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GM Wheat Discovered in Oregon, Benton County Continues Work on Food Bill of Rights — Read The Dirt Read The Dirt
"Greater scarcity of water will lead to an increase in the cost of food." -Pope Francis
GM Wheat Discovered in Oregon, Benton County Continues Work on Food Bill of Rights
by: Benton County Community Rights Coalition Posted on: June 06, 2013
By Clinton Lindsey, 5th-generation farmer and co-founder of Benton County Community Rights Coalition
Editor's Note: Benton County, Oregon grows seed (including wheat) for national and international markets. That seed is being threatened by genetically modified organism (GMO) agriculture. Below we hear from a Benton County farmer about the ramifications of GMO agriculture and what the Benton County Community Rights Coalition is doing to elevate the community's right to a sustainable food system, seed heritage, and the inalienable rights of nature over corporate "rights" and state preemption in their county.
This is an adaptation of Clint's previous article, which appeared before the discovery of GMO wheat. This version also includes an update on the status of the Benton County Food Bill of Rights ordinance.
Our previous article "Fighting for the Right to a Sustainable Food System: Benton County, Oregon" complements this piece.
Benton County is in the heart of the Willamette Valley – a lush, fertile valley in western Oregon. Here in the Willamette Valley we are blessed with a climate that allows us to grow over 270 varieties of edible plants. Wheat, hazelnuts, wine grapes, cherries, apples, peppermint, hops, beans, corn, peas, oats, flax, potatoes, and many other crops are found here. The consumer base that supports this abundance is one of the most educated and involved in the whole country. CSA (community supported agriculture) programs, farmer's markets, and food co-ops all thrive here. Our robust and growing organic industry makes up a vibrant local food system that many farmers and citizens have spent their lives building.
This system is now under attack from corporate agricultural interests who seek to turn our valley into a breeding ground for their patented seeds and the chemicals that go with them. A conflict is growing between the farmers, both organic AND conventional, who seek to grow crops uncontaminated by genetically modified seeds, and the massive and well-funded biotech industry and their associated organizations and growers, of which Monsanto is the best known. At the heart of Willamette Valley's farm and food system conflict is the question of who owns the seed, and thus, who controls the landscape of agriculture. However, even more fundamental to this fight is the structure of law that elevates corporations' "rights" above those of we the people. This farming crisis has shown us in Benton County that what we are really facing is a democracy crisis.
Our valley is one of the very few places in the world that can grow a wide variety of vegetable seeds for the international market. A large number of people's livelihoods are at stake in the decision to open up our valley to more genetically modified organism (GMO) agriculture. GMO sugar beets were introduced to the valley in 2006, and within three years they had all but taken over the entire market. This created deep divides in the specialty seed industry. Those who grow organic and conventional varieties of beets absolutely do not want GMO beets in the valley, for fear that the GMO sugar beets will contaminate their crops and shut them out of lucrative overseas markets like Japan and the European Union, neither of which permit GMO seeds to be imported. The GMO sugar beet growers feel they need the GMO technology to compete. GMO alfalfa has been introduced to Oregon with severe consequences for the organic dairy industry and its farmers. Our organic dairies are now forced to test their alfalfa seed for contamination from cross-pollination with GMO alfalfa before planting and feeding it to their animals.
Both of these threats pale next to the potential threat of GMO wheat, which has now been found in a field in Eastern Oregon. Wheat is the major food crop of the world, and if the wheat industry in the northwest comes to be dominated by GMOs to the degree that the sugar beet industry has, then the food system we have worked hard to build will be devastated. The recent discovery of Monsanto's Roundup-Ready GMO wheat in Eastern Oregon has sent shockwaves through the industry. Japan and South Korea, two of the largest buyers of Pacific Northwest wheat, have either canceled orders or put a temporary hold on shipments until the situation is resolved. The discovery also shows Monsanto's promises of coexistence of GMO and conventional and organic practices to be hollow and false. The local food system can and will be undermined by the biotech industry if GMO crops are allowed to thrive here.
GMO crops bring with them not just the threat of contamination. If a farmer is knowingly or even unknowingly contaminated by a patented GMO seed, his crop is subject to potential litigation by the biotech firm that owns the seed patent. It would be a crime for the farmer to save his contaminated seed to plant again, even if he didn't know it was contaminated. This opens the farmer up to a host of legal troubles. These biotech firms have shown that they will aggressively pursue litigation against farmers who have violated their patents, often to the financial ruin of the farmer.
It was with these concerns in mind that a group of farmers, food activists, and regular citizens met on March 10, 2012 at First Alternative Food Co-op in Corvallis, OR to hear Paul Cienfuegos speak about the threat of GMO agriculture and a new way that we the people can potentially stop it. Cienfuegos is an activist from California who recently relocated to Portland, OR. He spoke of a rights-based approach to activism; that is, using the fundamental right of the people to self-governance to address concerns that threaten our way of life. Instead of "playing their game" as he put it, and endlessly petitioning state authorities and regulators to protect our interests over corporate interests, we should draft local ordinances that invoke the fact that all rights are inherent in the people. What this means is that to give a law teeth, we would strip corporations of their rights and remove their ability to challenge our ordinance based on mechanisms like the interstate commerce clause of the constitution and state preemption.
During the meeting a signup list went around asking for anyone interested in forming a group to work on these issues to stay in contact. Very shortly thereafter a small group of folks started meeting every Monday to work on an ordinance for Benton County that would effectively ban GMO agriculture and remove the rights of corporations as they pertain to the enforceability of the ordinance. This group initially called itself "GMO-Free Benton County." This group then held a meeting at the Mary's River Grange near Philomath in April of 2012, again with Cienfuegos as a speaker. More support was gathered and more members joined the group. A short time after that, the group decided to change their name to Benton County Community Rights Coalition. It was felt that the rights-based work had a broader focus than just the anti-GMO issue, and the name needed to reflect that. Once this was done, work on the ordinance began in earnest. With the help of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF), the ordinance began to take shape. After six months of hard work on the minutiae of the wording, the first draft of the ordinance was complete. The ordinance was submitted to the county elections office with an eye on making the May 2013 ballot.
We hit a snag when the county ruled that the ordinance did not address the single-issue requirement. Any ordinance submitted to the county must have within it elements that only pertain to a single topic. We then filed a motion to overturn the county's decision, as we had anticipated the single-issue requirement and had constructed the ordinance so that everything in the document related to the single-issue of our right to a sustainable food system. The county judge ruled that by including the anti-corporate personhood language we were straying outside the single-issue requirement, forcing us to step back and edit the language of the ordinance.
