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Short Stories of Sinclair Lewis (1909-1949)

Author: Rogal, Samuel
This work makes available for the first time a full collection of all the short stories written by novelist, playwright and author, Sinclair Lewis (1885 - 1951). While Lewis’s novels are generally accessible, his short stories have existed only in bound and unbound pieces scattered throughout the book collections of university and public libraries, along with historical societies and private owners. Now they are together in one set, allowing individuals to read the entire corpus and chart the development of the author across the pages of his works. This volume contains the complete short stories of Sinclair Lewis written between August 1923 and April 1931.

“These volumes mark the first effort to collect the full range of short stories written by Sinclair Lewis (b. 7 February 1885 - d. 10 January 1951). The so-called ‘range,’ a period covering four and one-half decades, begins with three pieces published in the Yale Courant in 1904 ... proceeds throughout the World War I years ... continues throughout he eve of the Great Depression ... and comes to a quiet, non-dramatic rest upon the piece in Holiday in May 1949. The purpose behind and the focus of this collection has gone forward on the simple notion on the part of the compiler that one ought to have the opportunity to observe the progress and development of a writer from the morning to the dark night of his or her literary career.” - Samuel Rogal (from the Introduction)

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The Hack Driver
Main Street’s Been Paved
Be Brisk with Babbitt
He Had a Brother
There Was a Prince
Elizabeth, Kitty and Jane
Dear Editor
What a Man!
Keep Out of the Kitchen
A Letter from the Queen
Noble Experiment
Go East, Young Man
Let’s Play King

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The first half of this decade saw Sanctuary Districts reaching their high

During that decade, the Earth continent of Europe sees unrest among students after the "Neo-Trotskyists" unseat the "Gaullists" from power. The unrest ceases tourism towards France. Meanwhile, Ireland is unified after over a century of violence.

By that decade, the American government have created special Sanctuary Districts in most major cities to cope with poverty and unemployment, which eventually degenerate into inhumane internment camps. The Bell Riots of the mid-decade are one of the most violent civil disturbances in all of American history, resulting in the deaths of hundreds of Sanctuary District residents.

World War III follows shortly after.

This decade also sees widespread use of the Internet and the interface. The issue of genetic engineering and Human genome enhancement was brought back, and was one of the reasons of WW III.

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  • By the early 2020s, there had been established a Sanctuary District in every major American city. (DS9: "Past Tense, Part I")

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2011 Long List - On Canaan's Side - Sebastian Barry

Sebastian Barry has been short listed for “A Long Long Way” in 2005 and “The Secret Scripture” in 2008 and I’m at a loss to explain why his latest novel didn’t figure in the final six this time around. One explanation could be that similar themes of loss and ageing, memory etc is the feature of Julian Barnes’ “The Sense of an Ending” but surely there is room for books which cover similar themes (quite differently) on the short list? It could also explain why “Half Blood Blues” is on this list over “Far to Go” both being Second World War tales or “Jamrach’s Menagerie” over “Derby Day” (which I’ve started) with their Victorian themes and styles. Even “Snowdrops” getting a short list gong over “The Last Hundred Days” and their Eastern Bloc themes.

However I personally I believe Barnes’ novella is a far greater work than Barry’s, but having said that in my opinion this book is more worthy of the shortlist than a couple of others that did make it.

We start off with our writer, Lilly Bere, completing a diary after the death of her grandson and each “chapter” is “First (etc.) Day without Bill” as she flashes back 70/80 years and recounts her life in a mainly linear fashion right up until the present day.

Although Lilly is Irish she has settled in America and her failing memory and heartfelt loss comes to the fore very quickly.

This is a heart breaking novel, where each revelation or meeting, reveals the diarist’s pain and a wonderful lament on loss and the insignificance of a single life. Perfectly pitched and paced with flashes to the present to break up the memories, it is very plausible that this could be a 90 year old person’s diary.

