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Caring for an infant niece when her sister falls ill, Amish woman Marlena is abandoned by her commitment-phobic beau and joins a wise elder's crafting circle before considering a new relationship and discovering past secrets.
Lady Holly Taylor, a beautiful and passionate young woman, risks her reputation when she decides to follow rake Zachary Bronson into a scandalous but satisfying partnership.
Dr. Liam Campbell, desperate to reach his wife Mikaela after an accident that has left her in a lingering coma, contacts her ex-husband, movie star Julian True, and then must deal with the consequences when she wakes up with retrograde amnesia, remembering nothing of the past fifteen years, including her marriage and children with Liam.
Single mom Heather Donovan's dreams of home and family are seemingly within reach when she settles in Chesapeake Shores. The welcoming arms of the boisterous, loving O'Brien clan embrace her and her son. But accepting their support seems to further alienate her son's father, Connor O'Brien. His parents' divorce and his career as a divorce attorney have left him jaded about marriage. Then everything changes. Will the possibility of a future without Heather make Connor look at love differently?
"Helen Decatur spent a lifetime setting goals- getting through college and law school, opening her own practice, becoming financially secure and establishing herself as one of the most highly respected matrimonial attorneys in the state of South Carolina. Achieving those goals was a breeze compared to the one she's faced with now. The most driven- and cynical- of the Sweet Magnolias, Helen is forty-two, single and suddenly ready for the family she's put on the back burner for all these years. Unfortunately, having a child at her age comes with lots of complications, not the least of which is the absence of a serious relationship in her life. But Helen's not the type of woman to wait around for fate to step in. Taking charge of her own destiny puts her at odds with her two best friends, sets sparks flying with a man who doesn't want a family, and leads her straight into the most unexpected complication of all... love." Provided by publisher.
It's finally time for Dinah Davis to go home. The world-weary correspondent wants to settle down with the sweet guy she left behind in South Carolina's Low Country. Instead, she's confronted by his black-sheep brother, and--despite her longing for serenity--sparks fly. How can she possibly trade her perfectly safe backup plan for a risk-taking guy like Cordell Beaufort after all the dangers she's already faced? But to Dinah's dismay--backup plan or not--her heart has its own ideas.
Sensible corporate lawyer Alaina Montgomery has been frustrating her matchmaking friends for years. But this time they'e really tried to set her up with the wrong guy: Dylan Harrison, a free-spirited single dad who runs a ramshackle bar and bait shop. Appropriately enough, she meets him on the way to a science-fiction-themed masquerade party. When cops mistake the costumed pair for a lady of the evening and her client, Alaina and Dylan end up in jail together. And soon they hatch a plan to foil the matchmakers once and for all by pretending to be a couple. What begins as a good-natured ruse quickly blossoms into a real romance, as these two polar opposites discover that desire can't be so easily disguised.
"Lady Alethea Vaughn Channing is haunted by a vision of a man in danger, the same man who she has seen in dreams time and time again. She doesn't even know his name, and yet she feels the connection between them, knows she is the only one standing between him and disaster. But rakish Lord Hartley Greville is capable of protecting himself, as he has proven more than once in his perilous work as a spy for the crown. If he's to carry out his duty, he'll need to put aside the achingly beautiful woman with the strange gift. And yet, when Alethea's visions reveal a plot that could endanger children, Hartley will not be able to ignore the destiny that binds them together, or resist the passion burning between them..."--Page [4] of cover.
Thirty-eight year old Jeremy Pauling has never left home. He lives simply on the top floor of a Baltimore rowhouse, quietly creating collages of little people snipped from wrapping paper. His elderly mother putters in the rooms below. That is, until the fall of 1960, when she dies and leaves Jeremy alone. The following spring he takes in two boarders: a young woman and her child. Mary Tell is unaware of how much courage it takes Jeremy to look her in the eye. For Jeremy, like one of his paper creations, is fragile and easily torn -- especially when he's falling in love...
A pair of high-school sweethearts grow apart; he goes to war, she marries someone else. But he can't forget her.
Grace, a seemingly reserved librarian, shows the town of Cedar Cove what she is truly made of when her husband mysteriously vanishes, forcing her to call upon her inner strength and courage to help her two daughters deal with his disappearance.
A thirteenth-century nobleman who returns from the Holy Land to England enters an ill-starred marriage by arrangement, whose only benefit is title to a mysterious property called Rosehaven.
When Tysen Sherbrooke is appointed the new Baron Barthwick of Kildrummy Castle in Scotland, his narrow, sober world explodes as he steps into a beehive of complications until a remarkable young woman enters his life, in despearate need of his protection.
The novel's narrator, Stevens, is a perfect English butler who tries to give his narrow existence form and meaning through the self-effacing, almost mystical practice of his profession. In a career that spans the second World War, Stevens is oblivious of the real life that goes on around him -- oblivious, for instance, of the fact that his aristocrat employer is a Nazi sympathizer. Still, there are even larger matters at stake in this heartbreaking, pitch-perfect novel -- namely, Stevens' own ability to allow some bit of life-affirming love into his tightly repressed existence.
"Nine years ago, terrorists hijacked a plane in Vienna. Somehow, a rescue attempt staged from the inside went terribly wrong and everyone on board was killed. Members of the CIA stationed in Vienna during that time were witness to this terrible tragedy, gathering intel from their sources during those tense hours, assimilating facts from the ground with a series of texts coming from one of their agents inside the plane. So when it all went wrong, the question had to be asked: Had their agent been compromised, and how? Two of those agents, Henry Pelham and Celia Harrison, were lovers at the time, and in fact that was the last night they spent together. Until now. That night Celia decided she'd had enough; she left the agency, married and had children, and is living an ordinary life in the suburbs. Henry is still an analyst, and has traveled to California to see her one more time, to relive the past, maybe, or to put it behind him once and for all. But neither of them can forget that long-ago question: Had their agent been compromised, and how? And each of them also wonders what role tonight's dinner companion might have played in the way things unfolded"--Publisher.
"The Palmer sisters couldn't be more different. Karen, the eldest, is the responsible one the one who got the grades, married the perfect guy, and has two wonderful, high-achieving children. Cassie is the rebellious one, who got pregnant right after high school and married the wrong man, despite her family's misgivings. And Nicole is a free, creative spirit, who's always been indulged and pampered as the baby of the family who could do no wrong. These differences were enough to drive the three sisters apart over the years, but their mother's unexpected death makes them realize that she would have wanted them to repair old wounds and let bygones be bygones. What they discover is that none of their lives are as perfect as they seem, and despite their differences, they're the only family each other can depend on. A heartwarming illustration of all the ups and downs of life, and the sometimes fraught, but always enduring, relationship between sisters.
"Prince Stephen came to America to escape responsibility. But what he found complicates his life more than ever. Corina Del Rey is happy with her life in Melbourne, Florida. She spends her days engrossed in her career as a journalist and has her sights set on climbing the corporate ladder -- if for no other reason, to distract herself from her dissolving family. But when she is confronted with the past she fought so hard to put behind her, she struggles to make sense of her future. Prince Stephen of Brighton Kingdom has moved on since the tragic death of his buddies in Afghanistan. A star professional rugby player, he has no intention of looking over his shoulder at what could've been. But when a notice arrives in the mail requiring his and his wife's appearance before the courts to dissolve their marriage, he must deal with the questions rumbling around in his heart. He thought his marriage had been annulled long ago, but his memories of Corina Del Rey remain close. Does he still love her? Can he even find her? Above all, can he tell her the truth about that fateful night in Afghanistan seven years ago? If he does, he might really lose her forever"-- Provided by publisher.
"When it comes to caring for the furry residents of St. Helena, California, groomer and pet rescuer Shay Michaels can handle anything. Humans are another story, though--especially Deputy Jonah Baudouin. He's the town's resident superhero: uptight, and jaw-droppingly gorgeous, even when he's investigating complaints about Shay's beloved foster animals. And that spells danger for Shay, a free spirit who can't risk trusting the wrong person again"--Back cover.
Loving the beautiful but damaged Ruby all of his life, Ephraim is torn between his sister and a chance for a life with Ruby when the latter returns to their small hometown and confronts the forces that traumatized her early years.
"When Adam's soul mate rejected him, there was more at stake than his heart. After seven hundred years of searching, his true match would have ended the curse that keeps his spirit in chains. But beautiful, stubborn Eliza May fled and now Adam is doomed to an eternity of anguish, his only hope for salvation gone. No matter how devilishly irresistible Adam was, Eliza couldn't stand the thought of relinquishing her freedom forever. So she escaped. But she soon discovers she is being hunted by someone far more dangerous. The only man who can help is the one man she vowed never to see again. Now Adam's kindness is an unexpected refuge, and Eliza finds that some vows are made to be broken."--Back cover.
