Arms Dead Forever (feat. The Gym) | Kimberlee K.
With shoes laced and nervous sweat already bubbling on my neck, I made the drive over and found a parking spot next to a car with a bumper sticker that said "MEGA BEAST." I pondered returning home for a few moments, I could practically feel the fabric of the couch inviting me in for a few more chapters of my book.
"Pop the trunk," my sister said, breaking me out of my daze.
The ground was hot and so was everyone that walked by me, and I knew that it would only get worse once I stepped through the double doors.
My expectations: butts, abs, biceps, quads, dripping in sweat, comprised solely of steel. There would probably be yelling and the occasional fist pumps. Egos and tight pants, protein shakes and unidentified pools of saliva.
This was my first trip to the gym and I was terrified.
My cousin said he'd meet us on the second floor, so as my sister and I made our way up the steps, I took advantage of the view, feeling myself shrivel amongst the mass of Herculean humans pumping iron below me. As we further ascended, I suddenly found myself surrounded by a plethora of miscellaneous motion. Bikes and treadmills and stair masters and elliptical machines; all moving faster than I wanted to, all offering their own form of torture.
My sister spotted Cory on a stationary bike in the back corner, pedaling like I was wielding a knife rather than a high five, and we took a spot on either side of him.
"Quick cardio warm up sound good?" he said, only slightly winded.
We nodded and began to pedal, my pace a polar opposite of his, more reminiscent of a leisurely ride to the park with a picnic basket.
When our 15 minute warm up was over, we made our way back down the first floor, where Cory revealed the focus of our workout for the day: arms.
"Oh…okay great" I said with an undeniably conspicuous amount of anxiety.
For the next 3 days, my arms ached like I'd let someone continuously punch me for approximately 4800 years.
My keys were heavy, my phone was heavy, and don't even get me started on spoons.
But even though signing my name at the bottom of check the next day felt like trying to draw a hopscotch course with a telephone pole, I didn't regret going to the gym. In fact, just a few days later I found myself there again and then again the week after. No, I'm not a herculean human now, I still shake and breathe hard and look like an idiot every now and again, but I've come to embrace it, because for me, the gym is just another challenge. Sure, this one involves a lot of machines that want to swallow me whole and will continuously feature that one girl standing next to me, accidentally looking perfect, while I sweat and pant like I'm giving birth to a baby made of knives. But that doesn't mean I'm not going to keep working at it.
For a long time the gym was just another thing I couldn't do. It was a place I didn't want to go until I was strong enough or skinny enough or fit enough. But I've come to realize that the gym is not a place you go to once you've reached your peak level of fitness, but rather a starting block to help you reach it. Plus, everyone is a beginner at some point, everyone accidentally gets their headphones stuck in the stair master (no, just me?). So, I will continue my quest as a gym goer. I will continue to challenge myself and discover new strengths that I never knew I had. Why? BIFC.


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Maine High School Hockey
Maine Winter Classic is seniors' last hurrah
03/18/2015, 3:30pm EDT
By Adam Birt
West trumped East in both games – Class A and Class B – of Saturday night's Winter Maine Classic, back-to-back hockey matchups that bring together Maine's top senior skaters to benefit the Barbara Bush Children's Hospital. The A bout was a neck-and-neck affair that ended in true all-star fashion: 7-6 after a shootout, while the B follow-up proved more lopsided, 7-3 in the end.
Of course, the real winners are the young cancer patients at the Barbara Bush Children's Hospital. 2015 is only the Classic's second year, but it's already building itself a reputation. Despite not having a major corporate sponsor, as it did last year, the event should ultimately turn over a donation to the Hospital that's significantly more sizable than even 2014's.
"There's some big things going on this weekend with Barbara Bush Children's Hospital," said Thornton head coach Jamie Gagnon, "with the Radio-thon. So they have some real large corporate sponsors.
"So the timing of the entire event is tough too; we've lost a lot of time with the snowstorms, this winter, so the teams were selected a little late. It kind of came together a little late."
Perhaps the biggest reason this year's Classic is expected to improve its donation over last year's, even in the absence of a major commercial backer, are the players themselves. They individually go in search of sponsors after learning they've been selected to represent their school, and a number of them came up big this time around.
"We've been fortunate enough to have the players really get involved," said Gagnon. "Brandon Daigle (Biddeford) brought in over 1500 dollars. Adam Janetti brought in 500, almost another 1000 dollars.
"Right now we're on pace to meet, if not exceed, our contribution from last year, even without the big sponsor. We gave 6000 dollars last year; I expect, preliminarily, to give one or two thousand dollars more this year."
The Classic is largely Gagnon's brainchild, one he modeled after the Lobster Bowl, among Maine high school sports' proudest traditions. Gagnon had help, naturally; he recruited a number of other coaches to develop and implement the idea, including Scarborough head Norm Gagne.
"A lot of credit to Jamie. He stepped up and told me, 'Coach, this is what we'd like to do.' Jamie is really the head guy; he put a lot of time into this," said Gagne, who also helmed the A West team this year. The coaches of the Classes A and B Regional champion teams are the first invitees to lead the all-star lineups in the Classic. Steve Ouellette of St. Dom's piloted the A East squad this year, while Gorham's John Portwine and coached B West and Waterville's Dennis Martin B East.
"Us having that connection with [the Hospital]," Gagne said, "makes a big, big difference. The kids really feel that they're not just out here having fun, but that they're making a contribution. That's a big deal."
"I think they understand it's for a good cause," said Portwine. "And there are things we could do to bring it even further. I remember, when I played, we used to go to the Children's Cancer Center; at some point, I think we plan on taking a few guys over there and meeting with the kids, brightening their day a little bit."
Once the athletes have accrued all their sponsors – once they set foot in the locker room, then set skate on the ice – hockey takes over their brains. These are Maine's best high school players, after all; a fixation on the game is to be expected.
"[The charity aspect] was definitely in our minds," said Ben Bragg, Scarborough/West goalie. "But just winning the game was it."
As for the action: Class A bounced back and forth for both of its 24-minute halves. Branden Dyer (Edward Little) put the East on the board first, roughly eight minutes in, but Isac Nordstrom (Falmouth) soon evened things out again, assisted by Sean McGovern (Scarborough).
McGovern earned another assist just minutes later – and Evan Loignon (Biddeford) earned his first – as James Hannigan (Cheverus) gave the West their first lead. The East tied things again, right on schedule, but 45 seconds later, Nordstrom to Hannigan inched the West ahead once more. The East added one more before the end of the half, meaning the teams went to the locker room tied 3-3 at the break.
Hannigan and Nordstrom reversed roles to start the second half, the former assisting the latter to put the West ahead 4-3, but Jacob McGowan (Brunswick) soon leveled the field, scoring for the East on a feed from Ethan Callier (GNG/Poland/Oak Hill). The East continued to apply heavy pressure to Bragg, now taking his turn in net, and though Bragg stood strong against most of the peppering, he did allow a second puck past: Brad Berube (St. Dom's) gave the East back the advantage – at least until Hannigan soon capitalized on another quality chance for 5-5.
Caleb Labrie (St. Dom's) beat Bragg one final time in regulation, giving the East the edge with under three minutes to play. Round about the 1:15 mark, then, Gagne pulled Bragg and sent an extra attacker onto the ice. The strategy paid off; the West's additional pressure allowed Nordstrom to score the balancing point and send the contest to a three-round shootout at 6-6.
The teams alternated one-on-ones. Nordstrom, McGovern and Jake Grade (Falmouth) all bested the East's netminders, but the East's attackers couldn't keep up, and the West took the W.
"Our first line, with Nordstrom, and Jimmy Hannigan and McGovern," said Gagne, "they were unbelievable. I said, 'Boy, would I have loved to have you guys on my line in regular season.' It was just a great game, up and down."
The Class B game, by comparison, was also skillfully played, but nowhere near as tense. The West jumped to a huge first-half lead, 5-0. Travis Mansir (Gorham) notched the West's first goal, and Cape's Cole Caswell their second, assisted by Matt Hooker (Gorham) and Adam Janetti (York).
