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Night Train to Rigel | ||||||||
Timothy Zahn | ||||||||
Tor, 253 pages | ||||||||
A review by Rich Horton
At first blush this setup seems transparently an excuse to use a silly title like Night Train to Rigel. But
so be it -- there have been worse backgrounds for good SF stories! The hero is Frank Compton, a former agent for
Earth's intelligence service who was cashiered for his public criticism of the expensive plans to colonize the last
planetary system required to make Earth an "Empire" in the Spiders' eyes. As the story opens he is accosted by a
murdered man, and offered a ticket to Yandro, Earth's controversial colony in the Rigel system. He accepts seemingly
on impulse -- though we learn that he has accepted another job, its nature not revealed until much later.
Once onboard the train, Frank is quickly apprised of the nature of the commission implied by his acceptance of the
ticket. It seems the Spiders are concerned about a potential future war among the Twelve
Empires: a war that they had hoped to prevent by their strict policy against taking weapons on the trains. Frank
acquires a mysterious human companion, a young woman named Bayta who can telepathically communicate with the Spiders.
Frank and Bayta begin a journey along the interstellar railways, looking for the unidentified warmongers the Spiders want to find.
Frank quickly realizes they are the objects of interest of a variety of entities, including an alien Frank had known
on his previous job, and also his former boss, a man whom he has cause to hate. They survive attempts on their life,
and attempts to frame them for murder, and they seem to be herded towards the Sistarrko system, which includes a resort
on one of a pair of gas giant moons, a moon which is home to the extremely popular Modhri coral. And there, of course,
(this being the kind of novel it is) they learn secrets affecting the future of the Galaxy... and they are in the
position to affect said future.
I must say that for the first half of the book or so I was annoyed.
Zahn seemed to be driving his plot by a series of absurd coincidences and unlikely actions. But to be fair, he is aware of
all this, and by the end of the book things are explained in a satisfying manner. The central idea of the book, and the
eventually revealed good guys and
(especially) Bad Guy, aren't terribly new ideas, but they are fairly well handled in this context. The book is pretty
enjoyable, though the opening sections do drag a bit. As I suggested, Zahn redeems some of the weaknesses of the
beginning by the end, and I ended up a pleased, but not really thrilled, customer.
Rich Horton is an eclectic reader in and out of the SF and fantasy genres. He's been reading SF since before the Golden Age (that is, since before he was 13). Born in Naperville, IL, he lives and works (as a Software Engineer for the proverbial Major Aerospace Company) in St. Louis area and is a regular contributor to Tangent. Stop by his website at http://www.sff.net/people/richard.horton. |
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A ready-to-use portfolio custom post type.
Download v126.96.36.199Installation Instructions
- Upload the plugin zip folder by clicking on the "Download" button above.
- In your WordPress admin, go in plugins -> add new, and choose the "upload" option.
- Upload the plugin zip folder and click on "Activate plugin".
Being a free product, this plugin is distributed as-is without official support. Verified customers however, who have purchased a premium theme will have access to support for this plugin in the forums.
17 December 2014 - Version 188.8.131.52
- Added Italian translation files
6 December 2014 - Version 1.1.5
- Updated Isotope
- Improved template system. Templates can be overwritten in a theme
- Enqueue style with wp_enqueue_script to be able to dequeue stylsheet in a theme
12 May 2014 - Version 1.1.4
- Optimzed Responsive Breakpoints
- Set active class for filter categories on taxonomy pages
21 April 2014 - Version 1.1.3
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8 April 2014 - Version 1.1.2
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6 November 2013 - Version 1.1.1
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31 August 2013 - Version 1.0
- Initial Release
13 thoughts on "Portfolio"
Alexandra 1 year ago First of all, thank you so much for this! I was trying to do this exact code all day and then I stumbled onto your website & plugin. With a few tweaks it works very wonderfully on my website. I am by no means good at coding, just self taught and trying to learn how to properly do everything on my own… so hopefully with this I can cross reference and learn what I did wrong when I attempted it. I was wondering, how difficult it would be to use MixItUp's plugin: http://mixitup.io/ instead of Isotope? Anyway, thank you so much for this again!
BrutalDesign 1 year ago You're welcome
damiroquai 1 year ago Hello,
I like your plugin alot, and I found it very useful. I would like to use it (modify) to create photo gallery plugin, so I'm wondering what's the license of the plugin, can I edit it and create another plugin with your code mentioning that I used your source code and add you as a contributor? (I'm aware of isotope license). Also I would change your plugin in a way that my new gallery plugin is compatible (not in conflict) with your portfolio plugin. Thank you.-
BrutalDesign 1 year ago Hi,
Actually, I have a gallery plugin that will be released soon on this very website. For now it is availble through premium themes but you can download it here
http://plugins.wpwolf.com/wolf-albums/wolf-albums.zipOtherwise, all my plugins are free and you can do basically anything you want with them, except of course, selling them!
I hope it will help
Rosanna 12 months ago Hi there!
Well done with the plugin, it's very good.
I was wondering whether there was a way to hide date on each work, especially the day and maybe show only month and year of the project?
BrutalDesign 12 months ago thx!
Yes you can hide the date with a bit of CSS
.work-date{ display:none; } .work-meta:first-child .work-meta-separator{ display:none; }
The date format is the one set in the wordpress settings
8head 11 months ago Hi WOW!
Great work. I am interested in your plugins but there are no demos. I was wondering if you have a demo of any of your portfolio / photo plugins. I have seen swipebox which is what brought me to you and it is fantastic.Let me know when you get a chance….
8head -
brandon tamm 10 months ago This is a great plugin and I'd like to use it..
I used Bedrock and Roots to create my portfolio theme from http://roots.io . This theme uses composer to manage plugins as dependencies. To use your plugin, it must first be added to the wordpress directory to get replicated to http://wpackagist.org.
Please let me know – thanks!!
Dustin Storm 7 months ago Is there anything I can do to set a default portfolio category? I have the portfolio as the homepage but don't want to show all of the portfolio items on this page – just select items. Thanks!
BrutalDesign 7 months ago Hi,
Unfortunately it is not possible at the moment
Rogier van Roon 6 months ago Love this simple portfolio custom post set-up! As there are no sorting options, I'm trying to figure out how to sort the isotope alfabetic by title instead on date though. I think I'm close following the WordPress Codex (http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_terms), but am stuck on how to get this to work with the isotope array. Could you shine a light on this?
BrutalDesign 5 months ago Hi,
You can edit the arguments in the templates/filter.php file
Better use the template system and duplicate this file in your theme, in a wolf-portfolio folder before editing itI hope it will help
Riccardo 3 months ago Hello,
I installed the plugin and initially worked well,
but now no longer the filter isotope.what is the problem?

