After fastball phenom Prospero Stark's baseball career craters in a Mexican jail, he retreats to a trailer park in the scorching Arizona desert. He lives in peaceful anonymity with a collection of colorful outcasts until someone leaves his former catcher's severed hand on his doorstep. Beautiful, hard-living reporter Roxanne Santa Cruz, who keeps a .380 Colt and a bottle of Chivas in her car, joins Stark to help him uncover his friend's fate, a dangerous pursuit that pits them against a ruthless gang of drug-dealing killers.
DOUBLE WIDE is a rollicking page-turner. As twisted and bumpy as a desert road at night. Leo Banks crafts a fast-paced tale filled with colorful characters. He displays an excellent ear for bitter, cynical dialog and an unsparing eye for desperate characters running on empty. Read it!
Phoef Sutton, New York Times bestselling author (Wicked Charms, Curious Minds) and Emmy-award winning TV writer (Cheers, Boston Legal).
DOUBLE WIDE is a fast-driving thriller. Dusty and wicked and satisfying.
Banks' strong noir debut will remind many of early Joe Lansdale. Smart dialogue helps propel the tight plot.
It's tough not to appreciate a madcap crime novel that incorporates drug smuggling, homicide, baseball, Shakespeare, and wayward body parts into its tumbling plot. Especially when the story also boasts keen and comical observations on life, a roadrunner pace, and a hardy but humane protagonist. Double Wide is single-minded entertainment of a subversively literary sort. More, please!
Perfect reading for a coast to coast flight.
Put it high on your list as an entertaining fictional account steeped in Arizona familiarity.
Featuring a gaudy cast of characters, this farcical drama goes the distance against the backdrop of Corbett Field and the mean streets of Tucson.
Banks is an award-winning local journalist and on top of his game in his debut novel.
Double Wide is a slam-bang, fast-moving treat. I suspect we haven't read the last of Whip Stark.
A crime fiction author to watch. Banks amazingly pulls all the diverse and seemingly unrelated plot elements together. This is due mostly to Stark's laconic and softly sarcastic first-person narration. Banks's descriptions are wonderfully evocative, and frequently contrasted with the ugliness of the Arizona cities just outside of the desert. The setting and characters, along with the inventive plot, make DOUBLE WIDE well worth your time.
A sizzling debut novel. Banks succeeds in emulating the classics—much to our delight. More, please.
It is hard to believe that this is Banks' debut novel. Blending together the drug cartel, baseball, and an abandoned gold mine allows for a fun crime plot. The colorful characters have great banter between them, often showing their cynicism of the world.
Banks writes skillfully and with deep love for the Arizona desert and his characters. He knows the worlds of the desert women, men and kids who live under the radar of entitled society—and he writes that world without sentimentalism or judgment. He writes about alcoholism and addiction with near-surgical understanding—and kindness. He writes about professional baseball with the same merciless grace. Leo Banks devotes as much of his craft and deep perception to the setting of "Double Wide" as he does to his plot and people.


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Rachel Bloom to Work in Front, Behind Camera in Pop TV Pilot
Rachel Bloom (Source:Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)
Pop TV has ordered a comedy pilot focused on the most irresponsible and lazy person getting impregnated by immaculate conception.
"Mother Mary" co-stars Rachel Bloom, who won a Golden Globe for "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend," which ended last spring after four seasons. She plays the mother of the Antichrist.
Bloom also serves as an executive producer along with her husband, Dan Gregor, who is a writer on the pilot. The couple is expecting their first child.
Betsy Sodaro, who developed the character, stars as a reimagined version of Mary in the pilot that will shoot in February. Sodaro also works as a writer and an executive producer.
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Interrogation Casts Vincent D'Onofrio in Recurring Role
By Christian Long
Vincent D'Onofrio has joined the cast of Interrogation. Deadline reports that the CBS All Access procedural will feature the Law & Order: Criminal Intent actor as an Internal Affairs officer whose allegiances shift over the course of the series, even calling his faith in the criminal justice system into question.
He'll join series star Kyle Gallner, along with Peter Sarsgaard, Kodi Smit-McPhee, David Strathairn and Frank Whaley.
The show was co-created by Swedish writer-producer Anders Weidemann and John Mankiewicz, Interrogation is a new concept based on a true story that spanned more than 30 years. The show will follow a young man (Gallner) who was charged and convicted of the brutal murder of his mother. After being sentenced to life in prison, he spends the next two decades fighting to prove his innocence.
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What sets Interrogation apart is that the episodes are made to be watched in any order. With all the episodes on the CBS All Access streaming platform, the audience can jump back and forth in time while they witness this man's story unfold in multiple timelines. Gallner will portray his character at all phases of his life.
Each episode of the series will be structured around an interrogation taken directly from the real police case files, which will turn the viewer into a detective, so to speak. Given the radical new structure, CBS All Access will release the first nine episodes of the series to watch in any order, with only the conclusive season finale to be released at a later date.
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A real novelty both in shape and colour. Just like 'Eight Ball', this produces round fruits that are best eaten when they reach cricket ball proportions - only these are a gorgeous golden yellow in colour. The skin of this variety is very thin, the flesh extremely dense and meaty.
Eat these when around the size of a cricket ball or smaller for a lovely fresh flavour.


The query raised in the last line of that horribly maligned takeoff on Lewis Carroll's delightful poem from Through the Looking Glass will not be addressed in this article, but we are partially informed as to the meaning of the other magic words alluded to by a recent Elon Musk tweet-fest. Of course, the really big news from those sweet tweets — all-wheel drive(AWD), a performance version, white interior, so forth and such as — have been covered here already and in "the forums." All that is fine and well, but for those who love to peak under the hood at the Model 3 powertrain, I can hopefully enlighten you a bit.
Those tantalizing tweets told us two things. Elon revealed a bit about the Model 3's motors; both the current rear wheel drive (RWD) motor as well as the pending front wheel drive motor that will transform the 3 into an all wheel drive juggernaut. And, Mr. Musk leaked about a new technology transistor being employed in the inverter; the all-important device that turns the direct current (DC) from the battery into the pulsing magnetic field capable alternating current (AC) which spins the rotor.
Let's see what we can extrapolate from those statements. First, it has been speculated by some that the Model 3's rear-wheel drive motor — which was acknowledged by Tesla's Chief Motor Designer Konstantinos Laskaris to be a permanent magnet (PM) motor — was in fact a derivative of a traditional PM machine, or more specifically that the motor was based on an 1838 design termed a reluctance machine. In March, I wrote a speculative piece that rounded up the best arguments others have put forward to suggest there was good reason for Tesla to jump ship on its namesake induction motor and outfit the affordable Model 3 with a far less expensive (to produce) reluctance motor. As of now, that speculation has proven correct. We have it from an unimpeachable source — Elon said so.
So there it is. We now know everything there is to know about the RWD motor in the Model 3, right?
Hmm, not exactly. The phrase "partial permanent magnet [motor]" is a rather generic description that fails to inform the really serious motorheads among us as to whether Tesla has employed a now tried and true reluctance/PM hybrid design (perhaps with a generous portion of Tesla Engineering secret sauce) … or if the company has broken fresh ground by relocating where the magnets augmenting the reluctance forces reside in the motor. To many, the location of the PMs is mere nuance, but there may be a question of significantly improved performance when the location of the PMs is optimized.
Recall that the long abandoned reluctance design was revived thanks to the revolution of modern electronics, and motors based on the reluctance machine have found their way into hybrid, plug-in hybrid (PHEV), and pure battery electric vehicles (BEV). It is only recently that I learned what an astonishing array of automakers employ this hybrid reluctance motor design (special thanks to Model 3 Owners Club top contributor Karen Rei for enlightening me on this topic). EV makers such as Ford, Toyota, Honda, GM, BMW, Lexus, and Nissan have employed a version of the reluctance machine classified as the Internal Permanent Magnet (IPM) motor, with the magnets acting to augment the reluctance torque of the motor.
The key word here is internal. Unlike a traditional PM motor, where larger permanent magnets are attached to the surface of the rotor, IPM motors have smaller PMs embedded beneath the surface of the rotor. The below collage of IPM rotors showcase the chevron-shaped reliefs where the magnets are inserted.
Of course, based on Mr. Musk's tweet, we don't know if the Model 3's rear motor uses that Internal Permanent Magnet Switched Reluctance Motor (IPM-SRM) or if it instead employs the ground-breaking Permanent Magnet Switched Reluctance Motor (PM-SRM), the latter of which is the product of recent research whereby the PMs are embedded not in the rotor but in the stator (which again was a point of discussion in my last article on the Tesla Model 3 motor). At the time of Elon's tweet, none of the four publicly acknowledged Model 3 teardowns to date had shown the motor in close enough detail to answer this continuing question.