York's Derek Neal then hashed the first three of his five – yep, five – goals, the first on an assist by Hooker and the third on assists by Jordan Ward (Gorham) and Mike LeBlanc (Kennebunk).
Neal grabbed his fourth to start the second half, fed by David Parker (Kennebunk) and Michael Chapin (Gorham), before the East finally spoke up, shoveling one past Nick Allen (Yarmouth) with roughly 14 minutes to play. The East added another in less than a minute for 6-2, but Neal eventually answered.
Hunter Pate (John Bapst) scored one final time for the East, but with just four minutes to play, the West had the W in the bag, 7-3.
These seniors have a long history together – usually, though, they're on opposite sides of the puck. Saturday, of course, some of them still were; the Scarborough contingent and the St. Dom's contingent, who faced off in the recent Class A State Final, remained opponents for the Classic, for instance; likewise the Gorham and Messalonskee reps, who battled through the Class B Final.
But McGovern, Nordstrom and Hannigan comprised A West's first line, and it was McGovern's Red Storm who bounced both Nordstrom's Yachtsmen and Hannigan's Stags from this year's playoffs. The three have every reason to be rivals. So how readily do their differences vanish, when they join the same side? Pretty readily, as it turns out.
"Once we got in that locker room together and just started talking," said Bragg, "it all went away, and we were able to play a good game."
"It's funny," said Portwine of rivalries evaporating, "because for like a week, they kind of do. We didn't have any problems in practices, we didn't have any problems in the game; we didn't have any problems in the locker room, no problems on the bench.
"I'm sure there are still old grudges, old scars that haven't healed. But for the time that we've spent together, slim as it is, guys put stuff aside.
"It all disappears," said Gagne. "They all have a good time. It was a lot of fun for them, and it was a lot of fun for us to coach them. They enjoyed the camaraderie in just the short time – and a lot of the guys have played together before, on other teams."
And what does the Classic mean for the skaters, emotionally? In general, they seem to derive primarily enjoyment from the event.
"It's their last time on the ice wearing their high school sweaters," said Portwine, "so it's special. This is just fun for the guys; nobody gets upset after this game. I think after you're done playing with your brothers that you've played with all season – that is really the finale of it.
"This is just a good chance to get out there and skate one more time before everybody goes their separate ways, to play with different guys, a group of really talented players."
Also on the A West roster: Tyler Bellerose (Biddeford), Dean Pratt (Noble/Wells), Andrew Whipple (South Portland/Freeport/Waynflete), Kyle Whitman (Bonny Eagle/Massabesic/OOB), Ryan Marsh (Noble/Wells), Brandon Peters (Falmouth), Eric Profenno (Thornton), Kyle Halvorsen (South Portland/Freeport/Waynflete), Kevin Smith (Scarborough), Hunter Ebling (Thornton), Connor McDowell (Falmouth), Ryan Ruhlin (Portland/Deering), Justin Miles (Bonny Eagle/Massabesic/OOB), James Kane (Cheverus), Quintin Farr (Cheverus), Wyatt Ricker (Noble/Wells).
On A East: Andrew Carpenter (Lawrence/Skowhegan), Adam Poulin (St. Dom's), Nick Graham (Bangor), Trey Michonski (Lawrence/Skowhegan), Cody Martin (Lawrence/Skowhegan), Dillon Pratt (St. Dom's), Ben Bishop (Mt. Ararat/Lisbon), Jake Fournier (Bangor), Adam Littlefield (Lawrence/Skowhegan), Tyler O'Connor (Mt. Ararat/Lisbon), Sam Huston (Bangor), Mitch Lorenz (St. Dom's), Spencer Buck (Cony/Monmouth), Cade Chapman (Edward Little), Matt Chasse (St. Dom's), Joey Frechette (Lewiston), Nick Hemond (GNG/Poland/Oak Hill); Clayton Owens (Windham), Nick Hawk (Lewiston).
On B West: Simon Lydon (Camden Hills), Jack Graydon (Kennebunk), James Annis (Camden Hills), Jimmy Orso (York), Jack Drinan (Cape), Jan Rutrle (Kennebunk), Curtis Guimond (Cape), Peter Prescott (Maranacook/Winthrop), Ryan Gosselin (Leavitt), Andrew Schmidt (Gorham), Brian Travers (Yarmouth), Nick Walsh (York), Kyle Kramlich (Greely).
On B East: Gabe Valley (Brewer), David Carmack (John Bapst), Keegan Cain (Winslow), Jake Dexter (Messalonskee), Seth Hannigan (Houlton/Hodgdon), Dylan Cray (Hampden), Damien Spencer (Old Town/Orono), Alex Berard (Winslow); Kyle Spox (Brewer), Jonathan Cheff (John Bapst), Jackson Leonard (John Bapst), Cameron Clark (Houlton/Hodgdon), Tyler Davis (Brewer), Jake Larsen (Winslow), Riley Eastman (Hampden), Tyler Byther (Old Town/Orono), Ryan Cole (Hampden), Elija Tuell (Messalonskee), Sam Landers (John Bapst).
The date for the next year's Classic has already been set: March 12, 2016.
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(Trinidad Guardian) Faced with expulsion from the United National Congress (UNC), Jack Warner is now turning to his political guru, Basdeo Panday, with a heartfelt apology, but Panday has outrightly rejected it. Warner made the overture to Panday as the two men attended the wedding ceremony of UNC strategy officer Ken Emrith and Davica Persad at the Centre of Excellence, Macoya, yesterday.
Asked what he planned to say to Panday, Warner revealed, "I want to tell him that I am really very sorry because I think he saw much more than I could have ever seen and that was based on the level of his own political experience." Asked if he planned to invite Panday to join his Independent Liberal Party (ILP), Warner said, "Anybody can be part of my political party. Mr Panday and anybody else.
"Mr Panday and everybody else is welcome, but I think in life one must admit when one makes a mistake and error. I admit that in my political judgement of the Prime Minister, Mr Panday was right and I was wrong." Asked how he felt about Persad-Bissessar's accusations that he was trying to bring down her Government by forming his own party, Warner responded, "There are some things that the Prime Minister says that I will not dignify by commenting on it.
"Some of the things she says tells me more and more that she has to refrain from being a prisoner of the cabal. I will not dignify what she says with a comment because my work for the party and the Government speaks for itself." Asked what it would take for him to return to the folds of the UNC, Warner said, "Nothing is cast in stone and I don't have to make any judgement in that. What is evolving right now is not of my doing.
Moonilal added, "Mr Warner joined the PNM to remove a UNC mayor. He will join Rowley to remove Rambachan, Ramlogan, Moonilal and Sharma, all in a bid to get rid of the Prime Minister. This is sadly his modus operandi." The MP also said he heard that Warner had planned to place Natasha Navas as the ILP representative for Oropouche East in the 2015 general elections.


Audrey Faye Hendricks is not a name that most children or adults know. Yet, this nine-year-old was the youngest protester in the 1963 Birmingham Children's March.
Dr. Martin Luther King was a friend of the Hendricks family. When he visited their home, he and other civil rights leaders discussed what could be done to right the injustices faced by black people. Audrey knew all about which water fountain to drink from, or where to sit on a bus, or which elevator to take in a store.
When King asked adults to fill the jails of Birmingham in protest against discriminatory practices, adults feared what would happen to them. When he realized that adults wouldn't act, then he called upon children. He was met with an overwhelming response. Nine-year-old Audrey was going to protest. Arrested almost immediately, Audrey was sentenced to a week in juvenile hall.
"The Youngest Marcher" by Cynthia Levinson and illustrated by Vanessa Brantley Newton is the well-told story of this brave young girl. Readers ages 5-10 will learn about conditions faced by black people in the 1960s as well as reading Audrey's story. The illustrations help explain the text and add drama and impact to the story.
The author's note and a time line will add to the reader's understanding of what Audrey and her fellow civil rights activists endured during this turbulent time in American history.
