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J'Leon Love is Officially Locked in For ShoBox Co-feature
NEW YORK - A 10-round middleweight fight between undefeated J'Leon Love (12-0, 7 KO's) of Las Vegas and Chicago's Ramon Valenzuela (7-1, 1 KO) will open the telecast this Saturday, Sept. 8, on SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING live on SHOWTIME® (9 p.m. ET/PT, delayed on the West Coast) from Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, Nev.
The fight, originally scheduled for SHOWTIME EXTREME, will precede the 12-round main event between unbeaten Nigerian Olusegun Ajose (30-0, 14 KO's) and hard-hitting Argentine Lucas Matthysse (31-2, 29 KO's) for the vacant WBC Interim Super Lightweight World Championship.
The promising six-feet-tall, 24-year-old Love will be making his fourth start this year after fighting four times in 2011 and five times in 2010. In his last fight, Love, who is promoted by Mayweather Promotions, registered two knockdowns en route to a shutout eight-round decision win over Joseph De Los Santos on July 14 in Las Vegas.
Valenzuela, a five-foot-eight, 21-year-old, will be looking to rebound. The winner in his initial seven bouts, Valenzuela was upset by Donatos Bondoravas in his most recent outing on May 25.
Love, who trains out of the Mayweather Boxing Club in Las Vegas, is an up-and-coming prospect with good skills, movement and punching power. Before turning professional on Jan. 29, 2010, he was an outstanding amateur, winning the 2007 Golden Gloves championship at 165 pounds.
"We're working extremely hard," Love said. "We know we have a tough and game opponent. We don't take anybody lightly. I know the guy's coming off of a loss recently, which makes him even hungrier to get back in the game and get a victory, so I know he's coming to fight. I know he has a lot to prove right now, but I'm not the one to make a statement against.
"I'm definitely working my butt off and doing exactly what I'm supposed to do," continued Love. "We're looking to get that victory. We're two young fighters with a lot of skills, and we're going to put it on the line and get it done. It's going to be a good fight."
"This is a wonderful opportunity for J'Leon and he will definitely take advantage of the opportunity to showcase his skills on Saturday night," said Leonard Ellerbe, CEO of Mayweather Promotions. "We're really excited and looking forward to him going out there to take care of business against Valenzuela."
Nicknamed "El Dragon" because he likes the animated series, "Dragon Ball Z," the aggressive-minded Valenzuela didn't spend time moping after his last fight.
"I took a week off," said Valenzuela, who trains at Garfield Park Gym in Chicago. "I got back in the gym right away. I spar with different people - a lot of local guys, whoever. I'm a brawler-boxer. I'm prepared and ready to fight."
The live undercard fights being covered by SHOWTIME EXTREME (7 p.m. ET/PT) are Daquan Arnett (6-0, 4 KO's) of Orlando, Fla. facing Jesus Tavera (3-2, 1 KO), of Mexico City, Mex., in a six-round junior middleweight scrap and Ishe Smith (23-5, 11 KO's) of Las Vegas squaring off against Puerto Rico's Irving Garcia (17-7-3, 8 KO's) in a 10-round junior middleweight matchup.
Rounding out the non-televised fights will be a six round junior featherweight fight between Melinda Cooper (21-2, 11 KO's) of Las Vegas and Celine Salazar (4-0-2, 1 KO) of San Antonio, Tex. and a six round lightweight fight between Zapopan, Mexico's Oscar "El Raton" Cortes (21-0, 11 KO's) and San Angelo, Texas' Miguel Buendia (8-1-1, 5 KO's).
one of my favorite up and coming fighters, I will be watching!Comment by 3piececombo on 09-05-2012
Love is a beast. Five more fights and he will be ready for the big dance with anyone between 154 and 160. Hard work, dedication, prayers, and belief! When guys like Love and Lara and others keep winning, it puts…Comment by EveryDayDrew on 09-05-2012
Expecting good things from Love...Comment by jayjames616 on 09-05-2012
This is good news for Love. He will get his shot in the spotlight on the 8th and I hope the Michigan product puts on a show.Comment by ddangerous on 09-05-2012
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Division of Science, Technology and Innovation (NYSTAR)
New York State High Performance Computing Program
About THE NYS HPC Program
The High Performance Computing (HPC) Program is a multi-faceted program that ties the use of high performance computing time along with the computational expertise. It is the Division's goal that by seamlessly integrating our best tools with our best researchers, New York will provide valuable assistance to researchers and product developers. The technologies of today no longer confine a researcher to a geographic region. Information flows freely and openly tying together people and their ideas like never before allowing all parts of New York to participate in the innovation economy.
This is an incredible opportunity for researchers and product developers to work together to create innovative products and solutions to gain a competitive advantage in the global marketplace.
NYSTAR has taken this challenge and has developed this comprehensive program to begin to build the foundation for a virtual collaborative environment. Using new technology and proven social networking tools we hope to work towards a lofty goal of having the cyber-infrastructure create a valuable platform for research. This program will be built slowly with intent to move the tools into the background and allow the many different domains to come together and focus their energies on solving the fundamental problems facing industry and society.
Check back frequently as this section will evolve as the program evolves.
New York State is in a leadership position in both computational resources and talent in the areas of simulation based engineering and High Performance Computing. NYSTAR has recognized that to truly leverage these resources and unleash the innovative and creative talent located throughout New York we needed to create a program that will encourage Investigators to work in a seamless collaborative environment. The problems of today are more complex than ever before and routinely cross scientific domains. For this reason this program focuses on multi-disciplinary approaches to problems which need to be handled in new and innovative ways.
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About CCNI
The CCNI operates heterogeneous supercomputing systems consisting of massively parallel supercomputers and clusters. There is a robust software environment for the development of new applications and a production environment of design tools. The facility is connected to the rest of the world through a fiber network infrastructure.
The main facility for the CCNI is located in the Rensselaer Technology Park in North Greenbush, N.Y. This location is a short drive to the Rensselaer campus in Troy, N.Y., as well as the state capitol in Albany, N.Y. and train and air transportation.
