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This year I read James Fry's superb memoir of bullying, addiction and redemption, That Fry Boy. I was impressed by its maturity, its nuanced discussion of complex social issues and by James' ability to tell a frequently difficult story with great compassion and simplicity.

I jumped at the chance to work with him, and we had a really fascinating conversation about his book and his life at Balmain Library a few months later.

I thought I would ask James to write something for you all about his creative process and inspiration and why he decided to let it all out. Here's what he had to say:

Teenage drug addict and petty crim turned suburban father and university post grad whose only threat of overdose comes in the aromatic specter of one too many macchiatos.

My life story up until now may make it fair for some to surmise that not only do I dislike stereotypes, but at times—deliberately and sometimes by complete accident—I have managed to quash a few, too. Yet when it comes to the narrative that creative types are often driven by inner demons, it would seem I am someone who is at the vanguard of ensuring such a typecast isn’t lost.

Finding a medium to express my creativity was a search that didn’t present me with any real answers until I hit thirty. Only then did I begin to write with anything vaguely resembling a commitment. And not because I thought I might have any talent for the written word, but simply because I was so damn bored with my office job that I was willing to give anything a go. It’s not that I wasn’t appreciative of creative works up until that point. I had often found solace between the pages of a good book or strolling through the wings of a gallery. The creative works of others long spoke to me and my struggles in ways that I found little else could. The problem was, I could not speak back. And if I go too long without speaking back now, I begin to feel off kilter, fast.

As my children will be quick to attest, I have been bestowed with a set of fine motor skills that see even the simplest of requests result in catastrophic disappointment. When my daughter had just started to string sentences together, she asked me to draw her a bumblebee. A simple bloody bumblebee. Surely a father could deliver on the simplest of requests from a darling brown-eyed cherub who didn’t doubt for a second her dad wouldn’t grant this wish.   What she got was something that resembled a cow that looked like it had grown up on free-range grain from the fields of Chernobyl. She learnt quickly that her mum was the go-to for all future art-related requests. So when I finally took up writing, I was both surprised and deeply transformed when I discovered that I was able to produce something that others might find readable. No longer was I just a mere consumer of creativity; I could be a producer, too. I exhaled a long-held breath—one I had no idea I had been holding for all that time. The demons now had an outlet. The demons I had sought to quash with drugs, booze and sex during my years of active addiction.

Through my own experience, and now countless conversations with fellow writers, I have found that the love—and hopefully some accompanying talent—for writing often isn’t realised by most of us until we are well into our adult years. This is in sharp contrast to those with a capacity for the visual arts, for whom their potential is generally both recognised and encouraged from the earliest ages.

In a recent edition of the Tasmanian literary magazine Island, a spotlight was shone on the inspiring prison literacy initiative Just Sentences. One participant, who appeared under the alias Peter, hadn’t attempted creative writing until his sixth decade on earth. With just a small bit of assistance, not only did Peter’s general literacy skills rise remarkably, but also in the process he found a love for creative writing. ‘I’m a lot happier writing,’ he said, despite still calling prison his home. ‘I got my own way of putting my thinking—it may be mad to you all but to me it’s my way of saying things’. The discovery of a new way of connecting like Peter has, is something that I can deeply relate to.  A friend whose commitment to his writing only developed momentum on the steeper side of fifty, describes his drive to write using the Jungian concept of Eros versus Thanatos. The life drive versus death drive. He told me ‘if I don't now actively engage my creativity via Eros, it expresses itself via Thanatos in a kind of low intensity level guerrilla warfare, with my sanity and sobriety the target.’

Of course, neither age nor suffering, however common factors amongst creative types, are mandatory. The literary world alone is full of seemingly well-adjusted authors, some of who aren’t even old enough to vote.

Be that as it may, those writers who have experienced deep suffering often have a level of fire available to draw upon, in turn pushing them beyond that threshold where many others often decide they have had enough and down tools. A decision, which ultimately means that their manuscript, however promising, is never finished, or that potentially wonderful art work goes without those beautiful finishing brush strokes. Fortunately, suffering can also make for a highly readable story, too. When pain makes its way onto the page, it can strike a chord in the reader like nothing else. After all, if we live long enough, suffering will visit each and every one of us regardless of what our bank balance may be or what social circles we mix in. And not only is such pain something common to us all, it is something very few of us regularly talk about, at least not at a public level.

Finding someone else who has been able to articulate what we were either too afraid to say, or simply could not find the right words to describe, results in a powerful hook being unleashed upon the reader. Writer Andrew Solomon once told an audience, ‘The writer’s job is to say those things that appear unsayable, to cloak with language those volatile experiences that seem barely able to endure it’. F. Scott Fitzgerald sounded like he was trying to say something similar, though perhaps in a simpler term when he said, ‘What people are ashamed of usually makes a good story’.

With such an emphasis on suffering, you may be thinking that I spend my days in a depressive stupor of the kind that would give even Nietzsche a boner of Viagraic proportions. But as much as I may be driven at times by demons, discovering an outlet for these ghouls in the form of writing means I’m blessed with being able to transform something that was once utterly self-destructive into a source of creative inspiration. Something that rewards me even more is when I hear from readers that the very words born from the depths of my existence have left the page and have touched them in a way that has allowed them to acknowledge and release their own demons, too.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort was sentenced to a total of seven and a half years in prison Wednesday after a federal judge rejected his appeal for no additional time and rebuked him for his crimes and years of lies.

