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President Obama has Many Options to Change the Balance of the Supreme Court
The unexpected death of Justice Scalia throws a wrench into an already volatile 2016 election and what happens next will largely depend on a variety of factors and political calculations made by President Obama and the Republican controlled Senate.Here are some scenarios that can happen as the President and Senate battle it out over who will replace the late justice.
Love and Dignity Carries the Day at the Supreme Court
"They ask for equal dignity in the eyes of the law. The Constitution grants them that right. The judgment of the Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit is reversed." And just like that, marriage equality is the law of the land.Today is a day millions of our citizens--both gay and straight--will never forget.
Are Online Threats Protected Speech or Criminal Activity?
What should happen if someone threatens to kill you on social media? Are they protected by the First Amendment right guaranteeing the right to freedom of speech, or are they breaking the law? We will soon know now the answer after the Supreme Court rules on a case that may have far reaching ramifications well beyond the single case they are hearing.
Repubilicans Caught Using Twitter to Stretch Election Law
An investigation by CNN has exposed that the National Republican Congressional Committee and Super PAC's associated with Republican candidates in the 2014 election cycle set up fake Twitter accounts to share internal polling data, which seems to violate campaign finance laws in the post Citizens United world.
The End is in Sight For Nationwide Marriage Equality
When is it time to throw in the towel and accept that the tide has turned? Napoleon must have asked himself this very question after being humiliated in the Battle of Waterloo and summarily exiled for the remainder of his life. It's also the same question many anti-gay marriage activists must be asking themselves after the Supreme Court refused to wade back into the gay marriage debate.
Americans Really Have No Idea How Our Government Functions
A recent survey conducted by the Public Policy Center of Pennsylvania asked over 1,400 American adults to do a simple task that every elementary school child should know, which is to name the three branches of our federal government. The results leave me more than a little frustrated and despaired. Over one third of respondents could not name the three branches of government.
Fine, Let's Treat Corporations Like People.
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In 1819, the Trustees of Dartmouth College v. Woodward ruling recognized corporations as having the same rights as natural born citizens to contract and to enforce contracts. In Pembina Consolidated Silver Mining Co. v. Pennsylvania (1888) SCOTUS ruled that under the designation of 'person' that corporations are included in the 14th Amendment.
Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Is Just Wrong
On Monday, the Supreme Court ruled that Hobby Lobby could deny its employees certain health care coverage, in this case contraception, based on religious beliefs. This means that companies can now prohibit or restrict its employees from partaking in actions that are legal under US law but not in line the religious views of the company.
Supreme Court Opinion & News Articles
The Supreme Court Case Testing the Limits of Gorsuch's Textualism
Oct 15 2019politico.com
Neil Gorsuch, Supreme Court Cases & LGBT
In three cases argued last week—Bostock v. Clayton County, Altitude Express v. Zarda, and Harris Funeral Homes v. EEOC—the Supreme Court confronted this question: Does Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits employment discrimination "because of [an] individual's … sex" forbid discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity?
'The Chief': John Roberts' journey from 'sober puss' to the pinnacle of American law
Mar 27 2019cnn.com
Joan Biskupic & John Roberts
Chief Justice John Roberts has always had perfect timing. Shortly before he reached high school age, an elite boarding school was founded near his northern Indiana home. Even as a young boy he knew that it offered a place to obtain a superior education and "stay ahead of the crowd," as he wrote.
Second Judge Blocks Trump Administration From Adding Census Citizenship Question
Mar 06 2019huffpost.com
Immigration, Supreme Court, Donald Trump & U.S. Citizens
The Supreme Court is already set to weigh in on the question.
Court: Constitutional ban on high fines applies to states
Feb 20 2019apnews.com
Supreme Court Cases
The Supreme Court ruled unanimously Wednesday that the Constitution's ban on excessive fines applies to the states, an outcome that could help efforts to rein in police seizure of property from criminal suspects. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote the court's opinion in favor of Tyson Timbs, of Marion, Indiana. Police seized Timbs' $40,000 Land Rover when they arrested him for selling about $400 worth of heroin.
Supreme Court Unanimously Rules Constitutional Ban On High Fines Applies To States
Feb 20 2019huffpost.com
Ruth Bader Ginsburg returns to Supreme Court for first time since cancer surgery, spokeswoman says
Feb 19 2019washingtonpost.com
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg returned to the Supreme Court Friday for the first time since she underwent surgery in December, a court spokeswoman said.
Ginsburg Expected to Return to Supreme Court Bench Tuesday
Feb 18 2019time.com
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is expected to sit for a U.S. Supreme Court argument Tuesday for the first time since she underwent surgery in December to remove cancerous masses from one of her lungs.
Sonia Sotomayor's simple, devastating question in Gill v. Whitford.
Oct 04 2017slate.com
Sonia Sotomayor & Gerrymandering
Throughout Tuesday's oral arguments in Gill v. Whitford, Justice Anthony Kennedy and the Supreme Court's left-leaning justices grilled Wisconsin's attorneys with tough questions that suggest a majority of the court is prepared to impose constitutional limits on political redistricting. The highlight of the hour came when Justice Sonia Sotomayor posed a very simple inquiry that cut to the core of the case: "Could you tell me what the value is to democracy from political gerrymandering? How does that help our system of government?"
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SOLICITATION—ADVERTISING—PROFESSIONAL LISTINGS—NOTICE OF SPECIALIZED LEGAL SERVICE—LATIN AMERICAN BUSINESS - BAR JOURNAL—An ad in the T.B.J. addressed to the members of the Bar, soliciting Latin-American business stating "References; the lawyers of Travis County" and setting out the ability to read and write Spanish and English equally weII, plus other qualifications, is improper.
Canons 24, 39, 41, 42.
"Do you need a Spanish-speaking lawyer to travel to any Latin-American country for you or your client on a per case or per diem basis?
5. Am familiar with the legal systems of Latin-American countries, their governments and their people.
"References: The lawyers of Travis County."
The foregoing ad, either violates or does not conform to, the requirements of Canons 24, 39, 41 and 42.(7-0).


Green seedpod and closed flower. Botanical garden Kumpula, Helsinki, Finland. Planted. 2006-09-09.
Engl.: jimsonweed, thorn-apple, angel's trumpet, apple of Peru, Jamestown weed, moonflower, purple stramonium, purple thorn-apple, stinkweed, stramonium.
Deu.: Stechapfel, Weisser Stechapfel, Asthmakraut, Stachelnuss, Teufelsapfel, Tollkraut.
Sven.: spikklubba, violett spikklubba, vit spikklubba.
Fran.: herbe au diable, herbe aux sorciers.
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A Government appointed authority on payment. When it comes down to Chinese affairs it is always best to be supported and behind the government. Being aligned with a government supported industry has far reaching stability and endurance.
China UnionPay (Chinese: 中国银联; pinyin: Zhōngguó Yínlián), also known as UnionPay (Chinese: 银联; pinyin: Yínlián) or by its abbreviation, CUP, is the only domestic bank card organization in the People's Republic of China (PRC).
Founded in March 2002, China UnionPay is an association for China's banking card industry, operating under the approval of the People's Bank of China (PBOC, central bank of China). It is also the only interbank network in China excluding Hong Kong and Macau, linking the ATMs of some fourteen major banks and many more smaller banks throughout mainland China. It is also an EFTPOS (Electronic Funds Transfer at Point of Sale) network.
What does that mean for an International merchant?
By connecting with Chinapay you will be integrated with scores of interfaces of banks and networks; you don't need to get connection with each of them one by one. This for International Merchants is an expensive and chaotic procedure, a next to impossible feat for a small Merchant to achieve even to connect with a single Chinese Bank. We connect you with over 204 banking institutions and their countless branches all over China.
