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Michael Crummey
by Tori Schacht
in conversation with Tori Schacht
Michael Crummey is a writer we've only recently had the joy of discovering in the U.S., but he's a household name in Canada —and with good reason: Crummey is a poet and a storyteller, and the author of the critically acclaimed novels River Thieves and The Wreckage and the short story collection Flesh and Blood. He has been nominated for the Giller Prize, the IMPAC Dublin Award, Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, and won the Commonwealth prize for Canada for Galore.
Galore chronicles about 200 years of life in a fictional village in Newfoundland. A wild, sprawling novel with an unmistakably epic sensibility, the narrative is centered around a generations-long feud between two families: the Sellers and the Devines. The novel's voice will haunt you, and demands rereading. I reviewed Galore for Full Stop this past spring and on September 19, 2011, I had the pleasure of moderating a discussion with Crummey at 92YTribeca here in New York City. Amongst other topics, we discussed the geographic location of Newfoundland, the politics of incorporating Canadian dialect in fiction, and magical cures for warts.
The sheer amount of historical research that went into this novel is something readers of Galore might not be aware of. But how was the book born? Which came first—the fact or the fiction?
When my previous novel came out in Canada, I was doing a publicity tour and was being interviewed by a guy who worked at a bookstore. I was flipping through bargain books outside the store, and I picked up One Hundred Years of Solitude by Marquez, a book I spent my entire adult life avoiding because I assumed I would hate it; I had this notion that I didn't like magic realism. It felt like magic realism was a cheat somehow; if anything can happen, a writer has to do no work. But I needed a book for the plane ride, so I picked it up. Before I was even 100 pages into the book I thought, "this is just like home! This is just like Newfoundland."
It had mostly to do with people's relationship to the otherworldly, and how matter-of-fact they were about accepting it as a real thing. I thought, there is a book to be written about Newfoundland that does some of the same kinds of things. So I went off in search of the most outrageous, most outlandish stories I could find. Eventually I had to stop doing research, because every time I picked up a book or went into the archives or spoke to someone, I got something else that had to go in there.
I was telling some friends in St. John's about this crazy book I was trying to write. And this guy Tim said "oh, I should tell you about my sister!"
His sister, as a young girl, was afflicted with warts — hundreds and hundreds of warts. They had taken her to doctors and there was nothing the doctors could do. Tim's mom had gotten wind of a woman on the other side of Newfoundland who was known as a wart charmer. She tracked her down by phone, and the woman asked for her name and age and said, "I'll take care of this." The next morning, Tim's sister woke up and all the warts were loose in the bed-sheets, and there wasn't a mark on her to say they had ever been there. Tim said they had to shake the warts out of the sheets; there were enough to fill a quart jar.
So this is not a story from someone about something that happened 100 years ago. It's from a guy my age who grew up just outside of St. John's. Newfoundland has changed so much in the last generation or two; it's almost unrecognizable now when you compare it to the world that came before it. But all of that stuff is right there, below the surface. All you have to do is scratch and hit it. I had written a couple of books about Newfoundland when I was living away from Newfoundland, but I don't think I could have written Galore if I wasn't living there, sort of being a sponge — picking up the stuff that was all around me.
How does the Newfoundland you've known compare to the Newfoundland of yore; the Newfoundland you write about?
The differences are massive. Newfoundland went through a sea change around the time that it joined Canada in 1949. Up to that point in time, Newfoundland had been primarily an oral culture, centered in these tiny little outports that were very isolated from one another. After confederation, it moved to being a written culture. And there have been changes since: there's now a moratorium on cod fishing, which was really the only reason anyone ever settled in Newfoundland to begin with. In most of those communities there's no reason for them to exist outside of the cod fishery.
My kids, with the internet, are connected to a larger world in a way that I couldn't have even imagined as a kid. I was already connected to a larger world in a way that my parents couldn't have imagined when they were growing up. The world that mom and dad were born into had gone unchanged for a couple hundred years. Then, in the space of a single generation, that world pretty much disappeared completely.
Newfoundland is so distant from the rest of Canada; it's kind of its own entity. Where are the connections for your Canadian readers, or is it a bit like they're reading about a foreign country?
Newfoundland's relationship to Canada has been fairly fraught at times, and Canadians knew almost nothing about Newfoundland for a long time; most of what people knew about it were stereotypes. Newfoundland is like the Ozarks of the country.
What those people thought of Newfoundland had to do with this stereotype of the uneducated, rubber-booted fisherman who talks funny. That has changed in many, many ways in the last 20 years. For instance, a dozen of Canada's best writers have come out of Newfoundland, and before that it was almost impossible for Newfoundlanders to publish nationally. People are starting to see it for what it is. This book did really well in Canada, where people at least have a starting point. Here in the States I've been really interested to see the book finding an audience, because while Canadians don't know a lot about Newfoundland, Americans know almost nothing.
Newfoundland is a pretty remote, tiny place. It's so small that it's amazing it makes any impact on the rest of the world at all. But it really is an interesting place, and that's part of the reason Newfoundland writers have done so well in the rest of Canada.
Despite being from Newfoundland and having spent most of your life there, you're somehow able to write about it as someone from outside, who's passing through and just getting a sense of the place. What do you think gave you this critical distance?
I've written obsessively about Newfoundland ever since I started writing. It's my subject; I'm trying to get it down on paper. The issue of distance is an interesting one. I was born and raised in Newfoundland, but I grew up in a mining town, which was pretty much the geographical center of the island. I was hundreds of miles from salt water — never caught a fish in my life. I get seasick in the bathtub, you know? My only connection to this notion of what I thought of as "real" Newfoundland were the stories I heard mom and dad telling.
