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Flu vaccine de-ja-moo:
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Big Pharma flu farce
The CDC is back to the old annual flu-scare tactics. Surprised? Last year the flu vaccine had a 91% failure in the senior population – but OMGolly, 100 children reportedly died from flu complications last year. Do you realize that … Continue reading
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Why vaccines don't work as well as natural immunity
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Deadlier than Ebola
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How to cause ADHD in your child
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The sacred cow of vaccination
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Antidepressant birth defects
The only thing sadder than having your doctor put you antidepressants would be finding out that those antidepressants causes birth defects in your child. It is not uncommon at all for doctors to put pregnant ladies on antidepressants – but … Continue reading
Corticosteroids for asthma treatment
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Dying from lack of nutrition in the hospital
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The next deadly flu outbreak
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Go to the brain shrink for a good dose of brain shrink
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Losing the Alzheimers battle and making money at it
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The broken Medicaid cookie cutter
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Resisting antibiotics
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Suing for malpractice
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Diabetes drug for weight loss in non-diabetics
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I have been using WWB 100 round ammo for some time and all the rounds is the box looked the same; 9mm, 38 cal, & 45 acp.
The latest box of 45 acp has brass head stamped "Winchester 45 auto" and has a brass looking primmer and it is real dirty ammo.
It, also, has brass head stamped " win nt 45 auto" and has a smaller silver primmer and burns clean. The inside of the brass, after firing looks as clean as silverware coming out of the dish washer.
I thought this was interesting, how would they keep track of their lot numbers and what is in a lot, hey.


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Posted by Jaison on Wednesday, September 5, 2012 at 8:12pm.
I'll send this to our Spanish expert, SraJMcGin.
Mis vacaciones a Chile. (vacaciones is always plural)
para las vacaciones
Las pasé
always look at any noun, because all the adjectives modifying it will be the same gender (masculine/feminine) and number (singular/plural) cultura = feminine singular
una cultura rica
Después de comer... (This is NOT a complete sentence. You might combine it with the preceding.)
yo fui a acampar
ella se observó = you began in the past tense so you should stay there
y nos dormimos = the subject is nosotros
Por la mańana...mientras algunos de nosotros = some of us???...caminata
hermanas se despertaron..saltaron a la comba = jumped rope???
Mi papá descolgó (? if you aren't sure what you are saying, it's a good idea to give the English so I don't have to guess!) / los campamentos = why plural? you had more than one camp?
He called us a day???)
YOU did not rain = llovió a cántaros así que
El último día = ON the last day = no quería (drop that qu e)
You might want to redo it for a final proofreading, if you have time.
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IKEA Foundation Designs Shelter for Refugees
To mark the occasion of World Refugee Day on June 20th, the IKEA Foundation announced an important new collaboration with the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and the Refugee Housing Unit to design a new type of shelter which will replace the outdated tents currently in use in refugee camps worldwide.
As you'd expect from IKEA, the result is a flat-packed, modular design (ideal for cheaply transporting to refugee camps) that can be assembled in 4 hours. Though it is expected to cost about twice as much, it will last much longer than the tents, which must be replaced roughly every six months – a particularly important improvement, as the average family stays in a refugee camp for 12 years.
The design also carries a number of other advantages, such as increased space and privacy, better temperature control and enough solar energy to power a light in the evening. The design is currently being tested in Ethiopia before being deployed worldwide, however, this is not the end of IKEA's collaboration with UNHCR. These shelters are just the first part of a long-term collaboration which will hopefully provide healthcare and education – and ultimately a better quality of life for the world's refugees.
More coverage of architecture's involvement in refugee aid, after the break.
Parametric Space / Zaha Hadid Architects, Kollision, CAVI, Wahlberg
Zaha Hadid Architects worked together with design offices Kollision, CAVI and Wahlberg to create the interactive installation 'Parametric Space' for the exhibition 'Zaha Hadid – World Architecture', which is on view at the Danish Architecture Centre through September 29, 2013. The installation is a fully parametric space that reacts to the visitors' movements by changing shape and expression. Learn more after the break.
Trailer: The Human Scale
Derived from 40 years of research by architect, professor and author Jan Gehl, The Human Scale takes a critical look at the way we build and use our cities. Assumptions about modernity are questioned, as director Andreas M. Dalsgaard urges the viewer to imagine what would happen when we put "people into the center of our equations".
Video: Alberto Biagetti
Alberto Biagetti, Italian designer invites us into his home, a space that has become the ultimate private gallery.
Video: Snøhetta – Memories of Architectural Landscapes
The Louisiana Channel at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark shared with us their video, titled 'Snøhetta – Memories of Architectural Landscapes,' which captures the inner and outer landscapes of Snøhetta. The 30-minute tour features one of the heads behind it all – Norwegian architect Kjetil T. Thorsen, who reflects upon some of Snøhetta's major landmarks such as the Alexandria Library, the opera house in Oslo and The 9/11 Memorial Pavilion on Ground Zero in New York.
From the very beginning in the 1980′s, Snøhetta's architecture has been inspired by landscapes, both natural and urban. "Landscapes are a massive force", says Kjetil Trædal Thorsen, co-founder and director of Snøhetta: "And they are masterpieces, which architects can be inspired by." To view more of Snøhetta's work, please visit here.
In Residence: Piero Lissoni
In Residence: Piero Lissoni on Nowness.com
The latest in NOWNESS' In Residence series features a look into the home of Piero Lissoni, co-founder of Italian design firm Lissoni Associati. Externally inspired by the way that children draw houses, the interior of the home is filled with what Lissoni calls a 'contamination' of different ideas and objects. Nevertheless it is stylish and a beautiful accompaniment to the spectacular rolling hills of the Tuscan countryside.
AD Interviews: Wolf D. Prix / Coop Himmelb(l)au
Highly regarded as both an academic and practitioner, Wolf Prix is an architect's architect. He's also a Guinness World Record holder. (The Busan Cinema Center boasts the world's longest cantilever roof). We sat down with the Austrian architect and learned that not only does he welcome the unforeseeable results of rule-breaking, but he also borrows models of strategy and organization from soccer:
"Of course nowadays the architect as a single genius is over. I think we have to learn how to communicate and work in a team. Therefore, I just rearranged the organization of our office along the idea of the football team, FC Barcelona. Barcelona plays a beautiful game, very clever and very intelligent—they always play in a triangle system and then Messi or Xavi breaks the rules and plays street football with unforeseeable rules. This is the way we work in our office and this is the way that we design."
He founded COOP HIMMELB(L)AU in 1968 (with Helmut Swiczinsky) and in 1980 the office published "Architecture Must Burn!" a manifesto which extolled the virtues of an architecture "that bleeds, exhausts, that turns and even breaks." From its inception the office has pushed the boundaries of practice through its use of complex forms, communicated using a variety of media and materials. Their projects represent an embrace of imbalance, disquiet, distortion, fragmentation and chaos.
