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Following God's lead is always good but never safe. When you commit yourself to do whatever God tells you to do and to go wherever God tells you to go, you inevitably experience up's and down's; high's and low's. For me, this week has been crazy! It's been filled with excitement and fear; misunderstanding and frustration; laughter and tears. I've experienced moments of great desperation and great deliverance; grief and glory. God's Spirit and God's truth have afflicted me in my comfort and comforted me in my affliction. He's never been more relevant to me. I've never felt so dependant on him. If God does not lead me, I'm done. It's that simple.
As has often been the case in my Christian life, God has used the preaching of the late Dr. D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones to bring great persepective and reorientation to my troubled soul. His sermons on Revival preached in 1959 (I have them on audio cassette) are, by far, the best series of sermons I have ever heard. And last night I went back to one of them desperately needing God to remind me of my smallness and his bigness. And with a thundering voice, Lloyd-Jones reminded me of my supreme need:
Our supreme need, and our only need, is to know God, the living God, and the power of his might. We need nothing else. It is just that, the power of the living God, to know that the living God is among us and that nothing else matters. So we wait upon him. We look to him. We cry out to him, as Moses did when he was standing before the Red Sea, not knowing what to do, and while the people were grumbling and complaining, and afraid. God answered Moses and said, "Wherefore criest thou unto me? Speak unto the children of Israel, that they may go forward" (Exodus 14:15). And on they went.
I say, forget everything else. Forget everything else. We need to realize the presence of the living God amongst us. Let everything else be silent. This is no time for minor differences. We all need to know the touch of the power of the living God.
Upon hearing (or, re-hearing) those words, my troubled heart was put to sleep. I thank God for Dr. Lloyd-Jones and I look forward to seeing him on the "other side."
Whatever may happen with regard to New City and Coral Ridge, my great comfort comes from knowing that God is wide awake; that he is among us working all things out for our good and his glory!


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ADvantage LED Signs recently announced the completion of their latest project; a new LED sign for De Queen First Assembly Church. The sign, according to Richard James, spokesperson for ADvantage LED Signs, says it enables the church to get their message out quickly and communicate more effectively with their congregation and community. Additionally, it's easy to program, so any member of the staff can input messages for distribution.
James continues, "The use of LED signs has been proven to reach at least 50 percent more people than other advertising methods. They are much brighter and more energy efficient than other electronic message boards, and they catch the eyes of more passersby than traditional signs. We are seeing more and more churches turn to LED signs for spreading the word of their ministry. A Church LED Display can be used to announce outreach programs, service times, inspirational messages, public service announcements, fund raisers and any message a church needs to send out to their community. LED signs allow churches to quickly and effectively reach the public with announcements in real time; in addition, the signs are actually less expensive than television, radio and newspaper advertisement."
Jonathan Reynolds, Youth Pastor of De Queen First Assembly Church and sign programmer, said, "We think the sign looks great and we think the sign will be a great out-of-the-box way to reach people for the Lord. We've only had the sign up for a little while, but public response has been tremendous. We get comments like, 'It looks great', 'Bright', 'Wow', 'Awesome'. They're amazed. We use, and plan to continue to use, the sign to display Sunday service times, upcoming events, outreach events and outreach in general to the community of De Queen. Overall, De Queen First Assembly Church is happy to have their sign project completed and is ready to get started taking advantage of the sign's full capabilities."
James added, "We can design a sign to match the motif of any church, something that will draw attention without being outlandish. We gladly work with a church's budget and offer special consideration for such non-profit organizations. At 3'-6 3/8" x 8'-1 1/2", the sign purchased by De Queen First Assembly Church features a 12.5mm iPixel Full Color 80×192 iMatrix Double Face Display. We are confident this sign will increase traffic and exposure for their church."
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Houston Arts Alliance (HAA) and City of Houston Solid Waste Management Department (SWMD) announce their Art Recycling Trucks project with six working City of Houston recycling trucks that have been transformed into mobile artworks by local artists in partnership with HAA.
The innovative Art Recycling Truck project celebrates the City's commitment to "going green," furthers the mission of HAA's Civic Art + Design program, and showcases artworks by local artists Pablo Gimenez-Zapiola, CORE Design Studio, Aaron Muñoz, Troy Stanley, Ariane Roesch, and Kia Neill.
"An important component of HAA's mission is to expand the reach of local arts beyond gallery and museum walls," explains HAA President and CEO Jonathon Glus. "The Art Recycling Truck project is, in effect, a museum on wheels. These six mobile artworks will travel greater Houston for an anticipated seven years, bringing art – and City recycling services – to Houston residents."
In 2013-2014 ,SWMD drastically expanded its city-wide Automated Curbside Recycling program. "When the expansion is complete at the end of this year, the City will be providing single stream recycling to the entire 640-square mile service area, which incorporates approximately 380,000 homes," explains SWMD Director Harry Hayes. "The artwork displayed on the recycling trucks helps draw public attention to the fact that these trucks are utilized in 'repurposing' materials that would otherwise be considered trash. Over the past several years, the City has made substantial progress in its recycling efforts, and having these trucks in the public arena helps to create awareness and participation in the program."
A panel of professional Houston artists selected six local artists from an open call of applicants to design the Art Recycling Trucks and a smaller work of similar design for the City of Houston Municipal Art Collection. Artists' Recycling truck designs were printed on vinyl panels then "wrapped" around the City trucks.
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Houston Arts Alliance (HAA) is a nonprofit organization established by the City of Houston to enhance the quality of life and tourism in the Houston region by advancing the arts on its behalf. HAA distributes grants to more than 225 nonprofit arts organizations and individual artists each year. In addition, HAA invests in and nurtures Houston's thriving creative community by commissioning the work of artists for public spaces, managing the city's civic art collection, showcasing Houston's rich folklife traditions, cultivating business volunteers, and empowering arts organizations to become sustainable and reach new audiences through business incubation and other services. For information on Houston-area arts and culture events, visit HAA's online resources at Artshound.com. For more information on HAA, visit houstonartsalliance.com.
The Solid Waste Management Department's (SWMD) mission is to provide solid waste services to the citizens of Houston through the collection, disposal, and recycling of discarded material in a manner that is safe, efficient, environmentally sound, and cost-effective. The solid waste industry is a field where skilled professionals across the world seek solutions to issues that arise from business operations. The City of Houston Solid Waste Management Department continually seeks new processes to achieve goals and complete tasks at hand with efficiency and cost-effectiveness at every opportunity. Innovations such as the in-house mechanical rebuild shop, where the SWMD utilizes current staff and facilities to rebuild parts such as transmissions and mechanical arms, and the employee suggestion program where front-line employees are encouraged to voice their ideas on efficiency and new ways to perform their duties. For more information on SWMD, visit houstontx.gov/solidwaste.


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I must confess that whoever did the editing and photography supplement work did one of the most outstanding jobs I have ever seen in any textbook. From the mugshot of Lee Harvey Oswald on the cover, to the excellent color photos and diagrams, the book "comes alive" for most students. More than almost any text that has come across my desk – Schmalleger's book "jumps out" and grabs the reader. This book is a winner – even more it is almost certain to be read by criminal justice students – and that is a rare achievement.
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In our last post, we talked about Pages and Page Tables. Today, we're going to take a look at one of the most common problems when dealing with virtual memory – the Page Fault. A page fault occurs when a program requests an address on a page that is not in the current set of memory resident pages. What happens when a page fault occurs is that the thread that experienced the page fault is put into a Wait state while the operating system finds the specific page on disk and restores it to physical memory.
