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Five pre-school classes will be set-up in the slums of Chittagong allowing 100 pre-school age children to attend classes 2 days a week for one year.
What is the issue, problem, or challenge?
Many poor families have yet to realize the benefit of sending their children to school. Poverty often requires that children stay at home to help the family earn an income. They are reluctant, or unable, to pay school fees or purchase the necessary education materials. CDS hopes to start five pre-school centers this year and then motivate parents to send their children to pre-school in order to instill the value of education in them as a long-term means to break out of poverty.
How will this project solve this problem?
CDS will select 100 children to be sent to pre-school where they will begin to learn the basics in reading, writing and math. They children will also be provided with a healthy lunch and snacks.
Potential Long Term Impact
Poverty often requires children to help earn an income. Parents are unable, to pay school fees or buy education materials. By attending pre-school to learn math and writing skills, children start to break the cycle of poverty.
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Total Funding Received to Date: $2,895
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This project is now in implementation and no longer available for funding. Received funds will be used to accomplish concrete objectives as indicated in the project's "Activities" section. Updates will be posted under the "Project Report" tab as they become available.
Donors' contributions and pledges to this project totaled $2,895 . The original project funding goal was $2,130.
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I lived in Madison and know a huge Badger fan. He said that he took his 8 year old son to an autograph signing with Alvarez and Big Bert. He now hates Alvarez. He said that Alvarez was extremely rude to him and his 8 year old son at this Wisconsin PR stunt. He could not believe it. So much for the goodwill Wisconsin was hoping to garner during a PR event. I believe that he must be total ass to work for if he cannot even be nice for a short event put on by his department.
|30 weeks 5 days ago
|When you peak...you win.
When you peak...you win.
|31 weeks 1 day ago
|I agree with some of your
I agree with some of your concerns about Harbaugh. I find his sideline demeanor distasteful. He is like a petulant child.
BUT, to think that his coaching is not at the level of Meyer is false. Most former NFL coaches who are in college failed in the NFL. Saban was terrible there, and yet, most think he is the best college coach. Jim Harbaugh has been to at least the NFC championship game 3 years in a row, and the 49ers were bad before he showed up. Only Belichick with the Pats has equalled that in the recent past, and many consider him to be the best coach in the NFL. Also, he has a great QB in Brady, which Harbaugh has not had. Harbaugh has his warts, but I think he equals or surpasses any college coach in coaching ability.
|31 weeks 5 days ago
|I can't believe that nobody has made this suggestion before-
Hire Jim Harbaugh's wife as AD. She is the only AD who can guarantee Jim will be the next coach. Problem solved.
|40 weeks 2 days ago
|The "concussion" has not been
Accidental double post, but I am leaving the body of the post for emphasis.
The "concussion" has not been confirmed. Edit your title as this is irresponsible.
I agree that the hit was bad. The Minnesota player should have been ejected for targeting, but we do not know yet if Shane was concussed on the play. It is not acceptable to write this as if it is a fact. We MAY later find out he has a concussion, but right now it is only speculation.
|40 weeks 2 days ago
|The "concussion" has not been
The "concussion" has not been confirmed. Edit your title as this is irresponsible.
I agree that the hit was bad. The Minnesota player should have been ejected for targeting, but we do not know yet if Shane was concussed on the play. It is not acceptable to write this as if it is a fact. We MAY later find out he has a concussion, but right now it is only speculation.
|46 weeks 14 hours ago
|As always, there are multiple
As always, there are multiple factors involved. The stadium is old, rusty, large and off-campus. The team has not been good since June Jones left. Every home game is on PPV which has really decreased attendance. The UH administration and government officials are incompetent and mostly corrupt. There are many more activities to do on a Saturday, although high school football is huge. The population of the whole state is less than the Austin, Texas metro area. There are too many obstacles to overcome to have a profitable football team.
|46 weeks 3 days ago
|The Cheatin' Irish
The Cheatin' Irish
|1 year 8 weeks ago
|Ride of the Valkyries by
Ride of the Valkyries by Wagner.
|1 year 13 weeks ago
|Thanks for the reply,
Thanks for the reply, Magnus. By the way, I always check out your site as well, but I have never commented over there.
|1 year 13 weeks ago
|Wait, what? Section 1 got
Wait, what? Section 1 got caved? What did he do? He was always consistent in his dislike for the Freep/Rosenberg and about the students showing up on time for the game. This site needs people like him. He is our Judge Smails.
