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Here's a BIG kick in the pants for a Monday, courtesy of the Merry Marvel Marching Society. Okay, not really. it's actually a brand new mobile game on the way from the folks at DeNA and developer ngmoco. Their upcoming F2P game Marvel Mighty Heroes looks to bring fast-paced tactical co-op action to iOS and Android devices soon. That teaser video above should get you fans motivated enough to pre-register for the game, but I'll drop the press release below the jump if you need a tiny bit more convincing. Continue reading
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Toy Fair Sunday Musings, Too: May The Force Be With Few!
Thank you, Imperial Toy! One, for having one of the more surprisingly cool licensed items at the show (a huge Star Wars bubble machine shaped like R2-D2 that does exactly what it's supposed to do and makes everyone in the vicinity stop what they're doing and walk over to check it out). Its also surprisingly affordable. I'll post pics of R2 tomorrow, as I shot photos with another camera and (duh!) can't seem to find the USB cable (duh!)
Oh, and two, for giving me the nice silver-colored bubble lightsaber just for stopping by their booth to check out R2. Apparently, its one of only a thousand made for the show. Nice. Id love to have a blue one as well, but I don't mind waiting for the normal white sabers to hit retail and add one of those to the collection.
Funko Hikari Friday: Greedo, For The One Who Shoots First!
This week, Funko is giving ONE lucky winner a chance to win a really cool new Hikari Premium Vinyl figure. If you're looking at that picture below and grinning, that's even better because you're a fan of the original unadulterated version of Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope and know that Greedo didn't shoot first. Han put a hole-sized hole in him (Her? It?) before he got blasted and no amount of wonky CG reediting will change that. Yeah, we like our space rogues more rogue-like, grrr! Anyway, behold Original Greedo Hikari Premium Sofubi Figure (# 1 of 2000, no laser hole):
As usual, entering to win is a snap. Hit up one or all of Funko's social media sites:
Follow the rules (they're simple!), enter and hold your breath for a week until you're as blue as that alien collectible you're trying to win. If you're still breathing next week around Thursday or so, check your inbox and if you win, exhale and thank yourself for having some fantastic lung capacity. Good luck and make sure to pop back in for next week's giveaway!
Funko Makes Hikari Friday Twice as Marvel-ous!
So, Funko is back to a double giveaway week and let's see now… it's an all-Marvel freebie festival this time. Well, okay, it's only two figures, but you know you want them and would have a little festival if you did indeed win. Or one, actually. Anyway, here's what's up for grabs this Friday: You can walk away with #1 of 1500 of this Classic Deadpool Premium Hikari Sofubi Figure:
Or #1 of 1000 of this Entertainment Earth exclusive: Planet X Groot Premium Hikari Sofubi Figure:
As usual, entering is simple, as is winning should your entry be chosen. Just hit one of Funko's social sites:
Follow the instructions and that's that. Winners are contacted the following Thursday, so patience is a virtue. If you don't win and still want, you can buy Deadpool starting in March 2015 at a Funko retailer near you while Entertainment Earth will be shipping out Groot in January. As always, good luck and have a great weekend!
Holiday Gift Guide 2014: Have a SUPER Monday With These Heroic Gift Ideas…
Like it or not, you just can't get away from superhero-themed gifts anymore. Most of us creaky adults who grew up with a TV in the house can probably recall those holidays and other special occasions where we got our favorite caped or non-caped hero (or villain!) in a box as an action figure or printed on some sort of common object that was now even more special.
This has pretty much always been a successful business for companies jumping on the licensing bandwagon, but the sheer amount of retailers stocking these goods today is staggering. This of course is good for you as a consumer because loads of choice means plenty of retailers socking it out for your hard earned shekels. Anyway, here are another bunch of cool items to spend your loot on and sure, you can get me something if you feel like it!
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Star Wars: The Force Awakens Teaser: Turning the Internet Into Hype-Our-Space…
Well, color me interested, but not quite yet convinced. This teaser for Star Wars: The Force Awakened is too short, but it looks as if the effects teams have been hard at work with over a year to go. Or at least they've just done up scenes for this trailer that show they're on the case and not planning to blow it:
(Thanks, Star Wars UK!)
I have no questions as of yet other than wondering who's flying the Millennium Falcon in that short clip and why that yet to be revealed dark Jedi has the second most impractical lightsaber I've ever seen. But I can wait for that reveal in some other trailer. I'm gathering this one movie will have the most teasers and trailers released for it of anything coming in 2015 just because Disney wants to show that the Star Wars license is in good hands. I didn't think so when I heard the news and soon enough, saw Mickey ears on a Darth Vader helmet (wtf?) and I think Goofy dressed up as Darth as a plush doll (yikes!). But I'll pay less attention to the licensing on this film because there will be THOUSANDS of new products coming to rake in the dough from the rubes and all I want to see is a decent new film in this series.
December 2015 will be here sooner than you think, given the way time has flown this year. I may be too ancient to fall for marketing and merchandising tactics, but I'll see this if it's as entertaining as the original was. I'm also holding out for the trailer where J.J. has people jumping off something high, as next to lens flare overuse it's a trademark in all his films for some oddball reason. As usual, we shall see, right?
Marvel Studios Pretty Much Has You Covered on the Superhero Flick Front…
Yeah, it's like that now. Rather than cover that crazy and reveal-packed press conference from yesterday, I'll just drop dates and let you go get started on the line waiting, day-planning and other activities so you work AROUND these release dates which seem to be set in some sort of mystical stone. Yeah, it's going to be a really busy five years for all those actors, writers, directors and even busier pre- and post-production teams:
Avengers: Age of Ultron – May 1, 2015
Ant-Man – July 17, 2015
Captain America: Civil War – May 6, 2016
Doctor Strange – November 4, 2016
Guardians of the Galaxy 2 – May 5, 2017
Thor: Ragnarok – July 28, 2017
Black Panther – November 3, 2017
Avengers: Infinity War Part 1 – May 4, 2018
Captain Marvel – July 6, 2018
Inhumans – November 2, 2018
Avengers: Infinity War Part 2 – May 3, 2019
I'm not usually one to zip out to a theater on opening week, as I hate those crowds and their unpredictable antics, sticky seats and the usual screaming child who doesn't belong there that makes any movie stink. That said, I do like that there's a plan for all these films to tie in together somehow and be one big arc that takes these characters somewhere. Even if it's to places I don't normally venture. Yeah, they're all still comic book movies, but they're getting more watchable as time goes on and not less to some extent. I don't even want to know what that eventual box set of whatever will look like. Then again, I'd say there's going to be a division in how people get films by then, but no matter what, a segment of those fans WILL want something physical to hold in their hot little hands and pop into a player of some sort…
Guardians of the Galaxy Headed to Home Video in November and December. Talk About a Holiday "Surprise"!
I wish I were more of a betting man, as I predicted well before it was released Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy would be out for the holidays (as in Christmas) and yep, it's making it out earlier than that as in before Thanksgiving on Digital 3D and HD Digital (November 18) and before Christmas on 3D Blu-ray, Blu-ray, DVD and On-Demand (December 9!). This new normal of movies shooting out on disc and legal download so soon after being released still drives me somewhat batty, as it's almost not worth going to the movies because I prefer to see films in the comfort of my own home without worrying about nasty theater situations, screaming kids and now, Ebola (heh, I had to get that in because every news channel is screaming mad cow over this latest fear). Yaaaaaaah!
