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We will now return to Grey Abbey, Lord Cashel, and that unhappy love-sick heiress, his ward, Fanny Wyndham. Affairs there had taken no turn to give increased comfort either to the earl or to his niece, during the month which succeeded the news of young Harry Wyndham’s death.
The former still adhered, with fixed pertinacity of purpose, to the matrimonial arrangement which he had made with his son. Circumstances, indeed, rendered it even much more necessary in the earl’s eyes than it had appeared to be when he first contemplated this scheme for releasing himself from his son’s pecuniary difficulties. He had, as the reader will remember, advanced a very large sum of money to Lord Kilcullen, to be repaid out of Fanny Wyndham’s fortune, This money Lord Kilcullen had certainly appropriated in the manner intended by his father, but it had anything but the effect of quieting the creditors. The payments were sufficiently large to make the whole hungry crew hear that his lordship was paying his debts, but not at all sufficient to satisfy their craving. Indeed, nearly the whole went in liquidation of turf engagements, and gambling debts. The Jews, money-lenders, and tradesmen merely heard that money was going from Lord Kilcullen’s pocket; but with all their exertions they got very little of it themselves.
Consequently, claims of all kinds bills, duns, remonstrances and threats, poured in not only upon the son but also upon the father. The latter, it is true, was not in his own person liable, for one penny of them, nor could he well, on his own score, be said to be an embarrassed man; but he was not the less uneasy. He had determined if possible to extricate his son once more, and as a preliminary step had himself already raised a large sum of money which it would much trouble him to pay; and he moreover, as he frequently said to Lord Kilcullen, would not and could not pay another penny for the same purpose, until he saw a tolerably sure prospect of being repaid out of his ward’s fortune.
He was therefore painfully anxious on the subject; anxious not only that the matter should be arranged, but that it should be done at once. It was plain that Lord Kilcullen could not remain in London, for he would be arrested; the same thing would happen at Grey Abbey, if, he were to remain there long without settling his affairs; and if he were once to escape his creditors by going abroad, there would be no such thing as getting him back again. Lord Cashel saw no good reason why there should, be any delay; Harry Wyndham was dead above a month, and Fanny was evidently grieving more for the loss of her lover than that of her brother; she naturally felt alone in the world and, as Lord Cashel thought, one young viscount would be just as good as another. The advantages, too, were much in favour of his son; he would one day be an earl, and possess Grey Abbey. So great an accession of grandeur, dignity, and rank could not but be, as the earl considered, very delightful to a sensible girl like his ward. The marriage, of course, needn’t be much hurried; four or five months’ time would do for that; he was only anxious that they should be engaged that Lord Kilcullen should be absolutely accepted Lord Ballindine finally rejected.
The earl certainly felt some scruples of conscience at the sacrifice he was making of his ward, and stronger still respecting his ward’s fortune; but he appeased them with the reflection that if his son were a gambler, a rou‚, and a scamp, Lord Ballindine was probably just as bad; and that if the latter were to spend all Fanny’s money there would be no chance of redemption; whereas he could at any rate settle on his wife a jointure, which would be a full compensation for the loss of her fortune, should she outlive her husband and father-inlaw. Besides, he looked on Lord Kilcullen’s faults as a father is generally inclined to look on those of a son, whom he had not entirely given up whom he is still striving to redeem. He called his iniquitous vices, follies his licentiousness, love of pleasure his unprincipled expenditure and extravagance, a want of the knowledge of what money was: and his worst sin of all, because the one least likely to be abandoned, his positive, unyielding damning selfishness, he called ‘fashion’ the fashion of the young men of the day.
Poor Lord Cashel! he wished to be honest to his ward; and yet to save his son, and his own pocket at the same time, at her expense: he wished to be, in his own estimation, high-minded, honourable, and disinterested, and yet he could not resist the temptation to be generous to his own flesh and blood at the expense of another. The contest within him made him miserable; but the devil and mammon were too strong for him, particularly coming as they did, half hidden beneath the gloss of parental affection. There was little of the Roman about the earl, and he could not condemn his own son; so he fumed and fretted, and twisted himself about in the easy chair in his dingy book-room, and passed long hours in trying to persuade himself that it was for Fanny’s advantage that he was going to make her Lady Kilcullen.
He might have saved himself all his anxiety. Fanny Wyndham had much too strong a mind much too marked a character of her own, to be made Lady Anything by Lord Anybody. Lord Cashel might possibly prevent her from marrying Frank, especially as she had been weak enough, through ill-founded pique and anger, to lend him her name for dismissing him; but neither he nor anyone else could make her accept one man, while she loved another, and while that other was unmarried.
Since the interview between Fanny and her uncle and aunt, which has been recorded, she had been nearly as uncomfortable as Lord Cashel, and she had, to a certain extent, made the whole household as much so as herself. Not that there was anything of the kill-joy character in Fanny’s composition; but that the natural disposition of Grey Abbey and all belonging to it was to be dull, solemn, slow, and respectable. Fanny alone had ever given any life to the place, or made the house tolerable; and her secession to the ranks of the sombre crew was therefore the more remarked. If Fanny moped, all Grey Abbey might figuratively be said to hang down its head. Lady Cashel was, in every sense of the words, continually wrapped up in wools and worsteds. The earl was always equally ponderous, and the specific gravity of Lady Selina could not be calculated. It was beyond the power of figures, even in algebraic denominations, to describe her moral weight.
And now Fanny did mope, and Grey Abbey was triste indeed. Griffiths in my lady’s boudoir rolled and unrolled those huge white bundles of mysterious fleecy hosiery with more than usually slow and unbroken perseverance. My lady herself bewailed the fermentation among the jam-pots with a voice that did more than whine, it was almost funereal. As my lord went from breakfast-room to book-room, from book-room to dressing-room, and from dressing-room to dining-room, his footsteps creaked with a sound more deadly than that of a death-watch. The book-room itself had caught a darker gloom; the backs of the books seemed to have lost their gilding, and the mahogany furniture its French polish. There, like a god, Lord Cashel sate alone, throned amid clouds of awful dulness, ruling the world of nothingness around by the silent solemnity of his inertia.
Lady Selina was always useful, but with a solid, slow activity, a dignified intensity of heavy perseverance, which made her perhaps more intolerable than her father. She was like some old coaches which we remember very sure, very respectable; but so tedious, so monotonous, so heavy in their motion, that a man with a spark of mercury in his composition would prefer any danger from a faster vehicle to their horrid, weary, murderous, slow security. Lady Selina from day to day performed her duties in a most uncompromising manner; she knew what was due to her position, and from it, and exacted and performed accordingly with a stiff, steady propriety which made her an awful if not a hateful creature. One of her daily duties, and one for the performance of which she had unfortunately ample opportunity, was the consolation of Fanny under her troubles. Poor Fanny! how great an aggravation was this to her other miseries! For a considerable time Lady Selma had known nothing of the true cause of Fanny’s gloom; for though the two cousins were good friends, as far as Lady Selina was capable of admitting so human a frailty as friendship, still Fanny could not bring herself to make a confidante of her. Her kind, stupid, unpretending old aunt was a much better person to talk to, even though she did arch her eyebrows, and shake her head when Lord Ballindine’s name was mentioned, and assure her niece that though she had always liked him herself, he could not be good for much, because Lord Kilcullen had said so. But Fanny could not well dissemble; she was tormented by Lady Selina’s condolements, and recommendations of Gibbon, her encomiums on industry, and anathemas against idleness; she was so often reminded that weeping would not bring back her brother, nor inactive reflection make his fate less certain, that at last she made her monitor understand that it was about Lord Ballindine’s fate that she was anxious, and that it was his coming back which might be effected by weeping or other measures.
Lady Selina was shocked by such feminine, girlish weakness, such want of dignity and character, such forgetfulness, as she said to Fanny, of what was due to her own position. Lady Selina was herself unmarried, and not likely to marry; and why had she maintained her virgin state, and foregone the blessings of love and matrimony? Because, as she often said to herself, and occasionally said to Fanny, she would not step down from the lofty pedestal on which it had pleased fortune and birth to place her.
She learned, however, by degrees, to forgive, though she couldn’t approve, Fanny’s weakness; she remembered that it was a very different thing to be an earl’s niece and an earl’s daughter, and that the same conduct could not be expected from Fanny Wyndham and Lady Selina Grey.
The two were sitting together, in one of the Grey Abbey drawing-rooms, about the middle of April. Fanny had that morning again been talking to her guardian on the subject nearest to her heart, and had nearly distracted him by begging him to take steps to make Frank understand that a renewal of his visits at Grey Abbey would not be ill received. Lord Cashel at first tried to frighten her out of her project by silence, frowns, and looks: but not finding himself successful, he commenced a long oration, in which he broke down, or rather, which he had to cut up into sundry short speeches; in which he endeavoured to make it appear that Lord Ballindine’s expulsion had originated with Fanny herself, and that, banished or not banished, the less. Fanny had to do with him the better. His ward, however, declared, in rather a tempestuous manner, that if she could not see him at Grey Abbey she would see him elsewhere; and his lordship was obliged to capitulate by promising that if Frank were unmarried in twelve months’ time, and Fanny should then still be of the same mind, he would consent to the match and use his influence to bring it about. This by no means satisfied Fanny, but it was all that the earl would say, and she had now to consider whether she would accept those terms or act for herself. Had she had any idea what steps she could with propriety take in opposition to the earl, she would have withdrawn herself and her fortune from his house and hands, without any scruples of conscience. But what was she to do? She couldn’t write to her lover and ask him to come back to her! Whither could she go? She couldn’t well set up house for herself.
Lady Selina was bending over her writing-desk, and penning most decorous notes, with a precision of calligraphy which it was painful to witness. She was writing orders to Dublin tradesmen, and each order might have been printed in the Complete Letter-Writer, as a specimen of the manner in which young ladies should address such correspondents. Fanny had a volume of French poetry in her hand, but had it been Greek prose it would have given her equal occupation and amusement. It had been in her hands half-an-hour, and she had not read a line.
‘Fanny,’ said Lady Selina, raising up her thin red spiral tresses from her desk, and speaking in a firm, decided tone, as if well assured of the importance of the question she was going to put; ‘don’t you want some things from Ellis’s?’
‘From where, Selina?’ said Fanny, slightly starting.
‘From Ellis’s,’ repeated Lady Selina.
‘Oh, the man in Grafton Street. No, thank you.’ And Fanny returned to her thoughts.
‘Surely you do, Fanny,’ said her ladyship. ‘I’m sure you want black crape; you were saying so on Friday last.’
‘Was I? Yes; I think I do. It’ll do another time, Selina; never mind now.’
‘You had better have it in the parcel he will send tomorrow; if you’ll give me the pattern and tell me how much you want, I’ll write for it.’
‘Thank you, Selina. You’re very kind, but I won’t mind it today.’
‘How very foolish of you, Fanny; you know you want it, and then you’ll be annoyed about it. You’d better let me order it with the other things.’
‘Very well, dear: order it then for me.’
‘How much will you want? you must send the pattern too, you know.’
‘Indeed, Selina, I don’t care about having it at all; I can do very well without it, so don’t mind troubling yourself.’
‘How very ridiculous, Fanny! You know you want black crape and you must get it from Ellis’s.’ Lady Selina paused for a reply, and then added, in a voice of sorrowful rebuke, ‘It’s to save yourself the trouble of sending Jane for the pattern.’
‘Well, Selina, perhaps it is. Don’t bother me about it now, there’s a dear. I’ll be more myself by-and-by; but indeed, indeed, I’m neither well nor happy now.’
‘Not well, Fanny! What ails you?’
‘Oh, nothing ails me; that is, nothing in the doctor’s way. I didn’t mean I was ill.’
‘You said you weren’t well; and people usually mean by that, that they are ill.’
‘But I didn’t mean it,’ said Fanny, becoming almost irritated, ‘I only meant —’ and she paused and did not finish her sentence. Lady Selina wiped her pen, in her scarlet embroidered pen-wiper, closed the lid of her patent inkstand, folded a piece of blotting-paper over the note she was writing, pushed back the ruddy ringlets from her contemplative forehead, gave a slight sigh, and turned herself towards her cousin, with the purpose of commencing a vigorous lecture and cross-examination, by which she hoped to exorcise the spirit of lamentation from Fanny’s breast, and restore her to a healthful activity in the performance of this world’s duties. Fanny felt what was coming; she could not fly; so she closed her book and her eyes, and prepared herself for endurance.
‘Fanny,’ said Lady Selina, in a voice which was intended to be both severe and sorrowful, ‘you are giving way to very foolish feelings in a very foolish way; you are preparing great unhappiness for yourself, and allowing your mind to waste itself in uncontrolled sorrow in a manner in a manner which cannot but be ruinously injurious. My dear Fanny, why don’t you do something? why don’t you occupy yourself? You’ve given up your work; you’ve given up your music; you’ve given up everything in the shape of reading; how long, Fanny, will you go on in this sad manner?’ Lady Selina paused, but, as Fanny did not immediately reply, she continued her speech ‘I’ve begged you to go on with your reading, because nothing but mental employment will restore your mind to its proper tone. I’m sure I’ve brought you the second volume of Gibbon twenty times, but I don’t believe you’ve read a chapter this month back. How long will you allow yourself to go on in this sad manner?’
‘Not long, Selina. As you say, I’m sad enough.’
‘But is it becoming in you, Fanny, to grieve in this way for a man whom you yourself rejected because he was unworthy of you?’
‘Selina, I’ve told you before that such was not the case. I believe him to be perfectly worthy of me, and of any one much my superior too.’
‘But you did reject him, Fanny: you bade papa tell him to discontinue his visits didn’t you?’
Fanny felt that her cousin was taking an unfair advantage in throwing thus in her teeth her own momentary folly in having been partly persuaded, partly piqued, into quarrelling with her lover; and she resented it as such. ‘If I did,’ she said, somewhat angrily, ‘it does not make my grief any lighter, to know that I brought it on myself.’
