These three requirements seem fairly simple. When we read them, we probably think that we already do these. And perhaps, to some extent, we do. Justice and kindness are things that we do naturally, right? What about the thoughts and the words that we speak when others are not around, are they just and kind? When someone wrongs you, are your thoughts of mercy or revenge? When you see others being mistreated, are you willing to get involved, regardless of the personal cost (Think of the Good Samaritan)? Walk humbly is the really tough one. Are we humble enough to give of our resources, of ourselves, of our abundance and of our time to help others? Even to the point of dying for them? And, if we do these things, are they to show others how righteous we are? Every good gift comes down from the Father above. When we share those gifts with others, we are laying up rewards in heaven.
Walk humbly with our God? Help me to do that, Jesus!
4 But the Lord is in his holy Temple; the Lord still rules from heaven.
In Psalms 10-13, David seems to be more focused on those who are bent on doing evil than what God has done for him. He questions God about why those people seem to be more successful than the righteous. It is a question that many, if not all, of us have asked at sometime or other. Why are bad things happening to good people while the bad people seem to be receiving blessings? God doesn't seem to answer David directly, but rather allows David to arrive at his own conclusion. David never gives up on God, even though he questions why God allows such things and why they continue for so long. He also questions whether God can hear his prayers or not. When we are going through those rough patches, it is encouraging to know that we are not the only ones to wonder where God is and what He is up to. Because David is a man "after God's own heart", he arrives at the right conclusion. God is exactly where He is supposed to be doing exactly what He should be doing. He always has been, He is and He always will be there watching over us and doing what is best for us even though at times, it doesn't "feel" like it. Those are the times we have to ignore "feelings" and stand firm on the knowledge that God is always with us and we are never alone. Those are the times that God allows so that we know whether or not our head knowledge has become heart knowledge. If what we know in our heads has taken root in our hearts, then we will pass the test when God examines us. Should we fail, God has no qualms about having us take the test again and again until we pass it.
Verses like the one above are meant to encourage us not to give us an excuse to "do it my way". Mr. Sinatra was a great singer, but the writer of that particular song had some bad theology. We all fall, but we don't stay fallen. I am encouraged by Paul whose claim to be the "chief of sinners" could be contested by some of us in today's society. He clearly knew who he was, Whose he was and where he was on his journey. He lets us know that he is not there yet, but he is on his way and he is determined to arrive there.
"Forgetting what is behind" is the example Paul sets for us. That is a hard thing for humans to do. But, if we don't practice that, then satan will use those memories of our failures to condemn us and make us feel unworthy to approach God and ask for His forgiveness. If we allow this to continue, we will soon become beaten down with guilt. Condemnation is from the devil, conviction is from the Holy Spirit. Rebuke satan and his condemnation. Accept the conviction of the Holy Spirit and ask for His forgiveness. Accept that forgiveness and "press on toward the goal to win the prize".


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Q: to copy selected data for selected dates from text to excel I am able to copy the data from Text file into the Excel file using below mentioned code. However I would like to ask if we can add the following options while copying data from text to excel.

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*If we can add an option where we can write the Text file name in the code as well. The reason is that there are multiple text files in a FolderLocation and i am not able to select the specific text file from which data needs to be copied.

*Currently it copies all the data from text file, is there any way we can add a criteria or date option in the code so that rather than selecting all the data it could select the data for certain date(s). The data in the text file is like mentioned below
[03] Sat 07Jan23 10:10:58 - Initializing
[03] Sat 07Jan23 10:10:58 - Selected key
[03] Sat 07Jan23 10:10:58 - Host
[03] Sat 07Jan23 10:10:58 - Server
[03] Sat 07Jan23 10:10:58 - Client
[07] Tue 10Jan23 06:51:02 - SSH
[08] Tue 10Jan23 06:51:02 - SSH
03] Tue 10Jan23 06:51:02 -
[07] Tue 10Jan23 06:51:02 -
The data in the log file is for multiple dates, i wish if we can copy the data of certain dates, e.g. if i write "07Jan23" date in the code it only copies all the complete rows for 07Jan23.
Sub ImportTextFileDatatoExcel()
Dim fileLocation As String, textData As String

Dim rowNum As Long

folderLocation = "E:\Logs"

Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")

Set folder = fso.GetFolder(folderLocation)

rowNum = 1

Close #1

For Each textFile In folder.Files

    fileLocation = folder & "\" & textFile.Name

    Open fileLocation For Input As #1

    Do While Not EOF(1)

        Line Input #1, textData

        textData = Replace(textData, ";", ",")

        If InStr(textData, ",") = 0 Then

            Cells(rowNum, 1) = textData

        Else

            tArray = Split(textData, ",")

            nColumn = 1

            For Each element In tArray

Cells(rowNum, nColumn) = element
                nColumn = nColumn + 1

            Next element

        End If

        rowNum = rowNum + 1

    Loop

    Close #1

Next textFile

End Sub
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A: Sub ImportTextFileDatatoExcel()

    Const LOGS = "E:\Logs"
    Const DBUG = False ' True for debug messages

    Dim wb As Workbook, ws As Worksheet
    Dim fso As Object, ts As Object, folder As Object, f As Object
    Dim dtFirst As Date, dtLast As Date, dt As Date
    Dim arFile, arLine, v, yy As String, mmm As String, dd As String
    Dim n As Long, i As Long, r As Long, c As Long, s As String

    s = InputBox("Enter Start Date dd/mm/yyyy", "Start Date", Format(Date, "dd/mm/yyyy"))
    If IsDate(s) Then
        dtFirst = CDate(s)
    Else
        MsgBox s & " is not a valid date", vbCritical
        Exit Sub
    End If

    s = InputBox("Enter End Date dd/mm/yyyy", "End Date", Format(dtFirst, "dd/mm/yyyy"))
    If IsDate(s) Then
        dtLast = CDate(s)
    Else
        MsgBox s & " is not a valid date", vbCritical
        Exit Sub
    End If

    s = "From " & Format(dtFirst, "dd mmm yyyy") & " to " & Format(dtLast, "dd mmm yyyy")
    If vbNo = MsgBox(s, vbYesNo, "Confirm Yes/No") Then
         Exit Sub
    End If

    ' start scanning logs
    Set wb = ThisWorkbook
    Set ws = wb.ActiveSheet
    ws.Cells.ClearContents
    r = 2

    ' select files
    Dim arLogs
    With Application.FileDialog(msoFileDialogFilePicker)
        .InitialFileName = LOGS
        .AllowMultiSelect = True
        .Filters.Add "Log files or Text", "*.log; *.txt, 1"
        .Show
        n = .SelectedItems.Count
        If n = 0 Then Exit Sub
        ReDim arLogs(1 To n)
        For i = 1 To n
            arLogs(i) = .SelectedItems(i)
        Next
    End With

    ' scan files
    Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
    For n = 1 To UBound(arLogs)
        Set f = fso.getFile(arLogs(n))

        ' read in file
        If DBUG Then Debug.Print f.Name
        Set ts = f.OpenAsTextStream(1, -2) ' read, default encoding
        s = ts.readall
        ts.Close

        ' scan each line
        arFile = Split(s, vbCrLf)
        For Each v In arFile

            ' convert 10Jan23 to 10-Jan-23
            s = Mid(CStr(v), 10, 7)
            dd = Left(s, 2)
            mmm = Mid(s, 3, 3)
            yy = Right(s, 2)
            s = dd & "-" & mmm & "-" & yy

            ' check valid date
            If IsDate(s) Then
                dt = CDate(s)
                If (dt >= dtFirst) And (dt <= dtLast) Then