When a thread attempts to reference a nonresident memory page, a hardware interrupt occurs that halts the executing program. The instruction that referenced the page fails and generates an addressing exception that generates an interrupt. There is an Interrupt Service Routine that gains control at this point and determines that the address is valid, but that the page is not resident. The OS then locates a copy of the desired page on the page file, and copies the page from disk into a free page in RAM. Once the copy has completed successfully, the OS allows the program thread to continue on. One quick note here – if the program accesses an invalid memory location due to a logic error an addressing exception similar to a page fault occurs. The same hardware interrupt is raised. It is up to the Memory Manager's Interrupt Service Routine that gets control to distinguish between the two situations.
It is also important to distinguish between hard page faults and soft page faults. Hard page faults occur when the page is not located in physical memory or a memory-mapped file created by the process (the situation we discussed above). The performance of applications will suffer when there is insufficient RAM and excessive hard page faults occur. It is imperative that hard page faults are resolved in a timely fashion so that the process of resolving the fault does not unnecessarily delay the program's execution. On the other hand, a soft page fault occurs when the page is resident elsewhere in memory. For example, the page may be in the working set of another process. Soft page faults may also occur when the page is in a transitional state because it has been removed from the working sets of the processes that were using it, or it is resident as the result of a prefetch operation.
We also need to quickly discuss the role of the system file cache and cache faults. The system file cache uses Virtual Memory Manager functions to manage application file data. The system file cache maps open files into a portion of the system virtual address range and uses the process working set memory management mechanisms to keep the most active portions of current files resident in physical memory. Cache faults are a type of page fault that occur when a program references a section of an open file that is not currently resident in physical memory. Cache faults are resolved by reading the appropriate file data from disk, or in the case of a remotely stored file – accessing it across the network. On many file servers, the system file cache is one of the leading consumers of virtual and physical memory.
Finally, when investigating page fault issues, it is important to understand whether the page faults are hard faults or soft faults. The page fault counters in Performance Monitor do not distinguish between hard and soft faults, so you have to do a little bit of work to determine the number of hard faults. To track paging, you should use the following counters: Memory\ Page Faults /sec, Memory\ Cache Faults /sec and Memory\ Page Reads /sec. The first two counters track the working sets and the file system cache. The Page Reads counter allows you to track hard page faults. If you have a high rate of page faults combined with a high rate of page reads (which also show up in the Disk counters) then you may have an issue where you have insufficient RAM given the high rate of hard faults.
OK, that will do it for this post. Until next time …
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What about the "memory\pages/sec" counter? According to the Perfmon explanation this counter records the hard page fault rate for the monitored system.
Euclides Miguel
What would you consider a "high rate of page faults and page reads" for a (Vista) workstation? Are there any published baselines for workstations vs Exchange servers vs SQL Servers?
What would be considered a high rate of Page Faults/Sec?
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Thanks a lot for Very Well Explained with simple and strait language.
What does it mean by "high rate of page faults combined with a high rate of page reads" ? what figures are considered as high rate in which columns of the conter information in perfmon? I have 8GB RAM on HP Prolient Gen 5 sever with 4 quad core physical processors with Win 2003 EE 64 bit OS and IIS 6.0 where maximum of 1GB RAM is used when web application server is dying to serve the user requests when "Web Services" --> "Current Connections" will reach 50 in maximum column. Where should I refere for what actions I should take to get rid of my performance issue. I am a completely new guy to this kind of analysis.
any help is greatly appreciated with lot of thankfulness
So how does Vista, W2K8 and W2K8 R2 come up with the Hard Faults / Sec in Reliability and Performance Monitor. I'd have thought, at least for W2K8 R2 that this counter would be exposed directly in perfmon.
You talk about page reads/sec allowing you to track hard faults, but does that mean it's the Hard Faults/ sec counter in disguise? In my testing it didn't show that exactly, but it was close (it was always slightly higher).
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Sorry for being so ignorant, but I was trying to find the previous posts and just couldn't. Can anyone describe an easy way to find the previous posts?
Many thanks,
To find the previous post, go to the archive for June 2008 (/b/askperf/archive/2008/06.aspx). It will be the article listed immediately prior to this one.
finally an articale that gives a pretty good idea about page faults/sec
I had the same question as Craig and Jeroen...
"If you have a high rate of page faults combined with a high rate of page reads (which also show up in the Disk counters) then you may have an issue where you have insufficient RAM given the high rate of hard faults."
What would be considered a high rate of page faults, and of page reads?
Very interesting, but the key thing is HOW you reduce Page Faults


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Researchers have suggested that stretches of DNA called retrotransposons, often dubbed "junk DNA", might be playing an important role in schizophrenia.
A Japanese team revealed that LINE-1 retrotransposons are abnormally abundant in the schizophrenia brain, and modify the expression of genes related to schizophrenia during brain development, and could be one of the causes of schizophrenia.
Retrotransposons are short sequences of DNA that autonomously amplify and move around the genome.
One class of retrotransposons named Long Interspersed Nuclear Elements (LINE) make up a large part of the eukaryotic genome and it is believed that they may contribute to a number of disorders and diseases such as cancer.
The team led by Dr Kazuya Iwamoto from the University of Tokyo and Dr Tadafumi Kato from the RIKEN Brain Science Institute demonstrated that the number of LINE-1 copies is elevated in the post-mortem brains of patients with schizophrenia.
They show using mouse and macaque models for schizophrenia and iPS cells that exposure to environmental risk factors during development, as well as the presence of genetic risk factors for schizophrenia, can lead to increased levels of LINE-1 in neurons.
The authors reveal employing whole genome analysis that in schizophrenia patients LINE-1 reinserts into genes involved in synaptic function or schizophrenia and may result in disruptions in their normal functions.
The study has been published in the journal Neuron.


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After digging in their heels in the heat and dust across Tamil Nadu's political landscape, few will grudge the state's bigwigs the time to kick up their heels. This is, afterall, that time of the year when the most powerful political leaders probably feel like school children, waiting for their report cards.
Having hit the campaign trail with them all for a decade and a half, I can vouch for the fact that while leaders south of the Vindhyas may not be the most media savvy, they are most certainly among the most colourful of the whole crop in the country. Take a look at post battle unwinding, Tamil Nadu style.
As she drove up the hills to her summer retreat cum camp office in Kodanad, Chief Minister Jayalalithaa must have been praying that her national political ambition isn't an uphill task. The record turnout of women voters was bound to have given the Amma camp a feel good vibe. The AIADMK headquarters may also be happy with the trademark optimistic intelligence reports, predicting 25 to 30 out of the 39 seats. Having had the longest campaign schedule, Jayalalithaa is likely to combine some well needed rest, perhaps even a few steps with the Badaga tribal women, along with administrative work and strategy meetings ahead of counting day, before which she is expected back in Chennai.
The boss of the Rising Sun - Karunanidhi doesn't complain about the heat and rarely takes a break. His date with yoga, newspapers, writing his letter to party workers in the Murasoli and his daily visit to Anna Arivalayam keep the 90 year old patriarch going.
Kalaignar's successor and son MK Stalin loves who led the DMK charge in this election, braving a challenge from brother Alagiri, loves travelling and sight seeing. The doting grandfather makes it a point to take his family out on a holiday to exotic locales, this time, reportedly to Hong Kong.
Former Union Minister Dayanidhi Maran is off to Dubai with his folks to soak in the IPL excitement and cheer the Hyderabad Sun Risers that the SUN Group owns.
