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Hay, Haghor Haugh. A royal park in "which no man commons"; rich pasture-land; as Bilhagh (Billa-haugh), Beskwood- or Bestwood-hay, Lindeby-hay, Welley-hay or Wel-hay. These five hays were "special reserves" of game for royalty alone. Strike while the iron is hot. Take time by the forelock. One to-day is worth two to-morrows. ( Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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Elias Harris staying in school?
Pretty good for a guy who was plucked off a team in Speyer, Germany, and Jon Wilner of the San Jose Mercury News recently reported on the process to get him immediate eligibility.
With the 6-foot-8 forward showing off his athleticism and dunking skills for a team that keeps on rising in the rankings, one-and-done seems like a definite possibility.
But Harris might be staying in school after all, as Jim Meehan of The Spokesman-Review spoke to German national team coach Dirk Bauermann:
"To me, it's very clear. He needs to stay in school and we talked about it (Wednesday night) and he completely agrees with me," Bauermman said. "He feels there are a lot of things he can work on before he takes the next step, so that's what the plan is.
"He's getting great coaching here. It's a great program, they know what it's like to work with international kids and they've had really good ones. It's a great atmosphere and he's really impressed with how people have treated him. It's the perfect situation for him."
Harris doesn't disagree.
"I try to ignore all the NBA hype and all the rankings stuff because I don't think it's important for me right now," he said. "I could probably go right now and I could probably make it, but I don't think it's the right time yet. Let's put it that way."

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Welcome to Artcetera. Arts-and-entertainment writers and critics post movie news, concert updates, people items, video, photos and more. Share your views. Check it daily. Remain in the know. Contributors: Mary Abbe, Aimee Blanchette, Jon Bream, Tim Campbell, Colin Covert, Laurie Hertzel, Tom Horgen, Neal Justin, Claude Peck, Rohan Preston, Chris Riemenschneider, Graydon Royce, Randy Salas and Kristin Tillotson.
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Twelve impressions of the New Standards' annual holiday show Saturday at the Fitzgerald -- one for each night of Christmas
1. New Standards bassist/singer John Munson is very funny.
2. New Standards pianist/singer Chan Poling is a good foil for Munson. He knows just when to interrupt with the right words. Chan is beginning to look more and more like his father in law, Walter Mondale, who was sitting in the audience not far from the pianist. Chan also misses Dayton's.
3. The New Standards seem to know every talented musician, singer, poet and dancer in town. Whatta Rolodex! (They are old school, aren't they?)
4. Local singer-songwriter Jeremy Messersmith has an absolutely gorgeous voice. (And he looks too young to be in a bar with his clean-shaven look, which I hadn't seen before.) Aided by Janey Winterbauer, his version of an unfamiliar "Do You Believe in Miracles" was one of the evening's highlights.
5. Unadvertised guest Dan Wilson still has the most gorgeous male pop voice in town.
6. Jayhawks frontman Gary Louris took a real rock star turn, doing "I'd Run Away" (on electric guitar) with help from Winterbauer. (Who knew Gary could rock a tie-and-coat? He said his wife dressed him.)
7. A rare duet of Louris and Wilson doing the Kinks' "Father Christmas" ("the dark side of Christmas," as Munson introduced it) made the night.
8. New Standards fans always love it when the trio (even augmented by other players) do their cool covers; highlights on Saturday were Britney Spears' "Toxic," Flaming Lips' "Do You Realize" and, of course, Poling's "Love Is the Law" from his Suburbs.
9. Steve Roehm's vibraphones are what makes the New Standards the New Standards. As always, he never speaks in concert, playing Teller to Munson and Poling's Penn.
10. This concert introduced me to the poetry of the late Bill Holm. Tim Frantzich's reading of "Advice" makes me want to check out a book of Holm's.
11. Loose is better than tightly choreographed when it comes to a Christmas show. This one had the right spirit and camaraderie.
12. Joe Chvala is a terrific tap dancer and his efforts added perfect percussion to a few songs. And the rubber-limbed guy (sorry he wasn't mentioned in the program) who danced during OutKast's "Hey Ya" was totally delightful, loosey-goosey and creative with his moves and lip syncing.


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I think this report misrepresents the Times article. I have not checked back, but I think the NYT said that there was organized terrorism, but no evidence it was by AQ, and some evidence that the organized terrorists were not very well organized. I think it also talked about the film as a triggering event or a catalyst, not as a cause. The article is, in fact, consistent with Hicks's testimony: the article says the US knew nothing of the uproar caused by the film.
Please get facts straight.
Note that Prof Cochrane's plan requires governmental regulation, to define the individual portable health plan.