                    ' split line into columns
                    arLine = Split(CStr(v), ";")
                    c = 1 + UBound(arLine)
                    ws.Cells(r, 1).Resize(, c) = arLine
                    r = r + 1

                    If DBUG Then Debug.Print s, Format(dt, "yyyy-mm-dd"), v
                Else
                    If DBUG Then Debug.Print "outside range", s, v
                End If

            Else
                If DBUG Then Debug.Print "not a date", s, v
            End If

        Next
    Next
    ' result
    MsgBox n - 1 & " logs scanned. " & vbLf & _
           r - 2 & " lines extracted", vbInformation

End Sub

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One of the main detriments to the gospel in America has been the widespread politicizing of it. It is an agenda that many Christians passionately embrace. Many have even come to view the role of political activism as an integral part of the "Great Commission". But nothing could be further from the truth. Rather than follow Paul's instructions that the soldiers of Christ are to shod their feet with the "Preparation of The Gospel of Peace" many politically motivated Christians have put on the hob-nail boots of combativeness, hostility, mud-slinging, arrogance, bullying, contention, strife, hatred, judgementalism, backbiting, name calling, character assassination, pettiness, muck-raking and the sowing of discord in pursuit of their moral and social agendas. Rather than being true ambassadors for Christ their moralistic posturing has turned them into little more than the world's judge and jury.
Not only have many Christians been obsessed with "putting the world in her place" and her political enemies on the chopping-block, but her misguided militancy has also backfired and actually worked to undermine the effectiveness of our witness and the "Gospel of Peace". Rather than support what Paul refers to as the "defense and confirmation of the gospel" their militancy has worked against that very goal. This disturbing trend has, in large part, been one of the major contributing factors in making the contemporary church increasingly impotent, insignificant and irrelevant to this lost and dying world. In their militant obsession with being "religiously correct" and drawing moral lines in the sand between "us" and "them" many are unconsciously working against the gospel by building barriers rather than bridges and, in so doing, have unconsciously done untold harm to the Christian message.
Through their religious posturing and compulsive need to defend the moral high ground the church is inadvertently spreading a message that Jesus never intended the church to spread. Rather preach the true gospel they have inadvertently played into the hands of the enemy by condemning and alienating the very people we are supposed to be reaching out to. In so doing they have often adopted the same spirit of James and John who wanted to call fire down from heaven on a town that didn't embrace their message. Jesus made it clear that that spirit was not from above. Tragically, the church has often unwittingly played into the world's negative opinion of Christians as being "holier-than-thou", hateful, bigots, self-righteous hypocrites and condescending stone throwers in its self-appointed mission to judge the sins of the world. Instead of being the bearers of the "Good News" which produces life; many have become bearers of "bad news" which only produces condemnation and death.
God has never called His church to political activism or enlisted us to be the world's moral crusaders. It is not our job, your job or the churches job to judge the world. That is not our battle to fight or the "good fight" we've been called to rally to. That's why He said that if His kingdom was of this world His servants would fight. Our responsibility is to reach the world with the love of God. As far as judging the sins of the world is concerned, the obsessive drive to serve as the world's moral police or "morally correct" torch-bearers has never been the churches' job either.
The Apostle Paul made it absolutely clear that it is not our responsibility to judge those outside of the church, outside the family of God or outside the household of faith. "What business is it of mine to judge those outside the church? Are you not to judge those inside? God will judge those outside." (I Corinthians 5:12 & 13a) When it comes to "judgement" He made it clear that our only responsibility is to judge the household of faith when in error – precisely what the American church has largely failed to do today in the face of unprecedented corruption, complacency and false teaching. Furthermore, Paul made it clear that judging those that are outside of the church (i.e., those in the world, sinners & the lost) are God's responsibility alone. This is a vital lesson the contemporary church of America has largely forgotten in their quest to be societies self-appointed moral police, political watchdogs and self-righteous torchbearers. It's time for the church to get off their morally indignant high-horse and stop acting more like self-righteous Pharisees than like Christ.

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The Residence of the Philippine Ambassador to Tokyo, informally known as the , is the official residence of the Philippine ambassador to Japan. It is located in 1-1-1 Fujimi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan. It is called the "crown jewel of Philippine foreign service" and became the first officially designated National Historical Landmark outside Philippine soil.

History
Kudan is named after nearby Kudanzaka hilltop. Its address 1-1-1 Fujimi translates as "a view of Mt. Fuji." The residence was built within a  land in the Tokugawa shogunate, by Iwajiro Yasuda, a member of the family of prominent businessman Yasuda Zenjirō in the 1930s. It was originally known as the Yasuda Mansion. Zenjiro Yasuda founded Yasuda Zaibatsu and the Fuji group of companies. He is also the great-grandfather of artist Yoko Ono. Iwajiro, a painter, originally inherited a family home in Kamakura but decided to build a new house in Tokyo. He commissioned the Yokogawa Construction and Takenaka Corporation to build his new house. Tokisuke Yokogawa served as architect. Construction started in March 1933 and was completed in January 1935.

The building is built on the takadai or a high place in the city and is mainly patterned after Iberian styles and a mix of Renaissance, Gothic, Spanish, and Nippon styles. It was built using Japanese materials, including tiles from Toyama Prefecture. The design of the rooms were patterned after the hobbies of Yasuda's son.

World War II came and the Yasuda suffered financial problem. He sold his residence to President Jose P. Laurel for one million yen. Laurel bought the Yasuda property for the Philippine government in Tokyo on 31 March 1944. Since then, it served as the official residence of the Philippine ambassador to Tokyo and for socio-cultural affairs of Filipinos in Japan. Until 1958, the residence also served as the chancery of the Philippine Embassy in Tokyo.

On 9 March 1952, the National Historical Committee (precursor of NHCP), installed a commemorative plaque on Kudan which highlights the history of the building and its purchase by President Laurel in 1944.

The National Historical Commission of the Philippines (NHCP) declared the Kudan property as a National Historical Landmark through signing Resolution no. 1, series of 2013. The unveiling of the marker happened on March 3, 2014, in the presence of Ambassador Lopez, NHCP chair Dr. Maria Serena Diokno, and Japanese and Filipino officials. Kudan is the first officially designated Philippine national historical landmark outside Philippine soil. In the unveiling of the marker, Lopez called the building as the crown jewel of Philippine foreign service.

Features
Kudan consists of a basement, two storeys, and a watch tower. It is adjacent to the Tokyo Imperial Palace grounds and the Yasukuni Shrine. It boasts of its black ornate grill-gate and a Castilian rotunda, The roof tiles were also reminiscent of Castilian architecture. Located in the foyer are busts of Jose Rizal, Philippines' national hero and President Laurel. It has four function rooms on the ground floor: the diplomatic or blue room where guests are usually entertained; two dining rooms; and a music room. The second floor served as a private quarters of the ambassador and his family. Five other rooms on the second floor can be used by guests. Adjacent to the building is a garden where Princess Hitachi planted a sakura tree in 1994.

In popular culture
In 2015, Philippine historian Ambeth Ocampo published the history of the Kudan entitled, History and Heritage of the Kudan: the Official Residence of the Philippine Ambassador to Japan. Its publication by ArtPost Asia is in time for the 60th anniversary of diplomatic relations with Japan.

