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2013: Clarke concludes his career as a four-time NCAA Champion and an eight-time All-American in one of the most decorated tenures by a Sun Devil in any sport. Clarke won three Pac-12 titles during his stead, becoming the first to do so since John Godina back in the 1990s. He also finishes as the school's second-ranked indoor shot putter in history and the No. 3 outdoor shot putter. He placed second in the shot put at the NCAA Division I National Championships with a throw of 20.28 m. During the spring of 2013, Clarke recorded seven first place finishes in shot put, three first place finishes in the hammer throw, and sixteen top three finishesacross competitions.
Back to back NCAA Champion in the shot put at the 2011 and 2012 NCAA Outdoor Championships as well as the 2012 Indoor Champion in the shot put with a career best mark of 20.86m (68-05.25), a mark that set him secon on the all time indoor list... recorded marks in all five weight events (two indoor, three outdoor) that rank among the Top 10 all-time in Arizona State history... outdoors, his NCAA toss of 64-9.75 (19.75m) in the shot put earned him first place at the national meet in 2011 and ranked him fifth on ASU's career list in the event at the time until he tossed a 20.40m (66-11.25) at the 2012 NCAA Division I championships to defend his national title for the second year in the row and placed him third on ASU's all-time list... Back to back NCAA Champion in the shot put at the 2011 and 2012 NCAA Outdoor Championships as well as the 2012 Indoor Champion in the shot put with a career best mark of 20.86m (68-05.25), a mark that set him secon on the all time indoor list... recorded marks in all five weight events (two indoor, three outdoor) that rank among the Top 10 all-time in Arizona State history... outdoors, his NCAA toss of 64-9.75 (19.75m) in the shot put earned him first place at the national meet in 2011 and ranked him fifth on ASU's career list in the event at the time until he tossed a 20.40m (66-11.25) at the 2012 NCAA Division I championships to defend his national title for the second year in the row and placed him third on ASU's all-time list... 2012: Three-time NCAA shot put champion... named to the 2013 Preseason Bowerman Award Watch List, as announced by the United States Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA)... won three consecutive NCAA shot put championships with outdoor titles in 2011 and 2012 and an indoor title in 2012... won the NCAA indoor title with a career-best throw of 20.86m (68-5.25) on his final attempt, giving him not only the title but the best mark by a collegian during the collegiate season. The mark made him the ninth-best American in the event in 2012... defended his shot put crown in winning the 2012 NCAA outdoor title by more than two feet with a career-best mark of 20.40m (66-11.25)...with the victory, the Sun Devils have now won the last four NCAA outdoor shot put competitions... became just the 15th individual in NCAA history since 1921 to win back-to-back outdoor shot put titles... was also a second-team All-American in the hammer throw last year and tallied 24 points at the Pac-12 Championships for the Sun Devil men...that total ranks third all-time in ASU history at the conference meet behind only Dwight Phillips' 26 points in 1999 and 26.5 points in 2000...was honored after the competition as the Men's Athlete of the Meet for the inaugural Pac-12 Championships, scoring more points than any other competitor from any school in the competition....2011 Outdoor: Won the NCAA Division I Championships in the shot put where he throw of 64-9.75(19.75m) was a career best and the fifth best throw in Arizona State's history in the event... took first at the Pac-10 Championships in the shot put with a throw of 62-06.00 (19.05m)... qualified for the NCAA West Preliminary round in the shot put, discus and hammer throw events... threw a career best in the hammer with a mark of 203-5 (62.00m) at the 2011 UCSD Triton Invitational... there, he also recorded a career best in discuss with a throw of 185-10(56.66m)... Ranks in the ASU career top-10 in the shot put, discus and hammer throw... Finished no worse than second in any shot put final on the season...2011 Indoor: Advanced to the shot put finals at the NCAA Devision I Indoor Championships where he just missed earning All-America honors with a ninth-place finish with a career-best throw of 61-04.25 (18.76) - good for the fifth-best indoor throw in school history... placed second in shot put at the MPSF Indoor Track & Field Championships as well as fifth in the weight throw with a 59-00.75 (18.00m) throw...competed in the shot put and weight throw at the Northern Arizona Team Challenge where he placed first in shot put and second in weight throw with a 57-2.75 (17.44m) and 61-6.75 (18.76m) respectively...2010 Outdoor: Advanced to his first NCAA meet by competing in the shot put and finishing fifth overall to earn All-America honors... his mark of 63-00.25 (19.21m) was a personal best (and the eighth-best all-time at ASU) and made him one of three Sun Devils to finish in the Top 8 nationally... qualified by placing fifth in the west... Pac-10 runner-up behind only Ryan Whiting (2010 NCAA Champion)... joined Whiting and Jason Lewis (third) in a sweep of the Top 3 at the Pac-10 meet... also scored in the discus at the conference meet by finishing sixth (177-02/54.01m)... toss of 185-1 (56.41m) at the Double Dual placed him fourth in the event and moved him up to 10th on the all-time ASU list... moved into sixth on the hammer list with a toss of 199-6 (60.81m) to finish third at the Double Dual... 2010 Indoor: Missed out on the NCAA meet by one position with a season-best toss of 60-10.00 (18.54m) at the Mountain `T' Invitational... recorded a personal-best throw of 61-03.00 (18.67m) in the weight throw in each of the last two meets of the season... finished fourth at the MPSF Championships with that distance, which ranks fifth all-time in school history... 2009 Track: Redshirted... competed in the U.S. Outdoor Championships and won the junior division shot put with a toss of 20.46m (67-01.50)... took fourth in the discus at 58.30m (191-03)... also competed in the senior division of the shot put and placed 21st overall... represented the U.S. at the Pan-American Junior Championships in Trinidad and captured the silver medal in the shot put with a toss of 19.97m (65-06.25).
