The bridge function is now getting second nature, the ability to just browse adobe files while still in PS is great, and then the ability to view 2 or more images side by side by using the 'arrange documents' button is great. So once the 'beach' image is dragged onto the 'pineapple' image it shows up behind the 'pineapple' as both layers are 'viewable', so we just click the little 'eye' next to the pineapple and we can now only see the beach layer.
The next job was to stick a white border around the beech image, so with the beech layer selected the stroke style is applied. As we needed a white border the colour picker was changed to white. Once this was done all layers are switched back on, but the beech is back behind the pineapple, and as we needed this on top as in the final image, the layers have to be arranged. Just click on the beech thumbnail and with the left button on the mouse pressed just move it up and drop it between pineapple and flower layer.
Still not getting the love to book that holiday….. time to give the postcard the wow effect, but little by little.
First was to make the postage stamp ;lighter', this is done my just changing the 'Opacity' of the postage layer, dropped the figure down to 25% to get a very light stamp. That pineapple is still not doing it, so it needs to be more vibrant, like it fell of a tree. Making sure the other layers are unselected select and pressing 'CTRL' and left mouse you get an option menu up, and then select Duplicate Layer. Using this new copy layer, change to blending from the overview menu, this blends the copy layer and the original pineapple layers giving a more vibrant look – if im honest I did not see much change, but the booke says it does do the book must be right? right?
Need to move that beech layer, so selecting the beech layer and unselecting the flower we can use a tool called 'free transform'. This sticks a box around the image, and by holding down the shift button at the same time as you drag a corner in, this makes sure both dimensions change at the same time, the image is reduced by about 50% and then rotated slightly. To get the final postion the flower layer is made viewable again and then the beech image is rotated until the right edge of the beech is just covered by the bottom petal.
Time to add some colour to the background, this is done by making sure the background layer is selected and then hitting the 'new layer button' at the bottom of the layers window – this is an easier wasy than doing the new layer route from the main menu that runs along the top of the screen. This new layer is called clouds, using the forground colour icon from the bottom of the tools menu, select a 'sky' colour. Then making sure the cloud layer is still the active layer using the filter menu the effect cloud is selected from the render menu, and bang nice tropical sky appear's behind the other layers.


I had the pleasure of learning how to digitaly animate during RedBull's STRONGER SESSIONS, that was produced by Pirate Movie Production. It was quite an interesting challenge to synk the sugar poetry with my handwritten words. My weapons of mass creation where my iPad pro feat. a MacBookAir that got connected by Astropad app.
Thanks to this project, I'm ready and warmed up for various animation ideas and titeling project.


I wrote to Dr. Ballard in 2011, but unfortunately did not record the sent and received dates.
I admire Dr. Ballard for his work in finding the final resting places of many famous sunken ships, most notably The Bismark and the RMS Titanic. I have always been fascinated with the Titanic sinking, and am so glad that Dr. Ballard has taken such extreme measures to protecting the wreckage site from pirates and thieves. I am so proud to add Dr. Ballard's autograph to my collection!


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Crisis on Infinite Earths Adds Stephen Lobo as Jim Corrigan
By Nicole Drum - October 16, 2019 06:15 pm EDT
From the files of just when you think the Arrowverse's upcoming "Crisis on Infinite Earths" couldn't get any bigger, it looks like Detective Jim Corrigan -- aka The Spectre -- will be making an appearance in the upcoming, multiverse-altering crossover event. According to IGN, The CW has cast Continuum and Supernatural actor Stephen Lobo as Corrigan for the event, though it has not been confirmed if The Spectre will actually appear or if it will just be the human host, Corrigan.
For fans of DC Comics, this is very exciting news. In Comics, Detective Jim Corrigan first debuted in More Fun Comics #52 in 1940. He becomes The Specter when, on his way to his engagement party, Corrigan is murdered, stuffed into a barrel of cement and thrown into the water. His spirit is refused entry into the afterlife and he's sent back to Earth by an entity called "The Voice," bonded with the "Spirit of Vengeance" with a mission to destroy evil. The character has undergone some revisions over the years, but what's interesting about The Spectre in terms of the upcoming Crisis event is the comic book story the event is based upon, the Spectre fought the Anti-Monitor.
Arrow executive producer Marc Guggenheim may have teased that the Corrigan character will be the Spectre for Crisis in acknowledging the casting of Lobo in the part.
"Fans of the Crisis on Infinite Earths comic know the Spectre plays a pivotal role," Guggenheim said. "We're thrilled Stephen is our Jim Corrigan."
The announcement of Lobo joining Crisis as Corrigan is just the latest big casting news for the upcoming event. It's been previously announced that Crisis will also see appearances from Black Lightning's Cress Williams, Jonathan Schaech as Jonah Hex, Kevin Conroy as Bruce Wayne, Ashley Scott as The Huntress, Smallville alums Tom Welling and Erica Durance as Clark Kent and Lois Lane respectively, and many more. Several other potential appearances have been hinted at in unconfirmed reports with the net effect of Crisis on Infinite Earths being one of the biggest events in DCTV history.
"Crisis on Infinite Earths" kicks off on Sunday, December 8 on Supergirl, runs through a Monday episode of Batwoman and that Tuesday's episode of The Flash. That will be the midseason cliffhanger, as the shows go on hiatus for the holidays and return on January 14 to finish out the event with the midseason premiere of Arrow and a "special episode" of DC's Legends of Tomorrow, which launches as a midseason series this year and so will not have an episode on the air before the "Crisis".
Are you excited for the addition of Lobo as Jim Corrigan for "Crisis on Infinite Earths"? Let us know in the comments below.
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Mobile work is a form of work organization that is gaining ground and affecting many organizations. Mobility increases distance in interpersonal relations. The distance that it generates has major consequences for organizations and for leadership dynamics. This article presents the results of a study that tested the impact of physical distance and psychological distance on the quality of the superior-subordinate relationship. It also aimed to assess the moderating effect of the supervisor's level of transformational leadership. Statistical analyses were done on data gathered from 286 respondents at an international management and information technology consulting firm. These analyses indicate that physical distance and psychological distance have a negative impact on relational quality, while the supervisor's level of transformational leadership moderates this relation by mitigating the negative effects. The implications of these results are discussed.


I saw on his face a glimpse of his past. The damage, the unhappiness and the pain, and I wondered what kind of skeletons he has been hiding and for how long. It's one of those mutual attraction moments that are unexplainable, but as real as anything you've ever seen. Almost like my soul knows his soul.


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Q: What is the way to parse XML in a Worklight Adapter? In a notification Worklight adapter - I invoke the adapter passing a very long XML string from the backend service.
The backend service cannot be altered or changed.
I want to be able to turn the javascript String object into something I can parse and use useful functions on such as :
var custNum = doc.getElementsByTagName("data:custNum")[0];

However all attempts so far at creating the 'doc' variable have failed. Standard DOMParser and window methods are undefined and out of scope in adapters. I would rather not resort to lengthy string splitting to find my nodes!
Many thanks

A: Set returnedContentType: "xml".
This will force WL platform to parse XML for you automatically and convert it to JSON you can manipulate.
E.g.
<a>
  <b>
     c
  </b>
</a>

Will be converted to
{"a":
     {"b":"c"}
}

so you can get values with syntax like response.a.b

A: You should use XSL Transformation Filtering to get rid of all unneeded data from the XML.Something like this should be your adapter JavaScript function:
function getFeedsFiltered() {

    var input = {
        method : 'get',
        returnedContentType : 'xml',
        path : "rss.xml",
        transformation : {
            type : 'xslFile',
            xslFile : 'filtered.xsl'
        }
    };

    return WL.Server.invokeHttp(input);
}

and something like this should be in your XSL file
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
                xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
                xmlns:h="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
                xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" >
    <xsl:output method="text"/>

    <xsl:template match="/">
        {
            'Items': [
                <xsl:for-each select="//item">
                    {
                        'title': '<xsl:value-of select="title"/>',
                        'creator': '<xsl:value-of select="dc:creator"/>',
                        'link': '<xsl:value-of select="link"/>',
                        'pubDate': '<xsl:value-of select="pubDate"/>'
                    },
                </xsl:for-each>
            ]
        }
    </xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

Please check Getting started with IBM Worklight (http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mobile/worklight/getting-started.html) module 5.2 - Creating HTTP Adapters(ftp://public.dhe.ibm.com/software/mobile-solutions/worklight/docs/v505/Module_05_2_-_Creating_HTTP_Adapters.pdf) and its exercise and code sample(ftp://public.dhe.ibm.com/software/mobile-solutions/worklight/docs/v505/module_05_2_HTTP_Adapter.zip).

