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Arsene Wenger Signings at Arsenal
Betfame Blog | Arsene Wenger Top Seven Signings at Arsenal
Date : October 08,2018 Author : Oscar Holt Categories :
Article last updated on 10th of September 2019
Laboriously blamed and crucified by some, hailed and respected by others, either way, the longest-serving manager in Arsenal era will inevitably deserve at least some pages in the history books of the club when his time as a club manager reach its end.
All through his two-decade reign, Arsene Wenger has acquired and let go lots of players. Some of them grew and became club's legends while there are some who were significant failures.
However, it's tough to pick only seven deals, especially after Arsene, received the recognition of a fantastic scout and even higher executor at the transfer marketplace. Here are our top 7 signings of Arsene Wenger's generation:
7. Kolo Toure
Signed for just £150,000 in 2002 from an unknown Ivorian club (ASEC Mimosas), Kolo would later end up a critical a part of Arsenal's defense inside the post-invincible era.
He was signed as a utility player and kicked off his Arsenal career mostly coming on from the bench while playing as a defensive midfielder or a right fullback.
However, having a clear talent to produce great sliding tackles and read the game from the back, he was always going to end as a center back.
Having gained enough revel as a part of the legendary, ''Invincible'' generation in his first year at Arsenal, Kolo successfully filled in Tony Adams shoes to become a pacesetter within the coronary heart of Gunner's defense.
6. Robin van Persie
He might be called traitor and Judas by every Arsenal fan. However, RvP somehow found his way to the list and here is why.
Bought for just £2.75m from Feyenoord in 2004, in a clear bargain, especially fueled by the fact that he scored 132 goals for Arsenal, rating him 8th place on the club's all-time scoring list.
Captivated via his refined style of playing and developing into a prolific and one of the deadliest finisher in world football, RvP stayed at Arsenal for eight years, before leaving for Manchester United in 2012.
While at Arsenal, van Persie won only two major trophies: an FA Cup and Community Shield, but fans will forever remember the 2012/13 Premier League campaign where he managed to add the Premier League Golden Boot award to his name, scoring 30 goals.
5. Sol Campbell
Another Invincible and another defensive legend, Sol Campbell went on to become one of the greatest ever Center backs to wear the Arsenal colors.
Campbell joined Arsenal in 2001 from bitter rivals Tottenham, on a free transfer, under scandalous circumstances, ending months of speculation and uncertainty regarding his destiny.
Sol Campbell quickly grew into a regular starter in Arsene Wenger's 2001/02 season, earning the honor to partner Tony Adams and Martin Keown.
Thanks to his gargantuan figure and power of character, Sol appeared wholly indestructible and imposed fear in opponents with just looking at them.
He may also be remembered for his never-ending sliding tackle while playing for England against Croatia, where legend says: he is still sliding!
4. Cesc Fabregas
Signed on a free transfer since his early days from Barcelona's academy, La Masia, back in 2003, Cesc Fabregas would later become the youngest Arsenal captain and one of Arsene Wenger's masterpieces.
With only one year experience in the Arsenal's academy, Fabregas was slowly inserted into the first team by Arsene Wenger, and he returned the favor by showing his actual abilities to the football world back in the 2004/05 season, but it was not until 2005/06 that he stepped in and broke into the starting eleven.
The art of passing, vision and being able to read the game learned at La Masia, helped him become, one of the most creative and innovative midfielders that ever performed in this beautiful game.
In the 2008/09 season, Fabregas was named as a successor to William Gallas as club captain, becoming the youngest ever Arsenal player to wear the captain's armband.
3.Robert Pires
Having just added a World Cup and a European Championship medal to his name, Robert Pires chose Arsenal as his next destination, joining our club at the beginning of July 2000.
Bobby was already 27 when he came to London from Marseille for a fee of £6 million, and he had already collected enough experience, to cope with the requirements and the physicality of The Premier League. He settled very quickly into the team and played a vital part, achieving four major trophies (2001'-02'; 2003'-04 Premier League 2002'-03'; 2004-05' FA Cup) during his six years at Arsenal.
Many football pundits would say that it was his introducing to the Premier League that changed the perception of an attacking minded winger. He was one of the first comprehensive players to play on a side, opposite to his stronger foot and he did it the best.
2. Patrick Vieira
Despite being signed by Bruce Rioch during 1996, Patrick Viera would later reveal that Arsene Wenger had a major influence on his decision to join Arsenal. A fee of around £3.5 million was paid to Inter for his services, and from this perspective, it looks like an absolute bargain.
The Frenchmen brought instant stability and creativity to Arsenal's sluggish midfield at the time and went on to become a key figure in every season he has played for the team.
With 402 games, he still holds the record for most games played under Arsene Wenger. With his will to stand for his teammates, fight for every ball and his overall influence on and off the pitch, he was rightfully named club captain in May 2002, succeeding the armband from Tony Adams.
1. Thierry Henry
No surprises, as Arsenal's all-time leading scorer with 228 goals tops the list of ''Top 7 players signed by Arsene Wenger''.
Having joined the club for £11 million from his short stay at Juventus in 1999, Henry went on to become one of the best football players in the world.
Mentored and coached by top manager Arsene Wenger, Thierry Henry developed a style of an electric and prolific goal-scorer, unprecedented until then and while there were some who could score goals and some who could score beautiful goals, Titou could do both.
Thierry Henry won two Premier League titles and three FA Cups during his eight years at Arsenal and wore the captain's armband in his last two years at the club.
A real idol of many generations, Thierry Henry, is responsible for millions of fans, including me choosing to support Arsenal for years to come and his glorious return and scoring against Leeds United, just can't be described by words.
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Vera Michalski-Hoffman's keynote address at Jaipur Bookmark, 25 Jan 2019
The Jaipur Bookmark is a business conclave held during the Jaipur Literature Festival. In fact it begins a day before the litfest is inuagurated. It is a fantastic space for publishing professionals to congregate from around the world and discuss new trends and share ideas and experiences. On the third day of the conclave, Friday 25 Jan 2019, I moderated a session on "Indies vs Giants". The scope of the discussion was: "Independent publishers with lower overheads are finding their niche position in the publishing industry around the world, even as publishing giants are consolidating their positions. This session talks about creative risk taking and the tools brave, new publishers adopt." The panellists were publishers Vera Michalski-Hoffman (Libella group), Karthika VK ( Westland/Amazon), Jeremy Trevathan (Macmillan), and Anna Solding (Midnight Sun Publishing). Vera Michalski-Hoffman also delivered the keynote address and with her kind permission it is reproduced here.
L-R: Anna Solding, Jaya Bhattacharji Rose, Vera Michalski-Hoffman, Jeremy Trevathan, Karthika VK
Born in Basel, Switzerland, in a family with Swiss, Russian and Austrian roots, Vera Michalski-Hoffmann spent her childhood in France, studied in Spain and has a degree in Political Science from the Graduate institute of International Studies in Geneva. She established a foundation named after her late husband, The Jan Michalski Foundation for Literature and Writing to actively support literary activities in different countries. She is now the publisher of the Libella group that comprises the following imprints: In France: Buchet/Chastel, Phébus, Le temps apprivoisé, les Cahiers dessinés, Libretto. In Switzerland: Noir sur Blanc, with a new line called Notabilia, Editions Favre. And in Poland: Oficyna Literacka Noir sur Blanc. She also acquired The Polish Bookshop in Paris.
