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Edan Lepucki
by Alex Shephard
in conversation with Alex Shephard
If Edan Lepucki wrote an essay about the phone book, I would probably read it. Her work for The Millions is warm, engaging, and incredibly sharp, and her essays have helped make that site one of the best places to find quality long-form literary criticism on the web.
Lepucki is also the author of the hilarious and heart-wrenching novella, If You're Not Yet Like Me, which was published last year by Flatmancrooked. If You're Not Yet Like Me is a monologue from its narrator, Joellyn, to her unborn child; self-loathing and unrelentingly honest to the point of being insufferable to everyone but the reader, Joellyn narrates failed romances and hours wasted in coffee shops and bathtubs with equal vigor. Driven by Joellyn's caustic voice, the novella was one of the most original and poignant pieces of short fiction released last year. I spoke with Lepucki over a grainy Skype connection in December about If You're Not Yet Like Me, her work for The Millions, and the MFA/NYC debate.
Can you describe working with Flatmancrooked?
Flatmancrooked has been really fun to work with. I don't have very much experience working with other publishers beyond literary journals and The Millions, and I obviously don't have any experience working with Knopf or anything. But it's been lovely. I had a lot of hands-on time with Deena Drewis. She had seen my novella in its early stages and we worked on it for months. She was so useful for larger questions to very small things – sentences, phrases, those things.
The launch was so much fun and so much more successful than I thought it would be. I think there's something about giving people the pressure to buy it before a certain date and to have only a certain number of copies really made it seem like something that people wanted to buy – like some kind of special Birkin bag or something. [laughs] I felt like they did a good job of making it something that had a social status cool to it, which I don't think books often have these days. They just think outside the box. …. It's been really fun to see who ended up launching me. Obviously my mom and dad did, but then some random people that I had barely known got involved and it was really fun to see their names on the list. It was pretty crazy that week. I got eye-strain from constantly going online to pimp myself out. …. I became totally obsessed. I was glad when the launch was over because I could finally relax. Now, though, we're past that stage and on the second edition … I kind of miss it. It was fun to get that attention and to feel that people really cared about the publishing of such a tiny book. They're a great publishing house.
Authors typically have agents and publicists to do much of the "pimping" for them. You can say what you want about Tao Lin, but I'm pretty sure he represents a new paradigm: the writer as agent and publicist.
Right now I have actually started my annual detox of social networking sites. I'm not going to be on tumblr, or twitter, or Facebook. I'm just trying to retreat a little bit. I feel like retreat is such a vital part of the writer's life. [It's necessary] in order to get work done, and to not fall into the noise and the muck of the internet. I do also really enjoy the social interaction of those websites and those online communities, and I think I'm pretty good at presenting myself that way: I feel totally comfortable doing it. I think you're right: nowadays if you want to be a successful writer you have to be able to speak about yourself and to present yourself well and to not feel like you have to live in a garret and never talk to anyone ever again. I think it's probably a more painful shift for writers who have been published … [they might think] "now my publisher wants me to do this? They should do it for me." Whereas, I'm a new writer and I expect that I have to do it for myself. It feels sort of like second nature.
At the same time, while I really respect writers who are able sell themselves and do it all the time, I don't think I could do it quite as constantly as people like Tao Lin do it. Sometimes I think that overshadows the work itself. As much as I loved the launch, Deena and I spent so much more time on the writing itself and thinking about how we could market it so people could really get a sense of the aesthetic and what the story was. At the end of the day, I really want people to connect with the story and the characters. I don't want some wacky book tour to overshadow the art.
It's funny because I have this tumblr blog which I had started purely for entertainment and just to relax. I already wrote about books for The Millions and almost all of my friends talk about books all the time, and on twitter I made friends with all these editing, publishing, bookselling types. I didn't want tumblr to become that. I wanted to be able to talk about books and my writing if I wanted to, but I also wanted to talk about my dog or whatever. And it turned out that tumblr was one of the best things that happened in terms of If You're Not Yet Like Me. I sold so many copies to people on tumblr simply by the fact that I was just myself and had made friends on that community and those people are really supportive of each other. I felt like because I was myself and I wasn't thinking about my brand that that just came across naturally. And that ultimately helped my career, quote unquote. That was a good lesson: just do what you do, and be passionate about it, and be true and that will come across and people will like that.
Though far from boring, I felt like If You're Not Yet Like Me was remarkable in creating a palpable sense of boredom and isolation.
That's interesting. It didn't occur to me when I was writing it, though Joellyn is a very stagnant character. She's obviously unhappy with her life — she's going to this shitty coffee shop and she goes there all the time, but she doesn't like to go there. She's taking a bath in the middle of the afternoon. I mean, I work from home, so I'm pretty sure that seeped into it — that feeling of how do you measure out the hours? Another thought is that I'm also working on a novel where there's a lot of action. So I was wondering if I was working …. in reaction to that. I wanted to write about people in their everyday lives and that quotidian nature of going to the coffee shop or thinking about how you have to clean your house. She's definitely stuck. People keep talking about how [the characters] are in their 20s – and I don't correct them – but they're actually in their early 30s. I think that's telling that people think that both Joellyn and Zachary are younger because they are like children: arrested development.
Perhaps that's because arrested development is characteristic of characters in a number of novels about 20somethings?
That's funny to me because I don't think I usually write about that class of people or that era in one's life. I don't see myself as part of that era, necessarily. I didn't feel afloat or adrift like that and I was married when I was 25. …. But maybe I'm interested in that because I wasn't part of that – not that I was immune to those issues. …. But I'm definitely fascinated by the people who live in the neighborhood that I just moved from who are in their early 30s and it was sort of unclear what their purpose in life was or what their intentions were. I find them really intriguing.
What is it about those characters that you think makes people think they're in their 20s?
