Summer Fun for the Children; And the Parents Too!
My children have started a fun new game this Summer thanks to a very creative friend. They play "camping." Their friend found lots of old odds and ends around the house and garage and loaded them into his wagon and brought them over to play. The children loved it so much, they play it every day!
My children asked me if they could take some of their money to the local Deseret Industries and buy some old things to play "camping" with. They left with dishes and old telephones. They were in heaven picking the new toys and had even more fun paying for them with their own money. Then it came time to pay and they never wanted to stop.
If you can find a game like this for your children to play this Summer it will be better than any high priced attraction. This kind of play is the best part of being a child and lasts for days and days. It is also fun to join in on. My children immediately asked me if I would play camping with them when we got home. What fun!!! It will be great to see what all the new shiny stuff looks like after they get it outside filled with mud. That is the real way the "camping" game happens. Tomorrow ought to be a lot of fun!!!
Play with your children. It doesn't have to cost a lot. If you are there, really there, then the magic of play can begin. Have fun this Summer.
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Thanks Nicoleen for posting this. My older boys Tex and Piano Man created a "Science Lab" when they were little. The Science Lab kept them busy for years. Hong Mei has been enjoying a cheap bucket of plastic dinosaurs for the last several weeks. It is true, often the less expensive toys encourage imagination and have lasting enjoyment. I hope you and yours have a fantastic "camping" summer.
No matter how much time I spend playing with my kids (probably more than an a couple hours a day) they want more. There is no substitute for that one-on-one time.


"Candidate experience." Google that term and you get just over 11 million hits. I'm guessing a fair percentage of those can be traced back to the contributors on this site, myself included, as sharing the gospel of the candidate experience is a pretty cool thing to do, don'tcha know?
Here's my concern about the avalanche of material you find about candidate experience: the majority of the advice/best practice/recommendations come from consultants, ancillary providers, job boards, bloggers, or other people outside of the corporate atmosphere – everybody's selling something, and right now the hot product is candidate experience. But for those of you/us who are sitting in the communal world, there's a bit of a risk when you're truly beefing up your candidate experience. It may outpace something equally, if not more, important.
It's funny when you think about it – back in the day, the joke was always about the recruiter who could sell you a job in Hell ("don't worry, it's a dry heat"); our job was to get 'em in the door, then let the manager worry about keeping them.
We realized "candidate" and "customer" are interchangeable terms.
Unemployment rates continue to drop. With a <3% unemployment rate, the people you are hiring are already working for somebody else – we gotta sell the sizzle, not the steak.
So the candidate now has the clear advantage, and there's a hell of a lot more of them than there are our own employees, which means a hell of a lot more potential customers. As a result, our focus has shifted to marketing to candidates, wooing them, engaging them, educating them, making a connection, and (hopefully) hiring them as a new employee. If done right, your recruiting team becomes an extension of your consumer marketing team.
Now, back to the employee experience – Google that term and you'll come up with "only" 4 million hits. Might sound silly, but that's not insignificant. Talent acquisition has upped their respective game – as an industry we fully embraced the need for new ways to market, new ways to apply, new ways to interview, and new ways to engage the candidate population as the competition for talent became increasingly combative. We've done so to the point of creating enough noise to dwarf the employee experience.
But are we selling the dry heat? Is the recruitment marketing and red-carpet process for candidates setting up a disconnect with the actual experience of being an employee? If your recruiting message is more of a sales pitch than an actual description of the day-to-day responsibilities of the job, you're setting yourself up for more than one complication (you may even read about it).
You can make the candidate experience a smooth ride; dazzle them with your Employee Value Proposition (EVP), enchant them with video messaging, get them to the front door on Day 1 – but then what?
Look at your turnover rates, especially in the first six months, and analyze each position individually. If you have an alarming percentage of employees leaving in a short time frame, you may very well have a disconnect between what you're selling and what you're providing.
And, as a recruiter, if you can't change the latter, you need to adjust the former. "Candidate experience" should include a reality check about expectations, challenges, and the potential risks involved with actually walking a mile in those shoes.