We moved to Labrador when I was fourteen, and I eventually ended up moving to Ontario and living there for thirteen years, so for a lot of my life I felt a bit like a faux-Newfoundlander. I think I was writing about it as a way to try to connect to it, to find my place in it. So that distance was something I was born with. Now that I've moved home, my sense of what "real" Newfoundland is has changed completely. I can see now how much of that world is in the one that I'm living in, how it's still just as crazy and wild and awful and beautiful as it's ever been. The lives of the people around me are still being shaped by the place in the same way. So I feel much more connected to it than I think I ever have. Maybe that means I'll stop writing about it; I don't know. Maybe I'll set my next book in New York.
One of the most salient differences between Part 1 and Part 2 of Galore is in the first section, there are no time indicators—no years are mentioned, no major wars, no historical markers. We don't even know what century it is. When Part 2 begins, the doctor, Newman, arrives in town, and then little by little there's this accretion of historical incidents, which ultimately culminates in (the very time-bound) World War I. Why did you decide to divide the novel this way?
What I wanted, particularly at the very beginning of the book, was to give a sense of this happening back in the mists of time. The first settlers in Newfoundland — especially those outside of the main capital area — were kind of rogue communities. It was actually illegal to settle in Newfoundland for years because the British didn't want to lose control over it; they just thought of it as a floating fishing station. People would all come in the spring and fish, and they were supposed to go back in the fall. But people got sick of doing it, so they would sneak off and stay the winter. We don't really know much about who they were, or how they lived, or what their story was. I wanted to just give a sense that this was way back there somewhere, before records were kept.
Outport Newfoundland was unique in part because it had so little contact with the outside world. People there lived between two worlds: one was this incredibly stark and often very dangerous physical landscape (particularly the ocean, which was not trustworthy at all), and the other side of that was this netherworld they had created. There was so much in the lives of these people that they had no control over, and in order to deal with that kind of uncertainty they created a netherworld that included superstitions and folk cures and ghost stories. But those two worlds were equally real. The people didn't make a distinction between them, saying "this is the real world, and that's just stories that we have." To those folks those stories had an impact on their lives just as much as the physical world did.
A lot of the book is about folklore and how stories work, so even some of those crazy things that happen in the beginning of the book — by the second section they're mostly stories. Whether or not they actually happened is irrelevant. As the book progresses, the outside world impinges more and more upon the community. That folk world gets pushed further into the margins. Then you have this [character] who loses his memory in the war, and he's kind of a non-person—he doesn't know who he is or where he came from. What saves him, what gives him back to himself are those stories—they tell him who he's supposed to be. It's this very circular thing.
One of the things that drew me to Galore was the tremendous strength of the narrative voice. The minute you pick up the book and read, you hear it; it's unforgettable. How did you develop this voice?
When I sat down and started writing, the narrative voice was there, and it felt like the voice of the book. It's completely unlike anything else I'd written.
In terms of the dialogue, that was just from growing up around people who spoke that way. There are dozens of Newfoundland accents, so it's a really tricky thing to do Newfoundland dialogue. A lot of writers from away do it really badly, because they decide to write the dialogue the way it sounds, and it just makes it seem cartoonish. Newfoundlanders are a lot of things, but cartoonish isn't it. What I've always tried to do is to use as much of the language that I can, but there's also a rhythm of speaking that's unique to the place. When I'm writing dialogue I try to get the rhythm right, and just leave the accent business out of it. It gives the reader the sense that these people are speaking in a way that is unlike anywhere else in the world, but it avoids that whole issue of cartoonishness when you try to put it down on paper.
What's in store for you post-Galore? What have you been writing since?
I've been saying all along that I felt Galore was the book I was meant to write. I've been writing my way towards this book since I started writing, around 17, and it's kind of a mixed blessing, because now what the hell do I do? I feel like this was the culmination of something, and whatever I do next has to be different. I don't know if I have "different" in me. So I'm currently avoiding writing another novel, but I've been writing poetry again pretty intensively for the first time in 10 years.
I made peace with the notion that my next book is going to be a book of poetry, which is not usually something anyone wants to hear. I remember my mom going to her dentist; he said "I just want you to tell your son how much I love his books, whatever he writes, from here on in I'll be reading it." She said "well, he's got a book of poetry coming out in about a month," and he said "except the poetry! I'll read everything else!" So it does feel a bit like a fool's errand, to be at it, but it's been a really pleasurable experience. I've been enjoying the process of writing poetry, and of relearning how to write it.
Is your poetry as steeped in Newfoundland as your fiction?
It has been, but poetry's also a lot more personal than fiction. A lot of it is, you know, your day. It's Newfoundland, because that's where my day is.


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there is no restrictions on his pitching. to the mets fans themselves, that will be in the stands here at citi field, in fact, they are as important to this game as it is for the lineup to get going and score runs on cubs' starter jon lester. even the mets fans themselves said that -- well, the mets players themselves said that the mets fans and the energy they brought to citi field during game three of the division series, the players fed off of that energy saying it was the loudest they have ever heard the mets' faithful. and for game one tonight, the players are expecting the same as the fans gathered at the gates of citi field nearly three hours before first pitch. i talked to those fans, many of them are very aware of their importance in the ballpark tonight. being a mets fan, what do you think your significance is at this game tonight to keep citi field loud? >> i think it's important. we watched the other games, and the fans' energy is tremendous.