Even though Joellyn and Zachary are older – not so much Zachary, as we're not privy to his thoughts – but I do feel that Joellyn is stuck in part because she can't really get beyond the [question] of if she's attractive or not, or if she's lovable. And that to me seems like something that you would fixate on when you're a little bit younger. [Joellyn] is obsessed with her own beauty or lack there of or her own desire – It seems to me that she can't experience her own desire until someone desires her. And that, I hope for most women, ends early. [laughs] But it hasn't for her and I think that makes her really intriguing to me.
In many ways, she's like a teenager.
And the book that I'm writing now is narrated by a woman who's looking back on her teenage self. So maybe they're overlapping and I don't even realize it!
I wanted to ask you about Joellyn's voice in the novel, which is astonishingly neurotic and really quite original. How did you develop that voice?
The voice was actually the first thing that came through. I didn't really know what I was going to write and something came out – it was Joellyn's voice – and I was really interested. I was compelled by that voice. [I wanted to know] what was going on with this woman. I loved that she was barbed and really biting, but there was something else going on for why she was that way. She really is obsessive and analytical.
There are two things. One is that I just went with whatever she was going to say. I let myself be shocked. There's obviously a part of myself that's in the book that just was like, "oh you can go there because this is a fictional voice and you can just say whatever you want." I gave myself permission to do that [and that] was useful.
I'd always wanted to write a character …. where you feel them presenting their tale and shaping it as they tell it. So I think that that's where all of the self-consciousness and doubling-back comes from. …. And I think telling it in the first-person has an interesting effect, because she's telling it in such a way because she's perceiving a listener. …. The only thing that was a real challenge was the ending. In a couple drafts I got super sappy at the end …. Deena, my editor, [said] "I don't think she would ever lapse totally away from her original voice. I think she'll always have a layer of sarcasm or humor." And even though there are peaks of her vulnerability and sensitivity, I don't think that she'd ever be that open of a person. So trying to hold on to that voice until the very end – even while allowing the reader to be moved by what has happened in the story and to recognize that Joellyn is in pain and that she also recognizes it – that was a hard dance to do.
Did you always know that the audience Joellyn was addressing would be her unborn child?
At first, I wrote a couple pages and she was talking to someone and I was like, "Oh shit, who is she talking to? Here we go. This is going to be so annoying. I have to figure out who she's talking to or I'll have to cut it." Then I got to the line where she says something like, "When a man dresses like a boy, turn and run." And then I wrote "That sounds like something a mother would say." That's when I realized who she was talking to. That's in an early scene, but that was probably a week or so in – I'm a really slow writer. …. At first I thought I might withhold that she was talking to her child until the very end of the story and that [would be] the reveal of the story. …. On an early second draft, when the ending still wasn't really done, I went back and included [the knowledge that Joellyn is pregnant] into the beginning. ….
If You're Not Yet Like Me is incredibly funny, but in an entirely natural way — the humor never feels tacked on. Similarly, for such a short piece of fiction the flashbacks are integrated in a really clever, natural way.
I'm comfortable with it being funny, but I'm always afraid that if something's funny I'm copping out in some way or that I'm not really getting at my character. So I wanted to make sure that I was building the story so that, at the end, you would feel bereft. I didn't think I could do that without these kind of asides. And I just love – this is just writerly – but I love to write little stories about people's childhood. I don't know why. But when I was writing I felt that I was liking Joellyn more after I had these flashbacks. Even though she's so unlikable [I really wanted the reader] to like her.
Because I knew that the novella could be …. the length of one of [my normal] stories to sixty or seventy pages I knew I had so much territory that I could conquer if I wanted to. So I was less clenched in how I approached the narrative. I knew that if I wanted to write something random, I could go there. [One of the flashbacks in the novella] was kind of a thing that happened to me when I was a kid. So I was having fun trying to make it different from my own memory and trying to figure out why I [was] putting it there: if it's my memory, maybe it's not useful at all; maybe it's me just wanting to write about myself. So it was an interesting discovery to figure out why she would tell [that detail] to her unborn child.
I am revising my first book, which is [about an] adult narrator who's telling about a summer when she was 16. I'm revising it probably for the tenth time. …. So hopefully that will be out in the world someday soon because I've been working on it for about four years – not continuously, but long swathes of time. And I have a new book I'm working on that I'm about 100 pages into that I'm really excited to get back to because it's new and different.
The new new book? The new new book is so new that it sounds so stupid when I talk about it. Right now I'm calling it post-apocalyptic domestic drama, but I don't know if that's what it is. [laughs] I'm having a lot of fun writing it, partially because it's very, very different from my first book …. [which is] in the first-person and is very compressed. [The post-apocalyptic domestic drama] has two narrators and the third-person and there's a lot of back story. With a book that takes place in the future – I think of a great Margaret Atwood novel like Oryx and Crake – you need to get the backstory to understand the present. So that's the technical challenge, but I'm really loving the idea of backstory. It's so fun. So one book's about teenagers and the other is about the end of the world. Which is basically the same thing. [laughs]
Can you talk about your annual hibernation from social networking and "Ceasing to Exist," the piece you wrote about it for The Millions?
I think that was my most popular article of the whole year, which is pretty cool, but also kind of sad – no one wants to talk about books, they just want to talk about the internet! [laughs] I think this is a very common problem: I check my email so many times a day that it's pathetic. …. It makes me sick how quickly I can become obsessed with something on the internet. I'm not a news junkie – I don't go around and read a ton of articles everywhere – I just check a few sites over and over and over and over again. And it feels really at odds with the life that I want to lead, which is having a true connection with people I'm really interested in – reading and writing and seeing people face-to-face.
