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1. Exodus: Gods and Kings (2014)
PG-13 | 150 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
The defiant leader Moses rises up against the Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses, setting 600,000 slaves on a monumental journey of escape from Egypt and its terrifying cycle of deadly plagues.
Writers: Adam Cooper, Bill Collage, Jeffrey Caine, Steven Zaillian | Director: Ridley Scott | Stars: Christian Bale, Joel Edgerton, Ben Kingsley, Sigourney Weaver
2. Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb (2014)
PG | 98 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
Larry spans the globe, uniting favorite and new characters while embarking on an epic quest to save the magic before it is gone forever.
Writers: David Guion, Michael Handelman, Mark Friedman, Thomas Lennon, Robert Ben Garant | Director: Shawn Levy | Stars: Ben Stiller, Robin Williams, Owen Wilson, Dick Van Dyke
3. The Sopranos (1999–2007)
TV-MA | 55 min | Crime, Drama
New Jersey mob boss, Tony Soprano, deals with personal and professional issues in his home and business life.
Creator: David Chase | Stars: James Gandolfini, Lorraine Bracco, Edie Falco, Michael Imperioli
4. Robot Overlords (2014)
90 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Earth has been conquered by robots from a distant galaxy. survivors are confined to their houses and must wear electronic implants, risking incineration by robot sentries if they venture outside.
Writers: Mark Stay, Jon Wright | Director: Jon Wright | Stars: Gillian Anderson, Ben Kingsley, Callan McAuliffe, Geraldine James
5. Schindler's List (1993)
R | 195 min | Biography, Drama, History
In Poland during World War II, Oskar Schindler gradually becomes concerned for his Jewish workforce after witnessing their persecution by the Nazis.
Writers: Thomas Keneally, Steven Zaillian | Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes, Ben Kingsley, Caroline Goodall
6. Iron Man 3 (2013)
PG-13 | 130 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
When Tony Stark's world is torn apart by a formidable terrorist called the Mandarin, he starts an odyssey of rebuilding and retribution.
Writers: Drew Pearce, Shane Black, Stan Lee, Don Heck, Larry Lieber, Jack Kirby, Warren Ellis, Adi Granov | Director: Shane Black | Stars: Robert Downey Jr., Guy Pearce, Gwyneth Paltrow, Don Cheadle
7. Self/less (2015)
PG-13 | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller | Completed
An extremely wealthy man, dying from cancer, undergoes a radical medical procedure that transfers his consciousness into the body of a healthy young man. But all is not as it seems when he ... See full summary »
Writers: David Pastor, Àlex Pastor | Director: Tarsem Singh | Stars: Ryan Reynolds, Matthew Goode, Michelle Dockery, Natalie Martinez
8. Knight of Cups (2015)
R | 118 min | Drama, Romance
A screenwriter living in LA tries to make sense of the strange events occurring around him.
Writer: Terrence Malick | Director: Terrence Malick | Stars: Cate Blanchett, Christian Bale, Natalie Portman, Imogen Poots
9. Shutter Island (2010)
R | 138 min | Mystery, Thriller
In 1954, U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels is investigating the disappearance of a murderess who escaped from a hospital for the criminally insane and is presumed to be hiding near-by.
Writers: Laeta Kalogridis, Dennis Lehane | Director: Martin Scorsese | Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Emily Mortimer, Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley
10. The Boxtrolls (2014)
PG | 96 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
A young orphaned boy raised by underground cave-dwelling trash collectors tries to save his friends from an evil exterminator. Based on the children's novel 'Here Be Monsters' by Alan Snow.
Writers: Irena Brignull, Phil Dale, Adam Pava, Alan Snow, Anthony Stacchi | Directors: Graham Annable, Anthony Stacchi | Stars: Ben Kingsley, Jared Harris, Nick Frost, Richard Ayoade
11. Ender's Game (2013)
PG-13 | 114 min | Action, Sci-Fi
Young Ender Wiggin is recruited by the International Military to lead the fight against the Formics, a genocidal alien race which nearly annihilated the human race in a previous invasion.
Writers: Gavin Hood, Orson Scott Card | Director: Gavin Hood | Stars: Harrison Ford, Asa Butterfield, Hailee Steinfeld, Abigail Breslin
12. Stonehearst Asylum (2014)
PG-13 | 112 min | Thriller
A recent medical school grad who takes a position at a mental institution soon finds himself taken with one of his colleagues -- though he has no initial idea of a recent, horrifying staffing change.
Writers: Joe Gangemi, Edgar Allan Poe | Director: Brad Anderson | Stars: Kate Beckinsale, Jim Sturgess, David Thewlis, Brendan Gleeson
13. A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)
PG-13 | 146 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
A highly advanced robotic boy longs to become "real" so that he can regain the love of his human mother.
Writers: Brian Aldiss, Ian Watson, Steven Spielberg | Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Haley Joel Osment, Jude Law, Frances O'Connor, Sam Robards
14. Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2010)
PG-13 | 116 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
A young fugitive prince and princess must stop a villain who unknowingly threatens to destroy the world with a special dagger that enables the magic sand inside to reverse time.
Writers: Boaz Yakin, Doug Miro, Carlo Bernard, Jordan Mechner | Director: Mike Newell | Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Gemma Arterton, Ben Kingsley, Alfred Molina
15. Hugo (2011)
PG | 126 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
Set in 1930s Paris, an orphan who lives in the walls of a train station is wrapped up in a mystery involving his late father and an automaton.
