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Fans of the two new iPhone models from Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) may want to pre-order the colorful iPhone 5C and "forward-thinking" iPhone 5S and as soon as possible, considering the hype surrounding these phones. Announced at a company media event on Tuesday, the iPhone 5C and iPhone 5S will be available to pre-order through Apple and all major carriers on Friday, Sept. 13. The release date for both iPhone models is set a week after pre-orders open up, on Friday, Sept. 20.
We have all the pre-order information you need for the iPhone 5C and iPhone 5S:
Apple will take pre-orders for the iPhone 5C on its website starting Friday, but the company hasn't yet provided a specific time when it will begin taking orders. Apple hasn't provided an option to pre-order the iPhone 5S on its website, which means standing in line at an Apple Store will be your best chance to buy the iPhone 5S directly from the source.
Verizon says its pre-order period begins Friday morning at 3:01 a.m. EST (12:01 PST), but the company doesn't specify if pre-orders will be available for both iPhone models. In the same way Verizon can't physically sell the iPhone before the Apple Store does, we believe Verizon will again follow Apple's lead and limit pre-orders to the iPhone 5C only.
AT&T offers no information about when pre-orders will go live on its site, but the company does provide the option to sign up to receive an email so you'll be the first to know when the carrier will begin taking pre-orders. Again, we're assuming AT&T won't take pre-orders for the iPhone 5S unless Apple changes its mind for its own website, so plan on just the iPhone 5C here. And if Apple and Verizon both take pre-orders Friday morning, we'll assume AT&T wouldn't wait much longer in the day to open the flood gates on its website.
Sprint says pre-orders for the iPhone 5C begin Friday morning at 3 a.m. EST, and only says the iPhone 5C will be available upon its Sept. 20 release date.
For those interesting in purchasing an iPhone 5S, or those who don't want to pre-order an iPhone 5C online, the best chance to own an iPhone 5S or iPhone 5C on its release date is to simply stand in line. We'll release a separate article with details about store locations, times and availability, but Apple, Verizon, AT&T, Sprint, Radio Shack, Best Buy and even Wal-Mart are looking to sell the iPhone 5S and iPhone 5C on their release date -- next Friday, Sept .20.
The U.S. is one of 11 countries that will release the iPhone 5S and iPhone 5C on the Sept. 20 date; that list also includes Australia, Canada, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, Puerto Rico, Singapore and the UK.
About The iPhone 5C
The iPhone 5C either replicates or improves upon the features in its predecessor, the iPhone 5, but there are a few noticeable differences. First, Apple has replaced the all-aluminum unibody enclosure of the iPhone 5 with a reinforced polycarbonate solution, and the iPhone 5C will also release in five different colors instead of two (black and white), including blue, green, yellow, pink, and white.
Inside the shell of iPhone 5C, most of the specs look identical to those in the iPhone 5. Running on the same A6 chip, the iPhone 5C features the same 4-inch Retina display, the same 8-megapixel camera with 2.4 aperture and single LED flash, and will also run iOS 7 upon its release. Apple has improved a few features in the iPhone 5C, including the front-facing FaceTime camera and the phone's battery, and the iPhone 5C also supports 13 LTE bands, which is more than any other current smartphone (besides its cousin, the iPhone 5S).
About The iPhone 5S
The iPhone 5S features the same 4-inch Retina display and chamfered diamond-cut edges as the iPhone 5, but the newness of this phone comes from within (the only exterior differences are the new dual-LED flash and the three color options, including the new gold and space grey themes). The iPhone 5S features a new A7 processor, which has a 40 times faster CPU performance and 56 times faster GPU performance from the original iPhone, and Open GL 3.0, which is the same graphics engine running in the new Nexus 7. More important to note, however, the iPhone 5S comes equipped with Apple's new M7 chip, which helps offload much of the motion-sensing processing from the A7, but also contains all the motion-tracking hardware Apple would need to make its highly-anticipated iWatch a reality. By packing so many components into the M7 motion co-processor, including an accelerometer, gyroscope and compass, the M7 can continuously measure motion data for the newest generation of health and fitness apps.
The iPhone 5S will also release a slightly modified battery for greater life (even better than the iPhone 5C battery), plus a new camera system that's faster, more color-accurate, and feature-rich with new options like Burst Mode and Slo-Mo video shot at 120 fps. But among the new features, the Touch ID fingerprint sensor is likely the centerpiece of the iPhone 5S, as the unique technology lets users bypass their passcodes or make secure purchases by authenticating their ownership of the phone with their finger or thumb, simply by placing it on the iPhone's signature home button. With 360-degree readability, you can hold your finger or thumb in any orientation and it can still be read correctly. Touch ID can also handle multiple fingerprints too, so you can grant access to your iPhone 5S to only certain people.
What do you think about the iPhone 5S and iPhone 5C? Do you plan to buy any of these phones upon their Sept. 20 release date? Let us know your thoughts on the latest Apple smartphones in the comments section below.


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This is the story about Hansel, a 25 year old paranoid human being raised as a tooth faerie. He was kicked out of the faerie realm because he was hoarding all the tooth instead of sacrificing them to the tooth faerie queen. Now he is on a search for the perfect tooth to impress the other faeries. In his search he meets with La'vi Sweets, he has the perfect teeth! But there is one problem, how to get those teeth? Hansel decides to stick around and wait for an opportunity to get his hands on them but not everything is as easy as it seems. La'vi seems to have a knack for trouble which drags them into strange adventures and wonderful worlds in which nothing seems what it is.

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Press Release: Berkeley Community Chorus & Orchestra Performs All-Mozart Concerts
The Berkeley Community Chorus & Orchestra will perform three all-Mozart concerts in December under the direction of Music Director Ming Luke. The concerts are free and open to the public.
BCCO will perform the Great Mass in C minor, K. 427; Symphony No. 29 in A major, K. 201; and Ave Verum Corpus, K. 618. The concerts will be Sunday, Dec. 2, at 4:30 p.m. at St. Joseph the Worker Church, 1640 Addison St., Berkeley; Saturday, Dec. 15, at 8 p.m. at Hertz Hall on the UC Berkeley Campus; and Sunday, Dec. 16, at 4:30 p.m. at Hertz Hall.
"From the sublime to the witty, the humorous to the dramatic, these three pieces were composed at major transitions in Mozart's life and showcase the full genius of Mozart," Luke said.
The Hertz Hall concerts will be BCCO's first performances in a professional concert hall, with concert acoustics and seating for more than 650 concertgoers.
"Cal's Music Department has only recently begun offering Hertz Hall to community performance groups, and we are honored to have this opportunity. So many of us have attended concerts at Hertz, never dreaming that we would be on that stage," said Karen Davison, BCCO board president.
The concert will be dedicated to long-time former Music Director Arlene Sagan, who passed away July 5, 2012, after a long illness.