However, that has now changed. We motorheads have subsequently been given a break this past week. It started with the video and photos from the well publicized Munro & Associates teardown of a Model 3. There is a video of Sandy Munro discussing the teardown on Autoline, and Motor Trend later published a slideshow gallery of the teardown. The initial set of photos gave us a look at what may be the first external view of the Model 3 motor.
Take a look at the below Motor Trend snapshot of one of the display tables. There's a small motor laying on that table. From the scale of the surrounding items, I'm guessing it is 4″ to 6″ in diameter. Next to that motor is a ring gear labeled "Tesla Model 3" … "Ring Gear Differential." Those parts would be driven by the traction motor.
So, at first, the question was: Is this the traction motor from the Model 3? Followed by: If so, where are the protruding stator windings? Where are the three fat power cables?
Then I started thinking that perhaps it was just the rotor we were looking at. Maybe the stator was laying elsewhere out of frame? One item supporting the notion of this part being just the rotor is the mark on the outer edge of the front flange. See that little round indentation at the top? That's a drill mark. Drilling away a small amount of material is how such parts are balanced so that they spin evenly. That part spins! But the surface of that supposed rotor is a bit uneven. Could that part spin as well? For all one can tell from this photo, it may be that the shaft and the end flanges spin inside the fixed "can" surrounding the rotor.
Clearly, both theories had their issues, yet for reference, the Chevy Bolt motor is listed at only 8″ in diameter, so it is within the realm of possibility we are looking some part of at the Model 3 traction motor in the photo.
To help solve the motor riddle, I decided to contact Sandy Munro directly. It turns out Mr. Munro is quite the gentleman. He was kind enough to provide me with the below photo of a complete Model 3 motor. Whoo-hoo! Now we're getting somewhere!
That was just the rotor in that preliminary set of photos.
Then lightning hit. I asked Mr. Munro a bit about the ongoing IPM-SRM vs PM-SRM theory. He in turn provided me with the next photograph. What does that shot tell us? Well, based upon my recent education as to what an IPM-SRM motor looks like, this device certainly conforms to the profile of an Internal Permanent Magnet Switched Reluctance Motor. In fact, you can literally see the rare earth magnets at the end of the rotor.
OK, so now for sure we know all about the Model 3 motor, right? Maybe we do. Maybe we don't. Yes, we now have a more complete view of the motor components, and certainly the motor has ISM attributes. But until an EV motor engineer confirms something along the lines of — "Nothing more to see here, move along now." — perhaps we shouldn't be too quick to set our perceptions in concrete. I, for one, would like to see a full teardown of that stator, or at least run a magnet around its interior and see if it wants to stick to anything (copper is conductive but not strongly magnetic). But for now, let's rest our case.
Why not? We may be dealing with a best-of-all-worlds scenario. Each of the two motor designs has its pluses and minuses. With one of each design powering the car, the computer can choose the "best man for the job" at various speeds and varying torque requirements. I'm not going to go through whole big comparison scenario of the two designs, though. It's easy to google the differences — and, frankly, lists of attributes vary from site to site and even conflict with one another at times. Plus, there is what I would term "design nuance," where proprietary engineering enhancements made by Tesla may nullify what we read about regarding the generic design of these machines.
The one downside that is worth noting with the induction machine is that it incurs more "rotor losses" than the reluctance machine. Losses simply mean inefficiencies that result in heat. The copper rotor of a Tesla induction motor gets hot. Now as to how Tesla has addressed rotor loss for the induction motor it is planting in that front cavity of the Model 3, we can't say as yet. The company may or may not be using an off-the-shelf Model S/X motor. We just don't know. I will say I've been noting repeated signs that Elon Musk is dead serious about his "million mile powertrain" goal with the 3, so it will be interesting to see how Tesla will be keeping the AWD motor in the Model 3 temperature stable.
One of Elon's tweets gave us a small detail as to why the Model 3 inverters might be new tech. All he teased was "Silicon Carbide inverters in both." What exactly does that mean? Not sure. I'm not an electrical engineer, nor a chemist. I got kicked out of high school chemistry lab for trying to make something that behaved like Fizzies on steroids. Nonetheless, I poked around a bit and am happy to share what I stumbled upon.
Silicon carbide is a compound of silicon and carbon with the abbreviation SiC. It is a semi-conductor with a crystalline structure, just as silicon is. The Wiki page for Carborundum lists an astonishing array of applications from lightning arresters to Quantum physics. Interestingly, silicon carbide is an ingredient in some advanced ceramic coatings used to protect the paint on a car.
Silicon carbide is also known as carborundum. I can't help but smile at the fact that the first four letters of carborundum match that of the word carburetor — a simile I'm sure was not lost on CARB (California Air Resources Board). The pair of terms sort of bookend the breadth of how far we've come with motor tech. Long before fuel injectors breathed the correct gasoline air/fuel mixture into the infamous internal combustion engine (ICE), the venerable carburetor had the job of metering the mixture clear back to when the ICE was perfected (circa 1885). Petrol and its metering technologies are now being viewed in the rearview mirror by many. Magnetism, electricity, and electronics have stepped up to enable a cleaner and more efficient way of propelling us down the highways and byways, with the inverter metering the flow of electrons into an electric motor. That's progress for you.
Bingo. The key phrase there may be Insulated-Gate Bipolar Transistors, otherwise known as IGBTs. Those are the babies that meter the power in modern inverters. Now, of course Elon's tweet did not specifically state that the inverter's IGBTs are now based on silicon carbide, but the internet is replete with papers, such as here and here, telling us about SiC-based IGBTs. A nice overview of SiC based devices working their way into the EV world is found in a Power Electronics article. In fact, a 2012 Charged EV piece showcased an inverter/motor combination from Mitsubishi based on SiC IGBTs (and for all we know the Model S and Model X now employ SiC IGBTs as well).
You may be noticing that the SiC IGBT seems to have a history somewhat parallel to the reluctance machine. Both technologies were around for a quite while before refinements in the 21st century evolved them to where they were finally ready for primetime in an electric car.
The small photo above and to the right is simply an off-the-shelf SiC IGBT. The bigger photo above is part of the Model 3 inverter. This assembly is apparently embedded into the motor case in order to live in close proximity to the motor and could very well be sporting an impressive array of IGBT chips. Now we're playing with power!
Note the inverter is labeled inverter/converter. In other words, it's a combo DC-AC inverter and AC-DC converter. I can't resist some additional speculative commentary by postulating what the function of the AC-to-DC converter might be for. We already know what the DC-AC inverter is for, right? Whether an induction or reluctance motor, the electromagnetic field in the stator of all Tesla vehicles is created by 3-phase AC power (three separate legs of high voltage) that switch on and off, thereby creating pulses of electromagnetic energy. That's a natural function of alternating current, and the DC-AC inverter creates that requisite AC power from the battery. But why the AC-DC converter? I suspect that this is for charging the traction battery from regenerative braking. When the wheels spin the motor (as opposed to when the motor spins the wheels), the motor must be creating AC voltage. That voltage has to be converted (rectified) into DC high voltage to charge the traction battery.
For the sake of completeness we should mention that in his recent Model 3 battery teardown video, Jack Rickard of EVTV points out a separate converter which lives in the penthouse residing atop the rear of the battery. Termed the Power Conversion System, this unit does an AC-DC conversion of 120/240 volts AC either from an outlet or from a Level 1/2 EVSE (Electric Vehicle Supply Equipment) device to the high-voltage DC needed to charge the traction battery. The unit also incorporates a DC-DC converter that steps down the traction battery voltage to power the onboard 12 volt systems, as well as charge the 12V battery.
Still with me? What can I say — it's an electric car.
When you add it all up, the earlier German teardown, the Ingineerix walk-through, the Munro teardown, and the Jack Rickard teardown speak volumes. Although it could certainly be argued that the Model 3 is a work in progress, it becomes crystal clear that a world of innovation has gone into producing this very exciting car.
Full disclosure: I am biased. I have a reservation.


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What this simple example tells us is that it is difficult to keep appointing more and more distributors. This is similar to a Ponzi scheme, where for the scheme to keep going more and more newer investors need to keep coming in, so that the older investors whose money is falling due can be paid off. The trouble of course is that that the number of people is not infinite, as the above example shows us.
What I can say about Amway is this. It has been around since 1959, is the only debt-free private company who helps people to have the freedom they want in their lives. YES, ofcourse you have to work for it. If you don't, you don't deserve the benefits it has. God has put us on this earth for a purpose. I haven't found any better option for helping people get their dreams in life and help others to do the same. It's the uneducated and unsuccessful people who have tried to give Amway a bad reputation, but anybody with a brain and common sense know that it's is truly the best, bar none, opportunity to secure your future and others. If it wasn't, it wouldn't be around after all these years and growing in leaps and bounds. Also, this business is not just about the income and lifestyle you can reach. It's about he integrity and the family we have made and have the pleasure of being around.