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There's so much promise in the start of a new year. It's one of the only times people examine the things they'd like to change and actively set goals to do so. In regards to fashion, I've vowed to only purchase things that I truly love. More often than I'd like to admit, I end up buying things that don't fit perfectly or that have some minor detail that isn't quite right. This French Connection dress was my first purchase of 2010 and I couldn't be happier with its batwing sleeves, flirty length, and comfortable jersey knit.


Home improvement projects can drastically change not only the look of your home, but the value as well, for better or for worse. For the most return on your home improvement dollar and a home you will love, take a look at the tips in the article below.
Keep an eye out for sales on carpet installation from many of the national home project retailers. They often offer cheap installation to encourage people to buy their carpets. This makes for a perfect opportunity to get new carpet into the house, because labor itself, rather than the carpet, is often the most expensive aspect of the process.
Use a sponge on your drywall. Instead of sanding out your drywall's seams, take a sponge to them. Using a wet sponge can do as good of a job as sanding can. Sponging doesn't create tons of dust like sanding does, either.
When it comes to home improvement, consider adding solar panels to your house. Although it may be expensive to install the panels, your electricity savings will make your investment more than worthwhile. This will allow you to save some money on the electricity bills because you're going to get your energy from the batteries that you store it in. That's why this natural solution is an excellent way to meet your home's power needs.
Over time, ceramic tile can stop looking shiny and start to look grimy. Mixing together vinegar and water may create a solution that is safe for some floors. This will help mop your floors effectively. Doing this will clear away the gunk and will leave your floors looking as good as new.
If you'd like to get your garage organized, purchase a few clear plastic storage containers and start sorting items by type and frequency of use. Select boxes that stack, and label each one. This allows you to keep your garage organized while keeping bugs and rodents at bay.
If you'd like to maintain the appearance of your toilets, put a bit of bleach into the bowl. While the bleach may not smell great, taking the time to clean them this way will leave your toilet looking lovely, and will also disinfect it. Scented bleaches can help limit the smell.
Kitchen storage is simple when you have two-liter bottles around. They will protect just about any dried goods like flour or sugar. They are also clear, so it is easy to see what is inside. You can keep them on a shelf, in the refrigerator, or even in the freezer. Just unscrew the cap and pour what you need, when you need it.
If you hire a handyman, be sure to have a contract. This will reduce the extra charges that you will have to face. It would be all too easy to take advantage of you if you employ workers without a contract.
You should now have a better understanding of how to accomplish this. If you use the tips here on your next home improvement job, you are going to have your dream home to show off.


Tyshawn Sorey recently issued music through the digital platform PEOPLE.
Tyshawn Sorey's days as a sideman might be coming to an end. "I've lived that life, and it was great during its time, but now I'm in a different headspace, in terms of the relationship that I have with my music," the percussionist and composer said from Banff, Alberta, Canada.
Sorey was in residence at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity in July, premiering two pieces. The first, Bertha's Lair, was a duet with flutist Claire Chase, which also has been recorded for release; the second was written for the JACK Quartet as part of the EQ: Evolution of the String Quartet program. These types of commissions are making up an increasingly large portion of Sorey's output.
Sorey's music seems to travel further out with each passing year. His 2016 The Inner Spectrum Of Variables (Pi) paired his long-standing group with a string trio; the music combined jazz and modern composition into a constantly shifting sonic landscape all its own. The following year, the trio released Verisimilitude (Pi) , which added subtle electronics to the music, creating work that owed as much to Morton Feldman as Bill Evans.
Another recent piece, Autoschediasms, was created and performed by Crash Ensemble at the April MusicNOW festival in Cincinnati, Ohio. When a composition the seven-piece group had been planning to perform was pulled from the program, cellist Kate Ellis called Sorey and suggested they collaborate on something new.
Autoschediasms is a rumbling, sparse piece that's like walking through an abandoned city, trees overwhelming the concrete and steel. It's not available for purchase, but can be streamed through PEOPLE, a digital platform established in 2016 that hosts work by independent artists.
Pillars is Sorey's next proper album, a three-CD set planned for a November release on Firehouse 12. Each disc contains a single track, running at about 75 minutes, performed by a nine-member ensemble that finds many of its players switching from one instrument to another.


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Bluefield State
CIAA leadership makes membership, media changes
Bluefield State is officially in and Chowan is on its way out. But other changes are coming to the CIAA as well.
By HBCU Gameday Newswire
2022 CIAA Board of Directors Fall Meeting Recap
CHARLOTTE, NC (December 9, 2022) – The Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association (CIAA®), the nation's oldest historically black conference, held its annual fall Board of Directors meeting December 6 & 7 in Charlotte, North Carolina, which was attended by CIAA Presidents & Chancellors along with staff and selected partners. The meeting resulted in the approval of many exciting initiatives to strengthen the future of the CIAA. The Board also engaged in a planning exercise to crystalize the organization's vision and to amplify the brand's position as the best of the NCAA Division II conferences. Conference office infrastructure changes are forthcoming no later than July 1, 2023, to address the fundamental aim of promoting improved standards to meet the goals that have been set forth.
More exciting news includes:
The Board approved the addition of Bluefield State University as a full member, effective July 1, 2023. Bluefield brings 13 sports for conference competition, with intentions to start bowling and will be added to all CIAA composite schedules next fall. They currently sponsor 19 sports overall.
In addition, after an associate membership in football, the Board voted to discontinue Chowan University's affiliation with the CIAA. Chowan's membership with the CIAA dates back to 2008. These decisions reflect the direction of the conference regarding membership growth and stability.
The John B. McLendon CIAA Hall of Fame Class of 2023 honorees were approved by the Board. Upon notification to the inductees, a formal announcement will be made. The ceremony will take place on Friday, February 24, 2023, at the Baltimore Convention Center and the honorees will be pinned in the newly renamed CFG Bank Arena in conjunction with the 2023 CIAA Basketball Tournament, held February 21-25 in Baltimore, Maryland.
Additionally, the Board endorsed Dr. William H. Harvey, former longtime Hampton University President, as the 2023 Jimmy Jenkins Legacy recipient. This award is presented to an individual as approved by the Board who has provided an environment that supports athletic and academic excellence through educational opportunities and community involvement; focused always on the personal growth, mental wellness and development of the student-athlete and its members.?
Harvey will be recognized during the CIAA Hall of Fame ceremony.
The Board approved entering a multi-year media rights deal to maximize exposure for all CIAA-sponsored sports, championships, its members, and our student-athletes' visibility. Details are forthcoming and will be shared once parameters and terms are solidified.
The audit financial statements and report were approved by the Board. The CIAA received a clean audit for 2022 and approved its Investment Charter, to manage the CIAA fund balance and newly established investment fund.
"As I celebrate 10 years as the CIAA Commissioner, I could not be prouder of the CIAA staff, membership, and Board for believing in the vision and the strategies identified to support the growth and stability of the conference. 2022 has been an amazing year of opportunities to enhance the experience for our incredible and talented student-athletes. The CIAA's future is bright, and I look forward to the continued possibilities," stated Commissioner Jacqie McWilliams.
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I know I just put this up recently, but whatever, I'm on vacation and it's Shashi, who is going to object to more Shashi photos? I am going to add just a few more new ones for us, just for fun.
TGIF: In Honor of Jennifer and Shashi, Adorable Photos of Movie Stars With Their Non-Famous Partners!
No Twinkle and Akshay, or Aish and Abhishek, or even Anushka and Virat or Rajkummar and Patralakha. I want just the couples where one of them is a famous and beloved public figure, and the other is unknown and along for the ride.
TGIF: Orange White and Green, for Republic Day!
This is a repeat from August for Independence Day, but it is a really really good post, and I checked my views for the original and they weren't THAT high. So I am repeating!
TGIF: Happy Birthday Hrithik!!!! I Give You the Best Gift of All-Fashion Advice!
Missed his birthday yesterday, but at least we can celebrate with a lovely TGIF. Including objectification and rankings, which is just what anyone would want for their birthday, right? Oh well, if we didn't critique him, how would he ever get better?
