At some point, your family home ceases to be simply bricks and mortar and develops a kind of personality of its own, lovingly crafted over time from your family's combined memories. In many ways, you could say it becomes a member of the family in its own right.
Every laugh, every tear, the extraordinary moments and the heartaches experienced in the home combine to give it a distinctive spirit – at least in the eyes of those who've lived there together. Perhaps that's why it can be hard to let go when it comes time to downsizing your home for retirement.
Your children especially may see your decision to selling the family home as abandonment – after all, it's likely to be the one place they've been guaranteed to feel safe all their lives. And that's no small thing.
However, that does not mean you're duty bound to stay, especially when you can no longer manage the space easily.
1. Have a strong idea of what you want ahead of time. Your downsizing decisions need to suit your own needs . Sometimes your kids want you to stay in the family home because it suits their own needs and desires rather than yours. Be firm about what you think you need and try to avoid vague plans or engaging in lengthy consultations, unless you want your kids to sway your decision.
It can be a trickier proposition if your grown children still live with you. In this case it's best not to spring the news on them without warning (i.e. after you've already sold your home!). Make your plans but give them time to adjust as well.
2. Consider basic change and grief management. The loss of the family home can be distressing for those who feel a strong attachment to it. Being a repository of memories, it's also possible to feel grief when the family home is sold to someone else, just as you would if you lost a close personal friend.
Understanding is key for a painless emotional transition; particularly if you think your family is likely to take your decision to downsize home badly. Remind them they'll always be welcome wherever you live – this suggests 'home' is a concept rather than just a place.
This also reinforces that being a parent isn't just about providing housing and financial support – it's about guidance, love and encouragement no matter where they, or you, live.
Start by acknowledging their issues, then sit down with them to plan a solution – whether that's how to afford a new apartment of their own, helping them find a rental and a flat mate or working out a reasonable timeline for the change to happen. Providing extra certainty and compassion can smooth the transition and help everyone make the shift more easily.
4. Make a memory palace together. Once everyone starts to come to terms with the changes, suggest a time for a get-together to say a final farewell to the home by sharing a special meal and favourite memories.
Marking the transition formally in this way can go a long way towards facilitating a smoother change. You could also take photos of your family home and create an album of treasured pictures for everyone to keep (if you're not handy with a camera, consider asking one of the kids to do the job for you).
Lastly, it's important to realise not all family members will experience the transition in the same way. Whatever you can do to alleviate and facilitate the process – with compassion and empathy – will go a long way towards reducing any emotional strain on the family.
That being said, you should also keep in mind that just because you're saying goodbye to the place your memories were made, you're not relinquishing the memories themselves. You're just fashioning a new place for them to live.
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Wealth is a crucially important measure of economic health—it allows families to transfer income earned in the past to meet spending demands in the future, such as by building up savings to finance a child's college education.
That's why it's so alarming to see that, today still, the median white American family has twelve times the wealth that their black counterparts have. And that only begins to tell the story of how deeply racism has defined American economic history.
Enter EPI Distinguished Fellow Richard Rothstein's widely praised book, "The Color of Law," which delves into the very tangible but underappreciated root of the problem: systemic, legalized housing discrimination over a period of three decades—starting in the 1940s—prevented black families from having a piece of the American Dream of homeownership.
Source: Survey of Consumer Finance Combined Extract Data, 2013.
Director Mark Lopez uses innovative visual techniques to walk the viewer through Rothstein's story, and the results are moving and compelling.
"African American families that were prohibited from buying homes in the suburbs in the 1940s and 50s, and even into the 1960s, by the Federal Housing Administration gained none of the equity appreciation that whites gained," Rothstein says in the short film.
The discrimination happened on several levels—and often culminated in violence against black families trying to move into neighborhoods that had been effectively designated as white by government policy. Sometimes these designations took place quite literally as maps were divided up along racial lines with different colors on the maps. Black neighborhoods were painted red—hence the term "redlining"—which only became illegal after the Fair Housing Act of 1968.
"If we understand the accurate history—that racially segregated patterns in every metropolitan area like St. Louis were created by de jure segregation—racially explicit policy on the part of federal, state, and local governments designed to segregate metropolitan areas, then we can understand we have an unconstitutional residential landscape," Rothstein says.


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A.D.B. ups coronavirus response by $13.5 billion
Struggling businesses will have access to a US$2 billion fund of the Asian Development Bank. (Photo: Vaitogi Asuisui Matafeo)
The Asian Development Bank (A.D.B.) has increased its coronavirus (COVID-19) response package to US$20 billion (T$55.7 billion) this week and will make payments to member countries faster than normal, the bank announced.
Last month, the bank revealed it would be committing $6.5 billion to its developing member countries to manage the economic and health burdens the pandemic is causing.
The new package of an additional T$37.6 billion includes $6.9 billion in concessional and grant resources. President Masatusugu Asakawa said the funding is needed to avoid reversing the progress developing countries are making on poverty reduction and economic growth.
"This pandemic threatens to severely set back economic, social, and development gains in Asia and the Pacific, reverse progress on poverty reduction, and throw economies into recession," he said.
"Our expanded and comprehensive package of assistance, made possible with the strong support of our Board, will be delivered more quickly, flexibly, and forcefully to the governments and the private sector in our developing member countries to help them address the urgent challenges in tackling the pandemic and economic downturn."
In its annual Asian Development Outlook 2020, the Bank predicted the global impact of the pandemic would be between 2.3 and 4.8 per cent of gross domestic product.
Pacific economies are expected to contract by an average of 0.3 per cent this year due to interrupted tourism and trade and cancelled construction projects.
The Bank projects an optimistic average recovery in economic output of 2.7 per cent per cent on the assumption that tourism, construction projects, labour mobility and construction projects resume.
Regional growth is forecast to decline from 5.2 percent last year to 2.2 per cent in 2020.