|1 year 25 weeks ago
|Yes, Heiko, how can you be so
Yes, Heiko, how can you be so selfish? MGoUsers need you.
|1 year 25 weeks ago
|I like how you substituted
I like how you substituted virtuous for vicious. I will have to remember that one. Although, in this case (UM) virtuous may be appropriate.
|1 year 25 weeks ago
|I did not expect it, but I am
I did not expect it, but I am very glad that we will have a new offensive coordinator next year. It will be interesting to know if this was Hoke's decision or Brandon's.
|1 year 29 weeks ago
|Other than Ohio, in every
Other than Ohio, in every other bowl game the Big Ten team is the lower ranked (with Minnesota-Syracuse both unranked). Because of the good bowl tie-ins, the Big Ten is almost always the underdog which skews the Big Ten bowl record and makes the Big Ten seem worse than it actually is.
|1 year 33 weeks ago
|I agree with Brian here.
I agree with Brian here. Space Coyote has written more words on this site in the last couple of weeks than most of the paid MGoBlog employees. While the site is set up for reader feedback, it is as if Space Coyote is using this one as his own forum. He has an outlet on his own website. Magnus makes comments here, but he uses his own blog for longer posts to put his thoughts down. I, for one, have not appreciated Space Coyote's constant responses back and forth with every person who disagrees with him. There was one OP in which a user and Space Coyote's "dialogue" took up almost a whole page of 50 comments. If he wants to defend Borges at such length, he should do it on his own site, not a site that Brian provides. He needs to be more like Magnus.
|1 year 33 weeks ago
|The unemployment line,
The unemployment line, hopefully.
|1 year 34 weeks ago
|Fire Al. Get a new offensive
Fire Al. Get a new offensive coordinator AND a QB coach.
|1 year 34 weeks ago
|Finally, someone mentions the
Finally, someone mentions the problem with the defense. Mattison started out aggressive when he first got here. Now, we are a plain vanilla "bend but don't break" defense. I think that is what is so frustrating to people. Both offense and defense play not to lose instead of playing aggressively to win. Is it written somewhere that Michigan must play boring, conservative football?
|1 year 38 weeks ago
|Borges does not handle
Borges does not handle adversity well. He goes into a shell and becomes super-conservative when the game is going poorly. His play calling cost us this game as well as others like Iowa on the road.
I am also tired of the excuses that our personnel does not fit the system. Ohio went from Tressell-ball to Urban's spread in 2 years without any "transition" issues (the one year under Fickell was the result of Tat-gate and "sanctions"). Hoke and company have had 3 years. We should be better.
|1 year 38 weeks ago
|B I am frustrated that we
|1 year 49 weeks ago
|Don't forget the gesture that
Don't forget the gesture that Hoke did for the ND fan who had a myocardial infarction (heart attack).
From MLive: http://www.mlive.com/sports/bay-city/index.ssf/2011/10/university_of_michigan_coach_b.html
"This isn't something that was set up by their (public relations) staff," said Staudacher, the 69-year-old Bay City retiree. "This is from a guy who cares enough about a human being to sit down with a felt pen and write a note. It's someone he doesn't know, has never met and is a Notre Dame fan, but he took the time to do it.
"If that isn't class, I don't know what is."
I am very glad Hoke is our coach. He gets it. He is a classy Michigan Man who has his priorities in order.
|2 years 18 weeks ago
|What about Leon Sandcastle?
What about Leon Sandcastle?
|2 years 18 weeks ago
|There are no perfect
There are no perfect solutions. At least in this proposal, all teams in the Eastern Time Zone are in the Eastern divisions.
Another problem is if there is expansion or relocation, the main destinations seem to be in the East, also- Quebec City, Toronto metro area.
|2 years 18 weeks ago
|Great job, Seth. Nice,
Great job, Seth. Nice, informative article- as always. Mahalo.
|2 years 18 weeks ago
|I think there are a few
I think there are a few reasons why the blog seems to have changed, and most of them are the result of the growing popularity of the blog.
Brian does not have the time to write as much anymore because he must spend more time on the administrative aspects- security/malware issues, finances, etc.- of the blog.
The football team has returned to its baseline state: minimum 8-9 win seasons with better seasons sprinkled in. I joined because I was in the UNACCEPTABLE faction. I came to appreciate some of the points from the other side, but the strongly held emotional positions people took during the tenure of RR contributed to the strength of the blog.