If all goes as planned, I just finished watching Zero and now am driving back to my sister's place, and the review will go up sometime later today. In the meantime, have a TGIF post!
TGIT: By Popular Request, Shaggy-Haired Actors!
Tomorrow has to be Christmas-y, because that is The Rule, but I am sneaking in a random post just because I love you and I want you all to be happy.
TGIF: A Challenge! Match Head to Torso!
Another fun game for us! And more challenging than you think, because I am not matching within the same photo. See how you do!
Happy Birthday Fawad!!!!! A Challenging Game For Is All in Your Honor: Sweater or Scarf or Suit?
Have I mentioned this before? The way I recognize Pakistani movie posters/trailers? When it is a really hot guy in a scarf and/or a sweater and/or perfect suit, it's Pakistani.
Another TGIF repost!!!! And if you like this, I can keep it up for the next few days of holiday stress. There are many many TGIFs in the archives. Although you have now seen the 4 best ones over the past two days.
TGIW: A Nice Classy Post to Bring You Into the Holiday….Men Laying Down!!!!
Okay, how can I say this classily? There is a certain kind of pose which seems to say "yes, climb on top of me and enjoy yourself". That is the kind of pose that I am looking for this week. You know, so you can pretend you are kneeling on top of them throwing rose petals or something in a chaste and romantic manner.
I learned last Thanksgiving that no one really has the energy or interest to read or comment over the holiday. So, forget that! No deep thinking! I'm re-posting the most popular TGIFs of the past, we can "read" and discuss those. Okay, and maybe I throw up a post on the Mahabharat just for kicks.
TGIT Post RePost: An Important Question to Consider on this Thanksgiving Week-What Indian Man Looks Best in Blue Jeans? SRK or Salman or Maddy or John?
I put up a deep philosophical post about the Ramayan this morning. But enough of that! There are more important things to think about! And so I am re-posting my massive carefully considered and in depth discussion of which Indian man looks best in blue jeans. Answer: Probably either Maddy or John Abraham.
This isn't strange, right? It's not like I am putting up photos of my own father and saying they are attractive. I am just putting up photos of other fathers with their children.
Happy Veteran's Day! To Celebrate, Men in Uniform!
Happy Veterans Day! Yesterday was the 100th anniversary of the end of WWI and there weren't nearly as many celebrations as I expected. I guess 100 years from now everything we are going through will seem very small and out of date too. That's kind of comforting. Anyway, enough of that, hot guys in uniform!


The Department prepared an engagement paper which explains the sections of the legislation that we want to make revisions to. The comment period on the paper has now closed.
Between May 4 and July 29, 2016 the public was invited to engage in discussions about recreational use and issues in the Yellowknife periphery area as part of the recreation managment planning process for the area.
In October and November 2016, the Department of Lands completed eight engagement sessions in seven communities across the NWT. Public engagement focused on the vision, goals, and supporting priorities of the draft Framework.
The Department of Lands began reviewing the way it manages public land for recreational use in 2014. Public engagement opportunities in 2015 was designed to encourage participants to contribute ideas for how recreational leasing should be managed in the future.
The Department of Lands is developing the Dolomite Lake Recreation Management Plan. Dolomite Lake (Airport Lake) is a 507 hectare body of water that is located about 10 kilometres south of the Town of Inuvik.
The Department of Lands hosted two drop-in sessions in early 2018 to gather information and feedback from Inuvik residents about Dolomite Lake. What we Heard Reports were produced after each of these sessions and are available on our Resources Page.
The Department will now work with other land management authorities to draft the Dolomite Recreation Management Plan, informed by public input. The Department will seek further public feedback on the draft plan at that time.


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Born in Santa Barbara, Emily grew up near the ocean and became at one with nature immediately. She took advantage of her free-spirited ways, and started following The Grateful Dead around the west coast, selling hemp jewelry to fund her fandom.
Over the years, Emily has enjoyed collecting treasures from all over the world. These keepsakes inspire her to create beautiful, metal-free jewelry, clothes, her signature handbags, and many more magical items.
The genesis of her "Possibility Bags" collection began in 2015, inspired by the traditional Native American "possible bags," which were used to transport travel supplies; they were also used as medicine bags in order to carry 'power objects' for healing.
Emily currently lives in Atlanta and has enjoyed working as a kitchen designer for the past 16 years. She's an avid coffee drinker, loves to meet new people, travel, meditate, and take advantage of all life has to offer.
A certain magic, generosity of spirit, love, and peace are added to each piece.
Inga + Evija are are two of a kind artists/designers handcrafting one of a kind items. They both immigrated from Latvia to USA in 2000. Their background is in sports and physical therapy, but developed a passion for designing and recycling when they came to the USA. Inga + Evija's environmentally-friendly style uses all types of up cycled fabrics combined with detailed stitching, hand-painted canvas, photography and humorous/inspirational messages. Different styles of fabrics incorporated into wallets add color, originality and make for a conversation piece.
Their mission is to create cutting edge fashion accessories using eco-friendly processes and provides their customers with unique, eye-catching designs.
Kaya Jacob is a brand of ethically made clothing accenting nature. Our goal is to bring awareness of threatened and endangered species through stylish clothing. Our line features t-shirts, tank tops, and dresses for women and children. The brand was born out of a special love that my family and I share for nature. Each of us has an animal or plant life that is near and dear to our hearts.
It all started with the sale of a sewing machine in Rochester New York in 1979.
It's how Keri McCulty's parents met. They were small business owners throughout her life which laid the ground work for Kuiperly Bag Co.™ The moment Keri realized she could turn a beautiful raw textile into something incredible she was sparked with the passion to share it with others.
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Evelyn Burttram stumbled upon Fiber Art in High school thanks to a wonderful art teacher. She spent every lunch hour in the art classroom trying to figure out where her artistic talents were hiding. She struggled with painting, drawing and similar techniques but quickly fell in love with photography, knitting and crocheting. Over the years she would pick up one of these hobbies off the shelf, dust it off and enjoy for a while before trying to get back to "responsible adult life goals." Eventually, she realized she didn't want to put any of them back down and now she's a full time maker and loving life!!!
Evelyn was named after her mother, who was named after her mother and so on and so forth for generations. She loves black coffee, hot apple cinnamon tea, photography, crocheting and getting to share her life with her best friend and husband and three furry 4-legged babies.
Born and raised in Hickory, NC, the traditional sewing lessons passed down to most country girls were the most exciting thing to do at the time. Her grandfather needed his pockets sewn but grandmother could not see to thread the needle.
Today, Pamala Phelp's excitement has grown so much she now pushes that same peddle to make leather bags, wallets and hand clutches with refurbished leathers and fabrics. Her passion for beauty in style, fabrics, leathers, unique designs, perfect thread colors and stitches, and sewing machines of all kinds have come to be her refuge.
"I see no one and no thing without first seeing the beauty that lies within, 'And Sew It Was Created' ".
Tawny Kempf's Atlanta pride inspired her to design and create her ATL hats. The Lion's Drawer proudly specializes in custom baseball hats, where each letter or number is applied by hand and crafted in Atlanta, Georgia. Tawny loved the idea of having a comfortable baseball hat to wear everyday, that had a simple design to help distinguish where she was from and represent her aesthetic. She wants to help people everywhere show their personality with style and offering products that make her customers feel happy.
She resides locally in East Atlanta.
Emory Cullen has a fondness for wacky characters and a love for character design.
As a graduate of Savannah College of Art and Design, 2006 with an animation degree, he found a home at IG Design Group in 2008. and has been working as a designer ever since. Emory started the Wandering Line brand in 2012 as an outlet for his own creative endeavors while still working as a designer.
On weekends, he participates in many Atlanta craft festivals or you can find him cruising around on his OneWheel electric skateboard. He currently lives in his hometown, Atlanta, with his wife Theresa.


First U.S. foundation, Augustinian Order, 1796. In 1844 the original church here was burned during Nativist riots. This and other violence led to a state law requiring police forces, 1845, and to consolidation of the city and county, 1854.
