If you are trying to find a locksmith in the West Midlands, you have reached the right place.
We have compiled a list of local West Midlands locksmiths and UPVC door lock specialists and separated them into their respective areas across the West Midlands.
Choosing your nearest locksmith in the West Midlands could not be easier. Simply select your nearest town using the links menu on the right and top of this page.
Selecting your local West Midlands locksmith means you receive a quicker response time and will avoid paying the call out charge of a locksmith based further from your home.
All our locksmiths are fully qualified and maintain a high level of health and safety and insurance requirements. They carry most sizes of lock and a variety of stock to meet your property requirements, whether your after the cheapest locks for your budget or high security specialist locks that offer considerable protection.
Our locksmiths in West Midlands recommend locks conforming to BS3621 to meet insurance requirements.
Information on the best lock for your door can be found on our lock guide.
West Midlands locksmiths and UPVC door experts are experienced in bypassing and gaining entry to your property if your locks are broken, you have lost your keys or need your locks replacing.
If the handle has been feeling a bit stiff and the key wont fully turn anymore, chances are that your upvc door is out of alignment. This can be caused by swelling and contracting of the upvc door at differing temperatures or from general wear and tear on the upvc door due to repeated slamming or hanging on the door itself. This can be sorted by adjusting the hinges of the door to re-align the keeps in the frame. once the lock is operating smoothly without obstructions the key will turn.
You can get similar symptoms due to debris in the upvc door frame preventing the door from shutting true. Regular cleaning of dirt and stones out of the frame will prevent this.
You will need to call your local locksmith to replace the cylinder with a new one of correct size.
This is a relatively quick job if there are no other complications.
This is often the aftermath of not getting your upvc door adjusted when it has been feeling stiff.
Prolonged forcing of the handle puts massive strain on internal parts and eventually they WILL break!
You have broken the spindle inside the lock back box and will need either a replacement backbox or entire locking unit, depending on the type of multi-point lock fitted.
You will need to call a local locksmith to open the upvc door and order the new parts which can be pricey therefore it is important that you get your door adjusted when early symptoms of stiffness occur.
Often, the cylinders fitted in new upvc doors are not the best quality and may not be suitable to satisfy your insurance requirements. Exterior door locks need to conform to BS3621 and should display a stamped kitemark on the lock.
These upvc locks will be more expensive than bog standard ones, however provide considerably more protection against drilling, snapping and picking or bumping the lock.
There are many brands of lock that exceed the British Standard rating and offer incredible protection against unauthorised opening. These demand a high price but would be well worth investing in for protecting high risk premises.
The lock cylinder should not protrude more than 5mm from the handle of the door, ideally they should sit flush.
Locks that stick out from the face of the door more than 5mm are a considerable security flaw and you should contact a locksmith to arrange the fitting of a correct sized lock.
For more information on home security in the West Midlands you can visit the West Midlands Police Safer Homes website or get in touch with your nearest neighbourhood watch group.
UPVC door multi point locking systems contain many mechanical parts. As with any mechanical product a certain amount of maintainance is required to ensure a long life and good working order.
It is important never to hang on your door or indeed anything from it such as christmas decorations that attatch over the top of the door itself, as will again cause the upvc door to be out of alignment, and if repeatedly may cause permanent damage to hinges.
It is good practice to use a lubricating spray on the upvc door lock to ensure a clean free working mechansim. try to avoid long lasting grease sprays that will attract more debris over time.
UPVC Window locks can break easilly with heavy use or repeated forcing of the handles. Your local West Midlands locksmith should be able to replace the handles for you or unlock them if you have lost the keys.
Repeated forcing of a stiff lock will eventually break the cam in the espag gearbox and will require drilling and replacing. Regular maintainance will prevent your UPVC window lock from breaking as mentioned in the UPVC Door care above.


Do you feel that? The darkness starting to sink into your soul? Okay, maybe it's not that dramatic. But it is mid-October and by now I think we are all starting to feel a little bit of that darkness creeping in on us. The other day I woke up at 7:30am, I swore it was 5:30am because there was no light. And we're not even to the worst part of it yet – the evil known as Daylight Savings Time doesn't end until November 2! Ugh.
No excuses. A five-minute walk outside will do wonders. Even better if you can do more. But AT LEAST do 5 minutes. Even if it's the WORST DAY EVER.
Before you head out on that walk brew yourself some coffee so it's nice and hot when you get back. Or walk to the coffee shop (this works for me when I don't want to exercise, I tell myself that I can have a treat if I walk/run to the cafe that's a mile away).
But seriously, I know not everyone can just pick up and move. Before I decided to split my time between coasts I would plan a vacation for Mid-end of January. This is usually my tipping point, when I start to feel like I can't get out of bed. The magic of Fall's transformation is gone. All the sparkle of the holidays are gone. It can be so… blah. A warm and sunny destination can do wonders. Or even if you can't go far, a change in scenery can work too.
This is the big one. I come up with a project list. Nothing serious or super stressful. And nothing with a tight deadline. Only fun and creative things. Maybe some things that I'm scared to do, just to push me out of my comfort zone.
Some samples from the past include: learning to play and sing a Mexican Ranchera song on the guitar (no I don't play regularly, so this was extra hard), Turkish language classes, develop new choreographies, take a yoga class challenge, experiment with new recipes, make a new costume. You get the idea. I've learned that I tend to stick with the projects that require the least amount of decision making – like going to a class, or learning to play a song, or reading a book.
I call this my Persephone phase. I feel like I'm underground, developing myself as I work on projects. And when the light finally comes back I'm ready to bust out of the cocoon.
What's your Winter Blues Battle Strategy? Let me know in the comments below.
Want to join me with a Persephone project? Let me know what creative project you decide to work on in the comments below.


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Album | Justin Shapiro – Campfire Party
by Jonathan Frahm • 31 May 2018 • Comments Off on Album | Justin Shapiro – Campfire Party
As listeners, we are all too prone to consider any new artist who pops up on our iTunes hub as an overnight success story. Little do some know, though, that most of these folks have been putting in their dues for years—sometimes even decades—to be heard by a broader audience. DC native Justin Shapiro is one such individual who has been honing his homegrown blend of folk-rock in for the past ten years, awaiting the moment when he could gather together a great band and release a bonafide debut album for the world to hear. With his Campfire Party, it's finally his time to shine.
It isn't often that album titles mesh so palpably with the songs that decorate their halls. More often than not, they seem to be either flippantly designed by a careless mainstream label or represent more of a flashy or abstract overall idea. Here, what you see ends up becoming what you hear as Shapiro and his band warmly envelope you in a series of whiskey-toned Americana tunes that feel exactly like what the cover is selling. Shapiro's inviting us to his own campfire party for a heaping helping of soul, and the vigor with which he sells it all is, on the overall, impressive.
For a first-time effort, it doesn't reinvent the wheel and it doesn't have to. Giving it an ear, there are obvious signs of where to improve with Shapiro's coming works. He's intent on giving us a blues-laden record complete with all of the trimmings, but it's in his sweeter efforts like 'Stand' and 'My Own Way' where he really seems to separate himself from the pack. They feel more like a deeper window into Shapiro's own soul, and on the overall, they inflect the album with an overall spirit that keeps it from sidling into mediocrity.
There's much to celebrate here, too, though. It's been a long time coming for Shapiro to be able to release these songs, and hopefully, it won't be as long before he can turn out another collection for us to lend an ear to. By then, he should be able to present a more concise catalog of tunes to the table, but getting us out by the campfire to party it on with him and the band isn't such a bad idea for a first step into the world of studio LPs either. On the overall, it's a heartening piece of work with a stellar band backing Shapiro up, well worth at least a listen.
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Literature reviews and research gap analysis on social determinants of urban health: how social and gender dynamics in a COVID-19 context affect the prevention and control of infectious diseases of poverty
Deadline for applications: 14 August 2020 (17:00 CET)
Institutions from low and middle-income countries (LMICs) working on public health, urban health, implementation research and infectious disease prevention and control are invited to submit individual or collaborative proposals where two or more institutions are forming a consortium.
