Monica - World-of-Newave.info World-of-Newave.info http://www.world-of-newave.info/ 2008-12-02T11:46:11Z Latest news and articles about Monica Copyright (c)2004-2008. All rights reserved. {LIBRARIES > WEBLOGS} - Information Literacy Roundtable presents inaugural Michigan Information Literacy Initiative (MILI) program Even though it is last minute; here is a great opportunity!!The Information Literacy Roundtable Board invites you to attend the June 6 inaugural Michigan Information Literacy Initiative (MILI) program at Michigan State University in East Lansing.The MILI program is a day-long series of workshops to help you enhance your planning, instruction and teaching skills. Our speakers are committed to providing you with interactive programs that will enhance your skills and provide you with real tools and methods you can put to work right away in your own teaching environment.Here is a quick outline of the MILI Program:Keynote speaker: Dr. Caroline Stern, Ferris State UniversityBeyond Instruction: Practical Techniques and Resources for Developing Information LiteracyDr. Stern asks us "how can librarians maximize the opportunities they have to offer instruction in the limited time they have with their learners". She'll discuss learner analysis, goals and outcomes, and practical methods of instructional delivery that can improve the instructional design of your instruction sessions.Track A - Suggested for Librarians with more than 3 years of instruction experienceInstructional Design for Information Literacy: Theory-Based Practical TipsOur keynote speaker, Dr. Caroline Stern, reviews instructional design basics and "how to" practical, classroom-tested models for instructional design that can help improve the development and delivery of instruction.Effective Needs AssessmentDr. Monica Tracey, Wayne State University, focuses on identifying and using the tools of Needs Assessment including identifying learner characteristics, knowledge, skills and ability assessment. You'll walk away with a Needs Assessment Toolkit to help you answer the question, "what do they want?"Track B - Suggested for Librarians with less than 3 years of instruction experienceUsing a VAKuum to Learn About Yourself as a Teacher and Your Students as LearnersLeslie M. Behm, Michigan State University, focuses on VAK, the visual, auditory, and kinesthetic learning styles. Find out what the differences are and how to work with your material to make your teaching more effective.I'm Up Here! Presentation and Teaching Techniques that Engage Your Audience from Start to FinishVeronica Bielat, Wayne State University and Elise Brown, Kendall College of Art & Design, explore the methods of effective presentation and ways to develop a classroom environment of cooperation and collaborative learning.Learn how to engage your students the minute they enter the door of your classroom.Sign up for MILI today!! Make sure you tell us which track you would like to participate in the Additional Information area of the Registration Form.For questions about MILI please contact:Veronica BielatWayne State University Education Librarianag6887 at wayne.edu(313) 577-4217 phone http://articles.world-of-newave.info/reference/libraries/library-and-information-science/weblogs/information-literacy-roundtable-presents-inaugural-2008124643.htm 2008-12-01T09:52:09Z 2008-12-01T09:52:09Z Information-literacy.Net http://www.information-literacy.net/feeds/8694148360378691409/comments/default Information Literacy Roundtable presents inaugural Michigan Information Literacy Initiative (MILI) program {new window}   Www.Information-literacy.Net - Even though it is last minute; here is a great opportunity!!The Information Literacy Roundtable Board invites you to attend the June 6 inaugural Michigan Information Literacy Initiative (MILI) program at Michigan State University in East Lansing.The MILI program is a day-long series of workshops to help you enhance your planning, instruction and teaching skills. Our speakers are committed to providing you with interactive programs that will enhance your skills and provide you with real tools and methods you can put to work right away in your own teaching environment.Here is a quick outline of the MILI Program:Keynote speaker: Dr. Caroline Stern, Ferris State UniversityBeyond Instruction: Practical Techniques and Resources for Developing Information LiteracyDr. Stern asks us "how can librarians maximize the opportunities they have to offer instruction in the limited time they have with their learners". She'll discuss learner analysis, goals and outcomes, and practical methods of instructional delivery that can improve the instructional design of your instruction sessions.Track A - Suggested for Librarians with more than 3 years of instruction experienceInstructional Design for Information Literacy: Theory-Based Practical TipsOur keynote speaker, Dr. Caroline Stern, reviews instructional design basics and "how to" practical, classroom-tested models for instructional design that can help improve the development and delivery of instruction.Effective Needs AssessmentDr. Monica Tracey, Wayne State University, focuses on identifying and using the tools of Needs Assessment including identifying learner characteristics, knowledge, skills and ability assessment. You'll walk away with a Needs Assessment Toolkit to help you answer the question, "what do they want?"Track B - Suggested for Librarians with less than 3 years of instruction experienceUsing a VAKuum to Learn About Yourself as a Teacher and Your Students as LearnersLeslie M. Behm, Michigan State University, focuses on VAK, the visual, auditory, and kinesthetic learning styles. Find out what the differences are and how to work with your material to make your teaching more effective.I'm Up Here! Presentation and Teaching Techniques that Engage Your Audience from Start to FinishVeronica Bielat, Wayne State University and Elise Brown, Kendall College of Art & Design, explore the methods of effective presentation and ways to develop a classroom environment of cooperation and collaborative learning.Learn how to engage your students the minute they enter the door of your classroom.Sign up for MILI today!! Make sure you tell us which track you would like to participate in the Additional Information area of the Registration Form.For questions about MILI please contact:Veronica BielatWayne State University Education Librarianag6887 at wayne.edu(313) 577-4217 phone
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]]> {EUROPE > NEWS AND MEDIA} - Season's readings: writers and politicians pick the best reads of 2008 Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieSet during and after the Lebanese civil war, Rawi Hage's extraordinary De Niro's Game (Old Street) is about the bravado and betrayal of two friends. Hage bends the English language to his will, mixes poetry and history, and never forgets the humanity of his characters. José Eduardo Agualusa's The Book of Chameleons, translated by Daniel Hahn (Arcadia), is told from the point of view of a gecko, but there is nothing gimmicky in this beautiful book about an Angolan albino who invents alternate pasts for his clients. It is a grown-up story about memory, about the reinvention of the past, about a country getting to know itself again, and told in such exquisite language that I wished I could have read it in the original Portuguese.Monica AliI loved Sebastian Faulks's Engleby (Vintage), which contains the best and funniest description of a dinner party I have ever read. Joseph O'Neill's Netherland (Fourth Estate) is so beautifully written I immediately bought a couple more copies to give to friends. Alan Bennett's The Uncommon Reader (Profile) would make a perfect stocking filler for just about anyone. Any fans of The Wire suffering withdrawal symptoms should load up on Richard Price (one of the show's writers), starting with Clockers and including his recent offering, Lush Life (Bloomsbury).Tariq AliI was much impressed by two debut novels by south Asian writers who, unlike many local counterparts, write about things that matter. Mohammed Hanif's A Case of Exploding Mangoes (Cape) is a surreal thriller dealing with the assassination of a Pakistani military dictator. At times incredibly funny, it also, like a Buñuel film, captures the sinister side of life. Tahmima Anam's The Golden Age (John Murray) explores the painful birth-pangs of Bangladesh through the eyes of a family wrecked by the war.Ronald Fraser's magisterial history Napoleon's Accursed War (Verso) is a brilliant view from below of the popular Spanish resistance to French invasion, in what the insular Brits still call the Peninsular war, when the term "guerrilla" came into common currency. One of the great epics of the 19th century, properly recovered for the first time by Fraser in all its ambiguities and tragedies, along with its popular heroism, it's continuously moving, without a trace of sentimentality.Sebastian BarryThere is a very special sort of gratitude you can feel for a book so formidably well written that it has you anxious to get back to it and pining a little to be away from it, and one such book for me was Joseph O'Neill's novel Netherland. I read it in proof, when a book is strangely innocent and even vulnerable I suppose, and when for a brief and possibly foolish moment you can feel that you are the only reader. But as it turned out, the rest of the planet felt the same about it, hurrah. I also admired greatly the achievement of two Irish books, Disguise by Hugo Hamilton (Fourth Estate) and Molly Fox's Birthday by Deirdre Madden (Faber). The Australian master Alex Miller published a book of sober beauty called Landscape of Farewell (Allen & Unwin), and in Canada Joseph Boyden's Through Black Spruce (Weidenfeld & Nicolson) is another novel of gratitude-inspiring prose. Jonathan BateJG Ballard's memoir, Miracles of Life (Fourth Estate), is a miracle of prose and of modesty. Second, an audiobook. Poetry needs to be heard aloud. By no means all poets are their own best readers, but Ted Hughes was. The British Library double CD The Spoken Word - Ted Hughes: Poems and Short Stories offers a treasure trove of BBC recordings from throughout his career. Most literary reputations nosedive in the first decade after death; that of Hughes has rightly soared.William BoydThe most original novel I read in 2008 was Gordon Burn's Born Yesterday (Faber). It is a highly sophisticated take on the news that was served up to us by the media in 2007. Burn's great gift is to make us see these events - that