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Have car, will travel!
Would you drive nearly an hour for a delicious pie? Ms Critique saves us the trip and heads to The Oately Village Pie Shop as part of our Paint The Town Ford blogger challenge.
How far is too far to travel for a pie?
Once I get hooked on something, I'm hooked. There's no going back. For example, I used to periodically order a massive 5kg bag of crystalised ginger from Queensland every few months. I once found the perfect balsamic onion relish online, but so I didn't have to pay for shipping I'd have to order 6 jars at a time. One time, SilverFox and I even jumped on a plane to Adelaide just to go to dinner! (No darling, unfortunately not in the private jet, we nabbed some cheapie Jetstar flights for $28!) And, just last weekend, I went out of my way (a 30 min drive) just to buy truffle and mushroom butter. Yep, a small container of butter! Nothing gets in the way of me and good food. Nothing! And this Saturday was no exception.
Well, except for the fact that it was miserable. It was the kind of day where you stay inside and play board games and toast marshmallows over the fire. (Except, we don't have any board games and we don't have a fire.) Does an ipad and a heater count?
So, left without a single crumb in the house to eat, our only option, was to venture out into the icey cool climes of surburban Sydney. And as it happens, we both had a hankering for an Aussie dietary staple: the humble pie. (Although, I'm not so sure you'd call this pie, humble.)
You see, unbeknownst to us, when we stumbled across this little suburban pie shop on a drive out of town a few months ago, we didn't realise just how much of a following it has! (Although the queues out the door were a clue.) And it's not hard to understand why; they have a list of flavours as long as my arm, and all made fresh, daily.
Already discussing what pie we'd order once we got there, (C'mon, don't tell me you don't do that!) we bundled ourselves up like we were going on a road trip. We jumped in our new set of wheels, the Ford EcoSport Titanium. With me behind the wheel, SilverFox used SYNC™ to hook up his phone since he was on playlist duty. With Iggy the tunes of choice, 45 minutes later we arrived at our destination, starving. (And with a serious case of ear worm. Playing Fancy on repeat will do that!)
One hot pie later (okay, we really had three between us, but I didn't want you to judge) our craving had been fulfilled.
The seafood pie, was full of just that. Muscles! Calamari! Scallops! It was the real deal. The rich beef burgundy was a hit with SilverFox while we fought over the Chicken Satay. Truth be told, I think I got the raw end of the deal and only managed to steal a few bites, before SilverFox hoovered the rest. (Nothing new about that!)
So, how far is too travel for a pie, you ask? Not too far when you're visiting The Oately Village Pie Shop. So tell me Possum, how far have you travelled to fulfil a craving? Deep fried Snickers? Kebab with extra garlic sauce? Comment below! MC
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St. Louis Fringe Festival Day 4
Box office, Street Fringe, Fringe Family, Fringe Carts and more all kick off and take off from Strauss Park, the heart of Midtown and our Festival grounds. To see all 35 artists in all 6 venues (Kranzberg Studio/Black Box, SATORI, DUET Gallery, KDHX Stage, and the THE BOB at Fubar), you have to start at Fringe Central Station.
The grounds will be filled with décor designed by PERENNIAL STL as well as an interactive sculpture garden by artists from GATEWAY BURNERS. Patrons may buy tickets to shows and either walk through St Louis' most quickly developing neighborhood or they can catch a free ride on one of our Fringe Carts.
Sunday Producers include: Siobhan O' Laughlin, World's Greatest Comedians, Randy Dandies, The Spotty Truth, Tapman Productions, The Spotty Truth, Tapman Productions, The Four Fronts, Cranky Yellow, Creepy Basement Players, Salt House Collective, Not Quite Right Improv, 4-D Productions, Theatre Salvo, Karlovsky & Company Dance, Daniel Shar, John Clark, Erin Renee Roberts, John Clark, Slightly Askew Theatre, Think Tank Theatre, St. Louis Osuwa Taiko and more.
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" Author: Tess Gerritsen / Format: Paperback / Date of publication: 01 January 2010 / Genre: Crime & Thriller / Subcategory: Thriller / Suspense General / Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd / Title: The Surgeon / ISBN 13: 9780553824551 / ISBN 10: 0553824551 / Alternative EAN: 9780553814293 "
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I still remember reading the blurb on the back of the book and thinking that it sounded interesting but I wasn't too sure whether to buy it as I had so many unread books collecting dust on my bookshelves. However, I am so glad that I made the purchase as this book had me hooked from the start. I vividly remember reading it in bed and actually feeling scared. This book provoked many emotions other than fear, like intensity, excitement and anger, that I had only ever felt when watching television or a film. The writing was excellent and allowed me to visualise exactly what was happening and drew me into the story with every page turn. It was one of those books that when you had finished a chapter you had to read on, as there was no way I could close the book and not knowing what had happened after the cliffhanger. What impressed me the most was the detail of the postmortems and the medical accuracy. It's little details that made the book more believable and allowed me to feel like part of the drama.
I would highly recommend this book to fans of thrillers and crime novels.
Why do so many people (including women) find the genre of thrillers and forensic medical thrillers in particular so readable with the goriest and bloodiest of books being the most sought after? I haven't got the answer and since I am guilty as charged then the only thing I can say is that somewhere inside us is a lure of the darkness inside us that we prefer to let out by reading such books. Certainly there must be a good reason since I've just read one of the most shockingly explicit book by Tess Gerritsen and it got me glued to its pages well into a (disturbed) night.
The acclaim for this book also adds the fact that it's a deeply disturbing and dark thriller with plenty of excitement, ultra-gory, shocking, efficient scary and one more important fact, it rages against the fact that women suffer such crimes but are strong enough to survive them and it's that last plaudit I held onto.
***The Plot***
There's a killer on the loose in Boston- a viscous killer who preys on lonely and traumatized women, rendering them to a bloody prop in his nightmare scenarios. Even hardened detectives such as Thomas Moore and his partner Jane Rizzoli cannot recall ever coming across such vile horrors before and for some of the team it's enough to send them flying for the nearest toilet. Surely only a madman could be so inhuman as to torture a naked woman and remove her uterus while she is still alive, finally applying the killing stroke by a slash across the throat that almost decapitates the victim?
As the stunned team starts their investigation a beautiful local medic becomes involved and for Dr Catherine Cordell it's a recurrence of a terrible nightmare when two years previously she barely escaped with her life from a killer who operated in exactly the same way but she stopped by shooting him dead. Has a copycat killer followed her from Savannah to Boston and if so, how could he know all the details that the police routinely keep back in any investigation? With two women already butchered and more to follow unless they can crack the crime, this is one investigation that will push Moore And Rizzoli to hell and back.
***Setting the crime-scene. ***
Tess Gerritsen is one of my favourite female thriller writers and knows what she writes about from her medical background. This is one of her earlier books and is fourth in a series with Detective Rizzoli, the female cop that has to fight to stay on the ball in a man's world. The book was published in 2001 and for some reason is one I missed. The author writes of what she knows, whether it's from a crime scene or a doctor struggling in surgery to save a person's life, elbows deep inside a chest or stomach cavity, a nurse assisting by mopping up the blood.
There is also a lot of suppressed anger in this book, which I consider is possibly a reaction to the number of women who gets passed over as lightweights in a male dominated world. In this book her victims suffer from rape over long periods of time and are too scared to report it, locking them inside their lives and even their houses where they become victims of murder. The descriptions are explicit and turned my stomach at times as well as angering me, but this does happen and being angry is sometimes not enough. By taking the victim's uterus while she is still alive, the killer is taking away a woman's femininity as well as her life. It's the ultimate obscenity and it made me wonder if I should be reading it.
What Gerritsen does is to take a plot, set a background for her killer, giving him pathology, a voice in the novel and a large part of the story. While we get to know the team in charge of catching the killer, we also follow some of what goes on in the killer's head, so we are taking some part in the discoveries as they happen. It's a rare quality that few writers do so well as Gerritsen and it works because we start to really care about nailing this abominable apology for a man (we learn early on it's a male unsub). If I have one little niggle, it's just that this book takes on a theme of such magnitude by having two sets of killings with a gap in between that the details sometimes get a bit muddled. However, the denouement is worth the page flicking!