Vera Michalski's tremendous work in supporting literature with the establishment of Libella group and it's acquisitions of fine independent publishing firms have ultimately benefitted the fine stable of authors as is noticeable with World Editions and it's recent expansion plans. "The group is unique in its total financial independence and the diversity of its editorial production: French and foreign literature, travel stories, essays, documents, music, ecology, illustrated books and creative hobbies. Priority is given to quality, especially to the quality of writing."
I thought that I would focus my speech on the specificities of Libella, being neither a giant nor obviously an Indie so that this case study of an untypical small publishing house evolving into a publishing group publishing in 3 different languages could form a sort of starting point for our discussion.
Let me tell you the story of how this independent group came into existence by a succession of launching new imprints and acquiring existing ones and what fields it covers now, naturally mentioning the Indian or Jaipur connection when appropriate. Forgive me for not respecting a strict chronology for it is a complicated story unfolding in different territories.
The whole story started in 1987 in Switzerland when my husband and I opened les éditions Noir sur Blanc, a niche publisher aiming at bringing mostly Polish and Russian authors to the French-speaking market (France, Belgium, Quebec, Switzerland) and covering both fiction and non-fiction. This was before the fall of the Berlin Wall so not that obvious. Later we covered other fields, like narrative history and published quite a few Jaipur regulars such as William Dalrymple, Giles Milton, or Anthony Sattin. We now bring out as well illustrated books mainly about drawing and photography. A total of over 400 titles.
We soon decided that it was important to publish in Polish as well and opened a Polish branch in 1989 where we started by introducing famous international authors into Poland that were then still unpublished. Charles Bukowski, Henry Miller, Paul Auster, to name just a few. We published Umberto Eco's novels and brought out detective stories with a travel angle. The likes of Donna Leon, Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, and Andrea Camilleri were unknown then. We have published so far well over 500 books in Polish.
Still in Poland but later, in 2002, Wydawnictwo Literackie, one of the most literary publishing houses founded in 1953 under communist rule and still state owned, came up for sale in the frame of privatization. We stepped in. That magnificent company's list and backlist never cease to amaze me. Let's mention just a few names: Margaret Atwood, Jorge Luis Borges, Claudio Magris, Alice Munro, and Orhan Pamuk. Not to mention the best of Polish literature with names such as Olga Tokarczuk, recent winner of the Man booker International,Witold Gombrowicz, or Szcepan Twardoch.
In the year 2000, in Paris, we had acquired Buchet/Chastel, a literary publisher established in 1929, a well-regarded publisher of fiction. This allowed us to touch French literature which we were very keen to do, alongside some significant international authors. Buchet had been the publisher of Malcolm Lowry, Lawrence Durrell, or Henry Miller to mention just a few names. However, in 2000, Buchet /Chastel was well past its glory. People called it "La belle endormie" in reference to the famous tale Sleeping Beauty by Charles Perrault, but remembered the iconic bright orange covers.
It made for a real challenge to bring it back to the forefront of literary life. We hired editors for the different lines we wanted to exist: French literature, world literature, non-fiction. We then took a good look at the impressive backlist and decided what directions we wanted to keep. The founder of Buchet /Chastel, Edmond Buchet was a keen musician and a rather good pianist. He had made friends with a number of famous musicians among them Yehudi Menuhin. He published quite a few books about music. We decided to maintain that line. We opened new fields and started an environmental series. France was then not very receptive to these topics, the field being covered mostly by very politicized books on the verge of pamphlets, on marginal topics. Nobody was focusing on important issues and providing objective material, food for thought so to speak, which we aimed at doing. We decided as well to keep the famous orange covers that people remembered modernizing them by using a different cover paper and different typo. Because we all know that we should not throw out the baby with the bath water! Sometimes there needs to be a sort of continuity. Over the years, we published quite a few Indian writers, in fiction and non-fiction, among them our biggest success was Tarun Tejpal, (The Alchemy of Desire). Our list boasts as well with Aravind Adiga (The White Tiger), Suketu Mehta, Rana Dasgupta, Gurcharan Das, Pankaj Mishra etc.
Shortly before 2000, we had acquired les éditions Phébus, a house founded in 1978, with an excellent reputation especially in foreign literature and stories of great explorers, or rediscovered classics, as Alexandre Dumas's Le Chevalier de Saint Hermine. Phébus had created a paperback imprint a few years before under the name Libretto, now a very important part of the Libella group.
In 2003 we opened a brand new field, drawing, and started publishing big format soft cover beige albums typeset in a classical elegant way and printed on quality paper under the name Les Cahiers dessinés. The aim was to bring back drawing to its rightful place as one of the important disciplines of art alongside painting or sculpture. We now have more than 100 titles in our backlist and some books sold quite well, like Alberto Giacometti's Paris Without End.
Photography is represented in the Libella group by 2 imprints: Photosynthèses which was started from scratch in 2013 in Arles, in the south of France, (the first book published in 2014 was Lou Reed's Rhymes). Every book is considered unique and different formats co-exist in the list. They are printed with the utmost care. Libella acquired editions Robert Delpire, founded in 1951, when the founder chose to retire a few years ago. We are gradually opening the list to new authors while remaining careful not to alter the excellent image the house has enjoyed in the past with famous authors such as Henri Cartier-Bresson, Josef Koudelka, or Robert Franck. Under these new circumstances, we reacted quickly when the gallery adjoining the Delpire office became available. We relabeled it FOLIA, a name that seemed to reconcile book and image, and produce now 5 exhibitions a year showing both our authors' work and others whose work fits into the concept. The aim is to show photography with a literary angle.
Another line in Libella needs to be mentioned, practical books under the imprint Le Temps apprivoisé, a part of Buchet Chastel when we acquired it. We decided to keep it in spite of a relative distance to the main part of the catalogue and a sector fragilized by the competition with internet sites and cheap books produced by the giants able to have huge print runs.
One recent development is very important to me. In 2016, World Editions joined Libella and we now publish in English a small list of 8 books a year under the motto Voices from around the globe. The office is in Amsterdam. The idea is to help interesting books, often from peripheral languages, to get access to translations and the world market in an age where translations, expensive as they are, tend to stick to mainstream authors and main languages leaving some authors alone.
In between, in 1991, we had intervened in order to prevent the closing of the Polish Bookstore established in Paris since 1833.This very well located shop, then selling mostly books in Polish or translated from Polish. It is now a very active general bookstore. It welcomes any kind of literary event in a part of Paris where books have sadly given way to clothes in spite of the fact that it was home to most publishers until recent years saw a consolidation of the industry bringing about the need for bigger office space that the old district of St. Germain des Prés could not offer. This happened recently as a result of the consolidation in the publishing industry, most small literary publishers had to leave the area to move in with their respective groups often located outside the historical centre of town. The bookstore and the gallery became an important part of our publicity and ensure an improved visibility in Paris.
I believe I gave you the general picture of Libella, a confederation of small almost niche mostly literary publishers, publishing in 3 languages out of offices in Lausanne, Paris, Arles, Warsaw, Krakow, Amsterdam and New York.
In spite of our relatively small size, we have a certain complexity, publish over 300 books a year. So where do we stand? Let our discussion clarify that point.