Does it also require government to define what the plan covers, at least in broad outlines? If the government does not define, isn't the obvious scandal in Cochrane's plan that insurance companies could, in complex legalese, write extensive exemptions (no cancer coverage, e.g.) into policies? (Do you trust large corporations to write contracts fair to consumers?)
I believe that the Nobel committee that awards the Peace Prize is a different one from the other prizes -- and that the Econ Prize may also be a separate committee. So, disrespect them all if you wish, but don't tar them with decisions they did not make.
Your next stop should be to the Wyoming statehouse, that hot-bed of misled liberals, where fracking regulations are among the most far-reaching.
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Russell51 misses, I think, an important dynamic. Instead of thinking in his terms -- free market vs welfare state -- ask whether Hispanics want the opportunities to get ahead: that means good schools, colleges that are affordable, family-friendly policies like Obamacare that help you if you get sick, day-long kindergarten, etc. Think that there is a third possibility: a gov't (state, local, and federal) that supports and aids people's aspirations. (At present, this is not Dems or Reps -- they are both back in the free market vs. welfare state, so 20th century.)
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To me, this issue is a real dilemma. You (or at least I -- some of the respondents seem happy with discrimination) don't want people to be discriminated against because they are white or not, straight or not, etc. You also want people not to be forced to do something they find against their deepest beliefs.
I think that, whichever way the decision goes, someone's rights are going to be infringed.
and if the Republicans controlled health care, she'd never be able to sign up (except on a company plan) because of 'pre-existing conditions'
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In a country as diverse as the US, I think Hawkins's argument is just wrong -- unless you favor the total breakdown of the federal gov't and a continuous business, economic, and personal crisis for people. In the US, it is difficult to obtain a majority of both houses, the Presidency, and the Supremes (plus the co-operation of the states); almost always, *everyone* -- not just Republicans -- must compromise. (If Obamacare could have passed with 51 votes, it would look much different from how it does now -- but the Dems had to compromise with those extra 9 senators.)
For a Republican in the legislature to be ideologically pure at this point means more sequestration, more chaos, a weaker economy, and disspirited citizens
For those of you worried about our science and math education, one goal of CC is to standardize the order in which math and science is taught, so that I student who moves to another city or state will have had the same maths and sciences as his classmates. (I guess this can be perceived as communism or big gov't interference, but in a mobile country it has some degree of sense, I think.)
Perhaps the kids learned these responses from all the high-pressure testing they are already subjected to from the 'no child left behind' 'reform' that is still in place :-)
This series strikes me as pretty worthless -- lots of suggestions and innuendo, few facts. For instance, Norris quotes Fox News, hardly unbiased on Obama, as saying "Teaching materials aligned with the controversial national educational standards ..."
But what does 'aligned with' mean -- very unclear (perhaps Norris should study fifth-grade editing of sentences): does 'aligned with' mean written by the Feds? probably not, because then Norris would say that. So, what does it mean?


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We the People have "freedom of the press," but we do not have a free press.
We have a right to speak out and to assemble, but we don't know what to say, or where to say it. The Internet is opening a path for us to change these deficiencies.
The Internet will replace the mainstream media, if the First Amendment survives the ceaseless assault being waged upon the Constitution in the name of facilitating the "war on terror." The overlooked ideology of the Internet is an extremely patriotic American nationalism, driving a free market of truth, mixed-in with freely expressed opinions and ideas. The Internet is the only source of actual "news," in our land of the corporate media.
The most aware of the web news providers must adopt a common strategy, based on a forward-thinking plan to edge-out the corporate news services as America's principle source of timely information. Saving the Constitution should be sufficient motivation to bring all of them together in common purpose.
Americans are outraged by the war and by the Bush Administration's apparent lack of concern for the pain and carnage that have unnecessarily become intimate companions to so many American families and their honored sons and daughters, who are sent into the Iraqi meat grinder, only to come home with deadly wounds into the arms of a medical bureaucracy without a plan, or a heart. The inhumanity of the neocon war planners is apparent for the whole world to see, as they push to bring about genocide as the price of their political agenda.
The war that we did not need, at a price that we could not afford, is causing the very threat to America's foreign policy and economic security that Bush cites in his latest Executive Order, to declare a "national emergency" related to victory in Iraq. The price of this manufactured "emergency" is to be paid in more than dollars; it will be paid with great quantities of American and Muslim blood, and the loss of the Republic, with the destruction of the Constitution (a.k.a. "that "god-damned piece of paper").
If the exercise of our rights to assemble and to speak freely about this war of aggression will cost us our rights to privacy and our property rights, then the First and Fourth Amendments are already gone. If the First Amendment still lives on the Internet, then it leaves it to the Internet patriots to protect it against those who have taken oaths to "support and defend the Constitution," but instead bind us to a course leading to its destruction.