A: In the end I wrote a function like this :
function findNode(node,string){

    var nodeEnd = node.slice(0, 1) + "/" + node.slice(1);
    var chunk = string.split(node)[1];
    var chunk2 = chunk.split(nodeEnd)[0];

    return chunk2;

}

Which I use - nice and simple.

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After graduating from the Niagara College Broadcast Film & TV program in 2006, Brad moved to Toronto to pursue a career in the film industry. Here he found work in a variety of roles in film & TV — including working alongside some members of Acme FX — before eventually moving to the corporate sector in 2009. In 2012, Brad reunited with the Acme FX team and has continued to work in the role as Office Manager ever since.


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ISLAMABAD - The Pakistan hockey team will participate in the Hockey World Cup to be hosted by India in Bhubaneswar, Odisha in November-December 2018. India last hosted the hockey World Cup in 2010.
Former champions Pakistan were the 13th team to qualify for the international hockey federation (FIH) event after favourable results at the EuroHockey Championships, with their seventh place finish at the Hockey World League semi-final in London proving good enough.
It is a welcome return to World Cup action for Pakistan, following their failure to qualify for the hockey World Cup 2014 in The Hague, Netherlands. They will be determined to make the most of their opportunity in Bhubaneswar.
Given the hostile political climate prevailing in Jammu & Kashmir, Pakistan's participation looked in jeopardy but the green shirts will reportedly play in the November 28-December 16 event.
Pakistan men have an enviable record in World Cup competition, having lifted the trophy on a record four occasions as well as twice claiming the silver medal.
Pakistan were victorious at the 1971, 1978, 1982 and 1994 events, with their four titles being one more than three-time winners the Netherlands and Australia.


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University of Alberta Madrigal Singers
Past Highlights
Listening Samples
Musical Portfolio 1990-2017
The University of Alberta Madrigal Singers, begun in 1974 by Professor Larry Cook, have been under the direction of Dr. Leonard Ratzlaff since 1983.
Initially formed to explore the repertoire of the Renaissance and Baroque periods, the Madrigal Singers have emerged in the past 30 years as one of Canada's premier university chamber choirs, drawing on music from all periods and styles for their repertoire.
With their membership drawn principally from students in the Department of Music, the Madrigal Singers have also attracted qualified singers from across campus. Membership is determined through annual auditions each September. The Madrigal Singers ensemble is available for a half-course credit, either as a required course in some music degree programs, or as a Fine Arts option for non-music majors.
The Madrigal Singers have a student-elected executive which is responsible for helping to manage the affairs of the choir, including tour preparation, financial management, costuming, media and communications, and relations within the choir and between choirs.
Where do we perform?
The Madrigal Singers perform in Convocation Hall on campus and at other venues in Edmonton, including the Francis Winspear Centre for Music and various churches.
The Madrigal Singers have sung as guest artists with the Alberta Baroque Ensemble, Edmonton Symphony Orchestra and Pro Coro Canada, performing a wide range of repertoire, including Handel's Messiah and other Baroque masterpieces, as well as contemporary works, including Esenvalds Passion and Resurrection, Poulenc Gloria, Raminsh Magnificat and Ravel Daphnis et Chloe. In past years CBC frequently recorded the choir's concerts for regional and national broadcast.
Beyond Edmonton, the "Mads" tour Alberta and British Columbia, and in recent years they participated in University Voices, a festival of Canadian university choirs sponsored by Soundstreams Canada, held in Toronto. In 2005 the Madrigal Singers were invited to perform at the National Convention of the American Choral Directors Association in Los Angeles, and they have performed at several Podium conferences of Choral Canada..
The Madrigal Singers have won first prize in the CBC Choral Competition for Amateur Choirs (1992, 1996, 2004), as well as in international choral competitions, including the Robert Schumann International Choir Competition in Zwickau, Germany (1995) and the Cork International Choral Festival in Cork, Ireland (1999 and 2008).
Each member brings his or her personal medley of vocal and musical abilities to the choir. We believe in encouraging each member to contribute his or her unique vocal quality to create a unified, choral sound.
One of the goals of our practice is to bring our diverse abilities into focus in our study and performance of a wide variety of music.
Our further objectives include:
• enhancing our members' appreciation of and skill in performing choral music through exposure to and instruction in a wide variety of choral styles
• fostering and maintaining amongst our membership a high standard of choral performance
• promoting of concerts and tours which are deemed stimulating to choral achievement
• making capital expenditures with the end of enhancing the performance of the Madrigal Singers
The Madrigal Singers have always strived for excellence both musically and as a choir. We believe it to be an honour and our duty to promote choral music through our role as representatives of the University of Alberta and the city, province and country to which we belong.
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Anthony Taylor will referee Inter-Real Madrid
It will be the second time that the English official will oversee a game involving our team.
Anthony Taylor will referee the Champions League Group Stage matchday four game between Inter Milan and Real Madrid at the San Siro (Wednesday, 9pm CET). The Englishman will oversee a match involving Zidane's team in this competition for the second time.
The first was last season, in the match of the opening day of the Champions League Group Stage which Real Madrid played at the Parc de los Principes against PSG (3-0).
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An aerial view looking south of Hamilton Place mall and surrounding developments.
1. Hamilton Place mall 1987 / 1.2 million sq. ft.
2. Hamilton Crossing 1987 / 191,873 sq. ft.
3. Hamilton Corner 1990 / 67,150 sq. ft.
4. Hamilton Village 1990 / 413,700 sq. ft.
5. The Overlook 1993 / 214,918 sq. ft.
6. The Terrace 1997 / 155,836 sq. ft.
7. Gunbarrel Pointe 2000 / 273,913 sq. ft.
This is an early photo of the Hamilton Place mall construction site from July 1986.
* 1961 - Moses Lebovitz, Charles Lebovitz and Jay Solomon, principals of Independent Enterprises, start developing commercial and shopping center real estate.
* 1970 - Independent Enterprises merges with Arlen Realty & Development Corp., a New York public company with a large portfolio of shopping centers primarily located in the eastern half of the United States.
* 1977 - Charles Lebovitz becomes president of Arlen's shopping center division.
* 1978 - Lebovitz and five associates form CBL & Associates Inc. to develop regional malls and community centers. Its first shopping mall, Plaza del Sol, in Del Rio, Texas, opened in March 1979.
* 1993 - CBL becomes a real estate investment trust named CBL & Associates Properties Inc. and is listed on the New York Stock Exchange.
* 2001 - CBL acquires 23 properties from The Jacobs Group -- the largest single acquisition in the company's history to date.
* 2005 - CBL opens its first mall on the West Coast, Imperial Valley Mall in El Centro, Calif.
* 2011 - CBL and Horizon Group Properties open The Outlet Shoppes at Oklahoma City as the company begins developing outlet centers.
* 2012 - The company marks the 25th year of its flagship Hamilton Place mall.
It started with an out-of-the-blue phone call from an old college chum.
Charles Lebovitz said his ex-classmate told him that his family had nearly 200 acres of wooded land off Interstate 75 in Chattanooga, and a company was interested in putting a shopping center there.
"He said 'If anyone is going to build a shopping center on my family's property, it will be my old buddy,'" recalled Lebovitz, chairman of Chattanooga-based developer CBL & Associates Properties Inc.
That simple call set the wheels in motion for what eventually led to the building of Hamilton Place mall in 1987.
"From that contact, I assembled this tract of land which is Hamilton Place today," said Lebovitz.
Today, CBL's flagship mall marks 25 years since it opened its doors and drastically changed the shopping patterns of people in the region. The 1.2 million-square-foot mall continues as the area's retail powerhouse, drawing an estimated 2 million people annually to the center and nearby stores.
Lebovitz, former longtime chief executive of the national shopping center company, said the phone call came in 1982 from former McCallie School and Vanderbilt University classmate Lou Conner, a Nashville lawyer.
But the tract was owned by five members of the Conner family, and it took a year or two to gain their confidence to sell, Lebovitz said.
"I was the Henry Kissinger of the Conner family," he joked.
Another important key to the mall's development, he said, was securing access from the site to I-75.
Lebovitz said that early talks with some major retailers indicated they weren't going to enter serious discussions about joining the mall project unless there was interstate access.
"They said, 'It's a great piece of real estate ..., but if you get interstate access to I-75, come back and talk to us," he said.
Gaining commitments from both state and federal transportation agencies for access helped move the project ahead, Lebovitz said.
Still, CBL had to build most of the mall access roads. The Chattanooga firm spent $4 million to build interstate ramps and perimeter roads around the mall, according to news reports at the time.
EMJ Corp., a Chattanooga-based construction company hired to lead the building of what was for many years Tennessee's largest mall, started site work in late 1985.
Jim Sattler, EMJ's former chief executive, said construction of the mall itself took about a year, which was an ambitious schedule.
"There were bets around town by other contractors that we would not make it [on time]," he said.
Sattler said that building the mall helped EMJ a lot by showing other developers what the construction company could accomplish.
"We were able to use that as leverage," he said. "That exhibited what we could do."
EMJ went on to be one of the nation's top builders of commercial space, and it has its national headquarters in the same complex of buildings as CBL's home office next to the mall.
Chattanooga Mayor Ron Littlefield, then the city's public works commissioner, said he remembers being at the mall's opening ceremony in August 1987 dressed in a new tuxedo.
"I was wondering where it was all going to lead," he said.
Where it led was to an array of new retail space, offices and homes in the East Brainerd area.Even today, it's among the fastest growing locations in Hamilton County.
Littlefield recalled having arguments with traffic engineers over the widening of roads in the area, such as Gunbarrel Road. When the mall opened, Gunbarrel was two lanes except for a small section near the mall, he said.
"[Traffic engineers] wanted to widen Gunbarrel to three lanes," Littlefield said. "I argued that wouldn't be enough."
Gunbarrel was eventually widened to five lanes, though traffic still is often congested on the heavily traveled artery.
For CBL, Hamilton Place was the third mall built in Chattanooga by CBL or affiliated companies.
Lebovitz said his family's company opened Eastgate in 1962. Then, the center was only half its eventual size and wasn't enclosed, he said.
"It was patterned after Lenox Square [in Atlanta]," Lebovitz said.
Later, CBL teamed with the Osborne family and built the other half and enclosed it, the shopping center company official said.
In 1972, the company built Northgate Mall in Hixson on land originally assembled for a drive-in movie theater. The company later sold the mall, but CBL last year reacquired it for $11.5 million in cash.
CBL over the years has developed into one of the largest mall real estate investment trusts in the United States.
It owns, holds interests in or manages 165 properties including 95 enclosed malls and open-air centers from coast to coast.
Still, CBL executives consider Hamilton Place its flagship property.
"Having Hamilton Place here is special," Lebovitz said.
He said that neither Eastgate nor Northgate were envisioned to be true regional malls.
"Neither had accessibility or visibility," the official said. "Hamilton Place offered those distinguishing features."
Lebovitz said that with Chattanooga about 100 miles from Atlanta, Nashville, Knoxville, Huntsville and Birmingham, a super-regional mall ought to capture shoppers who live at least half-way to those cities.
"It was an opportunity to bring something to the Chattanooga market that it did not offer pre-1987 ... and it stimulated growth that had already started in East Brainerd."
At the time, not a lot of people believed Hamilton Place was really needed, Lebovitz said.
"Existing retailers didn't understand what a regional mall could offer," he said.
Lebovitz said Hamilton Place turned out better than expected, and "exponentially" so.
Even 25 years after its opening, he said, sales at the mall on a per square foot basis are twice the average compared to CBL's overall portfolio.
The CBL chairman said the company has continued to reinvest in the mall over the years and introduce new stores.
"That's the dynamic nature of successful retailing -- to continually adjust as customers' likes and preferences change," he said. "We have to change. The stronger retail properties are not sitting on their laurels."


