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Screw anybody whose had anything bad to say about your engagement! Finding a person you can truly spend your life with is not easy to find and sometimes impossible. I'm happy you were able to find that person in your life. Not many in this world do. So many blessings and much love to you both!
A Most Special Day
It was a gorgeous day and we were standing on the deck enjoying the view. Dane was hugging me lots and saying very sweet things, but Dane always does that, so it wasn't really out of the ordinary. But then I put my hand on his chest, and his heart was pounding so hard it felt like it was going to leap out at me. I asked if everything was ok, and Dane took my hand in his and answered with this:
"Lindsey, I knew long before I told you that I loved you. I knew long before I showed you that I needed you. And I knew long before now that I wanted to spend my life with you."
Then, to my great surprise, Dane knelt down! I knew what that meant, but I couldn't believe it was happening. I felt like I was floating. And then Dane said, "Lindsey, you are my best friend. You are my partner. You are the love of my life. And now it would mean the world to me if you would do me the honor of also being my wife."
Yes, my Dane had just proposed. I think I stammered, "Oh, my god, I can't believe you're doing this" several times before Dane reminded me that technically I'm supposed to give an answer. My reply was somewhere along the lines of "yes, of course, a thousand times, yes!"
Then lots of hugging, crying, and laughing ensued.
Finally, I remembered Dane had slid a ring on my finger, but I hadn't really paid attention to that part. I looked down and saw a perfect, beautiful, blue stone on a delicate band. Dane knew I was opposed to the African diamond mining trade and the idea of spending an around-the-world trip on a single piece of jewelry. So he had bought me a Ceylon sapphire. And it's an estate piece, which is even more perfect because I love things to have a history.
So now Dane and I are engaged to be married. We're not sure yet on the where and when, but we're very excited about it.
Some people have been quite surprised to hear our news, perhaps even a little disappointed that we are breaking from our rather non-conformist lifestyle and doing something so conventional. The explanation we offer is simply that it just feels right...which is strange, I know, because we were both rather cynical about the union, having come from divorced families. And before we had met, we had individually come to the decision that we preferred travel and independence over having a family and stability. But here we are, five years into our relationship, and we still marvel at one another and how perfect we are for each other. Our relationship is a daily joy. We love each other's company, can't get enough of one another, and can't imagine a future in which we're not together. And suddenly "marriage" doesn't even quite seem enough. They should create a new union for people this in love.
Heck yeah!!
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I can't say how happy I am for both of you! So many people wander through this life looking for exactly what you have. Conventional or no, you can not ignore when something feels right. So have no worries, my friend, you two are anything but conventional. I better get invited to the wedding and it better not be in the states in a church!
That would be conventional :-)
You have all my best gooey wishes for the future.
In less than I year, I will be closer to your side of the world.....so hopefully I will get to make a few of these life-altering adventures with you two!
don't forget to tell me when you are in town a weekend.....seriously even if its to eat at Taco C again!


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Please bee folk, I did a little playing with graphs and looked at various toxicity data on Imidacloprid and plotted on log-log graph to find the power law. It's disturbing to say the least. If you are wondering why we don't see residue in collapsed colonies, the answer is that the effects happen at unobservably small chronic doses.
The post is here: http://squashpractice.wordpress.com/...-imidacloprid/
We've got to follow the Europeans and get rid of this stuff!

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Cult New York fashion label Ruffian, headed by designers Brian Wolk and Claude Morais, infuses modern fashion—from tailored jackets to crystal-studded accessories—with a Victorian flair. They have a decade of experience crafting runway-ready couture—so it's no surprise that when they branched out into nail color, they created a top-tier product: Their polishes glide on smooth, opaque, and blissfully streak free. The brand is available exclusively at Birchbox: Their first collection featured three crowdsourced colors. Now, their line has expanded to offer a wide range of fashion-forward shades.


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ICT for Women's Rights - APC looks at Beijing +15
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"As feminists, we are creating our own media and disrupting and challenging mainstream notions of identity and what women are or should be. We are self-representing, to recast ourselves and challenge stale notions of what women are or should be. We are demonstrating the multiplicity and diversity of who we are", writes APC women's programme as a prologue to the Beijing+15 review process that is starting on March 1st in New York.Full article at http://www.ips.org/mdg3/ict-for-womens-rights-acp-looks-at-ney-york-csw/


text: NEA vice president shares vision for public higher education NEA VP Lily Eskelsen García visited UMass Amherst to meet with MTA higher ed members about to start contract talks. In a spirited talk with educators, students and staff October 16 at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, National Education Association Vice President Lily Eskelsen García championed the value of a strong public higher education system.Eskelsen García drew on her own story, as a lunch lady and kindergarten aide before she was persuaded to become a teacher herself, in order to illustrate the value of high-quality, accessible public higher education. She worked and relied on federally backed student loans in order to get her degree from the University of Utah. Upon graduation, she taught elementary school, eventually being named Utah's Teacher of the Year in 1989. She also ran for Congress in 1998. "My country made an investment in me," she said.Eskelsen García drew a packed house at the UMass Student Union. Following her talk she met with about a dozen students from the College of Education and the Labor Studies Program. The three MTA units on the UMass campus — the University Staff Association, Professional Staff Union and Massachusetts Society of Professors — had invited Eskelsen García as a kickoff event as contract talks get underway on campus.Eskelsen García blended humor and insight during her talk, which illustrated two different visions of public higher education."At the NEA, we believe the business of education is to open students' minds."- NEA Vice President Lily Eskelsen García"There are those motivated by greed and fear," said Eskelsen García, describing interests that advocate putting colleges and universities in private hands and shrinking public funding for higher education. "At the NEA, we believe the business of education is to open students' minds." Acknowledging the need for high standards, Eskelsen García bemoaned the use of college rankings and rigid standards to measure the quality of education. "Paint-by-numbers reform makes us sick," she said, describing a cycle in which faulty ranking systems can form the basis for criticizing public education, then fuel campaigns for reducing funding, destabilizing the system and opening it up to further criticism. When Eskelsen García took questions from the audience, a student asked what she thought the relationship should be between students and unions. Eskelsen García responded, "You are our biggest untapped treasure, the diamonds. As a union, we need to build an organization outside of our own organization and organize students and families into communities and fight for what this community wants and needs."Eskelsen García brought that same message into her smaller meeting with students, drawing the connection between union membership and education and explaining how a national union of 3 million members finds its power in grass-roots organizing. "The union creates a circle of influence to achieve the education goals our members want," she said.MTA President Paul Toner, who attended Eskelsen García's talk, said that the educator unions on the UMass campus and throughout the state's public colleges and universities "are at the forefront of efforts to maintain quality and affordability for students.""When you look at Lily's own story and successes, it's plain to see how public colleges and universities make it possible for people to reach their potential, and that benefits us all in the long run," Toner said.


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As Governor Donald L. Carcieri celebrated his 64th birthday on December 16, he could take satisfaction in any number of things: a successful business career; a big family — with four children and more than a dozen grandchildren; and, most recently, his ability to withstand the national Democratic tide in November by winning a second term in Rhode Island's top political office.
Yet after storming the State House as a first-time candidate in 2002, successfully setting himself against the Democrat-controlled General Assembly, the GOP governor will clearly face tougher sledding when his second term begins next week. The recent defection to the Democrats of Representative Joseph Scott of Exeter, a longtime Republican, speaks volumes about the prevailing currents at the State House, where the ruling Democrats are stronger and more unified than in several years.
Little wonder, then, that Carcieri expresses occasional frustration about the difficulty of making change in government, as compared with the private sector. And while the governor can claim some real accomplishments, many of Rhode Island's most serious problems — including continuing state deficits, an insufficient number of good jobs, and sharp disparities between rich and poor communities — remain basically unchanged from the time when he took office. More fundamentally, the man who arrived with a vow to challenge the system must move swiftly and skillfully to make the most of his time while inexorably moving toward lame duck status.
Here's a look at some of the leading challenges facing Carcieri in the New Year.
