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In January Nurkic has averaged 7.8 points, 8.2 rebounds and 1.8 blocks. "It's unfortunate for him," Nuggets coach Brian Shaw said. "I probably had a lot to do with that because early on in the season he didn't play a whole lot. But he'll have his chances, he'll have his opportunities. I'm sure he may enjoy the actual break of the All Star week, instead of having to go to New York to participate." Denver Post
Can he withstand another grueling stretch of rehab after fighting his way back from Achilles and knee injuries that kept him out all but six games last season? "It's just a matter of if he wants to go through it all again," Denver Nuggets Coach Brian Shaw said Monday night before his team played the Clippers at Staples Center. "I don't think that you can put anything past him." Los Angeles Times
Nuggets coach Brian Shaw said he plans no changes to the team's new shootaround policy after point guard Ty Lawson's arrest last Friday. "I didn't just wake up one day and say 'We're just going to move shootaround back' with nothing behind it," Shaw said. "There was research done. There were studies. There's science behind sleep patterns, recovery time. It had nothing to do with alcohol or hanging out or anything else. And so I've been slowly but surely studying some of these things and talking to some of the leading researchers in the area." Denver Post
It wasn't long after the start of Brian Shaw's postgame news conference following the Nuggets' loss to Minnesota on Saturday night that Denver's coach pointed a finger of blame at himself. "I'll take some of the grief for trying to work Randy Foye back into the lineup and figure out when and who to play Jameer (Nelson) with as well," Shaw said. "I probably threw everybody off a little bit in terms of the rotational minutes that they had been playing, just trying to figure that out." Denver Post
The Nuggets are not making calls to deal Chandler and Afflalo, coach Brian Shaw said. "I just have to try to do a good job of assuring them that I'm not, and we're not, actively shopping them and putting them out there," Shaw said. "Obviously calls come in, and we field calls. But we're not saying, 'Hey, we're trying to get rid of Arron, we're trying to get rid of Wilson.' That's not the case at all. That's all we can really tell them." Denver Post
But rather than fighting his players' urge to stay out late, Shaw is allowing his players to sleep in. Instead of holding a shootaround in the morning, he asks the players to arrive at the gym later in the afternoon and stay for the night's game. "I'm not going to lie, I'm loving (the afternoon shootaround)," Lawson said after a recent game. "I don't understand getting up at 7:45 a.m. to do shootaround when you're not going to remember it, and you're still tired ... . I'm liking this." ESPN.com
Still, if you talk to coaches around the league, you'll find some pushback on Shaw's moves. Understandably so. Shootarounds hold players accountable and help them go to bed at an earlier hour. Also, there's an idea that if players sleep in, the coach is submitting authority to the players. Job security is an important element here. It's no coincidence that Gregg Popovich and Rivers have been most radical in this department. With front-office power, their jobs aren't on thin ice. ESPN.com
"Honestly, I expected him to be more vocal," Shaw said. "He hasn't been that. He's kind of been shy or bashful in the locker room, to be honest with you. He hasn't really said a whole lot. But he comes in and he does his work on the floor and tries to lead by example. Maybe he's still trying to fit in with this group and doesn't want to step on anybody's toes or whatever. But we need some toes to be stepped on by someone at some point." Orlando Sentinel
Nuggets coach Brian Shaw and the decision-makers in the team's front office are experimenting with abolishing the traditional shootaround as we know it. It would be replaced by players getting to the arena an hour earlier than usual — around 3 p.m. for a 7 p.m. game — and going through opponent preparation then. The Nuggets did not have a shootaround Saturday before their game against the Memphis Grizzlies at the Pepsi Center. "I'm going to experiment with it, I think, for the rest of the season and see how it works," Shaw said. "Even if it doesn't translate into wins and losses, just if our energy and our focus and everything is better." Denver Post
Whether you think Shaw deserves to stay or needs to go, there is indisputable disinterest from a fanbase that was largely skeptical from the moment Karl was fired. That may be one reason that, according to two NBA sources, the name to keep an eye on in the unlikely event the Nuggets move away from Shaw would be Mike D'Antoni. D'Antoni's system is an entertaining, fast-paced attack that inspired the book, :07 Seconds or Less: My Season on the Bench with the Runnin' and Gunnin' Phoenix Suns by Jack McCallum. His tenure in Phoenix included a record of 253-136, two appearances in the conference finals and Coach of the Year honors in 2005. If declining consumer interest is a concern to ownership as one would expect, D'Antoni's philosophy could help in that area. ESPNDenver.com
KC Johnson: Nuggets coach Brian Shaw laughed at Tom Thibodeau's assessment that Nate Robinson scares both coaches. Said he said same thing other day. Twitter @KCJHoop
Bill Oram: Asked about Scott cutting Kobe's minutes, Brian Shaw laughed and said, "Good luck to Byron." Twitter @billoram
Mark Medina: Shaw to Kobe: "I'm sharing stories when you used to be laughing at me when I was stretching & icing." Kobe:"I got to do it before the game!" Twitter @MarkG_Medina
"He got those 26 points going after offensive rebounds every single time. And probably four times, I would say tongiht, the ball got volleyballed around and it fell right in his hands and he was able to put it right back up and in. But that was just because he put himself in the right place by being in there in the first place. That's what I want him to take away from that." Faried seemed to hear loud and clear, and even he admitted the talk went a long way helping him regain his swagger on the court. "It helped me. I can't even lie, it helped 110 percent," Faried said. "We went to the back and had a conversation. He had some stuff he wanted to say, I had some stuff I wanted to say, and we came to an agreement. Now it helps just ease my mind and I can just go play my game. It is now more just like 'go play my game and everything else will follow.'" Denver Post
SI.com: Is the team and Brian Shaw on the same page? Ty Lawson: "I think so. At the end of the day, Brian just wants to win. We are all trying to figure out a winning formula. We all want to bring a championship to Denver. We want to run, but we have to have a little bit of both. In the playoffs, we have to slow it down. We have to execute in the half court. I like both styles. And we are versatile with our players. I like half-court basketball. You can hit them with action, decide where you want to go. I never played like this before." Sports Illustrated
And unlike his brash talking as a 17-year-old senior, Bryant did not share this standard with teammates. "Kobe never spoke of trying to surpass this guy or that guy. He just worked every day," said Nuggets coach Brian Shaw, Bryant's former teammate and assistant coach. "It's not an accident he's as good as he is. It didn't just happen. He put in the time." Now that he has, Bryant believes he has achieved something besides adding fuel to the comparisons with Jordan. Bryant carved his own identity. "We've had different career paths," Bryant said. "But I feel a great sense of accomplishment having to carry on the two-guard legacy from Jerry to Michael to myself." Los Angeles Daily News
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FOLSOM LAKE WATER LEVELS TO HIT 5-YEAR LOWS: SACRAMENTO (AP) - Federal officials say drought conditions in Northern California could bring water levels in Folsom Lake and the American River to five-year lows.
VERNON (AP) - A disgraced former municipal official who once claimed California's largest public pension isn't giving it up without a fight.
ANAHEIM (AP) - Police say a 3-year-old Anaheim boy is expected to survive after tumbling out a third-floor apartment window while jumping on a bed.
u 10-YEAR-OLD GIRL FALLS OFF CALIFORNIA CLIFF: LOS ANGELES (AP) - A 10-year-old girl was badly injured when she apparently fell off a Southern California cliff.
LOS ANGELES (AP) - "Glee" will return for its fifth season a week later than planned because of the death of series star Cory Monteith, Fox said Friday.
SAN DIEGO (AP) - The U.S. Marine Corps released a sergeant Friday whose murder conviction was overturned in a major blow to the military's prosecution of Iraq war crimes.