The facility includes 10,000 square feet of machine room space with power, cooling, and backup to support this unique capability. This facility also has offices that are used on a rotational basis for partner activities.
The heterogeneous supercomputing systems includes massively parallel Blue Gene supercomputers, clusters built using IBM Power processors, and clusters built using AMD Opteron processors. These systems provide more than 70 TeraFLOPS of computing power. Hundreds of terabytes of storage complement this computing power.
The CCNI connects to the Rensselaer Troy campus and the NYSERNet optical research infrastructure, enabling gigabit/second (or "GiGE") connections to the Internet and Internet2, National LambdaRail (NLR), and most of the research networks in the world through the peering point at 32 Avenue of the Americas. Connections at 10 GiGE via dedicated waves also are possible.
About NYCSS
The New York Center for Computational Sciences (NYCCS) is a joint venture of Stony Brook University (SBU) and Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL). The Center was formed in 2007 to foster high performance massively parallel computing on the whole range of science and technology topics. Its hardware consists of an 18 rack IBM Blue Gene/L and a 2 rack Blue Gene/P supercomputer owned by SBU and located at BNL. New York State, with the leadership of the NYS Assembly, provided funds for the machine, and NYS and U.S. DOE funds supported renovation of laboratory space to house it. The machine is named NewYorkBlue. The Blue Gene/L is ranked 17th in the June 2008 Top 500 supercomputing rankings and the Blue Gene/P is ranked 75th. (link here).
NYCCS has the goals of advancing scientific discovery in areas related to the missions of the partner institutions, and also in areas related to the broader scientific agenda and economic development of New York State. NYCCS began operations at about the same time a comparable machine located at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in their Computational Center for Nanotechnology Innovations began operations. Together these machines give New York more computing power available for general research than any state in the nation. A consortium of universities and laboratories in the State, each with strong programs in computational and computer sciences, has banded together to build a supporting infrastructure so that the state will benefit fully from the investments in these new supercomputers.
The NYCCS NewYorkBlue facility began operations on July 15, 2007. In the interim organization structure, the interim co-directors of NYCCS are Yacov Shamash, Vice President of Economic Development and Dean, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences at SBU, and Patrick Looney, Assistant Laboratory Director for Policy and Strategic Planning, BNL. . The co-associate directors are Drs. James Davenport, Senior Scientist at BNL, and James Glimm, Professor and Chair of Applied Mathematics and Statistics at SBU. An advisory committee of distinguished computational scientists from around the country has been formed to advise on operations. The inaugural meeting of this committee was held on July 9, 2007.
Applications for time on NY Blue are invited. There is an allocations committee, advisory to the co-directors, to recommend priorities for machine use.
The NYCCS has two supporting entities, the Stony Brook Center for Computational Science (SBCCS) and the Brookhaven Computational Science Center (CSC) . Both of these centers have a core group of faculty and scientists who work to apply or to develop high performance computing for science. The two centers are cooperative and supportive and have a mission to support and expand the community of users of high performance computing for science discovery and technology development.
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The end of an era for Spain?
Shubhayan Sengupta discusses Spain's shock exit from the World Cup after just two group games.
Shubhayan Sengupta discusses Spain's shock exit from the World Cup after just two group games.
Souparno Chakraborty believes that Spain need to heed the wake up call that they received on Friday night.
Julian Boland justifies the inclusion of Fernando Torres in the World Cup holders' 23-man squad for Brazil.
Robert Redmond discusses the in-form striker whose stock continues to grow.
Alex Wood looks at the conveyer belt of top class strikers who cut their teeth at the Champions League semi finalists.
Conor Donnelly reviews the latest happenings in the Spanish Primera Division
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^Check to see if anyone has made their own thread. People usually make impression threads.
My question:
What's the best game game for $4.99 that's not, like one of those creative games like Flipnotes or Rytmik?
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^Check to see if anyone has made their own thread. People usually make impression threads.
My question:
What's the best game game for $4.99 that's not, like one of those creative games like Flipnotes or Rytmik?
I highly recommend Mighty flip champs, its a fantastic, challenging game with an awesome soundtrack but I still can't get past 4-7, that level is so hard.
@Mickeymac - That's hard to say, as a lot of DSiWare that I like is $4.99; however, I feel A Kappa's Trail is probably the best.
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I'll try narrowing it Down:
Tetris Party Live
GO Series: Picdun
Metal Torrent
A Kappa's Trail
Pro Jumper Guilty Gear Tangent
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Has anyone bought Artillery: Knights vs. Orc ?
I haven't got it but from the trailer, it looks like a cheap flash game.
I narrowed it down myself some more and eventually settled on Tetris. So far, I'd say it's highly recommendable. It's a very good version of Tetris, though I wish it had more than 2 single player modes.
jRandall or whatever, I saw your post before you deleted it. I'll still note it since I'm actually now planning on getting a second game. With those 3 narrowed down, I can say my best choice is probably Pro Jumper.
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Okay, didn't see your last post (1447) when I replied so thought it wasn't adding anything. Did you consider Dark Void Zero, etc.?
Yeah, but I have it on Steam and while it would be nice to have it on the go, duplicates are pretty low priority for me. Oddly enough, this is my first owned copy of Tetris.
Can anyone who has Pop Island tell me if it has good single player? I read the review on this site, but I'm still not quite so sure. It's a game I'd really like to play though. Or does Pop Island Paperfield have enough in it to keep me occupied for long? (Seeing as it's cheaper and what not).
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Not really a reply to anyones post, but if you're looking for a good 200pt title I'd recommend GO Series: Portable Shrine Wars. It's look and unique gameplay style brings to mind something Treasure would have concocted in its golden years, albeit in a mini-game format sans the multi-jointed baddies.
Aiport Mania: First Flight is another great game for 200pts for those who are interested.
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I think Airport Mania: First Flight is way too easy. Very fun, but way too easy. Flight Control is very challenging so far and very addicting. Might pick up Airport Mania: Non-Stop Flights in the near future because I think it might be more challenging.
