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---- — Let's say at the outset that smoking is a terrible habit that brings with it a large number of health risks. But smokers have also long been the target of a hypocritical crusade by legislators who, while imposing ever more burdensome regulations on those who smoke, revel in the enormous tax revenues that smoking generates.
Smokers are outcasts from polite society, banned from engaging in their habit in restaurants, bars and workplaces, relegated to huddling in small groups outdoors, seeking whatever shelter they can find from the elements. Yet even here they are not free to indulge. Some of the more extreme practitioners of nanny government want to prohibit them from smoking in public parks and on public streets.
But now, it seems technology is coming to smokers' rescue. New, electronic cigarettes supposedly eliminate all the negative public effects of smoking, such as secondhand smoke. The devices use electronics to heat and vaporize a flavored, nicotine-laced liquid. Smokers inhale the vapor and get the nicotine they desire without all the other harmful components found in ordinary cigarette smoke.
Now, smokers of these "e-cigarettes" are trying to come in from the cold, fighting their way back into public spaces.
It's enough to make the nanny state tremble.
Government isn't going down without a fight, however. There's new legislation here in Massachusetts designed to put e-smokers back in their place.
One aspect of the legislation is a positive one. A bill before the Legislature would prohibit the sale of electronic cigarettes to minors.
"Most people assume that our laws cover that issue (of sales to minors)," state Rep. Jeffrey Sanchez told the Statehouse News Service last month. The Jamaica Plain Democrat is sponsoring the ban on sales to minors. "That is what we are trying to get at. How do we make sure we keep nicotine, in any forms, and nicotine delivery, out of the hands of minors?"
Banning sales to minors makes sense and should become law. We ban the sale of ordinary cigarettes to minors because we do not want them to become addicted to nicotine and suffer the deleterious health effects caused by a lifetime of smoking. We ban sales to minors and not to adults because minors, society believes, are incapable of making informed, rational decisions and behave impulsively.
E-cigarettes do not change this rationale at all. Their sale to minors should be prohibited.
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1/2 cup granulated sugar
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon ginger
1/2 teaspoon allspice
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/16 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup unsalted butter, at room temperature
1/2 cup 1 percent low-fat milk
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 1/2 cups cinnamon baking chips
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Pulau Bidadari (or the Island of Angels) is one of the many charming islands in the Thousand Islands Marine National Park in the Bay of Jakarta, which also comprise Pulau Tidung and Pulau Pramuka. This beautiful island, formerly known as Pulau Sakit, is located close to the capital city, approximately 15 kilometers (or 20 minutes) away by speedboat. Pulau Bidadari lies in the middle of a cluster of small islands, among which are Pulau Onrust ,...
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Ada resident Cara Cliburn, a senior at Oklahoma Baptist University, was honored during the University's 75th annual "Hanging of the Green" ceremony Saturday in Raley Chapel's Potter Auditorium. The theme of the Christmas celebration was "From Darkness to Light."
Traditionally, 20 outstanding seniors are nominated and selected by faculty as honorees for the evening. These students are seen to embody the OBU ideals and represent a wide variety of majors, disciplines and hometowns.
The Christmas program featured performances by students and faculty in OBU's Warren M. Angell College of Fine Arts, including the University Ringers, University Chorale, Bison Glee Club, Bisonette Glee Club, Shawnee Honor Choir and the OBU/Shawnee Community Orchestra.


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Halewood Operations Director Richard Else, said: "I'd like to congratulate the Halewood team for reaching this superb milestone and also sustaining the highest quality standards on Freelander 2, during the Range Rover Evoque launch period. Freelander was Land Rover's biggest selling model last year retailing around 52,000 units globally."
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CAMP DOUGLAS, WIS. — A soldier from far northern Wisconsin will become the first member of the states Army National Guard to earn a Silver Star.
Other soldiers from Wisconsin have received the award, but 1st Sgt. Gregory Fulton of Arbor Vitae is the first member of the National Guard to earn it.
Fulton will receive his medal during a formal ceremony Friday at Volk Field in Camp Douglas.
Hes being honored for his actions in 2009, when he helped members of the Afghan National Army clear a building filled with insurgents.
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UAA's summer conferences and festivals celebrating visual, literary, and dramatic arts include the Mat-Su College's Machetanz Art Festival, Last Frontier Theatre Conference, Kachemak Bay Writers' Conference and this month's Northern Renaissance Arts & Sciences Reading Series.
Dear UAA Community,
UAA's first E-Catalog is live and ready for use at catalog.uaa.alaska.edu. Thanks to the leadership of our Office of the Registrar, faculty, staff and students have early access to next year's academic bulletin. For information on the catalog see the email from Lora Volden, University Registrar
Thanks to our Title IX team and to you, more than 500 employees have completed Title IX training at UAA. For those who did not have a chance to attend one of the 28 training sessions in June, watch for future Title IX trainings. There is no better way to stop sexual harassment and misconduct than to be informed and educated. I am asking all faculty and staff to attend this important training.
Yesterday, Prioritization Taskforces provided a review of their processes and general overview of their findings to Chancellor's Cabinet and Prioritization Steering Committee. The Taskforces also delivered confidential reports to cabinet for review. We will review the reports over the next couple of weeks and release them to our campus community shortly thereafter. A post-process timeline, venue for reading and responding to findings, and other details will soon become available. As we continue this process, we are committed to strengthening and aligning UAA's mission and goals to make us the best institution possible.
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Alabama State University is starting a master's program in social work. Brown University is starting an undergraduate major in contemplative studies. Community College of Allegheny County is starting associate degree and certificate programs in mechatronics technology.
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STOW: Coach Rob Slone made an honest assessment after his Cuyahoga Falls boys basketball team waltzed out of Stow with a 35-34 victory Friday night.