"Marine Corp Sergeant Khat Shinwari lives among the shadows of the rocky Afghani hills, a Shadow Warrior by name and by nature. She works alone, undercover and undetected--until a small team of US Navy SEALs are set upon by the Taliban...and Khat is forced to disobey orders to save their lives. Now, hidden deep in the hills with injured SEAL Michael Tarik in her care, Khat learns that he's more than just a sailor. In him, she sees something of herself and of what she could be."--Back cover.
"A magical and comedic take on modern love, the power of friendship, and the allure of disguise. Meet the Knights of Creation, a group of artistic friends struggling with society's standards of beauty. Barb, a stunningly beautiful costume designer, chooses to don a fat suit in hopes that it will help her meet the man of her dreams- a man who can see beyond her looks. Lily, Barb's brilliantly talented, unfortunate-looking musician friend, goes to fantastic lengths to attract the shallow man she loves. Penelope, neither beautiful nor talented, makes her living by selling hideous clay pots after convincing customers they've broken them. To complicate matters, the friends discover they may have a murderer in their midst, that Barb's calm disposition is more dangerously provocative than her beauty ever was, and that Lily's musical talents are more powerful than anyone could have imagined. Imbued with Amanda Filipacchi's characteristic twisted charm and absurdist, satiric wit, The Unfortunate Importance of Beauty is touching, whimsical, and gorgeously strange. "Filipacchi [creates] magic out of thin air. . . . One of our best satirists."-Neil LaBute"--Publisher.
"A young Amish woman fends off the matchmaking efforts of her fellow passengers on the Charming Nancy--the ship that brought the first wave of Amish to America in 1737"-- Provided by publisher.


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Executive Committee of the American Institute of Physics
Minutes of Meeting
March 25, 1960
Members Present: R. A. Sawyer, Chairman; J. W. Buchta; S. A. Goudsmit; R. B. Lindsay
Absent: J. W. Beams; W. C. Michels
Board Member Present: W. W. Havens, Jr.
AIP Staff Present: Elmer Hutchisson; H. A. Barton; Wallace Waterfall; Mary M. Johnson
The Chairman called the meeting to order at 1:40 p.m.
1. Minutes
The minutes of the meeting of January 29, 1960, were approved as circulated.
2. Financial Report for 1959
Copies of the financial statement for 1959 were distributed to all Board members prior to the meeting (copy attached). The Treasurer stated that the auditors' report for 1959 had just been completed and was being sent to all Member Society Secretaries and Treasurers.
It was recalled that the reasons for variations between 1959 budget and actual performance were discussed at the December 11 meeting of the Executive Committee and, at that time, $50,000 of net income was transferred to the Building Reserve bringing it to $124,346.22 at year end. The Treasurer distributed copies of a sheet showing income and expenditures on special projects for the 1959 calendar year (copy attached). This sheet gives details of the item, "Income from Special Projects," which appears on the "Statement of Income and Expense" in the financial report and similar sheets will be included as part of the regular quarterly financial statement hereafter.
In answer to a question, the Treasurer stated that the increase in editorial management costs budgeted for 1960 is due to an additional journal, a total of about 20% more pages in all AIP journals and increasing costs in editors' offices. He commented that the total amount of money we handled in 1959 was $2,616,000 compared to $2,146,500 in 1958.
Percentage of Dues to be Paid by Member Societies in 1961
The Treasurer said it is customary for the Executive Committee to present a recommendation to the Board on this subject, and the staff suggests that the dues percentage for 1961 be continued at 10%. From all reports it would appear that the Member Societies are satisfied with this arrangement. The following motion was then made, seconded and passed without dissenting vote:
MOVED that the Executive Committee recommend to the Governing Board that the dues percentage to be paid by Member Societies to the Institute in 1961 be set at 10% of dues collected in 1960.
Allocation of Income from Investments to Building Reserve
The Treasurer recalled that the Executive Committee, at its meeting on December 11, had authorized the transfer of $50,000 from net income to the Building Reserve. In a conference with the auditors they had suggested that it might be better in the future to credit some income items directly to reserves on a quarterly basis rather than include them in general income and transfer large sums to reserves at the end of the year. Pursuing this suggestion, the staff recommends that the income from all investments, except the Karl T. Compton Fund, be credited quarterly to the Building Reserve and that the net income from AIP-owned journals, except "Physics Today," be put quarterly in an Operating Reserve. The reasons for an Operating Reserve were discussed at the December 11, 1959, meeting and the 1960 budget includes $40,000 to start such a reserve. The Treasurer suggested that this $40,000 item be removed from the budget and that, instead, the Executive Committee authorize placing income from AIP journals in an Operating Reserve, as explained above. Net income from the journals was $23,000 in 1959, $35,000 in 1957, but there was a loss of $4,600 in 1955. An Operating Reserve could be used to even out this variation in journal income or for such other purposes as the Executive Committee may direct. According to the 1960 budget the Treasurer estimated that the proposed actions would add about $23,000 to the Building Reserve and $47,000 to the Operating Reserve in the current year and AIP would show an over-all net loss of about $15,000 at the end of the year. However, income may exceed expectations and money can be withdrawn from reserves at any time to cover losses, if desirable. After further brief discussion, the following motion was made, seconded and passed without dissenting vote:
MOVED that the staff be authorized to transfer quarterly all net income from investments, except the Karl T. Compton Fund, to the Building Reserve; and all net income from Institute-owned journals, except "Physics Today," to the Operating Reserve; with the understanding that the $40,000 figure for an Operating Reserve included in the 1960 budget will be deleted.
3. Corporate Associates
The Secretary reported that the following organizations had requested to become Corporate Associates of the Institute and, on motion duly made and carried, they were so elected:
- Allied Chemical Corporation
- A. E. Staley Manufacturing Company
- Itek Corporation
- Hoffman Electronics Corporation
- Sangamo Electric Company
- International Harvester Company
- Basic Books, Inc.
- Mallinckrodt Chemical Works
- Veeco Vacuum Corp.
- Armco Steel Corporation
- The Foxboro Co.
The Director distributed copies of a report on Corporate Associates (copy attached) and commented that our net income from this source is $12,000 over the 1960 budget at the present time. He said we expect to have 180 Corporate Associates by the end of 1960. The Director pointed out that journal subscriptions are credited to Member Societies at the full non-member rates. Mr. Goudsmit recalled that the Executive Committee had previously agreed that the staff should be somewhat selective in accepting Associates in order to maintain a high standard.
It was recalled that a prospect list had been distributed at the last meeting of the Executive Committee but no suggestions based on that list have been received to date. The Director asked again that names of suitable organizations and appropriate contacts therein be furnished to the staff.
4. Director of Publications
The Director reported that AIP had acquired the services of Hugh C. Wolfe as Director of Publications, and he distributed some background information on Mr. Wolfe. Mr. Kelly, Director of our Education Department, will be on leave of absence from September 1, 1960, to February 1, 1961, and Mr. Wolfe was originally approached as a candidate to replace Mr. Kelly during that period. Through later negotiations, Mr. Wolfe agreed to join the Institute staff on a permanent basis beginning September 1 and will take care of Mr. Kelly's responsibilities during the latter's absence, gradually assuming the duties of Director of Publications. Mr. Wolfe has been highly recommended and an appropriating to cover his salary was included in the budget for 1960.
The Secretary reported that Miss Norma Frankel had been named Publications Editor and had replaced Miss Bryans who will henceforth be assigned to special projects.
Mr. Goudsmit reported that some members of the Publication Board had expressed some displeasure because that Board was not consulted about the creation of this new office of Director of Publications. The Secretary replied that the subject had been under consideration for about a year and was discussed at the last meeting of the Publication Board.
5. Reports of Journal Editors
The Director stated annual reports had been received from the editors of all AIP journals and are available to anyone who wishes to see them. We have raised page budgets this year and have made a special effort to avoid backlogs and otherwise satisfy editors. The Editor of "The Review of Scientific Instruments" is taking steps to make that journal more attractive.
New Editor for the "Journal of Applied Physics"
The Director reported that Mr. Krumhansl had submitted his resignation as Editor of JAP, to take effect about the middle of this year. He has offered some suggestions as to his successor and the Director recommended that a Committee to Select a New Editor for JAP be appointed. Mr. Krumhansl had estimated that he spends about 40% of his time on this journal and details of our financial arrangement with him were discussed. The following motion was made, seconded and passed without dissenting vote:
MOVED that the Chairman and Director be authorized to appoint a Committee to Select a New Editor for JAP.