Chinapay saves you the cost of development and maintenance; you don't need to invest and lock down investment capital or allocate precious man power. We are providing you the fully equipped electronic payment solution and the entire connected network.
|-Partnership with the largest debit system in China (China UnionPay) and over 204 banks.
|- With country wide reach.
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The sad truth is that Credit cards do not actually exist in China. Credit Cards are only an Union Pay Card that have a "post-paid" function and where the payment even for Credit Cards are processed by Union pay.
Currently in China, most individuals do not have a Credit Card nor really did need one as Union pay system allows them to purchase and use their debit cards for almost every payment function required.
As a reference, even Shanghai with the highest credit card transaction use has only 500k point of sale terminals. This is roughly the equivalency of a 20% penetration if it is compared to western cities of the same size.
By the end of the first quarter of 2009, about 1,888,374,100 (1.89 billion) bank cards had been issued in China. Of these cards, 1,737,901,000 (1.74 billion) or 92% were debit cards, while the rest (150,473,100, or 150.5 million) were credit cards. In 2010 China had over 2.4 billion bankcards in circulation growing approximately 16% .


Hewlett-Packard Co has lost a contract worth as much as $200m to supply Ford Motor Company with a worldwide diagnostic system. The contract, won by GenRad Inc of Westford, Massachusetts, includes the supply of Windows NT-based software development tools, diagnostic applications authoring and hardware systems throughout the world to Ford's dealerships. The exact value and terms of the deal are not known, but the contract is believed to be worth in the region of $100-$200m. The deal was won by GenRad's Advanced Diagnostic Solutions division, based in Manchester, England, which specializes in vehicle diagnostic and information systems for automotive, aerospace and related industries. Ford previously used a system it developed jointly with Hewlett-Packard, which was known as the Service Bay Diagnostic System.


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MJW Odour Solutions is a Canadian business working to solve odour issues in residential, commercial and industrial applications. We are a division of Metro Jet Wash Corporation, a company that services and cleans waste handling equipment. We have been in the odour solution business for many years and offer a full range of products, equipment and services.
At MJW Odour Solutions, we strive to exceed customer expectations and satisfaction with all our services. We are an industry leader in the residential/commercial sectors using green products and environmentally friendly compounds. No matter what your odour issue, we have the knowledge, specialized equipment and products to handle those unwanted organic and inorganic odours.
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My mom is a blessing.
I don't know if there will ever be enough words to express my love and my gratitude for all that she is and all that she does. She helps me and my family in ways that mean so much.
We can make each other laugh and cry, and sometimes both of those together.
My girls love her to pieces. As do my nephews.
She is my father's other half. One might even argue his better half. (I'm sure he'll agree).
Growing up, she was a taxi driver, counselor, nurse and chef. Now, she's a nonna, a mom, a caregiver and, most importantly, my friend.
I want to take the time to wish her the happiest of birthdays. We love you very much and hope your day is filled with sunshine, and relaxation and happiness.


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We also will offer special promotions throughout the year where you will receive up to 50% more bonus ACs for an AC package. Please note, this bonus is only for AC packages, not Membership packages that also come with ACs.
Please keep an eye on the Design Notes for these special promotions and when they will be available. You can only receive bonus ACs when the promotion is available, so we suggest only using instant payment methods such as a credit/debit card. We have no control over how long a payment processor processes a payment. Using non instant payment methods such as BoaCOmpra, DragonPay, PayPal eCheck, etc, can delay you receiving your ACs and you will not receive the bonus if the promotion is over once your payment is finally processed.
You do not have to be a Member (also called Legend) to purchase AdventureCoins. If you would like information on Memberships, please visit the Memberships Packages and Prices help page.
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At a graduation party for Big A and her best friend M we had a dessert bar where guests could make their own mini fruit pizzas using sugar cookies, fruit dips and chopped fruit.
I made plain round sugar cookies (about 4" in diameter) to use as a base for the fruit pizzas.
There were two fruit dips that we used as frosting for the cookies, a Berry Fluff Dip (which I didn't get a good picture of) and a Creamy Nutella Dip. Using a fruit dip instead of a regular frosting makes for a less-sweet base for the fruit, which I prefer.
The Nutella fruit dip needs to be stored in the refrigerator, but should be served at room temperature. The dip will get very thick in the fridge, almost fudge consistency. Fudge. Nutella fudge. That is something to ponder for next Christmas.
To top frosted cookies, there was an array of chopped fruit. We used fresh pineapple, blueberries, strawberries, mango and kiwi.
The graduates and their friends loved it!
Congratulations Class of 2013. We are so proud of you Big A!
Beat sugar, butter, sour cream and vanilla until fluffy. Beat in eggs. Add soda, salt and enough flour to make a moderately stiff dough (start with 7 cups and add additional flour if needed). Chill dough for 20 minutes to 1 hour for easier handling. Roll out dough to desired thickness (I like these fairly thick) and cut with cookie cutter.
Bake at 375°F for 9-11 minutes; if they brown, it's been too long. They should still look white when done.
Warm cream cheese and Nutella slightly (about 30 seconds in the microwave) and then stir together with the cream until well mixed. Serve at room temperature. Store in the refrigerator.
Cut out sugar cookie dough with a 3-4" round cookie cutter and bake. Prepare dessert bar with sugar cookies, fruit dips and chopped fruit (choose from strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, pineapple, kiwi, mango, nectarines, peaches, grapes). Guests can assemble their own cookie fruit pizza.
Serve as a fruit dip or as a frosting for cookies or brownies.
Mix all ingredients until well blended. Serve as a fruit dip or as a frosting for cookies.


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Musicking Mission & Saint Cecilia
Musicking Memories
Artists & Staff
Natascha Reich
Natascha Reich studied organ and harpsichord in Austria and in the Netherlands, and graduated in 2006 with a masters diploma from the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, Austria. Her teachers were Rudolf Scholz, Martin Haselböck, Theo Jellema and Johan Hofmann. Since 1999, Natascha has given solo performances in most parts of Europe, in Asia, and in the Americas, at venues like Edinburgh Cathedral, Moscow Cathedral, St.John's College Chapel Cambridge, Princeton University Chapel, Anglican Cathedral Seoul, and many others. Natascha's fields of interest are historical performance practice and the intersection of science and music. She is currently enrolled in the University of Oregon's PhD program for musicology, planning to focus her research on historical instrument building.
For more information see: www.nataschareich.com
Musicking: Culturally Informed Performance Practices is funded by the following supporters:
Oregon Humanities Center Endowment for Public Outreach in the Arts, Sciences, & Humanities
Dianne Dugaw & Amanda Powell
David Wade
Central Lutheran Church, Eugene
Eugene Chapter of The American Guild of Organists

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Генна́дий Федорович Беляко́в (7 июня 1968, Москва) — советский саночник, выступавший за сборные СССР, Объединённой команды и России в начале 1990-х годов. Участник двух зимних Олимпийских игр, обладатель бронзовой медали чемпионата мира, многократный призёр национального первенства. Защищал честь ЦСКА, мастер спорта.

Биография
Геннадий Беляков родился 7 июня 1968 года в Москве. Выступая в паре с Игорем Лобановым, в 1990 году на чемпионате мира в канадском Калгари завоевал бронзовую медаль в состязаниях смешанных команд. Благодаря череде удачных результатов удостоился права защищать честь страны на Олимпийских играх 1992 года в Альбервиле, где, находясь в составе Объединённой команды республик бывшего СССР, сумел подняться до десятой позиции мужского парного разряда.

После этих соревнований его партнёр Лобанов ушёл из санного спорта, решив посвятить себя музыке, и новым напарником Белякова стал Анатолий Бобков. На Олимпийских играх 1994 года в Лиллехаммере представлял уже команду России, но выступил значительно хуже предыдущего раза, добравшись лишь до пятнадцатого места. Вскоре после этой неудачи Геннадий Беляков принял решение завершить карьеру профессионального спортсмена, уступив место молодым российским саночникам.