and, you know, we were talking about it before the game, it's going to be electric here. >> it's called home field advantage for a reason, because you have the fans all around and backing 'em up. just like in seattle, the 11th man, or we're like the 10th man. >> you know, everyone says that we lost, like, seven in a row to the cubs. that was before cespedes, before the team gelled together, and we've got to believe! let's go, mets! [cheers and applause] >> and coming up later in sports you'll hear from matt harvey himself on what he has said about the way he feeds off of the mets' fans. plus manager terry collins spoke just a while ago, he'll give you more information on why he has changed the starting lineup lester. for now the mets' fans are field. they are as loud as ever. i could hear the chants from the parking lot. they're trying to stay warm so the game. live at citi field, christina,
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of a call for uber drivers to turn off their apps and demand higher wages. >> i think it's a warranted request. i don't think it's unreasonable. plenty of people work with benefits. i don't blame them. >> a petition on social media drawing more than 1300 supporters. demands include raising fares and adding a tip option. >> if you feel like the car's clean, you got there on time or whatever it is, you don't have to tip. you can have an option from 0-20%. >> uber drivers are considered private contractors and operate their own vehicles, paying for gas, insurance and upkeep. many say they're striking because they're bound by rules that treat them like mows. employees. believe me, i'm really thinking to trick for another job, because it's not really worth it. >> because youtubeer drivers aren't unionized, it would be hard to penalize those who don't work this weekend. it's also hard to determine just how many are participating in the strike. a quick check of the app outside
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closing in on joaquin guzman who was pursued into the mountains of north western mexico. officials believe he hurt his leg and his face running from police. the government is not saying when he was hurt or exactly where the operation to capture him took place. on july 11th guzman escaped from a maximum security prison through a mile-long tunnel dug beneath his cell. and the first real test of the merger between american airlines and us airways began today. not a glitch in sight. the final us airways flight landed earlier this morning in philadelphia. from now on it will be known simply as american airlines. today was the first time the two companies combined their reservation systems. in 2012 when united switched to continental's reservation system, there were horrible glitches and delays. as for u.s. airway's switch to american, so far so good. >> pretty seamless. we checked in online. they sent us e-mails,
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effect for parts of the city and also long island. so any plans that you have outdoors or any vegetation might be dying since we do have this colder weather pushing on in. right now temperatures are near 50 degrees, today we only topped out in the 50. certainly a gorgeous day. sunshine, just a couple of clouds around, and we till have that northwesterly breeze, right now about 10-15 miles per hour. along the coast right now we are in the 50s. north and west these pockets of blue that you see, that's the colder weather pouring in from canada, and it's going to be in place through the night tonight, tomorrow and also to finish off the weekend. actually tomorrow is it's going to be turning a little bit colder. we also have some snow showers on in the high elevations, upstate new york and parts of pennsylvania. none of that wet weather is reaching us. high pressure is in place along the east coast here. a little bit of a trough with the cold air pouring in from canada, and you can see these
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a little bit of a roller coaster ride. dry, sunshine monday, tuesday, maybe a couple of showers on thursday, and we look pretty good heading into next weekend. >> good. let's go with warm, right? >> i'm so excited for the game. >> you're wearing kind of orange -- >> a little bit. pink. supporting my team. the door to cuba is finally opening, and there's a rush to get through it. dan bowans has a look at how american businesses and entertainers are flocking to this new opportunity. >> on the same streets where seeds of the communist revolution were panted, something new is growing in cuba, and it has roots linked to western investment and entertainment. now that relations between the u.s. and the island nation have thawed, celebrities are flocking to havana. a-listers like katy perry, rihanna and mick jagger all experiencing a taste of the night life recently. two years ago jay-z and beyonce took a quick trip to cuba as well.
the publicity only adding allure to the tropical island considered a forbidden fruit to investors for decades, says jill noonan, managing editor of "the real deal." >> developers are eager to get in. there's an up tapped -- untapped market there and a tremendous amount of opportunity to develop in, you know, a caribbean paradise that has thousands of miles of beautiful coastland. >> but the potential of an influx of american cash is complicated. >> once you read the fine print and realize that there are a lot of obstacles, like you're going to have to be patient as an investor and developer because, obviously, there's an economic 'em par go in place that -- embargo in place that prevents americans from owning land there. >> there are plenty of critics of the relationship, like u.s. senator bob menendez, a cuban-american. he says looking to history is a guide. >> americans saw their properties confiscated. there is no rule of law in cuba, there is a dictatorship. and so your investment today can
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>> a manhattan clinic is dramatically changing the lives of people who battle ms. that treatment involves patients who use their own stem cells to fight this disease. in this month's big idea, liz dahlem introduces us to a young mother who is already seeing results. >> very emotional thing for me to watch myself walking down the aisle. like, oh, my god, that was me. look at me now. >> vicki guild cherishes her wedding video because it helps her remember what it was like to walk without pain. not long after this video was taken, she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. she was just 24 years old. >> i was diagnosed in february of 2000. i knew something was going on two or three years before that. >> the mother of two young
but the disease was progressing, eventually guild couldn't walk on her own. >> since 2008 i went from somewhat relying on a cane to, like, barely being able to hold myself up. >> determined to find a better treatment, vicki came to to the tish ms research center of new york on the west side. >> she has been slowly getting worse over time and had begun to experience a lot of falls. when was the last time you fell? >> probably -- [inaudible] >> the doctor started the center in 2006, dedicating his life to treating and researching the disease. >> it's a problem with the electrical system or the brain and spinal cord. when the electrical system affects the moving parts, you tend to get weakness of your legs. it can affect the eyes, it can affect bladder function, bowel function. >> some 400,000 people have ms in the united states, and 2.5 million around the world.
there is still no cure. there's ground-breaking research happening right in this lab. the team at the research center of new york is helping patients reverse their disability in a way that's never been done before. >> recently, we have started an fda-approved stem cell trial that uses the patient's own stem cells which we take out from the bone marrow, and we try to inject it into the spinal fluid, and we are hoping that we can regenerate the insufficient material that is lost. >> this video shows doctors extractioning stem cells from the patient's to bone marrow. a large needle goes into the chest or hip. doctors suction a lifetime supply of stem cells out in about 30 seconds. twenty patients are part of the study. vicki is one of them and had the procedure done. >> he said you're going to feel like your breath's being taken away. i was glad they said that, because that's exactly how i felt for ten seconds.