An interview with Roanna Gonsalves
Roanna Gonsalves is from India. She earned her PhD from the University of New South Wales. She teaches creative writing workshops within communities, schools, and universities. Her research focuses on the arts, social media, creativity studies and postcolonial literatures. She created a series of radio documentaries entitled, On the Tip of a Billion Tongues. She received the Prime Minister's Australia Asia Endevour Award. She is the co-founder and co-editor of Southern Crossings. She is the author of The Permanent Resident, which won 2018 NSW Premier's Literary Awards, Multicultural NSW Award.
Sunita De Souza goes to Sydney is a powerful set of stories that are atmospheric. Packed with detailed descriptions of Bombay/ Mumbai, Goa and Australia. "Home stays with you, in your stories" is a beautifully apt description of immigrant literature coined by by Norwegian resident, originally from Nagaland, and the Sahitya Akademi Bal Puraskar 2018 winner, Easterine Kiralu. The comment encapsulates Roanna Gonsalves short stories very well too.
It is not clear if the principle of arrangement of the stories is chronological but there is definitely a shift in the confident writing style and evolution of the women characters from the first "Full Face" to the last "The Permanent Resident". There is a quiet determination evident in the stories to make literature out of the most ordinary experiences such as in the search for Sichuan peppercorns to prepare Kung pa khao chicken for lunch in "Easter 2016". This is a devastatingly sharp story beginning with the title which is so apt with its double-edged reference to the resurrection of Christ and that of the woman narrator occurring on Easter Sunday. Roanna Gonsalves captures the relationship between her husband, Ronnie, and the narrator so well especially his insistence for Sichuan peppercorns No substitution with Indian peppercorn would suffice. His steely stubbornness that he wanted a change in the menu despite the fact the Easter Sunday lunch had already been cooked. The exhausted wife (not just physically but mentally and emotionally for being stuck in domestic drudgery and childcare, reminiscing about her life back in Bombay when she could also be a professional) agrees to look for the spice even though it is the long Easter weekend and in all likelihood all provision stores would be shut. The descriptions of the people walking on the streets as she goes by in her search is as if a bird has been let out of its cage and watches in numb wonderment. The narrator observes everyone so closely; as if the boundary lines between the narrator and author are blurred at this point. When she finally finds a store open, discovers a packet of the spice, nothing prepares the reader for her defiant act of tearing open the packet of pink peppercorns that are "pink as the sky at dusk over the backwaters of the Mandovi", munching them and leaving the open packet on the shelf and walking out for a stroll reminiscing on how the fragrance reminds her of her grandmother while the flavour is that of a combination of lavender and Tiger Balm. The story works marvellously well at so many levels!
The dark twist of "Christmas 2012" is gut wrenching. "What you understand you can control" seems so innocuous a statement at first and then comes the story's conclusion. I found myself holding my breath and was sickened to the core when I finished reading. It is a dark secret of many households even now if one keeps track of child sexual abuse stories. The horror of it is magnified by watching the news of the shocking rape of Dec 2012 but it seems to have no impact on the father. I cannot get over the image of the bossy Martha, fussing over the linen and cutlery and carving of the turkey, being so precise about the Turkey sauce blemish on the white tablecloth; she knows exactly what home remedy to fix the stain but is clueless on how to "fix" the moral stain on her family. The poor woman stuck in a new land as an immigrant has no one really to speak to and cannot in any way jeopardise her situation or that of her husband by reporting Martin to the police otherwise they will in all likelihood lose their PR (Permanent Resident) status. Hell truly exists on earth and it is usually of man's own making.
The stories are full of very distinct characters, particularly the women. Usually in a short story collection the danger always exists of the personality of the characters blending into each other and acquiring a monotonous tone. This is not the case for Sunita de Souza. With the women characters, the author explores situations and how far can women push their limits. It's as if they have always had an urge to explore but were boxed in by social rules of conduct back home in India. Whereas being on one's own in a new land provides an anonymity that pushes one to the brink to discover new spaces — physically and metaphorically too. Driven to extreme situations the women unexpectedly find their voices and take a stand. It is not as if they were weaklings in the first place, they just conform and conform. Then something clicks and they take flight in a good way. They take decisions that change their lives for the better. For instance, the protagonists of "(CIA) Australia", "Full Face" and "Teller in the Tale" or even the "bold" mother in "Soccer Mum". All the women try, some do take action and others contemplate it and in the process provide a role model to the readers.
The strongest stories in this collection to my mind are "The Dignity of Labour", "Easter 2016" and "The Permanent Resident". The themes of domestic violence, fragile male egos/ patriarchal sense of entitlement that the men exhibit and assertion of the individual's identity are not new and never will be but come together ever so stunningly in these stories. These are horrendous stories for the violence highlighted. While reading these three stories I could not help but recall the commandment "Love thy neighbour as thyself". The focus is inevitably on the first half of the commandment but increasingly I feel that women in particular should also learn to focus on the second half — self-preservation is equally critical. Don't always give and give, but learn to maintain your dignity, self-respect, identity. The sleazy story "Up Sky Down Sky Middle Water" captures this commandment well. The girl was very sure she did not want to be a one-night stand but in that short ride she had done her calculation that having sex with the guy by the roadside would in all likelihood give her an advantage in negotiating her salary. It is a very unsettling story but in it lies quite a remarkable tale of self-preservation. She is near starvation with a very low bank balance and she has to do the quick calculation of whether using her body will give her an added advantage. It is tough to decide whether one passes moral judgement on the girl or appreciates her boldness, her quick thinking to be in some ways emotionally detached from the scene and think ahead of her future. The reader is put in quite a spot with this story.
The phrase "family friendly feminism" is fast becoming fashionable which is annoying for a variety of reasons but as your stories show there is so much work left to be done. Though the stories focus upon experiences of immigrants, specifically within the Goan/Bombay Catholic community, there is a universal truth embedded in every single story.
Fantastic collection!
Here are excerpts of an interview with the author:
How long were these stories in the making?
I took about five years to write these stories, but they are standing on over two decades of writing experience. My first job after graduating from St. Xavier's College in Mumbai was as a reporter with Screen, in India, back in the days when it was a broadsheet. Since then I have written journalism, literary nonfiction, blogs, scholarly pieces in international peer-reviewed journals, radio documentaries, including Doosra: The Life and Times of an Indian Student in Australia and On the tip of a Billion Tongues, a four part radio documentary series on contemporary multilingual Indian writing. I've written for the stage and had short fiction published in different journals, and anthologised in collections. I also wrote a novel (unpublished) which was longlisted for the Vogel Awards, back when I was under 35, which is the cut-off age for that award. As they say, you have to write millions of terrible words before you get to the good words. So all of this writing needed to be done, over two decades, before I could write my book. It took this long not because I'm a lazy or slow writer but because I've been a single parent and have had to work in many day jobs to support my family, while writing in my "spare time".
Why begin writing short stories when most publishers shun this genre, especially from a first time author? How did you achieve this stroke of genius to be known as the debut author of a fantastic and now prize-winning collection?
Thank you so much for your warm and generous words, and your fantastic, considered questions. You're right. It's very hard to get published, particularly with a short story collection. I felt very honoured to be published by UWAP and Speaking Tiger. I wanted to write short stories because they call forth a respect for the limitations of time and space, and enable a focus on the particular, the intimate, and the fleeting. The short story form offers a set of sharp literary tools with which to sculpt complex experiences and render them economically on the page. This form of the short story felt most suited to writing about the complexities of the immigrant experience. It allowed me to explore different facets of that experience, from the point of view of different protagonists, something which would be harder to achieve with a novel.
