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'New Jersey Noir' – Taking the Final Exit in the Garden State
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"It's clear that I've been double-crossed / It's clear that I've been framed" Paul Muldoon
New Jersey Noir. Edited by Joyce Carol Oates. Akashic, 274 pp., $15.95, paperback.
"Is noir the dominant sensibility of New Jersey?" a writer for New Jersey Monthly asked in a review of this book. No, that distinction belongs to tragicomedy. But New Jersey has an underside barely suggested by what Joyce Carol Oates calls the "noir drama" of The Sopranos. New Jersey Noir exposes part of it in 19 previously unpublished short stories and poems set in places far from the back rooms of strip clubs and pork-butchers' shops.
Oates notes in her wide-ranging introduction that prototypical noir fiction involves a man "whose desire for a beautiful woman has blinded him to her true, manipulative, evil self." Her book revives that tradition in Jonathan Santlofer's "Lola," a contemporary tale of a femme fatale on the PATH train from Hoboken to New York. Other stories in New Jersey Noir support Oates' view that noir treachery can involve something more complex than sexual double-dealing: "a fundamental betrayal of the spirit – an innocence devastated by the experience of social injustice or political corruption." An idealistic technician at a Newark morgue falls victim to her own naiveté and to the duplicity of a co-worker who sells corpses' hair to wig shops in S.A. Solomon's "Live for Today." A rookie cop is a pawn in a dangerous game that pits his father, a Republican U.S. Attorney, against the powerful Camden County Democratic machine in Lou Manfredo's "Soul Anatomy." And a hard-up South Jersey substitute teacher agrees to a friend's plan to sell glass eels illegally, only to run into thugs running a lethal game of pay-to-play, in "Glass Eels."
Faithful to noir conventions, the bleakness of these stories goes mostly unrelieved by devices used in other types suspense fiction, such as a wisecracking protagonist or a sentient tabby cat who helps to solve crimes. But the Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Paul Muldoon offers an inspired bit of comic relief in his satirical poem, "Noir, NJ." As he sends up noir clichés, Muldoon neatly encapsulates a theme of this book in two of his lines: "It's clear that I've been double-crossed / It's clear that I've been framed."
Best line: In her excellent 10-page introduction, Oates gives an overview of noir themes in novels, movies and television shows; of each story or poem she has chosen; and of true crimes in New Jersey that provide context for New Jersey Noir.
Worst line: Oates: "Quintessential noir centers around …"
Furthermore: The 19 original stories and poems in this collection cover New Jersey cities and towns that include Montclair, Princeton, Paramus, Rutherford, Cherry Hill, Long Branch, Asbury Park and Atlantic City. Publishers Weekly and New Jersey Monthly also reviewed the book. The Akashic Noir series has produced more than 50 other books, including London Noir, Paris Noir, Seattle Noir, Lone Star Noir and Twin Cities Noir.
Jan is an award-winning journalist and former book editor of the Plain Dealer in Cleveland. You can follow her on Twitter by clicking on the "Follow" button in the right sidebar.


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Wednesday, September 18th, 2013 at 12:31am.
One of the first choices you have to make when moving to any town is which neighborhood suits your lifestyle? And our valley has lots of great options to complicate this choice. The first step is deciding what type of home you want. A high rise condo? A single family home? Maybe a town home? Once you've decided what type of home you want, the next step is finding the part of town that you prefer.
Wednesday, September 11th, 2013 at 1:16pm.
One of the most interesting stats I've seen about our local housing market has to do with the per centage of homeownership. Nevada is now in the bottom five for homeownership rates in the Country. We're ranking with super expensive markets like NY, California, Washington D.C. and Hawaii. It's rather strange bedfellows since those areas are accustomed to expensive housing markets. Nevada is the only affordable market to make the bottom five. It's fairly easy to blame this on the large number of homeowners who went through short sales and foreclosures. It will be interesting to see how the homeownership rate picks up as the former owners get their credit straightened out and re-enter the housing market. For the full article, click here.
Saturday, September 7th, 2013 at 7:43pm.
The high rise market continues to absorb inventory. The Martin just announced that it has now sold 80% of the building's units. Owners are now in charge of the Homeowner's Association and with the majority of the residences being purchased with cash and/or a minimum of 10% down when financed, we feel this building is on strong ground financially.


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Dread Scott (BFA 1989) via Open Society Foundation
The Soros Equality Fellowship awarded Dread Scott (BFA 1989) with $100,000 for his upcoming performance Slave Rebellion Reenactment. The community-engaged project will revist the German Coast Uprising of 1811, which is the largest slave rebellion in American history. With the support of the fellowship, Scott's reenactment with communities of Louisiana "will bring a bold vision of freedom and emancipation from the past into our present." The Open Society Foundation funds its midcareer Soros Equality Fellows in their ambitions to promote racial justice and equity among immigrants and people of color across the United States.
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My Interview with Jim Butcher
By Rebecca Lovatt on April 12, 2013 in Interviews, RLovatt
Last weekend at Ad Astra, a convention here in Toronto, I had the opportunity to meet and interview Jim Butcher, bestselling author of The Dresden Files and Codex Alera. We talked about all manner of things from talking cats, epically epic epic fantasy epics, and zombie t-rex's.
Now, I've done something slightly different with this interview. Attached below is the audio recording for this interview (with some minor edits to it, but it's largely untouched). I encourage you to take a listen (and ignore how awkward I sound). There are a couple off-topic moments on there which didn't make it into the transcript, but I think it'll be much more fun to have a listen than to read. Let me know your thoughts!
Anyways, as per usual: J = Jim Butcher and R = Myself (Rebecca).
R: I'm here with Jim Butcher, bestselling author of The Dresden Files. Jim, can you tell us something about yourself that we might not know?
J: Hm.. That you might not know.. The people at both of the Burger Kings near my house know who I am by sight and will say "Hey Jim, how's it going?" and "How's the next book coming along?" whenever I go there. That's how often I'm at Burger King.
R: Alright, that's certainly interesting. Now, you have The Dresden Files which was adapted into a TV series, which you weren't a huge fan of, or there were some issues there… How would you have envisioned it if HBO or someone else had the rights for it, or if you had made it into an anime?
J: As an anime I think it'd be great; in my head it's an animated thing anyways. But if HBO was going to do it? I don't know, I wonder what would happen if HBO did it. I would probably just sit back and smile regardless of what happened.
It would be really neat for something with a bit more production value to take over on something like that. That would be completely awesome. That was one of the big problems with the SyFy series was the budget was low enough that it was difficult to get enough actual magic magic into the show.
R: Yeah, I noticed that… And this next question is one that another fan asked me to ask you, but will we ever see Faith from the Restoration of Faith short story in a mainstream Dresden Files book?
J: Yes, we will, but not until the big ending. Faith was the first character and more or less the first client of Dresden's that I ever wrote in that first little short story. So she will show up again to kick off the big apocalyptic trilogy at the end.
R: Alright, and can you tell us a bit about this next novel?