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package cz.metacentrum.perun.core.impl.modules.attributes;

import cz.metacentrum.perun.core.api.Attribute;
import cz.metacentrum.perun.core.api.AttributeDefinition;
import cz.metacentrum.perun.core.api.AttributesManager;
import cz.metacentrum.perun.core.api.Resource;
import cz.metacentrum.perun.core.api.exceptions.AttributeNotExistsException;
import cz.metacentrum.perun.core.api.exceptions.ConsistencyErrorException;
import cz.metacentrum.perun.core.api.exceptions.InternalErrorException;
import cz.metacentrum.perun.core.api.exceptions.WrongAttributeAssignmentException;
import cz.metacentrum.perun.core.api.exceptions.WrongAttributeValueException;
import cz.metacentrum.perun.core.api.exceptions.WrongReferenceAttributeValueException;
import cz.metacentrum.perun.core.impl.PerunSessionImpl;
import cz.metacentrum.perun.core.impl.Utils;
import cz.metacentrum.perun.core.implApi.modules.attributes.ResourceVirtualAttributesModuleAbstract;
import cz.metacentrum.perun.core.implApi.modules.attributes.ResourceVirtualAttributesModuleImplApi;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

/**
 *
 * @author Slavek Licehammer <glory@ics.muni.cz>
 */
public class urn_perun_resource_attribute_def_virt_unixGroupName extends ResourceVirtualAttributesModuleAbstract implements ResourceVirtualAttributesModuleImplApi {

	private static final String A_F_unixGroupName_namespace = AttributesManager.NS_FACILITY_ATTR_DEF + ":unixGroupName-namespace";
	private static final String A_R_unixGroupName_namespace = AttributesManager.NS_RESOURCE_ATTR_DEF + ":unixGroupName-namespace:";

	@Override
	public void checkAttributeSemantics(PerunSessionImpl sess, Resource resource, Attribute attribute) throws InternalErrorException, WrongAttributeValueException, WrongAttributeAssignmentException, WrongReferenceAttributeValueException {
		Attribute unixGroupNameNamespaceAttribute = sess.getPerunBl().getModulesUtilsBl().getUnixGroupNameNamespaceAttributeWithNotNullValue(sess, resource);
		Attribute groupNameAttribute;
		try {
			groupNameAttribute = sess.getPerunBl().getAttributesManagerBl().getAttribute(sess, resource, A_R_unixGroupName_namespace + unixGroupNameNamespaceAttribute.getValue());
		} catch(AttributeNotExistsException ex) {
			throw new ConsistencyErrorException(ex);
		}
		groupNameAttribute.setValue(attribute.getValue());
		try {
			sess.getPerunBl().getAttributesManagerBl().checkAttributeSemantics(sess, resource, groupNameAttribute);
		} catch(WrongAttributeValueException ex) {
			throw new WrongAttributeValueException(attribute, ex.getMessage(), ex);
		} catch(WrongReferenceAttributeValueException ex) {
			throw new WrongReferenceAttributeValueException(attribute, ex.getAttribute(), ex);
		}

	}

	@Override
	public Attribute fillAttribute(PerunSessionImpl sess, Resource resource, AttributeDefinition attributeDefinition) throws InternalErrorException, WrongAttributeAssignmentException {
		Attribute attribute = new Attribute(attributeDefinition);

		Attribute unixGroupNameNamespaceAttribute;
		try {
			unixGroupNameNamespaceAttribute = sess.getPerunBl().getModulesUtilsBl().getUnixGroupNameNamespaceAttributeWithNotNullValue(sess, resource);
		} catch(WrongReferenceAttributeValueException ex) {
			return attribute;
		}
		Attribute groupNameAttribute;
		try {
			groupNameAttribute = sess.getPerunBl().getAttributesManagerBl().getAttribute(sess, resource, A_R_unixGroupName_namespace + unixGroupNameNamespaceAttribute.getValue());
		} catch(AttributeNotExistsException ex) {
			throw new ConsistencyErrorException(ex);
		}

