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Hi Mike:When your 3pt shot ain't falling take it inside. Aldridge was a monster last night.I only got to watch half of the game and tried to listen to the second half on the radio, but to no avail.So I thank you for the update.
This one only gets one clothes pin. What record to set. Where was Freeland? We could have used him last night.
Strange game. 0-20. We were simply the best of the worst last night.We are now 4th worst record in the west. Tied with the Lakers.When Batum and Wes return should pump some life back into us.
Disagree divotking...I saw more fire from Pavlovic than Batum ever shows. I think Batum is over rated.I am wondering why Leonard didn't get more time in the game. I loved his slam dunks. He got three in very short order and then we never saw him in the game again. What's that about.LA was amazing last night. Did he shoot 100% from the free throw line? Aggressive, points in the paint and on the line. Fun to watch!Still think DLill needs to watch some BRoy tapes and figure out how to draw the foul and not lose the ball. I know he is capable and will figure this out. Hopefully sooner rather than later. He looked really tired last night. He takes a pounding under the hoop.
I think it's clear that the Blazers are going to lose a lot games this season, but it was nice to see that they were up to the task of beating a bad team, tired from a long road trip when both opponents were missing a couple of key players. Who would have thought that we could win with Lilliard having another bad night, with Wes and Nic on the bench, and with no one on the entire roster able to hit a three-pointer? And I think we learned a few things that may help down the road. We learned that Sasha is solid, that Victor looks comfortable out there, and that it's a little too early to write off Nolan. We also got a bit more insight into Terry Stotts' coaching style. He's either very keen on making decisions based on match-ups, or else he thinks the best way to sort out confusion is by making a decision before the game that certain guys are out of the rotation. We're short a starting guard, but Ronnie Price doesn't play. It seems that that was because the Raptors have big guards, and was a match-up decision. J.J. plays only 23 minutes, LaMarcus gets a same 39 but Joel never gets a minute, while the spare minutes for the big men get split between Meyers and Jared and Luke. That one looks more like a "too many cooks...." decision, probably made for the same reason Sasha started, a desire to have some veterans out there to keep all the rookies and second-year guys on track. I'd question the decision, because there was a stretch where the offense was bogging down and Jared was left to try to make a play in positions where Joel actually has more game, but it all worked out so we'll let it slide. Damian also needs to work on seeing the court better when he's driving; his urge to take it to the paint on a night when the jumper was missing had him smothered in a crowd of defenders too many times. Let's face it; it looked like a D-league game out there when LA was on the bench. But I'm happy to see the bench guys get the playing time they need for improvement. I'd even pull a Popovich against San Antonio, and rest a few starters besides the two who are most banged up. Lilliard turned his ankle, and LaMarcus has played too many minutes this season. Why not just admit that we're very unlikely to win the game and use it to teach the young guys some valuable lessons about competing against good teams?
@Maclaine;Very interesting take on the game plan last night.DLill will get better at dishing in traffic. I like the idea "pulling a Pop". Interesting food for thought.
@allie oop: Leonard plays very poor defense and doesn't rebound.
The recent events in the Portland area make something like a basketball game seem somewhat insignificant. Things we take for granted like our safety, our loved ones and our community are put into perspective. As a community, the grieving process will take many different forms. One of which is getting back to doing the things that make us a community. Working, helping one another and enjoying life.Go Portland Trailblazers.
Ancientone;Leonard's defense has been questionable. With his size he is not a big shot blocker. Young raw talent usually are able to bring their shot blocking skills to the NBA.He doesn't have the natural "nose for the ball" when rebounding. Is often caught out of position.He has been called a late bloomer in his college ball.My question is- do you see him developing those skills? At least to the level equal to his physical gifts.
finally, we did what we were supposed to do; beat a bad team by a lot of points on our home floor. i think it all starts there. this is how we build wins and confidence. it's not going to come right away, but it is important to show improvement along the way.LaMarcus was great, and Sasha, JJ and Nolan really stepped up (who hasn't been waiting to see Smitty have a game like this?). particularly, i think Sasha was huge for us. while Will can be exciting (and Elliot when healthy), it's comforting to know we have a veteran who can step in and help us get the job done when we need him to. he's definitely been a bright spot for us several times over the course of the season. aside from shooting the ball, Victor did everything else we needed him to do. no complaints there.much has been and continues to be said about the 0-20 shooting from the three-point line. you know something; i don't care as long as we're getting to the basket and to the line -- and winning by nearly a score of points. ultimately, the most important stat is the final score. the guys took care of business monday night.i know some of you are talking about Meyers. i think he's coming along. he's not nearly the defensive or rebounding liability which some think he is. let's face it, our defense as a team just plain sucks (sans vs. the Raptors). Meyers may not block every shot, but he changes a lot of them. when it comes to rebounding, he really needs to adapt to the nba style of the play down low. he needs to learn how to better anticipate the ball's bounce. i remember what Marcus Camby said after a couple of his monster rebounding games. he said he was able to anticipate the ball. now, i'm not a professional basketball player and i'm over two feet shorter than Meyers, but i wonder how much of that can be taught and how much is natural instinct.Divotking, i know your question was aimed at Ancientone, but in my opinion, Meyers can develop many of those skills. i remain confident he can and will.like most of you, i spent quite a bit of time wondering where Joel was. i really hope Stotts isn't working up guys' confidence just to turn around and bench them so they lose it. Joel could have definitely helped us.anyway, i'm in finals week, but i'll be watching tomorrow night's game; as always, looking for a win and some improvement from this team.~ KMM
I was doing a countdown on that NBA record of 0-20 on our game day thread at RealGM: http://forums.realgm.com/boards/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=1219130If you go to page 4, I start it when the Blazers were at 0-13. You'll even see me inquire about what the record was when the Blazers were at 0-18 as at that point I knew our team would either set a record or be close to it. Good thing we won or many of us including me would have been bitter about it.
Kass;I share your confidence in Meyers. He's green. Raw. Great attitude. He continues to work, thrown into the fire at the right times, his competitive spirit will bring him along. A little Bill Bayno wouldn't hurt. ( there I go again)A big man that can shoot free throws as well as him can earn a living in this league.
Divotking & Kassandra: I think that he has the ability and the intelligence to develope into a great center. However he needs to have a lot of instruction and experience and that is why I think he needs to spend some time in the D league now to get the experience he didn't get in college.
It's official. Forget the ballot. Forget the voting. We have two allstars in this town. The real deal DLill.All around team effort. JJ was all over the place. LMA doing his thing. Sasha hoisted one bad shot. Solid performance. Big shot Batum. Career high 9 assists. Blocking shots. One big block down the stretch against his frenchy friend. Contributions from others not mentioned. Good win.Please send a letter to Splitter for flopping.Pop wanted this one.
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Co-starring: Yam Kim-fai, Law Yim-hing
1961 / B&W / D Beta / Cantonese / 113min
Who says Yam Bing-yee can only play the maid? In The Golden Cat, a genre blender mixing martial arts with Cantonese opera, she is an agile fighting woman, giving proof to her versatility. Yam makes her grand entry in the film with a rooftop practice, followed by several choreographed skirmishes with the Golden Cat of the title, putting the acrobatic skills she honed from opera performances on glorious display.
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Euler line
In geometry, the Euler line, named after Leonhard Euler (US /ˈɔɪlər/, OY-lər or UK /ˈɔɪlə/, OY-lə), is a line determined from any triangle that is not equilateral. It passes through several important points determined from the triangle, including the orthocenter, the circumcenter, the centroid, the Exeter point and the center of the nine-point circle of the triangle.[1]
Triangle centers[edit]
Euler showed in 1765 that in any triangle, the orthocenter, circumcenter and centroid are collinear.[2] This property is also true for another triangle center, the nine-point center, although it had not been defined in Euler's time. In equilateral triangles, these four points coincide, but in any other triangle they are all distinct from each other, and the Euler line is determined by any two of them.
