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"Hey," my dead uncle said. "You've got a call."
I rolled over in bed, disoriented. A dream about meeting Leonard Cohen in a perfume factory was still about as immediate as reality. My previous day's clothes were piled in the corner of the tile floor along with the leather backpack I used as a purse. The pack's side pocket was open and glowing. My uncle Eric's voice came again.
"Hey. You've got a call."
I untangled myself from the sheets and stumbled over, promising myself for the thousandth time that I would change the ringtone. The bedroom was still unfamiliar. The cell phone flashed a number I didn't recognize, but there was a name — Karen Black — associated with it, so she must have been in his contacts list someplace. I accepted the call.
"Unh?" I grunted into the receiver.
"Eric, it's Karen. I've found it!" a woman said. "It's in New Orleans, and I know where it's going next. There's a little girl with Sight, and she says her sister is the next target. I don't know how long I've got. I need you."
It was a lot to take in. I hesitated, and the woman misinterpreted my silence.
"Okay, what's it going to take?" she demanded. "Name your price, Heller."
"Actually," I said. "That's complicated. I'm Jayné. Eric's niece. He's...um...he passed on last year."
It was Karen Black's turn to be silent. I gave her a moment to let it sink in. I skipped the parts about how he'd been murdered by an evil wizard and how several of Eric's old friends, along with a policeman who owed me a favor and a vampire with a grudge against the same wizard, had teamed up to mete out summary roadside justice. I could get back to that later if I needed to.
"Oh," she said.
"Yeah. He left me pretty much everything. Including the cell phone. So...hi. Jayné here. Anything I can do to help out?"
The pause was longer this time. I could guess pretty well at the debate she was going through. I gave her a hand.
"This is about riders, isn't it?" I asked.
"Yes," she said. "So you know about them?"
"Abstract spiritual parasites. Come in from Next Door or the Pleroma or whatever you want to call it," I said as I walked carefully back to the bed. "Take over people's bodies. Have weird-ass magical powers, kind of like the magic humans can do, but way more effective. Yeah, I've got the For Dummies book, at least."
"All right," she said. "Did Eric...did he even mention me?"
"No," I said. "Sorry."
The woman on the other end of the line took a breath as I got back under the covers and pulled the pillow behind my back. I heard Aubrey cough from one of the bedrooms down the hall.
"All right," she said. "My name is Karen Black. I used to be a special agent for the FBI. About ten years ago, I started tracking down what I thought was a fairly standard serial killer. It turned out to be a rider. We caught the horse, a man named Joseph Mfume, but the rider switched bodies."
"So not so easy to track," I said.
"No," she agreed. "My supervisors wanted me to stop. They didn't believe there was anything to it. And...well, X-Files was still popular back then. There were jokes. I was referred for psychiatric counseling and taken off active duty. I resigned and went on with the investigation myself. Eric and I crossed paths a few times over the years, and I was impressed with his efficiency. I've found where the rider is going to strike next, and I need help to stop it. I thought of Eric."
"Okay," I said.
"Can you help me?"
I rubbed my eyes with my free hand until little ghosts of false light danced in my vision.
"Hell if I know," I said. "Let me talk to my guys and call you back."
"Your guys?"
"I kind of have a staff," I said. "Experts."
I could hear her turning that over too. I wondered how much she'd known about Eric's financial situation. For a man with enough money to buy a small third-world nation, he hadn't flaunted it; I hadn't even known until he left me the whole thing. My guess was Karen hadn't expected Eric to have a staff.
"I don't know how much time I have," she said.
"I'll get back to you as soon as I can. Promise. We're in Athens right now, so it may take me a few days to get to New Orleans."
"I don't mean to be rude, but it's not that long a flight," Karen said, impatience in her tone. "You could drive it in eight hours or so."
It took me a second to process that.
"Not Georgia Athens," I said. "Athens Athens. Cradle of civilization."
"Oh," she said, and then, "Oh fuck. What time is it there?"
I snuggled down under my covers and looked at the bedside clock.
"One in the morning," I said.
"I woke you up," she said. "I am so sorry..."
Amid a flurry of apologies and promises to return calls, Karen and I let each other go. I dropped the phone next to the clock and stared at the ceiling.
The last six months had offered me a wide variety of bedroom ceilings. The first at Eric's house in Denver when I was first thrown into the world of riders and possession and magic. Then the dark wood and vigas of an old ranch outside Santa Fe, then a place in New Haven with honest-to-God mirrors over the bed and red silk sheets, followed by a gray-green retro-seventies number in a rentcontrolled apartment building in Manhattan that was so small I got hotel rooms for the guys. There had been a much more civilized beige with a little unprofessional plaster repair near the corner in a townhouse in London, and now the bare white with deep blue notes that said this Greek villa had been a full-on tourist trap rental before Eric bought it.
The guys had been with me the whole time, apart from a couple weeks when Aubrey had gone back to his former job at the University of Colorado to tie up some loose ends on his research. In the long, complex process of inventorying the property and resources Eric had left behind, we hadn't stayed anyplace more than two months running, and most considerably less. None of it seemed like home to me, and from experience, I knew I could stare at the dim white above me for hours and still not sleep.