See also

Embassy of the Philippines, Tokyo
Japan–Philippines relations
List of diplomatic missions of the Philippines

References

External links
Official website of the Philippine Embassy in Tokyo

Philippines
Tokyo
Japan–Philippines relations
National Historical Landmarks of the Philippines
Government buildings completed in 1935
Ambassadorial residences

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11 picks sure to keep you riveted
Terri Schlichenmeyer
'Manhunt' was one of the most memorable reads of 2022.
It happens every year.
The decorations come down. The last of the Christmas leftovers have been eaten. Errant bits of ripped wrapping are found and discarded. You have no more holiday candy or cookies, you look around at your empty hands, and you wonder now what?
Now it's time to settle in and read for the rest of the winter season. For your pleasure, here are the Top Five Bookworm Picks for the Best of 2022.
Lovers of fairy tales are in for a big surprise with "The Book Eaters" by Sunyi Dean (Tor, $26.99). It's a dark, dark legend filled with evil dragons that look like men, princesses that are worse than second-class citizens within their realms, and a chase that will chill you. Book lovers will adore this tale, especially if you don't necessarily need a happily-ever-after.
Pick up a copy of "Dot and Ralphie" by Amy Hoffman (University of Wisconsin Press, $16.95) and it doesn't look like much. But aren't you glad you don't judge a book by its cover? This is a sweet tale of two elderly women, partners in life and love, and aging. It's sweet and grumpy and charming, somewhat like a lesbian Honeymooners episode, only better.
Readers who are familiar with the thrillers that James Lee Burke writes will absolutely be stunned by "Every Cloak Rolled in Blood" (Simon & Schuster, $27) because in this book, the thrill is secondary to the main plot. Here, retired detective Aaron Broussard has lost his beloved daughter and it's cut him to the core. Fiery, glass-sharp grief doesn't stop crime, though, and so he still has crime to solve – whether real, or imagined. Read this book with an open heart and tissues at hand. It may be Burke's best.
Lovers of clever, clever stories will love "Sign Here" by Claudia Lux (Berkeley, $27). It's the tale of Peyote Trip, whose job on the Fifth Floor of Hell is to recruit new souls for eternity. But Pey has a plan to get out of his purgatory, which turns this funny, sharp-witted story into a shady mystery that will make you laugh a lot and squirm even more.
Here's a book that's absolutely not for everyone: "Manhunt" by Gretchen Felker-Martin (Macmillan Nightfire, $17.99) is a lesbian feminist dystopian thriller, which sounds like a lot and it is. A virus has hit every corner of the world, making men into wolf-like killing machines and sending the women into hiding. When two young women – one of them, trans – learns that a "healer" might be able to save her from the inevitable, they head out to find the woman but a makeshift band of warrior women get in their way. Again, this isn't a book for everyone but if you're looking for something very, very different, this is it.
BONUS: "Things Past Telling" by Sheila Williams (Amistad, $25.99) is a novel of the memories of a 112-year-old former slave, who was also a pirate's woman, a healer, and someone reaching for things her soul needed. It's an adventurous book with the tiniest touch of fantasy and you shouldn't miss it.
You have questions. And "All the Living and the Dead" by Hayley Campbell (St. Martin's Press, $29.99) has answers. When someone dies, what happens next? A wide variety of things, that's what, and it's someone else's job to see that it's done right. This book is careful not to be (too) gruesome but it is compellingly fascinating.
"Charlie's Good Tonight" by Paul Sexton (Harper, $27.99) is on this list because it could be the biggest surprise of the year for readers. It's the story of the late Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts, a man who really never wanted fame and often actively shunned the limelight. If you think you know all about the debauchery of your favorite rock 'n roll band, think again and be totally charmed by one man's life.
There are two business books on this list because they don't at all read like business books; in fact, "Think Like a Horse" by Grant Golliher (Putnam, $28) and "Meet Me by the Fountain" by Alexandra Lange (Bloomsbury, $28) both seem more like snuggle-up-in-front-of-the-fire kinds of books. Golliher's book is pure cowboy – he was a rancher and worked extensively with horses – and there are western-novel tones in his book on getting the most out of people. Lange's book is a trip to the mall throughout history, including a good look at stores you may have visited through the years. These books are both great for the business-minded reader, but could be enjoyed by anyone.
And finally, an obsession: "To Walk About in Freedom" by Carole Emberton (W.W. Norton, $28.95) is a jaw-dropping memoir that hides in a history book. In the earlier part of the last century, the government paid writers to interview people for a WPA project. One of the interviewees was a former slave woman who offers up not only her life, but a real-life account of the end of slavery and how it impacted everyday, average people. This is a book you'll be talking about well into the new year.
If these 11 books don't fit your mood, then be sure to check with your favorite bookseller or librarian. When it comes to books, (s)he is a superhero.
'Forever Home' features stories of neglect with a happy outcome
(Book cover image courtesy HarperOne)
"Forever Home: How We Turned Our House into a Haven for Abandoned, Abused, and Misunderstood Dogs – and Each Other"
By Ron Danta & Danny Robertshaw and Larry Lindner
c.2022, HarperOne
$27.99/262 pages
The leash is hooked tight.
One end on your dog's collar or harness, the other end firmly wrapped around your wrist, and he's not going anywhere without you. Rescuing this pupper was the best thing ever and now, as in the new book by Ron Danta, Danny Robertshaw, and Larry Lindner, he's "Forever Home."
It all started on horseback.
Danny Robertshaw, who'd loved horses since he was small, was well known as a rider and trainer up and down the East Coast. Ron Danta had moved his horses to South Carolina to a farm he'd purchased with the hope of launching a business. The two men had met but it wasn't until their lives began to circle closer to one another that they became good friends; not long after they'd decided to become business partners, Danta divorced his wife and had an epiphany. The two men became partners in life.
It helped that both had deep and endless loves of horses and dogs. When both men were boys, growing up in separate states, their mothers impressed upon them the habit of adopting stray dogs and unwanted, unloved pups. All their lives, both men had picked up side-of-the-road, mistreated, or elderly dogs, rehabilitated them, and re-homed them.
It wasn't cheap. The dogs they sheltered had varying medical problems, and many had issues stemming from fear, abandonment, and abuse. Danta and Robertshaw paid for the dogs' vet bills out of pocket, then housed and trained each pup until the dogs could be properly adopted out as "Danny & Ron dogs." That was a pure labor of love, but their house was soon wrecked and their furniture, shredded. At one time, having hundreds of dogs in their care, they turned their home into a "doghouse" – this, despite terrifying personal health crises; in the middle of hurricanes, filming a documentary, and their marriage; overseas, and in conjunction with causes and people close to their hearts.
"It's good to know that rescue – being loved, living with dignity, belonging – is happening on more than one front."
Few can resist an adorable puppy. But what about the dogs who've seen better days? Can you resist scooping them up? If the answer is "no," then you'll want "Forever Home."
In a consistently upbeat manner, authors Robertshaw, Danta, and Lindner share the story of a movement that has saved the lives of countless dogs and other animals through the years, and the two men behind it. While these stories are sure heart-capturers, they're also very repetitious, as if the animal's name and breed are all that changes from tale to tale. Readers will notice, too, that there are lots of happy stories here but they're quite often preceded by wincing accounts of abuse and neglect. Still, that's not news to pet lovers. Heavy sigh.
Despite further confusion as to who's telling the story, "Forever Home" will appeal to anyone who's shared a bed with a dog, a sofa with a cat, or a ride with a horse. Open the cover, read a page, and you'll be hooked tight.
'FINALE' will be catnip to lovers of musicals
(Book cover image courtesy HarperCollins)
'FINALE: Late Conversations With Stephen Sondheim'
By D.T. Max
c.2022, Harper/HarperCollins
"My idea of heaven is not writing," the iconic gay composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim is reported to have said.
"On the other hand," Sondheim, who died last year at 91, was, thankfully, as he reportedly said, "obviously compulsive about it."
"FINALE: Late Conversations With Stephen Sondheim," a new book by New Yorker staff writer D.T. Max is good news for Sondheim's multitudes of aficionados.
"I'm not good. I'm not nice. I'm just right. I'm the witch. You're the world," Sondheim wrote in "Into the Woods."
Whether you're a teen in a production of "Into the Woods," a Boomer who came of age with "Company," an 80-something who fondly remembers "Gypsy" or an artist who identifies with "Sunday in the Park with George," you know you couldn't have hung out in Sondheim's world.
Frequently, profiles of celebrities are take-downs or suck-ups. Max avoids these pitfalls.
In "FINALE," sometimes Sondheim is witty, entertaining, hospitable (his staff offer Max wine) and generous (Sondheim tries to help Max find a puppy for his family). At other times, Sondheim talks hatefully about his mother (who sounds like a cool customer) and cops to not reading much, though he loves "The Catcher in the Rye" because of its dialogue. Sondheim veers away from the orthodox take on Hitchcock. "Vertigo," he says, is overrated. His fave "Hitchcock" movie was "Shadow of A Doubt."
In "FINALE," Max makes us feel like we're having drinks with Sondheim.
It wasn't easy for Max to have informal, entertaining, illuminating conversations with Sondheim.