"Arlene devoted many years of her life to inspiring hundreds of people to make wonderful music together, while building BCCO into the vibrant community resource it is today. Arlene generously shared her knowledge, creative energy, and joyful love of music with everyone who sang or played under her direction," said Mary Rogier, BCCO board member.
Soloists for the Great Mass will be Jennifer Paulino, soprano; Megan Berti, mezzo-soprano; J. Raymond Meyers, tenor; and Igor Vieira, baritone.
BCCO is a non-auditioned community chorus of more than 220 singers that performs major classical works with orchestral accompaniment. Luke is the third director since BCCO's founding in 1966.
Some of Luke's recent conducting engagements include the San Francisco Ballet, Opera San Jose, Sacramento Opera, Napa Regional Dance Company, Sacramento Philharmonic Orchestra, Napa Valley Symphony and the Bolshoi Orchestra.
Luke is director and conductor of the Berkeley Symphony's music education program. The Berkeley Symphony announced recently that it was honoring Luke for his work with its nationally recognized Music in the Schools program, which supplements music education for more than 4,000 students in all of Berkeley's public elementary schools.
Luke also is music director of the Napa Valley Youth Symphony and the Modesto Symphony Youth Orchestra. The two orchestras took top honors last year at the Los Angeles International Music Festival.
BCCO's assistant conductor, Derek Tam, performs in the Bay Area as a pianist and a harpsichordist in addition to acting as conductor for various organizations.
For more information, call BCCO at 510-433-9599, or see http://www.bcco.org.


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1A song of ascents. Of David.
How good and how pleasant it is,
when brothers* dwell together as one!
running down upon the beard,
Upon the beard of Aaron,
upon the collar of his robe.
3Like dew* of Hermon* coming down
upon the mountains of Zion.b
There the LORD has decreed a blessing,
life for evermore!c
* [Psalm 133] A benediction over a peaceful community, most probably the people Israel, but appropriate too for Israelite families (Ps 133:1). The history of Israel, whether of its ancestors in the Book of Genesis or of later periods, was a history of distinct groups struggling to live in unity. Here that unity is declared blessed, like the holy oils upon the priest Aaron or the dew of the rainless summer that waters the crops (Ps 133:2–3).
* [133:1] Brothers: in biblical Hebrew this word includes both the male and female members of a group united by blood relationships or by shared experiences and values. In this Psalm, the term could be applied most appropriately to the people of Israel, those privileged by God to be his chosen children.
* [133:2] Oil on the head: oil was used at the consecration of the high priest (Ex 30:22–33).
* [133:3] Dew: dew was an important source of moisture in the dry climate (Gn 27:28; Hos 14:6). Hermon: the majestic snow-capped mountain visible in the north of Palestine.
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Alumna Mary Kelly Reflects on Her Experience in Haiti after Earthquake
When alumna Mary Kelly graduated in 2009, she launched from Stevens with more than an engineering management degree and a fulltime position at the Port Authority of New York/New Jersey. In her time at Stevens, she also developed a strong sense of community and a desire to help others, qualities that proved particularly valuable in a situation she could have never imagined and in a place far removed from her life in New Jersey.
For nearly a month, Mary volunteered in the relief efforts post last year's 7.0 magnitude earthquake that devastated Haiti. And in that time, she unwittingly put her engineering skills and compassion to the test, experiencing the tedious, hard work of clearing crumbled homes and schools, organizing medical relief at a hospital encampment and witnessing the resilience of a people she would have never known.
On the anniversary of this catastrophic event, Mary recounted with our staff some of the details from her days in an area in Haiti where 90% of the buildings were damaged, no government infrastructure remained, and the death toll reached between 20,000 to 30,000, according to a United Nations assessment, she reported.
After the earthquake, Mary said it didn't take much deliberation on her end to decide to request vacation time at work, purchase a plane ticket and connect with the non-profit group, Hands On Disaster Relief (now All Hands). Soon after making the arrangements, she was on her way to Léogâne, a coastal Haitian city about 18 miles west of Port-Au-Prince (the epicenter of the earthquake), and one that Mary refers to as the shattered city by the sea. "I realized that not only did I want to go, but I could. I'm in good health, single, no children, and have the privilege of a job with vacation time," she said. "All Hands had helped in other natural disasters, and the earthquake relief in Haiti was their biggest project. I was eager to be part of that."
As a volunteer, Mary gave her time and energy, at times risking her own safety and comfort, coping with, for example, the aftershocks and smaller-scale earthquakes that continued to shake the area. But she said she also received a great deal. For one, she learned some vital lessons about life in an earthquake-torn region, some of which are expressed in the journal she shared:
"Lesson One: Haitian patience. Upon our arrival, it was clear that patience was everything. It started with digging through two flights worth of luggage for our bags because there was no power for conveyor belts at the airport. But of course that expanded to wondering how we could help such a destroyed city in such a short amount of time. Yet after a few days removing rubble, it was clear that progress could be made, just at a much slower pace than we could have imagined. It seemed that by sheer force of will, among a street of collapsed houses, one would get cleared out and a little shelter would go up. Then shortly after, another, and so on. One wheelbarrow load at a time was slowly clearing Léogâne of rubble and giving families a place to begin building new lives.
Lesson Two: How to 'Rubble'. 'Rubbling' entailed spending most of our time sledge-hammering broken schools and homes into bits small enough to shovel into wheelbarrows and then dragging them out to the street where we either crushed down the rubble to fix the roads or piled for the government workers to haul off in bigger dump trucks. My first rubbling assignment was at Pyramid School. Armed with shovels, wheelbarrows, sledge hammers and pickaxes, we would be greeted every morning without fail by the smiles and laughter of many of the children that attend the school. They worked side-by-side with us all day, every day we were there. I was even taught how to sledge-hammer by a nine-year-old boy named Orlando. After almost a week of back-breaking work, we were able to make the school safe and ready for classes to start. I don't think I've ever seen kids so excited to go back to school."
Mary recalled a day she was directed to help a woman whose family home – which had been steadily built and preserved over eight generations – had crumbled to ruins in the quake. After hours and hours of rubbling, Mary asked the woman how she copes. "Knowing how long it had taken her family to build this big, beautiful home, I asked her, 'How do you do this day after day without falling apart? I don't know if I could handle it like you are.' And her answer said so much about her and maybe even the people of Haiti as a whole. She expressed to me a Creole saying, which in English translates: Little by little, the bird builds its nest," recounted Mary. "Her answer said a lot about resilience, and it's a something I'll never forget."
All purpose and all encompassing, Mary said her work in Léogâne was simply about contributing all that she could. In addition to rubbling, she worked at a field hospital stepping in wherever needed. In this capacity, she also used her engineering skills to develop a system for managing the hospital's inventory, something she noticed didn't exist, and a solution that was well-received, she said.