***The Cast***
I almost feel like listing them to keep track of who belongs to what section and which crime, but as long as you keep paying attention the players soon become as close to you as your family. Naturally there are people you don't want to know, although the killer just happens to be educated and with some knowledge of sacrifice his frequent mentions of Greek Mythology become relevant. It doesn't detract from his abominable crimes but gives some character.
Amongst the police force we have Detective Moore, who is a quietly spoken gentleman who makes all the other cops look like barbarians. Naturally the women fall for him and the reader sees Rizzoli as a woman who stops trying to be one of the lads so Moore will see her as a woman. It adds interest and shows up the crew of other detectives who aren't quite as insensitive as they first appear. There's a lot more to find out about the characters that have been in earlier books and will appear in later books, but this can be read as a standalone without any problems.
Sadly it's the victims that take the awards here for the characters. Catherine Cordell has to be one of the strongest women I've come across next to Agent Starling in 'Silence of the Lambs.' She has already suffered rape by being drugged but fought back and shot her assailant. Moving to a new town and a new job as a trauma surgeon cannot be easy, but when another woman is attacked and left alive as a 'present' to her, you can see the fear this character has to live with. The message is,' you CAN survive' but at what cost?
***Further Thoughts***
I took this book to heart for several reasons. Firstly I chose this because I needed something to read while away, both traveling and at nighttime. It has to be a strong story to hold my interest and this fit the bill. Secondly I am presently toying with my own writing, which I feel has gone stale and needed a book I could care about. This really did keep me awake and made me think along the lines of why do women read such books when we fear becoming targets? Thirdly (and by chance) I caught a bad cold and needed a diversion.
I certainly got all my requirements and more. It's a novel that's meant to be read as fiction, but it did make me think a lot about why we read these books and what impact do they have on readers? For me I'm still looking over my shoulder at bedtime, but I have also found another book that's keeping me up at nights. All I can add is that I enjoy being scared to a certain level and after that I reassure myself that on the whole, mankind has far more heroes than villains, at least after reading 'The Surgeon' I hope so.
Highly recommended for those with strong stomachs. If you are even a tiny bit squeamish, forget it!
My book was a charity shop buy at £1 you can buy this for much the same with postage from Amazon.
Thanks for reading.
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I am not a huge reader unlike my family. My sister can whizz through a book as fast as a car can go from 0-60 seconds it is really quite astounding.
My family have been trying to get me into reading for a while and I have to admit in the past have found it hard to read and enjoy a book fully.
Then my dad lent me a book by Tess Gerritsen called ''The Surgeon''. As a fan of a bit of blood gore and all things a bit dark I was interested to see how I would get on with this petite little book.
Easing it into my handbag it fit quite snugly and sitting on the train journey up to London every day I decided to give it a go.
My dad had warned me not to read this when alone at home and I put it down to him being overprotective, but as I began to read I was grateful for the full carriage of people sitting with me.
This is a forensic novel and is an extremely readable thriller. The style in which this is written explains some hideously inhuman crimes, and Gerritsen let's you into the killer's thoughts.
Throughout the book we have little nuggets to provides us with an insight into the killers motivations, but never enough to piece together the story. You find that the lead characters are introduced pretty quickly and I have to admit after the first chapter already had in my mind who I did and didn't like.
Detective Jane Rizzoli is the lead investigator of a young woman's brutal murder in Boston. In addition to her partner, Barry Frost, she requires aid from Detective Thomas Moore--who had headed up the investigation of a similar Boston murder one year earlier.
All of the victims are female, and are strapped to a bed with duct tape. The victims are still alive when their uterus is removed.
The way in which the killer does this is, is to ensure the victims do not bleed to death during this portion of their ordeal. Instead, the killer cuts their throats and watches them die slowly. Then even more horrifically he calmly and quietly, neatly folds his victims' night clothes, leaving them on top of a dresser for the police to find.
As always in many a crime book the detectives Rizzoli and Moore look into the case and see if they can look for any patterns they already may hold by looking through their databases. They discover that several other murders with extremely similar features were committed a few years before in Georgia, and also in Savannah. The only problem is that these are closed cases, because the killerr was shot dead by his last victim, the only woman to survive.
The woman who survived the last Savannah attack has moved to Boston to start her life over. She is a trauma surgeon by the name of Dr. Catherine Cordell, and she works in one of the local Boston emergency rooms. She is still psychologically scarred from her ordeal, and she carefully lives her life behind locked doors. She assures the detectives that she did indeed kill the man who actually attacked her.
A little while after the visit from the police she is scared whitless as the killer they have named ''The Surgeon'' due to his skill (if you want to call it that) begins to send her both verbal and visual messages.
The question is ...who is doing this all again...is there a copycat sadist and why is he trying to get to Catherine??
Reading the back of the book got me scared I have to admit. I was intrigued all the way through this book which took me all in all around 4 hours to read. It was a book that at times made you hold your breath and at times made you want to scream.
I couldn't believe how much this book grabbed my full attention. Opening with the killers point of view unnerves you and makes you automatically feel scared.
It is exciting and disturbing all at the same time. With the thought of the killer coming into your bedroom at night where you feel you are in a safe haven and removing the only thing that makes you female...it sent chills down my spine.
It had a fantastic and unexpected ending which normally I feel is what lets many books down.
I would highly recommend this book but I wouldn't read it if you have a weak stomach!!
This was the first book I read by Boston based author Tess Gerritsen. It was free with a magazine my wife was reading and I had just finished a book so grabbed this one quickly!
The first thing you notice is that Tess is a really fluid writer, using clear language to describe each scene and event in the book. Even the medical terms are covered in such a way so as not to confuse you or sound like she is showing off her substantial human physiology knowledge.
To the plot, without spoiling it of course; someone is killing and keeping body parts as trophies. Detective Jane Rizzoli and medical examiner Maura Isles, literally have to put the pieces together in a race to stop the evil serial killer known as The Surgeon.
The pace is superb, the plot is compelling and the characters believeable. I have since gone on to read most of Tess's work and will certainly be adding some reviews of he new books after Christmas.
I picked this up recently as I wanted to try a Gerritsen novel since having read several good reviews of her work. I was quite surprised at just how good she is at formulating such a convincing, enthralling book.
The Surgeon comes under the crime genre, with a plot that entails murder, thrills, suspense, detective work and, of course, American cops with guns. Yes it's like a movie, but it has a perfect balance between action and crime, and a good storyline with well-built characters.
Broadly speaking, the plot is about a serial killer, who brutally tortures his female victims, taking from them that which makes them female, their wombs, before killing them.
There is a set of a few main characters with whom we become closely acquainted, including Catherine Cordell. Cordell, a surgeon who came close to being the next victim of the Savannah serial killer, was able to shoot dead her attacker.
After the attack, Cordell moved to Boston to work at the Pilgrim medical centre, where security and suspicion has kept her at a distance from the world with the exception of her job.
It seems a copycat killer may be on the loose as murder follows Cordell to Boston, and detectives Moore & Rizzoli are quickly on his tail.
The 416 pages take us on a detective hunt for the killer, and what seems like a game of copycat killings isn't as straightforward as initially thought. I like the twist to this book, which adds another level of genius and intellect to the plot. It's a clever book and therefore does require you to have your brain switched on to an extent, but it's easy to read and Gerritsen recaps events so that we don't get lost or confused.
The atmosphere is built up very well, especially when the suspected killer is someone with medical knowledge, possibly a surgeon whom Cordell knows. The man who attacked her back in Savannah was a colleague, and this makes the essence of the book all the more terrifying, arousing paranoia because killers can appear so 'normal'.
Underneath the seemingly casual, regular exterior can lurk a killer, and this is a thought that pricks the surface of every page.
The killings themselves are described with great clarity; Gerritsen is able to balance giving the reader the details necessary to build a brutal image without making it too gory or unbelievable. The way in which the killer works is akin to what serial killers have attempted in the past through ritual killings.
Here, the killer is referred to as 'the surgeon' because of his expert incisions. Both the surgeons work and that of Cordell's whilst she operates in the Pilgrim Medical Centre are accurately described; proper terminology is employed to the right degree, giving the novel a realistic edge and a quality feel, without weighing it down with technical jargon.
