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Opinion » Rhetoric & Reason
Very necessary protection
By Andrew Christie
How will the Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary provide economic benefits and environmental protections to the Central Coast? Let us count the ways.
A 2014 study of the potential economic impacts of a national marine sanctuary off the Central Coast (conducted by Jason Scorse, director of Center for the Blue Economy at the Monterey Institute of International Studies, and Judith Kildow, director of the center's National Ocean Economics Program), found that a national marine sanctuary off the Central Coast could add "at minimum, $23 million per year to the local economy and create almost 600 jobs." [Emphasis added.]
As recently summed up by Dr. Scorse:
"We found significant potential for the sanctuary to boost local employment and income, and we still believe this to be the case. Sanctuaries bring in money for research, from increased tourism, and increased property values. Given the indigenous heritage of the Chumash region, we believe that there will be significant interest from both a cultural and historical perspective in a new sanctuary of this kind. If anything, recent trends in the U.S. toward better appreciation of native rights and culture should make the proposed sanctuary even more valuable to the public than when we conducted our study."
The Office of National Marine Sanctuaries' Socioeconomics Research and Monitoring Program regularly reports on the economic impacts of existing marine sanctuaries. (Spoiler alert: The impacts are positive, especially for commercial and recreational fishing, which are particularly dependent on the health of marine resources and habitat.)
Do we have plenty of local, state, and federal regulations that protect our coastal waters already, and therefore don't need a marine sanctuary? Let's take a tour through recent history.
Congress allowed the 1982 moratorium on oil and gas leasing off the Pacific and Atlantic coasts to expire in 2008. Since then, we have seen an array of stopgap measures and bills introduced at the state and federal level that have died at the hands of Big Oil and its allies. The latest fail came last December, when U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin (D-West Virginia) stripped a ban on Pacific and Atlantic coastal drilling out of the Build Back Better Act. There are about 20 known oil fields in federal waters off the San Luis Obispo County coast. The Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary would immediately and permanently protect our coastal waters from drilling.
Then there were the times in 2002 and in 2005 when SLO County had to fend off efforts by the Bureau of Reclamation to dump toxic irrigation wastewater from the San Joaquin Valley into Estero Bay.
Then there was PG&E's proposed 2012 seismic survey offshore of Diablo Canyon, which ignored emerging benign technologies and opted for the cheapest and most environmentally destructive means of detecting underwater earthquake faults: Towing 250-decibel sound cannons through coastal waters all day, every day, for more than a month; 250 decibels is approximately what you would hear if you stood next to the engine of a 747 on takeoff.
Halting both the proposed seismic survey and wastewater dumping project required Herculean feats of local organizing over many months by dozens of local groups. In both cases, the outcome could easily have gone the other way.
At a July 2005 U.S. Bureau of Reclamation town hall in Cayucos, a resident asked if the potential expansion of the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary to encompass the waters off SLO County might hinder the plan to dump toxic wastewater here. The federal rep replied that at that moment there was no marine sanctuary off the SLO Coast, our waters therefore were not protected, therefore there would be no such impediment to the project.
PG&E's seismic survey had reached its final stage of approval, with all other required state and federal permits in hand, by the time it reached the California Coastal Commission and was turned back. Before it did, the utility eliminated one of the proposed survey vessel tracks—the one that would have taken it into the Monterey Bay sanctuary.
This history—and the benefit of having a national marine sanctuary in your corner when you really need one—is worth keeping in mind as the designation process goes forward.
Also worth keeping in mind are two federal studies that anticipated the claim that our oceans already have enough protection and don't need the protection a sanctuary brings. A 1981 report of the U.S. General Accounting Office put its findings in its title: "Marine Sanctuaries Program Offers Environmental Protection and Benefits Other Laws Do Not." In 2008, the intervening 27 years had not altered this reality when the inspector general of the Department of Commerce affirmed that the national marine sanctuary program "effectively complements other federal, state, and local resource protection efforts by offering benefits other laws or regulations do not."