Who are the short story writers you admire and why? Did their writing influence you in any way?
I've been heavily influenced by the work of all kinds of writers such as Eunice De Souza, Michelle De Kretser, Alice Munro, Jhumpa Lahiri, Ambai, Kiran Nagarkar, Jerry Pinto, Arundhati Subramaniam, A.K. Ramanujan, Chekhov, Arundhati Roy, Sampurna Chattarji, Arshia Sattar, Alexis Wright, Melissa Lucashenko, Tony Birch, Jeanine Leane, Ali Cobby Eckerman, Damodar Mauzo, bell hooks, and Elizabeth Bishop. I've had my fair share of Rushdie-itis, where I tried to magic-realise all my characters. That phase didn't last thankfully. But yes, I owe a huge debt to Rushdie. So many writers have fed my work. As the Australian poet Andy Kissane says, "poems are cobbled together from other poems". So too are stories cobbled together from other stories. I'm very aware of the debt I owe to the writers who have paved the way for people like me.
How did you start writing about the immigrant experience in Australia?
I started writing about this a long time ago, across various media. My first piece of fiction, published in Eureka Street, 'Curry Muncher', was written as a response to the violence against Indian students in Australia. Having been an Indian student in Australia myself, I felt I needed to render the experience with nuance, and I felt fiction was the best vessel to hold this nuance and complexity. Exploring this topic further, I was also commissioned to write a radio documentary called Doosra, and was a co-writer on a national award-winning play 'Yet to ascertain the nature of the crime'. All the links to my work can be found on my website.
Sometimes the turn in a story like that of the husband grinding the toes of his wife in "The Dignity of Labour" is too cruel a detail to be imaginative. It is as if you heard about it. Do these stories incorporate kernels of real incidents?
That is a lovely comment. However, I have to say that this particular incident is entirely made up. I'm sure this incident has happened to someone somewhere, but in this story it is an imagined detail. Some stories are based on things I've read in the media, but all the stories have been filtered through my imagination, and they are all fictional. I think fiction has the power to be truthful in a way that bare facts cannot.
I filtered some details of real stories. None of my stories are entirely based on true stories reported in the media. For example, in the first story, 'Full Face', the story of the hairdresser who is murdered by her husband is loosely based on the horrific murder of Parwinder Kaur here in Sydney, by her husband. But the main story itself is based on a different relationship. Yes of course, there is an important place for nonfiction. But the idea that fiction must be based on fact for it to be any good is not something I'm interested in. I believe in the power of fiction, the power of the imagination to help us glimpse our better selves. I'm not saying my fiction does this. But I believe that fiction as a whole has the power to do this.
Do you work or are associated with a shelter/organisation for Indian women immigrants?
No, I'm not, but I do know of many amazing Indian women here who work with survivors of family violence in the Indian communities.
JBR: Makes sense then. You have probably heard stories. it is not that I am insisting on looking for links but it is so clear that you are a kind and sensitive listener who has taken some stories to heart.
RG: Thank you.
I like the way you keep bringing in the Catholic Associations to support the immigrants, mostly provide them a communal and cultural base. The church communities do provide refuge for newcomers and immigrants. Was this a conscious detail to incorporate in your stories or is it a part and parcel of your own life as well?
Yes, it was completely deliberate to set my stories amongst the Indian catholic communities. One reason I did this was to counter in some small way the almost universal and inaccurate conflation of Indianness with Hinduism. As we all know, there is more to India than Hinduism, however rich and wonderful it may be. I wanted to gesture towards this multiplicity by deliberately focussing on a community I knew best. Yet, as you know, in my work, I do not shy away from critiquing Catholicism or the Catholic church. Yes, the church for Christians, the temples for Hindus, the mosques for Muslims, are all ports of anchor for new immigrants who find familiarity in old religions from the homeland when they arrive in a new country with an otherwise alien culture. I write about Konkani-speaking communities, Goan and Mangalorean and Bombay Catholics, just like Jhumpa Lahiri focusses on Bengalis, and Rohinton Mistry focusses on Parsis.
When you observe do you keep a notebook handy to scribble points or do these details come alive when you begin to write a story?
Yes, I keep a notebook, I also type up comments on my Notes app on my phone. I've gone back to these notes several times and they have provided rich material for my work. For me, the catalyst for each of my stories has been clusters of words that sound and look good to me. I begin with words that fit together in a way that is pleasing to me. I don't begin with character or theme or plot. That comes after the words for me. So the notes and scribbles I make are primarily combinations of words that I've overheard or imagined suddenly when I'm waiting at the bus stop etc.
Your women characters come across as women who make difficult choices but would they be called feminists for making those decisions or just strong women? How would you describe yourself as – a feminist or a writer of women-centric stories?
I am unapologetically a feminist. I owe everything to the struggles of the early feminists in India and across the world. Were it not for these brave women, I would still be stuck in the kitchen cooking rice and dal for my husband while nursing baby number nineteen. Our independence as women has been won through the struggles of many brave women, and I will never forget this debt. So yes, I call myself a feminist. All my female characters are feminists, in that they are strong women who make choices and are self-aware enough to deal with the consequences, however challenging or empowering those consequences may be.
Have you been trained in theatre?
I wish I could act like Shabhana Azmi and the late Smita Patil. However I have no talent and no training as a performer. But I have written for the stage and hope to continue to do so.
What are you writing next?
I am writing a book of historical fiction, based on the imperial networks of the British and Portuguese empires. It's about Governor Lachlan Macquarie and his Indian servant, set in the early nineteenth century in the south of India, the west of Scotland, and the east of Australia.
Roanna Gonsalves Sunita De Souza Goes to Sydney: And Other Stories Speaking Tiger Books, Delhi, 2018. Pb. pp. 296
"Sexographies" by Gabriela Wiener
According to the biography posted online renowned Peruvian journalist Gabriela Wiener (Lima, 1975) is author of the collections of crônicas Sexografías, Nueve Lunas, and Mozart, la iguana con priapismo y otras historias. Her work also includes the poetry collection Ejercicios para el endurecimiento del espíritu. Her latest book is Llamada perdida (2014). She writes regularly for the newspapers El Pais(Spain) and La República (Perú). She also writes for several magazines of America and Europe, such as Etiqueta Negra (Perú), Anfibia (Argentina), Il corriere della Sera (Italy), S. XXI (France), and Virginia Quarterly Review (United States). In Madrid, she worked as editor of the Spanish edition of Marie Claire. She left the magazine in 2014 to work on her first novel.
Restless Books will be publishing Sexographies in May 2018. It has been translated from the Spanish by Jennifer Adcock and Lucy Greaves. This is a form of reportage that is like none other. A collection of brutal essays written in the first person that are impossible to classify in any genre. The writing breaks all known norms. It is perhaps preferable to say that the focus of every essay determines the style of writing whether it is "infiltrating the most dangerous Peruvian prison, participating in sexual exchanges in swingers clubs, traveling the dark paths of the Bois de Boulogne in Paris in the company of transvestites and prostitutes, undergoing a complicated process of egg donation in Spain, and participating in a ritual of ayahuasca ingestion in the Amazon jungle". A truer book blurb was never written when Sexographies is described as "an eye-opening, kamikaze journey across the contours of the human body and mind".