Our feeling is that the anti-corporate personhood language is key to the enforceability of the ordinance. What is to stop Monsanto et al from filing a lawsuit in state or federal court against our ordinance if we don't remove their right to do so? At stake is the public's ability to decide for themselves what they want the food system of our county to look like. This issue is a key example of the conflict between the rights of the people and the artificial "rights" given to corporations over the last 150 years. This country was founded on the principle that all rights are inherent in the people, and all other entities, government, corporate, and so on, are subordinate. We have now completed the redrafting of our ordinance and resubmitted it to Benton County on June 5th, 2013.
Key language in the Ordinance includes:
"We the people of Benton County find that the patenting and privatization of seeds that have been genetically manipulated or altered, interferes with the diversity of and access to the genetic foundation of food systems and the peoples' seed heritage; reduces the peoples ability to save, replant, and adapt open pollinated seeds free of contamination to local conditions on their own land; limits research and development of uncontaminated seeds and other life forms adapted to local growing conditions, soils, and the economic and nutritional needs of the community; encourages the production and use of patented genetically modified or altered life forms, which pose significant risks to natural communities and farmer livelihoods through irreversible contamination of crops and related species.
We the people of Benton County understand that any attempt to prohibit the privatization and use of patented seed may run afoul of claimed corporate "rights" to engage in those practices, as well as State or federal laws. We understand that failure to legislatively challenge those "rights" and laws guarantees that a sustainable food system will never exist.
We the people of Benton County therefore enact this local law pursuant to the inherent and inalienable right of the residents of Benton County to govern their own county for their own health, safety, and welfare. That authority is also secured by the Declaration of Independence's assertion that governments are instituted to secure the rights of people, in the State Constitution of Oregon's recognition that all power is inherent in the people, and in the Benton County Charter, which delegates the authority to the people and their representatives to enact local legislation on matters of county concern."
We seek the ability to decide for ourselves what we think our food system should look like.
We want to put it to the citizens of Benton County to vote on if they think the food system should allow GMO seeds owned by corporations who contaminate other growers and sue those who don't pay their fees, or if they want to ban this dangerous and threatening practice from our county, and we want to do so in a way that removes the right of corporations and state and federal authorities to usurp our citizen's decision should it pass.
This begs the question: Why the rights-based approach? Why not simply try to pass a county-wide ban on GMO agriculture? The reason behind this is to provide our ordinance with a solid and enforceable platform. Corporations have at their disposal many tools to combat local ordinances that threaten their business practices. Among these are the oft-invoked Interstate Commerce Clause of the US Constitution and Dillon's Rule. It is extremely difficult to pass local laws that are free from the threat of being overturned by state and federal authorities on the grounds that state and federal legislative authority is preeminent. It is clearly written in both the US and Oregon Constitutions that "All power is inherent in the people." If all power is inherent in the people, then we must use that power to protect our way of life when threatened by forces claiming to possess "rights" that supersede our own.
One recent example of the imbalance in power with respect to decision-making is the Oregon Department of Agriculture's (ODA) canola rule adjustment. The director of the ODA, Katy Coba, despite widespread opposition to any change in the rule that prohibits commercial-scale canola cultivation in the Willamette Valley, DID IN FACT change the rule, allowing several thousand acres of canola to be planted every year. This will have devastating and far-reaching effects on agriculture in the Willamette Valley. Canola is a noxious weed whose seed is heavily contaminated by genetically engineered traits. GMO canola is widely grown and it is now difficult to find uncontaminated conventional canola. Allowing the spread of this plant threatens the very existence of a large group of specialty seed growers. This is precisely the sort of top-down structure that a rights-based effort aims to change. Thankfully the Oregon legislature is considering a bill that would go over the ODA's head and place a moratorium on canola production in the valley pending more studies of its potential effects on the industry, but we cannot rely on state and federal government to protect us from this kind of threat to our food system. We must act at the local level.
What is Benton County Community Rights Coalition trying to do about this issue?
BCCRC has drafted, as stated above, a Food Bill of Rights. This ordinance contains within it provisions banning GMO agriculture and removing the rights of corporations to challenge our ordinance should it be adopted by the county. We are deeply concerned about the push for more GMO technology to be adopted by the farmers of our valley, and we feel now is the time to stop it. We are receiving opposition from groups funded by the biotech industry, and they have even sought to label us as "sovereign-citizen extremists" and "domestic terrorists." Apparently seeking to assert the rights of the people to decide what their food system should look like is considered an act of terror to some. Section I of the Oregon Constitution states, "We declare that all men, when they form a social compact are equal in right: that all power is inherent in the people, and all free governments are founded on their authority, and instituted for their peace, safety, and happiness; and they have at all times a right to alter, reform, or abolish the government in such manner as they may think proper."
What is a Food Bill of Rights?
A food bill of rights is the statement that all people possess the inalienable right to a sustainable food system and seed heritage. A sustainable food system is one free from practices and substances that harm the soil, air, water, plants, animals, and people that depend on it. This sustainable system allows the co-existence of the plants, animals, and people through responsible stewardship of our natural resources. Practices that embrace the use of genetically engineered life forms that are "owned" by a corporate entity are inherently dangerous to a sustainable system because they promote dependence on the corporation supplying the seed, and the associated chemicals to treat the fields in which the transgenic seed is planted. Using GMO seeds would be categorically banned should the citizens of Benton County adopt our food bill of rights.
What is seed heritage? Why is it important to a sustainable food system?
Seed heritage is the right of the people to save, plant, keep, trade, or otherwise use seeds grown and developed over generations. This is at the core of a sustainable food system. If our right to save seed is taken away, all the other elements of our sustainable food system will crumble, as biotech firms will control the seed and have ultimate say in how we grow and manage our food. If patented GMO seed were to be grown here, the companies that hold the patents will be able to determine how the seed is handled, and by whom, and they require growers to buy seed each and every year. Saving seed is illegal when you grow GMO crops. This, along with the biotech firms' aggressive litigation and threat of litigation against farmers, is a barrier to a sustainable food system. Farmers have saved seed for millennia. Are we to take the means to grow our food out of the farmer's hands and put it in the hands of a few corporations who clearly do not have our best interests at heart?
Power to the people, NOT the corporations. This is our valley, our food system, OUR SEED.
Photo: Bruce Bittle
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A Prophet in Our Midst
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The Rev. William J. Barber II, president of the N.C. state chapter of the NAACP and architect of the protests known as "Moral Monday," speaks during a Bible study at Pullen Memorial Baptist Church in Raleigh, N.C. in this June 24, 2015, file photo. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)
I want to tell you a story about humility, and about purpose and prophecy, and about America.