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Using : https://sandbox.itunes.apple.com/verifyReceipt , our purchases works.
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YayJohn Green's New Novel 'Turtles All the Way Down' Is Being Made Into a Movie
By Jennifer Maldonado
Get ready to meet your new obsession, courtesy of John Green. The bestselling author's latest novel, Turtles All the Way Down is getting the movie treatment, just like his other beloved books The Fault In Our Stars and Paper Towns. So yes, this is a BIG DEAL.
The author took to his vlogbrothers YouTube channel to talk about his past, very positive experiences with having TFIOS and PT adapted into movies with Fox and confirmed they're all working together again to create a movie version of Turtles. If you haven't read the book yet (and you totally should!) it tells the story of 16-year-old Aza, a girl who happens to have Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and finds herself trying to solve a mystery about a missing person along with her friend, Daisy. John admitted in the video that he wasn't sure he would get a chance to make this book come to life because of the subject matter and while it's not 100% set in stone the movie will actually end up happening, he and the studios are in the process of attempting to bring this story to life.
"I thought that was a good run because Paper Towns didn't make as much money and also I decided to write this extremely quiet novel that takes place almost entirely inside one person's head, which isn't the sort of thing that usually lends itself to film," John explained about the book to movie making process. "Today I get to announce, working with the same studio and production company that made The Fault In Our Stars and Paper Towns, we're going to give it a try. It doesn't mean there will definitely be a movie, but it means that there might be one."
And we have a feeling that's a pretty big MIGHT, so we're thinking things are looking good. As John went on to joke about in his announcement vid, he has zero control over casting so whoever does end up snagging the role of Aza and all the other characters, he doesn't have any say in, although he is serving as one of the film's executive producers. But he said he was beyond thrilled and happy with the way the casting and movies turned out for his other two novels, so he is nothing but confident in working with Fox again. We can't wait to get more details about this project as it all comes together.
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Sistemi Territoriali (ST) is a private transport company of Italy. The company is owned by the region of Veneto.

From 1 April 2002 the company took over the management of some regional railway lines and the train services on these lines. Before this date the company was known as Ferrovie Venete It was issued with a licence as a Railway Undertaking and a Safety Certificate for both passenger and freight trains. Since 1 October 2005 the company has been responsible for the maintenance and management of some inland shipping routes.

The company is also responsible for some buses.

Railway services
ST owns and operates one railway line, the Adria–Mestre railway.