Other notable points that lie on the Euler line include the de Longchamps point, the Schiffler point, and the Exeter point.[1] However, the incenter generally does not lie on the Euler line;[3] it is on the Euler line only for isosceles triangles, for which the Euler line coincides with the symmetry axis of the triangle and contains all triangle centers.
Let A, B, C denote the vertex angles of the reference triangle, and let x : y : z be a variable point in trilinear coordinates; then an equation for the Euler line is
Parametric representation[edit]
Another way to represent the Euler line is in terms of a parameter t. Starting with the circumcenter (with trilinear coordinates ) and the orthocenter (with trilinears , every point on the Euler line, except the orthocenter, is given by the trilinear coordinates
formed as a linear combination of the trilinears of these two points, for some t.
For example:
- The centroid has trilinears , corresponding to the parameter value .
- The nine-point center has trilinears , corresponding to the parameter value .
- The De Longchamps point has trilinears , corresponding to the parameter value .
In a Cartesian coordinate system, denote the slopes of the sides of a triangle as and and denote the slope of its Euler line as . Then these slopes are related according to[4]:Lemma 1
Thus the slope of the Euler line (if finite) is expressible in terms of the slopes of the sides as
Moreover, the Euler line is parallel to an acute triangle's side BC if and only if[4]:p.173
Lengths of segments[edit]
On the Euler line the centroid G is between the circumcenter O and the orthocenter H and is twice as far from the orthocenter as it is from the circumcenter:[5]:p.102
The center of the nine-point circle lies along the Euler line midway between the orthocenter and the circumcenter.[1] Thus the Euler line could be repositioned on a number line with the circumcenter O at the location 0, the centroid G at 2t, the nine-point center at 3t, and the orthocenter H at 6t for some scale factor t.
Furthermore, the squared distance between the centroid and the circumcenter along the Euler line is less than the squared circumradius R2 by an amount equal to one-ninth the sum of the squares of the side lengths a, b, and c:[5]:p.71
Right triangle[edit]
In a right triangle, the Euler line contains the median on the hypotenuse—that is, it goes through both the right-angled vertex and the midpoint of the side opposite that vertex. This is because the right triangle's orthocenter, the intersection of its altitudes, falls on the right-angled vertex while its circumcenter, the intersection of its perpendicular bisectors of sides, falls on the midpoint of the hypotenuse.
See also[edit]
- ^ a b c Kimberling, Clark (1998). "Triangle centers and central triangles". Congressus Numerantium 129: i–xxv, 1–295.
- ^ Euler, Leonhard (1767). "Solutio facilis problematum quorundam geometricorum difficillimorum" [Easy solution of some difficult geometric problems]. Novi Commentarii academiae scientarum imperialis Petropolitanae 11: 103–123. E325. Reprinted in Opera Omnia, ser. I, vol. XXVI, pp. 139–157, Societas Scientiarum Naturalium Helveticae, Lausanne, 1953, MR 0061061. Summarized at: Dartmouth University.
- ^ Schattschneider, Doris; King, James (1997). Geometry Turned On: Dynamic Software in Learning, Teaching, and Research. The Mathematical Association of America. pp. 3–4. ISBN 978-0883850992.
- ^ a b Wladimir G. Boskoff, Laurent¸iu Homentcovschi, and Bogdan D. Suceava, "Gossard's Perspector and Projective Consequences", Forum Geometricorum, Volume 13 (2013), 169–184. [1]
- ^ a b Altshiller-Court, Nathan, College Geometry, Dover Publications, 2007 (orig. Barnes & Noble 1952).
External links[edit]
- Altitudes and the Euler Line and Euler Line and 9-Point Circle at cut-the-knot
- Triangle centers on the Euler line, by Clark Kimberling.
- An interactive applet showing several triangle centers that lies on the Euler line.
- Weisstein, Eric W., "Euler Line", MathWorld.
- "Euler Line" and "Non-Euclidean Triangle Continuum" at the Wolfram Demonstrations Project
- Nine-point conic and Euler line generalization and A further Euler line generalization at Dynamic Geometry Sketches


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... Ray Chan firstname.lastname@example.com Political uncertainty increases caution among investors, but listing candidates are still arriving IPO fundraisers arrive in HK despite civil strife Three listing hopefuls, including Hua Hong Semiconductor, the mainland's first custom chipmaker, have launched their fundraising plans and are looking to raise a total of more than HK$3 billion ...http://www.scmp.com/business/money/markets-investing/article/1604912/ipo-fundraisers-arrive-hong-kong-despite-civil
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ELL shares slip early, IPO prospectus warns of "significant decline" in profits
Posted Sep 29th 2014, 10:56am by Toh Han Shih and Sandy Li
... Toh Han Shih and Sandy Li ELL sheds some IPO gains on profit alert ELL Environmental shares slid over 7 per cent at the close yesterday after it warned of a "significant decline" in profits this year. The mainland waste water treatment firm ended 7.45 per cent down at 87 HK cents, just above its session low of 86 HK cents. It listed on the main board of the Hong Kong stock ...http://www.scmp.com/business/companies/article/1603807/stock-debutant-ell-environmental-issues-profit-warning
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Underwriting banks rake in US$300m windfall on fees for Alibaba IPO
Posted Sep 22nd 2014, 10:11am by Reuters, Bloomberg
... Reuters and Bloomberg Banks rake in US$300m windfall on Alibaba IPO Alibaba's initial public offering in New York now officially ranks as the world's biggest at US$25 billion, ... in commissions. Selling shareholders are set to pay another US$178.6 million, according to a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission. Overwhelming demand saw the IPO initially raise US$21.8 ...http://www.scmp.com/business/companies/article/1597852/alibaba-issues-more-shares-raise-ipo-size-us25b-report-says
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Alibaba's mega IPO signals rise of China's new wave of tech giants
Posted Sep 22nd 2014, 08:18am by Wang Xiangwei
... Wang Xiangwei Monumental IPO underscores sector's vital role in creating jobs and economic growth Alibaba paves way for rise of tech firms As Alibaba, China's e-commerce giant, ... dollar millionaires. But wealth creation is only one of many far-reaching implications of the Alibaba IPO as foreign investors bet on the company as the latest vehicle to tap China's ...http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1597626/alibabas-mega-ipo-signals-rise-chinas-new-wave-tech-giants
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Weibo: Alibaba IPO, iPhone 6 draw praise, comparisons
Posted Sep 22nd 2014, 04:23pm by Doug Young
... Doug Young Two major news events were at the center of the microblogging realm this past week, as tech executives from across the spectrum commented on the blockbuster IPO for Alibaba (NYSE: BABA) and the debut of latest iPhone from Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL). Executives were generally full of praise for the Alibaba IPO, which shattered numerous records when the stock began trading ...http://www.scmp.com/business/companies/article/1598017/weibo-alibaba-ipo-iphone-6-draw-praise-comparisons
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What's this site all about?
A variety of things, but it's best described as a niche
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Aside from resources focused towards coding we have a handful of
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All the content which is part of the site, be that code or documents, are original and written specifically for the website in an attempt to share some of the better material I've created rather than just hoarding it all on one a machine and letting it gather dust.
What does the future hold?
A redesign
a big upgrade
and some serious content review.
Well as you can see the redesign's done. It's not exactly the worlds greatest piece of eye candy (or shiny if you will), but it's now a lot easier to use than the old version ever was. There's even a nice, easy to find, sidebar with lots of helpful options available should you get lost or just want to have a look around at our other offerings.
The 'bot tracking code was seriously overhauled & then tweaked to stop it flagging so many false positives, most of which were just browsers behaving oddly. Still testing it as we speak but the results so far look very positive - it's well on its way to becoming an autonomous 'bot tracking system - which is nice. As part of the overhaul the back-end database was changed to a more reliable format so we have as many problems - we're also testing a few really nice XML-based feeds created with this data so we can let other sites pick up the feed.