Samoa has already received a grant of T$8,218,324 from the A.D.B. from its Contingency Disaster Facility originally established to help natural disaster responses but recently expanded to include the pandemic.
Under the new package, up to $36.2 billion is for developing member countries to deliver programmes that increase spending and cut taxes to counter the impending recessions, or countercyclical expenditure programmes, with a focus on poor and vulnerable communities.
Additionally, grant resources will continue to be deployed quickly for providing medical and personal protective equipment and supplies from expanded procurement sources.
Developing countries' private sectors will have $5.5 billion available from which to seek loans and guarantees to rejuvenate trade and supply chains.
"Enhanced microfinance loan and guarantee support and a facility to help liquidity-starved small and medium-sized enterprises, including those run by female entrepreneurs, will be implemented alongside direct financing of companies responding to, or impacted by, COVID-19," the Bank states.
The A.D.B.'s policies and business processes have been adjusted to let it respond faster to the crisis, including streamlining internal processes, increasing the scope of its support facilities and tailoring lending terms and conditions.
The expanded package delivery will be coordinated with the International Monetary Fund; World Bank Group; World Health Organization, The United Nations Children's Fund (U.N.I.C.E.F.) and other U.N agencies; and the broader global community.
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New Electric Car Mandates in New York For Drive to Zero Emissions
Governor Kathy Hochul is driving toward clean transportation with new incentives and new mandates in New York.
2 Million New Yorkers Receive $475 Million in Tax Relief Checks
Millions of dollars will be making its way into the wallets of New York families.
State of Monkeypox Emergency Declared in New York
There's a state of monkeypox emergency in New York.
New York State Fair Will Allow Visitors to Smoke Marijuana
The New York State Fair will allow visitors to smoke marijuana at the fair despite a recent ban from Governor Kathy Hochul on smoking anything in public parks.
12,000 Acres of New York Farmland Receives Over $38 Million for Conservation
Governor Hochul announced that over $38 million is being awarded to conserve New York farmland through the Farmland Protection Implementation Grants program.
Wait What? New York State Signs Law To Officially Rename Route 20
If there's any reason to change the name of a well known road in New York State, then this has to be it.
New York Governor Tells Smokers To Leave Their Habit Behind or Get Fined
Thanks to a new bill, smoking in any of these areas in New York will be punishable with a civil fine.
Governor Kathy Hochul Announces $234 Million for July SNAP Benefits
Governor Kathy Hochul announced $234 million of additional federal funds for households participating in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.
New York to Require Social Media Check for Gun Applicants
New York has passed a number of new gun control laws, including one that would require concealed carry gun applicants to submit their social media accounts.
Have New Yorkers Already Given Up on Cryptocurrency?
Cryptocurrency is tanking and the glow it once shone on New Yorkers seems to have substantially dimmed.


Moses ("Moe") Asch (December 2, 1905, Warsaw – October 19, 1986, New York City) was the founder of Folkways Records. The label, founded in 1948, was instrumental in bringing folk music into the American mainstream.
Asch worked with such famous folk and blues singers as Woody Guthrie, Leadbelly, Pete Seeger and Ella Jenkins. Amongst the jazz artists with whom he had an association, was the so called Father of Stride Piano, James P. Johnson. Johnson made a significant series of recordings for several labels controlled by Asch, including Asch, Stinson, Disc, and Folkways. On the Stinson album, New York Jazz, Johnson recorded 5 numbers which he stated could be heard in New York in the 1910s, in addition to the first recorded piano solo of Scott Joplin's, Euphonic Sounds. This established the link between the stride piano of Johnson, and the ragtime of Joplin, from which stride is descended. Among the other significant piano solos recorded by Johnson, for Asch, subsequently issued on Folkways, and later Smithsonian Folkways,were several of Johnson's classical works: the rhapsody, Yamekraw, and the Concerto Jazz o Mine (also under the title, Blues for Jimmy).
He was the son of Yiddish language novelist and dramatist Sholem Asch and the younger brother of novelist Nathan Asch. After his death, the Folkways recordings were acquired by the Smithsonian Institution and are now part of the heritage of all Americans; many of the titles are reissued.
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Tweeting Jane Austen: The Geograpy of Self
I've been thinking about time and space in narrative, how the arrow of time in fiction is not set in a single direction; that though we may speak of linear narratives, there are no such things; unlike life, we can always return to the first page and begin again. Nor, within the narrative itself, no matter how easy or difficult the story makes it for the reader to straighten out the path of time, is there any necessity for time to always move, as in the physical world, in a single direction: present, future, past may follow in any order. Direction, where all movement is one way, does not really apply to time. Take the word 'direction;' this is a spacial word, a metaphor at best when applied to time. I see in this a structural remnant of myth and the reenactment of its cycles in recurrent ritual, where time is merely another dimension--or better, 'direction' --on the cosmic map. Fiction--story telling of any kind, retains this mythical power to spacialize time and so impose on its representation of reality a fundamental and inescapable distortion. In primitive myths this distortion appears, at least to us--far removed from the worlds they created--as primarily metaphysical, but it is also psychological, social, relational, and it is this that remains when we have shed ourselves of the narratized metaphysics of primitive myth.
We've been reading Sense and Sensibility in my freshman class this past week. I've lost count of how many times I've read this book, but it never fails to engage me, to draw me in, to surprise me. How delicious those conversations of discovery--Elinor and Lucy Steele, the last chapter of Volume I, where Elinor learns of Lucy's engagement to Edward Ferrar, and first chapter of the next volume where, in conversation with herself, by an application of reality-testing and reason, she works her way through to a reconciliation with this painful discovery, from denial to self pity to anger to a saving compassionate understanding. Knowing the book, and knowing it well, only makes these passages the more moving. The experience is not unlike listening to an aria from an opera: the more familiar you are with every note and word, the more powerfully it wrenches the heart. Familiarity also creates room around the affect, a stillness apart from the emotion that makes peace between mind and emotion, where it's possible to think intensely and feel strongly in the same breath. Several trains of thought occurred to me as I was reflecting on what I'd read. While these threads seemed as disconnected at first as elements in a dream, like a dream, I felt a strong sense of unity, and was convinced this had to do with my reading of Austen.