ST operates a number of routes for Trenitalia. These are:

 Rovigo-Chioggia
 Rovigo - Legnago - Verona Porta Nuova
 Vicenza - Cervignano del Friuli
 Vicenza - Grisignano di Zocco
 Vicenza - Rovigo
 Rovigo - Arquà - Polesella
 Rovigo - Costa
 Rovigo - Cavanella Po - Raccordo AIA
 Vicenza - Verona Porta Nuova Scalo
 Vicenza - Altavilla
 Vicenza - Thiene
 Venice Marghera Scalo - Chioggia - Porta di Chioggia
 Venice Marghera Scalo - Pontelongo - Raccordo Italia Zuccheri
 Venice Marghera Scalo - Padua Campo Marte

Fleet

See also
 Società Veneta

References

External links

 Official page

Railway companies of Italy
Companies based in Veneto

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A 71-year-old woman died and her husband of 52 years was injured in a vehicle crash near Seneca Monday evening.
Linda Ann Roose, of Island Pine Drive of Seneca, died after being transported to the Oconee Memorial Hospital around 8 p.m. Monday, according to a statement from Oconee County Coroner Karl Addis.
Her husband, John Roose, was taken to the Greenville Memorial Hospital for injures. The couple's neighbor, Tricia Phillips, said he is being treated in the intensive care unit.
"They are the sweetest," Phillips said.
Linda Roose was a front-seat passenger in their Nissan sedan that collided with another vehicle in the intersection of Blue Ridge Boulevard and Keoweek School Road near Seneca, according to Addis and S.C. Highway Patrol Cpl. Bill Rhyne.
The crash occurred around 7:17 p.m. Monday when a 29-year-old Walhalla man driving a 1998 Jeep Cherokee was traveling east on Blue Ridge Boulevard and struck the Nissan that was headed south on Keoweek School Road, Rhyne said.
The driver of the Jeep was not injured, Rhyne said, and all of those involved were wearing seat belts.
Laura Roose, a family member, said the two were headed home after picking up a walker from a friend's home. Linda Roose was scheduled for hip surgery and was planning to use the walker to assist with walking before the surgery.
She described Linda Roose as "the matriarch of the family." She leaves behind a son and a daughter along with six grandchildren.
"She was the glue that held everybody together," Laura Roose said. "She had a very kind and compassionate personality. She always had a big smile and encouraging words for people."
The couple's dog, Jesse, was riding in the vehicle with them and is now missing. Jesse went everywhere with them, Laura Roose said.
Neighbors and other family members have been searching for the 7-year-old white lab-mix. The dog is collared and micro-chipped, so they expect him to turn up soon, Roose said. John and Linda Roose had Jesse for about three years after rescuing him from a shelter, Phillips said.
Laura Roose said finding the dog would help ease the family's burden of grief, especially for John Roose who is already dealing with the loss of his wife.
"He's in shock right now. He can't believe this happened and said, 'Please just find my dog. I lost my wife. I need my dog,'" Laura Roose said. "We've got to find that dog."
Phillips said animal control has been notified and others were out near the intersection of the crash Tuesday to help in the search for Jesse.
"Our concern is that he's injured and adrenaline took him some place and then he collapsed," Phillips said. "The family is just kind of in shock. We're trying to find the dog so they can have some hope."
Those who may find the dog are being asked to call Laura Roose at 864-276-5150.
The Highway Patrol and Coroner's Office are still investigating the crash. No charges had been filed as of Tuesday.


Few people bother giving garbage a second thought. Recycling has become part of the routine. No problem, we separate trash, once a week its taken away. In many places electronics are no longer accepted, we're begrudgingly getting used to that.
Ever pondered animal waste? Millions of tons of dog poop are trucked to American dumps each year. Lets talk kitty litter. An estimated third of Americans are cat owners. Each of those cats use around 275 lbs. of litter a year. Start doing the math, it's mind boggling. How about dirty litter from the thousands and thousands of small animals like hamsters or gerbils. For the most part all this waste is tightly sealed in plastic bags which won't be breaking down any time soon. Those bags that do break open spill out, contaminating the site. Cat faeces in particular has the potential to infect birds and other animals.
Move on to disposable diapers. Somewhere between 250 – 500 years is the time it takes a disposable diaper to decompose. By age two every child has contributed 1 – 2 tons of waste to the landfill. Millions of diapers grace the dump each day, an estimated 2 – 3 % of a landfill is diapers.
We wouldn't dream of putting raw human sewage, diapers aside, into the city dump. I'm pondering the wisdom of allowing animal waste, and disposable diapers. Wouldn't it make more sense to replace those electronics recycling depots with raw waste depots. I'd take a VCR over a bag of kitty litter in my dump any day.
Sept. 22 the fall equinox arrives. Earth doesn't orbit the Sun straight up and down, it's tilted on a rather wobbly axis of about 23 degrees. Twice a year the angle of orbit mirrors the angle of tilt resulting in the axis neither turning towards or away from the Sun. This is the equinox, the point at which Northern and Southern hemispheres switch seasons as the Earth continues along its endless path. At the equinox both hemispheres receive about the same amount of sunlight, their days and nights the same duration. Equinox is derived from the Latin words aequis meaning"equal" and nox meaning "night".
Ancient cultures built mind boggling structures for the sole purpose of marking the equinox. Stonehenge and Machu Pichu are two of the better known astrological observatories tirelessly heralding in the equinox with scientific precision.
Perhaps you find yourself scratching your head, wondering where all your money went. Your mind boggles as you wander the aisles of the grocery store, you buy the same food yet it costs twice as much. The middle class dissolves, becoming a puddle of television promises .Illusions of your parents white picket fence replaced by credit card debt and struggles to make ends meet. Lay offs, out-sourcing, automation, and bail outs are the new "normal".
Ponder this – A dollar in 1950 had the same buying power as 9.56 in 2012. By 1960 it was down to 7.68, 1970 – 5.99. 1980 – 2.94, 1990 – 1.79 and in 2000 – 1.34. At this rate, ten years from now that will be a mighty small dollar.
This link is for an inflation calculator, well worth looking at.
Thirty five million years ago, an enormous asteroid crashed into a remote region of Siberia. The heat from this impact fused minerals into diamonds. The 100 Km. wide Popigai crater remained unexplored until the 1970s when someone noticed it held finely compressed diamonds covered in permafrost. Two thousand miles from the nearest railway, and a decision by the Soviet government to keep it secret, patiently it waited another twenty years for the secret to be declassified.
Even then Soviet economy was weak; exploration was not practical. It wasn't until a few years ago when the Sobolev Institute of Geology and Mineralogy began to pay attention, that the full scope of this deposit was understood. To date only .3 of a percent has been studied, and it holds an estimated 147 billion carats of industrial diamonds. We're not talking the "Hope" diamond here. These are industrial quality, used primarily for drill bits. Extremely valuable just the same. There are likely trillions of carats within the crater.
By now most of us have heard about the economic turmoil in Greece. Have you pondered why they're having such a hard time? Think about this for a few minutes, I guarantee that not only will their problems make sense, you'll be shaking your head in disbelief.
For starters, pastry chefs, radio announcers, hairdressers, and masseurs in steam baths are a few of the 600 professions allowed to retire at age 50, with a government pension of 95% of their last years earnings. The reason you ponder? Due to the "arduous and perilous" nature of their job. For those lucky enough to live in Athens and have a job, commuting to work is free. A state of the art transit system built for the Olympics operates on the honour system. No one bothers to pay. The average pay for a transit worker is equivalent to over 97,000 US. Ticket sales bring in around 130 million US while wages are hovering at over 800 million US. Tax evasion is part of Greek culture. Only 5000 out of a population of 12 million report earnings of more than 140,000 US, while studies show over 60,000 Greeks have holdings in the country of well over a million dollars. The list of astounding reasons for problems in Greece goes on and on. Click below to learn more.
Up For Some Plasma Rain?
No active sunspots are brewing at the moment. We'll have to settle for a little plasma rain. Plasma rain is actually moon sized droplets, falling from the Sun's atmosphere to its surface. Far from anything we would recognize as rain, solar rain is electromagnetic energy kicking up a fuss.
This video from spaceweather.com was put together by Michael Burton of Ocean Beach California.


