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eTicketing is here!
eTicketing on San Joaquin and
Pacific Surfliner Routes
Which passengers will receive eTickets?
eTickets are available for one-way and roundtrip travel on San Joaquin® and Pacific Surfliner® trains, along with Amtrak Thruway Buses.
You will receive a conventional paper value ticket if you:
- Have purchased a Multi-Ride Ticket (such as a monthly or 10-ride ticket).
- Are traveling beyond the same eTicketing enabled route.
- Are paying your fare on a train.
- Have a group ticket.
- Have purchased your travel at a travel agency or corporate travel office.
Amtrak Thruway Buses Supported:
- Hanford - San Luis Obispo - Santa Maria
- Hanford - Visalia
- Stockton - Sacramento - Redding/Suisun - Fairfield
- Sacramento - Auburn - Reno
- Sacramento - South Lake Tahoe
- Martinez - McKinleyville
- Bakersfield - Santa Barbara, Torrance, Los Angeles, San Pedro, Santa Ana, San Diego, San Bernardino, Indio, Victorville, and Las Vegas
- Fresno - Bakersfield - Los Angeles
- Los Angeles - Santa Barbara
eTicketing will be enabled on more Amtrak Thruway Buses later this year.
How do I receive and use my eTicket?
You can print your eTicket any time prior to travel. If you lose or misplace your ticket, just print it again. Bring your eTicket on the train and present it to the conductor for travel.
There are several options for booking tickets:
- Amtrak.com: Your receipt will be emailed with your eTicket attached as a printable PDF document.
- Station Ticket Counter: The ticket agent will print your eTicket for you.
- Quik-TrakSM Kiosk: You'll receive your eTicket at the end of your transaction.
- Over the Phone: If you call 1-800-USA-RAIL to make a reservation, you'll receive your eTicket via e-mail to print on your own.
If you make last-minute changes or can't print your eTicket, you can print an up-to-date eTicket at a Quik-Trak kiosk using your reservation number. If available, you can also go to the Amtrak ticket counter and get an up-to-date eTicket from the agent.
How is an eTicket different from the conventional paper value tickets I used before?
Your new eTicket (PDF document) may be printed anywhere—home, work or a hotel business center. Your PDF eTicket will have the phrases "eTicket" and "Present this document for travel" in the upper right hand corner. Tickets from Quik-Trak or from a ticket agent will have the phrase "eTicket travel document" at the bottom of the eTicket, and in the fare box in the bottom left corner you will see, "eTicket has no value".
If you ever lose or misplace your eTicket, you can simply print out another copy. Usually, your travel itinerary will be contained on your eTicket.
I already have a conventional paper value ticket for travel. With eTicketing, what do I do with my existing paper value ticket?
Your conventional paper value ticket is still valid. You should use it as you normally would—present it to the conductor onboard the train.
I have an eTicket but my plans changed. What must I do?
If your travel plans change and you're traveling on a reserved service, then you must contact Amtrak before the train you originally booked has departed. You can modify your journey over the phone at 1-800-USA-RAIL or speak to a ticket agent at the station.
If you have not started any part of your journey and booked it on Amtrak.com, then you can modify your reservation on Amtrak.com.
Your eTicket will be updated to reflect your itinerary change and any difference in fare collected or refunded. We recommend that you print out an updated copy of your eTicket, or obtain a new copy from a ticket agent or a Quik-Trak kiosk.
My travel plans changed, and I need to travel outside the San Joaquin or Pacific Surfliner trains. Can I still use my eTicket?
Not currently. You must contact 1-800-USA-RAIL or speak to a ticket agent at the station before the train you originally booked on has departed.
Can I have my eTicket on my smartphone and use it to board the train or Thruway Bus
Yes. If you provided Amtrak with your e-mail address when you made your reservation, then your receipt, with an eTicket attached as a PDF, will be e-mailed to you. For the conductor to scan your eTicket on your smartphone, you will need to open the PDF eTicket, locate the barcode, and display it on the smartphone screen.
Where can I get additional information?
More information on eTicketing can be found at Amtrak.com/eticketing.
Thanks for riding Amtrak California!

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I confess. I am a die-hard fiction reader. I love a good story – who doesn't? My favorite books tend to be character driven versus for example, mystery or thrillers that tend to plot focused. I love beautifully written prose, characters that I care deeply about and a well crafted story that keeps me turning the pages long after I should be in bed asleep. View all of Chris' Picks on Goodreads
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By: Lily King
It's that moment about two months in, when you think you've finally got a handle on the place. Everything clicks and it all feels within your grasp …at that moment the place feels entirely yours. It's the briefest, purest euphoria."From the critically-acclaimed author of Father of the Rain comes a breathtaking novel about three gifted and groundbreaking anthropologists of the 30s bound together by an all-consuming passion.For years, English anthropologist Andrew Bankson has been alone in the field studying the Kiona tribe of Papua, New Guinea. Haunted by the memory of his brother's public suicide, and increasingly infuriated with and isolated by his research, Bankson is on the verge of killing himself when a chance meeting with colleagues, the controversial and consummate Nell Stone and her wry Australian husband Fen, pulls him back from the brink. Nell and Fen have just finished their studies of the bloodthirsty Mumbanyo and, in spite of Nell's ill health, the couple is ravenous for another new discovery. Together with Bankson they set out to uncover the Tam, a local tribe with an almost mythic existence. As the trio settle with the tribe in their paradisiacal surroundings, inspiration flows and mutual affections swell. In the midst of this new, unchartered territory, Nell, Bankson, and Fen must learn not only to adapt to their invigorating present, but to also confront their complicated and haunted pasts.Set between two World Wars, and based on the adventures of revolutionary anthropologist Margaret Mead, Euphoria is a luminous and remarkable story of the power of possibility, imagination, and memory, from accomplished author Lily King.
Stars Go Blue: A Novel
By: Laura Pritchett
Laura Pritchett is an award-winning author who has quickly become one of the west's defining literary voices. We first met hardscrabble ranchers Renny and Ben Cross in Laura's debut collection, and now in Stars Go Blue, they are estranged, elderly spouses living on opposite ends of their sprawling ranch, faced with the particular decline of a fading farm and Ben's struggle with Alzheimer's disease. He is just on the cusp of dementia, able to recognize he is sick but unable to do anything about it —the notes he leaves in his pockets and around the house to remind him of himself, his family, and his responsibilities are no longer as helpful as they used to be. Watching his estranged wife forced into care-taking and brought to her breaking point, Ben decides to leave his life with whatever dignity and grace remains.As Ben makes his decision, a new horrible truth comes to light: Ray, the abusive husband of their late daughter is being released from prison early. This opens old wounds in Ben, his wife, his surviving daughter, and four grandchildren. Branded with a need for justice, Ben must act before his mind leaves him, and sets off during a brutal snowstorm to confront the man who murdered his daughter. Renny, realizing he is missing, sets off to either stop or witness her husband's act of vengeance.Stars Go Blue is a triumphant novel of the American family, buffered by the workings of a ranch and the music offered by the landscape and animal life upon it.
The Newlyweds
By: Nell Freudenberger
A powerful, funny, richly observed tour de force by one of America's most acclaimed young writers: a story of love and marriage, secrets and betrayals, that takes us from the backyards of America to the back alleys and villages of Bangladesh.In The Newlyweds, we follow the story of Amina Mazid, who at age twenty-four moves from Bangladesh to Rochester, New York, for love. A hundred years ago, Amina would have been called a mail-order bride. But this is an arranged marriage for the twenty-first century: Amina is wooed by—and woos—George Stillman online. For Amina, George offers a chance for a new life and a different kind of happiness than she might find back home. For George, Amina is a woman who doesn't play games. But each of them is hiding something: someone from the past they thought they could leave behind. It is only when they put an ocean between them—and Amina returns to Bangladesh—that she and George find out if their secrets will tear them apart, or if they can build a future together. The Newlyweds is a surprising, suspenseful story about the exhilarations—and real-life complications—of getting, and staying, married. It stretches across continents, generations, and plains of emotion. What has always set Nell Freudenberger apart is the sly, gimlet eye she turns on collisions of all kinds—sexual, cultural, familial. With The Newlyweds, she has found her perfect subject for that vision, and characters to match. She reveals Amina's heart and mind, capturing both her new American reality and the home she cannot forget, with seamless authenticity, empathy, and grace. At once revelatory and affecting, The Newlyweds is a stunning achievement.