From the mouth of Santa Rosa Creek in Cambria to the kelp forests off Point Conception, spanning 20,000-year-old Chumash ancestral sites now underwater, we are blessed with some of the most unique marine habitat and cultural heritage in the world, deserving of the protection that only a national marine sanctuary can provide. Δ
Andrew Christie is the director of the Santa Lucia Chapter of the Sierra Club. Send comments through the editor at clanham@newtimesslo.com.

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Mark Fuller: WET Design
The iconic Fountains of Bellagio captured our collective attention when they opened in 1998, and they manage to impress decades later. The creator Mark Fuller and his company WET Design continue to push the envelope and redefine the high-tech fountain industry today. We get a behind-the-scenes look at the company's launch from Disney Imagineering in 1983, the ups and downs of remaining at the cutting edge, how Mark builds his creative company culture, and their amazing facilities. We also hear his story of almost getting fired, after terrorizing a group of guests at Disneyland. Until now, his manufacturing operations have focused on developing proprietary components and putting them together into large custom projects, but he's about to launch a mass-production business idea as well. What do textile engineers, boxing coaches, woodworkers, robot designers, optics experts, and choreographers have to do water fountains? Listen to find out!
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– "Invention and creation comes less from a depth of knowledge than it does from different disparate areas that have never bumped into each other before."
– "One of the great life lessons I got separate when somebody is criticizing my work from criticizing me as a human being."
– "I think of my mind as a compost heap. I just keep putting all these crazy, sometimes dead, things in there and later on they start to smolder and heat comes out."
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Mark Fuller is the visionary force of WET, the world leader in water feature design and technology. The New Yorker has called him, "the closest thing the world has to a fountain genius" as he has redefined the very essence of what the world has come to think of as a water feature. His creativity and innovative spirit have led to the creation of The Fountains of Bellagio in Las Vegas, The Dubai Fountain, Revson Fountain at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York, the Cauldrons at the XXII and XIX Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City and Sochi, Wynn Palace in Macau, and Aquanuraat The Efteling in the Netherlands.
Upon graduating from the University of Utah with a degree in Engineering and then from Stanford University with a masters in Product Design, Mark joined Disney as an Imagineer. Following the success of the never-before-seen water features at Epcot Center and Disneyland Japan, Mark co-founded WET in 1983. The company has launched over 250 features in 20 countries and is comprised of over 300 team members, including designers, architects, engineers, scientists, animators, choreographers, cinematographers, machinists and a myriad of other talents.
Mark has spent his career exploring why water fascinates us, and how that fascination can foster human connection with nature's elements, with each other, and with our inner selves. As Steven Spielberg said upon seeing The Fountains of Bellagio for the first time, they are "the greatest single piece of public entertainment on planet Earth." WET is deeply invested in the responsible use of water and energy, a mandate it has followed since its founding over thirty years ago.


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Now I'm again on blend but Objects and Timeline window shows my root container(grid for me) instead of DataTemplate!
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Kieran Clements (ur. 20 listopada 1993) – brytyjski lekkoatleta specjalizujący się w biegach długich.

W 2011 był dziewiąty w biegu indywidualnym oraz zdobył złoto w rywalizacji drużynowej na mistrzostwach Europy w biegach przełajowych. Rok później podczas kolejnej edycji przełajowych mistrzostw Europy zdobył dwa brązowe medale.

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GROKO GROUNDHOG DAY: Today at 9 a.m. sharp, Angela Merkel will host SPD chief Martin Schulz and CSU leader Horst Seehofer at Konrad Adenauer Haus to kick off the next phase of "grand coalition" negotiations.
To recap: Last weekend, an SPD convention gave its nod (just) to formal talks after the two sides agreed on a preliminary coalition agenda. The decision cleared the way for the SPD leadership to hash out a final deal.
What happens next? The parties want to conclude talks before Ash Wednesday (preferably a week sooner, when Karneval begins in earnest), leaving them more than enough time to atone before the GroKo's hoped-for resurrection around Easter.
But O' Gott, just one more thing: SPD members have to give their blessing in a special vote before the new government can take office. Brace yourself for an Easter surprise.