It begins in December 2014, though truthfully it started several months earlier, in February 2014, sitting in a tiny pastor's office in a tiny church outside Chicago.
Snow fell furiously outside, and I turned around to watch it drift, as I watched a gaggle of people walk past my door, at the end of the twice-daily 12-step meeting hosted in my tiny little Lutheran church.
Sometimes in 2014 I felt uncertain and isolated. I had only a few months ago become a pastor; somewhere inside I was still the journalist I had been before, with the soul of a writer longing to tell the truth. My congregation could not contain the breadth of my desire to communicate, so, at my husband's urging, I started a blog.
On the advice of a former intern to a prominent Christian writer, who went to the same journalism school as me, I contacted a group called Red Letter Christians. They'd be among the first to publish my Christian writing and blogging, and they even invited me to a small gathering of activists, authors, and pastors on the east coast in 2014.
Wide-eyed and naive, I listened as these veterans of publishing and speaking circuits shared their wisdom and their woes. Introverted and missing my 18-month-old back home, having just weeks before suffered a miscarriage, I walked in to eat breakfast alone.
I didn't really know anyone; I wasn't in the "club," so to speak, and I wasn't sure I even wanted to be. So I put my head down, and stared into my coffee cup. Behind me I heard another person sidling up to the breakfast buffet. He walked slowly, haltingly, slightly bent over. I didn't know then, but he'd dealt with bone-fusion arthritic disability much of his life. Like the Apostle Paul, he had a thorn in his flesh (2 Corinthians 12:7). Like the Apostle Paul, God's power would be made perfect despite this weakness, which was not in truth weakness but strength (2 Corinthians 12:9).
I didn't know any of this, then. I just saw a man I didn't know; a man whose skin color was different than mine. I wondered if he was with our Christian group, but I didn't ask. I just kept sitting, drinking my coffee, self-obsessed with my own inadequacies and social anxieties and love for my son, who was back in Chicago.
Later that day, we gathered to hear a special speaker. In the silence of a nondescript room in the basement, slowly, purposefully, my breakfast partner walked in. We had been alone in that breakfast room for several minutes, me and the prophet.
"national board of the NAACP"
"chair of its legislative political action committee"
"Duke graduate"
"President of his college at age 17"
"Architect of Moral Mondays"
"fighting voter suppression in North Carolina"
Years later, that list would include speaker at the 2016 Democratic National Convention (though he calls himself a biblicist and a conservative when it comes to scripture), author, arrestee, criminal, Poor Peoples' Campaign leader, MacArthur Fellow.
The Rev. Dr. William J. Barber, II, spoke that day in 2014 as I would see him speak years later on national television, and again this week at the Festival of Homiletics in Minneapolis. He often started quietly, using charts, images, graphs, and even videos to enhance his message. He was tethered, absolutely, to the Bible passages that guided his walk, and, unique among speakers today, you rarely heard him talk about himself.
He used lists of facts and figures and historical data, pausing occasionally to breathe and to stay resolutely dedicated to his central message, that voter suppression, particularly across the American South and in conservative states, was undermining American democracy, and that this same voter suppression had its roots in the 1930s New Deal and racism borne in Reconstruction, all the way up through Nixon's Southern Strategy and Trump's politics of fear and resentment.
Barber showed how it all — how we all — are connected, and connected inherently both to sin and to God. He talked about the insidious ways powerful people take advantage of racial — and gender and sexual identity — discrimination to incite unfairness and entrench many, especially the poor, in systems of injustice. He said that when politicians campaigned on racial resentment, their words hurt African Americans but their laws mainly hurt poor whites. He challenged the church for providing cover for sin, for being too afraid or too complicit or too disorganized or too self-involved to speak out.
Listening, I felt not judged but incited to action. Occasionally he'd laugh, and you'd see behind the moral fervor and God-given prophecy into the man, who in 2016 would be harassed on a plane for his disability and likely his skin color, and later forced to leave. He handled it all with an unspeakable sort of dignity rarely seen anymore, and as I listened to him speak in 2014, I felt transported to another place, another space. I'd return to Chicago determined to involve my tiny, struggling, white church in racial reconciliation. We'd cross the segregation lines of Chicago to partner with a dynamic black Lutheran church on the Far South Side. We'd trade worship leadership and trade pulpits. We'd really know each other; we'd open our hearts to listen.
Miraculously, months later, this work began to happen. Barber's words echoed in my heart. But I'd end up leaving Chicago in June 2015 to work in Orange County and give birth to my second son. My blogging ministry ground to a slow halt. I'd rejoin the Red Letter gathering in 2016, but it was not until moving to Minneapolis in 2017 when I would begin anew my ministry of words.
While I mothered and soaked up the sun and ministered in Southern California, Barber had been traveling the country as a man on a mission, sent straight from God. He continued his battle in North Carolina, winning victories as a restrictive voting law that predominately affected African-American voters was struck down by the U.S. Court of Appeals on July 29, 2016, and people around the country vowed to join efforts against voter suppression.
Even as Barber spoke at the 2016 DNC, I noticed the ways he didn't fit there. He gripped the lectern as he spoke, a speech not intensely political or even partisan but instead insistently biblical, a voice descended from another realm unpolluted by the trappings of lobbyists, partisanship, and fame.
He came almost from another era yet was grounded in the situation of 21st-century America, his eyes clearly open to American wounds, long unhealed, yet within him a reservoir of untapped hope, a deep pool of resilience founded in the words of the spirituals he knew by heart and would sing in the midst of a protest, his eyes lifted heavenward.
When I saw Barber again this year, 2019, in Minneapolis, months before publication of my book, Red State Christians, and mired in a quest for political and religious national understanding and resolution myself, I again felt deeply ashamed. I had sat for breakfast with this giant of a man, and I had said nothing. I had failed to discern the presence of a prophet in my midst because I made the mistake so many of us do, that my earthly sense of deduction would comprehend a heavenly messenger.
I listened to him speak to this room of mostly white, mostly Midwestern, mostly mainline pastors. He said he wanted to deal with weightier matters, the ones Jesus tells the Pharisees they overlooked, and none of us wants to be a Pharisee, though they often make their home in the church.
Barber refused to give in to the liberal temptation of referencing Trump, directly or obliquely, preferring to focus instead on the American roots of the division at hand today between black and white, rich and poor, man and woman, gay and straight.
"Only deeply committed moral fusion movements deeply rooted in our religious institutions have brought justice," he said, rebuking those of us who had clung to the Mueller Report as a sort of savior.
