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Tony Blair has been saved from a public mauling over Iraq at the hands of his own party after delegates to the Labour Party's annual conference voted to attack the unpopular Prime Minister on domestic issues instead.
But Mr Blair's most likely successor, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown, was expected to emphasis "British values" as opposed to American ones - making it clear how much less close he is to the US President, George Bush.
In a widely leaked speech, Mr Brown, who is more popular than Mr Blair among Labour grassroots, was expected to paint Labour's Britain as a "beacon" combining the best of US enterprise and European social policy.
It is likely to be well-received by delegates, including many MPs who believe Mr Blair has sold out British foreign policy to Mr Bush. A poll by the Observer newspaper found more than 40 per cent of Labour members wanted Mr Blair to quit before the next election, expected in June 2005.
Mr Blair, in a TV interview on the conference eve, defended his government's stance on Iraq and insisted: "I don't think we've got anything to apologise for as a country."
His conference reprieve on Iraq came as the four biggest Labour-affiliated unions formed a bloc to force emergency debates on health, manufacturing, pensions and workers' rights ahead of Iraq. On each debate, Mr Blair is facing defeat on the conference floor, but Blair loyalists will be far happier to see him savaged on the domestic front, where they believe he can recover ground, than embarrassed on the world stage.
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GATT Uruguay Round Patent Law ChangesSignificant changes in our patent laws have been enacted. These changes arise from the GATT Uruguay Round implementing legislation (P.L. 103-465), signed by the President on December 8, 1994. Most of the provisions of the legislation will take effect one year after the date on which the World Trade Organization (WTO) Agreement enters into force with respect to the United States. The WTO Agreement entered into force for the United States on January 1, 1995. As a result, most of the provisions of the GATT implementing legislation will take effect on January 1, 1996. There is, however, a very significant part of the legislation -- the provisions relating to patent term and provisional applications -- that will take effect six months after the signing of the bill, i.e., on June 8, 1995. Users of the patent and trademark system should be fully aware of these changes and their respective effective dates. The changes and their effective dates are discussed below.
A Notice of Proposed Rulemaking relating to the implementation of the patent term changes was published December 12, 1994 in the Federal Register at 59 FR 63951 and in the Official Gazette on January 3, 1995 at 1170 OG 377. Two Notices of Proposed Rulemaking relating, among other things, to (1) the filing of 37 CFR 1.131 affidavits taking into account the (North American Free Trade Agreement) NAFTA and GATT Uruguay Round legislative changes and (2) interferences taking into account the NAFTA legislative changes were published October 3, 1994 and September 30, 1994 in the Federal Register at 59 FR 50181 and 49876, respectively, and on October 25, 1994 in the Official Gazette at 1167 OG 96 and 98, respectively.
Treatment of Inventive Activity - In accordance with the requirements of the GATT Uruguay Round agreement that patents be available without discrimination as to the place of invention, section 104 of the patent law has been amended to provide that evidence of inventive activity in the territory of a WTO member country be treated the same as inventive activity in the United States. Our obligation does not go beyond non-discrimination--foreign inventive activity will not have an advantage relative to domestic inventive activity. Section 104 has also been amended to guard against the possibility that a party may be unable to probe and challenge adequately such evidence because the party cannot obtain other information from a person in a WTO member country relevant to an alleged date of invention, to the extent that the information could be obtained in the United States. If information cannot be obtained, the Commissioner, court, or other authority is to draw appropriate inferences in favor of the party that requested the information. These changes parallel those made to implement the NAFTA Agreement. Since the WTO Agreement entered into force for the United States on January 1, 1995, these changes apply to all applications filed on or after January 1, 1996. However, a date of invention may not be established in a WTO member country, other than the United States, Canada or Mexico, that is earlier than January 1, 1996, except as provided in sections 119 and 365 of the patent law.
Patent Term - The current term of protection of a U.S. patent is 17 years measured from the grant of the patent, provided the required fees for maintaining the patent in force are paid. The implementing legislation changes section 154 of the patent law to provide that the term of protection begins on the date of grant and ends 20 years from the filing date of the application for the patent. If priority of an earlier application or applications is claimed under sections 120, 121 or 365(c) of the patent law, the 20-year period is measured from the date of the earliest of such earlier applications.
The twenty year patent term may be extended for a maximum of five years for delays in the issuance of the patent due to interferences, secrecy orders and/or successful appeals to the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences or the federal courts. Extensions for successful appellate review are limited in that the patent must not be subject to a terminal disclaimer. Further, the period of extension will be reduced by any time attributable to appellate review within 3 years of the filing date of the application and the period of extension for appellate review will be reduced by any time during which the applicant did not act with due diligence. The patent term extension that may be available per section 156 of the patent law for pre-market regulatory review is cumulative to the extension that may be available via the new provision.
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In 1980, a physician at McMaster by the name Thomas Muckle, bought an orchard in the Beamsville Bench and slowly converted it into what back then was known as Heritage Vineyards. Needing both physical and financial help, Dr. Muckle joined forces with Yorgos Papageorgiou and Frank Zeritsch, expanded the vineyard and all three men started experimenting with winemaking in small batches. For years, most of the harvested grapes were sold to nearby wineries, but that ended in 1994 when a first boutique winery within the Beamsville Bench region, the Thirty Bench Wine Makers, was established. The name combines geographical information (30 miles from the Niagara River) and the fact that three wine makers crafted ultra premium wines according to their individual styles.
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Theodora Richards, daughter of Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards, agreed today to perform two days of community service for graffiti and drug charges.
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New York prosecutors agreed to the deal that would drop the charges because Theodora Richards, 25, has no prior criminal record and is currently in a drug treatment program, reports Reuters.
Richards, a model, has appeared in campaigns for fashion giants Tommy Hilfiger and Burberry.
Richards was arrested on March 1 after officers spotted her using an acrylic paint marker to spray the letters "T" and "A," with a heart symbol between them, on the side of a building in New York's Soho neighborhood, police said.
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Except for shoulder yokes carried by the men, baskets were almost the sole transport for everything not liquid. Women wore a head ring on which they placed large jar baskets or shallow trays. In the containers they carried almost everything, including wood, plant harvests, meat, and washing. Baskets were used for winnowing and storage. They served as suitcases, sand buckets, and refuse pails.
Seri baskets are quite heavy. Bundles of split torote, Jatropha cuneata, are wrapped with the inner bark of torote stems. Women use their teeth for splitting the torote. The rust-red decoration was discovered by Mary B. Moser to be from the root bark of species of Krameria, usually K. gray), commonly known as white ratany. Commercial dye has also been employed in recent years.
W. J. McGee, the earliest ethnographer to record his observations of the Seri, wrote that these Indians did not decorate their baskets. McGee was with the Indians for only a short time in 1894-95 and might have missed seeing this phase of basketmaking. Seri may well have used decoration in the 19th century, but the great variety of designs probably resulted from the stimulation of sales to foreigners. The outside market brought forth the artistic capabilities of the women and they created very tasteful designs. Basketry, the only craft of note until ironwood carvings became popular, was always a woman's craft.
Seri had little use for these containers once they made the acquaintance of plastic, glass, metal, and other types. Consequently, the basket craft has declined. But as more people arrive in Seri villages to buy carvings, they note an occasional basket. These are finding buyers and it has spurred some women to continue production. There are about thirty basketmakers in the villages who can still produce. However, basketmaking is a hard tedious job. It takes much longer to produce a basket than it does a carving.
Seri basketry tradition has a respectable history. It does not deserve to be sacrificed to the upstart carving industry. It is to be hoped that buyers will recognize its value in time to save it.