High School: A 2008 graduate of Bartlett High School (Anchorage, Alaska)... lettered in track & field and football four times each... twice named team captain for the football team... named the 2007 Gatorade Player of the Year for Alaska... three-time state champion in the shot put and discus... holds the state, region and school record in both throws (71-03.00 in the shot put and 204-0 in the discus)... named the Anchorage Daily News Athlete of the Year (2007, 2008)... Boy's Athlete of the Meet at the 2008 state track meet... in football, earned first-team all-state (center) in 2006 and 2007.
Personal: Major is exploratory... parents are Michael and Christine Clarke... has one brother: Matthew... born July 10, 1990, in Anchorage, Alaska... full name is Jordan Michael Clarke.
Personal Bests • Shot Put: 64-09.55 (indoor) / 63-00.25 (outdoor) • Discus: 185-10 • Hammer: 203-5 • Weight: 61-6.75
In NCAA Championship Meets
2012 OTF * Shot Put (f) * 66-11.25 * 1st
2012 ITF * Shot Put (f) * 68-5.25 * 1st
2011 OTF * Shot Put (f) * 64-9.75 * 1st
2011 ITF * Shot Put (f) * 61-6.5 * 9th
2010 OTF* Shot Put (f) * 63-00.25 * 5th
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Editor: To the many locals seeking to leave the U.S.A. in a secession/petition who are calling and writing, no it's not time to be backward or considering running away. It's not your fight, it's the Lord's. If our president was not sent by God Almighty, he would not be president of these United States of America. He's God sent!
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A couple of recent cases raise the question of how much respect a dead body should be given. The mummy of King Tut was taken from his tomb in 1922 after 3,000 years. Since then, it's been robbed, dismembered, scanned, and finally displayed to the public last year. Padre Pio was canonized by Pope John Paul II in 2002. Now, the church wants to exhume his body 40 years after his death for a display this spring. His family is prepared to sue the local bishop to prevent this action. And you are of course familiar with the corpse of Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin, still on display at the Kremlin as it has been since his death in 1924. There was a movement to remove the body from public display after the fall of the Soviet Union, but that idea never came to fruition. Tourists still visit him at the Lenin Mausoleum at Red Square in Moscow.
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Ötzi had been lying in a glacier in the Alps for 53 centuries before he was discovered in 1991. His corpse was damaged and vandalized before his age was determined. Since then, he has been studied extensively, from x-rays to DNA analysis to microscopic identification of his stomach contents. Scientists believe Ötzi was murdered, by an arrow or a blow to the head. He and his belongings have been on display at the South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology in Bolzano, Italy since 1998.
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A black teenager was found dead near the railroad tracks in Calvert, Texas in the early 1920s. The local funeral home embalmed him, or possibly overembalmed him, and placed him in a coffin with a wire screen covering. When the boy's family was located a couple of months later, they were presented with a bill for $108 for the embalming. They didn't have the money, so left the body in the hands of the funeral home. The cause of death was never determined, and his name was lost over time. The body mummified and remained in the back room of the mortuary, which changed ownership several times over the next 80 years. Local gamblers considered him to be a lucky charm, and nicknamed the mummy Mojo. In 2001, Calvert elected a new mayor, Briscoe Cain, who made it his personal mission to give Mojo a proper burial. Local businesses chipped in for expenses, and Mojo was finally buried in 2002.
3. Julia Pastrana
Julia Pastrana was born in 1834 with hypertrichosis terminalis, meaning her entire body was covered with hair several inches long. She also had a deformed mouth with huge teeth, leading one doctor of the day to declare that she was "˜a hybrid between human and orangutan'. She was exhibited by Theodor Lent, who eventually married her. At age 26, Julia gave birth in Moscow to a son who was also covered with hair, and who died within two days. Julia herself died five days later.
Her husband sold the bodies to Professor Sukolov of Moscow University, who embalmed them and began exhibiting the mummies. Lent, not one to pass up an opportunity, demanded the bodies back and put them on exhibit in England. Lent toured with the mummies or alternately rented out to other exhibitions for years. He married another woman with hypertrichosis and exhibited her as Zenora Pastrana, Julia's "sister", at times along with the mummies. After Lent's death, Zenora gave the mummies away, and ownership changed hands several times. They were almost destroyed by Nazis during World War II, but the current owner, Mr. Lund, convinced the authorities of their profitability. Lund, and then his son, took the mummies on occasional tours until 1973, when they were placed in storage in Oslo. An act of vandalism destroyed the baby's body in 1976, and Julia herself was stolen in 1979. In 1990, it was discovered that a found corpse which had been stored at the Institute of Forensic Medicine in Oslo without identification was indeed Julia Pastrana. By all accounts, she is still there.
Update: Pastrana's body was finally repatriated to Mexico in February 2013 and buried near her hometown.
4. The Cadaver Synod
The Dark Ages were a time of upheaval and political struggles within the Roman Catholic church. The pope known as Formosus made plenty of enemies before he ascended to the papacy in 891 AD. After his death in 896, he was succeeded by Boniface VI, then by Stephen VI. In January of 897, Pope Stephen VI (also known as Stephen VII) had the body of Formosus exhumed and ordered to stand trial for various church crimes. Formosus' corpse, which had spent the previous seven months interred in St. Peter's Basilica, was dressed in papal vestments and propped into a chair to attend the proceedings. A teenage deacon was assigned to stand behind the corpse and speak for him.