The title of one of his latest lectures ("In two days tomorrow will be yesterday") aptly encapsulates Prix's approach to time and space.
He gained international recognition when his firm's work was featured in the 1988 MoMA show "Deconstructivist Architecture." The show marked what curator Philip Johnson described as the "pleasures of unease" and highlighted the work of six other architects in addition to COOP HIMMELB(L)AU— Zaha Hadid, Rem Koolhaas, Frank Gehry, Peter Eisenmann, Bernard Tschumi and Daniel Libeskind. The curators brought together this diverse group of architects to showcase the commonalities between projects that harnessed previously unexplored potentials of the modern movement.
"We always wanted to get through with our radical ideas. No compromising on one hand; on the other hand, if you build large projects you have to think in real terms as well."
Prix's architecture has employed advances in technology to create public spaces that challenge tradition and convention. COOP HIMMELB(L)AU's more recent projects include The Busan Cinema Center, Musée des Confluences, BMW Welt, and Dalian International Conference Center. He has taught at the Universität für angewandte Kunst (University of Applied Art) in Vienna, Harvard University, the Architectural Association, Columbia University and other prominent schools of architecture.
Video: IE Paper Pavilion / Shigeru Ban Architects
Shigeru Ban Architects shared with us their timelapse video for their latest construction, the IE Paper Pavilion. Made up of 173 paper tubes, this temporary structure is located in the grounds of IE's Madrid campus and will be used to host executive education events and other activities. The structural design is eminently efficient. It took only two weeks to build, is based on sustainability objectives, and there was a requirement that it be a temporary construction. For more information on the project, please visit here.
Videos: Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance
The Parisian designer's aesthetic is deeply rooted in his boundless embrace of nature. Enjoy this video on Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance!
Video: Fabio Novembre
The prolific architect and designer Fabio Novembre imbues every object he touches with his rhapsodic brand of Milan élan.
Sou Fujimoto's Serpentine Pavilion Through the Lens of James Aiken
Dazzling viewers with its "tron-like landscape of infinite white," as described by Guardian critic Oliver Wainwright, Sou Fujimoto's Serpentine Pavilion in Hyde Park is arguably "one of the most radical pavilions to date." The 350 square-meter latticed structure melts into its surrounding by fusing together the man-made and natural world, creating a lush, semi-transparent terrain in which transforms into a variety of seating, steps and side tables that complement its interior coffee bar (view more images here).
This video was provided by film maker James Aiken, in collaboration with The Serpentine Gallery, and commissioned by COS.
Video: ARQUIVO: Episode #1 João Pedro Falcão de Campos
ARQUIVO, a web series of small documentaries about contemporary Portuguese architects that is available for free, shared with us their video featuring architect João Pedro Falcão de Campos. Their project aims to create an archive of a generation of architects and to promote, both at a national and international level, the architecture that is currently being produced by Portuguese architects. For more information on their work, please visit here.
Video: Iran, The Embargoed Hotel
Battling against international sanctions, global economic crisis and the challenges behind creating a hotel locally and sustainably in Iran, Ameriha House is a recipe for disaster. Or is it?
In Discussion: Peter Zumthor Speaks with Michael Govan About the LACMA Redesign
In a crowed auditorium in central Los Angeles on Sunday, Swiss architect Peter Zumthor sat down with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) director Michael Govan to kickstart the opening of The Presence of the Past: Peter Zumthor Reconsiders LACMA. The hour-long discussion, captured in the video above, began with an insightful overview of Zumthor's most famous works before moving to an in-depth conversation about the underlying ideas that drive Zumthor's design for the highly anticipated LACMA overhaul.
The project – already six years in the making and yet still in its schematic phase – plans to replace LACMA's aging cluster of three pavilions with an elevated, 21st century facility. A detailed project summary, alongside images captured from Zumthor's 6 ton, concrete exhibition model, is available for you to review here on ArchDaily. Enjoy! (more…)
Video: Studio Beneath the Railway + Step Plaza
Beneath an elevated railway in the former red-light district of Kogane-cho, the city of Yokohama and NPO Koganecho Area Management Center commissioned five architects to transform a 100 to 150 square meter site into what is now a destination for local artists and residents. Each practice – Contemporaries, Studio 2A, Workstation, Koizumi Atelier, and Nishikura Architectural Design Office – was assigned a single project, providing the community with a gallery, cafe, studio, meeting hall for artists, and stepped outdoor plaza. Tour through each space with this video, provided by JA+U.
VIDEO: Design in 6 Lovely, Digestible Nutshells
(Almost) everything you need to know about 20th century design has been synthesized into 6 brightly-colored, easily-digestible videos (all narrated by the sweet Scottish tones of one Ewan MacGregor).
From the Gothic Revival to Post-Modernism, this series of shorts from The Open University's OpenLearn website just touches the surface of these design movements; however, they act as a great introduction for the un-design-initiated (indeed, The Open University sees them as an intro to their free course on Design Thinking) or, for design-aficionados, a fun refresher.
We're particular to the video on the Bauhaus (after all, we also tackled the movement in a brilliant infographic) and the Modernist video (after the break) – but you can find all 6 at OpenLearn. Enjoy!
Video: American Design Club
The American Design Club (AmDC) was conceived in the spring of 2008. At that time, America's relevance in the design world was being questioned, with some postulating that US-based designers would never be as influential or productive as their European counterparts. Looking around, however, all they saw was talent and ambition in our fellow American designers, from close friends to former employers to recent design school graduates. What was missing was an avenue for these designers to share their work with a broad audience. The AmDC's founding members resolved to improve the situation by creating a platform from which designers could launch new ideas and connect with one another.


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China Security & Surveillance Announces Additional Safe City Project Win in Yinchuan City
SHENZHEN, China , June 30 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- China Security & Surveillance Technology, Inc. (NYSE: CSR)('The Company' or 'CSST'), a leading provider of security solutions in China , today announced that it has won a bid for a Safe City project in Yinchuan City, the capital of Ningxia Province located in the northwest of China .
The scope of this project entails connecting the monitoring and
communications network among 69 local police stations within Yinchuan City
with the police bureau at the city and provincial levels. CSST is the lead
contractor for this particular Safe City project. The total value of this
Safe City project is approximately
This project in Yinchuan City is the Company's second project in this city.
In early May 2008 , CSST signed a Safe City project framework agreement valued
at approximately
Mr. Guoshen Tu, Chief Executive Officer of CSST commented, ''We are delighted to win additional project work in Yinchuan City. This second phase of project work is indicative of the depth of our product offering, the quality of our service as well as our ability to build strong and lasting relationships with local city governments in China . Our one-stop-shop solution for security and surveillance needs continues to provide us with a solid pipeline of new business opportunities."