Finally this site is all about content and despite my best efforts some of it has gotten a little stale, while some of it causes me no end of problems when it comes to end-user support and ongoing maintenance. It's not all doom and gloom - at least a few of the topics will benefit from the review and come out better than before, for instance several of the coding projects were unfinished beta and through using them I've learnt where the biggest problems with them lie. Equally there are a number of guides that were written at a certain point in time for which a minor rewrite would do wonders.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Concerned of a ripple effect across the entire U.S. solar energy industry, Rhone Resch, president and CEO of the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA), has warned SEIA's membership that the worsening solar dispute between the United States and China threatens the future progress of solar energy in America:
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SEIA is the solar energy industry's go-to source for the latest coverage on solar power, including U.S. and international policy, research and polls, business and financing trends, and more. Our staff strives to support the media covering solar energy issues and guide our members on effective media outreach with clear statements, background materials, news and multimedia resources.
SEIA is committed to informing policymakers, the media, and the American public about the benefits of solar energy for today's communities, our economy, and our country.
Learn more from our statements and industry news below.
SEIA Applauds White House Selection to Head CEQ
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Reacting to news that Mike Boots has been selected to become acting chairman of the White House Council on Environmental Quality, Rhone Resch, president and CEO of the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA), issued the following statement:
PSE&G Looks to Former Landfill in Bordentown for Solar Field
A former dump once littered with piles of trash could become home to rows of solar panels if PSE&G wins approval for the project. The public utility company is seeking preliminary and final site plan approval for a 9 megawatt solar array at the shuttered Parklands Landfill on Route 206.
Easton, Redding and Trumbull First Selectmen Share Solar Stories
We're not only first selectmen, we're also homeowners. Electricity is a large chunk of our families' budgets, and rates are only going up. The people in our towns deserve to hold on to their hard-earned money, which is why we helped our towns collaborate on Solarize Easton-Redding-Trumbull. This limited-time program helps homeowners insulate themselves from rising energy costs and lower their electric bills through solar.
The Real Super Bowl Battle Has Already Been Won
This Sunday, the Seattle Seahawks will face off against the Denver Broncos for the ultimate Super Bowl XLVIII showdown. But the real battle for this year's bowl has already been won, and it has nothing to do with touchdowns.
U.S. Solar Energy Jobs Increase by More Than 13 Percent
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Solar Energy Industries Association® (SEIA®) today highlighted initial findings from The Solar Foundation's (TSF) third annual National Solar Jobs Census showing that solar energy jobs have experienced strong growth in the U.S. over the past year, despite global economic challenges. The full National Solar Jobs Census 2012, with analysis of employment trends across the entire solar industry is scheduled for release on Nov. 14, 2012 by TSF, a nonprofit research institution located in Washington, D.C.
SEIA Statement on Dept. of Interior's Solar PEIS Decision
WASHINGTON, DC and SACRAMENTO, CA – Rhone Resch, president and CEO of the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA), and Shannon Eddy, executive director of the Large-scale Solar Association (LSA), released the following statement today in response to the Department of the Interior's record of decision on the Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) for Solar Energy Development on Public Lands:
SEIA Statement on U.S. Dept. of Commerce Final AD/CVD Determinations
WASHINGTON, DC – Rhone Resch, president and CEO of the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA), today commented on the U.S. Department of Commerce's antidumping and countervailing duty determinations in the final phase investigation of solar products from China:
"As the end of these investigations near, it's not too soon to take stock of what has been achieved, consider whether opportunities were missed, and, most importantly, start thinking about how to move forward.
SEIA and Business Council for Sustainable Energy Announce New Partnership
WASHINGTON – The Solar Energy Industries Association® (SEIA®), the national trade association for the U.S. solar industry, and the Business Council for Sustainable Energy (BCSE), a coalition of companies and trade associations from the energy efficiency, natural gas and renewable energy sectors, today announced a partnership to help grow solar energy markets across the country.
U.S. and Korean Solar Energy Associations Announce New Cooperation to Promote Greater Use of Solar Energy
WASHINGTON, D.C. and SEOUL – The Korea Photovoltaic Industry Association (KOPIA) and the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) (U.S.) today announced their formal partnership in an effort to strengthen the solar energy industries of both countries and boost the competitiveness of solar energy globally.
Milwaukee Brewing Company uses solar power in brewing process
One brewer at this weekend's 4th annual Brewfest in Milwaukee stands out for its greenness.
Jim McCabe uses 28 rooftop solar panels in the brewing process at his Milwaukee Brewing Company. A sign outside his place in the city's Third Ward says "Milwaukee's 1st Solar Brewery."
Our opinion: A bright future with solar
When Winstanley Enterprises came to the Brattleboro Selectboard with a proposal to build a two-megawatt solar farm along Interstate 91, just north of the West River, we were excited about the idea of a renewable energy project that could generate enough power to provide electricity to about 400 homes, while also offsetting more than 123 million pounds of carbon dioxide emissions over the next 20 years.
Rhone Resch: A Necessary Plan for Climate Action
Like thick smog hanging stubbornly overhead, many of the arguments against President Obama's climate change policy are stagnant, potentially dangerous and pose a serious, long-term threat to America's future. The naysayers have called the president's plan everything from "sheer fantasy" to "massive sacrifice," but they are tethered to antiquated, 20th century mindsets.
Valley View: Solar energy is here to stay; so should state initiative
In the past decade since we first launched our business, our economy has endured unprecedented challenges, and at long last, we seem to be recovering from the greatest recession of our time. If consumer confidence were the greatest indicator of fiscal heath, the general sentiment from our customers would serve as "proof positive" that we are moving forward.
Long Island Wants More Solar
Last Friday, July 12 the Long Island Power Authority (LIPA) said it wants more solar—a lot more solar for the small island. The island's electric utility announced its CLEAN Solar Initiative-II (CSI-11), a program that will provide a feed-in tariff for 100 megawatts of solar projects between 100 kilowatts and 2 megawatts. And that's just for now. The utility also is planning to issue requests for proposal for another 300 megawatts of renewable energy.


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Satisfy your Jones for huge AK lines.
Of course, you don't HAVE to tackle huge peaks and throw down hairball first-descents in the Chugach wearing your O'Neill Jones 2L Jacket. In fact, we talked to your mom and she politely requested that you not ("Honey, don't do that or I will totally disown you."). However, things happen, and if you find yourself in a position where you have no other choice but to ride 60-degree spines, the Jones is ready.
AK's an unforgiving place, but the Jones is built to withstand the rowdiest weather the mountains throw at you. Its 15K Hyperdry membrane, DWR treatment, and fully-taped seams are totally waterproof, and complemented by a soft liner that works with underarm vents to move moisture away from your body, helping you stay dry even if you're post-holing straight up a 3000-foot line. The Jones will move with you, too, because it's built with a mountaineering fit, which features articulated elbows, a slightly raised front hem, and 4-way stretch fabric to keep it in place while you're struggling up or starfishing down (not that you ever fall).
Odds are good you'll be whitewalled in at basecamp for a week or so while you wait for a storm to blow through, and although it doesn't come with an extra deck of cards or a more tolerable tent partner, the Jones does have a ergonomically-mapped Firewall insulation, a soft chinguard, and wrist gaiters that will let you venture outside to check the weather or take important, um, phone calls without freezing to death. It's also manufactured with 100% recycled polyester, and O'Neill works with the great organization Protect Our Winters to keep our snowy places snowy, so you can feel good and have something to talk about, even if you're going insane on day six of being stuck inside.
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A group of British celebrities, such as Roald Dahl and Ian Flemings, were ordered to spy on the US during World War II in very unusual ways.
Usual reconnaissance is strictly monitored and almost always undercover, making the acts of these celebrities even more legendary for the fact that not only were they all some of the most famous people in the world, but also they performed in broad daylight as themselves. The story begins with Britain unable to effectively combat the Germans. While they sweated out what most of them assumed could be their last days before they begin speaking German, an elite group of celebrities was assembled with one objective: to spy on the United States and convince them to join the war.