Realizing the privileges that awaited her back in the U.S., she even accelerated her efforts in the end.
"Up to my last days there, I had at least been somewhat cautious and careful with my body to prevent injuries or illness. But in the final stretch, I totally pushed myself," she said. "I thought, 'I need to put in my all. Anything bad that might happen to my body, America can fix it. I gave away my boots and some other things. I even lost my camera somewhere along the way. Those things seemed insignificant after experiencing what people can and do live without."


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The boutiques are located on the crossroad of Tumanyan – Teryan streets, at 3rd North Avenue. Stefano Ricci and Corneliani mono brand stores were opened in April 2008 and offer luxurious and high end men's clothes and accessories. LaGalleria Woman and Man multibrand boutiques started in September 2008 as one store named Gritty Gallery and then, after the establishment of LaGalleria brand as umbrella for the whole corner in April 2011, they were renamed and reopened as separate boutiques. LaGalleria Woman is a multi-brand women's store that offers top brands fashion for women and kids. LaGalleria Man represents high-end designer assortment of the world's finest fashion for men. The following brands are presented in these two multi-brand stores: Dolce&Gabbana, Gucci, Alexander McQueen, Christian Dior, Yves Saint Laurent, Ermanno Scervino, ETRO, Jacob Cohen, Tod's, Barrett


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Easy handmade ornaments and jewelry! Microscope slide projects are faster and easier with new memory glass frames! Just create your own 1.5" square double-sided collage with your favorite papers, small photos, sentiments and flat embellishments, then slip it into the frame. Its easy: The frame opens at the top right corner, where youll see a small tab. Gently lift up the tab, then open the frame wide enough to place your microscope slide collage inside. Close the frame, replacing the tab through the slot at the top right. Burnish the tab down by rubbing it with a bone folder or the edge of your scissor handle.
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Some good news for some nervous backers of Mel Gibson's next film -- it seems as if most Americans are not going to let his alleged animalistic rantings at his former baby mama stop him from seeing "The Beaver."
A 60 Minutes/Vanity Fair poll shows that 76 percent of those who were asked the question, "Are you now less likely to see a Mel Gibson film as a result of the recent scandal?" answered that it would have "no effect."
The poll was taken from 847 adults over the phone nationwide. Only 20 percent said they were "less likely" to see the film.
Gibson's ex-girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva was not polled, and she likely no longer answers her telephone for fear of the apparent consequences we all witnessed over the summer courtesy of Radaronline.com.
The question did not give an option for those who plan on "buying a ticket to Avatar's re-release and checking out what the movie with that Gibson guy was all about for a few minutes."
I digress. Indeed it all seems like Gibson's latest and prolonged audio scandal was a bit of a bad dream now that the smoke is beginning to clear. But during its two to three week run, the daily dose of ugly medicine seemed to be having a lasting effect.
While 20 percent against an actor right from the start is not something you want to have going into a movie, it should be considered good news at least.
In the wake of the scandal, there were various reports about Gibson's sure-thing demise at the box office. Gibson's last movie, "The Edge of Darkness" tanked and that was before his latest tabloid incident. And his alleged racist, threatening recorded calls seemed to be the nail in the coffin.
While the poll has not translated to box office at this point, it shows that there at least signs of real life.
And it should be a positive sign for Summit Entertainment, which still has yet to list a release date for the Jodie Foster directed "The Beaver." The film stars Gibson as a depressed CEO who communicates through a beaver handpuppet.
Summit was due to nail down a fall date right at the time the Gibson scandal started and wisely pulled back to see which way this is all going to play out in the longer-term.


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Over the objections of progressive supervisors and under threats of a lawsuit from nudists and civil liberties advocates, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors today voted 6-5 to outlaw public nudity in the city. Supervisors voting against the ban were David Campos, Christina Olague, John Avalos, Eric Mar, and Jane Kim.
Sup. Scott Wiener, who sponsored the measure, cast it as a last resort to deal with what has become daily displays of nudity in the Castro district he represents (and most recently around City Hall as his legislation was being considering in committees), noting that, "Public nudity is part of San Francisco and is appropriate in some circumstances." His legislation makes exceptions for permitted events such as the Folsom Street Fair and Bay-to-Breakers.
But Wiener said that "public nudity can go too far," as he says it has over the last two years in the Castro's Jane Warner Plaza, and that "freedom of expression and acceptance does not mean you can do whatever you want."
Campos echoed some of the legal concerns that critics of the legislation have raised, noting that, "As a lawyer, I do worry about when you ban specific conduct and then you have exceptions to that." He also questioned whether Wiener has done enough to try to mediate the increasingly divisive conflict he's been having with the nudist community and whether this was an appropriate use of scarce police resources.
"I don't believe we're at the point of saying this becomes a priority over violent crime," Campos said, noting that he's been unable to get more police foot patrols to deal with a recent spate of violent crimes in the Mission, which shares a police station with the Castro.
Avalos said it was absurd to focus city resources on this victimless issue when the city is wrestling with far more serious problems, such as poverty and violence, and he played a clip from the film Catch 22 where a soldier goes naked to a ceremony to highlight that absurdity. "I will refuse to put on this fig leaf, I just can't do it," Avalos said.
Mar said he sympathized with Wiener's concerns, but agreed with Campos that Wiener could have done more to mediate this situation before both sides dug in: "I really don't think we need citywide legislation, particularly overbroad legislation, to deal with a problem isolated to one neighborhood."
Wiener seemed stung by the comments and said he could cite example of each supervisor pushing resolutions or ordinances that dealt with similarly trivial issues, comparing it to refusing to deal with a constituent's pothole complaint until that supervisor fixed Muni and solved the city's housing problem. But Campos pushed back, calling the comparison ridiculous and saying there was no reason for a citywide ban to deal with such an isolated issue.
Nudists at the hearing reacted angrily to the approval and started to disrobe before President David Chiu ordered deputies to intervene and abruptly recessed the hearing. Now, it will likely be up to the courts to decide whether Wiener's concerns about weiners can withstand legal scrutiny.


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This new alternative in Centre Pompidou is located in the South part of the museum – on the right side entering the building. South gallery is showing a monographic exhibition of architect and designer Ron Arad.
The exhibition's title might have two meanings, the one relating to no order, and the other relating to the concept of mixing all types of work and all fields of experiment.
Ron Arad himself has designed the setting and the presentation of over two hundred pieces he has created, from the eighties to scale models of future buildings.
From the entrance, you are immersed in a colorful dreamy universe filled with round forms.
a ring of round armchairs in front of videos of architectural realizations.
And if you look closer, you get in a single piece the same sense of colorful merry-go-round.
Mirrors and ground projections intensify this feeling.
Same tone and shapes in this stairway to dreams
and in this lamp hanging from the ceiling.