6. Advisory Committee on Documentation Research Program
The Director proposed that an Advisory Committee on Documentation Research Program be created, pointing out that this would parallel our advisory committees for education and public relations. The Director said additional funds had been requested from the National Science Foundation for continuation of our documentation work. He suggested that the Advisory Committee consist of about five appointed members and that the Chairmen of the Science Abstracts Committee and the Publication Board be ex officio members. He proposed that K. G. McKay be asked to serve as Chairman. The Director indicated that, with the establishment of this new Advisory Committee and more active participation of the Publication Board in current problems, there seemed no need to reappoint the Committee on Publishing Problems in Physics. The Executive Committee agreed with this proposal.
Contribution to International Federation for Documentation (FID)
The Director gave some background information on the FID, which was established in 1895, and said that Burton W. Adkinson, head of the documentation branch of NSF, feels that FID should be strengthened. He has indicated that NSF proposes to contribute up to about $15,000 per year at the start although he believes it should be supported in the long range by various scientific groups. The Director estimated a reasonable contribution from AIP would be $1,000 per year and he felt other similar groups would do likewise. He said he would like to cooperate with NSF and would expect the above-mentioned Advisory Committee on Documentation Research Program to follow this venture very closely. The following motion was made, seconded and passed without dissenting vote:
MOVED that AIP contribute up to $1,000 per year as, if and when needed to help strengthen FID.
7. New NSF Proposals
Copies of our current grants received and requested were distributed (copy attached) and the Director called attention to our request of January 4, 1960, to NSF for a grant to cover career booklets. He distributed copies of the proposal and described briefly the three booklets it is intended to cover. He explained some of the problems which led to our submission of the proposal and noted that our previous career booklets have been very successful. In answer to a question, the Director explained that AIP had financed "Physics in Your High School" and was distributing about 10,000 free copies. Another 10,000 copies had been sold to McGraw-Hill for resale by them. He displayed some very favorable letters which had been received from recipients of the handbook.
The Director also distributed copies of our proposals on the Visiting Scientists Programs; a proposal for a grant to finance preparation of a catalog of educational films, and a proposal to extend the Documentation Research Project for three years. He reported that Mr. Maizell is working on a possible title index of all Institute journals, with graduate students participating in tests of the permuted index system. The Director also mentioned a pending proposal for an apparatus office.
8. Second Karl T. Compton Award
The Director pointed out that it has been almost three years since the first Karl T. Compton Award was made to Dean Pegram, and the suggestion has been made that now would be an appropriate time to consider a second presentation. The award was established for occasional conferment upon some distinguished physicists who has made an outstanding contribution to physics – not necessarily for distinguished research but for outstanding statesmanship in science. It had not been planned to give the award at stated intervals but at whatever time and place appeared appropriate. Some suggestions for possible recipients have been made and the Director asked that a committee be appointed to consider candidates. He proposed that the presentation be made later this year at a meeting of the Institute "family" similar to the one held last fall at Arden House. The cost of the medal, certificate, and cash award will total about $1,250 which will come from the endowment established for this purpose. The Chairman was authorized to appoint the committee.
Investment in a Mutual Fund
The Secretary recalled that the funds to endow the Karl T. Compton Award were donated by Mr. Alfred P. Sloan, and he said we now have about $12,500 of this money remaining which is in a 3% savings account at Bankers Trust Company. We could probably realize a much better return if it were invested in a mutual fund, and the Secretary recommended the Loomis-Sayles Mutual Fund which is admittedly quite conservative but has yielded an average of 7.7% per year over the past six years. After brief discussion, the following motion was made, seconded and passed without dissenting vote:
MOVED that the Treasurer be authorized to invest the Karl T. Compton Award Fund in the Loomis-Sayles Mutual Fund.
9. Report of Property Committee
The Secretary reported that the staff sees a space crisis approaching much earlier than had been anticipated. We had 75 employees in the middle of 1957 and about one year later predicted 100 by the end of 1962 whereas we actually hired our 100th employee a week ago. He displayed a graph depicting our rate of growth which indicated that we may have well over 200 employees by 1970 if projected plans materialize. Our present building is adequate for about 125 people and we expect to exceed this number by the end of 1962. For this reason, a meeting of the Property Committee was held on March 7 and it was the consensus of that Committee that we should start now to make provisions for the period up to 1970. We have several alternatives, as follows: We can build an addition on our vacant lot next door; buy a larger building somewhere else and sell this one; rent space outside; or buy a lot and build a new building. We have employed an architect to study the feasibility of an addition next door, and estimate we can build a four-story addition for about one-half million dollars. We have also been looking at larger building and at rental space in this area. We may be forced to take some action on this problem before the end of 1960.
10. Appointment of Committees and Representatives
Copies of a list of proposed committees and representatives for the current year were distributed (copy attached). The Director said we plan to delete the word "Russian" from the name of the Advisory Board on Russian Translations because the Board is now investigating the desirability of translating Chinese material.
Mr. Barton said he had a talk with the Chairman of the John T. Tate Memorial Fund Committee recently and he is preparing a letter which will be processed and distributed through the Institute to a group of about 200 selected names. The Director explained that the Committee on History and Philosophy of Physics was created as the result of a request for assistance from the Smithsonian Institution. The following motion was then made, seconded and passed without dissenting vote:
MOVED that the list of committees and representatives as appended to these minutes be appointed for a period of one year except where other terms are specified.
11. Preview of Governing Board Agenda
Copies of the Governing Board agenda and a draft of the Director's annual report had previously been distributed. The Director explained the agenda had been planned so that routine business matters could be completed early and the rest of the day could then be spent in covering one part of Institute activities in some detail. For this meeting our activities in recruitment and education of physicists had been chosen and various members of the Board had been asked in advance to introduce and discuss phases of the subject in which they had particular interest.
The Director explained that recruitment and education had been selected because some disagreement had developed recently between himself and the President of AAPT as to how projects in this area should be administered and conducted and it was hoped that a thorough discussion of the projects themselves would bring better understanding. Then followed lengthy discussion of AIP-AAPT relations from which the Secretary drew the following conclusions:
General projects intended to aid in the recruitment and training of physicists are of interest to all physicists and all AIP member organizations and should be conducted and publicized with due regard for the interests of all.
In publicizing the results of projects of interest to AIP and one or more Member Societies, due credit should be given to all participating organizations.
When projects of interest to one or several Societies are undertaken by AIP, they should be administered by AIP with the advice of committees or boards representing the interested Societies and with the understanding that decisions on controversial matters will be made by the AIP Governing Board or Executive Committee.
AIP may, at the specific request of a Society, undertake projects of interest to that Society only and, in such cases, the Society may direct how the work should be done and should bear full financial responsibility for it and receive full credit for it. However, all AIP personnel working on such projects shall be under the supervision of the Director of the Institute or his delegated representative.
The Executive Committee agreed that there should be further discussion of AIP-AAPT relations on education and recruitment projects at the Governing Board meeting on the following day and that enlargement of the Advisory Committee on AIP Education Program should be recommended to include representatives of all Member Societies interested in such activities.
12. AIP Sponsorship of Conference on Semiconducting Compounds
The Director reported that AIP had been asked to act as a sponsor of a conference on semiconducting compounds. The Solid State Division of APS declined because attendance will be limited to 300. He said AIP had acted as a joint sponsor of conferences on magnetism and temperature but none of them were limited. Even though the proceedings may be publishing in JAP, it was the consensus of the Executive Committee that AIP should not act as a sponsor unless the limitation on attendance is removed.
13. Reduced Rate on "Physics Today" to Members of Affiliated Societies
The Secretary stated that the staff recommends offering PT to members of Affiliated Societies at $2.00 per year. In answer to a question, he said that we would just about break even financially and increased circulation should make possible increased advertising revenue. The following motion was made, seconded and passed without dissenting vote:
MOVED that the staff be authorized to offer "Physics Today" to members of Affiliated Societies at an annual subscription rate of $2.00.
The meeting adjourned at 4:55 p.m.


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Had to post, even if it is old. I have been using the POG OS since 1982, high school. I have collected about 10 over the years and they are all version 1 or 2. One thing I cannot make a connection to on the list is that I have a version 2 with a longer, 2-handed grip. The crossbar is actually about an inch higher in the throat. It has the single green stripe and grommets, but just a naturally longer grip. Still plays the same. I've used pretty much all the versions and I will only play with the version 1 first, or 2 if that is the only available frame when the 1's have broken strings, etc. One poster said the size of the head was a bit different on the earlier frames. I can confirm this. It definitely has more of an "O" shape compared to a typical oval.