Proposals must include the production of a series of literature reviews. Applicants may wish to consider organizing a virtual consultation (e.g. eDelphi exercise) using these reviews to determine research gaps.
The overall objective of this work is to synthesize and consolidate evidence from a series of literature reviews /state-of-the-art scoping reviews that will inform TDR's research agenda on urban health, infectious disease and gender research, including in COVID-19 and post COVID-19 scenarios. The work is expected to be completed by October 2021. View a list of possible themes and topics which reviews could focus on. These are provided as a guide and applicants may suggest different titles. However, preference will be given to closely related topics. Each applicant is expected to conduct a maximum of two literature reviews.
Applications are welcome from research institutions based in low- and middle-income countries in all WHO Regions. Applications must demonstrate an understanding of intersectionality applied to public health and specifically to infectious diseases of poverty in urban settings. Research groups, networks or consortia from more than two countries working in low- and middle-income countries within WHO Regions are eligible to apply.
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Due to complications beyond my control, I missed posting this week's Tuesday installment. In fact, I only just remembered that this one was due this morning a few moments ago.
And it's Friday the 13th.
That doesn't bother me, as I am aware that this "unlucky" day is an amalgam of Medieval superstition and the fact that the Knights Templar were taken prisoner on Friday the 13th in 1309. That latter bit is the real reason that Friday and 13 are considered an ill omen, though I'm not really sure why. Certainly it was a lousy day for the Templars, but since there technically weren't any Templars after that, it's kind of difficult to see how this would have had any bearing on the average Josephus back in the day. And exceedingly odd that it would come down to us still in the first part of the 21st century. Nevertheless it does remain a persistent superstition, which, like most, is now utterly divorced from its historical origins. Probably one of those Templar conspiracies you hear about.
That's really neither here nor there. Just something to note in a spot which otherwise would be a rather bland statement that personal interests and projects now conspire to occupy so much of my time that I will be taking the intended twice weekly posting down to once a week, that being the Friday edition. I was able to sustain it for a month without it interfering much with daily operations, but frankly finding something worthy of interest or comment two times each week was difficult, and better serve up a proper post once than a mediocre one twice.
I trust anyone reading these will grant me a little leeway and see where it goes.


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The U.S. has deported Vietnamese refugees in violation of a 2008 agreement. Now it is indefinitely detaining many others.
By Eric Tang and Viet Thanh Nguyen
Mr. Tang is director of the Center for Asian-American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Mr. Nguyen is the author of the novel "The Sympathizer" and a contributing opinion
What is an appropriate punishment for a crime? The plight of thousands of Vietnamese refugees convicted of crimes in the United States and now threatened with detention or deportation demands an answer to this question.
For most of the four decades since the Vietnam War ended, refugees fleeing the Communist government in Vietnam have been treated differently from those refugees from most other countries. If they committed felonies, they would not be deported.
This exception tacitly acknowledged the weight of history: These refugees came here because American forces fought a devastating war in their home country, the Republic of Vietnam, or what Americans called South Vietnam. The exception recognized that America owed a measure of compassion to those who lost their homeland in the wake of the Communist invasion of the South, and the United States military intervention to resist it.
All that began to change under Donald Trump. Mr. Trump has set his sights on deporting more than 8,000 permanent residents from Vietnam, most of whom had fled the war and had been protected from removal despite their crimes. Mr. Trump's efforts drew sharp criticism not only from Vietnamese-Americans, but also his own ambassador to Vietnam, Ted Osius, who eventually resigned from the State Department in protest
Nearly a dozen Vietnamese refugees were sent to the Socialist Republic of Vietnam beginning late last year. But last month, the Trump administration was forced to temporarily back away from its plans to deport thousands more in response to a class-action lawsuitand resistance from the Vietnamese government. Refusing to concede defeat, the administration is using long-term detention as a means of punishing those it cannot immediately remove.
Dozens of Vietnamese refugees with felony records are being held in immigrant detention centers. Under a Supreme Court ruling, immigration officials are permitted to detain refugees for a maximum of six months when deportation is considered possible "in the reasonably foreseeable future." But the Trump administration has held some Vietnamese for 180 days and longer, even though it has acknowledged that their removal to Vietnam is "not reasonably foreseeable." Though it has promised to release some refugees, it has said it has the right to detain them indefinitely and to confine them again in the future.
According to Tung Nguyen, an activist who is in regular contact with Vietnamese detainees, the goal of indefinite and repeated detention is to "psychologically torment and break these people."
"They're in lockdown 23 hours of the day," Mr. Nguyen told us. "It's worse than prison where at least you know what you did and when you're getting out."
A spokeswoman for the Department of Homeland Security, Katie Waldman, said that such a policy was necessary to "protect our communities by ensuring we can detain convicted violent criminal aliens and keep them out of American communities."
Yet these refugees were thoroughly punished for their crimes at the state or federal level, and most of them moved on to find stable employment and to raise families, Mr. Nguyen says. Now, they face a second and indeterminate sentence, though they have not committed new crimes.
The plight of these Vietnamese refugees may seem unsurprising in an era defined by Muslim bans, deep cuts in new refugee admissions and the separation of families at the Mexican border. But it also stands out for how radically this administration has departed from the bipartisan consensus supporting Cold War refugees since the end of the Vietnam War.
From the fall of Saigon in 1975 until 1995, the United States did not recognize the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, and so it was impossible to deport people there. Even after diplomatic relations were restored in 1995, the American government chose not to deport Vietnamese refugees with felony records, and the Communist government in Hanoi showed no interest in receiving refugees whom it considered citizens of a country that no longer existed.
In 2008 President George W. Bush signed an agreement with Hanoi stipulating that Vietnamese refugees who entered the United States before 1995 would not be sent back to Vietnam, even if they had committed crimes that normally would have led to deportation. Only those who entered after the 1995 normalization of diplomatic relations — in other words, those who were clearly citizens of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam — were deportable.
Now the Trump administration is attempting to reinterpret that agreement — and effectively erase the intimate history of the Republic of Vietnam and the United States, countries linked by a brutal war and promises of friendship. Indefinite detention for anyone seems inhumane. But it seems uniquely cruel to imprison — with the intention of expelling — people who were America's allies in the war that ravaged their homeland.
During the Cold War, accepting refugees from Vietnam was an important symbol of America's humanitarian largess. Today, punishing Vietnamese refugees symbolizes the new American doctrine: deportation for deportation's sake.
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Many workers don't have a corporate email address or any digital connection to the company. Mobile technology is offering a new path.
The cost of software licensing necessary to properly deliver and manage digital communications (authentication, email accounts, etc).
The rise of employee mobile apps powered by SaaS platforms have cleared the path to a fully digitally enabled workforce – here's how.
Employee apps simply would not be possible without the massive adoption rates of smartphones. According to a Pew Research Center survey in November of 2016, more than 75% of Americans own a smartphone. This means that nearly every employee already has all the computing power necessary to connect digitally. Companies need to be mindful that the app is actually delivering a benefit in order for employees to be happy using their own phones and data plans, but the rise of smartphones has cleared one of the two key barriers to digital connection.
What about the cost barrier of paying for authentication and email accounts for all these employees? Authentication services (like Microsoft's Azure Active Directory) can range anywhere up to $9 per user per month. Adding in costs for email accounts or mobile device management (MDM) subscriptions could make digital enablement too costly. Fortunately, many employee apps provide a complete solution without requiring these investments. Many of these platforms include authentication and user management (e.g. automatically disabling a user account when the user is disabled in the payroll system). Sophisticated employee apps not only provide authentication, but also allow secure connections to business systems without requiring separate MDM licensing. Modern employee apps have eliminated the cost barrier of digital connection by not requiring any other licensing.
Digitally enabling a workforce has an incredible ROI. Paper processes are replaced with instant electronic self-service. Everything from checking benefits, to correcting a payroll mistake, to requesting time off can be done from the employee's phone. The even bigger business impact is a realtime, two-way communication channel with employees. Everything from weather alerts to major company news to recognition of key performers can be pushed to employees who can give their feedback. The advent of SaaS-powered employee apps has cleared the barriers to digitally connecting your entire workforce.
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November Agenda. Motion to accept agenda made by C. Phelps. Second by B. Phelps. All in favor (3-0), motion carried.