The Painter
By: Peter Heller
Peter Heller, the celebrated author of the breakout best seller The Dog Stars, returns with an achingly beautiful, wildly suspenseful second novel about an artist trying to outrun his past. Jim Stegner has seen his share of violence and loss. Years ago he shot a man in a bar. His marriage disintegrated. He grieved the one thing he loved. In the wake of tragedy, Jim, a well-known expressionist painter, abandoned the art scene of Santa Fe to start fresh in the valleys of rural Colorado. Now he spends his days painting and fly-fishing, trying to find a way to live with the dark impulses that sometimes overtake him. He works with a lovely model. His paintings fetch excellent prices. But one afternoon, on a dirt road, Jim comes across a man beating a small horse, and a brutal encounter rips his quiet life wide open. Fleeing Colorado, chased by men set on retribution, Jim returns to New Mexico, tormented by his own relentless conscience. A stunning, savage novel of art and violence, love and grief, The Painter is the story of a man who longs to transcend the shadows in his heart, a man intent on using the losses he has suffered to create a meaningful life.
All the Light We Cannot See
By: Anthony Doerr
From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, a stunningly ambitious and beautiful novel about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II.Marie Laure lives with her father in Paris within walking distance of the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of the locks (there are thousands of locks in the museum). When she is six, she goes blind, and her father builds her a model of their neighborhood, every house, every manhole, so she can memorize it with her fingers and navigate the real streets with her feet and cane. When the Germans occupy Paris, father and daughter flee to Saint-Malo on the Brittany coast, where Marie-Laure's agoraphobic great uncle lives in a tall, narrow house by the sea wall.In another world in Germany, an orphan boy, Werner, grows up with his younger sister, Jutta, both enchanted by a crude radio Werner finds. He becomes a master at building and fixing radios, a talent that wins him a place at an elite and brutal military academy and, ultimately, makes him a highly specialized tracker of the Resistance. Werner travels through the heart of Hitler Youth to the far-flung outskirts of Russia, and finally into Saint-Malo, where his path converges with Marie-Laure.Doerr's gorgeous combination of soaring imagination with observation is electric. Deftly interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner, Doerr illuminates the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another. Ten years in the writing, All the Light We Cannot See is his most ambitious and dazzling work.
A Tale for the Time Being
By: Ruth Ozeki
Ruth Ozeki's third novel, shortlisted for The Man Booker Prize 2013. In Tokyo, sixteen-year-old Nao has decided there's only one escape from her aching loneliness and her classmates' bullying. But before she ends it all, Nao plans to document the life of her great-grandmother, a Buddhist nun who's lived more than a century. A diary is Nao's only solace—and will touch lives in a ways she can scarcely imagine.Across the Pacific, we meet Ruth, a novelist living on a remote island who discovers a collection of artifacts washed ashore in a Hello Kitty lunchbox—possibly debris from the devastating 2011 tsunami. As the mystery of its contents unfolds, Ruth is pulled into the past, into Nao's drama and her unknown fate, and forward into her own future. Full of Ozeki's signature humour and deeply engaged with the relationship between writer and reader, past and present, fact and fiction, quantum physics, history, and myth, A Tale for the Time Being is a brilliantly inventive, beguiling story of our shared humanity and the search for home.
By: Karen Russell
The Bigtree alligator wrestling dynasty is in decline — think Buddenbrooks set in the Florida Everglades — and Swamplandia!, their island home and gator-wrestling theme park, is swiftly being encroached upon by a sophisticated competitor known as the World of Darkness. Ava, a resourceful but terrified twelve year old, must manage seventy gators and the vast, inscrutable landscape of her own grief. Her mother, Swamplandia!'s legendary headliner, has just died; her sister is having an affair with a ghost called the Dredgeman; her brother has secretly defected to the World of Darkness in a last-ditch effort to keep their sinking family afloat; and her father, Chief Bigtree, is AWOL. To save her family, Ava must journey on her own to a perilous part of the swamp called the Underworld, a harrowing odyssey from which she emerges a true heroine.
The Wind Is Not a River
By: Brian Payton
A gripping tale of survival and an epic love story in which a husband and wife–separated by the only battle of World War II to take place on American soil–fight to reunite in Alaska's starkly beautiful Aleutian IslandsFollowing the death of his younger brother in Europe, journalist John Easley is determined to find meaning in his loss, to document some part of the growing war that claimed his own flesh and blood. Leaving behind his beloved wife, Helen, after an argument they both regret, he heads north from Seattle to investigate the Japanese invasion of Alaska's Aleutian Islands, a story censored by the U.S. government.While John is accompanying a crew on a bombing run, his plane is shot down over the island of Attu. He survives only to find himself exposed to a harsh and unforgiving wilderness, known as "the Birthplace of Winds." There, John must battle the elements, starvation, and his own remorse while evading discovery by the Japanese.Alone in their home three thousand miles to the south, Helen struggles with the burden of her husband's disappearance. Caught in extraordinary circumstances, in this new world of the missing, she is forced to reimagine who she is–and what she is capable of doing. Somehow, she must find John and bring him home, a quest that takes her into the farthest reaches of the war, beyond the safety of everything she knows.A powerful, richly atmospheric story of life and death, commitment and sacrifice, The Wind Is Not a River illuminates the fragility of life and the fierce power of love.
The Rosie Project (Don Tillman #1)
By: Graeme Simsion
An international sensation, this hilarious, feel-good novel is narrated by an oddly charming and socially challenged genetics professor on an unusual quest: to find out if he is capable of true love.Don Tillman, professor of genetics, has never been on a second date. He is a man who can count all his friends on the fingers of one hand, whose lifelong difficulty with social rituals has convinced him that he is simply not wired for romance. So when an acquaintance informs him that he would make a "wonderful" husband, his first reaction is shock. Yet he must concede to the statistical probability that there is someone for everyone, and he embarks upon The Wife Project. In the orderly, evidence-based manner with which he approaches all things, Don sets out to find the perfect partner. She will be punctual and logical—most definitely not a barmaid, a smoker, a drinker, or a late-arriver.Yet Rosie Jarman is all these things. She is also beguiling, fiery, intelligent—and on a quest of her own. She is looking for her biological father, a search that a certain DNA expert might be able to help her with. Don's Wife Project takes a back burner to the Father Project and an unlikely relationship blooms, forcing the scientifically minded geneticist to confront the spontaneous whirlwind that is Rosie—and the realization that love is not always what looks good on paper.The Rosie Project is a moving and hilarious novel for anyone who has ever tenaciously gone after life or love in the face of overwhelming challenges.
The Woman Upstairs
By: Claire Messud
Nora Eldridge, a 37-year-old elementary school teacher in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is on the verge of disappearing. Having abandoned her desire to be an artist, she has become the "woman upstairs," a reliable friend and tidy neighbour always on the fringe of others' achievements. Then into her classroom walks a new pupil, Reza Shahid, a child who enchants as if from a fairy tale. He and his parents--dashing Skandar, a half-Muslim Professor of Ethical History born in Beirut, and Sirena, an effortlessly glamorous Italian artist--have come to America for Skandar to teach at Harvard.But one afternoon, Reza is attacked by schoolyard bullies who punch, push and call him a "terrorist," and Nora is quickly drawn deep into the complex world of the Shahid family. Soon she finds herself falling in love with them, separately and together. Nora's happiness explodes her boundaries--until Sirena's own ambition leads to a shattering betrayal.Written with intimacy and piercing emotion, this urgently dispatched story of obsession and artistic fulfillment explores the thrill--and the devastating cost--of giving in to one's passions. The Woman Upstairs is a masterly story of America today, of being a woman and of the exhilarations of love.