What about "St. Martin?" One of biggest questions surrounding the talks is the fate of Brussels' favorite son Martin Schulz. Schulz vowed after the SPD's crushing election defeat in September that he would never serve in a cabinet under Merkel. But that was then. More recently, he's dodged the question amid reports he's ogling the foreign ministry. Some in his party are trying to force his hand by calling him to commit staying out of the coalition and devoting himself to his job as party chairman. This week, Schulz has been getting a little help from his friends in the press. Left-leaning Süddeutsche Zeitung argued separating him from the government would only further divide the party.
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CURRENCY WARS: European Central Bank President Mario Draghi, concerned by the recent steep rise in the euro versus the dollar (which makes European exports more expensive), doxxed the culprit at his press conference yesterday. In a thinly veiled reference to U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, Draghi blamed the stronger euro on "exogenous communication" by "someone … outside the ECB." Mnuchin said on Wednesday the weaker dollar was good for U.S. trade. The ECB chief suggested the comments violated pledges made at the last meeting of the International Monetary Fund in October to refrain from using currencies for competitive purposes. Draghi got even by talking the euro off of its three-year high, saying there were "very few chances" of a rate hike this year. Good news is the eurozone economy is continuing to improve.
THERESA MAY IS 'YUGE' IN DAVOS: Maybe it was the high altitude, the Alpine panorama or the pending arrival of @realDonaldTrump and his "Nuclear Button." Whatever the cause, suddenly everything in Davos appeared huge to the British premier on Thursday. The City of London? "Obviously hugely important for the U.K. but it's also hugely important for the global financial center, for the European Union and indeed around the rest of the world too," she told Bloomberg. Is there anything to the incessant buzz around AI? "Huge opportunities … particularly in the area of artificial intelligence where the U.K already has a leading edge."
May's address to Davos' stuffed shirts, however, was somewhat less than huge, Ryan Heath and Charlie Cooper report. "The applause was muted, several hundred people left before the end, and Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar began his press conference before the British prime minister had finished." OK, but what ever happened to the much-ballyhooed "Europe Day" at Davos? A damp squib of a speech by Merkel, Macron being Macron in French and English, and Juncker stuck in Brussels? At least May showed up.
WALZER ÜBER ALLES: Vienna's annual Akademikerball gets underway in the Hofburg imperial palace tonight. What might sound like a lovely evening of Strauss for the university-set looks more like a nightmare out of "The Man in the High Castle" up close. The ball, sponsored by the Vienna chapter of the Freedom Party, marks the high point of Austria's neofascist social calendar. Most attendees belong to German nationalist fraternities, the so-called Burschenschaften. Loud, often violent protests accompany the affair every year, but with the Freedom Party now in government, this year's blowback promises to be especially intense. The interior ministry, which happens to be controlled by the Freedom Party, is dispatching 3,000 police to protect the expected 2,500 guests. Freedom Party leader and Austrian Vice Chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache and other party grandees are expected to attend. More from the Guardian and for German speakers in Austria's Die Presse.
BUNGA BUNGA IS BACK: With Silvio Berlusconi expected regain political power in Italy, it's only appropriate that a new movie chronicling his earlier exploits will accompany his return.Other politicians might cringe at such a prospect. Not Silvio. He even offered filmmakers the use of his villas as locations. "The aging lothario has an uncanny talent for snatching victory from the jaws of defeats, gaffes, setbacks and scandals," writes Hannah Roberts for POLITICO.
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MAIN EVENT: Trump's speech today at 2 p.m. local time. Watch the live stream here.
PRIME INTERVIEWS: We snagged two prime ministers for our latest EU Confidential podcast from the WEF — the Netherlands' Mark Rutte and Poland's Mateusz Morawiecki. Here the top quotes:
Rutte on Brexit: "We hate the fact that the U.K. is leaving" but "it's crucial that the U.K. comes to a decision on what they think should be the next stage the next step and the future relationship," the Dutch PM tells POLITICO.
— On further EU integration: "First priority: internal markets and free trade agreements … We need to complete a banking union [but] we need to be very careful … I'm against risk sharing. I'm against this idea of a transfer union." Many EU countries need to do more to reform, he adds: "We need something to deal with sovereign debt restructuring. Which is part of how can we bring down the overall level [of debt]."