The exhibition's room have glass doors opening to the outside, and one charm is also that Ron Arad's world fits perfectly with the Museum's surroundings and architecture.
And as the rooms are located on the groundfloor, after leaving, it's quite facinating to look at parts of the exhibition through the windows, with the outside reflected on the glass.
Ron Arad, No Discipline, up to March 12, everyday except Tuesday from 11 AM to 9 PM, up to 11 PM on Thursday. Centre Pompidou, South Gallery, level 1. Entrance ticket € 12 opens for one day the gate of the permanent collection and all temporary exhibitions.
More of Ron Arad on : http://www.ronarad.com/index.html
Centre Pompidou, place Georges Pompidou 75001 Paris, metro Rambuteau or Hotel de Ville Tel :33(0)1 44 78 12 33.
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June 3, 2012
I handed the goji berries to the cop. "He dropped these." The cop thanked me, tossed the gojis in the trunk, and bustled away his captive amid a cacophony of outrage from the crowds. Moments earlier, the man with the berries had called out to the crowd: "They can't arrest us all! Let's stand together!" Moments later, poignantly, he was grabbed by the police and bundled into the squad car.
It was a silly arrest, really. He wasn't doing anything at all. He was eating goji berries, standing on the edge of the road. Jaysnacking. A token flex of muscle from Fairfax County police. I'm not sure this constitutes a legal defence, but I'm pretty sure that if you're eating a bag of organic goji berries, you're probably not much of a threat to society. As the police pulled away, the bullhorn sirens started up and I walked away from the noise.
There was a little too much testosterone on the sidewalk this afternoon – a few too many megaphones for my liking. But hey, you want to shout about the tyranny of a corrupt transnational banking oligarchy, you go right ahead. I'm not about to tell you to hush. It's horses for courses. Two years ago, a group of Spanish activists sat in silence on the beach and sent a white ring of positive energy up the hill to encircle and cleanse theBilderberg hotel. Whatever gets the job done.
As I left the crime scene, I met a member of Oathkeepers trotting down from their gazebo to check on the arrest. "We'll be looking at the video evidence," he assures me, puffing past.
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Friday, September 28, 2012 | Posted by Brodd Family at 9:01 PM 0 comments
Apple Orchard Time
It is that time of year when we need to start the visits to the apple orchards. This visit was a little more special, as our private photographer came along with.
Here are a couple of the "keepers"
Once again we thank Missy very much for her talent in capturing these moments. If you need any great pictures at a great price, be sure to drop her a line. http://melissarosephotography.com/
Wednesday, September 19, 2012 | Posted by Brodd Family at 7:11 PM 1 comments
Violet's One Year (corrected) Check-up
Last week Violet had her NICU follow-up appointment at Childrens.
It is a long 2.5hour appointment, but several development tests are completed, along with the standard measurements and overall assessment.
Bayley Scales of Infant Development
Cognitive Score - 115 (Age equivalence = 15 months)
Motor Score - 100 (Age equivalence = 13 months)
Language Score - 94 (Age equivalence = 12 months)
The doctors noted that there is absolutely nothing to worry about with were Violet is at in these tests. I found it interesting to note that she did the best on the first set of tests (cognitive) and as the day went on, here scores got worse - I have to think the length of the test had something to do with this...
Height - 28 7/8" (45th percentile preemie / 10th percentile standard)
Weight - 20# 8oz (75th percentile preemie / 15th percentile standard)
Head - 18 1/2" (85th percentile preemie / 75th percentile standard)
Her next follow-up visit to Childrens is when she is two years old. There will be no "age correction" when she attends that appointment.
And last, but certainly not least... the "improved" walking video!
Thursday, September 13, 2012 | Posted by Brodd Family at 6:01 PM 0 comments
Sylvia's 4 Year Check-up
Due to scheduling issues, Sylvia's 4 year check-up was more like a 4 year 1 month check-up, but all in all she is doing great.
Height - 38.5" (25th percentile)
Weight 33# (25th percentile)
BMI 15.6 (60th percentile)
BMI - Really?!?!? Is this really needed for a four year old? Maybe I am just sensitive about this measurement as I am considered "obese". While I am not the most fit guy in the world, I don't feel that I am obese. But enough about me!
Back to Sylvia. She started Pre-K at Peace of Mind this week. Not a huge change for us, but two new teachers and a new morning routine. We go to the gym every morning instead of directly to the classroom. Sylvia is still getting used to this new schedule, but she does get to see more of her friends, Ingrid and Ingrid.
This past weekend we moved a large play structure / swing set from a friends house to our home. It took about 15 hours and three trips to Home Depot to complete the trip, but watching the girls play on it was definitely worth the work.
And now for some more great pics from Missy.
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During this webinar, Dr. Lopez will demonstrate "resequencing of skills" made easy by Maple's Clickable Math™ paradigm. Computer technology allows conceptual development to come before the acquisition of manipulative skills. Correctly used, it enhances understanding, generates greater insights, and motivates learning. The direct access to the power of Maple provided by the ease-of-use features of Clickable Math means that this more efficient pedagogy can be implemented without first having to teach a tool. Just teach the math, as Dr. Lopez will demonstrate with Maple 15.
Dr. Robert J. Lopez, Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in Terre Haute, Indiana, USA, is an award winning educator in mathematics and is the author of several books, including Advanced Engineering Mathematics. For nearly three decades, Dr. Lopez has also been a visionary figure in the introduction of math technology into undergraduate education and has received numerous awards for outstanding teaching and scholarship.


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This is despite electricity prices being driven ever higher by expensive diesel imports and unprecedented growth in demand. The resulting power shortages continue to seriously constrain economic and social development.
South Africa
The South African wind industry had a very positive year overall. Although installed capacity remained at 10MW, the big news in 2012 was reaching financial close on eight projects totalling 634MW selected in the first bidding round of the renewable energy independent power producer programme (REIPPP). This had been planned for June, but problems with the legal framework delayed closure until the very end of the year. The projects are now under construction to meet the 2014 deadline. Turbine supply is roughly equally divided between Nordex (175MW), Vestas (138MW), Suzlon (135MW) and Siemens (134MW), with Sinovel clinching 52MW.
In May, the government announced the preferred bidders from round two, consisting of seven projects with a combined capacity of 562MW. These are supposed to reach financial close this month for commissioning in 2014. But the submission date for round three has been postponed once again and will now take place in August. This will allow lessons from round one to be assimilated into the tender terms, the government says.
At the same time, the energy ministry will incorporate the increase in the REIPPP announced in October. The original programme offered up to 1.85GW of wind energy to be operating in 2016. An extra 1.47GW will now be tendered for deployment by 2020, partly to give the industry greater visibility and promote job creation.