The Humanity Project
By: Jean Thompson
After surviving a shooting at her high school, Linnea is packed off to live with her estranged father, Art, who doesn't quite understand how he has suddenly become responsible for raising a sullen adolescent girl. Art's neighbor, Christie, is a nurse distracted by an eccentric patient, Mrs. Foster, who has given Christie the reins to her Humanity Project, a bizarre and well-endowed charity fund. Just as mysteriously, no one seems to know where Conner, the Fosters' handyman, goes after work, but he has become the one person Linnea can confide in, perhaps because his own home life is a war zone: his father has suffered an injury and become addicted to painkillers. As these characters and many more hurtle toward their fates, the Humanity Project is born: Can you indeed pay someone to be good? At what price?Thompson proves herself at the height of her powers in The Humanity Project, crafting emotionally suspenseful and thoroughly entertaining characters, in which we inevitably see ourselves. Set against the backdrop of current events and cultural calamity, it is at once a multifaceted ensemble drama and a deftly observant story of our twenty-first-century society.
By: Curtis Sittenfeld
Curtis Sittenfeld, New York Times bestselling author of American Wife and Prep, returns with a mesmerizing novel of family and identity, loyalty and deception, and the delicate line between truth and belief. From an early age, Kate and her identical twin sister, Violet, knew that they were unlike everyone else. Kate and Vi were born with peculiar "senses"—innate psychic abilities concerning future events and other people's secrets. Though Vi embraced her visions, Kate did her best to hide them. Now, years later, their different paths have led them both back to their hometown of St. Louis. Vi has pursued an eccentric career as a psychic medium, while Kate, a devoted wife and mother, has settled down in the suburbs to raise her two young children. But when a minor earthquake hits in the middle of the night, the normal life Kate has always wished for begins to shift. After Vi goes on television to share a premonition that another, more devastating earthquake will soon hit the St. Louis area, Kate is mortified. Equally troubling, however, is her fear that Vi may be right. As the date of the predicted earthquake quickly approaches, Kate is forced to reconcile her fraught relationship with her sister and to face truths about herself she's long tried to deny. Funny, haunting, and thought-provoking, Sisterland is a beautifully written novel of the obligation we have toward others, and the responsibility we take for ourselves. With her deep empathy, keen wisdom, and unerring talent for finding the extraordinary moments in our everyday lives, Curtis Sittenfeld is one of the most exceptional voices in literary fiction today.
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
By: Karen Joy Fowler
Meet the Cooke family. Our narrator is Rosemary Cooke. As a child, she never stopped talking; as a young woman, she has wrapped herself in silence: the silence of intentional forgetting, of protective cover. Something happened, something so awful she has buried it in the recesses of her mind.Now her adored older brother is a fugitive, wanted by the FBI for domestic terrorism. And her once lively mother is a shell of her former self, her clever and imperious father now a distant, brooding man.And Fern, Rosemary's beloved sister, her accomplice in all their childhood mischief? Fern's is a fate the family, in all their innocence, could never have imagined.
The Signature of All Things
By: Elizabeth Gilbert
A glorious, sweeping novel of desire, ambition, and the thirst for knowledge, from the # 1 New York Times bestselling author of Eat, Pray, Love and Committed.In The Signature of All Things, Elizabeth Gilbert returns to fiction, inserting her inimitable voice into an enthralling story of love, adventure and discovery. Spanning much of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the novel follows the fortunes of the extraordinary Whittaker family as led by the enterprising Henry Whittaker—a poor-born Englishman who makes a great fortune in the South American quinine trade, eventually becoming the richest man in Philadelphia. Born in 1800, Henry's brilliant daughter, Alma (who inherits both her father's money and his mind), ultimately becomes a botanist of considerable gifts herself. As Alma's research takes her deeper into the mysteries of evolution, she falls in love with a man named Ambrose Pike who makes incomparable paintings of orchids and who draws her in the exact opposite direction — into the realm of the spiritual, the divine, and the magical. Alma is a clear-minded scientist; Ambrose a utopian artist — but what unites this unlikely couple is a desperate need to understand the workings of this world and the mechanisms behind all life.Exquisitely researched and told at a galloping pace, The Signature of All Things soars across the globe—from London to Peru to Philadelphia to Tahiti to Amsterdam, and beyond. Along the way, the story is peopled with unforgettable characters: missionaries, abolitionists, adventurers, astronomers, sea captains, geniuses, and the quite mad. But most memorable of all, it is the story of Alma Whittaker, who — born in the Age of Enlightenment, but living well into the Industrial Revolution — bears witness to that extraordinary moment in human history when all the old assumptions about science, religion, commerce, and class were exploding into dangerous new ideas. Written in the bold, questing spirit of that singular time, Gilbert's wise, deep, and spellbinding tale is certain to capture the hearts and minds of readers.
Dirty Love
By: Andre Dubus III
In this heartbreakingly beautiful book of disillusioned intimacy and persistent yearning, beloved and celebrated author Andre Dubus III explores the bottomless needs and stubborn weaknesses of people seeking gratification in food and sex, work and love.In these linked novellas in which characters walk out the back door of one story and into the next, love is "dirty"—tangled up with need, power, boredom, ego, fear, and fantasy. On the Massachusetts coast north of Boston, a controlling manager, Mark, discovers his wife's infidelity after twenty-five years of marriage. An overweight young woman, Marla, gains a romantic partner but loses her innocence. A philandering bartender/aspiring poet, Robert, betrays his pregnant wife. And in the stunning title novella, a teenage girl named Devon, fleeing a dirty image of her posted online, seeks respect in the eyes of her widowed great-uncle Francis and of an Iraq vet she's met surfing the Web.Slivered by happiness and discontent, aging and death, but also persistent hope and forgiveness, these beautifully wrought narratives express extraordinary tenderness toward human beings, our vulnerable hearts and bodies, our fulfilling and unfulfilling lives alone and with others.
Night Film
By: Marisha Pessl
Everybody has a Cordova story. Cult horror director Stanislas Cordova hasn't been seen in public since 1977. To his fans he is an engima. To journalist Scott McGrath he is the enemy. To Ashley he was a father.On a damp October night the body of young, beautiful Ashley Cordova is found in an abandoned warehouse in lower Manhattan. Her suicide appears to be the latest tragedy to hit a severely cursed dynasty.For McGrath, another death connected to the legendary director seems more than a coincidence. Driven by revenge, curiosity and a need for the truth, he finds himself pulled into a hypnotic, disorientating world, where almost everyone seems afraid.The last time McGrath got close to exposing Cordova, he lost his marriage and his career. This time he could lost his grip on reality.ONCE WE FACE OUR DEEPEST FEARS, WHAT LIES ON THE OTHER SIDE?
Baker Towers
By: Jennifer Haigh
Bakerton is a community of company houses and church festivals, of union squabbles and firemen's parades. Its neighborhoods include Little Italy, Swedetown, and Polish Hill. For its tight-knit citizens -- and the five children of the Novak family -- the 1940s will be a decade of excitement, tragedy, and stunning change. Baker Towers is a family saga and a love story, a hymn to a time and place long gone, to America's industrial past, and to the men and women we now call the Greatest Generation. It is a feat of imagination from an extraordinary voice in American fiction, a writer of enormous power and skill.
The Maid's Version
By: Daniel Woodrell
Alma DeGeer Dunahew, the mother of three young boys, works as the maid for a prominent citizen and his family in West Table, Missouri. Her husband is mostly absent, and, in 1929, her scandalous, beloved younger sister is one of the 42 killed in an explosion at the local dance hall. Who is to blame? Mobsters from St. Louis? The embittered local gypsies? The preacher who railed against the loose morals of the waltzing couples? Or could it have been a colossal accident? Alma thinks she knows the answer-and that its roots lie in a dangerous love affair. Her dogged pursuit of justice makes her an outcast and causes a long-standing rift with her own son. By telling her story to her grandson, she finally gains some solace-and peace for her sister. He is advised to "Tell it. Go on and tell it"-tell the story of his family's struggles, suspicions, secrets, and triumphs.