One of those threads, in fact, had to do with dreams: how there is always a special component; how moving from room to room, or along a road, takes the place of--re-places--time. In reconstructing a dream I will sometimes see how, say--what happened on that beach beside the lake had to do with something long ago, where I spent my summers on the shore of Lake Michigan, and when I was in the apartment building searching for my room, this came from something more recent, and the water running through the hall was the past flooding into and eroding my present life. There is a geography of the mind, I thought, and in the architecture of dreams time is but another material element, occupying and defining space. In a dream, I thought, we move through time as from room to room and back again.
I played this against a feeling I had while reading the chapters I mentioned--an intense feeling of difference in the reality represented by Austen and my own, a difference of a kind that changes in social and political and economic conditions could not account for. I'm not sure I understand yet what I was sensing, but it has to do with the geography of self: That Austen's characters live in a different space, that while our biology may not have altered, something of the internal map by which we negotiate the narratives of our lives has. The myth has been radically revised. In particular, what is near and what is far has lost much of the meaning it seemed to hold and those distinctions, so important to Austen, between inner and outer reality is far more permeable and does not govern us as they do the people in her fiction. Or I should say--does not govern me. Her reality is not mine. There have been great changes in our physical world--and it is of this world we make for ourselves the map of Self. I suppose the conclusion I can draw from this is: the distortion created by the spacialization of time peculiar to Austen's day is not ours, and that writers can not pretend to borrow, without betraying their own place in reality, the formative distortion of another place and time.
Reading over what I've written, it all seems so obvious, hardly worth the trouble to describe. Even trivial. I also feel there is more to this thread if I keep following it. It does feel good to be writing here again after almost two weeks absence. That review--if you can call it that--of the Alice Munro story quite wore me out.
May the dog live to bark another day!
Posted by Jacob Russell at 2/28/2009 05:48:00 PM 1 comment:
Trapped in the Myth of Self
From Will Buckingham's post on The Body Artist, HERE
...as with a lot of the Western philosophical tradition – for DeLillo this idea of the subsiding of the self and the stories of the self, this loss of the great narrative of the self, seems to be approached with a kind of fearful foreboding. But is it such a terrible thing? After all, when we slip the bonds of the grand narrative, we may find that everything else still goes on before, that the body and mind persist, continuing to do their job, and that all we have lost is our attachment to a myth. Might it not be liberating? Here I cannot help thinking of Dōgen: 'Unless the cold pierces through our bones once, how can we have the apricot blossoms perfuming the whole world?'
To be trapped by one's own myth, when all is said and done, may be a pretty grim fate.
Poker Puritans and Toking
I do what we all do on our down times... link to stuff worth reading. Here's Sean Carroll, my all time fave physisist restaurant critic and general wise guy on railroading American Pilgrims...
And do NOT miss his link to the letter Michael Phelps should have written, HERE
Gestation...the homonuclus of thought...
Captures well the mood I've been in.. From Letters from a Librarian...
I do have some thoughts on reading, on why... and what I seek and need...
Gestation...
Sean Carroll on Charles Darwin
Sean Carroll has written a beautiful tribute to Darwin on Cosmic Variance.
Language Poetry and Anglo-American Empiricism?
A question that's been Tweeting my mind...
A review HERE of Rae Armantrout's recently released Versed ... this is Silliman to make you a believer--there is nothing vague or impressionistic when he writes about poetry, like an Ansel Adams photo--sharp focus in bright light, surgical precision--and in this post, writing about one his oldest friends, deeply moving... a review to print out a,d save... and savor. Whatever Language Poetry is or was, can see here that there are no simple catagorical answers you can apply to pin down its most accomplished practitioners.
Still... the question persists... is what they share(d) no more than an indefinite zeitqeist? I can't help but notice a relationship, and at the same time, be relieved to see that some of the poets who represented the movement from the beginning have moved out of the grip of its strangulated nominalism... if they were ever really in its hold.
Labels: Poetry, Reviews
No Such Thing as Establishment Art (I try to explain myself)
There are only Establishment critics and readers.
All art is subversive!
That is not to suggest that it's possible to identify 'art' from 'not art' by determining whether or not a particular work is subversive. By subversive, I mean whatever remains antithetical to established political, social, moral, religious and intellectual structures: that which remains after reductive interpretations have been exhausted, namely, aesthetic value.
It's all too clear that there is nothing that post-capitalist technological ideology, availing itself of corporate ingenuity, can not itself subvert and put to use for its own ends. No music, no visual, literary or dramatic work that can't be packaged and sold, and put to work selling in its turn. Anything that can't be digested and put to use will be perceived (correctly) as antithetical to the mechanisms of this ideology; its existence must either be denied, or destroyed. Condemned as a means to those ends, only an ersatz caricature of aesthetic value survives, where pretence to aesthetic judgement is merely one or another measure of effectiveness.
Critical analysis doesn't need to search for and identify subversive elements in art; it's enough to understand the ideological forces that seek by every means available to capture and enslave it, and to demonstrate the possibility of encountering in a work the remnant, the aesthetic reality. While this reality remains nameless (a name is the first manacle we apply to subjugate and enslave), we can meet it and speak meaningfully of the encounter.
We need a criticism that frees us to meet the aesthetic in all its useless wonder, and to resist and expose those who betray art and artists by delivering the nascent aesthetic reality to the world rendering it fit for the tasks of corporate empire building.
Posted by Jacob Russell at 2/09/2009 12:17:00 AM 4 comments:
Some Women, by Alice Munro, Notes Toward a Critical Realism.
This is Part II of a review of Some Women, by Alice Munro
Naming the Real in Realist Fiction. Here is Part I .