About China Security & Surveillance Technology, Inc.
Based in Shenzhen, China , China Security manufactures, distributes, installs and maintains security and surveillance systems throughout the PRC. China Security has manufacturing facilities located in China and an R&D facility which maintains an exclusive collaboration agreement with Beijing University. China Security has built a diversified customer base through its extensive sales and service network that includes numerous points of presence throughout the PRC. To learn more about the Company visit http://www.csst.com .
Safe Harbor Statement
This press release includes certain statements that are not descriptions of historical facts, but are forward-looking statements. Such statements include, among others, those concerning our expected financial performance and strategic and operational plans, our future operating results, our expectations regarding the market for security and surveillance products, our expectations regarding the continued growth of the security and surveillance market, as well as all assumptions, expectations, predictions, intentions or beliefs about future events. You are cautioned that any such forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and that a number of risks and uncertainties could cause our actual results to differ materially from those anticipated, expressed or implied in the forward-looking statements. These risks and uncertainties include, but not limited to, the factors mentioned in the ''Risk Factors'' section of our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2007 , and other risks mentioned in our other reports filed with the Securities Exchange Commission, or SEC. Copies of filings made with the SEC are available through the SEC's electronic data gathering analysis retrieval system (EDGAR) at http://www.sec.gov . The words ''believe,'' ''expect,'' ''anticipate,'' ''project,'' ''targets,'' ''optimistic,'' ''intend,'' ''aim,'' ''will'' or similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements. All statements other than statements of historical fact are statements that could be deemed forward- looking statements. The Company assumes no obligation and does not intend to update any forward-looking statements, except as required by law.
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John Eliot Gardiner and his English Baroque Soloists perform Monteverdi's L'Orfeo. One of the earliest operas still regularly performed, the masterpiece continues to move audiences after more than four centuries.
L'Orfeo, favola in musica
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"What an annoying narrator!"
I do not know who read this book but it was NOT Ellen Archer! Ms. Archer's voice is more refined and she does the voices of the English characters with what could be her natural English accent.
Whoever read this book was American and her interpretation of Italian accents was laughable and terribly annoying! Count Fornacci sounds more like Count Dracula than a member of Italian nobility!
The story is fine but the characters are either stuffy or rebellious and the March heirs are all quite spoiled. Julia has flashes of depth and caring but she is still self absorbed. Understanding that these characters are probably a decent representation of gentility of the time, I understand that the time period shapes the personalities but there are moments when it's just too much.
Still the book is worth the listen but this series is not one of my favorites.
"This narrator is terrible!"
All he did was read the book! He did not even try to be a voice actor. He just read the book in the same voice for every character!!! I loved Len Cariou's narration! Every narrator of the previous 17 books gave characters different voices. WHY wouldn't that be a requirement when hiring a new narrator for the 18th book???!!! Titus Welliver's reading actually made it harder to follow. I really hated this way of reading Bosch!!
I always look forward to reading another book about Harry Bosch! I can only hope that the next book is narrated by a narrator who can give the characters their own voices!!
"Such a wonderful series!"
It's so sad that the end of this story indicates everyone is going off to live their lives and ends the stories of this entertaining family. Book 18 is the end of this series as book 19 is a story in the past prior to the marriages of Amelia and Emerson's next generation.
I so loved this series! Elizabeth Peters (real name Barbara Mertz) was such a clever writer and wove great tales about this family that drew us all in as if we really knew them. Since the author has passed on to the great writer's haven in the sky, it is sad that there will be no more tales.It has been so much fun listening to these books!
I will miss Amelia and Emerson and all their family's antics. R.I.P. Barbara Mertz (1927-2013)! Thank you for so many enjoyable hours of listening!
"Overall very good"
I really like Jonathan McClain's performance. I am listening to the books in order and have enjoyed the narration.
Law enforcement certainly has its share of jerks and power-addled people. There are undoubtedly FBI agents who are as belligerent and full of themselves as these were but, dang, it makes the story annoying! There were times when I didn't think I could see this one through. My need to find out who did it kept me going but, really, did the FBI people need to be THAT obnoxious??? It was a good story line but those FBI people made it a tough listen at times!
The story line was fine but the annoyance of those agents is what made me give this 3 stars.
"Really wonderful!"
I had never read this prior to listening to it and I was enthralled! This is so well written and such an exciting book! This book had my attention every moment and I enjoyed every minute. What a totally scary bad guy! The scariest part is that this kind of person could really exist. There is nothing more scary than a normal looking and sounding person who is really a horrible sociopath!! It didn't matter that it is set in the early 1950s. The story could just as easily be today.
It was a really great book! It's no wonder Ira Levin went on to be such a success!
"Another great, suspenseful story!"
Again I like the multiple narrators. That is really a nice part of this whole audio book experience. Live To Tell is another good, suspenseful story that made me want to listen straight through from beginning to end, without taking a break.
While this book's basic storyline is about a very sad subject, no story about crime is a laugh a minute. One reader said it was too depressing but I would disagree. It's another crime thriller and, yes, the story is features a children's acute care psych ward as a main thread and, yes, there is another thread revolving around child abuse but the story threads are not tole distastefully. In fact the underlying theme was handled in such a way that it was an effective part of the story with any sensationalizing about the topics.
This is a crime/detective/thriller and that genre is not meant to be a light-hearted, happy read. I almost passed on this one because of the "depressing" review from one of the readers but I am really glad I read a bunch of reviews and ignored that one. The story was good and I enjoyed the book while, at the same time, mentally acknowledging that the underlying storyline was and is a sad fact of life.
The one thing I have to say (again) is the D.D. Warren character is getting on my last nerve! Her rush to judgement, her sexual obsession, her overall bad attitude is getting to be so annoying I fear it will start to take away from my interest in this series. If male, main character detectives in other authors' books can be somewhat annoying characters but still likable, why can't this female, main character detective be at least a little likable? If I were reading these books instead of listening to them, the parts with D.D. Warren's dialogue would be the parts I would skim over quickly. She is SO annoying to the point of distracting from the stories.
But I will push on with the next one in this series. Maybe the author tones down the acidity of this character as time goes on. One can hope!
"Overall - Exciting"
It was really nice to have different voices by three different people for the major characters in this book. My experience with audio books up to this one were of the one actor/narrator for the whole book variety. This was a nice change and the three narrators are very good.
So this is book 3 from this author for me. I like to listen to them in order. The first story was good, the second story was incredible, and this third story was captivating. I really enjoy the way Gardner can tell these stories in such a mesmerizing way.
