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081 - The Legend of Lyon Redmond
After almost two years of waiting we finally come to our Pennyroyal Green conclusion. Olivia Eversea is at last ready to put the Redmond she should have never loved away for good. The trouble is as the wedding gets closer, the world appears to be conspiring against her. Lyon for his part has tried to forget the girl who broke his heart on a rainy night five years ago. And yet, upon learning of her impending nuptials, Lyon cannot seem to leave England's shores as he planned. Can our star crossed lovers untangle their feelings and start anew or will the past be just too hard an obstacle to overcome? Thanks you Julie Anne Long for your amazing series and we cannot wait to read its final chapter in "The Legend of Lyon Redmond." **It's all SPOILERS for these long lost lovers**
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22:59 - 1:03:20: General Discussion
The Legend of Lyon Redmond Synopsis:
*Please note the book is written by switching back and forth from past to present. We have decided to go in chronological order as it is much less confusing for a shortened synopsis*
Olivia Eversea and Lyon Redmond met at a local Sussex ball. Lyon took one look at Olivia and promptly stole her from her next partner. He was unaware she was an Eversea and even after he found out, it did not matter.
Their courtship mainly consisted of Lyon meeting Olivia on her way to the Duffy family every Tuesday as was her assignment by the Society for the Sussex Poor.
There was nothing wild in the courtship. No secret kissing, not wild proclamations, just a boy and girl meeting and getting to know each other better.
Things came to head when Lyon was due to go to London to give a proposal to the Mercury Club. Before he left, he tried to give Olivia a pair of gloves she had mentioned admiring at Postlewaite's. Olivia though was a thinker and did not accept them with joy.
"But I can't keep these, Lyon. What am I to do with these? I can't wear them in public. I can't do anything at all with you in public. How will I explain how I came to have them? What were you thinking?"
Olivia quickly leaves and Lyon is flummoxed.
Lyon cannot help thinking about this event while in London and eventually cuts his trip short by a week. Olivia was ecstatic to see him and immediately gave him a miniature of herself as an apology for not being more thankful for the gloves.
Our two finally have their kiss and it is electrifying. And oh how Lyon wants to do more beneath Olivia's skirts but he is a gentleman so he does not.
Olivia is then moved to a new family to deliver food too. It turns out that it was noticed that Olivia was in the presence of a young man and her family intervened to have her charity assignment changed.
Through some clandestine dropping of prayer books, Olivia let's Lyon know she has been assigned to a new family. Turns out Lyon had already figured out this information and gives her a spot to meet him.
The next week Lyon is there and shows Liv a clearing he knows about. She is enchanted and then our young love sick MCs have a very staid coming together through clothes. Although Lyon gives his Liv an orgasm and he, very gentlemanly, comes in his trousers.
The evening Lyon goes to his father and tells him that he wishes to marry Olivia Eversea. Isaiah Redmond responds as we have come to expect. He tells Lyon he may marry Olivia but he will be cut off from everything. His funds, the mercury club, and his entire family. He will be allowed no contact.
Lyon wastes no time and rushes to Olivia's house in the middle of the night. He asks her to come away with him, immediately. He is not going to give into his father and if it's just the two of them, then he can be happy.
Olivia is taken aback. She hates being told what to do and while she wants to leave with Lyon, how can he ask this of her with no notice.
And so Olivia says the words that everyone has been speculating on all these years.
"What am I afraid of? You're asking me to leave everything and everyone I know behind right now. But how on earth would we survive? What kind of life will we have?" "I will take care of you, Liv." He was so certain she almost capitulated. But fear had momentum. "How? What way? What on earth do you know how to do? Shall I go out to work? How on earth will we live on nothing at all? I've seen how the Duffys live, Lyon, and it's hardly life at all. If they loved each other ever, it was killed long ago."
"What if loving you is what I do best?"
She opened her eyes. She looked at him, standing in the rain, amid the wreckage of their dreams, and said: "Then I pity you." He jerked. As surely as if she'd sunk a blade right into his heart. And then . . . and then she'd never seen anyone so still. His face was ghost-white even in the lamplight. She shook his coat from her shoulders and seized the lamp and then she ran back into the house, her feet skidding along the wet ground, as if fleeing the scene of a murder. It might as well have been her own.
Present Day:
Lyon Redmond has just received notice from Lavay about Olivia Eversea's impending nuptials. At first, he's determined to leave England as was his plan, and yet, he has done nothing but think of Olivia from the moment he left Pennyroyal Green. So he tells his crew they shall be staying in England for a bit longer.
Olivia Eversea is currently in London preparing for her upcoming wedding. While she is confident that she has chosen the right man for her, she still cannot help but be a little disinterested in the wedding preparation. What does it matter if her dress is trimmed in silver or in beads. Does it really matter?
To top things off, she's a bit overrun with thoughts of Lyon Redmond, the man who left. Even while trying to put thoughts of him aside, the world continues to conspire against her. Outside the dress maker's shop, there is a chorus who is singing a brand new song, entitled "The Legend of Lyon Redmond." Then later, she enters her favorite tea shop only to find the place overrun with cartoon depictions of the artists imagining Lyon Remond's adventures. In both the song and the cartoons, Olivia is not portrayed in a flattering light. She is the uppity society girl who drove the ton's golden boy to parts unknown.
As the wedding continues to approach Olivia is getting more and more anxious. It is all becoming a bit much, so when a letter arrives from Mrs. Hannah More, one of Olivia's abolitionist heroes, asking her to come to a conference for a couple weeks, Olivia convinces her family that she must go.
