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Les Reds du Nouveau-Brunswick sont les équipes sportives universitaires représentant l'Université du Nouveau-Brunswick, situé à Fredericton, Nouveau-Brunswick, Canada.

Équipes universitaires
Athlétisme (M/F)
Basket-ball (M/F)
Cross-country (M/F)
Curling (M/F)
Football (M/F)
Golf (M/F)
Hockey sur glace (M/F)
Lutte (M/F)
Natation (M/F)
Volley-ball (M/F)

Autres équipes
Football canadien (M, évoluant dans la LFA)
Golf (M/F, évoluant dans l'ASCS)

Seawolves du Nouveau-Brunswick

Les Seawolves du Nouveau-Brunswick sont les équipes sportives universitaires représentant le campus de Saint-Jean de l'Université du Nouveau Brunswick, situé à Saint-Jean, Nouveau-Brunswick, Canada. Les Seawolves évoluent dans l'Association canadienne du Sport collégial.

Équipes universitaires
Basket-ball (M/F)
Football (M/F)
Volley-ball (M/F)

Notes et références

Références

Club sportif au Nouveau-Brunswick
Université du Nouveau-Brunswick
Membre du Sport universitaire de l'Atlantique
Fredericton

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Frank Anderson: First Black Sheriff of Marion County, Indiana
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Frank Anderson was the first black sheriff of Marion County, he also was the first black patrol officer in the Marion County Sheriff's Department, where he worked from 1961 to 1965.
Anderson grew up in Indianapolis, Indiana. While a student at Shortridge High School, he was a member of the wrestling team. Following graduation from high school, he enlisted in the United States Navy Shore Patrol, serving from 1956 to 1959.
From 1961 to 1965, he served as a Patrol Deputy in the Marion County Sheriff's Office. From 1965 to 1977, he served in the United States Marshals Service, serving first as a Deputy Marshal, and later as an inspector and security specialist.
During his tenure with the U.S. Marshals, he helped create and later directed the Federal Witness Protection Program. In 1977, he was appointed as U.S. Marshal for the Southern District of Indiana, becoming the top federal law enforcement official for over half the state, serving in that post until 1981.
He was elected as the County's first black Sheriff in 2002,and subsequently reelected in 2006. Following his reelection as Sheriff, his duties were expanded to include oversight of the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department in accordance with legislation signed by Indianapolis Mayor Bart Peterson. On June 8, 2010, he announced that he would not seek reelection as Marion County Sheriff, but would seek the Democratic Party nomination for the 31st District seat in the Indiana State Senate.
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The new master-plan submission: (1) Harvard Business School's (HBS) Kresge Hall replacement; (2) Burden Hall replacement; (3) Faculty and administrative office building; (4) Harvard Stadium addition/renovation; (5) Athletics department's basketball venue and institutional/mixed-use facility; (6) Institutional/mixed-use project (on existing Charlesview site); (7) Hotel and conference center; (8) Renovation of HBS's Baker Hall; (9) Renovation of Soldier's Field Park housing.
The new plan, when considered with recent and concurrent amendments to the existing IMP (which dates to 1997), largely follows the recommendations outlined by Harvard's Allston Work Team in June 2011 (see "Rethinking Allston," September-October 2011), but with some notable—and telling—differences. Proceeding as planned are: the construction later in this decade of a hotel and conference center on Western Avenue (behind the Genzyme building that fronts the Charles River), either by a private developer or in partnership with one; completion, starting in 2014, of a 500,000- to 700,000-square-foot Health and Life Sciences Center (on the foundation mothballed in 2010 when Harvard ceased work on an earlier four-building science complex); and construction, with a development partner, of a 300-bed housing and retail project at Barry's Corner. In addition, the 2012 plan includes a host of building projects—from renovation to new construction—on and adjacent to the Harvard Business School campus, as well as the construction of a new basketball venue, a vehicular-maintenance and police-training facility, an addition to Harvard Stadium, and two mixed-use institutional buildings (including one on the prominent site near the intersection of Western Avenue and North Harvard Street) that were not part of the original Work Team recommendations.
Notably absent from the new IMPNF are plans for an "enterprise research campus," described in June 2011 as having the potential for 1.5-million to 2.5-million square feet of commercial space. Such a center, perhaps modeled on Research Triangle Park, situated near three universities in North Carolina, would serve as a major technology hub between Harvard and MIT. The site, in the same vicinity as the hotel and conference center, would be in direct competition with the locus of high-tech firms in Cambridge Center at Kendall Square (where MIT last year announced plans to invest $700 million to redevelop its buildings), as well as with new technology-focused developments at the Seaport along the Boston waterfront—challenging alternatives in the current economic environment. That part of the University's landholdings, and much else on Harvard's new Allston map, is blank space—for unspecified use well in the future.
The net result, at least in the most public-facing locations of greatest interest to Allston residents, is a substantially more modest 10-year undertaking than contemplated even 18 months ago. At 175 North Harvard Street, near the intersection with Western Avenue, Harvard plans a 60,000-square-foot, 3,000-seat basketball arena to replace the existing 1,950-seat Lavietes Pavilion at Briggs Cage, which is the the smallest in the Ivy League. The complex might also include as much as 140,000 square feet of mixed housing, retail, and institutional or commercial office space. Local residents have greeted the proposal with some skepticism: "Sports facilities around Boston tend to be in conflict with the surrounding community. The nature of the evening activity, the parking, the crowds after and before the game—they just rub each other the wrong way," commented one resident. Existing institutional uses at the North Harvard Street site, including vehicle-maintenance garages, will be moved to 28-38 Travis Street, the proposed site for the police-training facility as well.
Another 200,000-square-foot building of unspecified mixed institutional use is planned for the most prominent location within Harvard's Allston holdings: the site of the existing Charlesview apartments at the intersection of Western Avenue and North Harvard Street. Demolition will begin after apartment residents are relocated, probably in late 2014, to new housing at Brighton Mills, now under construction.
The new plan, which adds 27 acres to Harvard's existing 151-acre Allston campus, plays to fundraising strengths—from the athletics department to Harvard Business School (HBS), where on October 12, dean Nitin Nohria announced a $40-million gift from the Dr. James Si-Cheng Chao and Family Foundation to help replace Kresge Hall with a new 90,000-square-foot executive-education facility (see http://harvardmag.com/chao-13 for more information). The gift comes as construction continues on the $100-million, 150,000-square-foot Tata Hall, a 179-bedroom expansion of executive-education facilities. Tata, the new Ruth Mulan Chu Chao Center, a planned renovation of the 78,000-square-foot Baker Hall, construction of a 130,000-square-foot replacement for Burden Hall, and a new 110,000-square-foot faculty and administrative office building will result in a revitalized HBS campus. Nearby, the 423,000-square-foot Soldiers Field Park Housing complex is slated for extensive renovation in the latter half of the decade.