An ace badminton player, the other Union Minister Anbumani Ramadoss must be all smiles with the turnout in the peoples court in Dharmapuri, which accounted for the highest polling percentage in the state, a staggering 80%. The PMK leader's aides indicate that he has chosen to defer holiday plans and campaign for the BJP in the North.
DMDK Chief Vijaykanth and Finance Minister P Chidambaram's son Karti have devoted their time off to their children. Vijaykanth is reported to have gone to Malaysia to zero in on a shooting location for his son. Karti is headed to Mumbai with his teenaged daughter Aditi for an aptitude exam. The Congress Sivaganga candidate is confident of garnering at least 20% of the votes. The Cambridge educated AICC member may also sneak in some time for some tennis.
It's a long hot summer in Tamil Nadu. But heading to cooler climes may just be a placebo. The real heat is from the stakes involved for all these key players. Because there is no such thing as a free vacation.
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However, like many here, the suit makes me feel like I'm wearing a cardboard box - even after plenty of break in. I think the key to using this material is in "panels" - i.e. put kevlar in areas that receive a lot of air flow for the rider on any bike, and then sew it to your "superfabric" to give the garment some type of shape. Also because of the fit of my kevlar suit, I always feel like no matter how much I cinch it in place, it would still "twist" over my body in a crash. Perhaps having a more fitted suit would prevent that? I dunno.
I assume you won't be offering a liner either because I know you prefer over-suits.
KLIM will be introducing their version of a kevlar suit this year - but guaranteed their version will be too much dough for most. There is an opportunity here.
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A man who was on the run for more than two decades before confessing to stabbing another man to death was sentenced on Wednesday.
Lawrence Scherer pleaded no contest to voluntary manslaughter and other charges related to the death of Roger Alderman. Family members and neighbors found Alderman dead near Central and Juan Tabo in August of 1991.
The case went cold for more than two decades until Scherer called Santa Fe police and said he wanted to confess because the crime was "weighing on his conscience."
Scherer reportedly told police that Alderman tried to make sexual advances on him, so he stabbed him to death.
Scherer was sentenced to seven and a half years in prison and two years of probation.
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Aaron Littmann, the chairman of one of the country's most prestigious law firms, has just been contacted by a high-profile defense attorney whose client is Nikolai Garkov, a Russian businessman arraigned on terrorism charges for pulling the financial strings behind recent treasonous acts. The attorney informs Aaron that Garkov is looking to switch representation and will pay $100,000 just to take the meeting.
Tom Thorne is on holiday with his girlfriend, DS Helen Weeks, when two girls are abducted in Helen's hometown. When a body is discovered and a man is arrested, Helen recognizes the suspect's wife as an old school friend and returns home for the first time in 25 years to lend her support. As his partner faces up to a past she has tried desperately to forget and a media storm engulfs the town, Thorne becomes convinced that despite overwhelming evidence of his guilt, the police have got the wrong man.
On a dark Kentucky night in 1952, exactly halfway between her 15th and 16th birthdays, Annie Holleran crosses into forbidden territory. Everyone knows Hollerans don't go near Baines - not since Joseph Carl was buried two decades before - but armed with a silver-handled flashlight, Annie runs through her family's lavender fields toward the well on the Baines' place. At the stroke of midnight, she gazes into the water in search of her future.
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FBI Special Agent Ava McLane solves crimes; she doesn't witness them. When she's trapped in a mall without her weapon as a shooter picks off victims, she hides with a wounded teen and prays for her survival.
Married. To Ian. No matter how many times Nadia's predicament crosses through her mind, it always ends with the same question; what in the world have I done?
Pursued by police and bounty hunters, Dan Lambert flees south toward the Louisiana bayous. In the swamplands he meets Arden Halliday, a young woman who bears the vivid burdens of her own past and who is searching for a legendary faith healer called the Bright Girl. Looking for simple kindness in a world that rarely shows it, bound by a loyalty stronger than love, Dan and Arden set off on a journey of relentless suspense and impassioned discovery...over dark, twisting waterways into the mysterious depths of the human heart.
Captain Dominika Egorova of the Russian Intelligence Service (SVR) has returned from the West to Moscow. She despises the men she serves, the oligarchs, crooks, and thugs of Putin's Russia. What no one knows is that Dominika is working for the CIA as Washington's most sensitive penetration of SVR and the Kremlin.
1978: Meet Morris Bellamy ,the man who robs the safe of America's most famous reclusive writer, John Rothstein. But it isn't just the money he is interested in. Morrie is obsessed by the author's notebooks and is prepared to kill the author for them. 2009: Meet young Pete Saubers, whose father was knocked down by an out-of-control Mercedes in a job line-up. When he discovers a buried trunk of money and notebooks of a famous writer, he has the means to rescue his family from poverty.
It's not Fourth of July on Mackinac Island without fireworks and fudge. The Historic McMurphy Hotel and Fudge Shop is supplying the treats - and Allie has hired Rodney Rivers, the biggest name in aerial displays, to create an unforgettable spectacle. Unfortunately Allie finds him dead, covered with screaming-chicken fireworks, just before the entire warehouse of pyrotechnics goes up in smoke. Is it arson, or is it murder?
Take a crime-filled tour of Manhattan with this collection of all-new mystery stories compiled and edited by Mary Higgins Clark - with contributions by Lee Child, Jeffrey Deaver, Ben H. Winters, and others.
Mackenzie, Ava, Caitlin, Julie, and Parker have done some not-so-perfect things. Even though they all talked about killing rich bully Nolan Hotchkiss, they didn't actually go through with it. It's just a coincidence that Nolan died in exactly the way they planned...right? Except Nolan wasn't the only one they fantasized about killing. When someone else they named dies, the girls wonder if they're being framed. Or are they about to become the killer's next targets?
When a baby - only hours old - is discovered on the Amish bishop's front porch in Painter's Mill, Ohio, Chief of Police Kate Burkholder is called in to investigate. The newborn is swaddled in an Amish crib quilt, and the only other item found with the child is a hand-carved wood rattle, which Kate also recognizes as Amish.
David Sparrow is an awesome stay-at-home dad. He gets his kids ready for school while his wife, Amy, commutes to New York City, where she was recently promoted to deputy district attorney. In fact she just inherited a major case: prosecuting crime lord Dante Payne. Meanwhile David is content chatting with the moms at school drop-off, making dinner at night, and doing housework.
Prominent US Senator James Wyckoff hires former government agents-turned-private security consultants Janson and Kincaid to locate his teenage son Gregory. Gregory's girlfriend Lynell has been found strangled in a Seoul hotel, and Gregory has fled the city to avoid being arrested for the crime. But Senator Wyckoff insists that his son is innocent, suggesting that Lynell, who was a translator, may have been murdered because of something she overheard at a recent international conference.
Two people are abducted, imprisoned, and left with a gun. As hunger and thirst set in, only one walks away alive. It's a game more twisted than any Detective Inspector Helen Grace has ever seen. If she hadn't spoken with the shattered survivors herself, she almost wouldn't believe them.
Freedom Oliver has plenty of secrets. She lives in a small Oregon town and keeps mostly to herself. Her few friends and neighbors know she works at the local biker bar; they know she gets arrested for public drunkenness almost every night; they know she's brash, funny, and fearless.
When Dr. Christopher Barnes awakens from a coma, his world lies in pieces. A neurotoxin has left the surgeon with a rare form of amnesia that prevents him from forming new memories. Any new information vanishes within moments.