With a sigh, I got up, pulled on my robe, and made my way downstairs to the kitchen. A newspaper on the cheap yellow Formica table yelled out headlines in an alphabet I didn't understand. I poured myself a bowl of cereal with little bits of dried fruit and added milk that tasted subtly different from the 2% I'd grown up with.
I heard the door of one of the other bedrooms open and soft footsteps come down the stairs. After so many months together, I could differentiate Aubrey from Ex from Chogyi Jake without looking.
"Why do you think it is," I asked, "that someone can on the one hand be talking you into a fight against evil spirits and semi-demonic serial killers, but then on the other get embarrassed when they figure out they woke you up to do it?"
"I don't know," Aubrey said as he sat down across from me. "Maybe he just didn't want to be rude."
"She didn't want to be rude," I said. "Sexist."
Aubrey smiled and shrugged. Aubrey was beautiful the way a familiar leather jacket is beautiful. He wasn't all muscles and vanity, he didn't spend hours on his wardrobe and hair. His smile looked lived-in, and his body was comfortable and reassuring and solid. He always reminded me of Sunday mornings and tangled sheets.
We'd been lovers once for about a day before I found out that — point one — he was married and — point two — I have a real hangup about sleeping with married men. I still had uncomfortably pleasant erotic dreams about him sometimes. I also had divorce paperwork in my backpack, filled out by his wife with her signature and everything. I hadn't told him about that. It was one of those things that was so important and central to my life that putting it off had been very easy. Every time a chance came up to talk about it, I'd been able to find a reason not to.
"What's the issue?" he asked, and I startled a little, my still-exhausted mind interpreting the question as being about the divorce papers. I pulled myself together.
"There's an ex-FBI agent in New Orleans. She's on the trail of a rider that's a serial killer," I said, and yawned. "Are there a lot of those?"
"Depends on who you ask," he said. "There are a lot of serial killers who claim to be demons or victims of demonic possession. You remember the BTK killer? His pastor said right through the end that the voice coming out of the guy wasn't the man he knew. There are some people who think that all serial killers are possessed. Serial arsonists, too. Is that the last of the milk?"
"No, there's another whole bottle in the fridge," I said around my spoon. "So is it true? Are they all riders?"
"Probably not," Aubrey said. "I mean some serial killers blame porn or bad parenting or whatever. And you can be mentally ill without there being a rider in your head. But by the same token, I'd bet that some are."
"You'd buy it? This FBI lady has been tracking down a body-hopping serial killer, she's managed to get one step ahead of it, and needs help. Sounds plausible?"
"We've all seen weirder," Aubrey said as he measured out enough coffee for three of us. Chogyi Jake always opted for tea. "Do you have any reason to think it's not on the level?"
"You mean is it the bad guys setting a trap? I don't have any reason to think so," I said. "Also no reason not to, though. I could get a background check on her, I guess."
"Might be wise."
I didn't hear Ex coming. He just breezed in from the hallway. Even the T-shirt and sweats he slept in were black. His hair was loose, a pale blond flow that softened his features. Usually he wore it back.
"Since we apparently aren't sleeping tonight, what are we talking about?" he asked as he pulled out a chair and sat at the table.
"Serial killers, demonic possession," I said. "Same as always."
"Jayné got us a job," Aubrey said.
I ran down the basics again while I finished eating and Ex and Aubrey started. The coffee smelled good — rich and reassuringly heavy — so I had a mug myself. I had to give it to Greece, the coffee was great. Ex pulled back his hair into a severe ponytail, tying it with a length of leather cord while I talked. The softness left his face.
"Officially, it's one out of seven," Ex said when I finished. "Or that's what Brother Ignatius said back when I was in seminary. A little under fifteen percent of serial killings are the result of possession."
"Creepy," I said.
Aubrey and Ex looked at each other across the table. I could tell there was some kind of subterranean masculine conversation going on, and it annoyed me that I was being left out.
"What?" I said. "It's creepy. What?"
"How are you feeling, Jayné?" Aubrey asked.
"Tired. It's..." I checked my watch. "Two in the morning."
"Three weeks ago in London, it would have been midnight," Ex said.
"True," I said. "Point being?"
Aubrey held up his hand.
"We've all been busting hump for...well, for months now. We've got six hundred books in the wiki and at least that many artifacts and items, most of which we don't have any kind of provenance for. And we're not a fifth of the way through the list of properties that Eric owned."
I knew all of that, but hearing it said out loud made me want to hang my head.
"I know it's a big project," I said. "But it's necessary. If we don't know what we have to work with..."
"I agree completely," Ex said. "The thing is, someone's come to you with a problem. Sounds like it might be a little hairy. Are you...are we in any condition to take it on? Or do you want to finish the full inventory before we dive back into fieldwork?"
What I wanted was firmly none of the above. I wanted to stop for a while. I wanted to find a lovely alpine village, read trashy romances, play video games, and watch the glaciers melt. And there was nothing to stop me from doing it. I had the money, I had the power.
But this was what Eric did, and he left it to me, and walking away from it meant walking away from him too. I sighed and finished my coffee.
"If this lady's on the level, she needs us. And if we wait until we're totally ready, we'll never do anything," I said. "And I think we could all use a break. So here's the plan. I'll get us tickets to New Orleans, we'll go save the world from abstract evil, and afterward we'll hang out in the French Quarter for a couple of weeks and blow off steam."