When Olivia arrives at the inn where she is to meet Mrs. More, she discovers the last person she expects to see: Lyon Redmond.
He had sent the letter to lure Olivia away from her family so the two of them can have the reckoning they both deserve.
Lyon says though that this reckoning will not happen at the inn. Olivia must accompany him to his ship.
She agrees, drawn by the man she never expected to see again.
Once on the ship, they actually set sail. Olivia is extremely frustrated by this high handedness but is a little less annoyed when they arrive in a secluded spot in Spain.
Lyon has taken her to one of his houses. In fact it is exactly the house he described to her when they were first getting to know each other. An elegant house, with just a few nice pieces of furniture. Where sunlight can pour into the house.
She held still, suffused with wonder and a peculiar peace and sense of rightness in this house. It was a strangely familiar sensation. And then she recalled the first she time she had felt that way: It was when he first approached her in the ballroom. As if the fences surrounding her world had been kicked down.
The two finally have a chance to talk that first night. They go for a walk on the beach. Lyon tells her where he has been, what he has accomplished, and asks why she did not believe in him.
She tells him that she had no idea he would leave that night. She was just young and scared by the sudden demand that she leave all she had known behind with no plan at all.
Lyon acknowledges that he did not have the right to push her also tells her that he was devastated that she could not chose him.
The next few days are spent in a magical fashion. Lyon takes her to a beautiful waterfall where their instant attraction leads to a full blown encounter. Lyon cannot resist Olivia and Olivia cannot resist the kisses of the man who has always set her blood on fire. They make love next to waterfall and then proceed to have few other encounters in their Spanish paradise.
However, their time together was always finite and eventually the ship comes to take Olivia back to England. She looks to Lyon and realizes that he is not returning with her.
He tells her that she must remember her code but he cannot return to life in England in which she does not willingly choose him.
He watched as they rowed her out. And he watched her grow smaller and smaller. And he prayed. And he held his breath. But she did it. She got on the ship. She got on the bloody ship. She never once looked back. Ah, she certainly knew how to punish him. He dropped to his knees on the sand and blew out a long breath, wrapping his folded hands across the back of his head.
Olivia arrives home and is swept into the wedding frenzy. People are arriving, the dress is finished and before she knows it, the day has arrived and she is standing at the alter with Landsdown.
Landsdown says his I dos. But when Adam turns to Olivia and asks if she will love and obey until death do they part, Olivia, to the shock of everyone, says that she cannot.
To say I do, would be a lie. She cannot promise to love and cherish because that would be a lie, and her code in life was never to lie.
As she apologizes, she turns to leave and sees a homeless man at the back of the church stand up. He begins to unwind bandages from his face and there, for all of Pennyroyal Green to see, is Lyon Redmond. He silently turns and leaves the church. Olivia, without any hesitation runs after him.
When she finds him in the bell tower,
Those were the worst few moments of my life." His voice was husky. She wasn't ready to forgive him. Or to speak. Or to do anything but keep him in sight, lest he disappear again. Because she had come to claim him now. "They were also the best moments of my life," he added.
"I should have known I would go to the ends of the earth for you. I was born loving you. And no matter what, I would have fought for you."
"Yes." The word she should have said to him so many years ago. Yes, I'll go with you. Yes, I'll be with you. Yes, I believe in you. Yes, you are my life and my love and my destiny. Of course.
"I love you," she added hurriedly. Because she'd longed to say it to him, and she couldn't wait a moment longer. "I always have. I always will."
All hell breaks loose in the church and Adam calmly holds the crowds at bay and then sends them all home.
After the last of the wedding goers leaves, Adam heads to the bell tower, where he finds Olivia and Lyon. Giggling and whispering to each other as if no time had ever passed.
After the two chat and make plans for their own wedding Lyon goes to see his family.
He confronts his father, who is just overwhelmed with having his son back but also has to confront the man Lyon has become. He tells his father how he learned who was behind the Dreieck group. And it wasn't Jacob Eversea, it was Isaiah Redmond.
I won't tell you how I learned it, but I undertook to seek out the source for the woman I love. As you know, it's one the things she feels most passionately about. It's as part of her heart as I am. I feel passionately about it as well. And I can't imagine that even you condone the practice of slavery, not even for profit."
Lyon also sees his siblings.
If anyone in the room had harbored any lingering resentment about Lyon's disappearance and the crushing confusion and pain of his loss, it was instantly drowned by the superior power of love and gratitude and the sheer rightness of having Lyon here again. And now that they were older, and each of them had fallen in love, they understood more fully why Lyon had to do what he'd done. And relationships could shift and flow to allow him back in.
Lastly he sees his mother:
It wasn't until he met with his mother alone, and she folded him in her arms, that Lyon Redmond finally wept. For all that he knew, and all that he was certain she knew and understood, and because he loved and had missed his mother.
The following Sunday, we have the wedding of Lyon and Olivia. No more bets could be placed and the whole town marches out to see the legendary couple themselves.
"And it might have been the misty morning. The little church might have seemed as dark and soft as a womb. But everyone said the bride's and groom's faces were so radiant they could have read aloud by them."
There is an epilogue. It is 2015. We learn that Lyon and Olivia had kids and were extremely happy. All the siblings had wonderful lives and had offspring that populated the world. They all also achieved massive success which we learn courtesy of a Redmond relative in 2015, who has Olivia's journal recounting her life lived with her one and only.