>> researchers in the lab harvest stem cells from the bone marrow and manipulate them into brain-like stem cells. >> we are injecting these brain stem cells into the spinal fluid of patients in the hope that that regenerates material because they go to the areas of injury, and then they can repair. >> the results have been promising. >> seven of ten patients have shown signs of improvement. most patients will say they have a headache or a slight fever for one or two days, but other than that we haven't had any side effects. >> now vicki can walk without a cane for some time. her legs are getting stronger. >> push them together. with your leg strength, you should be walking without a cane. >> before he came up with this procedure, there was nothing to give people hope. >> it's hard for you to imagine going back, i'm sure, to the way things are. >> no, i don't want to go back. >> yeah. >> nope. >> these are happy tears. >> yes. happy tears are good.
>> the study will continue through april, and the findings will be submitted to the fda. the doctor hopes to bring relief to to other patients soon. >> it will be the first time a neurological disease like ms that you can actually reverse the symptoms. >> for vicki, she can envision a future when she walks again, maybe even walking her daughters down the aisle. >> thinking about the future now is exciting. who knows? who know what is the future can hold. i never thought i would be walking without relying on my cane and my counter and anything i could grab onto. it's very exciting. >> liz dahlem, fox 5 news. >> it's important to note since this is a clinical trial, there is no cost to receive the stem cell treatment. and to see other big idea stories that feature science and technology, head to our fox 5 youtube page. and you can live like the
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>> you're watching fox 5 news at 6. >> cleanup crews are on the scene after thursday's mud slide in the mojave desert. this is what it looks like in los angeles today, cars and trucks stranded along a highway as crews search for anyone who may still be trapped. parts of that roadway are still buried under 5 feet of mud. crews have to remove more than 300,000 cubic yards of mud and debris before roads can even reopen. all eyes are on hillary clinton this week as she takes center stage away from the campaign trail. the presidential hopeful is set to testify before congress about the benghazi attacks. meantime, her aide is the one in the spotlight. fox's garrett tenny has more from washington. >> after meeting with the house benghazi committee for nearly eight hours, huma abedin said she came to be as helpful as she could be. >> i answered their questions to
that, i'll be making no further comment. >> sources say she wasn't e evasive in her answers but her testimony did little to fill in the gaps of all the key timing and events surrounding the benghazi attacks, including how then-secretary clinton responded the night they occurred. >> still unclear what was in those conversations, and we didn't know -- of course, i don't think she knew that. so that's going to be an interesting point, is exactly what were in these conversations, and who all did she talk to that night. >> this coming thursday the committee will have its chance to ask clinton herself when she appears before the panel to publicly testify. clinton and her campaign, though, are attempting to raise further doubts about the committee's investigation. >> i think it's pretty clear that whatever they might have thought they were doing, they ended up becoming a partisan arm of the republican national
focus on trying to, as they admitted, drive down my poll numbers. >> we have a task. we're going to complete it. when we present that, i am confident the american people will say this was a professionally-conducted investigation. >> clinton's campaign is riding a wave of momentum following her strong debate performance and hoping to avoid any kind of fallout that could make it more appealing for vice president joe biden to enter the race. in washington, i'm garrett tenny, fox news. >> a nassau county police officer who was killed nearly five years ago, the family has reached a settlement. he was shot and killed in 2011 as he arrived on backup of the scene where a knife-wielding man was also killed. it was later found on mta officer had fired the fatal shot. no charges were ever filed. the lawsuit was settled for an undisclosed amount. and it was the annual new york cares day today. thousands of volunteers including some students showed
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earlier this week the low line announced plans to build an underground park inside an abandoned lower east side trolley station. fish tanks can be so beautiful to look at but no fun to clean. they come in all shapes and sizes, so imagine having to clean a 2,000-gone tank. our jennifer la mers dives into the task in the latest evasion of jen at work. >> is staten island ferry terminal. thousands of people come through here every day, and while they wait, they have this 2,000-gallon aquarium and these big guys to keep them entertained. i met with brian sanders of city aquarium, a company that specializes in cleaning tanks big and small. what kinds of fish are we talking about? >> well, jen, in this case we have sick lids, we have lots of exotic south american freshwater
fish. >> and today i'd be swimming with these fishes to clean out the tank. casey is an acquire rest. >> i didn't even know there was such a thing. >> yes, there are. >> that's great. i'm just going to take your lead on this. >> okay. so let's get started now. >> okay. so i'm going to sit here -- >> yes. >> getting into the tank was awkward, but at least no one was watching or recording the entire thing. casey and i agreed on a strategy; he would work from one side, i would do the other. you know, there's actually not that much air moving around here. casey does this once a week, scrubbing the tank and refilling it with fresh, clean water. the whole process takes a little over an hour and is much more uncomfortable for casey than the fish. you know what i'm saying, a little dodo? >> if you're claustrophobic,
this job is not for you. in some spots there was only a 6-inch gap for you to move. >> i have a booty, i have a booty. >> you can do it! >> looking good. >> there might be fish over there, so be careful. [laughter] don't freak out, jen. hey, jen -- [laughter] jen, don't freak out. >> hey, i wasn't the one freaking out here, okay? really it was the fish. >> now slowly move towards you. [laughter] >> whoa. they're feisty today. >> was that a bite or a kiss? i still don't know. between the lack of oxygen, the waste, the algae, the tight spaces and the fish jumping out of the water and biting you on the face, this job is the toughest and the dirtiest i've been on yet. okay, casey. so i feel like we've been through a lot together. >> yes, we have. [laughter] >> how would you grade me? >> a c. >> a c? actually, no, not a c.
i'll give you a b only because you freaked out a lot, but that's normal for your first time. >> i'll take a b. that's what i've been averaging so far. [laughter] at work on staten island, jennifer lahmers, fox 5 news. >> you ever have down time at work to check facebook or instagram? some employers think the workweek is too long. why they want to cut hours to increase your productivity. but first, a message from lou he oweny. >> new york city is going to pot. literally and figuratively. since the day mayor bill de blasio forced his police commissioner to hold up this bag of fake dope, new yorkers have taken it as an invitation to light up whenever and wherever they like. just this week, commissioner bratton stumble on a young schoolgirl happily puffing away.
