatriots" as to slave resistance as root of modernity—its utterly innovative, engaging cyber-primordialism forcing a clearer cutting of our teeth through its molarized language. As "police" are reconnoitered as "pig" as "amino acids," "dumb and doom" are finally im-muted to voice forth a spectral and de-spectralized nature whose "Glossolalia blushes syntax shut" and spurs us to "see without names." With its willingness to undertake the grunt-work of (a peculiarly linguistic) metempsychosis, REVV. YOU'LL—UTION imagines human being and impulse into sane coexistences, its concern and urgency engined by a material and intellectual beauty worth hymning. Let the pulse of its tumultuous mulch engulf you--"I puke up the pupae of change," as Iijima writes, "Intestine isn't this eye isn't this lyrical eye." This tour de force peptic brain-cleanse is also itself our renewed "connective tissue."
Brenda Iijima is the author of six full-length collections of poetry including EARLY LINOLEUM (Counterpath Press, 2015) and IF NOT METAMORPHIC (Ahsahta Press, 2010) as well as numerous chapbooks and artist's books. She is also the editor of the eco language reader (Nightboat Books, 2010) and editor of ECO LANGUAGE READER. She lives in Brooklyn.Author City: BROOKLYN, NY USA


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