Included in Sexographies is Gabriela Wiener's profile of Isabel Allende. It is a brilliantly illuminating conversation-cum-profile of an older woman writer. Isabel Allende is almost venerated by the younger one, Gabriela Wiener, and yet they are able to understand each other as individuals, women, and writers. They meet on International Women's Day. Gabriela Wiener notes that "Bolano called her an escribidora — a prolific and bad writer. Making fun of Isabel Allende isn't a sign of intelligence, it's part of Latin American literary folklore." She goes on to observe that "The novelist, after all, is a traditional woman who was brought up to be a good girl, and who worked to free herself through literature." Meanwhile Isabel Allende acknowledges that she has a fair amount of criticism hurled at her but she takes it in her stride as she takes her success. She realises she is often under the critical scanner for the simple fact "I sell books." Isabel Allende's life's philosophy is to strike a balance between frivolity and depth; she says "Since then I haven't stopped being feminine, sexy, and a feminist. It can be done."
Here is an excerpt from the essay "Isabel Allende Will Keep Writing from the Hereafter"published with the permission of Restless Books. ( Publication date: May 15, 2018. Contact Nathan Rostron, Editor and Marketing Director: nathan@restlessbooks.com )
Allende is an easy target for the canonizers of novels. It's possible that not many of her critics are willing to admit that the virulence of their attacks are based on prejudice: she's an upper- class woman who used to write a feminist column for a fashion magazine in the 1970s. At the age of forty, without any academic training, she started publishing novels, made autobiographical fiction her signature, and her books started flying off supermarket shelves. In a world where the stupidest things tend to be the most popular, sales of fifty million copies can only arouse suspicion.
But put yourself in her shoes: try having the surname Allende in Chile, going into exile, getting divorced, bringing up children, dedicating yourself to journalism, and writing novels. She was part of a generation of Latin American women who juggled all these things at once, and yet managed to triumph under the long shadow of the Boom—a movement that didn't really contain a single woman writer, only incredibly loving wives who kept everything nice and comfortable so that their husbands could finish their books and win that Nobel Prize.
Try writing from the bottom tip of the American continent about emotions and sex instead of tunnels and labyrinths. Now try to sustain a literary career over three decades with unwavering success. Try, moreover, to produce as many well-written novels as she has. Because Isabel Allende's books are well-written: there is a voice and an imagination. Isabel Allende builds her stories around simplicity. She occasionally succumbs to cheapness, lace, and frills, but her expression is founded on the richness of family stories, everyday comedy and drama, and the intimate knowledge of a feminine universe, as in The House of the Spirits. In Eva Luna or The Infinite Plan, being colloquial and inventive makes her prose even more personal and confessional. Her books reveal history through memory and reclaim sex so that it belongs to the home and not to poets of the body. In Paula, perhaps the best of her books, she describes a man's suffering in the presence of his comatose daughter's body. In it, the consciousness of being human reaches levels that Allende's language cannot match.
We know the outcome of Allende's adventure: few have built such a solid relationship with their readers, a relationship based on something mysterious and addictive that they find in her pages and which defies any logic outside itself. Isabel Allende isn't Virginia Woolf, she's not Clarice Lispector, and she's not Alice Munro; but neither is she a bestseller à la Dan Brown with his simple-minded esoteric vision of the crime novel. And yet he isn't criticized half as often as she is.
What's the sell-by date of a popular writer after the publication of their last hit? At this women-only conference I've heard names I hadn't heard for years: Laura Esquivel and Ángeles Mastretta, for example. And the first thing I thought was "they're still alive?" Yesterday I saw Mastretta, the author of commercial bombshells such as Tear This Heart Out and Lovesick, gliding down the corridors of the Palacio de Bellas Artes with her dramatic cheekbones, her carefully coiffed hair, and her fragile movements, and it was like stepping back into the eighties. On Wikipedia, I discover that she's carried on publishing books. In the last two decades of the twentieth century, the books of these three women were labeled "women's literature," a kind of derivation of "true literature" with sugary, sentimental additives of which Allende is the highest-profile proponent. Following its initial golden years, "women's literature" seems to have fallen out of favor, and Allende alone has remained a bestseller. After the success of Like Water for Chocolate, Esquivel took refuge in a mansion in the outskirts of Mexico City, tried out being a member of parliament, and now facilitates workshops and publishes books in the style of 12 Steps to Happiness. Years after that enormous cocoa feast, Allende wrote her own book about sex and cocaine: Aphrodite, a book where cooking recipes lead to love (also known as the kind of book that immediately banishes you from the annals of literature with a capital L).
Gabriela Wiener Sexographies ( translated by Lucy Greaves and Jennifer Adcock) Restless Books, Brooklyn, 2018. Pb. pp.
Eleanor Catton's win celebrates the importance of literary craft and content
( My article on the Man Booker Prize 2013 has been published today in the Op Ed page of the Hindu, 19 Oct 2013. Here is the link: http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/the-long-and-winding-road-to-the-booker/article5248697.ece?homepage=true . The article is published below.)
On October 15, 2013, the Man Booker Prize was awarded to Eleanor Catton for The Luminaries — a thriller spread over 800 pages with a variety of voices recounting and recreating details. It was a win that surprised many. Set in 1866 in a small town on New Zealand's South Island, the story begins when a traveller and gold prospector, Scotsman Walter Moody, interrupts a meeting of 12 men at Hokitika's Crown Hotel. These men are immigrants but locals now who gather in secrecy to solve crimes. The novel is about the mystery surrounding the death of Crosbie Wells and the stories told by those 12 men. The narrative architecture is based on the 12 signs of the zodiac and the seven planets; each chapter is half the length of its predecessor, adding pace and tension. Of the books shortlisted — Jim Crace's Harvest, Jhumpa Lahiri's The Lowland, Ruth Ozeki's A Tale for the Time Being, Colm Toibin's The Testament of Mary, and Noviolet Bulawayo's We Need New Names — it was widely assumed that the battle for the winning post would be between Jim Crace and Colm Toibin.
The Luminaries is in the tradition of a good, well-told, 19th century English novel. It has a leisurely pace with the story slowly being told, bit by bit. Eleanor Catton has trained at the best creative writing schools and is an alumna of the prestigious University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. But this novel is an example of original thinking and excellent craftsmanship that are not easily taught.
The chair of judges, Robert Macfarlane, described the book as a "dazzling work, luminous, vast." It is, he said, "a book you sometimes feel lost in, fearing it to be 'a big baggy monster', but it turns out to be as tightly structured as an orrery." It is true that the 19th century novels were serialised (for example Charles Dickens and Anthony Trollope) and then put together as a book. Present day writers are taking advantage of virtual publishing to do something similar. The Kills by Richard House, long listed for the Man Booker Prize 2013, actually began life as four enhanced e-books that were then published as a single printed volume. But in the 21st century, to first publish in print such a thick book as The Luminaries takes extraordinary courage — a fact that did not go unnoticed even by Catton. In her acceptance speech she said, "… The Luminaries is and was from the very beginning, a publisher's nightmare. […] I am extraordinarily fortunate to have found a home at these publishing houses and to […] have managed to strike an elegant balance between making art and making money."