Within minutes of the sentencing, prosecutors in New York brought state charges against Manafort — a move that appeared at least partly designed to guard against the possibility that President Donald Trump could pardon him. The president can pardon federal crimes, but not state offenses.

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CAIRO, IL - The US 60/62 Mississippi River Bridge at Cairo is now open, after being shut down for over a year for needed repairs.

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Who know that there was an MMA promotion running small shows (about 6000 fans) in China? Or that former Heisman Trophy winner and NFL player Rashaan Salaam was promoting the event? Not me, that’s for sure. But, apparently, Tom Shanahan from the Voice of San Diego knew all about it. He has written a nice article with the details.

(via Fight Opinion)

Update 5/31: The article has a new URL

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Friday, January 6, 2017

The Best Poutine in Canada (Or Whatever)

This photo is the #1 way people found my travel blog. Poutine blogging legacy.

As we can all see, I'm way behind on the documentation of Cross Canada Crimez. Maybe I'll get to it but, as many of you know, I'm now a mom of a 5 month old kid. (Don't worry, she's not biologically my daughter; I would have eaten at least twice as much poutine if I knew I was growing a little Canadian in my womb. And had at least 90% less beer.).

Since the NYT decided that Canada is the #1 place to be this year, tourism is bound to skyrocket and I want to be a resource for people on a mission for the best poutine. This is how other people plan their travel destinations, right?

Depending on how you slice it, I ate anywhere from 26-29 poutines this summer. There were two that didn't have real cheese curds and one (see "The Worst" below) that was just...not a poutine by any definition.

Unfortunately, I had a counting fail and skipped #17 (oops), so my "30th poutine" crowning achievement of kinda gross A&W poutine in the Vancouver airport was a false celebration. I want to apologize to everyone who waited with bated breath, refreshing their Instagram feeds to see if I could do it.

That's what I get for not making a poutine hashtag to keep track. I fail as a millennial. Anyone want to intern for me to catalog my poutine and/or Guinness shots? I write really good recommendation letters.

Okay, so back to the poutine. Here's my attempt at "The Best Poutines in Canada [that I ate this summer on a limited time scale and budget and stomach capacity but ignore this bit for SEO]"

The Best

I was hungover and sad I didn't have more stomach room for Fritz's

The Best of the West

Fritz European Fry House in Vancouver was amazing. Great curd to chip ratio. All elements were delicious. Fries were thick and crispy. Go there.
St John's! Not be confused with St John...

The Best of the East

St John's, Newfoundland was our favourite spot on our whole trip (spoiler alert), and it cemented its place in my heart forever with a solid poutine showing at Green Sleeves Pub. The service there was also up there with the best in the country. Can someone please just teleport me back to St John's?

That's jet lag in my eyes, not weed.

Runner Up

A random chip truck on Canada Day at Major's Hill Park. However, this place has an unfair advantage: cold weather, tipsy me, CANADA DAY, and early in the trip. So take this one with a grain of greasy chip salt.

Cross Canada Crimez Best Poutine Award Goes To...

Blaming the Irishman for getting the sign and not the poutine in this one.
Obviously the best poutine that I ate was in Quebec. I'm not so edgy that I could even pretend anywhere had cheese that could compare. Every poutine the I ate in that province had cheese that was far superior to the other provinces' fare.

However, it came from an unexpected source: Pub Saint-Patrick. Yeah, I know, an Irish pub in super touristy Old Québec City. I was 100% sober, eating it for breakfast with a coffee. It had the perfect thick cut chips, squeaky cheese curds, and classic gravy. Nothing fancy (except the $13 + tax + tip price tag).
An insult to Canada. To Ireland. To food.

The Worst

WTF Halifax? You were one of our favourite cities on this journey but Durty Nelly's Irish Pub is definitely taking the piss with their "Irish Poutine". I don't know if this Canadians playing tricks on Irish people or vice versa (welcome to my marriage) but gnocchi, white sauce, a few pieces of beef, and cheese curds does not a poutine (or edible meal) make.

Pleasant Surprises

I was skeptical

Full Meal Poutine

Lots of places like to get fancy with their poutines, adding extra ingredients beyond the gravy, cheese curds, and french fries. I generally try to steer clear of these concoctions, but the Irishman and I took a leap in Charlottetown, PEI. And we were delighted that we did. Peas, stuffing, turkey, cheese curds, cranberry sauce, on a bed of french fries, slathered in turkey gravy = one of the more balanced meals on our trip. We shared it for two meals and enjoyed every bite. And it felt like we got a few vitamins we may have been lacking.
Go figure.

Nice Touch Award

Lowertown Brewery in Ottawa has a poutine with pickled jalapenos. On a chicken gravy poutine, it's pretty tasty!
Not great. But much better than expected.

Fast Food Poutine

McDonald's poutine is okay, y'all. For real. I had one in Victoria and, I swear, it was not half bad for a fast food poutine. Generous with the curds, it was much better than KFC, A&W, and some of the restaurants we ate in outside of Quebec and Eastern Ontario.

I thought this was going to be the Holy Grail :'(

The Biggest Disappointment

La Banquise is known as one of the best poutines in Montreal and came recommended by nearly all the Montrealers I know. Therefore, it should be one of the best poutines in the world. And my fries were partly raw. It was a tragedy and must have been a one-off mistake. One day, we will meet again La Banquise so I can give you another chance!