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Victoria Leadership Awards Nominations
Posted on September 21, 2011 in General, Leadership, Victoria News
The annual Victoria Leadership Awards (VLAs) have been honouring inspired leadership in the community since 2005. This year, we are pleased to welcome the United Way of Greater Victoria as our newest partner with a new award celebrating collaboration and partnership. We are also pleased to announce that Royal Roads University is sponsoring a new award for leadership excellence through coaching and mentoring. The two new awards complete a stable of eight award categories that recognize an incredible array of passionate and committed leaders, from youth to lifetime achievement.
Led by Leadership Victoria, the annual VLA awards are a partnership between Leadership Victoria, the University of Victoria, the Rotary Clubs of Greater Victoria, the Victoria Foundation and now, the United Way of Greater Victoria.
"The United Way has recently announced a new community investment framework and three new impact areas," said Linda Hughes, CEO of the United Way of Greater Victoria. "The timing is perfect for us to partner with the VLAs and celebrate exemplary collaborative leadership in a way that aligns with our values and vision for the community."
Nominations are currently being accepted for the 2012 awards ceremony. Now is the community's chance to nominate an exemplary community hero in one of eight prestigious awards categories:
The University of Victoria Community Leadership Awards acknowledge outstanding leadership in linking UVic and the community for greater public benefit (up to two awards per year).
The Rotary Community Leadership Awards recognize community leaders who meet the Rotary test of the highest levels of ethical behaviour and community leadership benefit (up to two awards per year).
The Vancity Youth Award acknowledges an emerging leader between the ages of 20 and 30 years of age who demonstrates community leadership and support for social justice, economic self-reliance or environmental responsibility within our community (one award per year).
The Leadership Victoria Alumni Award recognizes a graduate of the Leadership Victoria program who continues to demonstrate outstanding leadership and service in the Victoria community. (one award per year)
The Leadership Victoria Lifetime Achievement Award honours outstanding current or posthumous long-term service in community leadership roles such as philanthropy, innovation, mentoring and career achievement. (one award per year)
The Victoria Foundation Community Leadership Award recognizes an organization that is building community capacity and achieving positive change. (one award per year) The United Way of Greater Victoria Award for Collaboration & Partnership recognizes an individual leader in a non-profit organization who is building community capacity by creating partnerships and collaboration (new this year) The Royal Roads University Leadership Excellence through Coaching and Mentoring Award recognizes long term and outstanding service in community leadership roles that specifically focus on coaching and/or mentoring (new this year)
VLA Chair Kate Mansell is proud of how the VLAs honour the everyday heroes in our city. "The VLAs are a little like Victoria's Academy Awards for community leadership. We recognize individuals who inspire us all to do just a little more to build a more resilient, vibrant and healthy community".
The Leadership Victoria Lifetime Achievement Award and the Victoria Foundation Community Leadership Award are honorary awards and as such are not available for nominations from the public. All other awards categories are open for public nominations.
Nomination packages are available and may be completed online at www.leadershipvictoria.ca or directly from Leadership Victoria at Suite 306 – 620 View Street or by phone at 250-386-2269.
All nominations must be received by 4 pm, Wednesday, November 30th, 2011.
The awards will be presented on February 21, 2012 at a gala ceremony at the Fairmont Empress Hotel in downtown Victoria.
A full list of previous winners is available here.
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Crucified Victims and Desecrated Earth
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Found: A Man Stuck in the Walls of an Apartment Kitchen
He scared his neighbor.
by Sarah Laskow January 11, 2017
Sometimes people just show up in your kitchen walls. Brett Hondrow/Public domain
In a New York City apartment, a woman was startled when she heard a loud crash in the kitchen. "I freaked out for a couple of minutes," she told the New York Daily News. When she calmed down, she went to investigate.
She heard the sound of a person panting and breathing hard in her kitchen walls.
The woman, Gjyste Margilaj, lives on the first floor of the building. The man in the walls had recently moved into the building's fourth floor. But he ended up in her apartment from the roof, from which he had climbed into an air vent that led to Margilaj's kitchen walls.
The man said getting into the vent was "the initiation for being new to the building," the New York Post reported.
The building is seven stories tall, and the man fell six stories before being stuck. He was trapped in the wall for 40 minutes before emergency responders were able extract him. They had to break the wall down. The man suffered only minor injuries.
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David Shields is the author of fourteen books, including How Literature Saved My Life (Knopf, 2013), Reality Hunger: A Manifesto (Knopf, 2010), and The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead (Knopf, 2008). His essays and stories have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Harper's, Esquire, Yale Review, Village Voice, Salon, Slate, McSweeney's, and Utne Reader. Shields has received a Guggenheim fellowship, two NEA fellowships, and an Ingram Merrill Foundation Award. He lives with his wife and daughter in Seattle, where he is the Milliman Distinguished Writer-in-Residence at the University of Washington.
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"Keeping Up with the Speed of Light," an Interview with David Shields
This interview was conducted through email by Poetry Advisor Mark Haunschild. Of the process he says, "I'm interested in the way David advocates an unmasked literature, one in which reality is mirrored more than it is foiled. Increasingly emptied of the artifice, posturing, and virtuosity found in earlier generations, his work reaches across the divide between writer and reader, between self and other; he crafts an incredibly personal experience in which his consciousness speaks to our consciousness in the voices of others. Here he talks about his latest book How Literature Saved My Life, developments in his earlier publications, his future projects, and the writers and mentors that have guided his practice."
Mark Haunschild: Where your earlier nonfiction has explored subjects like celebrity, race, sports, and the stages of life through an autobiographical lens, your recent work reads as an examination of reflexivity in contemporary literature—that is, you've recently been writing essays that are self-consciously essays about essays—and of course, so much more. In broad stokes, you've moved away from writing fiction; sustained investigations have become koan-ish reflections like so many beads on a string, the connective filament always fraying. To what extent have you been cognizant of these shifts in your work? What, that you know of, motivated the change of course?
