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Affiliation: Dpto. de Sistemas Forestales. INIA
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Publication year: 1990
Language: Spanish/English (bilingual)
Subjects: Environment, Forestry
Collection: INIA Monographs
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Two new models are presented for the purpose of improving on our phytoclimatic taxonomy of 1966. Using Gaussen-type graphs, the morphogenetic model classifies the limited types of thermal and precipitation curves to be found on the Earth and their degrees of intersection, all in accordance with values corresponding to actual breaks in phytological continuity. This taxonomy is presented in the form of keys generating a periodic system, and is illustrated with a world map showing most types by means of graphic symbols. It is effective for the prediction of broad phytological types and on any chorological scale. The integral model consists of a more sensitive numerical taxonomy based on the establishment of predictive biunivocities. This taxonomy may be applied not only to the supra-annual compendia (t ≥13 years) for which it was designed, but also to annual events, provided not less than 13 are assembled at a time and the frequency of each type is specified, Given these conditions, the arrangements of types obtained through the supra-annual numerical and qualitative systems often coincide both mutually and with orders of frequency in time and cartographical vicinity. This lends our cartography a rather novel dynamic character. The model as devised are for the Peninsular Spain and the Balearics, with numerical programs (both computerized and manual), qualitative keys, analytical spectra of main sites besides Walter-Gaussen climodiagrams, a 1:1.000.000-scale subregional phytoclimocartogram (subregions, sites, climodiagrams), etc.
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Q. I want to make a grouping of family photographs in a wide white hallway, sort of like a gallery. What's the most effective way to do it?
Nancy Ebel-Collum, ASID, of Nancy Ebel Interior Design answers: I would unify the collection with frame and mat consistency. One classic approach that works is to select simple black frames and a cream mat. Once all the photos have the same frames and mats, work on your grouping. You could start with the most important photo in the center of the wall at eye level and build out from there. You can stagger the prints, stack them, line them up in a row. It's a personal choice. To avoid unnecessary holes in the walls, work out your design on graph paper or trace the art works on paper, cut and them put them up with a tiny bit of tape. Move things around until the arrangement pleases you.
Q. Can I mix real and faux plants and flowers in a room? How do I know when I have too many?
Lee Younger, interior designer of Classic Imports, answers: You know you have too many when you feel like you're in a forest instead of a room. It's an easy line to cross, but remember that plants are there just for accent. A silk tree in a dark corner is useful. And as for mixing faux and real, yes, do it. Use the live flowers in an entrance foyer or a coffee table-places where people are likely to see the flowers close up and maybe touch or smell them. Use the faux atop bookcases or armoires-places that need some color and texture. No one is going to get close enough to them to tell if they are real or not. The main thing is to refrain from overdoing a good thing. When in doubt, take some away rather than adding more.
Q. What does the term "mid-century modern classic furniture" mean, and what are some of the best pieces for a collector to own?
Wilson Stiles, interior designer and art historian, answers: The term generally refers to American designers and some Europeans working right after World War II. Essentially, these designs were an American response to the modern movement and expressed great postwar optimism through exciting furniture with clean lines. Furniture companies such as Knoll and Herman Miller hired young designers and architects and gave them a place to create. Some of them were Charles Eames, Henry Bertoia, George Nelson, Edward Wormley, and Isamu Noguchi. Other companies such as Haywood Wakefield and Whitticomb produced wonderful pieces that were more affordable to the middle classes. Pieces that would appear in collections of those who appreciate mid-century modern would be the Eames lounge chair, an Eero Saarinen womb chair, the Bertoia big bird chair, the Noguchi coffee tables and dining room table and the George Nelson coconut chair, just to name a few. The works of Alvar Aalto, Marcel Breuer, Bruno Weil and Paul Kjerholm would be highly collectible, too, even though they are not American. Many mid-century pieces such as the Eames chair have never gone out of production and are still available new today. The Noguchi dining room table is about to be re-issued. When famous pieces are re-issued, the value of an original is lowered. Consequently, pieces not in production make the original more valuable. Any upholstered piece by Edward Wormley would be very desirable because his work is no longer in production.
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Manuel II
Manuel II (Manuel Palaeologus), 1350–1425, Byzantine emperor (1391–1425), son and successor of John V. In his youth he was taken captive by the Turks, and during his reign the Ottomans reduced the empire to Constantinople and its dependencies in the Peloponnesus. After the failure of the crusade of Sigismund of Hungary (later Holy Roman Emperor Sigismund) at Nikopol (1396), Manuel appealed to the West for aid and made a futile European journey (1399–1402) for that purpose. His nephew, John VII, was coemperor during that time and, with Boucicaut, defended Constantinople against the siege by Sultan Beyazid I. The victory of Timur over Beyazid at Ankara, in the same year, temporarily saved Constantinople. By 1422 the Turks were again strong enough to attack Constantinople, and in 1425 Manuel was forced to pay tribute to the sultan. Afflicted with partial paralysis in his last years, Manuel devoted himself to religious writing, entrusting the government to his son and successor, John VIII.
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HOUSTON – To the casual MMA fan, Kenny Florian's name might not immediately seem like it belongs next to those of Chuck Liddell and Matt Hughes.
It might not even seem right nestled next to Forrest Griffin and Stephan Bonnar.
And sure, the 35-year-old "KenFlo" will likely never find himself in the UFC Hall of Fame, but according to UFC president Dana White, Florian (14-6 MMA, 12-5 UFC) is among a handful of legendary competitors who will always have a home in the world's biggest mixed-martial-arts promotion.
"I've got nothing but respect for him, and Kenny Florian will be with us no matter what," White said following Saturday night's UFC 136 post-event press conference.
It's a nice vote of confidence from Florian's longtime boss, but the eight-year pro hardly seemed consoled by the gesture. Instead, a visibly pained fighter sat quietly in his chair and politely answered – albeit in just about as few words as possible – the handful of questions that came in about his featherweight title loss to 25-year-old champion Jose Aldo.
"Not right now," Florian answered when asked if he had planned his next move. "I haven't really thought past this fight, so we'll see what happens."
But if Florian hadn't thought about his next move prior to Saturday night, it seemed as if perhaps he was considering it at that exact moment. Four weightclasses during his UFC run, three shots at the belt, zero championship wins.
"Obviously, I'm disappointed," Florian said. "I fought very hard. I trained extremely hard. I wasn't successful. That's it."
And with that, the questions to Florian stopped. It really was that simple. Like the two previous times Florian had climbed the ladder of his division, he failed to reach the top rung. The challenger claimed the opening round of the evening's co-feature by clinching and grinding and shooting and striking, but he dropped the next four as his pace slowed and his variety of attacks diminished, and Aldo was awarded a unanimous-decision win.
It's unclear if Florian will fight again. And if he does, it's uncertain at what weight. But if the former cast member of "The Ultimate Fighter 1" is indeed done with his competition days, White said that doesn't mean his association with the UFC will necessarily need to come to an end.
"Kenny Florian's awesome," White said. "He commentated our last show. I think he's great on camera. I think he's great on the mic. He's a talented guy with a lot of options, and he's always been a solid guy with us and always been a team player.
"I love Kenny Florian. … There's a lot of things that could happen with Kenny Florian."