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The proposed tree removal was discussed. An audience member suggested the tree at the DPW building should be added to the list.
An audience member requested an update on the DPW situation and if a part time DPW employee might be preferable to the current situation. The council will consider the cost and rewards of the situation.
The audience asked when leaves would be collected. The Village has an agreement with Akron for manpower to collect the leaves. A text reply form the Akron DPW indicated he would be back in the village during the upcoming week.
The holiday display in the village was discussed. Two problems exist. First, DTE took the holiday display brackets when they changed out the light fixtures. New brackets need to be procured. Second, at the time, DTE indicated that the village was not authorized to hang displays on their light poles. They have also sent conflicting messaging indicating the amount of upcharge for pole use. The clerk will attempt to get a clearer answer from DTE.
The Spirit of Fairgrove lighted Christmas parade is on December 2nd. Village residents are encouraged to attend the parade and join the community at the church for cookies with Santa. The Village is also sponsoring a Holiday Magic Contest (home yard decoration/spirit contest). The contest will be judged on November 27th.
Fire – The FD responded to 3 emergency calls in October. Runs included two manpower assists to Caro and a manpower and tacker assist to Akron.
The department educated students in kindergarten thru 2nd grade at Akron Elementary on fire safety.
The Chief attended an Active shooter class in October and will attend a Bomb Recognition class in November.
Members of the department attended training in the National Incident Management System at Caro. Members continue to attend FF1 and FF2 training.
The FD handed out more than 200 safety light sticks for Halloween.
DTE will hold a public hearing, November 21st, 9AM in Lansing. The information was made available to the public.
The clerk has received a copy of the 3rd (Oct/Nov/Dec) quarter Planning Commission meeting.
The village received a copy of the Fairgrove Township Master Plan adopted by Fairgrove Township on March 21, 2016. The plan will be on file in the clerk's office.
There was no unfinished business discussed.
C. Phelps suggested the village make an official facebook page in order to centralize discussion.
The clerk provided additional information on the TC Road Commission bill questioned last month. The bill was for the RR signs replaced on Shreeves Rd. in early summer. The previous signs were identified as delinquent by the SOM. The signs are township responsibly as we are responsible for the road. Motion to approve the bill made by B. Phelps. Seconded by C. Phelps.
Cathy Nagy requested the board consider her beauty shop location be billed at the residential sewer rate. She currently has 5 clients and is the only beautician at the shop. C. Phelps moved to bill Cathy Nagy's Beauty Shop at the residential rate. B. Phelps seconded. The vote was approved 3-0.
Motion to approve October disbursements totaling $ 19018.76. Motion to pay the bills made by C. Phelps and seconded by B. Phelps (Attached). The motion was approved.


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Jaguar may be bought by a construction equipment company
One of the world's most elegant brands may be bought out by a company that specialises in building agricultural and earth moving equipment. The chairman of JCB, Sir Anthony Bamford, has expressed his interest in buying the ailing cat from Ford if they agree to separate it from Land Rover.
In an interview with Edmunds, he had the following things to say:
"Jaguar has lost its way," and there has been "too much chopping and changing at the top."
"There's a real mishmash of responsibilities between Jaguar and Land Rover and they need leadership."
"[Jaguar founder] Sir William Lyons was a friend of my father's and he was involved in most aspects of the plant. JCB is run in a similar way. Although we are not in the car business, we are familiar with every aspect of lean manufacturing and worldwide marketing. All our senior management are involved in every aspect of the business. There isn't an enormous structure and bureaucracy."
"Jaguar needs downsizing. The little car [X-Type] needs to go. The S-Type is critical and the XJ is a very good car but it needs a reskin,"
"Racing is Jaguar's background. It helps sell cars and it gives the company a youthful image," he said. "Twenty years ago a Jaguar was an aspirational choice."
Bamford also said he would reintroduce plans to bring the F-type roadster to market, citing Jaguars racing heritage as justification for such a car.
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Sports Night rewind: "Mary Pat Shelby" & "The Head Coach, Dinner and the Morning Mail"
Okay, I'm going to give this another try and review two "Sports Night" episodes in one go. Spoilers for "Mary Pat Shelby" and "The Head Coach, Dinner and the Morning Mail" coming up just as soon as I take a vacation from my values...
"I sent her there on purpose." -Dana
I don't know that I want to keep reviewing these episodes two at a time -- particularly since the next two, "Dear Louise" and "Thespis," are both unrelated and good enough to deserve their own reviews -- but as these particular episodes are more or less a two-parter (no "to be continued..." at the end of the first, but a "previously on..." at the start of the second), I'm okay with it here.
More than sports, or politics, or wacky romantic misunderstandings, "Sports Night" is first and foremost about work -- about the kind of workplace many of us would like to have, and about the challenges of keeping it as idealized as we want. Frequently, the threats to the sanctity of Sports Night(*) come from above, in the form of Luther Sachs's minions, but here the problems come from within, which makes the conflict feel that much more potent. Most of the time, the people at Sports Night are as much friends as colleagues, and these episodes -- "Mary Pat Shelby" in particular -- show how tricky things can get when you need a colleague to do something you would never ask a friend to do.
(*) For the sake of my sanity -- and/or to avoid using the phrase show-within-the-show 8 million times this summer -- I think I'm henceforth going to use italics to refer to the CSC version of it, and quotes to refer to the ABC version.
While Sports Night is supposed to be this wonderful place to work, filled with eccentric but supportive people, they're not saints. They make mistakes, or they make bad choices for ostensibly noble reasons, or they put their faith where they shouldn't. And when that happens, we get a fiasco like Dana sending Natalie to interview Christian Patrick in the hopes of sparking a controversy which will be good for the show -- and we have Natalie going along with it because she trusts Dana a little too implicitly.
While Natalie is Patrick's victim in "Mary Pat Shelby," and continues to suffer the emotional fallout of the incident in "The Head Coach, Dinner and the Morning Mail," these episodes feel like more of a showcase for Dana than for her. It's Dana who makes the choice to do the Patrick interview even with the restrictions from his lawyers, it's Dana who sends Natalie instead of Jeremy, it's Dana who kicks Patrick and his crew out of the studio, and it's Dana who tells Natalie that -- unofficial family or no -- she needs to get her act together, or else. And Felicity Huffman is wonderful throughout.
"Mary Pat Shelby" is the stronger of the two, and not just because it's the first episode of the series to ditch the laugh track.(As I recall, Sorkin and Schlamme got ABC to relent as a one-time experiment to see how viewers responded; obviously, response wasn't good enough, and it was back the next week.) The conflict is greater in "MPS," but it's also a better illustration of what "Sports Night" could be at its best. Like "The Apology," it contrasts a fairly dark main storyline (Christian Patrick assaults Natalie) with a subplot that seems fairly goofy (Dan wants to grow a goatee), then finds a way to combine the two at the end to create a moment that's simultaneously funny and moving, as Dan and Casey have Dana's back by standing up to Patrick's lawyer in this exchange:
"This is a third-place show on a fourth-rate network." -Evans
"Yeah, but that's all about to change once I grow a goatee." -Dan
"He's just crazy enough to do it." -Casey
It's not quite "Can I just say one more thing about the Starland Vocal Band?," but it's awfully close.
"Morning Mail" is, by design, a less intense episode. We're now a little removed from the Patrick incident, and everyone but a distracted Natalie and a sleep-deprived Jeremy has more or less moved on from it. Dan is trying to get Casey to stop talking about Rostenkowski, and Casey in turn is obsessed with Gordon -- until, in a nice moment, Gordon tries to bond with Casey over their shared hatred of Rostenkowski, and inadvertently makes Casey realize he's being too hard on the coach -- and so things are a bit lighter throughout.
But Sabrina Lloyd and, especially, Joshua Malina (who by this point has left the over-the-top mannerisms of his pilot performance long behind) both do fine jobs of playing their characters at the end of their respective ropes. And while Sorkin will drag out the Dana/Casey stuff past all reason, I like that he more or less puts Jeremy and Natalie together by the end of the sixth episode, and does it in an unusual way. These are two people getting together at their worst, not their best, and yet being together (even if, right now, Jeremy's just napping at their newsroom picnic) seems to make the bad stuff feel okay.