we were all very aware of - anew, through the filter of his fiction. No one has written more shrewdly and knowingly about popular newspaper culture than Burn, but with this novel he taps into something more profound and sinister.The most original novel of 1842, Nicolai Gogol's Dead Souls, has achieved a magnificent rebirth in 2008 through Donald Rayfield's superb new translation (The Garnett Press). Rayfield's translation is one that Vladimir Nabokov would unreservedly admire and is accompanied by dozens of superb, hitherto unseen illustrations by Marc Chagall. A big, beautiful book and a mould-breaking classic reinvigorated.Gordon BrownOne book I've been recommending to friends and colleagues lately is Tony Badger's new book on Roosevelt, FDR: The First 100 Days (Hill & Wang). It's a classic example of how a work of history can illuminate the issues we're dealing with today. What it brings out with such clarity is how Roosevelt, faced with an economic crisis of unprecedented severity, was prepared to put aside conventional policy approaches and, instead, had the courage to innovate and improvise to see what would work. The imagination and humanity at the heart of some of the great New Deal innovations - such as the Tennessee Valley Authority or the Civilian Conservation Corps - changed American politics for ever, and shaped the future of progressive politics across the world. At the same time, this book illustrates FDR's skills as a communicator and a political operator, which earned him the public support and political space he needed for his programme to succeed. It's a brilliantly written, compelling and moving portrait of the man, and it's another outstanding example of how British historians add so much to the field of American history.AS ByattOne biography: Jackie Wullschlager's endlessly absorbing account of Chagall and European life, wars, arts and ideologies (Chagall: Love and Exile, Allen Lane). I still don't love Chagall, but every page of this tale is enthralling, gripping and strange. Three novels. Philip Hensher's The Northern Clemency (Fourth Estate), about Sheffield in the Thatcher years. Hensher understands people and he understands politics. He understands the wise, the mean and the absurd. Michelle de Kretser's The Lost Dog (Chatto & Windus), which is one of the best-written books I've read for years. She writes with clarity and wit and thoughtfulness. And Nadeem Aslam's powerful Afghanistan novel The Wasted Vigil (Faber). This book is terrifying. It is also tragic and beautifully written, and changes the reader.Carmen CallilI have spent many happy hours reading So I Have Thought of You: The Letters of Penelope Fitzgerald (Fourth Estate). Until a biography of this genius comes along, we have these letters, so ironic, idiosyncratic and beautiful. Because her letters are full of the stuff of every day and because her life straddled the last century (she died in 2000), her correspondence presents both a public and private portrait of an age. And every letter made me think: if Jane Austen had been permitted to live a century or two later, had lived in England through two world wars and had been allowed to take part in the ups and downs of domestic and literary life, she would have been just like Penelope Fitzgerald. Alastair CampbellI missed Mohsin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist (Hamish Hamilton) when it came out in hardback, but picked up the paperback at City airport a few months ago. It was one of those rare occasions when I wanted the flight to be longer so I did not have to stop reading. The narrative device - the entire novel is just one side of a conversation between two strangers in a Lahore café - could have been very limiting. But it is the perfect vehicle for a beautifully written story that builds in intensity to a climax that has you thinking long after the book is closed. Jonathan CoeSebastian Barry's The Secret Scripture (Faber) deserved all the attention it got, and more. Much has been written about the beauty of Barry's prose, but what really impressed me about this novel was its exquisite plotting, the way it threw a brilliantly calculated curve ball at the reader in its closing pages, and then finished with a satisfying click. I also loved Andrew Crumey's Sputnik Caledonia (Picador), the most impressive achievement yet from a still undervalued writer: in its combination of dystopian science fiction with warm but unsentimental childhood memoir, it struck me as being firmly in the tradition of - and worthy of comparison with - Alasdair Gray's Lanark. Talking of Gray, he was lucky this year to find a first-rate biographer in Rodge Glass, whose Alasdair Gray: A Secretary's Biography (Bloomsbury) is a thorough, loving portrait of the artist as quirky genius.Margaret DrabbleDavid Lodge's Deaf Sentence (Harvill Secker) is a touching and humane treatment of deafness, disability and ageing, at once sad and stoic and intermittently witty, and, as always with Lodge, it is readable and accessible: a fine addition to his oeuvre. Adam Mars-Jones's remarkable novel Pilcrow (Faber) is also about disability, written with bravura and an extraordinary and inexplicable joyfulness. Ma Jian's Beijing Coma, translated by Flora Drew (Chatto & Windus), is almost unremittingly tragic, and made me feel quite ill, but was well worth the effort - bravely published, bravely translated, a grim and important novel about a crisis in world history.Dave EggersDexter Filkins's The Forever War (Bodley Head) is the best piece of war journalism I've ever read. He paints a portrait of war that is so nuanced, so filled with absurdities and heartbreak and unexpected heroes and villains, that it makes most of what we see and hear about Iraq and Afghanistan seem shrill and two-dimensional by comparison. And yet, as tragic as the events he describes are, the book manages to be a thing of towering beauty.Anne EnrightIt is hard to think of someone better suited to the task of interviewing Seamus Heaney than Dennis O'Driscoll, who is himself a poet of great tact and rigour. Stepping Stones (Faber) is a deeply nourishing book in which Heaney remains as completely open and entirely elusive as he has always been. Helen Garner was my favourite discovery of the year, though she has been annoying her native Australia for a long time now. She has a voice of great honesty and energy, and The Spare Room (Canongate), which is about a friend's inconvenient illness, manages to be both compassionate and cross at the same time. I also loved How Shall I Tell the Dog? (Profile), a series of letters from Miles Kington to his (and my) wonderful agent Gill Coleridge, in which he pitches ideas for books about dying - which was, in fact, what he was doing at the time. This is such a classy, funny book. What a great, great way to go. Richard FordA Writer at War: Vasily Grossman with the Red Army, 1941-1945 by Vasily Grossman, translated by Antony Beevor and Luba Vonigradova (Pimlico) - by the author of the astonishing (and epic) novel Life and Fate. These are Grossman's raw yet eloquent cables, sent to the Red Star, as the Nazis pushed savagely into, and then were forced (as savagely) out of, the Soviet Union, along the great eastern front that stretched almost from Moscow to the Black Sea. Writing about war would seem, by definition, not to be inspiring. But this is.Molly Fox's Birthday is an old-fashioned (seeming) novel, about a bountiful subject - our human character and our need to imagine it rather than assume it. Deirdre Madden's prose is crystalline, understated, apparently effortless and artfully suitable. She really does not remind me of anybody I've read before. And yet, like other formidable writers - Mavis Gallant, Margaret Atwood, even Elizabeth Bowen come to mind - she is after something intrinsic and riddling but essential in us all, something that probably doesn't exist until we've read every word this book contains. It is ambitious work. Madden is a first-rate novelist.? Season's readings (next): recommendations from Antonia Fraser to Jackie KayBest books of the yearBest booksFictionguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds http://articles.world-of-newave.info/regional/europe/united-kingdom/news-and-media/season-s-readings-writers-and-politicians-pick-20081167627.htm 2008-11-29T00:01:41Z 2008-11-29T00:01:41Z Guardian.Co.Uk http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/nov/29/best-books-year-2008-review Season's readings: writers and politicians pick the best reads of 2008 {new window}   Www.Guardian.Co.Uk - Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieSet during and after the Lebanese civil war, Rawi Hage's extraordinary De Niro's Game (Old Street) is about the bravado and betrayal of two friends. Hage bends the English language to his will, mixes poetry and history, and never forgets the humanity of his characters. José Eduardo Agualusa's The Book of Chameleons, translated by Daniel Hahn (Arcadia), is told from the point of view of a gecko, but there is nothing gimmicky in this beautiful book about an Angolan albino who invents alternate pasts for his clients. It is a grown-up story about memory, about the reinvention of the past, about a country getting to know itself again, and told in such exquisite language that I wished I could have read it in the original Portuguese.Monica AliI loved Sebastian Faulks's Engleby (Vintage), which contains the best and funniest description of a dinner party I have ever read. Joseph O'Neill's Netherland (Fourth Estate) is so beautifully written I immediately bought a couple more copies to give to friends. Alan Bennett's The Uncommon Reader (Profile) would make a perfect stocking filler for just about anyone. Any fans of The Wire suffering withdrawal symptoms should load up on Richard Price (one of the show's writers), starting with Clockers and including his recent offering, Lush Life (Bloomsbury).Tariq AliI was much impressed by two debut novels by south Asian writers who, unlike many local counterparts, write about things that matter. Mohammed Hanif's A Case of Exploding Mangoes (Cape) is a surreal thriller dealing with the assassination of a Pakistani military dictator. At times incredibly funny, it also, like a Buñuel film, captures the sinister side of life. Tahmima Anam's The Golden Age (John Murray) explores the painful birth-pangs of Bangladesh through the eyes of a family wrecked by the war.Ronald Fraser's magisterial history Napoleon's Accursed War (Verso) is a brilliant view from below of the popular Spanish resistance to French