In response to local-content requirements specified in the REIPPP tender, a manufacturing base is starting to take shape. Isivunguvungu Wind Energy Converter (I-WEC) has begun producing blades and tower sections for a 2.5MW demonstration turbine to be manufactured under licence from German engineering consultancy Aerodyn. I-WEC expects to install the turbine by the summer, and to inaugurate its new tower factory in Eastern Cape province by the end of the year.
Ethiopia added 53MW in 2012 to take its installed capacity to 83MW. Of this, 51MW went up at Adama I with Chinese backing. Owned and operated by HydroChina in partnership with Chinese construction group CGCOC and using Goldwind turbines, the facility was largely financed with a loan from China's Export-Import Bank. The remaining 1.67MW of new capacity was a single Alstom turbine added at Ashegoda, where 30 Vergnet 1MW machines were commissioned in late 2011. Vergnet expects to finish installing all 54 Alstom turbines in May and bring them online by September to complete the second phase of the 120MW facility.
Next up will be 153MW at Adama II, undertaken by the same team as Adama I, but with Sany turbines. Commissioning is scheduled for mid-2014. In the meantime, feasibility studies are being carried out for 300MW at Aysha split into three projects.
Last year was another frustrating one for Kenya, which remains with just 5MW operating. The consortium behind the 310MW Lake Turkana project had hoped to reach financial close, but it was not to be. After months of waiting, in October the World Bank declined to provide the financial guarantees required by potential lenders, mainly because of fears that Kenya would not be able to consume all the electricity. In December, however, the African Development Bank, one of the project's lead arrangers, said it would furnish the guarantees. It is now waiting for government approval.
Work should also start this summer on a delayed 6.8MW project at Ngong Hills being built by TPF Econoler with Belgian funding and Vestas turbines. Commissioning is scheduled for 2014.
Mauritania and Nigeria
Vergnet is currently commissioning Mauritania's first utility-scale installation, a 4.4MW plant at Nouadhibou. The company is also building and equipping a 10MW plant at Katsina in Nigeria. However, work was suspended in December following the abduction of a French engineer by an Islamist group.
Seychelles and Cape Verde
This summer the Seychelles should inaugurate its first wind-power project, a 6MW installation on the main island of Mahe. South Korea's Unison is equipping and building the project on a turnkey basis on behalf of Abu Dhabi-owned renewable energy investment vehicle Masdar Power. Cape Verde did not add any capacity to the 25.5MW installed last year.


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Yup, I remember that too! I was hoping to be able to get an mpc a bit cheaper after it came out, until I realized that the market for such things doesn't work that way.Stab Frenzy wrote:No. I never saw it compared to the 808, most of the talk was that it would be an 'MPC-killer'. Guess that was pretty far off the mark though.ninja6485 wrote:Remember when the tempest was supposed to wield a mighty blow against the 808?
You started a loaded topic, mainly because:man-009 wrote: A lot of cocky people here of late..lol. I will keep away.
People are very passionate about roland, for and against. The "new gear from roland" thread is already locked, and they haven't come out yet. Some have been grinding axes for quite some time, and there is typically a lot of uncalled for gear trashing when certain instruments come up for discussion.shaft9000 wrote:this is effectively a rehash of minibrute threads.
That aside, for me the sh101 would be one of the last things to go on my gearlist. I can get exactly the sound I'm looking for from it immediately. And I'm such a big fan of old platipus records, harthouse, mfs, TIP, blue room & dragonfly, that it was pretty much a no brainer.
When I sit down in front of the 101, I'm inspired - I want to make its music - I can explore more deeply the music of my favorite artists. The musical historicity helps me better imagine the context of the sounds around the patch I'm working on, the way the smell of the ocean brings to mind a favorite beach house at the beginning of a vacation. It doesn't just get the job done: just working with it lends creative inertia that keeps the ball rolling. And I know many people feel the same way about the minimoog, the mpc-60, and a number of other instruments both vintage and modern.
There's a lot of talk on the forum about functionality, but functionality only matters in a context of creation or live use, so to sacrifice context for functionality is absurd. On a grander scale you can't even really tease the two apart. Using an sh101 doesn't matter. Knowing why you're using what your using matters, even if the answer to that why is exploration. You're crazy if you think I'm not going to enjoy the fruits of the brutes, but your crazy if you think I'm going to sell my 101 to do it!


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A potential government shutdown and national default hang in the balance.
With big deadlines and political hurdles looming over fights to keep the government funded and hike the nation's borrowing limit, a meeting Thursday of the top four congressional leaders could set the tone for the autumn.
It will be the first get-together for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., since Congress returned from its summer recess. The closed-door setting for this kickoff meeting will be Boehner's office at the Capitol.
"In my view, these next six weeks are going to in some ways be a litmus test as to whether America continues to be a great nation that can manage itself rationally and through a democratic process of compromise and agreement," said House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer, D-Md., on Tuesday.
Indeed, obstacles to cooperation are already surfacing, and a potential government shutdown and national default may hang in the balance.
A House vote planned for Thursday on a Republican bill to keep the government running beyond Sept. 30, when the current funding mechanism expires, was postponed Wednesday. Boehner, Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., and other GOP leaders determined they did not yet have the votes.
The leaders sought to appease right-wing members of their conference by tying the bill to a quirky procedure that would force the Senate to vote on defunding President Obama's health care law. But that strategy has stalled.
However, lawmakers must find some way to keep federal offices running, even if only for the short term, to allow time for negotiations on a larger deal that would include raising the debt ceiling before mid-October, when estimates show the Treasury will no longer be able to pay U.S. obligations.
But, so far, congressional compromise and agreement are far from certain. Boehner himself has already promised a "whale of a fight" over raising the nation's $16.7 trillion debt ceiling.
While the White House says President Obama won't negotiate on the debt ceiling, because the United States must pay its bills, the speaker says Republicans won't agree to lift the borrowing authority without significant spending cuts and changes to Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare, farm programs, and government pensions.
Up to this point, the inability of leaders in both parties to make significant concessions has been a major obstacle, illustrated, for instance, by the fact that neither the House nor the Senate has reached agreement on regular appropriations bills.
Now, House Republicans are having difficulty unifying themselves behind a fiscal strategy, adding another layer of negotiation that may not bode well for talks with Democrats.
The stopgap spending measure that Republicans put forth this week, as officially introduced by Appropriations Chairman Harold Rogers, R-Ky., was expected to meet resistance from Democrats in both the House and Senate, even without the Affordable Care Act language. That's because it would continue government spending through Dec. 15 at an annualized rate of $986.3 billion, just under the current level, which includes the sequestration cuts.
By contrast, the Democratic-led Senate has been writing up its spending bills for the next fiscal year with a topline of $1.059 trillion, on the assumption that sequestration would be repealed, which Democrats in both chambers have been seeking. Even without the Obamacare language, Hoyer told reporters that House Democrats would not support the House GOP bill because it maintains the sequester cuts.