SAN MATEO (AP) - As the wreckage of Asiana Flight 214 burned, Ye Meng Yuan was lying on the ground just 30 feet away, buried by the firefighting foam rescue workers were spraying to douse the flames.
ALCATRAZ SWIMMERS HIDE FROM SEARCH: SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The Coast Guard says two men who swam from San Francisco's Aquatic Park to Alcatraz hid on the island while rescuers spent nearly three hours searching for them.
SAN BERNARDINO AP) - Police say violence and vandalism that grew out of a San Bernardino march protesting the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the killing of Trayvon Martin turned violent in San Bernardino let to 11 arrests.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The San Diego County government official in charge of issuing marriage licenses asked the state Supreme Court on Friday to stop gay marriages.
SANTA ANA . (AP) - A California judge said Friday that he's finalizing a settlement worth more than $1 billion in cases where motorists say the value of their Toyota vehicles plunged after recalls over claims they unexpectedly accelerated.
IDYLLWILD (AP) - Residents of another 700 homes were advised to retreat to safety on Friday as crews fighting a wildfire in the mountains above Palm Springs grew increasingly concerned about the possibility of unstable weather and erratic winds.
SACRAMENTO (AP) - Gov. Jerry Brown's administration says in a court filing that the state is falling far short of meeting a demand from federal judges to find thousands of inmates who could be released from prison early without endangering the public.
BAKERSFIELD (AP) - A 400-acre fire is burning near the Grapevine section of Interstate 5, bringing an evacuation order for about two dozen homes and threatening the shutdown of the heavily-traveled stretch of highway between Los Angeles and California's Central Valley.
SANTA ANA (AP) - Police say a mother has been arrested on suspicion of chaining her 10-year-old son's legs together in an attempt to prevent him from getting out of the house and into trouble.
• WATER BOARD APPROVES SANTA BARBARA DESALINATION PERMIT: SANTA BARBARA (AP) - A state board has approved a permit to allow the city of Santa Barbara to restart its desalination plant and tap the ocean to turn salty seawater to fresh water amid an historic drought.
SACRAMENTO . (AP) - December's rains enabled Californians to finally meet Gov. Jerry Brown's call for a 20 percent reduction in monthly water consumption, but more restrictions loom as the state adapts to long-term drought conditions.
FRESNO (AP) - California's $68 billion high-speed rail was chastised by federal officials for infringing on the habitat of the protected kit fox.
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A lawsuit filed by the family of an apparently suicidal college student shot and killed by Los Angeles police claims he obeyed all orders given by the officers and they still opened fire.
HANFORD (AP) - Thick fog is likely to blame for multiple vehicle crashes that involved about 30 cars on a Central California highway.
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Some of Los Angeles' wealthiest areas have gotten the first count of homeless on their streets.
FRESNO (AP) - A 26-year-old woman with the nickname Star who says she is going to marry 80-year-old mass murderer Charles Manson will have to wait a while longer.
SACRAMENTO (AP) - Inmate populations are falling in once-overcrowded California county jails since voters decided in November that certain drug and property crimes should be treated as misdemeanors instead of felonies.
INDIO (AP) - A big-rig hauling frozen chicken collided with a truck carrying bees in Southern California, igniting a fireball that quickly cooked the chicken.
RICHMOND (AP) - In December, the openly gay, white police chief of this tough, minority-dominated Northern California city held up a sign reading "#blacklivesmatter" during a protest over the deaths of two unarmed black suspects at the hands of Missouri and New York police.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - San Francisco police arrested a man on suspicion of murder Saturday in connection with a suitcase found on a downtown street stuffed with dismembered human remains.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A San Francisco Bay Area government association is accusing its former director of financial services of embezzling $1.3 million from a fund meant for parks and other public improvements.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - With the San Francisco Bay Area economy booming, a plan to build a second tube for BART trains under San Francisco Bay is getting renewed attention.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - For the first time in recorded weather history, San Francisco received no measurable rain in January.
PALMDALE (AP) - A former star of the "Power Rangers" TV series has been arrested on suspicion of fatally stabbing his roommate with a sword.


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O Christ God, Who at the ninth hour tasted death in the flesh for our sake, put to death the arrogance of our flesh and save us!
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Starz released new,3rd 'Spartacus Vengeance' episode 9 spoiler clip. The other day,Starz dropped this new,3rd,sneak peek,clip (below) for their upcoming "Spartacus: Vengeance" episode 9,and it gets a little interesting as Glaber gets called incompetent,and more. The episode is entitled, "Monsters."
In the new clip,Glaber is spotted,chatting it up with Varinius,and it doesn't seem like a very nice chat as it quickly turns ugly when Varinius calls Glaber an incompetent fool to let his wife be taken by a slave. Towards the end,out walks Illithiya and Varinius seems mesmerized.
Also, in this episode, Spartacus will convince his people to unite against the imminent Roman assault. Lucretia is going to struggle to be free from the commands of men who threaten her fate, and Glaber's ruthlessness will have consequences. Episode 9 airs tonight at 10pm eastern time on Starz. Follow us on Facebook by Clicking Here. Follow us on Twitter by Clicking Here.
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Buckinghamshire Buckinghamshire Buckinghamshire Buckinghamshire County Council; Borough of Milton Keynes http://www.buckscc.gov.uk/ ; http://www.miltonkeynes.gov.uk/ Executive Members of Parliament Conservative • • • • • • • John Bercow (C) Cheryl Gillan (C) Paul Goodman (C) Dominic Grieve (C) Mark Lancaster (C) David Lidington (C) Phyllis Starkey (L) Districts Geography Status Origin Region Area - Total - Admin. council - Admin. area Admin HQ ISO 3166-2 ONS code NUTS 3 Demography Population - Total (2007 est.) - Density - Admin. council - Admin. pop. Ethnicity Ranked 30th 719,000 384/km² (995/sq mi) Ranked 26th 490,600 91.7% White 4.3% S.Asian 1.6% Black British 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. South Bucks Chiltern Wycombe Aylesbury Vale Milton Keynes (Unitary) Ceremonial & (smaller) Non-metropolitan county Historic South East England Ranked 32nd 1,874 km² (724 sq mi) Ranked 33rd 1,565 km² (604 sq mi) Aylesbury; Milton Keynes GB-BKM 11 UKJ13 Politics Buckinghamshire (pronounced /ˈbʌkɪŋəmʃə/ or /ˈbʌkɪŋəmʃɪə/; abbreviated Bucks) is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan home county in South East England. The county town is 1 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Aylesbury and the largest town in ceremonial Buckinghamshire is Milton Keynes. The area under the control of Buckinghamshire County Council, or shire county, is divided into four districts - Aylesbury Vale, Chiltern, South Bucks and Wycombe. The Borough of Milton Keynes is a unitary authority and forms part of the county for various functions such as Lord Lieutenant but does not come under county council control. The ceremonial county, the area including Milton Keynes borough, borders Greater London, Berkshire, Oxfordshire, Northamptonshire, Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire. Buckinghamshire existed since it was a subdivision of the kingdom of Mercia (585–919). The history of the area, though, predates the Anglo-Saxon period and the county has a rich history starting from the Celtic and Roman periods, though the Anglo-Saxons perhaps had the greatest impact on Buckinghamshire: the geography of the rural county is largely as it was in the Anglo-Saxon period. Later, Buckinghamshire became an important political arena, with King Henry VIII intervening in local politics in the 16th century and just a century later the English Civil War was reputedly started by John Hampden in mid-Bucks.