David Shields: I recently did a 5-day blog post for powells.com on this subject—how each book one writes leads to the next book—as a form of chain-smoking. Each book is a revisiting or undermining of previous books—traditional fiction led to less traditional fiction, which led to nonfiction, which led to collage nonfiction, which led to increasingly splintered work, which led to a brief phase of theorizing about the work—which leads to the end of that. I love the idea of Picasso's blue period; one goes through phases. I want never to be bored. I certainly don't actively will each new phase. For a while I wrote a few books that deal with sports, but that just happened. I'm not pretending an ignorance is bliss stance; only that phases happen very organically, I think, as a species of self-questioning and form-questioning. If you want to write seriously, you have to be willing to break the forms.
MH: I recently listened to a David Foster Wallace interview with my students where he discusses writing about pop culture. Your own references in your newest book, How Literature Saved My Life (2013), range from the obscure to the popular. In what ways do you (writers today) also have to be willing to reconsider what counts as "literary" subject matter?
DS: I like how Wallace discusses—in this interview or elsewhere—how his MFA professors at Arizona told him and his classmates that they couldn't write about pop culture, and yet the professors' own work of a previous generation was saturated with pop references of that generation. I'm terribly interested in breaking down high/low distinctions. Fear can be found in a handful of dust.
MH: In your latest book, you open with the claim: "All criticism is a form of autobiography." It strikes me that this sentence works as a pivot between your recent nonfiction: Enough About You: Notes Toward a New Autobiography (2002), Reality Hunger: A Manifesto (2012), and HLSML. Could you talk about how the relationship between these books was developed over the past decade?
DS: I think that's right. That line is crucial. People who know me well think of Reality Hunger as perhaps the most howlingly personal book I've ever written. I also think you're right that those three books form a bit of a trio, don't they? They are three attempts to articulate a position—each one building off the previous one.
MH: I don't mean to appear dense here, but can you say more about how you mean "personal" in the context of Reality Hunger or HLSML? How do you see the personal working in these books, composed as they are in the voices of so many others?
DS: In HLSML it's pretty manifest: I quote various people, but I am overtly talking about myself throughout: stuttering, love life, suicidal longings, thanatophobia, etc. In Reality Hunger, the hunger is mine. I am craving to get to something tangible, something physical. The passion of the book is my own.
MH: Does this opening proposition, "All criticism is a form of autobiography" also hold true for you when considering the whole of literature? To what extent is all literature a form of autobiography?
DS: Alas, I do think this way. In many, many ways, all of my recent work—Remote: Reflections On Life In The Shadow Of Celebrity (1996) forward—began with how bored I was when I heard writers pretending that they had made everything up. I knew that wasn't true for them, and I knew it wasn't true for me, and I'm hugely interested in literature as a form of autobiography—not reductively—but as a serious communication between one self and another self. I like it when one consciousness (Pascal or Sterne or Melville or Ernaux) is speaking directly to another consciousness (the reader).
MH: I like that, David. One consciousness speaking to another. I just finished reading Sarah Manguso's The Guardians (2013). (I also recently lost a friend to an unexplainable suicide.) When I was reading that book, I felt like, yeah, now there's another human being I can understand. In both of her memoirs she deals with the problem of memory so intricately and honestly—she remembers how things happen in a way that makes sense to her, there are things she knows but cannot remember, she imagines how things might have gone differently. It seems to me that that's how consciousnesses speak, through mutual acknowledgement of the unsayableness of (past) experience and of the paradoxical relationship between language and reality. How do you tackle the problem of memory in your own work?
DS: I tend to foreground the problematics as well. I like work by writers such as Dyer, McCarthy, Slater, Manguso, Nabokov—all works that are at least as much about memory as they are about anything remembered. The perceiver by his very presence alters what's perceived: that is pretty much the banner under which I fly as well.
MH: In HLSML you humbly describe your journalist parents as "frustrated" writers. A younger you once admitted that he wanted to take a different direction in his own work. And you did. I'm wondering to what extent you find your own work "frustrated" or frustrating, today. How have your own tensions, say between nonfiction and art, driven or stalled your creative process?
DS: Not sure I totally understand the question, but I like it, to the extent I understand it. I think of all of my work in a way as a work around writer's block. I was bored with novel-writing, and I have found a way to write that plays to my strengths and interests. I am forever a blocked writer, a frustrated writer, a bored writer, and I am always figuring out ways around that frustration. I think that drives everything I've written from 1996 onward.
MH: Yeah, that question was bit opaque (I keep over-posturing all of this. [Here I go again]). I guess part of me was wondering how, in a general way, you would respond to the "we become our parents" thing. I'm also curious about the extent to which writing (period) is frustrating. I like your answer here though. Comfort and stasis do seem to go hand in hand.
DS: Not sure I get how we become our parents—you mean I've become a nonfiction writer, as my parents were? I don't see that very much. [MH: I don't either. My question is terrible.] My work is in conversation with "journalism," "reportage," but is mainly devoted to a questioning of the undergirding myths of any notion that "nonfiction" is irreducibly true. If the writing isn't difficult, don't bother…
MH: In other recent interviews, you've talked at length about the process by which you wrote Reality Hunger, which you also discuss in the new book. Could you speak here about the process of writing HLSML?
DS: That was interesting. I just shot a lot of film. I didn't know where I was going. I just knew I wanted to write a book about life and art. I just developed film for dozens of moments, not sure where it was all going—but I knew it was always about life and art. Then I read Ben Lerner's great Leaving the Atocha Station (2011), and I realized the form and structure for my book.
