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Nice New Book Goodness!Written by jenniferd on 05/06/2014
Here is what you can find on the shelves that is new next week. Come in and visit us, or put your items on hold from home! We will let you know when they are ready for you to pick up!
Here is what you can find on the shelves that is new next week. Come in and visit us, or put your items on hold from home! We will let you know when they are ready for you to pick up!
This week was quiet for me. Perhaps we are all still listening instead of talking? Sweet Ann was quiet this week because she was under the weather but she is now on the mend and is grateful for it. Her words of wisdom is really just one word. Ann says Gratitude. So reflect on that if you will. Even the SoNo Loft is quiet this week as there are no messages hanging from the deck (Sorry Susan of Fairfield Cheese Company!). Even though the weather was truly dismal for everyone this week (didn't seem to matter where in the country you were: too wet, too dry, just meh), there were two things that went down that I considered Glad Tidings. I love that the most eligible bachelor in Hollywood picked Brains over Bimbo in the selection of his fiancé. There was a great piece on this in, of all places, the New York Post. You can read it here. I also loved that a certain franchise owner's nasty mouth/attitude/beliefs got him in a whole lot of trouble and we won't have to hear it anymore. Ugly is as Ugly does and sometimes it is just reassuring that the Universe is indeed on top of this stuff, that good things can happen and justice is served. It's also nice to be around to see it. This week we have Great Britain and Germany, emotional casualties, dog, tribes, Preps, more dog, Galveston, a Chief Resident, and a parade of historic figures! Playlist? Got that!
Let us begin!
Laura is doing lots of reading for her book group. "Life After Life is my favorite book group pick of 2014, so far. I enjoyed it more than Goldfinch but not by much. Both authors, Atkinson and Tartt, drew me into the hearts of their protagonists but Atkinson's Ursula felt like a very close friend telling me all her travails of WWII, in all her reincarnations. Ursula was engaging, giving a close perspective of someone personally enduring WWII from both the British and German sides. "
Jeanne is still doing one thing. I think there is something very wrong with this and I am beyond concerned. "I watched Jayne Mansfield's Car, written, directed by and starring Billy Bob Thornton, Robert Duvall, John Hurt, Kevin Bacon and others. The cover says "Torn Apart. Driven Together." And they are. In 1969, in a small southern town, war has left its emotional casualties but ultimately human need creates some overdue and unusual family ties."
The Ever Delightful Kim: Owner of Shiny Boat Shoes is reading Uganda Be Kidding Me by Chelsea Handler. "Chelsea Handler has no filter when it comes to talking about her trip to another continent with her friends. One of the most ridiculous conversations is when Chelsea is deciding whether or not to fly her dog on a private plane to another country because she believes he must miss her. In all, this book is a page turner!"
Barbara M agrees with me about her pick this week. We cannot endorse this one highly enough. One thing Barbara forgot to say is how much she loves the cover. I do too! It's amazing. "Lily King's new novel, Euphoria, is very loosely based on the life of anthropologist Margaret Mead. Nell Stone and her husband Fen are studying tribes in New Guinea when they are befriended by a fellow anthropologist, Andrew Bankson, who becomes intimately entangled in their lives. The writing is beautiful and the tension of both the situations that arise and the relationships between the characters is palpable. This is definitely a book worth reading."
The Fabulous Babs B has just finished The Headmaster's Wife by Thomas Christopher Greene. "Arthur Winthrop, like his father before him, is the Headmaster of an elite school in Vermont. But nothing is what it appears to be in this brilliant and beautifully written story of a life gone awry. After reading the first half of this book I thought to myself wow and little did I know the second half was even better. Finishing it, I found myself re-reading the first few chapters as to make sure I didn't miss anything in this complex story. Part mystery, part love story, this is a layered story of love, unbearable loss and grief. This was a quick read and I highly recommend it!"
The Tall Cool Texan Virginia is listening to her brother. As my brother will tell you, it's something I should have done long ago. "It is amazing how much your family can influence your reading habits. My brother first introduced me to James Rollins' Sigma novels several years ago, and I have been a fan ever since. So I was super excited to learn Rollins was introducing a new action series, The Kill Switch which features Army Ranger Tucker Wayne and his brave companion, Kane a military working dog. The novel has lots of action, and enough conspiracy to keep you guessing. It's coming out in May. I also just finished and highly recommend, The Winter People by Jennifer McMahon, a psychological suspense novel, but with the under-current of a good old-fashioned ghost story. Fair warning however, if you live in the woods then don't read this when you are alone, because it is seriously creepy. West Hall, Vermont is a town that has always been plagued with mysterious ghostly sightings and legends but when people begin to disappear, the secrets of a hundred years must come out, even if it reveals things better left in the woods."