Writers: John Logan, Brian Selznick | Director: Martin Scorsese | Stars: Asa Butterfield, Chloë Grace Moretz, Christopher Lee, Ben Kingsley
16. The Dictator (2012)
R | 83 min | Comedy
The heroic story of a dictator who risks his life to ensure that democracy would never come to the country he so lovingly oppressed.
Writers: Sacha Baron Cohen, Alec Berg, David Mandel, Jeff Schaffer | Director: Larry Charles | Stars: Sacha Baron Cohen, Anna Faris, John C. Reilly, Ben Kingsley
17. The Walk (II) (2015)
100 min | Adventure, Thriller | Post-production
The story of French high-wire artist Philippe Petit's attempt to cross the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in 1974.
Writers: Robert Zemeckis, Christopher Browne, Philippe Petit | Director: Robert Zemeckis | Stars: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ben Kingsley, Charlotte Le Bon, James Badge Dale
18. The Jungle Book (2016)
Adventure, Drama, Fantasy | Filming
An orphan boy is raised in the jungle with the help of a pack of wolves, a bear, and a black panther.
Writers: Rudyard Kipling, Justin Marks | Director: Jon Favreau | Stars: Scarlett Johansson, Idris Elba, Bill Murray, Ben Kingsley
19. Garfunkel and Oates (2014– )
23 min | Comedy
Garfunkel and Oates stars Riki Lindhome and Kate Micucci as both themselves and their musical comedy alter-egos, "Garfunkel and Oates," following the pair as they try to expand the reaches ... See full summary »
Creators: Riki Lindhome, Kate Micucci | Stars: Riki Lindhome, Kate Micucci, Mike Phirman, Artemis Pebdani
20. Gandhi (1982)
PG | 191 min | Biography, Drama, History
The life of the lawyer who became the famed leader of the Indian revolts against the British rule through his philosophy of nonviolent protest.
Writer: John Briley | Director: Richard Attenborough | Stars: Ben Kingsley, John Gielgud, Candice Bergen, Edward Fox
21. The Physician (2013)
R | 150 min | Adventure, Drama
In Persia in the 11th Century, a surgeon's apprentice disguises himself as a Jew to study at a school that does not admit Christians.
Writers: Jan Berger, Noah Gordon | Director: Philipp Stölzl | Stars: Tom Payne, Stellan Skarsgård, Olivier Martinez, Emma Rigby
22. Lucky Number Slevin (2006)
R | 110 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A case of mistaken identity lands Slevin into the middle of a war being plotted by two of the city's most rival crime bosses: The Rabbi and The Boss. Slevin is under constant surveillance by relentless Detective Brikowski as well as the infamous assassin Goodkat and finds himself having to hatch his own ingenious plot to get them before they get him.
Writer: Jason Smilovic | Director: Paul McGuigan | Stars: Josh Hartnett, Ben Kingsley, Morgan Freeman, Lucy Liu
23. Margin Call (2011)
R | 107 min | Drama, Thriller
Follows the key people at an investment bank, over a 24-hour period, during the early stages of the financial crisis.
Writer: J.C. Chandor | Director: J.C. Chandor | Stars: Zachary Quinto, Stanley Tucci, Kevin Spacey, Paul Bettany
24. Dragonheart 3: The Sorcerer's Curse (2015 Video)
PG-13 | Adventure, Fantasy
When aspiring knight Gareth goes in search of a fallen comet rumored to contain gold, he is shocked to instead find the dragon Drago. After Drago saves Gareth's life the two become ... See full summary »
Writer: Matthew Feitshans | Director: Colin Teague | Stars: Ben Kingsley, Julian Morris, Tamzin Merchant, Jassa Ahluwalia
25. Coronation Street (1960– )
TV-PG | 30 min | Drama | Active
The UK's longest-running TV soap, Coronation Street focuses on the everyday lives of working class people in Manchester, England.
Creator: Tony Warren | Stars: Helen Worth, Simon Gregson, William Roache, Sue Nicholls
26. Rules of Engagement (2000)
R | 128 min | Action, Drama, War
An attorney defends an officer on trial for ordering his troops to fire on civilians after they stormed a U.S. embassy in a third world country.
Writers: Jim Webb, Stephen Gaghan | Director: William Friedkin | Stars: Tommy Lee Jones, Samuel L. Jackson, Guy Pearce, Ben Kingsley
27. Species (1995)
R | 108 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
A group of scientists try to track down and trap a killer alien seductress before she successfully mates with a human.
Writer: Dennis Feldman | Director: Roger Donaldson | Stars: Natasha Henstridge, Michael Madsen, Ben Kingsley, Alfred Molina
28. Tuck Everlasting (2002)
PG | 90 min | Drama, Romance, Family
A young woman meets and falls in love with a young man who is part of a family of immortals.
Writers: Natalie Babbitt, Jeffrey Lieber, James V. Hart | Director: Jay Russell | Stars: Alexis Bledel, Jonathan Jackson, Sissy Spacek, William Hurt
29. Sexy Beast (2000)
R | 89 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Brutal gangster Don Logan recruits "retired" safecracker Gal for one last job, but it goes badly for both of them.
Writers: Louis Mellis, David Scinto | Director: Jonathan Glazer | Stars: Ray Winstone, Ben Kingsley, Ian McShane, Amanda Redman
30. The Love Guru (2008)
PG-13 | 87 min | Comedy, Romance, Sport
Pitka an American raised outside of his country by gurus, returns to the States in order to break into the self-help business. His first challenge: To settle the romantic troubles and subsequent professional skid of a star hockey player whose wife left him for a rival athlete.