The Interestings
By: Meg Wolitzer
From bestselling author Meg Wolitzer a dazzling, panoramic novel about what becomes of early talent, and the roles that art, money, and even envy can play in close friendships. The summer that Nixon resigns, six teenagers at a summer camp for the arts become inseparable. Decades later the bond remains powerful, but so much else has changed. In The Interestings, Wolitzer follows these characters from the height of youth through middle age, as their talents, fortunes, and degrees of satisfaction diverge. The kind of creativity that is rewarded at age fifteen is not always enough to propel someone through life at age thirty; not everyone can sustain, in adulthood, what seemed so special in adolescence. Jules Jacobson, an aspiring comic actress, eventually resigns herself to a more practical occupation and lifestyle. Her friend Jonah, a gifted musician, stops playing the guitar and becomes an engineer. But Ethan and Ash, Jules's now-married best friends, become shockingly successful—true to their initial artistic dreams, with the wealth and access that allow those dreams to keep expanding. The friendships endure and even prosper, but also underscore the differences in their fates, in what their talents have become and the shapes their lives have taken. Wide in scope, ambitious, and populated by complex characters who come together and apart in a changing New York City, The Interestings explores the meaning of talent; the nature of envy; the roles of class, art, money, and power; and how all of it can shift and tilt precipitously over the course of a friendship and a life.
Benediction (Plainsong, #3)
By: Kent Haruf
When Dad Lewis is diagnosed with terminal cancer, he and his wife must work together, along with their daughter, to make his final days as comfortable as possible, despite the bitter absence of their estranged son. Next door, a young girl moves in with her grandmother and contends with the memories that Dad's condition stirs up of her own mother's death. A newly arrived preacher attempts to mend his strained relationships with his wife and son, and soon faces the disdain of his congregation when he offers more than they are used to getting on Sunday mornings. And throughout, an elderly widow and her middle-aged daughter do all they can to ease the pain of their friends and neighbors.


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With the commencement of its contract with tactical footwear supplier, Original S.W.A.T., Menlo will be responsible for the European warehousing and distribution of a product with high customer service demands and market growth as a priority. The logistics, transportation management and supply chain services provider will base both inventory storage and order fulfillment at Menlo's Eersel facility in the Netherlands.
SAN FRANCISCO and AMSTERDAM, June 24, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Menlo Logistics prides itself on providing its business partners with the necessary initiatives and continuous improvement mechanisms to deliver supply chain management that actively enables market growth for their products. It was this principle that determined Original S.W.A.T.'s choice of Menlo to take over its logistics demands in Europe.
The tactical footwear supplier, which is headquartered in California, was founded in the late-nineties with the expressed purpose of producing the finest boots for law enforcement, military, first-responders and other personnel who require the toughest footwear to deal with the most demanding of conditions. Having grown its European customer base significantly, the company now requires a professional logistics service to both cope with current distribution requirements and to help drive future expansion.
Kevin Cole, CEO of Original S.W.A.T. explains the decision to appoint Menlo, "Previously, we had been relying on our sales distributor to manage our supply chain in Europe and felt that it was time for us to have this role fulfilled by a professional logistics company. Menlo offer extensive experience and knowledge of the apparel and footwear sector, which gives us clearer visibility of market demand. Their ability to leverage cost savings in the transport element of our supply chain and emphasis on creating efficiencies throughout it, brings us valuable competitive advantages."
Menlo will manage the Original S.W.A.T. supply chain from its Eersel facility in the Netherlands where warehousing, inventory control and both inbound and outbound transportation will be coordinated. First tier retail distribution will be implemented across Europe in the first instance and an e-commerce order processing and delivery service will be launched later.
In commenting on the contract confirmation, Menlo's Managing Director, Tony Gunn said, "Menlo has a strong reputation as a customer oriented supplier. By this I mean a partnership is forged with our immediate customer that will continuously evolve to refine the supply chain and adapt to changing supply priorities and market demands. Through our experience in the retail e-commerce field, we also know how vital it is to perfect the purchasing experience of the end customer. This is valued by Original S.W.A.T. whose market-leading product requires a top-class e-fulfillment service."
About Menlo Logistics Europe
In Europe, Menlo Logistics maintains seventeen dedicated and multi-client logistics centres located in the Netherlands, Belgium, Czech Republic, Germany and the United Kingdom. This warehouse network can serve as pan-European distribution solution using one or several facilities.
Supply chain and transport management solutions as well as 3PL, warehousing and distribution services are offered to a variety of vertical industry sectors including: fashion & apparel; healthcare and medical equipment; hi-tech electronic and data network equipment; automotive; defense and government services; oil and gas as well as retail e-fulfillment. The European headquarters is at the multi-client Amsterdam Distribution Centre in the Netherlands. www.menloworldwide.com/europe
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Menlo Logistics, LLC, is a US$1.5 billion global provider of logistics, transportation management and supply chain services with operations in five continents, including North America. As a third-party logistics provider, San Francisco, California-based Menlo Logistics' services range from dedicated contract logistics to warehouse and distribution management, transportation management, supply chain reengineering and other value-added services including packaging, kitting, order fulfillment and light assembly through a strategic network of multi-client and dedicated facilities. With nearly 20 million square feet of dedicated warehouse space in North America, the Asia Pacific, Europe and Latin America, and industry-leading technologies, Menlo Logistics creates effective, integrated solutions for the transportation and distribution needs of leading businesses around the world.
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When I got engaged last year I knew immediately that I'd do my own makeup for the big day. I'm very particular about my makeup -- some might call it product obsessed. So my mission was to put together a list of products I'd need to create my ideal look.
Somehow I found myself spending hours (seriously hours) researching foundation in search of the perfect formula. I'm a tinted moisturizer type of woman, you see, and I hadn't worn a real foundation in years.
I zeroed in on Giorgio Armani's Luminous Silk Foundation as my top contender. It's a gorgeous formula that's won several awards. When I mentioned it to LHJ's beauty director (one of the perks of our office is that shop talk includes discussing the perfect foundation), she suggested that I meet with Armani's national director of creative artistry, Tim Quinn, and get a little wedding makeup tutorial. Have my makeup done by the man who makes Gwen Stefani and Kate Bosworth even more gorgeous? Um, yes please!
I met Quinn at the Giorgio Armani flagship store on 5th Avenue in New York City. We discussed how I wanted to look on my wedding day -- natural, like myself but better. We also talked about the feature I love to highlight the most (my eyes) and then the lesson began. Lucky me -- and lucky you because I'm sharing Quinn's amazing pro tips so that you can DIY a gorgeous wedding makeup look too!
This may seem like a lot of steps but this is a day to look your best so we're sharing every little detail to help you get it right!
1. The morning of your wedding, start with clean, dry skin. Prep the skin under your eyes with a de-puffing serum like Armani's Regenessence Eye Rejuvenating Serum. Then, apply a rich, moisturizing eye cream such as Armani's Crema Nera. Use your fingers to dab the cream in and feel for extra-dry spots that might need more attention.
2. Moisturize your entire face. A well-hydrated face sets a good base for your makeup and will make it look even better. Quinn also recommends using a lip scrub like Fresh's Sugar Lip Polish to smooth and de-flake your lips in preparation for color.
3. Apply a gel-based primer to your entire face. Quinn prefers a formula with silicone for a smooth finish. Primer will prevent makeup from moving or melting, which is especially important if you have oily skin. Try a mattifying primer if your wedding is outdoors or if you tend to get shiny.
4. Use a smooth liquid, light-reflecting concealer -- Quinn used Armani Maestro Eraser -- under your eyes and over your entire eyelids. This will even out your skin tone and camouflage any blue veins or dark shadows around the eyes. It will also give your eye shadow more depth. Make sure you don't use a heavy concealer that's meant for blemishes -- the goal is to brighten your eye area.
5. Next, fill in your brows with light, short strokes. Quinn likes wax-based brow pencils because they have great staying power. Plus, the fine tip lets you get really precise. If your pencil has a spool at the opposite end, use that to blend and comb your brows once you've filled them. You can also use a clean mascara wand. Even if you don't fill your brows every day, Quinn says every bride should include this step -- there's no better way to frame your face!
6. Smudge waterproof eyeliner along the base of your upper lash line. Don't worry about drawing a perfect line for this step -- getting the pencil right into your lash line (instead of above it) will give you the illusion of thicker lashes.