>> all of a sudden, there it is, that smell. and i said, what the hell? it's 8:30 on wall street. i had one of my officers, and we're walking along, and i said, where the hell is that coming from? >> bratton's detail gave the girl a verbal spanking, confiscated her weed and sent her on her way. many ore issues we have in new york city reflect this sort of zoned-out, care-free attitude. take times square. look what is happening to our schools. "the new york post" points out the city continues to spend money on recess coaches and playgrounds to teach kids how to play while the mayor continues to drag his feet on producing suitable space for effective charter schools. de blasio has also been traveling the country to advance his progressive agenda agenda. and did you know he is using money from his slush fund --
heroin is the fuse, lsd is the bomb. >> i don't think it is so far out that i see a link between pot smoking in the streets and a zoned-out mayor on his way to iowa to promote a national agenda when he should just stay home and deal with new york city's issues.
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>> the new jersey home where bruce springsteen wrote "born to run" is up for sale, and it's more affordable than you might think. the two-bedroom, one-bath complex is currently listed for $299,000. when the boss represented the place -- rented the place, he wrote born to run, thunder road and back streets. the house is also the springsteen fan tours given on the jersey shore. all right. balancing your work life and social life may soon get a lot easier. many offices are embracing a firm 40-hour workweek. the goal being to improve worker efficiency and attract employees looking for better balance in their lives. we have this story from midtown. >> the average american workweek is almost 47 hours, but some companies feel that means a lot
mandating firm 40-hour workweek. how much time are you spending on work? >> 45-50 hours. >> 40-50. >> 60 hours a week. >> i get in the office around 7, and i'm just leaving at 7, and now i'm heading to a client dinner. >> it never ends. >> it never ends. >> now some are saying enough is enough. "the wall street journal" reporting in order to maximize productivity and achieve a work/life balance, several small companies are enforcing a strict eight-hour work day which means no midnight e-mails from the boss. >> if my company said i can't work more than 40 hours, i'd be okay with that. >> i think that makes sense in a way. >> i definitely think that it would work, have been people work harder. i always say i don't need the full work day to get things done. >> if my workload says i've got to have it done by this time and i only have 40 hours to do it, less time for facebook. >> when people have a higher quality of life, they have more time to be with their family, friends, they're happier.
>> but according to thyme inc.'s chief human resources officer, the 40-hour workweek is not the key to success. >> people are social creatures. the workplace is their community, and they love to come in and talk about what was the big headline on the news or what was on the cover of a major magazine or what happened on scandal the night before. if you have all work and no play at work, it doesn't create a great culture. it's really hard to mandate that people only work when they're working and that they complete hi plug out when they're not -- completely plug out when they're not working. >> his solution? >> making sure you create a flexible work force where you're not so prescriptive and so mandatory about how they spend their time. you should be looking at outputs and not measuring when they're coming and going and what they're doing every minute of the day. >> baruch shemtov, fox 5 news. >> it is a cold october night, and this weekend isn't getting any warmer. people in union square were all bundled up today to try to keep warm. samantha is here in for audrey to tell us how long this chilly
weather will last. >> through the weekend. you see everyone there wearing their hats and gloves today and breaking the winter jackets out as well, and it's definitely a good idea to do so overnight tonight. it was good to see that sunshine today, really a beautiful day but definitely feeling like fall. tonight we are turning much colder. it's the first night where we're going to see widespread temperatures in the 20s and 30s, especially northwest of the city. and that's where we have a freeze warning in effect. if you have any potted plants outside that you can bring indoors, probably a good idea to do so. that would be for the upper hudson valley, parts of connecticut and also new jersey. sunshine tomorrow morning with the chilly air in place, we're going to see a couple of extra clouds in the afternoon. can't rule out a brief sprinkle, but the day is basically dry. the coldest day of the season so far. some of us will not even get to 50 degrees, but the cold weather's not going to last too long. we're going to see a warm-up for the upcoming week, and temperatures will rebound nicely. we will be in the 60s.
so today we topped out near 56, a pretty good start to the weekend. a mix of sun and clouds, really a nice sky. certainly, the breeze did make it feel chilly. typically, we still do get to 63 this time of year. we weren't able to do it today, and we certainly won't be able to do it tomorrow. we'll be a good 10-15 degrees colder than norm normal. if you're heading out for dinner, 51 in central park, 50 at islip. monticello, 37. you're one of the spots that'll be down into the 20s when you wake up tomorrow morning. and right now 51 in newark and 47 in allentown. still a little bit of a breeze, makes it feel colder, so have the heavier jacket. winds are out of the north and west about 5-15 miles per hour, dragging in drier air but also that colder air from canada, and it is with us to finish off the weekend. so overnight tonight skies are mainly clear. i've been seeing some photos even on facebook of snow showers through the catskills, upstate new york by lake placid and parts of pennsylvania. that will not be reaching us.
we do at least have high pressure in place, so we're just looking at a couple extra clouds from time to time and the colder air pouring in from canada. look at all those lake effect snow showers. it is certainly that time of year. overnight tonight we're going to keep things dry. a couple extra scattered clouds around tomorrow. around 3:00 there's your tiny, tiny chance of a brief sprinkle. we have sunshine heading into the upcoming week, and it won't be bad and temperatures begin to get a little bit warmer. overnight tonight mainly clear, 28-38. the coldest spots knot and west -- north and west. not a bad night though since we're able to keep things dry. sunshine tomorrow morning. we'll make it up to about 50. that's it. a little bit breezy. we'll keep it chilly, and on monday, sunshine, 52. temperatures will be rebounding into the 60s, maybe your next chance of showers on thursday. christina? >> all right, samantha. thanks a lot. tina cervasio's live at citi
>> hi, christina. we're getting ready for game one of the national league championship series between the mets and the cubs, and in this best of seven series, the mets hope to be celebrating again when it is all said and done as they try to punch their ticket to the world series.