Writing is very time-consuming. When I first came upon the blog, I could not believe that people would spend that much time on FREE content. I think the writers are great, but I do not read every post. Personally, I do not care much for the recruiting info except for the Hello posts, but clearly I am in a minority there. I like TomVH, but the thing about his posts were that we got the scoop on these recruits. Now, those on Twitter have usurped the scoops. I do not think that TomVH would still seem to have the same insider information were he still here. Not many criticized Heiko, but he is a good example to use. He is in the MD/PhD program at Michigan. Do you understand how difficult and time-consuming that is? He explained that he was doing research that semester, so he could carry out his MGoBlog functions. What that means is that while you were reading his press conference transcripts and banter with Borges and commenting in the drinking threads, he was in the lab doing his research to keep up. He did the Blog work because he loves Michigan football, like we all do. Few of the writers make a living at this, and none are getting rich.


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A spa is maintained at a ready-to-use temperature by a daily heating cycle that is initiated by a filter cycle clock, which traditionally has been used only for programming the circulation of the spa water through a filter. Once a daily heating cycle has been initiated, it normally concludes only when the temperature of the spa water reaches a desired temperature that the user has preset into a thermostat. However, for safety the heating cycle is terminated immediately in the event the heater temperature becomes excessive, since this event could result from lack of water or inadequate circulation.
1. A method of controlling the operation of a spa heater comprising the steps of:
turning the heater on at a preset time each day as determined by the filtration cycle clock, and turning the heater on anytime the user actuates a particular switch; and,
turning the heater off when a preset water temperature has been reached as determined by a water temperature sensor, and turning the heater off when the temperature of the heater exceeds a preset temperature, as determined by a heater temperature sensor.
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention is in the field of spas and more particularly relates to a method for controlling the heating cycle of a spa that keeps the spa at a ready-to-use temperature with a minimum of human intervention.
2. The Prior Art
The type of spa with which the system of the present invention is intended to be used is typically several times larger than a bathtub. Frequently, the spa is located outdoors and is provided with its own heater and pumps for heating and circulating hot water. To maintain the cleanliness of the water, the spa is equipped with a filter and filter pump that draws water from the spa, passes it through a filter, and returns it to the spa.
Spas vary widely in the manner in which the various functions are coordinated. In some spas, the operator must initiate each function, while other spas are programmed to provide various water temperatures at specified times.
In U.S. Pat. No. 4,780,197 issued Oct. 25, 1988, Schuman describes a filtration system in which the pump normally operates on a daily ON-OFF cycle determined by an adjustable timer.
In U.S. Pat. No. 4,233,694 issued Nov. 18, 1980 to Janosko et al., there is described a control system for a spa that protects the heater against overheating when the water level has fallen and in which operation of both the filter pump and the heater are initiated by the user. In U.S. Pat. No. 5,585,025 issued Dec. 17, 1996, Idland describes a spa control circuit that includes protection against overheating. The control system includes a single thermometer that detects the temperature of the spa water. The temperature is supplied to a thermostat that uses an ON-OFF control mode to maintain water temperature between normal operating limits.
In U.S. Pat. No. 5,559,720 issued Sep. 24, 1976, Tompkins et al., describe a spa control system that uses a microprocessor and that begins to warm the water in advance of actual use.
In U.S. Pat. No. 5,079,784 issued Jan. 14, 1992, Rist et al., describe a control system that uses a proportional mode of control in which the current to the heater is reduced as the temperature approaches the temperature set on the thermostat. The system also includes a safety circuit that prevents operation of the heater unless the pump is circulating water.
Although some individual features of the present invention can be found in the prior art, the overall system of the present invention and its mode of operation appear to be unknown.
The present invention maintains a spa at a near ready-to-use temperature by warming the water to a preset temperature each day. This is accomplished without intervention by the user, by using the filter cycle clock to initiate the daily heating cycle. In the known prior art, the filter cycle clock was used solely for the purpose of programming the circulation of water through a filter to clean the water. In accordance with the present invention a second task is assigned to the filter cycle clock, namely initiating a daily heating cycle to maintain the temperature of the spa. The user can, of course, initiate a heating cycle at any time, and can also alter the desired temperature set into the thermostat.
Once a heating cycle has been initiated, the heater continues to supply heat to the spa water until the temperature of the water has reached a desired temperature that has been preset on the thermostat, at which point the heater is switched off. The heater is also switched off, in the interest of safety, if the heater temperature becomes excessive, as might occur if the spa lacks water or if the pump that circulates the water has failed.