		try {
			sess.getPerunBl().getAttributesManagerBl().checkAttributeSemantics(sess, resource, groupNameAttribute);
			//check passed, we can use value from this physical attribute
			attribute.setValue(groupNameAttribute.getValue());
			return attribute;
		} catch(WrongAttributeValueException ex) {
			//Physical attribute have wrong value, let's find a new one
			groupNameAttribute.setValue(null);
			groupNameAttribute = sess.getPerunBl().getAttributesManagerBl().fillAttribute(sess, resource, groupNameAttribute);
			attribute.setValue(groupNameAttribute.getValue());
			return attribute;
		} catch(WrongReferenceAttributeValueException ex) {
			return attribute;
		}
	}

	@Override
	public Attribute getAttributeValue(PerunSessionImpl sess, Resource resource, AttributeDefinition attributeDefinition) throws InternalErrorException {
		Attribute attribute = new Attribute(attributeDefinition);

		Attribute unixGroupNameNamespaceAttribute;
		try {
			unixGroupNameNamespaceAttribute = sess.getPerunBl().getModulesUtilsBl().getUnixGroupNameNamespaceAttributeWithNotNullValue(sess, resource);
		} catch(WrongReferenceAttributeValueException ex) {
			return attribute;
		}

		try {
			Attribute groupNameAttribute = sess.getPerunBl().getAttributesManagerBl().getAttribute(sess, resource, A_R_unixGroupName_namespace + unixGroupNameNamespaceAttribute.getValue());
			return Utils.copyAttributeToVirtualAttributeWithValue(groupNameAttribute, attribute);
		} catch(WrongAttributeAssignmentException ex) {
			throw new InternalErrorException(ex);
		} catch(AttributeNotExistsException ex) {
			throw new ConsistencyErrorException(ex);
		}
	}

	@Override
	public boolean setAttributeValue(PerunSessionImpl sess, Resource resource, Attribute attribute) throws InternalErrorException, WrongReferenceAttributeValueException {
		Attribute unixGroupNameNamespaceAttribute = sess.getPerunBl().getModulesUtilsBl().getUnixGroupNameNamespaceAttributeWithNotNullValue(sess, resource);

		try {
			Attribute groupNameAttribute = new Attribute(sess.getPerunBl().getAttributesManagerBl().getAttributeDefinition(sess, A_R_unixGroupName_namespace + unixGroupNameNamespaceAttribute.getValue()));
			groupNameAttribute.setValue(attribute.getValue());
			return sess.getPerunBl().getAttributesManagerBl().setAttributeWithoutCheck(sess, resource, groupNameAttribute);
		} catch(WrongAttributeValueException | WrongAttributeAssignmentException ex) {
			throw new InternalErrorException(ex);
		} catch(AttributeNotExistsException ex) {
			throw new ConsistencyErrorException(ex);
		}
	}

	@Override
	public boolean removeAttributeValue(PerunSessionImpl sess, Resource resource, AttributeDefinition attribute) throws InternalErrorException, WrongAttributeValueException, WrongReferenceAttributeValueException {
		Attribute unixGroupNameNamespaceAttribute = sess.getPerunBl().getModulesUtilsBl().getUnixGroupNameNamespaceAttributeWithNotNullValue(sess, resource);
		try {
			AttributeDefinition groupNameAttribute = sess.getPerunBl().getAttributesManagerBl().getAttributeDefinition(sess, A_R_unixGroupName_namespace + unixGroupNameNamespaceAttribute.getValue());
			return sess.getPerunBl().getAttributesManagerBl().removeAttribute(sess, resource, groupNameAttribute);
		} catch (AttributeNotExistsException | WrongAttributeAssignmentException ex) {
			throw new InternalErrorException(ex);
		}
	}

	@Override
	public List<String> getDependencies() {
		List<String> dependencies = new ArrayList<>();
		dependencies.add(A_F_unixGroupName_namespace);
		dependencies.add(A_R_unixGroupName_namespace + "*");
		return dependencies;
	}