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We don't see the mask here, but it looks like some kind of rubber or latex. It's textured and has the iconic Spider-Man logo on the chest. Its pretty torn up, but looks a lot like the comic book.
The red-blue color scheme is the same and has the webbing pattern across the red portions.
So far, underwhelming, but traditional. There's something different about the sleeves though. Let's look deeper.
What's been covered before is that Spider-Man has returned to the mechanical web-shooters. That's good, but what that disk is defies explanation. The traditional shooters are wrist mounted with a nozzle in the palm. Maybe this is his watch.
It's rare to completely replicate a superhero costume from the comics. Usually the physics is off. But I think this one is going to go into the list of the worst comic book-to-film costume adaptations of all time.
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In the last couple of years the term 'the new fantasy' has been flung around a fair bit. It was inspired by 'the new space opera', a term developed in the previous decade to describe the explosion of fresh, exciting new space opera SF by a number of authors combining the tropes of traditional space opera with more advanced SF ideas like quantum states, exotic wormhole physics and so on.
The 'new fantasy' is much harder to pin down. Broadly it refers to fantasy which is either grittier and more realistic than previous 'safe' authors, or to traditional epic fantasy which has taken on some of the ideas and tropes of steampunk and the New Weird (a fantasy movement sparked off in 2000 with China Mieville's PERDIDO STREET STATION but which has now more or less merged with fantasy in general). Or indeed, both. Confusingly, a number of more 'old-school' authors who reject some of these new ideas in favour of a solid story, well-told, are also incorporated into the movement, leading to the conclusion that 'the new fantasy' is nothing more than fantasy works simply published in the last few years. It is also distinct from 'Urban Fantasy' (like Jim Butcher's DRESDEN FILES) or 'Dark Fantasy' (romance-oriented horror-fantasy such as TWILIGHT).
The following is a list of authors who may be said to work in this movement:
Joe Abercrombie
Joe Abercrombie has carved a name for himself as the author of brutal, bloody fantasy novels featuring redoubtable antiheroes and dark, black humour. His FIRST LAW TRILOGY is superb, with a very traditional first novel suddenly turning into a subversive and increasingly refreshing story with an unexpectedly dark ending. A stand-alone set in the same world, BEST SERVED COLD, is, if anything, even darker. His next book, THE HEROES, follows next year. Abercrombie describes himself as "David Eddings, except with characters who swear and occasionally s**t themselves," which is uncharacteristically underselling himself.
Dan Abnett
Best-known as the finest author of WARHAMMER 40,000 fiction, Abnett has recently moved into fantasy with his original series TRIUMFF, a swasbuckling series where it is revealed that Elizabeth I married the King of Spain to forge a huge, powerful empire which has gone on to rediscover magic. Triumff himself is a spendidly roguish, sword-wielding hero and the first book, HER MAJESTY'S HERO, mixes together elements of historical fiction and 'magepunk' to great effect. The second book is due in 2011.
Daniel Abraham
Occasionally called George R.R. Martin's protege, Daniel Abraham's writing style is perhaps closer to Guy Gavriel Kay. His short fiction is excellent, but Abraham's LONG PRICE QUARTET series of novels (starting with A SHADOW IN SUMMER) is set in a world loosely based on Asia rather than Medieval Europe, with a novel magic system based around capturing and giving form and violition as spirits to ideas and concepts. These spirits, the Andat, have made the Khaiem city-states invulnerable to attack from their rivals, the Galts (a steampunk-esque power armed with steam-tanks), at least until a Galtic general hatches a scheme to use the Andats' own power against them... An emotionally intense and powerful series, but a bit of a slow-burner, with the main plot arguably not really kicking off until the third book, but the stunning ending makes up for it. Abraham's new series, THE DAGGER AND THE COIN, is promised to be what a collaboration between GRRM, Joss Whedon and the Medicis would look like, and kicks off in June 2011.
R. Scott Bakker
Scott Bakker's SECOND APOCAYPSE mega-series will, when complete, comprise three distinct works: THE PRINCE OF NOTHING trilogy, THE ASPECT-EMPEROR trilogy and a third series whose very title would be a spoiler. The series starts with a Holy War against the heathens, but an engimatic man emerges to take control of the crusade and twists it to his own ends. Bakker's work is grown-up, dark fantasy which comes across as a darkly twisted melding of J.R.R. Tolkien and Frank Herbert, complete with the reams of worldbuilding and fictional languages of the former and the metaphysical musings of the latter, and is batting on the same level as both. Definitely not for those looking for a light read, but those who want fantasy with depth and intelligence should look no further. The first book is THE DARKNESS THAT COMES BEFORE.
James Barclay
Barclay is the polar opposite to Bakker, being fairly light and unadventurous. His books chronicling the adventures of the mercenary company known as the Raven (now seven books in length, with more RAVEN novels and others set in the same word on their way) are somewhat disposable, but his duology comprising CRY OF THE NEWBORN and SHOUT FOR THE DEAD is more interesting. This transplants the Roman Empire to a fictional fantasy world where the Empire is threatened with destruction until it is saved by four magic-wielding children. However, the Empire's religion demands the death of all sorcerers as abominations, setting up a clash of religion and state that is well-handled.
Peter V. Brett
Peter Brett's debut work is a fantasy which borrows a lot of ideas from post-apocalyptic fiction and horror. Essentially, the world is haunted by demons which rise from the core every night at sunset and have free reign until dawn, when sunlight banishes them again. Homes and towns are protected by wards which keep the people safe, but nothing is being done to wipe the demons out. This changes when a prophetic figure called the Painted Man emerges with wards tattooed into his skin, and begins the fight back against the enemy. The first book is THE PAINTED MAN (THE WARDED MAN in the USA), whilst the second, THE DESERT SPEAR, was recenty released.
Col Buchanan
Irish author Col Buchanan is a newcomer, having just published his first novel, FARLANDER. This combines elements of the traditional epic fantasy (a secret guild of assassins thrust into conflict with a powerful empire) with steampunk elements such as airships and Renaissance levels of technology included. However, more impressive is the cliche-inverting conclusion, which means that the sequels will unfold rather differently to what readers are probably expecting.
Alan Campbell
Campbell rose to fame as a co-writer and developer on the GRAND THEFT AUTO games before switching to writing fantasy. His completed trilogy, THE DEEPGATE CODEX, is a dizzying tale of the New Weird, with a city suspended on chains over a vast abyss with ghosts descending into the darkness and an inert god lying far below. The first book, SCAR NIGHT, is dizzyingly inventive and intelligent, but the later books are less accomplished, with the trilogy petering out rather lamely rather than finishing with a bang. Still, the author has a tremendous imagination and it'll be interesting to see if he can harness it to a stronger storyline in a future book.
Stephen Deas
Stephen Deas' debut series is A MEMORY OF FLAMES, starting with THE ADAMANTINE PALACE and continuing with THE KING OF THE CRAGS. A vast fantasy land is riven by internal war, with the factions equipped with hundreds of fire-breathing dragons, drugged into subservience. A more brutal, less twee and better-written take on material also mined by Naomi Novik's TEMERAIRE books.
Kate Elliott
Elliott is best-known as the author of the immense CROWN OF STARS fantasy series, which is a solid traditional fantasy epic. Her more recent work has been more interesting, however, with the Asian-influenced CROSSROADS trilogy (which starts with SPIRIT GATE) soon to be followed by an 'icepunk' trilogy starting with COLD MAGIC.
Steven Erikson & Ian Cameron Esslemont
Erikson and Esslemont's vast MALAZAN series remains one of the most influential modern epic fantasy works, and is covered by another thread elsewhere ;)
Celia Friedman
Celia Friedman is one of the defining authors of 1990s epic fantasy with her notable COLDFIRE TRILOGY, and continues to write original, interesting fantasy tinged with an SF flavour.