Florian doesn't necessarily boast a signature moment from his 17 octagon appearances to date, but he's compiled a solid body of work.
His gruesome bloodbath with Sean Sherk was certainly a memorable affair, and his "I finish fights!" mantra was a post-"TUF" staple. His 2008 "Fight of the Night" win over Joe Lauzon was a gutsy performance, and his UFC 87 derailing of Roger Huerta was a technical masterpiece.
Florian took a vintage B.J. Penn into the fourth round, and he earned back-to-back submission wins over superstars Takanori Gomi and Clay Guida.
White believes Florian's UFC 136 performance was his best title-fight effort to date. But in many ways, it seemed to be Florian's last run at gold. Where he ends up next, White doesn't know, but he insists Florian will have his full support in any venture.
"I really like Kenny, and I have a lot of respect for him," White said. "He's accomplished a lot in this sport. He really has.
"The thing about Kenny is he's smart. He's talented. He's got other options. He's got things going on outside of fighting, too. It's just one of those things he needs to sit down and really figure out on his own."
For complete coverage of UFC 136, check out the UFC Events section of the site.
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Ferguson, Patrick
Ferguson, Patrick, 1744–80, British army officer in the American Revolution. He invented an early breech-loading rifle in 1776. Ferguson fought at Brandywine and Charleston before he was assigned to organize and train Loyalist militia in South Carolina. He was defeated and killed in the battle of Kings Mt. in the Carolina campaign.
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A good night's sleep is important for your functioning and well-being. But too much sleep can also be a problem. One side effect of cancer and cancer treatment is sleeping too much. This is called hypersomnia. Hypersomnia that's linked to chemotherapy treatment often improves after treatment ends.
Hypersomnia is different from fatigue. Fatigue is the feeling of being tired, but able to stay awake if you try. If you have hypersomnia, you have trouble staying awake when you want to and try to. You may sleep 10 hours at night, but still can't stay awake during the day. This sleep problem can be caused by cancer treatments or other medicines.
You may have hypersomnia if you have these symptoms for 3 weeks or more:
10 hours or more of sleep at night
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If your sleep problem is due to your treatment, your healthcare provider may want to prescribe medicine to help you stay awake. If your sleep problem is due to depression or stress, your provider may prescribe medicine or refer you to a counselor.
These tips may help you manage hypersomnia:
Exercise daily in the morning or early afternoon.
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I've been extraordinarily pleased with all the feedback I've been getting from readers about my new book The Colony. I was even stopped in a local store by someone who was reading the book, which was amazingly cool. I put a hell of a lot of hard work into writing a fast-paced story that's easy to read and I'm very happy that people are enjoying it.
But today I want to tell you a different story, about a different colony, this one entirely non-fictional. I was reading through the journal Nature (you know, the one that exposed Victor Ponta as a flaming plagiarist) and came across a very interesting article on population shifts in mid-Holocene Europe (PDF) as a result of farming, something that probably wouldn't interest many people.
However the article led me to further research which eventually branched into the Latin concept of a colonus, a kind of "pre-serf" that evolved in the Roman Empire (especially) during the Crisis of the Third Century. Essentially a Roman "colony" was a farming village wherein the residents were citizens (often retired soldiers) but were forced by law to remain in the village and farm there whether they liked it or not.
Lo and behold through my researches I came across a full list of Roman colonies and saw to my surprise that none other than Aurelia Napoca had been turned into a colony in the year 180 AD. You might recognize the name as being the ancient Latin form of Unicorn City, now called Cluj-Napoca, the city where I live.
The standard history (which is always disputed) is that the "Napoca" part of the name was derived from an earlier Dacian name for the area but what caught my eye was that Unicorn City was turned into a colony by the Emperor Commodus, probably one of the craziest emperors in Roman history, up there with Caligula and Nero, and yet is hardly known today.
At one point Commodus renamed the city of Rome (after himself, calling it Commodus's Colony) as well as the 12 months of the year (each month named after one of his use names) and used to dress up as a god and "fight" battles as a gladiator in the arena. Truly one of history's greatest megalomaniacs, it's interesting that he played a remote part in the history of the city where I now live.
However the Roman colony in U-City didn't last long as it was evacuated in 274 AD (due to the "3rd Century Crisis" linked above) and the Romans never came back. Unfortunately nobody knows what happened over the next 800 plus years as there are zero historical records. About all we know is the curious fact that the locals retained the Latin language almost intact and yet didn't bother to hang on to any Roman customs, culture or engineering whatsoever.
The next thing anyone knows for sure is that the Hungarians are running the place about a thousand years later, using it as a small monastery town down the road from the far more important city of Turda (home to the valuable salt deposits the Romans mined). From then on my city is called either Clus in Latin (with variants in German and Italian) or Koloszvar in Hungarian until we get to the modern era after the Treaty of Trianon in 1920, where the Romanian government firmly affixes the name as just simple Cluj.
And then finally in 1974 when the "Stejar de Scornicesti", the beneficent and all-knowing dictator of Romania, Nicolae Ceausescu, was here in town staying at his favorite hotel (Belvedere, named after the "mini" palace in France where the Treaty of Trianon was drafted and signed) and decided to pump up the Roman historical angle for the city and changed its name formally to "Cluj-Napoca".
And thus I find out that two egomaniacs had a direct hand in the history of my beloved city.
In case you're a big fan of historical records, above is a reproduction of the Balkans map of Claudius Ptolemaeus from his book Geographia, a book written back when the Romans were still in western Romania (the province of Dacia).
The map is written in Latin and Greek and is a little hard to make out but one tiny dot on there is "Napuka" (Greek spelling more akin to "Napouka"), referring to good old Unicorn City. Doesn't look like much, does it? Indeed throughout most of history it was a tiny place with few natural resources and nobody could've ever expected that one day it would become the second largest city in the entire country and home to an awesome American writer.


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Motivated by the fear of injury, most runners can spot a case of shinsplints, plantar fasciitis, or iliotibial band syndrome a mile away. But overuse injuries aren't the only threats to your running. In fact, unexpected injuries, such as road rash, twisted ankles, and heatstroke, can take down runners harder and faster, because most of the time, you aren't prepared to handle accidents. Here's how to make sure every run is fun and trouble-free.
Be Street Smart
There's safety in numbers, so consider running with a partner or group. If you take a spill, your buddy can get help. When running solo, stick close to home or run loops that bring you back to your house or car. Run in populated areas, so help is a shout away. And never hit the road in an unfamiliar area without your cell phone. The Hold-A-Phone is a runner-friendly carrying case with a Velcro strap that wraps around your wrist. (Visit holdaphone.net for info.)
Banish Blisters
Blisters aren't just painful and unsightly. They may cause you to adjust your gait to avoid putting pressure on the sore spots. An unnatural change to your stride can lead to an injury, says Bill Roberts, M.D., associate professor of family practice at the University of Minnesota and the medical director of the Twin Cities Marathon. Switch from cotton socks to synthetic ones, which reduce friction and moisture. If you're especially prone to blisters, slather your feet with Vaseline or sports lube before a run, or apply Band-Aids to areas where blisters tend to pop up. If you feel a hotspot during a run, loosen your laces and adjust your socks--a bunched-up toe or misaligned seam could be causing irritation. Putting a barrier between the blister and your shoe can also provide relief. A Band-Aid or blister-specific product like Band-Aid Advanced Healing Blister strips provide cushioning and protection. If you're not equipped, marathoner Mark Cucuzzella, M.D., assistant professor of family medicine at the University of Colorado, offers a MacGyver-like alternative. "Slip an energy gel wrapper between the sock and your shoe, over the sensitive spot," he says. "It'll reduce irritation so you can finish your run." Don't pop the blister unless you can cover it with a Band-Aid.