The front cover reads: 'A real page-turner. A read-in-one go novel if there ever was one' - Independent On Sunday. I would definitely agree with this as I found myself turning the pages without even realising it. It was a book I was eager to read and really enjoyed from the first to last page.
Gerritsen has truly written this fantastically. Each of the 27 chapters is clean-cut and they all flow well, with each character well built into the plot, relationships clearly defined and actions well described. This is probably the best book I've read lately in this genre, and it was as if I were watching the events unfold in a movie because it was that captivatingly vivid.
The Surgeon has a clever edge to it, combining the thrill of the chase from a top quality crime / detective novel, the grimness from a gruesome horror and the chill from a psychological thriller all in one.
Highly recommend if you want something that's extremely well written, thrilling, interesting, addictive and rich enough to really get your teeth into.
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Contains spoilers....
This particularly chilling tale is written in part from the view point of a serial killer (dubbed the Surgeon) who is stalking female rape victims in modern day Boston, and partly from the perspective of the police officers trying to catch him - Detective Thomas Moore and Detective Jane Rizzoli. From the outset, the detectives see horrifying similarities between the work of the Surgeon and that of another killer who terrorised Savannah until he was killed by the final woman he attacked, a beautiful and successful trauma surgeon, Catherine Cordell. As the investigation continues, it becomes clear that the Surgeon has singled out Cordell as a future target. A gruesome campaign of terror against Cordell ensues, with the Surgeon emailing her photos of one of his mutilated victims and murdering a patient in Cordell's hospital, and culminating in Cordell's abduction by the Surgeon and a suspense filled sequence in which Cordell is defiant even when faced with the Surgeon's knife herself.
I loved this book! I thought the contrast between the fiery Rizzoli and the emotionally guarded Moore was excellent and the insights into the mind of the Surgeon brilliant, although utterly horrific. I also though the romance between Cordell and Moore was beautifully understated and Gerristen, a former physician, was able to bring valuable insights into the medical world and also explore what it can mean to be a female in a male dominated career.
A serial killer is on the loose in Boston. The victims are killed in a particularly nasty way: cut with a scalpel on the stomach, the intestines and uterus removed, and then the throat slashed. The killer obviously has medical knowledge and has been dubbed "the Surgeon" by the media.
Detective Thomas Moore and his partner Rizzoli of the Boston Homicide Unit have discovered something that makes this case even more chilling. Years ago in Savannah a serial killer murdered in exactly the same way. He was finally stopped by his last victim who shot him as he tried to cut her. That last victim is Dr Catherine Cordell, who now works as a cardiac surgeon at one of Boston's prestigious hospitals.
As the murders continue, it becomes obvious that the killer is drawing closer and closer to Dr Cordell, who is becoming so frightened that she is virtually unable to function. But she is the only person who can help the police catch this copycat killer. Or is it a copycat? To complicate matters even further, Detective Moore, often referred to as Saint Thomas as he continues to mourn the loss of his wife, is getting emotionally involved with the doctor.
Having been a chick-lit reader, it never occured to me to pick up any other genre of book. My mum bought Tess Gerritsen's The Surgeon and I picked it up one night after reading the synopsis and thinking it sounded a great read and I wasn't wrong - I've read The Surgeon three times along with the rest of the Rizzoli/Isles series and am never disappointed.
We open with a Prologue written by the Surgeon telling us how the body will be found and carry on from there alternating from the actual dialogue to snippets from the man they call the Surgeon.
What makes The Surgeon different from the other books in the series is: there is no Maura Isles and doesn't focus on Rizzoli as much as the later books do, this one features more on Detective Thomas Moore and Catherine Cordell and I liked it like that - I liked Catherine's character more than Jane's in this novel however at the end Jane becomes more likeable.
The plot is brilliant: Catherine Cordell was attacked years earlier and killed her attacker - however The Surgeon attacks in exactly the same way only no knowledge of what Catherine's attacker did was made public: how on earth does the Surgeon know the details of Catherine's attack?
I liked the way the Surgeon was able to slip in and out of hospital rooms, offices, and constantly evade the detectives. The suspense was brilliant and I could not stop reading.
I also loved all of the support characters: Frost, Marquette, and the rest of the police detectives. There was also the underlying lovestory between Catherine and Thomas which was really great. The ending racks up the suspense level a lot more and I raced to finish the novel and was not disappointed.
All in all it was a fabulous novel and the rest of the series are just as great - although I have my reservations about The Sinner, that was my least favourite however once I get the chance to re-read it, we'll see about that! If you're a fan of suspense novels I guarantee you'll love this novel.
About a few years ago now I bought my weekly magazine, which had a copy of the surgeon as a free gift, I wasn't much of a book reader at the time and I would of normally slipped the book to the side and read the magazine, I was off work at the time and very bored so I decided to give the book a go, and I am so glad I did, after just one chapter I couldn't put it down.
A little bit about the Author:
The Authors name is Tess Gerritsen, and she is a retired doctor from Maine, Her first books consisted of romanced crime and after doing so well she decided to write her first medical thriller book "The surgeon."
The book:
The Surgeon is the first instalment in a series of medical thrillers, The story takes place in Boston, where a killer is on the lose and praying on lone woman, he breaks into there apartments and tortures them before killing them, the killer is named the surgeon by detectives because of his surgical skills.
The book introduces the characters Thomas Moore and Jane Rizzoli as lead detectives of the investigation. I don't want to give too much of the book away as I feel the best bits are the suprises and the twist and turns as the story unfolds.
All and all this was a brilliant book and once you start reading you wont be able to put it down, I feel that the book is very well written and the medical terms used are very believable and professional, being a doctor before a writer had definitely given Tess Gerritsen and advantage in writing a fantastic medical thriller.
You can purchase this book from all good bookshops and in paperback it costs around £6.99
THE SURGEON is the second of two novels I have recently read by author, TESS GERITSEN, and is just as tight, tense and gripping a thriller as was BODY DOUBLE; the only other book of hers I have read. Set much earlier than BODY DOUBLE, this novel marks the debut of Detective Jane Rizzoli; on the hunt for a serial killer who removes women's wombs after hours of torment and leaves them to die with their throats slit open. Detective Thomas Moore is called back from vacation when it emerges the case is identical to a murder he investigated a year ago and, reluctantly, the pair form an often uneasy alliance despite their many differences. Rizzoli is relatively new to the Homicide Division and faces much criticism and teasing because she is a female in a predominantly male domain; Moore is still mourning the death of his wife from cancer and, living in her shadow, begins to get a bit too close to the case. Especially when the crimes are linked to a series of murders out of state and the only surviving victim, Dr.Catherine Cordell; a highly attractive woman attempting to get her life back together again in Boston after everything she went through back home. Cordell shot and killed the man responsible for the crimes against her but increasingly it begins to look as though her killer may have returned from beyond the grave to stalk her....either that or this latest killer is a copycat who knows a bit too much about the earlier cases.
Having read BODY DOUBLE, I already knew the killer's name even if I didn't know anything else about him but this didn't spoil my enjoyment of this book and it was good to see the rough edges of Jane Rizzoli before she became the heavily pregnant character we see in Geritsen's later novel. Moore too works well as her foil and, once again, the story is successfully split between the two characters rather than just focusing around one lead. This is a good angle to use and makes for me a much more versatile thriller and a much more entertaining read.
I do wonder if Geritsen's ongoing medical theme to her novels may become a bit repetitive and possibly a little monotonous (much as Jonathan Kellermans ALEX DELAWARE series began to after a while) but think that so long as I don't read too many at once then this hopefully won't become a problem for me. Certainly Geritsen knows what she's writing about and the medical pieces of the book are very well written and come across as being 100 % authentic!! It is also exceptionally good to read something where the story stands out for itself; much as I enjoy reading Reichs, Slaughter, Tracey and their like, all too often they do seem to be trying to out-do each other with their increasingly more shocking and gruesome scenes. Here, as with BODY DOUBLE, although the theme is highly disturbing (more so for the women who read this, I assume, than the blokes who don't have a womb to remove) it is never exploited merely for shock value and the crime scenes, though not played down, are more subtlely described instead of lavishly trying to provoke a gut reaction.