	@Override
	public List<String> getStrongDependencies() {
		List<String> strongDependencies = new ArrayList<>();
		strongDependencies.add(A_R_unixGroupName_namespace + "*");
		strongDependencies.add(A_F_unixGroupName_namespace);
		return strongDependencies;
	}

	@Override
	public AttributeDefinition getAttributeDefinition() {
		AttributeDefinition attr = new AttributeDefinition();
		attr.setNamespace(AttributesManager.NS_RESOURCE_ATTR_VIRT);
		attr.setFriendlyName("unixGroupName");
		attr.setDisplayName("Unix group name");
		attr.setType(String.class.getName());
		attr.setDescription("Unix group name");
		return attr;
	}
}

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Can I hang USM units on the wall - and if so do USM supply a hanging set?
USM Haller units are not suitable for hanging on walls. Therefore, there is no hanging set available.
Why is the central partition element perforated?
The perforation of the inner walls allows doors and other fixtures to be attached to and from both side. Were no perforations present in the central wall features such as shelves could only be added to one side.
I would like to use my Lowboard as a CD rack. Is it possible to order a Lowboard with the necessary extension shelves?
Due to the variety of products offered by the USM Haller it is simply not possible to present all variants on our site. We are however happy to prepare an individual quote for the Lowboard with extension drawers. The required CD inserts can be found here.
The design of the USM Haller Lowboard L is, as with that of all other USM shelves, based on a very simple principle - metal tubing combined via chrome plated brass balls create a skeleton into which metal shelves or glass elements are placed and act as a a façade. And this intrinsic simplicity is what makes USM such a powerful all-rounder. Using the modular design USM Haller can take on various forms and through offering tailored solutions to any situation perfectly reflects the to the motto "form follows function". A central component of the USM philosophy is that furnishings are not a solid state but an evolving process; as such USM furniture is also suitable for regular reconfiguration. Fritz Haller the designer of the USM system was principally an architect and created the office furniture system as part of a commission for a new USM office pavilion in Münsingen, Switzerland. However since 1969 the USM Haller furniture system has been produced in series and has not only become a much loved office furniture system but over the years several has ever more become a regular featuring in domestic environment, particularly as living room and bedroom furniture.
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Shooting survivor Casey Blanchard welcomed back to work
Casey Blanchard recovery
By: Connor McCauley
Posted at 1:55 PM, Oct 05, 2019
MISSOULA — After surviving near-fatal gunshot wounds, Casey Blanchard went back to work at US Diesel Parts in Missoula.
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Blanchard said he hopes to get into a rhythm with work, therapy, and his third son.

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Isaiah W N Keys, 52 Bedford Street, Plymouth (1862) 190 pp.
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We used three-component surface velocities in southwest Japan to estimate plate coupling on the subducting plate interface at the Nankai trough. We analyzed continuous GPS data from the Japanese GEONET network from 1996 to 2006 using a consistent analysis strategy that generates bias-fixed solutions for the entire network. We applied systematic time-series analysis methods to estimate common mode error, which improved position solutions for the entire network. To allow for differences in regional deformation sources, we modelled the plate coupling on the plate interface beneath Shikoku island to Kii Peninsula and the Tokai-Suruga trough separately. The results show strong coupling at a depth of ~10–30 km off Shikoku and Kii Peninsula. The spatial variation in plate coupling coincides well with the coseismic rupture zones of the past large earthquakes. Maximum slip deficit rates of ~2–3 cm yr^(−1) at the depth of ~5–25 km are found beneath the Tokai area, consistent with results from other studies. The downdip limits of the highly coupled areas and transition zones beneath Shikoku and the Kii Peninsula correspond approximately to estimates of the 450 °C isotherms. Good correlation is observed between the lateral variations of the slip deficit distribution, low frequency earthquakes, and coseismic slip. This correlation suggests that temperature, and possibly fluid variations, contribute to such correlation in space. The interplate slip deficit derived from the GPS velocities over the 10 yr of observations is generally compatible with the results over shorter time spans, suggesting that plate coupling in SW Japan does not change significantly over the period of these GPS measurements.
© 2010 RAS. Journal compilation © 2010 RAS. Accepted 2010 March 14. Received 2010 February 2; in original form 2009 July 7. We thank K. Wang and Junichi Nakajima for sending us their composite plate geometry model for the Philippine Sea slab. We thank Akio Katsumata at Meteorological Research Institute, Japan for providing us low frequency earthquake catalogue. We also thank GSI for providing us the raw data of GEONET. Reviews by J. Freymueller, L. Wallace, and editor J. Beavan improved this manuscript. The research described in this paper was carried out at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under a contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and funded through the internal Research and Technology Development Program. This research was supported in part by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. This is Caltech Tectonic Observatory Contribution 109.