MH: I appreciate the metaphor here. You talk a lot about films in your new book and include them under the umbrella of "literature." How deep does this metaphor go? Could you talk more about how you see the relationship between film and literature operating in your own (or others') work?
DS: I see myself mainly as a film editor. A lot of the cuts in my work and in other people's work whose books I admire—Michaels, Simon Gray, Spalding Gray, Manguso, Fusselman, Coetzee, Markson, Maggie Nelson—have been influenced by the radical juxtaposition of film and video.
MH: And for that matter, could you talk about your interests in music, how song plays a role in your work? I know you've spoken elsewhere about sampling, remix, and mash-ups in rap music.
DS: I've been listening to rap since the late 1970s. The influence has been so pervasive I wouldn't know where to start. I think it's pretty clear how much Reality Hunger is in conversation with this.
MH: What are your affinities with the plastic arts? Where do the painterly and writerly intersect in your work?
DS: I'm heavily influenced by collage in music and visual art. Hugely so. Everything from Christian Marclay's film The Clock to key abstract expressionist painters (Rauschenberg, Pollock, Rothko) to Picasso to Richter to everyone else.
MH: How do you see technology affecting developments in your own work or in contemporary literature? Many speculate that the physical book as we know it is most likely in its final throws. Have you given much thought to how technology, the blogosphere, the wiki-age, and social media might play a role in the evolution of your own work and career?
DS: Hugely so—from typewriter to electric typewriter to computer to email to smartphone. My emphasis on compression, concision, and velocity: I'm trying to keep up with the speed of light.
MH: In one of the longest sections of HLSML, you include brief discussions of fifty-five works you "swear by." Who are you reading right now? What titles are you excited about today that you didn't mention already in the book?
DS: Right now I'm crazy about Annie Ernaux's Things Seen. It is an extraordinary work that looks at first glance like a casual journal, but is in fact a brilliant collage meditation on the relation between private disequilibrium and public violence.
MH: It's clear that you appreciate the constructive and collaborative nature of language. A book is acted out, acts, and is acted upon—readers shape meaning as much as writers (and editors). I'm wondering if you might talk about your actual collaborators. At the end of HLSML you mention a project that you're working on with a former student, Caleb Powell. For readers who may not have read the book yet, what can you tell us about the project and your collaboration with Powell?
DS: It will be published in September 2014 by Knopf. Caleb is a former student—from 20 years ago; he and I argue about everything. He wanted to become an artist, but he overcommitted to life (he's the stay-at-home dad to 3 young girls). I always wanted to become a person (I don't know how to change a tire), but I overcommitted to art. That is the essential dialogue and debate. I am very excited about the book; it began as a week-long debate, turned into a 400,000-word manuscript, and we edited it into I Think You're Totally Wrong: A Quarrel, about 230 pp.
MH: How have your students or teaching inspired or prompted your writing? To what extent have you considered them collaborators in your creative process?
DS: Hugely so. The Caleb-David book came directly out of teaching, of course. Reality Hunger began as a course packet. Remote came out of a course. I complain about teaching too much, but my books tunnel up out of the courses…
MH: You've been teaching for a while, for two and a half decades, or more, right? How do you balance your attentions between teaching and writing?
DS: I've been teaching on and off since 1985. Yikes. Coming up on 30 years. I've had a lot of time off—sabbaticals, grants, etc. Now I have a teaching schedule that allows me to be writing 7-8 months a year.
MH: I guess I'm also interested in your own teachers and mentors. Who were your most important teachers? Who do you call "mentor?" Why?
DS: John Hawkes at Brown—taught me about voice. Nick Delbanco at Iowa—taught me about structure. Phillip Lopate—opened up the essay to me.
MH: Fakes: An Anthology of Pseudo-Interviews, Faux-Lectures, Quasi-Letters, "Found" Texts, and Other Fraudulent Artifacts (2012), besides being a great companion to Reality Hunger, both satirizes and celebrates the taxonomy of literature, the divvying up of characteristics into genres, the labeling of a text's kind and degree; the forty writers included in the anthology simultaneously thumb their nose at rules and are bound by them. It seems to me that anthologies, typically, either codify a trend or agitate against one. What were your goals when editing Fakes?
DS: You got it in one, Mark—as my British friend Jonathan would say. I do love using these anthologies as a way to build on arguments from my previous books. The Inevitable: Contemporary Writers Confront Death (2011) is a sequel of sorts to The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead (2009). Fakes is a sequel of sorts to Reality Hunger (although I must say that the lion's share of the work was done by my co-editor, Matthew Vollmer). And I have a new anthology I've co-edited called Life Is Short—Art Is Shorter: An Anthology Of Very Brief Prose, Lengthy Introduction And Extensive Commentary, by David Shields And Elizabeth Cooperman. This book is now seeking a publisher, and it gathers the arguments of Thing About Life and Reality Hunger. Fakes is, to me, not the solution to anything per se, but it situates itself nicely in a limbo space—as I like to say, caught between floors of a difficult-to-define department store. Seems to me one way one could write now without succumbing to traditional narratives.
MH: There is little doubt that you have been, recently, a controversial figure in a centuries old debate about the ethics of writing, and of nonfiction specifically. What would you say to critics who suggest that you have pushed the line between art and empiricism, distance and immersion, lyric and narrative, too far? Where do these lines lie in your own work and practice?
DS: The main thing I'd say would be the value of a work of art can be measured by the harm spoken of it (Flaubert).