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Michelle Arnold Paine
Michelle Arnold is a contemporary painter whose faith plays an integral part of her work. During the years she spent living and working in Italy for Gordon College's study abroad program, she steeped herself in the Renaissance masters, the rhythms of the Catholic liturgy, and the intimacy and beauty of daily Italian life.
After her return from Italy she received at Post-Baccalaureate Certificate from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and went on to earn a Master of Fine Arts degree from University of New Hampshire.
She has taught in the Studio Arts department at several Boston-area colleges, but recently relocated from the Boston area to Ohio. In addition to numerous private collections across the US, her paintings can be found in the collection of the Valparaiso University Chapel, Rivier College, and Gordon College. She is represented by Sloane Merrill Gallery in Boston. Her work can be viewed and purchased at michellepaine.com.
Contributions by Michelle Arnold Paine
By Michelle Arnold Paine
Mary the Mirror: Meditation Four
Artist Michelle Paine contrasts the archetypal reactions of Eve and Mary in this final installment of four Advent reflections.
Mary the Chalice: Meditation Three
Artist Michelle Arnold Paine leads us into a meditation on Mary's role as the vehicle for Christ's birth in this third of four Advent reflections.
Mary the Gate: Meditation Two
Artist Michelle Paine invites us to consider the concept of "thresholds" in this second of four Advent reflections.
Mary the Dawn: Meditation One
Artist Michelle Paine leads us into a meditation on Mary's role in bringing about the "new dawn" in this first of four Advent reflections.