He talked of the moral health of the nation, the moral heart of the nation, a broken heart I witness each day when we fail to acknowledge each other, fail to listen, dismiss one another even behind the wheel of our cars or on social media.
"America has always had great difficulty with a kind of social schizophrenia saying one thing on paper and struggling to live up to it," he said.
He led us from the 1930s to the 1970s to the 1990s to 2019, reminding us that racist culture — words and jokes — is an outgrowth of racist policies, that racism is not natural but created purposefully for the sake of power and fear.
"It's sick sociology, bad biology…heretical ontology, that God designed it this way," Barber said of racism. "It's where people put their ultimate hope…one of the biggest problems in the church is we want to address cultural racism but not systemic racism."
He closed with a drumbeat, a synthesis and a call to action: repenting of the sin of racist idolatrous voter suppression — and speaking against it.
He paraphrased Matthew 23: "Woe unto those who legislate evil and rob the poor of their rights…We can break the demonic hold of systemic idolatrous sinful racist voter suppression, and in doing so we will all be set free."
The crowd, stunned, paused a moment when he finished, then one by one we rose to our feet. The standing ovation felt like one of a people called not to applaud but to take action — a crowd of people who had heard the word of the Lord and stood up in its midst.
As we sat back down, Barber walked slowly down the stairs and out the door toward the airport. I tripped over the seats, rushing toward the door, rushing to catch a word with him before he left. I didn't want to miss speaking with him this time, five years later, as I saw who he was and repented of my own blindness in the face of the word of the Lord.
This article originally appeared on Angela's blog.
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Angela Denker is a Lutheran pastor and veteran journalist. She's written for many publications, including Sports Illustrated, The Washington Post, and Sojourners. She is the author of "Red State Christians: Understanding the Voters Who Elected Donald Trump" (Fortress Press).
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Full coverage of the 2016 U.S. Election
New York probing Trump's closing of Trump Tower atrium for campaign events
(This May 31 story corrects atrium's opening times in sixth paragraph: "between 8 a.m. and 10 p.m." instead of "between 10 a.m. and 8 p.m.")
A doorman stands as people walk past the Trump Tower in New York, U.S., May 23, 2016. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri/File Photo
NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York City is investigating Donald Trump's practice of closing down the public atrium in Trump Tower for presidential campaign events that are off limits to the public.
In order to add more floors than zoning rules would otherwise allow, Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, agreed to create a two-story public atrium on the ground and lower floors of the building, which opened in 1983 on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue.
But security staff wearing Trump badges spent several hours shooing away a growing crowd of New Yorkers and tourists from the doors on Tuesday morning after Trump decided to hold a news conference in the atrium to discuss his fundraising for veterans groups.
"Department of Buildings inspectors will be investigating the allegations that the (public atrium) was closed contrary to the building owner's agreement with the city," Joe Soldevere, a department spokesman, told Reuters on Tuesday.
There are scores of "privately owned public spaces," or POPS, throughout New York City, intended as a trade-off between developers who want to build taller and preserving space for the public in the city's densest neighborhoods.
In the case of Trump Tower, the 6,000-square-foot public atrium, which is lined with pink marble, must be open to the public between 8 a.m. and 10 p.m. every day, a fact advertised in large gold letters over the building's Fifth Avenue entrance.
As with other such spaces, it can be closed up to four times a year for a private event after permission from city officials.
Trump has held several events in the public areas of Trump Tower since launching his campaign in the atrium there last June.
Officials at the Department of City Planning, which grants permission to close a POPS for an event, and the Department of Buildings, which investigates violations, said they had no record of Trump ever seeking or being granted permission to shut out the public for a campaign event.
The investigation was prompted by media reports of the news conference.
Inspectors will seek evidence that the public was denied access without the city's permission, including testimony from anyone turned away. Violations carry a $4,000 fine.
Michael Cohen, an executive vice president for the Trump Organization, said his staff was trying to locate the text of the agreement with the city, and could not immediately confirm or deny the suggestion that closing the atrium was a violation.
Trump lives in a penthouse in the tower with his family and has his main office there.
He previously battled with the city over the space, most recently after he replaced a bench there with a kiosk selling Trump merchandise. A city judge ruled the kiosk violated Trump's agreement with the city, and Trump agreed to removed the kiosk in January and pay a $4,000 fine.
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We received our Cambridge First Certificates on Tuesday 1st October 2013, and were very proud when we thought back on our months of hard work studying for the exam. Our English teacher, Mrs Prohinig, arranged for our English Language Assistant Louise to teach us the different methods of solving Cambridge tasks, as well as how to pass the exam. We met once a week to practise listening, writing and speaking activities. Luckily, we all passed the exam, and were very happy to be able to hold the certificates in our hands.


I'll bring bands (with friends dancing in a procession) to your home..
then you'll remember this night..
come into my heart's palace of mirrors..
You're the queen and I'm the king..
it's like lightening without clouds..
I'm the queen n you're the king..
in London n Patiala, without marrying you..
Ooh la la, ooh lala.
come, now come on, the mood is one of love..
Will make a Taj Mahal for you in Tokyo..


From Sanskrit वङ्ग (vaṅga), ultimately from Dravidian or Munda.
Bengali, Bangla; related to Bangladesh, Bengal, the Bengali language or the Bengali people.
James Heitzman and Robert L. Worden, ed. (1989). Bangladesh: A country study.


Amyloidosis is a rare disease caused by abnormal deposition and accumulation of proteins in the tissues of the body.
Amyloid deposits are primarily made up of protein fibres known as amyloid fibrils. These amyloid fibrils are formed when normally soluble body proteins aggregate (clump together), and then remain in the tissues instead of safely going away. About 30 different proteins are known to form amyloid deposits in humans.
Amyloidosis is usually a systemic disease. This means that many body organs and systems may be affected. Systemic amyloidosis may be AL amyloidosis, AA amyloidosis, ATTR amyloidosis (hereditary or non-hereditary) or non-ATTR hereditary amyloidosis.
Sometimes the organs affected and the patient's symptoms are related to the type of amyloid fibril, but in many forms of amyloidosis there is little or no clear correlation between the fibril protein and the clinical findings. Nevertheless, in order to provide appropriate treatment, it is always essential for doctors to identify the amyloid fibril protein.
Less frequently, localised deposits of amyloid may appear just in one area, such as the airways, skin or bladder.
Localised amyloidosis may require no treatment (for example macular amyloidosis in the skin) or may be easily and completely curable. More information on localised amyloidosis is available here and here.