The trial was completely dominated by Stephen VII, who overawed the assemblage with his frenzied tirades. While the frightened clergy silently watched in horror, Stephen VII screamed and raved, hurling insults at and mocking the rotting corpse. Occasionally, when the furious torrent of execrations and maledictions would die down momentarily, the deacon would stammer out a few words weakly denying the charges. When the grotesque farce concluded, Formosus was convicted on all counts by the court.
As part of the sentence, the corpse was stripped and buried in a common grave. Within a few days it was dug up again and thrown into the Tiber River, where it was retreived and hidden by a monk. The "Cadaver Synod", as it came to be known, led to the downfall of Stephen VI. In November of the same year, Pope Theodore II ordered the body of Formosus reburied at St. Peters with normal papal honors.
5. Khambo Lama Itigilov
Dashi-Dorzho Itigilov was the Pandido Khambo Lama, leader of all Russian Buddhists of the Tibetan tradition from 1911 til his death in 1927. He was interred sitting in the Lotus postion as he requested. Itigilov had predicted that his body was "incorruptable" and stipulated that his corpse be exhumed and examined years after his death. Buddhist monks monitored the corpse over the years, noting that the body, which had not been embalmed, did not decay. In 2002, he was officially disinterred and examined by monks and scientists. Some devotees claim that Itigilov is not dead, but in a state of nirvana. Scientists attribute his condition to an excessive amount of bromine in the tissue. Since 2005, Itigilov's body has been in a glass case at the Buddist monastery Ivolginsky Datsan in Siberia. He is shown to the public on seven Buddhist holidays every year.
6. Jeremy Bentham
Jeremy Bentham was an English philosopher and social reformer who died in 1832 at age 84. His will stated that his body should be preserved and dressed and seated in a wooden box, so that his disciples and friends could meet around it. This display box is called the Auto-Icon. The preservation process went "disastrously wrong" and the head was replaced with a wax facsimile. The Auto-Icon is housed at the University College London since 1850. When this picture was taken, Bentham's real head was displayed on the floor between his feet. After several incidences of theft, Bentham's original head is now stored elsewhere.
Further reading: 6 More Restless Corpses and 6 Restless Corpses: Heads of State Edition


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I first became familiar with Sour Punch Straws during my freshman year of college. My roommate was intent on searching them down and hoarding them for special care packages she'd send to her friends at home. It was during this time that I tasted them for the first time and now whenever I have them, I am overcome with an extreme sense of nostalgia.
The packaging is very approachable with bright colors and puckering smiley faces on them. It feels very comical to me, as the expressions are of pleasure yet there's electric bolts shooting from their mouths. It makes me very optimistic about the sourness of the straws, to say the least.
Sour Punch Straws come in many flavors, but I figured the tastiest one to start with would be the Strikin' Strawberry flavor. They come nicely packed in a tray that pulls out easily from the wrapper. The straws are long, about 6 inches and about 1/4 inch diameter, and are very brightly colored with a sanding of granular sugar. The smell of the straws is tart and fake, and reminds me more of "cherry" then "strawberry"
The sandy sugar coating is the sour part, but I wouldn't call it "punchy". Instead, it's a nice "sassy" sour, noticeable and certainly the starring trait of this candy, but not anything over the top. The chew is dense as I'm reminded of a good red licorice stick. As for the strawberry flavor, it's not really. It tastes more "red" than anything, with strong artificial flavor and little indication of any specific fruit.
I like how these are flavorful yet don't burn my mouth out like really intense sour candy tends to. My interest is piqued and I'm eager to check out the other Sour Punch Straw flavor offerings.
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Puerto de la Cruz was formed by volcanic activity making for a unique landscape. It has become a thriving center of tourism in north Tenerife in the Orotava Valley. There is something for everyone. Nature lovers can visit the La Orotava Botanical Garden with its exotic variety of plants including the fragrant plumerias and interesting fig palms. There is a popular complex of salt water swimming pools called Lago Martiánez which was designed by the famous architect César Manrique. At Loro Parque, or Parrot Park, you can find 200 different species of colorful parrots.
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Cinderella got her prom dress for free, and when you get your teens to read this post they will, too.
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The Utah Cinderella Prom Boutique is a volunteer project by Young Lawyers Division of Utah State Bar, which travels to different high schools to provide young women in the Salt Lake Valley with new or gently used prom dresses, shoes and accessories for proms. And it's not just cheap looks, says Kate Conyers, chair of the Boutique project.
"We are trying to do more than just finding them dresses. We want to find 'perfect' dresses for them, and the complete outfit for prom—even if they are financially unable to buy them," she says.
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At 7 a.m. yesterday, a line of about 60 girls excited to find their "perfect" dresses formed at Copper Hills High School. And to complete the look, there was also a hairstylist visiting to give free tips about makeup and hair.
So what's hot this prom season? "Blue and light blue dresses with puffy, sequenced bottoms are really popular," Conyers says. "They are always the first ones to go."
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She recommended simple chains, accessories and shoes to match the complicated look of the dress. With the sponsors—Henries Dry Cleaners, Dress Barn and Zions Bancorporation—the boutique showed their goal and passion for finding the one for the girls, by sharing this one story.
"Last year, there was a girl who didn't want to go to prom because she couldn't find a dress she liked," Conyers says. "We talked to Henries Dry Cleaners, and they delivered this one dress specifically for her, and she didn't like it at first when she looked at it. But we convinced her to try it on, and 10 to 15 minutes after she went in to try it on, she came out crying in the dress. She said she wanted to sleep in the dress every night until the prom, and she went to the prom in that blue dress."
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The Cinderella Project is self-sustaining by donations of the sponsors and people. After the prom, what was worn will be returned, dry cleaned and used for the next high school. It is in the process of hooking up with men's outfit as well. This is the third year since the project has started, and the boutique is planning on hitting up three high schools for this year's prom. It has already expanded, compared to last year's trips to two high schools, and the Utah State Bar wants to expand it as a state-wide project.
