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Baltimore author Dan Fesperman has written a tribute to classic spy novels - in the form of another spy novel. For espionage aficionados, Double Game is a dream book because Fesperman ingeniously scatters clues from classic spy thrillers throughout his riveting new book.
Reporter Bill Cage has been obsessed with spy novels since he was a boy. His father, a Foreign Service officer, introduced him to masters such as John Le Carre, Len Deighton, and Graham Greene. It is former spook and novelist Edwin Lemaster, however, who has the most impact on Cage, and the fictionalized Lemaster is the center of Double Game.
As a young journalist, Cage gets the interview of a lifetime with his idol, Lemaster. Unfortunately, in an attempt to please his new bosses, he ends up betraying the author. Fast forward many years later: Lemaster returns to Cage's life in a most unexpected way. Cage begins to receive anonymous messages suggesting that the great Lemaster may have a dangerous past. These messages set Cage off on a chase that will reveal dark secrets from his own background.
Double Game stands on its own as a suspenseful, fast-paced spy story but much of its appeal is Fesperman's homage to the genre itself. In referencing many of the very best spy novels, readers will want to search out classics they have overlooked and re-read old favorites.
Some novels seem designed for escape, others for amusement, and yet others to satisfy an intellectual craving. Karen Engelmann's The Stockholm Octavo fits into none of these particular niches yet embodies the characteristics of them all by simply engulfing the reader. With each passing scene, Engelmann sweeps the reader further into to a richly-detailed hybrid of 18th century Swedish politics and mysticism.
Emil Larsson has fared well for himself in this world. A rising sekretaire, skillful gamer and thoroughly contented bachelor, Larsson is a man immersed in the pleasures and glory of Stockholm's Golden Age. However, destiny is about to deal Emil an altogether new hand. One night, shortly after learning he must give up bachelorhood to maintain his prestigious government post, Emil is approached by Mrs. Sparrow, the proprietress of his favorite gaming house. A known seer, Mrs. Sparrow tells him she has had a startling vision of his future and invites him to undergo the cartomancy ritual known as the Octavo.
The Octavo is a rare and delicate reading – granted to few and successfully wielded by yet fewer. Revolving around a singular life-changing occurrence and the eight people who will bring the event to pass, the Octavo is no mere game. It is a chance meeting of known destiny and free will. And as Emil is about to discover, he is not the only player.
The Stockholm Octavo will appeal to a wide range of readers. A wholly original and dazzling blend of historical events, personal fortune, political intrigue and mysticism awaits readers who dare to follow Emil on his perilous journey.
Not for faint hearts or weak stomachs, John Ajvide Lindqvist will be sure to terrify and delight horror fans with his unique brand of Scandinavian horror in Little Star. Lennart and Laila Cedersrom were once a famous Swedish pop duo with a hit song. As they grew older, their fame faded and they were left trapped in a disastrous marriage and with angry and bitter son. One fateful day, Lennart wandered into the woods to pick mushrooms, and he found an infant, left discarded, half buried and in a plastic bag. He brings the infant home and gives her the moniker Little One. Lennart has an ear for music, and soon he realizes that Little One emits the most beautiful notes. He believes she is destined to become a great singer. Afraid to call the police or social services in fear that they would take her away, Lennart and Laila keep Little One locked in the basement. They instill in her a fear of adults. She remains trapped for years, until she finally reaches adolescence.
In another part of Sweden we meet Theresa. As a girl, Theresa is quiet and doesn't quite fit in socially.This becomes traumatic when she becomes older and begins to gain weight. She finds herself shunned and mocked at school, while even her one childhood friends finds a girlfriend and moves on. Theresa begins to withdraw from the world, creating online personas and trolling poetry sites. She becomes obsessed with a contestant on Sweden's version of Idol, and is determined to meet this strange singer. When she finally meets Little One, a terrifying and dysfunctional friendship is formed. The novel examines the music industry, the effects of bullying, reality singing competitions and dysfunctional relationships and winds them together in a dark and terrifying package. Little Star is an unsettling read that will haunt readers long after they have finished the novel.
There is for each of us a place where we breathe easier, feel safer, and are most alive. It may be a quiet cabin in the mountains, a high-rise apartment in the city, or a cottage in the woods. Sonia's place is The River House, a once beautiful three-story home along the Thames River in London. It is in this house that Sonia keeps her heart, her dreams, and her dark secrets in Penny Hancock's Kept in the Dark. Other than sessions with her voice clients, Sonia spends much of her time at home alone. Her daughter has gone to university and her husband travels for work. It takes her by surprise when fifteen-year-old Jez, the nephew of her friend and neighbor Helen, arrives asking to borrow an old record album of her husband's. Jez's youth and beauty awaken memories that Sonia has worked hard to bury deep down, painful memories from her own youth. Long days spent on the river with her first love, Seb, come rushing back, and Sonia reacts by impulsively drugging Jez's drink and holding him captive. Soon all of London is looking for the missing boy, never suspecting lovely, normal-looking Sonia. Long ago, Seb was taken from her, first by distance and then by a tragic river accident. This time, she will do whatever it takes to keep her young man safely with her forever.
Setting plays an essential part in Hancock's writing, and both the house and the river are characters in this disturbing tale of obsession. Told alternately from the points of view of Helen and Sonia, we get a sense of the emotional instability of the human psyche as well as the various reactions people have under extreme stress. Like a horrific accident you cannot tear your eyes away from, Hancock dares you to look away as the many secrets unravel. Fans of Sophie Hannah or readers looking for the next great dark thriller after Gone Girl will devour Kept in the Dark.