This marker can also be identified by its HM code. You can use the hashtag #HM1KDR in tweets, and any other place where you might refer to this marker, including when searching on this site.


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On March 14, we had our launch event and first members' meeting in Toronto, Canada in the presence of IAT founder Master Zhi Gang Sha, Director Dr. Sarah Bennet and General Manager Nina Mistry along with hundreds of members from all over the world.
The event included presentations by the General Manager on the vision and mission of the association followed by each of the Managers presenting about their teams. The event was followed by a cake-cutting ceremony. Each member present was awarded certificates by Master Sha.
The ceremony turned into a celebration of love as members from all over the world bonded, connected heart to heart and came together for the purpose of supporting one another and creating a better world through this association. One of the highlights of the celebration was a photo-booth where members queued up to capture memories of this unique occasion together.
Watch the recording, and see some of the happy pictures below!


Last night I picked up my copy of Everyday Foods, a 1949 Home Economics text by UT economists Harris and Lacey.
I love Cheryl Mendelson's recent Home Comforts, but you can't beat the old domestic texts for a wealth of information (and great vintage photos). Breakfast, lunch, and dinner have their own particular guidelines, nutritionally and aesthetically.
Plans meals that meet the nutrition requirements of her family.
Cooks food in delectable dishes so that the family enjoys eating a balanced diet.
Uses time, materials, and equipment economically.
Enjoys her work and has time to do many other things.
The difference between people who get things done and those who don't is that those who accomplish things have learned management.
Some food for thought as you go about your day.
arent' those old books the best? I have my moms CIA Encyclopedia of Cooking and it contains similar information, along with seasonal menus, what you should feed young children, school age children, ect. So neat!
An area I need to improve in for sure.
"The difference between people who get things done and those who don't is that those who accomplish things have learned management."
As the mother of twelve, I certainly see myself in a management role in our home. I train the children, in chores, etc. , set up a chore chart and daily schedule and then oversee that they are following it. We can get a lot done this way!
Jerri, I think the "management mindset" applies even when you don't have a pool of children to direct! It's the difference between complaining about your chores and feeling powerless in your situation--or being proactive about your responsibilities.
I totally agree! I didn't wake up one morning with 12 children. (wouldn't that be scary!) I have been proactive for years, even when I had only a few children. Just want to encourage those with younger/fewer children that it is worth the time it takes for training, especially when they are young, so that you and your children can reap the benefits later.
An example that comes to mind is a mom I know who has two children who are 8 and 11 now. She would always say to me that there wasn't much use teaching them to do chores, etc. because there was only two of them. She would ask them once in a while, to help with dishes or cleaning their room. The older they get the harder it is to get them to comply. And, because this mom has been very busy with work she does at church her house is always a mess (her words). It would have done so much to teach her children all along to help out and then she could be in the management role by now, have less stress, have a cleaner house, not be in that "powerless in her situation" as you mentioned (is this also an "I'm a victim" mentality do you think?), and her children would not only learn the valuable lessons on how to clean a house and be a contributing member to their family, they would learn important life skills in doing a job, doing it well and the feeling of accomplishment.
This is just one example of how lack of managment plays out.


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I'm always careful not to call this post "the best books" of the year, since I can't claim to have read all of the great new fiction from the year or even most of it, and since many of my favorite books (usually) aren't new. But this year, actually, I did read mostly new fiction, and most of my favorites were new.
I also found that I used my iPad (Kindle app) this year more than ever before. It still makes me feel a little dirty, and I still prefer a real paperback in my hands—I can bend it and beat it up and scribble in its margins—but the iPad is great for new fiction because I hate reading hardcover. They're too bulky and unwieldy, but I like to read a lot of new stuff, so the tablet is often a lifesaver. Still not my ideal reading experience, though.
Some of my favorite books of the year I read right on my iPad.
I've been using this blog less and less often (I only posted twice in the last year; too much real work to do), but I'll always make time to do this post. It's a pleasure to recommend books. Here are my very favorite I read this year, in no particular order until the end.
& Sons, David Gilbert (2013)
There was a lot of big chatter and praise for this book when it first came out early in the year. Then it faded a little and didn't end up on as many "best of" lists as I'd expect. It's the kind of novel, though, that you do figure will be a favorite of writerly types because it's about writers. And I love fiction that is about the making of fiction. I do not mean "meta" stuff per se, I simply mean novels about writers. A.N. Dyer, not the protagonist of this book but certainly the character around whom everything else revolves, can be a stand-in for any great, prolific, inflammatory novelist—he's like a non-Jewish Roth, though I kept thinking of him as Tobias Wolff only because this novel reminds me so much of Old School, which I adore. And Dyer's youngest son wants to write, and one of his elder sons is a screenwriter. And then there's our unreliable, immature adult narrator, Philip Topping, whose father lived in A.N. Dyer's shadow. Philip longs both to be a Dyer and to achieve the success of A.N. Dyer himself, and it's clear he'll never attain either. Add to that a fantastically real and raw relationship between Dyer's youngest son and a sexy, bookish older girl, and there's very little not to like. And while the flaws that the book has have to do with plot and plausibility, the writing cannot be knocked. One of the Dyers ruminates of his girlfriend that, "no matter how familiar, her body always seemed newly hatched." Philip recalls a candid conversation with his mother, who ended it with a standard, affectionate joke, and then he suddenly disarms you: "How do we survive being so loved once?" Andy, the teenage son, catches the girl he loves in bed with someone else, and as guilty as she is, as much as she apologizes, his own anger and his self-doubting paranoia still color his impression of her: "Jeanie smiled—postcoitally, Andy thought." Friends of mine who did not like this book had complaints about the convoluted story and the various point-of-view switching, but I liked all that. It's a baggy monster in some ways, and it's insanely ambitious, but it mostly delivers (although I vehemently did not like the tragic, unlikely accident toward the end). I'd bet that anyone who loves fiction, whether a writer or not, will enjoy this, plot holes and all.
The Best of Youth, Michael Dahlie (2013)
In stark contrast to a book like & Sons, Dahlie's slim novel isn't reaching for too much. It doesn't have the same mega ambition or character scope, its pleasure is more simple and easy. I don't think the writing is technically impressive. (I read Gilbert's and this book on iPad; in the former I highlighted scores of passages and beautiful lines, in the latter I highlighted nothing.) The story, though, appealed to me for similar reasons: the main character, Henry, is a writer, or wishes to be one. He ends up coming into a huge amount of money that becomes more curse than gift. He uses it to fund a literary magazine in Brooklyn (of course) whose editors still don't respect him, money or not. He stumbles in and out of flings with women and bungles things everywhere he goes, even though he has the very best intentions. Henry is a lovable fool, and I loved this novel even as things get darker and darker and more outlandishly unlucky for him.
The Dinner, Herman Koch (2013)
When I first read reviews about this book, its premise—the entire novel is set at one fancy meal—did not sound like much fun to me. (Claire Messud called it "claustrophobic.") But 'fun' is exactly how I'd describe this novel. That's not to say it's got a happy tone; it sure doesn't. It is, though, a surprisingly quick, page-turning read, and its biggest asset is probably the narrator's voice. Paul Lohman is angry, annoyed, caustic, critical of everyone around him. But he's also critical of himself—Paul the narrator doesn't spare Paul the character from his own resentment. The Dinner feels more like a play than a novel, with four main players: Paul, his wife Claire, Paul's politician brother Serge, and Serge's wife Babette. And that's okay. Someone should and probably will go ahead and put it on as a play, but it works fine as a novel—funny, sometimes upsetting, engaging, and fierce. The whole thing is a ticking time-bomb, yes—halfway in you find out the true purpose for the dinner and the revelation eating away (sorry) at Paul. For me, the conceit worked, though, despite what Janet Maslin thinks. The critic wrote that the book is "executed with a joylessly heavy hand," which I don't agree with at all, and, in general, based on her complaints with the book I have to wonder if she simply didn't like the narrator, to which I'd say that of course you aren't meant to like him, or any of the main four, and that's quite all right. Koch is, however, wise to add to the present setting of the dinner a humming little river of side plots about Paul's son and Serge's son, which gives us a needed break from the action unfolding in the restaurant. I have no reason not to recommend this book to everyone, foodie or not, lover of angry, judgmental narrators or not.