My one, and really only, complaint is the D.D. Warren character. My favorite genre is detective stories and most of the lead detective characters are just that - characters - but they have something in their personality that, in spite of themselves, endears them to the reader. D.D. Warren has nothing that endears her to me and her negative attitude and the way she jumps to predictable conclusions, in spite of the facts that are right in her face, is now annoying. It's maddening how she delights in disturbing Bobby Dodge. Really? Let it go already and have some consideration for others, for heaven's sake! And could she not think of sex in every situation??!! I am sooooooo not a fan of this character!!
What keeps me coming back, in spite of the D.D. Warren character and my growing dislike of that character, is the way Lisa Gardner can spin a tale. It's hard to break away once I get into one of her books. The stories have been fascinating. Now if we can just fix the Warren character...
This was a great story with a terrific narrator!
I listen to books to pass the time while I am at work, doing mindless, boring tasks. I started this book mid-afternoon and had to drag myself away from work as I wanted to sit there listening until the very end. The next day I could not wait to work on some mindless tasks so I could get back into the book again.
This was the second Lisa Gardner book to which I had listened. While the first one was good and the narrator was okay, This story and Maggi-Meg Reed had me transfixed from beginning to end. The story was a sit-on-the-edge-of-your-seat thriller/detective story and the narrator was sublime!
There are not even words or descriptive words to say how highly I recommend this book! Since I like to listen to series in order, I look forward to the coming days, listening to Lisa Gardner's other books!
"Still a good Harry Bosch book"
I just love Michael Connelly's Harry Bosch character and am glad a new one arrived. Yes, the story starts 20 years in the past and dwells a lot on the past but Harry is part of a unit that tries to solve old, cold cases so, IMHO, the past must be visited and recounted to us so that we know the back story.
Harry Bosch is a rather sad figure of a human being, having been permanently affected by his war experiences. He has such a hard time with personal relationships but he still is righteous and strong with solid moral standards and upstanding ethical code. The reader likes him and, at times, feels sorry for him.
Seriously??? I could have read this book better than he did! The best narrator for Harry Bosch has to be someone who understands the characters and has an acting background that has given that person a background of voices. Len Cariou is PERFECT for reading Harry Bosch books. His gravelly voice for Bosch is perfect. His accents for other characters and female tones are perfect. Why, for heaven's sake, would he not be hired each and every time to read the Harry Bosch series??? Unless he declined, the publisher is crazy for having changed narrators. If Cariou wanted more money to read the book then he should have gotten what he asked. He is the best! If Cariou declined, then the publisher needed to find a similar voice and skill to Cariou. This guy was the wrong choice and that is an understatement!
I always want to listen to Harry Bosch books in one sitting. It never works out that way but it is a favorite listen of mine for sure!
Hopefully the publisher will either hire Cariou for the next Harry Bosch book or, if Cariou is not interested, find a similar character to Cariou whose performance makes the character of Harry Bosch. If we wanted a bedtime story read to us, we would not be buying Harry Bosch books for a good listen. Next time change the narrator!!!
"Another wonderful story!"
Listening to the captivating Preston/Childs stories is always a treat! I enjoy the twists and turns of the plot of this story.
IF there is one thing that almost made me stop listening to this book, it was the horrible sing-song style of this narrator. The story was compelling enough to force me to continue but unless one likes the sad and resigned style of speaking of Eeyore (a Winnie the Pooh fatalist character), then Scott Brick's "woe is me" kind of vocal inflection will grate on one's nerves and make this audio book less enjoyable!


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I live in San Francisco, a city with its share of faults (seismic and otherwise) but it's a great place to hide from the real world. And if you need a character for a novel you just ride public transport for an hour or so.
When I'm not writing I work as a software architect, which is a nice way of saying I hack around on computers and actually get paid for it. Writing code and writing fiction have a lot in common. That may sound odd but both are creative processes that require iteration (rewriting) until they 'work'.
When I'm not writing or working I'm hopefully traveling, frequently somewhere in Latin America. I just got back from hiking the Inca Trail and I was gasping at times but it was the trip of a lifetime. If you even think you might want to do it, just do it. But get a porter.
I've also been known to sleep from time to time, although the lure of a blank page may wake me from a deep slumber.
Kirkus listed my debut novel, SENDERO, a literary thriller set in modern-day Peru, as one of the top 100 Indie novels of 2012. WHO SINGS TO THE DEAD, the second in the SENDERO series, was released January 2013. My 16-and-above YA/New Adult/Old Adult thriller titled LETHAL DISPATCH was just released. Watch the trailer; it's really pretty good because someone who knew what she was doing put together all my ideas and the cool Ramones type music I paid twenty bucks for. So watch it if only for the music.
I'm currently working on a few things, and have just finished 'Looking for the Dead Boys', channeling the demons of Jim Thompson, Elmore Leonard, Patricia Highsmith and Quentin Tarantino and corralling them into a '70s biker novel with a lesbian protagonist, written in what Henning Mankell calls 'my own language'. Believe it or not, it's not exploitative or sensational the way it sounds although I certainly tip my hat to a style that made me want to write in the first place. It's full of humanity, you see. It's the first of a Meth Noir genre and I coined the term, so there you have it.
I also have a collection of short *dark* fiction titled OUT BY THE TREES.
"The plot for SENDERO first came to me one night in the jungles of Peru. Sitting in the dark with a group of intrepid travelers, waiting for tapirs and other night creatures to show up, I was immersed in the sights and sounds of that fantastic country, and all I had seen and read. The tapirs never appeared that night but Nina, Miguel and the other characters of SENDERO began to come out of the dark and take shape."
Have you heard of Facebook?
Goodreads … pretty cool site for readers and writers alike.
Amazon author page … if you're in the mood, 'like' or read an excerpt or maybe even buy something?
Connect to me via IBM 4381 mainframe or watch a video trailer for Sendero.
Contact the author. Have you read Sendero? Who Sings to the Dead? My short fiction? Comments? Abuse? Want to be notified when a new novel comes out? Let me know!


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My son Giovanni was born June 14, 2007. Shortly after his birth, and after weeks of hospitalizations and testing, he was diagnosed with Biliary Atresia, a rare and incurable liver disease.
At six weeks of age, Giovanni underwent the Kasai procedure aimed at alleviating the immediate, devastating effects of the disease. Now at seven years old, we are thankful that he is doing well. However, we realize that the disease is progressing and that there is an overwhelming chance he will require a liver transplant at some point in his life.
Obviously, this is a very personal cause for me and I'm proud to help the American Liver Foundation in the fight against liver disease. Your support of the Liver Life Walk will go a long way toward the continued advances in understanding and treating Biliary Atresia as well as all liver disease.
This year's walk will be held on Saturday, September 27th at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia. As always, we are walking for Giovanni, and for the hope that he has continued good health. We're also walking to raise awareness about Biliary Atresia, and to help find a cure for the disease. Lastly, we're walking in support of all the children living with liver disease, and for those who care for them.