The group was named the "Baker Street Irregulars" and consisted of such famous names as Ian Fleming, the creator of James Bond, children's author Roald Dahl, Noel Coward, and Leslie Howard. If this group wasn't badass enough, their boss was Canadian soldier and inventor Sir William Stephenson who was the inspiration for James Bond! These people were primarily picked for their uncanny abilities to seduce, charm, and win over the hearts of foreigners. One interesting mission was when Dahl was ordered to seduce the wife of Henry Luce, the owner of Time, Life and Fortune magazines, because he was considered to be an anti-British isolationist.
Dahl did the job successfully. So successfully in fact that he begged his superiors to let him stop saying, "I am all fucked out! That goddamn woman has absolutely screwed me from one end of the room to the other." The Irregulars were stunningly successful. They even managed to slip a false map of South America to President Roosevelt that convinced him that the Germans planned on conquering the rest of the world! Even after the US had joined the war effort the Irregulars continued to stay in North America among the many celebrities of the day.
In fact, Dahl was invited to the White House because Eleanor Roosevelt said her grandchildren enjoyed his books. However, things got a little awkward when FDR casually let Dahl know that he was aware of his mission and his particular…methods.


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Just west of downtown Orlando are "Afghanistan," "Junk Yard" and "Ardennes Forest."They're just a few of the seven arenas at Paintball World Orlando, the city's largest outdoor paintball arena, located at the Central Florida Fairgrounds."It's getting larger and larger every weekend," a Paintball World manager told Fox 35's David Martin.Does it hurt to get hit by a paintball?"It's like being popped with a wet towel. It stings for a little bit and it goes away," the manager said.
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The Grindhouse is an experienced and passionate full-service video production company based in Sydney. We can help you create strong connections with your audience via authentic and engaging video content.
Our passion is working with companies that have strong brand values and want to connect with their audience via the power of video. We take the time to develop a deep understanding of the brands we work with and deliver content that showcases brand stories powerfully and meaningfully.
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A Westerly mother got the flu shot back in September,but she got the flu anyway,
To make matters worse, She's trying to care for her new–born.
Eva Sawyer is upset and miserable. She's has a newborn baby girl, McKenzie. She's wearing a mask. She says, "I've had a 103.2 fever for 3 days." Little McKenzie, born on December the 21st, has had limited contact with her Mom because of the flu.Her sister has come from Boston to help her do the things ,she can't do . Eva says, I'm very worried that every one in my house is going to get sick, my children are going to get sick and they've had the flu vaccine"
Health director Dr.Michael Fine of the Rhode Island Department of Health says, it's still important to get the flu vaccine because, you cut your chances of getting the flu, in half. He says,
"The strain is in the vaccine,so the strain is likely to be protective against this flu, but in order for the vaccine to be protective, you have to get it"
All Eva can do now is to protect her child,She's thinking about sending her new–born to her grandparents house. She says,"I don't want to live without my child."
Eva is on the mend.She's hoping she will get well soon.She's looking forward to taking care of her baby,without a mask.
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Irish Music with Aoife Clancy @ Mashpee Public Library
When: Fri Mar 29th
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: Mashpee Public Library | Steeple Street | Mashpee
Irish Musik and Fun with Aoife Clancy
Mashpee Public Library
Friday, March 29, 2012 (No School Day)
Join us for Irish fun with Aoife (eefa) Clancy, daughter of Bobby Clancy of the legendary Clancy Brothers. Aoife performs songs from her Celtic roots using her guitar and the Bodhran (Irish Drum). Celebrate the "Wearing of the Green" with MusiK and Fun - and an Irish jig! Fun for all ages! FREE!
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Detect and respond in time to mitigate potentially serious negative consequences.
This is the ideal approach, but it is hard to do. In order to mitigate event sequences with potentially serious negative consequences through timely detection and response, you must first understand the event sequences and their consequences. This analysis requires business modeling, comprehensive risk management, and a wide arrange of other capabilities. The requirements of Sarbanes Oxley regulations mandate that certain enterprises take risk management more seriously in order to present realistic risk information to potential and current shareholders. If this process is used wisely, it can greatly facilitate the internal decisions about what event sequences are of such consequence as to warrant timely detection and response. From there the time frames required for risk mitigation and the resulting techniques to be applied should become apparent. Because of the time and effort required for this level of understanding and design, it is appropriate only to situations in which adequate consequences are present to justify the cost of being careful in the defense. Thus its applicability for medium and high risk situations.
Detect and respond as slowly as possible without knowingly causing a great deal of harm.
While going slowly has advantages in terms of costs, it has the major disadvantage that large losses can happen quickly. Slow response can turn minor incidents into catastrophic failures. Large businesses have failed in one-time incidents that required rapid reaction but got only a slow reaction. The key to this approach is understanding enough to make reasonable and prudent decisions about how slow is still fast enough. This requires substantial analysis.
Detect things that have obvious impacts and respond to them based on available resources and business impact.
This is a straight forward position in which whatever detection is in place is used and business impact assessment and available resources are balanced, typically by executive decision-making. It runs the risk of any relatively ill-defined decision process, but if the management is effective at doing its jobs and risks are not too high, this approach can work well. It is also reasonably well suited to enterprises that handle a lot of incidents with 24x7 internal staff but who don't have any very high risk levels that require a more optimized approach.
Detect and respond as fast as possible.
For enterprises who are not prepared well in advance, there is little choice but to treat everything as an emergency because there is no way to really know what is and is not how important. This is likely to be very expensive except for the lowest risk organizations who notice very few attacks.
Maximum response and mitigation times. Time is a key issue in incident handling. For enterprises that have well-defined approaches, time limits should be identified with and/or identifiable and tracked/measured with regard to responses (first acts to mitigate) and mitigation (termination of the undesirable condition) in cases where consequences are medium or high. Ideally, such times represent planning based on business consequences and are controlled by work flow systems and related mechanisms that prioritize actions and assign duties and resources.


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What's black and white and covered with "mean reds"? Why, the long-time-in-coming Broadway debut of Truman Capote's classic 1957 novella, Breakfast at Tiffany's, which finally made it over the finish line March 20 at the Cort, of course.
First-nighters obviously got the dress-code memo and turned out splendidly turned out in black and white — a deep and respectful bow to the legendary black-and-white masque ball at the Plaza which Capote gave in 1966 to honor Katharine Graham. "Mean reds" was that horrible condition his idiosyncratic Tiffany's heroine, Holly Golightly, described as being afraid and not knowing what you're afraid of — and, certainly, that's an apt description of the anxieties on any Broadway opening night.
What Holly in the 1961 movie version always took for the "mean reds" was a cab to Tiffany's. "Calms me down right away," she always said. Unfortunately, Tiffany's is not a stop in Richard Greenberg's stage adaptation of the Capote story, although it does get around Manhattan circa 1943, following the antics of an exuberant spirit (one-part call-girl, one-part con-artist), as seen through the ever-widening eyes of a neighbor newly arrived to the city and to sin (Capote never gave himself, the narrator, a name; Holly called him "Fred" after her brother, away at World War II).
The popular Audrey Hepburn picture weighs a ton on this dark, sad little tale, which Capote originally told and which Greenberg has gamely attempted to second, to the point of merely typing huge chunks of the original verbiage into the play. Instead of Technicolor, the stage is atmospherically splashed with blowups of black-and-white photos right out of Life (the magazine).
"We used the photographs of Andreas Feininger, who was a great photographer of New York in the 1940s," relayed set designer Derek McLane. "We got the rights from his estate to use his photographs and we had them printed on the scrim panels that surrounded the set. To me, they really feel like the cityscape of '40s New York.
"One of the challenges I faced is the fact that the play is so different from the movie it really needs to have its own look — something completely distinct from the movie. It's set in a different era and has a completely different tone. It's much more of a memory piece, more noir-y, darker, smokier — and these have a lot of atmosphere."
Broadway-bowing in the iconic lead roles — no pressure! — are Emilia Clarke, who hangs out with dragons and such on HBO's series "Game of Thrones" instead of oversexed urban cave-dwellers, and, as Designated "Fred," Cory Michael Smith, last seen peddling Mormon books (not in that show!), in The Whale Off-Broadway.