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At 28, Eleanor Catton is the youngest winner of the Booker. (Before her the prize went to Ben Okri who won it when he was 32 for The Famished Road.) Catton was born in Canada and raised in Christchurch, New Zealand. The Booker is Britain's most prestigious literary prize, awarded annually to a novelist from Britain, Ireland or a Commonwealth country. The winner receives £50,000, or about $80,000. The winner is selected by the judging panel on the day of the ceremony. In September 2013, it was announced that from next year the prize will be open to all those publishing in English, across the world, a move that has not necessarily been received well by many writers. Jonathan Taylor, chairman of the foundation, wrote at the time: "Paradoxically it has not […] allowed full participation to all those writing literary fiction in English. It is rather as if the Chinese were excluded from the Olympic Games."
It is a fortunate coincidence that in 2013, three of the high-profile international awards for literature have been won by women — all for very distinct kinds of writing. Lydia Davis won the fifth Man Booker International Prize 2013 for her short stories (the length of her stories vary from two sentences to a maximum of two to three pages) and the Nobel Prize for Literature 2013 to Alice Munro, for her short stories and Eleanor Catton, Man Booker Prize 2013, for a novel that has been described as a "doorstopper." For the world of publishing, these achievements sets the seal of approval on craftsmanship. It is probably recognition of geographical boundaries disappearing in digital space, conversations happening in real time and emphasis being placed on good content. It's not the form but the craft that matters. Eleanor Catton's Man Booker Prize win is a testament to the new world of publishing.
(Jaya Bhattacharji Rose is an international publishing consultant and columnist. E-mail:jayabhattacharjirose @gmail.com)
Alice Munro and the short story, a comment
'I would really hope this would make people see the short story as an important art, not just something you played around with until you got a novel.'
'A story is not like a road to follow … it's more like a house. You go inside and stay there for a while, wandering back and forth and settling where you like and discovering how the room and corridors relate to each other, how the world outside is altered by being viewed from these windows. And you, the visitor, the reader, are altered as well by being in this enclosed space, whether it is ample and easy or full of crooked turns, or sparsely or opulently furnished. You can go back again and again, and the house, the story, always contains more than you saw the last time. It also has a sturdy sense of itself of being built out of its own necessity, not just to shelter or beguile you.'
– Alice Munro
Today it was announced that Alice Munro won the Nobel Prize for Literature. Shortly thereafter, Amandeep Sandhu, a writer too, put a comment on his Facebook wall
The times They Are A-changin': earlier this year short story writer Lydia Davis won the Man Booker and today short story writer Alice Munro wins the Nobel. I like it that the short story is getting its much deserved place in the sun. Congratulations!
A few questions: does this spell something for the longer narrative? Is this a consequence of the shortening attention span in this digital world? Does this change something in publishing? Answer, but more than that this is just stuff to ponder upon, nothing is right or wrong.
And this is what I wrote in response:
There are always politics at play when such an eminent award is announced. Alice Munro is a deserving candidate. But maybe the Nobel Prize's focus on short stories could have been foretold by Lydia Davis winning the Booker International Prize 2013. I cannot help but draw parallels with the number of beauty queens who were discovered in India, soon after liberalisation — the spotlight was on new and emerging markets. Here too, the focus is on short stories. For a while now the number of short stories writers have been increasing rapidly, the online platforms that are accepting short story submissions are multiplying fast and the growing demand for good, reliable and quickly produced stories that can be easily converted into other formats — audio books, television serials, animation and short films or even available for auction for long films has firmly put the spotlight on the short form of literature, texts for electronic platforms etc. This is important since the classic reply most publishers trot out is that it is difficult to sell short story collections by debut authors ( Prajwal Parajuly is probably one of the rare exceptions having been most recently nominated for the Dylan Thomas prize). Yet, publishers in their scramble to attract and discover new voices, encourage short fiction submissions for annual anthologies that they would like to consider publishing. So hearty congratulations to Alice Munro and good luck to the many other short story writers. Finally Amandeep, I do not think that this award will really spell the demise of the long form of narrative. This year, after a long time, I cannot help but look at the thick spines of the new novels that have been recently published — The Luminaries, The Signature of All Things and The Kills to name some.


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Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake has been admitted to the Sri Jayawardenapura Hospital following a brief illness, the hospital Director said.
Dissanayake was treated and is in a stable condition, however he will have to undergo a CT scan, the Director added.
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Karma said to be like a Boomerang and said to return to kings and beggars alike!
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Get well soon we need courage's ministers like you in parliament


Mary Ellen, from Genesis Books has been one of Happiness 101's greatest supporters and sponsors. She was always caring, patient and knowledgeable. She has left a tremendous legacy to Salt Lake City. Genesis Books is one of the greatest sources of 12-step material in the valley. They have also sponsored many 12-step meetings over the years. Genesis Books is a haven for those struggling with addiction. RIP Mary Ellen.
6/30/15 – Lunch, Exercise, and Friends!
Lunch with my Happiness buddy is always a good relaxing time.
FORCED myself to exercise and it was cooler there even working out than at my house, that is great motivation.
Talked to my dear friend from Cali tonight.
Lunch with a friend I don't see often but our conversation is always lively and personal.
Got to hold that brand new baby, oh the feelings when you hold any baby especially one you have loved for months before she got here.
When I got home the dogs reaction to me and the "smell" of the baby on me. They seem so concerned. Like they know. I remember how Maddie my past hound dog would come up and cry loud cries after I would hold a baby. It is amazing the common threads among the living.
After trying to endure watching the series Empire Boardwalk I decided all the ickyness it made me feel and nightmares was not worth it and took it back to the library. I want to see things that make me happy or at least think.
Today I felt snippy at the store and irritated that the belt kept dragging my purse down as I was trying to get in it. I almost snapped at the clerk and something stopped me cause it wasn't her fault, good thing, turned out she is a dear friends grand daughter. Glad I controlled my crabbiness (solar storms and dry hot wind make me crabby, ok not for happiness page).
Got half of the garden weeded tonight.
I am happy to see so many rich colors as I drive around this valley, it is like a big box of crayons hit the landscape. For some reason it really stimulates my senses.
Reading a book online about the gnostic bible writings. It is really beautiful reading.
I was shutting down the computer and saw Erin liked a post and it reminded me I hadn't done my 3 positives.
Thanksgiving menu is planned and 3/4 of it bought.
Great wib chamber event today.
Lunch with my Happiness buddy Carolyn Bradshaw, we don't do it often enough.
We went where they had liver, oh I needed liver and it was great.
6/2/15 – Celebration, Garden, and Happiness Buddies!
There was a celebration for my nephew when Make-A-Wish told him they were going to grant his wish.
I think my garden is finally recovering a bit from the rain and enjoying the sun.
Got to talk to my happiness buddy and we are making plans to get together.


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You have to sign up on the right side of the page. At first, I thought they were out too. Might want to check that page out again.
I tried earlier and it said they were out of samples. I waited an hour and tried again and it let me sign up.
Thank you! I was just about to sign up.
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Here's an interesting site I discovered yesterday, listing past and current security vulnerabilities for various operating systems. You can do searches. Here's the list for macOS.
Search for Windows 10 and various flavors of Linux and see who comes out ahead!


In this video from the HPC Advisory Council Switzerland Conference, Axel Koehler from Nvidia presents: Management of large-scale GPU Clusters. Download the slides (PDF).
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Sheltered - 9/22/19 - $2.99
Today's deal is the Sheltered!
Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/356040/Sheltered/
Today's game is called Sheltered, and it's all about a family living together in a fallout shelter after the apocalypse. It's got a cool pixel art graphic style, it's turn-based, and there's exploring and crafting, which are all things you statistically probably enjoy, but if you're not in for a trip, you'd better just buy the game and check out now, because the rest of this post is going to be about 1999 romantic comedy film Blast from the Past starring Brendan Fraser and Alicia Silverstone.