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Chemicals Sector M&As Slump In 2017
By Chemical Processing Staff
Mergermarket, an Acuris company, releases its global M&A roundup report for the Industrials & Chemicals (I&C) Sector for 2017.
Key findings include:
Mirroring that of other sectors' performances in 2017, I&C failed to reach the heights it is more commonly associated with as deal value slumped 26.8% year-on-year to reach $391.9 billion generated across 3,435 deals. It was responsible for 12.4% of global M&A deal value, suffering a dip from 2016's 16.4% all-time high. Deal count accounted for 18.6%. Of those, $196 billion was spent on 1,297 cross border deals, the third largest percentage (50.2%) of I&C deal value on Mergermarket record (since 2001), only beaten by 2016 (56.0%) and 2007 (55.3%).
After a sluggish start to 2017, seven of the sector's top 10 deals took place during H2 worth a combined $65.8 billion, accounting for 16.8% of total I&C deal value. Nine of the top ten deals involved either European or US-based companies. The drop compared to previous years can be attributed to a lack of $10 billion+ mega deals, with only three recorded in the last 12 months versus seven and four such deals occurring in 2016 and 2015 respectively. The year's largest deal was Praxair and Linde's $45.5 billion merger announced in June.
Read the entire report here.
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Dry January: couple who quit drinking alcohol are slimmer, healthier and have more energy now; you can go sober, too
With Dry January here, you may be thinking about giving up alcoholic drinks. Find out how one Hong Kong couple did itWith plenty of alcohol-free wines, beers and spirits to choose from, giving up alcohol might be easier than you think
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Adrienne and David Walder say they feel so much better after giving up alcohol. Adrienne's anxiety and pessimism have given way to positivity and confidence; David has lost 12kg (27lbs) in nine months. Photo: Jonathan Wong
On New Year's Day in 2018, Adrienne Walder stopped drinking alcohol. Up until then, the UK-born teacher had been a binge drinker, rarely consuming alcohol during the week but drinking heavily at the weekend. When she realised her relationship with alcohol had become toxic, she knew something had to change.
"Within my community in Hong Kong, drinking is the go-to social activity and problem drinking tends to be normalised, blurring the line between socially acceptable drinking and addiction," says the 49-year-old, who has lived in Hong Kong for nine years.
"It was becoming increasingly apparent that I was occupying this grey area and I was uncomfortably aware that I was not as in control of my drinking as I wanted to be."
Bingeing on alcohol took a massive toll on Adrienne's health – something she realised only after she quit.
Adrienne Walder was a binge drinker before she gave up alcohol. Photo: Jonathan Wong
"I'd get depressed at the start of the week; I was anxious and experienced 'brain fog'. I often felt fearful and was filled with a sense of self-loathing and shame," she says.
Adrienne's husband, David, quit a few years later. The 41-year-old, who works in the yachting industry, had been highly stressed at work and noticed that he was drinking almost daily at professional and social events.
The alcohol, he says, left him feeling sluggish and unfocused and caused him to gain weight.
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Both Adrienne and David are reaping the benefits of an alcohol-free life.
Adrienne's anxiety, anger and pessimism are gone, replaced by contentment, positivity and confidence. She has more energy, sleeps more soundly at night, looks slimmer – and has been told she looks 10 years younger.
Catherine Van Den Broek Hermant is a kinesiologist and nutrition coach from Balance Health in Hong Kong.
"And I'm more productive at work and at home," adds David. "I'm also incredibly active, going to the gym every weekday morning, playing tennis or squash most evenings and sailing or hiking on weekends. In the months since quitting drinking I've lost 12kg [27lbs]."
"These are just a few short-term benefits of giving up alcohol," says Catherine Van Den Broek Hermant, a kinesiologist and nutrition coach at Balance Health in Hong Kong.
"Long-term benefits include greater nutrient absorption, improved tissue repair, and a reduced risk of cancer and other major illnesses."
Both Adrienne and David are part of a growing "sober movement" of people who have broken the habit of consuming alcoholic drinks and now embrace sobriety as a lifestyle.
Actress Drew Barrymore has gone public about giving up alcohol. Photo: Bryan Bedder/Getty Images for iHeartRadio
American actress and talk show host Drew Barrymore recently joined the stream of celebrities going public about their experience with sobriety. In an interview with hosts from the TV network CBS, Barrymore shared that she hadn't had a drink in two-and-a-half years.
"It was something I realised just does not serve me in my life," she said.
The increasing popularity of low-alcohol and alcohol-free ("no-lo") beers, wines and spirits is testament to the fact that more people are keen to take charge of their health and understand that they don't need alcohol to have fun.
John Docherty is the founder of Sipfree, a Hong Kong company specialising in no-lo sparkling wines, craft beers, cider, spirits and other products, sourced from around the world. Since its launch in January 2020, Sipfree has been doing brisk business in Hong Kong.
For a long time I thought I had to add to my life to make it better, but what I really needed was to take something awayDavid Walder on giving up alcoholic drinks
"We've definitely seen an increase in the number of new products entering the market, and we continue to see growth in this new no-lo segment, particularly in our online store and in restaurants and bars," he explains.
The pandemic saw many Hong Kong residents turn to alcohol to relieve lockdown-related stress, isolation and boredom, and David Walder was no exception.
"I found that I was drinking more towards the end of 2020 and in the earlier part of 2021. Not being able to go out or travel overseas, coupled with uncertainty about the future and my heavy workload, led me to use alcohol more, especially when I wanted to relax at the end of the day. Drinking at home in the evenings was something I hadn't really done before."
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The strains brought on by the pandemic made David realise that he deserved to lead a healthier lifestyle.
"The pandemic was certainly a catalyst to my stopping, because I wanted something different," he shares. "If Covid-19 had come earlier, I probably would've quit alcohol sooner."
Interestingly, as stressful as navigating the pandemic has been, Adrienne hasn't been tempted to drink again, saying that alcohol only makes stressful situations worse.
"If Covid-19 had come earlier, I probably would have quit alcohol sooner," says David Walder. Photo: Jonathan Wong
In fact, apart from the occasional red wine craving when she went out with friends after becoming sober, Adrienne has had no desire to go back to alcohol.
"Not drinking feels totally normal now and I rarely think about it. Non-alcoholic drinks are the way forward for me. Sobriety offers me everything that alcohol appeared to promise but never delivered. My alcohol-free life is much more exciting than my drinking life ever was."
If you find it hard to quit cold turkey, you should at least try to limit your intake. If you're at an event where alcohol is present, Hermant suggests sipping on a glass of water between drinks or setting yourself a target of no more than, say, one or two drinks that evening.
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Avoid having your glass refilled – if it's not totally empty you'll find it easier to monitor your consumption. Ordering mocktails is a good idea, too, but watch your intake because such drinks tend to be high in sugar.
Without an alcoholic drink in hand, you may find it a challenge being with friends, but David says that's something you get used to.
"I still miss alcohol at parties and I'm still learning how to be myself without a drink, but it's really not so bad. I can say that hiding behind non-alcoholic beers makes socialising easier. People just assume I'm drinking regular beer like everyone else – this means I can avoid awkward questions and feel like the rest of the crowd.
"As weird as it feels not drinking, I'm happy with this lifestyle change. For a long time I thought I had to add to my life to make it better, but what I really needed was to take something away."
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The various facets of New York and Coney Island, where the ornate park of the title is located, are scribed in intimate detail: the notorious jail The Tombs, City Hall, the Triangle garment factory, immigrant housing, whiskey bars, and strip joints, all are nicely animated. Meanwhile, dozens of characters stroll through these various locales: Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung visit New York and observe the vulgarity of America; Trick the Dwarf tells of the bizarre and the humane at Dreamland — the dwarfs and the bearded ladies — which is the most familiar world he knows; and Esther, a garment worker alienated from her immigrant family, takes an active role in the labor movement. Also on hand are Gyp the Blood, a small-time criminal; Big Tim, the Tammany politico, plus Kid Twist and Sadie and Clara.
was finally issued in paperback this fall.
to which some people will sink to exploit his weaknesses.
I had the opportunity recently to address questions, via e-mail, to Kevin Baker about his latest novel, and didn't hesitate to take it. We discussed his interests in historical fiction, the rich immigrant story of William O'Dwyer and his brother, crime and social optimism in post-World War II Manhattan, and a great deal more.
J. Kingston Pierce: You weren't born in New York City, but rather in New Jersey. Yet after attending Columbia University there, you never left. Was there something about old Gotham that made it easier for you to imagine your future there than anyplace else?
Kevin Baker: Actually, it was much more the New York of the time, 1970s New York, that drew me. The city had many problems then, but it was also a very exciting, vibrant place to be; a very cheap place for an aspiring writer or artist to live.
I had ties to the city already. My mother was born in Washington Heights, my father on Fordham Road. I had some idea of what it was like already, and I couldn't wait to go live there.
The love of its history only came later, as I began to know, and wonder how it had come to be what it was.
JKP: Your official bios all seem to leave a huge gap between your earning a degree in political science and your becoming a novelist. Can you briefly explain what happened during those "lost years"? Did you ever use that political science degree?
decisions I ever made, but I regret that poli sci degree. I would have been better off, I think, majoring in straight-out history, or English. But thanks in part to the college's core curriculum, I was exposed to any number of great thinkers and writers I had no inkling of when I went there as an 18-year-old — which is why the core is so important.
No, the "gap" just reflects my doing whatever sort of work I could — largely freelance writing, copy-editing, proofreading — while I tried to write and sell fiction. I began writing five pages a day on a novel the week I started college, thinking I would surely publish my first book before I graduated. Instead, it took me 15 years before I sold a lick of it!
is a valuable trend? And are there risks that novelists run in featuring historical figures in their fiction?
KB: That's a very good point, I think Doctorow did indeed open up the floodgates with Ragtime. He's really been the father of modern historical fiction, I think. One thing I love about his take on the genre is that he's completely unapologetic about any of it. He feels the fiction writer should write about whatever he pleases, and I think he's right about that.
This gets back to the whole argument over just what "historical fiction" is, and I think we're very wrong to separate it, and ghettoize it as we do in this country. It's just as legitimate as any other form of fiction, and in fact through much of history it's been the dominant form of fiction.
their society was, and what it should be.
Sure, the genre's been mightily abused over the years through bodice rippers, and bad detective stories, and hero-worshipping … but what form of literature hasn't been? Why shouldn't we be able to write stories about prominent, or simply intriguing, public figures of the past?
Naturally, one needs to think it out, because as the famous L.P. Hartley quote goes, the past's another country, they do things differently there. I would never have a real-life figure saying or doing something in opposition to all that we know about him, or get too far off in flights of fancy about what he might do.
But then, we all paint from life. Why is it legitimate to, say, write a contemporary novel based on one's father, but not to write a historical novel based on a founding father?
JKP: There's always a tendency, when writing a novel based on extensive research, to include as much of that research as possible in the finished product. How do you combat such a tendency in your own fiction-writing?
Mr. Doctorow and I differ in our approaches. I was told by one of his former students that he advises, "Do as little research as you can get away with," when writing historical fiction, and certainly that works for him.
For me, I find it's always the things I wasn't looking for that say so much, and that's why I'm happy to do so much research. For instance, in this case I had no idea that Sloane Simpson, the real-life second wife of William O'Dwyer, actually learned how to bullfight while they were in Mexico.
Or the whole story of William McCormack, the "Mr. Big" in the book. He was a fascinating individual, and he wielded enormous power in New York, controlling the largest port in the world with an iron fist. But he was virtually unknown by the public in his own time, and is pretty much forgotten today.
Characters and details like that are not something you even necessarily know are out there when you start, and they become vital to the work. They not only tell you so much about a time and place, they also fill in all the gaps, and complete the puzzle of your characters.
But I do tend to get carried away with it, which is where I have to fight myself. And fortunately, I've always had terrific editors to help me, in this case Andrea Schulz and Nicole Angeloro, at Houghton Mifflin.
JKP: So let's talk about Mayor O'Dwyer. When did you first become interested in his checkered career? And what was it you found most interesting about him?
(much) older brother of Paul O'Dwyer, who was such a political icon in New York for so many years: the last fighting liberal, always taking on one cause or another, no matter what the odds.
of the mob, of the political machines when they were at their most venal and corrupt. What sort of conflicts must there have been there?
I went into this initially to tell a story of two brothers. The fact that the real-life Paul O'Dwyer would never say a word against his brother in public, always maintained his innocence, only whetted my appetite.
What I found most interesting about William O'Dwyer was that he has this great immigrant story behind him, somebody who came here as a seminary dropout with no money, worked his way up as a hod carrier, a cop on the beat. Went to law school at night, became a district attorney, even a war hero. He comes back from World War II and gets elected mayor, marries the hottest fashion model in the country after his wife dies … and then it all unravels.
It's the classic immigrant story — all gone wrong.
JKP: Has this novel made you reassess your views on O'Dwyer?
KB: He was much deeper, much harder to read than I imagined. It was not so much that he was a deeply complicated man — because he wasn't — but that he did a great deal of dissembling throughout his life. You peel back layer after layer, but he remains evasive, and I suspect he did even to those closest to him.
And yet, under any close examination, it all crumbles away. He was constantly erecting façades of himself, I think, to shield his real self from the public, from the people closest to him, his wife and his brothers, and I think in the end he may have believed in those make-believe O'Dwyers himself.
JKP: You brought up "the classic immigrant story." Because New York was very much a city of immigrants, you've touched on that experience in all your novels set there, I think. But The Big Crowd really exploits the subject. How did you intend to use the history of immigration as a theme in exploring New York City's mid-20th-century development?
KB: Well, it's somewhat different from the earlier, 19th-century waves of immigration, because now the Irish, especially, have a solid foothold on the city.
Previously, in books like Paradise Alley and Dreamland, I was writing about how Irish and Jewish immigrants came here and had to really fight their way up with nothing. By the time Charlie O'Kane gets here, a few years before World War I, there's already a power structure, there are very strong Irish political machines in Manhattan, Brooklyn, the Bronx.
He has to sort of plug himself into it — which is no easy thing, but not quite the life-or-death struggle being an immigrant was.
Yet at the same time, it's a moment when the old Irish-dominated machines were fading. They had been what [W.E.B.] Du Bois calls "folkways," means to help the Irish survive, and fight their way into the power structure of this country.
the proverbial turkey on Christmas.
Now, all the other immigrants want in, as well. New York by this time is no longer a city that can just be run by a few men in a room, and it never will be again. It can no longer be run just on some understanding between a few powerful politicians and businessmen, maybe a mob boss or two.
We're all Americans now — and everybody wants in.
JKP: As you said before, this is very much a novel about brothers, two quite different people with different approaches to life, who wind up supporting and disappointing each other. What was it about the relationship between Tom and Charlie O'Kane that you found most curious or illuminating? And did the story of these brothers unroll differently, during the course of your writing, than you'd originally expected it would?
I think a lot of the dialogue they're having is about what it means to be a moral person. How do you get the power to do anyone any good, without first getting corrupted? What do you owe to your family and friends, and what do you owe to the people all around you, to the city in general?
Tom is much more the idealist, at least at first, and Charlie is trying to show him practical ways to get power, and to do good with it. But you know, it's so easy after awhile to confuse what you're doing for the people, and what you're doing for yourself.
JKP: What do you see as the role of Slim Sadler in this novel?
KB: Slim is based closely on Sloane Simpson, who was a fascinating individual, somebody who came from old money and very high society. Her father was a Rough Rider with Teddy Roosevelt, one of her mother's family was a Founding Father, they had cattle empires, and banking empires.
But then her father lost all his money, and she had to go make a living as a model. And she was very good at it, she was considered a great actress on the runway. She moved in very high circles in New York society, and really loved that life.
She was 23 years younger than O'Dwyer when they met, and she became his second wife, with all of the complications that such circumstances usually entail. She was always flirtatious, and gregarious, and he was very jealous, and that just aggravated everything.
Then, down in Mexico, she was very unhappy in this sort of straitened, exiles' existence they were living. She loved the country, and she loved the culture, but she couldn't stand being boxed up with this jealous, bitter old man, and she started acting out — learning to bullfight, having affairs.
The real Sloane did not do all the things I have the fictional Slim Sadler doing in the novel, which I feel a little bad about because I really liked the real Sloane. She sounds like she was a remarkable person, a real fighter and a hell of a lot of fun. But she said about herself, "I've had the morals of an alley cat" — she really did have a penchant for getting into trouble.
I think what she represented to William O'Dwyer, and to both O'Kane brothers in the book, was the promise of America. She was the golden girl, from money and position, and to get her was to attain the dream.
But then of course, when you do get her, you find out the dream's not all it's cracked up to be, and it's a bit of a lie, and all you can do is worry about losing it.
JKP: The Big Crowd makes postwar New York seem like a particularly optimistic place. Or is that your romantic side coming through?
KB: Oh, I think it was a very optimistic place! You have to understand, New York was the only great world city that had not been bombed or occupied during the war. It had emerged, almost overnight, as the leading city on the world scene, replacing the old European capitals as the leader in art, and literature, and fashion.
It was absolutely dominant economically — far and away the world's leading financial center, the country's largest wholesale and retail center, with over a million manufacturing jobs still. Something like 40 percent of the nation's commerce came through its port. It had easily the highest buildings in the world, the largest population of any city, anywhere.
where pretty much anyone could go, and did, and I think it was extremely exciting for people to be in the middle of this, and see everything that was going on.
At the same time, there were still people who were excluded from the big party, still restrictions on all sorts of people, that would have to be addressed. Black people still weren't allowed into most of the leading hotels and restaurants, women were still second-class citizens, gays and lesbians were still outcasts. Columbia, like all the Ivy League schools, had quotas limiting how many Jews could be admitted. Italian-Americans, such a young Mario Cuomo, could not get an interview with white-shoe law firms.
So there was all that which needed to be dealt with, and there were fissures of corruption spreading all underneath this lovely structure. And the men at the top were still refusing to deal with it, still clinging to their own power, and enriching themselves.
relationships, it's a story about urban crime. Were there depths or misconceptions of the New York underworld of that period that you were hoping to address?
or as powerful as people make it out to be. But this was the period when the crime families in New York had more political influence than they ever had before, or ever would again.
Hall going, and they called the shots.
This didn't last, and in a place the size of New York City there are always competing, countervailing political forces and influences. But while it did, the criminals did tremendous, long-term economic damage to the city. For instance, they really brutalized and impoverished the tens of thousands of men who worked on the waterfront, and they stole so much that they pretty much wrecked the old port.
JKP: As someone who loved Dreamland, I was delighted to see the character of Kid Twist pop up again in The Big Crowd. But this isn't the adult version of that criminal tyke from Dreamland, is it?
KB:Thank you! But no, this is not the same Kid Twist.
It was the longtime habit of New York gangsters to "honor" one another by taking on the name of some particularly famous, dead mobster. Hence, Arthur Flegenheimer was rechristened "Dutch Schultz" after a previous thug.
There were, incredibly enough, two Kid Twists, and they both met their end on Coney Island.
Moon Hotel on Coney Island. Despite a grand jury concluding that Reles had perished accidentally, there seems every reason to believe that he was murdered by his former gangland pals. From your research, what do you think happened to Abe Reles?
KB: Oh, I think he was definitely pushed! The idea that he was trying to escape, or play some prank, as the police speculated at the time, is just ludicrous. Reles was a seriously ill man, and he was desperately afraid for his life. There is no way that he was trying to lower himself down from a ninth-story window on a set of tied-up bed sheets — something I make plain in the novel.
He was a terrible little man, a top assassin for Murder, Inc., the legendary Brooklyn mob, who was thought to have killed over 60 men during his career.
Sing, including "Lepke" Buchalter, to this day the only mob leader ever executed in the United States.
out on Coney Island, with a 17-man, 'round-the-clock police guard, behind an iron door.
As everyone wanted to know at the time, how could this have happened? Who did it? Was it crooked cops? The other four mob witnesses Reles was being held at the Half Moon with? Who ordered it? The mob? McCormack? O'Dwyer?
Hearings, the first, televised corruption hearings in history, and they held Americans riveted to their brand-new television sets — and helped wreck O'Dwyer's reputation.
Was he involved? Who did it? It's the greatest mystery in the annals of the mob.
I offer a solution that is very closely based on the real facts of the case and, I think, holds up pretty well. Read it and find out!
JKP: I know you're penning fiction here, but is it really credible that a district attorney would assign Tom O'Kane to investigate his own brother in relation to Reles' "suicide"?
over his brother, maybe even life-or-death, in this matter. I wanted the stakes to matter.
And, I wanted to introduce the legendary Manhattan D.A. of the time, Frank Hogan. I see this book as the first of a planned "City of Gold" trilogy focusing on New York in the 1950s, with Tom investigating three of its iconic scandals: the Reles murder and waterfront corruption; college basketball point-shaving cases; and the quiz show fix.
JKP: I have to admit, as I was reading The Big Crowd I kept remembering Robert Penn Warren's All the King's Men. Is Charlie O'Kane your Willie Stark?
KB: Thank you, that's a tremendous compliment! But where Penn's Willie Stark, being based on Huey Long, is much more a force of nature, someone whose ambition and ruthlessness puts him on a fatal course, Charlie O'Kane is much more a hesitant character, a man whose fears about the terrible nature of the world as he saw it in the Depression and World War II, whose self-doubts and whose vanity leaves him prey to being manipulated by more pitiless, determined men.
JKP: I was intrigued to see, in a short post you put together for the blog My Book, the Movie, that you'd like to see Breaking Bad star Bryan Cranston in the role of Charlie O'Kane. That would be wonderful casting, I agree. But have you actually seen any Hollywood interest in The Big Crowd? Have filmmakers taken much of an interest in your previous books?
KB: I think Bryan Cranston could play anything, and particularly a politician, after seeing him not only in Breaking Bad, but also in that wonderful Robert Schenkkan play about LBJ, All the Way.
intense investigations of specific times, and conflicts, and crimes. And I'd be fine with that, I love what's going on with TV right now.
JKP: What other novels do you think do an especially fine job of illuminating New York City's history?
JKP: And I'd be remiss if I didn't ask: What are you writing next?
But I have many more novel ideas, a couple of which I noted above, and I suspect I'll be returning constantly to New York and its past.
ALSO CHECK OUT: A video profile of Mayor William O'Dwyer.
I first became aware of Mr. Baker through his time travel baseball book – Sometimes You See It Coming, and I have looked forward to each successive novel. It is a rare talent that can evocatively bring to life times gone by. Mr. Baker and Mr. Doctorow both have this talent in spades, but I would like add Jack Finney to that list. His novel Time and Again predated Ragtime by some five years and is a wonderful example of historical fiction.
I just picked up a copy of Baker's Sometimes You See It Coming–the only one of his novels I have not read. I look forward to cracking it open soon.