J: The next novel is called Skin Game. In it, we find out that Mab has various debts which she has incurred over the years and Mab is very keen on getting her debts paid, and when one of the people she owes shows up and asks for a favour, she loans him Harry Dresden in order to help him. So Harry is going to find himself, by command of Queen Mab, assisting Nicodemus Archleon in a heist. They're going on a bank job, and they're going to knock over the vault of Hades — the Lord of the Underworld.
Harry is going to be very far out of his element because he's going to be working with this crew of nasties that Nicodemus has recruited and having to survive that situation, and it's going to make him look so good to the White Council and everyone else that he's running around with this crew.
R: Of course!
J: Yeah, cause that's his life… So that's going to be our general plot, we'll have to see what happens from there. I have a general idea of the mayhem that's going to work out, but I'll have to get to the nuts and bolts of it as I write, and I haven't opened it up yet.
R: Yeah, though you're expected to have the first two chapters in a few weeks, I think?
J: I have to have the first two chapters done by the end of April so that they can go into the back of the paperback of Cold Days.
R: Good luck with that! Now, this is going to be the 15th book, how has your outline process changed since the first one? And how do you keep readers interested, and keep coming up with ideas for these books?
J: When I first outlined the series, I outlined 20 books and I said: "Here's the kind of plots that I want to have … here are the kind of bad guys that are going to be showing up … the kind of big events that are going to be happening…" And I've still got the outline at home which is something I wrote as a class project long ago, and now, as we've gone on the books have done very well. I see no reason to fix it if it isn't broken, so I'm still using those outlines. Which is just stuff I came up with a while back, and basically it's just fun, like: "I want to have Dresden in prison in this story!" or "I want him in an insane asylum with no magic". You know, and these are things that I'm hoping to have happen as the series goes on.
R: It is certainly interesting, because they're each all unique while they have the same feel.
J: Yeah, and that's kind of the point. It's one of those things you have to do as a writer; if I just wrote the same thing over and over and over again, I'd shortly grow sick of Harry and throw him over Reichenbach Falls. Instead I try to throw these slightly different stories and try and give it a bit of a twist every time.
R: And is there a main source of inspiration you got for all of these ideas?
J: I give Harry the beatings of Indiana Jones… as far as the main source of the ideas, it was pretty much just 'Monster of the Week': what kind of monster do I want to deal with this week? Book 1: Evil wizards; we have good wizards, and so we'll have evil ones and that'll be the first bad guy. The next bad guy? Werewolves, and the next one ghosts, then I want to do fairies, then I want to get into demonic evil guys, cause I've come up with these Knights of the Coin and so on, and then more vampires in Book 6, and I want zombies in book seven, and that was kind of how far as the outlines went for a long time. Then, the challenge was to take those outlines and these fun things I wanted to have the character do, and work those into the story in such a way that they'd be a good time for the reader as well.
R: Definitely, and it's interesting… It's always just like "Okay, he's already dealt with so much, what's going to be thrown at him next?"
J: Yeah, and there's no upper limit to how much crap I can dump on Harry Dresden, the poor guy. I mean, generally anything that can make his day more miserable needs to get written in and then I get to think of a way to make it even worse, or at least even more insulting as it happens.
R: Delightful… Challenge your rage at him much?
J: Oh it's not my rage! I love the character, if I didn't I wouldn't be doing this.
R: Now, what's your opinion on the transformation of books into the digital age where e-piracy is becoming of a thing, and people can just download a book, and upload it elsewhere for free?
J: Well, I actually tracked three different sites which were major torrent sites, to see how many people grabbed the torrent for The Dresden Files. As it turns out, about ten times as many people steal the book as buy the book, and after asking around the industry, they're like "Yeah, that's pretty normal".
For a long time that bugged me, but at the point I'm kind of at now is that a lot of people who steal the book wouldn't have paid for it anyways. And if some of those people read the books and are like "Oh, hey man, these are really good; I need to go get some more of these." or "I need to actually pay for these." then I've picked up customers I wouldn't have had otherwise.
I like to think of it as involuntary promotional copies that are going out over the internet, and try not to let it stress me out too much. It's not something that I want to do, or want to encourage, or that I think is good, but I can't do anything about it anyway so I might as well not give myself ulcers worrying about it.
R: Alright, cause I know some authors who actively go "Oh yes, here's a free copy of my book."
J: Right, well, that's something I've never had a problem doing. I've occasionally gotten a fan letter from someone who's serving over seas – especially if they're actually in service, and I'd say "Hey, dude, here's the next book. It's already finished, it won't be out for eight months but here you go." and I have no problem doing stuff like that.
R: Yeah, it's always nice when authors actually do that, you know?
J: Yeah, or sometimes I'll get word that people are sick, and maybe too sick to be able to be around when the next book comes around, and I'll be like "No, I will give you this book, here you go." It's not a big deal, and doing stuff like that… I mean, when you're just trying to be kind to people, that doesn't cost you; that pays in the long run.
R: Yeah.
J: And it's much more Machiavellian to do it that way. "I'm going to be nice, and then they will owe me!"
R: Indeed! And it's good, you're harbouring good will with the readers, and you seem like the kind of guy who, enjoys spending time with fans.
J: Exactly, they're real people. At the end of the day, my readers are my patrons. Artists have always had to have patrons to be able to do what they do, and it used to be that you had one particular lord that you had to please, and then you'd be alright. Instead, I've got a couple hundred thousand patrons that I make sure I try to take care of. As long as I do that, I've got the support of all of these readers which is a fantastic thing.
That's why I try to pay attention to them, and sometimes ask: "What would you like to see more of in the books?" and put that in there, on account of: I want to keep eating.
R: Yeah, eating, paying rent, bills… Kinda important… Burger King.
J: Yes.. Shakespeare's gotta eat.
R: They'd miss you if you weren't there!
J: They' probably would, "We haven't seen you in a while, Jim, what happened? We were worried that you'd decided to start eating healthy!"
R: Oh dear, the thought!
J: Yeah.
R: So… Epic epic fantasy epic? Anything you're willing to say or share about that?
J: I've always wanted to write an epic epic fantasy epic. When I started off I wanted to be an epic fantasy writer; that's what I wanted to do. So, I've got this in mind – this epic epic fantasy epic that I want to write one day. It's humans, elves, hobbits and dwarves, although it might not look like that, really, it's a Tolkienesque kind of epic, or at least, it starts off that shape.
I want to write that when I'm good enough; it's not something that I'm ready to do yet, so instead I've just been running roleplaying campaigns in it for the past many years. Which is great, because I'll pick another part of the world and I'll have some vague idea of what it looks like. Then I'll start running the campaign there, and of course if you've got player characters they never do what you expect them to do – they never do the smart thing. They do the thing that seems appropriate to them based on what they know. So then I feel like I'm frantically running ahead of them with a load of lumber, canvas and paint, building these sets six feet in front of them just before they open the door. It's a good creative exercise which has helped me get this world established in my brain.
But yeah, I do want to write a big ol' Martinesque huge fantasy one of these days. I don't know when, but I'm going to do it. My epic epic fantasy epic.