"We set the game of basketball back about 20 years," Slone said with a smile.
Slone was grinning because the Black Tigers defeated the Bulldogs for just the second time during his nine-year tenure after Falls 6-foot-3 senior Henry Shaw made a wide-open jumper from the free-throw line with 2.8 seconds to go in the fourth quarter.
Stow attempted a shot from near half-court as time expired that hit off the backboard.
"This is the greatest feeling in the world," Shaw said. "I will never forget this."
Shaw finished with nine points in a game before which Stow dedicated its gymnasium to James G. Tyree, a Bulldogs legendary athletic director and coach.
Angelo Cugini, a 6-7 junior, led the Black Tigers (4-1, 1-0) to the Northeast Ohio Conference River Division win with 13 points, eight rebounds and three blocks.
Slone said the Black Tigers' final play was designed for Cugini, but the Bulldogs' (2-3, 0-1) defense forced Shaw into making the big play.
"Henry is not an offensive-minded child," Slone said. "When he caught the ball, you could see the little squirrels rolling in his brain, looking for Angelo inside.
''We stressed, obviously, at halftime to pound the ball inside. He kept looking inside and you could see that like second nature, he was like: 'OK, I gotta shoot it.' "
Shaw said he was thinking "just go in" as he released the ball and watched it approach the basket.
"I went up to set a back screen for Ang, and I got the ball," Shaw said.
"I was looking for him, knowing that he could get the ball and make it. They were doubling him. I noticed there was three seconds left and I had to get the ball up."
Shaw's heroics ruined an impressive night by Stow junior Matt Beech, who had 18 points, five rebounds and two steals. Junior Jacob Williams added nine points.
"[Stow coach Dave Close] and his staff do a great job preparing their kids to play," Slone said. "They have a system that is very successful.
"This is a very hard place to walk out of with a win. This group of kids we have does not know how to quit."
There were spurts in the game when each team defended well, but there were also spurts in which each team struggled to get into a flow offensively.
Stow led 8-7 after one quarter and 19-14 at halftime. Cugini outscored Stow by himself 9-3 in the third quarter to put Falls ahead 23-22 going into the fourth quarter.
Slone and assistant coach Ric Blevins gave Cugini words of encouragement at halftime.
"My coaches told me to grow up and be a man," Cugini said.
"I came out and I had to grow up and be a man. My team was all behind me and it was a team victory. We had to keep pushing on, and we did. Coach Blevins and coach Slone always challenge me. That woke me up. I went on that scoring run because of the coaches."
Cugini, a St Vincent-St. Mary transfer, formerly lived in Stow as a child. He now lives in Silver Lake, which feeds into Cuyahoga Falls High School.
"I came out of Stow in the eighth grade," Cugini said. "I love Stow, but now I go with the Falls. That is my team and that is my family."
Senior Devin Speicher and junior Jay Slone combined for 10 points for Falls.
Michael Beaven can be reached at 330-996-3829 or firstname.lastname@example.com. Read the high school blog at http://www.ohio.com/preps. Follow him on Twitter at http://twitter.com/MBeavenABJ and on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/sports.abj.


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You should be tired of moving things out of the passenger seat when someone wants to ride in your car.
Clean your car out.
This just doesn't involve running a vacuum over the mats and seats. Use a damp cloth to clean the dash and drink holders.
If it is necessary to keep a lot of documents in your vehicle for work, purchase a crate or organizer and put it in the trunk.
If you keep extra shoes or a bag of workout clothes in the backseat, put it in the trunk. And don't turn your trunk into a junk area, be organized.
Glove compartments and storage bins can get filled with papers and napkins. Go through those areas and get rid of anything that is not needed.
After the car is clean, it's time to organize your workspace ...
Your workspace
While work usually cannot be as comfy as home, the mere sight of a bunch of stuff may actually be adding to your daily stress.
Paper clutter is the No. 1 problem for most businesses and 4.3 hours a week are used searching for papers, according to the National Association of Professional Organizations.
Get rid of paper.
Some people like to write reminders on Post-It Notes and put them all over. Don't do this. Keep a notepad of reminders.
While some people like to have a bunch of photos of family and friends in their workspace, it's probably better to go with one or two. If you like a lot of photos, invest in a small collage photo frame so that the photos are more organized.
If there is anything that can be put in a drawer, put it there. This would include pens, papers and books.
Decluttering your workspace is sure to make the workday less stressful. But if your closet, dresser, bedroom and car are organized, the day is sure to get off to a good start.


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Why? at Music Hall of Williamsburg, Sept 2012 (more by Caroline Harrison)
Clearly the recent stint of dates (pics from MHoW) was not enough to sate the touring appetites of Anticon crew Why? who will embark upon another set of US dates in the new year. These shows, which kick off in Ohio and include appearances from Dream Tiger, Sarah Winters, Astronautalis and Baths along the way, are headed towards SXSW 2013 in Austin. The tour stops in NYC as well, at Music Hall of Williamsburg on 2/13 with Astronautalis and Dream Tiger in tow. Tickets go on sale at 4PM today (11/30).
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August 1, 2014
KANSAS CITY, Kan. – The Northern League has announced that T-Bones designated hitter Calvin Pickering is Player of the Week for the week ending July 21.
Pickering hit .524 (11-for-21) with three home runs and 10 RBI while scoring 11 runs of his own for the week. In addition, he walked seven times while striking out just once. Pickering's RBI total is now at 58 tying him for second in the league.
The former Kansas City Royal is steadily heating up for the T-Bones after a slow start. Pickering now sits at .304 with 10 home runs after hitting just .274 at the end of June.