invasion, in what the insular Brits still call the Peninsular war, when the term "guerrilla" came into common currency. One of the great epics of the 19th century, properly recovered for the first time by Fraser in all its ambiguities and tragedies, along with its popular heroism, it's continuously moving, without a trace of sentimentality.Sebastian BarryThere is a very special sort of gratitude you can feel for a book so formidably well written that it has you anxious to get back to it and pining a little to be away from it, and one such book for me was Joseph O'Neill's novel Netherland. I read it in proof, when a book is strangely innocent and even vulnerable I suppose, and when for a brief and possibly foolish moment you can feel that you are the only reader. But as it turned out, the rest of the planet felt the same about it, hurrah. I also admired greatly the achievement of two Irish books, Disguise by Hugo Hamilton (Fourth Estate) and Molly Fox's Birthday by Deirdre Madden (Faber). The Australian master Alex Miller published a book of sober beauty called Landscape of Farewell (Allen & Unwin), and in Canada Joseph Boyden's Through Black Spruce (Weidenfeld & Nicolson) is another novel of gratitude-inspiring prose. Jonathan BateJG Ballard's memoir, Miracles of Life (Fourth Estate), is a miracle of prose and of modesty. Second, an audiobook. Poetry needs to be heard aloud. By no means all poets are their own best readers, but Ted Hughes was. The British Library double CD The Spoken Word - Ted Hughes: Poems and Short Stories offers a treasure trove of BBC recordings from throughout his career. Most literary reputations nosedive in the first decade after death; that of Hughes has rightly soared.William BoydThe most original novel I read in 2008 was Gordon Burn's Born Yesterday (Faber). It is a highly sophisticated take on the news that was served up to us by the media in 2007. Burn's great gift is to make us see these events - that we were all very aware of - anew, through the filter of his fiction. No one has written more shrewdly and knowingly about popular newspaper culture than Burn, but with this novel he taps into something more profound and sinister.The most original novel of 1842, Nicolai Gogol's Dead Souls, has achieved a magnificent rebirth in 2008 through Donald Rayfield's superb new translation (The Garnett Press). Rayfield's translation is one that Vladimir Nabokov would unreservedly admire and is accompanied by dozens of superb, hitherto unseen illustrations by Marc Chagall. A big, beautiful book and a mould-breaking classic reinvigorated.Gordon BrownOne book I've been recommending to friends and colleagues lately is Tony Badger's new book on Roosevelt, FDR: The First 100 Days (Hill & Wang). It's a classic example of how a work of history can illuminate the issues we're dealing with today. What it brings out with such clarity is how Roosevelt, faced with an economic crisis of unprecedented severity, was prepared to put aside conventional policy approaches and, instead, had the courage to innovate and improvise to see what would work. The imagination and humanity at the heart of some of the great New Deal innovations - such as the Tennessee Valley Authority or the Civilian Conservation Corps - changed American politics for ever, and shaped the future of progressive politics across the world. At the same time, this book illustrates FDR's skills as a communicator and a political operator, which earned him the public support and political space he needed for his programme to succeed. It's a brilliantly written, compelling and moving portrait of the man, and it's another outstanding example of how British historians add so much to the field of American history.AS ByattOne biography: Jackie Wullschlager's endlessly absorbing account of Chagall and European life, wars, arts and ideologies (Chagall: Love and Exile, Allen Lane). I still don't love Chagall, but every page of this tale is enthralling, gripping and strange. Three novels. Philip Hensher's The Northern Clemency (Fourth Estate), about Sheffield in the Thatcher years. Hensher understands people and he understands politics. He understands the wise, the mean and the absurd. Michelle de Kretser's The Lost Dog (Chatto & Windus), which is one of the best-written books I've read for years. She writes with clarity and wit and thoughtfulness. And Nadeem Aslam's powerful Afghanistan novel The Wasted Vigil (Faber). This book is terrifying. It is also tragic and beautifully written, and changes the reader.Carmen CallilI have spent many happy hours reading So I Have Thought of You: The Letters of Penelope Fitzgerald (Fourth Estate). Until a biography of this genius comes along, we have these letters, so ironic, idiosyncratic and beautiful. Because her letters are full of the stuff of every day and because her life straddled the last century (she died in 2000), her correspondence presents both a public and private portrait of an age. And every letter made me think: if Jane Austen had been permitted to live a century or two later, had lived in England through two world wars and had been allowed to take part in the ups and downs of domestic and literary life, she would have been just like Penelope Fitzgerald. Alastair CampbellI missed Mohsin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist (Hamish Hamilton) when it came out in hardback, but picked up the paperback at City airport a few months ago. It was one of those rare occasions when I wanted the flight to be longer so I did not have to stop reading. The narrative device - the entire novel is just one side of a conversation between two strangers in a Lahore café - could have been very limiting. But it is the perfect vehicle for a beautifully written story that builds in intensity to a climax that has you thinking long after the book is closed. Jonathan CoeSebastian Barry's The Secret Scripture (Faber) deserved all the attention it got, and more. Much has been written about the beauty of Barry's prose, but what really impressed me about this novel was its exquisite plotting, the way it threw a brilliantly calculated curve ball at the reader in its closing pages, and then finished with a satisfying click. I also loved Andrew Crumey's Sputnik Caledonia (Picador), the most impressive achievement yet from a still undervalued writer: in its combination of dystopian science fiction with warm but unsentimental childhood memoir, it struck me as being firmly in the tradition of - and worthy of comparison with - Alasdair Gray's Lanark. Talking of Gray, he was lucky this year to find a first-rate biographer in Rodge Glass, whose Alasdair Gray: A Secretary's Biography (Bloomsbury) is a thorough, loving portrait of the artist as quirky genius.Margaret DrabbleDavid Lodge's Deaf Sentence (Harvill Secker) is a touching and humane treatment of deafness, disability and ageing, at once sad and stoic and intermittently witty, and, as always with Lodge, it is readable and accessible: a fine addition to his oeuvre. Adam Mars-Jones's remarkable novel Pilcrow (Faber) is also about disability, written with bravura and an extraordinary and inexplicable joyfulness. Ma Jian's Beijing Coma, translated by Flora Drew (Chatto & Windus), is almost unremittingly tragic, and made me feel quite ill, but was well worth the effort - bravely published, bravely translated, a grim and important novel about a crisis in world history.Dave EggersDexter Filkins's The Forever War (Bodley Head) is the best piece of war journalism I've ever read. He paints a portrait of war that is so nuanced, so filled with absurdities and heartbreak and unexpected heroes and villains, that it makes most of what we see and hear about Iraq and Afghanistan seem shrill and two-dimensional by comparison. And yet, as tragic as the events he describes are, the book manages to be a thing of towering beauty.Anne EnrightIt is hard to think of someone better suited to the task of interviewing Seamus Heaney than Dennis O'Driscoll, who is himself a poet of great tact and rigour. Stepping Stones (Faber) is a deeply nourishing book in which Heaney remains as completely open and entirely elusive as he has always been. Helen Garner was my favourite discovery of the year, though she has been annoying her native Australia for a long time now. She has a voice of great honesty and energy, and The Spare Room (Canongate), which is about a friend's inconvenient illness, manages to be both compassionate and cross at the same time. I also loved How Shall I Tell the Dog? (Profile), a series of letters from Miles Kington to his (and my) wonderful agent Gill Coleridge, in which he pitches ideas for books about dying - which was, in fact, what he was doing at the time. This is such a classy, funny book. What a great, great way to go. Richard FordA Writer at War: Vasily Grossman with the Red Army, 1941-1945 by Vasily Grossman, translated by Antony Beevor and Luba Vonigradova (Pimlico) - by the author of the astonishing (and epic) novel Life and Fate. These are Grossman's raw yet eloquent cables, sent to the Red Star, as the Nazis pushed savagely into, and then were forced (as savagely) out of, the Soviet Union, along the great eastern front that stretched almost from Moscow to the Black Sea. Writing about war would seem, by definition, not to be inspiring. But this is.Molly Fox's Birthday is an old-fashioned (seeming) novel, about a bountiful subject - our human character and our need to imagine it rather than assume it. Deirdre Madden's prose is crystalline, understated, apparently effortless and artfully suitable. She really does not remind me of anybody I've read before. And yet, like other formidable writers - Mavis Gallant, Margaret Atwood, even Elizabeth Bowen come to mind - she is after something intrinsic and riddling but essential in us all, something that probably doesn't exist until we've read every word this book contains. It is ambitious work. Madden is a first-rate novelist.? Season's readings (next): recommendations from Antonia Fraser to Jackie KayBest books of the yearBest booksFictionguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds
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]]> {SOCIAL SCIENCES > URBAN AND REGIONAL PLANNING} - Santa Monica Bans Exercising on Traffic Medians After noise complaints by residents nearby, any exercise that takes place on a grassy traffic median in Santa Monica that can qualify as "congregating" has been banned. read more http://articles.world-of-newave.info/science/social-sciences/urban-and-regional-planning/santa-monica-bans-exercising-on-traffic-medians-20081190239.htm 2008-11-26T19:00:00Z 2008-11-26T19:00:00Z Planetizen.Com http://www.planetizen.com/node/36249 Santa Monica Bans Exercising on Traffic Medians {new window}   Www.Planetizen.Com - After noise complaints by residents nearby, any exercise that takes place on a grassy traffic median in Santa Monica that can qualify as "congregating" has been banned. read more