[Spending so much time online] starts to feel really superficial and it starts to weigh on me and creatively it's just not that useful. So there are times when I need to retreat. …. [Sometimes] it seems like everyone is singing at their own karaoke bar, that everyone is reading the song catalog and nobody cares about who's up there singing. It makes me feel really depressed about people. At the same time, I really love people on the internet that I've come to know, and I find it entertaining. So the best way I've been able to deal with it is to let myself enjoy it and then go away completely. And usually after I've gone away completely I can keep control of myself. Then it reaches a fever pitch and I have to go away again. So I think that that's just going to be how it has to be for the rest of my life because it's not something that I can [go away from] forever. …. It's part of my profession and my social life too. But I highly recommend it for everyone. It really is very fulfilling. [laughs]
The reaction to that piece was really fascinating. You did something a lot of people talk about doing but rarely follow through with.
That was one of the coolest things about the detox: people wanted to talk to me about it. It was the best conversation starter ever. It became clear to me that so many people were chained to their Facebook accounts and they hated it. It was like when people run a marathon, [other people always say] "Oh my God, I want to run a marathon." And the person [who ran the marathon] always says, "Well, you can do it." I kind of feel the same way.
That was the most fascinating thing – to realize how many people had been affected by this. I tend to think of myself as an inferior human being for having an obsession with Facebook. I think it's so lame. I have a problem with looking at people's wedding photos – I love it. I love it so much. And I'm like, "You're so pathetic, Edan. No one important in the world ever does this." But it's not true because I've talked to a lot of people and they're the exact same way. So I think that it's just something about being human. ….
Actually, today is the first day off from all my twitter, Facebook, tumblr-ness. And I do feel like I'm in a little bit of a mourning period where I'm like, "Oh, I'd like to talk about that." I went to the mall today and I was like, "Oh there's so many things here I could synthesize into some pithy post for tumblr. And now I can't." But I can talk about [the mall] at a party.
It's interesting that even though I had been off the internet, I wrote that essay. And as soon as it went up I was hungry to see what people were going to say about it. There's a part of me — I'm one in a big family and we're all huge attention whores – so maybe it's that: I'm like, "Everybody look at me! Dad you're not watching!" So, it wasn't like I was cured of my self-consciousness or my desire to be watched.
I also wanted to ask you about "No Boys Allowed," another piece you wrote for The Millions about going to a women-only book club that was discussing Jonathan Franzen's Freedom.
There are pieces [I write that] are straight-up serious, mostly profiles and book reviews, but there are other essays that I like to write purely to entertain, to talk about what communities of readers are like. People talk about how important the discourse is, but when you talk about a book with a friend in a casual environment it devolves into all kinds of things. And I like to capture that. …. I do find I like to approach some things in the literary community with a grain of salt, tongue-in-cheek. ….
We had such a fascinating discussion about the Franzen novel. It was interesting: there were a lot of non-writers in the group, people who didn't read very much. So they weren't very clued in on what they were supposed to think about Freedom or Jonathan Franzen. Everybody knew who he was, but they didn't come at like, "Oh, I'm supposed to love this book, it's going to be a masterpiece," or "He's an asshole. I don't like him." So I felt like we got a pretty unadulterated set of reactions to the novel.
I was interested in how we immediately talked more about the characters as if they were real people and less about the noise surrounding Franzen or the formal elements. I just don't talk about books in that way. I think that the way book clubs function – to talk about characters as if they're real people – is really fun and it's often discounted. You never do that in English class and if you do, it's a bad English class. [laughs] I like to read about form and structure and I do that in my creative writing classes when I teach. …. It's a totally different conversation than I'm used to surrounding a book. But the most fun part of the book club was when we didn't talk about the book at all. [laughs]
As someone who holds an MFA what do you think about the MFA/NYC debate that briefly took hold this winter?
I'm pretty diplomatic about this debate. I have an MFA, so I get a little peeved when people without MFAs start to talk shit about people with MFAs or start to make certain generalizations about what MFA programs are like because they all seem very different to me. I went to Iowa [and I think] people have a lot of perceptions about that program which don't match what my experience was like. I don't think one has to go to an MFA program or doesn't have to. I feel like whatever floats your boat you should do. I don't think there's anything wrong with getting the time to write. I think that's such a beautiful privilege and that should be valued – or at least should be recognized as a value.
I don't teach at an MFA program. I teach at UCLA extension and I teach private classes at my house. I teach a lot of people who have yet to do the MFA thing, either because of their career or because they're opposed to it for whatever reason or they're thinking about going to an MFA program in the future. I find my classes ask of my students what my MFA program asked of me: a serious commitment to your own writing, to turning in your writing on a regular basis, and discourse with fellow writers. So I feel like you can get that experience outside of an MFA community, but my experience was positive and I wrote a lot and I learned a lot and I didn't think that everyone wrote the same way or that we were taught certain quote unquote rules that made us into automatons.
My one piece of advice to students who ask about getting an MFA is only go for free. Or only go for a small amount of money because it's not a lucrative career and it's really hard to even find a teaching job and it's really hard to publish books and even if you do publish a book you might not – probably not – make any money off it. So it's not worth going into debt for. That usually stuns them. They think that they can't go to an MFA program unless they shell out $40,000 or whatever it is. Usually the top-rated program have great financial aid, and that's not to be discounted. I also think that often that's why the argument bothers me: people say that MFAs are for rich people and blah blah blah blah blah. I went for free to my MFA program and I got great teaching experience. I also feel like why do people have an opinion and it's so strict. To each writer their own is what I say. [laughs]


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This accelerating rhythm continued until 1961. On Sunday, August 6, 1961, the usual worship service was held in the First Methodist Church sanctuary. It was the last service held in the 1894 church. On the night of August 10, 1961, the church building was entirely destroyed by fire. Yet faith was not dead. Phoenix-like, it stirred even that day.