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BLACKFOOT — When it came time to leave his job in Kansas City for a move back west, Dennis Hansen turned his attention to Blackfoot, Idaho.
"My brother (Larry) had moved here two or three years earlier and liked it," said Hansen, who grew up in Nebraska and Wyoming. "I wanted to go somewhere in the West and back to the mountains."
That was 37 years ago. Hansen and his wife Gloria built a home and a life in Blackfoot.
YUMA, Ariz. — Albert and Sharon Gardner, former Blackfoot residents who now live in Arizona, returned to Yuma this week after flying nearly 12,000 miles -- equal to traveling halfway around the world. The trip was the culmination of a longtime desire that Albert had to land his airplane in every contiguous state of the Union. The plane is a home-built craft that he constructed in his garage. Prior to this summer he had landed the plane in every state west of the Mississippi.


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WILKES-BARRE â?? Readers were mainly drawn to two types of headlines in 2012: the tragic and the irreverent.
A review of The Times Leaderâ??s Google analytics showed a strong attraction to tales of loss as well as offbeat local and national stories.
A Sugarloaf Township couple admitted to allegations that they had sex with their Golden Retriever. Charges were filed in September claiming James Antonelli, 68, and his wife, Jennie Marie Moore, 48, had â??put themselves in danger by having sex with a dog who was not vaccinated.â?ť
In October, the couple admitted to the act and were resentenced to begin a sentence of 30 months probation following an earlier no contest plea stemming from child abuse allegations.
The story was the most read byline of 2012.
In another case of alleged animal cruelty, a Petersburg, Columbia County, man spent a weekend in jail after repeating an unusual offense.
Paul Ganter, now 45, told a counselor that he had molested a horse, a violation of his probation after previously having sex with 10 horses and a cow. Some of the prior activities had been filmed, according to reports.
Ganter was nearly finished with his original sentence in January when he told a counselor that he had committed the act again.
The hit-and-run death of 19-year-old Kingâ??s College student Rebecca McCallick attracted widespread attention. McCallick was struck by a pickup truck on July 24 along Hazle Avenue in Wilkes-Barre.
Prosecutors charged Daniel Loughnane, 40, of West Liberty Street, Hanover Township, with driving away from the scene of the accident. Loughnane surrendered Dec. 18 on a felony charge of accidents involving death. A preliminary hearing is scheduled on Jan. 3. The original report was the third-most-read of 2012. Follow-up pieces dot the top 100 bylines.
Jason A. Schilling, 18, died Dec. 1 in a one-vehicle crash on Carpenter Road in Dallas Township.
Schilling was a 2012 graduate of Dallas High School and had played on the schoolâ??s baseball team for three years. He was a two-year starter, said Dallas baseball coach Ken Kashatus.
â??He was a gamer, he loved to compete. He was a well-liked kid in school in general. All the kids really liked him,â?ť Kashatus recalled.
The story of Schillingâ??s death rounded out the top six stories of the year.
A violent shooting in Plymouth that left three people dead â?? Bradley James Swartwood, 21, Nicolas Robert Maldonado, 17, and Lisa Abaunza, 15 â?? and critically injured Danny Maldonado, 19, was also among the most-read stories of 2012.
Shawn Hamilton, 19, and his half brother, Sawud Davis, 16, allegedly shot and killed the young men and the teen girl during a drug deal involving marijuana and heroin, according to state police.
In December, prosecutors said they would seek the death penalty for Hamilton, while attorneys for Davis will seek to have his case heard in juvenile court because of his age. The story detailing charges against the men was the eighth-most read this year.
A local woman alleged in a federal lawsuit that she was fired from a Moosic business for wearing a prosthetic penis to work.
Pauline Davisâ?? January lawsuit against J&J Snack Foods Corp. claimed she wore the prosthetic to work as a line inspector and informed some co-workers, who passed the information on to management.
The suit was voluntarily withdrawn by Davis in March, according to court documents.
Samuel Smith wasnâ??t about to become another robbery victim. In March, Smith, a security guard who has a concealed weapons permit, said he fired one shot into the ground in March after two men allegedly approached him on Reese Street in Wilkes-Barre and ordered him to empty his pockets. The alleged would-be robbers ran.
â??I never thought it would happen to me,â?ť Smith told The Times Leader in March. â??Iâ??m glad I have a concealed weapons permit. It paid off. If it happens to me again, I donâ??t think I would think twice of using my gun.â?ť
Keeping track of a former county commissioner proved difficult earlier this year, but that didnâ??t deter readers.
Greg Skrepenak, who was incarcerated in September 2010 for accepting a $5,000 kickback as a reward for supporting a real estate developerâ??s entry into a program to delay payment of taxes on the project, was released to a halfway house on April 7.
By April 23, he was released to home confinement and working at a Kingston law firm. On May 3, the federal Bureau of Prisons confirmed he was returned to a halfway house. A voice mail message from Skrepenakâ??s father left with The Times Leader said he was â??taken back to the halfway house in Scrantonâ?ť after â??too much media coverage.â?ť
Skrepenakâ??s sentence officially ended on June 12.
While the Mayans had it wrong, the arrival of the end of days in 2012 seemed probable with a so-called zombie attack in Miami in May.
Rudy Eugene, often cited as the â??Miami zombieâ?ť in headlines, was fatally shot by police during a brutal attack during which he allegedly chewed off part of Ronald Poppoâ??s face on the MacArthur Causeway.
The attack was captured by surveillance cameras outside the Miami Herald offices.


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Israel Aircraft Industries Ltd. (IAI) has reported new orders for the first 9 months of 2002 in the sum of $2.1 billion. The Company's backlog has reached a record high of $4.4 billion, compared to last year's third quarter, which totaled $3.7 billion. Mr. Moshe Keret, President & CEO, reported the results to the Board of Directors, which approved the Company?s financial statements as of September 30, 2002.
Ben-Gurion International Airport, Israel - Mr. Moshe Keret - Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI)'s President & CEO and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Elta Systems Ltd., a wholly-owned subsidiary of IAI, and Mr. Danny Biran - President of Koor Industries and Chairman of Elisra Electronic Systems Ltd., announced today (November 27, 2002) the completion of the acquisition of 30% of Elisra's shares by Elta Systems, based on a company value of $330 million. Koor Industries received $100 million in cash.
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Employees stage demonstration in front of Indian Bank zonal office as part of their nation-wide strike
Normal operations in public sector banks in Tiruchi district came to a standstill on Thursday as bank employees struck work registering their protest against the Banking Law Amendment Bill 2011.
The nation-wide strike was called by All India Bank Employees Association (AIBEA) with members of All India Bank Officers Association, Bank Employees Federation of India, and National Union for Bank Employees participating in the strike. State Bank of India, however, did not join the strike.
Clearing operations and cash transactions in the banks came to a halt, union sources said.
Old private banks such as Lakshmi Vilas Bank, Karur Vysya Bank, Karnataka Bank, Federal Bank, Catholic Syrian Bank and South Indian Bank too took part in the strike.
The sources said the Bill, already passed in the Lok Sabha, would lead to privatisation of the banking sector and pave the way for foreign investment in the sector and establishment of private banks. Operations in the 200 branches of various public sector banks in the district were hit.
A demonstration was held in front of Indian Bank zonal office in the city, which was led by AIBEA district president R.T. Ramamurthy.
Keywords: Bank employees, Banking Law Amendment Bill 2011, demonstration, Indian Bank Tiruchi zonal office


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Art Nouveau was a movement that swept through the decorative arts and architecture in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Generating enthusiasts throughout Europe and beyond, the movement issued in a wide variety of styles, and, consequently, it is known by various names, such as the Glasgow Style, or, in the German-speaking world, Jugendstil. Art Nouveau was aimed at modernizing design, seeking to escape the eclectic historical styles that had previously been popular. Artists drew inspiration from both organic and geometric forms, evolving elegant designs that united flowing, natural forms with more angular contours. The movement was committed to abolishing the traditional hierarchy of the arts, which viewed so-called liberal arts, such as painting and sculpture, as superior to craft-based decorative arts, and ultimately it had far more influence on the latter. The style went out of fashion after it gave way to Art Deco in the 1920s, but it experienced a popular revival in the 1960s, and it is now seen as an important predecessor of modernism.