A lot of good stuff to discuss here. And speaking of which, some other thoughts:
• In my quest to keep track of recurring Sorkin-isms that will continue to pop up in his other series (and/or ones that had already appeared in the likes of "A Few Good Men" and "The American President"), I couldn't help but notice the use in "Mary Pat Shelby" of the gag where a character gives a long speech and the intended audience retorts with, "I wasn't really listening." It's Sorkin's way, I suppose, of trying to self-regulate his tendency to write these long-winded, preachy monologues in the first place.
• More recurring Sorkin devices: Natalie rattles off her resume near the end of "MPS." And Jeremy runs down some of his credentials -- including a degree in Applied Mathematics -- in "Morning Mail."
• While you would assume Ray Wise is great enough that he would have become a Sorkin repertory player, he didn't turn up on the "West Wing" until years after Sorkin had left.
• The Boston reporter Natalie is referring to in "Mary Pat Shelby" is Lisa Olson, who was more or less driven out of town after she accused several players on the Patriots of sexually harassing her. She wound up moving to Australia to work for a sister newspaper, though by the time this episode aired (or maybe a little bit afterwards), she returned to the States as a columnist for the New York Daily News. (She left that job last year after allegedly getting sick of dealing with Mike Lupica.)
• The other ripped-from-the-headlines aspect of the story is that Christian Patrick is undoubtedly named after Christian Peter, who, during his time as a defensive tackle at Nebraska, was arrested and/or convicted of multiple crimes, and most infamously was accused of raping a freshman girl twice in two days. The Patriots drafted Peter, then freaked out after he was convicted for trying to choke a woman in a bar, and refused to sign him. At the time of this episode, Peter was a backup for the Giants, who signed him on the condition that he attend counseling for alcohol abuse, anger management, etc.
• Patrick is played by Brad Henke, who was causing trouble on "Lost" towards the end of this season.
• I love the "MBS" scene where Dana tries to convince Dan and Casey that she's right to trade Natalie's story for Mary Pat Shelby's, and Dan hits her with "You had me until the last part." It's so rare to see characters on television having an ethical debate like this where no one's getting too upset or arguing the point too much -- these are just adults trying to convince each other of their position.
• Dan has some fine moments in both episodes, but I particularly like the scene in "Morning Mail" where he talks to Jeremy about the majesty of New York, which perfectly sets up the use of "Someone to Watch Over Me" -- written, of course, by the Gershwins -- at the episode's end.
• The running gag in "Morning Mail" about Casey's conversational anal-retentiveness is very funny.
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These episodes (like so many) always make me think "what happened to Josh Charles?" He is so good in these episodes, being both funny and dramatic, that I just dont know why he never broke out. His upcoming work with Teri Polo, and then his season 2 work with the hot babe therapist, is also fantastic.
I remember reading somewhere that he and Sorkin didn't get along, so maybe that has something to do with it. Charles would have been awesome in The West Wing.
-DamnYankees
7:55 AM, June 24, 2009
Just say The Farnsworth Invention last night. Sorkin was there for talk back. He's not always great in interviews but he was great fun last night.
Anyway Farnsworth Invention which I liked a lot took me out of it twice when he did the small potatoes/big potatoes and in the "he deserved better in my hands"... especially the later as it came at a crucial moment.
Add me to the list that wishes Josh Charles worked more. However, I expect that it is on him that he doesn't.
Love the relationship between Danny and Jeremy in season one. And also the relationship between Danny and Natalie. The relationship between Issaac and Danny.... but that's not pertinent to this situation.
But what I love how this show does strong non-romantic relationships. Sorkin does it well in Sports Night and that bond, I think, is one of the things that doesn't work as well in Studio 60.
I think he does it best in Sports Night.
Thespis is my favorite silly episode and I'll be looking forward to it in the next couple of weeks! As much as I hate to admit it, I think both eps deserve to stand on their own. But if you keep with two a week we get through more eps, so I'll deal.
There was so much good in both of these episodes, but the running bits about Danny's goatee are the parts that still occasionally pop into my head and make me laugh out loud.
I think these are the episodes where it really hit me - "The Apology" had me pretty good, don't get me wrong, but here it really felt like the show was capable of balancing the comedy and drama, and to handle the aftermath of this particular event with just as much care as the event itself. Huffman, as you note, is bloody fantastic in that moment where she pieces together precisely what she did, and admits that it was far more conscious than she actually wants to realize.
Ditto on the Josh Charles note, DamnYankees - I've been remiss in getting to In Treatment, and when I pieced together that he was on the show it gave me another reason to not skip Season One (I'm spoiled, not that it impacts every story).
I also cast my vote for individual reviews of the episodes that merit individual reviews - having to artificially tie them together, or sacrificing length/quality to see two of them posted in the same week, isn't going to do certain episodes justice. When I sat down to write about the first season (if anyone's interested in reading said thoughts, you can do so here), I tried to cover everything at once and I know there's many individual eps. that deserve the Sepinwall treatment, and I'd hate to see them not get it.
Oh, also, Alan missed a line which made me laugh out loud in this one. When they are discussing what famous people actually had goattees, someone throws out "Satan". Killed me, especially Danny's reaction.
Re: recurring Sorkin devices, don't forget girls can't tell jokes. However, I think it worked better for Dana than for Harriet in S60.
Is it just me, or is the Dana/Casey stuff in Morning Mail particularly cringeworthy?
I think "Mary Pat Shelby" was the first episode I saw -- I can't remember if it was the first run or not, but it was back when I was still in high school, maybe even middle school, and my brother wanted desperately to convince me that this show wasn't just about sports, and that I would like it. And I did -- I loved it. And swallowed it whole.
Except. I've now grown older and more sensitive to what was actually going on in this episode -- and, sadly, I've now had friends in similar situations. Every time I watch it, I get so incredibly angry at Dana for never asking Natalie what she wanted. Maybe Natalie trusts Dana implicitly and agrees with whatever Dana decides, but Natalie should have been in the room -- if not for the negotiation with Christian Patrick's people, then definitely for the pre-negotiation. You do not trade away someone's legal rights for an interview without actually consulting said person first -- not taking Dan's word for it, not making an assumption, but actually getting her consent.
Yes, we're not supposed to support Dana's actions, but the fact that she did that makes me really angry, and really unsympathetic towards someone who's so often supposed to be sympathetic. I don't think I really like Dana until well into the second season.
Joshua Malina and Sabrina Lloyd are note-perfect in every scene, though.
Heather K said...
Interesting to hear all the comments on Josh Charles. My roommate just moved from New York where she worked with a dowtown off-b'way theatre company that has several famous actor types who work there a lot. As a result she kind of knows Josh Charles, and she had never seen Sports Night.
As she was about finishing her first time through the series earlier this month she had to tell me all about it. In real life she thought he was extremely annoying and childish and could not understand how he could even get work being that much of a jerk (all her opinion and totally unsubstantiated hearsay, I want to reiterate), but even she thought he was wonderful as Dan Rydell and was totally won over.
I wonder if her perception of him speaks to why he doesn't get more high profile work.
Ostiose Vagrant said...
I love the "MBS" scene where Dana tries to convince Dan and Casey that she's right to trade Natalie's story for Mary Pat Shelby's, and Dan hits her with "You had me until the last part.
Yup. Agreed. On bad TV this scene would have actors screaming at each other and other histrionics. Sometimes all tv has to do is play scenes low-key and it becomes effective.
Dan has some fine moments in both episodes, but I particularly like the scene in "Morning Mail" where he talks to Jeremy about the majesty of New York, which perfectly sets up the use of "Someone to Watch Over Me" -- written, of course, by the Gershwins -- at the episode's end.
Is Gershwin music now synonymous with New York? Like is "Rhapsody Blues" the state song? Anyway, I can't listen to anyone describing the beauty of NYC without thinking Woody Allen. I think he needs to copyright that *beep* ASAP. (Read on imdb that Allen wants Carli Bruni in one of his movies and my reaction was: he finally moved on to women in their 40s, congrats)
Mon Chi Chi said...
