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Independence of the Seas Cruise Review by leeds cruiser: The incredible Independence of the seas
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The first thing to say about this ship is that it is big. VERY big
We were initially met by an incredibly well organised embarkation procedure. We arrived there at 10.30 we were aboard by 11.15.
This gave us plenty of time to explore before our room was ready at 13.00
My mother, in the next cabin, took to cleaning her own bathroom. Our attendant just did not meet her standards.
Having said that he was a likeable enough guy.
The rest of the crew were a delight, helpful, cheerful, nothing too much trouble.
We did not go to any of the shows in the main theatre, not our cup of tea, but we did go to the ice show which was pretty good.
Food quality was patchy. Feeding 4000 people meant that the quality of the food in the main dining rooms was indifferent. By the time it got to us it was invariably tepid and dry. A huge contrast with the self service Windjammer which served a large variety of fresh, tasty, well presented food. So that is where we chose to eat.
But it is just too big and unmanageable. Crowds of people everywhere lining up for everything. We will avoid the new 220,000 monstrosity like the plague.
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of deck five seemed a little dark and uninviting but the contents of the shops were fine . Additionaly there were several cafes and bars on this level. The food quality was mixed but generally acceptable.
Our cabin was bright and spacious this, with the balcony, comprised more than enough room for the two of us. We had sufficient hanging space.
As for cleanliness the ship is probably one of the cleanest places I have ever been. This care did not extend to our room. I don't think our carpet was vacuumed during our entire trip. Our attendant just didn't seem to be bothered.
I made good use of the well equiped gym.
This ship is an incredible feat of engineering. To put an ice rink, a shopping mall and a flowrider surfing machine on a ship is just plain awesome.
On balance however we enoyed our trip and have booked again for December on a somewhat smaller vessel Less
Published 06/23/09
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Our D2 cabin was fine. Comfy Queen size bed. Balcony big enough for two.Sufficient hanging space. Totally quiet on level 8 towards the back of the ship
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Excellent duty free shopping .
Not to everyones taste but I like it
Lisbon is no exception
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The Cost Of Winning In Minnesota
The undecided Senate race between incumbent Republican Norm Coleman and challenger Al Franken has cost the two a combined $50 million dollars. What do you think?
"Wow. And Norm Coleman doesn't even have all those Air America royalty checks rolling in."
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Law Examiner"I bet they wish they had just spent the $20 million it costs to rig the election.""
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Systems Analyst"$50 million? For winning Minnesota? But it has Canada geese shit everywhere.""
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Huntsman courts Nashua voters on eve of Iowa Caucus
NASHUA – On the eve of the Iowa Caucus, Jon Huntsman had New Hampshire to himself Monday.
While presumed presidential frontrunners Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich and the rest of the Republican field flocked to the Hawkeye State for Tuesday's caucus, Huntsman, the former Utah governor, stopped in Nashua, greeting voters and courting votes in Gate City businesses.
He started the day meeting with Nashua Mayor Donnalee Lozeau, and he then moved on to Main Street, where he stopped in the Nashua Garden and Norton's Classic Cafe, among other businesses.
"Great to see you. How can I get your vote?" Huntsman said, joining diners in a booth at the Main Street cafe.
"We're out here trying to win every vote we can," he said. "We're going to do very well next week."
Huntsman, who has trailed in most state and national polls, has staked his campaign almost entirely on next week's New Hampshire primary. Unlike his competitors, he has hardly campaigned in Iowa. This fall, he re-located his campaign headquarters to Manchester, and in the months since he has held nearly 150 public events across the Granite State.
"I think we will prove this was absolutely the right strategy," the candidate said, sitting in a booth at the Nashua Garden. "A day or two after Iowa, people will have forgotten about the results. ... The spotlight will be on New Hampshire, and the results coming out of New Hampshire will be consequential."
Recent polls suggest Huntsman's groundwork may be starting to pay off. The candidate placed fourth in a poll of likely New Hampshire voters released this week by Suffolk University in Boston.
According to the poll, Huntsman trails only Romney, the former Massachusetts governor, Gingrich, the former House Speaker, and Texas Congressman Ron Paul.
"I wouldn't be surprised if he landed in the top three (in New Hampshire)," said Lozeau, the Nashua governor, who met with Huntsman Monday morning.
She has not yet offered her endorsement to any candidate.
"There are some candidates who are very comfortable with just your basic retail people skills," Lozeau said. "I think that's why he's doing so well with that here."


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Nuns buy shares of Croatian team
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Now that the World Cup of Literature is officially over, with Roberto Bolaño's By Night in Chile taking home the prize, it's time to get back to writing normal blog posts, starting with this much overdue "preview" of forthcoming July translations.
My initial plan with this post was to write it "live blog" style from Las Vegas where I was last month for the American Library Association conference. Unfortunately, many things got in the way of that, starting with the $14.95/day wifi costs in my hotel (Open Letter saves its money to spend on translators, not to allow me to make dumb jokes!), not to mention the 9am kickoff for the World Cup games, and the alcohol that I drank (see insane Eiffel Tower drink below).
So, instead, I'm going to try and work some of my observations into the write-ups below. But, unlike the music industry, which hasn't brought out much of anything good this month, publishers are dropping some awesome stuff this summer. Bitov, Robbe-Grillet, Volodine, Haas, Can Xue . . . There are some legit overviews below to go with the usual assortment of random crap.
But to set the scene a bit: Way back when, before BEA locked itself into being in Jacob Javits's glass house for a decade (or whatever), the show was supposed to take place in Las Vegas. Given the nonsensical nature of BEA and its parties, I couldn't wait for this show. Booksellers AND strippers??! Lowly publicity assistants blowing their per diem at the craps table?? More drunken beardos than the streets of Brooklyn after a Pavement concert! SIGN ME UP.
Unfortunately, that BEA got moved to the Western West Side and was like every other BEA: A bit unfocused, a bit depressing, and a bit self-congratulatory.