[1] Historically, the biggest change to the county came in the 19th century, when a combination of cholera and famine hit the rural county, forcing many to migrate to larger towns to find work. Not only did this alter the local economical picture, it meant a lot of land was going cheap at a time when the rich were more mobile and leafy Bucks became a popular rural idyll: an image it still has today. Buckinghamshire is a popular home for London commuters, leading to greater local affluence; however some pockets of relative deprivation remain.[2] History Geography The county can be split into two sections geographically. The south leads from the River Thames up the gentle slopes of the Chiltern Hills to the more abrupt slopes on the northern side leading to the Vale of Aylesbury, a large flat expanse of land, which includes the path of the River Great Ouse. Waterways Rivers The county includes two of the three longest rivers in England. The River Thames forms the southern boundary with Berkshire, which has crept over the border at Eton and Slough meaning the river is no longer the sole boundary between the two counties. The River Great Ouse begins just outside the county in Northamptonshire and flows east through Buckingham, Milton Keynes and Olney. Map of Bucks (1904) The name Buckinghamshire is Anglo-Saxon in origin and means The district (scire) of Bucca's home. Bucca's home refers to Buckingham in the north of the county, and is named after an Anglo-Saxon landowner. The county has been so named since about the 12th century; however, the county itself has Canals The main branch of the grand Union Canal flows through the county as do its arms to 2 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Buckinghamshire Districts District Main Towns Population Population Area (2006 (2007 estimate) estimate) Aylesbury, 172,000 Buckingham High Wycombe, Marlow Amersham, Chesham 161,300 174,100 161,400 Buckinghamshire Population Population Density Estimate (2007) 2026[3][4] 213,000 165,000 Aylesbury Vale Wycombe 902.75 km² 193/km² 324.57 km² 497/km² Chiltern 90,300 90,800 64,300 490,600 228,400 196.35 km² 462/km² 141.28 km² 455/km² 1565 km² 313/km² 308.63 km² 740/km² 89,000 63,800 530,800 323,146 South Bucks Beaconsfield, 63,700 Burnham TOTAL Non- N/A Metropolitan Milton Keynes (borough) TOTAL Ceremonial Milton Keynes, Newport Pagnell N/A 487,300 224,800 712,100 719,000 1874 km² 384/km² 853,946 Slough, Aylesbury, Wendover (disused) and Buckingham (disused). The canal has been incorporated into Milton Keynes. Landscape The two highest points in Buckinghamshire, both 267 m (876 ft) above sea level, are Haddington Hill in Wendover Woods (a stone marks its summit) and Coombe Hill near Wendover. As can be seen from the table, the Vale of Aylesbury and borough of Milton Keynes have been identified as growth areas, with a population surge of almost 50,000 people in Aylesbury Vale between 2006 and 2026 and 100,000 people in Milton Keynes within twenty years. The population of Milton Keynes is expected to reach almost 350,000 by 2031. Ceremonial county The ceremonial county of Buckinghamshire consists of the area administered by Milton Keynes Borough Council as well as that administered by Buckinhamshire County Council. The ceremonial county has a Lord Lieutenant and a High Sheriff. Currently the Lord Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire is Sir Henry Aubrey-Fletcher and the High Sheriff of Buckinghamshire is Amanda Nicholson. The Custos rotulorum has been combined with the duties of Lord Lieutenant since 1702. Population figures for 2006 from the Office for National Statistics[5] as are figures for 2007 estimates[6] See List of English districts by population for a full list of every English district. Politics At present, the county has two top-level administrations: Buckinghamshire County Council, which administers about four fifths of the county (see map above) and the Borough of Milton Keynes, a unitary authority, which administers the remaining fifth. There are four district councils that are subsidiary to the county council: Aylesbury Vale, Chiltern, South Bucks and Wycombe. Buckinghamshire County Council The county council was founded in 1889 with its base in new municipal buildings in Walton Street, Aylesbury (which are still there). In Buckinghamshire, local administration is run on a two-tier system where public services 3 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Buckinghamshire swans were bred in Buckinghamshire for the king's pleasure. That the swan is in chains illustrates that the swan is bound to the monarch, an ancient law that still applies to wild swans in the UK today. The arms were first borne at the Battle of Agincourt by the Duke of Buckingham. Above the swan is a gold band, in the centre of which is Whiteleaf Cross, representing the many ancient landmarks of the county. The shield is surmounted by a beech tree, representing the Chiltern Forest that once covered almost half the county. Either side of the shield are a buck, for Buckingham, and a swan, the county symbol. The motto of the shield says Vestigia Nulla Retrorsum. This is Latin and means 'no stepping back'. The flag of Buckinghamshire, which flies outside County Hall in Aylesbury, comprises red and black halves with a white swan. The flag takes the county emblem which is on the county shield. Bucks County Council's County Hall are split between the county council and a series of district councils. In the 1960s the council moved into new premises: a 15-storey tower block in the centre of Aylesbury (pictured) designed by architect Thomas Pooley. Said to be one of the most unpopular and disliked buildings in Buckinghamshire, it is now a Grade II listed building. In 1997 the northernmost part of Buckinghamshire in Milton Keynes Borough separated to form a unitary authority; however for ceremonial and some other purposes Milton Keynes is still considered to be part of Buckinghamshire. Buckinghamshire County Council is a large employer within the County and provides a great variety of services, including education (schools, adult education and youth services), social services, highways, libraries, County Archives and Record Office, County Museum and Roald Dahl Children's Gallery in Aylesbury, consumer services and some aspects of waste disposal and planning. Demographics Today Buckinghamshire is ethnically diverse, particularly in the larger towns. At the end of the 19th century some Welsh drover families settled in north Bucks and, in the last quarter of the 20th century, a large number of Londoners in Milton Keynes. Aylesbury has a sizeable Italian population, and Amersham has a large Polish community dating from World War II . Amersham is twinned with Krynica in Poland. High Wycombe is the most ethnically diverse town in the county, with large Asian and Afro-Caribbean populations. There is also a Polish and Eastern European community. Economy Buckinghamshire has a modern servicebased economy and is part of the Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire NUTS-2 region, which was the seventh richest subregion in the European Union in 2002[7] The southern part of the county is a prosperous section of the London commuter belt. The county has fertile agricultural lands, with many landed estates, especially those of the Rothschild banking family of England in the 19th century (see Rothschild properties in Buckinghamshire). Manufacturing industries include furniture-making (traditionally Coat of arms The coat of arms of Buckinghamshire County Council features a white swan in chains. This dates back to the Anglo-Saxon period, when 4 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Year Regional Gross Value Added[9] 1995 6,008 2000 8,389 2003 9,171 Buckinghamshire Agriculture[10] Industry[11] Services[12] GVA index per person[13] 60 45 50 1,746 1,863 1,793 4,201 6,481 7,328 118 125 118 • • Pitstone Windmill Princes Risborough Manor House Roald Dahl Children's Gallery Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre Shardeloes Stowe Park Waddesdon Manor The Water Tower West Wycombe Caves West Wycombe Park West Wycombe Village Whiteleaf Cross Winslow Hall Wycombe Abbey centred at High Wycombe), pharmaceuticals and agricultural processing. This is a chart of trend of regional gross value added of Buckinghamshire at current basic prices published by the Office for National Statistics with figures in millions of British Pounds Sterling (except GVA index).