7. Now, grab a small, angled brush and a pot of gel-based, waterproof eyeliner (Quinn loves Bobbi Brown's version). Use your angled brush to draw a precise line over the base of waterproof eyeliner pencil you already smudged into your upper lash line. Then, line your lower lash line. Lightly smudge the liner to soften the look. Lastly, use a flesh-colored pencil to line the inside bottom rim of each eye. Quinn uses this little trick to make eyes instantly appear brighter!
8. When it comes to eye shadow, stick to your comfort zone -- if you're not the type to wear bright shadow, don't do it on your wedding day! Quinn likes peaches and warm browns for day and soft plums or grays for an evening wedding. He used Armani's No. 7 "Blush" Eyes to Kill Quad to compliment my light, neutral skin tone.
9. When you apply your eye shadow, Quinn recommends layering neutrals to build dimension. Apply your lightest, most flesh-toned shadow on your whole lid and up to your brow bone. Apply the middle shade to the outer two thirds of your eye. Use your darkest shade just in the crease of your eyelid. Then add another layer of eyeliner at the base of your upper lashes to redefine the line.
10. Clean up under your eyes with a cotton ball and makeup remover if any of the shadow or liner went astray (it usually does).
11. At this point you can apply another layer of light-reflecting concealer under your eyes and in the hollows of your eyes by your nose to mask blue pigments and brighten.
12. Now it's time for foundation. Quinn loves Armani's Luminous Silk foundation for any skin tone. Apply it with a foundation brush or a blending sponge. If you're feeling up to a little contouring, here's a good subtle trick: Apply foundation one shade darker than your normal color in the hollows of your cheeks under your cheekbones. Then use your normal shade for the rest of your face. This gives a more natural effect than traditional contouring but still helps you fake those supermodel cheekbones if you weren't naturally blessed.
13. Blend your foundation down to your neck, making sure there are no telltale lines where the color ends. Quinn also recommends using clean fingers to press the foundation in as you blend with the sponge or brush.
14. Layering your blush may sound like a lot of work, but Quinn loves it for a big event because it gives you an amazing glow. For my look he layered Armani's Fluid Sheer in Number 5 and Number 8 (these are liquid, highlighting blushes). He blended these light-reflecting formulas directly onto my cheekbones.Then, to add more defined color he did a light dusting of powder blush on just the apples of my cheeks. This layering technique works well because cream or liquid blush brings light to your face whereas the powder will deposit more color. Quinn's tip is to use a blush brush -- even for liquid and cream formulas -- because the brush will help diffuse the light-reflecting particles so they don't get crazy shimmery.
15. Next apply a lip liner that's close to the shade of lipstick you plan to use -- Quinn used Armani's Lip Pencil #2 on me. Liner really does keep your lip color in place (super important on your big day). Then, fill in your lips with your lip color. Quinn likes velvety-textured products because they have the most staying power and tend to feel good on your lips longer. For my look he used Armani Maestro #500 lip color -- in my opinion the perfect wedding shade!
16. When it comes to bronzer, Quinn suggests only a very light dusting for warmth.No one wants to look orange in their wedding photos! Brush a very small amount of brozer under your cheekbones, on the bridge of your nose, your jaw line, and your hairline.
17. To finish the look (yes we're almost done!), use a small amount of translucent finishing powder and lightly dust it just over the areas of your face that tend to get oily. Quinn's not a big fan of heavy powders when you're going to be photographed, so if you don't have oily skin you can skip the setting powder and just use oil absorbing sheets during the day.
You're done! And hopefully you look as gorgeous as Quinn made me feel. We definitely recommend doing a run-through a few weeks before your wedding day to get these techniques down so you're totally stress-free and beautiful on the big day.
1. You don't necessarily need a full-coverage foundation; let your complexion decide! If you have clear skin let a little show through with medium or lighter coverage. This was new information for me: I assumed he'd recommend full-coverage for such a special occasion but in reality, you have to make the makeup work for your skin!
2. Moisturize. Dehydrated, super-dry skin is the biggest problem Quinn sees with brides. Even if you're a pro using the highest-quality makeup, dry skin makes your makeup look bad! Stay hydrated (drink lots of water) and moisturized (twice a day) the week before the wedding and especially on the day.
3. Quinn's favorite product for a wedding look is a concealer. A luminizing, liquid concealer (not a heavy one you'd use to cover blemishes) can be used to brighten under your eyes, even out the skin on your eyelids, and bring light to the eye area. He loves Armani's Maestro Eraser. Another popular formula is YSL's Touche Eclat.
4. Do your eye makeup first. That way you can clean up under the eye before you apply foundation. This seems so obvious but I have always done my face before my eyes. I'll be switching it up from now on!
5. Eye shadow with light shimmer looks good on camera but avoid a white, shimmery highlighter on the brow bone. A light-reflecting concealer works better and looks more natural. This is such a fabulous tip: I'd actually planned to use a highlighting pencil on my brow bone but Quinn's advice changed my mind -- the concealer he used made my skin glow in a good way.
6. If you plan to use self-tanner for your wedding day, make sure you self-tan before your makeup trial. Being two different colors from the trial to the wedding will completely change the what shades you or your makeup artist uses.
7. If you have imperfections you'd like to cover on your chest or arms, use a special formula like MAC Face and Body to cover them instead of regular concealer. It's waterproof so it will make your skin look perfect without rubbing off on your white dress. Quinn uses it on all his celebrity clients and brides.
8. Pack a kit for touch-ups on the big day. Quinn recommends including your lip color, a little bronzer in case you get nervous and lose your color (so smart!), oil absorbing sheets, facial mist like Caudelie's Organic Grape Water for hydration and setting makeup, and a rescue kit like Miniemergency for any unexpected emergencies.
9. Give yourself at least an hour to do your bridal makeup. It may seem like a lot of time but on this day you want to look your best and you definitely don't want to rush. And skip the mimosa until after your look is perfect!
10. I asked Quinn which brushes every DIY bride needs in her makeup kit. He recommends a foundation brush, an eye shadow brush, a flat, basic brush also for eyes, a contour brush, a little angled brush (which you can use to put on false lashes instead of a scary tweezer), a big, fluffy powder brush, and a blush brush.


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Who is Vance Bedford?
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Coaching Experience
Feb. 2008 - Present Florida (Cornerbacks)
2007 Michigan (Secondary)
2005-2006 Oklahoma State (Defensive Coordinator)
1999-2004 Chicago Bears (Defensive Backs)
1995-1998 Michigan (Secondary)
1993-1994 Oklahoma State (Defensive Backs)
1987-1992 Colorado State (Defensive Backs)
1986 Navarro Junior College
1985 Forest Brook High School, Houston, Texas
Coaching Accomplishments
Possesses 16 years of collegiate coaching experience and spent six years coaching in the National Football League.
Helped transform a UF secondary that was one of the country's worst in 2007 to one of the nation's best in 2008. Pass defense ranking improved from 98th in 2007 to 20th in 2008 and pass efficiency defense improved from 71st to number three in the country (96.7 rating).
In 2008, the UF secondary tied a school record with 26 interceptions.
Spent a total of five seasons coaching the secondary at the University of Michigan, his most recent being in 2007. Before returning to Ann Arbor, was the defensive coordinator at Oklahoma State for two seasons.
Began his professional coaching career as the defensive backs' coach for the Chicago Bears in 1999. He remained with the Bears until 2004, and during that time his secondary returned seven interceptions for touchdowns during a four-year stretch, equaling the team's total from the previous nine seasons combined.
First stint as the Michigan's secondary coach was from 1995-98. Michigan led the nation in pass defense in 1997 and ranked 20th in 1996. The Wolverines' 1997 national championship secondary set an NCAA record allowing just 8.8 yards per completion and finished fifth nationally by allowing just 133.8 passing yards per contest. His secondary in 1997 led the Big Ten and finished third nationally with 22 interceptions.
Prior to working at Michigan, he spent two seasons at Oklahoma State University (1993-94) and six seasons at Colorado State (1987-92) as the defensive backs' coach. His tenure at CSU led to a trip to the 1991 Freedom Bowl and his 1990 secondary set a school record and led the nation with 25 interceptions.