Decathlon opens its first Superstore in the US in Emeryville, in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Decathlon settled down in California barely 18 months ago. The French cult sports brand is thriving and is about to open a wide new store, East Bay, in Emeryville.
LostinSF has selected rinks to skate on, in San Francisco and the Bay area. This holiday season, enjoy skating in SF with a view onto the historic Ferry building or under the most famous SF Christmas tree.
[Interview] Petits Pas is a new yoga and dance studio for kids and adults opening in San Francisco. We met Virginie, the young French woman behind the project. Here is the story of our encounter.
MILLIONS OF LADYBUGS LANDED IN OAKLAND!
Amazing temporary ladybugs show in Oakland until February! Kids are gonna love it and you will too!
Tree climbing in Sonoma: an exciting experience in the wild less than an hour from San Francisco.
This place is unbelievable! Located 1 hour and 15 minutes south of San Francisco, Año Nuevo State Park is the site of the largest mainland breeding colony in the world for the northern elephant seal.
[Partner article] Summer is getting closer and it is that time of the year again to figure out how to get our kids busy during their summer break. The Lycée Français de San Francisco (LFSF) has prepared a great program between their 2 campuses in San Francisco and in sunny Sausalito.
MANERA AMERICA IN SAUSALITO... WHERE KITE, FOIL AND PADDLE HAPPEN!
We have met the great quartet that opened the Manera shop in Sausalito : Nico, Bruce, Germain and Bill, 4 guys with a common passion for water. Let us introduce the magic team!
Here is a short recap of all the information we shared to help you spend a great Halloween, well costumed, nicely decorated, and slightly high on sugar of course.
Bilingual French/English summer camps in San Francisco and the Bay Area are such a great opportunity for your kids. We made a selection out of the great array of choice for a summer in SF with a French touch.


There are about 250,000 Gagauz people in the world. Most of them live in Europe, approximately 150,000 in Moldova and 50,000 in Ukraine. Also they dwell in Turkey, Russia, Romania, Bulgaria, and even in US and Canada. Despite the small number of people this nation survives and keeps its history, traditions, cuisine, folklore, language, and traditional clothing. Many of their traditions are really interesting and outstanding. In this article you'll read about Gagauz clothing traditions and national costume.
Gagauzia is the offspring of Kumans, Oguz and Pechenegs. As Gagauz people maintained their language and traditions, they managed to survive, when Kumans, Oguz and Pechenegs were assimilated, and these nations disappeared.
The traditional clothing of Gagauzians is related with the national costume of Balkan area. Today Gagauz people use ordinary western-style clothes for every day. But on national holidays, ceremonies and celebrations they often use the traditional attire. Though older people still wear pieces of national costume in day-to-day life.
The national Gagauz men's costume consists of a shirt, cloth trousers, a wide belt and a hat. The belt is called "kushak", it should be red. It is an obligatory element. The belt should be wrapped around the waist as many times as the age of the man is (if he is 15, the belt is wrapped around 15 times).
In winter Gagauz men traditionally wear a shirt, trousers made from sheepskin (with fur turned in), a sleeveless fur coat, a short sheepskin jacket and a fur cap (Karakul sheep hat). Such garment is typical for shepherds, and that's one of the main crafts of Gagauzians.
The national Gagauz women's costume consists of a canvas shirt, a sleeveless dress, an apron, a smock, and a large black kerchief. In winter they use a dress with sleeves, a jacket, and a sleeveless fur coat.
The kerchief which is obligatory for women of all ages is often decorated with coins. There is a unique tradition in Gagauzia: when the bride at her wedding wears a kerchief, it is decorated with 1 to 4 coins which are a gift from the groom's mother. Unmarried women and girls wear a kerchief not the whole time. The bride wears it and uses it permanently, but her hair may look out of the kerchief. After the woman gives birth to a child her kerchief should be worn so that her hair never looks out.
Female clothing is rather modest and dark-colored (day-to-day costume), but Gagauz women wear jewelry in large quantities. Jewelry makes the costume look more festive and bright. Girls and women use bracelets, earrings, and necklaces (usually made from golden or silver coins). Unmarried girls usually wear necklaces of 1 row of coins, for the wedding they wear 2 rows of coins, and the groom's mother presents her daughter-in-law with the 3rd row of coins. If the family is rich the woman wears as many rows of coins as she can buy. Sometimes women used necklaces that covered all their breasts down to the waist.
Gagauz culture is really unique and marvelous. These people keep their traditions and try not to assimilate in our globalized world. If they stop fighting and undergo assimilation, it would be a true loss to the world in general and for Ukraine, Moldova and Bulgaria in particular.


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Q: Convert Seq[Byte] in Scala to byte[]/ InputStream Have Seq[Byte] in scala . How to convert it to java byte[] or Input Stream ?

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do the job?