There's always some drama, metaphorically, some seduction involved when a reporter attempts to interview a celeb. This was even truer with Sondheim, who zealously guarded his privacy.
"Profiles are fraught efforts," Max writes, "Profiles of the famous famously fraught."
Some writers don't bring the difficulties of their work (from getting the interview to coaxing candor and new reveals from interview subjects who've been burned by social media) into their reporting.
But in "FINALE," Max doesn't just clue readers into the vexations involved in nailing and conducting his interviews with Sondheim. "FINALE" is structured around his quest to discover revelations about Sondheim. His search for insights into Sondheim's life and creative process becomes, figuratively, a Broadway show. In this vein, the book's chapter titles range from "Prelude" to "Audition, January 2016″ to "Opening Night, April 2017″ to "Closing Night, March 2019″ to "Curtain."
The main focus of "FINALE" is Sondheim. But Max is a character in the narrative.
Sometimes this is off-putting. Do we need to learn where Max went to school, where he grew up or what movies he enjoys? (He agrees with Sondheim about "Vertigo.")
Does it shed light on Sondheim when Max spills his feelings (from angst to enthrallment to disappointment when Sondheim cancelled appointments) around writing about Sondheim?
But though, at times, there's too much of Max, sometimes his presence adds to the story.
Max, like many who'll read this book, grew up loving Sondheim. Max's uncle was a playwright, and he was introduced to Sondheim, when his mother brought home a signed recording of "Side By Side" after a benefit. But he's not an expert on musical theater.
He views Sondheim with the admiring, but unprofessional, gaze of many theatergoers. This serves readers well. It keeps the conversations lively and un-pedantic.
Most of the book is a series of one-on-one conversations that Max has with Sondheim at his home in New York City and his house in Connecticut. Sondheim's dogs and husband Jeff Romley wander in and out. Sondheim talks about not being able to finish a musical that he's working on. He remembers that decades ago, one day, Katharine Hepburn, then his neighbor, came by when he was playing the piano, composing. "Pipe down! she told him.
It's doubtful that Sondheim, given the time when he grew up, would have talked about being gay. (Though he never denied his sexuality.) Still, I wish Max had asked him about it.
This is a minor quibble. "FINALE" will be catnip to lovers of musicals.
Something for every reader on your list
(Book cover images courtesy of the publishers)
The tree looks magnificent.
Your kids did a great job decorating the parts you assigned to them; you took pictures this year, because they really outdid themselves. So you're ready – almost – for the holidays, except for those few tricky gifts that you just can't seem to figure out.
How about books? Easy to wrap, happy to get, why not look for these great books?
For the person on your list who loves dark, gothic romance-mysteries, wrap up "Mourning Light" by Richard Goodkin. It's the story of a man who can't let go of the guilt he feels since his lover died. Coincidentally, that death happened on the exact same day he met another man that he can't stop thinking about.
The person on your gift list who loves a good memoir will want to read "A Place Called Home" by David Ambroz. It's a tale of homelessness, foster care, coming out, and how sheer determination put that all in one man's past.
If there's someone on your gift list who made a difficult decision this year, "Families We Keep" by Rin Reczek and Emma Bosley-Smith is a book to carefully wrap up. It's a look at LGBTQ individuals who have decided to stick with their families, though there may continue to be a struggle for acceptance or a total lack of it. It means work, and this book might help. Know your giftee well before giving this book.
Until recently, there really haven't been a lot of books about bisexuality, which is why you might want to give "Bi: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality" by Julia Shaw to someone special. There's a lot to know about the subject, from genetics to legalities, celebrities to monogamy.
The trans reader on your gift list will want to own "Fat, Crazy, and Tired: Tales from the Trenches of Transformation" by podcaster Van Lathan, who writes that being fat was harder than being Black. Needless to say, this book is funny and inspirational, and your giftee will love it. Pair it with "Side Affects: On Being Trans and Feeling Bad" by Hil Malatino. If your giftee sometimes struggles, this book is great acknowledgement.
For the reader who loves history, "The Women's House of Detention" by Hugh Ryan could be the perfect gift this year. It's the story of a prison in New York's Greenwich Village which, for nearly 45 years, was the landing place / home / jail for thousands and thousands of women, gender-nonconforming people, and transgender men. Angela Davis was there. So was Afeni Shakur. This book takes your giftee there, too. Wrap it up with "Manifesting Justice: Wrongly Convicted Women Reclaim Their Rights" by Valena Beety.
K. M. Soehnlein's Army of Lovers, a review
Army of Lovers is not just an account of political intervention, it is itself an intervention, a novel that preserves for future activism
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By John Weir | NEW YORK – K.M. Soehnlein's Army of Lovers is a novel of the lost generation. Not the early 20th century generation of survivors of the Great War, called "lost" by Gertrude Stein, their stories told in novels by Ernest Hemingway and Virginia Woolf.
Soehnlein's lost women and men, those who survived and those who did not, are from the last two decades of the 20th century, the so-called American century, when nearly 750,000 Americans died of AIDS. Young Americans: by 1994, and through 1995, AIDS was the leading cause of death for all Americans age 25 to 44.
At the center of Army of Lovers is a German Irish guy from suburban New Jersey, a kid named Paul, just out of college, whose journey to adulthood happens to coincide with a global epidemic – "a fucking plague," Larry Kramer famously shouted – that maybe looks to us, from the distance of forty years and a new century, like a grim dress rehearsal for Covid.
That's if your memory goes back that far. Soehnlein's does, and his novel is a stunning act of remembering. It's a visceral re-creation of the sights, sounds, smells, the feel of Manhattan from Wall Street to Times Square in the late 1980s and early '90s. The bars, parks, restaurants, apartments. Parties and sex parties. The meeting halls where ACT UP New York met. The touch of friends and lovers and comrades, in street actions and crowded jail cells. The taste of ash in your mouth, literal ash, ashes of the dead.
If you were in New York at the time, and involved even peripherally in ACT UP New York, the novel will feel like a series of home movies. (Full disclosure: I think I once shared a jail cell with Soehnlein.) The story starts at a die-in. Soehnlein's narrator Paul and his fellow ACT UP activists are lying on the floor of Albany's state senate building, its brutalist architecture an apt symbol of "the brutal world we're shouting at, brutal and square and indifferent. The brutal indifference of the government led us here, to block the glass doors of the legislation chamber, demanding to be heard."
"This is an action," Paul says, excited, his arm linked through the arm of his best girlfriend Amanda. When his boyfriend Derek, a member of ACT UP's media committee, comes over with a reporter and a cameraperson, Paul and Amanda deliver their sound bites – "Women with AIDS die twice as fast as men" – and then they wait for the police to close in and arrest them. They wait a while.
With documentary clarity, Soehnlein renders the stop-and-start energy of political protest. Not only does he preserve for historical record an account of a series of actions and political interventions that took place forty years ago, he shows how it felt to be there. His characters feel the adrenaline rush of getting into a building that is guarded like a fortress. They hold hands, sometimes with strangers they will never see again, sometimes with lovers or ex-lovers. Rushing, chanting, they head for the marble hallway, or the floor of the train terminal, or the cold, cold ground, worrying they won't get past the police barriers or the phalanx of cops.
And once they have "taken the hill," as it were, like actors in a war film from the 1940s, they wait. Wait for the police to come, for the senators to respond, for the reporters to arrive with camera crews to record their demands. And then, if they are not arrested, they get home in time to see themselves on the evening news. Or not!
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It's exhilarating. Soehnlein shows the exhilaration. It's also sometimes kind of boring. He shows that too. Most of all, it changed lives. The novel chronicles the ways activism and AIDS and death and loss change Paul's life. How he goes from being a newly out gay kid learning his way around a city "full of offerings," including art and work and men (his initial approach to sex and love being: "Anything that starts with a guy and ends with an orgasm is what I'm into"), to a queer activist in a shaved head and black leather jacket facilitating ACT UP meetings and talking back to Larry Kramer.
A notable aspect of the novel is Soehnlein's lack of sentimentality about the anointed "heroes" of the AIDS activism movement. "I hold him in awe," Paul says about Kramer, but also, "Larry is the apocalyptic prophet who sees only doom. . . often incapable of hearing anyone else." Soehnlein is equally clear-eyed about problems of burn-out that afflicted AIDS activists:
Issues of racism and sexism that compromised AIDS activism; the painful awareness of many ACT UP members, almost their inability to grasp, that despite their unceasing, ingenious, and fearless activism, their friends and lovers would continue to die.
Most poignantly, the novel shows an aspect of AIDS activism that I haven't seen fully dramatized elsewhere. It happens in a conversation between Paul and his bestie Amanda, an aspiring filmmaker and lesbian activist. Grappling with the question of how to have a life at the same time that you're trying to save lives, Amanda says, "It's confusing to be so deeply identified with a community when you want to say something or make something that's uniquely yours."