True crime readers usually think of tales ripped from recent headlines, but some of the most intriguing crime writing is based on historical crimes. These two stories are sure to keep readers on the edge of their seats until all is revealed. The Damnation of John Donellan: A Mysterious Case of Death and Scandal in Georgian England takes on the shocking death of Theodosius Boughton, the 20-year-old heir to a fortune and baronetcy, in August 1780. Within an hour of taking a physic prescribed by his doctor, Boughton suffered convulsions and died. Could he have died of natural causes or accidentally died of poisoning from his medical treatments? Was he truly murdered? Although there could have been many natural causes of his death or many suspects if he was indeed murdered, Boughton's brother-in-law John Donellan was tried and executed for murdering Boughton based largely on the fact that he rinsed out the medicine bottle shortly after Boughton's collapse. Author Elizabeth Cooke breaks down the evidence from the case and the ensuing trial. Readers will see that that Donellan did not receive a fair trial and may have actually died an innocent man.
Readers who might enjoy this title should also try Kate Summerscale's The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective. When three-year-old Saville Kent was found with his throat slit in June of 1860, the case became a national obsession, dominating English newspapers. People were horrified at the brutality of the crime and stunned by the idea that someone from within the Kent household was believed to have taken the life of an innocent child. Summerscale frames the story as an English murder mystery and keeps the reader engaged until the conclusion of this story that electrified a nation and fed the English obsession with mysteries.
Countless books have been written about Abraham Lincoln, some of which cover his mental health issues. In The Hypo: the Melancholic Young Lincoln, Noah van Sciver portrays Honest Abe's depression in a way rarely seen so clearly. Starting from the point of Lincoln's arrival in Springfield, Illinois, in 1837, van Sciver's words and pictures bring to life the world of this place and time in American history. Lincoln comes to work as a lawyer with John Stuart, while also serving with the Illinois state legislature. Soon after getting to Springfield, he meets the philandering but good-hearted Joshua Speed with whom he shares an apartment and who becomes his closest confidant. Working at their two-person law firm, Lincoln meets Stuart's cousin, Mary Todd, and is introduced to society life. Although Abe and Mary Todd quickly fall in love, her family disapproves of his low social standing, and each of their mental health issues hasten the dissolution of their engagement. Lincoln has a total breakdown, and is "nursed" back to health by a doctor using methods such as bloodletting and mercury treatments. Mary Todd's own undiagnosed issues are manifested in debilitating migraines. With the help of Speed and other friends, they are eventually reunited, engaged again and married.
Completely rendered in black and white, Van Sciver's pen-and-ink, crosshatch style is perfect in telling the story of our beloved sixteenth president's pre-wedlock years. He captures Lincoln as often ill-at-ease, bumbling, and very much prone to sadness, but who is also occasionally able to command a room with amusing tales, poetic language, and political finesse. The frontier, with all its grime, poverty, and its class divide is also intensely illustrated, placing the reader directly into the setting. Readers of David Herbert Donald's biography Lincoln, Joshua Shenk's Lincoln's Melancholy, and those interested in the biopic of the legendary president (starring Daniel Day-Lewis) will find much to appreciate in this graphic presentation.
Recession-weary businessman Alan Clay lives in a maelstrom of uncertainty brought about by his own self-doubt and poor decisions in A Hologram for the King, the trenchant new novel by National Book Award finalist Dave Eggers. Divorced, broke, and obsessed with a lump on his neck, the fifty-four-year-old arrives in Saudi Arabia with an opportunity to redeem his mundane self in a ruthless global economy. He is greeted by a strangely out of place vinyl party tent where he and his team wait, and wait some more, for their one chance to impress the elusive King Abdullah and his newly built city of the future.
As far as mirages go, there are plenty here. King Abdullah Economic City (KAEC) is referred to as the "city to be in the desert by the sea" when Clay and his team of young techies from Reliant Systems Corporation show up to demonstrate holographic teleconference systems. At stake is a citywide technology contract for their company and an emotional and financial turn-around for Clay. When Clay is not getting drunk, the former bicycle salesman is worrying about his daughter's fractured relationship with his ex-wife and how he will pay her next college tuition bill. He spends his free time writing her in a heartfelt voice several unfinished letters that he never mails.
Social commentary is nothing new for the multi-accomplished Eggers whose previous books include Zeitoun and What is the What. In the complex, somber Alan Clay, Eggers has created a wry character whose attempts to remain relevant and connected mirror America's own efforts to stem a decline of its own making. A pitch-perfect capture of the repercussions of today's international economic climate and the chicanery of the manufacturing industry, this solid and spare, quote-less novel is a reflection on how we live and work in a changing world.
Kate Shaw is broke, single, and approaching forty, but she is happy with her job as a freelance magazine writer and her circle of supportive friends. Unfortunately, Kate's happiness is short lived in The Jane Austen Marriage Manual, by Kim Izzo, when she loses her job and her beloved grandmother dies. Still mourning that loss, Kate learns that the home she shared with her grandmother will have to be sold. Kate finds herself camped out in her sister's living room, sleeping on a couch when she resolves to take a page from the lives of so many women in her favorite Jane Austen novels and find a rich husband. After all, it's hard to live on love, but diamonds and Dom Perignon make everything a little brighter.
Her friends rally round by connecting her to other freelance jobs and presenting her with a unique birthday gift – a Scottish title! This title comes in handy for the newly named Lady Kate of Loch Broom. Her first job is to test the theory that to stay afloat in tough economic times a woman should find herself a wealthy man. Kate begins her research in earnest in London, Palm Beach, and St. Moritz where she rubs shoulders with the rich and richer. She is wooed by one wealthy man, but it is the charming bed and breakfast owner who keeps popping up at events and in her head.
Kate's search for love is an age-old odyssey, but Izzo manages to freshen it up with a memorable cast of supporting characters and some hilariously embarrassing moments. The descriptions of lavish, spectacular parties and couture clothing read like something from The Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous and add pizzazz to Kate's quest. Ultimately, underneath the fun and frivolity, this is an honest story of one sympathetic woman looking for money, but finding love instead.