‘No, Fanny; but it should show you that the loss for which you grieve is past recovery. Sorrow, for which there is no cure, should cease to be grieved for, at any rate openly. If Lord Ballindine were to die you would not allow his death to doom you to perpetual sighs, and perpetual inactivity. No; you’d then know that grief was hopeless, and you’d recover.’
‘But Lord Ballindine is not dead,’ said Fanny.
‘Ah! that’s just the point,’ continued her ladyship; ‘he should be dead to you; to you he should now be just the same as though he were in his grave. You loved him some time since, and accepted him; but you found your love misplaced, unreturned, or at any rate coldly returned. Though you loved him, you passed a deliberate judgment on him, and wisely rejected him. Having done so, his name should not be on your lips; his form and figure should be forgotten. No thoughts of him should sully your mind, no love for him should be permitted to rest in your heart; it should be rooted out, whatever the exertion may cost you.’
‘Selina, I believe you have no heart yourself.’
‘Perhaps as much as yourself, Fanny. I’ve heard of some people who were said to be all heart; I flatter myself I am not one of them. I trust I have some mind, to regulate my heart; and some conscience, to prevent my sacrificing my duties for the sake of my heart.’
‘If you knew,’ said Fanny, ‘the meaning of what love was, you’d know that it cannot be given up in a moment, as you suppose; rooted out, as you choose to call it. But, to tell you the truth, Selina, I don’t choose to root it out. I gave my word to Frank not twelve months since, and that with the consent of every one belonging to me. I owned that I loved him, and solemnly assured him I would always do so. I cannot, and I ought not, and I will not break my word. You would think of nothing but what you call your own dignity; I will not give up my own happiness, and, I firmly believe his, too, for anything so empty.’
‘Don’t be angry with me, Fanny,’ said Lady Selina; ‘my regard for your dignity arises only from my affection for you. I should be sorry to see you lessen yourself in the eyes of those around you. You must remember that you cannot act as another girl might, whose position was less exalted. Miss O’Joscelyn might cry for her lost lover till she got him back again, or got another; and no one would be the wiser, and she would not be the worse; but you cannot do that. Rank and station are in themselves benefits; but they require more rigid conduct, much more control over the feelings than is necessary in a humbler position. You should always remember, Fanny, that much is expected from those to whom much is given.’
‘And I’m to be miserable all my life because I’m not a parson’s daughter, like Miss O’Joscelyn!’
‘God forbid, Fanny! If you’d employ your time, engage your mind, and cease to think of Lord Ballindine, you’d soon cease to be miserable. Yes; though you might never again feel the happiness of loving, you might still be far from miserable.’
‘But I can’t cease to think of him, Selina; I won’t even try.’
‘Then, Fanny, I truly pity you.’
‘No, Selina; it’s I that pity you,’ said Fanny, roused to energy as different thoughts crowded to her mind. ‘You, who think more of your position as an earl’s daughter an aristocrat, than of your nature as a woman! Thank Heaven, I’m not a queen, to be driven to have other feelings than those of my sex. I do love Lord Ballindine, and if I had the power to cease to do so this moment, I’d sooner drown myself than exercise it.’
‘Then why were you weak enough to reject him?’
‘Because I was a weak, wretched, foolish girl. I said it in a moment of passion, and my uncle acted on it at once, without giving me one minute for reflection without allowing me one short hour to look into my own heart, and find how I was deceiving myself in thinking that I ought to part from him. I told Lord Cashel in the morning that I would give him up; and before I had time to think of what I had said, he had been here, and had been turned out of the house. Oh, Selina! it was very, very cruel in your father to take me at my word so shortly!’ And Fanny hid her face in her handkerchief, and burst into tears.
‘That’s unfair, Fanny; it couldn’t be cruel in him to do for you that which he would have done for his own daughter. He thought, and thinks, that Lord Ballindine would not make you happy.’
‘Why should he think so? he’d no business to think so,’ sobbed Fanny through her tears.
‘Who could have a business to think for you, if not your guardian?’
‘Why didn’t he think so then, before he encouraged me to receive him? It was because Frank wouldn’t do just what he was bid; it was because he wouldn’t become stiff, and solemn, and grave like — like —’ Fanny was going to make a comparison that would not have been flattering either to Lady Selina or to her father, but she did not quite forget herself, and stopped short without expressing the likeness. ‘Had he spoken against him at first, I would have obeyed; but I will not destroy myself now for his prejudices.’ And Fanny buried her face among the pillows of the sofa, and sobbed aloud.
Lady Selina walked over to the sofa, and stood at the head of it bending over her cousin. She wished to say something to soothe and comfort her, but did not know how; there was nothing soothing or comforting in her nature, nothing soft in her voice; her manner was repulsive, and almost unfeeling; and yet she was not unfeeling. She loved Fanny as warmly as she was capable of loving; she would have made almost any personal sacrifice to save her cousin from grief; she would, were it possible, have borne her sorrows herself; but she could not unbend; she could not sit down by Fanny’s side, and, taking her hand, say soft and soothing things; she could not make her grief easier by expressing hope for the future or consolation for the past. She would have felt that she was compromising truth by giving hope, and dignity by uttering consolation for the loss of that which she considered better lost than retained. Lady Selina’s only recipe was endurance and occupation. And at any rate, she practised what she preached; she was never idle, and she never complained.
As she saw Fanny’s grief, and heard her sobs, she at first thought that in mercy she should now give up the subject of the conversation; but then she reflected that such mercy might be the greatest cruelty, and that the truest kindness would be to prove to Fanny the hopelessness of her passion.
‘But, Fanny,’ she said, when the other’s tears were a little subsided, ‘it’s no use either saying or thinking impossibilities. What are you to do? You surely will not willingly continue to indulge a hopeless passion?’
‘Selina, you’ll drive me mad; if you go on! Let me have my own way.’
‘But, Fanny, if your own way’s a bad way? Surely you won’t refuse to listen to reason? You must know that what I say is only from my affection. I want you to look before you; I want you to summon courage to look forward; and then I’m sure your common sense will tell you that Lord Ballindine can never be anything to you.’
‘Look here, Selina,’ and Fanny rose, and wiped her eyes, and somewhat composed her ruffled hair, which she shook back from her face and forehead, as she endeavoured to repress the palpitation which had followed her tears; ‘I have looked forward, and I have determined what I mean to do. It was your father who brought me to this, by forcing me into a childish quarrel with the man I love. I have implored him, almost on my knees, to invite Lord Ballindine again to Grey Abbey: he has refused to do so, at any rate for twelve months ’
‘And has he consented to ask him at the end of twelve months?’ asked Selina, much astonished, and, to tell the truth, considerably shocked at this instance of what she considered her father’s weakness.
‘He might as well have said twelve years,’ replied Fanny. ‘How can I, how can any one, suppose that he should remain single for my sake for twelve months, after being repelled without a cause, or without a word of explanation; without even seeing me turned out of the house, and insulted in every way? No; whatever he might do, I will not wait twelve months. I’ll ask Lord Cashel once again, and then —’ Fanny paused for a moment, to consider in what words she would finish her declaration.
‘Well, Fanny,’ said Selina, waiting with eager expectation for Fanny’s final declaration; for she expected to hear her say that she would drown herself, or lock herself up for ever, or do something equally absurd.
‘Then,’ continued Fanny and a deep blush covered her face as she spoke, ‘I will write to Lord Ballindine, and tell him that I am still his own if he chooses to take me.’
‘Oh, Fanny! do not say such a horrid thing. Write to a man, and beg him to accept you? No, Fanny; I know you too well, at any rate, to believe that you’ll do that.’
‘Indeed, indeed, I will.’
‘Then you’ll disgrace yourself for ever. Oh, Fanny! though my heart were breaking, though I knew I were dying for very love, I’d sooner have it break, I’d sooner die at once, than disgrace my sex by becoming a suppliant to a man.’
‘Disgrace, Selina! and am I not now disgraced? Have I not given him my solemn word? Have I not pledged myself to him as his wife? Have I not sworn to him a hundred times that my heart was all his own? Have I not suffered those caresses which would have been disgraceful had I not looked on myself as almost already his bride? And is it no disgrace, after that, to break my word? to throw him aside like a glove that wouldn’t fit? to treat him as a servant that wouldn’t suit me? to send him a contemptuous message to be gone? and so, to forget him, that I might lay myself out for the addresses and admiration of another? Could any conduct be worse than that? any disgrace deeper? Oh, Selina! I shudder as I think of it. Could I ever bring my lips to own affection for another, without being overwhelmed with shame and disgrace? And then, that the world should say that I had accepted, and rejoiced in his love when I was poor, and rejected it with scorn when I was rich! No; I would sooner .-ten thousand times sooner my uncle should do it for me! but if he will not write to Frank, I will. And though my hand will shake, and my face will be flushed as I do so, I shall never think that I have disgraced myself.’
‘And if, Fanny if, after that he refuses you?’
Fanny was still standing, and she remained so for a moment or two, meditating her reply, and then she answered ‘Should he do so, then I have the alternative which you say you would prefer; then I will endeavour to look forward to a broken heart, and death, without a complaint and without tears. Then, Selina,’ and she tried to smile through the tears which were again running down her cheeks, ‘I’ll come to you, and endeavour to borrow your stoic endurance, and patient industry;’ and, as she said so, she walked to the door and escaped, before Lady Selina had time to reply.
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Luttrell says he wants the magazine he helped found to outlast him. True support of small presses, he says, has to come in several ways: “If you care enough about a magazine to submit your work there, you should care enough to send a subscription check and know that the magazine will still be there when they get around to publishing your work.”
Once, at Naropa, Luttrell overheard an exchange with one of Ginsberg’s and Kerouac’s old cronies, the poet Gregory Corso. While the famously iconoclastic Corso was chatting with a small circle of friends, a man approached him and said: “Hey, good to meet you, Gregory. I’m a poet too.” Corso shot back: “Oh yeah? You’re a poet? Well, you’re an asshole, too!”
“There was nothing Corso hated more than talking with poets about poetry,” says Luttrell, laughing.
Luttrell often evokes William Carlos Williams’s explanation of a poem (“A poem is a machine made out of words”) as an analogy to the Café Review.
“That’s how I feel about the Café Review, it’s this perfect little machine,” says Luttrell. “Ideas are abundant,” he says of journals that are created by groups of several people and sputter out, “but it takes something else to see those ideas through.”
Man Group, the investment company and hedge fund that sponsors the annual Man Booker Prize, last week announced the finalists of its other high-profile award: the Man Booker International Prize. The biannual award, founded in 2004, is given to a writer of any nationality whose work is available in English. It's worth around eighty-five thousand dollars. The finalists are:
Peter Carey (Australia)
Evan S. Connell (USA)
Mahasweta Devi (India)
E. L. Doctorow (USA)
James Kelman (UK)
Mario Vargas Llosa (Peru)
Arnošt Lustig (Czechoslovakia)
Alice Munro (Canada)
V. S. Naipaul (Trinidad/India)
Joyce Carol Oates (USA)
Antonio Tabucchi (Italy)
Ngugi Wa Thiong'O (Kenya)
Dubravka Ugresic (Croatia)
Ludmila Ulitskaya (Russia)
The judges are Amit Chaudhuri, Andrey Kurkov, and Jane Smiley. The winner will be announced in May.
Previous winners of the prize are Ismail Kadare of Albania and Nigerian author Chinua Achebe. Below is a video poem by Kadare and Achebe's 2007 acceptance speech.
Every Tuesday the literary trade paperback imprint will choose a new book (published by Picador, of course) and invite readers to discuss it via the social networking and microblogging service—in 140-character text messages called "tweets"—two weeks later.
An avid admirer of the Beats, Luttrell has made many pilgrimages to readings and conferences devoted to the subject. “When I was at Naropa one year, and Ginsberg was still alive,” he says with a smile, “I asked him, ‘Allen, if Jack [Kerouac] had lived and you had died, do you think anybody today would remember the Beat Generation?’ I asked him because we all knew how good of a marketer Ginsberg was. But he just smiled when I asked him.”
The deadline for the 2009 Levis Poetry Prize, sponsored by the independent press Four Way Books, is less than a week away. The annual award, which includes a thousand dollars and publication of a book-length collection, is open to any poet writing in English, regardless of publication history. This year's judge is Mary Jo Bang, author, most recently, of the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning collection Elegy (Graywolf, 2007) and the director of the creative writing program at Washington University in St. Louis.
The guidelines for the Levis Poetry Prize are not only practical but also interesting for their description of the press's reading policy, which underscores the lengths legitimate sponsoring organizations will go to ensure that there will be no allegations of unfairness. (Such a description also illustrates how the culture of competition has evolved from what it was four or five years ago, when skepticism and even cynicism about all things contest-related seemed to reach its peak). What's changed, exactly? For starters, the process whereby winners are chosen has become, in many cases, more transparent.
After describing the ways in which poets may submit their work to the contest, the Four Way Books editors end with the following note about a potential submitter's relationship with the judge: "Please do not submit to this contest if you are close enough to Mary Jo Bang that her integrity, your integrity, and the integrity of Four Way Books would be called into question should you be selected as the winner. You may query us if you have questions regarding this matter. We will allow you to submit to us outside of the contest if you feel that you are treading deep water in this regard."
The press's reading policy, which details the path each manuscript travels—from the point at which it's stripped of identifying material to its delivery to preliminary readers to its arrival at the judge's desk—can be read on the Four Way Books Web site.
A new program on youth slam poetry is set to debut on HBO next month. The seven-part series "New Voices," narrated by rapper Queen Latifah, follows forty-four slam teams from seven cities as they advance toward the Brave New Voices International Youth Poetry Slam Festival held last year in Washington, D.C.
"They haunt us in their evocation of what has disappeared from view but not from memory," cultural critic Johanna Drucker writes of Waldrop's collages. "How vividly these fragments, exquisitly excised and recombined, proffer their microcosmic scenes and complex ambiguities."