Amyloid deposits can form in almost any tissue of the body. Therefore the symptoms and signs of the disease can vary greatly and are often vague and not specific. Many patients undergo extensive testing and see several doctors before the diagnosis is made.
Once a doctor suspects that amyloidosis may be present it is possible to confirm the diagnosis quite easily. However, since amyloidosis is rare, with only about 500-1000 new cases diagnosed in the UK each year, and the symptoms are so non-specific, it is not a diagnosis that springs to mind readily for many doctors and missed diagnosis and delayed diagnosis of amyloidosis are common.
The safe, painless SAP scan enables doctors at the National Amyloidosis Centre to pinpoint the exact location and amount of amyloid within the body's organs.
Serum amyloid P component (SAP) is a normal blood protein, present in everybody, which is always present in amyloid deposits of all types because it binds strongly to all amyloid fibrils. The whole body SAP scan was invented by Professor Sir Mark Pepys FRS in 1987 and developed by him and Professor Philip Hawkins, the Director of the National Amyloidosis Centre, into a routine clinical test which provides a unique assessment of both the initial extent of each patient's amyloidosis and the degree to which the amyloid deposits regress during therapy.
Currently available treatments differ considerably for the different types of amyloidosis, but they all focus on reducing the availability of the proteins which form amyloid fibrils (precursor proteins). In many cases patients benefit considerably from these treatments, with regression of amyloid deposits once the precursor supply is stopped and subsequent substantial health improvements.
Amyloidosis is never contagious and it is not cancer, although AL amyloidosis is treated in a similar fashion to a bone marrow cancer called myeloma.
Many patients with AL amyloidosis respond well to treatment with chemotherapy drugs administered with treatment regimes similar to those used in myeloma, and stem cell transplantation is a successful approach in some patients.


Ergonomic risk assessment in work activities is generally conducted using systematic observation methods. Such methods are very popular among safety professional as they are easier to use, less expensive and more flexible than direct measures, so that they are considered as most suitable to field data gathering.
Many research institutes and public authorities operating in the field of workers health and safety protection deliver and update their own methods for ergonomic risk assessment, so that the selection and correct application of such methods requires high skilled professionals in order to ensure evaluation results that reflect the specific working context under assessment.
This paper is aimed at discussing first results of the a comparison study of 25 methods for ergonomic risk assessment from technical and scientific literature, that have been analysed in order to understand their sensitivity in relation to the possible relevant variables in task execution.
This analysis is part of AERMES App for Ergonomic Risk MEthods Selection project, a project carried out by ContARP Campania and Centro Interdipartimentale di Ricerca "R. d'Ambrosio" LUPT established at Università Federico II di Napoli. AERMES project will bring to professionals main methods for risk assessment in the field of manual handling and repetitive movements that are well acknowledged by international technical and scientific context but are rarely applied in the Italian context. AERMES project will provide professionals with a guide to select the risk assessment method most fitting the job and job context they have to investigate. As consequence, professionals will improve their capability to detect situations that increase the probability of musculoskeletal disease occurrence in labour intensive and not standardised jobs and will be supported in defining technical and organizational improvements to reduce workers exposure to musculoskeletal disease risk.
Armstrong T.J., Buckle P., Fine L.J., Hagberg M., Jonsson B., Kilbom A., Kuorinka I.A., Silverstein B.A., Sjogaard G., Viikari-Juntura E.R. A conceptual model for work-related neck and upper limb musculoskeletal disorders. Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health, 19, 73–84, 1993.
Bongers P, de Winter C, Kompier M, Hildebrandt V. Psychosocial factors at work and musculoskeletal disease. Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health, 19, 297–312, 1993.
Chiasson M.E., Imbeau D, Aubry K., Delisle A., Comparing the results of eight methods used to evaluate risk factors associated with musculoskeletal disorders. International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics, 42 (5), 478-488, 2012.
David G. C. Ergonomic methods for assessing exposure to risk factors for work-related musculoskeletal disorders. Occupational Medicine, 55, 190–199, 2005.
Devereux J, Vlachonikolis I, Buckle P. Epidemiological study to investigate potential interaction between physical and psychosocial factors at work that may increase the risk of symptoms of musculoskeletal disorder of the neck and upper limb. Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 59, 269–277, 2002.
Devereux J, Vlachonikolis I, Buckle P. Interactions between physical and psychosocial work risk factors increase the risk of back disorders: an epidemiological study. Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 56, 43–53, 1999.
Li G, Buckle P. Current techniques for assessing physical exposure to work-related musculoskeletal risks, with emphasis on posture-based methods. Ergonomics, 42, 674–695, 1999.
Neumann W.P., Inventory of Human Factors Tools and Methods A Work-System Design Perspective, Ryerson University, 2007.
Takala E.P., Pehkonen I., Forsman M., Hansson G.A., Mathiassen S.E., Neumann,W.P., Sjøgaard G., Veiersted K.B., Westgaard R.H., Winkel J. Systematic evaluation of observational methods assessing biomechanical exposures at work. Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health, 36 (1), 3-24, 2010.
van der Beek A, Frings-Dressen M. Assessment of mechanical exposure in ergonomic epidemiology. Occupational and Environmental Medicine 55, 291–299, 1998.
Waters T.R., Putz-Anderson V., Baron S. Methods for assessing the physical demands of manual lifting: a review and case study from warehousing. American Industrial Hygiene Association Journal, 59 (12), 871-881, 1998.
Winkel J, Mathiassen S. Assessment of physical work in epidemiology studies: concepts, issues and operational considerations. Ergonomics, 37, 979–988, 1994.


Kendall Jenner and Gigi Hadid might be picking up their angel wings again.
There is speculation that the supermodels will be returning to the Victoria's Secret runway after shoe designer Brian Atwood posted a photo of Hadid walking in the 2016 show with the caption, "Less than 1 month away!!!! Let's do this @gigihadid @victoriassecret Can't wait to show you what we have done for the show!!!!"
Atwood then posted a snap of Jenner on the 2015 runway with, "Can't wait to see this beauty @kendalljenner strutting in my shoes for the @victoriassecret fashion show... less than a month away!!!!"
Although the It girls' reps have yet to confirm on their participation in the November show, we can't help but take this as fairly solid evidence.
Hadid and Jenner were absent at the show in 2017. The last time both beauties strutted down the VS catwalk was in 2016 in Paris.


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Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law article: Socio-Economic Equality Duties and the Pupil Premium
Traditionally, equality law was seen as inappropriate to address socio economic inequality. But in the last decade, a growing number of equality duties have been introduced to address this persistent form of inequality. There is, however, little research on the principles that underpin these duties.