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David Nordfors is CEO and co-founder of IIIJ and the chair of the i4j Summit. He was previously co-founder and Executive Director of the Center for Innovation and Communication at Stanford University. He was one of the World Economic Forum Innovation 100 in 2009, and has served on WEF Global Agenda Councils. He serves on advisory boards of the Poynter Institute, Discern Investment Analytics and Black & Veatch. He is an adjunct professor at IDC Herzliya in Israel, a visiting professor at Tallinn University, the Tecnologico de Monterrey, and the Deutsche Welle Akademie. He was advisor to the Director General at VINNOVA, the Swedish Agency for Innovation Systems, where he co-initiated the national Swedish Incubator System and set up a bi-national R&D fund between Sweden and Israel for mobile applications. He was Director of Research Funding of the Knowledge Foundation, KK-stiftelsen, administering an endowment of $300MUSD, building a funding framework underwriting over a hundred innovation initiatives between universities and industry. He initiated and headed the first hearing about the Internet to be held by the Swedish Parliament. He has a Ph.D. in physics from the Uppsala University and did his postdoc in Theoretical Chemistry in Heidelberg, Germany.


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You really have created something fun here. I will have check it out more often.
YEAH! I am doing the happy dance! So excited I won! Thank you so much Shauna you are awesome!
How exciting Shauna! The girls are going to love it. I think I will save it and give it to them after dinner on Turkey Day! That is our official start of the holiday season. It'll be a fun surprise to kick it off!
Yay I won! Congrats to all and lucky me! Shauna, this is a great thing you got going on here, thanks for taking the time to make this happen.
congrats to each of you!!!!
CONGRATS! I know Scrappy Girl!!! Yeah!
I just sent you an email! So totally excited!
Congratulations to all you winners!
I can't find a place to leave a comment on the jewelry?
hey....i still can't find the place to leave a comment for the Holy Yashi jewelry.....it looks so cute...I came back to see if the link was up...but don't see it...am I crazy!!??


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The Provincial council of Barcelona drifted to the faithful of CDC at least two million cooperation
Such is the amount of irregularities detected in the subsidies for the Third World that the Provincial council of Barcelona granted between 2011 and 2015, that makes us think that went in reality to the private activities or purposes "non-cooperation to the international development of poor communities". is holds It in a car the judge of Barcelona, which investigates the fate of a million euros in grants during the presidency of Salvador Esteve pujol (CiU) , in a cause in which you are charged about fifty persons, most of them the orbit converged.
The judge attributed to them crimes, d e embezzlement of public funds, prevarication and influence peddling , among others. According to they explained sources of the research, a part of the cause, still under secrecy, asks about whether part of these funds were diverted to cover the procés independentista.
Inputs and records
The files found in the logs that the Unit of Economic Crime and Fiscal (Udef) practiced in may of 2018 in the Provincial council, and in various entities –operation Wake– make it clear that in the division of grants and contracts, there was "a breach rather rude of the administrative procedure", holds Joaquín Aguirre, holder of the Court of Instruction 1 of Barcelona, that directs the research. That not respected the procedures, as suggested by an anonymous complaint from the one that precipitated the investigation, it seems clear.
it Now remains to see if it eventually did the work for those going to the funds –even though their lease was spot– or if these Ngos were in reality a mere pipe so that the funds end up in the pockets of those involved in the plot; or for other purposes, such as the procés independentista. , And accumulates the evidence to believe that many of the funds that were to serve for development projects in the Maghreb, Honduras, or the Easter island never reached their destination.
The researchers located at the top of the frame to Jordi Castells , then director of international relations of the Provincial council and now fished as deputy director for Local Cooperation of the Generalitat. Managed his department with an iron hand, as reported to the National Police workers of the ente provincial, to ensure that this high office required it to issue favourable opinions on the granting of subsidies to entities of the orbit converged, some linked to mayors of the PDECat, although it does not comply with the requirements. Below Castells, in the organization chart, it was Jonathan Jorba, according to the workers, "the expertise" of the director, which was in compliance with his orders "without questioning its legality and without protection in no time to the technicians who issued dissenting opinions".
In their witnesses, collected in the summary that it has had access to ABC, these technicians underpin the thesis of the researchers on the rigging of the contracts with the entities "favorite" of Castells. One of the workers tells us that among the sisters spoke often of these entities and "preferred" of Castells, that this high office favored "forcing the change of scores of the assessments" and forcing the heads of office to sign resolutions "against their will" according to the statement of a witness. "The feeling was that there were powerful political interests behind these awards", explains another technician under the orders of Castells. "You had to maintain these subsidies at all costs", agreed to tell the Police the workers.
Entities suspected
there Are a total of 28 grants being investigated, the majority for projects of cooperation with the Third World . Many were awarded to those entities that witnesses explained to the Police that they were the "favorite" of the alleged head of the plot. Among them, CatMón, an entity that is in principle designed to enhance the international recognition of Catalonia, of which Víctor Terradellas, the former secretary of international relations of convergence and union, was president and founder. Also made reference to the witnesses to the NGO humanitarian action Igman, led by the now deputy JpC in the Catalan Parliament Francesc Dalmases. Both entities, of which both founders, were supposedly, according to the Udef, "a mere cover for the protection of private business".
researchers cast doubt on how much money this game is dedicated effectively to the co-operation and if there was a "percent diverted". Dalmases and Terradellas formed, according to the researchers, a network for the diversion of the subsidies, as they might have done, for example, with funds for the edition of the magazine Catalan International View. That money allegedly ended up in the pockets of both for particular expenses.
Two witnesses, in addition, pointed to the Police the privileged tax treatment Dalmases received in the department of International Relations of the Diputació , which with an iron hand ran Castells. On one occasion, ten minutes after holding a meeting with the representative of Igman, a worker received a call from Castells saying that he had phoned "from above" to say that he had "treated very badly" to Igman. Another worker explained that a day Dalmases went to the Provincial council to meet with Castells, after that this is addressed to technicians urging them to "resolve the matter without disturbing the beneficiary entity", as stated in the summary.
Accumulation of irregularities
The researchers also point to Joaquim Ferrer, with multiple connections with convergence and union, and the sole manager of Sestrategic , an entity devoted to projects of internationalisation. Ferrer was "recurrently encouraged through grants and contracts" of the county Council and there is a "high probability" that public funds have been diverted for the personal benefit of, says the Udef. He had worked for CiU from 1996 to 1999, and in the ministry of Labour of the government of 2000 to 2003.
Reports without signature; justifications "insufficient" of the contracts; payment of the grants before they approve the projects; reports of "cut and paste"; entities created shortly before the receipt of the funds; invoices of flights and hotels abroad for more than ten days... be filling the irregularities in the records of subsidies that would be allocated to cooperation projects in the Third World. The research will clarify if it is confirmed by the evidence that the protagonists of the plot profited from these public funds, and if part of the same fueled by the procés independentista.
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One of the founders of grindcore, also contributing heavily to the extreme spectrum of metal and punk. Many consider Repulsion the true founders and legends of grindcore, but this is debatable because technically Napalm Death formed before them.
Originally, on their first few demos, Napalm Death were a peace punk band going under different names such as Political Unrest and Civil Defence, but most of the band names were relating to political/social things. However, they decided to stick with Napalm Death because it was "different" and best described how they felt. The only track officially available from this era is "The Crucifixion of Possessions" from the 1984 Crass Records compilation Bullshit Detector Vol 3. After Broadrick joined the band, they began to incorporate extreme metal influences and eventually would evolve into grindcore.
Their main source of inspiration originally came from bands like Discharge, Siege and D.R.I..