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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 October 2022
The ability to perceive the duration of events and distinguish them from other shorter or longer events is a fundamental part of consciousness and the way in which we understand and interact with the world. Despite this, within psychology itself (and even within the study of the senses and perception), the domain of time perception is not widely known about. There are several likely reasons for this: firstly, up until the 1980s, the field was heavily based on animal work, with little or no applied human models or data, apart from some very early experiments in the nineteenth century. Secondly the field is often confused with other types of timing such as circadian timing (regulation of the body's sleep-wake cycle) or reaction time (how quickly one can react to a presented stimulus). Thirdly, although we talk of people having a sense of time, it is not strictly a sense, as we possess no sensory organ for time; unlike the cochlea for hearing, or the retina for vision.
The aim of this chapter is to give the reader who has no prior knowledge of the field of time perception an overview of the important facts, models, distinctions between different types of timing, and the factors that affect them. This chapter does not delve too deeply into the specific implications of these facets to our specific perception of music, as such an undertaking is provided by Phillips in Chapter 1 (this volume), although that is not to say that no reference to music will be made.
I will start by talking about the perception of duration and the models we use to explore it and the factors that can affect or distort it. I will then move on to talk about another type of timing phenomenon termed ‘passage of time judgements’ which are concerned not with the perception of how long an event lasted, but how quickly time seemed to pass while engaged in a particular activity.