A Map of Tulsa, Benjamin Lytal (2013)
I sure made a lot of highlights in this one. Like The Best of Youth, it's a bit more muted and chill. It's got less going on than a bulky book like & Sons. But Lytal's slim novel about a college kid returning home to Tulsa for the summer is really well-paced, vivid, and likable. Inevitably, it's a love story, but it ends up being about the city, too. This novel has an extremely strong sense of place. I loved that the protagonist Jim heads right to a bar on his first day home, alone, with his sketchbook, and ends up just stumbling into a social group for the rest of the summer all because some kids he vaguely knew in high school invite him to a party. The book is filled with artful turns of phrase: "My enthusiasm pinged off the things I admired that I glimpsed in the whirl, the girls, their hair, their boots," he says while dancing. And, while high and running through backyards, climbing over fences: "To be so athletic was a strange breakthrough, on top of everything else." And, leaving a party: "I thought of that house I had been in as an intricate novel, one I had read too fast but could unwind, later, and rethink, in my notebooks." That right there in many ways explains the entire joy of reading, doesn't it, and in some ways even the joy of any memory, any experience? This whole book feels a lot like that well-worded statement.
Slow Getting Up, Nate Jackson (2013)
In the tradition of modern, bawdy sports memoirs like Mark Titus's Don't Put Me in, Coach, former Broncos tight end Nate Jackson's is appropriately self-deprecating, fun, surprising, and brutally honest. But it's also well-written. Did I say funny? It's really funny. And most of the time it's funny in a subtle, deadpan way, not a showy, trying-too-hard way. At times, yes, a silly way: After Jackson rides home with a girl from a Playboy party, the cab lets her out and he says, "I never see her again, but I smell her every time the wind whispers Mary." Or here's Jackson simply pointing out the quirky, strange little realities of NFL training camp: "Last night number 14 was a short black guy. Today he is a tall white guy." Of course, that's not to say the humor is never in-your-face crazy. In one scene, his training camp roommate comes back to the room drunk: "Ty is a funny man, even more so after too many tequila shots. After one of his jokes, he hiccups and reaches for the closest receptacle. It's an empty water bottle. He attempts to vomit into it but instead creates a suction. It sprays out the sides of his mouth and all over the room." That word there, suction, that's the key. See, Jackson can write. He has a good sense of language. (Clinton Portis once flew in adult dancers for a dinner, Jackson writes, "to provide flexible, pink comic relief.") He could probably go write for a smart sitcom. And the book isn't just quick fun, it's also interesting in surprising ways, like this nugget I guess may be obvious to some but that I never thought about: "The 49ers media didn't care about the bottom of the roster. The Denver media, I'll learn, care about the whole team." You also come to feel like you know Jackson; his voice is clear and he repeatedly addresses you honestly: "I buy a new Denali. It's a foolish purchase but I can't help myself… I love the idea that I can buy a giant luxurious machine with only my football skills." Overall, Jackson informs us, being in the NFL is far from glorious. It's a slog, punctuated by sitting and waiting in physicians' rooms, sitting and waiting in hotel rooms, sitting and waiting on the sidelines, and so on. In that way, Slow Getting Up is to the NFL what Jarhead was to war: surprise, it's mostly boredom, not thrills. For its many pleasures, I had to give the dude an honorable mention in this roundup of football books for SI.com's culture blog.
American Dervish, Ayad Akhtar (2012)
I got wrapped up in this book about belief and culture clashes immediately. When it begins, you think the novel will be about Hayat, a young boy confused about his religion and how to be devout in the modern age. He is pulled between his father, who rejects the Koran and its strict teachings (and also, we learn, is having an affair) and his mother's beautiful friend Mina, who schools him in the book and leads him to become even more devout, in some ways, than she is. But it's not about Hayat—when Hayat's father soon sets Mina up with his colleague Nathan, a Jew, we see that this is the core of the story. And Akhtar tells it well, making us understand and sympathize with every single character and the angle from which they come. The writing is beautiful and clear: "Since her troubles with food as a girl—she would stop eating when she was unhappy and ended up in the hospital more than once because of it—[Mina] didn't fast. But she still found a way to be true to the intention of Ramadan as she saw it: She would deprive herself of things she loved, like reading, in order to feel that quickening of the will—and the deepening of one's gratitude—that she said were the reasons Muslims fasted." Explanations like this, about belief, often reminded me of Life of Pi, although this is a smarter and far better written book. And conversations between the characters are also very good, especially when one of the adults says something to Hayat that he either doesn't agree with, doesn't understand, or something that we the reader know to be wrong or far less simple than the adult is presenting it, like here: "I keep telling [Mina] the fact that Nathan's Jewish is a good thing," Hayat's mother tells him. "they understand how to respect women… They understand how to let a woman be a woman, to let her take care of them. They understand how to give a woman attention… Muslim men are terrified of women… I'm bringing you up differently, so that you learn how to respect a woman… I'm bringing you up like a little Jew." This book frequently moved me; I had to pause at times from reading so as not to be overwhelmed. What happens between Nathan and Mina is so complex and emotionally difficult, it's a lot to take, and then in the end Akhtar still spares Mina from no misfortune. There are no easy answers here but this sad and gripping book will stay with you.
Lost Girls, Robert Kolker (2013)
I never read much nonfiction for pleasure (I write enough of it during the day as my job) but I'm coming to realize that the type of nonfiction I most enjoy is true crime: Columbine by Dave Cullen; Helter Skelter about Charles Manson, etc. This new, exhaustive look at a still-unsolved series of murders is fascinating and upsetting. It felt weird to enjoy this much a book about something so sad, but Kolker draws you in by giving each of the five murdered girls' backstory in real (perhaps even excessive) detail. (The names get very confusing and you lose track of which woman is which victim's family member, but it's okay.) Yes, Kolker benefits from what is already, without needing any artful writing to sell it, a very compelling and weird story: a whole score of dead girls are all found buried along the same stretch of beach in Long Island, and all of them had been working as hookers on Craigslist. But they appear to have been murdered in some cases years and years apart, so was it all one killer, was it a group, was it mere coincidence? I love the way Dwight Garner ends his Times review of the book: "The final chapters and creepy cover remind us, too, that the killer or killers are still out there… perhaps imbibing this book review." Indeed, the cover is great (it follows the lead of Columbine, which I mentioned and which used a very similar cover design: blank and empty up top; serene, spooky scene of the crime down at bottom) but Kolker deserves all the credit for his reporting and careful, structured storytelling.
My Education, Susan Choi (2013)
The big "surprise" of this noel isn't much of a secret by now, right, and it happens in the first 30 pages, but I guess etiquette dictates that I still refrain from talking about it, so: let's just say that you think this will be a story about a young female grad student having an affair with her attractive male professor and something different happens, but not so different. Anyway, that 'twist' doesn't provide the engine of this very good novel. What keeps it going, I'd argue, is the complicated friendship between the main character Regina and her roommate Dutra. The latter is also, in my mind, the finest character in the book, whereas the professor, Nicholas, is rather flat. (His wife, Martha, is anything but.) I did have a major problem with this book that almost kept it off this list: the entire second half—which takes us a decade into the future, long after Regina's affair, when she has inevitably married a boring man and had a child and settled down—is extremely boring and sort of obviou and was unnecessary. The book thus could have simply been a novella and ended when Regina's affair ends. But the writing is too good, and the plot too fun (for the first half) to overlook. Choi's strength isn't in quick little one-liners here and there but in long, vivid, delightful descriptions that are often both effective at painting an image and also funny: "Dutra, with his elaborate bongs and his heaps of ska records and his juvenile know-it-all-ness, had been my most recent lover; had fucked me on his orange Dacron couch and on his capsized king mattress amid a squalor of coffee-damp Styrofoam cups; had been fellated by me while a rerun of Star Trek illumined our nude, writhing limbs; or had pleasured me in our shared shower amid pads of hair and fallen gobbets of toothpaste overseen by a giant ashtray in the shape of a crab keeping laden precarious balance on the tank of the toilet." Hoo, boy. Or this reflection of Martha's about someone else, a character she has hurt, halfway through the book: "At that moment, I think we each genuinely believed ourselves to be the protagonist, and the other a naive and pardonable walk-on whose role might even have a tragic end." My Education doesn't have any tragic end, and in fact for two of the minor characters it has a very nice, happy surprise one, while for the main character it has a sort of obvious, unsatisfying, balloon-deflating type of end. But the getting there was very good. Oh, and this book introduced me to coffee-iced coffee.