By the 30th level, the entire population of the earth will be in the system and the last 3 billion people who just entered the system into the 30th level have nobody else to refer. If each member is allowed to refer 6 friends, then the entire world population will be covered by the time it reaches 13th level itself (as illustrated in the chart below). Everybody they try to approach is already a member. The forerunners would have made huge amount of money by now and would go absconding, leading into a fraud.
The problem for Amway distributors (or any other genuine MLM company) entering the game late is that it is difficult for them to sponsor new distributors. It is also difficult for them to sell Amway products given that there are so many distributors already operating in the market and they have selling relationships in place. Also, products sold by MLM companies typically tend to be more expensive than similar products being sold in the open market, making it more difficult to get customers willing to buy.
Amway's health and beauty brands include Artistry, Satinique, Hymm, Body Series, Glister, Moiskin (South America),[40] Nutrilite, Nutriway (Scandinavia and Australia/New Zealand), Attitude (India), eSpring, Atmosphere and iCook as well as XL and XS Energy drinks. Other Amway brands that were discontinued or replaced include Tolsom, Eddie Funkhouser New York, or beautycycle (Eastern Europe).
Scott's own income, he assured us, was "out of control"—and, furthermore, it wasn't built on something as old-fashioned as food. He worked in the cutting-edge field of distribution, where the real money was to be made nowadays. Through his business, he could get thousands of quality goods, many of them brand names, and cut distribution costs by almost a third. The company that organized this system did $6 billion a year in sales (Scott helped us to understand this awesome figure by describing for us the height of a billion-dollar stack of hundred-dollar bills) and was, on top of this, debt free. It might surprise us that this company was Amway![4]
If Engler thought he had anointed a rubber stamp, he quickly learned otherwise. In January 1997, DeVos cleared house, unilaterally firing all of the party's top directors and pausing all contracts with vendors, blaming them for the party's losses months earlier. "Betsy regarded the governor's input as good advice, not an order," Greg McNeilly, a close associate of Betsy DeVos, told an Engler biographer years later. "That's when the problems started."
If your family member or friend asks you to visit an Amway Opportunity Presentation, you should be ready for numerous claims that this company is great for making business and enjoying its products. For you to make an informed decision, you will need to remember an important thing - ask as many questions as you can. For example, ask how much money you will have to invest in products each month. You may need money for seminars, training material, and conferences. Ask for proof to support their claims. Ask how much time you will need to reach a good income level. Ask what specific chance is to making real money. Ask how many people are earning real money. If you feel that they give honest answers, you may start your business too. According to statistics only a few percent of people succeed. Of course, the harder you work, the more you will succeed and the more money you will earn.
Amway's founders also created a cult-like environment within the company and among its distributors. Combining evangelical undertones and self-help motivation, they have managed to sell their idea as much as their actual products. Distributors are strongly encouraged to attend seminars and events that can cost thousands of dollars. Both DeVos and Van Andel are best-selling authors and have inspired copycats across the country.
The more product sales they generate, the more income they can earn. Many also choose to build businesses by sharing the Amway opportunity with others and teaching them how to sell. This can mean greater reach for the product and ultimately higher income because of team sales volume. In short, IBOs make money from the sale of our products – sales that they and the team they support generate.
In the weeks since Donald Trump announced that he would nominate DeVos for secretary of education, Michigan's political circles have been abuzz. As ever, the DeVoses are loved and hated, with little in between. "She is a strong supporter of public education and of quality education for every child," says Engler. "It's horrifying. It's a slap in the face," says Whitmer. "The only people who have anything to worry about are those running failing schools," says Truscott. "It is as if you were to appoint some radical pacifist as secretary of defense," says Jack Lessenberry, a senior political analyst for Michigan Public Radio.
One night, after he had taken me out to dinner (we went Dutch), Josh told me that there was a price list in the back of his car—sealed in an Amway Starter Kit. I could have it right away; I just had to give him the $160 fee to officially join Amway. Uncertain about taking the plunge, I claimed my checking account couldn't cover $160 that week. That was all right, he insisted: I could write a post-dated check that he would hold until I gave the O.K. to deposit it. I still resisted, and he got out of the car with me, opening the hatch to show me the sealed white box within. Eventually, he settled for giving me a book called Being Happy, which he could later retrieve.
When i was 23 years old I was introduced to Amway through mutual friend. I had never heard of the company before that time. I went to school for business, yet was bartending because I couldnt find a job that I was really passionate about. This was of making money was foreign to me, but I have always been open minded. I have now been in business for 9 years. The 1st 5 years I was only making between $4,000-$6,000 a year. It was really me just learning how to better communcate with people and developing myself as an individual( I was extremely intreverted when I got in business). For me, this has been a phenomenal opportunity! I have also realized that many teams under the Amway umbrella do very different techniques, just like not all football teams under the NFL banner are ran the same way. I can honestly say that I have never bought toilet paper online so can't relate to that statement. As far as "loosing a friend". If your "friends" are negative and dont support you, then why would you continue to associate with them? Life is to short to be around people who don't believe in you. I think this is a wonderful opportunity, but obviously not for everyone! "Pyramid schemes" are illegal in the US and companies like Nike, Apple & the NCAA FBS would probably stay away from such thing. (That's just 3 of the hundreds of companies partnered with Amway). Their are bad apples in every bunch, but that doesnt mean all the apples(Amway business owners) are bad. Just someone who is 32 and speaking from personal experience. Hopefully people wont make a decision based off of someone who didnt make it, or even get in business.
From that point forward it became more demanding and more exhausting. Our lives had been taken away. There were Thursday meetings, Saturday events, Sunday night meetings, conferences, etc. We just lost control of it all. And on top of everything else, we were losing money, not gaining money. Finally, in mid-December, I told our mentors we couldn't do it any longer. Their first response was to blame my father who I had mentioned was skeptical (like any normal person would be). They immediately assumed he had forced us to quit when it was honestly our own decision. My dad was supportive. The next day we were cut out of their delusional lives completely. We were de-friended and blocked on social media and never to speak a word to us again.
Year by year, cycle by cycle, the DeVoses built a state Legislature in their own image. By the time Democrat Jennifer Granholm was term-limited in 2010 and Republican Rick Snyder was elected governor without any political experience, it was the DeVoses, not Snyder, who knew how to get things done. Unlike the Engler years, this time, they had more sway than the governor.
The Amway Center makes it easy for families to come out for events, providing a cute play area for younger guests to climb, shoot baskets, and test their memory with STUFF's Magic Castle. There are entertainment areas for older fans too. The Nutralite Magic Fan Experience creates an interactive journey through Magic history, looking at players, big moments, and the history of the franchise.
No one likes doing that. The major problem is that you trying to talk with people who have no interest in what you are offering. You need to learn how to implement an attraction marketing system to ATTRACT the right buyers and business opportunity seekers. These are people that are already currently looking for what you have to offer. So they are more targeted and more likely to join your team or buy products from you.
"The Amway Coaches Poll, powered by USA Today Sports, has for over two decades represented the kickoff of college football," executive director for the AFCA Todd Berry said. "The coaches volunteer to be voting members of the poll, and I know from my personal experience, take great pride weekly in acknowledging their feelings towards that week and how they rank our teams. We appreciate USA TODAY publishing our poll and the credibility that both the USA TODAY and the AFCA bring to the weekly excitement that is college football."
On November 3, 2010, Amway announced that it had agreed to pay $56 million – $34 million in cash and $22 million in products – to settle a class action that had been filed in Federal District Court in California in 2007.[10] The class action, which had been brought against Quixtar and several of its top-level distributors, alleged fraud, racketeering, and that the defendants operated as an illegal pyramid scheme.
Whether there is more emphasis on referrals or sale of products is very debatable. It pretty much depends on the individual IBO involved. In the Amway gathering I went to, the IBO making the presentation stressed the prospect of saving through the "discounted" prices on the hub rather than trying to sell us the idea of making a lot of money. Some IBOs might try to sell you the idea of making a fortune right away. Some are pushy, some are nice people.
People, please don't fall for this. It'll cause problems between you and your spouse if you're not both involved because of the conflict. It's a dream that is promised that will never come true. My wife spent money we didn't have investing in this crap and put us in a hole of debt with nothing to show for it. Did Amway come help her financially? No way. Avoid these companies, trust me, they're only out to get your money or get you to make them money.