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On April 20, Commissioner for Human Rights in Kamchatka Territory Valentina Bronevich took part in the meeting of the commission under the Governor of Kamchatka Territory for the monitoring the regional achievement of
During the work of the commission, the progress of implementation of Decrees of the President of the Russian Federation of May 7, 2012, was considered.
Speaking at the meeting, Valentina Bronevich noted: «Receiving the state and municipal services in electronic form by the citizens living in the remote and inaccessible districts of Kamchatka Territoty is the most important condition of their life support. Taking into account the specifics of the region, including the availability of the Internet, the development of a network of Multifunctional Centres (MFC) for public services is becoming increasingly important. It is necessary to consider creation of MFCs not only in the regional centres, but also in ‘nodal’ settlements which will provide with the state and municipal services of inhabitants of nearby municipalities.»
Adapted from the Press Service of the Commissioner for Human Rights in Kamchatka Territory


Metsamor Nuclear Power Plant
(Armenpress)- Azerbaijan’s military is threatening Armenia with international nuclear crime – to deliver missile strikes at the Metsamor Nuclear Power Plant.
“The Armenian side should not forget that the latest missile systems, which are in the arsenal of the Azerbaijani army, can hit the Metsamor NPP with a great accuracy, which will lead to a great disaster for Armenia”, the Azerbaijani defense ministry spokesperson told reporters at a press conference.
During the current tense situation on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border launched since July 12, Armenia has never announced hitting the civilian infrastructures, including that Mingachevir water reservoir. Moreover, the Armenian side has never targeted the civilian objects.
It’s not the first time Azerbaijan is making such a terroristic statement. In 2018 Azerbaijan’s defense ministry has made such a threatening statement, noting that the Azerbaijani arsenal has the latest weapons of destructive power which can eliminate all important Armenian military objects and strategic communication lines in a short period of time.
In 1987 the Geneva Conference on Terrorism adopted The Geneva Declaration on Terrorism, which recorded that state terrorism manifests itself in “the armed attack by the military forces of a state on targets that put at risk the civilian population residing in another state”.


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Hailey Bieber Responds To Justin Bieber Mistreatment Rumours
Hailey Bieber has responded to a number of rumours about her marriage to Justin Bieber.
Bieber appeared on 4D with Demi Lovato to address the public’s deception of her. She explains that she has no issue being known as “Justin’s wife”.
“At the end of the day, it doesn’t bother me when somebody’s like: ‘Oh, like, you’re Justin’s wife.’ I’m like: ‘Yeah, I’m Justin’s wife!’
“Because where’s the lie? We’re literally married.”
Hailey also notes that comments that Justin mistreats her seem to come up often.
“There’s so many narratives that float around about me, about him, about us together,” she tells Lovato. “There’s one big fat narrative that goes around that’s like, ‘Justin is not nice to her and he mistreats her.’ It’s so far from the truth.”
“It’s the complete and utter opposite. I really am lucky to say I’m with someone who is extremely respectful of me, who makes me feel special every single day.”
“So when I see the opposite of that, I’m just like, ‘Huh?’ And everybody around who knows us personally would say the same thing.”
The model reassures listeners that these speculations are completely false and couldn’t be farther from the truth.
You can find more celebrity news on our website.