Prominent Players Coached
CB - CHARLES WOODSON - Won the Heisman Trophy, Bronco Nagurksi and Jim Thorpe Awards in 1997. Was also a finalist for the Jim Thorpe Award in 1996. Was an All-American in 1996 and 1997. Three-time All-Big Ten selection who also won Big Ten Player of the Year and Most Valuable Player in 1997. Ranked second in the nation in interceptions and was voted Most Valuable Player during the team's 1997 championship season. Started his second game as a true freshman and played 34 straight 23 games before leaving for the NFL after his junior season. Was selected fourth overall in the 1998 NFL Draft by the Oakland Raiders.
DB - ANDRE SEXTON - Big 12 Freshman of the Year who also garnered First Team Freshman All-American honors by the Football Writers Association of America and All Big 12 Freshman honors by the Sporting News in 2006.
CB CHARLES TILLMAN - 2003 NFL Rookie of the Year who tied for the team lead and led the NFL among rookies with four interceptions during in 2003. Complied 44 tackles with one forced fumble in his sophomore campaign with the Bears in 2004.
CR JERRY AZUMAH - 2003 Pro Bowl selection who collected four interceptions and matched that number in 2004 despite playing only eight games.
CB R.W. McQUARTERS - Accumulated 268 total tackles and nine interceptions from 2000-04 with the Chicago Bears under the instruction of Bedford.
FS MIKE BROWN - Only rookie to play in 2000 season opener, eventually becoming the starting free safety in all 16 games of the season. That year he was named runner-up for Defensive Rookie of the Year Award. In 2001, Brown led the team with five interceptions, including two returns for two consecutive overtime wins.
NFL Players (Round Drafted)
DB Selwyn Jones (7th) - Colorado State '92 - Cleveland Browns
CB Charles Woodson (1st) - Michigan '98 - Oakland Raiders
DB Andre Weathers (6th) - Michigan '99 - New York Giants
DE Ryan McBean (4th) - Oklahoma State '07 - Pittsburgh Steelers
S Jamar Adams (FA) - Michigan '08 - Seattle Seahawks
Check out this little tidbit from C.L. Brown:
Bedford's name had been mentioned as a possible replacement for Strong as the Gators' defensive coordinator and as a head coaching candidate at Buffalo.
Are you serious? Did we just steal Florida's 2nd in command DC? They will never admit that but this is great. Charlie poached talent from all over to build this staff and appears to be building a powerhouse of excellent coaches who can recruit the mid-west and south. Strong is an impressive guy and to be honest, I think he might be here for a long time. I have friends that are hardcore college football fans (mostly Notre Dame) that are jealous of the excitement Strong has brought to our system.
Now that Charlie Strong has rounded out his coaching staff, what do you think? What's your grade? Mine is a solid A.


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September 2nd 1945: Vietnamese Proclamation of Independence
On this day in 1945 the Vietnamese Proclamation of Independence was issued. The Proclamation, written by communist revolutionary Ho Chi Minh, was first announced in public at the Ba Đình flower garden in Hanoi. Vietnam had been a colony of France since the 19th century, but revolutionary forces were able to take hold following the occupation of the country by the Japanese during World War Two. The Proclamation itself began with a direct quote from the US Declaration of Independence and liberally quoted from French revolutionary texts to highlight the hypocrisy of brutal and repressive French imperialism. The Communists' Proclamation made no reference to Marx or Lenin but despite its praise of the American Founding Fathers and attempts to appeal to them, the Cold War driven United States was determined to destroy this new communist state. The US therefore supported France in their attempt to reassert control in the ensuing Indochina War. However the French were no match for Ho Chi Minh's well-organised guerilla forces, and suffered humiliating defeat at the Battle of Dien Bien Phu in 1954. The war ended with the Geneva Accords which divided Vietnam along the 17th parallel into a communist North and Western-friendly South. After years of struggle and unrest between the two, and the steadily increasing presence of US advisers, full scale war broke out and by 1965 the US had decidedly entered the conflict on the side of the South. The Americans underestimated the determination of the North Vietnamese and eventually withdrew from the war that had killed millions of people. Shortly after in April 1975, thirty years after the initial proclamation of independence, Saigon fell to the communists and Vietnam was reunited as an independent communist state.
"Vietnam has the right to be a free and independent country—and in fact it is so already. And thus the entire Vietnamese people are determined to mobilize all their physical and mental strength, to sacrifice their lives and property in order to safeguard their independence and liberty"
- excerpt from Vietnamese Proclamation of Independence
August 31st 12: Caligula born
On this day in 12 AD, the future Roman Emperor Caligula was born in Italy. Born Gaius Julius Caesar Germanicus, he is today known by his nickname Caligula ('Little Boot') which Roman soldiers on the German frontier called him when he was a young boy because of hisfootwear. As great-grandson of the first Emperor Augustus the young Caligula was born with imperial blood. After his parents were killed by imperial forces he was adopted by his great uncle Emperor Tiberius and eventually became the third emperor upon Tiberius's death in 37 AD. With the support of the army he quickly moved to eradicate any challenges to his reign, having Tiberius's grandson and rival heir executed. As emperor, Caligula lavished Rome with grand games and building projects but soon became despised for his increasing megalomania and apparent insanity that seems to have stemmed from an illness early in his reign. He supposedly tried to humiliate the Senate by making his favourite horse Incitatus a senator. Caligula also reversed previous imperial trend by actively encouraging worship of himself as a god. For example he frequently dressed up as the Roman gods at public games and decreed statues of him should be built in temples. His reign was also brutal in its vicious treason trials and frequent executions of dissenters; he even made it a capital offence to mention a goat in the presence of the very hairy Caligula. Emperor Caligula also had imperial aspirations, and undertook military campaigns in Germany and planned one to Britain. In 41 AD, after a four year reign, the increasingly unpopular Caligula was assassinated aged 29 by his own bodyguards. He was succeeded by his uncle Claudius, who proved a much more even tempered and moderate leader.
"I am nursing a viper for the Roman people"
- Emperor Tiberius
August 29th 1842: Treaty of Nanking signed
On this day in 1842, the Treaty of Nanking was signed by the United Kingdom and China. The treaty ended the First Opium War which began in 1839 and resulted in the defeat of Qing China by the British. The war was fought over the smuggling of European opium into China, and was sparked when Chinese officials confiscated around 20,000 chests of the drug from British traders. With China defeated, the two sides met aboard the HMS Cornwallis moored at Nanking and their representatives signed the treaty. The agreement, considered unequal by the Chinese as they received no concessions, mostly concerned trade and gave the British more control over Chinese trade. It also provided for the Qing government to pay reparations for the confiscated opium and the cost of the war. Very importantly, the treaty also saw the Chinese cede the territory of Hong Kong to the British, which only returned to Chinese rule in 1997.
August 27th 1896: Anglo-Zanzibar War
On this day in 1896, the shortest war in history was fought between the United Kingdom and the Zanzibar Sultanate. The war lasted only 40 minutes. The conflict was caused by the death of pro-British Sultan Hamad bin Thuwaini the day before. The British wanted the successor to be another sultan who would support Britain. The new sultan Khalid bin Barghash refused to stand down and barricaded himself inside his palace. British forces bombarded the sultan's palace between 09.02 and 09.40, when the attack and thus the war ended. The sultan's forces suffered 500 casualties, whilst the British only had one soldier wounded. The British were then able to put their preferred sultan in power in Zanzibar.
August 25th 79: Pliny the Elder died
On this day in 79 AD, the famous Roman author and philosopher Pliny the Elder died. Pliny was a prominent Roman citizen, serving in the army and becoming a friend of Emperor Vespasian. Among his written works include his comprehensive Natural History which is the precursor for all modern encyclopedias. In his capacity as fleet commander of the Roman Navy, Pliny witnessed the eruption of Mount Vesuvius which destroyed Pompeii and Herculaneum. Following the eruption, Pliny crossed the Bay of Naples in an attempt to rescue a friend from the devastation and to observe the phenomenon directly. Despite the rubble raining down on his boat, Pliny pushed his boat onward and declared "Fortune favours the brave". Once he reached the shore and found his friend, Pliny's party became stranded on the shore. The next day he collapsed and died, supposedly from the toxic fumes, however the rest of his party returned safely. In his will he legally adopted his nephew Pliny the Younger who also became a renowned philosopher and served as a provincial governor of Bithynia; his letters to Emperor Trajan provide fascinating evidence of the relationship between emperors and governors in the Roman Empire.