Writers: Mike Myers, Graham Gordy | Director: Marco Schnabel | Stars: Mike Myers, Jessica Alba, Romany Malco, Jessica Simpson
31. The Last Legion (2007)
PG-13 | 102 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
As the Roman empire crumbles, young Romulus Augustus flees the city and embarks on a perilous voyage to Britain to track down a legion of supporters.
Writers: Jez Butterworth, Tom Butterworth, Carlo Carlei, Peter Rader, Valerio Manfredi | Director: Doug Lefler | Stars: Colin Firth, Ben Kingsley, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Peter Mullan
32. The Wackness (2008)
R | 99 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
It's the summer of 1994, and the streets of New York are pulsing with hip-hop. Set against this backdrop, a lonely teenager named Luke Shapiro spends his last summer before university selling marijuana throughout New York City, trading it with his unorthodox psychotherapist for treatment, while having a crush on his stepdaughter.
Writer: Jonathan Levine | Director: Jonathan Levine | Stars: Josh Peck, Ben Kingsley, Olivia Thirlby, Famke Janssen
33. Jimmy Kimmel Live! (2003– )
60 min | Comedy, Music, Talk-Show
Jimmy Kimmel interviews celebrities.
Creator: Jimmy Kimmel | Stars: Jimmy Kimmel, Cleto Escobedo III, Dicky Barrett, Guillermo Rodriguez
34. Oliver Twist (2005)
PG-13 | 130 min | Crime, Drama
An adaptation of the classic Dickens tale, where an orphan meets a pickpocket on the streets of London. From there, he joins a household of boys who are trained to steal for their master.
Writers: Charles Dickens, Ronald Harwood | Director: Roman Polanski | Stars: Barney Clark, Ben Kingsley, Jeremy Swift, Ian McNeice
35. Life (I) (2015)
111 min | Biography, Drama
A photographer for Life Magazine is assigned to shoot pictures of James Dean.
Writer: Luke Davies | Director: Anton Corbijn | Stars: Joel Edgerton, Robert Pattinson, Dane DeHaan, Ben Kingsley
36. Thunderbirds (2004)
PG | 95 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
When The Hood finds and invades International Rescue's secret base and traps most of the Tracy family, only young Alan Tracy and his friends can save the day.
Writers: Gerry Anderson, Sylvia Anderson, Peter Hewitt, William Osborne, Michael McCullers | Director: Jonathan Frakes | Stars: Bill Paxton, Anthony Edwards, Ben Kingsley, Brady Corbet
37. The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (2005– )
TV-14 | 40 min | Comedy, Music, Talk-Show | Active
Making a satire out of the entire Late Night Show concept Scotsman Craig Ferguson hosts his show with a robot skeleton and a "horse" as his sidekicks. The show features the stereotypical parts of a Late Show, but all in their own, raw way.
Stars: Craig Ferguson, Shadoe Stevens, Josh Robert Thompson, Joseph Bolter
38. House of Sand and Fog (2003)
R | 126 min | Drama
An abandoned wife is evicted from her house and starts a tragic conflict with her home's new owners.
Writers: Andre Dubus III, Vadim Perelman, Shawn Lawrence Otto | Director: Vadim Perelman | Stars: Jennifer Connelly, Ben Kingsley, Ron Eldard, Frances Fisher
39. Transsiberian (2008)
R | 111 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A Trans-Siberian train journey from China to Moscow becomes a thrilling chase of deception and murder when an American couple encounters a mysterious pair of fellow travelers.
Writers: Brad Anderson, Will Conroy | Director: Brad Anderson | Stars: Woody Harrelson, Emily Mortimer, Ben Kingsley, Kate Mara
40. Sneakers (1992)
PG-13 | 126 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Complex but lighthearted thriller about computers and cryptography, government and espionage, secrets and deception and betrayal.
Writers: Phil Alden Robinson, Lawrence Lasker, Walter F. Parkes | Director: Phil Alden Robinson | Stars: Robert Redford, Dan Aykroyd, Sidney Poitier, Jo Marr
41. Dave (1993)
PG-13 | 110 min | Comedy, Romance
To avoid a potentially explosive scandal when the U.S. President goes into a coma, an affable temp agency owner with an uncanny resemblance, is put in his place.
Writer: Gary Ross | Director: Ivan Reitman | Stars: Kevin Kline, Sigourney Weaver, Frank Langella, Kevin Dunn
42. Late Show with David Letterman (1993– )
60 min | Comedy, Music, Talk-Show | Active
The Late Show with David Letterman is an hour-long weeknight comedy and talk-show broadcast by CBS from the Ed Sullivan Theater on Broadway in New York City.
Stars: David Letterman, Paul Shaffer, Alan Kalter, Biff Henderson
43. Conan (2010– )
TV-14 | 60 min | Comedy, Music, Talk-Show
Conan O'Brien and his co-host Andy Richter discuss current news topics and interview celebrities and personalities.
Creator: Conan O'Brien | Stars: Conan O'Brien, Andy Richter, Jimmy Vivino, Jerry Vivino
44. BloodRayne (2005)
R | 95 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
In the 18th century, a vampire escapes from the freak show she once participated in and teams up with a group of vampire slayers to kill the man who raped her mother.
Writer: Guinevere Turner | Director: Uwe Boll | Stars: Kristanna Loken, Ben Kingsley, Michelle Rodriguez, Michael Madsen
45. Bugsy (1991)
R | 136 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
The story of how Bugsy Siegel started Las Vegas.