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]]> {NORTH AMERICA > LODGING} - kitchen and living area below bedroom and bath (virgil village) $950 1bd Nestled just below silverlake in a very chill community. Great location with easy freeway access and just a block from the santa monica blvd. red line station. Also Down the street from los feliz and sunset junction. Next to great small markets and artist live work spaces. If this sounds like something you would be interested in swapping for a similar cozy home in the bay area. please let us know! Please leave contact info and any questions. thanks http://articles.world-of-newave.info/regional/north-america/united-states/california/metro-areas/san-francisco-bay-area/travel-and-tourism/lodging/kitchen-and-living-area-below-bedroom-and-bath-virgil-20081140230.htm 2008-11-19T01:52:29Z 2008-11-19T01:52:29Z Sfbay.Craigslist.Org http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/swp/924893816.html kitchen and living area below bedroom and bath (virgil village) $950 1bd {new window}   Sfbay.Craigslist.Org - Nestled just below silverlake in a very chill community. Great location with easy freeway access and just a block from the santa monica blvd. red line station. Also Down the street from los feliz and sunset junction. Next to great small markets and artist live work spaces. If this sounds like something you would be interested in swapping for a similar cozy home in the bay area. please let us know! Please leave contact info and any questions. thanks
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]]> {ISSUES > BIAS AND BALANCE} - Amid rumors of Clinton nomination, Matthews brings back '90s circus On the November 14 and 17 editions of MSNBC's Hardball, host Chris Matthews used reports that President-elect Barack Obama might nominate Sen. Hillary Clinton as secretary of state to "rehash" 1990s-era smears and scandals involving the Clintons. For instance, Matthews invoked Linda Tripp, who was a central figure in the Monica Lewinsky scandal, and hosted Rep. Dan Burton (R-IN), whom Matthews asked to discuss the false accusation -- previously advanced by Burton -- that White House aide Vince Foster was murdered. Matthews also hosted Vanity Fair's Christopher Hitchens, who has a history of smearing the Clintons, including asserting that by "welling up," Hillary Clinton looked "sort of alternately soppy and bitchy." On the November 17 edition of Hardball, Matthews said, "Leading off tonight: When I first heard that the president-elect could pick Hillary Clinton as his secretary of state, my impulse was trouble. The Clintons are drama. They have ambition and they also have a story to tell, and to be just by themselves. Why, I asked, does Obama -- who has the nickname 'No drama Obama' -- want to marry himself to drama?" Burton was among the guests Matthews hosted to discuss the "varied consequences" of Obama's potentially nominating Clinton. Matthews began his interview with Burton by stating: "Congressman Burton, you're no fans of the Clinton. [sic] In fact, I think you think the Clintons had something to do with killing Vince Foster. What do you say?" After Burton declined to comment, Matthews repeatedly pressed him to "rehash" the topic. According to The Washington Post, Burton "was so convinced that Vincent Foster was murdered that he launched a private investigation and fired a gun in his back yard in an enactment of his theory that the White House aide was shot." Time magazine and Salon.com have published similar accounts of Burton's attempts to push the thoroughly refuted theory that Foster was murdered. Later in the November 17 program, Matthews hosted Hitchens, who said of Clinton: This is the woman whose foreign policy experience consists of making a fool of herself and fabricating a story about Bosnia. This is the woman who, with her husband, have so many connections -- fundraising connections overseas, Indonesia, China. Just look up the Senate report on their fundraising activities, the people they have pardoned, the amazing brothers of hers who nearly got the -- was it the nut monopoly in Kazakhstan or something farcical like that. Just look it up. It's a ludicrous embarrassment for the president and for the country. During the conversation, Time's Peter Beinart said, "I really don't think most people, besides Chris, with all due respect, are really interested in rehashing all of the scandals of the 1990s," to which Matthews replied: "No, no. It's a question of whether they're all coming back, sir. That's the question. Rehashing or reliving is a bigger question. Do you want to relive them all?" In addition to his "alternately soppy and bitchy" comment, Hitchens has previously compared the Clintons to zombies, vampires, and werewolves and has questioned Hillary Clinton's faith, falsely claiming that "[s]he has never particularly mentioned it before." On November 18, MSNBC repeatedly aired footage of Hitchens attacking Clinton the night before, including an MSNBC Live segment anchored by David Shuster. After discussing Clinton's potential nomination at length during the November 14 edition of Hardball, Matthews said, "[H]ere's a blast from the past. Someone tracked down Linda Tripp -- remember her? She's the woman who outed Monica [Lewinsky] and her strange deal with a U.S. president -- to find out what Linda Tripp thinks about the new Democratic president. Tripp says, quote, 'Obama possesses an instantly recognizable purity of soul that brought quite unimaginable and long-awaited magic to the country, transforming red and blue states, quite literally, into the color purple.' Actually, I like what she had to say, especially her read on Obama's 'purity of soul.' " As Media Matters for America noted, on November 14, Matthews also hosted MSNBC political analyst Michelle Bernard, who said that if Clinton becomes secretary of state, she will run a "parallel government," and Jennifer Donahue, political director of the New Hampshire Institute of Politics, who suggested Clinton would try to "create only one term for Barack Obama." From the November 14 broadcast of MSNBC's Hardball with Chris Matthews: MATTHEWS: Anyway, next: here's a blast from the past. Someone tracked down Linda Tripp -- remember her? She's the woman who outed Monica [Lewinsky] and her strange deal with a U.S. president -- to find out what Linda Tripp thinks about the new Democratic president. Tripp says, quote, "Obama possesses an instantly recognizable purity of soul that brought quite unimaginable and long-awaited magic to the country, transforming red and blue states, quite literally, into the color purple." Actually, I like what she had to say, especially her read on Obama's "purity of soul." Time for the "Big Number" tonight: Secretary of State or not, the Clinton connection certainly doesn't seem to be a deal-breaker. According to the Politico, 31 of the 47 people named to transition jobs by Obama have ties to the Bill Clinton administration. The gang's all here, at least for the transition. Thirty-one Clinton associates have been called into at least temporary service by Team Obama -- tonight's "Big Number." From the November 17 broadcast of Hardball: MATTHEWS: Good evening. I'm Chris Matthews. Welcome to Hardball tonight from Los Angeles. Leading off tonight: When I first heard that the president-elect could pick Hillary Clinton as his secretary of state, my impulse was trouble. The Clintons are drama. They have ambition and they also have a story to tell, and to be just by themselves. Why, I asked, does Obama -- who has the nickname "No drama Obama" -- want to marry himself to drama? My second thought was that Hillary Clinton really did her best for the Obama effort, that she really did give an extraordinary speech in Denver, that her very soul seemed to be, at the end, for his actual election. Finally, I thought, Obama really does want to be Abraham Lincoln and assemble a team of rivals. Last night on 60 Minutes, Barack Obama was asked if Hillary was on his short list for secretary of state. OBAMA [video clip]: She is somebody who I've needed advice and counsel from. She is one of the most thoughtful public officials that we have. Beyond that, you're not getting anything out of me. MATTHEWS: Not much of a clue there. Much more on the possible pick of Hillary Clinton for secretary of state and all its varied consequences, in a minute. [...] MATTHEWS: Congressman Burton, you're no fans of the Clinton. In fact, I think you think the Clintons had something to do with killing Vince Foster. What do you say? REP. DAN BURTON (R-IN): Well, I'm not gonna go back and rehash that again, Chris. MATTHEWS: Well, rehash it for a minute, sir. You do -- BURTON: No, no, no. MATTHEWS: -- believe they had something to do with it. BURTON: No, I'll be glad to answer questions from you about -- MATTHEWS: Well, it does give me a sense -- BURTON: -- how tough she is and -- MATTHEWS: -- of what you think of the Clintons, that you won't even say they're free of a murder charge. Won't you do that at least? BURTON: Chris, I know you -- you want me to be controversial. Let me just say, she's a very talented woman. BURTON: No, you're the controversy, sir. Let me ask you this: Do you believe the Clintons are innocent of any foul play with regard to the death of Vince Foster? Let's start from there and we'll move on to your bona fides in this topic. BURTON: Chris, you heard what I said. I'm not gonna go back and cover that ground again. MATTHEWS: OK. Well, we just did. [...] MATTHEWS: OK. OK. Congressman -- Congressman Burton, should Bill Clinton be allowed to take money in the world from any source while his wife's secretary of state? BURTON: I don't think there's any rule that I know of that would prohibit him from giving speeches -- MATTHEWS: You just can't -- BURTON: -- around the world and -- MATTHEWS: -- you're -- this is entrapment. You guys, like [former Secretary of State Henry] Kissinger and [Sen.] Jon Kyl [R-AZ], can't wait for the Clintons to come aboard so they'll be pot shots. You'll be shooting at them like cantaloupes. They will be your target zone again. You can't wait, Congressman, to get them in the target zone, can you? Be honest. BURTON: My -- our target zone will be -- MATTHEWS: You want them there. BURTON: Our -- well, they were always entertaining. Let me just say this: Our target zone is lowering taxes and keeping spending down and getting the economy moving again. And as far as the Clintons concerned, if Barack Obama hires her to be his secretary of state, he's gonna have to deal with her, and we're going to have to deal with Barack Obama and his policies, Chris. He's going to -- MATTHEWS: What were you -- BURTON: -- be the boss. MATTHEWS: What were you -- Congressman, what were you shooting in the backyard? Were they cantaloupes or pineapples? What were they, you were shooting? Is it something to do with the Vince Foster case? BURTON: No, no. All right. MATTHEWS: You were shooting at something. BURTON: All right, Chris. I figured you'd want to go there again. I love you, man. I'm not gonna talk about that. MATTHEWS: OK. Well, I just wonder whether you're shooting fish in a barrel here. You can't wait to get the Clintons in that -- look at you. You're laughing your butt off. You can't wait to get the Clintons in the target zone. [...] MATTHEWS: What do you make of Hillary Clinton as secretary of state, Mr. Hitchens? HITCHENS: Look, this is the woman who played the race card on Barack Obama. This is the woman who, if you were for change that you can believe in -- whichever change it was -- you were voting against. This is the woman whose foreign policy experience consists of making a fool of herself and fabricating a story about Bosnia. This is the woman who, with her husband, have so many connections -- fundraising connections overseas, Indonesia, China. Just look up the Senate report on their fundraising activities, the people they have pardoned, the amazing brothers of hers who nearly got the -- was it the nut monopoly in Kazakhstan or something farcical like that. Just look it up. It's a ludicrous embarrassment for the president and for the country. But it should even be discussed? MATTHEWS: Well, why is he -- why is he -- look, we all know that Barack Obama's got a lot of candlepower. He's a smart guy. He's politically adept. He won the presidential election as the first African-American. HITCHENS: Yeah. MATTHEWS: He's gone over hurdles nobody thought anybody could do. And, yet, here he is with his biggest news story since his election. Everybody's buzzing about it. Why would he let this toothpaste out of the tube if he's not gonna do this thing? HITCHENS: Well, he -- it's clear from what we've can glean that it's -- the job is hers if she wants it. MATTHEWS: Yeah. HITCHENS: So it's Clinton re-do, not just Rahm Emanuel. Whatever this is, it's not change. [...] HITCHENS: We'd also like a full accounting from all the Chinese and Indonesian witnesses, who were fugitives from justice rather than testifying in the last Clinton fundraising hearings. MATTHEWS: Well, Marc Rich is still a problem. HITCHENS: We need to know -- we need to know what happened to that money now. BEINART: I really don't think most people, besides Chris, with all due respect, are really interested in rehashing all of the scandals of the 1990s. MATTHEWS: No, no. It's a question of whether they're all coming back, sir. That's the question. Rehashing or reliving is a bigger question. Do you want to relive them all? HITCHENS: Yeah. And who owes who for what? We now need to know. MATTHEWS: It's a good question. From the 4 p.m. ET hour of MSNBC Live on November 18: SHUSTER: Julie [Menin, Women's Campaign Forum], I want to get your reaction in particular to something that Christopher Hitchens said on Hardball last Friday about Hillary Clinton. Watch. HITCHENS [video clip]: This is the woman who played the race card on Barack Obama. This is the woman who, if you were for change that you can believe in -- whichever change it was -- you were voting against. This is the woman whose foreign policy experience consists of making a fool of herself and fabricating a story about Bosnia. SHUSTER: He goes on to say that Hillary Clinton's appointment would be a "ludicrous embarrassment." Your reaction? http://articles.world-of-newave.info/society/issues/business/media/bias-and-balance/amid-rumors-of-clinton-nomination-matthews-brings-20081188622.htm 2008-11-19T01:12:38Z 2008-11-19T01:12:38Z Mediamatters.Org http://mediamatters.org/items/200811180017 Amid rumors of Clinton nomination, Matthews brings back '90s circus {new window}   Mediamatters.Org - On the November 14 and 17 editions of MSNBC's Hardball, host Chris Matthews used reports that President-elect Barack Obama might nominate Sen. Hillary Clinton as secretary of state to "rehash" 1990s-era smears and scandals involving the Clintons. For instance, Matthews invoked Linda Tripp, who was a central figure in the Monica Lewinsky scandal, and hosted Rep. Dan Burton (R-IN), whom Matthews asked to discuss the false accusation -- previously advanced by Burton -- that White House aide Vince Foster was murdered. Matthews also hosted Vanity Fair's Christopher Hitchens, who has a history of smearing the Clintons, including asserting that by "welling up," Hillary Clinton looked "sort of alternately soppy and bitchy." On the November 17 edition of Hardball, Matthews said, "Leading off tonight: When I first heard that the president-elect could pick Hillary Clinton as his secretary of state, my impulse was trouble. The Clintons are drama. They have ambition and they also have a story to tell, and to be just by themselves. Why, I asked, does Obama -- who has the nickname 'No drama Obama' -- want to marry himself to drama?" Burton was among the guests Matthews hosted to discuss the "varied consequences" of Obama's potentially nominating Clinton. Matthews began his interview with Burton by stating: "Congressman Burton, you're no fans of the Clinton. [sic] In fact, I think you think the Clintons had something to do with killing Vince Foster. What do you say?" After Burton declined to comment, Matthews repeatedly pressed him to "rehash" the topic. According to The Washington Post, Burton "was so convinced that Vincent Foster was murdered that he launched a private investigation and fired a gun in his back yard in an enactment of his theory that the White House aide was shot." Time magazine and Salon.com have published similar accounts of Burton's attempts to push the thoroughly refuted theory that Foster was murdered. Later in the November 17 program, Matthews hosted Hitchens, who said of Clinton: This is the woman whose foreign policy experience consists of making a fool of herself and fabricating a story about Bosnia. This is the woman who, with her husband, have so many connections -- fundraising connections overseas, Indonesia, China. Just look up the Senate report on their fundraising activities, the people they have pardoned, the amazing brothers of hers who nearly got the -- was it the nut monopoly in Kazakhstan or something farcical like that. Just look it up. It's a ludicrous embarrassment for the president and for the country. During the conversation, Time's Peter Beinart said, "I really don't think most people, besides Chris, with all due respect, are really interested in rehashing all of the scandals of the 1990s," to which Matthews replied: "No, no. It's a question of whether they're all coming back, sir. That's the question. Rehashing or reliving is a bigger question. Do you want to relive them all?" In addition to his "alternately soppy and bitchy" comment, Hitchens has previously compared the Clintons to zombies, vampires, and werewolves and has questioned Hillary Clinton's faith, falsely claiming that "[s]he has never particularly mentioned it before." On November 18, MSNBC repeatedly aired footage of Hitchens attacking Clinton the night before, including an MSNBC Live segment anchored by David Shuster. After discussing Clinton's potential nomination at length during the November 14 edition of Hardball, Matthews said, "[H]ere's a blast from the past. Someone tracked down Linda Tripp -- remember her? She's the woman who outed Monica [Lewinsky] and her strange deal with a U.S. president -- to find out what Linda Tripp thinks about the new Democratic president. Tripp says, quote, 'Obama possesses an instantly recognizable purity of soul that brought quite unimaginable and long-awaited magic to the country, transforming red and blue states, quite literally, into the color purple.' Actually, I like what she had to say, especially her read on Obama's 'purity of soul.' " As Media Matters for America noted, on November 14, Matthews also hosted MSNBC political analyst Michelle Bernard, who said that if Clinton becomes secretary of state, she will run a "parallel government," and Jennifer Donahue, political director of the New Hampshire Institute of Politics, who suggested Clinton would try to "create only one term for Barack Obama." From the November 14 broadcast of MSNBC's Hardball with Chris Matthews: MATTHEWS: Anyway, next: here's a blast from the past. Someone tracked down Linda Tripp -- remember her? She's the woman who outed Monica [Lewinsky] and her strange deal with a U.S. president -- to find out what Linda Tripp thinks about the new Democratic president. Tripp says, quote, "Obama possesses an instantly recognizable purity of soul that brought quite unimaginable and long-awaited magic to the country, transforming red and blue states, quite literally, into the color purple." Actually, I like what she had to say, especially her read on Obama's "purity of soul." Time for the "Big Number" tonight: Secretary of State or not, the Clinton connection certainly doesn't seem to be a deal-breaker. According to the Politico, 31 of the 47 people named to transition jobs by Obama have ties to the Bill Clinton administration. The gang's all here, at least for the transition. Thirty-one Clinton associates have been called into at least temporary service by Team Obama -- tonight's "Big Number." From the November 17 broadcast of Hardball: MATTHEWS: Good evening. I'm Chris Matthews. Welcome to Hardball tonight from Los Angeles. Leading off tonight: When I first heard that the president-elect could pick Hillary Clinton as his secretary of state, my impulse was trouble. The Clintons are drama. They have ambition and they also have a story to tell, and to be just by themselves. Why, I asked, does Obama -- who has the nickname "No drama Obama" -- want to marry himself to drama? My second thought was that Hillary Clinton really did her best for the Obama effort, that she really did give an extraordinary speech in Denver, that her very soul seemed to be, at the