For best-selling authors like Jo Nesbo and Dennis Lehane, even if the adage "crime doesn't pay" is true, writing about it most certainly does. Nesbo offers up Phantom, the ninth book in his police detective series, while Lehane continues his Boston-based Coughlin family saga with Live by Night. Joe is the baby boy of the Coughlin brothers, introduced to us in The Given Day. All grown up and despite coming from a line of Boston Irish policemen, Joe chooses the gangster life of the Prohibition-era 1920s. Moving between rival mobs with bloody street wars and after a stint in Boston's infamous Charlestown prison, Joe ends up with a promotion to expand Maso Pescatore's "family" businesses in Florida, including hooch distillation and prostitution. Cuban immigration, evangelical tent revivals, the love of women both good and bad, and some rather snappy dialogue (along with a plethora of weaponry) illuminate Joe's struggle to balance his humanity against his choices. Better known for the psychological thrillers Mystic River and Shutter Island, Lehane shows his versatility as an author in Live by Night.
Nesbo is the Norwegian author of the Harry Hole (pronounced Hool-eh) books. In Phantom, Hole, having been dismissed from Oslo's force, is working independently to prove Oleg Rauke, the drug running son of Hole's former lover, innocent of murder. Nesbo has a "sins of the father" theme running through this book; as he is dying, the victim addresses his dad as part of the ongoing narration while Hole's motivation stems in part from his guilt at abandoning his paternal role in Oleg's upbringing. The Harry Hole series is tightly written and often weaves politics and institutional corruption into its intricate plots. Fans of Stieg Larsson and Nelson DeMille won't want to miss Jo Nesbo and Phantom.
It all begins with a boy, a father and a busy street. Christopher Wakling's latest book, What I Did, shows how one small incident can become a case study in multiple viewpoints, having a much greater impact on people as a result. Billy runs into the road ahead of his father on an outing to the park. His father reacts with the typical fury of an overworked parent, cursing and roughly handling his son. What takes this incident from minor to major is a woman who sees him disciplining the boy and calls child protective services, who launch an investigation. What is equally intriguing and at times baffling for the reader is trying to determine the details of what actually happened, since the story is told by an unreliable narrator--six-year-old Billy.
Despite the serious plotline, the narration is often laugh-out-loud funny. Billy's voice is similar to the young narrators of Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, and Emma Donoghue's Room. Lacking in social skills, he is imaginative and has a unique perspective of the world around him. He also has a fascination with animals and science, and his commentary is interspersed with random bits of trivia. Still, the reader only has Billy's perspective, and his actions are steered by a six-year-old's intellectual capacity for understanding what to do and say in order to bring this incident into proper perspective. A few sections read like a "Who's on First" routine, when Billy misinterprets what is being asked by social workers and doctors. Wakling has an interesting background, and mentioning on his website that this book was in part inspired by his own experience with fatherhood and the character flaws it has exposed in him. This is a unique, engaging read where the reader roots for Billy and his parents, despite their flaws.
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- 26th March 2013 #1
How to get BSNL WiFi modem on current broadband plan?
I have a 500 Night Unlimited Plan with a Nokia Siemens c2110 modem.I use Windows Vista,Windows 7>i plan to get a Nexus 7 tab and plan to use the Wifi on it.
Is it possible to exchange it with a Wifi Modem?
Which model should I get ?
- 6th August 2014 #2
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It depends where you got the modem from, some stores and online stores exchange goods and some don't
How much are you willing to spend on a wifi modem?
- 6th August 2014 #3
Just call there customer care and ask them to replace it with wifi router or use there onlinr portal to do that.
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- 6th August 2014 #4
Yes it is possible to exchange but why are you renting the modem from BSNL? Buy a modem with built in wifi router and USB modem support and it would turn out to be cheaper in the long run. There is no use keeping on paying rental for the modem every month.
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It would come down to one race to not only complete a season, but decide a first-ever champion. Back in April, the Speed Energy Stadium Super Trucks made it's debut in Phoenix. Now, as part of the biggest automotive marketplace gathering, the SST Series would conclude their inaugural tour.
The SEMA Show in Las Vegas, Nevada, brings out many custom cars and trucks, plus is the largest showcase for new products and customized cars in the country.
This year, the SST's would hold their final event as part of the show, electing to do another all-asphalt course, but this time instead of going to battle on a road course, or on the street, it would be a parking lot that would see the tight turns and metal ramps. The makeshift, 7-turn course would be setup at one of the most famous hotels on the Vegas Strip, Caesar's Palace. With the fountains in the background, and lights shining, it would be time to crown a champion.
A few new names would be included in the final race, as Craig Potts would make his inaugural race, but also would see the SST debut of one of the most famous names in all of off-road racing, as Kyle Leduc would pilot the Monster Energy machine.
In fact, he made an impact in the opening heat, as he would hold on to beat PJ Jones and Arie Luyandyk in the first heat.
The two men battling for the points title would do their first battle in the second heat, as it would be Robby Gordon taking the win over the man entering the weekend with the points lead, Rob MacCachren. Entering Vegas, McCachren would have the most wins on the season with four, having taken victories at Phoenix, San Diego, St. Louis and Crandon.
The 30-lap main event would see Gordon and Leduc start in the second row as the random inversion would see the top four reverse positions, meaning MacCachren would have the advantage at the green.
At the start, things quickly stopped, as Luyandyk would colide with Scotty Steele in the first corner, causing the track to be blocked and the red flag to be posted to clear the wreck. Because the race never completed a lap, the race in essence would again get the fresh start. When it did go green, the biggest issue of the night became keeping away from breakage.
Jones would eventually get the lead early on and pull away from MacCachren, in fact by four truck-lengths. Jerret Brooks would have a strong battle with Gordon for third, which eventually saw Gordon move into the third spot.
At the midway point, things suddenly took a dramatic turn. Mechanical woes would strike a lot of trucks, including the two at the top of the standings. Both Gordon and MacCachren would make needed repairs, while young phenom Sheldon Creed would retire from the race as his woes would be beyond what needed fixed.
On the restart, Gordon would be in fifth, and did not hesitate to regain spots he lost getting repairs done.