Remain Relevant: The governor's self-confidence, breezy manner, and strong communication skills help to obscure his politically disadvantageous position on Smith Hill, where Speaker William J. Murphy holds a far better hand than during the past two years. While Carcieri was previously able to form an alliance with dissident Democrats, Murphy has shored up his support, signaling the return of a stronger speakership.
Murphy spokesman Larry Berman says the speaker "certainly would like to work with the governor to move the state forward on issues such as economic development and getting their arms around the budget deficit." While they have different opinions about the future of Quonset Point, Carcieri and Murphy worked together last year to support a tax cut for the wealthiest Rhode Islanders, so there's a certain mind-meld at work.
Still, after Carcieri pursued a confrontational course toward the General Assembly during his first two years in office, and then a more collaborative one, it's going to take a lot more of the latter to strike an effective working relationship with the legislature and its various constituencies.
Solve The Deficit, Part One: Noting the trend in which expected deficits have turned into surpluses, Carcieri has sounded a bullish response to concerns about a deficit pegged this year in the area of $105 million.
Some observers, though, don't share the governor's optimism. The thinking is that it could prove difficult to counter diminishing state revenues, which are due to declining car and home sales, less money than anticipated from Lincoln Park, and growing costs in the Department of Corrections and some other departments. "Obviously, balancing the budget is the biggest challenge, and it's a short- and a long-term challenge," notes Gary Sasse, executive director of the Rhode Island Public Expenditure Council.
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EstroGel Patient Information Including Side Effects
Brand Names: Divigel 0.25 mg/packet, Divigel 0.5 mg/packet, Divigel 1 mg/packet, Elestrin Pump, Estrasorb, EstroGel Pump, Evamist
Generic Name: estradiol topical (for use on skin) (Pronunciation: ess tra DYE ol TOP ik al)
- What is estradiol topical (EstroGel)?
- What are the possible side effects of estradiol topical?
- What is the most important information I should know about estradiol topical?
- What should I discuss with my health care provider before using estradiol topical?
- How should I use estradiol topical?
- What happens if I miss a dose?
- What happens if I overdose?
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- What other drugs will affect estradiol topical?
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What is estradiol topical (EstroGel)?
Estradiol is a form of estrogen, a female sex hormone that regulates many processes in the body.
Estradiol topical (for the skin) is used to treat certain symptoms of menopause such as hot flashes, and vaginal dryness, burning, and irritation.
Estradiol topical may also be used for purposes not listed in this medication guide.
What are the possible side effects of estradiol topical?
Get emergency medical help if you have any of these signs of an allergic reaction: hives; difficulty breathing; swelling of your face, lips, tongue, or throat.
Stop using estradiol topical and call your doctor at once if you have a serious side effect such as:
- chest pain or heavy feeling, pain spreading to the arm or shoulder, nausea, sweating, general ill feeling;
- sudden numbness or weakness, headache, confusion, or problems with vision, speech, or balance;
- pain, swelling, warmth, or redness in one or both legs;
- abnormal vaginal bleeding;
- pain, swelling, or tenderness in your stomach;
- jaundice (yellowing of the skin or eyes); or
- a lump in your breast.
Topical estradiol is absorbed through the skin and can cause premature puberty in a child who comes into contact with this medicine or with skin where the medicine was applied. Call your doctor if a child who has close contact with you develops swollen nipples or enlarged breasts.
Less serious side effects may include:
- nausea, vomiting, loss of appetite;
- swollen breasts;
- acne or skin color changes;
- vaginal pain, dryness, or discomfort, decreased sex drive, or difficulty having an orgasm;
- swelling, weight gain;
- migraine headaches, dizziness, depression; or
- break-through bleeding, vaginal itching or discharge.
This is not a complete list of side effects and others may occur. Call your doctor for medical advice about side effects. You may report side effects to FDA at 1-800-FDA-1088.
Read the EstroGel (estradiol gel) Side Effects Center for a complete guide to possible side effects
What is the most important information I should know about estradiol topical?
You should not use this medicine if you have any of the following conditions: a history of heart attack, stroke, or blood clot (especially in your lung or your lower body), a bleeding or blood-clotting disorder, liver disease, abnormal vaginal bleeding, history of an allergic reaction to estradiol topical, or a hormone-related cancer such as breast or uterine cancer.
Estradiol topical can harm an unborn baby or cause birth defects. Do not use if you are pregnant.
Do not use estradiol topical if you are breast-feeding a baby.
Topical estradiol is absorbed through the skin and can cause premature puberty in a child who comes into contact with this medicine or with skin where the medicine was applied. Call your doctor if a child who has close contact with you develops swollen nipples or enlarged breasts.
Children should avoid coming into contact with skin areas where you have applied estradiol topical. If contact does occur, wash with soap and water right away. Cover treated areas with clothing to protect others from coming into contact with the skin where you apply this medicine.
Estrogens will not prevent heart disease, heart attack, stroke, breast cancer, or dementia, and may actually increase your risk of developing these conditions. Estrogens may also increase your risk of uterine or ovarian cancer.
Talk with your doctor about your individual risks before using estradiol long-term. Your doctor should check your progress on a regular basis (every 3 to 6 months) to determine whether you should continue this treatment.
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TFK reports from the White House Easter Egg Roll
On Monday morning, the fog cleared, the sun came out and more than 30,000 people joined President Barack Obama and his family at the White House for the 135th annual Easter Egg Roll. Inspired by First Lady Michelle Obama's Let's Move initiative, the theme of the event was Be Healthy, Be Active, Be You. Instead of handing out the traditional chocolate bunnies and jellybeans, the First Family chose to serve apples. The event also offered plenty of opportunities to get moving and learn about healthy lifestyle choices.
The Eggtivity Zone featured an obstacle course and other physical challenges led by professional athletes. Celebrity chefs demonstrated healthy cooking. Yoga instructors from around the country taught kids how to stretch. And of course there was the egg roll, a race in which kids use spoons to push eggs across the White House lawn.
A Day to Learn and Play
Several special guests joined in the festivities. Nine-year-old Robby Novak, otherwise known as the Kid President, introduced the first family from the White House's Blue Room balcony. Robby's YouTube videos, in which he urges people "to make the world awesome," have been viewed by millions. Robby was thrilled when he found out he was going to meet the President. "I danced!" Robby told TFK.
Auto racing star Danica Patrick came to the White House to encourage kids to be active. As a top racecar driver, Patrick understands the importance of being physically fit. "Car races are three to four hours long and you have the heart rate of a running pace, so we do have good cardio endurance," she told TFK.
Chicago's Ultimate Tumblers, a group of young acrobats, gave two performances. After seeing them compete on America's Got Talent, the First Lady invited the group last year and again this year to wow attendees with their jaw-dropping flips, jumps and turns. "We almost won [on the show], but fell a little short," said the group's founder, Orpheus R. Floyd. "But the best thing about it is that we got invited back and will be on for a second season."
Healthy Living: A Focus for the First Family
White House executive chef Cris Comerford and executive pastry chef Bill Yosses gave a demonstration on healthy cooking. Both chefs have been working with the First Lady to educate kids about good nutrition. "From the very first week [Mrs. Obama] was in the White House, she asked us to help her talk to young people about healthy living," said Yosses.
According to Comerford, "the Obamas like everything." Their meals often include freshly picked produce from the garden, she says. "Right now there are greens and cabbages that are saying 'Please cook me!' That is the main thing on the plate along with a healthy protein like chicken or fish."
Throughout the morning, the Obamas spent time interacting with their young guests. President Obama read the book Chicka Chicka Boom Boom to a group of children, and later joined professional basketball players for a game of hoops with several kids. The First Lady demonstrated her love of gardening at her famous vegetable garden and visited with excited fans. What an egg-traordinary day at the White House!


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CDARS® is the Certificate of Deposit Account Registry Service. If you're looking for a safe and convenient way to enjoy FDIC insurance on deposit amounts larger than the standard FDIC maximum, CDARS might be the best choice for your investment.