The novel features which are believed to be characteristic of the invention, both as to organization and method of operation, together with further objects and advantages thereof, will be better understood from the following description considered in connection with the accompanying drawings in which a preferred embodiment of the invention is illustrated by way of example. It is to be expressly understood, however, that the drawings are for the purpose of illustration and description only and are not intended as a definition of the limits of the invention.
FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating the method of the present invention; and,
FIG. 2 is an electrical diagram showing the apparatus used to implement a preferred embodiment of the present invention.
The diagram of FIG. 1 expresses the method used in the present invention to determine when electrical power should be applied to the heater 12, and when the power should be turned off. The spa is equipped with a clock switch 14 that is used for initiating operation of a pump to circulate the spa water through a filter at a preset time each day for the purpose of maintaining the cleanliness of the spa water. As indicated by block 16 of FIG. 1, in accordance with the present invention a heating cycle is also initiated concurrently with the filtration cycle, so that the spa heat is maintained on a daily basis.
As indicated by the block 18 of FIG. 1, it is also possible for the user to initiate a heating cycle at any time by closing a particular switch. In the preferred implementation, this same switch turns the jets on, and once the jets have been turned on, ever so briefly, the heating cycle thus started will automatically proceed to completion.
Thus, in accordance with the present invention, a heating cycle can be initiated only in the two ways referred to in blocks 16 and 18 of FIG. 1. Either of the two conditions results in the switch 20 being closed, thereby applying electrical power to the heater 12.
The heater 12 includes a high-temperature sensor 22 that serves as a safety device. As indicated by the block 24 of FIG. 1, when the heater becomes excessively hot, the switch 20 is opened thereby disconnecting the heater 12 from the input power.
When heat is supplied by the heater 12 to the spa 26, the temperature T of the water rises, as sensed by the water temperature sensor 28. When the water temperature T equals or exceeds the temperature TD set into the thermostat 30, the switch 20 is opened, as indicated by the block 32. Thus, in accordance with the present invention there are only two ways in which a heating cycle, once begun, can be terminated. First, the heating cycle terminates when the desired water temperature has been reached, and second, the heating cycle is terminated anytime the heater 12 becomes abnormally hot.
The diagram of FIG. 1 is a heuristic explanation of the method of the present invention, and the electrical diagram of FIG. 2 discloses the apparatus used to implement the method in a preferred embodiment of the present invention.
The switch 20 of FIG. 1 is implemented by the thermostat switch 30, the high temperature dropout switch 34, and the relay switch 36 of FIG. 2.
In the course of the daily filtration cycle, the clock 14 closes the switch 38 for a preset interval at a preset time each day. Closing of the switch 38 turns on the filter pump 40, thereby circulating the spa water through a filter to clean it.
In accordance with the present invention, closure of the switch 38 also applies a small current to the coil 42 of the relay 44, thereby closing the relay switch 36, which makes power available to the heater 12 through the normally-closed switches 30 and 34. Closure of the switch 36 also applies a small current to the coil 46 of the relay 44, thereby holding the switch 36 closed until either the switch 30 or the switch 34 opens.
Likewise, the user may initiate a heating cycle by manually closing the switch 48 that turns on the jet pump 50. Closure of the switch 48 applies a small current to the coil 52 of the relay 44, thereby closing the switch 36 and initiating a heating cycle. Closure of the switch 36 results in a small current through the coil 46 thereby holding the switch 36 closed until either the switch 30 or the switch 34 opens.
Comparison of FIGS. 1 and 2 will show that the OR function 54 has been implemented by the series combination of the normally-closed switches 30 and 34. Also, the OR function 56 has been implemented through the use of the coils 42 and 52 of the relay 44.
In other embodiments, the relay 44 is replaced by a high current solid state switch triggered by voltages applied to the terminals 58, 60 and 62. In still other embodiments, the relay 44 is replaced by a gas power switch such as a thyratron that is triggered by voltages on the terminals 58, 60 and 62.
In the preferred embodiment of the present invention, once the heating cycle has begun, it continues until the spa water has reached the desired temperature, unless interrupted by overheating of the heater. That is, the heating cycle continues even if, at some point in the heating cycle, the filtration interval is completed or the jet pumps are turned off.