Er, anyway… I finally saw GotG in a pretty decent theater and a few kinks aside, in my opinion it's one of the better recent Marvel Studios movies. Granted, I prefer the stuffier more noble Star-Lord from his second Marvel Preview appearance (issue 11 with that wonderful Byrne/Austin artwork), but the kids like that newer snarkier model just fine and Chris Pratt did a stellar job as the character. Well, this one goes on the gift to me list at some point. Damn list is getting longer by the second, but I need to stock up on entertainment for the Ebola-free bunker, right?
Funko Does A Double Giveaway Today: Hikari Turtle and Guardians of the Galaxy Figures Up For Grabs!
Holy Swag, Batman! Oops, wrong comics company, but you'll forgive my transgression if you happen to enter this awesome Funko contest and win ALL THIS STUFF:
Technically, this contest isn't "free" to enter, as you need to have a ticket to see Guardians of the Galaxy in order to enter:
Post a picture with your Guardians of the Galaxy movie ticket and tag us on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram.
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Guardians of the Galaxy Clip Joint: What You See Isn't Even Close To What You'll Get…
So, some early reviews are in and all are stating this is not only one of the best movies this summer, but quite possibly the best Marvel movie to date. I figured all of those end credits scenes were adding up to something and from what I've read (and heard from someone who was at a screening), fans will be knocked off their feet a few times and then some.
One thing I figured that would work from the start with these films was having different directors with different styles working on different franchises similar to how different writers and artists work on the different comics. While there's a certain uniformity to elements of the look and continuity across each of the films since the first Iron Man, it's been fun to watch most of these movies and see how a particular director's vision works within the (Disney) Marvel Universe.
James Gunn seemed like the oddest choice to direct GotG at first, but his own offbeat sense of humor and musical tastes have spilled over into the film and works well to the point where he's probably going to be the go-to guy for the next film with this team… Continue reading


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"The smartest financial novel since The Bonfire of the Vanities, and the first with a fully drawn female heroine."--Frank Partnoy, bestselling author of F.I.A.S.C.O.: The Inside Story of a Wall Street Trader and Wait: The Art and Science of Delay
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A hard-living investment ...
"The smartest financial novel since The Bonfire of the Vanities, and the first with a fully drawn female heroine."--Frank Partnoy, bestselling author of F.I.A.S.C.O.: The Inside Story of a Wall Street Trader and Wait: The Art and Science of Delay
Longlisted for the Orange Prize
A hard-living investment banker has three days to decide her destiny in this thrilling novel.
It has been 182 days of vodka and insomnia since Geri Molloy got dumped. A twenty-eight-year-old investment banker with a rare knack for numbers, Geri counts the days since her breakup with the same determination that has made her serious capital on her firm's London trading floor. But it is January of 1991, and war in the Middle East is about to shake up the markets--and maybe also change the course of her career.
The firm's biggest client is Felix Mann, a reclusive hedge fund manager in Hong Kong, who will only talk to Geri. But Geri is being pushed to her breaking point, and several rivals are hungry for a seat at the table. When she finds herself caught up in a high-stakes takeover, Felix is game for the power play--but his price tag is Geri's future.
At once fiercely intelligent and utterly gripping, Aifric Campbell's On the Floor is a sharp-edged story about love and money, the cruel appraisals we make of one another, and what it really means for a woman to take control of her life.
"Even finance-phobic readers will find themselves drawn into the intrigue and high-stakes wheeling and dealing…. Campbell delivers a Back to the Future tour of a workplace long before Sheryl Sandberg was telling women how to lean in at the office." —The Washington Post
"On the Floor really finds its legs when Geri gets caught in the middle of [a] contentious takeover of a defense contractor, resulting in shifting loyalties and backstabbing intrigue. There's even an abduction thrown in to keep the pot boiling. It's much what you'd find in any Stephen Frey bestseller, and in truth, the guilty pleasures here come from embracing the utterly expected." —Sam Sacks, The Wall Street Journal
"So intelligent and well written… [A] deftly handled meditation on how we create value and what it means to be a person in a world always in flux… [Campbell's] stock is sure to rise in the years to come." —Mike Fischer, Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel
"The forces motivating Geri and her generation are the same ones that James Joyce—Campbell's compatriot and like her a former bank employee—identified almost a century before… [But] Campbell's real achievement here is her heroine's voice. Spirited, sardonic, wounded, [and] funny, Geri remains compelling… Campbell is a gifted storyteller, and possesses a rare insight into this secretive world." —Paul Murray, Slate Book Review
"On the Floor's appeal is broad....It's that rare work of fiction in which the financial world functions as more than a mere backdrop."—Hephzibah Anderson, Bloomberg
"[On The Floor] plunges straight into the financial world's heart of darkness." —Los Angeles Times
"The fast-paced narrative brings to life the London banking world of the go-go early Nineties, just before the quants took over, with unexpected consequences that would eventually result in the Great Recession… Campbell knows this world intimately, and she pushes the boat of plot out beyond predictability, while keeping her characters believable and engaging." —Women's Wear Daily.com
"Part of what makes Irish author Aifric Campbell's [On the Floor] work is her refusal to pity her characters… Her tough-talking, irreverent prose engenders an updated take on the Wall Street morality tale." —The Daily Beast
"Confident, engaging, and incredibly readable… Recalling Bonfire of the Vanities and Wall Street, On the Floor is a work that throws us lock, stock, and barrel into the world of high finance…. a fascinating read—sometimes terrifying, often witty, always engagingly written. Judging from this debut, you can bank on Ms. Campbell to produce wonderful results in the future." —New York Journal of Books
"Campbell knows the City and she writes like a demon…. An illuminating look at one woman as she tries to figure out what's really important." —Laurie Muchnick, Bloomberg
"Campbell, a former managing director at Morgan Stanley, punctures the seamy darkness of banking with acute observations… Geri's self-aware reenactment of Wall Street (a film the traders see as a 'reconfirmation that greed is good and lunch is for wimps') is a heart-pounding ride." —Publishers Weekly
"A riveting loss-of-innocence story sharply informed by the author's years as a manager on the London trading room floor." —Library Journal
"Move over, Lisbeth Salander! Geri Molloy is a captivating protagonist—-she might not have a dragon tattoo, but her story is riveting. On the Floor is the smartest financial novel since The Bonfire of the Vanities, and the first with a fully drawn female heroine. As someone who worked in the trenches of Wall Street during the 1990s, I can attest that the details are dead right. And I'm still cheering Geri on."—Frank Partnoy, bestselling author of F.I.A.S.C.O.: The Inside Story of a Wall Street Trader and Wait: The Art and Science of Delay
"Aifric Campbell knows her subjects intimately, and On the Floor reveals the secrets of high-stakes finance and her heroine's private lives. Geri Molloy aces her career with pluck and genius. A brilliant and hilarious novel."—Min Jin Lee, national bestselling author of Free Food for Millionaires
"In On the Floor, Aifric Campbell has created the perfect heroine in Geri Molloy: complicated, wildly talented, wary of others yet longing to connect, and haunted by demons both past and present as she navigates the high-flying financial world of the early 1990s. A hugely intelligent and fast-paced novel about what drives us, what fulfills us, and how to tell the difference."—Emily Rapp, author of The Still Point of the Turning World
"In On the Floor, Campbell's heroine becomes caught in a game of cat and mouse with a twisted mastermind, her career and soul at stake. She's a cross between Sherman McCoy and Bridget Jones."—John Coates, author of The Hour Between Dog and Wolf
"A sharp, knowing, and utterly gripping account of a young woman's hazardous voyage through the shark-infested waters of high finance, where the most profound emotions are often traded as insider information. In Geri Molloy, the author has created an unforgettable heroine, a damaged but resourceful woman struggling to retain her humanity in a world of secrets, lies, and greed. Aifric Campbell has brilliantly combined the best elements of the modern financial thriller and the nineteenth-century coming-of-age story to create a commanding work of fiction."—Stephen Amidon, author of Human Capital and Security
"Aifric Campbell's gripping novel is set in the tough world of the financial market and the high-octane trading floor, but it is about so much more than that. On the Floor is thrilling, morally searching, and beautifully written contemporary fiction, proof that the novel can be urgently relevant as well as utterly compelling."—Joseph O'Connor, author of Star of the Sea and Ghost Light
"On the Floor is a funny-yet-serious coming-of-age story about a young woman who finally grows up and takes control."—The Independent (London)
"Impressively constructed...A short, snappy, and ultrasmart drama."—Daily Mirror (London)
"A good, literary read…On the Floor is a wonderful look into the financial world of the nineties; a time before banking became ruled by scientists and geeks."—The Irish Examiner
"Enjoyable...Campbell knows this world well, so it all feels authentic."—Irish Sunday Times
"On the Floor is a riveting novel from a unique talent. Aifric Campbell effortlessly conjures the action and excitement of the trading room floor creating a novel that explores the consequences of risk taking and ultimately thrills from start to finish."—Irish Tatler
Posted August 18, 2013
I agree with the previous review. I am sorry i bought and read this book.