How to be a person in the midst of an all-consuming, life-threatening epidemic? How to be queer in America in the Reagan years? How to have a personal life when your life is devoted to the collective? Amanda chooses art as a form of activism. Paul has a life apart from AIDS, but it's no refuge from painful questions of mortality and identity. His is mother dying of cancer. The poles of his life mirror each other, each with death at the center. Is he entirely himself in either community – the churchgoing suburban world where he grew up, and the activist world centering on ACT UP and his charismatic boyfriend Derek?
When he breaks up with Derek and falls in love with Zack, who is dying of AIDS, Paul drifts away from ACT UP. "You're a caretaker now," Amanda tells him. Paul seems almost to arrive at the conclusion that caretaking is itself a form of activism. Or if it's not, what is activism? Amanda decides to channel her activism into "making a movie that affects a lot of people." Paul comes to a similar decision. After Zack dies, he moves to San Francisco and enrolls in a graduate writing program.
Soehnlein would appear to have made a similar choice. Army of Lovers is not just an account of political intervention, it is itself an intervention, a novel that preserves for future activism the history of a group of people struggling to survive an epidemic in the face of a government that was intent on denying its existence.
New book reveals that some secrets last a lifetime
'All the Broken Places' should be on your must-read list
(Book cover image courtesy Pamela Dorman Books)
'All the Broken Places'
By John Boyne
c. 2022, Pamela Dorman Books
It shall not pass your lips.
No, That Thing You Do Not Talk About is off-limits in all conversation, a non-topic when the subject surfaces. Truly, there are just certain things that are nobody's business and in the new novel, "All the Broken Places" by John Boyne, some secrets must last a lifetime.
She hated the idea that she would have to adjust to new neighbors.
Ninety-one-year-old Gretel Fernsby wasn't so much bothered by new people, as she was by new noise. She hated the thought of inuring herself to new sounds, and what if the new tenants had children? That was the worst of all. Gretel never was much for children, not her own and certainly not any living below her.
Once, there was a time when Gretel could imagine herself with many children. That was nearly 80 years ago, when she was in love with her father's driver, Kurt. She thought about Kurt through the years – he had fallen out of favor with her father, and was sent elsewhere – and she wondered if he survived the war.
Her father didn't, nor did her younger brother but Gretel didn't think about those things. What happened at the "other place" was not her fault.
She hadn't known. She was innocent.
That was what she told herself as she and her mother fled to Paris. Gretel was 15 then, and she worked hard to get rid of her German accent but not everyone was fooled by her bad French or her story. She was accosted, hated. As soon as her mother died, she sailed to Australia, where she lived with a woman who loved other women, until it became dangerous there, too. She practiced her English and moved to London where she was married, widowed, and now she had to get used to new neighbors and new sounds and new ways for old secrets to sneak into a conversation.
OK, clear your calendar. Get "All the Broken Places" and just don't make any plans, other than to read and read and read.
The very first impression you get of author John Boyne's main character, Gretel, is that she's grumpy, awful, and nasty. With the many bon mots she drops, however, the feeling passes and it's sometimes easy to almost like her – although it's clear that she's done some vile things in her lifetime, things that emerge slowly as the horror of her story dawns. Then again, she professes to dislike children, but (no spoilers here!) she doesn't, not really, and that makes her seem like someone's sweet old grandmother. 'Tis a conundrum.
Don't let that fool you, though. Boyne has a number of Gretel-sized roadside bombs planted along the journey that is this book. Each ka-boom will hit your heart a little harder.
This is a somewhat-sequel to "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas," but you can read it alone. Do, and when you finish, you'll want to immediately read it again, to savor anew.
New book explores impact of family secrets
Her father was hiding his sexual orientation
'The Family Outing: A Memoir'
By Jessi Hempel
c. 2022, HarperOne
Don't tell the children.
For most families in America in the last century, that was the maxim to live by: the kids are on a need-to-know basis and since they're kids, they don't need to know. And so what did you miss? Did you know about familial philanthropy, rebellion, embarrassment, poverty? As in the new memoir, "The Family Outing" by Jessi Hempel, did secrets between parent and child run both ways?
"What happened to me?"
That's the big question Jessi Hampel had after many therapy sessions to rid herself of a recurring nightmare. She had plenty of good memories. Her recollection of growing up in a secure family with two siblings was sharp, wasn't it?
She thought so – until she started what she called "The Project."
With permission from her parents and siblings, Hempel set up Skype and Zoom sessions and did one-on-one interviews with her family, to try to understand why her parents divorced, why her brother kept mostly to himself, how the family dynamics went awry, why her sister kept her distance, and how secrets messed everything up.
Hempel's father had an inkling as a young man that he was gay, but his own father counseled him to hide it. When he met the woman who would eventually be his wife, he was delighted to become a husband and father, as long as he could sustain it.
Years before, Hempel's mother was your typical 1960s teenager with a job at a local store, a crush on a slightly older co-worker and, coincidentally, a serial killer loose near her Michigan neighborhood. Just after the killer was caught, she realized that the co-worker she'd innocently flirted with might've been the killer's accomplice.
For nearly the rest of her life, she watched her back.
One secret, one we-don't-discuss-it, and a young-adult Hempel was holding something close herself. What else didn't she know? Why did she and her siblings feel the need for distance? She was trying to figure things out when the family imploded.
Ever had a dream that won't stop visiting every night? That's where author Jessi Hempel starts this memoir, and it's the perfect launching point for "The Family Outing."
Just prepare yourself. The next step has Hempel telling her mother's tale for which, at the risk of being a spoiler, you'll want to leave the lights on. This account will leave readers good and well hooked, and ready for the rest of what turns out to be quite a detective story.
And yet, it's a ways away from the Sherlockian. Readers know what's ahead, we know the score before we get there, but the entwining of five separate lives in a fact-finding mission makes this book feel as though it has a surprise at every turn.
Sometimes, it's a good surprise. Sometimes, it's a bad one.
A happily minimized amount of profanity and a total lack of overtness make "The Family Outing" a book you can share with almost anyone, adult, or ally. Read it, and you'll be wanting to tell everyone.
Memoir reveals gay writer's struggle with homelessness, rape
'Place Called Home' a powerful indictment of foster care system
(Book cover image courtesy Legacy Lit/Hachette)
'A Place Called Home: A Memoir'
By David Ambroz
c. 2022, Legacy Lit/Hachette
For David Ambroz, 42, author of the stunning new memoir "A Place Called Home," one of his childhood recollections is of himself and his siblings walking with Mary, their mother, on a freezing Christmas morning in New York City.
Today, Ambroz, who is gay and a foster parent, is a poverty and child welfare expert and the head of Community Engagement (West) for Amazon.
But, on that morning, Ambroz remembers, when he was five, he and his seven-year-old sister Jessica and six-year-old brother Alex were freezing. Mary, their mother was severely mentally ill. They were homeless.
Ambroz draws you into his searing memoir with his first sentence. "I'm hungry," he writes in the simple, frightened, perceptive voice of a malnourished, shivering little boy.
As it got dark and colder, Ambroz recalls, he walked with his family, wearing "clownishly large" sneakers "plucked from the trash."
Five-year-old Ambroz remembers that the night before his family got lucky. They had dinner (mac and cheese) at a church "with a sermon on the side."
"We heard the story of the three kings bringing gifts to the baby Jesus," Ambroz writes.
But the next day they're still homeless and hungry. Talk about no room at the inn.
Young Ambroz doesn't know the word "death," but he (literally) worries that he and his family will die. Frozen, hungry and invisible to uncaring passersby.
Ambroz's mom, a nurse, is occasionally employed and able to house her family in dilapidated apartments. But she's soon ensnared by her mental illness, unable to work. Then, her family is homeless again.
Until, he was 12, Ambroz and his siblings were abused and neglected by their mother.
Ambroz doesn't know as a young boy that he's gay. But, he can tell he's different. Instead of playing street games with the other kids, Ambroz likes to play "doctor" with another boy in the neighborhood.
Mary tells him being gay is sinful and that you'll die from AIDS if you're queer.
His mother, having decided that he's Jewish, makes Ambroz undergo a badly botched circumcision. At one point, she beats him so badly that he falls down a flight of stairs.
At 12, Ambroz reports this abuse to the authorities and he's placed into the foster care system.
If you think this country's foster care system is a safe haven for our nation's 450,000 kids in foster care, Ambroz will swiftly cut through that misperception.
From ages 12 to 17, Ambroz is ricocheted through a series of abusive, homophobic foster placements.
One set of foster parents try to make him more "macho," rent him out to work for free for their friends and withhold food from him. At another placement, a counselor watches and does nothing as other kids beat him while hurling gay slurs.