end, for his actual election. Finally, I thought, Obama really does want to be Abraham Lincoln and assemble a team of rivals. Last night on 60 Minutes, Barack Obama was asked if Hillary was on his short list for secretary of state. OBAMA [video clip]: She is somebody who I've needed advice and counsel from. She is one of the most thoughtful public officials that we have. Beyond that, you're not getting anything out of me. MATTHEWS: Not much of a clue there. Much more on the possible pick of Hillary Clinton for secretary of state and all its varied consequences, in a minute. [...] MATTHEWS: Congressman Burton, you're no fans of the Clinton. In fact, I think you think the Clintons had something to do with killing Vince Foster. What do you say? REP. DAN BURTON (R-IN): Well, I'm not gonna go back and rehash that again, Chris. MATTHEWS: Well, rehash it for a minute, sir. You do -- BURTON: No, no, no. MATTHEWS: -- believe they had something to do with it. BURTON: No, I'll be glad to answer questions from you about -- MATTHEWS: Well, it does give me a sense -- BURTON: -- how tough she is and -- MATTHEWS: -- of what you think of the Clintons, that you won't even say they're free of a murder charge. Won't you do that at least? BURTON: Chris, I know you -- you want me to be controversial. Let me just say, she's a very talented woman. BURTON: No, you're the controversy, sir. Let me ask you this: Do you believe the Clintons are innocent of any foul play with regard to the death of Vince Foster? Let's start from there and we'll move on to your bona fides in this topic. BURTON: Chris, you heard what I said. I'm not gonna go back and cover that ground again. MATTHEWS: OK. Well, we just did. [...] MATTHEWS: OK. OK. Congressman -- Congressman Burton, should Bill Clinton be allowed to take money in the world from any source while his wife's secretary of state? BURTON: I don't think there's any rule that I know of that would prohibit him from giving speeches -- MATTHEWS: You just can't -- BURTON: -- around the world and -- MATTHEWS: -- you're -- this is entrapment. You guys, like [former Secretary of State Henry] Kissinger and [Sen.] Jon Kyl [R-AZ], can't wait for the Clintons to come aboard so they'll be pot shots. You'll be shooting at them like cantaloupes. They will be your target zone again. You can't wait, Congressman, to get them in the target zone, can you? Be honest. BURTON: My -- our target zone will be -- MATTHEWS: You want them there. BURTON: Our -- well, they were always entertaining. Let me just say this: Our target zone is lowering taxes and keeping spending down and getting the economy moving again. And as far as the Clintons concerned, if Barack Obama hires her to be his secretary of state, he's gonna have to deal with her, and we're going to have to deal with Barack Obama and his policies, Chris. He's going to -- MATTHEWS: What were you -- BURTON: -- be the boss. MATTHEWS: What were you -- Congressman, what were you shooting in the backyard? Were they cantaloupes or pineapples? What were they, you were shooting? Is it something to do with the Vince Foster case? BURTON: No, no. All right. MATTHEWS: You were shooting at something. BURTON: All right, Chris. I figured you'd want to go there again. I love you, man. I'm not gonna talk about that. MATTHEWS: OK. Well, I just wonder whether you're shooting fish in a barrel here. You can't wait to get the Clintons in that -- look at you. You're laughing your butt off. You can't wait to get the Clintons in the target zone. [...] MATTHEWS: What do you make of Hillary Clinton as secretary of state, Mr. Hitchens? HITCHENS: Look, this is the woman who played the race card on Barack Obama. This is the woman who, if you were for change that you can believe in -- whichever change it was -- you were voting against. This is the woman whose foreign policy experience consists of making a fool of herself and fabricating a story about Bosnia. This is the woman who, with her husband, have so many connections -- fundraising connections overseas, Indonesia, China. Just look up the Senate report on their fundraising activities, the people they have pardoned, the amazing brothers of hers who nearly got the -- was it the nut monopoly in Kazakhstan or something farcical like that. Just look it up. It's a ludicrous embarrassment for the president and for the country. But it should even be discussed? MATTHEWS: Well, why is he -- why is he -- look, we all know that Barack Obama's got a lot of candlepower. He's a smart guy. He's politically adept. He won the presidential election as the first African-American. HITCHENS: Yeah. MATTHEWS: He's gone over hurdles nobody thought anybody could do. And, yet, here he is with his biggest news story since his election. Everybody's buzzing about it. Why would he let this toothpaste out of the tube if he's not gonna do this thing? HITCHENS: Well, he -- it's clear from what we've can glean that it's -- the job is hers if she wants it. MATTHEWS: Yeah. HITCHENS: So it's Clinton re-do, not just Rahm Emanuel. Whatever this is, it's not change. [...] HITCHENS: We'd also like a full accounting from all the Chinese and Indonesian witnesses, who were fugitives from justice rather than testifying in the last Clinton fundraising hearings. MATTHEWS: Well, Marc Rich is still a problem. HITCHENS: We need to know -- we need to know what happened to that money now. BEINART: I really don't think most people, besides Chris, with all due respect, are really interested in rehashing all of the scandals of the 1990s. MATTHEWS: No, no. It's a question of whether they're all coming back, sir. That's the question. Rehashing or reliving is a bigger question. Do you want to relive them all? HITCHENS: Yeah. And who owes who for what? We now need to know. MATTHEWS: It's a good question. From the 4 p.m. ET hour of MSNBC Live on November 18: SHUSTER: Julie [Menin, Women's Campaign Forum], I want to get your reaction in particular to something that Christopher Hitchens said on Hardball last Friday about Hillary Clinton. Watch. HITCHENS [video clip]: This is the woman who played the race card on Barack Obama. This is the woman who, if you were for change that you can believe in -- whichever change it was -- you were voting against. This is the woman whose foreign policy experience consists of making a fool of herself and fabricating a story about Bosnia. SHUSTER: He goes on to say that Hillary Clinton's appointment would be a "ludicrous embarrassment." Your reaction?
Media Matters - Amid rumors of Clinton nomination, Matthews brings back '90s circus {...} On Hardball , Chris Matthews used reports that President-elect Barack Obama might nominate Sen. Hillary Clinton as secretary of state to "rehash" 1990s-era smears and scandals involving the Clintons. Matthews invoked Linda Tripp and hosted Rep. Dan Burton, whom Matthews asked to discuss the false accusation that Vince Foster was murdered, and Christopher Hitchens. {...}
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]]> {NORTH AMERICA > LODGING} - My Hollywood Apt. for your S.F. for Thanksgiving. (East Hollywood) Hi There, My mother, sister and I are looking for a swap over the Thanksgiving weekend. We prefer Wednesday night (late) to Sunday or Monday afternoon. I live in East Hollywood. 101 and Melrose. A somewhat up and coming area. Vegan Restaurant, Scoops Ice Cream store, the Bicycle kitchen, LACC, Santa Monica/Vermont Metro station and more... http://maps.google.com/maps?client=safari&q=741+n+heliotrope+dr.+los+angeles,+CA&ie=UTF8&oe=UTF-8&ll=34.085169,-118.295288&spn=0.009348,0.019934&z=16&g=741+n+heliotrope+dr.+los+angeles,+CA&iwloc=addr My Apt. is great. A large 1 bedroom/ 1 bath in a 4plex. T.V. (no cable), DVD, WiFi, Washer/Dryer. It's just me, in my Apt. My Mom and Sister just happen to be coming up with me too. I've attached two pictures. I have plenty more. and Please have pics of your place. Please let me know if you're interested and we'll go from there. Please be respectful, clean, and non smoker. All the best and happy holidays. Brooks http://articles.world-of-newave.info/regional/north-america/united-states/california/metro-areas/san-francisco-bay-area/travel-and-tourism/lodging/my-hollywood-apt-for-your-s-f-for-thanksgiving-east-20081126827.htm 2008-11-18T18:39:49Z 2008-11-18T18:39:49Z Sfbay.Craigslist.Org http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/swp/924270157.html My Hollywood Apt. for your S.F. for Thanksgiving. (East Hollywood) {new window}   Sfbay.Craigslist.Org - Hi There, My mother, sister and I are looking for a swap over the Thanksgiving weekend. We prefer Wednesday night (late) to Sunday or Monday afternoon. I live in East Hollywood. 101 and Melrose. A somewhat up and coming area. Vegan Restaurant, Scoops Ice Cream store, the Bicycle kitchen, LACC, Santa Monica/Vermont Metro station and more... http://maps.google.com/maps?client=safari&q=741+n+heliotrope+dr.+los+angeles,+CA&ie=UTF8&oe=UTF-8&ll=34.085169,-118.295288&spn=0.009348,0.019934&z=16&g=741+n+heliotrope+dr.+los+angeles,+CA&iwloc=addr My Apt. is great. A large 1 bedroom/ 1 bath in a 4plex. T.V. (no cable), DVD, WiFi, Washer/Dryer. It's just me, in my Apt. My Mom and Sister just happen to be coming up with me too. I've attached two pictures. I have plenty more. and Please have pics of your place. Please let me know if you're interested and we'll go from there. Please be respectful, clean, and non smoker. All the best and happy holidays. Brooks
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]]> {LIBRARIES > WEBLOGS} - A ?living library? that opens minds A ‘living library’ that opens minds - “On Oct. 18, the Santa Monica Public Library hosted an unusual interactive event called “The Living Library,” in which people were the books and could be checked out for half an hour’s conversation. Borrowers were instructed that “the Reader must return the Book in the same mental and [...] http://articles.world-of-newave.info/reference/libraries/library-and-information-science/weblogs/a-living-library-that-opens-minds-20081180319.htm 2008-11-15T02:40:07Z 2008-11-15T02:40:07Z Librarystuff.Net http://www.librarystuff.net/2008/11/14/a-living-library-that-opens-minds/ A ?living library? that opens minds {new window}   Www.Librarystuff.Net - A ‘living library’ that opens minds - “On Oct. 18, the Santa Monica Public Library hosted an unusual interactive event called “The Living Library,” in which people were the books and could be checked out for half an hour’s conversation. Borrowers were instructed that “the Reader must return the Book in the same mental and [...]