The Internet is the "Truth News Network." It has many channels. It has many viewpoints. But it has one prevailing ideology, Americanism. For us, nationalist Americanism is the opposite of internationalist corporatism. We have to wage the war of ideas that will wrest freedom from "The Corporation's" choke hold. "The Corporation" is the mother ship, under whose shadow the smaller corporate pirates freely operate, as they dominate America's news services, the electoral process and representative government itself. America's valiant soldiers fight and die for "The Corporation's" interests. America dishonors all those who have fallen in her service in past wars, by allowing what happens each day to today's warriors. The Truth News Network has to be at the forefront of the fight to challenge those who keep looking for new wars that take the lives and souls of our sons, in the killing of what will be millions of innocents.
The Truth Network must provide the truth in massive doses, gathered together from all over the world. The Truth Network must focus on the many excellent investigations being offered on the web, as well as the moving analysis and commentary that is to be found there. The Internet is emerging as the most powerful democratic force for change on the face of the earth. It will open the way for the educating of the sleeping masses and become a legitimate voice of democracy, with which to oversee our own government. It is a powerful tool that is free to all people. It must not allow itself to be destroyed by a would-be fascist government that is bent on dominating the world and destroying real democracy.
The rest of us free patriots must do what patriots have always done, we stand-up together, for the Republic and for our sacred Constitution. We speak-out, while we still have voices and freedom of movement, to stop the madness from on high, that is risking our democratic-Republic for the sake of The Corporate goal of total world conquest.
When we take a stand for the Constitution, we are taking a stand for the rule of law. This administration has made a mockery of International Law and our national laws, which honor those laws as our own. It has undermined the Constitutional "separation of powers," by the use of extraordinary powers and signing statements, that have placed America one executive order away from the "national emergency" that will justify the final extermination of freedom and democracy.
The Truth Network must continue to lead the way forward by bringing us massive doses of truth on a daily basis, exposing the devious machinations that are playing out in the Middle East neocon plots intended to start the final war. The Bush/Cheney covert plan to ignite that war is being carried-out on multiple fronts, each of which is an exploratory probing maneuver, meant to find weaknesses that can be exploited in starting the war. Will the end begin in Pakistan with a massive bombing campaign in North Waziristan which will push a real Islamist nuclear-armed state into the enemy camp? Or will the end begin with an Israeli carpet-bombing of Syria, or perhaps with a new terrorist strike here in the homeland?
We know that it is most likely to begin with a nuclear attack upon Iranian reactors by the United States, or even more likely, with Israelis forcing us to join in, backing-up actions initiated by them? That last scenario can only come about with US support, since Israel does not have the aerial refueling capability needed to strike central Iran, or the capacity to conduct any serious long range air campaign against faraway Iran. The people of the United States can stop Israel, by stopping our government from supporting the Israeli aggression. We have the power to prevent the Cheney war plan to grow the Iraq war into a full-scale regional Sunni-Shiite religious civil war. Whatever it takes to pry Cheney's hands from the Commander-In-Chief's steering wheel must be done.
Since democracy still restrains his ambitions, he must find or engineer a valid excuse for starting this new war, in order to justify the pupeteer's actions to the American people. This is why there is still hope for raising the numbers necessary to stop them. They seek to force us to change the "common will," by ramping-up the fear levels to a justifiable volume. We have to make the people aware, while calming them to the fear-mongers' cries of "wolf."
The corporate media is the worst fear-monger of them all. They have failed the American people by letting their fear of economic insecurity cloud their journalistic vision. Only Dan Rather dared to risk the wrath of The Corporation by outing the chicken hawk president with the fragments of truth that were available to him. The Internet has opened the way to the exposing of all hidden truths and political cover-ups.
We know that the Internet has the power to cast doubts over all the "official versions" of the key events that have typified American politics since the time of President Kennedy's assassination. We know for certain that there is much hidden evidence that proves that the official version of the 9/11 attacks is untrue.
The Truth Network must continue to enlighten the people and to reassure them, by providing the knowledge that there are millions of other concerned Americans who think the same way that they do. Fear will be countered by this personal reassurance of solidarity, when the threat level goes to "Red Alert," in response to the next attack or prevarication. When people are allowed to clearly see what is happening now, and what has happened in the past, then they will know that there really is hope in numbers. When the truth opens the way before them, then the people will see that there really is a "critical mass" that is within reach, for turning our pilot less ship of state, before the planned Cheney ship wreck that is our intended fate. If we manage to alert the American people to the coming "shit-storm" that Cheney is planning, in time to rally substantial opposition, it will only come via the Internet. If the First Amendment survives what is yet to come, it will be on the ashes of the corporate press.