What did I miss? Let me know in the comments so I can decide where my family should move when we leave China.

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Loneliness Taskforce First Meeting in Leinster House

Loneliness Taskforce
Loneliness Taskforce

Loneliness Taskforce received over 300 submissions as a response to loneliness in Ireland

The Loneliness Taskforce has had its first meeting on Monday in Leinster House.

The Loneliness Taskforce was established by Dr. Keith Swanick in collaboration with the CEO of ALONE, Seán Moynihan, to coordinate a response to the epidemic of loneliness and social isolation in Ireland. Through its work, the Loneliness Taskforce is seeking to increase awareness about the issue and to produce a set of recommendations for Government, state agencies and all policy makers.

Over 300 submissions have been received by the Taskforce sent from the general public, Oireachtas and Northern Ireland Assembly Members, MEPs, NGOs, Local Authorities, Public Participation Networks, and Volunteer Networks across the country, both North and South. The establishment of the Taskforce has created a much-needed national conversation on the loneliness and social isolation faced by people in Ireland.

Seán Moynihan, CEO of ALONE said, “We have been overwhelmed at the level of interest and support the Taskforce has received from all over the country, and particularly the huge number of people who have offered their help.”

Moynihan continued, “We look forward to making progress with our report and presenting it to the Government, and we hope that meaningful action is taken as a result. Loneliness is not something to be brushed off – it is a public health issue, one that needs serious consideration.”

Chairperson of the Loneliness Taskforce, Dr Keith Swanick said, “As a GP, in my practice in rural Ireland, I often see the profound medical and mental health problems which are often exacerbated by loneliness. I am well aware however, that Loneliness crosses the rural-urban divide and I witnessed the same problems a number of years ago as a GP in the heart of Finglas.”

He continued, “Through the submissions we have received, the Taskforce has heard from people who are young, new parents, those who are divorced or a single parent, from people with disabilities, returning emigrants, home carers and entrepreneurs. We can say with certainty that loneliness never discriminates between young and old, rich and poor or urban and rural.”

The Loneliness Taskforce includes members from the education, sporting, nursing, psychology, business and academic sectors. It is hoped that the Taskforce will release their report with recommendations for Government, state agencies and all policy makers in the summer.

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People of the Year Awards, Colette Byrne &

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Let me share with you something amazing that happened. In mid January of this year I got a phone call from a gentleman saying he was from the People of the Year Awards, he continued to explain that I had been nominated for an award and was now shortlisted. Much of what he said didn’t register and he had to repeat himself a couple of times at my request, I couldn’t believe it, is this really happening? I wasn’t even aware of being nominated.

The phone call came from Martin Grant of Rehab and People of the Year Awards, who explained I was shortlisted in the category ‘Everyday Hero’ for my work setting up the bereavement support website He continued to explain that the nomination was by a member of our forum who, at that time, wished to remain anonymous and that I would have to be willing to go on the radio. It was a lot of information to process.

A couple of weeks went by and the day came for the radio interview to be recorded, I was nervous, very nervous. But I needn’t have worried. Evelyn O’Rourke from the RTE Radio One, Today with Sean O’Rourke show arrived at my home. What a lovely person who put me at ease as we chatted. I showed her the site and did my best to answer her questions. Several hours flew by and before I knew it, the interview was over.

Difficult Memories

But that’s not to say it wasn’t difficult at times. Recanting the early days of loosing my husband Peter brought back painful memories. Initially I struggled to really explain the reason behind setting up the website, How do you explain that absolute feeling of loss, a pain like I never knew could exist? How, as the weeks went past after the accident, that pain got worse and I could feel myself going downhill into grief so very fast. I feared for my child who was only three when her Daddy died, how would she be without her Dad? I did my best to explain the need to talk with other bereaved and widowed people in Ireland and to learn if its possible to survive this horrible thing called widowhood.

If your reading this and are recently widowed, please know that yes, the pain does gently ease. For a while it’ll feel like one step forward and two back and no matter how difficult it may seem right now, it does get easier.

Day of the Radio Broadcast

The day came for the interview to be broadcast on air, I was in work and for that fifteen to twenty minutes, we did something that’s never done – the phones were taken off the hook.

I sat with my elbows on the desk, hands wrapped around my head… is it over yet?

Its difficult hearing your own story going out on the airwaves to the entire country. I thought of Peter’s and my own family who would be listening and hoped they’ll be all right because, they miss him too.

I also wondered if I’d explained well enough how the site works, doubt swirls your mind.

Then I remembered, if my story helps just one other, then it was worth it.

The piece came together really well and for me, it was a beautiful tribute to my husband Peter’s memory. Thank you Evelyn O’Rourke and all at the ‘Today with Sean O’Rourke‘ RTE Radio One show for your kindness and for sharing my story. Thank you also to Rehab and People of the Year Awards, what an incredible privilege to have been given.

And yes, I did learn who put the nomination forward, thank you David Curran its such a great honour.

Keep an Eye out for Part Two of this story over the coming days. I’ll be writing about the day RTE Arrived, what beautiful a surprise!