This is according to the March 2018 article by Dr David Barrett, which seeks to address this gap through the use of data from interviews conducted with primary school personnel implementing the pupil premium.
Prison Reform Trust and Zahid Mubarek Trust report: Tackling Discrimination in Prison
This April 2017 report on discrimination in prison from the Prison Reform Trust and Zahid Mubarek Trust finds disproportionate outcomes for prisoners with protected characteristics.
'Measuring Up?' reports on Scottish public bodies' performance on the Equality Duties
The EHRC in Scotland is carrying out a programme of work monitoring listed public authorities' compliance with the Equality Act 2010.
Women's Resource Centre review: 'Impact of the Equality Act on Women's Equality'
In March 2015, the Women's Resource Centre published 'Impact of the Equality Act on Women's Equality: Reviewing the use and impact of equality mechanisms on women's equality in London'.
Review of the Public Sector Equality Duty in Wales
In 2014, the EHRC in Wales published a research report and monitoring reports showing the extent of progress in relation to the Public Sector Equality Duty (PSED).
Report on Ethnicity and Employment in Scotland's Public Sector
'The State of the Nation: Race and Racism in Scotland – Employment' was published by CRER in April 2014.
EHRC: 'Equality Objectives' report
In autumn 2013, the EHRC published the findings of a second assessment of how more than 2,000 public bodies are responding to the second specific duty.
Publication of Public Sector Equality Duty Review and Government response
On 6 September 2013, the independent Steering Group's report of the Public Sector Equality Duty (PSED) review and Government response were published.


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We want everyone at Polestar to be comfortable raising questions or concerns about ethical issues. Our code of conduct lays out in detail the policies and practical steps that we should follow to ensure that we act according to the highest ethical standards. It also underlines the importance of transparent communication, acting with integrity, and taking ownership.
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"This large-scale retrospective is an in-depth study of one of America's greatest and most influential fashion designers. It is organized by guest curator Jeffrey Banks and MFIT's deputy director Patricia Mears. Born in 1900, Norman Norell had an extraordinary career that spanned six decades. Working in the theater, film, and fashion industries, he incorporated the highest quality couture construction techniques and workmanship in all of his designs. Norell won numerous industry awards and was the first American to launch his own perfume. Not only did he spearhead the concept of luxe ready-to- wear decades before his European contemporaries, but many of his classic works are still wearable today. Decades after his death, Norell's legacy lives on."


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Football has moved a step closer to coming home as the FA have confirmed that England have made the first moves towards making a bid for the 2030 World Cup.
England has not held a World Cup since 1966, but the FA launched a feasibility study last month into becoming Europe's preferred candidate to holding the competition in 12 years' time.
The FA won't make a decision on a concrete bid till next year, but they are confident that UEFA will back a bid as they are keen to see the competition return to the continent.
FA Chairman Greg Clarke said: 'Last month, the English FA board agreed to conduct feasibility work into the possibility of putting itself forward to be Uefa's potential candidate to host the 2030 Fifa World Cup.
Clarke was keen to distance himself from rumours that England might try to host the 2022 World Cup if there was found to be any wrongdoing in the bidding process by Qatar.
'Russia did a brilliant job hosting the 2018 World Cup and we support the rotation of World Cup hosting among the confederations.
While that was not a definitive denial the FA may host if asked, there was far more bullishness around the 2030 bid.
The Government has also suggested it would support any bid, as have the Labour Party.
If an FA-led bid is chosen as Europe's official choice, it would likely go up against a joint South American offer from Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay and one from Morocco, who have said they will try to win a bid again after losing out in the vote for the 2026 World Cup.


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We therefore agree with the Appellants that because "replacing the bendable tube of Nunley with the ball of the present invention changes how Nunley operates, the modification proposed by the Examiner cannot render claim 1 obvious" (App. Br. 6). See In re Chu, 66 F.3d 292, 299 (Fed. Cir. 1995) (finding of "obvious design choice" precluded where the claimed structure and the function it performs are different from the prior art).


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Things have gone from bad to worse for Peter Dutton since the au pair saga revelations first emerged. Picture: AP
The 14 times Dutton intervened in visa matters
by Shannon Molloy
4th Sep 2018 12:15 PM
NEW details have emerged about the 14 times Peter Dutton used his special ministerial power to intervene in tourist visa issues, with allegations his conduct in the au pair saga is anything but routine.
The embattled Home Affairs Minister told reporters yesterday he had received some 9000 representations from members of parliament, requesting he use those very powers to help.
But since becoming the minister responsible for immigration on December 23, 2014, Mr Dutton has stepped in on just 14 occasions up until June 30 this year.
The very first time was for a former Queensland Police colleague, Russell Keag, whose Italian au pair had been detained by officials at Brisbane airport on June 17, 2015, on suspicion of intending to work while on a tourist visa.
Three months later to the day, also at Brisbane Airport, media reports suggest Mr Dutton again intervened - for only the second time in his ministerial tenure - in a visa matter involving another foreign nanny, but further details about the circumstances are unknown.
The third time he acted was a few months later on November 1, 2015 when French national Alexandra Deuwel was detained at Adelaide Airport.
AFL boss Gillon McLachlan asked Peter Dutton to intervene in the visa case of his wealthy cousin's French au pair Alexandra Deuwel.
Gillon McLachlan, the powerful boss of the AFL, lobbied Mr Dutton's office to step in on behalf of his cousin who had employed the woman.
She was associated with the wealthy family, who have donated more than $150,000 to the Liberal Party.
"Peter Dutton's ministerial interventions to stop au pairs from being deported are anything but routine," says Shayne Neumann, opposition immigration and border protection spokesman.
"Australians are right in asking why there are repeated instances of people with connections to Dutton getting visas for their au pairs - it stinks.
"Why did these interventions happen so quickly? Why did Dutton deny his connections to the employers - in one case a former colleague? Why did Dutton defy his Department's advice and grant visas to people who were 'high risk' and had previously breached visa conditions?"
Mr Dutton's had also spent more than $10,000 on legal costs in a bid to keep details of the au pair cases secret, Mr Neumann said.
Details of the 11 other tourist visa interventions are sketchy and there is no suggestion that they involve other au pairs. However, fresh clouds have gathered over Mr Dutton's use of powers that occurred on May 11, 2017.
In that case, he granted a person a three-year tourist visa - significantly longer than the standard 12 months.
On September 21, 2017, Mr Dutton used his ministerial power twice in the same day - once to grant an 18-month tourist visa. Details of the second case are unknown.
And on May 24 this year, he again acted twice in one day, granting a 12-month visa and a three-month visa for temporary visitors.