If we can stop the immediate attempts to stampede us into the Iran war, then we can probably hold them off long enough to have a next election. If we get that far, then there will be no Republican Party left in our wake. The Truth Network will bring forth the new independent party that will replace it. The Internet is a democratic-revolution in the making. The many voices of the people are being heard. Through the expression of these voices a "common will" can be heard. This common will of the people always has been, and always must be, the true "decider" in our free democratic government. By our combined efforts as truth-seeking, freedom-loving patriotic humanists ("humane-ists"), we can open the way to a humane foreign policy, the only way out of our present manufactured predicament.
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Thailand is more competitive than India or South Korea. Will anyone notice through the haze of protests?
BANGKOK — After each major Bangkok street protest finally fizzles, a fresh damage tab is drawn for the torched city buses, seized airports, tour group cancellations and even mangled shrubbery at the often-seized prime minister's compound.
But there's a less tangible price, business leaders say, extracted each time CNN beams out footage of wild clashes in Thailand's capital. The unrest confuses and generally freaks out foreign investors — at a time when Thailand needs them more than ever.
When it comes to ease of doing business, Thailand is actually growing more competitive, said Judy Benn, executive director of the American Chamber of Commerce in Thailand.
"But this has really been overlooked by foreign investors. All they see are burning buses, OK? And riots in the street," she said. "How do investors tell their boards back in New Jersey, Ohio or Texas that Thailand is a safe place to do business?"
Thailand remains mired in a political crisis fractured along class and regional lines. The past year's tit-for-tat protests in Bangkok — waged by pro-establishment crowds wearing canary yellow or anti-government crowds in fire-truck red — have produced must-see visuals for international TV crews.
When protests peak, Bangkok can resemble the Gaza Strip on air, even though deaths are extremely rare and the ruckus is generally confined to a few blocks. That's very hard to convey to American businesses, Benn said. "This just doesn't happen in America. You don't have groups taking over the White House and camping out."
Political turmoil is a staple of Thailand, which has seen 18 coups since the royal family ceded absolute control in 1932. Despite the revolving door of politicians and military rulers, Thailand's economy has boomed — growing its GDP an average of more than 6 percent per year since 1952.
That's because Thailand's real backbone is a "strong bureaucracy that's small and market-oriented," said Kirida Bhaopichitr, senior country economist for the World Bank.
Thailand's "technocrats" — or highly specialized bureaucrats — are slowly pushing ahead with reforms to make Thailand more foreign business friendly, she said. But they're not necessarily taking cues from politicians or the political mobs that protest on their behalf.
"Politicians come and go," Kirida said. "But I see the public sector continuing with reforms. If the government changes, it doesn't mean they'll stop reforms."
Thailand placed 13th — two spots higher than the previous year — in the most-recent World Bank analysis of foreign business friendliness. The study measures bureaucratic delays, contract enforcement and other barriers.


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I.E. take the word 'Water'. It is used 3 times by itself in a site and 5 times as part of the larger word 'Clearwater'. Does Google even look at 'Clearwater' ?
Google won't find WordaWordb if you search for Worda. I'm not sure if you can be ranked better for Worda if people link to you using WordaWordb, but it seems unlikely.
Q: [Keywords] Are keywords within words ranked? A: Not unless it has an underline or dash separating the keywords.
Based on my experiments with some Google searches, I am under the impression that using an underscore for key_word is viewed by Google as one big word like keysword. This is very different from key-word which is viewed by Google as key word.
Has Google changed their policy on the underscore since the Knowledge Base was written or am I missing something?
Google does not treat an underscore and a hyphen the same. The hyphen is the same as a blank space. The underscore is not.
is that 100% - cos we have always used underscore instead of hyphen - it looks so much neater and is easier to read: e.g.
we have three languages in our site: page_i.htm, page_e.htm, page_a.htm (en, es, de)
as opposed to:
if what you say is true then all of our pages which are 'cunningly' named after their respective keywords, do not actually count as keywords, because google reads the page as keywordi.htm
this would be a major disappointment and a possible cause for renaming all 2000 pages *enormous groan* and having them re-indexed *gasp*
I your content I would use key-word to get the extra brownie points. However, in a url I ALWAYS stick to an underscore. It is more compatible with most browsers, caching servers and hosts.
If anyone disagrees and says that a dash (-) is more fully compatible then please let me know. Otherwise, I've been on the losing end of an arguement for quite some time :(.