I fell in love with Felicity Huffman in MPS - she's ridiculously good showing the combination of pressure/guilt/desire to "do her job" well.
I'm also pretty in love with Josh Charles, but in a different way ;)
Ditto, Alan, on the moment when Danny says "you had me until that last part" - one of the great things about Danny's character is his ability to not allow his friends get away with moral ambiguity. He doesn't stop them from making mistakes, but he certainly wants them to acknowledge that they are doing so.
One last thing, you mention that Sorkin is about an idealizes workplace, which I agree up to a point. More so, it always seems to me to be about workplaces that are so consuming it creates a defacto "family", and so many of the conflicts are about an unintentional familial structure. One of the reasons I felt Studio 60 didn't work was because it simply didn't feel like I was watching a family.
Sam Sevr said...
I'll echo pretty much everyone else in saying these are 2 terrific episodes. I think I enjoyed the lighter "Head Coach" more but MPS is excellent as well. Starting with the super somber conversation Dan and the crew are having, only to find out it's about him growing a goatee?? Beautiful.
Then the great part of the "You had me until that last part" line is as Danny points out, it's really not a disagreement about what to do, but how to sell it. We've been so conditioned to expect conflict and yelling and this just turns out SOOO much more effective.
I also like in MPS that we see just how comfortable Jeremy is becoming. He's the one that figures out it's was Natalie that was assaulted. He has the visceral reaction the Dana was looking to get from Christian Patrick. He's gone from worrying about how to fit in to protecting the people he cares about.
On to "Head Coach", I have to disagree with you Alan. Maybe this is being influenced by their conversation next week but I don't see Gordon trying to bond with Casey AT ALL. I see Gordon subtly but purposely leading Casey to realizing he (Casey) is wrong. Gordon throws out suggestions for Casey to shoot down, basically saying "I know nothing, but let's see what the expert comes up with" because he knows Casey won't have anything better.
And the Dana / Jeremy "You Like Natalie" conversation has always been one of my favorites. "14,200?" "And Change." "Very Quixotic."
10:52 AM, June 24, 2009
R.A. Porter said...
I'm with @Sam Sevr on Gordon's motives. He was definitely engaging in a little Socratic exercise with Casey to get him to change his mind, most likely as a display of intellectual dominance. It's a fine bit of writing really well played by the criminally underrated McGinley.
Agree with the others on Gordon - I really liked that he wasn't a "bad guy" on the show (at least before the thing that comes up later that I will leave unspoiled), and was really used to point out Dana's and Casey's flaws.
I don't believe Gordon was trying to change Casey's mind at all. I believe Gordon was trying to show off that he could competently talk sports with the sports guy. I've never seen anything from Gordon to suggest that he wouldn't have just told Casey he was wrong if that's what he thought. Why be tricky?
@Linda, telling Casey he was wrong would have further cemented his position. Gordon's a smart character and a smart litigator who knows the best way for *him* to get Casey to change his mind is to convince him he agrees so Casey has to rethink his position. Gordon knows what Casey thinks of him.
By getting him to change his mind, Gordon scored a point in the grand (and petty) competition.
I don't believe Gordon was trying to change Casey's mind at all. I believe Gordon was trying to show off that he could competently talk sports with the sports guy.
I'm with you, Linda. Plus, I always thought that Casey changed his mind not because Gordon showed him the error of his ways, but more to intentionally NOT bond with Gordon since it's pretty clearly established that these two are not going to become buddies.
Tony Orlando?!? That was a "good" save. Natalie was right, people should have been mad at her. That Tony Orlando bit would have become the new "boom goes the dynamite" on YouTube.
I guess they were being accurate. Their sports show really was 3rd rate.
1:29 PM, June 24, 2009
It is interesting to read Alan's take that MPS is all about Dana. For me it has always been Danny who wrecks me in this episode.
The "and this what friends gear up for" scene between he & Natalie in the editing bay may be my favorite non-Isaac SN moment.
One thing I've always loved about the show is that it's one of the few LA-based shows that gets New York. Sports Night, Seinfeld, How I Met Your Mother, are about it, rather than Friends, which while NYC set, was not "New York."
rhamilton said...
One negative but about The Morning Mail is Jeremy writing an 'application' to calculate a dinner place. It sounds really stupid and doesn't have anything to do with how anyone would behave, regardless of how geeky they are.
"Gordon's a smart character and a smart litigator who knows the best way for *him* to get Casey to change his mind is to convince him he agrees so Casey has to rethink his position."
I don't think so. In all the times I've watched that scene, I've seen it the same way Alan did. Gordon is a windbag with a very low-end understanding of sports (which he proves in many situations other than this). But he loves to hear himself talk, so like all sports-fan know-nothings, he lectures about what the guy SHOULD have done instead. And all his ideas turn out to be stupid, and Casey realizes that his expertise forces him to be more measured about the situation than a guy like Gordon is going to be.
The "he knew Casey would only harden his position if he disagreed openly" seems like a really unlikely conclusion compared to the clear implication of the scene.
I just can't see Gordon engaging in this complicated of a Jedi mind trick just to change Casey's mind about a football coach in such a way that nobody except him would ever know what he did. I don't think he'd ever bother arguing with Casey about football except to show him up, and there's nothing about that exchange that would ever make Casey feel like Gordon showed him up. In fact, he walks away feeling smarter than Gordon about sports -- which he is.
@Linda, the wry smile McGinley gives at the end of the exchange looks just like the one I'd have on my face after besting a male competitor in that exact way. Maybe I'm reading too much into it but that's how I believe he was playing it.
Also, the little body quake of disgust Peter Krause gives at the end looks like the kind of visceral reaction I or one of my friends would have if we'd been bested the way I described.
Given what I know about Sorkin as a person and the types of competitive alpha males he tends to write, that interpretation of the scene certainly fits. Whether it was intended that way or not only he could definitively say.
Isaac Lin said...
re: Gordon's smile: I always thought of it as Gordon thinking, if you're so smart, rejecting all my suggestions, what do you think the coach should have done?
I've always loved the scene in MPS with Dan and Natalie. "You're going to tell me to be strong." "It's not my experience that you need to be told that." He's quietly supportive of her, while at the same time respecting her. He approaches her like a friend who is a strong professional woman, not a little girl who needs to be protected or rescued.
Agree that Huffman is very strong in these episodes; I think everyone does very good work here. In <30 minute episodes with such dense dialog, it's impressive how much depth these characters have, and how much space/time the actors are given to show that complexity in a way that feels natural. The scene I mentioned above is one example; the scene with Dana & Casey in Isaac's office is another, where she starts to fess up about her intentions, looks for support from Casey and gets it, even though he disagreed with her decisions.(Not to imply that it's all the actors' work: the writing (of course), camerawork & blocking, lighting, etc all deliver.)
Alan, I liked some of the little things you mentioned such as the running "goatee" and "conversationally anal-retentive" bits. I also always grin at Dan's near-violent refusal to give up his parka when broadcasting from the over-chilled studio.
I am on the "Gordon is a windbag" train because I work with too many litigator types that feel the need to win every argument regardless of their actual knowledge of the subject and this scenario felt like the same thing to me. Gordon doesn't seem the insightful type to be able to read Casey properly and then trick him to change his mind.
Late to the discussion, sadly, because Mary Pat Shelby is one of my favorite episodes, and the first one where I knew the show would be one of my favorites. How many other shows would have characters making decisions, weighing consequences, and changing their minds, all in the span of 20-ish minutes? Other sitcoms would have have the comedy be about those crazy indecisive people, but this show manages to find the truth behind, and to have Dana keep her integrity throughout. Huffman's performance is wonderful, and I love the picture of her used in the post; it says so much.
And yes, Josh Charles, and the phrase "this is what friends gear up for" which I've borrowed ever since.
graciela said...
Another favorite Dan Rydell moment:
that wry smile on his face as he gazes fondly at Jeremy asleep on the newsroom floor. "He found it," he says softly.
When he'd told Jeremy to "make it a place that YOU like" Jeremy had asked him where that place was and Dan said "I'll let you know when I find it." Well, of course, it was the new kid, the passionate young man who'd finally found a place where he fit in, who would see it right away. It's true for Dan, too -- it's true for all of them.