According to Albert Mudrian (founding editor-in-chief of Decibel Magazine), Mick Harris first coined the term "grindcore", although this is debatable. Also, Harris is credited with coining the term "blast beat" as well when describing his unique style of drumming (at the time). Countless metal bands have been heavily influenced by this style since.
For years the band was considered to be one of the most extreme bands ever. They were notorious during their grindcore days for selling out shows at the infamous Mermaid Club in Birmingham. They gave light to the club and created a huge metal/punk movement with their music in the UK. Such shows that were played at the Mermaid Club were with the likes of other grind and punk bands like Heresy, Extreme Noise Terror, Dirge, Ripcord and even had the chance to open for one of their main influences, Discharge.
Lee Dorrian was the "grindcore"-era vocalist for Napalm Death. He left the band later on the upcoming third full-length release because the band wanted to pursue a more death metal-influenced style. He later went on to form doom/stoner legends Cathedral. Because of this, Mark "Barney" Greenway was recruited from Benediction because he was their roadie while playing shows in the UK and had always been a long time fan of the group.
Napalm Death were one of the first signed bands on the legendary death/grind label Earache (Scum being the third album to be released on the label, cataloged at MOSH3.)
With the inception of the album From Enslavement to Obliteration in 1988, Napalm Death had, against all expectations, broken into the mainstream by debuting at Number 1 on the UK Indie charts, scoring the label's first NME front cover and radio sessions with noted BBC Radio 1 DJ John Peel, who had typically supported the sound from its inception.
Lee Dorian was once asked to play with hardcore punkers Icons of Filth, which would've been his first band. He ended up buying a bass guitar to fill in the position, but the band broke up when he was ready to join.
Original members of Napalm Death Nik Bullen, Mick Harris and Justin K. Broadrick later reunited to form the industrial dub act Scorn. Mick Harris currently runs this act solo.
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Long-Island-based singer-songwriters Pete Mancini, Nico Padden, Rorie Kelly, and Delaney Hafener of The Belle Curves will share the bill during the monthly Hard Luck Café series co-presented by the Folk Music Society of Huntington and the Cinema Arts Centre (423 Park Avenue, Huntington) in the Cinema's Sky Room on Wednesday, December 21, from 7-10 p.m. An open mic precedes the concert.
Pete Mancini Nico Padden
Rorie Kelly Delaney Hafener of The Belle Curves
Pete Mancini got his start as frontman and songwriter of Butchers Blind, a critically acclaimed rock band from NYC. In 2017, he released his debut solo album, Foothill Freeway, which explored the Americana influences that were a hallmark of his former band. The album garnered rave reviews from NPR, No Depression, and Newsday. His follow-up albums have also been met with critical acclaim. Over the years, Mancini has opened for acts such as Jimmy Webb, Blues Traveler, Gin Blossoms, and Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes.
Nico Padden is a one-woman folk-rock riot. Ben Folds said she has "a big voice, gorgeous voice," and that her song, "Pirate Queen," is "original and classic at the same time." Her songs have been compared to Alanis Morissette's work in Newsday, and Smithtown Matters News called her a "soulful singer & lyricist." Her newest album is a mix of Americana, vintage pop/rock, and folk that celebrates the strength of the fierce, brave women in her life.
Rorie Kelly is an award-winning singer/songwriter/ladybeast from Long Island. Her mission in life is to spread healing through art, and to remind you to love yourself with the fierceness of a kitten that doesn't know it is tiny. Her songwriting looks deeply into topics like self-worth, growth and letting go, and how our culture treats people who don't fit the mainstream "default." A powerhouse performer, Rorie gigs frequently, lighting up stages with her fiery vocals and her sense of humor.
Delaney Hafener has crafted a unique sound inspired by the many traditions of Americana, complementing introspective lyrics and a songwriting style that can be reminiscent of both the Laurel Canyon and Bakersfield music scenes. Her music touches on themes of self-doubt, progressive politics, identity, and disaffection, working to create a distinctly youthful folk aesthetic.
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Flower-Gathering by Robert Frost
Lovers of Robert Frost's poems will find 'Flower-Gathering' a thoughtful and comforting addition to his "walking" poems.
'Flower-Gathering' was published in A Boy's Will in 1912. It is a fairly simple poem that, like most of Frost's poems, deals with natural imagery. In this case, Frost takes a different perspective on one of his classic, solitary walks and alludes to them as a means of gaining inspiration for his poems. These same poems were often dedicated to and written about his wife, Elinor, who also features in the poem.
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Summary of Flower-Gathering
'Flower-Gathering' by Robert Frost is a beautiful short poem in which Frost describes the beginning of a walk to pick flowers.
The poem starts out with the poet leaving early in the morning on one of his famous walks. His wife tries to tag along with him, and he spends a few lines trying to explain why he thinks she's done this. She knows well that he's going to come back and bring with him flowers for the both of them. The second stanza reemphasizes this and adds that he knows she'll love these flowers (or poems, depending on how one reads the text). She just needs to let him go and do what he needs to do. But he's not unsympathetic. He knows that even a short time away from someone can feel like forever.
In 'Flower-Gathering,' Frost engages with themes of walking, nature, and relationships. The latter is alluded to through the "you" and "I" pronouns used throughout the poem. He's addressing his wife, Elinor, and trying to remind her of how these walks he goes on are what makes his poetry (or flower gathering) possible. As readers of his poetry are likely already aware, his poems hinge heavily on his use of natural imagery and the process of taking inspiration from nature. This is as evident as it ever is in 'Flower-Gathering.'
'Flower-Gathering' by Robert Frost is a two-stanza poem that is separated into sets of eight lines, known as octaves. These octaves follow a specific rhyme scheme of ABCBDDEB, changing end sounds in the second stanza. There are also a few examples of half-rhymes as well. For instance, "glow," "go," and "gloaming" in stanza one. Plus, there is a good example of an exact rhyme, where the same word is used, in stanza two with "measure."
Frost makes use of several literary devices in 'Flower-Gathering.' These include but are not limited to caesura, metaphor, and alliteration. The latter is a type of repetition that occurs when the poet repeats the same consonant sound at the beginning of multiple words. For example, "dusty" and "dumb" in lines six and seven of the first stanza, as well as "Gaunt" and "grey" in line six of the same stanza.
Caesurae are pauses at the beginning, middle, or end of lines. The first line of the second stanza is a good example. It reads: "All for me? And not a question." The fifth line of the same stanza is also an example. It reads: "They are yours, and be the measure."
Depending on how one readers 'Flower-Gathering,' there may or may not be an interesting metaphor at work within the lines. If read on a surface level, this poem is about a man going to get flowers for his wife. If read slightly deeper, the poem is about Robert Frost going to gather his thoughts so that he can write poetry for his wife, Elinor.
Analysis of Flower-Gathering
I left you in the morning,
And in the morning glow,
Are you dumb because you know me not,
Or dumb because you know?
In the first stanza of 'Flower-Gathering,' the speaker begins by talking to "you" and recalling a time he left this person in the morning. Due to the number of poems Frost wrote over his lifetime about walking, it's likely that he's the speaker of this poem. This is yet another of his walks, something that the following lines reassert as routine and familiar. The "you" in these lines is likely his wife, Elinor. He left her in the morning, but before he has a chance to get far, she tries to join him. She walked a way beside him "to make [him] sad to go." This suggests that she was purposefully trying to get her husband to stay home, guilting him into it.
The following lines include two questions that suggest that Elinor shouldn't be trying to do this. She knows that he goes on these walks every day and is perhaps "dumb because" she knows what he does. Perhaps he thought she was playing dumb to the situation or was being so quiet (dumb being used to refer to muteness) that she hoped he'd let her follow along.
All for me? And not a question
For the faded flowers gay
The measure of the little while
That I've been long away.