Basically, Christopher Walken (!!!) and Sissy Spacek (!!!) are some overly paranoid Americans in the 1960s who end up hiding in a fallout shelter for 35 years after a runaway fighter jet accidentally crashes into their house and they assume the worse. They have their kid in there, they watch The Honeymooners and listen to Perry Como for much longer than we did out here, and their son grows into an extremely sheltered middle-aged man.
Now, we know what you're thinking. Isn't that just basically the setup of a Fallout game? Well, yes, it is, except when this dude, played by our man Brendan, steps out of the shelter it's just the normal weird-ass 90's outside. Talk about fish out of water, right? But if you're thinking that's way too much setup for what's basically just a "coming back to your hometown" romcom…it is! The game Sheltered that we are selling is much better than this kind of boring weird movie! (Did you know that part of the movie is that a cult starts based around Brendan emerging from the shelter in an abandoned pub? Did you know that he also punches out Nathan Fillion because he dad taught him how to old-timey box? All of this is real.)
So please, gamers, buy Sheltered from us today, have a good ass time surviving a REAL nuclear apocalypse, and never ever watch this weird old movie. I'm only thirty-one and it made me feel old as hell.
The official trailer for the Sheltered:
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time just dissapears somewhere, when you play it.
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100% recommend to anyone who wants a different experience with a game. I've been playing for ages before it had been fully developed. Stasis and Surrounded are great for a different pace.


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The History Of Australian Telecommunications (1970-2013) ? A Structured Bibliography From An Economic Policy Perspective
Author: Sam Forbes BA(Melb.) Date: 5 February 2014.
These references are provided as a guide to the history of Australian Telecommunications from an economics perspective.
The bibliography has been divided into sections referring to significant time periods:
The First Step: The Emerging of Telecom Australia from the Postmaster General?s Department. 1970-80
Telecom Australia and Competition. 1980-1991
Telstra and the NBN. 1991-2013
Catalogues, Series and Issues.
1. The First Step: the Emerging of Telecom Australia from the Postmaster General?s Department. 1970-80.
1.1 Articles, books, reports
Abbott, Malcolm. 2013. ?Microeconomic Reform and the Whitlam Government: The Case of Telecommunications and Post?. Journal of Australian Studies. Vol. 37, No. 4, pp 503-19.
Australian Labor Party. 1967. Australian Labor Party; platform, constitution and rules: as approved by the 27th Commonwealth Conference, Adelaide, 1967. Original edition, Cyril S. Wyndham, Federal Secretariat, Australian Labor Party.
Butlin, N.G, Barnard, A, Pincus, J.J. 1982. Government and Capitalism: Public and Private Choice in 21st Century Australia. Sydney, NSW: George Allen and Unwin.
Department of Communications and AUSSAT Pty. Ltd. ?The AUSSAT Satellite Service- An Overview? Telecommunications Journal of Australia. Vol. 35, No. 2, pp 3-8.
Moyal, A. M. 1984. Clear across Australia: A History of Telecommunications. Melbourne, VIC: Nelson.
Telecom Australia. National Telecommunications Planning Branch. 1976. Telecom 2000: An Exploration of the Long-Term Development of Telecommunications in Australia. Melbourne 1976.
Telecom Australia. National Telecommunications Planning Branch. 1978. Outcomes from the Telecom 2000 Report. Melbourne.
1.2 Government reports
Commonwealth of Australia, 1974. Report of the Commission of Inquiry into the Australian Post Office. Canberra, ACT: Commonwealth of Australia.
Postmaster-General's Dept, Australia. 1971. Australia and the Exploding World of Communications. Canberra: ACT.
Whitlam, G. (Prime Minister the Hon. Gough Whitalm, QC). 1974. Report of the Commission of Inquiry into the Australian Post Office. Media Release. April 24, 1974.
1.3 Legislation
Postal and Telecommunications Commissions (Transitional Provisions) Act 1975.
Postal Services Act 1975.
Telecommunications Act 1975.
Trade Practices Act 1974.
2. Telecom Australia and Competition. 1980-1991.
2.1 Articles, books and reports
Albon, Robert. 1986. The Telecom Monopoly: Natural or Artificial? Perth, W.A. Australian Institute for Public Policy.
Communication Law Centre. 2004. Australian Telecommunications Regulation: The Communications Law Centre Guide. Sydney, NSW: University of New South Wales.
Courville, L., de Fonteney, A. and Dobell, R. 1983. Economic Analysis of Telecommunications: Theory and Applications. North Holland Publishing Co.
Dobes, Leo. ?The telecommunications Reform Process in Australia?. Telecommunications Journal of Australia. Vol. 41, No. 1, 1991.
Edward, Ronald. 1984. The Competition for markets in International Telecommunications. Artech House. Dedlam: M.A.
Jessop, C.W.A. 1983. ?Economic Analysis - Principles and Problems?. Telecommunications Journal of Australia. Vol. 33, No. 1, pp 55-58.
Sharkey, W.W. 1982. The Theory of Natural Monopoly. Cambridge University Press.
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This is to be understood as referring not only to those who create new things with their talents, but also to those who transcribe the old, as we will show by God's grace in what follows.
However useful the tradition of the learned, without the attention of the scribe it would never come to the notice of posterity. However well we behave, however fruitfully we teach, all that would be lost to oblivion if the work of the scribe did not record them in letters. It is therefore scribes who lend strength to words, memory to things, vigor to time. If they were taken from the Church, faith would weaken, charity would freeze, hope would die, law would perish, Scripture fall into oblivion. Finally, if writing was lost, the people would disperse, religious devotion would be extinguished, and the peace of Catholic unity would be a roil of confusion. Without scribes, writing would not long persist safely, but would be shattered by chance and corrupted by age.
Brothers, no one should think or say "Why do I have to wear myself out writing by hand, when the art of printing has brought so many books to light, so that we can cheaply put together a great library?" Truly, whoever says this is trying to conceal his own sloth.
Who doesn't know how great is the distance between a scribed and a printed book? The scripture on parchment can persist a thousand years, but on paper, how long will it last? It's a great thing if a paper volume lasts two hundred years; but many are those who judge that their own texts ought to be printed. Posterity will judge this question.
Even though many books are now printed, no matter how many will be printed, you will find some that are not printed and will always need to be scribed. Not easily will one be able to find and buy all printed books. Even if all the books in all the world were printed, the devoted scribe should not desist in his work, because even printed books can be usefully perpetuated by scribing them, without which they would not endure long. Doing this will give limp books fixity, value to those of small price, longevity to the short-lived. The devoted scribe will always find books that merit his office. He need not fear harm from the printer. He is free, and his freedom makes his work a pleasure. He is in no way inferior to the printer, nor should he leave off his work because of printing. He should go forth on his own path without looking back, knowing that his crown from God will not be diminished, whatever the importunities of others.
Translation copyright 2010 by Dorothea Salo. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License.


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Lavrov Visits Turkey, Discusses Syria, Bilateral Ties With Turkish Counterpart
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The Russian foreign minister hold a meeting with his Turkish counterpart to discuss the Syrian conflict and bilateral relations.