I came to see Paul's tender side.
Asked what he thought the apostle Paul may have looked like, Martin Luther reportedly suggested he may have resembled Luther's colleague Philip Melanchthon.
From historical portraits, we know that Melanchthon was a rather scrawny-looking individual, with facial expressions that—to put it mildly—did not express much joy in life. And, somehow, I've also thought of Paul in much the same way. Whereas I had a mental picture of Peter as a rather buoyant individual, whom I might want to invite for a hot drink and an interesting chat, I have imagined Paul as a stern academic who preferred wrestling with difficult theological questions rather than having a good meal with a friend. He did not seem a very social person to me; not a man who would reach out to hug people, take time for small talk, or establish strong ties of friendship.
The final chapter of Romans changed my mind.
When we look at Paul from the perspective of Romans 16, a new picture emerges.
When Paul wrote Romans from Corinth, around A.D. 55, he had not yet visited Rome. His letter to the church in Rome, a church worshipping at that time in the homes of members, turned out to be his most prominent letter, spelling out in more detail than in any of his other letters his theology of redemption in Christ. But in this article I focus on the epilogue of the epistle—on the list of greetings we find in chapter 16.
Phoebe, whom Paul mentions at the beginning of the chapter, probably was the one who carried the letter to Rome. She was a prominent female member of the church in Cenchrea, near Corinth. The Greek text seems to indicate that she was a deaconess. The letter she carried contained greetings to no fewer than 29 individuals in Rome.
Skipping over Ampliatus, Urbanus, Stachys, and Apelles (since all we have are their names), we come to Aristobulus (verse 10). He may have been a grandson of King Herod. Herodion (verse 11) may also have belonged to the Herod family. Narcissus, too (verse 11), may have been a member of high society—some suggesting he may have been a private secretary at the imperial court.
Further down the list we find the name Rufus (verse 13). His name brings to mind Mark 15:21, where a certain Simon of Cyrene (who carried Jesus' cross) is described as "the father of Alexander and Rufus." Some Bible scholars believe that Mark's Gospel initially may have been written for Christians in Rome. And perhaps knowing that Rufus eventually ended up in Rome, Mark made the gesture of inserting that detail in his Gospel.
After the mention of a few additional names, Paul concludes his letter, encouraging his recipients to greet one another with "a holy kiss" (verse 16), a custom he admonished his readers to follow in other places in his Epistles.
Paul had never yet been to Rome; yet he knew nearly 30 persons there by name! And it's remarkable that nine of the 29 persons mentioned are women. Could it be that Paul was not the kind of antiwoman person he is often made out to be? Also, while some in the list were people of considerable status—in Roman society as well as in the church, Paul also remembered the names of others—"simple," hardworking, dependable people—who had no notable pedigree or academic background.
As a church administrator, I would spend a great deal of my time in meetings, discussing all kinds of organizational and business items—policies, programs, buildings, money, positions to fill, reports to be evaluated. And that was all part of the job—a major part. But ultimately I would have failed if I did not see the human face behind the issues, if I did not value people above policies. If what I and other church leaders do has no human face, it had better be left undone.
If we want to work for the church at whatever level, in paid employment or as a volunteer, we must love people. It is significant that the letter to the Romans does not culminate in high-sounding doctrinal statements or theology, but rather with people—people with names and faces. And so today, whether we're discussing theology, doctrines, difficult moral and social issues, developing policies, or whatever else, all perspectives change when we allow those issues to take on a human face.
Romans 16 has transformed my thinking about Paul. He has become more human to me. He knew 29 people in a church he'd never been to! How well do we know the people all around us in the church?
Reinder Bruinsma is director of communication in the Netherlands Union Conference, in Huis ter Heide, the Netherlands.