"If we've defeated abstract evil, I'm not sure how much of the French Quarter will still be there," Ex said.
"First things first, padre," I said, standing up and heading for the main rooms. In fairness, the padre part wasn't entirely true. Ex had, in fact, quit being a priest long before I met him. Thus the Ex. Padre was what a vampire we both knew had called him, and sometimes the nickname still stuck.
The main room of the villa looked like a dorm room a week before final exams. Books filled cheap metal shelves and covered the tables. Ancient texts with splitting leather bindings, paperbacks from the 1960s with bright colors and psychedelic designs, medical papers, collections of theological essays, books on game theory, chaos theory. Grimoires of all arcane subjects waiting to be examined, categorized, and entered in the wiki that the four of us were building to support our work as magical problem solvers. Our laptop computers were all closed, but plugged in and glowing.
I sat at mine and opened it. It took me about three minutes to dig up an old e-mail from my lawyer listing all the addresses of Eric's properties, and about thirty seconds from there to confirm that I did indeed own a house in New Orleans listed as being in the Lakeview neighborhood, and valued at eight hundred thousand dollars, so it probably had enough bedrooms for all of us. I wondered what it would look like.
I smiled to myself as I got on the travel site and started shopping for the most convenient and comfortable flights back to the States. The truth was, even as tired as I was, the prospect of going somewhere new, opening a new house or storage unit without having the first clue what we'd find gave me a covert thrill. Yes, it all flowed from the death of my beloved uncle, so there was an aspect of the macabre, but it was also a little like a permanent occult Christmas.
Well, except when evil spirits tried to kill me. I had some scars from those that kept me in onepiece bathing suits. But nothing like that had happened for months, and by the time I had four flights booked from Athens International to the Louis Armstrong International Airport, I was feeling more awake and alive than I had in days. Probably the coffee was kicking in too.
It was four in the morning and still a long way from dawn when I called Karen Black.
"Black here," she said instead of hello.
"Hey. It's Jayné Heller here. We talked a few hours ago?"
"Yes," Karen said.
"I've talked to most of the guys, and it looks like we can get there in about two days. So Thursday, middle of the morning, but I'll call you as soon as we're in and settled. That sound okay?"
"That's great," she said. I could hear the smile in her tone, and I smiled back. Always good to save the day. Her next words were more sober. "We should talk about the price."
"We can do that once we get there," I said.
"I can do that," she said, and paused. "I don't mean to.... When I called before, I was a little scattered. I didn't say how sorry I am to hear about Eric. It was rude of me."
"Don't sweat it," I said. "And thanks. I was...I was sorry to lose him. I'm a little thin on family generally speaking, and he was pretty much the good one."
"He was a good man," she said, her voice as soft as flannel. To my surprise, I found myself tearing up a little. We said our good-byes and I killed the connection.
I spent the next hour with the fine folks at Google, reading up on serial killers who had claimed to be demons. I got a little sidetracked on a guy called the Axeman of New Orleans who'd slaughtered a bunch of people almost a century ago. In addition to claiming to be from hell, he said he'd pass by any house where jazz music was playing, which seemed a lot more New Orleans than lamb's blood on the lintel.
Chogyi Jake woke at six, a habit that he maintained in any time zone. His head hadn't been shaved in a few days, and the black halo of stubble was just starting to form around his scalp. He smiled and bowed to me, the movement half joking and half sincere.
"Getting an early start?" he asked, nodding at the dun-colored landscape drawing itself out of darkness outside our windows. The Aegean glowed turquoise and gold in the light of the rising sun.
"More like an early finish," I said. "There's been a change of plans."
Copyright © 2009 by M.L.N. Hanover
Posted January 24, 2012
The story was interesting, fast and kept me wanting to read until the very end. The plot made sense and I found myself smiling with the witty dialogue. That said, I was not into the Aubrey Jayne romance. IS IT JUST ME? Why would the author drop such hints about Ex's feelings for her and then do absolutely nothing about it. In the first book, Jayne admitted to falling into Aubrey simply out of fear and desperation. And then, instead of evolving and moving onto a romance who may actually be good for her, she goes back to Aubrey! To be honest, it ruined a lot for me. I liked the series but the author made me root for Ex only to switch back to Aubrey.Was this review helpful? Yes NoThank you for your feedback. Report this reviewThank you, this review has been flagged.
Posted March 31, 2011
so glad i found these books! if u love jenna black or patricia briggs style youll love them
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Posted July 21, 2010
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Karen Black is at a school where most of the children will probably not graduate, or will end up in loads of trouble, to meet with Daria ~ the bright young girl in fourth grade who's now telling outlandish lies, such as her sister got ate by a snake. Karen seems to think Daria is in trouble... big trouble.
Jayne and the guys have been traveling at rushed speed for months to inventory her deceased Uncle's many, many homes and stocks. While in Athens, Jayne receives a call from Karen asking for Eric, Jayne's deceased Uncle, for help. Jayne and the guys decide even though they are exhausted from the pace they have been keeping to go help Karen. So, they head off to New Orleans, to help Karen with her case of ten years in the works... To help save the next expected victim of a voodoo demon...
This was a quick easy read for me. I just let myself enjoy the book and go with the flow of the characters. The crew members; Jayne, Aubrey, Ex, and Chogyi Jack. Jayne brought these characters together in the first book Unclean Spirits. They still are new to working closely together with each other and it sounds like they are still trying to find their places in the group. The characters are all so different from each other, yet they compliment each other nicely.