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Wednesday, February 25, 2015

A Street Car Called Ruin

I have been out of Detroit for more than a quarter century now. I have not lived within its borders for something like three decades. I guess that means that I have lost touch with the place. Maybe I am missing some deeply hidden vitality there. I must be. Otherwise, I would not still be hearing how Detroit is coming back. The renaissance is here.  A lot of these stories of rebirth seemed to be premised on the nature of the people who live in Detroit. The idea, as I understand it, is that Detroiters are so steeled by privation that nothing can hold them back. And thus do they celebrate things like a few hundred jobs for people making watches. Or a retail chain opening a location within city limits.
The latest sign of the comeback is a street car running 3.3 miles from Downtown to the New Center Area.  It's as if they took the People Mover down from its track and laid it out along Woodward. The image of this street car, clanking along, empty, through abandoned neighborhoods, seems like the perfect Detroit metaphor: noisy and kinetic, but going from nowhere to no place.
Has it come to this? Is something as quotidian as a drug store opening proof that there is still life in Detroit? Or is it simply more proof of how moribund the place is? It puts me in mind of family visiting a person in a coma and nodding with great meaning at a flicker of a facial muscle.
Detroit is less and less an actual city and more and more a mythical tale of downfall and ruin and abandon.  But, good luck to the people who still live there.  Celebrate if the street lights come on at night. Ride the rails through the new American Frontier, where the land is hard and open and available to the brave or foolish.
Perhaps the few hundred thousand people still living in Detroit will prove me wrong. I doubt it.

Monday, February 16, 2015

Let Us Now Praise Famous Poets

The former Poet Laureate of the United States Phillip Levine has died.  I have to admit up front that I know nothing about Mr. Levine. But I noted with interest that he was born in Detroit some 87 years ago.  He apparently found  great deal of inspiration in the Motor City.  The Detroit he wrote about was entirely different in some ways from what I describe in my books. Back then, Detroit was prosperous and beautiful.  There would have been no call from Hofmann and Grimes to prowl through its ruins. But some of what Levine wrote about endures even know: the tough, grimy, seething city that produces so many great story lines. From what son of Detroit to another: Good work and RIP. The world is a better place for you having lived.

Wednesday, February 11, 2015

It's getting to be time to start preparing Meridian for publication.  This novel was actually the third one I wrote. It comes between Smoke and Exile. But, I decided to skip it as I published the books.  I did this primarily because of the connections between Heroes, Smoke, and Exile. As I have noted elsewhere, these three books are not a trilogy in the ordinary sense. But, I do think you could read them altogether as one very long novel.  As I was writing Exile, it occurred to me that issues and idea that started in Heroes were only just now getting resolved. I do think you have to read all three to really understand what any one of them is about.  To be fair, though, there is another reason I skipped Meridian. I don't think it is my best effort. I will say more about Meridian as its publication draws nearer. I hope readers will like it. I certainly look forward to any feedback.  I think that getting the manuscript proofread and formatted as well as getting another Teddi Black cover, is going to take a good few months.  Look for Meridian to be available late spring.

Wednesday, February 4, 2015

Leave Harper Lee Alone

The news that those people around Harper Lee are planning to publish a book in her name is distressing. From all available evidence, Ms. Lee is too infirm to have made a decision to publish anything. People who know her say she is deaf and blind. She resides in an assisted living facility.  Are we supposed to believe that she made the conscious decision to publish this new book? Why would she do so now? She could have done it at any time during the past half-century.  According to one report, she gave an interview some years back on the issue of why she had never published another book. She gave an answer that I think really resonates with all writers: "I have said what I wanted to say and I will not say it again." To me, at least, that has a real ring of truth to it.
Somewhere along the line, as I was writing all those words and stories that became novels, something popped into my brain. It was a sentence and I knew right then, that it was the last thing I would ever write.  When Home comes out, you will see that this sentence does, indeed, end that book and my writing career.   Occasionally, people will ask why I have not written any more novels. I think Harper Lee put it better than I ever could: "I said what I wanted to say and I won't say it again."

I really object to whomever is doing this to her. The new novel is essentially a first draft of her beloved To Kill A Mockingbird.  It is little exaggeration to say that Boo and Scout and Atticus are central figures in American letters.  As it stands now, they are preserved forever just the way Lee wanted them.  An earlier draft of Mockingbird is going to show us our familiar characters in a changed light. We will see how Lee imagined them before they took full shape in her mind and on the page. This is not a good thing.

I wrote a novel called "What'll I Do?" before I wrote Heroes. I intend never to publish this earlier book. It's a pretty good book with a terrific mystery story. But it also features Hofmann and Grimes. When I wrote Heroes, I saw that these two characters were a lot different than I had thought of them before.  In short, I got those two wrong. That's why I won't publish What'll I Do? The Hofmann and Grimes (and Garvin and a hundred other characters) are the ones in Heroes and Smoke and Exile.

Those around Harper Lee who are doing this, should respect her wishes to not have this new book published.  She plainly did not want it released.  To Kill A Mockingbird is her creation and no one has the right to disturb her vision.
I hope that no one buys this book so that this terrible idea never occurs to anyone ever again.

I see, sadly, that this book is already number one on Amazon.  If you give these people your money, you are a part of this awful deed.


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Meteorological towers in a wind farm

In a standard wind farm, 3 different Meteorological Tower (known as Met Mast) are installed.

First of all, a tower is needed to provide several years (normally at least 2) of wind data. This tower is used to collect not only wind data, but also other information such as temperature, humidity, rain and so on.

Normally these towers are lower that the WTGs that will be installed on site, with an average height of 40 meters: the wind speed at the hub height will be interpolated at the correct elevation using one of the available formulas.