This mode of operation assures that the spa remains near a ready-to-use temperature, regardless of when actual use occurs. Also, the mode of operation does not interfere with the normal daily filtration cycle, and in fact takes advantage of that cycle to initiate a daily heat-maintaining cycle. Experience has shown that the mode of operation used in the present invention proves to be highly convenient and requires a minimum of anticipatory action on the part of the user.
The foregoing detailed description is illustrative of one embodiment of the invention, and it is to be understood that additional embodiments thereof will be obvious to those skilled in the art. The embodiments described herein together with those additional embodiments are considered to be within the scope of the invention.
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LSU Tigers head football coach Les Miles took some time out of a spring practice session to lead the team in the "Harlem Shake". The videos just keep on coming.
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With no other resources at his disposal, Sylveste forges a dangerous alliance with the cyborg crew of the starship Nostalgia for Infinity. But as he closes in on the secret, a killer closes in on him because the Amarantin were destroyed for a reason. And if that reason is uncovered, the universe - and reality itself - could be irrevocably altered.
©2008 Alastair Reynolds; (P)2008 Tantor
"One of the best books of the year." (Science Fiction Chronicle)
"Ferociously intelligent and imbued with a chilling logic - it may really be like this Out There." (Stephen Baxter, co-author of The Light of Other Days)
"Excellent Read (Listen)"
Mr. Reynolds is an excellent story teller and, in particular, a great SF author. He is able to weave a delightful tale mixing extraordinary scientific developments with an intriguing account incorporating mystery, adventure, and beguiling characters. Mr. Lee is well suited to tell the tale. His slight accent and intonations add to the suspense. This book is a must listen for anyone who likes SF.
"Great premise, perhaps overly intricate"
If you like hard science fiction this is probably worth a listen. An expansive, harsh universe is revealed through multiple points of view in the book. Perhaps the most interesting ideas in this book are related to examining inevitable outcomes of multiple species evolving to the point of interstellar expansion... and, of course, conflict.
Three things that were distracting in the book for me:
1) The narrarator's conucopia of dialect: you can play spot the accent with French, Japanese, Russian, and (I kid you not) rastafari.
2) The insertion by the author of almost trite names for important players in the book like "sun stealer" and "nostalgia for infinity." Imagine if Frank Herbert had called Arrakis "the big sandy orb."
3) All the grand and mysterious buildup seems to end rather abruptly.. left me wondering if the author was writing to beat a deadline.
Those issues were not enough to prevent enjoying the book.. great concepts, interesting ideas.
"An epic tale spoiled by unlikable characters"
This book held my interest enough for me to finish listening to all 22 hours, but just barely. The biggest problem with this book was that I didn't particularly like any of the main characters, and therefore didn't care what happened to any of them. As I listen while driving and while working on physical tasks like woodworking, I was frequently completely lost about what was going on. This was due to the author's tendency to throw wild technological ideas at the reader while switching between protagonists with little or no warning that a context switch had occurred.
For most of the book I had little understanding of the motivations of the protagonists, although it becomes more clear at the end.
On the positive side, the author did a good job of creating a universe limited by the speed of light. The ship itself was fascinating, an ancient vessel which had over the years become decrepit like a 30 year old automobile which the owners had kept on the road but most of the non-essential features are either broken or have quirks.
As a space opera, of course the fate of mankind is on the line. The story is original, but the whole crisis seemed rather abstract and really did not have me on the edge of my seat. The narrator does a good job except for the occasional mispronounced word.
Overall, I thought this book was not terrible, but could have been better. I will not be rushing to get the next book in the series.
"Terrible editing ruins this audiobook"
The book jumps frequently between scenes and plot lines, a common technique for building suspense, which works fine in print where white space on the page is your cue for the scene change. However, for an audiobook, you need cue... normally a long pause in other audio books. In this recording, there is no cue! No pause, no page turn sound, nothing! It makes it very difficult to listen to because the scene changes are often during conversations, so you don't even know which characters are speaking. Very annoying!!
The story itself is wonderful, except for the ending which is literally deus ex machina.
Increasing my ops tempo by allowing storytellers to whisper in my ear(buds).