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Gene Luen Yang is a Chinese-American graphic novelist whose books deal with themes of identity, belonging, and cultural expectations, and often use humour to deal with dark subjects and themes. He has won the Printz award and multiple Eisner awards, and if that's not reason enough to read his work, you also have my personal recommendation - it's great! Pick up American Born Chinese, The Eternal Smile, Prime Baby, Level Up, or Animal Crackers, then read this interview and his newest work, a two-part story called Boxers & Saints.
Q: We're so excited about your latest project, Boxers & Saints – could you tell us a little about what inspired it?
A: I first became interested in the Boxer Rebellion in 2000, when Pope John Paul II canonized 120 Chinese saints. I grew up in a Chinese American Catholic community in the San Francisco Bay Area. Naturally, my home church was incredibly excited by the announcement. When I looked into the lives of these new saints, I discovered that many of them had been martyred during the Boxer Rebellion.
The more I looked into the Boxer Rebellion, the more fascinated I became. The war externalizes a conflict that I think many Asian Christians and Christians of Asian descent feel – a conflict between Eastern culture and Western religion.
Q: Boxers & Saints tells the story of the Boxer Rebellion from two opposing viewpoints; why did you choose to publish it as a two-volume set, instead of in one combined volume?
A: One of the reasons I was attracted to the Boxer Rebellion in the first place was that I felt so ambivalent about it. Who were the good guys and who were the bad guys? I couldn't decide, so I wrote and drew two books from two opposing viewpoints.
Separating the two stories into two physically distinct books forced me to think through each as a complete narrative with a beginning, middle, and end. I hope that each volume can stand on its own. I also hope readers who choose to read both will get something out of the dialog between the two.
Q: As a Catholic yourself, was it difficult to write from the point of view of someone trying to drive out the "foreign devils", and the "secondary devils" who were Chinese Christians?
A: The "foreign devils" were the European missionaries, merchants, and soldiers. Chinese Christians were considered the "secondary devils", folks who had succumbed to the foreign devils' lies.
As I've said, my primary reaction to the Boxer Rebellion is ambivalence. I can see myself on either side of the conflict. I sympathize with both the Boxers and their Chinese Christian opponents. I think they had similar motivations. Both sides wanted to keep their identities intact. The Boxers were angry at the way the foreign powers tore down traditional Chinese culture. The Christians died because they wanted to remain true to the identities they'd built for themselves, identities that drew from both Eastern and Western influences.
Q: You have talked on your blog about the similarities between Chinese opera for the boxers and our own modern day pop culture (I adored your Chinese Opera Avengers – in fact, your Thor is my desktop background right now!), and how those inspirations – whether gods or superheroes – can be a source of strength. Can you tell us a bit more about this idea?
A: The Boxers were poor, starving Chinese teenagers, mostly boys, who were deeply embarrassed by the European incursions onto Chinese soil. To deal with this sense of powerlessness in their lives, they did what today's teenagers do: They looked to the pop culture that surrounded them for empowerment.
Back then, there were these traveling acting troupes that went from village to village performing snippets of classical Chinese opera. Opera was the Boxers' pop culture. It was their television, their movies, their comic books. Like American superheroes, the gods of the opera wore colorful costumes, had magic powers, and fought otherworldly battles.
Like modern day cosplayers, these teenagers wanted to become their heroes. They came up with this mystical ritual that they believed would call the gods down from the heavens. The gods would grant them superpowers. Then armed with these superpowers, the Boxers ran through the countryside fighting European soldiers, missionaries, and Chinese Christians.
Stories help us make sense of our lives. They let one generation to communicate with the next. They give us examples to either follow or shun.
Youth Read is still going strong, and we have a winner for our t-shirt design challenge! All proceeds from Nyssa's excellent design (see left) will go to the library's flood relief efforts. You can buy the shirt here, but it is only available until August 5th so don't dawdle!
If you missed last week's interview with bestselling author Brandon Sanderson, be sure to read Part 1 and Part 2 for a chance to win a signed copy of his terrific new YA book, The Rithmatist. We'll be drawing the names of our two lucky winners on Friday, August 9th.
Brandon Sanderson is an award-winning author renowned for the intricate and immersive worlds he creates, and for his highly detailed systems of magic. Recently, he has brought those talents to YA with the publication of his first teen novel, The Rithmatist.
Brandon kindly answered our questions AND sent us two signed copies of his book to give away! Leave your name and contact info in the comments to enter the draw (we won't publish your details). The answers below were transcribed from audio recorded for this interview.
Q: There were some very intriguing loose ends in this book, especially surrounding Joel; I feel as though there is much more to learn about his father and about Rithmatics in general. When can we expect to see the next Rithmatist novel?
A: I'm glad you enjoyed the book so much. I am working on a sequel. I've actually started the outline for it, but it's hard to promise when it will come out. Ideally I like to release books one year apart, which is what I'm shooting for, but I have to write the book first.
I'm going to take us to a new location for the second book and there's going to be lots of fun involved. Joel and Melody are going to train as a team where they'll have to learn to work together, and it won't be easy on either one of them.
Q: OK, as a (non-evil) librarian I have to ask this – what's with all the nasty librarians in your books? In Rithmatist we have Ms. Torrent, who is your stereotypical disapproving shushing type, and in the Alcatraz books, they're downright evil! Did these characters come from encounters with real-life awful librarians? I hope not!
A: I actually have quite an affection for librarians. I created the one in The Rithmatist simply because I needed to make that particular scene more interesting. I look for ways to create and enhance conflict as I write, and that scene needed to be harder for the characters.
The librarians in Alcatraz, of course, were all tongue-in-cheek. I wrote those books because I realized that if there really were a secret society that controlled the world, it would be because they controlled all the information. The idea of librarians secretly controlling the world just made me laugh. But there are plenty of good librarians in the Alcatraz books—okay, we've only seen one!—but there are more coming.
Q:. Apart from your own work, what books or authors would you recommend to a YA reader?
A: I've already mentioned a bunch of my favourites, but I could go on! I'm quite fond of Westerfeld's work. I think it's quite marvellous. I've read Terry Pratchett's teen books. If you've only read his adult work, you're really missing out. He is quite good. I've also enjoyed James Dashner's and Eva Ibbotson's books. I also recommend anything by Diana Wynne Jones.
I got into a lot of the YA classics in the late 90s, well after everyone else had been into them. Things like The Giver by Lois Lowry and Dragon's Blood by Jane Yolen. Jane Yolen has long been one of my favourite writers. There's just a lot of exciting things happening in YA, and I feel inspired by a lot of the works by those authors I've mentioned.
Q: This is your first teen novel, although you are well known for your adult science fiction and the Alcatraz series for middle grade readers. What motivated you to write for a YA audience?
A: I do read quite a bit of YA fiction. In fact, during the era when I was trying to break into publishing—the late 90s and early 2000s—a lot of the really exciting things in sci-fi and fantasy were happening in YA and middle grade. Garth Nix, J.K. Rowling, Diana Wynne Jones and others created some wonderfully imaginative writing during this time.
I dipped my toes into middle grade with my Alcatraz series soon after I got published. I hadn't written a YA before, but I wanted to—for the same reason I write epic fantasy: there are awesome things I can do in in epic fantasy that I can't do in other genres. And there are awesome things I can do in teen fiction that I don't feel I can get away with in the same way in adult fiction.
Science fiction and fantasy have a very fascinating connection with YA fiction. If you look at some of the series I loved as a youth—the Wheel of Time, Shannara, and the Eddings books, for example—these have enormous teen crossover. In fact, when you get to something like the Eddings books, you've got to wonder if they would've been shelved in the teen section in a later era.
Back up even further to the juveniles that were written by Heinlein and others, and we see that teen fiction has been an integral part of science fiction and fantasy. Some of the early fantasy writings—things like Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass and C.S. Lewis's works—were foundational in how the fantasy genre came to be.