Fast-forward a bunch of years, and now, when I'm too old to fully rock out anymore of course, I finally get to attend a convention in Vegas. One with fellow nerdy book people! Heading into it, I figured this was going to be great, and that I was going to lead at least a dozen librarians into nights of bad decision making.
Just to pause for a moment though, these are the people who attend ALA:
And those are the librarians from Austin. So, yeah. Vegas. Librarians. Books, booze, and gambling. Free flowing liquor. Temps above 110. My never-ending depression. What could possibly go wrong?
The Last Lover by Can Xue, translated from the Chinese by Annelise Finegan Wasmoen (Yale University Press)
Can Xue has to be the female Chinese author with the most books translated into English. She's been published by Henry Holt, Northwestern, Open Letter, Yale, and has appeared in a number of issues of Conjunctions. Part of this is because she's a fucking brilliant and strange writer, part of this is due to her natural charm. I finally had a chance to meet her in person last fall at the Reykjavik International Literary Festival (see our interview) and immediately signed on another of her novels, Frontier. This isn't much of a secret, really, but publishers like to work with people they like. I'll happily sign on a book that's an 8 out of 10 instead of a book that's a 10 out of 10 if the author/translator is someone that I really respect and like working with.
Which is why certain people won't ever translate anything for Open Letter. Ever.
And I'll bet you were expecting the "last lover" to lead to some sort of joke about escorts and Vegas and librarians . . .
Rachel by Andrei Gelasimov, translated from the Russian by Marian Schwartz (Amazon Crossing)
This is the fourth of Gelasimov's books that Amazon Crossing has published, three of which (including this one) are on sale for $1.99 right now. Say what you will about pricing, Hachette, and the decline of modern civilization, this is worth taking advantage of if for no other reason than the fact that Marian translated the books. She's one of the most amazing translators we've got, and if she loves an author—like she does with Gelasimov—everyone should pay attention.
A Sentimental Novel by Alain Robbe-Grillet, translated from the French by D.E. Brooke (Dalkey Archive Press)
In Vegas, I stayed in Bally's hotel, which is attached to the Paris hotel. Or rather, Le Paris hotel. For those of you who haven't been to Vegas, consider yourselves lucky. The Paris hotel includes a huge replica of the Eiffel Tower, which you can go up in on the "Le Eiffel Tower Adventure," the tickets for which can be purchased next to "Le Bar," which is across the way from "Le Toilettes" by "Le Sports Book." I'm not even fucking with you—all the signs in this hotel have "Le" appended to them. Ninety percent of the time, these make no sense—shouldn't it be "Les Toilettes"?—and the other one-hundred and ten percent of the time this is stupid as shit. It's like the worst simulacrum ever.
On the upside, they do sell the "Le Eiffel Daiquiri," a two-foot tall Eiffel Tower "glass" filled with 10-12 shots of rum. All for $16.95! Well, $16.95 and most of your better judgement.
Come, Sweet Death! by Wolf Haas, translated from the German by Annie Janusch (Melville House)
The U.S. vs. Germany World Cup match took place the first morning that I was in Vegas. I had talked a lot of shit to Nick from NYRB about getting up super early, finding a crazy bar to watch it in, etc., etc., but at 8am when my alarm went off, I thought I'd rather just stay in bed and avoid all the American Outlaws. One problem: no matter where I looked, I couldn't find the remote for my TV. Not on the TV stand, not in any of the drawers, not on top of the armoire, not under the bed, nowhere. So I rushed out, basically ran across to the one sports bar I already had scoped out, and ordered a coffee. Surprisingly, they did have coffee, but no coffee mugs . . . Instead, they served me a pint of coffee with a little sleeve so that I wouldn't burn the shit out of my hand. A pint of coffee.
This was one of my favorite Vegas experiences though, since I was seated between two dudes who chain smoked the entire game while playing video poker and downing screwdrivers. They had clearly been there all night, and were holding on to shreds of dignity and hope. Neither of them won jack, and one guy's friends never came to collect him from wherever they had been partying all night.
I did end up partaking in the $2 beer specials, which was probably the reason I fell asleep at the hotel pool a few hours later and woke up as red as I've ever been in my life . . . I'm still peeling . . . Once you turn 40, a 9am beer is the equivalent of twelve evening drinks. This is a life lesson for all you youngsters: Enjoy your wake'n'drink days before your body starts to hate you.
Symmetry Teacher by Andrei Bitov, translated from the Russian by Polly Gannon (FSG)
Of all the books on this list, this is the one that I'm most excited to read. I loved Bitov's Pushkin House (which Dalkey reissued a number of years back), and Michael Orthofer gave this one an A-. Based on the description—that this is an "echo book" of a book that Bitov once read and foggily remembers, but that leads him to create a series of self-reflexive, nested stories—it sounds like a fun, complicated game of a novel. And Orthofer really sells it with this:
The different stories that make up the novel are not so much unfinished or incomplete, but rather part of an overlapping continuity that probably can best be compared to an Escher loop (or loops of Escher loops . . .): not neatly nested, à la Calvino, or adhering to some similar determined Oulipian schemes, but rather capriciously folding back on themselves across time and space, the author's guiding hand in the frame but handing off responsibility in his layers of authorial invention, attributing a great deal to A. Tired-Boffin, who in turn credits Urbino Vanoski. etc. [. . .]
The Symmetry Teacher is about books and reading and writing that transcend the actual set text — literary echoes that arise and exist separately from what is in a fixed, written state. This is a novel where, typically, a character enthuses about his vivid memory of a particular scene — but admits he no longer can find it.
Poetics of Wonder: Passage to Mogador by Alberto Ruy Sanchez, translated from the Spanish by Rhonda Buchanan (White Pine)
Alberto Ruy Sanchez is included in our new anthology, A Thousand Forests in One Acorn, which may well be the most beautiful book we've ever published. Edelweiss does the design no favors, but you should click that link to see how amazing this is, and to request a digital reading copy. (Although you really should just buy the real thing.)