Writers: James Toback, Dean Jennings | Director: Barry Levinson | Stars: Warren Beatty, Annette Bening, Harvey Keitel, Ben Kingsley
46. Wake (III)
Action, Thriller | Announced
A man returns home for his brother's wake on a remote island that comes under siege during his stay there.
Writers: Christopher Borrelli, Matthew Sand | Director: John Pogue | Stars: Bruce Willis, Cameron Monaghan, Ben Kingsley, Piper Perabo
47. Late Night with Jimmy Fallon (2009– )
60 min | Comedy, Music, Talk-Show | Active
Comedian Jimmy Fallon hosts a late-night talk show.
Stars: Jimmy Fallon, The Roots, Steve Higgins, Bashir Salahuddin
48. Autobahn (II) (2015)
Action, Thriller | Completed
An American backpacker gets involved with a ring of drug smugglers as their driver, though he winds up on the run from his employers across Munich's high-speed freeways.
Writers: Eran Creevy, F. Scott Frazier | Director: Eran Creevy | Stars: Felicity Jones, Nicholas Hoult, Ben Kingsley, Anthony Hopkins
49. Suspect Zero (2004)
R | 99 min | Crime, Thriller
A mysterious serial killer is hunting other serial killers - and one FBI agent suspects there may be more to the vigilante than they imagine.
Writers: Zak Penn, Billy Ray | Director: E. Elias Merhige | Stars: Aaron Eckhart, Ben Kingsley, Carrie-Anne Moss, Harry Lennix
50. Elegy (I) (2008)
R | 112 min | Drama, Romance
Cultural critic David Kepesh finds his life -- which he indicates is a state of "emancipated manhood" -- thrown into tragic disarray by Consuela Castillo, a well-mannered student who awakens a sense of sexual possessiveness in her teacher.
Writers: Nicholas Meyer, Philip Roth | Director: Isabel Coixet | Stars: Ben Kingsley, Penélope Cruz, Patricia Clarkson, Dennis Hopper


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District attorney indicts 16 alleged gang members
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a resident of East Palo Alto
on Apr 15, 2014 at 12:04 pm
WHAT?? is a registered user.
We need to take back control of our town from these criminals by being active in the anonymous hotline system. We have all seen these activities going on right in front of us and maybe through fear of reprisal, as in the case of Lamont Coleman, residents have not called in. Again, EPA is going back on track to being the murder capital of the world. We need to stay active in policing our own house and not look the other way. I am so glad these were taken off the street for now and cant wait for their trials to begin.
a resident of East Palo Alto
on Apr 15, 2014 at 3:16 pm
Hmmm is a registered user.
I'd be happy to call an anonymous hotline - if I had any info to report. One of the reasons people don't use it is because they have nothing to report. The ones who do - well, how does one get "inspired" to do the right thing? [Portion of post removed.]
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The first astilbes I grew did not impress me. There were varieties such as Fanal and Deutschland. I felt they were poor growers (for me), their blooms were unspectacular, and the bloom time was very short. I was ready to give up on astilbes completely (and in fact, the Fanal have all disappeared from the garden - apparently they gave up on me as well) but then I planted a couple Vision. I'm actually not sure whether they are Visions in Pink or Visions in Red or simply Visions (is there such a variety?). Seems it would be easy to tell pink from red but googled photos show a huge range of color. Anyway, I have been VERY happy with these astilbes. They are more robust plants, the blooms are prettier and the blooms last much longer.
So now I want to add more astilbe. My quesion is whether all astilbe chinensis would behave similarly or if I should stay with the Visions series?
Does anyone have recommendation for sources of different chinensis or for the various Visions?
This photo is from two years ago so the plant has grown since then, but can any of you tell which Visions it is?
Astilbe chinensis var. taquetii 'Purple Lance' is a great plant if you can work with the color. It blooms late (mine just finished), it's tall (about 3 feet in bloom), is very drought tolerant and does not like full shade. I think a lot of people in the North think of astilbe as shade plants, but they don't do well when grown that way. It's also very vigorous, so it can be divided often to increase stock if you want to. The only negative for this plant would be the flower stalks bend over in high wind or heavy rain because they are so dense with blooms.
Thank you Kevin. I googled Purple Lance and if the photos are true to life this color would work well in the area I am considering. I will look for a source for it. The area also does get some sun, maybe about 2-3 hours, and is fairly protected so hopefully the winds won't be an issue!
Thanks again.
Here's a photo of Purple Lance in my garden. I would describe the color as kind of a pink/purple, but definitely more on the purple side.
Another nice one and also a heavy bloomer is Astilbe x arendsii 'Glut'. The color is a pretty intense, ruby red, but it blooms much earlier. It's not as vigorous as Purple Lance, but is still a keeper.
The last couple of years, I've been paying more attention to which Astible do well for me. I have to agree with your original post that not all of these are created equal. I have a few no matter where I move them, they just don't perform the way I want them to. Others like Purple Lance do well no matter what. In my experience at least the white varieties are the worst - sparse blooms, not all that vigorous, not sure why I keep them. Maybe I just have the wrong varieties.
That Purple Lance is beautiful!
AS for whites, I saw there is a Visions in White, I'm considering trying it simply because my Visions do so well.
I would be nervous about "Glut" because the "Fanal" I lost was also an Astilbe x arendsii ... but you think it is more varietal specific and not species specific?