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@pariah164 - While Maestro! is a little on the short side, it is a fairly challenging game, especially towards the end. If you can find the game for cheap on eBay, I'd get it, but you may want to check out Green Groove first to see what you'd be getting as a full title.
@Rocketship - Pop Island is a very nice and frantic game, even if you're playing by yourself. It has 8 maps in total and each are well designed and fun to play on. I'm not entirely sure how much content (i.e. maps) Paperfield has, as I recall hearing somewhere it only has 3 maps if you don't own the original but it has 6 if you do; I can't confirm that as I had little interest in getting more of the same after I played the original to death.
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@Birdman13 Yeah, I was thinking about that. Someone sells it on ebay but it's $50.
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Hey which of these games would you guys recomend.(You can say more then one)
Castle Conqueror
Steam World Tower Defense
Akappa's Trail
Dark Void Zero
Aura Aura Climber
Mr Driller
Go Series Captain Sub
Dream Walker
Lost Town the Dust
Rabi Lady
Digger Dan
Ivy the Kiwi: Mini
Also if any of these are bad please let me know. And if there is a game $5 or below that's good I am missing let me know. Thanks a Ton!
Dark Void Zero and Antipole come recommended from me. DVZ might be the better of the two, in terms of polish and production values, but Antipole will probably last you longer. The former is a jet-and-gun retro platformer while the latter is a gravity-flipping platform-shooter.


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Aaargh...I recently moved my /wp/ folder into another created temporary one...(along with the index.php file) then moved them back to their original places.
The blog URL is: http://www.thepogostick.com
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Paul Verlaine
Paul Verlaine Poems
The Young Fools (Les Ingénus)
High-heels were struggling with a full-length dress
So that, between the wind and the terrain,
At times a shining stocking would be seen,
And gone too soon. We liked that foolishness.
Also, at times a jealous insect's dart
Bothered out beauties. Suddenly a white
Nape flashed beneath the branches, and this sight
Was a delicate feast for a young fool's heart.
Evening fell, equivocal, dissembling,
The women who hung dreaming on our arms
Spoke in low voices, words that had such charms
That ever since our stunned soul has been trembling.
Apres Trois Ans
When I had pushed the narrow garden-door,
Once more I stood within the green retreat;
Softly the morning sunshine lighted it,
And every flow'r a humid spangle wore.
Nothing is changed. I see it all once more:
The vine-clad arbor with its rustic seat. . . .
The waterjet still plashes silver sweet,
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The internal rate of return measures the profitability of an investment. Businesses and other organizations use it to determine whether the future benefits from a capital project will be worth the upfront cost required, as well as to compare potential projects. It is important to a business for several reasons
The underlying assumption of internal rate of return is that all the money invested in a project comes back to you as future cash flows. Say you invest $10,000 in a project this year, and that project results in $4,000 in increased revenue each year for the next three years. On an annual basis, that translates to a return of about 9.7 percent a year. That means the internal rate of return of the project is 9.7 percent. (The "internal" in the name of the term refers to the fact that the calculation ignores outside factors that would reduce your return in real terms, such as inflation or your cost of capital.)
Businesses commonly use internal rate of return, or "IRR" in finance language, in capital budgeting. When evaluating a capital project -- such as an expansion or an investment in new equipment -- businesses estimate both the upfront cost that will be required and the future cash flows that will result from the investment. They then use that information to calculate the IRR of the project. Because it's impossible to forecast costs or benefits with exact precision, you should understand that the resulting IRR is a rough figure. It's not going to be accurate to four decimal places. Even so, if the IRR is negative, stop there. This project will never recoup its start-up costs.
Cost of Capital
When pursuing a capital project, the money you invest can come from one of two places: You can use the owners' money, or you can borrow money. If you borrow money, you're going to have to pay interest on it. The IRR of the project must be higher than the interest rate on the borrowed money -- otherwise, you'll end up losing money. Meanwhile, if you use the owners' money, that's money that can't be used to generate a return somewhere else. The IRR of the project must be higher than the return you can get on an alternative investment of equal risk -- otherwise, you'd be better off just putting the money in that alternative investment. In this way, IRR tells you whether a project is worth pursuing at all.
You can also use internal rate of return to compare projects, with the assumption that the project with the higher IRR is preferable. However, using IRR this way works only under a couple of conditions. First, the projects being compared must require a roughly equal upfront investment. IRR expresses your return as a percentage of the initial cost; it doesn't take into account the magnitude of a project. After all, a 5 percent return on $10,000 is more money than a 10 percent return on $2,000. Second, the projects must be what's known as "normal" projects: negative net cash flows upfront, followed by only positive net cash flows later on. If the project switches back and forth from positive net cash flows (taking in more money than it pays out) to negative net flows (paying out more than it takes in), the IRR formula becomes unreliable.
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- Murray State University: Capital Budgeting Techniques
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Definition of subcurrent in English:
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Northanger Abbey
- For films named Northanger Abbey, see Northanger Abbey (1986 film) or Northanger Abbey (2007 film).
Title page of the original 1818 edition
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Northanger Abbey /ˈnɔːrθˌæŋɡər/ was the first of Jane Austen's novels to be completed for publication, though she had previously made a start on Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice. According to Cassandra Austen's Memorandum, Susan (as it was first called) was written around 1798–99. It was revised by Austen for the press in 1803, and sold in the same year for £10 to a London bookseller, Crosby & Co., who decided against publishing. In the spring of 1816, the bookseller was content to sell it back to the novelist's brother, Henry Austen, for the exact sum—£10—that he had paid for it at the beginning, not knowing that the writer was by then the author of four popular novels.
The novel was further revised by Austen in 1816/17, with the intention of having it published. Among other changes, the lead character's name was changed from Susan to Catherine, and Austen retitled the book Catherine as a result.