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Apart that is from the new 140km cycle path that will follow the perimeter of the lake! It is estimated to cost €102 million when completed! With so many visitors to the area using cars to circumnavigate the lake and because the western side is fairly inaccessible with many road tunnels that are not safe for cycling and walkers, the new path will help connect isolated villages and open up that side to sustainable tourism.
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An official government target for the proportion of electricity to come from wind and a system of tradable green credits are among ideas being promoted by Britain's independent power producers. The Association of Electricity Producers warns that the government's present mechanism for renewables support--the Non-Fossil Fuel Obligation--is not wholly suited to the liberalised electricity market.
A continuing obligation on public electricity suppliers to take renewable energy is needed to keep up the growth of Britain's renewable energy industry, says the Association of Electricity Producers (AEP). But it warns that the government's present mechanism for renewables support -- the Non-Fossil Fuel Obligation (NFFO) -- is not wholly suited to the liberalised electricity market.
In its new renewable energy policy, titled Renewable Energy -- building on success, the AEP calls on the government to consider future support through a "percentage obligation" on electricity suppliers to secure a set proportion of their needs from renewable sources. The obligation would be increased over time. The association also favours renewable energy credits which could be traded between suppliers. And it recommends a minimum UK government target for renewables of 10% of electricity needs by 2010.
Meantime, the government should confirm its plans for the fifth round of NFFO. This should include a rolling "open" band for technologies that are closest to converging with the market price for electricity. Benefits of being connected into the low voltage distribution network should be recognised and paid for. In Scotland, the association would like to see a better indicator of market price for electricity against which the extra costs of renewable energy to the consumer could be judged correctly. To the frustration of renewable generators, the present reference price used by the Scottish Office is calculated on the displaced cost of coal fired generation at Longannet power station and is not an indicator of true market price.
The NFFO-5 announcement should be accompanied by an indication of plans for a continued statutory obligation, says the association. Uncertainties over the future of renewable energy support are damaging the industry, it claims -- though the uncertainty is perhaps less since the change of government. Labour has previously promised to continue NFFO. Problems with the existing NFFO should be reviewed and dealt with, says the AEP.
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THE ILLICIT HAPPINESS OF OTHER PEOPLE
by Manu Joseph ‧ RELEASE DATE: Jan. 7, 2013
Ousep Chacko searches for the meaning of the death of his son Unni, who three years earlier had fallen—or perhaps thrown himself?—off a balcony.
A reporter with United News of India, Ousep has become obsessed with discovering the events surrounding his son's death. There's no question that Unni had some strange quirks, but it's not clear to Ousep whether his views and behavior were unconventional or bizarre enough to sustain a diagnosis of schizophrenia. Unni had died at the age of 17 and had shown some talent as an artist, especially as a cartoonist, so Ousep starts to scrutinize some of his son's cartoons, hoping to find hints of his fate. In one disturbing series, Unni depicted friends and family as corpses, and he had cryptically confessed to a friend: "I know a corpse." Another series also preys on Ousep's mind, a sequence of cartoons with "bubbles" for dialogue, though Unni had not had time to ink in the words, so the story he intended to create remains forever perplexing and elusive. Ousep becomes convinced that the secret of his son's demise lies with two of his friends, Sai and Somen, so he pursues them relentlessly, almost to the verge of stalking. He pumps them for information that they're unwilling to yield—though perhaps they know nothing at all. Ousep begins to haunt Somen's house at all hours, trying to catch a glimpse of him and engage him in conversation, but Somen's parents continually deny that he's home. Finally, at the end of the novel, Somen emerges from his room, where he's remained for the previous two years, to explain to Ousep Unni's unnerving and elliptical take on reality.