— Services single market: The EU has the plans, governments are just not moving them forward, says Rutte. The benefits of agreeing those reforms are "twice the size of the Dutch economy to the overall European economy" and could create 4 million jobs, he adds. "It's still over 2,000 protected professions."
Morawiecki's game plan for Poland: POLITICO's Matthew Kaminski spoke to the new Polish prime minister — a 49-year-old, polyglot banker — about his plans to fix Warsaw's troubled relations with Brussels, who Poland's enemies are and its economic successes.
— New faces: "The changes [cabinet reshuffle] were important to actually bring some new thinking to the government. And the most important thing today is that we tried to find common ground with Europe."
— Judicial reform: "We are not weakening institutions. I'm absolutely convinced that we are strengthening those institutions. The judiciary system in Poland, after our reforms, is going to be more independent, more objective, more transparent, and more effective … [Commission Vice President] Frans Timmermans, is doing his job and we are doing our job and I hope to bring our position closer and closer with each other."
— German relations: "[The Polish-German relationship] requires regular dialogue, and I believe we will find a solution even for the most difficult question, which is today this quotas on refugees. We look at this issue in a different way [than] the German political elites."
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AROUND THE EU INSTITUTIONS
PARLIAMENT — EPP MUDDLE OVER MACEDONIA: Joseph Daul, of the center right European People's Party, waded into the debate about Macedonia's name, saying there was a "window of opportunity" to resolve the decades-old dispute between Skopje and Athens. The comments came as Prime Ministers Zoran Zaev and Alexis Tsipras met in Davos to discuss the issue.
PARLIAMENT — BERLUSCONI BACKS TAJANI FOR ITALIAN PM: Silvio Berlusconi, leader of Forza Italia, said he had three candidates in mind for prime minister if his center-right bloc wins in Italy's forthcoming elections. Berlusconi — who appeared to refer to himself in third person — named Antonio Tajani as "a wonderful choice" because he "has always shown total and absolute loyalty to our principles and ideas, and to Silvio Berlusconi." A spokesman for Tajani pointed out that he "has said several times in several interviews that he's happy at the European Parliament."
PARLIAMENT — NEW PAN-EU YOUTH MOVEMENT: Members of new youth movement Volt meet in Bucharest today to hash out plans to establish national-level parties to run in next year's European elections. The movement, which spans 16 EU countries, is self-funded for now, but plans to raise money through crowdfunding, Volt spokesperson Cornelius Rahn told Playbook.
PARLIAMENT — MEPS SLAM MALTESE GOVERNMENT OVER RULE OF LAW: In a hearing in Parliament Thursday attended by two of the sons of murdered journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, MEPs slammed Malta for police inaction, despite evidence of wrongdoing and corruption by a government minister. "It is completely false that this government has put the rule of law in the dustbin," Maltese Justice Minister Owen Bonnici shot back during the debate. Watch it here.
COMMISSION — JUNCKER TO MEET MACRON: Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker is on the mend after a case of stomach flu prevented him from attending the World Economic Forum in Davos this week and will be in Paris on Saturday, according to spokesman Margaritis Schinas. Juncker is scheduled to meet French President Emmanuel Macron to prepare for the EU leaders' informal summit in Brussels next month.
COMMISSION — VESTAGER AND FAIRNESS: Reacting to criticism she was intervening too much in markets, Europe's competition czar Margrethe Vestager said her investigators weren't meant to be "superheroes" and that her interventions were necessary to ensure fairness. "For millennia, rulers have seen it as part of their job to make sure that markets work fairly for everyone," she said, citing the stone-inscribed laws of the ancient Babylonian king, Hammurabi. "They've known it was dangerous to fail in that responsibility. Because when people feel cheated by the market, they very easily lose trust in their whole society."
TRADE — CRUNCH TIME FOR MERCOSUR TRADE TALKS: With elections approaching in Brazil, the EU is fast running out of time to clinch a major new trade deal with the Mercosur bloc in South America that has eluded it for the past 20 years. "The window will be closing soon because Brazil is closing down, basically, for the elections," European Commissioner for Trade Cecilia Malmström told reporters on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos. POLITICO's Hans von der Burchard and Ryan Heath report.