"It will be easy to expand our project because many people have a prom dress sitting in their closet because they won't wear it anymore but don't want to take it to Deseret Industry either," Conyers says. "They can donate it to us."
Any students can attend the events, but if it is not the high school of your attendance, make sure to give them heads up. Contact Kate Conyers at firstname.lastname@example.com or visit their website.


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As summer is coming to a close, so is the 35th season of the Brown Bag Concert Series, an award-winning program sponsored by the Salt Lake City Arts Council that showcases local talent with no cost to the audience. Although it is the final week of the series, there is still an exciting lineup of familiar and unfamiliar music from some of the most diverse bands in Utah. Concerts run from 12:15 to 1 p.m. each day and this week will be held at the Exchange Place Plaza on 350 S. Main Street.
If you missed rock artist Red Bennies on Monday, you can make up for it on Tuesday with an energetic fusion of jazz and R&B by The Soulistics'. Wednesday promises new music from the accomplished jazz saxophonist and woodwind player John Flanders, closely followed that same day by the progressive rock trio, Bias Sphere. The Salt Lake Electric Ensemble will be featured on Thursday, exploring the minimalist school of Western classical music. Last, but certainly not least, on Friday celebrate the end of the season with a taste of New Orleans jazz provided by Utah's own Great Basin Band.
This is your last chance of the year to spend your lunch time listening to familiar favorites or exposing yourself to some exciting new sounds! And if the words "free" and "music" are not enough of an incentive, remember that there are also daily drawings for free lunches at participating area restaurants including Bambara, The Bayou, Deseret Edge Brewery and Vertical Diner. Just make sure you stick around for a couple minutes after the performances for the drawings, since ticket-holders must be present to win. Happy listening!


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It's official! I will be speaking on Bayes' Theorem and Proving History in London this November 16 (Friday, 2012) and in Oxford the day before (Thursday the 15th). Although the latter may be restricted to students and faculty, the former is open to the general public. That event is sponsored by the British Humanist Association and CFI London (details here). You must buy a ticket to attend, and you might want to do that well in advance, just in case (see the previous link).
That will be at the Stamford Street Lecture Theatre in the Franklin Wilkins Building of the Waterloo Campus at King's College London (127 Stamford Street, London SE1 9NQ). Nearest tube station is Waterloo.
The talk will be "Bayes' Theorem and Historical Reasoning: How Historical Methods Can Be Improved and Why They Need to Be," starting in London at 7:30pm (you'll want to arrive earlier) and going until late, with Q&A. I will probably not be able to sell any books (doing sales overseas without a local vendor is complicated), but if you bring any you've already bought I'll sign them. And you can always scare up interest by ordering Proving History from a nearby bookstore a few weeks in advance (if they get a bunch of those orders they might wonder what's going on and that might be fun), rather than just going through Amazon UK (although that's always easier). I've suggested to the sponsors that they might procure some stock to sell at the event, but I am assuming logistics will prevent that.
At Oxford the day before I will be discussing the same subject as the guest speaker for the traditional Doug's Lunch at Balliol College. I have no further details than what appears on their calendar (and that will be fleshed out more I expect as the date nears). Generally, if you're at Oxford, you know what that is and how to get in (or how to find out). If not, assume you can't. It's mainly for students and faculty.


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2012 Warehouse/DC Operations Survey: Mixed signals
"That's a predominant statistic," says Norm Saenz, senior vice president and principal of TranSystems, a supply chain consulting firm and our partner for this survey. "It supports how tough economic times have controlled spending to less than $250,000 for a majority of respondents. That's only good for minor improvements to operations, such as racking or the purchase of a lift truck, versus opening a new facility or implementing new technologies."
However, Don Derewecki, senior management consultant also from TranSystems, prefers to focus on the other end of the spectrum: those 17% of respondents who are spending $1 million or more this year, and another 16% planning to spend that same amount next year.
"That's for significant projects—an indicator that companies are doing more than just replacing worn out equipment," says Derewecki. "These stronger companies have diligent managers who have probably been continuously shaving points off their operating costs over the past few years. By now all the low hanging fruit is gone, so they're starting to get more aggressive and finally looking to squeeze the trigger on investments in mechanization and automation."
Over the next few pages, we'll dig into the high-level findings of the 2012 Warehouse and Distribution Center (DC) Operations Survey to share more detail on how the warehousing and distribution landscape has changed over the past year. This year we've updated portions of the survey to capture emerging trends while continuing to track the critical measures of warehousing activities we've charted over the past six years. Let's see how your operations compare to what your peers are doing inside the four walls.
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12 in 2012 Challenge
So here is the 12 in 2012 AAR Reading Challenge.
Your Goal:
To read 12 new-to-you romance-related books in 2012
The Challenge:
To select your 12 books from among the following categories. There are 9 sets of challenges plus 3 variations. You may choose to participate in any number of them, from just one to all 12. Or if you have a lot of books which fit a particular challenge you may do more than one round.
The Calendar Challenge:
There are 12 months in the year. For this challenge read one book published in each calendar month. You may go by the original copyright/publish date, the reissue date, or date first published digitally (for backlist titles new to digital).
Or for a Variation,
The New Release Calendar Challenge
Read 12 new books published in 2012, one for each month. Going by the copyright date, most print published books in the last week of the month are considered the next months releases, but you could use either the copyright date or actual release/street date. Books for this variation should be new releases for 2012 only.