The company has a lot of great products, shipping can take up to 5 days, but their guarantee is amazing. Compensation plan is second to none, but YOU NEED TO PUT IN WORK to make it actually work. If you are a go getter or ambitious, this is for you. If you aren't then probably not. Lot's of really great people and NEVER had a weird experience. Just business minded people who are looking to get ahead.
In a breakfast speech to volunteers at Holland Christian Schools on May 12, 1975, Ed Prince warned that lazy and neglectful U.S. citizens were not doing their fair share, forcing the government to, as a Holland Sentinel article described it, "play an increasingly larger role in our daily and personal lives." (You don't have to listen too hard to hear an echo of Ed Prince in his daughter, Betsy. "[For welfare recipients] to sit and be handed money from the government because they think a job like that is beneath them," the heiress sighed to the Detroit Free Press in 1992. "If I had to work on a line in a factory, I would do that before I would stand in line for a welfare check.")
The above analysis is an ideal case. Not everybody can afford to become a member and not everyone who can afford would wish to become a member. So, such schemes collapse by the time it reaches 18th level itself (if each member is allowed to refer 2 friends), or 8th level itself (if each member is allowed to refer 6 friends). i.e It is not a sustainable model and is bound to collapse. Dreams are shattered and friendships are broken.
You will find yourself being sold a whole life policy by a friend who has one or two "brokers" that they work for, and unspoken is that some of the commission goes to this person - it's structured just like amway, the commissions flow up the chain. There's even an old joke built into the movie groundhog-day. "ned the head! Needlenose ned!" People who know people like ned realize that ned was probably very near killing himself before the main character bought a bunch of insurance from him.
I notice only one person has indicated any sort of income ($500/week – WOW!!) – but without stating their expenses. My sister (in Australia) has been involved in this for decades and has made nothing, despite co-opting several others into the fold. I had to quickly learn to ask what she was inviting me to before I accepted any invitations and eventually had to tell her not to ask me to any more Amway things. Then she started on my fiance.
Amway is definitely not a get rich scheme or a pyramid based business. in the past they may have made errors like any company, but its not often that you come across a business that rewards you for your hard work. they are found on great moral principals and beliefs. the founders are marvelous people and the work they have done has brought financial freedom to many families. success in Amway does not come easy but you obtain a lot more than just money. Praise God for Amway and the education system that they have. with all respect to anyone who reads this.
I have no boss. I am president & CEO. I am a real business owner — as in, I own every part of this business. I create the products. I do not peddle toilet paper or hand soap to my friends and family so I can make pennies on their subscription fees. I have to actually think up something new, produce it, market it, and sell it. You want to be paid for performance? Create something yourself, and then see how you do. That's the most honest measure. Can you make six- or seven-figures from your own creativity and grit? We'll never know, you're too busy drinking the Amway kool-aid and patting yourself on the back for being a "business owner" even though you do not own Amway and can't really see you're doing what you hate — making someone else rich — even though it's right in front of you.
Just like 97% of the direct sales and network marketing representatives, I earned now money with Amway. Did I make a sale or two? Yes I did, but I also paid for my product or monthly auto-ship to keep my business center and account active and eligble to earn commissions. So therefore I basically broke even and didn't make an income with Amway Global. I too was blaming the company and was calling it an Amway Scam.
We took photographs of one another inside our dreams: Here I am, a skinny nine-year-old posing proudly next to a kidney-shaped pool. Here's my mother in a pair of khaki shorts and a Hawaiian shirt descending a marble staircase. And my father, two thumbs up, lying on a king-sized canopy bed. We visualized, yes – but then we went one step further and made visual. We stepped inside our dreams, literally.
Here is my experience from amway. (spoiler, not good) I was an IBO and part of a business team for 2 years. went to 6 big conferences and really did my best to sell and share the opportunity. I ended up getting like 5 or 6 people in under me and then some under them. some people quit but I was sold on the dream. after the second year and time to renew I went over how much I spent every month compared to checks received from the company. I was getting anywhere from $40.00 a month to $200.00 but usually under $100.00. after the two years I was thousands in the negative. I thought would I want to get somebody just like me in the business? someone to go to the conferences, buy from themselves. at first I said yes but then I realized I would of sponsored a lot of hard working people and made them go broke. my uplined usually pressured me to drive a long way for meetings, buying stuff. all the events were super late and I was really sleep deprived. all of these are cult techniques. look it up.. do it.. I found that most people who are emeralds and diamonds make way more off the cd's and events than even the amway part. usually if they share income it is there one best month but most the time I find they make crap. I wont go into details but I really didn't want to continue. I went back to finish my degree (which my upline convinced me to quit school!!!) I got my degree. now just 2 years later I have actually doubled my income, met the most beautiful girl, Ukrainian girl with a perfect accent. she too was in amway and quit. I am working in a job in my degree field (server administration) and she actually started her own business. Amway had good business principles but you are much better off to go start a real business not a multi level marketing business in which you do more buying than selling and if you actually do selling you will need to sell a whole crap ton to get any money, in fact you will make more money working part time at mcdonalds than actually just selling amway products and I am guessing that is even if you get 15+ customers. do your research on where the top dogs are making money, then if you are in business yourself please recap your spending vs income and then question did my upline push me away from friends, family, or choices I would of done differently. If you spent the time to read this thank you as I kinda went long, I am so happy now and was only acting happy in amway as they say "fake it until you make it."
This year's report examined how age, gender and education levels impact attitudes towards entrepreneurship. It also examined various aspects that either hinder or help entrepreneurs – internal factors (such as commitment, willingness to take risks, knowledge of how to earn money) and external factors (such as their country's operating environment, technology availability and entrepreneurially forward education system).
Thanks to the DeVoses, Michigan's charter schools enjoy a virtually unregulated existence. Thanks to them, too, the center of the American automotive industry and birthplace of the modern labor movement is now a right-to-work state. They've funded campaigns to elect state legislators, established advocacy organizations to lobby them, buttressed their allies and primaried those they disagree with, spending at least $100 million on political campaigns and causes over the past 20 years. "The DeVos family has been far more successful not having the governor's seat than if they had won it," says Richard Czuba, the owner of the Glengariff Group, a bipartisan polling firm in Michigan. "They have, to some degree, created a shadow state party. And it's been pretty darn effective."


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Once again we found ourselves visiting the river front in Port Huron on June 4th. Our first stop this Saturday was the Coast Guard Cutter Bramble, now a floating museum.
The Coast Guard Cutter Bramble is servicable ship, but now sits docked at the Seaport terminal as a museum. The Coast Gaurd replaced the Bramble was replaced by the Hollyhock.
These massive ropes are used to tie off the Bramble.
There's nothing special here -- this is just another pullley from the Bramble.
Yes, I guess I have a thing for pulleys.
Too bad this was turned on. What a cool fixture though.
This compass looked cool. Alas we didn't get any details about the compass or its use with the many visitors swarming the ship.
This was posted near the ship's mess on the Coast Guard Cutter Bramble. Just to the right of this sign was the Damage Control locker.
The Coast Guard Cutter Bramble is docked at the Seaport terminal as part of the Port Huron Museum's exhibits.


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At Symmetry Financial Group, we strive to make a positive impact in the lives of our agents, clients, and those in our community. In turn, we love to celebrate our team members who are working to benefit the lives of others. Agency Director Jordan Hunt made an unforgettable impact through his Leaving a Legacy Foundation, which is based out of North Carolina.
Jordan recently met a 6-year-old named Jacob who was diagnosed with Neuroblastoma, a rare form of childhood cancer. Jacob's dream was to take a trip to Walt Disney World with his family, and through Jordan's fundraising efforts, Jacob's wish was granted.
The Leaving a Legacy Foundation hosted a free benefit youth baseball camp to raise funds for Jacob's family. Jordan reached out to his community and was able to bring former professional players and former college players out to coach the camp, providing the kids with an amazing experience at no cost to their parents. The event was a huge success and it is only the beginning of all the great things that will come from the Leaving a Legacy Foundation.
Thank you, Jordan, for your dedication to Symmetry's core value of being of service and doing good in the world. We are proud to have you on our team!
Symmetry Financial Group Sponsors Elizabeth Smart Event
Symmetry Financial Group Raises Over $28,000 for Make-A-Wish


We know that women and men communicate differently. But are we aware that speakers and writers differ even more? Speaking and writing are distinctive versions of the same language, unique in their output, syntax and function. Presenters and trainers need to appreciate the differences to know when to speak, to write or to use both in tandem.
Speaking creates an immediate output for audiences to see, hear and share.
Writing creates text, an output designed to be read by future readers who do not see or hear the author.
Speech syntax is informal, tolerating repairs, false starts, repetitions, start-overs, corrections, non-words and a variety of rhythms and intonations.
Writers observe formal rules, striving to be correct in all respects – spelling, grammar, punctuation, choice of words and structure.