Peter Dutton worked to help his former Queensland Police colleague Russell Keag's nanny be freed from immigration detention at Brisbane Airport. Picture: Lillian Altman
The extraordinary statements made by Mr Dutton yesterday - in which he threatened to release a "list" of requests from Labor MPs that would prove damaging - was a sign of his desperation.
"Peter Dutton can try to sling mud at others all he likes, but he can't hide the fact that as the Minister responsible, he had the decision-making authority in these cases and he needs to come clean."
Mr Dutton has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing in the au pair cases and denied accusations by Greens MP Adam Bandt that he misled Parliament.
The French au pair Alexandra Deuwel worked for the MacLachlan family in Adelaide — wealthy pastoralists who have donated significant amounts to the Liberal Party.
Yesterday, Mr Bandt indicated his intention to move a motion of no confidence in Mr Dutton when Parliament resumes next week.
It's understood Labor will support the motion, along with independent MP Andrew Wilkie, while other members of the cross bench are weighing up their options.
The au pair saga has been a distraction for Scott Morrison's new government, which is struggling for clear air to sell its agenda following the leadership coup.
A series of damaging leaks, including secret emails from senior Border Force officials advising Mr Dutton not to intervene in the French nanny's case, have seen press mount.
Mr Morrison said that he is comfortable with his minister's explanations.
A Senate Inquiry into the au pair decisions is due to begin tomorrow.
ALL OF PETER DUTTON'S SUBCLASS 600 (TOURIST) VISA INTERVENTIONS
June 17, 2015 - the Italian au pair of his former police colleague, detained at Brisbane Airport
September 17, 2015 - reportedly another foreign au pair detained at Brisbane Airport
November 1, 2014 - the French au pair of the MacLachlan family, detained at Adelaide Airport
March 24, 2016 - no details
June 17, 2016 - no details
April 8, 2017 - a six-month tourist visa granted, no other details
May 11, 20-17 - a three-year tourist visa granted, no other details
August 10, 2017 - a 12-month tourist visa granted, no other details
September 21, 2017 - no details
September 21, 2017 - 18-month tourist visa granted, no other details
April 21, 2018 - no details
May 10, 2018 - 18-month tourist visa granted, no other details
May 24, 2018 - 12-month visa granted, no other details
May 24, 2015 - three-month visa granted, no other details
* Up until June 30, 2018
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Davidson's moonshot secures AFL title for Peoria
Braves prospect crushes walk-off homer in 10th inning
The Peoria Javelinas celebrate their 2018 Arizona Fall League championship after Braxton Davidson's walk-off homer. (Jerry Kime/MiLB.com)
By Chris Bumbaca / MiLB.com | November 17, 2018 7:30 PM
Keston Hiura might be the MVP, but Braxton Davidson was the hero Saturday.
The Braves prospect demolished a 2-1 fastball from Salt River reliever Taylor Guilbeau deep over the right-center field wall at Scottdale Stadium to hand Peoria a 3-2, 10-inning victory and the Arizona Fall League Championship Game.
Video: SRR@PEJ: Braxton Davidson's walk-off home run
"It was amazing. I don't think we could have wrote it any better," said Hiura, the Brewers top prospect who was named Fall League MVP on Saturday. "Going into the last game of the Fall League, definitely a little tough because you have to say goodbye to some people you've gotten really close to, but Peoria Javelinas, we're a team that's in every game, regardless of the score. That shows today how resilient we are. It starts with our starting pitching and goes all the way through to our relievers and our whole batting lineup."
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Davidson, who hit six homers during the Fall League regular season, knew it as soon as the ball left his barrel. His teammates piled out of the dugout to greet him at home plate and celebrate their crown, but the 2014 first-round Draft choice came up limp and had to be carried into the clubhouse after injuring himself while jumping. Davidson, feared to have fractured his left foot, was taken to a nearby hospital for X-rays. Everyone is hoping for the best and wishing him well, Hiura said.
Tweet from @wboor: #Braves Braxton Davidson has been taken to a local hospital for possible left-foot fracture. @MLBPipeline
"He's been huge for us all season," Hiura said. We're very confident with anyone in our lineup to be up at the plate in that spot. He's a great player who has tremendous power. He got on top of that fastball and drove it a long, long way."
One inning prior, Peoria was three outs away from being shut out. The Javelinas utilized a prolific offense this season, leading the fall circuit in homers (27) and OPS (.754). And Rafters reliever Justin Lawrence, the Rockies' 17th-ranked prospect who had been lights out, imploded in the ninth.
Ian Miller (Mariners) drew a leadoff walk and Rays No. 9 prospect Lucius Fox followed with a double to set up second-and-third with nobody out. With Hiura at the dish, Lawrence uncorked a wild pitch to score Miller and make it 2-1. Hiura worked a 3-1 count and with the infield playing halfway and nobody out, he was simply looking to make hard contact.
He did just that, sending a Lawrence fastball right back up the middle to tie the game at two. With two outs, Padres No. 23 prospect Hudson Potts nearly ended the game, but his liner found the mitt of third baseman Josh Fuentes (Rockies) to send the game to extras.
Video: SRR@PEJ: Keston Hiura's game-tying single in the 9th
"We knew that it was now or never," Hiura said. "We rallied together. We knew that we needed baserunners and get players on base to give us an opportunity to put us in that position. We were able to work the count well and take advantage of some wild pitches and put the ball in play and find those holes. That was huge for us and we're all pumped right now."
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Miami 17th-ranked prospect Jordan Yamamoto struck out six over four scoreless innings. He walked five and allowed two hits along the way, but pitched out of trouble whenever in tight spots. The right-hander stranded two runners in each of the first two innings and left the bases loaded in the third. The Hawaii native fanned Hiura to end the fourth and his outing, throwing 43 of his 77 pitches for strikes.
Marlins No. 2 prospect Monte Harrison drove in the first run of the game with a two-out, two-strike single up the middle in the second inning. Daniel Johnson (Nationals) recorded an RBI single two innings later to make it 2-0, a score that held until Peoria mounted its comeback in the ninth.
Video: SRR@PEJ: Harrison opens scoring with single to center
Miguel Diaz (Padres) started for Peoria and gave up both runs and lasted 3 2/3 innings. The Javelinas' bullpen took care of the rest, using six pitchers to hold the Rafters scoreless until Davidson's heroics sealed the win.
Chris Bumbaca is a contributor to MiLB.com. Follow him on Twitter @BOOMbaca. This story was not subject to the approval of the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues or its clubs.


