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As Gov. Pat Quinn and other Illinois Democrats vow to pursue a statewide ban on assault weapons, some of those same guns were on sale Saturday at the Illinois State Fairgrounds in Springfield.
As Gov. Pat Quinn and other Illinois Democrats vow to pursue a statewide ban on assault weapons, some of those same guns were on sale Saturday at the Illinois State Fairgrounds in Springfield.
According to ads for the weekend event, some of the brands that could be affected by a state or federal ban could be purchased at the state-owned facility, including weapons made by Ruger, Glock and Beretta, the (Decatur) Herald & Review reported.
The event comes as officials who favor stricter gun control laws in other states are beginning to debate whether to ban the shows from public property. This weekend's show was organized by Centralia-based Egyptian Collectors Association Inc., which has rented space at the fairgrounds since 2008, the Herald & Review reported.
Illinois Democrats are pledging to press ahead with efforts for a state ban on assault weapons and tighter firearms restrictions in Chicago in the wake of the Connecticut school massacre last month. Legislation already has been filed in the state Senate that would restrict semiautomatic assault rifles and rapid ammunition feeders, despite similar, failed attempts in the final days of the past General Assembly's session earlier this month.
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel sent a proposal to the City Council on Thursday to double jail time to six months for anyone who fails to report guns that have been lost, stolen or sold.
In another Emanuel-backed measure, the Chicago Teachers' Pension Fund board voted Thursday to liquidate its investments in gun manufacturers. The fund's $9.5 billion portfolio includes about $146,000 invested in Sturm Ruger & Co. and Smith & Wesson Holding Corp.
Speaking Saturday at the U.S. Conference of Mayors' annual meeting in Washington, Emanuel called on other city officials to follow Chicago's lead and sever ties with manufacturers.
"Mayors from across the country have firsthand knowledge of the damage these weapons cause in our communities, and there is no return on investment great enough to justify supporting the weapons manufacturers or dealers," Emanuel said, according to a news release from his office.
A city councilman in Tucson, Ariz., wants to make the city-owned convention center off limits to gun shows until the state or the federal government requires background checks for every gun sale. Tucson was the site of a January 2011 mass shooting that killed six people and left then-U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and 12 other people injured.
On the other side of the gun debate, a group called Guns Across America held rallies Saturday at state capitals around the country, including in Springfield. The event was dubbed Gun Appreciation Day.
The group's state coordinator for Illinois, Nathan Hoefs of Lincoln, said further gun restrictions are not needed. The Army veteran also said some weapons have been misunderstood, including the civilian versions of military rifles. He said those weapons are similar in appearance, but function differently.
"The ones we use in the military were definitely a little bit more advanced than the ones in the civilian world," he told WBBM radio. "... You put a body kit on a Ford Pinto, it doesn't make it a Ferrari."


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Emmys After-Party Pics: These TV Stars Know How to Party!
The stars were out on a school night following the big wins at the 66th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards on Monday, Aug. 25. Proudly schlepping their statues around town, the small-screen celebs really let loose at the Emmy after-parties.
Even American Horror Story actresses Jessica Lange and Sarah Paulson showed their silly side at the FOX soiree once the televised event was out of the way. Click the candid pics to see how the stars really party with their peers!

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Power Outage: Power play falters again as Canucks fall 2-1 to Predators
VANCOUVER - A feeble power play has sucked the life out of the Vancouver Canucks at times this season.
Another night of missed chances left the door open for the Nashville Predators to capitalize on a man advantage of their own.
Nick Spaling scored the winner on the power play midway through the third period Thursday as the Predators defeated the Canucks 2-1.
Vancouver's 25th-ranked power play finished 0 for 5, including a four-minute man advantage in the first period that could have significantly altered the game's complexion. Canucks defenceman Dan Hamhuis had a tough game, missing chance after chance from the side of the Nashville net on that sequence.
"We had some great looks on the power play early on. We had probably four backdoor opportunities that we didn't finish on," said Canucks assistant coach Mike Sullivan. "I thought our power play did everything tonight except put it in the net."
Despite Sullivan's positive take, Vancouver is now just 2 for 30 with the man advantage over its last eight games.
"We had good chances, good looks. I thought we moved the puck well," said Daniel Sedin, who has now gone 11 games without scoring. "In the end it doesn't really matter right now. We've got to get some goals.
"It's up to us in here to make it happen. No excuses."
Craig Smith had the other goal for Nashville (23-22-7), while Carter Hutton made 32 saves as the Predators picked up their fourth victory in the last five outings. Spaling also had an assist.
"We got some good goaltending, Carter was really good on those backdoor plays," said Predators coach Barry Trotz, whose team improved to 1-21-2 when trailing after two periods. "They were executing that pretty well. We were having trouble trying to stop that and he got over there a couple times.
"It was a good character test. That was huge for us to get through the first period."
Chris Higgins had the only goal for Vancouver (26-17-9), which got 24 stops from Roberto Luongo.
The Canucks, who still hold down the first wild card spot in the Western Conference, saw their modest two-game winning streak come to an end.
Down 1-0 after two periods, Nashville tied it at 3:28 of the third when Smith ripped a shot upstairs past Luongo from the faceoff dot off a feed from Spaling for his team-leading 16th goal of the season.
"Going into the third when you've got a lead the least you can do is bring it to overtime. It's disappointing," said Luongo. "I need to make a better play on the first one, be more patient on the wrap and read that play a bit better."
The Predators kept pushing as the period wore on, with their sixth-ranked power play getting a couple of chances. The Canucks penalty kill—which sits second in the NHL this season—held firm until Seth Jones connected with Spaling at 12:38.
Jones fired a shot from the point that Spaling tipped past Luongo with just three seconds left on the Nashville man advantage to give the Predators their first lead.
Vancouver had another power-play chance late, but couldn't find a way past Hutton.
"The NHL is about a lot of low scoring games," said Luongo. "We've got to find ways to win them. We've got to find ways to bring these games to overtime. We've got to find ways to protect leads. When we get scored on we've got to keep playing.
"It's a tough one to lose going into the third with the lead."
After a scoreless first period, Higgins broke the deadlock at 9:09 of the second with his 13th of the season on a nifty deflection. Canucks forward Dale Weise floated a shot towards the Nashville net that Higgins tipped up and over a helpless Hutton for his first goal in seven games.
All 13 of Higgins' goals have come at even strength and Thursday's effort was just Vancouver's sixth overall in the last six contests.
The Canucks' power play continued to miss the mark in the second, with defenceman Jason Garrison blasting a shot from the point midway though the period that Hutton handled.
"I thought this particular game, the power play had better puck movement and even though we didn't score we got some momentum off of it because at least they had some looks and they had some opportunities, which for me is progress in the right direction," said Sullivan. "The next step is we have to finish. We have to put it in the net."
The Canucks were again without head coach John Tortorella, who served the second game of his 15-day suspension for attempting to get into the Calgary Flames' locker-room after Saturday's line brawl.