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text: 4 genre spanning stars The Dreamers is a different sort of read for me, and I m grateful I read it The premise A disease is affecting a college town causing unstoppable sleep and vividly strange dreams It all starts at a university in Southern California when a student, Kara, falls asleep and no one can rouse her, not her roommate, Mei, and not even the doctors at the hospital That event is then followed by another student, and then another, and then the town is sieged with panic by this unknown and perplexing illness.At first no one knows why this is happening Are the students playing a prank With the doctors finding no known medical cause, just what could be going on I personally cannot imagine how scared I would feel in that situation Karen Thompson Walker s writing is stunning, and I found my emotions all over the place while reading At times, I was panicked and forlorn, like the townspeople and students Other times I was emotional over the effects of this disease on the community and individuals within it There was palpable tension, and again, that frightfulness Not in the horror kind of way, but in that unknown, insidious, completely out of your control kind of way The exploration of dreams versus reality was also captivating The Dreamers is all about the characters and their raw and authentic emotions I was so completely transfixed I felt like I was a resident of the town, too I found The Dreamers a memorable, thought provoking, insightful, and frightening page turner This book spans genres, including eerily tense suspense, light science fiction, and dystopian all on a backdrop of a glorious character study Loved it Thank you to the publisher for the complimentary ARC All opinions are my own My reviews can also be found on my blog www.jennifertarheelreader.com An epidemic of perpetual sleep strikes a small town Many are trapped not by a captor, but by their own slumber I was captivated immediately from page one A frightful opening made me ever so curious to read onThis author s writing style was mesmerizing and magical I was absorbed in her words and the fictional town in California Literary fiction at its best without needless side stories or wasted dialogue The story flows effortlessly and I adored it.It begins with some college dorm students falling ill, into a sleepliness, a dizziness, a state of dreaming As the sleep virus spreads so does the frequency of townspeople wearing hospital masks and blue latex gloves There is a growing buzz of panic and gloom Some of terrified of the sensation of sleepiness Nathaniel believes that hysteria over the illness is the real disease of the era As the cases balloon out of control, no one can stop the unstoppable dreaming state Some believe it could be a hoax What is real What is a dream I adored this story, the magical writing and the tension building suspense Totally bewitching read Highly recommend I borrowed this one from my local library and it is Available NOW. In An Isolated College Town In The Hills Of Southern California, A Freshman Girl Stumbles Into Her Dorm Room, Falls Asleep And Doesn T Wake Up She Sleeps Through The Morning, Into The Evening Her Roommate, Mei, Cannot Rouse Her Neither Can The Paramedics Who Carry Her Away, Nor The Perplexed Doctors At The Hospital Then A Second Girl Falls Asleep, And Then Another, And Panic Takes Hold Of The College And Spreads To The Town As The Number Of Cases Multiplies, Classes Are Canceled, And Stores Begin To Run Out Of Supplies A Quarantine Is Established The National Guard Is Summoned Mei, An Outsider In The Cliquish Hierarchy Of Dorm Life, Finds Herself Thrust Together With An Eccentric, Idealistic Classmate Two Visiting Professors Try To Protect Their Newborn Baby As The Once Quiet Streets Descend Into Chaos A Father Succumbs To The Illness, Leaving His Daughters To Fend For Themselves And At The Hospital, A New Life Grows Within A College Girl, Unbeknownst To Her Even As She Sleeps A Psychiatrist, Summoned From Los Angeles, Attempts To Make Sense Of The Illness As It Spreads Through The Town Those Infected Are Displaying Unusual Levels Of Brain Activity, Than Has Ever Been Recorded They Are Dreaming Heightened Dreams But Of What It is much harder for me to write a review of a book that I did not like rather than one I loved I do not usually read science fiction fantasy or whatever genre this would be assigned to but the reviews were so good for this novel I decided to give it a try Possible spoilers The premise is not a new one There have been many books written and movies made of a virus or some alien illness infecting humans and making them behave in one way or another In this case whatever this is, makes humans fall into a deep sleep Doctors have them hooked up for hydration and they show high levels of brain activity, but what does it all mean It starts in the dorm of a college town in Santa Lora, California, a very idyllic setting The book initially had me hooked, I kept reading to see where it was all going to lead At first it is just the college students being infected and they are not allowed to leave the floor of their dorm But quarantine does not work as many of the students on the floor continue to fall into the sleeping sickness They are then moved to a gym and not allowed to leave, still fall ill It was thought that perhaps the ventilation system was to blame for the sickness but that has been ruled out.There are many elderly people in a nursing home who fall ill to the sickness Now the doctors and nurses that are tending them are sick, it seems no one is safe.I would like to say that this book has strong characters, but I did not find that to be the case We get to know a young couple, both professors, who have an infant just a few weeks old We get to know a bit about their life before they moved here and how they are now working as a team, groggy from lack of sleep, as all parents of newborns are, but now never leaving their baby alone, fearful for the first signs that she will not wake up.Mei is a college freshman who really wanted to be in an Arts program but her mother insisted on this college instead She is shy and has trouble making friends She could have been made interesting if we knew about her background For her this forced kinship with others from her dorm floor almost seems like a good thing There are a lot of loose threads in this book There was mention several times that the lake level was lower than normal Did this have something to do with the sickness Nothing is ever resolved.Thrown into this mix it is discovered that a college student, Rebecca, has become pregnant and she is one of the last to awaken, nearly a year later In the meantime she has given birth to a girl, but when she wakes she can only remember a strange dream where she is the mother of a son and is already past middle age Is this a characteristic of this illness Who knows, we don t hear of anyone else with this type of dream There was a group of people who had been staying in a motel but run into the forest to escape quarantine Was there something wrong with the motel They all soon fall sick.There were so many individual occurrences that never seemed to lead to a resolution or cure There is quite a large cast of characters but I didn t find them to be well described Then there is a wildfire in the mountains and again for unexplained reasons, many people wake up from their dreamlike sleep while others perish Can this be the cure This was one of the most frustrating reads I ve had in a long time I felt no strong connection to any of the characters There were so many ideas or hints at things that may be causing the sickness but in the end there is no resolution and the sleeping sickness as it was being called never spread beyond this small town.In the end, even after several days to think about it I was still left with the question of what did I just read I received an ARC of this novel from the publisher through Edelweiss. 