Austen died in July 1817. Northanger Abbey (as the novel was now called) was brought out posthumously in late December 1817 (1818 given on the title page), as the first two volumes of a four-volume set that also featured another previously unpublished Austen novel, Persuasion. Neither novel was published under the title Jane Austen had given it; the title Northanger Abbey is presumed to have been the invention of Henry Austen, who had arranged for the book's publication.
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Seventeen-year-old Catherine Morland is one of ten children of a country clergyman. Although a tomboy in her childhood, by the age of 17 she is "in training for a heroine" and is excessively fond of reading Gothic novels, among which Ann Radcliffe's Mysteries of Udolpho is a favourite.
Catherine is invited by the Allens, her wealthier neighbours in Fullerton, to accompany them to visit the town of Bath and partake in the winter season of balls, theatre and other social delights. Although initially the excitement of Bath is dampened by her lack of acquaintances, she is soon introduced to a clever young gentleman, Henry Tilney, with whom she dances and converses. Much to Catherine's disappointment, Henry does not reappear in the subsequent week and, not knowing whether or not he has left Bath for good, she wonders if she will ever see him again. Through Mrs Allen's old school-friend Mrs Thorpe, she meets her daughter Isabella, a vivacious and flirtatious young woman, and the two quickly become friends. Mrs Thorpe's son John is also a friend of Catherine's older brother, James, at Oxford where they are both students.
James and John arrive unexpectedly in Bath. While Isabella and James spend time together, Catherine becomes acquainted with John, a vain and crude young gentleman who incessantly tells fantastical stories about himself. Henry Tilney then returns to Bath, accompanied by his younger sister Eleanor, who is a sweet, elegant, and respectable young lady. Catherine also meets their father, the imposing General Tilney.
The Thorpes are not very happy about Catherine's friendship with the Tilneys, as they (correctly as it happens) perceive Henry as a rival for Catherine's affections. Catherine tries to maintain her friendships with both the Thorpes and the Tilneys, though John Thorpe continuously tries to sabotage her relationship with the Tilneys. This leads to several misunderstandings, which upset Catherine and put her in the awkward position of having to explain herself to the Tilneys.
Isabella and James become engaged. James's father approves of the match and offers his son a country parson's living of a modest sum, 400 pounds annually, which he may have in two and a half years. The couple must therefore wait until that time to marry. Isabella is dissatisfied, having believed that the Morlands were quite wealthy, but she pretends to Catherine that she is merely dissatisfied that they must wait so long. James departs to purchase a ring, and John accompanies him after coyly suggesting marriage to the oblivious Catherine. Isabella immediately begins to flirt with Captain Tilney, Henry's older brother. Innocent Catherine cannot understand her friend's behaviour, but Henry understands all too well, as he knows his brother's character and habits. The flirtation continues even when James returns, much to the latter's embarrassment and distress.
The Tilneys invite Catherine to stay with them for a few weeks at their home, Northanger Abbey. Catherine, in accordance with her novel reading, expects the abbey to be exotic and frightening. Henry teases her about this, as it turns out that Northanger Abbey is pleasant and decidedly not Gothic. However, the house includes a mysterious suite of rooms that no one ever enters; Catherine learns that they were Mrs Tilney's, who died nine years earlier. Catherine decides that, since General Tilney does not now seem to be affected by the loss of his wife, he may have murdered her or even imprisoned her in her chamber.
Catherine persuades Eleanor to show her Mrs Tilney's rooms, but General Tilney suddenly appears. Catherine flees, sure that she will be punished. Later, Catherine sneaks back to Mrs Tilney's rooms, to discover that her over-active imagination has once again led her astray, as nothing is strange or distressing in the rooms at all. Unfortunately, Henry joins her in the corridor and questions why she is there. He guesses her surmises and inferences, and informs her that his father loved his wife in his own way and was truly upset by her death. "What have you been judging from? Remember the country and the age in which we live. Remember that we are English, that we are Christians. Consult your own understanding, your own sense of the probable, your own observation of what is passing around you. Does our education prepare us for such atrocities? Do our laws connive at them? ... Dearest Miss Morland, what ideas have you been admitting?"[1] She leaves, crying, fearing that she has lost Henry's regard entirely.
Realizing how foolish she has been, Catherine comes to believe that, though novels may be delightful, their content does not relate to everyday life. Henry lets her get over her shameful thoughts and actions in her own time and does not mention them to her again.
Soon after this adventure, James writes to inform her that he has broken off his engagement to Isabella and that she has become engaged instead to Captain Tilney. Henry and Eleanor Tilney are shocked but rather skeptical that their brother has actually become engaged to Isabella Thorpe. Catherine is terribly disappointed, realising what a dishonest person Isabella is. A subsequent letter from Isabella herself confirms the Tilney siblings' doubts about the engagement and shows that Frederick Tilney was merely flirting with Isabella. The General goes off to London, and the atmosphere at Northanger Abbey immediately becomes lighter and pleasanter for his absence. Catherine passes several enjoyable days with Henry and Eleanor until, in Henry's absence, the General returns abruptly, in a temper. He forces Eleanor to tell Catherine that the family has an engagement that prevents Catherine from staying any longer and that she must go home early the next morning, in a shocking, inhospitable move that forces Catherine to undertake the 70 miles (110 km) journey alone.
At home, Catherine is listless and unhappy. Her parents, unaware of her trials of the heart, try to bring her up to her usual spirits, with little effect. Two days after she returns home, however, Henry pays a sudden unexpected visit and explains what happened. General Tilney (on the misinformation of John Thorpe) had believed her to be exceedingly rich and therefore a proper match for Henry. In London, General Tilney ran into Thorpe again, who, angry at Catherine's refusal of his half-made proposal of marriage, said instead that she was nearly destitute. Enraged, General Tilney returned home to evict Catherine. When Henry returned to Northanger from Woodston, his father informed him of what had occurred and forbade him to think of Catherine again. When Henry learns how she had been treated, he breaks with his father and tells Catherine he still wants to marry her despite his father's disapproval. Catherine is delighted.
Eventually, General Tilney acquiesces, because Eleanor has become engaged to a wealthy and titled man; and he discovers that the Morlands, while not extremely rich, are far from destitute.