R: Yeah, I wasn't sure I got all the "epics" in there.
J: I thought about calling it an epic epic epic fantasy epic, but that seemed a bit over the top.
R: An epically epic epic fantasy epic?
J: Epically epic? Well I don't know if I could be epically epic, I mean, I'll be happy to just be moderate epic… but you can't call it a moderate epic fantasy epic, it doesn't work.
R: No, and you've always got to exaggerate.
J: It's one of the first laws of writing.
R: Exactly!
Now, you did recently sign an agreement for a steampunk trilogy… Is there anything you can say about The Cinder Spires?
J: The Cinder Spires has gotten a better response from my readers than anything that I've done recently, just in terms of them thinking it's something cool. These are my beta readers, from the beta asylum, which I call the asylum because you have to be a bit crazy to be there, because I'm just a bear for cliffhanging chapters, and sometimes they'll have to wait a couple of weeks between them. So, there's something wrong with those people, but there they are.
They think it's pretty great, it's kind of "Hornblower" meets "League of Extraordinary Gentlemen", it's very focused on the characters, with very strong influence from Firefly I think.
R: Awesome.
J: Yeah, if you're going to steal from somewhere, you know, pick a good spot. But yeah, we start off with a disaffected ship captain who used to be part of the navy buy got drummed out of it for being an up-right honourable guy, who's now running his own ship. We've got some other characters who are scattered around who are being drawn together by the lord of the spire.
Everyone lives in these enormous spires that spire for miles above the ground below; the surface is this deadly place you don't want to go. The lord of Spire Albion, which is where the story begins, is assembling what is essentially a team for critical missions. That's what this first story is, it's him drawing this team together, and dispatching them as this war is beginning with a neighbouring spire of jerks.
So that's kind of where we get going. One of the team members is the daughter of one of the young noble houses, and one of them is her cousin who is warriorborn. They don't know quite how it happened but a certain percentage of the popular seems to be born with what seems like genetic modification to be faster and stronger and better and cooler. As well, there are cats in the Spires who talk and who are just the most arrogant, annoying little bullies.
R: Well, yes… They're cats.
J: They're cats, exactly, but these cats can talk, and they have opposable thumbs and matches. So, these are cats who are along the lines of: "I see that you enjoy having no rodents in your warehouse. Perhaps you would continue to enjoy having no rodents in your warehouse. Perhaps there will be a bowl of cream sitting out for me… or it might all catch on fire." You never know what's going to happen, but one of the characters actually has a close relationship with a cat and can speak cat. The cats speak their own language, they probably could speak the human language, but why would they? They're cats. Why would they stoop to that? They understand humans, perfectly, except for when they don't… and that can all happen within the same morning. They can choose who to ignore and who not to. The cats are horrible.
Then we've got these wizard figures. All the technology is based around these crystals that can channel various forms of energy, steampower and a kind of Frankensteinian electricity. They're engineers who can do all kinds of cool stuff, but they're also these figures called etherealists who work with the crystals. The etherealists are all completely nuts, I mean, over-the-top hair on fire nuts. Except for the ones that aren't, and those are the ones you really have to worry about, because there's something really wrong with them.
You know, the guy who's sort of dribbling and walking in circles in the corner, who's an etherealist? Okay, he's probably not a threat. The one who's inviting you to high tea? Forget it, you don't even want to go near that one.
R: Here be danger.
J: Exactly; you know they're crazy, the question is: how? And if you can see they're crazy, they're less dangerous.
But yeah, that's sort of them getting this team together and figuring out how they're going to get things done. I'm having a great deal of fun with the book, it's been a tremendous good time for me, so my beta readers have been tortured extra. Which I think is good for readers.
R: Of course, especially beta readers, they deserve it. This sounds like it's going to have quite a bit of a different feel compared to Dresden.
J: Very much so. It's going to be closer to Alera than anything else… Multiple character viewpoints, so it'll have much more of that feel.
R: Alright, sounds interesting!
J: I hope so!
R: Now, how has your writing process changed? You said you already had the outline done for The Dresden Files, but over the years have you found that your writing process has since that first one compared to your latest novel?
J: I use outlines a lot more — when I'm being smart — to get things laid out ahead of time, and avoid those long stretches of "Why isn't this chapter working?". It's really handy if you have an outline, it helps avoid that.
I don't drink coke so much anymore; the caffeine and sugar were doing bad things to me and eventually started catching up. So, there's less coke. Other than that, it hasn't really changed.
There's TV, I work at night, I don't know why that's when the magic happens, sometime between 11PM and dawn. There's always a bad movie on in the background that I keep track of. So that I don't have to look up except for the parts that I really like, and otherwise I can be focused on the work. For this particular book in The Cinder Spires, it's been Star Trek 2 because it's as Napoleonic as I could get in terms of ship-to-ship combat stuff.
R: I approve.
J: Yeah, I only have to look up for "I don't like to lose" and "KHAANNNNNN!"
R: Yeah, best parts really… Only reasons to actually watch it.
J: That and Spock's death scene, which is one of the better character death scenes ever done. If you're going to kill a character, that's a good way to go; that was very well executed.
R: Now, out of all your stories from The Dresden Files, Codex Alera, or anything else, which one was your favourite to write?
J: Specific favourite book is going to be a toss-up between Dead Beat and Cursor's Fury. Cursor's Fury was a lot of fun for me to write, and it was where the Alera books finally took off for me, in terms of "Oh! This is all happening easily in my imagination."
Dead Beat: Zombie T-Rex. I'd been writing like five years to write the zombie t-rex scene, and when I finally got to it, it was like "Finally, yes! I've been putting this off for so long!"
R: Every book needs a bit more zombie t-rex. There's a disturbing lack of them.
J: Yeah, there is, and I don't see why it isn't happening more often.
R: We'll have to change that.
Now, which was your least favourite to write?
J: My least favourite book to write? Ghost Story was really hard because it was so different from the other Dresden books. Not that it wasn't fun, but it didn't feel as natural as the other books. The Spider-Man book was really difficult to write because the time constraints were so strict. I think I had about thirty days to write that thing. That was a pretty serious challenge.
But that was the year that I wrote three novels and a comic book, the comic book wound up being like 124 pages which was ridiculous.
R: You wrote that in thirty days?
J: Well, not all of that, just the Spider-Man book had to be done in thirty days, and it was over Christmas too, so that made me so popular with my family.
R: Oh yes, of course.
So, you're a bit of a geek
J: Yeah, a little bit.
R: I'm not sure if you attended conventions before you were an author, but how has your experience changed so far, now that you're on the "other side"?
J: The only place that's really different is when I come to a con. If I go out gaming, it's still the same. If I go out LARPing, LARPing is still pretty much the same stuff. I'm not really famous anywhere except for conventions and sometimes at bookstores. I think I've been recognized in public once, ever.
So really, the only place that's different is conventions… Coming to cons is cool, because everyone laughs at my jokes, which is a nice change of pace. Other than that, it's pretty much the same experience.