A: You can copy the contents of a Seq With copyToArray.
val myseq: Seq[Byte] = ???
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A: A sensible option:
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JUBILAT Interview
by Brenda Shaughnessy
Brenda Shaughnessy was born in 1970 in Okinawa, Japan, and grew up in Southern California. She received her B.A. in literature and women's studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and earned an M.F.A. at Columbia University's Writing Division. She is the author of Interior with Sudden Joy (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1999), which was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award and was a finalist for the PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award and the Poetry Society of America's Norma Farber First Book Award. Her other honors include an Emerging Artist's award from the Greenwall Foundation and NYU's Institute for Advanced Study, a Creative Artist's Fellowship from the Japan/U.S. Friendship Commission, and a Bunting Fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. She currently lives in Brooklyn. This interview was conducted by Robert N. Casper in March 2004.
Tell me about working at a tugboat company—how did you get that job?
Well, like you get anything in New York, half-randomly—a friend of mine knows someone who owns a tugboat company. My friends always ask me, "What do you wear?" My friend Mike thought I work in a windswept little shack at the end of a rickety pier, but I don't—I work in a regular office.
With a view of the tugboats?
Um-hmm. The tugboat place is a whole different world with a whole different vocabulary. It's not just business vocabulary, it's about how the boats work, how you float your boat. It's like learning a foreign language. The tugboat is a perfect metaphor: this tiny little mighty ship pulling this massive behemoth. David and Goliath, we always love that idea. It's us against the world, the human against the machine. In this case it's a human inside against a bigger machine against the big, bad sea. I'm lucky to be involved with it. Of course, that's the tip of the iceberg—pun intended—for what a tugboat is. I thought it was boring at first, writing tug specs and so on. I was a little bit annoyed that I had to do it. But I realized a year into the job that it was a real education. And so my next manuscript is called Fathometer.
A fathometer measures the depth of the water by sound: it throws a sound down to the ocean floor and measures depth by how long the echo takes to come back up.
You've been teaching at the same time, at Lehman College. How has that been?
That's like a new language, too. I love working in the Bronx, I love the students. They are very hungry for what poetry gives: the possibility to make something of your own, to make your own voice have weight. They really want their words to count, and that's a beautiful, life-changing desire. I can't imagine better work.
What attracts them to poetry?
Most of my students are attracted to poetry because they think it's a way to get famous. If you say the right thing in the right way, everyone's going to remember it and say it all the time, and it will be part of culture. That's how they get into poetry, which is brilliant. It's also an illusion, but who cares! They can start writing poetry and then realize, "Oh, God! I need to figure out what it is I want to say." And then realize what they have already said is not really good enough. And so they learn how to speak in the most powerful and effective way they can, which makes their lives better in any case.
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At Benihana your food is not only cooked it's choreographed by highly skilled chefs trained in the art of "eatertainment." Your personal chef will perform as they cook such favorites as steak, chicken, seafood and fresh vegetables in a traditional Japanese style on a hibachi table. The tables seat up to 10 people communal style and are the perfect fit for that special occasion with family or friends. So, come in today and witness first hand what has become the longest running dinner show in the world. Although reservations are not required, they are recommended.