Numerous other reviews and posts refer to the linkages to Barry’s other works so I won’t go into that detail here, and this novel is a stand alone piece, which does not need you to have visited any of his other books.

The only personal criticism I do have is I cannot understand the inclusion of Martin Luther King as a minor character (unless it is Lilly name dropping?) and the ending I did have to read a few times as though I was in a dream state. You’ll understand what I mean if you read this novel.

Personally I think this one should have been on the shortlist and although I still have 2 of the long list to go my shortlist would have been:

The Sense of an Ending
Jamrach’s Menagerie
Half Blood Blues
On Canaan’s Side
Pigeon English
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The palace had earlier said Prince Philip had been taken to hospital as a ‘precautionary measure’.

In June he spent five nights in a hospital with a bladder infection following the Diamond Jubilee pageant on the Thames.

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London | Domestic sewage containing organic wastes, mainly from toilets and kitchens, may prove to be a source of energy that can be harvested by using hungry bacteria, scientists say.

“The levels of organic matter in sewage are too low to be directly recovered. We investigated how we can use bacteria to capture this material,” said Francis Meerburg from Ghent University in Belgium.

“Our approach is unique because we have developed a high-rate variation of the so-called contact-stabilisation process,” said Meerburg.

“We periodically starve the bacteria, in a kind of ‘fasting regimen’. Afterwards, wastewater is briefly brought into contact with the starved bacteria which are gluttonous and gobble up the organic matter without ingesting all of it,” said Nico Boon, from Ghent University.

“This enables us to harvest the undigested materials for the production of energy and high-quality products. We starve the rest of the bacteria, so that they can purify fresh sewage again,” Boon said.
By using the contact-stabilisation process, up to 55 per cent of the organic matter could be recovered from sewage.

This is a huge step forward, because the existing processes cannot recover more than 20 to 30 per cent.

The researchers calculated that this amount can provide sufficient amounts of energy to completely treat sewage without the need for external electricity.

“This is an important step in the direction of wastewater treatment that is energy neutral, or even produces energy,” said Siegfried Vlaeminck, professor at Ghent University.

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The Mets announced they have signed free-agent RHP LaTroy Hawkins to a minor league deal with an invitation to Spring Training.

If Hawkins makes the team, he will earn a base salary of $1 million with chance to earn more in incentives.

The 40-year old Hawkins spent last year with the Los Angeles Angels where he went 2-3 with a 3.49 ERA. In 42 innings pitched he posted a 4.9 strikeout rate and 2.8 walk rate.

Hawkins has missed chunks of time in 2010 and 2011 due to shoulder surgery, and last season he was out for nearly a month with a fractured finger.

The veteran righthander will give the Mets another option to consider this Spring as they look to revamp their bullpen.

Despite the signing of Hawkins and Scott Atchison earlier this week, the Mets are still looking for bullpen help according to Jon Heyman of CBS Sports.

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Jim Manzi is one of the best conservative critics of global warming solutions. This is typical of his work. He argues that carbon capping is such a massive all-encompassing and expensive “solution” that it would leave us helpless if a more pressing crisis erupted like an asteroid strike or an epidemic.

Yesterday, he wrote a nice post on the epistemic closure on the Right — what I call the Right Wing Echosphere. It’s the tendency of conservatives to only listen to each other. In particular, he talks about the chapter on global warming from Mark Levin’s book in which he: cites global cooling; cites the bogus “30,000 scientist” petition and cites three people who do not work in climatology as a springboard to saying it’s a all Left Wing Plot.

On one side of the scale of Levin’s argument from authority, then, we have three scientists speaking outside their areas of central expertise, plus a dodgy petition. What’s on the other side of the scale that Levin doesn’t mention to his readers?

Among the organizations that don’t reject the notion of man-made global warming are: the U.S. National Academy of Sciences; The Royal Society; the national science academies of Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, India, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand. Russia, South Africa, and Sweden; the U.S. National Research Council; the American Association for the Advancement of Science; the American Chemical Society; the American Physical Society; the American Geophysical Union; and the World Meteorological Organization. That is, Levin’s argument from authority is empty.