When newlywed archaeologists Charlie and Ella Colton head for the Cayman Islands, at a cultural dance performance, they spot what looks like a Mayan jade necklace from 500 A.D.They start poking around for information about the artifact, and learn that an antiquities thief has been switching out national treasures with forgeries. When a private antiquities collector hires Charlie and Ella to find the real necklace, they take time out of their honeymoon to investigate the growing spate of artifact forgeries connected with the Museum of Ancient Cultures.
Recently widowed Jillian Hart is rebuilding a life for herself and her three beloved cats - Chablis, Syrah, and Merlot - as a quilter in a small South Carolina town. The quilts she makes are for cats as smart, special, and sweet as her own, and business is thriving. But when she returns from an overnight quilting show, she discovers Chablis sneezing - and since Chablis is allergic to humans, that can only mean one thing: Someone has broken into her house. When she realizes her Abyssinian, Syrah, is missing, Jillian suspects catnapping. Spurred by Chablis and Merlot's mournful meowing, she investigates - and discovers more missing cats and a murder.
"Very Good Whodunnit Story"
In her first foray into the sleuthing game, resourceful, red-headed Hannah Swensen must find the right ingredients to solve two perplexing murders. One chilly morning on her way to The Cookie Jar, Hannah discovers Ron, the dairy delivery man, shot dead in his truck. When she begins to investigate, she suspects the dairy owner. But when he, too, is murdered, Hannah must look further afield for the culprit.
"so disappointed ..."
When she moved to Stoneham, city slicker Tricia Miles met nothing but friendly faces. And when she opened her mystery bookstore, she met friendly competition. But when she finds Doris Gleason dead in her own cookbook store, killed by a carving knife, the atmosphere seems more cutthroat than cordial. Someone wanted to get their hands on the rare cookbook that Doris had recently purchased-and the locals think that someone is Tricia.
"Pretty Good"
Molly Murphy always knew she'd end up in trouble, just as her mother predicted. So, when she commits murder in self-defense, she flees her cherished Ireland, under cover of a false identity, for the anonymous shores of late 19th-century America. When she arrives in New York and sees the welcoming promise of freedom in the Statue of Liberty, Molly begins to breathe easier. But when a man is murdered on Ellis Island, a man Molly was seen arguing with, she becomes a prime suspect in the crime.
"Cream Puff Read"
Clare Cosi used to manage the historic Village Blend coffeehouse…until she opted for quieter pastures and a more suburban life. But after ten years and a little friendly cajoling from the owner (a fresh pot of Jamaican Blue Mountain was all it took), she's back to the grind. With a sprawling rent-free apartment directly above the Village Blend, her cat Java by her side, and plenty of coffeehouse redecorating ideas, Clare is thrilled to return to work. Until she discovers the assistant manager unconscious in the back of the store, coffee grounds strewn everywhere.
"Stands out"
Get ready for a smorgasbord of delicious suspense prepared by Goldy Bear, an irrepressible mistress of menus and amateur sleuth. Filled with a cast of colorful characters and superb recipes, Catering to Nobody is the first in a series that has made Diane Mott Davidson a best-selling author and the Queen of the Culinary Mystery.
"So, so bad...and yet..."
The streets of San Francisco would be lined with hardcovers if rare book expert Brooklyn Wainwright had her way. And her mentor wouldn't be lying in a pool of his own blood on the eve of a celebration for his latest book restoration. With his final breath he leaves Brooklyn a cryptic message, and gives her a priceless - and supposedly cursed - copy of Goethe's Faust for safekeeping.
"Not Great"
There's a cat in the stacks...and he makes the purr-fect partner for a librarian-turned-sleuth. Everyone in Athena, Mississippi, knows librarian Charlie Harris - and his Maine coon cat named Diesel that he walks on a leash. They also know his former classmate-turned-famous best-selling novelist, Godfrey Priest. But someone in Athena took Godfrey off the best seller lists - permanently, and with extreme prejudice. Now, Charlie and Diesel must browse through the history section of the town's past to find a killer.
"A cat and his librarian"
In the gentle coastal town of South Cove, California, all Jill Gardner wants is to keep her store - Coffee, Books, and More - open and running. So why is she caught up in the business of murder? When Jill's elderly friend Miss Emily calls in a fit of pique, she already knows that the city council is trying to force Emily to sell her dilapidated old house. But Emily's gumption goes for naught when she dies unexpectedly and leaves the house to Jill, along with all of her problems...and her enemies.
"Cozy Mystery"
Tucked away in the rolling hills of rural western Virginia lies the storybook resort of Storyton Hall, catering to book lovers who want to get away from it all. To increase her number of bookings, resort manager Jane Steward has decided to host a Murder and Mayhem week so that fans of the mystery genre can gather together for some role-playing and fantasy crime solving.
"A totally delightful and mystery filled read!"
When Mattie Winston catches her husband Dr. David Winston receiving some very special loving care from R.N. Karen Owenby, she quits her job and moves out. Mattie's best friend Izzy offers her a place to stay and suggests she'd be a natural as deputy coroner. Now, instead of taking patients' pulses, Mattie's weighing their hearts and livers. But Mattie's first homicide call turns out to be for none other than Nurse Karen, and even though she saw her ex in a heated argument with the newly deceased the night before, she refuses to believe David could be a killer.
"An easy read"
Georgie, aka Lady Victoria Georgiana Charlotte Eugenie, cousin of King George V of England, is penniless and trying to survive on her own as an ordinary person in London in 1932. So far she has managed to light a fire and boil an egg... She's gate-crashed a wedding... She's making money by secretly cleaning houses... And she's been asked to spy for Her Majesty the Queen.
"Happy addition to a difficult genre"
Welcome to an elite Connecticut kennel club where shocking secrets gnaw at the best of the breed and competition has a sharp - and deadly - bite. As if raising her son Davey, training her rambunctious Poodle Faith for the show ring, and grooming fellow handler Sam Driver for romance aren't enough, Melanie Travis's entre into the exclusive Belle Haven Kennel Club has been met with a grisly murder. Unfortunately, the only witnesses to the crime were the victim's startled pair of Beagles.
"Fun and entertaining"
Dev Sinclair is the happy new owner of the old-fashioned shop in her small Missouri town. But if she doesn't focus on finding the killer of her ex's fiance, this five-and-dime owner may find herself serving 25 to life.
"If you like mystery you Must read this one"
When Skye Denison left Scumble River years ago, she swore she'd never return. But after a bout with her boyfriend and credit card rejection, she's back to home sweet - homicide....
"Love this Series!"
When librarian Kathleen Paulson moved to Mayville Heights, Minnesota, she had no idea that two strays would nuzzle their way into her life. Owen is a tabby with a catnip addiction and Hercules is a stocky tuxedo cat who shares Kathleen's fondness for Barry Manilow. But beyond all the fur and purrs, there's something more to these felines. When murder interrupts Mayville's Music Festival, Kathleen finds herself the prime suspect.
"Promising "Cozy" Series"
Scientist Maryse Robicheaux thought that a lot of her problems had gone away with her mother-in-law's death. The woman was rude, pushy, manipulative and used her considerable wealth to run herd over the entire town of Mudbug, Louisiana. Unfortunately, death doesn't slow down Helena one bit. DEA Agent Luc LeJeune is wondering what his undercover assignment investigating the sexy scientist has gotten him into - especially as it seems someone wants her dead.
"My newest addition"
The last thing Katie Bonner wanted was to become the manager of Artisans Alley. But when her business partner Ezra Hilton is found bludgeoned to death, she has no other choice. Business under Ezra had been faltering - but was it enough to provoke someone to murder? Only Katie can find the answer.