Thankfully, Ambroz meets Holly and Steve who become fabulous foster parents. Ambroz has been abused and hungry for so long he finds it hard to understand that he can eat whatever he wants at their home.
Through grit, hard work and his intelligence, Ambroz earned a bachelor's degree from Vassar College, was an intern at the White House and graduated from the UCLA School of Law. Before obtaining his position at Amazon, he led Corporate Social Responsibility for Walt Disney Television.
But none of this came easily for him. Coming out was hard for many LGBTQ people in the 1990s. It was particularly difficult for Ambroz.
In college, Ambroz is deeply closeted. He's ashamed to reveal anything about his past (growing up homeless and in foster care) and his sexuality.
At one point, he's watching TV, along with other appalled students, as the news comes on about Matthew Shepard being murdered because he was gay. Ambroz can see that everyone is enraged and terrified by this hate crime. Yet, he's too ashamed to reveal anything of his sexuality.
Over Christmas vacation, Ambroz decides it's time to explore his sexuality.
Telling no one, Ambroz takes a train to Miami. There, he goes home with a man (who he meets on a bus) who rapes him.
"I run in no particular direction just away from this monster," he recalls. "When I get back to my hotel room, I'm bleeding…I order food delivered but can't eat any of it."
"A Place Called Home" has the power of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "Letter from Birmingham Jail" and Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring."
Ambroz's writing becomes less powerful when he delves into the weeds of policy. But this is a minor quibble.
Ambroz is a superb storyteller. Unless you lack a heartbeat, you can't read "A Place Called Home" without wanting to do something to change our foster care system.
Queer film fans will love 'Hollywood: The Oral History'
'The most cruel, most despicable town in the world'
(Book cover image courtesy Harper)
'Hollywood: The Oral History'
By Jeanine Basinger and Sam Wasson
c. 2022, Harper
Whether you adore old Hollywood, are fascinated by 1970s new Hollywood, intrigued by digital filmmaking or love to hate on Tinsel Town, you're in luck this holiday season.
Hollywood is "The most cruel, most despicable town in the world," assistant director Ridgeway Callow says, in "Hollywood: The Oral History," by Jeanine Basinger and Sam Wasson, a compendium of 100 years of gossip, reminiscences, and historical tidbits about Tinsel Town. At nearly 800 pages, it's an intriguing, diverting doorstopper of a book.
Hollywood aficionados, especially Tinsel Town's queer fans, will find it hard to resist this book.
It's often been said that there would be no Hollywood without us queer folk. "Hollywood: The Oral History" doesn't explicitly mention Tinsel Town's queer quotient. But you'll find tantalizing hints of it, if you have queer radar.
If you believe that compiling a comprehensive history of Hollywood is a frivolous endeavor, you may well want to think again.
Hollywood has been, and still is, (despite some progress) sexist, racist, homophobic, and transphobic. Not to mention its distortion of body image. And, that's just a sampling of its sins.
Yet, Hollywood is everywhere. Whether you love movies (Old Hollywood films or the newest digital offerings), or loathe even the mention of the word "celluloid," your life has been shaped by Hollywood.
Tinsel Town is in our DNA: from the words of endearment we whisper when we're in love to the shade we throw during break-ups to the clothes we wear to our gestures of affection or rage.
In 1969, the American Film Institute held the first of a series of "intimate conversations" between AFI conservatory students and Hollywood professionals, Basinger and Wasson write in the introduction to "Hollywood: the Oral History."
These conversations were named the Harold Lloyd Master Seminars "in honor of their very first guest," Basinger and Wasson report.
During the past half century everyone from actors (including Meryl Streep, Dustin Hoffman, Greta Garbo, Katharine Hepburn, and, thankfully, Bette Davis) to directors (including George Cukor who directed Hepburn and Garbo), to costume designers (including Oscar-winning Edith Head) to producers as well as stunt men and women have talked about Hollywood.
"They speak with the attitudes of their own time," Basinger and Wasson write, "but they speak with authority."
Wasson and Basinger were given "unprecedented access" to the Harold Lloyd seminars, oral histories and complete archives. The more than 300 interviews for this remarkable book were culled from more than 3,000 seminar guest speakers and nearly 10,000 hours of conversation, the authors write.
The people speaking in this entertaining history aren't actually hanging out – being interviewed together. Yet, it feels as if we're a fly on the wall at a Tinsel Town pool party, as stars and their director/producer Hollywood pals sip martinis and gossip.
"The press did everything in the world to see that Joan Crawford and I had a big fight," Bette Davis says.
"Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?" was made in three weeks, Davis says. There was no time for a feud, she adds. But, who knows what would have happened if "Baby" had taken three months to make, Davis asks.
This is just one of the many fun quotes in the fascinating interviews in "Hollywood: The Oral History."
A caveat: Wasson, author of six books on film, including "Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M.," "Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany's" and the "Dawn of the Modern Woman," and Basinger, a trustee of the AFI and distinguished film scholar, offer scant context on the interviews in the book. There is, for example, little comment on the racism in "The Birth of a Nation" and "Gone with the Wind" or on homophobia in Hollywood. It's understandable that the authors wanted the interviewees to speak for themselves (as part of their time). Yet, some historical context would have been welcome.
If you read "Hollywood: the Oral History" from beginning to end, you'll likely feel that the party is going on too long. But if you read it in short bursts or dip in and out of it, you'll find it a delicious treat.
Geena Davis kicked ass onscreen long before she did in real life
Iconic actress revisits her 'Polite' life in new memoir
(Book cover courtesy Harper One)
'Dying of Politeness: A Memoir'
By Geena Davis
c.2022, Harper One
Years ago, a colleague videotaped me as I apologized for bumping into a desk. "I'm sorry," I said to this inanimate object, "I hope I didn't hurt your feelings."
If you're terminally polite, love kick-ass movies and worship bad-asses, you'll lap up "Dying of Politeness: A Memoir" by badass, feminist, Academy-Award-winning actor and activist Geena Davis.
In the memoir (Davis's debut as an author), Davis, 66, tells entertaining, sometimes moving, stories about her wide-ranging life: from her childhood (her parents were more polite than Emily Post ever dreamt of) to her acting career to finishing in 24th place in archery in the 2000 Summer Olympics trials.
Davis, a queer and feminist icon, has been in many movies. Her awards include an Oscar for best supporting actress for her portrayal of dog trainer Muriel Prichett in "The Accidental Tourist," the adaptation of the Anne Tyler novel of the same name. Davis watched her boyfriend (Jeff Goldblum) turn into an insect in "The Fly" and played Barbara in the comedy-horror picture "Beetlejuice."
Davis is loved by LGBTQ folk for her work in two 1990s classics.
In 1991, she was Thelma (Susan Sarandon was Louise) in "Thelma and Louise," the classic film that made many women cheer and a lot of men squirm.
Just a year later, Davis was Dottie in the movie that's still a fave of hetero and queer girls and women — "A League of Their Own." Unlike the series with the same name recently released by Amazon Prime, the film has no explicitly queer characters. But with Madonna (Mae) and Rosie O'Donnell (Doris), the picture has a fab queer quotient.
You'd think, after watching Davis as Thelma and Dottie, that the Oscar-winning actor leapt from her mother's womb as a badass.
But it's clear from the get-go that it took more than a minute for Davis to emerge as her badass self. Davis could easily have titled not only the first chapter of her memoir, but the entire book, "My Journey to Badassery."
"I kicked ass onscreen way before I did so in real life," Davis writes.
But, "Dying of Politeness" is a more than apt title for the memoir. Her parents were loving, but polite to the point of absurdity.
They insisted that Davis say "no thank you, I'm not thirsty" "even if someone was handing me an already poured glass of ice water," Davis writes.
One of Davis's childhood memories was of the time her 99-year-old great-uncle drove her and her family to his house. The relative kept veering into the oncoming "if blessedly empty," traffic lane, she recalls. Rather than saying anything, "my parents simply moved me to the spot between them on the back seat," Davis writes, "thinking, I presume, that when the inevitable head-on collision occurred, I'd be killed a little less in the middle."
The humor in this anecdote of a childhood brush with death is typical of the wit sprinkled throughout "Dying of Politeness."
Davis, who grew up in Wareham, Mass., decided at age 3 that she wanted to be in the movies. After studying acting at Boston University, Davis left college and moved to New York.
Davis may have been as she writes, "a cripplingly polite New Englander," but she wasn't lacking in chutzpah.
In New York, Davis worked as a Lord and Taylor sales clerk. On a dare, she joined a group of mannequins in a café scene in the department store window. Soon, people lined up to watch her perform in street theater.
Davis got her first movie role in "Tootsie" after Sidney Pollack saw her pictures in the Victoria's Secret catalogue. Dustin Hoffman, starring in the movie, mentored her. He told her not to sleep with her co-stars.
The memoir is more than entertaining. Davis writes of sexual harassment, her effort to create inclusion in Hollywood by founding the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media and how her dad cared for her mom when she had dementia.
It's hard to think of a timelier book than "Dying of Politeness" in our current political climate. Badassery is needed now more than ever.