Jayne is the main character, and in a way the leader of the group - yet Jayne is new to the whole world of the demon Riders and magic. She still feels out of her league with taking charge of cases or situations and lets her self be lead to thoughts a little bit. But this is believable in the world that is built here. But I like how Jayne is not as weak as she may think she is in this area. And I still have questions on Jayne, such as why she is able to do a few things she does (like being able to cross into the Crossroad of the demon path). There is much more to Jayne than even Jayne knows. I am wondering how her Uncle set her up so well with magic and protections, without her knowing.
The first third to half of the book was a little relaxed for me. There was a lot of setting up here; for the plot, characters, and religious beliefs. Then about half way through the book it started to accelerate. I could see what was coming and the clues where set for me to find them, but I still enjoyed letting the story unfold in itself. There where a few moments where I wasn't sure of what was being said in the way of Voodoo, but I enjoyed the voodoo spin on this book. The demon riders that mixed with the believes of the New Orleans Voodoo. This book didn't hit me like a book to drop everything you have and dart out to get it, I still liked the read. It was a quick, relaxing read for me as I got through it in record timing.
I had seen that the third book of this series will be released in November. I will eventually pick it up, as I have enjoyed Jayne and the crew. And curious to see where Jayne goes next along with the growth of the characters.
Posted May 15, 2010
I really enjoy this story. I can't wait for the 3rd edition:)Was this review helpful? Yes NoThank you for your feedback. Report this reviewThank you, this review has been flagged.
Posted March 11, 2010
This book was okay. I was a little disappointed after the first book being so good. In some ways it went the way all 2nd books go in a series. I am looking forward to the next book. I love these charaters, but I thought the story was weaker than the first.Was this review helpful? Yes NoThank you for your feedback. Report this reviewThank you, this review has been flagged.
Posted January 30, 2010
I can't wait to read more. This is a really fascinating story, told very well.Was this review helpful? Yes NoThank you for your feedback. Report this reviewThank you, this review has been flagged.
Posted October 20, 2009
This urban fantasy strikes me as different from many others. The characters are genuinely being developed and not single sided. They are friends who sometimes do the wrong things, say the wrong things, etc. That makes them real. I cannot wait to see what happens to Jayne & "family" in the next book.Was this review helpful? Yes NoThank you for your feedback. Report this reviewThank you, this review has been flagged.
Posted September 20, 2009
She inherited her Uncle Eric's estate consisting of money and property along with his mission to free the human horse possessed by demons or the loas. By accepting his legacy skeptical Jayne Heller admits there is a hell of a lot of supernatural communities out there; some of which are extreme evil.
Meanwhile former FBI Agent Karen Black has been searching for a serial killing horse rider Legba who picked his next host horse Sabine, the granddaughter of Amelie (who he now rides) whose life is nearing an end. The loa starts taking over Sabine but Karen hopes to thwart its ambition. Jayne and her posse travel from Athens (Greece not Georgia) to New Orleans to help Jayne in her quest to end the serial killing horse rider's reign of terror. When she arrives she notices the city is arising from the watery grave of Katrina while the belief in voodoo remains strong. Karen leads the demonic hunt and when she is near her goal she orders Jayne to leave. Realizing she has been tricked Jayne informs Karen she will remain to rid the city of the paranormal serial killing horse and gets in between a battle with one decent and one evil loa.
DARKER ANGEL, the second Black Sun's Daughter urban fantasy (see UNCLEAN SPIRITS) is a fascinating and entertaining thriller in which it is difficult to separate the good loas from the bad; just ask Jayne. Determined to follow in her uncle's brave footsteps and encouraged by his voice to do so, Jayne continues his war to dispatch the malevolent ones back to where they came from. Ignorant and prone to error, she learns the family business while under fire. Fans will root for Jayne in her invisible war against demons, loas, and who knows what else M.L.N. Hanover will dream up.
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BOSTON With All-Star teams set to be announced on Sunday, John Farrell, as the manager of the defending World Series champions, is preparing to manage his first All-Star team.
But, as the manager of an underperforming team, Farrell is in a sticky spot. Many of his players, he believes, are deserving of spots on the American League All-Star team which will play the National League at Target Field in Minnesota on July 15. Earlier this week, he mentioned David Ortiz, Dustin Pedroia, Koji Uehara, Jon Lester, and John Lackey as those he would like to see get consideration. But, with balloting closed, not one of his players is the leading vote-getter at any position.
Given all the information weve received over the last three days, you kind of keep guys apprised of who would be in consideration, what scenarios may or may not play out like, Farrell said. And you just deal with them as straight-up as possible and know that guys in our uniform did an awful lot for us to be in this position to go to Minnesota and you keep that in mind. But I think guys recognize that, too. Theyre voting members, so they see the years that other players are having and theyre realistic in their own right.
As the AL manager, Farrell has seven picks available to him. There are, however, some constraints on those picks.
I have seven, Farrell said. But you have to take into account a number of factors: every team being represented, were mandated to have a 13-man pitching staff. So theres a few things that kind of narrow down your overall selections.
Farrell said he has not completely picked his team yet.