Donating is easy! Just click the 'Click Here to Sponsor Me' button below G's picture. You can also forward checks made out to ALF to: American Liver Foundation Mid-Atlantic Division,1341 N. Delaware Avenue, Suite 209,Philadelphia, PA 19125: Attn: Ivory Allison. Please make sure G-Unit, or walker you wish to sponsor is listed on the check. By making a donation you'll take me one step closer to my goal. More importantly, your generous gift will help the American Liver Foundation provide research, education, and advocacy to assist the 30 million people affected by liver disease in the United States.
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Updated the list.. 1 glass left.. An HBT glass. I won't put it on eBay, i'd rather see it go to someone here!
I got mine safe in the post yesterday. Thanks Cap
nothing to trade... but if ended2 doesn't take it PM how much and I can paypal. ship to 15132
god... I didn't notice the post he was replying to. *hangs head* 2009??? really??


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William "Bill" Ayres Jr., 87, Phillipsburg, died Sunday, July 13, 2014, at Phillips County Hospital, Phillipsburg.
He was born Jan. 22, 1927, in Linn County to William and Vesta Grace (Lee) Ayres.
He was a tool pusher for an oilwell drilling company.
Survivors include his wife, Eva, of the home; two sons, Robert, Branson, Mo., and Ron Parker, Quemio; four daughters, Willma Beach, Lexington, Mo., Carla Marshall, Smith Center, Doris Radabaugh, Phillipsburg, and Paula Hartman, Concordia; 23 grandchildren; and 17 great-grandchildren.
Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Thursday at Olliff-Boeve Memorial Chapel, Phillipsburg; burial in Fairview Cemetery, Phillipsburg.
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An estimated stretch of 979 km of roads was damaged during the monsoon this season: Minister
A sum of Rs.72.77 crore has been allocated for the repair works of roads damaged by rain in the district, Minister for Public Works V.K. Ibrahim Kunju has said.
He was talking to media persons on Friday after an evaluation meeting with the MLAs about the progress of the road repair works at the PWD Rest House here.
Mr. Kunju, who maintained that an estimated stretch of 979 kilometres of roads was damaged during the monsoon this season, said the repair work of nearly 75 per cent of these roads had already been completed.
Roads were destroyed also as part of different works undertaken by agencies such as BSNL, Electricity Board, and the Water Authority.
"We are planning to bring in strict restrictions on agencies other than the KWA for digging roads for different purposes in the future," he said.
Stating that the repair works had made nearly 40 kms of different National Highways in the district motorable, the Minister said contract had already been handed over for the renovation work of NH 66 from Vadakara-Ayanikkad to Nandi near Koyilandy.
The Minister said the repair work on the Thondayadu bypass from Thondayadu to Pantheerankavu would also start shortly.
Reiterating the earlier decision of the government to make it binding on the part of the contractor to repair a road free of cost if it got damaged within a time of one year o construction, Mr. Kunju said those contractors who failed to do so would be blacklisted by the government.
"The engineers concerned will also be answerable for such a failure," he said.
Social Welfare Minister and Kozhikode South MLA M.K. Muneer and other MLAs from the district including C. Moyinkutty, C.K. Nanu, A. Pradeepkumar, K.K. Lathika, V.M. Ummar, Purushan Kadalundy, P.T.A. Rahim, PWD Principal Secretary T.O. Sooraj and Executive Engineer Sasi Kumar attended the meeting.
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I think the last time I actually saw a shape in a cloud, was when I was in high school. It looked like an angel with really wicked wings. I think I killed most of my imagination, and appreciation, soon after. :( Bummer too, I really enjoyed looking at clouds, and seeing more than just dust, air, and rain.
I do this pretty much every time I'm outside. The sky has forever fascinated me, it gives me hope. Its just so beautiful even when its ugly. Its a constant reminder of how things are bigger than they seem and how small each one of us truely are in this massive universe.
Unfortunately upon looking out my window the skies are as clear as can be from here, not one cloud. Beautiful day, and here I am inside.....
No Clouds in the sky - clear day. I'll hafta get back to you on that.
i looked at it yesterday it looked like a wild fire with a big dragon caght in the middle
i saw hell...it scared me so i named him fluffy
i have seen acloud that looked like anything in long time but i do rememeber seeing that independance day cloud on my first date with my wife(i think it was an omen) I THINK ILL TAKE A SECOND TO LOOK UP TOmorrow


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Holy bejeezes, I tried SO HARD to pare this down to a more readable length... but it refused to be anything but unreasonably long. So... here it is. I'm sorry!
For anyone who gets vertigo just looking at that history section, note me and I'll be more than happy to just give you the highlights. If I hadn't written it, I'd never want to have to wade through something so long myself...
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Telique Calenarien (tell-EEK kal-ehn-AIR-ee-ehn)
Half-Elven, Half-Demon
Physical Description:
Telique is wiry but well muscled, and stands at about 5'10"... a little shorter than average for both elves and demons, a fact he tries to hide and ignore whenever possible. His skin has sort of a yellowish tinge and is otherwise slightly paler than average. His eyes have black sclera, gold irises, and slitted pupils. He sports four main fangs where the upper and lower canines would be, and two (eight total) smaller fangs on either side of these. Telique has shaggy white hair, which would hang at about shoulder length if it were not perpetually sticking up on end. Two black bull horns protrude from his hairline. He has a matching black bull tail with a white brush at the end. His wings each have a single black-furred pinion, and instead of feathers or webbing, boast a blaze of silver flame. They can be fully retracted into his back at will, disappearing into small pocket-like folds on his shoulder blades. The flames leave small silver tattoos immediately beneath them when they disappear. Telique usually prefers to leave his wings out, though, liking how they make him look larger and more intimidating. For this reason, he usually wears either ponchos or cloaks with no shirt, or halter-tops so there's nothing in the way of his wings and he doesn't burn through any clothing. Telique enjoys being a spectacle, and is never seen not decked in jewelry. Finally, he detests shoes... Telique will never, ever wear shoes.
Teliques mother was a child of nobility in hell, member of a well-respected and powerful family of demons... however, somewhere along the line, probably due to her spoiled upbringing, she developed an unsavory taste for the company of lesser beings. Her family was too preoccupied with socializing and matters of appearance, to notice her excursions to the aboveworld until large portions of the family fortune began to go missing, in particular some especially familiar artifacts and treasures from their hoard began popping up in the aboveworld and causing havoc when their various protective curses started to activate on the unsuspecting people who had them in their possession.
As soon as they realized what was going on, the family, outraged that their daughter would not only stoop to the low of defiling herself with a non-demon, but needlessly pay with their money to do so, confined her to their estate under a close watch... but she was too stubborn to let that constraint stop her. This time, instead of making the trips herself, she contacted a trader... and within a week, he had procured for her a young male elf and smuggled him under the noses of the guards and into her clutches... after, of course, being paid with more family treasures.