Claire of the Children's Library is not reading anything remotely childlike. But it's making her happy. Let it slide people! "Galveston is True Detective creator, Nick Pizzolatto's first novel. The main character, Roy Cady, exudes a bit of Rust and Marty for any fans of the acclaimed HBO series. The opening scenes had me on edge as Roy barely escapes a bloodbath, fleeing New Orleans with a young prostitute in tow. As they both try to start new lives in East Texas and finally Galveston, Roy can't seem to leave the past behind. This has everything I want in a noir novel: a bleak motel, gritty but lovable hero, and enough twists and turns to keep me awake on Metro North. According to the press they are already turning this gem into a movie. Galveston was also a finalist for the 2010 Edgar Award for Best First Novel."
Steph is on a tear. "I've been obsessed with thrillers this week. Probably my favorite of the bunch will not surprise regular readers of this email: Doing Harm, by Kelly Parsons. After hearing Babs and Virginia rave about it, and then after Stephen King called it 'the best damn medical thriller I've read in 25 years,' I couldn't resist. I found the ending a bit too neat, I thought the tension level was just perfect. And though I normally loathe arrogant characters, arrogant chief resident Steve Mitchell was the perfect protagonist. This would be a great beach book, especially for readers who love medical true crime like one of my recent favorites, The Good Nurse."
I have another book from 12 that I am excited about. You remember that I told you about 12? They are a division of The Hachette Book Group and they only publish 12 books a year. By limiting it in this way they are all about the quality of the product. You are pretty much guaranteed an amazing read if 12 is putting it out. What is Visible is a debut novel by Kimberly Elkins and it is indeed remarkable. Laura Bridgman. Does the name ring a bell? She was the most famous woman in the world in the 19th century after Queen Victoria and yet we have forgotten about her. Laura was the first deaf and blind person to learn language under the care of Samuel Gridley Howe at the Perkins Institute in Boston. It was Laura, in fact who ended up teaching Anne Sullivan the Tactile American Sign Language method that Sullivan then used to teach Helen Keller. This book has a parade of historic figures such as Charles Dickens, Julia Ward Howe, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and John Brown to name a few. It is due out in early June and we have also purchased it for our Book in a Bag program for book groups. It also has a great cover!
DJ Patty McC is ruminating on one of the news stories mentioned earlier. And no, it's not about George Clooney's engagement. It could have been. But it's not. Here is her Playlist for the week. "This July 2nd marks the 50-year anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. This is something to celebrate and folks should hold some epic 4th of July parties in honor of how far we've come. How far have we come? I'll give you a hint or better yet, let's play a word association game. I'll list all the things that have been troubling me as of late and you guess the theme. Ready…Set…GO! Cliven Bundy, Donald Sterling, Dani Alves, and Affirmative Action in Michigan, are you sensing a theme yet? It would seem the time is ripe for some delicate discussions of race. This week I invite you to lead that elephant out of the room and into the daylight. Better yet, let's bring that elephant outside for all to see and have a real candid, honest discussion about race in our country. In the words of Rodney King, "Can we all get along?" because in the end underneath it all, we are all the same."
Here is what you can find on the shelves that is new next week. Come in and visit us, or put your items on hold from home! We will let you know when they are ready for you to pick up!
You will notice that this week there seems to be a lot of listening going on. Not hearing but listening. There is a difference. Even those of us who normally have our nose stuck in a book are out in the world and getting our reading fix by listening. I am not sure what to make of this. It's funny when you think of it really. We all begin our reading lives by being listeners. No one is born reading, but we are all born listening! I think that maybe this is really about finally getting away from the warmth of our hearths, getting out into the world but still wanting a story even as we create our own. Because sometimes when you are listening, the message you get is not what you were expecting but there is a truth in it just the same that can turn your thinking and your world around. So get out into the world, revel in the warmth and joy of spring, and take a story with you while you create your own. This week we have Zulus, sniveling, squawking, dogs, Italy, some boys, Bed-Stuy and Commitment Issues. Playlist, you ask? But of course!
Let us begin!
Abby is reading Present Darkness by South African writer Malla Nunn. " Set in the 1950s during the early days of apartheid, Present Darkness reunites us with Detective Sergeant Emmanuel Cooper. Cooper is deeply scarred by his time fighting in Europe and lives with a number of secrets. While I am generally a passionate proponent of reading a mystery series in sequence, it is especially important with this series. Present Darkness finds Cooper investigating the murder of a white couple. When one of the named suspects is the son of his colleague Zulu Detective Samuel Shabalala, Cooper will not let his superiors or brutal racial divides stop him from assisting his friend. Nunn once again treats us to an absorbing mystery and culture while also shedding light upon the toll South Africa's inhumane apartheid laws took on the nation of South Africa. This is to be released on June 3rd."
Sue S. Not happy. Not having it. "Truth be told, I am a girl who devours a great chic-lit book when I get one. However, there will be no ramblings about butterflies and rainbows or about how this book should be made into a movie. Instead, I will tell you how much I disliked Chances AreAre by Barbara Delinsky. This book was torture as I was subjected to what should have been a smart, strong female character, but ended up being a sniveling, insecure self-doubting individual who only gains confidence from what I can only describe as a male chauvinistic pig who has never heard of the term 'No means No'. I would never recommend this book to anyone who has any sort of self-worth. If you are looking for a good chic-lit book I do not recommend this one."