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]]> {ISSUES > BIAS AND BALANCE} - Media Matters: All over but the lying On Tuesday, Americans chose as their next president an African-American named Barack Obama who campaigned on a near-universal health-care plan, allowing the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy to expire, and a move away from the belligerent foreign policy of the past eight years. Republicans, and some journalists, had spent months (falsely) saying Obama is the single most liberal member of the U.S. Senate -- and maybe even a socialist. The American people responded by electing him in a landslide. This, naturally, is very good news for the Republicans, according to many pundits. It proves once again that America remains a "center-right" nation. Right about now, you're probably scratching your head, wondering how the election of the "most liberal" member of the Senate, a man who campaigned on a promise of near-universal health care, could possibly be described as evidence of a conservative country. To be sure, it requires some creative thinking. NBC's Tom Brokaw, for example, looked at county-by-county election results and concluded that counties carried by John McCain account for greater land mass than those carried by Barack Obama. This would be meaningful, if only fields and streams and rocks and trees were conservative voters. But they aren't: They are fields and streams and rocks and trees. They are neither liberal nor conservative; they tell us nothing about the nation's political leanings. People tell us something about the nation's leanings -- and more people voted for Barack Obama. Then there's CNN's John King Wednesday night. Just try to follow his logic: KING: Without a doubt, the electorate voted for Barack Obama, but still perceives him to be a liberal. And one thing you don't want to do when you win an election like this, a sweeping election like this, is alienate the people here in a place like Cincinnati. Why? George W. Bush carried that county four years ago. You don't want to drive them away. [...] So, Barack Obama is making inroads in communities that not too long ago voted Republican. The last thing you want to do if you want to keep them four years from now is to alienate them with a liberal agenda. That simply does not make any sense. John King says Barack won a "sweeping election" even though the electorate "perceives him to be a liberal" -- so he better not pursue a "liberal agenda" or he will "alienate them." Got that? Later that same night, King added that Obama "does not get a mandate to be a liberal." Again, this is pure nonsense. John King says voters perceive Obama to be a liberal. John King says Obama won a "sweeping victory." And yet John King says that Obama's sweeping victory among an electorate that considers him a liberal does not constitute a mandate to be a liberal. This is illogical, self-discrediting foolishness. At least King was considerate enough to debunk his own absurd conclusions in near-real time. Conservatives making similar claims were not so kind. Media Research Center president Brent Bozell -- who does not get nearly the recognition he deserves for being one of the most clownish figures in the conservative movement -- took to Fox News to announce that Obama had won by campaigning as a "Reaganite" and a "fiscal conservative." Couple of problems with that claim. First, Bozell didn't explain what he meant by "fiscal conservative," but its typical meaning -- supportive of restrained spending and balanced budgets -- is so far removed from the actual governing performance of actual conservatives that the phrase ought to be retired from use. Second, Bozell's claim that Obama won as a "Reaganite" is a little odd, given that it wasn't that long ago that conservatives were saying Obama was campaigning on a "redistribution of wealth" that constituted "socialism." And when I say "conservatives," I mean Brent Bozell. And by "it wasn't that long ago," I mean last week. (How much of a fraud is Bozell? In 1998, Bozell claimed the media weren't paying enough attention to Monica Lewinsky -- at a time when there were 500 news reports a day on the topic. Now he's alternately claiming Obama is a "socialist" and a "Reaganite." And in his column last week, he complained that a recent Project for Excellence in Journalism study overstated the extent of negative coverage of Obama by including "talk-radio hosts from Rush Limbaugh to Randi Rhodes" who are supposed to "express an opinion." But that complaint is completely false. The study in question specifically excluded talk radio. It's right there in the study's methodology: "Talk radio stories, which are part of PEJ's regular NCI, were not included in this campaign study of tone." If Brent Bozell tells you the sun is shining, you better grab an umbrella.) It isn't hard to figure out why Brent Bozell makes absurd claims about Obama winning as a "Reaganite" -- he's an ideologue with far greater commitment to his agenda than to the truth. But why would Tom Brokaw and John King and Newsweek and countless other Beltway journalists and pundits continue to say things like "America remains a center-right country" and insist that Barack Obama's clear victory does not constitute a mandate for the progressive policy positions he ran on? It might have something to do with the long-held assumptions of many journalists and pundits (and more than a few progressives) that progressives are inherently politically weak and conservatives are inherently politically strong. Three of the most foolish pieces of punditry of the past several years reflect such assumptions. Newsweek's Howard Fineman announced in late 2005 that Democrats were justifiably "gloomy" about their electoral prospects. It seemed preposterous, given that President Bush's approval ratings were in the tank, his mishandling of Hurricane Katrina had enraged the nation, and Republicans in Congress were being fitted for orange jumpsuits by the dozen. Still, Fineman insisted, it was true: Democrats were in trouble. One reason? A "Lack of star power." Fineman explained: "it's incontestably true that the Democrats simply aren't blessed with much charisma in the leadership ranks." The 200,000 people who stood in Chicago's Grant Park for Obama's victory speech would probably disagree. (Yes, Fineman said "leadership ranks," and Obama wasn't in the party "leadership" in 2005. But Fineman contrasted the Democrats' purported lack of "charisma" with Republicans who weren't, either, so that doesn't get him off the hook.) Since Fineman argued that Democrats had good reason to be gloomy, they've picked up more than 50 House seats, 12 in the Senate, and the presidency. Republicans have won ... well, John Boehner has probably won a few rounds of golf, but that's about it. Then there's NBC political director Chuck Todd. Shortly before the 2006 elections, Todd predicted that if Democrats won control of Congress, President Bush's approval rating would be above 50 percent by the following July. Democrats did win control of Congress -- and Bush's approval rating was at 30 percent the following July. And at this point, Bush wouldn't be above 50 if you added his approval ratings in the last two CBS/New York Times polls together. And finally, the dean of the Washington press corps, David Broder: In September 2005, Broder predicted that Bush's handling of Katrina would help him regain his standing with the public. Things didn't work out that way, as Broder eventually acknowledged, but he continued to predict a Bush resurgence. In early 2007, Broder announced that "President Bush is poised for a political comeback." It isn't just that these three predictions were wrong; people make incorrect forecasts all the time. Many of those incorrect predictions are based on reasonable analysis that just turns out to be wrong. But it has been pretty clear since mid-2005 that the Bush administration has been a spectacular failure, that the public has rejected the disastrous conservative policies President Bush had used to drive the nation into a ditch. There hasn't been any reason to believe the Republicans would rebound, other than blind faith. And that isn't something that is clear only in hindsight: It has been obvious for years. Democrats have won the popular vote in four of the past five presidential elections. When the new Congress is sworn in, they will hold more than 250 seats in the House and at least 57 in the Senate. Public polling shows -- and has shown for quite some time -- that Americans back progressive solutions to the nation's problems. The current progressive ascendancy won't last forever, of course. But it's about time for the Beltway pundit crowd to let go of their tired old assumptions about the relative strength of the parties and the ideological leanings of the country. Unless, of course, they enjoy making fools of themselves. Jamison Foser is Executive Vice President at Media Matters for America. http://articles.world-of-newave.info/society/issues/business/media/bias-and-balance/media-matters-all-over-but-the-lying-2008116419.htm 2008-11-08T01:25:53Z 2008-11-08T01:25:53Z Mediamatters.Org http://mediamatters.org/items/200811070012 Media Matters: All over but the lying {new window}   Mediamatters.Org - On Tuesday, Americans chose as their next president an African-American named Barack Obama who campaigned on a near-universal health-care plan, allowing the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy to expire, and a move away from the belligerent foreign policy of the past eight years. Republicans, and some journalists, had spent months (falsely) saying Obama is the single most liberal member of the U.S. Senate -- and maybe even a socialist. The American people responded by electing him in a landslide. This, naturally, is very good news for the Republicans, according to many pundits. It proves once again that America remains a "center-right" nation. Right about now, you're probably scratching your head, wondering how the election of the "most liberal" member of the Senate, a man who campaigned on a promise of near-universal health care, could possibly be described as evidence of a conservative country. To be sure, it requires some creative thinking. NBC's Tom Brokaw, for example, looked at county-by-county election results and concluded that counties carried by John McCain account for greater land mass than those carried by Barack Obama. This would be meaningful, if only fields and streams and rocks and trees were conservative voters. But they aren't: They are fields