1 - Limits apply. Funds may be submitted for placement only after an investor enters into a CDARS Deposit Placement Agreement with our bank. This agreement contains important information and conditions regarding the placement of funds.
2 - If an investor is subject to restrictions with respect to the placement of funds in depository institutions, it is the responsibility of the investor to determine whether the placement of the investor's funds through CDARS or a particular CDARS transaction satisfies those restrictions.
3 - Because deposited funds are exchanged on a dollar-for-dollar basis with other banks in the CDARS Network, our bank can use the full amount of a deposit placed through CDARS for local lending, satisfying some investors' local investment goals/mandates. Alternatively, with an investor's consent, our bank may choose to receive fee income instead of deposits from other banks. Under these circumstances, deposited funds would not be available for local lending.
CDARS is one of the safest and smartest investment vehicles for investors looking to protect their large-dollar investments while earning CD-level returns.
The FDIC insures up to $250,000 of a customer's savings deposits in a given insurable capacity at an FDIC insured depository institution.¹ So, you can run around to multiple institutions to deposit your funds to receive the same coverage you can access using CDARS. Or you can place your large-dollar deposit with First United Bank– a member of the CDARS Network. Your deposit is divided into smaller amounts and placed with other CDARS Network members – each an FDIC-insured institution. Then, those member institutions issue CDs in amounts under the standard FDIC insurance maximum, so that your deposit is eligible for FDIC insurance at each member bank. By working directly with one financial institution –First United Bank– you can receive insurance through many.
Funds placed through CDARS are deposited only in FDIC-insured banks. We act as custodian for your CDARS deposits, and the sub-custodian for CDARS deposits is The Bank of New York Mellon ("BNY Mellon"), the largest custodian in the world with total assets of more than $22 trillion.²
Unique to CDARS, a depositor can obtain a confirmation of records maintained by BNY Mellon as sub-custodian in order to reconcile those records with the statements received from us. At any time, as often as desired, a depositor can obtain a certified statement from BNY Mellon that confirms the exact amount of his or her CDs, including principal balance and accrued interest, for each FDIC-insured institution that issues a CD through CDARS. You can submit a request for the certified statement, along with BNY Mellon's processing fee, through us. BNY Mellon will send the certified statement directly to you or to another party, such as an auditor, designated by you.
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politics and religion
Mr. A. Martin of Merrifield stated in his recent letter that we should avoid speaking with others on religion and politics as both are often irrational and based on faith and fantasy. He continually writes letters specifically on those two subjects, and in each case he is totally irrational.
It appears that because he (in my opinion and that of most folks I talk to) is a socialist or something similar and also an atheist, he prefers to belittle everyone with an opinion different than his.
In his latest rant he said that a missionary on a God-inspired mission should have stayed out of a Muslim country and waited for like-minded folks to come to him. I ask then, how is someone to be like-minded if they have never heard the message?
God has instructed us to make disciples of ALL nations. This instruction does not say sit on your duff and let them come so they may learn.
He further states that it is condescending and insulting to push Christianity. He also states that it is dangerous. First of all, there is but one God. He is the God of Christianity, the Trinity. Christ told us that the only way to the Father is through Him.
Thus, those who are unbelievers will be judged by Him as such. Is it dangerous to be a missionary in a Muslim or similar country? It is absolutely as documented in Holy Scripture which we can see by the fate of each of Christ's Apostles.
Finally, Mr. A. Martin of Merrifield, just maybe your message doesn't have as much value as you assume!
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Thomas Eakins- Portrait of James Carroll Beckwith
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After studying and painting in France and Spain, Thomas Eakins brought back to the United States what he learned in Europe and applied it to the life he knew in Philadelphia. He was an influential instructor at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and even after his removal from the Academy, students continued to follow his innovative ideas and were enthusiastic about his encouragement to find inspiration in the people and places of the United States. Steadfast in his realism, Eakins was a controversial figure in his day but is today regarded among the most important of American artists.
This life-sized portrait is typical of Eakins's later works in which the subject emerges dramatically from a dark background. The portrait depicts James Carroll Beckwith, an American painter known mainly for his portraits and romanticized female figures. Eakins depicts Beckwith in the act of painting one such work, a portrait of Mrs. Beckwith, who was also an artist.


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Peter V. Brett has won rave reviews for his internationally best-selling novels, including his stunning debut, The Warded Man.
A continuation of his epic Demon Cycle series, The Daylight War features Inevera, the wife of Jadir, who took center stage in Book 2, The Desert Spear. In this heart-stopping installment, humanity continues to struggle against the demon plague - even as survivors hold out hope that the Deliverer will save them all. On the night of the new moon, the demons rise in force, seeking the deaths of two men, both of whom have the potential to become the fabled Deliverer, the man prophesied to reunite the scattered remnants of humanity in a final push to destroy the demon corelings once and for all.
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"What in The Core happened?"
What happened, Mr. Brett???
First, I must say that I have been counting the days (and weeks, and months) until this release. The other two books, I've read and listened to MANY times each. I love the characters, the action, the whole concept of the demons and wards. I was even so starved for the story that I listened intently to the Krasian's stories, rather than just tolerating them as a means to an end (namely, getting back to Cutter's Hollow).
I've sung the praises of these books to anyone who'll listen.
So when I saw that Audible had The Daylight War nearly two weeks early, I thought either Christmas came late, or there was some mistake.
And then I WISHED it'd been a mistake. Thank God they used Pete Bradbury again, because that's the only thing that got me through the **tedium** of the first half of the book. The interactions between Arlon and Rena were especially painful. Not only did I feel like I was back in junior high, but Mr. Brett made sure I REALLY understood the point he was trying to convey about Arlon's new aww shucks, Regular Joe demeanor (another huge disappointment) and Rena's neediness. Even Leesha's parts felt weak. There were many things he glossed over (Leesha and the duke), while belaboring the broader points of Arlon's and Rena's insipid interactions.
Finally, around the half-way mark, we get some action, and things progress. We have battles, thank the creator. And then, after all that, the book ends with a cliffhanger?! Ugh.
In summary: yes, you should get the book. It's got some good content, even if it takes its sweet time getting there. But PLEASE don't judge the series by this book. And, Mr. Brett, PLEASE write the fourth book as well as you wrote the first two.
My taste differs from kid books to gory horror books.
A great beginning, with lots of action and setting of mood. As the story continue there were a few moments of excitement and intelligence, but for the most part I needed to drink Cozie to get through it. Lots of talk, with lots of planning and strategy. Brett needs to take his own advice, GREAT THINGS CAN BE FOUND IN SMALL WORDS. I lost patience and interest in what was happening, The demons are no longer scary or unique, there is very little to hold my attention and certainly not for 26 hours. Just as Paul in Dune got boring when he became a worm, The Warded Man is boring as the invincible. The first book gets an A, the second a B+ and this a C. If you like the second book better then the first, then you might like this, if you liked the first book best, this is not going to excite you.
"Too much filler. The story could have been shorter"
The world is captivating and quite unique, but the consistent sexual overtone was wearing as it didn't add to the story, but was more a filler. I started skipping through certain characters chapters as they once again appear to be filler (since they're secondary characters)
"The Daylight War without a daylight war"
I'm not sure why this book is titled the Daylight War. Don't want to spoil anything, but the plot that this title refers to doesn't really go anywhere in this book. This was disappointing. And lots of backstory was rehashed. This, too, was disappointing. It would have been more true to the story being told if this volume had been titled: The Daylight Porn, but I'm getting off track...
Despite my complaints, I still enjoyed most of the hours spent listening to this book. No, the overall plot doesn't advance much. It didn't in book 2 either. I'm not sure why Brett is writing this series this way, but I'll reserve my judgement whether this is a good idea or not until the end of the Demon Cycle. If you're a fan, yes, buy this. If you're new to the series, I'd say wait until the fifth and final volume is released. You'll deal with a lot less frustration if you take my advice.
Yes, it ends on a cliffhanger. In fact, the ending almost jumps up and down with its own "clever" cliffhangeriness. I found it annoying. It seemed the story would have been better served with another hour or two to close this portion of the tale. Oh well. Authors have their artistic freedoms.