He was charging so hard that at one point he took a jump awkwardly and hit the barrier, rolling his bright orange machine. But, seeming to have Vegas luck on his side, the truck would go completely over onto the wheels, and without missing a beat, he would nail the throttle and keep going.
As the race continued, Gordon would make the pass into the second spot as Brooks would encounter his own mechanical issues, eventually dropping back and out of the event.
Gordon would continue to charge as hard as he could, but as time began running out, he knew that there seemed to be no way to catch Jones. After coming so close on occasion, including having a run-in during the third race of the year, Jones would come across the finish line to capture his first, and ultimately only win, of the SST Series for 2013. Gordon would finish second, while Steele would recover from his first-lap incident to finish third.
Meanwhile, MacCachren still battled issues with his truck and would finish sixth. With that finish, the points were set, and in the end the man that created this series would be the one to say he won the first season.
The first-ever winner of the Stadium Super Trucks Series is the driver of the Speed Energy #7 SST, Robby Gordon.
It has been a season of trial, error, change, evolution, and excitement. It saw these trucks compete on full-dirt courses, in big stadiums, hit historic venues that combined the grip of dirt and sand with the stickiness of asphalt, and even see events at road courses and the most famous off-road track in the country.
Through it all, the man that wanted to bring the series back, and brought about the best competition in off-road racing stood tall in the end. Gordon can call himself the creator of the SST Series, and now he can be called a champion of the SST Series.
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Early on in Zombie Studios' Daylight, we learn about a former patient in a psychiatric hospital who exhibits an unhealthy obsession with mazes. They would have adored this game. But if your idea of a great time doesn't involve navigating randomly generated mazes in a dank, dull environment, Daylight isn't the survival horror game you're looking for.
Daylight is the product of Jessica Chobot (the former on-camera host for IGN and infamous licker of PlayStation Portables) and indie developer Zombie Studios (Blacklight: Retribution). On paper it showed promise. It would be the first game released using Epic's new Unreal Engine 4, and had a premise which strips power from the protagonist and exchanges it with the most rudimentary of survival tools: flares, glowsticks, and the ability to run like hell.
Remnants of Potential
Somewhere between the design document and the actual development, though, that promise deteriorated with a generic plot, subpar voice acting, and graphics that almost have no business calling themselves last-gen, let alone current-gen. (The fact that Nvidia Nvidia is leading their GeForce GTX bundle with this game is baffling and ill-advised.)
You play as Sarah, waking up in an abandoned and delapidated hospital with only your cell phone and no recollection of how you arrived there. A sinister voice speaks to you while providing some backstory, and within minutes he's guided you to the only "weapons" you'll utilize in Daylight: Glowsticks for uncovering clues, and flares for scaring off the "shadow people," ghostly apparitions which populate the hospital and constitute the majority of the scares. Both of these are limited and need to be found throughout the various sections of the hospital.
Sarah's goal is to discover 6 "remnants" — clues which uncover the hospital's shady history — in each area and then find a sigil which can be used to unlock sealed doors. Progress through each one, learn the hospital's secrets, and ultimately escape.
There's nothing inherently wrong with front-loading all of the gameplay mechanics, and a game which strips away weapons in favor of simple survival tools is more than welcome in a horror game. But in order to keep players interested in what's around the next corner, it's crucial that you envelop them with compelling storytelling.
Even though graphically this game feels as if intended all along for Android tablets and iPads (it's out today for PlayStation 4 and Windows), I can forgive the lack of eye candy if the writing makes up for it. Unfortunately, it doesn't.
Daylight is a game replete with ideas that almost succeeded. I couldn't identify with Sarah or sympathize with her character. The majority of the game finds her complaining and playing the "woe is me" victim. The "remnants" color the story, albeit mostly with characters and situations that are rife with tropes from every other horror novel or movie in existence. The soundtrack is evocative, but repetitive. The increasingly creepy hospital is convincing, but it's dull and uninteresting, especially with hallways and rooms that are literally copied and pasted, adding artificial difficulty to the navigation.
Horror Maze Simulator
Ah, the navigation. Daylight's randomly generated levels and encounters should have been its saving grace. You navigate through the hospital using your cell phone's crude map as a guide, and this is honestly a well-implemented mechanic. Cautiously stepping your way through dark environments with your phone's display as the only light source is riveting. The first time. Even without death, the maze-like layouts quickly become a grind.
Adding death to the equation makes the experience of playing Daylight simultaneously infuriating and…well, boring. For some inexplicable reason, by the way, Sarah cannot light a flare when she's holding the sigil (although she can switch between glowsticks and flares at will with that same hand). I understand this was a purposeful gameplay decision to instill a sense of urgency, but it's also the means for a cheap death. When you've found 6 out of 6 remnants and are making your way to the exit, only to be trapped by a shadow person who appears right in front of you and kills you, that's frustrating enough. Doing it all over again — with a new maze and new locations — well, it should be highlighted in a book of gameplay crimes.
If the journey was enjoyable, or if the narrative engaged me, my stance would be completely reversed.
Some of the scares in Daylight are genuinely chilling, but their shock value fades quickly. And after the opening hour or so, the hospital itself seems to become a character, which adds a needed layer of interactivity and suspense to the mix. But between dull writing, last-gen graphics, and limited game mechanics, Daylight devolves into nothing more than a glorified maze simulator with mood lighting.
Platform: PlayStation 4, PC
Version played: PC
Developer: Zombie Studios
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More than any other Arab head of state in the world, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has mastered the art of telling listeners what they want to hear.
Last week, he said his country is fully committed to peace in the Middle East, though he worries the Israel government isn't. He knows this is what bien pensants in the West like to believe. He knows they find it refreshing that he can talk like a liberal while Iran's Ali Khamenei and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad threaten apocalypse.
He also knows how to talk like the right kind of hardliner. Yesterday, he condemned the double suicide-bombing in Moscow's underground metro and urged the international community to "fight terror around the globe."