As with the only other novel of Geritsen's I have read, there is nothing mind-blowing about this book but it IS very well written and it doesn't need to totally blow you away to keep you captivated and enthralled; the story itself is strong enough to carry this book to it's inevitable conclusion with little danger of the reader ever becoming bored and this without a shadow of a doubt, is one novel I wouldn't hesitate to reccommend!
The story continues in her next book, THE APPRENTICE, (not featuring Sir Alan Sugar, I'm assuming) and, after the opening chapter included at the end of this novel, I for one can't wait to pick it up. Geritsen is definetly one to watch out for if you have not read her before!!!!
WARNING: THIS IS A TRAILER OF A GRAPHIC NOVEL. "Lie quiet my pretty one. You are part of the chain now. I have put a chain around your neck; a chain from Diana; a chain from one year ago. I found you, I chose you, I stalked you, I came to you in the dark of the night. I know what damaged you; why you have a clinic record. Yes - that sweet, sickly smell, that groggy feeling, that sleepy sensation - that's the chloroform. Yes - I had to bind you, strip you, quieten you, subdue you. Don't struggle now - the duct tape won't release you; relax, lie back, it will be over soon. I waited - waiting here for half an hour; waiting until you were awake again; waiting for you to open your eyes; waiting for you to be aware of me. I used the time to prepare, laid out the instruments. The tape had fixed you well ' across your mouth, around your wrists, your waist, your thighs, your ankles. I knew you could not resist me but I knew when you were awake. I knew the way to go. I took my time ' the scalpel cut through your skin cleanly just above your hair; it parted the muscles; it opened up your belly. I tied off the arteries to stop the blood and then plucked out that very part that makes you woman. I am ready now. I have put away the tools. Your uterus is in my jar - I will take it with me, save it with the others, treasure it until the course is run. The other little trinket is in my bag. I will tidy up your clothes and leave your nightshirt folded on the dresser. Are you ready now- I pull back your head by your hair. Your neck is stretched, the skin is tight. One swift cut - left to right - it will sever your carotid artery, your trachea. Death will soon come. You will see your blood arch across the room and hit the wall; you will feel it flow down your throat; you will hear it gurgle in your lungs as you try to cough it out. You are another link in my chain. Soon the circle will be complete." [Diary of a serial killer - reconstructed from events described in Chapter 1 (c) Newfloridian 2003] Elena Ortiz is found dead at home in a suburb of Boston, her throat cut and a hysterectomy expertly carried out on her before she died. Her death mirrors the similar murder of Diana Sterling one year before. Doctor Catherine Cordell is a Trauma and Vascular Surgeon at the Pilgrim Medical Centre. Two years ago she was a victim of a very similar attack in Savannah. She was fortunate that she was able to fight back and killed her attacker before he could complete the assault. Now the cycle is repeating itself in ways that the police did not disclose at the time. Befriended by detectives Thomas Moore and Jane Rizzoli, they try to protect Doctor Cordell as the assassin closes in on her with ever increasingly devious taunts and attacks. They are also in a race against time to unravel the mystery - who is the killer? What is the motive? What is the link with Catherine's dead killer? This is a terrifying, grim, fast paced murder mystery written by an accomplished author of fiction. The murders come thick and fast in torrid, graphic detail. There are multiple twists and turns, sudden shocks and red herrings to keep you guessing until the final denouement. Once started you won?t want to put this book down. There has been a spate of lurid serial murder novels recently including Boris Starling (Messiah) and Val McDermid (Wire In The Blood). It is also interesting that it is the female authors these days who are the most bloodthirsty. A prime example is Karin Slaughter (Blindsighted) who shares some similar plot themes. This novel is equally tense and gripping. I really don't want to give away any more of the story that that above. My little paraphrase of Chapter One should give you sufficient idea of what to expect. Tess Gerritsen trained as a doctor but gave up her medical practice to concentrate on writing
fiction. Many of her titles (Harvest, Life Support, Bloodstream) are set in a hospital environment. She lives in Maine. Tess Gerritsen has her own website at www.tessgerritsen.com and a spooky place it is too. She certainly has her admirers. Stephen King is reputed to have said: "She is a must read in our house". THE SURGEON (Paperback: 350 pages) ISBN 0345 447840 Available from Amazon.com $7.99 Hardback in the UK - February 2002. Available from Amazon.co.uk £9.09 Paperback - prices vary. The supermarkets have offered this book "on special" recently [POSTSCRIPT: The sequel "The Apprentice" has now been published in paperback format both here in the UK and in the US. It is very much a sequel although there are a couple of unexpected twists. You WILL have to read this book first. There is a rumour that "The Surgeon" is to be made into a major film next year. I can hardly wait]


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Daddy. He looks at me gravely. Words, i could hurt myself, i could hurt other people. This is dangerous, this is foolish, i mustn't do this. Do i understand?
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Is It A Win Or A Spin: Air Quality District To Require Frac Notifications
But First! the new coalition for Trickle Down Trades in Democracy, in concert with the Mitigation Action Committee (MAC) for the trade group All States Service To Oil and Gas (ASSTOG) Political Action Committee (PAC) has claimed a victory over regulatory action by simply adjusting Administrative Requirements to gathering information, over a 2 year time period, with submittal of a finalized Report and Recommendations.
Is It A Win Or A Spin
Southern California Air Quality District To Require Frac Notification and Chemical Disclosures
Postponement By Default
But First! the new coalition for Trickle Down Trades in Democracy, in concert with the Mitigation Action Committee (MAC) for the trade group All States Service To Oil and Gas (ASSTOG) Political Action Committee (PAC) has claimed a victory over regulatory action by simply adjusting Administrative Requirements to gathering information, over a 2 year time period, with submittal of a finalized Report and Recommendations.
On April 5th, 2013, the South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD) adopted a rule requiring pre-notification of drilling and then later, reporting of air emissions and chemicals that were used in hydraulic fracturing operations! SCAQMD regulates air quality in Orange County and major portions of Los Angeles, San Bernardino and Riverside counties.
In addition to fracking, the rule applies to other production stimulation activities such as gravel packing and acidizing. The rule will go into effect in early June, 60 days after its adoption on April 5, 2013.
The Proposed Rule:
Notification and Reporting Requirements for Oil and Gas Wells and Chemical Suppliers (South Coast Air Quality Management District)
is to be implemented in two phases, over a period of 2 years... the first of which is the notification and reporting requirements. At least 24 hours before commencing drilling, well completion or rework activities, the rule requires operators to submit written notification to SCAQMD that specifies the location of the well, the type of activity that will be performed, and the distance, up to 1,500 feet, from the well to the nearest "sensitive receptor". Sensitive receptors include residences, educational facilities, daycare centers and health care facilities. SCAQMD will then post this information on its website within 24 hours of its receipt.
It also requires operators and suppliers of the chemicals used, to report to SCAQMD information relating to air emissions and chemical use. Within 60 days of completing drilling, well completion or rework activities, the operator must report information relating to combustion equipment and fugitive dust emissions and the volume, management and chemical ingredients of fluids used in the operations. Suppliers of chemicals for drilling, well completion or rework activities are also required to report the chemicals that are delivered to oil and gas well operators. SCAQMD will post the information provided for the chemicals used at each well on its website, excluding certain details relating to chemicals for which suppliers claim trade secret protection. For chemicals identified as trade secrets, SCAQMD will post only the chemical family (or similar descriptor) and identify whether the chemical is an air toxic.
Phase 1- of the rule is to gather information on emissions and chemical use. Then no later than two whole years after implementation of the first step;
Phase 2- of the rule will be a report evaluating the information collected and potentially recommending further regulation.
The first Phase of the rule in no way, restricts frac activities, it instead imposes additional administrative requirements that could likely lead to future regulation including emission control requirements and fluid ingredient, volume and management limitations for fracking and other production stimulation activities... and after publication, an extensive review, and public stakeholders meetings, maybe by 2016 or 2017....
Monday April 8th, 2013
SoCal Air Board Doesn't Wait for State, Passes Own Fracking Rules Despite Defiant Industry
Well, that's how the headlines read.
