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Orlando vs LAWorth visiting the other coast?
From Daniel EtcheberryI live an hour away from Disneyworld and Universal Studios Florida; Is it worth it to travel across the nation to LA and visit Disneyland and Universal Hollywood? Or is it just an unnecessary repetition?
Posted June 29, 2010 at 7:11 PM
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From David L.well... you may want to wait a year or two or even three for crowds to settle after the expansion at DCA and for transformers at USH. THen, i would recommend you to go. Many of the classic rides are typically considered better at Disneyland(pirates, smallworld, space mt. some others) but one day at each park might be enough since many rides are very similar or even better at disneyworld/USF(mummy, thunder Mt., haunted M., splash Mt., and others). YOu may also consider seeing some wildlife in CA or going to legoland, seaworld, Knotts, or magic mountain. All in all, I would definitely recommend going to CA.
Posted June 29, 2010 at 7:23 PM
From Nick MarkhamDaniel, I love Orlando, but I prefer the coasters in LA. You are leaving out Knotts and Six Flags Magic Mountain, the roller coaster capital (soon) of the world. Plus, I prefer Disneyland over Magic Kingdom and possibly after 2012, California Adventure over the other three WDW parks.
Posted June 29, 2010 at 7:50 PM
Definitely worth visiting, and I would love to help you plan if you choose to visit having gone there oh five times I believe and having visited each of the parks. :D
From Anthony MurphyIts worth seeing at least once!
Posted June 30, 2010 at 6:44 AM
From Bob MillerDaniel, I have been out to LA twice, once with my wife and once with my daughter. I'd say yes, go out but see the sights as the others have mentioned. I'm now planning my last trip out with my grandson.
Posted June 30, 2010 at 9:36 AM
Disneyland, DCA, Magic Mountain, Universal, Knotts Berry Farm, Hollywood see all you can, it's a great place to be.
From Tyler BellORLANDO!ORLANDO! I would like to visit LA though
Posted June 30, 2010 at 1:31 PM
From James RaoIf you can afford to take the trip across the country, why wouldn't you? There is some great stuff to do in SoCal!
Posted June 30, 2010 at 2:20 PM
From J. DanaAs someone who has lived in both Orlando (4.5 years) and L.A. (5 years), I can attest that SoCal DEFINITELY deserves a visit. The Disneyland resort itself is worth the trip, but with Universal Hollywood and Knotts thrown in, it's definitely a great time. California Adventure is shaping up to be truly amazing -- and if you can catch the Aladin show before it's gone (STUPID decision), you'll be glad you did -- in my opinion, it's the best theme-park stage show ever mounted. Also, I think the California Screamin' coaster is Disney's best coaster of ANY of it's coasters...(and I've ridden them all multiple times).
Posted July 2, 2010 at 10:09 AM
In my humble opinion, I prefer the Universal Hollywood studio over the Florida Studio theme park (I'm refering just to the individual Studio parks, not the entire Universal Florida resort -- which includes IOA -- which does rival Hollywood)
From Anthony MurphyI heard Aladdin is staying because of public outcry!
Posted July 2, 2010 at 12:00 PM
Sorry, I was in a hurry the last time I responded, but it is worth the trip. Disneyland Resort facinates me since it was designed by the artist himself, Walt Disney. Its also fun to compare and contrast with Disney World and how all that magic can be shoved into an area thats about the size of EPCOT and its resorts (two theme parks, downtown Disney, and three hotels)- Figure that out!
And Universal Studios Hollywood is, well, a studios! No more "fake studios" bit that USO and DHS does, this is real stuff!
From Tyler BellI cant tell you what is in LA ,I can tell you whats in orlando. i live in walking distance from internatonal dr. and seaworld
Posted July 2, 2010 at 12:33 PM
From Rob PWe've pretty much alternated between Orlando and Southern California since 1995. Our visits are usually for three weeks so we get a chance to see as much as we can inside and outside of the theme parks.
Posted July 5, 2010 at 1:20 AM
Orlando certainly has a slight edge on the sheer enormity of scale for the parks. They are breathtakingly good parks too and all within fairly easy reach of each other. It is, unquestionably, the theme park Capital of the World.
The constraints due to the California parks being set in urban areas should not, however, put you off.
From Manny BarronBoth are great. I live in the Southwest so I visit SoCal more frequently than Orlando. If vacationing in the summer,one of the major advantages of SoCal over Orlando is the weather. Sure it gets warm in LA(although never as hot as in Orlando), but the mornings and evenings are downright beautiful. No rain, no humidity, no oppresive heat.
Posted July 6, 2010 at 10:08 PM
From TH CreativeI live in Orlando. In 2008 my family travelled to Southern California and had a BLAST!
Posted July 7, 2010 at 5:12 AM
My suggestion: See if you can squeeze a day or two at Comic Con (July in San Diego).
From Jay GlennYes if you can afford a visit to SoCal you must go. It's fun to compare Magic Kingdom an Disneyland and see how they contrast. I've been out there 3 times and I prefer MK but that's maybe because I grew up on MK. But Disneyland has disney's best dark ride ever, Indiana Jones Adventure. That's worth a trip in itself. Universal Studios Hollywood is like posted before, a REAL studio. So you actually won't find a lot of rides but there's more to see.
Posted July 9, 2010 at 5:26 AM
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Father's day is a time for ties, socks and Old Spice. But one family have set a new bench mark that many sons and daughters will find hard to replicate this Father's Day. The story goes that way back in 1961 a young Cecil R Sims fresh out of College and in the Forestry Service, drove down from Williams to Phoenix with his good friend Carl Winslow to purchase a new Chevrolet Truck. They followed the historic arrow and Camelback and purchased a new 1962 Chevy ½ ton pick up from Courtesy Chevrolet for $1700.
The truck stayed in the family all these years and racked up 300,000 miles of memories. Beside this is a picture of Cecil's family on one of their many adventures. It got sold from family member to another, but was still in the Cecil Sims family. For the last 15 years the Chevrolet truck was down on its luck and close to scrap, and it may have ended its days that way.
However Cecil Sims Daughter and Son in Law hatched a plan. Cecil's daughter said to her husband, "Let's restore the Chevy truck and give back to father as a surprise this father's day", this was in December 2013. Jim Anderson, wistfully said let me think on this over a beer, or two. Keep in mind the truck was not in pristine condition, and 5 and a half months was a tall order to completely rebuild a 1962 truck. It had been sitting for 15 years, had over 300,000 miles on it. But it keep in mind it was a Chevrolet. Jim Anderson agreed to the challenge and keeping this a complete surprise spent the next five and have months deconstructing and rebuilding this 1962 Chevrolet truck to pristine condition. Jim reached out to Courtesy Chevrolet with the ultimate Father's Day surprise.
So this Saturday, before Father's Day, Jim approached Courtesy Chevrolet to redeliver the truck on the show room floor this Saturday. Family and friends, and the team that helped rebuild the 1962 pick up met at Courtesy Chevrolet on Camelback. Now keep in mind this is a surprise, Cecil Sims has no idea, but at 12:00 he got to see his 1962 truck restored to its glory on the showroom floor where he bought it from Courtesy Chevrolet back in 1961.
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"The Year in the title takes 25 years to come"
With great imagination, Atwood creates a world that is scarily recognizable as an all-too-possible future. Drug companies that seed their products with maladies to which only they control the remedies . . . fast food that is no longer recognizable as anything grown from the earth . . . leading to the growth of "fanatic" vegetarian cults . . . Yet, the overall effect of the book was somewhat tedious. The author did not employ her wry humor often enough, and the sections describing life before the "dry flood" felt too long. Disclaimer: I have not read Oryx and Crake, which I now realize is a prequel to this book.