Avoid the Rub
Applying Vaseline or a lube before a run is the best way to prevent chafing in vulnerable areas where the seams of shorts, shirts, and sports bras contact your skin, and where skin rubs together, such as thighs and underarms. We like Sportslick solid (sportslick.com), which is lighter and smaller than an energy gel, making it easy to carry and reapply. It also contains SPF 20 and antibacterial ingredients to help heal wounded skin. If you're chafing midrun and have no lube, rinse the area with water or saliva. Sweat residue causes friction. Stay Grounded
Running is great for daydreaming or chatting with friends, but ignoring the terrain below--especially uneven sidewalks or trails--could result in a rude awakening. To reduce your risk of wiping out, run during daylight hours, wear sunglasses to reduce glare, and watch your footing. Steep slopes can be risky, since running downhill is really just controlled falling. "I avoid spills by shortening my stride and taking quick, light steps on descents," says Dr. Cucuzzella, who runs trails most weekends. There's no shame in walking down particularly rocky hills. If you do lose your balance and fall, says Dr. Cucuzzella, try to land on the side of your body. "Your shoulder and thigh can take the impact better than your wrists or face," he says. Depending on the terrain, you may want to switch to trail shoes for better traction.
Nurse Your Injuries
Prevent infection by rinsing cuts and scrapes with water as soon as possible. When you get back to your car or house, apply antibacterial ointment. "Most minor road or trail scrapes are abrasions," says Dr. Cucuzzella. "They stop bleeding, the pain fades pretty quickly, and you can finish your run or at least walk." If you have a deep gash, use your shirt or a bandanna to apply firm pressure to stop the bleeding, bag the run, and get help.
Watch Your Step
Turning your ankle could be minor or major. "We've all rolled our ankles a hundred times," Dr. Cucuzzella says. "If you can immediately bear weight and jog on it within a minute or two, and the pain disappears, you're fine." But if your ankle begins to swell or throb and you can't stand on it, you may have a fracture or sprain. Seek help and head to the ER.
Ease Up
Recognize that your body has its limits, especially during the summer. To prevent heat-related illnesses, such as heat cramps, heat exhaustion, and heatstroke, exercise in the cooler hours of the day, run in shaded areas, slow your pace, and stay hydrated. Wear a running cap or visor and lightweight, wicking fabrics. Give yourself time to get acclimated to hot, humid conditions before going on long or strenuous runs. Listen to your body. If you start feeling weak, dizzy, confused, or nauseous, stop running immediately, says Dr. Roberts. Find a shaded area and sit down to rest and rehydrate. Sports drink is best; if you have water, take it with a sports gel or energy bar to replenish your sodium levels. If you must continue on to get back to your car or house, wait until the symptoms subside, then walk. Seek medical care if symptoms continue or worsen.
Running isn't the most dangerous sport, but it does come with risks. These tips will help you sidestep trouble.
The Runner's First-Aid Kit
Pack the following items in a small bag and keep it in your car so you'll be prepared for emergencies on the road or trail.
*Bandages or gauze pads and medical tape; bandage or bandanna for compression or wrapping
*Antibacterial cream to apply to cuts and scrapes to prevent infection
*A small water bottle for squirting water onto scrapes to clean out debris
*Sports gel or energy bar to take with water to restore your sodium levels
*Moleskin or Band-Aids to prevent or protect blisters or chafed skin
*Vaseline or lube to apply to areas that chafe
Danger Zone
Tree roots, potholes, blisters--runners face a lot of scary things. Being prepared is half the battle.
Motivated by the fear of injury, most runners can spot a case of shinsplints, plantar fasciitis, or iliotibial band syndrome a mile away. But overuse injuries aren't the only threats to your running. In fact, unexpected injuries, such as road rash, twisted ankles, and heatstroke, can take down runners harder and faster, because most of the time, you aren't prepared to handle accidents. Here's how to make sure every run is fun and trouble-free.
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More than two weeks after Tamerlan Tsarnaev died after a gun battle with police, there's no clear indication where he will be buried. The alleged Boston Marathon bomber needs a final resting place, but the funeral home that's currently in possession of his body is facing a dilemma.
Peter Stefan, the director of Graham Putnam & Mahoney Funeral Parlors in Worcester, Mass., can't find a cemetery willing to bury the 26 year old accused of plotting the attack, with his brother, that killed three and injured 264people on April 15. Tsarnaev is Muslim, which means cremation would conflict with his religious beliefs.
Today Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick told a reporter that the final outcome will be determined by Tsarnaev's family. "I assume they will make a decision soon. I hope they do. I think everybody is feeling upset about what happened."
Stefan wants the U.S. State Department to get involved and send the body to the suspect's family in Russia. Demonstrators outside the funeral home support that plan and are trying to raise money to pay for it.
But, Stefan will not agree to that if he isn't certain the person receiving the body will properly care for and bury it. In an interview with Anderson Cooper airing tonight, he says he is still trying to make that connection in Russia.
What's most important to him is that every person under his supervision, regardless of how they lived their life, is treated equally in death. That principle has guided Stefan through out his career. He considers it an American ideal. "You have to bury people in this country," he says.
Watch the interview to find out how Stefan plans to deal with the controversial problem at 8 and 10 p.m. ET on CNN.
make his family come get him we shouldnt waste our money on sending him back, and if they dont come get him throw him in the ocean.
As tragic as the bombing was, think back and remember, Lee Harvey Oswald killed our nations' President in Dallas yet he was still buried in a cemetery right there in Texas! So just bury him in an anominous cementery in an unmarked grave!
i agree with the folks who say bury him at sea, its fitting, if it was good enough for bin laden then it should be good enough for him, whatever just get him away from the city...
Bury him in Guantanamo Bay premises, if all other options fail! He will be buried near his other terrorist comrades
, and there will not be much popular protest!
My first thought is to have a public burning of the body like they would in his home country if it was one of our's over there. But since we are not that sort of country I would say send him back. Better that he not be buried here.
I think he should be buried in Watertown! His brother, when he gets the death penalty right next to him. This is a part of Watertown history. I listened to the terrorist attack via police scanner that night and I have to tell you there were real hero's that night. Hey terrorist, you come to Watertown, this is were you will end up!
Bury him at sea.
By all means, we as American's should respect his family wishes. But if the cemetery management fears the repercussions of what may happen at his grave sight, then the family needs to respect that decision. Let's be done with this, cremation is my answer. His ashes don't have to be buried & can be taken anywhere. (Privately)
If the family does not come forward with a plan, then a burial at sea would be the next logical choice. I do understand the funeral director's dilemma and I agree that he should not release it until he knows who will be accepting the body and proceeds properly. The only thing is that I am struggling with is the fact that there are killers buried here in Mass, what about Albert Desalvo, the boston strangler? I'm almost positive he's buried here, where do we draw the line? Lot of grey area here. but I would personally like him to hit the road and go home to mother.