Members organized searches of the ashes and debris. They discovered the safe, which had fallen into the basement. The records inside the safe were scorched around the edges, but essentially intact.
Homer Ludington searched through the debris until he unearthed a pair of bronze urns and Paul Driscoll, the custodian, found the 1877 church bell, cleaned it, and after nearly 100 years of service, it sits at the front entrance of our present church.
The Ecumenical and surrounding community organizations pitched in as well. Immaculate Conception offered to print our bulletins the next Sunday. Many churches offered facilities, as did the Chamber of Commerce and the Polish Home. The Polish Home facilities were used for our worship services for the next three years, while weekday activities were held in other churches.
The church office was set up in the former Singer Sewing Machine Store at 72 South First Street. A new parsonage was purchased at 91 Baldwin Road. Wesley Choir rehearsed at the Baptist Church, as did the Cherub Choir. The Women's Society met in the Minetto Methodist Church. The Adult Choir rehearsed at the State Street Church. Senior Youth Fellowship met in private homes, and congregational meetings to plan the Building Fund Canvass were held at the Presbyterian Church.
The Building and Site Committee recommended the ground south on Route 48 overlooking the Oswego River and in 1962 the site was approved. The following guidelines were paramount in considering the style and design of the new church:
1. The church must be functional in every respect.
2. First consideration shall be given to the youth of the church in considering overall requirements.
3. The church plan must look like a church in order to provide the proper religious atmosphere and feeling of reverence from both outside the church and within.
Groundbreaking ceremonies were held June 16, 1963, the cornerstone laying service followed on November 3, and the final step came on October 25, 1964, with a Service of Consecration held in the newly completed First Methodist Church of Fulton.
First United Methodist Church and the Christian Missionary Alliance made a historic exchange of buildings, and on September 14, 1986, this congregation moved to its present home on Curtis Street in Fulton. A Service of Dedication was held on November 23, 1986.
Throughout the years, for most of those attending, the corporate fellowship was probably more important than the changes in architecture and location of the places of worship. Certainly Rev. James B. Burwell, pastor from 1964-68 expressed this succinctly in his sermon of the day on "What is the Church?" by saying that, despite the changes in site, location, type of architecture, the church itself lives on, and will live on and outlast even those who believe in the vital pace of the church in the changing storms of life, and that are privileged to play a part in the ongoing mission of the church.
Our Present Day Church

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> This Side of Paradise (2nd edition)
This Side of Paradise (2nd edition) [oxford-008317]
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'the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts' The greatest 'state of the nation' novel in English, Middlemarch addresses ordinary life at a moment of great social change, in the years leading to the Reform Act of 1832. Through her portrait of a Midlands town, George Eliot addresses gender relations and class, self-knowledge and self-delusion, community and individualism. Eliot follows the fortunes of the town's central characters as they find, lose, and rediscover ideals and vocations in the world. Through its psychologically rich portraits, the novel contains some of the great characters of literature, including the idealistic but naive Dorothea Brooke, beautiful and egotistical Rosamund Vincy, the dry scholar Edward Casaubon, the wise and grounded Mary Garth, and the brilliant but proud Dr Lydgate. In its whole view of a society, the novel offers enduring insight into the pains and pleasures of life with others, and explores nearly every subject of concern to modern life:. art, religion, science, politics, self, society, and, above all, human relationships. This edition uses the definitive Clarendon text.


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Editorial: Wind energy worth the investment
The Capital-Journal
Gov. Sam Brownback's enthusiasm for renewal of a federal production tax credit for wind energy isn't shared by all members of Kansas' congressional delegation.
The situation presents an unusual and unfortunate dichotomy. Usually, when something is deemed beneficial to the state, the governor and the congressional delegation present a united front, even when all the players aren't of the same political party.
The example of our elected leaders working together to get Kansas selected as the site for a new National Bio- and Agro-Defense Facility comes readily to mind.
Extending the production tax credit for wind energy development, however, doesn't enjoy the same support.
Brownback and the governors of Iowa, Colorado and Oregon, members of a 28-state wind energy coalition, have urged Congress to act immediately to extend the tax credit.
Congressmen Tim Huelskamp and Mike Pompeo are critics of the tax credit and don't support extending it. They should.
The Kansas economy will lose private-sector jobs and private investment if the production tax credit is allowed to fall by the wayside. The state's citizens and its other elected officials should support Brownback's attempts to forestall such events.
Brownback has noted the wind energy industry, in an attempt to beat the tax credit's pending expiration date, invested nearly $3 billion in Kansas wind power this year and installed enough wind turbines to double the state's generation of wind energy.
Without the production tax credit, Brownback said, there will be no new wind operation next year.
It should be noted that championing the tax credit is in line with state legislation the governor has supported to encourage more investment and job creation by the private sector. He isn't stepping out of his comfort zone by asking the federal government to extend the tax credit.
Huelskamp and Pompeo also are staying true to their positions in opposing an extension, but the governor is the one on the right track.
Huelskamp says the wind industry's prosperity shouldn't depend on the tax credit. Pompeo, who helped organize opposition to the wind tax credits, says the election results emboldened opponents to stand firm. During the campaign, he said, consumers weren't demanding higher electricity bills.
Perhaps not, but the recent election wasn't about the production tax credit any more than it was about the price of fish bait.
Granted, wind energy is expensive to produce and isn't economically viable without the tax credit at this time. But that doesn't mean it won't be economically viable at some point.
Oil and gas are economically viable, but they still enjoy special exemptions and tax breaks, which those industries guard zealously. Picking on the wind energy tax production credit seems a lot like beating the new kid on the block.
Brownback realizes that new kid on the block has potential and can play a role in growing the state's economy.