[8] In a recent nationwide survey, Buckinghamshire had the highest quality of life in the country, having the highest life expectancy and best education results. [14] • • • • Places of interest Key Abbey/Priory/Cathedral Accessible open space Amusement/Theme Park Castle Country Park English Heritage Forestry Commission Heritage railway Historic House Museum (free/not free) National Trust Zoo Ascott Ashridge Estate Bletchley Park Boarstall Tower Bradenham Village • Brill Windmill • Buckingham Chantry Chapel • Buckinghamshire County Museum • Buckinghamshire • • • • • • • • • Hospital of St John the Baptist Hughenden Manor Kederminster Library The King's Head Inn, Aylesbury Long Crendon Courthouse Mentmore Towers • • • • • • • Railway Centre in Quainton Chequers Court Chicheley Hall Chiltern Open Air Museum Chinnor & Princes Risborough Railway Claydon House Cliveden Coombe Hill Dorneywood Halton House Hampden House Hartwell House • • • • • • • • • • • • The county is also home to the world famous Pinewood Studios. Transport Roads Buckinghamshire (including Milton Keynes) is served by four motorways, although two are on its borders: • M40 motorway - cuts through the south of the county serving towns such as High Wycombe and Beaconsfield • M1 motorway - serves Milton Keynes in the north • M25 motorway - passes into Bucks but has only one junction (J16-interchange for the M40) • • 5 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia • M4 motorway - passes through the very south of the county with only J7 in Bucks Four important A roads also enter the county (from north to south): • A5 - serves Milton Keynes • A41 - cuts through the centre of the county, serving Aylesbury • A40 - parallels M40 through south Bucks and continues to central London • A4 - serves Taplow in the very south Road travel east–west is good in the county because of the commuter routes leaving London for the rest of the country. There are no major roads that run directly between the south and north of the county (e.g. between High Wycombe and Milton Keynes). Buckinghamshire Settlements For the full list of towns, villages and hamlets in Buckinghamshire, see List of places in Buckinghamshire. In the 1960s and 1970s, some towns were taken by other counties: Education Education in Buckinghamshire is governed by two Local Authorities. Buckinghamshire County Council has a completely selective education system with either grammar schools or secondary modern schools. There are 9 independent schools and 34 state schools, not including sixth form colleges. The unitary authority of Milton Keynes operates a comprehensive education system. Rail Buckinghamshire has four main lines running through it: • West Coast Main Line - in the north, with stations serving Milton Keynes • Great Central Main Line - now the London to Aylesbury Line, it serves Aylesbury and other settlements along the A413 towards London • Chiltern Main Line - serves the towns along the M40 motorway including High Wycombe and Beaconsfield • Great Western Main Line - runs through Slough. Slough is now in Berkshire, but the line enters Bucks twice, on either side of Slough, with Taplow and Iver both having stations in Buckinghamshire. There are the following additional lines: • Princes Risborough to Aylesbury Line - a single track branch, it connects the Chiltern Main Line to the Aylesbury Line. • Marston Vale Line - between Bletchley and Bedford • Marlow Branch Line - between Marlow, Bourne End and Maidenhead. The county once had a whole network of Metropolitan Railway services, from the current Amersham terminus right into central Bucks at Verney Junction. That station is now closed but may one day re-open as part of the Varsity Line scheme for trains between Oxford and Bedford. The main train operating companies are Chiltern Railways, Virgin Trains and London Midland, First Great Western and London Underground. From 2017, Iver will have Crossrail services. Notable people Anciently Buckinghamshire was the birth place and/or final resting place of several notable individuals. Saint Osyth was born in Quarrendon and was buried in Aylesbury in the 7th century[17] while at about the same time Saint Rumwold was buried in Buckingham.[18] From the medieval period Roger of Wendover was, as the name suggests, from Wendover[19] and Anne Boleyn also owned property in the same town.[20] It is said that King Henry VIII made Aylesbury the county town over Buckingham because Boleyn's father owned property there and was a regular visitor himself.[21] Other medieval residents included Edward the Confessor who had a palace at Brill[22] and John Wycliffe who lived in Ludgershall.[23] From a slightly later period Buckinghamshire became home to some notable literary characters. Edmund Waller was brought up in Beaconsfield and served as Member of Parliament for both Amersham and Wycombe.[24] Percy Bysshe Shelley and his wife Mary spent some time living in Marlow, attracted to the town by their friend Thomas Love Peacock who also lived there.[25] John Milton lived in Chalfont St Giles and his cottage can still be visited there[26] and John Wilkes served as Member of Parliament for Aylesbury.[27] Much later literary characters include Jerome K. Jerome who lived at Marlow,[28] T. S. Eliot who also lived at Marlow,[29] Roald Dahl who lived in Great Missenden,[30] Enid Blyton who lived in 6 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Buckinghamshire Largest Towns in Ceremonial Buckinghamshire (2001 census) Town Milton Keynes High Wycombe Aylesbury Population[15] District 184,506 Notes Milton Unitary Authority since 1997. Population includes Keynes Newport Pagnell (borough) Wycombe Includes suburbs of Downley and Hazlemere.[16] The High Wycombe Urban Area population is 118,229 Aylesbury County town of Buckinghamshire. Population of Vale Aylesbury Urban Area (including Stoke Mandeville and Bierton) is 69,021 Chiltern Chiltern Wycombe Aylesbury Historically the county town of Buckinghamshire Vale South Bucks Wycombe Aylesbury Vale Milton Keynes Aylesbury Vale Lost to Berkshire Berkshire Bedfordshire Albania lived at Frieth.[39] Bucks is also notable for another exile, although this one much earlier: King Louis XVIII of France lived in exile at Hartwell House from 1809 to 1814.[40] Also on the local political stage Buckinghamshire has been home to Nancy Astor who lived in Cliveden,[41] Frederick, Prince of Wales who also lived in Cliveden,[42] Baron Carrington who lives in Bledlow,[43] Benjamin Disraeli who lived at Hughenden Manor and was made Earl of Beaconsfield,[44] John Hampden who was from Great Hampden and is revered in Aylesbury to this day[1] and Prime Minister Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery who lived at Mentmore.[45] Also worthy of note are William Penn who believed he was descended from the Penn Governed by Milton Keynes, not Bucks County Council 92,300 56,392 Amersham Chesham Marlow 21,470 20,357 17,522 Buckingham 12,512 Beaconsfield 12,292 Princes Risborough Wendover Olney Winslow 8,121 7,385 6,032 4,519 Town Eton Slough Linslade Beaconsfield[31] and Edgar Wallace who lived in Bourne End[32] and is buried in Little Marlow.[33] Modern-day writers from Bucks include Terry Pratchett who was born in Beaconsfield,[34] Tim Rice who is from Amersham[35] and Andy Riley who is from Aylesbury.[36] During the Second World War a number of politicians and world leaders from Europe came to England to seek exile. Due to its proximity to London various locations in Buckinghamshire were selected to house dignitaries. President Edvard Beneš of Czechoslovakia lived at Aston Abbotts with his family while some of his officials were stationed at nearby Addington and Wingrave.