Pickering was originally a 35th round draft pick of the Baltimore Orioles in 1995. He has 95 Major League at-bats including 43 with the Royals. He is the first T-Bone to earn Player of the Week honors this season.
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Montreal, Quebec, Canada | Member Since 2011
"A Suspense that Keeps You Guessing"
Walter Hartright, a young art teacher, is startled when he is overtaken by a young woman dressed entirely in white while walking on the road from Hampstead to London. Visibly distressed, the young woman begs him to show her the way to London, and he offers to accompany her there. The young woman accepts his offer on the condition that he allow her to come and go as she pleases. Once he's dropped her off in London, two men in hot pursuit claim that the girl has escaped a mental asylum and must be returned there at once, but Walter does nothing to help them in their search. The next day he arrives at Limmeridge House, where he has gained a position as a drawing master. There he meets his young pupils, half sisters Marian and Laura. In no time at all, her befriends Marian—no great beauty is she, but quick, smart and amusing—and falls desperately in love with the heavenly loveliness that is Laura. But the encounter with the woman in white will carry many consequences.
I took absolute delight in discovering all the plot twists of this great classic mystery, so will disclose no more of the story nor of how it is told, but will say that it offers a wonderfully evil conspiracy and several highly memorable characters, not least of which the strange and compelling villain Count Fosco, who stole every scene in which he appeared, in my view. Also, the sublimely selfish Frederick Fairlie is one of the most memorable invalids I have ever encountered in a work of fiction. I must say that this version, narrated by Simon Prebble and Josephine Bailey, greatly increased my enjoyment of the tale, with wonderfully rendered characters. Now that I've listened to it and that there are no more secrets for me to discover, I still look forward to listening to it again for a fun romp with highly colourful characters and plenty of Gothic frissons.
"My first, but not my last Furst."
Many readers must come to this book having read quite a few Alan Furst WWII spy novels. After all, as the NYT stated in a recent review, "Mr. Furst has long since carved out this turf and made it his own", and while I've long wanted to start on his Night Soldiers series, I jumped at the occasion to acquaint myself with this novelist with his latest one-off.
Cristián Ferrar is a Spanish émigré living in Paris and has some clout as a lawyer working for a prestigious American law firm representing an international clientèle. When the novel starts in December 1937, the Spanish civil war is ongoing and the Republicans, fighting against General Franco's fascist army is in desperate need of munitions. Ferrar, with his skills as a negotiator and diplomat is recruited to help in the arms deal negotiations with dangerous criminals and to ensure the shipments actually get into the proper hands. A man of not inconsiderable charms and an amorous disposition, Ferrar quickly falls for the charms of a prim and proper potential client, the Marquesa Maria Cristina. Beneath her chic veneer is a woman all too willing to fall for Ferrar's charm, but is she who she claims to be and does she have ulterior motives? Ferrar is too clever to be played like an innocent in these dangerous times, but he also doesn't miss a chance to enjoy the bounties beautiful women and life in Paris have to offer, as the novel takes him from exclusive swank nightclubs and the famous Parisian landmark, restaurant Lapérouse, to wine and dine, and potentially bribe a necessary contact. From there to negotiations with Bulgarian gangsters in Istanbul brothels and uncollaborative train-yard inspectors in Poland, he and his collaborator, ex arms dealer Max de Lyon, must use all the finesse they can to deliver the arms to Spain or else see the republicans lose to the Fascists in the bigger war that is looming ahead. It took me a while to sink into the story, in which many characters are introduced in the beginning, but once I got in the groove it was a smooth, satisfying ride with plenty of zing.
"A Unique and Exciting Adventure"
I read and listened to quite a few fantasy YA novels in June, and while fantasy and YA aren't usually in my comfort zone, ended up enjoying all of them. This particular trilogy only came to my attention because I've fallen in love with Samuel West's voice and narration style, and so have bought most of the audiobooks he's recorded that are likely to be of interest to me (16 of them so far). Twin sister and brother Kestrel and Bowman Hath are living peacefully in their now egalitarian society after having endured a totalitarian regime most of their lives (this is covered in book 1 of the Wind of Fire Trilogy). However this state of affairs doesn't last long when an ambitious young soldier decides to capture the entire town as slaves for the people of the Mastery. The methods used to keep captured slaves compliant are incredibly cruel, so the people have no choice but to let themselves be led to their new masters. While the raid takes place, Kestrel and Bowman are separated, with the boy and other family members taken in captivity while Kestrel is left behind to make her way to safety. Along the road, she meets a young and extremely beautiful princess travelling in great pomp who takes her under her wing. The twins each use their great intelligence and special skills to get their family back together again while also doing all they can to overthrow the oppressive regime, with the girls also having to fend off the advances of dangerously enamoured men. And exciting adventure story which is rather unique, as was the first book. Both are highly recommended.
"Divorced Beheaded Died Divorced Beheaded Survived"
I became very keen to learn all about the Tudors after reading Hilary Mantel's excellent Wolf Hall, followed by Bring Up the Bodies not long after. At that time I had very little notion about British History, and none at all about Henry VIII and his time, other than the fact he was an oft-married tyrant who had a couple of his wives beheaded. This book was just what I needed to fill some of the biggest gaps in my understanding of a) the reasons why H8 married so often b) who his wives were, with their backgrounds and personal stories and c) why he killed off two of his wives and divorced two more. I also learned in greater detail about d) how and why the break from Rome and the pope occurred, and why there were so many reversals back and forth from Catholic to Protestant beliefs, resulting in the deaths of uncounted masses of people for heresies which were determined according to ever-changing priorities and whims of the great monarch.