In the second stanza, the speaker starts off with another question. This stanza explains what the walk is about and why Elinor should be okay with it, besides the fact that it happens every day. He's going off to gather flowers, not just for his benefit, but for Elinor's. It's not "All for [him]" at all. He's telling her that he's going out to get flowers that she's going to appreciate too. It's possible to read deeper into these lines and interpret the flowers in a different way. They might be used as a metaphor for the speaker's own thoughts and creative process. He might need the walks as a way to sort out what he's going to write about. This makes sense as he often wrote about Elinor.
The stanza goes on, reiterating that the flowers, or perhaps the poems he's going to write with his newly gathered thoughts, are "yours" and will be worth the time spent on them because she'll treasure them. In the final two lines, the speaker acknowledges that even a "little while" away feels like a "long" while.
Readers who enjoyed 'Flower-Gathering' should also consider reading some of Frost's other best-known poems. For example:
'Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening' – is one of Frost's most famous poems. It describes how Frost was faced with a difficult choice and the easy escape the woods provide.
'The Road Not Taken' – Frost's best-known poem and one that is famously misinterpreted. He depicts two roads, both of which are the same, and then he takes the one he declares "less traveled by."
'Desert Places' – is yet another nature-based poem. This time, Frost discusses his internal desert places while exploring physically deserted ones.
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"What if . . .?" How I Built the Plot of "Climbing the Coliseum"
At readings and book signings, folks often ask how I came up with the idea for my novel, Climbing the Coliseum. I don't have any secret method. In fact, I've heard the process I use at many writers' conferences and read about it in a number of places. For example, Darcy Pattison, an author of children's fiction, has written a blog article discussing the two questions thousands of fiction writers use to develop their plots: "What if . . .?" and "Why?" I'm going to show the process I go through, using the plotting of my first novel, Climbing the Coliseum, as an example.
I usually start with the evening news. I did that with Climbing, with my second novel Nobody's Savior (coming later this year), and with my third (I'm unsure of the title, but it'll be out next year). For Climbing, the news item that started me thinking was a 2009 story about the violent anti-government group, the Posse Comitatus. (The Bundy family, who led armed standoffs in Nevada in 2014 and Oregon in 2016, have been linked to the Posse Comitatus.) In 2009, an armed member of the group had died in a shootout with the FBI. That grabbed my attention, and since I care a lot about issues of violence in our communities, I sensed it could be an interesting premise for a story. At the same time, I had encountered a psychotherapy case (I was not the therapist, but was consulted about the case) of a fourteen-year-old teenage girl. One afternoon, her mother had dropped her off for her session—and failed to pick her up. Ultimately, we learned that the mother had a serious drug problem, and for her protection, the girl entered foster care.
These two items, unrelated and hardly alike, intrigued me. My main character was a psychologist (of course—write what you know, right?), so I wondered, what if those two stories happened to his patients? It made sense, but at this point, neither story was strong enough to carry a whole novel, and aside from linking them through the psychologist, why would they work together?
Novels require conflict and tension. The characters must experience the frustration of their goals, obstacles to their desires. Novelists search for ways to generate those obstacles and to ramp up the tension. I needed to make the basic situations more difficult, more tense, more conflicted. Here's where "What if . . .?" and "Why?" questions come in. A requirement is that each answer had to make things worse for one or more of the characters. Let's begin with the extremist group story.
What if an otherwise innocent guy, whom I named Victor, got caught up in a group like the Posse? Well, why would he do that? What if he was in tax trouble and mistakenly thought the meetings were about solving tax problems, not about evading taxes and revolting against the government? What if Vic isn't the psychologist's patient, but his wife Maggie is? Okay, but why is Maggie in therapy? What if she believes her husband's having an affaire—when in fact he's sneaking off to his meetings, which he refuses to talk about? What if her fear of Vic's affaire causes depression and brings her into therapy?
Fine, but I needed more tension, more conflict!
What if, to earn the group's help with his tax problem, Vic is coerced into performing illegal acts? Why would he go along with that? Well, what if Vic is the sort of man whose pride forbids him from admitting weakness or failure (such as losing his ranch because of the back taxes), so he "goes along to get along"—and thus does the illegal acts? What if, when he finally faces his basic values and tries to leave the group, the ensuing violence affects his wife, Maggie, which brings Vic's activities to the attention both of the psychologist, Ed Northrup, and of the sheriff's department—which creates a whole new level of trouble for Vic and Maggie–and therefore, for Ed.
I "what-iffed" the girl's story as well. What if her mother turns out to be Ed Northrup's ex-wife, whom he hasn't seen in almost thirty years? That raised a big "why," which drove the plot! What if the mother literally cannot be found? Again, why would she disappear like that? The answer to those two "whys"—her motivations—created a powerful plot twist, which I won't give away here (in case you want to read the book). Suffice it to say that the mother's motivation creates a profound challenge for Ed Northrup. What if, while the search for the mother is going on, he's started to care about Grace? What if this forces him to realize that he must find a way to prevent the Montana Child Protection Department from taking her into its custody. Why would they do that? Ed is required to report child neglect–which is the case here. What if he fails in his legal duty? As his attachment to Grace grows, what if Ed realizes that this situation re-enacts a tragedy that drove him from Minnesota so long ago, and thus forces him to deal with the suppressed guilt and depression that stem from it?
After those simple questions, the two story lines came together through their link to the main character, Ed Northrup, the psychologist.
Initially, I had thought of the book as being about Ed Northrup, sort of an Alex Delaware in Montana. But why Montana? Time for more "What if . . .?" questions. Why did Ed move to Montana twenty-some years ago? Well, what if he had moved to Montana to start over after a tragedy back in Minnesota? What if that tragedy had actually cost the life of another patient, another fourteen-year-old girl, whom Ed was treating? What if his ex-wife—Grace's vanished mother—had divorced him because of that tragedy and its aftermath? What if her appearance in Montana and his sudden responsibility for Grace gave him a "second chance" to save a kid—would he take that chance? Why would he? Why would he not?
But a psychologist cannot carry on a search for a missing mother. That's the job of the police. Voilá, I needed cops, both to search for the mother and to investigate the violence Vic and Maggie got caught up in. So two new important characters entered the story—Ben Stewart, the county sheriff, and his deputy, Andrea Pelton. What if Ben and Andi were already investigating Vic's illegal activity? What if, after Ed reports the missing mother, he and deputy Andi Pelton collaborate on both cases. And what if they develop an attraction for one another?
At this point, I hadn't actually figured out what happened to the mother, Mara. This goes back to the unanswered questions earlier: Why did Mara come to Montana, and why did she abandon Grace? But when those answers fell into place, a new tension emerged: What if there was no one to take care of Grace? Why not Ed? What if that is impossible—in small-town Montana, a single man bringing an underage girl would be unacceptable. This led to another what if: What if a recently widowed older woman took her in? What if, after doing so, the older woman falls seriously ill and Grace has nowhere to stay?
These questions did not exhaust the plot building, but they gave me the bones of a story big enough to sustain a novel (a book that was named a Finalist in the Foreword Review's 2014 Book of the Year competition, IndieFab). All I needed was a few days' work and a relentless commitment to keep cranking up the conflict and tension. Every answer to the "what if" and "why" questions had to lead to a worsened situation, something that backs the character(s) against a harder wall.
After outlining the skeleton, as I wrote and as the book grew flesh around those bones, new opportunities to make things worse for the characters emerged, calling for more rounds of "what if . . .?" and "why?" It's a fun way to get started on the project, because it stimulates that most valuable asset a writer has, one's imagination.