Catherine Morland: A 17-year-old girl who loves reading Gothic novels. Something of a tomboy in her childhood, her looks are described by the narrator as "pleasing, and, when in good looks, pretty." Catherine lacks experience and sees her life as if she was a heroine in a Gothic novel. She sees the best in people, and to begin with always seems ignorant of other people's malign intentions. She is the devoted sister of James Morland. She is good-natured and frank and often makes insightful comments on the inconsistencies and insincerities of people around her, usually to Henry Tilney, and thus is unintentionally sarcastic and funny. (He is delighted when she says, "I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible."[2]) She is also seen as a humble and modest character, becoming exceedingly happy when she receives the smallest compliment. Catherine's character grows throughout the novel, as she gradually becomes a real heroine, learning from her mistakes when she is exposed to the outside world in Bath. She sometimes makes the mistake of applying Gothic novels to real life situations; for example, later in the novel she begins to suspect General Tilney of having murdered his deceased wife. Catherine soon learns that Gothic novels are really just fiction and do not always correspond with reality.
James Morland: Catherine's older brother who is in school at the beginning of the story. Assumed to be of moderate wealth, he becomes the love interest of Isabella Thorpe, the younger sister to his friend and Catherine's admirer John Thorpe.
Henry Tilney: A 26-year-old well-read clergyman, the younger son of the wealthy Tilney family. He is Catherine's romantic interest throughout the novel, and during the course of the plot he comes to return her feelings. He is sarcastic, intuitive, fairly handsome and clever, given to witticisms and light flirtations (which Catherine is not always able to understand or reciprocate in kind), but he also has a sympathetic nature (he is a good brother to Eleanor), which leads him to take a liking to Catherine's naïve straightforward sincerity.
John Thorpe: An arrogant and extremely boastful young man who certainly appears distasteful to the likes of Catherine. He is Isabella's brother and he has shown many signs of feelings towards Catherine Morland.
Isabella Thorpe: A manipulative and self-serving young woman on a quest to obtain a well-off husband; at the time, marriage was the accepted way for young women of a certain class to become "established" with a household of their own (as opposed to becoming a dependent spinster), and Isabella lacks most assets (such as wealth or family connections to bring to a marriage) that would make her a "catch" on the "marriage market". Upon her arrival in Bath she is without acquaintance, leading her to immediately form a quick friendship with Catherine Morland. Additionally, when she learns that Catherine is the sister to James Morland (whom Isabella suspects to be worth more financially than he is in reality), she goes to every length to ensure a connection between the two families.
General Tilney: A stern and rigid retired general with an obsessive nature, General Tilney is the sole surviving parent to his three children Frederick, Henry, and Eleanor.
Eleanor Tilney: Henry's sister, she plays little part in Bath, but takes on more importance in Northanger Abbey. A convenient chaperon for Catherine and Henry's times together. Obedient daughter, warm friend, sweet sister, but lonely under her father's tyranny.
Frederick Tilney: Henry's older brother (the presumed heir to the Northanger estate), very handsome and fashionable, an officer in the army who enjoys pursuing flirtations with pretty girls who are willing to offer him some encouragement (though without any ultimate serious intent on his part).
Mr. Allen: A kindly man, with some slight resemblance to Mr. Bennet of Pride and Prejudice.
Mrs. Allen: Somewhat vacuous, she sees everything in terms of her obsession with clothing and fashion, and has a tendency to utter repetitions of remarks made by others in place of original conversation.
Major themes[edit]
- The intricacies and tedium of high society, particularly partner selection.
- The conflicts of marriage for love and marriage for property.
- Life lived as if in a Gothic novel, filled with danger and intrigue, and the obsession with all things Gothic.
- The dangers of believing life is the same as fiction.
- The maturation of the young into sceptical adulthood, the loss of imagination, innocence and good faith.
- Things are not what they seem at first.
- Social criticism (comedy of manners).
- Parody of the Gothic novels' "Gothic and anti-Gothic" attitudes.
In addition, Catherine Morland realises she is not to rely upon others, such as Isabella, who are negatively influential on her, but to be single-minded and independent. It is only through bad experiences that Catherine really begins to mature and grow up.
Allusions to other works[edit]
"Dear creature! how much I am obliged to you; and when you have finished The Mysteries of Udolpho, we will read The Italian together; and I have made out a list of ten or twelve more of the same kind for you."
Several Gothic novels and authors are mentioned in the book, including Fanny Burney and The Monk.[3] Isabella Thorpe gives Catherine a list of seven books that are commonly referred to as the "Northanger 'horrid' novels";[4] these works were initially thought to be of Austen's own invention until the British writers Montague Summers and Michael Sadleir found in the 1920s that they actually did exist.[5] The list is as follows:
- Castle of Wolfenbach (1793) by Eliza Parsons. London: Minerva Press.
- Clermont (1798) by Regina Maria Roche. London: Minerva Press.
- The Mysterious Warning, a German Tale (1796) by Eliza Parsons. London: Minerva Press.
- The Necromancer; or, The Tale of the Black Forest (1794) by 'Ludwig Flammenberg' (pseudonym for Carl Friedrich Kahlert; translated by Peter Teuthold). London: Minerva Press.
- The Midnight Bell (1798) by Francis Lathom. London: H. D. Symonds.
- The Orphan of the Rhine (1798) by Eleanor Sleath. London: Minerva Press.
- Horrid Mysteries (1796) by the Marquis de Grosse (translated by P. Will). London: Minerva Press.