He and other members of the 28-state wind energy coalition should keep pushing.


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Q: Was Half Life 1 inspired by HP Lovecraft's "Fungi from Yuggoth"? The similarities aren't stark, but they remind me about each other so much.

Yuggoth... is a strange dark orb at the very rim of our solar
  system... There are mighty cities on Yuggoth—great tiers of terraced
  towers built of black stone... The sun shines there no brighter than a
  star, but the beings need no light. They have other subtler senses,
  and put no windows in their great houses and temples... The black
  rivers of pitch that flow under those mysterious cyclopean
  bridges—things built by some elder race extinct and forgotten before
  the beings came to Yuggoth from the ultimate voids—ought to be enough
  to make any man a Dante or Poe if he can keep sane long enough to tell
  what he has seen... —H. P. Lovecraft, "The Whisperer in Darkness"

Yuggoth and Xen remind of each other so much, just wondered if there was an actual link.

I knew this strange, grey world was not my own,
      But Yuggoth, past the starry void...

A: In a 2010 interview with Marc Laidlaw (a science-fiction writer who worked on Half-Life, its expansions, and Half-Life 2), he agreed that Lovecraft had some influence on the Half-Life series, especially with regards to Lovecraft's philosophy of cosmicism- that is, that mankind is simply a tiny, insignificant blip when compared to the dark mysteries of the universe at large. In one of his responses:

The Lovecraftian influence is buried pretty deep in Half-Life—perhaps you can spot it in the sense we try to create of mankind being a tiny speck in a vast cosmos. The most Lovecraftian passage is probably Dr. Breen's speech at the end of Half-Life 2, when he is trying to entice Eli with glimpses of the wonders he has been shown by the Combine. This sort of teasing view of things beyond imagining is one of Lovecraft's techniques, on display most clearly in "The Whisperer in Darkness."

You can read the interview here.

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JEREMY MCWILLIAMS WINS WILD AMA PRO VANCE & HINES HARLEY-DAVIDSON SERIES RACE ONE
Courtesy of AMA Pro Road Racing
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (August 17, 2013) – Sunday's XR Showdown opener at Indianapolis Motor Speedway provided the expected thrills if not exactly an anticipated result, as a rider from outside the AMA Pro Vance & Hines Harley-Davidson Series championship chase ended the day on top of the podium. 49-year-old Jeremy McWilliams (Harley-Davidson of Bloomington Indiana) won out following a spectacular four-way battle to the checkered flag by a scant 0.039 seconds.
Aerostar Global/Suburban Harley-Davison's Steve Rapp came into the first half of the Red Bull Indianapolis Grand Prix doubleheader as the man to beat, boasting four consecutive race wins and a dominant run to pole on Friday. Rapp slowly eked out a not-insignificant margin by half distance but a three-rider freight train consisting of former GP ace McWilliams, Eco Fuel Saver/Scrubblade's Tyler O'Hara, and PETRONAS/KWR's Hafizh Syahrin reeled him back, setting the stage for a back-and-forth brawl to the stripe.
Once his hopes at making a break from the pack were dashed, Rapp struggled to compete in the one spot on the track where it was most vital — the very long start/finish straight. Rapp would muscle his way back to the front, only to get victimized in the draft as the riders' jockeyed for position.
Rapp was swallowed up heading to the white flag, getting dropped from second to fourth to open the final lap. The Californian managed to slice his way back into first as the riders came back around to the straight for the final time only to get dropped all the way to fourth in the final shuffle for position.
McWilliams, with the familiar competition number 99 on his Harley, managed to just get the better of title hopeful and two-time Indy winner Tyler O'Hara by 0.039 seconds as they overtook Rapp, while Malaysian sensation Syahrin rounded out the podium another 0.090 seconds back. Rapp, who is seeking the first GEICO Motorcycle AMA Pro Road Racing title of his decorated career, ended the day in fourth despite taking the flag just 0.188 seconds behind the winner.
"I was just in the right place at the right time," McWilliams said. "I sort of lost my way a little bit at the beginning and these guys started moving ahead. I thought I better dig in or it wasn't going to work. I just wanted to be in a position at the end to give myself half a chance. Hafizh passed me and at that stage I thought Tyler and Steve were going to get a way. Luckily it came back with the draft and if it wasn't for the draft, I don't think I would have got back on their tails.
"At the end, going into the last lap I was making mistakes, Steve was making mistakes, but I just luckily stayed in front (of O'Hara and Syahrin). Steve got through and if it hadn't been for that I don't think I would have won the race; I drafted him across the line. He didn't get a great pull off the last turn and unfortunately he lost out today.
"We came back here wanting to make amends for 2011; we didn't get a result in 2011 and Bloomington have been so good and put so much effort in to make this happen. The win I have to dedicate to my dealership — they put a perfect bike together. I guess I'm more surprised than anybody to be standing on top."
Runner-up O'Hara said, "It was great and a small win for us. We have a point gap going into tomorrow. It was one of the funnest races I've had, battling with these guys and Steve. Tomorrow's a new day so we'll take some notes and make a couple of changes and try lead the last lap."
Third-placed Syahrin said, "I cannot believe it because it is my first time with Harley-Davidson and the first time at Indianapolis. I came here because I wanted to learn the circuit for the next year in Moto2. I was in fourth on the last lap and thought 'I can't make the podium,' but then I got by Rapp. I enjoyed the race and thanks to the sponsors for supporting me and bringing me here."
Harv's Harley-Davidson's Travis Wyman kept the leading foursome in sight throughout the contest but could never quite factor into the draft and turn the race into a five-way tossup. He clawed his way forward to finish in fifth, 1.089 seconds adrift of race winner McWilliams.