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Posted July 15, 2013
Don't waste the time or money. Complete crap. Meanders aimlessly with long winded pontification that is not nearly as clever as the author thinks it is.
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This novel, written by an author with substantial background in the securities industry, flits between the hard-nosed life of a floor trader with a unique talent, a female in the midst of macho men, and a lovelorn female, torn between living up to her talent and a yearning for an ex-lover. And she has to choose, by the end of the book, between capitalizing on her abilities and going off in some new direction.
Geri Molloy, 28 years old and with little or no training or education, lands a job on the trading floor in the London operation of a U.S. investment bank. She quickly becomes the largest producer and lands an enormous Hong Kong mutual fund manager as her main client. He wishes her to locate to Asia where he can interact with her. Presumably he is fascinated with her personality, and wishes to observe her more closely. Her dilemma is whether to make a new home in Hong Kong, remain in London hoping for reconciliation with her ex, or even use her mathematical talent to go off in a new direction as a quantitative analyst. Such is the plot.
There are times when the dialogue reflects the frenzy and excitement of the trading floor. But more often than not, the descriptions appear to be manufactured to fill the space in between the times that Geri gets drunk or feels sorry for herself. Too much of the novel seems formulaic, and it can't make up its mind what it wants to be when it grows up. But, after all, that's what Geri is all about as well.
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What grows in Zone 1b ?
I'm just curious what grows in Zone 1b. North 53 says he/she is in zone 1b.
Isn't that darn cold? Isn't gardening discouraging in that climate?
I live in interior Alaska- zone 1 and we have beautiful summers.. right now it's 80 degrees. You do have to wait to get your plants out.. I just planted the veggie garden yesterday, but once in the ground, with 20+ hours of sunlight, they grow really fast (right now, our sun is setting at around midnight and rising at 3:30am). The biggest problems I've found is that a lot of my favorite perennials are just annuals here and the moose are voracious plant munchers.. but I love the moose, so I'll forgive them, LOL (and put up a taller fence this year).
Hello Nutsaboutflowers...
Well... where to begin?... I can tell you it's not like Mars here... lol ... I live in the same area as North of 53...just a few miles south in fact... these last couple of springs have been later and colder than usual, but I think that has been the same for at least all of western Canada... we live surrounded by a boreal forest.. and have some of the most beautiful lakes in the world.. in fact just a few miles north of here is the third most bluest lake in the world...Clearwater Lake... many people have cottages there... as far as what plants grow here.. well.. it probably would be more like... what doesn't? That's a much shorter list.. lol.. I know palm trees and bananas won't make it through the winter, without ALOT of extra care.. lol... Gardening can be abit discouraging if trying to grow something from a Zone 5 to 8 or more but, if one tries to grow plants that are rated to Zone 4 or so, alot of the time they do actually come back, sometimes beyond that... microclimates actually do wonders...
I'll leave it at that for now and try and make up a list... though I know there will be alot of plants that I would probably miss, since I don't have a large enough yard to hold them all.. lol...
Sorry, Nutsaboutflowers, for not responding to your post. At the moment I am being discouraged about this cursed zone I live in.
This spring has been particularly miserable. Everything is well behind. Here we are at the end of May and we're still having temps near zero almost every night. I haven't transitioned any of my seedling outside yet. Yesterday while moving some perennials around I found that my compost is still frozen.
But to answer your question, lots of stuff grows here. I find that most perennials rated zone 3 will usually do quite well. We are lucky in that we usually have reliable snow cover for the winter, so that really helps.
Once we finally do get summer, it can be quite hot and dry. And as Marcia says, the extra long daylight hours help a lot also. In addition to what Rob says about boreal forest, I would add that to the west we also have a very fertile agricultural valley bordering the North Sask. river.
BTW, I am a she.
So now I'm somewhat versed in Zone 1b gardening =:) I didn't even think of the longer daylight hours, so that was pretty interesting.
North 53 - Your compost is still frozen? Good Grief ! We're in 2b or 3. I have a big compost pile and I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if it's still pretty cold in the middle. Our nighttime temps have been a little discouraging, but not as bad as yours. My lettuce doesn't seem to mind at all =:)


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Apr 3, 2013 Jay-Z's move into sports management adds to the rapper's business portfolio and help baseball.
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Mar 20, 2013 The teams to beat in the NCAA men's college basketball tournament are the University of Louisville and Indiana University. But in an economic sense, Louisville, Ky., and Bloomington, Ind., aren't the favorites.
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Housed in beautiful palace, with some frescoed halls, the Pinacoteca has a small collection, considering that it spans from XIV century to present times, however my family and I enjoyed many beautiful pieces, starting with the Neri di Bicci and the small Crivelli of the first hall, and ending with various Cagli (an Ancona native) and other modern and contemporary...
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The Baseball Show: How will Cabrera impact the Nats?
Aug 2, 2014, 12:40 PM EDT
This week's episode of 'The Baseball Show' was filmed right after the 2014 MLB trade deadline on Thursday, giving Mark a chance to analyze the Nats' trade for Asdrubal Cabrera, along with other deals made around the league.
In this first clip he looks at the potential impact of Cabrera in the Nats' lineup while Ryan Zimmerman is sidelined with a hamstring strain. The Nats are 3-6 since Zim went down, can Cabrera help carry the load on offense?
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In this second clip, I talk about the waiver trade deadline coming up at the end of August and Troy Tulowitzki attending a Yankees-Blue Jays game:
- lphboston - Aug 2, 2014 at 12:59 PM
Off topic, but thought Nats Nation might be interested in this:
Took in the Syrcuse game last night at Pawtucket, and there is some good news:
1. Emmanuel Burris can flat out hit. Kid hit the first pitch of the game about 360 for a home run, tripled down the RF line his second time up, walked and (batting right) late in the game hit a shot to 3b. He runs the bases like he's been doing it his whole life. Don't know if he can play 2B, but maybe .. . .
2. Souza could be the best player in the International League. He saved 3, maybe 4, runs with great catches — one in the RC gap going back and another in short center coming in. Gets great jumps. Hit the ball hard but at people.
3. Will Rhymes can hit. He's probably better than anyone on the Nats bench right now. Should get a long look in spring training in 2015.