Of course, this roll call could be arbitrarily long and illustrious, and that does not make them right. Groupthink or corruption is always possible, and maybe the entire global scientific establishment is wrong. Does he think that these various scientists are somehow unaware that Newsweek had an article on global cooling in the 1970s? Or are they aware of the evidence in his book, but are too trapped by their assumptions to be able to incorporate this data rationally? Or does he believe that the whole thing is a con in which thousands of scientists have colluded across decades and continents to fool such gullible naifs as the U.S. Congressional Budget Office, numerous White House science advisors, Margaret Thatcher, and so on? Are the Queen of England and the Trilateral Commission in on it too?

Levin doesn’t answer this question. Manzi, however, could. He would point out that all of these societies are accepting the results of an IPCC report that is, at the very least, poorly sourced. He would point out that there are only four direct temperature lines, at least one of which is suspect. He would point out that the models predicting doom and gloom are sketchy to say the least.

But that would be Good Skepticism. Levin is peddling Bad Skepticism. And his fellow conservatives have predictably circled the wagons.

Update: I would be remiss if I failed to note that the Left has a lot of epistemic closure, particularly on the issue of the climate.

Criticism of climate policy, including legitimate criticism, is frequently blasted as denial. Good Skeptics like Bjorn Lomborg and Ron Bailey are unfairly blasted as “tools of industry”. Algore has been saying “the debate is over” for twenty years, including on issues like overpopulation that turned out to be overblown. And the response to Climategate on the Left has been to dismiss it as though, at the very least, failure to comply with FOI requests and poorly written and documented climate code are acceptable scientific practices. And we are told that doomsday AGW scenarios are the most likely and should be the basis of policy.

It doesn’t help the epistemic closure on the Right when the response of the Left to any criticism is to circle their own wagons.

Update: Levin responds by calling Manzi a liberal and a “global warming zealout”, which is both ridiculous and totally expected.

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Boys On The Outside

It's not only the title of a celebrated film by Marco Risi, but the situation lived out today by a vast number of young men and women who arrive on our coasts or who have remained for a long time in the Extraordinary Reception Centres (CAS*).

Last week we visited four such centres and met the residents from two centres for unaccompanied minors.

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We have been contacted by various young men from the Via Monfenera centre in Palermo (managed by the Asante cooperative), by the Porticello centre (managed by the new social cooperative Azzurra) and from the centre for unaccompanied minors in Salermi (managed by Faro). All of the residents complain of not having received adequate responses throughout their time (far too long a time) in the centres, sleeping throughout the day. For young men like Hassan**, it is as if they have been left like sheep on the pasture without any shepherd. In the six months they have been in Italy they have had no guardian, living with the risk of losing their “lost time”, seeing that many will soon turn 18...boys on the outside!

Whoever becomes an adult in such a first reception centre or emergency structure, after months of useless limbo, will be transferred (if seeking asylum) to an Extraordinary Reception Centre for adults, where they will begin a new bureaucratic process. But even if you have had the luck of having been placed in a residential community for unaccompanied minors, one can be unjustly thrown outside at the point of becoming an adult, even if seeking asylum or lacking a support network or alternative lodging and work, due to the delay in transferral of economic resources (assigned by the Ministry) from the prefectures to the managing bodies, passing through councils in a state of financial instability.

This situation obviously forces many people to run away and continue to challenge fate, offering up clients to networks of traffickers wandering around our cities, the beneficiaries of the conditions of non-reception... yet again, boys on the outside!

We visited the Extraordinary Reception Centres of “Terraferma”, “Siciliabedda” and “Villa Mokarta” in Salemi, where we celebrated the closure of Ramadan along with the residents. For one day, even just for a moment, the residents forgot their suffering at the hands of an indefinite wait and an uncertain future. There are 250 migrants present in the three centres, all transferred to Salemi in 2014, all asylum seekers who have received a negative from the Territorial Commission, and now pursuing an appeal in the courts. And many are now receiving rejections to their juridical requests...more boys on the outside!