I felt I got quite a thorough overview of each of Henry's six wives, and also that Alison Weir seemed to greatly dislike Anne Boleyn, who came across as quite an unlikeable woman, though I gather this is a widely agreed upon opinion. Catherine of Aragon, his first wife, predictably enough, came across as a saint. Ann of Cleves and Catherine Parr, as the two clever ones who survived marriage to a vile brute. And of course, plenty of information about the monarch himself and his time.
Recommended for those who like me have an interest in literature about that period with little background on the topic, as I imagine a lot of the material is familiar to those who have a better grasp on English history.
"What Trouble Will Bernie Get Into Next?"
While I really enjoyed the first book in the series, March Violets earlier this month, I can't say I felt quite the same about this one. We are now in the Berlin of 1938 and Bernie Gunther is asked to rejoin the police force to work on a serial murder case. Several young girls have gone missing and been found defiled in the most gruesome manner: raped, tied by their feet and drained of their blood exactly like slaughtered pigs. All the girls were around 15, blonde and blue-eyed; the perfect Arian stereotype. Another private case has him uncovering a man blackmailing a wealthy widow, a publisher whose son is a homosexual who (inadvisedly in this age of Nazi power) kept up a correspondence with his lover, some of those letters now being in the hands of the blackmailer. Two very different cases, and no apparent link to the question of the oppression of the Jews in this year which is marked by Kristallnacht, or the Night of Broken Glass, an organized attack against Jews throughout Nazi Germany and Austria which took place on the 9th and 10th November 1938. But of course we eventually learn that no crime in this time and place could occur without the aim of further oppressing the Jews.
While I liked the way the case started resolving itself two-thirds of the way in, I've developed a serious dislike for forms of entertainment which centre on serial rapes and murders of women, and the details in this case were truly horrendous. Perhaps because of this, I focused more on little things that bothered me with the first book; endless questionable similes and a main hero who is a typical macho male, which is accurate enough for the period portrayed and amused me the first time around, but here set off against the background of these female victims was distasteful to me. Is that reverse sexism on my part? All the same, solid writing overall (except those similes—why?) and a crime story which places the reader firmly in the heart of Nazi Germany just before WWII. I'll be listening to the third book to see what trouble Bernie gets into next.
"Intrigue and Romance and a Good History Lesson"
My first Philippa Gregory, picked up partly because it was on sale here at Audible, and partly because I was interested in learning more about the mother of the Princes in the Tower and that particular period of British history, which especially came to my attention when I listened to Josephine Tey's The Daughter of Time (narrated by the fantastic Sir Derek Jacobi). Reading Tey's book, I was both impressed and frustrated. Impressed because Tey is such a great story-teller, but frustrated because at that point I knew little to nothing about the main characters involved in this political drama and I resolved to find out more about it so I could read it again eventually and feel I had a better grasp on the events and personalities described.
In that sense, this book has delivered the goods very well. Why go to a work of fiction rather than a no doubt more reliable work of non-fiction? Because I can retain facts much better when they are told to me as a story with interesting characters moved by complex motives. Gergory's work is obviously very well researched and she has a skill for writing compelling stories. Certainly she is never likely to win a literary prize, and I was slightly annoyed when certain details were repeated twice and three times. But otherwise the story of Elizabeth Woodville, who became Queen consort when she married King Edward IV for love—of all things, in an age when marriages were nothing more than political pacts (it was the cause célèbre at the time)—, is here very well told, and from her own perspective so that we get to hear how much influence the women likely had over these great men of power. The story begins in the 1460s, when she first meets the King and compels him to fall in love with her with a combination of charm, great beauty, brains, and if we are to believe the persistent rumours that have always surrounded her, witchcraft as well. She had two sons from a previous marriage to John Grey of Groby, who died fighting for the Lancastrians during the ongoing Wars of the Roses. Her own parents were also Lancastrians, so that while her alliance with a Yorkist King was certainly calculated to promote her and her children's welfare by aligning with the clan in power, it seems this ambitious woman truly loved King Edward and bore him 10 children, including Edward V of England, who was King of England for less than 4 months, and Richard, Duke of York, both Princes in the Tower who disappeared in suspicious circumstances when their uncle Richard III (King Edward IV's youngest brother) kept his nephews imprisoned in the Tower of London in his political machinations to take over the crown. Elizabeth Woodville's oldest daughter, Elizabeth of York, married King Henry VII, and King Henry VIII was one of three surviving children from that union, so that the heroine of this novel is the ancestor of every English monarch since Henry VIII and every Scottish monarch since James V of Scotland through her daughter Elizabeth. A really great read with plenty of political intrigue and romance as well as a good lesson in history. I checked many facts against wikipedia and found everything to be completely in order.
I only wish I'd checked the chronological order of the stories, as would have probably started the series with The Lady of the Rivers, which is third in publication order but tells the story of Elizabeth Woodville's mother, who sounds like a fascinating lady. Jacquetta of Luxembourg had a scandalous second marriage with a man far inferior in rank, Sir Richard Woodville, who served as her first husband, John of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Bedford's chamberlain. Believed to be a descendant of the river goddess Melusina, she also allegedly practiced witchcraft, the knowledge of which she passed on to her daughter. I'll probably be moving on to that one next.
"A Deep Intrigue and a Fun Romp"
I'd been hearing about what a wonderful experience it is to read Georgette Heyer's novels ever since I joined an online reading group several years ago. Perfectly researched with great period details, and a great comfort reading experience is mostly what I gleaned from the various comments and reviews I'd read. I must say I agree. As it happened, I was very much in the mood for something comforting and not too demanding either intellectually or emotionally on the day I picked this book up, as I had just moments before decided to abandon a very difficult novel, as I didn't see the point of continuing to emotionally torture myself in the name of literary proficiency. I already had another Heyer novel in the listening stacks, but that day I was determined to find both the storyline and the narrator that most appealed my momentary whims, which is how I came to choose Heyer's third among her Georgian and Regency novels. The book blurb on this site, short and to the point appealed to me, and from the first 11 minutes of the novel, available on the audio sample, I decided this would do the trick very well (though in retrospect, I don't know why Cornelius Garrett made the Duke sound like an old man, when he's only 40). As can be expected, there are beautiful and lavish details of costume, an interesting cast of characters with comical quirks, a deep intrigue, and plenty of romance (although Romance is usually a genre is steer clear from). No, this is not a work of great literary merit, but it's well written, has a great plot, and it's so much fun... who cares?