I'm sure most people already knew this, but Vegas has a monorail, which, every single time I saw it referenced, reminded me of this Simpson's epidode:
Why this song isn't playing continuously on every monorail platform is a failure on Vegas's part.
Writers by Antoine Volodine, translated from the French by Katina Rogers (Dalkey Archive)
To prepare for our upcoming pre-sales call, I just started reading all the Open Letter titles scheduled to come out in 2015 between April-August. Antoine Volodine's Post-Exoticism in Ten Lessons, Lesson Eleven (which, according to at least a few reviewers, is far superior to Writers), Georgi Gospodinov's The Physics of Sorrow, Naja Marie Aidt's Rock, Paper, Scissors, Juan José Saer's The One Before . . . Obviously, I love the books we publish, but this is that period of time when the dyssynchrony of being in the book world are the most apparent. We got the rights to Physics of Sorrow back in September of 2012, and no one else will be able to read this before the end of the year. But I read (or rather, reread) the first 50 pages last night, and I want everyone I know to have access to this right fricking now. It's one of the best things I've read all year. But by the time I can mail it out to people, I'll be reading the book coming out in January 2016 and my desire to talk Physics with other book people will be somewhat dulled. And by the time ordinary readers (compared to booksellers and reviewers who will receive advanced reading copies) get their hands on this, we'll be reading excerpts and signing on books for 2017.
I'm not sure I have a real point here, just that books and music are most of my life, and it's a weird experience when you remember that huge portions of your "life" are spent reading in a social void of sorts. That and: you all must read Post-Exoticism in Ten Lessons, Lesson Eleven and The Physics of Sorrow. As soon as they come out. And then email/tweet/text me.
Crow Blue by Adriana Lisboa, translated from the Portuguese by Alison Entrekin (Bloomsbury)
I just want to point out that this book is listed on the Bloomsbury website as part of Bloomsbury Circus. What the fuck is that, you ask?
Bloomsbury Circus is a place of fine writing from all over the world. There are exciting debuts and brilliant new work from such established writers as Patrick McGrath, Lucy Ellmann, Alice McDermott and Tobias Hill. Like any good circus, it is a list that is not frightened to take risks, while always being entertaining.
So, by "all over the world," they mean Britain, Scotland, and America? Maybe those are the "three rings" of this "circus"? Bloomsbury, your metaphor sucks. "Bloomsbury Circus" sounds like the publisher of kids books about acrobats and fucking clowns.
Matiushin Case by Oleg Pavlov, translated from the Russian by Andrew Bromfield (And Other Stories)
I think it's pretty ironic that & Other Stories which has the URL "stories.com" is a bag/accessories/shoes/lingerie shop. Why "stories"?
Speaking of random shops though, there's a Britney Spears Boutique in Vegas. I assume that it's wall-to-wall signed copies of Crossroads.
Mr. Gwyn by Alessandro Baricco, translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein (McSweeney's Books)
I haven't made fun of Flavorwire's list in a while, but this one on the 35 Writers Who Run the Literary Internet deserves to be laughed at. When I clicked on this, I was hoping for some conspiracy theory shit linking an unknown writer to media leaks about how Amazon burns 13 Hachette books a day as part of some corporate ritual, or something interesting like that. Instead, it's a list of writers with the most Twitter followers. Because Twitter equals the Internet and having the most followers is equivalent to "running it."
(Except for Zadie Smith! "She's one of the few big-name writers who has managed to develop a huge Internet presence without even seeming to spend much time online." In other words, she's a writer that people really like. How does she even fit in under the "Runs the Literary Internet" rubric? According to the description, what she "runs" is her own writing. Whatever.)
I know—and respect—some of the people on this list, others make me want to scratch my eyes out when I hear them speak on panels, most I don't "follow" and, to be honest, don't feel like I'm missing anything . . . Also, I know Flavorwire exists to create log-rolling lists as clickbait and to get the "listed" people to retweet the lists, generating more clicks and ensuring that these people (the listed) can end up on be on more lists and everyone can all end up at the same over-priced Brooklyn speakeasy drinking PBRs and old fashioneds. So this isn't anything personal against anyone involved—everyone is awesome.
That said, I love this comment: "Dear Flavorwire, America is not the world, for Chrissakes." Having fallen for way too many Flavorwire headline teases, I can assure you that, in the eyes of Flavorwire, America and Karl Ove Knausgaard ARE the world.
Secondly, the pictures of the women screaming with their mouths open? Is this a new meme? It's very unsettling.
Also, the only good thing about the World Cup being over is that Teju Cole will no longer be tweeting about it. I know he's got a million and one fans who will "rise as one" to annihilate me, but to be honest, I think his World Cup tweets were the worst. So self-absorbed and pedantic and boring. Kaija's #WorldCupTaunting bits were edgier, funnier, and much more entertaining than things like "Guillermo 'CTRL S' Ochoa."
Nothing was as bad as the #thetimeofthegame "idea." Just check this out:
What's funniest to me is that he took a screen cap of his own Twitter feed as his #thetimeofthegame entry. Twitter is like a Bloomsbury Circus of crap.
(Also, I know that these rants are why Open Letter books never make Flavorwire's lists, for which I apologize to all our authors and translators. My jokes about things that suck shouldn't represent Open Letter, but I'm afraid that some people take it that way.)
Guantanamo by Frank Smith, translated from the French by Vanessa Place (Les Figues)
I feel like explaining what I specifically didn't like about Las Vegas will come off as a string of clichés . . . but that might be due to the fact that there's no real separation from the depiction of Vegas in movies and TV shows—its excesses and bright lights and frenetic nature—and what it's really like. The whole strip area is set up as one huge experiment in behavioral economics designed to get people to spend too much money and make terrible decisions. Every hotel is connected to every other hotel by way of thirteen areas stuffed with gamble machines. It's all flashing and no straight path is actually straight. In between, the Paris and Bally hotels, you walk down a "hallway" that veers this way and that, coming out into a room of slots and tables and no idea which way to turn. This disorientation—a key behind shopping malls—facilitates the spending of money. The fact that there is no sense of time—it could be noon or five am—adds to this, and quickly turns a few drinks into an all-night bender involving $17 drinks with 12 shots of rum. That's why hotel staff keeps asking "are you OK?" in that tone that implies that you might well need medical attention but just don't realize it yet.