"Compendium of Technological Marvels"
This is book one in the main sequence of the Revelation Space series. Based on listener recommendations I postponed listening until after first hearing CHASM CITY. And it was a good thing I did or I would have never gotten around to Chasm City. This book has many of the same elements, many of the same political machinations, the same level of fantastic technology, but none of the spark of genius, none of the psychological surprises of Chasm City that make it so fantastic. Sure there are glimpses of what Reynolds is capable of but, on its own, this book does not inspire. What this book does offer is an extensive compendium of advanced technological marvels. It hearkens me back to some of the Science Fiction of old where the gadget was the thing. I would compare this to Herman Melville's MOBY DICK. But before you think this is a glowing recommendation, please read on. My assessment of Moby Dick is this: It is an exciting 70 page revenge novella imbedded in a tedious 400 page Maritime encyclopedia. Revelation space is a seventy megabyte (70 MB) short story encased in a one gigabyte (1GB) speculative fiction catalog of ideas. It has the scant characterization one would expect from a short story, and also like a short story, has great ideas that make it worthwhile. One thing I can say in its defense: This book, like any Hard Science Fiction stripped of story and characters, is still a fascinating exploration into scientific speculation, while Epic Fantasy stripped of the same is just so much double double toil and trouble. All in all it is a interesting book, but more for the ideas than for the characterization or for the story.
John Lee, who is much better reading Chasm City, is here less engaging. His smooth voice never seems to impart any sense of urgency to the experience, and this book does need some inspired help. He does have a wonderful sonorous voice that is never tiring, so he makes it pleasant to plod through the litany of technological wonders hour after hour. My chief complaint for him is that some of his women sound more masculine than his men. Maybe I am being too critical of the novel REVELATION SPACE because I see enough potential here to hear the series out to the end, and Chasm City shows how good this series can be. I guess that I am just a sucker for a gadget story.
"Good but flawed."
The book sets up some very interesting premises. I'm curious to see how it all wraps up.
That said, the book moves painfully slow, at times. I wouldn't say any of it was superfluous, everything seemed to have a reason, but there was a lot of time spent with not much happening.
And I agree with previous reviewers that the editing makes it a very hard listen. A lot of times I can multi-task when listening to an audiobook but not much with this one. Even walking to and from work could be a challenge as I had to pay close attention to scene changes or I'd miss them. There literally is no pause between segments.
The explanation for the state of the galaxy was an intriguing one and something I'd not heard before.
More distinction between character voices. Everyone has almost the same accent. Couple that in with the lousy editing job and you've got a recipe for confusion. Normally I love John Lee's narration but this was not his best work.
Pretty sure it has one.
Retired nightclub performer/computer technician, I now teach hula and ukulele to seniors, and record Hawaiian music for my halau!
"Very little appeal, sorry, but no."
Fro me, this book is a little hard-core science fiction. I can appreciate that the author is himself a scientist, but maybe that's what got in the way. It has been a few days since I finished this book, and to tell you the truth, I can't remember any of the characters. There is one, Sylveste(?) but I only remember the name because I used to live near Sylvester, GA. See, I couldn't stay on track with the story if nonsense like that kept bubbling up in my mind in the middle of the thing.
Just so you know I did slog through it, this is what I DID get, that Revelation Space is some kind of liquid planet where when you go swimming, it takes all your personality and knowledge and sometimes gives you back some of the knowledge it's been sucking out of other people. And sometimes it just spits you out, a mass of salmon-colored slime. Apparently some people think this is a great idea, because they are all looking for it.
1. There was no apparent pause or breath or whatever between the scene changes. I often had to back track to make sure I hadn't dozed off. Only now, by reading other reviews, did I learn that I am not crazy.
2. The narrator's fakey fakey accents were terribly distracting. Why, in the middle of space, millions of miles from earth, and several centuries forward, are people still talking with accents? I heard French mixed with German, Japanese that sounded like Charlie Chan (and that was fakey to begin with). I think the narrator got confused as to who was speaking with what accent, because at times it appeared like the entire dialogue was coming from a single character. Even when there was no dialogue, the narrator was sometimes reading with an accent...
3. Another thing, the characters had no character.
4. And, forget figuring out what gender a person is. The narrator didn't even TRY to sound female. We got all these Russian names, Spanish names, etc. and whatever. I could not figure out what sex these people were. After a while I didn't care.
I really wasted my time with this one. I have another of this author's books in my library and I am definitely not going to go there. The narrator is the same - oh, joy.
P.S. I looked this book up on Wikipedia and even after the "glowing" things it has to say about the Revelation Space Universe and Mr. Reynolds, I am not moved.
"Horrible... I could not finish it."
Not sure.. I love Doomsday books
I love John Lee in other books but this one is Bone Dry!