So YA feels like a very natural thing for me to be writing because I enjoy it and I respect what it has done for the genres.
Q: I imagine this is a bit like asking a parent to pick a favourite child, but your projects have varied from standalone fantasy (Elantris, Warbreaker), to epic series set in intricate worlds (Mistborn), to novellas (Legion), to writing for children and teens (Alcatraz, The Rithmatist), to finishing Robert Jordan's iconic Wheel of Time series – which of these projects did you find most difficult, and which was most rewarding?
A: When I'm done with one project, I want to do something very different to refresh myself. This is the reason I write such varied things. It keeps me excited as a writer because each project has its own measure of things that interest me and obstacles that challenge me.
The most difficult project was finishing the Wheel of Time. Stepping into someone else's shoes—particularly someone I respected so much—and taking over a long-running series was a real challenge. Writing those books was the hardest thing I've done so far in my career.
The most rewarding project was the release of The Way of Kings. It was my pet project. I'd worked on it in one form or another basically since I was a teen. Finally being able to release that in its finished form was a very fulfilling experience as an artist.
Q: In The Rithmatist, the female protagonist, Melody, has been chosen as a Rithmatist, which is a great honour but also something that she really struggles with. I think that many youth feel this kind of pressure - to be special, or to excel at something that they didn't necessarily choose - and then feel as though they aren't measuring up. Was it a conscious decision to have Melody deal with that issue, or a natural extension of her character?
A: This part of Melody's character was intentional. Being a square peg in a round hole and parental and societal expectations are things I think about a lot. Your teen years are when these things come crashing down around you. Often books have a character who is the chosen one, who is naturally gifted and talented, but what happens if you get chosen and whoever chose you was wrong, and you just aren't any good at it? That was an interesting conflict that felt very real to life. When I figured out this aspect of Melody, she really came to life as a character.
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You may be asking what exactly is a Wordle? Well.. it's a collection of words arranged in a visual way to make a concrete poem. Okay, okay what is a concrete poem? It's a visual poem = words arranged in a visual way to have an effect = a unique hybrid of both art and poetry. As you can see on the left I was inspired by our recent deluge of rain. Local poet derek beaulieu is a master at it! (& in case you hadn't noticed I've also included some Wordle examples) So... we are inviting you to get busy with a graphix program and design your own Wordle and submit it to our Teens Create page to win! The prize you may ask? A fabulous journal - what every poet and artist is always wanting more of... deadline is June 5th (aka get this in before Youth Read starts! - we know you'll be busy with all the other amazing challenges then - P.S. did you know you can Pre-Register for Youth Read?) Chop! Chop! Don't forget to also submit your name and contact ph#/email in the comments as well as submitting your Wordle on the Teens Create page (and don't worry we will NOT publish your contact info). And if you are at a loss as to how to use Photoshop or Illustrator to do this you may want to take advantage of our Free Ed2Go online instructor-led courses! May the best WORD-le win!
It's rare that a book comes along that we consider so good we are willing to dedicate an entire blog post to it. Usually we talk about books within a genre, like dystopian or horror, and list our favourites from the collection for you to check out! It's even rarer that we would feature a book from the high-fantasy realm, as those kind of books tend to be niche-reads… not everyone can get behind goblins and orcs and princesses and evil kings…But what about dragons?
There is just something about dragons that really sparks our imaginations and gets people fired up (har har). Maybe it's the fact that there are dragon mythologies in just about every part of the world, seriously pre-dating any form of world travel – most legends of magical creatures are fairly geographically isolated… Ever heard of a Canadian Kappa or an African Leprechaun? But there are stories of dragons from Asia, Europe, Africa, North America, South America… even way down in Australia and New Zealand!
Or what about the fact that we know dinosaurs once walked the earth… is it so hard to believe in some straggling survivors? We see lizards and komodos, birds and beasts all over the planet that really get us thinking…Dragons are a staple of fantasy stories, and their popularity in kids and teen fiction is nothing new… (see Harry Potter, Eragon, How to Train Your Dragon, anything by Mercedes Lackey, loads of stuff from Chris d'Lacey, Emily Rodda, Jane Yolen… this list is too massive to even begin here), but as we said previously, not everyone can get through all the other high-fantasy stuff just to get to the dragons. If YOU can't, check this out:
Seraphina is a young musician working in the palace courts (okay, so there are Royals too, but that's the ONLY other fantasy-y thing, I promise), trying to keep her head down and just play her instruments. She is very, very talented, but promised her father she would not draw unnecessary attention to herself – you can't be too careful when you're an adolescent lady alone in the palace. You ESPECIALLY can't be too careful when this particular castle is rocked by the suspected assassination of a beloved prince, the heir to their throne. Cause of death? Beheading by dragon-bite. Motive behind death? To destroy the already weak peace established between humans and dragons. You see, in this world, Dragons and Humans live side-by-side, though far from in harmony (it's hard to do when one half of society is constantly eating the other half…). A tenuous peace was established by the previously-mentioned (and currently dead) prince's mother and the Ardmagar, the leader of dragons. For the last 40 years, dragons have been perfecting the ability to take human form, to walk about in human company and to live and learn in human society. The only problem is, they are not human. And everyone knows it. They are cold, calculating, scientifically-inclined, unemotional (think Vulcans, but with the ability to shed their skin and pop scales and fangs in an instant) – they are hard to befriend and no one really wants to anyways. Except for Seraphina, who has a secret that could very well save the kingdom from a brutal, interspecies-war and imminent destruction…Readers and critics alike do not have enough good things to say about this book, and its sequel Drachomachia is due out in the new year. You'll want to get into this series as soon as possible, even if you're NOT usually into fantasy. It is WELL WORTH the read! And (drumroll please) we here at CPL have a copy of this fantastic book to give away - just leave your name & contact info in the comments to be entered in the draw.
Other dragons in the news? Well... we just left the Zodiac's year of the dragon, but Benedict Cumberbatch is up for an Oscar for Voicing SMAUG in the Hobbit Series... he studied Komodo Dragons at the London Zoo to prepare for the role... There are also these great titles:
For those of you who have been waiting for this final category of YRCA nominees, the Senior books (Gr. 10-12) here it is!!
And, for those of you who don't know what I'm talking about, welcome to the Young Readers Choice Awards! We want YOU to read at least two books from one of these lists, and then vote for your fave. I've already written about the YRCA in general and the whole voting thing on a previous blog, so I won't repeat myself, just go there. You'll also see the write-up about the Junior & Intermediate YRCA nominees in previous blogs.
So without further ado, here are the Senior nominees:
Before I Fall, by Lauren Oliver: Samantha is a popular 17 year old, who thinks she's perfect. Then.. she is killed in a car accident, and relives the same day over, and over, and over, trying to fix all of the not-so-perfect things she did so she can, well, move on. Think Groundhog Day, in a gut-wrenching sort of way.
Bruiser, by Neil Shusterman: Bronte can't understand why her family, and especially her twin brother Tennyson, dislikes her new boyfriend Brewster so much. Even though he looks a little rough, he's kind and gentle with her. Then one day she hurts herself, and when he touches her the wound disappears and she feels wonderful, but he looks worse than ever… There's a lot of intense family violence in this book, so it's not for the faint of heart.
Crazy, by Han Nolan: 15-year-old Jason has a pile of friends... but they're all imaginary. And his father is mentally ill. And his mother has just died. And he's responsible for keeping everything together! Good thing he has the help of Aunt Bee from the Andy Griffith show, Sexy Lady, and a "laugh track" - although they're all in his head... Read this book and you get to be one of his internal characters as well!
Matched, by Ally Condie: In a highly controlled society, a 16-year-old girl is ecstatic to find out she has been 'matched' with not only someone she actually knows, but her best friend! However, she discovers cracks in the perfect system when the picture of a different boy, also someone she knows, shows up on her true love's profile page. Interested in what caused this glitch, and wanting to know more about the much more mysterious, dangerous Kai, she strays further and further from her chosen path and ideal romance. The first in what is likely to be the next great dystopian series.