Vegas wants you to walk that fine line between "drunk enough to spend ten times what I was planning on" and "alcohol poisoning." We were in a bar where you could order a kilo of cavier for $7,200. A kilo. Who the fuck says, "could I get a kilo of cavier please?" Someone who just won big at the blackjack table. Who believes this is "free money" and that the best way to get value out of this free money is to blow it in one big huge, story-creating sort of way: "Dude, I won ten grand at a poker tournament and bought Cristal and a kilo of cavier and hit up the strip joint and puked in the Bellagio fountain. It was fucking epic!"
Thing is, maybe Vegas is right. Maybe a life of books and music is totally overrated. (And that's one more thing: culture really doesn't seem to exist in Vegas. I'm sure it does, out in the city, in pockets, outside of the Stratosphere and the High Roller and everything else that sucks, but when you think Vegas, you think Celine and Britney and Carrot Top — Carrot Top! — none of which are interesting or novel or worth dropping $100 to see.) Vegas represents a cultural black hole where anything goes, where you can escape your normal shitty life and believe for a time that you're a VIP, that you could win millions by betting on black, that the next drink will make you attractive. It's supposed to be a place of ultimate freedom, but those freedoms seem, to me, as a cynical depressed bastard, to only involve cheap sex, all the drinking, and the highly unlikely dream of easy money.
Invisible Love by Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt, translated from the French by Howard Curtis (Europa Editions)
I went to two "parties" during ALA: one about "gaming and cosplay," the other sponsored by Central Recovery Press.
No one was cosplayed up for the gaming one, and apparently, in the library world, "gaming" means "board games." As in, twenty librarians were sitting around a well-lit room playing board games. And no, there were no drinks. I lasted less than 30 seconds. Even BEA does better than that.
Central Recovery is a very admirable press dedicated to helping people overcome their addictions. Their party was out at Vegas City Hall, which is so much more interesting than the strip. It also seems like it's in the middle of nowhere, past the "Gambling Supplies Warehouse" and just out of sight from Circus, Circus. A special shuttle bus had to bring us there, since walking that far—even from the last monorail stop—would basically leave you dehydrated and dead. Good thing the Central Recovery party had all the Coke you could desire! (I was expecting coffee and donuts, but alas.) Anyway, aside from the fact that I'm not in AA and prefer parties with beers, this set up would've been totally fine if I hadn't have overheard someone say "the speeches will start in about 15 minutes" just as the bus, the only link to civilization, pulled away. I can live without wine, but living through multiple speeches—or a poetry reading lasting more than 10 minutes—is tough . . .
Nevertheless I survived, regained my non-sobriety at the Peppermill, and made it back from Vegas with my mind only slightly broken . . .
Now that the 8th book in the Americas Series from Texas Tech has arrived, it seems like an opportune time to bring some attention to Irene Vilar's exciting project.
Irene used to run this series out of the University of Wisconsin Press back in the early 2000s, but after leaving and writing a memoir (Impossible Motherhood, available from Other Press), she relaunched The Americas at Texas Tech with the publication of David Toscana's The Last Reader, transated by Asa Zatz.
(Quick "let's make fun of people who don't understand the Internets" moment: I wanted to see which books ended up in the Wisconsin version of this series—I believe the Jorge Amado books were in this, but I can't remember the others—so I visited this UWP page. Click on the link for "a list of the books in this series." I dare you.)
The Last Reader sounds fantastic (see this earlier post), as do all of the other titles. Here's a quick rundown of the ones I'm most interested in:
The Origin of Species and Other Poems by Ernesto Cardenal, translated from the Spanish by John Lyons.
Cardenal is considered by many to be one of Latin America's greatest contemporary poets, and his work has been getting a lot of love of late. Pluriverse came out from New Directions a couple years back (see our review here), and did a great job encapsulating Cardenal's 56-year career. This new book will likely get a ton of attention (more on that as it happens), and because of the new publication, Cardenal will be going on an extensive U.S. tour. (Check our translation events calendar for more specifics.)
The War in Bom Fim by Moacyr Scliar, translation from the Portuguese by David William Foster
Scliar—who passed away in February—is one of Brazil's most beloved writers. A few of his books came out in the classic Avon series of Latin American authors, and a few others popped up here and there from a variety of presses, but I feel like his work has been underappreciated here in the States, and instead, he's most known for thinking of suing Yann Martel for ripping his ass off for Life of Pi.
The War in Bom Fim sounds like a lot of fun (and will be the first of the series that I'm going to read and review):
What if, as David William Foster poses in his introduction to Brazilian author Moacyr Scliar's novel, the Germans did choose to invade the Americas in the second World War? What if the Luftwaffe did plan to bomb American cities? [. . .]
With playful irony, homage to the Jewish folktale, a touch of magical realism, and keen insight into the customs and characters of this Yiddish-speaking melting pot, Scliar spins a fable of an imaginary war waged by the youngsters of Bom Fim. Brothers Nathan and Joel and their gang defend their quarter against a pretend German military invasion, while their parents deal with the quarrels and worries of the adult world. But which is more real? In Scliar's richly layered fantasy Carnival and Pesach, Nazi and Jew, the consumer and the consumed, the grotesque and the quotidian intermingle unexpectedly amid the kitchens and alleys of Bom Fim.
The Fist Child by Lucia Puenzo, translated from the Spanish by David William Foster
Lucia Puenzo was included in Granta's "Best of Young Spanish Novelists" special issue, and we wrote about her as part of our 22 Days of Awesome series.