The family, expecting a much more volatile reaction from their daughter, began to suspect something when, in the following months, she kept to herself and remained unusually quiet. Upon investigation, it did not take long for them to find their daughter's pet chained up in a seldom-visited section of their dungeon, and upon confronting their daughter, they found her with child. The young elf was immediately deposited back in the aboveworld, and the girl was immediately disowned.
Telique was born on the streets of hell, and lived the first decade of his life by scrounging to survive in a land with little sympathy even for its own, let alone for a bastard half-breed. His mother proved largely unsupportive... she provided for him as best she could (which wasn't very well) out of an instinctual obligation rather than an emotional love. Telique, consequently, grew up very fast and learned early how to fend for himself in what was literally a survival of the fittest environment. When he wasn't fighting against the other urchins for basic needs, he was fighting against other urchins who took offense to his mixed lineage.
Luckily for Telique, the superior strength he inherited from his noble bloodline allowed him to win most disputes, and even garner some respect and a few friends... or at least followers. Despite the harsh treatment he received, he rarely held grudges against other children - they were living the same difficult life that he was. Also, he was desperate for whatever companionship he could get, and couldn't afford to make any lasting enemies.
Telique also, on occasion, got into altercations with demons who weren't his own size... which was a much different matter. Stronger, meaner, and usually even more belligerent in response to Telique's social stigma, whenever he was caught doing something he wasn't supposed to be doing (which was pretty much all he did as a child) by an older demon, he was usually left at their mercy to suffer any punishment they pleased until his mother was able to track him down and bail him out... and she was never concerned enough to rush. All of this fermented into an intense distrust of adults, a sentiment that lasted even after Telique himself grew into one.
After all this time, the constant hardships of just living, let alone keeping tabs on her adventurous son, had wearied Telique's mother. She finally decided that maintaining her stubborn pride was no longer worth the effort, and returned to her family, begging to be admitted back into their good graces. By that time, the scandal she'd created had blown over, and their rage had cooled. They had only one request of her before allowing her back into their household - get rid of Telique.
For ten years she'd hardly been a mother at all, so this wasn't a sacrifice she found particularly crippling. However, the same deep, demonic instinct that had helped her hold out this long kept her from taking the simpler road of just killing the boy. Instead, she formally banished him to the aboveworld - cut him off from the power and protection of hell and disallowed reentrance. Since her family's attention never strayed outside of hell anyway, she figured that as long as her son wasn't walking the streets of their world, they would be satisfied. She certainly was... and as she saw it, half of him belonged up there anyway.
Telique, on the other hand, was terrified. Not knowing what to do himself, and with no-one to vouch for someone like him, he found himself thrust up into a place different from anything he'd ever known. He may not have had a real home in hell, but he had the comfort of familiarity, and he'd had friends... in a sense. However, given no other choice in the matter, he put fear aside and forged on with his life.
Fortunately, Telique found, street life in the aboveworld was much easier than street life in hell. People were more sympathetic there, it seemed, kinder... also weaker. Where he was only evenly matched with other children down in hell, here he could easily overpower almost anyone despite himself being a child of only ten. Because of his friendly attitude and the huge asset he served as a protector, it wasn't long before he had a veritable gang of urchins following after him. Telique couldn't deny that he enjoyed being in charge like that... but even after three years of hero treatment, he still longed to return to the world he grew up in, rather than stay in this still-foreign land.
During his time away from hell, a thought occurred to Telique. If his mother could win her family's favor back by leaving him, perhaps he could prove himself to them somehow as well. Taking the trouble of ducking the guards at the hellmouth, plus all the usual street patrols only to return to the alleys for the rest of his life simply wouldn't be worth it. If he was going to go back, he was going to go back in a blaze of triumph and live in style. He hatched a plan to recover all of the lost family fortune that his mother had spent during the 'wild years' of her youth. He'd heard plenty enough tales of regret from her in his short life to decipher the type of person she was back then (and still was now, really), and to realize the circumstances of his birth.
As he began the process of tracking down each of the artifacts, Telique was relieved to discover that his mother had never strayed all that far from the hellmouth whenever she visited, meaning that the majority of what he needed to find was all still within the city right above it - where he currently lived. He made decent progress in good time with only one recurring road block - it seemed as if many of the treasures he needed were being snatched up by another collector. At the time, Telique was both too focused on his goal and too naive to recognize how odd it was that anybody besides himself would have such an interest in those specific artifacts... He just put it out of his mind and continued on the task of getting ahold of those pieces which he could find.
By the time he was fifteen, Telique was confident that he'd gathered everything not already in the hands of his rival collector. He was also confident that he'd almost completely worn out his welcome in this city, as often his methods for acquiring the treasure he needed had been less than polite or legal, and because the roving gang of children he commanded caused an awful lot of trouble. Through his frequent encounters with the now-former owners of his family's treasure, Telique learned both the identity and whereabouts of his rival collector - they were a noble elven family who lived not far from the hellmouth itself. The place wasn't difficult to find... and after only a little anxious observation, Telique formulated his final plan - stash the treasure he already had in some nondescript midway point between the elves' mansion and the hellmouth... go in the night, take all they had, throw it into his own collection and make a mad dash for the gate below.
When the time came to set the scheme into action, he was pleasantly surprised to find the elves' home virtually unguarded. He made off with everything they had, got to his own store without a hitch, and descended. He did note that both sides of the border seemed suspiciously unmanned, but chalked it up to luck and continued on to his family's home. When he reached it, however, he found it in ruins. Most of the guards who were meant to be watching the gate were gathered around there. Sensing that now was not at all the time to be seen breaking his banishment, he hung in the background and simply listened.
Telique eventually gathered that a light battalion of elven warriors had stormed in, wielding holy magic and vengeance. Faster than any of hell's legions could act, they'd marched right into the unprotected estate and laid waste, burning the building to the ground and slaughtering everyone inside. The guards supposed it had been a revenge strike, as apparently one had recognized one among the elves as having been a captive of the family's some fifteen years before whom he'd been given the unusual task of returning to the aboveworld unharmed.
It didn't take long at all before Telique decided he had heard enough, and beat a hasty retreat up above while he still could. The irony of the situation was bitter. The elves who'd just killed his family were the elves he himself had just stolen from... why else would they too be gathering all of his family's treasure than to track it back to them? Their plan had been longer in the making than his had, and on that very same night, it too concluded successfully... yet Telique was unsure how to feel about that. He'd never lived in that house... never known any relatives other than his own mother, and felt little sorrow at the knowledge of her death. His entire demon bloodline was now gone... though his elven one, he now realized, lived just around the corner... but he also realized he had even less connection to them - none at all really. He wasn't desperate enough for ties to get himself killed by approaching, and not angry enough to bother with revenge.