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The Closing By Chava Hudson
The Closing
by Chava Hudson
Zingology Press
Copyright © 2010 by Chava Hudson
Softcover, 184 pages, no price listed
Chava Hudson has succeeded where other writers have failed: you know what murder is about at the beginning, yet the novel works, the people are believable and so you keep on reading.
Hudson's story is about a real estate agent in a realty firm that does a bit more than sell realty. In fact, the way they drum up business will just kill you. But that's all I'll tell you, except that the novel is filled with irony, a touch of humor, but more important, leaves you with serious questions about moral values, mortality and what the future might bring to an ever aging population, a theme done many times, but here with a new twist.
Singles, Anne meets Steve and the romance begins. But Steve's mother gets in the way, and not as you might imagine. Still, Anne, whose boyfriend has abandoned her, finds a new romance irresistible, even with the knowledge she keeps inside.
The story is fast paced, easy and fun to read and, perhaps, should be read by people with Victorian ideas of life and death and what is noble and what is not.
This is Ms. Hudson's fourth book (she also writes poetry and edits the online journal zingology). It took her just over a year to write the closing, but the novel idea (yes I mean that both ways)came during a walk around town where she saw a for sale sign on a front yard. The realtor's name was Kevorkian, which got her thinking. Hudson had also just returned from Costa Rica where she spent two weeks at an artist colony and rode up to Monteverde with some friends she had made there. The result, a book worth reading.
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Small Press Review: Poems from the Left Bank: Somerville, Mass.
(July-Aug 2010)
_____SOMERVILLE_____
Poems from the Left Bank
By Doug Holder
Alternating Current 2010
Palo Alto CA 94302 USA
Review by Hugh Fox
You want a trip into the depths, heights and widths of everyday reality of everyday in Somerville, Mass? Doug Holder's latest is the best way to begin. You're there! Just the kind of details that create essential unforgettable realities: " Two old women/ Walk down my street/ Each morning/ Lugging two shopping bags/ And two widow humps/Arm in Arm/ A tight embrace/ of frail appendages/ Pushing each other/ At no more than a snail's pace… ("Two Old Women," p. 10) It's true that Somerville, just next to Cambridge, is a place that seems to have stepped out of time into time into timelessness, reminiscent of Chatham, a "ward" in Chicago, back in the 1940's…or Paris' Left Bank (the origin of the title) more or less at the same time.
Holder has the eyes of a painter/sketcher/photographer. No one else on the scene can evoke so much reality with so few carefully chosen key descriptive words. A line here, a line there, and suddenly you're right in the middle of his daily street reality " "I could not decide whether to turn into it. / I was at the cusp of decision. Looking down its dramatic curves/The close habitation of sunlight and brooding shadow, the incestuous tangle of backyards/ The sudden eruption of a hill/In a stretch of flattened pavement/ The indicting chorus of Blue Jays/ Casting invective to the cold wind. ("Hamlet St., Somerville p. 11). It would be fun to see some Somerville film genius do an image-drifting film through Somerville with Holder himself reading the poems as the images drift by.
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COMPLETE LIST OF AUTHORS ANNOUNCED FOR SECOND ANNUAL Boston Book Festival
CONTACT: Joyce Linehan (617) 282-2510 x 1, joyce@ashmontmedia.com
COMPLETE LIST OF AUTHORS ANNOUNCED FOR SECOND ANNUAL
BOSTON BOOK FESTIVAL
TO TAKE PLACE OCTOBER 16, 2010
IN COPLEY SQUARE
(BOSTON-August 5, 2010) The highly anticipated and expanded second annual Boston Book Festival will take place on Oct. 16, 2010, in various locations around Copley Square. Festival Founder and Program Director Deborah Z Porter today announced the complete list of authors confirmed to appear at this year's event. The featured authors represent a wide array of programming, and include Pulitzer Prize winners, Nobel Laureates, children's writers, and writers of fiction, non-fiction and poetry.
Authors scheduled to appear at The Boston Book Festival:
Susan Abulhawa (Mornings in Jenin)
Caroline Alexander (The War That Killed Achilles: The True Story of Homer's Iliad and the Trojan War; The Bounty)
Tom Barfield (Afghanistan: A Cultural and Political History)
Barry Brunonia (The Map of True Places; The Lace Reader)
Kate Bernheimer (My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales)
Lisa Birnbach (True Prep; The Official Preppy Handbook)
*Bill Bryson (A Walk in the Woods, A Short History of Nearly Everything, At Home)
Thanassis Cambanis (A Privilege to Die)
Nicholas Carr (The Shallows)
Kristin Cashore (Graceling; Fire)
Richard Cohen (Chasing the Sun; By The Sword)
Justin Cronin (The Passage; Mary and O'Neil)
Jef Czekaj (Hip & Hop, Don't Stop)
Kathryn Davis (Hell: A Novel, The Thin Place)
Alan Dershowitz (The Trials of Zion)
Elyssa East (Dogtown)
David Edwards (The Lab: Creativity and Culture)
Hallie Ephron (Never Tell a Lie, The Bibliophile's Devotional: 365 Days of Literary Classics)
Timothy Basil Ering (Snook Alone)
Haleh Esfandiari (My Prison, My Home)
Noah Feldman (The Scorpions: The Battles & Triumphs of FDR's great Supreme Court Justices; The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State)
Joshua Ferris (The Unnamed, Then We Came to the End: A Novel)
Tyler Florence (Tyler's Ultimate; Tyler Florence Family Meals)
Nick Flynn (The Ticking is the Bomb, Another Bullshit Night in Suck City)
Alexis Frederick-Frost (Adventures in Cartooning)
Atul Gawande (Complications; The Checklist Manifesto)
Myla Goldberg (Bee Season; Wickett's Remedy; The False Friend)
Christina Gonzalez (The Red Umbrella)
Allegra Goodman (The Cookbook Collector, Intuition; The Family Markowitz)
Andrew Gross (Reckless; The Dark Tide)
Jennifer Haigh (The Condition; Baker Towers; Mrs. Kimble)
Eric Haseltine (Long Fuse, Big Bang)
Edward Hirsch (The Living Fire; How to Read A Poem)
James Hirsch (Willie Mays: The Life, The Legend)
Erica Hirschler (Sargent's Daughters)
Tony Hiss (In Motion: The Experience of Travel; The View from Alger's Window)
*A.M Homes (This Book Will Save Your Life, Music For Torching, The End of Alice, In a Country of Mothers)
Ann Hood (The Red Thread; The Knitting Circle)
Michelle Hoover (The Quickening)
Marlon James (John Crow's Devil; The Book of Night Women)
*Gish Jen (Typical American, Mona in the Promised Land, World and Town)
Steven Johnson (Where Good Ideas Come From)
Kevin Kelly (What Technology Wants)
Chip Kidd (True Prep; The Cheese Monkeys)
*Jeff Kinney (Diary of a Wimpy Kid)Jarrett Krosoczka (Lunch Lady series; Punk Farm)
Eric Kuhne (architect)
Kathryn Lasky (Guardians of Ga'Hoole)
*Dennis Lehane (Mystic River, Shutter Island; The Given Day)
Marianne Leone (Knowing Jesse)
Rose Lewis (I Love You Like Crazy Cakes; Orange Peel's Pocket)
Brian Lies (Bats at the Ballgame; Bats at the Beach; Bats at the Library)
Kelly Link (Pretty Monsters, Magic for Beginners)
Scott Magoon (Spoon; Mostly Monsterly)
Simon Mawer (The Glass Room)
Jill McDonough (Habeas Corpus)
Richard Michelson (Busing Brewster; Tuttle's Red Barn)
Mark Moffett (Adventures Among Ants)