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Don't mind having a cold winter if we had a summer like this year. Earlier on this year the weathermen said the sea temperature off Cornwall was lower than it should be for the time of year and that meant we would have a poor summer. They were wrong again.
My gran had a plaque in her garden saying, ' Closer to God's heart in a garden'
Hope I don't get told off for putting a photo of my cobaea on this thread.
Good morning all.
Found you all. 'You can run but you can't hide'.
Quite cold and windy today. The first cobeae bud has opened, lots more so I hope it's not too late now.
My son having a swim in the pond when it was being constructed.
thanks for all the comments about my pond. It is definately a gas that's inside the lining that's coming up. I've got an old pair of waders and sometimes go in the pond and trample the liner down ( when no-ones watching) and big bubbles of gas come up. I think we may have constructed the pond wrongly.
We did it as cheaply as possible and bought a roll of polythene that farmers wrap those big bales in. We put a layer of that in first then did lots of runs to the recycling dump and got loads of old carpets,then another layer of liner on top. that's probably where we've gone wrong trapping the carpets in between the liner.
This winter I intend to put lots of soil in the bottom and hopefully that will help.
Well done, Max. Your health is more important than any job. Hope everything works out well for you and has been said before on these forums, gardening is the best therapy.
I've got a pond, Dove. Your right! Mammy hen would worry if they went on here.
I don't know if you can make out from the photo but the liner keeps coming up to the surface. It has old carpets underneath then a plastic liner. We keep bursting the liner and a gas of some sort bubbles out. I don't know if the gas is from the old carpets rotting down. Does anyone else have this problem? the pond has been there for about 10 years.


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On May 14, 1998, my life changed quite substantially: "Seinfeld" ended. At that time, I felt like I lost some of my closest friends. In fact, until I discovered that I could watch an unlimited amount of re-runs, I felt like I was missing a part of myself.
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The White House says Healthcare.gov won't be working by November 30th. In other news, water is wet. HHS Secretary Kathleen Sibelius says "November 30
was never a 'deadline.'" Oh! Sorry, saying the site would be fixed by the end of the month just kinda sounded a lot like a deadline.
A Birmingham Water Works employee has been arrested on several counts of theft. That bunch has really fallen low. Back in the day the arrest would have been for corruption, extortion, negligence, and EXTRA theft.
George Zimmerman is out on $9,000 bail in his latest domestic violence case, so he'll be able to celebrate Thanksgiving dinner with his family. Although, George says he refuses to say grace because he can't stand that mean old Headline News lady. Sadly for Z-Man, he is no longer allowed to have weapons so he won't be able to bag his own turkey this year. Unless he kills one by sitting on it. He'll be back in court in January, what's the over-under on how many arrests he'll have till then? Seriously, I'm getting PTSD from having to hear his name.
Duck! Installation of the first 12 new flight information boards is underway at Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport.
Butterball says there's a shortage of extra-large fresh turkeys this Thanksgiving because the turkeys failed to gain weight. The turkeys are crediting exercise and the blue meth. Butterball isn't being terribly forthcoming on exactly why their turkeys didn't gain weight, but they're rethinking their policy of killing and freezing the largest turkeys in front of the live, still growing ones. Who cares? Everyone just wants Turduckens anyway. Just remember, safety first if you're deep-frying a Turducken. Always have an extinguisher ready, and be sure to learn the Heimlicken Maneuver.
It's the Mystery on Bell Street! Human remains in an abandoned well beneath a home in Bessemer are now being tested by the coroner. The grim discovery was made by the homeowner's daughter, who, having nothing else to do, went into the well. The funny* part was, when the woman announced she wanted to see the well her family asked, "What are you gonna do if there's a body in it?" There was an awkward moment when the woman ran back upstairs and said, "There's a body in it." Dora the Well Explorer told police she knew the remains were human because of the clothing: jeans and an "Auburn University Hide and Seek Squad" shirt.
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On this date in 1620, the very first baby was born to the Pilgrims on board a boat in the Massachusetts Bay. The couple named the baby boy Peregrine. The pilgrims were getting short on rations AND baby names.
50 years ago today, President Kennedy lifted the Cuban blockade, officially ending the Cuban Missile Crisis. About as close to a nuclear war anyone would want to get. He immediately reached for the Visine, as he wasn't able to blink for the previous two weeks.
Adam Levine has been named the "Sexiest Man Alive" by People Magazine. No, not the former Bush adviser of the same name. ** This is the guy from Maroon 5 and a judge on "The Voice." And the sexist guy alive. Really? Was every other male on the planet unavailable? Was his only competition George Zimmerman? Dude looks like he's in recovery for heroinackajuana*** after surviving a typhoon. Maybe he was doing dishes when the votes were cast, since there's nothing sexier than a man doing housework. ****
If you missed the news yesterday, they're filming a sequel to "It's a Wonderful Life." I believe it's called "It's an Incredibly Bad Idea." If only there was a way for God to show us how our lives would be improved if this sequel had never been born.