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As you may have only received your copy of Cyprusscene E.newspaper on Saturday it may be too late for you to plan going to watch a local football match.
Selective fixtures for Weekend 19th 20th and 21st October.
The two outstanding fixtures for this weekend are probably both on Sunday, the first one is in Lefkoşa in another "derby" match where Gençlik Gücü and leaders Yenicami clash.
The other match is in Esentepe where the home team face sleeping giants Doğan Türk Birliği. The Girne side have had a bad start to the season but won last time out and soon will start climbing the table and challenging the leading teams.
Selective matches for Weekend 27th 28th and 29th October.
Mustafa Hidayet Çalar Stadı Sun Oct 28 SL Merit Alsancak Yeşilova v Türk Ocak ko 2-30pm.


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The city is expanding, putting more and more strain on infrastructure and social services that are already in short supply. Many families see no way out of poverty. The younger generation needs education, health care, a safe environment and hope for the future.
Urban poverty makes families vulnerable and susceptible to many risks
Children at the SOS Children's Villages school in Vontovorona (photo: SOS archives).
SOS Children's Village Vontovorona is located in a suburb of Madagascar's capital city, Antananarivo, which has a population approaching two million in its metropolitan area, making it the biggest city on the island. Since the political turmoil in 2009 that plunged the country into a socioeconomic crisis, poverty has been on the rise, as has child labour, especially here in the capital.Many young boys and girls come to Antananarivo from rural areas in search of work. Many girls end up working as domestic servants. Far from their families, they are extremely vulnerable to abuse and exploitation and often have no one to turn to for help.
The rise of child labour also means that more and more children and young people are deprived of an education, which seriously jeopardises their chances of escaping the vicious cycle of poverty once they become adults. However, the immediate needs of the family are in many cases far more pressing than any long-term hopes and dreams for their children; when parents struggle to put food on the table, education becomes merely a secondary concern.
The hazardous effects some work environments have on children's health are also a great worry. To make matters worse, many poor families lack access to health care and do not have sufficient knowledge of health and hygiene. Living conditions in the capital are extremely tough for thousands of families: many live in slums, their houses are mere shacks, right next to open sewers, without running water or electricity. For children and young adults, the future often seems bleak.
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SOS Children's Villages began its work in Vontovorona in 1989. Today, our SOS Social Centre in Antananarivo provides a family strengthening programme to the local community with the aim of empowering families to improve their situation in the long-term. We offer day-care for the children of working parents, and we also offer workshops in carpentry and dressmaking. We provide guidance on income generation to parents, thus ensuring that children do not have to work and can grow up in a stable and secure home environment.
The SOS Medical Centre here provides an important service to the local community as it allows everyone to seek medical attention, even those who could not otherwise afford it. We offer medical assistance to pregnant women and to babies, medical check-ups, vaccination programmes as well as preventive measures.
What we do in Vontovorona
We support young people until they are able to live independently (photo: SOS archives).
For children from the region who are no longer able to live with their parents, 15 SOS families can provide a loving home for up to 150 children. In each family, the children live with their brothers and sisters, affectionately cared for by their SOS mother. Each family keeps poultry and sheep, and the village also has its own orchard, vegetable patches, beehives and rabbit hutches.
The children attend the SOS Kindergarten together with children from the neighbourhood, which ensures that they are integrated into the local community from a young age. The children then go on to complete their primary and secondary education at the SOS schools, which are attended by around 400 pupils.
When young people who grew up in an SOS family feel ready to move out of the family home in order to pursue further education or vocational training, our SOS Youth Programme continues to support them as they make the transition into adulthood. The young people live together, supervised by an SOS educator who provides guidance and assistance.
We also run an SOS Vocational Training Centre in Vontovorona, located on the SOS Farm. Young people receive training here in growing and harvesting fruit and vegetables, cultivating plants and flowers, and breeding livestock. Their vocational training should enable them to apply modern farming methods and ensure their livelihoods as adults.
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Lillie's Bordello, located on Grafton St, is the most exclusive club in Ireland and a regular haunt of the rich and famous.Themed on a Victorian brothel and open seven days a week from late till very much later, Lillie's is the place for beautiful people.
The Pod is a funky club built in an old railway station. The interior is very unconventional and cool. The Pod is a great club, having won numerous awards including the Ericsson Muzik Magazine Dance Award's "Best Club Venue" in 1998. Some of the world's greatest DJs have played there. The Pod is a great night out.
In the same venue as The Pod, The Tripod incorporates a 1300 live music venue with balcony seating and private booths, a club space and bar. It opened in December 2006 and has gained a reputation as 'Dublin's best medium-sized venue' (Sunday Tribune) with particular accolades for it's sound quality and perfect sightlines.
Club M is in Blooms Hotel in Temple Bar. One of the city's coolest clubs, Club M is friendly and comfortable with laser-lighting and a VIP lounge, which frequently hosts some of Dublin's many stars. Club M is one of Temple Bar's best clubs and is well worth a visit.
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Located on Camden Street in the ballroom of the Camden De Luxe Hotel, The Palace is a trendy club and a favourite for all clubbers with good music and a good atmosphere. The Palace ballroom was used as a set in the film "The Commitments".
The elegant Copper Face Jack's is located on Harcourt St. With free entry Monday to Wednesday, you won't find many 'teenyboppers' here. Playing an assortment of music, it caters successfully for the slightly older clubber. Part of the Jackson Court Hotel, Copper Face Jack's is softly lit and furnished. It is a relaxing club more suited to those who aren't up for dancing the whole night away, but are more comfortable enjoying some social drinks and just dancing to their favourites.