Cover design for "Wren's City Churches" (1883)
Mackmurdo's woodcut print is an example of the influence of English design, and by extension the Arts and Crafts movement, on Art Nouveau. In particular, Mackmurdo's use of positive and negative space, his abstract-cum-naturalistic forms, and the trademark "whiplash" curves, are all characteristic of the visual and decorative energy that would eventually define Art Nouveau. However, despite Mackmurdo's print being commonly referred to as the very first work of Art Nouveau, its obvious differences with later works still make it a key precursor rather than definitive example of the movement's style.
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Art Nouveau Beginnings
Art Nouveau (the "new art") was a widely influential but relatively short-lived movement that emerged in the final decade of the 19th century and was already beginning to decline a decade later. This movement - less a collective one than a disparate group of visual artists, designers and architects spread throughout Europe was aimed at creating styles of design more appropriate to the modern age, and it was characterized by organic, flowing lines- forms resembling the stems and blossoms of plants - as well as geometric forms such as squares and rectangles.
The advent of Art Nouveau can be traced to two distinct influences: the first was the introduction, around 1880, of the Arts and Crafts movement, led by the English designer William Morris. This movement, much like Art Nouveau, was a reaction against the cluttered designs and compositions of Victorian-era decorative art. The second was the current vogue for Japanese art, particularly wood-block prints, that swept up many European artists in the 1880s and 90s, including the likes of Gustav Klimt, Emile Galle and James Abbott McNeill Whistler. Japanese wood-block prints contained floral and bulbous forms, and "whiplash" curves, all key elements of what would eventually become Art Nouveau.
It is difficult to pinpoint the first work(s) of art that officially launched Art Nouveau. Some argue that the patterned, flowing lines and floral backgrounds found in the paintings of Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin represent Art Nouveau's birth, or perhaps even the decorative lithographs of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, such as La Goule at the Moulin Rouge (1891). But most point to the origins in the decorative arts, and in particular to a book jacket by English architect and designer Arthur Heygate Mackmurdo for the 1883 volume Wren's City Churches. The design depicts serpentine stalks of flowers coalescing into one large, whiplashed stalk at the bottom of the page, clearly reminiscent of Japanese-style wood-block prints.
Concepts and Styles
Although Art Nouveau has become the most commonly used name for the movement, its wide popularity throughout Western and Central Europe meant that it went by several different titles. The most well-known of these was Jugendstil (Youth Style), by which the styles was known in German-speaking countries. Meanwhile in Vienna - home to Gustav Klimt, Otto Wagner, Josef Hoffmann and the other founders of the Vienna Secession - it was known as Sezessionsstil (Secession Style). It was also known as Modernismo in Spain and stile Liberty in Italy (after Arthur Liberty's fabric shop in London, which helped popularize the style). It also went by some more derogatory names: Style Nouille (noodle style) in France, Paling Stijl (eel style) in Belgium, and Bandwurmstil (tapeworm style) in Germany, all of which made playful reference to Art Nouveau's tendency to employ sinuous and flowing lines.
Art Nouveau's ubiquity in the late 19th century must be explained in part by many artists' use of popular and easily reproduced forms such as graphic art. In Germany, Jugendstil artists like Peter Behrens and Hermann Obrist, among many others, had their work printed on book covers and exhibition catalogs, magazine advertisements and playbills. But this trend was by no means limited to Germany. The English illustrator Aubrey Beardsley perhaps the most controversial Art Nouveau figure due to his combination of the erotic and macabre created a number of posters in his brief career that employed graceful and rhythmic lines. Beardsley's highly decorative prints, such as The Peacock Skirt (1894), were both decadent and simple, and represent the most direct link we can identify between Art Nouveau and Japonisme.
The Architecture of Europe
In addition to the graphic and visual arts, any serious discussion of Art Nouveau must consider architecture and the vast influence this had on European culture. In urban hubs such as Paris, Prague and Vienna, and even in Eastern European cities like Riga, Budapest, and Sveged, Hungary, Art Nouveau-inspired architecture prevailed on a grand scale, in both size and appearance. Turn-of-the-century buildings, like The Museum of Applied Arts in Budapest and the Secession Building in Vienna, are prime examples of Art Nouveau's decorative and symmetrical architectural aesthetic. The arrival in the same period of urban improvements such as subway lines also provided an important outlook for Art Nouveau designers. Hector Guimard's designs for entrances to the Paris subway (c.1900) are particularly fondly remembered examples of the style.
The Vienna Secession
No other group of artists did more to popularize and spread the Art Nouveau style than the Vienna Secessionists, the collective of visual artists, decorators, sculptors, architects and designers, who first banded together in 1897 to promote their own work and organize exhibitions that resisted the conservatism that still prevailed in so many of Europe's traditional art academies. Arguably the most prolific and influential of the secessionists was painter Gustav Klimt, creator of such definitive examples of early modernism as Hope II and The Kiss (both 1907-08). The elaborate decorations in his paintings, including gold and silver leaf, and rhythmical abstractions, make them some of the most widely revered examples of the style.
Later Developments
Despite its popularity - both in terms of its geographical spread and its influence on the creation of so many media - Art Nouveau enjoyed very few moments during its heyday when all artistic elements came together to be recognized as a coherent whole. One exception was the 1900 World's Fair in Paris (Exposition Universelle), where the Art Nouveau style was present in all its forms. Of particular note was the construction and opening of the Grand Palais in 1900, a building which, although in the Beaux Arts tradition, contained an interior glass dome that clearly adopted the Art Nouveau decorative style. Other exhibitions took place throughout the continent during this time, but none could claim to be celebrating Art Nouveau in such a comprehensive manner as had the Paris Expo.
If Art Nouveau quickly stormed Europe in the late 19th century, artists, designers and architects abandoned it just as quickly in the first decade of the 20th century. Although the movement had made the doctrine that "form should follow function" central to their ethos, some designers tended to be lavish in their use of decoration, and the style began to be criticized for being overly elaborate. In a sense, as the style matured, it started to revert to the very habits it had scorned, and a growing number of opponents began to charge that rather than renewing design, it had merely swapped the old for the superficially new.
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Art Nouveau BOOKS AND ONLINE RESOURCES
Art Nouveau: Utopia: Reconciling the Irreconcilable (Taschen)
By Klaus-Jurgen Sembach
Art Nouveau
By Gabriele Fahr-Becker
|Art Nouveau: An Anthology of Design and Illustration from "The Studio" (Dover Pictorial Archive)
Art Nouveau (Architecture & Design Library)
By Robert Fitzgerald
Art Nouveau Architecture
By Keiichi Tahara
Treasures of Art Nouveau: Painting, Sculpture, Decorative Arts in the Gillion Crowet Collection
By Michel Draguet
An Art Nouveau Master Remembered in Prague
By Dinah Spritzer
Guest Column: The Social Agenda of Art Nouveau
By Elisabeth Horth
An Art Nouveau Room Thick With Wisteria
By Carol Vogel
Louis Tiffany's Eclecticism a Harbinger of Art Nouveau
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As soon as word traveled inward from the perimeter patrol outside Iasca Leror's royal city that the king's banner had been spotted, people put down tools and lined the main street behind the city gate. When low clouds rumbling overhead brought huge splats of rain, some ducked inside doorways, but no one returned to work or home.
At last the tower and the now-visible outriders exchanged the thrilling trumpet chords announcing the return of the king. The Bell Runners enthusiastically plied the ropes, and people surged from under cover to line the streets, and began to shout and pound on hand drums.
"Evred-Harvaldar Sigun!"
"Evred-Harvaldar Sigun!"
"Evred-Harvaldar Sigun!"
The rhythmic shout gained volume as their young king rode through the city gates, tall and straight, his red hair darkened to the shade of his father's by the rain, color emphasizing his cheekbones. They cheered him and his men all the way to the castle gates, and only when he was inside did they go back to work in small clumps, everybody laughing and cheerful. Innkeepers promised to draw an ale for everyone (many knowing that that would begin an evening of festive largesse) to cheer the northern victory as they looked forward to the stories the returning warriors would tell.
Inside the castle courtyard Evred slipped from his saddle, leaving his Runners to supervise as the last remnant of his army—the King's Riders who guarded the city and castle—rode over to their barracks to dismount, unpack, and then reunite with families for the promised liberty.
The warm splatters of rain dotting brown circles on the honey-colored flagstones began to merge as the young queen appeared, short like Inda, her wide brown eyes and unruly brown curls so much like his. But where Inda was broad in chest and shoulder, Hadand-Gunvaer was broad in bosom and hip. She and Evred clasped hands, and the tower sentries—men and women—sent up a cheer.
"Hadand-Gunvaer Deheldegarthe!"