Coaches speak rather than write to motivate their teams.
People find it easier to phone than to write a letter.
Employees prefer to ask how to do something rather than read instructions.
Seeing a play performed is a larger experience than reading the script.
Additionally, speakers connect with their audiences via eye contact and physical bearing. This connection is a integral part of spoken communication, providing speakers with immediate feedback to make course corrections or respond to audience queries on the spot. When a speaker connects with an audience both speaker and audience get a jolt of energy.
Writing has a different set of strengths and is often epitomized as the language of information. It depends on choice of words, word order, sentence structures, punctuation, grammar, paragraphs, fonts, format, page layout as well as selection of channel (book, article, memo, minutes, report). It is permanent, detailed, precise and structured for re-use and understanding. Writing transcends time and space. Contracts, wills, legislative and other legal documents are in writing because of these attributes.
What happens when a speech is written in the language of writing?
The speaker creates, memorizes and delivers the speech in the argot of writing rather than in the idiom of speech.
Delivery is formal and impersonal rather than interactive and personal.
The speech is longer than the audience's attention span or the time allotted.
The big picture gets lost.
Key points are buried under minutia.
Speaker develops a severe case of nerves in anticipation of speaking in a language not normally used for speech.
Speaker is unprepared to connect with the audience or respond to its feedback.
Delivering the speech without notes is difficult because there are so many details to remember.
Delivering the speech with notes is difficult also because a thicket of sentences offers few landmarks for the speaker to find his/her place.
Speech and writing involve different parts of the brain according to medical studies of people with aphasia or brain injuries.
Speech pre-dates writing in human evolution.
Children learn to speak without schooling but require school to learn to write.
Research has found that over 90% of spoken messages are conveyed via body gestures and vocalisms and less than 10% by words.
People can communicate with domestic animals using body and vocal language.
Speech is structured as a two-way dialog between the speaker and audience.
New words and phrases are added to the vocabulary of speech faster.
The audience and the situation are known in speech.
The writer and the audience are separated in writing.
When a speaker writes a speech, the thoughts are designed along literary lines into formal sentences and paragraphs using literary parts of speech and constructions. By contrast, dynamic speakers utilize the aspects of verbal communication not available in writing–gestures, vocalisms and audience feedback. Speech is filled with shrugs, postures, finger pointing, sighs, inflections, accents, pauses, alliterations and other sounds for which there are no written equivalents. Compare differences – Guide on the Side – A Communication Skill Suite Speaking, Writing and Graphics.
Use Post-it notes to capture, organize and prioritize your ideas – Guide on the Side – The Power of Post-Its Picture Your Speech.
Itemize information to be distributed in a handout Guide on the Side – Why and How to Avoid Trashy Handouts.
Design gestures, voice, props, and graphic elements into the speech.
Devise notes that look like a map so you can remember the speech as a picture. Use color and graphics in your notes for easier prompting reference.
Use PowerPoint to share visual ideas not sentences.
Clarify the objectives Guide on the Side – Objectives What to Tell and How to Tell It.
In status reports and briefings, deliver a summary verbally or electronically and distribute related proposals, budgets or reports as handouts.
You are asked to speak and provide an article for subsequent publication . Write the article first and then design the speech. This is easier than transcribing the speech later from a recording. Expect the speech to include personal stories, nuances and asides not included in the article . Expect the article to contain greater detail and complexity.
Training and continuing education programs require post-instruction reference and resource materials. Write the resource material first and design it as stand alone reference. Prepare the speech later when you have the audience profile and know their focus.
When the knowledge level of the audience is mixed, distribute an article or handout. This frees the speaker up to story tell at a level everyone can understand and yet share expertise compiled in the handout.
Scientists, academics and others delivering technical papers have a tradition of presenting the papers by reading them verbatim, including all the citations. An option is to distribute the paper in advance and then relate the story behind the paper and its significance.
The main thing to remember when you design a speech (with or without PowerPoint) or training (in the classroom or at a distance) is that audiences pay attention to people who talk to them much more than people who read to them. (Listen up politicians. This is why most people prefer to listen to political commentators rather than you.) If you aim to persuade or motivate an audience, do it in person in the language of speech. If you strive to share knowledge for posterity, put it in writing in the language of text.


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2019 公共事務 - 公共政策分析│美國研究所排名
2019 Public Affairs - Public Policy Analysis
1 University of California - Berkeley CA (California)
1,U.S. Best Graduate Schools 10,Public Affairs 77,Public Policy Analysis 1 1,University of California - Berkeley U.S. News 2019
2 University of Michigan - Ann Arbor MI (Michigan)
1,U.S. Best Graduate Schools 10,Public Affairs 77,Public Policy Analysis 2 8,University of Michigan - Ann Arbor U.S. News 2019
1,U.S. Best Graduate Schools 10,Public Affairs 77,Public Policy Analysis 3 15,Harvard University U.S. News 2019
4 University of Chicago IL (Illinois)
1,U.S. Best Graduate Schools 10,Public Affairs 77,Public Policy Analysis 4 221,University of Chicago U.S. News 2019
5 Indiana University - Bloomington IN (Indiana)
1,U.S. Best Graduate Schools 10,Public Affairs 77,Public Policy Analysis 5 228,Indiana University - Bloomington U.S. News 2019
1,U.S. Best Graduate Schools 10,Public Affairs 77,Public Policy Analysis 6 117,University of Southern California U.S. News 2019
7 Princeton University NJ (New Jersey)
1,U.S. Best Graduate Schools 10,Public Affairs 77,Public Policy Analysis 7 403,Princeton University U.S. News 2019
1,U.S. Best Graduate Schools 10,Public Affairs 77,Public Policy Analysis 8 481,Syracuse University U.S. News 2019
9 Duke University NC (North Carolina)
1,U.S. Best Graduate Schools 10,Public Affairs 77,Public Policy Analysis 9 374,Duke University U.S. News 2019
1,U.S. Best Graduate Schools 10,Public Affairs 77,Public Policy Analysis 10 10,Carnegie Mellon University U.S. News 2019
1,U.S. Best Graduate Schools 10,Public Affairs 77,Public Policy Analysis 11 678,University of Washington U.S. News 2019
12 Arizona State University AZ (Arizona)
1,U.S. Best Graduate Schools 10,Public Affairs 77,Public Policy Analysis 12 33,Arizona State University U.S. News 2019
13 George Washington University DC (Washington D.C.)
1,U.S. Best Graduate Schools 10,Public Affairs 77,Public Policy Analysis 13 142,George Washington University U.S. News 2019
14 New York University NY (New York)
1,U.S. Best Graduate Schools 10,Public Affairs 77,Public Policy Analysis 14 456,New York University U.S. News 2019
15 University of Georgia GA (Georgia)
1,U.S. Best Graduate Schools 10,Public Affairs 77,Public Policy Analysis 15 180,University of Georgia U.S. News 2019
15 University of Wisconsin - Madison WI (Wisconsin)
1,U.S. Best Graduate Schools 10,Public Affairs 77,Public Policy Analysis 15 690,University of Wisconsin - Madison U.S. News 2019
17 University of Texas - Austin TX (Texas)
1,U.S. Best Graduate Schools 10,Public Affairs 77,Public Policy Analysis 17 3,University of Texas - Austin U.S. News 2019
18 Georgetown University DC (Washington D.C.)
1,U.S. Best Graduate Schools 10,Public Affairs 77,Public Policy Analysis 18 143,Georgetown University U.S. News 2019
1,U.S. Best Graduate Schools 10,Public Affairs 77,Public Policy Analysis 18 106,University of California - Los Angeles U.S. News 2019
20 Columbia University NY (New York)
1,U.S. Best Graduate Schools 10,Public Affairs 77,Public Policy Analysis 20 426,Columbia University U.S. News 2019
20 Georgia Institute of Technology GA (Georgia)
1,U.S. Best Graduate Schools 10,Public Affairs 77,Public Policy Analysis 20 4,Georgia Institute of Technology U.S. News 2019
1,U.S. Best Graduate Schools 10,Public Affairs 77,Public Policy Analysis 20 502,Ohio State University U.S. News 2019
20 University of Minnesota - Twin Cities MN (Minnesota)
1,U.S. Best Graduate Schools 10,Public Affairs 77,Public Policy Analysis 20 344,University of Minnesota - Twin Cities U.S. News 2019