"very enjoyable"
Rachel takes the same commuter train every morning. Every day she rattles down the track, flashes past a stretch of cozy suburban homes, and stops at the signal that allows her to daily watch the same couple breakfasting on their deck. She's even started to feel like she knows them. "Jess and Jason," she calls them. Their life—as she sees it—is perfect. Not unlike the life she recently lost. And then she sees something shocking. It's only a minute until the train moves on, but it's enough. Now everything's changed. Unable to keep it to herself, Rachel offers what she knows to the police, and becomes inextricably entwined in what happens next, as well as in the lives of everyone involved. Has she done more harm than good? Compulsively readable, The Girl on the Train is an emotionally immersive, Hitchcockian thriller and an electrifying debut.
"Don't Compare, Just Enjoy"
With money and hope in short supply, newly minted attorney Brigham Theodore decides it's time to lower his standards. He joins a seedy fly-by-night firm in Salt Lake City out of desperation. After he loses his first case - a speeding ticket - he's convinced his career is over. But to his shock, his boss hands him a slightly more complex case: capital murder.
"Good Court Room Drama!"
After a showdown with the notorious Yemeni terrorist known as The Panther, John Corey has left the Anti-Terrorist Task Force and returned home to New York City, taking a job with the Diplomatic Surveillance Group. Although Corey's new assignment with the DSG - surveilling Russian diplomats working at the UN Mission - is thought to be "a quiet end", he is more than happy to be out from under the thumb of the FBI and free from the bureaucracy of office life.
"Keep 'em coming Nelson!"
It is Nick and Amy Dunne's fifth wedding anniversary. Presents are being wrapped and reservations are being made when Nick's clever and beautiful wife disappears from their rented McMansion on the Mississippi River. Husband-of-the-Year Nick isn't doing himself any favors with cringe-worthy daydreams. Under mounting pressure from the police and the media - as well as Amy's fiercely doting parents - the town golden boy parades an endless series of lies, deceits, and inappropriate behavior. Nick is oddly evasive, and he's definitely bitter - but is he really a killer?
"Demented, twisted, sick and I loved it!"
Young vet Rachel Goddard's life changes one day when a child's scream activates a long-forgotten memory from her own childhood. Fearing that nothing about her family is what it seems, Rachel begins a quest for answers.
"Quite an unusual and captivating book!"
In 1902 the volcano Mt. Pelée erupts on the island of Martinique, wiping out an entire city of 30,000 - and sinking a ship carrying a German scientist on the verge of an astonishing breakthrough. More than a century later, Juan Cabrillo will have to deal with that scientist's legacy.
"Juan Cabrillo is great"
A long-buried family secret resurfaces when one of Aloysius Pendergast's most implacable enemies shows up on his doorstep as a murdered corpse. The mystery has all the hallmarks of the perfect murder, save for an enigmatic clue: a piece of turquoise lodged in the stomach of the deceased. The gem leads Pendergast to an abandoned mine on the shore of California's desolate Salton Sea, which in turn propels him on a journey of discovery deep into his family's sinister past.
"Twists and Tuns in the Pendergast Family Tree"
With a beautiful baby daughter and a devoted husband, Detective Lindsay Boxer can safely say that her life has never been better. In fact (for a change), things seem to be going well for all the members of the Women's Murder Club as they gather to celebrate San Francisco Medical Examiner Claire Washburn's birthday. But the party is cut short when Lindsay is called to a gruesome crime scene, where a woman has been murdered in broad daylight.
"I feel cheated!"
Shelby Foxworth lost her husband. Then she lost her illusions.... The man who took her from Tennessee to an exclusive Philadelphia suburb left her in crippling debt. He was an adulterer and a liar, and when Shelby tracks down his safe-deposit box, she finds multiple IDs. The man she loved wasn't just dead. He never really existed.
"not really fast enough can predict script etc"
Sue Grafton's X: Perhaps her darkest and most chilling novel, it features a remorseless serial killer who leaves no trace of his crimes. Once again breaking the rules and establishing new paths, Grafton wastes little time identifying this sociopath. The test is whether Kinsey can prove her case against him before she becomes his next victim.
They call them Travelers. They move from city to city, panhandling, committing no crimes - they just like to stay on the move. And now somebody is killing them. Lucas Davenport's adopted daughter, Letty, is home from college when she gets a phone call from a woman Traveler she'd befriended in San Francisco. The woman thinks somebody's killing her friends, she's afraid she knows who it is, and now her male companion has gone missing.
"Very good!"
Wayward Pines, Idaho, is quintessential small-town America — or so it seems. Secret Service agent Ethan Burke arrives in search of two missing federal agents, yet soon is facing much more than he bargained for. After a violent accident lands him in the hospital, Ethan comes to with no ID and no cell phone. The medical staff seems friendly enough, but something feels…off. As the days pass, Ethan's investigation into his colleagues' disappearance turns up more questions than answers. Why can't he make contact with his family in the outside world? Why doesn't anyone believe he is who he says he is? And what's the purpose of the electrified fences encircling the town? Are they keeping the residents in? Or something else out? Each step toward the truth takes Ethan further from the world he knows, until he must face the horrifying possibility that he may never leave Wayward Pines alive…
"Well done story"
Detectives Byrne and Balzano return to the streets of Philadelphia to put an end to a macabre succession of murdered children. A quiet Philadelphia suburb. A woman cycles past a train depot with her young daughter. There she finds a murdered girl posed on a newly painted bench. Beside her is a formal invitation to a tea dance in a week's time.
"Page Turning Nail Biting Suspense Beginning 2 End"
Dewey Andreas, former Delta and current intelligence agent, is sidelined. Still drowning in grief after the tragic murder of his fiancee, Dewey has seemingly lost his focus, his edge, and the confidence of his superiors. A high-level Russian hacker, known only as Cloud, is believed to be behind a series of major terror operations, and the mission is to capture and render Cloud harmless. At the same time, a backup team is sent after the only known associate of Cloud, a ballerina believed to be his girlfriend.
"Worth waiting almost a year for!Most Excellent 5*s"
Dr. Eric Parrish is the chief of the psychiatric unit at Havemeyer General Hospital outside of Philadelphia. Recently separated from his wife, Alice, he is doing his best as a single dad to his seven-year-old daughter, Hannah. His work seems to be going better than his homelife, however. His unit at the hospital has just been named number two in the country and, Eric has a devoted staff of doctors and nurses who are as caring as he is. But when he takes on a new patient, Eric's entire world begins to crumble.
"More twists and turns than Lombard Street"
In remote, icy Greenland, ex-Air Force General Steven Macaulay helps lead an expedition to recover a lost World War II plane. Encased in ice below is a find that will astonish the world - a perfectly-preserved Viking ship, buried for nearly a thousand years, along with the frozen corpses of nine crewmen. Assembling the foremost Viking scholars, Macaulay tasks the gorgeous Lexy Vaughan to translate the ship's markings - until her work is cut short when her colleagues are murdered.
"Truly enjoyable story from start to finish!"
When Jen, the largest, most complete Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton ever found, surfaces in Sherriff Walt Longmire's jurisdiction, it appears to be a windfall for the High Plains Dinosaur Museum - until Danny Lone Elk, the Cheyenne rancher on whose property the remains were discovered, turns up dead, floating face down in a turtle pond. With millions of dollars at stake, a number of groups step forward to claim her, including Danny's family, the tribe, and the federal government.