Vancouver was also missing captain Henrik Sedin and fellow forward Mike Santorelli. Thought to be nursing rib and finger injuries, Sedin saw his iron man streak of 679 straight games come to an end when he sat out Tuesday's 2-1 road victory over the Edmonton Oilers. Santorelli, meanwhile, missed his third in a row, also with an upper-body injury.
Despite their recent run of good form, the Predators still sit eight points back of the final wild card spot in the conference behind the Canucks and Minnesota Wild.
"This team has been really resilient all year," said Trotz. "It's been a little bit of an uphill battle all year. This team has got a lot of backbone, a lot of character and this group cares about each other so when things are a little bit rough they dig in and that's a great quality to have."
Notes: Michael Del Zotto, acquired from the New York Rangers on Wednesday for fellow defenceman Kevin Klein, wore No. 18 for Nashville and played alongside Jones. ... Canucks defenceman Ryan Stanton returned to the lineup after missing the last 15 games with an ankle injury. Earlier in the day, the Canucks assigned forward Jordan Schroeder to the Utica Comets of the American Hockey League for a conditioning stint. He's been out since October following ankle surgery. ... The Canucks downed the Predators 3-1 in Nashville on Dec. 1. The teams play the final game of the regular season series March 19 at Rogers Arena. ... The Canucks play the second game of a four-game homestand on Sunday against the Phoenix Coyotes. ... The Predators continue a four-game road trip on Friday against the Calgary Flames.
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Best Asian Restaurants in Boston
All over Boston—and across the country—Asian food is what's hot. Soba noodles and pork-belly buns are showing up in unexpected places: celebrated kitchens, hip watering holes, even your neighborhood supermarket. A half-dozen notable Asian-themed restaurants have opened here in the past year—offering everything from shrimp toast to yakitori-style skewers—and more are right now getting ready to oil up their woks. You'll be licking your chopsticks as we present the definitive list of the city's very best Chinese, Japanese, Thai, Vietnamese, Korean, and Cambodian restaurants. We've consulted dumpling masters, broken down ramen and dim sum, and even mapped the Chinatown dining maze. Get ready to improve your fortunes.
The 20 Essential Restaurants in Boston
Plus: Six New Restaurants On the Horizon
Chinatown Tour
We present Chinatown's hidden treasures.
Everybody Loves Ramen
Check out the best of the broths in Boston, and learn how to make your own versions.
Wonton Regard
Some of the best dumplings around, from the traditional to the anything-but.
Plus: How to Eat a Soup Dumpling
Your Guide to Dim Sum
Where to go, what to order, and tips for good dim sum etiquette.
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The best scorpion bowls, beer, and sake.
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Review: Auspicious Beginnings at the Utara Coffee House, Armada Hotel PJ
>> Wednesday, January 20, 2016
"Auspicious Beginnings" is the theme for Armada Hotel Petaling Jaya's Chinese New Year menu! With CNY less than a month away, I'm sure you wouldn't want to miss out on starting the new year with greater successes, favors, & prosperities.
With an array of decadent CNY dishes in the buffet line, specially thought through & whipped up by Chef Chew & his team, you can be sure to find yourself enjoying a wide variety of "auspicious" dishes this CNY at the Utara Coffee House. Among the many dishes available are the Treasure Hot Pot/"Poon Choy" (both non-vegetarian & vegetarian versions are available), Braised Seafood Soup, Deep-Fried Whole Fish with 'Cheong Cheng' Sauce, Wok-Fried Lamb Steak with Honey Perrin Sauce, Glutinous Rice with Smoked Chicken & 'Kam Heong' Crabs to name a few!
Diners who would prefer to indulge in set menus won't be disappointed as well as Chef Chew & his team have specially prepared 4 spectacular Prosperity Set Menus (minimum 10 persons to a table) for your enjoyment:
Blissful Longevity Set Menu - RM 978.00+
Everlasting Success Set Menu - RM 1,088.00+
Bountiful Treasures Set Menu - RM 1,198.00+
Golden Health & Prosperity Set Menu - RM 1,308.00+
Below are some highlights of the buffet spread. Have an auspicious new year ahead!
Chinese New Year Cold Cuts
Steamed Lotus Glutinous Rice with Smoked Chicken
"Kam Heong" Crabs
Roasted Chicken with Sesame Sauce *yums*
Fried Prawns with Coconut Butter Flakes
Somewhat too 'rainbow' for me, but the texture is too hard to resist!
Dessert: "Nian Gao" - a typical CNY dessert
Dessert: Shanghai Pancakes
For reservations or queries on their CNY specials, please contact:
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The official Pokemon Discussion Thread V.1!
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This thread is to discuss any particular aspects of specific Pokemon, along with your opinions on them!
You can mention anything you want about the specific Pokemon, but you must put some effort into your post. For example, telling a story about your experience with using Machamp (just an example) in competitive battling over Wi-Fi is fine, but it's best if you describe your overall opinions about Machamp as well.
What's not fine is making a simple post saying: "I love Machamp!!!!! yeah ;068;;068;"
I'll start this off by bringing up Scizor.
Scizor has been one of my favorite Pokemon ever since I got it in my Gold version. I even remember watching the episode where Ash battles some guy with the "perfect" Scizor with his own Scizor and actually wins. I found it to be such a cool Pokemon because of the way it evolved and looks, and even now I use it in my Emerald and SS Battle Frontier teams. Its attack and defense is great, but its HP and Speed hinders it a little. It learns great moves in the fourth gen. though, such as X-Scissor, Iron Head and Swords Dance.
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Celebrity culture has given us so many awful things—too many to name, and everyone has named them already—but there's also a positive side to famous-people worship. Sometimes, when you need life inspiration, the most accessible examples are, paradoxically, the most distant and inaccessible human beings. The stars are so far away that they look perfect, twinkly, unflawed. We can use this! All of us have, at one time or other, REACHED FOR THE STARS for inspiration in our lives. Here are some of our personal star crushes—women who have been guiding lights when we needed them most.
Courtney Love
By Stephanie
I discovered her in seventh grade, at a sleepover at the house of a friend with a cool older cousin who was always exposing us to the best music, like David Bowie and Nine Inch Nails. But the best musical discovery passed down to us was a band called Hole—in particular their lead singer. On the front of the cassette tape, she was washed out, her blonde hair and her skin as white as her baby-doll dress. Above her head was the album title: Pretty on the Inside. Those were the words that she chanted in the last song on side B: "Is she pretty on the inside? Is she pretty from the back?" Over the next two wretched years of junior high, they were words that I chanted in my head whenever I was being taunted by the boys and girls who were pretty on the outside. I dreamed of having her strength one day, the strength to scream beautiful broken poetic words at the top of my lungs like Courtney Love.
I remember seeing her on the cover of Sassy kissing the cheek of my other recently discovered idol, Kurt Cobain, and thinking how lucky she was. Not because she married a really cute rock star, but because I could tell they were two kindred spirits. Two people who had probably been outcasts, freaks like me, who made beautiful noise, and they'd found each other. It gave me hope that someday I would find my own kindred spirit.