Lost Memory of Skin, Russell Banks (2011)
While I was reading (and enjoying) this, every time I told a friend that it's about a convicted sex offender, they would either give me a look of outright disgust or they'd go with a sarcastic approach and say something like, "Mmm, awesome!" Actually the book really is awesome. I liked it from the very first moments, when The Kid (we never get his name) slinks into a library to look himself up online, only to find what he's looking for right in front of a librarian and flee out of shame. For pages and pages we don't find out what he actually did, and I was sure we never would—perhaps it would have been even more powerful that way—but then Banks does tell us, and even though we were already sympathizing with The Kid it's hard not to really feel bad for him once you read about the situation he fell into, even though, yes, he is certainly to blame and can't argue that he was innocent. The only other Russell Banks I've read was The Rule of the Bone, back in high school, and I loved it, recommended it to all my friends, we all loved it. That book was also narrated by a young kid, but the voice was completely different. It shows Banks's range. His writing, as always, is strong in a utilitarian way—he impresses you with clarity and succinctly worded phrases, not overly done technical prose or dime-words. For example, writing about The Kid's mother and the many men she brings home: "Adele needs men to want her bur she doesn't want men to need her." Nice little construction there. Banks's writing is also often gritty or to-the-point, it can have a justifiably angry tone: "They should have a different word than 'father' for someone who just happened to fuck your mother and she got pregnant from it," The Kid muses about his father who abandoned them. Although the book isn't perfect (The Kid isn't the only one who gets a generic name—there's The Professor, The Writer, and so on, and it gets annoying), it is both well written, surprisingly exciting, and deals with extremely difficult moral and political issues, and for these reasons I'm surprised it didn't win more awards. (Janet Maslin even called it a "a major new work… destined to be a canonical novel of its time.") Its strength all rests on its protagonist, which is fine by me. His often-innocent, fresh-eyed observations about the world have a sort of stilted charm to them, like this reflection toward the end: "The Writer is showing him something he never thought of before: that when you decide to kill yourself you also get to choose the method and therefore how you kill yourself in a sense can reveal who you really are. You don't get to find that out for yourself of course because you're dead by then but it is like a form of self-expression, your true last words after you've already seen what were supposedly your last words." Of course none of that is any brand new revelation to the reader but it's something new to The Kid, an interesting little thought. It's also very sad, of course, but there's real truth to it, and that's what much of Russell Banks's subjects are like: sad, raw, real.
Roth Unbound, Claudia Roth Pierpont (2013)
I loved this strong work of reporting and analysis, which is more a biography of Philip Roth's books than of the man himself (Blake Bailey will give us that volume soon enough and I imagine it'll be exhaustive and terrific). Pierpont begins with his very first short story publication and tracks Roth right up to what we now know will be (he claims) his final works of fiction. (I feel compelled, as has every single review and essay about this book, to mention she has no relation to Roth; part of me wonders why she didn't drop her middle name for this book, but I guess what can she do, she's been using the three names as her byline for years, it's just an unfortunate coincidence, but one that has confused some, made some think she's his daughter or a niece). I believe she truly got to know both Roth and his work (even though this won't prove to be a definitive biography of the man's life, she did get access to him, which is rare from Roth) and she sounds like a true expert, if also perhaps too much of a fan. I especially like her succinct and accurate explanation of how Roth felt and responded to criticisms from Jews of Jewish characters that looked bad in his work: "He noted that people read Anna Karenina without concluding that adultery was a Russian trait; Madame Bovary did not lead readers to condemn the morals of French provincial women en masse. He was writing literature, not sociology or—Bellow's helpful phrase—public relations." My only caveat would be that while some biographies of authors can be interesting for even those who have not read much by the author (for example, I loved the V.S. Naipaul biography The World Is What It Is even though I had only read A House for Mr. Biswas) but this is truly a book for Roth fanatics and I would not recommend it to anyone until they have read a large portion of his books. At some points, even I felt unschooled/unfamiliar and I've read 18 of the guy's 29 books!
Wool, Hugh Howey (2013)
This book comes very close to being my favorite thing I read this year, but loses out simply because it was so upsetting sometimes. In fact it gave me nightmares. Not because it's scary or anything, it's not that it's scary—well, yes, it is very scary, actually, but a different kind of scary, not scary like a horror movie, going for cheap thrills, but scary in a long-term way, because of its premise, because you think about it as you're falling asleep. It was certainly the most exciting book I read this year. Okay, let me explain. What turned me on to Wool when I am otherwise not much of a sci-fi guy was the amazing publishing story behind it: the author, Hugh Howey, had already self-published the book online. He made Wool available as a $5.99 Kindle e-book. It achieved so much success and rapid popularity that Simon & Schuster came along and gave him a big fat contract to let them print a hardcover—all for something hat had already been out in the world for months! That's extremely rare. But the story is that original: a dystopia set in the future when all humans live underground in giant structures called "silos," essentially whole skyscrapers that are completely inside the earth. No one ever goes outside, and not only that, but you're not even supposed to talk about the outside, where something has left the air toxic and unbreathable for long ("It was impossible sometimes to know what could and couldn't be said about the outside"). However, they can see the outside: a single view of it, looped into the Silo via one outdoor sensor, feeding the entire building a steady view of the same lifeless hillside. The punishment for voicing a desire to go outside, or for any crime, is "going to cleaning," in which you get sent out of the Silo to clean grime off the sensor lens for everyone else; you wear a suit that only keeps the toxic air at bay for so long until you die. One single giant spiral staircase runs up the middle of the Silo (no elevator!) and it takes days to journey up or down it far, so visiting a floor that is 30 levels away from yours is a serious climb (or descent) and thus most people don't often leave their area. And in the current setting of Wool, the Silo isn't new, but is status quo and has been for hundreds of years, so entire generations are born and grow up and die all within the Silo—an extremely claustrophobic premise. (In nightmares I had while reading this, I live in the Silo and desperately want out.) But of course, the entire structure and system is founded on secrets and lies, and a young woman, Juliet, seeks to get them exposed. I loved the many winking moments when a character wonders about the way humans lived before the Silo—it's like Howey is nudging the reader in the ribs, and these moments, while funny, are also obviously sad because these characters are truly in the dark about so much of mankind's history. "Pretend, just as a hypothetical, mind you," one character tells another, "that people lived in those ancient aboveground silos poking up over the hillside. You don't think they would move around so little, do you? Like stay in the same silo? Never wander over here or up and down a hundred flights of stairs?" Similarly, there are normal, everyday elements of our society that those in the Silo world simply can't understand. For example, there are dogs but not many, and only some people keep them as pets; one character, Knox, doesn't see the point of keeping around an animal you aren't going to eat: "He always shook his head at those who spent hard-earned chits on food that would fatten an animal that would never repay the favor." Anyway, I whipped through Wool in four days on my iPad. There are two additional books already in the Silo series—Shift and then Dust—but I don't yet feel compelled to read those. Wool was pretty satisfying to me for now. But do know what you're getting into.
…And my very favorite book I read in 2013 was an oldie:
Good Faith, Jane Smiley (2003)
I stumbled on this at a used bookstore and did what we're not supposed to do: judged by the cover. I loved the 80s-style pop-art image of the hearty handshake. (I notice the book has since been reissued with an absolutely terrible stock-image cover of a man and woman shown only from the waist down, standing together at a wedding or something; simply awful change.)