"Another Amazing Longmire story"
In the frigid pre-dawn hours, in a distressed Midwestern city, hundreds of desperate unemployed folks are lined up for a spot at a job fair. Without warning, a lone driver plows through the crowd in a stolen Mercedes, running over the innocent, backing up, and charging again. Eight people are killed; fifteen are wounded. The killer escapes. Mr. Mercedes is a war between good and evil, from the master of suspense whose insight into the mind of this obsessed, insane killer is chilling and unforgettable.
"Love this style of King!!!"
Ani FaNelli seems to have it all: a glamorous job at a glossy magazine, an enviable figure with the wardrobe to match, and a handsome fiancé from a distinguished blue-blood family. But Ani FaNelli is an invention, that veneer of perfection carefully assembled in an attempt to distance herself from a shocking, sordid past.
New York Times best seller Lincoln Child returns with a riveting new thriller featuring the charismatic and quirky Professor Jeremy Logan, renowned investigator of the strange and the inexplicable, as he uncovers a long-lost secret experiment only rumored to have existed.
"Felt like some Chrichton style was channeled in."
In the summer of 1601, Galileo Galilei made a startling discovery in the mountains of Eastern Italy that, if made public, could shatter faith in religion, bring down governments, and lead to worldwide turmoil. For more than 400 years, the secret has been guarded by a small group of incredibly powerful people, willing to do everything in their power to keep these discoveries from being made.
"Great Story with lots of new twists and turns"
"Dog days and the fresh bodies are arriving once again." So begins the fall term at South Carolina Medical College, where Dr. Jacob Thacker is on probation for Xanax abuse. His interim career - working public relations for the dean - takes an unnerving detour into the past when the bones of African American slaves, over a century old, are unearthed on the campus. Out of the college's dark past, these bones threaten to rise and condemn the present.
"On sale book ended up being great!!!"
Seventy thousand years ago, the human race almost went extinct. We survived, but no one knows how.
Until now. The countdown to the next stage of human evolution is about to begin, and humanity might not survive this time. The Immari are good at keeping secrets. For 2,000 years, they've hidden the truth about human evolution. They've also searched for an ancient enemy - a threat that could wipe out the human race. Now the search is over.
"Pretty bad, but not the worst I've ever read"
London, 1889. For Ira Adler, former rent-boy and present plaything of crime lord Cain Goddard, stealing back the statue from Goddard's blackmailer should have been a doddle. But inside the statue is evidence that could put Goddard away for a long time under the sodomy laws, and everyone's after it, including Ira's bitter ex, Dr. Timothy Lazarus.
"Brilliant book, Phenomenal audio experience!"
When police rescue five-year-old Jenna Thompson from the dark closet where she's been held captive for days, they tell her she's a lucky girl. Compared to the rest of her family, it's true. But even with their killer dead of an overdose, Jenna is still trying to find peace 25 years later.
"I tried to like it, it's just terrible though"
Meet John Milton. He considers himself an artisan. A craftsman. His trade is murder. Milton is the man the government sends after you when everything else has failed. Ruthless. Brilliant. Anonymous. Lethal. You wouldn't pick him out of a crowd but you wouldn't want to be on his list. But now, after ten years, he's had enough - there's blood on his hands and he wants out. Trouble is, this job is not one you can just walk away from. He goes on the run, seeking atonement for his sins by helping the people he meets along the way.
"Meet John Milton"
An aborted raid targeting a major arms dealer. A hostage standoff at a bank that may not be what it seems. A plot to spring a former African dictator from prison. What is the threat that connects them all? And just who is the mysterious mastermind, The Starling? From Mexico to Washington - from London to Marseille to Prague - war crimes investigator Harold Middleton and his team of Volunteers risk their lives to follow the trail of clues. But how can they stop The Starling - when he always seems one step ahead?
Single mom Hayley Powell is barely keeping her leaking roof over her head when her boss at the Island Times gives her a new assignment - taking over the paper's food column. Hayley's not sure she has the chops - she's an office manager, not a writer, even if her friends clamor for her mouth-watering potluck dishes. But the extra income is tempting, and Hayley's chatty first column is suddenly on everyone's menu - with one exception. When rival food writer Karen Appelbaum is found face-down dead in a bowl of Hayley's creamy clam chowder, all signs point to Hayley.
"Newspaper recipe writer cozy mystery"
In Marbella, Spain, Dr. Kate Warner awakens to a horrifying reality: the human race stands on the brink of extinction. A pandemic unlike any before it has swept the globe. Nearly a billion people are dead--and those the Atlantis Plague doesn't kill, it transforms at the genetic level. A few rapidly evolve. The remainder devolve. As the world slips into chaos, radical solutions emerge. Industrialized nations offer a miracle drug, Orchid, which they mass produce and distribute to refugee camps around the world. But Orchid is merely a way to buy time. It treats the symptoms of the plague but never actually cures the disease.
"A well executed reinterpretation of history"
My name is Simon. I'm 10 years old. I'm a serial killer. Robert Stern (Rupert Penry-Jones), a successful defense attorney, doesn't know what lies in store for him when he agrees to meet a new client in a derelict estate on the outskirts of Berlin. Stern is more than surprised, when his old love interest and professional nurse Carina (Emilia Fox) presents him a ten year old boy as his new client. Simon (Jack Boulter), a terminally ill child, who is convinced he has murdered many men in a previous life.
"Sound Editing Subpar"
As a single mom, Hayley Powell already has a full plate - she's got deadlines to make and a teenage daughter with eyes for an aspiring singer-songwriter. But when country music superstar Wade Springer rolls into town, Hayley spies an irresistible side gig: Personal chef to her all-American idol. After he tries her home cooking, Wade's so impressed that he hires her on the spot - and invites her to dine with him alone. Hayley and Wade are hitting all the right notes…until a body turns up.
Four years ago, assassin Court Gentry was betrayed by his handlers in the CIA. Now, an old comrade returns to haunt him - and to force him on a mission against his will. With his ruthless employers on one side, his former friends on the other, and a doomed mission ahead, Court Gentry would kill to get out of this one alive.
"really impressive"
Hayley Powell, food and cocktails columnist for Bar Harbor's Island Times, is...well, kind of broke. So when she's selected for that extreme coupon-clipping reality game show coming to town...she's thrilled, especially when her competition is nasty nurse Candace Culpepper. But when Haley stumbles across a face-down-in-the-snow Candace - scissors gleaming between her shoulders - she knows the next thing she'll be selected for will probably be a police line-up.
"I loved it!"
Someone is knocking at the door to Grace Adams' house, and he won't stop. Grace thinks she knows who it is, but when she goes to her second floor window for a look she sees a woman she doesn't recognize. The woman isn't alone for long before a man emerges from the dark of the surrounding woods, stabs her, and leaves her for dead. Trying to help, Grace goes to the woman and is shocked to find that it's her mother Leanne - a woman who abandoned her 11 years before.
"Good story, very well narrated."
Ex-CIA master assassin Court Gentry has always prided himself on his ability to disappear at will, to fly below the radar and exist in the shadows - to survive as the near-mythical Gray Man. But when he takes revenge upon a former employer who betrayed him, he exposes himself to something he's never had to face before. A killer who is just like him. Code-named Dead Eye, Russell Whitlock is a graduate of the same ultra-secret Autonomous Asset Program that trained and once controlled Gentry.