I liked it. I hated it. Which feeling will prevail in the end? I don't know. Give me a few weeks to think about it. Faults and all, you can't deny that Brett is a talented writer, and his characters are truly interesting. Just please, please, Mr. Brett and co, take this story somewhere in book 4.
"Can't Believe Audible Didn't Announce The Release."
WTF Audible? What's up with not letting me know that this was out? With all the recommendation from you for books I've already listened to, I am SHOCKED that not once did you recommend this to me. I LOVE THIS SERIES!!!!!
"Good, but not really great"
First off, I will start by saying that I will read the next book in the series. However, this book did not give the same satisfaction as the first book in the series.
In the previous books, as in most books, the author builds towards a goal - you keep trying to figure out what that goal will be, how it will turn out, and you expect what you are reading to be contributions towards that goal; everything leads you to that goal and the story hangs together.
I felt that If I had only listened to the last hour of this book, I would not have missed very much. Maybe all the things discussed in this book will gain more meaning in future books of the series. In this book, they seem to be non-contributary to the outcome of the book. The only parts that really seem to matter are those parts where the warded man himself is talked about, or where his opposite number is discussed. My hope is that groundwork is being laid in this book. It is impossible to know if that is really the case. If I had it to do over, I truly would have listened to only the last half of the book now that I know all what I was reading added little to the altimate conclusion.
It feels like the overall body of the story and the conclusion are two different stories that have little relation to each other; they are only tied together loosely by a thin thread. If you decide to read this book, you will understand better what I mean (and you'd have been forewarned).
It is not a waste of a credit. But don't expect the same satisfaction you got from the first book-
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"awesome! left me wanting more, more, more!"
wow! i thoroughly enjoyed the 1st book, getting thrilled as arlen became the warded man and rescuing leesha and rodjer. the 2nd book took me a while getting into b/c the beginning was focused on jardir, and i was still pissed at him for stealing the spear from arlen, but i ended up enjoying jardir's story b/c the krasians reminded me of the freeman in dune. jardir's story added more depth to the story and world. so, i wondered what would be in book 3, the daylight war.
this time, we get enevera's story. her story, from being called by the dice to enter the dama tiq to her harrowing experiences being surrounded by rivals to her finally rising to damania is interesting and adds to her complexity.
add tp that, there are a few scenes b/ween her and jardir are retold from her perspective. all in all, i enjoyed being caught up by enevera's story. it helps you to understand why she schemes and tells half truths to jardir.
ok...i know i'm butchering the spelling. LOL
arlen grows out of his dark side, no longer scared of his powers. speaking of powers, he gained some new abilities from his struggle with the mind demon, and they are awesome. he shows them off in the battles.
speaking of the battles, they come later in the story, but they are epic. 100s of demons under the control of mind demons ruthlessly attack the hollow, where arlen is, and rizon, where jardir is. we get a little peak into hierarchy of the core through the mind demons' interactions with each other.
when arlen gets back to the hollow, there are big changes as the duke has sent count thamos to oversee the protection and the building up of the hollow. and what they've managed to build is cool so i won't spoil it. but the demons, under the direction of the mind demons, know how to build too!
down in rizon, aben, is helping jardir plot and plan his strategies through aben's prophecy of profit, which aids jardir as much as enevera's dice. under everybody's noses, aben continues to build his empire and his own private army. aben even finds something of great interest to jardir and enevera. aben is finally able to get revenge on somebody who has been a real thorn in his side since his days as a young boy.
there's just the right amount of politics thrown in- between the krasian clans and between the hollowers and count thamos. there's even good old family infighting. all this adds to the overall tension in the story. peter brett does a great job mixing the different layers of tension throughout the story.
just as arlen's powers have grown so has jardir's thanls to the spear and crown he wears. his powers even surprise enevera. Both use their powers in unique ways, which add depth to the storytelling.
renna tanner, arlen's sidekick, is as crazy amd unpredictable as ever. she keeps trying to keep up with arlen, causing her to at times lose touch with reality. will this obsession be her white whale?
leesha, wanda, rodjer, and garret finally leave jardir's conquered territories. however, leesha and rodjer are not leaving alone. that's my way of hinting at things. LOL
this is a long listen but well worth it. all of the characters get the right amount of time. this allows peter brett to add depth to each character.
i'm trying to not say too much. this is a worthy follow-up. i'm just sad that i'll have to wait so long for the next book b/c this book ends with a massive cliffhanger in the fight b/ween jardir and arlen. "the end" are now my most hated 2 words! LOL yes, they finally do get to confront each other, and i've listened to the last 45 minutes a couple of time already!
if you've liked the story so far, you'll love this book! A worthy addition!
"Patience is needed...wade through the first half!"
Notwithstanding the difficulty of remembering what all of the odd sounding titles and other references relate to, this book didn't,in my opinion have any real action until you reached pasted the half-way point.
I did not like the way the author went back in the timeline, previous books, to develop a character that had already been introduced, albeit, not to the extent as to how she arrived in power. I didn't care, and part of the development was a constant interaction of a sexual nature, not benefiting the excellent story line.
In one part of the book, I thought the producer had accidentally taken passage from a previous book, since it reiterated what was already told. I think the author just needed filler, so he would be able to write the next book in the series.
The ending was like a TV drama, with a cliff-hanger, leading into the next book, also not to my liking. This story line is enjoyable, but I would have preferred to limit the filler, and either increase the action, or decrease the number of books in the series!
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"Entertaining characters and story line"
As the story world continues to unfold, I am finding myself drawn deeper. The characters are not predictable, they surprise me frequently. My only complaint is the occasional "critical mass" use of terms in dialog that would be meaningless to the character. It isn't a very big flaw, just an interruption of "suspension of disbelief." I did not buy the novellas that follow this book. I hope I don't regret it. Onward to the "Skull Throne."
"Continuation of a fabulous series"
Wow! I just love this series! The down side of this installment is Rena. I can't quite figure out what her point is in the story. She is rather one dimensional and doesn't seem to propel or give depth to the story or the other characters. The other characters continue to grow and interact wonderfully! My only other disappointment is that the next book is yet to be released!
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Tropical ecologists have a long tradition of tromping through the forest in rubber boots, tracking the fates of individual trees and perhaps scaling some of these 50-meter giants to sample their foliage. But forests—and the conservation issues they face—dwarf even the most ambitious on-the-ground studies. Ecologist Greg Asner, of the Carnegie Institution for Science in Stanford, California, and his team developed the Carnegie Airborne Observatory to scale up the old-school data. The observatory consists of three remote-sensing instruments on board a Dornier 228 airplane. The resulting images of vast tracts of forest, interpreted in light of complementary data collected from individual trees, reveal information about forest ecology, diversity and health. Asner spoke with American Scientist associate editor Elsa Youngsteadt about the project.
What research instruments are on board the observatory?
There are three major instruments suspended over a big hole in the back of the plane, looking out. The first one is a high-fidelity imaging spectrometer, which measures sunlight reflected off the vegetation. Sunlight interacts with the molecular composition of the leaves, and those molecules bend, vibrate, rotate and stretch at certain frequencies associated with their chemical composition. So the way each tree canopy scatters light tells us which molecules are in its leaves. Our spectrometer is unique in that it can measure light from ultraviolet, around 380 nanometers, through the visible spectrum and all the way up to shortwave infrared, around 2,510 nanometers. And it does that in little 5-nanometer slices. When you take a photo with a digital camera, it usually has three bands: red, green and blue. Ours has 420 bands.
The second instrument is a LiDAR, which stands for light detection and ranging. It uses two lasers, firing up to 400,000 times per second, to create a 3-D image of the forest canopy and the terrain below it. The third technology is another spectrometer. It doesn't measure as much of the spectrum as the first one, but it has a spatial resolution that's four times higher.
How do you integrate that information into a single image?