"Exotic and Entertaining"
In this historical novel set in 1836 Istanbul, a eunuch named Yashim is asked to investigate into several cases. There are four officers who have gone missing (one of which turns up dead in an oversized cauldron a short while later); the sultan's most recent concubine is murdered in her bed; and the sultan's mother's jewels have gone missing. In the case of the officers, Yashim finds clues that seem to point toward the Janissaries as being responsible for the abduction and it's aftermath. The Janissaries had had a powerful presence in Turkey until 1826, just a decade previous to the start of our story. An elite force created by Sultan Murad I in 1383, they formed the Ottoman Sultan's household troops and bodyguards, but Sultan Mahmud II found them to be an unruly and disruptive presence, and wanting to create a modern army to keep up with the Europeans, he disbanded and slaughtered the Janissaries. But it seems there were survivors after all, and Yashim needs to figure out what they are up to to stop more bodies from turning up dead. Aiding him in his search for clues are his colourful and somewhat eccentric friends, the Polish ambassador and a transsexual dancer. A complex plot and an entertaining mystery set in an exotic place which is undergoing a great transition from ancient traditional customs to European modernization. I would have liked to find out more about Yashim himself, but perhaps more is revealed about him in the following 3 novels.
Loved Stephen Hoye's narration.
"Gritty. Graphic. Gripping"
A gritty, noir thriller, and the first of what promises to be a gripping series. Bernie Gunther has left the police force and struck out on his own as a private investigator. What makes his work interesting is the time and place: Berlin, 1936 when the Nazis are in full power and preparing for the Summer Olympics. His services are more or less forcibly retained by a millionaire industrialist who has just lost his beloved daughter and her husband to a fire in their home. Both bodies are found in their bed, and the safe containing a priceless diamond necklace has been broken into. Was this a straightforward murder and burglary or is there more than first meets the eye? As Gunther investigates local jewelry vendors, he can't help but be horrified at how the Jews are being taken advantage of, with glaring anti-semitism at it's peak. Desperate to sell their valuables to get away from the repressive measures taken against them (most professions are banned to them, and everyone is quick to add "German" as a preface to their profession on their business cards to indicate they are of good Arian stock), they are forced to sell their belongings well below the market price. Trying to find out anything in this repressive system is bound to bring about all sorts of complications, and when Bernie's widowed secretary is too scared to return to work after being bullied by Nazi police officers, he's delighted to find a beautiful and single replacement for her in ex-journalist Ilse, but their romantic involvement is bound to render him that much more vulnerable. "March violets" was a term used for late-comers to the Nazi Party after the passage of Hitler's Enabling Act which rendered him a dictator on March 23, 1933. In May, the Nazi Party froze membership, and those with the lowest membership numbers were given preferential treatment, though everyone was eager to be seen as a Hitler supporter. Not so Bernie, who has Jewish clients and doesn't care for the views of a party he never chose to support, which is dangerous in and of itself because dissidents are daily being sent to concentration camps, where few are expected to survive the harsh conditions. I loved every bit of this private dick story set during a very dramatic period in history. Those who've enjoyed the more recent John Russell series by David Downing are bound to find this precursor highly satisfying. I'm very much looking forward to the next book!
"Who Is Jenna?"
Like most seventeen-year-olds, Jenna Fox is still trying to figure out who she is. Only she probably has more existential questions to deal with than most teenagers, because Jenna has just woken up from a year spent in a coma following a horrific car accident that nearly killed her, and she can't remember anything at all about her past or who she was. She has to rely on a bunch of videotapes recorded over the years by her parents to see for herself what she was like growing up, and she's not sure she can continue being the perfect and adored child she seemed to have been for the first 16 years of her life. Her grandmother Lilly seems to mistrust, even dislike her, though Jenna has no idea what she's done to deserve this cold reserve. Day by day, she begins to recover memories from her past, including some memories which she shouldn't have, such as when she was baptized when only a few months old. She's curious to know why they are now living in California when her and her parents had spent all their lives previous to a few weeks ago living in Boston, where her father is still working. Little by little, she recovers her memory, but still things don't seem to add up, and she isn't quite sure there is a connection between the Jenna before the accident, and the one who has woken up a year later. There's very little else I can say about this book without revealing a major spoiler.
A very well written story with an intriguing premise and and intelligent development which is suitable for young and old adults alike. It's a short novel to begin with, but I created lots of listening time and finished it in just two days because I was dying to know how things unfolded. Jenna Lamia, who narrates the audio version, is a great narrator and is convincing as a teenager with her girlish voice and the maturity she brings to the reading of a complex character. This is book is part 1 of a trilogy, but it's great as a stand-alone too. Definitely recommended.