Author Bill PercyPosted on Tuesday, February 23, 2016 Categories Monastery Valley series of novelsLeave a comment on "What if . . .?" How I Built the Plot of "Climbing the Coliseum"
How to Write a Novel
No doubt, the title is a bit grand, isn't it? I'm not really going to tell you how to write a novel. Instead, I'm going to share with you a "progress note" about my second book, Nobody's Savior. Those of you who've read the first novel, Climbing the Coliseum, will recognize the characters–Ed Northrup (the psychologist), Andi Pelton (the deputy sheriff and now Ed's lover), Grace (Ed's sixteen-year-old adopted daughter), Sheriff Ben Stewart, gay bartender Ted Coldry, rancher Magnus Anderssen, and assorted others. And you'll recognize the setting, the (fictional) town of Jefferson, set in the (equally fictional) Monastery Valley in southwest Montana.
Nobody's Savior started life, actually, as part of Climbing the Coliseum. It was a subplot about Magnus Anderssen's mysterious psychological breakdown and Ed's efforts to help him figure out the cause. But my editor, Lorna Lynch, pointed out what should have been obvious to me, even as a rookie: That book was too long. Way too long. Most editors and agents say a first novel should be around 80- to 90-thousand words; that first version of Climbing clocked in at 180,000! So Magnus's story had to go: Now, it's the backbone of Nobody's Savior.
Unfortunately, the Magnus material, taken out of Climbing, was only 48,000 words, not really enough for a full novel. Besides, I'd fallen in love with Grace and there was nothing for Grace to do in Magnus's story! Nor was there anything for Andi Pelton, who at the end of Climbing had taken up a more intimate relationship with Ed. As a psychologist, Ed couldn't violate Magnus's privacy by discussing the case with Andi, so what was she going to do?
Back in 2014, I read about a 17-year-old high school junior who'd been arrested in Waseca, Minnesota for amassing an arsenal of guns and bombs, with which he planned to kill as many of his fellow students as he could. Bingo! I had a job for Andi Pelton and the Sheriff's Department! That story–of Jared Hansen (not the real plotter's name), the good boy who turned terrorist without explanation–became the backbone of Andi's role in the novel, and naturally, since Jared appeared to have become paranoid (again, without any obvious explanation), Ed could work with her and the other deputies to solve the case. And given Jared's popularity at school, Grace too could weigh in, because she knew and liked Jared. Whew! The old gang rides again.
Of course, having a story to tell doesn't amount to having a novel to sell! So since mixing the Jared story into the Magnus story, I've written five drafts, gotten a developmental edit, revised yet another draft, and sent the manuscript off for the final copy edit and proofreading. One more revision when it comes back, and Nobody's Savior should be ready for me to launch and for you to read. Stay tuned, and watch this space!
Author Bill PercyPosted on Tuesday, January 19, 2016 Categories Monastery Valley series of novelsLeave a comment on How to Write a Novel
On Political Words
In her November 5, 2015 review of two stage adaptations of Aeschylus's Oresteia, Ingrid Rowland remarks on a fascinating bit of history. She writes, "On the day of Martin Luther King's assassination, Robert Kennedy found the right words to break the news of his death to a poor, largely black audience in Indianapolis by harking back to 'my favorite poet…Aeschylus.'"
She then quotes the words of the Greek poet that Kennedy used to console his audience:
Even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget
falls drop by drop upon the heart,
until, in our own despair,
against our will,
comes wisdom
through the awful grace of God.
Rowland notes that "Kennedy's words diverge slightly but tellingly from Edith Hamilton's translation, his evident source (her third line reads 'and in our own despite')."
Reflecting on that, she thinks that the word-change suggests that Kennedy had long lived with those words, using them as he grappled with the sufferings and tragedies striking the Kennedy family. We all know how a beloved poem or song, memorized long ago, and lovingly repeated to ourselves over the intervening years, can undergo small changes as we internalize them, making the lines our own.
But Rowland goes on to make another point. She says that it's "unexpected, too, that a political figure would feel free to address an audience of ordinary people in the lofty language of Greek poetry rather than talking down to them with mock folksiness." And Kennedy was in a heated presidential campaign contest with Eugene McCarthy at that moment, the campaign in which he too would soon be assassinated.
I'm fully aware that Winston Churchill reminded us that "comparisons are odious" (or as Dogberry in Shakespeare's Much Ado about Nothing says, "comparisons are odorous"), but let me take the chance and give a couple of examples of another kind of political speech.
Shakespeare's "Dogberry"
I'll start with the woes of the health care system in the United States, which are many and serious, not least of which is the dire plight of the uninsured. There is much to be fixed in the Affordable Care Act, and honest people can disagree with its provisions. A fruitful and welcome dialog could take place between the candidates and the parties about the important issues with reforming health care. Instead, Dr. Ben Carson, speaking on the stump, offers us this:
And [Obamacare] is in a way, it is slavery in a way, because it is making all of us subservient to the government, and it was never about health care. It was about control.
Obamacare is "slavery in a way." Slavery. A law that attempts to help some of the poorest and sickest members of our society is likened to slavery. What an offensive comparison, both to the Affordable Care Act and to the millions of slaves and their descendants (which include Dr. Carson) who endured that national ignominy. Does Dr. Carson realize whom he is insulting?
Unlike the depth and compassion in Kennedy's speech—remember, he was quoting Aeschylus to a largely Black audience on the night Martin Luther King was assassinated—other candidates use attacks on minority people to advance their campaigns, especially people whose lives are perhaps the most precarious in our nation: the undocumented immigrants. Take this from Donald Trump on July 5, 2015:
What can be simpler or more accurately stated? The Mexican Government is forcing their most unwanted people into the United States. They are, in many cases, criminals, drug dealers, rapists, etc.
Instead of speaking to immigrants from his heart (which is where Trump says his speeches come straight from), he vilifies 11 million people for a round of right-wing applause. It is as if Kennedy had, instead of quoting Aeschylus, told his Black audience not that their suffering and grief may transform to wisdom, but that Dr. King's death proved the futility of their struggle for political, civil, and economic rights.
Perhaps I am being unfair to contrast today's political speech with that of Robert Kennedy. But really, the level of rhetorical nonsense coming from the right has overflowed the bounds of comedy and is becoming a national tragedy, an embarrassment. Perhaps we need an Aeschylus to give voice to that.
Here's a line that the Greek might use to do so:
It is an easy thing for one
whose foot is on the outside of calamity
to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.
– Aeschylus, Prometheus Unbound
Author Bill PercyPosted on Wednesday, November 11, 2015 Categories Monastery Valley series of novelsTags Aeschylus, Affordable Care Act, Ben Carson, Donald Trump, immigration, Obamacare, political rhetoric, Robert Kennedy2 Comments on On Political Words
How Fiction Can Repair the World
Okay, fiction can't repair the world. Still, I've been wondering lately whether the time and energy I invest in writing fiction might be better spent working socially to change the world. The question has been long with me, ever since a criticism I received in 1974 from a good friend, a Catholic priest. I had decided on a career in psychotherapy, and he challenged me: "Let's say as a therapist you can help fifty people a year for forty years. What's that? 2000 people in your career. Be a social activist, a community organizer – you'll help 2000 people every year." I didn't take him up on that. It seemed to me that by seeking the quantity, I'd lose the quality of the relationship with those I served. Perhaps that was selfish.
Tikkun Olam – repairing the world
In the first sermon I heard by Michele's rabbi, he spoke about tikkun olam, which is Hebrew for "to repair the world." Every Jew, Rabbi Cohen said, should repair the world. I wasn't Jewish, but in good Catholic style, I felt guilty anyway, since I hadn't yet repaired the world. Such a requirement, repairing the world! Isn't that the Messiah's job?
When I told Michele this, she was quiet for a moment. "I think you're missing the point."
"He said we have to repair the world. That's huge."
"He meant one person at a time."
Some years later, I came across this quote from the Talmud: "Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world's grief. Do justly, now. Love mercy, now. Walk humbly now. You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it." Ah. So maybe one relationship at a time was all right.