Sometimes people are nervous to meet me, which seems strange because I know I'm just as big of a nerd as I always was. It's like these guys don't know; they never saw me sword fighting with boffer weapons up and down the hallways of conventions when I was eighteen. So that's sometimes sort of strange. I'm the last person in the world you need to be nervous around; I've done far more embarrassing things around you. But you just try to be nice around folks, smile and nod a lot, and they'll offer to buy you dinner. Sometimes it's dinner number three, but I'll get some fries or something like that.
As far as the actual experience being different? Not too much, really.
R: Just more of a sore wrist?
J: Yeah, after about three hours I had to go back to the hotel room and pack it in ice or it'd be swollen up tomorrow and I wouldn't be able to sign. But really, what a great problem to have.
R: Ah yeah.. Like "Oh.. Too popular"
J: Yes, it's awful! But I mean, I feel like I'm just as awkward as I always was. I guess I can kind of go into "Author Mode" a little bit easier where I'm doing the talk in front of people, doing the jokes and the one-liners, and that's fun. That's not really something I do because it's fun for me, I like making people laugh, and that's a good thing; to be able to put a smile on somebody's face… That's worth doing.
R: And do you have any advice for anyone who wants to get into writing?
J: Yeah, go by my Livejournal at http://jimbutcher.livejournal.com/. There are all kinds of articles that are geared towards beginning writers which is the stuff that my teacher taught me when I was bound and determined to prove to her how wrong she was about writing, and as a result, wrote the first book of The Dresden Files. There's a lot of interesting stuff there.
The main thing though, is that you just have to write and ignore when people walk up to you at your family holiday gatherings and say, "When are you going to get a real job?" Oh man. I had a cousin and that was his favourite thing to say for like twelve years. Finally when I got my second series sold, and started being able to support the family on the writing, you know, I decided not to get a 'real' job. I'm just going to keep this job.
R: I think you've made a good choice.
J: Yeah, I was pleased with it, and man… It took so long for that pay-off, but it was so worth it when I finally got it. I think that's the thing I would tell beginning writers: Everything you go through to become a writer – it all seems horribly hard when it's happening to you, and when you can't get somebody to read your book, and you're getting nothing but rejection letters and it just seems awful… Once you've finally gotten in though – and getting in is just a matter of time and practice, you look back at it, and it's like "Oh, that was more than worth it."
The rejection process is one of those you kind of transcend and look back at it and go, "Why did I make such a big deal out of that?" But anyways… Write, write, write. That's my first advice to newbie writers. Keep writing; don't stop.
R: Alright, thank you, and I think that's it… Thank you!
J: No problem!
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djkoz78 January 8th, 2014
Sorry to break it to you Mr. Jim Butcher, but in my book you're writing an epic epic fantasy epic series. Dresden is by far imo the best.
My friend recommended the Dresden Files books for 3 years before I decided to read them. I didn't really want to pay for them so I found the first 2 books online and decided that if I like them which at the time I didn't really believe I would. After the 1st book I burned through the 2nd in about a week reading it anytime I had a free moment. Loved the first two books so much I went and purchased every book since even the comics and short stories. Still my favorite series. Also love the Drizzt series as well. But Harry has a very special place in my heart and I'm do glad my friend recommended them and didn't stop bugging me to read them. Now I in turn have gotten probably 30 people to read them myself and they in turn have gotten more people as well. Love the series and can't wait for Skin Game. Very excited.
Andrew Aoc Mutz October 31st, 2013
.. cool, I do love epic's and even saw a movie called epic… it wasn't up to par, clearly they had not prepared enough… then again a movie about tiny people that live hidden around us isn't very epic.. I am sure with at least 3x the level of epic that will clear the hurdle
I was curious if it was ever mentioned, do half price books/ reselling books hurt sales much? I know they have minds hard at work figuring out the details of the "lost liter" I know game developers are up at arms about game stop and its pushing resold games over new.
oh well interesting stuff @.@' keep up the good work..
Brent September 5th, 2013
Awesome interview! I want to read the epic epic fantasy epic; though always think every series is hard pressed to top Dresden.
RLovatt September 7th, 2013
Thanks Brent!
Same, I'd be interested in reading an epic epic fantasy epic. Even if it didn't top Dresden, I have no doubts it'd be an excellent read.
Joshua September 4th, 2013
Feel a little guilty about downloading his books, but the fact is I already own the entire series in hard copy, and every one of them from Changes onward in hardcover. It's just nice to be able to carry all of his work everywhere I go in my iPad, every time I feel like rereading a particular book or scene. I'm a poor student too, so I can't afford to pay twice for what is essentially the same thing.
Yeah, it can be difficult to pay for books twice. It's one of the reasons I like what Amazon is starting to do — where if you buy the physical copy, you can get the ecopy free, or at least at a discounted rate.
Alex H September 5th, 2013
I'd be interested to hear what he has to say about that particular instance of "piracy."
I admit, I downloaded some of his work when I was too poor to pay for it. I've paid for it retroactively, though! I'm sorry, Jim xD
I love his work, so much. Great interview!
Hey Alex,
I asked Jim what his thoughts were on it, this is his response:
"Mostly, I try not to think about it too much. A one-month survey of five popular PTP file sharing sites showed me that unpaid downloads of the Dresden Files outnumbered the paid downloads by something like thirty to one. It's a little bit of a sting to know how many people are stealing my work.
That said, I try to look on the positive side, and regard those downloads as involuntary promotional copies. If a few of the people who take my stuff get addicted to the series and eventually find themselves buying copies, then it hasn't been a total waste, and that's a good thing.
As far as I'm concerned, if you've already paid for copies of my work, you are already an angel compared to all of the folks who just steal it without thinking twice, and can do no wrong on that score."
Kenzal Hunter July 16th, 2013
Great interview! one of your sidetracks that didn't make it in to the transcript was on your writing, but I couldn't quite make out the kind of pen you use, what is it?
RLovatt July 17th, 2013
Hi Kenzal,
Thank you! I'm glad you liked the interview. :) I tend to use fountain pens and dip pens/quills when possible.
Rebecca Quintana (@rrquinta) June 24th, 2013
Great interview. It was nice to both read it and hear it.
RLovatt June 26th, 2013
Thanks! I'm glad you liked it. :)
Suvesh Prasad Sinha June 7th, 2013
thanks for the interview. got the plot of the next book. thought nico wont show his face after last time.
vastlycurious.com April 30th, 2013
You never cease to amaze me!
Teepee12 April 30th, 2013
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One of my top five favorite authors.
RLovatt May 1st, 2013
Thanks for the reblog! :) I'm glad you liked the interview.
Jeff Kent April 29th, 2013
Great interview. Love the questions/answers about outlining :)
RLovatt April 29th, 2013
Thanks Jeff! I'm glad you liked it. :)
Regina Schroeder April 27th, 2013
When was the last time you read an epic fantasy saga that was one self-contained volume, with all of the sweeping adventure and huge mythic sacrifices in just one book? These days, it seems as though any epic fantasy has to be at least a half-dozen volumes, and this often appears to be driven by marketing as much as by storytelling needs.
pauldn April 13th, 2013
Never got the chance to look into his books. I really enjoyed your interview and have to add him to my reading list.