Three posts on Critical Narrative analysis
No artist tolerates reality." says Nietzsche. That is true, but no artist can get along without reality. Artistic creation is a demand for unity and rejection of the world. But it rejects the world in the name of what it lacks and in the name of what it sometimes is.
Camus, The Rebel
When I first read this, I noticed an ambiguity in the English translation which I assumed would not exist in the French. As the likely pronominal antecedents (une exigence, and le monde) are of different genders, it would be clear in French that the first refers to 'artistic creation,' or rather, its 'demand,' and the next two, to 'the world.' But {this demand) rejects the world in the name of what ( the world) lacks and in the name of what (the world) sometimes is. However, I find that there is something to be said for the ambiguity and for the creative misreading it allows. If we understand 'world' and 'reality' as synonymous (as Camus apparently does here), make 'artistic creation' the subject and turn 'demand' into a verb with 'writer' as its object, we will have pregnant formulation of the problematic of realism and representation. .
Artistic creation demands of the writer
that he/she reject reality
for what it lacks
and for what it sometimes is.
To this I would add, that artistic mimesis, what we think of as 'representation,' the very possibility of artistic realism, arises out of an encounter with what reality 'lacks.' What constitutes realism--what any work of art represents ( pictorial, dramatic, literary, musical) is not 'reality,'' but its 'lack,' the artist's endeavor to complete reality, to make real what was not...to give to Airy Nothing a Local Habitation and a Name. Which means the distinction between 'realism' and whatever name you would give to its antithesis, is false. There can be no distinction, and any criticism over-determined by the assumption that there is, will fail in its encounter with the work. With this in mind, let me turn--or return to, the story I've set out to review.
In an EARLIER POST, I wrote that writing:
is a process of negotiation with the material at hand and every act, each engagement with that material translates both material and intention. ... because the author's intentions have been in a continuous process of translation along with the writing as it evolves, what existed in the beginning, and at every point to the completion of the work, is a continuum of difference that moves both forward and back.
We can't recover the process or recreate the stages as they evolved in the continuing encounter, but I believe we can identify imprints of that encounter, evidence of the reality which shaped the elements of the writing as it emerges in its final form.
"I am amazed sometimes to think how old I am."
"I grew up, and old.
These are the first and last sentences in the story. Everything between is memory.
Is memory, the real subject, the real, of this piece of realist fiction? In between--an assemblage of what the narrator purports to remember, memory: not it's 'theme,' not its 'controlling idea,' but its real subject--that which the characters and incidents serve to--not illustrate--but to embody--the elements without which the idea would be nothing more, would remain an abstraction, an absence--sense without sensibility, substance, sensuality. There's a great deal more I'd like to say on this--on literature as concrete thought. That all literature is a literature of ideas, imaginative configurations of the world, but this will have to wait for another post.
"I can remember," the narrator continues. The second sentence--first statement of the subject and introduction to the narrative proper. What does she remember? Streets sprinkled with water in summer to hold down the dust. Girls wearing waist cinchers and crinolines, "and when there was nothing much to be done about things like polio and leukemia." How "people with leukemia went to bed, and after some weeks' or months' decline in a tragic atmosphere, they died.' A strand of memories. A series without any apparent necessary link, one to the next, until the last: leukemia and the long decline in a tragic atmosphere: this will be the setting and occasion of the narrative that follows.
She was thirteen. A summer job, her first, helping to take care of a man safely returned from the war, but now bedridden, waiting for death. This would be Young Mr. Crozier, "as he was usually called," who occupies an upstairs bedroom in a house owned by his stepmother, Old Mrs Crozier. The narrator's help is needed because YMC's wife, Sylvia teaches summer school at a college some forty miles distant. OMC is at first presented as a dour, unsympathetic and humorless woman interested in nothing but her flower garden. This impression is challenged when Roxanne Hoy enters the picture, a working class, garoulous and flirtatious woman who comes to give OMC twice weekly massages. Roxanne's invites herself to help with the care of the invalid Her airy, flirtatious self-regard seems to amuse OMC and is apparently appreciated by YMC. There are insinuations that Sylvia, by absenting herself from his bedside for her job, is less caring than a wife should be. There is also a feeling that both Roxanne and OMC are, consciously or not, insinuating themselves into the affections of YMC to the disadvantage of his wife. The denouement comes when YMC trusts the narrator with a key to his room, pledges her to silence, then locks himself in and refuses to open the door until his wife comes home. This coincides with a falling out between OMC and Roxanne, a calendar-page-turning roll out of concluding events (Sylvia takes her husband to rented cabin on a lake for his last days, OMC recovers from a stroke with yet another change in personality, and the narrator returns to where she began. She grew up, and old. By the end of the story, we recognize OMC as the germinal node of memory that initiates everything that follows. She is the tuft of snow on the pine bough whose present reality is that of the narrator, grown old, her own distorted reflection in the mirror of recollection.
All this is nicely told, the characters are admirably complex, elude being pinned down by simple explanations. There's no question that the development of incident and character in the story will return pleasure and garner the interest of the readers. Alice Munro's mastery of her chosen genre is indisputable. There's little I could add to that. Far from challenging its merit, it is the near perfection of this story (with none of the implications of the 'too perfect'), that make me feel the conventional sort of review (Plot-Character-Theme etc) is beside the point. We get it. We get all that. But it doesn't answer the question, why? Not, why--as in, how does it work? But what is the real source of our feeling of verisimilitude? This is a question that would not likely occur to someone who, in effect, lived the artifice of the story--for whom, the nature of consciousness, self-identity, or causal narrative sequence in the real world were givens, or at least, not given over to question, subject to doubt, assumptions in need of analysis and verification.