Why can't he be buried at sea like Osama Bin Laden?
We do burials at sea. If the family will not bring him back to their country, then have a burial at sea..
Why can't he be buried on a Correctional facilities cemetery?
this is a good idea , as well as burial at sea.
Bury the Boston terrorist like Osama was......in International Waters...dropped from a ship or a helicopter! Let the fish get indigestion from feasting.
i was thinking the same thing...to bury him the way of bin laden. I was also thinking the same way, in that, we cannot act as they do-like animals- and we should bury him.
However, I wonder why we feel as though we need to adhere to his religion (and NOT cremate him)- when he did not adhere to his own religion??
I totally agree with you, bury him at sea, with his buddy osama
Creamate him and send him home to his family.
I am sure someone would willingly come up with the money to have him shipped back to his mother.
Burial at sea, just like Bin Laden. No trace of him then.
I am a American Veteran, and I believe we should Burry the Man where ever his Family wants, if it is here in USA, Then do it ! We go to other Countries and Kill people there in War and if we were killed and left there, I would atleast Pray They would Burry my Body in a Cemetery and Respect the Dead. We Have to Let GOD deal with the Man Now ! We are not Animals !!!!!!!
Please, bury him at sea in International waters. Best for all. Sad, but he took so much away from us in Boston and in America. I realize it is up to God to handle his soul, but this would at least neutrilize the dilemma of his remains. Or, deliver him to the Embassy of the Country where he was a citizen.
I haven't heard anyone discussing a burial at sea. No protests; no pilgrimages; acceptable to Islam.
I don't mean to sound cruel-but bury him at sea and he can mingle with the fishes.....and Osama Bin Laden.
Cremate him , or take him out to sea, and dump him, like they did Bin Laden


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Hollywood is adapting Joan Didion's 1977 novel A Book of Common Prayer and Christina Hendricks is set to play one of the lead characters.
The novel is set in a fictitious Central American country Didion calls Boca Grande; Didion covered similar ground in reporting she did in El Salvador for the New York Review of Books, which was later published as the essay-length book Salvador. A Book of Common Prayer tells the stories of Grace Strasser-Mendana, an American anthropologist who married into one of Boca Grande's most powerful families and Charlotte Douglas, an American woman whose daughter disappears after joining a group of Marxist rebels. Hendricks is set to play Charlotte. Word & Film reports:
Charlotte is a classic Didion character, full of quixotic dreams and delusions that lead to her demise. Charlotte's willful obliviousness is counterbalanced by the novel's narrator, the astringently clear-eyed Grace Strasser-Mendana, an anthropologist, who observes Charlotte's self-deception with the same detached remove that has always hindered her ability to empathize with and understand the native people she had come to study.
The director is Campbell Scott, and the novel was adapted by screenwriters Joyce McKee and Rachel LeMin. Though Didion herself worked as a screenwriter throughout her journalistic career, her own novels and nonfiction have only once before been adapted for the screen — the film version of Play It As It Lays, which came out in 1972. It'll be interesting to see how Hendricks tackles the role of Charlotte. I'm pretty excited by this news — especially given we could stand to have more movies that center around female characters, plural.
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How can we apply gender budgeting in the EU Funds? Practical tools and Member State examples
This section includes practical tools on how to integrate a gender perspective into the EU Funds, using detailed descriptions, checklists and examples from different Member States. Using this support structure throughout the programming and implementing process will ensure the coherent integration of a gender equality perspective. The tools are structured in line with the requirements of the Commission's proposal for a regulation on the content and implementation of EU Funds' operational programmes (OPs), addressing the proposal's articles.
In general, the tools are applicable throughout the programming processes for all of the EU Funds. Nevertheless, different contexts have to be considered. With the exception of Tool 1 (which presents the most important requirements of the Commission's proposal for the regulations) and Tool 4 (on options to advance work-life balance), the tools do not present a specific approach for each of the EU Funds. Instead, the tools offer generic support for introducing a coherent gender equality perspective.
The tools pay specific attention to work-life balance. From an EU policy perspective, this is because work-life balance has become especially important in the wake of a new directive on the subject. Promoting work-life balance measures within the funds goes hand in hand with the new directive and the communication from the Commission on an initiative to support work-life balance[1], in which the European Commission explicitly encourages funding from the EU Funds and the European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI) to advance the directive. For more information about the Directive on work-life balance, click here. For general information on the relationship between the gender pay gap and work-life balance, have a look at this EIGE publication.
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Happy Themeday, all! Today we have two brand-spankin'-new themes for your visual enjoyment.
First up is Gridspace, a classic, elegant premium theme by Graph Paper Press.
Gridspace lets you show your work in style. Designed as a portfolio for photographers, its slick features include light and dark color schemes, multiple thumbnail sizes, a responsive design, and a convenient space for your logo. Your readers can easily switch between two blog layouts on the fly – grid view and list view – while large featured images and an elegant overall design make your work the focus.
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Get rid of the clutter and concentrate on your content. Ascetica prefers subtle details over flashy gimmicks and provides the perfect balance of minimalism, white-space, responsiveness, and customization to allow you to focus on and support what matters most – your content – while doing it in a way that is uniquely your own.
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These are truly beautiful, but yet again, Ari is the theme I am sticking with! So exciting to see new stuff, guys.
It must be just me. All of these look so much the same.
Ascetica looks great!
A couple of the recent new themes that prominently display pictures with featured posts are making me re-evaluate my blogging strategies, since I customarily store my photos off-WordPress for the sake of space.
Too simple for me… nothing new, nothing special.
Ascetica looks fabulous. Debating the switchover…
Ascetica is nice, thanks.
Beautiful themes, as always!
Are you expecting any new themes from Elmastudio?
Love Gridspace~wish it were free! Please make one similar to this for those of us with less greenback! 😛
I really like Gridspace. Looks exciting. I was looking for a theme just like that.
Wish it was free.
Gridspace is legit. I want to see what it looks like on my photo site. I love checking out the new themes every Thursday!
Wow this is great for photographers like me. Thank you and keep up the good work! Will try this some other time 😉
I like the Ascetica but I'm sticking with my current theme. LOL. 🙂 Thanks for the new themes. I am looking forward for more themes that will entice my interest to change my current theme.
Great themes. I'll use the Gridspace for my future photo blog. 🙂
Ascetica is rather elegant. I'm no designer so I can't really pinpoint the subtle differences among these minimalist themes but I will have to admit that Ascetica is my favorite. Great timing too because I just decided to manually import my 2003-2006 blogs (read: hundreds of entries) from Multiply because they are shutting down the blogging service and deleting everything, and I'm looking for a fresh look. This would have to be it. Thank you for all your hard work! I appreciate that WordPress is a dynamic and well-supported community. I hope this service stays around forever!
I have tried Ascetica, but the header image is not shown… can you fix it? Thank you. I like this theme 🙂
I finally found my theme!!!! After months of searching, it felt like fate to get this new theme today.
Is the featured slider a Flash embed where the featured pic for the post changes automatically, or do we have to set it manually? Can't confirm with the live demo. Immediate response is much appreciated. Thanks! 🙂
I've customized my site to such an extent that changing a theme seems to be a nightmare now. Great theme,s though. Some of them tempt me to go through all the customizing again. 🙂
Pretty "less is more" themes… though I continue by "Mixfolio".