No one instrument does it all: If we only had a LiDAR, we would see the 3-D structure of the canopy with no color. If we only had a spectrometer, we could paint a map with chemical colors, but it would look 2-D. We've developed a lot of knowledge on how to make each spectral pixel from each spectrometer line up perfectly with the LiDAR pixels. We use the information that's shared between all the instruments: timing, GPS data, and information from an IMU (instrument motion unit) that records the roll, pitch and yaw of the aircraft.
How do you get from one of these 3-D images to information about leaf chemistry and tree diversity?
We have a big database, which we call the spectranomics database, that was built by me, my colleague Robin Martin (who happens to be my wife) and a big team running around the tropics, climbing trees, getting foliage samples and specimens to identify. We use a field spectrometer to measure the spectral properties of the foliage in a way that will be compatible with the airborne spectra. And we have a big chemistry lab here where we reduce the foliar samples down to 21 chemical traits—from nutrients to defense compounds like phenols. So the database includes the spectral data, the chemical data and the taxonomic information. Sometimes we try to match the airborne spectra to the database to identify species in our images. More often, we use the database as a guide to look at communities of species.
Does this work have implications for conservation?
Conservationists who have a finite amount of dollars aren't necessarily interested in every single species, but they're interested in knowing where the hot spots are. And I can't produce a map of every single species, but I can say, "Here's an area that's high biodiversity and here's one that's low." We're also trying to help conservationists look at forests in a new way. Our data show that tropical forests are not all functionally the same. They vary in carbon exchange or nutrient cycling or defense from herbivores, for example. Therefore, conservationists can apply their efforts to maintain a portfolio of functional variation.
Could you give an example of an insight you have gained into forest composition and function?
I flew heavily last July and August in the southern Peruvian Amazon. It was hit hard by the 2010 drought and I wanted to know how the tree communities were faring. We can use spectral and chemical markers to see areas where the canopy is extremely drought stressed, even though it looks green to the naked eye. Our images show specific tree communities that are more prone to drought stress. For example, you might think that species that naturally grow on infertile soils would already be stressed and that a drought could just wipe them out. But they're actually the ones that have evolved to be very hardy, whereas communities that are naturally found on high-fertility soils or floodplains seem very vulnerable to drought.
You can find this online at http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/num2/biodiversityrsquos-invisible-palette/1
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Correct, and I don't see the need to inform everyone else who you (not you) have on your block list. Let's move along. Oldtimer's right on the money.
Correct, and I don't see the need to inform everyone else who you (not you) have on your block list. Let's move along. Oldtimer's right on the money.
Regards, Barry
Like Barry said:
"People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe."- Andy Rooney
I believe that is correct sp
But I don't think Sol is blocking me because he disagrees with what I say. He's blocking me because he thinks I'm insulting him. I'm fine with that decision. I don't lose out. I just find it funny that he can criticize everyone, but when someone points out his shortcomings, it's viewed as insults, and we just can't stand for that.
yes specialkayme, that is correct. barry confirmed it, probably while you were typing.
sorry to hear about your previous bad experiences on the tfb forum.
i've heard about others having some too, before my time here.
we are all people, and people are funny, and
'almost as interesting as bees.........'
wadda ya'll say that all of us do our best to check our egos in at the door, and see if we can't generate some more good discussions like this on the tfb forum.
it's too important of a topic to all beekeepers for us not to try.
journaling the growth of a treatment free apiary started in 2010. 20+/- hives
Threads quickly get tiresome when people get off-topic, and on personal attacks. So let's not do that. Specialk, is a tf apiary that fails after seven years really a failure of treatment free?
New thread for that I guess...
To keep it simple. the 80's and other "Bad" periods are the symptoms of the mistakes. It is a bit like getting the flu and then saying. but I stayed in bed, drank lots of fluids etc. etc. etc. When others are talking about how to not get the flu in the first place. Theoretical at best. the flue will happen regardless of weather you stay away from sick people. just not as frequently.
I will say that conversations just like this one. and that someone like you that admittedly says it is not that much of a concern to you. is a good sign. you are still willing to take your time to listen and contribute. It will be very few individuals that are willing to look at the bee under the microscope. it is the majority that want to look at them from a lawn chair. And this is very true. One challenge this fact presents is how do you effectively take the information from the microscope to the lawn chair. part of that responsibility lies with the person setting in the chair. They have to be at least willing to hear that their is a better way. This gets diluted when to many promises that do not bear fruit begin to happen. Sooner or later everyone starts saying. Yeah Yeah Yeah, Shut up and keep bees. Now the guy looking in the microscope has an elevated burden of proof to meet.
Anyway my comments are trailing off in to to many side issue.
Suffice it to say it is a complicated multi faceted issue. and this conversation that is actually going very well is just taking a close look at one of them.
Everything gets darker, as it goes to where there is less light. Darrel Tank (5PM drawing instructor)
Something failed. It might be the genetics of the hives, it might be the location (or the individual apiary), or it might be the treatment practices. Since I used the bond method, I selected the genetics of the hives through a "treatment free" practice. So to me, the first and last are interchangeable in this regard. As far as the location goes, I was stretched out over 3 different locations, all within about an hour and a half of each other. I used these locations over the course of the previous 5 years (admittedly not all 7). I only saw high losses of colonies in years 2 and 3. Year 5 I lost approx 50%. Year 7 I lost 100%.
That tells me it's not the location. It also tells me it wasn't "chance." I can understand losing 100% of my hives in year 7 if I only had 3 hives. Losing 100% of your hives when you are operating in the 20's is more than a coincidence.
If you ask me, the treatment free practices, in addition to the gene selection, created weaker bees than would have existed if I had treated periodically (with moderation) throughout the 7 years. The bees that resulted were able to fight off varroa (to some degree) but were completely unable to defend themselves against just about any other type of invader (nosema, SHB, and to some degree wax moths).
I've been told the failure of my apiary was not the bees fault, it was my fault. I was told that I wasn't doing tf correctly, in that I didn't use small cell comb (I used foundationless), I didn't rotate the combs out fast enough (I was on a 5 year rotation), I should have used 8 frame hives (I use 10), I should have used deep brood chambers (I used all mediums), I should have used more upper entrances, more screened bottom boards, less screened bottom boards, I should have purchased tf nucs, or purchased tf packages, or I should have shaken all the bees out of the hives for the first few years to get them to regress their cell size . . . the list goes on. It's easy for others to point the finger at me, and tell me I did something wrong, the bees didn't. Whether that's accurate, who knows.
Solomon, somewhere in the last two pages or so said that a bond beekeeper should make their own queens. this is not entirely true.
It is more of a matter of take a wide selection of genes and then select out for the traits you want. try to make those traits prevalent. but then you are going to then go outside and dump in a new selection of genes and do it again. But you want to select carefully those outside genes.
Everything gets darker, as it goes to where there is less light. Darrel Tank (5PM drawing instructor)
So if conversation can be key in curing cancer. can it possibly be key in developing treatment free beekeeping? One other key point though. is the conversation about being right. or finding answers that work? I for one don't think right exists. there is only better and worse wrong.
Everything gets darker, as it goes to where there is less light. Darrel Tank (5PM drawing instructor)
Originally Posted by Adam Foster Collins
is a tf apiary that fails after seven years really a failure of treatment free?
Regards, Barry
For sure all beekeepers have had their low points. I don't think it's out of line to suggest that any total loss of ones bees has to be considered a failure since at that point you are either quitting or repopulating from someone else's bees that you may know little if anything about. I doubt that many get into bees under the notion that they will most likely lose all their bees in a few years but that's ok. I, for one, haven't bought any bees to repopulate hives since pre varroa as odd as that might sound and even then it wasn't that we lost all our bees, only that we had too many empty boxes to fill in just one year.
"People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe."- Andy Rooney
But, it's often difficult to find a culprit when there are no survivors.
I probably should have taken samples of workers and wax and sent it to get tested. The cost of getting them tested prevented me from doing it on the first few hives that were lost. The sheer confusion prevented me from testing them on the vast majority in the middle. And the complete dismay and sorrow prevented me from taking any actions on the last two.