Here is where I would distinguish between mindful and somnolent habits of reading, reading to put the reader to sleep, and reading to wake the reader up. I like that Heraclitus has a good word for both. "One should not act or speak as if he were asleep." and yet, "Even sleepers are workers and collaborators in what goes on in the universe." But for now, let me defend those who would not go through the world as sleepwalkers. I can read this--that is, what someone looking for verisimilitude would look for in the story--in my sleep. This is not a fault, but it is a limitation. A limitation, not because I care less for verisimilitude, for 'reality' in fiction, but because I need it more, need to press beyond its lack. Munro gives everything and more of what a realist critic would want, and yet falls short of waking her reader from the dream, letting them be satisfied, by failing to acknowledge, failing to draw into her work and foreground--not the artifice, but the actual shaping reality-- letting her readers get away with believing the answer (when posed by one seeking correspondence to reality), is to be found in plot, character, theme...
The amazement of 'how old I am, ' amazement which occurs through the creation of, and as an invitation to--a lifetime of memories, memories which themselves become real only as they become specific: water on a dusty summer road: a young man dying in an upper room Read this story and note how rare the direct reports of event or experience compared to the indirect (When my mother heard about this... or of a general past, unfixed in specific place and time: "Usually what he wanted was... " (what in Proust might be expressed, in the first instance by passé simple, in the second, by the imperfet) and how dependent the specific memories are on their surrounding explanations, narrativazations, contexualizations--which signal that even what is reported in direct past, such as the the quoted conversations, are themselves, not direct memories, but recreations needed to weave the fragmented, nodal memories into a causally connected sequence. How like, I thought... those tufts of snow on the pine bough-- summoning me out of the past and into the present moment.
The present moment...
"I have grown up, and old."
... and so it ends. First sentence and last. In between, an assemblage of what the narrator purports to remember, let me repeat: memory, being the real subject of the story. Not it's 'theme,' not its 'controlling idea,' but its real subject--that which the characters and incidents serve to--not illustrate--but to embody--the elements without which the idea would be nothing more, would remain an abstraction, an absence--sense without sensibility, substance, sensuality.
What Munro does, she does well. It's pointless to fault one kind of writing because it's not something else, but still--I'm troubled by this story, by how it submerges and hides the real source of its strength--as though ashamed of it: I mean the generative tension and movement of memory at work--memory playing with its figurations, leading us on, it's quick shadow changes--instead, pretending that what matters, that the part that resembles life is the little domestic drama and the characters putting on the show, holding this out to the reader as the 'real.' But is it Munro who is at fault here? Or is it her readers--or those critics who encourage them to dream along with the music, following the words across the page like karaoke singers who already know the tune--content in their belief that in this play acting, in the "story" part of the story, they recognize themselves, are reasured (or disturbed) by noticing yet again what they already know? I don't know. But there is a kind of resignation in that last sentence, the merging of Old Mrs. Crozier into the narrator, the Old Mrs. Crozier of the story--before the stroke. In the end, Old Mrs. Crozier recovers, but the narrator is stricken. Old Mrs. Crozier has escaped story and memory, is out there now giving candy to the children whose parents she once chased out of her garden. A nice gesture. But the image here is not of life--but death in life. Old Mrs. Crozier, who resisted submission to the wishes of others, killed off in the end, only to live on as servent to everything she dispised. Is it uncharitable of me to wish there were more of Old Mrs Crozier before the stroke in the voice of the narrator, to want her to refuse her readers the sweets they crave, to want her to take up her stick and chase us out of the garden of narratized memory, to wake us to the tuft of snow hanging from the pine bough--here and now?
"Some Women," Alice Munro. An Antithetical Review: Moving Toward a Critical Realism?
SOME WOMEN, by Alice Munro
Part I: A Search for Thoughts That Might Turn into a Review (Review to Follow)
The New Yorker: December 22 & 29, 2008,
(Links now are to the New Yorker archive, which requires free registration to view)
I was at the Lucky 13 the other day, sitting at the bar, going over pages I'd written that afternoon, working on a glass of wine--in a quandary over how to write this review. The woman next to me had been watching me. "I understand you're working on a novel," she said. (My son is the chef here. People know me.)
"A novel," she said, (though that wasn't what I was working on at the time) I waited for the inevitable question.
"How cool! What is it about?"
"I don't know," I said. "That's why I'm writing it--to find out."
An honest answer. Well, half honest. Even if I'd finished it, I still wouldn't know how to answer. The truth is, I don't know what the question means. No wonder I'm not making any progress on this review.
What is it about? I ask myself--this story: some women? That's what the title tells me.
If I wanted to write a conventional review, I would lay out the plot, write about character development, points of view, look for thematic ideas, see if I could come up with a central, controlling idea, place it in the context of her body of work Or I could take a more critical tack: mine it for symbolic content, apply methodologies adopted from other disciplines: psychoanalysis, sociology, linguistics; compare it to other art forms, films or music, say--or, stripping it of its aesthetic mystique, decode its implied ideological and political message. Any of these approaches might prove interesting. Interesting... but not what I want to do.
"What is the story about" is, of course, the wrong question, taken seriously only by the most unsophisticated readers and reviewers, like the woman at the bar... or is it? What if the problem lies in my assumption that demonstrating "how it works" is the real answer, when in truth, it's not an answer at all--that I'm begging the question before I've made the effort to take it seriously?
What did that woman at the bar mean when she asked me what my novel was about? Here is the novel, the short story, and over there is what it's 'about,' as though they were two different things, occupied different kinds of cognitive space, an assumption I want to resist. The meaning, what it's about, can't be someplace else, something different, something other than the story itself. Silly woman. How can I expect her to understand this?