"It's the journey, not the destination"
I think listening to this as an audio book is probably the very best way to experience it. There are long stretches that are letters written by Eliza, which by their nature involved long explanations of things Eliza had done. I wish the author had simply shown Eliza interacting with people and her environment, since she is such an unusual and compelling female protagonist. Seeing her primarily through her letters made her feel more distant, although she does explain lots of interesting things about early commerce, such as how insurance began (Lloyd's was originally a coffee shop!), how to be an effective spy, and how to use binary code encrypted in needlepoint to send coded messages. Still, I found my mind drifting at times, and thought more than once that if I had been reading this as a hard copy book, I probably would have given up. But the audio performers do a lovely job of pulling the listener along on this fantastic voyage, in much the same way that a really good Shakespearean actor can make you understand the meaning of what is being said, even if you don't comprehend every word.
"Memorable for introducing a great female character"
This book I found considerably less interesting than Quicksilver, dealing as it does primarily with the decidedly picaresque adventures of a vagabond. He hooks up with Eliza, the only female character of the book, who quickly establishes herself as the brains of their partnership. Once she gets to Amsterdam and begins to manipulate both men and their money, she becomes one of the most interesting female characters I have come across in quite some time.
"Listening makes easy work of this long novel"
There are a lot of reasons one might be tempted to skip this book (too long, not interested in old English history, no female characters, no plot), but one very good reason to pick it up: amazing writing. Although the themes of this novel and Snow Crash (still my favorite Stephenson novel) couldn't be more different, the same brilliant writing is present in each. In Quicksilver, Stephenson fascinates with an account of the beginnings of modern science in the 1600s in England, throwing in a good bit of English history to boot. Want to know why coins have little markings on their sides? How sundials work? When the burning of London happened? What kinds of experiments the Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge did in the first years after its founding? It's all here, along with pirates, religion, politics, wars and blunderbusses. There's barely a plot to hold it all together, but still I couldn't put it down. I am definitely going to be reading the next book in the series.
[I listened to this as an audio book performed by Simon Prebble and Kevin Pariseau. They did a marvelous job. I decided to listen at 1.25 speed, which was great, really made the book fly by. I finished in about a week! I would highly recommend this as a truly enjoyable listen.]
"Good intro to scifi for a teen"
I just re-read this book [to be accurate, I should say I listened to it as an audio book] and have to say it wasn't quite as good as I remembered it being. Reminiscent of both the Ringworld and Riverworld books, this novel sets up a premise that allows the author to jam together a bunch of things that would not normally be side-by-side, and then takes the reader on an extensive tour. Sure, the worldbuilding is impressive, but somehow the sum is not greater than the parts.
I do think this book would be a good introduction to scifi for an early teen. There are quite a few interesting ideas, including one passage in which a character ruminates on whether plant life would be more likely to develop intellectually than animal life, because plants don't have to spend so much of their time looking for food. There are also several neat passages in which Chalker does a great job describing how the world would look through alien eyes—an insect and an antelope are the ones I recall the most vividly. Also, different types of reproduction, including sexual and non-sexual, are explained, most memorably one passage in which one of the main characters undergoes "twinning." Some of the final questions posed (such as how does any one person know what changes could put the world on the "right" track) were concepts a teenager might find mind-blowing, but many adults will find overly preachy.
About that ending: I wish the resolution would have veered more obviously into the scientific realm, the theoretical physics behind multiverses and universal constants. Was 1978 too early for that? I don't know. As it is, the book's resolution felt more like hand-wavium and seemed a paltry payoff for such a long book.
[Because the book was so long, and the narration so slow, I listened to this at 1.25 speed and that seemed just fine.]
"Simplistic and saccharine"
This was just a "meh" book for me. Nothing wrong with it really, but nothing that really made me sit up and take notice. Definitely an ode to bookstores and literature, and the characters were sweet, but the story struck me as simplistic and the tone overly saccharine.
[I listened to this as an Audible book read by Scott Brick. I typically enjoy Mr. Brick's narration, but for this one, I had to listen at 1.5 speed, otherwise the narration was agonizingly slow]
"NOT a one-trick pony"
Unlike other mashups that are nothing more but thinly veiled attempts to make money off of venerable titles (Pride & Prejudice and Zombies, the most obvious example), this trilogy is definitely NOT a one-trick pony. Hard to believe, but each installment actually got better. That is saying a lot, since I thought the first book was amazing, and "Return of the Jedi" was my least favorite movie of the original trilogy. But Doescher clearly took great pains to honor both of the great legacies to which he is beholden. And the production values on the audio versions of these books is among the best I have ever encountered. Music from the actual movie soundtrack is expertly inserted in just the right places, the actors' voices are very close to those of the original actors, and there is also an afterword read by Doescher in which he explains some of the techniques he used to combine his two inspirations.
One thing I really liked about the whole trilogy which I didn't mention in my reviews of the other two books is the way Doescher assumes the listener/reader has seen the prequel movies. The sly references to the prequels made me laugh out loud, for instance, in this installment when the ghost of Obi-wan makes a comment about midi-chlorians.
To anyone who is a lover of Star Wars, I cannot recommend these three audiobooks more highly.
Simply one of the most powerful books I have ever read. So heart-wrenching, so true, it is difficult to find my own true words to describe the experience that is this author's journey into himself, and into every soldier, and into all of us. By allowing the reader into his memories, Tim O'Brien uses story to save himself now, to save himself in Vietnam, to save himself as a young boy. So this book is not only about a specific war, not only about war in general, but it is about life and the power of words.
I must add that I listened to this as an audio book read by Bryan Cranston, who was devastatingly perfect. Also, the audio book has a bonus track that is well worth listening to, featuring Tim O'Brien reading his essay "The Vietnam in Me."
I must end this review with transcripts of some of my favorite passages from the book, because I never want to forget them.
All of us, I suppose, like to believe that in a moral emergency we will behave like the heroes of our youth, bravely and forthrightly, without thought of personal loss or discredit. Certainly that was my conviction back in the summer of 1968. Tim O'Brien: a secret hero. The Lone Ranger. If the stakes ever became high enough—if the evil were evil enough, if the good were good enough—I would simply tap a secret reservoir of courage that had been accumulating inside me over the years. Courage, I seemed to think, comes to us in finite quantities, like an inheritance, and by being frugal and stashing it away and letting it earn interest, we steadily increase our moral capital in preparation for that day when the account must be drawn down. It was a comforting theory. It dispensed with all those bothersome little acts of daily courage; it offered hope and grace to the repetitive coward; it justified the past while amortizing the future.
A true war story is never moral. It does not instruct, nor encourage virtue, nor suggest models of proper human behavior, nor restrain men from doing the things men have always done. If a story seems moral, do not believe it. If at the end of a war story you feel uplifted, or if you feel that some small bit of rectitude has been salvaged from the larger waste, then you have been made the victim of a very old and terrible lie. There is no rectitude whatsoever. There is no virtue. As a first rule of thumb, therefore, you can tell a true war story by its absolute and uncompromising allegiance to obscenity and evil.
I'm skimming across the surface of my own history, moving fast, riding the melt beneath the blades, doing loops and spins, and when I take a high leap into the dark and come down thirty years later, I realize it is as Tim trying to save Timmy's life with a story.
And sometimes remembering will lead to a story, which makes it forever. That's what stories are for. Stories are for joining the past to the future. Stories are for those late hours in the night when you can't remember how you got from where you were to where you are. Stories are for eternity, when memory is erased, when there is nothing to remember except the story.
[from "The Vietnam in Me"] … Vietnam was more than terror. For me at least, Vietnam was partly love. With each step, each light year of a second, a foot soldier is always almost dead, or so it feels, In such circumstances, you can't help but love. You love your mom and dad, the Vikings, hamburgers on the grill, your pulse, your future, everything that might be lost, or never come to be. Intimacy with death carries with it a corresponding new intimacy with life. Jokes are funnier, green is greener, you love the musky morning air. You love the miracle of your own enduring capacity for love.
"What I didn't like: NOTHING"
Even though I am a huge Star Wars fan (and have six different Star Wars costumes in my closet to prove it) and also love Shakespeare, I approached this mashup with trepidation. I thought, well, I'll get the first one because my geek cred will suffer if I don't check this out. But the audio version of "Verily, A New Hope" was so damned good that I immediately downloaded the other two installments and ended up binge-listening to all three in less than a week.