Live and learn though. I caught 4 swarms this year (three of which absconded later, during the dearth), and purchased 7 hives from a beekeeper who was moving to Canada. So all is well for now.
I am not sure my comments below directly address the thread(well they do in a round about way at least), but I had to toss this in as I attended the meeting as well with Michael Bush speaking. In the segment on how to select I really found a lot of what he had to comment on interesting. Particularly some comments that be made about bees being gamblers. I will paraphrase so hopefully I capture it (might be covered on his site but I hadn't read this anywhere yet).
All bees are gamblers. Some build up brood early (A), some in the middle (B) and some late (C). Based upon how the year rolls out A, B or C may have the advantage in production, etc. However just because one year a hive is busting loose with bees doesn't mean it is your best hive, rather it could mean it simply gambled and won. If the year had extremely odd weather, out of sink flows, etc. stock taken from this hive could prove a poor producer the following year when weather resume its more familiar cycle. i.e. a hive that builds up super early might out produce in a season with an early spring, then the following year starve due to too much brood and no nectar flows yet. Micheal's suggestion was perhaps we should be looking to avoid selection from the outlier hives, good or bad. Instead choose from the pretty good hives so we are able to hedge a bet against the next big bee crisis with broader diversity in the yard. Reading Specialkay's scenario makes me wonder if selection could have been part of the issue (not enough diversity for the other ailments to be survived).
There was a stark contrast between MB's talk and that of the Russian bee association. Which was very much about selection of the traits "we" deem important. It did come off to me like we could manipulate stock to do what we want if we keep the blood line pure. Working in such a vacuum concerns me. Especially when i listened on and found how working with Russian bees, (according to the speaker -Steven Coy?-) requires working in a vacuum of sorts to preserve the Russian bee genetics. Once the interbreeding occurs (Italian stock or feral, etc.) your advantages are virtually nonexistent and not notable with Russian bees. This to me was a huge warning flag. Not only is it very impracticable for many to attempt this, it really made me think we are setting ourselves up for the same pitfalls with Russians via narrowing as we already experienced with Italians.
All that said I am not sure that the bond method would select too narrowly, so long as the keeper makes the right selection choices and avoids a full on outlier approach.
If I misrepresented anything there I apologize in advance.
With the added details of your experience over the 7 years, I can see that it was rough, or some version of a failure for the duration. In that case, the total loss at year 7 would indeed seem like a failure of your attempt at treatment free.
It's all so darned FRUSTRATING, isn't it? There are just so many conflicting reports and opinions.
This is why I've come to believe that you just have to try everything for yourself until you find what works for you and your bees in your part of the world. All a forum like this does is give you a sense of options, and adds (or subtracts) a level of confidence in what you're trying at a given moment.
What a pain!
And I wonder...
Does regular, systematic requeening have the potential to reduce the gene pool just as much as the bond method?
"People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe."- Andy Rooney
Sure, it can be, but couldn't it be the opposite?
If you're practicing annual requeening from a major queen producer, isn't every queen you squish along the way a potential loss of more diverse genetic code? Let's say some of those queens are swarms you caught. You're getting rid of their variation in favor of the range of genetics maintained by your queen producer.
I guess my point is, if the bond method is criticized for reducing the gene pool, couldn't it follow that any willful or systematic elimination of queens could do the same thing? The difference is that the Bond method lets nature do the killing.
I'm not suggesting that requeening is a bad thing, but asking if certain approaches to methodical requeening coud be eliminating genetic diversity to the same degree (or more) than the bond method of selection. With periodic requeening, the only factor in the decision is the queen's age - not a genetic trait at all.
Adam: I can only speak for what we do and what I would expect other prudent queen producers to do. It is really easy to bring in whatever genetics you feel would improve your operation. We most definitely choose breeders for their different traits.
"People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe."- Andy Rooney
Sure enough. I guess I'm kind of thinking 'out loud' and realizing that pretty much any form of selection has the potential to reduce the gene pool. No matter why it happens, when bees die, there is the potential for some genetic material to be lost.
Bottom line for me is that I just don't see how the Bond method of selection is special in that regard, so I don't see how it stands up as a criticism. I started the thread when I read a quote from Marla Spivak criticizing the bond method for it's potential to narrow the gene pool.
But I don't see how it does so any more than any other form of selection.


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I've come to the conclusion that there is one group of people I hate. Texters. I don't care what color they are, religion, ideology, what have you. I hate them all equally. They are useless members of society that feed off of supposed self importance. ...............Now if you text while going to or from work on a bus or train, or from the safety of your own home, I'm cool with that.
If I am on a date and my date starts to answer a text, I get up, excuse myself and walk out. I don't even bother to tell her where I'm going. (Home). And if we've already ordered…she's stuck with the doggy bag as I won't be there to eat it. Apparently I'm not worth the time to get to know me and as far as I am concerned, I don't want to get to know her either. But at least she gets two free meals.
My advice to those people who are addicted to their lil friend…It's a PHONE FOR GODS SAKE! USE IT AS SUCH! Or are you actually afraid to make interpersonal contact with a actual live human being?
who lives in england? heading there in march for 3 years fak!


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KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Oregon Tech senior guard Karissa Dixon (Medford, Ore.) earned the Daktronics-NAIA Scholar Award for her performance on the field of play and in the classroom, the NAIA office announced recently.
Dixon, a three-time first-team all-conference recipient for the Owls, becomes a two-time NAIA Scholar Award recipient after being recognized by the NAIA national office last season as well.
To earn recognition as a NAIA Scholar Athlete, a student must have a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.5 and a junior in class standing.
Dixon was the only winter sport athlete to earn the NAIA Scholar Award and becomes the seventh athlete from Oregon Tech this year to earn the honor.


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Coming home
Radio personality Tom Joyner and singer Lionel Richie visited campus to honor their alma mater and the airmen on Jan. 16. Joyner flew over the University Chapel in his personal plane painted to pay tribute to the Tuskegee Airmen before the university's annual service held to remember the life of Martin Luther King Jr.
Hundreds filled the chapel to get a glimpse of Joyner, Richie and all of the visiting cast members during the service. Joyner entered the sanctuary carrying a large poster of his late father, Hercules, who trained to be an airman, but did not complete the program.
"My father and mother came to Tuskegee to become a part of history," Joyner later told the crowd.
After special performances from the university's choir and liturgical dance team, Edward Wheeler, president emeritus of the Christian Theological Seminary and former dean of the University Chapel, gave a stirring address on King's life and the problems blacks still face.
"We have come a long way from colored water fountains, but we still have a long way before we realize the vision of harmony and peace," he said.
Wheeler also drew many parallels with the bravery and vision of the Tuskegee Airmen and King. He urged the audience to be good stewards of their legacies.
"Neither one of us can give up the dream," Wheeler urged. "Our job is to remain steadfast and immovable in the work of the lord."
Joyner told the audience that growing up in Tuskegee and in the wake of the airmen's legacy greatly influenced his and Richie's childhoods.
"We had great role models and a can-do attitude seemed to be everywhere," Joyner said.
Richie said the story of the airmen getting such attention has been a long time coming.
"I can't imagine waiting this long to be recognized," he said.
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Slang: An adult or adolescent female who is half Asian and half Caucasian. She is a Chink and a Honky: Chink + Honky = Chonky
Diane is definitely a Chonky Sister; her mom is Chinese and her dad is White. In fact, she is Hack-Man's little sister.
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Breezy Point Ladies Golf League to host luncheon
The Breezy Point Ladies Golf League will hold its spring golf luncheon Thursday, May 9, at Billy's Restaurant with social at 11:30 a.m. and lunch at noon.
Cost is $11 and includes tax and tip. League dues are $30. The 9-hole league plays at 10 a.m. Thursdays and alternates play at White Birch and The Traditional courses. All women who like to play golf are welcome. Membership is not necessary.
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A gripping collection of stories of human criminality at its most bizarre.
These unusual, sensational murders recall not only gruesome historical crimes, but also touch on shocking and macabre modern murders. Included are details of groundbreaking advances in crime detection, law enforcement, and forensic science.