Miss Elisabeth of the CL is as excited as I have ever seen her this week. "This week I devoured, in one sitting, Elaine Lui's memoir Listen to the Squawking Chicken: When Mother Knows Best, What's a Daughter to Do? Elaine, or Lainey, is the purveyor of Laineygossip.com, one of my all-time favorite websites. Lainey is an intelligent, witty, take-no-prisoners kind of writer and from her position at the Canadian version of E, she is able to give first-hand accounts of the hypocrisy of celebrities. Her website could be called a guilty pleasure but you will not feel guilty reading it! The Squawking Chicken in the title refers to her Chinese-immigrant mother, a highly-superstitious woman whose squawks have guided Lainey throughout her life. I tore through the book in a mix of fascination, admiration, and horror. Her mother's determination that she make something of herself and complete aversion to coddling or praising her daughter is something rarely seen in western parenting. You might think that her mom's reliance on shame, Feng Shui, blackmail, and horrific storytelling as parenting techniques would backfire, but instead Lui's love and admiration for her mother shines through every page, even when her mother is forcing her to eat a papaya every morning to keep her luck, disparaging her 'low classy' roommate, or asking for 'no tax! 'at the Pottery Barn. With chapter titles like, 'I Should Have Given Birth to a Piece of Barbecue Pork' 'Miss Hong Kong is a Whore' and 'You Will Be Thanking Me Your Entire Life,' the book is laugh-out-loud funny in addition to making you really want to call your mom. I loved it, and I'll never bring home anything I found on the street again!"
Pat T is embracing the season. "Throughout April, we are celebrating National Poetry Month and on Tuesday we celebrated Earth Day, so I thought it fitting to share one of my favorite poets, whose work reflects our connection to nature. Dog Songs: Thirty Five Dog Songs and One Essay by Mary Oliver is her latest book of poems and a particular favorite of mine since I have a great affinity for dogs! Oliver captures the special relationship between dogs and their owners. Two other works by Mary Oliver that are equally wonderful are, A Thousand Mornings and Why I Wake Early."
The Ever Delightful Pat S has just finished The Secret of Raven Point by Jennifer Vanderbes. Here's what she is thinking. "While never a fan of book about war, here is one that took me by surprise. Part coming-of-age, part mystery and part wartime saga, The Secret of Raven Point by Jennifer Vanderbes is an illustration of what war does to people both the good and bad. Opening at the start of World War II in a sleepy South Carolina town, Tuck Defresne enlists to the sorrow of his devoted younger sister Juliet. When after a short time, Tuck is declared MIA, Juliet takes a crash course in nursing and gets shipped to Italy where he was last seen. This is where the novel really takes off. In the little covered Italian Front, Juliet is faced with the raw facts of war, the daily insanity littered with broken bodies and broken minds that constitute the Front Lines. In the course of Juliet's search for Tuck, she comes to know a Private brutalized as much by his comrades as by the enemy; a minister who must redefine his moral compass as decreed by the idiotic rules of war; and a doctor who must maintain his faith in his own ability against overwhelming odds. Vanderbes does an excellent job of creating a world where there is no black and white, just the very real and very raw desire to survive.
Jeanne is still just doing one thing, and I cannot deny what a worry this is to me. It should worry you too. "I am listening to The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown. True to the reviews, if you liked Unbroken you will also like The Boys. But the latter stresses the necessity of teamwork more and Joe Rantz came from a very tough background, with nothing and no one, but his own resources and strong will. How can he fit in as a member of an elite crew at the University of Washington? The story moves slowly at first, but Edward Hermann is a terrific narrator with a voice that will keep you listening. "
Steph is also listening this week! "This week on my mini-road trip I listened to the audiobook of P.S. Be Eleven, a middle grade novel written by Rita Williams-Garcia and narrated by Sisi Aisha Johnson. I've wanted to read it since it won the Coretta Scott King Award earlier this year, and when I saw the ACD on display I knew the time was right! (See, our displays even work on librarians.) This book is the sequel to One Crazy Summer, which won the Newbery Honor, but it's not necessary to have read that book to try this one. It is a fantastic historic novel set in Bed-Stuy in the late 60s, and follows the story of sixth-grader Delphine as she settles back into her life after spending a summer with her Black Panther activist mother in Oakland. Her year involves a lot of transitions: becoming a sixth-grader, her first school dance, the introduction of the Jackson 5 and saving money to go to their concert at Madison Square Garden, her pa getting married, and her uncle coming back from Vietnam with a lot of pain. As a result, the book goes back and forth from mundane to serious issues remarkably well, with Delphine's strong voice at the center of it all. Williams-Garcia's writing is just spectacular, bringing history to life with simple flourishes. This ought to be required reading for all Brooklyn tweens and teens, because it is such a great snapshot of its time and place. Johnson gives even more vividness to Delphine with great narration and impeccable voice acting that evokes, rather than a cast of characters, a twelve-year-old's perception of that cast of characters. This was a great acting choice for the book, and the hours of my drive flew by as Delphine told me her story. I can't recommend it highly enough!