I could not get past the first 4 hours.
Well, thats just my opinion. It felt like I was watching(Listening) a foreign movie. Felt like the writer wanted to make sure that you know that he was a well read and intelligent individual and he probably is but it made for a trying story that was easy to get confused with.
"Probably the most annoying narration ever"
Anybody who really gets a kick out of being thoroughly confused.
I really couldn't tell. The narrator decided that since everybody had foreign sounding names, that they should all have accents which made deciphering their speech give me a headache.
I'd sooner cut off my toes with a boltcutter. His fake French accent for everyone with a French last name was horrendous. His fake Russian accent was worse. Then when a French character spoke to a Russian character he lost all distinction between them and it sounded like an insane person with a speech impediment arguing with himself.
If they ever re-do this book with a different narrator, I'd get it again. As it stands, I had to turn it off after 2 hours.
I might as well have thrown my money in a toilet, because that's the same amount of enjoyment I got out of his performance.
I wouldn't cut any. I need 15 words. 15 words.
In addition to the horrifying accents, there was no pause or break between scenes. A scene on a spaceship blended seamlessly into a scene on a planet leaving the listener completely lost. Mr. Lee's uninflected deadpan narration moved so hurriedly from scene to scene that it was like trying to read a technical manual with pages removed and replaced with pages from The Joy Of Sex. Both instructional, both manuals, but you'll never get the whole picture from either.
Tell Mr.Lee to go back to waiting tables.
"Not suitable as an audio book"
I read this novel in paperback a number of years and thought that getting it as an audio book would be a good way to re-read (listen) to it.
The story is first rate but it may be just too complex for most people as an audio book.
At the beginning the chapters jump from plot line to plot line and while the chapters are noted the transitions are jarring and it takes a long time to get up to speed on everything that is going on. Eventually the plot lines start to converge and things get better but this is a very exhausting listen and at the end instead of looking forward to the next one you want to go have a lie down.
Again, the story is very good and I certainly recommend getting the print version and the narration is quite good but you need to be a dedicated Science Fiction fan (I am) to get through this.
"Just don't..."
I have listened to the first part of this book maybe 5 times, I couldn't tell you what its about or any of the characters names. The narrator seems to have some sort of midwiping ability.
Nothing with this guy reading it.
The narrator was just so horribly bland I have never given up on an audio book until now...
"Enjoyable plot, so-so ending, and average narrator"
I don't like John Lee performances that much, especially after listening to books with other narrators. I find it hard to distinguish between characters.
Eventually I get used to it, and doesn't distract that much.
Not really.
I found the beginning quite slow and boring. Halfway through, things start getting more interesting.
"The Ministry of Silly Voices"
I like John Lees other work. Perhaps it is the characters he has to portray here. A portentously delivered giggle inducing mixture of dodgy French accents from Monty Python and the Search for the Holy Grail, Inspector Clouseau's oriental man servant Kato from the Pink Panther films, Evil Russian female bond villains and a touch of 'It Ain't Half Hot Mum'. The giggles pass though and it is not a bad story after all.
"Dreadful narration ruins the book."
Narration was so poor that I had to give up listening and return this one. Didn't get a chance to reach any conclusion about the story itself.
The narrator has some extremely irritating habits. Each sentence is started loudly, and then gradually fades in volume as it approaches the end; I found it almost impossible to find a comfortable listening volume where I could still hear the whole sentence.
The narrator also seems to have very little range; one 'foreign' accent gets used for a vast range of characters, sometimes on both sides of a conversation, so it becomes impossible to discern which character is speaking.
A further issue, which may be editing rather than narration, is that there is often no break between different chapters or settings. The narration runs seamlessly from one to the next as if it is all part of the same sentence - it may be several lines before you realise that the setting or the character has changed.
I will never know, because the problems with the narration became so distracting that I couldn't listen to it.
The narration quality on the Audible audiobooks inevitably varies greatly, and some narrators are better than others. On the whole, I expect and can live with that, but this particular example probably needs to be withdrawn from sale.
"marred by weak narration"
It's a good yarn, takes a while to get going. It's badly let down by the narration. See my full review below.
Up until the mid-point, it's all a bit disjointed. The sweet spot is from about 50% to 95%, where the story moves along nicely, all the protagonists have come together, and it's a fine action yarn. The last 5% was a let down.
monotonous, hurried, limited
Well, I managed to avoid the DNF on this one, and indeed managed to get back to a point where I rather enjoyed the ride.