What I liked:
Soliloquys that reveal the characters' inner thoughts (especially the space slug!!)
Storm Troopers as comic relief (particularly one section where they sound like two geeky fanboys as they speculate about the possible reasons why every structure the Empire builds has a huge chasm next to the pedestrian walkways)
Singing Ugnaughts
C3PO's "Seven stages of war" speech (an alternate take on the "seven ages of man" speech from As You Like It)
The voices of the actors, each perfectly suited to the characters, but particularly Obi-wan
Han and Leia as Romeo and Juliet
What I didn't like: NOTHING!
"If you love Star Wars, you'll love this"
Unlike other mashups that are nothing more but thinly veiled attempts to make money off of venerable titles (Pride & Prejudice and Zombies, the most obvious example), this trilogy is definitely NOT a one-trick pony. Hard to believe, but each installment actually got better. That is saying a lot, since I thought the first book was amazing, and "Return of the Jedi" was my least favorite movie of the original trilogy. But Doescher clearly took great pains to honor both of the great legacies to which he is beholden. And the production values on the audio versions of these books is among the best I have ever encountered. Music from the actual movie soundtrack is expertly inserted in just the right places, the actors' voices are very close to those of the original actors, and there is also an afterword read by Doescher in which he explains some of the techniques he used to combine his two inspirations.
One thing I really liked about the whole trilogy which I didn't mention in my reviews of the other two books is the way Doescher assumes the listener/reader has seen the prequel movies. The sly references to the prequels made me laugh out loud, for instance, in this installment when the ghost of Obi-wan makes a comment about midi-chlorians.
To anyone who is a lover of Star Wars, I cannot recommend these three audiobooks more highly.
"Best book about Mars I have read yet"
This was a wonderful combination of hard science, science fiction and humor. Other than John Scalzi, I can't think of any science fiction author who does as good a job with humor. Listening to this as an audio book made the humor that much more enjoyable. The performer put just the right amount of flippancy into his voice as he read the daily log entries of the protagonist, an astronaut who is just trying to get home. Some of the funny parts that made me laugh out loud included the ode to duct tape: "Yes of course duct tape works in a near vacuum. Duct tape works anywhere. Duct tape is magic and should be worshipped." Also the protagonist's listing of all the songs on the ipod that had something to do with his situation (Life on Mars, Rocket Man , Alone Again-Naturally , and Stayin' Alive).
But the author wasn't all about the laughs. There were plenty of very interesting science sections, like when the protagonist described how he synthesized water, or prepared the soil to grow potatoes, or used a pack of plutonium to provide heat without irradiating himself. All these sections were clearly very well researched, but were written in a way that was very accessible and understandable. Many parts reminded me strongly of the book "Apollo: The Race to the Moon" by Charles Murray, particularly the parts describing how the team back at NASA would troubleshoot the challenges being encountered on the mission. By including the technicians back on Earth and their troubleshooting, the author avoided the mistake that many fiction novels make--focusing exclusively on the astronauts, ignoring the vital role played by the hundreds of experts at Mission Control, without whom the space flights would be impossible.
Still, I thought the author's decision to tell most of the story from the first person perspective of Mark Watney, the stranded astronaut, was brilliant. The few chapters that moved away from Mars and told what was happening on Earth spoiled some of the magic, breaking the sense of isolation I felt when the only person's voice was Mark Watney's. That magic was so powerful that I actually got a bit verklempt a couple of times. If you are fascinated by real space flight and like to think about things like the logistics of what it would really take to get a man on Mars, you should definitely read this book. Best book about Mars I have read yet.
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Frank Norris
|Frank Norris
|Benjamin Franklin Norris, Jr.
March 5, 1870
Chicago, Illinois, United States
|October 25, 1902
(aged 32)
San Francisco, California
|Pen name
|Frank Norris
|Notable works
|McTeague, The Octopus: A Story of California
Benjamin Franklin Norris, Jr. (March 5, 1870 – October 25, 1902) was an American novelist during the Progressive Era, writing predominantly in the naturalist[1][2][3][4][5] genre. His notable works include McTeague[6][7][8][9] (1899), The Octopus: A Story of California[10][11][12] (1901), and The Pit[13][14] (1903).
Frank Norris was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1870. His father, Benjamin, was a self-made Chicago businessman and his mother, Gertrude Glorvina Doggett, had a stage career. In 1884 the family moved to San Francisco where Benjamin went into real estate. In 1887, after the death of his brother and a brief stay in London, young Norris went to Académie Julian in Paris where he studied painting for two years and was exposed to the naturalist novels of Émile Zola.[15][16] Between 1890 and 1894 he attended the University of California, Berkeley, where he picked up the ideas of human evolution of Darwin and Spencer that are reflected in his later writings. His stories appeared in the undergraduate magazine at Berkeley and in the San Francisco Wave. After his parents' divorce he went east and spent a year in the English Department of Harvard University. There he came under the influence of Lewis E. Gates, who encouraged his writing. He worked as a news correspondent in South Africa (1895–96) for the San Francisco Chronicle, and then as editorial assistant on the San Francisco Wave (1896–97). He worked for McClure's Magazine as a war correspondent in Cuba during the Spanish–American War in 1898. He joined the New York City publishing firm of Doubleday & Page in 1899.
During his time at the University of California, Berkeley, Norris was a brother in the Fraternity of Phi Gamma Delta[17][18][19] and was an originator of the Skull & Keys society. Because of his involvement with a prank during the Class Day Exercises in 1893, the annual alumni dinner held by each Phi Gamma Delta chapter still bears his name. In 1900 Frank Norris married Jeanette Black. They had a child in 1901. Norris died on October 25, 1902, of peritonitis from a ruptured appendix in San Francisco.[20][21] This left The Epic of the Wheat trilogy unfinished.[22] He was only 32. He is buried in Mountain View Cemetery in Oakland, California.
Charles Gilman Norris, the author's younger brother, became a well regarded novelist and editor. C.G. Norris was also the husband of the prolific novelist Kathleen Norris. The Bancroft Library of the University of California, Berkeley, houses the archives of all three writers.
Frank Norris's work often includes depictions of suffering caused by corrupt and greedy turn-of-the-century corporate monopolies.[23][24] In The Octopus: A California Story, the Pacific and Southwest Railroad is implicated in the suffering and deaths of a number of ranchers in Southern California. At the end of the novel, after a bloody shootout between farmers and railroad agents at one of the ranches (named Los Muertos), readers are encouraged to take a "larger view" that sees that "through the welter of blood at the irrigating ditch ... the great harvest of Los Muertos rolled like a flood from the Sierras to the Himalayas to feed thousands of starving scarecrows on the barren plains of India". Though free-wheeling market capitalism causes the deaths of many of the characters in the novel, this "larger view always ... discovers the Truth that will, in the end, prevail, and all things, surely, inevitably, resistlessly work together for good".
Vandover and the Brute, written in the 1890s, but not published until after his death, is about three college friends, on their way to success, and the ruin of one through a degenerate lifestyle.
In addition to Zola, Norris's writing has been compared to that of Stephen Crane, Theodore Dreiser, and Edith Wharton.[25]
Norris has been characterized as an antisemitic writer. In the words of Richard Levy:[26]
...literary scholars have overlooked the strenuous antisemitism in his most successful novels. Norris's derogation of Jews[27] presented a more invasive and menacing image than Henry Adams's elite and snobbish eastern intellectual antisemitism or Ignatius Donnelly's derisive populist sketch of a Jewish money lender in Caesar's Column: A Story of the Twentieth Century (1890). As villains in Norris's mug book, Zerko in McTeague (1899) and Behrman in The Octopus (1901) were toxic agents in nature itself, a death force brutalizing California's urban and agrarian scene. These brute devils, lurking in the nature of everyman and prepared to corrupt Anglo-Saxon Christian civilization, transcended the conventional Jewish stereotypes of Shylock and Christ killers.
- Norris's novel The Pit was adapted for the theater by Channing Pollock in four acts. Produced by William A. Brady, the play premiered at New York's Lyric Theatre in February 10, 1904. A film adaptation of The Pit was produced in 1917, by William A. Brady's Picture Plays Inc.