The Replacement, by Brenna Yovanoff: Mackie lives in a small town with big secrets. Every seven years, a baby is 'replaced' by a fairy child from the underworld. When his strange allergies – to iron, blood, and consecrated ground – get worse and threaten his life, he teams up with Tate, whose baby sister has just gone missing, to uncover the truth. This is a dark gothic tale of the paranormal, with gruesomely thrilling imagery.
Ship Breaker, by Paula Bacigalupi: Another dystopian, post-apocalyptic tale, BUT this time from a male point of view (about time!) The main character ekes out a living by stripping wrecked ships with a band of thieves. But one ship isn't deserted; they discover a girl, barely alive, who promises to show them a dream-world, a utopia, if they let her live. Interesting use of language makes up for – or adds to, depending on your point of view – the more violent scenes in this fast-paced read.
Will Grayson, Will Grayson, by David Levithan and John Green: Will Grayson has the biggest gayest friend ever! will grayson (the other one = yes there's two... with the same name, hence the lack of capitals) is sad and depressed. When the two W/will G/graysons happen to meet, all their lives are changed. And a great high school musical is produced! Hilarious and interesting, with lots of unexpected twists, and over-the-line language and scenarios. Not to be missed!
Winter Shadows, by Margaret Buffie: Cass is living in modern-day Selkirk, Manitoba when she finds an old brooch which becomes a gateway into the world of Beatrice, who lived in the house in the 1850's. They communicate through Beatrice's diary, and bond over difficulties with their respective step-mothers. A great 'time slip' story, with some real insight into the Metis history and way of life.
Okay, that's it for the YRCA selections. Now it's your turn - read, ponder, then VOTE! And may the best book win...
Young Readers Choice Awards: Junior Category
As promised, here's the next installment in the Young Readers Choice Awards.
We're asking you to read at least two books from one of the categories, then choose your favourite. For more info on the YRCA and how to cast your ballot, please look at my previous blog, which also talked about the Intermediate books.
This time we're looking at the Junior Category Nominees, those geared for about Gr. 4-6.
fatty legs, by Christy Jordan-Feton: Margaret is a young Inuit girl who desperately wants to go to school, like her older sister, so she can learn how to read. This means leaving her family to go to residential school. When she finally gets her wish, however, it's not exactly what she had dreamed… This book is autobiographical, and there is a sequel, called A Stranger At Home. A shortened version of fatty legs has been made into a picture book, called When I Was Eight. A great introduction for a younger audience.
The Strange Case of the Origami Yoda, by Tom Angleberger: This book is written in the form of a 'case file' by Tommy and his friends in middle school. Dwight, the biggest nerd of them all (which is saying a lot) creates an Origami Yoda finger puppet which appears to be amazingly wise and prescient - unlike Dwight! Very funny. If you like the 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid' series, you'll like this too. There is also a sequel, called Darth Paper Strikes Back - worth reading if only for the title.
Theodore Boone: Kid Lawyer, by John Grisham: Do you see that? JOHN GRISHAM! The king of adult crime novels has crossed over into the Kid Zone with this story about a 13-year-old boy who knows everything there is to know about the justice system, but can't keep himself out of trouble when a grisly murder needs to be solved. Read it to see if Grisham can handle the critical readers in the shallow end of the pool...
Big Nate: In a Class By Himself, by Lincoln Peirce: The only graphic novel candidate in this bunch. Big Nate has been seen before, in a comic strip, as the less-than-straight-A middle school kid who wisecracks his way into a lot of detentions. A great alternative if you've read all of the 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid' books, or want to get into graphics with something new!
The Mysterious Howling, by Maryrose Wood: This is the first in the series: The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place. 15-year-old Penelope becomes a governess at a children's school, only to discover that the mysterious howling she has been hearing is being made by two children who were found in the forest and have obviously been raised by wolves. She must teach them not only Latin and Algebra but how to act like humans instead of wolves. 'Howlingly' funny (hee hee).
13 Treasures, by Michelle Harrison: The main character is Tanya, and Tanya is 'trouble'. Tanya sees fairies, but if she talks about this, people think she's crazy! Blamed for all of the things the fairies get into, she is shipped off to her grandmother's ancient old house - which happens to be infested with, you guessed it, fairies. Then children in the area go missing, and Tanya wants to find out what's going on. If you like the Spiderwick Chronicles, you'll love this book.
The Lost Hero, by Rick Riordan: Really sad that the Percy Jackson series ended? Well, don't be! This new spin-off series has appearances by all your favourite characters, while introducing Jason, Piper, and Leo as the offspring of some new gods - this time in their Roman persona's. Another rollicking ride through Camp Half-Blood, with a satyr masquerading as a bus, Medusa working in a chic New York department store, and a race against the clock to keep the world from terrible danger.
Lone Wolf, by Kathryn Lasky: This is the beginning of Lasky's new series The Wolves of Beyond, which takes place in the same world as her 'Guardians of Ga'hoole' books. In this one, a young wolf pup is born, despite many problems for his mother, with a twisted leg and a strange mark on his paw, marking him as.. well, either deformed, or special. He survives against all odds, is raised by a mother bear, and eventually makes his way to 'the Beyond', a place on the edge of this world where the socially outcast wolves reside... and back again to some new surprises!
Okay, that's it for the Junior YRCA nominees. Look for the next and final posting, about the Senior choices, coming soon.. and don't forget to read & vote!
It's Young Reader's Choice Awards time again! The time when the books that YOU select as being the most awesome will get to put those stickers on their jackets saying, 'I'm the BEST and everyone should read me!'
This award is given out by the Pacific Northwest Library Association, which is not only bi-national - including Canada's western provinces AND America's western states - but also the oldest children's choice award in both countries.
Get ready to cast a ballot by reading at least two books from one of the categories, Junior (Gr. 4-6), Intermediate (Gr. 7-9), or Senior (Gr. 10-12). Then, fill out a ballot at your neighbourhood library branch between March 15 - April 15. (For details on the whole voting process, go here.) I'll give a quick teaser of each book, then leave it up to you!
As Easy As Falling Off the Face of the Earth, by Lynne Rae Perkins: Ry, on his way to summer camp in Oregon, manages to miss the train when it stops in the middle of nowhere - and then suddenly takes off again - when he briefly nips out to find cell phone service. He sets off on his own with a dying cell phone and little else, meeting interesting people who help him find his way back home. This is a very funny book, with simple but hilarious sketch drawings showing certain .. important.. moments in Ry's 'adventure', as well as what's going on with his two dogs... hmmmm....
The Card Turner, by Louis Sachar: So this is a book about a 17-year-old boy and how he learns bridge. But wait! Before you skip on to the next title, remember this is Louis Sachar, who also wrote 'Holes' and other award-winning stories. In this book, Alton is forced to read and play the cards for his super-rich but very blind and sick uncle, who is an ace at duplicate bridge tournaments, but might also be connected with the mob... If you would love to learn how to play bridge, detailed explanations are provided for every card game. BUT, if you couldn't care less, the author has helpfully put these parts between asterisks, so you can skip over them and get on with the plot!
Heist Society, by Ally Carter: Katarina tries to leave the family business - thieving - but is lured back when her father becomes the only suspect in the theft of a mobster's art collection, and the only solution is to find the paintings and steal them back.
Smile, by Raina Telgemeier: This autobiography tells the story of a girl whose front teeth get knocked out accidentally, forcing her to learn how to take the teasing and abuse and throw it back in a goodhearted fashion. This is a graphic novel, which aside from adding visual appeal, makes it a quick read.
The Second Trial, by Rosemarie Boll: 13-year-old Danny starts to fall apart after his mother goes to court against his father, charging him with domestic abuse, and they need to go into Witness Protection. Confused about his dad and hostile towards his mother, Danny starts to act out at school and home. Published by Second Story press, it's an accessible story for anyone looking for an easier read, but be warned, it's a pretty 'gritty' scenario, no sweetness and light in this one.