Peadar O Guilin
Irish author Peadar O Guilin's debut work, THE INFERIOR, was a somewhat disturbing but entertaining YA SF-fantasy hybrid in which a tribe of cannibals battles for supremacy in a jungle teaming with savage animal life. The sequel, THE DESERTER, is expected next year.
Ian Irvine
Ian Irvine's massive THREE WORLDS fantasy series currently comprises eleven novels with more planned. This is a Darwinian fantasy series in which different races compete and battle for control of the world of Santhenar. Irvine is noted for his grey characters and murky morality amidst toweringly impressive worldbuilding, but his writing tends towards the bland.
J.V. Jones
J.V. Jones made a splash in the 1990s with her BOOK OF WORDS trilogy, an entertaining but unoriginal work about a nasty wizard scheming to conquer a medieval kingdom. THE SWORD OF SHADOWS, starting with A CAVERN OF BLACK ICE, is the much darker, far better-written quasi-sequel, set in the arctic lands far to the north. This is a snowswept land of feuding clans, enigmatic wanderers, power-hungry city-states to the south and something stirring in the northern icefields. A triumph, albeit one where the books are taking a significantly long period to come out.
Guy Gavriel Kay
Kay is an established figure in the fantasy field and arguably not really part of the 'new fantasy' field, but his recent UNDER HEAVEN is one of his strongest-ever novels and his lyrical writing and fusing of real history with fantasy remains compelling.
Paul Kearney
Kearney's been around for a long time, publishing gritty, no-nonsense fantasy in the spirit of the late David Gemmell since the early 1990s. His MONARCHIES OF GOD series, about cultures and religions clashing in a vast, multi-front war, is being reprinted this year in omnibus for a new audience. His current books follow the adventures of the Macht, a ruthlessly efficient race of mercenaries and soldiers adrift in a world not their own. The first book in this series is THE TEN THOUSAND. The sequel, CORVUS, is published later this year. Kearney is one of the most underread and underrated authors in the genre.
Greg Keyes
Keyes is well-known for his tie-in work, publishing STAR WARS, BABYLON 5 and most recently ELDER SCROLLS novels amongst others, but made a recent stab at his own epic fantasy series with THE KINGDOMS OF THORN AND BONE (starting with THE BRIAR KING). Keyes' approach is impressive, fusing GRRM-eseque epic fantasy with rural, forest-mysticism more familiar from the likes of Robert Holdstock. Unfortunately, after three books of solid entertainment, Keyes lost the plot with the concluding volume to the series, which was rushed and nonsensical.
M.D. Lachlan
Lachlan is another brand new author, whose first novel WOLFSANGEL was just published. Lachlan's series sees three people from Viking times whose destinies become entwined and then cursed, resulting in them being born and reborn again across the years as part of the war between Odin and Loki. Interesting, mythologically-heavy stuff.
Scott Lynch
Scott Lynch's THE LIES OF LOCKE LAMORA was 'the' big fantasy debut of 2006 and one of the first novels whose word-of-mouth success was primarily generated by the Internet and blogosphere. A richy-imagined world provides the perfect backdrop for a tale of thieves, blood and vengeance. The sequel, RED SEAS UNDER RED SKIES, was less accomplished and Lynch has spent a long time fine-tuning the third volume, THE REPUBLIC OF THIEVES, which is now due for publication in early 2011, four years after the previous book, with a lot riding on it.
George R.R. Martin
Martin's A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE remains the dominant work of epic fantasy in the genre, enjoying both constant critical acclaim and growing sales success, despite the extremely protracted writing time of the fourth and fifth books in the series. Martin has maintained his profile by continuing to edit further books in the 25-years-running WILD CARDS superhero series. With the fifth ASoIaF novel due at the end of this year or start of next (touch wood) and a HBO TV adaptation of the books due to begin in April 2011, the series' profile and influence can only increase, whilst the number of writers emerging citing Martin as a major influence continues to increase.
China Mieville
Mieville's recent work - UN LUN DUN, THE CITY AND THE CITY and KRAKEN - has been 'slipstream' fantasy merging elements of the real world and the fantastical, so he's perhaps not as automatic an entry on this list as you may think. However, he has promised a return to his signature world of Bas-Lag at some point, and his trinity of PERDIDO STREET STATION, THE SCAR and IRON COUNCIL remains hugely influential on the modern fantasy field.
Richard K. Morgan
Morgan is better-known for his SF works featuring Takeshi Kovacs (beginning with ALTERED CARBON), but recently dabbled with fantasy with THE STEEL REMAINS, the first book in his LAND FIT FOR HEROES trilogy. The second, THE COLD COMMANDS, follows next year. This is fantasy drenched in blood, sweat and sex where the author pulls no punches. The first book was a bit too interested in shocking at the expense of character and plot, and hopefully the second book picks up on these elements.
Mark Charan Newton
Newton, a long-standing SF&F editor and blogger, is perhaps the one most self-conciously melding traditional fantasy and the 'New Weird' in his LEGENDS OF THE RED SUN series, which began with last year's NIGHTS OF VILLJAMUR and continues this year with the excellent CITY OF RUIN. This is a world descending into a devastating ice age, where the island-spanning Jamur Empire must face an interdimensional invasion. A grotesque menagerie of monsters and creatures combines with robust military action to make for a compelling fantasy series. Also check out Newton's stand-alone in the same world, THE REEF, about scientists studying a remote island culture and getting more than they bargained for.
Naomi Novik
Naomi Novik's TEMERAIRE sequence (commencing with HIS MAJESTY'S DRAGON) has a great conceit, namely that the Napoleonic Wars are being fought with both sides equipped with an air force made up of dragons and their crews. Unfortunately, the series doesn't quite live up to the billing, mainly due to the overly-twee nature of the dragons, but it's still fun.
K.J. Parker
The enigmatic Parker - an alias for an author whose true identity must remain secret for reasons unknown - is one of the most hardcore and grittiest fantasy authors out there. She has penned three brutal trilogies - FENCER, SCAVENGER and ENGINEER - and is now working on a series of more concise stand-alone books. Vengeance, blood and war feature heavily in her books.
Pierre Pevel
French author Pierre Pevel's debut, THE CARDINAL'S BLADES, is a terrific novel set in Cardinal Richelieu's Paris, where Spain is ruled by shapeshifting dragons intent on France's destruction. Richelieu assembles a 'dirty dozen' of swashbuckling swordsmen to handle the dirty work that needs to be done to safeguard France against her many enemies. Well-written and enormous fun. The sequel, THE ALCHEMIST IN THE SHADOWS, is published in English this year.
Terry Pratchett
Pratchett continues to publish his DISCWORLD books, with the final Tiffany Aching book, I SHALL WEAR MIDNIGHT, due this year, and the final Moist von Lipwig book, RAISING TAXES to follow next. The DISCWORLD series, particularly Ankh-Morpork's development into more of a steampunk Victorian city over the past ten years or so, has been enormously influential on the state of modern fantasy, with other works following where Pratchett has been leading for some considerable time.
Robert V.S. Redick
Robert Redick's CHANTHRAND VOYAGE trilogy (which starts with THE RED WOLF CONSPIRACY) is another fun series, set on board a ship so insanely huge that it's basically the ocean-going equivalent of Gormenghast. The crew - comprising humans, nonhumans and sentient rats - become embroiled in political tension between two neighbouring superpowers and must avert a war that could destroy the world.
Alastair Reynolds
Reynolds is primarily an SF author, but his most recent work, TERMINAL WORLD, also mixes together elements of steampunk and planetary romance to great effect, complete with massive airship battles.