All seven of these were republished by the Folio Society in London in the 1960s, and since 2005 Valancourt Books has released new editions of the first six.[6]
Literary significance and relationship[edit]
Northanger Abbey is fundamentally a parody of Gothic fiction. Austen turns the conventions of eighteenth-century novels on their head, by making her heroine a plain and undistinguished girl from a middle-class family, allowing the heroine to fall in love with the hero before he has a serious thought of her, and exposing the heroine's romantic fears and curiosities as groundless. Austen biographer Claire Tomalin speculates that Austen may have begun this book, which is more explicitly comic than her other works and contains many literary allusions that her parents and siblings would have enjoyed, as a family entertainment—a piece of lighthearted parody to be read aloud by the fireside.[7] Moreover, as Joan Aiken writes,
- "We can guess that Susan [the original title of Northanger Abbey], in its first outline, was written very much for family entertainment, addressed to a family audience, like all Jane Austen's juvenile works, with their asides to the reader, and absurd dedications; some of the juvenilia, we know, were specifically addressed to her brothers Charles and Frank; all were designed to be circulated and read by a large network of relations."[8]
Austen addresses the reader directly in parts, particularly at the end of Chapter 5, where she gives a lengthy opinion of the value of novels, and the contemporary social prejudice against them in favour of drier historical works and newspapers. In discussions featuring Isabella, the Thorpe sisters, Eleanor, and Henry, and by Catherine perusing the library of the General, and her mother's books on instructions on behaviours, the reader gains further insights into Austen's various perspectives on novels in contrast with other popular literature of the time (especially the Gothic novel). Eleanor even praises history books, and while Catherine points out the obvious fiction of the speeches given to important historical characters, Eleanor enjoys them for what they are.
The directness with which Austen addresses the reader, especially at the end of the story, gives a unique insight into Austen's thoughts at the time, which is particularly important due to the fact that a large portion of her letters were burned, at her request, by her sister upon her death.
Film, TV or theatrical adaptations[edit]
- The A&E Network and the BBC released the television adaptation Northanger Abbey in 1986.
- An adaptation of Northanger Abbey with screenplay by Andrew Davies, was shown on ITV on 25 March 2007 as part of their "Jane Austen Season". This adaptation aired on PBS in the United States as part of the "Complete Jane Austen" on Masterpiece Classic in January 2008. It stars Felicity Jones as Catherine Morland and JJ Feild as Henry Tilney.
- An adaptation of Northanger Abbey stage adaptation by Tim Luscombe, was produced by Salisbury Playhouse in 2009. It is published by Nick Hern Books (ISBN 9781854598370), and was revived in Chicago in 2013 at the Remy Bumppo Theatre.[9]
- A theatrical adaptation by Michael Napier Brown was performed at the Royal Theatre in Northampton in 1998
- "Pup Fiction" – an episode of Wishbone featuring the plot and characters of Austen's Northanger Abbey.
In 2012, it was announced that HarperCollins had hired Scottish crime writer Val McDermid to adapt Northanger Abbey for a modern audience, as a suspenseful teen thriller.[10] McDermid said of the project, "At its heart it's a teen novel, and a satire – that's something which fits really well with contemporary fiction. And you can really feel a shiver of fear moving through it. I will be keeping the suspense – I know how to keep the reader on the edge of their seat. I think Jane Austen builds suspense well in a couple of places, but she squanders it, and she gets to the endgame too quickly. So I will be working on those things."
Historical discoveries[edit]
The book contains an early reference to baseball.[11] ("...Catherine, who had by nature nothing heroic about her, should prefer cricket, baseball, riding on horseback, and running about the country..."[12]).
References to Northanger Abbey[edit]
A passage from the novel appears as the preface of Ian McEwan's Atonement, thus likening the naive mistakes of Austen's Catherine Morland to those of his own character Briony Tallis, who is in a similar position: both characters have very over-active imaginations, which lead to misconceptions that cause distress in the lives of people around them. Both treat their own lives like those of heroines in fantastical works of fiction, with Miss Morland likening herself to a character in a Gothic novel and young Briony Tallis writing her own melodramatic stories and plays with central characters such as "spontaneous Arabella" based on herself.
Richard Adams quotes a portion of the novel's last sentence for the epigraph to Chapter 50 in his Watership Down; the reference to the General is felicitous, as the villain in Watership Down is also a General.[13]
See also[edit]
Reception history of Jane Austen
- ^ Austen, Jane. "Northanger Abbey". Austen.com. Retrieved 4 August 2012.
- ^ Austen, Jane. "Northanger Abbey". Austen.com. Retrieved 4 August 2012.
- ^ Austen, Jane. "Northanger Abbey". Austen.com. Retrieved 4 August 2012.
- ^ Ford, Susan Allen. "A Sweet Creature's Horrid Novels: Gothic Reading in Northanger Abbey". Jane Austen Society of North America. Retrieved 2016-04-22.
- ^ Fincher, Max (March 22, 2011). "'I should like to spend my whole life in reading it': the resurrection of the Northanger 'horrid' novels". The Gothic Imagination (University of Sterling). Retrieved April 22, 2016.
- ^ "About Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey 'Horrid Novels'". Valancourt Books. Retrieved 7 September 2014.
- ^ Tomalin, Claire. Jane Austen: A Life. New York: Vintage, 1997, p. 165.
- ^ Aiken, Joan (1985). "How Might Jane Austen Have Revised Northanger Abbey?". Persuasions, a publication of the Jane Austen Society of North America. Retrieved 4 August 2012.
- ^ Weis, Hedi (8 October 2013). "Remy Bumppo's Northanger Abbey – a dazzling adaptation". Chicago Sun-Times. Retrieved 18 March 2014.
- ^ Flood, Alison (19 July 2012). "Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey to be reworked by Val McDermid". The Guardian. Retrieved 4 August 2012.
- ^ Fornelli, Tom (6 November 2008). "Apparently Jane Austen Invented Baseball". AOL News.
- ^ Austen, Jane. "Northanger Abbey". Austen.com. Retrieved 4 August 2012.
- ^ Adams, Richard (1975). Watership Down. Avon. p. 470. ISBN 0-380-00293-0.
...[P]rofessing myself moreover convinced that the general's unjust interference, so far from being really injurious to their felicity, was perhaps rather conducive to it, by improving their knowledge of each other, and adding strength to their attachment, I leave it to be settled, by whomsoever it may concern...
External links[edit]
- Northanger Abbey at Project Gutenberg
- Northanger Abbey public domain audiobook at LibriVox
- Northanger Abbey Read Online.