Deheldegarthe: a fighting queen, one who had by her own hand defended the kingdom. It, like Sigun for the king, was the highest accolade—one that must be given, never asked for.
The royal pair smiled upward, and as the rain abruptly increased walked inside together; Hadand observed her beloved's distant gaze, and waited for him to return from wherever his thoughts had taken him.
The air was motionless and warm inside the tower, assailing Evred with familiar smells, comfortable smells, which were now free from the power to harm; his uncle and brother had receded to occasional distorted voices in dreams.
When he and Hadand reached his outer chamber, he discovered chilled wine-and-punch waiting. "Ah," he said on a long outward breath. "How good it is to be home."
"Your last report via the magic case stated that all is well in the north." Hadand dropped onto a waiting mat.
Evred sat down next to her, and cradled the broad, shallow wine cup in both hands. "It is as well as can be expected. Ndand Arveas is there in the Pass, holding Castle Andahi while Cama rides back and forth from Idayago to Ghael. We'll have to find someone to back her until Keth grows. Though she's strong enough to hold it on her own."
Hadand's lips parted. She longed to say, So why don't you make her a Jarlan, and let her pick her own Jarl? Why can't women command castles? It seemed so obvious—especially since it had been women who had held Castle Andahi in the teeth of the entire Venn invasion, down to the last one.
But now was not the time for new ideas. She had learned through letters from women across the kingdom that most of the men who had gone north to fight (those who returned) longed to resume the old ways, the comfort of tradition.
So she turned her attention to Evred even as he studied her. Both, out of lifetime habit, tried to descry the inner workings of the other's mind: as children they had shared everything, but time, and experience, had built personal boundaries that were difficult to surmount, despite their best intentions.
"We'll have to establish watches all along the north coast," Evred went on, sounding tired. "Something like Flash's beacon system, which would have worked, had there not been treachery from within. But I'm keeping our best dragoon captains up there, headquartered at Ala Larkadhe, since my twin cousins want to swap off yearly as Jarls of Yvana-Vayir and commanders of the northern force."
"Aren't they young for that?" Hadand asked.
"Year older than I was when I was first sent north to command," Evred said wryly. "And yes, my authority was limited. So will theirs be, at least at first. They know Cama is under Inda in chain of command, and they report to him. They accepted it without argument. Good boys, both of them. Though Beaver never seems to stop talking."
Hadand said, "Will they keep swapping off by year?"
"For now. I hope by the time their cousin finishes here as a horsetail and can serve as Randael at Yvana-Vayir they'll settle it among themselves. . . if we do not have any more war."
Hadand's brown, unwavering gaze was so much like Inda's—and yet not. Evred realized he was searching for Inda in Hadand's eyes. His emotions roiled until he locked them down hard. "To finish with Ala Larkadhe, the Morvende archive in the white tower was closed to me."
Her face changed from the tension of worry to comprehension. She knew what that archive meant to him. "Did the Morvende say anything?"
"Nothing. I permitted the archive to be used as a transport, which seems to have alerted them. But the closing was inevitable, because I dared to lead an army to war." He tried, and failed, to keep the bitterness from his voice. "It appears that no one wishes to hear my reasons."
Hadand poured more punch, maintaining a compassionate silence. She perceived the effort he made to relax, to look up, and around. "All seems well here."
"Yes. But we had no war to contend with." How it hurt her, to see the effort he made; what could she do? She had worked hard to have everything just right when he came home at last, down to his favorite foods here, now rapidly cooling.
He looked blankly at the biscuits, then up. "The war, yes. You must have questions. I know my reports were scant. Those magical boxes. I still don't really trust them. Even if I could send a sheaf of papers instead of quarter-sheets folded small, there was still the matter of trying to find the time to write on them."
"I have questions indeed. Beginning with the Venn surrender. What exactly happened? I've heard several conflicting accounts, and Inda has never written to me. Tdor says he wrote only that he was still alive."
He frowned, yet she knew Inda was all right. Tdor had sent a message when Inda arrived safely home, that they were about to marry. And though Tdor had not written since, Hadand knew that nothing disastrous had happened, or surely, surely she would have heard.
"It really was not a surrender, though everyone believes it to have been." He spoke slowly, hesitating between words.
She breathed in relief. The problem was obviously not Inda. Absurd to have thought it concerned him! "What exactly happened with the Venn? Are they really gone so suddenly? So many rumors have run ahead of you, and like you say, your report was scanty. I have it by heart now, I've read it so many times, trying to wring extra meaning from every pen stroke."
His smile was perfunctory. "Some of those rumors began just after the battle. I did nothing to interfere with them." Evred drank his punch down, then pressed his fingers to his temples, eyes closed. "It seemed to hearten the men to think that Durasnir, the Venn Fleet Commander, surrendered to Inda. That he and Inda fought a duel. That he knelt before me and swore allegiance. None of those things happened. He asked for a truce, said that their king was dead, and that Prince Rajnir had to sail home to claim their crown."
"That was all?"
"There was one thing more. It was very strange. I don't know why I did it, but I asked if they were coming back."
"He'd lie about that, of course," Hadand exclaimed.
"So I thought the moment the words were out." Evred crumbled a rye biscuit without awareness of what his fingers were doing, as he thought back. "I braced for threat, or dissembling. Scorn, even. We heard none of that. You must realize first that we learned before the attack that the one we have to fear is the mage Erkric, who was using magic in aid of the war. According to Inda's Venn lover, the Dag Signi—do you remember her?"
Hadand vividly remembered the small, older woman who had so kindly and quietly renewed all the castle magic spells for them, working all night while Evred and Inda raised the entire city to march to war. But Evred so distrusted magic that Hadand only signified assent, without speaking.
Evred said, "She told us that Dag Erkric has attempted to strike a bargain with Norsunder in an effort to learn magic that will control minds. It is possible that he has done so."
"I find that more difficult to believe than anything," Hadand exclaimed. "You know how I've been researching magic ever since I could read, but I've never found mention of magic—in our present time—that does that. In the days of Old Sartor, perhaps. We thought it all figurative language."
"I have trouble believing it, too. I retained my distrust of Dag Signi to the end, but something that Commander Durasnir said seemed to corroborate . . . well, you tell me what you think." Evred leaned forward. "He asked Inda if he'd ever met Ramis of the Knife. The mystery pirate who commanded the ship with black sails."
"The pirate who Inda said caused the rift to the sky through which the Brotherhood of Blood command ships were forced. I remember that." Hadand poured more punch, in hopes of getting Evred to at least drink, if he would not eat. "I always thought this mysterious Ramis was a, oh, a dream figure or something."
"Inda insists he's a real man. He met him. Spent some time with him in converse. Anyway, Inda answered Durasnir. Told him that Ramis had said there were three men who were dangerous to Inda: Prince Rajnir, the mage Erkric, and Durasnir himself. After which Durasnir said, 'Two of us must obey.' And then he vanished by magic. Shortly thereafter, the Venn marched back down the pass, boarded their ships, and sailed away."
"Two of them? But that just means the commander and the mage must obey the king."
"Why did he not say so?"
Hadand's eyes narrowed, bringing Inda forcibly to mind.
She said, "You think the Commander of the Venn, your enemy, was warning you in some way? But that makes no sense. A threat I can understand. A warning?"
"If Dag Erkric truly does control their prince—now their king, surely—then the warning becomes clear. The danger we both share is the threat of magic. Unfortunately Durasnir spoke in Sartoran, so the only ones of our people who understood him were Inda and Taumad."
"Well, what does Inda say? He could ask Dag Signi."
"They don't discuss the war. It's an honorable truce, and I understand that. As for Inda . . ." Evred touched a ring on his hand that she had never seen before. She did not often see his hands; though they were long and beautiful, he so often hid them by clasping them behind his back.
"As for Inda, we did not talk to much purpose. He was either riding along the lines encouraging the men, especially the wounded, or else abstracted . . ." Evred paused, remembering the campfire conversations, painfully repetitive as Inda went over every move, almost every sword-stroke of the fights he could remember. After a few weeks of that, Evred thought it a victory when Inda shifted from what he should have done to what he could have done.
Evred looked up. "We seldom had much time alone to discuss that."
Hadand did not ask why the two most powerful men in the entire kingdom couldn't send the entire army out of hearing, if they did not want to walk apart. There were times when speech was insufficient, even impossible. She remembered the days immediately following the Jarl of Yvana-Vayir's conspiracy: the vivid memory images, the long pauses when you couldn't remember where you were. Waking up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat, reliving the worst, and wondering if you could have done something to prevent it. Words had come with difficulty—if at all.
She signified agreement.