Meanwhile, Happy Trails M/C Connection's Hayden Schultz beat defending champ Michael Barnes and Mob Racing's Shane Narbonne in their three-way scrap for sixth, while Folsom Harley-Davidson's Gage McAllister and Fernet Insurance's Eric Stump rounded out the top ten.
The second half of the XR Showdown doubleheader that will conclude the Red Bull Indianapolis GP weekend is scheduled to get underway at 3:30 p.m. local time on Sunday afternoon. For tickets and more information regarding the event, please visit http://secure.brickyard.com/Tickets/RedBullIndianapolisGP.aspx.
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The new Dining Practice Standards were released in 2011. The Standards have been agreed upon by 12 clinical standard setting organizations and recognized by CMS. A second Task Force has developed a Toolkit of model policies and procedures, brochures for families and residents and other tools to help teams operationalize the Standards such as an Informed Choice form.
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CMS requirements of nursing homes to honor resident choice resident requests and refusals.
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I'm traying to learn the basics of logic programming. I solved some exercises, and now I'm having trouble on creating a function that take two arguments, a list of non empty lists whose elements concatenated together form the second argument.
Now, what I need to know is how to take the return value of that function and compare it with a list (the second argument of the function).
concat([[H],L|T], [H|R]) :- concat([L|T], R).
concat([[H1,H2|T]|LT], [H1|RT]) :- concat([[H2|T]|LT], RT).
The method here to avoid an empty list is to call out two head elements in the recursive clause, and a solitary element list in the base case. This prevents empty sublists from succeeding, as requested in the comments of the original post.
This will be true if Y is the concatenation of list LL and false if it is not. You don't have to "return and compare" (as, for example, in C, you might say, concat(LL) == Y, or concat(LL, X); if (X == Y)...). This is because concat is a relation defined between the two arguments and it determine if the query can be made true by following the stated rules (clauses of the predicate).
concat(X, Y), Y = Z.
Note that, in Prolog, concat(X, Y) == Z is not correct to determine if the result of the predicate is equal to Z because it is not a function that returns a value.


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Closing the Books on My Double-Net Value Portfolio
It was not a great year for this value portfolio, with only 5 stocks in positive territory for the year.
By JONATHAN HELLER
Dec 17, 2018 | 12:00 PM EST
Stocks quotes in this article: FOSL, ESND, NWPX, DGII, UVV, CSS, BGFV, RAIL, GIFI, DRQ, HIBB, GENC, AVT, AVX, AE, HURC, SMCI, BHE, EMKR
Today it's time to close the books on my 2018 Double-Net Value Portfolio, which means that I'll also be rolling out the 2019 vintage very soon. After a great start, it ended up being a very disappointing year for double-nets overall, following last year's solid outperformance.
As always in the several years that I've put this deep-value-tracking portfolio together, qualifiers had to meet some fairly stringent criteria (below), which kept the list to just 20.
Trades at between 1x and 2x net current asset value (current assets less total liabilities)
Minimum market cap $150 million
No development stage pharmaceuticals/biotechs
Since the December 22, 2017 inception, the portfolio is down about 11%, versus -7.2% for the Russell 2000 Index, and -8.7%% for the Russell Micro-cap Index. Long ago, I deemed those indexes as the most appropriate benchmarks for this portfolio, given the sizes of the typical names.
All but five names in the portfolio are in negative territory year to date. Fossil Group (FOSL) is by far the best performer, up about 105%. FOSL, however, has given back much of the gains it had achieved earlier in the year. At one point, it was up 300%, and topped out at $31 in June, before falling to below $16 last Friday.
Essendant (ESND) is up about 40%, the beneficiary of Staples' acquisition of the company for $12.80 a share. Double nets have been fairly fertile ground for takeovers in the past several years, but ESND was the only name in the index acquired this year
The other positives were Northwest Pipe (NWPX) (+25%), Digi International (DGII) (+14%), and Universal Corp (UVV) (+20%). It was all downhill from there.
CSS Industries (CSS) (-60%) was the biggest loser, but retailer Big 5 Sporting Goods (BGFV) (-56%) and FreightCar America (RAIL) (-56%) were not far behind. RAIL has been a major disappointment, and is now a net/net (trading below its net current asset value), with nearly $5 per share in net cash. Markets have all but given up on the name, as revenue continues to slide.
Here's how the balance of the portfolio fared:
--Avnet (AVT) (-1%)
--AVX Corp (AVX) (-10%)
--Adams Resources & Energy (AE) (-10%)
--Hurco (HURC) (-9%)
--Super Micro Computer (SMCI) (-22%)
--Benchmark Electronics (BHE) (-27%)
--EMCOR (EMKR) (-32%)
--Gencor (GENC) (-32%)
--Hibbett Sports (HIBB) (-33%)
--Dril-Quip (DRQ) (-34%)
--Gulf Island Fabrication (GIFI) (-41%)
The early read on the 2019 Double-Net Value Portfolio is that it will include some holdovers from last year, and may have a few more names. Stay tuned.
At the time of publication, Heller was long BGFV and RAIL.
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But all this is not enough for God's tempters! It is not enough for those who neither know what it is to forgive nor to repent. They do not know how God's mercy overcomes our way of thinking. Nor do they know how deep are the wounds of Christ for mankind. They would like for God to mingle the Kingdom of eternal light with darkness and for there to be a mixture of good and evil in heaven as on earth. They would like for Cain and Judas and all the fratricides, all the godless, all the bloodthirsty, debauchers, lascivious, mockers of sanctity, ridiculers of God - everybody, all the unrepentant evildoers to stand at the right hand of Christ at the last Judgement, together with the Saints, martyrs and the righteous, and for no one to be on the left side! Is that justice? Is it just to give the same wages to those who worked all day? Is it mercy to mix light with darkness, truth with lies, wheat with chaff?