ML John September 4th, 2013
You will not be sorry! I just insisted that a friend of mine read the Dresden Files, and they are her new favorite books.
Shane Jardine April 12th, 2013
Awesome interview! One of the better ones I've read lately.
Thanks Shane! I'm glad you liked it… I hope you found it to be worth the wait.


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Motorcycle thief caught, squatting burglars arrested
LANCASTER – A 28-year-old man was arrested early Monday morning after he was pulled over for speeding on a motorcycle that was later discovered to be stolen, authorities said.
Andre Bass was taken into custody following a brief foot chase, according to a press release from the Lancaster Sheriff's Station. Read it below:
[Around 7:55 a.m. Monday, May 12], a Lancaster Station Motorcycle Unit conducted a traffic stop for a speeding motorist riding a motorcycle near the 1800 Block of West Avenue K.
Initially, the suspect was cooperative with the deputy, but later ran from the scene. The deputy pursued the suspect on foot and quickly apprehended Suspect Andre Bass.
The investigation later discovered the motorcycle was stolen from a Lancaster location back in February.
Suspect Bass was transported to the Lancaster Station jail and booked for receiving stolen property and driving a stolen vehicle with addition additional charges pending. He was held on $25,000 bail.
Teen burglary suspects arrested in a vacant home
A 14-year-old boy and 19-year-old Travelle Hamblet were arrested Monday afternoon for stealing an oven from a vacant Lancaster home and stashing it in another home where they were allegedly squatting, according to a press release from the Lancaster Sheriff's Station. Read it below:
Lancaster Deputies responded to a burglary call at a residence located on the 45300 Block of Gadsden Avenue.
Initial reports indicated that two unknown men had broken into a vacant home and moved stolen items to another vacant home located on the same street.
Deputies found Suspect Travelle Hamblet and a 14-year-old juvenile in a vacant home with a stolen oven.
The stolen oven was taken by the suspects from one vacant home which was being renovated and placed in another vacant home which they were "squatting". Both suspects were transported to Lancaster Station Jail for booking of burglary charges. Suspect Hamblet was being held on $20,000 bail. The [juvenile] subject was cited and release to a legal guardian.
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I hate thieves.. My brother's Yamaha YZF R1 was stolen a couple days ago in Lancaster. It has a lot of carbon fiber work, aftermarket exhaust handle bar stabilizer Color's are red white and black. It has Motul stickers and more. If anyone see's it contact the Sherriff's dept. License plate #15B4388. Motorcycle was loaded into an older model Chevy Suburban by a fat bald Hispanic male and a skinny Caucasian male. My little brother misses his bike..


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Holme House Prison
Prisoners forced to share one-person cells at Holme House - eating, sleeping and using toilet
The latest Ministry of Justice figures show the situation as it stood in July
Overcrowding at Holme House Prison is forcing prisoners to share cells, eating, sleeping and even using the toilet in spaces designed for one.
The latest Ministry of Justice figures show that 1,197 prisoners were crammed into just 1,036 spaces at the prison in July.
Campaigners say that the unchecked rise of the prison population is responsible for the huge increase in assaults on staff and other inmates, culminating in the Government taking over HMP Birmingham from its contractor, G4S, after a damning inspection report.
One of the Government's first actions was to move hundreds of inmates to other jails, reducing the overcrowding.
Holme House Prison in Stockton
The Prison Service measures its own capacity in terms of Certified Normal Accommodation - the number of prisoners it says it can accommodate in the "good, decent standard of accommodation that the service aspires to provide all prisoners".
However, with the majority of prisons overcrowded across England and Wales, it also has a separate measure called Operational Capacity.
This is the maximum number of prisoners the Prison Service says each institution can safely handle while maintaining control and security.
In July, Holme House's population stood at 99% of the Operational Capacity - 1,197 prisoners for 1,210 spaces.
WITH VIDEO Holme House Prison in Stockton.
Prisons contain a number of one and two-person cells. In overcrowded prisons, more inmates will be put in cells than they were originally designed to hold.
Annual figures, published by the Prison Service in July, show the extent of the problem.
From April 2017 to March 2018, 27% of prisoners in Holme House Prison were in overcrowded cells, 321 inmates on average.
Look inside a typical prison cell
A prison inmate's typical day
How spice is wreaking havoc inside jail
Prisoner's view of life inside prison
Prison Reform Trust director, Peter Dawson, said: "Overcrowding isn't simply a case of being forced to share a confined space for up to 23 hours a day where you must eat, sleep and go to the toilet.
"It directly undermines all the basics of a decent prison system, including work, safety and rehabilitation.
WITH VIDEO Holme House Prison in Stockton. Warnings against smuggling in the family visiting area. (Image: Teesside Live)
"No government has succeeded in building its way out of overcrowding. So we need a fundamental rethink about who we send to prison and for how long."
The extent of rape and sexual violence inside 'volatile' Holme House revealed
There has been a renewed focus on prison policy after the Government took control of HMP Birmingham.
A shocking inspection found inmates used alcohol, drugs and violence with impunity, while the corridors were covered with cockroaches, blood and vomit.
What's going on in Holme House prison?
HMP Holme House has been hit with a number of problems recently, including a shortage of fully-trained prison officers and the prominence of Spice.
Issues with Spice at the Stockton jail and Kirklevington Prison were brought to light in an Independent Monitoring Board report in April.
It stated that "ready access" to substances, such as Spice, had impacted on the lives of both prisoners and officers at the two jails.
Claims that prison officers have suffered "serious health problems" due to inhalation of Spice smoke have also been made.
The jail has been used as the pilot for a new scheme to tackle drugs in prisons.
Chief inspector of prisons, Peter Clarke, said it was "some of the most disturbing evidence" inspectors have seen in any prison.
Across the country, assaults have more than doubled in prisons over the last five years, and cases of self-harm have increased by 93%.
Segregation prison wing
Andrew Neilson, director of campaigns at the Howard League for Penal Reform, said: "The fact that Birmingham prison is seeing its population reduced by 300 to help enable the government to improve conditions there is a tacit admission that prison overcrowding plays a key part in why our prison system fails more generally.
"Cramming more people into prisons than they were designed to hold is a recipe for violence, drug abuse and mental distress.
"Bold action is needed to reduce the number of people behind bars and ease the pressure on other prisons."
A Prison Service spokesman said: "All prisons in England and Wales are within their operational capacity which means they are safe for inmates.
Holme House misses out on new scheme to tackle Spice - but is 'helping other jails'
"Nonetheless, reducing crowding is a central aim of our modernisation of the prison estate.
"That is why we have committed to delivering up to 10,000 new prison places across the country, and only last month announced that two new prisons would be built at Wellingborough and Glen Parva."