It's no wonder, then, that some in Washington, Paris, and even Jerusalem think he's a man they can do business with. All they have to do is convince him that his alliance with Iran is counterproductive, that it runs contrary to his self-evident interests and public pronouncements.
Syria, though, is the most aggressive state sponsor of terrorism in the world after Iran. Assad doesn't even try to keep up the pretense when he isn't preening before peace processors. Last week, he said Israel only understands force — a statement perfectly in line with his behavior. And just two days ago, he and Libya's Muammar Qaddafi urged the Palestinian Authority to scrap negotiations with Israel and return to its terrorist roots.
It's hard to say if Western diplomats and foreign policy makers are actually suckered in by his act or if they're just playing along because doing so suits them. Either way, they'd be wise to ignore him even when he makes the right noises and pay a little more heed to what other Arab leaders are saying instead. Their interests are far more in line with ours than Assad's are.
Over the weekend, all, including Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, rejected Syria's and Libya's calls for armed attacks against Israel. Most aren't interested in signing a treaty with Benjamin Netanyahu any time soon, but at least they don't yearn for another Operation Cast Lead or a Third Lebanon War. The status quo ultimately isn't sustainable, but it's mostly non-violent right now. There's nothing urgent about it as long as the Syrian- and Iranian-led resistance bloc isn't fueling its missiles.
Egypt and Saudi Arabia, the two most influential of the Sunni Arab regimes, flatly reject the idea of dialogue with Tehran while publicly supporting the peace process theater. Even if they're no more sincere about the latter than Bashar al-Assad, as long as their rhetoric matches their immobility and conflict aversion, who cares?
Meanwhile, Iraqis gave Ayad Allawi and his slate of staunchly anti-Iranian candidates a plurality of votes in the recent election. The moderate Nouri al-Maliki came in second while the pro-Iranian Iraqi National Alliance came in dead last. Iran tried to Lebanonize Iraq with its Sadrist militias but seems to have failed. The Saudis are profoundly relieved, and the rest of the Arabs outside Syria surely are, too.
So what we have here, for the most part, is an Arab Middle East that wants to put the Israeli conflict on ice and resist the resistance instead — which is more or less what the Israelis want to see happen. It's an unusual alignment of interests, but it is authentic. Iran's Khomeinist regime has been gunning for Arabs in the Middle East since it came to power — and not just in Lebanon and Iraq but also in the Gulf and North Africa.
Egypt and Saudi Arabia are unreliable allies (and that's being generous), but their interests really do overlap with our own and even with Israel's once in a while. Assad, at the same time, can't always be bothered even to pretend he shares interests with the U.S. and Israel. His government has been sanctioned and stigmatized for a reason, and it's not because he's misguided or misunderstood.
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but it's all relative. In comparision to the rest of the league then YES that stats would show that....but otherwise they are completely meaningless.
Overall I would say that in most sports, the athletes today are better than they were decades ago. There is more money, more of a talent pool, better scouting, better coaches, better strength and conditioning etc etc etc. It is inherently correct that today's level of athlete is more athletic. We continiously see across all sports that athletes are getting quicker and stronger. Almost every year the world record for strength, running distance etc etc etc etc are being broken. That is because over time the human species has become increasingly better at pushing themselves to the limits. I say baseball is no different.
A statistic that measures performance can show me that a pitcher in 1970 was better than a pitcher in 2014. But unless that pitcher in 1970 travels to the future and faces the 2014 batters and vis versa I can't and I don't think ANYONE can say that they were "better" a player playing in single A could travel back to 1890 and might dominate the league. Did he become a better player? or is the level of competition different? Obviously it is easier to put up better numbers if the competition is different. Point is, all stats prove, and the only thing they prove here is how good a player is compared to his peers....but we are comparing two completely separate pools of talent decades apart. I'm not defending David Ortiz here, I actually DON'T think he is the greatest Sox player of all time but I don't think the statement that the pitching 40 years ago was better than it is today. I just feel that is inherently wrong.
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I've been reading about the home invasion case that occurred in Cheshire, Connecticut on July 23, 2007. This deeply disturbing act of brutal violence is one of the worst criminal outrages in the history of that state.
Steven Hayes and Joshua Komisarjevsky robbed, raped and murdered Jennifer Hawke-Petit, age 48, Hayley Petit, age 17, and Michaela Petit, age 11 in their home. The husband and father, Doctor William Petit, escaped with severe injuries and will live with the memory of these events for the rest of his life. Steven Hayes and Joshua Komisarjevsky were caught, found guilty, and are awaiting execution.
Everyone wants these men sentenced to worst punishment imaginable. But is that really execution?
Most religious theists claim the soul survives the death of the body. The courts openly profess the same belief, having issued the death sentences with the words, "May God have mercy on your soul."
But I don't believe in God, souls, or supernatural punishment. I accept the medical science which shows consciousness ends with the destruction of the brain.
Steven Hayes once said, "Death for me will be a welcome relief..."
Joshua Komisarjevsky has said, "I will never find peace within."
The reality of the death penalty in this case seems rather stark. Each of these reprehensible criminals gets a quick, painless exit from a lifetime of punishment in a merciful fulfilment of his own wishes.
Or do you see it differently? Is death by lethal injection the worst punishment you can imagine? How does execution compare with life without parole in solitary confinement? What is the atheistic perspective?
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Hey David, inside for 16 and out now 6, those first couple of years back on the streets must have been hard on you. If you don't mind me asking, did someone step up and give you a hand?
For some (maybe most) getting out can be a different kind of punishment, the ex-felon tag is hard to shake.
NOTE: My son carries that tag and like you has his own company and family as well. Good for both of you.
I hope life is going good for you now, it can't have been easy.
I don't think the death penalty is a "punishment" so much as it is intended to be a "justice". There is the question of rehabilitation and whether or not one is capable. I understand that some aren't capable. Is it "just" to kill them? I don't have an answer for that.