Gridspace looks great. As a photog, I love how the images are displayed.
Two absolutely stunning themes. Please keep up the great work! 🙂
Wonderful, thanks!
Options are most always a good thing.
I really enjoy all of the new themes. However, may we see some new themes that can easily accommodate the 'foodie' in us? I have a food blog, and my readers like an easier access to my recipes. Thank you.
Wonderful. 0.0 I like this!
I have a question about Gridspace. Is the fee of $75 a one-time purchase or a yearly fee? and I am assuming this is a WordPress.com and not .org? Thanks!
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I really like the Ascetica theme. Will use it in the future! 🙂
Gridspace looks nice.
More FREE themes please. 🙂
I will always love minimalist themes. I like the first one a lot more… sadly, it wouldn't work for my blog AT ALL.
Simply brilliant! Thanks for the info.
They're both wonderful, Gridspace is my favourite.
Actually I love them… but always wait for free themes, please. 🙂
Very nice designs. Contemporary, sleek and stylish. Keep doing what you are doing, you are talented.
Really like Ascetica but it won't work for a multi-author blog due to the lack of info on the post writer 😦
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These are good WordPress themes for those who are into photography and graphics designing. Having a portfolio for various image works is a great help with regards to organization and visibility.
Cool style for an online portfolio. Kudos!
Love the Gridspace theme — very clean and smart and gives the content full attention.
I really dig the Gridspace theme. It's simple, modern, and I think that the font chosen for it is perfect.
Wow, that's simple and beautiful. Love it.
My blog is using Ascetica. I love it. Thank you. Gridspace and Ascetica are so good.
Love Ascetica, it's clean and I really like the way the featured images are also present when you click into the actual post. There are so many themes out there that just seem to forget about this. My two points are: The slide doesn't seem to slide, am I missing something? And the box for writing the email address in a Follow Blog widget is really tiny. Your response would be greatly appreciated. Kellie
Love Gridspace!
I wish there were more dark themes for musicians. There's only one right now and the front page has too much type. Any suggestions?
I have just changed my blog to the Ascetica theme. It is so nice. Unfortunately, my WP Like button doesn't work. My readers can see the WP Like button, but when they click it, it doesn't work. Help me please. 😦


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3. Bigger isn't always better. Yes, your daughter who's family's the size of a basketball team needs a 4-slice toaster or a toaster oven that can toast 6 slices at once. But if you're shopping for your bachelor brother or widowed mom, a 2-slice toaster or a 4-slice toaster oven will do the trick.
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7:00 in the morning And the rays from the sun wakes me I'm stretchin' and yawnin' In a bed that don't belong to me And a voice yells, "Good morning, darlin", from the bathroom Then she comes out and kisses me And to my surprise, she ain't you Now I've got this dumb look on my face Like, what have I done? How could I be so stupid to be have laid here til the morning sun? Must of lost the track of time Oh, what was on my mind? From the club, went to her home Didn't plan to stay that long Here I am, quickly tryin' to put on my clothes Searching for my car keys Tryin' to get on up out the door Then she streched her hands in front of it Said, "You can't go this way" Looked at her, like she was crazy Said, "Woman move out my way" Said, "I got a wife at home" She said, "Please don't go out there" "Lady, I've got to get home" She said, her husband was comin' up the stairs "Shh, shh, quiet Hurry up and get in the closet" She said, "Don't you make a sound Or some shit is going down" I said, "Why don't I just go out the window?" "Yes, except for one thing, we on the 5th floor" "Shit think, shit think, shit quick, put me in the closet" And now I'm in this darkest closet, tryin' to figure out Just how I'm gonna get my crazy ass up out this house Then he walks in and yells, "I'm home" She says, "Honey, I'm in the room" He walks in there with a smile on his face Sayin', "Honey, I've been missin' you" She hops all over him And says, "I've cooked and ran your bath water" I'm tellin' you now, this girl's so good that she deserves an Oscar Throws her in the bed And start to snatchin' her clothes off I'm in the closet, like man, what the fuck is going on? You're not gonna believe it But things get deeper as the story goes on Next thing you know, a call comes through on my cell phone I tried my best to quickly put it on vibrate But from the way he act, I could tell it was too late He hopped up and said, "There's a mystery going on And I'm gonna solve it" And I'm like, "God please, don't let this man open this closet" He walks in the bathroom And looks behind the door She says, "Baby, come back to bed" He says, "Bitch, say no more" He pulls back the shower curtain While she's biting her nails Then he walks back to the room Right now, I'm sweating like hell Checks under the bed Then under the dresser He looks at the closet I pull out my Beretta He walks up to the closet He comes up to the closet Now he's at the closet Now he's opening the closet...
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Cookbook:Coq au Vin I
Cookbook | Ingredients | Recipes | Cuisine of France | Meat
Many French regions claim coq au vin, or chicken stew, as their own, but legend has it that the recipe originated with Caesar's chef. Different variants exist throughout the world. Note that you can also use capon.
Variation I[edit | edit source]
Ingredients[edit | edit source]
Serves 4–6:
- 1.5 kg (about 3.5 lbs) chicken, jointed (or drumsticks, thighs, breasts); get the giblets, and the blood if you can; season beforehand; marrow is important.
- 1 onion, diced
- 1 carrot, chopped
- 3 tbsp flour
- ½ tsp salt
- ¼ tsp pepper
- 200 g (about ¼ lb) small mushrooms
- 240 ml (1 cup) red wine
- 1 clove garlic, minced
- 1 tsp basil, chopped and fresh
- 1 tsp of fresh or dried thyme
- Olive oil for sauteing
Gear[edit | edit source]
- Wide skillet
- deep pyrex bowl with lid
- jug.
Directions[edit | edit source]
- Mix flour, salt and pepper. Coat chicken, onion and carrot in flour mixture and set aside.
- Sauté mushrooms, set aside.
- Brown the chicken pieces a few at a time, set aside.
- Brown onions and carrots. Put chicken into large casserole on medium-high heat along with onions, carrots and mushrooms.
- Combine wine, garlic, and basil; pour over chicken. Cover the casserole, cook until chicken is ready (1–1.5 hours), stirring occasionally.
Variation II[edit | edit source]
Nearly all recipes other than those altered for low-fat diets start with lardons, or their more available substitutes, unsmoked bacon or pancetta. The lardons are cooked, and the rendered fat used for browning the other ingredients, and (with the addition of the flour) to form the roux which thickens the sauce. Generally, a full bottle of red wine is used, and brandy may be added.
Porcini mushrooms, while not particularly authentic, are good in this dish. This is a difficult dish, but you've got to try it. The asafoetida is a novelty, but it does add pungency.
Ingredients[edit | edit source]
- 1.5 kg (about 3.5 lbs) chicken, jointed (or drumsticks, thighs, breasts); get the giblets, and the blood if you can; season beforehand; marrow is important.