Sorta Like A Rock Star, by Matthew Quick: Amber, known as the 'Princess of Hope', has a pretty sucky life, living with her man-huntin' mom in a school bus. But Amber always manages to keep that hope alive, until one day tragedy occurs. Good for teens who can handle the rough side of life. And sometimes really funny!
Halo, by Alexandra Adornetto: In this book, Bethany, an angel new to the trade, is sent down to earth with two more experienced compatriots, including the Archangel Gabriel, to fight the forces of darkness. While here, she meets and falls in love with a human, and learns that good and evil are not always easy to identify.
The Red Pyramid, by Rick Riordan: The first in another series by the author of the Percy Jackson books, focused this time on ancient Egypt. Carter and Sadie Kane watch as their father accidentally releases five ancient Egyptian gods from the Rosetta Stone and is then sucked into the 'Duat'. While trying to rescue their father, they must also stop the evil god Set from building his pyramid of power and destroying the world. Along the way they discover much about themselves, their family, and the hidden world of ancient Egyptian magic. Tons of action, and, hey, you might learn something too... like what the 'Duat' is!
Okay, gotta wrap it up here. Look for 'sister' blogs about the Junior and Senior categories in the same spot, coming soon....


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The magician's nephew
Lewis, C. S. 1898-1963
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Lewis, C. S. 1898-1963
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Summary: When Digory and Polly try to return the wicked witch Jadis to her own world, the magic gets mixed up and they all land in Narnia where they witness Aslan blessing the animals with human speech.
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We're down to the final eight in seven state tournament brackets. Here's a class-by-class look at those.
Note that four of the five state champions from 2012 still have a shot at repeating. McEachern, which won AAAAA last year, was eliminated in the first round by Colquitt County, but Miller Grove, Columbia, Lovett and Wesleyan are still alive.
AAAAAA – Valdosta and Tift County of Region 1, both unranked, are within one victory of the semifinals. The last time two south Georgia teams advanced to the final four in the highest classification was in 2001, when Lowndes and Valdosta did it in AAAAA. Both teams lost in the semifinals. The last south Georgia team to win the championship in the highest classification was Beach, which won Class AAAA in 2000. … North Gwinnett and Norcross, the teams to beat, were in the semifinals last season. Most of the rest aren't accustomed to going this far. It's been a while for the rest of them — Cherokee (1987), Alpharetta (never), North Cobb (1965), Tift County (1992), Hughes (never) and Valdosta (2001).
AAAAA – Six DeKalb County public schools are among the final 56 girls teams playing, and that includes four of the eight in CAAAAA. Region 6 rivals Tucker, Miller Grove, Southwest DeKalb and Stephenson will go head to head on Tuesday for two of the four semifinal spots at Kennesaw State. DeKalb County schools (including St. Pius) have won six of the past seven championships in the state's second-largest classification. … Thomas County Central, Effingham County and Hardaway from AAAA are three of only 11 unranked girls teams to make the quarterfinals. Thomas Central last made the semifinals in 1988. Effingham last made it in 1968. Forest Park (2011) and Hardaway (2007), who play in the other quarterfinal, are more accustomed to it. … Tucker hasn't been to a semifinal since 1977. The other three DeKalb teams each have son state titles in the past five years.
AAAA – DeKalb County's Columbia and Redan are in the Class AAAA quarterfinals. Redan has 30-point victories in each of its first two playoff games, against Dalton (73-43) and seventh-ranked Fayette County (70-40). Also, DeKalb private school St. Pius reached the quarterfinals in Class AAA along with Decatur, which is in DeKalb but not part of the county school system. … Sandy Creek, River Ridge and Howard are three of only 11 unranked girls teams statewide to make the quarterfinals. … Here are the last times that each quarterfinal team has made a semifinal – Sandy Creek (never, opened in 1990), Redan (2010), Columbia (2012), River Ridge (never, opened in 2009), Jonesboro (2012), Howard (never, opened in 2008), Mary Persons (1966) and Woodland (never, opened in 2007).
AA – The bracket that has held closest to form, according to the rankings, is Class AA. The top six teams – Wesleyan, Laney, Kendrick, Calhoun, Thomasville and Pelham – have advanced to the final eight. Of the other four, Greater Atlanta Christian and Bremen were eliminated by higher-ranked teams, Model lost to a Lovett team that was ranked earlier this season, and Dublin was eliminated by Bleckley County. … The only remaining undefeated teams in any girls classification are Laney and Kendrick. They will meet in the semifinals if they win their quarterfinal games. … No. 1 Wesleyan, going for its sixth consecutive state title and ninth in 10 years, has won its first two state tournament games by an average score of 80-28. That includes a 75-27 victory over 10th-ranked Bremen in the second round. The Wolves' quarterfinal opponent, fourth-ranked Calhoun, has won 25 consecutive games since a 56-32 loss to AAAAAA No. 6 North Cobb on Nov. 19.
A – All 10 of the ranked Class A teams won their first-round games. That includes six private schools, which are joined in the final eight by Atlanta International and Pace Academy, and four public schools, which are joined in the final eight by Mitchell County, Wilkinson County, Seminole County and Claxton. … The most intriguing private game is No. 5 Darlington at No. 2 St. Francis. Both have beaten No. 1-ranked Southwest Atlanta Christian.
February 26th, 2013
10:20 am
you completely dismissed the entire AAA division? (with only a one sentence aside in the middle of the AAAA section.)
February 26th, 2013
10:47 am
It's plain to see the ajc knows nor cares nothing about high school basketball. And they wonder why people stop taking their paper.
February 26th, 2013
12:07 pm
Actually they fully well know, but you're right – they don't care…print media is dead – you're reading this online – they've accomplished their mission…look at all those pretty shiny ads
February 26th, 2013
12:57 pm
Will Tift & North Cobb still play today @ Tifton 6pm? Can't get anyone at Tifton High School to answer phone as they had no school today because of rain and flood waters.
February 26th, 2013
3:14 pm
JJ Both girls and boys play Wed, girls 6 and boys 7:30
February 26th, 2013
4:28 pm
Thanks I was fixing to leave…it takes about a hour 15 mins to get there. You saved me gas and trouble. Thanks again.
February 26th, 2013
4:52 pm
Hey hind tit, the ajc is the same way with cross country!
February 26th, 2013
7:45 pm
WHAT HAPPEND TO AAA Where is the LOVE for St PIUS ?????????????????
February 26th, 2013
7:48 pm
Tood Stool Holcumm You are a complete IDIOT…….. I will nerver wonder why the AJC has no subscripions from now on.. There are alot of AAA teams that got no love not just SPX WHAT A DISCRACE
February 26th, 2013
8:48 pm
JJ, No problem. You can buy me a bag of popcorn Wednesday when we get there. lol Warriors Come Out To Plaaaaay!
February 26th, 2013
9:52 pm
Class AA Girls– Thomasville Defeated Bleckley County 62-49 at home in Thomasville!
February 26th, 2013
11:16 pm
Congratulations to the Langston Hughes Lady Panthers on their win over Valdosta tonight in OT 57-56. Way to go ladies, We're so proud of y'all.
February 26th, 2013
11:34 pm
V Chandler do you have a son are daughter on the NC team? I could wear my 1986 Orange Warriors Jacket but its to little now.
February 26th, 2013
11:38 pm
V Chandler do you have a daughter or son that plays for North Cobb? I could wear my 1986 orange Warriors Jacket but its to little now. Go warriors!
February 26th, 2013
11:41 pm
sorry about double post..don't know what happen. @ 11;34 it went blank.
February 26th, 2013
11:43 pm
Can the Sandy Creek girls gets some love for their win over Redan tonight!?!?!?!?!? Great win Lady Patriots!!!!!
February 27th, 2013
7:24 am
AJC you're doing poor coverage in covering the outcome of these tournament games from Tuesday night.
February 27th, 2013
11:38 am
February 28th, 2013
10:35 pm
JJ my daughter is #12 Kyrie' Chandler for North Cobb