A wonderful novel, The Seventh Telling by Mitchell Chefitz, tells the story of a rabbi whose wife is dying of cancer. The rabbi is asked if her suffering is destroying his hope for a Messiah. He surprises his friend by saying that the Messiah has already come! In fact, he says, there have already been many Messiahs. For instance, he says, "Jonas Salk was the Messiah for polio."
In the Buddhist tradition, there's a saying that when one person becomes enlightened, the whole world is freed from suffering. Instant tikkun olam! The best thing a person can do to save the world is to save himself or herself. This obviously is aspirational, judging from the amount of suffering left in the world. But it makes a point.
Let's say these ancient claims are true: That we repair the world one person at a time; that by cultivating our own spiritual health, we benefit the world. Let me make a case, then, that writing fiction participates in that effort.
Seriously? We should maybe send Bookmobiles to prowl the streets of refugee camps? How can writing stop ISIS? (Buy a bearded boy a book?) What about the plague of American gun violence? I suppose a paperback doesn't fire many bullets. But really? How can writing reverse the injustices of runaway capitalism? If you read Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-first Century, will the resulting brain-freeze snuff out the greed-is-good meme?
Plainly, writing alone can't change the world. But solid, honest writing can make a difference by informing people about the pressing issues of the time – look at the articles, journalism, and reflection in the great (and even the not so great) newspapers, in Mother Jones, Harpers, The Atlantic, The New York Review of Books, and the dozens of similar publications. And informed people ultimately will change things – they will help refugees, stop ISIS, reduce gun violence, redistribute wealth more justly. People who are well informed will eventually find one another, band together, and make the changes the world needs.
Tikkun olam.
You will say, "But that kind of writing is non-fiction. You write fiction. Of what use is your novel to hungry people, to the oppressed, to victims of war and guns? How does it make for economic justice or slow down global climate change?"
To which I answer, "One reader at a time." A good novel has the power of, say, a fine piece of improvisational music or an ink and rice paper painting – the power to touch some deeper place in those who read or listen or see. I don't mean that fiction must inspire any particular virtue, but I agree with John Gardner's notion that fiction must be moral. In an interview with Sara Mathiessen, Gardner said, "A truly moral book is one that is radically open to persuasion, but looks hard at a problem, and keeps looking for answers. . . . I think that the difference right now between good art and bad art is that the good artists are the people who are, in one way or another, creating, out of deep and honest concern, a vision of life in the twentieth century that is worth pursuing."
In my novel, Climbing the Coliseum, I wanted to explore, by means of story (as differentiated from journalism, philosophy, or memoir) the question of whether and how people who are marginalized somehow can find their way into a community that cares about them. What does it take? Who needs to be involved? What works, what doesn't? I didn't want to pose that question "out loud," as I would in an essay or a non-fiction study, but rather to tell a story about real people, and to tell it as honestly as I could. That way, my readers have the freedom to be affected by the book in whatever way and at whatever level they respond to it. If even one reader is moved to consider the plight of abandoned teenagers after reading Climbing, the world is a little better for it.
A great experience with a novel, I'll claim, can be as life-changing as an auto accident or a serious illness, as falling in love, as the birth of a child. In John Gardner's words, moral fiction offers readers a vision of life "that is worth pursuing." One life at a time. One of the many challenges of fine writing – fiction or not – is to tell stories that embody that vision of the life worth pursuing.
As the Talmudic rabbis put it, "we are not obligated to complete the work, nor are we free to abandon it."
Author Bill PercyPosted on Wednesday, August 19, 2015 Wednesday, August 19, 2015 Categories Monastery Valley series of novelsTags Buddhism, Climbing the Coliseum, John Gardner, Judaism, moral fiction, Tikkun Olam, writingLeave a comment on How Fiction Can Repair the World
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Francis, the Dalai Lama, Climate Change, and Civic Love
On May 24 of this year, Pope Francis issued his encyclical, a teaching letter, on climate change. Its title is Laudato Si', the opening words of a song by St. Francis of Assisi praising God for the beauty of nature. Its subtitle is "On care for our common home." At times, the writing is lyrical, almost beautiful; at others, hard-boiled and fierce. In English translation, though, it is clear and readable.
In his writing, Francis paints a powerful picture: The environmental crisis we are all facing is tightly woven into the economic and social arrangements of modern capitalist societies – and into the psychology that such societies and arrangements engender. Here are two paragraphs (203 and 204) from Laudato Si' that highlight this tight interconnection:
Since the market tends to promote extreme consumerism in an effort to sell its products, people can easily get caught up in a whirlwind of needless buying and spending. Compulsive consumerism is one example of how the techno-economic paradigm affects individuals. . . . This paradigm leads people to believe that they are free as long as they have the supposed freedom to consume. But those really free are the minority who wield economic and financial power. . . .
The current global situation engenders a feeling of instability and uncertainty, which in turn becomes "a seedbed for collective selfishness" [quoted from John Paul II]. When people become self-centred and self-enclosed, their greed increases. The emptier a person's heart is, the more he or she needs things to buy, own and consume. It becomes almost impossible to accept the limits imposed by reality. In this horizon, a genuine sense of the common good also disappears. As these attitudes become more widespread, social norms are respected only to the extent that they do not clash with personal needs. So our concern cannot be limited merely to the threat of extreme weather events, but must also extend to the catastrophic consequences of social unrest. Obsession with a consumerist lifestyle, above all when few people are capable of maintaining it, can only lead to violence and mutual destruction (emphasis added).
The Pope's equation is straightforward: Excessive consumerism drives social instability through the psychological mechanisms of insecurity, self-centeredness, even greed.
Elsewhere, Francis makes the obvious connection between consumerism and environmental crisis: Everything in the postmodern capitalist economy depends on the consumption of energy, and the selfishness of large fossil fuel companies obstructs the development of alternative sources of energy. The excesses of capitalism lead to consumerism, which in its turn reinforces the excesses of capitalism, to the detriment of our social and economic health and the destruction of the natural world.
As ecologists and systems thinkers have known since the pre-WWII era, everything is interconnected. And there's another writer on this topic who knows it too, as do all Buddhists.
Compare Pope Francis's writing to that of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, in his 1990 teaching, "Ecology and the Human Heart":
So when the environment changes, climatic conditions also change. When it changes dramatically, economic structures and many other things also change, even our physical body. So you can see the great effect from that change. So from that viewpoint this is not only a question of our own survival.
Therefore, in order to achieve more effective results and in order to succeed in the protection, conservation and preservation of the natural environment, first of all, I think, it is also important to bring about internal balance within human beings themselves. Since negligence of the environment – which has resulted in lots of harm to the human community – came about by ignorance of the very special importance of the environment, I think it is very important first of all to instill this knowledge within human beings. So, it is very important to teach or tell people about its importance bring own benefit (emphasis added).
In both these writers, you read the same ideas about interconnectedness among individuals' psychological makeup (fear, greed, and ignorance leading to consumerism), social and economic relations (competitiveness and unfettered capitalism), and ecology and nature (climate change). Both insist that the problem exists at all levels, and that a solution at only one level will ultimately fail.
I don't mean to suggest, nor do Francis or the Dalai Lama suggest, that everyone must be active at all levels for effective positive change to occur. Rather, the message seems to be: We each can contribute, at whatever level we prefer, to solutions for the planet, our people, and our civilization.
Here's how Francis writes this in Laudato Si':
Not everyone is called to engage directly in political life. Society is also enriched by a countless array of organizations which work to promote the common good and to defend the environment, whether natural or urban. Some, for example, show concern for a public place (a building, a fountain, an abandoned monument, a landscape, a square), and strive to protect, restore, improve or beautify it as something belonging to everyone. Around these community actions, relationships develop or are recovered and a new social fabric emerges. Thus, a community can break out of the indifference induced by consumerism. These actions cultivate a shared identity, with a story which can be remembered and handed on. In this way, the world, and the quality of life of the poorest, are cared for, with a sense of solidarity which is at the same time aware that we live in a common home which God has entrusted to us. These community actions, when they express self-giving love, can also become intense spiritual experiences.