The Jury Challenge:
There are 12 members of a jury. For this challenge read
4 books which are AAR contest winners (Top 100 Poll, Annual favorites, etc)
4 books which have won/received honorable mention at Cover Café
4 books which have won or been nominated for a RITA Award
The Clock Challenge:
There are 12 hours on the clock. For this challenge read
4 Contemporary books
4 Historical books
4 Futuristic or Time-Travel books
Or for a variation,
2 books set in the 5th 16th centuries (401-1600).
2 books set in the 17th century (1601-1700)
2 books set in the 18th century (1701-1800)
2 books set in the 19th century (1801-1900)
2 books set in the 20th century (1901-2000)
2 books set in the 21st century (2001-2100)
The Counterclockwise Challenge:
Read 12 books from an authors backlist.
The High Noon Challenge:
Read 12 books by new-to-you authors.
The Midnight Challenge:
Late to a series? Heres the excuse to finally tackle it. For this challenge read 12 books in the same series. It can be a single author series (ie JD Robbs In Death series, Debbie Macombers Cedar Cove series, Robyn Carrs Virgin River series), a multi-author series (ie Harlequin Crystal Creek, Silhouette 36 Hours) or even a series of loosely connected books (ie Karen Roses
Dont Tell
You Belong to Me
, Cindy Gerards 6 Bodyguards books + 6 of the spin-off BOIs series). The challenge here is that, as much as it seems like every book nowadays is part of a series, it can be a difficult to find a series with 12 books in it.
The Duodenary Category Romance Challenge:
Read one book each from 12 of the following category romance lines:
Candlelight Ecstasy Romance
Candlelight Ecstasy Supreme
Candlelight Romance
Harlequin American Romance
Harlequin/Mills & Boon Blaze
Harlequin/Mills & Boon Historical
Harlequin/Mills & Boon Intrigue
Harlequin Kimani Romance
Harlequin Love and Laughter
Harlequin/Mills & Boon Medical
Harlequin Next
Harlequin Presents
Harlequin Romance
Harlequin Romantic Suspense
Harlequin/Mills & Boon Superromance
Harlequin Special Edition
Harlequin Temptation
Jove Second Chance at Love
Jove To Have and To Hold
Mills & Boon Cherish
Mills & Boon Modern
Mills & Boon Riva
Silhouette Bombshell
Silhouette/Harlequin/Mills & Boon Desire
Silhouette Intimate Moments
Silhouette/Harlequin/Mills & Boon Nocturne
Silhouette/Harlequin Romantic Suspense
Silhouette Shadows
Silhouette/Harlequin/Mills & Boon Special Edition
Silhouette Yours Truly
Zebra Bouquet
I may have left some imprints out. There are also multiple limited series (Harlequin Code Red, Harlequin Crystal Creek, Harlequin Delta Justice, Silhouette Fortunes Children, Silhouette Family Secrets, Silhouette Lone Star Country Club, Silhouette Montana Mavericks, etc.) which you could choose from for this challenge or The Midnight Challenge above.
Or for a variation,
read 12 books from the same category romance line.
A Dime a Dozen Challenge:
Lots of things are sold by the dozen: eggs, donuts, cans of soda, roses, etc. For this challenge read 2 books each from any 6 of the following categories:
Romantic Comedy
Romantic Suspense
Time Travel
Urban Fantasy
Young Adult
The Twelve Days of Christmas Challenge:
Read one book in each of these categories
Day 1.) A book with the word First, Partridge, Pear, or Tree in the title or on the cover. Or a book featuring a multi-generational family or where the hero/heroine is a gardener or landscape designer.
Day 2.) A book with the word Second, Two, Turtle or Dove in the title. Or a book with a beta hero.
Day 3.) A book with the word Third, Three, French or Hens in the title. Or a book set in France or featuring a character who is French or speaks French.
Day 4.) A book with the word Fourth, Four, Colly or Birds in the title or a blackbird on the cover. Or since many people sing the song as Calling Birds a book where the hero/heroine has a job considered a calling (military, medical field, social work, etc.) or where one of the characters works in a call center.
Day 5.) A book with Fifth, Five, Gold or Rings in the title. Or a book where one of the characters works in the wedding industry or is an Olympic athlete.
Day 6.) A book with the word Sixth, Six, Geese or Laying in the title. Or a book featuring a pregnant heroine.
Day 7.) A book with the word Seventh, Seven, Swan, Swans, Swim or Swimming in the title. Or a book where the hero/heroine undergoes a makeover or where one of the characters is a lifeguard
Day 8.) A book with the word Eighth, Eight, Maid, Maids or Milking in the title. Or a book where the heroine works as a maid or a character works in the dairy industry or owns a farm or a book where the heroine is considered to be an old maid by other characters.
Day 9.) A book with the word Ninth, Nine, Lady, Ladies or Dancing in the title. Or a book where the heroine is a dancer or where the heroine is a member of the aristocracy addressed as Lady.
Day 10.) A book with the word Tenth, Ten, Lord, Lords or Leaping in the title. Or a book where the hero is a Marquis, Earl, or Viscount and thus addressed as Lord.
Day 11.) A book with the word Eleventh, Eleven, Pipers or Piping in the title. Or a book where a character works in a bakery or in the plumbing or fashion industries.
Day 12.) A book with the word Twelfth, Twelve, Drum or Drums in the title. Or a book where one of the characters is in a band or works in the advertising industry.
If you are stuck on a day, you may also use a book with the word Day, Christmas, True, Love, Gave or Me in the title, but try to limit yourself to only one such substitution.
Remember, the challenge is for fun and to help get books out of your TBR pile and either onto your keeper shelf or off to a UBS to find a new home. The challenge is open to everyone. You may read print or digital books or listen to audio books. Good luck and happy reading!
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Susanna Kearsley
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Location: Canada
Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2012 10:50 am
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Right, I'm in.