Telique took his riches and ran. He'd already left far too large a mark in this city anyway... and now more than ever it seemed he had far too many connections within it for it to remain safe for him. It was time to see more of the aboveworld... learn a little by travel, find something worthwhile to do. This didn't take very long. Telique became generous with his fortune, built for himself a life of lavish ease on it, and invited the urchins of the aboveworld to do the same with him, offering both comfort and protection. He would change up cities about once a year, some followed, some stayed behind, and everyone only ever did as they pleased.
However, after some years, his old family fortune ran out, which Telique, despite being quite used to living on very little, simply wouldn't stand for. Anything short of opulence was unacceptable. In order to keep up his funds, Telique decided to partake in a time-honored demonic tradition - fooling the gullible into unfair contracts. It had once been fairly common practice amongst the now-wealthy and idle demons in hell, and still was among the slightly less wealthy and slightly less idle below. The practice allowed a demon to draw on the nearly infinite power of hell to grant even the most ridiculous wishes to whomever asked... while in return, they gave up their soul at the end of their life. For a citizen of hell, a contract was binding, and a demon who'd entered into one was obligated to act on and live by it until it was fulfilled, at which point they received their payment by soul and replenished the supply of energy they'd until then been draining to sustain the conditions of the contract. This process had worked for even the weakest among hell's legions for eons, there was no reason why it couldn't work for him.
Well... there was. Telique had been banished... and the powers of hell were unavailable to him. Any impossible wish he tried to grant would take enormous amounts of his own energy, and was therefore incredibly risky. However... one thing was different about his deals - he had no interest in souls... only in treasure. Most of the people who might even consider making a contract with a demon in the first place were so delighted to be asked for jewels and gold instead that they readily agreed to Telique's stipulation of being paid in full up front... after which he might grant their request if he was able, but more likely he would simply walk away with renewed riches.
It was while relaxing and enjoying these riches, no thoughts of contracts on his mind, that Telique was approached by a strange, severe woman in a long black dress...
Both of the races to which Telique can be said to belong are immortals... given that, Telique is, by comparison very young, and he acts it. He is immature - a sore loser and a gloating winner, and quite emotional. Quick to anger, and easy to agitate, if it weren't for the longevity of his automatic distrust for most people and his long history as a trickster and con, he would not be quite easy to manipulate by these means. He is practically incapable of keeping his emotions bottled inside of him, as so many do, but at the same time does not know any good ways to work through them openly, aside from resorting to violence... this may mean punching a wall or breaking a jaw, it all depends. Fortunately, he is as quick to happiness as he is to anger, and easy to keep entertained, able to appreciate many joys from the simple (watching someone he doesn't like fall down the stairs) to the complex (observing an artisan at work). As long as he has something amusing at hand to distract him, he can keep up a good mood. Despite being used to expecting the worst of people and preparing for the same in life, in general Telique has an optimistic outlook... after all, he's made it this far.
Telique's two favorite things in the world are treasure and children. He has a very keen eye for shiny things, has learned how to accurately measure their quality, and derives just as much enjoyment from spending and trading them as he does from collecting them. Unafraid of showing off his riches, Telique has developed an indulgent lifestyle and he can almost always be seen wearing an ample supply of jewelry, most of which are the last pieces he still owns of his family's old hoard. He is also likes and is almost always liked by kids. Because of his own childhood (or lack thereof), he instantly sympathizes with every street rat he meets, and in each consecutive city he moves to, consistently pours the majority of his fortunes into establishing and keeping up a safe-haven for both himself and them - somewhere they can duck guards, sleep at night, and - most importantly - be protected by him. Telique believes very strongly that children are innocents, that it is by the cruelty of others alone that they grow cold and hard-hearted. He would never do deliberate harm to any child... however, the kill or be killed mentality he grew up with is a hard one to shake. His instinct for self-preservation is by far his strongest. In a life or death situation, his own life always comes first. He is not afraid of risk, but would never put himself in unnecessary danger unless there was some considerable reward.
Growing up, Telique became quite adept in the use of a self-taught and highly improvisational fighting style. He puts his faith in sheer brutality rather than finesse, seeing no need to waste time fooling with his opponents, preferring to dispatch them quickly with accurate and powerful attacks. He also prides himself on his ability to turn just about anything into a weapon. His skill with conventional weapons has been learned largely through first-hand experience during his many travels, and his fighting style with them is resultantly exotic and unpredictable.
Every demon possesses an inherent proficiency with black magic (wish granting, curses, voodoo, etc.) and Telique is no exception... however this type of magic takes an incredible amount of energy to use. Most demons rely on the power source that is hell itself to cast their spells, but Telique, being banished, is not able to do this. He can still use dark magic, but it drains him considerably, and the most powerful spells are beyond his capabilities to perform without risking his life. From his elven side, Telique also inherited an aptitude for holy magic, however this also wears him out quickly. Demons are weak against holy spells, and using them hurts Telique almost as much as it does whoever he's using them against. As for elemental magic, an overwhelming majority of demons possess control over fire, including Telique's family. His abilities in this respect, however, are extremely limited. He uses the flame of his wings to fly, but that's about it. In terms of offense, he can use his wings to light fire to things, but cannot conjure flame wherever he likes. Overall, Telique is no skilled sorcerer, but can call on what powers he does have if he's in a pinch.
Since Telique is from two noble bloodlines, he did not suffer much loss from the mingling of species. The average demon is stronger than the average human, and Telique is stronger than the average demon. He has elven grace and reflexes to make up for a lack of demonic speed. Unfortunately, any extra toughness or endurance he might have inherited from his demon blood was cut by elven fragility. He may be stubborn and sport a high pain tolerance, but in the end he's just as easy to bring down as any human. He has acute hearing and practically unaltered night-vision, but draws no other demonic advantages in his senses.
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Oh dear that's a him? *blink* You have a habit of tricking me like that...
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XD hey, hey, hey... you HAVE to admit, he's not as feminine as the Sergius brothers. Plus, he's actually got muscles, not just skin and bone. As for the clothes... they're purely for the convenience of his wings and tail, not at all because he's a slutty demon, that has NOTHING to do with it. XP
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I admit it.
:3 Good luck~!
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Optus ordered into one-month 'correction' of misleading ads
PUBLISHED: 31 Mar 2014 18:51:00 | UPDATED: 01 Apr 2014 06:40:28PRINT EDITION: 31 Mar 2014The court found that an ordinary or reasonable person would have believed Optus's advertised claim of its network's reach to mean geographic, not population, coverage.
David Ramli
SingTel Optus has been ordered to pay for a wide-ranging series of embarrassing corrective notices across Australia's newspapers and throughout its stores for a month, after the Victorian Supreme Court found its advertisements to be misleading.