Brock Holt, who has surprised this season and been the teams most consistent offensive performer since he was called up for his third major league stint this season on May 17, is another player Farrell would like to get consideration.
Theres been some conversation, Farrell said. And yet because of the other factors just mentioned, you dont have carte blanche on a 34-man roster.

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TELL CITY - The Ohio River was critical in the development of Perry County and the United States as expansion headed westward.
In addition, the river impacted the French and Indian War, the American Revolution in the West, the Lewis and Clark expedition, the Underground Railroad, the Civil War and the steamboat era.
Area residents will have a chance to learn more about our area's ties to the river Thursday during an informational program given by author Rick Rhodes at the Tell City-Perry County Public Library.
TELL CITY - The Perry County 4-H Fair is just around the corner with opening day Wednesday, July 14.
Again this year, the Perry County Extension Homemakers organization will sponsor the open show. This event is for anyone who would like to exhibit their creative skills in a variety of categories - gardening, baked goods, food preservation, photography, needlework, crafts, woodworking and more.
LEOPOLD - Stepping Stones Preschool, located in the St. Augustine Catholic Church Parish Hall basement, is accepting registrations for the 2010-11 school year.
Openings are still available for the 3-year-old class
Each week the child will be introduced to a new letter of the alphabet and with each letter will be a theme involving games, hands-on activities, arts and crafts, songs and worksheets to teach the child to recognize, write and know what sound each letter makes.
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TELL CITY - July menus and order forms for Angel Food Ministries' discount-food program are available at The News.
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SANTA CLAUS - A 5K run-walk will be held July 24 to honor and remember Cody Brahm and raise funds for the Cody Brahm Memorial Scholarship at Heritage Hills High School.
"Cody's Memorial Mile" will begin at 9 a.m. at Yellig Park in Santa Claus. Olympic runner Terry Brahm, Cody's uncle, will lead the 5K run.
Registration fee for the run is $20, which includes a T-shirt. Registration the morning of the run begins at 7:30.
Proceeds raised at the run, will go toward an annual scholarship for Heritage Hills seniors in Cody's memory.
All of us should take a short break from the fireworks and festivities of the Independence Day holiday to do one important thing: read the Declaration of Independence.
Many of us haven't given the document a glance since high school civics class. Some may never have read the words signed 234 years ago. We know the names of the men who signed the document - Jefferson, Franklin and Hancock - but some have never read their words. Now's the time.
It's almost fair time. That means it's time to see what some of the best, brightest and hardest working youth in the community have been doing. Hundreds of youth from across Perry County and surrounding areas will be exhibiting projects. It's a great experience to see what they have learned.
Fair is a time to show just a portion of what 4-H members do but we know that 4-H is much more then the fair. What is 4-H?
On the legislative calendar, the next big date is today.
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In this report, I want to highlight some of the measures that just became law.
When we debated ways to create more jobs for Hoosiers, one emphasis was assistance for Indiana's small businesses, which already employ 1.3 million people in our state. One way to help will come from the position of small business ombudsman, which became part of the Indiana Economic Development Corp. July 1.
LEOPOLD – This past semester the Perry Central economics classes competed in the state-wide Stock Market Game Simulation. Three teams finished 1-3 in the Evansville District among 289 teams competing. These three teams also finished second, fourth and 15th in the state out of 1,727 teams competing.
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NEWORLEANS- The number of people with colorectal cancer in Louisiana is 25 percent higher than the national average,and the number of people who lose the battle with the disease is17 percent higher.
Doctors say part of the problem in Louisiana is education.
They say too many people have lost their lives because they were too embarrassed to have a colon screening.
'We have a much higher incidence of later presentation of cancers, meaning StageIII and Stage IV disease, across the board of all ages, in colon and rectal cancers,' said Dr. Guy Orangio, anLSU Health Sciences Center colorectal surgeon. He said the LSU Tumor Registry gathered the data that show all these statistics.
Too many people put off gettingthat first screeningcolonoscopy at 50, and every 10 years after that, because they think it's unpleasant and embarrassing.
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"'SACRED MOUNTAIN'" Varallo by white_smallstar
Varallo Travel Guide: 8 reviews and 25 photos
It is the oldest Sacro Monte in Piedmont .
It is made up of 44 Chapels, some of which are isolated, while others are part of monumental groups. They are rich in more than 800 life-size wooden and multicoloured terracotta statues. They represent the life, the Passion, and the death of Christ draw with a realistic precision.
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The Sacro Monte was created by architects (G. Alessi, B. Alfieri), painters, and sculptors (G. Ferrari, Giovanni D'Enrico, Tanzio da Varallo, E. Prestinari, the Morazzone).
The devotional complex was founded in 1491 and it is the oldest of the Sacri Monti (Sacred Mountains) and the most important one from the artistic and religious point of view.
The area lying within the sacred fence is divided into two well-distinct areas.
- The first is rich in plants and green, and it is organized like a garden dotted by the presence of various chapels.
- The second area is situated on the top, preceded by the Porta Aurea, and it is made up of small buildings full of porticoes facing the two squares of Tempio (the religious square) and Tribunali (the civil square), in the attempt to repropose the town of Jerusalem.
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y husband went to school there... thanks for the tips and photos.. he hasn ot taken me yet... where in piemonte are you btw? anywhere near caluso?
so many little gems in italy, who has time to explore them all?!?! nice work nico, i enjoyed discovering this place!