[37] Meanwhile Władysław Sikorski, military leader of Poland, lived at Iver[38] and King Zog of 7 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia family of Penn and so is buried nearby[46] and the current Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, who has an official residence at Chequers. Finally John Archdale colonial governor of North Carolina and South Carolina, although more notably American, was born in Buckinghamshire[47] Other natives of Buckinghamshire who have become notable in their own right include: • Errol Barnett, news reporter, was born in Milton Keynes • Nick Beggs, musician, is from Winslow • Lynda Bellingham, actress, is from Aylesbury • Emily Bergl, actress, born in Buckinghamshire, though her family moved to suburban Chicago a few years after her birth • Emmerson Boyce, Wigan Athletic footballer, was born in Aylesbury • Nick Bracegirdle aka Chicane, was born in Chalfont St Giles • Den Brotheridge, British Army Officer who died taking Pegasus Bridge in France was from Aylesbury • James Corden, actor, grew up in Hazlemere • Lucinda Dryzek, actress, born in High Wycombe in South Bucks • Martin Grech, musician, is from Aylesbury • Howard Jones, musician, is from High Wycombe • Arthur Lasenby Liberty, merchant, was from Chesham • Richard Lee, footballer, attended Aylesbury Grammar School • Jonathon Lewis, England test cricketer, was born in Aylesbury • Al Murray, television / radio presenter also known as The Pub Landlord originates from Stewkley • John Otway, musician, is from Aylesbury • Steve Redgrave, five-time Olympic gold medallist rower is from Marlow Bottom • Simon Standage, baroque violinist, is from High Wycombe • Michael York, actor, born in Fulmer in South Bucks Today Buckinghamshire is a very picturesque landscape and is home to numerous celebrities and has attracted its fair share in the past. These include: • Cilla Black, television presenter, lives in Denham Buckinghamshire • Fern Britton, television presenter, lives in Holmer Green • Melanie Brown, musician, lived in Little Marlow • John Craven, television presenter, lives in Princes Risborough • Tess Daly has a house in Fulmer • Iain Duncan Smith, politician, lives in Swanbourne • Ian Dury, musician, lived in Wingrave • Noel Edmonds, television presenter, once lived in Weston Turville • Andrew Fletcher, musician with Depeche Mode, has a home in Marlow • Noel Gallagher, musician with Oasis, lives in Little Chalfont • Barry Gibb, musician from Bee Gees, lives in Beaconsfield • Sir John Gielgud, actor, was living in Wotton Underwood when he died • Sir David Jason, actor, lives in Ellesborough • Angelina Jolie, actress, lives in Fulmer • Peter Jones (entrepreneur), businessman, lives in Marlow • Jason "Jay" Kay, musician and frontman of Jamiroquai, lives in Horsenden • Vernon Kay has a house in Fulmer • John Laurie, Actor, lived in Chalfont St Peter • Hayley Mills and Roy Boulting lived in Ibstone • John Mills, actor, lived in Denham • Mike Oldfield, musician, once lived in Little Chalfont • Nduka Onwuegbute, playwright, lives in Aylesbury • Ozzy Osbourne, musician, had a home in Jordans • Pauline Quirke, actress, lives in Beaconsfield • Steve Rothery, musician with Marillion, lives in Whitchurch • Rothschild family, bankers, had houses in Ascott, Aston Clinton, Eythrope, Halton, Mentmore and Waddesdon • Veruca Salt during the 2005 movie Charlie and the Chocolate Factory • Tiny Rowland, businessman, lived in Hedsor • Jackie Stewart, racing driver, lives in Ellesborough • Terry Wogan, radio and television broadcaster, lives in Taplow 8 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Buckinghamshire See also Community%20and%20living/ FactFile39HighWycombe.pdf. • Architecture of Aylesbury [17] Tendring District Council Conservation • Bucks County, Pennsylvania Area Review (pdf) • Wendover Woods [18] Biography of St Rumwold, University of • Centre for Buckinghamshire Studies Buckingham Archives, Record Office, Local History and [19] Medieval Sourcebook: Roger of Family History Wendover [20] Picture Tour at Chiltern Web [21] Aylesbury Tourist Information [22] Genuki guide to Brill [1] ^ Biography of John Hampden [23] Biography of John Wycliffe [2] Report on deprivation from Wycombe [24] Biography of Edmund Waller District Council, showing some areas [25] Biography of Thomas Love Peacock among top 20% of national deprivation [26] Milton's Cottage website figures [27] Review of a biography of John Wilkes [3] "Population Projections". [28] Literary guide to Marlow http://www.buckscc.gov.uk/bcc/content/ [29] Tourist guide to Marlow index.jsp?contentid=491076174. [30] About Britain.com [4] "Milton Keynes intelligence [31] Guide to Beaconsfield Observatory". [32] Bourne End online http://analysis.mkiobservatory.org.uk/ [33] Biography of Edgar Wallace webview/ [34] Biography of Terry Pratchett index.jsp?v=2&mode=cube&cube=http%3A%2F%2Fanalysis.mkiobservatory.org.uk%3A80%2Fobj%2 [35] Tim Rice profile at IMDb [5] http://www.statistics.gov.uk/statbase/ [36] Aylesbury Grammar School Old Boys ssdataset.asp?vlnk=9666&More=Y data [6] http://www.statistics.gov.uk/downloads/ [37] Czechs in Exile at Aston Abbotts theme_population/ [38] Czechs in Exile - Polish government Mid_2007_UK_England_&_Wales_Scotland_and_Northern_Ireland%20_21_08_08.zip comparison [7] Regional GDP per capita in the EU25 [39] Bucks Free Press GDP per capita in 2002 ranged from 32% [40] Biography of Louis XVIII of France of the EU25 average in Lubelskie to [41] Guide to Cliveden 315% in Inner London [42] New York Times Travel Supplement [8] Office of National Statistics (pp.240-253) [43] Visit Buckinghamshire - Bledlow [9] Components may not sum to totals due [44] Biography of Disraeli to rounding [45] Genuki guide to Mentmore [10] includes hunting and forestry [46] Biography of William Penn [11] includes energy and construction [47] Who Was Who in America, Historical [12] includes financial intermediation Volume, 1607–1896. Chicago: Marquis services indirectly measured Who's Who. 1963. [13] UK average index base = 100 [14] "Buckinghamshire is best county". http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/ home-news/buckinghamshire-is-best• Buckinghamshire County Council county-802353.html. Retrieved on 15 • Buckinghamshire New University formerly January 2009. known as Buckinghamshire Chilterns [15] "KS01 Usual resident population: Census University College 2001, Key Statistics for urban areas". • Buckinghamshire County Museum and Office for National Statistics. Roald Dahl Children's Gallery http://www.statistics.gov.uk/StatBase/ • Buckinghamshire Family History Society ssdataset.asp?vlnk=8271&Pos=2&ColRank=1&Rank=224. • Buckinghamshire Libraries Retrieved on 2008-06-18. • Buckinghamshire Adult Learning [16] "High Wycombe Fact File" (PDF). • Buckinghamshire Tourist Guide Wycombe District Council. • Bucks County and District Councils Portal http://www.wycombe.gov.uk/uploads/ • Bucks Free Press Local Newspaper documents/ • Bucks Travel Information References External links 9 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia • Country Parks of Buckinghamshire • Country Walks and Rights of Way of Buckinghamshire • Information about Buckinghamshire schools entrance exams • Local Theatre in Buckinghamshire • Photographic Archive of Buckinghamshire Buckinghamshire • Sharing Wycombe's Old Photos - A Photographic Archive of part of Buckinghamshire mostly High Wycombe and surrounding area • Walks by bus and rail in Buckinghamshire Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckinghamshire" Categories: Buckinghamshire, Non-metropolitan counties This page was last modified on 13 May 2009, at 12:20 (UTC). 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In order to locate an inaccessible object such as an underground boring tool, the inaccessible object having means, for example a solenoid, to generate a magnetic field, a locator is provided with a detector for detecting the generated magnetic field. The detector may be an aerial array of three mutually perpendicular coils. When the locator is moved from a first position to a second position errors may arise in the measurements due to misalignment of the locator. In order to minimise such errors, a magnetic compass is provided on the locator to ensure that the locator can be maintained in the same position relative to the Earth's magnetic field. The magnetic compass is not affected by the magnetic field generated by the solenoid as this magnetic field is an A.C. magnetic field.
1. A method for detecting the relationship between a locator and an inaccessible object, said inaccessible object having means for generating a magnetic field and said locator having detecting means for detecting the generated magnetic field and a magnetic compass, the method comprising:
(a) measuring horizontal and vertical components of said generated magnetic field using the locator in a first position;
(b) processing said measurements to determine the separation of said inaccessible object from said locator in the first position;
(c) moving said locator to a second position and using said compass to ensure that said locator has the same orientation relative to the Earth's magnetic field as in said first position;
(d) measuring horizontal and vertical components of said generated magnetic field using the locator in the second position; and,
(e) processing said measurements to determine the separation of said inaccessible object from said locator at the second position.
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1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a locator for determining the position of a sonde. Such a sonde may, for example, be mounted on a boring tool and may generate electromagnetic signals which enable the position of that boring tool to be determined by the locator.