I'm not sure about Glut and the varietal vs. species specific debate. All I can say is I have other arendsii hybrids and none of them do as well as Glut. Glut also keeps it's color a long time.
I have to check out those Visions. I need a good white.


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It would be a very good strategy for Microsoft to promote C++ development, if they wrote a decent UI framework. Let us be sincere, it should not be that difficult for them.
Been there and done that. Microsoft has had C++ for UI prior to OLE and VB and Winforms and WPF etc. I have done C++ for a long time and I welcomed the improvement in C#. They are working on compiling C# to native and it should work fine for most UI work. I do NOT want Microsoft spending time on C++ for UI. It is just plain stupid at this point. I know a lot of you are just learning programming and they teach C/C++ as the systems programming language and it has great uses but not at higher UI levels. I have seen some of the stuff they showed at Build with the new C++ and the syntax is ugly and has a tough learning curve. It does not make a lot of sense to bring it back at this point.


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Tempting Danger
by Eileen Wilks
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New author for me...really enjoyed the story and I'm ordering the second in the series as I type. :)
Wonderful start to a series! The tone of this book reminded me of a cross between the early Anita Blake series(the first book is: [b:Guilty Pleasures|30281|Guilty Pleasures (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, #1)|Laurell K. Hamilton|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1309206550s/30281.jpg|3349934]) and Patricia Briggs' Alpha & Omega series ([b:Cry Wolf|2355575|Cry Wolf (Alpha & Omega, #1)|Patricia Briggs|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1310494063s/2355575.jpg|2362332]).
Someone is trying to frame Rule Turner and homicide cop Lily Yu is the lead detective on the case. Things complicate the case when Lily finds out she's Turner's chosen mate. Wilks takes does an interesting take on the fate mate trope. Turner and Lily do not automatically fall in love in fact Lily tends to feel trapped by the mate bond. Especially since there's a lot about it that she doesn't understand. So like in Briggs' series, there's a lot of trust to be built and the romance is very slow burning.
I also enjoyed the grittiness of the world that Wilks has built in this series. Like in Hamilton's series the supernatural community is integrated within the human world. But there's a lot of conflict and prejudice between the two. This book takes place at a cross roads where its no longer legal to brand shifters or shoot them on sight, but there's still not many laws that protect them and people still largely fear anything not human. Its an interesting set-up for the novels and I can't wait to continue reading about Lily and Rule in the rest of the series.
Loved this book! Story was expanded and changed from original novella presentation, but it served to open the world to more possibilities
Note: If you've read "Only Human," Eileen Wilks's short story appearing in the anthology Lover Beware, this story might be a bit jarring. It's a reboot of the story, shaping it a bit more to smooth into a series. While the "I just read this, sort of" aspects bothered me, I love the changes she made to the story.
Having read a later book in this series, it's also a bit frustrating to go back and experience the "rougher" beginnings, but I'm still on board for what is shaping up to be a captivating world.
So I have been off of urban fantasy for awhile now. Reading the newly released books in my favorite series but not starting any new urban fantasy series. If a friend hadn't recommended this series to me -- repeatedly, I wouldn't have read it. The cover doesn't call to me and urban fantasy just doesn't hold the same appeal to me anymore. And if I can avoid murder investigation urban fantasy books, I do. So there was a lot working against me picking up this book. But damn, I am so glad I read this book.
Tempting Danger is good, the story is good, the writing is good, the world is unique and the characters are even better. Many UF series depend on a sarcastic heroine that is abrasive and who is generally not liked by most of the side characters. There is none of that in this series. The main character is not rude nor is she funny, but she is strong and enjoyable to read about. She is actually a character I would enjoy meeting and I wanted her to succeed.
Shifters have been done and done. Police investigation UFs have also been done and done. But somehow, Tempting Danger approaches these storylines in a unique way. There are little surprises along the way and not everything is wrapped up perfectly, but it is done satisfyingly.
Because it is shifters and because there is a romance storyline there is a predictable theme -- the dreaded fated to be mated. I normally am not a fan. But this is the best fated to be mated storyline I have read. All the questions you would wonder yourself - like how does it feel to have all choice taken away and have a mate forced on you? Wilks doesn't tread lightly on this topic or romanticize it.
So how does it compare to other urban fantasy series? My favorites are Mercy Thompson, Katie Daniels, Psycop, Penryn & the End of Days, Experiment in Terror, Dresden Files, and Daughter of Smoke and Bone. Tempting Danger has good characters that I think will only get better. Wilks doesn't take the easy way out with her storylines and writes in a complex way. I can see it not appealing to everyone. She doesn't world build or define terms or belief systems. She expects her readers to pick it up along the way. She shows rather than tells. And personally I love that. It is a more complex way of telling a story and it means that the reader has to learn as she goes but it makes for a better story in my opinion. So to answer to my first question -- how does the World of the Lupi compare with my favorite UF series? Well, it wasn't compulsive must finish read but I still read it in about 3-4 days. I immediately bought the second in the series after I finished the first. I am not sure if this is going to be a favorite, but it has potential to become a favorite series of mine.
I cannot wait to continue on to the next book in the series.
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The USA Today bestselling author tempts success in this stunning debut novel.
National bestselling author Eileen Wilks draws readers into a bold new world where the magical and mundane co-exist in an uneasy alliance--and a cop balanced on her own knife-edged struggle is their only hope against a cold-blooded killer.
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When San Diego police detective Lily Yu enlists the help of a werewolf to catch a brutal serial killer, passion rages between them as they are plunged into a dark world of danger and evil.