"Fits well into the series"
Deputy coroner Mattie Winston knows a thing or two about dead bodies. That's why she's on the case of Derrick Ames, a high school math teacher stabbed to death with a barbecue fork straight to the heart. Sure, she's turned up some motives and a few suspects, but nothing adds up. Especially when the evidence points to Ames's teenage son. Newly pregnant Mattie can't believe it, even as her own long-estranged father may be following her.
"I love Maddy Winston"
Reflecting a city still divided, Belfast Noir serves as a record of a city transitioning to normalcy, or perhaps as a warning that underneath the fragile peace darker forces still lurk. Featuring brand-new stories by: Glenn Patterson, Eoin McNamee, Garbhan Downey, Lee Child, Alex Barclay, Brian McGilloway, Ian McDonald, Arlene Hunt, Ruth Dudley Edwards, Claire McGowan, Steve Cavanagh, Lucy Caldwell, Sam Millar, and Gerard Brennan.
"Not what I expected"
Court Gentry is known as The Gray Man - a legend in the covert realm, moving silently from job to job, accomplishing the impossible, and then fading away. And he always hits his target. But there are forces more lethal than Gentry in the world. And in their eyes, Gentry has just outlived his usefulness. Now, he is going to prove that for him, there's no gray area between killing for a living-and killing to stay alive.
"High Energy Ride!"
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LOS ANGELES—"Lost" actor Naveen Andrews, who plays Dr. Hasnat Khan, Princess Diana's lover for two years, in "Diana," said in a recent interview that he was not aware of that relationship until this film project came his way.
The movie, which stars Naomi Watts as the beloved late Princess of Wales, is based on Kate Snell's 2001 book, "Diana: Her Last Love." Adapted by British playwright Stephen Jeffreys and directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel, "Diana" concentrates on the relationship between Diana and the renowned Pakistani cardiologist which lasted for two years and ended before the former's tragic death in 1997.
The surgeon was quoted in stories as saying that he and Diana talked about living in Pakistan, where he would open a heart hospital, while she would help in charitable institutions dedicated to women.
The London-born actor of Indian heritage said, "I have to say that, when I read the script, it reminded me of one of my favorite movies, the best love story on film, David Lean's 'Brief Encounter.' I like the idea that this was a very pure story about two human beings. Obviously, with our film, one of them is world-famous, an icon, but I loved the intimacy and simplicity of the story about just two people."
The thespian, memorable as Sayid Jarrah in the hit "Lost" TV series, explained that Kate Snell's book helped him prepare for the role. "I also went to the Royal College of Surgeons in London to meet doctors who had actually worked with Hasnat and knew him personally."
He did not meet Hasnat, now 54, who is a cardio-thoracic surgeon consultant at Basildon University Hospital in Essex. "The very nature of this piece, in doing a character who's still living, and who is more than keen to maintain his privacy, who's very dignified and honorable, I feel quite protective of him," Naveen pointed out. Hasnat, who admitted that he has not seen "Diana," was quoted in news stories as saying that the film is "completely wrong."
"There's something refreshing—I don't want to say old-fashioned—about Hasnat that seems to come from a different era," Naveen talked some more about the man who dated Diana between 1995 and 1997. "He doesn't seem to be bothered by modern neurosis in the way that most of us are. I have to stress, with that background—it's very masculine—his sense of control and order would have been deeply compromised. That is what makes the story wonderful, and that's why I brought up 'Brief Encounter.' There are two people who have made this connection, but it's impossible—it can't work, and the audience knows it can't work."
On what he learned about Diana in his research for the role, Naveen replied, "She was extraordinary, vulnerable and loving. I hope that comes through in the film. She had this desperately vulnerable quality which, of course, is attractive. Naomi's great gift as an actress is that vulnerability, which really does suit 'Diana.'"
To physically prepare for the part, he had to gain weight. "I put 16 pounds on," Naveen shared.
"I was in London, so you could have as many large English breakfasts as you could possibly manage—black pudding and those tarts with cream—it was good research! It doesn't take very long to gain weight."
Naveen is dad to two sons. He said that Jaisal, 21, goes to a university in Manchester, while Naveen Joshua, 7, goes to school in Santa Monica, California, where the actor lives.
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Marian W. Muhammad was president of the IBF/USBA from 2001 to 2010 (incomplete supervising record), following Hiawatha Knight.
She was voted out of office on May 25, 2010 [1]. Daryl J. Peoples succeeded her.
Muhammad became vice president of the Combative Sports Federation (CSF) [2], which she founded along with Larry Hazzard in October 2010.


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Coyotes' Tocchet to be arraigned in 7-10 days
Phoenix Coyotes assistant coach Rick Tocchet and his co-defendants, New Jersey State Trooper James J. Harney and James A. Ulmer of Swedesboro, N.J., will be arraigned in New Jersey Superior Court in Burlington County within the next 7-10 days, James Hagerty, the spokesman for the state Division of Criminal Justice, told ESPN's Sal Paolantonio.
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Coyotes assistant coach Rick Tocchet pleaded guilty and got two years probation for running a sports gambling ring that took in millions of dollars in bets.
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• Tocchet ready to rejoin Coyotes
• Tocchet ban extended until at least February
• Third man in ring sentenced to probation
• Tocchet gets two years probation
• Tocchet pleads guilty, may avoid jail time
• Tocchet to appear in court
• One year later, Tocchet still in legal limbo
• Man pleads guilty to bookmaking
• Report: Second man to plead guilty
• Cop's sentencing postponed
• Trooper pleads guilty, will cooperate against Tocchet
• Trooper to appear in court
• Groundwork laid for lawsuit
• Burnside: Probe initially shows no evidence of NHL bets
• Jones Gretzky to be subpoenaed
• Report: FBI inadvertently tipped NHL
• NHL says no evidence players bet on games in illegal ring
• Attorney: Gretzky won't be charged
• Tocchet court appearance waived
• Jones Gretzky unlikely to be charged
• Lawyer: No mob connection
• Trooper charged in betting ring downplays allegations
• Kreidler: Gretzky can't shy away
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Description: This is an updated comprehensive textbook of transfusion medicine.
Purpose: The goal of this third edition is to maintain the excellence of the previous editions while providing state-of-the-art information about new and emerging areas within transfusion medicine and transfusion science (e.g., prion transmission, therapeutic hemapheresis, etc.). The intent of this edition is to focus on the medicine and science of transfusion, while giving less consideration to its technical aspects. The editors and individual chapter authors have succeeded admirably in achieving this ambitious goal.
Audience: This book would be useful to anyone interested in transfusion medicine and transfusion science. It would appeal especially to those subspecialists (e.g., pathologists, hematologists) with a significant clinical practice in transfusion medicine.
Features: After reading a few chapters of this book, I was in awe. This 69-chapter book is truly a comprehensive archetype tome of transfusion medicine. The list of authors and editors reads like a "Who's Who" in transfusion medicine, and the information is accordingly incomparable in terms of each author's expertise in and insight into a particular transfusion medicine niche. The book starts with a fascinating chapter on the historical origins of transfusion medicine followed by sections of chapters devoted to blood components and derivatives, clinical practice, apheresis, adverse sequelae, special topics, and delivery of blood services. A unique aspect of this edition is the arrangement of information for each subject. The chapters are arranged in a logical and seemingly seamless spectrum starting with the basic science of the particular topic, moving to the translational laboratory aspects, and concluding with clinical applications or practice. This assembly of information results in the reader gaining a multifaceted understanding of the topic. The information in each chapter is current and thoroughly discussed, with critical analysis of relevant publications. The references are quite extensive and complete.