All three should get called up on Sept. 1.
Bad news dept. Solano, Leon and Moore look like they need a fresh start somewhere else. Small sample, but they appear to have maxed out.
Mitch Lively might help somewhere down the road. Righthander who threw hard for 5 innings, then went off speed in the 6th and lost it. Maybe short relief
- ArVAFan - Aug 2, 2014 at 1:09 PM
Thank you. Nothing like first hand observations.
Do you think it's a stamina question for Solano, Leon & Moore at this part of their season, or are they just AAAA players at best who might (or might not) improve with a change of scenery?
- lphboston - Aug 2, 2014 at 1:50 PM
I've seen them for years. They look like they had tired bats. Pawtucket pitching was only so-so, and they couldn't hit any ball hard…Moore struck out twice in a row on the same pitch — slider away
- senators69 - Aug 2, 2014 at 5:31 PM
Back to the question: How will Cabrera impact the Nats?
My gut answer: A little positively, but not as much as hoped.
- #4 - Aug 2, 2014 at 1:42 PM
I hope you're right about Manny. Absolutely love the guy. Coached him in summer ball. The guy can absolutely fly and had some of the best base running instincts I've ever seen for a HS kid. Watching him terrorize HS age pitchers/catchers/infielders with his speed and decison making was a delight. It is interesting to see that he has developed a little bit of pop. His SLG this year is the highest he's ever posted. I'm rooting hard for him but…. I'm concerned he'll always be a AAAA player.
- lphboston - Aug 2, 2014 at 1:57 PM
Great baserunning instincts. Last night on second with no outs, batter hits liner to third baseman — Burriss got back to 2b with no throw.
- Ghost of Steve M. - Aug 2, 2014 at 2:33 PM
Here's the problem, Burris is not on the 40 man roster. Someone would have to come off to give him a chance.
In September he would be a pinch-runner and probably nothing else. Nats have both Eury Perez and Michael Taylor on the 40 man to pinch-run if they add him in September.
- Ghost of Steve M. - Aug 2, 2014 at 2:37 PM
This needs to happen more often. Only way to keep them fresh.
- Theophilus T.S. - Aug 2, 2014 at 2:42 PM
Even to come up in September one must be on the 40-man roster, n'est pas? So I don't think Burris is coming up. Period. He is the sort of player that used to populate the Phillies roster (e.g., Michael Martinez) so maybe this season gets him a ST invite from somebody. But I can't envision him ever hitting at the ML level.
- Ghost of Steve M. - Aug 2, 2014 at 3:21 PM
"Ghost of Steve M. – Aug 2, 2014 at 2:33 PM
Here's the problem, Burris is not on the 40 man roster. Someone would have to come off to give him a chance.
In September he would be a pinch-runner and probably nothing else. Nats have both Eury Perez and Michael Taylor on the 40 man to pinch-run if they add him in September."
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New freezer -- Energy Star vs. manual defrost?
I'm freezer shopping for a smallish upright to replace my tiny chest freezer. In general, it seems the ones under 14 cubic feet are not apt to be Energy Star rated. Now, I'm skeptical about those ratings to begin with. And I do not mind defrosting my freezer manually. Does anyone know, energy-wise, how a small manual defrost would compare to an Energy Star rated auto-defrost? I guess what I'm asking is, doesn't that defrost process run the electric bill up, in and of itself? The freezer will go in the garage which does get pretty warm in summer. I have my eye on a 14.1 Frigidaire model (LFFU1424DW) that is exclusive to Lowes, because it will fit my space nicely.
Thanks for any thoughts or guidance.
EnergyStar and energy usage rating are mainly to judge products against each other.
The ratings numbers are garnered in a lab scenario which rarely reflect real-world energy usage and cost.
For example, dishwashers (in the past, I've heard the testing procedure has been changed) were sometimes tested for EnergyStar on the automatic soil-sensor cycle with *clean* dishes.
Running your new freezer in a non-climate-controlled garage will use more energy (summer season) than running it in a kitchen or utility room inside the house. Of course, the waste heat of the compressor running isn't being added to the household air conditioning load, so there's that.
Buy whatever product fits your needs in terms of storage space and desired convenience features.
Also, where do you live, if you are in a cold climate and it goes below 50F in your garage you might have problems with the freezer in the colder months.
I am not sure on a freezer only unit, but you probably want to look in to that before you buy if you get cold at all. I know we have a new fridge/freezer combo with the defrost on the freezer and I had to buy a "Garage kit" which is essentially a heater to put on the defrost circuit. OTherwise my temps in my freezer go from 0F up to 20F and back down. It never frosts up, but it keeps doing that.
Read up before you decide just to be safe.
A freezer-only unit doesn't suffer the temp swings to the extent that a refrigerator/freezer does when run in an unheated environment.
The reason refrigerator/freezer units have that problem is because the thermostat is in the fresh food section and the target temp there is between 35ðF and 38ðF. The compressor runs until the fresh food section reaches the target temp and the freezer section basically gets as cold as it can. If the room temp is below 35ðF for an extended time then the fresh food section doesn't gain ambient heat to trigger the compressor, and the freezer temp may rise above freezing.
We are in NC and our current chest freezer seems to do okay. I have a temperature alarm set. It does need to have a little frost shaved off every six months or so, and a thorough defrost every 18 months, thereabouts. It is a good little freezer, but just too small.
Today, however, my new Elux refrigerator has gone on the fritz for the 4th time in 9 months. So I am going to turn my attention to that instead of fretting over a freezer. Sigh.
Sorry to hear about the the fridge and wish you luck with the replacement. Does North Carolina have a lemon law for appliances? If not, then, hopefully, the E-Lux warranty will get you replacement.
In case you go back to considering an upright freezer, I can give you my experience on electrical cost increase from going from a s small chest freezer to a larger self-defrosting upright. I replaced a 5 cu. ft. Whirlpool manual-defrost chest freezer with a 14 cu. ft. Frigidaire FFU14 upright (very similar to the Lowe's version you are considering). With a Kill-a-Watt meter, I figured out that my old chest freezer used around 270 kWh per year while the new upright has been using about 440 kWh. I figure the net extra cost per year for me has run a little under $20 per year. So, not much extra utility cost.
Of course, power consumption is partly a function of how full the freezer is and where you keep it. Mine is in the basement which holds a pretty steady at around 60F over the year. Placed the freezer in a garage that is hot for five or six months of the year, and keep it only half full, your cost could be a few dollars higher.
One thing about my FFU14 is that it's compressor and fans run frequently and make a fair amount of fan and motor noise. THe Energy Star implementation is abasically to use smaller fans and motors which use less power even though they run more frequently. Trouble is, those smaller components can be annoyingly noisy, at least on the Frigidaire version that I have. This probably will not be a problem with the freezer out in the garage in your case, but it is a problem for me with the freezer in my basement. Chest freezers are a good deal quieter,
Interesting numbers, JWV. And I did not know chest freezers were noisier so thanks for that tidbit. Our garage is pretty well insulated so hopefully we won't hear it. Oh, for the days when I had a basement. NC apparently does not believe in such things.
Anyhoo, the Frigidaire, I've learnt, doesn't have rollers so that kind of nixes it for me. I have to be able to move it and sweep behind it. My little chest just rolls around like a little red wagon. In fact, I begin to like it better and better, now I think on it. ;-) But it is one of those odd models with a "freezer drawer" underneath and it doesn't keep things too long down there. I have never seen another like it, so I assume there were issues with the design. On the other hand, you don't have to "go fish" at the bottom of the freezer.