- Norris's short story "A Deal in Wheat" (1903) and the novel The Pit were the basis for the 1909 D.W. Griffith film A Corner in Wheat.
- Norris's Moran of the Lady Letty was adapted by Monte M. Katterjohn in 1922. Directed by George Melford, the film starred Rudolph Valentino and Dorothy Dalton.
- Norris' McTeague has been filmed twice, most famously as a 1924 film called Greed by director Erich von Stroheim.[28] An earlier version, entitled Life's Whirlpool, was produced in 1915 by the World Film Corporation, starring Fania Marinoff and Holbrook Blinn.
- An opera by William Bolcom, based loosely on his 1899 novel, McTeague, was premiered by Chicago's Lyric Opera in 1992. The work is in two acts, with libretto by Arnold Weinstein and Robert Altman. The Lyric Opera's presentation featured Ben Heppner in the title role and Catherine Malfitano as Trina, the dentist's wife.
- In 2008, the Library of America selected Norris's newspaper article "Hunting Human Game" for inclusion in its two-century retrospective of American True Crime.[29]
- An alley-way in San Francisco bears his name (Frank Norris St.). It runs from Polk St. to Larkin St. and is located parallel to and in-between Pine St. and Bush St. in the city's Lower Nob Hill district.
- A bar located on San Francisco's Polk Street, near Frank Norris Way, is named McTeague's Saloon in honor of Norris's novel McTeague (1899). The interior and exterior are decorated with objects and imagery associated with the novel.
- (1892). Yvernelle, J. B. Lippincott Company.
- (1898). Moran of the "Lady Letty": A Story of Adventure Off the California Coast, Doubleday & McClure Co.
- (1899). McTeague: A Story of San Francisco, Doubleday & McClure Co.
- (1899). Blix, Doubleday & McClure Co.
- (1900). A Man's Woman, Doubleday & McClure Co.
- (1901). The Octopus: A Story of California, Doubleday, Page & Co.
- (1903). The Pit: A Story of Chicago, Doubleday, Page & Co.
- (1903). A Deal in Wheat and Other Stories of the New and Old West, Doubleday, Page & Company.
- (1906). A Joyous Miracle, Doubleday, Page & Company.
- (1909). The Third Circle, John Lane Company.
- (1914). Vandover and the Brute, Doubleday, Page & Company.[30]
- (1931). Frank Norris of "The Wave." Stories & Sketches From the San Francisco Weekly, 1893 to 1897, The Westgate Press.
- (1998). The Best Short Stories of Frank Norris, Ironweed Press Inc.
Short Stories
- (1907). "A Lost Story." In The Spinners' Book of Fiction, Paul Elder and Company.
- (1909). "The Passing of Cock-Eye Blacklock." In California Story Book, Pub. by the English Club of the University of California.
- (1910). "San Francisco's Old Chinatown." In Pathway to Western Literature, Nettie E. Gaines.
- (1903). The Responsibilities of the Novelist, Doubleday, Page & Company.
- (1956). The Letters of Frank Norris, The Book Club of California.
- (1996). The Apprenticeship Writings of Frank Norris 1896–1898, American Philosophical Society.
- "The True Reward of the Novelist," The World's Work, Vol. II, May/October 1901.
- "The Frontier Gone at Last," The World's Work, Vol. III, November 1901/April 1902.
- "The Novel with a 'Purpose'," The World's Work, Vol. IV, May/October 1902.
- "A Neglected Epic," The World's Work, Vol. V, November 1902/April 1903.
- "Fifi," by Léon Faran, The Wave, Vol. XVI, No. 4, January 23, 1897.
- "Not Guilty," by Marcel l'Heureux, The Wave, Vol. XVI, No. 25, June 19, 1897.
- "Story of a Wall," by Pierre Loti, The Wave, Vol. XVI, No. 35, August 28, 1897.
- "An Elopement," by Ferdinand Bloch, The Wave, Vol. XVI, No. 52, December 25, 1897.
Collected works
- The Complete Works of Frank Norris, 4 Vol., P. F. Collier Sons Publishers, 1898–1903.
- Complete Works of Frank Norris, 7 Vol., Doubleday, Page & Company, 1903.
- The Collected Works of Frank Norris, 10 Vol., Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1928.
- Norris: Novels and Essays, Library of America, 1986.
- ^ Biencourt, Marius. Une Influence du Naturalisme Français en Amérique: Frank Norris, Giard, 1933.
- ^ Walcutt, Charles Child. American Literary Naturalism, a Divided Stream, University of Minnesota Press, 1956.
- ^ Chase, Richard Volney. "Norris and Naturalism." In The American Novel and its Tradition, Doubleday, 1957.
- ^ Pehowski, Marian Frances. Darwinism and the Naturalistic Novel: J. P. Jacobsen, Frank Norris and Shimazaki Tōson, University of Wisconsin–Madison, 1973.
- ^ Civello, Paul. American Literary Naturalism and Its Twentieth-Century Transformations: Frank Norris, Ernest Hemingway, Don DeLillo, University of Georgia Press, 1994.
- ^ Cowley, Malcolm. "Naturalism's Terrible McTeague," New Republic, Vol. CXVI, May 1947.
- ^ Johnson, George W. "The Frontier behind Frank Norris' McTeague," Huntington Library Quarterly, Vol. 26, No. 1, Nov., 1962.
- ^ Ware, Thomas C. "'Gold to Airy Thinness Beat': The Midas Touch in Frank Norris's McTeague," Interpretations, Vol. 13, No. 1, 1981.
- ^ Campbell, Donna M. "Frank Norris' 'Drama of a Broken Teacup': The Old Grannis-Miss Baker Plot in McTeague," American Literary Realism, 1870–1910, Vol. 26, No. 1, Fall, 1993.
- ^ Meyer, George Wilbur. "A New Interpretation of The Octopus," College English, Vol. IV, March 1943.
- ^ Pizer, Donald. "The Concept of Nature in Frank Norris' The Octopus," American Quarterly, Vol. 14, No. 1, Spring, 1962.
- ^ Berte, Leigh Ann Litwiller. "Mapping The Octopus: Frank Norris' Naturalist Geography," American Literary Realism, Vol. 37, No. 3, Spring, 2005.
- ^ Wister, Owen. The Pit — A Story of Chicago, The World's Work, Vol. V, November 1902/April 1903.
- ^ Davison, Richard Allan. "A Reading of Frank Norris's The Pit." In The Stoic Strain in American Literature, University of Toronto Press, 1979.
- ^ Åhnebrink, Lars. The Influence of Émile Zola on Frank Norris, Lundequistska Bokhandeln, 1947.
- ^ Hunt, Jonathan P. Naturalist Democracy: Literary and Political Representation in the Works of Frank Norris and Émile Zola, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1996.
- ^ Wood, William Allen. "A Golden Bowl Broken," Phi Gamma Delta Magazine, Vol. XXV, December 1902.
- ^ Chamberlin, William Fosdick. The History of Phi Gamma Delta, The Fraternity, 1926.
- ^ Everett, Wallace W. "Frank Norris in his Chapter," Phi Gamma Delta Magazine, Vol. LII, April 1930.
- ^ "Death of Frank Norris". New York Times. October 26, 1902. Retrieved 2008-06-27.
Frank Norris, the novelist, died to-day as the result of an operation for appendicitis performed three days ago.
- ^ Cooper, Frederic Taber. "Frank Norris," The Bookman, December 1902.
- ^ "Now it makes no difference when or where or how a writer stumbles upon the idea which is to serve as his central purpose. It may spring from his head at a moment's notice like Athena, full armored — as was the case with the late Frank Norris, who, as has often been told, came one morning to his publisher's office, pale and trembling all over with excitement, and gasping out, almost inarticulately, "I've got a big idea! A great big idea! The biggest idea ever!" It was the outlined scheme for his trilogy of the Epic of the Wheat — the trilogy which began with The Octopus and The Pit, and which poor Norris did not live to round out with The Wolf." — Cooper, Frederic Taber. "The Author's Purpose." In The Craftsmanship of Writing, Dodd, Mead & Company, 1920.