This is the top-secret report on the most grisly, and unusual, criminal activity of our time.
©2010 Constable & Robinson (P)2012 Constable & Robinson
"Lives up to the title"
Most entries are very detailed, though some leave you wondering about outcomes and loose ends. Overall a good listen.
Hi I'm Emma or Emz as most my friends call me, I'm a very big animal lover, I've had many types of pets through my life, major bookworm here
"Intresting bit long at times though."
Yes i definitely would.
All of it stays in your mind really as its all true accounts.
He makes you feel as if you are their at the scenes, through the eyes of the beholder's
Yes it certainly does id try a sample and then decide
"True Crime for the Beach or Vacation Reader"
Just because I said that this book's contents-- "story" is three stars does not mean that I didn't enjoy listening to it. The reader was fairly good and I learned something that I've often wondered about-- are books from the US translated fro the UK market. The answer, at least for this one is yes.
This is a compendium of true crimes. Many of them do have bits of the bizarre about them. Others are fairly banal. Some are well known, others I had never heard of before and I thought I was fairly well versed in at least historic crime. It made for undemanding listening while I was cutting out some winter killed vines from the front flower beds and doing some other chores. The accounts seem to mainly have been retold from secondary sources. The one that really bore that out was the retelling of the events in Vince Bugliosi's Till Death Us Do Part. Bugliosi for whatever reason used fake names for both the victims and perpetrators in his book. The real names are now readily available on the internet and the facts are a matter of public record so repeating this doesn't
Now for my favorite bit on the perils of translation. The Thomas Capano/Fahey trial was a bit of an internet sensation in part due to the fact that Capano was a well connected lawyer and political figure in Delaware. He killed Fahey in his own residence and then with his brother's assistance transported her body in a large plastic cooler to his brother's boat and tossed the cooler overboard. What happened then definitely put it's in the category of bizarre as the cooler just wouldn't sink. However, it becomes even more surreal when the cooler is called a refrigerator. The mental image of two men hauling a refrigerator out of a car and onto a boat, throwing it overboard then shooting at it because it won't sink and having to haul it back aboard made me wonder a bit about the facts as laid out in some of the other accounts.
At over 19 hours this is a solid listen.
"a crime that I did not like this book!"
I should have liked this book, I love true crime. There just wasn't enough detail to surround myself in each case, the conclusion was there before I had gotten interested. You have to listen very carefully every second or you will miss something important, if you can do this you may find this book to your liking.
"Quick stories, fun listening, cant get anybetter"
As long as they are a nut like me who loves crime stories
This is a good book to be able to pick up, listen to a couple of stories and put down. I't not like one story, it's many stories.
"Complete waste of time"
Nothing would have made this book better. It was like listening to a bunch of boring stories told from someone who only knew a little about the subject then before you realize it, the story is over and he's on to the next one.
If the development of the stories was a little better, you could get interested in them. Unfortunately, all of them are passed over so quickly, you can't. The author could have tried focusing more on the details and quality of each story, not the quantity of them.
The man reading this book had a weird English accent and cadence that sounded like he was trying to sound British but wasn't. It was so distracting, I could barely focus on how bad the stories were!!
I was greatly disappointed in this book after listening to several others and finding them all quite good.
Skip this if you value your time at all.
"too superficial to be satisfying"
This book is a series of brief summaries of interesting cases. My preference is for detailed description of the crime as it unfolds, the characters involved, and the process of detection and prosecution. Succint descriptions organised by theme doesn't do it for me, but anyone interested in an overview of (mainly) murder would probably find it interesting. David Shaw-Parker does a good job with the narration - a good voice and presentation for the subject matter.
"Not All Bizarre, But Still a Great Read!!"
Fun, fast-paced, informative.
The narrator does a great job telling the gruesome stories in the most light-hearted way that he can. I wasn't sure I liked him at the start of the book, but I grew quite fond of him quickly. He's also one of the best I've heard at doing accents, he was pretty amazing!
Nope, this was the first one. And will probably be the only one, unless he adds more books to his resumé. Of the 14 or so books he's got on Audible, this is the only one that interested me.
Or, The Depravity of Human Beings
I wish we could give half stars. 4 stars isn't enough, and 5 stars is too much. I'd have given it a full 5 stars, but I skipped a whole section on contract killings, mafia hits and assassins. That kind of stuff has never really interested me. But everything else was a wonderful, albeit sometimes gruesome, read.
"1000 brief newspaper articles"
No. I bought this on a whim, but realized I really am the sort of reader who likes depth and details. This book is like being read one brief newspaper article after another. The crimes are loosely grouped into categories.
I had no expectations when I bought this book, but it has still managed to leave me with a sense of disappointment.
"Narration needs work"
What I liked best: I recognized many of the cases reviewed, but there were a lot I had never heard of, so I heard about a lot of new cases to investigate.
What I liked least: The narration seemed not flat, just no interested.
I probably would not recommend this book to a friend, partly because I know no one else who would be interested in this type of reading material, and partly because the narrator does not do the material there justice.
What I liked about the performance was a definite pause in the narration to prepare the listener for the change of case. A book like this one would leave a listener lost without those pauses.
What I disliked: Well not to beat a dead horse, but the narration does not do the material justice.
No. This book would make a bad movie. Where each story is only a couple minutes long it would make it nearly impossible to keep up with what the heck was going on. The viewer would not have a chance to connect to any characters and that is an essential part of a successful film.
This book very briefly covers the facts of many murders and crimes. There is no analysis, or commentary by the author. If you are used to true crime by Ann Rule and M. William Phelps you are bound to feel like to much of the story is left out. However the title tells you that these will be brief synopsis of a great list of crimes, so it I hard to be disappointed by that fact.
I would recommend this book to anyone who enjoys fact finding summary reading.
"Great compilation!"
Yes, if the person is interested in basic facts about many different weird crimes. These are not in-depth, nor does the writer always give all salient facts; overall, though, it's a great compilation of bizarre crimes.
The sheer amount of research done and obvious interest in the subject that the author has.
Some stories have apocryphal or urban legend-type "facts" added, which are not always true. For instance, the electric chair that killed Albert Fish did not malfunction. Also, Fish's victim Grace Budd was 10, not 12 years old. While not a great difference, there is in the public's perception of the victim and goes a bit to the horror the public felt at the time.
"Almost too long."
It was a great book, although it took me what felt like a lifetime to finish.
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The sound produced by the testis when a large, often muscle-bound black man is anally demolishing a stupid pot head teenager with his 12" monster. The black guy doesn't do it because he likes it, it is because the douche bag rich kid doesn't. It is a loud, audiable slap against the gooch area by the testis, often leaving a red silhouette of the black guy's balls.
The muscley black dude totally nigga slapped that dumbass pot head as punishment for looking at his Asian girlfriend.
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One more dream season....i.see him and Eli getting one more title, I really do....next season motto: 1 more time! Eli and Tom and Kevin Gilbride and Snee and tuck, maybe osi, hixon, kp deserve one more...have neen so good together
I'm not sure "near future" means "years" with an s. I wouldn't want to break up the nucleus tho, not next year. Gonna be a Lombardi year for the NYGiants.
This is what TC will do
I think unless it gets really out of hand, for instance something like a total loss of the locker room, then Coughlin will not be the Giants' head coach only when he decides. I think overall Mara is happy with him and I know he was wanted prior to Dan Reeves being hired, but he wanted to stay at Boston College.
I believe the team won't push him out, he will retire when he wants to retire. He could retire after this year if we go balls to the wall and win another superbowl but I feel he's got a good 2 - 3 years left.


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Why science would benefit from a symbiosis-driven history of speciation.
Bradford Harris
During a recent meal with a friend who happens to be a successful engineer, I found myself drawn, as usual, into debate. Although our theological and political views diverge, he and I customarily find common ground in scientific epistemology. However, this time the topic was whether intelligent design should be taught in high schools. When I expressed incredulity at his support for teaching intelligent design, he said, "Brad, just look around us—survival of the fittest can't be all that's going on here, and I think it is important to respect people's sensitivity to that."