24 American University DC (Washington D.C.)
1,U.S. Best Graduate Schools 10,Public Affairs 77,Public Policy Analysis 24 140,American University U.S. News 2019
1,U.S. Best Graduate Schools 10,Public Affairs 77,Public Policy Analysis 24 153,Florida State University U.S. News 2019
26 Johns Hopkins University MD (Maryland)
1,U.S. Best Graduate Schools 10,Public Affairs 77,Public Policy Analysis 26 14,Johns Hopkins University U.S. News 2019
27 University of Maryland - College Park MD (Maryland)
1,U.S. Best Graduate Schools 10,Public Affairs 77,Public Policy Analysis 27 310,University of Maryland - College Park U.S. News 2019
28 University of Kentucky KY (Kentucky)
1,U.S. Best Graduate Schools 10,Public Affairs 77,Public Policy Analysis 28 252,University of Kentucky U.S. News 2019
29 Georgia State University GA (Georgia)
1,U.S. Best Graduate Schools 10,Public Affairs 77,Public Policy Analysis 29 175,Georgia State University U.S. News 2019
29 University of Colorado - Denver CO (Colorado)
1,U.S. Best Graduate Schools 10,Public Affairs 77,Public Policy Analysis 29 124,University of Colorado - Denver U.S. News 2019
29 University of Virginia VA (Virginia)
1,U.S. Best Graduate Schools 10,Public Affairs 77,Public Policy Analysis 29 657,University of Virginia U.S. News 2019
32 Texas A&M University - College Station TX (Texas)
1,U.S. Best Graduate Schools 10,Public Affairs 77,Public Policy Analysis 32 12,Texas A&M University - College Station U.S. News 2019
32 University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill NC (North Carolina)
1,U.S. Best Graduate Schools 10,Public Affairs 77,Public Policy Analysis 32 379,University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill U.S. News 2019
34 State University of New York - Albany NY (New York)
1,U.S. Best Graduate Schools 10,Public Affairs 77,Public Policy Analysis 34 469,State University of New York - Albany U.S. News 2019
34 University of Central Florida FL (Florida)
1,U.S. Best Graduate Schools 10,Public Affairs 77,Public Policy Analysis 34 160,University of Central Florida U.S. News 2019
34 University of Kansas KS (Kansas)
1,U.S. Best Graduate Schools 10,Public Affairs 77,Public Policy Analysis 34 245,University of Kansas U.S. News 2019


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The big story in the Forex world last year, at least according to the mainstream media, was the continued strength in the USD, particularly the US Dollar Index. The index measures the strength of the greenback against the Japanese yen, British pound, Canadian dollar, Swiss franc and Swedish krona.
The US Dollar Index (DXY) rose an approximate 8.3% last year, marking back-to-back years of significant gains (2014 marked its best year since 2005). Throw in the Fed's recent rate hike with its expected continued monetary tightening, and the mainstream media has its golden boy for 2016.
There's a currency few are talking about which absolutely shattered the performance of every currency in the world last year (including the USD). In fact, this is the second time in three years that this currency has been the world's top performer, yet it seems the mainstream media refuses to cover the story in a positive light. Seems they only like to bash on this currency, which unlike every national fiat currency in the world, is not controlled by a central bank.
And that's why 2015 was such an important year for the cryptocurrency. After 2014's rough year, which was mired in controversy surrounding Bitcoin and some of the exchanges it traded on, it was important for its credibility to have a strong year. Another bad year and the media would have had a field day with the young and 'off the grid' currency.
Crytpocurrencies are still in their infancy – the experimental stage so to speak. And Bitcoin's market is not without controversy and fraud. However, right now, it appears Bitcoin is here to stay. Another strong year for the preeminent cryptocurrency in 2016 and user adoption could skyrocket. Here is a link to chart its performance throughout the year.
P.S. Subscribe to my newsletter below to stay on top of investment and economic trends this year. It's going to be a year of volatility. Educate yourself.


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Man stabs woman because 'they were trying to feed him to zombies'
Oct 30, 2019 • Last Updated October 30, 2019 • 1 minute read
William C. Berry thought a woman and her friends were going to feed him to zombies.
The Walking Dead apparently had a South Carolina man in their grip.
Cops say William Berry, 29, stabbed Rosemary Pressley in the back several times because he believed her sinister plot was to feed him to zombies.
Aiken County Sheriff's deputies responded to a report of a stabbing Saturday and said a witness at the alleged crime scene told them that Berry had attacked Pressley with a knife.
After cops arrested him, Berry told investigators that he stabbed the woman because: "They were trying to feed him to zombies — and being mean to him."
Everyone is aware that zombies can, in fact, be very mean.
Zombies dance through Winnipeg
Fans dress as zombies to salute George Romero
Are creepy clowns fuelled by public's boredom with zombies and vampires?
Countless episodes of AMC's zombie apocalypse epic The Walking Dead will attest to that.
Pressley was taken to the hospital and treated for multiple stab wounds.
Zombies are the fictional undead who come to "life" following the reanimation of a corpse.
The 1968 horror thriller Night of the Living Dead has made them popular fixtures in comics, movies and Halloween ever since.
Berry is charged with attempted murder and possession of a weapon during a violent crime.


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Columns, The Reading Life
The Reading Life: "Shooting an Elephant" and Orwell's Clarity
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I once wanted to be a lawyer, and being a paralegal was a stop on the way to where I thought I wanted to go. To get to 100 Church Street I took the M15 bus down a road where pedestrians were not allowed, past 1 Police Plaza and the courthouse named for Daniel Patrick Moynihan, stopping in front of J&R Electronics. I would walk through the park to Broadway. I would get a large coffee at Dunkin Donuts. The whole thing felt less like a commute and more like a tour with no guide. Over there was Ground Zero, and right there was the post office. Here was the stock exchange and also a falafel place that was closed on all Jewish holidays. Down the street was a parade of 9/11 truthers, past a coffee stand with a long line of construction workers. My view narrowed inside 100 Church, where lawyers for the city dispersed under low ceilings.
I had always been a believer in the potential of government, but it's the experience we haven't had yet that we know the most about; after a month I started to see what heretics called "waste." Fat needed to be trimmed: one employee watched anime all day long; another, sitting right behind me, would talk on the phone for hours about her personal life. One overheard conversation seemed to be about a friend using a boyfriend's credit card without his approval, to which my officemate replied, "Oh, who cares?" I think that's called fraud, but then again I'm not a lawyer.
It was during this time that I fell hopelessly in love with someone who felt similarly disillusioned working for his government, but who would never return my affection, no matter how much I pined. I was lost in a fog of his words, distracted to the point of sickness. I was preoccupied by his thoughts, haunted by things he had said, struck with a yearning to be with him in times of boredom and frustration. It was the perfect romance, thanks to its guaranteed impossibility. I am talking about my hopeless, temporary infatuation with George Orwell.
There's no accounting for taste, you might say. The guy was no looker, for sure, I'll give you that. But the version of himself that he crafted for his nonfiction — the meticulous and outraged observer in The Road to Wigan Pier, the confused and brokenhearted soldier in Homage to Catalonia — matched everything I didn't know I had been missing in life. It was like any love affair with literature except for the fact that this was not a strictly fictional character, it was supposedly George himself, truthful and convincing and heroic. It was intimacy with the exciting self-importance of journalism, politics, and war. Unlike Mailer, for example, who was always huffing and puffing in his accounts of being arrested or otherwise in the middle of it all, Orwell seemed like he was testing himself, not just the authorities, and in perfect Strunk and White English too. His observations felt like burdens he had to share, unload; is there anything more romantic than a confession? "When we went on leave I had been a hundred and fifteen days in line," he wrote in Homage to Catalonia, "and at the time this period seemed to me to have been one of the most futile of my whole life." You poor thing, I swooned. Tell me more.
Of course I know that George was actually Eric; that he was a womanizer and plenty gimmicky; that he led two lives as a public atheist and a private traditionalist. But the intellectually honest man he presented in his journalism overpowers and even lends charm to his eccentricities. This was the first time I realized so passionately that writing was, as Joan Didion says in probably better words, a form of forcing yourself on someone else, demanding that the reader see it your way. I was seduced, utterly.
The problem with this sort of fling is its one note. In his just-published book Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life, psychotherapist Adam Phillips points out that "people become real to us by frustrating us; if they don't frustrate us, they are merely figures of fantasy." Too little frustration and the person is unreal, but too much and the person is a nightmare. What made Orwell so perfect, but ultimately an infatuation, was his almost inhuman correctness, how right he seemed to me all the time. I always agreed, we never argued; our love was doomed to fade into a pleasant sensation, like the kind you get waking from a nice dream. But hey, try telling that to me at the height of my worship; you couldn't find a deafer pair of ears.