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The following is part of a three-post progressive blog about the Center for Medicare Medicaid Services (CMS) choosing not to pay for the new advance care planning codes in this year's Medicare Physician Fee Schedule. However, now is the time tell CMS why you support reimbursement for advance care planning services in their call for comments. Please see also Phil Rodgers post on CMS considering reimbursement for Advance Care planning at Pallimed, and Gregg VandeKieft's update on the state of ACP advocacy at the AAHPM blog.
What will it take for advance care planning to become routine for patients with serious illness?
It is time for US policy makers to put away the negative connotations of the "Death Panel" days and have a mature discussion about serious illness. No matter what your political persuasion, it is time for us to act to improve the quality of care given to all patients by promoting health advance care planning. With excellent communication and advance care planning, we can empower patients and families to ask for and receive the care that best fits their values and clinical situations.
It is time for advance care planning to be a standard of care. Completion rates nation-wide should be as good as LaCrosse, Wisconsin. Excellent, on-going advance care planning that is adapted to the patient's values and needs over time should be an expectation of quality doctor-patient communication.
But, we have work to do. At a recent large national meeting of primary care physicians, an audience poll found that most physicians acknowledged the importance of advance directive. However, most report they do not routinely address advance care planning. A key factor was time.
Unspoken in that audience poll is the statement that time is money. For practitioners in most health systems in the US who are still in a fee-for-service model, the economic pressures are intensifying and advance care planning is not adequately reimbursed. But we can change that!
The 2015 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS) for the first time includes Advance Care Planning (ACP) services and there are now two CPT codes for these ACP services: 99497 and 99498. CMS has acknowledged both codes, but did not authorize Medicare to pay for them in 2015 (see Phil Rogers' Pallimed Post for more details on what the MPFS is and what these CPT codes are).
While it is unfortunate that CMS did not agree to start reimbursing the ACP codes for 2015, they did provide a call for comments until December 30. So, stop reading this post and go to the CMS website (here) to tell them why you support reimbursement for ACP services.
Be specific, be yourself, and write about what you know. It's OK to reference the literature about ACP services and palliative care, the IOM report, the importance of tracking the frequency ACP is performed, the needs of an older and sicker society etc., but it's more powerful to speak from personal experience. Tell patient stories that illuminate a connection between high quality advance care planning and better care for your patients. Every HPM professional I know has dozens if not hundreds such stories. Now is the time to tell them.
Very good. Deep thinking and nicely presented.
Thank you for letting us know about this opportunity to weigh in on the side of sensible advance care planning policies for Medicare reimbursement. I'm a certified nursing assistant working with elderly clients in their homes, so I see how important it is for individuals and their families who are facing serious illness or dealing with frail health to have good conversations with their medical providers about options for treatment and supportive care. I submitted a comment today. Just remember, palliative care folks, you are my heroes.
What people seem to constantly confuse is there is a "Death Panel" of 15 people in the ACA that are appointed by the President. This panel has nothing to do with CPT codes for Advanced Care Planning. It would be a stroke of genius if someone would approach Sara Palen and have her spearhead this drive to pay for advanced care planning. The media has conflated these two issues that are totally different from each other.


I learned a long time ago, in college, that overthinking things is bad. I wouldn't have done the things I've done if I'd put a ton of thought into them. My family is constantly on my case about the decisions I make, but I am learning, the older I get, that I have to do what feels right for me and that usually means diving into things head first.


Trumka: Workers "confused, angry, frustrated, scared"
LAS VEGAS – The stagnation of workers' wages and declining benefits for the last 40 years, and the Great Recession piled on top of that, has left U.S. workers "confused, angry, frustrated and scared," AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka says.
Speaking to the Steelworkers convention in Las Vegas in mid-August, Trumka added that bleak prospects for the workers' children only add to those woes. But the mass movement of low-wage workers, fighting for better wages and working conditions and the right to organize, is helping show the way out of the morass, he added.
Trumka spoke to what is arguably the most active union in key areas of the Midwest. He praised the Steelworkers' organizing, political activism and campaign for fair trade with enforceable worker rights. But he said there's a lot more to do to pull U.S. workers as a class out of the hole that corporations dug for them and the country.
"A lot of people, especially some with college degrees," who didn't think of themselves in traditional working class terms, "got a hard-won education in real economics" from the Great Recession and the prior stagnation, he added. Now they're changing their minds, he declared.
"The biggest story in America is the great wealth divide, and what we're doing to make it right," he continued. "That's the new story in America. People everywhere are starting to understand themselves as workers. People all across this country, and around the world, are beginning to see collective action as a solution to our troubles.
"From fast food to forged steel, and everywhere in between, more and more people talk about economic inequality, people who never spoke the words before. The public is debating big issues, like a living wage and collective bargaining. We're talking about raising wages, and we like the idea," he said. And so do others, including the unorganized, Trumka added.
To marshal those workers, the federation, the Steelworkers and other member unions launched a Common Sense Economics education project, he explained. Its objective is to educate at least 1 million people nationwide about the nature of the economy, how it works – or doesn't – for workers and what they can do to fix it.
"We'll use information to continue to build momentum for working people. We've got other initiatives, too. We're strengthening our state federations of labor and local labor councils. We're joining together with community partners and allies, in ways we never have before. We're a mainstream movement, and we're acting like it," he declared.


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SECNAV Mabus rejects your reality and substitutes his own.
As you undoubtedly knew would happened when you read this post yesterday, SECNAV Mabus has begun sweeping the results of the Marine Corps integrated combined arms test under the rug, with the added bonus of accusing the reports authors of bad faith.
Navy Secretary Ray Mabus on Friday criticized a Marine Corps study that showed that female Marines in a mixed unit did not perform as well as men in several key areas.
"They started out with a fairly largely component of the men thinking this is not a good idea, and women will not be able to do this," he said in an interview with NPR.
"When you start out with that mindset, you're almost presupposing the outcome," he said.
Just down from there we find this:
Mabus argued that other studies, including one by the Center for Naval Analysis, say there are ways to mitigate gaps in performance "so you have the same combat effectiveness, the same lethality, which is crucial."
You probably can mitigate the gap in performance. What you cannot do is eliminate it. So you do, in actuality, have a gap. That means you don't have the same combat effectiveness. You don't have the same lethality.
"Part of the study said women tend not to be able to carry as heavy a load for as long, but there were women who went through the study who could," he said.
"And part of the study said we're afraid because women get injured more frequently that over time, women will break down more, that you'll begin to lose your combat effectiveness over time.
"That was not shown in the study, that was an extrapolation based on injury rates," he said.
No kidding. Here's something you may not realize. Sports type injuries are incredibly common in the combat arms. Torn ACL, rotator cuff injuries, sprains, strains, torn muscles. And the longer a unit is deployed, the more common these injuries become, as the physical conditioning of troops is effected by poor diet, lack of sleep, lack of regular physical fitness training, and simply the accumulation of wear and tear by operating at an incredibly punishing level of physicality.