"Both Harrowing and Compelling"
This is another harrowing story by Lyndsay Faye, the follow-up to The Gods of Gotham, which had one of the first New York City "Copper Stars" Timothy Wilde chasing after a ring of child murderers during a wave of Irish immigrants escaping the great potato famine. Faye certainly knows how to write a compelling story and this novel takes place just six month later, in 1846, in and around the same neighbourhood of NYC formerly known as Five Points, notorious for it's squalid conditions*. This time a beautiful young woman charges into Timothy's police station to declare that he family has just been abducted. It turns out the young woman in question is born from a white father and black slave mother, and the plot centres around the "blackbirders", Southerners who snatch free black people from the North and, claiming they are escaped slaves, deliver them to plantation masters for a large fee. This is presumably what happened to Solomon Northup, who later went on to write Twelve Years a Slave, though I've yet to read that book (currently sitting on the massive TBR) . Our good Timothy is of course an abolitionist at heart, and does all he can to find and release Lucy Adams' little son and her sister, but in the process gets tangled in a messy and dangerous political quagmire, not least because the practice of returning escaped slaves to their owners is what the law of the time is designed to enforce. With the best of intentions, he is horrified when he comes to realize that by his very actions which were aimed at protecting those coloured people he'd taken under his wing, he managed to lead them all instead into an awful tragedy. Timothy's older brother Valentine has a large role to play here, as he did in the first book. Heavily involved with the Democratic party, Valentine has pull and is the one who got Timothy a job in 1845 with the newly founded New York police force, when Timothy had lost everything to the fire which burned out a large part of the city, Timothy's workplace and home and savings, and also part of his face. Where Timothy is essentially a good guy with high moral standards, his older brother is completely dissolute; a morphine addict who sleeps around with prostitutes and anyone he takes a fancy to, including men—at a time when such sexual practices were punishable by death; but all this of course makes him a very intriguing character, not least of all because he also happens to be a brawler and a volunteer firefighter, when both brothers have lost their parents to a terrible fire.
I believe we're in for another instalment sometime in future. I was a bit shocked just now when I googled to see if I could find any info on the next book, that several reviews panned the first book unmercifully, including at Bookslut, whose reviewer was of the opinion that it should never have been written in the first place. Along with the Edgar Award committee (The Gods of Gotham was an Edgar Award Nominee in 2013), I obviously don't agree with Sam Ashworth ("Lyndsay Faye's mistake is that she has staged a generic episode of Law and Order: SVU in a setting that demands far more authorial spine and ambition than she is willing to commit."), and where he finds Faye spilled too much of her research onto the page with little discernment, I find on the contrary that the historical details ring true and add much to the story, and especially enjoy her inclusion of quotes and passages from news articles and publications of that period pertaining to abolitionism and the treatment of slaves, as she did in the first book, which focused on the Irish immigrants who were reviled by locals at the time, all of which adds a factual historical dimension to her narrative. But beyond all that, for my money, she writes the kind of compelling story that I just want to keep reading with as few interruptions as possible.
Steven Boyer does a great job with narration.
* Charles Dickens described Five Points in 1842 in his book American Notes for General Circulation:
"What place is this, to which the squalid street conducts us? A kind of square of leprous houses, some of which are attainable only by crazy wooden stairs without. What lies behind this tottering flight of steps? Let us go on again, and plunge into the Five Points."
"This is the place; these narrow ways diverging to the right and left, and reeking everywhere with dirt and filth. Such lives as are led here, bear the same fruit as elsewhere. The coarse and bloated faces at the doors have counterparts at home and all the world over."
"Debauchery has made the very houses prematurely old. See how the rotten beams are tumbling down, and how the patched and broken windows seem to scowl dimly, like eyes that have been hurt in drunken forays. Many of these pigs live here. Do they ever wonder why their masters walk upright instead of going on all fours, and why they talk instead of grunting?" (From Wikipedia)
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The investment will help Mobius release its initial production model, Mobius II, into the Kenyan market and establish its brand as a high quality carmaker building vehicles specifically designed for Africa's mass market.
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Alice G. Walton, Contributor
I cover health, medicine, psychology and neuroscience.
This is the first of a two-part series on yoga: the second, "The Psychology of Yoga," looks at the psychological changes that yoga has been shown to bring about.
Judging from the number of yoga mats I've seen toted around Manhattan in the last 15 years, I'm pretty sure I was the last person on the island to try it. My relationship with the practice started about six months ago, and I must admit, I fell for it – and hard. I was amazed at the changes it was effecting in my body, and even better, my mind. But the science nerd/Western medicine part of me wondered how, exactly, it was doing this. I could wager some guesses based on what I know about the body, but wanted to talk to some people who actually study this stuff for a living.
Stephen Cope is a therapist and director of the Institute for Extraordinary Living at the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health in Massachusetts. He heads a program at the Center entitled "Yoga and the Brain," in which researchers are studying yoga's effect on the brain with MRI and other clever techniques. Cope explains that yoga brings about measurable changes in the body's sympathetic nervous system – the one charged with propelling us into action during the "fight or flight" response to stress. However, because our lives today include business emails at 10 o'clock at night and loud cell conversations at the next table, our stress response often lingers in the "on" position at times it shouldn't. Yoga helps dampen the body's stress response by reducing levels of the hormone cortisol, which not only fuels our split-second stress reactions, but it can wreak havoc on the body when one is chronically stressed. So reducing the body's cortisol level is generally considered a good thing.
Yoga also boosts levels of the feel-good brain chemicals like GABA, serotonin, and dopamine, which are responsible for feelings of relaxation and contentedness, and the way the brain processes rewards. All three neurotransmitters are the targets of various mood medications like antidepressants (e.g., SSRIs) and anxiolytic (anti-anxiety) drugs. The fact that yoga is linked to improved levels of these coveted chemicals is nothing to sneeze at.
Yoga has another bonus, says Sarah Dolgonos, MD, who has taught at the Yoga Society of New York's Ananda Ashram. She points out that in addition to suppressing the stress response, yoga actually stimulates the parasympathetic nervous system, which calms us down and restores balance after a major stressor is over. When the parasympathetic nervous system switches on, "blood is directed toward endocrine glands, digestive organs, and lymphatic circulation, while the heart rate and blood pressure are lowered," says Dolgonos. With the parasympathetic nervous system in gear, "our bodies can better extract nutrients from the food we eat, and more effectively eliminate toxins because circulation is enhanced. With parasympathetic activation, the body enters into a state of restoration and healing."