In a way, I think Dan's reaction is a mirror image of the one Casey had earlier, when he realizes how he's been behaving in regards to the head coach situation: he's been behaving like the Gordons of the world.
When Casey finally admits he doesn't know what play he'd have called, there's a kind of sweetness in it -- a relief, a self-awareness -- that you know the Gordons of the world will never experience.
Bunting said...
I like these episodes okay, but I feel manipulated in an obvious way at points. I don't mind being manipulated if it's done well, but in spots this felt clunky (Natalie's scene with CP is a good example -- in THIS subplot, the two of them are...alone together? Not credible).
Again, good eps, mostly effective, but to my mind strained a bit too hard to be Important.
Eyeball Wit said...
I'm sorry but Mary Pat Shelby was a mess IMHO, and I say that as a fellow journalist, (and a guy who was assaulted by a Cy Young award winner.)
Imagine that you're doing an interview and Angelina Jolie strips in front of you and then whacks you upside the head. Okay, this isn't as much of a news story (it happens every day, right?)
Still I can't imagine you...
a) pretending it didn't happen
b) you editor being allowed to make the "how to handle it" decision on his/her own, especially with Isaac and the lawyers hovering.
c) Calling it a win when they ended up with a worst-case scenario--no ratings from Mary Pat or Natalie, and yet Natalie still gets raked over the coals. (I haven't watched the second part yet...)
FWIW, in the late 1980s, Darryl Strawberry exposed himself to a female Chicago beat writer, mixing a chocolate sundae in a most, um, unusual way.
She, like Natalie, declined to press the issue.
Sabrina Lloyd is great in this ep, though.
Did anyone notice how much Chris Patrick and Gordon look alike. Or were made to look alike, both wearing blue shirts, no tie, under a medium brown blazer?
That, not the Jedi mind trick, is what struck me in the Gordon-Rostenkowski scene.
Also: he was writing a "letter" on a "word processor". Which is good because "no one writes letters anymore" due to no one using email yet. Yay!
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The Scrum framework is purposefully incomplete, only defining the parts required to implement Scrum theory.
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Creating a Story Map for Your Nonprofit Initiatives
In this webinar, attendees will learn strategies for creating a user story map for their nonprofit. Story map examples will be provided that were created by a variety of nonprofits in our Scrum Master workshop. Attendees will walk through the steps of user story creation and walk away with the knowledge of how to create vertical slices in the nonprofit environment.
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A Nonprofit's Guide to Estimating a Backlog
Large new initiatives, new special events, huge federal applications… These are the types of things that nonprofits are always faced with. Yet how are the team members in the nonprofit organizations or the leaders in the organization supposed to have the most accurate estimate of when the initiative will launch, or if the special event details will be done on time, or if the application will be submitted before the deadline? What often happens is heroic efforts by team members to make the deadline or be ready for the event and that is not a sustainable approach for the team or the nonprofit.
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This was everything I needed and more. So many webinars end up actually only being for one level of knowledge, and the presenter did a great job of catering to people within different types of organizations and with different types of teams. As someone who has worked with several nonprofits who have issues with silos and processes and procedure refinement, this proved to be an interesting new look for me at ways we could improve the way we work as a team.
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The Beauty and the Sorrow
An Intimate History of the First World War
By Peter Englund and Peter Graves
By Peter Englund
Translated by Peter Graves
Category: World War I Military History | Biography & Memoir
About The Beauty and the Sorrow
An intimate narrative history of World War I told through the stories of twenty men and women from around the globe–a powerful, illuminating, heart-rending picture of what the war was really like.
In this masterful book, renowned historian Peter Englund describes this epoch-defining event by weaving together accounts of the average man or woman who experienced it. Drawing on the diaries, journals, and letters of twenty individuals from Belgium, Denmark, France, Great Britain, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Italy, Australia, New Zealand, Russia, Venezuela, and the United States, Englund's collection of these varied perspectives describes not a course of events but "a world of feeling." Composed in short chapters that move between the home front and the front lines, The Beauty and Sorrow brings to life these twenty particular people and lets them speak for all who were shaped in some way by the War, but whose voices have remained unheard.
About Peter Englund
Peter Englund received a Ph.D. in history at the University of Uppsala in Sweden. He has been given a number… More about Peter Englund
Peter Englund received a Ph.D. in history at the University of Uppsala in Sweden. He has been given a number of literary prizes in his home country, including the most famous one, the August. In 2002, he was elected to… More about Peter Englund
Published by Vintage
Sep 04, 2012 | 592 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780307739285
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Praise for The Beauty and the Sorrow:
"In four decades of studying war, I've never read such a remarkable book."
—Gerard J. DeGroot, The Washington Post
"They call them the lost generation, but you'll find their story here."
"Intense and bighearted. . . . The accounts of [these] lives can be terrifying or stirring, but are most fully alive in Englund's accumulation of small moments, stray details."
"History in the raw, an unconventional look at the war that did so much to shape the last century. . . . Englund has uncovered the stories of a myriad of fascinating characters."
"An unforgettable and unprecedented view of the war as seen by 20 people who took part in it but, were it not for Englund's remarkable job of unearthing and arranging their journals, letters, and memoirs, would probably have remained forever faceless, forgotten by time. . . . Lets us in on astonishing details of the war one would be hard-pressed to find elsewhere. . . . Shatters the mold . . . A beautiful tribute."
"Conveys the war's complexity better than any of the grand histories so far written."
"Whether considered as history or as literature—it is, of course, both—The Beauty and the Sorrow is radically original in form and epic in scope."
—Geoff Dyer
"A brilliant feat of retrospective journalism. . . . Englund's deft collation provides insights into more than the carnage. . . . This book fleshes out the grim statistics of the Great War. . . . The eloquence of everyday participants will link the reader to the era when the origins of the ensuing century's conflicts became apparent."
—Publishers Weekly (starred)
"An exquisite book. . . . There are adventures and battles, of course, but also many moments of quiet contemplation with closely observed details of street scenes, restaurants, railway stations, and deserted battlefields. . . . By turns pithy, lyrical, colorful, poignant, and endlessly absorbing."
—Kirkus Reviews (starred)
"A wonderfully wide and rich mosaic of personal experience from the First World War."
—Antony Beevor, author of Stalingrad and D-Day: The Battle for Normandy
"Englund covers a lot of ground in The Beauty and the Sorrow, geographically, topically, and in point of view. . . . He succeeds in his goal to humanize the war."
"Peter Englund is one of the finest writers of our time on the tactics, the killing and the psychology of war. In The Beauty and the Sorrow he superbly and humanely brings to life all the tragedy, chaos, death and gunsmoke of battle."
—Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of Stalin and Young Stalin
"Powerful and compelling . . . Of the many books about the First World War this is among the most strikingly original. . . . Almost every page of Englund's book is fresh and revelatory."
—Daily Express (UK)
"A literary as well as a historical achievement."
—The Guardian (UK)
"These lives are anything but ordinary, and the stories are absolutely riveting. . . . A fresh, varied, thoroughly convincing picture of the war. . . . There are some wonderful details. . . . Englund has chosen his voices with great care, and the resulting picture of the war in the round, with all its sorrows but also its joys, is made all the more vivid by the eloquent translation from the Swedish by Peter Graves."
—The Telegraph (UK)
"Englund frees individual experience from the collective cloak of history and geography [in] this extraordinary book. . . . The details build like a symphony."
—Mail on Sunday (UK)
"[There are] hundreds of eerie, moving, upsetting, and surprising incidents from the First World War within this extraordinary book. . . . Like a great novel, The Beauty and the Sorrow manages to be both more universal and more particular [than other books on WWI]. Peter Englund frees individual experience from the collective cloak of history and geography. . . . The details build like a symphony. . . . Englund writes with a calm clarity, beautifully conveyed by his translator."
—Mail on Sunday (5 stars, UK)
"Anthologies of war reminiscences are often lazy stuff, mere compilations of extracted passages from diaries and letters. . . . [But] Englund's choice of witnesses and his use of their material are admirably judged. This is an anthology well above the common run. . . . This is a book about men and women living at the outer edge of human experience."