Jimmy Kimmel asked Barbara Walters this week which of all "The View" hosts through the years she liked the least, and Barbara said, "I don't like any of them." I guess that's why watching "The View" is as comfortable as attending the Cheney Thanksgiving Day dinner. (See? Cheney's daughters have been feuding online and the straight one says she's skipping Thanksgiving if the gay one is there. Yeah. It's not funny unless you follow the Cheney's on Twitter ... and even then it's not funny).
Al Qaeda top man Ayman al-Zawahiri released a new audio-tape last week online. In the tape, al-Zawahiri doesn't make any overt threats to bring down America, he just encourages President Obama to, "Keep it up!"
And …"Selfie" has been named the 2013 word of the year by Oxford Dictionaries. AAA now warns of a dangerous new trend – selfies and driving. Hey, it's not texting so it's not illegal right?
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Half the World UK Cover
Posted on November 5th, 2014 in announcements, artwork
Yes indeed, SFX have revealed the UK hardback cover for Half the World…
I said, "Half The World is the story of Thorn, a young woman determined to take a man's place as a warrior, who finds herself on the crew of the deep-cunning Father Yarvi, undertaking a dangerous voyage up the unmapped rivers of the world to seek allies against the numberless warriors of the High King. There's love, hate, death, wit, vivid characters, crunching action and, yes, an awful lot of swords…"
It's coming 12th February 2015, but you could probably preorder via the publisher and a range of other key retailers, if you so desired. OH LOOK YES YOU CAN.
Half a French King
Posted on September 26th, 2014 in announcements, artwork
Apologies for the limited posting around here of late, it's many years since I didn't make at least one post a week on the site, but my nose is to the grindstone after all the events trying to get a decent second draft of Half a War together by year's end, plus various finishing tasks for Half the World. Tis a busy time. But I do love a nice piece of art, so I thought I'd bring to you the recently revealed cover for the French edition of Half a King, from those wonderful folk at Bragelonne, art by my old friend Didier Graffet (who produced the weapons that adorn Best Served Cold, The Heroes, and Red Country):
Nice, huh? Evocative, atmospheric, dramatic. Draws you in. And it sits very comfortably alongside Jon McCoy's excellent vision of the same world for Subterranean's limited editions, I must say. Some nice clean lettering too. I particularly like the contrast with the more graphic covers in the US and UK. The book's coming out in French translation late October, with the other two books in the trilogy both following in 2015. Further details over on Bragelonne's site…
Half a King Book Trailer
Posted on June 18th, 2014 in announcements, artwork
So Harper Collins have put up their book trailer for Half a King, and I think it's really rather excellent…
I'm generally a wee bit ambivalent on Book Trailers – I think reach often exceeds grasp and you end up with slightly embarrassing live action efforts where a lot of resources have clearly been expended to make something that looks like a rubbish version of a scene from Gladiator. But Ben North and his team have done a brilliant and very canny job here, I think, going for something simple and stark and applying a lot of thought and craftsmanship to achieve a really powerful result. You might even call it a brand.
Rogues Published, Half a King Soon
Posted on June 17th, 2014 in announcements, artwork, interviews, news
GRRM and Gardner Dozois' latest cross-genre mega-anthology ROGUES has published in the US today, featuring stories from GRRM himself, Gillian Flynn, Neil Gaiman, Connie Willis, Pat Rothfuss, Scott Lynch, Paul Cornell, Cherie Priest and little old me, among many others. My contribution is a hefty 12,000 word novelette, as it goes, following an eventful night in the life of a whole series of disreputable inhabitants of Sipani, a few old friends among them…
In other news, Half a King is out in just two and a half weeks in the UK on the 3rd of July (bites nails) and a week and a half later in the US on the 15th of July (bites them again). I've got a piece up on the Waterstones blog about the genesis of the book AND there's an interview with me at Den of Geek about writing for the (slightly) younger audience.