4.5 College A time when teens begin the transformation into adulthood Truly, just teenagers experiencing life away from home for the first time Wide eyed excitement, anticipation and seemingly endless opportunities the world has to offer them.But at an un assuming, small college in Santa Lora California, that idyllic life is about to change forever.When Kara comes home unusually early from a night of drinking, she slips quietly into her dorm, and climbs into her bunkbed The next morning, her roommate Mei can t wake her from what seems like a deep, drunken slumber It s not long before everyone realizes this is only the beginning, as others begin to drift away into the same deep, deep sleep.Are these students playing a college prank Copying each others behavior Or does the town need to take this seriously This book had me hooked from start to finish It seemed to have, pardon the pun, a real dream like quality to it I couldn t wait to see where this was headed and what was behind it all If you re ready for something a little different that ll leave you mystified and yes, maybe just a little bit scared, this is one you must add to your list I highly recommend.A fabulous buddy read with Susanne Thank you to NetGalley, Random House Publishing Group and Karen Thompson Walker for an ARC to read in exchange for an honest review 3.5We sleep in order to forget Sadly I didn t love this as much as everyone else seems to It looked like it would be right up my street a strange illness overcomes a small town in California and people are falling asleep, not waking up for anything But unfortunately I was still left disappointed.The Dreamers follows a collection of characters constantly flicking between them From the college students where the virus first appears, to two young girls living alone in a house after their father falls ill, a single father with his 6 week old baby terrified that if he succumbs to the sickness, his daughter will die.My main gripe, which is always the same gripe with books of this nature is view spoiler we never find out the cause of the illness Or even its purpose It just appears and then disappears just as quickly and we are left none the wiser because of it hide spoiler Confession time I m a total hypochondriac I don t watch medical shows, because I ve convinced myself I m dying of things it s medically impossible for me to contract I caught a bad cold two days after finishing The Stand , and I was convinced the end was near I m a mess.Needless to say, it might not have been the best idea to finish Karen Thompson Walker s The Dreamers just before bed, but luckily I m here to tell you about it The only way to tell some stories is with the oldest, most familiar words this here, this is the breaking of a heart Another semester of college has started in a sleepy Southern California town Kara leaves a party one night saying she doesn t feel well Everyone figures she s probably had too much to drink She gets into bed and falls asleep She s still asleep when her roommate, Mei, leaves for class the next morning, but Mei isn t concerned, because Kara has done this before Kara is still asleep when evening comes, but no one can wake her, not Mei, not Kara s friends, not even the paramedics or the doctors at the hospital where she was taken.The doctors can t figure out what s wrong with her, nor can they explain why she dies the next day But everyone is unprepared when a second girl in Kara s dorm falls asleep, then a third That s when panic starts to set in, and as students, and others they come into contact with at the school fall asleep, fears of an epidemic are sparked.While doctors are stymied by what is sweeping through the college, and how it can be prevented from spreading, they also make an unusual discovery there is activity in these minds than has ever been recorded in any human brain awake or asleep Slowly, the virus begins to spread through this small town First it s the hospital and college personnel who fall prey, and then it starts to affect an ever widening circle of those they ve come into contact with Sarah and Libby, two young sisters, are determined to protect themselves Ben and Annie, two young professors, withstand the strains of their marriage to try and keep their infant daughter safe Nathaniel, another professor, worries he may be kept from visiting his husband, who is in a nursing home and Mei, who, along with another student, tries to make a difference once she stops submerging herself in her own fears The Dreamers is a tremendously thought provoking book about how we come together and tear ourselves apart in the midst of a crisis like this It s a portrait of fear, courage, love, stubbornness, sacrifice, and selfishness, and the stories of those affected and those waiting to see if they ll be next are very poignant.As she proved with her first book, The Age of Miracles see my review , Walker is a great storyteller, combining scientific elements with fantastical ones to yield a book rich with emotion Where I struggled with The Dreamers , however, is how things were wrapped up I felt left with questions than answers, and I really wasn t sure what kind of a message she was sending The book needed a clearer ending fitting of the complexity of the plot.That criticism aside, this is a book that will make you think about how you might act in a similar situation, if you were any of these characters I look forward to reading Walker s next book, because her talent is too good to sit idle.See all of my reviews at itseithersadnessoreuphoria.blogspot.com Check out my list of the best books I read in 2018 at Follow me on Instagram at Me Liking a sci fi book It s true And no, I did not undergo electric shock therapy This book is almost pogo stick worthy, it s so damn good I don t even know what category this book fits into To me, it s not pure sci fi, really Is there such a thing as disaster books, like there are disaster movies Because that s what it is It s not about aliens or weird gadgets it s about a virus, a sleeping sickness, that takes over a college town Maybe it should be called sci fi light Well, whatever we want to call it, this book is excellent And what makes it so excellent is that it s character driven something I don t usually associate with a sci fi book.There are about ten or so characters Every single one is well drawn and likeable, and each one evoked my sympathy Most of the story revolves around a couple with a newborn, a survivalist father and his two young daughters, and two college students who hang out together There are a couple of other minor characters whose stories I found interesting, too Halfway through the book I realized with horror, hey, these characters could all get the sleeping sickness so would be unavailable to entertain me or they could even die Ah, so this is one reason why disaster books are such a bummer You get all attached to a character, then poof, they re gone What kind of deal is that Maybe I should have thought longer about reading a book where so many people may die But as I continued, I was happy to see there was hope and there were people who were helping, which gave this cynic a little faith in humanity The language pulled me in immediately It s straightforward, fluff free, and on the sparse side It s dramatic in tone, but not overly dramatic I was all in as soon as I opened the book.There are lots of wise little nuggetsNot everything that happens in a life can be digested Some events stay forever whole Some images never leave the mind But isn t the future always an imaginary thing before it comes But isn t every sleep a kind of isolation When else are we so alone But it feels good to take care of them the way it is possible to disappear inside someone else s need If you re an Extreme Worrier like I am, the following quote should make you feel better Hell, it will probably make you strut The two sentences are probably why I loved the book so much, lolWorry, she often reminds her patients, is a kind of creativity Fear is an act of the imagination Many of the characters face moral dilemmas, the kind of questions that come up with natural disasters Do you help people if it puts you at risk Do you leave your children to go help others Do you obey the quarantine because of the risk to other people Do you shove to get out first Remember the famous moral question, if you were in a life boat and could only save one person, how would you choose who to pick There s one character who keeps asking those types of questions to his friend This has significance later in the book, and it s all subtle and cool Fear Man, a contagious disease spreading fast is going to scare the hell out of everyone You have the people who live in the town, fearing they will be the next victim And you have the fretting parents of college kids, totally nutso because they live in other towns and can t find out if their kids are okay The book does an amazing job of showing people s fear, in all its permutations.The scenes of people desperately trying to leave town were realistic and powerful They reminded me of what happened during the recent fire in Paradise, California, when the whole town disappeared the whole friggin town I got an up close view because my friend s mom lived there, and she told of a harrowing tale of her escape She and everyone else lost their house, and they were left basically with the clothes on their back The trauma is unimaginable So as I read, I kept flashing on that real disaster The book definitely gave me a taste of the mayhem, the fear, the urgency of a disastrous event I felt like I was there, all unchy and crazed.The book got me thinking about what I would do if it happened in my town I ll tell you one thing I m sure I would run, just like everyone else Okay, I realize I can t really RUN, but I would try to beat feet out of town by car god, escape by car better be an option But what if I was low on gas Yi yi yi, I better make sure to keep my gas tank full If I were smart, I d probably go fill it up right now I must remember that these worries are simply signs of my creativity, lol One thing that happened with the sleeping sickness was that people still could dream Damn, am I going to have to hear about people s dreams Because I ll tell you right now, that doesn t interest me one iota Tell me what s happening now in the real world I don t care about what someone s brain cells are dreaming up Bor ing But thank god, no the book doesn t go there.Instead, the book playfully talks about dreams versus reality perception funnies parallel universes the mixing of past, future and present The comments pop up but they don t detract from the plot one bit If anything, they add some cool eeriness What a captivating book Good characters, suspense, and food for thought For those of you who shy away from the sci fi genre, go ahead and dive in It s worth it.Thanks to NetGalley for the advance copy. These days, science doesn t take much interest in dreams. 