2. Description of Related Art
In WO 96/29615 corresponding to U.S. Pat. No. 5,917,325, the disclosure of which is incorporated herein by reference, we discussed an arrangement for locating an underground boring tool in which a magnetic field generated by a solenoid was detected at two measuring locations. Use may be made of the relationship between the axial and radial fields of the solenoids, and a tilt sensor was included to indicate if the axis of the solenoid was not horizontal. The solenoid and tilt sensor may then be incorporated in a sonde. In general, the locator uses an aerial array to measure field components in three mutually perpendicular directions. Using amplitude and phase data from each aerial array, the location of the sonde, and hence the boring tool, can be determined.
Thus, as shown in FIG. 1, an underground boring tool 10 has a sonde 11 which contains a solenoid which generates a magnetic field, with the axis 12 of the solenoid being aligned with the longitudinal axis of the boring tool 10. The axis 12 will be the direction of movement of the boring tool, unless the boring tool is diverted by ground variation or obstacles, or by deliberate steering action. A locator having an aerial array comprising three coils X3 Y3 and Z3 will, when placed directly above the sonde 11 and in alignment with it so that the Y3 coil is parallel to the axis 12, the Z3 coil is perpendicular to the axis in a way which makes that coil Z3 vertical when the axis 12 is horizontal, have a maximum signal in the direction axis 12 with the X3 and Y3 coils detecting a null field. Any diversions from this position will result in signals from the X3 and Z3 coils, which signals will vary in amplitude and phase according to the extent and direction of such divergence. A similar arrangement will apply if the locator is positioned ahead of the sonde 11 although the signal magnitude will then be reduced due to distance. In tracking a boring tool, it is common to position a locator ahead of the tool in the anticipated direction of its motion.
However, if the locator is not correctly aligned, an incorrect measurement will result. Whilst the operator may endeavour to maintain the orientation of the locator relative to the boring tool 10, this is not always reliable since the boring tool cannot be seen.
A locator is provided with a detector for detecting the magnetic field generated by, for example, a solenoid in an inaccessible object which might be an item such as an underground boring tool. The detector preferably comprises an aerial array of three mutually perpendicular coils for detecting the generated magnetic field. When the locator is moved from a first position to a second position errors may arise in the measurement due to misalignment of the locator. In order to minimize such errors, a magnetic compass is provided on the locator to insure that the locator can be maintained in the same position relative to the earth's magnetic field. The magnetic compass is not affected by the magnetic field generated by the solenoid as this magnetic field is an A.C. magnetic field.
An embodiment of the present invention will now be described in detail, by way of example, with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which:
FIG. 1 shows fields generated by a solenoid-containing sonde, and has already been discussed; and
FIG. 2 shows location of a boring tool using a locator according to the present invention.
Referring to FIG. 2, an underground boring tool 10 has a sonde with a solenoid generating a magnetic field, the axis of the solenoid being shown at 12. This arrangement is similar to that shown in FIG. 1 and corresponding components will be indicated by the same reference numerals. In order to achieve satisfactory location of the boring tool 10 using a locator 20, the operator seeks to place the locator 20 directly ahead of the boring tool 10 at a position B. In order to do this, it is usual for the operator first to place the locator 20 slightly to one side of the expected line of the axis 12, at position B2 in FIG. 2 and then move the locator 20 until it coincides with the axis 12, on the basis of amplitude and phase measurements from the coils of the locator 20. The coils are as in FIG. 1, and will not be described in more detail now.
If a locator 20 a is mis-aligned with the axis 12, and moved toward the axis to a position B1, measurements is taken by the locator 20 a may be incorrect.
Therefore, in accordance with the present invention, the locator 20 has thereon a magnetic compass 21. The compass points NS, and so defines the orientation of the locator 20 relative to the Earth's magnetic field. Therefore, when the locator 20 is moved from one position to another, e.g. from a position over the boring tool 1 to the position B2 in FIG. 2, the locator can ensure that the compass orientation remains unchanged, so that the locator 20 has the same orientation relative to the Earth's magnetic field. Thus, mis-alignments such as shown at position B1 in FIG. 2 can be avoided. Hence, incorrect measurements may be avoided. Note that the compass 21 is unaffected by the magnetic field from the sonde 2, which field is shown schematically by dotted lines, because such a field is an A.C. field.
At its simplest, the magnetic compass 21 may be a simple compass of conventional type, such as those used by walkers, since all that is needed is for the operator of the locator to have a visual indication of the direction to the boring tool. However, it is also possible to use other compass arrangements. In particular, the need to record a compass bearing at the initial position can be obviated if the compass is provided with an adjustable pointer or marked bezel, which can be set to match the north point of the needle, in a similar manner to the setting of a barometer pointer to its last reading. By turning the locator until the needle and adjustable mark correspond, the operator then knows that the locator has its original orientation.
Other arrangements such as magnetometer or �solid-state� compasses or gyroscopic devices might find application in some circumstances.
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It was March 21, according to the folded newspaper that sat ignored on the bar beside my right elbow.
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It was supposed to be one of the happiest days of my life.
But I never made the ceremony. That made it one of the saddest.
Instead, I'd been hiding out in the corner of this old bar, counting down the minutes until the happy-hour crowd left me alone and Bill the bartender dimmed the lights to make ready for some serious drinking, serious disappearing. If only vanishing were possible.
Horror in Mexico!
The world's business.
The blues in Albany!
My business.
After five slow hours inside Bill's I could tell you exactly who came and went like clockwork. An old man who called himself Kenny P. C. ("P for Pretty," he slurred, a toothy vampire smile on his ruddy face. "C for Cute.") and dressed himself in blue polyester slacks, white rayon shirt, and matching blue jacket. A man far older than his years who sat five stools away from me toward the middle of the bar and drank bottom-shelf scotch. Until the head bob began and the space between the bar and his forehead became narrower and narrower. Until the bets were placed for which final bob would send his skull bouncing off the hardwood. At which time he was escorted to the door, stage right, a taxi already warmed up and waiting for him just outside the picture window.
Then there was the woman in Sears jeans and white cotton T-shirt who'd come in sometime around one-thirty. She had a pockmarked face and frizzy gray hair. She smoked Pall Mall 100s, one off the other, and carried on one hell of a conversation with herself in a South All-benny accent. On three separate occasions she found her way over to me, set her hand on my thigh, told me how sad and lonely I looked, then offered her body. All three times I told her no. Finally, I flipped her a twenty from my honeymoon bankroll, just to shut her up.
Maybe I liked being lonely, I told her.
And then there was the young Mohawk Indian kid who sat four stools down from me, whose hands shook so bad he had to use them both to lift his whiskey glass off the bar, bring the rim to his thick lips.
I'd gotten to know them all during my disappearing act at Bill's.
I had no way of knowing if my fianc?e, Val Antonelli, or my best man (and lawyer), Tony Angelino, had attempted to contact me. No idea if they wanted to contact me. As I removed the pinned carnation from my breast pocket and set it down on the bar, I knew that by now I had to have been recognized. That I wasn't invisible. And if I had been recognized, then I was also sure that Val and Tony knew exactly where to find me.
I blamed the Albany cops.
Maybe I had no idea what their names were or what precinct they worked out of (though Albany wasn't that big). But as a former maximum-security warden, I'd had gained enough experience over the years to be able to sniff out a cop at twenty paces. It was never the uniform that gave them away. No cop would dare enter this or any other bar for a drink dressed in his on-duty blacks.
The cops who came into Bill's were almost always young, almost always dressed in generous-cut Levi's jeans, immaculate running shoes, maybe a pastel-colored polo shirt or Notre Dame sweatshirt pulled over broad, iron-pumped shoulders. They wore gold Irish Claddagh rings on their middle fingers, and their flattop hair always had that wet, just-out-of-the-gang-shower look.
And man, talk about the overwhelming aroma of Aqua Velva.