My books are not environmental treatises. They are fiction, set in ecologically distinct and robust places, similar to where I live in north Idaho, but they aren't based on environmental themes. Still, I write this blog, in which I focus on psychological, literary, or spiritual aspects of both writing and being. The pressing issues of environmental and ecological degradation and climate change concern me, as they concern millions. I was struck by Francis's use of writing to address the issue as not merely an economic and social issue, not only a psychological issue, but also a moral issue.
In our small communities, Sandpoint and Hope, Idaho, many people and groups who are deeply engaged in these matters, such as Wild Idaho Rising Tide. One manifestation is a growing concern and movement to counter the growing threat of coal, oil, and gas trains funneling through our communities.
Sunset over Lake Pend Oreille, Idaho
These trains are coming from the North Dakota Bakken oil field and the Powder River Wyoming coal mines and going to the Pacific ports for export to Asia. Sightline Daily estimates that coal and oil train traffic through Sandpoint and across Lake Pend Oreille will more than double from its current levels, leading to hours of road crossing closures and, of course, the risk of derailment and explosion or waterway pollution.
Efforts to stop the coal trains and the so-called "bomb trains" carrying crude oil are not NIMBY selfishness.
They are serious, thoughtful, and concerned social actions to raise attention all along the routes taken by these trains, from the Midwest to the Pacific coast. They embody what Francis calls "civic love." As a writer, I can do a small part to bring these things to readers' attention; it is not the most I can do, but it is certainly the least I can do for the world, the country, and the land that I love.
Author Bill PercyPosted on Monday, June 29, 2015 Categories Monastery Valley series of novelsTags "Laudato Si, civic love, climate change and social justice, consumerism, Dalai Lama, Pope Francis14 Comments on Francis, the Dalai Lama, Climate Change, and Civic Love
A blog is born . . .
Welcome to "The Blog at Bill Percy Books." (In resort towns like ours, you find places with names like "The Seasons at Sandpoint" or "The Old Church in Hope." Maybe I'm hoping, with that blog title, that you'll find visiting here to be like heading off to a ski resort or a summer cabin on the lake. Who knows?)
Lake Pend Oreille Idaho on a hazy summer afternoon
By way of introduction, I'd like to share a bit about myself. In this blog, I'll focus on writing in all its dimensions, but I'm organizing my thoughts around three key areas, which I've tagged as psyche, story, and spirit. More on them later. Fiction is my "home base" as a writer now, although for forty years I wrote as a psychologist, for teaching and scholarship, and a guy doesn't leave forty years and walk away!
During those forty years practicing psychology, I developed a keen interest in brain science, especially the science of how emotional and physical trauma affects its sufferers. I keep up with developments in that field; so much of literature deals with people's experiences of traumatic events. Not only the dramatic, big-news traumas such as war, natural disasters, rape, or auto accidents, but also the insidious cumulative traumas, like meaningless jobs and daily horror shows in the news, the small-change traumas that wear on our spirits like repetitive stress wears on our bodies. In fact, there's an emerging field of literary theory that focuses exactly on trauma in literature. If you're interested, here's a good introduction to that emerging discipline. http://tinyurl.com/kxburxm.
My interests aren't all bleak, though! I love Bach and Bobby Dylan and Arvo Pärt and Wolf Hall and James Ellroy and Neal Stephenson and good food and oaky Chardonnay (which reminds me a lot of fine writing) and A Game of Thrones. Oh, yeah: I love reading history when it shivers me into recognizing something about the present day. For instance, have you noticed that the political rhetoric leading to the French Revolution and to the American Civil War sound (and smell) a lot like the politics of 2015?
Baseball games on the radio stop me in my tracks, as does a well-played pipe organ or a beautifully designed church. Or a custom bicycle. So look for the occasional excursion into those cultural regions, especially when they link to good writing. And watch for resources and links to other blogs and sites that help writers write – and think – better; a guy can't help but pass along the things that make him grow at what he does!
Now, what about those themes in the blog's tag line: psyche, story, and spirit? Why did I chose them rather than, say, psychology, fiction, and spirituality? For me, these shorter words evoke a deeper and broader range of possibilities than their longer cousins.
Psyche can be the mythical young woman turned into a goddess through her passion for self-investigation, or the word can evoke the soul, the self, the inner being, the personality, or four of the Buddhists' six "aggregates" that make us human (perceptions, feelings, mental formations, and consciousness).
Story, rather than fiction, widens the space for us to play with all kinds of writing, and it alerts us to a core purpose in all writing – to tell a story. More on that in another post.
And why spirit? Try these for openers: Holy Spirit, school spirit, a spirited child, he spirited her away, to be in good spirits, team spirit, the spirit not the letter, the spirit of the times. That's the spirit!
I hope my thoughts provoke your own, and if they do, please add yours to the conversation—or share mine with like-minded friends. I intend to post about writing — its explorations of psyché, the stories that embody it, and and the spirit of great communication, not to mention the spirit behind the spiritual dimensions of life — on a Fridays each week (as long as I can get to my laptop) and I look forward to getting to know you! I"d love to hear from you about the interests and loves that feed your writing . . . Any thoughts?
Where I write in Hope, Idaho
Tags: writing, fiction, psychology, psyche, story, spirit, spirituality
Author Bill PercyPosted on Friday, May 22, 2015 Friday, May 22, 2015 Categories Monastery Valley series of novelsLeave a comment on A blog is born . . .


Bob has been a member of WPC for the past 6 years was elected as an elder in 2018. In addition to his duties as an elder he teaches the Wednesday evening Small Group study and manages the Men's Fellowship Breakfast meetings. Bob is retired from Sinclair Oil where he was a Chemist in Chicago's Research Lab. He was also the previous owner of several small businesses including a restaurant. A licensed commercial pilot, he built an experimental aircraft. He earned a BS degree in Chemistry from Florida State University and attended Covenant Seminary (PCA) in St. Louis, MO. Bob has been involved in church planting both in and outside of the U.S. and has previously served as an elder at churches in St. Louis and in Jacksonville. In Haines City, FL he served as both Mayor and as President of the local Chamber of Commerce.


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Occasionally an Advisor will suggest lifejackets in the locks but it is dubious whether they would help in this situation. When a big ship enters a lock it pushes the water ahead of it to the end of the lock where it hits the lock gates, submerges, and goes out of the lock under the ship – Don't fall in!!
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Each Scout has an individual account within the Troop financial structure. His fundraising proceeds are placed in this account. He may use these fundraising profits to cover camp and other Troop costs. He will receive a statement of this account on a quarterly basis. Each Scout needs to be responsible for contacting the Troop Treasurer to specify use of Scout funds to pay for outings, etc.
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The Fundraising Committee will plan, coordinate and evaluate established and new fundraising efforts for Troop 1282. This will include choosing fundraisers, distributing information to scouts, advertising, organizing events, collecting money from sales, and distributing goods to participating scouts.
A gift of thinking outside the box, creatively considering ways to raise funds and keep scouting affordable for our members. The ability to make decisions, organize, and follow through with a plan. The ability to encourage scout involvement and solicit community support. A commitment to working collaboratively with committee and troop leadership.
If boys take full advantage of opportunities offered by Troop 1282 the cost of participation can add up. It is important to teach Scouts the responsibility of contributing to the family to help raise funds for their activities. Even if your family does not have a financial hardship, you can help make scouting accessible and lessen the hardships of fellow Scouts who do have a financial need by participating in fundraisers.


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