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Apple putting a medical spin on the iWatch?
By Alex Todd
Rumours of Apple's forthcoming smart watch continue to swell as the company hires medical professional Michael O'Reilly.
This time last year Bloomberg informed us that Apple was 'beyond the experimentation phase in its development' of a smart watch of its own, but if that's the case, shouldn't it be here by now?
Apple's production line is certainly large, spanning multiple continents and companies, yet we've seen little in the way of spy shots or other more tangible leaks from a system that has previous granted us sneak peaks at the Cupertino-based company's unannounced wares.
Whilst Apple is yet to confirm the existence of a near-finished smart watch product, it's possible that the mysterious wearable, nicknamed the iWatch, will have a medical focus, potentially being able to read a user's pulse or integrate biometric sensors of some kind.
MacRumours reports that former Chief Medical Officer of the Masimo Corporation, Michael O'Reilly has been hired by Apple with possibility of lending his expertise to the iWatch project. O'Reilly previously helped create the iSpO2 Pulse Oximeter, a pulse oximetry device which could provide information from the wearer to a connection iOS device via the dedicated iSpO2 app.
O'Reilly also isn't the first hire by Apple in recent months with a medical background, the tech giant having picked other experts in the field of medical sensor technology.
Perhaps the fingerprint scanner was just the start, and when the illusive iWatch does materialise it'll change the way we track our activity throughout the day, just as the iPhone changed the way we look at smartphones.
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Fairy Boy, The
Play recording: Fairy Boy, The
https://www.joeheaney.org/00-micil/meáin/fairy-boy-the.mp3
Teideal (Title): Fairy Boy, The.
Uimhir Roud (Roud Number): 9293.
Catagóir (Category): lore; song.
Ainm an té a thóg (Name of Collector): Lucy Simpson.
Suíomh an taifeadta (Recording Location): Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, New York, United States of America.
Anyway, this song — The Fairy Boy — there's a… myth — and indeed, that's how many years ago, people believed it, and some of them still believe it — that if a young child gets drowned in a well, in a spring well — especially a spring well, that's where the water comes out of the rock — that the fairies have something to do with that particular drowing. That they — What they do, is they take the child, and put the body of the child into somebody old, and put somebody old in the form of a child, and put them in the well, so that they'll be taken out an buried. And that means that the body they've taken goes into one of their own, who's getting old, and they can live another lifetime. Well, this mother discovers a baby drowned in the well, and she believes that the fairy king — The rath… where the fairies supposed to live was beside the house and she went to the rath, pleading with the fairy king to let her boy come. But she knew he didn't die accidentally. She knew it was sort of… They, they planted him in the well and… took his body away. The Celts had the same belief, that if… somebody died, they went the Isle of… Hy-Brasail and was reincarnated after a hundred years, and came back again into this world. But any[way], here goes.
A mother came while stars were paling, wailing round a lonely spring
Thus she cried, as tears were falling, calling on the fairy king.
Why would spoil a mother's treasure, courting him with fairy joy?
Why destroy a mother's blessing? Whyfore steal my baby boy?
[hums]
O'er the mountains, through the wild wood, where in childhood he longed to play
Where the flowers are freshly springing, there I wander day by day.
There I wander, growing fonder of the child that made my joy
And the echoes while recalling — please restore my baby boy.
But in vain my plaintive calling; tears are falling all in vain
He now sports with fairy treasure — he's the pleasure of their train.
So fare thee well, my child forever! In this world I've lost my joy
In the next we ne'er shall sever! There I'll find my baby boy.
Joe tells Lucy that he learned this song from the same old woman from whom he learned I Wish I Had Someone to Love Me. On other occasions he tells her that this old woman was his grandmother, who lived in their house while he was growing up. He goes on: "That's why I love women singers, because they can do more justice to an awful lot of songs than men can, you know. They can put more feeling into them. That's why I love to hear lots of women singing, you know, anywhere I go."
The air is the same one used for Anach Cuain. The practice of humming, or crónán, is associated with private lamentation. See also the lullabies Joe sang in Irish for more examples.
A number of Joe's songs and stories relate to the widespread belief in people being stolen by the fairies. See The Changeling, Lore About Changelings, Tháinig Bean Cois Leasa, The Fairy Greyhound, The Woman Who Came Back from the Dead, Why Children are Stolen by the Fairies, and the lullabies Seoithín, Seo-hó and Dún do Shúil.
D. L. Ashliman, in A Guide to Folktales in the English Language (Greenwood Press, New York, Westport CT, London, 1987, p. 104.), has added a new classification to the Aarne-Thompson index, and gives the following description:
504 Changeling. While working in a field, a mother left her newly born child on a stack of hay. When she came back, she knew that the baby lying there was not hers, for it greedily sucked her milk and made inhuman noises. The landowner told her to beat the child with a switch, and she would witness a miracle. She did this, and the devil took his child back, returning the stolen baby.
Ashliman indicates that versions of this story appear in W. B. Yeats, Fairy and Folk Tales of Ireland, pp. 48 and 51; also in Henry Glassie, Irish Folktales, No. 62.
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Doug Jones calls in backup in final campaign push
By Melissa BrownMontgomery Advertiser (TNS)
After weeks of local campaigning, Doug Jones called in national backup for the final push of his U.S. Senate campaign.
Jones, a Democrat, appeared alongside New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker and former Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick at Saturday campaign events in Selma and Montgomery. Booker was slated to rally for Jones again at a Sunday event in Birmingham.
The group, along with U.S. Rep. Terri Sewell, concentrated a Black Belt blitz on issues like rural health care and workforce development, hitting hard on the importance of voter turnout at the polls on Tuesday.