Nick Montfort (Book and Volume: Interactive Fiction, Racing the Beam)
Dambisa Moyo (Dead Aid)
Nicholas Negroponte (Being Digital)
*Joyce Carol Oates (them, Blonde, We Were the Mulvaneys, Sourland)
Jane O'Connor and Robin Preiss Glasser (Fancy Nancy and the Fabulous Fashion Boutique)
Mitali Perkins (Bamboo People, Secret Keeper)
Michael E. Porter (Redefining Health Care)
William Powers (Hamlet's Blackberry)
David Rakoff (Half Empty)
Joanna Smith Rakoff (A Fortunate Age)
Aaron Renier (The Unsinkable Walker Bean)
John Rich (Wrong Place, Wrong Time: Trauma and Violence in the Lives of Young Black Men)
Moshe Safdie (architect)
Michael Sandel (Justice: What's the Right Thing To Do?)
*Stacy Schiff (Vera, A Great Improvisation, Cleopatra: A Life)
Juliet Schor (Plenitude: The New Economics of True Wealth)
Rob Scotton (Russell The Sheep; Scaredy Cat Splat)
*Amartya Sen (Development as Freedom, The Idea of Justice)
David Shields (Reality Hunger: A Manifesto)
Brando Skyhorse (Madonnas of Echo Park)
Jessica Stern (Denial: A Memoir of Terror; Terror in the Name of God; The Ultimate Terrorists)
*Joseph Stiglitz (Freefall, Making Globalization Work)
Francisco Stork (Last Summer of the Death Warriors; Marcelo in the Real World)
Sir Peter Stothard (The Spartacus Road)
Maria Tatar (The Classic Fairy Tales, ed.)
Jerald Walker (Street Shadows)
*Edward O. Wilson (The Ants, The Naturalist, Anthill: A Novel)
*Kevin Young (Jelly Roll: A Blues, For the Confederate Dead, The Art of Losing)
Raffi Yessayan (2 in the Hat; 8 in the Box)
Da Zheng (Chiang Yee: The Silent Traveler from the East)
*previously announced authors
Panel hosts and moderators will include Tom Ashbrook (WBUR), Helene Atwan (Beacon Press), Joel Hyatt (Current TV), Peter Kadzis (Boston Phoenix), Bill Littlefield (WBUR's It's Only a Game), Neri Oxman (designer), Henriette Power (The Drum Literary Magazine), Faith Salie (actress, comedian), Megan Marshall (biographer), Nicholas Negroponte (One Laptop Per Child), Bill Littlefield (WBUR), Andrew McAfee (research scientist), James Sebenius (Harvard Business Professor), Stefanie Friedhoff (journalist), and Jared Bowen (WGBH),
Locations in the Copley Square area include The Boston Public Library, Old South Church, Trinity Church, Church of the Covenant and John Hancock Hall.
Author bios are available at www.bostonbookfest.org. The complete program of events, including times, thematic groupings and exact locations, will be announced after Labor Day. In addition, the Boston Book Festival will announce details of a street fair on Copley Plaza, including music, vendors and children's activities. All daytime events will be free. Details of a ticketed, evening event featuring music, spoken word and other media, will be announced soon.
The inaugural festival, held in October of 2009, was an unequivocal success. Organizers estimate that 12,000 people attended the presentations, panel discussions, workshops, music performances and street fair, most of which were free. The event featured 90 authors and presenters, including some of the biggest names in the literary world, 40 outdoor exhibitors, 30 indoor events, children's activities, and live music. Internationally-known fiction and non-fiction writers, scholars, critics and commentators spoke to packed houses at historic Boston locations.
The Boston Book Festival recently announced One City, One Story, a new initiative made possible with support from the Goldhirsh Foundation. The Boston Book Festival will publish a short story by a well-known local writer, which will be distributed as a bound booklet to 30,000 Bostonians, free of charge. It will also be available for download to anyone at www.bostonbookfest.org. Festival organizers are finalizing their choice of writer, and his or her name will be announced later this month. Distribution will take place at Boston Public Library branches, subway stations and other places where people gather, in October, in advance of the Boston Book Festival. Complete details about distribution times and locations will be available after Labor Day.
Boston Book Festival sponsors include Liberty Mutual, The Boston Foundation, Other Press, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Hotel Commonwealth, The Plymouth Rock Foundation, Hachette Book Group, Bank of America, and The Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities. Media sponsors include WBUR, The Boston Globe, Boston Magazine, The Boston Phoenix, New England Cable News, WBZ NewsRadio 1030, Mix 104.1, 103.3 WODS, WGBH, The Times Literary Supplement (of London) and The Boston Parents Paper.
Boston Book Festival Partners include Mayor Thomas M. Menino; The Mayor's Office of Arts, Tourism and Special Events; The City of Boston Parks and Recreation Department; ReadBoston; ArtsBoston; Mass Poetry Festival; ArtsFuse; Boston Public Library; Jewish Community Centers of Greater Boston, the Boston Athenæum; PEN New England; Grub Street; Trinity Church; Old South Church; Boston Children's Museum; Cambridge Public Library, New Center for Arts and Culture; 826 Boston; Brattle Theatre, Berklee College of Music; Emerson College.
For more information about the Boston Book Festival, visit www.bostonbookfest.org.
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Grassroots by Jared Smith
Jared Smith
Wind Publications
Review by Irene Koronas
Jared Smith is a prolific writer. In his most recent collection of poems, 'Grassroots,' his voice is mellow and strong like a great sequoia. We hear the prosody, his consistent, insistent voice warning the reader of dangers associated with turning out:
"…The sky is cornflower blue tonight,
mountains pasted against orange clouds.
No depth. But in this spring warmth
brought upon us Washington and Wall Street
are as far as a car can run on rum and corn.
Men with heart attacks building in their veins
are shipping coffins across the oceans
but here on the sere sands of home something
more sacred than all their dreams evanesces away.
I watch from my porch as distance falls flat with sun…"
In the excerpt of the above poem, 'monsoon,' Jared Smith's voice, like winter water rushing over boulders, "keeping watch over the dead." Smith asks the earth, questions, "I want to know what they say, what the earth signals to itself rushing outward in the cosmos" His questions are reminiscent of a long marriage:
"It's the knick-knacks on department store shelves that give it away.
I miss the way your hands used to curl about my thoughts
each morning.
So much of life is our mementos being placed in orderly sequence and then sold."
It took me a few reading before I was able to unclog my summer ears and catch the intimacy of Jared's poems, how living beside mountains move him:
"When you live up close to the mountains
disaster comes at you quickly, without worry.
The floods, when they come, are instant washings
of trees, boulders, cars, mud, flesh, and then gone.
You rebuild instantly in a landscape shaped by nature;
you don't worry about the slow-building droughts
or the warring away of cement encased institutions
because you learn where the deepest rivers flow
and where the caribou migrate among the seasons.
You learn the bitter acid tang of Oregon grapes.
You learn to keep a bit of land around you; you
learn to fill the hummingbird feeders in summer
because the bears will follow in their time, and
you never know when you'll need to find a bear."