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The Great Bend High School A Cappella Choir could be singing "I'm Dreaming of a White Diamond Christmas" at its annual Vespers Concert later today. After all, it is the diamond anniversary of the traditional religious concert that began in 1936.
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Communities along the route for June Jaunt will feature popular art to draw visitors along the tour from Tribune to Ellinwood. It's part of this year's "heritage" theme.
HOISINGTON - Two injuries were reported Wednesday after a motorist in a Jeep pulled in front of a Peterbilt semitrailer at 12:35 p.m. at NE 10 Ave. and NE 100 Road, near Hoisington.
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After months of practice and improving technique, dance competition season has arrived. Members of Euphoria Dance Center's competition team attended Bravo Regional Dance Competition at Maize High School Feb. 28 through March 1. Members with less than two years competition experience or less than two hours of weekly studio time competed in the "overture" class. Many of these students fall into the under 14-years-old categories, though there are some late comers who have shown a great deal of dedication to their art and are ready for competition. The dances included solos, trios, and small group numbers.
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The Green Bay Packers officially announced the contract extension of safety Morgan Burnett on Friday. He signed a four-year, $24.75 million extension.
Burnett, who was drafted by the Packers out of Georgia Tech in the third round (No. 71 overall) in 2010, has started all 36 games in which he has appeared over the course of his three seasons with the club. During that time, he has amassed 259 tackles (192 solo), 28 passes defensed, six interceptions, four forced fumbles, three fumble recoveries and three sacks.
In 2012, Burnett started all 16 games for the second consecutive season and finished second on the team with a career-high 137 tackles (97 solo). He added 13 passes defensed, two interceptions, two sacks, two forced fumbles and a fumble recovery.
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Well, I just dug up my sugarcane and split it... it wasn't happy... not the right season for doing this, but oh well, I am moving! :o) Make sure you keep it warm and damp!
Now, pineapples make thier own offshoots, so if they have done this, then you separate them and pot them and keep them warm and damp till rooted.
Sugarcane is easiest done by cane cuttings. This part of Queensland is one of the largest sugar growing areas in Australia and most cane is grown from 'billets' which are pieces of mature cane up to 1ft long placed horizontally in the ground and lightly covered. They normally start growing within a couple of weeks in ideal conditions. Here propagation is done year round but I don't know anything about your climate.
The method Andrew described for sugar cane is how my father used to do it in south GA when I was growing up. He would take the stalks after he cut them in the fall and store them under a heavy layer of pine straw and dirt for the winter. In the spring, he would take the whole stalk and lay it in a trench a couple of inches deep and cover it with soil. Within a few weeks there would be shoots growing from the eyes located at the joints on the stalk. The cane always had plenty of time to mature from the time it was planted (late-March) and the time of the first frost (mid-November). Just thinking about it makes me want some cane syrup and pancakes.
How do you make cane syrup? Anyone know how to juice this thing? Would one of those juice machine work or will it probably be too tough? I seen a machine once that juiced sugar cane, it pretty much crush the stalks. The fresh juice was great.
Eggo-The way we extract the juice in south GA is to run the stalk through a large device that squeezes the stalk between 2 very large and very heavy cast iron rollers. The juice runs out as the stalk is squeezed and travels through a depression in the boards that holds the large rollers. The really traditional way to do this is to use a mule to pull a long boom attached to the top of the rollers. As the mule walks the rollers turn and the cane is fed into the rollers. I agree with you the fresh juice is excellent (especially when chilled).
You make the syrup by cooking the juice until it reaches a certain specific gravity (or you can do it by temperature also). At that point you have boiled off enough of the water that it will be thick when cooled. (If you are interested let me know and I can find out what temperature or specific gravity it is you shoot for.) You can do this at home in a large pot in the kitchen but it takes a long time and good bit of heat. The traditional way to do this part of the process is to use a boiling system that has a large cast iron pot set in a firebrick assembly where you build a wood fire in the assembly and cook the juice down in the pot. If you do this, it is pretty cool. As the juice reaches a certain point in the cooking process you will notice that some insoluble bits of cane stalk will rise to the surface. Skim this off and keep on cooking. This makes me think about my childhood.
This is the way I do it . I cut the top part of the sugar cane and let half of it sit in water until I notice the small "shoot" and roots , usually in 3-4 days, then I plant it with the "shoot" facing up and cover the roots with lots of soil, the more soil the more sugar cane.
Eggo-I don't know of anyone who makes those large rollers any longer. My father had a 'sugar cane mill' when I was gowing up but he no longer uses it. He just chews the cane to get the juice. (I guess it helps burn some of the calories and you get some good fiber in the process.) He got his rollers (which were pretty old at the time) from a friend of a friend. Sugar cane mills used to be very common in south GA but they are hard to find now.
I don't know if a juicer would work or not. I imagine it would clog pretty quickly with all the cellulose in the cane stalk.
Have you ever tasted sugar cane syrup? It is kind of strong in flavor (like molasses) but I think it is delicious.
Here is a link that might be useful: Here's an interesting link to sugar cane syrup production
GA,thanks for the great info, I've never had sugar cane syrup. Sounds tasty though. But first thing is figuring out how to juice this thing. I have access to a patch of sugar canes but never really bother with them much, there's only so much you could chew. =) I will try the juice tiger, blender, thingy and see how long it lasts before clogging up.
Heathen, good luck on the sugarcane. Did you dig any up?
Sugar cane should start appearing in the Mexican markets soon. It is used during the Xmas season to flavor punches. A whole nice fresh green stalk should run about $2.00. The small cuttings will not work  a whole stalk will have plenty of nodes to work with.