- ^ Rothstein, Morton. "Frank Norris and Popular Perceptions of the Market," Agricultural History, Vol. 56, No. 1, 1982.
- ^ Zayani, Mohamed. Reading the Symptom: Frank Norris, Theodore Dreiser, and the Dynamics of Capitalism, Peter Lang (1999).
- ^ Joseph R. McElrath, Jr. and Gwendolyn Jones, "Introduction" to The Pit, Penguin Books, 1994.
- ^ Levy, Richard S. Antisemitism: A Historical Encyclopedia of Prejudice and Persecution, Vol. I, pp. 511–512. ISBN 978-1-85109-439-4
- ^ Lebowich, Joseph. "The Jew of Frank Norris," The Menorah, Vol. XXXVI, January/June 1904.
- ^ Greed (1924) at the Internet Movie Database
- ^ Frank Norris, "Hunting Human Game," The Wave, January 23, 1897.
- ^ Wyatt, Edith. "Vandover and the Brute." In Great Companions, D. Appleton & Company, 1917.
Further reading[edit]
- Åhnebrink, Lars. The Beginnings of Naturalism in American Fiction: A Study of the Works of Hamlin Garland, Stephen Crane, and Frank Norris, Russell & Russell (1961).
- Altenbernd, August Lynn. The Intellectual Currents in The Octopus: A Study of the Naturalism of Frank Norris, Ohio State University (1949).
- Anderson, Grace E. A Dictionary of Characters in the Novels of Frank Norris, University of Kansas (1933).
- Armes, William Dallam. "Concerning the Work of the Late Frank Norris," Sunset, Vol. X, December 1902.
- Bechter, Leslie G. Frank Norris: his Place in the Development of the American Novel, State University of Iowa (1939).
- Bender, Bert. "Frank Norris on the Evolution and Repression of the Sexual Instinct," Nineteenth-Century Literature, Vol. 54, No. 1, Jun., 1999.
- Benét, William Rose. "Rereading The Pit," Saturday Review of Literature, Vol. XXV, July 1942.
- Bixler, Paul H. "Frank Norris's Literary Reputation," American Literature, Vol. 6, No. 2, May, 1934.
- Borus, Daniel H. Writing Realism: Howells, James, and Norris in the Mass Market, University of North Carolina Press (1989).
- Boyd, Jennifer. Frank Norris: Spatial Form and Narrative Time, Peter Lang Pub Incorporated (1993).
- Brooks, Van Wyck. "Frank Norris and Jack London." In The Confident Years: 1885–1915, E. P. Dutton & Co. (1952).
- Brown, Deming Bronson. The Development of the Use of Symbolism in the Novels of Frank Norris, (M.A. Thesis), University of Washington (1942).
- Cargill, Oscar. Intellectual America, Macmillan Company (1941).
- Clarke, Robert Montgomery. Contemporary American Novelists: Frank Norris, (M. A. Thesis), Stanford University (1932).
- Clift, Denison Hailey. "The Artist in Frank Norris," Pacific Monthly, Vol. XVI, March 1907.
- Cooper, Frederic Taber. "Frank Norris, Realist," The Bookman, November 1899.
- Cooper, Frederic Taber. "Frank Norris." In Some American Story Tellers, Henry Holt & Company (1911).
- Cowley, Malcolm. "'Not Men': A Natural History of American Nauralism," Kenyon Review, Vol. IX, Summer 1947.
- Crane, Warren Eugene. The Life and Works of Frank Norris as a Reflection of Historical and Literary Trends between 1890 and 1902, (M.A. Thesis), University of Washington (1939).
- Davison, Richard Allan. "Frank Norris and the Arts of Social Criticism," American Literary Realism, 1870–1910, Vol. 14, No. 1, Spring, 1981.
- Dawson, Jon Falsarella. "Transforming History: The Economic Context of Frank Norris's 'A Deal in Wheat'," Studies in American Naturalism, Vol. 4, Number 2, Winter 2009.
- Dillingham, William B. Frank Norris: Instinct and Art, University of Nebraska Press (1969).
- Dobie, Charles Caldwell. "Frank Norris, or, up from Culture," The American Mercury, April 1928.
- Frohock, Wilbur Merrill. Frank Norris, University of Minnesota Press (1968).
- Frye, Steven. "Presley's Pretense: Irony and Epic Convention in Frank Norris' The Octopus," American Literary Realism, Vol. 39, No. 3, Spring, 2007.
- Garland, Hamlin. "The Work of Frank Norris," Critic, Vol. XLII, March 1903.
- Geismar, Maxwell. "Frank Norris and the Brute." In Rebels and Ancestors: A Critical Study of Frank Norris, Stephen Crane, Jack London, Ellen Glasgow & Theodore Dreiser, W. H. Allen (1954).
- Ghodes, Clarence Louis Frank. "Facts of Life versus Pleasant Reading." In The Literature of the American People, Appleton-Century-Crofts (1951).
- Goodrich, Arthur. "Frank Norris," Current Literature, Vol. XXXIII, December 1902.
- Goodrich, Arthur. "Frank Norris, the Man," Current Literature, Vol. XXXIV, January 1903.
- Goldsmith, Arnold Smith. Free Will, Determinism and Social Responsibility in the Writings of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Frank Norris and Henry James (Ph.D. Dissertation), University of Wisconsin (1953).
- Goldsmith, Arnold Smith. "The Development of Frank Norris's Philosophy." In Studies in Honor of John Wilcox, Wayne State University Press (1958).
- Graham, Don. The Fiction of Frank Norris: The Aesthetic Context, University of Missouri Press (1976).
- Grattan, C. Hartley. "Frank Norris," The Bookman, July 1929.
- Harrison, Robert. The Writings of Frank Norris as Viewed by his Contemporaries (M.A. Thesis), Ohio University (1941).
- Hart, James D. (ed.) A Novelist in the Making: Frank Norris, Harvard University Press (1970).
- Hartwick, Harry. "Norris and the Brute." In The Foreground of American Fiction, American Book Company (1934).
- Hill, Marion V. A Study of Thematic Forces in the Novels of Frank Norris (M.A. Thesis), Bownling Green State University (1954).
- Hill, John Stanley. Frank Norris's Heroines, University of Wisconsin (1960).
- Hochman, Barbara. The Art of Frank Norris, Storyteller, University of Missouri Press (1988) ISBN 0-8262-0663-8
- Houston, Margaret Dorothy. Frank Norris's Theory of Romanticism and Its Application in The Octopus, University of Washington (1939).
- Howells, William Dean. "Frank Norris (1870–1902)." In Criticism and Fiction, New York University Press (1965).
- Hussman, Lawrence E. Harbingers of a Century: The Novels of Frank Norris, Peter Lang Pub Inc, (1998).
- Johnson, George W. "Frank Norris and Romance," American Literature, Vol. 33, No. 1, Mar., 1961.
- Kaplan, Charles. Frank Norris and the Craft of Fiction (Ph.D. Dissertation), Northwestern University (1952).
- Kaplan, Charles. "Norris's Use of Sources in The Pit," American Literature, Vol. XXV, March 1953.
- Kaplan, Charles. "Fact into Fiction in McTeague," Harvard Library Bulletin, Vol. VIII, 1954.
- Kusler, Gerald E. The Evolution of Frank Norris (M.A. Thesis), State University of Iowa (1950).
- Kwiat, Joseph J. "The Newspaper Experience: Crane, Norris and Dreiser," Nineteenth Century Fiction, Vol. VIII, September 1953.
- Letizia, Louise M. Frank Norris: A Study in Contrasts and Contradictions (M.A. Thesis), University of Pittsburgh (1950).
- Logue, Charles William. Frank Norris: A Study in Romantic Realism (M.A. Thesis), St. John University (1949).
- Lundy, Robert Donald. The Making of McTeague and The Octopus (Ph.D. Dissertation), University of California, Berkeley (1956).