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The province of Quebec selects potential immigrants outside the PNP. The Government of Quebec has a separate agreement with Canada's federal government that allows it to nominate individuals based on its own immigration criteria.
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Value of UK label production may be set to rise by 3% over the next three years but individual run lengths are definitely decreasing.
With the global label market valued at around Euro25bn, digital print technology developer HP Indigo estimates that up to 60% of all orders now fall below 2000M.
And with 20 000 label sites worldwide – 600 of them in the UK – it has its sights set firmly on meeting the growing demand for fast turnaround short-run production.
Following its launch at LabelExpo last September, HP Indigo's dedicated ws4000 label press has already been installed at 13 European plants. Since its installation in March, French beta-site adopter Adesa Labels (Nimes) estimates that 20% of its Euro4.88M turnover is generated digitally.
Adesa is running its ws4000 alongside a full complement of conventional print processes. Managing director Brice Carugati claims that, whilst run-lengths of 1000m are the norm, a recent order for 150 000 labels off is indicative of how customers are beginning to value end-result quality above average running speed levels of 16m/min.
Use of substrates now extends beyond paper stock to PP and PE, with the company able to print actual samples in place of Cromalin proofs ahead of full production at no extra cost.
Complete with Omega in-line finishing, a second-generation Nilpeter system will also be available next year. The likely purchase price for the ws4000 is around £550 000. A simplified point of entry model is nearer to £340 000.