DIGITAL POLITICS
ECJ SIDES WITH FACEBOOK AGAINST SHREMS: Facebook won a reprieve after the European Court of Justice ruled that an Austrian privacy campaigner could not bring a class-action lawsuit involving more than 25,000 Facebook users worldwide against the social networking giant.
EU NATIONAL NEWS
SPAIN — ON COLLISION COURSE OVER PUIGDEMONT: The Catalan regional assembly's pro-independence speaker, Roger Torrent, said Carles Puigdemont must be allowed home to be able to vote for a new president. "There is only one candidate and this candidate seems to have a majority," he told POLITICO after meeting Puigdemont in Brussels on Wednesday.
LATVIA — MAGNITSKY SANCTIONS: The Latvian Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee submitted a motion to introduce sanctions on the 49 Russians involved in the murder of businessman Sergei Magnitsky.
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION WEEKEND …
Finland: Eight contenders are standing in Sunday's presidential election, with the far-right Finns Party Laura Huhtasaari standing out in both style and substance, Reid Standish reports for POLITICO from Helsinki.
Cyprus: Incumbent center-right Nicos Anastasiades is unlikely to win the first round of presidential elections overshadowed by last year's failed reunification talks. This Sunday's contest includes Communist-backed Stavros Malas and Nicolas Papadopoulos, a former president's son.
Czech Republic: Last night the Euroskeptic incumbent president Miloš Zeman and his pro-EU rival Jiří Drahoš sparred in a debate ahead of this weekend's final round of the presidential election.
BREXIT 360°
BREXIT LEADER SLAMS HAMMOND: Divisions in the ruling Conservative Party burst into the open after senior Leave MP Jacob Rees-Mogg slammed Chancellor Philip Hammond's comments in Davos suggesting the government was softening its Brexit position. "I profoundly disagree with the chancellor," he told POLITICO. Meanwhile, Hammond also suggested cutting London financial markets off from the EU would be "a tremendous act of self-harm."
DAVIS TO SPEAK ON TRANSITION: In a speech today, David Davis, the U.K.'s Brexit secretary, is expected to say that London will "replicate the effects of the EU customs union during the implementation period … But participating in a customs union should not preclude us from formally negotiating — or indeed signing — trade agreements."
ECJ OVERSIGHT: The House of Lords is set to back an amendment to the EU Withdrawal Bill that demands judges "take into account" rulings by the European Court of Justice.
BEYOND EU
TRUMP IN LONDON: Donald Trump's visit to the U.K., expected to take place in the second half of this year, will likely be a working visit, not a state visit, No. 10 Downing Street told POLITICO Thursday. That means Trump would hold meetings with government ministers but would not meet Queen Elizabeth. The prospect of the U.S. president spending time with the monarch had been a major source of the opposition to a Trump visit, Annabelle Dickson and Louis Nelson report.
US — TRUMP TRIED TO FIRE MUELLER: President Donald Trump ordered special counsel Robert Mueller to be fired last year but backed down after the White House's top attorney threatened to resign, our POLITICO colleagues in Washington report. Also, five times the president spoke out about Mueller and the Russian probe.
BRUSSELS CORNER
BEER UNDER THE PARLIAMENT: Believe it or not, but the European Parliament is built over the remains of a famous Belgian brewery, called the Brasserie Leopold. The Brussels Beer City blog has the potted history.
ATTACK VICTIMS DEMAND MORE HELP: Survivors of the 2016 terror attacks in Brussels have said they feel abandoned by the Belgian government.
BIRTHDAYS: MEPs Reinhard Bütikofer, Sander Loones and Eva Paunova, former Danish PM and NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen.
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The Our Memories for Life group is making life easier for all of us when it comes to capturing our memories. They're creating products (cardstock, journal cards, and border strips) that work with previous collections. Brilliant, right? For February, the Wonder Designer Coordinates by Lauren Hinds and the Everyday Birthday 2″ Border Strips by Lauren Hinds include patterns and colors that match already available collections. Let me show you what you'll find in this collection.