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your sports, and these are unchartered territories for the mets as a franchise. this 2015 nlcs is the first-ever playoff meeting between the mets and the cubs. but mets players are confident just knowing that game one is being played right here at citi field. and game one starter, matt harvey was in the same position as the starter for game three in the division series and credits the mets' fans for his performance. >> it was electric. i think from the first pitch on and, you know, the mets' fans have been great all year. they kind of took things to a different level this past series, and the excitement of new york is definitely coming alive for new york mets, and we can feel it. >> meanwhile, these mets players have a chemistry in the clubhouse that we haven't seen in decades, and today before the game manager terry collins not only talked about how excited
one, but why they are ready to play. >> they're pretty fired up. i mean, as you saw after the game the other night, they're pretty excited. just talked to a bunch of the guys today, they're extremely excited to get this thing going tonight. we like the matchups we have, and we'll be ready to play. >> now, there is a change in the starting lineup. michael cuddyer will start at first base, sending lucas duda to the bench, and the reason collins is going with the veteran is because he has faced cubs' starting pitcher jon lester many times before in the american league. >> and we know about jon lester, he's a big game pitcher. he's shown it in the last few years. but michael's seen him, he knows how to face him, so we thought it'd be a good matchup for him. >> all right. now let's go to game two of the alcs, royals hosting the blue jays. now, the royals were trailing 3-0 going into the bottom of the
enisth inning, then -- seventh inning. alex gordon singles to right scoring a lead run. that is a five-run inning putting kansas city up 5-3 over the jays right now. we will have ap update, of course, on the alcs and give you the latest between the mets and the cubs on fox news at 10 p.m. be sure to tune in then, but right now i can hear the fans as they're making their way into citi field. they're trying to stay warm in this cold weather, but one thing we know for sure, mets fans will be loud for game one between the mets and cubs in the nlcs. live at citi field, i'm tina cervasio, christina, back to you. >> please, god, let them win tonight. tina, thank you so much. mets' fans looked really cold out there. even with the screaming and energy out there. >> hopefully, their energy and all that excitement will keep them warm a little bit. >> and a victory as well. >> that's right. >> okay. >> so much excitement for the fans, and we are chilly. temperatures are going to be in the 40s for most of the game. >> wow.
>> that breeze, yeah, you feel it. tomorrow we start the day with sun, some clouds, 50. so very chilly to finish off the weekend, and we could be talking about frost and a freeze again tomorrow night. gets better monday, sunshine, christina, we're back in the 60s. >> these seats are cold too. >> think of that. [laughter] >> all right. that does it for us.
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Q&A ON THE PET SITTING BUSINESS
Mar 30, 2021 | PET CARE
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'RTÉ told us our abortion film lacked balance'
The maker of a 1994 documentary about three Irish women's abortion stories says some in RTÉ were worried that the women 'didn't show enough remorse'
Mon, Apr 11, 2016, 06:00 Updated: Mon, Apr 11, 2016, 09:29
Lorna Siggins
Hilary Dully: "We were never actually told that they wouldn't show it, and it was kind of suggested that they would – but not then." Photograph: Joe O'Shaughnessy
For Tuesday, March 29th, 1994, the TV highlights published in this newspaper listed a UTV programme exploring the phenomenon of stigmata, and BBC1 offered a dramatic recreation of the life of Sr Hildegard von Bingen, a 12th-century nun. RTÉ One's Check Up would have a report from Calcutta, followed by the last in the current series of Tuesday File.
Several days before, independent film-makers Hilary Dully and Fintan Connolly had been asked to come to a meeting in RTÉ. There was, they were told, a "difficulty" with the piece of work they had made for that instalment of Tuesday File.
The documentary 50,000 Secret Journeys comprised interviews with three Irish women about their experiences of abortion. The 25-minute film was interspersed with news archive footage giving historical context to the abortion debate. The programme had been commissioned by RTÉ, but the station didn't want it broadcast.
"We were never actually told that they wouldn't show it, and it was kind of suggested that they would – but not then," says Dully. "We were told that it lacked balance, and that one of the reasons for this was that the women involved didn't express sufficient remorse."
There was something of an outcry. Ruth Riddick, who was then the Irish Family Planning Association's education officer, was among those to criticise the move. Trade union Siptu issued a statement on behalf of the television producer/director and director grades in the station, expressing "serious concern".
In response, RTÉ said the decision was taken for "internal reasons", which it did not wish to disclose.
It wasn't as if Connolly and Dully had not been around the block. The pair had already undertaken a number of commissions for RTÉ and Channel 4, tackling subjects including sexuality, the lives of teenagers, emigrants in London and aspects of the North.
Postponed screening
The documentary was screened later that year, on October 27th, 1994, but as part of a late-night current affairs package that included a separate filmed item about unmarried mothers, with contributions from an academic, two co-ordinators of support groups for lone parents, a senior social worker and a barrister – but no actual single parents were interviewed.
"Whether by accident or design," she says, this film clip, by excluding the subjects and focusing on expert analysis, adopted practices that Dully and Connolly's documentary had set out to avoid, namely excluding the subjects and focusing on expert analysis.
A studio debate followed, chaired by broadcaster Marian Finucane, with five panellists: senior law lecturer Gerry Whyte; IFPA representative Maxine Brady; Caroline Simons of the Pro-Life Campaign; Dr Ciaran Craven of Doctors for Life; and senator Mary Henry, a medical doctor.
The Abortion Debate, as it had been renamed, served to "neutralise" the impact of Connolly and Dully's original piece of work. As Dully explains, its placement within an "event", while "ostensibly fulfilling the requirement to balance the content of 50,000 Secret Journeys, actually functioned . . . to disempower and marginalise the experiential narrative".