MH: Awesome. Shields does Shields. I like that. But I guess I'm wondering: What role does criticism—including praise—play in your practice? Do you ever feel the need to respond to criticism directly or in your own work? If so, when and why?
DS: I think HLSML is a bit of a response to the complicated reaction Reality Hunger received. HLSML is an attempt to be a heart to the mind's manifesto, an attempt to explain that I wasn't trying to kill the patient—I was trying to save the patient (but the patient was definitely terminal)—; it's an attempt to take Reality Hunger theory and apply it as practice. I didn't realize that at the time, but I see that now, to an extent.
MH: Recently, several nonfiction authors have defended themselves against criticism of fudging it by claiming the pursuit of a "deep," "higher," or "emotional" truth, as opposed to the Truth truth (if there is such a thing). For many readers this defense could sound like relativistic academese. What's your take on the relationship between memory, fact, truth-telling, and the essay? How do you see these concerns expanding our possibilities in the art, and to what extent do you find these ethics, or the debates about them, to be stultifying, for critics or for writers?
DS: We probably are quickly reaching the end-point of the debate. I am mainly interested in writers who use nonfiction as a trampoline off which to bounce into the most interesting epistemological questions—what's real, what's knowledge, what's memory, what's true. I'm not interested in work that lies or makes stuff up per se. I'm much more interested in work (McCarthy, Slater, Dyer, Geoffrey Woolf, Proust, Sebald, etc, etc) that problematizes in a sophisticated way the very nature of the search. That seems to me a valuable way for a writer of a book-length essay to use the frame of "nonfiction."
MH: I know there's some buzz about The Private War of J.D. Salinger, described as an "oral biography," which is scheduled for publication in September of this year. Are you as excited about this book as all of Salinger's and your ogling readers are? I know you've said elsewhere that you can't talk about the project because of a non-disclosure agreement. Well, sir, let me tell you, your secret is safe with me. Give us the skinny.
DS: That's a good line, Mark—"your secret is safe with me." Made me laugh, but I can't discuss yet.
MH: Could you end by giving us a little teaser? What are you working on in your next book?
DS: Next books coming up are Salinger book, David-Caleb book [Sept 2014], Other People: A Remix (70 of my essays massively rewritten and rethought and reorganized in order to form a meditation on whether one person can understand one another, and if not, what consolation if any art provides) [January 2016].
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Le massif de l'Aigoual
The Aigoual massif is the result of large-scale reforestation, started at the end of the 19th century. At this time, the mountain is bare, the gullied soils and flooding in the valleys are catastrophic. The resources are overexploited by land clearing farmers, transhumant grazing in excess but also by the loggers providing the wood for the heating or for forges and glassworks. The forester Georges Fabre undertakes then the reforestation of the Aigoual. The task is gigantic. With the help of botanist Charles Flahault, arboretums* are created to test species exotic species that could adapt to the terrain and climate of the massif. Nowadays, the Aigoual national forest comprises 16,000 hectares, spread over the Gard and the Lozere.
The Causse de Blandas is a relatively high limestone plateau (1000 meters per places), composed of rocks from ancient marine deposits from 140 to 170 millions of years. The Vis dug its bed there for about twenty kilometres, shaping faults more than 300 meters deep.
St.Laurent- le- Minier mines
Saint-Laurent-le-Minier owes its name to the gold and silver mines, exploited since the Middle Age. The existence of these mines is proven by the underground passages or galleries carved in the rock, as well as by the ancient acts which mention them. others ores such as copper, argentiferous lead, iron, zinc have been mined and treated on St-Laurent. For example, at a place called "La Papeterie", 500 m from the village, along the road towards Ganges, was a factory of metal fabrication. The activity spanned from 1857 to the early 1950s.


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Maple Leafs place defenceman Morgan Rielly on injured reserve
Toronto Maple Leafs defenceman Morgan Rielly has been placed on injured reserve with an upper-body injury, keeping him out of the lineup until after the NHL all-star break.
The team made the announcement shortly before Monday night's game at Air Canada Centre against the Colorado Avalanche.
Rielly appeared to injure himself Thursday when he fell and landed awkwardly on the ice in the second period against the Philadelphia Flyers. He finished the game, but didn't dress Saturday against the Ottawa Senators and was originally listed day-to-day.
The 23-year-old leads all Toronto defenceman with five goals and 31 points in 47 games.
The Leafs recalled 22-year-old blue liner Rinat Valiev from the American Hockey League's Toronto Marlies. He has one goal and seven assists in 29 games for the minor league club.
Valiev made his NHL debut with Toronto during the 2015-16 season and appeared in 10 games for the club.
Toronto has back-to-back road games against the Chicago Blackhawks and Dallas Stars (Wednesday and Thursday) before this weekend's all-star festivities. The Leafs' first game after the all-star break is Jan. 31 at home against the New York Islanders.


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Boy, 13, fired shotgun into cousin's face after playing gangster game
A violent scene from Grand Theft Auto, San Andreas
By David Sapsted
12:01AM GMT 03 Feb 2006
A schoolboy shot his cousin in the face with a shotgun, seriously wounding him, after playing a notoriously violent video game, a court heard yesterday.
The boys, both 13 at the time, had been playing the game Grand Theft Auto, San Andreas which, in America, has been blamed for prompting several killings by teenagers.
Bury St Edmunds youth court heard that the victim survived the blast but was left seriously injured after pellets penetrated his brain, eye, shoulder and elbow. He has had several operations and will be left with pellets in his brain for life.
The boy who fired the shot claimed that he fetched his father's shotgun from a locked gun cabinet at his home in Haverhill, Suffolk, to scare his friends as a prank.