Two years later, when he killed himself, she comforted me. I was 14. I was depressed like he obviously was, and when he died part of me was scared that even if I learned to scream like they did, it wouldn't be enough to save me. I was glued to MTV in the days following his death. I watched the vigil for him at the Seattle Center, where they played a recording of her reading his suicide note. She told the crowd to chant "asshole" at him. "Call him an asshole and tell him that you love him." I did, and it felt good. It felt right to be angry and sad and full of love all at the same time. Courtney understood what it was to have that whirlwind of emotion and how to channel it. Four days after he died, her record Live Through This came out. I'd been excited about it before, but I went out to buy it for comfort. "I'm not psychic, but my lyrics are," she would say in an interview five months after his death. "If you live through this with me, I swear that I will die for you," went her lyrics. It was bone-chilling. It was also Truth. Every single word on that album was Truth and Life and Death. I played it obsessively. I gave it to everyone I knew.
I saw her live for the first time less than six months after Kurt died. Hole opened for Nine Inch Nails. They came on late. She was high. I knew because I was in love with a junkie myself at that time, so I could see the signs: the stumbling and slurring that seem to occur in slow-motion compared with someone who is simply drunk. There was some asshole in the crowd who held up a sign saying that read "Courtney killed Kurt." I wanted to beat the shit out of him for her. She didn't respond, though she would, loudly and angrily, at other shows. At this one she just put on a gorgeously messy performance that she ended by howling out her version of "Where Did You Sleep Last Night?" and smashing the microphone onto the stage repeatedly before hurling herself into the crowd and letting them tear at her. She got it, how I felt on the inside, the pain that clawed at my lungs and punched at my ribs. I had no words for it, but she had both words and actions. She was my catharsis.
We had to write a massive paper in English class during my sophomore year, and I wrote one comparing my two heroines, Courtney Love and Sylvia Plath. They were both mothers, both poets, both tormented, but Courtney had lived and Sylvia had given up. I didn't judge Sylvia for that, but my respect for Courtney only grew, even though more and more people were calling her a whore and an addict, were judging her parenting and her failings as a wife, accusing her even of her husband's death. I saw her as a survivor, and surviving is complex. In the course of surviving sometimes you fuck up. Sometimes you fuck up a lot. But through it all Courtney kept making that incredible music.
My boyfriend and I watched her on MTV Unplugged. We were on the phone, not in the same room, because he was grounded, as usual. I said that her short lace dress was gorgeous. He said, "Of course you think so—it's slutty." Instead of crying, I listened to her sing. I recorded that Unplugged performance and I listened to her version of "(He Hit Me) And It Felt Like a Kiss" over and over when that guy and I broke up. Courtney helped me realize what he was, and then she helped me survive it. I listened to Pretty on the Inside and Live Through This and a couple of bootlegs I'd found that my ex had said she sounded horrible on, strung out and bad—he tried to diminish her gleaming power because it would diminish mine.
I wrote my own poetry while I listened. It was mostly bad rip-offs of her and Sylvia, but I bound it all together and took it to a Hole concert two days after my 16th birthday. It was Lollapalooza. Through sheer luck and perhaps good karma for standing in the cold at six AM the day tickets went on sale, I'd landed front-row seats. At the end of the set, I threw my poetry zine onto the stage, hoping it would reach Courtney the way she'd reached me.
The Lollapalooza tour was the first time I really saw Courtney's flaws. It came out that she'd punched Kathleen Hanna, the singer of Bikini Kill, another heroine of mine. That made me feel sort of sick, but I reminded myself that I didn't know the story and that Courtney was human. Even though to me she felt like all of my favorite women from Greek Mythology rolled into one—wise Athena, mother Demeter, Persephone who went to hell and back, and Medusa, and the Furies, too—she was flawed. I accepted that about her. In fact in some ways it made me love her more. She didn't fake it while she worked out her demons in the public eye. Though those demons were often ugly—unraveling on Letterman, letting a stranger lick her breast at a Wendy's, punching fans and people I admired, falling into addiction after it seemed she had it beat—she embraced them. Seeing her do so taught me to embrace mine and begin to tame them, make them into art the way she did with hers on all of her albums and in her movie roles.
The poetry I wrote eventually turned to stories, and 15 years after I'd hurled my zine at her, I finally met her. It was my 31st birthday, and I drove down to St. Louis from Chicago because Hole was playing there that night, and my friend Jenny, who lived there, got my love of Ms. Love in a way few of my other friends did. She was willing to wait with me in the alley behind the venue after the show, hoping for a glimpse of her.
After we'd waited for over an hour, Courtney came outside, looking tired and demure in a pair of black-framed glasses. She walked over to greet the group of 20 of us who were still waiting. She worked her way down the line, signing things. When she reached me, I asked, "Courtney, can I give you a present?"
"What is it?" she replied, looking somewhat uncertain.
"A book, one you inspired me to write about a girl rock star," I said, handing my first published novel to her. "I thanked you in the acknowledgments."
She studied it, beaming, then said, "Wow, this really cute!" She read the back, noting that it was published by MTV Books and that I had my MFA. "What are you doing here?" she asked, as though I was too good to be waiting a St. Louis alley for her.
"It's my birthday and I wanted to see you."
She thanked me, warmly and graciously. I waited to scream out of sheer joy until we were back in Jenny's car. Who knows if Courtney ever read the book or if it got lost on her tour bus somewhere, but hopefully she did find that part in the acknowledgments that reads: "The first time I heard Courtney Love scream that she was 'pretty on the inside' it saved my angry, teenage girl soul." Writing was my way of learning to scream, and I couldn't have done that without her.


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What is a curettage/vacuum aspiration and is it necessary after an abortion with pills?
Vacuum aspiration or curettage is a surgical intervention to remove the contents of the uterus. Sometimes this treatment is necessary if there are complications after medical abortion or spontaneous miscarriage.
However in some countries doctors are accustomed to performing a curettage even though it might not be needed for medical reasons.
You do NOT need a vacuum aspiration if the ultrasound shows that there are still some small remains in the uterus (incomplete abortion) or experience some bleeding after 3 weeks AND you do not have any complaints like pain, fever or heavy bleeding. Small remains in the uterus can be treated with an extra doses of Misoprostol (2 tablets) or you can just wait until your next menstruation. The uterus will most likely empty itself. Regular menstruation comes back 4 to 6 weeks after a medical abortion. After a normal menstruation you should not have any remaining tissue left over in the uterus.
However, in case you do have complaints like fever, persistent pain and heavy bleeding, a surgical intervention called vacuum aspiration is needed. Some doctors still only do a procedure called D&C or sharp curettage. This should not be done!! So ask the doctor what kind of procedure she/he uses because they should perform a vacuum aspiration and not a sharp curettage or D&C (vacuum aspiration is less painful and has less risks and complications).
All procedures should be done under local or general anaesthesia!