I have to drive once a week. It makes me miserable but it's something that must be done. Monday's ride to my Monday night commitment was especially brutal. How does it take a human 40 minutes to get from here to Westport? Happily I had Selected Shorts as my companion. As we discussed last week, I have Commitment Issues. While it is a serious problem where DVDs are concerned, it goes double for Books on CD. My fellow commuters swear by them but I am too scattered to devote attention to a full blown book while I drive. This is the genius of Selected Shorts. For those of you who don't know what this is, Selected Shorts is a program that is on every Saturday on WSHU at 3:00 and it matches great short stories with great readers who also happen to be great actors. People like William Hurt, Parker Posey, and John Lithgow to name a few. So while I can't commit to a full blown novel, I can commit to a short story of 20 minutes or so in length. The one that saved my sanity on Monday night was from the collection entitled (what else?) Behaving Badly, specifically the Stephen King story Popsy read by Michael Imperioli. The story line involves a gambling addict named Sheridan whose marker is coming due. How does he pay them off? By abducting young boys and selling them to a man named Mr. Wizard. But this time around Sheridan may have just picked the wrong kid to mess with. This wonderful series is just perfect for those errands around town when you can't face another minute of commercial radio. I can't recommend them highly enough.
DJ Jazzy Patty McC is also listening! And as we said at the start, the message that she received was not really what she was expecting, but it was welcome just the same. Here is her take on the week. "I seem to be a bit stuck in my feminist leanings from last week. Might it have something to do with the Paycheck Fairness Act? Or maybe it was the negative media attention given to Hillary Clinton and her impending status as a grandmother? Or maybe it was the lingering negativity directed at United States Senator Feinstein accused of being emotional on issues of torture? I'd say it's all of the above. During this time of my own angsti-ness, my dear Wunder-Jen asked if I had heard the song 'Water Fountain' by tUnE-yArDs. Indeed, I had and I like it. I like it a lot. Merrill Garbus was interviewed recently by Pitchfork and was asked how she came by her new shift in sound. She replied that she walked into a public library and checked out the book, 'How to Write a Hit Song' by Molly-Ann Leikin. Well, now this spoke directly to me; musicians, how-to books and public libraries? Stop! The autodidact in me sang with joy. Then I began to reflect on what I considered a disservice to my Sisters by underrepresenting them last week on the playlist. It bothered me, it did. So this week I bring you, Women Who Will Rock Your World! Now let's get to work on the rest of those misogynistic notions. Note: The entire album 'Nikki Nack' by tUnE-yArDs won't be released until May 6th but you can listen to 'Water Fountain' now. Jen and I give it two big thumbs up. I sense a summer hit song/album. "
Here is what you can find on the shelves that is new next week. Come in and visit us, or put your items on hold from home! We will let you know when they are ready for you to pick up!
I feel I should tell you this right off the bat. We are not playing with this whole winter reappearance thing. It is just wrong that my car can be covered not only with pollen, but snow and ice too. If I am going to have allergy issues, it should at least be warmish out there. Babs B and I are still committed to maintaining the bare leg policy. And now, Erin has joined the sisterhood and is bare legging it too. I have foresworn the winter coat and don't want to see it again until maybe November. Sweet Ann has decorated the Egg Tree and is ready for Sunday. Even Sally has declared that she is only wearing spring colors from here on out. The message hung outside the SoNo Loft says, "Long Live the Fighters" so it would appear that they would be with us if they knew we existed. So won't you join us in solidarity? Declare it spring and it will be so! Don't let the cold, the snow, the sleet and the rest win. It's spring already! This week we have a dead doctor, winner! winner! chicken dinner!, some disappointment, spies, Boris!, and an Oscar winner. The Playlist? It's here too.
Let us begin!
Sweet Ann has just finished A Circle of Wives by Alice LaPlant. "This is a murder mystery with quite a twist. What makes this novel different is that the victim is married to three women. Dr. John Taylor, a renowned plastic surgeon, is found dead in a Palo Alto hotel. Dr. Taylor and his wife Deborah are not happy after their thirty years together. But rather than divorce and lose her social standing, she comes up with this crazy idea to keep her husband happy and her marriage intact. She has helped him find two other wives who do not know that he is married. MJ is a hippie type with quite the past, Helen is a renowned children's oncologist and there might be another woman no one knows about. This was a fun read. I also enjoyed Ms. LaPlante's previous novel, Turn of Mind which told the story of a woman suffering from Alzheimer's who is being investigated for the murder of her best friend."