'Grassroots' holds all the trees, all their branches from top to the bottom shade, the clean breath beside whatever nature provides; her great sentences. Smith's poems relate nature and the nature of situations.
Irene Koronas
Poetry Editor:
Wilderness House Literary Review
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Ibbetson Street 27 Reading Aug 21 7:30PM Out of the Blue Art Gallery
The release reading for the literary journal "Ibbetson Street" (27) will be held at the Out of the Blue Art Gallery Saturday, Aug 21, 7:30PM 106 Propsect St. Cambridge. We will be a featured event at Deborah Priestly's Open Bark Poetry Series.
There will be an open mic for past contributors and the public. And we hope to have featured readers from this issue including: Zvi Sesling ("King of the Jungle"), Miriam Levine, Harris Gardner, Lainie Senechal, Dorian Brooks, Dan Sklar, Robert K. Johnson, as well as Ruth Kramer Baden, who has published a new collection with Ibbetson: "East of the Moon," and others. $4 donation at the door for the support of this valuable grassroots gallery. If you have any food you would like to bring or drinks we have a large table to accomodate that. Ibbetson Poets may bring books to sell.
* There will also be an informal gathering for dinner at 5:30 PM at the Middle East Rest. in Central Square before the event. Tell me if you plan to attend so I can make reservations. http://www.mideastclub.com/
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BILLIE HOLIDAY ME AND THE BLUES by A.D. Winans
BILLIE HOLIDAY ME AND THE BLUES
By A.D. Winans
erbacce-press, Liverpool UK 2009
36 pp., $8.00
Review by Terry Reis Kennedy
It's holy. It's blue as a bruise. It's A.D. Winans at his best, so merged with Billie—her pain, her songs, her longing for love—that we feel their Oneness. Winans identifies with the Jazz saint's ability to survive the worst in life, and remain committed only to her art.
These poems are hard as nails, but paradoxically smooth as honey because they are sprung from the depths of compassion, the poet's great love of humanity—particularly the downtrodden, the abused, and the outsider. His is a love so large that, like his heroine, Winans never finds an equal partner.
In much of his published work, for example, we discover that personal, sexual love is thwarted by fate. He loves, instead, the unknown suffering, the "huddled masses". His idealistic longing is always disproportionate; nothing can fill the void that the Truth keeps on enlarging— people are not interested in their fellow men, not interested in seeing them as brothers and sisters, only as objects to be used, abused, and cast aside.
In "Jazz Angel" one of the most evocative poems in the collection, Winans relays what he discovers walking the streets of San Francisco. Delivering the poem like a detective's report, the straight forwardness of the words eviscerates us:
She sits alone
In her small hotel room
Above the 222 Club
At Ellis and Eddy Streets
Forced to give head
For soup and bread…….
And after showing us the woman's life, as if he was in her room himself, which perhaps he was, he writes:
She heads for the door
Hears the night manager whisper
"Whore."
Suspended in silence
And grief
Floating face down
In the bowels
Of the American dream….
For Winans, the Jazz Era celebrated the sensitivity of souls who had no interest in superficial values. To him, Jazzers were what William Blake had described poets as, "fallen angels". Billie Holiday was an alien in a world hooked into money and fame. And Winans who always worked at jobs to support his art never wanted to be part of any Gentleman's Club. In "Post Office Reflections," he notes:
Bone-ass tired from
Sorting thousands of letters
Fingers numb from stuffing
Them into pigeonholes
& I smelled of sweat and death
& kept drinking until
I felt good
Or ran out of money
Or both
& rode the 14 Mission Bus
Home with other people
Who couldn't do
A nine-to-five shift…
Although Billie Holiday's archangel wings got burned up in the fires of the country's heartlessness, its racist Klanism, its failure to perceive women as equal to men, in her performances she was she able to fly. Winans empathizes with her yearning for salvation through freedom. Consequently, he has created this tribute, not only for "The Jazz Lady" (title of a poem dedicated to her); but he sings a sad farewell to the Blues as well. For example, in "The Demise of Jazz in North Beach," he writes:
No cool cats in North Beach anymore
No cool cats blowing the horn
No jazz at the old Purple Onion
No be-bop snapping fingers
No fallen angels spreading their legs
On the way home after
A conversation with God
No black cats improvising the blues
No white dudes riding the midnight express
No stoned soul train musicians blowing
Mean clean notes crucified suffocating
In the smoking mirrors of the mind
Gone buried in the decadence
Of collective madness
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Randy Ross writes from the "Loneliest Planet…" in the midst of Somerville, Mass.
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Randy Ross, an aspiring novelist who lives in the hinterlands of Somerville, Mass. that borders on the Republic of Cambridge, is a "holy fool." Ross, 49, who was laid off his job as an editor at PC WORLD, works day and night on his novel " The Loneliest Planet: A Handbook for the Chronically Single." Ross, who has an advanced degree from North Western University in Journalism, also founded the online and in the flesh group "Media Chowder." The group is made up of local journalists, novelists, and denizens of the media world from broadcast to the internet. Ross said, "We are open to people of all levels." The slogan of the said group is "Media Chowder: The best damned excuse for Boston-area journalists to go out drinking, period..." And indeed they meet at Sidney's, a convivial pub just outside Central Square off of Mass. Ave in Cambridge, Mass. The group is an excellent place for folks to down a few and network with people in the field. Ross told me that AOL.COM once recruited at one of their gatherings and folks have secured gigs through the group.
Ross described his work-in-progress as a story about a never-married hypochondriac who takes a trip around the world hoping to meet his perfect mate. Along the way he gets involved in the lurid world of sexual tourism. Much of the "action" takes place in Cambodia. Ross said the book is very loosely-based on his own travels around the world. He describes the novel as a dark comedy of sorts.
Ross said of the prospects of publishing the book: "I have gone to endless conferences. I have met with about 7 agents, 3 of whom have asked to read it when it's finished in late fall/early winter, and I have gotten just enough encouragement to continue."
Ross works part time to help keep chowder on the table, and the rest of the time he labors over his novel. He is in three writers groups, and has run workshops with local writers such as Michael Mack and Daniel Gewertz. Like many of the writers I have interviewed Ross is enamored with Somerville, Mass. He loves the proximity to his fellow scribes, and the whole vibrant milieu the "Paris of New England" offers.
*****Go to this link for more info about media chowder and Ross:
http://mediachowder.weebly.com/
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MRB CHELKO: Parting words from a Somerville Poet