2 stars I m rating this purely based on my personal enjoyment and connection with the narrative Some people are going to love this book I read Walker s The Age of Miracles than six years ago, didn t love it, but wanted to give her another try I know my tastes have changed Maybe even the author had changed, too As it turns out, my review of her debut is fairly similar to how I feel about The Dreamers, comma splices aside.This book is full of dreamy hypnotic prose I can count on one hand the amount of books where this style has worked for me In fact, right now, I can t actually think of one There s this sense that you are looking down on everything from a distance through a haze It is written in third person and moves through small chapters vignettes, almost with many different people who I never felt a connection to The Dreamers premise is virtually identical to King s Sleeping Beauties, except here the sleeping sickness can affect men and appears to be contagious The major difference, I feel, is in how much we are pulled into the characters lives Sleeping Beauties was not a fast paced book, but I felt very drawn into the drama With a page count almost twice as long as this book, it s hardly surprising that there was far character development.In the first few chapters of The Dreamers, a girl dies under mysterious circumstances, her friends and parents mourn, and it is all narrated with such bizarre detachment The sleeping sickness spreads from there and the author explores how it affects many different lives Some of this is interesting some of it feels repetitive.It is a book for those who enjoy sleepy, beautifully written novels The characters won t stay with me, personally, nor should you come into this expecting a satisfying sci fi story in which things are explained Much like dreams, a lot doesn t make sense in this book What I will probably remember the longest are the quotes that touched me Such as this one This is how the sickness travels best through all the same channels as do fondness and friendship and love. CW Suicide.Blog Facebook Twitter Instagram Youtube This narrative style From the first paragraph I knew I was going to be so pulled into this story, whatever it was going to be, by the writing There is something about it, the way Karen Thompson Walker tells this story It s third person narrative and I felt removed as if I was watching this on film or on the stage but at the same time there s an intimacy that affords the reader a connection to these characters, their fears, their loneliness, their pasts, and their dreams from this deep sleep While this felt very visual, I didn t find the language to be overly descriptive It was clear and concise and beautiful In a small town of Santa Lora, California the sleep sickness, caused by a virus first hits a college dorm One by one they are taken to the hospital, until some doctors and nurses fall into this sleep, and the hospital as well as the dorm are placed under quarantine and then the library where overflow patients are taken and the gym where the students from the affected dorm floor are taken It s an eerie feeling as Santa Lora is placed under quarantine no one in or out We see the crisis through the lives of fairly large cast of characters who are not depicted as mere statistics, but as real people that we may know or could be Rebecca, the second victim lies in the hospital and we come to know something about her that she can t know in her sleep state until the dreams come to her Mei, a lonely college freshman for whom connections become possible through the crisis Sara and Libby, eleven and twelve year old girls, who are forced to care for themselves Anne and Ben and their newborn daughter, adjusting to parenthood and facing the crisis These are some of the characters I came to know and care about along with others as the narrative alternates between their points of view, sometimes overlapping as they connect with each other.I might have given this 5 stars, but it lagged in the middle and then it seemed the ending came so abruptly I m not sure I really understood what the dreams meant Were they memories of the past Were they about the future But what I do know is that this was a haunting, thought provoking, and hopeful story Mei whose loneliness broke my heart, says of people she sees on the street , One of the women outside is walking barefoot in her business suit Where are her shoes Mei wonders, but that s the thing about strangers you don t get to hear their stories The thing I loved most about this book is that we do get to hear their stories Esil, thanks so much for the recommendation because you were right that I would like this book I m so glad I followed up because this is so much than I thought it would be I also highly recommend The Age of Miracles, the author s first novel which was a 5 star read for me I received an advanced copy of this book from Random House through NetGalley.


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A walker encountering Manorbier Castle during a hike along the southern stretch of the Pembrokeshire National Park coastal footpath would probably stop in his tracks and wonder where he had seen the building before.
The answer might be on television, for this imposing picturesque fortress featured in the BBC adaptation of C. S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia as Cair Paravel and The White Witch Castle. It was also used as the location for the 2003 film Capture the Castle.
Manorbier was built at the end of the 11th century on land granted to the Norman Knight Odo de Barri and, like many other castles at that time, started life as a wooden motte and bailey structure.
His son William began work on the stone fortification in the early part of the 12th century and the castle became the home of a famous Welsh scholar and ecclesiast, Gerald de Barri, or Gerald the Welshman also known as Geraldus Cambrensis, 4th son of William, who was born there in 1148.
Gerald, despite being the son of a military man, went in for the church and had a distinguished career both as a cleric and a chronicler of medieval events.
Related on his mother's side to the legendary Welsh Princess Nest, Gerald's ambition was to become Bishop of St Davids, but, although he reached the elevated position of Archdeacon of Brecon, King John steadfastly refused to award him the Bishopric of St Davids, and Gerald turned to writing. Among a series of topographical books, he wrote The Itinerary Through Wales - an account of his travels with Archbishop Baldwin of Canterbury in 1188, the object of which was to recruit Welshmen for the Third Crusade. King John had given as his reason for not appointing Gerald to the See of St Davids that "it is neither necessary or expedient for king or archbishop that a man of great honesty or vigour should become Bishop of St Davids for fear that the Crown and Canterbury should suffer thereby. Such an appointment would only give strength to the Welsh and increase their pride."
Gerald became royal clerk and chaplain to King Henry 11 so was not out of favour.
Manorbier castle is a rectangular enclosure castle with curtain walls and round and square towers. A great door and portcullis protected the tower gateway and it had only a dry moat under the entrance bridge because of its clifftop site. A postern gate provided access to the beach and boats. It was only ever attacked twice and those were minor skirmishes, so it has remained in good condition. It used to be said that a favourite excursion from Tenby was to the "three castles" - "Pembroke for strength, Carew for Beauty and Manorbier for comfort," The castle with its gardens, dovecote and mill are open to the public and are well worth a visit.