He closed his eyes and faced southwest. "He's on his way." And at Hadand's questioning look, "It's a location ring. Inda wears the other one. We used them in the Andahi Pass so we would not lose one another."
"So you trust this ring, but not the golden notecases?"
Evred's expression was always reserved, but now it tightened.
He made an angry, determined effort to lock away the conflict of emotions. The golden notecases had been bespelled by Dag Signi; the location rings had been provided, Evred strongly suspected, by Savarend Montredavan-An, otherwise known as Fox.
Evred knew Inda's loyalty to Iasca Leror—to Evred himself—was total. Yet Inda had somehow gained the personal loyalty of not only the Venn mage, Dag Signi, but the potentially troublesome Fox, who now commanded Inda's old pirate fleet, and who had—it seemed—rescued Inda from certain death at the hands of the Venn.
Evred flexed his hand, watching the muted glint on the plain gold band as lightning flared in the window. He looked up to discover Hadand waiting, her gaze steady and unwavering. "The rings only convey direction, no words. And Inda's Venn lover had nothing to do with the rings. Yes, I know she's proved trustworthy, but what if her unknown, unseen friends interfere? How would we know? We do not see these mages—the Venn call them dags. We do not understand their powers. And it's not just them. What if some Venn warrior had killed Noddy early on, and taken his case? He had it, I found it after he died. Inside his pocket lay Inda's notes. The Venn could have got the plan right there. Sometimes I want to throw the lot of those gold things into the fire," he said in a low, savage voice. "I may yet. If I detect the merest hint of tampering. But I admit they are useful, especially with the north so unsettled. Fast communication is essential. Cama insists that the one thing keeping the Idayagans quiet is the prospect of Inda returning."
"Inda?" Hadand's memory of Inda was still the smiling little boy of childhood. "How so?"
Evred looked away, his expression even more remote. "You did not see him in battle. Both sides spread rumors that Inda fights like ten men, that he cannot be beaten."
Evred paused at the sudden, unbidden memory. In the archive, he had read: What you remember about someone teaches you more about yourself than it does about the other.
When Inda did his knife drills, his movements expressed humor as well as strength, grace as well as skill. Inda fighting to kill was an order of magnitude in difference, face purple and mouth a rictus, eyes cold as death, grunting like an animal as he unleashed that terrifying strength, and yet Evred had found that aspect of Inda as deeply stirring as all Inda's myriad moods and voices. If not more. How could desire and killing be so close?
But Hadand did not know that. He did not want her to know it, and so he shook his head. "Never mind."
"At least we have peace."
"No. Now we have a respite. It remains to be seen for how long."
Hadand said, baldly, to strip the moment of the possibility of sickening coquetry, "Since the word came that you had won, and were alive, I have been drinking gerda leaf again."
Evred thought of a son, and Inda raising that son, and smiled. That smile caused Hadand to smile, and her heart to beat fast.
And so he came to her room that night. Afterward, Hadand, longing for the unthinking tenderness of their childhood days in the nursery, waited for Evred to offer to stay, now that the threat of war was past. Would he sleep in her arms as he had when they were children? But he rose, and with unfailing courtesy wished her a good rest, and left. She was far too proud to beg him to stay, and so stared up at the ceiling, dry-eyed. She'd wept herself out at fourteen, she told herself. Fourteen was the time for tears. Now she was a woman, a queen, and tomorrow there was work to be done.
The Fox Banner Fleet was not at all surprised to be attacked by a swarm of galley pirates from the islands east of Chael. Fox had told the captains as much, saying that an attack would give Fangras and the newcomers (former privateers from Sarendan) some practice.
And practice they got: they found themselves surrounded by a combination of three fleets, led by a pair of brigantines. After a short but very fierce fight, as usual the pirates veered off, to vanish among the many small islands.
Nugget crept up on the weather deck of the Fox Banner flagship Death, trying not to cough.
The smoke thinned in the sleeting rain. She welcomed the sleet. It not only scoured the last of the smoke from her lungs, but it made a solid gray curtain, blurring Death's battle detritus, and the hands busy with repair.
Her cap and jacket were soon as wet as everyone else's. She slunk around the mast and dashed for the binnacle. Her battle station was Signals since with only one arm she could not pull a bow.
The Death plunged through low, pillowy fingers of smoke. Green waves slopped down the deck from a following sea. Barely visible a few ship-lengths beyond the stern, the indistinct shapes of the rest of the fleet drifted in and out of the smoke, smears of red glowing between the cold gray-green seas and the low storm clouds. She sidled around the binnacle, peering over the stern rail—
The slap came out of nowhere, catching her between one step and another. She thumped onto her rear, and let out a squawk.
Old training brought her in a roll to her knee, good arm up in a block. Annoyance—accusation—dried in her throat when she recognized the tall, lean red-haired figure looming over her, all dressed in black. Fox! He'd come up quiet as a cat.
"Where." He snapped out the word in a way that chilled her right down to the toes. "Were you?"
"I—" She looked around wildly.
Smack! He hit her again—the stinging hit of drill, and again she tumbled over.
"Stop that!" she cried, scrambling away. She looked around for support. There was Pilvig, her best friend. And right behind her, two of the newcomers they'd taken on from Fangras's fleet. Both teens, Nugget's and Pilvig's age. Mates.
But did they protest? No.
Fox was standing right over her again. She recoiled, scrambling back—and bumped up against the binnacle.
"You abandoned your station in the heat," Fox stated. He looked terrible, his face smeared with soot and sweat, which emphasized the wintry ocean-green of his eyes, a bloody rag twisted around his right arm just above the elbow, another wrapping his palm. He smelled of smoke, sweat, and blood. The last time she'd seen him, he was leading the repel-boarder team when the pirate brigantines slid up on either side.
"You know what would happen to you in any navy, on any ship, abandoning your post in the heat of battle?"
"I can't fight," she wailed, turning to her friends for support.
But there wasn't any. Not in Pilvig, nor in Mutt, who appeared from the other side of the mizzen mast. "Can't you see?" She lifted her stump.
"Sock fights." Fox tipped his head toward the skinny half-Chwahir who always wore a sock on his arm stump.
Nugget opened her mouth to protest that he was old—at least as old as Fibi the Delf—but caught a squint-eyed look of cold contempt from Pilvig.
Pilvig! Her best friend! Nugget scowled down at her toes. She was seventeen, taller than Sock now, she'd grown plenty strong—she was just afraid.
"You left Pilvig to do both flags and whirtler signal," Fox said. "That meant we were left to fight two ships before Rapier heard the whirtler. If anyone had died, that would have been your fault."
"No—they were already boarding—"
"Your. Fault. Get up."
"Why? What are you going to do? Don't thrash me—I promise I won't—"
"I'm going to smack you," he stated, "until you defend yourself. Get. Up."
Nugget was sobbing by now, a mixture of fear, shame, and betrayal. Out came his hand again, straight toward her face—and she snapped up her arm in a forearm block. Just like morning drill. He hit her arm, nearly spinning her about.
His other hand came around for a side blow. She jumped back, her shoulder twitching—no hand!—but he brought his down anyway, just as if she had a hand there. She shifted her weight and her foot snapped up, half-instinctive, from the old days before her wound. She didn't connect—so he smacked her ankle. It stung.
His hand came at her again. And again. And again. When she faltered or tried to argue he slapped her. After she howled, "Stop it! I'm sorry!" he gave her a knuckle-rap on the bicep of her good arm. That hurt!
He kept her working until she leaned against the binnacle panting, her good hand pressed protectively against her stump, muscles trembling with fatigue.
Fox said, "You've been out for drill every day, but you never scrap. That is going to change. From now on, you're going to scrap with me."
A soft whistle from the background, and a snort.
"And every time I hear 'but' I'm going to give you another watch on cleaning duty. Two watches if you start a sentence with But Inda always said. You're already on the crew to rebuild the damage the brigantines' cut booms did to the jib, and to repaint the fire damage. Then you're going to be scrapping with me. An entire watch. Tomorrow, another one."
Everyone was gathered now, and not a single face gave her pity, or sympathy.
Fox showed his teeth. "There is nobody on the seas who fights nastier than I do. And I'm not going to stop scrapping with you until you're the second nastiest. Get used to it."
The ship creaked, blocks rapped, the sea hissed down the deck at their feet, then poured away.
"Now go repack the signal flags."
He turned away. Shortly after the door to the cabin slammed. The crew dispersed, some talking in low voices. But no one talked to her. Not even Pilvig.
Nugget gulped on a sob as the rain hissed down around her. She picked up the first signal flag. It was the same one she'd thrown down before she ran to hide: Engaged with enemy.