What's so comforting about Orwell is his clarity. In "Shooting an Elephant" he plainly renders a complex emotional situation — hating imperialism and its subjects equally, trying to hide his discomfort and incompetence, having too much power and yet still not enough to do the "right" thing — via one deceptively simple incident. As a police officer in Burma, he is asked to do something about a mad and destructive elephant; in other words, shoot it. Setting the scene: "I remember that it was a cloudy stuffy morning at the beginning of the rains." When the elephant is finally shot: "An enormous senility seemed to have settled upon him." His emotional resolution: "I had done it solely to avoid looking a fool." Violence darkens the comedy slightly. "I sent back for my small rifle," he writes, "and poured shot after shot into his heart and down his throat. They seemed to make no impression. The tortured gasps continued as steadily as the ticking of a clock."
I read this on the bus into work the day I had to go with a lawyer to Long Island for an appearance, and I thought about it the whole day. I thought about how, as prolonged as the death was, as useless a shot as Blair had been, at least there had been an ending. Blair learned an important lesson about imperialism, and the Burmese had stripped the elephant to its bones. In contrast, there was no end to these lawsuits, only settlements. Any potential for satisfaction diminished the longer the fight waged on without a bad guy, a good guy, or a calm narrator making sense of it all.
Most of the cases I worked on during my time as a paralegal bleed into one another; you hear one story about an EMT putting the wrong tube in the wrong place, you've heard them all. But one in particular continues to haunt me, in no small part because it coincided with the first time I read "Shooting an Elephant." Let's call it the Anonymous case.
Anonymous was a police officer who had been "involved" (ahem) in an altercation with a belligerent junkie in Bed Stuy. During the altercation, he had punched the perp and cut his hand. Fluids were exchanged, and it was allegedly at this point that Anonymous had contracted HIV. The list of the accused parties took up more than a page. Several groups of medical professionals were being blamed for not providing treatment that could have prevented the plaintiff's condition. Several arms of the police department were being sued for discrimination. This was a decades-long dispute over every aspect of Anonymous's life that had gone wrong since one punch, and it would most likely never be resolved in the most important way: his career, his relationship with his wife, and his entire physical and mental life would never be the same.
The lawyer I worked with had no hope of seeing the case get decided. "The poor guy," she would say, and I would only nod. I began to feel attached to Anonymous. Like any tragedy, this was a story of what could have happened had things gone a slightly different way. Phillips again: "We have an abiding sense, however obscure and obscured, that the lives we do lead are informed by the lives that escape us. … The story of our lives becomes the story of the lives we were prevented from living." Any lawsuit that takes a while, from months to years to decades, erases all satisfaction and replaces it with frustration, instability, and waiting. Nowhere was that more evident than in the transcript of Anonymous's deposition, which at that point was already a six-year-old document of an increasingly despondent man.
Depositions, as far as theatrical dialogues go, are not exactly thrilling. There is a lot of repetition, a lot of pausing, plenty of interruption, and none of it has the literary value of Pinter or Churchill. Often the facts being discussed are mundane: what did you do after you got out of the car? On which side of the street were you parked? What did you do after that? For Anonymous though, these questions meant recalling a moment he had been replaying in his mind over and over to prove that he had done everything right and the outcome had been determined by other people. The result was a sad, emotionally intense drama that left me distressed and upset. There was a plot, but no resolution. It was a horrible thing, it had happened; now this person's life was shaped entirely by it, and no one could decide whose fault it really was.
Phillips once more: "as the story unfolds, [our protagonists] get less and less of what they thought they wanted." I don't know what happened to Anonymous, but I knew I didn't want to go to law school. I moved on. My next job was with a costume designer. We did costumes for a romantic comedy about a woman with colon cancer who falls in love with her doctor. She dies at the end, but everyone who knows her, especially the hunky doctor, learns the importance of seizing the moment, or living for today, or something. It went straight to DVD, and I moved onto other infatuations.
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The shrewd, highly humorous adaptation is the first screenplay written by actress Emma Thompson, while this is the first entirely non-Chinese picture directed by
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Taiwanese helmer Ang Lee, who scored in the West with his second and third films, "The Wedding Banquet" and "Eat Drink Man Woman." Both potentially long-shot bets have paid off in spades, a tribute to the talent acumen of producer Lindsay Doran and exec producer Sydney Pollack.
A Columbia release of a Mirage production. Produced by Lindsay Doran. Executive producer, Sydney Pollack. Co-producers, James Schamus, Laurie Borg. #Directed by Ang Lee. Screenplay, Emma Thompson, based on the novel by Jane Austen. Camera (Technicolor), Michael Coulter; editor, Tim Squyres; music, Patrick Doyle; production design, Luciana Arrighi; supervising art director, Andrew Sanders; art direction, Philip Elton; set decoration, Ian Whittaker; costume design, Jenny Beavan, John Bright; sound (Dolby SR), Tony Dawe; associate producer, Geoff Stier; assistant director, Chris Newman. Reviewed at UA Westwood Theater, L.A., Nov. 29, 1995. MPAA Rating: PG. Running time: 135 min. Elinor Dashwood … Emma Thompson Col. Brandon … Alan Rickman Marianne Dashwood … Kate Winslet Edward Ferrars … Hugh Grant John Dashwood … James Fleet Fanny Dashwood … Harriet Walter Mrs. Dashwood … Gemma Jones Mrs. Jennings … Elizabeth Spriggs Sir John Middleton … Robert Hardy John Willoughby … Greg Wise Charlotte Palmer … Imelda Staunton Lucy Steele … Imogen Stubbs Mr. Palmer … Hugh Laurie Margaret Dashwood … Emilie Francois Robert Ferrars … Richard Lumsden Confirming her status as the most prolific source of good film material in 1995, Jane Austen scores the hat trick with "Sense and Sensibility," a witty and rollicking adaptation of the author's first novel. With the very loose "Emma" update "Clueless" and "Persuasion" having provided so much pleasure already, the Austen party continues with this classy, entirely enjoyable comic melodrama; pic is bound to be so well-received that it should easily surpass the best B.O. results of Merchant Ivory and perhaps match its distrib's "Little Women" from a year ago.
Deftly setting the stage in late 18th-century rural England, pic briskly delineates the suddenly reduced circumstances of the widow Dashwood (Gemma Jones) and her three lovely daughters after the death of her husband. By law, the vast estate in which they live must pass to the deceased's son by a previous marriage, who moves in with his snobbish wife, Fanny, and leaves the female brood to make do on a measly 500 pounds a year.
Eldest daughter Elinor (Emma Thompson) is the sensible one, a bright, if emotionally stunted, woman widely regarded as an incipient spinster. Middle daughter Marianne (Kate Winslet), in her late teens, is quite the opposite, a reckless romantic who can't abide her sister's restrained propriety. Little sister Margaret (Emilie Francois) is an 11-year-old tomboy who spends most of her time in her treehouse avoiding the adults.
They are finally provided with a suitable, if cramped, cottage by a cousin, but not before they meet Fanny's shyly charming brother, Edward (Hugh Grant), who establishes a strong rapport with Elinor. But just as it appears that he may propose, Edward is dispatched by Fanny to London, leaving Elinor utterly in the dark about their future.
Setting up in their new abode, the women are reliant for their social lives on the boisterous, conspiratorial Sir John Middleton (Robert Hardy) and his mother-in-law, Mrs. Jennings (the irrepressible Elizabeth Spriggs).
The wealthy, brooding, middle-aged Col. Brandon (Alan Rickman) comes to call, but Marianne finds her romantic dreams come to life in the person of the dashing John Willoughby (Greg Wise), who, in highest melodramatic style, appears on horseback to rescue the injured girl in the heath and literally sweeps her off her feet.
While the rest of the family and a quietly jealous Col. Brandon watch as she throws herself headlong into her great romance, Marianne, in turn, expects to receive a proposal. But, in a startling scene, Willoughby, following both Edward and Brandon, says he has been abruptly called to London, and an astonished Marianne is heartbroken.
Thus set up is the mystery of what possibly could have drawn all three men so peremptorily to London. So when Mrs. Jennings invites the Dashwoods to the city for the social season, they must certainly accept, if only to discover what has become of the men that so interest them.
The subsequent revelations, embarrassments, crises and magnanimous gestures are parceled out in measured, increasingly complicated fashion, with most of them fostered by the demands of social convention, propriety and money more than honest emotion. But by the end, as usual with Austen, a proper and happy balance has been achieved, and audiences will go out with a tear or two along with their smiles.
Thompson's script manages the neat trick of preserving the necessary niceties and decorum of civilized behavior of the time while still cutting to the dramatic quick. But she and Lee have always kept an eye out for the comedicpossibilities in any situation, assisted by a highly skilled cast of actors, which, down to the most briefly seen supporting player, collectively seems to understand the wit and high spirits of the approach.
The choice of Lee to direct this so specifically British and period film, and his great success in doing so, will no doubt be the source of much wonderment. Although his previously revealed talents for dramatizing conflicting social and generational traditions will no doubt be noted, Lee's achievement here with such foreign material is simply well beyond what anyone could have expected and may well be posited as the cinematic equivalent of Kazuo Ishiguro writing "The Remains of the Day."