2017 is here and I'm ready to jump into all the things I want to do this year. Do you have your list ready? Is one of the things on your list to have your memories in a book that you can share with others as well as look back on throughout the year? If so, you're in luck! The Year in a Snap program helps you get photos into your book a month at a time. Keep reading for all the details.
We're so excited to share the latest product – Solid Core Cardstock. These new cardstocks come in 25 colors with 10 sheets to a package. But there's more to what makes this different than the Solid Color Cardstock (besides the number of colors). Let me show you.
The new Joyful & Triumphant by Lauren Hinds collection truly is joyful and is so easy to create with. The hardest part is deciding which of the border strip designs to use because there are so many that I love that I want to use them all. Guess I better start taking more holiday photos!


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Photographers shoot to win
Oliver Hopcroft, Co-Editor-in-Chief|May 11, 2019
Photo courtesy of Rob Flye
Olivia Oomen's first-place entry in manipulation.
The gym can convert between basketball courts, volleyball courts, an assembly space — and an art gallery. On Saturday, May 4, the walls were covered in student photos as Inglemoor hosted the Washington State High School Photography Contest.
This year, students entered 3500 photos across 17 categories, ranging from camera phone to traditional black and white. Of the 66 schools present, Inglemoor came out on top.
"We took home the trophy again," photography teacher Rob Flye said. "This is the fourth year in a row that we've gotten it."
Behind Inglemoor with 54 points were Lakeside with 38 and Skyview-Vancouver with 18 for distant second and third places.
This strong team performance was made possible by high-placing individual entries. Four categories were won by Inglemoor students — freshman Maya Nair won Traditional Black and White, sophomore Nicole Villamil won Still Life and junior Olivia Oomen took first in both Abstract and Manipulation.
Oomen said she took both of her winning photos at the same time.
"I shot all of the photos on film," Oomen said. "I took the negatives and inverted them to create this diptych [a two-panel artwork] for one of the pieces."
To arrive at a final piece, Oomen said that her process consists of a lot of experimentation.
"A lot of photography is just taking random photos when you think something looks cool — that was what sparked my curiosity," Oomen said. "I worked with Flye a lot on revising those photos."
Nair said that the process behind her photo was similar — and her subject equally mundane.
"Honestly, I was bored, so I walked around Inglemoor and took the shot at the track," Nair said. "When I took it, I thought the contrast of the high jump mat material would show good on film."
As a freshman, Nair still has three more years left to compete. She said that she plans to continue photography through senior year. Going forward, Flye said, student photographers can expect more tough competition.
"It's never an easy thing to get recognition at contests — you never know what the judges are gonna do or what the other schools are gonna bring," Flye said.
Of this year's winning entries, six will be printed on a run of 250,000 Jones Soda bottles. Over the next year, they will also be exhibited at Museum Quality Framing, the Seattle Art Museum and Kenmore Camera.
The winning entries and finalists are available to browse on WSHSPC.com.