Hardcover copies of both are now in my possession. They definitely do exist…
UK in white, US in black, both looking rather beautiful, I would say, with silky, foil, and spot gloss finishes and all and they're a pair of handsome hardcovers without the dust jackets too…
Half a King UK Cover
Posted on March 21st, 2014 in announcements, artwork, news
Final hardcover will include all manner of wondrous textures, foils and finishes. And now, of course, you are free to tell me just how much you love it…
Should you desire to pre-order one, incidentally, you could do it via this page. A considerable extract will be coming in the not too distant future…
Half a King Extract and US Cover
Posted on January 10th, 2014 in announcements, artwork, news
The US cover for Half a King has been revealed over at io9, along with the book's first chapter, by all means check it out here…
It's going to be out in the UK and US in July, you lucky people…
The Importance of Colour
Posted on June 21st, 2013 in artwork, Graphic Novel
Thought I'd show the development of another page from The First Law comic with a very different feel. This time Jezal and Ardee out for a stroll around the Agriont, and encountering a statue of a certain Magus. First pencils and inks from Andie Tong:
And finally some amazing work from Pete Pantazis on the colours:
How about that sky? Those glorious pinks, golds and purples? Totally different from the earthy tones of mud you get up in the wide and barren North. You can see the finished, lettered page, right now over at www.firstlawcomic.com, with new pages every Monday, Wednesday, Friday…
Lamb, Shy, and Essential Fantasy
Posted on June 10th, 2013 in artwork, reviews
Thought I'd post a few little things which came my way via twitter. First off, a brilliant piece of what you might call done-for-the-joy-of-it Red Country art from British Comic Book Artist Gary Frank:
It's been quite a while since I've posted any reviews, as well, but there's a particularly insightful (not to mention complimentary) one of The Heroes from the aptly titled Unclekins:
"All the key ingredients that made Abercrombie's earlier books stand out – the very real feeling characters, the naturalistic dialogue, the genuinely sharp wit … are present and correct. But it's the story it tells that makes The Heroes an audacious book."
And finally a few of my favourite blogger/critic/genre-commentator type people have been simultaneously posting their lists of 50 Essential Epic Fantasy works, and what do you know, the works of Joe Abercrombie appear on three of the four. Liz Bourke was the first to unleash her life-changing praise upon me:
"I read the first book. I didn't really like it. But Abercrombie's success – and, consequently, his influence on the features of epic fantasy – can't be denied."
My books are poor, but my success cannot be ignored! Better than the other way around, I guess. Justin Landon was more enthusiastic:
"George R.R. Martin started the modern grim fantasy, but Abercrombie perfected it. His work is biting, and harsh, and riddled with black humor. Essential."
And Jared Shurin of Pornokitsch had a little more to say:
"Like any other trend, a couple people (Martin, Abercrombie) did something really, really interesting – they explored the idea that 'actually a fantasy world would be really brutal/disease-ridden/awful on a day-by-day basis'. Their commercial success was immediately followed by dozens of pale imitations, all based on the false assumption that readers love them some diseased brutality. It is always easy to poach an aesthetic. The actual underlying insight? Harder to copy."
I'm off up to London for more meetings tomorrow, and there may well be quite an exciting announcement coming soon, definitely for me, and possibly even for YOU. Until then…
The Blade Itself in Taiwan
Posted on May 27th, 2013 in artwork, news
Fantasy Foundation Publications are putting out The First Law in Taiwan:
Always fascinating how different publishers with different markets choose to present the same book. I believe this is the 26th translation deal for The Blade Itself, if you can credit that. It's rather wonderful to think of such diverse people thrilling, thrilling I say, to stuff that I basically dreamed up in the middle of the night for my own amusement. So my thanks to the wonderful editors and rights agents at Orion who've put all these deals together over the last seven or eight years, and my thanks to all the far-flung publishers who've taken a chance on the books. I won't thank the readers. MY FANTASTIC WORK IS THANKS ENOUGH.
Thanks, readers.
Should you have considerably better command of traditional Chinese than I, you can order a copy at one of these online retailers.
And while we're about it, here's their forthcoming Before They are Hanged:
From Script to Coloured Page 4
Posted on May 19th, 2013 in artwork, Graphic Novel
Andie Tong's finished inks are coloured by Pete Pantazis and end up like this:
I guess before starting on this project I was vaguely aware that you usually had a guy who drew the pages and a guy who coloured them, but if I'd thought about it at all I'd supposed that colouring was a pretty mechanical process, yeah, you decide a jacket's red and you make it red, APPLY. Seeing what Pete does with Andie's pages has been quite a revelation. He gives every scene a very different treatment, he thinks a hell of a lot about the lighting, the weather, the time of day, the mood. He gets great variety into each issue that sets a tone for each character. The atmosphere he creates is astounding, and actually the much greater clarity he gives the action too. So the time of day wasn't entirely clear before, but here we have a fire lit, shadowy night. The officers are ruddy in the glow of welcoming lamplight from inside the inn. The Practicals are sinister in the long shadows. Details like the candle glow around the doorframe in the first panel, or shining down the steps and across the cobbles, there are even stars in the night sky in the third panel, all add a sense of realism and atmosphere.