But what if the AQMD rules create a situation of pre-emptive rule-making that compromises our State Legislature's efforts to conserve and protect the land and resources of the State of California, it's citizens and their health, and the State's ability to provide for sustainable healthy environments that are prepared for growth in population, and able to receive visitors for generations into the future.
The nation is in an uproar over the effects of the Horizontal Frac. California Communities living near or surrounding the oil and gas fields of Central and Southern California and the refineries have for decades been in courts in an uproar, and now with the main focus on "Draft Regulations" For Hydraulic Fracturing In California" by DOGGR, a lot of the problems with oil and gas extraction in the state are being passed over with no real coverage in legal terms or in the press.
ENTIRELY NEW OIL AND GAS REGULATIONS ARE NEEDED – CEQA Review
Just like in 1972 when new regulations were promulgated for forestry, given that industry had written the rules previously, it only seemed right!
The wasteful pace of progress, unregulated as it has been and still is, continues to be promoted by changing the rhetorical headlines, yet the substance is already depleted. The wells that produce from the 'unconventional reserves' with the new technologies of extraction, consume too much water and sand, produce too much waste, and draw the oil and gas out of the earth at rates so fast that well depletion rates requires re-drilling and more water usage, or more new wells.
If the resource will last 100 years, what's the rush to claim production before environmental review, before delivery system of pipelines has been overhauled, before waste treatment facilities are prepared, before the volumes of waste understood or the pollution to the air, water, and land are contained, and before there are enough Regulators, and PETs and data crunchers, and citizen advisory councils in place along with proper Legislation and a Severance Tax for every State, only then can investment can proceed into production at the well site.
Otherwise we are putting at risk families' private properties, public lands, surface and subsurface water supplies, farms and rangelands, rivers and lakes, the very air we breathe, the water we drink.
Frac Humor, On The Spillway - Seventeen Ways to Look at Pipeline Spills
The Marcellus Effect - VISIT THIS SITE, numbered titles link to local news stories on the item.
1. From your neighbor's back porch.
Maybe there was a swimming pool, or maybe it was just the swingset; but now it's thousands of gallons of heavy, stinky crude bitumen from Canadian Tar Sands, courtesy of EXXON. "Share this widely," said an email. "Local authorities have denied the media access so few have seen the extent of this spill."
March 29, 2013 - Mayflower, Arkansas
2. Through the eyes of a family of beavers who have sacrificed their home - and their store of spring twigs for noshing - to halt the flow of diesel into Willard Bay. Third spill in three years! March 27, 2013 - Ogden, Utah
3. From small town America
July 27, 2012, Grand Marsh, Wisconsin
4. From the banks of the Yellowstone River three days before celebrating our nation's independence.
July 1, 2011 Billings, Montana
5. From a leak along the Keystone... don't worry! It's just a transnational flesh wound.
May 7, 2011 Brampton, North Dakota
Last year, in the US alone, there were 364 spills from pipelines. This year, as of February 28, there have been 41 reports of spills - 70% of which were caused by failure of materials, welding, or equipment - racking up damage costs of more than $3 million.
It's Dump And Run
It goes on, and on, and on. The pace is frantic. At the drilling site, disposal of waste is the only limiting factor to production. Occasionally a local moratorium or ban pops up, some one where, but mostly it's Dump and Run when no other available permitted disposal or release is scheduled. And permitted disposal into rivers and lakes is only limited by the "water quality" in terms of the amount of Total Dissolved Solids (TDS), and that's for purposes of dilution. So if twenty trucks are dumping into the river that day, raising the level of TDS, your truck load may not be permitted in the afternoon.
TDS - Generally the operational definition is that the solids must be small enough to survive filtration through a sieve the size of two micrometer. Total dissolved solids are normally discussed only for freshwater systems, as salinity comprises some of the ions constituting the definition of TDS. The principal application of TDS is in the study of water quality for streams, rivers and lakes, and although TDS is not generally considered as a primary pollutant (e.g. it is not deemed to be associated with health effects) it is used as an indication of aesthetic characteristics of drinking water and as an aggregate indicator of the presence of a broad array of chemical and mineral constituents or contaminants.
Good Water Gone Bad, As Steamed Earth Is Literally Global Warming
And then there's the Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) process of Steam Injection, Cyclic Steam Injection, and Full Field Steam Flood Programs which are literally global warming; steamed earth, escaping gases, subseismic shifts, subsurface migration of radioactive gases and fluids, NORM, TENORM, surface expressions and sinkholes, subseismic events and intrusion into faults, contamination of groundwater aquifers, the air pollution at the surface.
And the water consumption is vast. More water is consumed for Steam Injection into the earth in California than is used in current Frac Jobs. Numerically, more wells are employing Steam Injection than any other process for enhanced recovery of oil and gas in California. The term California's 'Mature Oil Fields' means that the wells no longer are capable of producing good flow rates - in terms of barrels per day because the recoverable reservoir is nearly depleted. Oh yes, peak oil is past.
The Peak American Experience Is Past and There's No Such Thing As A Free Lunch (TNSTAAFL)
You can stay indoors and play with your handheld, but outdoors, the great outdoors is under a frac attack.
"Wells experience severe rates of depletion. This steep rate of depletion requires a frenetic pace of drilling to offset declines. Nationally, roughly 7,200 new shale gas wells need to be drilled each year at a cost of over $42 billion simply to maintain current levels of production. And as the most productive well locations are drilled first, it's likely that drilling rates and costs will only increase as time goes on."
The BLM oversees California onshore and offshore leases, but who's watching?
"Drilling Dysfunction: How the Failure to Oversee Drilling on Public Lands Endangers Health and the Environment," was prepared by the House Natural Resources Committee's Democratic Staff, at the direction of the committee's top Democrat, Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.), joined by Rep. Rush Holt (D-N.J.). It represents the results of an exhaustive review of violations, fines, and regulations related to oil and gas activities on public lands in 17 states.
Average $150 per fine
"It's incomprehensible. In the past decade, oil and gas companies have committed thousands of drilling violations, yet they have faced a grand total of $300,000 in fines," said Rep. Holt. The report finds that from 1998 to 2011, more than two thousand violations were handed out by the U.S. Department of Interior to oil and gas companies drilling on taxpayer-owned lands. Some were issued to companies for not installing blowout preventers.
While Bureau of Land Management (BLM) lease sales in 2012 generated $233 million for American taxpayers, the importance of the recent court victory against BLM cannot be overstated.
On March 31, 2013 - a federal judge - U.S. Magistrate Paul Grewal of the U.S. District Court in San Jose ruled that the federal Bureau of Land Management (BLM) sold the leases without properly assessing the threat that fracking could pose to water, fish and wildlife. Some of these leases are within the Salinas River watershed, habitat for endangered Central Coast steelhead.
"Fracking, or hydraulic fracturing, is the controversial, environmentally destructive process of injecting millions of gallons of water, sand and toxic chemicals underground at high pressure in order to release and extract oil or gas. Many Delta advocates believe that the peripheral tunnels proposed under the Bay Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP) will be used to deliver water to expand fracking operations in Kern County and coastal areas."
"The BLM violated the National Environmental Policy Act by relying on outdated reviews which had been conducted before the advent of the extraction process known as 'fracking' or 'hydraulic fracturing' which has spurred massive development of energy deposits, when the BLM sold four leases in 2011 for 2,700 acres of federal land in Monterey and Fresno counties."
"BLM's dismissal of any development scenario involving fracking as 'outside of its jurisdiction' simply did not provide the 'hard look' at the issue that NEPA requires," Grewal said in a ruling yesterday.
Opponents of fracking in California win big court victory
Dan Bacher Tue Apr 09, 2013
The decision is the first federal court opinion to explicitly recognize the significant risks and controversies created by the spread of fracking across the U.S., said attorneys for the Center for Biological Diversity, which sued in 2011 to invalidate the leases. Some of the land covered by the leases is located in California's Monterey shale formation, which spans 1,750 acres across the state's central and southern regions.
"We hope this court ruling acts as a wake-up call that steers the federal government away from sacrificing California's public lands for dangerous oil development." The judge asked for a joint recommendation on the next steps in the case.