Justina Robson
Hard SF author Justina Robson has made a recent switch to fantasy with her successful QUANTUM GRAVITY series (starting with KEEPING IT REAL), in which reality has been warped by a quantum bomb, resulting in elves and monsters being called into existence. The central character is a cyborg who falls in love with an elven prince whose primary career is a rock star. It's all a bit lightweight, but not without some fun elements.
Patrick Rothfuss
Rothfuss' debut novel, THE NAME OF THE WIND, has had an impact like no other individual fantasy novel published since PERDIDO STREET STATION. WIND is a traditional epic fantasy, albeit an unusually well-written one. The sequel, THE WISE MAN'S FEAR is due in March after a lengthy delay.
Brian Ruckley
Ruckley is another author working in the gritty epic fantasy field, and is known for his GODLESS WORLD trilogy beginning with WINTERBIRTH. His series is ruthless and well-written.
Brandon Sanderson
With all the 'gritty' fantasy around, it's unsurprising there might have been a slight backlash. Sanderson is a rather 'safe' author who doesn't use bad language or sex, but makes up for it with bundles of invention: endlessly impressive magic systems, well-drawn characters and a vast, cosmic scope. His new series, THE STORMLIGHT ARCHIVE, begins in August, whilst he continues to bring THE WHEEL OF TIME series to its conclusion with TOWERS OF MIDNIGHT due in October and the final novel in the series, A MEMORY OF LIGHT, to follow next year.
Andrzej Sapkowski
Sapkowski has been a mainland European superstar for twenty years, but has only recently become known in the USA and UK. Two of his novels, THE LAST WISH and BLOOD OF ELVES have been translated and met with critical and popular success, whilst a computer game based on his work, THE WITCHER, has been one of the biggest-selling PC games of recent years. His work combines inventive humour based on traditional folk tales and fairy stories with a more gritty element based around the character of Geralt, a monster-hunting 'witcher' of dubious morality.
Ken Scholes
Ken Scholes is another new fantasy author whose PSALMS OF ISAAK series (starting with LAMENTATION) has met with widespread acclaim.
Jon Sprunk
Jon Sprunk is another brand new author whose first novel, SHADOW'S SON, is due in a few weeks. His book follows the misadventures of an assassin who ends up befriending the daughter of the target he was sent to kill and becomes embroiled on political turmoil.
Steph Swainston
After China Mieville, Swainston's CASTLE series (commencing with THE YEAR OF OUR WAR) is the standard-bearer for the New Weird. A world is riven by war between humanity and the giant insects that live beyond, with several powerful godlike entities leading the fight against them. The four books follow the misadventures of the only being in the world who can fly under their own power, but who is also a drug addict.
Adrian Tchaikovsky
Adrian Tchaikvosky's SHADOWS OF THE APT series (planned to eventually run to ten novels, with four out now and the fifth soon), starting with EMPIRE IN BLACK AND GOLD, is based around a world where human cultures have become influenced by insectoid totem-like figures and adapted the characteristics of those insects. When the wasp-kinden wage war on the rest of the world, a mighty struggle begins.
Chris Wooding
Chris Wooding is a YA author who's been around for a while (an early project was working on some of the YA tie-in material for THE PHANTOM MENACE) but has only recently come to high-profile attention for his adult fantasy work. THE BRAIDED PATH TRILOGY is set in a China-like empire controlled by mask-wearing wizards where political tensions are threatening to spill over into civil war. His stand-alone, THE FADE, is a subterranean fantasy set in an underground environment that is brilliantly realised. His new series, THE TALES OF THE KETTY JAY (the first book is RETRIBUTION FALLS), is a steampunk FIREFLY focusing on the redoubtable and secret-keeping crew of a mercenary airship who are trying to make enough money to stay flying. Well-written and endlessly entertaining.
|Peter Stewart
|DM Wellard
You missed Karen Millar/K.E Mills as well
There's a bunch of authors who aren't bad as such, but are pretty mediocre, so haven't included (Gail Z. Martin and Karen Millar would fall into that, Trudi Cavanan as well) or who may have once been great but not produced anything worthwhile for many years (Raymond E. Feist, Robin Hobb), or who are simply far too atrocious to be seriously considered (Terry Goodkind, David Bilsborough).
|Peter Stewart
Peter Stewart wrote:How did you overlook Jim Butcher?He mentioned Butcher in his opening paragraphs, he's "Urban Fantasy" in genre.
Codex Alera is urban fantasy?
Codex Alera is urban fantasy?
Good point :) The simple answer to that is that I haven't read CODEX ALERA as it's taken a long time for it to come out over here in the UK. Now it is out, I'll get round to it at some point.


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Pakistan says draft US 9/11 law could harm relations
ISLAMABAD, July 29 (AFP) Jul 29, 2007
Draft US anti-terrorism legislation could undermine relations with Pakistan because of its allegations about terrorist safe havens and nuclear proliferation networks, the foreign ministry said.
The US Congress Friday approved a bill to implement key anti-terrorism recommendations of the independent probe into the September 11 attacks in 2001 that will become law if President George W. Bush signs it.
Pakistan says the new law could undermine relations between the "war on terror" allies because it contained "unsubstantiated" allegations.
"The draft bill... contains references and provisions that cast a shadow on the existing cooperation between Pakistan and US," the ministry said in a statement at the weekend.
"Regardless of the fact that the bill emphasises the importance attached by the United States to long-term strategic relationship with Pakistan... the bill is disappointing from Pakistan's point of view," it said.
It said references in the bill relating to the existence of so-called terrorist "safe havens" or "proliferation networks" in Pakistan were unsubstantiated and already rejected by Islamabad.
"Inclusion of these references in the bill cannot contribute to the trust that is necessary for the stated US objective to establish a strategic relationship with Pakistan."
Pakistan said the bill which linked US aid to the South Asian country for its performance in the fight against terrorism could damage ties between the two countries just like the 1985 Pressler Amendment on nuclear proliferation in South Asia which banned most economic and military assistance to Pakistan.
"Conditionalities have been introduced for the continuation of US security assistance to Pakistan which is primarily aimed at capacity building in counter-terrorism. This is reminiscent of the infamous Pressler Amendment."
The draft bill comes at a time when Pakistan is already upset by US threats to strike militants holed up near the Afghan border.
President Pervez Musharraf on Friday firmly rejected US statements about attacking militants on its soil saying American forces would not be allowed to operate in the area.
Musharraf also rejected US allegations that Osama bin Laden's Al-Qaeda terror network was regrouping in Pakistan's rugged tribal belt, where hundreds of Islamic militants took shelter after US-led forces overthrew Afghanistan's Taliban regime in 2001.All rights reserved. © 2005 Agence France-Presse. Sections of the information displayed on this page (dispatches, photographs, logos) are protected by intellectual property rights owned by Agence France-Presse. As a consequence, you may not copy, reproduce, modify, transmit, publish, display or in any way commercially exploit any of the content of this section without the prior written consent of Agence France-Presse.


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The Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe announced that former Chief Executive Marjorie (Marge) Anderson of the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe passed away from natural causes on Saturday, June 29, 2013. Marge Anderson was nationally known as a leader in Indian gaming, tribal self-governance and tribal treaty rights.
Born in 1932, Anderson served as Chief Executive of the Mille Lacs Band from 1991-2000 and from 2008-2012. Her decades long tenure in tribal government began in 1976 as the District I Representative for the Band, and continued as the Band's Secretary-Treasurer from 1987-1991. She was appointed Chief Executive in 1991 following the death of Arthur Gahbow and won elections as Chief Executive in her own right in 1992, 1996 and 2008.