I'll check over the coloured pages, usually in scene batches. The sharp-eyed among you may have noticed that on this first run, West's hair is the wrong colour in panels three and four. Lettering is usually done on the black and white pages first by unsung hero of the whole process Bill Tortolini, checked by me, amended, then married up with the coloured pages for a final result. The final result for this page, you'll be able to see at www.firslawcomic.com tomorrow (Monday 20th), with further pages posted free every monday, wednesday and friday. Should you wish to get ahead, and read whole issues at a time, you can pay us actual cash money for the privilege over at ComiXology, for which you also receive guided view and some of the inks and pencils. You can download their software for nothing and it's a cool way to view this and a vast amount of other material (a fair bit of that free). I recommend it…


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Influence of barley straw (Hordeum vulgare L.) extract on phytoplankton dominated by Scenedesmus species in laboratory conditions: the importance of the extraction duration
- Wojciech Pęczuła
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The response of a natural phytoplankton assemblage dominated by algae of the genus Scenedesmus to the addition of barley straw extract was studied in a laboratory experiment. The aim of the study was to compare the inhibiting effect of water extracts obtained by soaking the straw for 1, 2 and 3 months. We analysed the response of four species, Scenedesmus subspicatus, Scenedesmus ecornis, Scenedesmus quadricauda and Scenedesmus acuminatus, during 14 days of their exposure to different types of barley straw extract. S. subspicatus and S. ecornis responded with decreasing numbers only to the addition of the 3-month solution (ANOVA; F = 290.1, p <0.001; and F = 11.8, p <0.01, respectively); the two other species were inhibited by all types of extracts. The results indicate the need for more research on the importance of extraction duration to the inhibitory abilities of barley straw which can be applied in the management of water quality in water bodies.
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- Title
- Influence of barley straw (Hordeum vulgare L.) extract on phytoplankton dominated by Scenedesmus species in laboratory conditions: the importance of the extraction duration
- Open Access
- Available under Open Access This content is freely available online to anyone, anywhere at any time.
- Journal
Journal of Applied Phycology
Volume 25, Issue 2 , pp 661-665
- Cover Date
- 2013-04-01
- 10.1007/s10811-012-9900-7
- Print ISSN
- 0921-8971
- Online ISSN
- 1573-5176
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Additional Links
- Topics
- Keywords
- Barley straw
- Extract
- Phytoplankton
- Scenedesmus
- Industry Sectors
- Authors
- Wojciech Pęczuła (1)
- Author Affiliations
- 1. Department of Hydrobiology, University of Life Sciences, ul. Dobrzańskiego 37, 20-062, Lublin, Poland


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Danish Delight - Caroline Wozniacki thread - vol 5
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I mentioned how Caro lost to weak-minded,zero-slam-threat BBs like Ana,Goerges and Domi,and YOU cited her match vs. a top player and Slam champion in Petra.Honestly,I could almost excuse such a loss to a Petra or Serena,except Caro was just helpless out there....she had NO ANSWERS,NO PLAN B....and that makes it,again,IRRELEVANT,if it happens every 2 matches or every 6 months.Caro must be better prepared to counterattack power-hitters in those big matches.
So let's be clear that I'm NOT suggesting that Caroline's defense was BAD,per se,but her inability to counterattack in-form power hitters is an achilles heel that will never go away until she takes action to rectify it...it's merely a question of how often it happens.....Gotta run for now,so seeya later
I'm all for Caro trying to improve her offensive arsenal, but I think that people made too much of her losing against the best power hitters when she was number one. Sure, she was helpless against, say, Petra in that Wimbledon match. But that is what happens when one great player plays her best, even when it's a match against another great player. Pundits were just harder on Caroline because they could say, "see, why did we tell you guys? When a BB plays her best a defensive player like Caroline is helpless." And they were right. But when a great player plays her best against a BB, even a great BB - that BB is also helpless. Just ask Sharapova. In short, what happened to Caroline could happen to anyone, including any great player when they face another great player at her best. Chris Evert also had a match where she beat Navratilova 6-0/6-0. But in their case everyone accepts that Chris had a great day and Martina wasn't at her best. When something similar happened to Caroline it's someow supposed to be proof that she was inferior. Having said that, even at her best, and even if she improves her forehand I doubt she'll ever be as great as a, say, Serena, Venus, Hingis or Henin at their best. But there's no shame in that. We can only expect her to maximise her potential and try to be the best possible Caroline Wozniacki. If she maximises her talent she'll continue (or get back) to have a great career, regardless of how it compares with the careers of the greats.
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