More scientific information:
According to the World Health Organization "If the woman is well, neither prolonged bleeding nor the presence of tissue in the uterus (as detected by ultrasound) is an indication for surgical intervention. Remaining products of conception will be expelled during subsequent vaginal bleeding. Surgical evacuation of the uterus may be carried out on the woman's request or if the bleeding is heavy or prolonged, or causes anaemia, or if there is evidence of infection". 63 68
If there are remains in the uterus showed by ultrasound but you feel well, the best is to wait still some weeks. If you start to observe signs of complications, you should go back to the doctor immediately. Read in this article "How do you know if you have a complication and what should you do?"
Dilatation and curettage should be used only in case of diagnosed complications and only if vacuum aspiration is not available. Vacuum aspiration is a newer and much safer surgical method and you should always ask for it if you are given a choice between vacuum aspiration and curettage. 77 78 84 85 93 94 95 101 103


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Alicia Keys is facing a copyright infringement lawsuit over her hit single, Girl on Fire.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, songwriter Earl Shuman has filed a suit, alleging that the songbird's track borrows elements from Lonely Boy, a song he co-wrote in 1962. The song became a hit in 1970 for Eddie Holman under the title Hey There Lonely Girl.
Shuman became aware of the supposed similarities after Roger Friedman, a blogger for Showbiz411 wrote in a post last month: "In the middle of the song, Alicia sings a couplet or so from Eddie Holman's 1970 classic Hey There Lonely Girl.
Claiming it to be an uncredited sample, he continued: "The song was written by Leon Carr and Earl Shuman, who are both gone to rock and roll heaven."
He added, "Keys only uses two seconds of the original, but it helps make her record."
Shuman later contacted the writer, leaving a comment on his post that said, "Hi Roger, I am the cowriter of Hey There Lonely Girl and I appreciate your recognising an important part of Lonely Girl in Alicia Keys' new recording.
"Thanks for your expertise. By the way, though my dear friend Leon Carr is in Rock and Roll Heaven, I'm still here on the ground, writing songs."
Per THR, the songwriter then filed a suit, basing it on "a substantial portion of Friedman's original post".
In his suit, Shuman notes: "While the Showbiz411.com statements that Shuman has 'gone to rock and roll heaven' and concerning 'two seconds' of use are not accurate, Plaintiff alleges that the above observations by Showbiz411, in their essence, are apt."
Click here to read the complaint in full.
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Keys has yet to respond to the claim.
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Not to great personalities that I wish I will meet one day, and suddenly, even though the dream was far-fetched, I realize that it now will never happen! First was the abrupt end of my Knight's Tale then now my new found favourite artist, Tony. Just a few weeks ago, I blogged about him and his work as I was very impressed and wanted to share him as Helena did. I usually don't go through my Spam on my mailbox, but today, just less than an hour ago, something prompted me to it. I was scrolling past the make millions in a day, and get paid to read emails junk when I saw Helena's mail. It was dated 28th March, at 21:31. She was thanking me for blogging about Tony (no problem Helena) and informing me that Tony was very ill. I have to admit that in my traveling and the planning days before that, I had not been active in reading any blog, not even updating my own as regularly as I usually do, and had no idea about Tony's health. I quickly replied, assuring her that Tony would pull through, as I believed it so hard then. I mean, he is an amazing, extraordinary being. I then log onto his blog page. The heading hit me...hard. In memory of Tony it read. As I scrolled down the post, I could feel tears welling up in my eyes. And I'm crying for two reasons; That Tony is no more, even though his memory lives on, it's just not the same and I have just written this optimist mail to Helena. I did not live with him , but just thinking of the effect he has on me all the way from across the seas, I could only imagine the impact he had on the people he lived with, and the feeling of loss they must be experiencing.
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Kenya is hardly the first country to invade Somalia and attempt to clean out the festering cesspool of Islamic criminals and terrorists and it probably won't be the last. So far, every country that's attempted to tame Somalia has come up empty. Based on what's currently known of Operation Linda Nchi, I'm not particularly optimistic that Kenya will be any more successful than any other country has been in the past.
Kenyan Troops Advance in Somalia, Pursuing Al-Shabab
Kenyan forces have entered a second part of southern Somalia as part of operations against militant group al-Shabab.
Officials and witnesses confirmed to VOA Somali Service Tuesday that Kenyan troops, backed by helicopters, moved through the border town of El-Waq on Monday and are now in Somalia's Gedo region.
Kenyan troops have also been seen near the al-Shabab-controlled town of Afmadow in the Jubba region. Residents are reported to be fleeing the town in fear of a battle.
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The exact size of the Kenyan force in Somalia is not clear. Residents have reported seeing columns of 30 to 40 armored vehicles.
Al-Shabab is calling on all Somalis to defend against what it calls "the enemy."
The last country to invade Somalia was Ethiopia, which deployed troops in 2006 to oust Islamist militants who had briefly taken over the capital. Al-Shabab emerged as the main group fighting the Ethiopians, who withdrew at the beginning of 2009.
See also:
Kenyan military crosses into Somali
Kenya Cabinet meeting backs military operation in Somalia
Kenya, Somalia Seal Pact to Hit Shabaab
Kenya cabinet backs military offensive into Somalia
Kenya troops 'advance into Somalia near Afmadow'
Kenyan troops close in on Somali's second key town
Kenyan forces hunt militants inside Somalia
Kenyan forces kill 75 Somali militants
Kenyan incursion into Somalia provokes threat from Islamic militants
Al-Shabaab threaten to take 'flames of war' into Kenya
Kenya's security on alert following al-Shabaab threat
Zero tolerance to Al Shabab threat
Was Kenya right to enter Somalia?
Price that Kenya must pay to keep al-Shabaab at bay
All I can say is go Kenya, good luck and happy hunting! Somalia hasn't been subdued yet, not even by the United States, but there's always a first time.
/oh, and while you're in the neighborhood, could you do the world a favor and wipe out the Somali pirate safe harbors?
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Time and the Gods, by Lord Dunsany, [1905], at sacred-texts.com
It is told also of King Khanazar how he bowed very low unto the gods of Old. None bowed so low unto the gods of Old as did King Khanazar.
One day the King returning from the worship of the gods of Old and from bowing before them in the temple of the gods commanded their prophets to appear before him, saying:
"I would know somewhat concerning the gods."
Then came the prophets before King Khanazar, burdened with many books, to whom the King said:
"It is not in books."
Thereat the prophets departed, bearing away with them a thousand methods well devised in books whereby men may gain wisdom of the gods. One alone remained, a master prophet, who had forgotten books, to whom the King said:
"The gods of Old are mighty."
And answered the master prophet:
"Very mighty are the gods of Old."
Then said the King:
"There are no gods but the gods of Old."
And answered the prophet:
"There are none other."
And they two being alone within the palace the King said:
"Tell me aught concerning gods or men if aught of the truth be known."
Then said the master prophet:
"Far and white and straight lieth the road to Knowing, and down it in the heat and dust go all wise people of the earth, but in the fields before they come to it the very wise lie down or pluck the flowers. By the side of the road to Knowing—O King, it is hard and hot—stand many temples, and in the doorway of every temple stand many priests, and they cry to the travellers that weary of the road, crying to them:
"This is the End."