If after a deep study of the energy that can be provided by the wind a promising location is found and the wind farm construction start, one or more temporary met mast are erected.

This towers measures the actual wind speed in the positions where a WTG will be erected, at the hub height (80 meters or more) and are used to calibrate the power curve, that is if the produced energy is in line with the expected values.

After a couple of weeks (normally 2 months) this tower is removed and a turbine is installed nearby.

The third tower is the wind farm tower: this tower will be used to transmit to the control centre the meteorological situation in the location and it has a paramount importance for the management of the site. It normally has the same height of the turbines of the wind farm.

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GG Marmont Velvet Medium Shoulder Bag Review

Ok I will admit it… I have an issue with designer handbags. I tried to explain to Jon’s parents one time and found myself calling them investments which honestly they more or less are, but that was quite the rationalization. In reality I love a good bag. You can catch me in Target shoes all day long, but please let my bag be a soft as this one?! I shared on my Instagram stories how I purchase my designer backs not full price. Would you all like a separate post on this?

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Ludwig van Beethoven (1770?-1827)

Although we celebrate Beethoven’s birthday on December 16th, there is no official medical record of his birth. The 17th is the date of his recorded baptism, so it is assumed his birth was the previous day.

Born in Bon, one of seven children (although only he and two brothers survived beyond infancy), Beethoven was named after his Grandfather, also a musician and Kapellmeister in Cologne.  His first music teacher was his father who was reputed to be a very tough taskmaster, forcing young Ludwig to stand at the keyboard for hours, often to the point of tears.

His talent was evident very early on. His father was well aware of the rise of Mozart’s popularity as a child prodigy, so he likewise attempted to exploit his son’s talent in the same way, even going so far as to advertise his son being younger than he actually was.

Beethoven had his first serious teaching at about age 9. A few years later, Beethoven would compose his first published composition, a set of keyboard variations.

He traveled to Vienna for the first time in his teens in the hope of studying with Mozart. We’re not sure if the two actually met or not.  Shortly afterward, he received word that his mother had died so returned to Bonn where he stayed for the next five years to care for his two younger brothers.  Around this time, he met one of his lifelong patrons, Count Ferdinand von Waldstein, for whom he wrote his Waldstein piano sonata.

He returned to Vienna in his early 20s where he soon became acquainted with Haydn who began studying with the old master.

Beethoven did not immediately set out to become a composer, but rather devoted himself to study and performance, receiving lessons from Antonio Salieri.  He soon established a reputation as keyboard virtuoso and improviser in the homes of the Vienna nobility.

Beginning in his late 20s, he began to tackle what he considered to be the pinnacles of composition, the string quartet and the symphony, including his first six string quartets, first two symphonies and the Pathetique Sonata.  By 1800, his talents were highly in demand in Vienna.  The next few years produced the immortal Moonlight Sonata, the ballet The Creatures of Prometheus and his third piano concerto.

Beethoven began to have hearing difficulties around this time. They began with mere tinnitus, a ringing in the ears that made it increasingly difficult to hear music and conversation. He began to turn inward socially at this time, avoiding groups and conversation.  The first references to his hearing loss appear in his letters around this time, including thoughts of suicide.  After a failed attempt to perform his Emperor Piano Concerto in 1811, he never performed in public again.

Even though his hearing was growing progressively worse, this period began one of his most productive, producing the third through the eight symphonies, the Appassionata and Waldstein Sonatas and his only opera, Fidelio.  This period established his reputation as a master.

Beethoven’s love interests were many and varied.  He composed many of his most iconic pieces for them including the Moonlight Sonata and Fur Elise.

With the death of his brother Carl, Beethoven began a protracted custody battle for his nephew Karl, on which he spent a small fortune. His emotional and financial state at this time caused his compositional output to drop.  The only major works composed during this period were two cello sonatas, a single piano sonata and a collection of folk-song settings. The custody case would not be fully resolved for another five years.

By 1818, Beethoven’s hearing deteriorated to the point that normal conversation became impossible, so he began to use ‘conversation books’ to write down his thoughts to others. Fortunately, a great many of these notes were collected and preserved after his death, providing an excellent chronicle of his later years.

By 1821, Beethoven began to become ill. His brother Johann began to take care of his business affairs, located unpublished manuscripts and offering them for publication. The works of his late period include the Diabelli Variations, his late string quartets, his last two sonatas for cello and piano and the Ninth Symphony.

His health continued to deteriorate leaving him bedridden for most of the last year of his life.  He died on a Monday, March 26th, 1827 during a thunderstorm. A friend who was present at his bedside claimed that a clap of thunder pealed at the exact moment of his death.  His funeral procession through Vienna was attended by an estimated 20,000 mourners.

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I cannot judge as all the colour profiles I have ever seen show purple, and the photographs that I have seen are in black and white. Besides, purely from an aesthetic point of view I do prefer the purple. Where did the idea of purple originally come from? Was it from a fragment or covering, or did some-one decide that the colour was purple based on research and every-one merely followed suit.

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The spokesman said that the commitment by the government stems from the full responsibility to implement Sweden agreement brokered by the United Nations.

Al-Shami explained that propaganda promoted by the coalition and its militias on targeting the joint committees to cease fire is unfounded and come to try seeking to fail Sweden agreement and covering the coalition’s continued violations in Hodeidah.

The spokesman that the army and popular forces committees committed to cease-fire in areas identified by Stockholm agreement.