Puenzo is a writer and filmmaker (she received a lot of praise of XXY as mentioned in our Granta post) and the movie adaptation of The Fish Child appeared at the 2009 Berlin Film Festival. Here's the trailer:
Symphony in White by Adriana Lisboa, translated from the Portuguese by Sarah Green
Hut of Fallen Persimmons by Adriana Lisboa, translated from the Portuguese by Sarah Green
Both Lisboa books sound really interesting, and we have a forthcoming review of Symphony in White, which won the Jose Saramago Prize in 2003. Symphony in White focuses on two sisters, a "swirl of dark secrets," and the "unspoken atrocities of the military dictatorship holding sway in their country."
Hut of Fallen Persimmons just arrived the other week, and tells the story of Haruki and Celina's trip to Japan. "Their trip to Kyoto provides a context for each to meditate on the past, their feelings for each other, and the questions of cultural difference. Through a counterpoint of narration and text, the pair's losses and struggles gradually unfold."
All with striking covers, these eight books make a fantastic collection. And I'm really looking forward to all the books Irene ends up including in the series. With a brilliant advisory board I have a lot of faith in the future of this series.
The opening of Jón Gnarr's novel/memoir The Indian is a playful bit of extravagant ego, telling the traditional story of creation, where the "Let there be light!" moment is also the moment of his birth on January 2nd, 1967. Then. . .
Mahasweta Devi is not only one of the most prolific Bengali authors, but she's also an important activist. In fact, for Devi, the two seem to go together. As you can probably tell from the titles, she writes about women. . .
The prolific Spanish author Benito Pérez Galdós wrote his short novel, Tristana, during the closing years of the nineteenth century, a time when very few options were available to women of limited financial means who did not want a husband.. . .
Pedro Zarraluki's The History of Silence (trans. Nick Caistor and Lorenza García) begins with the narrator and his wife, Irene, setting out to write a book about silence, itself called The History of Silence: "This is the story of how. . .
There are plenty of reasons you can fail to find the rhythm of a book. Sometimes it's a matter of discarding initial assumptions or impressions, sometimes of resetting oneself. Zigmunds Skujiņš's Flesh-Coloured Dominoes was a defining experience in the necessity. . .
In a culture that privileges prose, reviewing poetry is fairly pointless. And I've long since stopped caring about what the world reads and dropped the crusade to get Americans to read more poems. Part of the fault, as I've suggested. . .
I would like to pose the argument that it is rare for one to ever come across a truly passive protagonist in a novel. The protagonist (perhaps) of Three Light-Years, Claudio Viberti, is just that—a shy internist who lives in. . .


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UPDATE: Jayson Stark of ESPN.com writes that a major source of the friction between the two sides is that the club was attempting to trade Young, but telling him otherwise. Now he wants out of Texas, but the Rangers are reluctant to deal him.
In a word, awkward.
6:22 PM: Confirming what Tim Brown of Yahoo! Sports reported yesterday, Rangers general manager Jon Daniels just said in a conference call that Michael Young has requested a trade.
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- Elwood Larf - Feb 7, 2011 at 9:32 PM
Idiotic for the Rangers to jerk him around like this. He's their team leader and unofficial captain, and he's put up with 3 position shifts already. he's a total professional, and although he's no longer an MVP candidate, he still has a lot to offer a major league team. Bad form on the part of the Rangers. And, by the way, Adrian Beltre has had exactly TWO great seasons, and a lot of mediocre ones. Michael Young has consistently turned out a solid performance every year. True, he's not a good defensive player, but the Rangers have never been too concerned about defense.
- Mike Luna - Feb 8, 2011 at 2:33 AM
Part of what Ron Washington wanted to change about Texas is the defense. It's true that most of the line-up can still mash the ball, but the whole staff works very hard to ensure that the pitchers get help behind them.
At this moment Kinsler is better at this position, Elvis is better at his, and there's a very good shot that Beltre will be better at his. If Young can't best any of those three, then why would he be on the field everyday?
- trevorb06 - Feb 8, 2011 at 9:36 AM
I agree with that Beltre/Young season comparison. Beltre's best two seasons you refer to have come on contract years. Whether this is coincidence or Beltre really only tried when he was trying to get a new deal inked isn't up to me, you or Craig to speculate on. Only Beltre knows that, and maybe his close buddies as he brags it up to them how rich he is.
- anythingbutyanks - Feb 7, 2011 at 10:49 PM
Major league contracts are so disproportionate to performance and the realities of age, injury, and the fact that baseball is supremely a team game (the only position with a truly disproportionate burden of the actual winning is pitcher). More teams should focus more on NOT signing bad contracts and less on trying to sign the next big contract.


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*Did anyone see what happened?
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i have seened a few attack reports and i noticed that the rally point was destroyed is that good for anything?!
i have seened a few attack reports and i noticed that the rally point was destroyed is that good for anything?!
In normal server it is usually do to avoid dodge troops return to the village, so your noble attack won't hit them. But there a way to make it return anyway. So I guess, it is useless.
The only reason for using that tactic is if your not very good at timing and if your not very good at timing you won't do very well in the speed round.
im still wondering how you catapult a rally point? To me a rally point just looks like an area of ground. Bit confused how you demolish ground
It will make huge hole at the ground and traped all support troop there.
Even an expert, it is barely imposible do that from here. My internet conection has 600 ms delay to speed server, so it is 1200 ms round trip.
Open your troops movement in new tab and do not close that. I think the cancel button won't be disappear even your rally point is being destroyed.
Erm. This would be a breach of the rules. You're using an action, that isn't given by normal gameplay. Though there are other possibilites to time between off and noble without the rallypoint. The number increases with the number of villages (or skilled tribesmates) you have.
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According to Benjamin Netanyahu, if you go on a Birthright trip to Israel, "you'll discover who you are, discover your connection to the land of your fathers, you'll discover that in many ways you have come home." The Nation's Kiera Feldman decided to see what Bibi was talking about, so, in 2010, she packed her recording gear and joined a Birthright tour of Israel. She wanted to see what about the trip and the experience makes so many Birthrighters feel as though they have been transformed.