- Lye, Coleen. "American Naturalism and Asiatic Racial Form: Frank Norris's The Octopus and Moran of the 'Lady Letty'," Representations, Vol. 84, No. 1, November 2003.
- Mahin, Sarah Jane. Formative Influences on Frank Norris's Novel McTeague (M.A. Thesis), University of Iowa (1944).
- Marchand, Ernest. Frank Norris: A Study, Oxford University Press (1942).
- Matthews, Margaret Moore. Frank Norris: Pioneer Realist (M.A. Thesis), University of South Carolina (1937).
- McCormick, Paul S. Frank Norris and the American Epic (M.A. Thesis), Columbia University (1931).
- McElrath, Joseph R. "Frank Norris: A Biographical Essay," American Literary Realism, 1870–1910, Vol. 11, No. 2, Autumn, 1978.
- McElrath, Joseph R., Jr. and Knight, Katherine. Frank Norris, the Critical Reception, Ben Franklin & Co. (1981).
- McElrath, Joseph R., Jr. Frank Norris and the Wave: A Bibliography, Garland Pub. (1988).
- McElrath, Joseph R. "Frank Norris' 'The Puppets and the Puppy': LeContean Idealism or Naturalistic Skepticism?," American Literary Realism, 1870–1910, Vol. 26, No. 1, Fall, 1993.
- McElrath, Joseph R., Jr. and Crisler, Jesse S. Frank Norris: A Life, University of Illinois Press (2006) ISBN 0-252-03016-8 (the definitive biography of Norris)
- McElrath, Joseph R., Jr. and Crisler, Jesse S. Frank Norris Remembered, University of Alabama Press (2013).
- McGinn, Richard Joseph. The Characterization of Women in the Novels of Frank Norris (M.A Thesis), Columbia University (1954).
- Mitchell, Marvin O'Neill. A Study of Realistic and Romantic Elements in the Fiction of E. W. Howe, Joseph Kirkland, Hamlin Garland and Harold Frederic and Frank Norris (1882–1902), Ph.D. Dissertation, University of North Carolina (1953).
- Morris, Ethiel Virginia. Frank Norris' Trilogy on American Life (M.A. Thesis), University of Kansas (1928).
- Musich, Gerald Donald. Frank Norris' Character Types, University of Wisconsin–Madison (1973).
- Norris, Charles G. Frank Norris, 1870–1902, Doubleday, Page & Co. (1914).
- Pallette, Drew B. The Theories and Practice of Frank Norris as Related to his California Background (M.A. Thesis), University of Southern California (1934).
- Parrington, Vernon Louis. "The Development of Realism." In The Reinterpretation of American Literature, Harcourt Brace (1928).
- Patee, Fred Lewis. The New American Literature, 1890–1930, Century Co. (1930).
- Phillips, Marion B. Aspects of the Naturalistic Novel in America (M.A. Thesis), University of California (1922).
- Piper, Henry Dan. "Frank Norris and Scott Fitzgerald," Huntington Library Quarterly, Vol. 19, No. 4, Aug., 1956.
- Pizer, Donald. "Romantic Individualism in Garland, Norris and Crane," American Quarterly, Vol. X, Winter 1958.
- Pizer, Donald. "Evolutionary Ethical Dualism in Frank Norris' Vandover and the Brute and McTeague," PMLA, Vol. 76, No. 5, Dec., 1961.
- Pizer, Donald. The Novels of Frank Norris, Indiana University Press (1966).
- Preston, Harriet Waters. "The Novels of Mr. Norris," Atlantic Monthly, Vol. XCI, May 1903.
- Ramsay, Orrington Cozzens. Frank Norris and Environment (Ph.D. Dissertation), University of Wisconsin (1950).
- Rosa, Matthew Whiting. Frank Norris (M.A. Thesis), Columbia University (1929).
- Smith, Allan Lloyd. "Frank Norris: The Crisis of Representation," American Literary Realism, 1870–1910, Vol. 27, No. 2, Winter, 1995.
- Spector, Michael Jay. Frank Norris and Human Nature, University of Wisconsin–Madison (1962).
- Stegner, Wallace. The American Novel: from James Fenimore Cooper to William Faulkner, Basic Books (1965).
- Thorp, Willard. American Writing in the Twentieth Century, Harvard University Press (1960).
- Todd, Frank M. "Frank Norris, Student, Author and Man," University of California Magazine, Vol. VIII, November 1902.
- Toher, Martha Dimes. "'The Music of the Spheres': The Diapason in Frank Norris's Works," American Literary Realism, 1870–1910, Vol. 15, No. 2, Autumn, 1982.
- Underwood, John Curtis. "Frank Norris." In Literature and Insurgency, Chap. IV, Mitchell Kennerley (1914).
- Walker, Franklin. Frank Norris: A Biography, Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc. (1932).
- Wertheim, Stanley. "Frank Norris and Stephen Crane: Conviction and Uncertainty," American Literary Realism, 1870–1910, Vol. 24, No. 1, Fall, 1991.
External links[edit]
|Wikimedia Commons has media related to Frank Norris.
|Wikisource has original works written by or about:
Frank Norris
- Works by Frank Norris at Internet Archive (scanned books original editions)
- Works by Frank Norris at Project Gutenberg (plain text and HTML)
- Works by Frank Norris, at Unz.org
- Works by Frank Norris, at Hathi Trust
- Works by or about Frank Norris in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
- Frank Norris Page at the William Dean Howells Society; includes links to works on the web, bibliography, index to Frank Norris Studies
- Guide to the Frank Norris Collection at The Bancroft Library
- 5 short radio episodes "Bestial Welter", "Nourisher of Nations" and "The Octopus" from The Octopus; "Polk Street" from McTeague and "Two Voices" from The Santa Cruz Venetian Carnival by Frank Norris. California Legacy Project.
- The New York Public Library Digital Collection
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- 1902 deaths
- American investigative journalists
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- 20th-century American novelists
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Rizzatto, Paolo | 1989
The floor Lola consists of a telescopic stem in carbon fiber or aluminium allowing its height to be adjusted. The reflector can be regulated by a small rod on the head, thus producing diffused as well as direct light. The switch is a sensor dimmer or foot dimmer.
The tripod is easily assembled after the lamp has been removed from its package. It is for this reason compact and easy to transport. Lola is the carbon fibre lamp whose technology, form and highly innovative qualities earned it the Compasso d'Oro prize in 1989. In 2001 it was presented in its aluminium version with new engineering. Lola is now more competitive in price and always in harmony with Luceplan's search for quality products affordable to an increasingly broad market.
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Every Vets4Pets veterinary surgery is equipped with the latest in technology, which means we can offer your pets the personalised care they need. At Vets4Pets our aim is to treat every pet we see like we would our own, but don't take our word for it, come along and ask for a practice tour to see for yourself.
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On at least 3 occasions I have taken my numerous pets to Vets4pets in Chesterfield in an emergency situation and always found all the staff to be very caring and concerned. The staff are very professional and I have no hesitation in recommending this practice to anyone looking for a vet's practice to register their animal.
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I have ALL my fur babies (2 dogs, 4 cats) registered here and I can honestly say that I would never consider taking them anywhere else for their treatment or check ups!
The staff are so friendly and respectful of myself and especially my fur babies.
They give you a warm, calm welcome and 100% confidence that any pet is safe in their hands. I wouldnt think twice about recommending to anyone
Thankyou all at Chesterfield Vets4apets
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The Chesterfield team has been treating my cats and dog for over ten years, during which time they have demonstrated the highest standards of care for my animals. I have always found the team to be professional, efficient and caring. They provide a personal service to my pets which they have come to know well over a period of time.
In addition to the excellent service which my animals have received from them, I have been sitting in the waiting room and observed how patient and understanding staff members are with pet owners. There is a strong focus on customer care.