But if all this were not enough to convince me that the young dude ordering a pint of "Half and Half" was one of Albany's Irish finest, then I could be certain when he wrapped his arm around Kenny P. C.'s shoulder and addressed the drunk by his first name. Naturally, Kenny would ask the cop if he could spare a couple of bucks. But then the cop would pull out the empty pockets of his jeans, allow them to hang there like little white wings. He'd hold his hands in the air and say, "Kenny, even Jesus Christ Himself could touch only so many lepers."
You could always spot a cop at Bill's Bar and Grill, because everybody knew cops drank for free.
As a former lawman I knew that the cops must have come and gone immediately after the eight-to-four shift or right after the four-to-midnight action shift. Just in time for last call. I'd seen quite a few of them during my afternoon inside the bar. Maybe I'd gone a little out of my mind by then, but I knew they spotted me just as easily as I spotted them. I also knew that it was only a matter of time until one of them placed a call to Tony's downtown law practice to let him know where the hell I was. Tony, in turn, would tell Val. On the other hand, why should she waste her time looking for me? Why even make the effort? I was the one who had left her standing at the altar all alone. I was the one who, for five long hours, had been pissing away our honeymoon money on beer, whiskey, and regrets.
The wind whistled. Even with my blazer on, I could feel the cold March air on my back. I sipped beer from a long-neck bottle, fired up a smoke, and for the hundredth time that afternoon, hit the playback button in my brain.
It had just started snowing as I'd passed the stone pilasters marking Albany Rural Cemetery's south-side entrance. Snowing hard in mid-March. I had pushed on past the old iron gates, feeling stiff and cold in the brand-new wedding-day blazer and loafers. Shuffling toward the plot that had been home to my first wife, Fran, for almost three years now.
As usual, I was running late.
Posted May 4, 2011
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Vincent Zandri, in my opinion, has got to be THE best thriller/suspense novelist out there. All his books reach out, grab you into the story, and put you on a roller coaster of up,downs, twists and turns like never before. He uses skillful writing, life-like characters, and plot lines that leave you thirsting for more. He's unforgettable characters become one with the reader, as the reader follows along and feels as if Zandri uses them for the plot line. It becomes real. It becomes incredibly real. AWESOME-NESS!
Godchild is the sequel to The Innocent, where we first meet Jack "Keeper" Marconi, former warden. This time, 3 years later, he's a PI, a little down on his luck. He's about to get married, but he stops to visit his deceased wife, Fran, at the cemetery, when he has a spotting of the black Buick and man that was responsible for the death of his first wife, 3 years ago. So what happens next? His friend, Tony (this guy is SUPER DUPER mafia like!) gets him a PI job trying to safe the life of Renata, a writer thrown into a Mexican jail for trying to smuggle drugs. Wow. After he takes the assignment, the heat turns up and the suspense gets rolling at a fast-action pace. Totally worth the time NOT putting the book down (though I don't think the kiddos would agree with that!)! Feeling a part of the story, I loved the blood pumping, panting breath feeling of reading Keeper's second story. Like The Innocent, this is an un-put-downable novel.
Of course, I am not going to give away spoilers but I must confess, that if you like thrillers, suspense, or just a plain greatly written novel, then I suggest you start right here and now, with this FABTASTIC 5 star book! It is not overly confusing with the scenes and events, so it could double as a stand alone, though I HIGHLY recommend that you read it as a sequel to The Innocent. I think you may fully understand Keeper's story better if you read them both. Definitely give this book and it's rockin' great author a chance. You'll find, while there is a touch of humor, this is a noir crime novel and novelist BETTER than any Stephen King! Rock on, Vincent Zandri!
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Posted August 13, 2011
This is the first book of his I have read. And it was just as suspenseful as I had hoped it would be. It didnt take long to get hooked into the story and characters. And the story kept moving at a great pace though out the book.
The characters were complex but interesting and full of secrets that added to the story. Obviously you follow Keeper though the story. But why did seeing the man he thought killed his wife, keep him from getting married two years later. Why is this woman on the run in Mexico, and why is he hired to find her. What is the secret behind her book, Godchild. The book has almost constant twists and turns and new questions pop up almost as fast as old ones are answered. But though it all the reader never gets lost or left behind.
This is a classic suspense story. And any lover of suspense novels should not miss it.
Posted June 3, 2011
The noir genre and I have an uneasy relationship. On the one hand, pitch black noir can entertain like no other. The characters are always in varying degrees of damnation, the violence is brutal, the alcohol/drug abuse is ubiquitous and nothing about the plot is as it seems.
On the other hand, there are certain noir stereotypes that never go away. If you've read one, you've read them all. There's the PI with the tortured past who drinks too much. There's the female in need of saving from something. There's the corrupt cops, politicians, lawyers and whatnot. There's the grim, forboding tone to the writing.
Vincent Zandri's "Godchild," the second in the Keeper Marconi series, has all of these things. Keeper is a PI with a tortured past who drinks too much. He gets hired to break a woman out of a Mexican prison. Because of the involvement of corrupt officials, things go haywire pretty quick.
If this was any other writer, I probably wouldn't've made it through all of "Godchild." The noir cliches were piled on thick. But this is Vincent Zandri. There's something about his writing style that I admire. It's the brisk pace of the action. It's knowing when to slow down and evaluate what's going on in the characters' heads. It's the way a backstory critical to the plot is slowly revealed throughout the novel.
Simply put, "Godchild" is full of noir cliches. But there's a big difference between well-done noir cliches and using a stereotype in place of the creative process. Zandri (who I made me a fan with "The Remains") is definitely the former. His writing has a voice, which is the most difficult and hardest to define thing for a writer to create.
I mentioned this is the second in the Keeper Marconi series. I hadn't read the first, "The Innocent," but that didn't matter. Readers will have no problem catching up. In all honesty, I bought "Godchild" first because the price dropped to 99 cents in May. Just my luck, "The Innocent" came down to 99 cents for June. I'll be reading that one next.
Posted May 16, 2011
Godchild is a mystery suspense crime thriller.
Jack "Keeper" Marconi is about to get married but before doing so, he visits the grave of his first wife, who was killed by a hit and run driver in a horrific accident. As Jack is saying his goodbyes, the Black truck with The Bald Man, pulls up and taunts Jack. However, no one believes him, not even his best friend and Jack fails to attend his wedding, leaving his bride standing at the alter. After getting drunk and shooting up a bar, Jack is asked to take on a case to save a rich American woman from a Mexican jail.
Renata Barnes is a rich socialite and method writer who has been accused of drowning her own son just so she could write believably about her newest book. This time she's writing about burriers, rich woman who become courier's of drug, smuggling them across the border. They do it for the thrill and not about the money. Renata gets herself caught, arrested and her future doesn't look good.
Keeper is hired by Renata's husband to find her and bring her back. But Jack is being removed from his element and placed into unknown terrorities. Will Jack be able to save Ms. Barnes from the evil drug lords or will she end up in a nameless grave like the ones she has witnessed. When Jack realizes that The Bald Man was also at the funeral of Renata's child, he realizes that things may be interconnected in ways he hasn't fully understood yet and time is running out for all parties involved.
I wasn't really impressed with the character of Jack, he seemed a bit of a wimp to me and every time he got caught, I was rolling my eyes and groaning. He just came across as a bit of an oaf who through luck only, gets the job done. I found him to be cliched and stereotyped and his dialogue was stiff and disjointed.
I liked the back story concerning Renata and her child, the twists and turns in that story were enjoyable to read. However, it wasn't enough for this reader to state this was a great book, more along mediocrity and droll. The plot was the only thing keeping the story afloat. The Bald Man as a "bad" guy name was hilarious when I first read it and I immediately thought of "The One Armed Man" from "The Fugitive".