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Winner Take Nothing
Categories: Classic Literature, Short Stories
Reader: Stacy Keach
Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American novelist, short story writer, and journalist. His economical and understated style had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction, while his life of adventure and his public image influenced later generations. He published seven novels, six short story collections, and two non-fiction works. Additional works, including three novels, four short story colle... Read More
Ten Indians
Categories: Classic Literature, Historical Fiction, Short Stories
Reader: Lisa Rae Campbell
American novelist and short-story writer awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954 Ernest Hemingway' was raised in Oak Park, Illinois. After high school, he was leaving for the Italian Front in World War I. In 1918, he was seriously wounded and returned home. Hemingway's legacy to American literature is his style and also the extent of Hemingway's influence is seen in the tributes and echo... Read More
A Canary for One
Ernest Miller Hemingway was the outstanding author, journalist, novelist, and short-story writer. His economical and understated style - which he termed the iceberg theory - had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction. Hemingway's short story A Canary for One speaks leagues simultaneously about the author's skill in observing irony in real life and colourfully painting it out in fiction, as... Read More
Categories: Classic Literature, Biographies & Memoirs, Nonfiction
Reader: Brent Bradrey
In striving to be as objective and honest as possible, Ernest Hemingway hit upon the device of describing a series of actions by using short, simple sentences from which all comment or emotional rhetoric has been eliminated. The resulting terse, concentrated prose is concrete and unemotional yet is often resonant and capable of conveying great irony through understatement. Hemingway's next-door... Read More
Categories: Classic Literature, Adventure Fiction, Young Adult Fiction
Reader: Adam Muskin
The Old Man and the Sea is a short novel written by the American author Ernest Hemingway in 1951 in Cuba, and published in 1952. It was the last major work of fiction by Hemingway that was published during his lifetime. The Old Man and the Sea became a Book of the Month Club selection and made Hemingway a celebrity. Published in book form on September 1, 1952, the first edition print run was 50... Read More
Ernest Hemingway's novel "For Whom the Bell Tolls" was originally published in 1940 and follows a young American guerrilla fighter. Throughout 1937 and 1938, Hemingway travelled between Spain and America promoting the Loyalist cause. He helped in the production of a short film about the effects of the war in Spain on its people, The Spanish Earth, and made many publicity and fund-raising appear... Read More
Author: John Steinbeck
Reader: Dylan Baker
John Ernst Steinbeck Jr. was an American author, who won the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humour and keen social perception." Most of Steinbeck's work is set in central California, particularly in the Salinas Valley and the California Coast Ranges region. His works frequently explored the themes of fate and injustic... Read More
The Winter of Our Discontent
Reader: William Roberts
John Ernst Steinbeck Jr. was an American author. He has been called "a giant of American letters," and many of his works are considered classics of Western literature. A study by the Center for the Learning and Teaching of Literature in the United States found that Of Mice and Men was one of the ten most frequently read books in public high schools. Steinbeck's last novel, The Winter of Our Dis... Read More
Travels with Charley: In Search of America
Categories: Classic Literature, Biographies & Memoirs, Travel, Nonfiction
Reader: Ron McLarty
John Steinbeck, the author of such classics as Of Mice and Men, The Grapes of Wrath, and East of Eden, remains firmly planted in the souls of his readers today. In September 1960, John Steinbeck and his poodle, Charley, embarked on a journey across America. The idea was that he, pretty much depleted as a novelist, would travel alone, stay at campgrounds and reconnect himself with the country by... Read More
John Ernst Steinbeck was an American author. He won the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humour and keen social perception." During his writing career, he authored 27 books, including 16 novels, six non-fiction books, and two collections of short stories. Ironically he is more popular with critics abroad than in his own... Read More
In Dubious Battle
Reader: Tom Stechschulte
John Ernst Steinbeck was an American author, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature "for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humour and keen social perception" in 1962. Most of Steinbeck's work is set in central California, particularly in the Salinas Valley and the California Coast Ranges region. His works frequently explored the themes of fate and injustice... Read More
Reader: Liam Brennan, Jude Akuwudike, David Tennant
John Steinbeck was born in 1902 in Salinas, California. His first writing success came in 1935 with Tortilla Flat, a collection of humorous stories. But Steinbeck's writing is less about humour and more about social issues. John Steinbeck's timeless novella Of Mice and Men was published in 1937 to considerable acclaim, and the reading public's appreciation of the text has hardly diminished sinc... Read More
Cannery Row
Reader: Jerry Farden
John Ernst Steinbeck was an American author. He won the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature and the Pulitzer Prize for The Grapes of Wrath. His books depict a realistic and tender image of his childhood and life, primarily in Monterrey, California. John Steinbeck's art and career follow a typically American arc of the mid-twentieth century. The early hard-scrabble years of unadulterated talent givin... Read More
John Ernst Steinbeck was an American author, who wrote 27 books, including 16 novels, six non-fiction books, and two collections of short stories. He is widely known for the comic novels Tortilla Flat and Cannery Row, and epic East of Eden. In the 1930s and 1940s, Ed Ricketts strongly influenced Steinbeck's writing. Steinbeck frequently took small trips with Ricketts along the California coast... Read More
Reader: Richard Poe
East of Eden, John Steinbeck's passionate and exhilarating epic, re-creates the seminal stories of Genesis through the intertwined lives of two American families. Spanning the period between the American Civil War and the end of World War I, the novel highlights the conflicts of two generations of brothers, the first being the kind, gentle Adam Trask and his wild brother Charles. Adam eventuall... Read More


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Breaking Bad: The Legend Ends – Ozymandias
by Peter Foy
*Spoilers
*Major Spoilers
*Trust Me. You do not want to read this until you've seen the episode
Alright now that that's settled
R.I.P Hank and Gomez
It really couldn't have gone any other way. They were out manned and out gunned, yet the fact that we've seen Hank survive two other gun-fights before made us think that he could really get through this ordeal, but this time he just couldn't. Still, he just showed what a noble and strong fighter he was even till the end, accepting his death and refusing to beg for mercy. His last line really summed up his relationship with Walt the best, "You're the smartest guy I've ever met, but you're too dumb to realize he made up his mind 10 minutes ago." When the gun shot finally came, the effect was simply devastating, almost as much for a viewer as it was for Walt. Walt's action had caused the death of a family member, the one threshold he truly did not want to cross. It was heartbreaking on so many levels!