- 1 bottle red burgundy (or côte du Rhône/Morgon)
- 8 thick slices pancetta, cut into strips less than width of little finger
- 1 strip of porkbelly fat
- 250g button mushrooms, whole
- selection of wild mushrooms, sliced - dried is OK (use the soaking liquor)
- 2 large onions, one for the stock, the other roughly chopped
- 12 small pickling onions (fresh, not pickled), peeled and whole
- 2 stalks celery, roughly diced
- 4 carrots, cut in thick lengths
- 5 cloves garlic, crushed, leaving one sliced
- ½ tsp ground asafoetida
- 5 sprigs thyme (2 tsps) & 5 bay leaves
- butter, salt, black pepper, parsley
- 2 measures of brandy
Procedure[edit | edit source]
- For chicken stock, sear the giblets in a bit of oil in a pan, and simmer in water with an onion, a carrot and some peppercorns. For the vegetable stock, make up a cupful with Vegcon, just salty (can act as the entire stock - make ½ pint).
- In the skillet, fry pancetta and porkbelly fat with butter till golden brown. Remove pancetta.
- To the skillet, add the seasoned chicken pieces skin side down and fry until honey-coloured, then turn. This is vital for the flavour; the skillet must be left sticky. There won't be enough room to do it in one go, so take it in turns. Remove, leaving the porkbelly behind, snipped into pieces. (If you're doing breasts off the bone, sear on skin side only and do not put back into the dish until the oven stage - otherwise they will toughen up.)
- To the skillet add the chopped onion and the button mushrooms; fry for 5 mins, then add the sliced garlic and immediately flame off one of the measures of brandy.
- To the skillet add the chicken pieces and pancetta, then pour over all the wine and the chicken & veg stocks. Bring to the boil, then reduce the heat and, adding the crushed garlic and herbs, simmer for 45 mins. Turn the chicken pieces twice. Remove the chicken pieces to the pyrex lid and pour the skillet sauce into the jug; put the jug in the freezer for 30 mins and then remove the fat. At this stage, it is recommended that you refrigerate the whole dish overnight.
- In the skillet, add some butter along with the wild mushrooms; then pickling onions, carrots and celery; fry till mushrooms brown. Stir in the asafoetida and flame off the second measure of brandy.
- Add the jug ingredients to the skillet sauce, along with another crushed clove of garlic, and push the veg to the edge of the skillet; reduce the sauce in the skillet until glossy (may need flour stirred in - but it shouldn't be thick): 15 mins.
- Pour half the sauce into the pyrex bowl, then place the chicken pieces in, and pour the rest of the sauce on top; put the covered pyrex bowl in an oven on 170 C for 90 mins.
- Sprinkle parsley over each portion, and serve with asparagus/green beans, and steamed potatoes/flat noodles/rice/orzo/colcannon.
External links[edit | edit source]
- Perfect Coq au Vin via The Observer


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"Whatever that be which thinks, which understands, which wills, which acts, it is something celestial and divine, and upon that account must necessarily be eternal." -CICERO
The writer of The Secret Doctrine, the influential Theosophist and recognized Mother of the New Age, H. P. Blavatsky, was an impassioned campaigner for the abolition of vivisection and animal cruelty. For her, these were not political or sentimental causes, or her only causes. She founded a school for abused working girls in England, and was a pioneer Suffragette.
Her actions were rooted in a conviction of the spiritual unity and equality of human kind; the truth of the consciousness and intelligence of all beings— even infinitesimal atoms and cells — the soul of things "ever present and ubiquitous" was, and is, the foundation principle of Theosophy.
The Shift
Uncounted numbers in all walks of life have dedicated themselves to this shift in consciousness — the reality of the sacred—just as did our early American ancestors. Native American cultures practiced gratitude rituals to the Great Spirit, whenever necessity required to take food, clothing or shelter from living nature.
The still widespread influence of materialism in our attitudes about life on this planet, beg for an ethical evangelism. What proofs do we have that "it is not spirit that dwells in matter, but matter which clings temporarily to spirit," as Blavatsky taught, "and that [spirit] alone is an eternal, imperishable abode for all things visible and invisible?" (Isis Unveiled 1:428)
Steve Hartman of CBS News recently visited "an animal sanctuary where", he writes, "a dog and an elephant have formed a very lasting, and unusual, friendship. … They harbor no fears, no secrets, no prejudices. Just two living creatures who somehow managed to look past their immense differences. Take a good look at this couple, America. Take a good look world. If they can do it – what's our excuse?" Jan. 2, 2009 Animal Odd Couple.
Bella and Tarra
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"As a true sanctuary, it is not intended to provide entertainment," The Elephant Sanctuary website states. "[T]he Sanctuary is closed to the general public. Education, however, represents a key component of the Sanctuary's ongoing mission. Since its inception, the Sanctuary's outreach program has taught thousands of school children around the globe a respect for wildlife while learning about the endangered Asian elephant."
Travels With Tarra, by Carol Buckley
"Based on the same foundation-stone — the ancient Mysteries — the primitive religions," Blavatsky wrote, "all without one exception, reflect the most important of the once universal beliefs…an impersonal and universal divine Principle, absolute in its nature, and unknowable to the 'brain' intellect, or the conditioned and limited cognition of man. … Universal Mind, the Soul of the universe…" –(The Mind in Nature)
Delhi and Misty
"After more than a year in quarantine undergoing successful treatment for TB, Misty's big day finally arrived: she was released to go meet her new herd. What a surprise when Misty realized one of the elephants was an old friend she had not seen since they had performed together in the circus many years ago. Delhi and Misty shared a tender reunion and have been inseparable ever since." The Elephant Sanctuary
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"Physical science has already reached its limits of exploration; dogmatic theology sees the springs of its inspiration dry. The day is approaching when the world will receive the proofs that only ancient religions were in harmony with nature, and ancient science embraced all that can be known."
(The Mind in Nature)
"Man is endowed with reason, the infant with instinct; and the young animal shows more of both than the child." – H. P. Blavatsky
Healing and Social Bonds
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"The 'soul in animals' is, in the opinion of Bossuet, 'the most difficult as the most important of all philosophical questions.' … physical, exact research offers no grounds for the presumption that man is endowed with an immortal, divine soul, any more than his dog. … either both are endowed by nature with what is so loosely called by us 'soul,' or neither the one nor the other is so endowed."
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"Descartes held the living animal as being simply an automaton, a 'well wound up clock-work.' [S]ince that automaton is capable of feelings, such as love, gratitude, and is endowed as undeniably with memory… if the animal is an "automaton," why not Man? Exact science– anatomy, physiology, etc., finds not the smallest difference between the bodies of the two."
Grace: A Mother's Anguish
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"Serving" man, surely cannot mean being tortured, killed, uselessly shot and otherwise misused; while it is almost needless to explain the word "renovation." Christians understand by it the renovation of bodies after the second coming of Christ; and limit it to man, to the exclusion of animals. The students of the Secret Doctrine explain it by the successive renovation and perfection of forms on the scale of objective and subjective being, and in a long series of evolutionary transformations from animal to man, and upward. . . ."
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"Studies, Behavior Prove There Is More Going On In Animals' Minds Than We Thought Possible"
"(CBS): It seems like every month or so, there's another study coming out saying animals are smarter than we think. So what do animals think … and what do they think of us? Some revelations about animal intelligence from Tracy Smith."
"What are they thinking?"
"If you've always suspected that animals are smarter than they get credit for, that there's more going on behind those eyes than a desire for food or attention … you're not alone."