I reminded my friend that, because intelligent design argues for supernatural causes of natural phenomena, teaching it would undermine rational inquiry, together with students' ability to eventually make the kind of scientific breakthroughs we are enjoying today. I pointed out the U.S. National Institutes of Health's Human Microbiome Project as an example, which is revealing how human health suffers when the health of the millions of microorganisms with which we've coevolved suffers. My friend's simplistic interpretation of evolution as "survival of the fittest" left him ignorant even of the possibility of projects like this, which are based on evolutionary considerations of symbiosis. Evidently, educators—and certainly evolutionary specialists themselves—must broadcast a more nuanced story of evolutionary theory. Otherwise, future scientists and projects that inform better approaches to human health and global ecology will be sabotaged before they even emerge.
Science education has failed to overcome entrenched cultural ideals rooted not only in religion, but also in political philosophy. For those like my engineer friend trying to comprehend how magnificent structures of life emerge by means of "survival of the fittest," skepticism is understandable. Popular appreciation for life's complexity has far outpaced the popular interpretation of the evolutionary source of that complexity, which has remained stuck in 1864, when Herbert Spencer coined the phrase "survival of the fittest."
When it comes to the story of evolutionary science, people know the name Charles Darwin, but most do not know the names Ivan Wallin or Lynn Margulis—two more recent, groundbreaking evolutionary theorists. Over the past several decades, these and other researchers have revealed that organisms' cooperation and interdependence contribute more to evolution than competition. Symbiogenesis—the emergence of a new species through the evolutionary interdependence of two or more species—is at least as important in the history of life as survival of the fittest. Such insight has failed to gain traction in American minds—including those of American scientists—because of cultural history traceable back through the popularization of Adam Smith's individualist philosophy.
By the time Darwin published On the Origin of Species in 1859, the Western European and American mind had long been intellectually primed to interpret complexity by reducing perspective to the individual. Adam Smith's publication of The Wealth of Nations 83 years earlier had set the tone of philosophical and scientific approaches to understanding complex systems. Fundamental to Smith's philosophy, as economic historian Warren Samuel reminds us, was the notion that large organizations like the economy were to be "comprehended in terms of self-interest or maximization of personal well being." Smith's influence on Darwin was as strong as it was on the rest of the reading public.
The appeal of this philosophy was twofold: It morally liberated people to be selfish, and it intellectually liberated them to interpret a range of complicated questions in terms of simpler individual parts. When Darwin presented his theory of evolution in 1859, he stood firmly on the platform of Smith's individualist philosophy. As the renowned evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould surmised, the essential "Darwinian theory advocates no higher principle beyond individuals pursuing their own self-interest . . . [for] Darwin grafted Adam Smith upon nature to establish his theory of natural selection." If mid-19th-century readers struggled with the unseen mechanism of evolution, then they could do as Darwin did and conveniently borrow Smith's economic concept of the "invisible hand."
For most naturalists and laypeople alike, the logical extension self-interest was endless combat. In the second half of the 19th century, compelling historical reasons existed for this vision. Since Thomas Hobbes published Leviathan in 1651, Western Europeans and later Americans had struggled to reconcile ideals of self-government with social stability, often violently. Humanity's social institutions might separate it from the violent chaos of nature, but nature's violent chaos was assumed. The theory of natural selection grew out of and reinforced this assumption, and the most successful circulating English phrases to distill Darwin's tome depicted violence, not harmony. Nature was understood, through Alfred Lord Tennyson, as "red in tooth and claw." Similarly, T. H. Huxley tapped the psychological nerve well when he portrayed the history of life as "a continual free fight…the Hobbesian war of each against all." The English political theorist Herbert Spencer best captured the concept when he defined natural selection as "survival of the fittest."
Simple and cleanly fused with the entrenched political ideal of individualism, Darwinian natural selection totally dominated the Western perspective on evolution for more than a century. But even before the end of the 19th century, some Western naturalists began interpreting evolutionary principles differently, looking beyond competition to the role of cooperation.
These investigators studied the many "individual" species that resembled a composition of autonomous species or specie parts somehow working in association—for example, lichens, giant green anemones, and termites. In the 1880s, for example, the Scottish biologist Patrick Geddes interpreted the biological relationship between the algal and animal cells in giant green anemones as a special form of speciation. He reasoned that green algal cells were infused into the animal flesh of the anemone cooperatively. Geddes's chief interest was the evolution of this relationship. In 1882 he published in Nature under the title "Symbiosis of Alga and Animals," in which he argued that the giant green anemone, which outnumbered competing anemones that lacked algal cells, represented evolutionary adaptation outside the conceptual framework of Darwinism.
Geddes was not the first to use the term symbiosis, but he was among the first to discuss it in terms of evolution. He appreciated that symbiotic associations between "species" could become so integral to their biology that their individual species identity had little meaning outside of the relationship. Although admired briefly by his cohort, however, "Symbiosis of Alga and Animals" was buried beneath his work in other disciplines, such as urban planning. Apparently constrained by his culture's prevailing individualist perspective, Geddes never fully articulated a theory of symbiotic-driven speciation, nor did any other Western European or American scientists for another two generations.
If an evolutionary theory featuring symbiotic-driven speciation was to emerge, then it would likely do so outside Western Europe and North America. In fact, by 1910 Russian biologists had raced ahead with the idea of symbiotic-driven speciation. In that year enough relevant evidence had accumulated in the Russian scientific community for the botanist Constantin Merezhkowsky to create a new evolutionary term: symbiogenesis. He declared that the term aptly described "the origin of organisms by the combination or by the association of two or several beings which enter into symbiosis."
The Russians were not merely unswayed by the Western European and American cultural ideal of individualism; many of them were explicitly hostile to it. The well-known Russian naturalist, evolutionary theorist, and political philosopher Peter Kropotkin was highly critical, especially of Huxley's "Hobbesian war of each against all." In his travels across Siberia, Kropotkin was impressed by the cooperation he observed among people and animals. Saddled with his own cultural biases tilting toward socialism, Kropotkin was most interested in how the intra- and interspecies relationships of people, reindeer, birds, fish, ants, and numerous other organisms enabled them to survive the harsh Siberian winters.
Outside of their ecological associations, Kropotkin believed, individual organisms were not worth studying from an evolutionary perspective, because isolated individuals were not biologically viable in the unforgiving Siberian environment. In his most popular work, Mutual Aid (1902), Kropotkin wrote that "mutual aid is as much a law of animal life as mutual struggle, but . . . as a factor of evolution, it most probably has a far greater importance." He explained that "it favors the development of such habits and characters as insure the maintenance and further development of the species."
According to science historian Liya Nikolaevna Khakhina, Russian evolutionary theorists did not discount Darwinian natural selection, but they did conceive of it differently. By the 1920s, many Russian scientists had come to believe that "symbiosis was the source of evolutionary novelty but natural selection . . . acted on emerging and tightening symbiotic associations." In other words, according to Khakhina's notion of speciation, if "symbiosis is the author, natural selection is the editor."
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Google helping small businesses set up websites
Free event helps small local businesses get online presence
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - People from nearly 200 small businesses gathered in downtown Santa Barbara for a free Internet seminar hosted by Google.
The online giant is on a mission to get American businesses online by creating websites where potential clients and customers can find them by simply Googling.
"We want to change the perception out there that getting online is hard, that it's expensive and time-consuming" Google's director of small business engagement, Scott Levitan, said. "The truth is, getting online can take you about an hour."
According to Google, 97 percent of Internet users look for local goods and services online. Yet 62 percent of California business don't have a website. Google is working to change that.
"There is a big need for this gathering," Rep. Lois Capps (D) said. "There's a big need for the word to get out that one of the ways we can help small businesses grow in this country is to get on board online and use the resources we have available."
Google is offering these free seminars as part of the "Get your business online" campaign.
Most if not all of the small business owners in attendance left with a business listing on Google and with an easy-to-build website.


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