Thanks again. Still waiting on my repairman. Sigh. If only Elux made fridges like they make wall ovens. THAT appliance is awesome.


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The proposed metrics "represent a new approach, which focuses on improving security, not just compliance," according to a statement posted on the National Institute of Standards and Technology's Web site. Requirements for FISMA compliance have been often criticized for being too focused on paperwork.
OMB asked that comments on the potential metrics be sent to email@example.com by Jan. 4, 2010.
In the OMB's report to Congress on agencies' FISMA implementation during fiscal 2008, OMB said it would review the security metrics agencies use to report their compliance with FISMA and it may develop new metrics to improve the assurance of information security.
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Activate! - Complete Set of Vol. 5 by Jeanette Morgan. For unison voices, Orff Instruments, boomwhackers, recorder. Christmas, General, H, Halloween, Multicultural, Patriotic, Thanksgiving. Published by Heritage Music Press (LO.AC2010). Grades K-6 - Activate your students to love music, learn by doing, and be excited about education with the many wonderful activities in these collections designed for educators working with elementary students. Featuring songs, lessons, and REPRODUCIBLE activities by leading music experts, such as Artie Almeida, Patricia Bourne, Mark Burrows, Eric Chappelle, Donna Dirksing, Doug Edwards, Denise Gagne, Greg Gilpin, Brian Hiller and Don Dupont, Jeff Kriske and Randy DeLelles, and Kate Kuper, "Activate!" is an all-you-need resource for the K-6 classroom teacher. Each compilation includes lesson plans and a CD with numerous complementary recordings. Cross-curricular opportunities are frequently provided, the National Standards for Music Education are always referenced, and all student pages are reproducible!
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How Marvelous Are the Works - P/A CD by David Angerman; Joseph Martin. Arranged by Joseph M. Martin. Sacred Anthem, Christ the King, Eastertide, General, Thanksgiving. Performance/accompaniment CD. Published by Lorenz Publishing Company (LO.99-2683L). In a lively spirit of celebration, this anthem sings of God's awe-inspiring works, for which we should give thanks. Varying textures and dynamics bring zest to the accessible vocal parts that build from beginning to end. Brant Adams's optional orchestral arrangement adds to the praiseful mood of this joyful piece. (From the cantata "Who Is This King?" SATB -- 55/1096L; SAB -- 55/1097L.).
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For the Fruit of all Creation by Alice Parker. For 2 Voice Equal or Mixed Choir, Assembly, and Keyboard accompaniment. Choral. Sacred, Thanksgiving. Easy. Choral Octavo. Text language: English. 8 pages. Published by GIA Publications (GI.G-6264). With Text language: English. Sacred, Thanksgiving.
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Mass of the Pilgrim Church: Lord, Have Mercy by John Foley. For 2 Violins, Viola, Cello. Published by OCP (OC.70051).
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We Gather Together by Hal H. Hopson. For 2-part choir with optional C instrument & bass (2-part). Thanksgiving. Sacred, Children, Thanksgiving. Print Music Single (2-part w/opt. C Inst. & Bass). Published by Hope Publishing Company (HP.HH3946).
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Prelude on "Nun Danket" by Judy Phillips. For handbells (3-5 octaves) / handchimes (3-5 octaves). General, Thanksgiving. Level 2+. Sheet music. Published by Lorenz Publishing Company (LO.20-1478L). Level 2+ - Flowing freely and cheerfully, Johann Cruger's robust tune is transformed into a refreshing, sprite-like dance in the form of a chorale prelude. If available, a zimbelstern makes a stunning addition to this selection.
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Sound His Praise - P/A CD by Melodie Tunney. Arranged by Mary Mcdonald. Sacred Anthem, General, Missions, Thanksgiving. Performance/accompaniment CD. Published by Lorenz Publishing Company (LO.99-2704L). Joyful and lively, this arrangement of "Sound His Praise" is energetic from start to finish. Rich harmonies permeate Mary McDonald's setting as skillfully written, accessible parts ride atop a rejoicing accompaniment. For a truly celebratory performance, be sure to add Mike Lawrence's stunning optional orchestration!
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Consider the Lilies by Natalie Sleeth. For unison choir and piano (with optional flute (violin)). Sacred Anthem: Epiphany, Thanksgiving. Octavo. Published by Chorister's Guild (LO.CGA195). This longtime, best-selling Choristers Guild anthem is perfect for any choir of mixed voices. The simple, two-part voicing is easy to learn and offers several opportunities for the men to sing the infectious, lilting melody. We are reminded that just as God cares for the lilies of the field and the birds of the air, even greater is God's care for us.
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Come, Sing Alleluia (Come, Christians, Join to Sing / All Creatures of Our God and King). Arranged by Lynn Shaw Bailey and Becki Slagle Mayo. Choir Sacred. 2-Part Choir; Unison Choir. Choral (Sacred); Choral Octavo; Worship Resources. Church Choral Series. Ascension; Children; Christ the King; Easter; Fall; Pentecost; Sacred; Spring; Thanksgiving. Grade 1. Choral Octavo. 8 pages. Published by Alfred Music Publishing (AP.27855). Enjoy this fun, rhythmic arrangement of the popular hymn, Come, Christians, Join to Sing, featuring All Creatures of Our God and King. Written for unison or 2-part voices, this flexible anthem is perfect for any size choir, children or adults, throughout the year.
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Activate! Oct/Nov 11. (Music, Movement and More! The Music Magazine for Grades K-6). By Jeanette Morgan. For Unison choir, Orff instrument(s). General, Halloween, Thanksgiving. Games & CD. Published by Heritage Music Press (LO.AC1011). Activate! is an all-you-need resource for the K-6 classroom teacher. Each jam-packed compilation includes: songs to help students discover their voices; opportunities to utilize classroom instruments, from the traditional to the creative; folk dances and other movement activities; and pencil-to-paper games and activities addressing a variety of music concepts. Lesson plans are provided and a CD with numerous complementary recordings is included in each book. You want more? Okay. The National Standards for Music Education are referenced and all student pages are reproducible!
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Merry Christmas, Happy Birthday . . . and Many More! (Easy Piano). Arranged by Dan Coates. For Piano. Book; Piano Collection; Piano Supplemental. Chanukah; Christmas; Fall; Halloween; Standard; Thanksgiving; Winter. Easy Piano. 168 pages. Published by Alfred Music Publishing (AP.37779). ISBN 073908271X. Chanukah; Christmas; Fall; Halloween; Standard; Thanksgiving; Winter. A top-notch holiday songbook with a unique PLUS! For life's big celebrations, keep this fun and practical collection at hand all year long. Featuring sheet music for over 60 songs associated with holidays around the calendar, including Christmas, Hanukkah, New Year's Day, St. Patrick's Day, Independence Day, plus birthdays, graduations, weddings, and much more, this handy, all-in-one volume lets music makers of all ages bring their talent to any party. It's perfect for families, community centers, schools, and entertainers. Titles: Amazing Grace * America (My Country 'Tis of Thee) * America, the Beautiful * Angels We Have Heard on High * Auld Lang Syne * Ave Maria * Away in a Manger * Battle Hymn of the Republic * Believe (from The Polar Express) * Bridal Chorus * Canon in D * Chanukah, Oh Chanukah * The Christmas Waltz * Cielito Lindo * Dance Little Bird (The Chicken Dance) * Danny Boy (Londonderry Air) * Deck the Halls * The First Noël * For He's a Jolly Good Fellow * Frosty the Snowman * Funeral March * Funeral March of a Marionette * Good King Wenceslas * Happy Birthday to You * Hark! The Herald Angels Sing * Havah Nagilah * Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas * Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me * I Have a Little Dreidel (The Dreidel Song) * I'll Be Home for Christmas * It Came upon the Midnight Clear * It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year * Jingle Bell Rock * Jingle Bells * Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! * The Little Drummer Boy * Love Is a Many Splendored Thing * Mexican Hat Dance * O Canada * O Christmas Tree (O Tannenbaum) * O Come, All Ye Faithful (Adeste Fideles) * O Come, O Come, Emmanuel * O Holy Night (Cantique de Noël) * O Little Town of Bethlehem * The Old Rugged Cross * Peter Cottontail * Pomp and Circumstance * Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town * Silent Night * The Star Spangled Banner * This Land Is Your Land * The Twelve Days of Christmas * Up on the Housetop * Valentine * We Three Kings of Orient Are * We Wish You a Merry Christmas *.