But how do I know that's what she means? Even if she hasn't thought it through? Maybe she hasn't worked it out, but that doesn't make her question meaningless. Like literary realism. The problem isn't the expectation that fiction has something to do with reality: it's in the assumptions about the nature of reality and representation that lie behind that expectation. Let me put these two questions together, the 'what is it about' question and the 'realism' question, set aside for now what the 'about' question would mean if directed at a work of fantasy. Alice Munro doesn't write sword and sorcery fantasy. She writes realistic fiction, so if we ask of one of her stories, "what is this about," at least a part of any answers we might come up with would involve, have to do with, point to--aspects of a reality larger and other than the story itself., such that, the 'is' in 'the story is about' is not an equal sign, but an arrow. An arrow within the story pointing out. Not a one-way arrow, but an operational sign that points in two directions, away from the work (where the interpretation occurs, where the explanation is deciphered, where the reality of the fictional universe encounters and interacts with that of the reader's experience) and back into the work, where it (the story) receives its meaning through that very interaction. The critical formulation of the question, what is it about?; is not concerned with how it works, but with where the encounter takes place and what is its nature, what is the difference that it makes?
The limits of a non-critical realism, (or is it "pre-critical?) ... like that of James Wood, is that it can only compare what it finds to what it already knows. Compare and contrast, without real interaction. Here is reality. Here is its representation. How well do they comport? Statements of judgement regarding verisimilitude, because they can only be directed one way, are tautological, and as long as verification of the fictive representation is dependent on preconceived ideas of reality there is nothing to be learned--no new knowledge is generated. Aesthetic judgement, bound as it is to conceptions of representation, is likewise compromised.
I've been mulling this over for days--how was I going to review this story? Standing at the window of the station at 69th Street waiting for the bus yesterday afternoon, my eye was drawn to tufts of snow on the boughs of a pine tree. An incident came to mind from my childhood: a film or slide show--one of the lectures or presentations my aunt would take me to (was this at the Field Museum?)--I don't know. Someone in the film shook snow from the branch of a tree. The lecturer lamented his action--the idea being, as much as I can remember it, that they were there to observe, not to disturb nature. I thought about this memory the rest of the way home. How little remained of the original incident, how thoroughly overwritten. I thought of different kinds of memory, ways of recalling--how embroidered our memories with explanations, recreations of context, narratives. At some point it occurred to me, in asking myself the meaning of this spontaneous association, that I had been thinking of it as a one-way reaction: tuft of snow on the tree recalling the incident from childhood--that in losing myself in the effort to reconstruct the original impression I was ignoring the other half of the reality, as though the 'meaning' lay buried in the past and not in the present. Isn't it equally true that it was the irruption of memory here that called me into the present? That until that moment, while I had seen it, was aware of it, I was not present to it, or it to me, but rather in the convergence of where I had come to with where I found myself , that through all the layers of difference since that childhood event--there at the window of the station before a pine bough weighed down with snow: that here, here were the elements of the encounter: the seed of memory, the layers of story--the reality of the present generated out the remembered moment and memory recalled by the present, each a creation of the other in the encounter, the encounter itself the reality.
This, I thought, is what I learned from Alice Munro's story. This is what it was "about." I know, I've told you nothing of the story itself... or have I?
To answer that, we--you and I-- will have to read Part II
Some further thoughs on aesthetics of process, HERE
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Say what you will, but the boil water fiasco has been and will get more expensive.
Unfortunately, boil water notices and advisories are still a thing across Canada.
While the Government of Canada struggles with providing its citizens — all of its citizens — with safe drinking water, it continues to send water purification teams to developing countries and disaster zones across the globe. A noble gesture to be certain, but headlines and soundbites continue to resonate that many communities in our supposed developed country, still do not have safe, clean water.
We have heard the frightful drinking water horror stories in a shockingly large number of First Nation communities. Despite the platitudes paid to this real emergency, only a fraction of the necessary actions have been taken.
Just more than a month ago, Prince Rupert was welcomed to this developing country dilemma.
Whatever the cause, whatever the reasoning, whatever the excuse, the sad fact that is in the 21st Century, Prince Rupert was thrown back to the 19th Century.
Tom Kertes, who is the spokesperson for the Community for Clean Water, is calling for an external review of the boil water debacle.
Kertes said the City lacked "guardrails" and a back-up plan.
You think? In the end, there is only one reason Prince Rupert residents are spending time and big bucks to buy water and/or pay for the energy to heat the yellow water coming from a tap to wash their dishes, brush their teeth or, ugh, drink it because, well, one needs it to live.
The average person works for the various levels of government until May or June each year to pay the taxes levied.
With all that money paid to municipal, provincial and federal governments to ensure such infrastructure — that's the reason for taxes — our little city on an island can't pay for it.
To this date, we drink water treated with a whack of chlorine, rather than being treated through a filtration system as our neighbour Port Ed, and our byproducts of said consumption flow untreated into the ocean.
And we are not alone. That is the scary thing.
Kertes wants an external review to review the obvious.
External reviews take time and money. Two things Rupert does not have. We call on the federal, provincial and municipal governments to use the money we gave them to provide this city with safe, clean, treated drinking water — that's their No. 1 priority. Nothing else matters if you don't have clean drinking water.
We're tired of having to buy it ourselves — and pay a tax for it.
Yes, a bottle of water is taxed.


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Ginsberg's seminal opus Howl and Other Poems, number 4 of the Series, will operate as a means �There's no Beat Generation, just a bunch of guys trying to get published� 2 Most of them will be published in the Pocket Poet Series (PPS ).
To the extent that Ginsberg's great poems of the 1950s, Howl above all, are prophecies of emergent movements and collectivities, they are also elegies for cherished pasts at risk of receding irretrievably, of being inconspicuously transformed and finally erased by narratives of progress that manage�by dint of historical victories�to limit the possibilities of the future.
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Sept. 9-12, 2021 \\ EAGLES CAMPGROUND \\ TROY, OH
3 Days of Music, Art, & Camping
Willy Town Music & Arts Festival was founded in 2015 by midwest rock band Glostik Willy. Since then, it has grown to become one of the top festivals in the midwest. Over the years Willy Town has featured musical acts such as Glostik Willy, Living Colour, ekoostik Hookah, and more. In addition to musical acts, the festival has hosted everything from comedy shows featuring Randy & Lahey from Trailer Park Boys to a full scale late night wrestling event featuring WWE Hall of Famers such as Mick Foley. This year Glostik Willy plans to blow the roof off in Ohio with lots of surprises to be announced!