"In some species, especially elephants, great apes and marine mammals, the old phrase 'dumb animal' borders on heresy."
"In fact, the line between human and animal intelligence is fading fast."
"I think it is fair to say that literally, monthly, there are fairly major discoveries about things that we long thought were unique to humans, now look like some of the building blocks are in place in other animals," said Harvard professor Marc Hauser. […]"
"Are animals attached to us? Absolutely," Hauser said. "When you leave your pet behind, you see signs of depression. Is it like our depression? Well, I don't know if it's like our depression. I don't even know what your depression would be like, relative to my depression. But do animals feel strong bonds? Undoubtedly, yes."
"Can we call that love?" Smith asked."
"Why not?" Hauser said."
"Of course, the question of whether the capacity for love makes animals more intelligent is probably best left to the individual … of whatever species."
"For verily when the world feels convinced — and it cannot avoid coming one day to such a conviction — that animals are creatures as eternal as we ourselves, vivisection and other permanent tortures, daily inflicted on the poor brutes, will, after calling forth an outburst of maledictions and threats from society generally, force all Governments to put an end to those barbarous and shameful practices."


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Democrats change platform to add God, declare Jerusalem capital of Israel
CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Embarrassed by Republicans, Democrats amended their convention platform Wednesday to add a mention of God and declare that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel.
Many in the audience booed after the convention chairman, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, ruled that the amendments had been approved despite the fact that a large group of delegates had objected. He called for a vote three times before ruling.
The party reinstated language from the 2008 platform that said "we need a government that stands up for the hopes, values and interests of working people and gives everyone willing to work hard the chance to make the most of their God-given potential."
It also reinstated its 2008 language that Jerusalem "is and will remain the capital of Israel. The parties have agreed that Jerusalem is a matter for final status negotiations. It should remain an undivided city accessible to people of all faiths."
Democrats had approved a platform on Tuesday that made no mention of God or Jerusalem. Instead, it expressed "unshakable commitment to Israel's security."
Republicans pounced quickly on both omissions.
GOP officials argued that not taking a position on Jerusalem's status in the party platform showed the president was weak in his support of Israel. Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney said omitting God "suggests a party that is increasingly out of touch with the mainstream of the American people."
"I think this party is veering further and further away into an extreme wing that American's don't recognize," Romney said.
The Democratic Party's decision to restore the mention of Jerusalem reflected what advisers said was the president's personal view, if not the policy of his administration. The administration has long said determining Jerusalem's status was an issue that should be decided by Israelis and Palestinians in peace talks, but has been careful not to state that Jerusalem is Israel's capital.
Romney's campaign quickly sought to capitalize on the slight, but important difference.
"Mitt Romney has consistently stated his belief that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel," said Andrea Saul, Romney's spokeswoman. "President Obama has repeatedly refused to say the same himself. Now is the time for President Obama to state in unequivocal terms whether or not he believes Jerusalem is Israel's capital."
The White House wouldn't say whether the change in the Democratic platform language reflected a change in administration policy.
Democratic National Committee chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz said the reinstated party language reflected "the policy of both Republican and Democratic administrations for decades."
Following the decision, former Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland told reporters, "It was an effort to bring clarification."
But the decision to amend the platform did not rest well with some delegates.
Noor Ul-Hasan, a Muslim delegate from Salt Lake City, Utah, said she felt it went against the principle of the separation of church and state.
"There are people who don't believe in God and you have to respect that as well," Ul-Hasan said. She also questioned whether the convention had enough of a quorum to even amend the platform. "There was no discussion. We didn't even see it coming. We were blindsided by it."
Angela Urrea, a delegate from Roy, Utah, said she felt it was sprung on the convention without any discussion.
"The majority spoke last night," Urrae said, noting the platform was approved Tuesday. "We shouldn't be declaring Jerusalem as the capital of Israel."
Republicans declared Jerusalem the capital of Israel in the platform the party approved last week at its convention in Tampa, Fla.
Peoples reported from Utah. Associated Press writer Ken Thomas in Charlotte, N.C., contributed to this report.


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[Part Two]
What a piece of work is mainstream book publishing in New York! Yesterday's column looked at how remote and exclusive it's become, how isolated from the rest of the country. The National Book Awards fiasco was cited as a humorous example, but two other influences (see below) demonstrate how serious the stakes have become.
Philip Roth Makes a Demand
I admit another side of me is saying about the National Book Awards debacle, So they had a little party (all right, a big party) — you don't have to make a federal case out of it. Life in book publishing is not easy, and these people work hard to survive, so give 'em a break. It was just one night.
Right. It's what that one night represents that we should look at – indeed what Philip Roth has been railing against with his Nathan Zuckerman novels for years. That same Page Six mentality that turns the arts into a gossip machine has moved the focus of publishing away from books that are literature and put the spotlight on the authors who create literature. Roth doesn't mean we're honoring authors more than books – quite the contrary. He means we're exploiting famous authors by writing biographies that deliciously and salaciously accent their hidden pasts, their secret inspirations, their dark side. It's more lucrative to do that, he says, than to publish serious literary works.
In Roth's latest novel, "Exit Ghost," he especially indicts "cultural journalism" as presented and practiced by the New York Times.
"Cultural journalism is tabloid gossip disguised as an interest in 'the arts,' " a character protests in a letter to the Times, "and everything that it touches is contracted into what it is not. Who is the celebrity, what is the price, what is the scandal? What transgression has the writer committed, and not against the exigencies of literary aesthetics but against his or her daughter, son, mother, father, spouse, lover, friend, publisher, or pet?"
If you don't believe mainstream publishers would rather dish the author than sell the book, Zuckerman steps up to supply two examples. First there was "dubious scholarly speculation" about Nathaniel Hawthorne having an incestuous relationship with his sister. It's nothing but a rumor, mind you, but it persists. And what if it were fact – would it inform or hinder our appreciation and understanding of Hawthorne's books? Well, what would that matter if your intention is never to read Hawthorne but to sell the heck out of a biography that scandalizes. Why, you might even get a blurb from Anna Wintour. That great Hawthorne scholar.
Then, too, look at Ernest Hemingway, says Roth's letter-writer. Hemingway's memory was maligned when a modern-day "cultural journalist" interviewed people in Michigan and their descendants "who are said to have been models for the characters" in Hemingway's early stories. When they told the journalist they felt "badly served by Ernest Hemingway," their feelings were "taken more seriously than the fiction because they're easier for your cultural journalist to talk about than the fiction."
The NBA organizers bought into that same gossip-mill approach. Did the world hear about the literary wonders of the NBA winners or about the names of the quasi-famous who attended? The organizers could not see the problem because they're trapped inside the mainstream.
(And of course Philip Roth loves to have his fun with us, having spent his career constructing his alter ego Nathan Zuckerman and then taunting "cultural journalists" and publishers for asking, gosh, is Zuckerman really Philip Roth disguised? Just by pondering the question, we reveal ourselves to be more interested in gossipy facts about the author than in the fiction he creates. Too bad the colossal ego in all Roth books has its own obvious needs, but we won't go into that now.)
What to do about this? Here are a few suggestions.
Rebuild from the Bottom Up
When the Nobel Prize judge Horace Engdahl said that American writers and publishers were too insular, a lot of literary folk accused Engdahl and the Nobel Committee of being anti-American, thus launching an embarrassing pissing match that got us nowhere.