And in the temples are the sounds of music, and from each roof arises the savour of pleasant burning; and all that look at a cool temple, whichever temple they look at, or hear the hidden music, turn in to see whether it be indeed the End. And such as find that their temple is not indeed the End set forth again upon the dusty road, stopping at each temple as they pass for fear they miss the End, or striving onwards on the road, and see nothing in the dust, till they can walk no longer and are taken worn and weary of their journey into some other temple by a kindly priest who shall tell them that this also is the End. Neither on that road may a man gain any guiding from his fellows, for only one thing that they say is surely true, when they say:
"Friend, we can see nothing for the dust."
And of the dust that hides the way much has been there since ever that road began, and some is stirred up by the feet of all that travel upon it, and more arises from the temple doors.
And, O King, it were better for thee, travelling upon that road, to rest when thou hearest one calling: "This is the End," with the sounds of music behind him. And if in the dust and darkness thou pass by Lo and Mush and the pleasant temple of Kynash, or Sheenath with his opal smile, or Sho with his eyes of agate, yet Shilo and Mynarthitep, Gazo and Amurund and Slig are still before thee and the priests of their temples will not forget to call thee.
And, O King, it is told that only one discerned the end and passed by three thousand temples, and the priests of the last were like the priests of the first, and all said that their temple was at the end of the road, and the dark of the dust lay over them all, and all were very pleasant and only the road was weary. And in some were many gods, and in a few only one, and in some the shrine was empty, and all had many priests, and in all the travellers were happy as they rested. And into some his fellow travellers tried to force him, and when he said:
"I will travel further," many said:
"This man lies, for the road ends here."
And he that travelled to the End hath told that when the thunder was heard upon the road there arose the sound of the voices of all the priests as far as he could hear, crying:
"Hearken to Shilo"—"Hear Mush"—"Lo! Kynash"—"The voice of Sho"—"Mynarthitep is angry"—"Hear the word of Slig!"
And far away along the road one cried to the traveller that Sheenath stirred in his sleep.
O King this is very doleful. It is told that that traveller came at last to the utter End and there was a mighty gulf, and in the darkness at the bottom of the gulf one small god crept, no bigger than a hare, whose voice came crying in the cold:
"I know not."
And beyond the gulf was nought, only the small god crying.
And he that travelled to the End fled backwards for a great distance till he came to temples again, and entering one where a priest cried:
"This is the End," lay down and rested on a couch. There Yush sat silent, carved with an emerald tongue and two great eyes of sapphire, and there many rested and were happy. And an old priest, coming from comforting a child, came over to that traveller who had seen the End and said to him:
"This is Yush and this is the End of wisdom."
And the traveller answered:
"Yush is very peaceful and this indeed the End."
"O King, wouldst thou hear more?"
And the King said:
"I would hear all."
And the master prophet answered:
"There was also another prophet and his name was Shaun, who had such reverence for the gods of Old that he became able to discern their forms by starlight as they strode, unseen by others, among men. Each night did Shaun discern the forms of the gods and every day he taught concerning them, till men in Averon knew how the gods appeared all grey against the mountains, and how Rhoog was higher than Mount Scagadon, and how Skun was smaller, and how Asgool leaned forward as he strode, and how Trodath peered about him with small eyes. But one night as Shaun watched the gods of Old by starlight, he faintly discerned some other gods that sat far up the slopes of the mountains in the stillness behind the gods of Old. And the next day he hurled his robe away that he wore as Averon's prophet and said to his people:
"There be gods greater than the gods of Old, three gods seen faintly on the hills by starlight looking on Averon."
And Shaun set out and travelled many days and many people followed him. And every night he saw more clearly the shapes of the three new gods who sat silent when the gods of Old were striding among men. On the higher slopes of the mountain Shaun stopped with all his people, and there they built a city and worshipped the gods, whom only Shaun could see, seated above them on the mountain. And Shaun taught how the gods were like grey streaks of light seen before dawn, and how the god on the right pointed upward toward the sky, and how the god on the left pointed downward toward the ground, but the god in the middle slept.
And in the city Shaun's followers built three temples. The one on the right was a temple for the young, and the one on the left a temple for the old, and the third was a temple for the old, and the third was a temple with doors closed and barred—therein none ever entered. One night as Shaun watched before the three gods sitting like pale light against the mountain, he saw on the mountain's summit two gods that spake together and pointed, mocking the gods of the hill, only he heard no sound. The next day Shaun set out and a few followed him to climb to the mountain's summit in the cold, to find the gods who were so great that they mocked at the silent three. And near the two gods they halted and built for themselves huts. Also they built a temple wherein the Two were carved by the hand of Shaun with their heads turned towards each other, with mockery on Their faces and Their fingers pointing, and beneath Them were carved the three gods of the hill as actors making sport. None remembered now Asgool, Trodath, Skun, and Rhoog, the gods of Old.
For many years Shaun and his few followers lived in their huts upon the mountain's summit worshipping gods that mocked, and every night Shaun saw the two gods by starlight as they laughed to one another in the silence. And Shaun grew old.
One night as his eyes were turned towards the Two, he saw across the mountains in the distance a great god seated in the plain and looming enormous to the sky, who looked with angry eyes towards the Two as they sat and mocked. Then said Shaun to his people, the few that had followed him thither:
"Alas that we may not rest, but beyond us in the plain sitteth the one true god and he is wroth with mocking. Let us therefore leave these two that sit and mock and let us find the truth in the worship of that greater god, who even though he kill shall yet not mock us."
But the people answered:
"Thou hast taken from us many gods and taught us now to worship gods that mock, and if there is laughter on their faces as we die, lo! thou alone canst see it, and we would rest."
But three men who had grown old with following followed still.
And down the steep mountain on the further side Shaun led them, saying:
"Now we shall surely know."
And the three old men answered:
"We shall know indeed, O last of all the prophets."
That night the two gods mocking at their worshippers mocked not at Shaun nor his three followers, who coming to the plain still travelled on till they came at last to a place where the eyes of Shaun at night could closely see the vast form of their god. And beyond them as far as the sky there lay a marsh. There they rested, building such shelters as they could, and said to one another:
"This is the End, for Shaun discerneth that there are no more gods, and before us lieth the marsh and old age hath come upon us."
And since they could not labour to build a temple, Shaun carved upon a rock all that he saw by starlight of the great god of the plain; so that if ever others forsook the gods of Old because they saw beyond them the Greater Three, and should thence come to knowledge of the Twain that mocked, and should yet persevere in wisdom till they saw by starlight him whom Shaun named the Ultimate god, they should still find there upon the rock what one had written concerning the end of search. For three years Shaun carved upon the rock, and rising one night from carving, saying:
"Now is my labour done," saw in the distance four greater gods beyond the Ultimate god. Proudly in the distance beyond the marsh these gods were tramping together, taking no heed of the god upon the plain. Then said Shaun to his three followers:
"Alas that we know not yet, for there be gods beyond the marsh."