Telstra took Optus to court on February 7, claiming the latter's ad campaign misrepresented the difference between the two networks and breached the Competition and Consumer Act 2010.
Telstra argued the ads misled customers into believing Optus and Telstra's mobile networks covered 98.5 per cent and 99.3 per cent of Australia respectively. Optus responded that it had clearly stated in the advertisement's voiceover and fine print that the figures represented population and not geographic coverage.
But Justice Elliott ruled in favour of Telstra and said that an ordinary or reasonable person would have believed it to mean geographic coverage.
He ordered Optus to send letters correcting the advertisement to every customer that signed up for a post-paid deal from January 26 onwards and place corrective advertisements in every major city-based newspaper in Australia "as well as any other newspaper being a newspaper which has the highest circulation in an area of Australia in which the advertisement was broadcast".
Optus was also ordered to place corrective A1 size banners in every single Optus shop and licensed dealership for 30 days. Five of the company's most prominent and popular webpages, including its homepage, will be forced to bear similar notice for the same amount of time.
An Optus spokeswoman said the company was still considering its options.
"While we're disappointed in the court's ruling, Optus remains committed to the strength of our network," she wrote in a statement. "We have been consistent and transparent in how we communicate the less than 1 per cent difference in the population reach of the Optus mobile network compared to Telstra's, and these clear facts have not been in dispute."
The Australian Financial Review
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Incoming Student Information - Student Requirements
AKO Account
Army Knowledge Online (AKO) is the Army's equivalent of our Air Force Portal. You will be required to have an AKO account prior to arriving at CGSC. In order to set up your AKO account you will need an Army Sponsor. AFELM currently does not have the ability to sponsor inbound students. The Element will supply you with a Sponsor prior to your arrival once attendance rolls have been confirmed.
Here are the steps for getting an AKO login:
- Browse to the main AKO site via the following link: https://www.us.army.mil
- Select "Register for AKO"
- Select "Create Joint Account"
- Follow the on-screen instructions
- You must use your legal name, or a form of it (i.e. Rob for Robert). No nicknames or call signs.
Biography and Official Photo
The AFELM Commander requests all students complete an Air Force Biography and have an official photo taken (service dress, seated US Flag background and full length white background) prior to arrival. The purpose of the BIO and official photo is to prepare you for an expected number of job opportunities (to be announced by AFPC), during the course of your academic year. Email the AF Prep Course POC a copy of your official AF Bio with inset seated photo.
Security Requirements
As a student, you are in a Secret billet. TS or SCI is required for a very limited number of our electives. A TS/SCI investigation will not be initiated just to qualify you for an elective that requires it. Check with your current security manager to see if your current clearance is expiring soon. If so, complete the required paperwork before you report to CGSC.
Please do not send any classified material here. We do not have classified storage capability. CGSC may actually have the documents you need in the Combined Arms Research Library. If you have any additional security clearance questions, call the AFELM Personnel Manager at DSN 552-3424 or COMM (913) 684-3424.
Parking at Lewis and Clark
Parking is limited at CGSC. There is student parking in the vicinity south of the Lewis and Clark Center. You must observe the posted signs and park only in authorized student parking areas. Do NOT park in an F-Tag designated parking area. We urge you to bicycle, motorcycle, car pool, or walk to help alleviate the parking challenge throughout the year. We take parking seriously. If the Military Police issue you or your family members three traffic tickets (to include warnings) on Fort Leavenworth (parking, speeding, failure to yield, etc.) in a 6-month period, you may lose your Fort Leavenworth driving privileges. Please observe the rules and discuss this matter with your family members who drive. Military sponsors are responsible for the actions of their family members. Additional information is provided during in processing.
AF Prep Course (INDOC)
The first few weeks after your arrival will be devoted to in-processing and preparing you to succeed in an Army environment and preparing you for academic success. You will spend some time "re-bluing" on Air Force Doctrine, current events in the service, and an overview of hot-button airpower issues in the joint community. During this period, you will also spend time getting to know your Air Force classmates and the other Air Force folks stationed here at Fort Leavenworth.
Helpful References
You will access the following publications throughout the school year. They contain the answers to the most frequently asked questions.
- CGSC Circular 350 1, Command and General Staff College Catalog, is linked at the CGSC Inbound Information site page. It addresses all academic offerings and requirements as well as providing detailed information on the CGSC curriculum. Information on the Advanced Applications Program (AAP) (electives), the Master of Military Art and Science (MMAS) Degree Program, and civilian university studies are published under separate cover and distributed after your arrival.
- CGSC Circular 350-5, The Command and General Staff Officer Course Student Handbook is scheduled to post to the BlackBoard. It covers general information, policies, conduct of instruction, library services, administrative matters, physical fitness, weight control, and athletics. It addresses academic offerings and requirements as well as providing detailed information on the CGSC curriculum, such as electives information, the Master of Military Art and Science (MMAS) Degree Program, and civilian university studies.
- There are required readings for the CGSC Common Core Curriculum and the Advanced Operations Course (AOC). Each student must have a copy of these publications for class. Most classes will have copies of required readings available at the Combined Arms Research Library. Any publications not available at CARL should be available in adequate quantities for purchase at the CGSC AAFES Bookstore. Students may purchase these books prior to in-processing.
Books that may be required for purchase and may not be available in CARL are:
- Common Core Curriculum:
Knox, MacGregor, and Williamson Murray. The Dynamics of Military Revolution, 1300–2050. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Paret, Peter (editor).
Makers of Modern Strategy. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1986. - Advanced Operations Course (AOC):
Murray, Williamson and Allan R. Millett. Military Innovation in the Interwar Period. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
Uniform Requirements
The utility uniform (BDU or flight suit) will be worn the majority of the time. Plan uniforms accordingly for Kansas winters which can be very cold and snowy. You will also need Service Dress, Mess Dress and PT gear. If you have flight gear and expect to fly again, don't turn it in.
The Fort Leavenworth PX and Military Clothing Sales do not carry very many Air Force uniform items. Stock up before you depart your duty station. The closest AF Clothing Sales is at Whiteman AFB, located two hours away. They can take telephone orders and mail via Fed-Ex. Another option is AAFES Military Clothing telephone and/or internet orders available at http://www.aafes.com.
Feel free to keep your uniform "as is" while here at school. Your current organizational patches are acceptable – in fact, they help people remember your background and areas of expertise.
Master's Degree
Unlike ACSC, CGSC does not grant a Master's Degree upon course completion. However, the school offers an optional Master of Military Art and Science Degree program that includes a thesis on a military topic of your choice. It also fills some of the school's elective requirements for graduation.
Additionally, there are a number of civilian graduate schools that cater master's programs to the CGSC population. There will be an opportunity during the prep course to learn about these various programs.
AFELM Contact Information:
Phone: Commercial: 913-684-3424, DSN: 552-3424
E-mail: The Air Force Element