"The Center and the Sierra Club believe the lease sale should be set aside. At a minimum, no drilling or fracking on the leases will be allowed before the completion of thorough analysis of the environmental risks," according to the groups.
No Lease, No Drill, and No Spill "Planning and NEPA"
"Until a Federal oil and gas lease, a legal and binding contract, is issued by the BLM, the decision to lease is discretionary. Once the lease is issued and in effect, the BLM cannot then tell the lessee or operator that they may not develop their lease. Generally speaking, that would be a "takings" issue. We can only tell them where, when and how an oil or gas well can be drilled, for the most part."
On the subject of bonding and leases;
"Oil and gas bonds are considered a performance or "good faith" bond and are not meant to cover all of the potential liabilities like the bonding requirements of 43 CFR 3809. Oil and gas bonds are (currently) $10,000 for an individual lease, which covers multiple wells and operations on a single lease, $25,000 for a Statewide bond, which covers operations in a single BLM state, or $150,000 for a Nationwide bond, which covers operations on all BLM administered subsurface mineral estate. These bond amounts are currently under consideration for increasing the basic amounts as one of the National Energy Plan tasks."
Enough, time for action!
Relevant detailed local historical perspective is provided by these authors in the professional press:
Well Fracking In California
January 7, 2013 By Matt Childers
California Gets Fracked
Feb 6 2013 Corey Hill
And how can you help place a moratorium on Fracking California?
"For the past year, environmental non-profit organizations like Food and Water Watch, the Center for Biological Diversity, Physicians for Social Responsibility, Clean Water Action, Environment California, Citizens Coalition for a Safe Community, Breast Cancer Action and CREDO Action have been working to write and find legislators to introduce fracking moratorium bills. After much lobbying from these groups and ordinary citizens, State Assemblymembers Holly Mitchell and Richard Bloom introduced moratorium bills."
The California Legislature right now is considering these two bills, AB 1301 introduced by Richard Bloom and AB 1323 introduced by Holly Mitchell, that would put moratoriums on fracking in our state.
"By April 29th both bills have to pass out of the Assembly Natural Resources Committee.
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to all your friends and listservs - tell the legislators to support the fracking moratorium bills!"
AB 1301 by Assemblyman Richard Bloom (D- Santa Monica) would define "hydraulic fracturing" and would prohibit hydraulic fracturing in oil and gas operations until the Legislature enacts subsequent legislation that determines whether and under what conditions hydraulic fracturing may be conducted while protecting the public health and safety and the natural resources of the state; and reads like this:
"Notwithstanding any other law, hydraulic fracturing operations are prohibited. This section shall remain in effect until the Legislature enacts subsequent legislation that determines whether and under what conditions hydraulic fracturing may be conducted while protecting the public health and safety and the natural resources of the state."
On April 1, 2013 this bill was referred to the Natural Resources Committee.
AB 1323 by Assemblywoman Holly Mitchell (D-Culver City) would define "hydraulic fracturing" in oil and gas operations and would prohibit hydraulic fracturing until the completion of a report, conducted as specified, and a determination is made that hydraulic fracturing can be conducted without a risk to the public health and welfare, environment, or the economy of the state.
"Upon completion of the report, the Secretary of the Natural Resources Agency and the Secretary for Environmental Protection shall make a determination not later than January 1, 2019, as to whether, and under what conditions, hydraulic fracturing is permitted within the state."
The bill would also express the intent of the Legislature to, among other things, protect the public health and welfare, natural and environmental resources, and economic interest of the state. On April 1, 2013 this bill was referred to the Natural Resources Committee. http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1323&search_keywords=
Senator Fran Pavley (D-Agoura Hills) has a bill that would allow fracking to continue while a study takes place. Pavley's bill, however, would institute a moratorium if the state didn't finish its study by 2015.
Senator Pavley carried related legislation in 2012. That bill, SB 1054, would have required notification of neighbors and regulators, including water boards, before fracking could take place. It died on the Senate floor after a major industry lobbying effort.
California legislators are now carrying at least seven other fracking bills. Fracking uses and produces highly toxic chemicals that pose serious threats to public health and the environment. The threat is significant enough that 14 states have now enacted legislation restricting or banning the practice altogether until safeguards are in place.
Senator Fran Pavley actively convened the February 12, 2013 Senate Natural Resources and Water and Senate Environmental Quality Joint Informational Hearing in Sacramento on the "Regulation of Hydraulic Fracturing in Oil and Gas Production in California". Many thanks and appreciation are due Senator Fran Pavley.
The hearing was scheduled for 3 hours and went for 5 hours. See the article:
California Fracking: High Risk and a Real Crisis of Confidence
Thursday Feb 14th, 2013
Pavley's new bill, (SB 4), requires companies to obtain a state-issued permit to frack; "to notify neighboring property owners 30 days ahead of time; and to disclose to the state all of the chemicals used to frack in a particular location." View Text of SB 4:
"The rules within SB 4 are merely the kind of common-sense protections needed for any potentially hazardous industrial activity, let alone one that is rapidly expanding in our state," said Sen. Pavley. "While the industry correctly notes that fracking has been going on in California for 60 years, many of the techniques and chemicals are new, as is the immense scale of many of these operations."
From Senator Pavley's Site:
"California legislators have tried fracking legislation before, only to see their bills die in the face of oil industry opposition."
"After amendments, SB 4 would require the Natural Resources Agency to complete a study on the impact of fracking before 2015. If the study is not completed and peer reviewed by that time, the bill would prohibit the Department of Conservation's Oil, Gas & Geothermal Resources (DOGGR) from issuing any permits allowing fracking beginning January 1, 2015, until the study completed and peer reviewed. Also, despite DOGGR's assertions that induced seismicity is not a concern associated with fracking, the study would include an examination of the potential seismic effects."
SB 4 Passes the Committee on Natural Resources and Water
Senator Fran Pavley's comprehensive fracking bill, SB 4 survived its first test before the Senate Committee on Natural Resources and Water. The bill received a favorable 6-2 vote (Democrats Pavley, Evans, Hueso, Jackson, Monning, and Wolk in favor, Republicans Cannella and Fuller opposed) and will now move to the Senate Committee on Environmental Quality.
SB 4, received support at the hearing from Supervisor Steve Bennett of the Ventura County BoS, Bill Allayaud of the Environmental Working Group, and Damon Nagami of the Natural Resources Defense Council, each of whom testified in support of the bill. Mr. Bennett expressed support for the oil and gas industry and stated that the Board does not wish to stop fracking but is very concerned about water quality in oil-rich Ventura County. Mr. Allayaud acknowledged that EWG had only recently decided to support Senator Pavley's bill. EWG finds the draft regulations proposed by the Division of Oil, Gas & Geothermal Resources (DOGGR) inadequate, making legislation necessary to control fracking. Also expressing support were representatives of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, the California Association of Professional Scientists, the League of Women Voters, the South Coast Air Quality Management District, the Sierra Club, Environment California, and Clean Water Action.
But why wait?
Moratorium Now!
A moratorium at least until Jan. 1, 2015 when the EPA 'Green Compliance' Regulations are in effect makes sense.
Tomas DiFiore


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She is best known for her strident public statements, including comparing Prime Minister Julia Gillard with Muammar Gaddafi and accusing former PM Malcolm Fraser of being a "frothing at the mouth leftie".
She is an advocate of reducing government spending and taxation.
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Performs as expected. Used in conjunction with an AC Generator. Tolerant of that. About the only UPS I've used that works this well with a Generac generator. Should have the IP monitoring hardware built in. Why is this a separate purchase? Get with it Tripp Lite and include this option.
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Everest Software and Versata – Software Vendors or Portfolio Companies?
SMB Research has been hearing some interesting things from the Everest Software end-user community. So we decided it was time to take a closer look. What we find is a software company that seems to like to do things its own way – and perhaps a bit differently than some of the software and technology companies you are more familiar with. Everest Software has been around for quite a long time, and continues to make an impression on customers – either quite positive or very negative.
SMB Research – Taking Stock: Microsoft SharePoint, Plex Systems, Salesorder.com
SMB Research attended SPTechCon Boston 2011 this week, and the highlight (as you might infer if you are keeping up the SMB Research Blog) were the exhibitors. We diligently trolled the booths looking for SMB and midmarket stories, and vendors and service providers servicing same.