One unassailable lesson got lost in the shuffle: American writers and the mainstream publishing community "don't translate enough and don't really participate in the dialogue of literature," Engdahl said. When publishers refuse to enter the world's literary conversation, their "ignorance is restraining."
Whaaaa? (as the Latin lover in Astaire/Rogers movies and "The Drowsy Chaperone" says so noisily and comically when he pretends to be taken by surprise.) Americans don't publish many works in translation?
Not by a long shot. The steady decrease of translated books coming out of mainstream publishing is "a national crisis," the literature director of the National Endowment of the Arts told the New York Times. Salman Rushdie looked at the number in 2004 (874 translated books out of 185,000 total) and called it "shocking."
Moreover, it's been proven that the only way writers of other countries can become known in the world is to be translated into English. So when mainstream publishers in New York avoid publishing works in translation, "we are the clogged artery," says the chair of PEN's translation committee – "[we] prevent authors from reaching readers anywhere outside their own country."
It's true that translated books used to be harder to sell. But today, thanks to the Internet, English-reading book buyers who love translated works are easier to identify and target. One feels that mainstream publishers would like to stick their toe in international waters, but according to the New York Times, they simply have "no staff editors who read foreign languages," so they have "hesitated to rely on the advice of outsiders."
Well, surely that can be rectified.
Wouldn't any publisher consider it a plus if a prospective assistant editor came to the job interview with a reading fluency in at least one foreign language? During college the candidate could have studied the classics in that language, traveled in that country and read all the promising modern authors. If hired, the new editorial assistant could comb through the foreign country's publishing lists, acquire advance copies, investigate the U.S. market for prospective works in translation and write up Readers Reports that would be reviewed by a senior editor. This would be good training for the editorial assistant and it would sure breathe new life into an industry struggling to match the literary demands of the world.
Hire enough of these editors, nurture sales reps and marketing executives with similar expertise, and maybe the house will not only look worldwide for authors to translate but learn how to market them to Americans who are hungry for foreign writers. If you think these readers are too small in number to make publishing works in translation profitable, remember the audience for books by Middle East authors was zilch before 9/11 and has grown fantastically since. If that's too tidy an example, I remember a lone paperback editor who started a reading craze in the 1970s by publishing Latin American authors aside from Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
And wouldn't it be great if mainstream houses required prospective editorial and marketing assistants to have worked in bookstores outside (far outside) New York, maybe during summers and holidays while in college, and to have carved out an area of literary interest for which they can demonstrate real expertise?
Bringing in new influences from the ground up is not only a way to open the horizons of mainstream publishers. It's a way to turn our attention back to the work we all want to do, and that is to attend the publication of books we believe in, from the most literary to the most commercial. It's a way to fight captivity by corporate pressures and faraway owners. It's a way to establish our own literary standards and strive to live up to them no matter where the house is located or who/what controls it.
Once again if I'm in the dark and this is already happening, I'd love to hear about it. Maybe Manhattan will freeze over before mainstream book publishers ever set foot off the island. But breaking out of literary prison can take many forms, some barely visible right now, and can only spread like the "good viruses" of our new Internet Age. Thoughts welcomed (you can send anonymously, too) at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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(L-R) Silver medalist Julia Clukey of the United States, gold medalist Natalie Geisenberger of Germany and bronze medalist Alex Gough of Canada celebrate at the FIL Luge World Cup in Lake Placid, N.Y., on Feb. 8, 2013.
|Julia Clukey fans traveled from Maine to cheer their hometown
hero to silver.
LAKE PLACID, N.Y. — There really is no place like home. Just ask Julia Clukey. The 27-year-old luger took full advantage of her home track and won her first World Cup medal, a silver. It was the best World Cup finish for USA Luge this season.
"I know this track in and out, so I was really focused on my position on the sled and knew that regardless if I was a little too far to the left or too far to the right, I knew how to correct my lines in the curves," she said as snow fell hard on the track at Mt. Van Hoevenberg. "I just wanted to capitalize on my home track advantage, and I was super excited I was able to do that today."
Clukey, from Augusta, Maine, finished her two runs in 1:28.735 behind winner and reigning world champion Natalie Geisenberger from Germany, who clocked 1:28.440. Alex Gough from Canada rounded out the podium in 1:28.748.
The silver medal was a perfect antidote to Clukey's world championship experience in Whistler, Canada, on the 2010 Olympic track last week, where a virus slowed her down. She finished ninth. And it was a silver lining to the long recovery she has endured after undergoing surgery in March 2011 to correct Arnold Chiari Syndrome, a genetic disorder in which fluid doesn't leave her brain properly. It causes muscle weakness, headaches, and vertigo, among other symptoms. Clukey was diagnosed with the syndrome after the 2010 Olympics, and the recovery from surgery, she said, involved mostly rest, which was difficult for a motivated athlete.
Having two North Americans on the World Cup podium was unusual in a sport often dominated by the Germans. This was the first time this season that fewer than two German women have been on the World Cup podium. And it was the first time this season that four Americans have finished in the top 10 (the Germans only had Geisenberger in the top 10).
"The Germans have a very strong luge program and they've certainly dominated this year," added Clukey. "So second is a pretty special place for me."
Erin Hamlin, 26, who won the world championships on the Lake Placid track in 2009, finished a disappointing fifth.
"How my runs were, I have to be happy with my place because I had some big problems especially my second run," she said. "I clipped a wall in the chicane. Usually I'm pretty dialed through there."
|World Cup silver medalist Julia Clukey celebrates with her nephew
But that didn't stop Team Hamlin from cheering loudly at the finish and waving American flags. Over 121 people from Hamlin's hometown of Remsen, N.Y., boarded a bus this morning to travel to Lake Placid. Hamlin's extended family also made the snowy drive, including her brother, who has made a name for himself by cheering shirtless in the stands with his sister's name painted on his chest — well, at least one letter of her name. Other family members have the other letters painted on their chests (the rest of the family is no doubt happy that Erin's name only has four letters).
"They started during the Olympics in Torino, and now it's kind of expected," said Hamlin with a smile. "They're going to have to suffer now through the end of my career in the cold."
Team Sween also punctuated the crowd with their neon green hats. They were there to cheer on reigning junior world champion Emily Sweeney, 19, who finished ninth.
"This is the first time I've ever raced anyone except for my teammates on this track," Sweeney said. "So it was cool to have everyone, all the other countries here. Our support system was amazing, between Erin and I, we had our families here."
A former junior world champion, 20-year-old Kate Hansen was just behind Hamlin in sixth.
"It was so awesome having a home field advantage, especially the Sween Team, and there are so many Hamlins!" Hansen said. "It's cool to come up the in-run and know people love you because in Germany there's no love ever. It's just nice to see the flag waving and hear your name being chanted."
In doubles luge, Matt Mortensen and Preston Griffall finished sixth with Jake Hyrns and Andrew Sherk in eighth — season's best results for both teams.
Next week the sliders travel to Sochi, Russia, for the first race on the 2014 Olympic track and the last World Cup of the 2012-13 season.
Peggy Shinn is a freelance contributor for TeamUSA.org. This story was not subject to the approval of the United States Olympic Committee or any National Governing Bodies.


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