I had a couple of possible outcomes for the novel. One in which all the villains and minor characters die, and all the major protagonists survive. The other in which some of the villains get their comeuppance, but by no means all, and in which at least one major character dies, probably saving humanity as far as that is possible. And that's properly dies - none of this reincarnation as an AI nonsense. If I'd been reading Iain M Banks, I wouldn't have bet on either outcome over the other.
I'll avoid the spoiler. Suffice to say I wasn't entirely pleased with Alastair Reynolds' rabbits and hats.
Faults first, and those specific to the audiobook - the narrator (John Lee) is poor.
The emphasis is practically identical for every sentence - he starts forte then fades to a mezzo piano, almost piano by the end.
His range of accents is frustratingly small. He has one French accent, which he uses for every inhabitant of one world, regardless of age or gender. The starship crew get a hybrid Russian/Japanese accent, which is somewhat erratic.
His pauses as he switches between the starship and one or other of the two planets are too short to be worthy of the name. Too many times I find myself a paragraph or two into a new scene before I realise there's been a change, and I have to work out where I am and who is now on stage. Mental rewind - no, missed it. Bah!
General faults:
"Quadrant 5" - really? Is it no longer a requirement for authors to understand the etymology of the words they use?
Too much repetition, too many infodumps (sometimes the same infodump repeated for the benefit of a new character who didn't hear the first one).
The alpha copy of Dan Sylveste - a plot point that wasn't, at least not in this book. A red herring?
The computer security was inconsistent - lax or strong as the plot needed it.
Sunstealer's potency or impotency was likewise variable, according to the needs of the plot.
Some positives:
A surprising level of empathy built up with Volyova over time. Likewise Khouri.
The descriptions of the light-hugger ship - like the Nostromo, but with intelligent rats, a rotting infrastructure and sludge/slime. However it is not explained how the rats survive the acceleration that kills a rogue crewmember. Nor what happens to all that liquid under the same acceleration.
Still, it is a good adventure, though the ending is just too pat. The audiobook is harder work than it needs to be.
"Jumpy to start Good once it gets going"
Initialy I thought I'd made a big error on this one, it starts by bouncing about through multiple related plot lines, It may have made more sense in the book but in audio I found myself going hu!, only to realise the narator had switch between the set up lines.
Once they come together its a really good book but it takes a few hours to do so.
"Epic hard sci-fi"
This is one of my favourite books. Reynolds has a real physics background, and his comfort with unthinkable scale and relatavistic distances. The plot is constructed like a steel trap, with massive stakes, and strong, memorable characters. If Christopher Nolan did a pure space opera, it would end up being like this. The characters are all brilliant, ruthless, terrifying competent types, which I love, but others might not. It's hardcore sci-fi though, so it's more like Greg Bear or Greg Egan than Isaac Asimov or Larry Niven.
John Lee does a competent enough job of the narration, but it's clear that he doesn't really understand what he's saying. He has a tendency to make all the characters sound like louche French philosophers drinking Pernod in a Parisian cafe circa 1913, even the Middle Eastern soldier Khouri and Russian engineer Volyova. Also, he uses the American pronunciation of words like process (with a short o) which seemed odd.
I also question the decision for a man to be the narrator. There are more important female than male characters here (Volyova, Khouri, The Madamoiselle, Pascale, Sluka, Sudjic etc.), and on balance I think I'd have preferred an actress.
This kvetching aside, he wasn't distracting or anything, so it's still a worthwhile purchase if the subject matter is your thing.
"Worthwhile in the end."
John Lee's narration starts out with a peculiarly jarring rhythmic structure, I must have listened to the first hour of this book half a dozen times before I got into it. However, by the end of part one I was hooked; the rhythm had become more natural and my ear attuned to the subtleties of the character's accents. An interesting story and the first Alastair Reynolds I have 'read', the narrator will not dissuade me from future listens, but neither will I be rushing to find other books that he has read.
Just given up on this. It is a shame as the synopsis sounded great. Not sure whether it was the reader or just that the story is hyper complex but after two hours of listening I had absolutely no idea what was going on. It seemed to be a whole bunch of stories which jumped all over the place. I am sure it came together at some point but with the reader sounding bored and disinterested and putting on silly accents for virtually all of the charaters, I had had enough and bailed out at 2hrs 36mins! One star as that is the least I can give!
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