There is also consensus that yoga boosts immune function, says Dolgonos. This benefit is probably due to the reduction of cortisol, mentioned earlier: too much of the pesky hormone can dampen the effectiveness of the immune system "by immobilizing certain white blood cells." Reducing circulating cortisol "removes a barrier to effective immune function," so yoga could help prevent illness by boosting immunity.
So let's zoom in on yoga's effects on the body even more (bear with me, this is really interesting). Researchers have discovered that yoga improves health in part by reducing a major adversary of the body: inflammation. Chronic inflammation, even low grade, is responsible for a litany of health problems from heart disease to diabetes to depression.
Paula R. Pullen, PhD, Research Instructor at the Morehouse School of Medicine, studies yoga's effects on inflammation by looking at what's happening in the bodies of heart failure patients who enroll in yoga classes. She has shown that after being randomly assigned to yoga or to standard medical care, patients taking yoga have significantly improved levels of biomarkers like C-reactive protein (CRP) and interleukin-6 (IL-6). If your eyes just glazed over, these findings are quite remarkable because they illustrate that yoga can actually affect the tiniest molecules, the ones that are widely known to predict risk for serious disease. Pullen underlines that reducing the body's level of inflammation is incredibly important from a preventative standpoint. And yoga can help with this. "Yoga balances the body, the hormonal system, and the stress response. People tend to think of yoga as being all about flexibility – it's not. It's about rebalancing and healing the body."
Though it's been around for thousands of years, Western science is just beginning to understand how yoga exerts its effects. It will certainly be interesting to follow the research as it continues to reveal just what yoga is doing in the body and brain. Stay tuned for Part II of the yoga series!
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thanks for the article! can you tell me what resources/studies you used?
Interesting write-up, Alice. I shall be awaiting the next installment. However, a few points. You have quoted Stephen Cope and Sarah Delgonos. I am sure they are admirable individuals, but I am not sure I am prepared to accept "Argumentum ad verecundiam" as proof for the benefits of Yoga. Would you mind providing some scientific evidentiary support for these assertions?
One of the authors you mentions, Paula Pullen, has exactly two papers on the presumptive health benefits of Yoga in rather obscure journals. In both, Yoga Therapy (that is, standard medical therapy coupled with Yoga) has been compared with standard medical therapy alone, and has been shown to improve certain biomarkers, in a rather small sample size. I have to wonder why there wasn't a third group which looked at standard exercise regimens (stretching, strength and weight training, etc.) as a control group. The results, while interesting, say nothing about the superiority of Yoga over, say, ordinary exercise in these patients.
Only thing that perhaps shows up is that Americans, in general, are infatuated with the Eastern mysticism that Yoga represents. That is not necessarily a bad thing, though – if it gets people to work out their bodies. But as a science writer, you should perhaps not overstate the benefits of any regimen without adequate evidence.
Absolutely right. But Kaushik, why don't you try it? Try 3 months of normal exercise, and then 3 months of yoga.
Great that you find benefits but this is an amazingly narrow view of what yoga benefits are.
The second problem is looking upon benefits as specific and different. It's lie saying a car has a suspension, an engine, 4 wheels. While true, it's not what a car is. A car gets you from point A to B.
As long as you keep looking at trees you'll miss the forest. Go to India where Yoga originated and talk to the gurus. Then you'll know….even if the scientist in you doesn't!
Great that you find benefits but this is an amazingly narrow view of what yoga benefits are.
The second problem is looking upon benefits as specific and different. It's like saying a car has a suspension, an engine, 4 wheels. While true, it's not what a car is. A car gets you from point A to B.
As long as you keep looking at trees you'll miss the forest. Go to India where Yoga originated and talk to the gurus. Then you'll know….even if the scientist in you doesn't.
Hi Alice, Quite interesting article, supported by some scientific research. I am from India, and indeed Yoga is a very ancient science. I would suggest you check out Bharat Thakur's videos on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/user/bharatthakuryoga?feature=watch, it gives a new insight to the dimensions of yoga…
Looking forward to Part II of this article.
cheers :)
Yoga is about the breath, and a seated breathing practice would bring about the same results of activating the PNS as well as reducing systemic inflammation.
Will you be also looking into the benefits to the body especially for the elderly by practicing Tai-Chi?
The word Yoga means connection or union with the whole, much as the word Religion does (Re-ligare) does. Postures can be conducive to that happening, but they are not a prerequisite.
Love your work and hope this link will help in the ongoing research www.beyondthemind.com
Although this study was done with yoga, I suspect that the results might be similar with other Eastern exercise forms such as Tai Chi or Chigong. What about walking or other forms of exercise? It is well known that almost any form of exercise can have similar effects. It might be interesting to look into that as part of this series.
The yoga postures are only one aspect of the yoga practice. The Yoga Sutras, also known as, "The Eight Limbs (ashtanga) of Raja (King) Yoga," were the first fully developed recorded yoga system. They are as follows:
The first limb is Yama | Self-Restraint
The second limb helps refine your spiritual path. It is like a self-study course that helps develop your relationship with yourself.
The third limb are the Asanas | Seat or Posture
The fourth limb is Pranayama | Control of Breath
The fifth limb is Pratyahara | Sense Withdrawal
The sixth limb is Dharana | One Pointed Concentration
The seventh limb is Dhyana | Meditation
The eight limb is Samadhi | Total Absorption
Deep knowledge. Great to see people like yoga & other techniques. This will definitely help in the long run.