In this audio, Feldman discovers that Birthright, the American Zionist organization that has, since its founding in 1999, spent almost $600 million to send more than 260,000 young diaspora Jews on free vacations to the Holy Land, relies on an overload of information and fun in the sun to accomplish its goal. On the ten days of intense propaganda and overstimulation that made up Feldman's trip, many of her fellow participants began to view the actions of the Israeli government in a new, more favorable light. For more on the program, read Feldman's piece in this week's issue of The Nation, "The Romance of Birthright Israel."
Elements of this report first aired on WBAI's Beyond the Pale and are included here with the kind permission of that program. This report also features music by YACHT and Travis.
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4 Bay eSATA USB 3.0 to SATA Hard Drive Docking Station for 2.5/3.5 HDD
Enable quick access to four 2.5"/3.5" SATA HDD over USB 3.0 or eSATA
Accepts up to 4 SATA hard drives simultaneously, in a single docking station
Dual 60mm cooling fans mounted below the drives with variable speed controls (including OFF)
Supports both 2.5" and 3.5" form factor hard drives (HDD) and solid state drives (SSD)
SuperSpeed USB 3.0 compliant host interface with support for transfer rates up to 5 Gbps
Backward compatible with USB 2.0 systems, out of the box
High speed eSATA with Port Multiplier host interface with supported transfer rates up to 3 Gbps
Patented hard drive eject push-buttons for each drive
Independent power buttons for each hard drive
Extra, easy-access spacing between each drive
Four large, stable, non-slip table-top feet
Plug-and-Play and Hot-Swap compatible
Compatible with SATA revision 1/2/3 drives
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The SATDOCK4U3E eSATA and USB 3.0 4-Bay SATA Hard Drive Docking Station is a convenient, time-saving storage solution for 2.5-inch and 3.5-inch SATA hard drives (HDD) and solid state drives (SSD) allowing for up to 4 SATA drives (tested with up to 4TB 3.5" and 1TB 2.5" drives per bay) to be conveniently and quickly connected to a host computer through a single connection.
The hard drive docking station features SuperSpeed USB 3.0 connectivity (also compatible with USB 2.0) with support for data transfer rates up to 5Gbps (10x faster than USB 2.0) or eSATA with Port Multiplier connectivity (up to 3Gbps), to provide fast connectivity to all 4 hard drives simultaneously.
The eSATA/USB 3.0 SATA hard drive docking station also features dual built-in, variable-speed 60mm fans that can be manually adjusted to keep each drive running cool, depending on the drives and operating environment, or turned off completely. Double the value of this hard drive docking station, using a SATA to IDE hard drive adapter (SAT2IDEADP), which enables you to use any 2.5 or 3.5in IDE hard drive in a SATA hard drive dock slot.
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- Access up to 4 SATA drives simultaneously over a single USB 2.0/3.0 or eSATA connection
- Independent power buttons and eject mechanism for each SATA hard drive allows for quick and easy hot-swapping
- Dual, variable speed fans allows you to adjust the amount of cooling for any kind of environment or drives
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Windows® 8/8.1 (32/64bit), 7 (32/64bit), Server 2008 (32/64), Vista(32/64), Server 2003 (32/64) XP(32/64), 2000
Apple® Mavericks (10.9) OSX Mountain Lion (10.8), Lion (10.7), Snow Leopard (10.6)
- IT professionals who need to hot-swap between multiple SATA drives regularly
- System builders who need to quickly image or copy data to multiple drives simultaneously
- Technicians who need to access up to 4 different drives from a single station
- Users who want to access multiple external drives but with a limited number of USB/eSATA ports
Product Numbers
Dell Harmony | A4847543 |
TechData Dis | 10920100 |
ASI Distribution USA | 108258 |
D and H | SATDOCK4U3E |
Ingram Micro USA | DY8902 |
Synnex US | STA-SATDOCK4U3E |
UPC Code | 065030842488 |
Warranty Information | |
Warranty | 2 Years |
Hardware | |
Chipset ID | Jmicron - JM321+JM539 |
Compatible Drive Types (Type and Rate) | SATA |
Drive Size | 2.5in & 3.5in |
Fan(s) | Yes |
Fans | 2 - 60 mm |
Interface | USB 3.0 & eSATA |
Number of Drives | 4 |
Performance | |
Insertion Rating | 15, 000 cycles |
Max Drive Capacity | Currently tested with up to 4TB 5400 RPM 3.5" hard drives per bay (16TB total) and 1TB 5400 RPM 2.5" hard drives (4TB total) |
Type and Rate | USB 3.0 - 5 Gbit/s |
SATA II (3 Gbps) | |
UASP Support | No |
Connector(s) | |
Drive Connectors | 4 - SATA Data & Power Combo (7+15 pin) Receptacle |
Host Connectors | 1 - eSATA (7 pin; Data) Plug |
1 - USB 3.0 B (9 pin; SuperSpeed) Female | |
Software | |
OS Compatibility | Windows® 8/8.1 (32/64bit), 7 (32/64bit), Server 2008 (32/64), Vista(32/64), Server 2003 (32/64) XP(32/64), 2000 Apple® Mavericks (10.9) OSX Mountain Lion (10.8), Lion (10.7), Snow Leopard (10.6) Linux |
Special Notes / Requirements | |
Note | eSATA connections require the host computer to support Port Multiplier technology, otherwise only one of the hard drives will be detected. |
System and Cable Requirements | Available USB 2.0 or 3.0 port or eSATA port |
Physical Characteristics | |
Color | Black |
Enclosure Type | Plastic |
Product Height | 3.7 in [94.7 mm] |
Product Length | 11.4 in [290.5 mm] |
Product Weight | 34.1 oz [966 g] |
Product Width | 6.8 in [172.7 mm] |
Indicators | |
LED Indicators | 4 - Activity (Red) |
4 - Power (Blue) | |
Power | |
Center Tip Polarity | Positive |
Input Current | 2.5 |
Input Voltage | 110 ~ 240 AC |