—Sunday Times (UK)
Q: The Beauty and the Sorrow is not a typical history of World War I. What led you to structure the book from the point of view of ordinary individuals?
A: In one sense the most difficult part was finding a form for the book. I have written several shorter pieces on WWI and taught the subject at my old University in Uppsala, so I was familiar with the subject. But I was also quite determined not to write a book that followed the standard format, i.e. with an overarching grand narrative that contains snippets of individual experiences, mainly because that has already been done, and sometimes quite well. Instead I was interested in the war as an individual experience, to give some kind of sense on how it was (and is) to experience history from below and within, without the hindsight and the rationalisations that inevitably comes afterwards.
Q: What do these personal stories reveal about the nature of World War I that a standard history of battles and campaigns would not?
A: For one thing I think it tells you how extremely difficult it can be to understand something that you yourself are taking part in, are swept along with, submerged in. And the top-down perspective of a battle tells you very little of what it is really like.
Q: In writing the book did you come to have a favourite character—one whose story you found most compelling or most identified with?
A: Tricky question. Most of these people have interesting and even endearing sides to their personalities. Perhaps it would be Kresten Andresen, a young and sensitive Dane drafted into the German Army, who – like many of the persons in the book – at first finds a strange allure in war, but soon feels depressed, trapped and sceptical. Eventually he is killed at the Somme in 1916.
Q: Why did you choose to write The Beauty and the Sorrow in the present tense?
A: I played around with the tempo a bit, but I found out that the present tense worked best as the individual chapters are all based on individual days, and I wanted to give the text the feel of a collective diary, the feel of something happening right here and right now.
Q: What sources did you use and where did you find them?
A: I have used sources that these people left behind: letters, diaries, memoirs. I haven't made up anything in the book. The problem was not so much finding sources – there is an abundance of material left behind by eye-witnesses – as to choose which people to concentrate on.
Q: How did you select the stories that you chose to tell? Did you find that they brought special significance to the events of the war? Did you attempt to cover each theatre of the war?
A: My original intention was to show the multiplicity of war – not least when it comes to peoples own reactions. So I wanted to find people of both sexes, different nationalities, different ages, different attitudes, different functions – obviously not just military men. And I also wanted to give a sense of scope and not get bogged down in the mud of the Western Front, which (not without justification) has come to dominate the memory of the war. So the others theatres of war are here as well: Italy, the Balkans, the Eastern Front, Africa, Mesopotamia, and Palestine. But still, we are only talking about twenty individuals here, and I don't pretend that they are representatives of anyone but themselves.
Q: Do you think that there is a different reception to World War I history in the United States as opposed to in Europe?
A: Yes, I suppose so. The Great War was a momentous event in the history of both the USA and in Europe, not least because it catapulted the USA onto the world stage – and without the USA Germany and her allies probably would have won. At the same time it was fought here in Europe, at a tremendous cost, not just in people and materials, but also in a moral and ideological sense. Europe in a way has never fully recovered from the tragedy of WWI, and so it is not really surprising that this period of history often attracts more interest over here.
Q: As we head toward the 100 year anniversary of World War I, do you think that there are forgotten lessons from the war that we as a global community should reflect on?
A: One important lesson is about how easy it can be to start a war, and how terribly difficult it can be to end it. The horrible logic of human conflict makes men lose control of it: wars follow their own, supremely unpredictable course, almost never achieving those goals that they set out to achieve originally.
Q: You became the permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy in 2009. What is it like to participate in the selection of the laureate for the Nobel Prize in Literature?
A: It's a big responsibility, of course, but it is also pretty exhilarating. Reading all these great works of contemporary literature, and constantly getting in touch with new ones, is a reward in itself.


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Math to catch criminals? Algebra to crack codes in ancient scripts? Propositional Logic to trace missing animals? Combinatorics to crack conspiracies? Graph theory to zero in on murderers...? Well, such magic unfolds in Cracking Crimes, a funky and fabulous whodunit from Prof. R. Sivaraman, the author of the bestseller 'Journey of Genius: Exciting Mathematical Adventures'.
Like the famous fictional detective duo of Sherlock Holmes and his assistant Dr. Watson, in Cracking Crimes, Detective Rudran and his assistant Dr. Sophia team up to crack puzzling mysteries, track ruthless murderers, catch fleeing criminals and unearth lost treasures using mathematical formulae and logic!
Cracking Crimes is a must-read for all those who love math and mysteries!


As Reid, one of my fellow interns, drove me up to my apartment for the first time, I told him "I don't know what your house in Hollywood looks like, but this place is pretty amazing." Probably not the apartment itself - the building is older and they are doing updates in it, so we're one of the only occupied units - but the neighborhood is great. I live a bit out of LA, which on the one hand is kind of too bad, but on the other allows me to rest easier. We're about 25 minutes from Hollywood if traffic is OK and not much farther from downtown. It took 40 minutes to get to the beach on Saturday, but much longer to park.
Glendale feels pretty suburban, but there is a lot going on in the town here. Lots of shops and restaurants and places to go. Now that I have my bike I'll be exploring more of the city itself.
The first day, as I was alone in the apartment and unpacking my roommates started trickling in. We all went to In and Out Burger (a California food chain) to get to know each other more. Sarah is my roommate and from Alabama. She went to school in Memphis. Christina is from Northern California and has lived on the other side of LA county in Long Beach for the last four years. Hannah is originally from Bath, England, but moved to the U.S. when she was 7, though her parents have moved back. There are bound to be troubles, but so far we all seem to have similar temperaments and attitudes, which has lead to a smooth living situation. All three of them have cars in case something should happen and I need a vehicle.
My bike finally arrived! I bought a bike for a much reduced price from a wholesale website, and it came on Monday. It was about 85% put together and I had finish it up. No dealing with breaks or gears or anything, which I would have been terrified to do, and it was more or less pretty simple, until I got to the handle bars. Those took some working on and a tool from one of the neighbors who goes to the church we're associated with till I could get it set up.
We spent all day Wednesday, Thursday and Friday with the group of twenty interns. It was very fun, but totally exhausting. By the end of the 13-hour day together on Thursday I wanted to say something to the effect of "I like you all a lot right now and I don't wanna ruin that with overkill of spending time together!" Everyone is very unique and I'm really looking forward to getting to know people better. We're from all over and have very different lives and very different reasons for coming, which means different expectations and therefore a lot to experience this year. There is one other man from Minnesota, who I happen to have a mutual friend with, but otherwise there is no one from the directly surrounding states. It's nearly half and half girls and guys, with slightly more girls, and we're all between the ages of 22 and 26. Some people are here to have a job and try to figure out what they want to do with their lives, others are here to have some spiritual discernment. I'm really excited to see how the dynamics and the year will play out.
Each of the four intern houses is associated with an Episcopal church in the area and we visited all the churches and saw all the living arrangements. Since the program is/was (that's another long-winded story) associated with Americorps, there is no religious requirement and we all come from very very different walks of religious or spiritual life. There are expectations for us to be a part of our host church communities, which I am OK with because it is very important to me that I meet and spend time with people who are not just in the program but who also live in LA. St Marks, our church, felt just like home. It is a big brick building with stained glass windows, a beautifully decorated altar and all the rest. The service was conducted in the exact way a Catholic one is, with lots of incense, hymns, kneeling, sitting, standing, the like.
Friday night we went to a Dodgers game as a group. I've never been in a professional game, and it has been years since I've been to any baseball game. My roommate Christina had to explain everything to me, while she pouted and tried to ignore the game because she's a Giants, not a Dodgers, fan. It was a pretty good game, without much action till the 6th Inning when they got 6 runs, including 2 home runs right in a row.
Saturday we all went to Target to get some of the supplies for the house we needed, as well as basic groceries. All the other houses are established with past interns just having moved out, so they had a base of food and all the necessities, while we had no food and were missing things like a dust pan. At this point, we're more or less fully furnished, besides a TV and patio furniture. And we have internet, which is an improvement, because for the first four days were were struggling to get anywhere without directions.
That afternoon we went to Venice Beach where we met up with other interns, swam in the ocean and walked along the boardwalk. Went back to the Koreatown intern house for a night of wine and therefore more loose getting-to-know-you time. Sunday was church service then finally some downtime at home for an early night before work the next day.