Now, even outside the strains of combat, just in training, even in non-combat units, women have a much greater rate of sports type injuries than men. It is entirely reasonable to extrapolate that experience already acknowledged across the force, if not much talked about, and compare that with the increased injury rate seen in the integrated test force, and reach the conclusion that injury rates will be worse.
And here's the thing about these injuries. They take a troop out of the fight just as surely as if they were wounded. They have to be evacuated. They have to be treated. They have to be given physical therapy and convalescence. And that means the unit, always short on manpower, is down further, for the length of that convalescence, if indeed the injured troop will ever be fit for duty again. Very quickly, a unit might find itself with so many injured that it simply cannot accomplish its missions.
And let us not overlook the fact that many of these injuries will form the basis of claims for service connected disability from the Veterans Administration after the troop has left the service. Knowing that women will suffer higher rates of injury, it stands to reason that it will also impose a higher cost in disability for the entire life of the injured. Why, when the VA is already struggling, would we knowingly increase the burden on the already shaky foundations of veterans healthcare?
I've seen countless blatherings about how adding women to combat arms is the only fair thing to do. What I've never seen once yet is an explanation showing that integrating the combat arms will increase their performance.
Author XBradTC2Posted on September 11, 2015 Categories ARMY TRAININGTags ARMY TRAINING, marine corps, women in combat1 Comment on SECNAV Mabus rejects your reality and substitutes his own.
CBS News Atlanta Can't grasp that uniforms specifically tailored for women might not be Unisex.
A new combat uniform with special consideration to the female body is now available at Fort Gordon, almost a month after the Army announced plans to open all units and military jobs to women by 2016.
The March debut of the Combat Uniform-Alternate is the first in a series of moves the Army hopes to make in the next three years to help female soldiers feel like more professional members, officials said.
With narrower shoulders, a slightly tapered waist and a more spacious seat, the unisex clothing line has been in the works since 2009 and is being issued to all installations – except Fort Benning in Columbus, Ga. – for men and women with a smaller or more slender body.
via Unisex Uniforms Debut As Army Opens Units To Women « CBS Atlanta.
This is why people don't trust the news. Because the news is provided by really, really stupid people.
The headline in the article says "Unisex Uniforms Debut As Army Opens Units To Women," which is exactly the opposite of what is actually happening.
Since the introduction of the BDU uniform in the early 1980s, the BDU and its replacement the ACU, have been unisex.
But complaints of the poor fit of these combat uniforms for women have finally lead to the introduction of sizes specifically intended to better fit women's bodies.
Further, despite the reporter's effort to link the uniform to the issue, the new uniform sizes have absolutely no correlation to the planned (insane) inclusion of women in the combat arms of the service by 2016. They're two wholly unrelated matters. The push to include women in combat arms comes from DoD (and the toadies of the JCS who are falling in line). The development of clothing sizes is an internal matter almost wholly driven by a small program office in the Army alone, and though the Army laboratory system.
I don't really expect the so-called reporters at an affiliate station in a secondary market to grasp the complexities of the organization and procurement systems of the military, but you'd think they could at least grasp the basic theme of whatever press release Ft. Gordon rolled out. You'd think that. But you'd be wrong.
Author XBradTC2Posted on July 29, 2013 Categories army, ARMY TRAINING, Around the webTags army, news, uniforms, women in combat2 Comments on CBS News Atlanta Can't grasp that uniforms specifically tailored for women might not be Unisex.


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Hoodsport Winery has teamed up with the Orca Network to further promote awareness of the Puget Sound Orca population and to educate the community about what we can do to help ensure their survival. The Orca Network and Hoodsport Winery will host a series of promotions and educational seminars that will highlight the plight of the Puget Sound Orca community and raise funds for the Orca Network. For more information on how you can help, please visit orcanetwork.org.
In addition, Hoodsport will donate a portion of the proceeds from the sale of Hoodsport Orca series wines, to the Orca Network.
Orca Network Network is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization registered with the IRS and Washington State, dedicated to raising awareness about the whales of the Pacific Northwest, and the importance of providing them healthy and safe habitats. Projects include the Whale Sighting Network, Education Programs and the "Free Lolita" campaign.
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The causes of the orca population decline reflect the same problems and issues facing most of the greater Puget Sound marine and watershed ecosystems: declining salmon runs, PCB contamination and other pollutants, and effects of a rapidly increasing human population such as habitat loss, vessel noise, and resource depletion.
The latest research on the Southern Resident Community was recently presented at a NOAA Fisheries Orca Symposium. Howard and Susan will share the results of the studies on what and how the orcas eat, the effects of contamination, and impacts of ocean noise levels on this small and fragile community of whales.


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Anupriya Patel inaugurates 10th Medical Technology Conference
New Delhi: "The Health Ministry is committed to technology integration in the health sector. Digital technology can help to reduce health care costs overall, but we need to ensure our investment in new technologies is done cost effectively and frugally." This was stated by Smt. Anupriya Patel, Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare at the inaugural of 10th Medical Technology Conference, Medical Technology Shaping Universal Healthcare, organised by Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), here today.
Speaking at the function, Smt Anupriya Patel stated that the scope of digital technology in the public health sector has gone beyond service delivery. She further stated that the Health Ministry is already at the forefront of incorporating the benefits of digital technology towards achieving the goals elucidated in National Health Policy (2017) which are synchronous with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The National Health Mission (NHM) is already using throughout the country a web-based Health Management Information System(HMIS) to collect and collate data related to the health infrastructure.
Smt Anupriya Patel further informed that dispensing health insurance, registration of vital health statistics like births and deaths, monitoring of Mobile Medical Units (MMUs) through Geographical Positioning Systems(GPS) and preventing female foeticide through implementation of The Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (Prohibition Of Sex Selection) Act 2003 Act are some of the additional tenets that are being brought online for ease of implementation, progressively decreasing costs and most importantly, increased accountability and transparency.
The Minister further stated that the government is committed to making India a manufacturing hub for medical devices as our medical technology industry is increasing manifolds and is expected to grow from 4.5 Billion US Dollars currently to 14 Billion US Dollars in 2022. "My Government has notified the Medical Devices Rules, 2017 and we are in the process of finalizing the Draft of Medical Device Regulation Bill for comprehensive regulation of the medical devices in the country," she elaborated. She also added that to support the corresponding need for trained human resource, the National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER), Ahmedabad has been mandated to initiate a National Centre for Medical Devices (NCMD) for development of skilled manpower.
Also present at the function were members of the medical technology industry including the science community, industry – big corporates as well as small and medium businesses represented by their associations, consumer and citizen organizations, international organizations and development partners, experts and government officials from central ministries and States and other key stakeholders.
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America and Freemasonry are inexorably linked, and for good reason. Many of the founding fathers were Freemasons, as were others that shaped the country over the centuries. There is virtually no aspect of American culture, from history to politics to comedy and even to the space program, which is untouched by Masons.