When someone is sentenced to Life in prison it happens that cell time, your 3 hots, and an hour in the yard isn't a full description of prison life. What you are really being sentenced to is a life of violence, rape, humiliation, torment, demoralization and anal leakage from the bad food. The anal leakage fits in with the humiliation and demoralization but I think it was worth mentioning it because I'd take the death penalty over a life time of anal leakage.
These two (and a few other cases I can think of) should probably be sentenced to life in prison with anal leakage.
For those of you that don't believe in the death penalty there are two considerations to muse. First, if you let these pathetic excuses for a human being remain incarcerated for decades there is a huge yearly bill to house and feed them. For what end? It's not worth the tax payer dollars to keep air going in their worthless noses. Secondly, you let them stay in prison and they possibly end up "shanking" a correctional officer who made the mistake of letting their guard down for just a moment. These perverts have a maniacal way of staring at you as the blood exits your body and you lose consciousness.
Don't waste money on lethal injection or other overly humane ways to exterminate these vermin. A big tank of corrosive acid is a cost effective one time purchase and should last for decades.
I may come across as coarse and insensitive. Working in a prison and dealing with these psychotic SOB's will do that to a fellow.
The number of appeals? One is plenty in my book. If eye witnesses are involved one denial of appeal is satisfactory before termination.
"Now imagine just one person out of a thousand was wrongly executed: would you be willing to be that one person just to support the continuation of the death penalty?"
Our judicial system is not perfect and innocents have been executed. With DNA evidence available today the possibility of error is greatly reduced in many cases. Guys who sit on death row with irrefutable DNA evidence or unquestionable eye witness accounts have no need or right to a numerous appeal process.
The cost of an execution is greatly inflated by some. Walking them off a gang plank into a vat is fairly cost effective.
In an ideal universe, we could fix people, and render them incapable of committing the act ever again. On the other hand if truly fixed, these people could probably not live with themselves and the knowledge of what they had done. (And does it make sense to punish someone for a moral flaw they no longer have?)
OK now back to reality--a system which claims to be rehabilitative but fails miserably--and perhaps inevitably so, perhaps rehabilitation is truly impossible.
Well part of the larger issue might be that the law makes no distinction between a completely animalistic act like GM described here, and the man who bumps off a single person for some very specific reason, e.g., to gain an inheritance. The latter are the sorts of criminals depicted in fiction like the classic show Columbo (an interesting mystery format; you watched the murder on screen, then followed Columbo as he tried to figure out whodunnit). Those sorts of killers have a very specific motivation, specific to their victim, and I doubt they'd kill again, in all seriousness--except maybe to avoid getting caught. But of course if they are in prison they have already been caught. I think someone like that could likely be rehabilitated. But they are convicted of Murder One, the same as the animals that GM references. (Yes I realize that we are all animals, I just can't find a better short label for the inhuman way these people act.)
At the risk of leaving reality again, extreme care must be taken, in the case of the death penalty, to ensure that you got the right person. Much more rigorous than "beyond a reasonable doubt." I know in Colorado a jury--a different jury than the one that convicted--has to make the decision to put the convict on death row.
We need a Murder Zero category for these people--murder so far beyond the pale that we dare not let them out ever again. And it does seem fitting to put them in truly *strict* solitary for the rest of their lives, to symbolize their expulsion from society. By strict, I mean not even allowing them contact with guards. No human contact or contact with human culture whatsoever. No internet, certainly. (My brother and I have an old joke about feeding them flapjacks because those can be slid under the door.)
David Whatley had some useful suggestions too. In fact some of his suggestions could effectively change "life in solitary" to "greatly shortened life in solitary;" if the guy goes bonkers enough he may manage to kill himself even without the aid of an improvised rope or an improvised knife.
But this would be grotesquely expensive and troublesome. And only now do we seem to have the tech to truly manage a no-human-contact situation. So I confess a lot of sympathy with what Ed has said, too. (Though I suspect a really big vat of acid would be expensive to maintain.)
In short I don't know what is best.
If one absolutely must go for a "humane" method of execution, by the way, simply letting the guy breathe pure nitrogen for a few minutes will do the trick (and nitrogen is cheap). You don't get the "smothering I can't breathe" sensation (that is actually caused by CO2 building up in your bloodstream, not by lack of oxygen), apparently people breathe and feel normal until... they don't.
I suppose I should clarify I do not endorse humane punishment for Murder 0 types; that last bit was an aside.
In an ideal universe, we could fix people, and render them incapable of committing the act ever again. On the other hand if truly fixed, these people could probably not live with themselves and the knowledge of what they had done.
This is fundamentally a perfect and precise statement, other than in the ideal universe they would also learn how to forgive themselves. But it is a great statement.
"In an ideal universe.."
'We could do any twisted thing we like..' for some folks.
or have the good sence to stop ourselves from being monsters,
or learn from our mistakes to reduce our propensity for nuttyness,
or maybe be honest in policy making, business models, etc, so the world around us is truely better than we found it.
Voltarie wrote 'Candide' as a response to this 'best of all possible worlds'....
We do not live there, but or yet...
In short I don't know what is best.
I think this is important. It is not black and white.
These two people (animals, cretins, monsters, etc.) upon committing the act of Murder 0 (I like the thought of that new category) loose their "right" to be considered human, they are "Mad Dogs" and should be put down in as violent manner as possible. Fuck Them.
Those victims suffered a level of pain, humiliation and horror that cannot be repaid. These two assholes wrote checks they can't cash, torment, torture, and then burn them alive. You won't need to pay for an executioner, just ask for volunteers, there will be plenty.
But then again society isn't structured to deal with this in a manner that would satisfy my blood lust, so just put them down in as inexpensive way as possible (chained to the tracks in the middle of the night, awaiting the morning train comes to mind, but I digress).
Total isolation is a functional punishment, it destroys the mind, but is costly upkeep for what is functionally living bio-waste, I'd go with the cheapest way to flush the toilet.
Bullets are relatively cheap too.