Assessment: This is a great book. It has admirably continued the noble tradition and excellence of the previous two editions. I highly recommend it for anyone involved in the practice of transfusion medicine — it's a must-have.


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We had to wait until week three of the preseason for a brutal, cringe-worthy injury, but thanks to Marc Mariani we now have one. Mariani, a third year pro, was returning a kick in last nights game against the Cardinals when his leg got tangled up on his way to the ground. The end result was something grizzly, something that would cause more pain than we hope to endure in a lifetime.
We knew very little about Mariani, so we did a little research:
- Went to the University of Montana
- Named to the 2010 Pro Bowl as a return specialist…as a rookie!
- Lists his sports hero's as Jerry Rice and Brett Favre
- Holds Titans single-season total return yards record: 1,859 yards
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the older sets of VS gut from Babolat which was commented as the same as Wilsons as someone posted when Wilsons Nat gut 1st came out it had Babolat touch printed on it, So the older sets of vs the non bt7 that is on the 16g. it lists the max. recommended as 70 lbs, so the 17 g. should be a lower recommended tension, and
it does state recommended so you can go to what you want, but just may not like the resulting things that can happen
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tension range of 53-70 lbs.This is 16g. and only a recommended tension range, you can do as you please, its your equipment.
Sampras has VS 17g. strung to 75lbs. mains and crosses, as that was his choice, so you see it can be done, but
its your choice if you want to exceed what is recommended
Personally I think you're making an issue out of something that isn't an issue...and I assure you, I don't mean that as an insult. The guy from Wilson gave you the "company" answer, which is what he's supposed to do. His delivery may be questionable, but no one can come back on him and say, "Well so & so said you can string the gut at 75 with no problem" after they crack their frame or snap the gut during stringing...both of which may or may not have anything to do with stringing it at 75.
I think Jim's answer was right on the money, the bold part in particular, but you're obviously searching for something else. I would've been surprised if they told you the max recommended tension is somewhere in the 75 - 80 range, but even if they did, when you push anything toward the upper limits of it's max range - especially over a sustained period of time - you're increasing the likelihood of a shorter lifespan.
If you like your stick at 70, then string at 70, but accept the inherent risks associated with stringing at a tension that is certainly not the norm for most players.
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By Kalyan Rai - January 27, 2004
X²-The Threat from Egosoft is a graphically rich space simulation that makes extensive use of bump mapping. A benchmark in the form of a rolling demo is built-in to the game and consists of rendering 23 cut scenes. Note that the benchmark reported pixel shader 1.4 and vertex shader 1.1 were used in lieu of pixel shader 2.0 and vertex shader 2.0, which are DirectX 9 features.
Shadows were disabled for this set of benchmarks due to the impact on performance. Enabling shadows caused a 30-40% decrease across the board in the average frame rate.
In X²-The Threat gameplay conditions, I found that 1024x768 with 2X antialiasing and 8X anisotropic filtering and shadows disabled provided solid performance.
Developed by Incredible Simulations, Inc. (ISI) for Electronic Arts, F1 Challenge is a popular racing simulation among Formula 1 racing buffs. FRAPS logging was used to capture the average frame rate during a playback of an eight lap race on the Melbourne track.
All in-game graphics settings were configured to their maximum value and sound was enabled.
A high and steady minimum frame rate is important in racing simulations in order to maintain the illusion of speed. Having invested a number of hours playing F1 Challenge '99-'02, I found that the Zeus 5700 Ultra consistently achieved this requirement at a resolution of 1024x768 with 2X antialiasing and 8X anisotropic filtering.
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2004 is as addictive as it is stunning to watch. The visual quality is simply astounding. The golf courses feature wildlife, water is rendered with the assistance of DirectX 9 pixel shaders, and the character animation is quite convincing.
I tested the performance of the Zeus 5700 Ultra using two replays. The first replay was from a hole-in-one shot on the twelfth hole at Pebble Beach. The second replay was from a chip shot on the fringe of the fourteenth green at Kalpua Plantation.
The hole-in-one replay takes place on a short par 3 with an abundance of trees and spectators in the background. The second replay begins with a close-up of the player surrounded by beautifully rendered grass, which is a definite GPU strainer. All in-game graphics settings were at their highest level with the exception of player shadows, which were disabled.
Note that due to way replays are viewed in Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2004, we are not getting an accurate frame rate because a large portion of the screen is reserved for letterbox effects. The replays were viewed in ball cam mode.
In Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2004, the Zeus 5700 Ultra provided good performance at a resolution of 1024x768 with 4X antialiasing and 8X anisotropic filtering.
Although the minimum frame rate is not provided in the results, I would have liked it a bit higher with 4X antialiasing and 8X anisotropic filtering. Dropping down to 4X anisotropic filtering will provide an increase in performance as would overclocking the graphics card.
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Finally Myles has bitten the bullet and bought a pair of glasses, only problem is, he can now see me…
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Oh very fetching Myles! ;) xxx
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Contra Costa Christian Schools (CCCS) provides a high quality 21st century education within a context that prepares students to engage their world from a Christian perspective. Our website has been designed to give you a flavor of our school… but keep in mind that a CCCS education is a community and an experience that extends well beyond simple text and images.
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Almost every man wants a hot car, a beautiful babe and a bigger penis. lol But perhaps you are among the normal men who just thinks he needs a bigger penis. Who is to say what normal is? There is a good reference at sexuality.about.com that says, " The results from three studies of penis size where the measurements were taken in a laboratory setting give the following ranges:
- Average penis length (flaccid/not erect): from 3.4 inches to 3.7 inches (8.6 cm to 9.3 cm)
- Average penis length (erect): from 5.1 inches to 5.7 inches (12.9 cm to 14.5 cm)
- Average penis girth (circumference when erect): from 3.5 inches to 3.9 inches (8.8 cm to 10 cm)
These numbers are obviously very different from the sizes we hear (and see) in adult movies, and even the kinds of numbers you read on line. Why such a difference?
Many, possibly most, statistics you read are not from legitimate research, but from marketing companies who want you to feel bad about your penis size (so you'll buy their product).
Important facts about reports of average penis size
- There is much greater variation in size of flaccid (non-erect) penises than of penises when they are erect. A soft penis that looks large may be roughly the same size when erect as a soft penis that looks smaller.
- Because most men see other penises when they are not erect it can appear as if there is a big difference, and men may be likely to assume their erect penis is much smaller when compared to others.
- Male porn stars are often chosen specifically because they have larger than average penises. Also, there are a variety of techniques used to make penises look bigger on camera. Lighting, camera angle, and even shaving of pubic hair can all make things look bigger on camera.
After discussing things with your doctor, if you decide you want to look into penile implants or other treatments, you can check that out here. The information I am giving you assumes you are having erection problems. There is alot of information here about the penile implants. Dr. Justin Harmon wrote an extensive article about penile implants. You can read that here. There is also a very good article here about complications.
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4 / 10 As the man behind the boards for Tinie Tempah's 'Pass Out', Labrinth has proved he can make an urban pop banger. However, the path from producer to solo star is never an easy one. Labrinth hasn't lost his eye for a beat: opener 'Climb On Board' is underpinned by ferocious cut-up drums and strafing synth lines, while 'Earthquake' plots the exact point between head-nodding hip-hop, Daft Punk and trance. But his vocals are faceless, shrouded in layers of gloopy vocoder, allowing Tinie to steal the show effortlessly on the song's guest spot. Labrinth may work wonders in the background, but he's far too anonymous on 'Electronic Earth' to mark his card as much of a solo star.
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