Barbara M is asking questions. "What would do if you won 18.5 million Euros in the lottery? That's the dilemma the protagonist in My Wish List by Gregoire Delacourt faces. Although it seems like a simple problem, it isn't really; the consequences are life changing. Jocelyne and her husband of twenty-one years live a rather mundane life in a small town in France. Their children are grown, she runs a fabric shop and he works as a manager in a factory. When she wins the lottery she decides to tell no one except her elderly father who, after having had a stroke forgets everything every six minutes. What she does instead is make a list of how she could spend the money. This is a delightful little novel about change and choice. "
Virginia the Tall Cool Texan is bemoaning a lack of substance. "When I first started The Divorce Papers by Susan Rieger, I was really hopeful it was going to be one of those fun chick lit books that just begs to be read on the beach. Unfortunately, it didn't live up to its potential. Sophie, the main character, is a promising young criminal attorney who gets roped into handling a complicated divorce for the daughter of the firm's top client. Begrudgingly she takes the case and while her criminal-law approach to the divorce wins accolades from the client and the partners, it leads to tension in the office. To add to her stress, handling a divorce has made her question the choices she has made in her personal life. Written as a series of emails, memos and lots of legal materials, the story ends up getting lost in too much legalese. Don't get me wrong, I have a fondness for the epistolary style of writing and the author showed promise, but if you were to subtract all of the pure legal jargon (most of which you end up skimming) you really have only enough substance for a short story.
Steph is here this week to tell us about an interesting author mash-up. "Last weekend I read Decoded by Mai Jia and loved it. Jia is one of China's most famous novelists, but this is his first book translated into English. It's a fantastic quasi-spy thriller/historic novel of cryptology and genius. The combination means that fans of Amy Tan and John le Carre will find something to enjoy in this one!"
Jeanne is here with only one thing this week. But, I must say that she is very excited about it. "Even if you have already read The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt, you must listen to it on audio. I borrowed it through Overdrive and David Pittu is BRILLIANT as the young and older troubled Theo Decker, his nerdy friend Andy Barbour, his crazy, but loyal Russian friend, Boris and his savior and extraordinary antiquarian, James 'Hobie' Hobart. There are many more characters that Pittu gives voice to in an authentic, entertaining manner that enriches Tartt's fascinating story of losses, loves and deceit in the art and antiques world as lived in New York City, but also Las Vegas, Amsterdam and Maine."
I always have the best of intentions. Truly. But as my sons will tell you, the DVDs that I usually bring home become coasters for my evening wine and are never even opened. In fact, son Thomas greets all instances of DVDs appearing at home with a requisite eye roll, a voice tinged with disgust and the following statement, 'Great. Another DVD we won't watch.' That being said, Barbara M recently pressed one into my hands, insisted I bring it home and actually watch for a change. And so I recently had the great pleasure of watching Twenty Feet from Stardom which won the Oscar for best documentary. Twenty Feet brings us into the world of backup singers and their very complicated and fraught relationship with fame. I loved the Bruce Springsteen piece in the beginning of the film where he states that the '20 feet walk to the spotlight can be complicated.' Of course it can! Not all of us want the spotlight. A whole lot of us are very content to be twenty feet away from the spotlight doing what we do. But imagine if you will what the Stone's Gimme Shelter would sound like without the amazing vocals of Merry Clayton. Hardly the same song I would imagine. You really come to admire these ladies and I guarantee that you will be in awe of their gifts. Barbara was right. Take this one home and play it.
DJ Jazzy Patty McC is here with The Playlist and some thoughts on one of my favorite Rites of Spring: the reappearance of Mad Men. I do love me some Roger Sterling. "So I gave up watching Mad Men due to my own issues. Yes, it's a wildly popular TV show. Yes, those things really happened. I just couldn't get over my own reaction to the sexism that was played out in every episode. Does this make me any less a feminist? I'd like to think not. Then my sweet partner pointed out the number of men vs. women on my playlist this week given the era. I balked, choked, spit, sputtered and showed him the women on the playlist. He was right. There were a disproportionate number of men vs. women. I grew up in the Motor City. I know music. I do. But I'd missed out on some great women who were sharing their voice. This week may we all find our voice as women, men, individuals and people who might otherwise need help finding it. Now, rock on ladies…
Spring is suddenly everywhere we look and we are all out there staking our claim. Like the swallows to Capistrano, and the buzzards to Hinckley Ohio, the osprey's have returned to their summer home over at the police station. The pansies are out next door and across the street and I have seen the eight man shells out on the Norwalk and Saugatuck rivers from my train. What is probably the ultimate sign that we are hurtling into spring, The Traveling Companion is with the rest of his Writing Brethren at Augusta reporting on his 29th (!) Masters. I suspect he must have felt a bit like Dorothy leaving behind the gray of Kansas and stepping into Technicolor Munchkin Land. Erin is rocking the seersucker and she has stated that she refuses to wear her winter coat anymore. As for myself, I have committed to the Bare Leg. Not so much because it's spring, it is more that I am down to one pair of hose and I just can't face buying more. So there's that. And the fact that I hate wearing hose, and that Babs B. started the Bare Leg earlier this week. I figure if Babs says it is fine to do so, then it is so. This week we have a road trip, a spooky mystery, donations of a kind, some flawed humans (are there any other kind?), April in Paris, a marriage, and the love of books. And really? A weekend without The Play List? Not happening.