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American Thanksgiving by Carol Barnett. For SSAATTBB Chorus. Sacred. Set of 3 octavos. Published by Earthsongs (ES.S-204). Language/Country: English/United States. 1 copy each of item numbers S-204A, S-204B, & S-204C.
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All Good Gifts by Natalie Sleeth. For 2-part (any combination of voices). Sacred Anthem: General, Thanksgiving. Medium. Octavo. Published by Sacred Music Press (LO.S5784).
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Thanksgiving Medley (Brass Quintet) by Lennie Niehaus. For brass quintet. Grade 5. Score and set of parts. Published by TRN Music Publisher (TU.SETHA2).
Instruments: Horn, B-Flat Trumpet, Trombone, Tuba, Brass, Trumpet
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Thanks to God for My Redeemer arranged by Larry Shackley. For SATB choir with optional flute. Hymntune/Thanksgiving. Sacred, Comfort, Encouragement, Thanksgiving & Gratitude, Hymntune, Thanksgiving. Choral octavo. 12 pages. Published by Hope Publishing Company (HP.C5532). This beloved Swedish hymn receives a fresh look from arranger Larry Shackley in this lush setting for SATB choir. The flowing accompaniment underscores the beauty of the folk-like melody, while the flute obbligato weaves around the choral parts. Useful for Thanksgiving, this text presents a realistic view, thanking God for the bad times as well as the good, for pain as well as for pleasure, because of our eternal hope through Christ. The reproducible flute part is included in the anthem.
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Genres: Christian, Thanksgiving, Religious, Celebrations
Short & Sweet Thanksgiving (Level 1 -- 6 Fun to Play Solos). Arranged by Wesley Schaum. For Piano. Book; Piano - Schaum Method Supplement; Piano Supplemental; Solo. Schaum Publications. Children. Elementary. 12 pages. Published by Alfred Music Publishing (AP.44-1743). ISBN 1936098997. Children. With this versatile and economical new series, students will have fun playing easy arrangements of these 6 seasonal solos. The smart choices and short length (10 pages of music) creates an attractive and practical supplement. The music is carefully arranged to make pieces easily attainable while helping to motivate and sustain student interest. The 6 fun to play solos include: * Harvest Song (Swing the Shining Sickle) * On the First Thanksgiving Day * Over the River and Through the Wood * Perky Turkey * Thanksgiving Parade * We Gather Together.
Pages: 12
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(Thanksgiving and Praise). Arranged by Jan Sanborn. For Piano. Piano Collection; Piano Supplemental. Sacred Performer Collections. Fall; Hymn; Sacred; Thanksgiving. Advanced. Book & CD. 48 pages. Published by Alfred Music Publishing
Pages: 48
Instruments: Piano, Piano and Keyboard
Genres: Thanksgiving, Celebrations
Consider the Lilies by Natalie Sleeth. Arranged by Jane Marshall. For 2-part mixed choir and piano (with optional flute (violin)). Mixed Voices Series. Sacred Anthem: Epiphany, Thanksgiving. Octavo. Published by Chorister's Guild (LO.CGA738). This longtime, best-selling Choristers Guild anthem is perfect for any choir of mixed voices. The simple, two-part voicing is easy to learn and offers several opportunities for the men to sing the infectious, lilting melody. We are reminded that just as God cares for the lilies of the field and the birds of the air, even greater is God's care for us.
Instruments: Choir, Voice, Piano Accompaniment, Flute, Violin, Vocal, Piano, Piano and Keyboard, Woodwinds, Strings
Genres: Thanksgiving, Celebrations
A Time for All Things - Perf/Accomp CD by Douglas E. Wagner. Sacred Anthem: General, Stewardship, Thanksgiving. Performance & Accompaniment CD. Published by Lorenz Publishing Company (LO.99-2311L). This perennial best-selling anthem is now available in a new voicing. The newly created optional handbell or handchime part provides an additional fresh dimension to this delightful anthem. The blend of a timeless scriptural text ("For everything there is a season . . . ") with this beloved Scottish melody results in an anthem that will be requested frequently by all who hear and sing it.
Genres: Thanksgiving, Celebrations
Thanksgiving Scene (Medley of Four Hymns). By Traditional. Arranged by Patricia Craig. For Piano. Piano - Schaum Method Supplement (Sheet); Solo. Schaum Publications. Fall; Thanksgiving. Late Elementary. Sheet. Published by Alfred Music Publishing (AP.44-5512).
Instruments: Piano, Piano and Keyboard
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Give Thanks - P/A CD by Henry Smith. Arranged by Lloyd Larson. Sacred Anthem, Lent, Thanksgiving. Performance/accompaniment CD. Published by Lorenz Publishing Company (LO.99-2698L). "Give thanks with a grateful heart, give thanks to the Holy One." This humble message of gratitude is portrayed superbly in Lloyd Larson's arrangement of this Henry Smith song. Building in intensity before a reflective close, the lyric vocal lines are supported by a flowing accompaniment that includes an optional rhythm score.
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Arranged by Craig Curry. Choir Sacred. SATB choir. Choral (Sacred); Choral Octavo; Worship Resources. Fall; Sacred; Thanksgiving. Grade 4. Choral Octavo. 12 pages. Published by Alfred Music Publishing
Pages: 12
Instruments: Choir, Vocal
Genres: Thanksgiving, Celebrations
Give Thanks by Henry Smith. Arranged by Lloyd Larson. For handbells (3-5 octaves) / handchimes (3-5 octaves). General, Thanksgiving, Sacred. Level 2+. Sheet music. Published by Lorenz Publishing Company (LO.20-1547L). Level 2+ - A gentle, undulating rhythmic pattern begins this well-crafted Contemporary Christian standard. Scored in F major throughout, only a few bell/chime changes are necessary, and most of those are concentrated at the end of the arrangement.
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XSEED has confirmed Ragnarok Odyssey Ace's launch day DLC. The following items will be available on April 1:
Free to owners of the original "Ragnarok Odyssey" and $0.99 for others
– Archer's Apple
– Bunny Hair Band
– Floppy Cat
– Gunslinger
– Majestic Horns
– Ninja
– Taekwon Kid
Free for two months, then priced at $0.99
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Free for two months, then priced at $2.99
– Gorgeous Headwear
– Grandia Set (includes Justin and Feena's armor and hair pieces, as well as five music tracks from Grandia)
* Ragnarok Odyssey ACE will include "Justin's Goggles" and "Feena's hair accessories" free via patch update. All other content can be accessed through the PlayStation Store
– Ragnarok Odyssey Collection (includes 10 armor items and 115 tracks from the original Ragnarok Odyssey)
– Ragnarok Online BGM Arrange Collection (includes 14 tracks from the original Ragnarok Odyssey)
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Bills would let schools start before labor day
Lawmakers from across Virginia are pushing a half-dozen bills this legislative session to let public schools start classes before Labor Day.