I live in the eastern San Francisco Bay Area, and a few years ago I was able to get hold of a stalk of sugar cane from a neighbor (they were thinning out the plant in their yard and had some surplus). I cut up the stalk (the pieces had good nodes on them) and planted them in a 15-gallon pot, indoors. They rooted and grew successfully, but soon died for lack of space (one might as well try to grow field corn in a flower pot). Outside, in the ground, it would have done fine.
In just a few weeks some produce markets in my neighborhood will be selling whole stalks of sugar cane (Berkeley Bowl and Rockridge Market Hall, in Oakland, both have carried it).
It's a real treat!
Oh indeed, the sugar cane drink is delicious with some ice cubes; in here there are thousands of sugar cane acres, I used to drink it more often when I was younger, and often stopped at the road to pick up some of the long sugar cane sticks that fell of the tractors that carried it and began to chew it.
I've seen sugar cane grown (as a food/ornamental grass) in the following areas:
(1) near Fremont BART (Sunset Zone 17);
(2) in North Oakland (Sunset Zone 16/17); and
(3) in Walnut Creek, near Walnut Creek BART (Sunset Zone 14).
The most recent edition (2001) of the Sunset Western Garden Book includes information on sugar cane (Saccharum officinarum) culture, for Zone 24. But it's really more widely adapted than that. I think in our area (barring any frost), it should reach about 6 feet in height, not the 12 to 20 feet it would reach in a true subtropical (Louisiana/Texas/Florida) or tropical (Hawaii) climate, but still not bad, and certainly enough to grow some good sweet juicy stalks for chewing.
Hope this helps.
Sugar cane is very easy to propagate from cuttings about a foot in length and simply pushed into a gallon pot of potting soil and kept moist. Pele's smoke has proven to be super easy. I have 7 or 8 different varieties. Some are renown for chewing others for their syrup quality and some for their beauty. Fresh cane juice is excellent and very good for you too.....I like mine with a twist of lime.
I live on the west coast of Florida in Venice, just south of Sarasota. I do not know the vegetation zone; we very rarely get frost in the winter. I want to progagate some sugar cane, my "soil" is 98% sand and little else. Should I use any mulch, fertilizer, top soil, whatever? Please advise. Thanks. Warren in Venice, FL
Yes, perhaps if were the soft chewing varieties of sugarcane. I once saw a small cane mill at Hudson, Florida owned by an individual that looked like 3 or 4 rubber washing machine rollers(wringers) in series making a cane mill. You could rerun the 'cane for more juice. I have never seen another 1 like it.
Warren-kayaker - nothing much to it here on siesta key. Put it in the ground as a three ft transplant from a 3gal container. It'll grow to be pretty large in diameter, so plan for at least 4'x4'. I use 2" pine mulch and a 50/50 mix of native/potting soil. Water deep weekly. 2-3lbs fertrell fertilizer (3-2-7) every once in a while (i.e. 2-3mo)
Grows clear up to the sky :-)
GAtrops-Reading what you said about harvesting sugarcane made me reminisce on my days of young in North Florida. Every year the Ryan Farm (Family friends) would harvest tons of sugarcane. Us kids would take turns driving the small tractor around in circles pulling a thick rope attached to a telephone pole "boom". The boom was attached to a vertical shaft that turned two rollers or laminators. The kids had to be careful not to stop the tractor too fast, because the boom was so heavy and had so much intertia that it would keep coming and knock the back of their heads. I may have been the only kid to get hit by the boom, but I cant remember because I got hit by the boom too many times. When harvest began, it went on for days, 24 hours a day. Men would take shifts cooking the juice and skimming the top, sneaking sips of the overflow which firmented quickly, helping to ease the boredom of stirring the pot. Down in the Bible Belt, you're supposed to throw away the skim, not imbibe in it. At least thats what most of the men's wives thought. The women busily bottled the syrup for storage and sale. Looking back, it was always fun for us kids at harvest, but I now have an even greater appreciation of those harvest days. I now grow sugarcane, and although i'm the only one that eats it in the house, that taste takes me back every time.
I cut the stalks about 18" long so they fit into plant flats, and plant them horizontally. My "black" sugar cane is just coming up now, several shoots from each length.
If you're starting pineapple from tops, it works better to twist the top off instead of cutting it off--less flesh to rot. Let it dry a few days, then plant in mulch-rich soil.


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Winnipeg Chamber of Commerce has been promoting the city's merits longer than the city has been around
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The Winnipeg business community has always had a bit of a reputation for hitting above its weight class.
For instance, when the likes of J.A. Ashdown and A.G.B. Bannatyne organized the Board of Trade in the spring of 1873, it was eight months before the city itself was incorporated.
"We like to remind the city that we were here first," joked Dave Angus the Winnipeg Chamber of Commerce's affable CEO.
The chamber is celebrating its 140th anniversary today at a sold-out event featuring popular comedian Rick Mercer.
The chamber is flush with cash, BOLD (its latest brand) in its advocacy for the city and its business community and boasting a growing membership base that ranks it as one of the five largest chambers in the country despite the fact Winnipeg is not one of the five largest cities in the country.
Angus said the spirit in which the chamber was formed -- business people getting together to support each other and the community -- is still its mandate.
When the chamber's lease at its old fifth-floor space at 167 Lombard Ave. was up a few years ago, it chose to move into a street-level storefront space on a block of Portage Avenue that had epitomized a boarded-up, down-on-its-heels downtown.