None would follow Shaun, for they said that old age must end all quests, and that they would rather wait there in the plain for Death than that he should pursue them across the marsh.
Then Shaun said farewell to his followers, saying:
"You have followed me well since ever we forsook the gods of Old to worship greater gods. Farewell. It may be that your prayers at evening shall avail when you pray to the god of the plain, but I must go onward, for there be gods beyond."
So Shaun went down into the marsh, and for three days struggled through it, and on the third night saw the four gods not very far away, yet could not discern Their faces. All the next day Shaun toiled on to see Their faces by starlight, but ere the night came up or one star shone, at set of sun, Shaun fell down before the feet of his four gods. The stars came out, and the faces of the four shone bright and clear, but Shaun saw them not, for the labour of toiling and seeing was over for Shaun; and lo! They were Asgool, Trodath, Skun, and Rhoog—The gods of Old.
Then said the King:
"It is well that the sorrow of search cometh only to the wise, for the wise are very few."
Also the King said:
"Tell me this thing, O prophet. Who are the true gods?"
The master prophet answered:
"Let the King command."


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Karan had some preshow concerns — "toooo old and not a sample size," she said beforehand. The designer needn't have worried — she and her fellow runway newbies fared better than some of the pros. Agyness Deyn, for instance, toppled twice, but laughed it off, to the crowd's delight.
Estelle was a quick study, having modeled in Thursday's Heart Truth show. "I felt scared then but not today," she said.
The tickets sold out in three days, raising $100,000, and with the addition of American Express' $250,000 donation and the sale of the clothes on the runway at Net-a-porter.com, the event is expected to raise more than $1 million.
Sarah Ferguson welcomed the crowd. "When Naomi Campbell calls and says, 'Fergie, can you be there on the 12th,' you drop everything to be there," she said. And while the duchess vowed not to embarrass herself with a runway spin, she nevertheless begrudgingly took to the catwalk, pretending to strangle herself.
Chris Brown was more buoyant backstage, pointing and asking a friend who a particular woman was. He said he wanted to be there "to give back to Haiti and to show other people how as artists, we can inspire the world and give back to others." Campbell's beau, Vladimir Doronin, cheered her on from the front row with Harvey Weinstein, Mary Ellen Mark, Anna Sui, Dennis Basso, Matthew Settle of "Gossip Girl" and Wendy Williams. The talk show hostess only had so much patience for the paparazzi. "I am not a model," Williams told photographers. "I don't do orders. Just click."
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TORONTO (Sept. 28, 2:20 p.m. ET) — Canadian private equity firm Onex Corp., which is buying KraussMaffei AG, has experience in plastics machinery — selling Husky Injection Molding Systems Ltd. last year for a big payday and then buying Davis-Standard LLC.
David Mansell, an Onex managing director, said the company has no grand strategy to buy machinery companies, although the firm now has a good understanding of the sector. Instead, he said Onex looks for world-class companies run by active managers with a strategic mission that fits with Onex.
He said KraussMaffei unit companies will remain intact.
Onex announced Sept. 26 that it plans to buy the world's largest manufacturer of plastics equipment for 568 million euros (US$732 million). That's much less than the 700 million euros that media reports said the seller, Chicago investment firm Madison Capital Partners, was hoping to get. Several Plastics News sources confirmed the 700 million euro target price.
Mansell declined to comment on the asking price. Larry Gies, Madison Capital Partners' president and CEO, did not return telephone calls seeking comment.
The announcement ends industry speculation about an imminent deal for Munich-based KraussMaffei group, which generated record order income of 1.1 billion euros ($1.5 billion) for the fiscal year ended Sept. 30, 2011.
Onex said KM's revenues were about 1 billion euros for the 12 months ended June 30, 2012.
After 3½ years of ownership, Husky became a lucrative investment for Onex, which is traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange. Onex received net proceeds of $1.8 billion, providing a gain of about $1.2 billion, a 36 percent rate of return. Onex's portion of the net proceeds from the Husky sale was about $583 million.
But machinery industry sources say KraussMaffei, a broad-based machinery manufacturer that has been private-equity owned for 10 years, is much different than Husky, and will be harder to improve financially for another big payoff down the road.
The KraussMaffei machinery group employs 4,000 around the world building injection molding machines, extruders and reaction injection molding machines. Brands include KraussMaffei and Netstal injection presses, KraussMaffei Berstorff extruders and RIM machines for polyurethane.
Toronto-based Onex said the transaction should close by March 31.
Mansell, called KraussMaffei a "global leader in each of its three segments, with a decades-long reputation for technology and quality."
"We look forward to working with Jan Siebert and his management team to further build on the company's market-leading position," Mansell said in prepared comments.
KraussMaffei is the first European-based investment for Onex Partners III, a US$4.7 billion fund run by Onex that will inject US$340 million into the business. In June, Onex announced it was opening its first European operation, a London office.
Mansell said it makes sense for Onex's first investment into a European-headquartered company to be plastics machinery. "It would have been unusual if our first acquisition would have been new to Onex," he said.
KraussMaffei operates factories in Germany, Switzerland, Slovakia and China.
In a statement KraussMaffei said it had made "successful steps to strengthen the business in its core markets as well as to expand its global presence in growing markets, particularly the Bric countries [Brazil, Russia, India, China] and Asia."
"We're very pleased to be partnering with Onex given its track record and experience in our industry," said Siebert, KraussMaffei's CEO.
Madison Capital bought KraussMaffei in 2006 from Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. KKR had purchased the machinery conglomerate in 2002 from Siemens AG.
Siebert noted that Madison Capital supported the company through the global economic crisis in 2008 and 2009.
"I would like to thank Madison Capital for a reliable and trustful partnership over the last six years," he said.
Industry sources told Plastics News that three private equity companies were involved in the final stages, two from North America and one from Europe. Recent press reports had said an unidentified Chinese machinery group was poised to buy KraussMaffei. Sources told Plastics News that a Chinese company was involved at an early stage of the sale process, but not at the end.
What's in store?
Now that the announcement has been made, industry attention shifts to the future. The major news will cause a buzz at an upcoming trade show in Germany, Fakuma 2012. What will Onex do to boost the value of KraussMaffei?
One machinery source spelled it out: "What is really going on with this group? To continue with the current strategy, or are they really making a move in some other directions?"
Some of the obvious questions: Would Onex sell any part of the group, for example, Netstal, the Swiss injection press business focusing on thin-wall packaging and PET preforms? Or will Onex merge the Berstorff extrusion operations in with Davis-Standard?
The answer is no, Mansell told Plastics News.
"We don't have any plans to break up KM," he said.
Private equity companies are typically closemouthed. But Onex is a different animal: a private equity company that is publicly traded, so some financial information about KraussMaffei will be available.
For now, Mansell declined to comment on an industry source's claim that the 568 million euro purchase price is six-times KM's earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization.
Onex has a track record in plastics machinery, by owning Husky, a major maker of injection presses, hot runners and robots.