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Do you like Susan Bates needles? If you like them on Facebook you could win a knit or crochet-themed prize package during the Power of Pink giveaway.
Two of their fans will be selected to win one of the prize packs — valued at $90 — on August 29 (my birthday, not that anyone cares). The knitting pack includes four balls of Luster Sheen yarn, four balls of Baby Sheen yarn, Thread Crochet for Today book, Silvalume knitting needles, yarn needles, a heart shaped cutter pendant, point protectors and a knit count, all in a Red Heart tote bag.
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The Lassiter High School and Walton High School swimming teams both finished in the Top 10 in the Georgia High School Association Class AAAAAA swimming meet Saturday at Georgia Tech.
The Trojans boys and girls each turned in 3rd-place showings, while the Raiders boys and girls both came in eighth place.
The 211 points by Lassiter trailed 234 for defending state champion Parkview and the 226 by Chattahoochee.
Lassiter senior Jimmy Yoder ended his illustrious high school career with four state titles, as the The Marietta Daily Journal details today, and Zach Bunner had two.
The Walton boys tallied 123 points while Wheeler had 11, good enough for 29th place out of the 34 teams participating.
On the girls side, Lambert and Peachtree Ridge finished first and second, with Lassiter earning 197 points. Walton had 127 points and Wheeler 24 for a 20th-place finish.
More here from the MDJ, which also has details of the Pope girls finishing sevent in the Class A-AAAAA meet. The Greyhounds boys were 22nd. The Kell girls were 22nd overall.
Here are the following state champion swimmers from East Cobb and Northeast Cobb Schools:
- Boys 200 Freestyle: Jimmy Yoder, Lassiter, 1:37.49
- Boys 200 Individual Medley: Zach Bunner, Lassiter, 1:50.51
- Girls 200 Individual Medley: Kira De Bruyn, Walton, 2:04.22
- Boys 100 Butterfly: Jimmy Yoder, Lassiter, 48.16 (State Record)
- Boys 200 Freestyle Relay: Lassiter (Daniel Bridgers, Zach Marshall, Zach Bunner, Jimmy Yoder), 1:.24.87
- Boys 100 Backstroke: Zach Bunner, Lassiter, 49.40
- Boys 400 Freestyle Relay, Lassiter (Daniel Bridgers, Zach Marshall, Zach Bunner, Jimmy Yoder), 3:06.12 (State Record)
Source: Georgia High School Association


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Valparaiso (22-19, 7-6 Horizon)
Detroit (4-36, 1-12 Horizon)
4/20/2013 | Detroit, Mich. | Attendance: 0
Valparaiso (22-20, 7-7 Horizon)
Detroit (5-36, 2-12 Horizon)
4/20/2013 | Detroit, Mich. | Attendance: 77
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Saturday, April 20, 2013
The Valparaiso softball team broke out its bats in game one of a Horizon League doubleheader at Detroit on Saturday, hitting two grand slams as part of a four-homer performance in a 12-1 victory. The Titans turned the tables on the Crusaders in the nightcap, taking the day's second game by a 9-0 score.
Valpo got on the board immediately in the opener. The Crusaders had just one hit in the top of the first, but it came in the form of a two-out grand slam from freshman Janelle Bouchard (Kennebunk, Maine/Kennebunk) after a trio of free passes had loaded the bases. The Titans cut one run off the deficit in their half of the first on a solo homer from Alyssa Schaub.
Neither team would score in the next two innings, but Valpo found single runs in both the fourth and fifth frames to push the lead to 6-1. Senior Tori Brown (Harrison, Ohio/Harrison) reached base on a double to the wall in right field in the fourth inning, eventually scoring on an RBI base knock from junior Amanda Wisniewski (Skokie, Ill./Huntley). Then in the fifth, after the first two Crusader batters were retired in order, redshirt junior Jessie Marinec (Alsip, Ill./Marist) stepped up and smacked a line-drive round-tripper over the fence just right of center field to make it a five-run game.
The Crusaders then put a crooked number on the board in the sixth to secure the run rule shortened victory. An error, a single and a walk loaded the bases for Valpo with one out, and Marinec worked a five-pitch walk to drive in the first run of the inning. Junior Amanda Korb (Indianapolis, Ind./Lutheran), who earlier in the game had pinch-hit and picked up her first career hit, stepped up to the plate with the bases still loaded and drove an 0-1 offering over the fence in right-center field for Valpo's second grand slam of the day. Bouchard followed by putting the proverbial cherry on top, capping the scoring by making it back-to-back homers with her second four-bagger of the day.
Freshman Taylor Weissenhofer (Homer Glen, Ill./Lockport Township) improved to 11-9 with the winning effort in the circle for the Crusaders, going the distance and giving up just three hits and one walk while striking out eight. Kat Hoffman started and took the loss for Detroit, falling to 2-15 after tossing the first five frames. Korb and Bouchard combined to reach in all six of their plate appearances, going 5-for-5 with three runs scored and nine RBIs.
The nightcap was not nearly as kind to the Crusaders, as Valpo had just three baserunners on the game. Meanwhile, Detroit scored two in the first, one in the second and six in the third for the win. Julia Maksym earned the win for Detroit (5-36, 2-12 Horizon) with a complete-game shutout, making her 1-13 on the year, while freshman Sierra Pico (North Las Vegas, Nev./Legacy) took the loss for the Crusaders to fall to 8-7, going 2+ innings and giving up five runs. Marinec made her first career appearance in the circle for Valpo in the fourth inning of the loss, entering with one on and none out and inducing a line-drive double play and a strikeout to end the frame.
Valparaiso (22-20, 7-7 Horizon) closes out the series with the Titans at noon CT on Sunday.
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