Melanie Benjamin, current Chief Executive of the Mille Lacs Band, said, "Marge Anderson was a great tribal leader for the Band and a trailblazer for all of Indian country. This is an extraordinary loss for the Band."
Secretary-Treasurer Curt Kalk said, "Marge led the Band through our treaty rights case and into the modern era of Indian gaming. She made history for the Band and we will feel her impact for generations."


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Starlin Castro's reported 7-year, $60 million contract extension with the Cubs may not become official for another week and could take as much as 2 weeks to complete, according to a source familiar with the situation.
Contract language still needs be drafted, and that is making the current delay, the source said.
The negotiation process and eventual deal on an agreement haven't appeared to lead to a problem for Castro on the field. After a lengthy dry spell that dropped his batting average to .272, Castro has batted .357 with a .984 OPS since Aug. 8.
A recent move to the No. 5 spot in the lineup has helped with his production. Castro has 8 RBIs over his past 10 games after recording 8 RBIs over his previous 20 games.
That type of production in the wake of all the contract noise has to please the Chicago Cubs. End results of a new contract can be two-fold. Players can often ramp up their work ethic thanks to the expectations that come with a bigger pay-day, while some settle into a lull knowing they're now financially secure. Basketball odds
Cubs boss Dale Sveum has been openly critical of some of Castro's on-field lapses in concentration but doesn't seem concerned that a new long-term deal will adversely affect his shortstop as he deals with fame and fortune.
"I assume the fame is already there," Sveum recounted. "You're playing in Chicago and are the front-line guy on the Cubs. I think he's done well. But obviously when you get that kind of cash it's a whole other (reality) to acknowledge there is a big responsibility that comes with that kind of money and not get carried away.
"You hope that he reacts to the point that he manifestly will be financially secure for the rest of his life, and now you have one more thing to do, and that is to win a World Series, to improve every single day."
One bonus to vet outfielder Alfonso Soriano being around is that he can help Castro avoid some of the off-the-field pitfalls that come with so much money.
"I just talked to him to love the game and work hard to improve, because money is good, but it does not make you better," Soriano said. "You have to keep working hard and get better each day. Always the money is there if you play hard and play good. I talked to him to keep doing what you're doing, working tirelessly and playing hard.
"Don't stress about the money, because the money will come if you try hard and you're a good player and if you have a belief in yourself. But you have got to put the baseball first and the money second."
Castro has a .276 batting average with 58 runs, 58 RBIs, 12 home runs, 19 stolen bases and an on-base-plus slugging percentage (OPS) of .756. His batting average and OBP have both declined since 2011. In spite of 18 defensive errors, his fielding percentage has increased in each of his first 3 seasons. He has also got a defensive-wins-above-replacement rating (DWAR) of 1.8.


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MEMBERS of an over 60s group which meets every Thursday afternoon in Billinge are inviting men and women to join them.
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Every time I help with a wild bird that is being rehabilitated I think "thank goodness this place is here, or what would have happened to this bird?" Every bird, including the residents who could not be released, are given the best care. The staff are extremely knowledgeable and take the time to answer any question. From my experience everyone appreciates each other and are enthusiastic for the common goal - helping birds. The rewards are simple but wonderful; knowing that you helped save or care for an animal that needed some help.
The first time I went to Cascades Raptor Center I couldnt believe how majestic the birds were, and I got to see them up close! I have always been rather afraid of birds, but fell in love right then and there. I wanted more, so I signed up to volunteer. Boy have I learned a lot in 9 months! The facility is well run with lots of volunteer help like mine, and a small staff who can fix up a bird in their sleep. I especially love the hospital, where I am learning to repair broken wings, give fluids and food to birds that are injured, and watch magnificent birds heal and be released back into the wild.
I took a class on wildlife rehabilitation, where we learned to give medication and all about disease. It was an intensive 2 day class that was hard and wonderful at the same time.
I love being part of a team, even when it involves dirty work like cleaning up the mice and chick barn, shoveling gravel in the cages, and cleaning, cleaning, cleaning up after our birds.
Raptors are beautiful creatures, and I am learning more every day here at Cascades. I get dirty, I get mad, I get poo on my shoes. But it is an experience I love. And the birds who get set free make it all worth it.
Volunteering at the Cascades Raptor Center since December of last year has been such an incredible experience for me. I was drawn to wildlife rehabilitation work, not really birds in particular, but I checked out their website and made the contact. Being an organization run by only three staff people and the rest volunteer, it's astounding how much is done by volunteers.
It is well-organized and the staff is always open to suggestions and new ideas.
I'm a certified bird geek now! The enthusiasm and dedication of the staff is contagious. They are open to questions, so that there is always an opportunity to learn new things on each shift.
The team effort of the volunteers downright blows me away. they have an amazing group of people volunteering there.
My main suggestion, if there was a way to do it, would be to offer a training as opposed to having volunteers train other volunteers. I feel that the training is variable depending on who trains you. Sometimes I am frustrated with things that aren't done as well as they could be. I feel that it could help if every volunteer was working from the same baseline of training.
If there was ever a place where you can go to be with great friendly people and with folks who know their birds, it's the CRC in Eugene, OR. Not only do they take the time to explain things to you, they genuienly care about everyone there. They accept people as they are and work with them and their strengths. They take a proactive approach to working together and are willing to help you understand how things work in "birdland." Being new to birds, I want to learn and the staff takes the time to help you without judging you. Specifically, they are there to help you help the birds by showing you how to care for them and how you can make a difference. They work with you and are willing to give you the time you need to learn. In a word they are "Awesome!"
The Cascade Raptor center is an earth friendly environment for our resident birds, and our visitors. I first came to the Raptor center looking for a fun and educational experience and I received much more than that. I met friendly people, birds, and I had an adventure. If I could re choose where I volunteer, well I wouldn't. From personal experience I know that the Cascade Raptor Center(CRC) recycles everything that we are able to recycle, we compost, and the center, in general, is outside. What I mean by this is that the birds feel the sunshine, the rain, and the snow. Our whole mission is to save and help birds that need our assistance. I believe CRC would be a great candidate for the Green Choice.
I started volunteering at the Raptor Center this year, and have been having a blast! The birds are incredible, the setting is beautiful, and the staff is passionate and committed. I only wish I had found out about this place sooner!
I was running late, but still had to stop to get Zach her treat. She had grown accustomed to them and started screaming as soon as she saw me get out of the car. She was the queen and I was her faithful servant-that much we had established. As I approached she began saying "Thank you" over and over, as was her custom. You see, Zach was a female Raven who has captured my heart. Sadly, she died suddenly in January from unknown causes. When I saw her last she was in an incubator. I had brought her a boiled egg-one of her favorites. To appease me, she pecked at it a little, but it was clear she had no appetite. I preeened her feathers and as I started to leave I told her to get better. She held my gaze as only a Raven can and I knew this was the last time I would see her. She died two days later. I love to volunteer at CRC because this type of relationship with the birds is understood and encouraged. As a natural consequence the birds receive excellent care because the voluteers have developed bonds with them and are highly motivated to provide the best care possible.
I came, I saw--and the birds conquered my heart! They are incredibly beautiful and, I think, very wise creatures. It's a great privilege to be so close to them, and I can see the love and trust between the birds and their handlers. I once watched a vulture perch on a handler's shoulder to eat its dinner (a vole or something similar). I couldn't believe how daintily it ate! The Center is a marvelous educational venue, and I only hope it will be able to expand both its enclosure and its outreach. It deserves all the financial resources it can get!