Unfortunately at times Somerville loses its many talented artists and writers to the allure of New York City. Poet MRB Chelko is one of them. I interviewed her shortly after she left Union Square to the "City that never sleeps." She has a recent collection of poetry out "What to Tell Sleeping Babies" published by the sunnyoutside press; a press that also left Somerville for Buffalo, NY.
MRB Chelko is a recent graduate of The University of New Hampshire's MFA program and Editorial Assistant of the unbound poetry journal, Tuesday; An Art Project. Her poems have appeared in AGNI Online, Contrary, Fourteen Hills, Portland Review, and other fine journals. She lives with her husband, Nick and dog, Chuck in Central Harlem. Her chapbook is What to Tell the Sleeping Babies (sunnyoutside, 2010).
You got your MFA at the University of New Hampshire, where Charles Simic teaches. You seem in some ways to share his spare and minimalistic style. Was he a big influence on you?
Yes. The first time I read Simic was in an intro poetry workshop at Penn State University. I was nineteen and had never encountered a poetry at once so strange and so accessible. I read all of his books and as many of the Eastern European poets who influenced him as I could. I tried to imitate his style. Ha, I was a pretty intense little wanna-be poet. Thank God I didn't actually know Simic then. He might have needed a restraining order. The Simic influence in my work is considerably watered down now, but in What to Tell the Sleeping Babies it's pretty potent. Mystery is one of the great pleasures of poetry, and, for me, spare poems allow for more mystery because they allow space for silence. Simic is master of eerie silence, but he is also master of undercutting the eerie silence. It's one of the most thrilling things about his genius There's a poem of his in which he lists all the terrible things that happened to him in his life, but the poems ends with something like When I think about these things... I burst out laughing.
You left Somerville, Mass--the Paris of New England—why?
Ha. The Paris of New England, I like that. Well... my husband Nick and I lived in Somerville for two years while I was finishing my MFA. We lived near Union Square and were quickly wooed by Neighborhood Restaurant, Block 11, Highland Kitchen, the neighbor kids, Market Basket, the dog park.... But Nick and I both wanted graduate degrees, and he was kind enough to wait until I finished mine to begin his. We moved to New York City in June so he could attend Columbia University's Urban Design graduate program. New York is a good fit for us; we're fast-paced people really, but we were very sad to leave behind a great neighborhood and beautiful friends.
You published your first collection "What to Tell Sleeping Babies" with the sunnyoutside press. Why did you send it their way?
Great question. I was in a poetry workshop a few years ago with sunnyoutsider Nate Graziano. At the end of the semester, he told me he thought David McNamara—sunnyoutside creator, beautiful book maker, and general jack-of-all-trades—would like my poems. David had published another poet I was familiar with, Jason Tandon, recently as well, so I was somewhat familiar with the press. Anyhow, I sent some stuff along to David, not a whole manuscript, just a few poems, and that was the beginning of what's now been a brilliant two-year, two project relationship with sunnyoutside. I can't say enough good things about David McNamara and his Buffalo, NY press. The books are gorgeous, the work relationship flexible and exciting. Above all, I trust that my poems will be well represented by sunnyoutisde, and that's a big deal.
You worked as an editorial asst. at "Tuesday; An Art Project" a very unusual and artful journal of poetry. Can you tell me about the journal and your experience there?
I am still editorial assistant of Tuesday; An Art Project actually. Most of the work I do for the journal is online: e-mailing, contact info, contracts... so I can still do it from New York. In fact, we are thinking of launching a Tuesday reading series in Brooklyn starting this fall, which I'm very pumped about. The journal is four years old now, so we're poised to expand our reach a little. It's exciting. Tuesday; An Art Project is an unbound journal of poems, photographs, and prints out of Arlington, MA. It comes in a little package twice a year. The idea is each work is an object. Some poems are postcards. Others you can put on your wall or frame or do whatever you want with. You do more than just read Tuesday; you interact with Tuesday. It's a cool concept, but the journal is much more than a concept. It's a collection of truly first-rate art. We've published tons of poets I love, Ralph Angel, Mary Ruefle, and Joshua Beckman to name a few. Working with the journal's creator and editor, Jennifer Flescher, over the past few years has been a great learning experience for me, and a blast.
I loved your poem "the unplucked fruit hangs itself." You have an image of this fly flinging itself time and time to get a t the light. Well, to use a metaphor, ain't that a bit like a poet?
Yup. It sure is. Although, in the poem, the fly is throwing itself into the light "like a bored child throws a ball." As a poet, I am certainly not bored, but I do think the notion that we are, as writers, constantly trying to fling our bodies and our perceptions towards some great bright thing is pretty accurate. It's all about Frost's idea that a poem is a "momentary stay against confusion." When you look at the poem, you see the light; when you look away from the poem, blackness.
Dear Whoever's Listening
You can press an orchid anyplace,
provided you've come with an orchid—
for the sake of some great something,
some final, Oh, there you are...
I say let the pigeons alone
rest on the shoulders of great men,
but I've been sitting here for hours
between a fruit basket and an open book,
trying to pick one—
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Anti-tax political group sues Ukiah over sales tax, demands end to road tax
By Editor-in-Chief | January 27, 2017
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UKIAH 1/27/2017 — The Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association (HJTA) filed a lawsuit against the City of Ukiah in Mendocino County Superior Court on January 6. Plaintiffs include the HJTA and eight Ukiah voters. The lawsuit contends that the half-cent sales tax increase passed as Measure Y, which was approved by 51.5% of the electorate in Ukiah, is unlawful. Though Measure Y was a general tax, which requires only a majority to pass, it was accompanied by a non-binding advisory measure, Z, which asked voters if they wanted the revenues raised by Y to be used for street repair.
The lawsuit contends that the use of the tax for a particular purpose means that it is really a special tax, which requires a two-thirds majority to pass. The suit cites violations of Article 13 of the California Constitution, the law that requires a two-thirds majority to pass a special tax. Article XIII C, "Voter Approval for Local Tax Levies," which was adopted into the California State Constitution on November 5, 1996, states that: "No local government may impose, extend, or increase any special tax unless and until that tax is submitted to the electorate and approved by a two-thirds vote."