Al-Shami explained that the coalition and its militias are trying hard to undermine Sweden agreement.

In December, Yemen’s Houthi Ansarullah and the country’s former Saudi-backed government signed an agreement for a ceasefire in Hodeidah during UN-brokered peace talks held in the Swedish capital of Stockholm. Martin Griffiths, the UN special envoy for Yemen, mediated the negotiations.

The limited ceasefire and withdrawal, if implemented, could offer a potential breakthrough in a nearly four-year Saudi-led war that has brought Yemen to the brink of starvation and created the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.

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Tsemaḥ Szabad reading to his grandsons, Uriel and Gabriel, the sons of noted linguist and scholar Max Weinreich, Vilna, 1931. (YIVO)

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Szabad, Tsemaḥ

(1864–1935), physician and public figure. Tsemaḥ (Yid., Tsemakh) Szabad was born in Vilna and educated in the traditional Jewish system and in a Russian secondary school. In 1881, he moved to Moscow, completing his medical studies at Moscow University in 1889. Five years later, Szabad returned to Vilna and worked as a physician at the local hospital. Because of his involvement in the 1905 Revolution, he was forced to leave Vilna for several years. During World War I, he provided care and support to Jews living in the battle zones.

Three generations of the Szabad family: Yosef Szabad, a merchant (seated, center) and his wife, Pesa, a shopkeeper and daughter of a rabbi, Vilna, 1897. One of their sons, Tsemaḥ Szabad (back row, sixth from left) became a prominent doctor, communal leader, and politician. Photograph by N. Serebrin. (YIVO)

When the war ended, Szabad began to play an active role in public life and quickly became one of the most prominent figures in the Vilna Jewish community. Still working on a daily basis as a physician, he also served as chair of the local branch of the Society for the Protection of the Health of the Jews (OZE), which had been founded in Saint Petersburg before World War I. Its goal was to raise the hygienic standards of Jewish society and to assist children and new mothers in health matters by, among other things, taking steps to advance preventive medicine—and by organizing summer camps for children. Szabad also chaired the Jewish Committee for the Relief of War Victims (Evreiskii Komitet Pomoshchi Zhertvam Voiny; EKOPO), an organization dedicated to assisting and rebuilding Jewish communities in Eastern Europe after World War I.

Szabad founded the respected periodical Folksgezund (Popular Health) and published various works on medicine. His own popularity as a physician was reflected in the fact that the hero in Kornei Chukovskii’s “Doctor Oh-It-Hurts,” a well-known children’s story, was based on his own personality.

From Tsemaḥ Szabad in Vilna to Jakob Lestschinsky in Berlin or Prague, 13 February 1933, about a statistical study of fertility rates among Jewish women in the Vilna region before, during, and after World War I. Szabad asks Lestschinsky's advice on finding data and comparative studies. Yiddish. Polish letterhead: Dr. Cemach Szabad, Wilno, Styczniowa 8. RG 339 Jacob Lestschinsky Papers, F72. (YIVO)

Szabad promoted educational opportunities for Jews in Lithuania. Among his varied activities, he established evening schools for women; served as a member of the board of the Vilna Yiddish Educational Association; worked to advance and expand the network of secular Yiddish-language schools; served as head of the board of the vocational training organization ORT; founded a public library in Vilna; and was the Vilna chair of the executive of the Society for the Promotion of Culture (more literally, Dissemination of Enlightenment) among the Jews of Russia (OPE). Szabad was also active in the cultural activities; he was editor of the Vilner zamlbukh (Vilna Collection) between 1917 and 1918, served as a member of the executive of the Historical-Ethnographic Society, and was one of the founders of YIVO, the Yiddish Scientific Institute.

Clearly one of the most important leaders of Vilna’s Jewish community, Szabad was elected chairman of the executive in 1919. Between then and 1927, he served on the Vilna city council; and in 1928 was elected to the Polish senate. Szabad’s political views placed him in the autonomist stream. Together with historian Simon Dubnow he founded the Folkspartey (Folkist Party) to compete in Polish politics, but he later broke with the leadership and went his own way.

Suggested Reading

Hirsz Abramowicz, “Dr. Cemach Szabad,” in Profiles of a Lost World, trans. Eva Zeitlin Dobkin, ed. Dina Abramowicz and Jeffrey Shandler, pp. 297–300 (Detroit and New York, 1999); Moritz Grosman, ed., Yidishe Vilne in vort un bild: Ilustrirter almanakh (Vilna, 1925); Hirsh Mac, Dr. Tsemakh Shabad: Der visnshaftler un publitsist (Warsaw, 1937); Yulian I. Rafes, Doctor Tsemakh Shabad: A Great Citizen of the Jewish Diaspora (Baltimore, 1999); Zemah Shabad (Tsemakh Szabad), Oytobiografye (Vilna, 1935).

YIVO Archival Resources

RG 1139, Abraham Cahan, Papers, 1906-1952; RG 19, Zemach Shabad, Papers, ca. 1900-1930s; RG 22, Hevrah Mefitsei Haskalah Society (Vilna), Records, 1909-1938; RG 3, Yiddish Literature and Language, Collection, 1870s-1941; RG 339, Jacob Lestschinsky, Papers, 1900-1958.