Delegate Kaye Kory, D-Falls Church, is among legislators sponsoring bills to repeal Virginia's "King's Dominion law," which prevents local schools from opening before Labor Day unless they get special permission from the state.
Kory's proposal, House Bill 1491, "makes local school boards responsible for setting the school calendar and determining the opening day of the school year."
Currently, school boards can start classes before Labor Day only if they show "good cause" (such as a history of snow-related school closings) and get a waiver from the Virginia Department of Education.
Kory, who has been a PTA leader in Northern Virginia and a member of the Fairfax County School Board, said schools should have the power to set their academic calendars.
"There are a lot of options and program decisions that school systems cannot take advantage of if they are forced to wait until after Labor Day to start their school year," she said.
Schools must wait because of a law passed by the General Assembly in 1986. Nicknamed the "King's Dominion law," after the theme park in Hanover County, it was intended to help Virginia's tourism industry.
Critics say the "King's Dominion law" puts Virginia students at a disadvantage. For example, they might not have as much class time as students in other states to prepare for college entrance exams and other standardized tests.
There have been repeated attempts to repeal the current restrictions and give school boards the option of holding classes before Labor Day. Last year, the General Assembly considered 13 bills to empower school divisions to choose their own opening dates – an idea backed by Gov. Bob McDonnell. However, none of the bills passed.
Kory hopes the outcome will be different this year.
HB 1491 would not affect school division budgets because it would not change the number of class days or the length of the school day.
Kory says it's unfair for the state to dictate how local school boards must set their school calendars.
"In the state Constitution, school boards are described as the elected body that is responsible for all aspects of the K-12 public school system. It's a little inconsistent for the state to decide that one of the few powers that the state has chosen to take away from the locally elected school boards is when you can start school," Kory said.
Kory is sponsoring several other education-related bills. They include HB 1894, which would forbid schools from starting instruction and other academic activities before 8 a.m.
Bills to rescind 'King's Dominion Law'
Six bills have been filed in the House to let school boards start classes before Labor Day. All of the bills have been assigned to the Teachers and Administrative Action Subcommittee of the House Education Committee. The bills are:
• House Bill 1309, by Delegate Barbara Comstock, D-McLean
• HB 1310, by Delegate Gregory Habeeb, R-Salem
• HB 1319, by Delegate Donald Merricks, R-Chatham. (His bill would apply only to Danville, Martinsville, Henry County and Pittsylvania County.)
• HB 1467, by Delegate Thomas "Tag" Greason, R-Lansdowne
• HB 1491, by Delegate Kaye Kory, D-Falls Church
• HB 1880, Delegate Joseph Morrissey, D-Highland Springs
In the Senate, Sen. Ralph Smith, R-Roanoke, also has filed a measure to let school boards decide whether to open before Labor Day. His proposal, Senate Bill 1099, has been referred to the Senate Education and Health Committee.
Local couple wins wedding at Lewis Ginter
Richmonders Jim Morgan and Dan Stackhouse were married at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden in Lakeside Mar. 7 month after winning the Say I Do! With OutRVA wedding contest in February. The contest was open to LGBT couples in recognition of Virginia's marriage equality law, which took effect last fall. The wedding included a package valued at $25,000.
Morgan and Stackhouse, who became engaged last fall on the day marriage equality became the law in Virginia, have been together for 16 years. They were selected from among 40 couples who registered for the contest. The winners were announced at the Say I Do! Dessert Soiree at the Renaissance in Richmond in February. > Read more.
Fourth-annual Healy Gala planned
The Fourth Annual Healy Gala will be held Saturday, Apr. 11, at The Cultural Arts Center at Glen Allen from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m.
The event was created to honor Michael Healy, a local businessman and community leader who died suddenly in June 2011, and to endow the Mike Healy Scholarship (through the Glen Allen Ruritan Club), which benefits students of Glen Allen High School.
Healy served as the chairman of Glen Allen Day for several years and helped raise thousands of dollars for local charities and organizations. > Read more.
Ruritan Club holding Brunswick stew sale
The Richmond Battlefield Ruritan Club is holding a Brunswick stew sale, with orders accepted through March 13 and pick-up available March 14. The cost is $8 per quart.
Pick-up will be at noon, March 14, at the Richmond Heights Civic Center, 7440 Wilton Road in Varina.
To place an order, call Mike at (804) 795- 7327 or Jim at (804) 795-9116. > Read more.
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Two events this weekend benefit man's best friend – a rabies clinic, sponsored by the Glendale Ruritan Club, and an American Red Cross Canine First Aid & CPR workshop at Alpha Dog Club. The fifth annual Shelby Rocks "Cancer is a Drag" Womanless Pageant will benefit the American Cancer Society and a spaghetti luncheon on Sunday will benefit the Eastern Henrico Ruritan Club. Twin Hickory Library will also host a used book sale this weekend with proceeds benefiting The Friends of the Twin Hickory Library. For all our top picks this weekend, click here! > Read more.
A taste of Japan
Ichiban offers rich Asian flavors, but portions lack
In a spot that could be easily overlooked is a surprising, and delicious, Japanese restaurant. In a tiny nook in the shops at the corner of Ridgefield Parkway and Pump Road sits a welcoming, warm and comfortable Asian restaurant called Ichiban, which means "the best."
The restaurant, tucked between a couple others in the Gleneagles Shopping Center, was so quiet and dark that it was difficult to tell if it was open at 6:30 p.m. on a Monday. When I opened the door, I smiled when I looked inside. > Read more.
One beauty of a charmer
Disney's no-frills, live-action 'Cinderella' delights
Cinderella is the latest from Disney's new moviemaking battle plan: producing live-action adaptations of all their older classics. Which is a plan that's had questionable results in the past.
Alice in Wonderland bloated with more Tim Burton goth-pop than the inside of a Hot Topic. Maleficent was a step in the right direction, but the movie couldn't decide if Maleficent should be a hero or a villain (even if she should obviously be a villain) and muddled itself into mediocrity.
Cinderella is much better. Primarily, because it's just Cinderella. No radical rebooting. No Tim Burton dreck. It's the 1950 Disney masterpiece, transposed into live action and left almost entirely untouched. > Read more.
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Last month, Open Letter published its first work of poetry in translation:1 Andrzej Sosnowski's Lodgings, translated from the Polish by Benjamin Paloff. It recently received a very nice review by E. C. Belli in Words Without Borders:
With Lodgings, translator Benjamin Paloff has made an important contribution to the body of Polish poetry currently available to readers in English. Complete with a translator's note, a conversation between Sosnowski and Paloff, and poems that span Sosnowski's entire career to date (1987-2010), Lodgings offers an unusual glimpse into a polyphonous, expansive, and chameleonic strain of Polish poetry. The poems included are pulled from nine of Sosnowski's collections (including Life in Korea, A Season in Hel, Lodgings, and the most recent poemas), and they are presented, with two exceptions, in their original order.
In an interview that appeared in the Chicago Review in 2000, Polish poet and translator Piotr Sommer called Sosnowski "maybe the single most exciting younger Polish poet" for "breathtaking and very innovative" work that displays a "rich cross-fertilization of influences." Sommer also explains that the New York School poets and OULIPO were "an important part of [Sosnowski's] literary tradition and reading experience." And indeed, what American readers of Lodgings will find is a poet openly in conversation with myriad writers—French ones, such as Mallarmé, and Roussell, but more importantly with Frank O'Hara, John Ashbery, John Berryman, James Schuyler, and Elizabeth Bishop. [. . .]