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Ousmane Dembele joining Liverpool might be a little more probable now after Chelsea reportedly dropped out of the race. Three weeks ago, Liverpool were reported to have contacted Barcelona about signing the France international.
Dembele is on the verge of being released by the Camp Nou outfit after failing to agree a new contract with the reported Chelsea target.
According to Spanish outlet Sport, the Stamford Bridge club is also in contact with the Catalans about signing the jet-heeled winger, a £135 million signing [BBC Sport] during the summer of 2017. However, the same publication is now claiming that Chelsea – and Paris Saint-Germain – have ‘cooled their interest’ in a development which could leave the path relatively clear for Liverpool to sign the player.
Jurgen Klopp has been linked with a move to sign the former Borussia Dortmund attacker on a number of occasions since becoming Reds manager. And with heavy hitters like Chelsea and PSG apparently out of the equation, he might be there for the taking for Liverpool.
Sport added yesterday that the West Londoners were surprised by Dembele’s financial demands. This is a player one week away from being available on a free transfer, but the personal terms are likely to be substantial.
Dembele’s miss, Kante’s loss: Chelsea’s worst case in the forthcoming transfer window
In any case,
Ousmane Dembele joining Liverpool looks more realistic now than it did this time last week.


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Exterior: Argento Nurburgring Metallic Grey
The F355 Ferrari is widly considered to be the first truly modern eight cylinder Ferrari. Previous eight cylinder Ferrari’s were iconic in their style, but left a lot on the table in terms of performance. The cars received an updated style that has stood the test of time, and finally got an eight cylinder engine that proudly carried the Ferrari badge into the new millennium. Featuring a high revving (8500 rpm) V8 engine, the car offered a dramatic increase in performance over the previous eight cylinder Ferraris. The F355 used Formula 1 technology in the engine with the introduction of a 5-valve cylinder head. This new head design allowed the engine to breathe much better, and resulted in a dramatic power increase to 375 hp. The engine internals used the latest in technology, including the use of lightweight materials; the connecting rods are forged in Ti6-Al-4V titanium alloy. At only 3000 lbs, the car was both light and agile, and offered among the best performance of any car of its generation. The cars are a joy to drive and offer a high level of collectability while offering great performance and daily civility. This 1998 Ferrari F355 Spider 6-speed is one of the finest examples of the breed we have ever seen. It has just 16,900 miles, and is in superb condition. 1998 is the final and best year for the F355. The original Ferrari Argento Nurburgring Metallic Grey paint is excellent, with deep shine and great luster. The car has been well maintained and comes with full documentation. The black leather interior is in excellent condition; the leather is supple, with minimal wear. The dash is in near perfect condition, and all of the plastic parts were restored in order to do away with the dreaded “sticky dash”. This car has been dealer maintained all of its life, and we have all records since 2000. All of the mechanical systems work as they should, the A/C blows cold and the climate controls work well. It has only covered 16,900 Carfax certified miles. The car comes equipped with a stock Exhaust, and screams all the way to its 8500 RPM redline. Currently the original, stock rims are shod in newer Bridgestone Potenza tires. We have all of the books and records, including the leather tool bag and Ferrari car cover. The car has been well serviced with a full engine out belt service in 2016 and has only traveled 500 miles since. Exhaust manifolds were replaced and stainless steel braided fuel lines have been installed. It has a 3M clear bra for stone chip protection.

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Pep Guardiola challenged his players to continue sending out a message to their title rivals with their performances after they went five points clear.
The unbeaten champions held off a late Watford fight back to rack up their seventh league win on the spin and extend their lead over Liverpool.
And City boss Guardiola, whose league leaders head to Chelsea on Saturday, said: “The best message and strongest message is the way we played.
“And when our opponents see us after 60, 65 minutes and can say ‘OK, Man City are still there. But when they see the last 10, 15 minutes they can say we can beat them.
“When they see what we have done after last season and now 15 games, 13 wins and two draws and one especially in Anfield there are no complaints.
“We are qualified for the Champions League last 16. I don’t have many regrets.”
City were 2-0 up and cruising at Vicarage Road through goals from Leroy Sane and Riyad Mahrez before Abdoulaye Doucoure’s scrappy 85th minute finish set up a nervy finish.
City held on after Watford piled on the pressure and Guardiola considered the tense end a valuable lesson.
He said: “We spoke in the dressing room that we have to learn about what happened in the last 20 or 25 minutes. Yes. That is the lesson. Never can you forget to play.
“Until the referee decides to go home you can never forget to play, play and play.”
Skipper Vincent Kompany added: “Credit to us for staying strong.
“I don’t think we ever lose focus. We had chances to make it 3-0 and anytihing can happen. We managed the game pretty well. You can’t win every game playing fantasy football.”


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It seems that no matter what point you are at in life, there is always that one nagging question that friends, family, and acquaintances can’t help but ask you. Even though you can’t stand that particular question, I bet you’ve caught yourself peppering others with the exact same one. Small talk, at it’s finest.
For me, it started out in kindergarten when a well-meaning photographer tried to elicit a smile from me on picture day, “What’s your boyfriend’s name?” he quipped. I scowled. (There’s a hilarious picture kicking around somewhere to prove it.)
Moving through the grades, the question remained pretty stagnant, some form of “who do you like?” was always hovering around.
Eventually I outgrew that particular query but the question that replaced it was a doozie: “What do you want to be when you grow up?” I was so jealous of the kids that knew their path, “Be a marine biologist”, “Become a teacher”, “Go to medical school”.
Shit… I don’t know.
Once I muddled through the unknown and found myself in university I got hit with the most persistent double wammy of all time: “What are you going to do with your degree?” AND “Why don’t you have a boyfriend?” (Yeah… I was single for awhile….)
After finally making my way through fretting over my degree and being badgered about being single – I did it, I found a great job and I found a great guy. Boom, done. Hallelujah! Bring on the small talk people!
Oh wait… “Do you think he’s the one?”, “Are you going to move in together?”, “When are you going to get engaged?”, “Are you going to start a family?”, “Are you trying to start a family?”,“Are you pregnant?”
Nothing makes me more awkward than when someone asks me if I’m pregnant. Can’t a girl just drink a pop once in a while? We’re not on The Bachelor here, I don’t always have to drink white wine! I get it though, I’ve done it to people too and I’ve regretted it.
If someone wants to tell you that they are pregnant, guess what? They will. It’s too intimate. It’s too personal. And when you’re wrong, at the very least, they’re left thinking, “I really regret wearing this maxi dress without Spanx now.”
After some careful deliberation, I’m happy to report that I’ve come up with a litmus test to help you decide whether or not you should ask someone if they are pregnant.
The next time you see someone and you’re wondering if they might have a bun in the oven, ask yourself this: “Have I had unprotected sex with this individual any time within the last 9 months?”
Yes? You have? You’re home free, go ahead and ask – oh and congratulations, because you my friend, might have a baby!
And no, for the record, I’m not pregnant.