© AP Photo / Kayhan Ozer/Presidential Press Service
Turkey Hopes for Top-Level Political, Economic Ties With Russia, Iran, China – Erdogan
ALANYA (Sputnik) – Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov discussed on Thursday with his Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu the Syrian conflict and bilateral relations in the southern Turkish city of Alanya.
"I hope that close cooperation between Russia and Turkey on Syria will help make a significant contribution to the implementation of the decisions made by the international community," Lavrov said after talks with Cavusoglu.
The Turkish minister echoed Lavrov's statement that the Turkish-Russian cooperation would bring positive results that would contribute to the settlement of the Syrian crisis.
Russia calls for Syrian political settlement
Lavrov pointed out that the political process in Syria was making no headway at the moment.
"At a time when our colleagues from the United Nations, who were tasked with conducting inclusive intra-Syrian talks, cannot do this for some reasons, we cannot wait forever. Syria's future must be determined by Syrian people. Russia and Turkey by all means contribute to the process of creating necessary conditions for an inclusive dialogue," Lavrov said.
He noted that Russia had never evaded contacts with all opposition groups in Syria.
"We never evaded either contacts with any political opposition groups or contacts with field commanders. As our Turkish colleagues also have contacts with both, including field commanders, we exchange information on what climate prevails in that environment, spur them to become part of a common solution as part of what was discussed within the International Syria Support Group and at the UN Security Council," the Russian foreign minister said.
Lavrov added that during a meeting in Lausanne a month ago, Russia advocated establishing dialogue with the armed Syrian opposition.
He also expressed hope that the United Nations and other international organizations would follow the Russian example and start the deliveries of humanitarian aid to the residents of east Aleppo.
© AFP 2019 / GEORGE OURFALIAN
Syria's HNC Refutes Reports of Turkey-Mediated Talks With Russia on Aleppo
"Meanwhile, our military and the Emergencies Ministry are sending humanitarian aid and mobile hospitals. These hospitals with physicians, necessary drugs and equipment are being deployed in the east of Aleppo. So instead of whining about the fact that the residents of eastern Aleppo cannot get help we are engaged in concrete actions. We hope that international organizations, including the United Nations, will follow our example," Lavrov said.
He added that there were no obstacles for the delivery of humanitarian aid to eastern Aleppo via the Castello road and pointed out that terrorists tried to prevent civilians from fleeing militant-controlled parts of Aleppo.
Lavrov also assured his counterpart that neither Russian nor Syrian air forces were involved in the incident with the Turkish Armed Forces that took place on November 24 and left three Turkish soldiers killed.
Ankara stands for Syrian territorial integrity
Cavusoglu pointed out that Turkey supported the territorial integrity of Syria.
"We are for territorial integrity of Syria. That is why, speaking about integrity, we of course should be inclusive and our position continues to be inclusive, which means all sides and all views will be listened to and taken into account," the Turkish minister said.
He pointed out that Turkey held Syrian President Bashar Assad responsible for mass violations of human rights in Syria but continued its policy on Syria, coinciding with the position of Russia that supports the Syrian leader.
"Our country openly says that Assad bears responsibility for murder of a large number of people in Syria, innocent citizens of this country. But we will continue the policy which is in harmony and coincides with Russia's position on searching for a political solution to the conflict and delivering regular humanitarian aid to Syria's people," Cavusoglu said.
He also noted that Turkey was ready to continue cooperation with Russia aimed at fighting terrorism.
"We have to work and we carry out general work in the fight against international terrorism, it is one of the most important spheres of our activity. The PKK, Daesh and other terrorist organizations pose a threat not only for our region but for the whole world. In this context, we will continue to cooperate," the Turkish minister said.
Russian-Turkish relations
The ministers discussed preparations for the upcoming High-Level Russian-Turkish Cooperation Council that will be attended by the leaders of both countries early next year.
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Russia, Turkey Efforts Contribute to Implementation of Int'l Decisions on Syria
"Of course, we talked in detail about our bilateral relations. We reiterated mutual interest in their progressive normalization in accordance with the agreements of Russia's and Turkey's presidents. We also reviewed the preparations for the upcoming High-Level Russian-Turkish Cooperation Council meeting co-chaired by President Vladimir Putin and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan," Lavrov said.
Cavusoglu also expressed hope that Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim would meet Russian President Vladimir Putin during his visit to Russia.
"Next week highly esteemed Turkish Prime Minister Yildirim will visit Russia, they will discuss many important issues. The meeting between our prime minister and Russia's leader Vladimir Putin is also being planned," the Turkish minister said.
He also said that Ankara considered the Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant project implemented in cooperation with the Russian Nuclear State Corporation Rosatom to be strategically important for the country.
"Regarding the Akkuyu NPP construction, it is a very important strategic project of Russia and Turkey and we will do everything possible to ensure it is successfully implemented," Cavusoglu added.
On November 24, 2015, Turkey downed a Russian Su-24 plane, with two pilots on board, which was on an anti-terror mission over Syria. Following the incident, relations between Russia and Turkey deteriorated, with Moscow demanding that Ankara apologize for downing the plane and cover any associated material losses to the country and the pilot's family.
Moscow imposed a number of restrictive measures on Turkey in response to what Putin then described as a "stab in the back." Russia's retaliatory measures against Ankara included a ban on charter flights to Turkey, as well as ban on certain food imports since January 1, 2016.
The two countries ended seven months of tension in late June when Erdogan wrote a letter to Putin in which he apologized for the downing of the jet and extended his condolences to the family of the pilot killed in the incident.
Iran, Russia Believe Turkey Should Adhere to Agreed Position on Syria - Diplomat
Erdogan's Statements Contradict With Earlier Russia-Turkey Agreements - Diplomat
Turkish Farmers Urge Gov't to Speed Up Talks With Russia on Food Embargo Relief
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One of America's finest composers of music for wind ensemble.
Albany Records is proud to release what is a long-overdue memorial to one of the finest American composers of wind ensemble music. Chance was a gifted composer, teacher and administrator who died a tragic death by accidental electrocution at the age of 39. He studied theory and composition with Kent Kennan, Clifton Williams and Paul Pisk. If you are familiar with the "old school" of band music, Chance is as fine a representative as any. His music is brash, exciting, and highly energetic in the way you remember from those works you heard on those great old Mercury recordings with the late Frederick Fennell. Ironically, though such works as the Blue Lake Overture and Variations on a Korean Folk-Song have been in the active band repertory for years, this is the first major commercial release entirely devoted to his music, a "greatest hits" package in fact. Standing out in particular is the Symphony No. 2, perhaps the best work of its kind since the Persichetti Symphony (No. 6) for Band. Based on a four-note motif of C#-D-F-E, the music whips up a remarkable amount of tension and excitement, especially in the last movement. The authoritative performances are under Stephen K. Steele, who began directing the Band Department at Illinois State University in 1987. Under his direction, the Wind Symphony has performed for state and national conventions, including the 1990 American Bandmasters Association and the 1993 and 2001 College Band Directors National Association. Steele and the Wind Symphony can also be heard on two previous releases, TROY500 (music of Persichetti, Syler, Zaninelli and Maslanka) and TROY600 (music of Maslanka and Hagen). Albany has had great success with our catalog of wind music, and we feel this new release, honoring John Barnes Chance, is one of finest.
John Barnes Chance, composer
Incantation and Dance
Illinois State University Wind Symphony, Stephen Steele, conductor
Introduction and Capriccio
Symhony No. 2
Blue Lake Overture
Variations on a Korean Folk Song
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