It is a daunting task to carry over into English Sosnowski's language, which is a language marked by abrupt shifts in register and suggests an obsessive and ongoing rumination on various literary influences. Paloff has rendered a superb, tonally consistent volume, and has effectively stretched the barriers of his own language.
So, to celebrate this release—and excellent review—we're giving away 5 copies to the people who "Like" us on Facebook. To enter yourself in this drawing, simply click here and either "Like" or comment on the post about giving away copies of Lodgings . . .
(And let this serve as a very soft sell for Wednesday's RTWCS event featuring Piotr Sommer and Bill Martin, who will be discussing Polish poetry in translation. More info tomorrow.)
1 We are planning on doing one work of poetry every year. Next up: The Smoke of Distant Fires by Eduardo Chirinos, translated from the Spanish by G. J. Racz.
As some people have noticed, our new Winter 2010 catalog is now available and listed on the Open Letter website..
Totally biased, but I think this is one of our strongest seasons yet, what with Zone, the new Bragi Olafsson novel, the first of a million or so Juan Jose Saer books (one of my absolute favorites! If you can't wait for our book, check out The Event from Serpent's Tail—absolutely incredible), and our first poetry title . . . You can download a pdf of the catalog by clicking the link above, but here are links to each of the books, along with their respective copy:
The Sixty-Five Years of Washington by Juan Jose Saer. Translated from the Spanish by Steve Dolph (Argentina)
It's October 1960, say, or 1961, in a seaside Argentinian city named Santa Fe, and The Mathematician—wealthy, elegant, educated, dressed from head to toe in white—is just back from a grand tour of Europe. He's on his way to drop off a press release about the trip to the papers when he runs into Ángel Leto, a relative newcomer to Rosario who does some accounting, but who this morning has decided to wander the town rather than go to work.
One day soon, The Mathematician will disappear into exile after his wife's assassination, and Leto will vanish into the guerrilla underground, clutching his suicide pill like a talisman. But for now, they settle into a long conversation about the events of Washington Noriega's sixty-fifth birthday—a party neither of them attended.
Saer's The Sixty-Five Years of Washington is simultaneously a brilliant comedy about memory, narrative, time, and death and a moving narrative about the lost generations of an Argentina that was perpetually on the verge of collapse.
Zone by Mathias Enard. Translated from the French by Charlotte Mandell. (France)
Francis Servain Mirkovic, a French-born Croat who has been working for the French Intelligence Services for fifteen years, is traveling by train from Milan to Rome. He's carrying a briefcase whose contents he's selling to a representative from the Vatican; the briefcase contains a wealth of information about the violent history of the Zone—the lands of the Mediterranean basin, Spain, Algeria, Lebanon, Italy, that have become Mirkovic's specialty.
Over the course of a single night, Mirkovic visits the sites of these tragedies in his memory and recalls the damage that his own participation in that violence—as a soldier fighting for Croatia during the Balkan Wars—has wreaked in his own life. Mirkovic hopes that this night will be his last in the Zone, that this journey will expiate his sins, and that he can disappear with Sashka, the only woman he hasn't abandoned, forever . . .
One of the truly original books of the decade—and written as a single, hypnotic, propulsive, physically irresistible sentence—Mathias Énard's Zone provides an extraordinary and panoramic view of the turmoil that has long deviled the shores of the Mediterranean.
The Selected Stories of Merce Rodoreda. Translated from the Catalan by Martha Tennent. (Catalonia)
Collected here are thirty-one of Mercè Rodoreda's most moving and challenging stories, presented in chronological order of their publication from three of Rodoreda's most beloved short story collections: Twenty-Two Stories, It Seemed Like Silk and Other Stories, and My Christina and Other Stories. These stories capture Rodoreda's full range of expression, from quiet literary realism to fragmentary impressionism to dark symbolism. Few writers have captured so clearly, or explored so deeply, the lives of women who are stuck somewhere between senseless modernity and suffocating tradition—Rodoreda's "women are notable for their almost pathological lack of volition, but also for their acute sensitivity, a nearly painful awareness of beauty" (Natasha Wimmer).
The Ambassador by Bragi Olafsson. Translated from the Icelandic by Lytton Smith. (Iceland)
Sturla Jón Jónsson, the fifty-something building superintendent and sometimes poet, has been invited to a poetry festival in Vilnius, Lithuania, appointed, as he sees it, as the official representative of the people of Iceland to the field of poetry. His latest poetry collection, published on the eve of his trip to Vilnius, is about to cause some controversy in his home country—Sturla is publicly accused of having stolen the poems from his long-dead cousin, Jónas.
Then there's Sturla's new overcoat, the first expensive item of clothing he has ever purchased, which causes him no end of trouble. And the article he wrote for a literary journal, which points out the stupidity of literary festivals and declares the end of his career as a poet. Sturla has a lot to deal with, and that's not counting his estranged wife and their five children, nor the increasingly bizarre experiences and characters he's forced to confront at the festival in Vilnius . . .
Bragi Ólafsson's The Ambassador is a quirky novel that's filled with insightful and wry observations about aging, family, love, and the mysteries of the hazelnut.
Lodgings by Andrzej Sosnowski. Translated from the Polish by Benjamin Paloff. (Poland)
Lodgings is the first representative selection of Sosnowski's work available in English. Spanning his entire career, from the publication of Life in Korea in 1992 to his newest poems, this is a book whose approach to language, literature, and the representation of experience is simultaneously resonant and strange—a cocktail party where lowlifes and sophisticates hobnob with French theorists and British glam rockers, unsettling us with the hard accuracy of their pronouncements.
One of the foremost Polish poets of his generation, Andrzej Sosnowski's work demonstrates a dazzling range of influences and echoes, from Ronald Firbank and Raymond Roussel to John Ashbery and Elizabeth Bishop. Also an influential editor and critic, he has received most of the literary honors available to poets in Poland, including the prestigious Silesius Prize.
Pedro Zarraluki's The History of Silence (trans. Nick Caistor and Lorenza García) begins with the narrator and his wife, Irene, setting out to write a book about silence, itself called The History of Silence: "This is the story of how. . .
There are plenty of reasons you can fail to find the rhythm of a book. Sometimes it's a matter of discarding initial assumptions or impressions, sometimes of resetting oneself. Zigmunds Skujiņš's Flesh-Coloured Dominoes was a defining experience in the necessity. . .
In a culture that privileges prose, reviewing poetry is fairly pointless. And I've long since stopped caring about what the world reads and dropped the crusade to get Americans to read more poems. Part of the fault, as I've suggested. . .
I would like to pose the argument that it is rare for one to ever come across a truly passive protagonist in a novel. The protagonist (perhaps) of Three Light-Years, Claudio Viberti, is just that—a shy internist who lives in. . .
The last five days of the eleventh-century Icelandic politician, writer of sagas, and famous murder victim Snorri Sturleleson (the Norwegian spelling, Snorre, is preserved in the book) make up Thorvald Steen's most recently translated historical fiction, The Little Horse. Murdered. . .
We all know Paris, or at least we think we know it. The Eiffel Tower. The Latin Quarter. The Champs-Élysées. The touristy stuff. In Dominique Fabre's novel, Guys Like Me, we're shown a different side of Paris: a gray, decaying. . .
One hundred pages into Birth of a Bridge, the prize-winning novel from French writer Maylis de Kerangal, the narrator describes how starting in November, birds come to nest in the wetlands of the fictional city of Coca, California, for three. . .


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