My husband and I are avid supporters of Cascades Raptor Center since we visted them 3 years ago and saw the wonderful work that they do. We have returned to visit every year and send donations throughout the year. The staff at CRC is always so knowledgeable and willing to share. We have felt very special when they have brought raptors for us to see outside the cages. We have a duty to help the raptors that have been harmed and CRC is stepping up to provide that help. It is one charity that we enjoy giving to often! Sincerely, Stacie & Ignacio


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Former Countryfest Headliner Blake Shelton Wants To Win ACM Entertainer Of The Year
Blake Shelton is not a shy person. Nowhere close, and he always speaks his mind. When it comes to the ACM Awards he is speaking loudly. Blake Shelton, a former 1077 'GNA Countryfest headliners who is hosting the ACM's in Vegas on CBS this Sunday night with Luke Bryan has said he wants to win the ACM "Entertainer of The Year Award." He actually said something that many think but rarely say, "Man, I'm not going to sit here and be like other artists that'll say its good to be nominated". Blake literally came right out and added some final punctuation to his thought on the ACM Entertainer of The Year Nomination saying "Bull Crap, I'm pumped about it, it's cool!"
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AT&T Unveils New Customer Experience Store in Tomball
New Store Opening Donates $25 for Every Wireless Activation or Upgrade to Houston Dynamo Charities on Friday, September 23 through Sunday 25, 2011
Texas, Tomball, September 23, 2011
AT&T* today announced the grand opening of a new state-of-the-art retail store in Tomball designed to provide consumers and business customers with a more interactive and informative shopping experience. As a part of AT&T's ongoing commitment to give back to the community, the new store has partnered with the Houston Dynamo Charities and committed to donate $25 to Geoff Cameron's 20/20 for every wireless activation or upgrade with a standard two-year service agreement purchased at the new Tomball location from Friday, September 23 through Sunday, September 25, 2011.
There will be a ribbon cutting today at 11:00 a.m. at the new 3,500 square-foot store, located at 14002 FM 2920 Tomball, TX 77377. Guests include Chris Canetti, Houston Dynamo president and CEO, Dynamo Charities Board Members Tony Nolte, Nancy Shaddock, Robert Corrigan and Ronald McDonald House Representative Mikki Donnelly.
The store features a hands-on design to engage customers and provide a "try before you buy" service experience. At the store, trained sales consultants provide demonstrations on a wide range of products at AT&T Customer Experience stations, including:
- Smartphones. Compare the latest and greatest wireless devices using a variety of operating systems that allow users to download applications, music, stream video, surf the Web and even locate your family pet.
- Interactive Devices. Browse the Internet, and interact with tablets, netbooks and other emerging devices.
- Messaging. Demo wireless devices, GPS and wireless accessories by using e-mail and more.
- GoPhone. Try out GoPhone®, our popular prepaid service, and an assortment of accessories.
- Basics. Find a no-frills wireless device with basic functionality here.
"AT AT&T, we are all about bringing cutting-edge communications and entertainment directly to our customers. With all of the latest gadgets and services under one roof, we're doing just that for Tomball residents," said Chris Penrose, vice president and general manager of AT&T South Texas.
Additional Store Information
The Tomball store is led by store manager Josh O. Fernandez and a staff trained to assist customers with purchasing decisions, customer service and technical support. Hours of operation are Monday-Friday, 9 a.m. to 8 p.m.; Saturday, 9 a.m. to 8 p.m.; Sunday, noon to 6 p.m.
AT&T operates more than 2,200 company-owned stores nationwide. Its products and services are also available at a number of other authorized dealers and national retail locations. For the complete array of AT&T offerings, visit www.att.com.


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Everything is bigger in Texas including its main events.
One way to tell UFC 166 is a big deal pay-per-view, UFC heavyweight champion Cain Velasquez got to sit at the big FOX Sports desk and chat with the big guns – Karyn Bryant, Chael P. Sonnen, and Kenny Florian. Heading into his trilogy ending third bout with former champ Junior dos Santos, Bryant asks Velasquez about how he keeps his mental edge so sharp in training for an opponent he's already prepared twice for in the past two years?
"Being champion and staying champion, that's ultimately what we're always working for," explains Velasquez who has shown that laser focus/dedication inside the Octagon in his belt winning, 25 minute beating of dos Santos at UFC 155. "We have to be in his face, we can't let him settle, we have to keep that pressure on him the whole time, and just mix it up really well. I think that's the key to always beating him."
Besides scrapping in the cage, Velasquez got a chance to see the Houston sights and meet some other athletic celebrities in the NBA's Houston Rockets. "To come here and go into the locker room of the Houston Rockets and have them be fans of the UFC as well, it's pretty cool," says Velasquez who is shown enjoying a staredown with 7' center Dwight Howard's clavicle.
Ever the bridesmaid and never the bride, Sonnen ended the segment the only way a Sonnen can: asking for a funny favor from the champ. "When you're done with that belt tomorrow, can I have it?," jokes Sonnen who has gone 0-3 thus far in UFC title fights. Not to be forgotten, Sonnen adds his co-host pal Florian in on the gag who went 0-3 in title fights in his otherwise fairly flawless Octagon career. "Can Kenny and I share it?"
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I don't know here, not exactly your standard espresso cup set, but certainly an interesting one and certainly a conversation starter. These cups can sit and look like a huge Tylenol capsule sitting on the counter - could just be a cool bit of counter art. On the other hand it might just be the perfect cure for a hangover.
Made of porcelain, dishwasher safe, 2.75 ounces. Imported from France.
At Amazon - Revol Pill Set of Two Espresso Cups
I dropped into Dunks the other day and saw this little ad on the door pushing the Dunkin Beat Starbucks website. First McDonalds and now Dunks. I guess it's tough being the market leader as everyone wants to pick you off.
It's all about flavor preference and anyone who remembers the Coke vs New Coke taste test debacle where New Coke won in Taste Tests, but no one really wanted to drink it, will know that Taste Tests don't always make for a market winner.
My hunch is that Starbucks will still be a great place to go for corporate good quality espresso drinks and Dunks is going to be well known for their Medium "regular" with a snack on the side.
Worth spending a couple of minutes to check out this Dunks propaganda site.
At DunkinBeatStarbucks.com
Great article in the NYT the other day about high quality coffee houses coming back in the city. The ubiquity of the Hot Cuppa Joe type vendors in recent years have ceded some of their business to Starbucks and then in turn to higher end shops that offer artwork and quality that is unsurpassed in an 8-ounce cup for just a few bucks.
From the Times...
"What you see going on now is a de- Starbuckification, if you will," said Suzanne Wasserman, a food historian who is director of the Gotham Center for New York City History. "People are yearning for authenticity."
Read the whole article in the NYT
The Nespresso Le Cube Black colored edition came in for review recently and we are are pretty happy to check this one step easy espresso brewer out. The Le Cube is one offering in the line of Nespresso capsule based brewers that at their heart have ease of use and high quality brewing at their very core. The recent line refresh includes the New Black version of the Le Cube. The Le Cube is a simple design statement that fits in a small footprint on the counter with some bold lines and innovative design elements making it a great looking unit as well as a highly functional one. It's got a 1-liter reservoir, has cup holder space for up to 6 espresso cups and a chamber that holds up to 15 spent espresso capsules. The 19-bar pump driven extraction is impressive for its crema creation, while its 1260 watt thermoblock heating element powers the unit. Le Cube retails at $349.
We took the Le Cube for a spin while we were trying out our Jinogalpa Special Club Capsules that are offered as a limited time offer, it's been fun mixing them in with a lot of our standards.
It doesn't come any simpler than this - basic porcelain white espresso cups. Easy on the eyes and the fit in with a minimalist design theme. Oh, yea and they are pretty inexpensive too - $15 for the set. Heavyweight and dishwasher safe.