Such a system can be thought of as a container in which to amass people from whom everything is taken (hope, prospectives) and to whom nothing is given (individual processes of inclusion in society and work, a future), and after two years (notwithstanding the hard work of some workers) to be left in the streets of a society ready to stereotype and frequently to exploit you. Still more boys on the outside, who will live like invisible people.

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This is the story of many of the residents at the Piano Torre centre (CAS) in Isnello. A fate common to so many people. As is common practice, some 17-year-old unaccompanied minors are kept in centres for adults, awaiting their turning of age, at which point they can formalize their presence within the CAS*. An entirely illegitimate practice, camouflaged by the “emergency” within a failed system.

But illegitimate or irregular practices don't matter any more. In the province of Trapani we can note the speeding up of the process of rejections from the reception system, seemingly only to free up space within it, while in the rest of Eastern Sicily official notices are arriving of vulnerable people, mainly with psychological problems, who are being refused from the SPRAR*** centres to which the central service had assigned them, with the extremely serious consequence of being lost the first reception system of the CAS*, ending up living on the street, sleeping on a bench and begging for alms. An inhumane dynamic in an inhumane system.

This is a system which continues to activate reception complexes ever further away from inhabited places, such as that in Piano Torre, in the mountains of the Madonie, where the residents move “freely” among the immense spaces of the centre, but where everyone says they suffer terribly through not being able to have contact with anyone beyond the centres' workers. The Ministry of the interior has ensured the amassing of dozens of people in such centres, deferring what is to be done to the managing bodies, without financial resources, given that (for example) the Prefecture of Trapani does not have the necessary staff to undertake the work of transferring the state funds, and is 7 months behind with its payments.

The Prefecture of Palermo closed and reopened the Piano Torre centre, handing its management over directly to the owner (before it was to the Scarabeo cooperative) without calculating for the likely financial problems which lie beneath the centre. The centre, authorized to have 47 people, currently hosts 75 (the last arrivals came from last week's landing), assigned by the Prefecture of Palermo to the managing body like so many postal packages, all in the name of 'emergency'. But notwithstanding the difficulty and distance from Palermo, some  residents have also run away from Piano Torre, increasing the number of boys on the outside.

Finally we received notices of discharges from hospitals in the province of Palermo of young men with extremely serious problems, consigned to the CAS* reception system, in total negligence. People with heart disease, amputations, psychiatric distress, all discharged without any guarantee of adequate outpatient care, who we will make note of to the relevant enforcement authorities to ensure that the necessary checks are carried out. Still more boys on the outside.

Alberto Biondo
Borderline Sicily

*CAS – Centri di Accoglienza Straordinaria: Extraordinary Reception Centres
**All names have been changed.
*** SPRAR – Sistema di protezione per richiedenti asilo e rifugiati: System for the protection of asylum seekers and refugees

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Chunky chum Scott Chaffin points me in the direction of the lost parrots of Seward Park. I’m thinkin’: now that’s a fine use for a city park. I’m off.

CHICAGO READERS PLEASE NOTE: There be parrots in your fine city too. Arrr.

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    Thanks for the useful info.

    I downloaded the Windows 7 Pro x32 iso file from the website , but it doesn’t seem to be genuine.

    I checked the file integrity using the SHA-1 hash.

    The file I downloaded returned the hash:

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Kenny-Luck-smallI am one of those people who believes the best about other people.

In my career as a junior guy working his way up and as a CEO, I have met all sorts of leaders in the marketplace and, now, in the church world. I have noticed over the years that both leaders and managers in Christian settings (like churches or ministries) are engaged with much less cynicism by their junior people at the beginning of a relationship because there is this perception that a common set of spiritual rules are shared and believed.