The Freemasons have a legendary hand in the founding of the country, with illustrious members such as George Washington and Benjamin Franklin. But, there are many other figures who figured prominently in both U.S. history and Freemasonry. Daniel Boone, pioneer and domestic explorer was a Mason, as were both William Clark and Meriwether Clark, of Lewis and Clark fame. Paul Revere, the famous rider who warned of the British arrival, was a Mason. Many U.S. presidents in addition to Washington were also Freemasons, such as Andrew Jackson, James Garfield, Hubert Humphrey, James Monroe, William McKinley, Harry S Truman, William Taft, James K. Polk, Franklin and Theodore Roosevelt and Gerald R. Ford.
The space program has also seen its share of Freemasons, including astronauts Gus Grissom, killed in an accidental explosion, James B. Irwin, member of a moon mission, and Edgar Mitchell who flew in one of the Apollo missions. Also members of the Freemasons were Buzz Aldrin, the second person on the moon and John Glenn, the first American to fly in orbit around the Earth.
America has also been shaped in other ways by Masons, including the carving of Mount Rushmore by Gutzon and Lincoln Borglum, who were father and son Freemasons. The richest person in America was once a mason- John Jacob Astor, the famous titan of industry, was the Master and Grand Treasurer of his Lodge. The man who wrote the Pledge of Allegiance, Francis Bellamy, and the most famous head of the FBI, J. Edgar Hoover, were both Masons. Politician members include William Douglas, member of the Supreme Court, Barry Goldwater, senator and presidential candidate, George Wallace, governor and presidential candidate and Sam Houston, senator and governor of Texas.
The American entertainment world has also been touched by the Freemasons. Some of the most enduring early movie and television stars were Masons, including Gene Autry, Mel Blanc, Bud Abbott (of Abbott and Costello), Douglas Fairbanks, Clark Gable, Oliver Hardy and Danny Thomas. Harry Houdini, known for the mystery surrounding his performances of illusion was also a member of the organization shrouded in mystery, eventually becoming a Shriner. The many members of Freemasons who are involved in American politics and entertainment continue to this day, and will perhaps continue as long as America and the Freemasons endure.
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The long weekend and my son's wedding are both history, but sometimes a photo captures the essence of the day. I haven't seen the professional photos yet, but someone captured this snapshot, shared it on Facebook, and it will be the frozen moment I remember.
Today, it's back to making sure a loan funds, making the Tuesday broker open house run and the other daily duties of life as a real estate professional. However, when things get hectic and spin slightly out of control, my mind and heart has a new place of happiness and joy to visit.


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New Report Shows U.S. Death Penalty On Its Way Out (Despite Outlier Executions)
December 16, 2021 | The Death Penalty Information Center relased its annual report Thursday analyzing the country's use of capital punishment. Like in years past, the report shows significant advancements toward death penalty abolition in 2021, alongside a few concerning instances of backslides into executions.
Advancements Toward Abolition
Virginia Repeals the Death Penalty
One of the most notable advances made in the past twelve months was Virginia's historic repeal of the death penalty, in which Catholics played a notable role. Virginia's death penalty abolition made it the first southern and formerly Confederate state to outlaw capital punishment.
With that repeal win, a majority of states (26) have now either fully abolished the death penalty or instituted a formal moratorium on executions.
Executions and Death Sentencing Rates Decline
Continuing the trend of the country's declining use of the death penalty, 2021 was the seventh consecutive year with fewer than 30 executions and 50 new death sentences nationwide.
Eleven executions were administered in 2021 — the fewest since 1988. Of those executed, all but one had evidence of one or more significant mental or emotional impairments.
Only three states — Alabama, Oklahoma, and Texas — accounted for the majority of death sentences and executions.
New Death Row Exonerations
Two new exonerations brought the total of wrongfully convicted death row prisoners exonerated since 1973 to 186 — or one exoneration for every 8.3 executions.
The two exonerations were both in Mississippi: in January 20221, Eddie Lee Howard, Jr. became the sixth death-row prisoner in the state to be exonerated. Sherwood Brown became the seventh Mississpi death row exoneree in August 2021.
Federal Execution Moratorium
Another 2021 highlight was President Biden's halt to all federal executions.
The moratorium and policy review announced in July 2021 was precipitated by an unprecedented 13 executions ordered by the Trump administration. The three last executions in the killing spree took place in January 2021, less than ten days before the inauguration of President Biden, the country's first publicly anti-death penalty president.
Although the moratorium is an encouraging first step, stronger action is needed from the Biden administration to ensure an execution spree like the one seen under the Trump administration never happens again. Advocates are urging President Biden to take the steps within his power to commute the sentences of those on the federal death row.
TAKE ACTION: Sign the Catholic petition urging President Biden to dismantle the federal death penalty.
Backslides In Outlier Jurisdictions
A handful of outlier jurisdictions pursued executions and death sentences in 2021. Of these, most notable included Oklahoma's problematic restart to executions, which left John Marion Grant convulsing repeatedly and vomiting before his death.
In Arizona and South Carolina, there were moves this year to reinstitute antiquated execution methods like electrocution, firing squad, and the gas chamber, as lethal injection drugs have become more difficult for states to access.
These regressive efforts from a smattering of states are reminders that continued vigilance is required as Catholics work to end the death penalty.
Contact Congress: Do your members support the Federal Death Penalty Prohibition Act?
Find out where your members of Congress stand on the issue of the federal death penalty.
Tell President Biden: "End the Federal Death Penalty"
Sign the petition urging President Biden to honor the sanctity of life.
In Upcoming Visit, Will President Biden and Pope Francis Discuss the Death Penalty?
Among other pressing issues, many Catholics hope the pontiff and Catholic president will discuss the U.S. death penalty — specifically, the importance of President Biden commuting the sentences of all those on the federal death row.
Unearthing the truth in a decades-old death penalty case
"The Phantom" is a new documentary calling into question the aims and ends of our capital punishment system.
South Carolina schedules — and stays — its first executions in 10 years.
June 24, 2021 | The South Carolina Supreme Court issued two stays of execution earlier this month amid legal concerns regarding the state's plan to execute two men during the month of June using a 109-year-old electric chair.
The Mercy In Action Project
CMN's Mercy in Action Project gives YOU the tools you need to promote clemency for those on death row. Sign up today to start receiving monthly execution alerts.
National Catholic Pledge to End the Death Penalty
More than 25,000 Catholics and people of faith have already pledged to educate, advocate, and pray for an end to the death penalty. Will you answer the call?


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Our Pub is the quintessential neighborhood bar that started New Haven's Upper-State St. revival, 30 years ago.
The restaurant will be accepting donations starting the Monday before Thanksgiving. Please bring any canned goods, toiletries, clean blankets and clothing to: Christopher Martins, 860 State Street New Haven CT.
Over the years, the CHRISTOPHER MARTINS 5K race has donated over 50,000 toys to needy children in New Haven during the Christmas season. We hope to make Christmas a little brighter for the children of New Haven by giving them not only a toy, but the message of love from friends and neighbors they have never met.
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The St. Patrick's Day door panel is the perfect decoration for your St. Pats party. A fun and easy way to add some Irish style to your event.
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