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To days ago I bought a Jack Russell, having had GSD all my life so being a little green on the little dog, I rang vets4pets first thing Monday to register my dog and make an appointment, the receptionist took a few details she was very plesent and helpful, I later found out her name was Emma as I met her later that day, Had a short wait to see the vet when called the vet weighed my dog had a chat with my wife and I she spent time with our puppy dog examining her as first visit, the vet was Karen had a hand shake like well she was strong think a horsey lady, but very nice to talk to very helpful put our minds at rest straight away charming lady very professional at same time answering our questions very please I choose Vets4pets, in all,, all staff was very very friendly and most helpful, I can tell you they will be looking after my little girls health pity I cannot go there with my health.......
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I use vets 4 pets chesterfield for all my Rescue Bunny's
it takes me half an hours drive to get there. but I wouldn't trust anyone else to treat my rabbits with care,love and respect they have the rabbits health and best interest at heart , they give the treatment required and nothing else, they are not in it to make money from clients doing un-necessary procedures or treatments like other vets, The Animal welfare is always priority just how it should be
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Wonderful caring staff, that completely put my dog at ease. The vets are lovely, nothing is ever too much trouble and always explain what it is they are doing. The nurses (jen and katherine?, i think thats her name) obviously do their jobs for the love of the animals and will quite happily sit on the floor with my dog to help put him at ease. Couldn't ask for a friendlier, more down to earth group of people. Highly recommended.
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i booked into this branch to get my dog spayed. The only thing i was told is that it has to be after 3 month after her season. to today was her appointment 31/3/14. we walked in and i wasn't sure if the place was open no lights no one at the reception. we waited a good 10 15 minutes before the receptionist came through the door obviously late for her job. when she got in she walked round the back came back round sat down and answered the phone. no apologies no hello no nothing just ignored us. the vet called us trough to check over my dog to which she found that she was lactating a little bit. to which she told us she couldn't do the op. nobody told us of this point just that it has to be 3 months after her season. if i was aware i could of checked myself and maybe not had to book the time off work not had to arrange for a lift there and back and not had to get up a 7 am to take her. bottom line if you want to waste your time and be ignored then this is the vets for you. ill be taking my pet somewhere else because of this massive inconvenience. if there was a 0 star rating this vets would get it
On the day in question the client arrived before the surgery opened and was let in by one of our staff who also arrived early for work. Our receptionist arrived on time and upon seeing the client in the waiting room already assumed they had already been seen to. Unfortunately on this day we were having a computer system issue and were unable to log them on to our system which did not help the situation. We fully understand the inconvenience of having to take their dog home after being told the procedure could not be carried out, but this decision was made with the dog's well being as a priority.
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Saturday, February 8, 2014 from Noon-4:00 pm
The third annual Biodiversity Museum Day is coming up! The biological museums of UC Davis will be open to the public for these special weekend hours. The open collections include the Bohart Museum of Entomology, the Museum of Wildlife and Fish Biology, the Botanical Conservatory, the Center for Plant Diversity, the Anthropology Collections, and the Paleontology Collections.
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Hashi Omar Hassan was sentenced to 26 years in prison for killing Ilaria Alpi, an Italian journalist, in Mogadishu in 1994.
His lawyer claims Hassan was convicted to stop further investigations into the motives behind Alpi's killing.
Ilaria Alpi was reporting on arms trafficking and the illegal disposal of toxic waste off the coast of Somalia; trafficking featuring Somali and Italian businessmen, offshore companies and secret service agents - trades that continue to this very day, and which are of serious concern.
Hassan was arrested after having been invited to Italy by the Italian parliament to testify on the abuses inflicted on him by Italian peacekeepers in Somalia.
Not even in Mogadishu at the time of the assassination, Douglas Duale, Hassan's lawyer, claims he is a scapegoat - part of a scheme to cover up unmentionable truths that Alpi's investigative work in Somalia had unveiled.
He also holds papers proving that Hassan was tricked into travelling to Italy to testify against the Italian military, all the time paving the way for his own arrest.
There is hope for the re-opening of Alpi's case after a witness heard by the latest Italian parliamentary commission of inquiry into the case claimed Hassan was innocent.
Giorgio and Luciana Alpi have been fighting for years to uncover the truth about their daughter's death. They want to know who the people behind the murder are, and they want the investigations into the case to continue.
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Thom Gimbel: From Aerosmith To Foreigner With Very Little Drama [Audio Interview]
Foreigner and Styx play together on Friday night, August 1st at Marymoor Park. Foreigner bandmember, guitarist, saxophonist, keyboardist (the list of instruments goes on and on) – Thom Gimbel – joined me on the phone from the […]
Callahan's Upcoming Rock Interviews… What Do You Want To Know About…?
Whenever I line up an interview with any celebrity, I get on Facebook and ask Jack fans to chime in. And, I get some really great questions – stuff I never knew about – basically […]
Foreigner, Styx Tour Buses Catch Fire in Philadelphia
Two buses that are part of Styx and Foreigner's summer tour caravan caught fire in a Philadelphia parking lot this afternoon.
Mick Jones 'Outs' Closeted Foreigner Fans, Talks Tour With Styx
One famously cranky rock critic "Ripped us to pieces in the press, and I found out that he had these parties at his house on weekends, where he always played at least two Foreigner songs."
Foreigner, Styx & Don Felder Unite For 'Soundtrack Of Summer' Tour
The three acts have recorded a new version of the Eagles' "Hotel California," which Don Felder co-wrote.
Lou Gramm Says 'No Plans' For Foreigner Reunion Tour
Foreigner's Mick Jones and former singer Lou Gramm recently announced that they will perform together at next month's Songwriters Hall Of Fame Induction, and, predictably, that led to rumors of a reunion. But those rumors […]
New Book Today: Foreigner's One-time Frontman Lou Gramm
Foreigner's one-time frontman Lou Gramm is seeing his autobiography arrive in stores today. In "Juke Box Hero: My Five Decades in Rock 'n' Roll" the singer is opening up about his life, giving an honest […]
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BeoPlay A9 is the latest creation of the renown electronics brand Bang & Olufsen and the winner of the prestigious iF award 2013. The laconic piece is a speaker, the one you wouldn't want to hide. Here is how designer Øivind Alexander Slaatto describes this work: Sound travels in circles, like waves around a stone when it hits the water. Circles defines the grid of everything in this design and the result is obvious, minimalistic and poetic. I aimed towards a design, that looked more like a piece of furniture than as a machine. I love the versatility of the design. It can perform equally well as a free-standing speaker or a wall piece, mounted via an optional wall bracket. Check out the video to see how BeoPlay A9 was crafted.
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Miami based company OCDesk, the self-proclaimed crusader for a more organized world (OCD – see what they did there?), created an OCDock – a neat iPhone docking station that attaches to your iMac and Thunderbolt monitors. The product's most notable feature is the paper-thin cable that runs underneath the display stand, making it look wireless. Here is what designers say about OCDock on their already fully successful Kickstarter page: Less truly is more, but only so if the function is at the core. With these inspiring design principles in mind, we wanted to create a scaled back dock that would use as little material and space as possible while offering the most feature rich and comfortable docking and undocking experience. Designed as a seamless companion to Apple devices, OCDock is made using the same technologies and materials. It has been CNC machined from a solid piece of high-grade aluminium, glass bead blasted and anodized to match the finish of the iMac/Thunderbolt Display. The piece is also ergonomically conscious. It makes an iPhone easy to interact with while charging. Check out the video to see OCDock in action.
Realmac Software in collaboration with Helftone and Impending have collaborated on a Mac version of the now well-known iPhone application Clear. Popular for its minimalist and gestural interface, Clear succeeds at doing a small amount of features exceedingly well. Suitable for those looking for an alternative to heavy weight GTD systems, such as OmniFocus or Things, or as a sophisticated tool to keep lists. The Mac application will be familiar to those who have used the iPhone application, but includes some features specifically tailored to OS X. Now using iCloud, Clear syncs with the newly updated 1.2 version of the iPhone application.