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It's not for nothing that Ng (Everything I Never Told You, 2014) begins her second novel, about the events leading to the burning of the home of an outwardly perfect-seeming family in Shaker Heights, Ohio, circa 1997, with two epigraphs about the planned community itself—attesting to its ability to provide its residents with "protection forever against…unwelcome change" and "a rather happy life" in Utopia. But unwelcome change is precisely what disrupts the Richardson family's rather happy life, when Mia, a charismatic, somewhat mysterious artist, and her smart, shy 15-year-old daughter, Pearl, move to town and become tenants in a rental house Mrs. Richardson inherited from her parents. Mia and Pearl live a markedly different life from the Richardsons, an affluent couple and their four high school–age children—making art instead of money (apart from what little they need to get by); rooted in each other rather than a particular place (packing up what fits in their battered VW and moving on when "the bug" hits); and assembling a hodgepodge home from creatively repurposed, scavenged castoffs and love rather than gathering around them the symbols of a successful life in the American suburbs (a big house, a large family, gleaming appliances, chic clothes, many cars). What really sets Mia and Pearl apart and sets in motion the events leading to the "little fires everywhere" that will consume the Richardsons' secure, stable world, however, is the way they hew to their own rules. In a place like Shaker Heights, a town built on plans and rules, and for a family like the Richardsons, who have structured their lives according to them, disdain for conformity acts as an accelerant, setting fire to the dormant sparks within them. The ultimate effect is cataclysmic. As in Everything I Never Told You, Ng conjures a sense of place and displacement and shows a remarkable ability to see—and reveal—a story from different perspectives. The characters she creates here are wonderfully appealing, and watching their paths connect—like little trails of flame leading inexorably toward one another to create a big inferno—is mesmerizing, casting into new light ideas about creativity and consumerism, parenthood and privilege.
With her second novel, Ng further proves she's a sensitive, insightful writer with a striking ability to illuminate life in America.
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After acing a job interview and accepting a marriage proposal, Dannie Kohan has had the perfect day. That is, until she awakens to find herself five years in the future with a completely different man.
Just one hour in that alternate reality shakes Dannie to her core. After all, highly ambitious Dannie and her boyfriend, David, have plotted out their lives in minute detail, and the sexy man in her dream—was it a dream?—is most certainly not in the script. Serle (The Dinner List, 2018) deftly spins these magical threads into Dannie's perfectly structured life, leaving not only Dannie, but also the reader wondering whether Dannie time traveled or hallucinated. Her best friend, Bella, would delight in the story given that she thinks Dannie is much too straight-laced, and some spicy dreaming might push Dannie to find someone more passionate than David. Unfortunately, glamorous Bella is in Europe with her latest lover. Ever pragmatic, Dannie consults her therapist, who almost concurs that it was likely a dream, and throws herself into her work. Pleased to have landed the job at a prestigious law firm, Dannie easily loses her worries in litigation. Soon four and a half years have passed with no wedding date set, and Bella is back in the U.S. with a new man in her life. A man who turns out to be literally the man of Dannie's dream. The sheer fact of Aaron Gregory's existence forces Dannie to reevaluate her trust in the laws of physics as well as her decision to marry David, a decision that seems less believable with each passing day. And as the architecture of Dannie's overplanned life disintegrates, Serle twists and twines the remnants of her dream into a surprising future.
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Fifty years ago today, in 1967, nearly 100,000 Americans marched on Washington, DC, to protest the Vietnam War. In those days there was a mandatory draft in place, and the risk was very real that a young man just out of high school could quickly wind up 13,000 miles away, fighting an unseen enemy in jungles that didn't need tanks or B-52 bombers to inflict fear. Worse yet was the possibility of going MIA or coming home in a body bag — just another expendable statistic in the great fight against communism. But even many of those who made it back left part of their souls in that war zone.
Today there is no longer a mandatory draft. And neither is there any anti-war movement to speak of.