Especially in the early going, Lee keeps his camera at a discreet distance, using mostly stable medium shots that are only occasionally punctuated by close-ups. Unlike so many modern directors, he never pushes an effect in one's face, wisely allowing the power of the delicious plot to take hold on its own. Crucially for such an elaborately dressed production, the characters all come thoroughly alive with their ready wits and pulsing emotions, overcoming the two-century gap with seeming effortlessness.
Performances are all tops, with Thompson ideal as the sister who holds her feelings in check until it's almost too late, Winslet ("Heavenly Creatures") outstanding as the high-flying romantic who gets her wings burned, and Grant appealing and not overly mannered as the "too sedate" suitor, in Marianne's opinion, who just might be the right man for Elinor. In a real change of pace from his best-known villainous roles, Rickman is unexpectedly moving as the patient gentleman with his own dark past. Wise's Willoughby cuts a wide swathe as the perfect callow suitor, Jones quietly impresses as the materfamilias, Francois is utterly winning as the young kid sister, Spriggs socks over her role as the social ringmaster, and Hugh Laurie gets astonishing comic mileage out of a very small role as a chatterbox's husband.
Behind-the-scenes hands have crafted an exceedingly handsome production that is not overly plush. Production designer Luciana Arrighi and costume designers Jenny Beavan and John Bright, all Oscar winners with Merchant Ivory, do their customary superb jobs, while Michael Coulter's lensing gives the proceedings a pleasingly bleached look. Patrick Doyle's music helps propel a film about which one can only complain that it's almost too much of a good thing.
(Period romantic comedy-drama -- Color)
Production: Cultural pundits may debate the reasons for Austen's sudden ascendancy after decades of neglect by Hollywood ("Pride and Prejudice," in 1940, was the last bigscreen adaptation, although a straight version of "Emma" is on the way, as is a BBC "P&P"), but it no doubt has something to do with strong stories, rich characters and astute class observations. Perhaps more surprising than Austen's resurgent popularity, however, is the unexpected combination of talents that has made "Sense and Sensibility" such a treat.


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Here's a quick post to alert readers to the Massachusetts Arborists Association's Special Seminar and Demonstration on air tool use. A team of four arborists — Mike Furgal, Matt Foti, Rolf Briggs, and Dave Leonard — will be showing how compressed-air tools can be used in arboricultural work (root forensics, bare-root planting, bare-root transplanting, shrub moving, etc.), and will discuss the advancements that this technology provide those working with or using woody plants in the landscape.
The seminar will be on September 10 at Elm Bank, the Massachusetts Horticultural Society's property in Wellesley, MA — check the MAA link above for registration information.
Registration is not limited to arborists, so interested landscape architects and contractors can go and see this work. I highly recommend signing up; last year's seminar at Matt Foti's farm, where Mike Furgal debuted the air-tool transplanting method, was really outstanding, and this year there's bound to be even more information available and a great deal of informed and informative discussion.
One point: Bare-root transplanting, either with an air-tool or by root-washing, may never replace other methods of transplanting. But for specimen tree transplanting, where the value of an existing tree merits the effort involved, it is currently the gold standard. The number of roots retained with bare-root transplanting prevents the tremendous stress caused by other methods, and should be considered a valuable tool in the kit available to landscape architects, arborists, and contractors.
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During his official visit to the Slovak Republic, Angel Gurría met with government officials and attended several speaking engagements, including the launch of the OECD Economic Survey of the Slovak Republic.
Official visit of the Secretary-General to Belgium (13-15 March 2007)
During his official visit to Belgium, Angel Gurría met with government officials and business leaders, and attended several speaking engagements including a press conference to launch the OECD Economic Survey of Belgium.
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An elderly Native American was sitting in front of his hut with his grandchild, watching two dogs that were brawling a short distance away. One of the dogs was white, the other black and ever since the twelve year old child could remember, they had been brawling in front of his grandfather's hut.
Yaşlı Kızılderili reisi kulübesinin önünde torunuyla oturmuş,az ötede birbiriyle boğuşup duran iki köpeği izliyordu. Köpeklerden biri beyaz, biri siyahtı ve on iki yaşındaki çocuk kendini bildi bileli o köpekler dedesinin kulübesi önünde boğuşup duruyorlardı. Dedesinin sürekli göz önünde tuttuğu,yanından ayırmadığı iki iri köpekti bunlar. Çocuk, kulübeyi korumak için biri yeterli gözükürken niye ötekinin de olduğunu, hem niye renklerinin illa da siyah ve beyaz olduğunu anlamak istiyordu artık.
I must commend the Nigerian Government which has been taking great strides to improve the living and economic conditions of INTERNALLY DISPLACED PERSONS (IDP's) in the country's North. The United Nations put the number of persons displaced by Boko Haram activities In the country at about 1.5 million. Since the new government of President Muhammadu Buhari came into power, he has made the plight of the IDP's one of his priorities. The Vice President, Prof Yemi Osibanjo has also visited some camps for Internally Displaced People in order to learn about their plight firsthand.
The Nigerian Government is also seeing to it that the internally displaced children get an education. Mobile classrooms were installed at the Dalori Internally Displaced Persons camp in Maiduguri, Borno state today September 29th.
Kudos to the Nigerian Government!
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Weekly Varsity Sports Update: Flyers varsity football wins defensive battle, soccer rebounds against St. Anthony's.
By Raymond Costanzo '20
The varsity crew team enjoyed success over the weekend after its strong performance at the Head of the Charles Regatta in Boston, Massachusetts. Competing against the top club and scholastic programs from across the United States, Canada and England, the varsity eight finished in 27th place out of 86 boats. The varsity four came in 58th place out of 85 competitors. The Flyers are preparing for one of the largest rowing competitions in the world, as they take part in the Head of the Schuylkill Regatta this Saturday.
Regarding the upcoming regatta, senior rower Shane Barry explained, "For next week's regatta the team will be continuing with our normal training routine of conditioning workouts and extensive water time before we head to Philadelphia on Saturday."
On October 19, the varsity soccer team traveled to New Jersey to compete against the No. 1 ranked team in America, St. Benedict Prep. Unfortunately, the Flyers got off to a relatively slow start, and were unable to claw back into the game. The team lost 3-0, but was proud of the performance against such an elite competition. "Playing St. Benedict's was a great experience for the team," explained co-captain Justin Caccavo '20. "Although we lost, we performed much better than last year and held our own against the best high school team in the country.
I'm glad we played St. Benedict's just before we go into our playoff run, because we can bring the intensity and high speed of play that we mustered in that game into the postseason." The team looked to rebound on October 23, when they took on St. Anthony's in a league match. After conceding a goal due to a defensive lapse in the first two minutes of the game, the team did not put their heads down. The team kept pushing and putting immense pressure on the Friars for the rest of the game. After Luca Iacono '20 scored a beautiful volley from outside of the box, the Flyers were able to keep pounding and netted two more goals in the win. Gio Tallini '21 and Matt Auerbach '21 scored the second and third goal. The team is prepared to continue their success in the postseason on their quest for a fifth straight championship.
Coming off of a strong win against league rivals Kellenberg, the Flyers looked to stay hot in a conference game against the Xavier Knights. In a defensive battle, the Flyers' 7 points bested the Knights' 6. Mario Fischetti '21 lead the game in rushing, as he ran for 124 yards, and managed to score Chaminade's only touchdown. On the defensive side of the ball, the Flyers dominated in all facets of the game. Brandon Coward '20, Aidan Cappelino '20 and Patrick Gardener '20 all lead the team with 13 tackles. Defensive backs Patrick Noonan '20 and Dylan Lamelo '20 played lockdown coverage and applied constant pressure throughout the entire match.
Conner Garzone '20 and Robert
Booth '20 each contributed a sack to the impressive defensive victory. "This is a really special group we have this year," explained Patrick Noonan '20. "We've come a long way, and I think what's keeping us together and keeping us successful is our unity. We'll be ready for the playoffs in November when it matters most."
This past weekend, the varsity Cross Country team traveled to Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx. The Flyers competed against a multitude of schools from all across the northeast. The Varsity team, led by Kyle McLean '20 and Owen Sweeney '22, came in fifth place out of twelve. The Crimson and Gold are looking ahead to this Sunday, as they travel to Sunken Meadow State Park to compete in NSCHSAA League Championship.
Varsity runner Nicholas DeVita '20 said the following in regards to the upcoming Championship meet: "The team is preparing for the championship by training harder at practice while also traveling to different state parks to practice as well. The meets that the team are competing in are much more competitive in terms of the teams racing."
Go Flyers!
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