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Tommy Cross added to B's roster
Boston, MA - Boston Bruins General Manager Don Sweeney announced today, October 13, that the club has recalled defenseman Tommy Cross from the Providence Bruins (American Hockey League) and placed defenseman Joe Morrow on IR. Cross will join the team in Denver, CO and will be eligible for Wednesday's game against the Avalanche. This marks...
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BOSTON, MA - Boston Bruins General Manager Don Sweeney announced today, July 6, that the club has signed forward Jimmy Hayes to a three-year contract through the 2017-18 season worth a cap figure of $2,300,000, forward Brett Connolly to a one-year contract through the 2015-16 season worth a cap figure of $1,025,000 at the NHL level and forward Brandon DeFazio to a one-year, two-way contract...
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THE SPRING SLATE: Today Boston plays its 23rd spring training game against a major league opponent...32 Grape- fruit League contests were scheduled over a 31-day span from 3/5-4/4, and 1 has been cancelled (3/23 vs. STL due to unplayable field conditions). The club has completed 11 home games (6-5) and 11 road games (5-5-1)...The Sox began the exhibition season with a doubleheader sweep of Boston...
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THE SPRING SLATE: Today Boston plays its 22nd spring training game against a major league opponent...32 Grape- fruit League contests were scheduled over a 31-day span from 3/5-4/4, and 1 was cancelled due to unplayable field conditions (Monday vs. STL)...The club has completed 11 home games (6-5) and 10 road games (5-4-1)...The Sox be- gan the exhibition season with a doubleheader sweep of Boston College...
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NYT Parrots US Propaganda on Hezbollah in Venezuela
By Lucas Koerner and Ricardo Vaz
May 27, 2019 "Information Clearing House" -Judith Miller and Michael Gordon published their now infamous New York Times article on September 8, 2002, falsely claiming on the basis of unnamed "American officials" that Iraq had acquired "aluminum tubes" with the aim of producing "an atomic bomb."
Disgraced by her regurgitation of bogus claims, Miller left the Times in 2005, but her spirit is "alive and well" at the "paper of record." Nicholas Casey follows faithfully in Miller's footsteps, authoring dubious, anonymously sourced stories that coincidentally happen to further US regime-change objectives.
In a recent piece headlined "Secret Venezuela Files Warn About Maduro Confidant" (5/2/19), the Times' Andes bureau chief claimed, on the basis of a leaked Venezuelan intelligence "dossier" that only his paper has seen, that Venezuela's Industry minister and former Vice President Tareck El Aissami has active links to Hezbollah and drug trafficking. Casey wrote:
The dossier, provided to the New York Times by a former top Venezuelan intelligence official and confirmed independently by a second one, recounts testimony from informants accusing Mr. El Aissami and his father of recruiting Hezbollah members to help expand spying and drug trafficking networks in the region.
Unsurprisingly, the article has been endorsed by Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio, widely considered the point man for Trump's Latin America policy, and whose zeal for regime change in Caracas appears unperturbed by elementary facts or international law. In a May 16 tweet, Rubio openly celebrated the fact that Venezuelan President Maduro "can't access funds to rebuild electric grid," thereby dispensing with any pretence that US sanctions are not directly aimed at the Venezuelan population.
The claims of an alleged relationship between Caracas and Hezbollah are, however, entirely unoriginal, having been repeated by corporate journalists and national security pundits without evidence for years.
"Hezbollah has a long and sordid history in Venezuela," wrote Foreign Policy (2/2/19) earlier this year. Newsweek claimed in a 2017 article (12/8/17) that the Lebanese political party "was involved in cocaine shipments from Latin America to West Africa, as well as through Venezuela and Mexico to the United States," while The Hill (1/13/17) labeled El Aissami a "fan of Iran and Hezbollah," rehashing US allegations going back to 2008.
Likewise, corporate media claims about Hezbollah presence in Latin America have not been exclusive to Venezuela, with similar baseless rumors circulating about the Lebanese political party operating in the so-called Tri-Border Area of Paraguay (Extra!, 9–10/07).
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