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EXCLUSIVE: THE LOST LEGENDARY VOICE OF SAM COOKE'S BROTHER
You may find the voice familiar. As smooth as honey, with just the right bit of grit. Here and there, you might think it sounds like Sam Cooke. And you wouldn't be wrong. It's his younger brother, L.C., whose first studio album was delayed fifty years. Today, Cooke, at 81, is finally releasing his debut The Complete SAR Records Recordings, done in 1964. Still, its passions are so strong, it may make this long hot summer even steamier. You say you like your soul straightforward and heartfelt? Without any of the hokey histrionics those mental patients exhibit onThe Voice? Ladies and gentlemen, say hello to your new favorite singer. One of the most patient men ever to put mouth to microphone.
The album gives you a complex, bittersweet feeling. Not because the music itself is sad. It's mostly uptempo stuff. From the hand-clapping opening track, "Take Me for What I Am," to the string-laden, supernally sexy "The Lover." But listening to it, you may find yourself having a couple of contrasting thoughts. One is This rocks! It's righteous one minute, salacious the next. The second thought, though, is infinitely more depressing: Had the album been released in 1964, the world would know this Cooke well, too. He'd be more than just the beloved brother of a legend. But this rockin' little record has its own moral: It's better to get to the party late, than not at all. Backed by legends like Billy Preston on keys and prolific session drummer Earl Palmer, Complete Recordings is here now, baby.
Listen to "Put Me Down Easy" from L.C. Cooke's new album:
Born Southerner that he is, L.C. has stories. To put it mildly.
"The first tour Aretha Franklin ever went on, was Sam's and mine," says the gentle, sweet-tempered Cooke. "One day in 1961, Aretha called me. She said, 'L.C., I need you to do me a favor. I asked my father if we could use his new car to go on Sam's tour.' Her father [the legendary Reverend C.L. Franklin] had a 1961 Continental, you know, with the suicide doors. Aretha told me she could use it on one condition: only if I drove. So I called Sam. And he said, 'No, man. I'm trying to make you a star. I don't want you driving nobody. Not even me! You're nobody's chauffeur.'"
After some finagling, Sam relented. L.C. went over to the Reverend's house. Young Cooke was expected to return the car exactly as it was. The only change allowed would be its mileage.
But the Reverend had something else in mind.
"Later on, I figured out what Reverend Franklin's motives were," says Cooke, chuckling. "He wanted me to get with Aretha. He figured Sam would break her heart. I didn't find that out 'til 1970! That's when Aretha's road manager came over to me and said, 'L.C., Aretha can do a lot of things. But she do not know how to pick a man.'"
L.C. ultimately said a polite no to Aretha's father. He was already seeing several women and did not need any help in this department.
Regardless, the tour went fine. And as far as this writer could ascertain, both the Continental and Aretha remained intact. In fact, everything seemed to be going beautifully for Sam's brother and protégée.
Then, three years later, Sam was shot by a female motel owner, in a murky misunderstanding over a woman. L.C.'s career, which was really set to rock, did not. But L.C. didn't care. He was too distraught over his brother's death to worry about such a small thing as being a star. But time, seemingly, has healed his spiritual wounds. Cooke seems to feel just fine that he's both a brand new artistand an octogenarian.
"There's nothing bad about the record coming out now," says Cooke. "It takes me back to Sam. Every song on the album, me and Sam wrote it. Back in '64, when he was killed, I didn't care about the album or singing or anything. I was just so wrapped up in Sam. We did everything together. When I talked to his wife, she said, in Sam's book, I was number one. That made me so happy."
Cooke also seems particularly proud of those sessions from half a century ago, because his brother complimented him on them.
"He told me, 'L.C., of all my artists [Bobby Womack, Johnny Taylor, and The Soul Stirrers], you're my favorite. You know why? You come in prepared, you know your stuff, and you're not in that studio spending all my money,'" L.C. says laughing.
After he began to recover from his brother's death, Cooke sang for five years with The Upsetters, a little band that, in the '50s, backed up that wonderful lunatic, Little Richard.
Ultimately, L.C. gave it all up. One infers he has gotten his share of the Cooke family money. So eventually he decided it was time to chill.
"What have I been doing recently? Just resting and dressing. Haven't been doing nothin'," says Cooke, the sweet sound of acceptance evident in his voice.
We talk a little more. About how Sam always called Dick Clark by his first name, a revolutionary act back in those early Civil Rights days. How the former Cassius Clay use to act like a little boy around Sam ("He loved him"). How L.C. was onAmerican Bandstand, January 1, 1960. And how he met James Brown, the very day Brown cut "Please, Please, Please."
Historical vignettes like that. There must be scores of them. Then he pauses. And Mr. L.C. Cooke, who has been everywhere, done everything, and met everyone worth meeting, lets me know he plans to just keep chillin'.
"I don't think I'll be doing anything to promote the album," he says evenly (aside, presumably, this interview). "I'm just glad it's coming out. I'm 81. I have no regrets. I can still remember everything and everyone. All things considered? I know one thing for certain: I'm a very lucky man."
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Our skin is prone to the worst damage due to weather change, pollution. Infections, random acne pop-ups, redness, itching—there are various ways in which our skin takes a hit. What do you do to heal the infection?
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I only remember to drink when my training are so hard or when I do Hot yoga because I feel scared to be dehydrated. I need add lots of small bottle in my next groceries shopping. But, I do add some coconut oil on my meals or coffee sometimes. Xoxo Have a great weekend!
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