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Coffee lovers enjoy drinking coffee with almond milk these days because it produces a nutty flavor with a creamy body in the aftertaste. Not only does almond milk provide a delicious taste, but also it is a non-dairy product carrying many nutrients. Generally, while great coffee creates a smooth and robust taste with fragrant aromas, milk constructs a sweet and creamy texture. These two combinations work best to create the most popular drinks, including Latte, Cappuccino, Flat White, Macchiato, and Frappuccino.
- 1 Our 10 Best Tasty Almond Milk Coffee Recipe
- 1.1 1. Chocolate Almond Milk Iced Latte
- 1.2 2. Coconut Almond Milk Iced Latte
- 1.3 3. Almond Vanilla Latte
- 1.4 4. Instant Coffee with Almond Milk
- 1.5 5. Cold Brew Almond Latte
- 1.6 6. Cappuccino Almond Milk
- 1.7 7. Frappuccino Almond Milk
- 1.8 8. Almond Milk Latte
- 1.9 9. Almond Pumpkin Spice Latte
- 1.10 10. Cinnamon Almond Macchiato
Our 10 Best Tasty Almond Milk Coffee Recipe
1. Chocolate Almond Milk Iced Latte
Certain milk brands come up with chocolate almond milk products. Since chocolate and milk are already included within the ingredients, it is a practical choice for busy or lazy people to make chocolate. Although homemade chocolate almond milk is more economical, brand one still performs well in making the tastiest chocolate almond milk iced latte. You can follow our guides to learn how to make this recipe in the following steps:
You need to have all ingredients and make sure they are all set up on the table prior to the process. In making a chocolate almond milk latte, you will need to have two espresso shots, 2/3 cup of chocolate almond milk of any brand, some ice cubes, and sweetener (if you want). It is important to note that Arabica or Robusta should be used to make every cup of coffee as they are the finest coffee quality that creates excellent coffee.
Brewing 2 fragrant shots of espresso are the perfect start of the procedure. Next, pour the chocolate almond milk into the espresso shots. Then, slowly put some ice cubes into the mixture. It would be best to have very small ice cubes because they add a fantastic taste to the latte. Lastly, you can have additional sweeteners like syrup, sugar, or brown sugar syrup in the cup if you like a more delicate taste.
2. Coconut Almond Milk Iced Latte
Here is another easy and delicious coffee with an almond milk recipe. In addition to a smooth, sweet, and milky chocolate almond milk latte recipe, this tasty coconut almond milk latte has straightforward and identical ways to do it. As almond milk produces sweet, creamy and nutty flavors, the coconut adds a more robust sweetness with vanilla flavors. Therefore, the coconut almond milk will construct a sweet woody taste with nutty and creamy flavors when added with a latte.
This recipe acquires the same ingredients to the previous one, except for the coconut almond milk. You need to make sure you have all the ingredients in place before starting the process. By doing this, you do not have to think or run back and forth to get the missing ingredient, which is interrupting the process.
To begin with, you need to have dark roast Arabica or Robusta coffee beans that are freshly ground. Brew two espresso shots and pour them in a cup. Then, pour around 160 ml of the chocolate almond milk into the espresso cup. After that, flood the ice cubes to fill the cup. In addition, if you like a sweeter taste, you can put in 2 tablespoons of granulated sugar.
3. Almond Vanilla Latte
Almond vanilla latte has rich and creamy flavors, so you should try to experience this drink. The drink is very tasty, and you can easily make it on your own at home. However, it depends on an individual preference whether you choose to make vanilla almond milk at home or buy it at a store. For this matter, we will provide two essential guides below.
Recipes & Guides: (If you prefer to buy a vanilla almond milk brand)
Brew two shots of fragrant espresso (or cold brew coffee) and pour 2 cups of vanilla almond milk. If you like an iced drink, you can put some ice cubes in it. Conversely, if you favor the hot one, the process is finished from here.
Recipes & Guides: (If you want to do homemade vanilla almond milk creamer)
Decide whether to brew two espresso shots or use one glass of cold brew coffee. Then start the vanilla almond milk cream process by several processes: put some almonds in a bowl and flood them with water. Then, drain water from the overnight almonds and put them in a blender. Next, blend them with water, one date, and two vanilla beans for a few minutes until it is watery. After that, extract all almond pulp by using a nut milk bag or a coffee filter. Finish it off by mixing the milk with the freshly brewed coffee.
4. Instant Coffee with Almond Milk
By far, instant coffee with almond milk has the easiest and fastest making. Although it takes less than a minute to make this drink, you need to be aware of the amount of water put in the cup; otherwise, the coffee will be watery.
There are only two important ingredients required in making instant coffee with almond milk: instant coffee and almond milk. For great coffee, you can use unsweetened almond milk and dark roast instant coffee. Moreover, If you want a cup of instant coffee, it is necessary to use one instant coffee bag and ½ cup of almond milk.
First, you need to boil water at over 100 degrees Celsius. Pour the boiling water just above the coffee powder. For this reason, you will have robust and fragrant coffee. If too much water makes coffee tasteless and watery. Finish it off by pouring ½ a cup of almond milk.
5. Cold Brew Almond Latte
Cold-brew may take some time to make; however, the ingredients are pretty simple.
You need to use ⅔ cup of Arabica or Robusta coffee beans that are freshly ground as they provide exceptional coffee taste and aroma. One cup of almond milk is enough for the recipe.
Start the process with a cold brew method with medium or coarse grind-size coffee beans. Then put coffee and water in a glass or jar. Next, keep it chilled for up to 24 hours. After that, drain the coffee and pour it in a cup with almond milk. You are ready to enjoy the most delicious cold brew almond milk latte.
6. Cappuccino Almond Milk
Cappuccino almond milk is another tasty almond milk drink that has simple recipes.
The secret recipe revealed 2 Arabica or Robusta espresso shots, ½ cup of almond milk, brown sugar sauce, milk foam, and a touch of Cinnamon as a topping.
First, you need to brew espresso shots. You should use a saucepan to warm the almond milk for a milk frothing budget of 30 seconds. Then add one tablespoon of brown sugar sauce or any preferred sweetener and whisk it until the milk becomes foamy. Lastly, pour the milk into the espresso cup and finish it with a touch of Cinnamon slices.
7. Frappuccino Almond Milk
Frappuccino with almond milk is another variation of the tastiest almond milk recipes with easy instructions on our list.
Unlike other coffee drinks, making Frappuccino requires ice cubes as it cannot do it in a hot version. Therefore, you should have a cup of ice cubes, two espresso shots, two teaspoons of honey syrup, and a cup of vanilla almond milk.
After all the ingredients are settled in place, you have to put ice cubes, almond milk, honey syrup, and espresso in a blender. Then, blend all the ingredients until it becomes a smoothie. Turn off the blender and enjoy the drink.
8. Almond Milk Latte
A Latte drink is easy to make as long as you know how to make it because a latte has simple ingredients.
To begin with, you should have high-quality coffee beans as it offers fragrant flavors with notes of berries. After that, a simple unsweetened almond milk brand is suitable for this process. You do not need to add any sugar because almond milk already contains natural sweeteners.
You need to be aware of grind size when brewing espresso. Start brewing two espresso shots with finely ground coffee beans. Please take out the almond milk from the fridge and heat it with a saucepan for 30 seconds. Then, whisk it for 30 seconds until the milk becomes creamy. Finally, sit the espresso at the base and pour the frothed milk into it.
9. Almond Pumpkin Spice Latte
This tasty pumpkin spice almond milk latte is the healthiest drink among other drinks on the list; however, the procedure to make this great coffee is pretty convenient.
Before starting the process, you are required to have two espresso shots, a teaspoon of vanilla extract, 30 grams of pumpkin puree, 3 grams of pumpkin pie spice, and two teaspoons of honey syrup.
To begin with, brew freshly ground Arabica coffee beans and set them at a cup base. Start to make the pumpkin sauce by putting all of the previously mentioned ingredients in a saucepan. Then, cook them for 2 minutes with over-medium heat and stir regularly. At last, pour the almond milk and pumpkin sauce on the espresso. Garnish cinnamon or pumpkin spices if you need them.
10. Cinnamon Almond Macchiato
Last but not least, the cinnamon almond milk macchiato is one of a kind. It also has the most straightforward recipe, and it is mouth-watering.
You need two teaspoons of caramel syrup, two slices of cinnamon, two espresso shots, and 120 ml of almond milk to make the most delicious cinnamon almond macchiato drink for your family or friends. Regarding almond milk, you can use sweetened almond milk if you love to have more sweetness for the drink.
Start by decorating an empty glass with drizzles of caramel syrup around it. Then, add ice and pour almond milk with a touch of cinnamon sprinkle on top. Finish the drink by pouring two espresso shots.