This makes employees in those settings feel more secure, more loyal and more trusting of their leader, his promises and the possibilities of moving personally forward and developing. “We” are in this great cause together and, after all, “Do to others what you would have them do to you” is in red letters, we work from the same playbook, and this is “God’s work” that we are advancing together. It’s all smiles, honeymoons and hope. Woohoo!

Then it gets weird.

Over time (and it could take years), you begin to see and sense things. Your sniffer goes off, and you catch strong whiffs of self-protection or micromanagement or both. Friendly demeanors turn into businesslike interactions. Distance creeps in, meetings are missed or cancelled, and the next interactions that follow are directives being handed down.

To motivate the team, there has to be “spiritual reasons,” logic and precedent as well. The devil gets mentioned. Pressure comes into your team or organization to rally and perform for projects and agendas your leader will get credit for in the larger organization. Other talented leaders in the team stop leading and innovating and start administrating. The message both directly and indirectly is that we don’t need leaders or vision anymore; we need managers. The whole tone changes—professionally, emotionally and relationally. Hallway conversations increase. People turn over. People leave. Disillusionment and doubt set into the team.

What happened?

The Wolves in Your Team

“Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves” (Matt. 7:15, NIV).

Jesus said to watch out for the wolves who outwardly look like sheep but inwardly are thinking about eating the sheep to get their selfish agendas met. These are the leaders Jesus’ younger brother Jude described so well as men “caring for themselves … following after their own desires, speaking arrogantly, and flattering people to gain advantage” (Jude 12-16). When it comes to your lead team (your shepherds), you don’t want a wolf in the sheep pen! They will chew on and chew up your best people.

These “misleaders” use people to advance themselves but are master politicos who present one face to senior leadership and a completely different functional face to the people they manage and lead. They are counting on the fact that you buy their act and that you won’t inspect their teams. Part of the reason you don’t dive deeper into their leadership style is that they overperform for you! Loyal employee or suck up? Shepherd or wolf?

Smart senior leaders know when they are in the presence of a suck up. Over-response, over-availability, over-communication, over-reporting and overwork that, added together, means someone or some team is paying the price to win this guy's prize. That prize is usually control, predictability, safety organizationally, positional consolidation or advancement from senior leadership. They are daft. They are always one step ahead.  They are always trolling for information. They are your best friend when you are useful, and you never hear from them if you're not.

The tell-tale sign you are in the presence of a wolf/suck up is that they do not have the spontaneous, good heart of a shepherd when it comes to advancing others in the team at their own expense or for the sake of the larger mission. It’s hard to go the other way when caught off guard or confronted with their patternThe result of letting a wolf roam your sheep pen unconfronted is this: Some of your best leaders are suffocated under the leadership style of a wolf and just disappear. They simply could not be developed or advanced.

Self-protection and fear over the implications is simply too big a risk for the wolf. They panic when someone else get a taste of success that makes them less visible. That’s when the fangs comes out, but just know: The fangs never come out in public. They come out in private spaces, and you might be next!

In my experience with wolves, I have this advice: Pay little attention to what they say, and pay very close attention to what they do. Specifically, how do they treat othersSuper specifically, do they treat leaders below them the same way they want to be treated?

  • Do they develop and advance people?
  • Do people below them feel like they are growing professionally under their leadership?
  • Do they recognize and see the talents of others?
  • Do they let their leaders lead?
  • Do they micromanage?
  • Do members of their teams feel stifled in their ideas or initiatives?
  • Does the conversation with senior leadership have to be controlled and presented through him alone?

If you answered yes to some or most of these questions, watch your back. You may have a wolf for a boss or for a manager.

Kenny Luck, founder of Every Man Ministries and Men’s Pastor at Saddleback Church, provides biblically-oriented teaching and leadership for men and pastors seeking relevant, timely material that battle cultural, worldly concepts threatening men and God’s men. Follow Kenny and Every Man Ministries now on FacebookTwitter (@everyMM) and YouTube.

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