The documentary was "originally commissioned and produced as a stand-alone current affairs film", she says. When it was "repositioned" some months later as one element in a wider debate structure, it "recontextualised" rather than balanced the content, she adds.
RTÉ's decision put commissioning editor John Masterson in an impossible position, and he resigned from his post as head of Tuesday File and moved out of current affairs broadcasting. He subsequently became a producer on The Late Late Show .
Years later, Dully made contact with Masterson and others for her PhD research at NUI Galway on 30 years of the "abortion discourse", from the first referendum in 1983 to the enactment of the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Act 2013.
Part of that research involved an effort to find out what really happened back in 1994, but there is no paper trail accessible through Freedom of Information requests.
'Polarised debate'
"Significantly, it was very difficult then to talk publicly about being gay or about marriage breakdown, and our attitude to both has changed significantly," says Dully. "But with abortion, it is still a very polarised debate."
She can say this with considerable authority, as she has analysed 52 television current-affairs programmes, broadcast by RTÉ between 1983 and 2013, for her doctoral research.
She divides them into four distinct time frames: the initial abortion amendment debate from 1981 to 1983; the 1992-1994 period involving the X case, which established the right of Irish women to an abortion if a woman's life was at risk because of pregnancy, including the risk of suicide; the 1997-1999 C-case period, also involving a young woman who became pregnant after being raped; and the 2011-2013 period involving the death of Savita Halappanavar in 2012, and subsequent legislative change.
She has identified a marked change in the debate since Halappanavar's death, as "here was a woman who was named and who we could identify with".
She says the subsequent personal testimonies of women has also been a contributory factor in nurturing understanding.
"It's not a route everyone wants to take, and I don't feel there should be pressure on anyone to do so, but it's still a brilliant thing to do," she says. "What's striking is that up to 200,000 women in this country have had abortions, but if everyone felt as guilty as it was suggested they should, we would have a serious mental-health problem. The fact is they don't, and we don't."
She believes we are still finding it difficult to discuss an issue that, long before the advent of contraception, was having a profound but "silent" impact on society. "You look at all the graveyards for unbaptised children: the cillíní," she says. Not all of these babies were premature or stillborn: there was infanticide."
Complex issue
However, she also believes it is more complex than holding a referendum to repeal the eighth amendment, because it is a very complex issue, and such complexity does not lend itself to the format of current-affairs television.
"If our public engagement with a complex moral issue like abortion is restricted to binary oppositional debate [as on television], then it is probable that the lifeworld of women, particularly those who have had abortions,will be excluded," she says. There is also a tendency in such a format to "repeat well-worn arguments and generate more heat than light".
In that sense, she acknowledges that serious exploration of any complex issue is almost impossible in the current-affairs format. "We have to learn how to find another way to talk about it, because we have a 14-year prison sentence on our statute books, even as people are buying abortifacients on the internet, and it is only a matter of time before there is another case which could be much worse than anything we have experienced before," she says.
In the meantime, Ms X in the X case is a middle-aged woman, and representatives of the anti-abortion movements have given a lifetime to defence of "absolute values" with a consistency that, with any sense of fairness, has to be admired, she says.
Dully observes that a "casual trawl through the confessional and the graphic abortion-related films on Youtube . . . makes 50,000 Secret Journeys . . . look very tame indeed". Dully is close to completing her PhD through an NUIG digital arts and humanities scholarship, and she plans to make another wide-ranging film about abortion in Ireland, including the historical perspective.
"The production landscape, access to information and the public discourse around the subject have all been transformed in the intervening years. Yet the statistics remain remarkably similar: 4,000-5,000 Irish women have abortions each year," she says
And her first-born, who was two when she learned that her documentary had been pulled, is now 23.
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WOMEN AND FILM: PROGRAMME AT AN TAIBHDHEARC
Hilary Dully will speak about her experience of 50,000 SecretJourneys after a screening on April 16th at An Taibhdhearc theatre as part of Galway's Unesco City of Film.
The Women and Film programme, curated by Lelia Doolan, will also screen Mother Ireland, which explores the development and use of images and music that personify Ireland as a woman in Irish culture and nationalism. This will be followed by a panel discussion with Doolan, Dully, Bernadette McAliskey, Dully, Pat Murphy and Margo Harkin.
The programme includes screenings of The Uninvited, a black and white ghost story of the 1940s based on the best-selling novel of Irish historian, playwright, novelist and human rights activist Dorothy Macardle; and Nora (starring Ewan McGregor and Susan Lynch, left), by director Pat Murphy.
Tickets are €5.50 per film or €15 for the full day and are available from An Taibhdhearc on 091-562024 or at antaibhdhearc.com/imeachtai
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These photos show the first sail of my model "Louis Heloise" a 1:10th scale model of a French Bautier.
With an overall length of 62" and a beam 12.5" I feel that it has a real presence on the water.
The lower part of the hull is fibre glass ( produced by Mastman) the rest is timber. All fixtures and fittings are scratch built including working blocks and rope using a homemade ropewalk. The sails took as long as the rest of the model as I had to learn how to use a sewing machine and the electric iron to produce the pleats( the wife is pleased as I now occasionally do the ironing). With 28lbs of lead for ballast a lot of thought had to go into the launch procedure. A Christmas gift of a fishing trolley has solved the problem and has also stimulated interest at the club (Saltwell Park Model boat club).
The crew are made using polymer clay and the inspiration for these are my father and father in law, I don't think that they are too pleased. I still have one or two things to do to finish the model and I can't wait for a steady breeze to give her a real try out.
Finally I would like to thank the wife and kids as they have had to eat with their dinner plates on their knees as the kitchen table was used as the work bench for the last twelve months..


The Vermont Association of Snow Travelers, Inc. (VAST) announces the final findings of the "Snowmobile Trail Chemistry Study," completed during the winter of 2009/2010.