Let us begin!
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USA/Europe partnership for integrated research and education in wind energy intermittency: From wind farm turbulence to economic management - Johns Hopkins University
This U.S.-European PIRE project with researchers from four U.S. universities and international partners in Denmark, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Belgium and Spain will address pressing research questions that arise when adding the inherently intermittent wind-energy source to our power systems. Overall, the intent is to jointly generate tools to better understand, characterize and manage the consequences of wind power fluctuations. By focusing on statistical tools to examine predictability, multiple time scales and spatial and temporal variability of wind fluctuations, the US-European team expects to gain new and timely knowledge about the physical sources of variability and intermittency and produce results to help define more efficient methods for utilizing wind as a sustainable, cost-effective power source. New grid modeling tools that incorporate improved statistical characterizations of wind-farm output variability should help optimize future resource siting and design. Econometric methods and market data may be used to propose potential, new policy levers and market designs to support practical, cost-ef
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I lost ~1k shields with the nerf. Not too big a deal. I actually think I died less (or, not at all) in Elite STFs last night. Didn't the change log say they weakened them a bit?
Did you check that while on the ground or in space? My MACO Mk XII shield lost close to 3k and my Cov. Mk X Capx3 even more.
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They were supposed to be getting rid of the one-shots, but I got one shot twice - one of those times with full hull, full shields and I can't be certain but I'm almost positive I was out of range (I was chasing a target).
They are well known to one-shot 15km and even further. If they're targeted on you and you leave their range, they still hit you. Not too sure why this is such an issue to fix but it seems worse with my escorts shields being lower as a result of the Field Generator Console changes. 6 digit hits are unsurviveable but most are still 85k and up.


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My images are not in the public domain. All images are ©Elaine Teague. All rights reserved. They should not be published, transferred, reproduced, modified or used in any way or in any part thereof without my written permission. If you wish to purchase any of my images you may safely do so through this site.
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More of my Still Life Photography
Quality Art and Photography – 2 May 2012
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[3] March 15, 2015 at 11:58pm
Precious metals are NOT an "investment". They are a hedge against inflation. 10% in precious metals is about right, however lately they are stagnant.
[7] March 12, 2015 at 10:34pm
How do you remove "factory installed" tinting? Buy new glass?
Was the couple from the same state where they were pulled over?
This is one regulation that should be standardized nationwide.
BTW: I can see inside the vehicle on the picture, how can that be illegal?
[1] February 25, 2015 at 6:52pm
WE TV is a basic cable channel, not broadcast. "WE" stands for "Women's Entertainment".
[1] February 14, 2015 at 9:59pm
A $20 cable bill probably is for "lifeline"service, basically the over the air local stations and not much else. Unless you live in a fringe area it would be cheaper to invest in an antenna than pay the cable company for your "free" locals.
January 25, 2015 at 9:02pm
Why would he need "permission" to write a book? I thought free speech was guanteed in the Constitution. It should not matter that he was the fire chief. He has the guarenteed right to publish that book or any other opinion he wants (outside of slanderous speech of course).
In addition to Religious persecuition he should take this as a first amendment case.
January 25, 2015 at 8:21pm
"In God We Trust".
Those who drink the Kool Aid of "separation of Church and State" are doomed to the evil that originally came up with the concept (i.e. the Soviet Union's constitution, NOT the U.S. Constitution).
[8] January 18, 2015 at 1:23pm
The irony of calling a non Catholic church "Bible-based" is the fact that the Bible was compiled by…
The Catholic Church!
BTW: Those "Bible based churches" have an edited version of the Bible. The ORIGINAL Bible has 73 books, non Catholic Bibles have only 66. The rejected books and verses from some otherwise accepted Old Testament books were rejected because they were not written in Hebrew. Talk about the wisdom of man.
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[6] January 18, 2015 at 12:47pm
Can you explain how a how in a "hallucination" Colton Colton met his miscarried sister? He had no knowledge of his mother's prior pregnancy. He was only 3, I doubt anyone shared that information with him.
Perhaps it's YOU who are hallucinating by your misguided beliefs. The "filth and ignorance" are a result of sin. God does not want us to live that way. But he also does not want us to think that we are in control.
[1] January 17, 2015 at 3:46pm
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January 11, 2015 at 9:02pm
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This guy will probably face a firing squad. They don't mess around in China.
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It boggles my mind that vehicles sold in the U.S., or other right side of the road countries, would put their fuel feed tubes on the right hand side of the car. We drive on the right, we should all go to the right of the gas pump island, which means a fuel feed tube on the LEFT SIDE!
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If you have Dish HD and tune to ch 205 right now you get The Blaze in HD!!!
When the CNN dispute happened, we got The Blaze in SD, but this time it's in HD.