Anothe place I should visit one day!
thats an interesting place to go, thanks for sharing, Nico !
Wow, Sacro Monte was a great collaboration. I am sorry I missed it. You must have studied this place while learning to be an architect. Interesting.
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AKRON – Good teams have pitching, hitting and defense, but defense rarely gets the attention the other two do.
No one was overlooking defense after Bath's 3-1 win over Tallmadge in a Division II state softball semifinal Thursday, though.
The Wildkittens (28-1) brought defense to center stage. Then they brought it back for a couple of curtain calls.
Bath will play Plain City Jonathan Alder at 10 a.m. Saturday for the Division II state championship after the Pioneers beat 2013 state champion Newark Licking Valley 4-3 in Thursday's other semifinal.
"I thought our defense was just amazing today," Bath coach Hannah Slavin said. "We made some really nice plays in the field that allowed us to bring up our energy and that kind of set the tone for us."
The Wildkittens jumped out to a 1-0 lead in the top of the first inning when leadoff hitter Jenna Hollar singled, stole second, moved up on a ground out, then scored on Julia Miller's double.
They added another run in the fourth inning when Miller doubled, pinch-runner Tara Herr moved up on a sacrifice bunt and scored on an error. Their final run came in the fifth inning when Ellie Dackin reached base on an error, went to third base on a sacrifice bunt and scored on Hollar's single.
From there, pitcher Kimmy Reynolds (6 strikeouts, 1 walk) and the defense took over.
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After Phillips was called out, second baseman Alyssa Manley, covering at first, fired a throw to shortstop Kara Dientsberger to catch the runner rounding second base too far for a double play.
It only took one more batter for big defensive play No. 2 to arrive when Manley went high to grab a line drive for the third out of the inning.
The next inning ended with a running catch by left fielder Cassie Best. And in the seventh inning right fielder Carly Frey made a diving catch for the second out.
"Our girls take pride in their defense," Slavin said. "We have a lot of diving practices where I'll send them a text and say, 'You'd better bring your pants because we're going to dive all practice long.' We force them to take pride in it in practice which then carries over to game situations."
This game situation was different from any other, though, since it was in the state tournament.
But the Wildkittens were steady from the start. Getting the lead early probably played a role in that.
"It kind of relaxed us a little bit," Hollar said. "We knew we had to keep putting it on them but I think it kind of let us take a deep breath and just play our game."
Reynolds (27-1), who didn't allow a run until the sixth inning, said she felt some nerves early but got past that.
"The beginning of the game I was a little nervous. It's a big stage to be on," she said. "And I look up in the stands and I see my dad sitting right behind Julia. He gave us notes in our tournament bags that just said, 'Relax, have fun. We're proud of you.' That kept running through my head the whole time and that's what kept me calm and collected."
She also got some advice from her coach, Slavin, who was Bath's pitcher the last time it was in the state softball tournament in 2004.
"She told to me just relax and have fun. We made it to the final four. Just play like you know how to," Reynolds said.
Tallmadge's only run came in the bottom of the sixth inning on Joanna Catalano's two-out double and a single by Tori Young.
Even though Tallmadge errors played a role in two of Bath's three runs, the Blue Devils' coach Ed Seeker said, "I don't think we made mistakes. They put the ball in play. They forced some issues. We just couldn't get some key hits when we needed to get some hits.
"They're very strong at the top of the order. They have the left-handed leadoff hitter who puts the ball in play. She did a great job of driving the ball down into the ground and getting the bounces she needed. And then their (No. 3) hitter came up and hit the gap twice on us," he said.
Bath will be going for its second softball state championship. It won the title in 2001 and was runner-up in 2000.


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Pledged greenhouse gas emission cuts from the industrial world are "not good enough," the United Nations' climate chief warned Tuesday -- as officials from 192 countries entered their second day of negotiations aimed at slowing global warming.
"We all know that the targets that are on the table at the moment from rich countries are not good enough," Yvo de Boer, the executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), said in Copenhagen.
So far, the European Union is claiming to be offering the deepest cuts -- at least 20 per cent against 1990 levels by 2020 -- while U.S. President Barack Obama has proposed cutting his country's emissions by around 17 per cent below 2005 levels by 2020.
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While underlying the "very positive and encouraging" start to the conference, which began on Monday, de Boer urged negotiators to use the current week to the optimum.
Officials are currently engaged in procedural matters and technical discussions ahead of the arrival next week of environment ministers.
However, the most contentious political issues – country-specific emission targets and funding -- will only be tackled by world leaders during the final days of the conference.
And with just over a week left before their arrival, the negotiations remained mired by mutual recriminations and deep divisions over how much each party should do to prevent global average temperatures from rising above the potentially dangerous 2-degree limit.
"I have heard representatives of both Europe and the US say that the target that China has tabled can be improved upon; I have heard representatives from Europe and China say that the target tabled by the US can be improved upon ... and I have heard least developed states say that nobody's targets are good enough at the moment," de Boer said.
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Developed and developing countries are also divided over how much money is needed to help poor nations adapt to climate change and mitigate its impact, and on whether existing or new organizations should handle the hundreds of billions of dollars that will be required.