Snowmelt and runoff chemistry monitoring indicated no detectable levels of volatile organic compounds or total hydrocarbons in surface waters that are located immediately down gradient of snowmobile trails; leading to the conclusion that snowmobile usage did not have any impact on the surface water quality in the vicinity of heavily used snowmobile trails. Read the summary or download the full report.


If you hear a truck driver say "Buffalo" on their CB radio, it's just another way to say "A man." This phrase has come to refer to a male prostitute, usually homosexual. There are hundreds of other popular CB slang phrases - to learn more, check out the links below or browse the rest of our online CB slang dictionary.


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The Goldilocks Question: Too Much Content, Too Little, or Just Right?
The tale of Goldilocks and the Three Bears has endured in various forms since the 1830s. It's pervaded popular culture to the extent that astronomers talk about "Goldilocks planets," planets that are neither too close nor too far from their sun to support life. (They're not too hot; they're not too cold -- they're just right.) When you're creating marketing content for your business, you may find yourself wondering where that Goldilocks zone lies for your purposes. What counts as too many words, or too few, or just the right number for the particular marketing channel you're working on? It's a question worth asking, so let's look at some answers.
While the maximum word count on an effective web page can vary widely, there's little doubt over the minimum. Google has made it known that it considers 250 to 300 words the least you want to put on each page. Why? It's an SEO thing. There has to be enough written content for the search engine's bots to crawl and index the page properly. The content should contain an even, sensible, relevant scattering of keywords that you want Google (and its users) to associate with your business.
Beyond that minimum word count, the general rule is to include as much information as you need to convert the visitor -- and not a word more. The more complex or pricey your product or service, the more verbiage you'll probably need to apply toward persuading your prospective buyer. But keep in mind that people have better things to do than read long, densely-packed web pages. Give them the least they need to know to get excited enough to take action.
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Rating and Awards
The jury is international and comprises three members. The rating elements are:
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program difficulty
general artistic impression (intonation, style, fidelity to the score etc.)
I. Round
A choir's performance may be awarded no more than 30 points. The average number of points is calculated on the basis of the total number of points awarded by the jury. The Awards with the relevant levels are presented according to the number of points received. Each award has ten levels (1-10). The awards are not limited in number.
Bronze Prize I-X (1.00-10.99 points)
Silver Prize I-X (11.00-20.99 points)
Gold Prize I-X (21.00-30.00 points)
Prize level Bronze Prize Silver Prize Gold Prize
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II. Round – Final Championship – Grand Prix
Choirs with the Golden Prize and the most points in their categories compete for the Grand Prix performing one piece from same repertoire. The Jury may choose additional choirs to enter the competition to win the Grand Prix. A jury in the expanded composition will not award points, but take a vote and choose the winner.
According to its judgment, the jury may present awards to conductors and musical directors in the case of special artistic impressions.


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Sold For $59,500 On 8/3/20$59,500 Sold
Seller: Rwakeel
Location: Lake Mary, Florida 32746
Chassis: WBY2Z2C58FV674392
Turbocharged 1.5-Liter Inline-Three
AC Synchronous Motor
Six-Speed Automatic Transmission
7.1-kWh Lithium-ion Battery
Crystal White Exterior w/BMW i Blue Accents
Carpo Carum Spice Grey Leather Interior
Pure Impulse Package
Powder-Coated 20" Style 470 Wheels
This 2015 BMW i8 was first registered in Texas and acquired by the seller in 2018 as a Certified Pre-Owned vehicle. The car is finished in metallic white over grey leather and powered by a turbocharged 1.5-liter inline-three, which is paired with a six-speed automatic transmission and works in conjunction with an electric motor featuring an integrated two-speed automatic. The Pure Impulse package is equipped, which features 20″ wheels, i Blue-accented brake calipers, seat belts, and contrast stitching as well as perforated leather seating surfaces, a leather engine cover, a head-up display, a ceramic gear lever, and unique door sill guards. This i8 indicates 30k miles and is offered with a clean Carfax report and a clean Florida title in the seller's name.
The car finished in Crystal White Pearl Metallic with contrasting black and i Blue accents. The body of the i8 is constructed from a mixture of aluminum, carbon fiber, and chemically-hardened glass, resulting in a curb weight that is less than 3,500 pounds. The door struts have been replaced during current ownership.
Factory 20″ Style 470 wheels have been powder-coated to match the i8's blue exterior accents and are wrapped in 245/35 Michelin Pilot Super Sport tires. Brake calipers with i Blue accents and "BMW i" lettering are equipped as part of the Pure Impulse package.
The Pure Impulse package includes Carpo Carum Spice Grey leather upholstery, and also adds embossed i8 logos in the headrests, i Blue seat belts and contrast stitching, unique door sill guards, a ceramic gear lever, and Amido metallic accents on the dash, instrument cluster, and door panels. Additional amenities include the driver assistance and lighting packages, an anthracite headliner, a head-up display, a Harmon Kardon HiFi sound system, and iDrive infotainment with navigation.
A multifunction steering wheel frames a configurable LCD screen that displays an odometer indicating 30k miles, of which approximately 5k have been added by the seller. Aftermarket paddle shifters have been installed during current ownership.
Power is provided by a mid-mounted turbocharged 1.5-liter inline-three, which works in conjunction an electric motor to produce 357 horsepower and 420 lb-ft of torque. The internal combustion engine drives the rear wheels through a six-speed automatic transmission, and the electric motor utilizes a separate two-speed transmission to propel the front wheels. The engine has been modified with an OE Tuning ECU flash and a K&N drop-in air filter.
The May 2020 Carfax report shows no accidents or other damage and lists emissions testing, registration, and service history with two total owners in Texas and Florida.
Winning Bid USD $59,500	by hensleyac
Auction Ended August 3, 2020 at 1:13PM PT
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