Output Current | 6.5A |
Output Voltage | 12 DC |
Plug Type | 4-pin DIN |
Power Source | AC Adapter Included |
Environmental | |
Humidity | 8% ~ 90% RH |
Operating Temperature | 5°C to 80°C (41°F to 176°F) |
Storage Temperature | -40°C to 70°C (-40°F to 158°F) |
Packaging Information | |
Shipping (Package) Weight | 3.5 lb [1.6 kg] |
What's in the Box | |
Included in Package | 1 - 4-Bay HDD Docking Station |
1 - eSATA cable | |
1 - USB 3.0 cable | |
3 - Power Cord (NA/UK/EU) | |
1 - Universal Power Adapter | |
1 - Instruction Manual |
SATA Hard Drive HDD Duplicator Dock - eSATA USB
Exactly duplicate one 2.5in or 3.5in SATA hard drive to another, effortlessly and without a computer
eSATA USB to SATA Hard Drive Docking Station for Dual 2.5 or 3.5in HDD
Easily connect and swap two 2.5 or 3.5in SATA hard drives through eSATA or USB
USB 3.0 to SATA Hard Drive Docking Station for 2.5/3.5 HDD
Enable fast, swappable access to your 2.5in or 3.5in SATA hard drives, through USB 3.0
USB to IDE SATA Standalone HDD Hard Drive Duplicator Dock
Clone any combination of 2.5in or 3.5in IDE or SATA hard drives
eSATA USB to SATA External Hard Drive Docking Station for 2.5 or 3.5in
Easily connect and swap a 2.5in or 3.5in SATA hard drive through USB or eSATA
SATA to 2.5in or 3.5in IDE Hard Drive Adapter for HDD Docks
Use your 2.5in or 3.5in IDE hard drives in a SATA HDD Docking Station
2.5in Silicone Laptop Hard Drive Protector Sleeve with Connector Cap
Provide protection against shocks/impacts to a 2.5in hard drive
3.5in Silicone Hard Drive Protector Sleeve with Connector Cap
Provide protection against shocks/impacts to a 3.5in hard drive
2.5in Anti-Static Hard Drive Protector Case - Black (3pk)
Provides safe handling and anti-static protection for most 2.5in hard drives
2 port PCI Express SuperSpeed USB 3.0 Card with UASP Support - 1 Internal 1 External
Add one internal and one external SuperSpeed USB 3.0 to your PC
2 Port ExpressCard SuperSpeed USB 3.0 Card Adapter with UASP Support
Add two USB 3.0 ports to your laptop through an ExpressCard slot
1 Port PCI Express eSATA II Controller Card
Add an eSATA port to a desktop computer through a PCI Express slot
2 Port PCI Express eSATA Controller Adapter Card
Add 2 eSATA ports to your desktop computer through a PCI Express expansion slot
1 Port Flush Mount ExpressCard 34mm eSATA II Controller Adapter Card
Add a slim flush mounting eSATA port to a laptop through ExpressCard
2 Port ExpressCard 54mm eSATA II Controller Adapter Card
Add two eSATA ports to a computer through an ExpressCard/54 slot
3 ft Black SuperSpeed USB 3.0 Cable A to B - M/M
Connect to your external solutions and transfer data at 10x the speed of USB 2.0
10 ft Black SuperSpeed USB 3.0 Cable A to B - M/M
Connect to your external solutions and transfer data at 10x the speed of USB 2.0
3 ft Shielded External eSATA Cable M/M
Connect your external SATA storage devices to your Laptop or desktop.
6 ft Shielded External eSATA Cable M/M
Connect your external SATA storage devices to your Laptop or desktop.
1ft Low Profile SATA to eSATA Plate Adapter
Add an eSATA port to your PC, extended from internal Serial ATA connection port
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Students heading to college can expect to spend about $662 a year on textbooks and other course materials, according to The National Association of College Stores.
But more and more college bookstores are offering alternatives through textbook rental programs, the trade group said.
The number of association member stores offering rentals has jumped to nearly 3,000 from just 300 in the fall of 2009, said Charles Schmidt, a spokesman for the group.
"Such print-version rental programs can save a student between 45 percent (and) 66 percent off the price of a new print textbook, and is often less expensive than digital formats," Schmidt said in a statement.
Textbook rentals from college stores saved students about $450 million during the 2012-13 school year, the association said.
Schmidt said the stores offer other options as well. All sell used books, while some offer free shipping and guaranteed buybacks.
More than three-quarters of students still prefer print versions of their textbooks to digital, the trade group said.
Textbooks savings tips
The National Association of College Stores offers the following tips on how students can save on textbook purchases while purchasing from the campus store.
• Become a fan of your campus store's Facebook page and follow it on Twitter. Stores often give advance notice of money-saving specials to followers or fans.
• Be cautious of hackers, spammers and phishers when purchasing course materials online from outside/unknown sources. Items might not arrive on time, be incorrect, or not include required access codes. Don't forget to consider shipping expenses in the total cost of the textbook, and check refund policies. Your local campus store guarantees the correct title and edition chosen by your instructor.
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Nice Cool Summer = Music + Film Photographs!
2 Share TweetWant to enjoy a nice, cool summer with friends? Just leave the air-conditioned room with your Lomo Plastic Friends, then snap, snap and snap! Don't have any idea about where to go? Let music lead your way!
Right, it's much more comfortable to stay in an air-conditioned room in such hot weather, but it's not our style. Lomographers should always be energetic and creative! If you don't mind sweating a bit under the sunny blue sky, simply put your Lomo Plastic Friends into your bag and enjoy the sunbath at the beach (or anywhere else that you prefer)! You'll be rewarded with some great shots that you can never imagine!