Squarespace Note
The Squarespace Note iPhone and iPad app, designed by Squarespace, Inc., is a simple and intuitive way to capture thoughts, ideas, inspirations, and transfer them to various services. The app syncs seamlessly with email, Dropbox, Evernote, Twitter, Facebook and your Squarespace account, should you have one. It does all that in a clean minimalist interface, which is a thing of beauty in itself. What is interesting about the app is that it's not used as a database, but a passthrough. It becomes the first place you go to send a note or a reminder to yourself. Squarespace Note helps anyone record their ideas on the fly. Writers, bloggers, and others can use the app to record inspiration and ideas as they happen. The lightweight mobile app immediately loads a blank canvas when it's launched. Unbranded, black and white feel lets you concentrate on content, not presentation. I love how seamless Squarespace Note is. Everything is done with minimum effort on the user's part. Uncomplicated usability that fully matches app's minimalist looks.
The Edge
In March of this year, multidisciplinary designers Signe Emma and Alice Young produced and exhibited an installation titled The Edge, at the Stour Space Gallery in Hackney Wick, London. The beautifully crafted project focuses on the vulnerability of the Eurozone, illustrating how the Euro is teetering ever closer to the edge of collapse. To demonstrate the effect of this collapse we used 100 sheets of A0 paper, which were individually cut to represent the imminence of a foreclosing gap. The assembly of the economy is ultimately the bane of its existence as expressed through each layer and finally to the last where none of the edges of the countries are cut out. An almost transparent Euro symbol in the top left hand corner serves to further the idea of weakness in the currency. I really enjoy the visual effect and simplicity of this installation whilst communicating a very complex issue. Very nice work.
Thilo Heinzmann's Tacmo Exhibition
Berlin based German artist Thilo Heinzmann is currently exhibiting his solo project, Tacmo at the Andersen-S Gallery in Copenhagen, Denmark. This interesting and wonderfully executed collection of canvas paintings has been beautifully presented in the gallery, running until 11 August 2012. Each canvas has an intricately structured black surface, illustrating elongated swings, elegant curves, straight lines of varying length and width that result from working into the paint. An acknowledgement of the tradition of colour-field painting, these black planes also become the site of inscription for sparse and well-calculated movements that the artist executes with both a brush and his hands. They produce a visual suppleness and the impression of speed that they project, emerges amidst the general calm that exudes from the paintings. If you managed to see this exhibition in person, please share your thoughts, or if you're in the vicinity, try to catch it in the next couple of days.
D-Bros for Business
Japanese graphic design firm D-Bros have recently released a new line of stationery called D-Bros for Business. The collection is aimed at working professionals and consists of three essential items – the notebook, the file and the card case. All three designs are elegant and minimal, giving a simplistic take on stationery classics. The Javaring File allows for all shapes and sizes of paper or documents to be quickly stored away for retrieval later. The Pen and Note is a clever little notebook featuring a pen and paper pocket. And the Paper Card Case is based on a simplistic form born from a single piece of paper and a single fold. All three products are available for purchase through caina.
National Tourist Route
Norwegian Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter recently finished a National Tourist Route Rv 889 in Havoysund, Norway. The objective was to magnify visitors' experience of walking from the roadside down to the seaside. The winding concrete ramp does not only allow universal accessibility but becomes an integral part of the journey. It slows down visitors in a measured, restrained approach and brings out the awareness of one's surroundings within the remoteness of a place. Located in the extreme north of Norway, in a landscape almost lunar in its barren and inhospitable beauty, the facility should ideally be completely self-sustainable in terms of power input and waste output. The general notion was to create a human detail in the vastness of the landscape that is as timeless as the landscape itself and that brings attention to the relationship between the duration of experiences and the hugeness of the spatial circumstances. I would love to walk that path in slow, measured and restrained steps as the architects intended, wouldn't you?
Ryoji Ikeda's db Exhibition
Japanese composer and visual artist Ryoji Ikeda recently designed an exhibition for the Hamburger Bahnhof museum in Berlin, which ran from 28 January to 9 April of this year. The project's title 'db' (abbr. for decibel) refers to the symmetry of the two halls on the upper level of the museum's east and west wings, while simultaneously indicating the complementary relationship between the two exhibition spaces. The project is a composition in which time and space are shaped through the most minimal use of sound, light and visual elements. There is a very insightful video of the exhibition, which illustrates just how stunning this work of art is. If you managed to visit the 'db' exhibition in person however, please share your thoughts.
Dieter Rams' Ten Principles for Good Design inspired the latest weather app, WTHR, by Visual Designer David Elgena. The identity of Braun products subtly come through with the classic minimalist forms, universal icons, intuitive display and clean, simple font. The drop shadows on the symbol displays and toggle button for temperature conversion add depth while using the app which makes the iPhone transform into another (Apple) product. For $0.99 at the App store, it sounds like a bargain. After all, how often do we really need to know that today's highest temperature in was 70C at 2.20pm when conditions were partly cloudy at 83% humidity? Stop wasting time staring at weather radars and atmospheric pressure readings, you're not an airline pilot…WTHR™ Indeed. Devoid of all unnecessary information stripped down to just what most people in moderate climates need, I think WTHR celebrates the trend of good design in a sensory-overload culture. Check out this YouTube video for a short demo.
Sonoma Spa Retreat
Aidlin Darling Design have been my favorite San Francisco based architects for quite a long time. With a portfolio filled with one stunning project after the next, it is easy to see why. I have chosen to highlight the Sonoma Spa Retreat as it has become somewhat an iconic project to which I often return to for inspiration. The spa pavilion is an intimate private retreat extending of an existing rammed-earth house and is opened to the landscape, framing distant views of San Francisco to the south. The simplicity of the space only accentuates the impeccable precision of detailed design decisions which admirably come across effortless. One is then able to appreciate the spatial quality (immediate and outer) through curated material selection and mentioned framed views. In each project, we seek to uncover an inherent spirit of place and interpret constraints as catalysts for performative design. The individual character of each project emerges through poetic spatial relationships, material richness, and exacting detail. Fantastic design philosophy, don't you think? I hope you enjoy their work.
The Roof House
Featuring the 'Roof House' Proposal by Betillon/Dorval-Bory Architects submitted in the competition in Chiba, Japan. The eight proposed homes are based around the reinvention of something we are all familiar with – the concept of a roof. The project experiments not only with a space itself but also the human body in it, therefore opens new possibilities about how people live. The 'Roof House' is a place with architectural, acoustic and visual qualities and allows for various spatial reconfigurations and potential developments. Some other effective strengths include a minimal use of materials, construction costs and the overall use of energies due to the grouped housing. With no protective walls and with only slanted roof, one might ask what happens with the climate on the inside, what is the ventilation like, what are the qualities of light and shadows and what would a daily movement within really be like? In their own words, the architects explain the concept: We choose not to yield to the temptation of suburban individualism, one of the causes of the disappearance of social ties and greater consumer of land. Thus, it is in an elegant form of collective housing that we integrate our eight houses. In a mix of...


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Jan. 16 (Bloomberg) -- Britain's top credit rating is "secure for now" and the country should avoid the fate of the euro area, where nine member states were downgraded by Standard & Poor's last week, Citigroup Inc. said.
"To be sure, the U.K. suffers from some of the adverse factors cited by S&P to justify the euro-area downgrades," London-based Citigroup analysts Michael Saunders and Mark Schofield said in a note to clients today. "Nevertheless, in other respects, we think the U.K.'s ability to return to fiscal sustainability is significantly better than most" euro-region governments.
Germany was left with the euro area's only stable AAA rating at S&P after the ratings company cut nine sovereigns on Jan. 13. Citigroup said the U.K. will retain its rating and "not be placed on negative watch or negative outlook" because of the government's commitment to reducing the budget deficit and the nation's flexible monetary policy.
Citigroup also said the U.K. faces less risk of having to support euro-area countries and banks ensnared in the region's debt crisis. At the same time, the British government's proposals to protect U.K. lenders' consumer units will limit its liabilities to backstop them against other losses.
"Nevertheless, of course, the U.K.'s AAA rating would be vulnerable if the economic outlook for 2012-13 proves far worse than we currently expect," the analysts said, adding that the next hurdle will be Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne's budget in March.
"We do not currently believe that extra fiscal tightening will be needed to keep the deficit edging down in 2012-2013, but if it proves necessary, the chancellor will probably implement it," they said.
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