He claimed that he believed that the 12-bore's safety catch was on and that it was loaded with only spent cartridges.
Joanne Eley, prosecuting, said that the prosecution did not accept that the shooting had been an accident because the boy, who denies unlawfully and maliciously inflicting grievous bodily harm, had to release the safety catch.
Miss Eley described the Grand Theft Auto game - various versions of which have sold more than 40 million copies worldwide - as a "gangsters and guns" game that involved "running around nicking cars and shooting people".
In the United States it has been the subject of a lawsuit following the fatal shootings of three people, including two police officers, by an 18-year-old in Alabama in 2004 who went out to steal cars after becoming addicted to the game.
Another lawsuit has arisen from the fatal shooting of a motorist and the wounding of another by two teenagers who opened fire on cars on a Tennessee motorway after playing Grand Theft Auto.
Miss Eley told the court that the two cousins and other friends had all been playing the game where you "beat people up, scare them, get cars and shoot people". The boy told police that he might have inadvertently replaced one of the spent cartridges with a live one.
He said that he had then gone downstairs and, seeing his cousin in the kitchen, pointed the gun towards him. He said it had gone off when he had pretended to pull the trigger.
"I just wanted to scare them," he said after the shooting in November, 2004. "They used to always do it to me. I had never really found anything to scare them, so I wanted to see if the gun did."
The shot boy, who gave evidence via a video link, said: "I was scared that he was pointing the gun around. I did not think he would shoot because he was my cousin.
"I was crouching on the floor, then I heard a massive bang and blacked out. I thought I was going to die. I came round and crawled upstairs. I did not know I was hurt until the man from next door came and I saw blood on the tea towel. I asked why he did it and he said, 'I don't know'. "
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Bill Nicholson was born in Scarborough on the 26th January,1919. He was one of a family of 9 and moved from his native Yorkshire to join Tottenham Hotspur as a 17 year old in March 1936. A distinguished player in his own right Bill played for Spurs from 1936 until 1954 and was part of the famous 'Push & Run ' team of the 1950's. It should of course be mentioned that Bill lost a large part of his playing career during the outbreak of WW2.
However, it was perhaps as a Manager of Spurs that Bill really gained world-wide recognition as one of the finest football managers of his day. He was appointed Manager in 1958 and on his very first match in charge Spurs recorded a famous 10-4 win over Everton. He went on to manage the famous Spurs 'Double winning Team' in the 1960-61 season and became the first British manager to win a European trophy when winning the European Cup-Winners Cup in 1963. Under Bill's guidance Spurs were to win the FA Cup 3 times - The League Cup twice and the UEFA Cup on a further two occasions. Bill retired as the Spurs Manager in 1976.
Bill continued to work as a consultant until 1991 when he was awarded the title of Club President. Bill continued to attend every match at his beloved Tottenham Hotspur played at White Hart Lane until shortly before his death on the 23rd October, 2004 aged 85 years
Bill was a true man of Tottenham and arguably the finest manager in Football never to be Knighted. The entrance to today's Stadium has been named 'Bill Nicholson Way' in his memory.
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Rahul Roy Moved from Nanavati to Wockhardt Hospital Says Family
Rahul Roy suffered a brain stroke some time back.
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Updated: 10 Dec 2020, 1:24 PM IST
Amidst reports that Rahul Roy had returned home after suffering a stroke, his brother-in-law Romeer Sen has said that the Aashiqui actor is still hospitalised. Sen told Mumbai Mirror that he has been admitted to Mumbai's Wockhardt Hospital where he is undergoing physical and speech therapy. Sen added that he felt Rahul had neglected his health and the family was now deciding the course of action for his recovery.
Rahul Roy was earlier admitted to Nanavati Hospital after suffering a stroke while shooting for a film in Kargil. Reports quoting the film's director Nitin Kumar Gupta as saying that Rahul would be discharged on 8 December led to speculation that he would return home.
Gupta also told the publication that he plans to make a film with Rahul that will be titled Stroke. He added that it is a murder mystery in which the protagonist witnesses a murder but is unable to name the culprit because he has had a stroke. "We are mixing reality with fiction," he said.
On 7 December, Rahul took to Instagram to share with his fans that he is feeling well after receiving treatment. He posted a video and some photos from the hospital. In the video, he is seen with his sister Pia Grace Roy and a friend, who thanked all his fans for wishing Rahul a speedy recovery. "I am recovering And thanks to all my friends, family and fans who are also like my family for pouring so much of love and prayers for me. Will be back soon. Love you all - Rahul Roy," the actor wrote.
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Actor Rahul Roy Suffers Brain Stroke, Admitted to Hospital
Rahul's sister Pia also thanked well-wishers for keeping the family in their prayers during such a stressful time. Rahul's brother Rohit, who is in Canada, also features in one of the photos.
Rahul was shooting for LAC - Live The Battle, directed by Nitin Kumar Gupta and produced by Chitra Vakil Sharma and Nivedita Basu, when the incident occurred. He had to be airlifted to Mumbai after the stroke.
(With inputs from Mumbai Mirror)
Published: 07 Dec 2020, 4:52 PM IST


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The YouTube News Feed: What's happening now?
By Steve Grove
Head of News and Politics
Whether it's an altercation between a Congressman and a student in Washington, D.C., violent attacks against ethnic minorities in Kyrgyzstan, or oil washing up on a beach in the Gulf Coast, videos uploaded to YouTube by both amateur reporters and professional journalists move through the media ecosystem with a sophistication and speed greater than ever before. But with 24 hours of video uploaded to YouTube every minute, how can people more easily find the latest breaking news videos on our site? And how can media organizations better leverage this content to expand the scope of their reporting and keep us all better informed?