I have never had the opportunity to read a Vincent Zandri book before and had only heard good reviews but this reader isn't sold, maybe I needed to read "The Innocent" to further understand the machinations of Jack, even though Godchild is promoted as a stand alone novel. Maybe it was the format in which I read it in, I am not a huge fan of eBooks, they lack depth that is needed to read a book properly. Or maybe I am just not a huge fan of this writing style...I am not going to say this is a good nor a bad book, I'll have to leave that to you, the reader, I just know this reader didn't enjoy the experience, and was looking for more intelligence and substance from such a renowned author.
Posted January 26, 2011
GODCHILD by Vincent Zandri
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At the request of the author, a galley PDF version was sent, at no cost to me, for my honest opinion.
Snyopsis (borrowed from Amazon): He wanted justice, truth, revenge...whichever came first.
Prison-warden-turned-P.I. Jack "Keeper" Marconi understands the criminal mind. And he knows what it takes to break a man. His own life came apart the day a black Buick broadsided his car--and his wife died horrifically in the seat beside him.
Years later, on the eve of his second marriage, Marconi catches a split-second glimpse of the driver who killed his wife. Suddenly hurtled back into the past, he is determined to take one last shot at hunting him down. That is, until he is offered a job he can't refuse: to bust a beautiful woman out of a hellish Mexican prison. Now Keeper's chase through Mexico follows a trail of bodies and lies back home: to the truth about a woman on the run, to a man sitting behind the wheel of a black Buick, and to a story that someone will kill to bury....
My Thoughts and Opinion: If you have followed my blog since May of 2010, when I was first introduced to this author, Mr. Vincent Zandri and I read his novel Moonlight Falls, this review will not come as a surprise. I was hooked and became even more so with his subsequent novels, The Remains and The Innocent and even his digital short, Pathological, and this latest book, Godchild, didn't disappoint. This is a sequel to The Innocent, picking up with former Warden (Keeper) Jack Marconi but is a story that can stand on it's own. The story starts off slow like a train departing an Albany station and picks up speed nonstop across country at warp speed to Mexico with a short lay over to break into a Mexican jail to rescue an American female writer who is incarcerated and then back to Albany. The story line takes place over a 2 week period. But does someone really want her rescued? Why is it that someone wants Keeper Marconi to be the one to rescue her? Where, why and how does the drug cartels have anything to do with rescuing Renata Barnes? And what does all this have to do with the accident that tragically killed Keeper's wife, a case that he has never solved?
Godchild is a pure Noir thriller, not to be read if you are alone, especially at night unless your doors are bolted, the windows locked and the drapes closed. Zandri is a genius story teller, alternating chapters between characters, whereas you have to keep reading to find out where he left you off with his cliff hanging chapters. Bone chilling!! Frightening!! By far his scariest!! Hitchcock and Stephen King combined. Brilliant!!! I can't wait to see what's next. He just keeps getting better!!!!
My Rating: 5
Posted December 9, 2008
A beat-up Buick with tinted windows slams into the side of a Ford Bronco, killing the passenger. The hit and run driver, a bald man with a long earring and a mustache leaves behind a shattered person because Jack ¿Keeper¿ Marconi cannot adjust to life without his beloved wife Fran. He resigns as a prison warden to become a sleuth. Years later, Jack is remarrying. However, just prior to the ceremony, he stops at the cemetery to visit Fran. He sees the same car that caused his spouse¿s death, but the driver takes off before Jack can confront him or even obtain the plates.
 He stands up his fiancee to get drunk at his favorite watering hole, but ends up shooting up the place. Jack¿s best friend andd attorney Tony not only keeps him out of jail, but also sends him on an assignment. He is to spring Renata Barnes, wife of a producer who runsan public for the politicians from the Monterey Prison. She was arrested for smuggling drugs, but authorities believe her husband has something to do with her present troubles. Jack sees a picture of the bald man at the funeral of Renata¿s child and realizes that several seemingly different events are interconnected, but cannot see why or even how.
The Mexican justice system is examined under chilling detail in GODCHILD, a thriller that persuades readers to complete it in one sitting. Jack may have suffered a traumatic loss, but continues to fight back as his grieving and ordeal strengthen his resolve, backbone he will need on his current assignment. Vincent Zandori is a terrific novelist who has written a superb crime thriller.
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Bangladesh v. Radical Islam
4:34 PM, Aug 19, 2013 • By IRFAN AL-ALAWI and STEPHEN SCHWARTZ
In January 2013, Abdul Kalam Azad, another JEI figure accused of crimes against humanity in Bangladesh, had been sentenced to death in absentia, since he had decamped, apparently to Pakistan. Bangladesh also seeks to try Chowdhury Mueen Uddin, an organizer of JEI's militias, for the sadistic murders of 18 independence activists during the war. Mueen Uddin, however, fled to Britain in 1971. Until he was charged by Bangladesh, Mueen Uddin worked as head of Muslim chaplaincies in the UK National Health Service. The UK and Bangladesh do not have an extradition treaty, and Britain will not turn over prisoners who might face capital punishment, as in Mueen Uddin's case.
In February 2013, the Bangladesh court sent JEI leader Abdul Qader Mollah to jail for life for murder, rape, torture, and arson. The tribunal next sentenced JEI leader Delwar Hossain Sayeedi to death, for murder, torture, and rape. In May 2013, JEI assistant secretary-general Muhammad Kamaruzzaman received a death sentence for organizing a wartime massacre of civilians. JEI secretary-general Ali Ahsan Mohammed Mujahid was condemned to death, also in July of this year, for terrorism in 1971.
The life penalty against A.Q. Mollah provoked widespread reaction among Bangladeshis. JEI members took to the streets in violent demonstrations. Thousands of young supporters of the war crimes trials gathered in Shahbag Square in Dhaka, demanding capital punishment for Mollah and prohibition of JEI. JEI reacted to the Shahbag Square events by new rioting against the government and media, with at least four people killed during an outburst after Friday prayers on February 22.
Next, as reported by the Financial Times, tens of thousands of white-clad marchers, calling themselves Hefazat-e-Islam (Protectors of Islam), descended on Shahbag Square to confront the critics of Islamist zealotry. State security forces drove the Hefazat activists out of Dhaka, with at least 58 deaths, in May, but the Shahbag Square podium was also shut down. On August 13, JEI called a two-day strike across Bangladesh that produced road closures, street fighting, and attacks on police by the organization's youth organization, employing firebombs and clubs.
Financial Times reporter Victor Mallet affirmed, "Hefazat's leaders and supporters are based in the madrasas . . . that have proliferated across Bangladesh, often supported by migrant workers returning from Saudi Arabia, and they really do have a Saudi-style, puritanical and anti-western agenda akin to that of the Taliban in Pakistan and Afghanistan."
A radical Islamist resurgence has been underway for some time in South Asia. When the Obama administration announced the temporary closure of U.S. diplomatic facilities in the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia early this month, Dhaka was included on the shutdown roster, as was the embassy in Port Louis, capital of the small Indian Ocean island of Mauritius.
Mauritius, with a population of 1.3 million and a Muslim community of about 16 percent, is of little interest to most Americans, but it is targeted by Wahhabis. Swaleh M.A. Duman, board member of the oldest mosque on the island, warns, "Saudi Arabia has offered many scholarships to our youth to come and study Arabic and Islam in Medina. . . . We will have to do something to save our people from that threat."
In Sri Lanka, which has a Muslim population of only 7.6 percent out of 21.5 million, a Sufi leader, M.C.A. Hameed, also points out that after Sri Lankan Muslims began to find employment in Saudi Arabia, many young Sri Lankan Muslims were awarded scholarships to Saudi universities. But "those who completed their studies returned to Sri Lanka and… propagat[ed] the ideology" of Wahhabism, Hameed says. Further, "to pursue their goal the Wahhabis resorted to violence and intimidation culminating in death and destruction."
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