Translated from Hebrew by I. Michael Aronson


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When Beyoncé screamed those words in her 2011 pop hit, women globally were inspired. With 8 March marking International Women’s Day, and after a period when women have been speaking out against sexual assault, we meet a handful of Bajan ladies determined to make a difference. Words and images by Risée Chaderton

Alexa Hoffman , LGBTI Activist
“I needed to change things – for me and for younger people following.”

Although she is only 24 years old, Alexa’s youth has not stopped her from becoming one of Barbados’s leading and most visible activists for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex (LGBTI) rights. Often seen leading impromptu ‘flash stands’ – short, pop-up, low-key demonstrations – in the centre of Bridgetown, Alexa has become the voice for the island’s often unheard LGBTI community, particularly focusing on transgender issues. “I consider myself to be quite old emotionally,” she says.

Alexa was instrumental in organising the first-ever Barbados PRIDE week last November. With the support of the Canadian High Commission, Alexa spoke about the need for more legislation to protect the vulnerable LGBTI community, and noted that if its members continue to emigrate to places such as Canada because they feel unsafe, Barbados will continue losing skilled workers and creative minds that could be contributing to the growth of the Barbadian economy. “When we leave and give our skills to another country, that country benefits,” says Alexa. “I like Barbados and I want my home to benefit instead.”

Alexa continues to work toward making Barbados a safe space where LGBTI people can feel at home.“I used to be scared to leave my house,” she recalls. “I never wanted to be too far from people who could rescue me if I was attacked. This impacted my ability to get a job because I didn’t even want to catch the bus to go beyond a certain distance from home and be exposed to the public and potential violence.” Trans women in the Caribbean are often subjected to horrific assaults and many are abandoned by their families.

Alexa realised that she could not allow herself to be a prisoner in her own home. “There was no hiding who I was, so I started to embrace myself and move forward,” she says. Alexa wanted to help others avoid those same feelings of oppression and abandonment, so she began speaking out. “I guess I kinda made myself a target, but I had to do it. I decided that I needed to change things for me and for younger people following.” Now Alexa has global support behind her and has made Barbados aware of the issues affecting the LGBTI community.
• www.facebook.com/alexa.v.strauss; Twitter: @UltraViolet_940; Instagram: alexa.hoffmann

Luci Hammans, Playwright/Poet/Teacher
“It takes courage to be creative.”

Poet and playwright Luci Hammans has long been different – different in presentation, different in her thinking. Her difference has led her to become a big voice on the underground poetry scene in Barbados. Always one to take her struggles straight to her notebooks, Luci has recently begun working as a playwright, too. While studying theatre performance in Birmingham, England, Luci saw how young people thrived when they had a space to speak their truth. This led to her participation in BeatFreeks, a youth engagement agency, and she brought their poetry jam model back to Barbados when she returned home after completing her studies in the UK.

The poetry jam was a success. Since then Luci has been creating more events that are rooted in the Caribbean experience.

“I wrote a play called Who Diablesse about four Caribbean women who are all la Diablesse – protectors of women,” she says. “It’s about how the three elder members help the youngest member come to terms with her powers and responsibility. There was a performed reading of it that made me so proud.”

Now a theatre teacher, Luci says that she remains focused on young people. “I love working with young people because the creative energy they have is amazing,” she says. “I love creating safe spaces for kids, especially those living in a place where it can feel like creativity is not considered important.”

Talking about how she conducts her workshops, she says: “I try to help young people realise that they don’t have to be perfect. It takes courage to be creative. I run workshops on writing and I think my own youth helps them root it in the real. I don’t do Shakespeare unless we are reinterpreting it; I try to ground it in our Caribbean-ness. We have a rich Caribbean heritage and we have to hold on to it.

I love inspiring young people. At the NIFCA summer camp I taught them about Caribbean folklore, and I could see the young people blossom while learning about their history.” Luci continues to teach, and her work can be seen around the region in 2018.
• www.facebook.com/luci.hammans; Twitter: @luciIsMe

Lois Oliver, Scientist
“It never occurred to me that I couldn’t do it.”

The primary school science fair is crowded. Students chatter excitedly about their projects, and Lois Oliver bends down to speak to one ten-year-old girl. “What do you want to be when you grow up?” she asks. The child responds gleefully, “I want to work in a store!” Lois’s brow furrows. “Don’t you want to be a scientist? An inventor? A mathematician?” “Girls don’t do that!” the girl replies confidently. “Yes. They. Do,” Lois insists – and explains the details of her job while other students gather around to listen. Lois knows that she is an example to young girls, helping them see who they can be, what they can achieve. She does not take that responsibility lightly.

“As a child I had a family member who was studying sciences,” she recalls. “I was young and didn’t know exactly what that meant, but I knew I wanted to do it too. It never occurred to me that I couldn’t.”

Lois studied biology and chemistry. Once she had her degree, she worked as a lab tech in a local brewery, then moved up to become a brewer, which is “part scientist, part artist,” says Lois. “You have to know the chemistry but also how the flavours will mix and create your final product.”

But Lois didn’t just want a job – she wanted a purpose. When she saw an opening for assistant director at the Caribbean Science Foundation, she knew she would be good at it: “Encouraging young people was definitely what I wanted to be doing.” She got the job and immediately began helping organise projects such as the annual Robotics Camp held in the summer holiday for young people aged 11 to 13. It had never been done in Barbados before, and enthusiasm was high. Both boys and girls applied and were accepted, defying the notion that science is a ‘boy thing’.