We encourage camping!! Camping and parking are included with purchase of a General Admission ticket. Willy Town is a tent camping festival, however RV Passes can be purchased for an additional fee. Gates open at 8:00 a.m. Thursday September 9, 2021. Tent campsites are claimed on a first come, first serve basis, and RV Passes will be assigned on arrival.
Willy Town will host over 30 national, regional, and local music acts on 3 stages. By showcasing hand picked talent from all over America, we will give the attendees a musical experience they can never forget. Big sound systems alongside impressive lighting diplays will leave fans speachless.
Get lost in exploring the art gallery and various art installations found throughout Willy Town. More than 20 of the top artists in the region will collaborate to create an attractive and mind-blowing visual experience for the attendees. Enjoy the night time hours with our team of talented fire/flow artists to enjoy fire spinning, fire breathing, and more!
Spend the day shopping with our merchandise vendors to take home some unique handmade items, jewelry, clothing and more! In addition to our many merchandise vendors, there will be various food vendors onsite to satisfy any craving that may arise over the weekend.
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Joseph Townsend (* 4. April 1739 in London; † 9. November 1816) war ein britischer Geologe, Arzt und Priester der Church of England. Bekannt wurde er vor allem durch seine Schrift "A Dissertation on the Poor laws" in der er sich kritisch mit den Armengesetzen auseinandersetzt.

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Townsend studierte am Clare College in Cambridge und Edinburgh und wurde 1769 Hauskaplan des Duke of Atoll, mit dem er eine längere Reise durch Westeuropa  unternahm. Später verfasste er unter anderem Arbeiten zur Gesteinskunde, medizinische Abhandlungen und eine Länderkunde Spaniens. 1786 erschien seine Schrift A Dissertation on the Poor Laws by a Well-Wisher to Mankind (dt.: "Über die Armengesetze – Streitschrift eines Menschenfreundes"), in der er Kritik an den Elisabethanischen Armengesetzen übte. In dieser Schrift kritisiert er, dass das Recht der Armen auf Unterstützung die Entfaltung der Märkte behindere und infolgedessen Armut und Verelendung immer weiter zunehmen würden. Er behauptet, dass die Armen nur durch Hunger zur Arbeit angespornt werden könnten, was durch das Recht auf Hilfe verunmöglicht werde. Mit seiner pessimistischen Vision der Überbevölkerung aufgrund von staatlicher Fürsorge nahm Townsend eine zentrale Idee aus Thomas Robert Malthus' An Essay on the Principle of Population vorweg.

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 A Dissertation on the Poor laws. By a well-wisher to mankind (1786), University of California Press, Berkeley 1971
 (Deutsche Ausgabe:) Über die Armengesetze – Streitschrift eines Menschenfreundes. Herausgegeben und mit einem Nachwort von Philipp Lepenies. Suhrkamp, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-518-29582-3.
 A journey through Spain in the years 1786 and 1787; with particular attention to the agriculture, manufactures, commerce, population, taxes, and revenue of that country; and remarks in passing through a part of France. C. Dilly, London 1792 Band I (Digitalisat) Band II  Band III
 Johann Jacob Volkmann (Übersetzer). Reise durch Spanien. Leipzig 1792, Teil I (Digitalisat), Teil II (Digitalisat)
 A guide to health : being cautions and directions in the treatment of diseases, designed chiefly for the use of students. London 1795 (Digitalisat), Band II (1796) (Digitalisat)
 Christian Friedrich Michaelis (Übersetzer). Joseph Townsend's Anweisung für angehende Ärzte zu einer vernunftmäßigen und nach Cullen's Nosologie eingerichteten Medizinischen Praxis. Friedrich Gotthelf Baumgärtner, Leipzig Teil I (1796) (Digitalisat)
 The Character of Moses as an Historian, Recording Events from the Creation to the Deluge. Printed by M. Gye, Market-Place; Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, Paternoster-Row, Bath und London 1813-1815 (2 Bände)

Literatur
 A. D. Morris: The Reverend Joseph Townsend MA MGS (1739-1816) physician and geologist–'Colossus of Roads'. In: Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine. Band 62, Nummer 5, Mai 1969, S. 471–477, PMID 4890357, .

Weblinks
 Stephan Wehowsky: Eine alte Debatte von verblüffender Aktualität (journal21.ch) – Rezension zu Über die Armengesetze.
 Klaus Bittermann: Armut als Charakterdefizit (taz.de) – Rezension.

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If you are a fan who hates looking straight up at the jumbotron in the lower rows of these sections, the venue has nicely added screens to the bottom giving fans sitting close to the action a more comfortable way to watch replays.
For fans looking for premium options for Bucks games in these sections, the first two lettered rows (CCC-DDD) will have access to the Event Level Club which is all-inclusive located near the players tunnels. The next rows numbered 1-8 will have access to the Mezzanine Club located underneath the 100 level seats where fans can purchase premium food and cocktails and network with other club ticket holders.
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Home Tech News Court Fines YouTuber For Posting IPTV Piracy Tutorials * TorrentFreak
Court Fines YouTuber For Posting IPTV Piracy Tutorials * TorrentFreak
A popular YouTuber who specializes in unboxing videos, reviews and tips, has been fined by a court in Brazil for instructing people how to access TV content using pirate IPTV services. Bruno Gustavo, whose YouTube channel has more than 15.5 million views, must also hand over 10% of the revenue generated by his social media accounts to the Brazilian Pay TV Association.
As of 2019, YouTube was playing host to 31 million channels, with the most popular specializing in music, entertainment and sports.
A growing number also dedicate themselves to 'how-to' or tutorial videos, which aim to help viewers improve their skills on everything from cookery and car maintenance to more niche pastimes such as 'life-hacks' and lock picking.