I knew of Jane Smiley but had never read her. Good Faith is certainly not one of her more famous books—that would be A Thousand Acres, a retelling of "King Lear," and after that probably Moo—but boy is it fun. You must ease into it. The story, on its face, doesn't sound like much: a real-estate agent and bachelor in his thirties in a small town, plodding along, drumming up business here and there. But "when a stranger comes to town…" etc., and so on. That setup sounds cliche but Good Faith becomes a thumping business story as well as a character study and, at the same time, one of many old stories about the life of a town.
Smiley wins with her characters, who are real and nuanced and not always likable (as Claire Messud preached all year, that's never a good author's concern anyway). Her writing and the setting reminded me repeatedly of Richard Russo (especially Nobody's Fool) and, like with Russo, you have to be patient at the beginning and get through some place-setting and introductions. Then the plot starts humming and I couldn't put it down. There's even a twist you never quite see coming. More than any other book I read this year, every moment of this one was a delight and I can't make a single complaint or criticism.
REVIEWS from 2013:
In this space I always like to share whatever book reviews I wrote this year outside of this blog. I didn't write so many in 2013, but below are quick links to the reviews and, in some cases, roundups I did. I'm particularly proud of the first post, a long essay that looks at novels about money.
"Wealth: a novel idea" (How to Get Rich in Rising Asia; Crazy Rich Asians)
"How to make it in China" (Five Star Billionaire)
"Fictional fears of an all-powerful tech giant" (The Circle)
Baseball books for SI.com Extra Mustard (Great American Novel; Francona; Faithful; more)
Football books for SI.com Extra Mustard (Education of a Coach; Where Men Win Glory; more)
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Oftentimes the spoken language of others run negative to your own experiences but it seems, and has ofttimes been told, that it is more than fundamental to quash his own ideals and experiences to amended friction match the ideals and viewpoint of your gent man. You are told not to batter the craft and by so doing you won't have to settlement with the man-made outcome of your nonsymbiotic rational.
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Hey-wake up, chew over give or take a few what you are man. You are human being a noctambulist. When you are a slumberer your opinion are out of use. When you are a noctambulist you hurt into material possession and fall over low a lot. When you are a somnambulist you can't report what direction you are going. When you are a slumberer you are people in a mental imagery. When you are a noctambulist you lone see black and achromatic. When you are a noctambulist your senses are benumbed. You don't truly sensation the flowers, or hear the interweave in the trees, or identify the status of dampen. You can't hear the voice of nature. When you are on unthinking you put in the wrong place the toothsomeness of spontaneousness. When you are on auto-pilot you cannot observably see all of your options.
What happens often is that one of life's highest dichotomies comes into kick up your heels. What we air at initially and perceive to deliberate is the cushy way to do thing turns out to be harder in the end. The consequence of our activities produces more pessimistic knock-on effect than favourable. "Easy" someone definite as not having to mull over going on for what you are undertaking and not involving intensely overmuch psychosomatic and/or physiologic labour.
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Emily's List Announces Its New Executive Director
Andrea González-Ramírez
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Emily's List, one of the largest women-centric political groups in the United States, has hired a new executive director with the purpose of helping more pro-choice women be elected to office in the 2018 midterm elections.
The political action committee (PAC) announced that Emily Cain, a former state legislator from Maine, will be the new executive director of the organization. Cain, 37, will be replacing Jess O'Connell, the former executive director of the group who now serves as the CEO of the Democratic National Committee (DNC).
"Emily is a leader for progressive change at a moment when the rights, security and well-being of women and American families are under unprecedented assault by the radical and dangerous policies of the Trump administration and GOP," Emily's List President Stephanie Schriock said in a statement.
She added, "Emily brings important outside-the-beltway insight to our work at a time when over 14,000 women from all 50 states are looking to EMILY's List to run for office and raise their voices in our democracy. She is the perfect choice to help lead us in electing unprecedented numbers of pro-choice Democratic women up and down the ballot from coast to coast, from school board to Senate."
Cain was first elected to office in Maine at the age of 24, serving in both the state's House and Senate over five terms. She is the youngest person ever to act as the state House's minority leader and successfully helped Democrats retake the House majority.
In 2014 and 2016, she ran for Congress but lost the bid. During last year's election, she made news by addressing body-shaming and how it affected her life in a campaign ad.
As the new executive director at Emily's List, Cain will work with women who are running for office for the first time and try to help them develop strategies to win. The hope is that she'll be able to recreate the success she had as a state legislator in Maine by recruiting top female candidates.
"I'm excited to hit the ground running at EMILY's List," Cain said in a statement. "With Stephanie's leadership and powerhouse team, EMILY's List is getting more women ready to run and ready to win elections at all levels. We are empowering women from all backgrounds, particularly women of color, to be a part of making positive change in town halls and Statehouses, to the U.S. Congress and the White House."
Emilys List New Executive Director, Who Is Emily Cain
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Prime Minister of Georgia Giorgi Kvirikashvili announced earlier today that mini cable car routes will be built, with a pilot project to be launched in Svaneti's Ushguli, Ushkhvanari, Mazeri and Etseri, upper Svaneti and Lentekhi districts. As the PM noted, the mini cable car routes that are already installed in Kvemo Svaneti quickly gained popularity. At the Governmental meeting held today, the PM said that the new project will further continue in other mountainous villages of Georgia.
He also pointed out that there will be hiking trails completed in the summer, with tourist infrastructure along the trails.
"This will bring employment opportunities for the locals, and make use of investment possibilities local companies have, and of course, the Government will assist in developing those directions," Giorgi Kvirikashvili stated.
Installing of the mini cable car roads, according to the Prime Minister, costs around 25,000 EUR, and are to be produced by one of the German companies. The length of the mini cable car roads is approximately 200-300 metres.


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ONSLOW, Thomas (1679-1740), of Clandon, Surr.
Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1715-1754, ed. R. Sedgwick, 1970
26 Nov. 1705 - 1708
1708 - Nov. 1715
30 Nov. 1715 - 5 Dec. 1717
bap. 27 Nov. 1679, o. surv. s. of Richard Onslow, 1st Baron Onslow. m. (1) 17 Nov. 1708 (with about £70,000), Elizabeth, da. and h. of John Knight, merchant of Jamaica, niece and h. of Col. Charles Knight, also of Jamaica, 1s. suc. fa. as 2nd Baron Onslow 5 Dec. 1717.
Outranger of Windsor Great Park 1715-17; ld. lt. Surr. and high steward, Guildford 1717-d.; teller of the Exchequer 1718-d.
At George I's accession Thomas Onslow spoke on the address to the new King, observing that in this case the occasion was one for congratulation rather than condolence. Re-elected in 1715, he spoke on 21 June in defence of the Duke of Ormonde. In November he succeeded his father as knight of the shire for Surrey, vacating his Bletchingley seat by taking an office of £600 p.a.1 On 20 Feb. 1717 he moved the Address, his last recorded speech before being called to the Lords by his father's death. He continued to play a leading part in Surrey elections, complaining in 1720 to Sunderland of the expense to which he was being put
in promoting his Majesty's service in the county of Surrey, which I fear must fall without his Majesty's kind support and your Lordship's assistance.
I am now going to another election ... but now depend on your Lordship's goodness and promise, or will never more engage, for 'tis ruin to my family, and the fatigue of so many elections intolerable.2
A figure in the City, he presided in 1720 over the insurance company known at the time as 'Onslow's Bubble', which survives today as the Royal Exchange Assurance. He married a West Indian heiress, with whose money he rebuilt Clandon by Leoni. According to his cousin, the Speaker, he
was not without parts and spirit and some knowledge of the world, and had a notion of magnificence suited to his rank and fortune, but had such a mixture of what was wrong in everything he thought, said and did, and had so much of pride and covetousness too, that his behaviour, conversation, and dealings with people were generally distasteful and sometimes shocking, and had many bitter enemies but with very few friends.3
He died 5 June 1740.
Author: Romney R. Sedgwick
1. HMC 14th Rep. IX, 494-5.
2. Sunderland (Blenheim) mss.


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