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Here are some of the songs/soundtracks that inspired me with great place to play with my Lomo Plastic Friends!
(1) Spring Scream – by Mayday
Spring Scream is actually a music festival held at Kenting (Taiwan) in early summer every year. Besides Spring Scream, Spring Weave, Formoz Festival and Hohaiyan Rock Festival are some popular music festivals held in Taiwan, which are famous for the hot and rock atmosphere. People from all over Asia (or even further away) come for indie and rock music. Just check out similar functions held in your city and keep your shutter busy while enjoying great music!
What are you going to do in a sleepless summer night? Why not grab a Lomography camera, load it with your favorite film, and capture the amazing night scenery? Any Lomographic camera with Bulb setting, the B mode, could be your perfect night out partner!
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Professional Media Short Course coming soon to the Screen & Media Academy...
Last week was the first week of the new academic year on Screen Academy Scotland's MA/MFA programmes at Edinburgh Napier University. This year we have a very international profile on our programmes in screenwriting, producing and film.
Tristan MG Aitchison who recently completed the PG Cert in Screenwriting at Edinburgh Skillset Screen & Media Academy has been shortlisted as a finalist for the John Brabourne Comedy Awards with his short script Gift of the Nation which was written as part of the course.
This is the thread for you if you are a graduate or about to become a graduate of Screen Academy Scotland...use this space to discuss whatever you like that you think may be of interest to fellow alumni!
This forum thread is for any crew who would like to work on Screen Academy films to post their contact details and/or showreel.


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Hassan Khalel, Tarik I. (2009) Data transmission using juxtapose project with wireless sensor network. Masters thesis, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Electrical Engineering.
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Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have been used to develop solutions for a wide range of problems, ranging from military applications to environmental and habitat monitoring. Actually, these applications require low cost, low power and low data sensor nodes that communicating over multiple hop to cover a large geographical area. One type of WSNs is Telosb, which is the latest in a line of nodes developed by University California Berkeley to enable wireless sensor network research. It is a new mote design built from scratch based on experiences with previous mote generations. Telos' new design consists of three major goals to enable experimentation, minimal power consumption, easy to use, and increased software and hardware robustness. The main objective of this research is to embed nesC code in four WSNs and to distribute them to collect data environment (temperature and humidity) the data will collected in a PC through a base station sensor connected to the PC. This network of sensors and PC will be interfaced to the Internet and by using JXTA project which is a kind of peer to peer technology, the collected data can be implemented in a creating file by writing a java code to create a file each our in the PC. The created file will transfer to another place to other peer using JXTA shell through its commands. In our project the embedded operating system used in WSNs is TinyOS 2.1.0, and the wireless sensor is TelosB which is consist of low power transceiver based on CC2420 ChipCon chips that employ IEEE 802.15.4.
Item Type: | Thesis (Masters) |
Additional Information: | Thesis (Sarjana Kejuruteraan (Elektrik - Elektronik dan Telekomunikasi)) - Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, 2009; Supervisor : Dr. Sharifah Hafizah Syed Ariffin |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | wireless communication systems, juxtapose, data transmission |
Subjects: | T Technology > TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering |
Divisions: | Electrical Engineering |
ID Code: | 12055 |
Deposited By: | Ms Zalinda Shuratman |
Deposited On: | 21 Feb 2011 08:11 |
Last Modified: | 23 Jul 2012 07:05 |
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Scholes, S. C. and Green, S. M. and Unsworth, A. (2004) THE WEAR OF ALUMINA-ON-ALUMINA TOTAL HIP PROSTHESES. Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, British Volume, 86-B (SUPP I). p. 403.
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New generation alumina-on-alumina (A-A) prostheses have been introduced to try and overcome the problem of osteolysis often attributed to polyethylene wear particles liberated within conventional metal-on-ultra high molecular weight polyethylene (UHMWPE) joints. This study uses a hip simulator to compare the volumetric wear rates of five different radial clearances of A-A joints. Atomic force microscopy (AFM) provided topographic characterisation of the prosthesis surfaces throughout the wear test.Materials and methods: The wear test was performed on the Durham hip joint wear simulator. The 28 mm diameter alumina ceramic couples investigated were manufactured by Morgan Matroc Ltd., in accordance with ISO 6474. Four radial clearances (33, 40, 48 and 74 μm) of A-A joints were tested to one million cycles with 25% new-born calf serum as the lubricant. Contact mode AFM (TopoMetrix Explorer SPM) was used to produce a topographical map of the poles of the four alumina heads every 0.1 million cycles. Every 0.2 million cycles the wear was assessed gravimetrically using a Mettler AE 200 balance (accurate to 0.1 mg).Results and discussion: There was no measurable wear of either the heads or cups during this one million cycle wear period. Throughout the wear test the alumina equiaxed grain structure became apparent on the AFM images, the mean alumina grain size was 2 μm. The grain surfaces were below the mean femoral head surface height. Such topography was not observed on an as-received head. Some granular pull-out also took place. As the wear test proceeded, the average area surface roughness increased from 2.33 nm to 4.42 nm for the heads but stayed relatively constant for the cups (from 2.75 nm to 2.97 nm).Conclusions: The very low wear produced by these A-A hip joints is very difficult to measure gravimetrically as it is close to the limits of resolution of the weighing equipment. The surface topography analysis, however, shows changes to the ceramic surfaces during the wear test and gives an indication of the wear processes and lubrication regimes acting within such joints. The authors wish to thank EPSRC for funding this research and Morgan Matroc Ltd. for supplying the joints.
Item Type: | Article |
Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, British Volume |
Subjects: | T Technology > TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) |
Departments: | Faculty of Science and Technology > Engineering |
ID Code: | 57949 |
Deposited By: | ep_importer_pure |
Deposited On: | 18 Oct 2012 09:07 |
Refereed?: | Yes |
Published?: | Published |
Last Modified: | 07 Jan 2015 17:51 |
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URI: | http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/57949 |
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