and streams and rocks and trees. They are neither liberal nor conservative; they tell us nothing about the nation's political leanings. People tell us something about the nation's leanings -- and more people voted for Barack Obama. Then there's CNN's John King Wednesday night. Just try to follow his logic: KING: Without a doubt, the electorate voted for Barack Obama, but still perceives him to be a liberal. And one thing you don't want to do when you win an election like this, a sweeping election like this, is alienate the people here in a place like Cincinnati. Why? George W. Bush carried that county four years ago. You don't want to drive them away. [...] So, Barack Obama is making inroads in communities that not too long ago voted Republican. The last thing you want to do if you want to keep them four years from now is to alienate them with a liberal agenda. That simply does not make any sense. John King says Barack won a "sweeping election" even though the electorate "perceives him to be a liberal" -- so he better not pursue a "liberal agenda" or he will "alienate them." Got that? Later that same night, King added that Obama "does not get a mandate to be a liberal." Again, this is pure nonsense. John King says voters perceive Obama to be a liberal. John King says Obama won a "sweeping victory." And yet John King says that Obama's sweeping victory among an electorate that considers him a liberal does not constitute a mandate to be a liberal. This is illogical, self-discrediting foolishness. At least King was considerate enough to debunk his own absurd conclusions in near-real time. Conservatives making similar claims were not so kind. Media Research Center president Brent Bozell -- who does not get nearly the recognition he deserves for being one of the most clownish figures in the conservative movement -- took to Fox News to announce that Obama had won by campaigning as a "Reaganite" and a "fiscal conservative." Couple of problems with that claim. First, Bozell didn't explain what he meant by "fiscal conservative," but its typical meaning -- supportive of restrained spending and balanced budgets -- is so far removed from the actual governing performance of actual conservatives that the phrase ought to be retired from use. Second, Bozell's claim that Obama won as a "Reaganite" is a little odd, given that it wasn't that long ago that conservatives were saying Obama was campaigning on a "redistribution of wealth" that constituted "socialism." And when I say "conservatives," I mean Brent Bozell. And by "it wasn't that long ago," I mean last week. (How much of a fraud is Bozell? In 1998, Bozell claimed the media weren't paying enough attention to Monica Lewinsky -- at a time when there were 500 news reports a day on the topic. Now he's alternately claiming Obama is a "socialist" and a "Reaganite." And in his column last week, he complained that a recent Project for Excellence in Journalism study overstated the extent of negative coverage of Obama by including "talk-radio hosts from Rush Limbaugh to Randi Rhodes" who are supposed to "express an opinion." But that complaint is completely false. The study in question specifically excluded talk radio. It's right there in the study's methodology: "Talk radio stories, which are part of PEJ's regular NCI, were not included in this campaign study of tone." If Brent Bozell tells you the sun is shining, you better grab an umbrella.) It isn't hard to figure out why Brent Bozell makes absurd claims about Obama winning as a "Reaganite" -- he's an ideologue with far greater commitment to his agenda than to the truth. But why would Tom Brokaw and John King and Newsweek and countless other Beltway journalists and pundits continue to say things like "America remains a center-right country" and insist that Barack Obama's clear victory does not constitute a mandate for the progressive policy positions he ran on? It might have something to do with the long-held assumptions of many journalists and pundits (and more than a few progressives) that progressives are inherently politically weak and conservatives are inherently politically strong. Three of the most foolish pieces of punditry of the past several years reflect such assumptions. Newsweek's Howard Fineman announced in late 2005 that Democrats were justifiably "gloomy" about their electoral prospects. It seemed preposterous, given that President Bush's approval ratings were in the tank, his mishandling of Hurricane Katrina had enraged the nation, and Republicans in Congress were being fitted for orange jumpsuits by the dozen. Still, Fineman insisted, it was true: Democrats were in trouble. One reason? A "Lack of star power." Fineman explained: "it's incontestably true that the Democrats simply aren't blessed with much charisma in the leadership ranks." The 200,000 people who stood in Chicago's Grant Park for Obama's victory speech would probably disagree. (Yes, Fineman said "leadership ranks," and Obama wasn't in the party "leadership" in 2005. But Fineman contrasted the Democrats' purported lack of "charisma" with Republicans who weren't, either, so that doesn't get him off the hook.) Since Fineman argued that Democrats had good reason to be gloomy, they've picked up more than 50 House seats, 12 in the Senate, and the presidency. Republicans have won ... well, John Boehner has probably won a few rounds of golf, but that's about it. Then there's NBC political director Chuck Todd. Shortly before the 2006 elections, Todd predicted that if Democrats won control of Congress, President Bush's approval rating would be above 50 percent by the following July. Democrats did win control of Congress -- and Bush's approval rating was at 30 percent the following July. And at this point, Bush wouldn't be above 50 if you added his approval ratings in the last two CBS/New York Times polls together. And finally, the dean of the Washington press corps, David Broder: In September 2005, Broder predicted that Bush's handling of Katrina would help him regain his standing with the public. Things didn't work out that way, as Broder eventually acknowledged, but he continued to predict a Bush resurgence. In early 2007, Broder announced that "President Bush is poised for a political comeback." It isn't just that these three predictions were wrong; people make incorrect forecasts all the time. Many of those incorrect predictions are based on reasonable analysis that just turns out to be wrong. But it has been pretty clear since mid-2005 that the Bush administration has been a spectacular failure, that the public has rejected the disastrous conservative policies President Bush had used to drive the nation into a ditch. There hasn't been any reason to believe the Republicans would rebound, other than blind faith. And that isn't something that is clear only in hindsight: It has been obvious for years. Democrats have won the popular vote in four of the past five presidential elections. When the new Congress is sworn in, they will hold more than 250 seats in the House and at least 57 in the Senate. Public polling shows -- and has shown for quite some time -- that Americans back progressive solutions to the nation's problems. The current progressive ascendancy won't last forever, of course. But it's about time for the Beltway pundit crowd to let go of their tired old assumptions about the relative strength of the parties and the ideological leanings of the country. Unless, of course, they enjoy making fools of themselves. Jamison Foser is Executive Vice President at Media Matters for America.
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]]> {NORTH AMERICA > LODGING} - My Apmt in SF, centrally located, for a place in LA on the West side (cole valley / ashbury hts) 1bd I am taking an extended break from work. I want to swap my 1br/1ba in SF for a comparable place in the LA west side area (West Hollywood, Santa Monica, Culver City, etc) for 1-3 months. My place in SF: 1 Br, 1 bath with a Full-size bed, sizeable living room, kitchen, washer & dryer in laundry room, cable on flatscreen TV, internet and Wifi. 1 block to Muni A few blocks from Haight/Ashbury, Golden gate park, and Panhandle. Great neighborhood with cafes and restaurants 2 blocks away. Cats and dogs are not allowed in the building. If this sounds like a potential match, please email me and I'll send pictures and talk specifics. http://articles.world-of-newave.info/regional/north-america/united-states/california/metro-areas/san-francisco-bay-area/travel-and-tourism/lodging/my-apmt-in-sf-centrally-located-for-a-place-in-la-on-20081163813.htm 2008-11-07T01:26:14Z 2008-11-07T01:26:14Z Sfbay.Craigslist.Org http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/swp/908864840.html My Apmt in SF, centrally located, for a place in LA on the West side (cole valley / ashbury hts) 1bd {new window}   Sfbay.Craigslist.Org - I am taking an extended break from work. I want to swap my 1br/1ba in SF for a comparable place in the LA west side area (West Hollywood, Santa Monica, Culver City, etc) for 1-3 months. My place in SF: 1 Br, 1 bath with a Full-size bed, sizeable living room, kitchen, washer & dryer in laundry room, cable on flatscreen TV, internet and Wifi. 1 block to Muni A few blocks from Haight/Ashbury, Golden gate park, and Panhandle. Great neighborhood with cafes and restaurants 2 blocks away. Cats and dogs are not allowed in the building. If this sounds like a potential match, please email me and I'll send pictures and talk specifics.
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]]> {SOCIAL SCIENCES > URBAN AND REGIONAL PLANNING} - Neighbors Complain and Cops Crack Down on Outdoor Exercise Hotspot A grassy median in a tony Santa Monica neighborhood has been a hotspot for local fitness buffs looking for a nice place to workout for years. But residents tired of the constant outdoor gym that invades their street are complaining to the city. read more http://articles.world-of-newave.info/science/social-sciences/urban-and-regional-planning/neighbors-complain-and-cops-crack-down-on-outdoor-2008112947.htm 2008-11-04T18:00:00Z 2008-11-04T18:00:00Z Planetizen.Com http://www.planetizen.com/node/35885 Neighbors Complain and Cops Crack Down on Outdoor Exercise Hotspot {new window}   Www.Planetizen.Com - A grassy median in a tony Santa Monica neighborhood has been a hotspot for local fitness buffs looking for a nice place to workout for years. But residents tired of the constant outdoor gym that invades their street are complaining to the city. read more
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