Ozymandias was an episode that really brought the series direction to an immensely powerful and satisfying destination, perfectly setting the show up for it's final two episodes. In a tactic fully adroit to the show's nature, Ozymandias' cold opening does not show us the aftermath of the massive gun battle just yet, but instead takes us to a flashback scene that must have occurred within the show's first or second season. We see Walt and Jesse (back when they had mustaches instead of beards) in lighter times, which makes one recall that at one point the show was actually quite a bit more humorous than it now is. Seeing Walt call Skylar to talk about going on a weekend vacation or contemplate their baby's name, it really shows that the initial reason that Walt became involved with this game was always for his family's sake. It's enough to bring a tear to one's eye, after everything else that follows in this episode.
Since the show's second season I've contemplated how Walt would tell Jesse about Jane. I had often thought that Walt would tell him while under the influence of alcohol or some drug (similar to that time he drank too much wine and said some potentially dangerous things to Hank), but I never thought that Walt would tell it to Jesse's face to spite him. I was really choked up seeing Walt give Jack his permission to kill Jesse, and then allow them to take him away to do god knows what. Still, the fact that Jesse survived the neo-nazis (so that he could become their enslaved meth-cook), makes me optimistic that he will have a "happy" ending, and perhaps it's not too late for Walt and Jesse to find redemption together.
So yes, Walt lost so much due to Jack, from his brother-in-law to the vast majority of his fortune, but this episode would see him losing even more. Once again we see how Walt tries to save his family, but cannot be honest to them at the same time. Skyler immediately feels that Walt is Hank's killer, and when she grabs a knife things only got uglier. The fight scene really was a tumultuous scene, and it was shot in just such a shocking way. It felt that Skyler or Walt Jr. could be on the receiving end of that blade at any moment, but fortunately Gilligan and his writers realized that this episode had enough bloodshed already. Walt kidnapping Holly was a huge shock as well, and I can imagine there was a very involved discussion by the writers about whether Walt would keep her or not.
Lastly, before I close this blog post and wait with abated breath for next week's episode, I must bring up Walt's phone call to Skyer. Skyler has often been referred to as a "bitch" by the show's fans, and has faced so much fan-forum ridicule over the years. Still, when Walt calls he a "stupid bitch", it really carried so much gravity to it, especially after Walt began to blame her for all his problems. Walt had said last season that he wanted to continue to cook as without his family he feels he has nothing, and in this scene we see him in full Heisenberg mode. He's detestable, he's intimidating, and certainly terrifying. On the other hand though, it's hard not to acknowledge that Walt's whole plan has gone to shit in just one episode, and we fully understand why he is so full of rage. When Walt leaves her behind, it acts as a sign that their is still humanity to him, and it makes me hopeful that Walt will earn some sort of tribulation for all the evils he's done. The only thing is…I have no idea how that's even possible.
Also, the title of the episode is a reference to Watchmen. It really did have everything!
5 Buckets of Los Pollos Hermanos out of 5
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