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- Northanger Abbey from Google Books. Scanned from volume published in 1890 from Harvard College Library.
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By Maureen Farrell
Might Steven A. Cohen be getting worried now?
Following a jury's conviction Thursday of former SAC Capital Advisors LP portfolio manager Mathew Martoma, Wall Street's top prosecutor Preet Bharara is 79 for 79 on insider trading cases during his tenure as U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York.
Since August 2009, 79 individuals prosecuted by the Southern District for insider trading have either pleaded guilty or have been convicted by a jury. Fifty-eight of those individuals have been sentenced, and 10 cases are still pending.
Still in his four years of prosecuting insider trading cases, Mr. Bharara has been unable to catch his so-called white whale: Mr. Cohen, the founder of SAC Capital. Eight current or former employees of SAC have either pleaded guilty or been involved in insider trading, but Mr. Martoma is only the second of those employees who have been convicted by a jury.
Prosecutors have called the trades Mr. Martoma was involved in part of the largest insider-trading schemes ever. Mr. Cohen has not been charged criminally, but SAC resolved criminal charges against the hedge fund by pleading guilty and agreeing to pay $1.2 billion in new penalties.
WSJ reporters Christopher Matthews and John Carreyrou note that the conviction of Mr. Martoma could help prosecutors with their civil case against Mr. Cohen.
Here's what Mr. Bharara said in a statement about Mr. Martoma's conviction:
"As the jury unanimously found, Mathew Martoma cultivated and purchased the confidence of doctors with secret knowledge of an experimental Alzheimer's drug, and used it to engage in illegal insider trading. Martoma bought the answer sheet before the exam – more than once – netting a quarter billion dollars in profits and losses avoided for SAC, as well as a $9 million bonus for him. In the short run, cheating may have been profitable for Martoma, but in the end, it made him a convicted felon, and likely will result in the forfeiture of his illegal windfall and the loss of his liberty."
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Raj Rajaratnam was the CEO of the hedge fund Galleon Group. Mr Rajaratnam was sentenced to the longest prison term ever for insider trading and is currently serving an 11-year term.
Rajat Gupta, a former director at Goldman Sachs and Procter & Gamble was sentenced to two years in prison for providing insider tips to Mr. Rajaratnam.


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Two goals from Matias Perez Guedes and another by Agustin Vuletich gave modest Olimpo their victory over Boca, who were also missing goalkeeper Agustin Orion, also with Argentina, and the injured Juan Roman Riquelme.
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The above is a copy of the posted transaction to my checking account on November 13, 2012 for the show we were suppose to attend tonight (11-24-12). Mr. Jonah Wallerstein DBA Tickets Plus and Metroentertainment whited out his name from the tickets and mailed them to me as transferrable tickets but they are not. I was not permitted inside and had to buy other tickets there.
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Entertainment resold the tickets to the consumer through the secondary market. Jonah Wallerstein is not affiliated with Metro Entertainment and is certainly not doing business as Metro Entertainment or Tickets Plus. We request that this
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Queen's College mauled North Georgetown Secondary 5-0 when the round of the 16 knockout matches in the Milo/Petra Organization Schools Football tournament commenced yesterday at the Ministry of Education ground, Carifesta Avenue.
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How Long Does It Take To Get To The Moon?by Matt Williams Video
Back in 2008, Richard Branson outlined his vision for Virgin Galactic's future. Once tourists are taken into Earth orbit, it seems possible that space hotels could be developed for longer stop-overs in space. He then went on to mention that short "sight-seeing" tours to the Moon could be started from these ultimate hotels. If we are to make travel to the Moon routine enough to send tourists there, the trip would need to be as short as possible.
So how long is the commute from the Earth to the Moon anyway? Human beings and machines have made that trip on several occasions. And while some took a very long time, others were astonishingly fast. Let's review the various missions and methods, and see which offers the most efficient and least time-consuming means of transit.
Many missions have arrived in lunar orbit and landed on the lunar surface, but the means of getting there are widely varying. Whether a mission uses a rocket to blast its way there, or a subtle ion engine to slowly edge its payload closer, we have many options open to us when we travel to the Moon in the future. To this end, I'll give a quick rundown from slowest to fastest flights to Earth's natural satellite 380,000 km away.
Unmanned Missions:
The slowest mission to fly to the Moon was actually one of the most advanced technologies to be sent into space. The ESA's SMART-1 lunar probe was launched on September 27th, 2003 and used a revolutionary ion engine to propel it to the Moon. SMART-1 slowly spiraled out from the Earth to arrive at its destination one year, one month and two weeks later on November 11th, 2004.
SMART-1 may have been slow, but it was by far the most fuel efficient. The craft used only 82 kg of xenon propellant for the entire mission (ending with a lunar impact in 2006). The SMART-1 mission is an oddity as it is by far the longest mission to the Moon, the rest of the missions took a matter of days to reach lunar orbit.
China's Chang'e-1 mission was launched from Xichang Satellite Launch Center on October 24th 2007 but sat in Earth orbit til October 31st when it began its transit to the Moon and arrived in lunar orbit on November 5th. The mission therefore took five days to cover the distance, using its rocket boosters. This was followed up by the Chang'e 2 orbiter, which launched on Oct 1st 2010 and arrived in lunar orbit within 4 days and 16 hours.
More recently, Chang'e 3 probe and lander launched on Dec. 1st, 2013 at 17:30 UTC and arrived in Lunar orbit on December 6th at 9:53 UTC. It was therefore the fastest of the Chang'e missions, taking 4 days, 12 hours, and 23 minutes to reach the Moon before deplyoing its lander to the lunar surface.
However, it was the first-even unmanned mission to the Moon that was the fastest. This mission was known as the Soviet Luna 1 probe, which completed a flyby of the Moon in 1959. This basic, but pioneering probe was launched on January 2nd and flew past the Moon by a few thousand kilometers on January 4th. It only took 36 hours to make the trip, therefore traveling an average speed of 10,500 km/hr.