The talks in Copenhagen are proceeding on a so-called two-track approach -- one aimed at revising and updating the 1997 Kyoto Protocol on greenhouse gas emissions, and a second track extended to all countries, including those which did not ratify Kyoto, such as the United States.
Pressure on the parties to reach an ambitious deal was stepped up Tuesday by the publication of two new alarming reports.
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Monell Chemical Senses Center researchers in Philadelphia said the unexpected affinity for an artificial sweetener might reflect structural variation in the red panda's sweet-taste receptor and the findings might shed light on how taste preferences and diet choice are shaped by molecular differences in taste receptors.
Greater insight into why we like artificial sweeteners could eventually lead to the development of more acceptable sugar substitutes, potentially benefiting diabetics and other individuals on sugar-restricted diets, said the study's senior author, Joseph Brand, a Monell biophysicist.
Many species like sweet-tasting foods, but there are some exceptions. In an earlier study, Brand and Monell comparative geneticist Xia Li reported that cats — both domesticated and wild — cannot taste sweets due to a defect in one of the genes that codes for the sweet-taste receptor.
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Everything about it sounds bad.
Wouldn't mind if I'd be the last person who sniffs it.
In an interview to the NYTimes, Thierry Mugler says he has quit the fashion industry because he's "had enough" and is now dedicating himself to perfume. His new creation will be called "Womanity" which is described by the NYTimes as "a commingling of figs and caviar, a sweet-salty combination as treacly as a chocolate-covered pretzel."
It's a rather frightening name...
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Everything about it sounds bad.
Wouldn't mind if I'd be the last person who sniffs it.
"Diego: Why did you do that? you could've died trying to rescue me.
Manfred: That's what you do in a herd: you look out for each other. " (Ice Age)
Figs and caviar -- what the hell? That sounds disgusting. (And I LIKE both figs and caviar!)
could work I suppose. Sort of a sweet fruity salty thing.
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But with FISH notes!
One of the worst fragrance names I have heard lately!
The whole thing sounds like something created by someone who doesn't know (or like) women very well. It sounds unappealing, at the very least!
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Yawn. Honestly, I find him so repulsive and narcissistic that I wouldn't touch "his" (like he did all the work himself...) perfumes even if he paid me. Just out of principle I will stay as far away from them as possible.
I just love how awful everything about this is.
Womanity! Achieve that aura of feminine perfection once only attainable by manatees with a saccharine sweet ode to fish roe. Don your warrioress helmet, and do battle with all notions of smelling good!
this could either result in him pumping out a bunch of great frags...or the occasional good one with piss poor ones in between.
Thierry Mugler quit fashion at least eight years ago. But I wouldn't discount the new fragrance. Though I loathe Angel and I'm not crazy for Alien, the Miroir des Vanités collection was excellent, and Womanity was art directed by the same person, Pierre Aulas (who's got his own line, Ego Facto).
I agree the notes to Womanity sound repellent but I doubt they'll smell of fish. I'll be finding out more on Wednesday when I get to smell it... Will report back here or on my blog.
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If he wants to do a funky scent, I think Etat Libre d'Orange has beaten him to it with their Secretions Magnifique. Next!
Q: How do you make a feminine fragrance masculine?
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To actually sell fishy smell to women - presented in the form of pink fluid.
Im curious how this will actually smell, and how the common beauty-journalists will recive it.
(My personal hopes of this cent are not existing at this moment, I might be in for a suprise.)
Galamb_boreng, bwah! That was magnificent.
Always controversial. I expect there to be as many haters as Angel - maybe more. Nobody like Thierry Mugler to liven things up!
"Oh, the womanity"... zeppelins exploding...
"The force that through the green fuse drives the flower // drives my green age..." Dylan Thomas
1. I love chocolate covered pretzels
2. The bottle is really ugly
I've just smelled Womanity and can relievedly report back that it doesn't smell fishy at all. In fact I've smelled the caviar accord used in the fragrance and it's salty, a bit leathery and slightly animalic. Here's a preliminary report. I'll be posting a full review soon on Grain de Musc.
I honestly can't believe they're publicizing a fish eggs note. I can't believe it.
I'm still curious about the fragrance but for now, it's disaster in the making.
Review is up at Now Smell This. Unsurprisingly, it's not as bizarre as the notes and early buzz would have you believe - sounds downright inoffensive and pleasant, in fact. Mugler is a mainstream fragrance house, after all, I doubt that they believe women want to smell like fishy saltwater.
Am I the only one who loves the bottle?
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A friend is an sa for Mugler and she has a bottle for awhile now. I did get the chance to sniff a few weeks back. Fig not sweet sugared but more like the real fresh fruit and no fish eggs came out on me.
Debenhams in the UK is getting the exclusive on this in late August.
Oh my friend says its said as 'WO man EE'.
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It does sound nauseating, but I'm cery curious about it and looking forward to a sniff. And it's my understnading that there's a saltiness from the caviar, but mercifully no fishiness.
I love the bottle too, subhuman85, but I'm sort of a sucker for a cool bottle. That alone makes me want to like this, despite the awkward and sort of cheesy name.
I'm a bit dissapointed with the name of the fragrance. To me, it doesn't sound nor intriguing nor mystic at all. Just weird. But weird in a boring way... Sincerely, I expected some astral, maybe a bit eery, mythological creature or symbol, but what I get was some undefined allusion of feminity or woman community. Or something third. Whatever. I'm confused.