"Some people don't understand: the opposite of justice is not injustice," Booker told the crowd at a rally at Alabama State University. "It is inaction and indifference. ... Democracy is not a spectator sport. You can't sit on the sideline, just rooting for your team."
Jones nabbed former Vice President Joe Biden for a joint appearance in Birmingham in early October, but has otherwise demurred from appearances with high profile Democrats associated with the national party.
But amid concerns about African-American turnout, Rep. Terri Sewell mobilized colleagues from the largely Democratic Congressional Black Caucus to throw their support behind Jones.
"At this point we really, really just need to put as much spotlight on the importance of this election to African-American communities, to Alabama at large,'' she said. "I think that bringing in some our nationally known activists on those areas and those who have connections to Alabama will be a good thing.''
Voter turnout would be key in a Jones victory, Sewell said Saturday, and encouraged the crowd to help a family member or friend get to the polls in addition to voting themselves.
"We deserve to have a senator whose character and integrity and veracity is not questioned on day one," Sewell said. "I need a partner in Washington, and I know that Cory [Booker] needs a partner in the U.S. Senate."
Some have advised Jones to keep the campaign local to contrast his Republican opponent Roy Moore, whose campaign has invited surrogates like President Donald Trump, who stumped for Moore in Pensacola, Florida, on Friday, and Steven Bannon.
Jones himself derided Bannon's involvement last week, telling a Huntsville crowd, "This is not Steve Bannon's state. This is our state."
But Selma Mayor Darrio Melton, who spent the morning with Patrick and Jones at Brown Chapel A.M.E. church, said national politicians active in civil and voting rights issues are honorary Alabamians.
"What transpired in Selma gave us true democracy," Melton said. "So when you look at the sons and daughters from other states, they are part of Selma. They are part of Alabama. They aren't from the outside, they're coming back home. If it weren't for Alabama, these men and women wouldn't be serving in the capacity that they're currently serving."
Derryn Moten, chairman of the History and Political Science Department at the Alabama State University, said last week Jones couldn't afford not to make the last-ditch effort for millennials and black voters. He said Jones needs to step up his outreach outside the urban centers of the state.
"People need to see this candidate. They need to listen to him,'' said Moten. "They need to take his pulse ...They need to feel as if he's sincere. They need to know that he's going to be different than Jefferson Beauregard Sessions.''
Moten said while Jones' role in the prosecution of two men in the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham matters, "that may not get somebody out to vote for him.''
Voters at both Selma and Montgomery events said the surrogate appearances could only reap rewards for Jones, building momentum to encourage turnout of African-American and millennial voters.
"I feel like the world is watching Alabama, yet again," Christen Gillis, 32, said in Montgomery Saturday. "We can get it right. We just have to hang in there and fight. Hard. "
Jones traveled north Saturday night to a Get Out the Vote concert with acclaimed band St. Paul and the Broken Bones in Birmingham. A second concert, hosted by Jason Isbell, was held in Huntsville.
Jones' final push on the campaign trail stands in sharp relief to Moore, who hasn't made a public appearance since Tuesday. As of Saturday night, Moore's campaign had one event scheduled before polls open Tuesday.
"He's kind of like the groundhog," Jones said Saturday. "He comes out every so often to see whether or not he can see his shadow. Let me tell you, we're out here. We're getting people motivated and getting people out to vote."
USA Today reporter Deborah Berry and Montgomery Advertiser reporter Brian Lyman contributed to this report.


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Celebrating Guyana's 50th Anniversary of Independence
By Guyanese Girl May 23, 2016
On Friday, May 26th, 2016, Guyana will celebrate it's 50th Anniversary of Independence. Guyana achieved its independence on May 26th, 1966 and thousands of Guyanese living all around the world have traveled home to take part in the festivities which includes a series of activities titled "Guyana Jubilee". Anniversary events are also planned for various locations in US, Canada, UK and a few Caribbean Islands.
Please join us a we wish our beloved Nation a Happy 50th Independence Anniversary. One People One, Nation One, One Destiny!
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Overhyping a Milestone
It wouldn't be the comics industry if we didn't make a big deal out of every numbering milestone.
That said, today marks the 100th issue of Gutters.
While I'm very proud of what my guys accomplished, I view the first 100 pages as a prelude of things to come. We're just getting started, folks, and I hope you'll join us for the next 1000 issues and beyond.
When deciding what to do for the big 1-0-0, there was never any doubt that we should parody one of the most famous covers in comic book history. There was also only one man who we wanted for this job.
Today's historic (this is me overhyping) page was done by one of the most genuine men in comics, Darick Robertson:
Darick W. Robertson is an American artist best known for his work as a comic book illustrator. Highly prolific, Robertson has illustrated hundreds of comics in his twenty plus years in the industry. His body of work ranges from science fiction characters of his own creation to headlining on renowned classic characters from Marvel and DC Comics. Robertson is best known as the co-creator and illustrator of the biting satires Transmetropolitan and The Boys.
And that announcement I mentioned earlier this week?
We are pleased to announce that our first collected print edition, The Absolute Ultimate Gutters Omnibus Volume 1 will be going up for sale in early March (an exact date to follow).
The book is an 128 page hardcover with a cover by the aforementioned Darick Robertson and a foreword by Deadpool writer Daniel Way. The book has plenty of extra behind the scenes looks at the creation of Gutters and I think you'll be blown away.
Should you be curious to take a look at the cover, all you need to do is head on over to our Facebook page.
I did also want to take a moment to thank all of you for your continued support and for making Gutters what it is. We're also extremely grateful and hope to continue entertaining you while poking fun at an industry we love deeply.
That's it for this week, folks, we'll see you on Monday.
-sohmer
Comic Artist: Darick Robertson
Characters: Action Comics, Superman
Tags: DC, Ed, Gutters 100, Milestone, Rus, Sohmer
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