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A new fintech business which I was introduced to earlier this year. Which Travel Card Currensea Alternative…
It has won a couple of awards over recent months for what it does (using you a low-priced way to spend abroad) but what I like about is that it is basic as hell. This is a good idea.
is, successfully, a direct debit travel card. It is a Mastercard which sits in between you and your existing bank account. There is nothing to top-up or prepay. You just invest as you would on a typical debit card and the money is drawn from your bank account– simply without the typical 3% fee.
Oh, and is complimentary to apply for, which likewise assists.
There are likewise some interesting travel advantages if you select a paid strategy, but the totally free strategy works fine. You can apply here.
There is a company design in fintech which Curve, Revolut, Monzo and so on have actually all followed:
launch by doing something well, and free of charge or less expensive than the competitors
add a growing number of functions which your existing clients don’t truly want or require
include limitations, charges or charges to the feature that made individuals get your product in the first place, getting rid of any competitive advantage
is presently still in Stage 1 of this process and will ideally stay there. Revolut, curve and monzo are currently in Stage 3 …
is basic enough that it passes my ‘Can you explain it to your mate in the pub in 30 seconds?’ test:
What countries can I use Currensea? Which Travel Card Currensea Alternative
It is a totally free direct debit card to use abroad and which automatically recharges all purchases to your existing bank account in Sterling, less a small 0.5% charge.
You do not (yet …) earn any airline company miles or points for utilizing it.
Why would I want to get a card?
If you have a charge card offering 0% forex charges, then you don’t require a card, unless you want complimentary ATM withdrawals. You can stop checking out now.
However, credit cards which provide rewards and charge 0% FX fees are rare. The only ‘miles and points’ options which offer a partial solution are the Virgin Atlantic charge card which have 0% FX charges in the Euro zone.
IS perhaps for you if:
you don’t have a charge card offering 0% FX costs and do not wish to affect your credit report by getting another credit card particularly to use abroad
you want an item which allows you to make , 500 of foreign currency ATM withdrawals monthly with no fees and just a minimal FX mark-up (there is a little charge beyond , 500).
you desire an item for you, your adult kids, parents, partner or anybody else in your life who needs an easy, easy to understand payment card that will save them cash when taking a trip.
How does operate in practice?
It is, as I said previously, a really basic process. You use your Currensea card in the same way as your existing debit card.
You make your purchase in local currency (any currency, worldwide).
Your bank account bank immediately verifies that you have enough cash in your account and authorises the transaction.
The deal goes through at either the interbank rate or the Mastercard rate, depending upon the currency. includes a 0.5% cost if you have the totally free card. If you have one of their paid cards, there are no charges.
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From the Chairman
Here's what you can expect from the latest edition of Oncology Nursing News®!
October 07, 2019
Oncology nurses are a key part of the cancer care team, but they are also a crucial source of information for a patient's family.
October 05, 2019
For patients with cancer, their journey does not end after treatment is over.
October 04, 2019
Genetic testing has come a long way in cancer care, but not all genetic tests are as defentive as some would have you or your patients beleive.
October 03, 2019
Opioids are the go-to treatment for cancer-related pain. But is this mainstay poised to change as the opioid crisis continues to grow?
October 01, 2019
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Gretchen Lowell, the world's most beautiful serial killer, has escaped from prison in Chelsea Cain's next unpredictable, edge-of-your-seat thriller, Sweetheart.
With Heartsick, Chelsea Cain took the crime world by storm, introducing two of the most compelling characters in decades: serial killer Gretchen Lowell and her obsessed pursuer Portland Detective Archie Sheridan. The book spent four weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and garnered rave reviews around the world. But the riveting story of Archie and Gretchen was left unfinished, and now Chelsea Cain picks up the tale again.
When the body of a young woman is discovered in Portland's Forest Park, Archie is reminded of the last time they found a body there, more than a decade ago: it turned out to be the Beauty Killer's first victim, and Archie's first case. This body can't be one of Gretchen's—she's in prison—but after help from reporter Susan Ward uncovers the dead woman's identity, it turns into another big case. Trouble is, Archie can't focus on the new investigation because the Beauty Killer case has exploded: Gretchen Lowell has escaped from prison.
Archie hadn't seen her in two months; he'd moved back in with his family and sworn off visiting her. Though it should feel like progress, he actually feels worse. The news of her escape spreads like wildfire, but secretly, he's relieved. He knows he's the only one who can catch her, and in fact, he has a plan to get out from under her thumb once and for all.
Chelsea Cain has topped her own bestselling debut thriller with this unpredictable, edge-of-your-seat story.
Carolyn McCormick is perhaps best known as Law & Order’s Dr. Elizabeth Olivet, a character she played on all of the franchise’s series since 1991. She has worked extensively in television, film, and theatre, and has narrated many documentaries and audiobooks including works by James Patterson, Patricia Cornwell, Nora Roberts, and Chelsea Cain. She is also the narrator of the best-selling Hunger Games trilogy. Her television credits include Star Trek: The Next Generation, Cold Case, The Practice, Judging Amy, Homicide, and LA Law. She can be seen in the movies A Simple Twist of Fate, Rain Without Thunder, Loverboy, and Nights in Roadanthe. Her many Broadway and off Broadway performances include The Dinner Party, Celebration, Biography, Dinner with Friends, Evo-lution, and Privilege.


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Here’s the cover for She-Hulk #6! Jen and Kurt in their fanciest attire on a weekend high tea friend date. 🫖💖 I actually only did 1 concept sketch for this one as the team knew what the theme was going to be, but originally I drew Patsy (aka Hellcat) in rather than Nightcrawler.
Although I was a little bummed when I was given the direction to swap Patsy out for Kurt, I was also really excited because I really like him as a character but I’d never actually drawn him before! How’d I do for my first try? 🤓
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Welcome to Episode 324! Today I’m taking it easy after a hugely successful 12-hour knitathon yesterday. We raised over $265,000 dollars and I got lots of crafting done as I’ll share today. Thank you so much for those of you who donated or sent kind words of support. Note: None of the links below lead… Continue reading Episode 324: Post Knitathon
Welcome to episode 319! This week’s a short one. I have one small finish, and lots of progress on my main project. Also some spins to share. And finally – I’ve joined Laura Nelkin’s Knit-a-Thon. We’re going to knit for 12 hours to raise funds for food insecurity. More details on how you can join… Continue reading Episode 319: I was born for this.

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Today marks the start of bookings for cruises from AIDA’s 2014/2015 catalog. Bookings can be made for a total of 462 cruises to 160 destinations between March 2014 and April 2015. In addition to detailed descriptions of the destinations, those interested in cruise vacations can also find lots of information about the online facilities in the new AIDA catalog.
AIDA guests can discover unknown territory on AIDAvita’s new butterfly route: the starting point for the Caribbean cruises is Miami. One route includes Port Canaveral, Puerto Rico, Tortola, Samana in the Dominican Republic and the Bahamas on its program. On the second route, AIDAvita calls at Tampa in Florida, New Orleans – where the ship even stays overnight – as well as Cozumel in Mexico and Key West.
The 16-day Trans-America cruise by AIDAvita in November 2014 will be the first time AIDA has visited the Archipelago of the Azores. In addition to Ponta Delgado on the island of Sao Miguel, Cadiz/Spain, Charleston on the east coast of the USA and 2 days for the metropolis of New York are also on the program. The cruise starts in Palma de Mallorca and ends in Miami.
AIDA is, for the first time, also offering cruises on AIDAaura with several starting points in the Adriatic. Between April and October, guests can embark on their cruises in Venice, Antalya or Trieste. This is the first time that an AIDA cruise ship will call at Trieste, a city that can be reached conveniently by the AIDA bus.
Apart from new routes, AIDA guests can also look forward to even more services at stable prices with the AIDA PREMIUM rate. For example, guests booking AIDA PREMIUM can reserve tours and spa applications before all the other guests. And staying in touch on vacation is no problem at all, with one hour surfing on the Internet already included in the price. Two refreshing bottles of mineral water per day are also provided free of charge in the cabin. The onboard PREMIUM package is rounded off with a DVD of the travel movie “Unforgettable Moments” as well as a voucher for the welcome photo. The arrival and departure packages in the PREMIUM rate also offer exclusive advantages, making cruising with AIDA even more comfortable thanks to free flight seat reservation and inclusive rail travel to the airport.
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FRANK is coming to LA - see the buzzworthy indie June 14 & 17, tix on sale 5/20 http://filmguide.lafilmfest.com/tixSYS/2014/xslguide/eventnote.php?notepg=1&EventNumber=5817 …
California has been on my mind lately, and not just as a vacation destination. After this past horrible record breaking winter (Polar Vortex bullshit, highest snowfall, and sub-Sub zero temperatures), I'm wondering why in the hell do I still live in the Mid-West? Why endure another horrifying winter? Well, we'll see what fate has in store for me, but the reliable weather of California is very appealing, and, you never know. But in the meanwhile, I'm so looking forward to my vacation and seeing Frank in the US before the rest of the country sees it on August 22.
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In an homage to fried carbohydrates, Americans nationwide celebrate National French Fry Day on July 13 and five restaurants are helping you to get your potato—and donut —fix for less.
Here’s where to score the best treats for cheapest on National French Fry Day.
Houlihan’s announced that on Friday, patrons could commemorate the national potato celebration with bottomless parmesan and regular fries. However, it’s only available at participating locations and with a catch: A list of participating restaurants hasn’t been posted, so anyone who wants to partake needs to contact a particular location directly. But, what’s a simple phone call when the reward is mounds and mounds of fried potatoes?
Chickie’s & Pete’s
You can have your fries and help the families of police officers who have been injured or killed in the line of duty, too. Along with crab fries only costing patrons $1 on Friday, those who are so inclined can also wash the potatoes down with Miller Lite personal pitchers for only $5.
To help the families of police officers, Chickie’s & Pete’s is donating all of the money from the deal to the Fraternal Order of Police Survivors Fund.
Chickie’s & Pete’s is also hosting a crab fries eating contest to mark National French Fry Day and the person who eats the most fries will win a pair of Philadelphia Eagles home opener tickets and $500. While second place won’t be bleeding green at Lincoln Financial Field, they’ll receive $250 and a “Crabfries for a Year” gift card.
BurgerFi is giving away free regular fries to customers who choose to celebrate National French Fry Day with them, but for those who want additional toppings such as parmesan and herb, cheese, or chili, it’s going to cost extra. Just be sure to mention the offer at the counter when you order.
McDonald’s is playing coy with Americans this year for National French Fry Day. As our northern neighbors in Canada proudly declare their commitment to providing a free medium French fry with all purchases made by McDonald’s mobile app users, the United States branch of McDonald’s has remained mum.
However, Newsweek called a McDonald’s in New York City, which confirmed that it will also be giving out free French fries to mobile app users.
If you want a pre-potato treat, you can head to Dunkin’ Donuts for some free dessert from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. EST. In honor of National French Fry Day, the donut conglomerate is giving consumers a chance to try their recently-released donut fries for free.
The first 100 people at 25 participating Dunkin’ Donuts will receive a free order of donut fries, croissant-style donut dough that’s been tossed in cinnamon sugar and served warm. Cities with participating restaurants include those in:
- Los Angeles
- New York City
In 2016, the average American consumed 111.2 pounds of potatoes over the year, according to the National Potato Council, with 33.2 pounds of those potatoes being fresh.
With some of these deals, the limit for the number of fries a person could consume on Friday does not exist.