If you ask young people today why the United States joined the fight in WWII, many could probably tell you that we were bombed by the Japanese at Pearl Harbor. Or perhaps they would say we had to fight Hitler and the Nazis. But what about Vietnam? Why did we go to war there? What were we fighting for? How did we become involved in that conflict? My guess is that most couldn't tell you — just as it became unclear to that generation in 1967, who were fighting and dying.
This contrast between clarity and ambiguity is reflected in popular cinema — take WWII films like Saving Private Ryan, Band of Brothers, Pearl Harbor, and Sands of Iwo Jima that reflect the essential righteousness of the American cause. Yet classic Vietnam War films like Apocalypse Now, Full Metal Jacket, Platoon, and Hamburger Hill reflect the uncertainty, misery, barbarity, and psychosis of the GI experience.
But this split perception took time. The truth is that the US had been in Vietnam since the mid-1950s. Since the turn of the century, America had been slowly developing into an imperial power to rival the British and the French. WWII had solidified it as the inheritor of the British Empire — the only imperial power left standing.
The whole of Vietnam had been a colony of the French since the 1890s, but after WWII an uprising occurred, led by Ho Chi Minh — inspired by Marxist-Leninism and a nationalist fervor to regain control of their own country. By 1954 the French were out, and two Vietnams, north and south, formed in an uneasy proximity.
The US inherited the imperial project from the French — gradually sending in military "advisers" to the south. President John F. Kennedy had continued that project by backing the south Vietnamese government with military assistance and equipment. The stated reason for this intervention was to prevent the spread of communism throughout southeast Asia — the infamous "domino theory."
But by 1963, Kennedy had come to see the futility of this endeavor. He gave orders to begin withdrawing troops, and planned to have all military personnel out of Vietnam by the end of 1965.
But on November 22, 1963 President Kennedy was assassinated, and President Lyndon B. Johnson took the helm. He immediately reversed Kennedy's orders. The Gulf of Tonkin incident in August 1964, in which a group of North Vietnamese torpedo boats allegedly fired on a US Navy ship (it turned out to be false — and the administration knew it), gave Congress the incentive to give Johnson the authority he needed to dramatically escalate troop deployment and to begin a new bombing campaign.
By 1968, over 500,000 American soldiers were stationed in Vietnam.
In the mid-60s, young people began questioning why their friends and family members were being sent thousands of miles away to fight in another country they'd never heard of before. The rock n' roll revolution was in full swing, and the hippie movement, dope, and acid were fueling a counterculture movement that questioned the establishment and their rules of conformity — instead pushing the mantra "make love, not war."
Not only was Johnson feeling the heat from student protesters, but even Wall Street and Big Finance were beginning to express doubts about the feasibility of winning the war. The debt was piling up and America was at that point still under the Bretton-Woods gold standard.
In March of 1968, less than a year after the protest march on D.C., Johnson announced he would not seek reelection.
Senator Robert Kennedy, brother of JFK, had thrown his hat in the race, running as a peace candidate who would bring the troops home from Vietnam. He was assassinated several months after Martin Luther King, Jr. The Republican candidate Richard Nixon won the election, and the war continued another seven years, taking us off the gold standard in the process. It ended in US defeat in 1975, shortly after Nixon resigned from office in shame after the Watergate scandal.
By the war's end the US had lost 58,000 troops — the Vietnamese somewhere between one and three million.
So why was America in the Vietnam War for so long? What was it really about?
We might as well ask why we have been in Afghanistan for 16 years with no end in sight. Or why did we invade Iraq? Why did we overthrow Libya? Why are we involved in a civil war in Syria? Why are we backing a genocidal war in Yemen? Why did we invade Grenada? Why did we conduct covert warfare in a dozen different Central and South American countries over the past 60 years? Why are we still in Korea 70 years after the fact, now on the verge of a renewed conflict? Why have we come to the very threshold of nuclear annihilation more than once?
What happened to the citizens, community leaders, institutions, and politicians that we would allow this endless warfare to continue? And where is the anti-war movement? Why are they MIA?
These questions are all related. Perhaps if we were to solve the riddle of Vietnam, we would solve these other questions as well. Perhaps those 100,000 students and protesters 50 years ago solved it — and decided to do something about it. Maybe we can too.
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