"We felt it was a way that we could do our part in downtown revitalization," Angus said. "Also, it allowed more exposure to the chamber from a public perspective."
It's now a tenant in a fully leased Paris Building, next door to a fully renovated Avenue Building that's become Portage Avenue's first apartment building on a block that's come to life.
During the years, the chamber moved many times, including from its long ago address in the old city hall. It moved from 177 Lombard Ave., which is still called the Chamber of Commerce building, to 167 Lombard Ave. because of a fire. The move to its current location marked the end of the chamber's career as the operator of a dining room club facility.
Now, the $2-million per year operation derives more and more revenue from its luncheon events -- more than $500,000 in 2012 -- in addition to close to $1 million in membership dues from its 2,050 members.
Its ability to organize events such as today's with more than 800 tickets sold, is turning the chamber into arguably one of the busiest event promoters in town, hosting about 90 events per year with average attendance of about 350, up from 250.
Angus credits the chamber's success and relevancy to the broad and deep pool of expertise from which it can tap resources from across the business spectrum.
Its partnerships and association with Winnipeg businesses has a very successful legacy.
The Winnipeg chamber was the first to introduce a chamber-member group insurance package in the '70s thanks to the work of Arthur Johnston, who was an independent life insurance salesman at the time and the chairman of the chamber.
Other chambers started inquiring about it and 10 years later that product was so successful his son Dave formed Johnston Group to administer the program.
"The chamber group insurance program has gone from 150 companies and -- knock on wood -- through good luck or good management it's grown substantially," said Dave Johnston, president and owner of Johnston Group Inc.
There are now 900 chambers offering the program with more than 30,000 firms participating.
"Chambers did it before but they all did it on their own and it was hard to make it work," Johnston said. "My father's concept was, if you get a whole bunch of chambers then there is strength in numbers."
Johnston Group has grown into a substantial presence in the corporate community in Winnipeg with more than 150 employees with a sizable piece of its book of business as a result of its chamber association.
It's a good example of the chamber's ability to serve as a vehicle through which citizens can show leadership and build something special.
One of Angus's favourite examples of that is the chamber-sponsored Canad Inns Winter Wonderland at Red River Exhibition Park.
An active chamber member, Gordon Kraushar, saw a Christmas-light exhibition in Regina when he was there in the '90s speaking to their chamber of commerce about the telecommunications business.
"I just thought it would be perfect for Winnipeg," Kraushar said.
He took the idea to the chamber, there was some investigation as to where it might work and eventually Red River Exhibition Park was chosen. Canad Inns took on the sponsorship and it's become an annual event since 2000.
The chamber's credibility as an advocate for issues such as Sunday shopping (back in the '50s it promoted Monday shopping), taxation issues and its recent encouragement for "bolder" public policy is not something easily attained.
"We have credibility because we has such history with the issues and the patience that an the organization like the chamber can have because it's been around for 140 years," said Angus. "We will wait you out!"
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In your zeal to do something that might boost your earnings or the earnings of a group of people, you might inadvertently cause someone to take offence, perhaps for political, religious or racial reasons. This might be unintended, nevertheless, it's a possibility. Be aware of this.
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You'll enjoy dealing with members of the general public as well as hanging out with partners and close friends because all your interactions with others will be friendly and upbeat. At some point, however, an argument that is about power and control might take place. Easy does it.
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This is a fabulous day to entertain at home. You'll enjoy redecorating, renovating or spending time with family and guests. You feel enthusiastic about whatever is going on at home. Do be patient at some point if differing opinions flare up.
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Writers, teachers, actors, plus salespeople and people in marketing, can use their communication skills in a beautiful way. Essentially, you feel upbeat and positive and this is your secret. (Be careful your enthusiasm doesn't rub someone the wrong way.)
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Business and commerce are blessed. Work-related travel or opportunities to deal with foreign countries can benefit you. However, a difference of opinion about something -- probably in a group situation -- is likely. Hold your ground.
Actress Kristen Stewart (1990) shares your birthday. At times you are excessive because you passionately believe in what you do. Naturally, you are sometimes outspoken and direct. However, since you are so fervent, you like to share your ideas with others (in very persuasive ways). You are excellent at encouraging others to do something. Your coming year will be the beginning of a fresh new cycle. Open any door!
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Each year, the NCSU Student Media sends a handful of students to the national college media convention of the College Media Advisers, College Broadcasters and Associated Collegiate Press. While it's fun to receive national awards, this is primarily an educational endeavor. This year, four students attended, along with advisers Bradley Wilson and Jamie Lynn Gilbert.
(Back) Kieran Moreira, Bradley Wilson, Alex Sanchez; (front) Marisa Akers, Susannah Brinkley and Jamie Lynn Gilbert
N.C. State's yearbook, literary magazine, daily newspaper and radio station were all honored at the national convention of the College Media Advisers, Associated Collegiate Press and College Broadcasters in Louisville, Oct. 31. The yearbook and literary magazine came home with top national honors. The literary magazine was also named the Best of Show in its category. In addition, students at WKNC 88.1 fm received recognition as Best Radio DJ, Best Regularly Scheduled Program and Best Student Media Website.
Media outlets from Duke University, Elon University, North Carolina State University, the University of North Carolina - Charlotte, the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, Western Carolina University and Winston-Salem State University took home awards at the national convention of the College Media Advisers, Associated Collegiate Press and College Broadcasters in Louisville, Kentucky, Oct. 28-31.
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