Husky connection
Under Onex ownership, Husky made some big changes from the days when founder Robert Schad owned the Bolton, Ontario, company. Onex bought Husky in late 2007 from Schad and his wife, Elizabeth, and other shareholders. Under Schad, Husky had expanded from its roots specializing in PET preforms and thin-wall products, to get into a broad-line supplier making large-tonnage machines for automotive and other new markets.
The following year, Husky stopped making big machines, and later ended large-press manufacturing at its factory in Dudelange, Luxembourg. The company put its automotive technical center in Novi, Mich., up for sale.
Schad, a strong-willed entrepreneur, had invested heavily in expanding into a broad machinery offering. He pumped huge money back into the company, building technical centers around the world and even creating a giant 8,000-ton press to demonstrate the possibilities in automotive molding.
"Husky, they lived in luxury," said an executive at a competing machinery company.
Husky also owned many of its own assets, giving the private equity owners the option of selling, then leasing back the buildings to improve the balance sheet, sources said.
That made it easier for Onex to narrow the focus of Husky, back to its strongest areas of packaging and medical. Husky was a "pure play" investment into those growing areas, with a large market share.
"Bob Schad had a lot of luxury built into the company and that was some low-hanging fruit to improve the situation of the company," the source said. "And I think the KM situation was a completely different one."
A decade of ownership by two private equity companies, Madison Capital and KKR, has wrung a lot of costs out of KraussMaffei, the source said.
Also, at Husky, Onex trimmed costs to get the financial numbers up, to maximize the eventual selling price, said a former Husky middle manager who was laid off in the downsizing.
"Onex had two strategies," he said. "One was you got to get EBITDA, because that's the driver that gets you their price. Due to that, they said we're going to cut any product that isn't making a certain margin."
Mansell acknowledges that Onex gave Husky a focused approach. But he said Onex boosted research and development spending and invested in increased capacity in China and a factory in India. "We very much saw ourselves as business builders," he said.
KraussMaffei is not the same as Husky. Mansell said KraussMaffei has unique strengths in the breadth of its technology. In recent years, KM engineers have developed systems that can combine injection molding, extrusion and RIM in a single process.
"We think there's an opportunity to run that company as one large business, rather than four divisions," Mansell said. He said KM management will continue to coordinate sourcing, and sales and service.
One example is already happening in the United States. Netstal Machinery Inc. is moving from Devens, Mass., to Florence, Ky., the North American headquarters for the KM group. Also, KM group in Germany and Netstal in Switzerland are combining their marketing functions and pooling their engineering. The two units are maintaining independent manufacturing.
Should the industry expect to see more moves like that, under Onex? Mansell said he did not want to "get in front" of specific plans.
"That sort of consolidation is the type of moves that the current management team is implementing for greater global efficiency," he said.


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The Grapes of Wrath (1939)
San Francisco Chronicle Top 100 Novels of the West (2)
Tom Joad has just gotten out of prison for manslaughter. He returns to his family's Oklahoma cotton farm only to find the farm deserted and the region devastated by the Dust Bowl. When he catches up to the family, at his Uncle's farm, the whole clan heads to California in a Hudson Super-Six truck, hoping to find work, which they hear is plentiful there, picking fruit. On the road some family members will die, some will desert, all will experience hunger, the resentment of locals, the harsh contempt of police & exploitation by growers. Tom is forced to leave the family when he kills a strike breaker, but he pledges to preach the word of man for man and how the poor must band together to obtain their rights. More disasters befall the family, including the loss of his sister's baby, and the novel closes with the Pieta like scene of her suckling a starving man.
The sincerity and heartfelt nature of Steinbeck's masterpiece is unquestionable, but 60 years later, we have to face the fact that he, like many intellectuals of the day, was profoundly wrong about where the poor's salvation lay. In fact, the Depression ended when the huge industries were fired up to provide war material and, with little interruption, since then we have a seen an economy that is driven by the concerns of the upper and middle classes, but just as a rising tide lifts all boats, the poor have benefited from this progress.
Even more mistaken is his image of the noble poor. As we have seen, even in our age of Welfare reform, the problem of the underclass is extremely intractable; some folks just won't work, even to better their own lives. Steinbeck was deluded by the Depression, a stark aberration in the long march of Capitalism, which made millions of people desperate, who would otherwise have been gainfully employed.
The result is a beautiful & moving, if overlong, artifact of it's time--which loses some of it's impact in retrospect. Compare it for instance to his great novella Of Mice and Men, a universal tale of friendship and heroism, or Winter of Our Discontent, an eerily prescient story of America's moral decline. I personally would have preferred to see Of Mice and Men on the list.
Grade: (A-)
See also:John Steinbeck (3 books reviewed)
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I think that you were wrong about your review as i have to do this for an assignment and everywhere else ive looked is totally different to your review!!!!!!!
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- Dec-04-2003, 21:53
I think that you are totally wrong on your review of the novel. Steinbeck went to California during the great depression and even was a farmer himself. He wasn't one of the poor that was kicked off of his land, but he did work with people that were for a few years. Everything that he used in his book was totally truthful. You should research him before you critize.
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Turner's Creek Mennonite Church (Talbert, Kentucky, USA)
Turner's Creek Mennonite Church (formerly Turner's Creek Mennonite Mission) (Conservative Mennonite Conference), located in Breathitt County, near Talbert, Kentucky, about 20 miles south and west of Jackson, was established in November 1946 under the Conservative (Amish) Mennonite Conference. Alvin Swartz, who opened the work, was ordained as pastor in 1947 and as bishop in 1948; he was still serving in 1958, assisted by Oakley Turner, ordained in 1954. Other workers in 1959 were E. R. (Mrs. Alvin) Swartz, Clara Swartz (on leave), and Mary Elizabeth Miller. The membership in 1959 was 31. A meetinghouse was completed and dedicated in November 1948.
In 2012 the minister was Philip Swartzentruber and membership was 48.
Hershberger, Brenda. Anabaptist (Mennonite) Directory 2012-13. Harrisonburg, VA: The Sword and Trumpet, 2012: 56.
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Address: 3424 Hwy 1933, Talbert, KY 41339-8560
Phone: 606-295-2535
Denominational Affiliation: Conservative Mennonite Conference
|E. R. Swartz
|Richard D. Thiessen
|Date Published
|April 2012
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Swartz, E. R. and Richard D. Thiessen. (April 2012). Turner's Creek Mennonite Church (Talbert, Kentucky, USA). Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 23 November 2020, from https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Turner%27s_Creek_Mennonite_Church_(Talbert,_Kentucky,_USA)&oldid=140813.
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Clever Girl
A Novel
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Clever Girl is an indelible story of one woman's life, unfolded in a series of beautifully sculpted episodes that illuminate an era, moving from the 1960s to today, from one of Britain's leading literary lights—Tessa Hadley—the author of the New York Times Notable Books Married Love and The London Train.