To develop answers to these questions, we're testing something new this summer: the YouTube News Feed. We'll be working with the University of California at Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism to track news as it breaks on YouTube. The news feed will provide a stream of breaking news videos on YouTube, with a focus on strong visuals, non-traditional sources and the very latest uploads: videos like this natural gas well explosion in North Texas, this citizen's election fraud investigation in New Jersey, this activist's painful run-in with the sharp end of a fisherman's hook in the Mediterranean sea, or even this run-away elephant in Zurich, Switzerland.
You'll find the feed on CitizenTube, our news and politics blog at citizentube.com; you can also follow it via our twitter account, @citizentube. While we've occasionally tracked news videos on CitizenTube in the past (around the Iran election protests or the Los Angeles wildfires, for example), this summer you'll see us increasing our focus significantly. Click here to see more.
You can help: if you've uploaded breaking news videos, please tweet them to us (@citizentube), and include as much context as you're able to give. And we'd love to hear your feedback about this project in the comments sections of CitizenTube. Our goal with this news feed is to learn more about the news ecosystem on YouTube -- and who better to teach us than people like you.


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By Eleanor Creagh
The entrepreneurial vision in China along with state-backed funding has led to one of the fastest growing and vibrant start up scenes in the world, rivaled only by that of Silicon Valley.
China's tech sector, under the government initiatives of "Internet Plus", "Made in China 2025", and "Outline on the National Information Technology Development Strategy", is emerging as an innovation and technology powerhouse.
Year-to-date, however, the Chinese tech sector has significantly underperformed its US counterpart. At the beginning of the year, the biggest issue weighing on Chinese equities was the government's financial de-risking campaign and quasi fiscal moderation. In order to try and de-risk its economy, China has been on strict path to deleverage, with stricter financial regulation and rules to curb shadow banking and misallocation of capital to non-productive areas of the economy. Add to this trade frictions, slowing economic growth, tightening US monetary policy, and a stronger dollar, and we see a perfect storm in Chinese equity markets that has sent them into a tailspin since the beginning of the year.
As economic data began to cool off and miss estimates, the Chinese government pre-empted a growth slowdown and stepped in in to ensure economic growth was not compromised. A double-barreled fiscal and monetary easing campaign has been enacted. There have already been three reserve ratio requirement cuts this year (with more expected), record medium-term lending facility liquidity injections, and a fiscal stimulus package including 65 billion yuan in tax cuts, expanding the preferential policy for small firms to all firms plus an infrastructure spending package all aimed at boosting domestic demand.
All this signals a policy shift towards easing, which is likely to support growth momentum in China for the time being – something that markets may be underestimating at the moment. Although the policy efforts introduced so far do not amount to broad-based easing as seen in 2009, these measures should not be underestimated.
The valuation of Chinese tech has been extreme relative to the US. As the graph below shows, historically a basket of Chinese tech companies trade at a valuation premium to US tech when comparing P/E ratios due to stellar growth. Now that actual growth is no longer meeting expectations, we are seeing a repricing across the sector as a whole. The market is revaluing Chinese tech stocks based on a slowing growth trajectory rather than a structural problem within the sector. For example, Tencent shares fell 6.67 per cent in the US after reporting weaker than expected numbers but it is still one of the fastest-growing technology companies in the world, as Saxo Bank head of equity strategy Peter Garnry recently pointed out.
Valuations have corrected significantly within the Chinese tech sector and the A-shares market. The valuation premium for Chinese tech is now the lowest since 2012 (see above graph), which may present an opportunity for long-term investors. As Mr Garnry notes, it's often when others hesitate that one should act. When China's stimulus begins to halt the weakness, the market will likely reprice the A-shares market as there remains attractive opportunities and even more so now at the current low valuation compared to developed markets.
Overall, the Chinese technology sector remains exciting in the longer term. The ecosystem contains a variety of interesting businesses with significant opportunities with the ability to drive growth and increase profitability for investors. Demographic shifts, with the rapid rise of the Chinese middle class and a burgeoning economy, have unleashed a wave of consumer engagement in China resulting in a decade of hyper-digitisation from which the tech sector can benefit from.
According to the China Internet Network Information Center, China's online user base has increased to 800 million as at August 2018, double the population of the US – and it still has room to grow. According to Internet World Stats, only 54.6 per cent of the population in China is online compared with 89 per cent in the US.
We expect internet penetration and sector revenues to continue rising in the coming years due to the following:
1. China has a similar proportion of city dwellers as the US did in 1940 with a population approximately five times the size of the US, illustrating that there are still decades of above-average growth and urbanisation to come.
2. According to McKinsey & Company, China's mobile payments ecosystem is already 11 times larger than the US; as these trends continue to emerge it will be critical for Chinese consumers to be online.
Besides the three tech gaints – Baidu, Alibaba, and Tencent – there is an abundance of technology companies listed on Chinese, Hong Kong and US exchanges who benefit from state support due to Beijing's plans for the Chinese economy as well as demographic trends in the country. But despite government support, these firms operate with entrepreneurial drive in what Baidu's chief scientist described as a "permanent state of war", driving consistent growth within China's tech sector.
Top Chinese tech stocks by market capitalisation
Tencent Holdings
Baidu Inc.
Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Tec
Netease Inc.
360 Security technology Inc.
Iqiyi Inc.
Hanergy Thin Film Power Group
Focus Media Information technology
Weibo Corp
Eleanor Creagh is Australian markets strategist at Saxo Bank.
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