Living it up at SPTechCon Boston 2011
[This post has been updated June 5, 2011 to correct some errors that an alert reader has pointed out to me.]
OK, granted, it was my own fault for coming to this, a mistake I am not likely to repeat. You go to enough conferences, and sooner or later you make the mistake of thinking that everyone knows how to put on an event that isn't lame.
Infor Global Solutions Acquires Lawson Software
Lawson Software's signing, in the past few days, of the definitive agreement to be acquired by Golden Gate Capital and Infor Global Solutions promises to vault the combined entity to the #3 slot of ERP vendors. This is a notable achievement for Infor. [Read more...]
5 Ways SMBs Can Better Influence Technology Vendors
It has been a year since SMB Research posted "SMBs: Get Influence Working with Large Vendors; 7 Guidelines to Ease the Process". As we have been working with a number of end users in 2010 and in early 2011, we are updating and refreshing this with some new insights and recommendations.
While it is undoubtedly true that small-to-medium businesses (SMBs) cannot avail themselves of all of the price breaks and other advantages of larger enterprises who have bigger IT and capex budgets, there are steps you can take to "look" big and be treated with the respect and amount of attention that you deserve: [Read more...]
Virtual Server Backup – A Conversation with Lois Paul's Don Jennings
SMB Research is working with the Data Center Infrastructure Group's Jerome Wendt to produce a Virtual Server Backup Software Buyer's Guide.
Talking to Jerome and other folks, it has become apparent that the virtual server backup area is rapidly growing and evolving, and there is a lot of resulting end-user interest (and confusion).
So DCIG and SMB Research are jumping into the breach, as it were, and working on a Buyer's Guide that should be the best source yet of information on this market segment.
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Vendors: Are You Trying to Hide from Prospects and Industry Influencers?
In our research work at SMB Research, LLC we are continually researching, analyzing, profiling and/or reaching out to software, hardware, technology, and professional service vendors. People, you are often not making this as easy as it could be! You are putting unnecessary speed bumps in the way. [Read more...]
2010 IT Planning for Small-to-Medium Business
SMBs: Get Influence Working With Large Vendors; 7 Guidelines to Ease the Process
We find it amazing how often large vendors in either ERP, Supply Chain, or some other category of software, come in to a deal and do not offer the prospect the best information to help make a decision. References are not provided or slowly given, prices are kept at a premium, and in some cases the prospect is mislead on the functionality of the software. While vendors do need to use their references wisely, users do need to know where to turn when they are not getting answers. [Read more...]


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Remarkably, Ger Loughnane is right about the Munster ChampionshipTuesday, May 17th, 2011
Former Clare and Galway Hurling manager Ger Loughnane has warned against an unnamed threat to the format of the Munster Championship. Emmet Ryan says irrespective of Loughnane's tone or the validity of his fears, the two-time All-Ireland winner has a point.
It's all about the brand
TheScore.ie ran a story on Tuesday quoting Ger Loughnane's fears of "certain sections" of the GAA moving towards a Champions League* format with the All-Ireland Hurling Championships, potentially putting the format of the Munster Championship at risk. Loughnane didn't name the who or the how but he was ardent in his defence of the current knockout structure of the provincial competition. Much like the Football Championship, Hurling operates a near double-elimination system with the provinces acting as the first phase of that format. The dearth of serious contenders elsewhere in the country, particularly compared to Gaelic Football, puts the provincial competition in an interesting position.
While Kilkenny may be the most dominant county in the sport, the relative lack of competition it has historically faced in Leinster coupled with the sport's second-tier status amongst Gaelic Games in most if not all of the province's other counties (Wexford's priorities are debatable), meant the Leinster Hurling crown has never carried the same weight in the eyes of the public.
Munster has no such concerns, there is an historically competitive rivalry amongst its elite, in the form of Tipperary and Cork, and the five competing counties have all won the title at least once since 1995. Indeed the rejuvenation of Clare and Limerick in the mid-1990s coupled with Waterford's later rise has only aided the growth of the competition. Even with player disputes having hampered campaigns for Cork and Limerick at different junctures in the past decade, the vast majority of games have been competitive and of a high standard. Essentially the GAA have a concentration of talented teams playing a series of competitive games where all parties, even those with their sights on a bigger prize, value the title at stake and fanbases that place a priority on claiming said title. Or in simple terms, folk in Munster tend to get particularly excited about Hurling, especially when playing each other. All of these factors have helped build public interest in the competition outside the province, not just from fans with a connection to the competing counties.
*I hate the way this term gets bandied about, UEFA don't have a patent on the concept of round-robin. It's been around for decades.
Devaluing the product
Switching the format is loaded with problems. Peaking is a concept we've discussed before on this site but it's not just something that affects teams. Public interest is also affected. As it stands there are 4 games in the competition excluding replays, played in a tight enough window but still spaced out amply to give each individual match sufficient build-up and media attention. Every game holds substantial value to the market and every game is hyped substantially, two factors that significantly boost ticket sales. A switch to a round-robin format of 5 teams with everyone playing each other once would involve 10 games in the group phase plus a likely final, amounting to 11 games. This devalues the contest in several ways. Firstly individual games don't hold as much immediate value, with everyone guaranteed at least 4 matches. Then there's that lack of breathing room, reducing the build-up of anticipation.
An extra 7 games on the hurling schedule, particularly when the total number of games of value is decreased, won't do much to get more TV money out of RTE or TV3. That would require a noticeable difference in gate money but despite doubling the total number of matches the public will be less keen to turn up. There would be some dead rubbers, at both ends of the table, while the public would recognise less would be at stake in each rivalry game. Ticket prices would almost inevitably come down in the group phase and even the final would lose some of its lustre, with the competing teams having already faced off in recent weeks.
Remember also that the current format, while single elimination on a provinical level, still ensures counties play more than one game in the season as they enter the All-Ireland qualifiers. In essence fans have the best of both worlds, a product with the intensity of a single-elimination competition with the comfort that their summer won't be over at full-time.
No other contender
Loughnane made the kind of comment that would normally elicit scorn from me when he said no other provincial championship was "as important as the Munster Championship" but in terms of economic value to the GAA there's no doubt he's right, at least on a game-for-game basis. The Ulster Football Championship is probably the only title in the large ball code when one could make a case for it being of a comparable priority. Certainly there are factors in play that aid it. Traditionally it has been competitive, there is the substantial nationalist factor to take into account as well, and up until 20 years ago Ulster counties succeeded so infrequently on a national level that the Anglo-Celt Cup was likely the most important piece of silverware won by a team from the province in a given year. It still however comes up far short. That last factor meant that the winner of the Ulster Football title was often a non-entity in the All-Ireland phase prior to Down beginning the surge in 1991, giving it less historical prestige. Even with the province's surge, the greater national presence of Gaelic Football combined with the arrival of the qualifier format has substantially de-emphasised the importance of provincial titles. Fans of Gaelic Football have enough other big games to care about without taking a particular interest in one region. Hurling fans don't enjoy the same luxury.
Loughnane's reasons might be more to do with tradition than marketing but it doesn't make him wrong.


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Egyptian police have detained 32 Muslim Brotherhood members over the past two days, the Islamists and security officials said on Wednesday. Twelve men were arrested in raids on Wednesday morning in Fayoum province south of Cairo for suspected involvement in an attempt to bring medical supplies to Gaza earlier this month, the Brotherhood said on its website.
On Tuesday, police arrested 14 Brotherhood members in the Mediterranean town of Port Said, another five in Cairo and one in Beni Sueif, also south of the capital, on similar grounds, the Brotherhood said, according to AFP. Egyptian police detained more than 30 activists earlier this month when they organised a convoy of medical supplies to Rafah.