Manned Missions:
The Apollo missions, which were the only manned Lunar mission, were fairly quick in reaching the Moon. Naturally, it was the Apollo 11 mission, where Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first men to walk on the Moon, that made the greatest headlines. This mission began on July 16th, 1969, where a Saturn V multi-stage rocket took the astronauts from Kennedy Space Center into orbit.
They reached lunar orbit after only 51 hours and 49 minutes in space, arriving on July 19th, 1969. The famous "One small step for man…" speech would not take place until July 21st, roughly 109 hours and 42 minutes into the mission. After dusting off from the Lunar surface, the Lunar Module spent another 2 days, 22 hours and 56 minutes getting back to Earth. So in addition to be the first manned mission, Apollo 11 was also the fastest trip to the Moon where astronauts were involved.
Fastest Mission to Date:
By far, the fastest mission to fly past the Moon was NASA's New Horizons Pluto mission. This mission had a speedy launch, with its Atlas V rocket accelerating it to a a speed of about 16.26 km per second (58,536 km/h; 36,373 mph). At this rate, it only took 8 hours and 35 minutes for it to get to the Moon from Earth. Quite a good start for this probe, which was on its way to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt at the time.
Although this is impressive, it's worth keeping in mind that New Horizons was not slowing down to enter lunar orbit (as was the case all of the manned and unmanned mission to the Moon mentioned above). Hence, it was probably still accelerating long after it had placed the Moon in its rear view mirror (assuming it had one).
Mission concepts like the Space Launch System and Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle (MPCV) will also come into play in the near future. On December 5th, 2014, an unmanned test of the Orion capsule took place, officially known as Exploration Flight Test 1. Having launched atop a Delta IV Heavy rocket, the capsule reached Low Earth Orbit, achieved two orbits of the Earth, and then splashed down again 4.5 hours later.
During the course of the flight, EFT-1 reached speeds of up to 8.9 km/s (32,187 km/h; 20,000 mph). At this velocity, an Orion mission could conceivably make it to the Moon (at an average distance of 384,400 km) in nearly 12 hours. Obviously, adjustments will have to be made for weight (since it will need a crew), and deceleration. But still, that's not a bad framework for a tourist flight.
So, when space tourism begins mounting sight-seeing tours or missions to the Moon, they will have a few options. They could offer long cruises, gently gliding to the Moon using ion engines to slowly let the tourists take in the views. Or they could opt for the exhilarating rocket ride of a lifetime, blasting tourists off into space and whipping them back in just a day or two. Hard to say which one people would prefer, but surely there are many who would pay handsomely for the opportunity.
We Have written many interesting articles about the Moon here at Universe Today. Here's Who Were The First Men On The Moon?, How Many People Have Walked On The Moon?, What Is The Distance To The Moon?, and You Could Fit All The Planets Between The Earth And The Moon.
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What about more powerful ION drives? We could use a Earth-orbit space laser to power the drive.
What about photonic drives?
In 2006 "Dr. Young Bae of the Bae Institute first demonstrated his Photonic Laser Thruster (PLT) with an amplification factor of 3,000"
The paper says ~1mN per 10 watts and no reaction mass required.
On second though, scratch that lunar meridian number. That is, of course, not correct. And forgive the typos. In an emergency situation requiring medical help for lunar missions, I think we'll continue our work with telemedicine and biorobotics. LOL.
The ion slow boat to lunar absorption will become a religious pilgrimage.
Fraser and Ian, thanks for this insightful article, but it would be nice if someone were to suggest a practical schedule for getting to the moon. Traveling at more than 1.25 g is probably not a good idea for overweight, smoker tourists and traveling ad less than .75 g might also have its risks, so what if we traveled somewhere inbetween, and what if we varied the length of acceleration.
Of course, the best and fastest way to get to the moon would be to simply build very powerful and long range transporter beams (grin)
If we could build a spaceship capable of 1G constant acceleration / deceleration for extended periods of time, then (if my calculations are correct) we could travel in comfort from Earth to the Moon in about 3.5 hours. One G accleration to the midway point takes about 1.75 hours, followed by 1G deceleration to reach the moon). This assumes we could turn off the engine and rotate the ship quickly at the midway point, with the passengers being weightless then.
thats gonna be a lot of burnt up fuel that will be just 'gone'. I think we need use use mini nuclear power or something new.
Baggage allowance?
Overweight baggage fees?
Would it be cheaper for lighter folk, excellent excuse to lose some pounds
Fitness Guy & Gudenboink:
On boredom …etc. I was really talking in the context of using an Ion and Photonic driven spacecraft — it could take upto several weeks and months (years???) to get you and others to the Moon using these systems.
But as for the three-day trip to the Moon…I'd have one eye on the receding Earth below, the other eye on the expanding Moon above, and I difinitely wouldn't be bored (or boring, as I may have come across in my comments re: Ion/Photonic context…SORRY!).
John — http://www.moonposter.ie
Hi All
An Apollo 8 or 10 free-return trajectory will be the preferred option as high-speed means tons more propellant and, unless you're landing, not a lot of loitering time near the Moon.
The whole subject of tourist travel in space is moonshine until there is a space elevator to reduce the cost of moving mass to earth orbit by orders of magnitude.
"…[New Horizons] was probably still accelerating as the Moon was a dot in its rear view window".
Bzzt wrong. The initial boost only lasted a few minutes. New horizons only accelerated once once it passed the moon and that was the Jupiter gravity assist.
To ioresult:
Hehe, got me there. Damn! (But you can see by my uncertainty when I say *probably*.) Thanks for the info, good to know. Wow, that's one hell of a boost!
Cheers, Ian
Si en el futuro el viaje a la Luna será algo tan rutinario como para enviar turistas, el viaje deberÃa ser lo más corto posible. ¿Pero cuánto tarda un viaje a la Luna? Hombres y máquinas ya han hecho ese viaje, algunos tomaron mucho tiempo y otros fueron increÃblemente veloces. […] Ian O'Neill para Universe Today
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