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Even as all signs seem to indicate a bid for the presidency from Ohio Senator Rob Portman, he’s not going to give any answers until after he finishes off his race for the senate. He’s uttered the same lines to reporters over and over: 2014 is on his mind, 2016 will come later. Thursday morning, at a breakfast with the media (who were all of course salivating over the thought of a real scoop) he once again reiterated his focus on his current job. “I’m going to take a look at (a presidential campaign) after the election,” he said.
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Ohio Senator Rob Portman is seemingly taking a step toward a 2016 presidential campaign. Reports have said Portman is putting together presidential exploratory committee after his race for senator in November, according to the Dispatch. The committee would be in charge of drumming up money for the early primaries and caucuses. He hasn’t officially announced he is running, but an exploratory committee is stepping toward that.

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Disasters threaten Manila’s economy
Manila’s economic exposure to natural threats is the highest in the world in terms of the share in gross domestic product, according to London-based insurance specialist Lloyd’s.
“As a percentage of its average annual GDP [gross domestic product], Manila’s economic exposure is the world’s largest [50.28 percent],” Lloyd’s said, citing the results of City Risk Index, a study it conducted with the University of Cambridge Judge Business School.
The index is the first analysis of economic output at risk (GDP at Risk) in 301 major cities from 18 manmade and natural threats over a ten-year period (2015 to 2025). The index estimated that a total of $4.6 trillion of projected GDP is at risk due to man-made and natural disasters in these cities around the world.
Lloyd’s Asia-Pacific managing director Kent Chaplin said natural threats accounted for more than 90 percent of Manila’s economic exposure. About $109 billion or over half of Manila’s GDP was at risk, the highest percentage in the Lloyd’s City Risk Index in percentage terms.
Manila’s GDP was placed at $201 billion, with average growth rate of 3.46 percent. Lloyd’s said of Manila’s total economic output, $109 billion or 50.28 percent was at risk due to natural threats.
The amount is the fourth highest in absolute terms behind Taipei, Tokyo and Seoul.
Natural threats such as wind storm, earthquake, volcano, flood, drought and tsunami accounted for 90 percent of GDP at risk, according to Lloyd’s.
In particular, about $60.66 billion of Manila’s economy was at risk to windstorm, $13.29 billion to earthquake, $5.81 billion to volcano and $5.46 billion to flood.
Manila’s economic exposure to wind storms is the second highest globally. “The impact of wind storms on the Philippines was starkly demonstrated in 2013, when Typhoon Haiyan killed more than 6,000 people and destroyed or damaged the homes of five million,” Lloyd’s said.
Manila is also located on the edge of the Ring of Fire, a series of tectonic faults and other volcanic features that produces around 90 percent of the world’s earthquakes. Consequently it has the world’s ninth highest economic exposure to earthquake, the fourth largest to volcano and the sixth largest to tsunami. It is ranked 10th globally by potential losses from drought.
Man-made threats account for $9.41 billion of risk to GDP, with market crash and oil price shock the most important. Human pandemic accounts for the majority of Manila’s emerging threats ($4.38 billion).
“Lloyd’s is keen to further grow our relationships with the Philippines insurance market and contribute to the development of the industry here by sharing our specialist product and underwriting expertise. Lloyd’s is committed to the Philippines and to helping develop the insurance industry,” Chaplin said.
Lloyd’s, the specialist insurance and reinsurance market, presented the results of the City Risk Index for Manila at the New World Makati Hotel, where 42 world’s leading insurance underwriters from Lloyd’s Asia hub in Singapore and from London visited the country to share their expertise with local insurance and reinsurance participants.
Lloyd’s said it introduced the concept of insurance in the Philippines when it appointed Strachman, Murray & Co., Inc. as its agent in the country in 1829.
Lloyd’s now provides cross border reinsurance for Philippine insurers and isupported the country to recover from many of the tragic extreme weather events including Typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan) in 2013.
Lloyd’s also offers specialist reinsurance products for Philippine business, covering risks associated with natural catastrophe, professional liability, construction, transport, energy, terrorism, political risk and cyber threat.
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Africa Health Budget Network (AHBN) have commended the emergence of the Sanitation and Hygiene fund, which is backed by the United Nations.
This was contained in a signed statement made by the AHBN Coordinator, Dr Aminu Magashi Garba released to Journalists, on Wednesday, November 18, at the AHBN Secretariat in Abuja, Nigeria
AHBN encouraged the United Nation and the new Global Financing mechanism, ‘Sanitation and Hygiene Fund’, to support developing countries with adequate funding to improve the challenges of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene, including at healthcare facilities.
Magashi also called for transparency and accountability and inclusion of Civil Society organizations, young people and women groups in the governance structure of the new mechanism to promote multi-stakeholder and multi-sectoral responses.
The Sanitation and Hygiene Fund is been hosted by the UN Office for Project Services , a specialized UN entity providing service, technical advice and implementing projects for the Organization and partners globally.
UN Deputy Secretary, General Amina Mohammed disclosed that safe sanitation and hygiene is a health issue. While noting that the basic hygiene of washing of hands and being able to have a toilet that is accessible is key to enabling healthy communities in the longer term.
“This is critical to the response that we want to see, first, because it is about human dignity; and also a health issue. Many of the world’s most serious diseases stem from poor sanitation and hygiene, pandemic has blown the lid off this fact, with over three billion people lacking access to basic hand washing facilities, which is a key action to keep the virus at bay.”
According to her, the Sanitation and Hygiene Fund is set to take on the centuries-old crisis centred on sanitation, hygiene and menstrual health, which now impacts more than four billion people across the world.
The Fund which is a Global financing mechanism will provide accelerated funding to countries with the heaviest burden and least ability to respond, focusing on four strategic objectives.
“Expanding household sanitation; ensuring menstrual health and hygiene; providing sanitation and hygiene in schools and healthcare facilities; and supporting innovative sanitation solutions.”
The Fund aims to raise $2 billion over the next five years to support the efforts.
The Executive Director of UNICEF, Henrietta Fore called on countries to treat sanitation as a public good. “Even though proper sanitation is at the core of development to any community, family or individual, over 600 million schools and countless households do not have toilets and many lack basic sanitation services”.
“During a lockdown, how do you cope with the fact that your household does not have a toilet? This is particularly difficult for girls and women. If everyone had access to sanitation and hygiene in households, in their schools, in their health facilities and communities, it would make an enormous difference in our world”
She further called on government to own the fact that sanitation should be a problem that should be solved by them and seek necessary measures to curb the challenge.
More details on the Sanitation and Hygiene Fund can be found at https://news.un.org/en/story/2020/11/1077812


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