Lois also became involved in a scholarship programme called SPISE (Student Programme for Innovation in Science and Engineering), a four-week intensive workshop that trains young scientists. “We have alumni at Harvard, at MIT, at universities around the world,” Lois says. “We are very proud of our students.” Next on the agenda is a coding camp for young people, which will launch in 2018.

Lois has now left the Caribbean Science Foundation but still works to show how science is the way forward. “Everyone wants their child to be a doctor or a lawyer, but hospitals and law firms hire relatively few people. Science creates thousands of jobs. We can do that in the Caribbean if we train our young people to value science and innovation. I won’t stop working to make that happen.”
• www.facebook.com/lois.oliver.50

Allyson Benn, Blogger/Social Media Activist
“I know who I am and what I stand for.”

If you are online in Barbados you will have heard of Allyson ‘Artemis’ Benn. She is a woman with a big voice and a massive social media following, and she isn’t shy to tackle issues that most will only handle with kid gloves.

Standing nearly six feet tall, Allyson is an intimidating presence before a single word leaves her mouth. So when she decided to take on the cause of sexual harassment on the streets, her presence did not go unnoticed. A former adult entertainer, Allyson has often said that the only power people have over you is when you refuse to own your truth: “I know who I am and what I stand for; no one can shame me with my past. I am who I am and I like me.”

Allyson runs a blog/vlog, empowering women who are often seen as disposable by society. “Often people are only interested in protecting the ‘good’ women, the ‘respectable’ women. Women who are loud and ‘ghetto’ like me are often left to fend for ourselves because we don’t fit the image of women who need protection, yet we are also deserving of basic human respect.”

She is also interested in demystifying sexuality. “We refuse to talk about it, and we shame women who are brave enough to own their own bodies and not make their bodies playgrounds for men. We only seem to respect women who don’t talk back and who cater to misogynistic ideas of womanhood.”

Rihanna was initially condemned for declining her studio’s invitation to present herself as a sweet, innocent pop star, but her career skyrocketed when she took control of her own narrative. Allyson is making it safe for other women to do the same.
• www.theartemiseffect.blogspot.com

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Introduction to Selectors

Categories:Working with Flash

Partnering with Collections, xJSFL introduces Selector functions to JSFL, which allow the developer to identify elements and items using easy-to-write CSS-style expressions, commonly used in JavaScript libraries like jQuery.

Instead of accessing elements or items via...

fl.getDocumentDOM().library.items can now use the ElementSelector ($) or ItemSelector ($$) function and supply a selector expression, such as:

var collection = $('star*').select();

The result of this line of code is as follows:

Library Items can also be selected, using the ItemSelector ($$) function, for example:

var collection = $$('*disabled*').select();

The result of this line of code is as follows:

Selector Syntax

The selector variable is always a String, the syntax of which identifies some property or attribute to match on the elements currently on the stage, such as:

'Item*'      // any named clips on stage starting with the word "Item"
':movieclip' // any movieclips instances
'[x>200]'    // any elements more than 200 pixels over in the x axis

Selectors vary in their syntax, but the following list outlines the various syntaxes supported over the whole range of selectors:

Wildcards and ranges are also supported for some selectors:

* (wildcards)
{min|max} (ranges)

Finally, multiple selectors can be built-up to fine-tune the selection of Elements or Items:

$('.Square[x>200]'); // select all Square instances > 200 px in x

The return value of any Selector function is a Collection instance, or more specifically ElementCollection or ItemCollection instances, which have additional Element or Item-related methods with which you may manipulate or modify the elements or items within the collection.

For example, once selected, you can modify the collection's elements with Collection methods like so:

var collection = $('star*').attr('x', 200);

As discussed in the Introduction to Collections, Collections allow you to manipulate multiple items using an object-oriented API, performing multiple chained operations on the encapsulated elements as a group, for example:

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Setting Web Services to A Different URL in ActionScript

Some Web Services don't provide a correct port address in its WSDL. To get around this issue, it requires developers to set new endpointURI in MXML/ActionScript files.

There are two ways of calling web service operations in Adobe Flex:
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  2. Use web service proxy classes (automatically generated by WSDL Instrospection Wizard)

Using Flex Built-In WebService Class

Using the first approach, you can set endpointURI on the WebService instance. The creationComplete event is thrown when the application is initialized. In this case, you can attach a listener (i.e., initApp()) to intercept the event and set the correct endpointURI on the WebService instance. Note that the new endpointURI set on the WebService instance applies to all operations defined in it.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<mx:operation name="doSimpleSearch" resultFormat="XML"

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Using Web Service Proxy Classes

You can also use the Flex Builder Import Web Service feature to automatically generate connection code for invoking SOAP-based web service operations. The generated code includes client-side (ActionScript) web service proxy classes that return strongly typed objects. You can use the generated code to call web service operations directly and to pass strongly typed objects as operation parameters.

Generated web service proxy files
The Import Web Service feature introspects a provided WSDL file and generates the following ActionScript class files:

  • etc.

To see the full list of generated files and their descriptions, see Adobe Help.

For example, our service is named SearchService which is retrieved from the WSDL file. Using Import Web Service feature in FlexBuilder, it generates the following files:

  • etc.

To fix the URL issue, you locate endpointURI in the file. Then set it to be the correct URL as shown below:
BaseSearchServicePort.endpointURI = "http://myserver:7777/search/query/Search"

This should work when you use the generated code to call web service operations directly. Without this fix, you will get the notorious stream error #2032.

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