At Amazon - Konitz K100 Coffee Espresso Cups and Saucers Set of 4
The Nespresso C100 Essenza is a compact little brewer that takes the Nespresso capsules, brews your cup and then dumps the capsule into a waste bin for clean up later. Very fast, very easy. This little brewer packs a punch though with a 19 bar pump, 1200 watt heating and a 34-ounce water reservoir. The machine and capsules can make a standard espresso, or a 5-ounce lungo for larger cups. For more information see my Full Review of the Nespresso Essenza C100.
At Amazon - Nespresso C100T Essenza Single-Serve Automatic Espresso Machine
Illy is running a quick Taste of New York contest to give away a whole bunch of prizes including a trip to NYC that comes with the opportunity to see opening night at the New York Film Festival, two nights at a couple of great restaurants (Tribeca Grill and Le Bernardin), and tickets to the Guggenheim and the MOMA. You'll get $1,000 spending money a Francis Francis X7 iperEspresso Machine and a case of espresso. Not the grand prize winner? Well they are also giving away Illy coffee and Illy Espresso Cups.
Hurry - entry deadline is November 14th at Illy's Website
If you haven't already it's time to order the next Special Edition from Nespresso, Jinogalpa. Nespresso puts out special editions every year, and Jinogalpa is a good one that is worth putting on the shopping list.
Jinogalpa comes from Nicaragua's best arabica coffee and is split roasted to reach different roast colors then blended after roasting. Nespresso describes it as having "full body, and a smooth crema that reveals soft tones of sandalwood as well as subtle and refreshing herbal accents." Jinogalpa is to be made at a 40ml brew setting into an espresso shot, the Intensity "6" shot.
I got mine along with the special edition Jinogalpa Espresso Cups, which carry the hummingbird logo for the design. I like the cup shape, and they fit well in the Nespresso C185T Le Cube
maker that I have in for review right now.
Brewing the Jinogalpa in any Nespresso maker is pretty easy and I like my own Essenza for it's easy and simple operation. Flip up the lever, drop in the capsule and you are ready to go. The Nespresso brewers have an integrated reservoir and a system that holds spent capsules. When you lift the lever for the next brew the spent capsule will drop into the chamber for dumping later. The chamber in the Le Cube holds upwards to a dozen spent capsules in my usage.
With the capsule loaded, and the maker up to temperature, you just need to punch the single cup button and out comes the espresso and crema. The Jinogalpa does have the pronounced acidity of an arabica only blend. It's very up front but not so acidic that it is outright sour. The thing is that the Jinogalpa is also a good blend with a lot of complexity that I would attribute to the complexity of the blend and the split roasting. A lot of 100% arabica espresso blends that I see and taste are sharp and acidic, but have nearly not aftertaste and little body if not formulated to have one. I like the Jinogalpa for its complexity and its full body flavor. The blend is definitely dark roasted and carries with it some complex dark flavors that are earthy, woody, spicy and pungent without tasting burnt. As always the espresso can come out shot after shot with excellent crema looking awesome and tasting good. This one one be around for long and it's always great to get a little variety in the mix.
Check out Jinogalpa at Nespresso
Having had the Cafe Britt drip coffee, I was pretty happy to find the Cafe Britt ESE Pods the other day at their website. I happen to like bright, full flavored drip coffee and Cafe Britt's Dark Roast fits and happens to be a pretty good Costa Rican coffee. The ESE Pods are 100% arabica and Fair Trade Certified.
Cafe Britt describes them as: "It's widely recognized that the natural sweetness and intensity of Costa Rica 's pure, mountain-grown Arabica beans make some of the best espresso. Café Britt enhances this uniqueness by carefully selecting and slowly roasting only the choicest gourmet coffee beans for a full-bodied flavor and rich consistency. Our Espresso pods contain just the right amount of coffee to create a delicious Cappuccino, Cubano or Macchiato."
The Cafe Britt Espresso Pods are for sale, $24 for 30 pods.
I haven't written on Latte art in a long time, but this caught my eye yesterday in the Seattle Post Intelligencer and I just had to pass it along. Tired of those "Plain old designs" well there are a few there that may just blow you away.


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CasaSur Bellini Hotel, a boutique property, presents 71 executive guestrooms and 8 suites that focus on comfort and relaxation in Buenos Aires. Each of the guestrooms and suites at the hotel offer luxurious amenities, such as complimentary WiFi, flat-screen televisions, an iPod® docking station with alarm clock and radio, kitchenettes, and balconies.
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Dunedin shortstop Kellen Brown has orally committed to Florida Atlantic, according to Falcons coach Tom Hilbert. Brown, a rising senior, hit .429 with 21 RBI, eight doubles, 29 runs scored and seven steals in his junior season. In 107 plate appearances, Brown had only five strikeouts.
As a sophomore, Brown hit .563. He will be joined at Florida Atlantic by former Tarpon Springs coach Dickie Hart, who left this summer to become an assistant for the Owls.


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Election Night Viewing Party at Skyroom in Times Square
Urban Gypsy
Tuesday, November 6, 2012 at 7:00 PM (EST)
Who's Going
San Francisco, California
London, United Kingdom
Florence, Italy
Event Details
The most important day for the next 4 years - Election day...
Obama vs. Romney for President of the United States
Come join us at the
Skyroom Lounge in Times Square.
Free Admission, Live TV Coverage, Free Gourmet
Chocolates, Red and Blue drink specials.
Special guest Jimmy McMillian of
"The Rent is Too Damn High" party.
Jimmy McMillian ran for Governor of New York State and can be seen everywhere from CNN to Fox News to CSpan to SNL. Funniest campaign ever some say... but he's not crazy.
Skyroom Rooftop Lounge is located in the heart of Times Square. Fully enclosed, heated rooftop.
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Tuesday, November 6, 2012 at 7:00 PM (EST)
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Estelle Lefébure
As riots break out all over Paris after a right-wing government is elected, reluctant thief Yasmina (Karina Testa) recruits a few friends to exploit the bedlam by looting. With the police on their tail, the gang splits up and regroups at a hostel near the Luxembourg border to divide their haul. But the decision proves fateful when the innkeepers turn out to be neo-Nazi freaks who want to make Yasmina the brood mare for a new Aryan master race.


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Here's how you can customize the settings of the notification panel on the Samsung Galaxy Note 2.
1. Go to Settings.
2. Go to Display.
3. Go to Notification Panel.
For more, see the original article at the link below.
How to customize the Galaxy Note 2 notification panel | CNet
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The smell is such an amazing sense that let you feel the different aromas of the world. The smell of good food, smell of a perfume, the smell of sea, or even the rain. When you nose is blocked, you can not feel anything. Nazol gives you relief from blocked nose and wake your nose up to all smells of the world.
Print advertisment created by BBDO, Russia for Nazol, within the category: Pharmaceutical.
Wakes your nose up to the smells of the world.
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Copywriters: Luis Tauffer, Christian Balivet
Art Directors: Luis Tauffer, Teco Cipriano
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Recommendations for contract glaziers adopting BIM
September 23, 2009
Samples of portions of BIMs from Trainor Glass, Alsip, Ill. Models like these aid in 3D coordination with other disciplines as well as communicating with clients on decisions made in facade system solutions.
Building Information Modeling adoption will immediately affect glass companies in how they respond to requests for proposals on progressive projects. Long term, it will change the staff companies retain and train, and how they are viewed by their clients relative to their competitors. Firms that invest in BIM today will be in a position to compete for profitable work with the ever increasing BIM requirements of projects next year and beyond.