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Intrinsic metric
In the mathematical study of metric spaces, one can consider the arclength of paths in the space. If two points are at a given distance from each other, it is natural to expect that one should be able to get from one point to another along a path whose arclength is equal to (or very close to) that distance. The distance between two points of a metric space relative to the intrinsic metric is defined as the infimum of the length of all paths from one point to the other. A metric space is a length metric space if the intrinsic metric agrees with the original metric of the space.
Let be a metric space. We define a new metric on , known as the induced intrinsic metric, as follows: is the infimum of the lengths of all paths from to .
Here, a path from to is a continuous map
with and . The length of such a path is defined as explained for rectifiable curves. We set if there is no path of finite length from to . If
for all points and in , we say that is a length space or a path metric space and the metric is intrinsic.
We say that the metric has approximate midpoints if for any and any pair of points and in there exists in such that and are both smaller than
- .
- Euclidean space with the ordinary Euclidean metric is a path metric space. is as well.
- The unit circle with the metric inherited from the Euclidean metric of (the chordal metric) is not a path metric space. The induced intrinsic metric on measures distances as angles in radians, and the resulting length metric space is called the Riemannian circle. In two dimensions, the chordal metric on the sphere is not intrinsic, and the induced intrinsic metric is given by the great-circle distance.
- Every Riemannian manifold can be turned into a path metric space by defining the distance of two points as the infimum of the lengths of continuously differentiable curves connecting the two points. (The Riemannian structure allows one to define the length of such curves.) Analogously, other manifolds in which a length is defined included Finsler manifolds and sub-Riemannian manifolds.
- Any complete and convex metric space is a length metric space (Khamsi & Kirk 2001, Theorem 2.16), a result of Karl Menger. The converse does not hold in general, however: there are length metric spaces which are not convex.
- In general, we have and the topology defined by is therefore always finer than or equal to the one defined by .
- The space is always a path metric space (with the caveat, as mentioned above, that can be infinite).
- The metric of a length space has approximate midpoints. Conversely, every complete metric space with approximate midpoints is a length space.
- The Hopf–Rinow theorem states that if a length space is complete and locally compact then any two points in can be connected by a minimizing geodesic and all bounded closed sets in are compact.
- Gromov, Mikhail (1999), Metric Structures for Riemannian and Non-Riemannian Spaces, Progress in Math. 152, Birkhäuser, ISBN 0-8176-3898-9
- Khamsi, Mohamed A.; Kirk, William A. (2001), An Introduction to Metric Spaces and Fixed Point Theory, Wiley-IEEE, ISBN 0-471-41825-0


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Fri Dec 16 2005 07:11 Traditions:
John and I made some sugar cookies this week and decorated them. I used my Pampered Chef bowls to set out five different colors of frosting. We didn't roll and cut out the dough though; just made little balls. It is too much work for too many cookies that we won't eat, I'm afraid.
Somewhere along the line the Richardson's started drinking orange juice with ginger ale. I don't know where this came from (I suspect Leonard, an alcoholic drink, or both), but it's yummy! Of course, when John drinks his eggnog/ milk concoction, it means four bottles on the table for dinner.


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It's our 30th Wedding Anniversary and we took an early morning walk through Marshall Park. My wife, Ondine, took the first two pictures and I took the third one of her. The first picture shows two trees that form a heart. The second is of the neighbors swimming pool, very inviting isn't it?
Anniversary walk thru Marshall Park
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These three hunks pass our vote with flying Cum! But they are shooting their hot loads specifically for YOUR vote! The acitve duty military guy is a BIG sharp Shooter!
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devil18 December 13, 2008 - 08:20:28 (See all My Comments)
I'd go down on all of them any day
stryco June 02, 2008 - 05:33:39 (See all My Comments)
so call me greedy, but hunk#2 is not too bad either...
pretty floyd May 31, 2008 - 11:17:50 (See all My Comments)
I totally agree with you on this one, the third hunk, I'm little partial too, very sexy I think, you see this is what happen, when you put three together like this.
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I have a "part" for the young guy in "audition" photos #11 through #15!


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This world horticultural exhibition is held every ten years in the Netherlands. The 2002 edition is the fifth Floriade and its theme is "feel the art of nature." Although the primary emphasis is on Dutch horticulture, there are also exhibits from the Philippines, India, Brazil, Kenya, Columbia, Russia, Germany and Hungary.
Floriade only happens once every ten years. While it was a very nice garden show, I am glad that I did not make a special trip just for this event. It was a mixed bag of horticulture and tourism promotion. Many of the international areas had little if anything to do with the horticulture of those areas and seemed mostly devoted to selling handicrafts and souvenirs. So, it was a nice visit along with Keukenhof, Aalsmeer and other gardens but would have been a disappointment by itself.