August 23rd 1305: William Wallace executed
On this day in 1305 William Wallace was executed for high treason in London. Wallace was one of the major leaders of the Wars of Scottish Independence that took place throughout the late 13th and early 14th centuries. He led Scottish forces against the English with great success, such as at the Battle of Stirling Bridge in 1297, for which he was knighted. However he was later defeated at the Battle of Falkirk in 1298 and eventually captured in 1305, at which point he was sentenced to be hanged, drawn and quartered by King Edward I of England. After his grisly execution, Wallace's preserved head was set on a pike atop London Bridge. The Wars for Independence that Wallace had fought so valiantly for were successful, and Scotland remained an independent nation until it joined with England in 1707 to form Great Britain. Wallace has since become a Scottish icon and a symbol of the nation's continuing campaign for independence. He remains a popular figure in literature and film, most famously portrayed by Mel Gibson as the protagonist of the 1995 film Braveheart.
"I could not be a traitor to Edward, for I was never his subject"
- Wallace on his treason charge
August 21st 1831: Nat Turner's rebellion begins
On this day in 1831 the Virginian slave Nat Turner began the deadliest slave rebellion the United States had ever seen, which resulted in the deaths of 55 whites. Turner, a slave preacher, had come to believe that God intended for him to lead a black uprising against the injustice of slavery. In the evening of August 21st 1831, Turner and his co-conspirators met in the woods to make their plans and early the next morning began the rebellion by killing Turner's master's family. Turner and his men, who soon numbered over 80, then went from house to house assaulting the white inhabitants. Eventually a local militia, and then federal and state troops, confronted the rebels and dispersed the group. Turner himself initially evaded capture but was captured on October 30th. Subsequently Turner, along with over fifty other rebels, was executed. However the retribution for Nat Turner's rebellion did not end there. The uprising sent shockwaves across the South, and while full scale rebellion such as Turner's was rare in the Deep South due to the rigid enforcement of the slave system, caused widespread fear of another rebellion. In the ensuing hysteria over 200 innocent black slaves were killed by white mobs. Turner's rebellion came close to ending slavery in Virginia, as in its wake the state legislature considered abolishing the 'peculiar institution'. However the measure was voted down and instead the state decided to increase plantation discipline and limit slaves' autonomy even further by banning them from acting as preachers and learning to read. Similar measures were adopted across the slave-holding South and thus Nat Turner's rebellion increased the South's commitment to slavery, despite undermining the pro-slavery argument that it was a benevolent system and slaves were content. Turner has left behind a complicated legacy, with some seeing him as an African-American hero and others as a religious fanatic and villain; his memory raises the eternal question of whether violence is justified to bring about necessary change.
August 19th 14 AD: Augustus dies
On this day in 14 AD the first Roman Emperor, Augustus, died aged 75. Born Gaius Octavius and known as Octavian, he was named as heir of his great uncle Julius Caesar. Upon Caesar's assassination in 44 BC, Augustus formed an alliance - the Second Triumvirate - with Marcus Aemilius Lepidus and Mark Antony, to rule and take vengeance on Caesar's assassins. The alliance soon fell apart and the three fought for sole rule of Rome. Octavian emerged victorious after defeating Mark Anthony at the Battle of Actium in 31 BC. Octavian then set about 'restoring' the Roman Republic, which had been ruled by Caesar as Dictator, by formally returning power to the Senate. However in reality the new leader kept considerable power in his person, adopting many titles which became part of the imperial pantheon, including 'Augustus' (which loosely translates as 'magnificent'), 'princeps' (first citizen), 'pontifex maximus' (priest of Roman religion) and 'tribunicia potestas' (power over the tribune assemblies elected by the people). Augustus's constitutional system gave way to the birth of the Principate, the first period of the Roman Empire. He is also considered the first Roman Emperor because the empire greatly expanded under his rule. Augustus died in 14 AD, and was succeeded by his step-son and adopted heir Tiberius. Augustus thus began the stable line of 'adoptive' Roman Emperors which ended with Marcus Aurelius's decision to name his birth son Commodus, who came to power in 180 AD. This year is the momentous 2000th anniversary of the death of the first Roman Emperor. Even today Rome is remembered as a pinnacle of civilisation and empire and much of modern Europe continues to be shaped by its legacy.
2000 years ago today
September 1st 1983: Korean Air Lines Flight 007 shot down
On this day in 1983 the Korean Air Lines Flight 007 from New York City to Seoul was shot down by a Soviet jet fighter over the Sea of Japan. All 269 passengers and crew aboard the flight were killed, leaving no survivors; the majority of the victims were South Koreans. Flight 007 was off course and strayed into Soviet airspace, which was on high alert due to the presence of a US reconnaissance plane that resembled a Boeing 747 aircraft. Soviet pilot Major Gennadi Osipovich was responsible for the attack, and despite privately suspecting it might be a civilian jet, fired a heat-seeking missile at the plane which caused it to crash into the ocean. Occurring in the middle of the Cold War, the incident increased tensions between the world's two leading superpowers - the United States and the Soviet Union. In what US President Ronald Reagan called a "massacre", among the 269 victims was a US Congressman from Georgia. This incident has been much discussed recently due to the shooting down of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over Ukraine on July 17th 2014.
August 30th 1914: Battle of Tannenberg ends
On this day in 1914 during World War One, the Germans defeated the Russians at the Battle of Tannenberg after four days of fighting. The first major battle on the Eastern front, Tannenberg devastated the underprepared Russian army, who suffered 170,000 casualties to the Germans' 12,000, thus eviscerating the Russian Second Army. The overwhelming victory of the German army made this battle one of the few decisive battles in a war characterised by stalemate and attritional warfare. The Germans thus successfully repelled the Russians from East Prussia, and their victory can partly be attributed to their superior tactics, including the use of large turning movements by train. One German leader for this battle was Paul von Hindenberg who went on to become President of Germany and saw the start of Nazi rule before his death in 1934. The Russian generals were largely incompetent due to their personal feud and one, Alexander Samsonov, committed suicide on August 30th after the Battle of Tannenberg rather than report the defeat to Tsar Nicholas II. The Russian First Army soon suffered the same fate as the Second and fell under German attack.
100 years ago today
August 28th 1955: Emmett Till murdered
On this day in 1955, the 14-year-old African-American boy Emmett Till was murdered in Mississippi. While visiting family in the state, Till allegedly flirted with the young white shopkeeper Carolyn Bryant while buying candy. Bryant told her husband and a few nights later he and his half-brother abducted Till and brutally tortured and murdered him. His mutilated body was found three days later in the Tallahatchie river; Till's face was unrecognisable, but he was identified by the ring he wore engraved with his father's initials that his mother gave him before he left for Mississppi. The viciousness of this unprovoked, racially-motivated crime sent shockwaves throughout the nation. The case drew attention to the oppression of African-Americans throughout the nation and provided a name and a face to the threat of lynching. Till's mother Mamie, a highly educated woman who went on to become a devoted fighter for African-American equality, insisted on an open-casket funeral in order to show the world what was done to her young son. Thousands attended the funeral and thousands more saw the horrific images of Till's body. Due to the fierce reactions the murder had engendered it was a particularly painful, but sadly expected, outcome when the all-white jury in Mississippi acquitted Till's killers, despite Till's great-uncle openly identifying them in court. A few months later the killers, now protected by double jeopardy laws, sold their story to Look magazine and openly confessed to the murder in chilling detail. Taking place a year after the Supreme Court outlawed school segregation in Brown v. Board of Education, the outrage over the murder galvanised the burgeoning Civil Rights Movement. 100 days after Emmett Till's murder Rosa Parks, on her way back from a rally for Till hosted by the then-unknown Martin Luther King Jr., refused to give up her seat for a white man on an Alabama bus. This sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott, thus beginning the movement that would result in the dismantling of the system of Jim Crow segregation and win successes in promoting African-American social and political equality.