Trainor Glass Co., Alsip, Ill., is one of the progressive glazing companies we visited that is implementing BIM as part of its client services. Patrick Bussa, vice president and national drafting manager, says BIM is enhancing Trainor's ability to achieve the architects' design intent, provide the general contractor with a product they expect and want, and coordinate with the surrounding trades to eliminate interface conflicts that impact the project.
Bussa recommends glazing firms keep several important factors in mind when adopting BIM.
Software and hardware. Bussa says his general philosophy is to plan for the future when looking at computer systems by not settling for the basics that software companies recommend. Look beyond to a system with at least a 3-year service life.
BIM consultant. Bussa says firms should consider a BIM consultant who is familiar with the applications that the firm may use as well as those used by general contractors. Consultants should provide the initial firm implementation and training in BIM application to existing staff, as well as full involvement throughout the entire project. As in any outsource arrangement, the more information provided about your products—two-dimensional shop drawings, installation manuals of the system, details explaining the anchors required for the systems—will allow the consultant to properly represent the "space required" in the model.
Dimensional changes. Firms also must understand that BIM is a process change that includes three-dimensional spatial coordination, a process where 3D models from the critical disciplines on a project are combined into one model to look for construction and coordination conflicts. "The purpose for the 3D models is to represent the space required for your product," Bussa says." As a glazing contractor, we just don't provide a model of our window frame, we need to represent the space required for proper sealant joints and embed anchors that will infiltrate the precast panel and concrete slab space."
Outsourcing. Bussa suggests that until firms understand the impact of using BIM on their projects, they should consider initially outsourcing aspects of the BIM portion to a consultant, while managing the project and incorporating BIM into their standard practices. After a company can handle BIM in-house, they can use the effective modeling software they know best. Moving into newer BIM applications will be much easier once a firm establishes their level of BIM usage on a few successful projects.
Bussa says that when used properly, the BIM process provides cost savings and forces decisions to be made before groundbreaking. By being able to model the systems in 3D, spatial problems that previously resulted in site change orders now can be caught in the planning stage.
Trainor Glass has a number of BIM projects they are currently involved in with general contractors. Through significant investments and research, Trainor handles the BIM modeling in-house, and has achieved greater control over how their products are represented, Bussa says.
Typical of firms ahead of the technology adoption curve, Bussa concluded that, "There is a cost to starting up in BIM, but being able to manage coordination details more efficiently while having better control of the finished product with redundant activities is an effective approach in today's economy."


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Do yoga
Tim Thurn was raised a Catholic but doesn't see himself as religious. He does, however, believe in "a larger force that binds us all together". To be united with that force and "with what makes the world work", he practises yoga.
"I might listen to a chant. Or do repetition mantra. When you meditate, the whole idea is to not get attached to your thoughts," he says.
To assist with staying focused on "the moment", Thurn repeats words from Sanskrit - one of the oldest known Indo-European languages.
Sometimes it takes him only five minutes, but it's a daily ritual that he says gives him clarity in his life.
"It's about using techniques that change the way you think about things. When you look at someone, for example, you try to see the world through their eyes. It can be really powerful."
Some associate yoga with sitting on a mountain peak, but Thurn believes it is more about "living life to the best of your ability" and "with sincerity; it's not about who you are but what you do".
Thurn has also attended regular yoga sessions at a Dulwich Hill centre since 1990. He has not become vegetarian, a practice widely recommended by yoga philosophers, but says he makes an effort to stay fit.
Aside from giving him a philosophical view of the world, Thurn says knowing when to take a deep breath assists with day-to-day living.
"It's something you can use in the instant," he says.
Chris Tzar, manager, Life Style Clinic, University of NSW
"There is some preliminary data to show that yoga can improve sleep quality. Moreover it is a very useful technique for stress reduction because it addresses a range of both physical and mental components.
"There are various forms of yoga. Generally hatha yoga, one of the mildest forms, is recommended for beginners.
"Yoga may [help with] jet lag in its capacity to reduce tension and enable people to relax."
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Overview: Check the control settings
Is your soft water not so soft anymore? You can often fix the problem yourself. However, if you have an older softener (20 years or so) and none of these fixes work, it may need replacement ($500 and up).
All softeners, whether they have one or two tanks, work the same way. As cold water flows through the resin tank, the mineral content—the hardness—is removed because the minerals stick to thousands of resin beads. When the softener recharges, the flow of fresh water is stopped while salty water from the brine tank is sucked into the resin tank, where it dissolves the accumulated minerals and is flushed down the drain.
Before you tear apart your softener, check the control settings—especially after a long power outage. The timer clock has to show the right time so that the resin tank is cleaned and recharged when no one is using water (usually early morning).
Also make sure the hardness setting is still correct—well water hardness can change over time. Bring a small container of your water to a water softener dealer for a water hardness test, then check the results against your settings.
Note: Set the water supply to "bypass" before working on the softener. And run the hot water after you turn the softener back on to flush out any hard water.
Step 1: Look for salt problems
Check for salt problems in the brine tank. Start by pushing a broom handle down into the salt to break up salt bridges (like a dome), blocking salt from dropping to the bottom of the tank. If too little salt gets dissolved, the resin bed won't get clean and the water won't get softened.
Also, when the salt level is low (or at least once a year), check for a crust of salt mush at the bottom. This thick salt paste doesn't dissolve well, reducing the salinity of the brine solution, and needs to be removed (photo).
Don't use rock salt; it contains dirt and other impurities that can clog the softener.
Step 2: Clean the resin bed
Clean the resin bed twice a year with resin bed cleaner (available at water softener dealers) if you have "clear water iron" (dissolved iron makes a glass of water turn cloudy or rusty after sitting for several minutes). Otherwise the resin bed won't remove the iron (photo).
Step 3: Clean the venturi assembly
The salty water flows through these parts from the brine tank to the resin tank. If the screen and nozzle get clogged by sediment, the resin bed won't be cleaned and the water will stay hard (photos).


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Poet and King
by Eugene Field (1850-1895)
Though I am king, I have no throne
The folk that throng the busy street
My sceptre,---see, it is a pen!
Let empires crumble as they may,
Come, brother, be a king with me,
Save this rough wooden siege alone;
I have no empire, yet my sway
Extends a myriad leagues away;
No servile vassal bends his knee
In grovelling reverence to me,
Yet at my word all hearts beat high,
And there is fire in every eye,
And love and gratitude they bring
As tribute unto me, a king.
Know not it is a king they meet;
And I am glad there is not seen
The monarch in my face and mien.
I should not choose to be the cause
Of fawning or of coarse applause:
I am content to know the arts
Wherewith to lord it o'er their hearts;
For when unto their hearts I sing,
I am a king, I am a king!
Wherewith I rule these hearts of men.
Sometime it pleaseth to beguile
Its monarch fancy with a smile;
Sometime it is athirst for tears:
And so adown the laurelled years
I walk, the noblest lord on earth,
Dispensing sympathy and mirth.
Aha! it is a magic thing
That makes me what I am,---a king!
Proudly I hold imperial sway;
The sunshine and the rain of years
Are human smiles and human tears
That come or vanish at my call,---
I am the monarch of them all!
Mindful alone of this am I:
The songs I sing shall never die;
Not even envious Death can wring
His glory from so great a king.
And rule mankind eternally;
Lift up the weak, and cheer the strong,
Defend the truth, combat the wrong!
You 'll find no sceptre like the pen
To hold and sway the hearts of men;
Its edicts flow in blood and tears
That will outwash the flood of years:
So, brother, sing your songs, oh, sing!
And be with me a king, a king!
The folk that throng the busy street
My sceptre,---see, it is a pen!
Let empires crumble as they may,
Come, brother, be a king with me,
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