But, I strongly believe that no Mugler fragrance can be anything less than extraordinary. I adore almost all of his fragrances. And I adore whole mystic mugler-world. So, I'll give him a chance to impress me one more time.
Has more people tried this? I've heard it's a little unisex and strange smelling. Im looking forward to checking it out. And I think the ugly bottle is cool as heck!
I'm looking forward to taking a sniff soon. I don't get the chains on the bottle, though. What are those supposed to represent?
I finally got my sample, too. I liked it enough from the cardboard sniffer to want to try it on skin, but it didn't surprise me the way I'd hoped. I actually think I got a whiff of the Alien base in the drydown which was the most interesting aspect, but I'm still hoping a generous squirt from a bottle will provide a richer experience.
Well,I tried it,and agree it's not as weird as it sounds(I can really go for weird!)and it is quite boring.The caviar note was salty on me,not fishy.I love a salty fragrance,but this to me was a surprisingly dull fruity-floral-aquatic type thing.And not at all unisex to my nose.
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Adding several hours later...I just came back from the grocery store and Woman in Chains was playing. Now it's stuck in my head.
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Sniffed it this week. "Didn't hate it," if you see what I mean. Thought fig had been done to death, but to his credit the salty accord presents a novel and not unpleasant interpretation. Nice enough, in fact.
Bottle is not to my taste -- I'd call it ugly -- but has at least had some thought put into its design.
Longevity is immense. For me, the woody drydown is the least enjoyable part.
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Awaiting my sample from TM. I'm down for fig notes, as for caviar, that's not my bag, but in a fragrance it could be interesting!
Perhaps the men's version will be 'Manatee'. Fish notes would be appropriate.
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I don't actually believe that the leak is the full roster, but I'm just speaking hypothetically, haha. What if it is? It'd kind of make sense, actually, when you consider that the 3DS version is pretty much an entirely new game being developed alongside the Wii U version.
So think of it as a "worst-case scenario", I guess. How would you feel?
Me, I'd personally still be really thrilled to have Megaman and Animal Crosser in. I'd also love Little Mac, and the other three are characters that I probably wouldn't play, but I'd be fine with. 3 out of 6 is pretty alright.
I'd mainly be sad that this roster wouldn't be getting the big, bombastic feeling of expansion that Brawl had. And when you consider that it'll probably be another 4-7 years until the next Smash, it'll be a little empty to think about how we didn't really get a lot of those third-tier characters, like Dixie/K. Rool/Ridley/etc etc.
Y tu? How do you feel, main?>
If Smash 4 gets more DK reps, I'll achieve Nirvana and never want anything again.
Dixie, K. Rool, Funky, Lanky........... Mmmmmmm yeeaaaaaa!!!!
Atleast no cut... but what have we gained?
Also still no Roy >:\
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I didn't vote for Obama :P I will cry though.
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I support for Echo type pkmon gen 7. Because, you know. Sound waves....and...sonic booms.
It's not that I mind the number it's just that half of them are terrible choices.
Ridley is Love, Ridley is Life
I'd be so salty I'd be able to season McDonalds fries for 5.2 months.
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Villager - Really excited to play
Mega Man - Excited to play
Wii Fit Trainer - Curious to see if she's fun to play as
Little Mac - Don't really care about the character, but maybe I'll like him
Pac-Man - At least I know who my default CPU punching bag will be
Mii - If I can make Wilford Brimley fight Oprah, then I guess this wouldn't be too bad
I guess my big disappointment would be no new Fire Emblem character and no Mewtwo. But if the roster isn't expanded all that much, they'd have more time to polish the game, so it wouldn't be too bad.
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Villager- Meme made me like him
Megaman- 2nd most wanted
WFT- Lulzy addition that id be tempted to main for troll value
Little Mac-Deserves to be in.
Pac MAc-Eeeh... better and worse 3rd parties.
Mii-I like them because I can have Bill O Riley Fight Al Sharpton
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(Updates with comments on Greek referendum in fourth paragraph. EXT4 <GO> for debt crisis news. GMEET <GO> for G-20 stories.)
Nov. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker said euro-region governments want Greece to remain a member of the currency bloc, though not at all costs.
"Greece on Dec. 4, that's when the referendum will take place, has to deal with the question whether it wants to stay in the euro zone," Juncker said today on ZDF German television. "We would like Greece to remain a member but we're not saying Greece has to stay a member at all costs."
European leaders for the first time are raising the specter of the euro area splintering, choosing to treat Greece's referendum on the terms of a bailout package as an in-or-out vote on the debt-stricken nation's future in the currency union. Led by Germany and France, the guardians of the euro yesterday cut off financial aid for Greece until the ballot determines whether it deserves a fresh batch of loans needed to stave off default.
"We can't ride a permanent roller coaster with Greece," Juncker said. "We need to know where we're headed and the Greeks need to tell us where they want to go. I'm decidedly of the opinion that everything must be done to prevent one euro member unlatching itself from the chain, but if that were the wish of the Greeks, and I feel it would be wrong if that was their desire, then we can't force them to their happiness."
Juncker said "we're absolutely prepared" for the possibility of Greece leaving the euro zone.
--Editors: Angela Cullen, Leon Mangasarian
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