Ukiah City Manager Sage Sangiacomo said no one came forward to complain or talk about suing the city during the public workshops on the measures before they were placed on the ballot. "Starting in 2016 the council actively invited public participation" in determining how to pay for street repair at at least two public workshops before the November 8 election. Though members of the public typically sign in when they attend public meetings, it is not a requirement to do so. According to initial queries from the records of the meetings, "None of the concerns expressed now were brought forward in the workshops…To wait until after the fact…does amount to ambush litigation," he said. The HJTA, he added, "is supposed to be a benefit to taxpayers, but in the end, it causes litigation, which costs."
The city has a precedent of passing a general tax with an advisory measure to use the revenue for a specific purpose. In 2005, voters approved Measure S, which raised taxes by half a percent, accompanied by an advisory measure, T, which asked voters if they wanted the money to be spent on public safety. Sangiacomo said no one sued the city at that time.
The lawsuit lists five things the plaintiffs want. They request three separate declarations, stating that the tax increase proposed by the two measures was a special tax; that it was defeated; and that measures like Y and Z be declared "a scheme to circumvent supermajority requirements," which would be prohibited by the state's constitution. They are also suing for the costs of the suit, including attorney's fees, and "such other relief as the Court considers just and proper."
As Ukiah City Attorney David Rapport points out, "It could be they were looking for a test case." In 1998, he said, the HJTA unsuccessfully challenged Santa Clara county, which had passed a general tax accompanied by an advisory measure to use some of the money to supplement public pensions. Indeed, political action groups often use test cases like these to try to push for statewide changes, by creating legal precedent. A small city like Ukiah, with a small budget for legal expenses might find fending off a suit from a major political action group more difficult than a large city.
One of the plaintiffs in the lawsuit is Ed Haynes, a local veterinarian who argued against the two measures at a public ballot forum on September 29. Haynes suggested at that time that there were reserves in the general fund that could be spent on street repair, and that the city pays "multiple consultants for opinions that are never put to practical use."
In an interview with Haynes on January 26, Haynes said he had not attended the workshops. Someone from the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association heard about his presentation at the ballot forum and contacted him, asking him if he was interested in participating in the suit. He said he is not a member of the association, though "I support their work. I probably should be."
He said he believes the "bedrock functions" of government are providing for public safety and public works. "What happened to the city, that we now have to pay extra for public services?" he asked. Paying extra for public works, he said, is "like paying for the air you breathe."
He added that he believes the problem is that the state isn't sending enough money to local governments for infrastructure needs, but that he would "like to see government live within its means and follow the law…there's no question that we need better streets…I was just uncomfortable with the way that it went down."
Here is the text of Measures Y and Z, as well as Ukiah City Attorney David Rapport's analysis of Measure Z, from the City of Ukiah's website:
Measure Y
Shall Ordinance No. 1165 be adopted to impose as a general tax an additional transaction (sales) and use tax of one-half of one percent within the city limits of the City of Ukiah to fund essential City services, including street repair and maintenance? Such tax increase is estimated to raise $2,470,000 annually at a rate of .5%. The duration of the tax will continue unless or until the tax is repealed by majority vote in a municipal election.
Measure Z
Shall street repair and maintenance and related public infrastructure improvements be the exclusive use of the revenues from an additional .5% sales tax in the City of Ukiah and add to and not replace current spending for street maintenance and repair?
Impartial analysis from the city attorney:
Measure Z is a companion to Measure Y. The companion Measure Y seeks voter approval for an ordinance that increases the locally adopted transaction and use tax in the City of Ukiah from one-half of one percent (0.05%) to one percent (1%). Measure Y is a general tax measure that requires a majority vote to pass. General taxes, like the tax in Measure Y, can be spent for any municipal purpose, such as street maintenance and repair, but also for police, fire, and emergency medical services, public parks, city owned recreational facilities, and city sponsored recreational programs, among other things.
Measure Z asks whether the repair and maintenance of City streets should be the exclusive use of this additional general tax revenue produced by Measure Y and whether that revenue should add to and not replace existing spending on the repair and maintenance of City streets. Measure Z is an advisory measure. As that term suggests, Measure Z is advisory to, and not binding upon, the City Council. Nevertheless, the City Council has placed the measure on the ballot to gauge public opinion on how additional sales tax revenues should be spent and the election results will be available to the members of the City Council when it is asked to approve future City budgets.
In the ballot argument in favor of Measure Y, the City Council has stated that if both Measures Y and Z are approved, it has a plan to improve the condition of City streets and maintain those improved conditions over time. Such ballot argument statements are considered evidence of the City Council's intent in placing Measure Y on the ballot.
Sarah Reith, [email protected]
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"That girl lives breathes, eats, sleeps basketball," said Coach Kendra "Her family does the same. She pushes herself to be the best that she can be."
This season, Shannon's best has led to multiple 30-plus point outpourings. On Jan. 28 against Viborg-Hurley, O'Malley posted 35 points and followed it two days later with 30 points against Bon Homme.
"You name it, she's got it," Hotchkiss said. "She's a great shooter, she can throw it up from anywhere and make it. Shes's a great ball-handler -- one of our go-to's. ... She's just an all-around player."
On the season, O'Malley is averaging a tick over 24 points a game. The Tornadoes play in a deep conference with the likes of Viborg-Hurley, Gayville-Volin and Irene-Wakonda, but Hotchkiss said the team is confident.
"I think when we are in our sweet spot -- working together and playing together -- it's hard to beat that," Hotchkiss said.
Of course, it helps if you've got a premier scorer who wants to take the important shot.
"I would definitely Shannon is one of our leaders on the court," Hotckiss said. "She just steps up, and we rely on her for a lot of situations -- and two points down and five seconds left in the game, she wants that ball in her hands."
Shannon O'Malley | Centerville
5-foot-7 guard
Eclipsed 1,000 career points
Averaging 24 points a game