August 26th 1910: Mother Teresa born
On this day in 1910, Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu (now best known as Mother Teresa) was born to an Albanian family in Skopje, Macedonia which was then part of the Ottoman Empire. She became a nun when she was 18 and joined the Sisters of Loreto. In 1946 she claimed that she had a vision of God telling her to leave the convent and help the poor. She obeyed and lived among the poor in India and it was during this time that she went from Sister Teresa to Mother Teresa. In 1950 she established Missionaries of Charity, a Catholic congregation which helps the poor, the ill and the homeless. Members of the order, which still continues to do good works, make four vows, the last of which is to give "Wholehearted and Free service to the poorest of the poor". Her work drew great international attention and in 1979 she received the Nobel Peace Prize. While being praised by many she was also a figure of controversy partly due to her opposition to contraception and for the large donations from disreputable sources her organisation accepted. Towards the end of her life Mother Teresa began to feel doubts about her religious convictions, and died in Calcutta on 5th September 1997, aged 87.
"I was to leave the convent and help the poor while living among them. It was an order. To fail would have been to break the faith."
- Mother Teresa on her message from God
August 24th 1929: Hebron Massacre
On this day in 1929, around 67 Jews were killed by an Arab mob in Hebron, Palestine. The massacre took place during the 1929 Palestine Riots, which in total resulted in the deaths of 133 Jews and 110 Arabs. At this time, Palestine was under British administration and was known as the British Mandate of Palestine. The local Arab majority resented the immigration of Jews into their homeland, especially Hebron, a city considered a holy site for both Muslims and Jews. The tensions came to a head when false rumours spread that Jews were killing Arabs in the holy city of Jerusalem and were threatening Muslim holy sites. Violence thus soon erupted in Hebron, where many Jews (both foreign settlers and Palestinian Jews) were killed and wounded, with scores of homes and synagogues also targetted and destroyed. Around 435 Jews survived the massacre, largely due to the support of local Arab families who hid them, allowing them to survive the violence and soon be evacuated. Despite repeated warnings of possible violence in the area, the British authorities in Hebron were woefully unprepared, with just one British policeman stationed there. The rest of the police force was made up of local Arabs, some of whom actually joined in the killings. Hebron, located in the West Bank, remains a place of tensions between local Palestinians and Jewish settlers.
August 22nd 1910: Japan annexes Korea
On this day in 1910, Japan formally annexed Korea with the signing of the Japan-Korea Treaty. Signed by Prime Minister of the Korean Empire Lee Wan-yong and Japanese Resident General of Korea Count Terauchi Masatake, the treaty completed the process of dwindling Korean autonomy that had been furthered by other treaties since 1876. The treaty became effective on August 29th, a week after it was signed, on which day it was also officially promulgated to the public. This marks the beginning of the period of Japanese rule in Korea, during which time Koreans were expected to assimilate with Japanese culture and reject their own. Japanese colonial rule over Korea ended after Japan's defeat in the Second World War, at which time Korea became an independent nation. In 1965 the treaties between Japan and Korea before 1910 were declared "already null and void", but a debate continues over whether they were ever legally valid. The legacy of Japanese colonialism remains a controversial one. Many Koreans are still resentful of the treaty, which they believe was invalid as it was forced upon the Koreans, and the years of brutal imperialism that followed. As for the Japanese, there are mixed messages of sincere apology and defiant justification of imperialism; therefore full reconciliation between the two nations is still not complete.
August 20th 1938: Lou Gehrig hits 23rd Grand Slam
On this day in 1938 the famous New York Yankees baseball first baseman Lou Gehrig hit his 23rd Grand Slam. Nicknamed 'The Iron Horse', Gehrig's 23 Grand Slams remained the most on record until it was broken by fellow Yankees player Alex Rodriguez in 2013. The remarkable career of this exceptionally talented baseball player ended in 1939 when, after his performance had been deteriorating, Gehrig was diagnosed with a terminal neurodegenerative disease which severely limits physical mobility (often to the point of paralysis) while not affecting the brain. The disease is known by different names, for example in the UK it is called motor neurone disease (or MND), and in the US as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). The diagnosis led Gehrig to retire aged 36 and on a July 4th 1939 'Lou Gehrig Appreciation Day' at Yankee Stadium, he gave an emotional farewell speech that has become known as baseball's Gettysburg Address. Lou Gehrig died two years later just before his 38th birthday. His legacy continues as one of the greatest players of all time and in the fact that many Americans now refer to ALS/MND as 'Lou Gehrig's Disease'. Other notable people to have this disease include Stephen Hawking, whose is an unusual case as he has lived with it for over 50 years. This cruel disease, which affects hundreds of thousands of people across the world, has been brought to the forefront of public attention due to the recent 'Ice Bucket Challenge' in which someone has a bucket of ice water tipped over their head and then nominate others to do the same and donate to charity. To donate to this cause and find out more about the disease visit the ALSA website (US) or MNDA website (UK). The effort to raise funds and awareness of this disease which tragically ended Lou Gehrig's life has been a great success, with over $30 million in donations being made to the ALSA and celebrities like Bill Gates, Robert Downey Jr. and the Foo Fighters getting involved.
"Today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth…I might have been given a bad break, but I've got an awful lot to live for"
- Lou Gehrig in his 1939 farewell speech


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29 June 2007
ANZAC SAS Pic
Flashpoint Miniatures have released this nice closeup pic of 2 figs from the Australian SAS range.
Great for those who want to play "Odd Angry Shot" type scenarios!
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13 June 2007
Dr Grordbort's Infallible Aether Oscillators & other Marvellous Contraptions!
An incredible website, selling all manner of revolutionary equipment including the latest in steam powered rayguns, including the MANMELTER 3600ZX Sub-Atomic Disintegrator Pistol and the GOLIATHON 83 Infinity Beam Projector, shown here by Dr Grordbort's lovely neice Leila.
Even if you arent in the market for the latest in death ray breaththroughs, you must check this site out!
Also includes a "Bestiary of the Cosmos" section with the latest zoological discoveries, including the Vesuian Double Backed Shrovel and the Mountain Meat Beetle.
Thanks for the great link Maks!
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01 June 2007
Figure Review - Main Force VC Rifle Platoon
Lacking a supplier in Victoria, I ordered my pack of figures from Dragonfire Games in Brisbane for AUD$35 and Dragonfire Games doesn't charge for postage, which was great.
The product code fore the Main Force VC Rifle Platoon is FPV014 for those wanting to order a pack or three. The picture below is from the Flashpoint Minatures web site. As bases are not included with the miniatures, i also purchased a pack of FoW bases from Dragonfire Games.
In total there were 39 figures in the pack:
2 x Officer standing with rifle slung
4 x VC with RPG
4 x VC with RPD Machine Gun
4 x NCO with arm raised
25 x Rifleman in various poses
This works out at around .90 cents (well .897 cents) a figure.
Looking at the photos on the Flashpoint web site and forum, i am not sure if i am meant to have two officer figures
There is a little bit of flash to clean up which isn't a problem, as this is easy to clean up.
I am very happy with the figures, especially after getting over the shock of how small they were... i am used to 20mm and 28mm figures.
The paint i was going to use to paint them has dried up, so i will have to buy some more paint before getting stuck into them, which i am keen to do.
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I love the business program
Campus Housing:
some rooms are very small.
Health & Safety:
average like every other college, has a clinic if you are sick
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I'm only a freshman and its unusual for us to live off campus
we have a great basketball team, only 20 minutes from the city, many opportunities in the business world
sometimes its a ghost town on the weekend.
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Iona is known for its business program.
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I wish the connection was better. Even at the libraries or labs the computers are very slow.
I enjoy the diversity. There are many international students, which I enjoy
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The neighborhood around my campus is not the best. The locals are very annoying and the campus is also near the local high school
I love my Mass Comm major, but am dissapointed that my adviser is retiring.
The criteria is decent a decent gpa. The college makes you choose a major by the end of sophomore year. It is very easy to change majors.I am trying to double major and it is pretty simple
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The housing is convenient and social, but restricting in many ways.
They need more bars, but others are a cheap taxi ride away. I go to NYC at least once a month for nightlife
Our school is Division I and very well-known for our basketball team. Basketball games are very involved and many support the teams.
same as new york, basic seasonal weather, typical
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there should be more variety and better quality
I like the technology and computer availability here.
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