Like Alice Munro and Colm Tóibin, Tessa Hadley brilliantly captures the beauty, innocence, and irony of ordinary lives—an ability to transform the mundane into the sublime that elevates domestic fiction to literary art.
Written with the celebrated precision, intensity, and complexity that have marked her previous works, Clever Girl is a powerful exploration of family relationships and class in modern life, witnessed through the experiences of an English woman named Stella. Unfolding in a series of snapshots, Tessa Hadley's moving novel follows Stella from the shallows of childhood, growing up with a single mother in a Bristol bedsit in the 1960s, into the murky waters of middle age.
Clever Girl is a story vivid in its immediacy and rich in drama—violent deaths, failed affairs, broken dreams, missed chances. Yet it is Hadley's observations of everyday life, her keen skill at capturing the ways men and women think and feel and relate to one another, that dazzles.
Praise For Clever Girl: A Novel…
— Vogue
"Hadley's prose is both precise and imaginative….Her genteel style belies the many pointed insights she has to offer about female ambition and desire."
— New York Times
"Looking for the next Kate Atkinson or Alice Munro? Pick up this lovely novel."
— People
"Subtle....A story that doesn't overreach, about a character who feels real, told in prose that isn't ornate yet is startlingly exact. The effect is a fine and well-chosen pileup of experiences that gather meaning and power….Stella may not stand out, but Tessa Hadley certainly does."
— Meg Wolitzer, New York Times Book Review
"Involving…. Intrigues and engages…. The smooth narrative echoes Hadley's cool and precise prose.... There's plenty of family drama (including murder) but Hadley's strength is in describing what is often left unnoticed."
— Financial Times (London)
"Ultimately, this is a beautiful and precisely drawn portrait of an everywoman, both extraordinary and ordinary."
— Melanie Cremins, Minneapolis Star Tribune
"One woman's story comes to exemplify a whole era in this marvelous novel. Tessa Hadley writes with a poet's attentiveness to language, and finds the profound and wondrous in the seemingly quietest of lives."
— Ron Rash, author of Serena
"With Clever Girl, Tessa Hadley examines the blunt force of young adulthood. She deftly portrays this short stretch of time in which we make many of the most important decisions of our lives, all while driving under the influence of ignorance and inchoate sexuality."
— Carol Anshaw, author of Carry the One
"A rich, absorbing novel."
— Anne Landsman, Vanity Fair
"Quietly brilliant….Hadley has always been adept at drawing out the unrecognisable from the everyday….Domestic fiction is often disparaged as less than serious, but Hadley demonstrates admirably that the genre can carry weight."
— Sunday Times, London
"Lives which are unsophisticated yet experienced intensely, and gorgeously erudite prose are the distinguishing features of Tessa Hadley's writing."
— Daily Telegraph, London
"Like Munro, Hadley is a writer both exact and lyrical, and there are many pleasures to be found along the way, particularly her sensual descriptions of nature, adolescence, and maternity."
— The Guardian, London
"Compelling….For all Stella's spikiness and grittiness, there is a sensuousness to Hadley's writing which revels in richly prolix descriptions of sights and states of mind….Hadley has a genius for pithy analysis….The result consistently rings true despite its very literary artistry."
— The Times, London
"Tessa Hadley is a clever writer who likes to play with form. Like Amish quilts, her novels are made up of homespun, domestic material, delicately worked over. Then you step back and see the bold structural decisions behind their composition"
— New Statesman, London
"It's this very ordinariness that makes Hadley's book so captivating. Clever Girl is one of those glorious novels about nothing in particular and everything there is in life, all at the same time."
— The National, London
"This is Hadley's extraordinary skill as a novelist: to navigate and narrate the fleeting moments in an individual's life when the future crystallises, by choice and circumstance, for good or for bad....Clever Girl is a remarkable novel by one of this country's finest, if most unassuming talents."
— Literary Review, London
"Accomplished, elegant....This novel is the life story of an ordinary, middle-aged woman-Stella. Only that she is not ordinary because Tessa Hadley is writing her into existence and is behind her like a following wind….Hadley writes as a masterly illustrator might draw."
— The Observer, London
"Hadley remains so fixed in Stella's viewpoint that whatever this stubborn, lonely, eloquent character has to tell us, we accept....Subtle, intelligent, and realistic storytelling."
— Evening Standard, London
"An intimate, engrossing and eminently English coming of middle-age story from one of Britain's finest writers….The narrative is episodic and deeply personal, but slowly coalesces to form a mosaic of British life over the past 50 years."
— The Independent, London
"Tessa Hadley is wonderful at surprising us with the domestic dramas that stir the embers of everyday life….Her reminiscences can resemble little bombs….Hadley can make even English weather seem enthralling."
— Toronto Star
"Told in a series of perfectly observed moments, Clever Girl is not about what you want your life to be, but what you do with what life hands you….An elegant, accomplished novel."
— Lauren Bufferd, BookPage
"The simplicity of its story is one of this novel's great strengths: the uncluttered plot allows for Stella's pains, humiliations, and instances of self-discovery to be confidently inhabited and rendered with emotional precision….This carefully wrought novel transcends mere character study."
— Sinéad O'Shea, Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"Hadley displays the keen insight and masterful portrayal of the domestic life for which she has become known."
— Michele Leber, Booklist
"A uniquely gifted writer, Hadley, never vague, possesses a narrative voice that moves the characters through their phases with parenthetic irony. Like an artist dabbing in precise luminous details, she has a masterly grasp of pivotal moments and renders them with brilliant economy."
— Joyce Townsend, Library Journal (starred review)
"Like Alice McDermott's Someone, it's the story of an ordinary woman's life, so closely observed it becomes sublime…..It's Hadley's brilliance to show how the jarring desires, the pieces that don't fit together, nonetheless make a full life."
— Tricia SpringstubbCleveland Plain Dealer
"Tessa Hadley gives us everyday people, and makes their lives seem like works of art. Here, in her latest, we follow Stella through life, where Hadley gets all of her failings and little triumphs to shine like prized gems."
— Jason Diamond, Flavorwire
"Hadley's prose is delightful to read."
— Adela Kim, Harvard Crimson
"Hadley achieves a good balance between subtlety and romance, the domestic and the sensational. Though each chapter could stand alone...they add up to a complete, nuanced portrait of a woman who feels as knowable and real as a fictional character can."
— Christine Pivovar, Kansas City Star
"Masterful, understated….Clever Girl, like the fiction of V.S. Pritchett or Alice McDermott, is devoted to capturing personality through small actions and expressions, to sparking characters into a vivid flame with a few exact descriptions and to distilling domestic settings into precious, even exalted significance."
— Sam Sacks, Wall Street Journal
Harper, 9780062270399, 272pp.
Publication Date: March 4, 2014
About the Author
Tessa Hadley is the author of six highly acclaimed novels, including Clever Girl and The Past, as well as three short-story collections, most recently Bad Dreams and Other Stories, which won the Edge Hill Short Story Prize. Her stories appear regularly in The New Yorker; in 2016 she was awarded the Windham Campbell Prize and the Hawthornden Prize. She lives in London.