I'm picking up the gauntlet of
The Jury Challenge
, using only category/series books. Let's see if I can finish before December, this time...
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Maggie AAR
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Posts: 2740
Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2012 6:37 pm
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I've been doing a lot of newer books for reviewing, so I may just have to do
The New Release Calendar Challenge.
I will also try to do
The Midnight Challenge
with the Hollows books by Kim Harrison. If you count short story anthologies (which I do) there are fourteen books in the series. Hope I get to them all.
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She is too fond of books and it has turned her brain. - Louisa May Alcott
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Okay, I'm seriously intrigued by the Twelve Days of Christmas Challenge. I think I'll try to give that one a try.
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I will go for the Dime a Dozen Challenge.
I started the year off yesterday with a Paranormal: Viper Moon by Lee Roland. The world is quite interesting and there was also some humor. It is at the border of enough humor to recommend for people looking for humor, but the overall story is totally serious.
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Loved the
Twelve Days of Christmas challenge
! I will go for it! Also might try the
High Noon challenge
(several new-to-me authors on my TBR).
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Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2012 12:11 pm
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I plan on doing the second variation of the Clock Challenge!
Will be lots of fun!
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Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2012 11:13 pm
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A Dime a Dozen:
2 Paranormal Books:
Spirit Bound
by Christine Feehan:
After a slow start, I enjoyed this book. Feehans OTT alpha heroes work for me because her heroines are also strong and not doormats. There are some timeline issues vs the Drake books <spoiler>
Only a year + a few weeks have supposedly passed in book time since
Magic in the Wind
, yet its mentioned that the trouble Frank was in with the Russian mob for which he was arrested and went to prison for was a few years ago, even though it happened in
Oceans of Fire
. And I dont understand how Blythes mother could have been dead for five years when she was alive in
Safe Harbor
But those arent really a reflection of the romance in this book, which I thought worked well.
Beyond the Shadows
by Jess Granger:
I liked the romance between the h/h of this book. I expected the h/h of the first book to have more than a mere mention though. Political machinations played a bigger role in the plot than I would have liked, but for the most part work. Its a shame the author wont be writing future books in her Realms Beyond series because the world building was interesting.
A Dime a Dozen Challenge: 2 down 10 to go
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Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2012 4:28 pm
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The Twelve Days of Christmas Challenge
Day 5.)
A book with Fifth, Five, Gold or Rings in the title. Or a book where one of the
characters works in the wedding industry
or is an Olympic athlete
Savor the Moment
by Nora Roberts
I read the previous two books in The Bride Quartet series for the 2011 Reading Challenges, so when I saw that there was a category related to the wedding industry in this year's challenge, I immediately thought it was time to take the 3rd book in the series out of my TBR. And against my expectations, I liked this book better then the other two. Humorous dialogue, likable h/h, and the amount of scenes spent on preparing or running wedding ceremonies was not as excessive as in the 2nd book (although I got a little bit tired of it after some time). The one thing I did not like (minor spoilers):
after every book, the heros end up moving in with the heroines, who all live in the property where they run their wedding business. Does it really make sense for a set of newly formed couples to start their lives together basically under the same roof? One of the heros (from the 2nd book) is an architect, and had great pride on his house. Would he really give it up to leave with the heroine in a guest house? Couldn't she drive to work everyday? I understand that it shows how the four friends are close to each other, and how the heros love them enough to sacrifice for them, but I thought it a bit of a stretch. I would prefer some independency, even if I really, really loved my friends.
But, overall, I thought that Savor the Moment was a good start for this year's challenge.
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The High Noon Challenge:
Read 12 books by new-to-you authors.
I should be able to do this one.
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Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2012 11:42 pm
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Since I'm always looking for ways to reduce my TBR, I think I'll take either the Calendar Challenge or the Dime a Dozen Challenge. The other challenges would probably increase my TBR instead of reduce it.
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Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2012 1:07 am
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I read a second Paranormal last week to finish that subset:
Steam & Sorcery by Cindy Spencer Pape (paranormal steampunk). The world is an interesting mix of alternate historical science and magic. There was a bit of humor, but not enough to recommend the book for humor.
I started the Urban Fantasy subset on Saturday:
Second Grave on the Left by Darynda Jones. This is the second book in a new series with the not-so-grim reaper as the protagonist. There is enough humor to recommend (3.5 stars on my 5-star scale).
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Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2012 2:14 am
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The New Release Calendar Challenge:
Copper Beach
by Jayne Ann Krentz:
This is the first book in her new Dark Legacy series. While not an Arcane book, it is still set firmly in paranormal-land. The heroines family issues reminded me of her earlier, non-paranormal books. While theres nothing really new in this book, I still enjoyed it. Sam and Abby made a fun couple. Ive long considered JAK a comfort read. So while her books can be predictable on one level, I do not find them boring. She has the ability to suck you into her written world and Im often sad to leave her characters behind, which is why she is still an autobuy author for me. Im looking forward to more books about the Coppersmith family.
A Dime a Dozen Challenge: 2 down 10 to go
The New Release Calendar Challenge: 1 down 11 to go
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Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2012 11:24 pm
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The Twelve Days of Christmas Challenge
Day 9.)
A book with the word
Ninth, Nine,
, Ladies or Dancing in the title
Lady Sophia's Lover
by Lisa Kleypas
This is the 2nd book on Kleypas's Bow Street Runners trilogy. Lady Sophia Sidney's goal is to get revenge from Sir Ross Cannon, who she believes to be responsible for her brother's death.
I liked the characters very much, specially Sir Ross. He was sort of a beta hero, very compassionate and able to forgive Sophia's mistakes. The plot was somewhat predictable, so I did not love the book, but found it enjoyable.