While I miss Fox News, I appreciate getting The Blaze in HD (it should have been in HD since day one).
As for these disputes, all pay TV providers go through this nonsense. Direct TV had one with The Weather Channel just to name one recent one. Cable systems are not immune either. Several years ago it was FOX on COX.
December 28, 2014 at 11:20pm
I saw a similar poll a few weeks ago. Rand Paul was nowhere to be found on the list. As much as the lame stream media hated his brother, I'm surprised they are pushing Jeb. They must want a "Bush Dynasty" to blame on the future's implosion.
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[3] December 11, 2014 at 9:38pm
How is a factual situation (the twin brother's different sexual orientations) hate speech? Unless it's a lie it has to be the truth! DNA has nothing to do with sexual orientation.
Unnatural sexual desires are of the Devil, no matter what you may chose to believe. Over 20 years ago I had a dream (I was unmarried at the time). In that dream someone was trying to tell me that I would be better off married to another man. I'm not gay, and never once thought in that way. Men had made advances towards me several times but I was not interested. This dream came from the evil one to try and change me since I was over 30 and had yet to meet the right lady. That was in the early 90′s, long before the concept of "gay marriage" was in the public conscience.
So where did the gay marriage idea originate? From the pit of Hell!
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Geez, I make one typo. I try to edit it and I get multiple windows that briefly appear and then disappear, I can't fix it.
.When I hit "Post" the browser locks up.
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Thanks fr the heads-up Monk!
I use Ghostery on my work PC. It finds a legion of ads (17 as I type this now). The majority of stories comments sections are totally blank, even though I do see (the number) of comments. At home on my MAC with Safari, it's a little bit better , but still lots of things broken due to the glut of ads.
Weather or not Chris is responsible is not the issue. The Blaze has to fix these problems and soon!
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The next time a live camera is anywhere near someone with a Guy Fawkes mask PULL THE MASK OFF THEIR FACE!
Anonymous is the 21st Century KKK, hiding behind a mask is no different than wearing a sheet.
November 2, 2014 at 8:39pm
I got Barachial too. I was hoping I'd get Michael since I'm name after him.
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PHILADELPHIA — The Penn Museum is unwrapping the mystery of mummy conservation, giving the public an unusual close-up of researchers' efforts to preserve relics from ancient Egypt.
Human and animal mummies, as well as an intricately inscribed coffin, are among the items undergoing treatment and repair at the Philadelphia institution's newly installed Artifact Lab.
Housed in a special gallery, the glass-enclosed workspace lets visitors share in "the thrill of discovery," museum director Julian Siggers said.
"It demonstrates to you the work that's actually being done behind the walls of these galleries," Siggers said.
Visitors can watch staff members use microscopes, brushes and other tools of the trade to inspect, study and preserve items including the mummy of a 5-year-old girl, several human heads, a colorful but damaged sarcophagus, and a painting from a tomb wall.
Flat-screen monitors display magnified views of the relics as they are being examined. Conservators will also set aside time twice a day to answer questions from the public.
The archaeology and anthropology museum has identified 30 objects from its 42,000-piece Egyptian collection to be conserved during the evolving project. Many of the lab items have not been exhibited before because of their poor condition, said conservator Molly Gleeson.
Among Gleeson's first projects are preserving the mummies of a cat, falcon and ibis. She described the falcon's linen wrappings as frayed and powdery, and noted its precariously attached head would need to be stabilized before the mummy could be displayed.
Also undergoing study are hieroglyphic-inscribed slabs of wood that comprised the coffin of an Egyptian named Ahanakht, circa 2000 B.C. Conservation efforts led researchers to discover hidden inscriptions on the seams, said David Silverman, curator-in-charge of the Egyptian section.
Head conservator Lynn Grant said staff members continuously experience a sense of wonder as they work with historical artifacts.
"It is a delight, with this new space, to be able to share that with our visitors and give people an idea of what's going on behind the scenes," Grant said.
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Nick was looking for some help on a Hyper-V question:
I have a customer deploying Windows 2008 R2 Hyper-V on BL465 G8 with Emulex 554FLB CNAs.
We are seeing largely differing levels of performance in the GUI while we are configuring the Hyper-V host itself, but there doesn't appear to be any consistent thread. For instance, we launched the AV install on 2 separate servers and on one it run almost immediately but on the other it took substantially longer to open (AV is just the example, it has been seen on different tasks such as NIC teaming and Windows update). When it hangs or runs slow there don't appear to be any high CPU time processes.
Each host has 32 cores and 128GB of memory and is boot from san (3PAR)
I saw a similar issue with VMware ESXi VM and it proved to be a driver issue (the driver is configured for a heavy load and only running 1 VM caused poor IO performance on the fabric). Unfortunately I cannot find anything similar for Hyper-V.
Has anyone else experienced anything similar?
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A quick update, we appear to (hopefully) have fixed this now, we are BFS and running everything at 8GB, but the portfill was set to 0. We have changed this to 3 and so far performance appears to have stabilised.