If you can find them. :(


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The low-level file open functions in the C Run-time library for the 32-bit Edition of Visual C++ accept some additional flags to allow you to take advantage of Win32-specific file system features. These flags are not available in the 16-bit version of Visual C++.
The low-level file open functions are: _open, _wopen, _sopen, and _wsopen. The new flags (and others) can be combined together with the bitwise OR operator and passed as the 'oflag' argument to the file open functions.
The file open functions call the Win32 function 'CreateFile' to actually open the file with the specified options. The following table relates these new C Run-time flags to the equivalent flags that are passed to CreateFile.
C Run-time Flag CreateFile Flag _O_SHORT_LIVED FILE_ATTRIBUTE_TEMPORARY _O_TEMPORARY FILE_FLAG_DELETE_ON_CLOSE _O_RANDOM FILE_FLAG_RANDOM_ACCESS _O_SEQUENTIAL FILE_FLAG_SEQUENTIAL_SCAN
You can use these flags to improve file I/O performance in some cases. For example, if you need to read from a large file sequentially, and do not need to jump to different parts of the file, you most likely will improve the performance of your application by using the _O_SEQUENTIAL flag when opening the file. This translates to the FILE_FLAG_SEQUENTIAL_SCAN flag for CreateFile.
For more information, please refer to the following sources:
Microsoft Knowledge Base: Read these articles
(https://support.microsoft.com/kb/98756/EN-US/ )Increased Performance Using FILE_FLAG_SEQUENTIAL_SCAN
103237Visual C++ Books Online: Read the descriptions of the _open/_wopen and
(https://support.microsoft.com/kb/103237/EN-US/ )Using Temporary File Can Improve Application Performance
Visual C++ Run-Time Library Reference, Part 2, Run-Time Reference: Read the descriptions of _open/_wopen and _sopen/_wsopen.
_sopen/_wsopen functions. Search on "_open" and "_sopen."
Win32 Programmer's Reference, Volume 3, Function Reference: Read the description of WIN32 API CreateFile.
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Toward an ozone standard to protect vegetation based on effective dose: A review of deposition resistances and a possible metric
Massman, W. J. 2004. Toward an ozone standard to protect vegetation based on effective dose: A review of deposition resistances and a possible metric. Atmospheric Environment. 38: 2323-2337.
Present air quality standards to protect vegetation from ozone are based on measured concentrations (i.e., exposure) rather than on plant uptake rates (or dose). Some familiar cumulative exposure-based indices include SUM06, AOT40, and W126. However, plant injury is more closely related to dose, or more appropriately to effective dose, than to exposure. This study develops and applies a simple model for estimating effective ozone dose that combines the plant canopy's rate of stomatal ozone uptake with the plant's defense to ozone uptake. Here the plant defense is explicitly parameterized as a function of gross photosynthesis and the model is applied using eddy covariance (ozone and CO2) flux data obtained at a vineyard site in the San Joaquin Valley during the California Ozone Deposition Experiment (CODE91). With the ultimate intention of applying these concepts using prognostic models and remotely sensed data, the pathways for ozone deposition are parameterized (as much as possible) in terms of canopy LAI and the surface friction velocity. Results indicate that (1) the daily maximum potential for plant injury (based on effective dose) tends to coincide with the daily peak in ozone mixing ratio (ppbV), (2) potentially there are some significant differences between ozone metrics based on dose (no plant defense) and effective dose, and (3) nocturnal conductance can contribute significantly to the potential for plant ozone injury.
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Knowledge of how your cloud provider provisions disk space can help an administrator protect their organization's data, as was recently revealed in a report by Context Information Security.
The security researchers said that provisioning techniques used by two cloud service providers could expose some of their customers' data to unauthorized eyes.
They found that inadequate separation and isolation of virtual servers and mistakes made when provisioning or de-provisioning those servers can result in data leakage.
The discovery was made while performing a security assessment of some cloud servers operated by Rackspace. During the examination of the Linux servers, the security team uncovered "remnant data" from Rackspace clients.
The remnants found on the server were random data, so it would be difficult for a snoop to target specific customers, but harvesting the remnants would create a trove of information for an intruder that would include personal information, credit card numbers and all kinds of credentials.
Since the unearthing of the vulnerability, Rackspace has fixed it. The company says that the flaw was never exploited nor was any customer data compromised.
The security team uncovered the flaw at Rackspace while provisioning one of its disks. A disk analysis following the provisioning revealed references to a WordPress installation and a MySQL configuration, even though neither of those programs were installed on the newly created virtual server.
Thinking that the physical disk provisioned by the team may have had a "dirty" image of the operating system on it, the researchers duplicated their efforts on a fresh disk. To their surprise, they found more remnant data. This time it was fragments of the company's customer data base and some Apache server logs.
The security team traced the problem to how the virtual servers were being provisioned. When a server is created, the cloud software allocates the disk space for the virtual machine and writes an image of the operating systems desired by the user to it. Any data previously on the physical disk is still there, and will remain there until it's overwritten as the disk is used during the course of operations.
If Rackspace wanted to be totally safe, it would "zero out" all the space on the physical disk allocated to the virtual machine. However, doing so is very time consuming. In addition, it hurts the performance of the hypervisor used to manage Rackspace's virtual servers. So Rackspace got along with configuring its cloud storage the same way they're configured on a desktop PC.
Similar problems were discovered with another cloud provider, VPS.NET. It uses a popular software platform, OnApp, to manage its cloud. OnApp, by default, turns off zeroing out the physical disk when provisioning a disk. However, when de-provisioning a disk, you can turn on "secure wipe", which will perform the task.
The data leakage problems identified by the researchers potentially can be found in any environment with multiple users using a shared file system and hardware access to a physical disk. It can also appear in shared hosting systems.
Any hypervisor without an abstraction layer between a virtual machine and a physical disk is susceptible to the problem, they added.