Here is the AAR review:
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Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2012 1:26 pm
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The Twelve Days of Christmas Challenge
Day 10.) A book with the word
Tenth, Ten,
, Lords or Leaping in the title
The Many Sins of Lord Cameron
by Jennifer Ashley
This is the 3rd book on Jennifer Ashley's Highland Pleasures series, about the MacKenzie brothers. On a review here on AAR, Jean Wan gave this book a C- (
). I liked it much better than her, and would give it a B-. I have to agree with some of the flaws Jean Wan describes in her review (particular the "Instant Lust Syndrome"), but the author was actually able to make me care about Lord Cameron Mackenzie and Ainsley Douglas, and I loved the way Ainsley, with her practical view of life and her unbreakable persistence, ended up being the right woman for Cameron.
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Three top-ranking British soloists, including Mark Padmore, who has already been acclaimed at La Monnaie for his rendering of Schumann's Heine-Lieder, give pride of place to Benjamin Britten on the occasion of the centenary of his birth, with a recital which reflects the many facets of his vocal music. The admiration Britten felt for Purcell is obvious in his arrangements of the composer's work, particularly the superb arias for counter-tenor. Composed between 1947 and 1974, Britten's five Canticles are not really a cycle, yet have echoes of the same sacred intensity, whether inspired by the bible or poetry. Closer to miniature drama than to hymn, they bear witness to a stripped back, musical subtlety where the tenor voice is central. Like a silversmith of the English language, Britten polishes, melodically and rhythmically, the songs and sayings of the Romantic poet, William Blake, for baritone voice. An evening that promises to be a captivating journey through an interesting repertoire.
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In En Atendant and Cesena you are working for the first time with music earlier than Monteverdi, before the classical harmony begins to emerge. Where does the interest in Ars subtilior, this peculiarly complex musical style from the end of the 14th century, come from?
C'est un rendez-vous qui a été retardé… but that feels like home-coming. A desire I had for a long time, and postponed it because I was uncomfortable about staging sacred music –– I wasn't aware of how intertwined the sacred and secular music were then. And the choice of Ars subtilior is linked with the invitation of the Avignon theater festival to make a piece for la Cour d'Honneur: this music evokes the history of the city of Avignon and the Papal Schism. Listening to various recordings, I rediscovered my fascination for refined contrapuntal textures, the aim of which is to unfold natural breath and emotional flow, as well as for the vocal expression I have been developping since Keeping Still, my first collaboration with Ann Veronica Janssens and which continued in 3Abschied, based on Mahler's Lied von der Erde, with Jérôme Bel.
Both performances involve musicians on stage; En Atendant includes flutes and fiddle, apart from voice, and Cesena mingles singers from the ensemble graindelavoix with Rosas dancers a cappella. The first performance in Avignon was performed in dusk, while the latter in dawn. In what ways do the two performances complement each other?
Ann Veronica suggested that we should once make a performance using only daylight, rising up and down. For this music to be heard amidst the noises of the Avignon festival, dusk was a rare moment of silence. So, before making Cesena, where we go from darkness to light––you could also say, from the Middle Ages to Renaissance, or the dawn of a new era––I wanted to do the reverse in a simpler exercise, going from light to dark. For the challenge of making music while dancing to it at the same time in Cesena, I first had to focus on the choreographic writing that stays close to this specific music. I wanted to study Ars subtilior and develop precise compositional tools for it. For this reason, I staged music apart from choreography in En Atendant.
The relationship between the music and the dance here you refer to through the principle "my walking is my dancing" which is already present in Fase and in your choreography to Bartók's Quartet no.4 in Bartók/Aantekeningen.
"My walking is my dancing" here means that the movement mainly consists of walking where, in relation to the music, each note equals one step. My aim was to have dancers learn the music so intricately that they could know every note of it by heart because they would walk to it. In En Atendant we recorded three parts comprising the counterpoint of this music––cantus, countertenor and tenor–– separately, so that dancers could be divided accordingly, one or more "walking" one musical line. For example, solo dancers take up the sophisticated rhythmic articulation of the cantus, while several dancers underline the tenor, because it is slower and heavier. In this way, movement spatializes time.
Apart from "my walking is my dancing" which engages the lower body, how did you generate other movements?
The principle that complements walking I call "my talking is my dancing," which guides the movements of the upper body. In the last decade, I have been working on the polarity in the choreographic organization of space and time, relating to the unity of opening and closing, construction and deconstruction like in the taoistic concepts yin and yang, or the division in complementary opposition. These principles operate on the architecture of the moving body through the so-called magic square, a volume comprised of nine points in space, corresponding to different stages of energetic change. The nine points form a spiralling path for the body, a sequence for the body as moving architecture including the whole body or only arms, hands or head. Each dancer composed his/her "walking-talking" phrase on the basis of the architectural trajectory I gave them. The phrase could then be manipulated contrapuntally, performed retrograde etc.
A sculpting quality of the clusters of bodies is striking when dancers cross the stage laterally, a texture of highly refined choreographic counterpoint which we haven't seen before in your work.
Indeed, these volatile moving sculptures result from the contrapuntal and architectural construction, from "smashing" the space between the dancers, so that the various autonomous choreographic trajectories are condensed into a reduced volume, and bodies have to touch, give resistance and support to each other. But all contact is just a consequence of counterpoint, lines that intersect in space and time. These lines are articulated with the musical score.
The counterpoint in Cesena rises to another level: it involves singing and dancing.
Cesena brought an entirely new set-up, a fusion of dancers and singers who could both dance and sing. So, I asked myself how this would be possible at all, that a body contrapuntally divides between the voice and the bodily movement following two different musical parts. For example, a dancer may dance the tenor line which is slower and more simple, and at the same time sing the cantus line which is more elaborated and in higher register. Singing and dancing complement each other in one body.