For one YouTuber in Brazil, the decision to help people obtain premium TV channels from illegal sources has now backfired.
Operated by Bruno Gustavo Januário, the 'Jorge Dejorge' channel is packed with technology-focused videos offering reviews, unboxing videos, tips and tutorials, most of which are entirely non-problematic. However, a decision to publish advice on how to obtain TV channels via pirate IPTV services attracted the attention of ABTA, the powerful Brazilian Pay TV Association.
ABTA, which represents the main cable TV and channel operators in the country, including Globosat, Sky, NBC Universal, Fox and Discovery, filed a lawsuit against Bruno Gustavo claiming that his instructional videos infringed their rights.
In his response, the channel owner described himself as an "ordinary person" with a YouTube channel and denied that he'd named any of the TV operators in his videos. In any event, he argued, they were informative in nature and did not aim to instruct people on how to break the law.
Nevertheless, in April 2018 a judge at a São Paulo court handed down an order that required hosting and search companies, including Google, to remove the videos in question and Bruno Gustavo was told to stop publishing such content in the future. Failure to comply would result in a fine equivalent to US$1,740 for each offense.
However, according to a Globo report, the judge held back from compensating the TV companies as he believed their trademarks had not been infringed.
This resulted in an appeal from both sides to the Court of Justice of São Paulo which was heard in April 2020. In its ruling, the Court found that the operator of the Jorge Dejorge channel must pay compensation to ABTA for breaching its members' rights with his "fraudulent" videos.
The Court found that the videos improperly reproduced the channels' trademarks, infringed their copyrights, and amounted to unfair competition against ABTA's members.
The exact compensation amount is yet to be determined but the Court says that since the illegal content was first published in February 2017, 10% of any revenues earned by the channel since then must be handed over to the TV companies.
"It is certain the defendant benefited [financially] during the period in which he released the videos. This is because it is common knowledge that companies such as YouTube and Facebook, as well as their advertisers, remunerate members who obtain large volumes of followers and views", the decision obtained by Globo reads.
The Jorge Dejorge operator must also pay R$50,000 (US$8,721) in compensation to the broadcasters adjusted for interest at the rate of 1% per month from the publishing of the first content in February 2017. In addition, the defendant was ordered not to publish any more content that infringes on the rights of the pay-TV stations and was told to pay the costs of the lawsuit plus attorney fees.
"We hope that large digital media companies will adopt a more responsive posture in relation to the publication of illegal content on their platforms. We are all responsible for preventing and combating illicit acts and crimes practiced on the Internet," commented ABTA president Oscar Simões.
The matter is not over yet, however. Bruno Gustavo's legal team say they will appeal to the Superior Court of Justice (Superior Tribunal de Justiça), the highest appellate court in Brazil, arguing that the judge in the first instance "made a more coherent assessment" in denying compensation to the TV companies.
This isn't the first ruling of its type in Brazil. In 2017, a court convicted the operator of the Café Tecnológico YouTube channel for publishing tutorials on how to access pay-TV channels illegally. In 2018, the appeal was denied.
While this ruling is specific to Brazil, YouTube is awash with tutorials explaining how viewers can access pirate TV services all over the world.
In more recent times, savvy YouTube channel operators have been more cautious in the way these videos are presented, in particular by avoiding the inclusion of live video from the channels in question. However, the inclusion of trademarks in the form of channel logos remains commonplace and could potentially provide an avenue for future legal action.
Many thanks to TorrentFreak for the breaking news.
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In this week's podcast Serenity Cadwell and Chris Breen return to discuss the news of the week. That news includes Tim Cook laying the smack down on oil-industry-funded climate change deniers, Apple TV as hobby no more, CarPlay, and something-something-something-grumble-grumble-grumble-Snow-Leopard-no-longer-supported-harumph.
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Here's Why It's Wise to Buy Crown Castle (CCI) Stock Now
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Crown Castle International Corp. CCI is well-positioned to gain from tailwinds, such as growth in mobile data usage, spectrum availability and high-network investments in wireless carriers. CCI is likely to grow, given its ability to offer a holistic network solution with towers, fiber and small cells, and ample liquidity.
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Wireless services are advancing rapidly in terms of additional features and capabilities. Moreover, wireless data consumption is expected to increase considerably over the next several years, driven by an increased innovation and adoption of data-driven mobile devices and applications, such as machine-to-machine connections, social networking and streaming of video.
As the data volume of wireless and wired networks is growing rapidly, the network carriers continue spending more on network deployments to harness spectrum abilities as well as improve and densify their cell sites and coverage.
Moreover, a strong and creditworthy tenant base adds resiliency to Crown Castle's business. CCI has long-term (typically 5-15 years) tower lease agreements with top U.S. carriers, which contribute to recurring site rental cash flows over the long term.
Additionally, Crown Castle has sufficient liquidity and enjoys a decent balance-sheet position. CCI exited third-quarter 2021 with cash and cash equivalents of $357 million, and $5 billion of undrawn capacity in its revolver. As of the third-quarter end, CCI enjoyed investment-grade credit ratings of BBB-, BBB+ and Baa3 from Standard & Poor's, Fitch and Moody's, respectively, facilitating its access to the debt markets at attractive terms.
Shares of this currently Zacks Rank #2 (Buy) Crown Castle have appreciated 20.5% in the past three months, outperforming the industry's rally of 14.9%. However, the estimate revision trend of 2021 funds from operations (FFO) per share does not indicate a favorable outlook for CCI as the same has been steady over the past month. You can see the complete list of today's Zacks #1 Rank (Strong Buy) stocks here.
However, tenant concentration is very high for Crown Castle. In fact, the top three among its customers, namely Verizon VZ, AT&T T and T-Mobile TMUS, accounted for the majority of its total revenues.
Hence, loss of either Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile or any consolidation among the three will significantly hamper Crown Castle's top line. CCI's performance is dependent on carrier spending and therefore any pullback or rationalization in network spending by tenants might deter its growth.
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