The security team also cautioned that the flaw was a:
"single issue within the implementation of virtual server disk provisioning; it does not mean that the cloud is broken."
"However," they added, "due to the simplicity of this issue it does raise questions about the maturity of cloud security testing. This is a significant issue that cloud providers and customers should be aware of."


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Deep in the heart of Western Thailand, where the River Kwai weaves through the rich green jungle, the monks of the Wat Pa Luang Ta Bua Temple are beginning their day.
They walk through the town and collect alms from the locals. But back at the temple for breakfast and prayers, it's clear that this Buddhist monastery is like no other, for this handful of monks live with some of the deadliest animals in the world.
They call it the Tiger Temple, and its story is the stuff of fairy tales. According to Abbot Pra-Acharn Phusit, a tiger cub orphaned by poachers was brought to the temple years ago.
The abbot cared for her and, as word spread, more people brought sickly and orphaned cubs to the temple's doorstep. Those cubs went on to have their own cubs, and nine years on there are now 34 tigers living here.
The Buddhists believe in reincarnation and the abbot feels that these tigers are his family. As he told ABC News, "I think they are my babies: my son, my daughter, my father, mother. If not in the present life, in the past life."
Buddhists also believe that animals, like humans, are sentient beings.
"When the tiger angry, when you angry, it's the same. When you hungry, when the tiger hungry, it's the same. When you tired, when the tiger tired, it's the same!" the abbot explains.
He has used this understanding to raise some of the tamest tigers in the world, catapulting this small forest monastery into the international limelight.
Every afternoon, up to 1,000 tourists from across the world flock to the Tiger Temple for their very own personal tiger experience.
And what they see is unlike any American zoo exhibit. Tiger Temple is hands-on, meaning visitors can pet the enormous cats and even hold their heads in their laps for photos.
"I'd seen it on the tellie before I left Ireland, so I was dying to do it when I got here. They're just so beautiful," tourist Georgina Stanley told ABC News.
The abbot has hired more than 50 people to help care for his growing family and growing business. Margarita Steinhardt first came to the temple from Russia seven years ago and is now one of the head caretakers of the tigers.
"Somebody mentioned that there is a monastery where you can come and look at the tigers if you want. I did and they had little cubs at the time," she said. "As soon as I saw them and touched them I just lost myself to them. I asked the abbot if I could stay, and he said all right, and then I stayed on and on and on."
As with the rest of the staff, Steinhardt, who was studying conservation biology in Australia before arriving at the temple, had little prior experience working with animals. The monastery has invited some animal experts to visit, including one famous Canadian trainer, but the animals' daily care is left to the monks and other staffers rather than trained animal professionals. They turn to local veterinarians when the tigers get sick.
Tourists visiting the Tiger Temple pay big money: anything from $15 just for entry, up to $50 for the very special photograph of a tiger with its head in your lap. The temple says the money goes toward caring for the tigers (each animal eats 13 pounds of meat a day) and construction of "Tiger Island," where it is hoped the tigers will soon move to live in larger enclosures.
Most of the tourists ABC News spoke with said it was worth every penny.


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How to fund the awesome things in life
Dec 25, 2012
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"Every month, Ocampo-Gooding and nine others in Ottawa pledge $100 of their own money. Then, they get together and cut a $1,000 cheque for a project they like." What I like about this is that the definition of "awesome" is wide opemn, and that the money is given with no strings attached. "If you build a giant tricycle that shoots fire, that sounds awesome ... and was actually a proposal in Portland," he says, rhyming off some of his recent favourites. "If you write us saying you want to build animatronic giant teddy bears to put in daycares, that sounds awesome. If you want to host ginormous murder mystery party with hundreds of participants with pieces written for each one, we want to (help you) do that." Too cool. I want to do that.Total: 175
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We have one here in Victoria, though with a much more awesome name (http://www.awesomeshitclub.com/). Al it takes really is someone with the time & energy to get it going. We are extremely fortunate to have guy in town, Kris Konstable, with seemingly endless energy who helped get Victoria's going. [Comment] [Permalink]
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Thanks to member and customer support of the Craftsman brand, the brand will donate $250,000 to IAVA to empower America's veterans.
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The Craftsman® brand is introducing an innovative lineup of new lawn and garden equipment designed to help homeowners tackle a variety of lawn maintenance tasks - from lawn mowing to hedge trimming.
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This year, Fathers Day will be more than just one day of celebration as the Craftsman brand remakes the holiday, serving up new traditions, including a cool Dad anthem, bacon-inspired wrapping paper, and the ultimate MAKEcation weekend. The Craftsman MAKEcation is a legendary vacation where making things with your hands takes center stage.
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Leather-clad riders arent the only ones making their way into Sturgis, S.D., next week for the annual motorcycle gathering. The Craftsman Make A Difference Tour and its 36-foot trailer filled with the Craftsman brands newest and most innovative tools will be motoring into town to make much needed repairs to the Sturgis Veterans Club.
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To build a home for a US veteran, Craftsman brand is crossing the aisle. TV handyman Ty Pennington and a host of volunteers will build half the house during the Republican National Convention in Tampa, with the other half finished at the Democratic convention in Charlotte, NC.Read More
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As holiday displays go up, job seekers should be active
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- 2012 was the best season for holiday hires since 2006 and a Valley jobs expert said 2013 could be as good or better.
The holiday displays are already up in many of the stores and Theresa Maher with Jobing.com said that's a cue for job hunters to get to work.
"This is the perfect time to get out there and start talking with employers face-to-face," she said. "A lot of the retail positions will be at Macy's, Target and other big name companies so fill out an application and introduce yourself."
Maher said the jobs won't just be in retail. Thousands of people will be coming in to enjoy our great winter weather and the resorts will be beefing up on staff.
"Companies like The Boulders, Courtyard, Scottsdale Marriott are going to looking to ramp up for the travelers coming through," she said.
Maher said Amazon will also be hiring up to deal with the rush of online shipping. She also expects FedEx and UPS to announce job openings.