Interestingly a few of the SAN consultants I spoke to believe this should have been the default for brand new switches (as did I) but it was not the case in our switches.
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Climate Astrologer Stephen Chu Steps Down
And has a hissy fit
(Yahoo News) Energy Secretary Steven Chu, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist frequently the target of Republican criticism, announced Friday that he was stepping down in the latest shake-up of President Barack Obama's Cabinet. Chu, who disclosed his decision in a letter to Energy Department staff, frequently clashed with GOP lawmakers over gas prices as well as government backing for green-energy companies like the failed firm Solyndra.
In his letter, Chu took aim directly at his critics, saying the clean-energy efforts were a success–and blasted climate-change skeptics as trapped in "the Stone Age."
A success, if your definition of includes massively wasting taxpayer money and watching Stimulus funded companies (80% of which were Obama/Democrat donors) go bankrupt, while increasing the costs of food and pretty much everything else.
He also scolded climate-change skeptics and urged a shift from fossil-fuels to other sources of energy.
While Chu doesn't have a car himself, his wife drives a gas guzzling BMW 325i. No Chevy Volt for the Chu's! Oh, and I wonder how Chu gets around the country? Fossil fueled travel would be the likely answer.
"The overwhelming scientific consensus is that human activity has had a significant and likely dominant role in climate change," Chu warned in his letter. "There is also increasingly compelling evidence that the weather changes we have witnessed during this thirty year time period are due to climate change."
Consensus is not science. But, then, this has never been about science, but about forcing far left progressive/fascist ideals on people. As for "weather changes"
(Roger Pielke, Jr) With this post I am creating a handy bullshit button on this subject (pictured above). Anytime that you read claims that invoke disasters loss trends as an indication of human-caused climate change, including the currently popular "billion dollar disasters" meme, you can simply call "bullshit" and point to the IPCC SREX report.
The "extreme weather" mantra is a huge steaming pile of mule fritters.
And if Warmists like Chu actually believed their own propaganda, they'd change their own lives to be "carbon neutral". They won't.
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I'm working on a volume of grave locations for veterans of Co. M, 15th NY Heavy Artillery. Could I have your permission to use the picture you posted of William Thurston's grave in this compilation? I will cite you as the source.
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You are welcome for the photo, glad to be of assistance. By the way, Hezekiah is my fourth great grandfather, hence, a personal stake in taking a good photo.
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Thank you for the flower you left for him. It gave me additional information I need to make sure the memorial is as accurate as possible. It is sad to say but on the 1870 Mortality Schedule in Andalusia,Illinois they listed this man as basically a vagrant. After all he did for his country. They had just gotten to the area and no one knew them.
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What lovely lovely words of thanks to read this morning. YOU certainly did make my day!
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With David A Catlin, I could not resist!
I was curious of what his relationship was to me when you sent the note...so I did a bit of research only to find that he is the paternal grandfather of the wife of a brother-in-law of my 2nd Great Aunt. I had to chuckle to myself when I saw the relationship...smiling. Now that is truly getting a bit off the main branch...wink!
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Alan, I think there is probably only one grave there (if it can be found). The below transcription is from GAB's records. It doesn't indicate that the parents are there.
SCHOONMAKER, Albert M., son of Marvin & Ruth SCHOONMAKER, d. 12 May 1872, ae 6 y, 10 m, 7 d
When I get done with Woodbourne Reformed, I was thinking of working on the Fallsburg cemetery.
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RE: Alexander Catlin family, Elmwood Cemetery
You are very welcome, Bert. It was great seeing these stones in the sunshine instead of under the shadows of the trees. -Deb
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RE: Lucinda Teller
Whoa! You really did clean it up!!!!! You went above and beyond Alan...thanks so much. I am just happy I noticed her sitting back there in another photo. I often wonder how cemeteries get updated given most don't keep or want to lend a master list by date. Would be an undaunting task to have to rewalk the whole cemetery. Bless people like you who do get out for those of use who can't. Have a great week Alan
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Hello - Just wanted to let you know that I posted new photos for for Captain Alexander, Lucinda, Abigail, and Moses Catlin. They're finally out of the shadows :). best regards -Deb
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Are you related to Simeon Catlin?
I am, and would like to know more about our family history, if you have any information it would be greatly appreciated. My grandmother is Lois Pauline Catlin 1908 Iowa - 1945 South Dakota. Her father Eugene Paul Catlin. Simeon is my Great grandfather(5x)
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Lucinda Teller
Hi there...I have been looking for the burial site for a Teller relative of mine for quite awhile. She should have been in Grahamsville, but I didn't find her on several sites. I was looking at James Teller one day thinking and got a notion to enlarge it and way in the back...yup there was my missing Lucinda. I added her in and put in a request for the headstone, but nobody has picked up on it yet. If you ever go back there again, could you please take a minute to take her picture?
This is James...way in back you clearly see Lucinda Teller if you enlarge it.
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