All three of my roommates are working at charter schools near by. So far, the food pantry has been really great and I'm feeling very good about the work I'll be doing and how it suits me, but I'll write more about that later. It's MUCH better than what I was doing at the Depot, which I can say more freely now that I no longer work there. I really really needed to leave that job and hope I never have to go back to working in a hotel again. Maybe I could wait tables, but the hotel industry, especially such a nice hotel, was ridiculous and frivolous.


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1 RAR Band
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Private J. Grimes 1RAR, receives his Australian Defence Medal from Chief of the Defence Force General David Hurley AC, DSC,
Brigade Parade November 2015
soldiers of 1st Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment, march onto the parade ground as part of the unit's 70th birthday celebration at Lavarack Barracks, Townsville, on 12 October 2015.
Private Daniel O'Brien salutes as part of the catafalque party during the 70th birthday celebrations for 1st Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment, at Lavarack Barracks, Townsville, on 12 October 2015.
Soldiers from 1st Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment, on parade in front of the unit's memorial during the unit's 70th birthday Lavarack Barracks, Townsville, 12 October 2015.
1st Battalion Royal Australian Regiment (1RAR), on parade during 1RAR's Coral Week celebrations, Lavarack Barracks.
Charlie Company The 1st Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment and colleagues at the commemoration of the Battles of Coral and Balmoral battlefield mess dinner at Camp Baker, Afghanistan.
Soldiers of the 1st Battalion Royal Australian Regiment (1RAR), march off parade during 1RAR's Coral Week celebrations, Lavarack Barracks.
Private Zak Rogers 1 RAR and Private Ben Abraham 1 RAR compete in the Commander's Trophy
Soldiers from 1 RAR run the obstacle course 1 RAR wins the Commanders Trophy
Private Damien Jaundrell and Private Adam Seaman display pieces of B Company, 1st Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment, history at Camp Baker in Kandahar during a deployment in support of Resolute Support. Force-protection-Afghanistan
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Members-of-Direct-Fire-Support-Weapons-platoon and Private-Nicholas-Bailey
Corporal Alex Clahane from 1 RAR reads the eulogy for fallen soldier Private Benjamin Ranaudo during the ceremony to rename a marksmanship range at High Range
Soldiers from 1 RAR form a protective hollow square around family and friends of fallen soldier Private Benjamin Ranaudo
The Duke of Gloucester Cup Winners – 1 RAR Champion Rifle Section of the RAR New L-Cpls 1 RAR
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CFN Scott Stacey, PTE Vitale Johnston, PTE Sean Doherty and PTE Jason Deacon-Shaw completed Trailwalker UK 2015, a gruelling 100km
Direct Fire Support Weapons (DFSW) Pl Training 1 RAR Rugby Team
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Soldiers from 1st Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment, recently partnered with the Townsville Hospital Foundation to create the foundations first fundraising calendar.
1 RAR soldiers with Kael and Bandi the Bear Delvin and some 1 RAR soldiers
President of the 1st Battalion (1RAR) Association, Mr Ric Culpitt, unveils the Vietnam memorial stone during the opening of the 1RAR Memorial Walk, Lavarack Barracks.
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Private Nathaniel Damen of 1 RAR and Sapper Malcolm Tindall of 3 CER assist Mr Toby Kelly warehouse supervisor with Food Relief NQ during preparation of Christmas hampers.
Somalia Vets 1 RAR – Anzac Day 2015 Direct Fire Support Weapons (DFSW) Pl Training
Corporal Lawrence Robertson, Captain Andrew Evans and Corporal Brain Heilbronn with country music star Beccy Cole at Lavarack Barracks in Townsville in March 2015.
HMAS Labuan transporting members of Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, the Royal Australian Regiment (1 RAR), during Exercise SQUADEX.
An Australian Army A25 Blackhawk takes off while HMAS Labuan, a Royal Australian Navy Landing Craft Heavy, transfers Army personnel from Bravo Company, 1 RAR to HMAS Choules during Exercise SQUADEX 2012.
HMAS Betano, delivers soldiers from 1 RAR to the beach during amphibious Exercise SEA LION 2012.
Soldiers from Townsville based 1 RAR embarked in HMAS Choules assist by carrying a simulated casualty during an evacuation scenario incorporated into amphibious Exercise SEA LION 2012.
Private Aden Bright from 8 Platoon, 1 RAR provides security for a military convoy during Exercise SEA LION 2012, a simulated evacuation exercise at Cowley Beach.
Commander 3rd Brigade, Brigadier Shane Caughey congratulates Lance Corporal Todd Crossin (1st Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment – 1 RAR) as the recipient of the Trainee of Merit & Leadership award on completion of the 01/12 Junior Leaders Course at Lavarack Barracks in Townsville. 2012.
Commander 3rd Brigade, Brigadier Shane Caughey (3rd from left) with award recipients from the first Junior Leader Course for the year at Lavarack Barracks. (L -R) Private Erin Tiernay-Instructor Award (Lavarack Health Center), Lance Corporal Todd Crossin (1st Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment – 1 RAR) Trainee of Merit Award & Leadership Award, Private Jae Butler-Evans (1 RAR) Operations Award. 2012.
Soldiers of Alpha Coy 1RAR battle the jungle while enhancing their foundation warfighting skills as Rifle Company Butterworth rotation 93. 2011.
Papua New Guinea Defence Force (PNGDF) soldiers from the 2nd Battalion, Pacific Island Regiment (2 PIR) pictured training in North Queensland during Exercise Wantok Warrior, an annual infantry exchange between the PNGDF and the Australian Army. They were training with their counterparts from 1st Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment (1 RAR) at Townsville Field Training Area (TFTA). 2011
Chief of Army Lieutenant General David Morrison AO has a laugh with troops from the 1st Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment during a visit to the United States Marines Corps Base – Hawaii.
Troops from the 1st Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment during an amphibious assault rehearsal exercise at the United States Marines Corps Base – Hawaii. 2012.
Troops from the 1st Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment dismount from a United States Marine Corps "Amtrak" during an amphibious assault rehearsal exercise at the United States Marines Corps Base – Hawaii. 2012
Lieutenant Samuel McKenzie from the 1st Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment shows United States Marine Corps 1st Lieutenant James Noronha the Australian F88 Steyr during a range shoot at the United States Marines Corps Base – Hawaii. 2012
Troops from the 1st Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment, clear their weapons prior to conducting a range shoot at the United States Marines Corps Base – Hawaii. 2012
United States Marine Corps Staff Sergeant Zac Martin gives a safety brief to troops from the 1st Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment, at the Modular Armoured Tactical Combat House facility at the United States Marines Corps Base – Hawaii. 2012
Corporal Aaron Kime, Section Commander of Mortar Platoon, the 1st Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (1 RAR) at the urban operations training facility, Marine Corps Training Area – Bellows. 2012
1 RAR mortar platoon conducting the annual E2-E5 competency shoots over 17th – 26th February 2014.
Soldiers of the 205th Corps Advisory Team, Bulgarian Security Forces Assistance Team and 1st Battalion Royal Australian Regiment gathered together to play a friendly soccer match against soldiers of the 205th Hero Corps, Afghan National Army, at Camp Hero, Kandahar, Afghanistan, Feb. 20, 2014.
While the coalition team lost the game 6-1, it did not deter from all the players' good spirits and their sportsmanship.
Townsville's 1 RAR Sniper team, PTE Liam Sullivan and PTE Luke Barnes engage stationary targets out to 1100m during the Observation/Clod Shoot match at the International Sniper Competition, as part of AASAM 2012
Private Glenn Johnson, Platoon Signaller from 8 Platoon 1st Battalion Royal Australian Regiment (1 RAR), establishes communication with Headquarters, as Private Jack Campbell runs past during Exercise Sea Lion, a simulated evacuation exercise at Cowley Beach. 2012.
1 RAR Combined Arms Training Activity (CATA) May / June 2013
1 RAR CATA May / June 2013
CDF General David Hurley AC, DSC and 1 RAR soldiers – Method of Entry Training 2014