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E-books lack Latino titles
Lost in translation: The Spanish-language puzzle
By HILLEL ITALIE, Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — The long-rumored e-book boom at last has arrived. But publishers still wait, and wait, for another supposed surge: Spanish-language titles.
Thousands of booksellers, publishers and authors gathered for BookExpo America, the industry's annual national convention, which ended Sunday. Along with much discussion about rapidly growing digital sales, there was disappointment, and some confusion, about the relative slowness of Spanish sales in any format.
Publishers have looked for years to the Hispanic market, which back in 2000 was spotlighted at BookExpo as one of great promise. The Hispanic population is at least 45 million, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, and ever more prominent, especially after the recent nomination of Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court.
But Spanish-language sales remained small and sporadic. A handful of books — translations of such blockbusters as the "Harry Potter" series and "The Da Vinci Code" — might sell hundreds of thousands of copies. Otherwise, a Spanish work is lucky to sell more than 10,000, according to Simon & Schuster CEO Carolyn Reidy.
And the e-book market for Spanish titles is virtually nonexistent, publishers said.
Brian Murray, the CEO of HarperCollins where the Spanish-language imprint was cut during recent companywide layoffs, said the publisher was in a "holding pattern" on that market until the economy improves.
Although Simon & Schuster had success with the translation of Rhonda Byrne's "The Secret," Reidy said the market "just hasn't coalesced."
Publishers are as unsure of solutions as they are of causes. They debate the need, or the possibility, of a single breakthrough book with the impact of Terry McMillan's "Waiting to Exhale," which sold millions in the 1990s and awakened the industry to the size of the African-American market. And they wonder whether immigrants are more eager to learn English than to read in Spanish.
David Young, CEO of the Hachette Book Group, said the industry needs to hire more Hispanics and develop a more focused strategy.
"We've been taking baby steps, but we should probably accelerate it," Young said.
Carlos Azula, vice president and director of foreign language sales at Random House Inc., said most publishers don't understand the people they're trying to sell to. The Spanish-speaking population is too diverse and spread out for a unified, best-seller approach, he said, and Spanish-speaking immigrants need time to adjust, to figure out where to buy books, what to read and even whether to read.
"I started at Random House 10 years ago and I said then that this would be a long-term project," Azula said. "It's not going to be 5 years or 10 years. It's going to take 20 to 25 years."
The BookExpo America, held at Manhattan's Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, was a low-budget, low-celebrity convention, with fewer parties and fewer advanced copies of books than in the past, and a sense that the best way to meet expectations was to lower them.
Publishers speculated about BookExpo's future. So much business is now completed online and the number of independent booksellers, who have traditionally been the heart of the convention, has dropped by more than 100 to 1,401 core members in less than five years.
"A lot has changed, and this show will have to morph into what the industry needs," said David Shanks, the CEO of Penguin Group (USA).
With a fingers-crossed outlook that the worst was over for publishing sales, the industry offered a long lineup of potential hits for the fall, from Dan Brown's "The Lost Symbol," to U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy's memoir "True Compass" to Pat Conroy's "South of Broad." One of the Spanish-language market's most popular authors, Isabel Allende, has written "La Isla Bajo el Mar" ("The Island Below the Sea"), which will be available only in Spanish at first.
Other highlights included new nonfiction from Jon Krakauer, Malcolm Gladwell, Tracy Kidder and Barack Obama's campaign manager David Plouffe. Novels were expected from Patricia Cornwell, E.L. Doctorow and Jane Smiley, with a posthumous work from Michael Crichton.
Barnes & Noble Inc. fiction buyer Sessalee Hensley had special affection for Audrey Niffenegger's "Her Fearful Symmetry," the follow-up to the million-selling "The Time Traveler's Wife." She also liked Barbara Kingsolver's latest, "The Lacuna," which Hensley read on a recently purchased Sony e-book reader.
Hensley, who said that both she and her husband own electronic book readers, admitted she liked the device for its travel convenience but pointed out its inferior qualities to a book.
"The problem is, I like to flip back and forth in a book, but that's hard to do with the Sony," she said. "Another thing I like about a book is that you can bang it up — and you can't bang up a Sony reader."
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I dropped in at the Grand Theatre in Salt Lake City, Friday night, January 25, 2019, for a Q & A with Writer/Director Bart Freundlich after a 9:15 P.M. screening of his latest work, After the Wedding, starring Julianne Moore, Billy Crudup and Michelle Williams.
Freundlich adapted Susanne Bier's Academy Award-nominated Danish film of the same title by cleverly changing the characters' genders to render an elevated melodrama about strong women, fate and motherhood. Stay tuned!


A few years ago, I downsized my kids' toys, ditching almost everything with flashing lights, moving parts or annoying songs on repeat.
What remained was a quality selection of toys that prioritized creativity and imagination: wooden blocks, train tracks, magnet tiles, pretend play clothes and model dinosaurs. Despite its smaller size, this group of toys kept our kids happy.
Then the holidays approached. We have a large family who loves to shower our kids with gifts at Christmas. We have always appreciated their generosity but were concerned about the influx of "stuff" that was about to overwhelm our house.
After a lot of deliberation, I sent an email to family members asking them to reconsider their usual approach to gift-giving. I was nervous and didn't want to offend anyone, but thankfully, the email was well received. Our kids were given way less "stuff" for Christmas and no one seemed to hold any grudges against me for communicating our needs. The tradition has carried over every holiday since.
If you're thinking about requesting less "stuff" from your own family this holiday season, here are five helpful tips.
People are more likely to go along with a new idea if they understand the reason behind it. I explained that we had downsized our excessive number of toys and the kids seemed to play better now, together and individually.
My request wasn't arbitrary or an attempt to micromanage other people's gift-giving — it would just legitimately make our lives easier.
If you want your family to think outside the box, give them plenty of alternatives to regular stuff: Gift cards to kid-favorite restaurants, aquarium tickets, "coupons" for babysitting or quality time spent together.
And even if your kids need practical items like socks, sweatpants or winter coats, stick with things they would be truly excited to get. This way, the gift-giver still gets to experience the joy of seeing your kids open something they'll love on Christmas.
You do not want to imply in any way that your family members' generosity has been or will be an inconvenience to you. At the end of the day, a gift — no matter what it is — calls for only one response: "Thank you!" Make sure you say that and really mean it.
Explain the benefits to family members. Instead of spending their money on stuff that was destined to be broken, cast-aside or donated, they could purchase the kinds of gifts that would create happy memories and which last longer than your average toy.
Because it is! And in the interest of preserving your loving family relationships (which is much more important than keeping your house clean), you must treat this like an optional request, not a demand.


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