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CBS's 60 Minutes got the first interview with Clarence Thomas on the occasion of the release of his memoir and ABC's Good Morning America is in line for the morning show exclusive interview with him to air multiple days this week, thus leaving NBC News out of the mix. So, the losing network decided to resurrect Anita Hill. Anchor Lester Holt teased Sunday's NBC Nightly News: "Her story. Justice Clarence Thomas speaks out, and tonight so does the woman who nearly derailed his confirmation. My exclusive interview with Anita Hill." Though Hill's charges against Thomas look pretty tame through the later revelations of Bill Clinton's actions with women, Holt depicted them as "charges of crude sexual advances" and "shocking allegations." Also, without any mention of the left-wing activists with whom Hill colluded, Holt sympathetically described her as "a reluctant witness."
Hill declared of Thomas: "I don't think he's been a particularly convincing justice." Holt concluded by forwarding her political agenda: "Anita Hill believes at the time of the Senate hearings, she was judged against the backdrop of both black and female stereotypes. And as a direct result, she has become an outspoken advocate of issues of gender and racial equality."
In contrast, previewing her GMA interviews with Thomas, on Sunday's World News Jan Crawford Greenburg characterized Thomas as the one "maligned" in the hearings:
The first Monday of October is always kind of a momentous day, but it's going to be overshadowed by these memoirs that really trace the course of a fascinating life of one of the most complex, divisive figures in modern life going through his bitter 1991 confirmation hearings. We sat down with him for nearly seven hours over the course of four days. Incredible, revealing, powerful interviews of a really maligned and misunderstood justice.
To his credit, Holt did at least introduce his piece on Hill by relaying Thomas's less than glowing assessment of Hill as a "left winger" and a "mediocre employee."
The MRC's Brad Wilmouth corrected the closed-captioning against the video to provide this transcript of the September 30 NBC Nightly News story:
LESTER HOLT: The man known as the quietest justice on the Supreme Court is now speaking out. Clarence Thomas has a new book coming out tomorrow, My Grandfather's Son. In it, it's clear he has not forgotten his bruising confirmation battle and the charges of crude sexual advances leveled by his former employee Anita Hill. As we reported here last night, Thomas describes Hill in his book as a "left winger" and a "mediocre employee." He writes "she was touchy and apt to overreact."
Tonight, her story. Anita Hill was a reluctant witness 16 years ago. Her shocking allegations gave Thomas' confirmation hearings the confrontational tone of a trial. After Thomas was confirmed to the court, Hill returned to private life as a law professor. I spoke with her recently about the Thomas memoir and the hearings that transfixed the nation.
ANITA HILL: I was portrayed as crazy. I was portrayed as someone with an axe to grind. I was portrayed as someone who was in love with Clarence Thomas.
HOLT: Today Hill is a professor of social policy, law and women's studies at Brandeis University just outside Boston.
HOLT TO HILL: Are you still recognized on the streets?
HILL: Yes, I'm recognized on the streets, in funny ways, in funny places where I wouldn't have expected.
HOLT: She says she has never fully put the episode behind her.
HOLT TO HILL: Clarence Thomas has an autobiography coming out soon. Are you bracing yourself for that?
HILL: He has made clear that he thought that the confirmation hearing really was an attempt by politicians, really, to crucify him or the high-tech lynching of Clarence Thomas. So I can't imagine that there will be new things coming out in this biography, autobiography, that I have not heard or that he hasn't even himself said before.
HOLT: Hill says she hasn't had any personal contact with Thomas since the hearings. And her professional assessment of him is carefully measured.
HOLT TO HILL: What kind of justice do you think he's been?
HILL: I don't pretend to be objective about Clarence Thomas as a justice, and I would be dishonest if I said I am objective. But from my reading of the cases, I don't think he's been a particularly convincing justice.
HOLT: As she moves forward, Hill is also looking back. She received over 20,000 letters in the months after the hearing, letters she now wants to revisit.
HILL: I'm going to go back and look at what those letters say about where we were as a society then and hopefully what they say about how we can move forward.
HOLT: And looking back, Anita Hill believes at the time of the Senate hearings, she was judged against the backdrop of both black and female stereotypes. And as a direct result, she has become an outspoken advocate of issues of gender and racial equality.


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SYDNEY – An Australian researcher who discovered a new species of flying frog near Ho Chi Minh City and named it after her mother said it was a rare find so close to such a big metropolis.
Helen's flying frog was discovered by Jodi Rowley, an amphibian expert from Sydney's Australian Museum, during a 2009 field trip to the forests on the city's fringe. Rowley initially thought the tree-dwelling flying frog, so named for the huge webbed feet that allow it to glide or parachute across the forest canopy, was a familiar species. It was not until a later trip, when she saw a specimen of the original type of frog in another part of Vietnam, that she realized her creature was quite different.
"The new species has a bright white belly and white whites of the eyes, whereas the species that I thought it was — its closest relative — has a lemon yellow belly and yellow whites of the eyes," Rowley said Tuesday.
Molecular analysis confirmed Rowley's suspicions and she had the honor of naming the new species rhacophorus helenae, or Helen's flying frog, after her mother, who had recently been diagnosed with ovarian cancer.


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Entertaining and decorating for the holidays doesn't have to be (and shouldn't be!) scary. Though it's easy to get overwhelmed with to-do's at this most festive time of the year, I've got a few easy tips to keep planning your holiday celebrations as easy as 1-2-3.
Entertaining and decorating for the holidays doesn't have to be (and shouldn't be!) scary. Though it's easy to get overwhelmed with to-do's at this most festive time of the year, I've got a few easy tips to keep planning your holiday celebrations as easy as 1-2-3.
I stopped by FOX News online recently to share some of my ideas. All of my tips are aimed at keeping holiday entertaining festive and fabulous, but also inexpensive and easy.
Holiday Dinner: Inexpensive and Easy
In this first video I share some tips for hostesses looking to stage a holiday dinner party.
When I plan a table setting, it always starts with the centerpiece.
For this festive gathering I decided to turn to natural elements I found in my yard - magnolia, evergreen and pine cones - and incorporated them into a display with a few apples and pears I bought at the local market.
A bit of gold spray paint and glitter turned the fruit from ordinary to extraordinary, was super budget-friendly and tied into the look I was going for perfectly.
To add a bit of texture and color to the centerpiece all I did was take some cranberries and nuts and arranged them in crystal bowls I already had on hand.
Once I've got a centerpiece in mind, I set the table!
The great thing about this table was I used it for Thanksgiving. I just changed a few things - like my centerpiece - and took it from fall to winter.
A big mistake many people make is thinking they should go out and purchase all new holiday place settings.
Mix and match what you already have on hand, capitalizing on what your glassware, flatware and dinnerware have in common. In this instance it was the crystal texture and gold colors.
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In this video you'll see how easy and inexpensive it is to add a sweet touch to your Christmas celebrations with the kids.
Set the tone for your holiday party with a great invitation. Then, use it to decorate your celebration.
I sent out a festive red ornament invitation I found at FineStationary.com to my guests. From there, I got creative - I filled an apothecary jar I already had on hand with lots of leftover red ornaments that were hiding in my attic for an instant centerpiece that popped with color.
Next, I took more jars and filled them with candy for the kids. Some simple ribbon and a label on each of the jars added a lovely festive touch.
Every kid deserves a sweet place setting at their Christmas table! I saved paper towel rolls in the week or so leading up to the dinner then cut them to look like napkin rings. Then, I wrapped them in red ribbon and glued wrapped peppermint candies around them to create an inexpensive and festive place setting for the kids.
The great thing about all of these ideas is that with a tweak here and twist there, these ideas can be used all year round!
Jennifer Kelly Geddes has hosted Christmas cookie swaps, New Year's open houses, Thanksgiving for 22, and all manner of dinner parties in her Manhattan and Ghent, NY homes.Read More »


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The NHS Scotland statistics show that in 1999 just over 9,500 people were taken to hospital for emergency treatment after a heart attack.
However, last year the number was down to 8,400 - a fall of about 12%.
The British Heart Foundation Scotland said the changes were probably linked to better treatment and lifestyles.
The study also showed that after getting treatment, people in Scotland were now much more likely to be alive 30 days after they first became ill.
The figures show that about 250 people who survived a heart attack in 2004 would have died if survival rates had remained the same as they were in 1999.
The British Heart Foundation Scotland said the improvements were good news but pointed out that those surviving heart attacks still need ongoing specialist care.


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