Cesena is larger-scale and more opulent in differences than En Atendant. How are the two works composed in their macrostructure?
I constructed En Atendant according to a time-line, where the song that bears the title of the performance lies in the center, the point of the Golden Section division of the overall duration. With the exception of the composition for the flute by the Hungarian Istvan Matuz performed by Michael Schmid––a veritable prologue that introduces the idea of infinite waiting, suspending time, stretching it in ever into higher and higher tones while keeping the low tone by the mechanics of pure breath––all other music is derived from or related to the song En Atendant by Filippo da Caserta. In this period, the art of composition included citations and paraphrases, the same melodies or texts migrated between different composers and pieces of sacred and secular, vocal and instrumental music alike. The centrality of En Atendant is matched by a unified movement vocabulary, a phrase composed and performed at the beginning by Chrysa Parkinson and later used in choreographing all dances to music. In Cesena, I collaborated with Björn Schmelzer, musicologist and leader of the ensemble graindelavoix dedicated to early music. Björn conceived the whole musical and dramaturgical trajectory by choosing music mainly from the Chantilly Codex, one of the manuscripts of Ars subtilior, which traces the history of the Papal Schism, and the return of the last French pope Gregory XI to Rome that ended the Avignon Papacy. The first song Pictagore per dogmata speaks about how the Pope wants to come back to Avignon. The same song superposes two more texts, O Terra supplica and Rosa vernans, reflecting on the rose as the image of the papal court, or the stellar constellations in which it is written that the Pope should return to Avignon. The songs in Cesena are more complex, and although they are all mainly secular, they sound more mystical than the music of En Atendant. In contrast to the unity of En Atendant, in Cesena each song or silent dance scene is composed in its own right, according to another principle and using different vocabulary.
Apart from abstract compositional structures, images and gestures with narrative meaning emerge in En Atendant.
We were reading the famous history book A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century by the American historian Barbara Tuchman which narrates the main political, religious and climate events known as the crisis of the Late Middle Ages suffered by Europe in the 14th century: the Hundred Years' War, the Black Plague, the Papal Schism etc. Some stories from Tuchman's book inspired us with gestures and images, for instance, how plague arrived to Europe with a ship from India, the image of soldiers having black stigmata under their arms etc. None of these images is important to read, it is more the emotional load or physical tension that they bring into the composition.
Speaking of images and visibility, what does the difference between fading into darkness and rising from darkness to light make?
One would expect large movements as only contours would be visible in obscurity. However, the most sophisticated counterpoint in choreographic structure in Cesena occurs in almost complete darkness. Sometimes, it is in the working process that decisions impose themselves whose meaning you discover only later.
So in Cesena you chose to conceal the beautiful intricacies of movement at the beginning, which the audience can hear better than it can see it.
When we perform Cesena in theaters, the light is placed in the front, separating the auditorium from stage and allowing for the depth of perspective. The more dancers approach the audience, the more detail is revealed. In the performances in Avignon and everytime we perform these pieces in open air, the audience and the performers share the same natural condition of darkness and light, which means that they know that the sun will rise, or set into dusk. To open Cesena in complete darkness means that we ask from the audience to enter mystery, to go out of this world for a while. One could say that both En Atendant and Cesena double mirror each other through the concepts of what appears in the darkness and what disappears in the light.
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With acts like Disclosure, Rudimental, and AlunaGeorge taking the scene by storm, the resurgence of dance music into the mainstream is becoming a very real thing. The cool part is that this "dance" music is taking a variety of forms and drawing from a variety of places, including drum-and-bass, soulful house, and electronic music, to name a few.
Drums of Death's "True" track featuring Yasmin falls more into the realm of soulful house, but yet still has sort of a modern edge. Loving the simplicity of the black and white visuals – so fun and carefree!


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he Doors emerged amid the turbulence of the late Sixties with music that was as intense and complex as the times that spawned them. They derived their name from references to "the doors of perception" in works by William Blake and Aldous Huxley. The group's dark, brooding personality came largely from singer Jim Morrison. Musically, the other members of the Doors - keyboardist Ray Manzarek, guitarist Robby Krieger and drummer Jon Densmore - combined classical rigor with freewheeling, jazzy improvisations, providing Morrison a platform from which to declaim his poetical lyrics in a portentous baritone. The source of Morrison's intensity was addressed in an early interview: "It's the feeling of a bowstring being pulled back for twenty-two years and suddenly let go." When they weren't performing original songs about sex, death and the unknown, the Doors would occasionally transform old blues numbers, such as Willie Dixon's "Back Door Man" and John Lee Hooker's "Crawling King Snake."
The Doors formed in the summer of 1965 around Morrison and Manzarek, who'd met at UCLA's film school. A year later the group signed with Elektra Records, recording six landmark studio LPs and a live album for the label. They achieved popular success and critical acclaim for their 1967 debut, The Doors (which included their eleven-minute epic "The End" and "Light My Fire," a Number One hit at the height of the Summer of Love), and all the other albums that followed. As the Doors' career wore on, however, Morrison's problems with drugs and alcohol resulted in increasingly unpredictable behavior, culminating in an alleged incident of exposure onstage at a March 1969 concert in Miami. The Doors rebounded from this adversity with one of their finest albums, L.A. Woman, which contained the Top Forty hits "Love Her Madly" and "Riders On the Storm." After its release, Morrison took a leave of absence from the Doors and moved to Paris, where he died of a heart attack on July 3, 1971.
The exhibit features a Ray Manzarek keyboard and Robby Krieger guitar along with numerous items relating to Jim Morrison, including the hospital bill from his birth.