Posted September 20, 2009
The Inda series by Sherwood Smith was amazing. This intricate world created by Sherwood Smith is populated by three dimensional characters, each with their own strengths, weaknesses, and motivations. The complex dilemmas faced by many characters provide much of the tension running through this book. The choices they face are not easy, forcing them to choose between personal loyalty and national and international needs. I highly recommend this book and series, though I suggest that any new readers should start with the first book Inda, so they have a better understanding of the world, characters and plot.
*major spoiler alert*
I was personally disappointed by the ending. I felt that Evred was too self-centered and isolated from the world to see how the consequences of his orders would have affected Inda and Iasca Leror in the future. Inda made the moral choice, one that Evred was too blind or unwilling to see. The fact that Evred shunned Inda because he felt betrayed was in-character, but casted him into a new, negative light. Handand also didn't seem to support Inda very much at the end. I felt like Inda was betrayed by his family and closest friends for being a moral leader, which was kind of a depressing ending. I liked the very last chapters-where we learn about Fox-and how he just disappears one day in his ship Treason. I thought that was a very good ending for such a mysterious and conflicted character. I also like the epilogue. Although I was sad to hear about the death of Hadand, I like how Evred finally gets to see the world with Tau by his side.
On Sherwood Smith's website, she follows the lives of the characters past the ending of this book, so you can find out what happens in the future for them if you are so inclined.
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Posted September 17, 2009
Prince Indevan-Dal has regained his honor having warned his country of the Venn invasion and led the defeat of the enemy. He remains in the capital after years of exile and does his duty by pledging his allegiance to the ruler Evred and marrying Tdor although his lover when he lived at sea, the sorceress Dag Signi is unhappy with her relegated status.
Meanwhile the Venn war fleet returns home to recuperate. Commander Durasnir and his wife Brun hope the foolish youthful monarch Rajnir gives them and their sailors a respite; but fear the real ruler behind the throne Dag Erkric will not allow such. Their trepidation proves correct when Erkric abducts his ten year old son to use as a hostage. There is also a Blood Hunt directed at Signi, who is captured. The Venn are preparing for a second invasion but who shall lead the opposition Inda or Elgar the Fox becomes a controversial distraction.
The fantastic fourth and final Inda fantasy (see INDA, THE FOX and KING'S SHIELD) is a super ending to an excellent saga as the prime characters constantly must choose between personal desires and kingdom needs. The choices are not easy as loyalty to a king may prove treasonous to a kingdom. Complex with thriving cultures on land and at sea, TREASON'S SHORE completes one of the best fantasy chronicles in years as fans will want to visit the realm of stupendous Sherwood Smith; recommend starting at the beginning to better understand the motives of the prime time players.
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Posted September 4, 2009
One thing I always dread when finishing a series...if that I will come to the end and there would be no satisfaction. I glad to say this did not happen with this series. It was as happy an ending as I could have expected given the story. It was not perfect..there were some characters that I felt I was left hanging with...but the good far outweighed the bad. This has been one of the more enjoyable series I had read.Was this review helpful? Yes NoThank you for your feedback. Report this reviewThank you, this review has been flagged.
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A low intake of folate and vitamin B12 can increase the risk of melancholic depressive symptoms, according to a new study.
The study by Finland researchers among 3,000 middle-aged and elderly Finnish subjects found that lack of certain nutrients ups the risk of melancholic depressive symptoms but has no effect on non-melancholic depressive symptoms.
Melancholic depression involves typical depressive symptoms, such as a depressed mood. Non-melancholic depression is characterised by other types of symptoms, such as low self-esteem and feelings of worry and anxiety.
Based on these new observations, melancholic and non-melancholic depression may be separate depressive subtypes with different etiologies in terms of proinflammation and diet, researchers said.
"The findings have practical implications in the care of patients with depressive symptoms. For example, it may be wise to avoid medication causing weight gain among patients with non-melancholic depression, whereas melancholic depressive symptoms may call for a closer look at the quality of the patient's diet," said Jussi Seppala, chief of the department of psychiatry of the Hospital District of Southern Savo.
Among subjects with the highest folate intake, the risk for melancholic depressive symptoms was almost 50 per cent lower than among those with the lowest intake.
In addition, among those with the highest vitamin B12 levels, the risk for melancholic depressive symptoms was almost three times lower than among those with the lowest levels.
A similar association with non-melancholic depressive symptoms was not observed.
Another observation was that the risk for the metabolic syndrome was twofold among those with non-melancholic depressive symptoms, as compared to those with melancholic symptoms or those with no depressive symptoms.
The findings were published in Journal of Affective Disorders.
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The love for reading is alive and well
I am normally hostile to persistent e-mail messages that have not been detected as spam and are not totally in the junk genre. I actually feel a degree of accomplishment—the same high one experiences in clearing one's desk—in deleting them without taking the trouble of reading them. Experience has proven that there is little to be lost in the process. It is these times that make me nostalgic for the days when we were young and innocent—and totally analog.
Of late, however, I have been delighted by a daily Google alert on the love for reading. It is a strange-sounding label, but what an engrossing collection of news on initiatives from different countries to promote reading!
A couple have decided to turn their mailbox into a free-for-all library, stocking it with books they were willing to part with. How thrilled they were on days when they noticed they had to replenish their inventory. There is Anessa Geise, the new director of the Lowell Public Library in Indiana in the United States, who credits her love for books to "a fantastic teacher who read to us every day." Her commitment to her job leads her to say, "I just want to work with books for the rest of my life." There is 12-year-old Isadora Dukehart, who has read 40 books in less than two months of the summer and picks her books off any random library shelf by closing her eyes and getting whatever is within reach. And the amusing and candid account of a mom who wrote in a New York Times blog: "I'm Tired of Reading Out Loud to My Son, OK?"
It was easy in this month of July to get over my obvious envy at the access to books and the different summer incentives organized to keep the young reading with the realization that the past weeks have seen many literacy initiatives, stuff that could fall in this "love for reading" category.
At the start of the month, a group of yuppies working with the Institute for Solidarity in Asia (ISA) took time off from their field work in installing a scorecard system in cities and state agencies for a monthly gathering for professional development called Out of the Cube (yes, cubicle and out-of-the-box imagery is deliberate). ISA executive director Christian Zaens, himself a bookworm, wanted a session to rekindle a love for reading in everyone. It was an easy yet challenging topic because the proselytizing is never easy. I knew I could just begin and end with: Reading (like vegetables) is good for you. A better job at marketing had to be conceptualized, so as to entice even the most reluctant. I called it: "To read or not to read: That is NOT the question."
After discussing the edge in the workaday world that good readers enjoy in the employable skills they manifest, the yuppies decided to organize a book discussion group—a need especially felt when they realized how little they knew of Philippine published titles. But the most difficult question raised was what library to go to for borrowing books. For that, I stammered a weak answer.
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The overflow crowd at the NBS launch of "Manila Noir" edited by New York-based Jessica Hagedorn was overwhelming. It was unusual because it was a star-studded event with the lineup of featured authors. Karina Bolasco and Gwenn Galvez of Anvil Publishing, who released the Philippine edition, said that contributors Lourd de Veyra and Budjette Tan were definite crowd-drawers. Whatever it is, it is high time literary personalities turned into celebrities.
Another visiting author from the United States, San Francisco-based Marivi Soliven, is in town for the launch of her Palanca Award-winning novel "The Mango Bride," which has been released by Penguin. The launch is certain to be another major literary event. She will lecture at the University of Santo Tomas and University of the Philippines and be available for book-signing.
On National Children's Book Day, Save the Children launched its First Read Program in partnership with the Prudence Foundation and the National Book Development Board. Since it focuses on training parents on reading to their children aged 0-4 years, it was logical to have the parents and their young with them. While the ceremony was underway, the families were comfortably seated on mats with throw pillows, cloth toys, and Big Books for the children.
A young mother was putting her infant son to sleep with a radio resting on his pillow (or was that a mobile phone?) playing continuous music. She proudly said that as long as there is music, the baby does not wake up.
The most welcome news that morning was the announcement that the books from Adarna and Ilaw ng Tahanan that the program will adopt are going to be translated into the languages of the target community beneficiaries: T'boli, B'laan, and Tagakaulo. First Read really did some serious research.
On that same day, several SM Malls, even those in China, held story readings. In Metro Manila, among the celebrity readers were Noel Cabangon, Lisa Macuja, and even members of the Azkals team.
Neni Sta. Romana Cruz (email@example.com) is chair of the National Book Development Board, a trustee of Teach for the Philippines, and a member of the Eggie Apostol Foundation.
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